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
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