Daphnos Economou

Since the publication of in 1973, Stanley Aronowitz has been one of the most important left critics of the official US labor movement. His latest book, The Death and Life of American Labor , builds on and synthesizes much of this previous work, and is a provocative contribution to discussions of the road out of organized labor’s current crisis. At the core of The Death and Life of American Labor is a powerful critique of “bureaucratic business unionism” — the strategy of the US labor officialdom.

Today, 550 members of the Turkish national assembly (TBMM) will be elected. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), which have taken the country in both an Islamist and neoliberal direction, are seeking a commanding majority. If the AKP secures enough seats, Erdoğan will push for constitutional change that would transform the Turkish political system from a parliamentary government into a presidential one, granting him sweeping executive powers.