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 ...

LARRY BRADSHAW and LORRIE BETH SLONSKY are emergency medical services (EMS) workers from San Francisco and contributors to Socialist Worker. They were attending an EMS conference in New Orleans ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Lance Selfa, author of The Democrats: A Critical History, explains how the patterns of retreat and surrender were set in the early years of the Obama presidency. PRESIDENT BARACK Obama is ...

THE GREAT myth about the United States is that we live in a "meritocracy," where the "best and brightest" will rise to the top, and anyone can make it with intelligence and hard work. The ...

Jonah Birch writes from Paris about the terrorist attack and the wave of repression and violence that is already gathering strength, in an article written for Jacobin. LESS THAN two weeks ago, I ...

A BACKLASH against protest is in full swing after the controversial demonstration against racist author Charles Murray at Middlebury College this month--and it isn't only the right wing that'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 ...