Wisconsin: crucible for a new American left
Though socialism has been written out of US history, this new movement is reconnecting with America's great radical tradition
Last Saturday, I pulled on a heavy jacket and a good pair of gloves and headed south of my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, to meet up with some farmers. Many of them had done their chores before dawn and then brought their tractors to the edge of our state's capital city.
It was cold and windy. We could barely hear my friend Joel Greeno, a dairy farmer from the far west of the state who had put out the call to members of the Family Farm Defenders and Wisconsin Farmers Union,