Selected Writings on The Middle East by Raya Dunayevskaya — a Bibliography

From Marxist-Humanist Writings on the Middle East (News & letters Committes, 10-2003)

Many of Raya Dunayevskaya’s writings on the Middle East, all of which are available in The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection—Marxist-Humanism: A Half-Century of Its World Development, Wayne State University Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Detroit, MI 48202. Numbers in parentheses refer to the page number in the collection. (A "*" indicates that the document is also available in Farsi/Persian.) We invite all readers to study these documents, and to examine them in the context of the collection as a whole.

PAMPHLET

Nationalism, Communism, Marxist-Humanism, and the Afro-Asian Revolutions, August 1959 (#2688). New, expanded edition, with a new introduction by Raya Dunayevskaya, February, 1984 (#8102).*

WEEKLY POLITICAL LETTERS; POLITICAL-PHILOSOPHIC LETTERS

• "The Syrian Revolt: The Cold War in the Middle East." Weekly Political Letter, Oct. 2,1961 (#2960).
• "Israel, Burma, Outer Mongolia, and the Cold War." Weekly Political Letter, Nov. 13,1961 (#2985).
• "The Arab-Israeli Collision, the World Powers, and the Struggle for the Minds of Men." Weekly Political Letter, June 1967 (#3831).
• "The UN Resolution on Zionism—and Ideological Obfuscation Also on the Left." Weekly Political Letter, Jan. 24,1976 (#5193).
• "Lebanon: the Test Not Only of the P.L.O. but the Whole Left." Weekly Political Letter, August 1976 (#5245).
• "Iran: Unfoldment of and Contradictions in, Revolution." Political-Philosophic Letter, March 25, 1979 (#6019).*
• "Grave Contradictions in the Iranian Revolution." Political-Philosophic Letter, Nov. 27,1979 (#6013).*
• "Not So Random Thoughts On: What is Philosophy? What is Revolution? 1789-1793; 1848-1850; 1914-1919; 1979." Political-Philosophic Letter, Dec. 17,1979 (#6004).*
• "The Carter/Brzezinski-Ordered Imperialist Intrusion into Iran—and What about Khomeini/Bani-Sadr’s ‘Holy War’ Against the Left?" Political-Philosophic Letter, April 29,1980 (#5999).
• "What Has Happened to the Iranian revolution? Has It Already Run Its Course into its Opposite, Counter-Revolution? Or Can it be Saved and Deepened? Political-Philosophic Letter, June 25,1981 (#7222).*
• "The Struggle Continues: What Kind of Revolution is Needed in the Battle Against the Khomeini-IRP Counter-Revolution?" Political-Philosophic Letter, Sept. 25,1981 (#7220).*
• "Begin’s Israel Moves Further and Further Backward to His Reactionary, Terrorist Beginnings." Political-Philosophic Letter, Jan. 5,1982 (#7392).

JOURNALISM IN NEWS & LETTERS

• "The Algerian Revolution Enters a New Stage." "Two Worlds" column, April 1962 (#6688).
• "Mao Sides with Nasser on Israel." "Two Worlds" column, May 1965 (#6751).
• "U.S and Russia Enter the Middle East Cockpit." Editorial Article, February 1969 (#6819).
• "The Middle East Erupts." Lead article, November 1973 (#6913).
• "The U.S., Global Politics, and the Mideast War." Lead article, December 1973 (#6915).
• "War, Peace or Revolution: Shifting Alliances in the Middle East." Lead-Editorial, January-February 1978 (#6998).
• "Camp David Summit: Peace in the Middle East—or Extension of U.S. Imperialism? "Our Life and Times" column, October 1978 (#7013).
• "Iran’s Revolutionary Past—and Present." "Two Worlds" column, December 1978 (#7019).*
• "Dunayevskaya’s Response to an Iranian Revolutionary." Letter printed in News & Letters, January-February 1980 (#7053).
• "Carter’s Drive to War." Lead-Editorial, March 1980 (#7056).
• "Special Introduction for Iranian Edition of Marx’s Humanist Essays." "Two Worlds" column, May 1981 (#7070).*
• "Down with the Perpetrators of the Palestinian Slaughter." Lead article, October 1982 (#7402).
• "Stop Reagan’s Acts of War!" Editorial, May 1986 (#11060).
• "Reagan’s Imperial Presidency: The Shocking Liaison of U.S.-Iran and the Need for a Biweekly News & Letters" Editorial, December 1986 (#11085).

Draft Perspectives Theses and Perspectives Reports

• "The Arab-Israeli War and the New Quality of the Communist-Trotskyist-State Capitalist Opportunism in Theory, Organization and Politics, Draft Perspectives Thesis, August 1967 (#4060).
• "The Arab-Israeli Collision in It Remains to Be Done, Perspectives Report, Sept. 2,1967 (#4070).

• "Cambodia and the Middle East or USA, Russia and China" in Totality of the Crises: Nixon’s Wars at Home and Abroad, Rampant Racism, and Recession, Perspectives Report, September 1974 (#5022).
• "The Global Minefield in On the Threshold: Philosophic Preparation for Revolution, Perspectives Report, September 1974 (#5022).
• "The Politics of Double Crosses" in Where Do We Go From Here?, Draft Perspectives Thesis, August 1975 (#5138).
• "Facing State-Capitalist World Reality" in National, International, Objective-Subjective Crises Are Testing Revolutionaries, Draft Perspectives Thesis, July 1976 (#5689).
• "Once Again, the Middle East—This Time and France, and the UN, and the ‘Law of the Sea’" in Philosophy and Revolution in Today’s Global Freedom Struggles, Perspectives Report, Sept. 4,1976 (#5696).
• "Political Crises in Our Age of State-Capitalism" in Time is Running Out, Draft Perspectives Thesis, August 1977 (#5720).
• "The African Horn on the One Hand, and, on the Other, the Portuguese Revolution" in It’s Later, Always Later—Except When Spontaneity Upsurges and You Realize It Is Here and Now, and You Aren’t There and Ready, Perspectives Report, Sept. 3,1977 (#5726).
• "The Middle East—at Camp David? Or at the Crossroad of the World?" In The Dialectic of Today’s Crises and Today’s Revolts, Perspectives Thesis, July 1978 (#5791).
• "A New Global Recession-in-the-Making—and the Revolution in Iran" in The Shift in Global Politics and the Need for a Philosophy of Revolution, Draft Perspectives Thesis, July 1979 (#5897).
• "Without a Philosophy of Revolution: Oil and the PLO Gaining a Foothold with Black Leaders" in On the Threshold of the 1980s, as Objective Revolutionary New Beginning and as Deadline for Rosa Luxemburg, Today’s Women’s Liberation Movement, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution, Perspectives Report, September 1979 (#5904).
• "U.S. Imperialism in the Iranian Desert, and at Home in Deep Recession and Resurgent Racism" in Tomorrow is Now, Draft Perspectives Thesis, July 1980 (#6239).
• "U.S. Imperialism’s Tentacles: From Iran to South Korea, and from El Salvador to Iraq; Also Relations with Other Capitalist Imperialisms" and "Religion in General and Jerusalem in Particular in this State-Capitalist Age" in Today and Tomorrow, Perspectives Report, Aug. 30,1980 (#6245).
• "Iran, the Iran-Iraqi War and Israel’s Pre-emptive Strike" in The Two Worlds in Each Country; the Need to Transform Reality, Draft Perspectives Thesis, July 14, 1981 (#7127).
• "The Objective Situation: Reganomics, Thatcher’s Colonialism in the South Atlantic, and Begin’s Genocidal War in Lebanon" in A Philosophy of Revolution Needed: Mass Opposition to Reganomics and the Drive for Nuclear War, Draft Perspectives Thesis, June 25, 1982 (#7508).
• "Israel’s Genocidal Invasion of Lebanon: Opposition Also Needed Against Building Any Half-Way Houses" in What To Do: Facing the Depth of Recession and the Myriad Global Political Crises as Well as the Philosophic Void, Perspectives Report, Sept. 4,1982 (#7515).
• "U.S. Imperialist Tentacles Circle the Globe" in The Marx Centenary Discloses the Need for the Philosophy of "Revolution in Permanence" for Uprooting Reaganism out to Shackle the People with "Mind-Forged Manacles" of Unfreedom, Perspectives Report, Sept. 3, 1983 (#7925).
• "Libya-Morocco Pact, and Polisario" in Marxist-Humanist Draft Perspectives, 1985-86, August 1985 (#10342).
• "The Changed World: From Reagan’s Foray into the Gulf of Sidra…" in Marxist-Humanist Draft Perspectives, 1986-87, July 1986 (#11026).

LETTERS ON THE MIDDLE EAST

• Letter to "A," an Iranian revolutionary in Tehran, Iran proposing a "Philosophic Action group" for work there. June 14,1979 (#15175).
• Letter to Raha, on his discussion of Marx’s 1844 Essay and the relation of philosophy to organization in the Iranian Revolution. Nov. 3,1979 (#15209).
• Letter to Raha, on John Molyneux’s book Marxism and the Party, and its reception by Iranian Left activists. Sept. 4,1980 (#15235).
• Letter to Cyrus Noveen, on organization and philos­ophy in the Iranian revolutions of 1906 and 1979. Feb. 8, 1986 (#11175).
• Letter to Hanna Batatu, Middle East scholar, on Syria and the Ba’ath party. March 4,1986 (#11178).
• "Special. Special. Special. A Preliminary Marxist-Humanist Statement on the Last 48 Hours." Letter to Marxist-Humanist colleagues on President Reagan’s attack in the Gulf of Sidra. March 27,1986. (#11003).
• "Dear Colleagues" letter on the relationship of the U.S. assault in the Gulf of Sidra to the "historic roots of global counter-revolution." April 10,1986 (#11005).
• Letter to Neda Azad, on revolution and counter-rev­olution in Iran and Hegel’s development of his body of ideas. May 5,1986 (#11182).

See also "Iranian Marxist-Humanists and the Middle East" in Supplement to The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection (#16831-16909).