International Socialist Review

ISSUE 48:
JULY-AUGUST 2006

Trouble in
Bush Country

E D I T O R I A L S

Letter from the editors; Iraq: The politics of distraction; Immigrant Rights: Results and prospects

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

Immigration: Death at the border
Plus: Death Penalty: 30 years is enough; Teamsters' in disarray; Obituary: Pramoedya Ananta Toer; East Timor: Realpolitik in a humanitarian mask

F E A T U R E S

The United States on the Asian chessboard
LEE SUSTAR

Is the party over? Crisis in the GOP
LANCE SELFA

Empire and Resistance
Part two of an interview with NOAM CHOMSKY

Declaration on Immigrant Rights
Statement of the new immigrant movement issued May 20, 2006 in Chicago

Blacks, latinos, and immigrant civil rights
KEEANGA TAYLOR

Hip-hop politics
Interview with JEFF CHANG

Cuba's likely transition and its politics
SAM FARBER

Debate: The fading relevance of permanent Revolution
DAVID WHITEHOUSE

Response: The necessity of permanent revolution
PAUL D'AMATO

R E V I E W S

The fight that gave us May Day
PLUS: LA's Rainbow left; A teacher's guide to immigration; Silicon Valley from the bottom up; Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered; The big fight; People's History of Science; Contra war memoir

L E T T E R S

The whiteness debate continues

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