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ISSUE 65: May-June 2009
What is Socialism?
EDITORIALS AND COLUMNS
Letter from the editors
CRITICAL THINKING: Reviving socialism from below
Phil Gasper explains how the crisis of capitalism has revived interest in alternatives. He untangles the socialism of Marx from its later distortions.
REPORTS AND ANALYSIS
The fight for academic freedom in changing times Dana Cloud
The squeeze on workers Adam Turl
A surge of militarization at the border Justin Akers-Chacon
Workers on the rise in the Caribbean François Laforge
Afghan responses to escalating war interview with Anand Gopal
FEATURES
A power greater than a hundred lies
Howard Zinn, interviewed by David Barsamian
LGBT liberation: Build a broad social movement
Historian John D’Emilio talks to Sherry Wolf
What is socialism?
socialist ideas—however confused and distorted—have found their way into mainstream discussion. Eric Ruder examines what socialism is—and is not.
Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict & resolution
Israeli socialist Moshé Machover on the roots of conflict and what it will take to resolve it
SPECIAL COVERAGE ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS:
The crisis of capitalism: Beyond deregulation and greed
Claudio Katz, an Argentine Marxist economist, analyzes the contours of the current world crisis, arguing that this is both a crisis of the financial system as well as a crisis of global overproduction
Rescuing capitalism: The role of the Fed
Deborah Goldsmith, who teaches economics and women’s studies at City College of San Francisco, dissects the role of the Federal Reserve System in propping up U.S. and global capitalism.
Marx and Engels…and Darwin?
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species. Climate and Capitalism editor, Ian Angus, reveals the connections between Darwin’s evolutionary breakthrough and Marx’s revolutionary ideas
REVIEWS
Forging the American working class
Joe Allen on the reissue of Sidney Lens’s Labor Wars
PLUS: A left case against the Democrats; Robots at war; The mirage of peace in Afghanistan; Conscience of a Keynesian; Class politics of neoliberalism; Fighting back in Africa
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Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. "War on Terror." Available from Haymarket Books.
Readings from the ISR archive
Egypt, Israel, and the U.S.:
From Nasserism to collaboration Eric Ruder
Apartheid Israel and the contradictions of left Zionism Tikva Honig-Parnass
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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