The Democrats v. abortion rights
PLUS: Plus: Haitians defy rigged vote; Mass protests rock Ecuador; Roots of Iraq's sectarian violence

F E A T U R E S

"Struggle pays off"
JESSE KINDIG reports from France on the struggle of students and workers

War on immigrants
JUSTIN AKERS CHACÓN

The new immigrant civil rights movement
JUSTIN AKERS CHACÓN

A choiced between bad and worse
JUSTIN AKERS CHACÓN reviews the current proposed immigration legislation

U.S. foreign policy through the eyes of its victims
NOAM CHOMSKY interviewed by David Barsamian

The new white man's burden
ANTHONY ARNOVE on U.S. imperialism past and present

"We have the right to move toward socialism"
ORLANDO CHIRINO, leading Venezuelan trade unionist and member of the Party of Revolution and Socialism

Death Row at the "Castle"
JOE ALLEN looks at the death penalty in the U.S. military

Socialists and movements
JOEL GEIER

What do socialists say about human nature?
ELIZABETH TERZAKIS

R E V I E W S

Anthony Arnove's Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
PLUS: Black Liberation and Socialism; Katrina and the color of disaster; Tortrue and the U.S. media; Can capitalism end poverty?; To be young and in debt; Revolutionary Venezuela reading list