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March 2002Lead articleWomen fight terror and war in South Asia and the Middle East A global women's movement has made itself heard over the din and violence of Bush's so-called "war on terrorism" following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Yet no sooner had the interim government been installed in Afghanistan than Bush and his allies dropped women from the international agenda as they searched new areas of the world to bomb. Now women from many parts of the world find themselves in a new situation. Editorial From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Marxist-Humanist Archives The anti-colonial revolutions in Africa, during the decades following World War II, inspired a return to the humanism of Marx inside revolutionary movements. About the leaders, some of whom once embraced that humanism, Dunayevskaya wrote, "We cannot know in which direction these African leaders will turn in the critical 1960s. We do know that their serious concern with the theoretical foundations for the building of a new society has no parallel in the intellectual leaders of 'the West'." Article Workman, Rahman cases show death penalty's injustice Anti-death penality scholar, Professor Margaret Vandiver, lays out the case for stopping the executions of Philip Workman and Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman in Tennessee. The case of Abdur'Rahman is a classic example of the trap created for defendants by prosecutorial misconduct, defense ineffectiveness, and appellate indifference. Workshop Talks A CEO of a major HMO said in 1996, "If the airline industry were run like the healthcare industry, you wouldn't want to fly." Although Hollywood may have made the Denzel Washington film John Q. into an exaggerated melodrama, the situation is based in reality. More... |
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