Essay: Dunayevskaya’s place in the history of the Left

November 9, 2010

From the Nov.-Dec. 2010 issue of News & Letters:

Essay:  Dunayevskaya’s place in the history of the Left
by Kevin Michaels

Raya Dunayevskaya deserves a prominent place in the historical self-understanding of the U.S. Left. She was acknowledged in her lifetime not only as a leader in theory by working-class militants like Charles Denby, author of Indignant Heart: A [=>]

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Nov.-Dec. 2010 issue of News & Letters is online

November 5, 2010

The Nov-Dec 2010 issue of News & Letters is now available online.
http://sr3.supportedns.com/~rayaduna/newsandletters/issues/2010/Nov-Dec/index.asp

Lead: Campaigns intensify counter-revolutionary onslaught
http://sr3.supportedns.com/~rayaduna/newsandletters/issues/2010/Nov-Dec/leadNovDec_10.asp

Editorial: End Afghan war!
http://sr3.supportedns.com/~rayaduna/newsandletters/issues/2010/Nov-Dec/editorialNovDec_10.asp

From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Dialectics of revolution: American roots and world Humanist concepts, Part II
http://sr3.supportedns.com/~rayaduna/newsandletters/issues/2010/Nov-Dec/ftaNovDec_10.asp

Essay: Dunayevskaya’s place in the history of the Left
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Woman as Reason: Congo, capitalism and rape
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French workers vs. state and union leaders
http://sr3.supportedns.com/~rayaduna/newsandletters/issues/2010/Nov-Dec/FranceNovDec_10.asp

Chilean [=>]

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Dunayevskaya’s thought alive in Latin America

September 21, 2010

Dunayevskaya’s thought alive in Latin America
Feminist meets Raya

Several months ago I had the good fortune to “meet” Raya Dunayevskaya, read and study her and familiarize myself with her thought, which to me is valid and contemporary. This brought on a self-introspection, as someone coming from the women’s liberation movement. If someone were to say that [=>]

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Dialectics of revolution: American roots and world Humanist concepts

September 18, 2010

From the new September-October 2010 issue of News & Letters:

From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
Dialectics of revolution: American roots and world Humanist concepts

Editor’s note: For the centenary of Raya Dunayevskaya’s birth, we present excerpts from her March 21, 1985, lecture at the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, at the opening [=>]

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Recollections of Leon Trotsky on the 70th anniversary of his assassination

August 20, 2010

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Tomorrow will be the 70th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky, one of the most important leaders of the Russian Revolution, by an agent of Stalin. For this occasion, News & Letters reprinted Raya Dunayevskaya’s “Some Memories of Trotsky,” written in 1965, in the July-August 2010 issue.

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‘A great gift’: Margaret Randall on the Centenary of Raya Dunayevskaya

August 14, 2010

‘A great gift’

Dear News & Letters:

Revolutionaries and activists for social change at the end of the twentieth century desperately needed a mind that would extend Marx’s concepts, making them more pertinent to the struggles we were waging then. We found such a mind in Raya Dunayevskaya. She combined experience with analysis. Her development of Marxist-Humanism [=>]

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