Some 15,000 protesters took to the Chicago streets on a sweltering Sunday in the culmination of a week of protests against the NATO summit.

A former Army officer and State Department official explains how she became one of the best-known antiwar activists.

Three activists are facing terrorism charges in Chicago--but civil liberties advocates say they are victims of a frame-up.

An Egyptian socialist explains the players and looks at the backdrop to the first presidential election after the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

The dramatic escape of blind activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng has thrown a fresh spotlight on China's vast apparatus of repression.

The Québec student struggle has taken a dramatic turn with the provincial government rushing to adopt a law to break the strike.

An upcoming referendum raises the hope of ending the death penalty--but also brings up important debates among activists.

Blacks faced some of the most vicious aspects of the backlash against working-class militancy after the First World War.

ALEC isn't the only "corporate bill mill" that's polluting statehouses and twisting democracy in favor of the rich.

The governments of Argentina and Bolivia are continuing their separate nationalization drives--to the chagrin of the multinationals.

Palestinian prisoners ended one of the largest and longest-running hunger strikes ever after an agreement that Israel will meet some of their terms.

Marx's view of the world is built around the centrality of the struggle between exploiter and exploited--ultimately over whether society will go forward or not.

For the working class to create a socialist society, it must achieve unity in its ranks--and that means championing all struggles against oppression.

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels insisted that the working class would need its own organization to achieve a new society.

Prisoners at a notorious Virginia prison have begun a hunger strike against what they say are harsh conditions and abuses.

With only a few weeks to go before the Olympics, we're at the point where we're told it's almost illegal to not be excited.

London during the Olympics will see "the biggest mobilization of military and security forces since the Second World War."

The leaders of the world's most powerful military alliance will meet behind barricades and swarms of police--while thousands march in dissent.

In a society based on a massive concentration of wealth, one billionaire has far more clout than millions of poor people.

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

The posthumous recognition for C. Arthur Lyman is an insult to the Minneapolis Teamsters who struggled for their rights.

Turkey's governing party wants to broaden anti-union laws to make it impossible for aviation unions to organize legal strikes.

Every gain the labor movement has won has been the result of workers' struggles themselves, in spite of Republicans and Democrats.