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Cuba’s worker cooperatives: “We decide what to do here”

April 15, 2015 By John Bachtell

The cooperatives democratically manage state property which has been loaned to them; this promotes economic incentives for the workers and decentralizes economic authority.

Parables for organizers: Don Tormey and the plane crash

April 15, 2015 By John Case

Tormey's parable of union leadership: "The most important person on the plane became a passenger who was a union organizer; why her?"

Dangerous game: Yemen and the Congress of Reaction

April 15, 2015 By Conn Hallinan

The civil war in Yemen is a long-running conflict over access to political power and resources, not religion, or any attempt by Iran to spread its influence.