Against the Current, No. 25, March/April 1990
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Eastern Europe and Ourselves
— The Editors - Introduction to ATC 25, March-April 1990
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Panama--After the Coup
— Mike Fischer and Matt Schultz interview Eric Jackson -
Panama, Not for Television
— Eric Jackson -
Whose Declaration of War?
— Donald W. Bray and Marjorie Woodford Bray -
"Protecting American Lives"
— Donald W. Bray and Marjorie Woodford Bray -
The Border, the Law and Peace
— Michel Warshawski -
On Being a Marxist in the Soviet Union
— Boris Kagarlitsky -
Radicalizing Earth Day's Managed Mobilization
— Bill Resnick -
Who Will Save the Forest?
— Alexander Cockburn -
Perspectives in the Twilight of the Cold War
— The Editors -
"the collapse of Stalinism means that capitalism must confront itself"
— Paul Buhle -
“three challenges to peace and disarmament activists in the U.S.”
— Frank Brodhead -
"...that's the opportunity: to engage in a struggle for the power to produce new cultural and political meanings"
— Marcy Darnovsky -
"...international class war will not only continue but increase ... future Invasions may be done by one well-dressed agent with a briefcase"
— Shafik Abu Tahir -
"...the global economic impact of cold war chill-out will put strong pressure on U.S. capital... [and] intensification of competition on a world scale"
— Kim Moody -
"...new openings will bring more rank-and-file activism and create opportunities for socialist-feminists"
— Johanna Brenner -
“… the left [will] see that the major contradiction In a market economy is the collision with the natural world"
— Sandra Baird -
"...there are two sorts of radical demands we should be raising: peace conversion and ecological industrial conversion"
— Howard Hawkins -
"... movements in the West, East and Third World [need] to make deep connections"
— Jill Benderly -
Socialism, Markets and Restoration
— Aleksei K. Zolotov -
Restoration & Revolutionary Transformation
— James Petras -
Nicaragua: from Revolution to Stabilization
— Joseph Ricciardi -
The First Follies of 1990
— R.F. Kampfer -
Fabricating the Past
— Ellen Poteet -
Men and Women of Letters
— Mary McGuire -
The House that Montgomery Built
— Martin Glaberman -
In Memoriam--Hal Draper
— Ernie Haberkern -
Rube Singer Remembered
— Archie Lieberman
Archie Lieberman
RUBE SINGER, a lifelong socialist, died December 23, 1989. Much more died than a comrade and long-time friend. Rube was a rare breed, a worker-socialist leader without which no socialist movement can survive. The crisis of all the socialist sects in existence today is their failure to win the thousands of potential Rube Singers in the working class.
No dilettante socialist, Rube was the open socialist leader of the rank and life in General Motors Hyatt Ball Bearing plant in Clark Township, New Jersey. They elected him to the local union presidency and many other positions in which he consistently defended them.
Rube Singer was a charter member of the Socialist Workers Party, the Workers Party and the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee. In the socialist movement he gave freely of his energy, time and finances. Nobody had to plead with Rube when it came to giving to the movement.
It used to be said that one worker-socialist was worth at least 100 members. Today we would have to increase their worth. Any movement that could have a hundred Rube Singers would instantly become a force in the working class.
Rube Singer is dead and I miss him terribly, but his example as a consistent representative of the rank and life makes hope spring eternally that one day the socialist movement will be filled with thousands like him.
March-April 1990, ATC 25