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This article was published in the January 2011 issue of The Commune. It argues that the student movement's strength comes from below, not from the long march through institutions.

Less than two months ago Richard Brenner (Workers Power) and Alan Freeman (Socialist Action) and other Western leftists were feted in the Hotel Yalta-Intourist by Russian fascists and ultra-nationalists at a conference to boost Russian imperialist designs in Ukraine. The same initiative met again on 30-31 August, but dispensed with the left-wing decoration. Members of the following European fascist or far-right organisations were invited to the conference:

In a media climate when gay characters were usually flat, he found a playful middle ground.

She could be harsh in her judgments but wrote with a deep understanding of human frailty.

Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.

The devastation that men inflict upon one another and the planet informed his most surrealist work.

When he stopped trying to fix the world, it left some leftists feeling pretty irritated.

He spent his life trying to dodge his own mortality, resistant but haunted by its specter.

>> so what does this moment mean for workers across the country who are demanding better pay and working conditions, senator? >> oh, this is the moment. this is when workers finally have a little bit eof leverage and theyve realized theyve got to take advantage of this moment. reach out, brothers and sisters, and say were going to have a voice in the workplace because were not just here for this short period of time when theres a real crunch to find workers. were here to have worker power over t...

A short period when there is a real crunch to find workers. we are here to have worker power over the long haul. that means a union. on the senate side it also means we need to be working harder to pass the pro act so workers really have an opportunity to unionize. yay for the starbucks workers in buffalo but a lot more workers are still struggling with employers who keep crushing their opportunity to engage in collective bargaining. >> one more. youre calling on biden to extend, i should say pr...