Contents
Regulars
Jeff Sparrow − Editorial
Judy Horacek
Alison Croggon
Rjurik Davidson
Features
Matthew Clayfield − Waiting on the Arriaga-Ixtepec
The horrific ordeal of America’s immigrants
Jennifer Lee − A big fat fight
The case for fat activism
Gail Dines & Sharon Smith − Porn and the misogyny emergency
What should feminists prioritise?
Jessica Whyte − ‘Intervene, I said’
Human rights versus social justice
Diana M Pho − Leftist constructs
The radicalism of steampunk
Toufic Haddad − The Arab revolutions reloaded
What follows the Arab Spring?
Jo Case, John Weldon & Malcolm Neil − Bookshops, ebooks and the future of the novel
A Meanland roundtable
Louis Proyect − Republican Democrats
The real Barack Obama
Anitra Nelson & Frans Timmerman − Non-market socialism today
Glimpses of another future
Fiction
Sarah Schmidt − The dolphin
Luke Johnson − Of rivers and blood
Stephen Pham − Holiday in little Saigon
Poetry
Patrick Jones − Step by Step
Joe Dolce − Starvation Box Blues
Andy Quan − Islands
Pam Brown − To Nina
Sam Langer − ‘Clouds fall like snow on the sky’s clear rocks’
Fiona Hile − Maximum Security
Mark O’Flynn − Corydalis
William Druce − poem a
Sebastian Gurciullo − Published by Global Supermarket Pty Ltd
Fiona Yardley − Your Bath
David Prater − Wireless
Alan Wearne − Also Starring …
Graphics
Lofo
Vane Lindesay