News & Letters,
October - November 2007
Lead
Labor unrest and economic distress impact U.S. politics
Crises in capitalist profitability are showing up in the contract
GM autoworkers were forced to swallow, the Crandall Canyon Mine disaster,
and the U.S. housing crisis. The resistance of rank-and-file workers and
working out a comprehensive concept of non-capitalist society can show an alternative.
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
A response to Castoriadis's 'Socialism or Barbarism'
Dunayevskaya's critique of Cornelius Castoriadis contrasted two theories of revolutionary journalism. "Theoreticians cannot be bystanders to a paper that mirrors the workers' thoughts and activities as they happen," she declared.
Essay
Marx's late writings on Russia re-examined
Too often ignored, Marx's writings on Russia in the 1880s are significant in light of what faces us 125 years later, when many are seeking non-capitalist roads to development, especially in Latin America.
Editorial
Bush locks U.S. into long stay in Iraq
President Bush's policy speech in September, preceded by General Petraeus's Congressional testimony, spun a wave of deceptions about their military and political successes in Iraq. Although ethnic partition and growing violence are increasing, Democratic Party candidates have distanced themselves from the anti-war movement and the demand for troop withdrawal.
Black/Red View
Protest in Jena shines light on racism in the U.S.
Participants report from the national march in Jena, Louisiana against the railroading into prison of six Black youth who fought segregation there.
Our Life and Times
Israel... and its lobby
As Israel chokes off the Gaza Strip, not a hint of criticism is heard from the U.S. which still holds that it can impose a solution on the Palestinian people.
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