Front page from September 18, 2013

Missing from the AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles was a needed focus on revitalizing labor's existing membership base.

It takes a lot of gall for two leaders of the British government to lecture the world about the horrors of chemical weapons.

A state appeals court overturned the ruling of an Illinois judge against a professor suing her university for defamation.

There has been a concerted attempt to use Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech to obscure his true role.

Twenty years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, conditions for Palestinians have worsened, and Israel has tightened its colonial domination.

Israel is using home demolitions and other measures to drive 40,000 Bedouins from their homelands in the Naqab desert.

A letter signed by 151 civil society organizations calls on the ice cream maker to end its presence in Israeli settlements.

Barack Obama has found support among Black liberals as he strives to make the case for an attack against Syria.

Opponents of U.S. imperialism must challenge the U.S. drive to attack Syria while also defending the uprising against the Assad regime.

The low-wage workers' Fight for 15 campaign utilizes minority strikes, noisy public demonstrations and experimentation.

In September 2012, Chicago was the site of one of the most important labor battles in decades, as teachers took on the City Hall bully--and won.

By a narrow vote, members of the Seattle Education Association approved a new contract--but it could have won more.

High-stakes testing in Texas was curtailed near the end of this year's state legislative session--but our students deserve better.

How can the Washington football team owner Dan Snyder claim his team's nickname is actually "highly respectful"?

A teacher-in-training explains why fast-track teaching certification programs do a disservice to students and teachers.

A recent classical concert was a clumsy attempt by the Indian government to give a glossy sheen to the occupation of Kashmir.

The working class is the first class in society whose revolutionary interests don't lie in a new system of exploitation.

A socialist from Chile offers an account of how he learned about the 1973 coup--and a critique of the "official story" that comes to us today.

Forty years ago, the Chilean military, backed by the U.S., overthrew an elected socialist government, in one of the defining political moments of the era.

Women are primarily responsible for labor in the sphere of reproduction--creating and sustaining the working class--at almost no cost to the system.

A recent review criticized Will Jones' book in an unproductive way and gave readers little sense of the book's virtues.

Above all, the united front method addresses the complexities and unevenness of popular consciousness.

Zimmerman was aided and abetted | Hope for a future without racism | Failing to help the unemployed | SW is wrong about Syria | Class and the united front

The fact that the SEIU leadership is organizing strikes as a means of rebuilding the labor movement is a good thing.