Mexico has a grand revolutionary tradition, a radical lineage that James Cockcroft argues lives on in current-day struggles both within Mexico and among US-based immigrants. Cockcroft discusses the radical visions of the revolutionaries of 1910-1917; the ideological roots of waves of resistance to Mexican and US elites; and the elections-related turmoil that's periodically plagued Mexico.

Dan Clawson argues that organized labor's decline could be reversed, and the Left's prospects greatly enhanced, if workers and their unions actively connected with social movements pushing for economic, racial, gender, and global justice. Clawson articulates his vision for labor's resurgence, discusses recent attacks on unions and public-sector workers, and describes the last great labor upsurge.

Four men who would have a profound impact on U.S. culture converged at Harvard in the early 1960s. In The Harvard Psychedelic Club, Don Lattin tells the story of what Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Andrew Weil, and Huston Smith did, how they interacted, and how they influenced the psychedelic and countercultural and spiritual and holistic-health movements of the 1960s and '70s and way beyond.

Over a million people took to the streets in Egypt to demand the ouster of a president who, until very recently, seemed unmovable. Sharif Kouddous describes the makeup of the protest movement. Hesham Sallam discusses Egypt's authoritarian state and the forces keeping Mubarak in power (for now). Gareth Porter dissects the US government's interests in the conflict. And Eva Galperin talks about Egypt's crackdown on internet activism, and whether it could happen in the US.

US feminists in the 1960s and 70s did not build coalitions across racial and ethnic lines. Was that because women of color were put off by white feminist racism? Benita Roth rejects this argument; she contends that second wave feminists' adoption of a New Left ethos of "organizing one's own" militated against the formation of cross-racial coalitions.

The story often goes something like this: Capitalist globalization penetrates poorer nations as a hegemonic, homogenizing force. Sometimes rural communities, heroic defenders of traditional practices, rise up in stark opposition to the mainstream development agenda. Kiran Asher argues against what she sees as misleading and simplistic notions that ignore on-the-ground complexities; her case study focuses on a resource-rich region of Colombia.