Opinion

  • Las elecciones en Grecia y Francia señalan una creciente oposición a la austeridad, mientras el colapso en curso de los bancos españoles destaca una crisis económica aún más profunda. May 25, 2012

  • Elections in Greece and France expressed growing opposition to austerity, while the crumbling Spanish banks highlight a deeper economic crisis. May 24, 2012

  • With only a few weeks to go before the Olympics, we're at the point where we're told it's almost illegal to not be excited. May 24, 2012

  • Fortificados y tras un enjambre de policías, los líderes de la OTAN, la alianza militar más poderosa del mundo, se reunirán mientras miles marcharán protestando. May 18, 2012

  • The leaders of the world's most powerful military alliance will meet behind barricades and swarms of police--while thousands march in dissent. May 16, 2012

  • An independent union movement is a necessity in Cuba's transition toward a new model of economic exploitation. May 15, 2012

  • El gobierno federal está utilizando casos falsos para justificar la protesta legítima--todo en nombre de la "guerra contra el terror". May 11, 2012

  • The Feds are using trumped-up cases to justify a clampdown on civil liberties and legitimate protest--in the name of the "war on terror." May 10, 2012

  • The May 1 march in Chicago showed the potential of our movements--but it also raised challenges that we must face. May 10, 2012

  • Three graduate students in African American studies respond to a right-wingers' attack on them and their discipline. May 7, 2012

  • Las condiciones que dieron origen a la Rebelión de Los Ángeles, hace 20 años, aún está con nosotros. May 4, 2012

  • Twenty years later, many of the issues at the root of the LA Rebellion--police violence, mass incarceration, discrimination, inequality--still burn today. May 2, 2012

  • The logic applied to the privatization of Britain's National Health Service should be extended to other areas of life. May 1, 2012

  • Una y otra vez escucharemos acerca de la "clara opción" en las elecciones de este año, pero casi nada de las enormes similitudes entre ambos partidos. April 27, 2012

  • We'll be hearing a lot about the "clear choice" in Election 2012--but much less about the many areas where Republicans and Democrats agree. April 25, 2012

  • La detención de George Zimmerman no marca el final de la lucha contra la violencia racista, sino un nuevo comienzo. April 20, 2012

  • The arrest of George Zimmerman shouldn't mark the end of a struggle against racist violence, but a new beginning. April 18, 2012

  • La Corte Suprema de Justicia dio a conocer una de sus resoluciones más anti-libertades civiles de su historia--y con la venia del gobierno de Obama. April 13, 2012

  • The Supreme Court unveiled one of its most civil liberties-shredding rulings ever--and the Obama administration approved. April 11, 2012

  • La gente de color es sospechada y victimizada--y es legal, porque los malhechores son vigías, vigilantes, que "trabajan por la justicia". April 6, 2012

  • Every day, people of color are stalked and victimized like Trayvon Martin was--but it's legal because the perpetrators work for the "justice" system. April 4, 2012

  • According to the Republican right, Mitt Romney will abandon conservatism like a shaken-up Etch A Sketch. They're wrong about that, too. April 3, 2012

  • The answer to the politics of religious identity is not to catalogue the "absurdities" of religion, but to create a secular order worth belonging to. April 3, 2012

  • Los trabajos regresan, pero olvídate de un sueldo de vida, amenos que estemos preparados para demandar uno. March 30, 2012

  • Jobs are coming back, but you can forget about a living wage--unless you and your co-workers are organized enough to demand one. March 28, 2012