IT HAS become clear that the Marxist critique of the state is once again in disfavor in many parts of the left. Sometimes this disfavor disguises wholesale political accommodation to the nation-state ...

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 from ...

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 ...

The death of George H.W. Bush produced a tidal wave of gushing tributes to a “great statesmen” and an “American hero” — even to his “boy-next-door bonhomie” — that sanitized the life of a man born ...

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 — which ...

ELECTION DAY seemed like an anticlimax following the tumult that accompanied the 1968 presidential campaign. The boring choice was between two career politicians whose conservatism was totally out of ...

Some nonprofit organizations are shockingly bad actors, while others do laudable work. But they all have some fundamental limitations in common, explains Erica West. WE ARE constantly confronted by ...

We are socialists who stand in the tradition of being for Native self-determination, fighting against all forms of oppression, for working-class liberation and for the overthrow of capitalism and ...

AN UPSURGE of opposition to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is taking shape across the country, catalyzed by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy” of forcibly separating ...

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 ...

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 ...

"ENOUGH IS enough." "The time for change is now." "Never again." These are some of the signs that have appeared at the protests that erupted since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Their ...