Sunday, March 29, 6:30 p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz), Oakland
Discussion of our Call to Plenum and the current March-April issue of News & Letters. Both are available at our website.
Author: Franklin Dmitryev
Cambios gigantes para Praxis en América Latina
March 20, 2015Praxis en América Latina está ahora un periódico imprimida así como digital. Puede ver Praxis #1 aquí.
Oakland meeting: The Syrian Revolution and its philosophy
March 14, 2015Sunday, March 15, 6:30 p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz), Oakland
We now have copies of the new March-April 2015 issue of News & Letters as well as the Call for the 2015 News and Letters Committees Plenum,which will be held over the Memorial Day weekend in Chicago. Both of these will be available at our [=>]
March-April 2015 N&L available on the web
March 12, 2015The March-April 2015 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 60, #2, is available on the web.
View the issue online or as pdf.
Lead: From Turkey to USA, women as force and reason fight inhumanity
Another savage sexual assault and murder—this time in Turkey—brought forth thousands of demonstrators, mostly women, throughout the country and beyond. Özgecan Aslan was a student taking a bus home. Worldwide, [=>]
Chicago meeting: From Turkey to USA, women as force & reason fight inhumanity
March 10, 2015Date: Monday, March 16, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM
Place: 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
For International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month
News and Letters Committees invites you to a meeting on:
From Turkey to USA, women as force & reason fight inhumanity
In Turkey, a savage sexual assault and murder on Feb. 11 [=>]
Ciudad México: Praxis en América Latina y el periodismo revolucionario
domingo, 15 de marzo 12.00 hrs.
Sección 9 CNTE
Belisario Domínguez 32
3 cuadras del metro Allende
Praxis en América Latina ha salido ya de la imprenta y está lista para ser distribuida, leída y discutida
¡Ven a celebrar con nosotros!
Los temas de la reunión:
- La importancia del periodismo revolucionario: Marx, Mariátegui, Dunayevskaya y México hoy
- ¿Cómo darle vida al primer número de Praxis [=>]
Readers’ Views, March-April 2015, Part 1
March 8, 2015Revolt and Counter-Revolution, from Greece to Syria; Here Come the Reformers; Women’s Freedom; Against Racism
60 Years of News & Letters (Readers’ Views, March-April 2015)
Readers’ Views on the 60th anniversary of News & Letters and Terry Moon’s column on it.
The todayness of Selma, USA, 1965
In acquainting readers with coverage of the forces of revolution in News & Letters over its first 60 years, we present “Continuing Magnolia Jungle terror exposes reality of ‘Great Society,’” written by Charles Denby in February 1965, in the midst of the bloody campaign for voter registration in Selma, Alabama.
Philosophic Dialogue: On the 1953 letters
In Hegel we witness subjectivity coming out of objectivity, and the opposite movement. Dunayevskaya’s May 20, 1953, Letter interprets the Hegelian dialectic in a revolutionary way. What philosophical-political conclusions can be made?
Maldives coup defied
A coup overthrew the Maldives’ first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, a long-time pro-democracy activist and an internationally recognized leader on climate issues.
Coal and Its People
March 7, 2015In acquainting readers with News & Letters over its first 60 years, we spotlight here the regular feature “Coal and its People” which featured the voices of coal miners, many from West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Detroiters fight to keep their houses
The number of Detroiters helping their neighbors resolve property tax foreclosure has grown by leaps and bounds as community groups all over the city host meetings on what can be done.
Greece: postmodernism in power
Yanis Varoufakis, the Finance Minister in Greece’s Syriza government, shows where postmodernist attacks on Marx lead politically, declaring that the task of today’s Left is to save capitalism from itself.
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Miners inspired Marxist-Humanism
From the News and Letters pamphlet The Coal Miners’ General Strike of 1949-50 and the Birth of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S. we excerpt from Raya Dunayevskaya’s “The Emergence of a New Movement from Practice that Is Itself a Form of Theory,” on miners’ contributions to the philosophic birth of Marxist-Humanism.
Solidarity with striking oil workers
The first national oil refinery strike since 1980 manifested safety-related demands by the workers and garnered much labor, community, and environmentalist support.
News and Letters Committees Call for Plenum 2015
March 3, 2015Official Call for national gathering of News and Letters Committees to work out Marxist-Humanist perspectives for 2015-2016
Ciudad México: Filosofía y Revolución en América Latina
February 19, 2015Los miércoles, 6 de la tarde
Belisario Domínguez 32, segundo piso
Centro Histórico, 3 cuadras del metro Allende
Círculo de reflexión y discusión
Filosofía y Revolución en América Latina
Temas principales
• La dialéctica en Hegel, en Marx y en los Zapatistas.
• La filosofía de Marx, de Dunayevskaya, de Mariátegui, de Revueltas
• Sujetos revolucionarios (proletariado, campesinado, indígenas, mujeres, juventud, afro-descendientes.)
• El significado [=>]
Chicago film screening: The Other America
February 18, 2015DATE/TIME: Monday, February 23, 2015, 6:30 PM
PLACE: News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
In celebration of Black History Month, News and Letters Committees invite you to see and discuss a film of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
The Other America
“The Other America” is a film of the talk that Martin Luther [=>]
Özgecan Aslan: Sexual assault and murder in Turkey spark widespread outrage, demonstrations
February 17, 2015Preview of article on women’s oppression and freedom struggles worldwide for March-April issue. Comment now so that your thoughts can be taken into account in the finished article.
Los Zapatistas y los padres y estudiantes de Ayotzinapa: Una unión decisiva
February 16, 2015Carta Politico-Filosofica, Num. 3 praxisamericalatina@gmail.com
Un nuevo momento en la dialéctica de la lucha
LOS ZAPATISTAS Y LOS PADRES Y ESTUDIANTES DE AYOTZINAPA: UNA UNIÓN DECISIVA
Eugene Gogol
Desde [=>]
Aceptando el desafío de este nuevo momento en México: De la represión a la resistencia a la rebelión
Carta Politico-Filosofica, Num. 2 praxisamericalatina@gmail.com
¿Que hacer? Una dialetica de la organizacion y la filosofia
ACEPTANDO EL DESAFÍO DE ESTE NUEVO MOMENTO EN MÉXICO:
DE LA REPRESIÓN A LA [=>]
Ciudad México: Filosofía y Revolución en América Latina, pensamientos y haceres para nuestro tiempo
Los viernes, 2 de la tarde, a partir del 20 de febrero
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UNAM, aula 120
Círculo de reflexión y discusión
Filosofía y Revolución en América Latina, pensamientos y haceres para nuestro tiempo.
Temas principales
• La dialéctica en Hegel, en Marx y en los Zapatistas.
• La filosofía de Marx, de Mariátegui, de Revueltas, de Marini, de [=>]
Ciudad México: Ayotzinapa y los zapatistas
Los jueves, 2 de la tarde
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UNAM,
aula 312
Círculo de estudio
Ayotzinapa y los zapatistas
“Tal vez no se los han dicho, pero han sido ustedes, los familiares y compañeros de los estudiantes muertos y desaparecidos quienes han conseguido, con la fuerza de su dolor, y de ese dolor convertido en rabia [=>]
Ciudad México: El feminismo y el marxismo en América Latina hoy
Los martes, 18:00 – 21:00
Belisario Domínguez 32, centro histórico, Ciudad México
4 cuadras de metro Allende
El feminismo y el marxismo en América Latina hoy
Un circulo de estudio con —
Praxis en América Latina
laboratorio-taller de humanismo-marxista, comunismo liberador, feminismo
• Vamos a leer y discutir algunos ensayos de Liberación femenina y dialéctica de la revolución por Raya Dunayevskaya.
• Vamos a explorar movimientos feministas e [=>]
Chicago meeting: Greece and Syriza: Against the inhumanity of austerity, we pose the fullness of human liberation!
February 5, 2015Monday, February 9, 2015, 6:30 PM
News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to a discussion on:
Greece and Syriza: Against the inhumanity of austerity, we pose the fullness of human liberation!
See our statement on the Greek elections.
Poets protest in Athens, Greece, against austerity in [=>]
On Greece and Syriza: Against the inhumanity of austerity, we pose the fullness of human liberation!
February 4, 2015The electoral victory of Greece’s Syriza represents resistance to brutal austerity. Alarms are raised by Syriza’s alliance with the racist, theocratic Independent Greeks party.
January-February 2015 N&L available on the web
February 3, 2015The January-February 2015 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 60, #1, is available on the web.
View the issue online or as pdf.
Lead: Revolt surges against racist system destroying Black lives
Protests erupted following the decision by a St. Louis County grand jury not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the cold-blooded murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Thousands marched under the [=>]
Read and write for News & Letters
January 31, 2015Read and write for News & Letters!
Handicap This! January-February 2015
January 30, 2015Missouri school district forced to return student’s cane; memorial for people with disabilities systematically murdered by Nazis; people with disabilities enslaved in South Korea’s salt fields.
What solitary means
Nothing can prepare you for entering the Security Housing Unit (SHU). It’s a world unto itself where cold, quiet and emptiness come together, seeping into your bones, then eventually the mind.
Readers’ Views, January-February 2015, Part 2
Dunayevskaya’s letters on Hegel’s Absolutes; Bhopal toxic disaster; Voices from behind the bars
Readers’ Views, January-February 2015, Part 1
From Ferguson to Staten Island; Revolutionary Rojava; Youth Protest; Violence Against Women; Detroit Solidarity; Paris March; Recalling Mary Jo
Enough is enough: This movement is about humanity
On Dec. 4 we marched all over Boston for Black Lives Matter and all traffic we passed was stopped. There was so much humanity that night.
Journey to Death’s door
January 29, 2015Stepping across the threshold of this particular Death’s door, I was greeted by the spectacle of ancient and sick prisoners in wheelchairs being rolled silently through the hallways, looking like so many ghosts in some haunted asylum.
Chicago teachers’ strike reviewed
Review of “Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity” by Micah Uetricht and “How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers” from Labor Notes.
Murderous King Coal on trial
Don Blankenship—owner of the Upper Big Branch Massey mine in West Virginia in 2010 when the mine exploded, killing 29 coal miners—was indicted. Nevertheless, the coal lobby still exerts considerable power in the state, and uses that power to support mountaintop mining and to thwart environmentally progressive programs that try to minimize the many dangerous aspects of coal mining.
Essay: ‘We all can’t breathe’–Reflections on Marx’s Humanism and Fanon
As a Black man, I asked myself: Why—through the dialectical crises of the social relations of production and the subsequent implosion of multiple outlived modes of production—has racism persisted? Why, despite the relations of property literally bursting asunder, does racism survive? How and why does racism, sexism, homophobia survive revolution after revolution? Will we again be left behind after the next revolution?
May 20, 1953, letter on Absolute Mind
January 28, 2015Raya Dunayevskaya’s May 20, 1953, letter is one of the historic-philosophic writings included in The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism.
Editorial: Never-ending U.S. wars
The formal end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan at the end of 2014 was just in time for post-war wars to begin in Afghanistan itself, as well as in Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Yemen.
Rage against lawless police murders
Participant reports from several Black Lives Matter protests in different cities.
Workshop Talks: CNA nurses strike to save lives
January 27, 20152,600 mental health clinicians in California carried out a week-long strike over Kaiser Permanente’s “failure to provide timely, adequate care to patients.”
New York: 1965-2015 Fifty Years of Struggle and Revolution: The Legacy of Malcolm X
January 14, 2015Saturday, February 7, 2:00 P.M.
Freedom Hall, 113 West 128th St., Harlem
Transportation: Take subways #2 or 3 to 125th St. station (Red Line)
New York local of News and Letters Committees presents a study group on the theme of:
1965-2015 Fifty Years of Struggle and Revolution:
The Legacy of Malcolm X
February 21 1965: Assassination of Malcolm X and the publication of [=>]
Chicago meeting: México in a new historic moment
January 6, 2015Monday, January 12, 2015
6:30 PM
228 S. Wabash Ave., Room 230, Chicago
News and Letters Committees invites you to an
IN-PERSON REPORT on
México in a new historic moment:
From the massive protests against the forced disappearance of 43 students from the rural normal school in Guerrero to the just completed Zapatista World Festival of Resistances and Rebellions against Capitalism
Eugene [=>]
Chicago meeting: From Ferguson to Staten Island: The logic of racism is genocide
December 10, 2014Monday, December 15, 2014
6:30 PM
News & Letters Library, 228 S. Wabash, Room 230, Chicago
Protests erupted in cities across the U.S. and around the world following the Nov. 25 decision of a St. Louis County grand jury not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the cold-blooded murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, [=>]
Oakland meeting: Anarchist/Marxist-Humanist dialog on the dialectic
December 5, 2014Sunday, December 7, 6:30 p.m.
Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz), Oakland
come up the back stairs
A point of intersection between thoughtful anarchism and anti-state Marxism is John P. Clark’s new book The Impossible Community, which comes out of the Social Ecology of Murray Bookchin. Bookchin’s ideas have been cited lately as one of the influences among Kurds of Turkey and [=>]
November-December 2014 N&L available on the web
December 3, 2014The November-December 2014 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 59, #6, is available on the web.
View the issue online or as pdf.
Lead: Racist election deepens reactionary direction of U.S.
The U.S. government took an ominous, reactionary political turn in the 2014 midterm elections, with Republicans taking control of the Senate. Multiple crises of impending war, ecological catastrophe, and a new global economic [=>]
Foro en Ciudad México: México en un nuevo momento histórico
December 2, 2014Domingo 7 de diciembre, 16:00 hrs.,
Belisario Domínguez 32, a 3 cuadras del metro Allende, Ciudad México
Foro de Praxis en América Latina
México en un nuevo momento histórico
La dialéctica de la lucha —
● Las palabras, la rabia, la rebeldía, la resistencia de las familias de los normalistas asesinados y desaparecidos
● Guerrero, un estado en rebelión
● [=>]
Essay: The Syrian Revolution and its philosophy
November 30, 2014The confrontation between differing classes and worldviews has been most intense in Syria, making it the test of world politics—and of philosophy and revolution. The Syrian Revolution has pushed thought about revolution to a new level.
New Spanish Translation of American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard
November 25, 2014Contradicciones históricas en la civilización de los Estados Unidos. Las masas afroamericanas como vanguardia: New Spanish Translation of American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard by Raya Dunayevskaya.