Community organizer Carroll Fife is preparing to enter city hall in Oakland. She joins part of a wave of left-wing insurgents unseating neoliberal officials across the country, and she’ll be working to build municipal power from the bottom up.
A review of Eric Hobsbawm's How to Change the World.
Hillary Clinton isn't a champion of women's rights. She's the embodiment of corporate feminism.
Congress was able to break the rail strike last week because of a century-old law designed to weaken the disruptive power of unions. It’s time to cast aside this law and every other government-mandated strike prohibition that ties the hands of workers.
Anti-racists in France are constantly accused of being “identitarians” undermining the supposed universalism of the "color-blind" Republic. But the demands raised at the protests following George Floyd’s murder uphold actual universalism: a commitment to fighting oppression that recognizes the reality of racist and colonial violence.
If we're going to revive the labor movement, we need a strategy that's rooted in socialist principles but flexible enough to adjust to changing conditions in the US workforce.
In April 1932, hundreds of workers took to the hills of northern England to challenge the right of landed gentry to enclose the countryside.
Brazil's fascist president loves to say that “a good thug is a dead thug.” But the saying didn't start with him — it has deep roots in Brazil's violent, racist political economy.
Minnesota civil rights and labor activist Nellie Stone Johnson was born on this day in 1905. Though little known nationally, she was a key figure in the US democratic socialist tradition who saw struggles for racial and economic justice as inseparable.
The Bolivarian Revolution improved millions of lives, but it was never able to fundamentally challenge the logic of capital.
Ski resorts should be public facilities available to all, not expensive luxuries for the wealthy few. Powder to the people!
Pride isn’t just excellent labor history. It’s a reminder of what real solidarity looks like.
Iraq War veteran Mike Prysner on what the military-industrial complex gained by staying in Afghanistan so long, what’s next for US empire, and why antiwar sentiment is rising among active-duty soldiers.
Lenin arrived at Finland Station 100 years ago today, reshaping Bolshevik strategy and the course of the Russian Revolution.
As the privatization of public education continues, students with disabilities suffer. Under Trump and Betsy DeVos, it will only get worse.
From its vicious occupation in the early 20th century to its military bases in the present, the US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.
Cold War stereotypes have blocked our understanding of European politics after 1945. On both sides of the future Iron Curtain, liberation from Nazism unleashed a spirit of radical democracy that might have led Europe down a very different path if not for superpower intervention.
Jeremy Corbyn drew on the historic struggles of the Labour left and new social movements to power his successful party leadership bid.
The exploitative relationship between city and countryside pervades Chinese life. Nowhere is inequality in access to public goods clearer than in the country’s urban education system.
Germany's elections show that the country is not insulated from a crisis-prone Europe, but part and parcel of it.