PLUS: Justin Akers Chacon on The truth about the STRIVE immigration act; Joe Allen on homelessness in Hawaii; David Whitehouse on The unraveling occupation in Somalia

FEATURES

In defense of Leon Trotsky
Phil Gasper's column answers a defamatory attack by looking at the Russian Revolution's real achievements

Iran may be the greatest crisis of modern times
John Pilger looks at the gathering U.S. threat against Iran

The housing bubble deflates
Petrino DiLeo explains how the housing crisis could turn the current boom into a new economic crisis

"You can't win a crime, you can only stop it."
Four Iraq vets speak out against the war

The sucession of the Indian middle class
Arundhati Roy discusses the current political situation in India

The conquest of garbage
Heather Rogers looks at the economics of waste production and disposal under capitalism

Globalization from above and below
Noam Chomsky is interviewed by David Barsamian

Chile in the time of the dictator
Orlando Sepulveda looks back at Pinochet's brutal years of dictatorship and the mass struggle for democracy

REMEMBERING HAYMARKET: May Day and the fight for eight hours
James Green, author of Death in the Haymarket, is interviewed by Adam Turl on the Haymarket affair of 1886 and the struggle for the shorter work day that surrounded it

The Makhno myth
Jason Yanowitz looks that the myth and reality surrounding an anarchist hero of the Russian civil war

Marx, Engels, and self-emancipation
reprint of a classic article by Hal Draper on the genesis of Marx and Engels' concept of working-class socialism from below

REVIEWS

A plea for a new imperial strategy

PLUS: The Saudi factor; One hundred years of Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution; The Black Power movement; Black liberation in Atlanta; Rise and fall of Huey Newton; 1960s radicals turn to party building