Do 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 [=>]
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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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May-June issue is now online!
May 14, 2018
The May-June 2018 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 63, #3, is available on the web.
View the issue online or as pdf.
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2018-2019: Fighting Trump and his fascist allies in practice and in theory
Contents:
I. Donald Trump’s war show
II. Spreading revolt opens new doors
III. The reality and the myth of contemporary capitalism
IV. Marx, Lenin, Marxist-Humanism and the philosophy [=>]
V. Organizational Tasks
It is a question of working out how to actualize for this moment the relationship of philosophy, spontaneity, organization. We look at concrete tasks.
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 [=>]
Philippines: Human rights vs. Duterte’s fascism
April 5, 2018In-person report from the Philippines.
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 [=>]
March-April 2018 issue is now online!
March 12, 2018Lead: #MeToo, Women’s Marches show the resistance deepens; Editorial: China–Xi Jinping’s global power grab; Editorial: Youth confront the NRA; From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Rosa Luxemburg as feminist; Fight for $15 and labor’s full potential; Uprising in Honduras; Woman as Reason: Iranian women embody revolt; Charles Denby’s life story: the story of the struggle for freedom; Review: Specters of Revolt; Voices From the Inside Out: What is the objective of prisoner unity?; Struggle against solitary confinement continues!; World in View: Syria and International solidarity; More…
Readers’ Views, March-April 2018, Part 2
Readers’ Views on Indignant Heart; Justice and ‘Justice’; Youth in Action; Free Press?; Fight Prison Censors!; Voices from Behind Bars.
Readers’ Views, March-April 2018, Part 1
March 11, 2018Readers’ Views on Women’s Marches; Iran in Revolt; Around the Globe; Race and Freedom; Queer Oppression; Why Read N&L?
Charles Denby’s life story: the story of the struggle for freedom
March 8, 2018Excerpts from the introduction to the new French edition of Charles Denby’s book “Indignant Heart: A Black Worker’s Journal.”
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Rosa Luxemburg as feminist
In celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we present excerpts from Dunayevskaya’s “Luxemburg as Feminist; Break with Jogiches.”
Editorial: China–Xi Jinping’s global power grab
Xi Jinping’s power grab in China and within the international power vacuum are a threat to the workers of China and the world.
Call for Convention 2018
February 25, 2018OFFICIAL CALL FOR CONVENTION
to Work Out Marxist-Humanist Perspectives for 2018-2019
February 25, 2018
To All Members of News and Letters Committees
Dear Friends:
The deeply ingrained rape culture, already widely known but often hushed up, has been exposed in the broadest way yet by the #MeToo movement. How deep and total is the needed uprooting [=>]
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, [=>]
January-February 2018 issue is online!
February 7, 2018Lead: Iranian workers, youth reach for new revolutionary beginnings; Editorial: Alabama Blacks beat Trump-Moore; Help keep News & Letters behind bars; Voices from the inside out: Prisoners discuss impact of 13th Amendment; From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya–Iran: Unfoldment of, and contradictions in, revolution; New French edition of Indignant Heart: A Black Worker’s Journal; World in View: Visage of Hitler rises in Austria; Woman as Reason: The humanism of #MeToo; In Memoriam: Narihiko Ito (1931-2017); Syrians & Iranians unite in D.C. rally; Letter from Mexico: Zapatistas and science for humanity; Another brutal winter of war in Yemen; more …
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 [=>]
Mauritius demonstration prohibited
December 16, 2017LALIT reports on their banned protest of U.S. military base on Diego Garcia, and our statement of solidarity.
Raya Dunayevskaya y la filosofía del humanismo marxista: su significado hoy
Raya Dunayevskaya y la filosofía del Raya Dunayevskaya y la filosofía del humanismo marxista: su significado hoy
Eugene Gogol
Introducción: sobre aniversarios, conmemoraciones y nuevos comienzos
El centenario de la Revolución Rusa, el 150 aniversario de la primera edición de El capital, de Marx, así como el bicentenario del nacimiento de este último, son momentos cruciales en los [=>]
University worker challenges abuse at Azusa Pacific
December 7, 2017Students and others rally in support of an immigrant former staff member of Christian college Azusa Pacific University, after he suffered retaliation for reporting sexual harassment.
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 [=>]
November-December 2017 issue is online!
November 18, 2017Puerto Ricans suffer as Donald Trump plays to his racist base; Editorial: Save the Rohingya, stop the genocide!; Editorial: Abuser-in-chief trashes women; On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution: Historic initiative of the masses and Lenin’s philosophic break; New book–Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution: Selected writings by Raya Dunayevskaya; Detroit Women’s Convention shows women persist; World in View: U.S. ‘democracy’ enters crisis mode; Workers’ revolts threaten Xi Jinping; Woman as Reason: #MeToo; Letter from Mexico: Earthquake: Mexico’s wake-up call; Kris Kobach has something to hide; Judy Tanzawa (Judy Tristan), 1939-2017; Dan Perron, 1959-2017; more…
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. [=>]
Resistance to nuclear waste in Bure, France
October 4, 2017Police raids in Bure, France, attempted to disrupt resistance to a deep geologic repository for nuclear waste.
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 [=>]
Puerto Rico devastated by hurricanes, colonial exploitation, and Trump’s racism
October 1, 2017We condemn the racist response of the Trump administration to the desperate situation in Puerto Rico. What we are seeing there is nothing less than a physical and moral apocalypse.
Chicago meeting: On its 150th anniversary, let’s talk about Marx’s ‘Capital’
September 22, 2017WHEN: Monday September 25, 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 its 150th anniversary, let’s talk about Marx’s Capital
¯ As Trump’s racist, sexist neo-fascism threatens to take hold in the U.S., what relevance does Marx’s Capital hold for today’s activists?
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Chicago meeting: Rising U.S. racism challenges all freedom movements
September 7, 2017WHEN: Monday, September 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:
Rising U.S. racism challenges all freedom movements
“On the night of Aug. 11, over a thousand Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, and ‘alt-right’ marchers invaded the University of Virginia, attacking students [=>]
September-October 2017 issue is online!
The September-October 2017 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 62, #5, is available on the web.
View the issue online or as pdf.
Lead article: Rising U.S. racism challenges all freedom movements
A Marxist-Humanist analysis of the history and meaning of the rising of the right-wing neo-Nazi white supremacist movement, its relationship to President Donald Trump and his administration, and its challenge to the [=>]
Chicagoans defend Genoveva Ramirez against ICE
August 31, 2017Hundreds demonstrated Aug. 31 outside Chicago offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, supporting Genoveva Ramirez and all others being threatened with deportation.
Now online! Guide to the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, the Marxist-Humanist Archives
August 29, 2017The new online Guide at www.rayadunayevskaya.org contains clickable links to all the documents in the Archives. .
New book: Dunayevskaya on Russian Revolution
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, a new book collects writings by Raya Dunayevskaya on the Revolution, counter-revolution, and their consequences, aiming to help create new revolutionary beginnings today. .
Handicap This! September-October 2017
New Jersey medical parole passed; Chicago cop shoots autistic teen; films lack characters with disabilities.
China border controls
China: protests against Hong Kong repression, border push into Bhutan vs. India, repression of Uyghurs.
Detroit cops’ abuses
Detroit police invaded our neighborhood, indiscriminately stopping people and impounding cars.
From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: A concrete universal: Marx’s ‘Capital’–Part 2
August 28, 2017Continuing to mark the 150th anniversary of Karl Marx’s Capital, we present excerpts from “Marx’s Transcendence of and Return to Hegel’s Dialectic,” taking up the profound humanist transformation from Marx’s Grundrisse into Capital.
Web-only: Fascist show of force in Charlottesville; Chicago auto mechanics strike; Venezuela crisis; Keolis Transit strike; online Archives Guide
August 14, 2017Web-only articles: Fascist show of force in Charlottesville; Chicago auto mechanics strike; Venezuela crisis; Keolis Transit strike; online Archives Guide.
Chicago mechanics on strike!
A striker speaks from one of the auto mechanics’ picket lines at 140 car dealerships in the Chicago area. .
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: September-October deadline
The deadline for the September-October 2017 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, August 20.
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. Nationwide, events have been held in solidarity [=>]
Fascism declares civil war in Charlottesville, Virginia
August 13, 2017Analysis of the violent invasion of Charlottesville, Va., the significance of the broader advance of fascism, and the opposite to it in human forces and reason.