Against the Current No. 17, November/December 1988
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Paralysis and Change in Eastern Europe
— The Editors -
Bernie Sanders: Campaign for Congress
— David Finkel -
A Year of the Palestinian Uprising
— Edward C. Corrigan - Phtographers and the Israeli Army
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Activists Discuss Antiracist Unity
— Andy Pollack - Afghanistan, the War and the Future
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Introduction to Afghanistan, the War and the Future
— The Editors -
Afghanistan at the Crossroads
— Val Moghadam -
A Failed Revolution from Above
— R.F. Kampfer - Mexico in Crisis
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Introduction to Mexican Elections and the Left
— The Editors -
Toward a Unified Left Perspective
— Arturo Auguiano - Opposition Political Parties in Mexico, 1988
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For a Revolutionary Alternative
— Manuel Aguilar Mora - Music for the Movements
- Music for the Movements: Two Interviews
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Billy Bragg: Alive and Dubious
— Peter Thomson interviewing Bill Bragg -
"A Simple Squatter from NYC..."
— Peter Thomson interviewing Michelle Shocked - Dialogue
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Revolutionaries in the 1950s
— Samuel Farber -
Life in a Vanguard Party
— Stan Weir -
Another View of W.J. Wilson
— Washington-Baltimore ATC Study Group -
Big Red Fred: 1927-1988
— Theodore Edwards - Reviews
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Whose Team Are You On?
— Marian Swerdlow -
Poetry, Politics -- and Passion
— Patrick M. Quinn -
Guatemala in Midpassage
— Jane Slaughter
FREELANCE PHOTO JOURNALIST Neal Cassidy, wounded by a plastic bullet fired by Israeli soldiers in Nablus October 18, 1988 was the first foreign journalist hit by live fire while covering the intifada. Cassidy was in the West Bank with Frontline reporter Phyllis Bennis.
The same day, five-year-old Ziya Jihad Fayez Haj-Mohammed died after six hours of emergency surgery at Al-lttihad hospital The boy, standing outside his own Nablus home, was shot by a soldier on an adjoining roof at less than twenty meters distance.
Bennis, who was able to obtain a photograph of the dying child in the operating room, says, “At least two bullets had caused massive injury to his liver, stomach, spleen and left lung. His death was ultimately caused by suffocation, when his perforated lung aspirated particles of food from the sandwich the child had been eating when shot.”
When a hospital surgeon described the Palestinian child’s condition to an Israeli army medic, the medic responded “thls is good — to prevent everything (in the uprising) from happening.”
Soldiers came to the room in the same hospital where Neal Cassidy, the wounded American photographer was being treated, demanding that he be transferred to an Israeli hospital. “I have had enough of your hospitality, and I refuse,” Cassidy replied.
November-December 1988, ATC 17