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Demonstrating to Abolish School Police in Los Angeles
Summary: Los Angeles youth demonstration to abolish school police faces counterdemonstrators — Editors

A Voice from India: Race, Caste and the Limits of Class Reductionism
Summary: A report by an Indian factory worker on how the struggles against racism and attacks on immigrants call for developing a conception of socialism and communism that avoids the pitfall of twentieth century Marxism. It is translated from Hindi by Arvind Ghosh — Editors

What Is Socialism? Answers from a Humanist, Marxist Point of View
Summary: Author’s last version, which appeared in print in Tikkun: A Jewish and Interfaith Prophetic Voice to Heal and Transform the World 35:1 (Spring/Summer), pp. 66-78. For information on the final version and articles by Peter Hudis and others in Tikkun magazine on “Re-envisioning Socialism,” please click here: https://newsstand.joomag.com/en/tikkun-spring-summer-2020-351/0146731001595450313
First appeared online on University of California’s escholarship site here: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tf4m5vk — Editors

Secretive Layoffs Undermine U.S. Census
Summary: Secretive layoffs of census enumerators undermines census count of people of color, immigrants, and to poor, to the advantage of Republicans and to the detriment of the census workers — Editors

Toward the Unification of Theory and Practice in the International Marxist-Humanist Organization
Summary: Discusses challenges, possibilities, and future aims for the IMHO as an organization. Adapted from an organizational report delivered to the 2020 Convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization in July – Editors.

Freedom of political prisoners; revocation of death sentence; support for workers’ struggles
Summary: An urgent statement, signed by many Iranian groups in exile, in defense of political prisoners, some in danger of execution. We republish this in support and solidarity. – Editors.

Support Postal Workers reinstalling letter-sorting machines!
Postal workers in Dallas, Texas, Tacoma and Wenatchee, Washington have reinstalled letter-sorting machines that have been dismantled over the past few months. As an organization we encourage civil society in the US, and national and international unions, to actively support the Postal Workers and their attempts to secure a democratic result in the upcoming Presidential Election.

Why Prison Abolition? Why Now? Behavior Modification Control at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility
Summary: This report by a longtime Black political prisoner in Indiana exposes the mental and physical mechanisms being used to try to prevent prisoners from uniting against their oppressors. It concludes with a brief auto-biographical sketch on why prison abolition is imperative.

COVID-19 and resistance in Brazil: life-making, memory, and challenges in seeding an alternative future
Summary: Report presented to the July 2020 Interim Convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization. First appeared in New Politics Online, here: https://newpol.org/covid-19-and-resistance-in-brazil-life-making-memory-and-challenges-in-seeding-an-alternative-future/ — Editors

Battle of Ideas: Race, Class, Gender, and Revolution in Theory and in Practice
Summary: Report to the July 2020 Interim Convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, slightly updated — Editors

Erich Fromm and the Revolution of Hope
Summary: Marks the fortieth anniversary of the socialist humanist Erich Fromm’s death. First appeared in Jacobin, here https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/08/erich-fromm-frankfurt-school-marxism-weimar-germany — Editors

Sabotage of the American Mail
Summary: Trump administration’s sabotage of mail is a sabotage of the elections and is drawing protest — Editors

COVID: Which side are we on?
Summary: An examination of how class divisions and opposed concepts of freedom underpin the radically divergent approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and the U.S. — Editors

Marxist-Humanism in the Heat of the Present
Summary: Presentation given at the International Marxist-Humanist Organization’s 2020 Convention in July. Discusses the concept of a dialectical and revolutionary humanism and its relevance to the present moment– Editors.

Iran: 55th day of strike at Haft Tapeh
Summary: Strikers persists in brutal heat but with growing support from other workers — Editors