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As the World Turns • • • VOLUME XXV NUMBER 5 $ l .50 •.:.; ..,, DEMOCRATIC PUBLISHED BY THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA Present Progressive: AS THE WORLD TURNS • • • BY ALAN CHARNEY all started with the mass strikes in France during Decem­ reshape the EEC illto an "alternative model" of economic ber, 1995. Over one million workers went on strike against growth, as French Prime Minister Jospm hopes? Ehe Juppe plan - the conservatives' attempt to scale back As the Old World turns toward the left again, the New the French welfare state. The mass actions were successful in World is also beginning to reshape tts political terrain. Just this blocking the right's program as public opinion rurned in favor April in El Salvador, the FMLN, in only its second election as of the stttk.mg workers. The left in France heralded this resis­ a legal party, drew even in popular support with ARENA, the tance as the first European victory against "neo-libcralism," main nght-wmg party, and elected the mayor of San Salvador. or, as they accurately put it, "the American model" of ram­ The F~fL"'l's program was based on opposition to the right's pant globalization, declining living standards and government neo-liberal agenda, such as higher consumption taxes and retrenchment. It was also a public outcry against the austerity privatization, and a defense of workers and farmers' rights. If budgets required by the Maastricht treaty for a European cur­ the FMLN continues on this trajectory, it will soon be the rency. largest party in El Salvador and be positioned to win the next Only 18 months later, there is a government of the left Presidential election. in France - a coalioon of Socialists, Communists aml Greens Although this is written before the July elections tn Mexico, - elected on a program of economic justice for working the PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution) ts poised to people. These parties have pledged to create 700,000 jobs, make maior gains, picking up governorships in more states, reduce the work week from 39 to 35 hours, raise the mim­ Continued on page 3 mwn wage and push for changes in the Maastricht treaty. France is just the most spectacular case of a global ~hift that is taking place, as working people worldwide are mcreas­ ingly expressing their opposition to right-wing govc:rnments and their free market dogmas. In Britain, the Conservative Party was swept out of office in a dramatic public repudiation of Thatcherism. \Xlhatever one may think about the cauuous and moderate policies of Tony Blair's "new" Labor Party, this turn­ around has changed the British political landscape and defi­ rutely gave the firench left a boost. Now c:veryone is looking toward Germany, the mainstay of the buropean Economic Community (EEq, and its 1998 elections. Will a "red-green" coalitions of Social Democrats and Greens come to power? Then, every nation in the EEC, except Spain, will have a left or center-left government. At that point, will it be possible to DSAOFFICES NATIONAL ----------- NEW YORK, NY Michele Rossi, DSA locals Contact DEMOCRATIC 180 Varick Street Fl 12 New York, NY 10014 Editor 212.727.8610 Chris Riddiough WASHINGTON, DC Prod11clio11 Christine Riddiough, DSA Political Director Michele Rossi 409 Butternut Street, NW I2d itolial Co1l11111ttcc Washington, DC 20012 Dorothee Benz 202.726.0745 Suzanne Crowell David Glenn Jeff Gold Steve Max REGIONAL Bill Mosley Maxine Phillips MIDWEST Founding Editor Mike Heffron, Midwest Organizer Michael Harrington (1928-1989) PO Box 1073 Columbus, OH 43216-1073 Democratic Socialists of America 614.253.8992 share a vision of a humane interna­ tional social order based on equitable distribution of resources, meaningful NEW YORK STATE work, a healthy environment, sustain- Amy Bachrach, NY Organizer able growth, gender a nd racial equality, and non-oppressive relation­ 180 Varick Street Fl 12 ships. 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D"""''""' I~/'" published by the Dc:mocr:1 uc Soc1.1.h!>1!S nf 1\mcnc:a, 1KO Va.rick S1 rcct, Nt.-w York. c/o DSA Notional Office NY 10014 (212) 727°86 IO fQ",nttl artidtuxpnss Jbr opmonr o/11" 212.727.8610 01tlbvs anti .., #ffm~n'1 lbu;t ef lhl ••~u•1z.a1Jo11. po g e 2 • Democratic left • Issue #5 1997 Present Progressive/continued from page 1 home to me one strong reason for our backwardness. It's so simple, it's transparent. And, it's something we can act on now. We don't have a and a larger Congressional delegation. There is even national political organization of the broad left that can even speak for speculation that the PRI - the permanent party the 20 percent of Americans with whom our ideas now resonate, that of the Mexican elites - may lose majority control can coalesce their discontent and express their aspirations. There's no of Congress. Most importantly, Cuauhtemoc getting around this gaping hole in the American body politic. Cardenas, the PRD's Presidential candidate in 1988 Such a progressive political organization is not the same thing and 1994, is way ahead in the race for mayor of as an electoral party. It is everywhere else in the world, but 1t can't be Mexico City. J f elected, he will be in an ideal posi­ in the United States. Call it American exceptionalism tf you will, but tion to win the Presidency 10 2000. Finally, in the our institutional history of party politics has proven tl1at every time recent Canadian elections, the New Democratic we make electoral politics the fulcrum of a consolidation strategy, it Party (NDP) mcreased its scats m Parliament from leads to a political impasse. Think about all the failed and thwarted 9 to 22 on the basis of it economic justice message, efforts we have made to strengthen the left wing of the Democratic particularly around JOb creation. It was the only Party- to unite the consutuencies, such as labor, feminists, environ­ party which consistently upheld the virtues of the mentalists, people of color, and gays, which constitute its progressive Canadian welfare state. base. Ponder all the efforts we ha,·e undertaken to form a party to All these changes in the Old \'\'arid and the the left of the Democrats - efforts that have always ended in mere New are matched by two unprecedented events in margrnality. The conclusion I have reached is that we can't use elec­ Asia and Africa. The first were the mass strikes of tions or electoral parties as the prime arena to consolidate and expand 1996 in South Korea; the second was the popularly our base. There are essential steps that must be taken first, and that supported armed insurrection against Mobutu and must provide the ideological and organizational grounding, for a ma­ his government 10 newly-named Democratic Re­ jor left electoral advance. Maybe the result will be a revitalized, pro­ public of the Congo. Both of these were large­ gressive-led, Democratic Party. Maybe it wtli be a new progressive scale mobilizations against neo-liberal regimes and party that emerges after a broad realignment. There may even be have set the stage for left advances in future elec­ other electoral alternatives. But now, let's concentrate on taking those tions. ideological and organizational steps that will build a firm foundation From the perspective of these recent events, for next left in the United States. Because one thing is certain: a stra­ globalization no longer appears that inevitable, and tegic and one-sided focus on electoral activity and "party-building," resistance that futile. The left may still lack an al­ inside or outside the Democratic Party, will condemn the left to the ternative vision and program, but, increasingly, margins of American politics. working people know what they don't want and arc One crucial step is to recognize the de facto programmatic agree­ willing to turn toward the left. At least the left is on ment that exists among the leaders and activists of issue and constitu­ their side, and is willing to intervene in the economy ency-based groups. The remarkable truth is that the progressive "move­ in ways which defend the living standards of the ment" has become operationally social-democratic in its outlook: the maioriry, preserve social programs, and expand defense and expansion of the welfare state; the pursuit of more cor­ democratic participation. porate regulation and less corporate welfare; the protection and ex­ So, why hasn't this happened in America? tension of civil, social and labor rights; and even an openness toward After all, the impact of our version of neo-liberal­ more social control over investment and more democr'\tic planrung. ism - Reaganism - has been more devastating Right now, this is an unconsolidated consensus, but, ideologically, there on Amencan workers, relatively speaking, than any­ is no barrier to la)~ng out an immediate program for economic and where in the West.
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