Political Affairs is a monthly magazine of ideology, politics, and culture. Our mission is to go beyond simply giving an account of events to providing analysis and investigating what is new and changing in our world -- from a working-class point of view.
In the pages of PA we start from the most basic fact of life: the ongoing struggle between the working class and the capitalist class. This conflict happens in the workplace, in the government, the courts, on the streets, but also in the realm of ideas. We publish stories on the struggle to defeat George W. Bush and his gang of far-right thugs, the labor movement, the battle for racial justice, the end to war and imperialism, women's equality, the fight against homophobia, and working-class views of popular culture and mass media.
While we are partisan, Marxism is not the private property of any person or group. We print a wide variety of views in our quest for truth. Discussion and debate are the only ways to develop better and more useful ideas to defeat the far right, strengthen working people, and build democracy. Political Affairs is a publication of the Communist Party, USA.
Editorial Collective
EDITOR:
Joe Sims
MANAGING EDITOR:
Joel Wendland
WEBSITE TEAM :
Lawrence Albright
Dylan Ryall
Joel Wendland
COPY EDITORS:
Gary Grass
Jane Gordon
Babette Grunow
Brandi Kishner
Matt Parker
Anne Wood
Peter Zerner
DESIGN/LAYOUT/COVER:
Jennie Santos
COVER/ILLUSTRATIONS:
Sam Heimer
DEPARTMENTS:
Book Reviews: Thomas Riggins
Health: Phil Benjamin
Poetry: Michael Shepler
Science: Prasad Venugopal
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS:
Anna Bates, Phillip Bonosky, Ron Bunyon, Gary Dotterman, Lewis E. Gordon, Arturo Griffiths, Wadi’h Halabi, Gerald Horne, Wally Kaufman, Ken Knies, Norman Markowitz, Erwin Marquit, Scott Marshall, Elena Mora, Dee Myles, Israel Smith, José Soler, James West.
