Special coverage of COVID-19 pandemic

May 31, 2020

Special coverage of COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Watch this space for periodic additions. Latest: Detroit Dispatch #6: Hospitalizations, funerals and the need for justice; Discussion article: Neoliberal necropolitics and Indian migrant workers; Detroit Dispatch #5: Education and individualism; COVID-19 has generated a lot of “free time” for workers, but how can we create full, human “free time”?; Detroit dispatch #4: The rush to reopen; Detroit dispatch #3: a pall over the city; Woman as Reason: Abortion in the time of COVID-19; Detroit Dispatch: Easter Sunday.

Letter to subscribers

May 8, 2020

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the print edition of News & Letters is suspended until it is safe to resume it.

Detroit dispatch #4: The rush to reopen

May 7, 2020

Many in Detroit are concerned about the rush to reopen and the false dichotomy between “the economy” and health. The death rate is still high.

Detroit dispatch #3: a pall over the city

April 27, 2020

Two weeks of chilly weather—including a little late-spring snow—combined with increasingly dangerous Presidential “leadership,” a quarter of Michigan’s workers claiming unemployment, and more deaths of friends and relatives has cast a pall over the city and state.

Pandemic as battlefield

March 30, 2020

The battle against the COVID-19 pandemic is a battle over how society will change, mirroring the battle over how to confront and adapt to the climate and extinction crisis. Strikes are erupting across the world.

Revolution in Permanence in Syria, After the Uprisings

March 22, 2020

Review-essay (longer version) on the book ‘Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience’ by Joseph Daher. With a combination of ruthless criticism and consistent solidarity, the author situates the Assad regime and Syria’s three counter-revolutions into a broader trend of global neoliberalism.

COVID-19 Detroit dispatch

March 21, 2020

Most Detroiters are adjusting to new habits of sanitation and social distancing required because of the coronavirus, but the response of city government has been mixed.

March-April 2020 issue online; and a note on the pandemic

March 18, 2020

Lead: Women’s movements reach for new global stage; Editorial: Trump after impeachment; COVID-19: A world-historic threat; Voices from the inside out: On becoming human; From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: African revolutions at the crossroads; Essay: Ecosocialism and post-Marx Marxism; Copper miners strike; Torture of immigrants in the U.S.; World in view: France, Ireland & the ‘idea of Europe’; Review: ‘Syria after the Uprisings’; more…

Chicago meeting: From Iraq to Mexico to the U.S., women’s movements reach for new global stage

March 3, 2020

WHEN: 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

News and Letters Committees Call for Convention 2020

March 2, 2020

POSTPONED: Official Call for national gathering of News and Letters Committees to work out Marxist-Humanist perspectives for 2020-2021

Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: March-April deadline

February 16, 2020

The 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 [=>]

Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: January-February deadline

January 6, 2020

The deadline for the January-February 2020 issue of News &
Letters is Sunday, January 12.

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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 [=>]

Reseña: La revolución en permanencia

January 5, 2020

Reseña publicada en La Jornada Semanal del libro La filosofía de la revolución en permanencia de Marx en nuestros días, Escritos selectos de Raya Dunayevskaya.

Voices from Chicago climate strike–December 2019

January 2, 2020

News & Letters interviews some of the Global Climate Strike participants.

Chicago climate strike confronts the specter of climate chaos

December 11, 2019

Participant report of the Dec. 6, 2019, climate strike in Chicago, part of global climate strike.

PDF of November-December 2019 issue of News & Letters is online

October 29, 2019

The lead article of the new November-December issue of News & Letters takes up the autoworkers’ strike at GM in the context of current labor battles. The editorial shows that “The Arab Spring Is Ongoing.”

That new issue will be mailed out this week. It can be viewed as a pdf now at http://newsandletters.org/PDF-ARCHIVE/2019/2019-11-12.pdf. You can [=>]

Chicago meeting: CLIMATE, CAPITALISM, AND SOCIALISM

October 19, 2019

WHEN: 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, 2019

The 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

Nuevo número de Praxis en América Latina (oct.-nov. 2019)

October 10, 2019

Dice Praxis en América Latina:

Nuevo número

Incluye textos sobre

a) Los nuevos caracoles zapatistas
b) La huelga climática global, socialismo y ecología
c) Dos encuentros de mujeres
d) Egipto, Kashmir y Hong Kong

Entre muchos textos más.

Comentarios y colaboraciones a este correo.

Praxis en América Latina

Ayotzinapa, a cinco años

September 24, 2019

De Praxis en América Latina:

Como adjunto el editorial de Praxis. Por favor, comparta con sus contactos y redes.
Agradecemos sus comentarios.

https://newsandletters.org/PDF-ARCHIVE/PraxisEnAmericaLatina/Suplemento_Ayotzinapa.pdf

Voices from Global Climate Strike

September 23, 2019

News & Letters interviews some of the Global Climate Strike participants.

Global Climate Strike–Chicago

September 21, 2019

Participant report on the Sept. 20, 2019, Global Climate Strike event in Chicago.

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 [=>]

Syllabus for Toward Freedom: Intervening in a World on the Brink — A Marxist-Humanist series of classes

September 15, 2019

Syllabus for
Toward Freedom: Intervening in a World on the Brink
A Marxist-Humanist series of classes

As crises shake the world, it is clear that we are living in a very dangerous time, and that vibrant movements have arisen to challenge the destructive path that powerful rulers are trying to force on us all. What is [=>]

September-October 2019 issue of News & Letters is online

September 3, 2019

Lead article: Hong Kong masses fight rulers’ grab for power; Editorial: Supremacists are ‘coming for you!’; Editorial: Kashmir in our changed world; Help ‘News & Letters’ survive and thrive; From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Permanent revolution and the dialectic; Voices from the Inside Out: Promises broken; Women as Reason: Women, terrorism and misogyny; Essay: Socialism and ecology; World in View: Puerto Ricans stand up for dignity; Letter from Mexico: Chiapas Indigenous join Zapatistas; Iran workers jailed; Mexican and U.S. teachers’ dialogue; More…

The revolution in Sudan is far from over

August 18, 2019

Today, the Sudanese military and civil opposition are signing a political agreement — meanwhile the revolution is carried forth by grassroots neighborhood councils and labor organizations.

Collapse of the Radical Left in Greece

August 9, 2019

Syriza’s defeat illustrates the inevitable devolution of those who want to achieve revolutionary changes without a revolution.

Chicago meeting: They’re coming for the immigrants–and for you

August 4, 2019

WHEN: 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 [=>]

Puerto Rico’s masses bring down the government

July 31, 2019

Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans toppled the governor, through the unity of spontaneity and self-organization—of mass activity in unity with thinking over years.

Message to the 57th International Antiwar Assembly

July 30, 2019

Message in solidarity with the annual international antiwar assembly, stressing the full development of proletarian internationalism.

They’ll be coming for the immigrants–and for you

July 22, 2019

“We’ll be coming for you” begins with the immigrants of color but will not end there.

‘All power to the people’: Needed steps in face of the sham agreement in Sudan

July 7, 2019

We share this important view from Mohammed Elnaiem from Sudan. “In fact, this sham agreement between the Transitional Military Council and the FFC happened as if the past few months didn’t even occur. As if the dozens of martyrs since the deadlock in May, had not fallen. …”

July-August News & Letters online

June 27, 2019

Lead article: Demanding a future, youth lead fight for climate justice; From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: China’s youth revolt vs. Mao’s legacy; Editorial: Stop Assad’s genocide in Syria!; Editorial: Freedom=control of our own bodies; Voices from the Inside Out: What is freedom?; All power to the Sudanese revolutionaries!; Essay: What is socialism? Socialism and Women’s Liberation; Amazon workers organize cross-border solidarity; World in View: A tale of two democracies in crisis; Trumpism aims to bleach the census; The truth of the ‘Woolsey Fire’; Millions in Hong Kong challenge Xi’s ambitions; More…

Chicago meeting: Critical Reflections on Capitalist China, by Richard Gilman-Opalsky

June 26, 2019

WHEN: 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 [=>]

July-August 2019 News & Letters pdf

June 24, 2019

The new July-August issue of News & Letters continues our coverage of the world’s polarization into two opposite directions. The lead article takes up the climate crisis under the headline, “Demanding a future, youth lead fight for climate justice.” Meanwhile, two editorials delve into the meaning of Assad’s genocidal counter-revolution in Syria and of the [=>]

Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: July-August deadline

June 15, 2019

The 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 [=>]

Sudan: Call to Action

June 13, 2019

Call to Action in solidarity with Sudan’s revolution

Nuevo número de Praxis en América Latina

June 9, 2019

Dice Praxis en América Latina:

Buenas tardes, compañer@s:

Como archivo adjunto, el nuevo número (junio-julio 2019) de Praxis en América Latina, el cual incluye, entre otros artículos:

1) “2019, ¿un nuevo amanecer laboral en México?” (pp. 1-2) en torno a todos los movimientos de trabajadores que ha habido en esta primera mitad del año. ¿Hacia dónde van? ¿Cómo [=>]

Stop the Criminalization of Immigrants!

June 7, 2019

Solidarity is needed with Central Americans seeking refuge and targeted by criminal policies of the Trump administration, with Mexico’s president knuckling under to Trump’s pressure.

Freedom has to mean we control our own bodies

May 30, 2019

“Woman as Reason” columnist Terry Moon writes about the state of abortion rights in the U.S. in light of the draconian attacks against it and relates women’s struggle to control their bodies to the thingification of women, the poor response of the U.S. left, Karl Marx’s devastating critique of capitalism, and what revolution must come to mean.

Karol Modzelewski, 1937-2019

May 10, 2019

We mourn the passing of a great revolutionary, Karol Modzelewski, one of the leaders of Solidarity in Poland when it was a mass organization of workers against the state.

Oppose Morocco’s repression against Maâti Monjib!

Support Maati Monjib, publisher of the Arabic edition of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Marxism and Freedom, who is under attack by the Moroccan state again!

World in View: Science in Venezuela

May 9, 2019

Under the regime of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, scientific institutions are falling apart.

May-June 2019 issue of News & Letters is online

May 8, 2019

Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2019-2020–Humanity’s choice: Freedom and revolution or fascism, war and genocide; From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: The economy and dialectics of liberation; Woman as Reason: Algerian women at the forefront; Uber and Lyft drivers strike against pay cuts; Essay: What is socialism? Socialism, labor, and the Black demension; World in View: The genius of the Sudanese revolution; Voices From the Inside Out: Served the time but kept in prison; Handicap This!: Nursing home blues; Stop HB6: Ohio nuke industry bailout!; Letter from Mexico: Remembering Emiliano Zapata; World in View: European Union elections: mixed signals; More…

Chicago meeting: Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2019-2020

May 3, 2019

WHEN: 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 [=>]

V. What to do in a world in upheaval

April 27, 2019

The revolt is a beginning that has prevented Trump’s retrogression from becoming the new normal, but the resistance is not the absolute opposite of capitalism in its degeneracy. How can we make sure that a banner of total human liberation as the absolute opposite of degenerate capitalism can act as a pole of attraction and organization for today’s revolts and social movements?

IV. Humanity’s never-ending quest for liberation

Revolt keeps springing up across the world, showing that the human quest for liberation cannot be killed, and why ruling classes are willing to tolerate economic disruption caused by the counter-revolutionary mob as long as it attacks the revolt. Subsections take up revolt by youth, labor, women, African Americans and prisoners.

III. World crises in economy, politics, ideology—and the missing link of philosophy

Exploring the roots of world crises in capitalism’s 1970s structural crisis and 1980s restructuring, 1990s genocides, the Arab Spring and counter-revolutions against it—and the philosophic void on the Left.

II. Remaking the world order in the image of the far right

The far right is pushing to remake the world order in its image. Neither liberal democracy nor Chinese state-capitalism offers a fundamental alternative, as all these trends try to save capitalism.

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