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

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

THE MARK Twain we learned about in school is a less than inspiring figure: Twain, the children's author of riverside idylls; Twain, the bitter misanthrope who lashed out at society because of his ...

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

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

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 ...

The post-Second World War purges of communists and other militants had a long-lasting effect on the U.S. labor movement.

The gathering of socialists in Zimmerwald 100 years ago ended with a united appeal for resistance against the First World War.

The 1960s movements against the war and for Black Power led to the radicalization of a significant layer of industrial workers.

What explains the victory of right-wing Republican Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election — at the end of a revolutionary year?

Donald Trump proved once again in the final presidential debate that he's the secret weapon...of the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.

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