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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,’’...
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...