Contents

• Jon Bailes
  The Crisis of Capital: An Interview with Michael Perelman

  “We should not have to wait for collapses to do our work for us. If we stake everything on a collapse and then the economy recovers in a few months, we will be discredited, even though the present contradictions remain in place.”

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• David Macaray
  All Unions Must Die: Management’s Final Solution

  “When corporations found they couldn’t beat the union, couldn’t penetrate its core, they infiltrated it. They infiltrated it, found their way to the hallowed place, and extinguished the flame.”

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• Robert Fantina
  Bush, McCain and the U.S. Economy

  “That the nation has managed with seven years of George Bush as president is a testament to its resiliency, although Mr. Bush has brought the nation dangerously close to political and economic disaster. A McCain presidency might be sufficient to push it over the edge.”

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• Ismael Hossein-zadeh
  Worried about Price of Gas? End U.S. Wars

  “Neoconservative forces in and around the Bush administration and beneficiaries of war dividends – wishing to deflect attention away from war as the main culprit for the skyrocketing energy prices – tend to blame secondary or marginally relevant factors.”

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• Michael Barker
  Capital-driven Civil Society

  “It is the more subtle support that democracy manipulators provide to progressive activist organizations that are the most important yet least understood part of their activities.”

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• Eric Walberg
  The Greatest African

  “We can certainly see in retrospect how the principle of ‘divide and conquer’ has been well served, as Africa continues to disintegrate into ‘independent’ states, urged on by the West, just as this strategy is used today to create more and more statelets throughout the world subservient to Western interests.”

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• Dennis Chapman
  Feeling Is Better than Being: Capital(ism) Security in the Twenty-First Century

  “Why does the West prioritise feeling over being secure? The answer is down to the very essence of capitalism, which is the growth of wealth atop symbols which help to inflate the perception of value, so that bets on the future can fuel the economy of today.”

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• Girish Mishra
  Globalization and Culture

  “The chasm between India’s educated elite and its impoverished multitudes is widening. The near infatuation with information technology and the rush to integrate India with the global economy is leaving the poor and the poorer states further behind.”

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• Little Big Pine
  American Apocalypse (Poetry)

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• Paula Cerni
  Atheism Is Not Enough: A Socialist Dare to Religion and Science

  “Science cannot win the battle on behalf of reason while chained to an irrational social order. It will only prevail when, instead of being used to build weapons that annihilate entire cities, it is used to wipe out entirely preventable diseases that kill millions every year.”

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• Farzana Versey
  India and the Dalai Lama’s Middling Path

  “The Dalai Lama’s famous ‘middle path’ is the biggest cop-out. It works only at the level of Hollywood art-house cinema and to make sure that Richard Gere remains the certified American gigolo of the movement.”

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