The November-December 2016 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 61, #6, is available on the web.
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Lead-Editorial: No to Trump’s counter-revolution! No to fascism! Fight for a new human society!
Trump’s electoral victory by appealing to racism and sexism menaces all freedom movements. It is the index of this system’s crisis and bankruptcy of thought, which needs [=>]
The November-December 2016 issue of News & Letters has been mailed out and can be viewed online in pdf form.
The Lead-Editorial of this new issue takes up the election results: “No to Trump’s counter-revolution! No to fascism! Fight for a new human society!” A second editorial on the struggle over the Dakota Access Pipeline is [=>]
Trump’s electoral victory by appealing to racism and sexism menaces all freedom movements. It is the index of this system’s crisis and bankruptcy of thought, which needs to be met with a truly revolutionary vision.
Participant report from Indigenous Peoples Day observation in Tucson, celebrating expanding human freedom rather than colonialism and imperialism.
Participant report of a cross-border protest at Nogales, Mexico, and Nogales, Arizona.
Teachers at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, with support from students and staff, won their strike against the University who locked them out after they refused to accept a bad contract.
As 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.
The September-October 2016 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 61, #5, is available on the web.
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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 [=>]
The 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.
The July-August 2016 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 61, #4, is available on the web.
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Lead article: Fires in Canada, drought in India inspire creative revolt
The wildfires sweeping Alberta’s tar sands region provide a window onto the state of the environment and the multidimensional worldwide struggle against pollution and [=>]
With 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.
We 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.”
The 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.
The May-June 2016 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 61, #3, is available on the web.
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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 [=>]
Participant report of Chicago May Day demonstration in solidarity with the Syrian Revolution.
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 [=>]
Thousands 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.
The 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…
The International Committee to Support Maâti Monjib and the Six Activists reports on upcoming trials, hunger strikes, and petitions.
An article by a formerly incarcerated person who gives a critical review of a conference on the criminal (in)justice system that leaves out the heart of the issue because it leaves out those most impacted by incarceration.
Russian 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.
A Yemeni doctor in Taiz tells of a little girl who has lost her limbs in the war and others he has treated, revealing a stark picture of the physical and mental toll of this war on civilians.
Official Call for national gathering of News and Letters Committees to work out Marxist-Humanist perspectives for 2016-2017
New! 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 [=>]
The 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…
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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.
Paris 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.
We 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.
Economic 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.
The 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…
The 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 [=>]
Updated: 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.
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.
The September-October 2015 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 60, #5, is available on the web.
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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 [=>]
Today, September 1, 2015, the prisoners suing the State of California and its prison system announced a settlement, in which the State agreed to abolish its practice of sending people to solitary confinement for an indeterminate term based on the person’s “validation” as supposed gang member.
Photo by Urszula Wislanka.
Photo by Urszula Wislanka.
At the [=>]
Número 3 (digital)
El número incluye, entre otros textos:
El articulo principal “San Quintín, un nuevo momento político-filosófico”
Sección especial: el foro de Praxis; El pensamiento crítico frente a la hidra del capitalismo en México hoy.
Artículos sobre jóvenes y de una maestra de Querétaro.
Un artículo de una mujer indígena en San Cristóbal, Chiapas
The July-August 2015 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 60, #4, is available on the web.
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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 [=>]
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.
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/.
Mohammed Al-Waleedi was killed by Houthi militants on the street in Taiz, Yemen, on June 26. This coldblooded senseless murder was met with a wide public outcry.
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 this website.
Under the control of religious armed militias, Yemenis live a humiliating life and die in insulting ways! Now death is the closest thing to Yemenis, whereas our dreams have become impossible.
Two articles from Yemeni citizens, speaking in the midst of war about their experiences with food, water and gas shortages, and of being shelled while trying to flee and seeing relatives and others killed in front of their eyes.
In-person report: Everything in Yemen is being destroyed horribly: humans, the fabric of society, national unity, the infrastructure, including public services systems.
Another 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.
The May-June 2015 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 60, #3, is available on the web.
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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 [=>]
On April 28, hundreds gathered outside Chicago Police Department headquarters, at 35th and Michigan, to show love and respect for Rekia Boyd, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, and all the others whose Black lives matter. The crowd was largely young and multicultural. What is the truth about Freddie Gray’s death? The truth is that he was murdered by the notoriously racist and brutal Baltimore Police. Baltimore has exploded in anger because of the attempt to obscure this obvious fact, to pretend that the basic life experience of Black people over the last five decades, if not the entirety of U.S. history, can be dissolved into a social mystery. This generation serves notice: that shell game is over.
Praxis en América Latina está ahora un periódico imprimida así como digital. Puede ver Praxis #1 aquí.
The March-April 2015 issue of News & Letters, Vol. 60, #2, is available on the web.
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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, [=>]