Idlib: Syria’s 21st century concentration camp
Syria’s Idlib province faces imminent slaughter by Russia, Iran, and Assad regime forces, which have already made it into the model of the 21st century concentration camp. We call upon all of humanity to oppose this and to demand protection for these millions whose only “crime” was to fight for freedom against a fascist regime.
Climate change, capitalism, and Trump
Climate change, capitalism, and Trump
Presentation to the Chicago Local of News and Letters Committees
By Franklin Dmitryev, August 27, 2018
“…the spirit of the time, growing slowly and quietly ripe for the new form it is to assume, disintegrates one fragment after another of the structure of its previous world. That it is tottering to [=>]
Protesters march against planned airport in South Korea
Nearly 200 students and 150 adults participated in a three-day march in opposition to the construction of a second airport on Jeju-Do, South Korea.
Millions denounce Trump’s heinous immigration abuses
July 19, 2018Marxist-Humanist analysis of the nature of President Donald Trump's inhuman immigration policy, the damage it is causing and the outcry against it, including from his own base....
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Turkey’s Erdoğan tightens authoritarian rule
July 21, 2018With his victory in the June 24, 2018, presidential election, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has consolidated his one-man rule of Turkey’s 80 million-plus population. He had already eliminated the office of prime minister and created a powerful executive presidency....
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From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: A return to the Humanism of Marx
July 22, 2018At a time when the social crisis is total—political, economic, cultural, ideological—this clarion call for a return to the original form of the Humanism of Marxism speaks to today’s need for more than just political change, but for a total view and a total solution to global...
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Essay: Saito’s ecosocialism rejects Marx’s philosophic moment
July 23, 2018In "Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism" Kohei Saito brings to light some of the volumes of Marx’s unpublished research and growing concern over capitalism’s deleterious effect on the environment but wrongly rejects Marx's 1844 philosophic moment....
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Letter from Mexico: Will López Obrador hear masses?
July 25, 2018Since leftist López Obrador won the Presidency of Mexico, the masses will watch him and raise their voices if he fails in his promises for...
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Women demand: ‘End money bail!’
July 23, 2018For Mothers’ Day 2018, Essie Justice Group; Young Women’s Freedom Center; Transgender, Gender-variant, Intersex Justice Project; and other mostly Black women demonstrated in front of...
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Stop genocide against Syrians
July 25, 2018Free Syria activists gathered in Chicago on June 8 in a vigil opposing the ongoing genocide against civilians who are ignored by most of the...
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Demonstrations for refugees cover the entire U.S.
“Families Belong Together!” was the rallying cry for in over 700 cities and towns across the U.S. and some in other countries. Rallies of tens...
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L.A. is fighting Trump
July 24, 2018Los Angeles was one of hundreds of cities in mass protests in June against Trump’s “zero tolerance” agenda against migrant refuges looking for...
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World in View: What’s next for Nicaragua?
Nicaragua is in deep crisis. Almost 150 have been killed by government forces, and thousands injured. The Nicaraguan masses will need to create an emancipatory...
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Voices From the Inside Out: Prisoner reviews Specters of Revolt
July 22, 2018Prisoner-columnist Faruq reviews the book "Specters of Revolt: On the Intellect of Insurrection and Philosophy from Below" by Richard...
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Editorial: Trump-Kim ‘peace’ threatens masses
July 18, 2018Marxist-Humanist analysis of the Trump-Kim summit and G7 summit shows Trump is not charting a path to world peace but rather toward a more openly...
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Woman as Reason column: Bulwark against reaction
What is bringing all reactionary forces together at this moment is the recognition by creatures like Donald Trump that women are the implacable enemy of emerging fascism.
Review: Reproductive Justice: An Introduction
Review of the book “Reproductive Justice: An Introduction” by Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger.
Rapists Freed in Spain
Massive demonstrations in 30 major cities of Spain occurred after the five rapists in the La Manada case were set free from prison on June 22.
Women WorldWide
Women Worldwide column on Equal Playing Field organization; 30,000 women marching in South Korea against “molka”; and forced marriage in Sudan.
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Trump helps Harley-Davidson kill jobs
Harley-Davidson workers found that Trump’s corporate tax cuts made it easier for the company to shutter the Kansas City plant and move more jobs to a new plant in Thailand.
Landless people are attacked in S. Africa
Landless people in Tembisa near Johannesburg, promised housing by the municipality, occupied empty land and put up houses, only to rebuild them with each destruction and eviction by police.
Now published in paperback… Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution
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Pages 6-7, Readers’ Views
Part 1: Readers’ Views on: Fighting Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Hysteria; Women’s Liberation; Attacks on Gays; Support Restaurant Workers; Swords into Plowshares; Human Rights Struggles in Iraq…; …And in Russia; Arthur Gursch in Memoriam
Part 2: Readers’ Views on: Marx’s New Moments and Today’s Need for Revolution and Philosophy; Fetish of Property vs. Humanity and the Planet; Voices from Behind Bars
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Prison censorship
Prisoner Fredd rails against the ridiculous censoring of reading material taking place at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility, including books as well as personal mail.
Prisoner reviews The End of Policing
Review of “The End of Policing” by Alex S. Vitale by a prisoner who sees it as “a wake-up call as to the world in which [we] live: the police state Amerika.”
Inhuman Iraqi rush to judgment
Iraq’s court system has disregarded the element of coercion as they rush to put to death not only ISIS fighters but their hostages as well.
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Queer Notes
Queer notes on Delaware’s anti-Transgender legislation; Gay asylum seeker and detainee Udoka Nweke; Lesbian activist Constance Kurt; Aryman Menem, founder of Tea and Talk for Syrian LGBT; and Baltic Pride’s Pride Parade in Riga, Latvia.
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Youth in Action
Youth in action column on a student demonstration in Delhi, India; a student rally against the alt-Right at Michigan State University, and revolt in Nicaragua headed by students.
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Gaza, Israel and Trump
Since protests began on March 30, at least 135 Palestinians have been murdered by Israeli sharpshooters who targeted medical workers and youth.
Colombia’s election
The election of right-winger Iván Duque is a threat to the peace agreement that ended Colombia’s decades-long war between the government and the country’s largest guerrilla insurgency.
Reaction and racism in the ‘new’ Europe
Update on the reaction, racism and anti-immigrant and anti-refugee laws growing in Poland, Italy and Hungary.