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Women Bearing the Brunt of Reaction Lead the Resistance
Here is a presentation given by Terry Moon for International Women’s Day/Women’s History Month. Women Bearing the Brunt of Reaction Lead the Resistance Talk for the Chicago Local of News and Letters Committees –Terry Moon March 27, 2019 Part … Continue reading
Anti-Roma racism
Racism against Roma infects significant sectors of French society, and now reaches into the innards of the “Socialist” government. Continue reading
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Tagged Czech Republic, England, Far-right politics, France, Kosovo, Leonarda Dibrani, Manuel Valls, racism, Roma, Spain, students, Sweden
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Capitalism’s violence, masses’ revolt show need for total view
The world today is riven between the creativity of masses in revolt and the violent degeneracy of counter-revolution, whose destructiveness even extends to the revived specter of nuclear war two decades after the collapse of the USSR. Such is the degeneracy of the globalized capitalist system, laden with destructive forces and sunk into structural crisis. The deep crisis is seen in the U.S. and abroad, economically, in unemployment and poverty, homelessness and hunger. It is seen politically, in new laws attacking workers and women, and new outbursts of racism. It is seen environmentally, with the advance of climate disruption and fake capitalistic solutions. It is seen in thought, as the lack of philosophy, of a total view, hampers the development of struggles from the U.S. to the revolutions of the Arab Spring facing counter-revolutions. Continue reading
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Tagged alienated labor, amazon.com, Apple, automation, Bulgaria, Capital accumulation, China, Congressional Robotics Caucus, Cyprus, Eurozone economic crisis, Foxconn, Fukushima, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, John Kerry, Karl Marx, Kashmir, Korean War, Lawrence Summers, Martin Ford, Mechanical Turk, microtasking, militarism, Non-Proliferation Treaty, North Korea, Nuclear power, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, pivot to Asia, Portugal, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, structural economic crisis of capitalism, The Philippines, Unemployment, world food crisis, World War II
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Readers’ Views, September-October 2012, Part 1
From the September-October 2012 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views, Part 1 CAPITALIST CRISIS AND REVOLT I appreciated Franklin Dmitryev’s Lead article in the July-August N&L, on “Spain, Greece, Europe: Capitalist crisis and revolt,” for showing how the so-called … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, African Americans, anti-war movement, Asturian miners, Asturias, Bob Dylan, capitalism, China, democracy, disenfranchisement, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, elections, English as a Second Language, feminism, gay rights, General Assemblies, global gag rule, Greece, Humanism, Israeli Defense Force, James Daly, labor, Latinos, lgbtq, Li Congjun, Mariano Rajoy, Marx: Justice and Dialectic, Medicaid, medicare, Middle East, Mitt Romney, NAACP, New York City, News and Letters Committees, Obama, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy Patriarchy, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Paul Ryan, Pussy Riot, queer liberation, Rachel Corrie, racism, Raya Dunayevskaya, Roe vs. Wade, sexism, Spain, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Trotskyism, U.S. Supreme Court, United States Postal Service, voter suppression, women's liberation, workers, Xinhua News Agency, youth
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Syria and the Left
From the July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters: World in View Syria and the Left by Gerry Emmett “None of us believe that peace is so sweet or life so dear that we are willing to sell our freedom … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-war movement, Arab spring, Assad, Avigdor Lieberman, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bosnia genocide, Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers' Organizations, counter-revolution, counter-revolutionary anti-imperialism, Eli Yishai, Great Syrian Revolt, Houla, Iran, Israel, Karaj, Middle East, Mohja Kahf, NATO, Spain, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Revolution, Syria, Syrian people, Syrian revolution, Tahrir Squares, Tel Aviv
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July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters is on the web
The new July-August 2012 issue of News & Letters is available on the web. News & Letters, Vol. 57, No. 4 July-August 2012 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead: Spain, Greece, Europe: … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Arab spring, Carlos Montes, Chicago Spring, Egypt, Egyptian Revolution, elections, Europe, Eurozone economic crisis, feminism, Greece, Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, indignados, Joseph Stiglitz, Karl Marx, labor, M15 movement, Maple Spring, Middle East, Mona Eltahawy, NATO summit, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, patriarchy, Quebec, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolutionary syndicalism, sexism, Spain, structural economic crisis of capitalism, students, Syriza, Trade unionism, United States, war against women, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, women's liberation, workers, youth
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Paths of destruction
From the May-June 2012 issue of News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2012-2013 (continued from Part II) III. Paths of destruction A. From war to war to war War is one of the rulers’ most potent counter-revolutionary weapons when … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Afghanistan, Anatole France, anti-war movement, Arab spring, Black, China, climate change, climate chaos, European debt crisis, eviction, Famine, foreclosure, global warming, Golden Dawn, Great Recession, Greece, homelessness, indignados, Iran, Iraq, Iraq war, Israel, Latino, M15, Memphis, NATO, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Pentagon, Puerta del Sol, racism, San Francisco, Senegal, Somalia, Spain, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Tahrir Square, Taliban, United States, war, Zimbabwe
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New May-June 2012 issue of News & Letters is online
The new issue of N&L is online: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2012-2013 Counter-revolution’s rise shows need for a total philosophy Revolution, having forced its way to center stage over the last year and a half, cannot easily be bottled up. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne Rich, Afghanistan war, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, California Department of Corrections, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, capitalism, CDCR, climate change, counter-revolution, criminal injustice system, fascism, feminism, global warming, Greece, Humanism, Iran, Iraq war, Karl Marx, labor, Marxist-Humanism, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, philosophy of revolution, prison industrial complex, prisoners' hunger strike, Raya Dunayevskaya, Rehabilitation, revolution, Solitary confinement, Spain, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Syria, Trayvon Martin, Tulsa Oklahoma, war, war on women, women's liberation, workers
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