Mark Twain, who died 100 years ago, is honored as a great writer. He should also be remembered for his razor-sharp opposition to U.S. imperialism.

Students on strike at San Francisco State in 1968. The SF State campus itself was a really exciting place. It was an epicenter for a lot of activism, a lot of organizing, a lot of culture, a lot ...

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.

TWO FURTHER, crucial distinctions are necessary to get a grip on Marx's historical materialism. The first is between "base" and "superstructure," and the second is between the "forces of ...

MANY ACTIVISTS who have heard the term "intersectionality" being debated on the left have found it difficult to define it--and for a very understandable reason: Different people explain it ...

Students attend a nonprofit career fair in Chicago. Service nonprofits are part of what some progressives and leftists sometimes refer to as the “nonprofit-industrial complex.” ...

The Malala Who Opposes Global Poverty. Roughly half of the world still lives on less than $2.50 per day. Around one-quarter of people live in extreme poverty, less than $1.25 a day.

TO TOP it off, there is no evidence that the portfolio model gives students a better education. Some schools have improved test scores in some areas. But Memphis, for example — once touted as ...

AN UPSURGE of opposition to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is taking shape across the country, catalyzed by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy” of forcibly ...

The roots of privilege theory extend deep into the factional political atmosphere of early American Maoism. The specific use of white-skin privilege concepts, which date back to U.S. slavery, to ...

A member of the Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt talks about what led to the revolution that toppled Mubarak--and what lies ahead for the struggle.

The Trump offensive. Between 2017 and early 2019, Trump ramped up the war, pushing the Venezuelan economy to the brink through a series of executive orders.