The Future of Greece
Syriza continues to oversee the implementation of austerity. But all is not hopeless in Greece.
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Counter-Hegemonic Struggles
Socialists believe not only that capitalism is an oppressive, undemocratic system, but that there's a viable, humane alternative.
Abolish the Military
We should honor those killed and injured in past US wars by stopping future ones.
The Disaster in Libya
Western-led military interventions aren't motivated by humanitarian concerns.
From Criminals to Heroes
Top intelligence officials like John Brennan have been posturing as Trump critics to obscure their own scandalous pasts. And many liberals are buying it.
Germany’s Governmental Crisis
A regional party in Germany is flexing its muscles and shifting the country's politics significantly to the right. Is Angela Merkel’s supremacy coming to an end?
Greening Malthus
The emphasis on family planning as an environmental fix distracts us from more fundamental reforms.
From Enver Hoxha to Bill Clinton
A brief history of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
The Latest Incarnation of Capitalism
Financialization isn’t a perversion of an otherwise well-functioning system. It’s just capitalism’s latest survival mechanism.
“The Aid from Europe Is Conditional on Fresh Austerity Measures”
Faced with the mounting economic crisis, European leaders have promised aid to the hardest-hit member states. But there’s always strings attached. For France Insoumise MEP Manuel Bompard, the proposals for loans and grants ignore the real scale of the crisis — because they all put debt repayment above the needs of average Europeans.
What Is Socialist Feminism?
Barbara Ehrenreich on why we need socialist feminism to fight patriarchy.
“There Was No Question of Anybody Walking Out”
An interview with one of the founders of England's Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, the subject of the new movie Pride.
The Kuleana of Socialism in Hawai‘i
It's election day for Kaniela Ing in Hawai'i today. His campaign shows that socialism has both deep history and future potential on the islands.
“Remember Me as a Revolutionary Communist”
Reflections on the life of Leslie Feinberg, the late radical activist and author of Stone Butch Blues.
We Read a Bunch of Parenting Books
Now let us raise your children.
South Dakota Unions Against White Supremacy
The Sioux Falls, South Dakota AFL-CIO recently banned white supremacists from union leadership. President Kooper Caraway says that's because labor has a duty to fight the far right.
The Status Quo Election
Ahead of Monday's election, all three major Canadian parties are misdiagnosing the source of the country's economic woes.
Ninety-Minute Nationalists
Yugoslavia’s communists recruited so many football players that some even joined the partisans while still wearing their kits. But today, football in the Balkans is famous for its far-right extremism.
Facebook After Capitalism
Jeremy Corbyn’s call for a “free and democratic media” promises to break the stranglehold of the established monopolies. And that also means taking on tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg.
The Crisis That Created Putin
Twenty years ago, a crisis of Russian capitalism doomed Moscow’s pro-Western regime and gave birth to the Putin era.