By Adam Mahoney A lawsuit filed five years ago charged several U.S. tech companies with complicity in child labor. Among said companies was Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle producer. Tucked into that lawsuit is…
By Hannah Chanatry In a sunlight-filled conference center at the Haw River State Park in Guilford County, North Carolina, Russell Chisholm stood and clicked through a PowerPoint presentation with photographs of broken streambeds and construction…
By Marjorie Kelly “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism,” wrote Mark Fisher in his 2009 book Capitalist Realism [quoting Fredric Jameson]. This sense pervades…
Supporting Durham City Workers’ Campaign for Fair Pay By Jen Douglas Durham city workers organizing with UE150—a member group of the UFE-coordinated Raising Wages NC coalition —are out in the streets and testifying at City…
—and the World By Shawn Fain Members of the United Auto Workers courageously fought corporate greed at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis last fall during the historic six-week Stand-Up Strike. Because of their determination and…
An Interview with Alex Hemingway By David Moscrop Jacobin’s David Moscrop recently talked with Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives senior economist and public finance policy analyst Alex Hemingway about his new cowritten report, Expanding Democratic…
By Stuart Kells In the classic 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, depositors demand their money from a small-town building society. Its manager, George Bailey (in an unforgettable performance by James Stewart), explains that the…
By Sam Pizzigati How rich have America’s super rich become? The annual compensation of Steve Schwarzman, the chief exec of the private-equity colossus Blackstone Inc., offers up one telling yardstick. In 2023, we learned earlier…
By Zack Budryk Environmental organized crime is a massive global enterprise, bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars each year—and the U.S. financial system appears to be helping conceal its profits. Interpol estimates that environmental crime…
By Rainforest Action Network The recently released 15th annual Banking on Climate Chaos report employs a new, expanded data set that credits each bank making financial contributions to a deal instead of only crediting banks…