[Marxism] THE MILITANT looks at the boom times coming ahead

["Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Things are looking really good, according to Jack
Barnes and the Socialist Workers Party's MILITANT.
Here you'll find links to two separate articles
from the current issue of the SWP's viewspaper.

(A few days before the election results in the US,
Barnes and other SWP leaders addressed 350 people
in New York City with their take on what it all
was going to mean. They see a U.S. ruling class
successfully restructuring itself for the battles
ahead. It sounds really impressive, to hear them
write about it. The SWP sees expanding political
space for working people in the Middle East today.

(I suppose we'll soon enough see fundraising for
the Arabic edition of THE MILITANT which will be
sold in front of garment shops and meat-packing
plants in Baghdad and Fallujah in that wonderful
expanded political space which they are projecting.

(Here's a great article on the progress Washington
is making in Iraq today. It must have been written
by one of the left-wingers on Rumsfeld's PR team
Truly inspiring news coming out of Iraq today!
http://www.themilitant.com/2004/6842/684202.html
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SOURCE:
http://www.themilitant.com/2004/6842/684250.html

Barnes also described how the U.S. rulers, to meet the
challenges to their declining international order, are
transforming their global military posture and political
world strategy. This includes a shift in the U.S. armed
forces to smaller, more mobile units poised for rapid
deployment around the world.
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There is no revolutionary resistance in Iraq," said Barnes,
"although there are many brave young people in Iraq who are
outraged by the occupation and the false promises" of the
occupiers and their collaborators. Unlike the bourgeois-led
militias, which have relied on methods such as beheading
foreign hostages and bombing U.S. targets, a revolutionary
movement against imperialist domination must offer a clear
presentation of what it's fighting for.
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Because the imperialists can't solve the crisis bred by
their own system and generate permanent instability,
however, working people in the region will be able to make
use of the political space opened up to seek ways to
advance their struggles, Barnes said.
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Likewise, the SWP leader said, integrating youth into the
communist movement requires more than reading about and
discussing what the movement stands for, however important
that is. It has to be combined with systematic work to take
revolutionary-minded young people to picket lines and other
class-struggle actions, as well as involving them in
regular sales of the Militant at factory gates or mine
portals. This is crucial to get a sense of the potential
power of working people and gain a better understanding
that communism is not a set of ideas-which will seem hard
to understand-but the generalization of the line of march
of the working class.
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http://www.themilitant.com/2004/6842/684250.html



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