1917 #5

Jesse Jackson: Judas-Goat for the Bourgeoisie

Jesse Jackson: Judas-Goat for the Bourgeoisie

Democrats, Dixiecrats and Rainbows “When you keep the Democrats in power, you’re keeping the Dixiecrats in power.” –Malcolm X, 1964 Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination stirred the hopes of...

Israel Out of the Occupied Territories!

Israel Out of the Occupied Territories!

For a Socialist Federation of the Middle East! For the past year the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza has been locked in a heroic and unequal struggle against Israeli occupation. Forty...

Revolutionary Program vs. `Historical Process’

Revolutionary Program vs. `Historical Process’

Polemic with USec Supporter We print below a polemical exchange with Roy R., a supporter of the Fourth International Tendency (FIT) in New York. Roy’s broadside was occasioned by Neil Henderson’s “open letter” announcing...

Moscow and Managua

Moscow and Managua

The Pentagon and the CIA understand, even if many in the Nicaraguan “solidarity” milieu do not, that there is an intimate connection between the continued survival of the property relations established by the Bolshevik...

On the Slogan `Hail Red Army!’

On the Slogan `Hail Red Army!’

Bending the Stick Too Far… Since the formation of our political tendency, six years ago, our polemics with other leftists on Afghanistan have revolved around the fundamental question of which way to point the...

Gorbachev’s Afghan Sellout

Gorbachev’s Afghan Sellout

Soviets Abandon Women, Leftists to Mujahedeen On 15 May the USSR began a pullout of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. The withdrawal is being carried out as a result of an agreement signed in...

Nicaraguan Revolution in Retreat

Nicaraguan Revolution in Retreat

The End of Sandinista ‘Third Road’ For nine years, since the 1979 insurrection which toppled the bloody Somoza dictatorship, Nicaragua has been a society in which economic and political/military power have been “decoupled.” After...