Analysis in brief

Lee Wengraf
The politics of famine
Lee Wengraf shows how the United States bears special responsibility for Somalia's food crisis

Chris Williams
Sacrificing the earth
Neither major party in the United States is fit to protect the environment, argues Chris Williams

Feature

Sameh Naguib
Egypt's unfinished revolution
A balance sheet of the Egyptian revolution: its origins, how it unfolded, and where it might be headed

Interviews

Noam Chomsky
Hopes and prospects from Madison to Cairo
Interview by David Barsamian

Slavery and the Civil War

Robin Blackburn
The rise and fall of New World slavery
Interview by Anthony Arnove

John Nichols
Reading Marx with Abraham Lincoln
In a chapter from his new book The "S" Word, John Nichols discusses the relationship between Karl Marx, German exiles in the United States, and Abraham Lincoln

The socialist tradition

John Riddell
German workers and the birth of the united front
John Riddell traces the origins of a key tactic developed in the early communist movement to unite the working class in struggle

Reviews

Sam Farber
The meaning of fanaticism
Review of The American Road to Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea

Elizabeth Schulte
Before Montgomery
Review of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance
Plus... Alexander Billet on a rebel's guide to Woody Guthrie; Lance Selfa reviews Winner-take-all Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer; Joe Cleffie on the history of liberalism; Jason Netek on The Socialist Alternative; Joe Allen on the prosecution of U.S. communists