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Special offer on Information Bulletins The first six numbers of the Socialist Action information Bulletin can be purchased this month only for the special price of $12.00 (includes mailing costs.) The Information Bulletin contains the founding documents of Socialist Action, a public faction of the Socialist Workers Party, as well as other theoretical contributions seeking to clarify and defend the program and heritage of the SWP and Fourth International against the attacks by the current SWP leadership. The six numbers of the Information Bulletin-each with a complete introduction presenting the mateVol.1, No.1: "A Platform to Overcome the Crisis in the Party"; '28 Theses on the American Socialist Revolution and the Building of the Revolutionary Party"; 'New Norms vs. Old: The Vol.1, No.2: "The Party's Default in the Struggle Against Imperialist War, " by Lynn Henderson and Nat Weinstein; "Socialist Strategy for Class Struggle Transformation of the Unions, " by Frank Lovell and Steve Bloom; *Trade Union Resolution, " by Lynn Henderson and Nat Weinstein; and "If Ever You Surrender Your Right to Criticism, You're Dead!" by Tom Kerry.

Vol.1, No.3 (Part I): "Resolving the International Crisis of Revolutionary Leadership"', *The Iranian Revolution Four Years After"; and The Iranian Revolution and the Dangers that Vol.1, No.4: "Carlos Rafael Rodriguez'' *Contribution' to Marxist Theory, " by Paul Siegel, and **Behind Shafik Jorge Handal's 'Self-Criticism, ' " by Alan Benjamin.

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Socialist Action). Our greatest DuBois knew the score struggle is to get and keep the the timing of the announceUnited States out of Central ment. The UAW and General America. A full-fledged inva- Motors have contract negotiasion would be a disaster for tions coming up in the fall. It By KWAME M.A. SOMBURU the entire international revolu- is clear that this announcement is intended to have the Southern Black leaders swallowed their frustration with Walter Mondale's campaign as they met during the weekend of August 25 effect of making the workers hero who will live forever in willing to give further contract to discuss how to get out the Democratic Party vote. Jesse Jackson has also hopped onto Mondale's bandwagon. He stated in the the hearts of the oppressed. concessions in the hope of August special issue of Ebony magazine, "We must go all out to However, his tactics were not fight the oppressive Reagan regime and at the same time fight to tually defeat American impe- always correct. Revolutionary expand the Democratic Party." rialism in large part because will, alone, cannot overcome the part of General Motors objective conditions. UnfortuJackson's statement may be contrasted with another view that of the strength of the antiwar nately for all of us, Che paid has been used before both by was put forward in a meeting of over 1500 Black activists in Phila- movement both here and them and by other companies. delphia in 1980. The participants gathered to organize themselves abroad. Of course the cour- In fact, when workers gave Wage, tenacity and numerical concessions to Chrysler Corfor Black liberation in program and action. Their decisions resulted in the formation of the National Black Independent Polit- strength of the Vietnamese poration, the company shut ical Party and the action-oriented NBIPP charter, which totally people was the decisive factor. rejects both major parties and the capitalist system that created, and. Central America, in gen- demands that the company People of African ancestry have suffered in America during 208 eral, have much smaller popu- makes is a coordinated fightyears in which slavemasters and capitalists ruled through their lations than Indochina and are back by the workers and their political parties, now called the Republicans and Democrats. We much closer geographically. Motors announced to its union. If the company claims have endured vicious discrimination, police beatings, and lynch- This makes it easier for the employees at the axle plant that the products produced by militarists to argue that the here in Buffalo that by 1989 a plant are no longer in Today our oppression continues. According to recent official revolutions are occuring in the plant would be shut down demand, then the workers statistics, 46.7 percent of Blacks live in poverty. Suicide is the lead- "our own back yard" and because of the fall in demand must demand that the plant be ing cause of death among young Blacks. Unemployment and for their axles. This announce- retooled to produce the parts underemployment exist among approximately half of all Black ment sent shock waves or products that are in males. More than half of U.S. prisoners in both the armed forces tion is very real. Whatever through the membership of demand. This can be done and the civilian population are Black. The highest infant mortality contradictions this may cause the United Auto Workers without endangering jobs or rates in the nation are in the Black communities of Oakland, in the United States would be here, especially since the job security and without any far outweighed by the annihi- foundry plant was just shut After two centuries of oppression, it really is about time that lation of millions of our com- down. Since June, however, Black Americans broke with the two capitalist parties and orga- rades to the south. Steve General Motors has said nothnized independently. The National Black Independent Political Ashby is correct (July Party should be reorganized under new leadership to put its founding charter into practice. And Jesse Jackson and the other Black In defense of Cochran recruit these workers, except for isolated indileaders to whom millions look for leadership might listen to the viduals. We cannot, we do not approach the warning given in the early years of this century by Black historian general mass... in the unions. We approach and sociologist W.E.B. DuBois: "May God write us down as asses individuals... All [these] factors cry out aloud if we are ever found supporting either the Democratic or Republi- Milton Alvin's obituary of Bert Cochran for a thorough-going propagandistic approach (Socialist Action, July 1984) included a num- to build in this period a significant cadre in the ber of inaccuracies, of which the most unfortunate was in the statement: "The dispute was In his outline of party tasks included in his Inside out... over the question of whether or not to build a rebuttal speech, Cochran spelled this out even party. Cochran favored giving up the party and more clearly: "(1) We propose that we act as an independent party to the degree that we can, that it is practically possible. We propose to The real issue was what was the best way to engage in general party activities commensubuild the party under the conditions of reaction rate with our resources, and our over-all tasks.

Che and Vietnam Dear Editor, In his letter in the July issue, Ralph Schoenman argues that activists must recover the legacy of Che "who did not shrink from the prospect of U.S. intervention.... ", Vietnam was able to evenEl Salvador, in particular, owns, and operates them.

ings—along with slavery.

must be stopped.

The possibility of intervenCalif., and Washington D.C. can parties again."

just publishing a magazine." tionary movement.

Che Guevara was a selfless for that lesson with his life.

Jim Hurd Lawrenceburg, Ind.

GM attacks Dear Editor:

In late June General ing more.

mass movement."

One has to wonder about keeping the plant open.

This kind of maneuver on down plants anyway.

The solution to the new contract concessions.

John McNamara Buffalo, N. Y.