Narendra Modi is seeking a parliamentary supermajority to enact authoritarian constitutional change. India’s political opposition could derail his plan by channeling the spirit of social resistance to Modi’s Hindutva chauvinism. jacobin.com/2024/05/india-…

Students who have protested Israel’s war on Gaza at NYU are now required to complete a 49-page packet on “integrity” — a practice that would be better suited to the administration itself. jacobin.com/2024/05/nyu-re…

New York University is punishing students who protested the genocide in Gaza by forcing them to take a philosophically confused course on “integrity.” University administrators are the ones who need to brush up on that subject. jacobin.com/2024/05/nyu-re…

Two recent books suggest that the rise of fascism was not defined by the growing political awareness of men and women of letters, but their inability to meet the challenge of the moment.
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The last years of the Weimar Republic are often thought to have witnessed an outpouring of politically engaged literature. But the history is more complicated. Writers more often avoided antagonizing a resurgent right to protect their lives and careers.
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Georgia-Pacific has faced tens of thousands of legal claims from people who unknowingly suffered asbestos exposure from materials the company sold. The company has used a novel legal maneuver to evade those claims, and the Supreme Court is letting it be.
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In 2017, Georgia-Pacific invented a legal scheme to skirt liability for serious consumer harms. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court allowed the move to stay in place, giving the company more time to avoid paying up for its asbestos poisoning.
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Parti Socialiste’s lead candidate, Raphaël Glucksmann, is representative of the forces that want to contain the social movements that have provided some energy to French politics through the otherwise moribund Macron years. jacobin.com/2024/05/raphae…

France’s Parti Socialiste is on the rise ahead of the EU elections, under lead candidate Raphaël Glucksmann. He’s appealing to disappointed Macron voters — but his campaign is also squarely aimed at killing off the alliance of France’s left-wing parties. jacobin.com/2024/05/raphae…

According to a BBC staffer, the broadcaster is hamstrung by its particular proximity to British establishment power and, by extension, pro-Israeli propaganda. That is why it has failed in its reporting on Gaza.
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A BBC journalist writes that editors at the broadcaster are afraid of reprimand from their bosses for reporting that displeases the Israeli government, leading to the BBC’s consistently holding back from reporting the full horrors of Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Unions fight for more pay for workers. But workers also need to have time for themselves and their friends and families. Overtime pay and raises can't replace what we need more than anything else: our time back.
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On this day in 1851, abolitionist Sojourner Truth delivered her famous 'Ain't I a Woman?' speech to the Women's Rights Convention. The speech challenges discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and intellectual ability, and lays bare the cruelty of slavery.

Anya Taylor-Joy revs up her engines for 'Furiosa,' but this 'Mad Max' prequel is running on fumes. jacobin.com/2024/05/furios…

After over 600 people died in a shipwreck last June, Greek police sought to incriminate the survivors. Last week they were finally acquitted, after a case that illustrated a worrying trend to cast ordinary migrants as members of human-smuggling networks.
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Israel’s genocide in Gaza has put international concerns front and center for the US left today. Jacobin spoke with three leading internationalist organizers about how leftists should think about international solidarity in the 21st century. jacobin.com/2024/05/left-i…

Both US and Chinese leaders play down the prospects of a new Cold War — but they never sound convincing. Vast shifts in the world economy are driving a new imperialist rivalry, for which a series of regional wars are creating dangerous flash points.
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In today’s election, South Africa’s ANC risks losing its majority for the first time. But with the opposition split between xenophobic posturing, threats of violence, and dull technocratic solutions, the vote offers little hope of positive change. jacobin.com/2024/05/south-…

Jeremy Corbyn is running as an independent in the UK general election after Keir Starmer blocked him from running for Labour. From Palestine solidarity to the Green New Deal, Corbyn will be a voice for causes that Starmer has driven out of Labour. jacobin.com/2024/05/jeremy…

Rife with nonstop chase scenes that become boring as they drag on, and marred by terrible, distracting CGI, “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” has stained the reputation of the entire 'Mad Max' series. jacobin.com/2024/05/furios…