On Day One, GOP Congress takes the axe to Social Security
It's patently obvious the GOP is trying to convince retired workers that in order to preserve the system, the disabled should be sacrificed.
A season’s reflections on socialism
Nine reflections on the fall of the Soviet Union, what socialism is and isn't, and getting to socialism USA.
Ten bright spots for hope in 2014
Let's keep hope alive this holiday season and into the New Year with the hope and expectation that lasting victories are possible!
Twenty-five years later, the Cold War still blows hot
In Washington, hostility toward socialism and even socialist orientations remain the order of the day.
Remembering Volodya and the Soviet war dead
"I am looking at my treasured coin and wondering about Volodya."
Wanted: an economy that puts people first
I have a confession to make. In the series of articles I have supposedly been writing about income inequality, I have really been writing about something else: need.
Packed house at 3rd annual Vito Marcantonio Forum
Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954) was a fourteen-term Congressman from East Harlem.
The dark side of academic moonlighting
Seventy-three percent of polled Americans believe corruption in government is widespread; but there is a more subtle form of corruption, even less transparent.
"Bourgeois politics" and the mature left
An immediate challenge for anybody who cares about the future of our democracy is the elections this fall: Whichever side wins will have a leg up on the 2016 presidential race.
Video: Barber calls for “Moral Fusion” movement to defeat far right
All labor activists and progressive people should watch and circulate this remarkable speech by the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP.
