The July-August 2017 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 62, #4, is available on the web.
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Lead article: The struggle for immigrants’ rights challenges humanity
The massive increase in inhuman attacks against immigrants and undocumented people in the U.S. is spurring new activism and urgency.
From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: A concrete universal: Marx’s “Capital”
Continuing to mark the 150th anniversary of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. I, we present excerpts from “Marx’s Transcendence of and Return to Hegel’s Dialectic,” a draft chapter for Dunayevskaya’s book Philosophy and Revolution, taking up the profound humanist transformation from Marx’s Grundrisse into Capital.
Editorial: Trump’s attack on climate and labor
Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change is an attack on labor, not, as he claims, for the good of workers. The solution is not to spread illusions about international negotiations. What is needed is to confront capitalism’s suicidal path both in immediate battles and in raising the banner of a new society of freely associated labor.
Editorial: Imperial carve-up of Syria?
The maneuvering of imperial powers to carve up Syria amid the regime’s ongoing bloodbath reveals the logic that results when the masses are not allowed their self-activity.
Counter-fascist rally in Portland
Report on the June 4 rally against the fascists’ “Free Speech Rally” in Portland, Oregon, and the police intervention on the side of the fascists.
Voices from the inside out: “I Am Not Your Negro”
Review by a prisoner of the companion book to the documentary film “I Am Not Your Negro” on James Baldwin, whose title speaks to the liberation of New Afrikan people in Amerika.
Which vision for rebuilding Detroit?
Does housing in Detroit in 2017 mean large tracts of vacant land and substandard houses ripe for development and easy slumlord profit, or a focus for community organizing to take back our city?
The French presidential election: ‘En Marche,’ indeed! Toward what?
From Paris, Francis Sitel analyzes the results of the 2017 presidential elections in France: Where does opposition stand in relation to election-winner Macron?
Across U.S. students fight fascism
Students around the country protested neo-fascist speakers this spring.
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Woman as reason: Syrian Familes for Freedom
Review: Pimp State
Women Worldwide
Queer Notes
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Letter from Mexico: A new moment for revolution?
Spectrum strikers hanging tough
Learning from miners
Baby Jayden Khoza, murdered in South Africa
Pages 6-7, Readers’ Views
Readers’ Views, Part 1
Readers’ Views, Part 2
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Solidarity with Folsom hunger strike
China’s tentacles
Los Angeles Rebellion 25 years later
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Decommissioning nuclear reactors
“Science Not Silence”
Handicap This!
Review: “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution”
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The view from solitary
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Sovereignty for Chagos
Free college tuition?
Youth in Action
Page 12, World in View
European voters hold off fascism
Saudi threat to Qatar
Nigerian girls freed
Venezuela crisis demands a new vision
Colombian uprising