War, poverty, exploitation, oppression and worldwide environmental destruction are products of the capitalist system, a system in which a minority ruling class profits from the labor of the majority.

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In tomato fields in Immokalee, Fla., in a shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., in the sweatshops of LA, immigrant workers are enduring modern-day slavery. Refusing to work in slave-like conditions, 100 ...

Here, we've collected Paul D'Amato's biweekly columns on "The Meaning of Marxism" that look at the basic ideas and theories of the Marxist tradition and how to apply them in today's world.

This essay by Lenin, written in 1903, makes the case for the central role of the revolutionary newspaper as a propagandist, agitator and organizer. We might perhaps declare ourselves happy at ...

PAUL D'AMATO explains that our rulers justify their own use of violence, but not when it's used against them. AN ADVOCATE of Black freedom "by any means necessary," Malcolm X once said, "We are ...

There are a couple ways to look through previous issues of Socialist Worker. You can browse our collections of featured articles, compiled on a series of pressing political issues. Or you can look ...

In tomato fields in Immokalee, Fla., in a shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., in the sweatshops of LA, immigrant workers are enduring modern-day slavery. What can turn labor in a new direction?

Abortion is harder to obtain for many women today than several decades ago, and support for the right to choose has declined.

FACED WITH the prospect of four more years of George W. Bush, some on the left claimed that fascism was on horizon if Bush was re-elected. "We should not gloss over the reality that the Bush team ...

As Duncan Hallas showed in this 1983 article, Karl Marx was an uncompromising fighter against every kind of oppression and exploitation; his whole life was devoted to the cause of the "self ...