A U.S. warplane on the deck of on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf (Ryan O'Connor)

U.S. air strikes aren't protecting anyone

The U.S. is dropping bombs again in Iraq on a rebel military force that only exists today because of the disastrous colonial occupation.

Paz, resistencia y solidaridad

El costo humano de la guerra de Israel contra Gaza ha sido enorme, pero ¿pueden los palestinos aceptar una "paz" sin el término el sitio de Gaza?

When torture goes unpunished

Obama openly used the word "torture" to describe U.S. actions after 9/11--but don't expect anyone to be held accountable.

A day of rage for Gaza

Even as a new cease-fire between Israel and Palestine took effect, activists in cities across the U.S. protested Israel's brutality.

The anti-Zionism of fools

Zionists attempt to silence critics as "anti-Semitic"--but that can't overshadow the need to confront real anti-Semitism.

Our freedom and Palestine's

Left organizations in the Middle East express their solidarity with Palestine--and their horror at the complicity of Arab regimes.

No claims on the "Truth"

A reader challenges a characterization in Paul Le Blanc's contribution to the discussion on Leninism.


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Witnessing Gaza's destruction

A journalist and activist gives a firsthand account of the devastation unfolding around him as Israel continues its assault on the people of Gaza.

The West Bank rises up

Israel's onslaught against Gaza has been met in the West Bank by some of the largest and most militant protests in more than a decade.

Yes, McDonald's is the boss

Fight for 15 protesters in Chicago celebrate the NLRB decision  (Amien Essif)

Fast-food workers celebrated a ruling that will hold big chains like McDonald's accountable for labor practices at franchises.

Toledo is a warning sign

Man-made factors like the overuse of fertilizers and the ever-present drive for profit are to blame for the water crisis in Toledo.

Telling Obama Not1More

Some 500 people came out in Washington, D.C., to demand an end to deportations and attacks on immigrants.

Why is Toledo afraid to drink?

The fourth-largest city in Ohio was without safe water last weekend--but this was no natural disaster.

Speaking for the tiniest victims

A Palestine solidarity demonstration in Madison humanized the children who have died under Israeli missiles.

UC sells out to apartheid

The Clal Group is deeply invested in Israeli apartheid and occupation, and should have no place at the University of Chicago.

The refugees are welcome here

Activists are mobilizing across the Southwest to confront anti-immigrant groups and counter their message of hate.

Labor must stand for Gaza

Labor for Palestine is calling on unions in the U.S. to speak out against Israel's war on Gaza and the U.S. support for Israel.

Locking the poor out

A new plan punishes public-housing residents by raising rents as an incentive to work--whether or not there are jobs available.

Lenin: Yes! Leninism: No?

That Lenin was an important revolutionary leader, and that his life and work repay our study today, are not in doubt. But what of "Leninism"?

Leninism, No?

There is a distinctive political approach and body of thought that can legitimately and constructively be termed Leninism.

Why does bigotry endure?

An author and political science professor describes the sources of bigotry as it has emerged in history, up to the current day.

A call to arms for our schools

Badass Teachers Association leads a march for education justice in Washington, D.C. (Dawn Neely-Randall)

Mark Naison's Badass Teachers Unite! provides a full-throated defense of public education--and a vision to change it.

Unrest at Big Brown

UPS became the company it is today during the 1950s and '60s, but its aggressive pursuit of profit stirred anger among workers.

A pretense for war in Vietnam

August 2 marked the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which gave the U.S. government an excuse for war in Vietnam.

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El circo de la salud del pobre

La "reforma" demócrata al sistema de atención médica es un total fracaso, pero los republicanos la siguen atacando.

Terror state declares peace?

The human toll from Israel's murderous war on Gaza has been huge--but the question now is what the "peace" will mean for the people of Gaza.

Fired for denouncing Israel

A prominent Palestinian American scholar has been fired from a new university position for criticizing the assault on Gaza.

Common fights a world apart

The fates of Palestinians and Native Americans are connected by the experience of resistance to settler-colonialism.

The betrayal of Native nations

Barack Obama's visit to a Native American reservation was long awaited, but his presidency has upheld the status quo.

Teachers must stand with Gaza

Teaching this summer has been a surreal experience when I am daily bombarded by images of the annihilation of Gaza.

An urgent challenge for BDS

The determination of today's protests against Israel's war must be harnessed over the coming months to deepen the roots of the BDS campaign.

A revolutionary view of Hamas

A member of Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists discusses how revolutionary forces should analyze Islamist movements.

Israel's drive to silence us

A clash on the street in France between police and Palestine solidarity protesters

Israel doesn't want you to talk about the Palestinian children it kills in Gaza--and neither does your government.

My hospital won't be bombed

No part of Israel's merciless war on Gaza is more unconscionable than its targeting of Palestinian hospitals.

Heaping insult on top of injury

Republicans are still raving against Obamacare--but that doesn't change the fact that the Democrats' health care "reform" is a dismal failure.

The de Blasio balance sheet

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio came into office on a wave of progressive hope. After six months, what has he accomplished?

Morocco and climate change

A resistance movement is fighting back in Morocco against corporate development and pillaging of resources.

With a heavy heart over Gaza

An activist remembers a trip he took to a West Bank refugee camp one year after Israel's Operation Cast Lead.

Poor people: Use the rear door

Why would a Manhattan building with a separate, rear entrance for low-income people--a "poor door"--receive city subsidies?

Standing against the generals

A now-imprisoned member of Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists talks about the challenges facing the Egyptian left.

Tech and the left

It's important to take stock of the growing digital workforce and what it means for Marxist theory and socialist practice.

Wrong about Israel's "right"

One U.S. socialist group has put forward a disappointing position that accepts the right of the Israeli apartheid state to exist.

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