Against the Current No. 18, January/February 1989
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The Populist Road Not Taken
— The Editors -
Palestine: A New Urgency
— David Finkel -
The Teamster Monolith Cracks
— David Sampson -
The Death of Tito's Yugoslavia?
— Michele Lee -
Beyond the Cinderella Complex
— Janice Haaken -
Random Shots: Ring in the New
— R.F. Kampfer - James Baldwin and Stan Weir
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Meetings with James Baldwin
— Stan Weir -
Baldwin's Letter to Harry Bridges
— James Baldwin -
Baldwin to Stan Weir
— James Baldwin - Baldwin Joins Longshoreman in Bid for Justice
- Abortion Rights on the Line
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Canada: How Mass Action Won
— Julia Silverstein -
Lessons from a Defeat
— Linda Manning Myatt - Dialogue
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Feminism and the "Underclass"
— Linda Gordon - Reviews
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A Social Democratic Failure
— Mel Leiman -
Strong But Mixed Signals
— Mike Fischer -
Escape to New York?
— Susan Cahn - In Memoriam
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Max Geldman -- Notes on a Life
— Shevi Geldman -
Max Geldman, 1905-1988, A Lifetime of Struggle
— Andrea Houtman
James Baldwin
Dear Mr. Bridges:
I am writing this letter because I have been a friend of Stan Weir’s for nearly twenty years, and I know him to be incapable of dishonesty. This is an enormous statement: but it is impossible to know a man as long as I have known Stan without recognizing the man’s essential quality. If he is anti-progressive and anti-labor, then I am a dues-paying member of the Birch society.
We know each other from very far back — I was a waiter. He is not much older than I am now: but when l was a kid, the three or four years difference in our ages made an enormous difference, and I used him as a kind of moral model, a kind of moral older brother. He has never betrayed me, in any way whatever, and he is one of the people I have in mind when I write, when I speak — it comforts me to know that he is in the world.
I beg you, do not betray him. Good men are rare.
Very Sincerely, James Baldwin
(June 28, 1963)
January-February 1989, ATC 18