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🗳️ Can the “Red Wave” Stop Austerity in Finland?
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Can the “Red Wave” Stop Austerity in Finland?
Last Sunday’s local and regional elections in Finland saw a big defeat for the hard-right Finns Party. Its leader called the gains for left-wing parties a “red wave” — but it’s less clear that this will halt the government’s austerity agenda.

The Crime of Treating Housing as a Commodity
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/housing-commodity-nyc-real-estate/

Here Lies Hudson’s Bay Company, Murdered by Private Equity https://jacobin.com/2025/06/hudsons-bay-canada-private-equity/

Here Lies Hudson’s Bay Company, Murdered by Private Equity
Hudson’s Bay Company, Canada’s oldest retailer, didn’t die of natural causes — it was gutted by private equity. Stripped of assets and loaded with debt, it leaves behind job losses, endangered pensions, and a hollowed-out legacy reduced to branding rights.

🔫 From Civil Wars to Neoliberalism in Central America
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From Civil Wars to Neoliberalism in Central America
The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the turn of the century — which then helped produce the 21st-century authoritarianism of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.

✊ Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
As he visits the US for the first time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save us from a dystopian future.

The Second-Class Citizenship of Palestinian Israelis https://jacobin.com/2025/05/palestinian-israelis-apartheid-discrimination-segregation/

The Second-Class Citizenship of Palestinian Israelis
Horrific, genocidal atrocities are being carried out against Palestinians in Gaza right now. But Israeli historian Ilan Pappé explains that Palestinian Israelis also find themselves in an “apartheid state” inside Israel.