11-27-06, 12:00 pm

DEPARTMENTS 04 Letters

06 Commentary

From Cuba to Queens: Who Needs a Revolution More? By Diana Barahona

The State Should Target the Real Drug Kingpins By Anthony Papa

Colombia's Paramilitaries Go Legit? By James J. Brittain

05 Marxist IQ

07 Nobody Asked Me, But... By Don Sloan

10 Book Reviews Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Reviewed by Alejandra Juárez

Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist islam Reviewed by Gerald Horne

12 Poetry From Exile to Revolution By Sava Radakovich

The Everyday Injustice By Konrad Cukla

Casualties By Dixie Salazar

41 Fiction The Construction Worker By Kenneth W. Smallwood

FEATURES cover story:

20- A Prescription for Failure: Rx Reform and the Republican Medicare Gap Republican-authored Medicare reform continues to hurt seniors. By Edward McKinney

14- Mine and Seek, the Hidden Killers Millions of unexploded landmines around the world lie in wait to kill thousands each year. By Nooshin Shabani

16- Freedom Bound: Eric Foner Talks about his New Book Myths about the post-Civil War era are exploded in this timely interview.

24- Privatized Schools Don't Make the Grade Private education corporations are failing our children. By Lawrence Albright

28- Down the Street from the Death House A personal look at the struggle to end the death penalty. By Meg Brizzolara

32- Written in Red: Phillip Bonosky's Contribution to American Letters Writer Phillip Bonosky's contributions to American letters should be remembered and celebrated. By Norman Markowitz

36- More than a Slogan: Democracy and the Class Struggle Democracy is more than just voting every other November. By Gary Tedman

44- Las escuelas privadas sacan malas calificaciones Por Lawrence Albright