Empire and Israel
John Pilger

CRITICAL THINKING: The watchdog bites
Phil Gasper on Israel's “special relationship” with the U.S.

“Birth pangs of a New Middle East”
Toufic Haddad on the destruction of Lebanon

“We are busy making our history”
Sandino Milcantes on the rebellion in Oaxaca, Mexico

Chile's mass student protests
Orlando Sepúlveda on the biggest movement since Pinochet

Learning to be a killer
Sgt. Martin Smith, USMC (ret.) recalls his experiences in boot camp

No human being is illegal
Nativo López on the future of the immigrant rights movement

The B-team of Corporate America
Todd Chretien on the Democrats and the race for Congress

Gary Tyler: Three decades of injustice
Joe Allen

Spies, lies, and war
Sherry Wolf on the lessons of COINTELPRO

Revisiting Marx's Capital
Phil Gasper on Marx's classic book

R E V I E W S

Hidden history of class struggle
A review of Sharon Smith's Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Radicalism in the United States
PLUS: A great nation of the exploited; Immigrant power in the workplace; Low-wage Latinas; Abusive relationships between Democrats and Black America; Power and powerlessness; Choosing the wrong allies to oppose war; Social movements and state power in Latin America

L E T T E R S

Cuba's future