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A Special Appeal to All Our Online Readers:We Need Your Help to Keep News & Letters alive!News and Letters, November 2003Feature Revolutionary Black Struggles and Ideas in Two New Marxist-Humanist Publications This month
Last month: DIALECTICS OF BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES: RACE, PHILOSOPHY AND THE NEEDED AMERICAN REVOLUTION Lead Article Bush's deepening quagmire--the U.S. economy and Iraq George W. Bush has troubles. He is facing a nasty quagmire of his own making in Iraq, with the steady loss of U.S. soldiers.... He is also facing a new revolt of workers here in the U.S. in a nationwide wave of strikes, largely over health care and health insurance issues, that have implications that cut to the heart of the capitalist system and its current world order. Editorial The conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians continues to grind onward with a relentless persistence. The level of animosity between the two peoples is at an unprecedented level. While the retrogression on both sides escalates, is there a way out? Woman as Reason Iranian feminist wins Nobel Peace Prize In October 2003 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights activist deeply committed to women’s rights and to battling religious fundamentalism. The enthusiastic response to this award among women in the Muslim world, and especially in Iran, has once again revealed that supporting the struggle for women’s liberation in the Muslim world is critical in any effort to battle the deep crises of our world. Article LA strikes defy grocers and MTA The workers of Ralphs (owned by Kroger), Vons (owned by Safeway), and Albertsons supermarkets are now on strike. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) members went out on strike against Ralphs on Oct. 11. The mechanics for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) had been working for 18 months without a contract before going on strike on Oct. 11. We had been waiting and waiting but nothing happened. Essay What is new in today’s imperialism? Nothing is more hollow than the claim that today’s drive for permanent war lacks an economic basis. Imperialism is not the product of a cabal of right-wing ideologues who have taken control of the Bush administration. Imperialism is the expression of a determinant stage of capitalist production. It can be stopped and uprooted only by abolishing the capitalist system as a whole. Philosophic Dialogue A review of THE POWER OF NEGATIVITY: SELECTED WRITINGS ON THE DIALECTIC IN HEGEL AND MARX, by Raya Dunayevskaya (ed. Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson, Lexington Books, 2002), was recently published in THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2003) in The Philippines. In examining the Hegelian underpinnings of Marx’s writings, Raya Dunayevskaya developed the philosophical perspective of Marxist-Humanism. It is based upon the idea of assessing mental and physical work at equal value and focuses upon the self-actualization of every person without distinctions of gender, class, and race. Our Life and Times What's behind China's space mission? China became only the third nation to put a human being into space. Like the U.S. and Russian space programs 40 years ago, China’s has important military purposes. Behind this are not only China's entry into the race to militarize space, but new economic tensions and peasant movements. MORE ARTICLES...
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