The Illusions of Empire
June 1, 2004
Bashir Abu-Manneh teaches English at Barnard College. This article is an abridged version of his introduction to a symposium he edited on Michael Hardt’s and Antonio Negri’s Empire (Harvard University… READ MORE
Articles
Puerto Rican Obituary
June 1, 2004
“Puerto Rican Obituary” was first read in 1969 at a rally in support of the Young Lords Party, an anti-imperialist Latino youth group in New York. Like the Black Panther… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2004
May 1, 2004
Although private corporations under capitalism have always been heavily involved in promoting war, the direct role played by the private sector in the prosecution of war has traditionally been quite… READ MORE
The Pentagon and Climate Change
May 1, 2004
Climate Collapse: The Pentagon’s Weather Nightmare —Fortune, February 9, 2004 Now the Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change Will Destroy Us —Observer (London), February 22, 2004 Pentagon-Sponsored Climate Report Sparks Hullabaloo… READ MORE
Ideology and Economic Development
May 1, 2004
Michael A. Lebowitz is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, and is the author of Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (Palgrave Macmillan,… READ MORE
Silencing the Cells: Mass Incarceration and Legal repression in U.S. Prisons
May 1, 2004
Richard D. Vogel is an independent socialist writer. He is currently working on a history of the U.S. conquest and exploitation of the Mexican people � � People without a… READ MORE
Self-Reflection and Revolution
May 1, 2004
Astra Taylor has taught sociology at the University of Georgia and SUNY New Paltz. � Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975 (San Francisco: City Lights,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2004
April 1, 2004
This is the fourth in a continuing series of special issues on the economy to which we have devoted the magazine each April since 2001. In the first of these,… READ MORE
The Stagnation of Employment
by The Editors
April 1, 2004
Except in times of war, capitalist economies almost never reach full employment. The mere absence of jobs for those desiring paid employment, however, is not necessarily a problem for the… READ MORE
Disposable Workers: Today’s Reserve Army of Labor
by Fred Magdoffand Harry Magdoff
April 1, 2004
Fred Magdoff is professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont in Burlington. He is author of numerous scientific articles; coauthor, with Harold van Es, of Building… READ MORE