Hal Draper was a 20th century American socialist whose political life spanned the two great eras of upheaval in the 1930s and 1960s. Draper is best remembered today as an author on Marx and ...

The 2018 midterm elections should have been a ringing repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. And if not for the dismal state of U.S. “democracy” and the two-party system, it ...

THE BRAZEN seizure of Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and subsequent military advance by insurgents operating under the banner of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has detonated a ...

Socialism isn't a utopian dream. It is a part of the real world, a struggle already in progress. Brian Jones examines Marx's revolutionary ideas in this last of three articles. KARL MARX is widely ...

The First Nations-led movement Idle No More emerged in Canada in December 2012 to protest legislation that threatened both the rights of First Nations and environmental protections. The movement ...

Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," declared 50 years ago in January, was shaped by pressure from the Black Freedom struggle mobilizing in both the North and South--but also the conservatism of U.S ...

Paul Fleckenstein, a longtime activist and socialist in Vermont, looks behind the image at the real record of the state's most popular politician--and now presidential candidate. AS I stood among ...

At the time of the Socialist Party's greatest electoral success in 1912, the party was internally divided. Brian Erway explains the issues behind the growing left-right split in the SP ...

Lance Selfa, author of The Democrats: A Critical History, explains how the patterns of retreat and surrender were set in the early years of the Obama presidency. PRESIDENT BARACK Obama is ...

The editors of Jacobin and Socialist Worker discuss the impact of the Sanders campaign and what it means for the efforts of socialists in the U.S.

Isabelle B., a member of the International Socialist Organization in Rochester, New York, spoke at the New York City Marxism Conference last month on Marxism and the struggle for queer and trans ...

Jen Roesch examines recent breakthroughs and advances for the left in electoral politics and what they mean for the future, in an article for Jacobin. NEARLY SIX years into Obama's neoliberal ...