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Sandra Rein

May 26, 2016 Length: 5 words 0 comments

[Video] Luxemburg Saw Reform as a Means and Revolution as the Goal

Summary: From plenary panel at Left Forum, New York, on “Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution?” that also featured Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff, and moderated by Laura Flanders (20 mins.) — Editors

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Steering Committee of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization

April 17, 2016 Length: 5432 words 3 comments

Theoretical and Practical Perspectives for Overcoming Capitalism

Summary: This statement on the current situation was drafted on March 27 in preparation for our international gathering this summer. Because it covers a wide range of issues pertinent to the global revolutionary movement, we have decided to make it public now — Editors

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Peter Hudis

April 16, 2016 Length: 13 words 1 comments

[Video] Why Frantz Fanon Matters to Today’s Struggles Against Racism and Imperialism

Summary: This lecture by Hudis on his 2015 book, Frantz Fanon, Philosopher of the Barricades, was presented to a March 13, 2016 meeting of the Los Angeles chapter of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization at the Westside Peace Center (60 minutes), here: part 1 of 2 and part 2 of 2 — Editors

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Alireza Kia

April 15, 2016 Length: 800 words 0 comments

Anti-Immigrant Hysteria and Islamophobia

Summary: Islamophobia and anti-immigrant hysteria in the U.S. are compared to George Wallace’s racist candidacy of the 1960s, and to the rise of Nazism. Today’s Trump campaign is taking place in an era of economic decline, however — Editors

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Kate Evans,
Peter Hudis,
Mirjam Zadoff

April 14, 2016 0 comments

[Audio] Red Rosa: Eagle of the Revolution

Summary: Kate Evans, co-author (with Paul Buhle) of Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography; Peter Hudis, General Editor of Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg; and Mirjam Zadoff of Indiana University — in conversation on March 8 2016  (International Women’s Day) on Doug Storm’s “Interchange” on radiofreeamerica (WFHB radio), Bloomington, Indiana (60 mins.), HERE — Editors.

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Khalfani Malik Khaldun

April 7, 2016 Length: 847 words 0 comments

The Impact of a Great Comrade: A Eulogy of Thanks for Mark Thiel

Summary: The recent death of Mark Thiel, a fighter for prisoner rights, racial justice, and an end to class society, calls us on to commemorate the work to which he dedicated his life. This is written by a New Afrikan political prisoner in Indiana whom we have supported for many years — Editors

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Kevin B. Anderson

March 27, 2016 Length: 1498 words 0 comments

Easter 1916 at 100: Its Marxian Dimension

Summary: Easter 1916 in Ireland was the first major anti-colonial uprising of the twentieth century, a harbinger of revolts across the colonial world. At the time, Marxists like Trotsky and Radek dismissed it as bourgeois nationalist in character, but Lenin saw it as an example of a new force on the world scene that could be an ally of the working classes against monopoly capital: national liberation movements against imperialism.  Originally appeared in Truthout, March 27, 2016 — Editors

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Richard Abernethy

March 5, 2016 Length: 2171 words 0 comments

Myanmar (Burma): Former dissidents, new government elect, fail to oppose ethno-religious persecution

Summary: As the National League for Democracy (NLD) takes over the government of Myanmar (Burma), its credentials as a force for freedom and human rights have been tested by the persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority people in this predominantly Buddhist country. So far, the NLD is failing that test by not denouncing this religious and ethnic oppression or standing up for minority rights — Editors

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Karel Ludenhoff

March 4, 2016 Length: 1850 words 0 comments

Further Discussion on Action & Analysis

Summary: This article responds to Hamid Assian’s “On Action & Analysis,” published here on Feb. 11  and to the comment on it and on theory and practice by Mia Carlsen — Editors

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Hamid Assian

February 11, 2016 Length: 552 words 2 comments

Action & Analysis: Missing the point of human collaboration to transcend capitalism

Summary: Based on an intervention at a Los Angeles International Marxist-Humanist Organization meeting in response to the argument that immediate action was more important than theoretical reflection — Editors

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Peter Hudis,
Rasul Mowatt,
Michelle Moyd,
Doug Storm

February 9, 2016 0 comments

[Audio] Interchange — Frantz Fanon: Toward a New Humanism

Summary: Conversation about Peter Hudis’s new book, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades, hosted by Doug Storm on “Interchange,” a program on WHFB, Bloomington (Indiana) Community Radio (1 hr.) — Editors

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Kevin B. Anderson

February 2, 2016 Length: 787 words 0 comments

Oppose Repression in Turkey

Summary: Repression has deepened in Turkey, targeting the Kurds, the left, and intellectuals, in an attempt to wipe out the emancipatory spirit of the past several years, whether at Gezi Park or in the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Syria — Editors

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Tithi Bhattacharya,
Peter Hudis,
Selim Nadi

January 29, 2016 Length: 3 words 0 comments

[Audio] SOAS Panel on Hudis, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades

Summary: — In November 2015, the student organization Decolonizing Our Minds at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, brought out several hundred youth to a discussion by Selim Nadi, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Peter Hudis of the latter’s new book, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Peter’s presentation starts 39 minutes in) — Editors

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Nicholas Guzowski

January 12, 2016 Length: 1086 words 0 comments

Humanism and the Syrian Refugees

Summary: US nationalism underlies a feeling of superiority toward other nations and peoples. This can been seen in the outright rejection of the Syrian refugees, despite our common humanity — Editors

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Dan Beltaigne

January 10, 2016 Length: 411 words 4 comments

Flint, Our Future?

Summary: The severe water contamination in Flint, Michigan, which has already impacted the health of the population, especially the youth, stems from the poisonous legacies of both racial oppression and capital accumulation — Editors

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