Nuevo número de Praxis en América Latina (febrero-marzo 2020)

February 11, 2020

Los diálogos revolucionarios de los zapatistas y el CNI: ¿Cuál es el desafío para nosotr@s? * Voces del Foro en Defensa del Territorio y la Madre Tierra * ENSAYO: El Foro en Defensa de la Madre Tierra, la unidad de las luchas desde una perspectiva dialéctica y ¿qué sigue ahora? * Crónicas de dos asistentes al Segundo Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres que Luchan * De los escritos de Raya Dunayevskaya: Notas preliminares sobre la Ciencia de la lógica de Hegel * Además, textos sobre los megaincendios en Australia; la huelga en las maquilas de Chihuahua, Durango y Zacatecas; la rebelión continua en Hong Kong y varios más…

January-February 2020 issue of News & Letters is online

January 30, 2020

A changed world spurs wars and decimates the earth: • Lead: Australia’s megafires lay bare capitalism’s climate death march, • Editorial: The death of counter-revolutionary Qassem Soleimani; World in View: Revolution and genocide in Idlib, Syria; From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Crises of retrogressive Changed World; Voices from the inside out: A ‘free world’ view; Rebellion in Hong Kong spreads; Woman as Reason: Anti-femicide goes global; Google and Amazon workers rebel; Essay: Revolution in Permanence, Trotsky, Marx, Dunayevskaya; The fall of Evo Morales; Whither Bolivia?; Mass protests challenge India’s Modi; World in View: Reactionary Brexit; more…

Wuhan and the specter of pandemic

January 27, 2020

The spread of the coronavirus cannot be viewed in isolation from the corruption of China’s state-capitalism and the danger the virus poses especially to the poor, homeless and refugees.

Voices from the inside out: Impeachment reveals flaws of democracy

January 22, 2020

Prisoner Robert Taliaferro reflects critically on the myth of democracy in the U.S., revealed by Trump’s impeachment.

Queer notes, January-February 2020

The death of Charlot Jeudy, president of Haiti Queer rights group Kouraj; anti-LGBTQ+ norms in Turkey; anti-Trans laws in India; and the largest-ever art exhibit about Southeast Asian LGBTQ+ people in Bangkok.

The fall of Morales; whither Bolivia?

Important human forces in Bolivia are strongly opposing the threat of a developing fascism, and at the same time have not shied away from criticizing the contradictions of Evo Morales’s rule.

Readers’ Views, January-February 2020, Part Two

Readers’ Views on Philosophy and Revolution; disorder is the order; anti-Semitism; Black August, and voices from behind bars.

Readers’ Views: January-February 2020, Part One

Readers’ Views on Capitalism and climate; Mideast upheaval; Trump the Mullah?; war crime hero; Trump’s judges; detransition debate; and women’s liberation.

Handicap this!: January-February 2020

Handicap This! takes up: Mistreatment of disabled patients at Iowa’s Glenwood Resource Center; Venezuela’s ongoing economic collapse hitting the sick and disabled; the Accessible Materials in Higher Education Act; and the removal of a mural depicting struggles for rights at the University of Chicago.

Essay: Revolution in Permanence: Trotsky, Marx, Dunayevskaya

Review from Mexico of the book ‘La filosofía de la revolución en permanencia de Marx en nuestros días’ (Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day. Selected Writings by Raya Dunayevskaya).

From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Crises of retrogressive Changed World

Raya Dunayevskaya explores the concept of the “Changed World’ of the 1980s, which followed the economic crisis and the restructuring that capitalist rulers imposed, with political retrogression, intensified militaristic imperialism, and ideological pollution.

Art out of genocide

January 21, 2020

Review of the multimedia exhibit: “Stories Never Told: Yemen’s Crises and Renaissance,” in which Yemeni artists and hundreds of others spoke truth to power through their art.

Honda workers sit in

Report on the strike by Honda workers in Faridabad, India, in opposition to the company’s demand for signing a good conduct bond before entering the factory.

CTU’s partial victory

Report on the partial victory of the Chicago Teachers Union’s 11-day strike in mid-November.

Right’s war on voters

Republican state officials around the country are enacting policies to depress the vote of poor people, students, and people of color to extend their minority control of state and federal government.

Google and Amazon workers rebel

Google and Amazon tech workers organize around the companies’ complicity in war, environmental destruction, and workplace safety.

Women Worldwide, January-February 2020

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in France; ecofeminists in Uganda; and protests against the gang-rape of a 19-year-old British girl in Cyprus.

Review: ‘Without Apology’

Review of ‘Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now’, on the history of the women’s liberation movement’s struggle for full reproductive justice.

Woman as Reason: Anti-femicide goes global

Women are deepening a global movement to combat violence against us, from violent rapes to domestic battering to outright femicide. Demonstrations have spread across the globe.

World in View: Putin after Putin?

Russian President Vladimir Putin is laying the groundwork for his own continued hold on state power.

World in View: Reactionary Brexit

The Dec. 12 general elections in Britain were a victory for world reaction, reinforcing the racist 2016 vote to leave the European Union.

World in View: Mass protest challenges India’s Modi

Massive protests in India met the Citizenship Amendment Act, which introduces religious qualifications for immigrants to become citizens and excludes Muslims.

Canada after the 2019 election

Canada’s federal election showed class issues had come to the fore.

Youth in Action, January-February 2020

The students’ strike at Syracuse University; the attacks of pro-Iran militias against demonstrations in Nasiriya, Iran, and the U.S. Youth Climate Strike.

Free Sitawa Jamaa

It is more important than ever to free Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, one of the four main representatives in the historic 2011-13 hunger strikes initiated in Pelican Bay prison’s Security Housing Unit, after his stroke.

World in View: Revolution and genocide in Idlib, Syria

If there are any two realities that absolutely compel human solidarity, it is the two that are manifest in Syria today—revolution, the human struggle for freedom against oppression—and genocide, the absolute negation of humanity.

Editorial: The death of counter-revolutionary Qassem Soleimani

The death of counter-revolutionary Qassem Soleimani, together with Donald Trump’s war moves, illuminate this changed world.

Voices from the inside out: A ‘free world’ view

Former prisoner Faruq writes of how in prison he “figured out how to become truly myself” and how that is manifested while on parole.

Rebellion in Hong Kong spreads

New Year’s Day, a million people took to the streets in Hong Kong despite police repression. Marchers called for Hong Kong to “resist tyranny, join a union.”

Australia’s megafires lay bare capitalism’s climate death march

Australia’s megafires show that the climate crisis is upon us and powerful people are forcing humanity into a death march toward climate catastrophe–in sharp contrast to the passion and urgency of the youth climate strikes that have spread across the globe.

Editorial: The death of counter-revolutionary Soleimani

January 5, 2020

An Editorial in News & Letters taking up who General Qassem Soleimani was, what he did in aiding counter-revolution in the Middle East, and ramifications of his death.

Reseña: La revolución en permanencia

Reseña publicada en La Jornada Semanal del libro La filosofía de la revolución en permanencia de Marx en nuestros días, Escritos selectos de Raya Dunayevskaya.

Voices from Chicago climate strike–December 2019

January 2, 2020

News & Letters interviews some of the Global Climate Strike participants.

Healthcare workers strike!

December 31, 2019

On Dec. 16, 4,000 mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente HMO in Oakland went on a five-day strike, calling attention to a serious lack of resources to provide timely care.

Nuevo número de Praxis en América Latina (diciembre 2019-enero 2020)

December 12, 2019

Con artículos sobre a) las rebeliones continuas en América Latina; b) el Segundo Encuentro zapatista de Mujeres que Luchan;
c) editorial: Bolivia bajo la extrema derecha, y d) una sección especial sobre mujeres.

Chicago climate strike confronts the specter of climate chaos

December 11, 2019

Participant report of the Dec. 6, 2019, climate strike in Chicago, part of global climate strike.

Bolivia’s extreme right consolidates power

December 3, 2019

Important human forces in Bolivia are strongly opposing the threat of a developing fascism, and at the same time have not shied away from criticizing the contradictions of Evo Morales’s rule.

L.A. students march for DACA

December 1, 2019

Participant report on the Nov. 12 students’ march protesting Trump’s repeal of DACA, which allowed undocumented migrants brought to this country as children the human right to work, to go to school and to live free of deportation.

November-December 2019 issue is online

November 18, 2019

Lead article: GM strikers fight capital’s drive to impoverish workers; Editorial: The Arab Spring is ongoing; From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya–Urgently needed in a time of political crisis: Philosophy and revolution as process; Essay: Black August, from 1971 to 2011-13; Voices from the inside out: Generations in jail; Kurds in U.S protest Trump’s betrayal; Voices of young and old from the Global Climate Strike; L.A. plans gains for rideshare drivers; World in View: Ecuadorians resist austerity, repression; Sexism, racism and incarceration in Brazil; Frightening refineries; Greta Thunberg: No One Is Too Small; More…

Greta Thunberg: No One Is Too Small

November 17, 2019

A review of the book “No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference” by Greta Thunberg. .

Rebuilding our lives

A report on meeting on a re-entry program for women rebuilding their lives after prison.

Save the rainforest!

Participant report on a California protest against the burning of the Amazon rainforest and the Brazilian government’s negligence.

A different me from 20 years ago

A prisoner thinks through how she will approach life after prison.

‘For Sama’: video as Syrian revolt

A report on a speech by documentary filmmaker Joshka Wessels, who talks about the book “Documenting Syria”.

Queer Notes, November-December 2019

Stabbing of a Palestinian Transgender teenager; vandalization of the Women and Children First bookstore in Chicago; a Shoreline, Wash. Christian school’s new policy stating the Bible is inerrant, and rainbow crosswalks in Ames, Iowa.

Frightening refineries

Dangers of refineries to nearby inhabited areas. .

Handicap this, November-December 2019

Domino’s Pizza inaccessible website; disability rights advocate Marca Bristo dies; Orange County, California, residential care homes owing over $1 million in back wages, and British rock climber Jesse Dufton leading the ascent of the Old Man of Hoy.

The 5th anniversary of Ayotzinapa

In the 5th anniversary of the forced disappearance of 43 students in Mexico. Can the fight against the “corruption” of the new administration change anything fundamental?

Letter from Mexico: Women fight violence

Women who demonstrated against the escalating gender violence in Mexico City are aiming for a society where being a woman would no longer mean being an object.

CTU teachers strike!

Chicago teachers went on strike to end their terrible working conditions.

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