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News & Letters, After Hurricane Katrina Lead - Editorial New Orleans: The human cost of capitalism’s brutality Hurricane Katrina did far more than wreak an enormous amount of human, material, and environmental devastation to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The giant storm violently lifted the curtain that obscures the racial and class divides that constitute American civilization and made plain for the world to see that anti-Black racism continues to shape the reality for millions. Workshop Talks The Superdome, whose dome fell apart leaving its occupants unprotected, is an apt metaphor for the 40 million who are denied healthcare through the lack of health insurance. No less harrowing are the 200,000 annual casualties of HMO business practices. A Shreveport, La. autoworker views the disasters befalling workers and Blacks at home and abroad. Essay Call of the Siren: A proletarian critique of Starbucks Behind the smiling faces and fair trade brews, alienated labor keeps a famous cafe chain in profits. A barista meets Karl Marx in a behind-the-scenes analysis what it's like to work for Starbucks. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya The dialectic of Marx’s Grundrisse Given the century-long lackadaisical attitude to bringing Marx's writings into print, a new translation of his Grundrisse was a good thing, but why should the translator do harm to the philosophy in the work? Dunayevskaya's critique of Martin Nicolaus examines what his translator's introduction scorned, from the Hegelian heritage to "Pre-capitalist Economic Formations." Now is the time to support NEWS & LETTERS We need your help to continue to publish the only Marxist-Humanist journal in the U.S. With the Zapatistas: the Sixth Declaration from Lacondona In the tzeltal Communidad Autonoma Zapatista in southern Mexico, hundreds of militants gathered strength through dialogue, to wage La Otra Campana, "The Other Campaign," in defiance of the official presidential campaign. A participant reports on the meeting and the ideas behind it. The September 24 march against the Iraq war brought masses of peoples to the doorstep of the Bush White House. What accounts for the mass turnout-between150,000 and 300,000-despite the despairing shortcomings of an anti-war movements? MORE ARTICLES...
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