TWO FURTHER, crucial distinctions are necessary to get a grip on Marx's historical materialism. The first is between "base" and "superstructure," and the second is between the "forces of ...

THE TERM "exploitation" often conjures up images of workers laboring in sweatshops for 12 hours or more per day, for pennies an hour, driven by a merciless overseer.

Mark Twain, who died 100 years ago, is honored as a great writer. He should also be remembered for his razor-sharp opposition to U.S. imperialism.

THE GREAT Depression of the 1930s was catastrophic for all workers. But as usual, Blacks suffered worse, pushed out of unskilled jobs previously scorned by whites before the depression.

Students on strike at San Francisco State in 1968. The SF State campus itself was a really exciting place. It was an epicenter for a lot of activism, a lot of organizing, a lot of culture, a lot ...

Women across the Middle East are taking inspiration from #MeToo and standing up against gender-based and sexual oppression.

Rosa Luxemburg speaks outside a congress of the the Second International in 1907. But triumphant capitalism has (by its very nature, Luxemburg would tell us) generated a growing discontent and ...

MANY ACTIVISTS who have heard the term "intersectionality" being debated on the left have found it difficult to define it--and for a very understandable reason: Different people explain it ...

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, beginning in December 1987, a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation broke out in Gaza. The uprising came to be known popularly as the "Intifada"--and years later ...

The Malala Who Opposes Global Poverty. Roughly half of the world still lives on less than $2.50 per day. Around one-quarter of people live in extreme poverty, less than $1.25 a day.

TECUMSEH, A Shawnee who grew up in what is now Ohio, was not the first Indian to attempt to organize a confederacy of all Indians in order to resist the westward expansion of settlers.

THE MYTH that has grown up around the NRA credits President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party of being the friends of labor. In fact, workers already had the legal right to ...