The COVID-19 crisis has shown that markets alone can’t meet our societies’ fundamental needs. But state measures to ward off economic collapse are just the start of a battle over the future — one where the principles of solidarity must be extended from health care to all aspects of society.
Micah White, the guy who says he “cocreated” Occupy Wall Street, just went to Davos to “achieve great changes” with the 1 percent. Sometimes social movement activism becomes just another scam.
In 1861, coastal South Carolina witnessed an experiment in what Southern slave emancipation could have looked like: communities of freedmen owning their land and passing it on to their heirs. Those island communities have survived to this day — but real estate development is now threatening to destroy them.
Lenin arrived at Finland Station 100 years ago today, reshaping Bolshevik strategy and the course of the Russian Revolution.
Careerism has its own moralism, serving as an anesthetic against competing moral claims.
Tissue and organ transfers are assumed to go from the healthy to the sick — not the poor to the wealthy.
Taiwanese voters are going to the polls tomorrow for presidential elections as protests continue to rage in Hong Kong. But in order to understand Taiwan, we have to understand the power of China — and the looming shadow of US imperialism.
Class is not the universal solvent that does away with all identity.
The working class has always been divided by varying forms of dispossession. Its strength lies in its collective power.
School police embody the school-to-prison pipeline. They have no place in our hallways and classrooms.
With the appalling Senate scandal over coronavirus insider trading, it is no longer possible to deny it: we are governed by a caste of the unimaginably rich, far removed from our realities.
From independent journalists to big outlets, press freedom is under attack in Israel.
Ebola is a problem that will not be solved, because it isn’t profitable to do so.
Former Army Ranger Rory Fanning on why he and so many other veterans stand with Colin Kaepernick and against police murder.
Bernie Sanders is back in Brooklyn for his first 2020 campaign rally, but the New York socialist — who grew up in a working-class community and radical Jewish political tradition — never really left.
We still can’t believe the Academy, a notoriously hidebound institution, awarded four Oscars to Parasite, an explicitly anticapitalist movie. But we’ll take it.
Both parties aren't addressing our health care needs — now is the time for socialists to lead a national Medicare for All campaign.
Once upon a time, typesetters' unions were strong and militant. But they failed to keep up as technology transformed the industry.
Bringing together weak unions and weak social movements isn’t enough. We need a new kind of socialist party.
With union membership at record lows, we need to look to the past to dig ourselves out of the present. The radical-led Farm Equipment Workers Union, which fought for shop-floor democracy and racial equality, is a guide.