NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes in Jacobin about the meaning of the Milwaukee Bucks’ victory this year, and his own Bucks championship in 1971.

Jacobin

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What the NBA Championship Means to Me

Too often, the militant, radical history of Mexican American workers is omitted or forgotten. But from resisting racist exclusion to building CIO unions in the 1930s, Mexican American workers have been central to left-wing politics in the United States.

The Forgotten History of Mexican American Militancy

This year, the Canadian TV show Trailer Park Boys turns twenty. The program’s refusal to patronize its marginal, working-class characters was key to its comedic and popular success, and won it a special place in our hearts.

Happy 20th Birthday, Trailer Park Boys

In more and more of the country Amazon acts like an employer in a company town, sucking up whole communities and shaping public goods and services to fit its profit-making needs.

United States

Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

There is a persistent legend about the origins of the ornate, five-star Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India’s financial capital. The hotel opened in 1903, when British colonial rule in India was at its peak. The genesis of the hotel came, so the story goes, when the budding industrialist Jamsetji Tata — […]

Politics

Mumbai

Tata Motors Is Everything Wrong With Indian Capitalism

This month, Italian courts jailed fourteen men for their roles in Operation Condor, the US-backed Latin American terror campaign. But many more torturers are living out a peaceful retirement — denying justice to the leftists they brutalized and murdered.

Right-Wing Operation Condor Murderers Should Be in Jail

This month marks 120 years since the founding of the Socialist Party of America. The party was especially strong in rural areas like Oklahoma — success that the socialist movement could actually replicate today.

When America’s Red States Were Red

Charter schools don’t improve education outcomes. But they do funnel taxpayer money into the pockets of unscrupulous — often criminal — school operators. It’s a national disgrace that needs to end.
Eva Moskowitz, the founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, takes home nearly $1 million a year.

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