MATERIALISM FOR many people means two things: firstly, an obsession with material things (possessions, conspicuous wealth and consumption), and secondly, a rejection of theism (a belief in God and ...

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 of ...

Lee Sustar describes the impact of the 1930s economic crisis on Blacks--and the new openings for resistance during the upsurge of the labor movement. THE GREAT Depression of the 1930s was ...

Many of today's advocates of privilege politics are unaware of the theory's class roots--roots that continue to have an impact.

The 1960s urban rebellions, like Detroit's in 1967 (pictured), provided the backdrop to the radicalization of Black workers During the years when wages were rising, working conditions were ...

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 ...

Women across the Middle East are taking inspiration from #MeToo and standing up against gender-based and sexual oppression.

THE BIRTH of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) ushered in a period of labor militancy that transformed the American labor movement. For a 10-year period, between 1936 and 1946, the ...

Ben Norton describes how U.S. news outlets have selectively reported only the aspects of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai they want you to see. MALALA YOUSAFZAI, the 17-year-old Pakistani ...

The Ugly Rise of the House of Bush To paraphrase Karl Marx, the Bushes truly came to us dripping from head to foot with blood and dirt. The Bushes claim an ancestry that goes back to British ...

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 U.S ...

Rosa Luxemburg speaks outside a congress of the the Second International in 1907 But triumphant capitalism has (by its very nature, Luxemburg would tell us) generated a growing discontent and ...