A new for-profit investment fund aimed at building charter schools marks an ominous new step for the school privatization movement.

This is an expanded and updated version of a document written by Pranav Jani during the period leading up to the ISO’s 2019 national convention in February. Along with a general call for more ...

The crisis in the ISO has generated a lot of interest in various writings about the challenges of building small revolutionary organizations, including a couple articles by Hal Draper, who was a ...

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field looks at how the global discussion of sexual harassment and assault over the past two years has shaped ISO members’ understanding of a mishandled sexual assault case from 2013.

IT HAS become clear that the Marxist critique of the state is once again in disfavor in many parts of the left. Sometimes this disfavor disguises wholesale political accommodation to the nation-state ...

The streets of Haiti may be quiet for now, but as Ashley Smith explains, the desire to hold Haiti’s rulers accountable is felt intensely by millions of people. THE HAITIAN masses have mobilized a new ...

IN PUERTO Rico a woman is murdered every 14 days. Twenty-four women were murdered at the hands of their intimate partners or exes in Puerto Rico in 2018 alone. Say their names! Jackeline Vega, Moesha ...

Fifty years ago, students at San Francisco State embarked on a campus strike that lasted five months — the longest student strike in U.S. history. Led by the Black Student Union and Third World ...

The death of George H.W. Bush produced a tidal wave of gushing tributes to a “great statesmen” and an “American hero” — even to his “boy-next-door bonhomie” — that sanitized the life of a man born ...

This fall marks the 50th anniversary of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers strikes called by New York City’s United Federation of Teachers (UFT) in response to attempts by Black community leaders to ...

ELECTION DAY seemed like an anticlimax following the tumult that accompanied the 1968 presidential campaign. The boring choice was between two career politicians whose conservatism was totally out of ...

Some nonprofit organizations are shockingly bad actors, while others do laudable work. But they all have some fundamental limitations in common, explains Erica West. WE ARE constantly confronted by ...