Against the Current, No. 142, September/October 2009
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Letter from the Editors: Health Care Reform
— Milton Fisk -
Race and Class: African Americans in a Sick System
— Malik Miah -
Resisting the Gutting of CUNY
— Carolina Bank-Muñoz, Scott Dexter and Tara Mulqueen -
LA Teachers Face the Crisis
— interview with UTLA activist -
Jazz in the New Depression
— interview with Connie Crothers -
Three Decades of Iranian Women's Activism
— Catherine Sameh -
Egyptian Labor Erupting
— Atef Said -
Egypt's Long Labor History
— Atef Said -
Disasters You Can Believe In
— David Finkel -
A Cosmetic Cover for Occupation
— Purnima Bose -
Ecuador: Left Turn?
— Marc Becker - Views on Cuba
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Cuba Today
— Katherine Gordy -
A Fifty-year Old Process
— Antonio Carmona Báez -
Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
— Michael Löwy - Reviews
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Dissecting Congo's Modern Holocaust
— Nnenna Okeke -
Timeline of the Congo Conflict
— Nnenna Okeke -
A Mandel for All Seasons
— Alan Wald - In Memoriam
- J. David Edelstein
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Joe Frantz, 1950-2009
— Mike Parker - Dialogue
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The Politics of Victor Serge
— Ernie Haberkern -
A Rejoinder: The Real Victor Serge
— Susan Weissman
J. DAVID EDELSTEIN, an ardent socialist all his life, died July 20, 2009 in Syracuse, NY at age 90. Dave was an at-large member of Solidarity and supporter of the Socialist Party USA; his life in the socialist movement dated back to the Workers Party and Independent Socialist League of the 1940s and 1950s.
Dave was a professor of sociology at Syracuse University and Northern Illinois University. He was keenly interested in union democracy and its potential lessons for the structure and institutions of a future democratic socialist society. His study of voting in unions resulted in a book co-authored with Malcolm Warner, Comparative Union Democracy: Organization and Opposition in British and American Unions (Transaction Publishers, 1979).
Dave is survived by his wife Ruth R. Greenberg-Edelstein and children Daniel and June, grandchildren Susan and Jacob, a niece Beth and two nephews Steven and Jeff.
ATC 142, September-October 2009