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News & Letters: 1990s


 

Date of IssueLead articleDunayevskayas Two Worlds Notes from a DiaryEditorials
Vol. 35, No. 1, Jan-Feb, 1990 Editorial Article The world after Malta summit: Bush's Panama invasion; Gorbachev and the East European uprisings Michael ConnollyWorld View of Black Dimension
Vol. 35, No. 2, Mar, 1990 Poisoning the environment has become the way of life and labor Franklin DmitryevWomen's creativity and liberation: nationally and internationallyMandela is released! What path for South Africa?
Vol. 35, No. 3, Apr, 1990 A threat to all of Latin America: Nicaragua's electoral result shows U.S.'s imperial might Eugene WalkerThe significance of Lenin's philosophic ambivalenceEpidemic of child labor
Vol. 35, No. 4, May, 1990 Youth face crises in school, on the job, in the streets Sheila FullerState-capitalism and the bureaucratsBritish tax revolt exposes illusions of 'free market'
Vol. 35, No. 5, Jun, 1990 Life and labor in China one year after Tiananmen massacre Mary HolmesSelf-determination of the Idea of Philosophy and RevolutionCrime, race and punishment in America
Vol. 35, No. 6, Jul, 1990 Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1990-91: HOW TO BEGIN ANEW?Marx's 1841 thesis as a philosophic new beginning
Vol. 35, No. 7, Aug-Sep, 1990 German reunification: the contradictions unfold Kevin AndersonBecoming a thought-diver: Practicing the challenge to all alternatives to Marx's MarxismBush's imperial foray into Gulf threatens prolonged war
Vol. 35, No. 8, Oct, 1990 Editorial article: Bush's drive for war in Persian Gulf demands total opposition Peter Wermuth'To the barbarism of war we pose the new society'
Vol. 35, No. 9, Nov, 1990 Bush-Congress budget farce can't repair crumbling economy Andy PhillipsWhy post-Marx Marxists didn't become continuators of Marx's MarxismIsrael plunges toward barbarism
Vol. 35, No. 10, Dec, 1990 One year after 1989 upheavals: East Europe and Russia in deep crisis Kevin A. BarryThe role of the intellectual in a Marxist-Humanist organizationThe time to stop Bush's drive to war is now!
Vol. 36, No. 1, Jan-Feb, 1991 Editorial Article: Stop Bush's Persian Gulf War!: The 'new world order' is U.S drive for single world mastery Olga DomanskiMarxist-Humanism: Its summation as New Beginning, Part I
Vol. 36, No. 2, Mar, 1991 Black America: The war abroad and the war at home John AlanMarxist-Humanism: Its summation as New Beginning, Part IIGulf war ends: battle for mind of humanity intensifies
Vol. 36, No. 3, Apr, 1991 Bush's 'militarization of the mind' threatens our struggles at home Eugene WalkerMarx's 'Revolution in permanence' -- Unshackling the 'mind-forged manacles' of unfreedomFascist face of American 'law and order'
Vol. 36, No. 4, May, 1991 The murder of Kurds, Assyrians, Shiites, Turkomans: Bush complicity in Hussein's genocide Peter WermuthOn the 50th anniversary of 'Russia is a State-Capitalist Society': The origin and todayness of the theory of state-capitalismGulf war ends. 'Star Wars' continues
Vol. 36, No. 5, Jun, 1991 Bush's environmental terrorism endangers humanity's future Franklin DmitryevFrom state-capitalism to Marxist-Humanism -- On the Organization of Thought: from Marx's age to todayEnd of Nehru-Gandhi dynasty
Vol. 36, No. 6, Jul, 1991 As Bush and Salinas push to impose a free trade agreement: Voices from the other MexicoSpecial section -- From the Introduction to the 1991 edition of Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution: Marxist-Humanism’s Challenge to All Post-Marx MarxistsMarshall resigns from court; Thomas nominated: Crisis in civil rights intensifies
Vol. 36, No. 7, Aug-Sep, 1991 Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1991-92: THE GLOBAL NEED TO RE-CREATE MARX'S MARXISMOn Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Vol. 36, No. 8, Oct, 1991 Editorial article: Mass revolt, deep crises and pull of old haunt the 'new' Russia Peter WermuthAn original historic analysis: 'The beginning of the end of Russian totalitarianism'
Vol. 36, No. 9, Nov, 1991 Southern Africa in the crucible of western-backed barbarism Lou TurnerOn listening to Marx think as challengers to post-Marx MarxistsU.S./Russia arms proposals seek to disorient masses
Vol. 36, No. 10, Dec, 1991 Crises in labor and Black movements compel new philosophic beginnings Lou TurnerCapitalist production/alienated laborBush supports China's despotic rule
Vol. 37, No. 1, Jan-Feb, 1992 The one-worldedness of the crisis: Does the collapse of the USSR reveal to the U.S. its own future? Olga DomanskiSpeech to the 'Black/Red' Conference of 1969: The Black dimension and the dialectics of liberation
Vol. 37, No. 2, Mar, 1992 Battles against sexism and for a new society: The unfinished tasks of today's Women's Liberation Movement Terry MoonWhat is the internal cause of capitalism's crisis?U.S. rushes into central Asia
Vol. 37, No. 3, Apr, 1992 From collapse of Communism to Free Trade Agreement: What is Mexico's future in face of New World Order? Eugene Walker and Erica RaeSpecial section -- Contrasting Marxism and Philosophy and Lenin's Philosophic Notebooks: Karl Korsch and Western Marxism: recreation or dilution of Marx's Marxism?Elections 1992: Protests and the danger of Buchananism
Vol. 37, No. 4, May, 1992 After the Caterpillar strike Bob McGuireWhen racism and narrow nationalism grip the proletariatDe Klerk's 'mandate' in the shadow of massacres
Vol. 37, No. 5, Jun, 1992 Editorial Article -- American Civilization on Trial: What is the meaning of the Los Angeles rebellion? Lou TurnerFacing a new stage in world events: Spontaneity, organization, dialectics
Vol. 37, No. 6, Jul, 1992 Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1992-93 -- SPONTANEITY, PHILOSOPHY, ORGANIZATION: THE TEST OF TODAY'S CRISESPhilosophy and organization in the Iranian Revolution
Vol. 37, No. 7, Aug-Sep, 1992 The U.S. economy in disarray A. AnielewiczThe Power of AbstractionGenocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Vol. 37, No. 8, Oct, 1992 Protesting the 500th anniversary of Columbus' journey: Deep poverty and continuing revolt mark Latin America Eugene WalkerSpecial supplement: On the 125th anniversary of Marx's Capital: Raya Dunayevskaya's first essay on the theory of state-capitalismElection discloses new authoritarianism
Vol. 37, No. 9, Nov, 1992 East Europe's revolutions three years later Stephen SteigerAdorno, Kosik and the movement from practiceBush's electoral debacle
Vol. 37, No. 10, Dec, 1992 Bush defeat shows depth of social crisis in the U.S. John AlanLogic as Stages of Freedom, Stages of Freedom as Logic, or The Needed American RevolutionRacism in Germany escalates
Vol. 38, No. 1, Jan-Feb, 1993 Editorial Article: A host of specters, national and international, haunt Clinton Peter WermuthThe two-way road between the U.S. and Africa
Vol. 38, No. 2, Mar, 1993 The crisis in health care: the mirror of a dehumanized society Michelle LandauThe two-way road between the U.S. and Africa'Democracy' and counter-revolution in Angola
Vol. 38, No. 3, Apr, 1993 Behind Yeltsin's threatened coup: economic crisis and ethnic unrest Kevin A. Barry‘Practicing dialectics’ -- May, 1968Clinton's economic policy and workers' sacrifice
Vol. 38, No. 4, May, 1993 One year after the LA rebellion Gene FordSpecial supplement: Working out the Dialectics of Organization and Philosophy On the 40th anniversary of the philosophic moment of Marxist-Humanism
Vol. 38, No. 5, Jun, 1993 Questions for the freedom movement; Bosnia crisis exposes Achilles heel of western 'civilization' Peter WermuthOn the historic-philosophic originality of Marxist-HumanismClinton, environmentalist -- not!
Vol. 38, No. 6, Jul, 1993 Immigrant tragedy reveals depth of China's state-capitalist crisis Bob McGuireRevolutionary origins of the Hegelian dialecticGuinier and the politics of race
Vol. 38, No. 7, Aug-Sep, 1993 Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1993-94: PHILOSOPHY AND REALITY AT A TURNING POINTThe revolutionary trail from Hegel and Marx to our age
Vol. 38, No. 8, Oct, 1993 PLO-lsraeli agreement driven by discontent and fear of fundamentalism Kevin A. BarryWorld crises from the vantage point of freedom of the massesNew social consciousness challenges labor's dualities
Vol. 38, No. 9, Nov, 1993 Somalia, Haiti test U.S.'s 'new world order' Lou TurnerOn the 20th anniversary of the publication of Philosophy and Revolution -- Marxist-Humanism's original contribution: Absolute Idea as new beginningClinton's anemic health care plan
Vol. 38, No. 10, Dec, 1993 Struggles of labor, Blacks, women emerge in a changing South Michael FlugMerleau-Ponty, philosophy, and the human factorBoris Yeltsin's road to one-man rule
Vol. 39, No. 1, Jan-Feb, 1994 Decaying state of the nation Olga DomanskiRemembering Rosa Luxemburg as revolutionary, as theoristClinton, CIA bolster military tyranny in Haiti
Vol. 39, No. 2, Mar, 1994 Chiapas: a new form of struggle? Carlos VarelaCulture, commodity fetishism, and Hegel's PhenomenologyU.S., Russia in Bosnia cockpit
Vol. 39, No. 3, Apr, 1994 Clinton's criminal code imprisons America's future Jim MillsHegel's Phenomenology and the dialectics of liberation todayU.S.-China human rights farce
Vol. 39, No. 4, May, 1994 Mandela, ANC come to 'power' in historic election -- What next in South Africa? Lou TurnerThe dialectics of labor, and the labor of dialecticsThe West's studied disregard for Bosnia
Vol. 39, No. 5, Jun, 1994 Spirit of revolt beneath today's Black, Latino, labor reality Gene FordHegel's Phenomenology and Mao's cultural revolutionChina -- 5 years after massacre
Vol. 39, No. 6, Jul, 1994 Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1994-95: THE OBJECTIVITY OF PHILOSOPHY IN TODAY'S WORLD CRISES Revisiting An American Dilemma, 50 years later
Vol. 39, No. 7, Aug-Sep, 1994 Western Europe in deep crisis: economic, political, intellectual Kevin A Barry Marx's transcendence of, and return to, Hegel's dialecticRwanda, Haiti-twin apocalypse
Vol. 39, No. 8, Oct, 1994 Under the whip of U.S. occupation: Who will listen to the Haitian masses? Peter WermuthHegel's Absolute as New Beginning, Part IUnholy war at UN Conference
Vol. 39, No. 9, Nov, 1994 Militant labor actions resist Clinton's state-capitalist agenda Jim MillsHegel's Absolute as New Beginning, Part IINo to U.S. grip on Haitian life
Vol. 39, No. 10, Dec, 1994 Can we stop Republican 100-day plan to roll U.S. back 50 years? Michelle LandauIdeology and the Cuban Revolution: A study in what happens after...No to betrayal support Bosnia!
Vol. 40, No. 1, Jan-Feb, 1995 Chechens resist Yeltsin pounding Olga DomanskiOn the 40th anniversary of News and Letters Committees: A new divide in MarxismGingrich, Clinton rolling back history to Black Codes
Vol. 40, No. 2, Mar, 1995 Mexico at a turning point Mary Holmes and Mitch WeerthSpontaneity and logic of the dialecticTime is now to oppose Gingrich-Republicanism
Vol. 40, No. 3, Apr, 1995 Congress unleashes 'free market' to devour environment Franklin DmitryevLabor power in the high-tech economyRwanda, Bosnia and genocide in the 1990s
Vol. 40, No. 4, May, 1995 Youth mobilize against the Right Jim GuthrieTotalitarianism, U.S. styleOn brink of new nuclear arms race?
Vol. 40, No. 5, Jun, 1995 Facing post-Communist E. Europe Olga DomanskiWorkers, intellectuals and a new kind of revolutionary journalism The militias: America's neo-fascist visage
Vol. 40, No. 6, Jul, 1995 Supreme Court opens new racist era Michelle LandauAn essay from Presence Africaine: Marxist-Humanism and the African RevolutionsSarajevo under renewed fascist bombardment
Vol. 40, No. 7, Aug-Sep, 1995 Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1995-96: CAN THE IDEA OF FREEDOM RE-MOBILIZE TODAY'S MASS MOVEMENTS?On the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki: The legacy of Japan's freedom movements
Vol. 40, No. 8, Oct, 1995 Editorial statement: U.S. pushes partition of Bosnia Peter WermuthSexism, politics and revolution in ChinaCapitalist America's war on the poor
Vol. 40, No. 9, Nov, 1995 Gingrich, Republicans intensify class warfare with inhuman budget Olga DomanskiDialogue with Marcuse on the dialecticGuatemala in the shadow of massacre
Vol. 40, No. 10, Dec, 1995 Rabin's assassination lifts veil on emerging ethnic apartheid Peter WermuthOn Marx's concept of the commodity-formSweeney climbs on shoulders of restive labor
Vol. 41, No. 1, Jan-Feb, 1996 Clinton-Congress showdown exposes ailing state of union Jim MillsMontgomery Bus Boycott and the American Roots of MarxismU.S. troops aid partition of Bosnia
Vol. 41, No. 2, Mar, 1996 North and South, women fight Right's assault on poor, feminism Terry MoonLecture on Hegel in Japan: 'A summons to grasp spirit of the times' Part IRwanda, Burundi and genocide in the 1990s
Vol. 41, No. 3, Apr, 1996 Mexico: Will the civil war become total? Mitch WeerthLecture on Hegel in Japan: 'A summons to grasp spirit of the times' Part IIGM strike shows resistance to 'economic anxiety'
Vol. 41, No. 4, May, 1996 New voices of opposition to prison warehousing of the poor Gerard EmmettDo Marxists know Marx's own philosophy of revolution?The simmering East Asian cauldron
Vol. 41, No. 5, Jun, 1996 Western Europe Spring 1996: New labor battles, intellectual ferment Kevin AndersonDialectics and Women's LiberationClinton, Dole minimum wage scam
Vol. 41, No. 6, Jul, 1996 Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1996-97: TODAY'S CRISES AND THE SEARCH FOR A TOTAL UPROOTINGSingle dialectic of philosophy/organization
Vol. 41, No. 7, Aug-Sep, 1996 New immigrants enliven U.S. struggles and its contradictions John MarcotteOngoing revolutionary Black dimensionHolbrooke shields Serb war criminals
Vol. 41, No. 8, Oct, 1996 The Middle East in full disarray -- Israel-Palestine eruption Peter Wermuth; Betrayal and confrontation in Kurdistan and Iraq Kevin A. BarryCritique of Althusser's anti-Hegelianism'Defense of Marriage': election year fraud
Vol. 41, No. 9, Nov, 1996 Rage of the poor, voter indifference promise shaky term for Clinton Olga DomanskiHungary 1956: the light of freedomNew Edge of revolt in Indonesia and East Timor
Vol. 41, No. 10, Dec, 1996 Zaire in the grip of Africa's greatest post-colonial crisis Lou TurnerUnchaining the power of negativityRacist and sexist 'military-industrial' complex
Vol. 42, No. 1, Jan-Feb, 1997 Will Serbia protests confront legacy of ethnic cleansing? Peter WermuthLittle Rock and our infamous 'democracy'Crises rule Clinton's America in second term
Vol. 42, No. 2, Mar, 1997 Environmental movement fights Clinton's ecology double-talk Franklin DmitryevWomen's liberation yesterday and todayDeng's state-capitalist legacy
Vol. 42, No. 3, Apr, 1997 Mexico in state of total crisis Mitch WeerthWelfare, workfare, and immigrantsDeng revised not so much Mao, as Marx
Vol. 42, No. 4, May, 1997 Welfare reform exposes depth of today's capitalist crisis Anne JaclardMarx's new moments alive for todayNetanyahu's Trojan Horse
Vol. 42, No. 5, Jun, 1997 Will new Congo be born after the fall of Mobutu? Lou TurnerSpecial section: The Dialectics of Liberation TodayUrban redevelopment unhouses the poor
Vol. 42, No. 6, Jul, 1997 U.S. workers of a mind to fight Andy PhillipsLumumba in the heart of AfricaStill two worlds in China after Hong Kong's return
Vol. 42, No. 7, Aug-Sep, 1997 Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1997-1998: OPENINGS, CONTRADICTIONS, AND THE SPECTER OF MARX IN TODAY'S GLOBAL CRISESLessons of the Portuguese Revolution
Vol. 42, No. 8, Oct, 1997 UPS strike awakens passions in contingent army of workers Bob McGuireOn C.L.R. James' Notes on DialecticsBosnia: between two kinds of partition
Vol. 42, No. 9, Nov, 1997 Globalized capital in crisis Andrew KlimanTHE TWO RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS, and once again, on the Theory of Permanent RevolutionThe Papon trial and French fascism
Vol. 42, No. 10, Dec, 1997 Right wing bares its teeth Olga DomanskiThe double tragedy of Che GuevaraMasses suffer in crisis over Iraq
Vol. 43, No. 1, Jan-Feb, 1998 Massacre of Chiapas Indians stirs mass ferment throughout Mexico Mitch WeerthThe fatal defect of capitalist productionAmerica's unfinished war on poverty
Vol. 43, No. 2, Mar, 1998 Lead Editorial: Stop ongoing U.S. war on the Iraqi people Gerard Emmett, Peter WermuthWomen's liberation, then and now
Vol. 43, No. 3, Apr, 1998 Right-wing BJP claims power amid deepening crisis in India Maya JhansiMarxism and 'the party'Racism, oppression in prison system
Vol. 43, No. 4, May, 1998 A radical youth movement rises to confront global retrogressive times Kevin MichaelsLuxemburg: revolutionary, feministCapitalism's merger mania
Vol. 43, No. 5, Jun, 1998 Clinton's ready to deal in China Bob McGuirePracticing philosophy and revolutionThe state's hand in Teamsters vote
Vol. 43, No. 6, Jul, 1998 Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives. 1998-1999: CAPITALISM'S NEW GLOBAL CRISIS REVEALS THE TODAYNESS OF MARX100 years after the Spanish-American war: Racism and the birth of imperialism
Vol. 43, No. 7, Aug-Sep, 1998 GM strike shows labor doesn't buy capital's expansion at any cost Andy PhillipsRecollecting the legacy of 'Socialism with a human face'Support the people's war in Kosova
Vol. 43, No. 8, Oct, 1998 Russia's economic nose dive exposes roots of capitalism's global turmoil Peter Hudis, Andrew KlimanMarx's new moments and those in our ageThe U.S.'s 'war of the future'
Vol. 43, No. 9, Nov, 1998 Prison warehousing and police abuse spotlight decaying U.S. society D.A. SheldonThe despotic plan of capital vs. freely associated laborSerb grip on Kosova continues with NATO accord
Vol. 43, No. 10, Dec, 1998 Middle East crises simmer: from Iraq to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Kevin A. BarryEconomic reality and dialectics of liberationHurricane's unnatural rage
Vol. 44, No. 1, Jan-Feb, 1999 Right-wing coup at home, permanent war abroad Olga DomanskiSpecial section: Rough Notes on Hegel’s Science of Logic Part I
Vol. 44, No. 2, Mar, 1999 Nigerian elections reflect new upheavals on African continent Ba KarangSpecial section: Rough Notes on Hegel’s Science of Logic Part IIUnder the whip of the punitive state
Vol. 44, No. 3, Apr, 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia allows Milosevic to intensify genocide in Kosova Peter HudisSpecial section: Rough Notes on Hegel’s Science of Logic Part IIIFree Mumia Abu-Jamal!
Vol. 44, No. 4, May, 1999 Labor revolt and solidarity greet automation's 50th exploitative year Andy PhillipsSpecial section: Rough Notes on Hegel’s Science of Logic Part IVSupport the Kosovar resistance!
Vol. 44, No. 5, Apr, 1999 China's rulers play nationalist card as mass unrest grows Bob McGuireA Restatement of Some Fundamentals of Marxism against 'pseudo-Marxism'Cracks in the blue wall
Vol. 44, No. 6, May, 1999 Movement against police brutality grows Kevin MichaelsHistoric roots of conflict in South AsiaAftermath of the war over Kosova
Vol. 44, No. 7, Aug-Sep, 1999 Draft Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 1999-2000 -- WORLD CRISIS AND THE THEORETIC VOID: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR MARXIST-HUMANISMMarxist-Humanism's concept of 'Subject'
Vol. 44, No. 8, Oct, 1999 Western powers stand by in face of Indonesia's genocide in East Timor Kevin MichaelsThe roots of anti-SemitismClinton's selective clemency
Vol. 44, No. 9, Nov, 1999 Accidents, revolt arise from drive for global nuclear domination Franklin Dmitryev50 years after the revolution: Mao, Hegel, and dialectics in ChinaTemporary stay of execution leaves Mumia in the balance -- mobilize now!
Vol. 43, No. 10, Dec, 1999 Welfare 'reform' deepens poverty, stirs resistance Anne JaclardGrave contradictions of 1979 Iranian RevolutionRussia's war on Chechnya shadows 1989 anniversary