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

Blacks joined the unions as they spread during the 1930s labor upsurge as a way to fight desperate poverty and racism.

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

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 ...

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

Women across the Middle East are taking inspiration from #MeToo and standing up against gender-based and sexual oppression.

Fifty years ago, students at San Francisco State were fighting racism and repression during the longest student strike in U.S. history.

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 ...

Donald Trump’s new cold war rivalry with China has put Chinese foreign students at U.S. universities squarely in the crosshairs.

The birth of the Congress of Industrial Organizations ushered in a period of labor militancy that transformed the American labor movement.

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.