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Matewan But the right track can only be accom plished if the Soviet Union gives up on military adventurism. Imperialist wars A S«ra/1$1 P~"I'" '' .-. "" To the Editm: THE POLmcs OF POVERTY are a very costly enterprise. A real solu After seeing Matewan and reading tion to the Afghanistan crisis can only help the review of it in the November/ the Soviet people. But what is currently December issue of Democratic Left, I proposed as a solution is a sham. Imagine would like to know what books or articles that the United States invades Nicaragua. .., ! have been written about the Matewan International crisis is set. Negotiations be \hchH'I H.amn(lton strikes. Can you tell me anything about gin. The U.S. promises that it \\'ill leave the historical accuracy of the film? Were Nicaragua in a year only if the safety and 10otlh'-!fikho11111J\ any episodes or characters invented? Any Bubar.1 (htt"t1retch guaranteed participation in the ruling cir Willi.-m Julius Wilwn information would be welcome. cles of their puppets is secured. What gall, .... M;uli. Ltvinson Neil Copertini right? San Francisco, CA To keep silent on what's happening in Afghanistan can only feed Gorbachev's (Editor's response: The American Social enemies and the enemies ofprestroika. In To order DSA's new pamphlet on History Project recomends the following ternational indignation to the Soviet pull poverty send $1 .00 for a single issue. book as a good source of information about out is needed. Shams never resolve any Make checks payable to DSA, 15 that period in labor history: David Corbin's thing. Dutch Street, Room 500, New York. Life, Work and Rebellion in the Coal Lorenze Canizares New York 10038. Fi.elds: Southwest Virginia Miners, 1880- New York, NY 1922, which was published by the Uni versity of Illinois Press in 1981.)
ARTICLES The Soviet Union and Afghanistan Super Tuesday: Conservative Yearnings and BAJUIARA EHRENREICH To the Editor: Progressive Realities MICHA&. HARRINGTON EdiUJrs It is perplexing to see a serious analy by Ann Lewis ...... page 5 tical article such as Louis Menashe's Israeli-Palestinian SHERRi t.ivJNE "Understanding Glas?wst'' of the Novem National Executive Committee ManJJging Ed1tqr ber/December issue of Democratic Left, Resolution ...... page 10 which does not consider the Soviet Union's Could Canada Vote for EolTORIAL COMMITI'EE involvement in Afghanistan. Democratic Socialism? Joanne Barkan Maxine Phillips By now it should be a clear political vania Del Borgo Jan Rosenberg position, to most political activists of the by Desmond Morton ...... page 11 Guy Molyneux left, that the foreign policy of a nation is a Hollywood DEMOCRATIC LEFT (ISSN 0164-3207) is pub reflection of its internal policies. How suc and the Vietnam War lished six times a year at 15 Dutcli St., Suite 500, cessful perestroika is going to be is tied to a by Al Auster New York, NY i0008. Second Class postage situation very similar to one we face here paid at New York, N.Y. Subscription $8 reg and Leonard Quart ..... :. page 13 ular; $15 institutional. in terms ofour own economic well-being POSTMASTER: Send address changes to how much resources are devoted to the DEPARTMENTS DEMOCRATIC LEFT, 15 Dutch St.• Suite 500, military. New York, NY 10038. It seems clear that Gorbachev would like to eliminate at least some missle ex DEMOCRATIC LEFT is publislted by the Democra LETI'ERS...... page 2 tic Socialists of America at the above address, " penses. It also seems clear that Gorbachev phone (212) 962-0390. Microfilm. Wisconsin is seriously trying to shake up the EDITORIAL ...... page 3 State Historical Society, 816 State St., Madison bureaucracy in order to improve the DSAction ...... page 7 WI 53700. Indexed in the Alternative Press In Soviet people's standard of living. All ON THE LEFT ...... page 8 dex, P.O. Box 7229, Baltimore MD 21218 given, Gorbachev seems to be on the right CLASSIFIEDS ...... page 15 Sign"d arliclu express the opinion8 of Uu DEMOCRATIC LEFT 2 JAN.-FEB. 1988 EDITORIAL Democratic Candidates Need A Progressive Program rogram, the cynical wisdom One of the reasons why program has only Democrat who has come up with a says, makes no difference in to count in this election is that the people comprehensive response to the national American presidential ~ l ec sense that something is wrong. Events plight, which includes full employment tions. like the stock market crash have broken based on redistributive justice, and Third Most of the time, alas, the Reagan spell. But although the system World development as a means of solving Pthere is a rough, real-world truth to that is in crisis - the.stock market crash; pri problems in the rich and poor lands. That is attitude. Most of the time, Democrats and vate, corporate, and international debt; why the DSA Political Action Committee Republicans are not arguing about basic the multinationalization of the world eco voted to endorse Jackson at its December principles and new directions but about nomy; and so on - there is no assurance meeting. whether there will be a progressive or that this will be obvious to the voters on Paul Simon supports an excellent full reactionary version of a common con election day in 1988. employment program - and persists in a sensus. If a recession begins this spring, reactionary commitment to a balanced If this were just another standard which is possible but by no means certain, budget amendment. He is also, however, election, we socialists would be denounc the Democrats can build on the facts of the only candidate, besides Jackson, who ing the vacuousness of the campaign but everyday experience. If not, the progres has pushed for tax justice. without much hope of getting the Demo sive task is much more difficult: to speak to DSA will, of course, be putting all of crats to take ideas seriously. Only 1988 is the fears that exist even now, to show that its energy behind Jackson. But, as the De not most of the time. a crisis will come, and to develop alterna cember convention recognized, a good In 1980, the most ideological candi tives to it. Accomplishing these tasks re number of our members and friends will be date in the twentieth century was elected, quires leftist imagination, not leftist bom backing other candidates. We believe that in part because he promised radical new bast. all of us on the democratic left have to work departw·es from a welfare state consensus If the Democrats allow 1988 to be a together on program. The time has come which could no longer cope with the furious senior class election, they will lose. They to turn that most derided of political in pace of worldwide change. Unfortunately, need program to reach out to that uneasi stitutions, the Convention Platform Com he was as good as his word. The Treasury ness that is shared by a majority of Amer mittee, into a serious vehicle for ideas that has been given to the rich, the poor and the icans. And they also need to have some will both mobilize the electorate and make middle class have been under assault, and idea how to deal with the economic crisis it possible for the next Democratic presi America now lives in an economic house of that is sure to break out during the next dent to face up to what is already the most cards. Presidency, if not before. serious crisis of the system since the Great The lease on that house of cards is As it now stands, five and a half Depression. going to run out sooner or later, and quite Democratic candidates are dodging the possibly sooner. fundamental issues. 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Published at $17.95. $3.50 __ CITY __ STATE ___ ZIP __ DEMOCRATIC LEFT 4 JAN.-fEB. 1988 Super Tuesday: Conservative Yearnings and Progressive Realities by Ann Lewis states located in such areas as the populist Even some of the DLC's own found midwest and industrial northeast. ers have moved away from the <>riginal n March 8th, 1988, voters - The southern candidates most often formulation Ill! they have gone on to seek in twenty states will make mentioned as likely choices, Senator Sam the nomination of that very same Party. their choice for the Demo Nunn of Georgia and Governor Charles Congressman Richard Gephardt, the first cratic Presidential nomina Robb of Virginia, declined to run. That chairman of the DLC, and former Arizona tion. By March 9th, 38 per leaves the best hope for Super Tuesday in Governor Bruce Babbit are both included cent0 of the pledged delegates to the 1988 the somewhat unlikely hands of Senator in DLC literature, but insiders have been Democratic convention will have been Albert Gore Jr, a 39-year-old Harvard known to ~ble at their apostasy in for chosen - a dramatic increase over pre educated Washington insider whose best saking the pure doctrine in search of votes. vious years. known congressional accomplishments Such are the perils of democracy! By adopting Super Tuesday as the have been in the field of arms control. Meanwhile, Jesse Jackson whose "centerpiece of their 1988 campaign," In developing his own Super Tuesday presidential campaign won sixty-one southern Democrats announced their de strategy, Gore suddenly discovered a con mostly southern congressional districts in termination to increase the importance of servative emphasis not previously noticed 1984, appears the most likely beneficiary the South in the Democratic nominating in his career. He makes a point of telling of thi::; year's altered calendar. The fact process; to downplay what they consi southern voters that he takes them that so many southern primaries and cau dered to be the exaggerated influence of seriously - so much so that he has chosen cuses will be held on March 8th suggests such "liberal" states as Iowa and New to opt out of the Iowa caucuses and is run that the 1988 Jack..o,;Qn campaign will win Hampshire; and to increase the chances of ning only a minor effort in New Hamp more deleg-ates earlier in the process than a southern (read white male conservative) shire. A noteworthy success of the Gore might otherwise be the case. At a meeting candidate. candidacy so far has been the endorsement of the Democratic Leadership Council in Political and ideological support for of a string of southern officeholders. It is 1987, the candidate expressed his own the Super Tuesday strategy was provided not clear whether these endorsers consid assessment of his prospects. Introduced by the Democratic Leadership Council, er Gore a safe parking space for their own by Governor Robb, Jackson responded by formed in 198.5 as a reaction to the land political considerations or a launching pad thanking Robb an DEMOCRATIC LEFT 5 JAN.-fEB. 1988 stricted to any particular region. Even in Democratic nominees. • northern precincts, insiders can be heard Voter participation can be increased. longing for a return to the "good old days" One of the most heartening examples is the Super Tuesday States of closed conventions, back-room ma increase in black voter turnout in the 1984 neuvering and pliable delegates. These in and 1986 campaigns - all but erasing the siders tend to focus on the post-1968 dele historic difference between black and Over one-thinl of the dekgates to the gate selection rules as the source of our white turnout rates and providing the Democrati.c Party's national conven- problems. Undo the reforms, they argue, margin that elected a Democratic Senate tion will be chosen in the Marek 8th and all would be well: the reincarnated in 1986. Su'fW" Tuaday primaries, to be held ghosts of Richard Daley, David Lawrence, That increase was not engineered by in huent~ states. and Ed Flynn will once again meet to changes in rules or delivered by any poli State nominate Adlai Stevenson - not the best tical boss. It was inspired by Jesse Jack Del'sAlt's example of an electable candidate. son's 1984 campaign, which heavily Alabama 61 19 Such reminiscing overlooks the cost emphasi7.ed voter registration, and was fueled by the harsh realities of the Reagan Arkansas to the Party and to its eventual nominee of 43 13 the last pre-refonn convention in 1968, in administration. It was solidified by voters Florida 146 45 which the unrepresentative nature of the making the decision to act in their own best proceedings exacerbated an existing divi interest by voting for the candidates who Georgia 86 26 sion with no means for reconciliation. It they perceived could make a difference in Hawaii 25 also overlooks the number of undisting their lives. 7 uished and unelectable candidates nomin It is ironic that those southern Idaho 23 6 ated by party bosses over the years. officeholders and party strategists who But the fundamental flaw with this were among the chief beneficiaries of in Kentucky 60 18 line of reasoning is more basic. An argu creased Democratic voter turnout in 1986 Louisiana 71 21 ment put forward by self-styled pragmat seem to have overlooked that example in ists turns out to be an exercise in wishful their plans for 1988. Instead of building on Maryland 78 22 thinking; a yearning for simpler times that those victories which expanded and uni~ fied the Democratic coalition, they turned Massachusetts 109 will not return in or out of the political 33 process. to old tactics of division, focussing not on the increasing unity of the modern Demo Mississippi The single most important reality of 45 13 cratic party, but rather upon differences modern American political life is the deter and divisions of years past. Missouri 83 26 mination by most Americans to make im For Super Tuesday, Jackson is portant decisions on the basis of their own Nevada 21 5 reaching out to southern voters with a judgment and information. We may la campaign that emphasizes economic jus North Carolina 89 27 ment the information sources: two minutes tice and a workers' bill of rights. In highly on network news is probably not the forum effective appearances before workers, far Oklahoma 51 15 we would choose for a presidential debate. mers, politcal newcomers, and longtime But we can't ignore the cumulative effect Rhode Island 26 7 Democratic stalwarts, Jackson has of individual decision-making in politics, reached across the color lines to make the Tennessee 77 23 just as we can't ignore how these dynamics connection between progressive politics pervade culture, work, and the family. Texas 198 61 and real economic opportunity. His agenda Modern Americans are accustomed to includes stronger unions, better pension Virginia 85 25 making their own decision in every other protection, improved health and safety Washington 72 22 area of life, from supermarket shopping to standards, and pay equity for women and religious observances. They are not about minorities. His response already exceeds to start taking orders from a revived anny conventional predictions, and it seems that of precinct captains telling them how to his support on Super Tuesday will again paign narratives. But a report which fo vote for President - even if we could confound conventional and conservative cuses only on the delegate mathematics miracuously find the foot soldiers to serve wisdom. will miss the larger lesson. Super Tuesday, in this anny. The simultaneous loss of pat Super Tuesday began as an exercise which began as an exercise in nostalgia, is ronage jobs and increased competition for in regional sectionalism and regressive now colliding with the reality of current volunteer hours has severely eroded the politics. To the surprise of its founders, it American politics. ability of any political structure to cover is likely instead to bring good news to sup This is not what its proponents had in the neighborhoods as it once did. porters of coalition politics and progres mind, and it actually seems to have caught A nation of over-scheduled families sive policies • them by surprise. Their discomfort re juggling jobs, children, exercise, and per veals the extent to which Super Tuesday sonal fulfillment will not pour out to attend Ann Lewi.s, who has advised Jesse Jack represented one more effort to tum back campaign meetings, rallies or parades. son in his presidential campaign, served the clock of Democratic history, attempt Appeals to party loyalty are less and less as the natimw.l director of Americans far ng in the name of political realism to undo likely to convince voters to even vote at all. Democratic Action. She is currently the years of actual events. And yet, declining voter turnout among chair ofthe Democrlatic Task Farce oftll.e The lament is a familiar one, not re- Democratic constituencies is fatal to Natimw.l Women's Political Caucus. DEMOCRATIC LEFT 6 JAN.·fEI. 1988 DSACTION • This year's Mid-Atlantic Retreat will Reuther, anotherfounderofthe UAW and REPORTS take place on June 25-26th in Baltimore. the brother of the late UAW president Call Julie Glass at the Baltimore DSA Walter Reuther, called Brendan's work in • The Religion and Socialism Commission office at (301) 467-9388 for information. the large Willow Run UAW local crucial to of DSA L.;; orgruiiling a thr~ay Congress • Organizational director Patrick Lace Walter's election in 1946. on "Religion and Progressive Politics: A field and NEC member Skip Roberts Reuther's UAW was about as close as Partnership for Developing Preferrential were the DSA delegates to the Socialist the United States has come to a conscious Options for Social Change" over Memorial International's Latin American Commit social democratic movement, and Brendan Day Weekend in Chicago, Illinois. Invited tee meeting in Caracus, Venezuela . Sexton loomed large as an influence within speakers include Come! West, Harvey the Reutherite labor movement. For more Cox, and Rosemary Radford Ruether. For than twenty years, he served as UAW more information or to register for the con RESOURCES education director. Among his many ference, contact Tom Wakely at the Chica accomplishme nts, Brendan established go DSA office, (312) 384-0327. • A documentary film, Our Land Too: The the Black Lake Family Education Center • DSA's Socialist Feminist Commission Legacy of tJ1e Southern Tenant Farmers and developed a model labor education will be holding a socialist-feminist retreat Union, has been released. The film por program still in use there. As Brendan June 4-5th in Northeast Ohio. This will be trays America's first rural interracial un always stressed, the task of workers' an opportunity for women to assess the ion, founded by eleven white and seven education is to convince workers that they state of the feminist movement, so as to black sharecroppers in Arkansas in 1934 at posess the knowledge and power to change best determine how to further DSA's the suggestion of Socialist leader Norman, the world. socialist feminist work. Anyone interested Thomas. The film may be obtained from An organizer for the Socialist Party in in helping to plan the event or in register the STFU Association, Inc., P.O. Box New York City in the early 1930s, Bren ing for the retreat, please contact Sheni 2617, Montgomery, Alabama 36105, (205) dan became a national leader of the Work Levine at the DSA national office, (212) 256-4700. ers' Alliance, the Socialist-initiated or 962-0390. • The November/December issue of Our ganization of the unemployed. A high • The Coalition of Labor Union Women Stntggle!N1wstra L1,cha, the newsletter school drop out who was educated in the (CL UW), in conjunction with women's and ofDSA's Latino, Afro-American and Anti radical movement, he became a college community organizations, unions, and the Racism Commissions, focuses on the Rain professor and author after retirement religious community, is organizing a bow Coalition, labor support for Jesse from his three decade career with the Washington, DC rally to demand a com Jackson's presidential bid, and an update UAW. Brendan and his wife and co prehensive national family policy. The on immigration legislation. To join the author, Patricia Cayo Sexton, helped to agenda includes 1) family and medical Commission, send $10 to DSA, 2827 Cata spark the revival of intellectual interest in leave; 2) quality, comprehensive child nia Way, Sacramento, CA 95826. problems of social class with the publica care; 3) improved educational opportuni • New Perspectives in Nortlz-S DEMOCRATIC LEFT 7 )AN.·fEB. 1988 DSACTION Illilwis U.S. Left. The January 22nd session stu Tom Wakely, Chicago DSA's newly died activity from 1880 to 1920 ....CKDSA hired organizer has recently been named is holding a forum in Lexington prior to Midwest field organizer for DSA's Latino March 8th's Super Tuesday primary with Commission .... The Chicago local has been DSA's field director and anti-racism coor by HARRY FLEISCHMAN active in University of Chicago politics, dinator Shakoor Aljuwani as part of their helping to form a left party which won ongoing work in the Jackson campaign. twenty-one out of fifty seats on the Stu dent Assembly and will work hard to back J1.aryland California. investigations of stock holdings in South Shakoor Aljuwani, DSA field director San Diego DSA and the Committee in Africa of University trustees.... A DSA and anti-racism coordinator, spoke to Bal Solidarity with the People of El Salvador fundraiser is being held February 6th with timore DSA in November on "Assessing (CISPES) co-sponsored the 4th annual DSA co-chair Barbara Ehrenreich and the Rainbow," and the local is helping to holiday dinner for New El Salvador Today comedian Aaron Freeman to raise money coordinate a city-wide voter registration (NEST) on December 11th. The guest for a coalition organizing to pass a City campaign .... DSAers are working with the speaker was Miyera Lucero, a peasant Council referendum calling on the Illinois Towson State College & with the Pro- organizer and women's activist from El Salvador... . Los Angeles DSA is active in voter registration in coordination with the IN RESPONSE To I WOULD ltKE Jesse Jackson campaign. They are also QUES1i0NS ABOUT TO TAKE THtS planning a concert for International MY KNOWLEDGE Women's Day, which will feature a OPPO~\UNrrY women's band !mown for its performance OF THE ARMS FoF. of Central American music. HOSTAGES DEAL .. TO JUSTS~'( ... ConMdicut Hartford DSA is actively participat I KNEW /\5 ing in the People for Change Party which MUCH ASlHE recently elected several blacks and Lati nos to the City Council. ... Hartford DSA is PRESIDENT also supporting the defense of the Hart ford 15, a group of Puerto Ricans being D\DN'T w~ ®TNf llEWKALL tried as "teJTOrists." SIGH/IL 1988 ROTHCO District of Colurnbia National Guard to refrain from participa gressive Student--- Union at Towson State DSA co-hosted a meeting of the Chile tion in military exercises in Hon College and with the Progressive Action Committee of the Socialist International in duras .... Frances Fox Piven, DSA vice Committee and Students Against Apar Washington, DC on November 18-19th, chair, is speaking at the University of Chi theid at the University of Maryland on a which drew representatives from nearly cago February lOth .... Lesbian and gay talk by John Linder of the Ben Linder twenty member parties from Europe and Chicago DSAers have helped to form the Peace Tour.... In conjunction with the Latin America. Leaders from the Chilean mass-based Lesbian and Gay Democratic Baltimore Nicaragua Medical Aid Com Radical, Socialist, and Christian Democra Organization .... Carbondale DSA worked mittee and the People's Community tic parties outlined the democratic opposi with the Southern Illinois Latin America Health Center they are working to estalr tion campaign against dictator Pinochet. Solidarity Committee in opposing aid to lish a sister-clinic in Nicaragua and to con DSA representatives were organizational the Contras and is also working in a local tinue to struggle for adequate health care director Pat Lacefield, National Executive coalition in support of the homeless. in Baltimore.... Together with other com Committee member Skip Roberts, and munity groups, Baltimore DSA is planning Iowa veteran unionist Frank Wallick. ... DC/MD a women's film series to run from March Karen Kubby, whose Socialist views DSA and Northern VA DSA are con through June. were emphasized in the Daily Iowan, lost tinuing their work on the DC statehood her city council race by only 179 votes. campaign and are also working in coalition ... Despite the Iowa Citizen Action Net Mas.~achusetts with the Maryland Citizen Action Coali On January 31st, Boston DSA is work's hard fight for tax reform, a special tion and Labor Under Apartheid .... Lisa holding a forum on "The Crash Heard session of the Iowa legislature granted Foley of the DC/MD local is hosting a DSA Around the World - The International wealthy Iowans $18 million in tax give women's brunch at her home on Sunday, Limits on Domestic £conomic Policy." aways in the name of improving Iowa's February 7th .... DC/MD DSA is putting ... Boston DSA is working actively on the business climate. together a pamphlet titled ''Witness to Jesse Jackson campaign in Boston's Sixth Two Worlds- Salvadoran Refugees, the Kentucky Congressional District and is also organiz D.C. Community, and U.S. Foreign Central Kentucky DSA has set up a ing canvassers to go to New Hampshirf Policy." study group exploring the history of the prior to the New Hampshire primary. DEMOCRATIC LEFT 8 )AN.·fEB. 1988 DSACTION sburgh local helped organiz.e a Peace and Michigan North Carolina Justice Film Festival which will show thir Rosemary Ruether, DSA vice-chair, DSAers at East Carolina University ty-five .films about South Africa, Central spoke on November 23rd at the University have been working with Students for Eco America, the Middle East, and nuclear of Michigan on "Women's Issues in Theolo nomic Democracy to organiz.e against Con warfare. ...Joni Rabinowitz and Mike gy and the Church." ...The Ann Arbor tra aid. They sponsored a series of soapbox Freeman of Pittsburgh DSA are running DSA PAC recently endorsed three people open-mike forums and a political art show as Jackson delegates.... Four hundred running for City Council and is supporting on campus this winter. blacks and whites took part in a march a rent control referendum. sponsored by the Coalition Against Racist Ohio Violence to protest the attack on a black Missouri Youth Section activists at the Uni woman and her family in predominantly Kansas City DSA will be airing regu versity of Dayton and Oberlin College white Morningside.... The third annual lar commentaries on the local National have been active organizing against Con Reading-Berks Democratic Socialists din Public Radio station.... KCDSA has begun tra aid and sending delegates to the ner was held on January 15th. Maurer holding a monthly discussion group. National Rainbow Coalition Student Con Stump Awards were given to DSA co vention in Raleigh, North Carolina .... chair Michael Harrington and Bernard New York Cleveland DSA is running a local school on Sanders, the independent Socialist mayor The Social Justice Center, of which poverty .... Mahoning Valley DSA (in east of Burlington, Vermont. Albany DSA is a member, held its annual ern Ohio) is reorganizing. They're starting Tennusee awards dinner in November.... DSAers at a new newsletter, "Alternatives," and are Nashville DSA is heavily involved in the State University of New York at Bing planning an event in June to mark the the Rainbow Coalition and the Jackson hamton are supporting the university anniversary of Eugene Debbs' speech in Campaign, organizing phone trees and staffs unionization effort .... At SUNY Canton. getting local peace and justice groups to Cortland, DSA held a divestment rally and pledge their support to Jackson. plans a teach-in on Central America in Pennsylvania cooperation with the Latin Student Union. The Bucknell Youth Section chapter Texas ... Ben Nichols, the former chair of Ithaca is working with the NAACP and other DSA activists at the University of DSA, is now an Ithaca alderman .... Suffolk groups to form a campus-based Rainbow Houston have helped to initiate a world County DSA's chair, Hugh Cleland, is on Coalition chapter. Over the next few affairs forum with other organizations and the steering committee of the Rainbow months, Central Pennsylvania DSA will faculty members. Its first event was a Coalition in his Congressional District and engage in several discussions reassessing panel on the Arias Peace Plan, moderated the local is organizing a bus of students to the state of the local.. .. Curt Sanders, by DSAer Eric Martin.... "Jobs With Ju~ canvass for Jesse Jackson in New Hamp CPDSA secretary, lost his bid for East tice" march and rally was held December shire. In addition, they organized to help Pennsboro Township Assessor by 36 12th in Nacogdoches. Participants mar defeat the Contra vote on February votes .... One member of Reading-Berks ched from Richie Park to Stephen F. Au 3rd.... NYC DSA is playing an important DSA is running as a Jackson del stin University to build unity and public role in the New Democratic Coalition, egate and another is running as a Dukakis support for workers' rights .... An all which represents the independent reform delegate .... DSAer Babbette Josephs, a Texas DSA meeting was held recently to Democratic Clubs of New York. ...The Democratic state legislator from Phi plan out DSA's involvement in the upcom housing Task Force of the NYC local re ladelphia, is leading the campaign against ing elections and to organize a hospitality cently featured a slide show on the housing the use of Pennsylvania National Guard suite at the Texas Democratic Convention struggle in Nicaragua. troops in Central America.... The Pitt- this spring. Victory Vote Not the Last Word on Contra Aid by Bill Spencer of their own constituencies and to work American peace accord. On February 3rd, the human rights, within the two national coalitions coordi The campaign which brought us this anti-intervention, and solidarity commun nating those efforts, Days of Decision and crucial legislative victory has also pushed ity secured one of its most significant leg Countdown '87. DSA members were ac forward some important lasting develop islative victories of the Reagan era. The tive in locals, youth section chapters, un ments: 1) Though Congress allocated 21 House of Repsresentatives voted 219 to ions and community groups doing their million dollars to assist the Contras be 211 to deny the President his requested part to ensure defeat of the aid request. tween September 1987 and February additional funding for the Ccmtra war This upswelling of grassroots support 1988, we helped hold off the President's against the government and people of occurred, in part, because the direction request for military aid which would have Nicaragua. and funding of the Contra war has become provided 15 million dollars a month for 18 The victory in Congress was the cul the focal point for struggles around the months. 2) New relationships with Contra mination ofan unprecedented campaign by administration's broader strategy of block aid opponents in the House of Representa the progressive community to defeat Con ing or subverting social change in the tives were constructed, creating the tra aid. A broad range of organizations Third World, and because of the historic capacity to respond swiftly and in an in- committed themselves to the mobilization possibilities set in motion by the Central continued on page 15 DEMOCRATIC LEFT 9 )AN.-fe.1• DSA Condemns Israeli Violence and Calls for International·Peace Conference The follculing resoltttwn on tJie !ST' he Democratic Socialists of America expresses its out rage at the Israeli armed forces' brutal and illegal use of force against the Palestin ianT population in the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The continuing confrontation between the Palestinian people and the Israeli occupy ing forces is a result of the profound inabil ity of Israel, the Palestinians, and the Arab world to arrive at a regional peace settlement. Both superpowers have also continually used the tragic turmoil in the Middle East to pursue their Cold War aims and claims to regional hegemony. The Democratic Socialists of America supports the massive popular struggle of Arab people in Israel and of Pales tinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which is an inevitable and understandable consequence of an intolerable situation. This struggle highlights the dead end poli cies of the present and past Israeli govern Members of New Jewish Agenda and other groups holding a vigil across from the ments as well as those of the PLO and the Israeli Counselate in New York. Arab leadership which have blocked a negotiated settlement between the Jewish occupying authorities and the PLO has tion of their land and our admiration for people in Isr.iel and the Palestinian people. made such \iews difficult and dangerous to those forces in Israel opposing the brutal, The continuing occupation clearly expre~q in that community. illegal, and repressive activities of the jeopardizes the democracy and national occupying forces. They de..;;erve the sup We recognize and support the legiti security of Israel itself. The violent repres port of all genuine United States friends of mate security concerns of Israel as well as sion of the legitimate demonstrations of Ii-raeli democracy - a democracy that is the legitimate right of the Palestinian peo the Palestinian people must stop. N egotia increasingly in danger. ple to a homeland. Recognition of the tions will have to take place. They will It is not enough to condemn the exces Palestinian people's right to a homeland is need to include representatives of the ses of occupying forces as does the Reagan the beginning of the process which, to pro Palestinian people chosen by themselves administration; we condemn the policy of duce a stable peace in the region, must end and must be guaranteed by the major pow occupation itself. DSA therefore joins with with the recognition of the state of Israel ers. The settlement will clearly have to our skter parties in the Socialist Interna by the Arab world. recognire the right of both Israel and the tional in calling for an international confer Palestinians to secure and mutually recog The Democratic Socialists of America ence for peace in the Middle East, which nized statehood. Shortsighted exclusion of supports a two state solution ·with demo must include the major powers and repre the Soviet Union from any regional settle cratic self-determination for the Palesti sentatives of Israel, the Palestinians, and ment by the U.S. and the Israeli govern nian people and equal rights for all minor the neighboring Arab states. The National ment would make any stable settlement in ities in both the Palestinian state and Executive Committ<'e of DSA calls on its the religion impossible. This is increasing Israel, with international guarantees member.; and local-; to take an active role ly recognized by our comrades among assuring sovereignty and security. In that in campaigning for a just peace in the Mid Israelis and Palei;tinians who seek peace. context we express our ~lidarity with the dle East and demonstrating again.st the Continued repression of progressive present struggle of the Palestin present repression of the democratic Palestinian spokespeople by Israeli ian people against the continued occupa- rights of the Palestinian people. • DEMOCRATIC I.EFT 10 JAN.·fEB. 1988 Could Canada Vote for Democratic Socialism? in the House of Commons to the Conserva tion because his right-wing corporate by Desrrwnd Morton tives. lawyer image was expected to be an anti Once in office, Mulroney's myriad dote for disaffection with former Prime If you believe in opinion polls, the promises proved to be a recipe for inefec Minister Pierre-Elliott Trudeau, promptly United States' northern neigh tualness. The new government also got led his party to its worst defeat in history. bors would have elected a demo mired in minor scandals, some involving In representing the opposition, Turner has cratic socialist government if they officials close to the prime minister. been more dogged than effective. Led by had gone to the polls in 1987. Moreover, while, on the whole, Canada's the media, voters have dismissed Turner ThreeI national polls taken last summer economy flourished after the recession of as old-fashioned and irrelevant. placed the New Democratic Party, a mem 1982-83, western Canada, a Conservative In these circumstances, "parking" ber of the Socialist International, well stronghold, was badly hwt by a worldwide support with the New Democrats is an ahead of the Liberals with 40 percent of slump in resource prices. understandable midterm alternative. Ed the vote, while the governing Progressive In foreign policy, Prime Minister Mul Broadbent's popularity is considerable. A Conservatives trailed far behind at 26 per roney assured The Wall Street Jour1U1f former philosophy professor with a taste cent. The election, which may be sche that "Good relations, super relations \vith for cigars and sports cars, and a power duled at any time, must be held by the United States will be the cornerstone base among workers at the huge General September, 1989. of our foreign policy." but his well Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario, Broad Since more recent polls show the publicized courting of the Reagan White bent has intelligence, style, and a common Liberals in first place, perhaps a clearer House brought few dividends. A number touch. indication of growing support for the New of Canadian industries were hurt by U.S. Advisers, including Vic Fingerhut, an Democrats is their electoral success. New protectionism, and Canada's claim to American who has worked for the AFL Democrats won all three elections held last sovereignty in the Arctic was challenged CIO and the Democratic proty, have per August to fill seats scattered from the sub when Washington conspicuously failed to suaded Broadbent and the NDP brass that Arctic Yukon to the historic seaport of St. notify Ottawa before sending a Coast Canadians want a party that speaks for John's, Newfoundland. Another measure Guard ice-breaker through the No1thwest ordinary wage-ero'l'lers, not for socialist of growing NDP support is the enormous Passage. paradise. In 1984, when the NDP seemed personal popularity of NDP leader Ed The Liberals, who profited initially headed for oblivion, the strategy helped Broadbent. Compared to the two-thirds of from the Conservatives' slide in popular turn party fortunes around and gave Canadians who believe Broadbent is doing ity, have had their own problems. John Broadbent thirty seats in the current Par a good job, less than a third have a kind Turner, selected just before the 1984 elec- liament. The more recent surge in the word for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney or Liberal leader John Turner. Although the trend is encouraging, it's not as if Canadians have acquired a sudden fervor for social equality and nationalization. Many are joining the ranks of the NDP in protest against the policy failures of Cana da's traditional pro-business parties. While campaigning in 1984, Mulroney made hundreds of promises, many of them contradictory. If elected, he promised he would increase spending and cut the def icit, expand services and scale down gov ernment, embark on far-reaching pri vatization and leave untouched popular crown corporations. Mulroney also claimed to support Medicare, unemploy ment insurance, old age pensions, and other social programs, calling them "a sacred trust," and said that Canadians could count on "jobs, jobs, jobs." Fed up after twenty-one years of Liberal govern ment, almost half the Canadian electorate bought the package, giving 211 of282 seats New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent. DEMOCRATIC LEFT 11 )AN.-fEB. 1988 opinion polls has kept ideological critics convention resolutions than on its per a guarantee that U.S. markets will stay quiet and raised the hope that the New formance in the three western provinces open even if Congress clamps down on im Democrats might somehow climb out of it now governs. In Manitoba, SaHkatch ports, the accord is really a cunning way to their traditional voting base of 18 to 20 ewan, and British Columbia, the NDP make i:;ure that Canada's economy will be percent. has run innovative but by no means radic managed according to U.S.-style free en While Ontario, Canada's biggest, al social democratic governments. For terprise principles. If the accord goes richest, and most industrialized province, example, the Manitoba NDP's Stay Op through, even an NDP government would has shown only a moderate increase in tion has helped established farmers sur be powerless to regain control of natural NDP support, the biggest apparent gains vive the price-eredit squeeze of the past resources, prevent the privatization of have been in the West and in Quebec. The ten years while enabling younger far Canada's publicly owned hospital system, four western provinces, agricultural and mers to take over farms without crippling or protect other social programs from resource-producing, have traditionally debts. Saskatchewan's NDP pioneered a charges of unfair competition. been a battle ground for Conservatives law that allows workers to quit jobs they Unable to push their own right-wing and New Democrats to square off. It is not deem unsafe without penalty. In the agenda, Mulroney and the Conservatives surprising that disillusioned voters would Yukon, Canada's newest socialist gov are using a wide-ranging treaty with the switch to the NDP, if not to a messy collec ernment is diversifying a single-industry United States to transform Canada. Politi tion of far-right parties that have emerged economy with a "Buy Yukon" program cally, they hope that "Free Trade" as an in recent years. The surprise for the NDP geared to the potential of native co-ops. issue will distract voters from a fixation was a standing as high as 48 percent in In all three provinces, government with Mulroney's personality and attract Quebec, a province that has never even issued car insurance has been an NDP them with the prospect of tariff-free U.S. elected a New Democrat to Ottawa. staple. Driver-owned plans have proved imports. With some notable dissenters, Explanations are not very hard to so popular in Canada that no business Canadian business is backing the accord find. While many Quebeckers disagreed backed government has dared meddle and the Conservatives with all the political with Trudeau, they supported the former with them. leverage it commands. How else can they prime minister, considering him one of keep Canada safe forever from socialism? their own. Although Brian Mulroney New Democrats' agenda As the trade deal becomes the main comes from Baie Comeau and speaks a goes far beyond Canada's issue of Canadian politics in 1988, debate fluent, colloquial French, he is not "un could polali7..e between Mulroney's Con des rwtres," nor are Turner and Broad mildly interventionist servatives and Broadbent's New Demo bent. Much of the Tory sweep in 1984 tradition. crats. The Liberclls, as usual, are split. came from disillusioned Quebeckers, Turner and his federal lieutenants oppose shopping for a new party. By 1987, the the deal but his chief rival in the party, None of this adds up to a social revolu Donald S. MacDonald, was the main NDP looked as good as any other to tion, but no one, in or out of the NDP, Quebeckers who have no aversion to so architect of the free-trade strategy, and believes that is in the cards for one of the Quebec's Liberal premier, Robe1t Bouras cial reform and government-run enter world's ticher countries and an immediate prises. sa. is among its most outspoken suppor neighbor of the US. The NDP's moderate, ters. The NDP has its own splits. In west The NDP's opponents insist, of Swedish-style social democracy is its best ern Canada, "free trade" is an old rallying course, that cun·ent support is a bubble defense against red-baiting. Instead, a cry against eastern financiers and indus that \\ill burst when Canadians take a hard current editorial ploy iH to condemn the trialists. In Quebec, too, Bourassa's exam look at socialist policies. Throughout much New Democrats as conservative defen ple may pull recent NDP converts back to of 1987, NDP policies got more extensive ders of the decent but costly collection of the Conservatives. and hostile scrutiny than usual in the universal social programs, which a The fact remains that political polar national media. Most Canadians do not market-driven Canada should no longer ization should be no misfortune for the share the NDP's determination, since try to afford. • New Democrats. The issues are clear and 1969, to take Canada out of NATO and the In fact, the Swedish-style New Broadbent's popularity and pragmatism North American Air Defense Command. Democrats have an agenda that goes far are as..c;ets in a debate over Canada's future On the other hand, the NDP's determina beyond Canada's mildly interventionist and iti:; political soul. tion to reform Canada's tax structure to tradition. New Democrclts talk of using A generation ago, political econom eliminate notorious havens for the wealthy huge pension reserves to restructure ist Melville H. Watkins claimed that is widely popular. Women's organizations Canadian industry in carefully choHen, Canada could not survive without social back the NDP's high priority for a national high-tech sectors, such as telecommunica ism, and that socialism in North America non-profit day-care program. Business tions. Here, too, the NDP has had a suc could not survive without Canada. That and finance are predictably alarmed at the cessful local precedent. Quebec's Caisse de sounded like an exaggeration in 1969 but NDP's stated intention to nationalize one depots, funded by a province-wide compul time has added lo its merit. History will of Canada's powerful chartered banks, sory pension plan, has been used for ten be made this year. • while energy industi;es on both sides of years to finance dramatic growth in the border would do anything to stop NDP French Canada's corporate power. Desmond Morton is a pro.(essorofh'ltory proposals to restore public control over Can the NDP be stopped? That is cer at the Un il'Prsity ofToronto, principal of depleting oil and natural gas reserves. tainly one of the goals of the trade agree its Erindalc campus, and author of The Assessing what an NDP federal gov ment signed by the U.S. and Canadian New Democrats, 1961-1986: The Politics ernment would do in power probably de governments last January. Labeled as a of Change (Toronto, Copp Clark Pitt pends less on its 200-page collection of "Free Trade" deal and sold to Canadians as man, 1987). / DEMOCRATIC LEFT 12 JAN.-fEB. 1988 Hollywood and the Vietnam War by A l Auster and Leonard Quart ot too long ago a prominent American film director : DEMOCRATIC LEFT 13 JAN.-f EB. 1988 conventional kids in the eighties. search for an authentic self takes him into a symbol of the sixties is that the films It's not that any of these programs the nightmare of Vietnam rather than a have turned a number of them into critics seriously confronts the reality of the six commune in Haight-Ashbury. In Viet of the war. We have Chris Taylor pontifi ties, but that the audience for the depic nam, however, he meets the same black cating at the end of Platoon that the tion of the era exists. Of course, for Hol and white bottom dogs that any flower "enemy was in us," and Full Metal Jack· lywood there were genuine difficulties in child might have met wandering the et'sJoker (Matthew Modine) prominently volved in choosing the aspect of the six streets of San Francisco. And he smokes displaying a peace symbol while making ties to focus on. For instance, the shrivel the same dope and listens to the same snide comments about the military men ing of public concern over black poverty music, while killing dozens of the enemy tality. There are also the black and white and the heightening of racial polarization in a murderous psychadelic light show grunts in Hamburger Hill who intone the in the eighties make the sixties civil that would have been the envy of any nihilistic chant about the war "It don't rights movement a difficult and charged rock promoter. mean nothing, not a thing." None of these phenomenon for Hollywood to deal with The films don't neglect the black re Gls engages in a political critique of the directly. Similarly, the fact that elements volution of the sixties. Although blacks American government and its policies, in the anti-war movement used the rhe play essentially secondary roles in these but they all know they have stepped into toric of anti-imperialism in opposing films, some of their anger for being trap a quagmire where the patriotic rhetoric American intervention and were commit ped in Vietnam and toward American of past wars seems both ridiculous and ted to a Viet Cong victory make them too society in general is expressed. And heinous. controversial and alien for audience iden though an insidious black malinger like Turning the Gls into anti-war tification and interest. And the counter Junior (Reggie Johnson) whines through spokesmen paradoxically (or is it predict culture, with its emphasis on "peace and Platoon, the majority of blacks who ably?) allowed Hollywood to depict the love," drugs, and casual sex, is now appear in these films represent some representatives of the anti-war move either a subject for parody or an anethe either ·wise or eloquent variation on the ment back home as fools and villains. ma in an age of crack and AIDS. Almost sixties "Black is Beautiful" theme. According to some of these Hollywood by default the Vietnam GI and War be Nevertheless, most of these characters deep thinkers the Gls' antipathy to the came for Hollywood the perfect symbol of are still too real and complex to be seen as war could be accepted because they were the sixties. merely heroic icons or examples of Holly there and they suffered. But the anti-war In Oliver Stone's Platoon its epony wood's penchant for inverted stereo movement's opposition was seen as un mous hero and narrator, Chris Taylor, typing. earned. In this scenario anti-war activ volunteers to serve in Vietnam because, ists sat smugly and safely at home taking "Maybe from down here I can start up GI Joe as War Critic potshots at both the government and the again and be something I don't see yet, What is most ironic about this Gls and were, in addition, communist learn something I don't know yet." This attempt to make the Vietnam GI become dupes. Consequently, films like Hanoi Hilton and Hamburger Hill have the Gls continually excoriate the anti-war move ment as ifthey were the people who bore responsiblity for the Vietnam debacle. And in Gardens of Stone, tough, cynical Sgt. Clell Hazard (James Caen) is critical of the war, but still punches out a particu larly obnoxious anti-war activist at a gar den party. What is apparent :is that by becom ing the cynosure of the sixties, the Viet nam War film has provided more obfusca tion than :insight into the decade. Ulti mately, only when films examine the poli tical, cultural, and social issues that were both at the heart of and surrounded the war - including the anti-war movement and those in power who brought us into Vietnam -will there no longer be a need for these sixties surrogates. Then, and only then, will these films become true acts of remembrance of both the war and the sixties as well. • Al Aust.er and Leonard Quart are the au flwrs of American Film and Society since 1945(PraegerGreenwood,1984) and How the War was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam (Praeger Greenwood) to be published in August, 1988. DEMOCRATIC LEFT 14 )AN.·fEB. 1988 Contra Aid continued from 'fXI{Je 9 Change the USA! formed way to the most intricate of legisla Join the DSA! tive developments. 3) Advances were made in the critical task of bringing a re Members of the Democrdtic Socialists of America work in every day-to-day strug gional perspective to anti-intervention gle for social justice. We bring a strategy for building alliances among all the movements work. • for social change. And we bring a vision of a society that can satisfy the demands for dignity The repercussions of the defeat of and justice-a socialist society. Join the people working to bring together all th~ move Contra aid in the House of Representa ments for social change . . . and to bring together day-to-day battles and long-term strdtegies and visions. tives are filgnificant but not necessarily Join DSA. decisive. The vote was clearly seen as a test of President Reagan'8 ability to carry O Send me more information about democratic socialism. out the administration's agenda in the final O Enclosed find my dues (0 $50 sustaining; 0 $35 regular; 0 $15 limited income. Dues year of his Presidency, as well as a test of include $8 for DEMOCRATIC LEIT.) support for the broader foreign policy 0 I \\'OUld like to subscribe to DEMOCRATIC LEIT: 0 $15 sustaining; 0 $8 regular direction of the United States. 1 O I would like to sub8Cribe to the discussion bulletin, Socialist Forum, $10. But the vote does not provide the last word on aid to the Contras. In the next Semi to: Democmtic SociaJi.;ts of America, 15 Dutch St., Suite 500, New York, NY 10038. several weeks, the Democratic leadership Tel.: <212) 962-0390. in the House will be putting forth a new package of legislation concerning Central Name ------America. This "positive policy" will include some "humanitarian" aid to the Contras as Address well as development funds for the rest of City/ State _Zip the region. The outlines of this package are only now beginning to emerge; it has not Phone Union, School, Other Affiliation ------yet been decided who will be the recipients of the aid or in what form it \\ill be distri article written in the Debsian tradition of buted. Continued grassroot." pressure on Congress is necessary for the February social protest and reform. For more in 3rd vote to truly represent a new stage the CLASSlflED formation enclose a stamped, self peace process in Central America. addressed envelope to the Bryant Spann MEET OTHER LEFT SINGLES Memorial Prize Committee, c/o The De The progressive campaign will be through the Concerned Singles Newslet stressing the following as elements of a partment of History, Indiana State Uni ter. All areas and ages. Box 7737-D, Ber truly constructive policy: versity, Terre Haute, IN 47809. keley, CA 94707, for free sample. 1) Our nation must give its support to ClauijUJd adverliaing ratea are $2 per line, the reintegration of former Contras into SOCIAL CHANGE JOBS - COM $50 per column inch. Payment in advance. civilian life, rather than sustaining them MUNITY JOBS, a non-profit newspaper, Twenty percent diacount if ad run.! two or as a military force. Any aid to the Contras lists progres.o.;ive jobg;intemships nation more timea. We reaeroe the right to reject a. 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