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ISSUE 57:
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008

Progress
In Iraq?

E D I T O R I A L S

Letter from the editor

R E P O R T S & ANALYSIS

ASHLEY SMITH on Progress in Iraq?: Bush's surge, fact and fiction

DAHR JAMAIL on The myth of sectarian division in Iraq

AARON HESS on Turkey, the Kurds, and the U.S.

SAMAN SEPEHRI on The meaning of the new intelligence estimate on Iran

LEE SUSTAR on Venezuela: Why was the referendum defeated?

SNEHAL SHINGAVI on Nandigram: Repression in West Bengal

MARLENE MARTIN on Building the Campaign to End the Death Penalty

SHERRY WOLF on Why Ron Paul is no friend of the Left

F E A T U R E S

CRITICAL THINKING: IQ, genetics and racism
PHIL GASPER on the persistent myths about biology and intelligence

The coming meltdown
JOEL GEIER explains why the world's current economic woes are set to worsen

Imperialism doesn't mix well with democracy
An interview with TARIQ ALI

The limits of identity politics
SHARON SMITH analyzes why identity politics can't liberate the oppressed.

In defense of Rachel Carson
SARAH GREY takes a fresh look at the author of the environmentalist classic Silent Spring

The Tet offensive: Turning point in the Vietnam War
JOE ALLEN writes the first of a series of articles on the revolutionary year 1968

Defending the Bolshevik Revolution
KEVIN MURPHY examines the historians of the Russian Revolution

MARXIST CLASSICS: Black Reconstruction in America
KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR Taylor delves into the classic by W.E.B. Du Bois, a book referenced more than it is understood

FEATURED REVIEW: The terror that created Israel
MOSTAFA OMAR reviews Ilan Pappé's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

R E V I E W S

Dress rehearsal for McCarthyism
JOE ALLEN reviews Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland

PLUS:Loading children down with homework; Books on health care in the U.S.; Review essay: books on Pakistan


The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx Available from Haymarket Books.

Anarchism and autonomism: Readings from the ISR archive

A critique of insurrectionary anarchism
Geoff Bailey

Comtemporary Anarchism
Eric Kerl

Comtemporary Anarchism: an exchange
Tom Wetzel and Eric Kerl

Problems of autonomism
Claudio Katz

The powerlessness of anti-power: a critique of Change the World Without Taking Power
Paul D'Amato

Emma Goldman: A life of controversy
Lance Selfa

Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War
Geoff Bailey

Anarchists in the Russian Revolution: The Makhno myth
Jason Yanowitz

Empire strikes out: a critique of Hardt and Negri's Empire
Tom Lewis

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