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 ...

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

"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.

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

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

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 left debate is posed as either support for slavery reparations or an alternative, socialist solution. But why should it be an either/or choice?

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

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