I feel that I am being red-baited and that I am under attack so I must explain myself.

I am accused here of by "Neandrathal" of being "dogmatic" for telling the truth about the Democrat Party and its hacks.

And here is some of the hard work of the revolutionaries Rovics so harshly condemns:

Workers World Party (WWP)
www.workers.org/

International Socialist Organization (ISO), USA, ex-IS
www.internationalsocialist.org/

Socialist Workers' Party (SWP)
www.themilitant.com/

Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)
www.rwor.org/

Spartacist League/U.S
www.icl-fi.org/ENGLISH/ARTICLES.HTM

These people, despite their problems, are all part of the solution.

The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) was born in the late 1920s and 30s as a Trotskyist split from the Stalinized Communist Party USA. Led the historic 1934 Teamsters Strike as well as the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike. These strikes were a turning point for labor. They led to the massive unionization and gains for the working class that occurred during the economic depression of the 1930s, gains that still impact us today. Later the SWP became the most important organization in the leadership of the movement against the war in Vietnam, organizing around the slogan "U.S. Out Now."

In 1982 the SWP completely abandoned Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution in favor of Stalin's two-stage theory. This they applied to their uncritical support for the capitalist program of the ANC in South Africa as well as to the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. In the unions they adopted a policy of not criticizing the betrayals of the union bureaucracy. Those who opposed these moves to the right were purged from the party. The SWP continues to have branches across the country that help teach people about socialism, but they now abstain from the types of social struggles they once led.

Despite its problems the Workers World Party is today one of the best activist socialist organizations in the United States, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people against the U.S. war in Iraq and usually putting forward a good socialist and anti-imperialist political line.

The Spartacist League is a left split from the SWP in the early 1960s. They opposed the SWP’s adaptation to Black Nationalism and instead advocated revolutionary integration as the road forward in the struggle for socialism. In the practical sense of recruitment of blacks this was a much better position than the SWP’s tail ending of the religious Nation of Islam and Malcom X. In addition the SL correctly pointed out that there is no geographic area that would make sense as a black homeland, nor would the suffering that would be caused to create one be worth the human suffering it caused. On the Vietnam War the SL took an unfortunate ultra-left stance of opposing the SWP’s position of “U.S. Out Now!� and instead counter-posed their position of “All of South East Asia Must go Communist!� This was not a slogan that worked in organizing the mass movement in the United States that helped South East Asia go Communist. In the 1980s the SL fought against the billions of dollars that the U.S. was pouring into Osama bin Laden’s holy crusade against women’s rights and literacy in Afghanistan. Likewise the SL opposed the counter-revolutionary movements of Solidarnosc and Yeltsin calling for the defense of the gains of those revolutions. Today on China, Cuba, Vietnam, and North Korea they continue on with this Trotskyist position, calling for political revolution to oust the Stalinist bureaucracies, while also calling for the defense of the gains of these revolutions from imperialist attack and internal counter-revolution. The SL today continues to have clarity when it comes to the need for the unions to break from the Democrat Party and pursue a policy of class struggle. Unfortunately they also continue their ultra-leftism in relation to the anti-war movement.

Liberation News is working on building a revolutionary movement that fights for both democracy and socialism against corporate governments around the world. In so doing we oppose all capitalist parties, including those who put a liberal façade in front of their pro-war, anti-worker, anti-environment, and racist policies such as the SPD of Germany, Labour Party of Britain, ANC of South Africa, NDP of Canada, and Democrat Party of the US.

Our movement is built in the traditions of Rosa Luxemburg, a leading socialist in the early 20th century who opposed the betrayals of the Social Democratic Parties that supported their own bourgeoisies as they entered the First World War. Rosa Luxemburg instead advocated revolutionary socialism. In addition, while being supportive of the Russian revolution, she was at the same time opposed to the dictatorial methods of Lenin and Trotsky in the Soviet Union. Luxemburg instead advocated democratic communism.

The 1917 Russian Revolution was a popular revolution that called for an end to the war with Germany, land reform, and socialism. Besides the betterment this revolution meant for the workers and peasants in general, giant strides forward were made for oppressed nationalities, Jews, women’s rights, and gay rights. Stalinism later destroyed some gains.

We agree with Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution, the idea that all working class revolutions must implement a socialist economy in order to stand up to imperialism and successfully defeat the internal bourgeoisie.

While opposing the concept of one party rule, we also defend the world’s surviving deformed workers states such as Cuba, Vietnam, and North Korea, from both imperialist attack and internal counter-revolution, while advocating political revolution to establish true workers democracy.

With a planned nationalized economy under the democratic control of the working class we can guarantee the right to medical care, jobs, housing, and food as basic human rights for all.

If you see this as nothing more than dogmatism, so be it.

Liberation News
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