
Everything You Wanted to Ask About Sects . . . But Were Afraid to Know
We joined the New Communist Movement because we were serious about changing the world. It taught us much about how to organize — and how sectarianism ruins everything.

We joined the New Communist Movement because we were serious about changing the world. It taught us much about how to organize — and how sectarianism ruins everything.

Algeria is in the throes of a revolutionary moment. But having overthrown dictator Abdelaziz Bouteflika last spring, the movement must now find a way to return the class issue to the center of politics or risk watching the revolutionary moment slip away.
America is best understood not as the first post-colonial republic, but as an expansionist nation built on slavery and native expropriation.
The British media has launched a vicious campaign against Jeremy Corbyn because he threatens the powers that be.
The left hopes to push a de Blasio administration, but his police commissioner may not budge.

By following the development of global capitalism and international left movements for the past three decades, Naomi Klein has analyzed the world much more clearly than mainstream political observers — and stayed ahead of the curve in proposing bold solutions to fix our most burning problems like climate change.

In fighting for a Green New Deal we can’t just focus on clean power and innovative ways to decarbonize our society and world. We also need to rethink what and how much we consume — without falling prey to left arguments that amount to austerity.

The Medicare-for-All movement needs a goal that will help broaden its base and inspire the next big push. A national march could do just that.

Liberalism, they said back in the 1930s, was freedom plus groceries. In the Obama era, it was faulty websites plus hip celebrities.
Most dismiss social democracy as the fading echo of a bygone age — Lane Kenworthy disagrees.

The Daily Show lied to us. Defending "the facts" and debunking Fox News are no substitute for politics.

The British media has launched an unprecedented campaign of disinformation against Jeremy Corbyn.
The protesters in Ferguson aren’t irrational or apolitical. They are calling attention to their basic, unmet needs.
Paul Mason on the power of the Corbyn campaign and his experience canvassing for Labour.
For Israeli settlements in the West Bank, exploiting Palestinian life is a billion dollar industry.

Video games can and should be full of interesting politics. So why aren't they?
The Clintons aren't the solution to the plutocratic status quo — they are the status quo.

Australia is a climate wrecker on a global scale. With a government long beholden to mining interests, calls for climate justice fall on deaf ears. But plans for a Green New Deal are not just necessary — they’re achievable.
A concern for human life, not international law, should drive opposition to the US “targeted killing” program.