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Features

Cracks in the empire
Tariq Ali, interviewed by David Barsamian

"Iraqi workers have seized this moment"
Labor journalist David Bacon reports from a tour of Iraq with U.S. Labor Against the War

"Our troops aren’t fighting for liberty"
Eric Ruder marches with military families at the October 25 anti-occupation protest in Washington, D.C.

Hold on to your humanity
Open letter to GIs from Stan Goff, U.S. Army (Ret.)

The other war party
Lance Selfa on the Democrats and foreign policy

Drugging America to death
Lynne Born exposes the scary truth about the U.S. Pharmaceutical industry

Politics of neoliberalism in India
Achin Vanaik, interviewed by Ganesh Lal

The hidden history of Muhammad Ali
David Zirin on the revolt of the Black athlete

Vietnam from Diem’s overthrow to the Tet Offensive
Joe Allen’s second installment on the war the U.S. lost

The birth of Bolshevism
Paul D’Amato writes on the 100th anniversary

The German Ideology
Phil Gasper kicks off a new series on Marxist classics

Reviews

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