E D I T O R I A L S

Letter from the editors

REPORTS & ANALYSIS

Egypt: Revolt at Mahalla
HOSSAM EL-HAMALAWY reports on the uprising of textile workers in an Egyptian town

PLUS: Behind Haiti's food riots
Latin America's regional crisis
Colombia–Uribe's terrorist state
Left up–Greek elections
Left down–Italian elections
Interview with Sicko's Donna Smith
Winter Soldier hearings

F E A T U R E S

The global food revolt
SHARON SMITH analyses the dramatic rise in global food prices and the angry response it is provoking

Class struggle in Egypt
Three Egyptians talk about the development of a movement against Mubarak's neoliberal policies

Iraq after Basra: Surging into chaos
ASHLEY SMITH reviews the post-surge crisis in Iraq since the Maliki regime's attack on the Mahdi Army

India: States of resistance
VANDANA SHIVA, interviewed by DAVID BARSAMIAN

The struggle over the future of Tibet
DAVID WHITEHOUSE looks at the revolt in Tibet and the various responses on the left

Playing the race card
Racism is alive and well in the 2008 presidential election, argues PHIL GASPER in his Critical Thinking column

Lenin's return?
HELEN SCOTT, PAUL LeBLANC, and LARS LIH discuss Lenin's relevance today and how historians have gotten him wrong

1968: Year of revolutionary hope
JOEL GEIER tells of how the struggles of 1968 in France and the United States created an explosion of radical politics

Marxism in a single volume
BRIAN JONES reviews Engels' classic Anti-Duhring

R E V I E W S

Unmasking the Six-Day War
HADAS THIER reviews Tom Segev's book on Israel's role in the war that reshaped the Middle East

Poverty wages
KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR reviews a new edition of David Roediger's The Wages of Whiteness

PLUS: Torture as the occupier's tool
The right wing's plot to overthrow FDR
Human cost of illegal abortion
Howard Zinn on resistance from below
The Lawrence strike through children's eyes
The media and the UPS strike

L E T T E R S

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