Why the State Matters
The state has been used to discipline capital before. With climate change upon us, it'll have to do so again.
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Spain Through Orwell’s Eyes
Eighty years ago, Barcelona’s calamitous May Days sealed the fate of a worker-led social revolution. George Orwell was there to bear witness.
The Meaning of France Insoumise
Even in defeat, the movement around Mélenchon offers new possibilities for the French left.
Erdoğan Can Be Beaten
Erdoğan is not unstoppable. The Turkish left must fight to annul the fraudulent referendum and mobilize against dictatorship.
The Anti-Fascist Revolution
Remembering the Action Party, one of Italy’s biggest anti-fascist partisan movements.
Our Road to Power
The twentieth century left socialists plenty of lessons. Will we heed them?
Rebuilding a Workers’ Movement
A new labor federation in South Africa promises to resist the country’s neoliberal kleptocracy, but it faces an uphill battle.
Finland’s Red Women
During Finland's bloody civil war, revolutionary women struggled against exploitation in all its forms.
Bolshevism, Real and Imagined
Lenin's critics like to paint him as an authoritarian through and through. But that picture doesn't match reality.
Politics After the Political
Bulgaria’s recent elections show how narrow the country’s political options have become.
Remembering Triangle
108 years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the struggle of Jewish-American workers offers a stirring radical vision for Jews and non-Jews alike.
The Myth of “Populism”
It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.
How Churchill Broke the Greek Resistance
How Winston Churchill and the British government attacked the Greek Resistance and sowed the seeds of civil war.
The Lost History of Antifa
72 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa.
A Partisan Mayor
A look back at the "French Tito," partisan militant Georges Guingouin.
The Empire’s Amnesia
When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.
The Left and Labor Strategy
The Left needs a more coherent vision for its work inside the labor movement.
Unemployed Workers Can Fight Back
In the Depression-era United Kingdom, the National Unemployed Workers' Movement mobilized thousands to resist the indignities of unemployment. We're entering another period of massive economic crisis — and just like workers then, unemployed workers today can fight back.
Hillary Clinton’s Self-Defeating Triangulation
It wasn't just petty infighting that tanked Hillary Clinton's campaign. It was the lack of any coherent program for the country.
Making Sense of Syria
The bombing of Syria lays bare the impulsive violence of Trump's foreign policy and the rot of American democracy.