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Free Moses Mayekiso!

Free Moses Mayekiso!

Over 40 protesters rallied at Union Square, San Francisco, on 24 August demanding: ‘‘Free Moses Mayekiso’’ and ‘‘Free All Anti-Apartheid Prisoners in South Africa.’’ The demonstration marked the opening day of the trial of...

For International Labor Solidarity

For International Labor Solidarity

U.S. Union Militant Tours Britain During the week of July 4-12, Bolshevik Tendency (BT) supporter Howard Keylor was sponsored by the Cambridge Area Trades Union Council to tour Britain and speak about his experiences...

Solidarity: Anatomy of a Sellout

Solidarity: Anatomy of a Sellout

The Crises of Leadership in B.C., 1983 Review of Bryan D. Palmer’s Solidarity: The Rise & Fall Of An Opposition In British Columbia by Chris Knox In class-divided society history based on allegedly ‘‘non-class’’...

Workers States and Markets

Workers States and Markets

In the 1920’s Evgeny Preobrazhensky, the Left Opposition’s leading economist, engaged in a polemic with Nikolai Bukharin, over the course of Soviet economic development. Bukharin proposed to proceed toward socialism, if only at a...

Moreno: Any Way the Wind Blows

Moreno: Any Way the Wind Blows

Letter to the Editor 25 May 1987 San Francisco To the editor: I enjoyed the excellent analysis of the impasse of the Nicaraguan revolution and the role of the organizations to the left of...

If the Shoe Fits…

If the Shoe Fits…

The January 1972 issue of Workers Vanguard made the following apt comment on corruption in the Black Panther Party: ‘‘Hero worship is one of the ways bourgeois ideology enters the revolutionary movement and destroys...

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

In Robertson They Trust… All Others Pay Cash Over the last several years Spartacist League lider maximo James Robertson has acquired a substantial material stake in his control of the finances of his group....

New York BT Launched

New York BT Launched

The Road out of Jimstown The establishment of a Bolshevik Tendency (BT) nucleus in New York City, traditionally the political center of the American left, marks another small but important step forward in our...

Not Twins, but Antipodes

Not Twins, but Antipodes

Leninism and the Third Period In our previous issue we published a critical assessment of the contradictory leftward movement of the formerly Maoist Marxist-Leninist Party (‘‘MLP’s Stalinist Pyrite: The Myth of the Third Period,’’...

Whither Gorbachev’s USSR?

Whither Gorbachev’s USSR?

Glasnost and ‘Market Socialism’ Fifty years after Stalin decreed the advent of ‘‘complete socialism’’ in the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev proposes to open the economy to the world market and replace centralized planning with market...