The Dumb Money
The definitive explanation of why Bitcoin is stupid.
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The Progressive Case for the SAT
If you believe in equality, you should defend the SAT.
The NDP’s Oil Problem
Despite activist pressure, Canada's New Democratic Party is still wedded to fossil fuel development.
A War of Solidarity
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, when Cubans joined Angolans to defeat the South African apartheid regime.
Cuba in 1968
1968 was a decisive turning point in the Cuban Revolution.
The United States vs Democracy
Trump's policy towards Venezuela has become increasingly aggressive in the run-up to tomorrow's elections.
A New Marxian Century
It’s not just that Marx’s ideas remain relevant — we’re also in the midst of a great new age of Marxian thought.
Good News at Last
Don’t credit Trump, but a new Korean War seems less likely today than it has in years.
Trump’s Manufactured Crisis
By pulling out of the Iran deal and reimposing sanctions, Trump has invented a crisis that could push the United States toward war.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's not just Trump — nuclear weapons are tools of genocidal power, no matter who controls them.
Iran Is Not a Threat, Trump Is
Trump’s eagerness to wage war against Iran is reckless, irrational — and murderous. Iran is simply not a threat.
Building Worker Power on the Docks
Dock workers in San Francisco and Durban, South Africa, have huge amounts of strategic leverage in the global economy. Both have long used that power not just to fight for better wages, but also to fight imperialism and racism.
Soldiers of Fortune
In the 1970s American mercenaries traveled to Angola and Rhodesia, seized by racist, anticommunist dreams and delusions of grandeur.
Beyond Electoral Democracy
The radical democracy of the future requires more than just elections. We need a legislature by lot.
The Week That Stopped Brazil
The strike that paralyzed Brazil last week didn't come from the Left, but from an ignored and isolated group of workers.
What Revolutionary Socialism Means to Me
The revolutionary socialist vision is a vital one. Today’s rising socialist movement shouldn’t discard it.
Labor and Management Have Nothing in Common
The UAW based its campaign to unionize Volkswagen around the German labor movement’s “social partnership” model. It was the wrong approach — and ended in disaster.
Honduras Is a Mirror for All of Latin America
Honduras has been under a decade of dictatorship, its 2009 coup heralding a reactionary tide throughout Latin America. Internationalist, anti-imperialist solidarity is desperately needed.
When Workers Stopped Seattle
The Seattle General Strike of 1919 is a forgotten and misunderstood part of American history. But it shows that workers have the power to shut down whole cities — and to run them in our interests.
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass, 1852: "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim."