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It is often overlooked that the insurrectionary demonstrations in Germany's November 1918 Revolution were largely made up of women who worked in the munitions factories or the home (and often both). Cläre Casper-Derfert was a factory worker and the only woman of the Revolutionary Stewards. This is her account of the November Revolution.

Korean trade union leader Kim Jin-suk battles COVID-19, winter, and breast cancer to send a message to profit-making corporations—and keep the promsie of Korea's pro-democracy movement alive.

History is filled with cases of left wing governments whose economic plans were sunk by the disciplinary power of global financial markets. With the very real chance of the Labour Party winning any forthcoming general election, would the same happen to them? In this article, Scott Lavery analyses the current conjuncture of global capitalism to see what room to maneuver Corbyn's Labour would have.

Following Bernie Sander's unsuccessful campaign for the Presidential nomination in 2016, the Democratic Party has once more become a site of struggle for socialists. Leading up to the November 6th midterms, could the Democratic Party, in fact, be the best vehicle for social change? In this essay, first published over 30 years ago, Mike Davis warns us about the pitfalls of electoralism, and the passive clientelism that tends to replace popular politics under the bureaucratic guidance of the Democratic Party. 

Jeremy Milloy discusses workplace violence of the 1960s-1980s as a matter of politics and economics with hosts Betsy Beasley and David Stein.