It's never talked about this way in the U.S. media or political system, but for Marxists, classes are defined by their economic function.

• Not a single wheel would turn

• A tale of two paychecks

• The re-return of Karl Marx

Protests by thousands of Hungarians have forced the government to back down on its plan to impose a tax on Internet usage.

• Confronting the fascist threat

ISIS didn't emerge out of nowhere--it was able to grow because of specific conditions that U.S. imperialism is responsible for.

• Betrayal on all sides

• Understanding Syria's revolution today

After 27 years in power, the dictator Blaise Compaoré was finally removed from power after massive demonstrations.

• Workers' resistance in Africa

An independent candidate for the Chicago City Council explains why he's decided to take on the city's status quo.

• Chicago's warrior for the 1 percent

Community and labor groups responded to Kshama Sawant's call for an alternative budget for the people of Seattle.

Left-wing actor Russell Brand is being dismissed as an unserious gasbag--but has anyone looked at his critics?

In this extended series of articles on the politics of international socialism, Paul D'Amato, author of The Meaning of Marxism, looks in detail at the ISO's "Where We Stand" statement.

Why did the Democrats get a drubbing? Do the Republicans think they have a mandate? What will they do now? SW answers your questions.

• How can the Republicans be winning?

• Washington's warring brothers

The real question isn't how Republicans ran away with this year's elections--it's how Barack Obama and the Democrats gave them away.

• The left Democrat mirage

• How can the Republicans be winning?

The Working Families Party's decision to back New York's conservative Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has backfired.

• The WFP charade unravels

The Hawkins/Jones campaign in New York is bringing anti-racist, pro-worker, pro-environment ideas into the mainstream.

• The Greens gain steam in New York

SW points out the elections and initiatives where you can send a message in favor of political independence and social justice.

• A left alternative for Oakland mayor

• Offering New Yorkers a choice

The Green Party's Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones are breaking new ground for independent politics in New York.

• Causing trouble for Cuomo

The Democrats and Republicans have worked hard to protect their duopoly, which allows the two pro-corporate parties to share power between them.

• Washington's warring brothers

• What's the alternative to the two parties?

Solidarity and collective action against sexual assault were at the heart of the international Carry That Weight day of action.

Columbia students and Harlem residents are challenging the university's role in over-policing and pricing out its neighbors.

• What drives gentrification?

Nurse Kaci Hickox is speaking truth to power about the Ebola outbreak: Quarantining health care workers only furthers the racist panic.

• Blaming everything but the real causes

• Ebola and the terrorism of poverty

A right-wing school board in Colorado has provoked an eruption of walkouts and sick-outs by students and teachers.

• The Texas school of falsification

A walkout at Seattle's Garfield High forced the school district to back off its threat to cut one teacher in a core subject area.

• Why I got arrested at the Capitol

A few days before Halloween, picketers dressed like Rosie the Riveter lined up outside a San Francisco luxury hotel.

• Why Hilton finally conceded

Thousands flooded the street in front of the Philadelphia school district headquarters to protest an attack on teachers.

• A threat to all teachers and all unions

Washington residents are fighting to stop the expansion of dangerous shipments of crude oil by rail across the state.

After a judge dismissed charges against 10 protesters, they began planning more actions to defend the U.S. Postal Service.

Students and faculty at Columbia University are speaking out about their concerns regarding the university's rules of conduct.

A march in Boston shows how the resistance following Mike Brown's murder has galvanized a new generation of activists.

According to Lenin, specific wars and conflicts may have specific causes, but generalized war and conflict are permanent conditions of capitalism.

• The case against Obama's new war

• Lenin's imperialism

After 14 years of the "war on terror," the countless ceremonies and "thank yous" to military veterans need to be questioned.

• Just an excuse for more wars

The reaction to Barack Obama's launching of a new war in Iraq couldn't be more different to what greeted George Bush's invasion. Why?

• The case against Obama's new war

• Antiwar organizing in the Obama era

U.S. air strikes have as much to do with stopping ISIS violence as the invasion of Iraq did with weapons of mass destruction.

• Palestine and the Arab counterrevolution

A debate in the Chicago Teachers Union over the city's mayoral race raises important questions for the union.

• Which way will Karen Lewis run?

Some 5,000 people protested in Minnesota to demand that Washington's football team stop using a racial slur for its name.

• Native voices won't be bullied

Abortion rights activists need to make our voices heard at the clinics, so we can regain some of the ground lost to the right.

An ISO member in the Bay Area answers a critique that he and SEIU Local 1021 promoted concessions and shilled for San Francisco's mayor.

Laura Poitras' documentary CITIZENFOUR is a taut thriller about the whistleblower who humbled the world's largest spy agency.

• Unmasking Big Brother

• Why is Snowden still trapped?

A new book by Paul Street shows how the rich have created a "second Gilded Age"--and also caused a fightback.

• Robbed blind by the 1 Percent

Homeland speaks volumes about the consistently awful representation of Arabs, Islam and Muslim-majority countries on TV.

• The "war on terror" with a liberal veneer

• Islamophobia on the red carpet

The revolutionary response to the First World War was shaped by two manifestoes written by V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky.

• Capital's world war and the fight against it

Wrong about the Greens in 2004 | Challenging wrongful convictions | What the antiwar movement needs | No better time for third parties

The left needs a theory that not only analyzes the world but tries to change it--which is why Leninism is still important.

The ultimate message of the Democrats in elections is: be passionate, be committed, but remember, do it on our terms.

¿Qué pudo haber hecho que la Corte Suprema, repleta de jueces conservadores, tomara una decisión que favorece el matrimonio gay?