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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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