Fifty years ago, students at San Francisco State were fighting racism and repression during the longest student strike in U.S. history.

Historical materialism is the cornerstone of Karl Marx's theories and views--but how does this concept help us explain the world?

The term "exploitation" conjures images of sweatshops, but Marxists have a broader understanding that applies to the whole working class.

What labor activists today call social justice unionism is a renewal of a long tradition of solidarity in the U.S. labor movement, writes New York City educator Megan Behrent.

"Nothing can be changed until it is faced," wrote James Baldwin, and a new generation is learning from him about the challenges we face today.

David Goudie saw a co-worker crushed to death because of unsafe conditions he had previously warned about--and then was fired from his job.

The emergence of student anti-NRA protest as a vibrant new wing of the anti-Trump resistance requires us to reckon with modern gun politics.

Women are primarily responsible for labor in the sphere of reproduction--creating and sustaining the working class--at almost no cost to the system.

Blacks joined the unions as they spread during the 1930s labor upsurge as a way to fight desperate poverty and racism.

A U.S. socialist explains why Marxists view the working class as the social force capable of transforming capitalist society.

Lenin showed how colonial expansion and imperialist rivalry were rooted in profound changes in the nature of capitalism.

THE MARK Twain we learned about in school is a less than inspiring figure: Twain, the children's author of riverside idylls; Twain, the bitter misanthrope who lashed out at society because of his ...