From the mid-1960s to 1981, working class people waged a double battle against their bosses and often ossified unions in a period of tremendous labor militancy. Yet that history has been written out of the books about the period, which tend to characterize workers as reactionary and prowar. Labor historian Cal Winslow and Mike Hamlin of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement set the record straight.

Desperate times may call for desperate measures, but are some radicals losing sight of long term organizing goals, in favor of short term impact? In his essay "Are We Addicted to Rioting?", in which he critiques recent actions against the G20 in Pittsburgh, anarchist organizer Ryan Harvey talks about his concern that militancy has become an end in itself.