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Can the Party Fight Reagan? Can the Party EDITED BY MICHAEL HARRINGTON Fight Reagan? By Michael Harrington Jan.-Feb. 1982 Vol. X, No. 1-2 $1 HE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION has failed utterly and cruelly to meet the worst economic ( REAGAN ON CRIME: •J INSIDE and social crisis in half a cen­ tury. Unemployment soars; the RETRl8UTIOtlSHOllU> BE 1 government makes the rich SWIFT ANDSCltE FOR Dl~llf)CllA'l I(~ richer and the poor poorer ; the THOSE WHO PREY UPON THE gains of minorities and women INNOCE~ TllW>EiL'tAND AGENl)A are subverted. All the while ntEWEAr.!! Wall Street awaits the return of a double SPECIAL digit inflation, only temporarily mod­ erated by a vicious attack upon the living ISSUE standards of working and middle-class people, as well as upon those at the bot­ Taking a Stand, p. S tom of society. What does DEMOCRATIC AGENDA propose Reagan is failing ; Reagan will fail. to turn this country around ? But his failure does not automatically guarantee victory for the trade unionists, Local Organizing, p. 7 minorities, women, and social activists Reagan isn't the only one concerned with the who oppose him. Those constituencies grassroots. Progressives are gearing up at the that make up the democratic left have ( REAQMON THE BUDGET: state level to send a message to Washington. to produce Jheir alternative to the insanity J of Reaganomics. If they do not, Reagan's ... ADDITIONAL CUTS WILL . ~pecial Report: Credit, p. 8 catastrophe will defeat the left as well as the right. BE MADE IN THE ~nng~g interest rates down will be a key Since 1975, DEMOCRATIC AGENDA LEGAL AJD,MEDICAll. ts~e m 1982. Brian Turner offers a plan of AND SCHOOL·LUNCH action. of which DSOC is a major part, has tried to unite that democratic left behind a PROGRAMS!! program responsive to the current crisis Why Run With Democrats?, p. 12 of the American system. We have see~ If the Democrats are in such bad shape why 1 that the old liberalism, a significant, if should we stick with them? Ruth Jordan Jooks limited, achievement that was as far left at where they're going and how we'll show as American politics ever went, no longer them another route. ~esponds to structural problems rooted m the economy, dominated by a corporate On the Left, p. 14 power aided and abetted by the govern­ ment. So we have taken the battle for a DSOC/ NAM UNIJY CONVENTION real "New Beginning" into the Demo- DETROIT, MARCH 19-21 cratic party, that contradictory coalition of some of the worst and most of the term convention in 1978 we organized programs that are cruc:W. noc just for best people in the land, which is, for an impressive floor fight against Carter's minorities and women, but for most of better or worse, where the progressive policies, and we were an important part the rest of the American people as well. constituencies are and, therefore, where of the progressive coalition at the 1980 And technocrats such as the DNC chair we are. convention. Charles Manatt pretend that the GOP DEMOCRATIC AGENDA anticipated Carter was defeated, and some of merely outorganized the Democrats in the current intolerable situation. In 1976 the best people in Congress went down 1980, that the party's problems can be we struggled at the convention to make with him. But the response of the Demo­ solved by better computers and mailing the Democratic party conscious that the cratic party to this fiasco has been woe­ lists. old remedies were no longer workable. fully inadequate. At times in 1980, Con­ At the 1979 DEMOCRATIC AGENDA In 1977 we marched to the Democratic gressional Democrats proposed give­ conference in Washington, D.C. we said National Committee (DNC) headquar­ aways to the corporate rich that were to that America would either go as far be­ ters in Washington, D.C. to proclaim the right of the Reaganites. The "neo­ yond Franklin Roosevelt as Roosevelt that if Carter kept on with his inept ver­ liberals" may reaffirm their support for went beyond Hoover or else we would sion of an obsolete politics he would be minorities and women, but they then call be dragged back to Hoover. Well, here defeated in 1980. At the Memphis mid- for a retreat from economic and social we are now halfway back to Hoover and Reagan is draggin~ hard. Where is the democratic left alternative ? This issue of DEMOCRATIC LEFT is organized around an answer to that ques­ I JITTERS tion. It focuses on a series of immediate To the Editor: decision to place intermediate-range nu­ demands for full employment with price One has to be a very careful reader clear missiles in Europe. The Italian and stability, progressively financed and de­ of Patrick Lacefield's cover article (No­ Spanish Communist parties refused to signed to overcome racial and sexual dis­ vember 1981) to find even a hint of the participate. They knew it could take less crimination. These demands, listed on difference between the NATO decision than 15 minutes for the Soviet missiles pages 5-6, are dear and straightforward. of 1979 to deploy intermediate-range to hit all the major cities of Europe. They But they rest upon a complex analysis nuclear missiles in Europe and the de­ proposed instead that the Soviets should of the current crisis. This article is an ployment of SS-20s, the Soviet equiva­ remove their missiles and the Americans attempt to give a brief overview of that lent missiles, in Europe. Aside from the should not emplace theirs. analysis. fact that the Soviet missiles seem almost The demand for unilateral disarma­ First we must answer the question: benign in Lacefield's exposition, intended ment is as great an obstacle to peace in Why has the traditional liberalism failed? only to modernize their we~pons and to the nuclear age as the effort to depict the Not for the reasons that Reagan and the achieve parity with the U.S., there is just use of "tactical" nuclear missiles as a conservatives give. They say that big­ a coy allusion to the big difference: the feasible strategy. The Italian and Spanish spending liberals forced prices up and Soviets have been emplacing their mis­ Communists were on target in this matter crowded out private investors who are siles, targeted on Paris, London, Rome, -get rid of nuclear weapons East and the main source of jobs, thus causing Brussels, Amsterdam and Bonn, for the West. Perhaps if Lacefield had been in both inflation and unemployment. But past three years at the rate of about five Sweden when the Soviet nuclear armed the embarrassing fact is that the Amer­ to ten a month, while not a single one submarine made its tortuous way through ican welfare state spends /eu than any of the American missiles is in place. the fjords to the shore, he might have other advanced Western society. It takes Indeed, the first ones are scheduled for glimpsed the real menace in Europe. leu of a percentage of its Gross National emplacement in 1983 ! One can hardly Joseph Clark Product (GNP) for social programs, and glean that fact from Lacefield's happy New York, N.Y. yet those countries that spend more have description of Belgium's postpone!Dent lower inflation and unemployment. More of "the stationing date from next year's Ed. Note: We have received many to the point, the Reaganites have been scheduled start." letters about the forum on abortion forced to learn a lesson DEMOC.IV\TIC More than two years ago the Soviet politics that appeared in November. AGENDA has been teaching for years: and French Communist parties convened We will not be able to print all of federal budget deficits arc not the cause a conference of European Communist them, but we will devote substantial but the comeq11enu of the crisis. Layoffs parties in Paris to protest the NATO space to them in an upcoming issue. are extremely expensive-jobless work- Michael Harrington DEMOCllATIC LEFT is published ten times a year Editor (monthly aa:p< Jnly and August) by the Dem­ Maxine Phillips ocratic Socialist Organizing Committee, 853 Managing Editor Broadway, Suite 801, New York, N.Y. 10003. Telephone: (212) 260-3270. Subscriptions: $15 Selma Lenihan sustaining md institutional; $8 regular. Signed Organizational Director arttdes express the opinions of the authors. Ben Tafoya ISS-11\l 0164-320-. Political Director Second Class Permit Paid at New York. N.Y. 2 DEMOCRATIC LEFT }ANUARY-FEBllUAEY i 9S2 regions for growth and favored access 3. Making the Federal Reserve inflation policy that aims directly at the to capital to meet fairly dear economic Board representative of the various sec­ causes of inflation rather than at weaken­ development goals: job creation, produc­ tors of the economy, instead of having ing labor and smaller business through tivity and real income growth, a strong Board members be exclusively bankers layoffs, bankruptcies, and absorption into industrial base. Ronald Reagan and the and academics. Members from labor, ever larger corporate giants. A serious supply-side mythology, it can be simply manufacturing industries, construction, anti-inflation policy is necessary to over­ noted, are moving this country away from local government, as well as farmers and come the simple-minded belief, on Wall the economic models that work in other consumers would give the Fed a perspec­ Street and elsewhere (ample contrary industrial economies. Simplistic aggre­ tive on the full impact of interest rates experience abroad notwithstanding) , that gate monetary policy-like the absence of and credit policies. recessionary budget deficits directly lead industrial policy, regional policy, and Extending the Credit Control Act to higher inflation and therefore justify labor market policy-is just one example of 1969 before it expires in June 1982 high interest rates.
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