Organized labor: Year of the unthinkable
PLUS: Teamsters-Can Leedham beat Hoffa?; Arnold gets his butt kicked; Al-Arian Acquittal-Setback for the Patriot Act; Students confront recruiters and repression; The violence of China's rapid growth

F E A T U R E S

Murder of a Peacemaker
PHIL GASPER, DAVE ZIRIN

Bush Down, but not yet out
PAUL D'AMATO

A "loyal opposition" won't end the war
JEREMY SCAHILL

The American Way of Torture
NICOLE COLSON

The Hampton Model of Political Repression
JOHN ROBINSON AND BRANDON KING

"Change can't come without protest"
JONATHAN KOZOL interviewed by Sara Knopp

Intelligent Design: Born-again creationism
REBEKAH WARD

Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
AHMED SHAWKI

What do Socialists Say about HUNGER?
KEITH ROSENTHAL

Manifestly relevant
JEN ROESCH reviews a new edition of the Communist Manifesto

R E V I E W S

The Russian Revolution of 1905: Change Through Struggle
Review by Kevin Murphy
PLUS:Latin America immigration in the U.S.; Moving down the corporate ladder; Global finance and the debt trap; How schoolbooks get Rosa Parks wrong; The drive for empire in the time of Jefferson; How Marx became a Marxist; Myths of Zionism; When Russia's workers took charge