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Rethinking Left Strategy In the past decade we’ve witnessed an impressive outpouring of dissent against global capitalism, war and Bush – and yet we’ve achieved few victories. We could chalk it up to the strength of the right, but what about the left itself? David Solnit, Rahul Mahajan and Gene Bruskin talk about whether we're following the best strategies to build a strong movement against war, empire and neoliberalism.

With carnage continuing in the Middle East, what's happened to the anti-war movement? Vijay Prashad and Iain Boal talk to host Sasha Lilley about the current state of resistance to empire -- and where the movement should go.

How should we interpret what's happening locally, and globally? How do we go about building sustainable and effective movements? Left Turn magazine editors Rayan El-Amine and Max Uhlenbeck discuss the status of movements for justice and address developments in Gaza and the US.

Recording of Left Turn's spring forum 2006, titled after the editorial "re-thinking solidarity" which appeared in our 5 year anniversary issue (#20).

Robin Kelley; Gloria Anzaldúa. Robin D.G. Kelley asks us to consider the dreams of liberation, the flights of imagination, that animated many progressive struggles. Envisioning a better world, he suggests, is at least as important as critiquing the current one. AnaLouise Keating remembers Gloria Anzaldúa, the groundbreaking theorist and writer who passed away last May.

A Left Turn event held on the impact of the "nonprofit industrial complex" on the movement.

Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, returns to Against the Grain to talk about why low income Americans vote against their class interests.

A look at the state of the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico and the Other Campaign/La Otra Campaña, which the Zapatistas have launched. With activists Mary Ann Tenuto Sanchez of the Chiapas Support Committee, just back from Chiapas, and Brooklyn-based organizer RJ Maccani.