Helen Scott reviews a new volume of Luxuemburg's letters

ANALYSIS IN BRIEF

Darrin Hoop
Class struggle in Longview
In a small port town in Washington State, longshore workers are battling a Fortune 500 giant.

Shaun Harkin and Nicole Colson
Resisting Juan Crow in Alabama
Alabama's new racist anti-immigrant laws and the movement to challenge it

Sherry Wolf
To protect and crack heads
The job of police is to protect the 1%

Phil Gasper • Critical Thinking
Is an alternative possible
What did Marx have to say about the transition from capitalism to socialism?

COVER FEATURE

Helen Scott
Rosa Luxemburg: In the storm of struggle
A new collection of letters gives valuable insight into one of the world's greatest revolutionaries

FEATURES

Doug Singsen
A balance sheet of Occupy Wall Street
A New York Occupy participant looks at the ebb and flow of the movement

Zach Zill
The global youth revolt
The year 2011 will go down as year of resistance and revolution, and youth have played a crucial role

Mark Naison
Fighting evictions during the Great Depression
An analysis of the Great Rent Strike War of 1932 in the Bronx

INTERVIEWS

Tony Kushner
Finding the truth where certainties collide
The award-winning playwright talks theater and politics

Tariq Ali
Imperialism, the Arab Spring, and the crisis
Interview by David Barsamian

REVIEWS

Lee Wengraf
The Attica prison rebellion and its brutal suppression
Review of Tom Wicker's A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt

PLUS
Chris Williams Reviews two new books about climate justice; Charles Peterson on The John Carlos Story; Paul D'Amato reviews Sex at Dawn; Brook Horvath reviews Terry Eagleton's Marx Was Right; Jason Netek reviews People Wasn't Made to Burn; Shaun Harkin reviews The Provisional IRA: From Insurrection to Parliament