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

Socialists have, over years, developed an approach to the labor movement and how to build socialist politics and organization within it.

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 ...

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

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

Women across the Middle East are taking inspiration from #MeToo and standing up against gender-based and sexual oppression.

A huge strike wave in the border city of Matamoros is transforming the labor movement in northern Mexico after decades of defeats.

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

Twenty-five years ago, the Palestinian uprising known as the "Intifada" began--giving a new face to the long struggle to win basic freedoms and justice.

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