In 2011, the Syrian people joined their sisters and brothers throughout the Middle East in a popular revolution for liberation from dictatorship. They aimed to establish democracy and equality.

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 ...

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 ...

Bernie Sanders' speech last week setting out a progressive foreign policy was widely celebrated--but it wasn't as radical as some made it out to be, writes Ashley Smith. MANY PROGRESSIVES and ...

Eric Blanc | In the spirit of comradely discussion that has animated this fruitful debate, I’d like to reply to the questions raised in Todd Chretien’s recent contribution (“Revolutionaries ...

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 ...

FLINT, MICHIGAN, a city of some 100,000 people, is being poisoned. In April 2014, the Michigan state government forced Flint to change its water supply from Lake Huron, which had served the city ...

ONLY A few days after being elected president in November 1988, George H.W. Bush invited Jesse Jackson over for lunch. The defeated Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis had to wait his ...

THE SYRIAN Revolution has tested the left internationally by posing a blunt question: Which side are you on? Do you support the popular struggle against dictatorship and for democracy? Or are you ...

Are third parties irresponsible "spoilers"? Or a necessary part of challenging a spoiled system? Keith Rosenthal and Alan Maass look back at history for some answers. FOR MANY people, third-party ...

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 ...

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 ...