Lula has once again reached the masses.
But this fourth term must entail governing in a different way: jacobin.com/2026/10/brazil-elections-lula-...
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Just as it has throughout Latin America, the Trump administration was openly working to defeat a left-wing government in Brazil and replace it with a far-right one.
With Lula’s victory, Trump failed. jacobin.com/2026/10/lula-brazil-election-t...
Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is ever more open about its plans to annex parts of Gaza and southern Lebanon.
Ahead of Tuesday’s election, opposition leaders have shied away from criticizing the idea: jacobin.com/2026/10/israel-nakba-gaza-leba...
Retrospectives on events in Eastern Europe during 1956 usually focus on the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
But the story of Poland’s reform movement, from its initial success to its long-term failure to transform the communist system, was equally important: jacobin.com/2026/10/poland-socialism-strik...
From France to India, young people have led the current wave of protests.
Rather than deny the importance of generational politics, we can see it as a way that people make sense of their life chances and of the opportunities they are denied. jacobin.com/2026/10/gen-z-protests-sociali...
One in every ten Brazilian voters joined a single pro-Lula chat group, "Lula’s Army," in the three weeks between the first and second rounds.
The unprecedented act of digital organizing, led by @AndreJanonesMG, brought together more than 10 million voters.
The result of Alberta’s referendum was widely expected: three-quarters chose to stay in Canada.
The referendum’s other questions, and the political tensions they exposed, point to deeper struggles — over immigration and the country’s resource economy. jacobin.com/2026/10/alberta-independence-u...
Lula’s defeat of the far right in Brazil not only secures the Brazilian president a definitive place in the history of global democracy but also offers valuable lessons for socialists across the planet. jacobin.com/2026/10/brazil-elections-lula-...
Israel’s ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon and Gaza has reached a scale unseen since the Nakba.
The history of Israel’s offensives shows how depopulation is soon followed by annexation. jacobin.com/2026/10/israel-nakba-gaza-leba...
In October 1956, a protest movement in Poland brought a reform-minded communist leadership to power.
Unlike Hungary, Poland managed to avoid Soviet intervention, but the opportunity to democratize its political and economic structures was missed. jacobin.com/2026/10/poland-socialism-strik...
Adolph Reed Jr: “You can’t elect your way to social transformation, at least not without an organizational base.” jacobin.com/2026/10/reed-fascism-trump-cla...
Israel’s parliamentary elections are fast approaching on October 27.
But whoever wins, there is not going to be any change to Israel’s denial of basic rights to the Palestinian people.
Both main coalitions are adamantly opposed to a Palestinian state. jacobin.com/2026/10/israeli-election-eisen...
“We can do this to any country we want,” Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump's ambassador to Greece, allegedly told a Greek minister.
Her real legacy is a US natural gas deal that enriches American exporters and Greek capital while households pay the price. jacobin.com/2026/10/greece-guilfoyle-lng-a...
In a wide-ranging interview, political scientist Adolph Reed explores the tensions between capitalist accumulation and democratic legitimacy and critiques neoliberalism’s displacement of class-based politics. jacobin.com/2026/10/reed-fascism-trump-cla...
Gadi Eisenkot, the leader of Israel’s opposition coalition, has been very clear about his opposition to Palestinian self-determination.
As Eisenkot stressed in August this year: “No Palestinian state will be established under the government we form.” jacobin.com/2026/10/israeli-election-eisen...
Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump's ambassador to Greece, allegedly said of toppling governments: “We can do it here too.”
Behind the scandal lies a story of US natural gas, Greek capital, and lobbyists cashing in on Southeast Europe's new energy order. jacobin.com/2026/10/greece-guilfoyle-lng-a...
Donald Trump’s popularity may be waning, but the political-economic conditions that gave rise to Trumpism remain, Adolph Reed argues.
To defeat the Right, the Left needs to rebuild durable working-class organization and a universalistic politics. jacobin.com/2026/10/reed-fascism-trump-cla...
The rival blocs contesting Israel’s general election differ over many questions, but they converge in their opposition to a Palestinian state.
Even if Benjamin Netanyahu loses power, the occupation will continue. jacobin.com/2026/10/israeli-election-eisen...
The US military invaded Grenada on this day in 1983.
We should remember not only the crisis and imperialist invasion that brought the Grenadian Revolution to an end, but also its tremendous accomplishments. jacobin.com/2021/03/grenada-revolution-njm...
Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece, has resigned.
Her farewell statement lays bare the bigger story: how American exporters and Greek capital collude to make ordinary households foot the bill for their new energy order. jacobin.com/2026/10/greece-guilfoyle-lng-a...
Israel’s election on Tuesday is the first since October 7, 2023.
Even if Benjamin Netanyahu’s government loses, it’s unlikely to lead to a real shift in Israeli policy. jacobin.com/2026/10/israel-palestine-elect...
To understand the global appeal of the far right, look to Brazil, where Bolsonarismo has capitalized on social disintegration to cement brute exploitation as the dominant social logic. jacobin.com/2026/10/brazil-far-right-socia...
The economist Hyman Minsky died 30 years ago today.
Best known for his theory of financial instability, Minsky developed a view of capitalism and its mutations that was far more radical than many of those who cite his work appreciate. jacobin.com/2026/10/minsky-finance-instabi...
Rather than slink back from its globally condemned genocidal conduct over the past three years, Israel is actually ratcheting up its psychotically bloody and illegal conduct right now. jacobin.com/2026/10/israel-gaza-iran-crime...
Diana Buttu, a Palestinian Canadian lawyer who lives in Haifa, explains why she’ll be casting a vote in Tuesday’s Israeli election, and why she doesn’t think the holding of the election makes Israel a real democracy. jacobin.com/2026/10/israel-palestine-elect...
The idea that countries of the capitalist periphery would, in the inevitable march of economic progress, come to resemble the US and Europe has been turned on its head.
Instead, are we witnessing the “Brazilianization” of the world? jacobin.com/2026/10/brazil-far-right-socia...
Thirty years after Hyman Minsky’s death, his name is more familiar than his political economy.
Whenever a financial boom turns into panic, someone announces a new “Minsky moment.”
This posthumous fame has narrowed our understanding of Minsky’s legacy. jacobin.com/2026/10/minsky-finance-instabi...
No country has a rap sheet that comes close to the length and breadth of Israel’s recent bloody, barbaric, and illegal violations. jacobin.com/2026/10/israel-gaza-iran-crime...
For two decades, Israel has obstructed any kind of democratic process in the occupied territories.
Even through changes of government in Israel, the main parties have made sure that Palestinians’ voice remains stifled. jacobin.com/2026/10/israel-palestine-elect...
In the rise of the far right, Brazil is “once again in the vanguard, except now of disintegration.”
Does Brazil foreshadow a world in which intensifying exploitation becomes the standard right-wing response to the crisis of neoliberalism? jacobin.com/2026/10/brazil-far-right-socia...
Hyman Minsky understood that financial instability is generated by capitalism’s always changing forms.
Stabilizing the system without changing its structure will simply pave the way for the next crisis. jacobin.com/2026/10/minsky-finance-instabi...
The list of atrocities that Israel has carried out in just the past week is staggering. jacobin.com/2026/10/israel-gaza-iran-crime...
Israel’s election on Tuesday is the first since October 7, 2023.
Even if Benjamin Netanyahu’s government loses, it’s unlikely to lead to a real shift in Israeli policy. jacobin.com/2026/10/israel-palestine-elect...
To understand the global appeal of the far right, look to Brazil, where Bolsonarismo has capitalized on social disintegration to cement brute exploitation as the dominant social logic. jacobin.com/2026/10/brazil-far-right-socia...
The economist Hyman Minsky died 30 years ago today.
Best known for his theory of financial instability, Minsky developed a view of capitalism and its mutations that was far more radical than many of those who cite his work appreciate. jacobin.com/2026/10/minsky-finance-instabi...
Rather than slink back from its globally condemned genocidal conduct over the past three years, Israel is actually ratcheting up its psychotically bloody and illegal conduct right now. jacobin.com/2026/10/israel-gaza-iran-crime...
A sudden offensive by Ansar Allah this summer took its Yemeni opponents and their Saudi allies by surprise.
But the resumption of conflict is likely to be long and protracted, with disastrous consequences for Yemen’s civilian population. jacobin.com/2026/10/yemen-war-houthis-saud...
The Milwaukee Brewers are in the World Series for the first time since 1982.
The small-market team’s success this season is a reminder of Milwaukee baseball’s progressive heritage and the city’s proud socialist history. jacobin.com/2026/10/baseball-milwaukee-bre...
Vancouver’s Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) elected all 12 candidates it ran in the city’s recent election.
The democratic socialist party is now part of a progressive council majority. jacobin.com/2026/10/vancouver-socialism-el...
Victory for Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil’s election would bring mafiosi to power and reward interference by the White House and Miami reactionaries.
In the final stretch of the campaign, Bolsonaro no longer looks invincible. jacobin.com/2026/10/election-bolsonaro-cri...
If you want to know whether artificial intelligence is a gigantic economic bubble, don’t just take pundits’ word for it.
Major investors are now moving their money to try to protect themselves from the AI bubble popping. jacobin.com/2026/10/artificial-intelligenc...
The British medieval historian Chris Wickham, who died earlier this month, transformed our understanding of the Middle Ages.
Rooted in the great tradition of British Marxist historiography, Wickham covered a staggering range of case studies in his work. jacobin.com/2026/10/wickham-marxism-histor...
Since the resumption of Yemen’s internal conflict, more than 250,000 people have been displaced, most of whom are moving from one active front line to areas that might be swept up in the conflict within hours.
The humanitarian situation is disastrous.jacobin.com/2026/10/yemen-war-houthis-saud...