EDITORIALS
Bush: The emperor's threadbare clothes
Plus: Gay Marriagebirth of a civil rights movement; Anniversary of the war; Wall Street likes Kerry
News and Reports
Deforming medicare
Plus: Brazilreform and revolution; General strike in Canada?; Haiti's uprising; Wild winter for Italian workers; Is reform dead in Iran?; Up against the Egyptian regime; Rachid Chrii goes free
FEATURES
Blair's mass deception
John Pilger
The occupation of Iraq, Palestine, and the antiwar movement
Statement of the International Socialist Organization
How we stopped the execution of Kevin Cooper
Todd Chretien
The fight for gay marriage: "Separate is not equal"
Steve Trussell
the U.S. labor movement: State of emergency, signs of renewal
Lee Sustar
Farmworkers in the U.S.
Justin Akers
Writers draw up new organizing plans
Interview with Jerry Colby, new president of the National Writers Union
The world's left meets in Mumbai
David Whitehouse
Building Unity on the Greek Left
Declaration of the initiative for the Regroupment of the left
Emma Goldman: A life of Controversy
Lance Selfa
Marxist Classics: The Civil War in France
Elizabeth Lalasz
REPRINT: Who's going to be the lesser-evil in '68?
Hal Draper
REVIEWS
The drive for global dominance
Plus: Is U.S. power in decline?; The U.S. and "small wars"; Capital and empire; Life of a civil rights champion; Chimps and us; Live from Palestine