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News & Letters,
November 2004

Lead-Editorial

Bush 'mandate' promises economic and social crises

George Bush's electoral victory on Nov. 2 poses two threats. One is that he will pursue his reactionary agenda both at home and abroad more ruthlessly than ever. The other is that the forces who worked so hard to unseat him will now fall into retreat and depression or even turn to a politics of desperation.

Our Life and Times

Palestine and Israel at a turning point?

The growth of Palestinian nationalism under Arafat's leadership and the support it has garnered among the world's more than one billion Muslims is one of the central political facts of our era, playing no small role in the failure of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Sooner or later, the Israeli leadership will be forced to recognize this fact.


Women as Reason

Struggle against Shari'a in Canada

A horrific threat to women in some Middle Eastern and African countries--Shari'a law--is now haunting the lives of Muslim women in Canada. But not without a fight.

From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya

Remembering the 1974-75 Portuguese Revolution and its relation to Africa

Spurred by the anti-colonial struggle in Africa, in April of 1974 the Portuguese people overthrew their fascist regime. Raya Dunayevskaya analyzed the revolution and the November 1975 military coup which arrested the revolutionary process. She asked, "Under the whip of the counter-revolution: Will the revolution in Portugal advance?"


Essay

Resistance or retrogression? The battle of ideas over Iraq

The U.S. occupation of Iraq has turned into a quagmire of nightmarish proportions, creating fertile ground for reactionary and terrorist forces to flourish. Left-wing critics of the war, however, have fallen into an ideological quagmire by failing to acknowledge the reactionary character of much of the Iraqi "armed resistance."


Iranian PHILOSOPHY & REVOLUTION offers 'critical grasp'

"It is said that happy times don't have philosophies," say the translators of a new Farsi edition of Dunayevskaya's PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION. This work, then, is a contribution when, "in our tragic times in which human identity has been lost in uniformity and the global village, we desperately need philosophy."


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