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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.

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

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

The emergence of student anti-NRA protest as a vibrant new wing of the anti-Trump resistance requires us to reckon with modern gun politics.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The post-Second World War purges of communists and other militants had a long-lasting effect on the U.S. labor movement.