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Road to Change: March for Our Lives & Black Lives Matter Town Hall
Summary: Public meeting in South Central Los Angeles brings together youth activists from March for Our Lives and Black Lives Matter for discussion of different forms of violence affecting US youth and the need for a total change — Editors
Trump in Britain – Protests all the Way
Summary: Trump’s (un)diplomatic visit: uncertain relations between the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union: and the biggest protests against a foreign leader in British history – Editors.
The Fall of Der’aa: Assad’s Counter-Revolution Triumphant
Summary: The fall of Der’aa, the city where the Syrian revolution began, is a real tragedy for the forces of human liberation, as seen in this account by a member of the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation. First appeared in Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice — Editors
War, Imperialism, and Class Polarization on a Global Scale: From East Asia to the Middle East and from South Africa to Europe
Summary: Presented at the Chicago Convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization; examines the N. Korea summit, Trump’s and the European far right, the Middle East, and the fate of 2 societies that underwent actual revolutions, South Africa and China. A slightly abbreviated version appeared in New Politics Online on July 20, 2018.
Contradictions of the Latin American Left: Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, and the PinkTide
Summary: Based upon a presentation to the Convention of International Marxist-Humanist Organization in Chicago, emphasizing current struggles in Nicaragua, Venezuela, the Mexican presidential election, and abortion rights — Editors
Race, Capitalism, and Resistance in the United States
Summary: Based on a talk at the panel on “Revitalizing Revolutionary Theory and Practice,” Loyola University July 13, 2018, sponsored by Loyola University and the International Marxist-Humanist Organization — Editors
When Marx Came Anew in Patna
Summary: Report of the international Marx bicentennial conference in Bihar, India. First appeared in Frontier — Editors
The Supreme Court Joins Trump’s Plan for a Police State as Mass Protests Resist
Summary: Still another national mobilization – against seizures of refugee children and attacks on immigrant communities — has challenged Trump’s police state vision for America. At the same time, the U.S. Supreme Court has certified the nativist, corporate, and misogynist policies of Trump and the Republican Party, which lays bare degenerate state-capitalism — Editors
Free the Children!
Summary: On Trump regime’s kidnapping of 2342 refugee and migrant children and the resistance to this outrage — Editors
On Australia’s Black Dimension: The Northern Territory Intervention
Summary — The ‘Northern Territory Intervention’ launched by the Australian government in 2007 represents yet another episode in the long history of oppression and discrimination directed against this country’s First Australians. Paul Rubner reports on activist opposition — Editors
[Video] Walkout at the Left Forum against Ajamu Baraka’s Assad Apologism
Summary: The pro-Syria revolution left walked out of Green Party leader Ajamu Baraka’s speech at the Left Forum in New York, due to his longstanding support of the murderous Assad regime. First appeared in Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice (CPRSJ), here https://cprsj.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/walkout-at-the-left-forum-against-ajamu-barakas-assad-apologism/ — Editors
Racism and the Logic of Capitalism: A Fanonion Reconsideration
Summary: An examination of Frantz Fanon’s writings helps us to transcend one-sided class-reductionist analyses and equally one-sided affirmations of identity that bypass or ignore class. First appeared in Historical Materialism 20:2 (2018) –Editors
Marx Was A Great Scholar in Mathematics, Linguistics
Summary: On Karl Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts with a Special Supplement, translated and edited by Pradip Baksi, a Kolkata-based Marx scholar, and issued by Aakar Books. First published by India Press Agency (June 13) — Editors
Oxford March to Save Our National Health Service
Summary: Health workers and supporters march for free health care for all, and workers’ rights — Editors
[Video] What Does the Working Class Know? A Report on the Left Forum
Summary: Douglas Lain of Zero Books on what he takes to have been the highlights of Left Forum 2018. Marxist-Humanism features prominently, with Peter Hudis’s theorization of Marx’s concept of labor contrasted to that of the late Moishe Postone –Editors