May 2012 Volume 36, Issue 05

May 2012

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Viewpoint

Let’s Intervene in Elections Joel Bleifuss

Collateral Insanity in Afghanistan Terry J. Allen

Our Bodies, Their Politics Marilyn Katz

Feature

Out of the Margins, Into the Fray Steve Early

Occupy’s Meme Warrior Joel Bleifuss

Movement Building and ‘Summit Hopping’ Rebecca Burns

The Port Huron Statement: Still Radical at 50 Port Huron Respondents

Who Needs the White Working Class? David Moberg

Dispatch

Target: Tar Sands Daniel Hertz

No Vacancies: Squatters Move In Rebecca Burns

Culture

Reading Tolstoy in London Jane Miller

Blogging Sisterhood Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

In Search of Stripper Solidarity Rachel

War and Popcorn Michael Atkinson

A Civil Solution to Labor’s Problems Louis Nayman

Rubes’ Gold in Sacks Chris Lehmann

Out of the Margins, Into the Fray

The Vermont Progressive Party wields outsized influence on state politics.

Steve Early

Occupy’s Meme Warrior

Adbusters' Kalle Lasn on Occupy and a resurgent Left.

Joel Bleifuss

Movement Building and ‘Summit Hopping’

Organizers debate the potential of mass demonstrations against NATO.

Rebecca Burns

The Port Huron Statement: Still Radical at 50

A half-century after the Students for a Democratic Society adopted their seminal manifesto, 14 activists--including three people who helped shape the statement--assess its legacy.

Port Huron Respondents

Who Needs the White Working Class?

Democratic campaign strategists debate which voters are worth wooing.

David Moberg

Reading Tolstoy in London

My friend Layrsa escaped Soviet privation, from Siberia to the Ukraine, to build a new life abroad. It's still a work in progress.

Blogging Sisterhood

How feminist blogs saved my life.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

In Search of Stripper Solidarity

Can professional dancers find workplace justice?

Let’s Intervene in Elections

If the Left wants to be relevant, it must remember the ballot box.

War and Popcorn

Serious war films are going extinct as Hollywood cranks out childish fantasies about heroism and violence.

Michael Atkinson

A Civil Solution to Labor’s Problems

The key to reviving U.S. workers' fortunes may be as simple as amending the Civil Rights Act.

Target: Tar Sands

Activists in Texas and a South Dakota reservation are fighting a fast-growing industry.

No Vacancies: Squatters Move In

Growing movements on both sides of the Atlantic try to turn bank-owned houses into homes.

Collateral Insanity in Afghanistan

After decades of military devastation, Afghans are traumatized.

Our Bodies, Their Politics

The last few months have made abundantly clear what women must do: Rid America's capitols of misogynists.

Rubes’ Gold in Sacks

The very public resignation of a Goldman Sachs executive exposes what most already knew: The firm is morally bankrupt.

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