This issue is devoted to taking on the Bush agenda in both its international and domestic forms. It is an agenda of war and imperialism abroad and a vicious attack on working people here at home.
PA’s managing editor examines some of the myths about Social Security conjured up by the privatizers. It is basically a sound and cost-effective program that keeps tens of millions out of poverty. Debbie Bell focuses on the history of a public housing project in Philadelphia and asks, is public housing the next target of the privatizers? David Lawrence scrutinizes the racial disparities that keep some Americans out of the reach of quality health care.
PA contributing editor Gerald Horne examines current problems, including the falling dollar, confrontations with China and the US’s growing trade problems, that pose threats to US global dominance. Ron Bunyon, Jr. brings some perspective on the struggle to free Haiti one year after the US-backed coup that ousted Aristide.
Communist Party Chair Sam Webb sounds off on the election and the battle forward. Joelle Fishman provides some analysis and close scrutiny of the tactics the far right used to give Bush a razor thin edge on November 2.
All of this and more…inside.
In struggle,
PA Editors
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