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October 2002Lead Article Bush's war against Iraq threatens global disaster The relative ease with which George W. bush browbeat world leaders and the UN into accepting his plans for an invasion of Iraq threatens not only the existence of the despotic regime of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. George Bush risks setting into motion one of the most dangerous schemes ever to be projected by a world leader, namely that the U.S. has the "right" to launch preemptive wars whenever and wherever it likes, even if that should involve the use of nuclear weapons. Editorial One year after the largest terrorist attack in history, the world's solemn attention was on Ground Zero in New York. Bush has attempted to use the show of unity with victims as a springboard into an invasion of Iraq and future wars to come. Can the anti-war movement reorganize itself after failing to find its voice against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as well as Bush? A total view is needed. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives The revolt of the workers and the plan of the intellectuals, Part II The form of appearance of living labor as mere labor power reveals the class structure of society and thus exposes the inequality in the 'equality' of the exchange of wages for labor. This fetishism of commodities, Marx wrote, can be stripped off through worker revolt against the capitalist conditions which have produced it and then as freely associated people planning their own lives. Philosophic Dialogue The theory and politics of regression Standing on the brink of a new war against Iraq, it is imperative for the anti-war movement to confront and unmask religious fundamentalism, whether Christian or Islamic. The Left's inability to come to terms with one hinders its ability to do so with the other. This is why a discussion about Hegel's concept of retrogression can help refocus a revolutionary anti-war movement. There have been small victories in the struggles of the African continent which must continue to be defended. These struggles of nations and peoples must not be dismissed as mere power struggles or as having the desire to split Africa into small entities. U.C. Berkeley clerical workers strike In the first major labor action in 30 years, the Coalition of Union Employees, the union of 2,300, mostly women at the University of California at Berkeley, staged a three-day strike in late August. Strikers found solidarity from new quarters. MORE ARTICLES... |
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