Participant report of a cross-border protest at Nogales, Mexico, and Nogales, Arizona.
Author: Franklin Dmitryev
Chicago meeting: On Spontaneous Forms of Organization vs. Vanguard Parties
When: Wednesday, October 19, 6:30 PM (Note new day of the week)
Where: News and Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on
On Spontaneous Forms of Organization vs. Vanguard Parties
The first of a series of discussions on Liberation and organization: philosophy and revolution
Organization is crucial as [=>]
Chicago meeting: Rage against genocide in Aleppo
September 30, 2016When: Tuesday [note new day], October 4, 2016, 6:30 PM
Where: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Rage against genocide in Aleppo
The Syrian Revolution that began with non-violent Arab Spring demonstrations for freedom in 2011 has survived five years of Bashar al-Assad’s [=>]
Chicago solidarity action with Native resistance to oil pipeline in North Dakota
September 22, 2016As part of over 200 solidarity actions on Sept. 13, 150 people gathered in Chicago to support the people of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe fighting to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
September-October 2016 N&L available on the web
September 21, 2016The September-October 2016 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 61, #5, is available on the web.
View the issue online or as pdf.
Lead-Editorial: Fascism rising from Russia to India, from the U.S. to the Philippines
An expansive look at the rise of fascism worldwide, beginning in the U.S. with Donald Trump and the U.S. election, and taking in European fascism, and the situations [=>]
Chicago meeting: Nuclear waste traveling soon to your neighborhood
September 16, 2016When: Monday, September, 19, 2016, 6:30 PM
Where: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News & Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Nuclear waste traveling soon to your neighborhood
Nuclear packages, much of their contents radioactive waste, are constantly being transported around the world by land, sea and air. In the decommissioning process at the Zion [=>]
Chicago meeting: Climate change, wildfires, and creative revolt
August 23, 2016When: Monday, August 29, 2016, 6:30 PM
Where: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion:
Fires in Canada’s tar sands region and the creative revolt against climate chaos
Several wildfires have been raging in California this month. Climate change is a factor in the increasing [=>]
Share your story in the next issue of News & Letters: Sept.-Oct. deadline
August 17, 2016The deadline for the September-October 2016 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, August 28.
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.
Chicago meeting: Europe at the Crossroads — From the Brexit Vote to the Failed Coup in Turkey
July 28, 2016When: Monday, August 1, 2016, 6:30 PM
Where: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion:
Europe at the Crossroads: From the Brexit Vote to the Failed Coup in Turkey
In the United Kingdom, escalating violence against immigrants in England has followed the vote to leave the European Union. [=>]
Chicago meeting: How ‘Black Lives Matter’ Changes Everything
July 8, 2016DATE/TIME: Monday, July 11, 2016, 6:30 PM
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion in the wake of the police killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota:
How ‘Black Lives Matter’ Changes Everything
Alton Sterling
• What is this moment [=>]
Britain’s hate-driven referendum a victory for the Far Right
June 26, 2016With Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, the Far Right has been emboldened worldwide. As the economic and social crisis deepens, so does the brutality, while the Right seeks scapegoats for the results of capitalism’s objective laws, which only have force as long as humanity’s struggle to be free is not yet complete. The only solid ground for opposing this latest stage of reactionary retrogression is that of revolution in permanence.
Mass Killing in Florida is a Measure of Society’s Dehumanization
June 14, 2016We stand in solidarity with those murdered and wounded in the attack on a Gay Florida nightclub, and their families and communities. The struggle for LGBTQI freedom must continue unabated. A response requires developing, practically and philosophically, the uncompromising assertion of human freedom and dignity common to the Black Lives Matter movement, the Arab Spring and the Syrian Revolution, which has long struggled against ISIS and its related ideologies. It means uncompromising solidarity with the LGBTQI community, the target of reactionary attacks across the world, from Trump’s America to Putin’s Russia to ISIS’s “caliphate.”
Deadline for July-August 2016 News & Letters
June 10, 2016The deadline for the July-August 2016 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, June 19. 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.
May-June 2016 N&L available on the web
May 18, 2016The May-June 2016 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 61, #3, is available on the web.
View the issue online or as pdf.
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2016-2017
The need for new beginnings in thought and in action
Contents:
Introduction
I. Discontent, revolt and reaction in the U.S.
II. The worldwide war against women
III. Chinese labor in revolt
IV. Counter-revolution and revolution in the Middle East and North [=>]
Save Aleppo! May Day Solidarity with Free Syrians
Participant report of Chicago May Day demonstration in solidarity with the Syrian Revolution.
Message to LALIT for their Labor Day (May Day) gathering
April 30, 2016
Dear Sisters and Brothers of LALIT,
We in News and Letters Committees are honored to send you whole-hearted revolutionary greetings and hopes for a successful Labor Day gathering. Your struggles against capital in league with the Mauritius government are a reminder of how capital is now global, and so are the struggles [=>]
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Nixon’s ‘racist mayhem’ lingers today
Our era, when racist police gun down Black men, women and youth, continues a history as old as the U.S. The piece excerpted here shows some of that history and how racism can be spurred on by this country’s leaders and would-be leaders, out for power. It takes up how Left movements respond to racism and the attempt to answer the question by funneling liberatory impulses into the dead end of electoral politics. The relationships between the Black freedom movement, anti-war youth, workers, and philosophy of revolution remain as critical today as when this article was written.
Readers’ Views, May-June 2016
May 17, 2016Readers’ Views on Women as Reason; Harriet Tubman; Racism and Internationalism; Bisexual Health; Trans Liberation and Feminism; Chinese State vs. Workers; Nuclear Arms Threaten All; Ireland’s Red Banner; Remembering Olga Domanski; Haggard but Not Tired; Voices from Behind the Bars.
V. Toward organizational new beginnings
May 13, 2016Part V of the Draft Perspectives 2016: Together with the depths of counter-revolution, the passion for philosophy points to both the need for and the potential for totally new beginnings in the transformation of society, for new banners of freedom as a polarizing force.
Chicago meeting: The need for new beginnings in thought and in action
May 4, 2016WHEN: Monday, May 9, 2016, 6:30 PM
WHERE: News and Letters Committees Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave. Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on the Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2016-2017:
The need for new beginnings in thought and in action
Our perspectives are shared with all because our age is in [=>]
Oakland meeting: The need for new beginnings in thought and in action
WHEN: Sunday, May 8, 2016, 6:30 PM
WHERE: Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on the Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2016-2017:
The need for new beginnings in thought and in action
Our perspectives are shared with all because our age is in such total crisis—facing a choice [=>]
Chicago meeting: Revolutionary Interventions in Thought and in Activity: Mexico, Latin America, the U.S., and Marxist-Humanism
April 29, 2016DATE: Monday, May 2, 2016
TIME: 6:30 PM (NOTE TIME CHANGE)
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on
Revolutionary Interventions in Thought and in Activity:
Mexico, Latin America, the U.S., and Marxist-Humanism
From: “Latin America: How Can Marxist-Humanism Assist in Brining Forth a [=>]
Deadline for May-June 2016 News & Letters
April 11, 2016The deadline for the May-June 2016 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, April 17. 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.
Chicago meeting: The Revolutionary Journalism of News & Letters
April 7, 2016DATE: Monday April 11, 2016
TIME: 6:30 PM (NOTE TIME CHANGE)
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
The Revolutionary Journalism of News & Letters
Karl Marx wrote: “The concrete is concrete, because it is a combination of many objects with different destinations, i.e., [=>]
Oakland meeting: Revolutionary feminism and Hegel’s notion of life
April 5, 2016Sunday, April 10, 6:30 p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
Our regular Bay Area, California, meeting on Sunday, April 10, will be a discussion of Olga Domanski’s essay reprinted in the current News & Letters, “Revolutionary feminism & Hegel’s notion of life.”
Oakland meeting: China on Strike
Thursday, April 7, 7:00 p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph
Ave., Oakland
An event we are co-sponsoring, “China on Strike,” is an opportunity to hear Chinese workers share their ideas and concerns about their struggles in China. They also want to get the views of workers and others fighting for a better world here, especially what we’ve learned from [=>]
In-person report: North Carolinians protest extreme anti-LGBTQ law
March 31, 2016Thousands take part in a wave of protests against North Carolina’s House Bill 2, one of the most anti-LGBTQ laws to ever hit the books in our country.
March-April 2016 N&L available on the web
March 30, 2016The new issue is available on the web. Lead: Women battle war, terrorism and anti-abortion fanatics; Editorial: Syrian Revolution continues; Racism, workers and freedom ideas; The anguish that is Flint, Michigan; much more…
Readers’ Views: March-April 2016, Part 2
Readers’ Views on: The Movements from Practice and from Theory; Berta Caceres; Why Read N&L?; Women’s Liberation; Voices from behind the Bars.
Readers’ Views: March-April 2016, Part 1
Readers’ Views on: Environment, Labor, Race and Philosophy; Queer Liberation; Black Lives Matter; Bolivian Social Movements; Trumpery’s Fascism & Racism.
Chicago meeting: Women battle war, terrorism and anti-abortion fanatics
March 23, 2016Members of New Voices for Reproductive Justice, an organization dedicated to the health and well-being of women and girls of color, say they are “in the house and we say to #SCOTUS #StoptheSham & #TrustBlackWomen! @BlackWomensRJ #BlackGirlMagic.”Photo: twitter.com/NewVoices4RJ
Date: Monday, March 28, 2016, 7:00 PM
Place: News and Letters Library
228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230
Chicago, [=>]
Olga Domanski’s revolutionary life, 1923-2015 (March-April 2016 Readers’ Views)
March 22, 2016Readers’ Views from the March-April 2016 N&L marking the revolutionary life of Olga Domanski.
Maâti Monjib’s trial
March 13, 2016The International Committee to Support Maâti Monjib and the Six Activists reports on upcoming trials, hunger strikes, and petitions.
Russian imperialism’s genocidal attack on Syria aims to destroy the revolution
March 3, 2016Russian airstrikes create havoc in Syria, embodying a philosophy of unfreedom. Revolutionary unity in Syria isn’t just a tactical issue, but a philosophic question, on the revolution’s ground of freedom and dignity, needing philosophic as well as material solidarity.
Call for Convention 2016
February 28, 2016Official Call for national gathering of News and Letters Committees to work out Marxist-Humanist perspectives for 2016-2017
Chicago meeting: Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries in History and Today
February 22, 2016Monday, February 29, 2016, 7:00 PM
News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
Women as Thinkers and as Revolutionaries in History and Today
Women’s struggles for freedom have been relentless from 1647, when the first maids’ petition was handed to the British Parliament to [=>]
Deadline for March-April 2016 News & Letters
The deadline for the March-April 2016 issue of News & Letters is Sunday, February 28. 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.
Chicago meeting: Whither the Syrian Revolution?
February 9, 2016Monday, February 15, 2016, 7:00 PM
Place: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Whither the Syrian Revolution?
As the so-called peace conference is suspended in Geneva, Russian and Syrian bombing of villages is killing hundreds of civilians and creating hundreds of thousands more refugees.
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Oakland meeting: Paris climate accord protests and the struggle for a new world
February 8, 2016Sunday, February 14 6:30p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Library
6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
This Sunday, 2/14, we will take up “Paris climate accord protests and the struggle for a new world.”
The current News & Letters lead article contrasts the world’s state powers’ hifalutin self-congratulatory rhetoric over their Paris Agreement on climate change with the down-to-earth ecological movement. Paris officials attempted to stifle [=>]
New! N&L as ebook
February 5, 2016New! N&L (January-February 2016) as an ebook (epub 2.0.1 format). This is useful:
1. For people who are blind or visually impaired or have difficulty reading visually. This format is ideal for text-to-speech applications.
2. For reading on a smartphone or small tablet. Unlike a pdf, text in an epub can be magnified to [=>]
January-February 2016 N&L available on the web
January 26, 2016The new issue is available on the web. Lead: Paris climate accord’s suicidal complacency spurs protests; Editorial: Chicago’s racism on trial; Editorial: Erdogan slaughters Kurds; Olga Domanski, 1923-2015; much more…
Stop campus racism!
The last quarter of 2015 was marked by a national campaign against racism at campuses across the U.S.
Youth in Action, January-February 2016
Colorado student-teacher-parent walkouts lead to recall of reactionary school board members; Oxford students campaign to remove images of racist imperialist Cecil Rhodes; student activism sweeps South Africa.
Witnessing revolution in Rojava
Eyewitness report of a trip to Rojava in Syria in mid-2015.
Readers’ Views: January-February 2016, Part 2
January 25, 2016Philosophy, theory and News & Letters; Flint Part Ii; Mumia Abu-Jamal; Voices from behind the bars.
Readers’ Views: January-February 2016, Part 1
California prisoners battle barbaric ‘justice’ system; Against ISIS attacks; Women under attack; Support Maati Monjib; The Burmese Way; Race, class & politics.
Olga Domanski’s revolutionary life, 1923-2015: Readers’ Views
Readers’ Views on the revolutionary life of Olga Domanski.
In memoriam Olga Domanski, 1923-2015
January 24, 2016The world has lost a great fighter for liberation. Olga Domanski, one of the founders of News and Letters Committees, whose life’s work was the development and projection of Marxist-Humanism and the growth of its organizational expression.
Paris climate accord’s suicidal complacency spurs protests
The Paris Agreement on climate change reveals limits of what capitalism will do even in the face of catastrophe. The question is what kind of development can people in all kinds of countries achieve?
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