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NEWS & LETTERS, June 2004WE NEED YOUR HELP TO KEEP NEWS & LETTERS ALIVE!As George Bush's war on Iraq continues to pile brutality upon brutality, it becomes urgent to keep a revolutionary journal like NEWS & LETTERS alive. The widespread disgust with the U.S. occupation of Iraq has made the Right in this country more determined than ever to silence any independent voice of opposition to their dehumanized rule. How far they are willing to go can be seen in the attempt of the Sinclair group to silence even Ted Koppel's ABC program on the U.S. war dead. At the same time, Kerry's electoral opposition to Bush is moving closer and closer to what it purports to be opposing. It makes the continuation of a paper like News & Letters more urgent than ever. Nowhere else are the voices of those fighting for freedom heard inseparably from the articulation of a philosophy of revolution which is needed for those movements to succeed both in uprooting the dehumanized world in which we live today and in creating a new world built on human foundations. In this issue, you will find the voice of the founder of Marxist-Humanism, Raya Dunayevskaya, along with the voices of rank-and-file workers fighting for union recognition in Memphis, women’s liberationists fighting fundamentalist oppression in the Middle East, youth questioning racist inequality in the education system, and prisoners speaking for themselves in “Readers' Views" and thanking our supporters for keeping this paper alive. It is that support from our readers that has kept us alive at every critical moment that has threatened our existence, ever since our birth in 1955. We receive no government funding, no grant money, no NGO support to keep us going. Our revolutionary work continues through the contributions of both ideas and funds from our readers and supporters alone. It is they who have helped us bring out all the new works we are proud to have achieved in the past year--from two new works on the ongoing revolutionary Black dimension like John Alan's DIALECTICS OF BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES as well as our 40th anniversary edition of Raya Dunayevskaya's AMERICAN CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL; to a collection of Marxist-Humanist Writings on the Middle East; to a mini-pamphlet on MARX'S CONCEPT OF INTRINSIC VALUE. It is you, our readers, to whom we are appealing to help an independent voice like ours continue our revolutionary work. NEVER WAS YOUR HELP MORE NEEDED. PLEASE GIVE AS GENEROUSLY AS YOU CAN TO KEEP US ALIVE! |
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