Tag Archives: Middle East revolutions

In memoriam: Freedom fighter Alisar Iram

Posted on September 21, 2014 by franklindmitryev

From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: World in View column The work of Syrian poet Alisar Iram, who died in July, made a vital contribution to my understanding of the meaning of Syria’s Revolution, seeing it as she did against … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Alisar Iram, anti-humanism, Arab spring, feminism, freedom, Gerry Emmett, Middle East, Middle East revolutions, nihilism, poetry, Syria, Syrian revolution, Theatre of the Absurd, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Readers’ Views, May-June 2014

Posted on May 25, 2014 by franklindmitryev

From the May-June 2014 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views LABOR AND IMMIGRATION On April 8, about 100 people, the majority young Latinas/os, gathered in front of Los Angeles City Hall to protest the deportation of immigrants. Obama’s administration … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged abortion rights, Arab spring, criminal injustice system, disability rights, Egypt, feminism, immigrant labor, Iranian Revolution of 1979, labor, Middle East revolutions, patriarchy, Pelican Bay hunger strikers, people with disabilities, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, Russia, sexism, Tahrir Square, Ukraine, undocumented workers, women's liberation, workers | 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

From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy

Posted on May 5, 2014 by franklindmitryev

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 →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | 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 | 1 Comment

Readers’ Views, March-April 2014, Part 1

Posted on April 8, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Readers’ Views from the March-April 2014 issue of News & Letters, part 1. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged African Americans, Arab spring, Ariel Sharon, Arizona, Black liberation, Borderlands/La Frontera, capitalism, Cook County Hospital, Detroit, Egypt, Friends of the Southwest Museum, Gene Autry Museum, Gezi Park, Gloria Anzaldúa, Hamentashen, healthcare, Iranian Revolution of 1979, Jordan Davis, Latinos, Maidan, Medicaid, medicare, Mexican American studies, Michael Dunn, Middle East revolutions, Native Americans, News and Letters Committees, Obamacare, Occupy Boston, Occupy Gezi, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Paradise Valley, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PTSD, racism, Russia, Sabra and Shatila, Southwest Museum, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Syria, Tahrir Square, theocracy, Tucson, Turkey, Ukraine, Yemen | Leave a comment

The art of Arab Spring

Posted on April 3, 2014 by franklindmitryev

“Creative Dissent: Arts of the Arab World Uprisings” is an exhibit which magnificently captures the voices, images and revolutionary ideas of participants in the Arab Spring. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Amri Eid, Arab American National Museum, Arab spring, art, Bahrain, Cairo, Christiane Gruber, Creative Dissent: Arts of the Arab World Uprisings, Dearborn Michigan, Egypt, El General, Ibrahim Kashoush, Middle East revolutions, Nama Khalil, Ramy, Sout al-Houreya, Syria, Tahrir Square, Tunisia, University of Michigan, Yemen | Leave a comment

Egyptian strike wave topples cabinet

Posted on March 28, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Workers in the state-controlled textile industry, mostly women workers, and public transport workers, sanitation workers, office workers, doctors, and even policemen launched a wave of strikes that caused Egypt’s Prime Minister and his entire cabinet to resign. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 2011 Egyptian revolution, Arab spring, Attaba, Cairo, Egypt, Hazem el-Biblawi, Ibrahim Mehleb, Kafr Al-Dawr, labor, Mahalla Spinning and Weaving, Middle East revolutions, Strike action, textile workers, women workers | Leave a comment

Ukraine and Bosnia: historic uprisings

Posted on March 16, 2014 by franklindmitryev

In Ukraine, an unexpected eruption of mass struggle led to the overthrow of Ukraine’s corrupt, oligarchic, and ultimately murderous President Viktor Yanukovych. In Bosnia, at the same time, massive, nationwide discontent with the corrupt system left in place when the 1995 Dayton Accords partitioned the country has led to the equally unexpected creation of new forms of democratic organization. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 1989 East Europe revolutions, Alexander Dugin, Arab spring, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Bashar al-Assad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian genocide, Crimea, Dayton Accords, democracy, fascism, feminism, G.W.F. Hegel, genocide, imperialism, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Kiev, lgbt, lgbtq, Maidan, Middle East revolutions, oligarchs, Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, Right Sector, Russia, Sarajevo, serbia, Sevastopol, Slobodan Milosevic, state capitalism, Stepan Bandera, Svoboda, Syrian revolution, Tatars, Tuzla, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin, Yulia Timoshenko | Leave a comment

Women fight for freedom against growing retrogression

Posted on March 13, 2014 by franklindmitryev

While experiences in the squares of the Arab Spring, in Turkey’s Gezi Park, in the streets of Spain and Greece, and in the U.S. Occupy Movements have revealed moments of what new human relations between women and men could look like, those moments of hope and exhilaration have been followed by devastating reaction and retrogression. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Abortion, Afghan Women's Network, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, African Americans, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, birth control, Black liberation, Burma, Contraception, Dina van der Zalm, Egypt, feminism, food stamps, Gezi Park, Greece, Hamid Karzai, Heather Barr, Human Rights Watch, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Jordan, Kachin, Latinas, Lebanon, Louisiana, Middle East revolutions, Missouri, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Myanmar, New York Times, Nouri al-Maliki, Nuba Mountains, Occupy Gezi, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, patriarchy, Planned Parenthood, poverty, racism, Rape, Raqqa, Reproductive rights, sexism, sexual harassment, Shan, Sima Samar, South Dakota, Spain, Sudan, Suraya Pakzad, Tahrir Squares, Taliban, Texas, Turkey, U.S. military occupation of Iraq, Unemployment, United States, Violence against women, Virginia, Wendy Davis, Women's League of Burma, women's liberation | 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 →

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