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

Fifty years ago, students at San Francisco State were fighting racism and repression during the longest student strike in U.S. history.

One of the Nobel Peace Prize winners is a socialist opponent of U.S. drone strikes, but you wouldn't know it from the media.

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

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

"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.

Jackson's 1980s campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination showed the new hold of electoralism in Black politics.

IN THE 1844 Manuscripts, which I reviewed in my last column, Marx for the first time identifies himself as a communist and argues that free-market competition will give rise to capitalist monopoly ...

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

What labor activists today call social justice unionism is a renewal of a long tradition of solidarity in the U.S. labor movement, writes New York City educator Megan Behrent.

Lenin showed how colonial expansion and imperialist rivalry were rooted in profound changes in the nature of capitalism.