Obama's national security state
an Interview with Michael Ratner

ANALYSIS

Nicole Colson • Analysis in brief
Making free speech a crime
Obama steps up domestic repression with raids on leftists and antiwar activists

Phil Gasper • Critical Thinking
Capitalism and alienation
A system that robs people of their full potential

FEATURES

Interview with Michael Ratner
Obama's national security state

Deepa Kumar
The rise of anti-Muslim hate
What accounts for the increase of Islamophobia in the U.S. and Europe?

Paul LeBlanc
What do socialists say about democracy?
Socialists are for the fullest democracy, whereas capitalism curtails it

HISTORY

Stuart Easterling
Mexico's revolution, 1910-1920
A centennial look back at the revolution‹part one of two articles

Adam Turl
The miners' strike of 1977-78
A look at a militant strike that signalled a turning point in the U.S. labor movement

Duncan Hallas
Leon Trotsky: Life of a revolutionary
A review of Trotsky's life on the 70th anniversary of his murder at the hands of a Stalinist agent

MARXIST CLASSIC

Review by James Illingworth
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Marx's famous account of the 1848 revolution in France and the rise of Louis Bonaparte's dictatorship

BOOKS

Dennis Kosuth
The Chinese revolution of 1925-27
In the forgotten revolution before's Mao's rise to power, workers led the way, only be defeated by Stalin's betrayals

Scott McLemee
Obama: The man who couldn't
Review of Tariq Ali's The Obama Syndrome

plus Sherry Wolf on Arabs and the Holocaust; Eric Kerl on the characters of early anarchism; John McDonald on Green Gone Wrong; Paul D'Amato on Lenin and world revolution

LETTER: Engels at the margins

The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx Available from Haymarket Books.

Anarchism and autonomism: Readings from the ISR archive

A critique of insurrectionary anarchism
Geoff Bailey

Comtemporary Anarchism
Eric Kerl

Comtemporary Anarchism: an exchange
Tom Wetzel and Eric Kerl

Problems of autonomism
Claudio Katz

The powerlessness of anti-power: a critique of Change the World Without Taking Power
Paul D'Amato

Emma Goldman: A life of controversy
Lance Selfa

Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War
Geoff Bailey

Anarchists in the Russian Revolution: The Makhno myth
Jason Yanowitz

Empire strikes out: a critique of Hardt and Negri's Empire
Tom Lewis