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MANY ACTIVISTS who have heard the term "intersectionality" being debated on the left have found it difficult to define it--and for a very understandable reason: Different people explain it ...

MATERIALISM FOR many people means two things: firstly, an obsession with material things (possessions, conspicuous wealth and consumption), and secondly, a rejection of theism (a belief in God and ...

WHILE PETERSON'S vision of social justice unionism might indeed be a sea change from the business unionism that has dominated for the past few decades, it has a long tradition in the U.S ...

Students on strike at San Francisco State in 1968 The SF State campus itself was a really exciting place. It was an epicenter for a lot of activism, a lot of organizing, a lot of culture, a lot of ...

THE BIRTH of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) ushered in a period of labor militancy that transformed the American labor movement. For a 10-year period, between 1936 and 1946, the ...

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 ...

DUKE MAY have resolved this crisis for now, but Trump’s new cold war will only provoke more attacks on Chinese students. He has raised tariffs on China’s exports to the U.S., targeted Chinese ...

The Ugly Rise of the House of Bush To paraphrase Karl Marx, the Bushes truly came to us dripping from head to foot with blood and dirt. The Bushes claim an ancestry that goes back to British ...

DRUM FORMED in May 1968 in Chrysler’s Dodge Main Plant in Hamtramck when workers carried out a wildcat strike in response to a speedup in the plant. Though most of the workers on the picket line ...

A member of the Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt talks about what led to the revolution that toppled Mubarak--and what lies ahead for the struggle.

The 1960s urban rebellions, like Detroit's in 1967 (pictured), provided the backdrop to the radicalization of Black workers During the years when wages were rising, working conditions were ...