International Socialist Review

ISSUE 66:
July-August 2009

The limits of liberalism

EDITORIAL

Is this change
we can believe in?

ANALYSIS IN BRIEF

Sharon Smith
Abortion rights on the defensive

…plus Greg Albo on ways forward for unions in the crisis; Rafael Feliciano on Puerto Rico’s militant teachers’ union; Helen Redmond on the “war on drugs” in Mexico; Alain Baron on France’s radical labor action; Snehal Shingavi on Pakistan’s anti-Taliban offensive; Lars T. Lih on what is to be made of What Is To Be Done?

COLUMN

Phil Gasper • Critical Thinking
In defense of Marxism
Now that Marx is being taken seriously again, the mainstream media have gone on the attack

INTERVIEW

Howard Zinn • Interview by Dave Zirin
You have to go beyond capitalism

ECONOMIC CRISIS SPECIAL COVERAGE

Joel Geier
The free fall is over, but the crisis continues

Lee Sustar
U.S. labor in the crisis: Resistance or retreat?

FEATURES

Kunal Chattopadhyay and Soma Marik
The elections and left-wing politics in India
Activists from Calcutta analyze the resurgence of the Congress Party and the setback for the Stalinist left

HISTORY

Dennis Kosuth
Storming the gates of heavenly peace
What really happened at Tiananmen Square, and why

Joe Allen
“A previously unknown individual”
The fight to save James Hickman, who killed his landlord in 1947 after four of his children died in a tenement fire

BOOK REVIEWS

Brian Kelly • Featured review
Why race still matters
David R. Roediger’s How Race Survived U.S. History

Martin Smith
Soldiers against war
Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan

…plus Michael Fiorentino on challenges to U.S. war myths; Petrino DiLeo on Foster and Magdoff’s The Great Financial Crisis; Sherry Wolf on early sex radicals; Phil Gasper on books about evolution and design; Susan Dwyer on Mahmood Mamdani’s book on Darfur, Saviors and Survivors