New Politics, Vol. VII, No. 4 (New Series), Winter 2000, Whole No. 28

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The Presidential Primaries, Marvin Mandell

Mumia Time or Sweeney Time, Dave Roediger

Discussion: Kosovo/a, Self-determination and Interventionism

Following the Kosovo/a exchange in the last issue of New Politics, we received an article from Manuela Dobos. Steve Shalom and Joanne Landy then submitted short pieces continuing the previous discussion (neither having seen the other's contribution). We present here the comments by Dobos, Shalom and Landy.

• A Left-Interventionist View, Manuela Dobos

• Kosovo, Justice, and Humanitarianism, Stephen R. Shalom

• Self-Determination, Not Intervention, Joanne Landy

  (See also further Kosovo/a discussion.)

Jewish Fundamentalism and Israeli Apartheid, David Finkel

East Timor and the United States: an Interview with Allan Nairn

An Exchange: Socialism and the Market

• The Robust Social Market: A Response to David McNally, Roy Morrison

• Further Contributions to the Debate, David McNally

Symposium: Organized Labor from Gompers to Sweeney

In the introductory remarks to his comprehensive study of the bureaucratization of the mainstream of organized labor, Taking Care of Business, Paul Buhle writes: "This book is about history, but inevitably it poses a contemporary question: which way will organized labor go now in the era of the global economy, with its back evidently against the wall? Will it return to the familiar pattern of business unionism, adjusted in small ways? Or will it move toward a new social unionism, joined to other sectors of society, the dispossessed and those eager to see life change?"

How Paul Buhle answers these questions, what he finds instructive in the lessons of history for building a dynamic trade union movement, is the subject for the symposium below.

• Changing the Guard at Top Not the Key to Labor's Revival, Stanley Aronowitz

• Endorsing the Lean Machine, Jane Slaughter

• Rupture or Continuity?, Peter Rachleff

• A Powerful Indictment Lacking Balance, William B. Gould IV

• Union Democracy and the U.S. Labor Bureaucracy, Michael Goldfield

• Waiting for Sweeney, Staughton Lynd

• Business Unionism Still Rules, Kim Moody

• They Won and We Lost -- But Why?, Michael Hirsch

• Paul Buhle Responds

The "Chinese Question" and American Labor Historians, Stanford M. Lyman

Chinese Immigrant Workers and the Contemporary Labor Movement, Herbert Hill

Revising the History of Cold War Liberals, Julius Jacobson

Book Reviews

• Liberalism's Quandries: World War II, Christopher Phelps

• A Scholarly History of the KGB, Ernest Erber

Film Review: Coming Clean: Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut," Kurt Jacobsen

Tribute to Louis Rigaudias 1911-1999, Horst Brand

Index of Volume VII

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