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[Video] International Marxist-Humanist Organization & Friends: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine & Our Response
Summary: Recording of meeting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine – Editors.

Official Call for Convention: The War Against Ukraine, the Resurgent Right, and the Quest for a Humanist Alternative – Developing Our Response to a New Global Turning Point
Summary: Call to the 2022 Convention of the IMHO – Editors.

Demanding an Investigation and Impartial Hearing on the Lynching at the Miami (Indiana) Correctional Facility
This is an update in the struggle of Khalfani Malik Khaldun, a Black political prisoner, whose safety and life and is in serious jeopardy due to actions of the Indiana Department of Corrections. For regular updates and information on how to send messages of support on his behalf, go to: https://www.idocwatch.org/blog-1/2022/4/8/urgent-phone-zap-transfer-khalfani-now

Revisiting Marx on Race, Capitalism, and Revolution
Marx writings on race, capitalism, and revolution still speak to us today at a time of global and U.S. struggles for liberation in the face of a deeply racialized fascist threat. Originally appeared in Monthly Review (March) and can be found here. Both the author and this journal take strong exception to MR’s stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — Editors

Why Today’s Attack on Democracy Matters
This article is taken from an oral presentation made to one of a series of public discussions the International Marxist-Humanist Organization in Chicago is currently holding on “Where Do We Go from Here? Taking Stock of the Present Moment,” on February 28, 2022. — Editors

The evolution of Karl Marx: a review of Kevin B. Anderson’s “Marx at the Margins”
This review of Marx at the Margins by Branko Milanović was originally published on his blog, globalinequality, here on April 5, 2022. — Editors

Denouncing the Yorba Linda School Board’s Ban of Critical Race Theory
A student-activist’s report on the ban of Critical Race Theory in classrooms in Yorba Linda, California. — Editors

On the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Our Response
Summary: A talk given at a public meeting sponsored by the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, On the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Our Response, 27 March 2022.

Latin American Women Make Monumental Gains in Reproductive Rights
Advances in Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, and Mexico show lessons for the world, including the U.S. — Editors
Brazilian Marxist-Humanist Correspondence: On Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe
These letters from Brazilian Marxist-Humanists informally discuss the January 24th, 2022 killing of Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe, the corrupt social context for this brutality, and the social repercussions of the murder and the following outcry. Kabagambe was a Congolese refugee who had been living in Brazil since 2011, and his murder has since been a rallying point for the subproletariat of African refugees in Brazil. –Editors

How Frantz Fanon Was Transformed by the Algerian Revolution
Detailing the formation of Frantz Fanon’s political vision for the Global South, including the role of national liberation, and its concrete basis in the Algerian liberation struggle. Fanon’s role in that struggle convinced him that national independence would be hollow without social revolution. This article was originally published in Jacobin on January 28th, 2022. -Editors
[VIDEO] “Marx Nas Margens” Interview with Kevin Anderson
Kevin B. Anderson discusses Marx Nas Margens (2019 Brazilian Portuguese publication of Marx at the Margins) and more with TV A Comuna. –Editors

A Feminist Reconstruction: Essential Demands for 8 March and Beyond
Summary: This manifesto first appeared on Transnational Social Strike Platform (TSS). We reprint it here with their permission. You can read the original post here: https://www.transnational-strike.info/2022/02/11/a-feminist-reconstruction-essential-demands-for-8m-and-beyond/ – Editors.

The US’s Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Plea for a Better Answer
Summary: An educator’s response to the youth mental health crisis in the US and insight into the shortcomings of the national response – Editors

India: Women in Red-Light Areas and the Working Class
Summary: A rank-and-file worker discusses organizing among sex workers in India and its implications for social transformation – Editors