Contents

Fatherland or Mother Earth?
Workers of the World Need Solidarity, Not War
Editors’ Note

Washington Uses Massive Bombing to Show the World Who’s Boss, Pushing Global “Free Market”–Walmartization of the World “Humanitarian” Aid to Kosovars Just a Pretext
by George Saunders

U.S./NATO Forces Take Action Against Kosovo Albanian Rebels

Spanish Fighter Pilots Admit NATO Purposely Attacked Civilian Targets
by José Luis Morales

Lies, Damn Lies, and Maps
How NATO and the Media Misrepresented the Chinese Embassy Bombing
by Jared Israel

New Study on the Problem of Nationalities
Historical Analysis Helps Shed Light on the Kosovo Situation
by Joe Auciello

Kosova Genocide: Made in USA
by Michael Karadjis

Kosova’s Long Struggle for Independence
by Doug Lorimer

Organized Labor and the Kosovo War
by Elaine Bernard

San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO) Resolution on the War in ex-Yugoslavia

The United Nations and Illusions Within the Antiwar Movement
by Ralph Schoenman

One Trade Unionist’s View
Why Labor Should Oppose NATO’s War Against Yugoslavia
by Jon Flanders

The Rotten Underside of Capitalism in the 1990s
The Tragedy at Littleton

by Tom Barrett

Political and Economic Crises Deepen in China
On the Eve of the Tenth Anniversary of the 1989 Movement for Democracy

an “October Review” Editorial

The Myth of the Spat-Upon Veteran
New Book Documents Pro-GI Policy of Movement Against the Vietnam War
Reviewed by Michael Livingston

Some Comments on the “Spat-Upon Veteran” Myth
by David Jones

A First-Rate Tool for Worker Activists
“Why Unions Matter” and the Labor-Radical Subculture
by Paul Le Blanc

New York Labor on the March Again — How to Maintain the Momentum?
by Andy Pollack

Hoffa’s First Contract: A Carhaul Deal
by Charles Walker

Teamster Notebook
by Charles Walker

Labor News Briefs
Rank-and-File Carpenters Wildcat For Democracy
by Charles Walker

Reading from Left to Right
Patients at Risk
by Joe Auciello

Labor Party Launches “Just Health Care” Campaign

Report from a Labor Party Chapter
A Debate on Labor’s Political Future

by Chris Driscoll

California AFL-CIO Defends Immigrant Workers Rights
Document from July 1998 Convention

Radical Left Government in Southern Brazil
Workers Party a Major Force in Rio Grande do Sul
by Mark Johnson

The City of Human Rights
Radical Left Government in Porto Alegre
by Mark Johnson

A Feminist Workers Government
Women’s Issues in the City of Porto Alegre
by Mark Johnson

The “Socialist Democracy” Current in the Rio Grande do Sul Workers Party
by Mark Johnson

Interview with Joaquim Soriano
Comments by a National Leader of “Socialist Democracy”

Basics of Socialism
What Is Capitalism?
by Paul Le Blanc

May Day and the Haymarket Martyrs
by W.T. Whitney, Jr.

Morris Lewit: Working-Class Revolutionary and Pioneer Leader of American Trotskyism (1903–1998)
by Paul Le Blanc and Michael Smith

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