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 shocking proposal of one Ohio politician to withhold treatment from people overdosing on opioids is part of a larger picture of failure, writes Nicole Colson. That's Middletown, Ohio, City Council ...

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 German ...

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 ...

FOR MOST of 2007, Stockton, Calif., topped all lists of the American cities worst hit by the housing crisis. As of last summer, one out of every 27 homes in Stockton was in foreclosure--an increase of ...

THE REVOLUTION in Tunisia that began on December 18 went from being almost completely ignored in the British newspapers to being a sensational story of bloodbaths, gang violence, Israeli worries about ...

Bloomberg Businessweek can't hide its racism--not after putting caricatures of African Americans on a cover illustration about the housing market. Leela Yellesetty explains. The illustration echoes ...

CANADA HAS "no history of colonialism." So said Stephen Harper in 2009. Today, the Idle No More movement is shouting down this lie through actions both creative and courageous. In its place, it is ...

The nightmare of violence directed at Blacks during race riots after the First World War shows why fighting racism is central to any working-class movement. THE PERIOD between 1915 and 1920 saw the ...

Phil Gasper, the editor of a fully annotated edition of Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto, cuts through the myths that underlie a common argument against socialism. PERHAPS THE most common argument ...

STANLEY NELSON'S new documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard to the Revolution is a bracing examination of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Given that we are ...

IN THE 1930s, revolutionary socialists in the U.S. who opposed the Stalinized turns of the Communist Party (CP) were marginalized. By 1938, the American followers of the Russian revolutionary Leon ...