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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The years 1936 and 1937 represented the highest point of class struggle in the U.S. to date--when a wave of sit-down strikes swept across U.S. industry. Those strikes built the Congress of Industrial ...

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 catastrophic ...

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 ...

On August 30, 1932, in the shadow of the rising Nazi power, Clara Zetkin--German Marxist and member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)--opened what would become the last session of the Reichstag ...

Lee Sustar analyzes the roots of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression--and shows why Marxism offers the best way of understanding what went wrong. THERE ARE plenty of people who should ...

IN THE early 1970s, the women's movement demanded that abortion be legalized as part of a larger movement for women's rights. It was clear that, without control over their own reproductive lives, ...