Against the Current, No. 139, March/April 2009
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Crisis and Coronation
— The Editors -
The Economy in a World of Trouble
— interview with Robert Brenner -
Race and Class: Downturn Undermines Black "Middle Class"
— Malik Miah -
Richmond, CA vs. Chevron
— Mike Parker & Margaret Jordan -
Stirring Up Racism
— Mike Parker & Margaret Jordan -
Critical Resistance at 10
— Kristian Williams -
The Battle for Puerto Rico's Labor Movement
— Rafael Bernabe - Health Care Unions at War
- Socialist Feminist Writings
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Intersectionality Coming Alive
— Stephanie Luce -
Foremothers and Fathers
— Nancy Holmstrom -
Meeting Alexandra Kollontai
— Abra Quinn -
Feminism, The Global Struggle
— Purnima Bose - After the Destruction of Gaza
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After the Destruction
— The Editors -
The Future of Israel/Palestine
— Jeff Halper -
Selected Bibliography
— Jeff Halper -
Ethnic Cleansing: Palestine Reality
— Joel Finkel - Reviews
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Toward A New Socialism
— Ursula McTaggart -
The Enemy of Nature
— Ansar Fayyazuddin - In Memoriam
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Peter Camejo: A Red-Green Life
— Claudette Begin -
Camejo's Early Political Years
— Barry Sheppard -
Peter Camejo at Berkeley
— Jack Bloom -
Kenn Cox and Donald Walden: "Free Jazz Radicals"
— Melba Joyce Boyd -
"A Mingus Among Us" and a Walden Within Us
— Melba Joyce Boyd -
Working It Out "A lot of people have died for this music...," Kenn Cox
— Melba Joyce Boyd - A Comrade and Friend
Melba Joyce Boyd
black keys
conversing
with ivory
like oblique
irony in
unrhymed
psalms
Chopin sonatas
confer with
Strayhorn symphonics
Monk disrupts
with tempos
linked like dominoes
this dialogue occurs
with Kenn Cox
composing jazz
suites on piano
without primacy
in Multidirection
or as Guerrilla Jams
engaging a dystrophic
democracy
as night falls
on dim streets
blue notes
stud starlight
at high altitudes
Kenn Cox
at the keys
channeling ebony
freely through
the integrity
of well-honed
ivory
ATC 139, March-April 2009