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There are, however, many Black revolutionaries in South Africa who have come to a much higher understanding. It is primarily from this quarter, from the Black Consciousness Movement, that effective revolutionary leadership will first evolve. This movement is already distinguished by its demands for Black majority rule and for a socialized economic system based on workers' democratic contol.
However, this outlook is shared by millions of supporters of the ANC, who will be won over to the strategy of a combined struggle against apartheid and capitalism.
The general outline of the revolutionary-socialist program required by these forces to carry their struggle through to a successful conclusion already exists. It is called the Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution. We can be sure that South African fighters will find their way to this program which is based on lessons drawn from over 150 years of workers' struggles. Dear editor, Hello, I am a 33-year-old socialist prisoner! I would really like a sub to Socialist Action. Would you please send me a free Indigent Prisoner sub to Socialist Action? I will share the paper with other socialist prisoners here. Please send reply to this letter.
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No surprise Dear editor, Your lead article on the Nicaraguan elections in the March 1990 issue was without doubt the bestinformed piece of journalism yet on the subject. The results came as no surprise to those of us familiar with Alan Benjamin's new book, "Dynamics of an Unfinished Revolution."
I shared my copy of the paper with a friend and had a most enmaintain the right to travel to and from Nicaragua.
Hal Verb, San Francisco, Calif Malcolm X Dear editor, Twenty-five years after Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in upper Manhattan, over 400 people gathered there to demand that it be preserved as a memorial to him.
Columbia University, one of the biggest landlords in Harlem and Washington Heights, is trying to build a bio-technology research center on the site, which is across from Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital.
Rally speakers connected the struggle in the United States with the fight against apartheid in South Africa, saying Mandela's release meant that anti-racist activists here have to fight all the harder.
The demonstrators, chanting "Whose streets? Our streets!" and "Black power now!"-some of them holding up books of Malcolm's speeches—were not just remembering a fallen hero, but made it clear that the fight against racism is not yet won.
Liz Campbell, New York, N.Y.
Calendar Announcement U.S. Hands Off Cuba!
Sat. April 7 1990 1 PM Asacmblc/Protest Raiy Simes Squere 13 P.M.
Marah Cuban Misslon to the United Nations Phone Info: (212) 246-8811, ext. 890 Sponsor: U.S, Handa Off Cuba Coalitton Speaker Alan Benjamin, editor Socialiat Action Boston: Aprll 18-20-call (617) 497-0220 New York April 21-22
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"Why the Sandinistas lost the elections in Nicaragua"