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October 2001Lead-editorial Bush's retaliation show inhumanity of class societyA two-fold disaster descended upon the world with the cruel and inhuman terrorist attack on New York and Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11. The first was the terrorist attack, which created a level of destruction and mayhem not seen in a U.S. city since the Civil War. The second is the Bush administration's response to it by declaring a "state of war" and engaging in total militarization, at home and abroad. And the attack had no relation to a struggle against capitalism, injustice, or U.S. imperialism. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya The terrorist attacks last month, resulting in the deaths of thousands in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania precipitated a crisis in global politics as well as within the revolutionary Left. Casting light on this situation is a "Political-Philosophic Letter" by Raya Dunayevskaya, written at the end of 1979 when Iranian pro-Khomeini activists had occupied the U.S. embassy and held its employees hostage. What kind of 'anti-war movement'? Condemnation of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have not been forthcoming from some corners of a nascient anti-war movement. Yet these shortcoming have not gone unchallenged as many are discussing ways to ensure that opposition to Bush's drive to war will not be separated from a movement for human dignity. Reports from New York, Chicago, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and England. Environmental justice delegation of solidarity to Vieques The most beautiful thing to Doris Bradshaw about Vieques is that everyone is involved-all the way up to the governor-in asking the U.S. to stop the bombing, stop killing the islanders, and poisoning the people. It's no different from what the U.S. government has done at the Defense Depot in Memphis, Tenn. which she has struggled to get cleaned up. Colombia in times of intensified war It would not be shocking if the focus on Colombia is shifted again by the tragic events of Sept. 11. The U.S. will combine the war on terrorism with the counter-insurgency war, certain not to discriminate between who is the insurgent and who is the terrorist. Black/Red View The United Nations World Conference Against Racial Discrimination,Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa last month was an opportunity to make a worldwide statement. Instead, it was a cantankerous ideological struggle between the nongovernmental organizations and capitalist powers, mainly the U.S. which controls what the UN does and refrains from doing. More Articles
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