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An extended issue featuring communist analysis of the conflicts raging in society over immigration, state power, and the right to abortion, as well as social investigation reports on immigrant farmworkers, new migrants, the dispossessed former industrial working class, and Indigenous people in the Southwest.

Table of Contents:

• Hunan-style What Is To Be Done?-ism
  An introduction to GATT #6

Editorials

• The grifter style in American politics
  GATT editorial
• When do we get angry? Igniting a mass movement for abortion rights in a post-Dobbs world
  Opal Skinnider
• Whistles won’t stop this: The immigrant proletariat and state repression from Chinese exclusion to the Bovino boys’ terror
  Pat Grant

Social investigation reports

• “This isn’t a life”: Migrant misery in the metropole
• Doomed to dash, forced to fight: Migrant delivery drivers and the three-front class war
• Caught on the threshold: Undocumented immigrant workers in a California farming town
• Uncertain future in Steel City: Lorain, Ohio
• “We fought the US before, and will need to again, soon”: Indigenous people, national oppression, and the struggle for culture