Issue 5

January 2012

The Occupy Movement in the United States

Editorial

Globalization of Capital, Globalization of Struggle

New York City

OWS and the Working Class

Kadir Ateş

Reports From the Occupy Wall Street Events of Mid-November

R.S.

Reflections on the New School Occupation

Arya Zahedi

NYC Transit Workers’ Fare Strike 2012: Can Occupy Open Horizons for a Frustrated Labor Movement?

Jon Harvey

Notes on the Fly

S.S.

Oakland

Occupy Oakland: The Port Shutdown and Beyond—All Eyes on Longview (Guest Article)

Jack Gerson

Seattle

The Radicalization of Decolonize/Occupy Seattle (Guest Article)

Black Orchid Collective

Baltimore

Letter from Baltimore

Curtis P.

Atlanta

Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics or Popular Self-Management for the Post-Civil Rights City (Guest Article)

Theo Tegemea and Z.A. Mrefu

Los Angeles

Occupy LA: The Worst of the Best

Amiri Barksdale and Ryann Scypion

Other Articles

The Sky Is Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn: Class Struggle in the US from the 2008 Crash to the Eve of the Occupations Movement

Loren Goldner

Boom and Bust… Literally

R.S.

Letter From France: French Trotskyist Traveling-Salesman Besancenot Touts Moth-Eaten Electoral Wares in New York

Y.C.

Letter From Spain: The November 2011 General Elections in Spain: Indignation Trapped in the Ballot Box

C.V.