Everybody’s Favorite Law
Cap and Trade programs have proliferated, but global emissions continue to climb.
21068 Article(s) by: Elizabeth Mahony
My Father Chose to Be a Red
One man’s political odyssey from 1930s Brooklyn, to fighting fascists in Spain, to the melancholy of the postwar Communist Party.
The UFC Has a Chokehold on Labor
Tonight’s McGregor-Mayweather fight symbolizes everything that’s wrong with Dana White’s UFC.
The Stock Market Doesn’t Matter
What does the stock market do for workers’ wages? Nothing.
Silk Stockings and Socialism
The hosiery workers of Philadelphia created a vibrant union by mixing Jazz Age culture with militant socialist politics.
Fighting the Klan in Reagan’s America
The KKK was on the march in the 1980s. What strategies worked to stem their rise?
Tech Workers: Friends or Foes?
Tech workers’ high pay doesn’t mean they’re not workers — and it won’t always protect them from their bosses.
Populist Billionaires
The face of right-wing anti-elitism is surprisingly elite.
The NAFTA Consensus
NAFTA is just one front in capital’s forty-year war on workers.
What Abolitionists Do
Prison abolitionists aren’t naive dreamers. They’re organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique of state violence.
Che Guevara in Nepal
Che Guevara never actually visited Nepal. But the country is marked by his legacy.
The 1917 Peasant Revolutions
In Russia 1917, ordinary rural people took direct action to remake their world.
The Killing of Sacco and Vanzetti
The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti ninety years ago today is a reminder of how the American state treats radicals.
Strikers, Scabs, and Sugar Mongers
How immigrant labor struggles shaped the Hawaii we know today.
“The Society We Are Fighting for Has to Be Free From All Oppression”
Kshama Sawant on how the fight against race- and gender-based oppression fits into the fight for socialism.
Revisiting the Meidner Plan
In the 1970s, the Swedish labor movement developed a plan to gradually socialize ownership. What can we learn from it today?
What Is Trump Country?
Donald Trump’s base has always been the upper class — not poor workers.
When the Normal Is Insane
Tonight, Trump will continue the longest war in US history.
The Flight of the CEOs
Corporate leaders abandoned Trump in the wake of Charlottesville. What does it mean for his presidency?