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A Class Struggle Spirit Is Returning to the Labor Movement

Interview with Joe Burns by Sara Van Horn and Cal Turner Jacobin
In the past year, we’ve seen large, militant strikes by autoworkers, Hollywood writers, and others. It’s a promising sign that, after decades of weakness, the US labor movement is ready to take the fight to the boss.

The Canonization of Lou Reed

Jeremy Lybarger The New Republic
In a new biography, the Velvet Underground front man embodies a New York that exists only in memory.

How Israel Helped To Spawn Hamas

Andrew Higgins, Moshav Tekuma, Israel The Wall Street Journal
Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today. From The Wall Street Journal, 1/24/2009