Socialist Youth Review
| The Socialist Youth Review was a publication of the
Workers Party, which was a Trotskyist political party which was formed by
Max Shachtman after he was expelled from the Socialist Workers Party in
1940. After 1949, the group was called the Independent Socialist
League and later merged with the Socialist Party.
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March-April 1947
Section 1:
This edition begins with a tribute from Leon Trotsky to his son,
Leon Sedoff, who died under mysterious circumstances in Paris. This is
followed by a comparison of the socialists killed by Stalin and Hitler and
an article detailing the failures of the British Labour Party. Arthur
Conkin critiques the plans of Hashomer Hatzair and Kibbutz Artzi, two
radical Jewish organizations and their support for Zionism, which he
contends is untenable.
Section
2:
Justin Graham writes the main article of this section focuses
on the "first Workers' State," the Paris Commune of 1871.
Also discussed is Eugene Debs, the quiet suffering of the workers in
Wilmington, Ohio, a review of the movie The Best Years of Our Lives,
and the potential for cooperation with the Socialist Workers' Party.
June 1948
Section
1:
This edition includes an article that argues against unity with
Stalinist organizations, such as the AYD. Also, policy changes by
Communists are criticized, as is the Wallace presidential campaign, the
Marshall Plan, and conscription. The article, "Democracy,
Socialism, and the Russian Revolution" undermines the claims of the
Soviet Union as a workers' state and instead portrays it as a centralized
bureacratic dictatorship of Stalinists. Section 1 ends with Rosa
Luxemburg's thoughts on the Russian Revolution.
Section 2:
Justin Graham pays tribute to the Communist Manifesto on its one hundredth
birthday, analyzing its relevance in today's age and the addition of the
"theory of permanent revolution" by Trotsky. The movie review article
is dedicated to the renaissance of Italian films after the collapse of the
fascist dictatorship. A book review of "No Peace for Asia" by Harold
R. Isaacs describes the situation in Asia following World War II and the
suppression of Indo-China. Also discussed is the potential of
socialist economic planning by the working class, opposed to "capitalist
anarchy" and Stalinist bureaucratic planning.
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