NAFTA’s Knife: Class Warfare Across the U.S.-Mexico Border
David Bacon, The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 348 pages, cloth $27.50. I once heard a discussion about the first sentences...
View ArticleThe Right Not to Work: Power and Disability
I have a confession to make: I do not work. I am on SSI.1 I have very little work value (if any), and I am a drain on our country’s welfare system. I have another confession to make: I do not think...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Frustrating Decade of Freedom: From Racial to Class Apartheid
The end of the apartheid regime was a great human achievement. Yet the 1994 election of an African National Congress (ANC) majority-with Nelson Mandela as the new president-did not alter the enormous...
View ArticleThe Escalating War Against Corporate Media
A recurring issue for the left historically has been how to address the capitalist media. In recent years the problem has grown ever more severe, and no small amount of attention has been given to...
View ArticleMarch 2004, Volume 55, Number 10
» Notes from the Editors We were enormously pleased to publish in the November 2002 issue of MR Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins’s “Stephen Jay Gould: What Does it Mean to Be a Radical?”...
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