July 2007 – Stop Immigration Raids

In this issue...

Immigration raids serve to break up union activity and to warn immigrant workers that they do not belong, writes PA contributing editor José A. Soler in this month’s cover story.
Soler also sketches an agenda for comprehensive immigration policy reform that respects the equality and dignity of all workers. Contributor Luis Tijerina provides a personal narrative of his experiences in the Mexican American immigrant working-class community. Contributing writer Lawrence Albright examines Dick Cheney’s imposing role in the Bush administration. Author Greg Grandin talks with PA about his latest book on US foreign policy and the rise of Latin America. Rémy Herrera discusses the foreign debt crisis faced by poor countries and the role of debt in blocking real development. PA contributing editors Thomas Riggins and Erwin Marquit write on different problems in Marxist thought.

In this issue please also find commentary, film reviews, book reviews, poetry and much more.

PA Editors

Departments:

04 Commentary
Spitzer, Cuomo and Paterson: Where Did You Go?
By Anthony Papa

Darfur, Oil, and the China Card
By Joe Sims

05 Marxist IQ

07 Letters

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

09 That's Capitalism

10 Book Reviews
Inequality: Social Class and its consequences
Reviewed by Clara West

Red Travellers: Jeanne Corbin and Her Comrades
Reviewed by Robert Lanning

12 Film Reviews
The Page Turner
Reviewed by Anna Bates

Haiti: We Should Kill the Bandits
Reviewed by Tim Pelzer

14 Poetry
Shoes By Liz Rosenberg
From ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
By Gary Hicks

35 International Notes
By Thomas Riggins

Features:

16 The Struggle of Mexican Migrant Workers in the US
Migrant workers deserve fair treatment.
By Luis Tijerina

20 Marxism, Monkeys and Morality
Has evolution provided humans with an innate sense of
fairness?
By Thomas Riggins

22 Class Struggle in a Socialist Market Economy
Using the market to win justice and equality.
By Erwin Marquit

24 Anatomy of an Incident: New Bedford Immigration Raid on Workers Rights
Immigration raids target workers’ rights activists.
By José A. Soler

28 God's Empire: The Christian Right and US Foreign Policy in Latin America
Latin American resistance to Christian imperialism.
By Tony Pecinovsky

32 Deep in Debt: Imperialism, Loans and Development
Foreign debt is imperialism’s tool to block development.
By Paulo Nakatani and Rémy Herrera

36 Ball and Cheney: How the Vice President is Dragging Down the Administration
The king behind the throne.
By Lawrence Albright

40 Justice in the City: A Review of Plato's Republic
By Kenneth Knies

44 La lucha de los trabajadores migrantes mejicanos en EEUU
Por Luis Lázaro Tijerina

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