Word: spartacist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spartacist League candidate for San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Diana Coleman, ran on an explicitly socialist program; the only alternative to the "lesser evil" shell game of bourgeois politics. And the labor movement and minorities in San Francisco enthusiastically responded with over 7000 votes for Coleman. Unlike the liberal despair expressed at the "anti-Reagan" rally at Harvard, the labor movement in San Francisco rallied around Coleman's campaign slogan: "Enough! It's time for a Workers Party!" Barry Kallio
McKibben falsely labels the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) as "revolutionary socialists." In fact the RCP has had precious little to do with the fight against fascism and even objectively supported the Louise Day Hicks campaign in its efforts to "unite against Boston busing." Real communists like the Spartacist League/Spartacus Youth League offer the only alternative to imperialist decay and fascism. So when the KKK wanted to "celebrate" the Greensboro massacre in the labor/Black town of Detroit it was the SL and 500 predominantly Black workers who demonstrated and stopped the Klan. And when the Nazis threatened to celebrate Hitler...