Notes from the Editors, October 2000
October 1, 2000
In an article on the role of third parties in U.S. presidential elections in the August 21, 2000, issue of In These Times, founding editor and publisher James Weinstein observed:… READ MORE
Articles
Social Security, the Stock Market, and the Elections
October 1, 2000
Social Security was the crowning achievement of Roosevelt’s New Deal. It has been the most successful and still remains the most popular of all U.S. government programs. More than a… READ MORE
SNCC: What We Did
October 1, 2000
Julian Bond was Communications Director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1960 until 1965, when he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. Today, he is Distinguished… READ MORE
Reply to Khalil Hassan
October 1, 2000
Steve Early is on the national staff of the Communications Workers of America (CWA). � Khalil Hassan’s contribution to your July/August 2000 issue (“The Future of the Labor Left”) attempts… READ MORE
Ecological Roots: Which Go Deepest?
October 1, 2000
Helena Sheehan teaches at the School of Communications at Dublin City University in Ireland. Foster, John Bellamy, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000), 300pp., $18,… READ MORE
Setting the Record Straight on the Korean War
October 1, 2000
Martin Hart-Landsberg teaches economics at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Korea: Division, Reunification and U.S. Foreign Policy (1998) and Rush to Development: Economic… READ MORE
The Neglected C.L.R. James
October 1, 2000
Paul Buhle teaches in the American Civilization Department at Brown University. His is the author of Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2000
September 1, 2000
In the United States, the creation of wealth is often presented as a process that benefits everyone within the society. A common shibboleth, made famous during the Kennedy administration, is… READ MORE
Socialism: A Time to Retreat?
September 1, 2000
Some wags claim that it is the conservatives who fear socialism, while the radicals believe that capitalism will last forever. Conservatives, they say, fear widespread popular discontent, while radicals abandon… READ MORE
Is Capitalism A Disease? The Crisis of US Public Health
September 1, 2000
Readers will note that this article is nearly twice the length of the normal MR piece, but because of the importance of the subject we are publishing it in its… READ MORE