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BY ROGER HARRIS Photograph Source: Stiller Beobachter – CC BY 2.0 The Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci presciently observed: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” This period that we live in is arguably shaped by three elements: two moribund (the implosion of the USSR and the centrality of US imperialism) and one vital (the promise of multipolarity). The camp associated with the US is consolidating at the same time that a countervailing multipolar tendency is emerging. Major changes are reshaping the world order, I contend, but the outcome is not yet clear. While factors such as the status of US dollar dominance are important, the deeper iss...

BY JONATHAN BUTLER Walter Teague at the USCANLF loft in Chelsea, 1966. Walter Teague, the encyclopedic and strong-willed giant of the anti-war movement who passed away on March 27 from heart failure at the age of 86, was a stickler for detail. In the postscript of the final email he sent me in February—the culmination of a dozen hours of interviews I’d done with him in recent months for my upcoming book on the radical left—he called me out for having used an abbreviated form of the organization he founded in late 1964. “P.S.,” he typed, through the arthritic pain that had all but consumed the use of his right hand by the end, “the official name was U.S. Committee to Aid the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Each element chosen for special reasons.” Precise to the end. ...