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Marxism is a social theory about how the world works, and how to change it. Anyone committed to understanding and changing the world should be a Marxist.

Europe’s fish stocks are in such dire straits that even the retailers who rely on them are now telling the fishing industry to slow down.  Last week, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea—an intergovernmental marine science organization whose data is used to determine annual catch limits—published its annual mackerel report. Following upward […]

The major factors bringing about the current, continuing inflation are unlikely to be much affected by the Fed’s recent interest rate increases. But those increases weaken labor’s bargaining power, so Washington welcomes them anyway.

The European Green Party rushed to condemn the Greens of England and Wales when they voted to support a single democratic state in Palestine. It has never condemned the German Greens for supporting Israel’s genocidal violence against the Palestinians.

Editor’s note: On 7 October 2026, Brazil’s oil regulator ANP will auction hundreds of oil and gas blocks, many of...

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Publishing a theory of capitalist peace six weeks into World War I was catastrophic timing. The problem is that the post-war order looked a great deal like what Karl Kautsky described.

Donald Trump won in 2024 by casting billionaires and blue-collar workers as allies against a liberal professional elite. As working-class voters lose faith in him, the Left has a chance to consolidate support around economic populism.

Echoing the outrage of housing protesters, Minister Pablo Bustinduy admonished Spanish politicians for betraying the working class in favor of rentiers. The legislature’s rejection of two vital housing decrees led PM Pedro Sánchez to call snap elections.

Drinking water costs spiked faster than inflation, grocery prices and median household income, researchers at nonprofit Food & Water Watch outlined in a first-of-its-kind report released Tuesday. The average community water system increased household drinking water prices by 62 percent between 2015 and 2025—with costs in Louisiana, Maryland and New Hampshire having particularly steep rises, […]

NY-17: The third in a series on the environmental stakes behind one of the nation’s most fiercely contested congressional races. At 8, on her walk home from elementary school, Sylke Jackson would drop sticks, leaves and nut shells in Nyack Brook. They would soften and float along beside her, as if companions. At 10, as […]

“This scenario strengthens an anti-Indigenous agenda that is already operating within the National Congress and has our territories in its sights."

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Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, after protesters protected it for more than 70 days.  Activists in Lochiel said at least 12 people had been arrested as of 8 […]

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments from oil companies on Monday that could help decide the fate of more than two dozen lawsuits accusing the industry of deceiving the public about climate change. The claims seek potentially billions of dollars in damages to help pay the costs imposed by climate-related extreme weather. Yet the questions […]

The critics savaging Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger are right, and so is the public who stayed home — missing a Tom Cruise movie, no less. Watch Dr. Strangelove instead.

The occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol by housing protesters has brought back memories of the anti-austerity revolt that began in 2011. But where the Indignados used generic populist language, this new movement has a clear left-wing focus on class.

Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of Lula in Brazil’s first round of the presidential election, aided by US intervention and an overly cautious Workers’ Party. To win the runoff, Lula needs to give working people a reason to hope.

October 3 march in Minneapolis. Photos: Randy Furst HUNDREDS OF DEMONSTRATORS, mostly union members, rallied and marched through the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday, Oct. 3. The march was a show of support for 15 political activists who were indicted earlier this year by Donald Trump’s Justice Department for their organized opposition to the ICE… Continue reading Labor Marching for the Minnesota 15

In 2021, Richie Floyd was elected to the St Petersburg City Council, becoming the first openly socialist elected official in Florida in over a century. Writing in Jacobin, Floyd explains how Bernie’s 2016 campaign launched him into organizing.

Socialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need a concrete account of how a socialist economy could work — and make ordinary people’s lives better.

The World Inequality Lab has produced the most ambitious redistribution plan in decades. But it asks the workers of the rich world to atone for empire rather than fight capital.