Tag Archives: Iran

Women WorldWide September-October 2014

Posted on September 24, 2014 by franklindmitryev

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

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | 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 | Leave a comment

Third anniversary of the Syrian Revolution

Posted on May 21, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Two busloads of people from Chicago joined thousands gathered in Washington on March 15 to mark the third anniversary of the Syrian Revolution. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Ameenah Sawwan, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, Chicago, China, Iran, Middle East revolutions, Qusai Zakarya, Raed Fares, Russia, Syria, Syrian revolution, Ukraine, Washington DC | Leave a comment

Call for News and Letters Committees Convention, 2014

Posted on March 11, 2014 by franklindmitryev

News and Letters Committees has posted its OFFICIAL CALL FOR CONVENTION to Work Out Marxist-Humanist Perspectives for 2014-2015 February 23, 2014 To All Members of News and Letters Committees Dear Friends: The sharpness of revolution and counter-revolution … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 1953 Letters on Hegel's Absolutes, 2014 Winter Olympics, Absolute Idea, Absolute Negativity as New Beginning, Arab spring, Ban Ki-moon, Barack Obama, Bosnia, Cameroon, Canada, Chattanooga, climate change, Congo, counter-revolution, Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy, Egypt, European Union, fast food workers, Gezi Park, global warming, Iran, Keystone XL pipeline, kill list, LGBTQ rights, low-wage workers, Middle East revolutions, Moral Mondays, News and Letters Committees, Nigeria, Occupy Boston, Occupy Gezi, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Pelican Bay prison hunger strike, philosophic moment, philosophy of revolution, queer liberation, Rape, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution in permanence, Rosa Luxemburg, Russia, Ryan Crocker, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Sudan, Switzerland, Syria, Tahrir Squares, tar sands, The Philippines, Turkey, Typhoon Haiyan, U.S. military occupation of Iraq, UAW, Uganda, Ukraine, Unemployment, VW, Walmart strikes, War in Afghanistan (2001–present) | Leave a comment

Readers’ Views, Jan.-Feb. 2014, Part 1

Posted on March 8, 2014 by franklindmitryev

From the January-February 2014 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views, Part 1 THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION AS TEST OF WORLD POLITICS I have been active in a number of student groups around labor and women’s issues. We always talk about … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged anti-eviction, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, Borzou Daragahi, Charleston West Virginia, Chuck Roth, Communities United Against Foreclosure and Eviction, Elk River, environment, gentrification, homelessness, Iran, labor, Los Angeles, Middle East revolutions, New York City, Northside Action for Justice, prisoners, San Francisco, Shira Scheindlin, Syria, Syrian civil war, Syrian people, Syrian revolution, Uber, workers | Leave a comment

Racism in Israel

Posted on February 16, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Tens of thousands of African asylum seekers demonstrated in Tel Aviv calling for “Freedom!” for the refugees detained in a Negev desert facility under Israel’s new anti-immigrant laws. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Africans, anti-immigrant legislation, asylum, Benjamin Netanyahu, Darfur, Eritrea, Ethiopia, immigrant workers, Iran, Israel, Negev, Nuba Mountains, Palestinians, racism, refugees, Sudan | Leave a comment

Tahrir three years later

Posted on February 7, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Three years ago, the Egyptian Revolution was fighting for its life in Tahrir Square. For 18 days and nights, the women and men of the Square faced off against President Hosni Mubarak’s security forces and thugs. In the end Mubarak was forced to follow Tunisia’s President-for-life, Ben Ali, into retirement and shame. The light of freedom spread–Square to Square, occupation to occupation. It was a historic turning point. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 2011 Egyptian revolution, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Arab spring, counter-revolution, Hanaa Safwat, Hosni Mubarak, imperialism, Iran, Islamic fundamentalism, Karl Marx, labor, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Nour Party, Paris Commune of 1871, philosophy of revolution, religious fundamentalism, revolution in permanence, Saud Omar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tahrir Square, Tunisia Jasmine Revolution, Turkey, V.I. Lenin, women's liberation movement, workers, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | Leave a comment

Readers’ Views, Nov.-Dec. 2013, Part 1

Posted on December 14, 2013 by franklindmitryev

Readers’ Views from Nov.-Dec. 2013 N&L: U.S. RACISM AND BLACK AND LATINO STRUGGLES; LABOR UNDER ATTACK; CTA vs. THE HOMELESS; DISABILITY AND HUMANITY; ABORTION IS A HUMAN NEED; EGYPT’S CONTRADICTIONS; DETROIT CRISIS; NUCLEAR PERIL; WHY A NEWSPAPER LIKE N&L? Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abortion, African Americans, American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard, Arab spring, Barack Obama, Black liberation, capitalism, Chernobyl, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Transit Authority, criminal injustice system, CTA, Cubic Transportation Systems Inc., Detroit bankruptcy, Detroit Eviction Defense Center, disability rights, Dream Act, DTE Energy, Egypt, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, homeless, immigrant workers, Iran, labor, Latinos, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles County social services workers, Middle East revolutions, Minimum wage, Mona Eltahawy, Muslim Brotherhood, New York City Police Chief Ray Kelly, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Pelican Bay prison hunger strike, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, Raya Dunayevskaya, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive rights, SEIU Local 721, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Tahrir Square, Unemployment, Ventra | Leave a comment

Queer Notes, Nov.-Dec. 2013

Posted on November 30, 2013 by franklindmitryev

Queer Notes: Discrimination in Russia; Intersex in Germany; no prison for rape in Iowa; transition surgery in Iran; Lembembe murdered in Cameroon. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged adoption, Africa, Alternatives-Cameroun, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Brent Girouex, Cameroon, Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS, Council Bluffs Iowa, Eric Ohena Lembembe, Europe, Germany, heterosexism, homophobia, International Olympic Committee, intersex, Iran, lgbt, Middle East, Rape, Russia, Same-sex marriage, transition surgery, Victory Fellowship Church | Leave a comment

The Syrian Revolution as the test of world politics

Posted on November 13, 2013 by franklindmitryev

On Aug. 21 the genocidal regime of Bashar al-Assad murdered over a thousand civilians, mostly women and children, with sarin gas in the Damascus suburbs of Eastern Ghouta. It committed this crime in full view of the world—images of hundreds of murdered children, still in pajamas, laid out in temporary morgues, shocked viewers across the world.
Since April 2011 the world has looked on as over 115,000 Syrians have been killed, and over 7.2 million have been made refugees. When Assad’s regime resorted to illegal chemical weapons, it seemed to many that this would change. It seemed that the images of so many murdered innocents might compel some action. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged al Qaeda, Al-Baghdadi, Aleppo, Ali Khamenei, ANA New Media Association, Arab spring, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Ben Allison-Davies, chemical weapons, counter-revolution, Egypt, Free Syrian Army, Ghouta, Hassan Rouhani, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic State of Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, John Kerry, Local Coordination Committees, Middle East revolutions, political Islam, Rami al Razzouk, Raqqa, Russia, sarin, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Syrian civil war, Syrian National Council, Tea Party, Tunisia, Turkey, UN Security Council, Vladimir Putin, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Readers’ Views, September-October 2013, Part I

Posted on October 11, 2013 by franklindmitryev

Readers’ Views, September-October 2013, Part I Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abortion, African Americans, anti-war movement, Arab spring, Bertell Ollman, Black history, criminal injustice system, Danica Patrick, Detroit bankruptcy, disability rights, Egypt, emergency manager, feminism, George Orwell, George Zimmerman, Golden Dawn, Greece, Harlem Hospital, International Antiwar Assembly, Iran, Japan, Kevyn Orr, Konstantinos Moutzouris, Latinos, Michigan, Middle East, militarism, NASCAR, New York City, Okinawa, Osprey, panopticon, patriarchy, Planned Parenthood, Police brutality, prison industrial complex, racism, Rosie the Riveter, Savvas Matsas, Schomburg Library for Black Culture, sexism, Spanish Harlem, sports, stop and frisk, Syria, Texas, The Arsenal of Democracy, The Motor City, Trayvon Martin, Turkey, United States, Willow Run Bomber Plant, women's liberation movement, World War II, Zengakuren | Leave a comment