Who murdered Gilberto Soto?
February 2, 2005
David Bacon
Gilberto Soto was on the front-line of efforts to organize trucking workers on the docks, from the Jersey shores to Central America. Late last year, Soto was murdered in his native El Salvador, leaving friends and fellow union activists questioning whether his assassination was linked to the international organizing campaign with which he was a central organizer.

Stephen Harper and the Politics of Fear

February 2, 2005
Peter G. Prontzos
Painted into a corner by unpopular, ecologically disastrous and war-mongering policies, Stephen Harper’s Conservative party seeks to follow the example set by the electoral victory of their right-wing American counterparts: feigning hysteria over equal marriage laws. One political science professor thinks the gamble won’t work, and calls for a broader definition of “family values.”