Nicaragua at the Crossroads
Time Running Out for Sandinistas ‘‘When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward—or go back.’’ —V.I. Lenin, quoted in Ten Days That Shook the World The Nicaraguan revolution...
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‘Powerful Testimony’… to the Police
SL’s Cop-Baiting Celebrity Last summer in the aftermath of the brutal incineration of eleven black people in a MOVE commune in Philadelphia, the Spartacist League (SL) sponsored a forum in New York featuring two...
The Robertson School of Party Building
‘I Liked Gerry Healy…’ The dust is just beginning to settle after the biggest (and dirtiest) explosion in recent memory among the international pretenders to Trotskyism: the spectacular rupture of the British Workers Revolutionary...
South African Menshevism
In every capitalist society on the planet the Moscow-loyal Communist parties parrot the same line: ‘‘now is not the time for socialism, first we need unity with the progressive capitalists.’’ South Africa is no...
Pretorias Praetorians
Notably absent from the coverage of the continuing upheavals in South Africa by the international ‘‘revolutionary’’ press is any serious consideration of exactly how the apartheid state apparatus, overwhelmingly drawn from the ranks of...
The Necessity of Revolutionary Organization
Introducing 1917 ‘‘The whole history of the struggle between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks is dotted with this little word ‘process.’ Lenin always formulated tasks and proposed corresponding methods. The Mensheviks agreed with the same ‘aims’...
Smash Apartheid! Workers to Power!
South Africa’s bloody apartheid regime is staggering from a year and a half of massive upheavals by a disenfranchised black majority determined to end the white monopoly on economic and political power. The Botha...
A Letter to the SL
The following is a letter from a working-class militant who had been a supporter of the Spartacist League for over a dozen years. 27 March 1986 Oakland, CA [Spartacist League] Att. Oakland Local To...
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...
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...