Taking on a Giant: Walmart Workers Organize for Massive Black Friday Strike
Walmart employees are striking and protesting for the first time under an organized effort, and have called for a nationwide protest and walk-out this coming Black Friday.
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South Africa: Marikana’s Momentum Still Moves the Masses, but Where?
How long can the amazing upsurge of class struggle in South Africa go on? Living here 22 years, I’ve never witnessed such a period of vibrant, explosive, but uncoordinated worker militancy.
Rhetorically Speaking: US Elections and the Middle East
US elections are manifestly linked to the Middle East, at least rhetorically. In practical terms, however, US foreign policies in the region are compelled by the Middle East’s own dynamics and the US’ own political climate, economic woes, or ambitions. There is little historic evidence that US foreign policy in the Arab world has been guided by moral compulsion.
How Low Will the GOP Go? The Threat of the Republicans Rigging the Election
Just how serious is the GOP threat of suppressing Democratic voters, or even flat-out rigging the elections?
Turkey’s Policies at a Crossroads
It seems that media consensus has been conclusively reached: Turkey has been forced into a Middle Eastern mess not of its own making; the ‘Zero Problems with Neighbors’ notion, once the foreign policy centerpiece of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), is all but a romantic notion of no use in realpolitik.
“The People Win”: A Venezuela Election Report from Chavez’s Hometown
The impromptu motorcade set off as soon as news of Hugo Chavez’s crushing election victory on Sunday, October 7th reached the town of Sabaneta, Venezuela, the president’s hometown.