The Populist struggle brought together Blacks with poor whites in a challenge against the Southern elite.

The mass strike by public-sector workers in South Africa highlighted growing inequality and austerity measures in a country hit hard by the crisis.

Dan Siegel's left-wing campaign for Oakland mayor represents a challenge to the disasters of the status quo.

Anger over the lack of that most basic necessity of life--food--was the spark for a rebellion in Tunisia that toppled a dictator and inspired people everywhere.

Homeland sells the idea that the "war on terror" is now a permanent emergency--and we should trust those leading it.

In the face of systematic racism, the "back to Africa" ideas of Marcus Garvey struck a chord in early 20th century America.

One hundred years after his birth, Invisible Man author Ralph Ellison still inspires debate about art and about Black America.

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

Arnie Bernstein's Swastika Nation is a vivid history of the U.S. fascist group, the German-American Bund, and its leader Fritz Kuhn.

The U.S. government's attitude toward Islam and Muslims has always depended first and foremost on its foreign policy objectives.

In discussions with U.S. comrades, the Russian revolutionary Trotsky asserted the centrality of the right to self-determination.

IT CANNOT be denied that if the apostles of political indifferentism were to express themselves with such clarity, the working class would make short shrift of them and would resent being insulted ...