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

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

Intersectionality is defined in very different ways, but the concept as developed by Black feminists can help advance Marxist theory and practice.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

"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.

From its origins in the “war on terror” to its racist and anti-labor practices, ICE is a thoroughly oppressive agency that should be abolished.

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

One of the Nobel Peace Prize winners is a socialist opponent of U.S. drone strikes, but you wouldn't know it from the media.