September/October 2005 Vol 5, No. 7
Editor’s Page
Behind the AFL-CIO Split: Signs of Big Changes to Come
U.S. Labor
By James Petras
Nurse’s Union Leader:
The Top 10 Problems in the Labor Movement
By Rose Ann Demoro
Workers, Artists and the AFL-CIO Split
By Mike Alewitz
By Ron Insana
Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
Honor Airport Workers Picket Lines!
United States
Truth from New Orleans: A Community Organizer Reports
By Malik Rahim
The Truth Unfolds: More than a Natural Disaster,
Poor Were Not Allowed to Leave
By Bonnie Weinstein
By Derrick Z. Jackson
By Brandy Baker
Fidel Castro Reiterates Cuban Friendship to the United States
By Cindy Sheehan
US Is Starting to Lose Its Grip on Asia
By Victor Mallet
Reviews:
It Will Be a Great Day
When the Navy Has to Hold a Bake Sale to Buy a Ship
By Tom Crumpacker
Howard Zinn’s play Marx in Soho
By Bonnie Weinstein
By Robert Davis
Iraq
How Can the US Ever Win, When Iraqi Children Die Like This?
By Robert Fisk
The London Bombing: A Truth is Struggling to be Heard
By John Pilger
Antiwar
By Bonnie Weinstein
Joint Demo, Sheehan, Moveon, Hayden
By Stan Goff
The Rise of the Democratic Police State
By John Pilger
In Solidarity With Cindy Sheehan
By Bonnie Weinstein
The Unraveling of the U.S. Military
By Zia Mian
The Suicide bombers: The Sacred and the Profane
By James Petras
Palestine
Watching the Gazan Fiasco: The Shame of It All
By Jennifer Loewenstein
The Plan for Genocide in Gaza and Judaization in Galilee
By Julie Saad
Latin America
From Havana to Caracas and Beyond
By Derrick OKeefe
Posada Withdraws Asylum Petition
By Tom Crumpacker
Cuban Science: Viva la Revolution!
By Jim Giles
Three by Mumia Abu Jamal:
Inheriting an Imperial Nightmare
When Raising Consciousness Ain’t Enough
The Mama and the War President
Obituary:
David Weiss, 1911 or 1912-2005
By Vivian Gilbert-Strell
Arsenal of Marxism
The Political Meaning of the AFL-CIO Merger