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The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years 2005 Left Foru m The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years 2005 LEFT FORUM Table of Contents Comrades • • • • • • • . . • . • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . . • • . . • • • • • • • • • • . • • • Conference Schedule. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • . • • • • • • • • • • • • Speakers' Index •••••••••••••••••••••••••••....•...•••••••••••••••••• Speakers' Biographies• •••••••••••••••••.•.•.••••••••••••••••.•••••••• 4 7 16 18 Eric Canepa, Director Julie Ruben, General Coordinator, Publicity Coordinator Jamie McCallum, Exhibits & Ads Coordinator Kai Krienke, Exhibits & Ads Consultant Degaulle Adili, Web Manager Spencer Sunshine, Office Manager Juanita Webster, Registration Coordinator Andrew Greenberg. Speaker Liaison Joshua Howard, Speaker Liaison Jennifer Kramer, Travel Coordinator Vicki Larson, Media Consultant James Trimarco, Program Designer Carolyn Veith Krienke, Art Director Organizing Staff: Renee Barrett Edgardo Burgos Heather Gautney Julie Neuspiel Lucas Shapiro Abigail Schoneboom Polly Sylvia Joseph Young Founding Committee: Leith Mullings Frances Fox Piven Julia C. Wrigley Stanley Aronowitz Eric Canepa Nancy Holmstrom Manning Marable Board of Advisors: Gilbert Achcar Tariq Ali Robin Blackburn Barbara Bowen Rose Brewer Renate Bridenthal Michael Brie Stephen Brier Stephen Eric Bronner Paul Buhle Joseph A Buttigieg Angela Dillard Stephen Duncombe Hester Eisenstein Barbara Epstein Deepa Fernandes Bill Fletcher, Jr. Harriet Fraad Josh Freeman Barbara Garson Marvin Gettleman Arun Gupta Jack Hammond David Harvey Gerald Horne Boris Kagarlitsky Robin D. G. Kelley Christine A Kelly Peter Kwong Joanne Landy Jesse Lemisch Michael Lowy Mahmood Mamdani Manning Marable Randy Martin Liz Mestres Susan O'Malley Leo Panitch Christian Parenti Barbara Ransby Michael Ratner Jan Rehmann Gerardo Renique Rainer Rilling Colin Robinson Nan Rubin Stephen R. Shalom Stephen Shalom Michael Steven Smith Neil Smith Hobart Spalding William K. Tabb Victor Wallis Ross Weiner Joseph Wilson Richard D. Wolff Kent Worcester Special Thanks to: The CUNY Graduate Center's Continuing Education and Public Program, the Doctoral Students Council, the PhD Program in Sociology, and especially to David Levine and his staff, and to Scott Voorhees, Charles Scott, and Peter Harris. 2005 Left Forum 4 The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years S THANK to ou r co mr ad e AESA Bertrand Aubrey Elinor Barr Rosalyn Baxandall Anna Beck Bob Bender Karl Bernhard Joel Blau Renate Bridenthal Morton K. Brussel Carole Campana Folasade Campbell Julie Davis Carran Donald Chankin Estelle Charles Harold R. Cohen Susie Day John Dudley Mary Dugan Morton Frank Selwyn Freed Dick Friedrich Pat Fry Erna Gold Frances Goldin J. Paul Gregory Lawrence Gross Bill Hagel Jack Hammon d Michele Hehn Marianne Jackson Jerry Joffe Herschel Kaminsky Jim Kaplan William Kirsch Harry Kristy Irving Kurki Joanne Landy Jesse Lemisch Rendell Mabey Eli C. Messinger Susan O'Malley William Pelz Jim Perlstein Fred Pincus Basil Pollitt Jacqueline Pope Peter Ranis Caroline Rath Beulah Rudner Jay Schaffner Maynard Seider Eleanor Shatzkin George Sigal David Michael Smith Michael Steven Smith Ann Snitow Sandy and Sid Socolar Hobart Spalding Joanne Steele David N. Stern Gloria Sukenick Carl Swidorski Lise Vogel Victor Wallis Ira & Louise Wasserb erg Lois Weiner James M. Williamso n Duncan Wright Sylvia Zisman M ichael Zweig And thanks for the generous suppo rt of the Rosa Luxem burg Foundation, Berlin 2005 Left Forum The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years ELCOME to the 2005 Left Forum he 2005 Left Forum brings together intellectuals, in and out of the universities, and activists from labor and the social movements, to share their perspectives and experiences of the extraordinary crisis of our time. This conference comes at a time of a stunning Rightist victory in the 2004 United States national elections, but also at one of the most exciting periods of political activism since the 1960s. We are experiencing the bold, dangerous and militarist initiatives of the Bush administration in the Middle East; the global effects of Tsunami which has devastated large regions of East Asia; the worldwide right-wing offensive to dismantle the social and cultural gains of the past century; and the crisis of the labor and social movements which, especially in the United States, seem unable to stem the tide of reaction. Yet, millions in the United States and around the world have joined in anti-war and global justice protests; the fight to prevent the privatization of social security is in high gear and involves diverse political groups; black intellectuals and activists are engaged in intense discussions about the future of the black freedom movement; and in the face of rapid and steep decline of membership and influence for the first time in seventy years, unions are openly discussing how to revive the movement. It is generally a time of defeat for the Left, but there have been victories for progressive forces in Latin America, regroupment in Europe against the prevailing neo-liberal policies, and the emergence of new secular, democratic politics in parts of the Arab world, Asia and Africa. Stemming from worldwide protests against corporate globalization, the World Social Forum and dozens of local and regional forums have brought hundreds of thousands of people together for discussion and the development of alternatives to capitalist globalization. This conference is a place of reflection and debate about these questions: how can the Left rise from the ashes of fragmentation and defeat? What is the relationship between electoral activity and direct action in the struggle to preserve and extend democracy? How to combat the permanent war at home as well as abroad? With the spectre of global warming and climate destabilization threatening life itself, what are the strategies for reversing the danger? How can we integrate the struggles for sexual freedom, racial equality and immigrant rights with the battle against capitalist globalization and destruction of workers' gains and organizations? We urge you to join the dialogue. Stanley Aronowitz Eric Canepa Nancy Holmstrom Manning Marable Leith Mullings Frances Fox Piven julia C. Wrigley Global Left Dialogue 2005 Left Forum 5 6 The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years ' Poor Workers' Unions reminds us that participatory democracy ... should not be abandoned in today' s labor moveme . ' Steve Early, Communications Workers of America n the Borde r should be carefully considered by all those who care for the future of the Israeli and Palestinian peopl . ' Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University 2005 Left Foru m Every single adult human being on this continent needs to read Conquest. If we did, we would all find inside ourselves the wherewithal to face our history and alter its cour e.l Lee Maracle ·Cochabamba! embodies the spirit of a united people who would not allow corporate rule to trump demo· cratic decision-making Wenonah Hauter; director o Public Citizen's Water for AI Campaig1 The U.S•• the World. and the Next Four Years Opening Plenary Friday 7:00pm Proshansky Auditorium The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years Welcome from Frances Degen Horowitz, President The Graduate Center of the City University of NewYork Chair: Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center Tariq Ali, New Left Review Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center Barbara Ehrenreich, author, Nickled and Dimed Saturday 10:00am Room: Proshansky Auditorium 1. The Western Left and Iraq Global Left Dialogue Chair:julia C. Wrigley, CUNY Graduate Center Tariq Ali, New Left Review Stephen R. Shalom, William Paterson University joanne Landy, New Politics Anthony Arnove, editor, Iraq Under Siege Room: Elebash Recital Hall 2. The Daniel Singer Essay Prize: "The Soul of Socialism" The Daniel Singer Foundation Chair: Albert Ruben, Daniel Singer Foundation Andrew Blackman, recipient, 2004 Daniel Singer Prize, Wall Street journal Barbara Ehrenreich, author, Nickled and Dimed Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center Staughton Lynd, Historians Against the War Room: Concourse 201-202 3. Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery - Author Meets Critics Global Left Dialogue Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center Bill Difazio, St. John's University Richard D. Wolff, UMass Amherst Room: Segal Theater 4. New Strategies for RebuUding Power in the Labor Movement Working USA Chair: Immanuel Ness, Working USA Saru Jayaraman, HERE Workers Center Bhairavi Desai, New York Taxi Workers Alliance Aijen Poo, New York City Domestic Workers United Benjamin Day, Cornell University Room: 9204 - 9205 5. The Digital Commons as a Public Good Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin Chair: Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University Sabine Nuss, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin Christoph Engemann, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center 2005 Left Forum 7 8 The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years REV IEW- PRE SS IEW / MO-- N -THL Y MO NTH LY REV -REVI EW TABL E REME MBER TO VISIT THE MON THLY ....- .....,._. - -- ~-·~ -- ~IONTHLY REV IE\\' ~_!_~~~ ~; n;s.b!Joy "F~¥~t~~~~..!J.I.t\~ Pox Americana.: Exposing the American Empire by john Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney, ed.s. SUBS CRIBE TO REVIE W MONT H L Y The Fiction of a T hinkable Wor1d: Body, Meaning and the Culture ofCa.pitali5m by Michael Steinberg Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of hradi Society by Michd Warschawski China a.nd Socialism: Market Refonns and Q.., Struggle by Martin Harr· landsbc:rg and Paul Burkert u.. RoM Ll!UMBUJ U: :::·..-::= PURC H ASE BACK ISSUE S O F MO N T H LY REV I EW T he LiberA.! Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World by Samir Amin Rcmln The Rosa Luxemburg Reader cdjced by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson The Empire Reloaded: Socialist Register 2005 by Leo Panitch and Colin Lcys. ed.s. The Problem of lhc Media; U.S. Communic ation The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Windows on the Workplace: Computers , Reader in Theory and Politics in the lht Century by Robert W. McChc.m Politics by Nancy Holmstrom, cd. jobs, and the Organizati on of OfficeWorlc by Joan Greenbaum Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination A new journ al of critical inqui ry and strate gic reflectio Publi shed twice a year by the Cente r for the Study of Cultu re, Technology and Work of the CUNY Grad uate Center Subs cripti on are $18 per year for indiv iduals and $40 for instit utions. Room 6115 CUNY Grad uate Cente r 365 5th A venu e New York, NY 10016-4309 (212) 817-2002 www .radic alima ginat ion.co m Visi t our table at the Left Foru m 2005 Left Forum 1 The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years Room: Concourse 197 6. The Future of the Social Forum Movement in the US Saturday 12:00pm NYC Social Forum Room: Proshansky Auditorium Chair: Michael Menser, Brooklyn College, CUNY Victor Rosado, Social Justice Alliance Premila Dixit, Women's International League for Peace Global Left. Dialogue and Freedom Suren Moodliar, North Atlantic Alliance for Fair Employment Room: Sociology Lounge, rm. 61 12 7. Fighting for Health Under Neoliberalism in South Korea and Venezuela 11. Crisis of the Labor Movement Chair: joseph Wilson, Brooklyn College, CUNY Steve Early, Communication Workers of America Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum Faryce Moore, SSEU, AFSCME Local 371 Marsha Niemeijer, Labor Notes Room: Elebash Recital Hall Global Left. Dialogue 12. The Left and Ecology Chair: Carles Muntaner, University of Toronto Francisco Armada, Ministry of Health and Social Chair: Barbara Epstein, University of California, Development, Venezuela Capitalism, Nature and Socialism Santa Cruz Haejoo Chung, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Mia Son, Kangwon National University, South Korea Juhwan Oh, Seoul National University Joel Kovel, Bard College Frieder Otto Wolf, "Sustainable Strategy" Freie Universitat- Berlin Ynestra King, co-editor, Dangerous Intersections John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Room: Student Lounge, rm. 5414 8. Ecological Disasters: The Case of Bhopal Council on International & Public Affairs Chair:Ward Morehouse, Council on International and Room: Concourse 203 - 204 13. Iraq, Imperialism, and Post-Colonialism Social Text Public Affairs Ryan Boldanyi, International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal Carolyn Oppenheim, Public Purpose Communications Rajan Sharma, lead counsel, class action against Union Carbide Chair: Randy Martin, New York University Ashley Dawson, CUNY Graduate Center Patrick Deer, New York University Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University Josefina Saldana, Rutgers University llan Ziv, producer, Litigating Disaster Room: Concourse 20 I - 202 Room: Concourse 198 14. The Enlightenment 9. Racism and the Politics of Oil Logos Alliance of Radical Academic! Intellectual Organizations Chair: Barbara Foley, Science & Society Chair: Gregory Zucker, Logos Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University Frank Kirkland, Hunter College, CUNY Tom DeZengotita, author, Mediated Diana judd, Borough of Manhattan Community Tony O'Brien, Queens College, PSC-CUNY Jack Hammond, CUNY Graduate Center Kanishka Choudhury, St. Thomas University, College, CUNY Minneapolis George Caffentzis, University of Southern Maine Room: Concourse 205 Room: Anthropology Lounge, rm. 6402 15. Social Insanity, Family Transformation, and Personal Neurosis 10. Dialectical Perspectives on Developing an Alternative to Capitalism News & Letters Committees Chair: Andrew Kliman, New SPACE Peter Hudis, News & Letters Committees Anne Pomeroy, Stockton College Sam Friedman Seth G. Weiss, May Day Books & lnfoshop Global Left. Dialogue Chair: Harriet Fraad, psychoanalyst and hypnotherapist Richard Lichtman, The Wright Institute joel Kovel, Bard College 2005 Left Forum 9 1QThe U.S.• the World, and the Next Four Years rne ll Universi College of Co Oli ver Fein, We ill Medical Yor k Health Ca re for Ma rk Hannay, Me tro Ne w Room: 920 4 - 9205 De mo cr ac y 16 . Po stm od er nis m an d Global Left Dialogue duate Ce nte r All Campaign Saturday 2:00pm Gra CU NY Ch air : Pa tric ia T. Clough, sity ver Uni Mic hae l Denning, Yale l Seminary gica olo The Jan Re hm ann , Un ion sity ver Uni bia lum Co Ga yat ri Spivak, m rxis Ma ing hink Ret o, Da vid Rucci sity Mic ha el Ha rdt , Duke Univer ium Room: Proshansky Aud itor e 21 . Ha rd Qu es tio ns fo r th Pe ac e Mo ve me nt Global Left Dialogue Room: Concourse 198 in Tr an sit io n 17 . Af te r 19 89 : Ma rx ism Global Left Dialogue Ch air :TB A College, CU NY Be ne de tto Fontana, Baruch of Massachusetts, Am her st Richard D. Wo lff, University Ma ry Boger, Brecht Forum Room: Segal The ate r ve rn me nt : 18 . Th e Le ft in Local Go y, Tu sc an y, Br az il, Ge rm an e an d Ne w Yo rk St at Global Left Dialogue ialists ng De mo cra tic Soc Ch air : Lucas Shapiro, You of N ew Paltz Jason We st, Ma yor, Village ntal Spokesperson, Cit y Me rce des Frias, Environme Council of Empoli (Tuscany) Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin Cornelia Hildebrandt, Rosa res (W ork ers ' Party), Brazil TB A, Partido dos Trabalhado 5414 Room: Student Lounge, rm. rty 19 . Th e Di ale cti c of Po ve Global Left Dialogue rsity hor, Alas, Poor Darwin Ch air : Hil ary Rose, co-aut a University Ca rol yn Eisenberg, Ho fstr rs League Fri da Berrigan, Wa r Resiste cana Vin cen zo Striano, ARCI-Tos Room: Elebash Recital Hall t 23 . Me di a in th e Co nt ex of Gl ob ali za tio n Global Left Dialogue sto Luciana Ca ste llin a, II Manife y rsit ive Un k Yor Sc ott Forsyth, tice Fund Jus dia Me ce, An twu an Wa lla ymedia Center, Clamor Josh Bre itb art , Michigan lnd Room: Concourse 203 -204 pa tio n an d 24 . Pa les tin e: Th e Oc cu th e Ch all en ge s Ah ea d Global Left Dialogue Ch air :TB A rsit y Aseel Sawalha , Pace Unive of Paris VIII sity ver Uni r, hca Gil be rt Ac rna tive Info rma tion Michel Warschawski, Alte Center, Jerusalem d College ive Un n's Bashir Ab u-M ann eh, Barnar Ch air : Bill Dif azi o, St. Joh US A retz Me , erg y Ch arn eyV . Bro mb Rod Bush, St. John's Universit s Co unt y David van Ars dal e, Tompkin Ro om : Concourse 20 I - 203 e leg Co mm uni ty Col e Pa st, lege, CU NY 25 . Hi st or y Ma tte rs : Th Me lan ie Bush, Brooklyn Col NY CU e, leg Col yn ce ry , an d Resistan Olu fun ke Ok om e, Brookl Me mo Global Left Dialogue Mo hu aol u Room: Concourse 197 w 20 . Fascism Th en an d No Science & Society nce & Society Ch air : Ba rba ra Foley, Scie Carolina State University rth No G~gory Meyerson, olina State Un iversity Mic hae l Ro ber to, No rth Car rna tive Info rma tion Center: Mic hel Warschawski, Alte ' Jerusalem dy, rm. 5409 Ro om : Do cto ral Student Stu l He alt h Ca re 21 . Fig ht ing fo r Na tio na me nt in a Ri gh t-W in g En vir on gram Pro alth Physicians for a National He Old We stb ury SU NY Ch air : Ma rth a Livingston, e, CU NY leg Col s Le n Rodberg, Queen s College, CU NY een Qu , ith Ma rci a Bayne-Sm y Columbia Un ive rsit Ch air : Manning Ma rab le, Scholars & Activists C. Lau ren Langman, Mid we st mton University Tif fan y Patterson, Bingha University Russel Rickford, Co lum bia College, CU NY yn Renate Bri den tha l , Bro okl Room: 9204 - 9205 th e 26 . W ha t's Ha pp en ing in US Economy? Global Left Dialogue ng De mo cra tic Social Ch air : Nic ole Shippen, You Minnesota, Tw in Cit ie Rose Bre we r, University of y of Massachusetts, Ar Richard D. Wo lff, Universit lege, CU NY Wi llia m K. Tabb, Queens Col 2005 Le ft Fo rum 1 Pu bl The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years Room: Segal Theater Room: Concourse 205 27. Anarchism and the Left: New Dialogues on Power and Social Change 30. Capitalism and Collapse: A Symposium on Jared Diamond's New Book Global Left Dialogue Chair: Eddie Yuen, editor, Confronting Capitalism Andrej Grubacic, ZNet Chris Dixon, University of California, Santa Cruz Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies Bill Fletcher,jr.. TransAfrica Forum Stephen Duncombe, New York University Room: Concourse I 97 28. Refocusing Marxism on Class, Surplus, & Exploitation AESA/ Rethinking Marxism Chair: Stephen Resnick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Stephen Cullenberg, University of California, Riverside Ceren Ozsel~uk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Room: Doctoral Student Study, rm. 5409 Global Left Dialogue Chair: Richard Smith, writer Neil Smith, Center for Place, Culture & Politics, CUNY Room: Concourse 198 31. The Politics of the Neoliberal University Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University Chair: Michael Denning, Yale University Amanda Ciafone, Yale University Daniel Gilbert, Yale University Sumanth Gopinath, University of Minnesota Myra jones-Taylor, Yale University Nazima Kadir, Yale University Christina Moon, Yale University A. Naomi Paik, Yale University Room: Student Lounge, rm. 5414 29. The Challenge of the Rightist Values Agenda to Secular and Religious Socialists 32. Gendered Aspects of US Empire Global Left Dialogue Chair: Hester Eisenstein, Queens College and CUNY Religion and Socialism Commission, DSA Graduate Center Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado--Boulder Johanna Brenner, Portland State University Chair: Roderick Ryon, Religion and Socialism Commission, DSA Esther Kaplan, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Stephen Hart, SUNY Buffalo Norman Faramelli, Boston University School of Theology Scie nce & Soci ety A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis ow in Volume 69, an essential source for rigorous, documented, non-sectarian research and iscussion in the Marxist tradition. Forthcoming Special Issues: The Deep Structure of the resent Moment; World Communist Biography Project; New Directions in Historical Mate. alism. Continuing discussion of capitalist globalization; Eurocentrism, Sinocentrism and orld history; envisioning socialism; etc. s..u.bs.: Guilford Press, 72 Spring Street, NY 10012/1 800 365-7006/ guilford.com Editorial: Science & Society, 445 W. 59th St., NY 10019/212 246-4932 scienceandsoci ety.com 2005 Left Forum 11 12 The U.S.• the World, and the Next Four Years Saturday 4:00pm Room: Proshansky Auditor ium 33. Build ing Allian ces: Partie s, Move ment s, Left Strate gies Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Brecht Forum Chair: Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center Michael Brie, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin Luciana Castellina, II Manifesto Stanley Aronow itz, CUNY Graduate Center Bill Fletcher,Jr., TransAfrica Forum Fran~ois Houta rt, Centre Tricontinental, Louvain Vincenzo Striano, ARCI-Toscana 38. Roun dtable : the Globa l justic e Move ment Global Left Dialogue Chair: Manning Marable, Columb ia University Keesha Middlemass, University of Kansas Lauren t Alfred, Columbia University Angel Asale Ajani, New York Univers ity Adolphus G. Belk Jr., Winthro p University Chair: Fred Rosen, NACLA Maria Helena Moreir a Alves, Viva Rio, Brazil Steve Ellner, Duke University Margar ita Lopez Maya, Columb ia University Room: 9204 - 9205 36. Repre ssion and Resistance in Higher Educa tion: Acad emic Freed om, Corpo ratiza tion and Organ izing New Political Science Chair: Christi ne A . Kelly, William Paterson University Preston Smith, Mt. Holyoke College, Free Faculty Senate World Go Around Marina Sitrin, New York University Fran~ois Houtar t, Centre T ricontinental, Louvain Michael Brie, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange Eddie Yuen, editor, Confronting Capitalism Thoma s Ponniah, Networ k Institute for Room: Proshansky Auditor ium 35. Neoll beral ism: Brazi l, Venez uela, and Latin Amer ican Strate gies of Resistance Socialism and Democracy Susan O'Malle y, Radical Teacher, Chair, CUNY Chair: Barbar a Garson, author, Money Makes the Global Democratization Room: Concourse 203 - 204 Yale University Chair: Magali Sarfatt i Larson , Temple University Max Fraad Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amhe Piruz Alemi, economist Doug Henwo od, Left Business Observer Room: Elebash Recital Hall 34. Race- ing justic e: Black Resistance and the Politic s of Mass Incar cerat ion Global Left Dialogue Higher Education 37. Debt or Famil ies - Debto r Natio n Global Left Dialogue Sunday 10:00am Room: Elebash Recital Hall Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University David Schultz, Hamline University Melissa Mason, Graduate Student Organizer, Room: Student Lounge, rm. 5414 39. Imper ial Contr adicti ons at Home &: Abroa d: Empi re Reloa ded or Overl oaded ? Socialist Register Chair: Leo Panitch, York University David Harvey , CUNY Graduate Center Sam Gindin, Socialist Register Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center William K.Tabb, Queens College, CUNY Room: Concourse 20 I - 202 40. The Legacy of Bandung: Rebu ildir a Third World Politics of Resis tance Global Left Dialogue Chair: Manning Marable, Columbia Univers ity Rabab Abdulhadi, Univers ity of Michigan at Dearbo n Michael West, Binghamton University Gary Okihiro , Columb ia University Room: Concourse 203 - 204 41. The Politi cal Impa ct of Digita l Technologies Global Left Dialogue Chair: Abigail Schoenboom, CUNY Graduate Cen1 Steve Pierce, New Media Alliance Christoph Engemann, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin Anthon y Riddle, Alliance for Commu nity Media 2005 Left Forum 1 The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years Room: Segal Theater 42. The Crisis of Americ an Educat ion Global Left Dialogue Chair: Julia C. Wrigley, CUNY Graduate Center Jean Anyon, CUNY Graduate Center Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center Patricia Kruger, CUNY Graduate Center Gregory Anderson , Columbia University Lois Weiner, New Jersey City University Room: Concourse 198 43. The Marxis t Theory of Class and Its Importa nce for Today Global Left Dialogue Chair:TB A Bertell Oilman, New York Unversity Michael Zweig, SUNY Stony Brook David McNally, York University Sun day 12:00pm Room: Proshansky Auditorium 45. After the 2004 Election s: Progres sive Respon ses Global Left Dialogue Chair: jessica Shearer, Young Democratic Socialists Joel Rogers, University of Wisconsin , Madison Joanne Landy, New Politics Dan Cantor, Working Families Party Joe Trippi, Trippi & Associates Bill Resnick, Portland Alliance Councilm an Bill Perkins, NY City Council Room: Elebash Recital Hall 46. Whithe r the Middle East?: Iraq, Lebano n and the Region al Reshuf fle Global Left Dialogue Room: Concourse 205 44. The Left and the Rich: Income Inequa lity and Democ racy Global Left Dialogue Chair: Sam Pizzigati, author, Greed and Good Meizhu Lui, United for a Fair Economy Ross Zucker, author, Democratic Distributive justice Chair:W adood Hamad, physicist and writer Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VI II Irene Gendzier , Boston University Christian Parenti, CUNY Graduate Center Fawwaz Trabulsi, American University, Beirut Sat urda y 7:00 The New Imperialism: Strategy, Stru ctur e, and Ideology Mode rator: Franc es Fox Piven, CUNY Gradu ate Cente r Tariq Ali, New Left Review Ellen Meiksins Wood , author , Empire of Capital Robe rt Brenn er, UC Los Angeles The Grand Ballroom The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street (at the corner of Houston and Lafayette) 2005 Left Forum 13 14 The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years er Mar tha Gim enez , University of Colo rado - Bould Voice e Villag Rich ard Gold stein , Pam ela Brid gew ater, American University, Room: Concourse 205 47. Soc ial Sec urit y "Cr isis ": Rol ling · Bac k the New Dea l Dollars & Sense Washington, DC Cha ir:A my Gluc kma n, Dollars & Sense Ellen Fran k, Poverty Institute Dou g Hen woo d, Left Business Observer Trud y Gold berg , Adelphi University Chri s Rude , York University Su nd ay 2: 00 pm Room: Proshansky Audi toriu m 48. Res ista nce in the Mil itar y Sl. Insu rge ncy and the Lim its of US Imp eria l Rea ch Global Left Dialogue Chai r: Barb ara Gars on, author, Money Makes the Ame rica Room: Concourse 203 - 204 Cha ir: Eliya nna Kais er, Democratic Socialists of Global Left Dialogue World Go Around Tod Ensign, Citizen Soldier Alex Ryabov, Iraq Veterans Against the War Vict or Pare des, broth er of Pablo Paredes Iraq Kim Rosa rio, moth er of a G.I. currently serving in Gilb ert Ach car, University of Paris VIII Leo Pani tch, York University Pete r Gow an, University of Nort h London Caro lyn Eise nber g, Hofs tra University Room: Concourse 20 I - 202 54. The Fra me -up of Lyn ne Ste war t: The Em erg ing Pol ice Sta te 49. Clas s or Mu ltitu de Global Left Dialogue Room: Elebash Recital Hall National Lawyers Guild Co-Spons.or: Center for Constitutional Rights Cha ir: Rain er Rilling, Rosa Luxemburg Guil Cha1r: M1chael Stev en Smit h, National Lawyers Lynn e Stew art, Attor ney Adb een jaba ra, New York Civil Liberties Unio n Mich ael Aver y, National Lawyers Guild Dali a Hash ad, American Civil Liberties Unio n john Gera ssi, Queens College Foundation, Berlin e of Capital El~en Meik sins Woo d, author, Empir rsity Unive Duke t, Hard M1chael Stan ley Aron owit z, CUN Y Graduate Cent er Michael Albe rt, Z Magazine Room: Concourse 198 50. We Go t Nex t: You th Act ivis m in Har lem Room : Concourse 203 - 204 Global Left Dialogue Cha ir: Mich ael Tyne r Que Aleq uin, Upto wn for Peace and Justice Jean ette Cace res, Upto wn for Peace and Justice Alcy Mon tas, Upto wn for Peace and Justice e Este van Nem bhar d, Upto wn for Peace and Justic Room : Segal Theater 51. Eur o-lm per ialis ml Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin Chai r:TB A Frie der Otto Wolf, "Sustainable Strategy" - Freie Universitat, Berlin 55. Edu cato rs to Sto p the Wa r: Mo ving For war d Educators to Stop the War Chai r: Nan cy Rom er, USLAW, PSC-CUNY (AFT Local 2334) joan Beck erma n, Clara Barton High School Lusm aia Dlaz, Beacon High School student jack ie DiSalvo, Baruch College, CUN Y To":' Roderi~k , Educators for Social Responsibility Y Justm o Rodr~guez, Campus Action Netw ork, "CUN l2190 Michael Zwe ig, USLAW, UUP -SUN Y (AFT Loca Room: Concourse 20 I - 202 56. Chi na and the Wo rld Vict oria de Graz ia, Columbia University Tobi as Pflug er, European Parliament Diet er Pleh we, Yale University Phili p G. Cern y, Rutgers University at New ark Global Left Dialogue Room : Concourse 197 Room : Segal Thea ter Chai r: Rich ard Smit h, write r Saty a Gabr iel, Mou nt Holyoke College And rew Ross, New York University 52. Sex , Gen der and Pol itics Tod ay Global Left Dialogue Chai r: Nanc y Holm strom , Rutgers University Ellen Will is, New York University 57. Fre edo m Dre am ln': Ima gini ng Soc ialis m Global Left Dialogue 2005 Left Foru m The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years Chair: Manning Marable, Columbia University Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University Sam Webb, Communist Party USA Michael Albert, Z Magazine Room: Concourse 198 58. Youth Organizi ng and Politics in the US Global Left Dialogue Chair: Malav Kanuga CrystaiYak acki, United Students Against Sweatshops Jonathan Wilson, Critical Resistance Steve Theberge, War Resisters League Room: Concourse 197 59. Why America ns Fall for Ownersh ip Society Global Left Dialogue Chair: Maria Svart, Young Democratic Socialists Aaron Brenner, Rank & File Enterprises Ellen Willis, New York University Graham Cassano, Union of Radical Political Economics Chris Rude, URPE and New School University Closing Plenary, Sunday 4:00pm Proshansky Auditori um The Future of the Left Chair: Leith Mullings, CUNY Graduate Center Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum Bogdan Denitch, Transition to Democracy Ralph Nader, Nader Campaign Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange Ron Daniels, Center for Consitutional Right 2005 Left Forum 15 16 The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years Speakers Index by Page Number A Abdulhadi, Rabab 12 Abu-Manneh, Bashir I o Achcar, Gilbert 10. 13, 14 Ajani, Angel Asale 12 Albert, Michael 14, IS Alemi, Piruz 12 Alequin, Que 14 Alfred, Laurent 12 Ali, Tariq 7, 13 Alves. Maria Helena Moreir a 12 Anders on, Gregor y 13 Anyon, jean 13 Armad a, Francisco 9 Arnove , Anthon y 7 Aronow itz, Stanley 9, 12, 14 Arsdale, David van 1o Avery, Michael 14 Chung, Haejoo 9 Ciafone , Amand a 11 Clough, Patricia T. 10 Cullenberg, Stephen II D Dawson, Ashley 9 Day, Benjamin 7 Deer, Patrick 9 Denitch , Bogdan IS Denning, Michael 1o, 11 Desai, Bhairavi 7 DeZen gotita, Tom 9 Dfaz, Lusmaia 14 DiFazio, Bill 7, 10 DiSalvo , jackie 14 Dixit, Premilla 9 Dixon, Chris 11 Duncom be, Stephen II B E Bayne-Smith, Marcia 10 Beckerman, joan 14 Belk, Adolph us G. Jr. 12 Benjamin, Medea 12 Berrigan, Frida 1o Blackman, Andrew 7 Boger, Mary 10 Boldanyi, Ryan 9 Breitbart, josh 1o Brenner, Aaron IS Brenner, johanna 1 I Brenner, Robert 13 Brewer, Rose 1o Bridenthal, Renate 10 Bridgewater, Pamela 14 Brie, Michael 12 Brier, Stephen 7, 12 Bromberg, Charney V. 10 Bronner, Stephen Eric 9 Bush, Melanie 1o Bush, Rod 10 Early, Steve 9 Ehrenreich, Barbara 7 Eisenberg, Carolyn 10, 14 Eisenstein, Hester 1I Ellner, Steve 12 Engemann, Christo ph 7, 12 Ensign, Tod 14 Epstein, Barbara 9, 11 Euro-lmperialism? 14 c Caceres, jeanett e 14 Caffentzis, George 9 Canto r, Dan 13 Cassano, Graham IS Castell ina, Luciana 1o. 12 Cerny, Philip G. 14 Choudhury, Kanishka 9 Gimenez, Martha 14 Giminez, Martha 11 Gindin, Sam 12 Gluckman, Amy 14 Goldbe rg, Trudy 14 Goldstein, Richard 14 Gopinath, Sumanth II Gowan , Peter 14 Grazia, Victoria de 14 Grubacic, Andrej 11 H Hamad, Wadoo d 13 Hammo nd, jack 9 Hannay, Mark 1o Hardt, Michael 10, 14 Hart, Stephen I I Harvey, David 12 Hashad, Dalia 14 Henwo od, Doug 12, 14 Hildebr andt, Cornel ia 10 Holmst rom, Nancy 7, 14 Houtar t, Fran<;ois 12 Hudis, Peter 9 J jabara, Adbeen 14 j ayaraman, Saru 7 j ones-Taylor, Myra II Judd, D iana 9 F K Faramelli, Norma n II Fein, Oliver 1o Fine, Michelle 13 Fletcher Jr., Bill 9, II, 12, I S Foley, Barbara 9, 10 Forsyth, Scott 10 Foster, John Bellamy 9 Fraad, Harriet 9 Frank, Ellen 14 Frias, Mercedes 10 Friedman, Sam 9 Kadir, Nazima II Kaiser, Eliyanna 14 Kanuga, Malav IS Kaplan, Esther 11 Kelley, Robin D. G. 7, I S Kelly, Christine A 12 King, Ynestra 9 Kirkland, Frank 9 Klare, Michael 12 Kliman, Andrew 9 Kovel, Joel 9 Kruger, Patricia 13 G Gabriel, Satya 14 Garson, Barbara 12, 14 Gendzier, Irene 13 Gerassi, john 14 Gilbert , Daniel 11 L Landy, Joanne 7, 13 Langman, Lauren 10 Larson , Magali Sarfatti 12 Lichtman, Richard 9 2005 Left Forum Livingston, Martha 10 Lui, Meizhu 13 Lynd, Staughton 7 M Marable, Manning 1o, 12, IS Martin, Randy 9 Mason, Melissa 12 Maya. Margarita Lopez 12 McNally, David 13 Menser, Michael 9 Meyerson, Gregor y 10 Middlemass, Keensha 12 Milstein, Cindy 11 Montas, Alcy 14 Moodliar, Suren 9 Moon, Christina 1I Moore, Faryce 9 Morehouse, Ward 9 Mullings, Leith IS Muntaner, Caries 9 N Nader, Ralph IS Nembh ard, Estevan 14 Ness, Immanuel 7 N iemeijer, Marsha 9 Nuss, Sabine 7 0 O'Brien , Tony 9 O'Malley, Susan 12 Oh, juhwan 9 Okihiro , Gary 12 Okome , Mohuaolu Olufunke 10 Oilman , Bertell 13 Oppenheim, Caroly n 9 Ozsel<;u k, Ceren I I p Paik, A Naomi I I Panitch, Leo 12, 14 Paredes , Victor 14 Parenti , Christian 13 Patterson, Tiffany I 0 Perkins, Bill 13 Pfluger, Tobias 14 Pierce, Steve 12 Piven, Frances Fox 7, 12, I; The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years Pizzigati, Sam 13 Plehwe, Dieter 14 Pomeroy, Anne 9 Ponniah, Thomas 12 Poo, Aijen 7 Puar, Jasbir 9 R Rehmann, Jan 10 Resnick, Bill 13 Resnick. Stephen II Rickford, Russel 10 Riddle, Anthony 12 Rilling, Rainer 14 Roberto, Michael 10 Rod berg, Len 1o Roderick, Tom 14 Rodriguez, Justino 14 Rogers, Joel 13 Romer, Nancy 14 Rosado, Victor 9 Rosario, Kim 14 Rose, Hilary 10 Rosen, Fred 12 Ross, Andrew 14 Ruccio, David 10 Rude, Chris 14, Is Ryabov, Alex 14 Ryon, Roderick II s w Saldana, Josefina 9 Sawalha, Aseel 10 Schoenboom, Abigail 12 Schrecker, Ellen 12 Schultz, David 12 Shalom, Stephen R. 7 Shapiro, Lucas 10 Sharma, Rajan 9 Shearer, Jessica 13 Shippen, Nicole 10 Sitrin, Marina 12 Smith, Michael Steven 14 Smith, Neil I I Smith, Preston 12 Smith, Richard II , 14 Son, Mia 9 Spivak, Gayatri 10 Stewart, Lynne 14 Striano, Vincenzo 10, 12 Svart, Maria 1s Wallace, Antwuan 1o Warshaws ki, Michel 10 Webb, Sam IS Weiner, Lois 13 Weiss, Seth G. 9 West, Jason 10 West, Michael 12 Willis, Ellen 14, IS W ilson, Jonathan 1S Wilson, Joseph 9 Wolf, Frieder Otto 9, 14 Wolff, Max Fraad 12 Wolff, Richard D. 7, 10 Wood, Ellen Meiksins 13, 14 Wrigley, Julia C. 7. 13 y Yakacki, Crystal 1S Yuen, Eddie 12 T z Tabb, William K. 10. 12 Theberge, Steve 1s Trabulsi, Fawwaz 13 Trippi, Joe 13 Tyner, Michael 14 Ziv, llan 9 Zucker, Gregory 9 Zweig, Michael 13 The Daniel Singer Lecture Andrew Blackman , winner of the 2004 Daniel Singer Prize for his essay "The Soul of Socialism ," will de liver a lecture based on the essay, on Saturday April16 at 10 AM. He will be joined on the panel by Barbara Ehrenreic h, Frances Fox Piven, and Staughto n Lynd. Moderato r: Albert Ruben The 2005 Daniel Singer Prize ($5,000) will be awarded for an original essay of not more than 5000 words which explores the questions: In the struggle for socialism , what should be done to attain and sustain equality and justice ? What should we mean by equality and justice ? Essays may be in any language and will be judged by an internatio nal panel of distinguis hed scholars and activists. The winner will be announce d in Decembe r 2005. Submissi ons should be made not later than August 31,2005 to: Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation P.O. Box 334, Sherman, CT 06784 USA 2005 Left Forum 17 18 The U.S.• the World, and the Next Four Years Bashir Abu-Manneh teaches English at Barnard College. H e is the author of "Palestine Revealed: T he Liberation Cinema of Michel Khleifi" in Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema, edited by Hamid Dabashi (forthcoming). Gilbert Achcar teaches political science at the University of Paris-VIII and is currently working on a research fellowship in sociology at the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. He is a frequent contributor to various publications. including Le Monde Diplomatique, Monthly Review and ZNet. His most recent books published in English are The Clash of Barbarisms: September II and the Making of the New World Disorder (2002) and Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror has just been published by Routledge. Francisco Armada is a Venezuelan physician and health care admin, istrator with a Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. A rmada is currently working at the Ministerio de Sanidad y Desarrollo Social, in Caracas, Venezuela. As a participant in the Bolivarian process. he has also conducted research on the health effec4 of nee-liberalism in Latin America with Caries Muntaner and Vicent~ Navarro. His analysis of nee-liberalism in Latin America, The Visib/ Hand of the Market, was recently published in Arachu Castro and Mer rill Singer's volume Unhealthy Health Policies (Aitamira 2004). (2004), both from Monthly Review Press, New York. Anthony Arnove is the editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices a( a Pea; Michael Albert works full time on ZNet, the Z Magazine hosted web pte's History of the United States (Seven Stories). H e is also editor of lra1 Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War (South End) an~ Terrorism and War (Seven Stories). An activist based in Brooklyn, he il site. He helped found and worked on South End Press and Z Magazine in the past. He has written numerous books and articles, and regularly speaks publicly on movement matters. He co-authored the economic vision called Participatory Economics with Robin Hahne!, and his most recent book, Parecon: U(e After Capitalism, just published by Verso Books, is about that vision. a member of the International Socialist Organization and the Nation~ Writers Union, and writes regularly for ZNet. He is on the editori~ board of Haymarket Books and International Socialist Review. Piruz Alemi received his PhD in Political Economy from New School ban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center, and author and editor ol over 20 books. He was the Green Party's New York State gubernatori~ candidate in 2002. His latest books are How Class Works (Yale 2003) anc for Social Research and his MS in Comparative Economic Systems from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Alemi worked for 7 years in the Risk Management, International Operations, Enterprise Development and Finance divisions of American Express. Currently Dr. Alemi conducts seminars on Marx at the Brecht Forum in New York, teaches labor economics at SUNY- Empire State, and will teach a short course on Marx at City College, CU NY. Que Alequin is youth activist and organizer for the Young Communist League. She also works with Harlem youth at BrotherhoodSisterSol, a grassroots organization. She is a member of Uptown for Peace and Justice. Tariq Ali was born and educated in Pakistan and later at Oxford University. He is a writer, playwright and film-maker, editor of New Left Review, and author of over a dozen books on politics and world history. His most recent is Bush in Babylon: Reco/onising Iraq (Verso, 2003). Ali has authored three novels as part o f a planned quartet of historical novels depicting the confrontation between Islamic and Christian civilizations. They are Shadows of the Pomegranate Trees, The Book of Saladin, and The Stone Woman (Verso). Maria Helena Moreira Alves is currently Coordinator of Institutional Relations for the grassroots organization Viva Rio, and works to develop and implement social projects in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. She was active in the founding of Brazil's Worker's Party, the Partido dos T rabalhadores (PT), and was a member of the government of D iadema, the first city government of the PT in Brazil. She has been an advisor to the PT since its founding. Gregory M.Anderson is Assistant Professor in the Programs in H igher and Postsecondary Education and Associate Director of the Center for African Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He earned a PhD in sociology from CUNY Graduate Center. Anderson's research interests include issues of race, equity, access, compensatory reform and higher education policy from a comparative perspective (with emphasis on South Africa and the United States). Jean Anyon is Professor of Education Policy at the CUNY Graduate Center's Doctoral Program in Urban Education. Her latest book, Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement, Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Ul) just Around the Corner: The Paradox of jobless Recovery (Temple 2005 He is the Managing Editor of a new journal, Situations: A Project of Radl co/Imagination. Michael Avery is an Associate Professor of Law at Suffolk Law Schoa in Boston and is the President of the National Lawyers Guild. H e has been active in the Lawyers Guild since he began practicing law in 1970 He practiced as a civil rights lawyer and criminal defense attorney befo~ joining the Suffolk faculty in 1998. He is a co-author of Police Misconduct Law and Utigation , a leading treatise on civil rights law, a co-author of the Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence, the leading treatise on that subject, and has authored several law review articles on police misconduc~ Professor Avery frequently lectures across the country on civil righu and civil liberties issues and is considered one of the leading civil right! litigators in the United States. He graduated from Yale College in 1961 and Yale Law School in 1970. Marcia Bayne-Smith formerly taught in the Department of Heald and Physical Education and recently moved to the Urban Studie D epartment at Queens College. Her research and publications del with issues of teen pregnancy and immigrant health. She serves as Chal of the Caribbean Women's Health Association and is a member of 1 number of city-wide committees on minority health issues. Bayne-Smid teaches courses on Women and Health, Community Organizations, ani Introduction to Public Policy. Joan Beckerman has been a classroom teacher in New York Ciq for over twenty years, and has organized struggles against the m ilitar'j war and racism in Brooklyn high schools. She is a member of the UF1 and Prospect-Lefferts Voices for Peace, and coaches the Clara Bartol Debate Team. She has organized anti-war teach-ins and actions i Brooklyn, including a school-wide debate on the right of soldiers to re sist. Joan has published a labor studies guide for social studies teachers and has a MAin Political Science from Brooklyn Col lege. Medea Benjamin has struggled for social justice in Asia, the Amen cas, and Afr ica for over 20 years. She is Founding Director of Globi Exchange. She has led a delegation of 9/ II families to Afghanistan aftEI the invasion to highlight civilian casualties, and has traveled to Iraq tC organize the Occupation Watch International Center in Baghdad. Shl 2005 Left Forum The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years helped form the coalition United for Peace and Justice, and is the cofounder of Code Pink. a women's peace group. In early 2005. Medea accompanied a delegation of US military families whose loved ones had been killed in Iraq to the lraqi/Jordanian border to bring a shipment of humanitarian aid for the Iraqi people in Falluja. Frida Berrigan is a graduate of Hampshire College, Frida worked with a Central America solidarity organization for two years before coming to the World Policy Institute as a Senior Research Associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center. She is interested in US foreign policy towards Latin America. and also focuses on nuclear weapons policy. weapons sales to areas of conflict, and military training programs. She has recently published articles in The Providence journal, The Nonviolent Activist and The Hartford Courant. Ryan Bodanyi is the Student Coordinator of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. Over the past two years. Bodanyi has worked with students from nearly 70 colleges from around the world to form the student network "Students for Bhopal," a coalition dedicated to advocating for justice for the gas-affected people of Bhopal. A 2003 graduate of the University of Michigan, Bodanyi has also worked for the Ecology Center's Clean Car Campaign and the Greenpeace Toxics Campaign. Joshua Breitbart is the director of Allied Media Projects, which convenes the annual Allied Media Conference. He is a founder of Brooklyn's Rooftop Films and an organizer in the global lndymedia network. Stephen Brier is Associate Provost for lnstnuctional Technology and Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies at CUNY Graduate Center. He is codirector of the Graduate Center's New Media Lab. Brier co-founded the American Social History Project at CUNY was its executive director for 18 years. He is the supervising editor and co-author of the awardwinning Who Built America?, a multimedia history curriculum which includes a number of other award-winning historical documentary videos, CD-ROMS, and Websites. He has published numerous articles on new media and history. Charney V. Bromberg has been the Executive Director of Meretz USA since November 1997. A graduate of Harvard College. he spent most of his undergraduate years in Mississippi ( 1964-67) w here he was director of the Scott County Project and a trainer for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. He began his career in Jewish communal service with the Jewish Labor Committee and has, since, specialized in Israel and Middle East Affairs. He is editor of Meretz USA's fi fty eight year old publication. Israel Horizons and has just returned from a two week study mission in Israel. Palestine, and Egypt . Stephen Eric Bronner is the Senior Editor of Logos. an interdisciplinary internet journal, as well as the author of Socialism Unbound; A Rumor about the Jews: Antisemitism, Conspiracy and the Protocols of Zion; Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times, and Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. He is Professor of Political Science and a member of the Graduate Faculties of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Rutgers University. Aaron Brenner is president of Rank & File Enterprises, a research, writing, and editing firm specializing in financial and equity analysis and strategic corporate research. Johanna Brenner teaches Women's Studies at Portland State University in Portland. Oregon. She is a founding member of Solidarity: a socialist-feminist anti-racist organization. Her publications include "After 9/ II : Whose Security?" (written with Nancy Holmstrom) in Against the Current (March-April 2005). and Women and the Politics of Class (Monthly Review Press, 2000). Melanie Bush is the author of Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness (Rowman and Littlefield 2004) examining the link between the everyday thinking of ordinary people (particularly whites) and the perpetuation of racialized structures of inequality. She has been an educator and administrator at Brooklyn College since 1990 and active for three decades in community struggles and academic projects for full employment, education, women's rights, peace and social justice. Rod Bush is author of We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism Rose M. Brewer is the Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of African American & African Studies and former Chairperson of the African American & African Studies Department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She also holds appointments in the Departments of Sociology and Women's Studies and is an adjunct faculty member in the Humphrey Institute. She has a edited forthcoming multi-authored book, The Color of Wealth, to be released from the New Press in 2006. As a scholar-activist, for over a decade she's been a member of the board of Project South. She is also a founding member of the Black Radical Congress and is currently a member of its coordinating committee. In 2004 she received the Josie R. Johnson Social Justice and Human Rights Award from the University of Minnesota. Renate Bridenthal, Emerita Professor of History, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Co-editor and contributor to Becoming Visible: Women in European History (Houghton Mifflin, 1997, 1987, 1977), When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany (Monthly Review Press, 1984), The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (University of Michigan Press, 2005). Also on the editorial board of Science & Society, the oldest Marxist journal in the world. Michael Brie is a member of the Managing Board of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, and head of the Department for Policy Analysis. He has written extensively in the areas of international relations. history, and social policy. and Class Struggle in the American Century (NYU Press 1999). He is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John's University. He spent most of his adult life in the movement for Black Liberation and social change. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled The End of White World Supremacy: Black lnternatiorfalism and the Problem of the Color Une. jeanette Caceres is a youth activist, spoken word artist and writer. She currently works with young hip hop artist in a youth group called The Lyrical Circle. She is member of Uptown for Peace and Justice. George Caffentzis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, a coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. He has co-edited (with Midnight Notes) Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War 19731992 and Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local and Global Struggles in the Fourth World War (both published by Autonomedia). Dan Cantor is founding Executive Di rector of the Working Families Party, one of the three minor parties with official ballot status in New York State. Cantor has been a community, labor, and political organizer since 1977. He was labor coordinator for Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1988 Presidential campaign. and has worked across the country to build multi-racial, class-oriented coalitions. He has written numerous articles on American politics, and is co-author, with Juliet Schor, of a book on US 2005 Left Forum 19 2Q The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years foreign policy called Tunnel Vision. Graham Cassano studies semiotics and political economy. He received his doctorate from Brandeis University and spent several years lecturing in Harvard University's Department of Social Studies. More recently, lie has worked with trade union community organizing campaigns in the city of New Haven and helped co-found The New Haven Center for Economic Interpretation, a political economy forum that brings prominent academics and activists to speak on local issues of pressing importance. At present, he is a member of the steering committee of the Union for Radical Political Economics and an adjunct professor of sociology at Southern Connecticut State University. Luciana Castellina has been an activist in the Italian left since the 1970s. After leaving the leadership of the Communist Youth, she cofounded the political organization and daily newspaper II Manifesto on who se directorate she remains. She has been elected to the Italian and European parliaments several times. Castellina is active in Italy's Environmental League and in the International Network for Cultural Diversity. In the European Parliament she presided over the Committee on Culture and Media and the Committee for International Economic Relations. As president of Itali a Cinema, she promoted Italian films abroad. She is now president of No-War-TV. Philip G. Cerny is Professor of Global Political Economy in the Department of Political Science and the Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University- Newark. He previously taught at the Universities of York, Manchester, and has been a visiting professor or visiting scholar at Harvard University (Center for European Studies), the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Paris), Dartmouth College, N ew York University, the Brookings Institution and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne). He is the author of The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy (Cambridge 1980); The Changing Architecture of Politics: Structure, Agency and the Future of the State (Sage 1990), and editor of Finance and World Politics: Markets, Regimes and States in the Post-Hegemonic Era (Edward Elgar 1993). Kanishka Ch9wdhury is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. He has written widely on globalization, postcolonial theory, and South Asian public culture. His most recent writings appear in Cultural Logic and South Asian Review. He has just completed a project on globalization and endless war, and is working on a piece that examines the connections between globalization and the remapping of Calcutta's urban markets. ment of Economics at t he University of California, Riverside. He is a member of the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism. He is the author of The Falling Rate of Profit, co-author of Economics and the Historian, and Transition and Development in India; and co-editor of Globalization, Culture and the Limits of the Market, Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge, Whither Marxism?, and Marxism and the Postmodern Age. Ron Daniels is a scholar -activist who has taught History, Political Science and Pan African Studies/Black Studies, and now serves as the Executive D irector of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). CCR is a leading force fighting against police brutality and misconduct, church burnings, hate crimes, voter disenfranchisement, environmental racism, and the threats to civil liberties posed by the government's response to the September I I, 200 I terrorist attack. His weekly column, "Vantage Point," appears in more than one hundred African-American and progressive newspapers nationwide and he is a featured columnist for the internet newspaper, The Black World Today. Ashley Dawson is Assistant Professor of English at the College of Staten Island. He is the author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Post-Imperial Britain, and co-editor, w ith Malini Johar Schueller, of Contemporary US Culture and Imperialism (both forthcoming), as well as of many articles on postcolonial literature and theory. Benjamin Day is a graduate student at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Bogdan Denitch is a founding member and honorary co-chair of Democratic Socialists of A r11erica and its permanent representative to the Socialist International, and chaired the Socialist Scholars Conference for twenty-three years. As a trade unionist and socialist he organized in the South during the Civil Rights movement, participated in anti-war struggles, and agitated for democracy in the US and abroad. For more than two decades he has been an active member of the dissident circle around the journal Praxis and has participated in democratic socialist opposition circles in Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. He is director of the Institute on Transitions to Democracy (ToO), with offices in Zagreb, Belgrade. Tusla, and Split. ToO organizes conferences in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, aids labor education, and links non-nationalist democrats in those regions with labor and social democratic groups in Europe and North America. Michael Denning teaches American Studies at Yale University and directs the Initiative on Labor and Culture. His books include Culture in the Age of Three Worlds and The Cultural Front The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. Haejoo Chung is a PhD student at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Her research interests include class inequalities in health and the political determ inants of welfare, population, health and health services. She has conducted public health research in various universities and research institutions in South Korea, the United States and Canada. She is a member of People's Health Coalition based in Seoul, South Korea. Her most recent publications deal with multilevel analyses of the health effects of political and economic structures. Bhairavi Desai is co-founder and D irector of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. She has been organizing in the taxi industry since 1996, and has worked with Manavi, an organization for South Asian women in New Jersey. She has worked in the support movements of Cuba, Palestine and El Salvador; and in the student struggle at Rutgers University around issues of violence against women. Tom DeZengotita is a contributing editor at Harper's and The Nation, Amanda Ciafone studies globalization and culture at Yale University where she also organizes for the Graduate Employees and Students Organization. and holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. He teaches at the Dalton School and at the D raper Graduate Program at New York University. His new book, Mediated ( Bloomsbury July 2005) examine the way the media shapes every aspect of our lives. Rosa Clemente is co-founder of the National Hip Hop Convention. She is a New York based grassroots organizer, hip hop activist and journalist. She co-hosts a weekly show on WBAI called "Where We Live." Lusmaia Diaz studies at Beacon High School and is a members of Students against Nuclear Insanity and for Tomorrow's Youth (SANITY) a project of Educators for Social Responsibility. Stephen Cullenberg is Professor and former Chair of the Depart- 2005 left Forum The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years William Difazio is Professor of sociology at St. John's University. He is the author of Longshoremen: Community and Resistance on the Brooklyn Waterfront and co-author, with Stanley Aronowitz, of The jobless Future: Sci-Tech and The Dogma of Work and Ordinary Poverty: A Uttle Food and Cold Storage (Fall 2005). He is the co-host of a weekly WBAI radio show, "CityWatch," and member of the editorial collective of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination. at Hofstra University. She is the author of Drawing the Une: the American Decision to Divide Germany, I 944-49. (Cambridge University Press) a prize-winning study of the American occupation and the origins of the Cold War. She is also Co-Chair of Brooklyn Parents for Peace and serves on the Steering Committees of Long Island Teachers for Human Rights and Historians Against the War. Carolyn has written and spoken extensively on the Bush "war on terrorism" and the role of the anti-war movement. Jackie DiSalvo is Professor in English & Women's Studies at CUNY. She is a socialist-feminist active in anti-war, anti-racist, women's and labor movements since the 60s, and now in the anti-war struggle in CUNY and the AFT. She has published on gender, class and radical traditions in English Literature, the politics of religion, John Milton, the bourgeois revolution, and its ideologies, as well as Romanticism and William Blake's radical critique. She also teaches the 1960s and women writers. She is interested in synthesizing Marxism, revolutionary strategies, feminism, materialist spiritualities and transformative psychologies. Premila Dixit is Coordinator of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's New York City Chapter Campaign to Challenge Corporate Power/ Assert People's Rights, which has stimulated the creation of activist study groups across the city. She has a long history of organizing events to explore radical issues in local, national, and international politics and was a key organizer of last year's New York Social Forum, a counter gathering to the World Economic Forum in Daves, Switzerland. Chris Dixon ([email protected]) is a longtime anarchist organizer and writer. He co-led a campaign to have Mumia Abu-Jamal as the featured speaker at his 1999 graduation at Evergreen State College (and won), was deeply involved in organizing the mass action against the WTO in Seattle, and has helped build the Colours of Resistance network (http:/ I colours.mahost.org). He currently is a graduate student studying radical social movements in the History of Consciousness PhD program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Stephen Duncombe teaches the history and politics of media and culture at the Gallatin School of New York University. He is the editor of the Cultural Resistance Reader and is currently writing a book on the possibilities of progressive spectacle. Duncombe is also a life-long political activist, in recent years working with the Lower East Side Collective and Reclaim the Streets/NYC. Steve Early has been active in labor since 1972 and a Boston-based international representative or organizer for the Communications Workers of America for the last 25 years. He has been involved in organizing, bargaining, and/ or major strikes at major telecommunications companies. He serves on the steering committee of Massachusetts Jobs with Justice and editorial advisory committees for three independent labor publications- Labor Notes, New Labor Forum, and WorkingUSA. H e is also a member of the board of the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA), an organization of union editors. Early is also a frequent contributor to The Nation, Boston Globe, and many other publications. Hester Eisenstein is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her books include Contemporary Feminist Thought ( 1983) and Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State ( 1996). Her current research focuses on the relationship between feminism and neoliberal "globalization." Steve Ellner has taught at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela since 1977. He is the author of several books and scores of articles on the Venezuelan left and labor movement. He is co-editor of The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika ( 1993) and Venezuelan Politics in the Ch6vez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict (2003). He is a regular contributor to In These Times, Commonweal and NACLA: Report on the Americas. He is currently visiting professor at Duke University. Christoph Engemann is pursuing a PhD in Sociology at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen. He is a research associate at the Faculty of Media, Bauhaus University, Weimar, and a Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School. His main research interests are media theory, the political economy of the internet, electronic government, authentication media, and European unification and its media. Tod Ensign, an attorney, is director of Citizen Soldier, a non-pro fit Gl and veteran's rights advocacy organization founded during the Vietnam war. Ensign has helped defend Gls and veterans on a wide range of issues. Ensign is author, most recently, o f America's Military Today: The Challenge of Militarism, recently published by the New Press. He is also author of Military Ufe: The Insider's Guide and co-author of Gl Guinea Pigs: How the Pentagon Exposed Our Troops to Hazards Deadlier than War. Ensign has also written hundreds of articles on military related issues for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines over the past forty years. Barbara Epstein teaches in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written on social movements in the US and is now writing a book on the underground movement in the Minsk ghetto during World War II. Norm Faramelli is an Episcopal priest serving an urban congregation in Boston. He is a Lecturer in Social Ethics at the Boston University School of Theology, a member of the Religion and Socialism Commission of DSA, and a frequent contributor to its publication Religious Socialism. He is a consultant to religious institutions on social and public policy issues, especially with regard to urban mission and racial, economic and environmental justice. H is consulting work also includes assessing the moral values and religious issues related to the development of science and technology. Barbara Ehrenreich is a political essayist and social critic, and author or co-author of several books including Fear of Falling: The Inner Ufe of the Middle Class; Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, and, most recently, Nickled and Dimed: Surviving in Low-Wage America. Her magazine writings include pieces in Ms., Harper's, The Nation, The Progressive, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly. and The New York Times Magazine. Carolyn (Rusti) Eisenberg is a professor of US diplomatic history Oliver Fein is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Associate Dean for Affiliations responsible for Weill Cornell domestic and international affiliations. At Weill Cornell, he coordinates the David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium, a weekly interdisciplinary health policy forum. Barbara Foley is a professor of English at Rutgers University and an authority on post-World War I American writers of the Left. 2005 Left Forum 21 22 The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years s Michell e Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women' taught Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY. has critical at CUNY since 1991. Theorized at the intersection of feminist, prisons race and social psychological thought, her work with youth in , methods tory participa ive quantitat and e qualitativ blends schools and g. organizin ity and is designed toward policy, theory and commun Sam Friedm an is a lifelong activist, as well as a poet and a socialist. ty Press He is the author of Teamster Rank and File (Columbia Universi they 1982). His current writings are on dialectical processes and what n." revolutio "the after world the e reorganiz can suggest about how we Bill Fletcher, Jr. is the President and Chief Executive Officer ofTrans- onal Africa Forum. He was formerly the Vice President for Internati of Center Meany George the for s Program ment Trade Union Develop t to the AFL-CIO, and served as Education Director and later Assistan ty the President of the AFL-CIO. Bill is a graduate of Harvard Universi newspaof variety a in published articles s numerou and has authored booklet: pers and magazines. He is also the co-autho r of the pictorial Congress the of Formation the and Workers The Indispensable Ally: Black as an served Bill Boston, in While . 1 1934-194 tions, Organiza Industrial of Univerthe of Program adjunct faculty member with the Labor Studies sity of Massachusetts - Boston. an Barbar a Foley is a professor of English at Rutgers University and authority on post-Wo rld War I American writers of the Left. the Scott Forsyth teaches film studies and Marxist cultural theory in ty Departments of Film and Video and Political Science at York Universi Register, in Toronto. He has published on film and politics in Sodalist CineAction, Canadian journal of Film Studies and other journals. He is a research founding editor of the film studies journal CineAction. Current is comfocuses on the cultural work of Canadian Communists and he of ideology the and od Hollywo orary contemp on pleting a manuscript sm. imperiali n America John Bellamy Foster is co-edito r of Monthly Review and associate author professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the for Hungry of r co-edito and Planet of Marx's Ecology and The Vulnerable Profit. Capitalism and the Information Age. Harriet Fraad is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York of BringCity. She is the author, with Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, ing it All Back Home: Class, Gender and Power in the Modern Household. of She is a founding mother of the women's movement, and a founder and the journal Rethinking Marxism . She publishes in Rethinking Marxism The Psychohistory journal. Her work appears in books such as Class and Its Others and Marxism in the Postrnodern Age. Her latest article, "Class in Transfor mation in the Household, An Opportu nity and a Threat," she which from direction al Sociology illustrates the ideologic Critical comes in her analysis of the US family. cs Ellen Frank holds a PhD in economics and has taught economi of New at Emmanuel College, Wellesley College and the University policy, Hampshire. She has written extensively on US macro-economic policy. tax local and state as well as Security, financial markets, Social and Her latest book is The Raw Deal: How Myths about Deficits, Inflation Wealth Impoverish America, Beacon Press. Mercedes Frias was born in Santo Domingo. In the 1980s she worked n in coopera tive projects involving Haitian immigrants in the Dominica From nts. moveme women's and rights human the in as Republic as well for 1990 she has lived in Italy, where she is involved in public projects women's t immigran and native of r intercultural education. An organize aassociations, she is active in interventions against racism and discrimin the city tion and for the rights of citizensh ip. Currently, as Assessor of of Empoli in Tuscany, she oversees policy on the environment, immigration, and gender. milGls, Vietnam for house coffee anti-war an in worked lion copies. She book is and today she's active in the global justice movement. Her latest Through Cash Her Tracks Investor Money Makes the World Go Around: One the Global Economy (Penguin). Her 1970s book about work, All the Uve- Barbara Garson wrote the anti-war play Macbird, that sold half a long Day, has been republished recently. She Rina Garst is a long-time URPE member and trace-union activist. s. has worked in early federal and New York anti-poverty program Irene Gendzi er is Professor of Political Science at Boston Univer- s sity. She writes on US foreign policy in the Middle East and problem United : Minefield the From Notes include: works Her of development. ColumStates Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East./945-1958 ( Frantz 1995); Press (Tyrone cy bia 1998); Development Against Democra 1985). en (Evergre Study Critical Fanon: A nt John "Tito" Gerassi has been active in the progressive moveme r of San since 1964, and was jailed for " leading" the student takeove Russell Francisco State University in 1966. He was head of the Bertrand to 1967 in Vietnam North to went and US, the in Peace Foundation investigate US war crimes. He has written or edited 14 books, including The Great Fear in Latin America and Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of and His Century. He is Professor of Political Science at Queens College CUNY Graduate Center. Martha Gimene z, Professor of Sociology at the University of Colo- on rado at Boulder has published numerous articles and book chapters poverty, theory, eminist Marxist-f n, the political econom y of populatio work and the political constructions of race, ethnicity, and gender. Her The Inhas appeared in, for example, Science & Society, Monthly Review, surgent Sociologist, Gender & Society, Radical Philosophy. Actuel Marx, Argument and Latin American Perspectives. Together w ith jane Collins, she edited Work Without Wages . the Gertrud e Schaffner Goldbe rg is Professor of Social Policy at Adelphi University School of Social Work, and director of its doctoral supprogram . Her areas of interest are full employment, public income port, the feminization of poverty, comparative social welfare systems, for the and social administr ation. She is the author of Jobs for All: A Plan tion of America (with Sheila D. Collins and Helen Lachs Gins- Revitaliza Roads burg, 1994); Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare "Reform" and the Govand 2001); Collins, D. Sheila (with Not Taken, 1935 to the Present k and Chernac Peter with ed., (4th People Everyday for Money ernment tionDeborah Petry, 2004); and editor of Diminishing Welfare: A Cross-Na The and 2002); l, Rosentha ite Marguer (with al Study of Soda/ Provision Feminization of Poverty: Only in America? (with Eleanor Kremen, 1990). She is a co-found er and Chair of the National jobs for All Coalition (www.njfac.org). the Richard Goldstein is an executive editor of The Village Voice and (Verso). author, most recently, of Homocons:The Rise of the Gay Right for He has w ritten about the intersection of sex, culture, and politics the past 35 years. Peter Gowan is Professor of International Relations at London Metro- of the politan University in Britain and a member of the editorial board New Left Review. His research interests combine analysis of the external 2005 Left Forum The U.S.• the World, ond the Next Four Years political and economic relations of the North Atlantic states with work on international relations theory. Victoria de Grazia is Professor of History at Columbia University and Visiting Professor at The European University Institute at Fiesole, Italy which is the graduate faculty of the European Union. She has written widely on Italian fascism, consumer cultures, and Trans-Atlantic re- lations. Her most recent book is Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth Century Europe (Harvard Univ. Press, 2005) Andrej Grubacic is a historian and a social critic, working with "Planetary Alternatives Network", "Z Communications" and "Peoples Global Action". His affinity towards anarchism stems from his experiences as a member of the Belgrade Libertarian Group that derives from the Yugoslav 'Praxis' experiment. In the past years, he has been active in the post-Yugoslav moveme nt- a coalition of anti-authoritarian collectives called "DSM!" He is currently the European convener of the Peoples Global Action Network and has authored books and numerous articles. Due to his political activism he was forced to leave the University of Belgrade and move to SUNY Binghamton. Wadood Hamad is a research physicist and writer who lives in Vancouver, Canada. Sale:In Defense of Public Goods (Westview 2000) and edited The Socialist Feminist Project:A Reader in Theory and Politics (Monthly Review 2002). She has been a lifelong activist. Fran~ols Houtart is a Belgian priest and Marxist sociologist, globaljustice activist, director of CETRI (Centre Tricontenental) and of the journal Alternatives Sud. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications on socio-religious issues and participated in the work of the Vatican II council ( 1962- 1965). He is one of the most active founders of the World Social Forum at Porto A legre. He presided over the Brussels Tribunal, established to invest igate the war crimes of the Vietnam War. Peter Hudis is co-editor (with Kevin B. Anderson) of The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (Monthly Review Books 2004) and The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx (Lexington Books 2004). He has published on social theory, philosophy, and politics; recent articles include "Marx Among the Muslims" (Capitalism , Nature, Socialism 2004); "The Death of the Death of the Subject" ( Historical Materialism 2005); "Acheh: The Social Form of 'Natural D isaster'" ( Politics and Culture 2005); and "The Philosophic Ambiguities of C.L.R. James" ( Socialism and Democracy 2005). He is a member of the national editorial board of News & Letters. Abdeen Jabara is former president of the American-Arab Anti-Dis- Jack Hammon d is the author of Fighting to Learn: Popular Education and Guerrilla War in El Salvador and Building Popular Power: Workers' and Neighborhood Commissions in the Portuguese Revolution. He teaches sociology at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center and is an active member of the Professional Staff Congress, the faculty union. Larry Hanley is the editor of Academe, the union chapter chair at City College, CUNY, and a Professor of English at City College, CUNY. Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is co-author of Empire and Multitud: War & Demoaacy in the Age of Empire. David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropolo gy at the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include The Condition of Postmodernity, The Spaces of Capital, and most recently Paris, Capital of Modernity. I 23 crimination Committee . During the mid- 1970s and 1980s he was instrumental in exposing the Nixon administration's "Operation Boulder" program against Arabs and Arab-Americans, which included deportations, surveillance and harassment campaigns. He practices civil rights law in New York C ity. Eliyanna Kaiser is the former youth organizer for the Democratic So- cialists of America (DSA) and a founding member of the National Youth & Student Peace Coalition. She has worked for the New Democratic Party in Canada and is currently a senior editor at $pread Magazine. Saru Jayaraman is director of the HERE Workers Center in New York City. She worked for the Workplace Project and has taught at the City University of New York. She is co-founder of Youth and Women Supporting Each Other, a Los Angeles-based non-profit dedicated to the empowerm ent of young women. Heather Johnson received her PhD in Philosophy from Michigan State Dalia Hashad is the Arab, Muslim, and South Asian Advocate for the American Civil liberties Union. Her position in the Campaign Against Racial Profiling encompasses civil liberties advocacy and protection, the plight of detainees, community outreach and empowerment, and discrimination for Arab, Muslim and South Asian Americans in the wake of post-9/ II backlash. Hashad received her BA in Environmental Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, and her JD from the New York University School of Law. She worked as a human rights advocate in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and is a host of the grassroots radio program, "Law and Disorder." Doug Henwood is the author of Wall Street and After the New Economy; writerI publisher of Left Business Observer; and host of an economics University in 2002. Her primary area of study was mental representa tion, a branch of philosophy dealing with theories about how the mind's mental states come to represent things in the external world. In 1999, she relocated to the New York area where she became increasingly involved in the open source community, converting 95% of her organization's online infrastructure to an open source platform. Heather currently teaches Information Ethics at Rutgers University, covering topics such as privacy online, spam, piracy, and the merits of the free and open source software movements. Esther Kaplan is the author of With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House (New Press). She is a member of Jews for Racial and radio show on WBAI. Economic Justice, and is the co-host of the WBAI radio show "Beyond the Pale." Conny Hildebrandt is a sociologist in the Departmen t for Political Analysis at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin. She is an expert on the European Left Party. Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor of Anthropology and African Ameri- Nancy Holmstro m is a professor of Philosophy at Rutgers Univer- sity in N ewark. Her publications include articles on exploitation and freedom, rationality and women's/human nature. She co-edited Not for can Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression ( 1990); Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class ( 1994); Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America ( 1997); and Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and 2005 Left Forum 24 The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century, written collaboratively with Dana Frank and Howard Zinn (2001). His most recent book is Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002). Christin e Kelly is an Associate Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University where she is also director of the American Democra cy Project. She is the author of Tangled Up in Red, White and Blue: New Social Movements in America (Rowman & Littlefield 200 I) and is currently finishing another book for the same press titled Chimes of Freedom: Student Protest and the Changing American University. She is an active member of the Caucus for a New Political Science, and an Editorial Board member of journal New Political Science. She is a former national student activist, and is currently working with the Debs-Jone s-Douglass Institute on the Free Higher Education Campaign. Ynestra King , anarcha and ecofeminist, is the co-author of Dangerous Intersection: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development. She taught for many years at the New School for Social Research and has been a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University and Columbia University. Frank Kirkland teaches at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of "Enslavement, Moral Suasion, and Struggles for Recognition: Frederick Douglass' Answer to the Question - 'What is Enlightenment?"' in Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader, co-edited with B.E. Lawson (Oxford, Blackwell Publishers 1999). Michael T. Klare is director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst. Defense analyst for The Nation, he is the author of Blood and Oil, Resource Wars, and Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws. Andrew Kliman, an Associate Professor of Economics at Pace University, is co-editor (with Alan Freeman and Julian Wells) of The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics (2004). A founder of The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education (New SPACE) -(http:/ /new-spa ce.mahos t.org)-he is also active in the struggle for pluralism on the Left as co-organizer of the International Working Group on Value Theory. joel Kovel is Editor-in-Chief of Capitalism Nature Socialism, and Professor of Social Studies at Bard College. Originally a physician and psychoanalyst, Kovel's works include White Racism. The Age of Desire, History and Spirit, Red-Hunting in the Promised Land, and The Enemy of Nature (Zed 2002). Patricia Krueger is an educator in New York City's public high schools. She has worked in the Dominican Republic. India, and in the United States around health issues, immigration policies, and human rights education. She is currently a PhD student at CUNY Graduate Center in the urban education program. Joanne Landy is an editor of New Politics and co-Direct or of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy. Before the Iraq invasion, CPO circulated a statemen t "We Oppose Both Saddam Hussein and the US War on Iraq," signed by thousands (www.cpdweb.org). Landy calls for the immediate withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq, supports resistance to the US, and opposes the victory of those elements of the resistance organized to impose a repressive, extreme authoritarian regime on the Iraqi people. Domestically, Landy advocates independ ent politics, believing it is suicidal for progressive movements to continue to support the Democra tic Party, a party fundamentally inimical to their interests. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Progressive, The Nation, New Politics, and In These Times. Magali Sarfatti Larson is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Temple University. She is the author of The Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977) and Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) among others. Richard Lichtma n has taught philosophy, psychology, social theory, etc. at a variety of schools. His major writings are The Production of Desire, Essays in Critical Social Theory, and Dying in America. He is Professor Emeritus at The Wright Institute and is currently involved in the planning of a graduate program at the Professional School of Psychology in Sacramento based on critical theory. Martha Livingston, PhD is Associate Professor of Health and Society at the SUNY Old Westbury , where she teaches and researche s US health care, comparat ive health care systems, international health, health policy, medical ethics, and women's health. She is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, and a member of the Editorial Board of The journal of Public Health Policy. Dr. Livingston lived and studied for several years in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada, has researche d and written on the Canadian health care system, and was a recipient, in 1994, of t he Canadian Embassy's Canadian Studies Research Grant. Karim Lopez is an activist, youth worker and filmmaker. He is currently directing a short narrative film about a struggling rap artist. He is a member of Uptown for Peace and Justice. Margari ta L6pez-M aya is a Senior Professor at the Center of Development Studies of the Central University of Venezuela. She has dedicated more than 20 years to research on the political and social history of 20th-cent ury Venezuela. Her recent works include "The Venezuelan Caracazo of 1989: Popular Protest and Institutional Weaknes s" (JLAS 2003), and "Venezue la: fortunas y penas de un pals petrolero " (Vanguardia Dossier. America Latina Democracia, Neoliberalismo, Populismo, 2003). Meizhu Lui currently serves as the executive director of United for a Fair Economy. A long-time hospital worker union activist, Lui rose from the rank and file to become president of AFSCME Local 1489, and helped t he local take on tough issues that ranged from maintaining affirmative action gains during layoffs to returning Haiti's President Arist ide to power. Lui is a long-time member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Staughton Lynd is an attorney/a ctivist and member of the Steering Committe e of Historians Against the War. He was the chairpers on of the first march against the Vietnam war in Washington, DC in April 1965. He is the author of several books, including Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising (Temple University Press 2004). Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science, Founding Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and editor of Souls: A Critical journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society. He is the author of numerous books, including: Black Leadership, Black Uberation in Conservative America; Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Radicalism and Resistance; Beyond Black and White, The Crisis of Color in Democracy; Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990; African and Caribbean Politics; WEB DuBois: Black Radical Democrat; Black American Politics; and How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America. Randy Martin, co-editor of Social Text, teaches at New York University. He is author, most recently. of On Your Marx: Relinking Socialism 2005 Left Forum The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years and the Left (Minnesota 200 I) and Financialization of Daily Life (Temple 2002). He is working on the links between financial logics and imperial operations. Melissa Mason is currently in the PhD program at Yale University in Political Science and African American Studies. Her research interests include the effects on racial and ethnic heterogeneity on comparative welfare development and labor union organization. She is also an organizer and Co-Chair of GESO (Graduate Employees and Students Organization) at Yale. David McNally teaches at York University. His recent publications include Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism and Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language. Michael Menser is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Brooklyn College, a member of the editorial collective of Situations: A Journal of the Radical Imagination, and a member of the NYC Social Forum coordinating committee since 200 I. Gregory Meyerson co-edits the Marxist online journal Cultural Logic (eserver.org/clogic) and has published numerous articles on critical race theory, poststructuralism, American literature and academic labor. He teaches critical theory, American Literature and composition at North Carolina A and T University. Cindy Milstein is co-organizer of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference, a board member with the Institute for Anarchist Studies, and a member of Free Society Collective and Black Sheep Books collective in Montpelier, Vermont. She also teaches at the Institute for Social Ecology each summer. Her work appears in anti-authoritarian periodicals and several recent anthologies, including Globalize Liberation (City Lights), Confi'onting Capitalism (Soft Skull), and Only a Beginning (Arsenal Pulp). Alcy Montas, a member of Uptown for Peace and Justice is a youth activist, who works with Mothers-on-the-Move, a grassroots organization. Suren Moodliar is a coordinator for the North American Alliance for Fair Employment (NAAFE) and was a coordinator of last summer's Boston Social Forum. Ward Morehouse, author and human rights activist, is President of the Council on International and Public Affairs, a research, education, and advocacy group working on environmental and social justice issues. He has written or edited some 20 books, including The Bhopal Tragedy, Abuse of Power: The Social Performance of Multinational Corporations, and Worker Empowerment in a Changing Economy. He is a member of the regular panel of jurists for the Permanent People's Tribunal headquartered in Rome. Leith Mullings is Presidential Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her books include: Therapy, Ideology and Social Change: Mental Healing in Urban Ghana ( 1984); Cities of the United States (editor, 1987); On Our Own Terms: Race, Class and Gender in the Lives of African American Women ( 1997); let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform and Renewal, An Afi'ican American Anthology (2000, co-edited with Manning Marable); Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem (200 I , with Alaka Wali); Freedom: A Photohistory of the Afi'ican American Struggle (2002, with Manning Marable). Carles Muntaner is Chair and Professor at the University o f Toronto, 25 Canada. His research deals with the relationship between social class, politics, work organization and mental health. Some of his recent publications have appeared in the American journal of Public Health, and the International journal of Health Services, among other venues. He has recently co-edited with Vicente Navarro the volume Political and Economic Determinants of Health and We// Being: Controversies and Developments (Baywood 2004). Ralph Nader founded Democracy Rising in 2000, one of more than I 00 civic organizations he has helped to found or organize. He has authored countless books and publications. One of his central achievements is the creation of an effective national network of citizen reform groups dedicated to safety and quality of life in the US. His groups have made an imprint on many areas including civic skills, tax reform, pensions, aviation, regulation of atomic power, renewable energy, clean air and water, clean elections, food, medicine and auto safety, safety in the workplace, access to healthcare, civil rights, civil justice, Congressional ethics, campaign finance, discriminatory lending, the tobacco industry, corporate crime and reform, investor protection, corporate globalization, agribusiness and small farms, intellectual property, medicine prices abroad, freedom of information, and government procurement. Estevan Nembhard is Chair of the Young Communist Uptown Club. He is currently working on the campaign to get a street named after Ben Davis. He also heads Blacklist Records, a record company dedicated to uplifting the people. Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the editor of Working USA: The journal of Labor and Society. His latest book is Immigrants, Unions and the US Labor Market. Marsha Niemeijer works at Labor Notes in its New York office. For Labor Notes she works with longshore workers (ILA/ ILWU),telecommunication workers (CWA. IBEW), United Electrical Workers, and Canadian workers. She has also been working with the Transnationals Information Exchange since 1995. Sabine Nuss is a political scientist working on a dissertation about (intellectual) property in informational capitalism. She is member of the editorial staff of Prokla, a journal for Critical Social Sciences Tom O'Donnell is Lecturer in Science, Technology and Society (STS), and Social Science at the Residential College, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; teaching technological history, energy and environment, the intellectual history of information, and does fundamental nuclear research. Recent interdisciplinary research and teaching examines the global oil system. New School Graduate Faculty, summer 2005; Michigan, 2005-2006; http:/ /www.umich.edu /-twod/oil. Juhwan Oh is an active member of the Korean Institute for Labour Safety (http:/ /kilsh.or.kr) and the Power of Working Class (http:/ I www.pwc.or.kr) . He is a PhD student at the Seoul National University School of Public Health. He is also a practicing gynecologist. His research interests include equity issues in health outcomes, health care financing & utilization, public health financing & provision, health economics, and class inequalities in health. He was actively involved in the case presented in this session, working closely with hospital trade union activists. Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome is an international political economist whose regional specialization is on the African continent. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College, CUNY , co-editor of the online journals: jenda: journal of African Culture and Women Studies, and lrlnkerindo: a Journal of Afi'ican Migration 2005 Left Forum 26 The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years and author of A Sapped Democracy: The Political Economy of the Structural Adjustment Program and the Political Transition in Nigeria, 1983-1993. Bertell Oilman is Professor of Politics at New York University, and author of a number of books on Marxist theory, including Alienation: Marx's Conceptions of man in Capitalist Society, Social and Sexual Revolution, Dialectical Investigations, and Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method. He is also the inventor of the Class Struggle board game. Susan O'Malley is chair of the CUNY University Faculty Senate and the faculty trustee. She is one of the original founders of the Radical Teacher. She is also a university-wide officer of the Professional Staff Congress, CUNY's union. Her latest book, Custome Is an Idiot: jacobean Pamphlet Uterature on Women, was published last May by University of Illinois Press. She is a Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College and a Professor of Liberal Studies at the Graduate School. Carolyn Toll Oppenheim is a former reporter for both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times, and freelance journalist and social activist for some 30 years. She advises and writes about Israeli/ Palestinian peace movements and other conflict resolution initiatives. With Public Purpose Communications, she advises advocacy organizations on communications strategy. She founded the US-based Friends of Open House, to publicize the work of a unique Jewish/Arab peace center in Ramie, Israel. She spent a year reporting for ABC radio news in Tehran, Iran. Ceren Oz.sel~uk is a member of the Rethinking Marxism editorial collective and is currently completing her doctoral dissertation in economics, The Political Economy of Social Movements. Her work connects the political theory of social movements to anti-foundational Marxian political economy. Leo Pan itch is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy at York University, Toronto and the co-editor of the Socialist Register published annually by Merlin Press and Monthly Review Press. He is the author of many books including Renewing Socialism: Democracy, Strategy and Imagination (Westview) and, with Colin Leys, The End of Parliamentary Socialism (Verso), and most recently, with Sam Gindin, Global Capitalism and American Empire (Merlin Press and Independent Publishers Group). Sam Plzz.igati, a veteran labor journalist, currently edits Too Much, an online weekly on income and wealth distribution. He has edited national publications for four different unions and spent 20 years directing the publishing operations of the largest union in the United States, the 2.7 million-member National Education Association. His most recent book is Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Urnits Our Uves (Apex Press). Dieter Plehwe is a senior fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University where he contributed to a 3 year research program on the authority of knowledge in a global age (year one: the rule of the market). He currently has a permanent position as Senior Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin, in their department of internationalization and organization. With others he has edited the forthcoming volume Neoliberal Hegemony: A Globaf Critique (Routledge 2005). Anne F. Pomeroy is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She is the author of Marx and Whitehead: Process, Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism (SUNY Press 2004). Her PhD is from Fordham University. Thomas Ponniah is the co-editor of Another World is Possible: Popular. Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum. He is also the co· writer, w ith Richard Peet and others, of Unholy Trinity: the IMF. the World Bank, and the WTO. He is a PhD student at Clark University who studies social theory and social movements. Aijen Poo is an organizer with New York City Domestic Workers United, an organization of Third World immigrant women working in the domestic setting as housekeepers, nannies, and elderly companions. She is the staff organizer for the Women Workers Project, a program of the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence that organizes Asian immigrant women working in informal service industries such as domestic work, nail salons, laundries and massage parlors. Jasbir K. Puar is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She worlks on queer globalizations, South Asian diasporas, gay and lesbian tourism, and sexual scripts of terrorism. Her articles appear in GLQ, SIGNS, Society and Space. feminist Review, Radical History Review, Antipode, Social Text, and Gender, Place and Culture. Victor Paredes is the brother of Pablo Paredes, a Navy enlisted sailor who refused to deploy with his Iraq-bound troop ship in December 2004 because of his opposition to the war. Pablo faces courts martial in the near future for his act of resistance. Christian Parenti is a Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He writers regularly for The Nation , and his recent books are The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (New Press 2004), The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America fi'om Slavery to the War on Terror (Basic Books 2003) and Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Verso 2000). He holds a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics. Jason Pramas is a longtime labor and community organizer based in Boston, MA. He is the networking director of Massachusetts Global Action, and a member of SEIU Local 888. He was a coordinator of last summer's Boston Social Forum. Jan Rehmann, Dr. phil., habil., teaches philosophy at the Free Univer' sity Berlin, and social theories and modern languages at Union Theolog~l cal Seminary in New York. He is a member of the editorial committee o the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HKWM) and of the journal Das Argument. His most recent book is Postmodernism: Deconstructin~ Postmodernist Nietzscheanism (published in Germany). Current research topics: Farewell to Postmodernism?, Neo-Nietzschanism, Philosophi4 Tobias Pfluger is a German Member of the European Parliamentary of Religion, Neoliberalldeologies. Group, European United Left Nordic Green Left, lnformationsstelle Militarisierung (Tubingen) Bill Resnick produces and conducts interviews for the "Old Mole Van! Frances Fox Piven teaches political science and sociology at CUNY Graduate Center,. She is known as a political activist and scholar, and is the author, with Richard Cloward, of Why Americans Still Don't Vote; Regulating the Poor, Poor People's Movements; The New Qass War, and edited Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies ety Hour" (KBOO radio Portland, OR) and writes for the Portland All~ ance news monthly. His articles on US politics have appeared in Sociali~ Review, Against the Current, among others. Stephen Resnick has co-authored many books and articles on Mant' ian theory with Richard Wolff. He is a member of the Advisory Board 2005 Left Forum The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years of Rethinking Marxism. committee. She is Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and Director of the BC Community Partnership. Anthony Riddle is the National Chair of the Alliance for Community Media. He started the first nationwide Youth Channel and was the Executive Director of Manhattan Neighborhood Network. For the past 25 years he has worked in many media for social change and has concentrated his efforts in the emerging field of community media. Riddle has worked from technician to policy-maker, from pro ducer to political advocate, from community-based teacher to international representative. Rainer Rilling is a professor of sociology at the University of Marburg, and is a member of the Department of Policy Analysis at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin. He has published extensively in the fields of political communication, international relations and peace and conflict studies. Michael joseph Roberto is Assistant Professor of History at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, NC, where he teaches courses in contemporary world history, the history of modern socialism, and modern revolutions. As a member of the Global Studies faculty, he teaches the introductory survey for the university's Certificate in Global Studies. He earned his PhD in Modern European History from Boston College in 200 I and is writing a book on Karl Marx's concept of progress. Leonard Rodberg holds a PhD in physics and now teaches in the Urban Studies Department at Queens College, CUNY. In the mid-70s he led the development of the US Health Service Act, usually referred to as the Dellums Bill. In the late 80s he was one of the founders of Physicians for a National Health Program, and he is now active with the New York Metro Chapter of PNHP. where he writes and speaks on health care reform and serves as Treasurer and Co-Editor of its Forum Report series. Tom Roderick has served as executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility, NYC Metropolitan Area, since 1983. In 1985 Tom co-founded the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, nationally recognized as one of the most effective school-based conflict resolution programs in the country. Tom is the author of A School Of Our Own: Parents, Power, and Community at the East Harlem Block Schools (Teachers College Press 200 I). He has a MS from Bank Street College of Education and a BA in history from Yale University. Victor Rosado is a graduate student at SUNY Stony Brook in Hispanic Languages and Literature, a founder of the Long Island Social Justice Alliance and an organizer in the NYC Social Forum group since 2002. Kim Rosario, from Brooklyn, is the mother of a son currently serving with the US military in Iraq. She is active with Military Families Speak Out (www.mfso.org) Hilary Rose is Professor of Social Policy at Bradford University. She is the author of A/as, Poor Darwin: Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology Fred Rosen is Contributing Editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and an independent journalist based in Mexico C ity. He is a regular cont ributor to the Mexican daily La jornado and to the Mexico edition of the Miami Herald. Andrew Ross is Professor of American Studies at New York University. His books include Low Pay, High Profrle: The Global Push for Fair Labor, No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs, The Celebration Chronicles, and the forthcoming The Fast Boat to China. He has also edited several books, including No Sweat Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers, and, most recently, Anti-Americanism. Albert Ruben is a writer of screenplays for motion pictures and television. He is on the Board of the Daniel Singer Foundation. David F. Ruccio is the editor of Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Politics, and Culture. He teaches in the Department of Economics and Policy Studies at the University of Notre Dame and has published widely on the topics of Marxism, postmodernism, and international political economy. His most recent book is Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics (Princeton 2003). Chris Rude, a former Wall Street and NY Fed economist, is finishing his PhD in Economics from the New School University. While studying there, he was Assistant Director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA) . He was also a consultant to the United Nations on the Asian financial crisis. He is currently teaching and doing research at York University in Toronto. Alex Ryabov is from Brooklyn, served in combat in Iraq with the MaJustino Rodriguez is a anti-war activist and a student at the City rine Corps. He is a co-founder of Iraq Veterans Against the War ( www. ivaw.net). College of New York, where he has been active in counter military recruitment work. He participated this year's World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, where he spoke at the international youth encampment. He, along side 2 other students and a staff member, was arrested and suspended from City College for peacefully protesting military recruitment on campus. Roderick Ryon co-chairs the Religion and Socialism Commission of Democratic Socialists of America. He teaches history and environmental studies at Towson University (Baltimore) and works for single-payer health care in Maryland. Joel Rogers is Professor of Law. Political Science, and Sociology at Ellen Schrecker is Professor of History at Yeshiva University, where the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and founder and director of its Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS). COWS is a research center and laboratory for field experiments in " high road" - i.e., profitable, labor-friendly. environmentally sustainable, and democratically accountable- economic development and state and local public policy. she has taught since 1987. An expert on McCarthyism, she has published Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America ( 1998), The Age of McCorthyism ( 1994, rev. ed. 2002), and No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities ( 1986) which won the History of Education Society's Outstanding Book Award for 1987. Schrecker also writes about contemporary academic freedom and is the former editor of Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors. Nancy Romer is on the Executive Committee of the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY, chairs their Peace and Justice Committee, is their representative to the Steering Committee of US Labor Against the War, and USLAW's representative to the national steering committee of United For Peace and justice. She co-convened Educators to Stop the War conference on March 5th and continues to serve on their steering David Schultz is professor in the Graduate School of Public Administration and Management at Hamline University. He also holds appointments in the Hamline University Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science, and at the Hamline and University of Minnesota law 2005 Left Forum 27 28 The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years schools. Professor Schultz is the author of over 18 books and 40 articles on various aspects of law, public administration, and American politics. Stephen R. Shalom teaches political science at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Among his books are Which Side Are You On? An Introduction to Politics, and Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing US Intervention After the Cold War. He is on the editorial board of New Politics and writes frequently for Z Magazine and ZNet (www.zmag.org). Lucas Shapiro is the National Organizer for the Young Democrat- ic Socialists (YDS), the youth section of the Democrati c Socialists of America. He has worked with various activist and community organizations promoting alternative media, LGBT rights, prisoner education, youth empowerm ent, literacy, student labor solidarity, peace and global justice. Through YDS, he is active in the National Youth & Student Peace Coalition and United for Peace &Justice. H. Rajan Sharma is a New York attorney, author and an expert on international law, including the subject of international litigation and arbitration. Since 1999, he has served as lead counsel in an environmental class action against Union Carbide in the US federal courts on behalf of survivors and victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster. He also served as counsel in the Holocaust-era litigation against French, German, Swiss and Austrian entities that resulted in the creation of $5 billion restitution fund to victims of World War II atrocities. Jessica Shearer is a member and former co-chair of the Young Dem- ocratic Socialists. She is a political organizer who has worked with SEIU, the Working Families Party, America Coming Together, Polo Democraticc in Colombia, and the African National Congress. Nicole Shippen is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University studying labor, women and unions. She is coordinating committee member of the Young Democrati c Socialists, and on the steering committee of the American Association of University Professors. Marina Sitrin is a PhD student at Stonybrook studying contemporary social movements. She just published a book Horizontalidad: Voces de Poder Popular en Argentina, which is a collection of testimonies of people in the new autonomous social movements. (an English version is on the way). She has a degree in law and teaches part time at Gallatin, New York University. Michael Steven Smith has testified on human rights issues before committees of the United States Congress and the United N ations. He has written or edited five books, the latest being The Emerging Police State by William M . Kunster. He is on the Board of The Brecht Forum, the New York City chapter of The National Lawyers Guild, and practices law in New York City. Neil Smith is D istinguished Professor of Anthropolo gy and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he also directs the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. He recently won the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (2003) for his book American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (2003). He works on the broad connections between space, social theory and history, and is also author of New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist Oty ( 1996) and Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space ( 1991) and most recently The Endgame of Globaliza- tion (2005). Preston H. Smith II is National Co-coordin ator of the Free Higher Education campaign sponsored by the Debs-Douglass-Jones Institute, educational and cultural arm of the Labor Party. He also directs the community-based learning program and teaches politics and African American Studies at Mount Holyoke College. He teaches and writes on class in black politics and community development. A member of the Labor Party since 1995, he currently sits on the party's Interim National Committee of the Labor Party. Richard Smith trained as a comparative historian at UCLA, taught a Rutgers New Brunswick, and has written on the transition to capitalism in China, capitalist development and China's environment, and primitive accumulation in Russia and China for New Left Review, Monthly Review, The Ecologist and other publications. He is now working on a book on capitalism and the global environmental crisis." Mia Son is Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at the College of Medicine, Kangwon National University. She works in the fields of social and occupational epidemiology on issues of social class, unemployment, irregular work, shift work, and work intensity. Her research interests also deals with empowering workers' solidarity in the workplace. She is affiliated with the Korean Institute for Labour Safety (http:/ /kilsh.or.kr), the Korean Institute for Labour Studies and Safety Policy (http:/ /kilsp. jinbo.net) and the Power of Working Class (http:/ /www.pwc .or.kr). Hobart A. Spalding specializes in contemporary Latin America, especially labor and social movements. He works with NACLA, Latin American Perspectives, and the Brecht Forum, among other organizations. He recently coordinated the special issue of Socialism and Democracy on Cuba in the 1990s. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak teaches Comparative Literature, Marx, Global Feminism, Derrida, and various other subjects at Columbia University. She is the director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, and is an activist in both elementary education and the facilitation of ecological agriculture . Dr. Spivak has published translations of Derrida as well as translations of Bengali fiction and poetry. Lynne Stewart is an attorney who has been providing political defense to those criminalized by state and federal govenments since the 1980s (Anti-Springbok, May 19 Communist, Black Panther, Black Liberation Army, Weather Underground, Ohio 7, Richard Williams, Larry Davis, Ahmad Ajaj, Nasser Ahmed). In February, the governmen t won a guilty verdict against her in federal court relating to her defense of Omar Adel Rahman, and she faces a maximum jail term of thirty years. Sentencing is scheduled for September 23 w ith an appeal to follow. Vincenzo Striano is the President of ARCI-Toscana. He has written extensively on third-secto r institutions and "associationism." Since the 1950s, the Associazione Ricreativa Culturale ltaliana (ARCI) has been Italy's major co-operative association, responsible for much of the country's progressive civil society network. In the late 1990s, ARCI took on new significance as the most prominent nationwide institution within the new global justice and peace movements. It has well over 2 million members. Maria Svart is Co-chair of the Young Democratic Socialists (the youth section of DSA). She is currently an organizer for the Service Employees Internation al Union, buthasspentthe lastnineyearsasacampus activist and community organizer in the environmental, feminist, antiracist, anti-war and labor movements. William K. Tabb is Professor of Economics at Queens College. His books include Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization (Columbia 2004); Unequal Partners: A Primer on Globalization (The New Press 2002); The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century (Monthly Review Press 200 I ); Reconstruct- 2005 Left Forum The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years ing Political Economy: The Great Divide in Economic Thought (Routledge 1999); and The PostwarJapanese System: Cultural Economy and Economic Transformation (Oxford 1995). Michael Tanzer is president of Tanzer Economic Associates, Inc, which for 35 years has specialized in consulting to Third World governments in the oil and energy areas. He is the author of five books, including The Political Economy of International Oil and the Underdeveloped Countries (Beacon Press 1969) and Energy Update: Oil in the Late Twentieth Century (Monthly Review Press 1985; with Stephen Zorn). "Solidarity at the Pump: A Proposal for the Oil Exporting Nations of the Third World," appeared in NACLA Report on the Americas (January/February 200 I). Steve Theberge is the Youth and Counter Militarism National Organizer at the War Resisters League. The WRL's Youth and Counter Militarism Project, based in New York City, provides youth with the resources and training necessary to agitate against military recruitment in their schools and communities. Our long term goal is to bring youth organizers and young veterans together to help build a unified, national anti-war movement. Joe Trippi was heralded by The New Republic as the man who reinvented campaigning. He worked on Edward M. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1980, as well as the presidential campaigns of Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt and Howard Dean. As National Campaign Manager for Howard Dean, he pioneered the use of online technology to organize what became the largest grassroots movement in presidential politics. Through Trippi's innovative use of the internet for small-donor fund raising, Dean for America raised more money than any Democratic presidential campaign in history, all with small donations. As a political analyst and commentator, Trippi appears regularly on MSNBC and the Fox News Channel. He has been profiled in GQ, Fast Company, The New Republic, and The New York. Times Magazine. 29 for education and a progressive response to it. Leonard Weinglass is a criminal lawyer whose clients have included the Chicago Seven and Mumia Abu Jamal. He was an attorney in the Pentagon Papers case. Seth Weiss works at May Day Books & lnfoshop, a radical bookstore in NYC (www.maydaybooks.net). He is also a founder of a new anticapitalist school in Manhattan, The New SPACE (http:/ /new-space. mahost.org). Jason West, elected Mayor of New Paltz in the spring of 2003, gained international attention as part of the first Green Party majority elected in New York State, and later for risking criminal prosecution to marry 25 same-sex couples. They are the first legal gay marriages in New York.. Mayor West continues to create innovative public policy that combines environmental protection, social justice and fiscal responsibility. He has been the recipient of numerous civil rights awards. Ellen Willis directs the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York. University and is the author of three books of essays on cultural and political issues. Her articles have appeared in The Nation, Dissent, Salon, First of the Month, and other publications. Joseph Wilson is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. He is Director of the Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education and has authored numerous works on labor, race, steel, and a forthcoming book evaluating race and labor in the contemporary era. Frieder Otto Wolf has been teaching philosophy since 1966 at Saarbri.icken, Coimbra and Berlin University. He is active in European politics. and served as a Green MEP from 1994 to 1999. He is a leading member of the German Humanist Organization since 1998, and president of the Humanist Academy of Berlin since 2003. Michael Tyner, a member of Uptown for Peace and Justice, is a youth activist, hip-hop DJ, music producer and filmmaker. He works with youth teaching video production and is currently working on the "We Got Next" public access show. Max Fraad Wolff is a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a freelance writer in the areas of finance and foreign policy. David Van Arsdale is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Richard D.Wolff is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the co-author with Stephen Resnick of numerous books and articles. They are currently working on a class analysis of contemporary households and of some major historical trends in US capitalism. He also teaches at the Brecht Forum. Tompkins Cortland Community College and 2004 graduate of distinction from the Social Science Doctorate Program of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Antwuan Wallace serves as a the Program Consultant for the Media Justice Fund, which aims to galvanize activists, practitioners and analysts to elevate media issues of equality and fairness within a social justice framework.. A doctoral student in Policy Analysis at the New School, his proposed dissertation will investigate how youth-of-color are using information communication technologies within community-based organizations to affect social change. Ellen Meiksins Wood taught Political Science for many years at York. University in Toronto. Her books include The Retreat from Class; Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy; The Pristine Culture of Capitalism; The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View; and most recently, Empire of Capital. Julia Wrigley is a professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate CenMichel Warschawski is a veteran journalist and peace activist as well as author of numerous books, including Toward and Open Tomb and most recently On the Border (South End, 2005). He co-founded the Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli research and media organization promoting a just resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He lives in Jerusalem. 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