Invitation to News and Letters Committees’ meeting (Zoom/in person) on ‘The Draft Marxist-Humanist Perspectives for 2026-27’. Monday, Sept. 28, 6:15 PM Central Time. Sulzer Regional Library, Study Room A, 4455 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625. Speaker: Buddy Bell. Contact us for Zoom link.
Meta agreed to pay $18 billion and to strengthen child safety in its products, and New York City announced a policy of AI restriction in public schools. These represent mass resistance to the attempts to control peopleâs thought. Parent, student and teacher groups have long been rebelling against the flaws in education itself. We can find ways to bring a philosophy of liberation into education.
Garifuna protesters camped out in front of the Honduran Supreme Court for several weeks to demand justice for activists facing charges for resisting a violent, illegal eviction in San Juan, Tela. This is due to the new Agro-industrial Development Law, which favors private interests at the expense of rural or urban communities, sparking Garifuna resistance.
Takes up: a report about disappearances and trafficking of Indigenous Individuals in Canada and the United States; the 2026 Abortion & Reproductive Justice Conference in Nairobi, Kenya; and the Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workersâ and Caregiversâ Rights’ annual march for migrant workersâ rights; and women workers at the Eiffel Tower in Paris went on strike against being told to stay out of sight because a group of visiting sexist monks requested it.
Takes up: a harsher anti-LGBTQ+ bill in Senegal; the celebration of Galway Pride in Ireland; the first Transgender and Non-binary Pride and History Month in Michigan; and responses to the new petty anti-LGBTQ+ Florida law outlawing rainbow crosswalks.
A doctor of maternal-fetal medicine describes the devastating impact that the repeal of women’s legal right to an abortion has had on doctors and women’s reproductive rights. He includes serious medical issues pregnant women and their doctors can face and provides information and motivation to continue the fight.
Buddy Bell traces the impact AI is having on workers and natural resources. The AI industryâs contradictions highlight the need to transform how technology is developed so that it will align with a philosophy of humanism.
Philosophy and Revolution book group, hybrid meeting in Chicago
Part 1 of the Draft Perspectives Thesis for 2026-27. A revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, âinsideâ and âoutside.â We ask you to join in the discussion of these Perspectives with us. Part 1 takes up the world situation.
Part 2 of the Draft Perspectives Thesis for 2026-27. A revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, âinsideâ and âoutside.â We ask you to join in the discussion of these Perspectives with us. Part 2 examines how the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this year serves as a battleground for todayâs counterrevolution vs. revolution.
Part 3 of the Draft Perspectives Thesis for 2026-27. A revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, âinsideâ and âoutside.â We ask you to join in the discussion of these Perspectives with us. Part 3 takes up the contradictions in the Left and the need for a philosophy of revolution and its organizational expression.
Philosophy and Revolution book group, hybrid meeting in Chicago
Cultural journalist Jane Borden explores what made authoritarian tendencies seen in Trumpism and January 6 possible in democratic America. Tracing U.S. authoritarianism back to Puritan culture, she shows how the âProtestant work ethicâ was a factor in the Puritans replacing communal values with capitalism. Borden is optimistic that we can understand cult-thinking and overcome its control.
Philosophy and Revolution book group, hybrid meeting in Chicago
The “cockroach” movement in India grew from educational reform to the demand to transform the country’s âdemocracy.â This new youth movement is fighting to make this a turning point, rather than allow the governmentâs concessions to disarm it.
Several hundred people gathered in Oakland on July 25 to protest ICE killings. The demonstration included an “ofrenda” to honor the 35 people who died in 2026 while in detention, shortly after release, or at the hands of ICE.
Takes up: Colombiaâs legislation against female genital mutilation; women protecting the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary in Nigeria; and England’s National Health Service inquiry into serious issues at the maternity departments of Nottingham University Hospitals.
This book by Sarah Ruden traces propaganda against reproductive rights through Western history. It shows that we can resist by exposing the history of these false claims and the damage they have caused.
The Trump Administration has taken more and more Native lands and favored âproduction-oriented livestockâ like cattle. To protect our rights and sovereignty, but most importantly, protect Mother Earth and all her animals from corporate greed, we must stop this while we still can.
Takes up: World Mental Health Awareness Month in Bermuda; Nova Scotians protest budget cuts affecting people living with disabilities; and UK Supreme Court allows removal of independent checks on the safety and appropriateness of care for vulnerable people.
This is the Call issued for a Convention of News and Letters Committees at a moment when the rulers are inflaming one crisis after another more recklessly and thoroughly than they have done since World War II.
Philosophy and Revolution book group, inaugural hybrid meeting in Chicago
Albaniaâs Flamingo Revolution started after news of a resort deal by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. The protests grew, opposing the Kushners, then the Albanian government and opposition party, revealing a hunger for new beginnings and self-determination.
A reading list that includes Bible stories will be required of five million Texas public school K-12 students beginning in 2030. Texas and other states are already well down the road of illegally forcing religion into public schools.
On June 12, Dr. Sullivan and Mrs. Richie Jean Jackson’s home–a key hub in planning the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March–formally opened at the Henry Ford Museumâs Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich.
We celebrate the life of Ron Kelch, a Marxist-Humanist and a revolutionary for nearly 60 years.
This book reveals how global societyâs failure to eradicate misogyny has allowed abuses and prejudices against women to be perpetuated through computer-based technology.
Demand the immediate release of Yaser Ahmadinejad, and an end to the persecution of Iranian labor activists and the release of all political prisoners in Iran.
Takes up: Afghan Women United recognized by FIFA as Afghanistanâs official national womenâs team; the life of Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French author, film director and actor; and a demonstration in Nairobi, Kenya, against inefficient investigations of femicides and child disappearances.
Takes up: middle school students protesting the ban of a symphony honoring the Stonewall Uprising; a protest in Australia against gender-affirming care restrictions; and a lawsuit in Botswana to make same-sex marriage legal.
This book cuts through myths about adoption as an alternative to abortion, revealing that while women are pressured to choose adoption, that choice often had a negative impact on their lives.
TraducciĂłn al español de Essay “Iranâa country of revolutionaries” by Terry Moon.
Recent elections in India have further consolidated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s drive to make India a nationalist state. The far-right Hindu nationalist group from which Modi emerged recently celebrated its centenary anniversary.
Takes up: The tenth anniversary of the French law abolishing prostitution; La Cité Audacieuse, a feminist space in Paris, France; and England and Wales decriminalizing abortion.
Filmmaker Hind Meddeb documents the 2019-2021 Sudanese Revolution, from the historic sit-in by youth demanding a civilian government and freedom, to the military coup. Learning from young revolutionaries around the world strengthens our fight at home.
AI is drastically changing education. Pausing its use and respecting educatorsâ experience with students is urgently needed. The April 21 resolution to implement major limits on educational technology in Los Angeles is an example of parents and educators working together for quality education.
The Supreme Court gutted the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. This dismantling of one of the most important Civil Rights Movement’s achievements exposes the anti-freedom nature and the virulent racism and sexism that pervade this society.
Report of the Million Women Rise and Together Alliance marches in London on March 7 and March 28. These demonstrations drew record numbers of people to protest increasing violence, misogyny, racism, and authoritarianism in the UK and worldwide.
Takes up: Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination demanding mobility rights in South Korea; Disability Inclusive Community Building helping people in Kakuma Refugee Camp, in Kenya; and Autism Awareness Month in Mississippi, Malasya and South Africa.
Takes up: a yearly 2.5% increase in self-harm cases among people aged 24 and under; proposed UK ban of pornography depicting incest where one person is pretending to be under 18; and the situation of pregnant women and girls in ICE custody.
As much of the Left debates how to achieve greater influence in the face of a rising tide of fascism, war, and reaction, this piece reflects on the fatal incompleteness of organization without the organization of thought. The Second Internationalâs detour in the development of revolutionary Marxism shows that it was Marxist organizationally but not philosophically.
‘Pluribus,’ a TV series by Vince Gilligan, presents his post-capitalist dream. Humanity is turned into a single consciousness, which reshapes the world. Both for the deep philosophical issues it tackles and for its artistic value, it is a show worth watching.
The ambition for an ethnonationalist âGreater Israelâ is being put into practice with devastating consequences. Events in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, within Israel itself and in the U.S. reveal where the world is heading if we donât stop the wars and retrogression.
‘Beyond Limits’ by M.D. Shelley Sella is a book informed by her experience as the first woman doctor in the U.S. openly providing third-trimester abortions. It includes testimonies of her patients and addresses frequently asked questions revealing the necessity of legalizing abortion at all stages of pregnancy.
Takes up: a legal ruling in the Philippines Supreme Court giving a measure of recognition to same-sex couples; the Dominican Republic decriminalizing same-sex relations; and students at University of California-Berkeley creating and editing Wikipedia pages to preserve LGBTQ+ history.
In-person reports of the March 28 No Kings demonstrations in Chicago, Evanston, the San Francisco Bay Area, Detroit and Washington, D.C. The events were held in 3,300 locations in the U.S., plus several more in other countries. Eight million people took part.
Reports on the No Kings march in Memphis on March 28, where police from four different agencies attacked the peaceful gathering.
Before Netanyahu and Trump launched their war against Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan began their own war. To understand this latest outbreak of death and destruction, an understanding of some of the complex history of Pakistan-Afghanistan relations is required.
Takes up: Paula Doress-Worters, a founder of the Boston Womenâs Health Book Collective, writing Our Bodies, Ourselves; far Right president JosĂ© Antonio Kast taking office in Chile; and International Women’s Day demonstrations in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
Appeal from Judith LeBlanc, of the Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund, to resist data centers, which threaten the environment and have harmful effects on communities, especially Black and Native.
