The 2018 midterm elections should have been a ringing repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. And if not for the dismal state of U.S. “democracy” and the two-party system, it ...

Hal Draper was a 20th century American socialist whose political life spanned the two great eras of upheaval in the 1930s and 1960s. Draper is best remembered today as an author on Marx and ...

SOME 5,000 Kentucky students, unionists, social justice activists and others rallied at the state Capitol building in Frankfort on April 13 to stand up for public education. Shutting down schools ...

With a growing recognition of the urgent need to act to stop climate change — and the inherent ecological destruction that is built into capitalism, a system predicated on relentless growth and ...

Christina Bergmark looks at the reasons why a mass Black nationalist movement arose in the early 20th century around the vision put forward by Marcus Garvey. IT'S NOT difficult to see why, at ...

Héctor A. Rivera reports from Mexico on the outpouring of grief and protests over deadly repression against students that is rattling the political establishment. TENS OF thousands of people ...

Socialism isn't a utopian dream. It is a part of the real world, a struggle already in progress. Brian Jones examines Marx's revolutionary ideas in this last of three articles. KARL MARX is widely ...

Barack Obama and the Democrats have (almost) nothing to blame for their problems but themselves, writes Lance Selfa, author of The Democrats: A Critical History. THE 2014 November midterm ...

MENTAL HEALTH has become a huge issue in the media in recent months, with Theresa May unable to escape questions about it during the election, and with Prince Harry and a host of celebrities ...

Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," declared 50 years ago in January, was shaped by pressure from the Black Freedom struggle mobilizing in both the North and South--but also the conservatism of U.S ...

THE ISSUE of race and racism emerged openly at the heart of U.S. politics in the Democratic presidential campaign in January. But as any serious student of U.S. history knows, racism is always ...

Lucy Herschel argues why it’s time for the immigrant justice movement to reject the familiar three-word solution that’s been touted by Democrats for the past 10 years. “LA LUCHA obrera no ...