Contents

• Doug Dowd
  Latin America: Spitting in Uncle Sam’s Eye

  “Up to now no revolution has been able to create a lasting and fully democratic society; or even to come close. But there is some reason to believe that at least some of the Latin American nations will be the first to do so — and that, if and when that happens, they will be leading a parade of the others.”

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• Paul Chatterton
  The Zapatista Caracoles and Good Governments: The Long Walk to Autonomy

  “The Good Government Juntas represent both the poetic, populist and the practical nature of the Zapatista struggle to build workable alternatives of autonomy locally, link present politics to traditional ways of organising life in indigenous communities, and contrast with the ‘bad government’ of official representational politics in Mexico City.”

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• Norman Madarasz
  Where to with Lula in his Second Term? From Political Corruption to Legalization of Narcotics

  “True to Foucault’s concept, in Brazil’s dense web of public sector ‘illegalism’, one’s only corrupt when the opposition declares it.”

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• Gideon Polya
  South America, US Hegemony and Excess Mortality

  “Lack of Cuban style health-related conditions has cost the lives of about 40 million South American children over the last 6 decades. Better dead than Red imposed by Uncle Sam on the utterly innocent – no ‘right to life’ for South American infants under brutal American hegemony.”

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• Chris Carlson
  Venezuela in the Center of the World

  “In Venezuela they have demonstrated that there are alternatives to free-market neoliberalism. With consistently high growth rates over the last few years, Venezuela now has one of the fastest growing economies in the world.”

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• Bryon Howell
  The Underground Jail-road and other poems (Poetry)

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• Ismael Hossein-zadeh
  Escalating Military Spending: Income Redistribution in Disguise

  “Preservation, justification, and expansion of the military-industrial colossus, especially of the armaments industry and other Pentagon contractors, have become critical big business objectives in themselves.”

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• Ron Jacobs
  1968 to 2007 – Antiwar Student Movements in the US: Then and Now

  “When everything is branded it becomes considerably more difficult to separate one’s existence from that reality. At the January 27th protest against the war in Iraq there were people holding signs opposed to the war that were distributed by Working Assets Communications Company and included their corporate logo.”

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• Daniel Moshenberg & Ronald Wesso
  Housing, Questions, and the Rule of Law

  “How is it that the only social housing programme worth speaking of today, and for the last fifteen years, anywhere in the world, is, and has been, prison?”

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• Girish Mishra
  FDI in Retail Trade is Ruinous

  “The neo-rich need shining mega marts not shabby retail shops. They are not bothered about what happens to the rest of the population.”

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• Ed Kinane
  It’s a Dog’s Life

  “Ours is a world where so many have so little. It’s a world where affluence often comes at the price of others’ impoverishment. Affluence also comes at the price of denying future generations resources and opportunities. Our privilege is far from sustainable.”

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• Little Big Pine
  Everything They Teach You to Fear You Must Become (Poetry)

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