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Inside the Chicago Workers’ Voice Theoretical Journal (1994-1998)

Issue #1 January 25, 1994

The nature of imperialism:
  • On the debate over imperialism by Joseph Green, Detroit
  • More on imperialism and less developed countries, Information Bulletin #77, Oct 18, 1992 - Jim, San Francisco Bay Area
  • On revolutionary struggle in the dependent countries, speech and discussion at the 4th Congress of the MLP, 1992 — by Manny, New York
  • 4th Congress discussion on the revolutionary movement in the dependent countries
History of the MLP:
  • Internal Documents of MLP released (Information Bulletin #62-82)
Issue #2 March 30, 1994
  • Editorial statement: We welcome an open debate
On the dissolution of the MLP:
  • Statement of the Boston Communist Study Group
  • Against Sectarianism (part one): Reply to Boston Statement -- from Joseph Green, Detroit
  • Letter from Neil, LA
  • An Appeal from Ben, Seattle
  • Mark replies to Ben on Materialism vs. Agnosticism — from Mark, Detroit On the composition of the working class:
  • On Class Structure (reply to Boston #5) -- from Pete, Detroit
  • In Defense of Marxism-Leninism-· from Gary, New jersey
On imperialism:
  • Notes on Nigel Harris' 'The End of the Third World"-· from Pete, Detroit
  • On imperialism -- letter from Phil, Seattle
  • "Ultra-Imperialism?"-- article from Politica Operaria, Portugal
  • Review of Noam Chomsky's 'The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many" -- from Mike, Chicago
  • What can we learn from the bloodbath -- from Fred, Seattle
  • Censorship, Imperialism and Revisionism -- from Joseph Green, Detroit
Issue #3 June 1, 1994
  • Editorial Guide
  • Chicago Workers’ Voice May Day Speech - Anita, Chicago
The debate over revolution, imperialism, and socialism:
  • Toward an Assessment of the Present Debate -- Julie, Chicago
  • For proletarian socialist revolution (Part I) -- Frank, Seattle
  • Errors in ‘The bloodbath, part 1” — Fred, Seattle
  • What can we learn from the bloodbath, part 2 — Fred, Seattle
  • Letter to CWV Theoretical Journal — Ben, Seattle
  • Letter from Joe, Boston to Ben, Seattle
On Jason’s stand on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:
  • Economic Schemes replace revolutionary organizing -- Mark, Detroit
  • Notes/Outline on Palestinian presentation -- Jason, Seattle
On imperialism:
  • Cartels and the striving for domination by monopolies -- Mark, Detroit
  • A note on “progressive imperialism” — Joseph Green, Detroit
  • Again on ultra-imperialism - Joseph, Detroit
Issue #4, Sept. 1, 1994
  • Editorial Guide to Issue no. 4
Socialism in one country:
  • “Socialism in One Country” and the revisionism of Leninism, draft article - Dave, Amherst
  • On Dave’s draft article on “socialism in one country” and the revision of Leninism - Joseph Green, Detroit
  • An answer to Dave — Phil, Seattle
  • Some points on Phil’s remarks — Mark, Detroit
  • Transcript of the discussion on “socialism in one country” at the Fourth Congress of the MLP
The debate in ex-MLP circles:
  • An open letter that wants to close minds, Part 1 -- Joseph Green, Detroit
  • Critical notes — Reply to the SFBA/Boston “Open Letter” — NC, Los Angeles
  • What can be learned from the bloodbath regarding approaches to investigation? Part 3 — Fred, Seattle
  • Plebeian class consciousness and socialist revolution — Joseph Green, Detroit
Imperialism, free trade, and the attitude towards NAFTA:
  • How Marx and Engels analyzed colonialism — Julie, Chicago
Issue #5 Dec. 1, 1994

Haiti:
  • Editorial Guide to the fifth issue of the CWV Theoretical journal
Mexico:
  • Announcement: El Machete available
Haiti and imperialism:
  • The debate on imperialism revisited: Part 4, The occupation of Haiti — Joseph Green, Detroit
  • “Haiti: rotten motives, wretched deal” -- Boston Worker leaflet on Haiti
  • Letter from CV, Los Angeles Workers’ Voice
  • “Was there any substance to my criticism of an article on Haiti in the Nov. 1991 Workers’ Advocate? — Oleg, Chicago
  • Excerpt on Haiti from Michael’s article “On WA’s international coverage” — IB #73, Sept. 15, 1992
Palestine:
  • Reply — from Jason, Seattle, to Mark, Detroit
  • Once again on Jason’s reformist stand on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sowing the seeds of struggle or sowing illusions in Israel? — Mark, Detroit
  • Reply to Jason — Pete
  • “Jason’s new ‘Tikkun’,” — Letter from NC, Los Angeles
Further debate on the nature of imperialism:
  • Some replies on imperialism — letter from Jim, San Francisco, August 17, 1994
  • Letter from Joe Boston) which contains Jim’s letter of Jul 29, 1992
  • Excerpts from “The debate on imperialism revisited,” Parts 1, 2 and 3 — by Joseph, Detroit
  • Letter — from NC, Los Angeles, regarding Joseph’s reply to Jim
Composition of the working class:
  • Flaws in Boston’s study of the composition of the working class - — by Gary, New Jersey
Issue #6 Feb. 10, 1995
  • The capitalist system is devastating the Mexican working people — Frank, Seattle
  • A year since the collapse of the Marxist-Leninist Party — Joseph, Detroit
  • On ideology: On looking over the revised notes of the November meeting - Neil, Los Angeles
  • Some thoughts on the Indian economy -- from “Proletarian Emancipation”, India (Revolutionary Proletarian Platform)
Palestine revisited:
  • Mark (Detroit) replies to jason (Seattle)
  • Neil (LA) replies to jason
  • Tim (Detroit) replies to jason
  • Jason defends his position on Palestine — Jason (Seattle)
  • Mark equates “cooperative anarchy” with “anarchy of production” - Ben (Seattle)
  • Left-wing neo-conseratives the reflectxion of neo-conservatism in socialist thinking, Part 1 — Joseph (Detroit)
  • Book review of “The Proletariat: a Challenge to Western Civilization” by Gustav A. Briefs (1937). Reviewed by Pete (Detroit)
Correspondence:
  • Two letters from the Philippines
  • Announcing “Red Orange”
Workplace and community struggles:
  • Fighting against Proposition 187: Which way forward? — Los Angeles Workers’ Voice
  • Two articles on postal worker issues — Detroit Workers’ Voice
Editorial Guide to the Sixth issue of the CWV Theoretical Journal

Special Issue between issues 6 and 7: March 7, 1995
  • Editorial Guide to this special issue on the polemics of the “minority” of the former MLP: Documents from Nov. 25, 1994 to through Feb. 26, 1995
  • 59 letters from Julie, Mark, Joseph, Oleg, Gary, Pete, and Tim.
Issue #7: May 25, 1995
  • Editorial Guide
Mexico:
  • Crisis in Mexico -- Oleg (Chicago)
  • El Machete and the Mexican left - Julie (Chicago)
  • NC (Los Angeles) on El Machete
  • Cardenas and the EZLN — translated from El Machete
  • Editorial - El Machete, March 23, 1995
  • Mexican bus drives union under attack — El Machete
On differences between The Communist Voice and the Chicago Workers’ Voice Theoretical Journal:
  • On El Machete - Joseph Green (Detroit)
  • Announcing a new theoretical journal, The Communist Voice — Detroit MLSG
  • Trends and sectarianism - Joseph Green (Detroit)
  • On complacency, part 2 (excerpts) - Joseph Green (Detroit)
  • Anatomy of a split, part 1 — Jake (Chicago)
On Trotskyism:
  • On Trotsky, introduction - Julie (Chicago)
  • Comments on a Che Fare pamphlet -- Julie (Chicago)
  • Notes on Cliffism #1 - NC (Los Angeles)
  • Notes on Cliffism #2 - NC (Los Angeles)
  • Dealing with Trotsky: Idiocy or treachery - Barb (Chicago)
About Kim Moody’s article “U.S. Working Class”:
  • Book review, editorial comment by Julie (Chicago)
  • Review of Kim Moody’s article, “U.S. Working Class” — Pete (Detroit)
Correspondence:
  • Correspondence, 3 leaflets from the KPRP (Philippines)
  • Correspondence, letter from Ben (Seattle)
  • Labor and community struggles, L.A. Workers’ Voice on the “Contract on America”
Issue #8: Oct. 8, 1995
  • Editorial Guide
  • In memory of Rich Lee — by Oleg (Chicago)
  • Correspondence fromprison
  • The Emergency Clinic Defense Coalition, history and assessment — Sarah (Chicago)
Mexico:
  • Does the CWV support Cardenismo? — Oleg (Chicago)
  • Lazaro Cardenas: What does he really stand for - Oleg (Chicago)
  • In defense of Marxism — article translated from El Machete (Mexico)
Trotskyis1m, Luxemburg, and semi-anarchism:
  • The Trotsky school of confusionization — Barb (Chicago)
  • Luxemburg, semi-anarchism — and Trotsky — Barb (Chicago) Workplace and community struggles:
Workplace and community struggles:
  • John Sweeney’s unionism is warmed-over Kirkland stew — NC (Los Angeles)
  • Proposals for a labor party and the Staley workers’ struggle — Oleg (Chicago)
  • Support the strike, newspaper workers fight on — Detroit Workers’ Voice
  • 25th anniversary of the Chicago Moratorium — Los Angeles Workers’ Voice
  • America means prison — Los Angeles workers’ Voice
Issue #9: Jan. 29, 1996
  • Editorial Guide
  • Correspondence; Letter against repression of CLETA in Mexico
  • Balkan killing fields: Down with nationalism and imperialism — NC (Los Angeles Workers’ Voice)
  • Ethnic warfare in the former Yugoslavia: the fruit of imperialism — Jack Hill (Chicago)
Book reviews:
  • Movie review Nixon -- CV (Los Angeles)
  • Heider’s Anarchism: left, right and green — Sarah (Chicago)
  • Barry’s Zapata’s revenge, free trade and the farm crisis in Mexico — Jack Hill (Chicago)
  • LaBotz’ Democracy in Mexico, peasant rebellion and political reform — Jack Hill (Chicago)
Mexico: -Debate on Marxism — two articles translated from El Machete (Mexico) -Some points of reply to Marx and Joseph (Detroit) regarding Mexico — Jack Hill (Chicago)

Composition of the working class:
  • Theories and evolution of the salaried middle strata, part I — Pete Tabolt
  • Reply to Tabolt’s article on the Middle Strata — Jack (Chicago)
Anarchism, semi-anarchism, Luxemburg, and Trotsky:
  • Anarchism vs. Marxism -- speech at a Workers’ Advocate discussion forum in Chicago, April 18, 1993
  • Luxemburg, “Semi-Anarchism” — and Trotsky (part 2) — Barb (Chicago)
Issue #10: May 31, 1996
  • Editorial Guide
  • News from Mexico — Anita (Chicago)
  • Rosa Luxemburg, "Semi-Anarchism" -- and Trotsky, Part III, by Barb (Chicago)
  • Book review by Sarah: Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, recolonizing Bosnia — Michel Chossudovsky
  • Movie review: Land and Freedom — Sarah (Chicago)
  • Revolution and civil war in Spain -- reprinted from the Workers' Advocate, Oct. 1, 1986
Summation of the Staley struggle — two articles by Jack Hill (Chicago):
  • Lessons of the Staley struggle
  • For your reference: history of the Staley struggle
Debate on the Marxist stand on nationalism and national liberation:
  • An overview — Sarah (Chicago)
  • Reply to Detroit 105: Twight of CVO’s neo-Maoism, pt 1 — NC (Los Angeles Workers’ Voice)
  • Re: Detroit 108, More Josephite CVO Maoite Menshevism — NC (Los Angeles Workers’ Voice)
  • Marxism and the right of nations to self-determination (lead article in Communist Voice, vol. 2, #2, March 15, 1996) — Joseph Green, Detroit
  • A hasty response from an internationalist — J.S. Daborn, Communist Workers’ Organisation, British affiliate of the IBRP
  • Re: What happened in Indonesia — Adolfo Olaechea, April 3, 1996
  • Reply to J.S. Daborn on the right of self-determination — Mark (Detroit) March 21, 199
On the composition of the working class:
  • More Debate on the Salaried Middle Strata, Introduction -- Jake (Chicago)
  • Theories and Evolution of the salaried middle strata -- Part I (second half) --Peter Tabolt
  • Reply to the second part of Tabolt's article on the middle strata — Jake (Jake)
  • Tabolt's rebuttal to Jake and Jake's reply
Issue #11: Oct. 7, 1996
  • Editorial Guide — Jack Hill (Chicago)
  • Rosa Luxemburg, "Semi-Anarchism" -- and Trotsky, Part IV — Barb (Chicago)
  • Review of Carthy Porter’s book A Revolutionary Portrait: Larrisa Reisner - Barb (Chicago)
Mexico:
  • The continuing crisis in Mexico, by Sarah (Chicago)
  • An introduction to the ideological struggle in Mexico — Anita Jones de Sandoval
  • Elements for analysis of the current political situation — From Extra de El Machete
On the recently-founded Labor Party:
  • The Labor Party, What is its relationship to the tasks of building an independent movement of the working class? — Jack Hill, (CWV)
  • Proposed resolution on immigrants' rights
  • Report on LP convention -- Earl Silbar
  • Reply to Earl by supporter of the politics of the Labor Party— Andy English
  • Two letters on the Labor Party — NC (Los Angeles Workers' Voice)
  • An argument for fighting to take over the Labor Party, Mike Dean
  • LRP. on the Labor Party, excerpts
On the composition of the working class:
  • Some features of health care workers as an organized part of the working class -- George, Boston Communist Study Group
  • Some comments on George's article on hospital workers by Jake (Chicago)
Issue #12: Feb. 26, 1997
  • Editorial Guide — Jake (Chicago)
  • The Bolshevik agrarian program, Part I — Barb (Chicago)
  • The working class has no borders — Jack Hill (Chicago)
  • Movie review: Che — Sarah (Chicago)
Mexico:
  • The fight for democratic demands and the socialist revolution in Mexico — Anita Jones de Sandoval
  • Work to form the political organ of the toilers — from El Machete
  • Book review, Arturo Miranda Ramirez’s El Otro Rostro de la Guerrilla, a work published by Editorial El Machete — reviewed by Jack Hill (Chicago)
Book review of Jay Gould’s The Enemy Within:
  • Introduction — Jack Hill (Chicago)
  • Nuclear emissions, toxic chemicals and the poison press: sinister partners in a legacy of death and deceit — * Los Angeles Workers' Voice*
Issue #13: July 28, 1997
  • Editorial Guide — Jake (Chicago)
  • The Bolshevik Agrarian Program, Part II -- Barb (Chicago)
  • Economic Backdrop to the Cuban Revolution -- Sarah (Chicago)
**On WPAEN, the Working Peoples' Action and Education Network: **
  • Introducing the Working Peoples' Action and Education Network -- Jack Hill (Chicago)
  • A critical comment on WPAEN -- Jake
  • WPAEN leaflet for a welfare rights demonstration
  • Two programmatic statements
  • WPAEN’s leaflet for Detroit News strike support rally
  • Chicago Workers Voice leaflet on the Detroit News strike and rally
  • Discussions and debates from the internet on the Detroit strike, the Labor Party, and trade union misleaders
Mexico:
  • May 1st in Mexico City and the July 6th elections -- Anita Jones de Sandoval
Issue #14: February 18, 1998
  • Editorial Guide -- Jake (Chicago)
  • The Bolshevik Agrarian Program, Part ill --Barb (Chicago)
  • What was the MLP? -- Jake (Chicago)
  • Mexico in the aftermath of the massacre at Acteal — by Anita Jones de Sandoval
  • Report on Trip to Cuba -- Barb
  • Some thoughts on the left and modern philosophy, a review of Kuhn's book The structure of scientific revolutions -- Sarah (Chicago)
**The UPS strike and the
  • The UPS strike, WPAEN's intervention and issues for activists, by Jack Hill (Chicago)
  • WPAEN flyers on the UPS strike
Issue #15: November 9, 1998
  • Editorial Guide -- Jake (Chicago)
  • The Bolshevik agrarian program, Part IV — Barb (Chicago)
  • Buffalo rallies against murder of abortion provider
  • Racism in the workplace: a review of the video documentary "Struggles in Steel" — Jack Hill
About the MLP:
  • MLP organizing in the workplace, Part I: Work in the trade unions — Jake (Chicago)
  • MLP Second Congress resolution “Revolutionary work in the factories and the trade unions” — From the Workers’ Advocate, vol. 14 #1, January 1984
  • A reply to a member of the Leninist-International list on the MLP’s history: Being disliked by the "major players" was to our credit! — Ben, Seattle <>
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