January 2007 – Happy New Year!

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January 2006
Table of Contents

Departments

04 Letters

05 Marxist IQ

06 Commentary
    2006 Elections: A Referendum on the Iraq War
By PA editors

    Rejecting Reality
By Thomas Riggins

Lt. Ehren Watada Does His Duty        
By David Howard

Meanwhile...
By Peter Molenaar

The Sorrows of Regime Change        
By Ken Sanders

07 Marxist Marginalia
By Renzo Llorente

09 Nobody Asked Me, But...
By Don Sloan

12 Book Reviews
Take the Rich off Welfare                    
Reviewed by George Fish

The Yacoubian Building                      
Reviewed by Jane McCabe

16 Poetry
Super-powered: Foreign Policy        
By Everett Hoagland

Elegy to the Artist                            
By Dixie Salazar

Who Am I
By Laurence Goldstein

39 Fiction
Tragic Courier
By Sam Heimer

Features
Cover Story:

The Work of Karl Marx in the 21st Century
The socialist movement needs a new theory with which to confront capitalist globalization.                                
By Ricardo Alarcón

18  Primary Sources: The Politics, Poetry and Prose of Marge Piercy  
Artist-activist Marge Piercy talks about literature and social justice.

20 Getting it Right
Hotel workers get organized and fight back.                  
By David Bacon

30 Bolivar's Second Coming? Inside Venezuela's Controversial Revolution
A visit to Venezuela reveals a revolution that is changing lives.
By Brian Fitzpatrick

36 The Emir from Afghanistan
The shifting balance of forces in the Middle East demands new thinking.
By Reuven Kaminer

42 La obra de Carlos Marx y los desafios del Siglo XXI
Por Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada