"rned of the danger of US intervention Salvadorean and FSLN revolutionary leaderships. Counterposing coverage of Poland to that on CenAmerica underestimates the threat which the Polish struggle poses to the imperialist bourgeoisie and its control over the European working class.
Brian says that my article was completeiv laun diced d. *The arise tried issue of to explain the objective roots of the political positions which the Cubans and Nicaraguans have taken on the Polish revolu. tion, namely their "wo camoist' theorv of world politics, which the Cubans expounded explicitly and at great length at their seDecember 1980. cond congress Comrade Lyons' slanderous charge that Socialist Challenge 'helped to echo' the Pentagon's charges that Cuba 'acts as a surrogate force the Soviet bureaucracy' cannot go unanswered My article explained death of Sam Gordon.
long illness Sam ding a of Stuart.
for many years ternational ding's Finance Capital.
ycars deepest sympathy to Mildred and David tha the Soviet bureaucracy opposes the extension of world revolu tion in and that the line of the Cubans and Nicaraguans was I ooooston lo lad of the Soviet bureaucracy. It further explained the contradiction between the Cuban position on Poland and Central America.
Taking an objectively counter-revolutionary Tone. from being a mistake, or another subject for frater. nal debate between revolutionaries, has grave conse quences for the evolution these leaderships, because reveals a misunderstanding role of the Stalinist world system.
The victory of the EI Salvadorean and Guatemalan revolutions, extending the process Cuba alle tremendous step forward would for the workers He died in Middlesex Hospital, London on Friday 12 March, after a joined the Communist League of America (Left Opposition) in 1928 after attenmeeting in New York addressed by James P Cannon. He was a leading member of the SWP (US) for many years and wrote many articles and pamphlets under the name He spent some time with Trotsky in Mexico and carried on a correspondence with him In 1940 he became secretary of the Fourth until he joined the Merchant Navy in 1941 as a means of maintaining contact with sections of the International during He managed to get into Europe at the end of the war, met comrade Jungclas (one of the founders of German Trotskyism) in Hamburg and played a big part in reconstituting the InEurope Michel Pablo, he became joint secretary of the Sam translated Trotsky's Germany: the Only Road into English, and his most recent work was the translation of Rudolf HilferHe played an active role in the formative of the IMG and although ill-health restricted his activities in recent years kept up a lively interest in the activities of the We salute his memory and express our everywhere.
But the victory of the revolution in would be a hundred times more significant, as Poland is one of the bas tions of the industrial proletarian of the world, the decisive force for world revolution.
The victory of the Polish workers would be a massive defeat for world Stalinism and would transform the relationship forces between the working class ana lls enemies in the whole world, East and West, and in Central America.
Because Solidarnosc mobilised millions of inaustral workers stituted one of the highest forms of proclarial tivity and self-activity thai the world has seen since the Russian revolution.
Hence, the scope of our coverage Socialist Challenge.
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