January/February • Vol 7, No. 1
Labor
By the Editors
Meatpacking Hell: Blood, Cold, Heat, Gore
By Jane Slaughter
North Carolina Smithfield Workers Win Against the Odds
By Scott Marshall
Why Unions Must Support The Immigrant Rights Movement
By Karega Hart
That Our Children May Have Peace
By Gregg Shotwell
United States
Robin Hood in Reverse: The Corporate Looting of the Gulf Coast
By Bill Quigley
By Bonnie Weinstein
Friedman Made Right Call On Legalization
By Robyn Blumner
Plunging Dollar Will Set World Markets Reeling
By Heather Stewart
Economic Empire Building: The Centrality of Corruption
By James Petras
A New Class War: Haves vs. Have Mores
By Eric Konigsberg
Witness: Abu-Jamal Didn�t Do It
By Valerie Russ
Live from Death Row
By Mumia Abu-Jamal
Latin America
Mexican Government Steps Up Repression in Oaxaca
By Rafael Azul
Cuba: Winning The War Against Imperialism
By C. P. Chandrasekhar
Raul Castro Urges Students to Fearlessly Debate Problems of Their Revolution
By Maria Julia Mayoral and Katia Siberia Garcia
The Atrocities of Augusto Pinochet and the United States
By Roger Burbach
An Open Letter to the People and Government of the US
By James Petras
�It�s My Party, and I�ll Cry If I Want to�: Chavez Moves Forward
By Michael A. Lebowitz
Middle East
A Dictator Created Then Destroyed by America
By Robert Fisk
The Low Profile: CNN and the New York Times Execute a Denial of History
By John Collins
Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do
By Michael Moore
Diplomat�s Suppressed Document Lays Bare the Lies Behind Iraq War
By Colin Brown and Andy McSmith
Don�t Count on the Democrats to End the Iraq War
By Marjorie Cohn
New Memories for Beit Hanina�s Children
By Mike Odetalla
Arsenal of Marxism
By Walter Lippmann
�If We Are United, We Cannot Lose!�
By Sylvia Weinstein
Letters to the Editor
Back Cover