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46 (Volume 22, No. 1)

Ingar Solty
The Historic Significance of the New German Left Party

Sriram Ananthanarayanan
New Mechanisms of Imperialism in India: The Special Economic Zones

Mitchel Cohen
The Capitalist INFESTO and How to Fight It

Ravi Malhotra
Expanding the Frontiers of Justice: Reflections on the Theory of Capabilities, Disability Rights, and the Politics of Global Inequality

Thomas Seibert
The Global Justice Movement after Heiligendamm

Peter Seybold
The Struggle against Corporate Takeover of the University

Book Reviews

Anatole Anton & Richard Schmitt, eds.
Toward a New Socialism reviewed by Paul Buhle

Rosemary Feurer
Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950
reviewed by Steve Early

Sebastian Budgen,
Stathis Kouvelakis
& Slavoj Žižek, eds.
Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth reviewed by Ronald Paul

Stan Goff
War and Sex reviewed by Pramila Venkateswaran

Gideon Polya
Body Count: Global Avoidable Mortality Since 1950
reviewed by Jacqueline Carrigan

Robert Roth
Health Proxy reviewed by Walter A. Davis

H. Bruce Franklin
The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America reviewed by Scott Carlin

Walter A. Davis
Art & Politics:
Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theater reviewed by Eugene W. Holland

Marc Falkoff, ed.
Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak
reviewed by D.H. Melhem

Joel Shatzky
Intelligent Design: A Fable reviewed by Victor Cohen

Alexander Saxton
Religion and the Human Prospect reviewed by Richard Curtis

Peter McLaren & Nathalia Jaramillo
Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism reviewed by Andrew Michael Lee

Helen Caldicott
Nuclear Power is Not the Answer;
Helen Caldicott
If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth reviewed by Ronald F. Price

Andrew Kliman
Reclaiming Marx's Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency reviewed by Michael Roberts

Henry Heller
The Cold War and the New Imperialism reviewed by Daniel Egan

Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair
End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate reviewed by George Fish

Paul Zarembka, ed.
The Hidden History of 9-11-2001 reviewed by Seth Sandronsky

Steve Ellner & Miguel Tinker Salas, eds.
Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an “Exceptional Democracy” reviewed by Nikolas Kozloff

Michael González Cruz
Nacionalismo revolucionario puertorriqueño: la lucha armada, intelectuales, y prisioneros políticos y de guerra reviewed by Juan Antonio Ocasio Rivera

Lynn Hunt
Inventing Human Rights: A History reviewed by Judith F. Stone

Michael Hardt
Presents the Declaration of Independence reviewed by Carl Mirra

Notes on Contributors

	Current Issue #46 Vol 22, No. 1 ______________ Table of Contents ______________ 46 (Volume 22, No. 1) Ingar Solty The Historic Significance of the New German Left Party Sriram Ananthanarayanan New Mechanisms of Imperialism in India: The Special Economic Zones Mitchel Cohen The Capitalist INFESTO and How to Fight It Ravi Malhotra Expanding the Frontiers of Justice: Reflections on the Theory of Capabilities, Disability Rights, and the Politics of Global Inequality Thomas Seibert The Global Justice Movement after Heiligendamm Peter Seybold The Struggle against Corporate Takeover of the University Book Reviews Anatole Anton & Richard Schmitt, eds. Toward a New Socialism reviewed by Paul Buhle Rosemary Feurer Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950 reviewed by Steve Early Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis & Slavoj Žižek, eds. Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth reviewed by Ronald Paul Stan Goff War and Sex reviewed by Pramila Venkateswaran Gideon Polya Body Count: Global Avoidable Mortality Since 1950 reviewed by Jacqueline Carrigan Robert Roth Health Proxy reviewed by Walter A. Davis H. Bruce Franklin The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America reviewed by Scott Carlin Walter A. Davis Art & Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theater reviewed by Eugene W. Holland Marc Falkoff, ed. Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak reviewed by D.H. Melhem Joel Shatzky Intelligent Design: A Fable reviewed by Victor Cohen Alexander Saxton Religion and the Human Prospect reviewed by Richard Curtis Peter McLaren & Nathalia Jaramillo Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a New Humanism reviewed by Andrew Michael Lee Helen Caldicott Nuclear Power is Not the Answer; Helen Caldicott If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth reviewed by Ronald F. Price Andrew Kliman Reclaiming Marx's Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency reviewed by Michael Roberts Henry Heller The Cold War and the New Imperialism reviewed by Daniel Egan Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate reviewed by George Fish Paul Zarembka, ed. The Hidden History of 9-11-2001 reviewed by Seth Sandronsky Steve Ellner & Miguel Tinker Salas, eds. Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an “Exceptional Democracy” reviewed by Nikolas Kozloff Michael González Cruz Nacionalismo revolucionario puertorriqueño: la lucha armada, intelectuales, y prisioneros políticos y de guerra reviewed by Juan Antonio Ocasio Rivera Lynn Hunt Inventing Human Rights: A History reviewed by Judith F. Stone Michael Hardt Presents the Declaration of Independence reviewed by Carl Mirra Notes on Contributors *Designed & Powered by MediaTek*_
			Notes on Contributors Sriram Ananthanarayanan is an activist and researcher on issues of labor and gender. He worked in India as a human rights campaigner during the 2002 pogrom conducted by right-wing Hindu groups in Gujarat. After graduate studies at Johns Hopkins, he was involved with gender justice and labor rights work within immigrant communities in Boston from 2004-2006. Most recently in India he has been active with workers in the informal sector. His articles have appeared in various progressive media outlets; he now plans to pursue full-time doctoral studies. <sriram.inqilab@gmail.com> Mitchel Cohen co-founded the Red Balloon Collective at SUNY Stony Brook in 1969, edited its journal through the decades, and taught an underground Marxism for Beginners class there for 16 years. He was one of the "Liberty Bell 7," arrested for demanding freedom for political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. He co-founded and coordinates the No Spray Coalition <www.nospray.org>, works with Recycle This! and NY State Against Genetic Engineering, serves on the Local Station Board of WBAI radio, and co-edits "G," the newspaper of the NY State Greens/Green Party of New York. He lives in Brooklyn and for many years made his living selling his poems in the subway. His two new books of poetry are The Permanent Carnival and One-Eyed Cat Takes Flight. <mitchelcohen@mindspring.com> Ravi Malhotra teaches law at the University of Ottawa. He is a member of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities Human Rights Committee and of the New Democratic Party. He is a sponsor of New Politics where he has published on disability rights activism. He co-authored “Capitalism and Disability” in Socialist Register 2002, and he participates regularly in the meetings of the Society for Disability Studies. <Ravi.Malhotra@uottawa.ca> Thomas Seibert is the best-known intellectual of the Interventionistische Linke (IL), which played a central role in organizing the G-8 protests in Heiligendamm in June 2007. He has a long history of participation in various groups of Germany's radical left and currently works for the NGO medico international. He is the editor of Fantômas -- Journal of Left Debate and Praxis (www.akweb.de/fantomas). He lives in Frankfurt. <seibert@medico.de> Peter Seybold is an associate professor of sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). He is former director of the Division of Labor Studies at Indiana University and a long-time activist in the labor, peace, and social justice movements. <pseybold@iupui.edu> Ingar Solty, born in Germany, is a PhD candidate at York University in Toronto and is Politics Editor of Das Argument. Together with Frank Deppe et al., he is co-author of Der neue Imperialismus (Distel Verlag, 2004). He is a frequent contributor to Das Argument, Sozialismus, and Z. -– Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung. <ingarsolty@yahoo.de>

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