When President Reagan dedicated the flight of the space shuttle to the Afghan resistance, he was displaying once again his intuitive talent for political cabaret. The Reagan administration’s choice to support a “liberation movement” already provides a clue that something …
Almost exactly a century ago, Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor presented what is probably the most trenchant argument ever made against democratic socialism. By democratic socialism I mean the demand that men should come together to create a new kind of community, …
We asked our respondents the following questions: Suppose—what is unlikely—that you were in a position crucially to influence domestic social-economic policies during the next immediate period. Suppose you could propose, say, three legislative items for coping, not with the basic …
We are now in the middle of the battle over the 1984 budget. The president is browbeating us to “stay the course”; we have to derail him. Our job is not only to restore the services he would cut but …
0n December 22, 1972, Arnold Miller and other members of the Miners For Democracy (MFD) reform slate were sworn in as new officers of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW). Exactly ten years later, on December 22, 1982, Richard …
Suppose the Golem had been made, not of the clay that legend has it, but of plastic: what would have been his fate? Well, he might have been elected president and as he acquiesced in the engineering of a depression …
In order to help move the United States “toward a sane defense policy,” Bogdan Denitch [in Dissent, Summer 1982] calls for “a fundamental examination” by the democratic left of “the assumption behind U.S. defense policy.” Denitch characterizes U.S. society as …
Smith-Corona, the typewriter manufacturer, has been in the Cortland, New York, area for over 60 years. On June 30, 1982, SCM Corporation, the parent company, announced its intention to shut down one of its five area plants within the next …
The book most prominently displayed on Sao Paulo newsstands in recent months might strike some passersby as a curious anachronism—if they have ever heard of its long-dead author. Sandwiched in between the usual soccer magazines and pornography one stumbles upon …
After Francois Mitterrand was elected president of France in May 1981, and the legislative elections of June 1981 gave the Socialist party a solid majority in the National Assembly, a sense of euphoria spread through the French left, both inside …
Suppose the Golem had been made, not of the clay that legend has it, but of plastic: what would have been his fate? Well, he might have been elected president and as he acquiesced in the engineering of a depression …
The Automobile Workers Union (UAW) will be holding its convention this May in Dallas; we expect to have a report in our next issue. Meanwhile, we print below excerpts from a conversation recently held in Washington, D.C., between Irving Howe …
In the Paris office of the Coordinating Committee of Solidarnok, Jacek xeroxes pages of the underground press recently smuggled into France. “We are a clearing house for most of the information coming out of Poland,” he says. Holding up a …
In the U.S.S.R. the death of the leader of the party and state is a political event of extraordinary significance, usually marking the end of an era. Protracted tenure in office permits Soviet leaders to conclude a fair number of …
Benvenisti stresses [that] it’s not so much the number of settlements as the type of settlement that is the most significant factor. During the period of the Labor government the concept of settlement dictated the building of kibbutzim and moshavim, …
