The Negro Revolution  

for the Negro liberation movement in the future as it has in the past, or should it be replaced by new methods? If so, which methods? Should the liberation movement try to play a more directly political role? Should it …



King and Reuther for ’64!  

For a long time, we of the anti-Communist Left have been politically dispossessed. There is no home for us in either of the big national parties. There never was. Every few years, a few of our breed will allow themselves …



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Summer 1963  

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Harlem, My Harlem  

At the age of nine I had already acquired the reputation of being the worst boy in the neighborhood. And in my neighborhood this was no easy accomplishment. My frequent appearance in juvenile court was beginning to bother the judges. …



Letters  

While the undersigned have their own disagreements and varying emphases in interpreting the Cuban affair, we join in finding the Roger Hagan article on the Cuban crisis incorrect and slanted. Hagan writes, “… the President was confronted with two alternative …





Unions In Ivy Halls  

Over 300 New York City college professors have joined an AFL-CIO local union of their own according to an announcement from American Federation of Teachers President Carl J. Megel. The spread of unionism to the ivy halls of higher learning …



An Approach To Africa  

One of the most valuable remarks on Africa that I have ever heard was the angry question of a young Nigerian politician who said to me: “You don’t expect our sculpture to look like yours —why should you expect our …



An Optimistic View  

As with his book on Marxism, George Lichtheim has given us a study of a centrally important topic that is both a general introduction and an advanced interpretation. The virtues familiar from the earlier volume are again in evidence: urbanity, …



The Hungarian Revolution Revisited  

On the evening of October 22, 1956, groups of students converged on the Budapest Radio station requesting that it broadcast their demands: for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary, and for free elections and freedom of expression. Shortly after …



Taking Issue With “Armageddon”  

Mr. Donat’s moving defense of the Jewish underground in Poland [“Armageddon,” DISSENT, Spring 1963] comes as a timely answer to the attacks which have been levelled at the political and moral stance of European Jews during the Hitler period. Unfortunately …





Bukharin Speaks To The “Devil”  

In the May 1963 issue of Unser Zeit, the Yiddish-language journal of the Jewish Labor Bund, there appears an important memoir by the late Lydia Dan, wife of the Menshevik leader Theodore Dan. During the early thirties, relates Mrs. Dan, …



Ally Bush  

When I was a wee colored tot wearing knickerbocker trousers and with a snotty nose, when Ralph J. Bunche was still an honest-to-goodness “colored” Negro such as Richard Wright, Sterling A. Brown, E. Franklin Frazier, and other angry colored men …



Indians: Red, White And Blue  

To do justice to the subtleties of life on the Seneca Reservation requires more than ethnographic reportage, or abstract analyses of social structures that we find transfixed in the professional journals. It requires these, yes, but also an authentic literary …