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From the editorial team

Post-AFL-CIO Convention Analysis

By Jonathan Tasini

Taking stock of the outcome of the AFL-CIO convention this year.

It Takes a Community: Rethinking Trade Unionism

Wal-Mart Surrounded: Community Alliances and Labor Politics in Chicago

By Dorian Warren

How to take on Wal-Mart from the outside.

Community Unionism: A Strategy for Organizing in the New Economy

By Simon J. Black

New urban labor markets demand a new kind of social solidarity.

Trouble in Paradise: Organizing Condominium Workers in the Sunshine State

By Bruce Nissen

A breakthrough in Florida might crack the solid South.

Is God a Conservative: The Politics of Religion

Warriors for Christ: The Electoral Politics of the Religious Right

By Tanya Erzen

Part private welfare states, part party machines, churches evangelize for right-wing Republicans.

Should the Left Get Religion?

By Peter Laarman and Alexia Salvatierra

Five theses on how movements for social justice can recapture the spiritual mainstream.

Iraq and the Labor Movement: The Remarkable Story of USLAW

By Michael Zweig

Why, unlike during the Vietnam era, unions are mobilizing against the war in Iraq, and the Bush administration’s foreign policy.

Retirement? Don’t Bank On It

Social Insecurity: Wall Street Eyes Your Golden Years

By Joel Solomon

Privatizing social security promises a windfall for brokers and bankers.

Social Security Privatized: The Case of Chile

By Ruth Needleman

Who gained and who lost when government pensions got privatized.

Where Have All the Benefits Gone? The Crisis in Union Pension and Health Care Plans

By Christian Weller and Jeffrey Wenger

What happens when high finance collides with working-class demographics?

Working-Class Voices of Contemporary America

The Price of Love

By Amber Hollibaugh

Debate: The AFL-CIO’s Role in Venezuela

Revolution and Counter-revolution in Venezuela: Assessing the Role of the AFL-CIO

By Lee Sustar

A Rejoinder to “Revolution and Counter-revolution”

By Stan Gacek

Lee Sustar Responds to Stan Gacek

Caught in the Web

By Kim Phillips-Fein

Labor news, views, and resources online.

Books and the Arts:

This Sporting Life

Million Dollar Baby and Friday Night Lights

Directed by Clint Eastwood

Reviewed by Kitty Krupat

Of Human Bondage

Born into Brothels

Directed by Ross Kaufman and Zana Briski

Stolen Childhoods

Directed by Len Morris and Robin Romano

Reviewed by Malini Cadambi

The Triumph of Conservatism

The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America

By John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Reviewed by Peter Goldberger

Corporate Triage in the Operating Room

Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care

By Suzanne Gordon

Reviewed by Marilyn Harris

Poetry

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