The 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson's declaration of a "War on Poverty" has reignited a debate about the persistence of inequality.

In the face of systematic racism, the "back to Africa" ideas of Marcus Garvey struck a chord in early 20th century America.

Race and racism has always been central to U.S. politics--and that didn't stop with the victories of the civil rights movement.

Anger over the lack of that most basic necessity of life--food--was the spark for a rebellion in Tunisia that toppled a dictator and inspired people everywhere.

IT CANNOT be denied that if the apostles of political indifferentism were to express themselves with such clarity, the working class would make short shrift of them and would resent being insulted ...

Arnie Bernstein's Swastika Nation is a vivid history of the U.S. fascist group, the German-American Bund, and its leader Fritz Kuhn.

The Populist struggle brought together Blacks with poor whites in a challenge against the Southern elite.

Amid the catastrophe of the earthquake in Haiti, imperial powers and corporate vultures are circling, eyeing the profits to be made from reconstruction.

The annual Socialism conference brought more than 1,300 people to Chicago for a long weekend of education and discussion.

In discussions with U.S. comrades, the Russian revolutionary Trotsky asserted the centrality of the right to self-determination.

The U.S. government's attitude toward Islam and Muslims has always depended first and foremost on its foreign policy objectives.

The great struggle to end slavery in the U.S. South began many decades before the first shots of the American Civil War were fired in April 1861.