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News and Letters January-February 1998
To our readers: Keep N&L going
The myriad crises we confront today have deepened and multiplied with each new year. As 1998 begins, East Asia's economic crisis has exposed the fault lines in the global economy. Mexico has been plunged into another kind of deep crisis in the aftermath of the government-inspired massacre of Indian supporters of the Zapatistas. In Israel Netanyahu continues to foment the fanatic settlers' moves against the Palestinians. In Bosnia the U.S. and NATO refuse to arrest the war criminals and have guaranteed that the Serbian destruction of Bosnia can continue unchallenged. And at home, while the pundits talk of a "booming economy" and the "success" story of dropping welfare rolls, over half of those forced off welfare have not found jobs and most of those who have are suffering extreme poverty wages.
AT THE SAME TIME, ANY ANALYSIS OF THESE OBJECTIVE EVENTS DEMANDS RECOGNIZING HUMANITY'S STRUGGLES FOR A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF WORLD EMBEDDED IN THIS REALITY. YOU WILL FIND THAT PROVED IN THE KINDS OF VOICES YOU CAN HEAR IN EVERY ISSUE OF NEWS & LETTERS. In this issue you will hear the stories of the woman who has been organizing the catfish workers in Mississippi traveling to Mexico to talk with workers fighting to organize a union there; of the hundreds of Black and white demonstrators who poured out in Memphis to stop the KKK and found themselves needing to battle the police; of the German students who have been striking against the severe reductions in the university budgets. And in every issue you can hear the voices of prisoners who have refused to be de-humanized.
What is unique with N&L is that you will hear all these voices unseparated from the articulation of a philosophy of revolution that lets these voices ring louder and clearer because it discloses the future embedded in the present. IT IS THIS COMBINATION OF PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION THAT MAKES IT URGENT TO KEEP N&L ALIVE. BUT WE CANNOT DO IT WITHOUT YOUR HELP!
Although we have no paid staff, our bills for printing, postage and rent continue to soar. This year, we have an additional need for your help: We aim to bring out a new pamphlet on a critical subject--what the prisoner author who has written it calls "The Grim Reality of the American Criminal (In)Justice System." We were asked two years ago to help him send out to the widest number of prisoners we could reach a series of questions he had composed eliciting their thoughts on their lives. Their answers became the basis for his work, and the following quote he had discovered in his own reading became a frontispiece for one of the sections: "Our epoch is a birth-time and a transition. The spirit of man has broken with the old order of things ... and with the old ways of thinking." It is a quote from the philosopher, Hegel. The last section begins with a quote from Fred Hampton: "You can jail a revolutionary but you can't jail the revolution."
WE WILL NEED APPROXIMATELY $4,000 TO PRINT THIS NEW MARXIST-HUMANIST PAMPHLET IN ADDITION TO THE $1,500 IT COSTS US TO PRINT EVERY ISSUE OF N&L. Ever since our birth more than 40 years ago, we have turned to our readers for the help we have needed to keep us alive and strengthen our outreach. CAN YOU HELP US NOW? YOUR SUPPORT WAS NEVER MORE NEEDED. PLEASE GIVE AS GENEROUSLY AS YOU CAN TO HELP US CONTINUE!
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