Across the Global South, the coronavirus crisis has highlighted how IMF “structural adjustment” policies have undermined public health care. But the devastation wrought by the economic shutdown also owes to a longer-term ill: an exploitative global trade regime where the poorest countries finance the rich.
The Sudanese Revolution has won major victories. But it still needs to wrestle control from the military to popular forces.
An important new book, Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance, skewers the destructive role of finance in our economic system. But its authors shy away from the radical implications of their analysis and end up peddling technocratic illusions about the necessary cure.
Sweden takes its generosity toward refugees as a point of pride. So why did it just impose harsh limits on asylum seekers?
How I became a socialist.
Anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, anti-immigrant — the Liberal Democrats' new recruits are anything but liberal.
The criminalization of sex work is an attack on the lives and livelihoods of working-class people. Socialists should support decriminalization.
Though often forgotten today, the National Negro Congress forged a black-led, labor-based coalition in New Deal America that fought white supremacy and the economic exploitation that undergirded it.
Women experience backlash when they're assertive about pay — and the problem won't be solved by "Leaning In."
Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall, lethal borders remain. We must dismantle them.
The New York Post is screaming that if the city isn’t careful, socialists will “really take over.” The paper is terrified that average New Yorkers actually like the socialist platform — and that socialists are very good at organizing to win it.
Last summer, refugees and activists built a camp on the Italian-French border that stood against the inhumanity of borders.
The indigenous uprising at Standing Rock was far from an isolated incident on that native land, as historian Nick Estes shows in a new book. It is the site of hundreds of years of anticolonial struggle.
The Afterparty is just one of several new comedies about stressed-out millennials finding themselves trapped in a murder mystery. So what is it about this generation that makes them all want to star in an Agatha Christie story?
A feminism based on lionizing hyper-successful women obscures the unjust structures that need to be dismantled.
Working three jobs, renting out their homes: decades of regressive tax cuts have driven the teacher wage penalty to record levels — and are forcing educators to take desperate measures.
One month ago, women in Argentina walked off work to demand an end to violence, fair pay, and full reproductive rights.
To build the power to take on climate change, we can’t simply validate individual movements or assume single-issue struggles will add up to something greater than the sum of their parts. We need class politics to connect the dots of our many struggles — and to save the planet.
The nationwide teachers' strikes are a reminder that the working class is still the most powerful agent for radical change.
The federal government is using data gimmicks to mask the true scope of homelessness.