12-21-06, 10:00 am

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