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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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ISRAELI POLICE RAID HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP JERUSALEM POGROM PALESTINIANS RELEASED FROM PRISON IN LOS ANGELES THE SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLUTION MARKS TIME A RECORD OF THE MASS RALLY AT THE SHANGHAI ON DEMOCRATIC DECISION MAKING IN THE THE US CONSTITUTION AND THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued) THE LIBERATING INFLUENCE OF THE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM (Part 7) REVIEW: OBITUARY: LETTERS 36 DEFEND MICHEL WARSHAWSKY AND THE INTERVIEW WITH MICHEL WARSHAWSKY PALESTINIANS SUPPORTERS HARASSED IN LOS ANGELES NEW MASS STRUGGLES IN EASTERN EUROPE RADICAL POLITICS AND THE RUSSIAN QUESTION WHERE IS THE SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY GOING? US CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ ECONOMIC PASTORAL: MARXISM, CHRISTIANITY AND CLASS STRUGGLE THE US CONSTITUTION AND THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS A TRIBUTE TO JOHN G W RIGHT NOTEBOOKS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN (continued) REVIEWS: THE SANDINISTA REVOLUTION
Director of Alternative Information Center Still in Jail
by Stuart Brown 1
Reprinted from News from Within 2
Walter Lippmann 4
by Charlie van Gelderen 5
PEOPLE’S SQUARE TO DISCUSS DEMOCRACY
by Yuan Xiumin 8
US ANTI-INTERVENTION MOVEMENT
by Samuel Adams 10
by Evelyn 20
6. Husbands and Wives in the Komsomol
7. A Little About the Language of the Times
by Mikhail Baitalsky 22
by GeorgeBreitman 27
A TROTSKY BIOGRAPHY IN PICTURES
by Frank Lovell 30
"A STRONG LINK HAS BEEN BROKEN"
Tom Gustafsson (1947-87)
by Gote Kilden 35
ALTERNATIVE INFORMATION CENTER IN ISRAEL
by Rafael Sabatini 1
Reprinted from International Viewpoint 2
by Walter Lippmann 3
Hungarians March; Yugoslavs Strike
by Tom Barrett 5
by Frank Lovell 8
by Steve Bloom 12
A VIEW FROM AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER
by Charles McCollester 18
by Paul Le Blanc 21
by Evelyn Sell 26
by Alan Wald 28
8 How It Was and How It Became
by Mikhail Baitalsky 30
A NEW7 WEAPON IN THE TROTSKYIST ARSENAL
by Stuart Brown 33
by Michael Livingston
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 InternationalFourth International 50th Anniversary Celebration Held in New York The Fourth International and
the Fight for Socialism in the World Today The Historical Balance Sheet of the Fourth International Revolutionaries Forge indissoluble Links Through Struggle They Could Not Kill the Ideas of Leon Trotsky Trotsky’s Historical Defense of Marxism The Dialectical Method of the Fourth International |
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
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
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
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 In Defense of Salman Rushdie 1 Building for April 9 Abortion Rights March 2 The History of Anti-Abortion Laws in the US 4 Caribbean Scene
The Jamaican Masses Search for a Way Out 6 Hugo Blanco Released 15 PRT Leader Still Missing in Mexico 16 Mixed Decision in Seattle Freeway Hall Case 16 Mass Executions in Iran Protested 17 Behind the Struggle in Nagorno-Karabagh 18 Marxism, the National Question, and the Crisis of Stalinism 24 Conversations in the USSR Notebooks for the Grandchildren Letters 36 Exxon’s Big Blunder 1 Two Major Oil Spills That Could Have Been Averted 2 Editorial: 3
Capitalist Anarchy Los Angeles Pro-Choice Activists 4 Modest March 18 El Salvador Protests Held 5 Problems of the Eastern Airlines Strike 6 Collective Bargaining and Democratic Unionism 10 The Left and Electoral Politics: Lesser Evil, Populism, 15 Exchange of Views: Dave Riehle Responds Centennial of Vincent R Dunne 19 From the Arsenal of Marxism: A Question for the SWP: An Old House in Coyoacan 31 Notebooks for the Grandchildren (Continued)
A Socialist Dreamscape on Public Television 35
by Steve Bloom
by Tom Barrett
by Sarah Lovell
by Gayle Swann
by Lloyd D’AguilarJames 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
by Michael Frank
by Gary Kennedy
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey
by Haskell Berman
Diary of a Trip (part 3) 27
by David Seppo
29 Different Categories of Criminals 32
by Mikhail Baitalsky
by Carmen Wynn
by Burt Vulliet
Celebrate Victory Over Operation Rescue
by Evelyn SellSpecial Section — Issues Facing Labor:
by Bill Onasch
by Richard Scully
or Working Class Independence?
by Wayne McElyea
Corporate Campaigns, the Trade Union Movement,
and the Hormel Strike 18
by Bernard Daniels
by Dave Riehle
Revolutionary Tasks and
Work in the Trade Union Movement 26
by V R Dunne
But What Is Happening Among the Soviet Masses? 29
by Steve Bloom
30 Vorkuta, Kotlas, Kirov 33
by Mikhail Baitalsky
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
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 Solidarity, Regroupment, and Socialist Renewal
Editorial Introduction to a Discussion Article Where We’ve Come From, What We Face, Where We Go From Here Notebooks for the Grandchildren (Continued) Chinese Students Change the Course of History Bloodbath in Tiananmen Square 1 Call to Form a Coalition of Self-Governing Workers’ Organizations 7 For a Thorough Antibureaucratic Revolution Political Revolution in China? 9 Solidarity with the Chinese Students 9 Mexican Hunger Strike Gets Results 10 Free the Upington 26! 10 The Latest Threats Against Panama 11 Brazilian Workers Party Presidential Candidate Speaks in New York 14 From International Viewpoint on Brazil: Victory in Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike 19 Union Activists Discuss Political Action at Labor Notes Conference 22 200th Anniversary of the French Revolution Congress of People’s Deputies Widens Cracks in Bureaucratic Rule 31 Unrest Continues in Caucasus 35 Notebooks for the Grandchildren (continued) Letters 40 Pro-Choice Forces Say: NEVER AGAIN! 1 NOW National Convention Charts Fight The Struggle for Women’s Liberation in the United States 5 Pittston Strike: Pivotal Battle in Coal Field War 7 Al Shiminsky (1917-1989) 11 Historic Strike by Soviet Miners Repression Continues in China The Significance and Lessons of the Democracy and Revolution in China 18 Documents Interview with Filipino Labor Leader 25
CLR James, Writer and Revolutionary 27 From the Arsenal of Marxism Commentary Letters 36
Jaruzelski’s Big Gamble 1 Pro-Choice Activists Galvanized by Supreme Court Ruling 3 Central America Solidarity in Canada 5 Letter from the ENC 6 Call for October 8 National Meeting on Central America 6 Revolutionary Marxists and the Anti-Intervention Movement Today 7 Understanding the Nicaraguan Revolution UAW Loss at Smyrna 16 A Visit to the USSR 18 Prospects for the Situation in China 24 What Was CLR James’s Contribution to Revolutionary Marxism? 26 Michael Harrington, 1928-1989 31 Notebooks for the Grandchildren (Continued) 33 Protests Escalate as Apartheid Regime Holds Elections 2 Editorial: Issues in the Women’s Struggle In Support of NOW’s Call for a New Party 3 Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement 8 Women Challenge Rape Myths and Realities 11 For a Constituent Assembly Democracy and the Bolshevik Revolution 18 TROTSKY: On the Road to the Truth About Him 22 Stalinism in Crisis Exchange of Views: Recognizing Reality in the Anti bureaucratic Struggle 30 Notebooks for the Grandchildren (Continued) Socialist Workers Party Wins Important Victory 36
Israeli Activist Tours US
by Steve Bloom
by Paul Le Blanc
31 Russian Patriots
by Mikhail Baitalsky
UPHEAVAL IN CHINA!
by Tom Barrett 1
Letters by the Chinese Revolutionary Communist Party 8
by Steve Bloom
by Jerry Gordon
by Tom Barrett
by Roger Kraft
Lula for President! 15
General Strike by 35 Million Workers 16
The Strike and the Political Crisis 17
by Evelyn Sell
by Dave Riehle
The French Revolution and Bourgeois Ideology 25
by George Plekhanov
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey
31 Russian Patriots (continued) 36
by Mikhail Baitalsky
by Evelyn Sell
To Defend Abortion Rights 3
by Helen Grossmann
by Evelyn Sell
by Bill Onasch
Demands Are Won 12
by Tom Barrett
As Does Economic and Political Collaboration with the West 14
by Tom Barrett
Antibureaucratic Revolutionary Struggle 16
from October Review
by Steve Bloom
Sandinista Leaders on the Nicaraguan Crisis 23
Tomas Borge and Orlando Nunez
by Charlie van Gelderen
Revolution and the Negro 28
by CLR James
Capitalism Gets Its Priorities Straight 35
by Stuart Brown
by Steve Bloom
by Evelyn Sell
by Barry Weisleder
by Michael Livingston
A Critical Review of Some of the Literature 10
by Paul Le Blanc
by Bill Onasch
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey
by Yang Hai
by Lloyd D’Aguilar
by R L Hubner
32 They Even Found Me Here
by Mikhail Baitalsky
by Tom Barrett
For a World Without Borders! 2
by Carol McAllister
by Claire Cohen
by Evelyn Sell
Statement of the Revolutionary Socialist Party 16
Chilean Section of the Fourth International
by Paul Le Blanc
(Interview from Komsomolskaya Pravda)
‘Difficult Days’ for the Communist Party, USA 26
By Samuel Adams
Where Tom Barrett Goes Wrong on China 29
by Myra Tanner Weiss
by Tom Barrett
33 My Co-Butyrnik 32
by Mikhail Baitalsky
by Stuart Brown
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Gorbachev Forced to Retreat on Economic Plans:
Soviet Masses Intervene 1
by Marilyn Vogt-Downey
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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