Marx, Markets and Meatgrinders: An Interview with Bertell Ollman
Editor’s Note: Bertell Ollman is a professor of political science at New York University. He worked in the middle 1960s as an adviser to the Michael Manly government in Jamaica. He invented the board game Class Struggle. He is the author of numerous books on Marxism, most recently, How to Take and Exam…and Remake the World, Ballbuster?: True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman, and Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marxist Methods.
Speak Easy, Speak Free: Sonia Sanchez Talks about Language
We writers have a passionate love affair with words – words that quite often don’t just get on the page but [actually] jump out at you.
Sequel to a Disaster: Bhopal Victims Demand Justice
Editors note: PA science editor Prasad Venugopal interviewed members of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal last April. Bhopal, India is the site of one of the worst industrial disasters in history. Over 18 years later the people of Bhopal are still demanding justice. Venugopal spoke with Krishnaveni Gundu and Nityanand Jayaraman. Readers can find out more at the ICJB website: .
Stage Left: Interview with Oskar Eustis
PA: Is theater tackling today’s big ideas and issues?
OE: Perhaps more than some people give it credit for, but never enough...
An Accidental Activist
Kathryn Blume, co-founder of the Lysistrata Project, an internationally successful theatrical act of dissent, has written and is performing a new play, The Accidental Activist, the debut production for her fledgling theater company, Mighty Ruckus.
Dying to Make a Living
Jaribu Hill is the director of the Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights in Greenville, Mississippi. She spoke with Political Affairs in May 2003.
The Other Superpower
Editor’s Note: Mike Ferner spent the month of February 2003 in Baghdad and Basra, with Voices in the Wilderness. He is Communications Coordinator for the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy and a member of Veterans for Peace. His articles have appeared in CounterPunch, truthout.org and Common Dreams.
