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News & Letters, To our readers: We are beginning 2006 with the February-March News & Letters and continuing bimonthly after that. Lead New challenges to global capital in Latin American battle of ideasEvents in Latin America are becoming as worrisome to the Bush administration as those in the Middle East. A move to the Left there is only one reflection of a continent in upheaval. Editorial Europe, Muslim minorities and "free speech"The controversy over the anti-Muslim cartoons published in Europe has helped extremely reactionary forces in both Europe and the Muslim world to gain headway. This is a danger facing all progressive and revolutionary movements. Sleeping giant stirs in immigrant marchesIn marches, walk-outs and rallies across the U.S., undocumented workers, their families, and supporters reminded an anti-immigrant Congress that exploitation will not go unchallenged. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Why Philosophy? Why Now?"Unfinished revolutions," cautioned Dunayevskaya, "have ever been the source of the new breath the old class society draws upon to keep on existing." The lessons of unfinished revolutions, from Russia in 1917 to Hungary in 1956, underscore her analysis. Philosophic Dialogue A look at Dunayevskaya's Power of NegativityRaya Dunayevskaya "hopes that, by sending post-Marx Marxists back to Hegel, they will get the dialectic right and, in turn, finally get Marx right," explains Anne Pomeroy in a review of The Power of Negativity. The stakes are nothing less than "the coming-to-be of human consciousness." Workers battle privatization in El SalvadorEl Salvador's recent past is peppered with privatization attempts that led to increased prices, mass firings, and in some cases massive popular resistance. MORE ARTICLES...
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