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nerican bourgeois-democratic revolution, not the democratic stage of the socialist revolution." its later At times, Barnes cloaks his revision of the historic SWP program with radical-sounding verbiage. He predicts that the bourgeois-democratic revolution "will CU st Party disarm the old state power and it will raze to the ground lamed). all the old state structures." It will result in the ecutive "establishment of a new state power." (ECCI) Very radical sounding! But Marxists point out that i calling state power is based upon the class holding economic SALARIO MI oward a power, and Barnes says in his report that capitalism M.S.J. would remain: "The South African revolution is not an REAL iformed anticapitalist revolution. It will open the road to the lational, transition to an anticapitalist revolution, but no one can REAJUS id that a predict how long, or short, that road will be." ;enda in If Barnes could only pause in his flight from Marxism, TRIMESTI The might profit from Lenin's advice to study Frederick peration Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State." is-was t would "This book," Lenin explains, "says that every state in ;in the which private ownership of the land and means of production exists, in which capital dominates, however rorking- democratic it may be, is a capitalist state, a machine used surgeois by the capitalists to keep the working class and poor erialist," peasants in subjection."

Luis Inacio da Silva (Lula), president of the Brazilian Workers Party (Partido dos How does Barnes wriggle out of his anomaly? He Trabalhadores/PT) is seen here at the center of a group of striking plastics workers in Sao ested in merely indicates that the "state" he wishes to tear down Paulo. The Brazilian PT is being looked to as an example by leading trade unionists in South nal had is not the South African capitalist state at all, but a new Africa, who see the need for the unions to form their own political party. If to the non-Marxist category labeled "the apartheid state." A Since its formation in 1980, the PT has constantly placed the struggle for democracy and Chiang simple twist in terminology, and Barnes plunges ahead! for workers' rights at the center of its activity. In the recent municipal elections in Brazil the workers According to Barnes, the "first" revolution, the PT obtained 15 percent of the vote nationally. Its candidate won in the Northeast capital. city Stalin's bourgeois-democratic one, has three main goals in South of Fortaleza. Another candidate was robbed of a victory in Goiania, when the city government ticle on Africa-forging a unified non-racial nation-state; mysteriously produced 10,000 ballots after the PT had already been declared the winner.

establishing a democratic republic based on "one person, demonstrated by the way it conducted its election campaign in Fortaleza. From May to July of The PT's success in becoming the champion of the struggles of all the oppressed can be ced into one vote;" and winning the right of Africans to become last year, 30,000 teachers were on strike in the state of Ceara. After the strike was settled in leaders "free farmers." favor of the teachers, the bankworkers. walked off their jobs. Soon after, this city of 1 million Percival In Western Europe and North America, the bourgeoisie people was paralyzed as all the transport workers joined the bankworkers in their strike. th the (that is, the capitalist class) largely completed each of Throughout the campaign, the PT publicized the demands of the strikers and urged support ictically these three tasks when they made their revolutions for their cause. It turned over its radio and TV time to the strike leaders and denounced uggle. against the old order centuries ago. brutal government repression against these workers and against the landless peasants who "South The democratic phase of the bourgeois revolution was had occupied the land of ex-governor Gonzaga Monte. : some left uncompleted, however, in South Africa and other After the elections, 70,000 people joined the new mayor, PT member a victory celebration in front of the city's municipal building. Maria Luiza Fontenelle, ation of former colonial countries. As the capitalists built South SOCIALIST ACTION INUARY 1986