Beyond Social Democracy
It is precisely social democracy's history that shows why we need a more radical socialist politics today.
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Workers Didn’t Bring Us Fascism
From Berlin to the Ruhr, the organized working class resisted Hitler’s reactionary appeals.
Workplace Militancy Isn’t Enough for Labor
The uptick in high-profile strikes in recent years has been heartening. But sustaining and expanding the gains won by that militancy will require careful strategizing and deep political engagement that starts with but goes beyond the shop floor.
Taking Racism Seriously
Economic demands and specifically antiracist demands should not be counterposed — they should be brought together.
The Revolution Party
The question of the party is back on the Left's agenda — and not a moment too soon.
We Need a Revival of Marxist Class Analysis
Without solid data, discussions about class and class consciousness are often just guesswork. Empirical Marxist studies of class structure and class consciousness are invaluable for a robust socialist politics, and we need more of it.
Class Struggle Means Forging Broad Coalitions of the Exploited and Oppressed
Mark Steven has delved into the history of revolutions to develop a vision of class war for our own time. His analysis would be stronger if he recognized how those revolutions produced broad social alliances through the shared experience of struggle.
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction Is Essential Reading
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America is one of the greatest modern studies of revolution and counterrevolution. It’s also an extraordinary example of a materialist and class analysis of race under capitalism.
Why They Left
Brexit wasn't the first time Europeans rejected the EU, and it won't be the last. Here's what the Left should do.
Don’t Trust Elizabeth Warren’s Big-Donor Ban
Warren was courting megadonors last year, and says she’ll do it again if she wins the primary. But working people deserve leaders willing to make enemies in high places — for life.
Within or Against the State?
We need to see the state and capitalist production as aspects of the same set of social relations.
Why and How Class Still Matters
It’s fashionable to declare that Marxism doesn’t have much to say about complex, modern societies. But class and the material interests it generates are still the central features of capitalism.
The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex, Chapter One. Published by The Women's Press, 1979. Transcribed by MIA.
Why Liberals Separate Race from Class
The tendency to divorce racial disparities from economic inequality has a long liberal lineage.
Remembering the Chartists
The Chartist movement shows the enormous struggle it's taken to secure democratic rights — and how far we have yet to go.
France’s Far Right Is Gaining Where the Left Has Crumbled
French workers vote for the far-right Rassemblement National more than for other parties, but more often, they don’t vote at all. Rather than laying down roots like the old workers' parties, Marine Le Pen’s party has exploited the vacuum left by their decline.
An Open Letter to the British Left
A Greek leftist on why British socialists shouldn’t shy away from rejecting the European Union.
The Making and Unmaking of Global Capitalism
The authors of The Making of Global Capitalism respond in the conclusion to our seminar on their book.
The Strike as the Ultimate Structure Test
To build a more confident, fighting, politically educated working class, no task is more pressing right now than building for successful strikes.
George Orwell and the Proles
Though his pessimism about the working class ebbed and flowed throughout his life, George Orwell ultimately saw workers as the only force that could build an egalitarian, socialist society.