The Union Makes Us Strong
Three tokens of solidarity for May Day:
- Joseph Stiglitz tells us about Democratic Development as the Fruits of Labor;
- Paul Berman, who really is very good when he's chronicling the fortunes of social democracy, reviews the state of the left in Latin America and calls for a new socialism;
- and in a victory just down the street, the Lecturers' Employee Organization wins its election to represent the University of Michigan's non-tenture track faculty by nearly six to one. This is good news not just for adjuncts here, but elsewhere, and in a small way for everybody in the academic world. (Sadly, post-docs are not included in the bargaining unit.)
The Progressive Forces