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International Socialist Review is published by the Chicago-based Center for Economic Research and Social Change, an organization also responsible for Haymarket Books. Focusing on contemporary events, it features such contributors as John Pilger, Tariq Ali, Mike Davis, Amy Goodman, Arundhati Roy, and Noam Chomsky, examining everything from death row to global politics. Sample titles: "Egyptian Elections: A Movement for Change," "Zapatistas Reenter the Political Fray," "The Incident at Oglala Thirty Years On." Not for beginners: "Classics of Marxism," which examines works by Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky. $29/yr. (6 issues) from Box 258082, Chicago, IL 60625; www.isreview.org.

Socialist Viewpoint ("News and Analysis for Working People") puts forth the views of the Socialist Workers Organization, formed "to advance the revolutionary Marxist political program in the United States." Now in its sixth year, the magazine features writings by the likes of Stan Goff, Robert Fisk, Cindy Sheehan, and Mumia Abu-Jamal. Its primary beats are the U.S. labor and antiwar movements. Sample title: "The Rise of the Democratic Police State." Avowed goal: "ownership and democratic control of the means of production by the working class, and the removal of profit from the system of production." $24/yr. (6 issues) from 1380 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110; www.socialistviewpoint.org.

More strident in tone, Socialism and Liberation is a newer magazine published by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a revolutionary, working-class, anticapitalist party formed in 2004 after splitting from the Workers World Party. Recent articles include "Racist Police Attack in New Orleans," "The Coming U.S. Economic Crisis," and "Capitalism and the Environment." Sample quotation: "Dialectical thought is merely the reflection of objective dialectics." $30/yr. (12 issues) from 3181 Mission St., #29, San Francisco, CA 94110; www.socialismandliberation.org.

MIM Notes, the "official newsletter of the Maoist Internationalist Movement," advocates an end to "oppression of all groups over other groups ... by building public opinion to seize power through armed struggle." Dubious thinking: "When the all-round dictatorship of the proletariat led by us Maoists gets to power, the cigarette company executives who put those toxic chemicals in cigarettes ... will be lined up and shot as a small repayment of their blood debt to millions killed by smoking." Available at www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/mn.

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