Opinion

  • NATO's new world order

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

  • Who do Cuba's unions defend?

    An independent union movement is a necessity in Cuba's transition toward a new model of economic exploitation.

  • The widening net of the surveillance state

    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."

  • Lessons of Chicago's May Day

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

  • Hit job on our academic work

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

  • What sparks a rebellion?

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

  • The rich decide who's treated

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

  • The agenda that both parties share

    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.

  • Building a new movement for racial justice

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

  • Stripping away our rights

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

  • When racism is the law

    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.

  • The Etch A Sketch candidate?

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

  • Contending for the living

    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.

  • Their plan for low-wage America

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

  • Where workers have power

    To win like the 1930s sit-down strikers, we will have to occupy the seat of capital's power--not Wall Street, but the workplaces.

  • A barrier to fighting oppression?

    Discussions among activists about challenging different forms of oppression often focus on the concept of privilege.

  • We have to win justice for Trayvon

    Trayvon Martin is dead because he was a young Black man walking where someone thought he shouldn't--proving that racism is alive and well.

  • The true cost of a small fee

    When the AFL-CIO shills for Wall Street, the entire working class loses out, and the banksters win.

  • A war that guarantees atrocities

    The massacre in Afghanistan was an atrocity caused by U.S. imperialism--and the only way to end such violence is to end the occupation.

  • Can we get money out of politics?

    Can campaign finance reform laws transform U.S. politics, or are they doomed to be evaded by corporate interests?

  • Will the U.S. go to war on Iran?

    The U.S. and Israel are threatening military action against Iran over a supposed nuclear weapons program their own officials admit doesn't exist.

  • The Republicans' working-class hero?

    The media is deceptively claiming that Rick Santorum is mainly supported by working-class whites who share his socially conservative views.

  • Using King to sell apartheid

    Supporters of Israel, fearing that the tide is starting to turn, are invoking Martin Luther King in support of apartheid policies.

  • What's driving the war on women's rights?

    The war on women's rights has reached a new frenzy, but angry protests against an anti-abortion bill in Virginia show the potential for fighting back.

  • The debate about how much to cut

    Ignore the war of words about Barack Obama's budget--the two parties differ only about details, and both are committed to an austerity agenda.