Welcome to the Millennium

Enemies of the Future: The Ten Worst Corporations of 2000

By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Clearly, you have not been paying attention - to the editors of Fast Company, Forbes ASAP, and Wired magazine, the authors of The Millionaire Next Door and the Beardstown Ladies investment books, to George Gilder, Tom Peters, Lester Thurow and Thomas Friedman, to the Nike and Microsoft revolutionaries - and the myriad other business hustlers who would have you believe that popular democracy is reflected not by unions, activist groups, and communities of human beings - but by avant garde, internet connected, tech-savvy corporations.

Revolution is the air! Forget the fight against the WTO in Seattle. We're talking about fast companies leading the way to a new marketplace - fast companies that express the will of the e-trading people, who are buying and selling their way into millionaire status, and upending the hierarchical corporate order. And you thought populism meant the movement of citizens to control, through democratic means, their economy, their government, and their lives? MORE>>

Raw Power: Plant-Closing Threats and the Threat to Union Organizing

By Kate Bronfenbrenner

For the last decade, the United States has experienced the longest and most dramatic peace time economic expansion in its history. With unemployment extremely low, labor markets are as tight as or tighter than they have been since the 1960s. According to the most basic precepts of labor economics, these tight labor markets should have resulted in rising wages and increased job security for U.S. workers, and increased density and bargaining power for U.S. unions. Yet real wage gains have come only recently and are extremely modest, and recent polls show U.S. workers are more, not less, anxious about job security.

The relationship between worker insecurity and restraint of wage demands is both individual and collective. Not only are individual workers afraid to ask for significant wage increases, the specter of capital mobility haunts the union organizing process for unorganized workers and collective bargaining over wages and benefits for workers already in unions. MORE>>

Healthcare for All: The Campaign for Single-Payer Health Insurance in Massachusetts and the United States

An Interview with David Himmelstein

David Himmelstein is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. The author of numerous studies and books, he is a leader in the movement for universal health care. He was also an author of the recently defeated Question 5, a Massachusetts initiative that would have delivered universal health care for the citizens of the Commonwealth. MORE>>