Why does every new technology seem to make work harder and not easier? In 1974, Harry Braverman published a seminal text, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, ...

The First Novel about the Gig Workers of Kolkata’ by Ashoke Mukhopadhyay, translated from the Bengali by Zenith Roy.

PERHAPS the best-known foundational Marxist text (and one of the easiest to read), the Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet written jointly by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and first published in ...

Seen through Marx’s theory of alienation, Zwigato speaks not only about income loss or job insecurity, but about an estrangement that accompanies gig work. A still from Zwigato. Nandita Das’s Zwigato ...

I often make comparisons when I travel. What’s different and what’s similar in ways of living a life? Since I’ve been living in the United States for about two years now, as I study at Dartmouth, it’s ...

Brennay Kennard was ordered to pay $1.75 million in damages to her husband's ex-wife, plaintiff Akira Montague Kaitlin McKeown/The News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty (2) A TikToker's North ...

From country to pop and R&B, a number of musical acts are already set for Greater Akron venues in the new year. Here's the ...

It's that time of year where we all determine the best of the best in 2025, so we'll let you in on the voting. Who had the better 2025 rock album? Was it Three Days Grace's Alienation or Ghost's ...

There’s a particular kind of horror in getting dumped online. Maybe it was a WhatsApp essay that started with “Hey… so I’ve been thinking”, or the more savage route of a sudden Instagram block. Brutal ...

Since "Avatar" hit theaters in 2009, its impact has been universal and monumental. It has been screened in more than 70 countries around the world, been watched in theaters more than 300 million times ...

[This article is part of a short series on Marxism and its relevance for left resistance in today’s challenging geopolitical and ecological climate, and for the continuing effort to win a better world ...