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

Women are primarily responsible for labor in the sphere of reproduction--creating and sustaining the working class--at almost no cost to the system.

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 ...

"Nothing can be changed until it is faced," wrote James Baldwin, and a new generation is learning from him about the challenges we face today.

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.

America has had a contradictory relationship to immigrants because U.S. employers have always needed laborers, but also needed to control them.

One of the Nobel Peace Prize winners is a socialist opponent of U.S. drone strikes, but you wouldn't know it from the media.

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

Critics of Marx's "Eurocentrism" build their case on a small sample of writings--but ignore the larger body of work that refutes their claims.

What labor activists today call social justice unionism is a renewal of a long tradition of solidarity in the U.S. labor movement, writes New York City educator Megan Behrent.