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Heather Rogers is a journalist and author. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and The Nation. Her first book, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, traces the history and politics of household garbage in the United States. She is working on a forthcoming book, Green Gone Wrong: The Broken Promise of the Eco-Friendly Economy, a critique of "green capitalism."
John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s. His first film, The Quiet Mutiny, is credited with disclosing to a worldwide audience the internal disintegration of the US army in Vietnam.
Thirty-six years and some 60 documentaries later, he is still making challenging films for ITV. His films have won Academy Awards in Britain and the United States. He has been a freelance writer since 1986, with his work appearing in newspapers such as the Guardian, the Independent, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The South China Morning Post, the Mail & Guardian (South Africa), the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age (Australia), Aftonbladet (Sweden), Morgenbladet (Norway) and Il Manifesto (Italy) and Socialist Worker (US).
John returned to write for the Mirror for eighteen months during the build-up to the invasion of Iraq. Since 1991, he has written a twice-monthly column for the New Statesman. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigous Sophie Prize for "30 years of exposing injustice and promoting human rights."
Dave Zirin's regular sports commentary can be found in the print and online on the Nation, SLAM magazine, the Progressive, Los Angeles Times and on his Web site, www.edgeofsports.com. He has been a frequent guest on Air America's On the Real with Chuck D and Gia'na Garel, and Democracy Now!, and hosts his own weekly XM show, Edge of Sports Radio. His other books include Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports and A People's History of Sports in the United States.
Amy Goodman is an investigative journalist and award-winning host of Pacifica radio's Democracy Now! and co-author of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. Her forthcoming book is titled Breaking the Sound Barrier.
Martina Correia has led the struggle to win justice for her brother Troy Davis, an innocent man on Georgia's death row, for the last 19 years. Troy has faced three execution dates in the last two years, each of which was called off hours before the deadline.
Jeremy Scahill is an independent journalist and the author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He is a frequent contributor to the Nation and a correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!. He is currently a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute.
While a correspondent for Democracy Now!, Scahill reported extensively from Iraq through both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Jeremy's writing appears at RebelReports.
Clarence Thomas is a member Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and a long-time labor and community activist.
Sherry Wolf has been a leading socialist activist for many years and is a member of the editorial board of the International Socialist Review. She has written and spoken widely on topics from the war in Iraq to the occupation of Palestine, as well as about the fight for gay marriage and gender equality. She is the author of the forthcoming book Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation.
Arun Gupta is a reporter and editor at The Indypendent newspaper in New York City. Gupta has written extensively about the Iraq war for The Indypendent as well as Z Magazine and been a frequent guest on Democracy Now! He is currently working on a book about the history of the Iraq war.
Ian Angus is the editor of Climate and Capitalism, an online journal that focuses on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. Ian's other online political projects include Socialist Voice (associate editor) and the Socialist History Project (director). He is a founding member of the Ecosocialist International Network. He is the author of Food Crisis: World Hunger, Agribusiness, and the Food Sovereignty Alternative and of Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of The Communist Party of Canada. For many years, he hosted the blues music program Let the Good Times Roll on CIUT-FM in Toronto.
Watch Ian discuss an ecosocialist response to climate change.
Barbara Becnel was an advocate for anti-gang and anti-racist activist Stan Tookie Williams, who was murdered by the state of California and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006. Barbara co-produced Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story. Since Tookie's murder, Barbara has continued to fight to prove his innocence and to expose the criminal injustice system for its true colors.
Watch Barbara decry the New Year's Day murder of Oscar Grant III in Oakland, CA, by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle.
Anuradha Mittal, a native of India, is an internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights and agriculture issues. After working as the codirector of Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy, she established the Oakland Institute, a progressive policy think tank, in 2004.
Anuradha is the author and editor of numerous articles and books including America Needs Human Rights; The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance; Sahel: A Prisoner of Starvation; and most recently of Food And Energy Sovereignty: Brazilian Grassroots Position on Agroenergy.
Robert Brenner is a professor of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. He is the author of The Boom and the Bubble: The U.S. in the World Economy, which foresaw many of the structural problems in the U.S. economy that led to today's economic crisis. He is also author of the forthcoming The Economics of Global Turbulence.
Claudio Katz is Professor of Economics at the University of Buenos Aires, as well as a researcher with CONICET and a member of Economists of the Left. Claudio is the author of Problems of Autonomism: Strategies for the Latin American Left.
Nora Barrows-Friedman is senior producer and co-host of Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio. She reports regularly from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip for Flashpoints and as a correspondent for Inter Press Service. She is also a contributor to Electronic Intifada.
Patrick Bond is a political economist based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies in Durban, where he directs the Centre for Civil Society. He is active with social movements in South Africa, Zimbabwe and internationally. Recent books are Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society (co-edited with Rehana Dada and Graham Erion for Rozenberg Publishers and UKZN Press, 2008, 2007); The Accumulation of Capital in Southern Africa (co-edited with Horman Chitonge and Arndt Hopfmann for CCS and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2007); Looting Africa (Zed Books and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006); Talk Left, Walk Right (UKZN Press, 2006, 2004).
Todd Chretien is a longtime activist and socialist in the International Socialist Organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a regular contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review. He was an organizer in the national presidential campaigns of Ralph Nader in 2000 and of Nader and Peter Camejo in 2004. He was the Green Party's candidate for U.S. senate from California in 2006.
Mick Armstrong is a member of the National Executive of Socialist Alternative (Australia). He has been active in numerous campaigns, including the movement against the war in Iraq and the Palestine solidarity campaign. He is the author of a number of books including a history of the Australian student movement and a Marxist history of the Labor Party.
Paul D'Amato is managing editor of the International Socialist Review and author of The Meaning of Marxism, an introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx and the tradition he founded.
Sarah Knopp is a high school teacher and rank-and-file activist in the United Teachers Los Angeles. She is involved in recent organizing against California's education cuts and attacks on teachers and students in California. She is a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review, including her recent article, Charter schools and the attack on public education.
Lance Selfa is the author of The Democrats: A Critical History (Haymarket, 2008). He is member of the editorial board of International Socialist Review, a regular columnist for Socialist Worker and co-editor of Obrero Socialista, Socialist Worker newspaper's Spanish-language counterpart. He is editor of The Struggle for Palestine (Haymarket, 2002) a collection of essays by leading solidarity activists.
Nativo López is president of the Mexican American Political Association and the national director of the Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana. López was spokesperson for the Great American Boycott 2006—a national day of action for immigrant rights on May 1, 2006. He is from Los Angeles.
Mike Davis is a writer, historian and socialist activist whose books include In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire (Haymarket Books, 2008), Budda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (Verso, 2007), and Planet of Slums (Verso, 2006). Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California-Irvine and lives in San Diego.
Derrel Myers is a board member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a member of Murder Victims Families for Human Rights and a long-time civil rights and antiwar activist. He lost his only son Jo Jo in 1996 when a still unknown assailant shot him. Derrel has committed his life to speaking out, not only against the death penalty, but also against an unequal society that breeds violence.
Barry Sheppard is a veteran socialist and antiwar activist and the author of The Party: A Political Memoir, the Socialist Workers Party, 1960-1988.
Charles-André Udry is a veteran socialist and editor of La Brèche, published in Switzerland, and of Page Deux books. His commentaries can be read at alencontre.org.
Toufic Haddad is a Palestinian-American activist is co-author with Tikva Honig-Parnass of the book Between the Lines: Readings on Israel, the Palestinians and the U.S. "War on Terror" (Haymarket Books, 2007), which documents the apartheid-like conditions that Palestinians live under. He is currently a freelance writer in the West Bank.
Leon Crémieux is a founding member of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste or NPA), formed in France in February, 2009. A long time member of the Revolutionary Communist League (Ligue communist revolucionarie or LCR) that took the initiative to form the NPA, Crémieux is also the national secretary of Sud Aerien, an independent union of airline industry workers.
Neil Davidson is a member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain and is part of the organisation's leadership in Scotland. He is a Senior Research Fellow with the Department of Geography and Sociology at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Neil is the author of the Deutscher Prize-winning book, Discovering the Scottish Revolution (2003) and is currently completing a study of the bourgeois revolutions for Haymarket.
Antonis Davanellos is a veteran revolutionary socialist in Greece. He is a member of DEA (Internationalist Workers Left). DEA belongs to the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), and publishes the fortnightly newspaper Ergatiki Aristera (Workers' Left) and the quarterly review Diethnistiki Aristera (Internationalist Left).
Paul Le Blanc is Professor of History at La Roche College in Pittsburgh. He has been a political activist since 1965. Among his books are: Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, A Short History of the U.S. Working Class, From Marx to Gramsci, Rosa Luxemburg: Reflections and Writings, and Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience. Most recently, he has edited a selection of Lenin’s writings for Pluto Press entitled Revolution, Democracy, Socialism, and is an editor of and contributor to the new eight-volume International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Marlene Martin is the national director of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. Her writing is featured regularly in The New Abolitionist, the Campaign’s news publication. She also contributes to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review.
China Miéville is the author of several novels that have earned him fantasy and science fiction awards, including King Rat, Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Iron Council. He also wrote Looking for Jake and Other Stories, a collection of short stories. In 2007, he published his is his first book for younger readers, Un Lun Dun. He lives and works in London.
Tom Lewis, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at University of Iowa, has written numerous articles on U.S. policy toward Latin America in publications like International Socialist Review, Rebellion.org (Spain) and Econoticias.com (Bolivia). He co-authored Cochabamba!: Water War in Bolivia with Oscar Olivera (South End Press, 2008).
Eric Ruder is a longstanding antiwar activist, a reporter for Socialist Worker and a member of the editorial board of the International Socialist Review. As a journalist, he has covered a wide range of topics, including the GI resistance to the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Palestinian movement for national liberation, and the injustices of the U.S. criminal justice system. He traveled to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to report on the failures of the U.S. relief effort and covered immigrant rights issues during a trip along the U.S.-Mexico border from Tijuana/San Diego to Ciudad Juarez/El Paso. His recent article "What is socialism?" appears in the May/June issue of the International Socialist Review.
Nagesh Rao is an assistant professor of English at the College of New Jersey. His articles on imperialism, globalization and culture have appeared in MRZine, Postcolonial Text, South Asian Review, Race and Class, the International Socialist Review and Socialist Worker. He is the editor of Exile: Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer by Andre Vltchek and Rossie Indira (Haymarket Books, 2006).
Ken Riley is the president of International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1422 in Charleston, South Carolina and president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists in the state. Riley was a leading spokesperson on behalf of the Charleston Five, five ILA members tried for, and acquitted of, criminal charges of conspiracy and riot for defending union jobs on the docks in 2000. Ken was also a vocal supporter of removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state capitol.
Jennifer Roesch is a longtime activist and member of the International Socialist Organization in New York City. She is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review. Her articles have been featured in the ISR as well as CounterPunch and Socialist Worker.
Elizabeth Schulte is a journalist for Socialist Worker newspaper and the daily Web site. Her writing has also appeared on CounterPunch, Dissident Voice
David Whitehouse is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and a frequent contributor on the subjects of Southeast Asia, Asia and Africa.
Laura Flanders is the host of GRITtv, the news and culture discussion program online, on satellite and on cable TV. She is the author of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics Back from the Politicians and Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species, an exposé of women in George W. Bush’s cabinet.
Darby Tillis was the first of the nineteen men exonerated from Illinois' death row. He speaks about his own personal experience as a wrongfully convicted man on death row who was railroaded on to death row in 1979 by an overzealous, corrupt system for a crime he did not commit. It took five trials to prove his innocence. Finally, in 1987, he and his co-defendant were released, beginning a chain of exonerations that would eventually lead Republican Governor George Ryan to halt all executions in Illinois.
Dahr Jamail is one of the few journalists who have had the courage to visit Iraq as an unembedded reporter in order to discern the real truth of the occupation. His writing has appeared in many publications, including Inter Press Service, TomDispatch, and Socialist Worker. Notably, he reported on the siege of Fallujah in April 2004 from the city while it was being attacked by U.S. forces.
Dahr is the author of a book on the occupation, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.
Sharon Smith is the author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Radicalism in the U.S., and Women and Socialism. She is a columnist for Socialist Worker and is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review and CounterPunch.
Cindy Sheehan is an outspoken antiwar activist. She founded Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization of family members who have had relatives die as a result of war. She has written numerous newspaper columns and magazine articles and three books: Not One More Mother's Child, Dear President Bush and Peace Mom.
Christian Parenti is a correspondent for the Nation and is author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq. He received a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics in 2000. His two previous books are The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror, and Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. He has been a Soros Senior Justice fellow and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.
Watch Christian discuss the occupation of Afghanistan.
Ahmed Shawki is editor of the International Socialist Review and the author of Black Liberation and Socialism, an analysis of historic movements against racism in the United States.
Joe Allen is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review and a long-standing social justice fighter, involved in the ongoing struggles for labor, abolition of the death penalty, and against the Iraq war. He is the author of Vietnam: The Last War the U.S. Lost.
Justin Akers Chacón is co-author, with Mike Davis, of No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S-Mexico Border, which Haymarket Books recently published in Spanish. He is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review on issues of immigration and is a leading activist in San Diego's immigrant rights movement.
Rose Aguilar is a journalist and radio host in San Francisco. She hosts Your Call, a daily, live call-in radio show on NPR-affiliates KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco and KUSP 88.9 FM in Santa Cruz, featuring conversations about everything from the occupation of Iraq and poverty to the environment and the arts. Aguilar is the author of the book Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey into the Heartland about a six-month road trip she took to interview people in so-called "red states."
Anthony Arnove is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal and co-editor with Howard Zinn of Voices of a People's History of the United States, a companion volume to Zinn's classic book. He is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and on the board of Haymarket Books.
Dennis Brutus has been a lifelong fighter against racism and injustice. He taught for 14 years in apartheid South Africa and took part in many anti-apartheid campaigns before being exiled by the government (Dennis visited South Africa in 1993, after the fall of apartheid). Despite being forced out of the country, Dennis remained active in the 1970's and 80's in a number of anti-apartheid organizations, particularly SANROC (South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee), which led the movement to have South Africa excluded from the Olympic Games because of its discriminatory sports policies. He is a prolific author of poetry. Poetry and Protest is a collection of Dennis' writings.
Watch Dennis discuss the problems of sweatshop labor in South Africa and elsewhere.
Dr. Jess Ghannam, the son of Palestinians forced to flee their homes when Israel was established in 1948, is a member of the international executive committee of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition and the Free Palestine Alliance. A clinical professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and adjunct professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, he has also helped establish medical clinics across the Gaza Strip.
Phil Gasper is the editor of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document and a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University in California. He is a on the editorial board of International Socialist Review and writes its "Critical Thinking" column. Phil is also a contributor to Socialist Worker, CounterPunch, ZNet and MRZine.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and a frequent contributor on the subject of race and class in America. Her writing has also appeared on CounterPunch, Socialist Worker. She is a doctoral student in African American Studies at Northwestern University.
Lee Sustar is the labor editor for Socialist Worker and frequently writes on the unfolding economic crisis. He is a regular contributor to International Socialist Review, CounterPunch and ZNet. He is also co-editor of Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader. Sustar is a member of the National Writers Union in Chicago.
Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of the muckraking Web site and newsletter CounterPunch and the author of numerous books, including Been Brown So Long it Looked Green to Me: The Politics of Nature, Grand Theft Pentagon: Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror and Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland, co-written with Joshua Frank. A veteran of the environmental struggle, St. Clair's latest book is Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth.
Brian Ashley is a longtime global rights activist and co-managing editor of Amandla Publishers in Cape Town, South Africa, and part of the Alternative Information Development Centre.
Veteran socialist and activist Joel Geier was a founding member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964. Currently, he is associate editor of International Socialist Review and author of numerous articles on the world economic crisis, including Capitalism's worst crisis since the 1930s as well as the movement against the Vietnam war and the 1960s.
Brian Jones is a teacher, actor and activist in New York City. His commentary and writing have been featured on GRITtv, SleptOn.com, Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review. Jones has also lent his voice to several audiobooks, including Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival, Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's Voices of a People's History of the United States, and Zinn's one-man play Marx in Soho (forthcoming from Haymarket Books).
Alan Maass is editor of Socialist Worker newspaper and the daily Web site SocialistWorker.org. He is the author of The Case for Socialism (Haymarket Books, 2004), an introduction to socialism and the socialist tradition.
David Bacon, a writer and photographer based in California, is the author of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon). Find out about his writings and photography.
Larry Bradshaw is a paramedic, rank-and-file union activist and socialist in San Francisco. He is member of Service Employees International Union Local 1021 and a member of SEIU Member Activists for Reform Today (SMART). His writing on the fight for democracy in SEIU has appeared in Socialist Worker.
Martín Sánchez is the consul general of Venezuela in San Francisco.
Megan Behrent is a high school teacher, rank-and-file activist in the United Federation of Teachers and socialist in New York City.
Dana Cloud is an associate professor of communications studies at the University of Texas in Austin and a contributor to Socialist Worker. She is an outspoken activist on academic freedom, making her the target of right-wing witch-hunter David Horowitz who included her in his 2006 book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.
Samuel Farber is a longtime socialist born and raised in Cuba. He is the author of numerous works on that country, including The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (University of North Carolina, 2006). He teaches political science at Brooklyn College in New York.
Anand Gopal reports on the global "war on terror" across its many fronts—from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia to the domestic arena. He is the Kabul correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and his writing has also appeared on TomDispatch and the Inter Press Service.
Ron Jacobs is the author of The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground and the novel Short Order Frame Up (Mainstay Press, 2007). He is a frequent contributor to CounterPunch.
William Keach is a professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of Coleridge: The Complete Poems (Penguin, 1997), Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics (Princeton, 2004) and Shelley’s Style (1985). He is also editor of the reissue of Leon Trotsky's Literature and Revolution (Haymarket, 2005).
Stuart Easterling is a longstanding activist and frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review, with an extensive background in research and political work related to Latin America.
Deepa Kumar is an assistant professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike (University of Illinois Press, 2008) which is about the power of the working class to impact the media. Her writing has also appeared MRZine, Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review.
Dan La Botz is a Cincinnati-based teacher, writer and activist. He is a member of Cincinnati Progressive Action (CPA) and No Jail Tax PAC. A member of Solidarity, he is the author of many books, including Democracy in Mexico and The Mask of Democracy: Labor Suppression in Mexico Today.
Max Lane is author of Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto and translator and commentator on the works of Indonesia’s preeminent revolutionary writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer. He was a regular writer on Indonesia, East Timor and the Philippines for Green Left Weekly newspaper in Australia from 1991 until 2007 and is now a regular contributor to the Australian socialist monthly Direct Action. He was coordinator of Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor from 1993 until 2004 and is now a consultant to the Asia Pacific Solidarity Network Web site. He is currently living in Southeast Asia and is an Honorary Associate in Indonesian Studies, in the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney.
Jeffrey Perry is an independent, working-class scholar who was formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia University. He was a long-time activist, elected union officer with Local 300, and editor for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (div. of LIUNA, AFL-CIO, CTW). Dr. Perry preserved and inventoried the Hubert H. Harrison papers (now at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and is the editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). He is also literary executor for Theodore W. Allen (author of The Invention of the White Race) and edited and introduced Allen’s Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race.
David Roediger is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008), among other books, including The Wages of Whiteness and Working Toward Whiteness (Basic Books, 2005).
David McNally teaches political science at York University in Toronto. He has written a number of books, including Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism, and is a member of the New Socialist Group.
John Riddell a socialist activist and historian, has compiled six volumes of documents of the early Communist International. He is now preparing the first English edition of the International's Fourth Congress, held in 1922. John is active in Palestinian and Latin American solidarity in Toronto and edits Socialist Voice.
Helen Scott teaches postcolonial studies at the University of Vermont. She is editor of The Essential Rosa Luxemburg (Haymarket Books, 2007) and has published articles in numerous journals including Callaloo, International Socialist Review, Journal of Haitian Studies and Postcolonial Text, and has contributed chapters to anthologies in postcolonial literature. She is a regular columnist for Socialist Worker.
Ashley Smith is an activist and member of the International Socialist Organization based in Vermont. He is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review to which he is a frequent contributor. His writing has also appeared on ZNet, Dissident Voice, Counterpunch and Socialist Worker. He helped found the Burlington Anti-War Coalition and is a member of the National Writers Union.
Michael Letwin is Co-Convener of New York City Labor Against the War (NYCLAW); a founding member of Labor for Palestine; and former President of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325. He has been a radical activist since the 1960s, and in the 1970s was a leader of Red Tide, a revolutionary youth organization and newspaper.
Shaun Harkin participated in the 1997 UPS strike. A Chicago activist, he helped organize the historic May Day marches in 2006 and 2007. Shaun is a contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review; his articles have also appeared at CounterPunch and Znet.