Since the 1970s, America's working people have been under relentless attack. Wages have stagnated, inequality has soared, and the vast majority now lives paycheck to paycheck--while trillions of dollars flow upward into the pockets of the wealthiest few. "Class War, Then and Now" is both a searing indictment of this economic and political order and an impassioned call to arms for a new left rooted in class struggle, solidarity, and socialist values. Drawing on a decad...

It isn’t a secret that the world is in trouble, most ominously from eco- logical collapse and the ever-present possibility of nuclear war. Stated in the simplest terms, the reason is that capitalism is running amok and the left has almost no power across most of the world. Capitalism cares only about making profit; values such as environmental conservation, pres- ervation of human and animal life, the end of war, abolition of nuclear weapons, and human well-being count f...