is co-author, with Mike Davis, of No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S-Mexico Border, which Haymarket Books recently published in Spanish. He is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review on issues of immigration and is a leading activist in San Diego's immigrant rights movement.

is the author of The Democrats: A Critical History (Haymarket, 2008). He is member of the editorial board of International Socialist Review, a regular columnist for Socialist Worker and co-editor of Obrero Socialista, Socialist Worker newspaper's Spanish-language counterpart. He is editor of The Struggle for Palestine (Haymarket, 2002) a collection of essays by leading solidarity activists.

is a longtime activist and socialist in the International Socialist Organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a regular contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review. He was an organizer in the national presidential campaigns of Ralph Nader in 2000 and of Nader and Peter Camejo in 2004. He was the Green Party's candidate for U.S. senate from California in 2006.

is editor of the International Socialist Review and the author of Black Liberation and Socialism, an analysis of historic movements against racism in the United States.

is a journalist and noted left-wing writer and co-author with Jeffrey St. Clair of the forthcoming Green Scare: The New War on Environmentalism. His articles and essays appear in CounterPunch, Z Magazine, Truthout, and Alternet, among other publications.

is an Obie Award-winning playwright and a noted stage and screen actor (Star Trek, Gossip Girl, The Princess Bride, Toy Story). His plays, The Designated Mourner and Marie and Bruce, have recently been produced as films. He is co-author of the movie My Dinner with Andre and author of the plays The Fever, The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors. His critically acclaimed Essays is published by Haymarket Books.

is a teacher, actor and activist in New York City. His commentary and writing have been featured on GRITtv, SleptOn.com, Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review. Jones has also lent his voice to several audiobooks, including Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival, Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's Voices of a People's History of the United States, and Zinn's one-man play Marx in Soho.

is the author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Radicalism in the U.S., and Women and Socialism. She is a columnist for Socialist Worker and is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review and CounterPunch.

is a high school teacher and rank-and-file activist in the United Teachers Los Angeles. She is involved in recent organizing against California's education cuts and attacks on teachers and students in California. She is a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review, including her article, Charter schools and the attack on public education.

is an investigative journalist, writer and editor. He is the co-editor, with Alexander Cockburn, of the political newsletter CounterPunch, and author of several books including the forthcoming Green Scare: The New War on Environmentalism with Joshua Frank.

is the founder, host and producer of Uprising, a daily morning drive-time program based at KPFK-FM, Pacifica Radio, KPFK-FM in Los Angeles. She is the co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence. For more information, visit and www.afghanwomensmission.org.

is the labor editor for Socialist Worker and frequently writes on the unfolding economic crisis. He is a regular contributor to International Socialist Review, CounterPunch and ZNet. He is also co-editor of Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader. Lee is a member of the National Writers Union in Chicago.

is editor of Socialist Worker newspaper and the daily Web site SocialistWorker.org. He is the author of The Case for Socialism (Haymarket Books, 2004), an introduction to socialism and the socialist tradition.

is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and a frequent contributor on the subject of race and class in America. Her writing has also appeared on CounterPunch, Socialist Worker. She is a doctoral student in African American Studies at Northwestern University.

is a journalist and author. Her latest book, Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution is out in April 2010 from Scribner. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and the Nation. Her first book, Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, traces the history and politics of household rubbish in the United States.

is the author of Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation. Wolf has been a leading socialist activist for many years and is associate editor of the International Socialist Review. She has written and spoken widely on topics from Palestine liberation and opposition to the Iraq War, as well as about the fight for equal marriage and full federal equality for LGBT people. She is on the Interim Governing Board of Equality Across America.