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...
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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
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!’
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
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
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...
Permanent Revolution & Black Labor in South Africa
Smash Apartheid Through Workers Revolution The development of powerful trade unions rooted in South Africa’s black proletariat is one of the brightest chapters in the recent history of the international working class. Nowhere on...
‘Fire and Water’
Workers Sanctions & Capitalist Sanctions What attitude should revolutionaries take toward bourgeois ‘‘sanctions’’ against apartheid? This question, much debated in the international left in connection with South Africa, was similarly posed in the 1930s...
Mayekiso Acquittal: A Victory for the Oppressed!
On April 24 the international proletariat and the oppressed masses of South Africa won a victory when Moses Mayekiso, general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and his four...
Pamyat Rides in Moscow
Not so long ago, one of the favorite slogans of the Spartacist League (SL) was ‘‘The Klan Doesn’t Ride in Moscow!’’ It was intended to cut against anti-Sovietism among sectors of the American population...