Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the revolutionary Marxist Sandinista toppled Samoza dictatorship in 1979, the infant mortality rate has been cut one-third and polio vaccinations are up four times, Schuster said...
...Rather than working in electoral politics, this fall SYL held a forum on the 1934 Minneapolis strike and showed the film "Labor's Turning Point." Gene Herson, a member of a maritime union in New York, presented a lecture on class struggle and labor action SYL's Marxist class series meets every other Wednesday this term...
Says Thomas N. Crean '86 of the Spartacus Youth League, a Marxist revolutionary group: "We feel that there is no fundamental difference between the candidates. Both represent certain class interests--those of the capitalist class. The alternative is to build a workers party, because a bipartisan class struggle can only be defeated through class struggle. We're for a workers' party to build a workers' government...
...York City last week, Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte pierced the psychological curtain that has divided his nation through nearly five years of civil war. During a 55-min. address, the stocky, dynamic Christian Democrat announced that he would travel unarmed to meet with his Marxist-Leninist foes, the guerrilla commanders of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). At the meeting, he said, he would discuss the incorporation of the insurgents "into the process of democracy, and the preparation in an atmosphere of freedom for the next popular election...
John Paul also took aim at the liberation theology movement, a mixture of Christianity and Marxist social activism that has been gaining strength in the region. Among the Pope's complaints about liberation theology is that it tends to pit Roman Catholic laity against the church hier archy. At his stop in Santo Domingo, the Pontiff warned against "considering the poor as a class in struggle, or as a church separated from communion with and obedience to its pastors...