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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. This is contrasted to the ...
Eric Blanc | In the spirit of comradely discussion that has animated this fruitful debate, I’d like to reply to the questions raised in Todd Chretien’s recent contribution (“Revolutionaries ...
Recent discussion of trans politics has invoked the terms "materialist" and "idealist." In an article for the revolutionary socialism in the 21st century website, Rob Hoveman gives an overview of ...
Mark Twain is taught in countless English classes across the country. But he's seldom remembered for his anti-imperialist, antiracist and revolutionary writing and speeches. In 2000, Helen Scott ...
Sean Petty describes the approach that socialists have developed over generations for being a socialist at work and in the unions, in an article based on a presentation at Socialism 2018 in July.
A MAJOR strike wave has broken out in the maquiladoras of Matamoros, an industrial city in the state of Tamaulipas, across the U.S. border from Brownsville, Texas. The strikes, which have taken on ...
Why would people in Central America endure the enormous risks and hardships of the migrant caravan’s journey north? Because of the economic and social devastation caused during the neoliberal ...
Lee Sustar describes the impact of the 1930s economic crisis on Blacks--and the new openings for resistance during the upsurge of the labor movement. THE GREAT Depression of the 1930s was ...
The destruction of the environment has its roots in a market system that puts profit ahead of people and the planet. Ragina Johnson writes about what we can do about it. CALIFORNIA IS burning ...
DO YOU recognize the authors of these passages? “The whole world is under obligation to the Negro, and that the white heel is still upon the black neck is simply proof that the world is not yet ...
TEN YEARS after the murder of Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919, playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht wrote in his typically stark, homely verse: Red Rosa now has vanished too. Where she lies is hid ...
Fifty years ago, students at San Francisco State embarked on a campus strike that lasted five months — the longest student strike in U.S. history. Led by the Black Student Union and Third World ...