PA Editor Joe Sims looks critically at the presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Obama and asks, “Who is afraid of Barack Obama?” Emile Schepers provides some talking points for the left on the immigration issue. Annie Fox relates details about a Miami protest at a recent Bush event. John Bachtell examines the latest technological developments and their impact on the working class. Child labor is based on the global corporate drive for profits and can be eliminated with anti-poverty programs and compulsory education, writes Rémy Herrera. PA contributing editor Norman Markowitz asserts that while Bush is bad, he may not be the worst president in US history.
Also, please find poems by Guantánamo Bay detainees, books reviews, and much more.
PA Editors
Departments
04 Letters
05 Marxist IQ
06 Commentary
Why Labor Needs a Press
By Bill Witherup
How Much is She Worth?
By Nooshin Shabani
07 That’s Capitalism
By Owen Williamson
09 CD Review
Michael Brecker’s Pilgrimage
By Lawrence Albright
10 Book Reviews
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of American Internment
Reviewed by Phil E. Benjamin
The Coming China Wars: They Will be Fought, Can be Won
Reviewed by Gerald Horne
14 Poetry
Poems by Guantanamo Detainees
By Andrew Grossman
17 International Notes
By Thomas Riggins
41 Fiction
Winter of Our Discontent
By J.M. Hoffman
Features
24 Cover Story
Who's Afraid of Barack Obama?
Barack Obama’s candidacy has some in a tizzy. Is it worth supporting him?
By Joe Sims
14 Abolish Child Labor
The only work children should be doing is school work.
By Rémy Herrera
32 Cyber-democracy and the Struggle for Access: Talking with Sydney Levy
Public ownership of broadband could help everyone get connected in the 21st century economy.
By Noel Rabinowitz
34 High-Tech Capitalism and the Class Struggle
How computers affect production and workers.
By John Bachtell
38 Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Marxism
The ultra-right’s aversion to science is a tool of class hegemony.
By Thomas Riggins
