New Politics Vol. XII No. 2, Whole Number 46

Articles Reinventing a Queer Left Peter Drucker Eight Kinds of Strength Marcia Gallo Socialism and Homosexuality Thomas Harrison Socialism and Gay Liberation: Back to the Future Doug Ireland LGBT Political Cul-de-sac: Make a U-Turn Sherry Wolf The Change We REALLY Want? Joanne Landy Albert Shanker's Legacy: Comment on Norm Scott and Vera Pavone's Review in #45 Michael Hirsch Albert Shanker's Legacy: Reply to Michael Hirsch NORMAN SCOTT and VERA PAVONE In Defense of Washington and Wall Street Robert Fitch Symposium Symposium on Gays and the Left (Part II) Review Hoax and Reality Jerold Touger The New Class Struggle Milan Rai Letters

Full Table of Contents

From the Editors, Marvin Mandell and Betty Mandell

Letters

* Reply to Immanuel Wallerstein, Ralph Seliger

Symposium on Gays and the Left (Part II)

* Introduction, Joanne Landy and Thomas Harrison
* Reinventing a Queer Left, Peter Drucker
* Eight Kinds of Strength: A Tribute to Valerie Taylor, Lesbian Writer and Revolutionary, Marcia Gallo
* Socialism and Homosexuality, Thomas Harrison
* Socialism and Gay Liberation: Back to the Future, Doug Ireland
* LGBT Political Cul-de-sac: Make a U-turn, Sherry Wolf

Where Will Obama Go?, Jack Gerson
Joe the Plumber, Christopher Phelps
At the SEIU Convention and Beyond, Herman Benson
A Brief History of Time (poem), Greta Aart
The Taste of Oranges, Desnee Flakes
Albert Shanker's Legacy

* Comment, Michael Hirsch
* Reply, Norman Scott and Vera Pavone

Indigenous Women, “No to 2010” and the Emergence of a New Movement, Jeffrey Shantz

Olympic Dream (poem), Bill Littlefield

Dirty Business, Dirty Wars: U.S.-Latin American Relations in the 21st Century, Cyril Mychalejko

Obituary for B. J. Widick

Did 1968 Change History?, Nelson Lichtenstein

Utopia: A Bet You Can’t Refuse, Richard Greeman

Actuarial (poem), Peter Lamborn Wilson

In Defense of Washington and Wall Street, Robert Fitch (footnoted version)

Reviews

* Hoax and Reality, Jerold Touger (rev. of Alan Sokal, Beyond the Hoax)

* The New Class Struggle, Milan Rai (rev. of Chris Spannos, Real Utopia)

* Bolshevism and Revolutionary Democracy, Paul Le Blanc (rev. of Simon Pirani, The Russian Revolution In Retreat, 1920-24 and Soma Marik, Reinterrogating the Classical Marxist Discourses of Revolutionary Democracy)

* Belief, Work, and Tears, Robert Joe Stout (rev. of J. Nevins, Dying To Live, G. Ramirez, The Fire and Word, and Marcos, Speed and Dreams)

* Architect of Illusion, Louis F. Cooper (rev. of David Milne, America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War)

* Guaranteed: The Hardest and Most Dangerous Job and the Lowest Pay, Michael Wrezsin (rev. of Robert Zeiger, For Jobs and Freedom)

* Dubious Advice for Young Radicals, Sam Waite (rev. of Camille De Toledo, Coming of Age at the End of History)

* Not Working Very Well, Chris Tilly (rev. of Richard B. Freeman, America Works)

* The Anti-Comics Crusade, Kent Worcester (rev. of David Hadju, The 10-Cent Plague)

Words and Pictures: Isadora Duncan, Sabrin Jones (with introduction by Kent Worcester)