A Better Olympics Is Possible
We can turn the Olympics from a corporate wonderland into a place of mass celebration and popular competition.
We can turn the Olympics from a corporate wonderland into a place of mass celebration and popular competition.
Despite police violence, millions are resisting the parliamentary coup in Brazil and trying to build a political alternative.

An interview with the actor, playwright, and socialist Wallace Shawn.
New York University has found a way to make budget cuts and worker exploitation appear like "innovations" from below.

Sisi is whipping up homophobia and targeting gay people to distract his base from rising unemployment and inflation.
Alternative for Germany's string of successes shows the party is here to stay. How can the Left respond?
There was no heroic adventure, only bloodshed. Columbus Day should not be a celebration.
This Columbus Day donate your time to building something Columbus stood firmly against: a society based on the fundamental humanity of all.

The Democratic Party’s pursuit of well-off whites undermined its ability to deliver gains for all workers. Going forward, it must place the multiracial working class at the center of its political vision.
Corbyn challenger Owen Smith claims the heritage of one of Britain's great radicals — but his record doesn't measure up.
The Kurdish struggle has been undermined by world-power clashes over the future of Syria.
Under capitalism, housing is never secure for the working class.
The GOP establishment doesn't hate Trump because he's a bigot. They hate him because he doesn't promote the neoliberal agenda.
The burden of market-based climate change solutions will fall on workers. We need strong state intervention.
The post-crisis class interests of small business sit comfortably next to the xenophobia of the alt-right.

In 1922 communist militant Shapurji Saklatvala was elected on a Labour Party ticket, becoming the first MP of color in the party’s history.

A look at counterculture behind the Iron Curtain.
Okinawan residents have built a broad movement to resist the power of the United States military in Japan.
Bill Clinton's New Markets initiative tried to fight poverty by showering incentives on the private sector. And now Hillary has embraced it.
From the "USS Honduras" to the 2009 coup and its aftermath, Honduras has suffered some of the worst abuses of US foreign policy.