8-27-07, 12:00 pm

In this issue...

Contributing writer Peter Zerner looks at the 2008 presidential election and discusses one of the most popular non-candidates – Al Gore. Marc Brodine writes on the links between our political and economic organization and the global climate crisis. Long-term change is needed, he argues, but we need to act now. Lawrence Albright revives the issue of environmental racism and its impact on communities of color. Historian Gerald Meyer reviews the recent documentary on the life of progressive artist Alice Neel and fills in the gaps. Brian Fitzpatrick visits Nicaragua and asks whether the Sandinista movement has what it takes to revitalize that country’s struggle for democracy and socialism. PA Editor Joe Sims looks at the record and compares former President Jimmy Carter to Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Who is more progressive?

Also, please find book reviews, poetry, debate, and more….

PA Editors

Departments:

04 Letters

05 Exchange No Monkeying With Marxist Morality By Frank Chapman

07 Marxist IQ

08 Commentary

Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, and the Run for the Presidency By Peter Zerner

Is Jimmy Carter to the Left of Tony Blair? By Joe Sims

Gaza and After By Hannah Amireh

11 That's Capitalism By Owen Williamson

12 Book Reviews The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Reviewed by Martha Kramer

The Dust of Empire Reviewed by Emilian Kavalski

Flight Reviewed by Clara West

15 Movie Review Hard Road Home Reviewed by Anthony Papa

16 Poetry Alone with the Shoe Manufacturer in his Memorial Park By Liz Rosenberg

The Carpenter Uses Nails: American Soldiers in Vietnam and Iraq By Luis Lázaro Tijerina

Leopardi at Chavez Ravine - 1946 By Michael Shepler

35 International Notes

39 Fiction The Shadow Man, part I By Karin Coddon

Features:

Cover Story Nature, Society and Human Survival Marxist thinkers need to reinvent a “green socialism.” By Marc Brodine

18 Slam Dump: The Biological War Against Communities of Color In the hubbub about the environment, let’s not forget environmental racism in our local communities. By Lawrence Albright

26 Exposed! Police Brutality in Buffalo Race-based police brutality persists in Buffalo, New York. By Chris Stevenson

30 Ending the War: Peace Activists Meet to Chart Course Peace activists meet to chart a future course. By Ben Sears

32 Nicaragua’s Sandinistas: A Born Again Social-Democratic Movement Can Nicaragua’s Sandinistas revitalize social democracy in that country? By Brian Fitzpatrick

36 Alice Neel: A Review The hidden story of artist Alice Neel. By Gerald Meyer

44 Puntos de enfoque pa ra una perspectiva de izquierda en el debate sobre la inmigración Por Emile Schepers