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.
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The war on Iran and beyond: Trump drives for a new fascist world order
March 8, 2026The war on Iran and the Venezuela coup are part of Trumpâs attempt to reorganize the world order and grasp for absolute power. In countering this tumble toward world war, can we build a movement that is not only against Trump and capitalism, but keeps developing the fullness of what we are for?
đ Eyes on Education: Back to school
October 5, 2025A view of the educational situation in several states of the U.S., from budget cuts and ideological repression to language discrimination and the introduction of AI in classrooms.
Young Voices from the Second Peopleâs Conference for Palestine
September 28, 2025A collection of participants’ voices in the the second annual Peopleâs Conference for Palestine, which took place in Detroit August 29-31.
Columbia University settles with fascism
August 3, 2025Columbia University acquiesced to the Trump administration which restores their federal funding and grant money but agreed to punish students exercising their free speech against the genocide in Gaza. In addition, Columbia will have to pay $221 million to the federal government. This “is a disaster for higher education,” says Todd Wolfson, National President of the American Association of University Presidents.
Harvard 1, Trump 0âbut itâs not over
April 21, 2025Harvardâs rejection of Trump administration demands has become a focus for resistance. However, the silence on Israelâs genocide in Gaza reveals an anti-Palestinian bias at Harvard despite a strong presence of Jewish students and faculty who reject equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
World in View: The weaponization of anti-Semitism
March 30, 2025Anti-Semitism is being fomented by Trumpism and extreme right-wing parties in Europe. At the same time they attack Palestine solidarity as “anti-Semitic.” Its weaponization endangers Jews, for it obscures the line between false anti-Semitism, and the very real anti-Semitism that exists today and that must be fought.
Destroy Columbia University? Because they can
March 14, 2025On March 7, a task force created by Trumpâs executive order cut $400 million in grants from Columbia University, accussing it of continued failure to protect Jewish students âfrom antisemitic harassmentâ, and of denying them learning opportunities. This is part of an ongoing repression since last springâs campus protests against Israel war on Gaza.
Editorial: Who can stop Israelâs war crimes?
November 22, 2024Who can stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians? Israelâs citizens need to confront their own rulers for this cycle of madness to end. Those in the U.S. also bear a heavy responsibility, and must pressure the government to stop arming Israel’s genocide.
The importance of Palestinian history
November 15, 2024Dr. Alice Rothchild, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist, received the National Arab-American Museum annual book award for ‘Old Enough to Know’, in which recent immigrant Palestinian children who have been bullied in school, learn the history of Palestine through their grandmotherâs stories.
Israeli soccer fans out of control
November 10, 2024On Nov. 7, Israeli soccer fans were attacked in the streets of Amsterdam, bringing harsh memories to the Jewish community. However, news coverage barely touched on the Israelis’ provocations that led up to the attacks.
Lead article: A new generation of radicals against genocide
July 22, 2024Students have poured into protests and encampments because they see a genocide taking place in Palestine. They have shown how intimately their universities are embedded in the military-industrial complex that is arming Israelâs genocidal attack. This movement must be defended, supported and encouraged to develop.
ÂĄFin a la guerra de Israel contra la poblaciĂłn palestina!
May 19, 2024La guerra de Israel contra las masas en Gaza alcanzĂł proporciones genocidas. ÂżCuĂĄndo podrĂĄn los palestinos regresar a los lugares donde vivieron y podrĂĄn reconstruir? Su autodeterminaciĂłn debe comenzar con sus ideas y aspiraciones.
Columbia meets encampments with force
May 9, 2024A participant in the 1968 antiwar student occupation at Columbia University draws parallels to students there protesting genocide now. In both cases, administrators lacking reasoned arguments ordered police assaults that failed to quiet protests and spurred actions on campuses across the U.S. and internationally.
Students against genocide speak for themselves
Interviews with several students from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., about the protest encampment there against the genocide in Gaza.
Editorial: End Israel’s war against Palestinian masses!
March 11, 2024Israelâs war against the masses in Gaza reached genocidal proportions. When will Palestinians be able to return to the places where they lived, and will they be able to rebuild? Self-determination must begin with their ideas and aspirations.
Universities under far-right attack
January 26, 2024The âresignationsâ of presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard revealed the philosophical failings in academia, which is under attack by the far right for not suppressing criticism of Israel. Why didnât academia know how to respond to the events in Israel/Palestine?
Farsi translation of âIsraelâs war and Hamas attack stoke retrogressionâ
December 28, 2023Many thanks to the translator and publisher of the Farsi translation of our âIsraelâs war and Hamas attack stoke retrogressionâ!
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Discussion article: Netanyahu’s war against Gaza
December 21, 2023Luis M. Saenz writing in ‘Trasversales’ argues this is not a war between Israel and Hamas, but a brutal operation by the Netanyahu government against the population of Gaza. Any vision leaving no Palestinians, or no Israelis, in historical Palestine is reactionary. Solidarity with the Palestinian populationâwhich is not solidarity with Hamasâis a duty.
La guerra de Israel y el ataque de HamĂĄs avivan el retroceso
December 7, 2023La guerra genocida de Israel sobre Gaza, asĂ como los atroces ataques de HamĂĄs que la provocaron, estĂĄn llevando al mundo en una direcciĂłn reaccionaria y exponiendo la inhumanidad de los poderes dominantes, asĂ como el retroceso de buena parte de la izquierda (TraducciĂłn al español del artĂculo “Israelâs war and Hamas attack stoke retrogression”).
Israelâs war and Hamas attack stoke retrogression
November 29, 2023Israelâs genocidal war on Gaza, and the horrendous Hamas attacks that sparked it, are driving the world in a reactionary direction and exposing the inhumanity of the ruling powersâas well as the retrogression of much of the Left.
From the Archives: Terrorism Is Not Revolution
The way some of the Left glorified the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of mainly civilians by Hamas calls for a deeper examination of the contradictions and retrogression underlying that type of pseudo-revolutionism.
Palestinians and Jews look for solutions together
November 23, 2023Susan Van Gelder reports on two meetings in Michigan supporting both Jewish and Palestinian people affected by the Israel-Hamas war in the West Bank.
Palestinians silenced
June 9, 2023Early this spring, Palestinian-American attorney and activist Huwaida Arraf was invited to speak at Bloomfield Hills Senior High School. The debate among Jewish, Arab and Muslim community members over whether her talk was anti-Semitic and anti-Israel continues to intensify.
Woman as Reason: Save democracy, save abortion
June 3, 2023Republicans have to destroy democracy if they want to rule because a robust majority of the U.S. population supports legal, safe, accessible abortion; are for gay rights and donât despise Trans people. So how do you trash their rights? You do it by destroying a government by the people and for the people. Let us count the ways.
Leading Canadians off the cliff
November 11, 2022Canadaâs Conservative Party and Alberta provinceâs United Conservative Party have both chosen racist, anti-immigrant leaders, moving Canada to the Right.
The French election
May 20, 2022On April 24, Emmanuel Macron won a second five-year term as president of France. The rise of right-wing politicians posing as populists is a worldwide phenomenon aided by the neoliberal economic policies of centrist candidates such as Macron and Joe Biden
Solidarity with Palestinians needed as state powers scheme
July 1, 2021The brief, dirty war that broke out May 10-21 between the Israeli government and Hamas, the Islamist group ruling Gaza had many reactionary consequences.
Trump’s election obsession shreds a flawed democracy
January 11, 2021Amid COVID-19 deaths and economic decline, a fascist mob stormed the Capitol. If U.S. democracy lives to see another day, it was because of the unprecedented turnout of Black voters, reflecting the mass movement on the streets that continues to put that democracy on trial.
Womenâs movements reach for new global stage
March 6, 2020What has become clear in 2020 is the global nature of the womenâs movements. It is a new stage which has announced itself by the international fight against femicide; the Womenâs Marches; and by the National Womenâs Meetings in Latin America, also called Encuentros.
Readers’ Views, January-February 2020, Part Two
January 22, 2020Readersâ Views on Philosophy and Revolution; disorder is the order; anti-Semitism; Black August, and voices from behind bars.
Readersâ Views: March-April 2019, Part 1
March 11, 2019Readers’ Views on: workers strike back, genocide and Facebook, Mauritius victory, Syrian Revolution under fire, “55 Steps,” debating yellow vests, women’s struggles, and why read News & Letters.
Women bearing the brunt of reaction lead the resistance
March 6, 2019In a year marked by the contradiction between deepening womenâs revolt and activism and neo-fascism rising across the globe, women have been fighting back in unprecedented numbers and ways.
Readers’ Views: January-February 2019, Part 1
February 3, 2019Readers’ Views addressing: challenging fascism across all borders; charter teachers strike; pitfalls of bourgeois politics; women on the march; prison strikes big and small; and the racist criminal injustice system.
World in View: French âYellow Vestsâ
January 28, 2019The uprising of the gilets jaunes (Yellow Vests) against French President Emmanuel Macron embodies the unity and brutal disunity of our time.
Detroit women rally to fight for our freedom
January 23, 2019Participant report of how women in Detroit celebrated the Women’s March by highlighting diverse women fighting for fundamental changes and challenging racism, sexism, and capitalism.
Woman as Reason: Anti-Semitism mars Womenâs March
January 21, 2019Woman as Reason columnist Terry Moon discusses the anti-Semitism among the leadership of the Women’s March, attacking the excuse they have given, and what it means to abandon the principles of women’s liberation.
Readers’ Views, November-December 2018
December 14, 2018Readers’ Views on: Capitalism vs. the Planet; Anti-Semitism’s Inhumanity; Kavanaugh Travesty; Youth Rock!; Freedom Movements vs. Fascism across the Globe; Catholic Church Crisis; Voices from behind Bars
Editorial: Massacre of Jews and rising racism
December 3, 2018The Oct. 27 massacre of 11 Jewish congregants at Pittsburghâs Tree of Life synagogue is the single deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. The motive, as stated by the terrorist himself, was a hatred of Jewish support for Middle Eastern and Latin American immigrants through the organization HIAS.
Election deepens illegitimacy of Trumpâs minority rule
A Marxist-Humanist view of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections that highlights the illegitimacy of Trump’s rule, showing how it is the rule of a minority won because of anti-democratic voter suppression, gerrymandering, racism, sexism, extreme anti-immigration rhetoric, hate speech and lies. It highlights the other America that opposes such neo-fascism.
Massacre of Jews measures the inhumanity of capitalism
October 29, 2018The Oct. 27 massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue was a modern pogrom, with assault weapons, social media presence, and poisoned roots in the current stage of world counter-revolution represented by Trump, Putin, and their like.
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Religion, racism and capitalist crisis
October 4, 2018With hate crimes, anti-Semitism, racism and anti-immigrant xenophobia on the rise, Israelâs âJewish nation-stateâ law and fascism brewing globally, we excerpt two pieces addressing roots of these phenomena in capitalismâs crises.
Editorial: Catholic Church’s sins laid bare
September 17, 2018Editorial that takes up the evil that the Catholic Church has imposed on children and women; how movements from below, especially by women, have challenged it; and how future church crimes will be revealed, signaling the beginning of the end of the Catholic Church.
World In View: Moishe Postone, 1942-2018
May 9, 2018In Memoriam for Moishe Postone whose critique of anti-Semitism as a fetishized form of anticapitalism came alive for those struggling with the betrayal of the Syrian Revolution by many “Leftists.”
Rising U.S. racism challenges all freedom movements
September 2, 2017A Marxist-Humanist analysis of the history and meaning of the rising of the right-wing neo-Nazi white supremacist movement, its relationship to President Donald Trump and his administration, and its challenge to the freedom forces arrayed against it who are fighting for a humanist world. .
Fascism rising from Russia to India, from the U.S. to the Philippines
September 7, 2016An 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 in India, the Philippines, China, Japan and the opposition by rulers worldwide to those fighting for a free existence and new human relations.
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.
Youth in Action, September-October 2015
September 6, 2015A roundup of youth activism worldwide including hunger striking students at Tufts Univ., students at Rio Grand High School protesting standardized tests, students in Puerto Rico marching against the government cutting education, and more.
Revolt surges against racist system destroying Black lives
January 27, 2015Protests 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 slogan âBlack Lives Matter!â These demonstrations grew in the wake of the equally outrageous decision of a Staten Island grand jury not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo for the murder of Eric Garner.
New publications of Marxist classics
March 8, 2013A new South Asian edition of Marxism and Freedom, from 1776 until Today by Raya Dunayevskaya has been published in India.
South Asian readers can order it from Aakar Books, http://aakarbooks. com/, 28-E, Pocket-IV, Mayur Vihar Phase-I, Delhi-110 091, India. Phone: 91-11-2279-5505. Telefax: 91-11-2279- 5641. Email:aakarbooks@gmail.com.
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