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Zanon: Worker Managed Production, Community and Dignity

Marie Trigona July 13, 2006 Marie Trigona

During Argentina's financial meltdown, many unemployed workers occupied their closed factories and forcibly reopened them - under employee control. Four years later, Argentina's economy is well on the road to recovery, and many worker-run factories are seeking permanent legal status. Workers from the Zanon ceramics factory in the Patagonian province of Neuquen held a rally on July 4 to demand the government expropriate their plant and give permanent legal status to FASINPAT (Factory without a boss), their worker cooperative. If there's no action, it will lose its temporary legal status in October.

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Dave Dellinger: A 1993 Interview

Downtown Magazine July 12, 2006 Downtown Magazine

What are your most vivid memories of what happened on the streets and in the parks of Chicago during the 1968 anti-war protests outside the Democratic National Convention?

DELLINGER: Inevitably, the most vivid memory I have is of busloads of police driving up to where we would be gathered, jumping out, getting into formation and marching into the crowd, goose-stepping as they marched. Slapping their sides with their clubs and shouting: `Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Then they would go in and hit everybody that they could over the head–or jab their clubs into people’s groins. read more

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Dwight Macdonald: Godfather of One Editor Journals

Rene Wadlow July 5, 2006 Rene Wadlow

Dwight Macdonald would have been 100 this year, 2006.  Had he lived, he would have been asked to say a few words about the state of the world, about the editing of political journals, and about the state of American culture.  His replies would have been short and satirical.  As he wrote "Great ideas can only be expressed in a great style.  There is no such thing as a clear message delivered in a confused style."  He was a master of the short essay.

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Going Nuclear Again

Sandy Leon Vest June 29, 2006 Sandy Leon Vest

It is the 21st century - the age of terrorism and 'long wars.' Yet in the US and abroad, nuclear power, that 20th century energy behemoth, is quietly coming back.  If successful, it threatens to plunge the global populous into unseen levels of darkness and despair.