Socialist

Review

CONTENTS

Inside front cover
Demonstrating in Baghdad

News Review
Editorial, G8 protests, Iraq, Israel, Labour's crisis, Northern Ireland, Martin's Web, Between the lines

The conquest of Iraq
John Rees examines the fallout of the Iraq war

Only the beginning
Problems are mounting for the US says Chris Harman

Remaking the Middle East
Imperialism's bloody history in the region by Anne Ashford

A new left is born
Opposition to the Iraq war awoke the Arab street, says Simon Assaf

What was it good for?
Andrew Stone exposes the lies behind the last three wars

How it would feel to be free
Obituary if Nina Simone by Mike Hobart

The guilty men
Chris Bambery on imperialism and the Second World War

The Walrus
There are huge profits to be made from the war says the Walrus
Cultural currents
Mike Gonzalez on memory and justice
Stack on the back
They call it liberation but Pat Stack is not convinced

Arts Review
Theatre, Film, Exhibition: Sebastiao Salgado's exhibition, Art Deco plus the X-Men Sequel
Books Review
Books reviewed include a short story collection from Edward Upward, plus two books by Noam Chomsky

Letters