
Is There a Future for Socialism?
We all wondered, as we watched Back to the Future, how alternative futures could change the whole universe while Marty McFly stayed the same.

We all wondered, as we watched Back to the Future, how alternative futures could change the whole universe while Marty McFly stayed the same.

Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?

The failings of the Affordable Care Act are rooted in a long shift away from the idea of a truly universal health care.

We will not go into the socialist city blindly, but with lessons from a century of experiments.

With a week to go until the elections, Greece's final campaign advertisements show the tides are still with Syriza.

The surrogacy industry shows how difficult it will be to make new reproductive technologies benefit all.

Podemos emerged in resistance to Spain’s political establishment. But what are the limits to its populist strategy?

Freelancers have more in common with other workers than with small-business entrepreneurs.

Detroit is evicting tens of thousands from their homes this year, even as it trumpets an urban revival.

British Marxist Bob Jessop on David Cameron, New Labour, and the best way to take on global capitalism.

The New Deal welfare state was exclusionary and inequitable. We must envision and organize for something better.

Naomi Klein's incisive critique of capitalism is blunted by her unwillingness to point to its replacement.
South Africa's youth are leading an uncompromising movement to right the wrongs of the post-apartheid era.
Climate change is driving Bangladeshi women out of the countryside and into exploitative garment factories.
Cory Doctorow on the surveillance state, Edward Snowden, and the core values of a utopian society.

Patricio Guzmán’s The Battle of Chile captures the class war that culminated in Salvador Allende's overthrow 44 years ago today.

Private charity will never cure capitalism's ills. Only working-class organizations can do that.

Giving people stuff isn't a bad thing. In fact, it’s the material basis of mass politics.

As Argentina's right consolidates power, an activist's disappearance at the hands of the police has unearthed memories of the dictatorship.

The attacks on Title IX undermine the struggle against campus sexual assault.