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Walmart is the largest private-sector employer in the US. It also pays poverty wages, busts unions, and drives economic inequality. Luckily, there is a viable route to solving those ills: bring the megacorporation under public ownership.

Ten years ago today, the people of Greece voted decisively in a referendum to reject an EU austerity program. Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis tells us how it happened and of the betrayal that followed.

The Algerian struggle for freedom from French imperialism was absolutely central to the political landscape of the twentieth century. On Algeria's Independence Day, we should remember its heroic history and honor its legacy.

The Fourth of July celebrates a declaration of war between two factions of a capitalist ruling class. But the promise of freedom in equality still lies at the heart of the Declaration.

“On the 4th of July, when reference is made to the capitalist flag that symbolizes the triumph of capitalism only, thousands… will applaud their own degradation. What is wanted is not a reform of the capitalist system, but its entire abolition.”

July 4 next year, the US semiquincentennial, will bring a deluge of hymns to the Constitution. We should really be talking about the need for a new democratic founding that will allow for actual majoritarian rule.

The American Revolution could never remain just a war between two factions of its new ruling class, which was caught in the contradiction between its call for revolution and its need for stable hierarchy. Read:

Eugene Debs on July 4, 1901: “We are educating, we are agitating, we are organizing, that is to say we are preparing for the inevitable. It is only a question of time when socialists will be in the majority.”. Full speech:

More and more people are recognizing the Constitution’s role in our current political crisis. Next year’s US semiquincentennial is as good a time as any to demand real democracy. Read:

The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.

On July 4, 1901, socialist luminary and labor agitator Eugene V. Debs proclaimed in a fiery speech: "I like the Fourth of July. It breathes a spirit of revolution.". We reprint the fiercely anticapitalist address here in full.

The US government is already preparing massive celebrations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for next July 4, the country’s semiquincentennial. It’s high time to scrap the antidemocratic system the framers bequeathed to us.

Shulamith Firestone’s writing captured the utopian spirit of radical feminism. In her last published book, Airless Spaces, she took stock of that movement’s failures amid the crisis of care unleashed by the destruction of the welfare state.

The latest work by renowned historian Diarmaid MacCulloch tackles Christian attitudes to sex over the centuries. Modern-day Christians who talk about traditional values usually don’t know how changeable their tradition has been.

Donald Trump’s budget bill is set to make ICE the single largest federal law enforcement agency in US history. The mass deportations the far right fantasizes about will remain unrealistic, but not for lack of funds.

Canada's democracy is in crisis but Canadians don't seem to care. What looks like complacency, however, may actually be the result of decades of institutional drift and managed inertia.

Donald Trump loves to try to bully Mexico. But President Claudia Sheinbaum is showing the world how to stand up to the MAGA administration without playing into its hands.

Twenty-eight years after “The Dialectic of Sex,” Marxist feminist Shulamith Firestone published “Airless Spaces,” a harrowing story collection reflecting on feminism’s failure to confront the welfare state’s collapse.

The idea that sex for pleasure is somehow a bad thing, while sex can be justified by the need to bring children into the world, is part and parcel of Christian teaching across denominations. Yet this attitude is not one that comes from the Bible.