Some 1.3 million South African public-sector workers have suspended their strike after nearly three weeks in a battle that saw the some of the largest police attacks on labor since the fall of ...

Edgar Esquivel, a UPS worker and member of Teamsters Local 952 in Southern California, looks at the upcoming Teamsters presidential election. AS THE Teamsters old-guard leadership splinters and their ...

Richard Putz considers what could replace an institution that claims to "serve and protect," but which really maintains "law and order" in an unequal society. ONCE AGAIN, the police have proven ...

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LEADING CIVIL rights lawyer and activist Dan Siegel is campaigning as an independent candidate for mayor of Oakland, Calif. The Oakland branch of the International Socialist Organization endorses this ...

WORDS LIKE "colonialism" and "empire" were once frowned upon in the U.S. mainstream media as worn-out left-wing rhetoric that didn't fit reality. Not anymore. A growing chorus of right-wing ideologues ...

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Christina Bergmark looks at the reasons why a mass Black nationalist movement arose in the early 20th century around the vision put forward by Marcus Garvey. IT'S NOT difficult to see why, at ...

THE TV show Homeland began its third season with record-breaking ratings. The show's creators Alex Ganza and Howard Gordon, who previously collaborated on the wildly popular series 24, seem to have ...

Sharon Smith, author of Women and Socialism: Class, Race and Capital, explains the roots of the concept of intersectionality and how it can help advance Marxist theory. MANY ACTIVISTS who have heard ...

Will Miller dissects Sanders' record on war, in particular, around the 1999 NATO war over Kosovo, in "Bernie the Mad Bomber." For a more sympathetic but honest portrait of Sanders in his Burlington ...

SARAH HINES and KARL SWINEHART report from Bolivia on the state of the struggle one year after Evo Morales took power. AS BOLIVIA'S first indigenous President Evo Morales celebrated his first year in ...