The War's Unlikely General By the time Johnson--who became president after Kennedy's assassination in November 1963--made his declaration of war against poverty in 1964, African American protests ...

Socialist Worker looks at the results of the midterms — and what they tell us about reaction and resistance in a polarized country.

BERNIE SANDERS and his campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination will face their biggest challenge yet on Super Tuesday when Hillary Clinton will attempt to use the full weight of ...

Even as it was experiencing electoral successes, the Socialist Party was deeply divided--the First World War would be a crucial turning point.

Over those years, I have had a number of direct encounters with him. I can tell you from my experience that Bernie is (1) a very rude human being (which makes it hard to understand how he has been ...

AS I stood among the 5,000 people in Burlington, Vermont's waterfront park while Bernie Sanders launched his Democratic presidential primary bid late last month, it was odd to hear the repeated ...

Donald Trump likes to think he not only won an election, but has "built a movement." And he has--just not the way he thinks.

The editors of Jacobin and Socialist Worker discuss the impact of the Sanders campaign and what it means for the efforts of socialists in the U.S.

IN 2013, a 53-year-old trans woman named Fatima Woods was stabbed in her home in Rochester, New York. She ran down the block to a gas station looking for help, where she collapsed due to blood ...

THROUGHOUT THIS period, the people of Flint relied on one another and on help from largely working-class people in neighboring areas to meet the needs of everyday life in a city where poison quite ...

IN FACT, the April 13 rally showed that teachers and many others recognize the deep social crisis impacting everyone--and they want to widen and deepen the struggle. The rally was led by non ...

DRUM FORMED in May 1968 in Chrysler’s Dodge Main Plant in Hamtramck when workers carried out a wildcat strike in response to a speedup in the plant. Though most of the workers on the picket line ...