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News & Letters, Lead China as global factory is incubator of future revolt Though China's economy is booming, so is worker and peasant resistance. Over 60,000 unauthorized strikes occurred in 2004. In the face of massive economic dislocation and political repression, the challenge is working out new pathways to liberation. Peter Hudis reports on some of the latest economic and political developments in China, including a conference on Rosa Luxemburg that was recently held in Guangzhou. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya As a warm-up for her own book on the famous Polish and German revolutionary, Dunayevskaya warmly, and critically, reviewed a book of Luxemburg's letters in the 1970s. Her review wove together Luxemburg's theory of the mass strike, her break from "official" Marxism, her prison years, her views on national liberation and imperialism, and her feminism. Get your copy of The Rosa Luxemburg Reader A new book of Luxemburg's writings and speeches is available to a new generation of anti-globalized capital activists and thinkers. Editorial: Capitalism adds to tsunami horror Indonesia interferes with Acheh tsunami aid The tsunami of Dec. 26 was one of the worst natural calamities to strike humanity. Its impact on Acheh province in Indonesia also revealed most sharply how the tsunami's death and destruction was not only born of natural causes but was also the result of the savagery of capitalism, especially as personified by the corrupt Indonesian military, which has kept Acheh under its brutal rule for decades. Woman as Reason: Helen Macfarlane and Marxism Essay: Helen Macfarlane and the Idea of Freedom A new biography of the first "British Marxist," first translator of THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO into English, and the first British commentator on Hegel's philosophy reveals another milestone, that it was a woman, Helen Macfarlane, who made these contributions. Author David Black explains, "Macfarlane was of that generation of post-Napoleonic War 'baby boomers,' which included other original and radical women writers such as George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) and the Bronte Sisters." The recovery of this "lost history" can have a big impact on today's Women's Liberation Movement. For Southern labor the dream is still 'We Shall Overcome' Long-time organizer in the South, Ida Leachman, discusses three labor struggles which may show the future of organized labor, because they are about the struggle of Black workers today. Philosophic Dialogue Dialectics of development in transition Political prisoner Khalfani Malik Khaldun believes that "nothing in New Afrikan or world history has ever been pre-determined by any single factor or force." The American political system and the Black misleaders have antecedents, an examination of which can help us overcome both. Toward that end, his reading of two books from News & Letters--American Civilization on Trial and The Dialectics of Black Freedom Struggles-comes at a time of great repression, for the movement and for the writer. MORE ARTICLES...
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