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NEWS & LETTERS, January-February 2004AnnouncementAMERICAN CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL: BLACK MASSES AS VANGUARD by Raya Dunayevskaya, with appendix by Charles Denby, and "To the People of the United States of America" by Karl Marx The classic AMERICAN CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL, first published in 1963, presents the Black masses in motion as the touchstone of the development of all of American history—from the unfinished revolutions of both 1776 and the Civil War where the slave revolts and Abolitionism wrote the most glorious pages; through the rise of Populism; through the turning point reached with the coming together of Black and labor movements in the birth of the CIO; to the unfinished revolutions confronting us today. DIALECTICS OF BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES: RACE, PHILOSOPHY AND THE NEEDED AMERICAN REVOLUTION by John Alan, with an appendix by Raya Dunayevskaya on "Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Grenada” We know from American history that the Black revolt is ongoing. The Idea of freedom has to be worked out and deepened from within this racist, alienating society. That means taking on all political-theoretic-philosophic tendencies that truncate aspirations for full freedom and self-determination. We can't stop with opposition to this racist society, but must work out what we are for in terms of the power of the idea of freedom. Dialectics of Black Freedom Struggles includes chapters on Black opposition to imperialist war, today's Black labor struggles, and the role of the prison-industrial complex, as well as Marxist-Humanist discussions of major historical figures like Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, and Maurice Bishop. |
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