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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.

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

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

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 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?

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

The maquiladoras along the border produce big profits for U.S. multinationals--but suffering for Mexican workers.

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