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50 (Volume 23, No. 2)

Socialism in the Age of Obama

Introduction by The Editors

Rick Wolff, Economic Crisis from a Socialist Perspective

Hester Eisenstein, Some Strategies for Left Feminists (and Their Male Allies) in the Age of Obama

Andrew Kliman, “The Destruction of Capital” and the Current Economic Crisis

Gregory Meyerson and Michael Joseph Roberto, Obama and the Irreversible Crisis: Systemic Contradictions, a New New Deal, and the Limits of State Capitalism

Rohit Negi, Political Economy of the Global Crisis

Jonathan Scott, Thinking Big

Mat Callahan, The Nature of the Beast: Its Vulnerabilities and Its Replacement

Victor Wallis, Economic/Ecological Crisis and Conversion

Jeffrey Shantz, Re-Building Infrastructures of Resistance

Raúl Zibechi, Time to Reactivate Networks of Solidarity

Poetry

George Snedeker, Cash Nexus

D.H. Melhem, For Gaza

George Wallace, Too Many Words

Correspondence

Shaka Zulu, 500 Years of Tears

Report

Nadya Williams, Trying to Undo: Veterans of Conscience in Viet Nam

Review Essay

Joel Kovel, Mearsheimer and Walt Revisited

Reviews

Victor Considerant, Principles of Socialism: Manifesto of 19th Century Democracy reviewed by Amy Buzby

John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York, Critique of Intelligent Design reviewed by David Schwartzman

Andrew Hartman, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School reviewed by Samuel Day Fassbinder

Nicholas Powers, Theater of War: The Plot Against the American Mind Sam Friedman, Seeking To Make the World Anew: Poems of the Living Dialectic reviewed by Howard Pflanzer

Aviva Chomsky, Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class reviewed by Ted Zuur

Robert J. Foster, Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea reviewed by Noah Eber-Schmid

Messay Kebede, Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974 reviewed by Teodros Kiros

Francis A. Boyle, Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law
reviewed by Ravi Malhotra

Michael Schwartz, War Without End: The Iraq War in Context
reviewed by Peter Seybold

Lance Selfa, The Democrats: A Critical History reviewed by Chris Hardnack

Annelies Laschitza, Die Liebknechts: Karl und Sophie – Politik und Familie reviewed by Gerd Callesen

Notes on Contributors

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Notes on Contributors

Carol Barton is Coordinator of the Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ), a global coalition of 40 organizations- NGOs and labor groups-from all regions of the globe, focused on macro-economic policy from the perspective of gender, race, and national origin.

Jennifer Disney is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Winthrop University (Rock Hill, S.C.). Her Ph.D. is from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She received the 2002 American Political Science Association Women and Politics Best Dissertation Award and the 2002 APSA New Political Science Best Paper Award.

Hester Eisenstein is a Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Contemporary Feminist Thought (1983) and Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State (1996). Her current research focuses on gender, globalization, and the international women's movement from a Marxist-feminist perspective.

Kimberly Earles is a PhD Candidate in political science at York University, where she has worked as both a Research Assistant and a Teaching Assistant. She has done research for the Newfoundland- Labrador Human Rights Association, the St. John's Status of Women Council/Women's Centre, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), the Law Commission of Canada.

Tammy Findlay is a PhD Candidate in political science at York University, and is an instructor at York and Trent Universities as well as at the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) Labour College. Her dissertation examines state restructuring in Ontario, women's structures of representation, and democratization.

Martha E. Gimenez, originally from Argentina, is Professor of Socio- logy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Marxist-feminism, population theory, the politics of racial and ethnic construction, and inequality. She founded the Progressive Sociologists Network
(http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/).

Giorgi Katsiaficas is a longtime activist working on a book about South Korean social movements. His previous books include The Imagination of the New Left (1987) and The Subversion of Politics (1997).

Ben Manski is a lifelong Madisonian, law student and a co-chair of the Green Party of the United States (www.GP.org).

Jonathan Scott is an Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community Col- lege, where he teaches literature and writing. He also teaches a graduate seminar at New York University on American Literature and White Supremacy.

Bina Srivanasan is a researcher and activist currently based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with INFORM (inform@lanka.gn.apc.org), working against the trafficking of women. She has worked to counter state-sponsored violence in the Indian state of Gujarat, and is active in the movement opposing construction of large dams in India, China and elsewhere.

Omar Swartz teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Denver. His advanced degrees are in both Communication (1995) and Law (2001). He is the author of five books-including Socialism and Communication -and more than thirty-five published essays, book chapters, and reviews.

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