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News & Letters, Lead Spying campaign provokes distrust in Bush's agendaThree festering scandals in the Justice Department reveal an administration hell-bent on killing civil liberties, curbing dissent and, in short, laying the foundations of single-party rule. Editorial Immigrants' movement still on the marchStrong turnout across the country for the May 1 immigrants’ rights marches indicate that the vibrant movement that emerged in spectacular fashion in 2006 is alive and well. Our Life and Times As Iraq war and deaths enter fifth yearThe U.S. remains locked into the war, with no end in sight. Congress has ignominiously caved in on the war budget. And progressive Iraqi forces—the small leftist parties, the feminist groups, and the trade unions—have up to now been overwhelmed by religious fundamentalists, whose civil war is beginning to turn Iraq into another Lebanon. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Uprooting capitalism's law of value IIFar from breaking with history, the structure of Capital is deeply rooted in history. Raya Dunayevskaya argued against Stalin's philosophers rewriting Marx's greatest work to bolster their totalitarian rule and against theorists who tailended the Russian state. The central issue, capitalism's law of value and surplus value, remains alive today. Reports from Africa Zimbabwean feminist speaksAn interview with feminist and revolutionary Shereen Essof. South African public workers out in forceCape Town public sector labor struggles are growing, according to Althea MacQueene. Organizing the unemployed in South AfricaJohn Appolis, a former COSATU militant and current activist in the Anti-Privatization Forum, outlines the relationship between trade unionism and the unemployed. A Shell of democracy in NigeriaOil giant Shell and the Nigerian government continue to suppress Ogoni aspirations for freedom in the Niger River delta, writes Shawn Hattingh. MORE ARTICLES...
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