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February, 1995 Electronic Edition Vol. 14, No. 1
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INDEX TO Volume 14, Number 1
SPECIAL CONVENTION ISSUE
1. A VISION OF A NEW AMERICA
2. DRAFT PROGRAM FOR THE NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
3. 'CHANGING WITH THE TIMES': DRAFT RESOLUTION ON ORGANIZATION
4. DRAFT POLITICAL RESOLUTION
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1. A VISION OF A NEW AMERICA
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Humanity is being reborn in an age of great revolutionary change.
The tools and techniques exist which can produce all that we need.
For the first time in history, it is possible to create the
conditions for a true flowering of the human intellect and spirit.
Our fight is to re-organize society to accomplish these goals.
Our vision is a vision of a new America. We know the revolution we
need is possible. We have the commitment and the moral passion to
carry it out. We have the opportunity to end our poverty and
suffering once and for all. Now the choice is ours to make. Our
vision is our choice.
Our vision is one of equality. Everyone must have the means for a
decent life: enough to eat; a home to live in; life-long
education; medical care and assistance when sick or alone or when
growing old; the ability to enjoy all aspects of human culture, to
have joy and laughter and love as their everyday companions.
Everyone deserves this and everyone should have it.
Our vision is a vision of a people awakening. We believe that all
of us, especially the poor and the oppressed, the wretched of the
earth, can discover within ourselves the moral courage and the
political will to build a mighty revolutionary movement. A great
moral optimism is beginning to sweep this country as the poor, the
oppressed, the decent-hearted, embrace their revolutionary mission
and make this vision a reality.
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2. DRAFT PROGRAM FOR THE NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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This is an era of revolutionary change. For the first time in
history, humankind can produce such abundance that society can be
free from hunger, homelessness and back-breaking labor. The only
thing standing in the way is this system of exploitation and
injustice.
The struggle today for homes, education, health care, freedom from
police terror is the beginning of a revolution for a better world,
economically and spiritually.
[The NOC] takes as its mission the political awakening of the
American people. We invite all who see that there's a problem and
are ready to do something about it to join with us. With our
organized strength, we will liberate the thinking of the American
people and unleash their energy. We will win them to the cause for
which they are already fighting.
We will excite the American people with a vision of a world of
plenty. Electronic technology provides better, cheaper and more
products with less and less labor. Society now has the capacity
to devote the energies and talents of its people to satisfying the
intellectual, emotional and cultural needs of all.
We will educate the people of this country about the economic
revolution that's disrupting society. Every day, the new
electronic technology throws thousands -- laborers and managers
alike -- out of their jobs. Their labor is worthless to a system
that values only what it can exploit. If they cannot work, they
cannot eat. Radical changes in the way a society produces its
wealth call for radical changes in how that society is organized.
We will sound the alarm about the danger of a police state. The
capitalist class cannot convince the American people to believe in
their system while they are starving and freezing them and
destroying their hopes and dreams. Their answer to the destruction
of society is a police state. Their government takes away
constitutional rights and gives back terror and prisons. They
attempt to disarm the victims of capitalism by turning them
against one another.
We will inspire our people with the alternative to a police state:
a society organized for the
benefit of all. A society built on cooperation puts the physical,
cultural and spiritual well-being of its people above the profits
and property of a handful of billionaires. When the class which
has no place in the capitalist system seizes control of all
productive property and transforms it into public property, it can
reorganize society so that the abundance is distributed according
to need.
We will empower the American people with the understanding of
their role in striving for this new society and with the
confidence that it's possible to win. The struggle of those who
have no stake in this system carries the energy to overturn it.
[The NOC] is an organization based on the aims of these millions
of people. Our members come from all walks of life. We are in the
thick of battle on every front. From within housing takeovers and
protests, from within universities, hospitals and prisons, from
within each of the scattered battles, from wherever there is
poverty and injustice, we take this message out to politicize and
organize the revolution that is already shaking up this country.
We call on you to join us in crusading for this cause.
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3. 'CHANGING WITH THE TIMES': DRAFT RESOLUTION ON ORGANIZATION
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We are building an organization for this stage of the revolution.
We must teach, train and elevate the thinking of a movement which
is scattered, diverse and searching for answers. We must focus on
the special contribution we can make -- education about why our
society is in crisis, what can be done to solve it and a vision
for the future.
Our organizational structure has not kept up and could not keep up
with our evolving understanding of the struggle. The committee
system as our basic organizational form was designed to carry out
the task of bringing together the practical leaders of the
movement to help them connect with one another and strategize for
the entire movement. The agitation and propaganda we did in the
committees was to facilitate that task. Our committee system has
become a way to organize and coordinate the mass movement. Today,
our structure has to organize our agitation and propaganda on the
specific questions of the day. We need a new structure which will
enable us to carry out our new program.
Each chapter must be based in a territory (such as a part of a
city) and will do its agitation and propaganda within that
territory.
Political education must be at the center of the chapters' work.
Our organization must be a place where both our members and the
movement can learn what they need to explain, persuade and prove
to the people the dangers and possibilities of the situation
today. With this knowledge and understanding, our membership can
participate in any activity in a way that elevates the
consciousness of those around them.
The People's Tribune, the Tribuno del Pueblo and Rally, Comrades!
are our main weapons in the fight for the hearts and minds of the
American people. In our activity, writing for and distributing the
papers is the primary means to educate and politicize the
revolution. Through our papers, we can reach millions with the
truth about the struggle, what we are facing and what we must do.
Every paper read means a mind opened. Every chapter must make its
central responsibility to get these papers into the hands of every
person asking the question "Why?"
The chapter must be open and flexible to reflect the reality of
the movement today. It holds regular and public meetings which are
open to all, members and non-members alike. The chapter organizes
itself to carry out the program.
Our organizational principles -- along with the political
direction given by the program -- forge the unity necessary for a
membership of diverse people to march in a common direction. These
principles are: collective discussion and decisions based on an
assessment of the real world and individual responsibility to
carry out those decisions; division of labor; unity of authority
and responsibility; checkup and evaluation of our plans and
reporting the results. They encourage individual creativity and
initiative while at the same time guaranteeing accountability to
the decisions and agreements of the collective.
While our chapters must be open and flexible, we also need the
means to guarantee the life and the political direction of the
organization. To do this, we need a central body, both nationally
and locally.
In the areas, the local membership would elect in their local
conventions an area office. The area office would ensure that the
chapters are carrying out the program, establish the wherewithal
for expansion into new areas and work within a division of labor.
The members would come together for area-wide meetings as
necessary to discuss and decide how to respond through agitation
and propaganda and to build the organization as the social
struggle develops.
At the national level, the National Council, the Steering
Committee and the National Office use the press to give direction
to the agitation and propaganda of the members. The National
Office must be organized around the People's Tribune, the Tribuno
del Pueblo and Rally, Comrades!.
Our new structure will allow us to get varied and different levels
of contribution from people as they join and get to know the
organization. In this way, we can build everywhere and in any
social struggle.
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4. DRAFT POLITICAL RESOLUTION
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INTRODUCTION
During moments of great, epochal change, a social movement unites
with and is illuminated and guided by a cause. That cause today is
a vision of humanity crossing into a new world, a world free of
exploitation, ignorance and strife.
Within the great revolutionary movement for U.S. independence, a
cause arose. The cause, the vision, was not simply one of national
independence, but of a new continent with human freedom, peace and
brotherhood based on independence. It was this cause, not the
movement, which made it possible for the revolutionaries of that
era to bear the great sacrifices and endure the suffering that
ended in victory and independence. George Washington led the
movement; Thomas Paine spoke for the cause.
Eighty years later, another great movement engulfed our country --
the struggle to preserve the Union. Within this revolutionary
movement, the cause arose again. That cause -- a vision of a new
world of human freedom and brotherhood based on the Union -- made
the great sacrifices and suffering of the Civil War bearable.
Abraham Lincoln led the movement; Walt Whitman spoke for the
cause.
In all previous revolutionary movements, the foundation of the
movement -- the level of the means of production* -- was never
developed enough to make realizing the cause possible. But a cause
never dies; it lies latent until a new round of social struggle
brings it forth to illuminate and guide the movement again.
Today, a new, great movement against poverty and its consequences
is growing across this country. No force on Earth can prevent the
people who are struggling against intolerable conditions from
coalescing. This movement cannot mature without a cause, a
morality, a vision. That vision is a vision of a country free
forever from want, from race and national hatred and from sexual
oppression and human exploitation. That vision is a vision of a
country where the ever-expanding material and cultural needs of
the people are satisfied by an ever-expanding technology that has
freed humanity from toil. The vision is one of peace and social
harmony. Today, the level of the means of production makes
realizing this cause possible. Thus, the cause is the soul of the
movement and the source of its morale, illuminating it, guiding it
and inseparable from it.
Only unyielding, intelligent, serious revolutionaries can combine
this vital cause with the growing movement. We have formed our
organization to accomplish this end. To guide our struggle, to
help accomplish this great and historic task, we submit this
Political Resolution and, on that basis, call for the convening of
our comrades.
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THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION
Scouring the world for profits, capitalism has expanded into
virtually every corner of the Earth and created a truly global
economy with an international division of labor. The most
important and fundamental aspect of this development is the
accelerating application of electronics to economic life.
Production based on the labor-saving technologies of electro-
mechanics has shifted to production based on the essentially
labor-replacing technologies of electronics. This is an economic
revolution of historic significance, leading to broad societal
changes worldwide, on a scale not seen for over 200 years.
The last 50 years have seen the rise of a section of capital that
is supranational. The economic interests of these supranational
financiers transcend national boundaries. Thus, they have no
loyalty to any particular country. Their only loyalty is to
capitalism and to themselves. Some 80 percent of U.S. external
trade (both exports and imports) is now undertaken by
transnational corporations. In 1990, there were 35,000
supranational corporations with 150,000 foreign affiliates; the
largest of these corporations account for about one-quarter of the
value added in production in the world economy.
The international economic strategy of the supranational
financiers has two broad aspects. First, they are moving to make
the countries of the world "borderless" (economically speaking),
so that there can be a relatively free flow of capital and goods
across the world. (The restructuring of the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade is part of this process.) Second, they are
moving to invest capital in the "developing" world and in the
formerly socialist countries, in an effort to turn those areas
into new markets and sources of skilled but cheap labor. Their
vision is a vision of the world as one giant investment colony
where capital moves across national boundaries without
restrictions. They see regional trading blocs such as the North
American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union as stepping
stones toward their goal, not as ends in themselves.
The supranational financiers have devised a variety of means to
implement their strategy. Health, education and welfare programs
have been reduced or eliminated to free capital for investment.
"Austerity measures" have been introduced to reduce inflation.
State-owned companies have been privatized. Open dictatorships are
replacing "democracies." (These are constitutional police states
with democratic faces and predictable legal systems friendly to
foreign investment). In many cases, these changes have been forced
on the countries involved through the "structural adjustment"
programs of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
While the capitalists have been fairly successful in imposing
their strategy, their very success is setting the stage for their
ultimate failure. The reason? Labor-replacing technology is
producing a global glut of labor, both skilled and unskilled.
Human labor is becoming worthless. As a result, wage rates are
falling. The small, highly skilled global work force that will
ultimately result from the changes currently underway won't be
large enough to buy all the goods the system produces. As
production is modernized to compete on the world market, a huge
and permanent increase in unemployment results, with all the
social, political and economic consequences.
For example, in largely agricultural China, the World Bank has
estimated that 100-150 million rural workers have been displaced
through this process. A similar situation exists in Russia, where
there is massive, growing unemployment. The Russian government is
having to choose between continuing to subsidize obsolete state
industries (thus keeping people employed) or ending the subsidies,
thus modernizing the industries by making even more workers
jobless. In the countries which make up the European Union, the
official unemployment rate is almost 11 percent. Africa has been
virtually written off by the imperialists, consigning the people
to absolute poverty, political anarchy and destruction.
These changes are dislocating hundreds of millions of people. They
are creating a tremendous polarity between wealth and poverty.
Massive worldwide migration -- from rural to urban areas and from
marginalized countries to industrialized ones -- has been a
hallmark of this process. Absolute poverty is growing worldwide at
the rate of 70,000 people a day. Eight of every 10 people in the
world live below the U.S. poverty level. At the other end of the
spectrum, 344 billionaires wallow in untold wealth while most of
humanity struggles just to survive.
With little hope of a decent future, the millions of proletarians,
whether migrants or not, represent a political threat to the
capitalists. The capitalists will use force and violence to
control them. The construction of police states has been
facilitated by the hysteria against "foreigners" being fanned
worldwide. From the criminal violence carried out in cooperation
with local police forces to the electoral legitimacy given to
openly fascist forces, particularly throughout Europe, the fascist
threat is real and growing.
In sum, the strategy the capitalists are pursuing can only
increase permanent unemployment and intensify the drive toward
fascism.
THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN THE UNITED STATES
We have already seen how applying electronics to production is
disrupting capitalism as an economic system. This is the key
factor to keep in mind when examining the U.S. economy.
Reflecting this spread of electronics, the period from the late
1980s to the present reveals a qualitative shift in the economy.
Between 1987 and 1992, the nation's manufacturing industries
registered a $530 billion increase in shipments. This was a 21
percent increase for the five-year period. New capital
expenditures by these firms increased 32 percent during the same
period. This expansion in production resulted in the elimination
of 696,000 jobs, a drop of four percent for those five years.
(U.S. Department of Commerce, 1992). Today, there are 3.2 million
fewer manufacturing workers in the United States than there were
in 1979.
The capitalists have reaped unprecedented profits from these
changes. Yet the reality of millions of people unemployed, with
the number growing daily, means that there are fewer people with
the money to buy the goods being produced by this new technology.
The capitalists have tried to solve this problem by extending
credit further. Loans now represent 78 percent of income. About 44
percent of all buying is done on credit. Of course, this cannot
continue forever; there has to be a minimal chance of repayment.
The source of the problem is a lack of good-paying jobs.
Because there is a lower return on productive investments, the
capitalists increasingly turn to speculative investments where the
returns (and the risks) are higher. A parallel banking structure
is emerging in which most financing no longer goes through the
regulated, established banking system. The value of "derivatives"
is now twice the value of all stocks traded on U.S. equity
exchanges. (Derivatives are complex investments that gamble on the
movement of stock markets or interest rates.)
The General Electric Co. personifies this trend toward
speculative, non-productive investment. GE's stock market
valuation exceeds that of any other U.S. corporation. It has
branched out from manufacturing airplane engines and power
turbines into owning brokerage houses and has developed perhaps
the world's most sophisticated financial and insurance empire. In
1993, GE's operating profit from manufacturing increased by only
seven percent over the previous four years, while its profits from
financial activities jumped 132 percent. During those years, GE's
U.S. employment dropped from 244,000 workers to 163,000.
Inevitably, speculation and credit manipulation will lead to
financial collapse. The bankruptcies caused by investments in
derivatives, as occurred in Orange County, California, represent
just the tip of the iceberg. "With a growing number of banks and
brokerage houses staggering from losses on derivatives, the
potential exists for a financial meltdown that would make last
spring's bond plunge look like a hiccup." (Chicago Tribune,
December 4, 1994).
The United States is experiencing broad societal changes on a
scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution. At that time, new
production techniques gave birth to a new class, the industrial
working class. This class was created by the need to harness human
labor to machine power in mass production. Today, with
electronics, production takes place with a minimum of human labor
or no human labor at all. Again we see a new class being born from
the ongoing destruction of the old methods of production and the
society built upon them. This developing class increasingly finds
itself outside the capitalist system, unable to find work and
finding it harder and harder to survive or even coexist with the
capitalist system.
The creation of this new class is not the only transformation
taking place. Every aspect of society is undergoing upheaval.
Everything that seemed "normal" yesterday is coming apart at the
seams today. The revolution in the economy is bringing forth a
revolution throughout society.
Increasingly, the ruling class is making its intentions clear. It
is unable to solve the problem of growing poverty. Therefore, it
is moving to tightly control the tens of millions of Americans who
will not starve in silence.
THE NATIONAL POLITICAL SITUATION
For the past 50 years, the ruling class has controlled the
American people by offering limited political rights and a modicum
of economic security to large sections of the population in
exchange for their political and social support. The unprecedented
economic expansion of those years allowed it to do this. Those
struggles for reform which were waged during this period were
fought largely to gain access to the capitalist system, not to
challenge it.
Today, all bets are off. Computers are replacing labor. Feeding
us, housing us, taking care of our children, conceding our demands
for a better life -- no longer are these things necessary elements
of making a profit for the capitalists.
This fact is revolutionizing the political landscape. Capitalism
has been forced to strike at its own foundation. It is beginning
to impoverish and brutalize the very people who once supported it.
This new relationship of forces -- the undermining of the rulers'
base of support and the loss of their "reserves" -- is creating
the basis for a new stage of the social revolution.
The ruling class is well aware of the threat posed by this changed
situation. Our rulers are absolutely united on what they must do
as a class to protect themselves from this challenge to the system
of private property and to their privilege and power. As the
crisis deepens and the polarization in our society intensifies,
the ruling class must have the means to control and contain the
millions being forced outside the system. Step by step, the ruling
class is implementing a legal and political structure which openly
sanctions unrestrained state power, particularly police power.
This process is taking place legally, through the existing
mechanisms of power. It is directed at guaranteeing the rights of
the capitalists to do whatever is necessary to secure their
profits.
This is the meaning behind the Supreme Court rulings and the new
laws which undermine the Constitution and expand the state's power
to control personal behavior and family life, to censor
information and ideas, and to restrict dissent.
This is what's behind the broadening of the police's power to beat
and murder at will. The police are the street-level enforcers of
the interests of the ruling class. For what they can deliver, they
have established themselves as an integral part of American
political life, tied in myriad ways to governmental and social
institutions, the military and the various federal law enforcement
institutions such as the FBI. The police are building a political
and economic base of their own, both in individual cities and
nationally. They are heavily armed, highly organized and
increasingly centralized. Behind them stands the entire apparatus
of the courts, the Congress and the military.
An aggressive campaign of lies and scare tactics is being waged to
convince the American people that a police state is in their
interests. Crime, poverty and all other social ills are identified
as problems of the minorities, brought on by their own behavior.
The ruling class has used this campaign as a platform from which
to call for increasingly repressive and barbaric measures: the
breaking-up of families and the warehousing of children; the
abdicating of responsibility for the elderly; the stripping away
of the safety net for the poor; and the extermination of the
homeless.
This manipulation of the American people's thinking has relied
upon the worst aspects of American history. It is the old tactic
of "divide and conquer," with the intent being to isolate one
section of society in order to control the rest. The ruling class
uses every question to assert alliances along color lines,
particularly among whites.
The objective situation is exposing the capitalists' weak flank.
The reality of poverty in this country is getting harder to cover
up. The Electronic Revolution is giving birth to a new class made
up of millions of people who have no future in this economic
system and so must fight the system to survive. At the heart of
this new class are the unskilled and the semi-skilled. But its
ranks are increased daily by the skilled industrial workers and
the white-collar workers who are being displaced by electronics.
The subjective, political polarization along color lines does not
explain this development. The actual polarization is objective;
this polarization is taking place not between the minorities and
the whites, but between the rich and the poor.
THE TASKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES
The tasks of revolutionaries reflect the stages of the development
of the revolutionary process. What stage are we in today? The
American people are becoming aware of the consequences of the
economic revolution. A movement is taking shape. The movement
consists of the social activity of millions of people to
reorganize society in harmony with the new tools -- electronics.
But the American people are confused. They don't know where to
throw a blow or who to blame for their poverty and misery. The
ruling class understands that as long as the mass of poor people
lack a vision and remain confused about who is their friend and
who is their foe, it can maintain its supremacy. The ruling class
is waging a vicious, relentless campaign for the hearts and minds
of the American people. It emphasizes "me, me, me, and to hell
with everyone else." In everything objective, the American people
are moving away from capitalism and its institutions. Yet in
everything ideological, the people are caught up in proposals for
a fascist resolution to the crisis in our country.
Revolutionaries must win the war for the hearts and minds of the
American people. The ruling class' tactics aim to disarm and
divide the new class of poor people. When the poor unite as a
class, no force on Earth can stop them from taking what rightfully
belongs to them. Our agitation and propaganda have to unite this
new class of poor people and arm it with the understanding that
the only thing standing between them and the wealth being
generated by the Electronic Revolution is a tiny, vampire-like
class of billionaires.
The development of electronics and robotics is replenishing the
ranks of the social movement for a new America. However, the
movement has to be merged consciously with its cause, its vision,
its morality. This will not happen spontaneously. This task falls
on the shoulders of the revolutionaries. No movement can succeed
without a cause. A cause arises as a vision of what's possible,
based on the objective economic and social forces that are in
motion.
The task of the revolutionaries is always agitation and
propaganda. Today, the test of real revolutionaries is to produce
agitation and propaganda that reflect the history-making
transformation that society is going through.
Our foremost task is to agitate and propagandize around the cause
of the movement. It is this cause that will drive the movement
toward the new world now possible. What is the cause of this
movement? It is the vision of a country free forever from want,
from race and national hatred, from sexual oppression and from
human exploitation. The vision is one of peace and social harmony.
Our agitation and propaganda need to express the changes being
brought about and the possibilities being created by the
Electronic Revolution. We no longer have to work long hours or
wait for the meager welfare check just to eke out a miserable
existence for our families. The new technology makes a world of
material abundance and cultural development for all possible.
Our agitation and propaganda need to sound the alarm about the
danger of a police state. The tiny ruling class will do whatever
is necessary to protect its profits and privilege. That means the
overwhelming majority of Americans will face a reign of terror.
Only when control of this country is in the hands of the masses of
the American people can we transform our vision of the future into
reality.
We are an organization of revolutionaries dedicated to uniting the
cause, the vision of what is now possible, with the movement
spreading across the country. Our newspapers -- Rally, Comrades!,
the Tribuno del Pueblo and the People's Tribune -- are our main
weapons of agitation and propaganda.
To teach the new ideas of revolution, our classroom has to become
the streets, the shelters, the unemployed lines, the factories,
the schools -- wherever there's injustice, oppression and tyranny.
Comrades, we are marching with history. We are continuing all that
is noble in the legacy of the revolutionaries of 1776 and of the
Civil War era. On our shoulders lies the responsibility for
bringing the cause of human freedom, of peace and brotherhood
based on independence, the vision that gave birth to our country,
to its conclusion. We will not fail. They are few; we are many.
Victory will be ours!
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* The term "means of production" refers to the tools, techniques
and materials used in production. The means of production have
developed over time as humankind has learned more about the way
the world works.
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RALLY, COMRADES!, a newspaper published by the Political Committee
of the National Organizing Committee. The name of the paper is
taken from the original chorus of the poem and song, _The
International_, the rallying cry of the international proletariat:
Rally, Comrades
'Tis the last fight we face
The international
Shall be the human race.
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The mission of RALLY, COMRADES! is to orient, educate and raise
the consciousness of those who are fighting the growing repression
and poverty in our country. We have entered an age where
electronics is replacing human labor and a growing mass of people
is becoming permanently unemployed. No longer requiring our labor,
those who run this country have launched a massive assault on our
living standards and our legal and human rights.
The people are fighting back, but their struggle is scattered and
unfocused. The crying need of the moment is to unite the leaders
of the scattered struggles around a common understanding and a
common strategy. The leaders need a source of information on the
political situation and the tasks of the revolutionaries. We
dedicate the pages of RALLY COMRADES! to this end.
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