2013-06-112013-06-112007-04Nature, society, and thought, Vol. 20, No. 2 (April 2007)0890-6130https://hdl.handle.net/11299/150772ARTICLES: William Mello, Dockers News: The Struggle for Union Democracy in the Port of New York, 1949–1986. Joel Wendland, Orientalism and the U.S. Empire: A Reading of Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive. CONFERENCES: The Socialist Market Economy and Other Theoretical Issues -—NST Symposium, June 2007. Part 2. Eddie Eitches, Federal Unions in the United States as Agents of Social Change: Comparisons with China. Deng Chenming, Basic Concepts of the Harmonious Socialist Society. Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, The New Scramble for Africa. Yang Shengming, Market Economy and Polarization in Income Distribution in China. Ishay Landa, The Absent Father: Patriarchy and Social Order in the Films of Zhang Yimou. Erwin Marquit, Domestic and International Class Struggle in a Harmonious Socialist-Oriented Market Economy. BOOK REVIEWS: Eric R. Jackson, Black Power in the Belly of the Beast, edited by Judson L. Jeffrie. Beatrice Lumpkin, On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5, by Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger. Sharon Vance, Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader, by Michael Parenti. Ana L. Mallén, Bush vs. Chávez: Washington’s War on Venezuela, by Eva Golinger. ABSTRACTS (in English and French).enNewsletter or Bulletin