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May-June 2013 issue of News & Letters is out
The new May-June 2013 issue of News & Letters is available on the web: News & Letters, Vol. 58, No. 3 May – June 2013 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Idea, Arab spring, Boston Marathon bombing, Canada, capitalism, Chinua Achebe, Chokri Belaid, City College of San Francisco, climate change, counter-revolution, criminal injustice system, Detroit, disability rights, Egypt, feminism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, global warming, Good News Club, healthcare, Hugo Chavez, labor, Margaret Thatcher, Memphis, Middle East, Newark, News and Letters Committees, Nicolas Maduro, nuclear war, Police brutality, Portsmouth, prison industrial complex, prisoners, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution, sexism, Solitary confinement, students, Syria, Tahrir Squares, Trade Fair, Tunisia, Venezuela, Violence against women, women's liberation, workers, youth
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Save City College of San Francisco!
From the new March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters: Save City College of San Francisco! San Francisco–What is happening at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) is something even the most avid conspiracy theorist would find hard to imagine. … Continue reading
Teachers and allies fight restructuring
From the January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: Teachers and allies fight restructuring Lake County, Ill.—Recently, teachers in my district received a warning that the district would be undergoing “restructuring” for the 2013-14 school year. When the superintendent visited … Continue reading
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Tagged education, labor unions, Lake County Illinois, schools, students, teachers, workers
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Teachers and parents talk education
From the new January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: Teachers and parents talk education Editor’s note: Below we print excerpts from the News and Letters Committees panel discussion of teachers and education activists on the September strike by members … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSCME, Al Gore, charter schools, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago teachers strike, Chicago Teachers Union, education, Jimmy Carter, Karen Lewis, labor unions, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy the Southside, Occupy Wall Street, parents, Rahm Emanuel, Ronald Reagan, structural economic crisis of capitalism, students, workers
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Undoing Michigan election
From the new January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: Editorial Undoing Michigan election With lightning swiftness a super-majority of Michigan lame-duck Republicans passed a series of oppressive bills at the end of December. Defying voters’ expressed views, they passed … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Educational Achievement Authority, elections, Elena Herrada, emergency manager, far right, feminism, labor, Michigan, patriarchy, Public Act 4, Reproductive rights, Republicans, Rick Snyder, Right-to-work law, schools, sexism, students, teachers, theocratic right, UAW, United Auto Workers, women's liberation
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January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters is now online
News & Letters, Vol. 58, No. 1 January – February 2013 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead Uprisings in Egypt and Syria confront counter-revolution Slightly over two years since the beginning of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolitionist movement, American Civilization on Trial, Andrew Johnson, anti-abortion, Arab spring, Black masses as vanguard, Crossroads of History, dialectics, education, Egypt, Emancipation Proclamation, emergency manager, feminism, Hannibal Hamlin, Hussein Nagi Felhi, India, labor, Lincoln, Michigan, Middle East revolutions, Mohamed Morsi, Mohammed Bouazizi, Muhallah al-Kubra, Muslim Brotherhood, Rape, Raya Dunayevskaya, Reproductive rights, right to work laws, students, Syria, Tahrir Square, teachers, Wendell Phillips, women's liberation movement, workers
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Shifang protest
From the September-October 2012 issue of News & Letters: Shifang protest Chinese officials in Sichuan province bowed quickly to mass protests and withdrew plans on July 3 for construction of a $1.6 billion molybdenum copper processing plant in Shifang town. … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, China, Chinese Communist Party, environment, environmental justice, labor, repression, Shifang, Sichuan, students, workers, Wukan, youth
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Readers’ Views, July-August 2012, Part 2
From the July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views, July-August 2012, Part 2 RICH AND DUNAYEVSKAYA: A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP Thanks for your In Memoriam to Adrienne Rich. It revealed a dimension that many who were appreciative of her poetry and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne Rich, automation, California Governor Jerry Brown, capitalism, Captive Genders, criminal injustice system, education, feminism, ILWU, immigrant workers, Karl Marx, labor, Latinos, lgbt, lgbtq, Marxist-Humanism, Medical cannabis, Nashville Tennessee, New York City, News and Letters Committees, Oaksterdam, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, philosophy of revolution, prison industrial complex, prisoners, queer liberation, Raya Dunayevskaya, students, teachers, Transgendered, Unite Against The War on Women, United States, women's liberation movement, workers
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