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Marcelo Mendez

November 24, 2015 Length: 473 words 0 comments

California Student/Worker Demonstration against Student Debt and for $15/Hr. for Campus Workers

University of California, Santa Barbara experiences one of the nation’s largest turnouts for the November 12 nationwide Million Student March, where student-worker solidarity came to the fore – Editors.

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Tithi Bhattacharya

November 11, 2015 Length: 1499 words 0 comments

Frantz Fanon for Our Times: Reflections on Peter Hudis’s Biography of Fanon

Discusses Peter Hudis’s Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades in terms of Fanon’s rejection of an ontology of Blackness; his dialectic of race, class, and colonialism; and Fanon in relation to contemporary postcolonial thought. Bhattacharya’s comments were delivered at a meeting at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where Selim Nadi, Hudis, and she spoke on the book. Sponsored by the Decolonising Our Minds student group, it was attended by nearly 400. These remarks first appeared on the Pluto Press blog, HERE – Editors.

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Richard Greeman

November 5, 2015 Length: 997 words 0 comments

Glad Tidings About Our Friend, Maati Monjib

Maati Monjib, the Moroccan historian, human rights activist, and translator into Arabic of Dunayevskaya’s Marxism and Freedom, has suspended his hunger strike in its 20th day, having forced the authoritarian Monarchy of Mohammed VI to back down and restore his right to travel – Editors.

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Raya Dunayevskaya

October 25, 2015 Length: 26 words 0 comments

The Shock of Recognition and the Philosophic Ambivalence of Lenin

Summary: This article was translated into Persian by Ali Kiani and published in Anjoman Azadi in 1991.  The English original appeared in Telos in 1970 — Editors

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October 25, 2015 Length: 26 words 0 comments

The Shock of Recognition and the Philosophic Ambivalence of Lenin — by Raya Dunayevskaya

Summary: This article was translated into Persian by Ali Kiani and published in Anjoman Azadi in 1991.   The English original appeared in Telos in 1970 — Editors

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The International Marxist-Humanist Organization

October 22, 2015 Length: 508 words 3 comments

Russian Intervention in Syria and Interimperialist

Both the recent moves over Syria and the Iran agreement are part of a broader realignment of global and regional powers that above all want to restore “order” in the Middle East – Editors.

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Peter Hudis

October 19, 2015 Length: 1727 words 0 comments

Frantz Fanon: Race, Class, and a New Humanism

Peter Hudis on the contemporary relevance of his 2015 book, Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades, for intersectional discussions of race and class. Originally appeared on Pluto Press blog, Oct. 7, 2015 – Editors.

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Richard Greeman

October 16, 2015 Length: 283 words 0 comments

Report from Activists in Russia

On worsening situation in Russia after Nemtsov assassination and intervention in Syria, as well as continuing efforts by independent left – Editors.

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Richard Greeman

September 18, 2015 Length: 396 words 3 comments

Support Maati Monjib in the Face of Moroccan Government Repression

Statement of support for Moroccan historian, journalist, and activist Maati Monjib. Maati leads a human rights group that defends journalists and is the translator into Arabic of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Marxism and Freedom and of works by Victor Serge – Editors.

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Kevin B. Anderson

September 15, 2015 Length: 77 words 0 comments

Fromm, Marx, and Humanism

In 1961, Erich Fromm’s writings against nuclear weapons and on Marx’s 1844 humanist writings brought him into conflict with Cold War liberals like Sidney Hook, Richard Bernstein, and into new contact with Raya Dunayevskaya. Author’s last version of chapter published in Towards a Human Science: The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, edited by Rainer Funk and Neil McLaughlin (Gessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2015), pp. 209-19 and available on eScholarship  — Editors.

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David Black

September 14, 2015 Length: 3887 words 3 comments

Chartists, Corbynistas and the Strange Death of New Labour England

The remarkable and decisive victory of the socialist Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership election appears to revive the Left-Right divisions of the 1980s. But there are other historical precedents for the current surge of radicalism, in particular the birth of the Chartist movement nearly two centuries ago – Editors.

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Karel Ludenhoff

September 9, 2015 Length: 4008 words 0 comments

Greece, Grexit, Socialism: The National and International Dimensions

In the run-up to the second general election in Greece this year, Karel Ludenhoff assesses the thinking and strategies of the Greek Left following the capitulation of the Syriza government under the leadership of Alexis Tsipras – Editors.

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July 27, 2015 Length: 1347 words 0 comments

A letter from Iran to Kobanî resistance forces, the Federation of Young Socialists, the members of People’s Democratic Party, and all other activists of the path of socialism and democracy (in Persian, English, Persian-Kurdish, and Turkish)

A letter from Iran to Kobanî resistance forces, the Federation of Young Socialists, the members of People’s Democratic Party, and all other activists of the path of socialism and democracy (in Persian, English, Persian-Kurdish, and Turkish) – Editors.

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