The 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.
Author: Franklin Dmitryev
Chicago meeting: Writing and editing the next issue of N&L
January 5, 2016DATE: Monday, January 11. 2016
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
NOTE NEW TIME: 7:00 PM
News and Letters Committees invites you to
Help Edit News & Letters
Do you have a story to tell? Share it with the world! Bring your reports on your workplace, your town, your country; conditions, events, ideas, and debates. Bring [=>]
Chicago study group on Marxism and Freedom
DATE: every other Friday beginning January 8, 2016
TIME: 6:30 PM
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a study group on:
Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today
by Raya Dunayevskaya
In this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya, with clarity and insight, views today’s challenges by tracing the [=>]
Deadline for next issue: Jan. 10
January 4, 2016Deadline: January 10, 2016
Happy and Revolutionary New Year! The deadline for the January-February 2016 issue of News & Letters is next Sunday, January 10. 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 [=>]
Paris climate accord vs. humanity’s future
December 19, 2015Paris Accord 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? So long as the vision of an alternative, liberatory path of development is not made concrete as the energizing principle of a movement, a vacuum is left for false alternatives.
Against ISIS attacks in Paris and Beirut: Counter-revolution must be defeated everywhere!
November 23, 2015We condemn these horrific massacres and the reaction that feeds upon them. To destroy ISIS and all other counter-revolutionary forces will require a battle of ideas, even more than a struggle of arms.
In-person report: Yemenis battle war, famine, disease, sectarianism
November 22, 2015Economic problems are worsening crazily because of this war, but that is no longer the only major problem in Yemen. There are at least four major problems/risks being horribly worsened as the war continues. They are: famine, epidemics, the expansion of extremist groups, and sectarianism.
November-December 2015 N&L available on the web
November 1, 2015The new issue is available on the web. Lead: California prisoners battle barbaric U.S. ‘justice’ system; Philosophic basis of News & Letters; From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Black masses, youth, and the needed U.S. revolution: philosophy and reality; much more…
Russia aims to crush internal dissent
October 18, 2015The situation in Russia is getting worse. The hysteria of propaganda against “external and internal enemies” is escalating, as well as pressure on opposition and civil society in general. All opposition rallies in the center of Moscow are now forbidden; organizers of Boris Nemtsov’s murder are protected by the state (while everybody knows that [=>]
Chicago meeting: Learning about Marxist-Humanism: The Philosophic Comprehension of History Illuminates Today’s Crises: The Revolutionary Archives of Raya Dunayevskaya
October 13, 2015Monday, December 14, 6:30 PM
228 S. Wabash Ave. Room 230, Chicago, IL
News and Letters Committees is sponsoring discussions on:
Learning about Marxist-Humanism:
Raya Dunayevskaya
The Philosophic Comprehension of History Illuminates Today’s Crises: The Revolutionary Archives of Raya Dunayevskaya
Who are Karl Marx and Raya Dunayevskaya and what, if anything, do their ideas have to do with the problems [=>]
Support Maati Monjib! — update
October 11, 2015Updated: Join the campaign to end the harassment of Maati Monjib in Morocco! Support him while he is on hunger strike, and demand protection of his right to travel, speak and write freely.
Oakland meeting: Marxist-Humanist body of ideas online
October 3, 2015Sunday, October 4, 6:30 PM
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, California 94609
We will celebrate the availability of the whole of the Marxist-Humanist Archives, The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, on the net. We will also discuss a series of classes that will help us dive into the body of ideas for today.
THE RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA COLLECTION – Raya [=>]
Chicago meeting: The Marxist-Humanism of Raya Dunayevskaya
October 1, 2015Monday, Oct. 5, 6:30 PM
News and Letters, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
The Marxist-Humanism of Raya Dunayevskaya
How does it speak to today’s economic-political-social crisis?
- Capitalism in Economic Disarray—Her writings on Marx’s Capitaland on the emergence of state-capitalism provide a crucial point of departure for understanding [=>]
Support Maati Monjib, who is on hunger strike!
September 19, 2015Join the campaign to end the harassment of Maati Monjib in Morocco! Support him while he is on hunger strike, and demand protection of his right to travel, speak and write freely.
Chicago meeting: Reproductive Justice Under Attack
September 9, 2015DATE: Monday, September 14, 2015
TIME: 6:30 PM
PLACE: News & Letters Library
228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
—From the editorial in the latest issue of: News and Letters—
Dishonestly edited videos accusing Planned Parenthood of illegally selling aborted fetal organs for profit have now become fodder for mostly Republican politicians—including those running for president…..
Presidential candidates [=>]
September-October 2015 N&L available on the web
September 7, 2015The September-October 2015 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 60, #5, is available on the web.
View the issue online or as pdf.
Lead: Counter-revolution in Middle East shows crisis of humanity
From the signing of a nuclear weapons agreement by the U.S. and Iran, to the ongoing war in Syria including the roles of Turkey and of the Left, this wide-ranging article delves into [=>]
Readers’ Views, Sept.-Oct. 2015, Part 2
August 31, 2015Readers’ thoughts on “Dialectics of Philosophy and of Forces of Revolution”; “Free Mumia!”; “Federico Arcos, 1920-2015”; and a section of “Voices from Behind the Bars.”
Readers’ Views, Sept.-Oct. 2015, Part 1
Readers’ thoughts on “Srebrenica, Bosnia, 1995; Europe and the World, 2015”; “Struggles against Racism”; “After Cecil, People Are Next”; “Teachers and Children”; “Workers, Customers Pay.”
Debates on Gay Marriage and Queer Liberation (Readers’ Views)
Readers debate Gay marriage, Queer liberation and Caitlyn Jenner.
Philip Zimbardo and Marx’s Humanism
August 30, 2015A discussion with Philip Zimbardo followed the San Francisco premiere of “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” a movie based on his notorious 1971 experiment. It raises questions about the meaning of being human, which for Marx turned on needing human beings as free beings whose self-determining, free, conscious activity is not a mere means but the first necessity of life.
Occupy: Democracy, revolution and philosophy
“The Democracy Project” presents a close-up view of the activity and the thinking of OWS, and a contemporary treatise on revolutionary organization, yet dismisses philosophy in favor of “anarchist” process.
From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: A revolutionary attitude to Archives
To highlight the new online availability of the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, we present excerpts of her 1985 Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, which take up the development of the Marxist-Humanist concept of Archives out of the category made of the totality of Marx’s Archives as a new beginning for today.
Chicago meeting: ‘Marxist-Humanism: A Half-Century of Its World Development’
August 12, 2015Date/Time: Monday, August 17, 2015, 6:30 PM
Place: 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
‘Marxist-Humanism: A Half-Century of Its World Development’
The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection is now online
Come to a discussion on what it means historically and in the moment that the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection is now available on the web. [=>]
Chicago meeting: The Srebrenica Genocide, 20 Years After
July 19, 2015DATE: Monday, July 27, 2015, 6:30 PM
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
The Srebrenica Genocide, 20 Years After
Over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered at Srebrenica, Bosnia, in July 1995. This genocidal war crime, committed by Serb militias under the [=>]
July-August 2015 N&L available on the web
July 8, 2015The July-August 2015 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 60, #4, is available on the web.
View the issue online or as pdf.
Special announcement: Now available online! The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, the Marxist-Humanist Archives
www.rayadunayevskaya.org presents the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection as she organized it herself, together with the posthumous Supplement. This is in addition to the entire 60 years of News & Letters newspaper available on [=>]
Women prisoners and allies create health fair
Prisoner-advocates in Central California Women’s Facility initiated a health information exchange, not just sharing information about health, but acknowledging people taking care of each other under the worst conditions. Such care does exist in the prison and it needs support to strengthen and reinforce it.
World in View: Chile students protest
Chile’s students once again took to the streets by the tens of thousands to demand fundamental education reform.
World in View: Charleston terrorism
The racist murder of nine people at the historic Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., is the characteristic U.S. form of terrorism, directed against the expression of Black self-determination.
World in View: Spanish elections
The indignados emerged victorious in important municipal elections in dozens of cities, large and small, including Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia.
World in View: Iran’s role in Syria
Syrian revolutionary Yassin al-Haj Saleh summarized the role that the Iranian government and spoke of the responsibility of revolutionaries to criticize their own government’s imperialism.
World in View: Turkey’s election
In a stunning June 7 election, the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), a coalition of Kurds and liberals, won 12% of the vote.
After the referendum: The ongoing Greek crisis
The two opponents facing off in Greece for five years have been the Greek masses vs. the European rulers and their institutions. The No vote manifested the revolt against austerity. We explore the meaning of these events.
Readers’ Views, July-August 2015
July 4, 2015Black lives as Subject; Russia in crisis; Nothing about us without us; Homelessness in L.A.; Central Canada Alliance; Perspectives and philosophy; Elderly to the streets?; Women and Yemen half-peace; Labor and climate justice; Dialectic and women’s liberation; Voices from behind the bars
News & Letters archives online at the Marxists Internet Archive
The collection of issues of News & Letters in pdf form from Vol. 1, Number 1 (June 24, 1955) through Dec. 2009 is now available not only on our website but at the Marxists Internet Archive at https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/news-and-letters/.
The entire 60-year (so far) run can be found on the News & Letters website at http://sr3.supportedns.com/~rayaduna/newsandletters/category/newspaper/.
Chicago meeting: Whither Greece?
July 2, 2015DATE: Monday July 6, 2015
TIME: 6:30 PM
PLACE: News & Letters Library 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
Whither Greece?
Greece is suffering from massive unemployment and poverty, worse than any “developed” country since the Great Depression of the 1930s. At the same time, the workers, youth, [=>]
Now available online! The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, the Marxist-Humanist Archives
June 28, 2015www.rayadunayevskaya.org presents the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection as she organized it herself, together with the posthumous Supplement. This is in addition to the entire 60 years of News & Letters newspaper available on this website.
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: The meaning of revolutionary archives
June 27, 2015In celebrating the online publication of the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, we present excerpts of her Introduction/Overview to Volume XII, which takes up the Marxist-Humanist concept of archives as not only retrospective but perspective, in the quest to establish “continuity with the historic course of human development.”
Yemen on the verge of total collapse
May 16, 2015In-person report: Everything in Yemen is being destroyed horribly: humans, the fabric of society, national unity, the infrastructure, including public services systems.
In-person report from Yemen: ‘Actually we are in hell’
May 12, 2015Another human tragedy is unfolding in Yemen, where civilians are under attack. As in Syria, the world is doing virtually nothing while civilians are targeted. Here is an in-person report sent to News & Letters.
30 Years Later: AIDS activism and ACT UP Chicago
May 9, 2015ACT UP Chicago grew out of an organization that began in 1984 of Dykes and Gay Men Against Racism and Repression. We became an AIDS activism organization, first called Chicago For Our Rights, then by spring Chicago for AIDS Rights. We pushed for lowering the prices of AIDS drugs, and the release of more of them. By October and the national action in Washington, D.C., we had become ACT UP Chicago. AIDS is a global issue today. This time around, I’d like to see an AIDS activist movement that’s organized by poor, working-class, mostly people of color.
Mexico DF: Mesa redonda : Utopía y la dialéctica en liberación latinoamericana
lunes 11 de mayo, 13:00 hrs., Filosofía y letras, Sala A, UNAM
El Centro de Documentación y Difusión de Filosofía Crítica (CDyDFC) invita a:
Presentación de libro:
Utopía y la dialéctica en liberación latinoamericana
Presentan:
Eugene Gogol, Autor-editor
Orlando Lima Rocha, CELA-FFyL
Jorge Méndez, CDyDFC
May-June 2015 N&L available on the web
May 7, 2015The May-June 2015 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 60, #3, is available on the web.
View the issue online or as pdf.
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2015-2016: Decaying social order shows need for philosophy, revolution
The fact that the old, crumbling order will not go away quietly explains why we mark the 60 years of activity of the Marxist-Humanist organization News and Letters [=>]
Marxist-Humanist organization and philosophy
May 6, 2015Spelling out the philosophical breakthrough on Hegel’s Absolutes as the total uprooting of the old and the creation of new human relations, in concrete relationship to struggles for freedom in practice and in theory, is at the heart of projecting Marxist-Humanism, and therefore of its organizational life.
Greek masses in peril
The rulers’ economic squeeze on Greece is intended to be an ideological prison for the working masses of Europe. Left tendencies aim to use the state to save capitalism or move toward socialism—rather than releasing self-activity of masses in motion as the prime mover of social transformation.
Things fall apart
In the absence of successful social revolution, today’s total crisis is shown in a world capitalist order that is falling apart economically, politically, environmentally, and in thought. That does not mean that we can wait for capitalism to collapse and step aside for a new society. On the contrary. Its desperation makes it that much more vicious, and it threatens to doom all of humanity with it.
Decaying social order shows need for philosophy, revolution
Introduction; I. Black Lives Matter; II. Things fall apart (A. Arab Spring: Revolution and war; B. Economic weakness and shifts in global politics; C. Whiff of fascism); III. Greek masses in peril; IV. Marxist-Humanist organization and philosophy.
The fact that the old, crumbling order will not go away quietly explains why we mark the 60 years of activity of the Marxist-Humanist organization News and Letters Committees—not as an anniversary but as an open window onto the needed philosophy of revolution, without which all revolutions and freedom movements remain incomplete.
Chicago meeting: Decaying social order shows need for philosophy, revolution
May 3, 2015DATE: Monday, May 4, 2015
TIME: 6:30 PM
PLACE: 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
The Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2015-2016
Decaying social order shows need for philosophy, revolution
Protesters at national demonstration in St. Louis Oct. 11-12, 2014, against police killings. Actions were prompted by [=>]
The 1949-50 Miners’ General Strike and the birth of Marxist-Humanism
April 11, 2015Sunday, April 12, 6:30 p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz), Oakland
Join us for a discussion of “Miners inspired Marxist-Humanism,” Raya Dunayevskaya’s retrospective on the birth of Marxist-Humanism in the 1949-50 Miners’ General Strike. It is in the current March-April issue of News & Letters.
México DF: La Jornada Laboral de las Mujeres
April 10, 2015Domingo 19 de abril de 12:00 a 16:00 hrs.
Auditorio “17 de abril”, 3er piso del edificio de la CNTE
Belisario Dominguez no. 32 Centro Histórico. México DF.
metro Allende / metrobus Teatro Blanquita / metrobus Rep. de Chile
FORO LA JORNADA LABORAL DE LAS MUJERES
Experiencias desde abajo
Convocan:
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y PRAXIS en América Latina
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Chicago meeting: Preparation for revolution and 60 years of Marxist-Humanist organization
April 4, 2015Monday, April 6, 2015, 6:30 PM
News and Letters library, 228 S. Wabash #230
Chicago, IL 60604
The Chicago News and Letters Committee invites you to a public meeting taking up the Call for our 2015 national gathering. You can read the Call here.