History and Traditions The belief that Russia was socialist came from the idea that socialism equals state ownership of property. That isn't socialism.
February 10, 2012 : Marlene Martin The story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is not just about its leaders, but a mass movement that depended on tens of thousands of people.
February 9, 2012 Union struggles are more than a means to win a wage increase or defend working conditions--they're training grounds.
February 3, 2012 The threat--and use--of violence, has always been a crucial way in which states promote the economic interests of their rulers.
January 27, 2012 History provides several examples that show how, even in the face of immense repression, workers' revolution is possible.
January 20, 2012 To Marxists, the phenomenon of globalization isn't a policy but a dynamic that is built into the very nature of capitalism.
January 13, 2012 : Aaron Petkov The Marxist tradition is often wrongly accused of ignoring forms of oppression that exist outside of economic relations.
January 12, 2012 : Elizabeth Schulte The struggle of tens of thousands of textile workers in Lawrence, Mass., 100 years ago was one of the fiercest battles in U.S. labor history.
January 11, 2012 : Brian Ward The slaughter of hundreds of Lakota women, children and men 121 years ago marked the end of the "Indian Wars."
January 10, 2012 : Duncan Hallas Capitalists' profits come from the unpaid labor of workers--which is why socialists say that capitalism is organized theft.
January 6, 2012 : Phil Gasper How close are the views of right-wing politicians who proclaim their Christian beliefs to the historical Jesus who opposed kings and oppressors?
December 14, 2011 : Paul LeBlanc It is a great source of strength to draw from our revolutionary traditions as we engage in present-day struggles for radical change.
December 12, 2011 : Alessandro Tinonga The last general strike to take place in the U.S. was in none other than Oakland--the heart of the call for a ports shutdown.
December 12, 2011 The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class, Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto.
December 9, 2011 : Lee Sustar In November 1999, tens of thousands of people came together in a show of force against the World Trade Organization.
December 9, 2011 : Ahmed Shawki A leading member of ISO discusses what kind of organization socialists need to be effective in the fight against the system.
December 2, 2011 We're taught that social change is something that happens gradually--but this flies in the face of the historical record.
December 2, 2011 : Eric Ruder In 1932, First World War veterans--known as the Bonus Army--traveled to Washington, D.C., to demand what was owed them.
November 11, 2011 Throughout history, class struggle has been essentially been a conflict over control of what the exploited classes produced.
November 11, 2011 In some Occupy encampments, the question has been raised whether we should use the term "occupy" at all.
November 7, 2011 Do human beings have a built-in nature, shaped genetically by their physical attributes, which programs their behavior?
November 4, 2011 Marx's materialist philosophy was rooted in the idea that the world around us shapes and limits our possibilities.
October 28, 2011 : Alan Maass The Black Power movement was a magnificent high point of African American resistance--one that inspired and shaped radicals for years to come.
October 25, 2011 : Sharon Smith Today's Occupy movement stands in a long tradition of struggles that have depended on the determination of activists that "we shall not be moved."
October 18, 2011 For a movement or struggle, hoping for general agreement after a thorough discussion is very different from requiring it.
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