New Politics Vol. XII, No. 4, Whole Number 48

Articles We Call for the United States to End Its Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan! CAMPAIGN FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY Women’s Work, Mother’s Poverty: are men’s wages the best cure for women’s economic insecurity? Gwendolyn Mink Paid Family and Medical Leave Randy Albelda and Betty Reid Mandell Feminism in "Waves": Useful Metaphor or Not? Linda Nicholson Nor Meekly Serve Her Time: Riots and Resistance in Women's Prisons Victoria Law Still fighting: Interview with Judi Chamberlin Betty Reid Mandell Card Check: Labor's Charlie Brown Moment? Robert Fitch What Happened to the American Working Class? Dan La Botz Why We Need a Global Green New Deal Ashley Dawson Village Elections in China -- Democracy or Façade? Richard Levy Iranian Workers say: "We have nothing to lose but our unpaid wages" Yassamine Mather The Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews in World War II Rossen Vassilev Card Check: Labor's Charlie Brown Moment? (part 2) Robert Fitch India: General Elections 2009 and the Neoliberal Consensus Ravi Kumar Symposium Special Section: Women's Issues Review Birds and Cages: Reading Sex and the State in Janet Afary's Sexual Politics in Modern Iran Amy Littlefield Letters

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FROM THE EDITORS

LETTERS

• An exchange on Anarchism and Socialism: Wayne Price and Marvin Mandell

STATEMENT ON THE U. S. WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN, Campaign for Peace and Democracy

SPECIAL SECTION: WOMEN’S ISSUES

• WOMEN’S WORK, MOTHER’S POVERTY, Gwendolyn Mink
  
  
• PAID FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE, Randy Albelda and Betty Reid Mandell
  
  
• FEMINISM IN “WAVES”: USEFUL METAPHOR OR NOT? Linda Nicholson
  
  
• NOR MEEKLY SERVE HER TIME, Victoria Law
  
  
• BIRDS AND CAGES, Amy Littlefield's review of Janet Afary, Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
  
  
• STILL FIGHTING: INTERVIEW WITH JUDI CHAMBERLIN, Betty Reid Mandell

CARD CHECK: LABOR’S CHARLIE BROWN MOMENT? Robert Fitch

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS?Dan La Botz

WHY WE NEED A GLOBAL GREEN NEW DEAL, Ashley Dawson

INDIA: GENERAL ELECTIONS (2009) AND THE NEOLIBERAL CONSENSUS, Ravi Kumar

VILLAGE ELECTIONS IN CHINA — DEMOCRACY OR FAÇADE, Richard Levy

IRANIAN WORKERS SAY: “WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR UNPAID WAGES”, Yassamine Mather

A MODEST PROPOSAL, Bill Littlefield

THE RESCUE OF BULGARIA’S JEWS IN WORLD WAR II, Rossen Vassilev

BOOK REVIEWS

• Michael Hirsch, CHRONICLING THE THIRTY YEARS WAR, rev. of Steve Early, Embedded with Organized Labor
  
  
• Melvin Dubofsky, TERRORISTS AND THEIR FOES, rev. of Beverly Gage, The Day Wall St. Exploded
  
  
• George Fish, MIXED BAG: INSIGHTFUL ECOLOGICAL MUCKRAKING TAINTED WITH POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, rev. of Jeffrey St. Clair, Born Under a Bad Sky
  
  
• Michael Löwy, LETTERS FROM BARCELONA, rev. of G.-R. Horn, Letters from Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War
  
  
• Austin McCoy, CROSSING THE STREAM TOGETHER, rev. of Staughton and Alice Lynd, Stepping Stones
  
  
• John Pittman, A HARD-NOSED CASE FOR ETHICAL SOCIALISM, rev. of G. A. Cohen, Why Not Socialism?
  
  
• Jason Schulman, CHALLENGING “AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM,” rev. of Robin Archer, Why Is There No Labor Party in the U.S.?
  
  
• Michael Wreszin, ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO BUNK! rev. of D. Guttenplan, American Radical (I.F. Stone)
  
  
• Alexander Billet, BEATS, RHYMES, AND POWER, rev. of Marcus Reeves, Somebody Scream!

WORDS AND PICTURES

• Tom Kaczynski with introduction by Kent Worcester