From the Editorial Team
Anatomy of a Strike: New York City Transit Workers Confront the Power Elite
By Joshua B. Freeman
Holding the line in an era of concessionary bargaining.
Old South, New South: Organizing in the Red States
Labor Will Rise Again: A Strategy for Organizing in the New South
By Eliseo Medina
An inside look at SEIU’s organizing efforts in the Sunbelt.
The Legacy of Failure: Why the Solid South Has Proved so Hard to Crack
By William P. Jones
How historic white anti-unionism and contemporary job loss impede southern organizing.
Confronting Neoliberalism around the Globe
Whither the World Social Forum?
By John L. Hammond
Should the World Social Forum become a unified mass movement, a political party, or stay as it is?
What Are They Thinking! Ideologies and Realities in the United States and China
By Greg Mantsios
How should progressives understand and respond to China’s embrace of capitalism?
India’s New Unionism
By Anannya Bhattacharjee and Fred Azcarate
The NTUI promises to shake up the status quo in India’s trade union movement.
An Unhappy 25th Anniversary: The PATCO Strike in Retrospect
By Art Shostak
What are the lessons of the air traffic controllers’ historic defeat?
Reclaiming Power Locally: Coalitions for Community and Regional Development
By David Reynolds and Barbara Byrd
Case studies in transforming local politics.
Regular Column: Caught in the Web
By Kim Phillips-Fein
Labor news, views, and resources online.
Books and the Arts:
Regular Column: Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed
By Matt Witt
Neoliberalism: Planetary Slumlord
Planet of Slums
By Mike Davis
Reviewed by Sean Sweeney
What Ever Happened to the Right to Strike?
“If the Workers Took a Notion”: The Right to Strike and American Political Development
By Josiah Bartlett Lambert
Reviewed by Jeremy Brecher
Hollywood Rarity: Imperialism Unmasked
Syriana
Directed by Stephen Gaghan
The Constant Gardener
Directed by Fernando Meirelles
Why We Fight
Directed by Eugene Jarecki
Reviewed by Wallace Katz
Soundtrack of Working-Class Disillusionment
Rednecks and Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music
By Chris Willman
Reviewed by Carter Wright
Chauvinist Complaints and Middle-Class Resentments: The Critics Visit North Country
North Country
Directed by Niki Caro
Reviewed by Kitty Krupat
Son of a Union Man
The Music of Dave Alvin
Reviewed by Dave Saldana
Lou Dobbs: Anti-Business, Anti-Immigrant Rabble-Rouser
Lou Dobbs Tonight
CNN
Reviewed by Aaron Brenner
Poetry
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