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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 Immigrant struggles and the response to globalized capitalImmigrant workers took to the streets on May DayOn May Day, long recognized internationally as the day celebrating labor's radical origins, over a million immigrants took to the streets all over the U.S. It was, in effect, a mass strike. The massive immigration into the U.S. in the last 15 years cannot be separated from the impact of "free trade" agreements such as NAFTA. Capitalists demanded such open and free movement for commodities and capital, but not humans, in order to restructure production globally. Bolivia today: Liberation or statism?"Now the actions of a new state rather than the fatalism of a 'cycle of waning protest' may be causing us to enter a time where our lives will be purely state-centered, " warns an activist from El Alto following Bolivia's recent "cycle of protest." Boilermakers battle Celanese lockoutEnforced by professional goons, a multinational company is attempting to send workers and their families back to the 19th century. Union members have fanned out across the country, building solidarity. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Marx's humanism and the mass struggles since World War IITo say that Marx's humanism was the basic foundation for anti-Stalinism in 1965 flew in the face of half-way revolutionary theories and Communist perversions of Marxism. Dunayevskaya's argument, though, remains valid for the world of globalized capital and of half-revolutionary theories lacking a philosophic rudder. Essay Hutchings’ feminism reconsiders Hegel's dialecticA critical work by Kimberly Hutchings brings Hegel's dialectic to life in a journey through contemporary women's liberation theories. Editorial Iraq war drags on amidst chaosThe bombing of the Samara shrine in February has led to unending terrorism by emboldened Iraq insurgents. The Bush administration limps on without a clue how to end the disaster it created while gathering tools of repression to stifle a movement of opposition in the U.S. Our Life and Times French labor unrest challenges capitalThis spring's student-worker protests in France constituted the largest popular mobilization of the Left in over two decades, at least in the industrially developed world. While the 2006 events were confined to a single country, France, the issues were connected to the wider anti-globalization movement. MORE ARTICLES...
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