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May 2002Lead articleCapital
fans global warming, puts human habitat at risk The
burgeoning manifestations of global warming have been as staggering as the
sudden collapse this year of Antarctica's 720-billion-ton Larsen B Ice Shelf.
Environment ministers of technologically advanced countries have publicly
criticized the U.S. and Canada for rejecting the Kyoto accord on greenhouse gas
emissions, albeit with their own interests at heart. Even by meeting in remote
Banff, Alberta, the ministers could not evade the protests that have dogged such
international summits since Seattle 1999. Editorial Sharon's
brutal invasion defers peace for a generation Ariel
Sharon's three-week invasion of Palestinian-ruled areas of the West Bank left
hundreds of civilians dead, thousands wounded or displaced, and the entire
infrastructure of an embryonic Palestinian state in ruins. While Sharon’s
coalition government, which includes the Labor Party, termed these actions a “war
on terror,” they constituted a war crime. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives May
Day as a birthtime of history Our
age has one advantage, that of knowing more of Marx's writings than did Rosa
Luxemburg's age. We have drawn no distinction between the young and the mature
Marx, and made philosophy, economics and politics into a totality.
But the fact that we know, and indeed live by the fact that Marx was a
revolutionary does not mean we will automatically grasp
Marxism as a whole new continent of thought. Article 100,000
march for peace, Palestine Demands
intensify for justice in the Middle East Rallies originally called in Apirl to protest "the real axis of evil: war, racism, and poverty" became mass statements of solidarity with the Palestinian intifada. Can the anti-capitalist-globalization movement learn something from the humanism and diversity of these events? Philosophic
Dialogue New
studies in dialectical thought As
anyone paying attention to the global situation should be aware, our world is in
a state of profound and continuing crisis. A new collection of writings on
dialectics from News and Letters Committees does not contain much detail on
specific passions and forces challenging global capitalism. The collection does,
however, clarify the concept of the revolutionary subject. More... |
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