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The Real Reason We’re All Annoyed With Quentin Tarantino https://jacobin.com/2025/12/hollywood-film-tarantino-kill-bill/

The Real Reason We’re All Annoyed With Quentin Tarantino
With nothing but a new cut of Kill Bill to offer, Quentin Tarantino has gone into semiretirement right as American cinema is fighting for its very life. And to make matters worse, he won’t stop talking smack.

😬 Organizing Amazon Should Be a Priority for Labor Globally
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Organizing Amazon Should Be a Priority for Labor Globally
Whether workers can organize Amazon will be pivotal for the fate of the labor movement worldwide. Initial victories in Coventry, England, and elsewhere show that when unions put serious resources into organizing, they can win.

Muntermacher-Tipp: Adeni Chai. https://jacobin.com/2025/10/mamdani-nyc-mayor-election-speech

Zohran Mamdani: We Can Win Freedom for All
At a rally last night in Queens, New York, with Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Zohran Mamdani addressed a crowd of 13,000: “For too long, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.”

⏰ The Left Can’t Abandon Nostalgia to the Right
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The Left Can’t Abandon Nostalgia to the Right
The global right today excels at leveraging nostalgia for reactionary ends. Yet memories of periods of revolutionary hope and collective victories can provide the materials for a form of nostalgia that the Left can use.

#Jacobin #BlackPantherParty

The Black Panthers Who Never Came Home
Fifty-nine years after Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers, Charlotte and Pete O’Neal remain in exile in Tanzania. Their story, told through interviews, archives, and firsthand reporting, reveals the movement’s enduring legacy.

The Right Can’t Figure Out What to Do With Zohran Mamdani https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-democratic-socialism-trump-conservatives/

The Right Can’t Figure Out What to Do With Zohran Mamdani
Between President Trump heaping praise on Zohran Mamdani and the GOP-led Congress denouncing socialism, yesterday revealed a capitalist opposition throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.

🏙️ Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
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Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents direct power over the budget. It worked.

Jacobin: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/10/09/jacobin.html

Jacobin
Anyone here read Jacobin? I’m reading the latest …

Ich habe ja nicht so oft die Gelegenheit für die Jacobin zu schreiben, aber wenn, bin ich der Designs wegen doch immer begeistert. Die neue Ausgabe ist jetzt erhältlich, ich habe über Chatbots geschrieben.

🧑‍🏭 It’s Still Possible to Rebuild a Working-Class Majority
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It’s Still Possible to Rebuild a Working-Class Majority
Labor organizing can’t succeed at scale without a supportive legal and political environment, created by majoritarian coalitions that can win reforms, confront corporate power, and prove to skeptical workers that progressive governance delivers.

✊ Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement”
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Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement”
UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad strike in 2028 could put them front and center.

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism https://jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialism-transition-feudalism-capitalism-history-economy/

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism
Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergence.

🧩 Bring Back the Yugoslav Basketball Team
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🛠️ New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind
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New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind
Building trades unions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are successfully fighting for offshore wind projects that create good union jobs and revitalize the economy. In the process, they’re showing how to defend clean energy from Donald Trump.

Israel and Its Leaders Are Still on Trial for Genocide https://jacobin.com/2025/12/israel-gaza-genocide-icj-icc/

Israel and Its Leaders Are Still on Trial for Genocide
Western states would like to move on as if the Gaza genocide never happened, even though Israel is still terrorizing the Palestinian people. But the legal cases holding Israel and its leaders accountable are going ahead despite their best efforts.

Interview mit Linn Stalsberg: was Friedensbewegung und Frauenbewegung teilen: "das Beharren darauf, die Prämisse der Debatte und der Gesellschaft selbst zu verändern. Nicht nur neue Geschichten innerhalb des bestehenden Narrativs zu erzählen, sondern das Narrativ als solches infrage zu stellen. Und heute, da der Militarismus so stark ist – zur neuen Normalität geworden ist – müssen Feministinnen wachsam sein. Wir dürfen diese Normalisierung nicht einfach akzeptieren."

»Krieg ist Verachtung von allem, was das Leben lebenswert macht«
In der öffentlichen Debatte werden zunehmend militaristische Positionen als vernünftig und Pazifismus oder Kriegsdienstverweigerung als verrückt dargestellt. Die Antikriegs-Autorin Linn Stalsberg erklärt, warum das Gegenteil der Fall ist.

😿 The Crisis of the Portuguese Left
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The Crisis of the Portuguese Left
The Portuguese Socialist Party once seemed to be a model for Europe’s center left, gaining support while its sister parties were in decline. But this year’s election was a crushing defeat that saw the Socialists fall behind the far-right group Chega.

Reports of Socialism’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-socialism-democrats-sanders-establishment/

Reports of Socialism’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Centrists have been declaring the socialist movement dead for years in spite of the victories it has racked up. But Zohran Mamdani’s win makes its rise undeniable.

✊🏿 How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
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How One Black Labor Union Changed American History
A century ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters launched a union drive against a railroad giant, changing the course of the 20th century and forever entwining the causes of labor and black civil rights.

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-classifies-anti-capitalism-as-a-political-pre-crime/

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime
Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.

🌹 New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
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New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
A national poll from Jacobin, DSA Fund, and Data for Progress finds broad support for democratic socialist leaders and left-wing policies.

👎🏿 Americans Are Mostly United Against 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑
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Americans Are Mostly United Against Citizens United
When the Supreme Court issued the Citizens United decision, it allowed a torrent of unchecked dark money into political campaigning. Ordinary Americans of all political stripes have taken notice, and they overwhelmingly disapprove of the results.

The Nordics Have Low Inequality Mostly Because of Welfare https://jacobin.com/2025/11/redistribution-inequality-nordic-welfare-state/

The Nordics Have Low Inequality Mostly Because of Welfare
The Nordic countries have far less economic inequality than the United States. Most of the difference is due to the Nordics’ welfare states.

✊🏽 Socialist Politics Can Break Through to Asian Immigrants
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1960: The Year the Modern Horror Film Was Born https://jacobin.com/2025/10/1960-modern-horror-film/

1960: The Year the Modern Horror Film Was Born
A combination of the breakdown of the Hollywood studio system, the decline of censorship, and the rise of wildly — and luridly — creative filmmakers across the world looking to cash in on sex and violence made 1960 the year of the modern horror film.

🤦🏽 The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
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The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders. Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebration.

🤦‍♂️ “Premajority Unionism” Is Not a Promising Path for Labor
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“Premajority Unionism” Is Not a Promising Path for Labor
“Premajority unionism” is a new term for corporate campaigns, in which workers try to win concessions from employers using channels outside the workplace, like investor pressure and appeals to the public. Such efforts are not likely to achieve much.

✊🏽 How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
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How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
If Zohran Mamdani wins, he will face fierce resistance from business elites and the political establishment. Unions and grassroots member organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America can play a key role in helping him overcome this opposition.

🪧 Labor’s Crisis Is Not a PR Problem
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Labor’s Crisis Is Not a PR Problem
Union approval is at historic highs, yet density keeps falling. The problem isn’t messaging but the lack of strategy that can turn popularity into power.

🧑‍🏭 Hyundai’s US Auto Plants Are Rife With Labor Abuses
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Hyundai’s US Auto Plants Are Rife With Labor Abuses
The raids at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia earlier this month illustrate the impunity of Donald Trump’s brutal immigration crackdown. They also shine a spotlight on Hyundai’s labor practices, including exploitation of vulnerable migrant workers.