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

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

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

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 ...

"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.

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

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

The Shawnee leader Tecumseh is perhaps the best-known advocate and orator for a coordinated Indian struggle to resist white settlers' westward expansion.

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.

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

The birth of the Congress of Industrial Organizations ushered in a period of labor militancy that transformed the American labor movement.

The winning strike by Chicago teachers can be an opening wedge against corporate school "reform"--and a fighting example for other unions.