Written in Red
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March / April 2006
By Chris Dodge
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Also Noteworthy
Revolution, formerly Revolutionary Worker, is a newsprint publication of the Revolutionary Communist Party, headed by the elusive Bob Avakian. Its goal: to overthrow "the system" and create a new system, "a socialist society and the dictatorship of the proletariat." $40/yr. (40 issues) from Box 3486, Chicago, IL 60654; www.rwor.org.
Socialist Worker, published in Toronto by International Socialists (part of the International Socialist Tendency), focuses on international news -- antiwar protests, for example -- and Canadian politics. Sample headline: "Free Them Now: Oppose Racist Secret Trial Detentions." Goal: "a workers' state based upon councils of workers' delegates." $50 Canadian/yr. (22 issues); in Canada, $30 from Box 339, Station E, Toronto, ON M6H 4E3, Canada; www.socialist.ca.
Socialist Action is the monthly newspaper of a small Trotskyist group of the same name, which split from the Socialist Workers Party and describes itself as "revolutionary socialists committed to the emancipation of working and oppressed people everywhere!" Sample statement: "The devastation and human suffering wrought by Katrina is not just a so-called natural disaster. It is above all else a crime perpetrated against the people of this country." Published since 1983. $8/yr. (12 issues) from 298 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94103; www.socialistaction.org.
Workers Vanguard, a "Marxist working-class" biweekly tabloid publication of the Spartacist League, the U.S. Section of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), features such headlines as "Free the Class-War Prisoners!," "Down with Racist Cop Terror!," and "Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!" Heroes: Lenin, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg. $10/yr. (21 issues) from Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116; www.icl-fi.org.
News & Letters is a bimonthly "Marxist-Humanist" paper founded in 1955 by Raya Dunayevskaya and edited for nearly three decades until his death by Charles Denby, author of Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal. The anticapitalist paper (against both private and state capital) is published by committee, "rather than any elitist party." $5/yr. (6 issues) from 36 S. Wabash, Room 1440, Chicago, IL 60603; www.newsandletters.org.