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News and Letters, August-September 2004 Lead article We can come together to end police corruption’ The Chicago police arrested and jailed one of their foremost critics and prevented her from getting life-sustaining medicine. The activist, May Molina, died May 26. She and other activists in Chicago have been working to shine a light on confessions tortured out of innocent men who have spent a lifetime in prison, or worse. A forum sponsored by the Chicago News and Letters Committee explored these crimes and what to do to fight police corruption. Eyewitness view of women in Iraq According to Iraqi feminist and socialist Yanar Mohammed, women in Iraq are aspiring to create an Iraq much different than that of a corrupt and repressive government or religious fundamentalists. The women's liberation movement in Iraq is key to the liberation of society. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Catching "the quintessential importance and continuity of philosophic moments," from Marx to Marxist-Humanism, was the concern of Raya Dunayevskaya when she addressed her colleagues in News and Letters Committees in 1969. In the talk she discussed "philosophic as well as practical responsibilities" of Marxist-Humanists. The differences between Marx and Engels, between Lenin and Trotsky, and between herself and CLR James were differences between helping the next generation of revolutionaries, or disorienting them. Essay The challenge of anti-humanism today The challenge in thought that embraces not just anti-humanist philosophies, but those with a more or less close connection to National Socialism, no longer comes from the academic Left. Anti-vanguardist Marxist activist-intellectuals have, in the effort to steer clear of liberal ideology, run into the arms of the ideas of the far Right. In the process, not only is the individual subject threatened by this creed, but so is the possibility of a philosophy of liberation. Editorial September 11 report reflects damage control The reports of the Senate Intelligence Committee and September 11 Commission, issued in July, reflect concern in ruling class circles over public outrage over the war in Iraq as well a desire on the part of the political establishment to steer such opposition into manageable channels. Our Life and Times Global failure in face of Darfur genocide The past weeks have seen no letup in the horror unfolding in Darfur, the western region of Sudan whose non-Arabic-speaking Black population has been subjected to genocidal attacks. Sudan is banking on the fact that its size, its strategic location along the Red Sea, its links to major Arab powers like Egypt and to Western ones like France, will forestall any serious action from the UN. MORE ARTICLES...
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