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July 2002Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2002-2003 Permanent war or revolution in permanence? We present the draft of the "Marxist-Humanist Perspectives for 2002-2003," in order to promote the widest discussion possible. We look forward to a dialogue with you, our readers, as part of the effort to break down the separation between inside and outside, theory and practice, philosophy and organization. From the Writings of Raya
Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives Nuclear war and state-capitalism Raya Dunayevskaya discussed the superpower preparations for nuclear war in the capitalist epoch in July 1961, in "Ideas and Organization," the draft of that year's perspectives report for News and Letters Committees. We selected excerpts from that report as a contribution to the discussion about the present nuclear threat and other crises and revolts… Velsicol workers fight toxic poisoning I started working for Velsicol Chemical Company in January 1990 as a utility worker and worked up to a maintenance mechanic. On May 24, 1994, my supervisor, the shift supervisor and the department supervisor wanted me to take aluminum insulation off an eight-foot-long vessel that housed chlorine gas. It was actually an OSHA violation to have me touch the vessel because it was still in operation and they knew that it was a leak. But they don't like to lose the downtime by shutting down production…. Black/Red View
column by John Alan “Racial privacy” fraud Last April in California, Ward Connerly, a well known African-American ultraconservative who is also a member of the board of advisors of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, filed almost a million signatures with the California secretary of state to qualify the so-called "Racial Privacy Initiative" for the ballot. There is still time to make a critical examination of Connerly's concept of "racial privacy" .... Women in the Civil Rights Movement In DEEP IN OUR HEARTS nine women tell of their participation in the Civil Rights Movement including the choices they made after it, as a mass movement for freedom, ended. These stories bring back the passion for freedom, the hope as well as the terror of those times; and how, just the fact of being a white woman in the Southern movement could mean death for her and any Black man she was around. More... |
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