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May 2006 – Celebrate May Day, May 1


Archives - Dates and Topics 2006 – print May click here for related stories: imperialism/globalization

4-25-06, 11:00 am


Kenneth Hermann provides a searing indictment of hypocritical US policy that recognizes the suffering of US Vietnam War veterans due to the devastating use of agent Orange during the war, but refuses to recognize the millions of Vietnamese suffering as well. Lawrence Albright looks at the history and contemporary situation of jazz in the US. Filmmaker Ken Keating discusses his new movie Giuliani Time. In her latest commentary, welfare rights activist Pat Gowens points to links between mothers in Wisconsin and Israel, as governments in both places have privatized welfare/workfare services to the same company. Beatrice Lumpkin takes us on a journey through industrial America in her story “Mary, Toll and Die Maker.” Joel Wendland provides a peek at the struggles to hold the World Peace Forum in Vancouver, BC. Please also take a look at our book reviews, commentary, the quiz, and much more. Keep sending us your letters to let us know what you think, what you agree or disagree with, and what we should be covering.

In struggle,

PA Editors


Deparments:




Celebrate May Day (illustration by Victor Velez)
04 Letters

07 Commentary
Global Women’s Strike: Struggles and Celebrations
By Pat Gowens

Inside Job: Union Organizing Today
By Carl Lipscombe

East Timor Counts Its Dead
By Dale Mills

09 Marxist IQ

11 Nobody Asked Me But
By Don Sloan

12 Book Reviews
Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life
Reviewed by Clara West

How to Read Hitler
Reviewed by Tony Pecinovsky

Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers: Conversations with Jewish Critics of Israel
Reviewed by George Fish

Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They’ll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)
Reviewed by Gerald Horne

16 Poetry
War Upon You
By Daniel McGinn

Shock Treatment
By Chris Butters

21 Film review
Giuliani Time
Reviewed by Eric Green

39 Fiction
Mary, Tool and Die Maker
By Beatrice Lumpkin

Features:



26 Killing Me Softly: How Agent Orange Murders Vietnam's Children
By Kenneth J. Hermann
While the US government has acknowledged the harm caused by Agent Orange on US veterans, it has refused to accept responsibility for Vietnamese victims.

18 A Man Who Would be King: Director Kevin Keating Talks About his New Film
New York filmmaker discusses newest release, Giuliani Time.

22 All That Jazz: Will the People’s Music Survive?
By Lawrence Albright
Jazz has a rich history, but is it still the people’s music?

30 Behind the GOP Attack on Science
By David Zink
The Bush administration hates science. Why?

34 Ain’t Gonna Study War: World Peace Forum 2006
By Joel Wendland
International peace activistsfight to hold a forum in Vancouver, Canada.

36 Marxism ad the Nature of Progress
By Erwin Marquit
Marxist philosophy takes scientific approaches to understanding nature.

45 Foro Mundial Por la Paz 2006: Por Una Cultura de Paz y Un Mundo Sostenible
Por Joel Wendland
Activistas por la paz de todo el mundo luchan por llevar a cabo un foro en Vancouver, Canadá





 

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