A living connection to past struggle We lost the last living connection to the left movement in Germany before the Second World War with Theodor Bergmann's death.

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

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

The term "exploitation" conjures images of sweatshops, but Marxists have a broader understanding that applies to the whole working class.

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.

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

David Goudie saw a co-worker crushed to death because of unsafe conditions he had previously warned about--and then was fired from his job.

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

The Shawnee leader Tecumseh is perhaps the best-known advocate and orator for a coordinated Indian struggle to resist white settlers' westward expansion.

The civil rights movement's lunch counter sit-ins--direct action protests against a hated symbol of Jim Crow segregation--began 50 years ago today.