REPORTS & ANALYSIS
Obama: What kind of change can we expect?
PLUS: No end to economic shocks
Seattle's Winter Soldier--hearings of antiwar Iraq vets
Italy--The return of Berlusconi
Israel and the Nakba
F E A T U R E S
The end of cheap oil
PHIL GASPER explains why oil prices keep going up
Iraq veterans speak out
Speeches of five antiwar veterans from the New York Winter Soldier hearings
Which way forward for the antiwar movement?
ASHLEY SMITH argues that base-building, mass protests, and independent politics are the key to revitalizing the antiwar movement
A look back at the 1968 Democratic Convention
Interviews with activists Wayne Heimbach and Bill Roberts, who were in Chicago during the antiwar demonstrations and the police riot
1968: The Democrats and the antiwar movement
An excerpt from Joe Allen's new book, Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost
The new scramble for Africa
LENA WEINSTEIN explains how the world's biggest economies are jockying for control of Africa's oil resources
The myth of Lenin's elitism
PAUL D'AMATO explains how Lenin's ideas have been deliberately distorted
Marxist Classic: Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
AMY MULDOON presents the second of a two-part article
Social revolution in Bolivia?
SARAH HINES reviews Revolutionary Horizons, by Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson
R E V I E W S
Inside the Sadr movement
Review of Patrick Cockburn's Muqtada
PLUS: Communists in Chicago during the Depression
The Three-trillion dollar war; Bush vs. Chavez
L E T T E R S
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