February 2001
Volume 52, Number 9
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c o n t e n t s » The attention given to the Florida elections in the US presidential race has highlighted the horrendous fact that in Florida and throughout the South thirty-five years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act there are numerous ways in which African Americans are prevented from voting.| more | REVIEW
OF THE MONTH The unlikely postelection contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush, which ultimately led to the anointing of Bush as president by the Republican majority on the US Supreme Court (despite the fact that Bush received fewer popular votes than Gore both in the United States as a whole and most likely in Florida as well—the state that gave Bush his electoral college win), has tended to erase all other developments associated with the election. But all of this should not cause us to forget that the Ralph Nader Green Party campaign for the presidency was arguably the most extraordinary phenomenon in US left politics in many years. On election day he drew nearly three million votes, representing about 3 percent of the vote. Even former Vice-President Henry Wallace did not fare so well in his third-party run for the presidency in 1948, the last progressive third-party presidential campaign of this nature and magnitude. Although exit polls show that Nader received few racial minority votes (a major weakness of his campaign), he nonetheless drew his strongest support from those without a college education, those with incomes less than thirty thousand dollars a year, and those without full-time employment. Until the intense scare campaign instigated by the Democrats in the final two weeks before the election, Nader was getting as much as 7 percent in some tracking polls. Race and Class in the
Work Oliver Cromwell Cox’s Caste, Class, and Race was first published in 1948 by Doubleday, which, in line with the anti-leftist imperatives of the time, almost immediately let the book go out of print. Fortunately, it was reissued in 1959 by Monthly Review Press, which has enabled subsequent generations to read Cox’s extraordinary text. Indeed, I discovered Cox through Monthly Review’s Modern Reader paperback edition in 1970; coincidentally, that was also the year of the only occasion on which I heard him speak, at the annual meeting of the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists, the black social scientists’ group. Privatization and Urban Issues: In my remarks today, I want to situate privatization generally, and its manifestations in the urban context specifically, in a global perspective. I am employing the phrase “global perspective” not in its common usage (to mean a comparison of national patterns of privatization) but rather in order to consider the phenomenon that has come to be known as globalization and the impact of this capacious analytic category on urban policy and governance issues—one of the most central of which is privatization. Market Failures in U.S. Medicine Business interests increasingly call the shots in medical education and research. Such a trend is surprising, because medical education and research are costly, offer delayed results, and, ideally, benefit all—hardly, it would seem, the venue for profiteering. Remembering Daniel
Singer My friend Daniel Singer, in a piece he wrote for The Nation six years ago, said that he often felt like a deserter from the army of the dead because he escaped the Nazi roundup of Jews in Paris by walking across France to Switzerland. » DANIEL SINGER TRIBUTE IN NYC, MARCH 3RD, 2001 » ANNOUNCING THE DANIEL SINGER MILLENNIUM PRIZE About the Workers
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