Philosophy and Revolution book group, inaugural hybrid meeting in Chicago
Events
Share your story: September-October 2020 deadline
August 10, 2020The deadline for the September-October 2020 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, August 16th. Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Write up your experiences of how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting your work, life, and community, and how people are oppressed, fighting back or engaging in solidarity, mutual aid… Send your articles/reports to arise@newsandletters.org
POSTPONED: Oakland meeting–Syria: revolution and genocide, now in Idlib
March 10, 2020Trying to be really safe, encourage the responsible reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, and following the suggestion of our young high-school-age presenter, we decided to POSTPONE THIS MEETING.
Chicago meeting: From Iraq to Mexico to the U.S., women’s movements reach for new global stage
March 3, 2020WHEN: Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
Participate in a meeting on: From Iraq to Mexico to the U.S., women’s movements reach for new global stage
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: March-April deadline
February 16, 2020The deadline for the March-April 2020 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, February 23.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. News & Letters will run [=>]
Oakland meeting: Revolutionary journalism and Prisoner Human Rights Movement
February 11, 2020Sunday Feb. 16th, 6:30PM 6501 Telegraph, Oakland
We’ll explore the contrast between the practice of revolutionary journalism shaped by freedom as human essence and freedom as a “special privilege” in press freedom under censorship.
Discussion led by: Urszula Wislanka, long-time prisoner-activist, writer/editor for The Fire Inside, publication of California Coalition for Women Prisoners, and journalist for News & Letters.
Faruq, Marxist-Humanist writer-participant in the 2011-2013 hunger strikes at Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit.
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: January-February deadline
January 6, 2020The deadline for the January-February 2020 issue of News &
Letters is Sunday, January 12.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your
workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates.
Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News &
Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. News
& Letters will run articles and Readers’ Views about Trump’s
killing [=>]
Oakland meeting: Impeachment, constitutionalism, and humanity’s search for a way out
January 4, 2020Jan. 12 6:30PM 6501 Telegraph, Oakland
A look back at a Marxist-Humanist perspective during the Nixon impeachment and forward to new beginnings in the idea of self-liberation in our time of political crises.
Chicago meeting: WOMEN’S LIBERATION AS RESISTANCE AND AS REVOLUTIONARY FORCE AND REASON
December 4, 2019How can hearing the ideas of women’s liberation and the philosophy of human liberation enable the movement’s reorientation? How can the humanism that shone forth from the Women’s Marches help inspire the entire movement for liberation?
Chicago meeting: THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION OF FREEDOM AND DIGNITY VS. COUNTER-REVOLUTION AS TEST OF WORLD POLITICS
November 11, 2019We will discuss not just the needed critique to those on the Left who defend Bashar al-Assad, but also the pragmatic philosophy that underlies the broader Left. The resulting search for a new orientation in the Syrian revolution demands a dive into dialectical philosophy.
Chicago meeting: CLIMATE, CAPITALISM, AND SOCIALISM
October 19, 2019WHEN: Wednesday, October 23, 6:30 pm
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
The movements around climate are the source of some of the most widespread questioning of capitalism and within them there is an incomplete discussion of a needed “theory of change.” In the climate justice movement is a growing realization [=>]
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: November-December deadline
October 14, 2019The deadline for the November-December 2019 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, October 20.
Share your story with the world!
And if you haven’t already, check out our latest issue and our most recent articles:
Global Climate Strike–Chicago
Voices from Global Climate Strike
Essay: Black August, from 1971 to 2011-13
September-October 2019 issue of News & Letters is online
Toward Freedom: Intervening in a World on the Brink–A Marxist-Humanist series of classes
September 19, 2019(See printable pdf brochure here.)
As crises shake the world, it is clear that we are living in a dangerous time. Vibrant movements have arisen to challenge the destructive path that powerful rulers like Donald Trump, Valdimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi, Bashar al-Assad, Ali Khamenei, etc., are trying to force on us all. The challenge [=>]
Chicago meeting: They’re coming for the immigrants–and for you
August 4, 2019WHEN: Wednesday, August 7, 2019, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
They’re coming for the immigrants–and for you
“Mostly unreported court testimony offers a fuller picture of the horror exacted upon men, women and children simply for crossing the U.S. border. Children [=>]
Chicago meeting: Critical Reflections on Capitalist China, by Richard Gilman-Opalsky
June 26, 2019WHEN: Saturday, July 27, 2019, 7:00 PM
WHERE: Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan, Studio 632B, Chicago
You are invited to a talk on:
Critical Reflections on Capitalist China
given by Professor Richard Gilman-Opalsky
We live in a world where the Chinese Communist Party is one of the most powerful capitalist organizations on Earth. What do socialism, Marxism, and communism [=>]
Chicago events: Building Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution
Saturday, July 6, 2019
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Rally on Michigan Ave. at Congress Plaza Garden, east side of Michigan at Ida B. Wells Drive, just south of art museum.
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Forum, discussion and get-together at 228 South Wabash Avenue #230
We will begin with a street rally on Michigan Avenue to raise awareness about [=>]
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: July-August deadline
June 15, 2019The deadline for the July-August 2019 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, June 16.
Share your story with the world!
And if you haven’t already, check out our latest issue and our most recent articles:
Sudan: Call to Action
Nuevo número de Praxis en América Latina
Stop the Criminalization of Immigrants!
Revolution in Sudan Under Attack!
Freedom has to mean we [=>]
Chicago meeting: Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2019-2020
May 3, 2019WHEN: Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2019-2020
Humanity’s choice: Freedom and revolution or fascism, war and genocide
Two events that happened almost simultaneously on March 15 dramatically reveal the tectonic forces ripping at this [=>]
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: May-June deadline
April 9, 2019The deadline for the May-June 2019 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, April 14.
Share your story with the world in our special Draft Perspectives issue! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to the [=>]
Chicago meeting: Women bearing the brunt of reaction lead the resistance
March 21, 2019WHEN: Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
Some of the thousands of Indian women who recently marched for dignity across 200 districts in 24 states to raise awareness of rape and rape culture. Photo: Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan.
News and Letters Committees invites you to [=>]
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: March-April deadline
February 22, 2019The deadline for the March-April 2019 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, February 24.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. What is your view of the state [=>]
Chicago meeting: Revolutionary Journalism: Do you have a story to tell?
February 14, 2019WHEN: Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
Revolutionary Journalism: Do you have a story to tell?
Los Angeles, Calif., teachers from the Hawkins school district rally and strike on Jan. 14, 2019.
Come to an editing session [=>]
Chicago meeting: Do you have a story to tell? Bring it to the Editing Session of News & Letters
January 3, 2019When: Wednesday, January 9, 2019, 6:30 PM
Where: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to an Editing Session
Bring your article or story to the Editing Session and learn about revolutionary journalism at the same time. Get a preview of what will be in the January-February issue and add your own [=>]
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: January-February deadline
The deadline for the January-February 2019 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, January 13.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. What is your view of the state [=>]
Chicago meeting: Socialism and Women’s Liberation
December 8, 2018WHEN: Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
Socialism and Women’s Liberation
♀ Does socialism—which historically has been interpreted to be about labor—speak to women’s struggle for freedom; to the #MeToo movement; the struggle to end rape culture; [=>]
Chicago meeting: Socialism and Ecology
November 30, 2018WHEN: Wednesday, December 5, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago, Illinois
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on
Socialism and Ecology
- Can socialism reverse the environmental damage and spiraling climate change caused by fossil-fueled industrial capitalism?
- What can we learn from the terrible environmental record of so-called Communist countries?
- Can strategies such as a “green new deal” or [=>]
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: November-December deadline
October 30, 2018The deadline for the November-December 2018 issue of News & Letters is Thursday, November 15.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. News & Letters will run articles and Readers’ Views about [=>]
Chicago meetings: What is Socialism in 2018-2019?
October 25, 2018Selected Wednesdays at 6:30 PM
starting Wednesday, October 31, 6:30 PM
at the News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago, Illinois
News and Letters Committees invites you to a series of four discussions on:
What is Socialism in 2018-2019?
► What is the relationship between what Karl Marx worked out in Capital to what Bernie Sanders calls socialism?
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Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: September-October deadline
September 5, 2018The deadline for the September-October 2018 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, September 9.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. News & Letters will run articles and Readers’ Views about [=>]
Chicago meeting: Climate change, capitalism, and Trump
August 21, 2018WHEN: Monday, August 27, 2018, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
Climate change, capitalism, and Trump
Demonstrators at Standing Rock making their ideas known.
Movements of youth, Indigenous peoples, and environmental justice show the possibility of a radically different direction. Their [=>]
Chicago meeting: The nuclear threat in the age of Trump-Kim
August 2, 2018WHEN: Hiroshima Day, Monday, August 6, 2018, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
73 years after Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The nuclear threat in the age of Trump-Kim
Since the Non-Proliferation Treaty was agreed to 50 years ago, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel have [=>]
Chicago: Study group in Marxism and Freedom
June 29, 2018Do you want to learn about Marx’s actual ideas on what capitalism is and what is needed for full human liberation, and what Marxist-Humanism means? Come to a study group on Marxism and Freedom, from 1776 until Today, a foundational Marxist-Humanist book by Raya Dunayevskaya. Meetings will be on Thursday nights at 7:30, beginning July [=>]
Chicago meeting: Stop Trump’s racist war on refugees!
June 23, 2018WHEN: Monday, June 25, 2018, 6:30 PM
WHERE: 228 S. Wabash, Chicago, Room 210
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
Fascism is absolute inhumanity
Stop Trump’s racist war on refugees!
One of the many demonstration against Trump’s inhuman policy of taking children from immigrants. This one was in Lombard, Ill., on June 20.
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Chicago meeting–Marx at 200: Philosopher of permanent revolution in today’s global crises and revolts
May 10, 2018WHEN: Thursday, May 17, 2018, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Marx at 200 (1818-2018): Philosopher of permanent revolution in today’s global crises and revolts
Does Marx’s analysis of capitalism hold true for today?
Can Marx’s emancipatory vision speak to social movements [=>]
Chicago meeting: Fighting Trump and his fascist allies in practice and theory
May 2, 2018WHEN: Monday, May 7, 2018, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2018-2019
Fighting Trump and his fascist allies in practice and theory
Demonstration in Sacramento, Calif., against the police murder of Stephon Clark on April 5, [=>]
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: May-June deadline
April 8, 2018The deadline for the May-June 2018 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, April 15.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world.
And if you haven’t already, check out our latest [=>]
Chicago meeting: Specters of Revolt
March 31, 2018WHEN: Saturday, April 7, 7:00 PM (note: not our usual meeting day/time)
WHERE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash #230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Specters of Revolt: On the Intellect of Insurrection and Philosophy from Below
After the revolutionary 1960s did not abolish capitalism, it was evident that dominant forms of [=>]
Chicago meeting: #MeToo, Women’s Marches: Where do we go from here?
March 13, 2018WHEN: Monday, March 19, 2018, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
#MeToo, Women’s Marches:
Where do we go from here?
Women of action marching in Washington, D.C., at the Women’s March on Jan. 20, 2018. Photo: Victoria Pickering, victoriapickering.com/2018/01/womens-march-d-c/.
“Women have [=>]
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: March-April deadline
February 19, 2018The deadline for the March-April 2018 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, February 25.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. News & Letters will run articles and Readers’ Views about [=>]
Chicago meeting. Indignant Heart: A Black Worker’s Journal—The Roots of the Movement for Black Freedom
February 13, 2018WHEN: Monday, February 19, 2018, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion for Black History Month on:
Indignant Heart: A Black Worker’s Journal—The Roots of the Movement for Black Freedom
“Denby’s is an engrossing account of wildcat strikes, union discord, racial disputes within shops, [=>]
Chicago meeting: Iranian workers, women and youth reach for new radical beginnings
January 30, 2018WHEN: Monday, February 5, 2018, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Iranian workers, women and youth reach for new radical beginnings
“On Dec. 28, 2017, demonstrations broke out in the city of Mashhad and quickly spread to over 90 cities and towns in [=>]
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: January-February deadline
January 10, 2018The deadline for the January-February 2018 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, January 14.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. News & Letters will run articles and Readers’ Views about [=>]
Chicago meeting: From Trump’s trashing of women to #MeToo: Which way forward for women’s liberation?
December 6, 2017WHEN: Monday, December 11, 2017, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
From Trump’s trashing of women to #MeToo:
Which way forward for women’s liberation?
One of the 250,000 demonstrating against Trump in the Chicago Women’s March. News & Letters [=>]
Meetings on the anniversary of the Russian Revolution
November 10, 2017Meetings on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution!
Nov. 12 in Los Angeles and Oakland, Nov. 13 in Chicago:
Los Angeles meeting: 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
WHEN: Sunday, November 12, 2017, 6:00 PM
WHERE: Echo Park United Methodist Church, 1226 N. Alvarado (north of Sunset, side door)
Oakland meeting: “October” and “What Happens After?”
WHEN: Sunday, [=>]
Los Angeles meeting: 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
November 9, 2017WHEN: Sunday, November 12, 2017, 6:00 PM
WHERE: Echo Park United Methodist Church, 1226 N. Alvarado (north of Sunset, side door)
Los Angeles News and Letters Committee invites you to a discussion on;
The 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
* The Russian Revolution as the most important revolution of the 20th century
* The self activity of the masses [=>]
Oakland meeting: “October” and “What Happens After?”
WHEN: Sunday, November 12, 2017, 6:30 pm
WHERE: Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz), Oakland, Ca.
Bay Area News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
October and “What Happens After?”
October by science fiction writer China Mieville tells the story of the 1917 Russian Revolution from February to October, calling those earthshaking events “still ground zero for [=>]
Chicago meeting: The 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
WHEN: Monday, November 13, 2017, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
The 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
“From the proof that revolution can succeed and the working class can attain power, the magnificent events of 1917 Russian Revolution [=>]
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: November-December deadline
October 23, 2017The deadline for the November-December 2017 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, October 29.
Share your story with the world! Send in reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Send in Readers’ Views responding to articles in News & Letters and/or to what is happening in the world. News & Letters will run articles and Readers’ Views [=>]
Chicago meeting: Mexico and Puerto Rico: When “natural phenomena” reveal the oppressive nature of capitalism
October 9, 2017WHEN: Monday, October 16, 2017, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Mexico and Puerto Rico: When “natural phenomena” reveal the oppressive nature of capitalism
On Puerto Rico: “Trump starkly expressed the logic of capitalism when speaking of Puerto Rico to the National Association of Manufacturers. [=>]
Chicago event for Day of Syrian Rage: A Global Day of Human Conscience
October 2, 2017Saturday, October 14 at 2 PM – 4 PM
Federal Plaza, Adams and S. Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60604
Day of Syrian Rage
A Global Day of Human Conscience
Hosted by Umyma Abogoda
Activists of the Syrian revolution invite you to protest in the capitals, and wherever decisions are made around the world; to share in our expressions [=>]