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August-September 2002Lead Article Africans struggle to overcome slavery, AIDS, neocolonialism Africa is in the grip of a new scourge, the AIDS disease.
And an old one, slavery, has not disappeared to this day. The politics of both
have brought forth new movements for women's liberation, redress from former
colonial powers, and an end to the neocolonial rulers backed by them, according
to Bakary Tandia, an activist against slavery in Mauritania, and Pauline Muchina,
an AIDS/HIV counselor from Kenya. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives The revolt of the workers and the plan of the intellectuals Raya Dunayevskaya's June 1951 "The Revolt of the Workers and the Plan of the Intellectuals" completed the Johnson-Forest Tendency's break from Trotskyism and projected an original perspective of viewing each stage of capitalist technological and social development as a response to the persistent revolt of the workers at the point of production. The first publication anywhere of this historic document of American Marxism is excerpted in two parts beginning this month. Philosophic Dialogue Reflections on Hegel, Marx and Mao In Hegel’s PHENOMENOLOGY OF MIND, the stage of Spirit can help us understand the historical periods of the French Revolution, industrial capitalism, and state capitalism. This stage is featured by “spirit in self-estrangement,” or as Hegel defined it, “the discipline of culture”… Black Belt farmers occupy U.S. offices On July 1, over 300 Black farmers from 16 states occupied the Tennessee Department of Agriculture offices to protest farm foreclosures and loan discrimination. Several discussed the issues with N&L. MORE ARTICLES... |
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