Edgar Esquivel, a UPS worker and member of Teamsters Local 952 in Southern California, looks at the upcoming Teamsters presidential election. AS THE Teamsters old-guard leadership splinters and their ...

Some 1.3 million South African public-sector workers have suspended their strike after nearly three weeks in a battle that saw the some of the largest police attacks on labor since the fall of ...

Engels' great muckraking work on the heart of the Industrial Revolution captures the fluidity and chaos of capitalist society--and the power of the class that can defeat it. FREDERICK ENGELS was born ...

Since its national conference in January, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain, the country's largest revolutionary organization, has been shaken by the most severe crisis in its history, ...

Richard Putz considers what could replace an institution that claims to "serve and protect," but which really maintains "law and order" in an unequal society. ONCE AGAIN, the police have proven ...

Christina Bergmark looks at the reasons why a mass Black nationalist movement arose in the early 20th century around the vision put forward by Marcus Garvey. IT'S NOT difficult to see why, at ...

FORTY YEARS ago this month, the world was shocked by the images of violence that flashed across television screens--but not from the jungles of Vietnam or the plazas of a Latin American country ruled ...

Nancy MacLean tells the story of the Populist movement of the 1890s--when it briefly challenged the hold of white supremacy in the U.S. South. IT WAS an event without precedent in the South. On a few ...

THE ISSUE of race and racism emerged openly at the heart of U.S. politics in the Democratic presidential campaign in January. But as any serious student of U.S. history knows, racism is always beneath ...

WITH BLACK politics typically associated with Black elected officials and participation in the mainstream system, as it has been since the 1980s, it is all too easy to dismiss Black nationalism as a ...

February 12 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. Phil Gasper explains the significance of his ideas, and why they still spark controversy today. CHARLES DARWIN'S ideas revolutionized ...

Bill Mullen looks at the legacy of Ralph Ellison, author of the landmark Invisible Man. Since its publication, it has been a standard on American literature syllabi, and has never gone out of print.