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What is dialectical materialism?
Since the beginning of recorded history, people have been striving to answer essential questions about nature and human society. In…
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Is women’s oppression inevitable?
Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, faced widespread criticism in late January for suggesting that women are less able to…
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What is national oppression?
Oppression and exploitation are basic features of capitalist society. Workers are paid wages while the capitalist owners make profits from…
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What is imperialism?
With the U.S. war against Iraq raging, more and more people are talking about imperialism. Scenes of U.S. troops patrolling…
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What is socialism?
The United States is the wealthiest country in the world. Its Gross National Product is $12 trillion. Yet 45 million…
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What is a revolution?
You can find the word “revolution” in nearly every section of the newspaper. Innovative movies are declared “revolutions” in filmmaking.…
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What is class struggle?
“If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.” Those were the words of billionaire Warren…
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What is the state?
When people talk about “the state” in day-to-day conversation, they are usually referring to government agencies like civil services or…
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What is the working class?
The Marxist outlook is based on the irreconcilable conflict between the working class (the proletariat) and the ruling capitalist class…
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What is surplus value?
Within the framework of capitalist mythology, wealth and poverty are explained by psychology or individual personality traits. Rich people are…
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What is the capitalist class?
Why do workers have to struggle just to survive while some have so much wealth? Who rules this society? Is…
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Audio: May 5 Forum in San Francisco
San Francisco Report back from May 1 demonstration (mp3, 13:51, 4.75 mb) May 1 Immigration Rights demonstrations reportback. Anticolonial roots…
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Socialism and Liberation, Vol. 3, No. 5
U.S. WORKING CLASS New mass movement demands immigrant rights (Monica Ruíz) UMiami: Immigrant workers fight for a union (John Peter…
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The crimes of yesterday and the crimes of today
To speak of the current situation in Argentina requires a review of the previous 30 years. After the March 24,…
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U.S. government orchestrates anti-Lukashenko opposition
On March 19, Alexander Lukashenko was re-elected president of the Republic of Belarus with nearly 83 percent of the popular…
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French workers and students defeat anti-worker job measure
Two months of massive street demonstrations by students and workers in France resulted in a tremendous victory on April 10.…
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‘Liberate the people from the occupation’
‘Liberate the people from the occupation’ On Feb. 11, writer Julien Versteegh of the Belgian weekly Solidaire, newspaper of the…
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U.S.-backed Israeli regime tries to impose colonial ‘peace’
“It’s like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner but won’t die,” the Israeli prime…
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‘Made in Palestine’
For the first time in the United States, the works of contemporary artists from Palestine have been brought together in…
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Raising consciousness in the antiwar movement
The following is the full text of the speech prepared for the Left Forum at the Great Hall of Cooper…
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