In this issue our cover stories begins with Remy Herrera’s examination of Venezuela’s effort to emphasize the social in that country’s ongoing social revolution and continues with an interview of Carolys Pérez, a Communist Party activist. PA managing editor Joel Wendland discusses the momentum building around the fight for universal health care. Lawrence Albright ponders the secret inner workings of the bourgeois state and Owen Williamson surveys the far right’s tactics in maintaining dominance therein. Phil Rockstroh reviews the tragedy of New Orleans and Willie Madisha president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions discusses the problems confronting the trade union movement in Southern Africa. Finally, E. San Juan Jr. points to the genocidal policy inherent in the US domination of the Philippines in the 20th century and Tom Riggins debates the ideological origins of the Pol Pot genocide in Cambodia. We also have poems, a Marxist IQ and more. Let us know what you think.
By Owen Williamson
The ultra-right uses therapy and family friendly messages to pass along its antifamily ideology. Can the left take a hint?
56 How Did It Happen? Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
By Thomas Riggins
Was Pol Pot a Marxist? Was the Khmer Rouge a “Communist” movement?
66 La Batalla por el Congreso
Por Joelle Fishman
Las divisiones en el Partido Republicano están creciendo. ¿Podrán los Demócratas y las fuerzas políticas independentientes aprovecharse de estas divisiones y tomar el Congreso en el 2006?
