[van-announce] New Socialist magazine - July/August - Issue #52 - Available Now!

[Tony Tracy]

N E W  S O C I A L I S T  M A G A Z I N E
Ideas for Radical Change

Issue 52 (July/August, 2005)

LEARNING FROM THE PAST, LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
* What the history of workers' councils tells us about socialist 
democracy
* Interviews with three socialists who radicalized in different times
* 100 years of revolutionary folk culture from the I.W.W.
* What it means to build and sustain communities of struggle
* Understanding and addressing the isolation of the far left

INTERNATIONAL
* How Canada, the US and France subverted democracy in Haiti
* How Bolivian mass protests toppled another president
* How Ukraine's democratic struggles became the Orange Revolution

HOMEFRONT
* How the English-speaking left botched its response to the Gomery 
scandal
* How the recent Quebec student strike became the largest in its history
* How the government is breaking its promise to tsunami victims
* How to become an ally of indigenous struggles in Canada
* How psychiatrists and their staff violate human rights

REVIEWS
* Darren O'Donnell's Your Secrets Sleep with Me
* Michael Albert's Thought Dreams
* Plus: plugs for urban legends, girl pirates and other cultural 
finds...

Contributers: Jose Bazin, Neil Braganza, Dave Brophy, Mark Connery, 
Jackie
Esmonde, Joseph Grim Feinberg, Alison Fisher, Chris Ford, Katherine
Grzejszczak, Sabastian Lamb, Alex Levant, David McNally, Sandra Sarner,
Alan Sears, Carlos Torchia & Shiraz Vally, Kevin Skerrett, Jean St-Vil,
Jeffery R. Webber, Don Weitz, Sheila Wilmot. With art/design by Claire
Sauve & Sonya Scott.

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