E D I T O R I A L S

Letter from the editors

REPORTS & ANALYSIS

Obama: What kind of change can we expect?

PLUS: No end to economic shocks

Seattle's Winter Soldier--hearings of antiwar Iraq vets

Italy--The return of Berlusconi

Israel and the Nakba

F E A T U R E S

The end of cheap oil

PHIL GASPER explains why oil prices keep going up

Iraq veterans speak out

Speeches of five antiwar veterans from the New York Winter Soldier hearings

Which way forward for the antiwar movement?

ASHLEY SMITH argues that base-building, mass protests, and independent politics are the key to revitalizing the antiwar movement

A look back at the 1968 Democratic Convention

Interviews with activists Wayne Heimbach and Bill Roberts, who were in Chicago during the antiwar demonstrations and the police riot

1968: The Democrats and the antiwar movement

An excerpt from Joe Allen's new book, Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost

The new scramble for Africa

LENA WEINSTEIN explains how the world's biggest economies are jockying for control of Africa's oil resources

The myth of Lenin's elitism

PAUL D'AMATO explains how Lenin's ideas have been deliberately distorted

Marxist Classic: Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution

AMY MULDOON presents the second of a two-part article

Social revolution in Bolivia?

SARAH HINES reviews Revolutionary Horizons, by Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson

R E V I E W S

Inside the Sadr movement

Review of Patrick Cockburn's Muqtada

PLUS: Communists in Chicago during the Depression
The Three-trillion dollar war; Bush vs. Chavez

L E T T E R S

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