In this month’s cover story, Joel Wendland examines the broad international campaign led by labor and youth to boycott Coca-Cola. Lawrence Albright addresses the history of public housing and the struggle against corporate interests. Ben Sears interviews labor activist and Communist Pat Barile. Ken Knies delves into the murky waters of Marxism and culture with fresh insights. On the international scene, Rémy Herrer q1 a, writing from France, gives background on the popular struggle by French youth and the French labor movement to defeat anti-worker laws proposed by the government. Find other articles on the real Slobodan Milosevic and his role in the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the US-Iran crisis as a struggle for dominance in the Middle East, the unity of labor and civil society groups in Europe against neoliberalism and much more.
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Departments:
04 Letters
06 Commentary
Bush’s Nuclear Threat
By Prasad Venugopal
Racing to Justice
By Vittorio Longhi
the Broken Back of Counterfeit Liberalism
By Karin S. Coddon
07 Marxist IQ
09 Nobody Asked Me, But...
By Don Sloan
12 Book Reviews
The Beijing Consensus
Reviewed by Gerald Horne
Against Gravity
Reviewed by Clara West
14 Poetry
London Elegy
By Luis L. Tijerina
Cleaning Up Your Mess
By Remi Kanazi
38 Fiction
Faith
By Karin S. Coddon
Features:
22 Coca-cola: Classic Union Buster
Unfair labor practices and environmental destruction have provoked an international boycott against Coke.
By Joel Wendland
16 The Trouble with Slobodan Milosevic
Slobodan Milosevic fostered nationalistic policies that led to violence and the eventual break-up of Yugoslavia.
By Goran Marcovic
20 To the Barricades: Youth Rock France with Revolt
French youth revolt against unfair labor laws.
By Rémy Herrera
26 Safe, Decent and Sanitary? The Rise and Decline of HUD
Public housing faces a severe crisis under Bush’s slash-and-burn budget policies.
By Lawrence Albright
30 The Value of Appreciation
Should Marxists only care about culture from a critical standpoint?
By Ken Knies
34 Turncoats and Red Herrings: How Anti-communism Divided Labor
Labor-union activist and Communist, Pat Barile, talks about labor’s struggle in the early cold war.
By Ben Sears
44 Conducido al Borde del Desastre
Lew Moye, trabajador de la industria del auto discute la crisis de la industria, y cómo fortalecer el sindicato de trabajadores.
