SOME 5,000 Kentucky students, unionists, social justice activists and others rallied at the state Capitol building in Frankfort on April 13 to stand up for public education. Shutting down schools ...

Hal Draper was a 20th century American socialist whose political life spanned the two great eras of upheaval in the 1930s and 1960s. Draper is best remembered today as an author on Marx and ...

MENTAL HEALTH has become a huge issue in the media in recent months, with Theresa May unable to escape questions about it during the election, and with Prince Harry and a host of celebrities ...

THE BRAZEN seizure of Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and subsequent military advance by insurgents operating under the banner of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has detonated a ...

Socialism isn't a utopian dream. It is a part of the real world, a struggle already in progress. Brian Jones examines Marx's revolutionary ideas in this last of three articles. KARL MARX is widely ...

The idea that all whites are privileged at the expense of Blacks is popular on the left--but Bill Mullen makes the case that Marxism offers a better understanding of racism. CAPITALISM HAS had ...

The 2018 midterm elections should have been a ringing repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. And if not for the dismal state of U.S. “democracy” and the two-party system, it ...

A NEW scramble for profit is sweeping Africa--foreign investment in agricultural land on a massive scale. Referred to as a "land grab," the privatization of millions of acres of land is helping to ...

Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn hopes to grow by tapping into bitterness over mass unemployment and alienation. Shaun Harkin explains how they can be stopped. GREECE IS in a grueling downward ...

Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," declared 50 years ago in January, was shaped by pressure from the Black Freedom struggle mobilizing in both the North and South--but also the conservatism of U.S ...

Nancy MacLean tells the story of the post-Civil War era, when for a brief time, the federal government attempted to enforce political rights for freed Blacks. HISTORY IS usually written by the ...

An International Socialist Organization statement condemns the FBI raid that targeted activists and socialists as part of a history of government repression of the left. THE RECENT FBI raids ...