Tag: Jacobin magazine

Fifty years ago, in June 1971, the New South Wales branch of the Builders Labourers Federation voted to ban construction of a luxury housing development in the Sydney harborside suburb of Hunters Hill. Earlier that month, however, the Battlers for Kelly’s Bush — a resident action group — held a meeting of over six hundred […]

On his first day in office, he took down the White House’s climate policy web page and replaced it with his “America First Energy Plan.” On his fifth day, he signed executive orders approving the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, rolling back the modest gains of the climate and indigenous anti-pipeline movements. There became […]