Middle East in Revolution

Editorial
The actuality of revolution

Ahmed Shawki and Mostafa Omar
Chronicle of a revolution
A running account of the movement that brought down Hosni Mubarak

Matt Swagler
Tunisia: A dictator falls, but what comes next?

Phil Gasper • Critical Thinking
Can revolution happen here?
Mass protests are taking place around the world. Will anything similar happen in the U.S.?

Features

Deepa Kumar
Political Islam: A Marxist analysis
Part one of a two-part series

Ken Loach
Between commodity and communication: Has film fulfilled its potential?
The director of Land and Freedom speaks at the London Film Festival

Noam Chomsky
Human intelligence and the environment
How what is rational in capitalist terms is irrational in environmental terms

Stuart Easterling
Mexico’s revolution, 1910-1920
The concluding part of a three-part series on the Mexican Revolution

Bolivia today: A debate
Jeffery Webber’s article, “Bolivia’s reconstituted neoliberalism” (International Socialist Review, September–October 2010), draws a dissenting response from Federico Fuentes, and a rejoinder from Webber

Books

Hadas Thier
Gaza’s nightmare: the truth about Israel
A review of two new books about Israel’s war on the Palestinian people

PLUS: Helen Redmond reviews Sabstian Junger’s War, Jim Ramey review’s Nir Rosen’s Aftermath; Chris Williams reviews The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth; Jason Farbman reviews two new books on the struggle in Latin America; Dao X. Tran reviews a memoir of a Vietnamese Trotskyist