The Case Against Coke The Case Against Coke
A global, grassroots campaign against Coca-Cola is using product bans and lawsuits to shed light on the corporate giant's exploitation and brutality in Colombia, India and elsewher...
Apr 13, 2006 / Feature / Michael Blanding
Envisioning Another World: Integración Desde Abajo Envisioning Another World: Integración Desde Abajo
Immigrant advocates at the World Social Forum offered real alternatives to the narrow debate over how to fix the system.
Feb 16, 2006 / Feature / Roberto Lovato
Reversing ‘Right to Work’ Reversing ‘Right to Work’
Labor activists in Idaho hope to repeal repressive "Right To Work" laws and educate a new generation on the history of labor struggles.
Feb 8, 2006 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Cesar’s Ghost Cesar’s Ghost
Cesar, who was always good at symbols, saved his best for last: a simple pine box, fashioned by his brother's hands, carried unceremoniously through the Central Valley town he made...
Jan 21, 2006 / Feature / Frank Bardacke
Working-Class Hero Working-Class Hero
While the edges continue to be smoothed off Martin Luther King Jr.'s bracing challenges to racism, war and free-market exploitation, the holiday is a time to remember a leader who...
Jan 11, 2006 / Books & the Arts / William P. Jones
New York’s Real Transit Crisis New York’s Real Transit Crisis
New York City's first transit strike in a quarter-century resulted in an agreement that both the union leadership and the MTA insist is the greatest contract ever--but that the uni...
Dec 30, 2005 / Feature / Robert Fitch
A Fight for the Future A Fight for the Future
New York City transit workers, now back on the job after a two-day strike, are fighting for the rights of future workers and against the lie that abstract, neutral economic necessi...
Dec 22, 2005 / Feature / Joshua Freeman
Bitter Winter at NYU Bitter Winter at NYU
Striking graduate teaching assistants and NYU administrators are hunkered down for a protracted fight, as President John Sexton has threatened strikers with loss of their teaching ...
Dec 21, 2005 / Scott Sherman
NYU’s Poison Ivy Itch NYU’s Poison Ivy Itch
When one of New York's biggest and most liberal institutions gets into the business of union-busting, it's hardly an internal matter.
Sep 15, 2005 / Andrew Ross
Solidarity, 25 Years Later Solidarity, 25 Years Later
That brief explosion in Gdansk of civic participation and political innovation contains secrets and gems of political ideals that can be achieved.
Aug 25, 2005 / David Ost