Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2018-2019: Fighting Trump and his fascist allies in practice and theory

May 1, 2018
Part I of the Draft Perspectives Thesis: Trump's war show. The real threat of war reflects Trump's extremeness as a product of failing capitalism, which is not an aberration but an index of the nature of U.S. capitalist...
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In Memoriam: Andy Phillips (1924-2018)

We mourn the loss of a founding member of News and Letters Committees, who participated in the first national strike against automation in the coal mines and later co-wrote its history in "The Coal Miners' General Strike of 1949-50 and the Birth of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S."...
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From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: New moments in Marx form trail to today

May 10, 2018
To observe the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, we present excerpts of a speech given by Raya Dunayevskaya for the Marx centenary year, originally titled “Marxist-Humanism, 1983: The Summation That Is a New Beginning, Subjectively and...
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Letter from Mexico: Zapatista and other women meet

May 2, 2018
The First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle, organized by the Zapatista Indigenous women, took place in Chiapas from March 8-10. More than 5,000 women from all over the world shared their thoughts on feminism, art and work....
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Only revolt grows in Iran’s deserts

May 1, 2018
Iran’s planned ecological self-destruction has brought poverty, displacement and mass unemployment and mass revolt to local populations as the regime reduces mighty rivers to trickles...
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50 Years later…The 1968 French general strike–its meaning today.

May 5, 2018
A participant looks at the 1968 French general strike, filled with potential to transform society, and discusses why it failed and the ramifications of that...
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World In View: Colombia Humana raises questions

May 9, 2018
Colombia Humana presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, a former M19 guerrilla, has caught the imagination of Indigenous people, Afrocolombians, and many other poor Colombians....
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Youth March for Our Lives

May 10, 2018
Participants at the March for Our Lives against gun violence in the Bay Area, Calif., Detroit, Mich., and Chicago, Ill. report on the militancy and...
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The end of ‘Urban Shield’

First-hand report of a demonstration to end Urban Shield in San Francisco Bay Area, California, on March 27, 2018....
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World In View: After Italy, European Right coalesces

May 9, 2018
The victory of Far Right and “populist” parties in Italian elections, preceded by that in Austria, and followed by that in Hungary, emphasizes the current...
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