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Jobs With Justice (JwJ) is putting on their annual Grinch of the Year contest. Make your voice heard on who has done the most to hurt the working class.

Get a bundle of the commemorative final print edition of Dynamic magazines! You can get a bundle of 10 for $30 and a bundle of 20 for $50.

Edwin Stanton, the tireless Secretary of War in President Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet said at the time of Lincoln’s death, “He belongs to the ages.” Much the same can be said about this election.

The election challenged long-held assumptions, broke voter turnout records, and shattered seemingly unbreakable barriers – none more historic than the election of an African-American president for the first time. And all this happened in the face of negative appeals to the worst angels of the American people. But to our credit, we repudiated the old politics of fear, division, racial code words, red-baiting, immigrant bashing, and nostalgic appeals to a country and time that never were.

If the election of Barack Obama was a monumental victory, election night itself was a magical moment

Beginning in 2009, Dynamic will move forward with plans to expand and improve our web presence and evolve into a primarily online publication. In the next few months we will be completely redesigning and upgrading the website. We are also planning to release an annual print compilation featuring a collection of each year's best writing along with artwork and photographs. Our aim is to grow bigger and broader than is currently possible with the quarterly print edition.

Like in the U.S. mass movements in the 1960s and 70s, the student and youth movement in El Salvador is considered one of the strongest and most influential forces in the social justice struggle.

Behind all the glitz and glamour that freelancing is wrapped in is a harsher reality that many young workers run into blindly.

Was Britney running around town again without panties? Oh my god! Look she shaved her head! Is Lindsay Lohan gay? Maybe so, but she’s definitely still on drugs! Did you see the new Paris Hilton sex tape? And when do you think Amy Winehouse will finally just die?

“[Religion] is the opium of the people.”
—Karl Marx, 1844

In the 1800s, people, especially philosophers, looked towards the future and saw a world free from religion, where human rationality reigned supreme. But a simple glance at the evening news, more than a century and a half after Marx’s famous statement, shows that religion is alive and well in all parts of the globe, and, moreover, it plays a major role in world events.

With the breakneck pace of today's "horse race"-style elections coverage this summer’s Democratic and Republican National Conventions may as well have taken place years ago. Yet, there are many Americans who watched or attended Barack Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver that can still recall the lines wrapped around the stadium for miles, and the over 80,000 people who were in attendance that day.

At the time, some commentators attempted to portray this closing night of the DNC as a “rock concert” for a narcissistic and shallow “celebrity” candidate.

Some of Obama’s closing remarks addressing these criticisms at Invesco are important to remember now: "What they don't understand is that this election isn’t about me, it's about you...Change doesn't come from Washington. It comes to Washington."

Register online for the weekend GROW Training Nov. 21-23rd

Register online for the upcoming YCL Southern Regional School Nov. 21st-23rd in Knoxville, TN

The site captain is assigned to oversee an ongoing youth voter registration drive at a specific university in Brooklyn, the Bronx, or Manhattan from September to Election Day 2008.

Generation Vote, a national coalition of different youth and student organizations, has created a Youth Agenda for the 2008 elections. Read it, endorse it, download it and distributed it today!

At the beginning of June, celebrations took place in West Jerusalem to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the “Unification of Jerusalem.”

In the 1970s, there was the “Great White Flight,” when wealthy white people left the inner cities for suburbia. They took their money with them, leaving the cities to decline. Now the opposite of the white flight is occurring: poor people of color are being pushed out in favor of wealthy whites.

With gas prices at five dollars a gallon; you can’t help but ask how much better off are we than previous generations?

Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to hear people say that socialism will never work because it “goes against human nature.”