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Dear editor, I'd like to order a subscription for a co-worker of mine who lost the enclosed money on a bet with me. Prior to the Democratic convention, when Bentsen was named as candidate for vice president, many people who had put their hope in Jackson thought that surely Jesse would repudiate the choice and the ticket.

We readers of Socialist Action knew better. We knew that Jackson's role is to attempt to lead the growing numbers of people disenchanted by the charade of a two-party system back into the voting booth on the side of the Democrats.

Less than a week after the Bentsen choice was announced, Jackson was backing the ticket and I was collecting my money. In consolation to my co-worker, I promised to use his money to buy him a subscription to a newspaper that might keep him from making silly bets like this in the future.

Perhaps socialists more bets. every pre especially concerned, If we had five bucks for liction that came true, where the Democrats are it could help to finance the Kathy Setian, San Francisco, Calif.

Candidates Dear editor, I have enjoyed reading your progressive journal for the last two years. Up until this issue (July 1988] 1 heartily applauded the revolutionary Trotskyist-oriented stance that your publication took on domestic and international affairs.

Thus, I was astounded to read that Socialist Action has endorsed the Socialist Workers Party's candidates for president. It seems to me Socialist Action wants to have it both ways. You preach left-wing socialism, but you class-collaborate and endorse candidates of the right-wing communist SWP.

Why didn't you endorse your own candidate or at least remain neutral? Your endorsement even admits that the founders of the SWP-such as [James P.] Cannon, not to mention [Farrell] Dobbs and (Leon] Trotsky— have been reduced to a place of secondary importance in the SWP T.H.,