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Con Ed Locks Out 8,500 Electrical Workers in New York City
Cuts Power during Heat Wave; Union Bargains Only over How Many Give-Backs – Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions Issues Solidarity Statement – Editors’ note: MHI talked with Con Ed workers...
View ArticleCon Ed and Union Reach Contract after 26 Days of Lockout
On July 26, Utility Workers Union Local 1-2 announced it had reached a tentative agreement with Con Ed, which had locked out over 8,000 union workers at the start of the month (see earlier story). The...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day 2013
This year, International Women’s Day activities highlighted women’s determination to end violence against women all over the world. From Eve Ensler’s V-Day “Rising of the Billion” in February,...
View ArticleMHI-Sponsored Events at Left Forum 2013, June 8 & 9
NOTE: A post-conference article containing recordings of the panels appears at http://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/philosophy-organization/video-mhi-sponsored-panels-at-left-forum-2013.html...
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Manning Sentenced for Leaking U.S. War-Crimes Documents
Private First Class Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Aug. 21 for leaking more than 700,000 classified government files to WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy organization that arranged...
View ArticleCourt Orders N.Y.P.D.’s Racist “Stop-and-Frisk” Practice Curbed
One Victory in the Continuing Struggle for Dignity and Equality Added Nov. 7, 2014: We are happy to report that the new City administration this year greatly reduced “stop and frisk,” dropped the...
View ArticleFast-Food Workers Hold 1-Day Strike Across the U.S.
On Aug. 29, fast-food workers in 58 cities around the country refused to go to work in the second one-day strike in recent months. Their campaign for “$15 an hour and a union” is the first-ever attempt...
View ArticleLeft Forum 2014 is May 30, 31 and June 1; Come to MHI’s panels!
[Added June 6: VIDEOS OF OUR PANELS WILL BE POSTED SOON!] Marxist-Humanist Initiative is sponsoring three panels at Left Forum this year. The largest left academic conference in the U.S., Left Forum...
View ArticleNot So Hospitable Southern Hospitality
As a New Jersey transplant who has lived in Florida and Georgia since the early 1980s and now resides in Marietta, GA, home of the State Headquarters for the Tea Party, I feel that I can speak with a...
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Discussion June 23: The Politics of Inequality Discourse
OUR VIDEO OF THIS MEETING IS NOW POSTED MHI will sponsor a public discussion on The Politics of Inequality Discourse Monday, June 23 at 7:00 p.m. at Pearl Studios, 500 8th Ave (btwn 35th & 36th...
View ArticleCome to MHI’s Panels at the Left Forum, May 29-31 in NYC
[Added June 1o, 2015: Videos of the three panels are now posted here.] Marxist-Humanist Initiative will sponsor three panels at the Left Forum, all to take place on Sunday, May 31. See the full...
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May 21-22: Left Forum Panels on Alternative to Vanguardist/ Spontaneist...
MHI will present a panel at Left Forum 2016 entitled “The Vanguardist/Spontaneist Binary and the Marxist-Humanist Alternative.” Left Forum, the largest left academic conference in the U.S., will take...
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The Extraordinary Dangers of Trump and Trumpism
[Note added Nov. 16, 2016: see also our post-election Statement in Featured article below] [Note added Nov. 24, 2016: see also Freies Sender Kombinat's post-election podcast on this editorial. Anne...
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Can a McMullin Vote in Utah Help Stop Trump?
by Andrew Kliman MHI’s editorial on the extraordinary dangers of Donald Trump and Trumpism expressed Marxist-Humanists’ opposition to both Trump and Hillary Clinton, but pointed out that “[t]o...
View ArticleWhy I Voted for the Imperialist Hillary Clinton
by Eddie Goldman It was just sitting there in its oversized envelope, this absentee ballot I get sent since I decided that my various health problems had made it too difficult for me to navigate...
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MHI Statement on Fighting Trump & Trumpism
Nov. 15–Tens of millions of Americans–and people throughout the world–are rightly terrified of what awaits us under President-elect Donald J. Trump, and they have begun to fight back. Our August...
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Jews Fight Back Against Bannon, Show Solidarity with Other Targets of Trumpism
by MHI participants On November 20, about 1000 Jews and others participated in a “Jewish Resistance” protest to condemn the right-wing Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) for inviting Steve Bannon,...
View ArticleAudio: Interview with MHI on the Extraordinary Dangers of Trump and Trumpism
In our August 29 editorial, MHI warned about the extraordinary dangers of Donald Trump and Trumpism. Recalling this editorial when Trump was elected president, representatives of a left-wing German...
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New Yorkers March for Immigrant Rights at U.N.
Immigrants in New York City demonstrated on Dec. 18 against Trump’s plans to decimate the immigrant community in the U.S. Hundreds of Latinos, Muslims, Asians and others marched outside the United...
View ArticleInstant mass protests against Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ sweep country
The U.S. erupted again on Saturday, January 28, just a week after the unprecedented Women’s Marches brought together millions in opposition to Trump’s policies. In instant and massive revulsion...
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