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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 ...

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 ...

Phil Gasper, the editor of a comprehensive edition of the Communist Manifesto, contrasts the so-called socialist regimes of Eastern Europe 20 years ago with the principles at the heart of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Residents of big cities everywhere face the effects of gentrification, as long-time residents are pushed out of neighborhoods they called home by rising rents and housing costs and other changes. In ...

Engels' great muckraking work on the heart of the Industrial Revolution captures the fluidity and chaos of capitalist society--and the power of the class that can defeat it. FREDERICK ENGELS was born ...

"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 ...

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 ...