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International Socialist Review

CONTENTS BY ISSUE
(1997 – 2019)
(under construction)

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Issue 1: Summer 1997
Cover

China from Mao to Deng

EDITORIALS


FEATURES

China: From Mao to Deng, by Ahmed Shawki

A New labor Movement?, by Lee Sustar

50 Years of the International Socialist Tradition, Ahmed Shawki interviews Tony Cliff

The Communist Party and Black Liberation in the 1930s, by Paul D’Amato


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 2: Fall 1997
Cover

Contradictions of
the “Miracle” Economy

NOTES OF THE QUARTER


FEATURES

Contradictions of the Miracle Economy, by Joel Geier & Ahmed Shawki

The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen, by Katherine Dwyer

China: Deng’s Legacy, by Ahmed Shawki

Engels and the Origin of Women’s Oppression, by Sharon Smith


REVIEWS

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Issue 3: Winter 1997
Cover

80 Years Since the
Russian Revolution

EDITORIALS


FEATURES

80 Years Since the Russian Revolution, by Ahmed Shawki

Kronstadt and the Defeat of the Russian Revolution, by Chris Harman

The Politics of the Death Penalty, by Marlene Martin

Puerto Rico: The Last Colony, by Hector Reyes

Anarchism: How Not to Make a Revolution, by Paul D’Amato


REVIEWS

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Issue 4: Spring 1998
Cover

Origins of the
Middle East Crisis

NOTES OF THE QUARTER


FEATURES

Zionism: False Messiah, by Lance Selfa

1968–1998: The Dynamics of Struggle, interview with Chris Harman, conducted by Ahmed Shawki

U.S. and Iraq: Back from the Brink? by Paul D’Amato & Lance Selfa

Reprint: What is Economism? by Duncan Hallas


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 5: Fall 1998
Cover

Asia in Crisis

NOTES OF THE QUARTER


FEATURES

Indonesia: Crisis and Revolt, by Anthony Arnove

A Manifesto for Today, by Phil Gasper

Socialism on Trial, Courtroom Speeches of South Korean Socialists

Whatever Happened to Feminism? by Sharon Smith

Reprint: Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, by Tony Cliff


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 6: Winter 1999

Cover

The Democrats and
the Death Penalty


NOTES OF THE QUARTER


FEATURES

The Democrats and the Death Penalty, by Paul D’Amato

Gay Politics in the U.S., by Lance Selfa

John Reed: The Workers’ Journalist

Courtroom Speeches of South Korean Socialists

Chile: The State and Revolution, by Tom Lewis

Can the U.S. Escape the Gobal Crisis? by Joel Geier

Briefing: Human Underdevelopment Report, by Bill Roberts


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 7: Spring 1999

Cover

Stop NATO’s war


NOTES OF THE QUARTER


FEATURES

Origins of the war in the Balkans, by Paul D’Amato

Why Kosovo is not Serbia, by Leonard Kline & Paul D’Amato

U.S. Imperialism: A century of slaughter, by Lance Selfa

“What we say goes”: The Gulf War of 1991, by Lance Selfa

Can the UN bring peace? by Bridget Broderick

While six million died: How the West abandoned the Jews, by Annie Levin

Reprints on socialism and war: by Leon Trotsky, John Reed, Lenin & Duncan Hallas


REVIEWS

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Issue 8: Summer 1999

Cover

New Masters of the Balkans

NOTES OF THE QUARTER


FEATURES

Bosnia: Model for a New Colonialism? by Paul D’Amato

From Cold War to Kosovo, by Lance Selfa

The Roots of Serbian Nationalism, by Phil Gasper

Marxism and War, by Joel Geier

Racism and the Criminal Injustice System, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The Crisis in Healthcare, by Helen Redmond

Briefing: Guns vs. Butter, by Eric Ruder

A Theory of Modern War, by David Whitehouse


REVIEWS

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Issue 9: Fall 1999

Cover

The New Movement Against
Sweatshops

NOTES OF THE QUARTER


FEATURES

The New Movement Against Sweatshops, by Jennifer Roesch

U.S. Imperialism After Kosovo, by Lance Selfa

School of the Assasins, by Katherine Dwyer

Marxism and Oppression, by Paul D’Amato

Vietnam: the Soldiers’ Rebellion, by Joel Geier

The Iranian Revolution, by Saman Sepehri

Iran at the Crossroads, by Saman Sepehri

Interview with Howard Zinn, by Helen Scott


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 10: Winter 2000

Cover

Criss and Class Struggle
in Latin America

NOTES OF THE QUARTER


FEATURES

Latin America: Birth of Resistance, by Lance Selfa

The Left in Latin America, by Lance Selfa

Colombia: the Terrorist State, by Tristan Adie & Paul D’Amato

Can Mexico’s rulers weather the storm? by Todd Chretien

Toward a democratic labor movement in Mexico, by Dan laBotz

The fall of Stalinism 10 years on, by Anthony Arnove

World War II: The good war? by Ashley Smith

The Mark Twain they didn’t teach us in school, by Helen Scott


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 11: April–May 2000

Cover

Death Penalty on Trial

NOTES OF THE QUARTER


FEATURES

Briefing: The Shape of World Capitalism, by Ahmed Shawki & Paul D’Amato

Death Penalty on Trial, by Eric Ruder

Mexico after the Student Strike, by Todd Chretien

Cuba: Crisis of State Capitalism, by Hector Reyes

A Strike Derailed, by Meredith Kolodnor & Shaun Harkin

Reprint: What is Sectarianism? by Duncan Hallas


REVIEWS

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Issue 12: June–July 2000

Cover

The Revolt Against
Globalization

EDITORIALS


FEATURES

Birth of a new movement

The color of justice, by Paul D’Amato

Ethiopia: Roots of Famine, by David Whitehouse

The hidden war against Iraq, by Anthony Arnove

The new assault on a woman’s right to choose, by Elizabeth Schulte

Rehabilitating McCarthyism, by William Keach

Standing on the shoulders of a giant: Remembering Tony Cliff


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 13: August–September 2000

Cover

The Price of Lesser Evilism

EDITORIALS


FEATURES

Eight Years of Clinton-Gore – The Price of Lesser Evilism, by Lance Selfa

Death Penalty in the Spotlight, by Alice Kim

“Hiroshima Was No Longer a City”, by Mikki Smith

The Hidden History of America’s Concentration Camps, by Ken Matsumura

Marxism and Nationalism, by Tom Lewis

A Conversation with Denis Halliday

Reprint: On Perspectives, by Tony Cliff


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 14: October–November 2000

Cover

The Nader Challenge

EDITORIALS


FEATURES

Washington’s men in Kosovo, by Jeremy Scahill

Taking on the parties of Big Business, by Ralph Nader (speech)

How “Governor Death” runs Texas, by Quent Reese

“Hunger follows them like a shadow”, by Sharon Smith

The myth of the New Economy, by Lee Sustar

Gandhi and the politics of non-violence, by Meneejeh Moradian & David Whitehouse

100 years since the original ISR, by Alan Maass

Marxism and nationalism (part 2), by Tom Lewis

Richard Wright: “Using words as a weapon”, by Annie Levin


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 15: December 2000–January 2001

Cover

The New Intifada:
Standing Up to Goliath

EDITORIALS


FEATURES

Howard Zinn on Class Warfare

Where Is the Serbian Revolution Headed? by Lee Sustar

The New Intifada: Standing up to Goliath, by Lance Selfa

The War on Drugs: Myth and Reality, by Helen Redmond

Briefing: Disease and Disasters: Suffering Unequally, by Alex Taylor

Reprint: On Authority, by Frederick Engels

Reprint: The Economic Roots of Reformism, by Tony Cliff


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 16: February–March 2001

Cover

BUSH AND THE RESISTANCE:
The Shape of Things to Come

EDITORIALS


NEWS & REPORTS


FEATURES

Fat Cats, Bigwigs and War Criminals, by Alan Maass

What the Voters Really Said in 2000, by Lance Selfa

“Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand (panel discussion)

Power to the People? by Jessie Muldoon & Todd Chretien

The End of the Miracle Economy, by Paul D’Amato & Joel Geier

The Economics of Booms and Slumps, by Chris Harman

The FTAA: A Primer, by Lee Sustar

We, the People? by Annie Levin

Blacks and the American Revolution, by Leighton Christiansen

Reprint: Stalinism and Bolshevism, by Leon Trotsky


REVIEWS

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Issue 17: April–May 2001
Cover

Under the Eagle

EDITORIALS


NEWS & REPORTS


FEATURES

FTAA for Beginners, by Leighton Christiansen

Canada’s Stake in the FTAA, by Chris Hodge

Imperialism and the State, by Paul D’Amato

We Need Cross-Border Solidarity, interview with Fred Azcarate of Jobs with Justice

Do Global Problems Have Local Solutions? by Ashley Smith

The Rise of a Global Justice Movement, by Lee Sustar

Ariel Sharon: War Criminal, by Hadas Thier

From Miracle to Malaise, interview with Doug Henwood

The Balance of Class Forces at the End of the Boom, by Joe Allen

On the United Front, by Leon Trotsky (reprint)

Bush Won Florida? I’m Laughing, interview with Gregory Palast


BOOK REVIEWS


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Issue 18: June–July 2001
Cover

Bush’s World

EDITORIALS


NEWS & REPORTS


FEATURES

Bush’s Offensive, Liberals’ Retreat, by Lance Selfa

“What They Want is My Silence” (Part 1), interview with Edward Said, conducted by David Barsamian

Between Things Ended and Things Begun, by Ahmed Shawki

Lessons of Quebec City, by Katherine Dwyer

Eyewitness in Quebec, by Meredith Kolodner

Forging Cross-Border Solidarity, by Stuart Easterling

What Next for the FTAA? by Eric Ruder

Brazil: The Struggle Against Neoliberalism, by Tom Lewis

Fighting the Bosses in Brazil, interview with Dirceu Travesco

Operation Gatekeeper: Militarizing the Border, by Justin Akers

South Korean Workers: The Battle for Daewoo, by Scott Johnson

Climate Chaos: Can Global Warming be Stopped? by Sherry Wolf

A Guide to the Millionaires’ Tax Cut, by Amy Muldoon


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 19: July–August 2001
Cover

Whose World? Theirs or Ours

BRIEFING


THE GLOBAL SYSTEM

Global Capitalism: From triumph to crisis, by Walden Bello

Militarizing space “to protect U.S. interests and investment”, by Noam Chomsky

The state is more powerful than ever, by John Pilger

The globalizer who came in from the cold, by Gregory Palast

The Washington Consensus isn’t just foreign policy, by Katherine Dwyer

A “new economy”?, by Doug Henwood

Do Americans consume too much?, by Geoff Bailey

World Bank, WTO, and corporate control over water, by Vandana Shiva

They call all resistance “terrorism”, interview with Edward Said, conducted by David Barsamian  Part I | Part II

China: Globalization and the new agenda, by Nigel Harris

Tijuana: Frontline battles against globalization, by Todd Chretien

Global media, neoliberalism and imperialism, by Robert McChesney

Dollarization: The recolonization of Latin America, by Marcelo García

New Labour and the Third Way, by Leo Panitch

Reflections from South Africa: Breaking the chains of global apartheid, by Patrick Bond

Globalization and union democracy, by Peter Rachleff

Deregulation: The mantra of corporate globalization, interview with Harvey Wasserman, conducted by Eric Ruder


THE MOVEMENT

People’s globalization vs. elite globalization, by Kevin Danaher

Carlo’s way, by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Dancing – or yawning – on the grave of Carlo Giuliani, by Norman Solomon

Strategy and tactics after Genoa, by Ashley Smith

Lessons from Gothenburg, by Susan George

The violence at Gothenburg, by Christophe Aguiton

Quebec City showed that we have not lost momentum, interview with Dennis Brutus, conducted by Geoff Bailey

New targets, by Michael Albert

“Our tactics continue to evolve”, interview with Lisa Fithian, conducted by Randy Childs

Uniting the resistance, by Howie Hawkins

Taking the offensive: The challenge of the social movements, interview with Eric Toussaint, conducted by Sergio Ferrari

Report from Chiapas: Building solidarity with the Zapatistas, by Sarah Hines & Peter Lamphere

Stop the bombing: Vieques si, marina no!, by Roberto Barreto

Putting an end to sweatshop labor, interview with Chie Abad, conducted by Eric Ruder

The Russian left today, by Boris Kagarlitsky

Race, class, and globalization: The global struggle for democracy, by Manning Marable

The fight to defend the Charleston Five, by Lee Sustar

“We won’t rest until they’re vindicated”, by Kenneth Riley

“Address the bread-and-butter issues”, interview with Rev. Graylan Hagler, conducted by Dave Zirin

Combating racism: Only together – with our arms locked, by Rania Masri

What I voted for when I voted for Nader, by Tim Robbins

Don’t buy “Buy American”, by Stuart Easterling

Reprint: The tyranny of “structurelessness”, by Jo Freeman


ALTERNATIVES

Water struggle in Cochabamba: Our victory should also be yours, by Oscar Olivera

Debtors of the world, unite!, by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith

Davos and Porto Alegre: Two opposing plans for civilization, by Michel Löwy

The left after Genoa, by Antonis Davanellos

Localize this!, by Mike Prokosch

Microcredit: The illusion of empowerment, by Gina Neff

Is there a solution for Latin America?, by Tom Lewis

“Class issues are what millions care about”, interview with Howard Zinn, conducted by Anthony Arnove

The fight for a different world, by Ahmed Shawki

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Issue 20: November–December 2001
Cover

Why We Oppose This War

WEB EXCLUSIVES

Speech at an anti-war teach-in in Burlington, VT, by Howard Zinn

Afghanistan, the Taliban, and the United States, by Nafeez Mosadeq Ahmed

“They call all resistance terrorism”, interview with Edward Said conducted by David Barsamian    Part 1 & Part II


EDITORIALS


VIEWPOINTS ON THE WAR

“The war on terror: The other victims”, by John Pilger

“Bush and Blair’s hidden agenda”, by John Pilger

Noam Chomsky, interviewed by David Barsamian

William Blum, interviewed by Djibrile Oumarou and David Zirin

The lies they tell about Islam, by Lee Sustar

Behind the Fog of Deception: Washington’s real war aims, by Lance Selfa

Afghanistan, the CIA, bin Laden, and the Taliban, by Phil Gasper

The bombing of Afghanistan, by Nafeez Mosadeq Ahmed

Rogue state: A history of U.S. Terror, by Katherine Dwyer

The squeeze on Pakistan, by David Whitehouse

Targeting Iraq: U.S. hypocrisy and media lies, by Sharon Smith

The Al-Aqsa Intifada: Consequence of Israel’s occupation, by Rania Masri

Pearl Harbor, internment and Hiroshima: Historical lessons, by Paul D’Amato

Reprint: The Canton, Ohio, speech, by Eugene V. Debs


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 21: January–February 2002
Cover

WAR – CRISIS – REVOLT

EDITORIALS, NEWS & REPORTS


FEATURES

“You have to take action from below”, interview with James Petras

Argentina’s revolt, by Tom Lewis

Who Shot Argentina? by Greg Palast

The real story behind America’s war, by John Pilger

The rehabilitation of colonialism, by Ahmed Shawki

The decline of anti-imperialism, by Paul D’Amato

Using women’s rights to sell Washington’s war, by Sharon Smith

Federal Bureau of Intimidation: The FBI’s record of repression, by Annie Levin

Hypocrisy and terror: The U.S., Britain, and biochemical weapons, by Joe Allen

Labor’s challenge in the Recession, by Lee Sustar

Labor can change the world, by Gregg Shotwell

Throwing away the key: The U.S. as the world’s leading jailer, by Joan Parkin

Frankenfoods: What’s wrong with genetic engineering? by Mary Rapien

September 11 and beyond: A view from Palestine, interview with Tikva Honig-Parnass and Toufic Haddad

Special reprint: Trotskyism reassessed, by Duncan Hallas


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 22: March–April 2002
Cover

The Assault on Civil Liberties

EDITORIALS, NEWS AND REPORTS


FEATURES

The colder war, by John Pilger

The assault on civil liberties, by Candace Cohn

The Philippines: Second front in the “war on terrorism”, by Eduardo Capulong

How do you spell “crony capitalism”?, by Todd Chretien

The U.S. economy: Limits of recovery, by Lee Sustar

Vietnam: The antiwar movement we are supposed to forget, by H. Bruce Franklin

“Prison reform” from the inside, by Michael Pardue

Revolutionary struggles of Black workers in the 1960s, by Dan Georgakas

A view of the American Revolution from below, interview with Ray Raphael

Special Reprint: Deflected permanent revolution, by Tony Cliff


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 23: May–June 2002
Cover

Justice for Palestine

EDITORIALS, NEWS & REPORTS


FEATURES

Jenin: Eyewitness report, by Jeff Guntzel

The war against the Palestinians, by Tikva Honig-Parnass

Israeli policy and Washington’s complicity, by Rania Masri, Tayseer Arouri, Toufic Haddad, Ghassan Andoni, Huwaidi Arraf, Chris Toensing

Lies, damned lies, and Israeli propaganda, by Anthony Arnove & Paul D’Amato

Students for justice in Palestine, by Snehal Shingavi

Language, media manipulation, and the “war on terror”, by Normon Solomon

Taking on the fascist menace in France, by Sherry Wolf

Class and poverty in the maquila zone, by Avery Wear

A new colonial “age of empire”?, by Lance Selfa

On the road with Karl Marx, by Brian Jones

Zionism and Anti-Semitism, by N. Israeli

Special reprint: The class character of Israel, by Moshe Machover & Akiva Orr


BOOK REVIEWS

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Issue 24: July–August 2002
Cover

The struggle against WAR

EDITORIALS, NEWS & REPORTS


INTERNATIONAL NEWS & REPORTS


FEATURES

How the media cover for Israel, by John Pilger

Exposing the terrorism trap, interview with Michael Parenti

Pacifism and war, by Paul D’Amato

Stephen Jay Gould: Dialectical biologist, by Phil Gasper

The hidden history of Zionism, by Annie Levin

Empire strikes out, by Tom Lewis

Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War, by Geoff Bailey

Toward a revolutionary socialist party, by Duncan Hallas


REVIEWS

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Issue 25: September–October 2002
Cover

The case against Bush’s war on Iraq

EDITORIALS, NEWS & REPORTS


FEATURES

Iraq: The case against Bush’s war, by Anthony Arnove

U.S. intervention from Afghanistan to Iraq, interview with Noam Chomsky, conducted by David Barsamian

Target Baghdad, by John Pilger

Iraq under siege, edited by Anthony Arnove

The global AIDS crisis, by Elizabeth Terzakis

Where is the economy going? interview with Joel Geier

The 1930s: Turning point for U.S. Labor, by Sharon Smith

The Grapes of Wrath revisited, by David Rapkin


REVIEWS

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Issue 26: November–December 2002
Cover

The growing opposition to Bush’s war

EDITORIALS, NEWS & REPORTS


FEATURES

Spinning media gears for a faraway war, by Norman Solomon

The making of a UN fig leaf, by John Pilger

“They can’t privatize our dreams”, by Oscar Olivera

Q&A: The truth behind their war, by Eric Ruder

UN: Thieves’ Kitchen, by Phil Gasper

Bush Doctrine: Turning point for U.S. Imperialism, by Ahmed Shawki

The democrats and war: Not a lesser evil, by Sherry Wolf

The Geopolitics of Oil, by Saman Sepehri

The Italian left in the 1970s, by Yurii Colombo

Slavery and the origins of racism, by Lance Selfa

Slavery and the question of reparations, by Ben Dalbey

The founding of the Communist International, by Duncan Hallas


REVIEWS



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