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  • ICE Protest

    Working-Class Minnesota is rising up against ICE. Unions must shut it all down

    Originally published: Left Voice on January 21, 2026 by Sou Mi (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jan 23, 2026)

    From teachers to transport workers, the labor movement is revved up for a historic day of action against ICE and Trump’s anti-immigrant offensive this Friday. The key is to actually impose the strike.

  • On Wednesday, April 3, Columbia University suspended six students, including a Palestinian student and two Jewish students.

    “We shouldn’t let this stop us”: Suspended Columbia student activist speaks out

    Originally published: Left Voice on April 11, 2024 by Left Voice (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2024)

    Aidan Parisi, a student at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, was recently suspended and has been threatened with eviction from their graduate student housing for pro-Palestinian activism on campus. Aidan talked to Left Voice about the state of repression, the movement at Columbia, and the path forward for uniting the student movement with the labor movement and other movements against oppression.

  • Image: Frederic J. Brown/AFP

    ‘We need a Labor Movement that’s a lot more militant and willing to challenge the status quo’

    Originally published: Left Voice on October 4, 2022 by Left Voice (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Oct 11, 2022)

    Joe Burns, director of collective bargaining with the CWA-AFA union, discusses his new book, “Class Struggle Unionism, and the importance of a militant labor movement.”

  • Bread and Roses

    We need socialist feminism. Join Bread and Roses to fight for It

    Originally published: Left Voice on July 9, 2022 by Bread and Roses (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Sep 14, 2022)

    Join “Bread and Roses”—part of an international grouping of socialist feminists in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, France, and more who have been on the frontlines of struggles against exploitation and oppression across the world—to build the fight in our workplaces, schools, and in the streets here in the U.S. to defend our rights and fight for a future that’s ours.

  • Marx

    The unknown paths of the late Marx

    Originally published: Left Voice on February 27, 2022 by Josefina L. Martínez (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Mar 05, 2022)

    An interview with Marcello Musto about the last decade of Marx’s life.

  • Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation. Edited and introduced by Marcello Musto, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, p. 21.

    Revisiting Marx on Alienation and Communism

    Originally published: Left Voice on December 13, 2021 by Juan Dal Maso (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2021)

    A review of Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation, edited and introduced by Marcello Musto.

  • Marx is Back

    Watch “Marx is Back”, Episode 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians

    Originally published: Left Voice on May 2017 by PTS (Socialist Workers Party) (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Dec 08, 2021)

    “Marx is Back” a mini-series about the Communist Manifesto is now on youtube. Subtitles available.

  • Chains breaking

    Juneteenth: A Marxist perspective

    Originally published: Left Voice on June 19, 2021 by Scott Cooper (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jun 24, 2021)

    This year’s commemoration of Juneteenth–the day the last of the enslaved Black people in the United States were formally emancipated–is also a reminder that the job of ending all forms of slavery is not yet finished. As Karl Marx wrote, we have nothing to lose but our chains and a world to win!

  • Social Reproduction Feminism or Socialist Feminism?

    Social reproduction feminism or socialist feminism?

    Originally published: Left Voice on May 2021 by Josefina L. Martínez (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted May 28, 2021)

    On Susan Ferguson’s book “Women and Work: Feminism, Labour and Social Reproduction.“

  • Illustration: Mar-Ned - Enfoque Rojo

    Engels against reformism in Germany and France

    Originally published: Left Voice on November 28, 2020 by Doug Enaa Greene (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Dec 04, 2020)

    Friedrich Engels was born 200 years ago today. Modern reformists like to cite Engels as an authority. But until his very last day, Engels fought against reformist ideas and for revolutionary principles.

  • Engels

    Engels still lives at 200

    Originally published: Left Voice on November 28, 2020 by Ariane Diaz (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Nov 30, 2020)

    Today marks 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels, the revolutionary leader who, side by side with Marx, elaborated a good part of what we know today as the theoretical bases of Marxism and built the first international organizations of “insurrectionist wage slaves” who adopted communism as the name for their objective.

  • David Graeber (Photo: Pier Marco Tacca)

    Remembering comrade and leftist academic David Graeber

    Originally published: Left Voice on September 3, 2020 by Meera Kumar (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Sep 07, 2020)

    His death was sudden and a shock to his students and the scores of people influenced by his ideas. In a world where most academics value theorizing over activism and choose to abstain from public protest, Graeber was vocal about his anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist views. 

  • Image of Le Havre dock workers in France.

    More than universal healthcare: the meaning of socialism

    Originally published: Left Voice on July 29, 2018 by Doug Greene (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Aug 03, 2018)

    Young people are turning to socialism, and Democratic Party politicians are adopting the term. But what is socialism?

  • Image From Daily Intelligencer

    All strikes of public sector workers are now political strikes

    Originally published: Left Voice on July 12, 2018 by Arielle Concilio (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2018)

    Arielle Concilio speaks with Marxist labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein on the lessons of the Teachers’ Spring and the signs of a resurgent labor movement in the U.S.

  • AMLO celebrates the electoral triumph before thousands gathered in the central square of Mexico City last Sunday Image From CNN

    Why did López Obrador win the Mexican Presidency?

    Originally published: Left Voice on July 4, 2018 by Jimena Vergara (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jul 07, 2018)

    The center-left candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won by a landslide in Sunday’s elections. Why did he win by such a huge margin?

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    Ocasio-Cortez’s win: opportunities and challenges for the left

    Originally published: Left Voice on June 30, 2018 by Juan Cruz Ferre (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jul 02, 2018)

    Ocasio’s victory in the Democratic primaries is a sign of increasing openness to socialism among U.S. voters. The left may squander the opportunity revealed by her win if the wrong lessons are drawn.

  • Boy and many other immagrants

    Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Dystopia

    Originally published: Left Voice on June 25, 2018 by Barbara Funes and Jimena Vergara (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2018)

    What is the structural basis for Trump’s anti-immigrant dystopia? How are anti-immigrant policies rooted in US imperialist relations with Mexico?

  • Photo: Center for Border Protection (repression)

    Xenophobia in America: immigrant children detention centers promote terror and fear

    Originally published: Left Voice on June 19, 2018 by Leo Zino (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jun 21, 2018)

    U.S. Immigration Patrol is detaining immigrant families and separating parents from their children.

  • People walking through flooded waters (Photo: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images.)

    Hurricane Maria death count over 5,000–not 64, new study finds

    Originally published: Left Voice on May 30, 2018 by Juan Cruz Ferre (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Jun 02, 2018)

    A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine estimates the number of deaths caused directly or indirectly by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico at over five thousand.

  • Family sitting in living room (Image by Lewis Wickes Hine)

    Engels and women’s oppression

    Originally published: Left Voice on April 23, 2018 by Ariane Diaz (more by Left Voice)  | (Posted Apr 26, 2018)

    What does Engels say about the root of women’s oppression? Is there validity to his argument today?

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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