A living connection to past struggle We lost the last living connection to the left movement in Germany before the Second World War with Theodor Bergmann's death.

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

"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.

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

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 ...

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

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.

The Midwest Network to Stop the Klan was an example of successful anti-racist organizing in the 1990s that holds lessons for today's left.

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

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

Jackson's 1980s campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination showed the new hold of electoralism in Black politics.