Editor’s Page

‘Why, Exactly, Did We Go to War in Iraq?’

By the Editors

Labor

The AMFA Strike: What Must Be Done

By Brian Schwartz

Protect UAW Retirees’ Future

By Jerry Tucker

On the Future of American Labor: It’s Time to Regroup the Partisans

By Bill Onasch

The Global Labor Threat

By Thomas Palley

General Strike Begins in British Columbia

Race and Class in New Orleans

Purging the Poor

By Naomi Klein

The Slave Master and the Devil

By Brooks Berndt

Race, Lies and New Orleans

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Political Prisoner’s Page

The Empire’s Attack on Ojeda-Rios and Independence

Videotaped State Terrorism

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

Book Review

Sylvia Weinstein’s Fightback

By Louis Proyect

Hurricane Katrina

Injustice Is Justice

By Tom Crumpacker

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

By Mike Alewitz

News From Behind The Facade

By John Pilger

Hurricane Katrina and the Radicalization of Popular Culture

By Louis Proyect

Can We Learn from Cuba’s Lesson?

By Susan Taylor Martin

Blackwater Down

By Jeremy Scahill

United States

The Colonial Logic of George W. Bush

By Jonathan Scott

Science

Dangling Particles

By Lisa Randall

An Anonymous Scientist Discusses Intelligent Design

By Joe Anonymous

Middle East

From Baghdad to New Orleans

By Dr. Jess Ghannam

Torture Inc. America’s Brutal Prisons

By Deborah Davies

Sinister Events in a Cynical War

By John Pilger

IEDs: Iraq Rebels’ Deadly Weapon Against US Troops

By Carlos Haman

Military Out of Our Schools and Out of Iraq Now!

By Carole Seligman

End Human Suffering, Don’t Cause It!

By Bonnie Weinstein

Behind Sharon’s Bloodbath in Gaza

By Yossi Schwartz (Israel)

For a Democratic Secular Palestine

By Musa Al-Hindi

Venezuela

Chavez’s Revolutionary ‘Formula’ Explained

By Greg Oxley

Venezuelan Unionists Discuss Workers’ Management and Factory Occupations

By Jorge Martin