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This is the eighth issue of Interna-common thread. tional Viewpoint that has appeared, including our pilot Issue No. Zero. It is the second since we have gone over to a word-processing system.
We are still just beginning. This magazine is a political project, plained in the pilot issue, and that means we had to try to get ahead of ourselves at every stage, learn as we went, and learn from our readers. We had to move faster than we intended to keep up with events.
We have intended ever since the second issue to include a letters column, since from the very beginning we started getting letters from all over the world. But the pressure of international political events has always been too great to get such a column in; there were always too many other things.
But as we are improving our organization, we should be able to do a letters column in the next issue, if there is not a new revolution or a new war or other major new crisis somewhere before then. That is, there is at least a 50% chance that
In the meantime, we can give a few samples from letters we have gotten.
Dublin wrote: "I've just had a look through No. 1.I particularly like the thematic editorial linking the various articles with a 26
"It was encouraging to read of the third world reaction against the Polish Stalinists and the exemplary activity of many of our sections. We could do a lot more here than so far has been achieved, but I see the effort to push IV to a broad-
There as part of that A reader from New York wrote: "I have recently become acquainted with the publications of the IVth International (International Viewpoint, Inprecor). I would like to know if the International publishes a bulletin in Spanish also directed to the Spanish speaking coun tries...
"I am inquiring because I am in touch with many Latin American leftists who are only now acquainting themselves with Trotskyist literature. As you know, the Latin American left has mostly been ideologically and politically dominated by Maoism and Guevarism and the crisis in Poland has provoked a questioning of traditional currents, it is crucial that the ideas of the anti-Stalinist sectors become more readily available."
A reader from Montreal wrote: "I want to congratulate you on the contents and design of International Viewpoint....
"I hope that you will have regular overage ol the women's movement. o he debates taking place within the social ist feminist movement, etc....
"I hope that in the next couple of issues there will be coverage of B. Devlin's electoral campaign...Irish support is quite in Quebec and English We did have an interview with Bernadette on her campaign in the very next issue, Issue No. 1.
We also got letters from Israel, India, along with a number of other countries.
The letters were not all praise, either. One reader from San Antonio, U.S.A. took us to task for publishing an an article on Cuba in Issue No. O criticizing the limits of workers democracy there. We think that controversy is part of revolutionary politics. That, among other things, is why we are interested in deal with the question of workers democracy. But more analytical articles are needed on this.
So, we hope that by now it is clear what we are trying to do with International Viewpoint, and how that suits the needs of revolutionary socialists throughout the world. Please write us and let us know what you think.
/PETER GRAHAM,
MEMORIAL LIBRARY