Battling Convention
Inside the police’s playbook for repressing protests at national conventions.
19783 Articles by: Alex Press
What Happened in Turkey?
Turkey’s failed military coup wasn’t in service of democracy — but neither is Erdoğan’s countercoup.
The Problem With Gun Control
Homophobic and racist violence won’t be fixed by heavily armed police or discriminatory gun control.
Learning to Fight
Teachers everywhere are fighting against austerity.
Arguing Over Cuba
Far too often, US intellectuals either defended Cuban Communism uncritically or fed into Washington propaganda.
Let the Games Begin
The Rio Olympics are taking to the extreme the overblown promises and neoliberal development now typical of the games.
CUNY’s Last Lifeline
This spring’s contract struggle brought students and faculty together to stem attacks on public higher education in New York.
The Life and Resistance of a Chinese Worker
One worker’s tale of exploitation and fighting back in the new China.
Remaking Labour
MP Jon Trickett on studying under Ralph Miliband and how Labour can become a million-member party.
Teamsters and Cops
Minneapolis teamsters in 1934 knew something we should remember — police enforce the ruling class’s unjust order.
Yes, the French Revolution Was Necessary
Historians who argue otherwise overlook the appalling conditions on the ground.
Hegel on Bastille Day
Hegel was no reactionary, and he had a special sympathy for the French Revolution.
How Should We Judge the Revolutionaries?
One of the historic leaders of French socialism defends the Revolution of 1789.
Resist Pokémon Go
If Pokémon Go could resemble the best of childhood, it might have some value. What it actually does is very different.
At All Costs
Canada’s tar sands are destructive and massively inefficient. But for capitalists, they’re the future.
Croatia’s Bad Choices
Croatians suffering from austerity and sick of corruption need a political alternative.
Did the Color of His Skin Kill Philando Castile?
How not to talk about racism.
Building a Corbyn Majority
The British left can’t look to Jeremy Corbyn to carry them to victory by himself.
Resisting the Backlash
Opponents of Black Lives Matter are trying to destroy the movement by slandering it as violent. We can’t let them.
Corbyn Lives to Fight Another Day
Corbyn has survived the latest challenge to his leadership. Paul Mason on why they want to beat him — and how he can win.