In past issues of Communist Voice
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The current issue of Communist Voice, issue #42, vol. 14 #2
(August 20, 2008, 44 pages) contains the following articles:
The 2008 presidential elections -- not McCain or Obama,
but building a class movement!
- McCain and Obama side with the rich:
Workers, we need our own class movement against the corporations
and their political servants!
from the Detroit Workers' Voice, #75, August 12, 2008
The anti-war movement:
For unity of the working class!
The class struggle and the environmental crisis:
- THE CARBON TAX --
another failed free-market measure to avoid environmental planning
by Joseph Green
The workers' movement and the crisis of the unions:
Against both imperialism and fundamentalism!
CVO vs. FSP (the Trotskyist Freedom Socialist Party)
Anarchism or socialism?
Issue #41, vol. 14 #1 (February 20, 2008, 64 pages) contains the
following articles:
For a national health care system, not private insurance!
The class struggle and the environmental crisis:
The workers' movement and the crisis of the unions:
Against racism!
The anti-war movement:
Against both imperialism and fundamentalism:
- Freedom Socialist Party continues to support exploiters and oppressors of the Iraqi masses
by Frank Arango
- For your reference: Partitioning Iraq
a U.S. 'solution' that would spell disaster for the region
by Megan Cornish (of the Trotskyist Freedom Socialist Party)
Marxism-Leninism today:
Anarchism or socialism?
- Reply to Ben Seattle on health care, his proposal to replace "socialism" with "proletarism",
and party-building
by Joseph Green
Issue #40, vol. 13 #2 (August 24, 2007, 56 pages) contains the
following articles:
For a universal health care system!
Marxism and global warming
The workers' movement:
Against both imperialism and fundamentalism:
- Resisting Israeli aggression is just, but Islamic fundamentalism threatens the masses
WWP glorifies Hezbollah
by Mark Williams, 41K
The anti-war movement:
- Oppose the Democrats, the other party of imperialism and war
Anti-War Bulletin #3 by the Seattle Anti-Imperialist Alliance, June 28, 2007, 14K
- Against "Support the Troops" -- Support GI Resistance!
Leaflet by the Seattle Anti-Imperialist Alliance, July 16, 2007, 8K
- Funding the surge in Iraq: Democrats cave in to Bush's warmongering
from the Detroit Workers' #66, June 4, 2007, 15K
Full rights for all immigrant workers!
- Struggle, yes! Bush's and Democrats' anti-immigrant bills, no!
Workers unite! Full rights for all immigrant workers, now!
from Detroit Workers' Voice #64, May 1, 2007, 16K
- Defend and build the movement for immigrant rights -
Confront the Minutemen, August 18!
Leaflet of the Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee, August 9, 10K
- Report on the anti-Minutemen demo:
Confronting the Minutemen motley crew in Seattle on August 18, 8K
- March on May Day, the day of international working class solidarity!.
Full rights for all immigrants! U.S. out of Iraq now!
Leaflet by the Seattle Anti-Imperialist Commitee, 13K
Swedish Marxist-Leninists
Issue #39, vol. 13 #1 (January 24, 2007, 56 pages) contains the
following articles:
The coming environmental crisis and the failure of market solutions
- The coming of the environmental crisis,
the failure of the free market,
and the fear of a carbon dictatorship
(the Kyoto Protocol, carbon tax and trading,
direct regulation, democratic vs. capitalist planning)
by Joseph Green, 128K
The Democrats and the Bush program:
The workers' movement:
Bush's "war on terrorism":
Imperialism today and Iraq
Swedish Marxist-Leninists publish Red Dawn:
Issue #38, vol. 12 #2 (July 27, 2006, 38 pages) contains the following
articles:
Solidarity with the peoples of Palestine and Lebanon!
What forces are driving the Iraqi civil war and what this means
for the anti-occupation struggle
In defense of Marxism-Leninism:
Full rights for all immigrant workers!
The workers' movement:
France:
- Mass struggle forces withdrawal of a neo-liberal measure
by Frank Arango, 37K
Issue #37, vol. 12 #1 (February 22, 2006, 68 pages) contains the
following articles:
The struggle against concessions
Disaster relief and the class struggle
The street battles in France
US imperialism and the class struggle in Iraq
- Iraqi workers, yes! Imperialism, Islamic theocracy, and ex-Baathists, no!
US out now! Down with Bush and the Democrats!
(From a Communist Voice leaflet distributed at the Sept. 24 demo in Washington, D.C., 20K)
- No `timetable' for withdrawal . . . US out of Iraq NOW!
Oppose the Democratic Party sabotage, build the anti-imperialist movement!
(From a leaflet of the Seattle Communist Study Group urging people to join the
anti-imperialist feeder march to the ANSWER rally at Seattle, Sept. 24, 13K)
- On some problems of orientation of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq:
"Left communism" turns from the class struggle to
seeking "democratic" coalitions with reactionaries
by Mark Williams, 73K
About the history of the communist movement
and the struggle against revisionism
Issue #36, vol. 11 #2 (September 10, 2005, 66 pages) contains the
following articles:
Detroit Workers' Voice #51, Sept. 5, 2005:
MWM organization sinks into liberal-labor politics:
Reports on the Million Worker March national reportback conference in Detroit and
on issues that arose in the MWM-Detroit
Detroit financial crisis
On the anti-war movement
World imperialism
The struggle against revisionism
Issue #35, vol. 11 #1 (March 15, 2005, 68 pages) contains the
following articles:
Against the capitalist parties
- Result of the 2004 presidential election:
Workers need an alternative! (36K) By Pete Brown
- What does the recent presidential election mean for the working class? (14K)
(Detroit Workers' Voice #43, December 6, 2004)
- Workers are fed up with the occupation of Iraq, Bush and Kerry support it (15K)
(Detroit Workers' Voice #42, August 5, 2004) This leaflet is accidentally identified in CV #35
as the leaflet distributed by the CVO at the Million Worker March of October 17, 2004 in
Washington, DC. Actually, it was the CVO leaflet of October 5, 2004 that was distributed at
the Million Worker March of Oct. 17, as well as prior to the MWM in order to inform workers
about it. This leaflet supported the MWM while giving a critical assessment of the orientation
of its organizers. See
Bush and Kerry back war and big business
Workers! Mobilize for class struggle! (CVO leaflet of October 5, 2004, 18K)
In memory of a comrade, 1948 - 2004 (11K)
The workers' movement and the Million Worker March organization
US imperialism, get out now from Iraq!
The fight against revisionism and state-capitalism
Issue #34, vol. 10 #2 (August 25, 2004, 52 pages) contains the
following articles:
Bush and Kerry, pro-war servants of big business
. Many of the articles center on the elections, which will determine who will be the political
leader of the American bourgeoisie for the next four years.
US out of Iraq! Solidarity with Iraqi workers!
About the California and Washington state grocery workers' struggles (19K)
Against Trotskyism
Issue #33, vol. 10 #1 (March 25, 2004, 66 pages) contains the
following articles:
US imperialism, get out of in Iraq!
The anti-war movement
Support the Palestinian people!
Haiti
On the elections
Against Trotskyism
Issue #32, vol. 9 #2 (October 16, 2003, 60 pages) contains the
following articles:
DOWN WITH THE U.S. IMPERIALIST OCCUPATION OF IRAQ!
* Resistance to U.S./British occupation rises as imperialist dictate replaces Hussein's
tyranny by Mark, Detroit, 14K
* The U.S. occupation regime in action: Political dictate, privatization, plunder and poverty
by Mark, Detroit, 32K
* Bush's weapons of mass deception and the Democratic 'alternative': Liars in the service
of imperialist conquest by Mark, Detroit, 18K
* Support the growth of a revolutionary trend of the masses: Class forces in Iraq by Mark,
Detroit, 27K
* Struggle magazine on the occupation of Iraq: the dog has caught the car by Tim Hall, 11K
AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND ZIONISM
* Bush gives Palestinians a road map to oblivion by Pete Brown, 38K
POSTAL WORKERS
* No to Bush's postal commission: Fight Bush and USPS management's attacks on postal
workers from Detroit Workers' Voice #39, Sept. 15, 2003, 16K
AGAINST THE POLITICAL POLICE
* America's 'private' political police: Militant demonstration denounces the Law
Enforcement Intelligence Unit by Eric, Seattle, 15K
ABOUT ZNET'S ALTERNATIVE TO SOCIALISM
* About Michael Albert's new book Parecon: life after capitalism: Can participatory
economics tame marketplace relations? by Joseph Green, 96K
* An anarchist society that wallows in regulation: The structure of a parecon society by
Joseph Green, 66K
ABOUT THE ANTI-MARXIST-LENINIST NATURE OF TROTSKYISM
Correspondence: 70K
* Back to the classics of Marxism-Leninism by the League for the Revolutionary Party of
Sweden (FRP)
* Remarks on the resolution of the FRP by Joseph Green
* Additional remarks by the FRP
Issue #31, vol. 9 #1 (May 20, 2003, 46 pages) contains the following
articles:
US IMPERIALISM, GET OUT OF IRAQ!
* US imperialism, get out of Iraq!/For the organization of the Iraqi working masses!
This article deals with the struggle against the occupation, and its relation to the internal struggle
of classes and trends in Iraq, by Joseph Green (98K)
* Anti-war slogans in light of the outcome of the war
which deals with the questions of the fight on two fronts (against both foreign imperialism and
local tyranny), the question of the UN, and the fiasco of "military but not political support" for
the Hussein regime, by Joseph Green (26K)
CVO AGITATION AGAINST THE WAR
* Down with the imperialist war on Iraq! (Detroit Workers' Voice, April 4, 20K)
* Demonstrate April 12: US imperialism, get out of Iraq! (Seattle Communist Study Group,
17K)
* No to Bush's imperialist war and Hussein's tyranny (DWV, March 3, 20K)
* Anti-imperialism and the anti-war movement (DWV, Jan. 10, 20K)
UNIONS AND THE WAR
* Is a union `anti-war' if the members don't know it?/On U.S. Labor Against the War
(USLAW). This article deals with the question of how to build an anti-war trend among the
workers, and the result of USLAW's attempt to conciliate the pro-imperialist leadership of the
AFL-CIO, by Mark, Detroit (32K)
* Resolutions about the war from USLAW and the AFL-CIO.
This includes the text of various resolutions criticized in the article on USLAW. (18K)
WHO IS CALLING FOR THE DRAFT?
* Liberal Congressman John Conyers calls for resumption of the imperialist draft
deals with Conyers switch from calling in April 2001 for eliminating the final remnants of the
Selective Service System to his present call for a system of universal national service, by Tim
Hall (25K)
* Trotskyist LRP opposes draft resistance denounces the LRP for supporting the
reintroduction of the draft, by Tim Hall (17K)
AGAINST ZIONISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM
* Does the tail wag the dog?/Israel and imperialism opposes the view that the US government
only engages in imperialist war in the Middle East and backs Israel because Israel controls US
politics. It opposes both zionism and anti-semitism, and shows the real relationship between
Israel and imperialism. By Pete Brown (16K)
* How imperialism fostered zionism traces the historical relationship between the zionist
project and imperialism, by Pete Brown (38K)
CORRESPONDENCE (TWO POEMS)
* The world isn't mine and Unconquerable (6K)
by Sreeman Mishu Barua, a Bangladeshi atheist.
Issue issue #30, vol. 8 #3 (December 15, 2002, 44 pages) contains the
following articles:
NO TO ANOTHER WAR FOR OIL!
To hell with Bush and Hussein: Stand up against imperialist war!
by Detroit, Communist Voice Organization (21K)
Denounce Bush's war for oil-monopoly and empire!
by Seattle, Communist Voice Organzation (25K)
The third side, the Iraqi masses: Opposing both sides in the war crisis
by Joseph Green (21K)
Seattle Anti-imperialist Alliance ends, but building the anti-imperialist movement
is still on our agenda (9K)
AGAINST THE "WAR ON TERRORISM"
On Chomsky's book 9 - 11: Anti-imperialism without the working class
by Joseph Green (29K)
Commentary: On some slogans of the bourgeoisie and the Bush regime
by Frank, Seattle (20K)
SUPPORT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE!
Bush backs Sharon as Israel reoccupies the West Bank by Pete Brown (44K)
AGAINST THE NEO-LIBERAL AGENDA
Postal management heads for privatization: "Transformation plan" attacks workers
and universal service, from Detroit Workers Voice #31 (25K)
A CRITIQUE OF TROTSKYISM
An outline of Trotskyism's anti-Marxist theories (part one) by Joseph Green (107K)
Issue #29, vol. 8 #2 (June 20, 2002, 66 pages) contains the following
articles:
SUPPORT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE!
Against the Israeli occupation, and about the mirage of the two-state solution
Solidarity with the Palestinian people! Down with Sharon's massacres! (Detroit Workers' Voice,
#30)
Down with the Israeli occupation! Sharon goes on a murderous rampage, while Bush pretneds to
`bring peace', by Seattle Anti-imperialist Alliance (21K)
Correspondence: Anti-semitism has no place in the Palestine solidarity movement -- the
controversy with Israel Shamir. A back and forth between Tim Hall, editor of Struggle, and
Israeli journalist Israel Shamir, in which Hall opposes Shamir's embrace of anti-semitism and Le
Pen (42K)
AGAINST THE "WAR ON TERRORISM":
While the New York Times praises U.S. imperialism, we say...
Build the movement against imperialism! by Seattle Anti-imperialist Alliance (19K)
Support the Colombian workers -- U.S. imperialism, get out of Colombia! By Seattle
Anti-imperialist Alliance (22K)
Operation Balikatan: `Shoulder-to-shoulder' suppressing the Philippine masses, by Seattle
Anti-imperialist Alliance (8K)
Bush's go-called "anti-terrorism" means endless war and repression (Detroit Workers' Voice,
#30)
THE FIASCO OF DEREGULATION:
The Enron collapse: another neo-liberal disaster, by Mark, Detroit (80K)
G-8 energy ministers in Detroit plot new deregulation disasters (Detroit Workers' Voice, #30)
AGAINST STALINISM AND TROTSKYISM:
Anti-imperialism and the class struggle (Part two of `The socialist debate on the Taliban')
by Joseph Green (104K)
An outline of Leninist anti-imperialism by Joseph Green (50K)
CPUSA revisionists on the collapse of the Soviet Union: Bahman Azad's book is a die-hard
defense of state-capitalism, by Pete Brown (84K)
Issue #28, vol. 8 #1 (January 9, 2002, 56 pages) contains the
following articles:
IMPERIALISM in light of the Afghan war (77K), by Joseph Green
THE US = #1 terrorist (25K), by Pete Brown
ANTHRAX: Postal management's handling of anthrax shows callous disregard for
workers (20K), by a Detroit postal worker
ANTI-IMPERIALIST AGITATION:
About the Bordentown Anti-War Group: (19K)
- Statement of purpose
- Down with terrorism! Down with imperialism! BAWG statement of October 2001
- Report on Oct. 27 anti-war demo in New York City
- Sept. 29 anti-war protest in Washington, D.C.
About the Seattle Anti-Imperialist Alliance: (52K)
- Continuing to demonstrate when the reformists quit, by Frank, Seattle
- An anti-war demonstration in Portland
- The 'war on terror' -- an imperialist nightmare (SAIA leaflet, Dec. 16)
- Denounce Bush's campaign of terror against Afghanistan! (Seattle CVO, Oct. 16)
- Bush's warmongering betrays memory of Sept. 11 victims! (Seattle CVO, Sept. 18)
Detroit Workers' Voice #28, Oct. 3: (25K)
- No to Bush's war of revenge!
- Facts about Bush's supposed 'war on terrorism'
THE SOCIALIST DEBATE ON THE TALIBAN --
Trotskyism slips on the supposed anti-imperialism of the Taliban: (53K)
- Introduction by Joseph Green
- Sectarian propagandism by Bob Pitt (who, in the name of anti-imperialism, opposes
denouncing both sides in the US-Taliban war )
- Neither Taliban nor imperialism by Ian Donovan
PAGES FROM THE HISTORY OF AFGHANISTAN:
king, failure of the pro-Soviet regime, CIA dirty war, and Taliban (105K)
- Background notes on the situation in Afghanistan (based on Workers' Advocate Supplement,
May 1988)
- From the Soviet withdrawal to Taliban rule, by Mark, Detroit
- 1988: Who are Reagan's 'freedom fighters' in Afghanistan? (Workers' Advocate, May 1988)
- 1988: The U.S.-USSR Afghan accords: a cynical deal that fuels more bloodshed (Workers'
Advocate, May 1988)
- 1985: Self-determination for Afghanistan! Caught between Soviet occupation and a CIA dirty
war ((Workers' Advocate, Feb. 1985)
Issue #27, vol. 7 #2 (September 6, 2001, 68 pages) contains the
following articles:
Energy deregulation, a spreading crisis of neo-liberalism:
. In 1996 deregulation was hailed as the wonder cure for California's energy system. Democrat
and Republican competed in their enthusiasm for it. Power was to be plentiful and cheap. And
the result? Energy prices soaring out of sight, blackouts, and chaos. Government-regulated
monopoly has been replaced by unregulated private monopoly. Similar results can be seen in
other states and countries. But it's profitable, and the bourgeoisie and its parties are determined to
stay with it. Meanwhile the government agencies are in the pocket of the energy billionaires,
while municipally-owned power systems are increasingly run in the same predatory spirit. The
struggle against deregulation includes exposing the neo-liberal spirit of the government-run or
regulated systems as well as the profiteering of the private companies.
- Disaster: While similar energy crises loom across the country/ 'Free-market' energy
deregulation brings disaster to California by Mark, Detroit (48K)
- A rogues gallery: how capitalist profiteers created an energy crisis, by Mark, Detroit (69K)
- Politics under the rule of the energy billionaires by Mark, Detroit (44K)
Against the neo-liberal offensive: (19K)
On the communist future:
- The end of the reign of the law of value--the fading away of the labor-hour as the universal
economic measure: Labor-money and socialist planning (part 3) by Joseph Green (171K)
Correspondence on the nature of the Eritrean government: (60K)
- Introduction: Can one support proletarian independence while upholding the right to
self-determination? by Frank, Seattle
- Reply to an American 'Marxist-Leninist' by Thomas Mountain
- Frank replies to Thomas Mountain concerning the class situation in Eritrea
Anarchism and the question of authority: (48K)
- Questioning authority today by Brian McCarvill
- CV replies: Authority and the material conditions for liberation by Joseph Green
Reply to a Maoist on Mao's relation to the three worlds theory: (58K)
- Mao and the three worlds theory -- Joseph Green replies to Majdur Travail. This file also
contains the complete text of Majdur's article "Joseph Green Refuted", which did not appear
in CV due to lack of space.
Issue #26, vol. 7 #1 (May 1, 2001, 52 pages) contains the following
articles:
Against the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas:
- Quebec City actions expose neo-liberal summit (8K)
- Built the class struggle to fight the `free-trade' offensive (Detroit Workers' Voice, April 2001),
19K.
- Free trade means freedom for capitalist exploitation and increased slavery for the masses
(leaflet by Seattle Communist Study Group}, 11K.
On the communist future:
- The labor theory of value does not meant that the labor-hour is the natural unit of socialist
calculation: Labor-money and socialist planning (pt. 2) by Joseph Green, 121K
On the right to self-determination and Ethiopian-Eritrean war:
the right to self-determination of Eritrea is still an issue!
China:
From Struggle. a journal of revolutionary proletarian literature (17K):
Correspondence (70K) --
Chomsky, anarchism & revolutionary theory:
- A.R.: Until the fascists are subdued, political differences don't matter
- CV replies: The importance of theory for the rebuilding of a revolutionary movement, by
Mark
On the history of Maoist opportunism:
Issue #25, vol. 6, #3, November 27, 2000 (60 pages):
New England Global Action Network Conference:
About the upcoming demo against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
in Quebec City in April 2001
On the communist future:
Anarchism as unwitting support of the market:
On the Ethiopian-Eritrean war:
the right to self-determination of Eritrea is still an issue!
Repression under the guise of peace:
Correspondence (91K):
- Majdur Travail: What's wrong with the RCP,USA
- Reply: the RCP, Maoism, and the Three Worlds Theory, by Joseph Green
- ZN: The left criticizes the former Stalinist bloc too much
- Reply: Giving up class independence leads to backing one corrupt force after another, by
Mark, Detroit
- GE: Is Leninism the source of Stalinism?
- Reply: Leninism and the building of a transitional economy, by Joseph Green
Issue #24, vol. 6, #2, June 14, 2000 (62 pages):
.To fight neo-liberalism, target capitalism!:
Against the Russian war on Chechnya:
Reviews by Joseph Green of 3 books about the Russo-Chechen wars:
U.S. imperialism in Latin America:
The strike movement:
Betrayal in the name of left-right unity -- On the "left-right alliance" that is being
promoted under the guise of anti-war activism:
Correspondence: Should state-capitalist and liberal forces be declared "socialist", although
one knows them to be "corrupt"? (10K)
- On support for the lesser corruption, by ZN
- What Lenin actually said in "'Left-wing' Communism, An Infantile Disorder" by Mark,
Detroit
Issue #23, vol. 6, #1, February 4, 2000 (64 pages):
Articles about the anti-WTO demonstration in Seattle:
On the struggle against racism:
Not another war for oil! Articles against the Russian invasion of Chechnya:
Correspondence: Is state-ownership in a capitalist country a "socialist institution"? (51K)
Issue #22, vol. 5, #3, October 9, 1999 (46 pp.):
- KOSOVO: for independence, not partition! by Joseph Green, 37K
- EAST TIMOR: The iron fist behind the facade of Indonesian democracy: Down with the
Indonesian genocide against East Timor! (DWV #24, 17K)
- DETROIT TEACHERS STRIKE blunts Detroit school board's "blame the teacher" drive
(DWV #24, 17K)
- CORRESPONDENCE (exchange with ZN, mostly on Kosovo, 13K)
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- DEBATING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STATE SECTOR IN THE TRANSITION
TO SOCIALISM -- INTRODUCTION by Joseph Green, 13K)
- SAL, SEATTLE--JAN. 1999: On afirmative action and on socialist economy, 7K
- MARK, DETROIT--JAN. 1999: Two issues: affirmative action, and the transition between
capitalism and communism, 9K
- PETE BROWN--JAN. 1999: The transitional society and profit, 7K
- SAL, SEATTLE--MARCH 1999: State capitalism in the preliminary phase of socialism,
30K
- JOSEPH GREEN--JULY 1999: State ownership is not sufficient to define the transitional
economy (Reply to Sal), 169K
Issue #21, vol. 5, #2, August 15, 1999 (58 pp.):
- KOSOVO: No solution without the right to self-determination! The war is over but Kosovo is
not yet free (54K)
- PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT: The demonization of the Albanians
(56K)
- PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT: The Racak controversy (19K)
- TROTSKYISM VS. THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION: How some Trotskyists
deny national rights for Kosovar Albanians/The right to self-determination and opposing
Milosevic and NATO (114K)
- PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT: For a rebellion against established
political trends (anti-war leaflet from Seattle members of the CVO, 12K)
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- HISTORY OF THE MLP: Distortions in a history of the Marxist-Leninist Party, USA, a
reply by Frank (CVO, Seattle) to Jake's (Chicago Workers' Voice) account of the MLP by
Frank, Seattle (45K)
- PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY: Briefly on quantum mechanics and dialectics, remarks by
Phil, Seattle and Joseph Green (13K)
- POSTAL WORKERS: Only rank-and-file organization can save letter carriers (leaflet of the
Detroit Workers' Voice with respect to the national day of informational picketing called by
the NALC -- DWV #23, 10K)
- CORRESPONDENCE: an exchange on Maoism, the state sector, the three-worlds theory,
and realpolitik (50K)
Issue #20, vol. 5, #1, March 28, 1999 (62 pp.):
- KOSOVO: No to Milosevic, NATO, and the big power Contact Group! No solution in
Kosovo without the right to self-determination! (37K)
- INDONESIA: Habibie's reforms fail to quell the struggle of the masses! (45K)
- RUSSIA: On recent remarks of Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party of the
Russian Federation: State-capitalist politics descends into naked anti-Semitism (29K)
- MAO VS. THE LEFT: The rise and suppression of the `ultra-left' in the Chinese cultural
revolution (95K)
- POSTMODERNISM, Sokal's critique, and dialectical materialism--two articles:
--Book review: Alan Sokal's new anti-postmodernist book: Fashionable Nonsense
by Tim Hall, editor of Struggle, a revolutionary working-class literary magazine(18K)
--Postmodernism versus materialism by Joseph Green (154K)
- POSTAL WORKERS: Vote NO! The tentative contract settlement is an insult (Detroit
workers' Voice, 8K)
- Denounce the bombing of IRAQ! (A December 1998 leaflet from Seattle members of the
Communist Voice Organization, and "This is a boss's war!" from the Detroit Workers' Voice
Discussion Forum)
Issue #19, vol. 4, #4, December 8, 1998 (48 pp.):
- NEO-LIBERALISM begins to crack by Joseph Green (27K)
- Support the right to self-determination of KOSOVO! by Joseph Green (47K)
- A Maoist conundrum: reviewing William Hinton's "The Great Reversal:
THE PRIVATIZATION OF CHINA, 1978-1989" by Pete Brown (45K)
- The old state-capitalist "socialism" was rotten while today--MARKET-CAPITALISM
RAVAGES THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY by Mark, Detroit
- ON WALTER DAUM'S THE LIFE AND DEATH OF STALINISM: Competition among
Soviet enterprises and ministries, and the collapse of the Soviet Union by Joseph Green (98K)
- FROM DETROIT WORKERS' VOICE #20 (August 10, 1998, 19K):
- What can be learned from the GM strike?
- General strike in Puerto Rico
- Striking miners block Russian railroads
Issue #18, vol. 4, #3, August 1, 1998 (50 pp.):
- INDONESIA: Downfall of a tyrant by Pete Brown (45K)
- Three statements from the People's Democratic Party, which are critiqued in the article
"Indonesia: Downfall of a tyrant" (23K)
- SOUTH KOREAN workers face off against the new, liberal regime (including a
discussion of the KCTU union federation) by Mark, Detroit (38K)
- IN DEFENSE OF MARXIST MATERIALISM: Chicago Workers' Voice discards the
Marxist `paradigm' by Mark, Detroit (40K)
- A review of Kuhn's book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions": Some thoughts on the
left and modern philosophy by Sarah, Chicago Workers' Voice (20K)
- FROM DETROIT WORKERS' VOICE #19 (22K)
- Workers wage powerful battles around the world
- Mass uprising in Indonesia forces Suharto out
- Fight USPS slave-driving and privatization
- Update on the Australian dockworkers' struggle.
- Does the existence of nationalized industry prove that the capitalist law of value has been abolished?
PREOBRAZHENSKY --IDEOLOGIST OF STATE CAPITALISM (part 2) by Joseph
Green (185K)
- CORRESPONDENCE and correction
Issue #17, vol. 4, #2, April 20, 1998 (60 pp.):
- From a meeting on the crash in EAST ASIA: Speech by Pete Brown, and discussion
following the presentation (34K)
- Privatization takes hold in CHINA--millions laid off, by Pete Brown (17K)
- CUBA in the 1960s: Bureaucrats head to `communism' without the workers,
by Mark, Detroit (80K)
- Report on a trip to CUBA in Nov. 97 by Barb (Chicago Workers' Voice) (54K)
- Reply to Barb's report: A desperate search for `shoots of socialism'. by Mark, Detroit
(44K)
- CASTRO embraces the Pope of reaction, by Gary, New Jersey (6K)
- Does the existence of nationalized industry prove that a country is socialist?:
PREOBRAZHENSKY--IDEOLOGIST OF STATE CAPITALISM (Part 1), by Joseph
Green (111K)
- NOT ANOTHER WAR FOR OIL! U.S. imperialism, out of the Persian Gulf!
Down with the devastation of the Iraqi people by Clinton and the Saddam Hussein regime!
(reprinted from Detroit Workers' Voice #18, 18K)
- CORRESPONDENCE
Questions on the "deformed workers' state", NEP and state capitalism
and also against the De Leonist SLP (15K)
About "left"-communist and other views of Cuba (13K)
A note on planning in the future society.
Issue #16, vol. 4, #1, Jan. 20, 1998 (44 pp.):
- The crash in EAST ASIA -- what it means to the working class by Pete Brown (32K)
- MEXICO
On the Acteal massacre: Down with the dirty war in Chiapas! (22K)
Founding of National Union of Workers: Cracks in PRI unionism by Joseph Green
- WHY DID THE SOVIET UNION FALL?
Closing their eyes to the obvious in their "Revolution from Above": Kotz and Weir deny the
economic collapse of Soviet state-capitalism by Joseph Green (65K)
- CANADA: What happened to the big strikes? (21K)
Canadian postal workers go on strike (Detroit Workers' Voice #17)
Government ban and union bureaucrats end postal workers' strike by Mark, Detroit
Massive two-week teachers' strike in Ontario, Canada (Detroit Workers' Voice #17)
- POST OFFICE: Management intimidation campaign at Highland Park post office (Detroit
Workers' Voice #17)
- CORRESPONDENCE:
Debating planning in the revolutionary society
Dependency theory -- where did it go wrong? (44K)
Issue #15, Vol. 3, #4, October 15, 1997 (64 pp.):
Capitalist pollution in SOUTHEAST ASIA (on the recent deadly smog) by Frank, Seattle (25K)
CHINA: a congress of capitalists by Pete Brown (29K)
As PRI totters: MEXICO in transition by Joseph Green
The July 6 elections and the socialist movement in Mexico by J. Green
May 1st and Mexico and the July 6th elections by Anita Jones de Sandoval, CWV
POSTMODERNIST PHILOSOPHY is old subjectivist win in new bottles by Tim Hall, editor
of Struggle, a literary magazine (38K)
DEPENDENCY THEORY and the fight against imperialism (against the theories of Samir
Amin and Andre Gunder Frank), part two, by Joseph Green
Articles from DETROIT WORKERS' VOICE #16:
* Settlement trades small gains for maintaining part-timers' misery: UPS workers wage major
contract battle
* Support the newspaper workers: Courts and government agencies are tools of the rich
* Conviction of racist killer cop overturned
How the Chicago Workers' Voice group deals with the WPAEN: THE WORKING CLASS
MOVEMENT MINUS ANTI-REVISIONISM by Mark, Detroit
A comment (on Jack Hill and the WPAEN) by Jake, Chicago Workers' Voice
Introducing the Working People's Action and Education Network (WPAEN) by Jack Hill, CWV
From a WPAEN leaflet
Program of the WPAEN
CUBA: socialist or state-capitalist--excepts from an Internet debate
Issue #14, Vol. 3, #3, August 10, 1997 (64 pp.):
The twilight of dependency theory
Dependency theory and the fight against imperialism: on Samir Amin and Andre Gunder Frank
(part one)
On pseudo-Marxist apologies for imperialism -- a review of Bill Warren's Imperialism: Pioneer
of Capitalism
The question of "state capitalism under workers' rule" (Part 3 of State capitalism, Leninism, and
the transition to socialism) (50K)
Che, the armed struggle, and revolutionary politics (41K)
Letter to a fellow worker about creationism: Workers need science, not religion, for liberation
Thousands march to support Detroit newspaper workers
Rank-and-file action or union leader sellouts? (from Detroit Workers' Voice #14)
Marxism in an era of free-market capitalism (on the crisis of left-wing thought, from Detroit
Workers' Voice #14)
Conviction of racist killer cop overturned: the Malice Green case in Detroit (from Detroit
Workers' Voice #15)
Communist Voice through the eyes of others:
-- from Politica Operaria of Portugal
-- Red Star Rising Again and the anti-revisionist pledge
Further description of articles in issue #14
Issue #13, Vol. 3, #2, May 8, 1997 (58 pp.):
How some former anti-revisionists reconcile with Cuban revisionism:
Apologizing for the Castro regime or supporting the Cuban workers?
by Mark, Detroit and including criticism of the following three articles:
--Movie review: Che by Sarah, Chicago Workers' Voice
--Report on a visit to Cuba, Jan. 20, 1993 by Jim, S.F.Bay Area
--What's happening in Cuba? 1993 by Michael, Detroit
Two perspectives on Mexico:
--Taking democracy to the limit, or organizing a socialist movement?
by Joseph Green
--Marxist theory on democracy and socialism in relation to revolutionary work in Mexico
The above two articles include criticism of the following two articles:
--The fight for democratic demands and the socialist revolution in Mexico
by Anita Jones de Sandoval, Chicago Workers' Voice
--El Machete's call for a new coalition
Additional articles on other subjects:
General strike shakes up Ecuador by Pete Brown
Never-ending militarization by Pete Brown
Correspondence
Correction
Further description of the articles in issue #13
Issue #12, Vol. 3, #1, March 1, 1997 (50 pp.):
Strike wave against anti-worker laws in South Korea (16K)
Detroit newspaper strike betrayed:
-- Union leaders declare their failure a victory (16K)
State-capitalism under a "socialist" banner:
-- The anarchy of production under the veneer of Soviet revisionist planning (101K)
Cuba's economic system of the 1970s and early 1980s:
-- Cuban "socialism" adopts the Soviet state-capitalist model (67K)
How the anarchists blew it:
-- Notes on the history of the International Workingmen's Association
On Samir Amin's utopia about the bourgeois development of the third world:
-- A review of Amin's "Re-reading the Postwar Period: An Intellectual Itinerary" (36K)
A report on Nov. 14 demonstrations in Seattle vs .Netanyahu's oppression of the Palestinians
Correspondence (More from Red Star Rising Again)
Further description of the articles in issue #12
Issue #11, Vol. 2. #6, Dec. 15, 1996 (58 pp.):
Did Castro steer Cuba towards socialism in the late 1980s? (50K)
How the SWP whitewashes the Castro regime (29K)
Excerpts from two SWP articles on Cuba (29K)
Riots in Indonesia (18K)
An action in support of the East Timorese freedom struggle (12K)
Mexico and peasant socialism:
-- democratization, petty production and the socialist vision (130K)
The continuing crisis in Mexico
About the anarcho-syndicalist IWW:
-- Denouncing rank-and-file workers for "union scabbing" or organizing vs .union bureaucracy?
How not to fight anarchism
Correspondence with Red Star Rising Again
Further description of the articles in issue #11
Issue #10, Vol. 2, #5, Oct. 1, 1996 (64 pp.):
The imperialist Helms-Burton law and the myth of Cuban socialism (36K)
The Communist Voice Organization discusses its future
Detroit Workers' Voice Labor Day leaflet
No spark in the Spark:
-- Against their prettification of labor bureaucrat sell-outs
Looking back on the mini-state debate in light of renewed Palestinian struggle
From the history of the debate:
-- reformist panaceas crash on the rock of reality (Feb. 1995)
Extract from the Open Letter to the left from Greg Jackson of the Black Autonomy Collective
Reply to the Open Letter of the Black Autonomy Collective:
-- Anarchist fiasco in the Spanish Civil War shows that
autonomous collectives cannot overcome the marketplace
The recent bombing in Iraq and the controversies over anti-war work in the Persian Gulf War
On the Spartacist League and the `defend Iraq' slogan:
-- Building an anti-imperialist movement or putting hopes in Hussein's military (Feb. 1991)
The debate in last years of the MLP over anti-war agitation:
-- Reply to criticisms of Workers' Advocate on the war (Part IV). Sept. 1992)
-- Letters from Julie, Anita and Jake, CWV, (June 1992)
-- Reply to Anita (Sept. 1992)
Correspondence: On the Nader candidacy
Issue #9, Vol. 2, #4, Aug. 1, 1996 (68 pp.):
The "four worlds" theory and the indigenous struggle in Papua New Guinea (104K)
-- critiquing Hyndman's Ancestral Rain Forests and the Mountain of Gold
Staley struggle: how not to learn from a defeat
-- Lessons of the Staley struggle, by Jack Hill (Oleg) (22K)
-- On Jack Hill's empty optimism regarding the accomplishments of the Staley struggle (36K)
-- How not to learn from the Staley struggle (39K)
Empty "left" phrases about the trade unions (criticism of "left" communism & LAWV) (35K)
Right of self-determination: "left" communism vs. Marxism
-- "Left" communist from Britain (Jock Daborn) denounces right of nations to self-determination
-- Reply to the "left" communist Daborn
-- "Left" communists banish Marxism to the 19th century (on the stand of the ICC)
Lester Thurow's uneasy future of capitalism (16K)
Union bureaucrats establish "Labor Party" (including criticism of such Trotskyist
groups as Socialist Action, Spark, and Bulletin) (24K)
Correspondence:
-- The Fifth International in non-Trotskyist clothing
-- Back and forth on Cuba
Issue #8, Vol. 2, #3, June 1, 1996 (60 pp.):
4th EZLN declaration from the Lacandona Jungle
On the 4th declaration:
-- Zapatista politics in crisis (27K)
South Korea, imperialism, and "free-market" mythology
State capitalism, Leninism, and the transition to socialism
-- Part one: criticism of Jim's report (130K)
Lenin's views on state capitalism -- review (Jim's report)
Postal workers under attack
Issue #7, Vol. 2, #2, March 15, 1996 (70 pp.):
Debate on Marxism & right of nations to self-determination (15K)
DWV: The U.S.-Cuba conflict
Papua New Guinea and Imperialism
10 answers to 10 of Oleg's questions on struggle in Mexico
The trade unions, the errors of the Trotskyist "transitional program",
-- and the zigzags of the Los Angeles Workers' Voice
DWV: Why were CAT and Staley workers defeated? (11K)
Theories and evolution of the salaried middle strata, and critique:
-- "Misunderstanding the middle strata"
Issue #6, Vol. 2, #1, Jan. 15, 1995 (64 pp.):
Who are the communists?
Balance-sheet of two years of work since the MLP died
Boston group reports on its lack of activity
Sucking up to the sophists:
-- Pete Brown reviews Novack's Origins of Materialism (21K)
DWV on the strike wave in France (20K)
On Boeing and Detroit newspaper strikes
Marxism vs. Anarchism: The debate with anarchism continued as the Fifth Estate (Detroit) and
the Insurgency Culture Collective (Los Angeles) wrote in reply to the article in CV
#4"Anarchism and the marketplace".
- Letter from E.B. Maple of The Fifth Estate denouncing communism
- Reply: Huffing and puffing won't eliminate the capitalist marketplace
- Letter from Scott of the Insurgency Culture Collective discusses the future society
- Reply: Does barter eliminate money? Does small-group ownership eliminate the capitalist
marketplace?
- Ideology of the 5th Estate/ Bakuninism -- backward politics under guise of no politics(50K)
In memory of Frederick Engels: 1820-1895
The concept of the party-- in the days of Luxemburg and Lenin and today (reply to the CWV 's Barb)
More on anti-war agitation during the Persian Gulf War:
- What does it mean to follow Leninist principles?
- A reply to criticisms of Workers' Advocate (Part 3): Some questions for comrades in Chicago
about our agitation in the anti-war movement by Slim, Detroit
- Criticisms of WA agitation on the war by Julie (CWV)
- Appeal to the soldiers of all the belligerent countries, by Lenin
Issue #5, Vol. 1, #5, Nov. 15, 1995 (64 pp.):
Capitulation or struggle in the working class movement
Detroit newspaper workers fight on
'Left' daydreams about the labor bureaucrats
Longing for a labor party -- Oleg & Labor Party Advocates
John Sweeney's unionism is warmed-over Kirkland stew
Land reform, socialism, and the Mexican countryside:
-- Does the CWV support Cardenismo?
-- Peasant socialism or proletarian politics?
-- The ghost of Lazaro Cardenas and the Mexican crisis
El Machete continues its campaign for Castroism
What's left of united front tactics without anti-revisionism?
Part two of the controversy over anti-war work during the Persian Gulf war
--Introduction
--On the debate over the attitude towards soldiers in anti-war work. Part two of a reply to
questions raised about Workers' Advocate agitation, focusing on support for GI resistance,
agitation against the "support our troops" slogan, and the assessment of the working class.(89K)
--The Workers Advocate article against the "support our troops" slogan
--The Chicago Workers' Voice article against the "support our troops" slogan
--CWV on the articles denouncing the "support our trops" sogan
Issue #4, Vol. 1, #4, Sept. 15, 1995 (64 pp.):
The Communist Voice Organization is founded
Detroit newspaper strike:
-- Report from the picket lines
-- Reformist left kneels before union bureaucrats
-- Detroit Workers' Voice on newspaper strike
DWV vs. plans of postal management
On demo on 25th anniversary of Chicano moratorium
The affluent worker -- bourgeoisified? Review of Goldthorpe's 1969 book on British workers
The IMF, World Bank and U.S. imperialism: an overview
Ejido co-ops and capitalism in Mexican agriculture
What really happened in the last years of the MLP:
-- part one of the controversy over anti-war work during the Persian Gulf war
Anarchism and the marketplace (10K)
Left-wing neo-conservatives:
-- (part 1) the reflection of neo-conservatism in socialist thinking (51K)
-- (part 2) the mailed fist behind the anti-authoritarian phrase (51k)
-- From Seattle Ben's "cooperative anarchist" vision of the ideal future that's "like a war" (26K)
Issue #3, Vol. 1, #3, August 1, 1995 (68 pp.):
Communism as a science
The IMF and imperialist superprofits
What have co-ops meant for the Mexican peasants?
-- The ejido, yesterday and today, in Michoacan
-- The decline of the small peasant continued during Echeverria's ejido policy of the '70s
-- Co-ops will not save the peasants from poverty
CWV repudiates anti-revisionism (on CWV Theo Journal #7)
More on El Machete and the Mexican left
On the need for a public stand against Castroism
Towards unmasking Trotskyism:
-- Barb defends "Dealing with Trotsky: Idiocy or Treachery?"
--"For a serious struggle against Trotskyism", which is a further critique of Barb's "Dealing with
Trotsky: Idiocy or Treachery?"
Issue #2, Vol. 1, #2, June 1, 1995 (60 pp.):
People of Papua New Guinea vs. environmental ruin
Detroit Workers' Voice: Fight the contract on the workers and the poor
Workplace organizing & Solidarity Organizing Committee
The growth of the middle classes, and prospects for socialist consciousness:
-- review of C. Wright Mills' White Collar
Ongoing controversy on our tasks
Looking into the history of the Marxist-Leninist Party
Marxism and the Zapatistas
Three key Zapatista declarations from the Lacandona Jungle
-- Declaration of war, Jan. 1, 1994
-- For a national democratic convention and a transitional government, June 10, 1994
-- To form a movement for national liberation, Jan. 1995
Critique of Zapatista view of democratization as panacea
On the stand of Workers' Voice:
-- denigrating anti-revisionism and glorifying Zapatista theories
Marxism on proletarian and peasant demands
Issue #1, Vol. 1, #1, April 15, 1995 (56 pp.):
The rebirth of communism (10K)
Announcing a new theoretical journal, the Communist Voice
Debate over current tasks of communist work
What should we say to the masses about Cuba?
-- CWV on Cuba and the blockade
-- El Machete: Long live Cuba but. . .socialist
-- Should we bring anti-revisionism to the masses?
On changes in the working class
Oleg on the Labor Notes conference, and Mark's reply
Review of Kim Moody's views on the working class
Oleg & Pete Brown on Spark's workplace organizing
Debate over El Machete and Zapatista strategy
El Machete and "occupied Mexico"
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