#31 - Winter-Spring 2002
As we write, U.S. bombs are once again flying, this time with no end in sight. The war is in many ways a logical extension of priorities long embraced by Washington, but it is clear that the September 11 attacks on U.S. territory have...
Brecht
(translated by Darko Suvin)
In memory of Joachim Bunge, who first smuggled this text out to me
in the 1960s, and of my father, who first gave me the Communist
...
Dal principio alla fine è conveniente seguire ogni giustizia. Giampiero Neri, L'aspetto occidentale del vestito [From beginning to end/ it is proper to follow all justice.
-- G.N., ...
Marxist Theory
My purpose here is to present a critique of the political economy of gender. I am trying to develop a theory of gender relations. I first consider the necessary elements of such a theory, showing how it is grounded in Marx and Engels. I...
Reparations
The demand for reparations is the international Human Rights agenda for the twenty-first century, one that attempts to redress “the problem of the twentieth century,” as stated by DuBois, “the problem of the color line the...
It is hard to believe that just two short months ago, the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Other Forms of Intolerance (WCAR) took place in Durban, South Africa. Since that important...
Introduction
In Durban, South Africa a large number countries and countless non-governmental organizations (NGOs) converged between August 31 and September 8 to examine how racism, xenophobia, and other related...
The essence of reparations is one aspect of the revolutionary struggle of the Afro American People for DEMOCRACY, i.e. equal citizenship rights and Self Determination. Reparations is a democratic demand and is both the confirmation and...
After 9/11
In trying to make sense of events that are unfolding at a rapid pace from the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks on September 11 to the anthrax scare to the United States’ military operations in Afghanistan we need a framework of...
Professional habits persist even in times of terror. Perhaps because I teach literature, I’ve found myself especially distressed by the ubiquity of a certain metaphor that structures many official pronouncements and threatens to define...
As I reflect on September 11 and its ramifications for genuine political change, my attention and focus continue to twist and turn. Events have been unfolding differently every day, moving from one tragedy to another tribulation: from...
African Americans have a unique perspective, which flows from the following realities. Black Americans resemble the peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Our black ghettos constitute an extension of the developing world inside the...
Prior to the September 11 assaults, there were distinct signs of a Left revival. Its most conspicuous expressions were the international protests that now routinely greeted conferences of the world's economic and political leaders. ...
The September 11 terrorist attack and the Bush administration's response is a defining historical moment, ushering in a new and dangerous period in international politics.
The terrorist actions were crimes against humanity, and...
Review Essay
Sol Dollinger and Genora Johnson Dollinger. Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers Union. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000.
Growing up in the...
Reviews
William Blum, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000).
Inside the old main lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there are large letters...
Johanna Brenner, Women and the Politics of Class, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000
Johanna Brenner, a well-known socialist feminist writer, presents here a collection of essays previously published...
Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames, The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001)
It is commonplace at the turn of the...
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