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NEWS & LETTERS, OCTOBER 2003

Special Feature

Dialectics of Black Freedom Struggles: Race, Philosophy and the Needed American Revolution

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Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1

Permanent War or "Revolution in Permanence"? The Continuing Challenge of Black Masses as Vanguard

The Black Dimension's Opposition to Imperialist War
The New Challenges Posed by September 11, 2001
Black America's Challenge to the Anti-War and Other Liberation Movements

CHAPTER 2

The Struggle for Civil Rights and the Limits of Political Emancipation

From the Great Migration to the Civil Rights Movement
Beyond Political Emancipation: The Challenge of Urban Revolts and Black Power
Women's Liberation as Force and Reason

CHAPTER 3

Dialectics and Economics: The New Challenges Posed by Globalized Capital

Two Decades of Economic Restructuring—and of Revolt
Southern Workers Speak for Themselves
The Movement Against Environmental Racism
The Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992: A New Beginning?
The Two-Way Road Between the U.S. and Africa

CHAPTER 4

Prisoners Speak for Themselves: People of Color and the Prison Industrial Complex

Incarceration as a Racial Policy
Cultural Genocide: The War on Drugs
Privatization: The New Slave Trade
Black Women and the Family
Capitalist Fundamentals: Economic and Representative Racism
New Movements Against the Criminal Injustice System

CHAPTER 5

The Self-Determination of the Idea in the African-American Struggle for Freedom

Marx's Marxism Viewed with Eyes of Today
Post-Marx Marxism and the Black Dimension
Beyond Post-Marx Marxism: Debates on the Independent Struggles of Black Masses
The Revolutionary Humanism of Frantz Fanon
Afrocentricity and the Dialectic of Culture
The Contradictory Legacies of C.L.R. James
Re-creating Marxist-Humanism: Towards a New Unity of Theory and Practice

Appendix

Grenada: Revolution and Counter-Revolution

by Raya Dunayevskaya

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