Tag Archives: Nigeria

Queer Notes, March-April 2014

Posted on April 2, 2014 by franklindmitryev

CeCe McDonald; Arizona’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act; Global Day of Action called by Solidarity Alliance in Nigeria. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Affordable Care Act, Africa, African Americans, Arizona, CeCe McDonald, gay, George Zimmerman, Global Day of Action, heterosexism, homophobia, IDAHO, Jordan Davis, lgbt, LGBTQ rights, Michael Dunn, Minneapolis, Nigeria, queer liberation, racism, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Solidarity Alliance, transphobia, Trayvon Martin, Uganda, United States | 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

Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) and his legacy

Posted on May 16, 2013 by franklindmitryev

Achebe made a great statement of responsibility toward the future. His questions are only more significant because they resonate beyond the Africa of newly-won independence to a world struggling with the meaning of history and revolution. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Achebe, Africa, African revolutions, Anthills of the Savannah, Biafra, Camara Laye, Chinua Achebe, Darfur, genocide, Igbo, Joseph Conrad, literature, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nigeria, Rwanda, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, Things Fall Apart | 1 Comment

The Black dimension and Women’s Liberation as revolutionary reason

Posted on March 18, 2013 by franklindmitryev

From the new March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters: From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: The Black dimension and Women’s Liberation as revolutionary reason Editor’s note: For Women’s History Month, we present excerpts from “An Overview by Way of … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 1848 revolutions, Abolitionist movement, African Americans, Black history, feminism, Flora Tristan, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Herbert Marcuse, Igbo Women's War, International Women's Day, Jeanne Deroin, Karl Marx, Margaret Fuller, Maria Stewart, Nigeria, patriarchy, Pauline Roland, Raya Dunayevskaya, Russian Revolution of 1917, sexism, Sojourner Truth, United States, Wendell Phillips, Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, Women's History Month, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Mali’s contradictions

Posted on August 4, 2012 by franklindmitryev

From the July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters: Mali’s contradictions The fracturing of Mali and the demand for self-determination of the Tuareg people in the north continue (see May-June N&L), but with grave contradictions. The National Movement for the Liberation of … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Ansar Dine, Dioncounda Traore, France, Kidal, Mali, MNLA, National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, Niger, Nigeria, patriarchy, political Islam, Sahel, self-determination, Senegal, sexism, sharia, Timbuktu, Tuareg, United Nations, West Africa, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Women as thinkers and revolutionaries

Posted on March 18, 2012 by franklindmitryev

From the new March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Women as thinkers and revolutionaries Editor’s Note: For International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we print below brief excerpts from Raya Dunayevskaya’s 1975-76 … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 14th Amendment, 1848 revolutions, 1919 German Revolution, Aba riots, Abolitionist movement, African Americans, Black history, Clara Zetkin, division of mental and manual labor, feminism, Flora Tristan, Frederick Douglass, Germany, Harriet Tubman, Hausa, Ibo, International Women's Day, Isabel do Carmo, Karl Marx, Marx, Nigeria, patriarchy, Portuguese Revolution, race, racism, Raya Dunayevskaya, Rosa Luxemburg, Russian Revolution of 1917, Seneca Falls 1848, sexism, Sojourner Truth, U.S. Civil War, Women's History Month, women's liberation, Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution: Reaching for the Future, Women's Rights Convention, Working class women, Yoruba | 3 Comments

Switzerland’s racism

Posted on December 6, 2011 by franklindmitryev

From “World in View” in the November-December 2011 issue of News & Letters: Switzerland’s racism by Gerry Emmett Last year, Switzerland was disgraced by an election campaign that demonized its Muslim inhabitants. Ironically, most Swiss Muslims have been refugees from … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged African immigration to Europe, apartheid, asylum seekers, Birmendsorf, Bosnia, elections, Eritrea, Federal Commission Against Racism, Georg Kreuz, Kosova, Libya, Muslim, Nigeria, racism, refugees, Switzerland, Tunisia, Zug, Zurich | Leave a comment

Gbagbo’s last stand

Posted on May 14, 2011 by franklindmitryev

From the new issue of NEWS & LETTERS, May-June 2011: World in View Gbagbo’s last stand by Gerry Emmett The arrest of former President Laurent Gbagbo by NATO and Ivorian opposition forces will not solve the problems that plague Ivory … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Africa's unfinished revolutions, African revolutions, Alassane Ouattara, anti-imperialism, Archer Daniels Midland, Barry Callebaut, Cargill, cocoa, Cote d'Ivoire, Duékoué, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Frantz Fanon, French Socialist Party, Goodluck Jonathon, Ivoirité, Ivorian Popular Front, Ivory Coast, James North, Laurent Gbagbo, Marie Antoinette Gbagbo, Nigeria, Pat Robertson, Robert Mugabe, Simone Gbagbo, Workers World Party, Zimbabwe | Leave a comment