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News & Letters,
February-March 2006

To our readers: We are beginning 2006 with the February-March News & Letters and continuing bimonthly after that.

Lead

From Iraq war to New Orleans, Bush agenda spawns crises

Opposition to the Iraq war, disgust over inaction in the New Orleans flood, and dissent over spying on the nation has led some even in Congress to challenge Bush's agenda. But is it really an opening for revolutionary activists and thinkers?


Editorial

Bolivia at the crossroads

The election of Evo Morales begs questions like: Can nationalized industry truly free Bolivia from the world economy? What kind of developments are needed, nationally and internationally, to break the power of capital and underdevelopment?


From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya

Marx and the Black World

The renewed resistance to Bush's policies in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina's devastation calls on us to restate Marx's liberatory vision and the American roots of Marxism. "A 1980s View of the Two-Way Road Between Africa and America" by Raya Dunayevskaya, first published in 1983 on the 20th anniversary of the historic mass March on Washington, is a revolutionary observance of Black History Month 2006.


Philosophic Dialogue

Dunayevskaya's POWER OF NEGATIVITY: a critique

Philosophy and revolution as equal partners: Response to Arthur's critique of Dunayevskaya

In his review of a collection of writings by Raya Dunayevskaya on dialectical philosophy, Chris Arthur challenges her notion that freedom is subjectivity. In his reply, collection co-editor Kevin Anderson argues that philosophy and revolution are indeed "equal partners."


Woman as reason

For freedom, we must stop Alito

The nomination of Samuel Alito is an ideological act, a furthering of Bush's drive to control our minds and destroy any human vision of the future.


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