Editorials

International Women’s Day will be more fitting than ever this year on the crest of a teacher strike wave that shows no sign of breaking.

It wasn’t the Democrats, but federal workers, who finally put real pressure on the Trump administration to reopen the government.

The government shutdown revealed some of the key political dynamics socialists can expect over the coming year. Let’s count them down.

Millions of people will vote against the Republicans in the midterm elections, but it’s not because the Democrats are offering an alternative.

Christine Blasey Ford bravely agreed to testify about being assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh. We have to organize so she doesn’t stand alone.

We have more evidence that Trump is an emotionally and morally vacant buffoon. But the question is: What are we going to do about it?

Trump won’t be brought down just by an accumulation of scandals — not if he doesn’t face a political challenge. That’s where we come in.

The anti-abortion fanatics, just like their white supremacist cousins, have been emboldened by Trump’s bigotry and xenophobia.

The left must confront the renewed threat of the far right, starting now — but we can rely on our biggest strength: We are many, they are few.

Trump is getting grief for his Putin lovefest, but the left can’t neglect the need to confront his ongoing right-wing agenda of nationalism and class war.

Outrage over Trump’s policy of seizing migrating children from their parents needs to spread and boil over into a national protest movement.

Trump’s anti-immigrant hate is disgusting — but it’s beyond sobering that his actual immigration policies are so easily confused with Barack Obama’s.

We remade our website to look excellent and be more useful for readers — but also to help advance the socialist project of remaking the world.

Or more to the point: Should the left save the Democrats? Progressives are facing wrath from party leaders for their primary victories, but is it worth it?

If our goal is democracy, equality and an end to oppression, then opposition to empire and nationalism has to be at the center of the struggle for socialism.

It's the best way to celebrate International Workers' Day: With strikes and protests by educators, in the best traditions of solidarity and struggle.

Trump's legal troubles are getting serious, but scandalmongering isn't the way to challenge the Trump regime, nor his far-right shock troops.

As he comes under greater scrutiny for his sleazy and corrupt career, Trump is wheeling out all the old hypocritical lies to sell "welfare reform 2.0."