The shape of things to come
REPORTS AND ANALYSIS
The Gay Marriage movement: Teamsters and trannies, unite!
The antiwar movement and Obama
Struggle rocks Greece
Cuba between revolution and reasons of state
FEATURES
Marxism and religion
Marx and Engels thought that alienation, not religion, is the problem. Phil Gasper explains in “Critical Thinking”
9 is not 11 (and November isn't September)
Arundhati Roy responds to those who have portrayed the Mumbai attacks as “India's 9/11”
The case for getting out of Afghanistan
David Whitehouse
The missing Malcolm
Manning Marable discusses his forthcoming book on Malcolm X
Stonewall: The birth of gay power
Sherry Wolf looks at the struggle that launched the gay liberation movement
The return of Keynes?
Is Keynesian state intervention the solution to the free-market meltdown? Petrino DiLeo looks at the real record of Keynesian policy.
The Black Jacobins
Ashley Smith reviews C. L. R. James's classic account of Haiti's slave revolt
What comes after capitalism?
Sam Farber reviews a collection of essays on the new class society that arose under Stalin
A life dedicated to telling the stories of our class
Studs Terkel (19122008) talks about his life and work in a 2004 interview by David Barsamian
REVIEWS
Big business and the endless war
Ron Jacobs reviews Michael Schwartz's War Without End
PLUS: The first year of soviet power; What Lenin really said; How women became less than equal; The switch to female factory labor; Israel and the U.S. game plan; The world's public schools under attack
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