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...
Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Supplement to 1917, May 1992 With the “end of communism” America’s rulers dreamed of a “new world order” in which the oppressed would meekly submit to their oppressors. The...
Democrats, Dixiecrats and Rainbows “When you keep the Democrats in power, you’re keeping the Dixiecrats in power.” –Malcolm X, 1964 Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination stirred the hopes of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...