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We offer a special introductory offer of three issues for $3. A six-month subscription is $22, and one year of International Viewpoint is available for $42. An objection Dear editor, Concerning "Ladies Against Women" (Comedy review, March 1986 Socialist Action), opinion is divided. The view can be entertained that the brand of humor is dubious at best and objectionable at worst; but cerSubscribe now! Write to 3435 Army St., Rm. 308 San Francisco, CA 94110 tainly counterproductive. I, for one, find the appearance in the socialist press of the diddy, "Who me? I'm no queer," to be insulting and objectionable. I've run into too much of this rubbish in everyday life to find it funny in 1986. More is said in jest!

Were LAW to stage a protest appearance at a pro-choice march and rally, as your author lightmindedly suggests, that would only serve to prove the point the form of humor indulged in is misplaced.

Socialist Action needs all the consciousness raising it dan get, not consciousness lowering.

Maurice Flood, San Francisco Swabeck Dear editor, We have just learned that Arne Swabeck, a long-time leader of American Trotskyism, died in Los Angeles March 13, 1986, of a stroke. He was 95 and had been ill for a number of years.

Swabeck migrated to the United States from Denmark in 1917. After a short stint in the U.S. Army, he joined the Socialist Party. In 1919, he became a founding member of the American Communist Party and in 1929 of the Communist League of America (Trotskyist).

In 1958, he adopted a proMaoist position on China and in the mid-sixties he was expelled from the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party for a violation of discipline.

In the early 1930s, he held the post of SWP national secretary

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