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Women fight for freedom against growing retrogression
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 →
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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
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Tahrir three years later
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 →
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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
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Readers’ Views, Nov.-Dec. 2013, Part 1
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 →
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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
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Egypt: Dual fascisms test women
For Egyptian women to experience freedom, the revolution has to continue, and for that to happen the revolutionaries have to oppose both Morsi and Sisi’s bloodthirsty military and fight for the vision of a new society that sustained them in Tahrir Square. Continue reading →
Egypt at deadly crossroads
The horrific events taking place in Egypt today show the dead end of all alternatives to revolution. The military, led by Deputy Prime Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has been all too happy to retake power and impose capitalist “stability” once again. Continue reading →
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Tagged Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Arab spring, counter-revolution, Damietta, democracy, Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hosni Mubarak, Middle East revolutions, Mohamed Morsi, Mona Eltahawy, Muhalla al-Kubra, Muslim Brotherhood, Political Repression, Tahrir Square, Tamarod
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Communization theory and its discontents truncate Marx’s dialectic
The persisting economic crisis has spurred new interest in Karl Marx including “Communization Theory” which projects Marx’s dialectic as a total break with capitalism but without posing a need for dialectical mediation beyond capitalism. Continue reading →
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Tagged 1871 Paris Commune, Aufheben, Benjamin Noys, capitalism, Chris Arthur, Communisation theory, Communization theory, Critique of the Gotha Program, dialectic of negativity, dialectical mediation, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Egypt, Endnotes, fetishism of commodities, Karl Marx, labor, Maya Gonzalez, Mervat Tallawy, Muslim Brotherhood, negation of the negation, Public School, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution in permanence, Situationists, systematic dialectic, Tahrir Square, Theorie Communiste, Tony Smith, Value-form Theory, women's liberation movement, workers
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Egyptian masses must determine the next stage of the revolution
The mass demonstrations that forced the removal of President Mohamed Morsi on July 3 were a call to continue and deepen the Egyptian revolution. Millions of people took to the streets in opposition to Morsi’s rule in demonstrations even larger than those that ousted former dictator Hosni Mubarak. They were a measure of the detestation the Egyptian people had come to feel at the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood through Morsi and his Freedom and Justice Party. It was this that forced the Egyptian generals to act, once again removing a president. Continue reading →
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Tagged Adly Mansour, Ahmed Shafik, Al-Nour, Arab spring, democracy, Egypt, Freedom and Justice Party, Galal Morra, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, labor, Middle East revolutions, Mohamed ElBaradei, Mohamed Morsi, Muhalla al-Kubra, Muslim Brotherhood, religion, revolution in permanence, Revolutionary Socialists, Salafists, Syrian revolution, Tahrir Square, Tamarod, Tunisia, Turkey, women textile workers, youth
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Arab Spring and the missing link of philosophy
Tunisia, Syria and Egypt show the determination of the masses to continue their revolutions in the face of vicious counter-revolution. Continue reading →
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Tagged Ain Sokhna, al Qaeda, Al-Qadam, Aleppo, Alexandria, Arab spring, Baathist Party, Bashar al-Assad, Bosnian genocide, Chokri Belaid, counter-revolution, Crossroads of History: Marxist-Humanist Writings on the Middle East, Damascus, dialectics, Egypt, Egyptian Trade Union Federation, Ennahda, feminism, G.W.F. Hegel, Hosni Mubarak, Iranian Revolution of 1979, Iraq, Islamists, Jabhat Al-Nusra, Jobar, Karl Marx, labor, Middle East, Mohamed Morsi, Muhalla al-Kubra, Muslim Brotherhood, neighborhood self-defense committees, patriarchy, philosophy of revolution, Port Said, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution, revolution in permanence, Revolutionary Socialists, sexism, shabiha, Spanish Revolution, Stalinists, Syria, Tadamon, Tahrir Square, Tunisia, Violence against women, women's liberation, workers, Yarmouk, Yemen
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Readers’ Views, March-April 2013, Part 2
From the March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters: AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY When the Green Movement started in Iran over the 2009 election, the so-called leaders were part of the government who were against Ahmadinejad. The growth of … Continue reading →
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Tagged #1u, Arab spring, Barack Obama, Belle Isle, Benton Harbor Michigan, Canada, Chicago, City University of New York, climate change, climate justice movement, criminal injustice system, Crossroads of History: Marxist- Humanist Writings on the Middle East by Raya Dunayevskaya, Detroit, disability rights, Egypt, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, global warming, Green Movement, healthcare, India, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Jean Klock Park, Kashmir, Keystone XL pipeline, Kumar Sundaram, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Marie Freyre, Michigan, Middle East, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, nuclear war, Pakistan, people with disabilities, Pontiac, prison industrial complex, prisoners, Rape, Raya Dunayevskaya, Rick Snyder, Silverdome, tar sands
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Uprisings in Egypt and Syria confront counter-revolution
From the new January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: Lead Uprisings in Egypt and Syria confront counter-revolution by Gerry Emmett “However partial the industrial revolt may be, it conceals within itself a universal soul: political revolt may be never so universal but it hides a narrow-minded spirit under the most … Continue reading →
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