International Socialist Review

ISSUE 44: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2005

Mike Davis, John Pilger, Noam Chomsky
Who Killed New Orleans? Questions for an autopsy

E D I T O R I A L S

Is Bush's party over?
U.S. in Iraq: The wounded beast

N E W S & R E P O R T S

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
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

LETTERS

Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. "War on Terror." Available from Haymarket Books.

Readings from the ISR archive

Egypt, Israel, and the U.S.: From Nasserism to collaboration
Eric Ruder

Apartheid Israel and the contradictions of left Zionism
Tikva Honig-Parnass

The siege of Gaza
Hadas Thier

Zionism: False Messiah
Lance Selfa

The hidden history of Zionism
Annie Zirin

Zionism and anti-semitism: Are Israel's critics anti-semites?
Hadas Thier

Israel and the Nakba: Chronicle of dispossession
Paul D'Amato

Planning the terror that created Israel
Mostafa Omar

Israel: The Watchdog State
Lance Selfa

Israel: Colonial settler state
Phil Gasper

The Watchdog bites
Phil Gasper

The class character of Israel (reprint)
Moshe Machover

Israel, the “lobby,” and the United States
Sherry Wolf

Ariel Sharon, war criminal
Hadas Thier

Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon
Hadas Thier

Arafat's Legacy
Snehal Shingavi

Israel, war, and the future of the Intifada: Two views from Palestine
Toufic Haddad and Tikva Honig-Parnass

Lies, damn lies, and Israeli propanganda
Anthony Arnove and Paul D'Amato

Walling in the Palestinians
Ida Audeh

Israel: Gearing up for a new offensive?
Toufic Haddad

Iraq, Palestine, and U.S. Imperialism
Toufic Haddad

U.S. intervention in the Middle East: Blood for oil
Paul D'Amato

End of the Road Map
Toufic Haddad

Intifada from the Inside
Toufic Haddad

The destruction of Lebanon: “Birthpangs of a new Middle East”
Toufic Haddad

Crisis of the Palestinian national movement
Toufic Haddad

The one-state solution
Dennis Kosuth