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ISSUE 66: July-August 2009
The limits of liberalism
EDITORIAL
Is this change we can believe in?
ANALYSIS IN BRIEF
Sharon Smith
Abortion rights on the defensive
…plus Greg Albo on ways forward for unions in the crisis; Rafael Feliciano on Puerto Rico’s militant teachers’ union; Helen Redmond on the “war on drugs” in Mexico; Alain Baron on France’s radical labor action; Snehal Shingavi on Pakistan’s anti-Taliban offensive; Lars T. Lih on what is to be made of What Is To Be Done?
COLUMN
Phil Gasper • Critical Thinking
In defense of Marxism
Now that Marx is being taken seriously again, the mainstream media have gone on the attack
INTERVIEW
Howard Zinn • Interview by Dave Zirin
You have to go beyond capitalism
ECONOMIC CRISIS SPECIAL COVERAGE
Joel Geier
The free fall is over, but the crisis continues
Lee Sustar
U.S. labor in the crisis: Resistance or retreat?
FEATURES
Kunal Chattopadhyay and Soma Marik
The elections and left-wing politics in India
Activists from Calcutta analyze the resurgence of the Congress Party and the setback for the Stalinist left
HISTORY
Dennis Kosuth
Storming the gates of heavenly peace
What really happened at Tiananmen Square, and why
Joe Allen
“A previously unknown individual”
The fight to save James Hickman, who killed his landlord in 1947 after four of his children died in a tenement fire
BOOK REVIEWS
Brian Kelly • Featured review
Why race still matters
David R. Roediger’s How Race Survived U.S. History
Martin Smith
Soldiers against war
Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan
…plus Michael Fiorentino on challenges to U.S. war myths; Petrino DiLeo on Foster and Magdoff’s The Great Financial Crisis; Sherry Wolf on early sex radicals; Phil Gasper on books about evolution and design; Susan Dwyer on Mahmood Mamdani’s book on Darfur, Saviors and Survivors
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Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. "War on Terror." Available from Haymarket Books.
Readings on Zionism, Israel, and the Palestinians
The siege of Gaza Hadas Their
Zionism: False Messiah Lance Selfa
The hidden history of Zionism Annie Zirin
Zionism and anti-semitism: Are Israel's critics anti-semites? Hadas Their
Israel and the Nakba: Chronicle of dispossession Paul D'Amato
Planning the terror that created Israel Mostafa Omar
Israel: The Watchdog State Lance Selfa
Israel: Colonial settler state Phil Gasper
The Watchdog bites Phil Gasper
The class character of Israel (reprint) Moshe Machover
Israel, the “lobby,” and the United States Sherry Wolf
Ariel Sharon, war criminal Hadas Thier
Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon Hadas Thier
Arafat's Legacy Snehal Shingavi
Israel, war, and the future of the Intifada: Two views from Palestine Toufic Haddad and Tikva Honig-Parnass
Lies, damn lies, and Israeli propanganda Anthony Arnove and Paul D'Amato
Walling in the Palestinians Ida Audeh
Israel: Gearing up for a new offensive? Toufic Haddad
Iraq, Palestine, and U.S. Imperialism Toufic Haddad
U.S. intervention in the Middle East: Blood for oil Paul D'Amato
End of the Road Map Toufic Haddad
Intifada from the Inside Toufic Haddad
The destruction of Lebanon: “Birthpangs of a new Middle East” Toufic Haddad
Crisis of the Palestinian national movement Toufic Haddad
The one-state solution Dennis Kosuth
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