After weeks of strikes, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union has reached a tentative agreement with Chrysler maker Stellantis. The deal will see the pay of the average worker rise by 25 percent, while the lowest paid workers will see…
The NATO members of the international community are split about whether to call for a temporary humanitarian pause of the bombing in Gaza, or a full ceasefire of the ongoing ethnic cleansing. A full ceasefire would allow aid to get…
Two years ago, a whistleblower revealed that Facebook knew that Instagram, which it owns, was causing significant harm to young people, predominantly teenage girls. Today, the company is being sued by dozens of US states for exploiting its users this…
From today, Tuesday 24th of October, the 460,000 workers in the UK currently who receive the Real Living Wage will receive a 10 percent pay rise, bringing their hourly wage up to £12 outside London and £13.15 in London. The…
“I’ll probably be the lowest paying taxpayer in the office.” – Warren Buffet, 2013 Billionaires typically pay the least tax of anyone in society despite being its wealthiest members. According to a new report from the EU Tax Observatory, part…
“Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of…
The state consists of all the institutions that the ruling class uses to coerce the other classes in society. This includes the institutions of “legitimate” violence, such as the police, military, courts, and jails, as well as the institutions of…
Dialectical Materialism is the Marxist philosophical framework. Put another way, it’s the method we use to analyze the world. Marxism doesn’t provide a set of dogmas that teach us how to act in all situations. But it does provide us…
In Marxism, a person’s class is defined by their relationship to the Means of Production (the stuff that’s used to make stuff, such as tools, machinery, and raw materials.) While classes can be broken down into finer categories, it’s common…
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” – Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto The ideas of class and class struggle are intimately tied up with Marxism because Marxists see economic relations as both…