Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
Ill fares the land in 2016 … the shame of Cleveland … America First … 9/11=Inside Job … Islamic Plots … Alex Jones … Build the Wall … Police State Vibes … Un-American Activity … Loneliness, Despair, Frustration … Meet the people ushering in the age of Trump.
For decades, the state has used lists like the no-fly list to expand its power and harass political dissidents.
The Trump fortune was built off theft — from workers, from the state, and from the commons.
Donald Trump tried to transform Atlantic City into a personal cash cow — and doomed the city in the process.
The Bolivarian Revolution improved millions of lives, but it was never able to fundamentally challenge the logic of capital.
If they’re to have any chance of reviving, Australian unions need to abandon backroom deals and activate their rank-and-file.
NEC candidate Rhea Wolfson on how she discovered socialist politics and what it will take to change the Labour Party.
Federal Reserve policies did more to smash the power of American workers than Ronald Reagan’s union busting.
Corbyn supporters’ vision for the Labour Party is fundamentally at odds with that of its entrenched elite.
Historian Robert Conquest was a fierce critic of Stalinist brutality, but Cold War anticommunism hampered his scholarship.
Victor Jara was tortured and killed for being the musical voice of Allende’s Chile. Now his murderer may finally be brought to justice.
Five things a Vermont third party can teach us about carving out a space to the left of the Democrats.
Campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn isn’t enough. The Labour Party must be transformed into a vehicle of popular democracy.
Without a socialist left, both inside and outside of unions, organized labor will continue to lose ground.
US public sector unions have gotten a reprieve. Will they use it to rebuild, or squander the opportunity?
The dismantling of autoworker gains was a class project, not the inevitable result of globalization.
Just like Trump, UFC president Dana White built his fortune off exploitation and union-busting. No wonder they’re friends.
Community climate-adaptation initiatives preserve and build on stark geographic inequalities.
Donald Trump’s brand of reaction is particularly noxious, but it sits comfortably in the Reagan tradition.
The Turkish military isn’t a friend to democracy or progress, and never has been.