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News & Letters, Lead Flames of revolt in ChinaThe widespread uprisings of Tibetans against Chinese control in March seemed to take Chinese authorities and exiled leaders by surprise... Attracting foreign capital to China's export processing zones depended from the beginning on extracting the maximum labor power from their workers and paying them the minimum--and suppressing the resistance that would naturally occur. Editorial Crisis is in productionThe Labor Department's April 4 report announced that the U.S. economy lost 80,000 jobs in March, confirming what working people and most economists already knew: the U.S. is in a full blown recession.... Finance capitalism, "uncoupled" from production, feeds the illusion that profit can come from speculative bubbles. At the moment of reckoning, the truth asserts itself: that profit only comes from extracting ever more surplus value or unpaid hours of labor from workers. From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Where to begin? Theory and practice in a new relationshipMarxism isn't an heirloom to be handed down as a keepsake for your grandchildren. It is either a method to help us realize freedom in our day, or it is nothing at all. Essay Healthcare and Marx's view of the futureIn spite of all the overwhelming evidence that a universal single payer system is the most cost effective way for the U.S. to overcome the disgrace of now having 47 million uninsured, none of the candidates in the upcoming presidential election even challenge the wasteful and contradictory system based on insurance companies and pharmaceuticals as profit centers. Woman as Reason Review: Poetry and CommitmentAdrienne Rich's essay, "Poetry and Commitment," given in 2006 at Stirling University in Scotland at a conference on "Poetry and Politics," continues Rich's explication of the meaning of words, here concentrating on poetics and "the action of poetry in the world." MORE ARTICLES...
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