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New bulletin defends Trotskyism The July issue of Socialist Action Information Bulletin is devoted to a single article: Les Evans' A Challenge to Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution. "
With this extended essay, Socialist Action continues to defend the program of the Socialist Workers Party-in particular the theory of permanent revolution- from its most recent detractors, the present leadership of the SWP itself.
In June 1981, The Militant published an article by Doug Jenness entitled Our Political Continuity With Bolshevism. "
This article, ostensibly a polemic with Ernest Mandel's •The Debate Over the Goals and Character of the Russian Revolution" (reprinted in the June issue of Socialist Action Information Bulletin), is actually a far-reaching critique of "Trotskyism. "
The Evans essay, published here for the first time, responds to Jenness' claim that Bolshevik continuity bypasses the theory of permanent revolution.
It is a great step backwards for the SWP at this late date to embrace the algebraic formula of the "democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry" and to reject Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. We hope that the publication of this article will help reestablish the party's genuine continuity with Bolshevism.
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Chomsky's "The Fateful Triangle"