Learning to Fight
Teachers everywhere are fighting against austerity.
Teachers everywhere are fighting against austerity.
Whatever their limits, Murray Bookchin's ideas should be studied by today's left.

Why are US unions less powerful than their Canadian counterparts?

Bringing together weak unions and weak social movements isn’t enough. We need a new kind of socialist party.
Debates during the rise of Margaret Thatcher can tell us much about how to respond to our political moment.
The casino workers' strike at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino is a defining battle for American labor.
What Gramsci can tell us about the relationship between fascism and liberalism — and the rise of Donald Trump.
Former Greek finance minster Yanis Varoufakis responds to his critics and lays out DiEM25's plan for resisting within the European Union.
Gary Johnson spent his time as New Mexico's governor championing private prisons and austerity. He's not worth a protest vote.
A strategy of “lesser evilism” won't prepare the Left for the long fights ahead.

An interview with the actor, playwright, and socialist Wallace Shawn.

Winning Medicare for All would allow us to take a giant step toward health justice.
Slashed budgets and union-busting might lead to Chicago's second teacher strike in four years.
Trump's narrative of American decline has captured a bitter and embattled middle class.
If you think this was not an entirely terrible idea, read this note.
Canadian autoworkers are demanding control over companies' investments. Will it work?
How the Puerto Rican left is trying to build resistance to both colonialism and neoliberalism.
The Long Island University lockout is over. A rank-and-file librarian explains how faculty won and why it matters for public education around the country.
Labour Party elites aren’t really worried about Trotskyists infiltrating the party — they’re afraid of grassroots democracy.
Critics charge that party democracy is the road to ruin for Labour and others. Here's why they're wrong.