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Che Guevara Habla a LA Juventud/Che Guevara Speaks to the Young
Published in Paperback by Pathfinder Press (2001)
Authors: Che Guevara, Mary-Alice Waters, and Ernesto Che Guevara
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No Es Un Libro Acerca Del Che...
...sino es el Che verdadero hablando por el mismo.Explica el porque el cambio social no es haciendo por personas solitarias individualistas ; se trata como la revolucio`n cubana descubrio` " el camino de Marx " como gui`a de accio`n mientras haciendo la revolucio`n ;de la technologi`a como arma de la revolucio`n ; y de el papel de una organizacio`n disciplinada de joven comunistas que son educado en el Marxismo ( y educada por los trabajadores
y campesinos mismos en lucha ) en la vanguardia de la revolucio`n. La introduccio`n de la editor Mary-Alice Waters,una dirigente socialista norteamericana , se trata de la relevancia del texto a jovenes rebeldes mundiales de hoy di`a.

Lee el Ché en su propia voz
Los títulos de los discursos lo dice todo para que este libro quede de cabecera para todo rebelde.

Siendo médico él, explicó que no basta ser buena gente para ser médico revolucionario, sino hay que hacer una revolución. Ya victoriosa la revolución, explicó la que tiene que hacer la juventud comunista. Se puede tomar este consejo bastante a pecho, porque hay demasiada gente que quiere ser buena persona y hasta allí.

Lee el Ché en su propia voz, para que juzgas con tu propio criterio. Es en esto que se destaca la editorial Pathfinder: dar espacio los revolucionarios hablar por si mismo, y bien merecedora es esta adición a su "serie" de "Habla..."

De índole histórico, en esta colección se puede trazar la maduración intelectual de este personaje, de la manera en que se estaba llegando a cuajar las ideas que resultaron en el primer proyecto socialista solidaria, que se volvió a tomar en 1985 -justo a tiempo antes de que la URSS empezó a estremecer-.

Hablando en serio de la revolución
El libro publica ocho discursos pronunciados por el dirigente de la revolución cubana, Ernesto Che Guevara, en reuniones con estudiantes y trabajadores cubanos, y jóvenes de otros países solidarios con la revolución. Nos da un vistazo importante a algunos aspectos claves en la historia de la revolución cubana. Y realmente los discursos son aún más importantes por su relevancia hoy en día para trabajadores y jóvenes de todo el mundo.

Che habla del desarrollo de la revolución, del subdesarrollo económico y los pasos necesarios para transformar la sociedad, de los enfrentamientos con el gobierno norteamericano, de la reforma agraria y su importancia para cualquier país en un proceso revolucionario. Habla también del papel del individuo en la sociedad, presentando una perspectiva no de caridad sino de solidaridad con los oprimidos y explotados. Expresa una confianza enorme en la capacidad de jóvenes -- estudiantes, obreros y campesinos-- de superarse en el proceso de cambiar la sociedad.

¡Léalo! ¡Compártalo! ¡Discútalo! ¡Qué sea de provecho!


Communism and the Fight for a Popular Revolutionary Government: 1848 To Today (New International, No 3)
Published in Paperback by Pathfinder Press (1984)
Author: Mary-Alice Waters
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How workers can take power
How do you take state power and hold onto it? This book, which was originally an issue of New International, was written at a time when revolutions had recently taken power in Nicaragua, Grenada and Iran and this question was posed in a very direct way. In the first two cases, they were led by parties who were oriented to mobilizing the power of workers and farmers to move forward to socialism. And all of this happened in the shadow of the 1959 revolution in Cuba. The articles in this issue are by revolutionaries in Cuba, Nicaragua and the US, all taking stock of what had happened. The lead article by Mary Alice Waters does an especially good job of taking the long view and seeing how previous generations of revolutionaries, starting with Marx and Engels during the Paris Commune of 1871 and through the Bolsheviks in Russia, looked at this question and built the only type of government which could move forward at the head of such a revolution-a workers and farmers government. The article places Cuba and Nicaragua in this longterm perspective and shows what revolutionaries have learned both from their mistakes and their successes.

For Majority Rule
The lead article in this issue of New International # 3, summarizes the key lessons of revolutionary working class action covering over 150 years. From the 1848 failed capitalist revolution in Germany, the Paris Commune of 1871, to and beyond the 1917 socialist revolution in Russia, the Cuban socialist revolution in 1959, along with the 1979 Grenadians and Nicaraguan revolutions which brought to power a workers' and farmer government.The key lessons? : The necessity of the victorious oppressed classes to impose their will over the defeated oppressor classes. And in today's world, the form of the new government that arises from a victorious anti-capitalist revolution of the majority is a workers' and farmers' government which will either advance toward socialism or retreat and be overthrown back into capitalist disorder, misery and oppression of the majority.
The author, Mary Alice Waters, does a magnificent job basing herself on the lessons of Marx and Engels and Lenin and applying those principles to the class struggle since their times.

Popular revolutionary governments
We live at a time when capitalism more and more shows its retrograde features. Surely there must be a better system to enable human beings to live together on this planet. But this brings up the question of political power. How can the world be remade without changing the form of political power?
This book, part of the New International series, explains the history of how working people have fought for political power and what the results of these struggles mean for us today. The prospect of fighting to change the world is nothing new. Why not review the historical record of how these fights have been waged in the past, and what the results have been? In this way we can base today's fight on the lessons of the past.
Mary-Alice Waters reviews the history of the battles for workers' and farmers' governments, from the revolutions of 1848, the Paris Commune and the Russian revolution, up through the Cuban, Grenadan and Nicaraguan revolutions. In spite of many setbacks, these revolutionary struggles show that workers and farmers can fight and win.
The perspective here is Marxist, the embattled workers are the ones we identify with, and their ultimate success is the goal. The whys and wherefores of these battles cannot be understood without a scientific knowledge of the workings of the capitalist system, a system which, by its very nature, produces its own gravediggers.
This volume also contains articles from Cuban Communist leader Manual Piniero and Nicaraguan Sandinista leader Tomas Borge, dealing with the fight for power with special focus on Latin America.


EE.UU. fuera del oriente medio
Published in Paperback by Pathfinder Press (2001)
Authors: Fidel Castro, Ricardo Alarcon, and Mary-Alice Waters
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si usted opone a la guerra imperialista...
...usted necesita a este libro.Mientras el imperialismo yanqui hace una guerra criminal ( marzo 2003 ) en el Medio Oriente que achicará a la Guerra del Golfo de 1991, este libro es tan necesario hoy como fue durante la guerra previa. Los dirigentes de la revolución cubana, dentro de la Organización de Naciones Unidas y afuera, plantearon entonces y plantean hoy que los objetivos verdaderas en la guerra anterior son los mismos que en la guerra de hoy: una conquista colonial de uno de los países de mayores recursos petroleros de la Tierra. Escucha a estas voces y no a las de los políticos, sobre todo las estadounidenses, que sirven los capitalistas petroleros, ni Bush ni sus aliados del Partido Demócrata. Lea y entienda que es la tarea del pueblo irakí derrocar a la dictadura de Saddam Hussein y sus generales; y aprenda que la lucha del pueblo irakí en contra el imperialismo yanqui y forma parte de la lucha unida de los pueblos de Asia, África y América Latina echar el dominio de los países imperialistas de Europa, Norteamérica y Japón. ¡Lea estas palabras y únase a la lucha en contra las guerras imperialistas y a la lucha por la autodeterminación de los oprimidos del mundo!

This book is needed NOW!
With US Imperialism preparing a war in the Middle East that will dwarf the Gulf War discussed here, this book is needed just as much as it was needed during the Gulf War. The leaders of the Cuban revolution in the UN and beyond pointed out then, and point out today that the real objectives of imperialism in this war are nothing less than a colonial conquest of the one of the richest oil countries on Earth. Listen to these voices, not the lies of Emron-paid-for-my-campaign Bush when you consider what the coming war is all about. Listen to these voices and understand that no matter how bad the regime in Iraq is, the struggle of the Iraqi people is part of the struggle of all the peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to throw off the economic and political domination of the imperialist countries of Europe, North America, and Japan. Read these words and join the struggle against imperialist war and for the self-determination of the oppressed of the Earth!

¡Magnífico! ¡La historia en vivo!
En sus propias palabras --el enfrentamiento entre el gobierno revolucionario de Cuba y los imperialistas de EEUU y sus aliados en plena carrera guerrerista. Documentos de augusto, septiembre y octubre de 1990, mientras EEUU preparaba la guerra sangrienta contra Iraq.

En 9 capítulos, el libro presenta textos de las resoluciones del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas y declaraciones hechas por el representante cubano, Ricardo Alarcón, y el presidente cubano Fidel Castro. Explican con datos y argumentos detallados porque Cuba se opuso a los planes de EEUU y sus aliados.

¿Quiere entender las razones por las guerras libradas por EEUU en todos los rincones del mundo?
¿Quiere entender el papel de la ONU en el mundo de hoy?
¿Quiere saber más de la crisis económica y social del mundo hoy en día --y cómo luchar para cambiarlo?

Entonces, ¡lea este libro y compártelo con sus amigas y amigos!


Feminism and the Marxist Movement
Published in Paperback by Pathfinder Press (1994)
Author: Mary-Alice Waters
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A good introduction to feminism and socialism
What is the relationship between feminism and socialism? Should women wait until the socialist future to pursue their demands for equality? As young women were debating these ideas in the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 70s, many of us had no idea that our predecessors in the early Marxist movements in the US and Europe grappled with the same questions--until we read this pamphlet. Waters shows how important the fight for women's equality is in the struggle to overthrow capitalism. And how women can only win complete liberation through a socialist revolution.

You'll relive the important debates that took place in the early socialist and communist organizations. And you'll meet the early feminists who stood their ground within these movements to champion the cause of women. Waters describes the radical measures taken by the early revolutionary government in the USSR to liberate women from their subordinate place in society. She also explains how these progressive acts were later reversed by the Stalinist regime.

A lively overview of revolutionists and women's liberation
The question of the liberation of women has always been one of the dividing lines between revolutionary and reformist currents in working class movements, Mary-Alice Waters argues here. Revolutionists, from Karl Marx and Frederich Engels in the late 1800s to Lenin and Trotsky and other leaders of the 1917 Russian Revolution, championed the emancipation of women. This lively pamphlet is a good introduction to a rich history of debate and struggle, with examples from the United States, Germany, Britain, and Russia.

Waters introduces you to the German revolutionists Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, August Bebel; organizers of early American labor struggles such as Mother Jones and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; and Mary White Ovington, Rose Pastor Stokes and other leaders of the American Socialist Party in the early years of the 1900s.

I found useful the excerpts from debates in 1914 in the American socialist magazine "New Review." For example: the comment: "The Socialist who is not a feminist is lacking in breadth. The Feminist who is not a Socialist is lacking in strategy." Or an article arguing for repeal of laws against contraceptives to end "attempts to enforce upon women the tyranny of accidental and unwelcome pregnancy."

In all--thought provoking and a pointer to further study on these important questions.

Setting the Record straight!
A lot people who support feminism identify it with advancing middle class women in the business world and supporting women politicians in the Democrat and Republican parties. Many think feminism and Marxism don't together, given the antiwomen policies in countries like the Stalinist USSR and China. Waters sets the record straight about the long history of struggle by the Marxist movement against the oppression of women. She explains how capitalism is the cause of the oppression of women, and how the emancipation of women will come through the struggles of working class and farming women. Rather than opposing feminism, she charts a socialist and working class program to gain the goals of feminism, different from the goals of middle class and big business feminists.


Haciendo Historia/Making History: Entrevistas Con Cuatro Generales De Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias De Cuba
Published in Paperback by Pathfinder Press (2001)
Authors: Nestor Lopez Cuba and Mary-Alice Waters
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Little Known history
In this book four men from very different backgrounds tell the story of how they were won to the Cuban Revolution and devoted their lives to defending it. In the first interview you'll get a fresh perspective on the question of land mines and the never-before-revealed story of how Cubans training in the SovieUnion reacted to the October 1962 Missile Crisis. It just gets better after that.

Revolucionarios cubanos y norteamericanos platican
Revolucionarios cubanos y norteamericanos platican

La gente "común" que hicieron la revolución cubana está retratada en
este libro pequeño y poderoso. Son entrevistas conducidos por dirigentes
socialistas norteamericanos (¡sí, existen!) con generales de las Fuerzas
Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba. Los oficiales explican como fueron
reclutados inicialmente al Ejercito Rebelde y el Movimiento 26 de Julio,
sus experiencias en la guerra contra Batista, la batalla de Playa Girón
y la crisis de octubre de 1962, sus misiones internacionalistas en
Angola, Argelia, el Congo y Bolivia bajo el mando de Che Guevara, en
Siria y otros países. En el curso de las entrevistas, los conductores
resuman sus experiencias en actividades en defensa de la revolución
cubana en los EE.UU. durante esos mismos eventos históricos, además de
sus experiencias hoy en día de los militantes de un partido obrero
revolucionario en distribuir libros y periódicos en inglés y español que
dicen la verdad sobre Cuba y plantean el ejemplo de la revolución cubana
para la clase trabajadora la sigue algún día dentro de las entrañas de
la bestia imperial yanqui.

Cuban revolutionaries still fighting
When these generals published their longer memoirs, it caused a sensation in Cuba. We learned of how they were won to the revolution, and of struggles of Cuban soldiers from the Bay of Pigs, to Bolivia, from America to Vietnam, and in Cuba itself. Those memoirs and these interviews are a clear sign that the Cuban revolution and its leadership, especially the armed forces that the US has tried to get to subvert the revolution were holding true to the revolution, and they explained some previously unknown achievements of the Cuban military. Read these interviews, done by Socialist activists from the US, and see why. The interviews in this book explain the stories of the leaders of Cuba's armed forces, the stories of fighters who changed themselves and the world and continue to want to fight.


Nueva Internacional No. 5: El Imperialismo Norteamericano Ha Perdido LA Guerra Fria
Published in Paperback by Pathfinder Press (2001)
Authors: Jack Barnes and Mary-Alice Waters
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¿ Cayó el "comunismo" ? ¿ O el capitalismo en crisis ?
Fue el estalinismo -el contrario del comunismo- que cayó en 1989-90. Ahora es el capitalismo mundial que está en crisis. En este libro se explica el derrumbe de este obstáculo a la participación de la clase trabajadora en la politica en la URSS y en la Europa Oriental -la burocracia estalinista pequeñoburgués- y como las fundaciones económicas, sobre todo las relaciones sociales, de esos estados-obreros permanecen hasta hoy en día. Explica por que el único camino que tiene el imperialismo yanqui para restaura el capitalismo en esos países, más China, Corea del Norte, etc., es el camino de fuerza y violencia: es decir, el camino de la guerra mundial. Un dirigente del Partido Comunista Cubano plantea en este libro que la única alternativa humana a un futuro de esta barbarie capitalista llamada "globalizado" es tomar el poder estatal los trabajadores y los campesinos en alianza. Más que nada, aquí se ve como la experiencia de un núcleo proletario del partido revolucionario en los EE.UU. sirve para forjar el camino de ayudar a dirigir la resistencia de hoy y mañana contra la crisis del sistema de ganancias y del Sagrado Mercado hasta la victoria, hasta la construcción de un gobierno de los trabajadores y campesinos aquí en los EE.UU. llevado a la últimas consecuencias: la muerte de la bestia imperial.

¡Sí se puede! Perspectivas de lucha obrera hoy en día.
He encontrado en las revistas de política y teoría marxista Nueva Internacional una fuente indispensable de información, análisis y orientación política. Como su título indica, las revistas de dedican a educar y forjar una nueva vanguardia de la clase obrera a nivel mundial. Bien vale el tiempo necesario para leer y estudiarlas y compartir los artículos con otros trabajadores.

Los documentos presentados aquí ofrecen un análisis detallado de grandes cuestiones de nuestros tiempos: raíces de la crisis capitalista y la consecuente decadencia y debilidad del imperio norteamericano; perspectivas para la construcción de una sociedad socialista, superando la opresión, la explotación y la miseria que nos imponen sociedades divididas en clases; los retos en la lucha para forjar una dirigencia combativa y de conciencia de clase de la clase obrera a nivel mundial.

Los argumentos comiencen con las conquistas políticas históricas del movimiento obrero, desde Marx y Engels hasta Lenin y los Bolcheviques -- y las hacen más ricas, más concretas en base de la experiencia de la revolución cubana, de la caída de los regimenes estalinistas de la URSS y Europa oriental, y de las luchas de trabajadores y campesinos a través de las últimos décadas.

Me gusta sobre todo el espíritu de optimismo de los autores, su confianza en la capacidad de trabajadores y campesinos para transformarse y transformar el mundo entero. ¡Sí se puede!

para acabar con el último imperio
¿Era una victoria para el imperialismo estadounidense el derrumbe de la URSS? No. ¿Porqué? El fracaso del estalinismo comprobó que una capa parásita no es tan fuerte como las fundaciones del estado obrero. Pueda que en un momento dado el sistema basado en explotación no parece estar en crisis plena, no obstante estamos inmersos en una época generalizada de la caída permanente en la taza de ganancias, y la única manera que el capital tiene para revertir esta caída es destruir capital y quienes lo producen, es decir, llevar a cabo una nueva guerra mundial.

Editado en forma de tesis cuando el Bush mayor dio el primero grito de victoria frente la caída del Muro de Berlín, El imperialismo perdió la guerra fría representa la única corriente que ha entendido como ni los mismos capitalistas se sienten libres, porque son esclavos de su capital -un capital que encoja de forma permanente-.

El derrumbe del estalinismo nos representa para los trabajadores y campesinos la mejor oportunidad en más de setenta años a arrebatar de los superricos el poder estatal para construir su propio gobierno, y así acabar con el último imperio que pueda desgraciar la faz de la Tierra.


Pathfinder Press Was Born with the October Revolution: A Publishing House for Working-Class Fighters That Lets Revolutionary Leaders Speak in Their Ow
Published in Paperback by Pathfinder Press (NY) (1988)
Author: Mary-Alice Waters
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World Change Topic of This Publisher
Mary-Alice Waters outlines why Pathfinder Press is truly unique in the publishing world, because its "starting point has always been what is needed by those fighting to change the world, not what will sell in the market place."
I recommend this work because it describes the importance of a publishing house dedicated to fighting workers and explains how this idea was born with the 1917 October Revolution in Russia.
"The best materials Pathfinder publishes are those produced in the heat of battle," Waters says and outlines Pathfinders' scope, from Malcolm X and Fidel Castro to Pathfinders' number one seller, The Communisty Manifesto.

A Revolutionary Publisher in NYC,USA
Pathfinder Press is much more than a "small","radical" publisher. Pathfinder was the first to publish Fidel Castro's speeches in English in the US in the early years of the revolution for use by the Fair Play For Cuba Committee. It published Malcolm X's speeches, unexpurgated, along with The Militant newspaper, when no one else would. These works are in print to this day. This pamphlet explores Pathfinder's history as a fighting, working class publisher back to its beginnings with the activities of the first U.S. supporters of the Bolshevik Revoluttion.,through to the publishing of the record of the fight by the Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky for Marxist policy and action against the Stalin murder machine and against fascism, to today's distribution of Pathfinder books and pamphlets by socialist industrial workers and youth at mine portals, factory gates, and college campuses.

read this speech, read these books, join us!
Thousands of workers, youth, intellectuals and students have struggled to build Pathfinder press, to expand its sales, editing, printing. We do this because in Pathfinder the struggles of Lenin, Trotsky, Che, Malcolm X, Maurice Bishop, Rosa Luxembourg, Thomas Sankara, Mother Jones, and many other working class, women, and national liberation fighters Pathfinder publishes have not died, but continue and deepen. This pamphlet is a speech given in Havana by Pathfinder Press's publisher, Mary Alice Waters, that explains this history and this struggle. Through it we see that the October revolution has not died in the cesspool of Soviet Stalinism, but lives in the revolution in Cuba, in the fights workers are waging around the world against the US-UK war against the people against Afghanistan, in the struggle to build and expand Pathfinder. Read this speech, read these books, join us!


Their Trotsky and Ours
Published in Paperback by Pathfinder Press (2002)
Authors: Jack Barnes, Steve Clark, and Mary-Alice Waters
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revolutionary fighters look to their roots
In an age when revolutionaries come from different family trees, how do you look at the legendary Leon Trotsky, and his theory of "permanent revolution," that colonial countries can move directly from capitalist governments to workers governments? Jack Barnes, Socialist Workers Party national secretary, examines this issue in an article based on a 1982 speech.

Back to Lenin
Their Trotsky And Our, by Jack Barnes, is a timely reprint twenty years after it was first published. Based on a talk before 1000 working class fighters from the United States and around the world, this talk was earth shattering for those who looked mainly to Leon Trotsky. It reclaimed the political perspective and the strategic centrality of the worker and farmer alliance in the fight to defeat capitalism. And it re-knit ties with Bolshevism and the Communist International in Lenin's time. This enhanced rapprochement with genuine communists of the day: the Cubans and other serious fighters world wide.

As James P. Cannon, a founder of the U.S Communist Party, a delegate to two congresses of the Communist International and later a founder and a central leader of the Socialist Workers Party and the Fourth International said : "It is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was practiced in the Russian Revolution and in the early days of the Communist International." Thus "Their Trotsky and Ours" places Trotsky where he belongs in history as the twentieth century's greatest Marxist-Leninist, second only to Lenin.

A guide to a revolutionary future
This document is a summation of the lessons of history of revolution. In its way it is in line with the Communist Manifesto, with the fundamental documents of the Comintern, knitting together the history of world revolution, and of its Marxist vanguard in particular. This is not just about Trotsky and his contributions, butabout how the Cuban communists fit into the continuation of Leninism, of what lessons we can learn from the crushed revolutions in Grenada and Nicaragua and the revolution led by Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso.There is so much, how Lenin's understanding of the importance of reaching out to farmers is true today, how new currents of workers searching for communist answers will keep emerging as they did in Cuba. This book rejects the sectarianism that characterizes many who call themselves Trotskyists for the genuine Leninism that Trotsky was recruited to and fought to continue. It tells how Trotsky learned Leninism, and how Trotskyists have learned like Trotsky did, not to be Trotskyists, but to be communists. For many, this pamphlet will take them back to the founding documents of the Communists International. For others this will take you to the continuing revolutionary politics of Fidel and the other Cuban communists. If you are serious about changing the world, you need to read this, study this, and follow the links this important book takes you to revolutionists throughout history and around the world. Rather than looking back at history, this book willtake you forward to see where new revolutionists, new currents of revolutionists, new revolutions will come in the future.


U.S. Hands Off the Mideast!: Cuba Speaks Out at the United Nations
Published in Paperback by Pathfinder Press (1990)
Authors: Fidel Castro, Ricardo Alarcon, and Mary-Alice Waters
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Cuba speaks the truth
What a timely book!! Too bad that Cuba is no longer on the UN Security Council--its revolutionaries are badly needed to tell the truth, as they did thirteen years ago when the US was poised to attack Iraq in the Gulf War. As the documents in this book show, they were the only ones who had the guts to take on the US in the United Nations--not from a fake antiwar stance as the governments of France and Germany do today--but from the standpoint of international working-class solidarity. This books shows why the US is once again beating the war drums and it also shows why the US government can't stand Cuba. Viva Cuba! Bring the troops home NOW!

Cuba Exposes U.S. Aims
An excellent background to the current U.S. plans to attack and occupy Iraq. Drawn from the debate in the United Nations Security Council in 1990, this book highlights the revolutionary role of Cuba, which was then a member of the Security Council.

Cuban Representative Ricardo Alarcón asked, "Is it really the need to promote respect for the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of states that motivates the United States? Or is it the ambition of the United States to intervene and dominate the Middle East?"

This book, which includes speeches by Fidel Castro as well as Alarcón, will help clarify the real aims of the imperialists' first war against Iraq, as well as the second one.

We need this book now to oppose the War Against IRAQ
With US Imperialism preparing a war in the Middle East that will dwarf the Gulf War discussed here, this book is needed just as much as it was needed during the Gulf War. The leaders of the Cuban revolution in the UN and beyond pointed out then, and point out today that the real objectives of imperialism in this war are nothing less than a colonial conquest of the one of the richest oil countries on Earth. Listen to these voices, not the lies of Emron-paid-for-my-campaign Bush when you consider what the coming war is all about. Listen to these voices and understand that no matter how bad the regime in Iraq is, the struggle of the Iraqi people is part of the struggle of all the peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to throw off the economic and political domination of the imperialist countries of Europe, North America, and Japan. Read these words and join the struggle against imperialist war and for the self-determination of the oppressed of the Earth!


Women's Liberation and the Line of March of the Working Class
Published in Paperback by Pathfinder Press (NY) (1999)
Author: Mary-Alice Waters
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how to do it, not just talk
These documents are interesting in that they are not 'about' the women's liberation. Rather they are 'of' the women's liberation document, not from a women's group but from the Socialist Workers party. They center on what the party, the working class, and fighting women should DO to fight for women's liberation, how a revolutionary organization of workers should organize it self to fight for the goals of the movement, and to deal with new questions the movement has posed to the organization. We have several decades of documents in the series that begins with this volume. They belong on the shelves of every serious fighter for women's liberation and every serious fighter for the rights of working people.

I also recommend Women's Evolution, Revolutionary Dynamics of the Women's Liberation Movement, Abortion is a Woman's Right, Cuba and the Coming American Revolution, Marianas in Combat

Accomplishments and lessons of 1970s women¿s movements
This is exciting and thought-provoking material! Published in an inexpensive format, this bulletin brings together a number of reports and resolutions on women's oppression and the fight for women's liberation adopted by the Socialist Workers Party in the late 1970s.

These articles document the deep social changes that made possible the rise of mass women's movements in the 1960s and 1970s. They survey developments in many countries around the world, from the most developed capitalist powers, though neo-colonial and third world nations, to the countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. They record the impressive history of gains won, and the many challenges still to be met.

I particularly like the spirit of accomplishment and determination to really set society on a new footing that comes through these documents. They reflect the confidence coming out of years of participation in mass protest movements, and the reality of winning changes in women's place in modern society. There is rich material on the theoretical and political debate over the origins of women's oppression, its connection to class society, on norms and standards of conduct among revolutionaries, and the long-term perspective for building a new society free from oppression and exploitation.

I'd also recommend reading the Marxist classic The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, by Frederick Engels; Problems of Women's Liberation and Is Biology Women's Destiny? by Evelyn Reed; Women and the Cuban Revolution, edited by Betsy Stone; and The Changing face of U.S. Politics: Working-Class Politics and the Trade Unions, by Jack Barnes.

documents of struggle for future battles
Some day these documents will be reviewed and studied as important to the history of the world struggle for freedom, the struggle of working people, oppressed people, women for socialism. These are the document which the Socialist Workers Party with considerable input from young fighters in the Young Socialist Alliance, and fighters from sister organizations all over the world, charted its response, analysis, strategy and tactics for the women's liberation. This is to say this is the most important attempt by fighting workers, students, and youth, as marxists and fighters for women's rights to develop an analysis of the women's movement. This is not an analysis to be read in a book or spouted in a lecture, but a analysis written by and for women and men who were fighting the sharpest battles fo the women's movement inthe 1970s, for abortion rights, for the equal rights amendment, for the right of women to enter industrial and technical jobs, and facing the question of political capitalist and working class. These documents are a call to battle. Read them and join the struggles of socialist workers, of women, and men, fights that will add to the richnest of this document of struggle.


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