munist Party, that socialists should give critical support Trotskyists of the Socialist Workers Party are putting Tweedeldee, Tweedledum, Democrat, Republican. That's the choice American voters in presidential elections which will be held in November. Yet earlier this century campaigning socialists such as Eugene Debs won millions of votes.
need a erican socialists. however, failed to do what was achieved by the working class cycly burovcan country. as wenas in Australia and New Zealand, which was to build an independent working class party — a party of labour.
was this? In the United States Le MarYST left remained small and isolated. Workers found it quite easy to win Down boluca an socavancer without having to form their own party.
Britain the working class turned away from revolutionary politics after the heady days of the vial uses i cue loqus. occause li British ruling class the most ad- could afford to give it some crumbs from its im perial conquests. WITH the opinion polls in the United States showing exfilm star Ronald Reagan way ahead in the race for the Presidency, many people see the Democratic Party - in the form of either Carter or Kennedy — as the lesser evil.
They argue, as does for example the American Comto the Democrats who are to the 'left' of the Republicans.
Both the major parties in the United States are capitalist parties. The Democratic Party has traditionally — 'lesser evilism' has tied the workers' movement to this bosses' party. The Democrats have used this support to carry through policies in favour of big business all along the line.
facing tne United States people.
needed. trade union class political revival in the USA faded with the cold war.
But the op- Today things •are ferent in the American Eagle, Bulldog half a century Party in the ing its bite American since Ine dereat longer has everything its own way.
Al nome it is having to ask its OWI working class Union, It is not only the living standards Amencar class that are threatened, but their political rights. the brunt of the attack. will be forced, as in the The Democrat and Republican The last three Democratic presidents - Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter - have all been rabid champions of noticeably to the 'left' of the Republican Nixon.
In the current presidential campaign, the American foward their own candidate — black steelworker Andrew Pulley. They are using this platform to push forward the growing movement for an independent party of working Here ALAN BALL exlains why a Labour Party was never formed in the United States and why it is urgently little difslates. The like the the last century. agu. is lusJust as in Britain, Vietnam American workers accept their class interests bureaucrats WOrKIng as in Britain?
Black will bear '30s, to find LIC SUI They have not been ship.
Union? caucuses, as the election campaign USA will turn their backs on the Liberal Party did in Britain in will Cult usEl ane nee to see donuca bower u their own right in order to defend country.
Who will take the lead in form ing their party? The working class and the opportunists residence.
American Revolutionary Marxists are determined to see that in the present election campaign Trotskyists in the USA are making party in America a central issue. West Germany UNEMPLOYMENT is on the increase in West Germany, the country of the 'economic miracle'. Last month the unemployed total increased by 9 per cent, making 3.7 per cent of the population out of work. With industrial production on the decline German scapegoats. And who better to blame than the workers.
Count Lambsdorff, the government's economic minister. West German workers, "layabouts'. He criticised them for not working harder, reporting sick too often and demanding longer holidays. He contrasted such indiscipline to Japanese workers, who he said, 'work very hard'.
that their employees have to work as hard as the South Koreans?
Iran 'I THINK he needs time to ponder about what he is going to do. 'So said Princess Azadeh Shafik, neice of the dead Shah of Iran, in Paris last week.
Shafik was referring to the Shah's eldest son, Cyrus Reza, who is now the head of the Pahlavi family and a sort of shah-in-waiting.
The thoughts Reza was pondering concerned, said the princess, 'not about being shah but about what he is going to do as shah...He wants it very, very deeply. He was raised to be king.' Shafik's parting shot was that Reza return_to Iran...and for him the sooner the better. Well, there's no time like the present.
bosses are looking for This certainly was the opinion expressed recently by Otto declared Lambsdorff, were How soon before Japanese bosses start saying 'wants to
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But these arguments are empty. had the support of organised labour