Stan "Tookie" Williams: Countdown to a Legal Lynching
PLUS: Egyptian elections and the movement for change; New openings for the German Left; Berlusconi and Bush

F E A T U R E S

The Bush Administration and Hurricane Season
NOAM CHOMSKY

Questions for an Autopsy: Who killed New Orleans
MIKE DAVIS

A storm of racism
ERIC RUDER on the fallout after Katrina

Open Letter to the residents of Gretna, Louisiana
LARRY BRADSHAW and LORRIE BETH SLONSKY

News from behind the façade/b>
JOHN PILGER

Rediscovering race and class in America
KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR

Leonard Peltier: Incident at Oglala 30 years on
JOE ALLEN and PAUL D'AMATO

George Galloway speaks: Paying a blood price for a lie
The British antiwar MP's Boston speech

This is another working-class war
Interview with CHRISTIAN APPY

Latin America on fire
TOM LEWIS analyzes a continent in revolt

Zapatistas reenter the political fray
LANCE SELFA

Problems of autonomism
CLAUDIO KATZ

MARXIST CLASSICS: Lenin's Imperialism
BRIAN JONES

R E V I E W S

Baghdad Burning: Girl blog from Iraq

PLUS: Head Negro in Charge Symdrome; Inequality Matters; World Social Forum: Strategies of Resistance; Karl Marx; We Are All Suspects Now; Soldiers Alive; Confessions of an Economic Hit Man