One of the most common phrases to be heard from those on “the left” is the assertion that someone or some public policy is or is not on “the right side of history.” It has almost become a mantra by ...

Historian Gerald Horne and host Paul Jay discuss the ongoing relevance of Marx’s Materialist Conception of History; to understand and fight ideas that defend injustice today, people must know the ...

[This article is part of a short series on Marxism and its relevance for left resistance in today’s challenging geopolitical and ecological climate, and for the continuing effort to win a better world ...

Per its introduction, Paul Kengor’s new book, The Devil and Karl Marx, “deals with the grim, disturbing, militant atheism and intense anti-religious elements of Marx and other founders and ...

Reporters from the World Socialist Web Site spoke to those visiting Highgate Cemetery in London on Saturday. Many had been moved to go there by the recent desecration of Karl Marx’s grave. Last week, ...

Two well-known economists from Turkey, Ahmet Tonak and Sungur Savran, have brought together a selection of their papers and essays presented as Chapters in their book, In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital ...

Vladimir Lenin was said to have boasted that capitalists would give his communists the rope to hang them. The self-anointed keeper of the Marxist flame, co-namesake of history’s deadliest ideology — ...

Karl Marx is on fire right now. More than a century after his death, the co-author of “The Communist Manifesto” still has the honor of being the first smear against ideas slightly to the left of ...

Though it may seem strange, Karl Marx was not always a communist. As late as 1842, when Marx was in his mid-20s, he actually said he opposed any attempt to establish a communist system. In October ...

From the drone of U.N. debate, the words of British Foreign Secretary Lord Home stood out with freshness and clarity. ∙ON THE RULE OF LAW: “The task of diplomacy is reconciliation, justice and order.