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, by BRADSHAW Larry, SLONSKY Lorrie Beth
LARRY BRADSHAW and LORRIE BETH SLONSKY are emergency medical services (EMS) workers from San Francisco and contributors to Socialist Worker. They were attending an EMS conference in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck. They spent most of the next week trapped by the flooding—and the (…)
, by KUTALIK Chris
To get to this year’s heated AFL-CIO convention in Chicago, you had to walk the length of the newly remodeled Navy Pier, past a funhouse complete with a massive maze of mirrors. Watching people lost in confusion inside the maze, it was hard not to think about the tangled mess that was unfolding (…)
, by CHOMSKY Noam, GORDIMER Nadine, LAMRANI Salim, MENCHU Rigoberta, PEREZ ESQUIVEL Adolfo
For over a century the United States has intervened, made war, imposed imperialist treaties against the rights of the Cuba people to sovereignty of their country.
In 1897, when Cuba was nearing victory in the Second War of Independence from Spain, Theodore Roosevelt urged the USA President (…)
, by CHAPEL Duncan, LE BLANC Paul
Barry Sheppard’s book is a sustained exercise in retrieving memories of experiences associated with left-wing radicalism prevalent in the 1960s. This is done especially for the benefit of younger activists who have become engaged in the struggle for global justice in opposition to the (…)
, by ALLEN Klare, PETERS Cynthia
Klare Allen is a mother of four children and a long-time welfare and environmental justice activist. When welfare moved her and her family into a hotel after she became homeless, she started organizing the other mothers. Later she brought her organizing skills to Alternatives for Community and (…)
, by POLLAK Lillian, WALD Alan
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES BY WOMEN affiliated with Communist and socialist organizations are a marvelous resource for investigating radical political practice and culture beyond the perimeters of official doctrine and party resolutions.
Such narratives usually interweave episodes in left-wing history (…)
, by GOWAN Peter
See original at Critical Asian Studies (http://www.bcasnet.org/articlesandresources/article14_1.htm).
The numbering of footnotes has been maintained as in original, although it seems that there are no indicators in the text for footnotes 2 and 4. [Marxsite redaction]. (…)
, by CHOMSKY Noam
Amid the aftershocks of recent suicide bombings in Baghdad and Najaf, and countless other horrors since Sept. 11, 2001, it is easy to understand why many believe that the world has entered a new and frightening “age of terror,” the title of a recent collection of essays by Yale University (…)
, by WILDMAN Sarah
Trent Lott must think he’s living in a nightmare. More than one week has passed since his segregationist cheerleading at Strom Thurmond’s century celebration, and the chorus of anti-Lottism has swelled ever louder. Conservatives in particular can’t scream loud enough. William Kristol, editor of (…)
, by PILGER John
Two years ago a project set up by the men who now surround George W Bush said what America needed was “a new Pearl Harbor”. Its published aims have come alarmingly true, writes John Pilger
The threat posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals was outlined in prophetic (…)
, by CALLINICOS Alex
US unilateralism has become the dominant issue in world politics. It has been one of the most visible features of the present US administration ever since George W. Bush took office in January 2001. Bush’s speedy denunciation of the Kyoto protocol on global warming prompted the Financial Times (…)
, by PHELPS Christopher
IN 1986, AGAINST the Current was something new under the Reaganite sun, a fresh, radical, freethinking magazine of movement strategy and socialist revival.
The very name Against the Current signified opposition to the political tides of political conservatism and runaway corporate domination. (…)
, by SLAUGHTER Jane
Jokes about the U.S. becoming “Europe’s Mexico” are commonplace, but now high-priced consultants are pushing the notion in all seriousness.
They’re predicting that within five years certain Southern U.S. states will be among the cheapest manufacturing locations in the developed world—and (…)
THE LONG U.S. economic expansion has ended. Whatever the outcome of the current recession, the odds are against a return to the boom conditions of the second half of 1990s. It may indeed be difficult over the medium run to avoid stagnation/slow growth, or even worse.
The reason, at the most (…)
, by GOWAN Peter
Peter Gowan is a long-time editor of New Left Review and author of The Global Gamble - America’s Faustian Bid for World Domination (Verso 2000), which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize. In the light of the events since September 11, his argument that the US is trying to establish absolute (…)
, by HUBLER Angela
Review: Women and the Politics of Class by Johanna Brenner, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2000, 330 pages, $19.95 paperback.
Johanna Brenner’s new Women and the Politics of Class, containing essays written over a sixteen year period, comes at critical period in American feminism. As Brenner (…)
, by SAID Edward
The United States may too often have failed to look outside but it is depressing how little time is spent trying to understand America.
Spectacular horror of the sort that struck New York (and to a lesser degree Washington) has ushered in a new world of unseen, unknown assailants, terror (…)
, by FEELEY Dianne
CONTENTS The rise of the Christian right Cultural upheaval and US Protestantism What the Christian right want The Christian right and the Reagan revolution Anti-abortion activism Scandals and campaigns Developing strategies and expertise The Christian right in the Clinton era Do they have a (…)
, by COONTZ Stephanie, FEELEY Dianne
STEPHANIE COONTZ TEACHES history and family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Dianne Feeley interviewed Stephanie about her new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. Her earlier books on the social history of the (…)
, par CARTWRIGHT Donna
THE CRITICAL ACCLAIM for Kimberly Peirce’s film « Boys Don’t Cry, » and Hilary Swank’s Academy Award-winning performance in it as Brandon Teena, have focused public attention on a real-life hate crime that both galvanized the nascent transgender activist movement in the mid-1990s and highlighted (…)
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