Fernando Gapasin and Michael Yates report that class struggle has been a one-sided affair the past 30 years. Capital has delivered a severe beating to labor around the globe. Economic stagnation struck most of the advanced capitalist economies, beginning in the mid-1970s. Then, capital went on the offensive. Governments and global lending agencies--World Bank and International Monetary Fund--began to implement policies that weakened workers power. The authors survey the situation and end with a discussion of labor's need to move to the left if it is to survive. Gapasin and Yates suggest that keeping higher goals in mind is a prerequisite for being able to win some power. The crisis workers face should lead the labor movement not to narrow its vision of what needs to be fought for, but to broaden it.