Second, it was a significant meeting because it was the first time that leaders of the Black community and Obituary Juan José Gonzalez
RECENTLY learnt of the
Gonzales, "Alvaro" of the PRT, at the age of 35 from a heart
Juan Jose was of Colombian origin. He had been active for years in building the PRT and was a member of the Central Committee for several years and of the Political
Bureau over the last year. In 1985 he participated in the 12th World of the Fourth International as one of the delegates of traditional left leaders in the Labour Party had organized such an event jointly. In the words of Tony Benn: "What we have seen tonight is the shape of the politics of Britain in the 1990's." South Africa Boycott busting SHELL OIL, the US branch of the the services of a company in order to defend itself against the campaign by anti-apartheid activists in the USA.
company is known as Pagan International the five-year long boycott national, Nestle, in the "Babykiller"
International is especially active in the USA, but its magazine, International Barometer, has also gathered information about anti-apartheid movements in Western contract with Pagan in which was agreed that Pagan would provide chem with research reports about various groups involved developments in South Africa. The initial contact was made at the beginning of last year, soon after the start of the boycott campaign in the US.
Pagan International sent a letter to 110 companies in
Western Europe and the US, offering its services in the fields analysis and the of themes which concern the business community", meaning the investigation of the activities of action and pressure groups who direct their activities against multinationals.
In 1982, Rafael D Pagan jr., managing director of Pagan International, addressed the Public Affairs Council in New York on "The struggle against the critics of multinational capitalism". "Our objective is to separate the fanatical activist leaders -those who deny that free enterprise institutions have a legitimate role to play in the development of the third world - from the large majority of their followers - decent, concerned people who are prepared to judge us on the basis of our openness and our usefulness. Moreover, we should strip the activists of the moral authority they receive from their alliances with religious organizations."
Notebooks for Study and main activity was in solidarity with the Nicaraguan revolu-
Research tion and the revolutionary movements of Central America and the
ISSUE NUMBER 2 of the Notebooks is now available. The of the
As director
Caribbean.
first edition of this Marxist educational series contained a journal Panorama had often study by Ernest Mandel on "The Place of Marxism in Histotravelled to El Salvador, Nicaragua, ry". The second edition is the first of a two-part study of the
Guatemala, Honduras and Panama.
During one of these trips in 1985,
This deals mainly with the Second Chinese Revolution, the Nicarahe was kidnapped by that of 1926-27, which ended in the disasters at Shanghai,
Wuhan and Canton. It includes, in addition, a brief chronology of the republican revolution of
Atlantic the contras on guan
1911 led by Sun Vatsen; a review of little known facts about the 1921-24 period (during which
Coast. The Sandinista government the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang were actually able to collaborate), obtained his release in exchange and an analysis of the long-lasting effects of the defeat, notably the formation of the so-called red for prisoners.
or "soviet" zones with their red armies; and the rise of Mao within the CCP. A final chapter en-
In November 1986 Juan Jose titled "The quest for the Chinese road" examines the problem of adapting Marxism to nonwas again in Nicaragua to join in
European societies. These topics usefully complement the works of Trotsky and Harold Isaacs the celebrations for the twenty-
In Part Two (issue number 3 of the Notebooks), the author will examine to what extent the fifth anniversary of the founding
Maoist project of the early 1930s was applied in the reality of China in the 1940s, and its conof the FSLN.
We join the comrades of the
Mexican PRT in paying tribute to
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Chinese Revolution by Pierre Rousset.
tribution to the victory of 1949.
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