Lee Sustar When Greece-style austerity spreads West From Puerto Rico to Illinois and beyond, looming debt crises are being exploited as a justification to shred an already threadbare welfare state.
Interview: Panagiotis Lafazanis Provoking a split with the working class The best-known leader of SYRIZA's Left Platform argues against the government's course toward a new Memorandum.
Readers’ View We want to win the debate Our movements should be guided by strategies and tactics that help activists to challenge and change people's ideas.
Gregg Shotwell There’s plenty of pie, but who holds the knife? Workers' wages, health care and benefits are all on the line in the latest negotiations between the UAW and automakers.
Readers’ View Black Lives Matter and the strategy question The debate about the protest of Bernie Sanders' speech goes to the question of strategy for the movement, not its tactics.
Alan Maass Rebellion in Watts Fifty years ago, the upsurge of protest, rioting and clashes with police in Los Angeles signaled a new phase in the Black freedom struggle.
Jen Roesch Woven into the fabric of capitalism The socialist project in the U.S. will only be successful if it is accompanied by a struggle against racism and for Black liberation.
Lee Wengraf The U.S. war in Africa A new book paints the true picture of Barack Obama's Africa policy: a huge increase in spending on the U.S. military presence.
Jesse Hagopian Taking on the testocracy A leader of the fight against corporate-driven high-stakes testing describes his experience debating a prominent "testucrat."
Dave Zirin How Mike Brown changed sports The sports world was changed by the uprising in Ferguson, and athletes, in turn, changed the Black Lives Matter movement.
