Editorial

New conservatives regime crisis and political perspectives in Iran                                   Ardeshir Mehrdad and Mehdi Kia

Features

The Iraqi constitution: a recipe for disaster                                                                     Phyllis Bennis

Iraq: Resort to deception                                                                                              Ghali  Hassan

Notes on terrorism                                                                                                        Aziz Al-Azmeh

The Sacred and the profane: Suicide bombers                                                               James Petras

Zionism - A major obstacle                                                                                           Moshé Machover

Is it Apartheid                                                                                                               Moshé Machove

Iran: Neither a regime change nor a deal with US                                                           Ardeshir Mehrdad

Pakistan: Things are bad and are getting worse                                                              Tariq Ali

Privatisation at gunpoint                                                                                                Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

It's opium-planting time and business is booming for Afghanistan's dealers                      Graeme Smith

Islamism

Political Islam and its relations to capital and class                                              Ardeshir Mehrdad & Yassamine Mather

Oil

The American tragedy:  The quagmire of war, rhetoric of oil, and the conundrum of hegemony    Cirus Bina

Views

Freedom: an abstract notion?                                                                                        Ali Atash

Critique of Islamic democracy                                                                                       Saeid Golkar

Labour

An atypical struggle in time of crisis: the Iranian workers’ movement                               Yusef Abkhun

Child labour in Iran                                                                                                       Suzan Bahar

In memoriam

An obituary of Hammed Shahidian                                                                                Yassamine Mather

Porsa: in memory of Hammed Shahidian                                                                        Nasser Mohajer

A scholar activist and a beloved friend                                                                           Shahrzad Mojab

Eulogy to Hammed                                                                                                       various

Book review

All the Shah’s men by Stephen Kinzer                                                                           Mehdi Kia       

Snow by  Ohran Pamuk                                                                                                Mehdi Kia       

Culture

Sadegh Hedayat: Abstract, alienated and self-alienated                                                  Ali Atash

Women

The 10th International Women's Health Movement conference: New Dehli                    Maryam Jap

Resolution on March 8                                                                                                  Nasser Mohajer