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THE NEW MAY ISSUE IS OUT! SOON, EVERYWHERE ...

FRONTLINES
The newspaper of the left

Contents:

COVER STORY: ASHCROFT DISSAPPEARING ACT
This magician must go!
The story of thousands of disappeared in America.
Repressive legislation, reactionary measures, raids,
massive violations of civil rights, anti-immigrant legislation...

EDITORIAL: REACTION, POLARIZATION, STRUGGLE
Perspectives: the political situation in the US and the world.

Unlawful Inmates: Why the Taliban in Guantanamo are POWs.

John Walker Lindh on trial
Confessed while strapped to an stretcher, naked and blindfolded

UC: Divest from Israel!
Students learning from the anti-apartheid struggle in the 80s

Stop US Aid to Israel - Poster by artist Doug Minkler

Cabbies organize themselves
300 Afghan, Indian, Nigerian and Ethiopian
Cab drivers in the Bay Area struck against Oakland's monopoly and won a contract... and now they are organizing a union.

Venezuela: how a US-backed coup was defeated
The three days that shocked the world

French elections: "Hang the bourgeoisie by their guts"
Jospin and Chirac, squeezed by Le Pen and Arlette Laguillier

Colombia: The war on terror meets the war on drugs
Uribe, drug trafficking, oil pipelines, guerrillas and paramilitaries

Sharon unleashes war and massacre
How Sharon planned to get rid of Arafat

Culture:
Drawing more than resistance
The artist and his voice

Labor Pains:
The controversy about a Middle East resolution at the SF Labor Council
Oppositionists won election at BART's SEIU chapter 1199 endorses Republican for governor

Local news:
Greens move ahead
Britt to go Green?
City slicing
Short-circuited?

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