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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
The Seeds of Revolution Have Sprouted: What is Now to be Done?
Summary: Based on report to a Convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization; discusses how the new turning point reached with movement for Black lives can deepen the development of a viable alternative to capitalism. First appeared in New Politics Online https://newpol.org/the-seeds-of-revolution-have-sprouted-what-is-now-to-be-done/ — Editors
Colonialism, Migration, Pandemic: The Immutable Evidence that Capitalism Is Racist and Misogynist
Summary: People of color, especially women of color, have generally borne the brunt of the human suffering inflicted by capitalism. First appeared in Monthly Review, July-August 2020, here https://monthlyreview.org/2020/07/01/colonialism-migration-pandemic/ — Editors
Solidarity with Iranian workers at Haft Tappeh Sugar cane factory
Summary: Appeal on behalf of locked out workers whose plant has been privatized and its capital stolen, and who also face state repression. Translated from the Persian by Hamid Vahed — Editors
Letter from a Kashmiri Marxist
Summary: A Kashmiri Marxist experiences right-wing violence outside his region, Marxist organizing, and then military repression inside Kashmir — Editors
On the Battle of Ideas: Responding to the New World of COVID-19, Economic Crisis, and Anti-Racist Uprisings
Summary: Adapted from a presentation to the July 2020 Interim Convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization — Editors
Marx From the Margins to the Center
Summary: On the 2019 Portuguese (Brazil) translation Kevin B. Anderson’s Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies. First published in Portuguese on June 12 on Blog da Boitempo (Sao Paulo), here: https://blogdaboitempo.com.br/2020/06/12/marx-das-margens-ao-centro/ — Editors
Progressive Electoral Surge in New York and Its Limits
Summary: Reflections on defeat of establishment pro-Israel warhawk Eliot Engel by an avowed socialist and on the limits of electoral organizing for the left — Editors
LA Police’s History of Brutality; 6 Egregious Instances of Racist Police Abuse
Summary: Places Black Lives Matter and other anti-police brutality demonstrations in historical context — Editors
Seattle’s Dance with Dialectics: Negation in the Streets
Summary: Discusses the demands for abolition of police and community governance raised by the six-block Capitol Hill “autonomous zone” in Seattle — Editors
Iran: Flogging and imprisonment sentences for workers of AzarAb Industries annulled
Summary: The “crime” of these workers is that they protested against the delays in payment of their wages and job insecurity — Editors
Black Lives Matter — Green Bay
Summary: On protests against police abuse and for racial and social justice from Green Bay, Wisconsin—one more indication of the rapid growth of this movement — Editors
Mimi Soltysik (1974-2020), Socialist and Fighter for Human Liberation
Summary: Commemorating the life and word of Mimi Soltysik, socialist peace and justice activist in Los Angeles — Editors
Covid-19 and the Opportunity to Build a New Common Sense: A Critical Reading from Argentina
Summary: This essay analyses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina and elsewhere in terms of the challenges posed to the radical left to build a counter-hegemonic project against neoliberalism and capitalism — Editors
