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The fundamental basis of any political organization is its program. For Socialist Action, a public faction of expelled members of the Socialist Workers Party, our program is simply the continuity of the revolutionary Marxist principles which were defended by the SWP from its own foundation in 1928 as a Like our ideological forebears who founded Trotskyism in the United States, we were bureaucratically purged because of our defense of our revolutionary continuity. We have organized ourselves in defense of this program, and in order to continue to fight against the SWP leadership's systematic retreat Our struggle within the SWP is documented in Socialist Action Information Bulletin. One can find in the resolutions reprinted in the Bulletin the response of the then National Committee Opposition Bloc to the SWP's deepening The first issue of the Bulletin contains our founding "Platform to Overcome the Crisis in the Party," an overall view of the issues in dispute; "28 Theses," which sum up the central programmatic conquests of American Trotskyism; and "New Norms vs. Old," which defends the organizational principles of BolThe second issue of the Bulletin counters the SWP's abstention from the mass antiwar/antinuclear weapons movement-and its similar attitude toward the industrial unions—with its defense of the lessons of the united front tactic and the transitional method. "The Party's Default in the Struggle Against Imperialist War" calls on the SWP to throw itself into building a broad non-exclusive movement against U.S. intervention in Central America. "Socialist Strategy for Class Struggle Transformation of the Unions" and the "Trade Union Resolution" advocate a reorientation of the SWP's work in the industrial The forthcoming third issue of the Bulletin will contain the resolutions adopted by Socialist Action on international questions such as the Iranian revolution, the unfolding political revolution in Poland, and the Castroist current in These documents apply the principles of permanent revolution to the class struggle in the underdeveloped capitalist countries. They also underline the need for a political revolution to overthrow the parasitic caste which has politically displaced the masses in the bureaucratized workers' states. Because of its Future bulletins will reprint articles in defense of Leninism and permanent Copies of the Bulletin are available from Socialist Action, Rm 308, San Francisco, CA 94110. Bulletins No. 1 and No. 2 SALVADOR VOTE!

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