The issue of the president’s fascism has reached center stage in the U.S., sparked by the administration’s shameful treatment of refugees and its Gestapo-like "zero tolerance" policy on border crossings.
The U.S. employment picture is not as positive as the government is spinning it.
The famed sociologist saw what most white intellectuals could not: the savage nature of an American empire intent on suppressing and exploiting people of color in the U.S. and across the world.
Despite what we may hear from the media, Republicans and Democrats themselves, the Democratic Party is not "the left" but just another slave to the corporate capitalism that is leading us to destruction.
Thousands of educators are taking to the streets, inspired and energized by a dynamic willingness to fight for their own rights, as well as those of their students.
In a new book addressed to his daughter, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explains capitalism well but fails to empathize with its victims.
Attaining Martin Luther King's goal of "the radical reconstruction of society itself" will require backing from the nation's heartland.
The revolutionary thinker teaches us that our tasks are to heighten class conflict by exposing the reality of abhorrent inequality and to create new systems to replace failing capitalism.
A new documentary looks at the pioneering American socialist and how his ideas continue to resonate today.
Our priorities and judgment have become warped as we deify the rich and famous and neglect the meek. This is the trap of a capitalistic society.
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