[SOCIALIST ACTION AUGUST 1988 15 Harrisburg, Penn. Dear…]

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SOCIALIST ACTION AUGUST 1988 15 Harrisburg, Penn.

Donation

Dear editor, I am enclosing a donation with this letter. We would like to see the funds used in building the Aug. 6 celebration of the Fourth International —although you may, of course, use the money if you have critical needs elsewhere.

The meeting on Aug. 6 will probably be the most important planned political event for the remainder of the year. At least Socialist Action and your co-thinkers around the world have not lost sight of the role of the working class, the revolutionary party, and the importance of building independent Dear editor, I would like to further receive your publications, which are important for the exchange of opinions between militants and forces from different continents.

From your material, I see as very important the analyzing of the current situation of the Nicaraguan Revolution-the will not to hide the difficulties and dangers. We have the duty to spell out the truth, and all the truth.

On the other hand, allow me to consider the article, "How workers almost made a revolution in France" [an article by Michael Schreiber in the June 1988 Socialist Action, which commemorated the 1968 when it was saved only by the traitorous standing of the Stalinist [Communist] Party. The masses never forgave them. See the hasty decline of that party from more than 25 percent to less than 10 percent of the electorate!

The truth is that there is a contradiction between the headline and the content, which would be better put as, "How the students almost made a revolution in France."

The class ground was ready for a major confrontation (in the 1960s], and the student strike-which was itself nourished by the working-class struggle during more than two years -served in its turn as a detonator for the general strike of 10 million workers.

A reader, Ramat Aviv, Israel

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