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REPORTS & ANALYSIS

Struggle and backlash
SHAUN HARKIN draws a balance sheet of the immigrant rights movement and its future

PLUS: The struggle of the Freightliner Five; Was the 1990s a boom time for workers?; Racism in the financial services industry; The siege of Gaza; Australia’s apology to its aboriginal population

F E A T U R E S

More than a recession
JOEL GEIER explains that the unfolding slowdown reflects a deeper crisis of world capitalism

Is Marxism deterministic?
PHIL GASPER debunks a common myth about Marxism

The story of a soldier who resisted
Interview with AUGUSTíN and HELGA AGUAYO

Election 2008: start of a new era?
LANCE SELFA argues that the 2008 elections will likely mark a political turning point

Listening to grasshoppers
ARUNDHATI ROY on genocide, denial, and celebration

“Goodness has nothing to do with it”
WILLIAM BLUM, author of Rogue State, reveals the realpolitik of U.S. imperialism

Martin Luther King’s last fight
As part of an ongoing series on year 1968, BRIAN JONES looks at King’s last year, his assassination, and the explosion of revolt which followed

Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution
AMY MULDOON reviews one of the greatest Marxist classics

R E V I E W S

Investing while there’s still blood on the ground
BEN DALBEY reviews Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine

PLUS: Untold story of UPS; Factories without bosses; How the rich get richer at government expense; Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin; Review of five memoirs by antiwar Iraq veterans

L E T T E R S

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