Editor’s Page

The Jig is Up

By Lynn Henderson

United States

Cashing the Obama Check:
Will It Come Back Marked ‘Insufficient Funds?’

By Bruce Dixon

The Obama ’08 Phenomenon: What Have We Learned?

By Glen Ford

Freedom Rider: Ruling Class Bailed Out

By Margaret Kimberley

The Age of Katrina—Not Obama

By BAR executive editor Glen Ford

Rescue for the Few, Debt Slavery for the Many

By Michael Hudson

Merritt-ocracy: The Paulson Sporting Doctrine

By Dave Zirin

Don’t Worry! Be Happy! A Little Poverty May Do You Some Good

By Bonnie Weinstein

Nationwide Protests Against the War Scheduled for March 2009

Labor

The Working Class is Too Big to Fail

By Gregg Shotwell

Labor Board Limits Political Strikes

By Robert Schwartz

Labor on Tranquilizers, Capitalism on Steroids

By Carl Finamore

Metrolink Commuter Crash: Who’s Really to Blame?

By Brian Schwartz

Remembering Gene Upshaw

By Dave Zirin

Slavery Haunts America’s Plantation Prisons

By Maya Schenwar

Political Prisoners

Beating Back Batson

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

Behind the Money Crash

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

Fall of the House of Capital?

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

Screening Mumia: The Suppression of Dissent in America

By Linn Washington, Jr.

Environment

The Methane Time Bomb

By Steve Connor

Natural Resources Crisis Worse than Financial Crunch

By Juliette Jowit

International

Obama Picks Pro-Israel Hardliner for Top Post

By Ali Abunimah

Imperialism, Nationalism and National Liberation Struggles

By Anindya Bhattacharyya

Capitalism, Nationalism and Xenophobia in South Africa

By Dale T. McKinley

Georgia—A New Front for US Aggression

By John McAnulty

Cuba

A Revolutionary Fight Against the Demon

By Celia Hart Santamaria

The Arsenal of Marxism

Class Struggle and American Labor

By Tom Kerry