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50 (Volume 23, No. 2)

Socialism in the Age of Obama


Introduction by The Editors

Rick Wolff, Economic Crisis from a Socialist Perspective

Hester Eisenstein, Some Strategies for Left Feminists (and Their Male Allies) in the Age of Obama

Andrew Kliman, “The Destruction of Capital” and the Current Economic Crisis

Gregory Meyerson and Michael Joseph Roberto, Obama and the Irreversible Crisis: Systemic Contradictions, a New New Deal, and the Limits of State Capitalism

Rohit Negi, Political Economy of the Global Crisis

Jonathan Scott, Thinking Big

Mat Callahan, The Nature of the Beast: Its Vulnerabilities and Its Replacement

Victor Wallis, Economic/Ecological Crisis and Conversion

Jeffrey Shantz, Re-Building Infrastructures of Resistance

Raúl Zibechi, Time to Reactivate Networks of Solidarity

Poetry

George Snedeker
, Cash Nexus

D.H. Melhem, For Gaza

George Wallace, Too Many Words

Correspondence

Shaka Zulu, 500 Years of Tears

Report

Nadya Williams, Trying to Undo: Veterans of Conscience in Viet Nam

Review Essay

Joel Kovel
, Mearsheimer and Walt Revisited

Reviews

Victor Considerant, Principles of Socialism: Manifesto of 19th Century Democracy reviewed by Amy Buzby

John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York, Critique of Intelligent Design reviewed by David Schwartzman

Andrew Hartman, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School reviewed by Samuel Day Fassbinder

Nicholas Powers
, Theater of War: The Plot Against the American Mind Sam Friedman, Seeking To Make the World Anew: Poems of the Living Dialectic reviewed by Howard Pflanzer

Aviva Chomsky, Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class reviewed by Ted Zuur

Robert J. Foster, Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea reviewed by Noah Eber-Schmid

Messay Kebede
, Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974 reviewed by Teodros Kiros

Francis A. Boyle
, Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law
reviewed by Ravi Malhotra

Michael Schwartz
, War Without End: The Iraq War in Context
reviewed by Peter Seybold

Lance Selfa, The Democrats: A Critical History reviewed by Chris Hardnack

Annelies Laschitza, Die Liebknechts: Karl und Sophie – Politik und Familie reviewed by Gerd Callesen

Notes on Contributors







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50 (Volume 23, No. 1)

Socialism in the Age of Obama

Introduction by The Editors

Rick Wolff, Economic Crisis from a Socialist Perspective

Hester Eisenstein, Some Strategies for Left Feminists (and Their Male Allies) in the Age of Obama

Andrew Kliman, “The Destruction of Capital” and the Current Economic Crisis

Gregory Meyerson and Michael Joseph Roberto, Obama and the Irreversible Crisis: Systemic Contradictions, a New New Deal, and the Limits of State Capitalism

Rohit Negi, Political Economy of the Global Crisis

Jonathan Scott, Thinking Big

Mat Callahan, The Nature of the Beast: Its Vulnerabilities and Its Replacement

Victor Wallis, Economic/Ecological Crisis and Conversion

Jeffrey Shantz, Re-Building Infrastructures of Resistance

Raúl Zibechi, Time to Reactivate Networks of Solidarity

Poetry

George Snedeker
, Cash Nexus

D.H. Melhem, For Gaza

George Wallace, Too Many Words

Correspondence

Shaka Zulu, 500 Years of Tears

Report

Nadya Williams, Trying to Undo: Veterans of Conscience in Viet Nam

Review Essay

Joel Kovel
, Mearsheimer and Walt Revisited

Reviews

Victor Considerant, Principles of Socialism: Manifesto of 19th Century Democracy reviewed by Amy Buzby

John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York, Critique of Intelligent Design reviewed by David Schwartzman

Andrew Hartman, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School reviewed by Samuel Day Fassbinder

Nicholas Powers
, Theater of War: The Plot Against the American Mind Sam Friedman, Seeking To Make the World Anew: Poems of the Living Dialectic reviewed by Howard Pflanzer

Aviva Chomsky, Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class reviewed by Ted Zuur

Robert J. Foster, Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea reviewed by Noah Eber-Schmid

Messay Kebede
, Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974 reviewed by Teodros Kiros

Francis A. Boyle
, Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law
reviewed by Ravi Malhotra

Michael Schwartz
, War Without End: The Iraq War in Context
reviewed by Peter Seybold

Lance Selfa, The Democrats: A Critical History reviewed by Chris Hardnack

Annelies Laschitza, Die Liebknechts: Karl und Sophie – Politik und Familie reviewed by Gerd Callesen

Notes on Contributors





49 (Volume 23, No. 1)

Introduction by Victor Wallis

Articles

Dagmar Barnouw, The Fog of “Evil”: The Political Use of World War II in the Ongoing War on Terror

Jonathan Scott, Hamas and Theory

George Katsiaficas,
Comparing Uprisings in Korea and Burma

Daniel Faber, Poisoning American Politics: The Colonization of the State by the Polluter-Industrial Complex

Manifestos

Frigga Haug, The “Four-in-One Perspective”: A Manifesto for a More Just Life

Joseph Grim Feinberg, We Are the Dialectic: An Essay for Positive Politics

Photo Essay

Roderick Graham
, The Battle for the Eye: Images and Politics in Harlem

Report

David L. Strug
, Why Older Cubans Continue to Identify with the Ideals of the Revolution

Poetry

Alicia Ostriker
, Red Diaper

Colette Inez, Bloody Rosa

David Metres, The Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians

Reviews

Michael A. Lebowitz, Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century reviewed by William Smaldone

Retort [Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, Michael Watts], Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War reviewed by Dan Berger

Hamideh Sedghi, Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling reviewed by Judith Van Allen

Michael D. Yates, ed., More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States reviewed by Heather Steffen

Bill Fletcher, Jr. & Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice reviewed by Immanuel Ness

Peniel E. Joseph, Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America reviewed by Dan Berger

Camilo Mejia, Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia reviewed by Carl Mirra

Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, eds., New Departures in Marxian Theory reviewed by Bruce Norton

Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life reviewed by Martha Lincoln

Frank Rosengarten, Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society reviewed by Paul Buhle

E. San Juan, Jr., In the Wake of Terror: Class, Race, Nation, Ethnicity in the Postmodern World

and

E. San Juan, Jr., U.S. Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines
reviewed by Michael Viola

Casey Blake, ed., The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State reviewed by Roderick Graham

The 2008 Boston Palestine Film Festival reviewed by Inez Hedges

Notes on Contributors



48 (Volume 22, No. 3)

Radical Perspectives on Immigration

Preface

Marcella Bencivenni, Introduction

Articles

Gerald Meyer
, The Cultural Pluralist Response to Americanization: Horace Kallen, Randolph Bourne, Louis Adamic, and Leonard Covello

Susan J. Dicker, US Immigrants and the Dilemma of Anglo-Conformity

Ron Hayduk and Susanna Jones, Immigrants and Race in the US: Are Class-Based Alliances Possible?

LaToya A. Tavernier, The Stigma of Blackness: Anti-Haitianism in the Dominican Republic

Robin Jacobson and Kim Geron, Unions and the Politics of Immigration

Stefano Luconi, Ethnic Allegiance and Class Consciousness among Italian-American Workers, 1900-1941

Héctor Perla, Jr., Grassroots Mobilization against US Military Intervention in El Salvador

Mat Callahan, Immigration in Switzerland: Facts and Phobias

Hugh Hamilton, Reframing US Immigration Discourse for the 21st Century

Poetry

Angel Island Immigration Station Poetry

D.H. Melhem, say french

Alice Ostriker, West Fourth Street

Manifesto

John A. Imani, Regarding Blacks and Mexicans

Reviews

Daniel Cassidy, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads reviewed by Jonathan Scott

E. San Juan, Jr. Balikbayang Mahal: Passages from Exile reviewed by Charlie Samuya Veric

Notes on Contributors


47 (Volume 22, No. 2)

US Fascism Comes to the Surface


Jonathan Scott, Introduction

Steve Martinot, The Question of Fascism in the United States

Gwendolyn Brooks, Ballad of Pearl May Lee

Holly Martis, Lineages of American Fascism: A Study of Margaret
Walker’s Historical Novel Jubilee


Jonathan Scott, Why Fascism When They Have White Supremacy?

Douglas W. Greene, The Bourgeois Roots of Fascist Repression

Matthew Lyons, Two Ways of Looking at Fascism

Gregory Meyerson and Michael Joseph Roberto, Fascism and the
Crisis of Pax Americana


Mike Whitney, Global Train-Wreck: The Great Credit Bust of 2008

Elan Abrell, Making Enemies: The Reification of Essentialized
Cultural Difference through “Legalized” Torture


Kam Hei Tsuei
, The Antifascist Aesthetics of Pan’s Labyrinth


Book Review


D.H. Melhem, Stigma & The Cave: Two Novels (Syracuse: Syracuse
University Press, 2007) reviewed by Victor Cohen



Notes on Contributors



46 (Volume 22, No. 1)

Ingar Solty, The Historic Significance of the New German Left Party

Sriram Ananthanarayanan, New Mechanisms of Imperialism in India: The Special Economic Zones

Mitchel Cohen, The Capitalist INFESTO and How to Fight It

Ravi Malhotra, Expanding the Frontiers of Justice: Reflections on the Theory of Capabilities, Disability Rights, and the Politics of Global Inequality

Thomas Seibert, The Global Justice Movement after Heiligendamm

Peter Seybold, The Struggle against Corporate Takeover of the University


Book Reviews

Anatole Anton & Richard Schmitt, eds., Toward a New Socialism
reviewed by Paul Buhle

Rosemary Feurer, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950
reviewed by Steve Early

Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis & Slavoj Žižek, eds., Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth reviewed by Ronald Paul

Stan Goff, War and Sex reviewed by Pramila Venkateswaran

Gideon Polya, Body Count: Global Avoidable Mortality Since 1950
reviewed by Jacqueline Carrigan

Robert Roth, Health Proxy reviewed by Walter A. Davis

H. Bruce Franklin, The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America reviewed by Scott Carlin

Walter A. Davis, Art and Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theater
reviewed by Eugene W. Holland

Marc Falkoff, ed., Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak
reviewed by D.H. Melhem

Joel Shatzky, Intelligent Design: A Fable reviewed by Victor Cohen

Alexander Saxton, Religion and the Human Prospect reviewed by Richard Curtis

Peter McLaren & Nathalia Jaramillo, Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism reviewed by Andrew Michael Lee

Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer;
Helen Caldicott, If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth reviewed by Ronald F. Price

Andrew Kliman, Reclaiming Marx's Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency reviewed by Michael Roberts

Henry Heller, The Cold War and the New Imperialism reviewed by Daniel Egan

Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair, End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate reviewed by George Fish

Paul Zarembka, ed., The Hidden History of 9-11-2001 reviewed by Seth Sandronsky

Steve Ellner & Miguel Tinker Salas, eds. Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an “Exceptional Democracy” reviewed by Nikolas Kozloff

Michael González Cruz, Nacionalismo revolucionario puertorriqueño: la lucha armada, intelectuales, y prisioneros políticos y de guerra reviewed by Juan Antonio Ocasio Rivera

Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History reviewed by Judith F. Stone

Michael Hardt Presents the Declaration of Independence reviewed by Carl Mirra

Notes on Contributors


45 (Volume 21, No. 3)

Democracy, Philosophy, and Social Movements in Africa

Foreword by Victor Wallis

Introduction by Teodros Kiros

F. Abiola Irele, The Political Kingdom: Toward Reconstruction in Africa

Paget Henry, Africana Political Philosophy and the Crisis of the Post-Colony

Nigel C. Gibson, Zabalaza, Unfinished Struggles against Apartheid: The Shackdwellers’ Movement in Durban

Judith Van Allen, Feminism and Social Democracy in Botswana

Biodun Jeyifo, An African Cultural Modernity: Achebe, Fanon, Cabral, and the Philosophy of Decolonization

Daniel Egan, Frantz Fanon and the Construction of the Colonial Subject: Defining "The Enemy" in the Iraq War

Kwasi Wiredu, Democracy by Consensus: Some Conceptual Considerations

Teodros Kiros, Moral Economy: An Original Economic Form for the African Condition

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Roger Burbach and Camila Piñeiro, Venezuela’s Participatory Socialism

Book Reviews

Joel Kovel, Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine reviewed by Michael Steven Smith

Nikolas Kozloff, Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S. reviewed by Fred Rosen

Stanley Aronowitz, Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future
reviewed by Ethan Young

Jonathan Scott, Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes
reviewed by Anamaría Flores

Steve Martinot, Forms in the Abyss: A Philosophical Bridge between Sartre and Derrida reviewed by Elizabeth Butterfield

Notes on Contributors


44 (Volume 21, No. 2)

Class Struggles in China
Robert Weil, Were Revolutions in China Necessary?

Stephen Philion, Workers’ Democracy vs. Privatization in China

The Uprising in Oaxaca
Introduction by Gerardo Rénique

Gerardo Rénique, Political Formations and the Struggle for Autonomy in Oaxaca

Gustavo Esteva, Oaxaca: The Path of Radical Democracy

Lynn Stephen
, “We are brown, we are short, we are fat. We are the face of Oaxaca”: Women Leaders in the Oaxaca Rebellion

Deborah Poole
, The Right to Be Heard

Ideological Critique
Martha Lincoln, Black Hole, Gulag, Country Club: A Map of Guantánamo Bay

Jonathan Scott, The Demonization of Pan-American Nationalism

Inez Hedges, Signifyin' and Intertextuality: Killer of Sheep and Black Independent Film

Joseph G. Ramsey, From “Why We Fight” to Fighting Their “We”: Zeiger’s "Sir No Sir" meets Jarecki’s "Why We Fight"

Commentary
Peter Roman and Hobart A. Spalding, Response to a Misinformed "Left" Critique of Cuba

Testimony
Robert Smith, “Wounded in War” Wounded in the Arts

Book Reviews
D.L. Raby, Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today reviewed by Victor Wallis

Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow, Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out reviewed by Shannon Farrington

Mike Davis. Planet of Slums reviewed by Martha Lincoln

Michael Perelman, Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology reviewed by Andrew Michael Lee

James W. Russell, Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States reviewed by Cory Fairley

Ali Abunimah, One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse

Virginia Tilley, The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock reviewed by Matthew Richman

Paul Buhle, Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical’s Story reviewed by Frank Rosengarten

Christine Lattek, Revolutionary Refugees: German Socialism in Britain, 1840-1860 reviewed by Gerd Callesen

Notes on Contributors


43 (Volume 21, No. 1)

Conjuncture
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
, The New Vanguard: Challenges for the Left in Asia and Africa

Daniel Egan, Planning the Transition to Capitalism: The Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba

Basem Ra'ad and Jamal Nafi', The Geography of Occupation: Palestinian Education Today


Race, Class, Empire

Anibal Quijano
, Questioning "Race"

Anamaria Flores, Toward a Revolution in American Studies: The Counter-Narratives of Jose´ Martı´ and Herman Melville

Jonathan Scott, Introduction to Theodore Allen's Notes on Base and Superstructure

Theodore W. Allen, Base and Superstructure and the Socialist Perspective

The Carceral State
Kevin "Rashid" Johnson, Amerikan Prisons Are Government-Sponsored Torture

Jason L. Mallory, Mass Incarceration, Democracy, and Inclusion


Socialist Biography
Christopher Phelps, The Radicalism of Randolph Bourne 123

Reviews
Anthony Arnove, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal reviewed by Ted Zuur

Carl Mirra, ed., Enduring Freedom or Enduring War? Prospects and Costs of the New American 21st Century reviewed by Daniel Egan


Eric Stener Carlson, The Pear Tree: Is Torture Ever Justified? reviewed by Greta Hofmann Nemiroff

Dan Berger, Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity reviewed by Andrew Hartman

Andrew E. Hunt, David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary reviewed by Mike Vozick

Norman Mailer and John Buffalo Mailer, The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America reviewed by Stefan Schindler


Inez Hedges, Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles reviewed by David Gullette

Lee Sustar and Aisha Karim, eds., Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader reviewed by Ronald Paul


Gene Santoro, Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music; Mat Callahan, The Trouble with Music reviewed by George Fish


Jeff Chang, Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation reviewed by Darby E. Southgate


Michael Perelman, Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society reviewed by Seth Sandronsky

William DiFazio, Ordinary Poverty, a Little Food and Cold Storage reviewed by Barbara Conn

Ron Hayduk, Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States reviewed by Gene Brown

Stephen Duncombe and Andrew Mattson, The Bobbed-Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York reviewed by Martha Lincoln


Stanley Aronowitz
, Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005) reviewed by Matt Vidal.

Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces (Barcelona: Random House Mondarori, 2006) reviewed by Hobart Spalding.

Luis Báez, El mérito es estar vivo (Havana: Prensa Latina, 2005) reviewed by Hobart Spalding.

Antonio Labriola, Carteggio [Correspondence], 1861-1904, edited by Stefano Miccolis. vols. 1-5 (Naples: Edizioni di filosofia e scienze, 2000-06) reviewed by Ole Jorn.

Notes on Contributors


42 (Volume 20, No. 3)

Introduction by Victor Wallis

Preface

Socialism and Democracy Preface by Yusuf Nuruddin, Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan and Victor Wallis


Yusuf Nuruddin - Science Fiction as Popular Culture: A Sense of Wonder

Radical Readings

Steven Shaviro
- Prophecies of the Present

Carl Freedman - Speculative Fiction and Int'l Law: The Marxism of China Mieville

Lisa Yaszek - Afrofuturism Science Fiction and the History of the Future

Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan - Alienation, Estrangement and the Politics of "Free Individuality" in Two Feminist Science Fictions: A Marxist Feminist Analysis

Dennis M. Lensing - The Fecund Androgyne: Gender and the Utopian/ Dystopian Imagination of the 1970s

Jonathan Scott - Octavia Butler and the Base for American Socialism

Politics and Culture in the US

Yusuf Nuruddin - Ancient Black Astronauts and Extraterrestrial Jihads: Islamic Science Fiction as Urban Mythology

Marleen S. Barr - Science Fiction and the Cultural Logic of Early Post Postmodernism

Robert P. Horstemeier - Flying Saucers Are Real! The US Navy, Unidentified Flying Objects, and the National Security State

Technological Futures

Sherryl Vint & Mark Bould - All That Melts Into Air Is Solid Rematerialising Capital in Cube and Videodrome

Michael G Bennett - The Adoxic Adventures of John Henry in the 21st Century

Reviews

Fredric Jameson - Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions reviewed by Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan

Sheree Thomas, ed., Dark Matter I: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora; Sheree Thomas, ed., Dark Matter: Reading the Bones; Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, eds., So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy reviewed by Yolanda Hood

Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavila´n, eds - Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain reviewed by Aaron Dziubinskyj

Notes on Contributors


41 (Volume 20, No. 2)

Introductory Note
The Editors

Essays
Saladin Muhammad - Hurricane Katrina: The Black Nation’s 9/11! A Strategic Perspective for Self-Determination

Robert Weil - “To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is a Good Thing”: The Struggle over the Legacy of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Socialist Revolution

Jyotsna Kapur - Rehearsals for War: Capitalism and the Transformation of Children into Consumers

Inez Hedges - The Aesthetics of Resistance: Thoughts on Peter Weiss

Thomas J. Butko - Gramsci and the “Anti-Globalization” Movement: Think Before You Act

Jeffrey Paris - American Power and the Philosophy of World-Systems Analysis

Jonah Raskin - Looking Backward: Personal Reflections on Language, Gesture and Mythology in the Weather Underground

Dan Berger - The Weather Underground’s Place in History: A Response to Jonah Raskin

George Fish - Blues Against Bush

Reviews
Silvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and
Primitive Accumulation
reviewed by Hester Eisenstein

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the
Contra War
reviewed by Roberta L. Salper

Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chavez Talks to Marta Harnecker reviewed by Fred Rosen

Walter A. Davis - Death’s Dream Kingdom reviewed by Eugene W. Holland

Robert W. Cherny, William Issel & Kiernan Walsh Taylor, eds. - American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and
Postwar Political Culture
reviewed by Seth Sandronsky

Marc Garcelon - Revolutionary Passage from Soviet to Post-Soviet
Russia
, 1985–2000 reviewed by Hans Aage

Seth Farber - Radicals, Rabbis, and Peacemakers: Conversations
with Jewish Critics of Israel
reviewed by Michael Steven Smith

John Sanbonmatsu - The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory,
Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject
reviewed by Daniel Egan

Melanie E. L. Bush - Breaking the Code of Good Intentions:
Everyday Forms of Whiteness
reviewed by Anna Stubblefield

Joe Berry - Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education reviewed by Howard Pflanzer

David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios - The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang reviewed by Louis Kontos

Daniel R. Faber and Deborah McCarthy, eds. - Foundations for Change: Critical Perspectives on Philanthropy and Popular Movements reviewed by Leslie King

Samir Amin - The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World reviewed by David Siar

Polly Pattullo - Last Resorts: The Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean
reviewed by Leroy A. Binns

Notes on Contributors


 

40 (Volume 20, No. 1)

Introduction

Socialism and Democracy at 20
Frank Rosengarten - Looking Back in Order to Look Ahead: Twenty Years of Research and Publishing by the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy

Victor Wallis - Socialism and Democracy During the First 20 Years of Socialism and Democracy

A New World Order?

Marcella Bencivenni - The New World Order and the Possibility of Change: A Critical Analysis of Hardt and Negri’s Multitude

Georgy Katsiaficas - In Defense of the Dialectic: A Response to Antonio Negri

The Politics of Torture
Pat McGeever - Allah's Fool: A One-Act Play

Terry Bisson
- Greet the Press: A Radio Play

"Predatory Democracy"
Franciszek Wiktor Mleczko - Predatory Democracy: Family, Bureaucrats and Gangsters

Book Reviews
Alicia Herrera - Pusimos la bomba – ¿y que´?” reviewed by Dawn Gable and Karen Lee Wald

Victor Grossman (Stephen Wechsler) - Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany reviewed by Gerald Meyer

Sean McMeekin - The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Mu¨nzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West
reviewed by Peter Waterman

Dave Zirin - What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States reviewed by Hobart Spalding and reviewed by Robert Roth

Marx-Engels Jahrbuch - Vols 1–2 reviewed by Gerd Callesen

Nikolai Bukharin - Philosophical Arabesques reviewed by David MacGregor

Louis Kontos, David Brotherton and Luis Barrios, eds. - Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives reviewed by George P. Mason

Kathy Kelly - Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison reviewed by Seth Sandronsky

William M. Kunstler - The Emerging Police State, edited by Michael Steven Smith, Karin Kunstler Goldman and Sarah Kunstler reviewed by Hobart Spalding

Salim Lamarani, ed. - Superpower Principles: U.S. Terrorism Against Cuba reviewed by Hobart Spalding

Ben Agger - Speeding up Fast Capitalism: Cultures, Jobs, Families, Schools, Bodies reviewed by Michael Buhl

Notes on Contributors


39 (Volume 19, No. 3)

The Reawakening of Revolution in Latin America

Introduction by Gerardo Rénique

 


38 (Volume 19, No. 2)

Introduction


Articles
Hans Aage - The Triumph of Capitalism in Russia and Eastern Europe and Its Western Apologetics

Peter Roman - The Lawmaking Process in Cuba: Debating the Bill on Agricultural Cooperatives

Jonah Raskin - Jack London, Burning Man: Portrait of an American Socialist

Strategies for the Left: A Symposium

I Historical Perspectives

Ed George - Through What Stage Are We Passing?

Rod Bush - Reflections on Black Internationalism as Strategy

Peter Hudis - Developing a Philosophically Grounded
Alternative to Capitalism

II Responses to the 2004 US Election
Bertell Ollman - What Constitutes a “Stolen Election”?
Toward a Politics of Delegitimation

Steve Martinot - Pro-Democracy and the Ethics of Refusal

Joel Kovel - Thinking the Unthinkable

III Unifying Visions
Ricardo Levins Morales - The Drinking Gourd: Vision as Strategy

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar - Are We Not a Working-Class Movement?

Assata Zerai and Horace Campbell - The Black Radical Congress and Black Feminist Organizing

Hamideh Sedghi - Global Feminism, Local Agendas and Actions

IV Near-Term Tasks and Approaches
Stan Goff - A Period for Pedagogy

Yusuf Nuruddin - Inside/Outside vs. Left Pole/Mainstream

Kevin “Rashid” Johnson - A Practical Approach to Strategic Organizing for Popular Struggle

J.A. Shantz - No One Is Illegal: Organizing Beyond Left Nationalism in Fortress North America

Reviews
Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray - Guantànamo: What the World Should Know reviewed by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Robert J.S. Ross - Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops;Immanuel Ness - Immigrants, Unions, and the U.S. Labor Market reviewed by Steve Early

Philip Cannistraro and Gerald Meyer, eds. - The Lost World of Italian-American Radicalism reviewed by Paul Buhle

David R. Roediger - Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past
reviewed by Seth Sandronsky

Margaret Morganroth Gullette - Aged by Culture reviewed by Frank Ridzi

Vera Morozowa, Marina Uzar, Elena Vaščenko and Juergen Rojahn, eds. - Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels: Briefwechsel Januar 1858 bis August 1859. Marx/Engels Gesamtausgabe III/9 reviewed by Gerd Callesen

John H. McClendon III - C.L.R. James’s Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism–Leninism? reviewed by Peter Hudis

Notes on Contributors


37 (Volume 19, No. 1)

Introduction

Latin America: Revolution and Counterrevolution
Gregory Wilpert - Venezuela: Participatory Democracy or Government as Usual?

Emilio Betances - Joaquin Balaguer and Contemporary Dominican Politics and Society

US Activism and Cuba
Richard Levins - Progressive Cuba-Bashing

Empire and Metropolis

Walter A. Davis - Passion of the Christ in Abu Ghraib: Toward a New Theory of Ideology

Pierre Mesnard y Mendez - Exploring "Terror/ism": Numinosity, Killings, Horizons

Steve Martinot - Mexico, Iraq and the Two-Party System: Studies in White Supremacy

E. San Juan, Jr. - Inventing Vernacular Speech-Acts: Articulating Filipino Self-Determination in the United States

Exchange
R.F. Price - The HIV/AIDS Controversy and Capitalist Science

Review Essays
Joseph G. Ramsey - Left Docudrama 2004

Amy Wendling - Comparing Two Editions of Marx-Engles Collected Works

Reviews

Edward Said - Freud and the Non-European reviewed by Joel Kovel

Irwin Silber - Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Sportswriter Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports reviewed by Paul Buhle

Julian Markels - The Marxian Imagination: Representing Class in Literature reviewed by Ronald Paul

Walter A. Davis - Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative reviewed by Eugene W. Holland

Michael Dawson - The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life reviewed by Louis Kontos

George Snedeker - The Politics of Critical Theory: Language /Discourse/Society reviewed by John Michael

Jeremy Varon - Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies reviewed by Dan Berger

David Gilbert - No Surrender: Writings from an Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner reviewed by Dan Berger

Stan Goff - Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century reviewed by Macdonald Stainsby

Elaine C. Hagopian, ed. - Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims reviewed by Mark Solomon

Francis A.Boyle - Palestine, Palestinians and International Law reviewed by Ian Williams

Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel and Helen Toribio - The Forbidden Book: The Philippine American War in Political Cartoons reviewed by Max Elbaum

Rosa Miriam Elizalde and Luis Baez Hermandez - "The Dissidents": Cuban State Security Agents Reveal the True Story reviewed by Michael Steven Smith

Notes on Contributors


36 (Volume 18, No. 2)

Hip Hop, Race, and Cultural Politics

Introduction by Victor Wallis

I. What is Hip Hop?

Kevin Powell - The Hip-Hop Generation

 

Kristine Wright - Rise Up Hip Hop Nation: From Deconstructing Racial Politics to Building Positive Solutions

II. Origins

John H. McClendon III - Jazz, African American Nationality, and the Myth of the Nation-State

 

Mark Naison - From Doo Wop to Hip Hop: The Bittersweet Odyssey of African-Americans in the South Bronx

Todd Boyd - Intergenerational Culture Wars: Civil Rights vs Hip Hop (interview by Yusuf Nuruddin)

III. Controversy

Mumia Abu-Jamal - A Rap Thing

 

Bakari Kitwana - Hip-Hop Studies and the New Culture Wars

 

Regina Naasirah Blackburn - Binary Visions, Black Consciousness, and Bling Bling

IV. The Spread of Hip Hop Culture

Hisham Aidi - "Verily, There Is Only One Hip-Hop Umma": Islam, Cultural Protest and Urban Marginality

 

Ryan Ford - Hip-Hop White Wash: The Impact of Eminem on Rap Music and Music Industry Economics

 

Jonathan Scott - Sublimating Hiphop: Rap Music in White America

V. Activism

Mark Anthony Neal - Up From Hustling: Power, Plantations, and the Hip Hop Mogul

 

Lawrence James - Get Into the G.A.ME: The Grassroots Artists Movement (interview by Ron Hayduk)

 

George Martinez - The Politics of Hip Hop interview by Ron Hayduk

 

Marcyliena Morgan - Preserving Hip Hop Culture (interview by Regina Naasirah Blackburn)

 

Rob "Biko" Baker - "Take Me to Your Leader": A Critical Analysis of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network

Niamo Mu'id - Live, from Newark: The National Hip Hop Political Convention

VI. The Bigger Picture

Yusuf Nuruddin - Brothas Gonna Work It Out! Hip Hop Philanthropy, Black Power Vision, and the Future of the Race

Solidarity

Macdonald Stainsby - Coup at Amnesty International: Venezuelan Human Rights, Canadian Film Festivals, and Censorship

Reviews
Kevin Powell - Who's Gonna Take The Weight? Manhood, Race And Power In America reviewed by Cherise Davis

Jeffrey St. Clair - Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green To Me reviewed by Josh Frank

Notes on Contributors


35 (Volume 18, No. 1)

Introduction by The Editors

Introduction by Hester Eisenstein -
Gender and Globalization: Marxist-Feminist Perspectives

Jennifer Disney - Incomplete Revolutions: Gendered Participation in Productive and Reproductive Labor in Mozambique and Nicaragua

Tammy Findlay - Getting Our Act Together: Gender, Globalization, and the State

Martha Gimenez - Connecting Marx and Feminism in the Era of Globalization: A Preliminary Investigation

Kimberly Earles - The Gendered Effects of the Reregulation of the Swedish Welfare State

Bina Srinivasan - Religious Fundamentalism, Community Disintegration, and Violence Against Women: All Issues Are Women’s Issues

Carol Barton - Global Women’s Movements at a Crossroads: Seeking Definition, New Alliances and Greater Impact

Essays
Omar Swartz - Toward a Critique of Normative Justice: Human Rights and the Rule of Law

Jonathan Scott - Peculiar Relations: White Identity and Imaginative Literature

Report
Giorgi Katsiaficas - Impressions of North Korea

Activism
Ben Manski - The Massacre in Miami with photos by Diane Greene Lent

Reviews
Anatole Anton, Milton Fisk and Nancy Holmstrom, eds.- Not For Sale: In Defense of Public Goods reviewed by Cliff DuRand

Eddie Yuen, Daniel Burton-Rose and George Katsiaficas, eds. - The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization reviewed by Benjamin Shepard

Mike Marqusee - Chimes of Freedom:The Politics of Bob Dylan's Art
reviewed by Stefan Schindler

Steve Martinot - The Rule of Racialization reviewed by David Mertz

Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger, eds. - Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict reviewed by Trudie Coker

Friedrich Engels - Werke, Artikel, Entwurfe Oktober 1886 Bis Februar 1891 [The Founding of the Second International]
reviewed by Gerd Callesen

Takahisa Oishi - The Unknown Marx: Reconstructing a Unified Perspective reviewed by Victor Wallis

National Lawyers Guild. New York City Chapter - Defend Cuba and the Cuban Five Peter Roman, People's Power: Cuba's Experience With Representative Government, Update Edition reviewed by Hobart Spalding

Notes on Contributors


34 (Volume 17, No. 2)

Introduction

Cuba

Philip Agee -  Terrorism and Civil Society as Instruments of U.S. Policy in Cuba

Leonard Weinglass - The Railroading of the Cuban Five

Radical Visions
Paul Burkett - Ecology and Marx's Vision of Communism

Charles Verharen - Afrocentricity, Ecocentrism, and Ecofeminism: New Alliances for Socialism

Jesse A. Rhines - Agency, Race and Utopia

Jeffrey B. Perry - Hubert Harrison, 1883-1927: Race Consciousness and the Struggle for Socialism

Racial Identity and U.S. Imperialism
Andrew Hartman
- The Social Production of American Identity: Standardized Testing Reform in the United States


Steve Martinot - The Whiteness of the Assault on Iraq

David Baronov - Colonial Rule, AIDS and Social Control in Puerto Rico

Activism
Macdonald Stainsby - Beyond Summit-Hopping? G8's Retreat to Kananaskis and the Way Ahead

Bill Smaldone - "Acting Locally" in the Age of Globalization: The Case of Salem

Document
Alliance of Radical Academic/Intellectual Organizations: Draft Mission Statement

Reviews
Lawrence Blum - "I'm Not a Racist, But..." reviewed by Anna Stubblefield

Keith Gilyard - Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens reviewed by Alan Wald

John Trumpbour - Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles For Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950 reviewed by Inez Hedges

Joan Roelofs - Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism reviewed by Johnny E. Williams

Randy Martin - On Your Marx: Rethinking Socialism and the Left

reviewed by Manjur Karim

Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels - Briefwechsel Oktober 1864 Bis Dezember 1865 [The First International and the American Civil War] reviewed by Gerd Callesen

The New Left Revisited - Edited by John McMillian and Paul Buhle reviewed by Robert Pardun

Max Elbaum - Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che reviewed by Paul Buhle

Signe Waller - Love and Revolution: A Political Memoir: People's History of the Greensboro Massacre, Its Setting and Aftermath reviewed by Yonni Chapman

Mark D. Naison - White Boy: A Memoir reviewed by Bill Batson

Jerald Podair - The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites and the Ocean Hill Brownsville Crisis reviewed by Sean Ahern

Seymour Melman - After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy reviewd by David Schweickart

Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre - Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity reviewed by Frank Rosengarten

Roger S. Gottlieb - Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change reviewed by D. Parthasarathy

Joel Kovel - The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? reviewed by Laurie A. Gates

Raya Dunayevskaya - Marxism and Freedom, From 1776 Until Today reviewed by Eli C. Messinger

Cumulative Contents (nos. 23 - 34)

Notes on Contributors



33 (Volume 17, No. 1)

Introduction by Ronald Hayduk, Yusuf Nuruddin & Victor Wallis

Yusuf Nuruddin - Winter in America

Present Conjuncture
Rod Bush - African Americans, Social Justice and the Aftermath of September 11, 2001

Stephen Steinberg - False Optimism on Race

Global Perspectives
Ward Churchill - An American Holocaust? The Structure of Denial

Anthony Monteiro - Race and the Racialized State: A Du Boisian Interrogation

Joel Kovel - Racism and Ecology

Rose M. Brewer - Black Radical Theory and Practice: Gender, Race, and Class

Gerald Horne - The Crisis of White Supremacy

Maulana Karenga - Du Bois and the Question of the Color Line: Race and Class in the Age of Globalization

Citizenship and National Identity
Eric Foner - Race and Citizenship

Salah D. Hassan - Enemy Arabs

Andrew Hartman - Language as Oppression: The English-only Movement in the U.S.

Melanie E.L. Bush - American Identity and the Mechanisms of Everyday Whiteness

Movement Building: Experiences and Strategies
Fred Jerome - The Hidden Half-Life of Albert Einstein: Anti-Racism

Richard M. Flood - Towards a Theory of Revolutionizing Street Nations

Sam Anderson & Muntu Matsimela - The Reparations Movement: Recent and Current Activism

Ronald Hayduk - Regional Equity as a Civil Rights Issue

History from the Bottom Up
Yusuf Nuruddin - The Sambo Thesis Revisited: Slavery’s Impact upon the African American Personality

Regina Naasirah Blackburn - Erupting Thunder: Race and Class in the 20th Century Plays of August Wilson

William W. Sales, Jr., Lynette Jackson, Robin D.G. Kelley - Critical Black History: A Symposium

Reviews
Elliot J. Gorn-Mother Jones:The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Brian Kelly - Race, Class and the Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001) reviewed by Steve Early



The Truman Nelson Reader
Edited by William J. Schafer reviewed by Bob Feldman

Notes on Contributors


32 (Volume 16, No. 2)

Introduction by The Editors

Document: Cuba's Challenge to U.S.-based Terrorism

Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández - The Palestine Question

Samir Awad - Background to the "Peace Process"

Nadia Hijab - Limitations of the Oslo Accords

Roger Normand - Israel's Economic War in Context

Yerach Gover - Zionism's Zero Sum Game

Moshe Behar - The Peace Process and Israeli Domestic Policies in the 1990s

Annemarie Kattan Jacir - Refugees and the Right of Return

Amira Sohl - Implementing the Right of Return

Inez Hedges - Life Under the Occupation: Two Films

Essays
Pierre Mesnard y Méndez - Capitalism Means/Needs War

Gareth Dale - More Shock Than Therapy: Why There Has Been No "Miracle" in Eastern Germany

Carlos M. Vilas - Between Market Democracies and Capitalist Globalization: Is There Any Prospect for Social Revolution in Latin America?

Rick Wolff - Capitalist Hegemony and Contesting Concepts of Class

Ronald Paul - Politics and the Novel: Three British Marxist Critics of the 1930s

Reviews
Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié - Ben Laden: La Verite Interdite reviewed by David Michael Smith

Leo Panitch - Renewing Socialism reviewed by Joseph E. Ethier

David Harvey - Spaces of Hope reviewed by Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Jeff Ferrell - Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy reviewed by Benjamin Shepard

Jamie Peck - Workfare States reviewd by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg

Patrick Colm Hogan - The Culture of Conformism: Understanding Social Consent reviewed by John Trumpbour

Regin Schmidt - Red Scare: FBI and the Origins of Anticommunism in the United States reviewed by Harry Targ

Dokumente Zur Geschichte Der Kommunistischen Bewegung In Deutschland Reihe 1945/1946 reviewed by Gerd Callesen

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Werke, Artikel, Ent würfe Januar bis
Dezember 1855
. MEGA I, Vol. 14 reviewed by Gerd Callesen


Frank Rosengarten - The Writings of the Young Marcel Proust (1885-1900): An Ideological Critique reviewed by J. D. Mininger

Three Short Works on Cuba reviewed by Hobart Spalding

Notes on Contributor


31 (Volume 16, No. 1) Winter-Spring 2002

Introduction by The Editors

Brecht
Bertolt Brecht - The Manifesto

Darko Suvin - On Brecht's "The Manifesto": Comments for Readers in English

Marxist Theory
Frigga Haug - Towards a Theory of Gender Relations

Robert Weil - Red Shift: Class Effects of Socialist Egalitarianism and Capitalist Polarization

Reparations
Gil Scott-Heron - Reparations Epigram

Yusuf Nuruddin - Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations

Frances M. Beal - Lessons from Durban

Onaje Mu'id - United Nations World Conference Against Racism: Disparate Beacon for an Emerging New Humanity under Contest by Racist Detractors

Amiri Baraka - Plenary Address to Conference on Reparations

After 9/11
Hester Eisenstein - Globalization and the Events of Sept. 11, 2001

John Michael - Intellectuals and the Clash of Cultures

Hamideh Sedghi - Muslims in the West's Imagination: Myth or Reality?

William W. Sales, Jr. - Significance for African Americans of the Attacks of September 11, 2001

Victor Wallis - A Radical Approach to Justice for 9/11

Max Elbaum and Bob Wing - Some Strategic Implications of 9/11

Review Essay
Elly Leary - From First to Third Gear

Reviews
William Blum - Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower reviewed by Dan Brook

Johanna Brenner - Women and the Politics of Class reviewed by Hester Eisenstein

Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames - The Disability Rights Movement: From charity to Confrontation review by Ravi Malhotra

And Then , Vol. 10 (2001) reviewed by George Snedeker


30 (Volume 15, No. 2) Fall 2001

Introduction

Macdonald Stainsby - Quebec City: Before and After the Storming of the Wall

Norman Solomon - "A Different World Is Possible": Porto Alegre vs. the Corporate Media

Gianpaolo Baiocchi - Brazilian Cities in the Nineties and Beyond: New Urban Dystopias and Utopias

Andy Merrifield - Metro Marxism, or Old and Young Marx in the City Contemporary Development of Marxist Philosophy in China by
Kang Ouyang with replies by Robert Weil and Bertell Ollman

On "Emancipating the Mind": A Reply to Professor Kang Ouyang by Robert Weil

Reply to Professor Kang Ouyang’s Article on Marxist Philosophy in China By Bertell Ollman

Renzo Llorente - The Poverty of a Darwinian Left: A Critique of Peter Singer's New Political Paradigm

Mario Kessler - Arthur Rosenberg: History and Politics between Berlin and New York

Nikos Petropoulos - The Recent General Strike in Greece

Book Reviews
Mumia Abu-Jamal - ALL THINGS CENSORED reviewed by Terry A. Kupers

Eric Parens and Adrienne Asch, eds. - Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights reviewed by Ruth Hubbard

August H. Nimtz, Jr. - Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough reviewed by Euripides Pelekanos

Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, eds. - Working Classes: Global Realities. Socialist Register 2001 reviewed by Hobart A. Spalding

James Blaut - Eight Eurocentric Historians reviewed by Louis
Proyect


Susanne Jonas - Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process reviewed by Greg Grandin

Bertell Ollman - How to Take an Exam... And Remake the World
reviewed by Dave Lippman


29 (Volume 15, No. 1) Spring-Summer 2001

Introduction - The Cuba Issue Collective

Section I: Economy and Society

Introduction by Cuba Issue Collective

Pedro Monreal - Cuba: The Challenges of Being Global and Socialist... at the Same Time

Mayra Paula Espina Prieto - The Effects of the Reform on Cuba's Social Structure: An Overview

Marta Nunez Sarmineto - Cuban Strategies for Women's Employment in the 1990s: A Case Study of Professional Women

Alejandro de la Fuente - Recreating Racism: Race and Discrimination in Cuba's "Special Period"

Section II: Government

Introduction by Cuba Issue Collective

Juan Valdes Paz - The Cuban Political System in the 1990s: Continuity and Change

Jesus Pastor Garcia Brigos - People's Power in the Organization of the Cuban Socialist State

Section III: The Agrarian Sector

Hans-Jurgen Burchardt - Cuba's Agriculture after the New Reforms: Between Sagnation and Sustainable Development

Niurka Perez Rojas and Dayma Echevarria Leon - The Relationship Between Participation and Managerial Autonomy in Cuba's Basic Units of Cooperative Production: Six Case Studies


28 (Volume 14, No. 2) Fall-Winter 2000

Introduction by The Editors

Essays
Fidel Castro - Cuba and the Struggle Against Global Poverty

Julio C. Gambina - The Crisis of Representation in Argentina: Guidelines for an Alternative Project

Anibal Quijano - Fujimorism, the OAS and Peru

Deborah Poole and Gerardo Renique - Popular Movements, the Legacy of the Left, and the Fall of Fujimori

Jan Rehmann - The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism: A Noah's Ark of Critical Thinking

Mehmet Tabak - A Marxian Theory of Democracy

Derek Boothman - A Note on the Evolution of Some Key Gramscian Terms

Diane Greene Lent - Philadephia 2000: Scenes of Protest at the Republican Convention

Martin Hernandez - Los Angeles, the Democratic Convention, and the Left


27 (Volume 14, No. 1) Spring-Summer 2000

Introduction by The Editors

Essays
Wolfgang Fritz Haug - Gramsci's "Philosphy of Praxis"

Neil Larsen - Preselective Affinities: Marxism and Surrealism in Latin America

Michael Lowy - Marx's Dialectic of Progress: Closed or Open?

Victor Wallis - "Progress" or Progress? Defining a Socialist Technology

Milton Fisk - Neoliberalism and the Slow Death of Public Healthcare in Mexico

George Katsiaficas - Remembering the Kwangju Uprising

Book Reviews
Mike Marqusee - Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali And The Spirit Of The Sixties reviewed by Stefan Schindler

Marilyn Buck, David Gilbert, and Laura Whitehorn - Enemies of the State reviewed by Akinyele O. Umoja


26 (Volume 13, No. 2) Fall-Winter 1999

Introduction by The Editors

Essays
Jan Rehmann - "Abolition" of Civil Society?: Remarks on a Widespread Misunderstanding in the Interpretation of "Civil Society"

Leo Panitch - "The Impoverishment of State Theory"

Tania Noctiummes & Jean-Pierre Page - "Yugoslavia: An Imperialist War for a New World Order"

Tania Noctiummes and Jean-Pierre Page - Appendix: War in Yugoslavia: Preparatory Manipulations - Human Rights, Diplomacy, the KLA

Sungur Savran - "From the Balkans to Central Asia: Kosovo as Harbinger"

Boris Kagarlitsky - "Bombs and Multiculturalism"

Joan McQueeney Mitric - Anti-NATO and Anti-Milosevic in Belgrade


25 (Volume 13, No. 1) Spring-Summer 1999

Introduction by The Editors

Symposium
Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Barbara Fields, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Levins, Daniel Singer, Cornel West, Ellen Meiksins Wood and Steve Brier (Moderator) - Roundtable on the Future of the Left

Essays
Giorgio Baratta - "The Individual and the World: From Marx to Gramsci to Said"

Inez Hedges - "Faust and Utopia: Socialist Visions"

John E. Coombes - "Roth and Coover: Excess and Subversion in Post-Modernist Fiction"

Poetry
Volker Braun, Property

Exchange
Carl Davidson - Anti-Market Mystifications: A Response to Bertell Ollman

Bertell Ollman - Reply to Carl Davidson

Book Reviews
Daniel Burton-Rose, with Dan Pens and Paul Wright, eds. - The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry reviewed by Hugh R. Lyons

Winston James - Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America reviewed by Fanon Che Wilkins

Rupert Charles Lewis - Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought reviewed by Larvester Gaither

Resources
David Worley - The Brecht Forum, New York

Exposing the New World Order: Seattle WTO Summit


23-24 Double Issue (Volume 12, Nos. 1 and 2) 1998

Introduction by The Editors

Essays
Bertell Ollman - "What We Can Still Learn from the Communist Manifesto: The Dance of the Dialectic, or How to Study the Communist Future Inside the Capitalist Present"

Victor Wallis - "The Communist Manifesto and Capitalist Hegemony After 150 Years"

John Ehrenberg - "Civil Society and Marxist Politics"

Mario A. Manacorda - "The Manifesto and Humanity's Destiny"

Richard Levins - "Rearming the Revolution: The Tasks of Theory for Hard Times"

Helena Sheehan - "Grand Narratives Then and Now: Can We Still Conceptualise History?"

Boris Kagarlitsky - "De-Revising Marx"

Joel Kovel - "The Spectre Redefined"

Michael Parenti - "The Increasing Relevance of Marxism"

Dave Lippman - "Who's on Third? Poaching in the Culture Wars"

Daryl Glaser - "Marxism and Democracy: Or, Towards a Three-Hatted Marxism"

Marcel van der Linden - "Metamorphoses of European Social Democracy"

James Petras and Chronis Polychroniou - "Rethinking Globalization: From the Future to the Past"

Tyree Scott - "Black Workers and the Global Economy"

Bob Sutcliffe - "The Communist Manifesto and Globalization"

Boris Kagarlitsky - "The Russian Economic Crisis and the International Monetary Fund"

Resources
Eric Canepa - "Report on the 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto at Cooper Union"


22 (Volume 11, No. 2) Fall-Winter 1997

Introduction by The Editors

Essays
Bertell Ollman - "Market Mystification in Capitalist and Market Socialist Societies"

Joan Cocks - Touché: "Marx on Nations and Nationalism"

John McDermott - "On the Origins of the Present World in the Defeat of the 60s"

Victor Wallis - "Keeping the Faith: The '60s Contribution to the '90s Left"

Chronicle
James Petras - Neruda in Colombia

Book Reviews
Raul Hilberg - The Politics of Memory: The Journal of a Holocaust Historian reviewed by John McDermott

Miguel Barnet - Biography of a Runaway Slave reviewed by James Russell

Resources
Eric Canepa - Report on Conferences

Wolfgang Fritz Haug - Guidelines for the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism

Cumulative Table of Contents:
Nos. 11 - 22 (Fall 1990 - Fall 1997)


21 Volume 11, No. 1, Spring-Summer 1997

Introduction by The Editors

Essays
Annette T. Rubinstein - "Fundamental Problems in Marxist Literary Criticism: Form, History and Ideology"

Michael Löwy - "Lucien Goldmann or the Communitarian Wager"

Peter Hudis - "Conceptualizing an Emancipatory Alternative: István Mészáros's Beyond Capital"

Patrick V. Peppe - "The Struggle for Workers' Control in Italian Industry, 1968-1977"

Colin Hay - "A Sorry State? Diagnosing the British Affliction"

Book Reviews
Whose Congress? John C. Berg - Unequal Struggle: Class, Gender, Race and Power in the U.S. Congress reviewed by Pat McGeever

Karl Mannheim's Liberalism David Kettler and Volker Meja - Karl Mannheim and the Crisis Of Liberalism: The Secret of These New Times reviewed by Stephen E. Slaner

Red Not Dead Constance Coiner - Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur reviewed by Robin Dizard

My Mother The Teacher Ruth Jacknow Markowitz - My Daughter, The Teacher: Jewish Teachers In The New York City Schools reviewed by Edward Greer with a personal response by Ruth Greer

Resources
Eric Canepa - Research Groups, Libraries, Periodicals

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