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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAPITALISM IS like gravity: it envelops our world so completely that it's easy to forget about it entirely. The laws of both operate inexorably, and attempts to disregard them can result in serious ...

Tithi Bhattacharya explains the insights of contemporary Marxists that help us link struggles in the sphere of production to those outside it in the sphere of reproduction. ONE OF the most common ...

Ronnie Almonte introduces the writings of one of the 20th century's great novelists and essayists--and his political transformation in the era of the Black freedom struggle. THE WRITER James Baldwin ...

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 issued an ...

Paul Le Blanc, the author of numerous books, including the soon-to-be-republished Lenin and the Revolutionary Party and Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine, recounts ...

Emory Douglas was involved in the Black Arts movement in the 1960s, along with Amiri Baraka, when he joined the Black Panther Party (BPP) shortly after it was formed 1967. He became minister of ...