Vicky Osterweil’s new book, In Defense of Looting, provides a robust defense of uncivil disobedience and its potential for both radicalizing and exacting change. By dodging the essential issue of organization, however, it leaves many questions unanswered.

For years, Chicago’s real estate capitalists have been creating a huge property glut downtown. Now that they face the economic consequences of their own actions, they squall about protests in the Loop in a cynical attempt to shift responsibility and secure even more tax breaks.

Black and Indigenous solidarity is crucial to the liberation of us all. It’s time we talk about what it will take to repair the historical wounds of slavery, genocide, and their interconnections.

Knowing Harris’s record of siding with big business and against innocent people locked in the carceral system can only serve everyone struggling for a world in which all Black lives are allowed to matter.

The USPS is the nervous system of democracy in the United States. It has won this round, but the long-running war against the postal service could have lasting consequences for this country.

Chicago police shot someone on the South Side last night. By looting downtown, protesters are addressing the root cause of police violence.

Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power tells the racist history and development of the Chicago Police Department. On July 17, 2020, the police rioted in downtown Chicago. A Black and Indigenous solidarity rally

In the 1930s the Communist Party in Chicago was a vibrant, multiracial organization with thousands of members that actively fought against racism and class inequality. There is much socialists today can learn from its successes and failures.

A frontline health-care worker talks about the public health crisis caused by reopening and why fighting racism is essential to saving lives.

An interview with Chicago’s socialist, Italian American alderman about the destructive legacy of Christopher Columbus.