When I think of how we can help the soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, I have only three little words: Bring them home. December 17, 2009 Previously published by the International Socialist ...

Activists in San Diego are mobilizing for a living wage--and building solidarity with an unjustly fired McDonald's worker. December 17, 2013 Previously published by the International Socialist ...

Alex Moyle looks at the history of the use of police dogs — and shows how law enforcement has used K9 units to inflict brutality and for propaganda purposes. IN 2016, veterinarian Dan Wentz started a ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

IT HAS become clear that the Marxist critique of the state is once again in disfavor in many parts of the left. Sometimes this disfavor disguises wholesale political accommodation to the nation-state ...

I WANT to thank Bhaskar Sunkara for continuing the discussion about the late American socialist Michael Harrington ("What we can learn from Harrington"). Sunkara isn't an uncritical admirer, to be ...

In March, the critically acclaimed graphic novel Persepolis made headlines in Chicago--but not for the reasons you might think. The book is an autobiographical account by Marjane Satrapi about growing ...

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 Marxism, ...

DO YOU recognize the authors of these passages? “The whole world is under obligation to the Negro, and that the white heel is still upon the black neck is simply proof that the world is not yet ...

LENIN WROTE Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism in 1916 in the middle of the carnage of the First World War. The pamphlet was an intervention in the sharp political debate that had torn apart ...