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On Greece and Syriza: Against the inhumanity of austerity, we pose the fullness of human liberation!

Posted on February 19, 2015 by franklindmitryev

The electoral victory of Greece’s Syriza represents resistance to brutal austerity. Alarms are raised by Syriza’s alliance with the racist, theocratic Independent Greeks party. Continue reading →

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Capitalism’s political and economic degeneracy

Posted on May 7, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2014-2015. III. Capitalism’s political and economic degeneracy. A. Karl Marx haunts capitalism’s stagnation. B. The race toward climate chaos. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged British Columbia, Canada, capitalism, China, climate change, climate chaos, Detroit bankruptcy, development, economic inequality, ExxonMobil, global warming, Goldman Sachs, Great Depression, Great Recession, Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, Karl Marx, Keystone XL pipeline, labor, monopoly, pensions, rate of profit, retirement, structural economic crisis of capitalism, tar sands, Unemployment, Unist'ot'en resistance camp, Wet'suwet'en, workers | 2 Comments

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

Don’t stop at raising wages

Posted on March 17, 2014 by franklindmitryev

That there are two Americas when it comes to the economy and the wealth of our nation is no mystery to anyone. Everyone now knows the top 1% have essentially been the only beneficiaries of the latest “boom.” Journalists and economists take pains to point out how this jobless expansion has allowed the investors to recover from their losses of the 2008 financial collapse. Workers, though, are still left holding the bag. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Barack Obama, California, Charles Denby, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Depression, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal, labor, labor union bureaucracy, Minimum wage, Ron Unz, structural economic crisis of capitalism, workers | Leave a comment

Capitalist economy is failing

Posted on March 15, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Ongoing national strikes and demonstrations by fast food workers demanding a $15 an hour living wage show that workers’ reality is not the media-touted economic “recovery” enjoyed by the super-wealthy finance capitalists. In real life the 2008 depression drags on. In a punitive move, Congressional Republicans wouldn’t even allow a vote for long-term unemployment benefits to continue, in spite of the record 1.7 million, or 37% of the officially unemployed, who have been out of work for six months or longer. Previously, a rate anywhere near this was called an emergency, compelling an automatic extension of benefits. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged alienated labor, Arab spring, automation, Bangladesh, Barack Obama, Capital accumulation, capitalism, China, economic inequality, fast food workers, food stamps, labor, liquidity trap, Living wage, low-wage workers, Minimum wage, Oxfam International, robots, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Unemployment, United States, World Economic Forum | Leave a comment

March-April 2014 News & Letters online

Posted on March 12, 2014 by franklindmitryev

March-April 2014 News & Letters: Women fight for freedom against growing retrogression; On THE Philosophic Point and Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy; Capitalist economy is failing; Ukraine and Bosnia: historic uprisings; more… Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Arab spring, bedroom tax, climate change, Critique of the Gotha Program, Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy, feminism, global warming, Karl Marx, Keystone XL pipeline, labor, News and Letters Committees, Pelican Bay prison hunger strike, philosophic moment, Raya Dunayevskaya, sexism, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Ukraine, women's liberation, workers | 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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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

Tea Party wreaks havoc

Posted on November 15, 2013 by franklindmitryev

That a minority faction of one party in one chamber of one branch of the U.S. government could pose a grave threat to the world economy reflects the depth of the capitalist crisis. The sheer nihilism of that Tea Party faction reflects the depravity of American racism, which, as Patrick Buchanan threatened, would not hesitate to “bring down like Samson” the world around it. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Affordable Care Act, African Americans, Barack Obama, capitalism, Crow Tribe, far right, fascism, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, Heritage Foundation, John Boehner, Karl Marx, Koch brothers, Mitt Romney, Obamacare, Patrick Buchanan, racism, Republican, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Tea Party, U.S. debt ceiling, U.S. debt default, U.S. government shutdown, United States, WIC | Leave a comment

Detroiters organize in class war

Posted on May 8, 2013 by franklindmitryev

The entire state of Michigan voted against the harsh emergency manager law, Public Act 436, last November only to have the lame-duck state legislature vote it right back in before year’s end. On the day, March 28, that Act 436 took effect, Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager fired the interim superintendent of schools. … Meanwhile, neighborhoods languish under mounting piles of trash, abandoned houses, stores, factories and vehicles. City services are reduced by mandatory budget cut “furloughs.” The challenge for Detroit residents is: can we stand up and organize ourselves for quality living and working conditions, some of which includes wresting support and services from our unelected new leaders? Can we articulate and realize a future Detroit developed for human needs? Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Charter school, class war, Dan Gilbert, Detroit, Detroit News, emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, Michigan, Public Act 436, structural economic crisis of capitalism | Leave a comment