Donald Trump’s appalling rise: Product of a bipartisan crisis long in the making
The electoral season seems especially wacky this time — but it is the logical result of a bipartisan crisis long in the making.

Eleven(!) foreign powers bombing Syria: why, and who’s who
Syria bombarded as imperialist powers attack to halt revolutionary change in the Mideast.

State Department: the Pentagon’s war partner
The “bad cop” Pentagon uses military force while the State Dept. uses diplomatic pressure — but both options are wielded as tools of war.

A Marxist exploration: Bernie Sanders, political revolution, and socialism
The Freedom Socialist examines Bernie Sanders' candidacy.
Freedom Socialist book review: A beautiful, terrible tale of forgotten Haitian people
Bernadette Logue reviews The Farming of Bones.
Rasmea Odeh’s victorious appeal staves off deportation
Odeh, a Palestinian and community organizer, won a partial victory against the U.S. government’s attempt to deport her.

A visit to political prisoners and families in Guerrero, Mexico
“It is enormous support to have solidarity from other countries.”

Karl Marx on the struggle for a shorter workday
The 8-hour day didn’t just happen.

The racist past and present of right-to-work leglislation
Slavery and Jim Crow paved the way for the misnamed, anti-union legislation.
Stopping Friedrichs
The current attack on organized labor.

Solving Flint’s toxic water crisis
Local officials put profit above the community’s health and safety — and the community fights back.

Bring assassins of Honduran Berta Cáceres to justice!
We demand the U.S. end its complicity in crimes against the indigenous peoples of Latin America!

US Navy expands its reach as New Zealand softens anti-nuke stance
New Zealand’s historic and heroic ban of U.S. warships is being compromised by “junior imperialists” in the N.Z. government.

From the FS archives: Class — the power that heals
When in revolt, there’s no substitute for working-class solidarity.
Freedom Socialist Letters to the Editor — April 2016
Political prisoner news, a salute to Heidi Durham, thanks for the article on Puerto Rico, and more.

Labor Weather Report for April 2016
A glance at how some workers and their unions are faring in the class struggle.

Freedom Socialist editorial: Socialist Alternative’s twisted “Bernie tactic”
It’s opportunistic, not socialist.

Freedom Socialist editorial: Criminalizing activism for Palestinian rights
Stop the Israeli campaign against BDS.