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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 and 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

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Democracy, Philosophy, and Social Movements in Africa

Foreword by Victor Wallis

Introduction by Teodros Kiros

F. Abiola Irele, The Political Kingdom: Toward Reconstruction in Africa

Paget Henry, Africana Political Philosophy and the Crisis of the Post-Colony

Judith Van Allen, Feminism and Social Democracy in Botswana

Biodun Jeyifo, An African Cultural Modernity: Achebe, Fanon, Cabral, and the Philosophy of Decolonization

Daniel Egan, Frantz Fanon and the Construction of the Colonial Subject: Defining "The Enemy" in the Iraq War

Kwasi Wiredu, Democracy by Consensus: Some Conceptual Considerations

Teodros Kiros, Moral Economy: An Original Economic Form for the African Condition

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Roger Burbach and Camila Piñeiro, Venezuela’s Participatory Socialism

Book Reviews

Joel Kovel, Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine reviewed by Michael Steven Smith

Nikolas Kozloff, Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S. reviewed by Fred Rosen

Stanley Aronowitz, Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future
reviewed by Ethan Young

Jonathan Scott, Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes
reviewed by Anamaría Flores

Steve Martinot, Forms in the Abyss: A Philosophical Bridge between Sartre and Derrida reviewed by Elizabeth Butterfield

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Class Struggles in China
Robert Weil, Were Revolutions in China Necessary?

Stephen Philion, Workers’ Democracy vs. Privatization in China

The Uprising in Oaxaca
Introduction by Gerardo Rénique

Gerardo Rénique, Political Formations and the Struggle for Autonomy in Oaxaca

Gustavo Esteva, Oaxaca: The Path of Radical Democracy

Lynn Stephen, “We are brown, we are short, we are fat. We are the face of Oaxaca”: Women Leaders in the Oaxaca Rebellion

Deborah Poole, The Right to Be Heard

Ideological Critique
Martha Lincoln, Black Hole, Gulag, Country Club: A Map of Guantánamo Bay

Jonathan Scott, The Demonization of Pan-American Nationalism

Inez Hedges, Signifyin’ and Intertextuality: Killer of Sheep and Black Independent Film

Joseph G. Ramsey, From “Why We Fight” to Fighting Their “We”: Zeiger’s "Sir No Sir" meets Jarecki’s "Why We Fight"

Commentary
Peter Roman and Hobart A. Spalding, Response to a Misinformed “Left” Critique of Cuba

Testimony
Robert Smith, “Wounded in War” Wounded in the Arts

Book Reviews
D.L. Raby, Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today reviewed by Victor Wallis

Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow, Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out reviewed by Shannon Farrington

Mike Davis. Planet of Slums reviewed by Martha Lincoln

Michael Perelman, Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology reviewed by Andrew Michael Lee

James W. Russell, Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States reviewed by Cory Fairley

Ali Abunimah, One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
Virginia Tilley, The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock reviewed by Matthew Richman

Paul Buhle, Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical’s Story reviewed by Frank Rosengarten

Christine Lattek, Revolutionary Refugees: German Socialism in Britain, 1840-1860 reviewed by Gerd Callesen

Notes on Contributors

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Conjuncture
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, The New Vanguard: Challenges for the Left in Asia and Africa

Daniel Egan, Planning the Transition to Capitalism: The Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba

Basem Ra'ad and Jamal Nafi', The Geography of Occupation: Palestinian Education Today

Race, Class, Empire
Anibal Quijano, Questioning "Race"

Anamaria Flores, Toward a Revolution in American Studies: The Counter-Narratives of Jose´ Martı´ and Herman Melville

Jonathan Scott, Introduction to Theodore Allen's Notes on Base and Superstructure

Theodore W. Allen, Base and Superstructure and the Socialist Perspective

The Carceral State
Kevin "Rashid" Johnson, Amerikan Prisons Are Government-Sponsored Torture

Jason L. Mallory, Mass Incarceration, Democracy, and Inclusion

Socialist Biography
Christopher Phelps, The Radicalism of Randolph Bourne 123

Reviews
Anthony Arnove, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal reviewed by Ted Zuur

Carl Mirra, ed., Enduring Freedom or Enduring War? Prospects and Costs of the New American 21st Century reviewed by Daniel Egan

Eric Stener Carlson, The Pear Tree: Is Torture Ever Justified? reviewed by Greta Hofmann Nemiroff

Dan Berger, Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity reviewed by Andrew Hartman

Andrew E. Hunt, David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary reviewed by Mike Vozick

Norman Mailer and John Buffalo Mailer, The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America reviewed by Stefan Schindler

Inez Hedges, Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles reviewed by David Gullette

Lee Sustar and Aisha Karim, eds., Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader reviewed by Ronald Paul

Gene Santoro, Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music; Mat Callahan, The Trouble with Music reviewed by George Fish

Jeff Chang, Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation reviewed by Darby E. Southgate

Michael Perelman, Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society reviewed by Seth Sandronsky

William DiFazio, Ordinary Poverty, a Little Food and Cold Storage reviewed by Barbara Conn

Ron Hayduk, Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States reviewed by Gene Brown

Stephen Duncombe and Andrew Mattson, The Bobbed-Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York reviewed by Martha Lincoln

Stanley Aronowitz, Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005) reviewed by Matt Vidal.

Ignacio Ramonet, Fidel Castro: Biografía a dos voces (Barcelona: Random House Mondarori, 2006) reviewed by Hobart Spalding.

Luis Báez, El mérito es estar vivo (Havana: Prensa Latina, 2005) reviewed by Hobart Spalding.

Antonio Labriola, Carteggio [Correspondence], 1861-1904, edited by Stefano Miccolis. vols. 1-5 (Naples: Edizioni di filosofia e scienze, 2000-06) reviewed by Ole Jorn.

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Introduction by Victor Wallis

Preface

Socialism and Democracy Preface by Yusuf Nuruddin, Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan and Victor Wallis

Yusuf Nuruddin - Science Fiction as Popular Culture: A Sense of Wonder

Radical Readings

Steven Shaviro - Prophecies of the Present

Carl Freedman - Speculative Fiction and Int'l Law: The Marxism of China Mieville

Lisa Yaszek - Afrofuturism Science Fiction and the History of the Future

Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan - Alienation, Estrangement and the Politics of "Free Individuality" in Two Feminist Science Fictions: A Marxist Feminist Analysis

Dennis M. Lensing - The Fecund Androgyne: Gender and the Utopian/ Dystopian Imagination of the 1970s

Jonathan Scott - Octavia Butler and the Base for American Socialism

Politics and Culture in the US

Yusuf Nuruddin - Ancient Black Astronauts and Extraterrestrial Jihads: Islamic Science Fiction as Urban Mythology

Marleen S. Barr - Science Fiction and the Cultural Logic of Early Post Postmodernism

Robert P. Horstemeier - Flying Saucers Are Real! The US Navy, Unidentified Flying Objects, and the National Security State

Technological Futures

Sherryl Vint & Mark Bould - All That Melts Into Air Is Solid Rematerialising Capital in Cube and Videodrome

Michael G Bennett - The Adoxic Adventures of John Henry in the 21st Century

Reviews

Fredric Jameson - Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions reviewed by Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan

Sheree Thomas, ed., Dark Matter I: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora; Sheree Thomas, ed., Dark Matter: Reading the Bones; Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, eds., So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy reviewed by Yolanda Hood

Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavila´n, eds - Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain reviewed by Aaron Dziubinskyj

Notes on Contributors

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Introductory Note
The Editors

Essays
Saladin Muhammad - Hurricane Katrina: The Black Nation’s 9/11! A Strategic Perspective for Self-Determination

Robert Weil - “To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is a Good Thing”: The Struggle over the Legacy of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Socialist Revolution

Jyotsna Kapur - Rehearsals for War: Capitalism and the Transformation of Children into Consumers

Inez Hedges - The Aesthetics of Resistance: Thoughts on Peter Weiss

Thomas J. Butko - Gramsci and the “Anti-Globalization” Movement: Think Before You Act

Jeffrey Paris - American Power and the Philosophy of World-Systems Analysis

Jonah Raskin - Looking Backward: Personal Reflections on Language, Gesture and Mythology in the Weather Underground

Dan Berger - The Weather Underground’s Place in History: A Response to Jonah Raskin

George Fish - Blues Against Bush

Reviews
Silvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and
Primitive Accumulation reviewed by Hester Eisenstein

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the
Contra War reviewed by Roberta L. Salper

Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chavez Talks to Marta Harnecker reviewed by Fred Rosen

Walter A. Davis - Death’s Dream Kingdom reviewed by Eugene W. Holland

Robert W. Cherny, William Issel & Kiernan Walsh Taylor, eds. - American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and
Postwar Political Culture reviewed by Seth Sandronsky

Marc Garcelon - Revolutionary Passage from Soviet to Post-Soviet
Russia, 1985–2000 reviewed by Hans Aage

Seth Farber - Radicals, Rabbis, and Peacemakers: Conversations
with Jewish Critics of Israel reviewed by Michael Steven Smith

John Sanbonmatsu - The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory,
Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject reviewed by Daniel Egan

Melanie E. L. Bush - Breaking the Code of Good Intentions:
Everyday Forms of Whiteness reviewed by Anna Stubblefield

Joe Berry - Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education reviewed by Howard Pflanzer

David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios - The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang reviewed by Louis Kontos

Daniel R. Faber and Deborah McCarthy, eds. - Foundations for Change: Critical Perspectives on Philanthropy and Popular Movements reviewed by Leslie King

Samir Amin - The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World reviewed by David Siar

Polly Pattullo - Last Resorts: The Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean
reviewed by Leroy A. Binns

Notes on Contributors

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