As California politicians pass the buck for the budget crisis, many of the state's most vulnerable are losing the meager services on which their lives depend. September 24, 2008 Previously published ...

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The election success of Greece's Coalition of the Radical Left is the product of growing support for a left alternative to austerity. June 4, 2012 Previously published by the International Socialist ...

A striking charter teacher in Chicago explains the stakes in the fight for a fair contract from the Acero Schools charter network. December 7, 2018 Previously published by the International Socialist ...

"ENOUGH IS enough." "The time for change is now." "Never again." These are some of the signs that have appeared at the protests that erupted since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Their ...

THE TERM "exploitation" often conjures up images of workers laboring in sweatshops for 12 hours or more per day, for pennies an hour, driven by a merciless overseer. This is contrasted to the ideal of ...

Mark Twain is taught in countless English classes across the country. But he's seldom remembered for his anti-imperialist, antiracist and revolutionary writing and speeches. In 2000, Helen Scott set ...

Bridget Broderick surveys 200 years of shifting policy toward immigrants--and finds that Republicans and Democrats have contributed to the war on the undocumented. THE PLAQUE at the base of the Statue ...

Tithi Bhattacharya explains the insights of contemporary Marxists that help us link struggles in the sphere of production to those outside it in the sphere of reproduction. ONE OF the most common ...

The idea that all whites are privileged at the expense of Blacks is popular on the left--but Bill Mullen makes the case that Marxism offers a better understanding of racism. CAPITALISM HAS had ...

Fifty years ago, students at San Francisco State embarked on a campus strike that lasted five months — the longest student strike in U.S. history. Led by the Black Student Union and Third World ...

Bridget Broderick and Orlando Sepúlveda remember the mega-marches for immigrant rights in 2006--and look at their impact in the years that followed. "THE SLEEPING GIANT has woken up." That's how some ...