Against the Current, No. 105, July/August 2003
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What the Airline Crisis Shows
— The Editors -
"War on Terror" versus Native Sovereignty
— Andrea Smith -
Old and New War in Aceh
— Kurt Biddle -
France, Chirac and Bush's War
— Sophie Beroud and Patrick Silberstein -
The New Strike Wave
— Sophie Beroud and Patrick Silberstein -
A Voice for the Irish Left Wing
— Tommy McKearney -
Inside the Crony Wars
— Nomi Prins -
From Lynching to Lethal Injection
— Jan Boudart -
Random Shots: Iraq and a Hard Place
— R.F. Kampfer - The International Solidarity Movement
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Confronting the Occupation
— David Finkel -
The Israeli Army Shot My Brother
— Sophie Herndall -
Our Humanity in the Balance
— Carel Moiseiwitsch, Gordon Murray and Drew Penland -
One Day in Ramallah
— Daniella, ISM volunteer -
Palestine: Dying for Peace
— Louisville Middle East Peace Delegation - Discussing Cuba
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An Introduction
— The ATC Editors -
To the Conscience of the World
— a statement initiated by 10 prominent Mexicans -
A Statement by Solidarity
— Political Committee of Solidarity -
A Fourth International Statement
— Executive Bureau of the Fourth International -
Stop Bush's New Aggression Against Cuba
— statement initiated by the International ANSWER Coalition -
Oppose Repression in Cuba
— statement published by the Campaign for Peace and Democracy -
Why the Cubans Acted Now
— Joaquín Bustelo -
Cuba Makes Me Hurt
— Eduardo Galeano -
This Is Where I Get Off
— Jose Saramago -
Cuba: We Know, and So What?
— Alain Krivine - Reviews
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Rebel Pens, "Pencil Hands," and Labor Journalism
— Steve Early -
The Lost Art of "Scottsboro" in Linoleum Cuts
— James A. Miller -
Judith Ezekiel's Feminism in the Heartland
— Sonya Huber -
Tanya Reinhart's Israel/Palestine: How to End the 1948 War
— David Finkel - In Memoriam
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Julius Jacobson (1922-2003)
— Samuel Farber -
Michael Kidron (1939-2003)
— Samuel Farber -
Nina Simone: And She Meant Every Word of It!
— Kim D. Hunter
Sophie Beroud and Patrick Silberstein
WHILE THE WAR was devastating Iraq, the French government — pushed aside and reduced to pursuing its domestic agenda — continued its assaults on working people’s gains, particularly welfare and pensions. The population, however, resisted.
Hundreds of thousands of marchers and strikers, notably public workers and teachers, took to the streets as a “creeping general strike” of sorts spread through France.
This first round of the fight will be a “no victory, no defeat” stage. The government’s “reform” will be passed in Parliament, but the labor movement has recovered strength and confidence for the big battle to come on social security.
Chirac’s new popular legitimacy from his antiwar stand didn’t help him to push through these attacks. The fact is that Chirac is now the main crook in France living in the golden frame of old-time gaullism.
ATC 105, July-August 2003