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The rich tradition of Black Marxist thought — one that includes W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Frantz Fanon, among many others — emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and its destructiveness for all workers.

In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic dictatorship on the Congolese people.

Take the “One Thousand Photos — One Thousand Shares” pledge at ActionNetwork.org, share it widely, and support the union activists leading the fight to transform garment supply chains.

President has begun slashing federal workforce while hobbling labor watchdogs NLRB and EEOC

U.S. history is not a steady march toward greater equality, democracy and individual rights, these liberal values compete with an alternative set of illiberal values that hold that citizenship should be limited by race, ethnicity, gender and class.

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce. Because of this, death is often seen as a failure rather than a process shaped by evolution.

Consumer sentiment is falling off a cliff in the early Trump period.

As we enter into Trump's second term, stories such as this and heroes like Diana Caballero remind us that change is possible under difficult circumstances; so we must not succumb to the temptation to abandon mass work and turn on each other.

To build formations capable of advancing both political and economic democracy, we need to grapple with the enduring footprint of anti-political thought in our organizations.

The immediate task is to address delinking from the United States and the American Empire. This is not about aiming for a nationalist form of sovereignty but one based on collectively and democratically determining what kind of society we want.