The term "exploitation" conjures images of sweatshops, but Marxists have a broader understanding that applies to the whole working class.

"Nothing can be changed until it is faced," wrote James Baldwin, and a new generation is learning from him about the challenges we face today.

Fifty years ago, students at San Francisco State were fighting racism and repression during the longest student strike in U.S. history.

Women are primarily responsible for labor in the sphere of reproduction--creating and sustaining the working class--at almost no cost to the system.

The emergence of student anti-NRA protest as a vibrant new wing of the anti-Trump resistance requires us to reckon with modern gun politics.

Blacks joined the unions as they spread during the 1930s labor upsurge as a way to fight desperate poverty and racism.

Historical materialism is the cornerstone of Karl Marx's theories and views--but how does this concept help us explain the world?

Intersectionality is defined in very different ways, but the concept as developed by Black feminists can help advance Marxist theory and practice.

The civil rights movement's lunch counter sit-ins--direct action protests against a hated symbol of Jim Crow segregation--began 50 years ago today.

Are third parties irresponsible "spoilers"? Or a necessary part of challenging a spoiled system? Keith Rosenthal and Alan Maass look back at history for some answers. FOR MANY people, third-party ...

THE MARK Twain we learned about in school is a less than inspiring figure: Twain, the children's author of riverside idylls; Twain, the bitter misanthrope who lashed out at society because of his ...

Eugene V. Debs is probably the most famous American socialist--and he became a socialist through the lessons he learned at work and in struggle.