NEW SOCIALIST MAGAZINE Issue 48

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NEW SOCIALIST MAGAZINE Issue 48
September 2004 to October 2004

Signed articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors of New Socialist.

Editorial

Against ‘humanitarian’ interventions

Bush and the US Presidential Election

2004 US presidential election: Anybody but Bush?, by Charlie Post
Film review: Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, A movie, not a manifesto, reviewed by Liisa Schofield

International

From Lula’s PT to a new Workers’ Party: the Brazilian Left, by Andrew Kennedy

Homefront

Corporate U and student dissent, by Dan Freeman-Maloy
FIGHTBACK: It’s time to start changing our unions
Post Election Analysis: A small window opens for the Left, by Nathan Rao

Prisons of Capitalism

‘We don’t need better prisons for women’, An interview with Ex-Prisoner Gayle Horii, by Antonia Baker
Book Review: Rethinking prison justice: Are Prisons Obsolete?, reviewed by Patrick McGuire
Prison and Harm Reduction; What’s the hold up?, by Anne Marie DiCenso
Drawing Detention: A prison art group for women, by Sima Zerehi

Theory and Analysis

Feature: The history of revolution and the future of anti-capitalism, by Sebastian Lamb

Review

Globalization, immigration and settlement, reviewed by Sheila Wilmot

Obituary

IN MEMORY: Brett Cemer (1967-2004) Dedicated socialist and union activist, by David McNally