In the face of systematic racism, the "back to Africa" ideas of Marcus Garvey struck a chord in early 20th century America.

Race and racism has always been central to U.S. politics--and that didn't stop with the victories of the civil rights movement.

The 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson's declaration of a "War on Poverty" has reignited a debate about the persistence of inequality.

Anger over the lack of that most basic necessity of life--food--was the spark for a rebellion in Tunisia that toppled a dictator and inspired people everywhere.

The Populist struggle brought together Blacks with poor whites in a challenge against the Southern elite.

Arnie Bernstein's Swastika Nation is a vivid history of the U.S. fascist group, the German-American Bund, and its leader Fritz Kuhn.

The director of a new film about a football star who joined the military and was killed by friendly fire goes beyond the myths.

The great struggle to end slavery in the U.S. South began many decades before the first shots of the American Civil War were fired in April 1861.

The U.S. government's attitude toward Islam and Muslims has always depended first and foremost on its foreign policy objectives.

In discussions with U.S. comrades, the Russian revolutionary Trotsky asserted the centrality of the right to self-determination.

Every gain the labor movement has won has been the result of workers' struggles themselves, in spite of Republicans and Democrats.

The Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin wrote "The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism" in 1913 for Prosveshcheniye and dedicated to article to the 40th anniversary of Karl Marx's ...