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December 2002Lead Article Mass unrest inspires Lula's
victory in Brazil On the first day of 2003, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva takes over as Brazil’s President, having won 61% (52.7 million votes). Nobody in Brazil has ever won so many votes. As 100,000 people came out into the streets of Sao Paulo to celebrate the night of his victory, Lula himself indicated the high stakes this move to the Left represents: “If at the end of my tenure all Brazilians can eat three times a day, my mission will have been completed.” The Workers’ Party (PT) that Lula founded in 1980 was a truly mass party of the working class and it embodies today a vision that over 52 million Brazilians have rallied around. Editorial Bush's drive to war
imperils U.S. As the Bush administration gears up for its war against Iraq--made easier by the failure of the Democrats to pose any pole of opposition in the recent elections and by the unanimous vote of the UN Security Council that Iraq comply with U.S. demands--a dangerous chapter has opened in the effort to restrict civil rights and political liberties inside the U.S. The most threatening of the administration's offensives is the one against individual rights and privacy. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives Philosophic foundations of the
struggles for freedom In this 1960 letter to Joseph Buttinger, an Austrian
resistance fighter against Nazism and a Marxist thinker, Dunayevskaya delves
into Hegel’s “Absolutes” presented in his PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND, SCIENCE
OF LOGIC and ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES. Some detractors have been so foolish as to call the
PHENOMENOLOGY a "psychology of sorts," but the EXPERIENCES [which]
consciousness struggles through here [are of] the human spirit through some
4,000 years of civilization. The center of all six principal stages of
consciousness is the PRACTICAL ACTIVITY of Reason… Philosophic Dialogue Marx's EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE
today Karl Marx published The EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE OF LOUIS BONAPARTE in 1852 in the aftermath of the Dec. 2, 1851 Bonapartist coup in France that brought to an end the whole period of ferment that had begun with the 1848 revolutions. In France it ushered in nearly two decades of authoritarian rule, as the Bonapartist state became a precursor of twentieth century fascism, setting up the first modern police state. Youth If one learns anything from living under a totalitarian
system it is how to decipher the news and sift through official propaganda. When
I was in Iraq, my parents always got our news from other sources than those fed
to us by the Iraqi regime. Later when we lived in the U.S., we knew that what we
heard on the news regarding Iraq was not true. Contact with our family revealed
to us what was actually happening. MORE ARTICLES... |
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