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By Sacha Ismail
In my first article, I described how the bourgeoisie of the Northern United States formed a coalition with other social layers to defeat a pro-slavery rebellion and destroy slavery in the US South. This article looks at the US working class during that period.
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On demonstrations in the 1960s, it was common to hear marchers chanting “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, we will fight and we will win”, in honour of the Vietnamese Stalinist who led the fight against US occupation. The best sections of the left replied with their own rhyme — Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh — how many Trots did you do in?” They were referring to the mass murder of the Vietnamese Trotskyists by Stalinist forces in 1945. Sixty years on, the massacre has largely been forgotten.
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Sacha Ismail begins a series on the US Civil War and its aftermath. This first part deals with the events of the Civil War itself.
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The Bund in Poland dissolved itself 16 January 1949. The activists assembled at the congress in Wroclaw called the bundists to join the Polish United Workers Party (the Communist party). But the activity of the Bund was continued in about twenty countries in Western Europe, the USA, Canada, Israel, Latin America countries, Australia. The purpose of this text is to show the attitude of the Bund towards the state of Israel and the Zionism during 25 years since the UNO decision on the partition of Palestine until the situation shaped by the six days war. The article is devoted much more to the programmatic – propaganda questions than organisational ones. The text will treat mainly on the Israeli Bund and the world congresses of the party.
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Read part 1 here.
Part 2: Restoration and decomposition of the ruling class
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The ‘Orange revolution’ in the mirror of history, by Chris Ford
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Trotskyist literature that deals head-on with organised religion is a rarity. This article is something of an exception. This review by the American socialist James Patrick Cannon of a novel, Moon Gaffney, by Harry Sylvester, followed Sylvester in portraying the social and mental world of Catholic Irish-America. It is taken from The Militant (the paper of the American Socialist Workers Party), 14 June 1947.
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A SINISTER WEB
A Right-Wing Conspiracy in Italy 33 Years Ago?
by Alfred Consiglio
It was the kind of news the Italians call a bombshell. Settegiorni magazine reported on 16 April, 1972 that the Defence Ministry had been obliged to dismiss the command of the 3rd Army, stationed on the Eastern border. The formal grounds were “economic and organizational considerations”. Actually, it had come to light that there existed in the 3rd Army “right-wing elements attempting to form an activist nucleus for further action” with a view to “putting democracy in the freezer”.
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Long-haired preachers come out every night,
