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News & Letters,
August - September 2009
Lead
Unemployment, suffering and revolt spawned by recession
With the hemorrhaging of jobs, unemployment has resulted in families losing homes due to vanishing income and increasing home foreclosures.
This may represent a new stage of capitalist crisis and demand new ways to understand and overcome it.
Year-long Stella D'Oro strike solidarity
Once Brynwood Partners, a Wall Street equity firm, bought the Stella D'Oro Biscuit Company in the Bronx last year, it decided to force the union, Local 50 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers, to accept a draconian contract.
Editorial
Obama's Afghanistan surge
Having begun his run for president of the U.S. as an anti-war candidate, Obama now holds the reins of commander-in-chief. Far from pulling the imperialist U.S. behemoth away from war and militarism, he is the one who is being pulled into repeating Bush's Iraq "surge," this time in Afghanistan.
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
Praxis and the responsibility of intellectuals
All serious struggles in a revolutionary movement have always taken place, not over "tactics," but over revolutionary perspectives. ... Those who claim the name of Marxism have let slip out of their minds ... his philosophy of liberation as a philosophy of human activity which is the absolute, dialectic opposite of the alienated labor to which capitalism consigned the working class.
Essay
Ecosocialism and Marx's Humanism
The tendency calling itself ecosocialism is a response not only to the massive environmental destruction in our capitalist world, but to the feeling that Green movements have not adequately challenged capitalism while socialist movements have treated ecology as an "afterthought," and neither has achieved its goals. It implies a recognition of the need to abolish capitalism ...
Honduras: coup and resistance
The coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya in the middle of the night on June 28 has yet to run its course. What is key at the present moment is the ongoing resistance within Honduras that has taken a number of creative forms.
Honduras and the U.S.: long, tragic history
The military coup in Honduras brings to the fore the history of U.S. military occupations and the political-economic domination of Central America in general, and Honduras in particular.
The continuing struggle in Iran
On the 40th day marking the murder of Neda Agha Soltan and others who were slain, tens of thousands of Iranians came out in Tehran to mourn and protest in a bold and creative display of people's power.
Van der Linden's Western Marxism and the USSR
Marcel van der Linden made a major contribution to the study of Marxist analyses of the USSR in his book Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917. It is an exhaustive review of critical analyses of the social and economic structure of the USSR, stretching from the immediate aftermath of the October Revolution of 1917 to the final dissolution of the system in 1991.
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