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Smart glasses don’t merely record goings on in public.
They extract data.
Their use is not just an individual choice; it’s a collective problem that must be dealt with politically: http://jacobin.com/2026/04/meta-ai-glasses-privacy-regulation
Peter Linebaugh has spent five decades researching the destruction of the commons.
In this interview, he explains why capitalism required violent expropriation and the removal of long-held customary rights to shared land and resources. https://jacobin.com/2026/05/commons-enclosure-working-class-history
The AI build-out depends on gas turbines and power transformers made by a handful of workers at a handful of plants in the US South.
That bottleneck is a vulnerability — and a rare opportunity for labor to exercise real power over the tech giants.https://jacobin.com/2026/05/workers-ai-power-plants-south
Bernie Sanders and @AOC have proposed a bill that would put a moratorium on new AI data centers until the government establishes oversight procedures and legal safeguards to ensure “the safety and prosperity of the American people.”https://jacobin.com/2026/04/bernie-aoc-artificial-intelligence-regulation
By presidential decree, @Claudiashein@mastox.eu is expanding health care to all Mexicans through the establishment of the Universal Health Service.
Beginning in 2027, "any citizen can attend any health institution and be guaranteed full and free coverage throughout the national system."
An overwhelmingly immigrant workforce in Colorado — speaking over 50 languages — says it won its strike at the largest meatpacking company in the world, striking a blow against an industry that has colluded to suppress wages and raise consumer prices. http://jacobin.com/2026/04/meatpacking-strike-wages-workers-unions
Since 2024, a growing rift has emerged in the Democratic Party over whether to better coordinate with billionaire-backed political networks to match Republicans.
Now this clash between populists and party elites is no longer quiet. http://jacobin.com/2026/04/democrats-billionaires-party-elites-populists
In recent months, the Trump administration has used shock interventions to grab hold of strategic resources.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, it’s pursued a quieter approach, but one squarely directed at US control of the country’s mineral wealth. https://jacobin.com/2026/05/drc-congo-mining-minerals-trump
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs.
The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agenda. https://jacobin.com/2026/03/menin-hochul-mamdani-taxes-rich/
Socialism cannot mean merely managing capitalism more fairly.
It must point toward a society where survival is no longer contingent on the market — and where democracy extends into the economy itself. http://jacobin.com/2026/04/socialism-democracy-capitalism-market-economy
Recent research makes the case that a federal jobs guarantee provides help in the form that working-class people actually want — a chance to earn a living and contribute to something larger than themselves: http://jacobin.com/2026/04/federal-jobs-guarantee-supermajority-support
In an age of algorithmically generated “kill lists,” anxieties about AI integration into military decision-making are justifiably mounting.
OpenAI’s recent hiring of over a dozen former defense bureaucrats does nothing to allay these concerns. https://jacobin.com/2026/04/openai-defense-contracts-tech-militarism/
In just a few seconds, Zohran Mamdani takes a fairly sophisticated argument in political theory and translates it into a funny but substantive response to a heckler that redirects the conversation to affordability. https://jacobin.com/2026/03/mamdani-cohen-freedom-affordability-speech/
The Christian Zionist movement has long pushed for regime change in Iran. With allies in Donald Trump’s inner circle and its ideas seeping into the US military, it has played a key role in building support for the current war. http://jacobin.com/2026/03/christian-zionism-iran-war-israel
Sergey Brin’s family fled Soviet authoritarianism, an experience he’s now invoking to portray a proposed wealth tax as Soviet-style tyranny.
Ironically this sort of rhetoric is more likely to bring the US closer to today’s Russia: an unabashed oligarchy. https://jacobin.com/2026/05/authoritarianism-wealth-tax-soviet-brin
Working-class economic populism is necessary for both Democrats’ electoral success and for the defense of democracy itself. Not many Democrats since FDR have recognized this, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of the few who does. http://jacobin.com/2026/02/aoc-fdr-economic-populism-democracy
Two former United Auto Workers organizers make the case for what they call a “leadership density” union organizing model.
That model was central to recent UAW breakthroughs, and we should accept no substitutes in similar campaigns.https://jacobin.com/2026/04/labor-strategy-uaw-leadership-auto
Happy birthday to Paul Robeson — pro athlete, actor, singer, civil rights activist, and socialist — born on this day in 1898.
When he traveled abroad, Robeson made a point to sing for workers. Here he is performing ‘Joe Hill’ to Scottish miners in 1949.
As a Cuban American, I went to Cuba with an aid convoy and saw what US policy looks like up close: blackouts, avoidable hardships, and a country being squeezed by its massive neighbor. https://jacobin.com/2026/04/cuba-blockade-convoy-fuel-economy
The rich should get free child care.
Ahead of Denmark’s election, the ruling Social Democrats proposed a new wealth tax.
Yet most voters saw this for what it was: a desperate change of tack after years ruling together with the center right.
📰: http://jacobin.com/2026/03/denmark-social-democrats-centrism-elections
Landlords dominate Australia’s parliament and Reserve Bank.
Their policies make the housing crisis worse.https://jacobin.com/2026/04/australia-housing-landlords-rba-parliament
As Donald Trump launches a dangerous war on Iran, understanding what really drives US imperial aggression is more urgent than ever.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq, which many critics wrongly claim was about oil, offers an illuminating case study. https://jacobin.com/2026/03/iraq-war-oil-us-imperialism/
Last month, Vietnam marked the 58th anniversary of the Mỹ Lai massacre, when US soldiers killed hundreds of defenseless civilians.
US public memory largely ignores the history of atrocities like Mỹ Lai, making it easier to repeat them in the future.https://jacobin.com/2026/04/my-lai-vietnam-war-anniversary
