Features

GOP Up A Tree? By Jarvis Tyner Bush is beatable. However the election is not decided. The left cannot afford to wait it out.

Swinging Votes in Missouri By Tony Pecinovsky SEIU members are organizing and mobilizing voters in the battleground state of Missouri.

Ballot Box Bandits By Joel Wendland The Bush administration will go to any length to rob our democratic rights by stealing votes.

Tower of Peace: Interview with David Potorti September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows organizer, David Potorti, discusses his criticism of the Bush administration’s use of 9/11 images for political gain and its foreign policy.

From the Ashes of the Old: Interview with David Laibman Using the USSR as an example, David Laibman describes the role of centralized planning and decentralized competition in a socialist society.

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Letters

Commentary Word Games By Marc Brodine

High-Tech Democracy? By Lance Miller The Honeymoon is Over By Barbara Collins

Marxist IQ

Book Reviews Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry Reviewed by Gerald Horne

Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism Reviewed by Beatrice Lumpkin

Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union Reviewed by Thomas Riggins

September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: Turning Our Grief into Action for Peace Reviewed by Clara West

Nobody Asked Me But… By Don Sloan

Poetry 'On the Border' By Don Gordon

'Immigrant' By Ruth Mark

'MIT at Night' By Marylin Zuckerman

Centennial of Pablo Neruda Towards an Impure Poetry By Pablo Neruda