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Bulletin in Defense of Marxism
1983-1998
[New York City]



The Bulletin in Defense of Marxism (1983-1998) was initiated by members of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the United States who were expelled for reasons they believed had violated the method and principles integral to the tradition of revolutionary Marxism

They viewed this tradition as an essential resource enabling working-class activists around the world to struggle against all forms of oppression for the purpose of creating a new society of the free and the equal This tradition, which had long guided the SWP, was associated with the political orientation of Leon Trotsky Trotsky himself had produced a book entitled In Defense of Marxism, a work with which these expelled comrades identified

Those involved with the magazine intended to defend Marxism especically by applying it in a creative manner to the realities and the struggles of their own time Dozens of people were involved Their efforts resulted in a remarkable body of analyses, reports, opinions, ideas, insights, and information, spanning a decade and a half in the twilight of the twentieth century

Three sets of introductory comments – further explaining and contextualizing the magazine – are available from Frank Lovell, Steve Bloom, and Paul Le Blanc, each of whom was involved in the editorial efforts that assured its appearance


Forward to this section by BIDOM editor Steve Bloom (2020)
Introduction to this section by BIDOM editor Paul LeBlanc (2020)
Along the Road to the First Hundred by BIDOM founder Frank Lovell (1992)


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INDEX FOR ISSUE NOs 1-50 1988


1983-84

No 1, December, 1983


Introduction 1

Statement by Members of the United Secretariat of the
Fourth International Invited to Attend the SWP National Committee Plenum, August 8, 1983
4

Sound the Alarm by 4 Suspended SWP National Committee Members, September 7, 1983 6

The Political Purge in the American Socialist Workers Party - A Statement Adopted by the
United Secretariat of the Fourth International, October, 1983
9

Declaration of 19 Members of the United Secretariat 11

Resolving the International Crisis of Revolutionary Leadership Today (Draft Resolution Submitted
to SWP National Committee Plenum by 4 Suspended NC Members, August 6, 1983)
16

New International Slanders FI 37




No 2, January, 1984


Introduction 1

Concerning Our Expulsion by 7 members of Twin Cities branch of SWP 3
Trial Statements of the Accused:

Bill Onasch 5
Christine Frank Onasch 8

Dave Riehle 12
Bill Peterson 15

Melanie Benson 16

Ralph Schwartz 17

Statement to Twin Cities branch executive committee by Christine Frank Onasch for expelled members 18

Form letter on expulsion of minority delegates to California state convention of SWP 19

Resolution:
Democratic Centralism and the Building of the Revolutionary Combat Party in the USA,
submitted to February-March 1982 plenum of SWP national committee by Fourth Internationalist Caucus in NC
20

New Norms vs Old: the Erosion of Proletarian Democracy in the SWP, submitted to August 1983 plenum of SWP national
committee by NC opposition members Bloom, Lovell, Weinstein, and Henderson
23




No 3, February, 1984


Introduction 1

Call for the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, by Naomi Allen, George Breitman, George Saunders 3

Platform of the Fourth Internationalist Caucus in the National Committee of the SWP 7

We Endorse the 1984 SWP National Election Campaign 10

On the Question of Regime in the Revolutionary Party 13

Why Steve Clark Can’t Really Explain What Happened In Grenada
by Steve Bloom
15

The Revolution in Central America and the Caribbean and
Its place in the International Class Struggle, by the Fourth Internationalist Caucus
21

A Platform to Overcome the Crisis in the Party,
by the Opposition Bloc of two tendencies in the SWP National Committee
23

28 Theses on the American Socialist Revolution and the Building
of the Revolutionary Party, by the Opposition Bloc
35




No 4, March, 1984


Introduction 1

I

1) Fourth Internationalist Tendency Is Organized Nationally 2

2) Why We Are Building the Fourth Internationalist Tendency by Adam Shils 5

II

The Purge in the Socialist Workers Party

1) Statement of the SWP Political Bureau 9

2) Who Is Responsible for the Split in the Party
by Steve Bloom 12

-- 3) What Happened at the SWP California State Convention by Evelyn Sell 18

4) A Page from the FBI's Book on Standard Frame-up Procedure (report on the expulsion of Gerardo Nebbia) 24

III

Suppressed Documents

Introduction to four documents 29

1) Remarks under Party Norms and Appeals, March 1982
by Frank Lovell 30

2) James P Cannon letter for NC Majority, 1966 35

3) Letter to SWP National Committee, August 8, 1983
by Bloom and Lovell 40

4) Bloom-Lovell statement to-NC plenum, August 10, 1983 42

IV

Reviews: A valuable book on Permanent Revolution in Nicaragua
by George Breitman
48




No 5, April, 1984


Introduction 1

For a Democratic Discussion in the Party
Letter from the FIT to the SWP National Committee
2

Platform of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency 4

Appeals to the SWP from Expelled Members:

Adam Shils 12
Larry Stewart 13
George L Weissman 14

How the Opposition Tried To Prevent a Split 18

A Phony Hue and Cry Over the Term "Public Faction"
by George Breitman
21

The SWP's New Policy of Exclusion

Twin Cities — by SWP expelled members 25
New York — by Dorothea Breitman 26

A Life We Can Learn From: Carl Skoglund (1884-1960)
by David Riehle 28

Toward an Understanding of Working Class Radicalization
by Frank Lovell 32

Democracy in Today's Revolutions
by Adam Shils 37




No 6, April, 1984


Introduction 1

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PRECONVENTION DISCUSSION OF
THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY AND THE PRE-WORLD
CONGRESS DISCUSSION OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

Suppressed Documents:

Introduction to Theses and Article on the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government 2
Theses on the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government by the
Fourth Internationalist Caucus in the SWP National Committee
3
The Workers and Farmers’ Government and the Socialist Revolution 5
by Steve Bloom
Socialist Strategy for Class Struggle Transformation of the Unions 30
by Frank Lovell and Steve Bloom

APPEAL OF EXPULSION
by George Breitman 45




No 7, May, 1984


Introduction 1

SWP National Committee Calls Convention 2
by Steve Bloom

FIT Letter on Preconvention Discussion 4

National Black Independent Political Party Purges SWP Members by Larry Stewart 6

Contribution to NY/NJ District Convention of SWP 9
by Naomi Allen, Dorothea Breitman, and Larry Stewart

On the 1984 Presidential Election Campaign 15
by Frank Lovell

Memoirs of a Veteran SWP Election Campaigner 20
by Evelyn Sell

Stop Attacks on SWP Headquarters 24

SUPPRESSED DOCUMENTS

Draft Resolution on Perspectives for the 1984 Election 25
International Internal Information Bulletin 33

BOOKS:

A Ruling Class Look at the Economy 35
by Adam Shils

How the SWP Began 37

by George Lavan Weissman

LETTERS 38




No 8, June, 1984


Introduction 1

THE MOST PECULIAR DISCUSSION THE SWP HAS EVER HAD
by Frank Lovell
2

RITA SHAW SPEAKS AT SWP RALLY 6

AN OPEN LETTER TO MEL MASON
by Larry Stewart
8

A DANGEROUS ESCALATION OF THE SLANDER AGAINST THE FIT by Steve Bloom 10

PRECONVENTION AND PRE-WORLD CONGRESS DISCUSSION
The Transitional Program and the Fight to Save the Family Farmer
by Christine Frank Onasch
15

The Radicalization and the Socialist Workers Party
by Evelyn Sell
20

The Revolutionary Marxist Movement and the Iran-Iraq War
by David Williams
24

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM:
James P Cannon on the Control Commission and SWP Constitution

Introduction by Jean Y Tussey30

LETTERS 34




No 9, July, 1984


Introduction 1

Where the SWP Preconvention Discussion Stands
by Frank Lovell
2

PRECONVENTION AND PRE-WORLD CONGRESS DISCUSSION
A Far Cry from the Bolsheviks
by George Breitman
5

The SWP's New Policy of Exclusion and Slander
by David Williams
9

Some Questions SWP Members Would Like Answered 11

The US Working Class Needs a Revolutionary Party and the Party Needs a Program
by Steve Bloom
13

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM
James P Cannon on the Great Tradition of the SWP
Introduction by George Breitman
17

SUPPRESSED DOCUMENTS
Introduction
20

The Tasks of the SWP in the American Antiwar Movement 21
The SWP and the Women's Liberation Movement Today 25

Problems of the Middle Eastern Revolution 28

Motion: Permanent Revolution and the Palestinian Struggle 32

BOOKS: A Useful Book with a Misleading Introduction
reviewed by Adam Shi Is 33




No 10, August, 1984


Emergency Conference Against US 1
by Jean Y Tussey

Poland: KOR vs Bureaucracy 2
by Carl Jackson

PRECONVENTION DISCUSSION

The Case of the Tardy Political Resolution 7
by George Breitman

A Few More Steps Away From Marxism 11
by Steve Bloom

Governmental Slogans: A Brief History 16
by Evelyn Sell

Return to Party Building Methods of Transitional 21
by David Williams

On the SWP Discussion 23
by David Williams

ON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH

James P Cannon on the 1928 Expulsions 26

James Kutcher Appeals to the Convention 28

1984 ELECTIONS

A Question for Jesse Jackson Supporters 39 by Steve Bloom

Letters to SWP 40

Support the Socialist Campaign 42

From FIT Coordinators to Mexican PRT 43

Letters 46



No 11, September, 1984


FIT Conference Called 2
by Carl Jackson

Building for the Cleveland Anti-Intervention Conference 3
by Sarah Lovell

The 32nd SWP Convention 4
by Bill Onasch

COMMENT ON THE SWP DRAFT POLITICAL RESOLUTION

What About the Turn? 8
by Carl Jackson

A Guide to Inaction 12
by David Williams

A Completely One-Sided Analysis 14
by Steve Bloom

SWP Organizational Norms: Fact and Fiction 17
by Evelyn Sell

The Interests of the Masses in the Iran/Iraq War 20
by Robert Sorel and David Weiss

The Fourth International on Grenada 26

Doug Jenness Mangles the Carl Skoglund Story 28
by George Breitman

BOOK REVIEWS

To Defend Trotskyism Means Understanding Reality 32
by Adam Shils

A Timely Study Guide 33
by Sarah Lovell

Letters 36




No 12, October, 1984


Expelled SWP Members Appeal to World Congress for Reinstatement
by Steve Bloom 1

Emergency Conference Calls for Anti-Intervention Actions in Spring
by David Williams 3

The Gender Gap—And What Women Can Do About It
by Evelyn Sell and Rita Shaw 5

The SWP’s Evolution on the Farm Question
by Dorothea Breitman 9

Gerardo Nebbia Expelled from the FlT 11

Lenin and the Youth by Philippe Andréa 15

A Revealing Correspondence 19

A SUPPRESSED DOCUMENT:

Frank Lovell on the Motivation Behind the Party Purge, February 1983 24

BOOK REVIEW

James P Cannon on the Birth of American Trotskyism
by George Lavan Weissman 29

LETTERS 31




No 13, November, 1984


FIRST FIT NATIONAL CONFERENCE (Oct 6-8, 1984)

Delegates Pledge Continued Fight to Reform Socialist Workers Party 1
by Steve Bloom
Where We Stand After the 1984 SWP Convention 3
The Fourth International, the World Congress, and the FIT 10
Our Present Organizational Tasks 11
The State of the Anti-Intervention Movement 14
Excerpts from Greetings 17

Why Guardian and Militant Distorted Cleveland Antiwar Conference 19
by Dave Riehle

Lost Opportunities: The SWP’s 1984 Election Campaign 23
by Frank Lovell

Nicaragua: A People Armed 27
by Haskell Berman

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM
James P Cannon on Permanent Revolution 31
Notes for a Lecture in 1932

BOOK REVIEW

We Don’t Have to Reinvent the Wheel 36
by Adam Shils

LETTERS 38




No 14, December, 1984


FIRST TIME IN PRINT!

REASONS FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE SWP AND FOR ITS NEW VITALITY IN THE 1960s
A Talk by James P Cannon Page 1

LARRY STEWART — PROLETARIAN FIGHTER FOR 45 YEARS 6
by the Editorial Board

LARRY STEWART’S APPEAL TO THE WORLD CONGRESS 7

RESULTS AND MEANING OF THE 1984 ELECTION 8
by Frank Lovell

A LETTER TO THE MIUTANT IT DIDNT PRINT 13
by Jerry Gordon and Jim Lafferty

AN OPEN LETTER TO FRED HALSTEAD 16
by David Williams

PRE-WORLD CONGRESS DISCUSSION:

SWP Calls Special Convention in January 18
The Discussion Begins on the Wrong Foot Again 19
by Steve Bloom
Opposition Bloc’s Platform Finally Published 26
by David Williams
Women and the SWP: 1979-1984 29
by Laura Cole
This Preparatory Period 33
by Frank Lovell
Through tine Looking Glass with Barnes and Sheppard 36
by Naomi Allen

LETTERS 40




1985

No 15, January-February, 1985


TOWARD THE 1985 CONGRESS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

Tasks of the World Congress
by Steve Bloom 1
For an Accurate View of the World Revolution
by Adam Shils 3
Central America and the Fourth International
by David Williams 6
People’s Power Under Fire
by Alain Krivine 7
Road to ‘Socialist Democracy’
by Ernest Mandel 9
The Sandinista Front and the Nicaraguan Revolution
by the FIT National Organizing Committee 10
What Does ‘New International’ Mean Today?
by Chester Hofla 12
War and Revolution in Iran
by Robert Sorel and David Weiss 13

Letter to the SWP Convention Delegates
by the FIT National Coordinators 17

Few Participants in SWP’s Pre-World Congress Discussion
by Laura Cole 18

Larry Stewart Memorial Meeting Boycotted by SWP 20

In Tribute to a Great Socialist Educator
by Tom Bias 21

SWP Publishes Theses’ After 25 Months 23
What Happened to the Unions in 1984
by Frank Lovell 24

Zimmerwakj (1915) and Cleveland (1984)
by George Breitman 27

New Trotskyist Alliance Formed in English Canada

Healyites Escalate Slander Campaign Against SWP 30

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM
How Trotsky and Cannon Saw the Fourth International 31

Howard Packer (1917-1984) 32

Letters 33




No 16, January-February, 1985


Fourth International Charts Revolutionary Orientation and Rejects Expulsions from SWP
by Steve Bloom 1

World Congress Calls for International Protests on April 20 3

All Out for the April 20 Antiwar Demonstrations!
by Bill Onasch 4

SWP Decides to Support April 20 Actions
by David Williams 7

What Abstentionism Usually Conceals
byDave Riehle 9

Why SWP Should Have Backed LA Antiwar Referendum
by Evelyn Sell 13

The Nuclear Freeze and the Revolutionary Marxist Movement
by Frank Lovell 16

Fourth International Solidarity With British Miners
byAdamShils 21

Problems of the Palestinian National Congress
by David Williams 23

Revolutionary Theory and Method
by Paul Le Blanc 26

Understanding (and Misunderstanding) the Nicaraguan Revolution
by Steve Bloom 30

Letters 34




No 17, April, 1985


REPORTS ON THE WORLD CONGRESS
OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
by Steve Bloom, FIT. Delegate

A Step Forward for the FI 1

Notes of a Delegate 6

In Defense of the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Concept 8

How to Resolve Split in the US 12

The ‘Crisis in the Fourth International’ 13

FIT Calls Second National Conference 15

Letter to SWP 16

Is the SWP Making a Turn Away from Abstentionism?
by David Williams 17

Permanent Revolution and Black Liberation in the US
by Larry Stewart 19

When ‘Political Revolution’ Replaced ‘Political Reform’
by Chester Hofla 25

Women, Technology, and the Changing Workforce
by Laura Cole 30




No 18, May, 1985


F.I.T. Asks Reinstatement in SWP 1

Black Liberation and the Comintern in Lenin’s Time
by Larry Stewart 3

Appendix: The Forging of Oppressed Nationalities in the US
by Jack Barnes 7

The SWP’s New Position on the Labor Party
by George Breitman 10

April 20: A Test for the SWP
by Evelyn Sell 14

George Lavan Weissman (1916-85)
49 Years in the Struggle for Socialism

by the Editorial Board 15

Why Working People Need Solidarity
by Bud Schulte 17

FORUM: On the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government

The Need for a Serious Discussion
by Paul Le Blanc 20

A Letter to Paul Le Blanc
by Steve Bloom 24

The Militant and Socialist Action Report on the World Congress 26

A Correction for the Pathfinder Press Catalog 27
An Editorial from a New Publication: Panorama 28

From an Adaptation to Castroism to an Adaptation to Stalinism
by David Williams 30

Letters 34




No 19, June, 1985


The Whole International Is Watching 1

April 20 Mass Marches — Big Setback to Reagan’s War Drive
by Bill Onasch 3

Call to the Second Emergency National Conference 5

Trotskyism Under Attack and What Else Is New
by Frank Lovell 6

How to Aid the Central American Revolution
by Adam Shils 8

The SWP’s Disorientation on the Labor Party
by Jean Y. Tussey 10

Setting the Record Straight
The SWP vs History: Women’s Role in Labor Struggles
by Laura Cole 15

Behind the Crisis of Leadership in the SWP
The Historical and Political Roots

by Frank Lovell 17

From the Arsenal of Marxism
How the Early SWP Fought to Save the Refugees from Nazism
22

‘Reading Lenin’
by George Breitman 23

Lenin, Luxemburg, and Kautsky
by Leon Trotsky 26

Engels and Lenin on the Party
by James P Cannon 29

Letters 81




No 20, July, 1985


The SWP Convention Must Act to Heal the Split
by the F.I.T. National Coordinators 1

What Will the Next SWP Convention Reveal?
by Steve Bloom 2

The Second Emergency National Conference
For a United Anti-Intervention Movement

by Evelyn Sell 5

SWP in San Francisco Bay Area Attacked by Right-Wing Thugs 7

F.I.T. National Conference Affirms Orientation to SWP
by Stuart Brown 9

George Lavan Weissman Honored at N.Y. Meeting
by Naomi Allen 11

Behind the Crisis of Leadership in the SWP
The Loss of Confidence and the Abandonment of Marxism

by Frank Lovell 15

Half-Truths and Cover-ups Intercontinental Press
and the Militant on Indochinese History

by David Williams 21

The Consequences of Barnesism in Canada
by Tom Baker 24

Canadian Fourth Internationalists Call Convention 28

Don’t ‘Tighten’ the SWP More, or You’ll Strangle It to Death
Introduction to a New Pamphlet by James P. Cannon

by George Breitman 29

From the Arsenal of Marxism:
Antonio Gramsci on the ‘Democratic Dictatorship’ Concept
33

Letters 34




No 21, August, 1985


BUILDING THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY IN THE U.S. TODAY
Political Resolution Adopted by F.I.T. National Conference 1

THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM VS. PRAGMATISM
Political Report to F.I.T.. National Conference
by Evelyn Sell 12

EMERGENCY NATIONAL CONFERENCE URGES MASS ACTIONS IN THE FALL
by Adam Shils 18

ADVANCING UNITY IN THE U.S. ANTI-INTERVENTION MOVEMENT
by Jerry Gordon 20

SWP WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL FALL DEMONSTRATIONS
by Stuart Brown 25

REVERSE THE EXPULSIONS! STRENGTHEN THE PARTY!
Statement of F.I.T.. National Coordinators 28

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM?
by Steve Bloom 29

MY APPEAL FOR REINSTATEMENT IN THE SWP
by Jean Y. Tussey 31

LETTER TO THE MAYOR OF SAN JOSE 33

LETTERS 34




No 22, September, 1985


THE SWP’S AUGUST 1985 CONVENTION

CRUCIAL FOR THE FUTURE OF THE PARTY 1

DIVERGENCES IN THE SWP LEADERSHIP TEAM?
by George Breitman 3

WATERS SHARES ‘CREDIT’ FOR SWP SPLIT WITH FARRELL DOBBS
by Chester Hofla 5

MORE ON THE SWP PROGRAM FOR RADICALIZING FARMERS
by Christine Frank Onasch 7

SWP LEADER EXPLAINS RETREAT ON FALL ACTION PROPOSAL
by Stuart Brown 10

‘SINGLE-ISSUE’ VERSUS ‘MULTI-ISSUE’ COALITIONS
by Tom Barrett 13

THE DEVELOPMENT OF REVOLUTIONARY THEORY
by Paul Le Blanc 16

POSITIVE USES OF THE FORMULA “WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT”
by Frank Lovell 23

WHAT IS AN ‘ANTI-IMPERIALIST’ REVOLUTION?
by Steve Bloom 26

CLASS STRUGGLE IN IRAN
by David Williams 30

THE SWP, THE F.I.T., AND THE GERARDO NEBBIA CASE
by the National Organizing Committee of the F.I.T 33

LETTERS34




No 23, October, 1985


Support October Anti-Apartheid Demonstrations! 1

SWP Convention Rejects World Congress Demand for Reinstatement of Expelled Members
by Stuart Brown 2

Three Ways the SWP Will Benefit From Complying with Congress Decision
by Chester Hofla 4

Questions and Answers on SWP’s ‘Exclusion Policy’ 5

It’s Time to Come Back and Fight An Appeal to Former Members of the SWP
by Tom Barrett 7

The Role of Program in Constructing a Party in the US Today: A Response to Les Evans
by Steve Bloom 11

James Kutcher at his Fiftieth Anniversary
Interview with an SWP Founding Member 16

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM
Why White Workers Should Support Black Struggle

by Frank Lovell 18

How to Arrive at a Hopeless Theoretical Muddle
by Steve Bloom 21

A New Book of Cannon’s Writings and Speeches
by George Breitman 26

A Guide to James P. Cannon’s Book 30

Vote for the Socialist Candidates 32

REPORTS

F.l.T. National Organizing Committee Discusses Perspectives
by Stuart Brown 33

Emergency National Council Plans Fall Activities
by Evelyn Sell 33

LETTERS 35




No 24, November, 1985


THE DISAGREEMENT WITH LENIN
A Hitherto Unpublished Document by Leon Trotsky 1

A ‘SUPPRESSED’ DOCUMENT BY LEON TROTSKY
by Naomi Allen 4

THE FIGHT FOR A FREE SOUTH AFRICA
by Tom Barrett 19

UNITED SECRETARIAT OF THE FI CONDEMNS SWP’S REFUSAL
TO CARRY OUT WORLD CONGRESS MOTIONS

by Steve Bloom 13

IN RESPONSE TO THE SWP’S CHARGE CONCERNING
‘FRAUDULENT’ USE OF PARTY NAME

Statement Adopted by FIT National Organizing Committee 14

‘INTERNATIONAL VIEWPOINT’ SPECIAL BOOK PUBLISHES
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF WORLD CONGRESS RESOLUTIONS
16

OPEN LETTER TO THE US ANTI-INTERVENTION MOVEMENT
by the Emergency National Council’s Executive Committee 18

DO WE NEED TO REDEFINE MARXISM?
by Paul Le Blanc 22

A REVOLUTIONARY TOOL FOR MODERN TIMES: THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM
by Steve Bloom 28

SAMPLES FROM THE NEW CANNON BOOK 34
Letters 36




No 25, December, 1985


THE SWP (USA) REJECTS THE ORGANIZATIONAL DEMANDS
OF THE TWELFTH WORLD CONGRESS
1

AFL-CIO DEBATES FOREIGN POLICY
by Steve Bloom 3

MINNESOTA AFL-CIO CONVENTION: SETBACK FOR BUREAUCRACY
by Bill Onasch 6

AUSTIN PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS BATTLE HORMEL’S TAKE-BACK CAMPAIGN
by Dave Riehle 8

CLEVELAND LABOR UNIONS RALLY AGAINST APARTHEID
by Jean Y. Tussey 16

SOUTH AFRICA NEEDS A WORKERS PARTY
Interview from ‘Was Tun’ 19

THE AUSTRALIAN SWP LEAVES THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
by Tom Barrett 22

GORBACHEV: THE NEW IMAGE AND BEYOND
Interview from ‘Rouge’ 25

DO WE NEED TO REDEFINE MARXISM? (PART 2)
by Paul Le Blanc 28

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM
Unions Need Class-Conscious Leaders by Farrell Dobbs 32

LETTERS 35




1986

No 26, January, 1986


THE FIRESIDE SUMMIT
by David Williams 1

EMERGENCY NATIONAL COUNCIL PREPARES THIRD NATIONAL CONFERENCE
by Evelyn Sell 3

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN CALLS MARCH 9 AND MARCH 16 DEMONSTRATIONS
by Diane Phillips 7

ROSA LUXEMBURG’S CONCEPTION OF ‘SOCIALISM OR BARBARISM’
by Michael Lowy Translation and Introduction by Paul Le Blanc 9

USES AND ABUSES OF DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM
by Steve Bloom 17

SIMPLISTIC ANSWERS IN THE DEBATE ON CENTRAL AMERICA
by Tom Barrett 22

CANADIAN TROTSKYISTS CONSOLIDATE ORGANIZATION
by Bill Onasch 27

DEFENDING DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS
A Report from the Political Rights Defense Fund 28

LETTERS 30




No 27, February, 1986


PROLETARIAN OR BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION?
Jack Barnes’s ‘The Coming Revolution in South Africa’

by Tom Barrett 1

A STEP FORWARD FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN WORKING CLASS New Federation Unites Major South African Trade Unions
by Tom Barrett 7

NICARAGUA’S STATE OF SIEGE
by Mary Scully 9

DEFENDING THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION IN NICARAGUA,
SOUTH AFRICA, AND PALESTINE

by Stuart Brown 12

EMERGENCY NATIONAL COUNCIL IN NEW YORK CITY HOLDS FIRST PUBLIC MEETING
by June Martin 15

A WELDING OF MARXISM AND BIOLOGY
A Review of The Dialectical Biologist’

by David Weiss and Steve Bloom 17

MORE LENINIST THAN LENIN
by Naomi Allen 22

HOW HISTORY IS REWRITTEN ON WEST STREET
by Chester Hofla 24

ON REGROUPMENT AND PROGRAM: A RESPONSE TO STEVE BLOOM
by Mike Patrick 27

LILLIAN CURTISS / MILTON SNIPPER 31

LETTERS 34




No 28, March, 1986


LOS ANGELES EMERGENCY NATIONAL CONFERENCE CALLS FOR UNITED ACTION
by Melanie Benson 1

WOMEN’S MOVEMENT DEBATES PERSPECTIVES
by Diane Phillips 4

DRAFT PLATFORM OF THE WORKERS OPPOSITION IN POLAND 6

US UNIONS IN THE 1920s AND 1980s
by Frank Lovell 8

MORE ON THE NEW SWP POSITION ON SOUTH AFRICA
Letters About the Barnes Article in ‘New International’ 14

Continuing the Discussion in the Fourth International:

THE WORKERS’ AND FARMERS' GOVERNMENT AND THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT
Questions of Class, Program, and Leadership: An Answer to Livio Maitan

by Tom Barrett and Steve Bloom 17

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM

CUBA CONFIRMS THEORY OF PERMANENT REVOLUTION (1961)
by Joseph Hansen 28

THE FIGHT AGAINST US INTERVENTION AFTER THE AFL-CIO CONVENTION
by Haskell Berman 30

HOW TO COMBAT INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
by Stuart Brown 33

FOURTH INTERNATIONALIST TENDENCY TO HOLD THIRD NATIONAL CONFERENCE 35

ATTACKING DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS THROUGH COURT SUITS 36




No 29, April, 1986


FILIPINO MASSES OVERTHREW MARCOS
Statement by International Executive Committee, Fourth International 1

SUPPORT DEMANDS OF COURAGEOUS HAITIAN PEOPLE
Statement by International Executive Committee, Fourth International 2

COMBINED CHARACTER OF SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLUTION
UPHELD BY FOURTH INTERNATIONAL'S TOP COMMITTEE

Executive Committee Rejects SWP’s New Revisionist Policy;
Reiterates Demand for SWP to Readmit Expelled Members by Steve Bloom 3

WORKING CLASS REVOLUTIONARIES OF 1886
Albert Parsons and His Comrades

by Paul Le Blanc 6

LABOR’S RESPONSIBILITY TO CENTRAL AMERICA
A Letter to ‘American Teacher’

by Haskell Berman 12

LABOR RADICALISM IN THE 1920s AND TODAY
by Frank Lovell 15

THE COMRADES TAKE OVER IN ALEX 20

FOURTH INTERNATIONALIST TENDENCY HOLDS THIRD NATIONAL CONFERENCE
by David Williams 22

SOLIDARITY WITH THE SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLUTION
Resolution Approved by FIT National Conference 24

PROSPECTS FOR REUNIFICATION OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONALIST
MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

Statement Adopted by FIT National Conference 27

REVIEWS:
SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL

by Michael Steven Smith 30

DON’T STRANGLE THE PARTY
by Chester Hofla 32

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM
The Validity of Permanent Revolution (1979)

by George Novack 33




No 30, May, 1986


HANDS OFF LIBYA! HANDS OFF CENTRAL AMERICA! 1

REAGAN’S NEW FOREIGN POLICY POSTURE
by Tom Barrett 2

AFTER THE FALL OF MARCOS
Excerpts from ‘International Viewpoint’ 5

DEMONSTRATIONS PUT WOMEN’S MOVEMENT BACK ON THE STREETS
by Diane Phillips 7

AUSTIN MEATPACKERS’ STRIKE SHAKES UP US UNIONS
by Dave Riehle 9

Commemorating the Centenary of the Haymarket Case
ALBERT PARSONS AND HIS COMRADES:
Working Class Revolutionaries of 1886 (Part 2)

by Paul Le Blanc 13

From the Arsenal of Marxism
TALKING SOCIALISM AT THE HAYMARKET TRIAL

by Albert Parsons 18

STAR WARS — THREE YEARS LATER
by Mary Scully 20

FRENCH ELECTIONS AND THE CRISIS OF THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT
by Rafael Sabatini 22

ORGANIZING AGAINST US INTERVENTION IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Draft Resolution Adopted by FIT National Conference (Part 1)
24

REVIEW:
REVOLUTIONARY MARXISM AND THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL 28
by Steve Bloom

A GUIDE TO LEON TROTSKY’S BOOKS IN ENGLISH
Part 1, to October 1917
32
by Sam Gregory

BRITISH EX-HEALYITES RETRACT AGENT-BAITING OF SWP 35

LETTERS 36




No 31, June, 1986


GEORGE BREITMAN (1916-1986)
More Than Half a Century of Revolutionary Dedication
by the Editorial Board of ‘Bulletin in Defense of Marxism’
1

WHAT SHALL WE CALL THEM?
A New Name Needed for Labor Bureaucrats

by George Breitman 5

REAGAN’S CRIMINAL ATTACK ON LIBYA
by Steve Bloom 7

LOCAL P-9 ORGANIZES MASS ACTIONS TO BUILD NATIONAL BOYCOTT OF HORMEL
by Tom Barrett 9

25,000 MARCH IN SAN FRANCISCO ON APRIL 19
by David Gooler 11

NEW STAGE FOR LAND REFORM IN NICARAGUA
by Charles Andre Udry 13

REVIEW

A BOURGEOIS JOURNALISTS VIEW OF REVOLUTIONARY NICARAGUA
by Jack Bresee 15

STUDENT ACTIVISM RISING
by Evelyn Sell 17

FUSION CONFERENCE CREATES NEW SOCIALIST GROUP — ‘SOLIDARITY’
by Bill Onasch 20

LETTER TO A FORMER MEMBER OF SOCIALIST UNITY
by Paul Le Blanc 22

ORGANIZING AGAINST US INTERVENTION IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Draft Resolution Adopted by FIT National Conference (Part 2)
26

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ARNE SWABECK
by James P Cannon 32

JEAN VAN HEIJENOORT (1912-1986)
by Alan Wald 34

LETTERS 35




No 32, July-August, 1986


NEW YORK TRIBUTE TO GEORGE BREITMAN 1

FACT OR FICTION?
The FBI Takes Less Than Twelve Weeks to Solve a Mystery
8

IMPERIALISM ATTEMPTS Tf CONTAIN THE SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLUTION
by Tom Barrett 11

CHERNOBYL: BUREAUCRATIC MAYHEM
by June Martin 14

HANDS ACROSS AMERICA
Ruling Class Stages Mass Mobilization

by Stuart Brown 18

SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE RAINBOW
by Melanie Benson 19

SUPPORT SWP ELECTION CAMPAIGNS 21

INTRODUCING ‘INTERNATIONAL MARXIST REVIEW 22

THE FAKE DEBATE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL (PART 1)
by Frank Lovell' 25

NICARAGUA: WORKERS' POWER AND MIXED ECONOMY
by Paul Le Blanc 30

REPORTS:
FIT NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE LAUNCHES ‘BIDOM’ SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN

by Steve Bloom 38

ENC NATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE MEETS IN NEW YORK
by Bill Onasch 38

REVIEW:

FOR A MASS ACTION ANTI-INTERVENTION MOVEMENT
by Samuel Adams 40

LETTERS 42




No 33, September, 1986


THE DEEPENING SOUTH AFRICAN CRISIS
by Tom Barrett 1

JUNE 14 AND THE US ANTI-INTERVENTION MOVEMENT
by Samuel Adams 4

HORMEL STRIKE—UFCW BUREAUCRACY IMPOSES TRUSTEE
by Dave Riehle 6

SOCIALISTS AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
by Paul Le Blanc 10

THREE LESSONS FROM FIVE REVOLUTIONS
by Steve Bloom 15

POLAND: INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY NEEDED AFTER BUJAK’S ARREST
by Cyril Smuga 19

THE FAKE DEBATE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL (PART 2)
by Frank Lovell 20

GREETINGS AND A SPEECH FROM THE GEORGE BREITMAN MEMORIAL MEETING 25

OBITUARIES 28

A TRIBUTE TO ALICE PEURALA
by Carolyn Jasin
HAROLD R ISAACS
by Alan Wald
INTERCONTINENTAL PRESS

LETTERS 31




No 34, October, 1986


SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY WINS SUIT AGAINST FBI
by Stuart Brown 1

PERSPECTIVES FOR THE HORMEL WORKERS’ STRUGGLE
by Dave Riehle 2

MID-ATLANTIC COALITION FORMED TO OPPOSE US INTERVENTION IN CENTRAL AMERICA
by David Williams 5

SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL CAVES IN ON CENTRAL AMERICA
by Jack Bresee 8

STOP THE CAMPAIGN OF TERROR AGAINST ARAB-AMERICANS
by Michael Smith 9

SOUTH AFRICA—SOLIDARITY URGENTLY NEEDED
Editorial from Inprecor 10

A SOCIALIST APPROACH TO DEFEATING ‘REAGANISM’
by Paul Le Blanc 12

THE LIBERATING INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM (Part 1)
by George Breitman 18

CHINESE WRITERS PARTIALLY REHABILITATE TROTSKY
by Ernest Mandel 22

ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FRENCH AND SPANISH POPULAR FRONTS
by Rafael Sabatini 26

REVIEW:
ZINA, a film by Ken McMullen

by Sarah Lovell 29

LETTERS 30




No 35, November, 1986


A PROGRAM FOR U.S. LABOR
Debate and Lessons from the Hormel Strike

Frank Lovell 1

THE BIPARTISAN ‘TAX REFORM'
A Giveaway for the Rich

by Tom Barrett 4

VOTE FOR CANDIDATES OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY 8

PROSPECTS FOR A LENINIST PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES
by Steve Bloom 9

IN APPRECIATION OF NAOMI BERMAN
by David Weiss 15

THE LIBERATING INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM (Part 2)
by George Breitman 17

RBEYOND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY—AND BACK AGAIN?
by Paul Le Blanc 20

THE 1918 GERMAN REVOLUTION IN REVIEW
by Frank Lovell 24

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM:
LUXEMBURG AND THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

by Leon Trotsky

LETTERS 33




No 36, December, 1986


APRIL 25 PROTEST PLANNED
by Stuart Brown 1

THE P-9 STRIKE, THE CLASS-STRUGGLE LEFT WING, AND THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY
by Dave Riehle 2

THE IMPORTANCE OF A REVOLUTIONARY ELECTORAL ALTERNATIVE
Socialist Action and Against the Current on the ’86 Campaign

by Tom Barrett 5

INTRODUCTION TO THE BAITALSKY MEMOIRS
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey 8

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN
Notebook 1 (Part 1)

by Mikhail Baitalsky 11

LENINISM AND REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM
A Response to Tim Wohlforth

by Paul Le Blanc 15

THE LIBERATING INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM (Part 3)
by George Breitman 20

A STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF MALCOLM X’S BLACK NATIONALISM
by Paul Lee 25

REVIEWS:
MALCOLM X AT THE NEW YORK CITY OPERA

by Steve Bloom 30

THE BLACK STRUGGLE AND CLASS POLITICS
by Mark Weber 32

LETTERS 34




1987

No 37, January, 1987


NEW STAGE OF THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION
by Steve Bloom 1

SOCIALIST LEFT ORGANIZES IN POLAND New Political Party Applies to Join Fourth International
by Tom Barrett 6

LOS ANGELES CENTRAL AMERICA COALITION
ORGANIZES NOVEMBER 1 MARCH AND RALLY

by Evelyn Sell 10

THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY AND THE
STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR IN THE 1980s

by David Williams 12

FOURTH LABOR NOTES CONFERENCE HELD
by Melanie Benson 18

WHERE LANCE COMPA GOES WRONG ON THE HORMEL STRIKE
by Richard Scully 20

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued) 2 Our Jacobin Monastery
3 Were We Cultured?

by Mikhail Baitalsky 24

THE LIBERATING INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM (Part 4)
by George Breitman 28

REVIEWS:
MATHEMATICS AND DIALECTICS
by Jack Bresee 33

LEON TROTSKY FOR TEENAGERS
by Paul Le Blanc 34

LETTERS 36




No 38, February, 1987


THE DEBUNKING OF THE REAGAN PRESIDENCY
by Tom Barrett 1

WASHINGTON’S POLITICAL CRISIS
by Frank Lovell 4

FRENCH STUDENTS FORCE GOVERNMENT RETREAT
by Rafael Sabatini MS 6

GUERRILLA WARFARE AND MASS INSURRECTION IN THE PHILIPPINES
Military Cease-fire, Political Instability

by Steve Bloom 8

REAL JUSTICE NEEDED IN GRENADA
by Stuart Brown 11

THE ZIONIST BOMB
from International Viewpoint 12

HORMEL STRIKERS: AFTER THE TRUSTEE
Interview with Jim Guyette and Ray Rogers 13

THE RETURN OF THE OLD MAID
by Mary Scully 18

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued)
4 Standards of Human Behavior

by Mikhail Baitalsky 21

THE LIBERATING INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM (Part 5)
by George Breitman 24

REPORTS:
ENC NATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE PLEDGES SUPPORT TO APRIL 25

by David Williams 28

FIT NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEETS
by Steve Bloom 28

REVIEWS:
A NEW MARXIST CLASSIC

by Paul Le Blanc 30

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY WELL WORTH READING
by Jean Y. Tussey 32




No 39, March, 1987


SOVIET BUREAUCRACY IN TURMOIL
by Frank Lovell 1

BEHIND THE CHINESE STUDENTS’ DEMAND FOR DEMOCRACY
by Tom Barrett 7

AGAINST THE REGIME’S REPRESSION OF PUBLIC WILL
IN DEFENSE OF THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS

Statement of the Revolutionary Marxist League 10

VOTE IN THE PHILIPPINES: BIG VICTORY FOR AQUINO GOVERNMENT
by Steve Bloom 11

FRENCH WORKERS STRIKE AGAINST CHIRAC
by Rafael Sabatini 14

THE US CONSTITUTION AND THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS
by Evelyn Sell 16

CALL FOR APRIL 25 NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION 20

‘LOW INTENSITY WARFARE’ AND THE US ANTI-INTERVENTION MOVEMENT
by Mary Scully 23

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued) 5. Primary and Secondary Feelings
by Mikhail Baitalsky 25

THE LIBERATING INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM (Part 6) by George Breitman 28

REVIEWS:
A STRATEGY TO END THE WAR
by Mark Weber 31

THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MOVEMENT, THE
BLACK BELT THEORY, AND SOCIALISM
A Stalinized View

by Haskell Berman 31

LETTERS 34



No 40, April, 1987


ISRAELI POLICE RAID HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
Director of Alternative Information Center Still in Jail

by Stuart Brown 1

JERUSALEM POGROM
Reprinted from News from Within 2

PALESTINIANS RELEASED FROM PRISON IN LOS ANGELES
Walter Lippmann 4

THE SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLUTION MARKS TIME
by Charlie van Gelderen 5

A RECORD OF THE MASS RALLY AT THE SHANGHAI
PEOPLE’S SQUARE TO DISCUSS DEMOCRACY

by Yuan Xiumin 8

ON DEMOCRATIC DECISION MAKING IN THE
US ANTI-INTERVENTION MOVEMENT

by Samuel Adams 10

THE US CONSTITUTION AND THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION
by Evelyn 20

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued)
6. Husbands and Wives in the Komsomol
7. A Little About the Language of the Times

by Mikhail Baitalsky 22

THE LIBERATING INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM (Part 7)
by GeorgeBreitman 27

REVIEW:
A TROTSKY BIOGRAPHY IN PICTURES

by Frank Lovell 30

OBITUARY:
"A STRONG LINK HAS BEEN BROKEN"
Tom Gustafsson (1947-87)

by Gote Kilden 35

LETTERS 36




No 41, May, 1987


DEFEND MICHEL WARSHAWSKY AND THE
ALTERNATIVE INFORMATION CENTER IN ISRAEL

by Rafael Sabatini 1

INTERVIEW WITH MICHEL WARSHAWSKY
Reprinted from International Viewpoint 2

PALESTINIANS SUPPORTERS HARASSED IN LOS ANGELES
by Walter Lippmann 3

NEW MASS STRUGGLES IN EASTERN EUROPE
Hungarians March; Yugoslavs Strike

by Tom Barrett 5

RADICAL POLITICS AND THE RUSSIAN QUESTION
by Frank Lovell 8

WHERE IS THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY GOING?
by Steve Bloom 12

US CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ ECONOMIC PASTORAL:
A VIEW FROM AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER

by Charles McCollester 18

MARXISM, CHRISTIANITY AND CLASS STRUGGLE
by Paul Le Blanc 21

THE US CONSTITUTION AND THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS
by Evelyn Sell 26

A TRIBUTE TO JOHN G W RIGHT
by Alan Wald 28

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued)
8 How It Was and How It Became

by Mikhail Baitalsky 30

REVIEWS:
A NEW7 WEAPON IN THE TROTSKYIST ARSENAL

by Stuart Brown 33

THE SANDINISTA REVOLUTION
by Michael Livingston
34




No 42, June, 1987


APRIL 25 1987:
A BIG STEP FORWARD FOR THE ANTI-INTERVENTION MOVEMENT

by Bill Onasch 1

A MEMORY OF BENJAMIN LINDER
by Jack Bresee

DEFEND COSATU
Editorial from Inprecor 6

INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT BUILDS FOR MICHAEL WARSHAWSKY
by Rafael Sabatini 7

MAJOR SETBACK IN FREEDOM SOCIALIST DEFENSE CASE 8
STILL CHASING RAINBOWS?

by Bernard Daniels 9

THE MOVEMENT AGAINST THE WAR IN VIETNAM—
ITS LESSONS FOR TODAY

by James Lafferty 12

THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE NEW EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
by Evelyn Sell 15

FIT SETS PLANS FOR NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE 18
A NEW TREND IN SOVIET STUDIES
‘Stalin Wasn’t So Bad, Trotsky Wasn’t So Good’

by Paul Le Blanc and Thomas Twiss 19

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued)
The Family of an Odessa Tailor

by Mikhail Baitalsky 24

‘TOP BOLSHEVIKS, LONG TABOO, RE-EMERGE IN A MOSCOW PLAY’
Reprint from the New York Times 28

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM:
MARXISM AND RELIGION

by Leon Trotsky 29

REVIEWS: TOWARD A MARXIST UNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION
by Paul Le Blanc 31

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SANDINISTA
by Jean Y Tussey 33

LETTERS 35




No 43, July-August, 1987


INTRODUCTION TO BULLETIN IDOM NUMBER 43 1

EDITORIAL:
WHAT WAS THE STARK DOING IN THE PERSIAN GULF?
2

THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN SOUTH AFRICA
After the Whites-Only Elections

by Tom Barrett 3

IN PREPARATION FOR THE FIT’S NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE:
THE MYTH OF DEINDUSTRIALIZATION IN THE US ECONOMY

by Steve Bloom 5

THE CONTINUING UPSURGE IN MEATPACKING
by Dave Riehle 11

MEATPACKERS DISCUSS HOW TO REBUILD A FIGHTING UNION
Excerpted from Labor Notes 15

NOTES FROM A ‘DISLOCATED WORKER’
by Bill Onasch 16

HOW WILL WOMEN WORKERS GAIN PAY EQUITY?
by Evelyn Sell 19

‘LEFT UNITY MUST BE FORGED IN THE CLASS STRUGGLE’
Statement by the Political Committee of the Mexican PRT

Reprinted from International Viewpoint 22

THE ROCKY ROAD TO THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, 1933-38
by George Breitman 24

LENIN AND DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM
by Paul Le Blanc 35




No 44, September, 1987


SOLIDARITY WITH THE ANTI-APARTHEID STRUGGLE
Resolution of the International Executive Committee

of the Fourth International 1

THE IRAN-CONTRA SCANDAL
What Has Been Revealed

by Tom Barrett 5

NEW TROTSKY ARCHIVES DISCOVERED
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey 9

SOME QUESTIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE YOUNG SOCIALIST ALLIANCE
by Rafael Sabatini 14

ISRAELI DEFENSE CAMPAIGN:
Lea Tsemel Speaks in New York

by Bill Onasch 17

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM:
VANGUARD PARTIES

by Ernest Mandel 18

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued)
11 I Saw My Homeland
12 Friendship with Grisha

by Mikhail Baitalsky 24

REVIEWS: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LEFT
by Paul Le Blanc 28

ROSA LUXEMBURG AT THE CINEMA
by Rafael Sabatini 33

ACADEMIC McCARTHYISM
by Mark Weber 35

LETTERS 36




No 45, October, 1987


SOUTH AFRICAN MINERS END 3-WEEK STRIKE
Mine Owners and Government Fail to Break National Union of Mineworkers

by Tom Barrett 1

THE CENTRAL AMERICA PEACE PLAN AND THE
U.S. ANTI-INTERVENTION MOVEMENT

by Bill Onasch 3

DON’T ‘ACCOMMODATE’ DEMOCRACY TO THE LABOR BUREAUCRACY
An Answer to Nat Weinstein

by Samuel Adams 6

PETER CAMEJO AND THE BALLOT BOX MYTH
by Paul Le Blanc 11

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE USSR
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey 15

LABOR’S ANSWER TO TODAY’S PROBLEMS
by Frank Lovell 18

F.I.T. LAUNCHES NEW PUBLICATIONS PROJECT 30

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued)
13. Days and Evenings Without Romance

by Mikhail Baitalsky 31

REVIEW:
WRITER AND REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST

by Paul Le Blanc 34




No 46, November, 1987


AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MOVEMENT:
THE ARIAS PEACE PLAN—How Should the Anti-Intervention Movement Respond?

by the Emergency National Council 1

A BAD BUSINESS ALL THE WAY AROUND
Corruption and ‘Cleanup’ in the Teamsters Union

by Tom Barrett 3

ISSUES IN THE DEFENSE OF MARTIN HUGHES
by Jean Y Tussey 5

THE DROWNING AT MEECH LAKE
by Barry Weisleder 7

AN OPEN LETTER TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY AND YOUNG SOCIALIST ALLIANCE
by Keith Mann 9

BUILDING THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES
by Evelyn Sell 11

COMMON GROUND BETWEEN MARXISM AND RELIGION?
by Paul Le Blanc 19

TROTSKY REHABILITATED?
by Catherine Verla 23

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued)
14 Cain, Abel, and the ‘Platform of the 83’

by Mikhail Baitalsky 24

IN MEMORY OF PROLETARIAN REVOLUTIONARY CHEN BILAN
(1902-1987)

by the October Review 28

COURT TURNS DOWN APPEAL IN FREEWAY HALL CASE 29

REVIEWS:
A USEFUL STUDY OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION

by Tom Barrett30

IN SEARCH OF RELEVANT FACTS AND PRACTICAL ANSWERS
bv Frank Lovell 33

LETTERS 36




No 47, December, 1987


THE GREAT STOCK MARKET CRASH OF 1987 What Caused It and What It Means
by Steve Bloom 1

REAGAN THREATENS WAR IN THE PERSIAN GULF
by Tom Barrett 5

FORD AND GM CONTRACTS
The Sorry Result of Union/Management Collaboration

by Bob Kutchko and Bill Onasch 8

LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS: OYER HALF A MILLION MARCH ON WASHINGTON
by Walter Lippmann 12

MOVES TO REHABILITATE THE MOSCOW TRIALS DEFENDANTS
by Ernest Mandel 15

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM:
THE RED ARMY IN LENIN’S TIME

by James P Cannon 21

REVOLUTIONARY FORGIVENESS
by Grant M Gallup 23

ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL’S CADRE SCHOOL
by Barry Weisleder 25

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued)
15 The View from Cell No 9

by Mikhail Baitalsky 27

REVIEWS:
THE STUDENT AS TEACHER: REMEMBRANCES OF GEORGE BREITMAN

by Paul Lee 31

A SHOP STEWARD AND REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST
by Wayne McElyea 33

LETTERS 35




1988

No 48, January, 1988


GORBACHEV’S 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPEECH
Its Meaning for the Soviet Union and the World
1
by Tom Barrett

THE USSR AND THE CAPITALIST ECONOMIC CRISIS
An Excerpt from International Viewpoint
6
by Ernest Mandel

IT’S HARD TO CHEAT THE LAWS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
The Coup in Burkina Faso
7
by Stuart Brown

AN APPEAL FOR MOSES MAYEKISO 8

NEW GROUP FORMS TO OPPOSE US INTERVENTION IN THE PHILIPPINES 9
by Sean Larkin

DEVELOPMENTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL CAPITALIST ECONOMY 10
by Carol McAllister

DEBT AND THE US ECONOMY 17
by Steve Bloom

THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY AND THE GUATEMALA PEACE PLAN 19
by Samuel Adams

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT BREAKS POSTAL WORKERS’ STRIKE 26
by Barry Weisleder

PHILADELPHIA MAYORAL ELECTIONS: ANOTHER NO-WIN CHOICE 27
by Haskell Berman

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued) 28
I Make the Worst Choice 16
by Mikhail Baitalsky

REVIEW: A VERY USEFUL AND TIMELY PAMPHLET 34
by Keith Mann

LETTERS 36




No 49, February, 1988


ISRAEL’S ‘IRON FIST’ 1
by Tom Barrett

HAITI: THE ARMY AND DUVALIER’S THUGS MASSACRE ELECTION 5
by Arthur Mahon

SOLIDARITY’S CONTRADICTORY PERSPECTIVE FOR ITS ANTI-INTERVENTION WORK 8
by Samuel Adams

THE ASSASSINATION OF MALCOLM X: 23 YEARS LATER
A Giant Blow to the Black and Working Class Movements
13
by Evelyn Sell

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM:
GEORGE BREITMAN ON ‘THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X’
18

A RESOLUTION TURNING AWAY FROM SOCIALISM
On the Report Adopted by the 13th Chinese CP Congress
20
Editorial from October Review

THE BRITISH ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT 24
by Peter Bloomer

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued)
16 I Make the Worst Choice (continued)
28
by Mikhail Baitalsky

REVIEWS: AN ASSESSMENT OF GLASNOST 31
by Haskell Berman

MASS MEDIA AND THE ORIGINS OF FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS 32
by Michael Livingston

LETTERS 35




No 50, March, 1988


CONTRA AID REJECTED IN HOUSE 1
It’s Time to Revitalize the Movement
by Bill Onasch

SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE 3
Editorial from International Viewpoint

POLICE CRACKDOWN IN MALAYSIA 6
An Assault on Democratic Rights by Barbara Wentworth 6

UPDATE ON THE MOSCOW TRIALS CAMPAIGN 7

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM:
TO WHAT EXTENT IS THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO OBSOLETE ?
8
by Karl Kautsky

PERMANENT REVOLUTION: THE NICARAGUAN EXPERIENCE 14
by Michael Lowy

DISPELLING SOME MYTHS ABOUT THE ANTI-VIETNAM WAR MOVEMENT 18
by Evelyn Sell

ANTI-VIETNAM WAR MOVEMENT GIVES VITAL LESSONS FOR TODAY 21
by Nat Weinstein

THE BAUHAUS: ART AS POLITICS 27
by Jack Bresee

NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued) 29
17 My First Arrest
by Mikhail Baitalsky

REVIEWS:
A WORLD MOVEMENT OF DEPTH AND SUBSTANCE
33
by Steve Bloom

AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF RUSSIA 34
by Pierre Rousset




No 51, April, 1988


The February 3 Contra Aid Vote and the US Anti-Intervention Movement
by Samuel Adams 1

Hands off Panama!
Editorial 1

The Rehabilitation of Nikolai Bukharin
by Bernard Daniels 6

A Historical Victory
by Ernest Mandel 7

Abortion Victory In Canada
by Anne MacLellan Brunelie 8

As Early As Possible, As Late As Necessary
Women Fight for Abortion Rights in Britain
by Judith Arkwright 9

New York Picket Opposes Us Aid To the Philippines
by Steve Bloom 11

France: Communist Renovators Challenge Traditional Left Parties
by John Barzman 12

The Threefold Crisis Facing Us Working People 17

The Fourth International Approaches a Turning Point
A Report on Discussions in Europe
by Paul Le Blanc and Barry Weisleder 28

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (continued)
18 a Year of Successes in Astrakhan
19 I Could Have Been Silent About This, Too
by Mikhail Baitalsky 32




No 52, May, 1988


A Victory for the Nicaraguan Revolution
Editorial1

Disarmament and Socialist Revolution
by Samuel Adams 2

Self-Determination for the Palestinian People! for a Democratic Secular Palestine!
Statement by the National Organizing Committee of the FIT 7

New York Rally Calls for Rehabilitation of Moscow Trials Victims
by Bernard Daniels 9

The Train of History
by Esteban Volkov9

Socialists and the 1988 Elections
by Bill Onasch11

Nine Days That Shook Oregon
Or: How OPEU Became a Union by Ann Montague 15

Revolutionary Perspectives In the Us Trade Union Movement
by Dave Riehle 19

A Perversion of Internationalism
Founding Conference of the Communist League of Britain
by Tom Barrett 24

Cecil Glass (1901-1988) by Frank Lovell 28

From the Arsenal of Marxism: Atomic Bombs Imperil Existence of Humanity
New Imperialist Weapon Razes Entire City
by Li Fu-jen 29

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (continued)
20 Features of the New Order
by Mikhail Baitalsky 31

Letters 35




No 53, June, 1988


Contradictions Of The Jackson Campaign
by Albert Harris 1

Problems Of Strategy And Organization
For The Anti-Apartheid Movement

by Samuel Adams 3

View From A West Bank Hospital
Epidemic of Army Violence
Reprint from News from Within 5

Israel: Three Myths
by Michael Steven Smith 7

Defend Mark Curtis!
by Bill Onasch 9

Women And Work In The 1980s
by Mary Scully 10

The Socialist Workers Party Today
A Balance Sheet of Degeneration
by Frank Lovell and Paul Le Blanc 13

Let History Judge Me
Trotsky in the Soviet Press
by Vladimir Pimonov 23

Notebooks For The Grandchildren (continued)
21 More About Boris and the Features of the Time
by Mikhail Baitalsky 24

Reviews :
Agenda For A Debate On Revolutionary Program:
A Sandinista Contribution

by Paul Le Blanc 29

Letters 34




No 54, July-August, 1988


Where Does The Central America Movement Go From Here?
by Bill Onasch 1

May 14 Family Day: Unrealized Potential
by Mary Scully 4

Poland’s Cycle Of Hope And Disappointment
by Tom Barrett 5

When Thieves Fall Out
Manuel Noriega and the CIA Connection
by June Martin 8

Pan-Canadian Trotskyist Organization Formed
by Keith Mann 11

50 Years Of Struggle For Trotskyism
In The U S And Canada

by Keith Mann 12

Soviet Press Denounces Andrei Vyshinsky: Prosecutor In The Moscow Trials
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey 14

From The Arsenal Of Marxism:
The Meaning Of Rakovsky’s Surrender

by Leon Trotsky 18

Notebooks For The Grandchildren (continued)
22 Holy and Unholy Work
by Mikhail Baitalsky 21

Fred Halstead: Fighter For Socialism
by David Williams 26

Daniel Guerin: 1904-1988
by Rafael Sabatini 27

"Nous Sommes Le Pouvoir"
by Charles-Andre Udry 28

Reviews:
The Great-Grandparent Of American Marxism

by Paul Le Blanc 32

The Zionist Fraud
by Haskell Berman 34

Letters 36




No 55, September, 1988


Fourth International’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Planned for October in New York 1

EDITORIAL:
How To Prevent Mistakes 1

Soviet CP Holds 19th All-Union Party Conference
by JL Lauria 2

Soviet Minister Tells Delegation: Trotsky Will Be Rehabilitated
by JL Lauria and Roy Rollin 4

Mexico: Elections Destabilize Regime
by Ariane Merri 6

The Rainbow at Atlanta or: ‘Gone with the Wind’
by Bill Onasch 7

Exchange Of Views:
Revolutionary Marxists and the Jackson Campaign
by Joanna Misnik 9
A Reply to Joanna Misnik
by Bill Onasch 11

No New Abortion Law
by Anne MacLellan Brunelle 14

What Can Be Done About the Scabs?
by Richard Scully 15

SWP’s ‘Action Program’: The Latest Guide to Inaction
by Tom Barrett 18

Is There a Simple Solution to Nicaragua’s Economic Crisis?
by Steve Bloom 21

A View from Managua
by Michael Frank 24

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (continued) 23 My Second Arrest
by Mikhail Baitalsky 27

New Developments in Mark Curtis Case 31

Contempt Charges and Jail Sentences Against Seattle Socialists Dismissed 31

REVIEWS :
Reclaiming the Truth: Materials for a History of Trotskyism in the United States
by Tom Barrett 32

New Australian Magazine Launched 36




No 56, October, 1988


Polish Workers Confront Government in New Strike Wave
by Tom Barrett 1

After Eight Years of Death: Cease-fire in Iran-lraq War
by Tom Barrett 3 Vote Socialist!

Statement of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency 5

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM: Johnson vs Goldwater—How Deep Are the Differences?

The Lesser-Evil Yardstick
by George Breitman 6

Negro Leaders and Capitalist Politics

The Two-Party Swamp
by George Breitman 7

The Consequences of Historical Ignorance
The SWP and the P-9 Strike by Dave Riehle 9

What Working People Can Do About the Child Care Crisis
by Evelyn Sell 12

EXCHANGE OF VIEWS: A German Reader Questions FIT Perspectives and A Reply 15

The Fourth International: Fifty Years of Struggle Interview with Livio Maitan 17

Program, Organization, Revolution: Lenin and the Bolsheviks, 1905-1917 (part 1)
by Paul Le Blanc 19

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (continued) 23 My Second Arrest (continued) 24 ‘We Know All About You’
by Mikhail Baitalsky 22

REVIEWS: Reflections on Revolutionary Strategy
by Paul Le Blanc and Tom Twiss 27

An Appreciation of Gorbachev
by Frank Lovell 30

Letters 34




No 57, November, 1988


Jordan, Israel, and the PLO
by Chris Faatz 1

Warshawsky Trial Begins October 19 in Israel 4

Mark Curtis Convicted in Rape Trial:
Stepped-up Defense Effort Projected
4

Sesquicentennial, Trail of Tears 5

Mexico After the Elections 6

Why the Central America Movement
Must Focus on Central America

by Samuel Adams 10

FROM THE ARSENAL OF MARXISM:
Withdraw the Troops
15

US Radicals and the Trade Union Movement
by DaveRiehle 17

Program, Organization, Revolution:
Lenin and the Bolsheviks, 1905-1917 (part 2)

by Paul Le Blanc 23

An Appeal to the SWP
by John Daniels 27

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (continued) 25 Butyrka Humanism
by Mikhail Baitalsky 29

REVIEWS:
The Transitional Program Today

by Paul Le Blanc 32

A Look at 1968
by John A Kovach 34

LETTERS 35




No 58, December, 1988


The 1988 Election Campaign A Year of Missed Opportunities
by Tom Barrett 1

Special Feature: Anniversary New York Celebration of the Fiftieth of the Fourth International

Fourth International 50th Anniversary Celebration Held in New York
by David Williams 5

The Fourth International and the Fight for Socialism in the World Today
by Paul Le Blanc 7

The Historical Balance Sheet of the Fourth International
by Claudio Mangani 8

Revolutionaries Forge indissoluble Links Through Struggle
by Rosario Ibarra 10

They Could Not Kill the Ideas of Leon Trotsky
by Jake Cooper 10

Trotsky’s Historical Defense of Marxism
by Esteban Volkov 11

The Dialectical Method of the Fourth International
by Alan Waid 12

Socialist Challenge/Gauche Socialiste Statement of Principles 14

Toronto Anti-Intervention Conference Planned
by Barry Weisleder 18

The Rise and Fall of Maoism
by Lin Yifeng 19

Program, Organization, Revolution:
Lenin and the Bolsheviks, 1905-1917
by Paul Le Blanc 26

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (continued)
26 Acquaintance with Vorkuta

by Mikhail Baitalsky 29

Reviews: Marxist Theory, Revolutionary Program, and Socialist Action
by Albert Harris 34



1989


No 59, January, 1989


The Anti-Abortion Offensive and How Women Can Combat It 1 by Mary Scully

Cleveland Anti-Intervention Conference 3
by Steve Bloom

How Can We End US Intervention in Central America? 3
by James Lafferty

The Situation in the Philippines
Interview with Zenaida Uy 6

Editorial
1,000 Days of Corazon Aquino
11

From the Arsenal of Marxism
General MacArthur Represses Filipino Guerrilla Fighters
12
by Li Fu-jen

November 5 Action Against the Kian Held in Philadelphia 14
by Haskell Berman

Sylvia Bleeker (1901-1988)
Union Organizer, Socialist Agitator, and Lifelong Trotskyist
16
by Frank Lovell

Glasnost and Perestroika—
The USSR Today
20
Panel Discussion with: Marilyn Vogt-Downey
Gerry Foley, and Esteban Volkov

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (continued) 30
27 At the Brickworks

by Mikhail Baitalsky

Letters




No 60, February, 1989


Black History Month:
The Revolutionary Quality of Malcolm X
1
by Steve Bloom

Editorial:
Stop US Aggression Against Libya

Labor’s Stake in the Fight Against Tier Plans
by Richard Scully

Trinidad in Crisis
by Uoyd D’Aguilar

The Radicalizing Effect of the New York City Public Schools
by Anna Goodman

The Trail of Tears and Radical Consciousness in the United States
by Jack Bresee

Conversations in the USSR
Diary of a Trip
(part 1)
by David Seppo

On the Rehabilitation of Sergei Sedov
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

From the Arsenal of Marxism:
A Chance Encounter with Sergei Sedov

by Joseph Berger

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (continued)
28 Tents for the Condemned

by Mikhail Baltalsky

Max Geldman (1905-1988)
by Evelyn Sell

Reviews:
Fifty Years of the Fourth International

by Frank Lovell




No 61, March, 1989


New Challenge for Polish Working Class
Government and Solidarity Agree to Negotiate
1
by Tom Barrett

James Kutcher 1912-1989

Palestine at a Turning Point
by Tom Barrett

New Democratic Party Fiasco Sparks Debate in Canada by Barry Weisleder

Ontario Federation of Labor Retreats
by Barry Weisleder

Mexican PRT Comrade Kidnapped

Hugo Blanco Abducted in Peru
by Bill Onasch

Caribbean Scene
State of Human Rights in Jamaica

by Uoyd D’Aguilar

Mark Curtis Defense Effort Attacked by Workers League
by Stuart Brown

Mobilize for Spring Anti-Intervention Demonstrations
by Samuel Adams

Pro-Abortion Rights Forces Mobilizing for National Demonstration by Evelyn Sell

Exchange of Views

More Radical Pro-Abortion Movement Needed
by Sue Smith and Larry Murdock
Mary Scully Responds

Current Events In the Soviet Union 20
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Conversations in the USSR Diary of a Trip (part 2) 26
by David Seppo

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 31
29 Borya Elisavetsky

by Mikhail Baitalsky

Milton Genecin 1908-1989 34

Reviews
A Socialist Dreamscape on Public Television
35
by Steve Bloom




No 62, April, 1989


In Defense of Salman Rushdie 1
by Tom Barrett

Building for April 9 Abortion Rights March 2
by Sarah Lovell

The History of Anti-Abortion Laws in the US 4
by Gayle Swann

Caribbean Scene The Jamaican Masses Search for a Way Out 6
by Lloyd D’Aguilar

James Kutcher (1912-1989)
The Man Who Never Gave Up 8
by Frank Lovell
The Case of the Legless Veteran
A Letter to James Kutcher 10
by James P Cannon

Hugo Blanco Released 15

PRT Leader Still Missing in Mexico 16
by Michael Frank

Mixed Decision in Seattle Freeway Hall Case 16

Mass Executions in Iran Protested 17
by Gary Kennedy

Behind the Struggle in Nagorno-Karabagh 18
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Marxism, the National Question, and the Crisis of Stalinism 24
by Haskell Berman

Conversations in the USSR
Diary of a Trip (part 3)
27
by David Seppo

Notebooks for the Grandchildren
29 Different Categories of Criminals
32
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Letters 36




No 63, May, 1989


Exxon’s Big Blunder 1
by Carmen Wynn

Two Major Oil Spills That Could Have Been Averted 2
by Burt Vulliet

Editorial: 3 Capitalist Anarchy

Los Angeles Pro-Choice Activists 4
Celebrate Victory Over Operation Rescue

by Evelyn Sell

Modest March 18 El Salvador Protests Held 5

Special Section — Issues Facing Labor:

Problems of the Eastern Airlines Strike 6
by Bill Onasch

Collective Bargaining and Democratic Unionism 10
by Richard Scully

The Left and Electoral Politics: Lesser Evil, Populism, 15
or Working Class Independence?

by Wayne McElyea

Exchange of Views:
Corporate Campaigns, the Trade Union Movement,
and the Hormel Strike
18
by Bernard Daniels

Dave Riehle Responds

Centennial of Vincent R Dunne 19
by Dave Riehle

From the Arsenal of Marxism:
Revolutionary Tasks and
Work in the Trade Union Movement
26
by V R Dunne

A Question for the SWP:
But What Is Happening Among the Soviet Masses?
29
by Steve Bloom

An Old House in Coyoacan 31

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (Continued)
30 Vorkuta, Kotlas, Kirov
33
by Mikhail Baitalsky




No 64, June, 1989


Historic April 9 March Shows Way Forward for Women’s Movement
by Mary Scully

City University of New York—Students Fight Tuition Raise and Cutbacks
by Michael Frank

Polish Solidarity Gains Legal Status
by Tom Barrett

Student Revolt in China
by Tom Barrett

The Signature Campaigns for the Release of Political Prisoners in China
by Xiao Dian

Special Section—Recent Events in the USSR

Soviet Elections—Rumblings Below the Surface by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

The Attack on Soviet Georgia and Gorbachev’s Policy on the National Question
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

The Impact of Glasnost and Perestroika

Interview with Catherine Samary

Michel Warshawsky Faces Jail for Political Activities
Israeli Activist Tours US

by Steve Bloom

Solidarity, Regroupment, and Socialist Renewal Editorial Introduction to a Discussion Article

Where We’ve Come From, What We Face, Where We Go From Here
by Paul Le Blanc

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (Continued)
31 Russian Patriots

by Mikhail Baitalsky




No 65, July-August, 1989


UPHEAVAL IN CHINA!

Chinese Students Change the Course of History
by Tom Barrett 1

Bloodbath in Tiananmen Square 1

Call to Form a Coalition of Self-Governing Workers’ Organizations 7

For a Thorough Antibureaucratic Revolution
Letters by the Chinese Revolutionary Communist Party
8

Political Revolution in China? 9
by Steve Bloom

Solidarity with the Chinese Students 9
by Jerry Gordon

Mexican Hunger Strike Gets Results 10

Free the Upington 26! 10

The Latest Threats Against Panama 11
by Tom Barrett

Brazilian Workers Party Presidential Candidate Speaks in New York 14
by Roger Kraft

From International Viewpoint on Brazil:
Lula for President!
15
General Strike by 35 Million Workers 16
The Strike and the Political Crisis 17

Victory in Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike 19
by Evelyn Sell

Union Activists Discuss Political Action at Labor Notes Conference 22
by Dave Riehle

200th Anniversary of the French Revolution
The French Revolution and Bourgeois Ideology
25
by George Plekhanov

Congress of People’s Deputies Widens Cracks in Bureaucratic Rule 31
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Unrest Continues in Caucasus 35
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (continued)
31 Russian Patriots (continued)
36
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Letters 40




No 66, September, 1989


Pro-Choice Forces Say: NEVER AGAIN! 1
by Evelyn Sell

NOW National Convention Charts Fight
To Defend Abortion Rights
3
by Helen Grossmann

The Struggle for Women’s Liberation in the United States 5
by Evelyn Sell

Pittston Strike: Pivotal Battle in Coal Field War 7
by Bill Onasch

Al Shiminsky (1917-1989) 11

Historic Strike by Soviet Miners
Demands Are Won
12
by Tom Barrett

Repression Continues in China
As Does Economic and Political Collaboration with the West
14
by Tom Barrett

The Significance and Lessons of the
Antibureaucratic Revolutionary Struggle
16
from October Review

Democracy and Revolution in China 18
by Steve Bloom

Documents
Sandinista Leaders on the Nicaraguan Crisis
23
Tomas Borge and Orlando Nunez

Interview with Filipino Labor Leader 25

CLR James, Writer and Revolutionary 27
by Charlie van Gelderen

From the Arsenal of Marxism
Revolution and the Negro
28 by CLR James

Commentary
Capitalism Gets Its Priorities Straight
35 by Stuart Brown

Letters 36



No 67, October, 1989


Jaruzelski’s Big Gamble 1
by Steve Bloom

Pro-Choice Activists Galvanized by Supreme Court Ruling 3
by Evelyn Sell

Central America Solidarity in Canada 5
by Barry Weisleder

Letter from the ENC 6

Call for October 8 National Meeting on Central America 6

Revolutionary Marxists and the Anti-Intervention Movement Today 7
by Michael Livingston

Understanding the Nicaraguan Revolution
A Critical Review of Some of the Literature
10
by Paul Le Blanc

UAW Loss at Smyrna 16
by Bill Onasch

A Visit to the USSR 18
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Prospects for the Situation in China 24
by Yang Hai

What Was CLR James’s Contribution to Revolutionary Marxism? 26
by Lloyd D’Aguilar

Michael Harrington, 1928-1989 31
by R L Hubner

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (Continued) 33
32 They Even Found Me Here

by Mikhail Baitalsky




No 68, November, 1989


Protests Escalate as Apartheid Regime Holds Elections 2
by Tom Barrett

Editorial:
For a World Without Borders!
2

Issues in the Women’s Struggle

In Support of NOW’s Call for a New Party 3
by Carol McAllister

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement 8
by Claire Cohen

Women Challenge Rape Myths and Realities 11
by Evelyn Sell

For a Constituent Assembly
Statement of the Revolutionary Socialist Party 16
Chilean Section of the Fourth International

Democracy and the Bolshevik Revolution 18
by Paul Le Blanc

TROTSKY: On the Road to the Truth About Him 22
(Interview from Komsomolskaya Pravda)

Stalinism in Crisis
‘Difficult Days’ for the Communist Party, USA
26
By Samuel Adams

Exchange of Views:
Where Tom Barrett Goes Wrong on China
29
by Myra Tanner Weiss

Recognizing Reality in the Anti bureaucratic Struggle 30
by Tom Barrett

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (Continued)
33 My Co-Butyrnik
32
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Socialist Workers Party Wins Important Victory 36
by Stuart Brown




No 69, December, 1989


US Anti-Interventionists Move Toward United Action 1
by Jean Tussey

The Nicaraguan Elections and the International Solidarity Movement 3
by Steve Bloom

Trotsky’s Voice Heard Again in the USSR 4
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Exchange of Views
Lech Walesa, Darling of Reactionary Forces
9
by Samuel Adams

Let’s Not Forget the Role of the Masses 9
by Steve Bloom

Declaration of the Wroclaw Regional Workers’ Committee 11
of the Polish Socialist Party-Democratic Revolution

For the Beijing Commune
For the Political Revolution in China
13
by Ernest Mandel

The US Union Movement Today 18
by Dave Riehle

Southern Workers Announce Plans for Midwest Tour 21
by Theresa El-Amin

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (Continued) 34 You Don’t Get Something for Nothing 25
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Reviews Let the Soviet Workers Judge 28
by Frank Lovell

Seattle 1919 Strike Set to Music 36
by Anise Arr



1990


No 70, January, 1990


November 12: One Million Rally for Abortion Rights National Focus on Washington, DC 1
by Melanie Benson

Los Angeles Rally Draws 100,000 4
by Evelyn Sell

‘Women of Color’ Contingent Mobilized in Pittsburgh 4
by Claire Cohen

The Revolutionary Offensive in El Salvador 5
by Tom Barrett

Overturn Conviction of Michel Warshawsky 8
and the Alternative Information Center

On Events In the USSR and Eastern Europe:

Revolution and Counterrevolution in Eastern Europe 9
by Steve Bloom

NY Moscow Trials Campaign Holds Successful Rally 11
by Ben Stone

The Political Revolution—and the Dangers That Threaten It 13
by Ernest Mandel

New York City Election Poses Challenge for
Black and Working Class Movements
18
by Lloyd D’Aguilar

The Drug Epidemic and The War on Drugs 21
by Shafik Abu Tahir

Notes on a Thermidorian Bicentennial 24
by Keith Mann

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (Continued)
35 A Credo in the Area of Wages 30
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Obituaries: 32
Leonard Boudin, Mary McCarthy, Christy C Moustakis

Review
The Erratic Career of Karl Radek
35
by Ben Stone




No 71, February, 1990


The US Invasion of Panama
Misnamed ‘Operation Just Cause’
1
by Tom Barrett

Haitian Masses Resist Right-wing Crackdown 4
and Government Austerity Drive
by Michael Frank

Rumania Joins Revolutionary Wave in Eastern Europe 5
by Steve Bloom

A Letter from Berlin 8

Discussion:
Which Way for Poland and Solidarity?
10
by Samuel Adams

Exchange of Views:
Open Letter to Barry Sheppard
14
by Steve Bloom

In Reply to Steve Bloom’s Open Letter 18
by Barry Sheppard

An Appeal to Reason-The SWP and the Central America Struggle 20
by Samuel Adams

Interview with Turkish Revolutionist 22

Notebooks for the Grandchildren (Continued)
36 A Woman’s Scream in the Corridor
28
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Reviews:
Political Insights on Lenin’s Organizational Practice
33
by Steve Bloom

Marxism and Liberation Theology 35
by R L Huebner

Pathfinder Mural-Masses Take a Back Seat 36
by Roy Rollin




No 72, March, 1990


South Africa:
Response to President De Klerk’s Announcements
1
by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)

National Actions Planned for March 24
‘End the US War in Central America’
2
by Keith Mann

Mexican Auto Workers Under Attack 4

Interview with Sergio Ramirez in Nicaragua 5
‘To Put Aside Ideology and Polarization
in Order to Reach a Real Coordination and Reconciliation’

What Is at Stake in Poland
A Reply to Samuel Adams
9
by Steve Bloom

National Struggle and Political Revolution in Armenia and Azerbaijan 15
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

National Liberation Struggles as a Casualty of Ending the Cold War 21
by LJoyd D’Aguilar

Eastern Strikers Face Huge Obstacles
Militant Newspaper Sees Victory in Each Setback
25
by Bill Onasch

Two Years of a Frame-up—The Case of Mark Curtis 28
by Ben Stone

Review:
Background Studies: Future of USSR
30
by Haskel Berman

Notebooks for the Grandchildren
37 ‘Consider Yourself Lucky!’
33
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Editorial from October Review:
The Tide of Democracy Is Irresistible!
36




No 73, April, 1990


Defend the Nicaraguan Revolution! 1
by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International

The Electoral Defeat in Nicaragua 2
by Paul Le Blanc

Central America, the Caribbean,
and the Nicaraguan Revolution
5
by Paul Le Blanc

The New Situation in South Africa 10
by Tom Barrett

The Health Care Issue-Cutting Edge for Labor’s Fightback 15
By Richard Scully

Pittston miners can instruct, invigorate US labor movement 18
by Peter Rachleff

Comments on German Reunification 19
by Steve Bloom

The Future of Communism 21
by Ernest Mandel

National Struggle and Political Revolution 25
in Armenia and Azerbaijan (Part 2)

by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

News from the USSR 27

Why We Need a Programmatic Discussion 31
In Response to Barry Sheppard

by Steve Bloom

Important Victory in Freeway Hall Case 33

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 34
38 Distinguishing Stuffing from Substance
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Letters 36




No 74, May, 1990


On-the-Scene Report from Germany:
East Germans Go to the Polls for a
‘Coca Cola Election’
by Marc Levy 1

Theses on Poland and Solidarity 4
by the National Organizing Committee of the FIT

Modest Turnout for March 24 Actions 5
by Keith Mann

Editorial:
No More Delays-Establish a National
5
Anti-Intervention Coalition Now!

The Case of Daniel Libreros and the A Luchar Prisoners in Colombia 7

South Africa Hospital Workers Strike 8

Selma to Montgomery—25 Years Later
Black Electoral Politics Today
9
by Claire Cohen

Message of the Greyhound Strike:
‘Replacement Workers' Threaten the Labor Movement
11
by Naomi Allen

How Should UAW Respond to Crisis in Auto? 12

Interview with Soviet Trade Union Activists: 13
Problems Facing Workers in the USSR Today

In Defense of Socialism 19
by Roy Rollin

Eleven Years After the Iranian Revolution 22
by Tom Barrett

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 29
391 End Up in the First Circle
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Letters 34




No 75, June, 1990


Commemorating Malcolm X—
an Act of African-American Self-Determination
1
by Claire Cohen

UAW Leaders Say ‘No’ to ‘COLA on Pensions’
Confrontation Grows Inside Union
2
by Richard Scully

Call for General Strike in Canada Against New Tax 4
by Barry Weisleder

Human Rights Abuses Continue in El Salvador 5
by June Martin

José Tomás Mazariego-1949-1990 5

Discussion on Nicaragua:
Nicaragua and the Pitfall of a Mixed Economy
7
by Lloyd B’Aguilar

Reflections on Permanent Revolution in Nicaragua 12
by Paul Le Blanc

The Aftermath of Chernobyl:
Four Years After the Nuclear Disaster in the Ukraine
18
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

New Revelations About Trotsky in the USSR

Interview with Ernest Mandei
Fifteen Years of Inprecor
25

The Health Care Crisis: One Worker’s Experience 30
by Tom Barrett

AIDS Activists Demonstrate in Chicago for Improved Health Care 32
by Jeff Brown

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 33
40 We Delve Into the Psalms of the New David
by Mikhail Baitalsky




No 76, July-August, 1990


Gorbachev Forced to Retreat on Economic Plans:
Soviet Masses Intervene
1 by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Labor Movement Today

Union/Management Negotiations in Auto, 1990 8
by Frank Lovell

Mexican Ford Workers in Day-to-Day Battle for Survival 11

The Crisis of the US Union Movement-Part I 12
by Dave Riehle

The Continuing Scandal of Child Labor in US 16
by Evelyn Sell

South Africa
Resolutions of the Workers’ Organization for Socialist Action
21

Nicaragua and Revolutionary Marxism 23
by Paul Le Blanc

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 34
41 The Cunning Machine of the Secret Judicial Sessions
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Review
The French Revolution Survives Another Attack:
38
A Critical Look at Simon Schama’s Citizens Morris Slavin

Obituary
Sam Randall (1914-1990)
41

Letters 43




No 77, September, 1990


US Troops Out of the Middle East 1
War In the Persian Gulf by Tom Barrett

The Socialist Workers Party Formalizes Break from the Fourth International 1

A Hero’s Welcome
Nelson Mandela Tours the United States
3
by Tom Barrett

On the Scene Report 5
Class Struggle in Nicaragua Today
by John Daniel

NOW Confronts the Future
A Report on the 1990 National Conference
10
by Carol McAllister

The Crisis of the US Union Movement—Part II 14
by Dave Riehle

Soviet Communist Party Congress
Registers Dramatic Changes
18
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

People’s Daily World Reduced to a Weekly
Lessons for the Left
23
by Samuel Adams

The Capitalist Market and the Workers’ State
Assessing the Reforms in Eastern Europe and the USSR
27
by Steve Bloom

Obituaries
Reba Hansen (1909-1990)
33
Louis Sinclair (1909-1990) 33

Michael Warshawsky’s Conviction Upheld by Israeli High Court Review 35

Yugoslavia and the Market Economy 26 by Doug Buchholz

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 38
41 The Cunning Machine of the Secret Judicial Sessions (Continued)
by Mikhail Baitalsky




No 78, October, 1990


FIT National Conference Sets Goal of a New, United
Fourth Internationalist Organization in the US
1
by Steve Bloom

A Call by the Fourth Internationalist Tendency:
For the Reconstitution of a United Movement of the
Fourth International in the US
1

Bush Golfs as Opposition Grows to Middle East War 2
by Tom Barrett

Notes on Kuwaiti History and Society 3
by Anu Kumar Munroe

Discussion on the Middle East
Iraq’s Invasion of Kuwait: What Position for Revolutionary Socialists?
4
by Dave Riehle and Samuel Adams

Imperialist Troops Out of the Gulf! 6
by the United Secretariat Bureau of the Fourth International

US Unions Seek Legislative Ban on Scabs 7
by Richard Scully

Savings and Loan Bailout—Welfare for the Rich and Corrupt 11
by Richard Scully

Amnesty Campaign Organized for US Political Prisoners 12
by Lloyd D’Aguilar

An Extraordinary Event: 14
Ernest Mandel and Gregor Gysi Debate in East Berlin!

Potential for a Conscious, Working Class
Revolutionary Movement in the USSR
16
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Discussion by Soviet Revolutionaries 21

Fourth international Youth Camp—1990 24
by Tammy Hall, Lisa Landphair, and Keith Mann

Appeal to Members of the Socialist Workers Party
by the FIT National Organizing Committee

Open Letter to Jack Barnes
by Ben Stone

‘Why Does the SWP Still Exclude the FIT 27
from Its Bookstores and Public Events?’

Obituaries 30
Jake Cooper (1916-1990), Tamara Deutscher (1913-1990)

From the Arsenal of Marxism
Socialism and Democracy
32
by James P Cannon

Reviews 37
Story of Steel, by Haskeli Berman
The German Greens: Socialism and Ecology, by Michael Lowy




No 79, November, 1990


On the Mideast Crisis

Forging Unity in the
Mideast Anti-intervention Movement
1
by Steve Bloom

US Labor and the Persian Gulf Crisis 4
by Richard Scully

Discussion article
Is There Any Progressive Content to Iraq’s Invasion
and Annexation of Kuwait?
5
by Steve Bloom and Tom Barrett


No Honeymoon for NDP
Election Victory in Ontario Signals Opening for Left
9
by Barry Weisleder

Canadian Mohawk Struggle
Native Americans Confront the State
11

Latin American Marxism—The Relaunch 15
by Sergio Rodriguez

Poverty and Income Trends in the US Today
From the ‘War on Poverty’ to the War on Welfare
17
by R L Huebner

Draft Political Resolution of FIT
Revolutionary Internationalism and the Struggle
for Socialism in the United States
19

From the Arsenal of Marxism
Malcolm X Spurs Civil Rights Forces
His Stand Can Unite and Build Movement
28
by George Breitman

Notebooks for the Grandchildren
42 Conversations in the Main Alley
30
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Reviews
The Reality of Cuba Today
34
by Michael Lowy

Che Guevara’s Economic Theories 34
by John Kovach

Letters 36




No 80, December, 1990


Thousands Protest on October 20th
by Michael Livingston 1

Massacre in Jerusalem
George Bush Walks a Diplomatic Fightrope
3
by Tom Barrett

The 50,000th Immigrant 6
by Gabi Nitzan

Union Busting at the New York Daily News 6
by Tom Barrett

Session on Malcolm X Meets in New York
A Radical Conference with
a Revolutionary Message
6
by Claire Cohen

The Antiracist Struggle in France Today 10
by Keith Mann

The Socialist Workers Party
and the Fourth International
32
by the United Secretariat of the FI

Notebooks for the Grandchildren
43 To Vorkuta for the Second Time
34
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Review
A Useful Contribution to the History of the
Vietnam Antiwar Movement
37
by Samuel Adams

Letters 39

Special Section on the USSR

The USSR: Toward a Major Crisis 12
by Livio Maitan

Mikhail Gorbachev Introduces New Economic Program for the USSR 21
by Steve Bloom

Trotsky's The Stalin School of Falsification Published in USSR 23

Introduction to the Trade Union 'Independence' 26
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

From the Arsenal of Marxism
Planned Economy in the USSR:
Success or Failure?
29



1991



No 81, January, 1991


Calls Issued for January
National Anti-Intervention Actions
1
by Steve Bloom

A Socialist in Congress? 4
by Tom Barrett

National Organization for Women
Begins New Party Hearings in New York
7
by Lisa Landphai

Fighting Against the Wage Gap
Between Women and Men Workers
10
by Evelyn Sell

Black Workers for Justice Speak
at the Malcolm X Conference:
Black Workers Organizing Today
15
by Claire Cohen

Shame on Delta Pride:
Catfish Workers Strike Southern Colonialism
17

Report from Mexico:
Terror in the Town of Jolalpan
18

Mass Upsurge in French High Schools 20
by Keith Mann

Trotsky’s Ideas Live Again in the USSR 22
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Reply to a Reader’s Question:
How Will a US Section of the FI Be Rebuilt?
25

Review
The Decline of American Unionism
26
by Frank Lovell

Notebooks for the Grandchildren
43 To Vorkuta for the Second Time (Cont)
31
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Letters 35




No 82, February, 1991


Black History Month

The Legacy of Malcolm X and the Black Liberation Movement Today 18
by Claire Cohen

From the Arsenal of Marxism:
On the First Anniversary of Malcolm X's Death
20
by George Breitman

How the The New York Times Distorted
Malcolm X's Views on Violence
24
by Walter Lippman


Bring the Troops Home Now!
No War for Oil!

Lessons of the Vietnam War Are Important Today!
Building a Movement Against US Intervention in the Middle East 1

by James Lafferty

We Need Unity in the Fight Against War 4
Bring the Troops Home Now!


Eyewitness to the Haitian Elections:
The Aristide Victory and Prospects for
Revolutionary Change in Haiti
5
by Marty Goodman

Coup Attempt in Haiti Ignites
Anti-Macoute Rebellion
5

The New York City Fiscal Crisis– 11
A Perspective
by Robert Fitch

Labor Conference to Focus on Organizing 13
by Bill Onasch

Campus Women Organize for Abortion Rights
and Feminist Demands
14
by Evelyn Sell

Student Feminists Share Experiences 16
by Deborah Gould

Treatment of Political Prisoners in the
United States Is Denounced
29

Revelations and Misinformation:
An Assessment of Trotsky’s Assassination in Ogonyok
32
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Trud’s Interview with Brother of Trotsky’s
Assassin and Revelations by His Mother
34

Walesa’s Hollow Victory 37
by Cyril Smuga

Exchange of Letters: 39
by Simon Pirani and Marilyn Vogt-Downey




No 83, March, 1991


War and Its Impact at Home


Middle East Crisis in Review


US Rulers Choose War 1
by Tom Barrett

Biggest US Antiwar Actions Since Vietnam 5
by Steve Bloom

The Emerging Student Antiwar Movement 8
by Keith Mann

US Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective 10
Paul Le Blanc

NOW Holds First Young Feminist Conference 12
by Sarah M Springer

Treatment of Political Prisoners in the United States Is Denounced (part 2) 15

Deepening Crisis of Soviet Bureaucracy on National 19
by George Saunders

Condemn the Persecutions by the Chinese CP! 23
from the October Review

Turkey: General Strike and Gulf War 24
by Pinar Selinay

The Workers’ Struggle in the ‘New’ Poland 26
Report of a Participant
by Iwonna Tyszkiewicz

On the Capitalist Reunification of Germany 29
by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 44 To Each His Own (Cont) 33
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Letter from London 26




No 84, April, 1991


No complaints! Just remember who won the Persian Gulf War!

US Imperialism Seeks Control of Mideast — 1
by Tom Barrett

Balance Sheet on the Gulf War and the US Antiwar Movement — 6
by Steve Bloom

Immediate Taks for Antiwar Fighters —7
by Samuel Adams

African-American Organizing Against US Intervention — 10
by Claire Cohen


Labor Movement Special Section

Rail Workers Under Fire—The War at Home 12
by LD Bradley

From the Arsenal of Marxism: The Politics of May Day 13
by Tom Kerry

Become a Labor Party Advocate! 16

Review: The Struggle for independent Unionism 17
by Frank Lovell


Ernest Mandel in Moscow 22

Trotsky’s Economic Ideas and the Soviet Union Today 24
by Ernest Mandel

World Congress of the Fourth International Is Held 27
by Steve Bloom

Declaration on Events in the Baltic Republics 28

Appeal for Solidarity with Algerian Women 28

Greetings from a Veteran Trotskyist 29

Treatment of Political Prisoners in the United States Is Denounced 30

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 44 To Each His Own (Cont)
by Mikhail Baitalsky




No 85, May, 1991


Growing Confrontation in USSR 1
by George Saunders

The Soviet Economy: The Fight for Control 5
by David Seppo

Editorial
Bush’s Hypocrisy on Parade
1

Report from East Germany
A Mounting Problems for the Bourgeoisie
9
by Bjorn Kruger

For Direct Democracy 11
Interview with Peter Uhl

FSLN Debates Future of Revolution 13
by Cecilia Garmendia

Going to thge Root of Things 14
by Guadalupe Lopez

‘The Front is Going Through a Crisis” 15
by Dora Maria Tellez

Police Beating in Los Angeles Has National Impact 17
by Evelyn Sell

Black Workers For Justice—Unionizing the South 19
by Mary Scully

African-Americans: No Guilt in Opposing War 20

Progress for Black Women Will Advance the Whole African-American People 21

Focus on Native Americans Leonard Peltier Defense 22

The American Indian Struggle Then and Now 23
by Jack Bresee

Appeal for Aid Rail Union Local Writes Solidarnosc 25

Women and the Persian Gulf War 26
by Sarah M Springer

Antiwar Activists Speak Out: A View of the Persian Gulf War and a Proposal for the Antiwar Movement 28
by Jerry Gordon

Contradictions of the imperialist Victory in the Gulf 30
by Keith Mann

Review: Cleveland Labor and the Vietnam War 33

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 34
45 Even Those in Exile Voted
46 Joseph ‘Rakhmetov’
by Mikhail Baitalsky




No 86, June, 1991


The Tragedy of Kurdistan The Devastation of Iraq 1
by Hatice F and Tom Barrett

Soviet Workers Protest Gorbachev Policies 5
by George Saunders

Urgent Appeal for International Solidarity by the Ford Workers in Cuautitlan, Mexico 7

Solidarity Versus Competition 8
by Hector de la Cueva

Report on 1991 Labor Notes Conference 10
by Frank Lovell

Women at the Labor Notes Conference 14
by Melanie Benson

Socialist Educational Conference 15

Matt Lee—Poll Tax Prisoner 16

China’s Worker Activists Targeted in New Wave of Repression 17
by Yang Hai

Declarations from Soviet Revolutionists 19

Writings By and About Trotsky in the USSR 22

Conclusion of Seppo Series on Soviet Union:
The Difficult Birth of a Workers’ Movement
23

The Emergence of a Self-Management Movement 28
by David Seppo

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 33
47 A Period of Camp Liberalization
by Mikhail Baitalsky

New Party? Question for NOW National Conference




No 87, July-August, 1991


Focus on Women's Rights

Editorial: Abortion Rights Under Attack 1

Ohio NOW Holds New Party Hearings 1

Plus: Revolutionary Feminism and the Fourth International 30 by Carol McAllister


Capitalist Trade and International Solidarity 4
by Frank Lovell

Solidarity Day 1991: Another Historic March on Washington Planned 6
by Frank Lovell

The CUNY Student Revolt of 1991 8
by Barry Lituchy

Outrage on the Railroad 13
by L D Bradley

Deepening Economic Crisis in the USSR 15
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Interview with Soviet Miners' Leader 30

Kremlin Attacks Armenian Republic 25
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

A Somber Anniversary: The French Communist Party at Seventy 27
by Keith Mann

FIT National Organizing Committee Meets 29
by Steve Bloom

The Leninist Party 33
Paul Le Blanc

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 37
47 The Period of Camp Liberalization (cont)
by Mikhail Baitalsky




No 88, , 1991


South Africa Denies Black Rights as Bush Ends Sanctions 1
by Tom Barrett

Community Complaints Against Los Angeles Police Confirmed by Official Report 9
by Evelyn Sell

Yugoslavia—A Nation Under Siege 5
by Michael Protenic

The Public Sector, the State, and Quebec independence 7
by Barry Weisleder

Supreme Court Rulings Threaten Civil Liberties 12
by Alejandro Reuss

The 1991 NOW Conference: 'We won't Go Back' 14
by Sarah M Springer

NOW Continues to Explore Idea of New Party 15
by Carol McAllister

Labor Party Advocates: A Transitional Approach for Independent Political Action 18

UFCW Wins Strike Against Giant-Eagle 20
by Ron Lee

Fourth Internationalist Unity in the US 22
by Paul Le Blanc

FIT National Educational Conference 25

Cross Current: Musical Energy and Social Struggle 26
by Paul Le Blanc

International Class Struggle, Bureaucratic Crisis and the Imperialist Offensive 27
by Manuel Aguilar Mora

Current Realities in Cuba: Prospects for Continuing the Revolution 29
by John Kovach

Solidarity Ecuador 31

Reviews:
Panama and Colombia
32
by Michael Livingston

Clarence Thomas and the Myth of Equal Opportunity 33
by Steve Bloom

Exchange on the 1991 CUNY Student Protest 34
by Michael Frank and Barry Lituchy




No 89, October, 1991


Understanding the Soviet Coup 1
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Defend and Renew the Gains of the Russian Revolution 4
by FIT Coordinators

In Defense of Marxism—Now More Than Ever 3

Labor Day 1991—SOLIDARITY DAY II 8
by Frank and Sarah Lovell

A Look at the Ron Daniels Presidential Campaign 12
by Claire Cohen

New Crisis in “Black-Jewish Relations” 14
by Steve Bloom

Founding Statement of the Milwaukee Revolutionary Socialist Group 18

Marxism and Gay Liberation 20
by Jeff Brown

Nicaragua Revisited 24
by Lisa Mockler

The Gulf War: An Unremitting Catastrophe 27
by Dan Fine

Imperialism and the Psychology of War 27
by Evelyn Sell

Rosario Ibarra on the Campaign Trail 29

‘I'm Alive, and I’m Red” 31
by Ginny Hildebrand

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 32
by Mikhail Baitalsky




No 90, November, 1991


Since the Coup in the USSR 2
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

An Honest Ruling Class Assessment of the Counterrevolution in Eastern Europe 6
by Bill Onasch

Hidden Privatization of State Property in Russia 12
by David Seppo

Military Dictorship Takes Power in Haiti US Government Hypocrisy Is Exposed 1
by Tom Barrett

An Open Letter to the Communist Party USA 10
From the Fourth Internationalist Tendency

Now Commission Calls for a New Political Party 18
by Evelyn Sell

Discussion: Ron Daniels and the Third Party Movement 20
by Jean Tussey

Leonard Peltier Could Get a New Trial 22
by Clay Evans

From Mexico: imperialist Barbarism and Popular Response in the Northern Frontier-Part 1 23
by Manuel Aguilar Mora

The Kurdish People: Victims of the Capitalist Nation-State 26
by Esmail Hossein-zadeh

Couple Denied Asylum by Hong Kong Executed After Returning to China 29

International Youth Camp: See You Next Year! 30
by Kalle Lindberg

On Socialist Regroupment: Solidarity's Perspective 31
by the Political Committee of Solidarity

Ann Charloff Snipper, 1914-1991 33
by Walter Lippmann

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 49 Empty Blither, Present and Accounted For 34
by Mikhail Baitalsky




No 91 , December, 1991


The Current Political Situation in the United States 19
by Paul Le blanc

Changes Brewing in the Labor Movement 23
Jerry Gordon

The Old Ways Return to Haiti After the Coup 1
by Steeve Coupeau

Yeltsin Proposes Further Steps on the Road to Ruin 3
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

From Leningrad: The First Skirmish: Observations from an Historical Vantage Point 4
by Nikolai Preobrazhensky

Trotsky and the Democratic Struggle in the USSR 8
by Paul Le Blanc

Six Points on the Clarence Thomas Hearings 12
by Claire M Cohen, MD

The Clarence Thomas Appointment and Its Challenge to the African American Struggle 13
by Tom Barrett

Socialist Electoral Policy and the Ron Daniels Campaign 17
by Samuel Adams

Appeal for Solidarity with Cuba 27

From Mexico: Imperialist Barbarism and Popular Response in the Northern Frontier Part 2
by Manuel Aguilar Mora

Open Letter to Solidarity’s Political Committee 31
by Steve Bloom

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 50 Vorkuta—My Alma Mater 51 The Poisonous Weapon of Hushing Things Up 34
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Letters 38



1992


No 92, January, 1992


Nicaragua on the Edge, Sandinistas Hold International Solidarity Conference
by John Daniel—p4

The Madrid Conference: Peace Talks or an Empty Show? 1
by Michael Warshawski

For the Conference or for Peace? 2
Statement of the Revolutionary Communist League

From Moscow: Workers’ Democracy—the Alternative to the New Dictatorship 8

The CPSU Died but Bolshevism Lives 9
by Aleksei Gusev

US-Soviet Workers Information Committee Holds First Public Meeting 11

The Current Struggle for Abortion Rights in the US 12
by Evelyn Sell

Founding of Labor Party Advocates Sparks Discussion on the Left 16
by David Riehle

Steve Bloom Responds to a Reader: Is the Fight for Socialism Still Valid? 21

In Memory of Haskell Berman 25
by David Weiss

Ann Snipper Saluted at Memorial Meeting 25

On the Unification Process 26
Resolution adopted by FIT National Plenum

Reexamining the Economic Program of the Left Opposition in the USSR Part 1 28
by Barry M Lituchy

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 52 Love and Hatred 33
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Letters 36




No 93, February , 1992


The Transformation of the Teamsters Union 1
by Frank Lovell

Editorial: But Zionism Remains Racist Nonetheless 1

A Winning Strategy to Safeguard Reproductive Rights 5
by Evelyn Sell

In Response to Imperialist Blackmail ‘Commonwealth’ Replaces USSR 9
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

David Duke: The Pretty Face of American Fascism 13
by Tom Barrett

Ron Daniels Campaign Makes Slow Progress 17
by Claire Cohen

Communist Party USA: On the Way to a Split? 18
by Samuel Adams

The Renewal of American Trotskyism 20
by Frank Lovell

Reexamining the Economic Program of the Left Opposition in the USSR—Part 2 24
by Barry M Lituchy

Notebooks for the Grandchildren 53 On Very Ordinary Honesty 54 I Hope for an Echo 29
by Mikhail Baitalsky

Final Chapters of the Baitalsky Memoirs 32
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

An Appreciation of the Life of George E Chomalou (1929-1991) 34
by Jean Tussey

Letters 35




No 94, March , 1992


Pro-Cuba Rallies Draw Thousands 1

US Trade Unionists Visit Cuba 3
Articles by Jean Tussey and Elizabeth Byce

Economic Band-Aids from Bush 5
by Stuart Brown

March for Women’s Lives on April 5 7
by Sarah Lovell

NOW’s Global Feminist Conference Fails to Live Up to Potential 8
by Sarah Springer

What Next? Further Thoughts on ‘Yugoslavia 9
by Michael Protenic

Crisis in the Former Soviet Union 12
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Dakar Pan-African Forum Held 15
by Amadou Guiro

Declaration of the Dakar Pan-African Forum 16

Stop the Indian Government’s Move to Forcibly Evict Manibeli Village 17

Indigenous Alliance of the Americas on 500 Years of Resistance, July 1990 18

Interview with Two Marines 19

The Entrenched Strike Back: What’s Really Behind the Attack on the ‘Politically Correct 22
by Raghu Krishnan

Reexamining the Economic Program of the Left Opposition in the USSR—Part 3 24
by Barry M Lituchy

Review: How Should History Judge Lenin and the Russian Revolution? 27
by Steve Bloom

Letters 25




No 95, April, 1992


Workers Organization for Socialist Action (WOSA) Speaks Out on Negotionas in South African 1

The National Question in the USSR—Still UnresolvedThe Case of Nagorno-Karabagh 5
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Urgent Appeal for Protests Against Political Repression in Syria 8

Sendero Luminoso Assassinates Feminist Leader in Peru 9
by David Trujillo

Dhoruba Bin Wahad—Ex-Black Panther Fights to Remain Free 10
by Manjula Daminda Wijerama

FIT National Conference Sees New Opening for Unity of Fourth Internationalists 11
by Steve Bloom

Independent Political Action and Social Struggles in the United States 14
by Evelyn Sell

Conference on Black Independent Politics 18
by Claire M Cohen

Struggles for Women’s Liberation: An International Perspective 19
by Carol McAllister

Harry DeBoer, American Trotskyist: 1905-1992 25
by David Riehle

Inaugural Address of Teamster President Ron Carey 27

Lenin’s Heritage 28
by Ernest Mandel

Where Now for Socialism? 30
by Michael Lowy

Reviews: Literature from a Marxist Perspective 32
by Sarah M Springer

Notebook of a Sixties Lawyer 33
by Paul Le Blanc

An Exchange Between the FIT and Socialist Action 34

The Workers’ Movement in the Heartland 36
by Igor Pykhalov




No 96, May, 1992


April 5 National Pro-Choice March Draws Masses to Washington, DC 1
by Sarah M Springer

Meeting of Supporters of 21 st Century Party 3
by Carol McAllister

The Caterpillar Strike: Lacked in Deadly Embrace 5
by Frank Lovell

New Threats Against Libya—United States and United Nations Impose Sanctions 7
by Tom Barrett

Peruvian Revolutionary Describes Fujimori’s Coup 8
by Harold Lavender

Organizing Independent Trade Unions in the Former USSR 9

The irresistible Deciine of Mikhail Gorbachev 14
by Ernest Mandel

From the Arsenal of Marxism—Al Out to Madison Square on May Day! 16
by James P Cannon

On Independent Labor Political Action 19
by Jerry Gordon

The New Alliance Party and the Campaign of Dr Lenora Fulani—An Attempt to Defraud the African American People 21
by Tom Barrett

A Challenge for Revolutionary Marxists: The Left Debates Leninism 25
by Paul Le Blanc

A Few Brief Notes on Marxism as Science 31
by Steve Bloom

Reviews: Chinese Trotskyism Reviewed 33
by Paul Le Blanc

Exposing the JFK Myth 34
by Ben Stone

Letters 35



No 97, June, 1992


Lost Angeles Erupts! Years of Frustration, Days of Rage 1
by Evelyn Sell

Ron Daniels Campaign:
Jesse Jackson and the ’92 Election: The Fallacy of the Inside Strategy
5
by Ron Daniels

Impressions of the Ron Daniels Campaign 6
by Steve Bloom

There Must Be Reproductive Justice for All Women 8
Statement by Daniels Presidential Campaign Committee

The Caterpillar Strike: No Contest 9
by Frank Lovell

The Caterpillar Aftermath 11
by Elaine Bernard

Justice for Hamlet Workers 12
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Killer Gangs or Killer Government? 13
by Mary Scully

Constituent Assembly: Educating the South African Working Class for Social Liberation 16
by Shaun Whittaker

Understanding the National Struggle in Georgia (Part 1) 20
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

What We Mean by the Fourth International and Why We Should Continue to Build It Today 23
by Steve Bloom, Carol McAllister, Paul Le Blanc, and Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Their Leninism and Ours 30
by Roy Rollin

Film Review: American Betrayal 32
by Frank Lovell

For Free Trade Unions in China 35
Letters
36




No 98, July-August, 1992


Who Fueled the Fires in Lost Angeles Country? 1
by Evelyn Sell

Focus on Independent Political Action p5-7

A National Call to a People’s Progressive Convention 5

Time Is Now for Independent Political Action 6
by Mary France

The Myths Behind the Man Exploring the Perot “Phenomenon” 7
by Michael Batson

Needed: A Working Class Program for Mass Transit 8
by Bill Onasch

Immigrant Workers: A Vital New Force for Unions 12
by Evelyn Sell

An Eyewitness Report: What Is Happening in Cuba? 16
by Michael Frank

Michael Manley and the Limitations of Reformism 20
by Lloyd D’Aguilar

Behind the Military Repression in Thailand 23
by Paul Petitjean

Understanding the National Struggle in Georgia—Part 2 26
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Detroit Shoppers Spurn Cheap Groceries in Support of Kroger Strikers 31

Review: Unequal Education in an Unequal Society 32
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Exchange of Views on Leninism: Comments on Steve Bloom’s Review of Sam Farber’s Before Stalinism 35
by J David Edelstein

In Defense of the Socialist Gamble 37
by Roy Rollin

Letters 40




No 99, September, 1992


‘We Won't Go Back!’

Feminists Challenge Court Decision on Abortion 1
by Evelyn Sell

Anti-Abortion ‘Missionaries’ Stopped in Milwaukee, but What Next? 2
by Mike McCallister

NOW Lays Plans to Safeguard Women’s Rights 5
by Lisa Landphair

Asiba Tupahache for Vice President 7

From South Africa: Bloody Face of Reform 8

War and Tragedy in Afghanistan 10
by Tom Barrett

From Brazil: The Workers Party and the Rio-92 Conference 16

The Disarray of Social Forces and Political Perspectives for the Russian Workers Movement 18
by Nikolai Preobrazhensky

A Look at Canada’s Labor Struggles: Fight Concessions! Build Workers Solidarity! 24
by Barry Weisleder

The Labor Party Experience in Canada and What It Can Mean for the United States Today 26
by Elaine Bernard

Federal Judges Can Stack Deck Against Workers, Unions 28
by Dave Riehle

Panther Fights for Justice: Interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad 30

Keeping His Eyes on the Prize: Jesse Jackson Sings the Praises of Zionism 32
by Steve Bloom and Claire Cohen

A Labor Program to Combat the Recession 33
by Jean Tussey

A Major Split-off from the CPUSA: Committees of Correspondence Hold National Conference 35
by Paul Le Blanc

Reviews: Building International Solidarity 36
by Frank Lovell

Low Wages on the High Seas 38
by Michael Smith

An Idealist with Limited Vision: Dorothy Healey and American Communism 39
by Maurice Slavin




No 100, October-November, 1992


Special Double Issue—No 100

Revolutionary Socialists Unify Fourth Internationalist Tendency Votes to Join Solidarity 3
by Paul Le Blanc and Steve Bloom

Resolution: For Unity of Fourth Internationalists in the United States 6
Rediscovering America: A View From Below 8
by Rafael Pereira

People’s Progressive Convention Held in Michigan 12
by Tom Barrett and Claire Cohen

Labor’s Deepening Crisis Underscores the Need for a Labor Party Now! 14
by Jerry Gordon

21st Century Party Founded at DC Convention 17
by Carol McAllister

International Capitalism in Crisis—What Next? 23
by Anwar Shaikh and Ernest Mandel

Leninism as a Revolutionary Orientation Today 30
by Paul Le Blanc

The Genesis of the Theory of Permanent Revolution 33
by Michael Lowy

Political Declaration: Statement of the Russian Group, ‘Revolutionary Socialism’ 39

On Opposition and the Need for It 41
by M Baitalsky

Along the Road to the First Hundred 47
by Frank Lovell

George Novack, 1905-1992—Meaning a Life 52
by Alan Wald

Glen Munroe, 1957-1992 57
by Frank Lovell

Intellectuals and Revolution 59
by James P Cannon

Revolutionaries and the Fight for Reforms 62
by George Breitman




No 101, December, 1992


Election Reflects Capitalist Instability 1
by Bill Onasch

The Economic State of Black America 3
by Claire Cohen

How the Concept of the Dual Nature of the African American Struggle Developed 5
by Evelyn Sell

Angry Poetry of Black Rebellion: Politics of Rap 14
by Ben Tupper

Update on Haiti 16
by Daniel Simidor

The Fight for a Union: For Dignity and Job Security 18
interview with Dave Campbell and Kathleen O’Nan

Resolution on the Breakup of Ex-Yugoslavia and the National Struggles 22
by Hudson

The Bosnian War: What Is to Be Done? 24
Resolution of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International

The War in Yugoslavia, the Right of Self-Determination, and Greek Nationalism 25
by Greek Fourth Internationalists

The Fourth International Today: New Developments, New Challenges 28
by Frangois Moreau

The Revolutionary Marxist Movement in Peru 30
by David Trujillo

The Uprising of the Urban Poor and the Policies of the Iranian Regime 31
by M Razi

On the 75th Anniversary: Was the October Revolution Justified? 33
by Ernest Mandel

Review: What Happened in the SWP? 36
by Dennis Brasky

Letters 39



1993


No 102, January, 1993


US Troops in Somalia Just a Relief Operation? (Or an East Africa Toehold for Washington’s New World Order?) 1
by George Saunders

Organizing a Mass Working-Class Parly 2
by Frank Lovell

Spike Lee’s Malcolm X A Movie That’s a Political Experience 3
by Vera Wigglesworth

Appeal for International Solidarity Cuba: Still a Thorn in the Side of US Imperialism 6
by John Daniel

Founding Congress of the Party of Labor Held in Moscow 8
by Renfrey Clarke

Draft Programmatic Declaration of the Party of Labor 9

What Happened to the Political Revolution? 12
by David Mandel

The Case of Tajikistan World Impoverishment, the Decline in the ex-USSR, and the Spread of Armed Conflicts 15
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Appeal of the Fourth International Solidarity with Jozef Pinior! 21
by Cyril Smuga

The Independent Character of the Women’s Liberation Movement 24
by Evelyn Sell

Interview with David Trujillo The Political Situation in Peru and the Activity of Sendero Luminoso 27
by Marty Goodman

Haiti’s Struggle Continues 31
by Lloyd D’Aguilar

From the Arsenal of Marxism: The Literary Legacy of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 33
by L B Kamenev

Book Review: A History of World Trotskyism 38
Reviewed by Paul Le Blanc




No 103, February, 1993


Protest U S A ttack on Iraq! Bush and Clinton Threaten Renewed Gulf War 1
by Tom Barrett

In Transition to New Flies 2
by Bill Onasch

A Prelude to Worse? Israel’s Unprecedented Mass Deportations 3
by Michael Steven Smith

A Coal Miner Speaks on Independent Political Action “We Want a Labor Party!” 4
by James Gibbs

The Fight for Black Liberation and Working-Class Emancipation in the United States and the Legacy of Malcolm X for the World’s Oppressed and Exploited 6
by Malik Miah

A Criticism of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X 10
by Elombe Brath

Introduction to Talks on Malcolm X 10

Some Reminiscences of Malcolm X Unblemished, Uncorrupted Leadership 13
by John Henrik Clarke

The Magnitude of Malcolm, the Enormity of His Loss 15
by Paul Lee

The Struggle over Africa 16
by Malcolm X

One of the Dangers of the Somalia Operation Stepped-Up Western Intervention in Zaire 17
by Serge MuKende

Discussion: Revolutionary Integrationism and Black Liberation 18
by Peter Johnson

Turkey: Spreading Racism and Seeds of Ethnic War 22
by Pinar Selinay

Vouchers and Shares — Two Con Tricks Fools Paper 24
by Alexander Tarasov

The Elections in Lithuania and the East European Left 25
by Boris Kagarlitsky

International Solidarity Needed! Greek Socialists Put on Trial for Treason 26
by Lance Selfa

Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Liberation in the Struggle for Socialism 28
by Karin Baker and Ann Menasche

Book Reviews The Purge of the Trotskyists from the Socialist Workers Party 30
Reviewed by Michael Frank

A New Collection of Jim Cannon’s Writings 31
Reviewed by Frank Lovell

Reader’s Responses to the New BIDOM 35




No 104, March, 1993


How Free Are We? 1
by Lisa Landphair

Mass Rape in Bosnia: Barbarous Product of Serbo-Stalinism 2
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

The Somaiia Operation: How “Humanitarian” Is It? 6
by George Saunders

Oil Interests in Somalia 7

The US and Turkish Governments Unite to Crush the Kurds 8
by June Martin

Working Women in the United States Today 9
by Evelyn Sell

Race, Class, and Gender: Some Thoughts on an Important Discussion and Debate 18
by Carol McAllister

“Relentless Terrorist Attacks to Close All Clinics” 21
Interview with Claudette Begin

Carolyn Curtiss Memorial 22

From the Arsenal of Marxism: Socialism and the Feminist Movement 23
by Mary White Ovington

Notes on the African American Struggle 25
by Claire M Cohen

The Centrality of Labor Political Action 28
by Elaine Bernard

Labor-Management Schemes: Cooperation or Cooptation? 30
by Melanie Benson

Former P-9 Strikers Sweep Union Elections 31
by David Riehle

Revolutionary Feminist 32
Reviewed by Paul Le Blanc

Marxist Essays on Cultural Commitment 36
Reviewed by Michael Steven Smith




No 105, April, 1993


Austerity; Higher Taxes for Working People: Clinton Unveils Economic Program 1
by Tom Barrett

Socialism or Neoliberalism? 31
by Ernest Mande

Continuing Ferment in Los Angeles 71
by Evelyn Sell

Radical Politics Today 91
by Frank Level!

Revolutionary Socialists and the Committees of Correspondence 161
by Alex Chis and Malik Miah

Examining the Roots of Lesbian and Gay Oppression 181
by Jamie Gough and Mike Macnair

All out for the April 25 Lesbian/Gay/Bi March on Washington
Socialism and the Struggle for Lesbian/Gay Liberation
221
by Paul Lefrak

Salinas’s Mexican Miracle Begins to Fade 241
by Rosendo Mendoza

Labor Needs an Organizing Party 261
by Baldemar Velasquez

A Proud People With a Noble and Rich History1
The Chicano Struggle Against Racism
271
by Satumino Gonzales

Impressions of a Cuban Journey During the Special Period 281
by Ruben Berrios

International Struggle Against Racism 291
by Roy Rollin

In Defense of Black Nationalism: A Reply to Peter Johnson 301
by Steve Bloom and Claire Cohen

Hoffa: Hollywood Trashes the Teamsters (Again) 331
by Mike McCallister

Letters 35




No 106, May, 1993


Behind the Political Crisis in Russia 1
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Anti-Choice Terrorists Escalate Violence 5
by Evelyn Sell

The El Salvadoran Revolution: Victory or Defeat 7
by Michael Livingston

Nicaragua: What Was, What Is, What Shall Be? 9
by Paul Le Blanc

Reviews: Marxism in Latin America 14
Reviewed by Michael Frank

Autobiography of a Guatemalan Revolutionary 15
Reviewed by Carol McAllister

Guatemala: The First Return 17
by Janet Melvin

Martin Luther King Remembered 21
by Ramsey Clark

Cointelpro and the Destruction of Black Leaders and Organizations 22
by Dnoruba Bin Wahad

Cointelpro and the Case of Dhoruba bin Wahad 22
by George Saunders

Review: The Judas Factor 26
Reviewed by Lee DeNoyer

Discussion: Marxism and Black Self-Determination In Reply to Peter Johnson 27
by Vera Wigglesworth and Jim Miles

New York Union Boss Leaves Teamsters 33
by Frank Lovell

Letters 35




No 107, June, 1993


The Carnage in Bosnia and the “New World Order” 1
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Labor Activists Meet in Michigan 3
by Melanie Benson

The 1993 Labor Notes Conference by Bill Breihan

Labor Notes Conference, 1993 4
by Frank Lovell

Rail Workers Caucus at Labor Notes Conference 7
by Vera Wigglesworth

A Class on “Union Leadership” and Living Lessons at the Labor Notes Conference 8
by Stan Yasaitis

Clinton Administration Begins Campaign to Curb Organized Labor 10
by Dave Riehle

Workers’ Memorial Day “Fight for the Living” in Dallas, Texas 15
by L D Brandley

Labor and the 1929-1940 Depression 16
by Jerry Gordon

Notes on Building a Revolutionary Party in the United States 18
by Paul Le Blanc

Unemployment Insurance Fightback Continues 23
by Elizabeth Byce

Reject Bob Rae’s Social “Con-Trick” 24
by Barry Weisleder

Palestinians Return to “Peace” Talks 25
by Michael Steven Smith

Over 40 Years in the Struggle Cesar Chavez, 1927-1993 26
by Tom Barrett

Black Liberation and Socialist Revolution in Today’s America: Movementism or Marxism? 29
by Roy Rollin

Holocaust in Texas 35
by June Martin

Which Side Are You On? 36
Reviewed by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Organizing the South 38
Reviewed by Naima Washington

Letters 39




No 108, July-August, 1993


US Miners Launch Project Solidarity 93 1
by Jean Tussey

The Struggle Over Health Care Reform 2
by Dayne Goodwin

For Workers in Ex-USSR Democratization Has Only Begun 5
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Referendum and Media in Russia Yeltsin’s Referendum “Triumph”: How Democratic Was It? 7
by Renfrey Clarke

Russian Constituent Assembly Called Yeltsin Moves to Install Dictatorship 8
by Renfrey Clarke

Interview with Neville Alexander The Strategy of Assassination 9

Labor Movement in Iran Four Years After the War 10
by Reza Moqaddam

Political Crisis in Sri Lanka 12
by Thimnavukkarasu

The Outlook for the Mexican Labor Movement Part Two 13
by Hector de la Cueva

Notes on Building a Revolutionary Party in the United States 17
by Paul Le Blanc

Twentieth Anniversary of Socialist Lawsuit Democratic Rights Versus Government Wrongs 22
by Evelyn Sell

The African American Struggle Today: The Centrality of the African American Movement 26
by Mary France

Viewing the Struggle in Its Dynamic Context 28
by Lloyd D'Aguilar

The Meaning of Self-Determination 30
by Vera Wigglesworth

Discussion Trotskyism and the Struggle for Black Liberation 33
by Peter Johnson

Question and Answer: Is Permanent Revolution Applicable in the World Today? 39

Kendra Alexander, Committees of Correspondence Leader 41
by Barry Sheppard

Irving Howe (1920-1993) 42
by Robert J Alexander and Paul Le Blanc

“Our Canada” Isn’t 44
Reviewed by Barry Weisteder

Letters 47




No 109, September, 1993


No Illusions in the “New Face” of Imperialism No to U S Intervention in Bosnia or Anywhere! 1
by Tom Barrett and George Saunders

Single-Payer Health Care and independent Political Action 4
by Jean Tussey

Operation Rescue’s Summer Campaign Fails to Close Clinics 5
by Patricia Stall

Marxism and the National Question in the Former Soviet Union 6
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Ethnic Organizing: A Double-Edged Sword 9
by Dan Georgakas

Two Riddles About Labor and the Left in the United States During the 1930s 11
by Paul Le Blanc

The Left and Labor Today 14
by Elaine Bernard

Discussion:
Racism and the Labor Movement
16
by Tom Barrett

Working Women and U S Unions 21
by Evelyn Sell

Teamster Samizdat 25
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey and George Saunders

Back Again: Employee Involvement Plans Have Been Triea Before 29
by David Zlatchin

Dan Rosenshine (1943-1992) 32
by Paul Le Blanc

The Left and Labor in Chicago 33
Reviewed by William A Pelz

Letters 35




No 110, October, 1993


US Citizens Fight the Government’s Blockade of Cuba—and Win! by John Daniel

Appeal from United Farm Workers: Don’t Let Arizona Court Break Union 2
by Arturo S Rodriguez

August 28 March on Washington for Jobs, Justice, and Peace Spurs Labor Party Movement 3
by Jean Tussey

British Miners Bear Costs of Inept Labor Leadership Too Little, Too Late Hands Victory to Tories 4
by Dave Osier

Civil Rights and Labor Justice in the South Today 5
by Saladin Muhammad

For Advancing the Cause of independent Working Class Political Action 8
by Jerry Gordon

Campaign for a New Tomorrow Charter and Statement of Principles 11

Campaign for a New Tomorrow: Evaluating Past Efforts, Clarifying Principles, Preparing for the Future 11
by Claire Cohen

Lessons for Today from Labor's Past The Experience of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party 13
by David Riehle

From the Arsenal of Marxism The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party 15
by Warren Creel

From the Arsenal of Marxism Progressives and the Democratic Party 20
by George Breitman

Canadian Politics Why the New Democratic Party Betrays Workers 23
by Barry Weisleder

The New Party Advances—with Muddled Politics 25
by Mike McCallister

H Ross Perot and “United We Stand America” 26
by Tom Barrett

Discussion:
Testing Concepts about the African American Struggle: Theory and Reality
27
by Evelyn Sell

Discussion:
For the Reunification of the FI Movement in the United States:
A Critical Reply to Paul Le Blanc’s “Notes on Building a Revolutionary Party”
31
by Steve Bloom

Letters 35




No 111, November-December, 1993


What is the Meaning of the Recent Events in Moscow? 1
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

I Interview with Boris Kagarlitsky Latin American-Style Dictatorship in Moscow 4
Interviewed by Misha Gutkr

The Israell-PLO Accords 5
by Michael Steven Smith

US Out of Somalia — No Intervention in Haiti or Cuba! 6
by George Saunders

Why We Oppose US/UN Intervention in Haiti 7

“We Will Resist, We Will Win " A Report Back from Cuba 8
by Diane Wang

Historic Cuba Solidarity Conference 9
by Barry Weisleder

“Japanese-Styie” Labor Relations a Success? Zenroren Says “Not!” 10
by Fred Gustafson

Minnesota Rallies for Mineworkers and Staley Workers 11
by Melanie Benson

Labor Party Advocates Gather in Chicago Consider Call for Convention of a US Labor Party 12
by David Riehle

Organizing Southern Workers: Key to Independent Political Action 14
by Saladin Muhammad

South Africa The Need for a Mass Workers’ Party 16
by Neville Alexander

South Africa Today and Tomorrow 17
by Neville Alexander

South Africa WOSA and Socialism 18
by Tom Ranuga

The Fourth International Faces the Turn of the Century 21
by Paul Le Blanc

The Transitional Program: “The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International” (1938) [excerpts] 23
by Leon Trotsky

From the Arsenal of Marxism The International Struggle for Socialism 26
by James P Cannon

Frangois Moreau 28
Statement by Gauche Socialiste

A Needed Restatement of Marxist Principles 29
Reviewed by Bill Onasch

Feminism and Revolutionary Internationalism Women and Economic Integration 33
by Heather Dashner, Carol McAllister, and Eva Nikell

Interview with Philip C Roettinger Former CIA Employee on US Role in Central America 36
Interviewed by Tom Garvey

Discussion Where to Begin? With an American Iskra 39
by Peter Johnson

“This I Cannot Forget” 42
Reviewed by Ben Stone

Letter 52



1994


No 112, January, 1994


Working People Can Continue the Fight Vote for NAFTA Shows Labor Needs Its Own Party 1
by Tom Barrett

A Mexican Perspective Confronting the North American Free Trade Agreement 2
Interview with Hector de la Cueva

Remarks on the North American Free Trade Agreement 3
by Elaine Bernard

Canadian Federal Elections Tories Rejected, NDP Crisis Deepens 4
by Barry Weisleder

After the Coup: Organizing to Spread the Word on the Russian Workers’ Movement 5
by Alex Chis

US Committee for Democratic and Human Rights in Russia Makes Statement in Moscow 6
by Alex Chis

The Heirs of Sakharov Recall the Times of Brezhnev 6
by Pyotr Volkov

The December Elections in Russia 7
by Elizabeth A Bowman

Toward the Elections: The Rumyantsev Syndrome 8
by Boris Kagarlitsky

Russian Miners Fight Job Losses 9
by Renfrey Clarke

Alternative Needed to Today’s “European Community" For Another Europe, For Another World! Against the EC of Permanently Rising Unemployment 10
by Ernest Mandel

Africa and the New World Order 11
by Neville Alexander

Political Program of the Brazilian Workers Party Our Socialism 14
A View from Sri Lanka Human Rights and Economic Development in the Late Twentieth Century
16
by H Sriyananda

From the Arsenal of Marxism The Triple Revolution: Developing a Transitional Program for the Late 18
by James P Cannon

Marxism and the Triple Revolution on the Eve of the Year 2000 24
by Paul Le Blanc

New Zealand’s November Elections: A Change for the Better 28
by Alex Chis

New Zealand Alliance Leader Tours United States 28
by Alex Chis

Letters 36




No 113, February, 1994


Indian Peasant Rebellion Rocks Mexican Regime 1
by Rosendo Mendoza

The December Elections in Russia, and the Working Class 3
by David Mandel

The Case of Vladimir Klebanov Veteran Labor Organizer and Former Political
Prisoner Was Among Yeltsin’s Targets
6
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Kresty 348 Trotskyist Newspaper in Russia 7
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Murder on the Long Island Railroad 9
by Lisa Landphair and Michael Frank

Pittsburgh Police Murder Young African American 10
by Claire Cohen

Stop the Violence Against African American Communities 11
by Rash ad Byrdsong

Coal Strike Settled But Court Fights Go On US Miners Make Gains on Job Security 12
by George Saunders

Canadian Labor Movement OFL-NDP Rift Puts Pressure on Rae to Repeal Bill 48 13
by Barry Weisleder

The Workers Unity Network and the Proposed 1995 Convention to Establish a Labor Party 14
by Saladin Muhammad

The Struggle for Survival 15
by General Baker

Black Women’s Role in the Struggle for Black Liberation 13
by Linda Thompson

From the Arsenal of Marxism Negro Workers and the CIO 22
by C Thomas

A Note on Charlie Curtiss A Founder of American Trotskyism Dies in Los Angeles 24
by George Saunders and Kathleen O'Nan

Gettysburg and the Second American Revolution 35
by Jim Miles and Vera Wigglesworth

Speech by PT Spokeswoman to WOSA Conference Problems of Building a Mass Workers Party:
The Brazilian Experience!
30
by Beti Burigo

Leninist Organization and Revolutionary Leadership 33
by Roy Rollin




No 114, March, 1994


Bill Clinton’s State of the Union Address: Its Meaning for Working People 1
by Vera Wigglesworth and Jm Miles

Zapatista Rebellion Opens Door to New Stage of Mexican Revolution 3
by Rosendo Mendoza

Text of EZLN Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle 4
Report to Longshore Union Local What NAFTA Means for US and Mexican Workers
7
by Asher Harer

The Russian Working Class at a Turning Point 8
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Bureaucrats and Militants in the Era of Capitalist Restoration 10
by Boris Kagaritsky and Renfrey Clarke

Problems of Leadership in Russia’s Unions 13
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Election Victory in Whitakers, NC On the Ground Running: Workers Win First Step for Independent Political Power 14
by Shafeah M'Baia

Meeting the Challenge II — Fighting Back 16
by Melanie Benson

Our Revolutionary Heritage — International Women’s Day 17
by Linda Thompson

Global Economic Restructuring and Women’s Experiences 18
by Carol McAllister

Chen Pi-lan 1902-1987 Letter to the “Rebel in a Chinese Girls’ School” 20
by Mary Hillery

In Memory of Charlie Curtiss 21
by Sarah and Frank Lovell

Leninist Organization and Revolutionary Leadership 22
by Roy Rollin

Does Leninism Equal Sectarianism? 26
by Mary Scully

A Comment on Mary Scully’s Polemic 29
by Paul Le Blanc

Marxist Perspectives in the Soviet Union’s Last Years 30
Reviewed by Anne D 'Orazio

A Useful Book on South Africa 32
Reviewed by Hayden Perry

Letters 35




No 115, April, 1994


Bosnia, NATO, and the New World Order 1
by George Saunders

Aftermath of Massacre Gives Lie to Israeli Government’s Intentions 2
by Tom Garvey

New Teamsters Battle on Two Fronts: UPS and Strikebreakers 3
by Charles Waker

The Struggle for Human Rights in Russia 4
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

What’s “Left” of the CPSU? 6
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Randy Shifts: Chronicler of Injustice 7
by Mike McCalSster

Canadian New Democratic Party in Crisis Time for a New Party? 8
by Barry Weisleder

Interview with Lula: The Brazilian Workers Party and the Coming Elections 10

Indiana Prison Lockdown Rehabilitate People — Don’t Warehouse Them 13
by Kevin A Conner #881980 and Charles E Roche, Jr #902303

Discussion: Culture, Consciousness, and Class Struggle: Further Notes on the Relevance of Leninism 14
by Paul Le Blanc

The Appeal to Reason and the Mass Socialist Movement Before WWII 18
by David Riehle

From the Arsenal of Marxism: Farewell to a Socialist Pioneer 21
by James P Cannon

Feminist and Native American Rights Activist, Wilma Mankiller, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation 22
Reviewed by Tom Bias

Does Leninism Equal Sectarianism? 25
by Mary Scully

Continued US Intervention in a Post-Cold War World 27
Reviewed by Michael Livingston

Victor Serge on the Rise and Fall of the Russian Revolution 29
Reviewed by Phil Gasper

Letters 36




No 116, May-June, 1994


New Teamsters Two-Front Battle Continues The Freight Strike Settlement and Teamster Reform 1
by Charles Walker

As National Freight Strike Begins Big Business Press Fires Warning Shot at Carey 2
by Charles Walker

Teamster Turmoil Carey Ups the Ante Against the Old Guard 4
by Charles Walker

Report by a First-Hand Observer: The Situation in Russia and the International Context 6
by Jeff Jones

Colosio Assassination: RIP for the PRI? 10
by Rosendo Mendoza

Peace With Justice and Democracy in Chiapas: Declaration of the Sonora Committee in Support of the Struggle of the People of Chiapas 11

The South African Elections and the Military 12
by Vera Wigglesworth and Jim Miles

The Bophuthatswana Debacle — Signals of a Revolution? 13
by Mfanafuthi Prof’ Ndlovu

Social Explosion in France 14
by Raghu Krishnan

A New Wave of Militancy? Stirrings in the Working Class 15
by George Saunders

Ten Years Later The Struggle of Packinghouse Local P-9 20
by David Riehle

Labor Party Advocates: Interim Steering Committee Meets 30
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

On Democratic Decision-Making in the Labor Party Movement 31
by Jerry Gordon

Police Murders in US Prisons and the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 32
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Oliver North for Senate?! 34
by Hayden Perry

Feminine, Independent, and Capable Recipes for Reproductive Rights in the “Dirty Thirties” 36
by Heather McLeod

Ruth Bullock, 1909-1994 37
by Ken Hiebert

A Tribute to Ruth Bullock 39
by Frank Lovell, with Sarah Lovell

The Continuing Role of Leninist Parties Today What Must Lead to a New Leninist Upsurge in the United States? 40
by Chris Brooks

FSLN Debates issues for May Conference 44
by Stephen Marks

A Marxist Analysis of Bureaucracy by Ernest Mandel 45
Reviewed by Sean Flynn

An Indian in the Starring Role 51
Reviewed by Jack Bresee

Letters 54




No 117, July-August, 1994


What Next for South Africa? 1
by Mfanafuthi Prof1 Ndlovu

Stormclouds Over Korea 2
by Tom Gatvey

Sarah Lovell (1922-1994) 2

Imperialism in Haiti: What’s Behind Shifts in US Policy? 3
by Jackson Kandinsky

Russia: Don’t Believe Your Eyes! 4
by Kirill Buketov

Teamsters Nearing Major Democratic Reforms 5
by Charles Walker

Impressions of Budapest 6
by Michael Steven Smith

Hungarian Communists Voted Back into Power, But 7
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

China: Behind the Upsurge of Workers’ Struggles 8
by Zhang Kai

The Oslo Accords and the Intifada 9
by Tom Garvey

Tragedy, Farce, and Hope in El Salvador 12
by Michael Livingston

No Historic Compromise with Imperialism 15
by Paul Clarke

From the Arsenal of Marxism: The Development of the Theory of Permanent Revolution in Russia 18
by Joseph Hansen

Marx’s Theory of World Revolution 24
by Dan La Botz

Discussion: The Myth of Women’s Inferiority 33
by Linda Thompson

Nationalism, Marxism, and the Irish Question 35
Reviewed by Dafydd Rhys

BIDOM Supporters Hold National Conference 47

The Political Perspectives of Bulletin in Defense of Marxism 47

Letters 48




No 118, September, 1994


UTU Strike on Soo Line: A Crucial Test for All Rail Labor 1
by David Jones

Rail Solidarity and the Soo Strike 3
by Jm Miles

Call for Protests Against Election Fraud: Zapatistas Sponsor National Democratic Convention in Rebel Territory 4
by Rosendo Mendoza

Rwanda, Nigeria, and the Role of Imperialism 5
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

China: The Fifth Anniversary of “June 4” 6
by Znang Kai

The Nicaraguan Revolution Today 7
by Michael Livingston

Behind the June 12 European Elections 9
by Keith Mann

Ten Days That Shook the Teamster Bureaucracy 11
by Charles Walker

A Family Picnic With a Difference: 60th Anniversary of Minneapolis Teamster Strikes Honored 12
by Frank Lovell

New Jersey Labor Party Advocates Hold Forum 13
by Tom Barrett

Speech at a New York City LPA Meeting

The World Situation and the Need for a Labor Party 14

Breaking the Capitalist News Blackout Major Upheaval in the Making in Brazil 16
by George Saunders

Why Canadian Socialists Should Reject a “New Labor Party” 21
by Howard Brown

Sarah Lovell: Collective Portrait of a Revolutionary 23
by Paul Le Blanc

From the Arsenal of Marxism: Detroit Labor Urged to Run Own Slate in City Elections 28
by Sarah Lovell

Stonewall 25: One Million March for Lesbian/Gay Rights:
National Lesbian and Gay Labor Organization Founded
30
by Paul Leirak

The 1994 Project Censored Yearbook 33
Reviewed by Arthur Maglin

Letters 36




No 119, October, 1994


True Lies? Or Just Plain Lies? — What the US Government Says About 1
by John Daniel

For Black Control of Black Organizations
The Firing of Ben Chavis: An Attack on African American Self-Determination
3
Editorial from September 1994 Justice Speaks

Sinn Fein’s Fundamental Error 4
by Bernadette McASskey

Outstanding Fight by Soo Line Workers Clinton Back-to-Work Order Puts Strike on Hold 6
by David Jones

Conversation with a Staley Worker 8
by Michael Frank

Speech by a Surviving Strike Leader The 1934 Strikes and What Needs to Be Done Today 9
by Jack Maloney

Smear Campaign Against Teamsters’ Carey Fails 11
by Charles Walker

Lula vs Cardoso in Brazil Spokesman for Labor and the People vs the Candidate of Big Business 12
by George Saunders

The Situation in Rwanda and the Congo Rooted in the Colonial Past and
the Present Policies of Imperialism
14
an Interview with Serge Mukendi

Imperialism, Russia, and the African Model for Economic Reform 18
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

A Personal Account Taiwanese Opposition Party Delegation Visits South Africa 24
by Linda Gail Arrigo

The Working People Have to Continue the Struggle Against Capitalism in South Africa 28
by Neville Alexander

The Labor Notes Team Concept School 31
by Michael Frank

An Appreciation of a Revolutionary Companion Esther Waller Perry (1918-1994) 34
by Hayden Perry

Discussion: The Mexican Elections and the PRI Dictatorship 35
by Manuel Aguilar Mora




No 120, November, 1994


From the Editors: US Hands off Haiti, Cuba, Persian Gulf! 1

US/UN Out of Haiti! 2
by Marty Goodman

Strike Wave Rocks South Africa 5
by Tom Barrett

A Transition from Above PRI “Wins” Mexican Elections 6
by Rosendo Mendoza

Canada’s Rulers Attack Quebec Self-Determination Quebec Independence Referendum in 1995 7
by Barry Weisleder

Teamster President Carey’s Foes Organize 8
by Charles Walker

Speech at 60th Anniversary Picnic “Keep the Legacy of the Minneapolis Strikers Alive” 9
by Diana Kilmury

Support for Democrats Erodes — Prospects for Labor Party Brighten 10
by Jerry Gordon

Ben Chavis, the NAACP, and African American Leadership 12
by Vera Wigglesworth

A Sailor-Eyewitness to the Bay of Pigs “Being in Cuba and Haiti Got Me Thinking — Working People Everywhere Are All the Same” 16
an Interview with Richard Parker

From the Arsenal of Marxism: Cuba and the Theory of the Permanent Revolution 18
by Joseph Hansen

Marxism is Not Obsolete
Capitalism Against Democracy
27
by A Manafy

From the Arsenal of Marxism The Internal Functioning of a Revolutionary Party 30
by Morris Lewitt

Letters 35



1995


No 121, December, 1994-January, 1995


The Arc of History — Looking Back 75 Years Editors’ Note: A World Affected by the Russian Revolution 1

The 1994 Congressional Elections A New Low in Capitalist Politics — Opportunity for a Labor Party Greater Than Ever 2
by Tom Barrett

Fight for Immigrant Rights Continues in California 4
by Evelyn Sell

A Report Back from Chiapas, Mexico Convention Nacional Democratica Opts for Civil Insurgenc 6
by Cecilia Rodriguez

A New and Democratic South Africa? 8
by Tom Ranuga

Nigerian Oil Strike Ends, Political Crisis Continues 10
by Michael Livingston

Teamsters fora Democratic Union TDU Convention Hears Labor Officials Call for Independent Politics 11
by Charles Walker

The Russian Trade Union Movement During the First Half of 1994: Main Lines of Development 12
by Kirill Buketov

Russian Trade Union Day of Action Demands Back Wages 18
by Renfrey Clarke

New Developments on Russian Left Russian Leftists Discuss Their Future 19
by Boris Kagarlitsky

Women in Russia: What the Research Shows 20
by Irina Glushchenko

New Material on Trotsky and the Left Opposition Revealed in RussidnArchives 21
by Alexander Pantsov

Address to Trotsky Conference in Moscow Setting the Record Straight: Who Trotsky Was, What Trotskyism Represents Today, and What We Can Do 22
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

October 1917: A Genuine, Popular Movement from Below 26
by Morris Slavin

The Bolshevik Revolution Did Not Create a Totalitarian State 27
by Paul Le Blanc

Discussion How Trotsky Foretold the Collapse of the Soviet Union 29
by Jim Miles

The Labor Struggles of 1919— Interview with a Participant 32

The Pullman Strike Centennial Conference: Labor, Politics, and Government, 1890s and 1990s 34
by Jean Tussey

The Great Strike of 1919: A Watershed in American History 35
by Jonah McAllister

The Seattle General Strike, February 1919 36
by George Saunders

The Winnipeg General Strike, Then and Today 37

A Salute to Women’s Role in the Labor Movement 38 by Evelyn Sell




No 122, February, 1995


Yeltsin Out of Chechnya! Condemn Washington’s Complicity with Yeltsin! 1
by George Saunders

Moscow Protests Condemn Chechnya Bloodshed 2
by Renfrey Clarke

No to the War Against Chechnya! No More Afghanistans! 3

Report from Mexico The Zapatista Struggle and Devaluation of the Peso 4
by Rosendo Mendoza

Solidarity Conference in Havana Cuba and the World 6
by John Daniel

Leader of Haitian Workers Federation Speaks Out
“What We Have in Haiti Now Is Not Democracy — It Is Occupation”
8
by Cajuste Lexiuste

Latina Says, “I Walk in Fear” Because of Anti-Immigrant Law 10
by Evelyn Sell

Stop the Escalating Violence Against Women 11
by Sarah Springer

Report from Moscow Conference Trotsky’s Legacy Lives Despite Decades of Suppression 12
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

The Theoretical Legacy of Leon Trotsky and Its Contemporary Significance 14
by Prof Mikhail Voyeikov

National State of the Race Conference 17
by Claire Cohen

A Working-Class Black History Lesson for Cleveland Students 20
by Jean Tussey

The African American Nation: A Journal for Self-Determination and Workers Power 21
Reviewed by T Archer

How African Americans Won the Civil War 22
Film review by Jim Miles and Vera Wigglesworth

Labor Educational Conference in Toledo Union Activists Assess Prospects for Labor Party 24
by Frank Lovell

“We Have to Form Our Own Independent Political Party — With an Agenda That Makes Sense for Working Men and Women” 26
by Bob Wages

Build Labor Party Advocates “Reverse Management’s One-Sided Class War Against Workers” 28
by Jed Dodd

Discussion: An Evaluation of the AE Staley Struggle 31
by Ron Lare

Letters 36




No 123, March, 1995


New Stage in Decomposition of PRI Stop Zedillo’s Criminal Move Against Zapatistas 1
by Rosendo Mendoza

On Chechnya as Russia’s Ireland, and on Building an Antiwar Movement 4
by Renfrey Clarke

Bloodbath in Chechnya: Causes and Consequences 6
by Aleksandr Buzgalin and Andrei Kolganov

Chechnya and the Eclipse of the Russian Liberals 8
by Boris Kagarlitsky

Sinister Role of Police Agencies US Government Agent at Center of Charges Against Malcolm X’s 10
by Michael Livingston and Vera Wigglesworth

How We Saw the Hayward LPA Hearings An Inspiring Meeting — It Shows People Want Action 12
Interview with Ruth and Asher Rarer

LPA Hearings in Califomia For Launching a Labor Party 14
by Hayden Perry

Campaigning to Stop Violence Against Women 15
by Evelyn Sell

Interview with Genora Johnson Dollinger
The Role of Women, and of Radicals, in the First Sit-Down Strikes
18
Interviewed by Kathleen O’Nan

We Are Half of the Working People of This Country 22
by Carol McAllister

Organizing Labor’s Power to Fight for Women’s Economic Needs 23
by Judith Wraight

New Teamster Elections: Will the Rank and File Win Again? 24
by Charles Walker

Rutgers Students Rise Up Against Racism 25
by Tom Barrett

In Memory of Nathaniel Blandon (1952-1994) 26
by Ashaki M Binta

Labor Party and Revolutionary Marxism in the United States 27
by Paul Le Blanc

Capitalism and Your University Education 31
by Robert Nowlan




No 124, April, 1995


What Direction for the Women’s Movement? Independent Political Action Is Required 1
by Sarah Springer

“Follow Ihe Money” Who Is Responsible for the Attacks on Workers’ Living Standards? 3
by Arthur Chesotes

Further Revelations in the Case of Qubiiah Shabazz 4
by Michael Livingston

Boston Meeting Defends Malcolm X’s Daughter 7
by Roger Sheppard and Joe Audello

Building New England Solidarity with Decatur “War Zone” Workers 8
by Bill Almy

Decatur Solidarity at Harvard 8
by Sandy Rosen

Third Year of “Meeting the Challenge” Twin Cities Labor Conference Inspires Hundreds 9
by Mslana Marchant

Whose Strategy for Organized Labor? 10
by Charles Walker

Some Truths About the Zapatistas 12
by Cecilia Rodriguez

Hope in Mexico 13
by ElSott Young

Remove All False Charges Against Chinese Trotskyists 14
by Zhang Kai

Defense of the Cuban Revolution: An Analysis and Conclusions 15
by T Archer

Gallup Poll in Cuba 18
by Sandra Levinson

Sri Lanka, Economic Development, and Grass-Roots Struggle 18
by DA Jayawardana

A Maoist Current's Changing View of Conditions in India
“Revolutionary Movements Must Take Root in Their Own
Countries, Instead of Relying on an Outside Force”
19
Interview with B Sivaranan

Indonesia: the Greatest Prize 23
by Micha eI Livingston

Ethel Victoria Weiss, 1920-1995 26
by David Weiss

Discussion: How Not to Help the Staley Workers: A Reply to Their Critics on the Left 28
by David Jones 28




No 125, May, 1995


Racist Terror in Oklahoma 1
by Tom Barrett

The Oklahoma Bombing, Hate Mongering, and the Question of Free Speech 3
by Hayden Perry

Turmoil In Mexico Who Will Fill the Void? 4
by Rcsendo Mendoza

French Elections Won’t Solve Social Crisis 6
by Keith Mann

Russian Union Day of Action Makes an Impact 9
by Renfrsy Clarke

Changing of the Guard in Haiti? 10
by Albert Ayler

The Nation of Islam's Call for a Million Man March on Washington 12
by Joe Auciello

Discussion: An Appraisal of the Significance of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam Today 13
by Joe Auciello

Dofonso and Prosecution Strike a Deal US Government Backs Off from Case Against Qubilah Shabazz 16
by Michael Livingston

Fightback News From San Francisco 17
by Hayden Perry

Sectarianism vs Revolutionary Marxism World Socialist Revolution Today 18
by Ernest Mandel

The "End of American Trotskyism?” — Some Comments in Response to Alan Wald 42
by Frank Lovell

Discussion: A Critique of the 1992 Manifesto of the Fourth International 44
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Lou Guohua, 1906—1995 — He Helped Keep Trotskyism Alive for a New Generation 49
by Wang Fanxi

An Anarchist's Autobiography 50
Reviewed by Arthur Maglin

In Lieu of a Letters Page Some Corrections 52




No 126, July-August, 1995


Stop the Execution of Mumla Abu-Jamal! 1
Statement of the Western Pennsylvania Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

Pittsburgh Acth/lst Demands: Stop the Murder of Mumla Abu-sJamal! 1
by Claire M Cohen MD

The Clinton-Gigritch Love Fest A Cordial New Hampshire Concord — Beginning of a New Detente? 2
by Bill Onasch

Who Will Revitalize Organized Labor, When? 3
by Charles Walker

The Unusual Contest In ths AFL-CIO:
Its Historical Background and Implications
5
by David Jones

June 25 Demonstration and Rally In Decatur, Illinois 8
Boston Staley Supporters Meet Lane Kirkland
9
by Sandra Rosen

Labor Party Advocates' Projected 1996 Convention
for the Founding of a Labcr Party In the US
11
by Jerry Gordon

Morton Bahr -Jean Tussey Exchange Union Activist Answers Union President 12

The New Teamsters: Gearing up for a Nationwide Strike 13
by Chares Walker

Minister Farrakhan, Dr Betty Shabazz, and the Black Nation The Healing Begins 14
by Ron Daniels

Speech cf Dr Betty Shabazz, Widow of Malcolm X, at the Apollc Theater, Harlem, New York, May 6, 1996 15

The Workers Struggle In Russia and the “Specter" of Trotskyism 17
Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Interview with Commandants Tacho and Trinidad
EZLN Leaders Discuss Talks with the Government, Women's Rights, and the Plebiscite
19

Zapatista Document EZLN Calls for “Plebiscite" 20

The Evolution of the Economic, Social, and Political Situation of Latin America and the Caribbean 22
Presentstion by the Communist Party of Cuba’s Delegation to the
Fifth Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum (May 1995, Montevideo, Uruguay)

Speech at Martin Luther King Labor Banquet Fora World Free from Exploitation and Oppression 24
by Larry Adams

The Capitalist Crisis of the 1990s, US Labor, and the Labor Party Movement 26
by Frank Lovell

Capitalism and Ecocide 32
by Michael Livingston

Interview wth Daniel Faber: The Contradiction Between Capitalism and Environmental Protection —
In Central America, the US, and the World
34

Marxism, Feminism, and the Population Debate 38
by Linda Thompson Lancz

Trotsky s Fight Against Stalinism 42
by Jim Miles

Discusion: The Dual Task of Trotskyism Today 45
by Paul Le Blanc

On Paul Le Blanc's Response to My "Critique of the 1992 Manifesto of the Fourth International" 49
by Manlyn Vogt-Downey

Corrections to Interview with Genora Dolllnger 50

An Unsatisfactory Biography of Lenin 51 Reviewed by Joe Auciello




No 127, September, 1995


A Stay of Execution, but the Struggle Continues!
Free Mumla Abu-Jamal!
1
Statement of the Western Pennsylvania Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

Historical Background to the Conflict In Former Yugoslavia 2
by George Saunders

What Should Socialists Do In Relation to the War In Ex-Yugoslavia? 3
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 Recalled Resurgence
of Democratic Struggles In China — Sixth Anniversary of June Fourth Massacre
4
by Zhang Kai

Help Save Life of Chen Ziming
Campaign for Chinese Pro-Democracy Activists
5

Defend Tong Yl — Urgent Action Needed 5

Jobs and Justice — In Mexico and the US 6
by Rosario Ibarra de Piedra

No Magic Bullets: Organized Labor Makes Plans 8
by Charles Walker

Contract with America: Another Battle in a Class War 10
by Michael Livingston

Ernest Mandel and the Fourth International 12
bv Frank Lovell

Ernest Mandel 17
by Jakob Moneta

French Marxist Journal on Ernest Mandel 18

Ernest Mandel: Capitalism's Optimistic Critic 19
by Tanq Ali

Remembering Ernest Mandel 20
by Paul Le Blanc

Revolutionary Optimism In a Skeptical Age 22
A Review by Sean Flynn

Ernest Mandel on Trotsky and Trotskyism 24
A Review by Joe Auciello

“International Viewpoint" on FI World Congress 26
Opposition Emerges at FI World Congress 26 by Barry Weisleder

Fourth International Holds World Congress 28
by Steve Bloom

Report on the FI World Congress 30
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Notes on the 14th World Congress 32
by Keith Mann

Letters 36




No 128, October-November, 1995


Bipartisan Foreign Policy Not “Humanitarian”
End the US Blockade of Cuba, No to US, UN, NATO Intervention in ex-Yugoslavia
1
by George Saunders

China An Alternative View of the Status of Women in China Today 2
by Zhang Kai

Zapatista “Consulta” Opens New Stage in Mexican Struggle 3
by Rosendo Mendoza

The Detroit Newspaper Strike A Key Test for Organized Labor 4
by Jerry Gordon

Third National Teamster Strike: Carhauiers Hit the Bricks 8
by Charles Walker

The 1996 Teamsters Elections “Real Teamsters” 8
by Charles Walker

A Reflection of Present Conditions: Labor Day in New York 10
by Frank Lovell

Reunion of Unions: Unionists Commemorate Tenth Anniversary of P-9 Strike 12
by David Jones

The History/Herstory of the United Support Group and the Women Who Founded It 14
by Pat Higgins

A Landmark of America's Labor Struggles The Place of the Hormei Strike in US Labor History ' 16
by Peter Rachleff

Labor Party Founding Convention to Be Held in June 1996 17
by Tom Barrett

One Million Men: Against Male Dominance & Rape!
Charge Genocide & Destruction of Black Families!
Against US Imperialism!
18
by Black Workers for Justice

Preparations for the Million Man March 18
by George Saunders

Political Potential of Million Man March The Farrakhan Factor in the 1996 Elections 19
by Ron Daniels

Farrzkhan Opposes "Contract on America" Explains “Why a Million Man March?” 19

An Account of Pittsburgh "National Summit"
Progressives from Around the US Meet to Discuss Independent Politics
20
by Don Rojas

Socialists and African-American Self-Determination 22
by Vera Wigglesworth

Memorial for Ernest Mandel Held in New Yoik 26
by Joe Auciello

Introduction to Rosario Ibarra’s Statement 27
by Berta Green Langston

Statement to the New York Memorial Meeting for Ernest Mandel 27
by Rosa no Ibarra

Ernest Mandel: An Appreciation 28
by Keith Mann

William Moses Kunstler (1919-1995): A Case for Courage 29
by Michael Steven Smith

Rob Cahalane — A Personal and Political Appreciation 32
by Joe Auciello

Global Village or Global Pillage? 35
reviewed by Hayden Perry




No 129, December, 1995


Zionist Extremist Assassinates Yitzhak Rabin
The Middle East “Peace Process” and the Fragmentation of Zionism
1
by Tom Barrett

On the Eve of December Elections
No Choice for Working Class Voters in Russia
2
by Aleksei Gusev

Discussion on the Million Man March
“We Need a Mass Political Movement to Challenge the Power Structure”
4
Interview with Don Rojas

Learning from the Million Man March 5
by Jean Tussey

Million Man March Voice of an Oppressed Nation 6
by Joe Auciello

Favorable Report on March in In These Times 7
by George Saunders

Mumia Update: The Response the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Wouldn’t Print 8
by Jamila Levi

Why All Americans Should Support Mumia Abu-Jamal 9
by Claire M Cohen

The 20th TDU Convention “Not One Step Back!” Say Teamsters for a Democratic Union 10
by Charles Walker

Detroit Newspaper Strike 12
by Charles Walker

Document: A Strategy to Strengthen and Win the Detroit Newspaper Strike 13
Statement of Labor/Community/Religious Coalition
in Support of the Striking Newspaper Workers

The AFL-CIO Convention 14
by Frank Lovell

Resolution on Independent Political Action 17
Adopted by the New Jersey Industrial Union Council

Social Justice and the OJ Simpson Trial 19
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Making Sense of the OJ Verdict 20
by Claire M Cohen

An Antiwar Activist Responds to Robert McNamara 22
Reviewed by Evelyn Sell

Controversy over McNamara’s Memoirs War Crimes in Vietnam — and Elsewhere 26
by Frank Lovell

Fidel Returns to Harlem 30
by Michael Steven Smith

Demonstrations Demand End to Blockade of Cuba 30
by Sarah Springer

David Cooper: A Lifetime in the Cause of Justice and Socialism 31



1996


No 130, February, 1996


The Public Sector Strikes and the French Labor Movement Today 1 by Keith Mann

Strike Committee in Rouen Dynamic Example of Workers Self-Organization 4
Interview with Jose Pérez

Workers Upsurge Bares Flaws “Left Regroupment” Fails Acid Test 5
by Chistian Piquet

The Great Budget Battle 6
by Bill Onasch

Dangerous Precedent Civil Liberties and the Trial of Sheik Abdel Rahman 7
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Bring the Troops Home Now US-NATO Out of Eastern Europe and the ex-USSR 8
by George Saunders

Canadian Workers Flex Muscles London, Ontario, Day of Action 10
by Joe Flexer

Quebec Independence Still High on the Agenda 11
by Barry Weisleder

Walt Disney Screws Haitian Workers The Joys US Intervention Has Brought to
Haiti’s Garment Industry
12

Worsening Unemployment in China 13
by Zhang Kai

Protest Sentencing of Wei Jingsheng 13
by Zhang Kai

Immigrant Laborers in Hong Kong Fight Exploitation 14
by Wei Bo

Cecilia Rodriguez Victim of Rape in Chiapas US Defender of Zapatistas: “l Will Not Stop My Work” 14
by Jenny Warburg

Document: Call for Zapatista Front of National Liberation 15
Long Strike at Caterpillar
16
by Frank Lovell

Back at Work at “CAT” 17
Interview with Decatur Caterpillar Worker17

The Class War Against Workers: Sweeney Speaks Out 18
by Charles Walker

Striking workers face a long, cold winter Detroit Newspaper Struggle Continues 19
by Cheryl Peck and Lisa Schlicker

Bitter News from Decatur Staley Workers Majority 17
by Steven Ashby

Russian Elections Majority Oppose Yeltsin’s “Reforms” — Moral Defeat for Pro-Capitalist Right Wing 22
by Alexander Buzgalin and Andrei Kolganov

A Comment on the Article by Buzgalin and Kolganov 25
by George Saunders

The Rich Really Are Different 26
by David Jones

Commemorating ttie 1905 Revolution Conference on Trotsky Held in St Petersburg 34
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Midday In Leningrad 35
by Geoff Barr

A Feminist Poet from Bangladesh 36
Reviewed by Joe Auciello

Interview with Carolyne Wright Taslima Nasrin and Her Battle Against Women’s Oppression —
Not Only in Bangladesh
37

Forming a New Political Party Labor's Greatest Challenge 38
by Joanne Bell

Labor Party News Roundup Longshore Union Endorsement: “LPA Is A-OK” 39
by George Saunders

LPA Members Support Effort Arizona State AFL-CIO Calls for Workers Bill of Rights Ballot Initiative 40
by Andy English

Socialist Revolution and Ecology 41
by Eileen Gersh

Build a Black Workers Unity Movement! 44
by Angaza S Laughinghouse

Can NAALS Capture the Promise of the Million Man March? 44
by Ron Daniels

Why I Went to the Million Man March 45
by Shafeah M’Balia

More Discussion on Million Man March The Great Million Man March 46
by Muhammad Ahmad

More Discussion on Million Man March Thoughts About the Million Man March 48
by Walter Lippmann

Of Marches and Men 49
by Mumia abu-Jamal




No 131, March-April, 1996


Buchananism and the Jobs Issue 1
by George Saunders

Pittston Strike Leader Dispatched to Detroit Newspaper Strike 2
by Charles Walker

Detroit Strikers Speak Out Text of Radio Interview with Leaders of Unity Victory Caucus 3

Staley Union Leaders Assess Defeat, Pledge Reform 4
by Mike McCallister

Partial Victory in Twin Cities Bus Strike 5
by Michael Livingston

Russian Miners and Teachers Strike 6
by Renfrey Clarke

Ukrainian Miners Stage Massive Strike 7
by Renfrey Clarke

Fake Bankruptcies for State Enterprises in China? 8
by Leng Zhaosong and Zhao Shangmei

Industrial Hazards Raging in China 8
by Zhang Kai

Collective Bargaininq Saved in Croatia 9
Reprint of ICEM Update 7/February 1996

“Feminists Have Been Overtaken by the Zapatistas” 10
Intervie w with Julieta Hernandez

Louis Farrakhan Tours Africa and the Mideast — a Critical Response 11
by Joe Auciello

Israel’s Terror Will Only Ignite More Violence 12
Statement of Islamic Association for Palestine

Kabul under Siege: What Are the Taliban? 12
by K Govindan

Okinawa Unionist Seeks US Union Support Demands US Military Bases — Out of Okinawa 14
Letter of Yoichi Tha to San Francisco Labor Council

Defending Abortion Rights in the US 15
by Jacqueline Boyle

“Fight the Right” March Slated for San Francisco 16
by Ann Menasche

Meeting the Challenge Conference Rebuilding the Labor Movement 17
Introductory remarks by Peter Rachleff

Meeting the Challenge Conference “Our Speakers’ Message — The Class War Is Not One-Sided” 18
Introductory remarks by David Riehle

Meeting the Challenge Conference Understanding the Attack on Public Services and Workers 19
Introductory remarks by Kathy Kleckner

Debt and Deficit: Propaganda and the Attack on the Working Class 20
by Michael Livingston

Address to New Jersey Labor Party Advocates Platform Hearings “The Time Has Come to End Business as Usual” 22
by Jed Dodd

The Case for an American Labor Party 25
by Barbara Walden Resolution in Favor of a Labor-Based Political Party
25
Bakers Local Union No 19, Cleveland, Ohio

LPA Should Be the Major Focus for All Socialists 26
by Bill Onasch

What Should Come Out of Our Founding Convention? 27
by Bill Onasch

Labor Party Advocates: Where Do We Stand? 28
by Ben Stone

Formation of Labor Party Advocates and Discussion on the Left 29
by David Riehle

Implications of the Labor Party 33
by James P Cannon

The Case for an Independent Labor Party 34
by Farrell Dobbs

Labor’s Role in Social Change 37
by Farrell Dobbs

Class Origins of the Present Situation in Former Yugoslavia 42
by Manlyn Vogt-Downey

Bosnian Trade Unionists Prepare for Peace 45
Some Complications of the National Question in Yugoslavia —and Russia 46
by George Saunders

Conrad Joseph Lynn (1908-1995) 49
by Michael Steven Smith

The Death of Michel Raptis (Pablo), 1911-1996 50
by Livio Maitan

Letters 52




No 132, May-June, 1996


What We Could Do With That Fifteen Cents 1
by Bill Onasch

Carey’s Reelection Campaign Needs Turnaround 2
by Charles Walker

Teamsters Slam the Door on Bosses 3
by Charles Walker

Fourth Meeting the Challenge Conference Theatre and Speakers Inspire Labor Audienc 4
by Melana Merchant

Auto Workers Fight “Outsourcing’’ The Main Issue: Secure, Well-Paying Jobs 6
by Elaine Bernard

Canada: OPSEU Strike Victory Shows Bosses Can Be Beaten 7
by Barry Weisleder

Radicals Transform French Unions 8
by Christopher Aguiton

French Strike Shows Collective Action Pays Off
"We Are Coming Out of a Long Period of Defeats”
10
Interview with Michael Lowy

Highlights of a Recent Trip to Cuba 12
by Frank Lovell

Alice Waker Speaks Out “Cuba Has Led the Way” 13
(reprint from Third World Resurgence)

Health Care: What Is To Be Done? 14
by WT Whitney, Jr, and Alison K Whitney

Mexico: Labor Realignment Opens Space for Initiatives “from Below” 16
by Dan La Botz

Labor Union Strategies 16
by Manuel Garcia Orrutia M

Repression Intensifies in Nigeria 18
by Michael Livingstai

After Yeltsin Election Maneuvers Russia Faces Financial Meltdown 20
by Renfrey Clarke

Interview with Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
The Present Situation in Ireland
22
by Gerry Foley

Worldwide Support for Striking Liverpool Dockers 24
Interview with Strikers' Representatives

Serious Crime in China: Result of Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor 25
by Zhang Kai

Downsizing: Causes and Consequences 26
by Frank Lovell

Discussion: A Preliminary Assessment of Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party 32
by Archibald O’Reilly

British Labour Party Heading to the Right 34
by Ellen L Ramsay

LPA News Roundup: Unions at Labor Party Convention
May Represent More Than Two Million Workers
36
by George Saunders

Discussion Draft: Principles of a Labor Party Program 37
Drafted by Adolph Reed and Howard Botwinick

Discussion: Proposals for Labor Party Program 40
by Jerry Gordon

Discussion: Broad Consensus Will Be in the Best Interests of
Labor Party Convention
42
by Tom Barrett and George Saunders

Building the Labor Party “This Is the Time — And We’re Going to Do It!” 44
speech by Genora Do!linger to Los Angeles LPA

The Unrelenting Genora Dollinger 45
by Sol Dollinger

A Personal Memory and Tribute to Genora Johnson Dollinger 45
by Evelyn Sell

Genora Dollinger —A Strong, Clear-Thinking, Outspoken Woman 46
by Jean Tussey

The Voikogonov School of Falsification 47
Reviewed by Joe Auciello

How Other Reviewers Responded to Volkogonov’s Trotsky 49
by Joe Auciello

Capitalist Polities as Pulp Fiction 51




No 133, July-August, 1996


Editorial:
Clinton Signs a Dole-ful Welfare Bill
1

It’s Time We Abandon Lesser-of-Two-Evils Politics! 2
by James Lafferty

Teamsters End Deadlocked Convention 4
by Charles Walker

Detroit Strker at Labor Party Convention:
“Together, the Unions can Turn the Tide —
and a Labor Party Could Unite Us”
5
Text of speech by Margaret Trimer-Hartley

The Fire This Time: The Burning of Blade Churches 7
by Joe Auciello

The Russian Elections and Their Meaning for the Working Class 9
by David Mandel

Will Lebed Be Russia’s Pinochet? 12
by George Saunders

Background to the Elections The Crisis in Russia in an International Context 13
by Jeff Jones

Mexican Unions and NGO’s Plan Referendum on Labor Union Rights 15
by Dan La Botz

Mexican Workers in Struggle 16
by Dan La Botz

Labor Conflict in the Environmental Ministry 17
by Manuel Garcia Urrutia M

Nicaraguan Sections Loom 18
by Michael Livingston

Address to Labor Party Founding Convention “America Needs a
Labor Party That Calls for Economic Fairness and Justice”
20
Text of Speech by Baldemar Velasquez

Taiwan Impacted by Multiparty Polities 21
by Jun Xing

Socialist Strategy and Organization 22
by Paul Le Blanc

A Report on the Formation of the Labor Party Combating the Invisibility of Class Polities 24
by John Hinshaw

Reprint from Duluth labor World' History in the Making: Labor Party Holds Founding Convention 28
by Peter Rachleff

Politics and Elections: Sorting Out the Debate at the Labor Party Convention 29
by Bill Onasch

A Report to Friends on the Labor Party Founding Convention (Excerpts) 38
by Frank Lovell

Labor Party Discussion Excerpts from a Report 31
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Before, During, and After the Convention Building the Labor Party in Cleveland, Ohio 33
by Jean Tussey

Why too Lock of Interest to Cleveland? Press Lords Black Out Labor Party Convention 35
by Charles Walker

A Review of Press Coverage on the Labor Party Convention36 by George Saunders

The Seattle Area Labor Party 39
by Rita Shaw

Labor Party Convention A View from the Hinterlands 40
by Mike McCallister

From Computer Network Discussion of Labor Party UE Organizer Defends LP Convention 41
Posting by Sam Smucker

Debating the Convention 42
by Andrew Parsons

From Discussion on Computer Network Conference On Buffalo Chapter’s Endorsement of a Liberal Democrat 43

Advancing a Program to Build the Labor Party 44
by Jerry Gordon

Once Again on the Value of Consensus in the Process of Building the Labor Party 46
by Tom Barrett and George Saunders

Arabs Need American Labor Solidarity The Important issues in the Middle East Conflict 48
by Tom Barrett

“The Most Talented of Our Younger Writers” 56
Review by Joe Auciello

Letters 59




No 134, November-December, 1996


The US Elections — This Was s Choice?
“My Turn” Dole v “Right Turn” Clinton: Others Need Not Apply
1
by Bill Onasch

Worst Fighting Sines the Intifadeh Palestinians Confront Netanyahu Government 2
by Tom Barrett

Palestine/Israel Before the Latest Explosion The Situation In the Occupied territories 4
by Walid Salem

Clinton's Threats of Mideast War Behind the Events in Iraq and Kurdistan 5
by Tom Barrett

Hundreds of Thousands of Russian Woikers Strike, Demonstrate for Back Wages 8
by Renfrey Clarice

No to Both Evis
Leaflet of Russian Trotskyist Groups In July Elections
9

Russian Trotskyists Speak Out Against the War in Chechnya 9

China: Slowed-down Growth in Grain Production and
Growing Burden for Peasants
10
by Zhang Kai

Dissent Impacting Top Leadership of Chinese Communist Party 11
by Zhang Kai

Melissa Dullea Speaks on Her Trip Maine High School Valedictorian Visits Cuba 12
by Kim Marshall

Let Cuba Lhre, Teen Says Dullea Impressed by Resilience of Impoverished islanders 13
by Judith Meyer

Labor Rights and Nationalism: The Case of Taiwan 14
by Unda Gail Am go and Jason Chin-Hsin Liu

Huge Demonstration in Belgium Why “New York Times’ Downplayed Its Size 19
by Don Fowler

Mass Protests Seize Toronto Next Step: Unlimited, Province-wide General Strike to Kick Out the Tories! 20
by Barry Weisleder

US Spokesperson for Zapatistas
Cecilia Rogriguez Calls for Suspension of US Military Aid to Mexico
22

Cleveland Teachers Win Round in Fight Against Union Busters 23
by Jean Tussey

TDU Convention Plans Big Teamsters Election Push Teamsters President Ron Carey Talks Tough 25
by Charles Walker

The Teamsters for a Democratic Union: Its Origins, Strategies, and Battles 26
by Charles Walker

The War Against Children: Democrats and the Unions 27 by Charles Walker

Labor Party Discussion Between walking and Running — Expect a Long March 29
by Bill Onasch

After the Founding Convention Evaluating the Present Stage of the Labor Party Movement 30
by David Jones

Robert Wages's Endorsement of Clinton
Its Meaning for the Prospects ot Building a Labor Party
37
by Don Fowler

The Cycle of Poverty? 38
by Peter Kellman

What Focus for Labor Party? Two Key Issues: Jobs and Health Caro for All 39
byBrian King

Columbia University Teach-In and the Historical Background
Class Education and the New Labor-Intellectual Alliance
40
by Frank Lovell

Striking Newspaper Worker Runs as Independent in Michigan Elections 46
by Cheryl Peck

Australian “Green Left Weekly” on Doug Young’s Campaign 46
by Barry Sheppard

Douglas Young: Newspaper Striker for Michigan State Representative 47
Text of Election Flyer

Labor Party Calls for Real Welfare Reform:
An End to Corporate Welfare and a Constitutional Right
to a Job at a Living Wage
48
Text of Labor Party Statement on Welfare Bill

A Reassertion of Revolutionary Values 49
Review by Mark Weber

The Heritage They Reconsider 51
Essay/Review by Joe Auciello

Robert D Dullea, 1901—1996 57
by Frank Lovell

Farewell to a Solid Citizen 58
by David Jones

Letters 60





1997


No 135, January-February, 1997


“What World Revolution?” 1
by George Saunders

60th Anniversary of “Revolution Betrayed”
Third Conference on Trotsky’s Legacy Held in Moscow
3
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey

Tupac Amaru Gate-Crashes Cocktail Party in Lima 4
by B Skanthakumar

Is the MRTA’s Action ’Weakening Fujimori? 5
Interview With Isaac Velazco

Blockade of Cuba Unpst, Immoral US Intent: Restrict Humanitarian Aid 7
by Wiliam I Whitney, Jr

Amid R'tsrg Discontent Chinese Regime Continues to Persecute Dissidents 8
by Zhang Kai

“Rabochaya Demokraiya” Reports Russian Paper Tells of Founding of Labor Party in US 9

Teamsters Rank and File Give Carey “Five More Years! 10
by Charles Walker

Kate DeSmet of TNG Reports
Background to Strikers’ Hew Call for National March on Detroit
12
Reprinted from Labor Notes

Newspaper Strikers’ Appeal to All of Labor to
Support the Call for a National Labor March on Detroit
13

Union Busline in the 1990s—What We Can Learn From the Past to Fight It 14
Text of Speech by David Sole, President of UAW Local 2334

From the Columbia University Labor Teach-In
“It Is Time to Remake Our Economy and Our Politics”
15
Text of Speech by David Montgomery

Kick Out All the Bosses’Parties Liberals Are Tories, Too 16
by Barry Weisleder

Paroian: If It Isn t Broken, Break It" Tories Target Teachers, Quality of Education 17
by Barry Weisleder

Democrats Push New Law Through Anti-Terrorism and Effective
Death Penalty Act: A Threat to Civil Liberties
18
by Abdeen M Jabara

Will Anti-Terrorism Bill of 1996 Be the New Smith Act? 19
by Michael Steven Smith

From the Arsenal of Marxism
James P Cannon on the Smith Act Trial of 1949 (“The Trial of the Stalinist Leaders”)
20

Marxist Theory for the 1990s 22
reviewed by Joe Auciello

An Introduction to the History of the Cleveland Labor Movement, 1865-1929 24
by Jean Y Tussey

“Small Help”: Child Labor in United States Industry, the Family System, 1790-1860 34
by Miriam Braverman

Death of Robert F Williams: Black Freedom Movement Loses Giant 44
Tom Giunta, 1906-1996
45
by Frank Lovell




No 136, March-April, 1997


Big Breakthrough for Locked-Out Newspaper Workers: AFL-CIO Endorses Call for National March in Detroit 1
by Richard Scully

Clinton’s Valentine to Pilots: "Go Back to Work” 4
by David Jones

Dems-GOP Finding New “Center” — Unite to Finish Off Remains of Social Contract 6
by Bill Onasch

Why Canada Unions Will March in Windsor, Ontario June 13-14 7
by Barry Weisleder

Teamsters Five-Year Plan 8
by Charles Walker

From the Horse’s Mouth: When Teamsters Corruption Flourished 9
Reviewed by Charles Walker

"fourth Wave” of Strike at End of February Korean Unions To Resume General Strike 10
Text of Korean Strike Bulletin

Teamsters President Protests Korea Labor Laws Carey Supports Striking South Korean Workers 11
Text of Letter from Ron Carey to Kim Young Sam

South Korean Workers and "Globalization” 12
by B Skanthakumar

A Malaysian Unionist Account The Workers Movement in Malaysia Today 14
Interview with Anoka Dass

Roisin McA liskey, Daughter of Bernadette Devlin,
Held by British Protest London’s Brutal Treatment of Pregnant Irish Activist
17
Press Release from Irish Northern Aid

Building the Labor Party in the USA 18
by Frank Lovell

Unions and Chapters in the Labor Party 21
by Rita Sha w and Brian King

A View from One of the Chapters A Plan to Build the Labor Party in the Pittsburgh Area 22
by Paul Le Blanc

I Have Seen Their Future — and It Doesn’t Work A Reply to “The Future of Our Labor Party” 24
by Bill Onasch

BIDOMand the Labor Party 26
by Ben Stone

In This Early Stage of the Labor Party Support Should Far Outweigh Criticism 27
by George Saunders

From the Arsenal of Marxism:
Engels on the Movement for an American Workingmen’s Party, Sectarianism, and the Right Timing of Criticism
32

Poverty in China
Social Conditions on the Eve of Deng’s Death
33
by Zhang Kai

Guangdong, China Labor Activists Face Heavy Prison Sentences 34
Two May Day Parades?

Old Guard vs Progressive Unions in Mexico 35
Reprint from Mexican Labor News and Analysis




No 137, May-June, 1997


Message from Detroit Strikers:
Open Letter to the Labor Movement ami to All Our Supporters
1

Action Coalition of Strikers and Supporters (ACOSS) Statement of Purpose 1

Eyewitness Report Eastern Zaire: Under New Management 2
by Anke Hlntjens

NSSPAsks for Protest Messages Three Trotskyist Leaders Arrested in Sri Lanka 2
by Jean Dupont

Historical Background Rebel Victory in Zaire 3
by George Saunders

Rwanda-Zaire: Region In Turmoil 6
byB Skanthakumar

Firsthand Report from Rwanda Pan-African Women’s Conference on Peace and Development 8
by Anke Hintjens

No Let-Up in Teamsters Strife 9
by Charles Walker

US Media Kill Labor Solidarity Story 10
byJanine Jackson

Hands Off Social Security!
Labor Should Avoid Being Suckered Into Bipartisan Scams to Wreck Our Social Contract
11
by Bill Onasch

Minnesota Labor Conference in Fifth Yes?
Successful Organizing: The Theme at “Meeting the Challenge”
12
by Melana Merchant

Next Stop, Amsterdam!
Europe Marches Against Unemployment and Job Insecurity
15
by Frangois Vercarumen

The Fight Back is m Crisis Fight for a Socialist Alternative! 16
by Barry Weisleder

May Day March in Mexico City: Foro and May First Coalition Fill Zocalo 18
by Dan La Botz

Two Reports South Korean Unions Consider Forming Own Political Party 19

Albania Arise, You Prisoners of Starvation 20
by Georges Mitralias

Albanian Insurrection on the Defensive 22
by Nicos Yannopoulos

For the Democratic Return of Hong Kong to China 24
by October Review

Behind Clinton’s Indonesia-Gate’’
Military Dictators and the Fight for Workers Rights In Indonesia
25
by Michael Livingston

Lucius Walker A Leader in the Struggle for Justice 27
by WT Whitney, Jr

The Struggle for Block Ubcr&ion Today
Causes of the Million Man March, and Where We Go from Here
28
by Muhammad Ahmad

The Socialist Purpose To Educate the Working Class 30
by Frank Lovell

On Valuing and Evaluating the History of US Trotskyism 34
by Paul le Blanc

Comments on “Trotskyism In the United States” 35
by Louis Proyect

In Reply to Louis Proyect end Peter Druckcr Two Critics of 'Trotskyism in the United States” 37
by Paul Le Blanc

In the Backwash of World Politics Max Shachtman and Some Political Offspring 40
Essay/review by Joe Auciello

A Sorry Evolution to the Right A Bit of History on the Socialist Party 43
by Mark Weber

Discussion on the Labor Party Chapter Convention Contributes to Building the Party 44
by George Saunders

Building the Labor Party North Carolina Chapter Opposes “Democracy Resolution” 45
Satement of NC Piedmont Triad Chapter

Discussion on the Labor Party Political Possibilities ana Tactical Questions 48
by Judy Wraight

Electoral Issues Facing the Next Convention of the Labor Party 48
by Frank Wright

Discussion on the Labor Party Electoral Action Without
Union Backing is a Dead End: A Reply to Frank Wright
50
by David Jones

A Book Which Working People Will Not Put Down Straight Talk from Michael Moore 52
Reviewed by Tom Barrett

In Memoiy of Solomon Grauer 57
by Frank Lovell

Labor Party Plained lor Triangle Area Second LP Chapter Being Formed in North Carolina 58
Reprinted from "Justice Speaks"




No 138, September-October, 1997


Fifteen Days is August: The UPS Strike 1
by Charles Walker

Beginning of the UPS Strike (Background Article) 3
by Charles Walker

Teamsters, Strikes, and Democracy 5
by Charles Walker

Government Election Officer Upsets Teamsters Election 6
by Charles Walker

Why Teamsters Face New Election Campaign 7
by Charles Walker

EuroMarch for Jobs 9
by Christophe Aguiton and Robert Cremieux

The July 6 Elections in Mexico:
Cirdenas and the PRD: Between Promises to Capital end the Hopes of the People
10
by Dan La Botz

Election fa Canada Despite Reduced Majority, Liberals “Stay the Course” 15
by Barry Weisleder

Interview with Congo Health Minister J B Sondji
First Weeks of New Congo Government
17

Discussion on the Detroit Newspaper Strike
Motown Surprises
10
by Frank Lovell

The Advantages of Taking a Bus to Detroit 22
by Pinky Cortez

Marching in the Streets 25
by Melanie Benson

Lessons of the Struggle 26
by Peter Johnson

Labor Can Mobilize the Numbers Necessary to Win 29
by Peter Solenberger

Revolutionary Vanguards in the United States During the 1930s 30
by Paul Le Blanc

Why the Labor Party? 32
by Deborah Bayer, RN
Reprinted from California Nurse

The Cataclysm: World War II and the History of American Trotskyism 34
by Frank Lovell

Discussion on Detroit Newspaper Strike Teamsters President Ron Carey’s Role in the Strike 36
by Charles Walker

Pittsburgh Labor Party Conference Draws Ninety — Where Do We Go from Here? 30
by Paul Le Blanc

I Don’t See Civil Discourse — I See Civil War 39
by Bill Onasch

Betty Shabazz: A Heroine in Her Own Right 41
by Joe Auciello

Robert Franklin ("Rob”) Williams, 1925-1991 43
by Muhammad Ahmad

From Russia’s “Secret Archives” Pipes Constructs a Caricature of Lenin 45
Review/Essay by Joe Auciello

Two Lives Affected by the Russian Revolution 41
by Michael Steven Smith

Untimely Death of a Young Revolutionist Pauline Caluya Will Always Be Our Comrade 50
by Ron Lare and Matt Siegfried

Letters 59




No 139, November-December, 1997


Fair Play for Ron Carey and the Teamsters 1
by Charles Walker

“The Real Scandal Is Corporate Power over Government” 2

Text of Ron Carey's Speech to the National Press Club Teamsters Notebook 4
by Charles Walker

Democracy vs Bureaucracy In the Teamsters Union 4
by Charles Walker

AFL-CIO Convention, 1997 6
by Frank Lovell

10(j) Fails, Lockout Continues Detroit Newspaper Workers Discuss Next Steps 11
From Battleground Detroit

Organize Against Anti-Labor Laws We Need to Win the Right to Strike! 12
From Battleground Detroit

The Detroit Struggle Continues Happy Second Birthday, Nikolas Daymon Hartley! 13
by Margaret Trimer-Hartley and Daymon J Hartley

It’s Not Fair Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Legal”
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Supports Forced Overtime
14
by Joe Auciello

First-Hand Report from Chiapas Laid Ghosts Walking 15
byWT Whitney, Jr

On the 30th Anniversary of Che’s Death
Zapatista Community Appeals to Army Troops
17
Text by Enlacivil

Reprint from Mexican Labor News and Analysis
Maquiladora Workers Elect Their First Independent Union: FAT
18
by David Bacon

More Workers Fired at Maquiladora Supporters Consider Hyundai Boycott 20
From Campaign for Labor Rights Bulletins May First Group Won’t Join New Labor Federation
21

France’s Socialist Government 22
by Raghu Krishnan

“Wa Must Speak French to Our Bosses " French Struggle Inspires German Workers 23
Reprinted from Socialist Outlook

Report on Founding Convention of Ohio State Labor Party 24
by Cheryl Peck

Union Base Builds Ohio State Labor Party 25
by Jean Tussey

Class-Struggle Policy in the Rise of the Labor Movement A Lecture on Art Preis’s History of the CIO: Labor’s Giant Step 28
by Tom Kerry

What Is “Wobbly Culture”? — Open Letter to the IWW Organization of Today 34
By Mike Alewitz

Fairness Comes Late to Centralia Labor History 35
Negative and Positive Lessons from the Bolshevik Experience
36 by Paul Le Blanc

A Hard Look at the AFL-CIO 39
Reprint from UE News

Labor Party Electoral Policy Committee Holds First Meeting 40
by Bill Onasch

Reprint from International Viewpoint” Time to Act Like a Real Party? 41
by Jane Slaughter

Time to Act Like a Party? Not If You’re Still an Organizing Committee 45
by David Jones

Why Corporate America Hates Ron Carey 47

In Memory of Myra Tanner Weiss (1917-1997) 48




1998


No 140, January-February, 1998


Why We Should Defend Ron Carey and the AFL-CIO Leadership 1
by ‘Labor Defender’

NY Times and Others Join the Attack on Carey, Trumka 5
by “Labor Defender”

At the TDU Convention Who Will Fight for Ron Carey? 6
by Charles Walker

Which Way for Carey’s Supporters? 8
by Charles Walker

Teamsters Notebook 18

Notes on the Attack on Carey and Other Union Leaders 12
by David Jones

Threat to the Independence of the Unions 14
by Farrell Dobbs

Let the Teamsters Decide Their Leaders! Defend and Support Ron Carey! 1614
by Bill Leumer Local 216

A TDU Member Speaks Up for Carey “Strange Coincidence:
The Man Who Led Labor’s Most Successful Battle in 25 Years Immediately Comes under Government Scrutiny”
1714
by Thomas Shelbley

“The Hubris That Brought Carey Down” 1814
by Jane Slaughter

Dedication of Mural for UPS Strike The Teamster Struggle Is Our Struggle 19
by Mike Alewitz

Speech at Detroit Labor Party Forum
The Teamsters Union and the Labor Party
21
by Eddie Komegay

Ohio Labor Beats Back a Corporate Attack
Workers Vote NO! on Issue 2
24
by Jean Tussey

Big Money in the Electoral Process Politics as Usual 26
by Tom Barrett

Why the Labor Movement Should Oppose US Aggression
Clinton Threatens War Against Iraq
28
by Tom Barrett

EZLN Communique on the Massacre In Chenalho
Brothers and Sisters: Why? How Many More? Until When?
30

Han Young: More Bad Signs Struggle Continues at Hyundai Feeder Plant in Tijuana 32

Let the Walls Come Tumbling Down Build the “Jericho ’98” March on Washington: Amnesty for US Political Prisoners 33
by Paul Lefrak

Tribunal Held In Philadelphia The Fight to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal 35
by John Kirkland

Fight Against Bill 160 Continues Ontario Teacher Leaders Snatch Defeat From Jaws of Victory 36
by Barry Weisleder

The Labor Party, the Trade Union Movement, and Revolutionary Socialists 39
by Paul Le Blanc

Comments on the Labor Party, the Unions,
and the Present Situation: In Response to Paul Le Blanc
43
by Frank Lovell

1917 — Viewed 80 Years Later A Conference on the Russian Revolution: Part One 46
by Paul Le Blanc

Memorial Meeting at Tamiment for Myra Tanner Weiss 52
by Dorothea Breitman

From the Memorial Meeting
We Dip the Red Flag in Her Honor and Remember Myra, the Revolutionary Socialist
52
Remarks by Dorothea Breitman

Karl Who? Reading from Left to Right 53
by Joe Auciello

From a Hospital Bed 56
by Joe Auciello

A Valuable Book on Che Guevara 53
reviewed by Joe Auciello




No 141, March-April, 1998


Clinton’s Failed Mideast Policy Threatens New Gulf War 1
by Tom Barrett

ton Is Not Our Job 6
by Tom Barrett and George Saunders

Wildcat Strikes Paralyze Mexican Railway
Railroad Workers’ Movement Spreads from Sonora to Other States — Ford, GM, GE Plants Affected
8
by Dan La Botz

A Brief History of the Mexican Rail Union 11
Dan La Botz

Teamsters Strike Honeywell Rank and File Organize to Win 12
Reprint from Convoy Dispatch

Reprint of an Internet Article Caterpillar Workers Reject Proposed Contract 14
by Barry Sheppard

Bad Medicine Is Good Business: The Crisis in US Health Care 15
by Joe Auciello

Mass Mobilization Sets Example How Ohio Labor Won the 1997 Election 17
by Jean Tussey

From Labor Party Internet Newsgroup
Right-Wing Initiative Attacks Right of Unions to Participate in Politics
19
by David Bacon

Teamsters to Vote on New Freight Contract 20
by Charles Walker

The Government vs Teamsters: Some Leftists Still Don’t Get It! 21
by Charles Walker

Black Activist Appeals to Pope on His Visit to Cuba
“Speak Out Against Human Rights Violations and the Social Reality in the US”
25
by Assata Shakur

Call for Black Radical Congress in Chicago, June 19-21 The Struggle Continues:
Setting a Black Liberation Agenda for the 21st Century
27
View from the Philippines

Economic Meltdown in Asia 28
by Sonny Melencio and Rethana Mohideen Asia: Four Crises in One
30
by Maxima Durand

After the 15th CCP National Congress China Going More Capitalist 31
by Zhang Kai

From the Arsenal of Marxism
Unions, Affirmative Action, and the Courts: A Revolutionary Socialist View of the Issues
32
by Tom Kerry

Labor Party Electoral Policy Committee Progress Toward Charting Party’s Electoral Course 38
by Bill Onasch

Report on the Labor Party’s Future Electoral Strategy 39
Labor Party Presentation at a Union Meeting 40
by Paul Le Blanc

Report from New Mexico Labor Party An LP Dinner in Honor of Martin Luther King 42
by Bob Mast

Debs’s Labor Party Epiphany 44
by Chris Driscoll

The American Labor Party 47
by Eugene V Debs

Speech at 1925 Conference for Progressive Political Action 49
by Eugene V Debs

JFK Without a Halo Real Kennedy Legacy Shows Why Clinton and Democrats Don’t Deserve Workers’ Support 53
by Tom Barrett

France: A Significant By-Election The Need for a Real Left, “One Hundred Percent Left” 58
by Christian Picquet

Paris Conference Report: Part Two The Russian Revolution in Historical Perspective —
and Its Meaning for the Future
59
by Paul Le Blanc

Reading from Left to Right 55
by Joe Auciello

Letters 68




No 142, July-August, 1998 [Final Issue]

Frank Lovell: A Long Life Devoted to Labor and Socialism 1
Statement by Bulletin in Defense of Marxism

National Strike in Puerto Rico Against Privatization of Phone Company 2
Statement by General Council of Workers (CGT) of Puerto Rico

Message to Communications Workers Union
of United Kingdom from Communications Workers of America (CWA) on Puerto Rico Phone Strike
3
by Eduardo Diaz

Successful Two-Day “People’s Strike” Against Privatization 4
by Carmelo Ruiz

Editorial on International Labor Solidarity 5
Thoughts on the GM Flint Strikes 6
by Peter Solenberger

Teamster Notebook “Rainbow Slate” Takes on Hoffa 7
by Charles Walker

Listing of Leedham Slate 9
Uncertainties Bedevil Teamsters Election 10
by Charles Walker

Feds Slap Hoffa’s Wrist 12
by Charles Walker

Bosses, Politicians Want to Protect Your Paycheck 13
by Bill Onasch

Building Trades Workers Shut Down Manhattan 14
by George Saunders

Move Toward a Labor Party? Mainstream NY Unions Weigh Separate Ballot Line for November 16
Reprint of Village Voice News Story

A Competing Labor Party in New York? Response by the New York Labor Party 17
Labor Party Progress

Pres Andy Stern Urges ALL SEIU Locals to Attend LP Convention 18
Reprint of Report on BRC

Black Activists Rally for Freedom for All 19
by Lola Smallwood

Documents from Black Radical Congress What Is The Black Radical Congress (BRC)? 19

Principles Of Unity 22

New Controversy for the Nation of Islam 22
by Joe Auciello

Interview with Rock Star Zach La Rocha Singer for “Rage Against the Machine”
Speaks Out Against NAFTA and for the Zapatistas
25

Russian Miners Demand: "Yeltsin Out!” 26
by Renfrey Clarke

What’s Behind Serbia’s Aggression in Kosovo 28
by Michael Karadjis

The Latest Attempt at Peace in Ireland 30
by Bill Onasch

Russian Labor’s Restless Summer 36
by Renfrey Clarke

Prospects for Labor Rights and Real Democracy — After the Suharto Dictatorship 38
by B Skanthakumar

How the End Came for Suharto 43
by B Skanthakumar

The Asian Crisis and Global Financial Instability 48
by Jesus Albarracdn and Pedro Montes

Against Government Intervention and Control of Unions 53
by Jerry Gordon

Reading from Left to Right 57
by Joe Auciello





 

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