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Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2012-2013
Counter-revolution's rise shows need for a total philosophy
Revolution, having forced its way to center stage over the last year and a half, cannot easily be bottled up. That explains the viciousness of the counter-revolution, whether the violent police attacks on occupations from New York to Oakland or the Syrian state's torture and heavy weapons aimed at civilians. It is seen as well in the rulers' bringing to bear two of their most powerful anti-revolutionary tools: fascism and war.
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From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
On political divides and philosophic new beginnings
The abysmal depths that the ... retrogression has sunk the world into ... have polluted the ideological air, not only of the ruling class, but have penetrated the Left itself. Such a deep retrogression urgently demands that, along with the economic and political tasks facing us, we look for philosophic new beginnings.
In the midst of the work I am doing on my new book, Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy, I have been digging into research on two opposed forms of organization, that is, our opposition to the vanguard party-to-lead, and our support of forms of organization born out of the spontaneous activity of the masses.
Woman as Reason
Adrienne Rich--a voice for freedom
The world lost a passionate, beautiful voice for freedom and self-determination with the death of the feminist Lesbian poet Adrienne Rich on March 27. Whether it be the precision of her poetry or essays, what is always inescapable is that Rich not only spoke for herself, but articulated the desire of legions for a different, a profoundly human existence.
Workshop Talks
Spy on workers, but overlook patients
We're constantly counting so much that our world has lost sight of what really counts.
Our company has invested
billions of dollars in a super computer system which is able to count everything, from how many pieces of gauze are used on a patient to how much nurse-time each patient expends. Everything is tracked for cost control, up to the minute and down to the penny. The company pretends to monitor "quality" of healthcare.
Voices from the Inside Out
Sham response to prison hunger strike
After we read the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
(CDCR) "Prevention, Identification and Management Strategy," we had a tier discussion of it. To a man, we believe that document is nothing more than a public relations stunt by CDCR to regain public support.
Security Housing Unit prisoners react
In March, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) finally released a proposal for a new policy: "Security Threat Groups, Prevention, Identification and Management Strategy." We visited Pelican Bay SHU prisoners a few days later.
Justice for ALL the Trayvon Martins
Protests against the murder on Feb. 26 of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, an armed neighborhood watch volunteer in a gated community in Sanford, Fla., exploded across the U.S. Zimmerman, who remained free for weeks, claiming he killed Martin in "self-defense" and hiding behind Florida's Stand Your Ground law, was finally arrested for Trayvon's murder on April 11.
Stop service cuts! Keep our home care!
Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn has introduced a budget that will block thousands of people from receiving home care and also service cuts to 14,000 people in the home care program, stopping services to families with youth under the age of 18 and blocking the Home Services
Program for people with psychiatric or developmental disabilities.
World in View
Syrian cry for solidarity
Bashar al-Assad's forces have continued to murder the Syrian people in full view of the world. Assad's slaughter
even spilled outside the borders of Syria itself, with murderous attacks on refugees
in Turkey and Lebanon.
"The ceasefire is the new joke" read protesters' signs in the streets.
MORE ARTICLES ... (see the pdf version)
p. 2:
"Mid-South WAC is back"
"Palestine human rights"
"Stop Mitt's war on us!"
"Women World Wide"
p. 3:
"Recalling 1972 Québec General Strike"
"'Right-to-work' attacks on labor"
"Voices of labor and youth at Left Forum"
"Michigan despot law"
p. 4:
"Rewilding of Detroit"
p. 6:
"Readers' Views"
p. 11:
"300,000 Québec students strike"
"Captive Genders"
"Queer Notes"
p. 12, World in View:
"Breivik's trial"
"Mali coup and Tuareg self-determination"
"Toulouse murders"
"China in the Sudans"
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