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The depth of global capitalism's decay is measured not only by intractable long-term unemployment and growing homelessness, by new outpourings of racism embedded in Tea Party-ism, and by never-ending imperialist wars abroad despite any supposed "withdrawals." It is also measured by the persistent revolt that these attacks bring forth in humanity's search for an alternative world.

That is why it has never been more important to keep a revolutionary journal like News & Letters alive and growing. It is only here where the voices from below of those fighting for freedom can be heard unseparated from the articulation of a philosophy of liberation that is needed if we are to succeed in uprooting the dehumanized world in which we live and create a new one built on human foundations.

The many voices on page 5 in this issue reveal how Marxist-Humanism is being recreated in Latin America to do battle with those who would put limitations on freedom; it is seen in people speaking for themselves as they fight home evictions (see "Stop home foreclosures"), firings from nursing home jobs (see "Residents support fired workers"), and prisoners speaking against a corrupt prison industrial system (see "'Rehabilitative' exploitation"). And all unseparated from the deepest articulation of the philosophy of revolution for our age.

From our beginning in 1955, News & Letters has been dedicated to working out a new unity of theory and practice. The celebration of 2010 as the Centenary of the birth of Raya Dunayevskaya, the founder of Marxist-Humanism, has shown that the Marxist-Humanist concept of Archives as "Living Archives," is not a nostalgic "look back," but a perspective on the future.

We are celebrating those "Living Archives" by preparing to publish a book of selected writings by Dunayevskaya on Marx, to present the totality of Marx's Marxism through the lens of Marxist-Humanism as a contribution to the search for an alternative to today's dehumanized capitalist society.

We are also determined to keep publishing N&L as a print publication and online. The number of print papers that have failed is alarming, and yet their importance is attested to by our prisoner-subscribers, who make sure that each issue is read by many as they circulate N&L throughout the prison system. Keeping the paper in print, however, entails considerable expense on top of our regular ever-increasing bills for office rent and postage, although our staff continues to be all-volunteer.

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