May 2009 issue of Political Affairs is now out!

	The People's Movement at 100 Days Political Affairs, 05/01/2009 Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. The concept of examining a new presidency at the end of its first 100 days began with the first term of the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency.
	Geithner’s 100 Days at Treasury Jim Genova, 05/01/2009 Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Most leading economists, international financial agencies, and heads of sovereign finance ministries agree with the assessment of the World Bank in its Global Monitoring Report 2009 (released April 2009) that the world economy is in the “severest crisis since the Great Depression.”
	The First 100 Days and the Environment Marc Brodine, 05/01/2009 Obama’s short time in office has been filled with action, and many of those actions will positively affect the environment and US environmental policy.
	Obama and Roosevelt: A Comparison of the First 100 Days Norman Markowitz, 05/01/2009 Rome, as the old truism goes, wasn’t built in a day. Or in 100 days. Neither was the New Deal government led by Franklin Roosevelt of the 1930s, which eventually accepted and implemented major reforms in the interest of labor and the whole American people.
	Healthy Hospitals: Reforming the System in the Middle of the Financial Crisis Phil E. Benjamin, 05/01/2009 By boldly targeting the "special interests" opposition to many of his proposed programs, the Obama administration makes these changes possible. The special corporate interests in the health care industry, for example, must also be confronted.
	Good Jobs, Safe Jobs: Give Workers a Voice for Change Donna Vincene Puleio, 05/01/2009 Workers Memorial Day 2009, a day to remember those who have suffered and died on the job and to renew the fight for safe workplaces, was observed by the Allegheny County Labor Council, AFL-CIO, at 11:30 AM on Tuesday 4/28/2009 in Pittsburgh in Market Square.
	The Financial Bailouts: Secrets, Lies and Democracy Wadi’h Halabi, 05/01/2009 It is a step forward that the Obama administration plans to lift some of the secrecy surrounding US war crimes committed under the Bush administration. Those crimes include secrecy and lies, which violate the foundations of democracy.
	The Family as Aesthetic State Apparatus Gary Tedman, 05/01/2009 When it comes to rational "scientific discourse" art is a language that is often excluded from the mainstream logos in a similar way to the "feminine," it being instead also associated with madness ("hysteria").
	Misunderstanding Marx: Brad Delong and the Collapse of Neoliberalism Thomas Riggins, 05/01/2009 Class struggle is alive. Factory workers at Chicago's Republic Windows and Doors fought big finance capital and won. (PWW photo by Pepe Lozano) The blogosphere has lately witnessed some interest in a lecture, " Understanding Marxism" posted by Professor Brad Delong of the University of California and a former Clinton administration official.
	Serving Global Capital, A Review of "Marisol" E. San Juan, Jr., 05/01/2009 We live in the era of the global commons, but very few have actually met their neighbors – except as subalterns: household maids, hotel service-workers, nannies, most likely college-educated women from the Philippines.
	Eduardo Galeano: Los Ojos Abiertos de America Latina Jorge Majfud, 05/01/2009 Eduardo Galeano. Son muy pocos los casos de escritores que sostienen una total indiferencia por la ética de su trabajo. No son pocos los que han entendido que en la práctica literaria es posible separar la ética de la estética.
	Book Review: Wobblies and Zapatistas Ernesto Aguilar, 05/01/2009 From the moment Marxists and anarchists parted ways in 1872, the peculiar and occasionally rancorous tension between the divergent schools of socialism has been the subject of many a debate, study group and protest.
	Book Review: Dreaming Up America Craig Bourne, 05/01/2009 Dreaming Up America tends toward an oceanic view of its subject as the collective unconscious into which all things flow, and then combine, to give the American dream its special salty flavor.
	Book Review: The Hunger Games Annie Fox, 05/01/2009 The book is based on an absurd premise, not that this is unusual in science-fiction. The world as we know it, apparently what used to be North America, consists of the Capitol (filled with disgusting, rich, pampered elites) and the Districts (whose folks do the work that needs doing).
	Poems, May 2009 Combined Sources, 05/01/2009 May 2009 poems include "Free Ehren Watada," by Jack Hirschman, "Poppies," by Maggie Jaffe, and "Work Ethic," by Amy Groshek.