Still Not a Neutral Player on a Moving Train: Carrying Howard Zinn’s Torch in the Classrooms and in the Streets

We remember Howard Zinn on the eighth anniversary of his death.

Marxism and Military Strategy

How does Lenin's application of Carl von Clausewitz's military strategy run counter to postmodern thinkers like Michel Foucault, as well as neo-reformist political organizations like Syriza?

Permanent Revolution in 1917 Russia and Today

The theory of the permanent revolution can serve as a guide for action for working-class politics, internationalism and strategy for socialism.

We Are Not the 99% – We’re More Like the 70%

"We are the 99 percent!" is a slogan that originated in the Occupy movement in 2011 and inspired people around the world. These four short words express our disgust at the inequality inherent in the global capitalist system. But do they represent a strategy for change?

Blanqui and the Communist Enlightenment

Louis-Auguste Blanqui understood that bourgeois society is incapable of realizing the universalist principles of “liberté, égalité, fraternité” and that their fulfillment requires the establishment of communism.

The Fight for Free Time and the Fight Against Capitalism

History has shown that the struggle for free time has always been a major site of battle between bosses and workers.

What Can We Learn from the Bolsheviks’ Policy Toward Muslims?

The early Soviet Republic adopted more progressive policies toward Muslims than most Western “democracies” a century later. The following article examines the ways in which the Bolsheviks sought to build alliances with Muslim people, who represented one-in-ten Soviet citizens, in order to fight a common enemy.

Memories of Leon Trotsky, From His Grandson

Esteban Volkov was thirteen when assassins tried to murder him. Because his grandfather was Leon Trotsky. Now ninety-one, Volkov keeps Trotsky's memory alive at a museum in Mexico City where Trotsky spent the final years of his life.

The Decriminalization of ‘Homosexuality’ in the USSR: a Milestone in the History of Sexual Liberation

A brief history of the decriminalization of homosexual behavior in the USSR.