What's Behind the English-only Movement?

What's Behind the English-Only Campaign?

In this print edition...

• Who’s Got Your Tongue? What's Behind the English-Only Campaign, by Emile Schepers
• Russia, China and the New Cold War, by Gerald Horne
• Capitalism's End Times: A Review of Kevin Phillips' AMERICAN THEOCRACY, by Anthony Monteiro
• The Legacy of the Cultural Front: an Interview with Alan Wald
• Current Letters (updated 7-25-06)
• Current Poetry (updated 7-25-06)

Seizing any weapon with which to attack the growing movement for immigrant workers’ rights, the Republican Party and the right wing have found a new gripe: the recording of a Spanish-language version of the national anthem.

One of the signal aspects of US imperialism today is how it consistently overestimates its strength. This underscores the fiasco that the illegal and criminal invasion of Iraq has become.

Kevin Phillips’ American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century is a stunning political and intellectual achievement.

As a socialist, I favor university intellectuals finding a way to relate to working people, especially rank-and-file labor organizations. At the least, intellectuals might be involved in community organizations – but as learners as much as teachers.