In two issues of ATP, there are nine articles. Unlike articles from PAR, JPART, or UAR, articles in ATP pursues totally different epistemology, constructionism rather than objectivism. Their purposes are not to illustrate or to prove the social beliefs and facts, but they can be defined as Marxist approaches . All researches papers do not utilize any types of quantitative or qualitative data at all, but they make some kind of theoretical comparisons between current situations and situations they would like to replace the current ones. For example, Eagan give a full explanation of her experience at the Occupy movement in Oakland, and she criticizes inappropriate police reactions toward the protestors. She elaborates the experiences with some
