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 ideal of ...

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 ...

Tithi Bhattacharya explains the insights of contemporary Marxists that help us link struggles in the sphere of production to those outside it in the sphere of reproduction. ONE OF the most common ...

What labor activists today call social justice unionism is a renewal of a long tradition of solidarity in the U.S. labor movement, writes New York City educator Megan Behrent. UNIONS TODAY are in an ...

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 set ...

Ronnie Almonte introduces the writings of one of the 20th century's great novelists and essayists--and his political transformation in the era of the Black freedom struggle. THE WRITER James Baldwin ...

When a revolt of textile workers broke out in his native Germany in 1844, Karl Marx took their side--and began to identify a social force that could create a new society. IN THE 1844 Manuscripts, ...

Elizabeth Schulte looks at the legacy of Clara Zetkin--the German socialist at the turn of the 20th century--and her vital contributions to the Marxist tradition. MARCH 8 is International Working ...

Leonard Klein, a native of Iowa and former member of the Midwest Network to Stop the Klan, explains how the left organized against the rise of the far right in the 1990s. THE OPEN racism, immigrant ...

Sharon Smith, author of Women and Socialism: Class, Race and Capital, explains the roots of the concept of intersectionality and how it can help advance Marxist theory. MANY ACTIVISTS who have heard ...

Ben Norton describes how U.S. news outlets have selectively reported only the aspects of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai they want you to see. MALALA YOUSAFZAI, the 17-year-old Pakistani ...

If the left is going to rebuild power in the age of Trump, we shouldn't look to Saul Alinsky for a road map, writes Aaron Petcoff in an article written for Jacobin. SAUL ALINSKY, popularly known as ...