Anyone who reads Marx’s great work Capital today, and the number of new readers is growing, will find, before they hit the first chapter, six prefaces (four to German editions and one each to the French and English editions) and two afterwords (to the French and to the second German editions).

On April 28, 2009, the National Congress of Black Women recognized Sojourner Truth as the first African American woman represented by a bust in the US Capitol.[1] Almost all Americans know Sojourner Truth as a tireless fighter for African American and women’s rights.

There is a very common view that the current financial crisis of the capitalist world, and its fall-out in the form of the most severe slump since the Great Depression of the 1930s, are a consequence of “greed” on the part of the financial sector.

This process, which is much broader than anything we have seen prior to this point, reflects, on the one hand, changes in the real situation in the Americas, including the fact that Cuba is no longer as isolated at all. In fact, it is United States policy which has really been isolated globally and also in this region.

Deeply embedded within even these notions of Black freedom, moreover, were two strategic concepts implying collective action to maximize Black civic capacity. The strongest of these was the struggle for equality.

Health reform activists descended on Washington by the thousands June 25th as Congress continued to craft health reform legislation. On one side of the struggle stand President Obama, labor and health advocates and the vast majority of the American people, pushing hard for meaningful reforms that include a public option...

It is hard to envisage human beings doing anything were it not for emotions: feelings motivate us; they make us move (literally). There seems to be a direct link between feeling something via the senses, and feeling something emotionally...

Martin Luther’s 95 Theses on the Wittenberg Cathedral door helped put an end to the Middle Ages and heralded the dawn of the age of capitalism. Almost half a millennium later, world capitalism is going through rocky times, a new US administration is exploring new approaches, and socialist ideas are once again entering public discussion.

We have seen in recent days a marked deterioration in the security situation, with a series of bombings both in the capital and in the provinces, that have led to hundreds of women, men and children being killed and wounded.

What is the objective of the economic reforms advocated by the Obama administration? What measure of progress has there been, or can be expected, from the proposed reforms for the security and advancement of working peoples economic interests?

Until Sunday, December 31, 2006, I had been holding for about three weeks a second job at a gas mart/convenience store in Indianapolis, Indiana. This gas mart/convenience store is one of many for this several-state chain-store company...

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) joins with the world in denouncing the coup d’etat this morning against the legally elected president of the Republic of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, by the Honduran military.

U Tin U, the National League for Democracy (NLD) Deputy Leader, once said that “Burma is a prison within a prison.” His words highlight the tragic political, social and economic circumstances that Burma is faced with today, because of the military junta.

Studs Terkel was synonymous with the everyperson, heart of the hoi polloi. In one of his last interviews he repeated a story he enjoyed telling about encountering a couple of vocally anti-union Young Urban Professionals in his hometown of Chicago.

As military columns led by Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and others took over Cuba in 1959, Fidel Castro went from a larger-than-life revolutionary figure to a leader who would galvanize allies and opponents alike for the next 50 years.

¿Cuál es el objetivo de las reformas económicas promovidas por la administración Obama? ¿Qué medida de progreso ha habido, o que se puede esperar de las propuestas de reforma para el avance de la seguridad y de los intereses de los trabajadores?

This is really hard for me, because I’ve had to do this three or four times before, at other rehabs and in prison group therapy. And all those other times, I was there only because I was forced to be and I lied and left a lot of major shit out.