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ISSUE 63:
January-February 2009

Politics and struggle in a new era

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

L E T T E R S

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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 Thier

Zionism: False Messiah
Lance Selfa

The hidden history of Zionism
Annie Zirin

Zionism and anti-semitism: Are Israel's critics anti-semites?
Hadas Thier

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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