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6 SOCIALIST ACTION SEPTEMBER 1990 Socialist Action responded quickly. to the U.S. government's decision to send troops to the Middle East. We printed a special mid-August edition of our newspaper with the banner headline "Bring the Troops Home!" The articles have been reprinted in this issue.
Socialist Action salespeople in 19 cities across the country report that the Middle East edition was well received at protest actions in their areas.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, several Palestinian grocery-store owners took copies of the special edition to give to their customers. At a protest on Aug. 20 in Chicago, a number of Palestinian demonstrators raised up the Socialist Action front page and used it for a sign. Here are some other reports we've received:
The Chicano Moratorium, on Aug. 25 in Los Angeles, drew about 6000 participants. This rally and march, a commemoration of the 1970 Chicano Moratorium, was built around the theme of "U.S. out of the Middle East."
The Los Angeles Socialist Action branch sold newspapers and Middle East special editions at the Moratorium and at an earlier protest demonstration of 300 called by the ad-hoc Coalition Against Intervention in the Middle East.
On Aug 9, an emergency demonstration of 100-125 people took place in downtown San Francisco in front of the Chevron headquarters. The San Francisco branch of Socialist Action had a speaker at the rally. Several young people bought the newspaper and signed up for Socialist Action classes.
The following week, in Berkeley, Calif., a local radio station, KPFA, co-sponsored a public speakout of 200 people. There was a lively and rich discussion as speakers, including those from Socialist Action, raised their voices against the U.S. war in the Middle East.
In the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, a successful teach-in of 175 people took place on Aug. 23. (See story on page 3.) The Twin Cities branch of Socialist Action participated in building the rally, distributed copies of the special edition, and sold several new subscriptions 1o Socialist Action newspaper.
In next month's issue of Socialist Action, we will inaugurate a new expanded theoretical supplement, which will appear every few months in the paper. Our October supplement will contain reports from Poland and East Germany, an article summing up the lessons of the 1917 Russian Revolution for revolutionaries today, and a debate on the economic basis of the Soviet Union: "Stalinized workers state or state capital-