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New Era for Labor: Creative Defiance From the Factory to the Street

Laura Flanders: No wonder unemployed and low-paid workers embrace new tactics. And those tactics work!
The Collapse of Journalism, and the Journalism of Collapse

We must be willing not only to confront the abuses of the powerful but to acknowledge our own complicity.

Alfred McCoy

Alfred W. McCoy is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a TomDispatch regular, and author most recently of the award-winning book, Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. He has also convened the “Empires in Transition” project, a global working group of 140 historians from universities on four continents. The results of their first meetings were published as Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State, and the findings from their latest conference, at Barcelona last June, will appear next year as Endless Empires: Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, and America’s Decline.