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Joschka Fischer’s Long March
How the Green Party wunderkind transformed German capitalism, and with it, himself.

A Poor Man’s Fight
As the Vietnam War dragged on, soldiers took matters into their own hands.

Bomb Anything That Moves
More than triple the bombs dropped in World War II devastated Southeast Asia.

The Second Emancipation
Until his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr led an unheralded struggle for economic justice.

The Birth of the Strike
Why are strikes called "strikes"? The answer goes back 250 years, to the birth-pangs of the working class.

Selling the Communist Manifesto at Barneys
How I learned to stop worrying about marketing the class struggle.

Organize. Strike. Organize
Capitalism is always in flux. What hasn't changed is the power of the strike.