TEN YEARS after the murder of Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919, playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht wrote in his typically stark, homely verse: Red Rosa now has vanished too. Where she lies is hid from ...
Fifty years ago, students at San Francisco State embarked on a campus strike that lasted five months — the longest student strike in U.S. history. Led by the Black Student Union and Third World ...
The death of George H.W. Bush produced a tidal wave of gushing tributes to a “great statesmen” and an “American hero” — even to his “boy-next-door bonhomie” — that sanitized the life of a man born ...
Elizabeth Schulte reviews the writings of the German revolutionary Clara Zetkin about fascism — and draws out the lessons that they hold for the left today. WITH THE rise of the right internationally, ...
Brian Ward celebrates the anniversary of the formation of the American Indian Movement 50 years ago and the revitalization of resistance to U.S. settler-colonialism as part of SW’s series on the ...
AN UPSURGE of opposition to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is taking shape across the country, catalyzed by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy” of forcibly separating ...
Socialist Worker continues our series marking the 50th anniversary of the revolutionary year of 1968 with an article that tells the story of the French May. IN MAY 1968, the British business magazine ...
Fifty years ago, the assassination of Martin Luther King stunned the world and began a new chapter in the Black freedom struggle, as Khury Petersen-Smith explains in the next article in SW’s yearlong ...
"ENOUGH IS enough." "The time for change is now." "Never again." These are some of the signs that have appeared at the protests that erupted since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Their ...
Recent discussion of trans politics has invoked the terms "materialist" and "idealist." In an article for the revolutionary socialism in the 21st century website, Rob Hoveman gives an overview of ...
THE TET Offensive in Vietnam. The assassination of Martin Luther King. The French May. The Prague Spring. Black Power fists at the Olympics in Mexico City. Mayhem outside the Democratic convention in ...
Ronnie Almonte introduces the writings of one of the 20th century's great novelists and essayists--and his political transformation in the era of the Black freedom struggle. THE WRITER James Baldwin ...