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...grew up in an Irish-Italian section of New York's borough of Queens. His father distributed a union newspaper; his mother was a member of two garmentworkers' unions. As a student in New York schools and later at the University of Illinois, Shanker was an active socialist who campaigned for Norman Thomas. In 1952 he became a city schoolteacher. But seven years later, he gave it up to become a full-time union organizer. On his rounds, he met a Queens teacher named Edith Gerber, whom he made a strike captain and later married ("I organized...
...mouthpiece. The premiere proved its maturity by showing us that '60s Weatherman types were really just hyperkinetic kids, capable of reform. Since everyone talked verree sloowwly in order to stretch the material to hour length, there was time to hint at a difference (known as psychopathy) between voting Socialist Labor and dynamiting buildings...
Increasingly, there is no Socialist Party position, even as Henry Giniger of The New York Times blathers about a Socialist "victory" in the oustring of Premier Goncalves. As an expression in Lisbon goes, the PSP is a radish: red on the outside and white on the inside, flooded by right-wing supporters, mainly in the conservative north, who have chosen the Socialists as the best break on revolution...
...military's security forces, he has the power to selectively stifle anti-revolutionary demonstrations: his failure to move strongly against anti-Communist terror in the North signalled more than dislike for the pro-Communist Goncalves. Apparently Carvalho was trying to reduce Communist strength and simultaneously, maneuver Left Socialist support for his independent left position by joining the anti-Communist campaign. But Carvalho may have misjudged a delicate situation, overestimating Communist strength while underestimating the dangers of counterrevolutionary mobilization in the North...
Carvalho calls for a socialist state organized around factory, office and neighborhood councils, in contrast to the bureaucratic societies envisioned by both the PCP and the PSP. Loosely allied to Maoist, Trotskyist and anarchist parties, Carvalho has received only sporadic formal support among industrial and agricultural workers, who comprise perhaps 30 per cent of the country. But Carvalho is personally popular, supported by a widely based rank and file movement for workers' control similar to the one which precipitated last March's decree nationalizing banks and insurance companies by taking over those institutions...