From ousting of Árbenz to Allende and now Morales, Latin America has seen a lot of right-wing coups. Here's historian Greg Grandin with some tips on how to understand what you're seeing in Bolivia today.

The opening of the Berlin Wall on this day in 1989 brought the downfall of the East German regime and the appointment of reformer Hans Modrow as head of government. Thirty years on, he speaks to Jacobin about his experiences on that day and in power, and…

In Bolivia, the military, police, and right-wing extremists have carried out a coup against the elected government. They intend to remain in power by violently suppressing the country's indigenous and poor.

At the Historical Materialism conference, the Saturday discussion between Professor David Harvey and myself on Marx’s double-edge law attracted more than 250 people.  Sunday’s session on the econom…

✑ Michael Roberts. At least, Piketty reckons it is possible to go beyond capitalism in his new book, Capital and Ideology. But Piketty’s plans to “overcome capitalism” will not replace the ownership and control of the means of production with a system of…

How we conceive of the state has profound effects on how we understand political strategy. In this essay, written in response to Michael A. McCarthy’s recent intervention, Zachary Levenson and Teresa Kalisz argue that only by seeing the state as truly relational…

Collectivity and individuality express two different aspects of Marxism’s humanist tradition, of how they ought to go together. It is another way to frame the dialectic of justice and jouissance…

From the heights of May ’68 to the tragedy of the Prague Spring, the 1960s were a tumultuous decade. During…

Labour’s election manifesto has been launched, and it presents a breathtaking vision of radical yet pragmatic change for the UK. Now we have to get that vision through to voters and drown out the din of a hostile media.

Land. Outside of our bodies and the oxygen that we breath, land, earth, is the most fundamental of human phenomenon. It defines our lives in every moment.

Whether it’s through the way we are standing, walking, or sitting on it, or by the way we’ve manipulated…

The irony of faith in blind markets

A network of cooperative alternatives are replacing rampant exploitation with decent work.

Samir Amin, who was a leading Marxist analyst of African underdevelopment, capitalism and globalisation, passed away in August 2018. This…

One way or another, Google keeps pushing organizers out.

Reciprocal altruists, whether human or ape, reward those who cooperate with others and punish those who defect. A commons works the same way.

Although neoliberalism is widely recognized as the central political-ideological project of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is a term that is seldom uttered by those in power.

In 1980s Britain, miners went on strike in support of nurses’ pay claims, throwing their industrial muscle behind under-pressure hospital staff. After decades of harsh anti-union laws, Labour’s manifesto promises a way to rebuild this culture of solidarity.