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News & Letters,
March-April 2005

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Crossroads for movement against global capital

There is no better measure of the accomplishments and contradictions of the movements against global capital than the World Social Forum held in January in Porto Alegre, Brazil. An eyewitness report by Peter Hudis tells what happened in the liberatory space which nevertheless is struggling to clarify its purpose.


Editorial: Iraq after the elections

Despite the reactionary resistance which take the lives of ordinary Iraqis and the oppressive U.S. occupation, the Iraqi people took a step governing their own affairs in the January elections. Now more than ever is the time to support the forces that can chart a new path in Iraq: the women, national minorities, and workers.


From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya  

Marx's 'Grundrisse' and women's liberation

Raya Dunayevskaya was an early commentator on the newly translated GRUNDRISSE by Karl Marx. Against the retreat on women's liberation by Simone de Bouvoir and against Louis Althusser's reduction of Marxism to "overdetermination," the GRUNDRISSE shows a much different Marx who focused on the self-determination of women, Asian masses, and ideas of liberation.


Black/Red View

What is freedom?

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution secured citizenship for newly freed Blacks in 19th century U.S. It also secured the country's financial obligations to the generation that fought to end slavery.  Is Bush and company willing to scuttle the constitution by ending the U.S.'s obligations to retired workers?


Political prisoner faces harassment

Kalfani Malik Khaldun faces repression at the hands of Indiana prison authorities. A narrative of abuses shows the lengths to which the prison industrial complex will go to silence a voice of reason.


Woman as Reason

Rosa Luxemburg's feminist dimension

Woman as Reason: Rosa Luxemburg's feminist dimension

While there are many points of departure for view Luxemburg's life and work, one of the most contested claims is that Luxemburg embodied a feminist dimension. The new Rosa Luxemburg Reader, argues Terry Moon, reveals Luxemburg's conviction of the necessity of women's emancipation while showing the limitations of her time.


Community opposes police injustice

Celebrity trials in Los Angeles overshadow the other L.A., one of police abuses, a garrisoned Black community, and an urge by the people to go beyond the limitations of civil society.


Review Essay: Why Marx's theory of value matters

"The time is right to begin work in a new empirical framework to relaunch Marx's original project and the purpose of his enquiry: to discover the law of motion of the modern economy," argues a contributor to a new book, reviewed by Tom More, on the core of Marx's Capital, his labor theory of value.


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