We reprint below transcripts of three of the speeches made at the February 2 demonstration against contra funding. The speeches are printed in the order they were given. Robert A. (Alliance for Socialist Action)...
Demonstrate! On February 3 and 4 the U.S. Congress will be voting on another massive infusion of funds to fuel the Contra campaign of terror in Nicaragua. Over 25,000 Nicaraguans have died so far...
The “Reply to Neil H.” by comrade Andrew R. of Socialist Challenge/Gauche Socialiste (SC/GS) vividly confirms Trotsky’s quip that, “Renegades are always distinguished by short memories or assume that other people have short memories.”1...
by Andrew R. The recent public defection of Neil H. from our organization must be considered with regret, the loss of even a single comrade, whatever the reason, leaves us weaker in the face...
In the course of subsequent discussions with the comrades of the Bolshevik Tendency (BT), as well as a careful study of the documents of both the International Secretariat [IS; predecessor of the United Secretariat...
I hereby resign my membership in Socialist Challenge/Gauche Socialiste [SC/GS]. My decision to leave the organization was not taken lightly but on consideration of the political program of SC. I have been a member...
“The Marxists are the class enemies of the bourgeoisie and of imperialist wars but they are the supporters of national liberationist and revolutionary wars, both offensive and defensive.” —Trotsky, Writings, 1934-36, p. 266 The...
Excerpts . . . …The theory of permanent revolution holds that there is no independent road of capitalist development available in the age of imperialism. In rejecting the theory of permanent revolution, Barnes rejects...
“Reactionary epochs like ours not only disintegrate and weaken the working class and its vanguard, but also lower the general ideological level of the movement and throw political thinking back to stages long since...
by Harold Lavender In February the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly rejected new military aid to the contras. This was a setback of U.S. President Reagan’s plan to destroy the Sandinista revolution. Of course...