The idea that all whites are privileged at the expense of Blacks is popular on the left--but Bill Mullen makes the case that Marxism offers a better understanding of racism. CAPITALISM HAS had ...

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 ...

ELECTION NIGHT left millions feeling elated with the end of eight long years of Republican rule, but there was a bitter note at the end of the night--the passage of Proposition 8 in California, which ...

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were members of the Communist Party who were convicted of espionage for allegedly stealing atomic secrets. On June 19, 1953, they were executed--the most prominent victims ...

The united front is a method for organizing used by socialists to build the unity of broader forces in action--in the hopes of both achieving immediate aims and winning wider layers of workers to ...

LARRY BRADSHAW and LORRIE BETH SLONSKY are emergency medical services (EMS) workers from San Francisco and contributors to Socialist Worker. They were attending an EMS conference in New Orleans when ...

THE MARXIST approach to understanding war as a product of economic rivalries spilling over into political and military conflicts has long been dismissed as out of date, even by some people on the left ...

LAST WEEK, the Bush administration was forced to admit that a genocide is taking place in western Sudan--carried out by a regime that the U.S. had hoped to bring into its camp. Stories of the horror ...

JOHN KERRY and the Democrats made a big show at their convention in Boston of pledging to run a principled campaign against George W. Bush. "The high road may be harder, but it leads to a better place ...

THE WHOLE world is watching as California death row prisoner Stan Tookie Williams and his supporters make their appeal to stop his execution. Unless California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger commutes his ...

LEE SUSTAR assesses the legacy of the Nicaraguan Revolution, which took place 25 years ago this month. WASHINGTON WAS in shock on July 19, 1979. A massive popular insurrection had put radical leftists ...

What else to read Michael Schwartz's commentary on Iraq appears regularly at TomDispatch.com and elsewhere. For his most recent analysis, see "Baghdad surges into hell." He also runs an e-mail ...