Video Game Execs Are Ruining Video Games ["introduction of layoffs to boost (company) share prices"] ( jacobin.com )
Video Game Execs Are Ruining Video Games ( jacobin.com )
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Never Ended ( jacobin.com )
Israel was founded with the Nakba, a series of atrocities that ethnically cleansed Palestinians from their homeland. Today we are witnessing Israel engage in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on an even larger, more violent scale....
Unions Need to Spend Big to Seize the Day ( jacobin.com )
Organizing at Grinnell: "whether that’s for an autoworker in Detroit, a Grinnell student worker, a Teamster or a teacher or a journalist it doesn’t matter. We’re all in the same fight together" ( jacobin.com )
Israel Rejected a Cease-Fire. The Media Isn’t Telling Us. ( jacobin.com )
Columbia Student Terrorists? NYPD Must Think We’re Pretty Dumb ( jacobin.com )
[July 2023] Israel Has Turned the Occupied Territories Into a Laboratory for State Terror ( jacobin.com )
Unionizing archaeologists fight blacklisting, union-busting law firms, firing of organizers, and reclassification of employees as ineligible ( jacobin.com )
The Speech That Got Yanis Varoufakis Banned From Germany ( jacobin.com )
Archaeologists Are Organizing to Dig Out of Poverty Wages ( jacobin.com )
Can a Major Antitrust Case Rein in Apple? ( jacobin.com )
Last month, the Justice Department charged tech giant Apple with serious antitrust violations related to the iPhone. It’s a relatively aggressive suit — but likely an inadequate response to Apple’s outsize power.
Hungary’s Support for Israel Exposes Its Fake Pacifism ( jacobin.com )
Far-right Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán has claimed that his refusal to help Ukraine is a “pro-peace position.” Yet Hungary is also the only EU state that openly backs an Israeli attack on Rafah — showing the hypocrisy of Orbán’s supposed pacifism....
Your Car Is Spying on You for Insurance Companies ( jacobin.com )
It turns out that the “Internet of Things” is full of automated snoops and spies. Data collection, now integrated into new car designs, is more pervasive than ever and is ushering in a brave new world of surveillance and corporate collusion.
Gustavo Petro Wants to End the War on Drugs ( jacobin.com )
Shawn Fain: Workers Deserve More Time for Themselves ( jacobin.com )
The Obscene US Profiteering From Israeli War and Occupation ( jacobin.com )
It’s not just the defense industry — plenty of US-based corporations do business with Israel and are complicit in its violation of Palestinian human rights in Gaza and beyond. Here are some of the worst offenders.
Why Private Investment Isn’t Driving a Rapid Green Transition ( jacobin.com )
Tech Titans Are the Robber Barons of Our Gilded Age ( jacobin.com )
Tech Titans Are the Robber Barons of Our Gilded Age ( jacobin.com )
Apple’s battle with Epic is a reminder that today’s tech companies behave like 19th-century monopolists. Installing democratic control over these modern throwbacks to Gilded Age robber barons is the only way to curb their power.
Kohei Saito’s “Start From Scratch” Degrowth Communism | if taken seriously, it would lead to political disaster for both the socialist left and the environmental movement | Jacobin ( jacobin.com )
Degrowth is a popular concept among solarpunks. This Jacobin article discusses some of its flaws from a Marxist standpoint. In particular, Jacobin reminds us an interpretation of Marxism which blames the Western working class for exploiting the Global South, and lectures the ever-more-exploited Western worker on the need to...
Forty Years Later, the Miners’ Strike Leaves Bitter Memories ( jacobin.com )
If Michigan Primary Voters Snub Joe Biden, Blame Joe Biden ( jacobin.com )
Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom? ( jacobin.com )
The idea that we are entering an era of techno-feudalism that will be worse than capitalism is chilling and controversial. We asked former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to elucidate this idea, explain how we got here, and map out some alternatives.