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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
News and Letters Committees Call for Plenum 2015
Official Call for national gathering of News and Letters Committees to work out Marxist-Humanist perspectives for 2015-2016 Continue reading →
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Tagged 2003 invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, African Americans, Antonio Zambrano-Montes, Arab spring, Barack Obama, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, criminal injustice system, dialectic of negativity, fascism, first negation, Golden Dawn, Greece, Iraq, Islamic State, Koch brothers, Ku Klux Klan, Kurds, Libya, Marxist-Humanism, Marxist-Humanist archives, negation of the negation, New York City, News & Letters, News and Letters Committees, Pasco Washington, Patrick Lynch, philosophy of revolution, Police brutality, police killings, Popular Front, revolution in permanence, Roy Moore, second negation, Syria, Syriza, U.S. Supreme Court, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Yemen
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On Greece and Syriza: Against the inhumanity of austerity, we pose the fullness of human liberation!
The electoral victory of Greece’s Syriza represents resistance to brutal austerity. Alarms are raised by Syriza’s alliance with the racist, theocratic Independent Greeks party. Continue reading →
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Tagged Alexander Dugin, Alexander Vulin, Alexis Tsipras, Arab spring, austerity, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Bosnia genocide, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina: Achilles Heel of Western ‘Civilization’, David Duke, Eurasianism, Europe, European Union, Eurozone economic crisis, fascism, Golden Dawn, Greece, Independent Greeks, Marine Le Pen, Marx's Humanism, Middle East, Mihailo Markovic, pragmatism, Russia, serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, Stathis Kouvelakis, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Syntagma Square, Syrian revolution, Syriza, Tahrir Squares, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Yanis Varoufakis
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Women WorldWide September-October 2014
From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Protect Aminetou Mint El-Moctar in Mauritania; female genital mutilation in the U.S.; Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win “Nobel Prize of mathematics.” Read more: Women WorldWide
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Tagged Aminetou Mint El-Moctar, Artemis, Barack Obama, Cheikh Ould Mkheitir, Fahma Mohamed, female genital mutilation, feminism, FGM, Fields Medal, Friends of the Prophet, Human rights, International Mathematics Olympiad, Iran, Jaha Dukureh, Maryam Mirzakhani, Mauritania, Nobel prize of mathematics, patriarchy, Safe Hands for Girls, sexism, sexual violence, women's liberation movement
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Woman as Reason: Fighting rape is in our hands
From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Woman as Reason: Fighting rape is in our hands Since the beginnings of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the early 1960s, we have been fighting rape, and rape culture. Finally, 50 years later, a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Air Force Academy, Andrea Pino, Annie Clark, anti-abortion, Barack Obama, campus rape, Charles Grassley, Claire McCaskill, Clery Act, Dean Heller, End Rape on Campus, feminism, injury response, Kelly Ayotte, Kylie Angell, Marco Rubio, military service academies, Northwest Florida State College, Occidental College, Occidental College Sexual Assault Coalition, Paycheck Fairness Act, Rape, rape culture, self-organization, sexism, sexual assault, social media, Terry Moon, Title IX, University of Connecticut, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Southern California, Violence Against Women Act, war on women, women's liberation movement
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Editorial: ISIS, U.S. both savage Iraq
The explosive advances of the army of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS), crossing from Syria into northern and central Iraq, have brought deeper miseries to the Iraqi people who might have expected they had already endured the worst, including the effects of U.S. imperialist policy. Atrocities from mass shootings and beheadings to systematic kidnapping and rapes of women—that the world and U.S. foreign policy ignored when IS carried them out against anti-Assad revolutionaries in Syria—in Iraq no longer remained hidden. Continue reading →
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Tagged 2003 invasion of Iraq, Aleppo, Arab spring, Baghdad, Barack Obama, barrel bombs, Bashar al-Assad, beheading, boots on the ground, Caliphate, chemical weapons, counter-revolution, Damascus, Dick Cheney, Egypt, Erbil, European Union, Free Syrian Army, George H.W. Bush, Haider al-Abadi, Hosni Mubarak, Iraq, Iraqi Army, IS, ISIS, Islamic Dawa Party, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, John McCain, Kurds, Marsh Arabs, Marxist-Humanism, Mosul, Mosul Dam, new humanism, Noury al-Maliki, Ottoman Empire, peshmerga, Rape, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, state capitalism, Sunni Arab, Syria, Syrian revolution, Tahrir Square, Tigris River, U.S., U.S. imperialism, World War I, Yazidi.
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Minimum wage is a starvation wage
Wages have stagnated for several decades— the standard of living of Americans today is less than it was in 1972. The average wage of a worker today is $20.39, not the $38 an hour it would be if wages had kept up with inflation. Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, labor, Minimum wage, United States, workers
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Bosnians develop revolutionary democracy
A revolutionary movement in Bosnia is bringing new life to the ideas that meant everything to supporters of the 1990s people’s struggle there. Despite the efforts of bureaucrats and tyrants, the fundamental character of multiethnic Bosnia has continued to develop. At its core, the current movement is directed against the rule of capital. Continue reading →
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Tagged Arab spring, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Bosnia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosniaks, Croat, Dayton Accords, direct democracy, drone strikes, George W. Bush, Mostar, Sarajevo, Serb, serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, Syrian revolution, Travnik, Tuzla, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Zenica
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From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy
Revolution and counter-revolution contend now, while the prolonged global capitalist economic crisis refuses to end. The question arises: where is the needed banner of total uprooting of the system and creation of new human relations as the goal? This objective need is present in every struggle from outright revolution in the Middle East to movements in the U.S. Beset by attacks and contradictions, they have in turn sparked counter-revolutions. Continue reading →
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Tagged 1953 Letters on Hegel's Absolutes, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Alisar Iram, Arab spring, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Bosnia, Bosnian Spring, capitalism, Counter-revolutionary, Crimea, Croatia, dialectic, Dmitry Kiselyov, Egypt, European Union, Free Syrian Army, Hezbollah, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Joseph Stalin, Maidan, Marxism, Middle East revolutions, Mohamed Morsi, NATO, News and Letters Committees, Occupy Gezi, Orange Revolution, philosophy, Raya Dunayevskaya, Reshat Ametov, Rosa Luxemburg, Rosa Luxemburg Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, Russia, Ryan Crocker, serbia, Slovenia, Syria, Tahrir Square, Tatars, The Philosophic Moment of Marxist-Humanism, Turkey, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin, war, Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Yulia Tymoshenko
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‘Humane immigration reform now!’
400 immigrant workers from Mexico and Central America and their U.S. supporters marched through downtown Los Angeles for “comprehensive and humane immigration reform now!” Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, Central America, Chicano Moratorium, Civil rights movement, Consejos de Federaciones Mexicanos en Norteamérica, Council of Biracial Organizations, Council of Mexican Federations, Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition, Hermandad Mexicana Transnacional, immigrant labor, immigration reform, John Fernandez, Los Angeles, Mexico, undocumented workers, United States, Vietnam War
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‘Say NO to KXL!’
Chicago–“Say NO to KXL!” was the message of 100 protesters outside the local State Department offices on the bitter cold night of Feb. 3, demanding that President Obama reject the Keystone XL pipeline that would carry extra-dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast. It was one of 283 actions across the U.S. and Canada organized in three days after the State Department released its fake environmental report on the pipeline–a report crafted by cronies of TransCanada, Keystone’s owner, with the imprimatur of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Continue reading →
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Tagged Alberta, Barack Obama, Canada, capitalism, climate change, environment, First Nations, global warming, Hillary Clinton, Indigenous peoples, Keystone Pipeline, Keystone XL, Keystone XL pipeline, KXTG, Native Americans, Nez Perce, Rolling Stone, State Department, tar sands, Tim Dickinson, TransCanada Corporation
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