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News & Letters,
November-December 2005

Crises and protests mount for Bush's Iraq policy

Lead

Mass opposition grows as Iraq occupation festers

While the narrow approval of the draft Iraqi constitution may have been a victory for Bush administration, the U.S. continues to walk a knife's edge in Iraq. On one side is the prospect of the explosion of a fully-fledged sectarian civil war with severe regional implications. On the other side is the drastic erosion of domestic political support for the administration's undertaking in Iraq.

A parent brings the Iraq war home

Fernando Suarez del Solar, whose son Jesus was a U.S. soldier who died in Iraq, brings a Latino voice and vision to the growing opposition to the Iraq war.


Rosa Parks, Marxist-Humanism and today's freedom movements

Black/Red View by John Alan

Legacy of Rosa Parks

There is a need to rescue Rosa Parks from the political attempt of President Bush and other leaders to separate her greatness from the dialectics of the ongoing struggles of African Americans for freedom in this nation.

Editorial

Celebrating the life of Rosa Parks

Toledo protests against neo-fascists and their police supporters, the New Orleans flood, and growing poverty in the U.S. illuminate the ongoing and intertwined relationship between Marxist-Humanism and the Civil Rights Movement, including Rosa Park's courageous defiance and the Montgomery Bush Boycott.


From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya

The law of value in capitalist society

Raya Dunayevskaya characterized the economy of Communist Russia in the 1940s as nothing less that state capitalist. Her conclusions were drawn from careful studies of Stalin's economic plans, Marx's Capital, and Stalin's own attempts to square capitalist law of value with so-called socialism. Economists Paul Baran and Oscar Lange took issue with her analysis. Her rebuttal held that the law of value operates in Russia.

A new look at the Russian revision of Marx's concept of "directly social labor"

Andrew Kliman discusses why we should pay attention to a 60-year-old debate about a Communist state and its economy proven by history to be not viable over a decade ago.


Essay

Russia's 1905 revolution has enduring legacy

Although 1917 is considered the landmark 20th century revolutions, a hundred years ago, the first Russian Revolution served as a crucible for three leaders and their theories: Luxemburg, Trotsky, and Lenin.


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