The 2018 midterm elections should have been a ringing repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. And if not for the dismal state of U.S. “democracy” and the two-party system, it ...

SOME 5,000 Kentucky students, unionists, social justice activists and others rallied at the state Capitol building in Frankfort on April 13 to stand up for public education. Shutting down schools ...

Fifty years ago, the Vietnamese resistance turned the tide against the American war effort, with profound implications back in the U.S., writes Eric Ruder, in the next article in SocialistWorker ...

MENTAL HEALTH has become a huge issue in the media in recent months, with Theresa May unable to escape questions about it during the election, and with Prince Harry and a host of celebrities ...

The success of Bernie Sanders' campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in reaching millions of people with a left-wing message is prompting a lively debate among socialist ...

Paul Fleckenstein, a longtime activist and socialist in Vermont, looks behind the image at the real record of the state's most popular politician--and now presidential candidate. AS I stood among ...

Joe Allen uncovers an important document about developments in the working class movement half a century ago--with lessons activists can apply today. "THE RANK and file revolt against long ...

Jen Roesch examines recent breakthroughs and advances for the left in electoral politics and what they mean for the future, in an article for Jacobin. NEARLY SIX years into Obama's neoliberal ...

THE BRAZEN seizure of Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and subsequent military advance by insurgents operating under the banner of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has detonated a ...

Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty," declared 50 years ago in January, was shaped by pressure from the Black Freedom struggle mobilizing in both the North and South--but also the conservatism of U.S ...

Joe Allen, author of a two-part article "It can't happen here? Confronting the fascist threat in the United States in the 1930s" in the International Socialist Review, reviews a new book on the ...

The idea that all whites are privileged at the expense of Blacks is popular on the left--but Bill Mullen makes the case that Marxism offers a better understanding of racism. CAPITALISM HAS had ...