Not ‘People Power’, but Workers Power!
Filipino Elite Still in the Saddle ‘‘We love you, sir,’’ gushed George Bush after Ferdinand Marcos ‘‘won’’ the rigged Philippines presidential election of 1981 with a modest 88 percent of the vote. ‘‘We love...
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No Disaster for the Working Class
Challenger’s ‘Major Malfunction’ The spontaneous abortion of space shuttle Challenger on January 28 was followed by an outpouring of government-prompted, electronically-orchestrated grief. From Pope to Queen, a variety of ‘‘world leaders’’ were quick to...
BAFSAM’s Impotent Tactics
Reprinted below is the text of Militant Longshoreman No. 15, which was distributed to participants in a impotent BAFSAM-initiated ‘‘picket’’ of Pier 80 last January. BAFSAM (Bay Area Free South Africa Movement) has had...
Feminism & ‘Moral Panics’
The AIDS hysteria cannot be seen in isolation from the more general right-wing ideological offensive. Preaching a gospel of unregulated greed in the marketplace, the Reaganite right simultaneously aims to reimpose Victorian standards of...
The Politics of AIDS
Reactionaries Fan Homophobic Hysteria AIDS is the most terrifying public health calamity in the U.S. since the spread of paralytic polio in the early fifties. Gay people, already the victims of a medical nightmare,...
Bull’s Eye!
It is always gratifying to receive confirmation that a polemic has drawn blood. In this connection we were pleased with the response to a major article in our first issue (‘‘The Robertson School of...
Smash Apartheid!
For International Labor Solidarity! The spirit of the 11-day 1984 San Francisco longshore boycott against South African cargo (in solidarity with the struggles of black workers and youth in Botha’s racist hell-hole) was continued...
The Myth of the ‘Third Period’
MLP’s Stalinist Pyrite In the summer before the 1984 election that swept Ronald Reagan into the White House for his second term, Michael Harrington and Irving Howe, two prominent American social democrats, commented in...
Keylor Upholds Class-Struggle Program in ILWU
SL Absence Marks End of Era For the first time in over a dozen years, the Spartacist League (SL) will have no supporters on the Executive Board of San Francisco Local 10 of the...
Defend Workers Democracy!
Down with Slander and Hooliganism! Workers democracy—the commitment to full and free discussion within the labor movement and the resolution of differences through rational argument and political debate—is for Marxists a question of principle....