AROUND THE WORLD
United States Against the current AGAINST THE CURRENT, a new journal of revolutionary socialist political analysis, has been launched as a joint project of three US socialist groups. The first issue of the new Ricardo Pascoe, a leader of the MexiTrabajadores (PRT - Mexican section of the Fourth International), on the crisis of the debt and the growth of the Mexican workers' movement; an analysis of recent strikes of Ameriother "concessionary" corporations; an essay by Marxist author Johanna Brenner on and practical spectives of feminists in the peace movement; and an address to a human rights convention by Professor Israel Shahak, chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, on the apartheid-like character of Israeli society today.
new Against the Current is described by its editors as intended "not in any sense as a party organ, but to provide a forum for the broadest possible debate and discussion within the left. The resources we need to develop new theory and fresh interpretations already exist among and the serious scholars of the left."
The groups launching the magazine are the International Socialists,
Power and Socialist Unity. Socialist Unity is a group of supporthe International Socialists represent
"Third Camp" current within the revolutionary socialist left; Workers Power includes a number of former members of the International Socialists, as well as some supporters of the . Fourth International.
In the past eight months these groups have been exploring their areas of political agreement, disagreement and perspectives on labor cussions led all three groups to the forces to launch a new revolutionary ment convention, intended to fuse the three groups as well as other individuals and local collectives who have expressed interest in revolutionary socialist unity, will take place
International Viewpoint 24 March 1986 in Chicago at the end of March 1986.
way posing party the posturing which has helped discredit the small US revolutionary left and contributed to the of its politics - the three groups and believe that this fusion reinforce the activists in building a rank-and-file left wing in the US labor movement; strengthen our voices Solidarity; and offer a positive alterthe demoralization and disintegration of the revolutionary
The editorial board of Against which will help to guide the magazine, build it and write for it. In this way, it is hoped that the journal become a genuine partnership that provides a vehicle for broad spectrum of socialists - whether sponsoring organization - who share a commitment to revolution, democracy and the rebuilding of the labor and left-wing movements in America from the ground up. (Subscriptions to Against the Current are 15 US dollars surface mail and 25 US dollars air mail and may be purchased from ATC 17300 Woodward, Detroit MI 48203) Miners' support demonstration THE FIGHTING spirit of the miners' strike was very much alive at the national Justice for Mineworkers demonstration on March 2. Eight thousand miners, women from the pit communities and their supporters came across the coalfields to mark the anniversary of the strike and to show their support for the 500-plus sacked miners, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) whose fuuds are still in the hands of
Tony Benn, a leader of the left wing of the Labour Party and a Member of Parliament (MP), told about the Justice for Mineworkers bill recently presented to parliament, which is built round the successful NUM resolution to the 1985 Trades
Union Congress (TUC) and Labour Party conferences. Peter Heathfield, general secretary of the NUM called on the trade-union leadership to break those in struggle now as the Tories seek to destroy trade unionism.
Dave Nellist, Corbyn, MP both attacked the labour leadership's obsession hunting socialists in the Labour Party, miners remained sacked and printers were fighting for their jobs at Wapping (site of the scab-run plant magnate Geraghty (EEPTU - Enginering, Electrical and Plumbing Trade Union, London press
Ginger Wilson, Sunday Times Father of the Chapel (FOC -Wapping with the miners' strike.
demonstration was followed by a highly successful concert at the Albert Hall, where £10,000 was raised for the national solidarity fund.
For further information on the campaign write to Ed Fredenburgh, 49 Milner Square, London, N.1.
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represented in CARICOM [Caribbean Community] that they reiterate the demand made by their foreign ministers in St. Kitts in May 1985 for the end of the US blockade against Nicaragua and for resistance aimed at dividing the islands of the Western Caribbean on the question of the commercialization of banana pro-
This assembly demands an end to the violation of human rights Central America and the Caribbean.
This assembly offers its support to the South African peoples in their fight against the shameful apartheid system imposed by the racist regime in Pretoria...
Since our last meeting 19 months ago in Havana, there have been concrete advances in the struggles of the peoples of the region, as in Haiti, and a new situation is taking shape that demands of us a greater degree of unity, better communications and more effective cooperation...
CARIBBEAN AND CENTRAL AMERICA source of inspiration for all the strug. gles in the Caribbean. The conference is in solidarity with the fight for autentic democracy in Haiti. It considers that democratization in Haiti implies the respect for the sovereignty and the right of political exiles to return freely. The conference has declared itself against any attempt at military intervention by the United
The anti-imperialist organizations consider that the projected visit by
ON FEBRUARY 10-12, 1986, a conference of Latin American and
Caribbean political parties was held in Managua at the initiative of the Nicaraguan government. The objective of the meeting was to examine the state of war existing in Central America and especially the aggression directed against the Nicaraguan revolution.
The Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT - Revolutionary Workers Party), the Mexican section of the Fourth International, attended the conference.
As a prelude to this conference the Anti-imperialist Organizations of the Caribbean and Central America convened their second assembly on February 8-9. Forty-three delegates representing 30 organizations from 18 countries were present. The declaration from this meeting, that we reproduce below, was given to the press on
February 10, 1986, by Raphael Faveras, a member of the Bloque
Socialista [Dominican Republic] and president of the Committee of
Anti-imperialist Organizations of the Caribbean and Central America.
The Caribbean and Central America continue to be a principal focus of world tension because of the policy of domination, exploitation and war conducted by imperialism against the struggles of the peoples of growing
This regional policy of the region.
economic, political and military interference is an integral part of the administration's
"neo-
Reagan globalist" policy, which is also characterized by an anticommunist crusade directed against national liberation movements and popular struggles....
This assembly condemns the policy of the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) which seeks to subject the developing countries of the region, and of the world generally, to its economic diktats for the profit of big international capital. This policy the Caribbean Basin Initiwhich, without resolving any of the serious economic and social problems of the region, attempts to military plans of the United States....
The assembly also condemns policy of state terrorism, the incessant military and economic aggression of the United States against
Nicaragua, as well as the menace of intervention and direct military the US attempts to bring down the legally elected government of Nicaragua.
This assembly also makes known its support for the initiatives and propositions that the Nicaraguan government has formulated to the Contadora group, including its declaration affirming that it will not be possible to achieve peace as long as the United States pursues its aggressive intervention in the Central American region.
this meeting has demanded the resumption of a bilateral dialogue between the United States and Nicaragua at Manzanillo.
Similarly, it condemns the high the military, political and economic intervention of the Reagan the heroic fight of the Salvadoran US out of the Caribbean
This meeting is being held at moment when the Cuban revolution is stronger than ever, in spite of the constant attacks to which it is subjected from the United States the military menace, the economic blockade and ideological tactics.
celebrates the fall their noble tradition of liberty. They have vigorously opposed any attempts to preserve the antipopular power of a Duvalierism without Duvalier. The courage of the Haitian people is a
Ronald Reagan to Grenada, formerly a free and sovereign country, is an attempt to make official the neocolonialization of that country. We condemn this visit as an act of imperial arrogance, an insult to all the patriots of Grenada and an affront to all the peoples of the Caribbean region. profound concern about the growing militarization of the Caribbean and administration, in particular the utilization of Puerto Rico as an armed base for launching military interventions against the Caribbean and America. It likewise expresses its concern about the increasing militarization of Honduras and its use as the seat of camps of mercenaries who attack Nicaraguan Moreover, it denounces the utilization of Antigua and other territories for the same purposes. We demand that the Caribbean region be declared a zone of peace, of independence and of development. We declare that without peace in our region there can be no social and economic this subject, the conference region's foreign debt, which per capita is the highest is further strangling We consider that the problems of the foreign debt are not just economic but are also fundamentally political and that the debt is
We affirm, moreover, that the only solution to this problem the creation of a new international economic order. assembly expresses its support to the struggles of the people of Guatemala for democracy and social progress.
Our assembly makes known its indignation over the existence in our region of territories under colonial domination, and we emphasize that the popular fight against this domination must be amplified. We lend our support to all peoples who are still waging an anticolonialist fight, as is the case in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guyana and the Netherlands Antilles the Dutch West Indies].
We launch an appeal to the chiefs
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