The *Actual Left: Theory & History

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King, who championed economic as well as racial justice, called labor unions “the first anti-poverty program,” a Western Illinois University professor writes.

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The most important question facing the American left today.

“The nobody wants to say . . . or doesn’t know to say,” said Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, an executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Ellen Meiksins Wood was one of the great Marxist thinkers of her age. One of Wood’s most important contributions was to show how the coercive pressure of markets is specific to capitalism and point us toward the necessary socialist alternative.

Henry Ford: If People Understood the Banking System, There’d Be a Revolution By Tomorrow Morning This Week in Money July 30 — August 5 This Week In Money helps you understand the history of …

Global elite told at London’s Savoy hotel of real risk of ‘civil disruption’ if more is not done to help struggling millions

A nonjudgmental conversation may be one of the best ways to reduce prejudice against transgender people.

Back then, the stereotype of the anarchist in the popular imagination was of a bomb-throwing fanatic. Governments genuinely feared anarchists....

Despite conservative memes and calls for boycotts of companies like Carhartt and Budweiser after LGBTQ campaigns, they're more profitable than ever.

Responding to worried questions raised by many about the ongoing banking crisis that started in the US with the bankruptcy of the Silicon Valley Bank

In a Reddit Ask Me Anything session, the physicist expresses more concern about economic inequality than about artificial intelligence.

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“Every day, capitalism proves that it is absolutely indifferent to human flourishing,” says author China Miéville.

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Bolivia’s President Luis Arce used his platform at the United Nations General Assembly to propose a revolutionary 14-point socialist program to transform

Russian intolerance of the gay community was briefly interrupted under the Bolsheviks.

What if a movement designed to do the maximum good for the most people actually helped a few people get very rich?