The California Faculty Association is calling for a weeklong strike at the largest public university system in the United States to fight against cuts and preserve a vital public good.
Despite heavy repression, campus protests in solidarity with Palestine have been spreading like wildfire across the US. The support of organized labor can help the movement grow — and increase its leverage to achieve its demands.
"Nathan Leopold is not the only boy who has read Nietzsche."
A Universal Basic Income may not be much of a utopia in itself, but it points in surprisingly radical directions.
Piketty’s warnings of a capitalism without meritocracy are being challenged by an ossified economic theory.
The Common Core leaves intact the longstanding ethos of American public education: what’s good for capital is good for the student.
Today's Republican extremism owes more to the Constitution that established the Union than the secessionists who sundered it. It's Hoover's party — and Madison's — not Calhoun's.
A socialist-feminist classic appeared just as Thatcherism began pulverizing the Left. Today, should it be read as historical document or a blueprint for action?
Union workers – especially union workers on strike – really piss the Bay Area technorati off.
Instead of a captivating revenge film, The Revenant quickly becomes an overwrought mess.
Affirmative action was a hard-won victory by left-labor activists. It must be defended.
While Mandela was certainly a “great historical figure,” too many tributes have been unable to move beyond hagiography.
The failure of unions to gain control over their pension funds gives insight into corporate-controlled finance and the obstacles to democratizing it.
Only the Venezuelan sans culottes can save the Bolivarian Revolution.
On the Democratic Alliance party and the failures South African liberalism.
The protesters in Ferguson aren’t irrational or apolitical. They are calling attention to their basic, unmet needs.
Scottish independence achieved mass support because it gave ordinary people the sense that they can control their own destiny.
Marina Silva’s “post-ideological” politics is attracting support in advance of Sunday’s Brazilian elections.
Workers must play a decisive role in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution if movement demands are to go beyond political rights.
The UAW's defeat at a Mississippi Nissan factory will set back organizing the South for a long time.