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NEWS & LETTERS, September-October 2005Now is the time to support News & LettersWhether we look at the human destruction wrought by the brutality of capitalism in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; or whether we are forced to confront the ever-increasing body count of Iraqi victims and U.S. GIs alike in Bush's reach to achieve single superpower rule -- the need for a philosophically grounded alternative to capitalism grows more urgent every day. Never was there a greater need for a publication like NEWS & LETTERS. Born 50 years ago, at the height of McCarthyism, N&L has remained the only Marxist-Humanist journal published in the U.S. Just as McCarthyism failed then to divert us from our goal of establishing News and Letters Committees as a new kind of organization, and its paper, NEWS & LETTERS, as a unique combination of theory and practice, so today the ever deeper retrogression of Bushism will not divert us from our goal of unfurling an ever fuller and more expansive banner of liberation. From our beginning, our principle has been never to separate the voices of revolt from the articulation of the philosophy of revolution Raya Dunayevskaya created as Marxist-Humanism. The "voices from below"--from women's liberationists to rank-and-file working people, the Black dimension and youth--can be seen abundantly in the pages of this issue of N&L. At the same time, in the face of the deepening retrogression we confront today, we have been attempting to close the gap between philosophy and organization that has characterized the entire radical movement. It was to that end that we began issuing NEWS & LETTERS on a bimonthly basis this year to increase our political-philosophic analyses of critical ongoing events at the same time as expanding our organizational activism into new areas. In the year ahead we are undertaking a collective organizational effort to compile a new collection of Raya Dunayevskaya's writings on Marx, unseparated from working out the totality of Marx's Marxism for today in every facet of our work. The continued publication of NEWS & LETTERS and the expansion of our activities confronts us with ever-increasing expenses, despite the fact that we have no paid staff. The bills for printing, office rent, and postage alone come to over $6,000 a month. Every year since our founding, 50 years ago, we have turned to you, our readers, to help us keep going. Just as there has never been a greater need for NEWS & LETTERS, so has there never been a greater need for your support! Send your check or money order to: Or use your credit card to make a donation using PayPal |
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