
“We Are Not the Dirt We Clean”
Cleaners at one of the UK’s most prestigious universities are waging an indefinite, one-day-a-week strike.
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Cleaners at one of the UK’s most prestigious universities are waging an indefinite, one-day-a-week strike.
Jamaican prime minister Michael Manley died twenty years ago. What can we learn from his democratic socialism?
A brief history of Esperanto, the language intimately tied to the common destiny of the working class.
Marx’s Civil War writings wrestle with many of the issues that plague today’s left.
The socialist project isn’t to rebel against the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity, but to show how capitalism is incapable of fulfilling them.
Catholic activists like Maura Clarke, an American nun assassinated by a Salvadoran death squad in 1980, transformed missionary work into anti-imperialist solidarity.
A new labor federation in South Africa promises to resist the country’s neoliberal kleptocracy, but it faces an uphill battle.
For years, millionaires and religious zealots have teamed up to preach “school choice” in an effort to dismantle public education.
The forgotten Finnish Revolution has perhaps more lessons for us today than events in 1917 Russia.
Joseph Kabila’s second term as Democratic Republic of Congo president was supposed to end last November, but he’s still clinging to power, despite massive resistance.
Opposition violence and the government’s increasing authoritarianism are both to blame.
There’s nothing to celebrate about the FBI — it isn’t, nor has it ever been, a guardian of democracy.
In Colombia, Internet personalities and religious leaders mobilize opposition to the peace process by drumming-up fears of sexual diversity and “gender ideology.”
Two years ago, the Baltimore Uprising pointed the way towards a new, militant antiracist struggle. Today, the young movement must adapt to the Trump era.
The Momentive strike proved that when workers take collective action, the politics of Trumpism can be overcome.
Sex workers are like any other member of the working class — they’re just trying to get by in the face of an unjust economic system.
Yemen had the longest and deepest Arab Spring — why did the country collapse into civil war?
Hillary Clinton is rebranding herself as an activist. Don’t be fooled.
Solidarity between Muslim and Latino communities is crucial to building the kind of movement that can defeat Trump.
In the standard account, February was the good revolution and October was the extremist one. But events in Russia were far more complex than that.