Weekend focus: Middle East
Speech: Mostafa Omar
THE SPRING OF THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION Egypt's process of social and human transformation that began with the uprising against Hosni Mubarak is continuing and taking up new questions.
Analysis: David Whitehouse
ANOTHER TYRANT AT THE BRINK A youth revolt in Yemen has spearheaded a nationwide movement that is on the verge of bringing down yet another U.S.-backed strongman.
Analysis
SYRIA REACHES THE BOILING POINT The Syrian regime is using repression and promises of reform to try to contain mass demonstrations spreading across the country.
Weekend focus: Libya
Comment: Lance Selfa
IS U.S. INTERVENTION JUSTIFIED? Several important figures on the left have mistakenly joined the chorus of support for Western military intervention in Libya.
Comment: Kevin Ovenden
ARAB REVOLUTION IN ARAB HANDS Left-wing voices like Gilbert Achcar's are badly mistaken to give their support to Western intervention against the Qaddafi regime in Libya.
Comment: Mike Marqusee
CRUISE MISSILE LIBERATION? The hypocrisy and double standards of NATO's Libya campaign flow directly from the West's overarching agenda.
Top articles of the week
Analysis: Elizabeth Schulte
NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE USA Japan's disaster should prove there's no such thing as "safe" nuclear power--but it's a lesson U.S. politicians and business leaders haven't learned.
Editorials
THE ANTI-ABORTION ONSLAUGHT More than 350 anti-abortion-related bills are moving through state legislatures this year, as the right attempts to further restrict the right to choose.
Analysis: Lee Sustar
LABOR AFTER WISCONSIN After the greatest labor mobilization in decades, unions have showed their power to fight. So why are union leaders still retreating?
Comment: Alan Maass
WHY DO WE NEED ORGANIZATION? Socialist organizations have played an important role in the great revolutionary struggles of the past. But they can't be formed out of nothing overnight.
From the archives
Interview: Mike Davis
THE REBELLION IN LOS ANGELES The eruption of protest and rioting in Los Angeles in 1992 was an expression of the decades of accumulated anger at racism and class inequality.
History of our movement
Comment: Brian Erway
THE SOCIALIST PARTY AND THE WAR Even as it was experiencing electoral successes, the Socialist Party was deeply divided--the First World War would be a crucial turning point.
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