Israel ever so slightly eased its blockade of Gaza following the attack on the freedom flotilla, but its broader assault on Palestinians continues.

Imagine growing up in a world where you've never known war or poverty or exploitation, and where people's needs, not profits, have always come first.

Venezuela continues to be the focal point of a political shift to the left that has affected most of the Latin American continent for the last decade.

In the so-called progressive city of Madison, Wis., our branch of the International Socialist Organization faces serious barriers to free speech.

BP is using huge amounts of chemical dispersants on the oil it spewed into the Gulf--at a terrible cost to the environment.

Maya, the new album by M.I.A., created a buzz even before it came out, and now its dark themes are confounding critics.

Immigrants are targets of a deadly campaign of border militarization and racist scapegoating in Arizona--but activists are ready to take a stand.

Green Gone Wrong should be required reading for anyone seduced by the idea that corporations can solve the environmental crisis--or even want to.

The best way to see the potential of a future society is to look at the mass movements of the past that have shaken capitalism.

After a 17-week strike, warehouse workers at a distribution center for the Shaw's supermarket chain in Massachusetts voted overwhelmingly for a new contract.

A miner who was planning to retire later this year was struck and killed in the Willow Lake mine in southern Illinois.

After months of getting cover from the media and politicians, the so-called Tea Party Movement has been exposed for the racism at its core.

Capitalism has no answers for the vast majority of people who don't enjoy its tremendous wealth. But what would an alternative look like?

A grassroots anti-racist network sprung into existence in Murfreesboro, Tenn., when the right wing tried to stop the building of a mosque.

As if being a member of the lost generation of young workers wasn't bad enough, I had to go and break my collarbone.

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Three leaders of the student strike at the University of Puerto Rico talk about how the struggle was organized--and why it won.

Some 100 people turned out in Portland, Ore., answering a call to protest cuts that face the disabled and seniors who need home care assistance.

We realized when we were being given a few minutes with the Secretary of Education that we had an opportunity to address a gap in his own education.

France's passage of a ban on the full facial veil worn by some Muslim women is a racist attack and an attempt to single out Arab and Muslim immigrants.