Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a past president of TransAfrica Forum, a longtime trade unionist, and a cofounder of the Ukrainian Solidarity Network. He is a member of the editorial board of The Nation.
While preventing a Republican triumph is imperative, we should have no illusions about Obama.
Occupy is the base upon which to build a mass left radical movement, one that challenges the system itself.
A tribute to the recently departed scholar Manning Marable, by a close friend.
The war is just two weeks old, yet the Bush Administration has accomplished the unprecedented isolation of the United States worldwide, even from several of its historic allies.