plus Kieran Allen on the cause of Ireland’s crisisFEATURES
Claudio Katz
Interpretations of the economic crisis
Fatima Bhutto • Interview
Pakistan’s balancing act The granddaughter of former president Z. A. Bhutto speaks on Pakistan and the U.S. war
China Miéville • Interview
Fantasy, science fiction, and politics The author of The City and the City on the significance of science fiction and fantasy today
COLUMN
Phil Gasper • Critical Thinking
Another world is possible Response to a supporter of capitalism
HISTORY Stuart Easterling
Mexico’s revolution, 1910–1920 A centennial look back at the revolution—part two of a three-part article
Jason Yanowitz
February’s forgotten vanguard The myth of Russia’s spontaneous revolution
REVIEWS
Paul Le Blanc
Trotsky—truth and fiction Review of nine novels and biographies of the Russian revolutionary
Helen Scott
Workers of the world—past, present, possible Review of Paul Mason’s Live Working or Die Fighting
…plus Sherry Wolf on Israel and apartheid South Africa; Ashley Smith on fault lines of the global crisis; Matt Korn on the Texas prison system; Jeff Bale on the philosophy of language; Pete Redington on the profit-masters of sport