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News & Letters, Lead Bush-Cheney setback while Iraq still bleedsDemocrats winning control of Congress and Rumsfeld's exit under a cloud are a rebuke to the administration's fiasco in Iraq. But are the fortunes of the antiwar movement improved, what there is of an anti-war movement? How do we address the growing loss of life and sectarian attacks on civilians that are the legacy of the invasion by coalition forces three and a half years ago? Editorial Behind North Korea’s nuclear testThe North Korean nuclear test in October was a most serious event. Above all, the nuclear explosion announced by the totalitarian state-capitalist regime points to the utter non-viability of this capitalist/nuclear world. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Global capital's structural crisis and the need to return to Marx's CapitalDunayevskaya's analysis of the transformations in the world economy helps illuminate the nature of today's global capitalism. It was written shortly after the 1970s global recession which revealed structural weaknesses in the global economy, a problem capitalism is incapable of fixing. That simple fact escaped even Marxist economists like Ernest Mandel. Essay The 1956 Hungarian Revolution with eyes of todayWhat lives from the Hungarian Revolution on its 50th anniversary? Marx's theretofore unknown Humanist writings become a weapon in the hands and minds of Freedom Fighters against Communist totalitarianism. To some like CLR James, there was not residue other than socialism in practice. To Dunayevskaya, in it was the expression of a new stage of thought which she developed as Marxist-Humanism. Our Life and Times Oaxaca repression unites Mexican movementsStrong currents of revolt in Mexico broke the surface with the strike by teachers in Oaxaca. Protests against presidential election stolen by the ruling party reflects the new fight. Anti-sweatshop hunger strikeIf a T-shirt sports "Purdue University" on the front, behind it will be the commitment of the university for decent working conditions by the garment workers who stitched it. That will be a reality if student hunger strikers, part of a global anti-sweatshops movement, are victorious. Legal system's lethal execution by gibberishThe state of Texas execution of Justin Chaz Fuller would be little more than an unremarkable up-tick of the body count at the busiest death chamber in the nation if it weren't for the remarkable post conviction brief filed by his court-appointed counsel. MORE ARTICLES...
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