The war for our rights in Wisconsin

Union leaders and Democratic officials shifted the uprising in Wisconsin against Scott Walker toward the ballot box--with disastrous results.

Scott Walker's road to victory in the Wisconsin recall election began when union leaders demobilized the labor uprising of February and March 2011.

The occupation of Wisconsin's Capitol building began one year ago--an event that set the stage for the Occupy movement.

Despite the revival of the protest movement from earlier this year, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker won approval for his brutal budget.

The uprising in Wisconsin has given us all a taste of the power of mass mobilization and the importance of struggle--especially the class struggle.

We need to up the ante in Wisconsin by withholding the one thing they can't strip away from us--the work we do.

The occupation of Wisconsin's Capitol has ended, but the debates among activists will continue as the fight enters a new stage.

Scott Walker pushed through his anti-union legislation in Wisconsin, but a massive labor rally showed the struggle to stop the union-busters isn't over.

There is a lot in the air in Wisconsin: justice, solidarity, struggle, dignity, determination, generosity. You see it and breathe it everywhere.

Madison was the site of a massive mobilization to defend union rights, as the movement debated whether to maintain its occupation of the state Capitol.

The surge of solidarity to support Wisconsin workers marks the renewal of the U.S. labor movement and the struggle for social justice.

State budget cuts in social services are so deep that many programs and agencies are disappearing--precisely at a moment when they're needed most.

This is an economic crisis that keeps mutating, generating new kinds of illnesses in the system--so with every "cure" comes signs of damage elsewhere.

Instead of making working people pay the price for reducing the federal deficit, how about raising taxes on the rich and cutting the Pentagon budget?

2010 will go down in history as a year of austerity, imposed on a stunning scale. But it will also be remembered as a year we saw stirrings of resistance.

Ireland is the latest flashpoint of the crisis--and political leaders who spared no expense when banks were in trouble now want workers to pay.

Strikes and demonstrations have spread to every corner of France as conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy pushes his proposal for pension "reform."

The general strikes and protests that have shaken Greek society are driven by an economic crisis that will reshape European politics.