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...
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...
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...
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...
On SL/PDC ‘Brigade’ for Kabul Reprinted below is a letter from the Bolshevik Tendency to the Spartacist League regarding a proposal by the SL’s Partisan Defense Committee to organize a combat brigade for Afghanistan:...