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Issue 82: March–April 2012
NATO and G8: Enforcers for the global 1%
Analysis
Lance Selfa
Election 2012: Abandon all hope?
Mostafa Ali
Year one of the Egyptian Revolution
A member of Egypt’s Revolutionary Socialists interviewed on the revolution’s first anniversary
Dave Zirin on the soccer riots in Egypt
Enforcers for the global 1%
Shaun Harkin
Protest, repression, and the summits
Rahm Emanuel’s plan to host the NATO and G8 summits in Chicago this Spring and what activists can expect
Eric Ruder
A primer on NATO and G8
What are NATO and the G8 and why you should oppose them
Column
Phil Gasper • Critical Thinking
Marxism, morality, and human nature
Marx rejected bourgeois morality in favor of an ethics of human emancipation
Features
Olivier Besancenot
From Paris to New York: The struggle against neoliberalism
A French socialist speaks on the fight against capitalism
Ahmed Mohammed
Bahrain and the Arab Spring
A Bahraini activist speaks about Bahrain’s rebellion and what the future holds
Cary Nelson
Welcome to the surveillance campus
A university professor discusses the denial of free speech and civil liberties on US campuses
Sam Farber
Cuba’s future: an assessment
A speech by Sam Farber, author of a new book on Cuba
John Riddell
The periphery pushes back
Policy initiatives from below in Lenin’s International
Megan Behrent
Education, literacy, and revolution
A look at the struggle for a liberatory education in revolutionary Russia
Reviews
Paul Leblanc
Revisiting permanent revolution
Review of Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido’s Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record
…plus Hadas Thier on capitalism in the Gulf Arab states; Leela Yellesetty on the unfinished revolution in gender roles; Roger Annis on Haiti: from independence to occupation; Phil Gasper on Alex Callinicos’ The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx; Julien Ball on the Sacco and Vanzetti trial; Khury Petersen-Smith on twenty-first century colonialism in the Pacific; Rory Fanning on the war on terror; Ron Jacobs on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers; and Dan Sharber on a Marxist view of the environmental crisis
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