Edgar Esquivel, a UPS worker and member of Teamsters Local 952 in Southern California, looks at the upcoming Teamsters presidential election. AS THE Teamsters old-guard leadership splinters and their ...

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THE ISSUE of race and racism emerged openly at the heart of U.S. politics in the Democratic presidential campaign in January. But as any serious student of U.S. history knows, racism is always beneath ...

WORDS LIKE "colonialism" and "empire" were once frowned upon in the U.S. mainstream media as worn-out left-wing rhetoric that didn't fit reality. Not anymore. A growing chorus of right-wing ideologues ...

Nancy MacLean tells the story of the Populist movement of the 1890s--when it briefly challenged the hold of white supremacy in the U.S. South. IT WAS an event without precedent in the South. On a few ...

Some 1.3 million South African public-sector workers have suspended their strike after nearly three weeks in a battle that saw the some of the largest police attacks on labor since the fall of ...

FORTY YEARS ago this month, the world was shocked by the images of violence that flashed across television screens--but not from the jungles of Vietnam or the plazas of a Latin American country ruled ...

Since its national conference in January, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain, the country's largest revolutionary organization, has been shaken by the most severe crisis in its history, ...

THE REVOLUTION in Tunisia that began on December 18 went from being almost completely ignored in the British newspapers to being a sensational story of bloodbaths, gang violence, Israeli worries about ...

Richard Putz considers what could replace an institution that claims to "serve and protect," but which really maintains "law and order" in an unequal society. ONCE AGAIN, the police have proven ...

South Africa under the former apartheid regime had a history of close ties to Israel--based on the two countries' identification with each other's racist cause. Busloads of angry teachers and parents ...

BEHIND THE brightly colored Christmas decorations and overflowing shelves of marked-down merchandise at the local Kmart, you could see the desperation on people's faces. "It seems like all I do is ...