WSPUS


Leaders and Leadership

February 9, 2012

The Western Socialist July-Aug 1956 Before there can be any hope that the working class will take correct action to solve the many problems that confront it, it will be necessary to rid itself of many of its current ideas. Among these, one idea in particular has been most helpful to its enslavement; its...
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SOCIALISM AND HOW TO GET THERE

February 9, 2012

The Western Socialist July-August, 1955 Note 2004: The Socialist Union of America was a split from the then trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (US) whose existence lasted from 1954-59. It’s most famous member was Harry Braverman. A Debate between the Socialist Union of America and the World Socialist Party On April 17, 1955. a debate...
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The Job

February 9, 2012

From the Sept-Oct 1949 issue of the Western Socialist To a worker, a job is almost a matter of life and death, for he is dependent on it for his daily wants – food, clothes and a place to sleep. If he cannot find a job, or is without one for any length of...
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Are We Armchair Philosophers?

February 9, 2012

From the Western Socialist (August 1947) To the Western Socialist- The workers want something NOW and you ignore this altogether. Instead of having a program dealing with the everyday problems of the workers, you retreat into an ivory tower. Actually, you are nothing but armchair philosophers, divorced from the needs of the working class....
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Shorter Hours: More Work: Lower Pay

February 9, 2012

The Coming New Prosperity in America UNCOUTH indeed is the hurricane that blows nobody good! Out of the great depression, at last it looks as if a Little breeze might cool the brows of our poor capitalists here in the U.S.A. Profits have been nowhere near what they ought to be, dividends falling off,...
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