On Thursday morning, nearly 3,000 public school teachers and support staff in Oakland, California, went on strike. Educators say they’re striking to solve an austerity-driven crisis of understaffing and retention.
We talk to legendary filmmaker Adam Curtis about politics, power, music, and his new six-part documentary, Can’t Get You Out of My Head.
Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?
Serious consideration of the archaeological record puts to bed the myth that human history follows an evolutionary arc from simple and egalitarian to complex and hierarchical, challenging the assumption that democracy can work in small groups while scaling up requires domination.
The rector of Padua University, the classicist Concetto Marchesi stunned colleagues in December 1943 as he fled the city calling on students to join the partisan uprising against fascism. A lifelong Marxist, he embodied the revolutionary spirit of the Italian Communist Party — but also the compromises militants made during the long decades of dictatorship.
Socialists have rightly taken inspiration from the Russian Revolution for generations, but many of the lessons drawn from it are wrong for our own time. To make change today, we need to take democratic socialism seriously as a theory and practice.
The CIA is rebranding as a rational, progressive arm of the US state. And some liberals are buying it.
The New Deal solidified capitalist democracy in the United States. The country has swung between hints of social democracy and free market absolutism ever since.
Rudy Giuliani is crisscrossing the Americas, spreading the draconian policies he pioneered in New York City.
The Los Angeles teachers strike showed that bottom-up organizing can overcome extraordinary odds. We can do the same throughout the health and education sectors — and at Amazon.
How Chicago elites imported charters, closed neighborhood schools, and snuffed out creativity.
The Olympics are coming to Paris in 2024, with Airbnb as an official sponsor. Communist deputy mayor Ian Brossat told us why development projects for the Games mustn’t be used to drive out working-class residents — and how city hall is fighting to defend social housing.
The South has long remained a nearly impenetrable citadel for labor. Fresh off of the success of its Big Three strike last year and looking to organize an Alabama Mercedes plant, the United Auto Workers wants to storm the castle.
Parts of the business press have painted the Italian Democrats’ new leader as a local Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders. They’re being too kind.
The Left in Cyprus can only reemerge if it steps out of the confines of the "national question."
The astronomical levels of drug violence and corruption in Mexico can be directly attributed to the policies of the United States.
The new documentary Steal This Story, Please! shows how Amy Goodman helped build Democracy Now! into an independent outlet with a mass audience. We spoke to Goodman and director Tia Lessin about the film and challenging corporate media today.
As the US continues its slide toward cold war with China, pressure on Australia to maintain its dominance in the South Pacific has only grown. Ever the dutiful ally of the US, Australia is now earning accusations of imperialism from its Pacific neighbors.
From the hypercommercialization of Kindle Singles to the fraught question of classifying book genres, Amazon has put its stamp on the literary field in ways large and small — but always in the interests of profit, says Mark McGurl, author of Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon.
The only just future is one in which every person is given the chance to flourish — without exploiting other people or the planet.