New York’s public school teachers, by a show of militancy, unity and determination, scored a striking victory in early September. More, their victory pushed open new doors through which the declining labor movement could easily march if its leadership would …
Pursue a disastrous policy long enough, and the outcome is inevitable. Politics is a ruthless discipline; error and stupidity exact a cruel price. Supporting the authoritarian Diem in the name of anti-Communism, the U.S. helped spawn the odious Nhus, which …
Khrushchev is no less a Russian Communist today than yesterday, nor is Mao Tse-tung more of a Chinese Stalinist than he was the day before. The thaw did not, so to speak, produce the recent violence of conflict between the …
Within five years, the United States will have hardened into a vast thermonuclear missile base. While an underformed citizenry goes about its usual business, the military establishment has developed, and plans to continue developing, a strategic atomic force, the dimensions …
for the Negro liberation movement in the future as it has in the past, or should it be replaced by new methods? If so, which methods? Should the liberation movement try to play a more directly political role? Should it …
For a long time, we of the anti-Communist Left have been politically dispossessed. There is no home for us in either of the big national parties. There never was. Every few years, a few of our breed will allow themselves …
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At the age of nine I had already acquired the reputation of being the worst boy in the neighborhood. And in my neighborhood this was no easy accomplishment. My frequent appearance in juvenile court was beginning to bother the judges. …
While the undersigned have their own disagreements and varying emphases in interpreting the Cuban affair, we join in finding the Roger Hagan article on the Cuban crisis incorrect and slanted. Hagan writes, “… the President was confronted with two alternative …
Over 300 New York City college professors have joined an AFL-CIO local union of their own according to an announcement from American Federation of Teachers President Carl J. Megel. The spread of unionism to the ivy halls of higher learning …
One of the most valuable remarks on Africa that I have ever heard was the angry question of a young Nigerian politician who said to me: “You don’t expect our sculpture to look like yours —why should you expect our …
As with his book on Marxism, George Lichtheim has given us a study of a centrally important topic that is both a general introduction and an advanced interpretation. The virtues familiar from the earlier volume are again in evidence: urbanity, …
On the evening of October 22, 1956, groups of students converged on the Budapest Radio station requesting that it broadcast their demands: for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary, and for free elections and freedom of expression. Shortly after …
Mr. Donat’s moving defense of the Jewish underground in Poland [“Armageddon,” DISSENT, Spring 1963] comes as a timely answer to the attacks which have been levelled at the political and moral stance of European Jews during the Hitler period. Unfortunately …
