Charting a course toward independent political action
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This month's FORUM is devoted to a discussion of the four themes of the April 20 antiwar demonstrations. A major focus of the discussion is the bipartisan character of the U.S. government's austerity and war policies and the need for the labor, Black, and antiwar movements to chart a political course independent of the As in previous issues of FORUM, we have invited leaders from unions and antiwar and Black organizations, who do not necessarily agree with us, to express their views. Our goal in this section is to encourage a wide-ranging discussion on subjects of interest to all those involved in movements for social change.
In this issue we are presenting the views of the following six people: (1) Ron Weisen, president of the United Steelworkers of America Local 1397; (2) Ken Morgan, leader of the Baltimore chapter of the National Black Independent Political Party; (3) Jerry Gordon, coordinator of the Emergency National Conference Against U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean; (4) Anthony Mazzocchi, former international vice president of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union; (5) Carole Seligman, staff writer for Socialist Action newspaper; and (6) Dan La Botz, instructor of political science at Chicago's Roosevelt UniverStop the US. War if salvador DISTOS Democratic and Republican parties.
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