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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

MALCOLM X shattered the conservative rules of American politics in the early 1960s. His ruthless criticism of the racist white liberals who tried to manipulate the civil rights movement into falling ...

In the latest article in a series on the history of United Parcel Service and workers' resistance to Big Brown, Joe Allen describes how the rank-and-file militant group UPSurge was born--and the role ...

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 ...

The International Socialist Organization’s Steering Committee sent this letter to members about a deep crisis in the ISO. We are sharing it publicly here on SW. We have edited it slightly to be ...

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 ...