Finally, Lou's long-awaited essay on The Battle of Algiers is up at <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/proyect120805.html>. It's an excellent essay, and it's no wonder -- Lou read more than 2,000 pages of various sources for this! A big fan of Gillo Pontecorvo myself, I spent quite a bit of time finding film stills to go with the article -- the page is looking very beautiful, and I pat my own back. I commissioned him to do a review of Patrick Bond's new work, so look forward to that, too.
Seth's interview with Kenneth Burt, political director of the California Federation of Teachers, has been up since August 8: <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/sandronsky090805.html>. Just as Bush has sunk in popularity, Schwarzenegger is sinking, too, with the weight of his own hubris. Seth's next article on GM should be coming soon. The next PEN-pal article at mrzine.org will be Martin Hart- Landsberg's "South Korea: The Unraveling of an Economy" on August 15. Last time around, Marty's China article topped the perennial MR favorite Einstein on Socialism. Pretty soon, Marty will be able to claim that he is more popular than Jesus Christ! Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org> * Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/mahmoud- ahmadinejads-face.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/chvez- congratulates-ahmadinejad.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/ 2005/06/iranian-working-class-rejects.html>
