A new for-profit investment fund aimed at building charter schools marks an ominous new step for the school privatization movement.

Nancy MacLean tells the story of the Populist movement of the 1890s--when it briefly challenged the hold of white supremacy in the U.S. South. IT WAS an event without precedent in the South. On a few ...

Doug Singsen and Sarita Flores, two participants in the Bloombergville encampment outside New York's City Hall, discuss its successes and shortcomings. FROM JUNE 14 to July 5, activists in New York ...

Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S., will go before a parole board July 28 for his first full hearing in 15 years, with activists across the U.S. and around the ...

THE IDEA of a socialist society is a very old one--as old as class society itself. So long as there have kings, lords, nobles, emperors, magistrates, police, high priests and generals, there were also ...

A new reality show that claims to find common ground between corporate executives and workers is really a capitalist fairy tale, says Nicole Colson. "THIS WILL change the way I work every day." So ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., --More than 40 protesters joined Noelia Ramos outside her home on December 23 to successfully prevent a foreclosure auction and keep her family in their home for the holidays. The ...

LARRY BRADSHAW and LORRIE BETH SLONSKY are emergency medical services (EMS) workers from San Francisco and contributors to Socialist Worker. They were attending an EMS conference in New Orleans when ...

THE GREAT myth about the United States is that we live in a "meritocracy," where the "best and brightest" will rise to the top, and anyone can make it with intelligence and hard work. The slightest ...

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