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‘Trail for Humanity’ links immigration, environment, prisons

Posted on September 17, 2014 by franklindmitryev

From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Spurred by racist responses to busloads of immigrant children from Central America, a 300-mile march from Merced, Calif., to the Mexican border was organized. Read more: ‘Trail for Humanity’ links immigration, environment, prisons

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Alternate Custody Program, asthma, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Central America, Cindy Gonzales, Debbie Reyes, deportation, detention center, Diana Block, Dream Act, health problems, Human rights, immigrant children, immigrant rights movement, Latin America, lesbian, McFarland California, Merced California, Mexico, pesticides, pollution, private prisons, racist minutemen, San Joaquin Valley, Sonora Desert, Tea Party, Trail for Humanity, undocumented immigrant, Urszula Wislanka, Valeska Castaneda. | Leave a comment

Locked out Minnesota musicians return

Posted on March 26, 2014 by franklindmitryev

On Feb. 1, 2014, the Minnesota Orchestral Association [MOA] ended its lockout of striking union musicians. The lockout began on Oct. 1, 2012, the longest work stoppage in U.S. orchestra history. in a focus that would not have been possible without union and community solidarity, the Tea Party destruction of nonprofits everywhere in Minnesota and in the U.S. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Arturo Toscanini, Beethoven, copyright law, Edo de Waart, Google, John Marty, Jon Campbell, labor, lockout, Minnesota Orchestral Association, MOA, Mozart, musicians, Osmo Vänskä, Richard Davis, Séamas Cain, Sibelius, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Stravinsky, Tea Party, U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo, workers | Leave a comment

Readers’ Views, Nov.-Dec. 2013, Part 2

Posted on December 15, 2013 by franklindmitryev

Readers’ Views from the Nov.-Dec. 2013 N&L: SYRIA AND WORLD POLITICS; WARS PAST AND PRESENT; PHILOSOPHY AND MASSES; PRISONERS READ & SPEAK Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Arab spring, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Burma, chemical weapons, criminal injustice system, Cynthia McKinney, Daniel Boorstin, Detroit Rebellion of 1967, Edward Snowden, Egypt, genocide, George Zimmerman, Glenn Greemwald, Green Party, homeless, Kachin, Karl Marx, Lyndon Johnson, Middle East revolutions, philosophy of revolution, prison industrial complex, prisoners, Rangoon, Rohingya, Russia, Solitary confinement, South Bronx, Syria, Tea Party, Thein Sein, torture, United States, Vietnam War | Leave a comment

Cultural critic Albert Murray (1916-2013)

Posted on December 11, 2013 by franklindmitryev

Remembering Albert Murray, who set out a vision of the African American as the representative “American,” of Black freedom as the soul of this nation’s culture. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged African American, Albert Murray, Black liberation, blues, culture, hip hop, John Alan, R&B, racism, Stomping the Blues, Tea Party, The Omni-Americans, United States | 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

The Syrian Revolution as the test of world politics

Posted on November 13, 2013 by franklindmitryev

On Aug. 21 the genocidal regime of Bashar al-Assad murdered over a thousand civilians, mostly women and children, with sarin gas in the Damascus suburbs of Eastern Ghouta. It committed this crime in full view of the world—images of hundreds of murdered children, still in pajamas, laid out in temporary morgues, shocked viewers across the world.
Since April 2011 the world has looked on as over 115,000 Syrians have been killed, and over 7.2 million have been made refugees. When Assad’s regime resorted to illegal chemical weapons, it seemed to many that this would change. It seemed that the images of so many murdered innocents might compel some action. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged al Qaeda, Al-Baghdadi, Aleppo, Ali Khamenei, ANA New Media Association, Arab spring, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Ben Allison-Davies, chemical weapons, counter-revolution, Egypt, Free Syrian Army, Ghouta, Hassan Rouhani, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic State of Iraq, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, John Kerry, Local Coordination Committees, Middle East revolutions, political Islam, Rami al Razzouk, Raqqa, Russia, sarin, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Syrian civil war, Syrian National Council, Tea Party, Tunisia, Turkey, UN Security Council, Vladimir Putin, women's liberation | Leave a comment

November-December 2013 News & Letters online

Posted on November 11, 2013 by franklindmitryev

The new November-December 2013 issue of News & Letters is online. News & Letters, Vol. 58, No. 6 November – December 2013 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead The Syrian Revolution as the test … Continue reading →

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Obama’s re-election doesn’t end clash of two worlds

Posted on November 26, 2012 by franklindmitryev

From the new November-December 2012 issue of News & Letters Obama’s re-election doesn’t end clash of two worlds by Franklin Dmitryev The two worlds of the rulers and the ruled shone through the suffocating blanket of propaganda surrounding the election … Continue reading →

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November-December 2012 issue of News & Letters is now available on the web

Posted on November 24, 2012 by franklindmitryev

News & Letters, Vol. 57, No. 6 November-December 2012 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead Obama’s re-election doesn’t end clash of two worlds The two worlds of the rulers and the ruled shone through … Continue reading →

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Historic roots of far Right threat to U.S.

Posted on September 11, 2012 by franklindmitryev

From the new September-October 2012 issue of News & Letters: From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Historic roots of far Right threat to U.S. Editor’s Note: Originally the lead article in the June-July 1964 issue of News & Letters, this article analyzed … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged capitalism, Charles de Gaulle, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil rights movement, Critical Issues Council, Dixiecrats, far right, fascism, George Wallace, John Birch Society, Koch brothers, labor, Lyndon Johnson, middle class, open shop, President Dwight Eisenhower, racism, right to work laws, Ron Paul, Ross Barnett, Tea Party, Vietnam War, workers | Leave a comment