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ISSUE 50: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2006

Why Marx still matters

E D I T O R I A L S

Letter from the editors; Midterm elections: banking on low expectations

N E W S & R E P O R T S

North Korea arms under U.S. pressure
Plus: The Left versus Lula; Haiti: Terror on the UN's watch; Congress legalizes torture; Confronting the Minutemen at Columbia

F E A T U R E S

Continuum of hate
Josh Gryniewicz on the links between the Minutemen and the neo-Nazis

CRITICAL THINKING: Scapegoating immigrants
Phil Gasper on how ideology has trumped economics

Lebanon and the crisis in the Middle East
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky

Targeting Iran?
Saman Sepehri on why the U.S. is considering an attack

Sow peace, reap justice
Camilo Mejía on women, military resistance, and Veterans for Peace

Nicaragua:From Sandinismo to "Danielismo"
Former guerrilla commander Mónica Baltodano on the degeneration of the FSLN

The juice and the noose
Dave Zirin on how the steroid hysteria warps our understanding of baseball, politics, and our very health

Saving Darfur from U.S. intervention
Avery Wear and David Whitehouse explain what's wrong with sending UN troops

Why Marx still matters
Paul D'Amato, author of The Meaning of Marxism, makes the case for Marxism's continued relevance

The 1982 invasion of Lebanon
Hadas Thier on an earlier chapter of Israeli aggression

Socialist organization-lessons past and present
Ahmed Shawki

The German Revolution, 1917-1923
Todd Chretien reviews Pierre Broué's classic

R E V I E W S

Invaders serving Corporate America
A Review of Overthrow
PLUS: The end of Iraq; Chicanos rising; Poor in Seattle by government policy; Genealogy of jihad; Story of an invented enemy; Roadmap to nowhere; Mao biography gets China wrong


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