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Lead Article A mine disaster which killed 35 on May 1, a persistent independent union movement, and a new women's movement of mothers of the martyrs of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square revolt of 1989 reflect an undercurrent of revolt in China today. Editorial The exposé of the horrific abuses inflicted by the U.S. military against detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, along with growing opposition by Iraqis of all political persuasions to the U.S. military occupation, has created a qualitatively new situation with global ramifications. For the first in two decades, the U.S. is encountering a setback to its aims for total dominance. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives An essay by Raya Dunayevskaya was first published in 1965 in SOCIALIST HUMANISM, an anthology edited by Erich Fromm and published in 1965, contained a number of studies on Marx's humanism by scholars and activists worldwide. Dunayevskaya's contribution, "Marx's Humanism Today," was a study of Marx's new continent of thought. The essay continues this month. Woman as Reason Women torturers as the face of capital It was a shock to see women's faces grinning at us from TV and newspapers as they participated in torturing Iraqi prisoners. It showed how wrong many were to think that, by nature, women are more humane than men and that equality means women should have equal access to the military. Appeal WE NEED YOUR HELP TO KEEP NEWS & LETTERS ALIVE! It is you, our readers, to whom we are appealing to help an independent voice like ours continue our revolutionary work. Essay The concreteness of Marxist-Humanism Hegel's speaks of "proceeding to concrete truths." It is no call to leave theory behind and rush into practice. Rather Hegel is describing the method of development of ideas--how thought, when allowed to continue its own logical development, can end up at concrete truths. Our Life and Times India: Voters repudiate religious Right India's voters dealt a decisive defeat in April-May elections to the Hindu chauvinist Bharata Janata Party. The politics of hatred, of religious chauvinism, and of the narrowest cultural nationalism has been weakened, creating space in which liberatory forces that oppose the rule of capital can more easily assert themselves. MORE ARTICLES...
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