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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...