The hundreds lined up at Los Angeles' famous Forum arena for free medical services exposed the staggering inadequacy of the current system. After languishing in prison for 33 long years for a crime he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Marxism, ...

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 ...

LENIN WROTE Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism in 1916 in the middle of the carnage of the First World War. The pamphlet was an intervention in the sharp political debate that had torn apart ...

Bridget Broderick and Orlando Sepúlveda remember the mega-marches for immigrant rights in 2006--and look at their impact in the years that followed. "THE SLEEPING GIANT has woken up." That's how some ...

Amy Muldoon explains what Marxists mean by oppression--including the oppression suffered by the entire working class, notwithstanding the divisions built up inside it. "The history of all hitherto ...

THE 1960s in general, and the year 1968 in particular, are associated with students and their struggles — and for good reason. Some of the most famous struggles of the civil rights movement were ...

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 ...

On August 30, 1932, in the shadow of the rising Nazi power, Clara Zetkin--German Marxist and member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)--opened what would become the last session of the Reichstag ...