MANY ACTIVISTS who have heard the term "intersectionality" being debated on the left have found it difficult to define it--and for a very understandable reason: Different people explain it ...

Students on strike at San Francisco State in 1968 The SF State campus itself was a really exciting place. It was an epicenter for a lot of activism, a lot of organizing, a lot of culture, a lot of ...

The Zimmerwald Conference, a small gathering held in Switzerland 100 years ago, on September 5-8, 1915, marked a turning point in the world socialist movement. Socialists from many countries ...

The Ugly Rise of the House of Bush To paraphrase Karl Marx, the Bushes truly came to us dripping from head to foot with blood and dirt. The Bushes claim an ancestry that goes back to British ...

Postal workers on the picket line in 1970 during the largest wildcat strike in U.S. history (American Postal Workers Union) So it is a very good time for socialists and other union and left ...

MATERIALISM FOR many people means two things: firstly, an obsession with material things (possessions, conspicuous wealth and consumption), and secondly, a rejection of theism (a belief in God and ...

Mark Twain, who died 100 years ago, is honored as a great writer. He should also be remembered for his razor-sharp opposition to U.S. imperialism.

WHILE PETERSON'S vision of social justice unionism might indeed be a sea change from the business unionism that has dominated for the past few decades, it has a long tradition in the U.S ...

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 ...

Students attend a nonprofit career fair in Chicago Service nonprofits are part of what some progressives and leftists sometimes refer to as the “nonprofit-industrial complex.” The U.S ...

The maquiladoras along the border produce big profits for U.S. multinationals--but suffering for Mexican workers.

Women across the Middle East are taking inspiration from #MeToo and standing up against gender-based and sexual oppression.