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News & Letters,
Februrary - March 2007

Lead

Restive currents below Iran’s theocratic rule

If the anti-war movement is serious about stopping Bush's confrontation with Iran, it needs to engage in people-to-people solidarity with the opposition movement within Iran, its challenge to the regime, its debates, aspirations and demands over the nuclear standoff, Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust, labor, women's liberation, economics and philosophy.

Editorial

Bush’s surge forces Iraq to the precipice

George Bush re-committed himself to pressing on with a war that has wreaked havoc on every level of Iraq society with a plan that threaten to intensify the conflict and perhaps even drive a wedge between the U.S. and Iraqi government. It appears nothing will stand in the way of him carrying out his plan unless the anti-war movement draws in new elements into active participation.

From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya

Black dimension in women’s liberation

To grasp the Black Dimension is to learn a new language, the language of thought, Black thought. For many, this new language will be difficult because they are hard of hearing because they are not used to this type of thought, a language which is both a struggle for freedom and the thought of freedom.

Youth

Anti-sweatshop struggles

A participant in the recently concluded protest at Purdue University explains students' 26-day hunger strike to demand an end to human rights offences woven into apparel bearing the Purdue logo. Among the achievements were the involvement of workers and an analysis of the philosophic limitations of the official anti-sweatshops organization.

Essay

The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx

Despite deficiencies in Michael Lowy's discussion of the relation between Marx's Theory of revolution to dialectical philosophy, his Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx is a richly documented thesis of an integral connection between the development of Marx's theory of revolution and the early thinking and activity of the working class after 1843.

Oaxaca: a land of repression and resistance

At the present moment repression with a mano duro (hard hand) is the order of the day in Oaxaca, Mexico. This continuous repression must not obscure what was truly a population to woman, man and child taking matters into their own hands for several months last year.

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