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News & Letters,
May-June 2005
Lead-Editorial
New Pope Benedict
anoints religious fundamentalism
With the death of Pope John Paul II, a major pillar of the retrogressive
politics of the past 25 years has left the scene. Unfortunately his replacement,
Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), is the one that progressives within the Roman
Catholic Church had feared the most.
50 years of News & Letters
The first issue of News & Letters appeared June 1955. We mark the occasion
with four articles that recall that moment, beginning with a recollection by
founding chairwoman, Raya Dunayevskaya, who wrote, "The idea of a
Marxist-Humanist paper beginning publication June 1955, when McCarthyism was
still raging, seems strangely enough, very todayish. The idea of a struggle for
freedom that would make inseparable theory and practice, and have that relation
as the determinant, does indeed remain an imperative."
Essay
Marx's Humanism and
the fight for a new ecology
The future of an ecological critique of existing society, if not the
existence of society itself, depends upon halting capital's relentless drive for
self-expansion.
Workshop Talks
Planned deaths from
medical cutbacks
Teachers and nurses have thwarted California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's
war on the poor and workers. In fact, this misogynist's most formidable
adversaries have turned out to be those who do "women's work" and who understand
what it means to restore and develop life.
Japanese-American
fought government repression
The passing of Fed Korematsu on March 30, 2005 gives us pause for examining
the struggle for freedom in this nation.
Our Life and Times
Iraq:
fundamentalism, sectarian conflict
Following Iraq's elections in January, sectarian violence against, material
privation and deep skepticism towards the country's new leaders have reigned.
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