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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IN AN interview at Northstar ("Is there a precariat?"), Charlie Post makes the following point: Workers under capitalism have a dual existence: both as collective producers struggling against capital ...

An exhibit of the work of visual artist George Bellows illuminates Bellows' concern with the intricacies of ordinary people's lives, writes Andrea Hektor. WHILE WANDERING the halls of the National Art ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE TV show Homeland began its third season with record-breaking ratings. The show's creators Alex Ganza and Howard Gordon, who previously collaborated on the wildly ...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, we are told by the history books we got in high school, "freed the slaves." When you read that phrase, you may have wondered: "All by himself?" As the president whose election spurred ...