Subject Index
SAM MARCY -- articles
from 1989 through 1995

USSR/Russia

• Yeltsin and the Soviet election -- April 6, 1989
• Significance of Sino-Soviet Summit -- May 25, 1989
• Working class resurgence in the USSR -- Aug. 3, 1989
• Aftermath of the Soviet miners' strike -- Aug. 17, 1989
• The bourgeois opposition and rumors of a coup in the USSR -- Oct. 5, 1989
• The anti-strike legislation of the Gorbachev regime and the resurgence of the working class -- Oct. 12, 1989
• The new course in the USSR and Eastern Europe -- Nov. 2, 1989
• The issues behind the summit between Bush & Gorbachev -- Nov. 9, 1989
• Fruits of the Summit between Gorbachev & Bush -- Dec. 14, 1989

• Aspects of the Central Committee meeting -- Feb. 15, 1990
• 'We must look at each phenomenon concretely': Remarks assessing current situation in Eastern Europe & USSR -- Feb. 22, 1990
• The new property law in the USSR -- April 12, 1990
• Why Bush pulled back on Lithuania: The meaning of Li Peng- Gorbachev meeting -- May 3, 1990
• Behind the Yeltsin election -- June 7, 1990
• What lies ahead for the USSR -- June 21, 1990
• Better late than not at all -- July 5, 1990
• The debate over the cooperatives: The 28th Soviet Party Congress -- July 12, 1990
• Problems of the 28th Party Congress -- July 19, 1990
• Why counterrevolution won't succeed in the USSR -- July 26, 1990
• How to combat capitalist disinformation -- Aug. 9, 1990
• Behind Gorbachev's emergency powers -- Oct. 4, 1990
• The reemergence of workers' control in the USSR -- Dec. 13, 1990
• What's behind imperialist drive to 'aid' the USSR? -- Dec. 27, 1990

• Understanding the Shevardnadze bombshell -- Jan. 3, 1991
• After Shevardnadze, the rise of the neo-Bolsheviks -- Jan. 10, 1991
• The Gulf War crisis and the Soviet military -- Jan. 17, 1991
• The counterrevolution in retreat -- Feb. 7, 1991
• The Soviet referendum: Setback for the counterrevolution -- March 28, 1991
• Capitalist supporters prepare for civil war -- April 4, 1991
• Pavlov's belt-tightening remedy -- April 11, 1991
• The new crisis in the USSR: Ceding control of the coal mines and the Gorbachev-Yeltsin coalition -- May 16, 1991
• The new crisis in the USSR: State structure and nationality -- May 23, 1991
• The second Battle of Stalingrad: Can the forces of imperialist destabilization overcome the forces for socialism? -- May 30, 1991
• The nature of the 'free' market -- June 13, 1991
• An open letter to Boris Yeltsin -- June 27, 1991
• The USSR: Where it's at today -- Aug. 8, 1991
• Gorbachev, Yeltsin back in with imperialist help, after Yeltsin's call for general strike fizzles -- Aug. 29, 1991
• The ABC's of the crisis in the USSR -- Sept. 5, 1991
• The Yeltsin-Gorbachev dictatorial coup -- Sept. 12, 1991
• The food crisis in the USSR -- Sept. 19, 1991
• The USSR and the oppressed nations: Three steps leading to the current crisis -- Sept. 26, 1991
• The world situation and prospects for resurgence -- Oct. 10, 1991
• External and internal causes of USSR breakdown -- Oct. 24, 1991
• Yeltsin's trip to Germany -- Dec. 5, 1991
• The twofold character of the world struggle -- Dec. 19, 1991
• Machine politics in the Soviet Union -- Dec. 26, 1991

• Why the counterrevolution will fail -- Jan. 9, 1992
• Class rule and forms of property: The nature of the new Commonwealth -- Jan. 16, 1992
• A false form of collaboration -- Jan. 23, 1992
• Socialism: Utopian and scientific -- Jan. 30, 1992
• Yeltsin and the new polarization -- Feb. 20, 1992
• Aiding or raiding the USSR? -- April 16, 1992
• Why Soviet peasants reject privatization -- May 7, 1992
• Lest we forget: The USSR yesterday and today -- July 23, 1992
• Yeltsin in decline: The new phase in the struggle against the counterrevolution -- Aug. 13, 1992
• Yeltsin's Wall Street stock swindle -- Oct. 15, 1992
• From Gorbachev to Yeltsin -- Nov. 7, 1992
• The emergence of dual power -- Nov. 26, 1992
• Yeltsin losing momentum -- Dec. 17, 1992
• What's behind Gaidar's ouster: Congress of Peoples Deputies shows greater resistance -- Dec. 24, 1992

• Yeltsin, the Congress and state property -- March 25, 1993
• Yeltsin vs. Congress of Peoples Deputies -- April 1, 1993
• Russia crisis: The Missouri Compromise revisited -- April 8, 1993
• Open letter to the U.S. Congress on Clinton-Yeltsin summit -- April 15, 1993
• On the eve of the Russian referendum -- April 22, 1993
• Russian referendum: Decisive battle yet to come -- May 6, 1993
• New aspect of the struggle in Russia -- Aug. 12, 1993
• The Russian crisis (struggle between Yeltsin & the parliament) -- Sept. 30, 1993
• Solzhenitsyn and Yeltsin: "Down with the revolution!" of 1789? -- Oct. 7, 1993
• The crisis in Russia: What this battle showed -- Oct. 14, 1993
• What Workers World said on the Yeltsin-parliament fight -- Oct. 21, 1993
• Yeltsin dilemma and the Russian working class -- Oct. 21, 1993
• Russia and China: Where capitalist reforms are going -- Nov. 18, 1993
• Where the global class struggle is going -- Nov. 25, 1993
• The specter of fascism -- Dec. 30, 1993

• Why Gaidar was ousted -- Jan. 27, 1994
• "Movement must analyze catastrophe in USSR" -- Marcy at seminar of Marxist-Lennist (Belgium) -- May 19, 1994
• Aspects of the first workers' state -- June 16, 1994
• Lessons of first Russian revolution: 1905 -- Feb. 9, 1995

USSR/non-Russian

• Behind events in Soviet Georgia -- April 20, 1989
• Economic and political forces behind the rebellions in the Caucasus -- Feb. 1, 1990
• Hand of CIA in USSR ethnic struggles: The Matlock-Pell connection -- Feb. 8, 1990
• The USSR and the oppressed nations: Three steps leading to the current crisis -- Sept. 26, 1991
• Machine politics in the Soviet Union -- Dec. 26, 1991

CHINA

• Significance of the Sino-Soviet Summit -- May 25, 1989
• The new crisis in China, part one -- May 4, 1989
• The new crisis in China, part two -- May 11, 1989
• What road to socialism? (in China) -- June 1, 1989
• Who gets into college? (in China) -- June 1, 1989
• Three phases of U.S. policy toward China -- June 22, 1989
• Congress and the anti-China sanctions bill -- July 13, 1989
• Bush's China junket -- Dec. 21, 1989
• A victory for People's China -- Jan. 25, 1990
• Why Bush pulled back on Lithuania: The meaning of Li Peng- Gorbachev meeting -- May 3, 1990
• Jiang Qing and the Cultural Revolution -- June 20, 1991
• Reaction and resistance in China -- June 25, 1992
• Perspective on China -- June 3, 1993
• Russia & China: Where capitalist reforms are going -- Nov. 18, 1993
• Where the global class struggle is going -- Nov. 25, 1993

IRAN, IRAQ, KURDISTAN

• Behind the struggle over 'The Satanic Verses' -- March 16, 1989
• The war crisis and the global struggle -- Aug. 30, 1990
• Forces behind the war crisis -- Sept. 6, 1990
• Bush, Gorbachev and the war crisis -- Sept. 13, 1990
• The general blows it: Fired for leaking Pentagon plan to terror- bomb Iraq civilians -- Sept. 27, 1990
• Peace talk and war preparation -- Oct. 18, 1990
• The military's hand in the United Natione -- Nov. 8, 1990
• When war hawks turn to doves -- Nov. 22, 1990
• The anti-war movement and the class struggle -- Nov. 29, 1990
• Hoax at the UN: Imperialist powers manipulate Security Council -- Dec. 6, 1990
• Sanctions: behind the fiction -- Dec. 20, 1990
• How Bush got his war resolution -- Jan. 24, 1991
• A collective war of all the imperialists -- Feb. 14, 1991
• Inter-imperialist rivalries and the role of the masses -- Feb. 21, 1991
• Turning point in the war -- Feb. 28, 1991
• The Gulf War in historical perspective -- March 7, 1991
• Aftermath of the Gulf War: Class, nation and state, part 1 -- March 14, 1991
• Aftermath of the Gulf War: Class, nation and state, part 2 -- March 21, 1991
• Kurdistan: The struggle in historical perspective -- April 18, 1991
• Aftermath of the Gulf War: The relentless economic decline -- April 25, 1991
• Out of their own mouths: Revelations on the Gulf -- July 4, 1991
• The second phase of the Gulf War -- Aug. 1, 1991
• International War Crimes Tribunal: and the Struggle against Imperialism -- Feb. 24, 1992
• The class basis of the U.S. war against Iran -- March 5, 1992
• U.S. pushes allies toward attack on Iraq -- Aug. 27, 1992
• Iraq and U.S. imperialist foreign policy -- Oct. 20, 1994
• Monopoly and U.S. policy on Iraq: Behind the vendetta -- Nov. 3, 1994

MIDDLE EAST (not Iran or Iraq)

• A new turn in the world struggle: U.S. intervention in the Middle East -- Aug. 16, 1990
• The Evil Empire at work -- Aug. 23, 1990
• Palestine and the new world order -- Feb. 13, 1992
• Decline of the house of Saud -- Sept. 2, 1993

EASTERN EUROPE except for Poland

• In the shadow of August 1914 (Hungary breaks solidarity with the GDR) -- Sept. 28, 1989
• The new course in the USSR and Eastern Europe -- Nov. 2, 1989
• The forces of socialism against the counterrevolution (in the GDR & FGR) -- Nov. 16, 1989
• Crucial issue in the struggle over GDR course -- Nov. 23, 1989
• Revolution and counterrevolution in Czechoslovakia -- Dec. 7, 1989
• Fruits of the Summit (between Gorbachev and Bush) -- Dec. 14, 1989
• Reactionary coup (in Romania) -- Jan. 4, 1990
• General admits long-term coup planning (in Romania) -- Jan. 11, 1990
• 'We must look at each phenomenon concretely': Remarks assessing current situation in USSR & Eastern Europe -- Feb. 22, 1990
• Significance of the Communist vote in the GDR -- March 29, 1990
• Self-determination, imperialism and Lithuania -- April 5, 1990
• Why Bush pulled back on Lithuania: Meaning of Li Peng- Gorbachev meeting -- May 3, 1990
• Miners fight fascists, save Romanian government -- June 28, 1990
• Is the Cold War over? The division and reunification of Germany -- Aug. 2, 1990
• Behind the crisis in Yugoslavia -- July 11, 1991
• How imperialism broke up Yugoslav Socialist Federation -- June 11, 1992
• The Yugoslav Socialist Federation -- Sept. 3, 1992
• Back to basics in Yugoslavia and Somalia -- Aug. 19, 1993
• Behind U.S. policy in the Balkans -- April 21, 1994

POLAND

• The roots of Poland's coalition government -- July 20, 1989
• The setback in Poland: Its causes and consequences -- Aug. 31, 1989

LATIN AMERICA (Central America, Caribbean)

• World meaning of Havana summit -- April 13, 1989
• From Vietnam to Panama -- Dec. 28, 1989
• The crucial question in Nicaragua -- March 8, 1990
• What dual power means in Nicaragua -- March 15, 1990
• Mass organizations vs. National Assembly: The choice in Nicaragua -- March 22, 1990
• Behind the U.S. rhetoric on Haiti -- Oct. 17, 1991
• The critical issue in Haiti -- Oct. 31, 1991
• Cuba, the invincible revolution: A call for international support -- Sept. 30, 1993
• The lessons of insurrection (Situation in Mexico) -- Jan. 13, 1994
• Reform & Revolution (The Cuban Revolution) -- Feb. 17, 1994
• The U.S.-Cuba immigration accord -- Sept. 22, 1994
• Haiti and the role of leadership -- Oct. 13, 1994

AFRICA

• How to combat capitalist disinformation -- Aug. 9, 1990
• Somalia: the madness of the hit-and-run driver -- Aug. 5, 1993
• Back to basics in Yugoslavia and Somalia -- Aug. 19, 1993

ASIA (Japan, Korea, Afghanistan, Philippines)

• Right message, wrong messenger: Japanese emperor apologizes to Korea -- June 7, 1990
• The Gorbachev-Roh meeting: A blow against socialist solidarity -- June 14, 1990
• U.S.'s Korea policy: 1950 and now -- Jan. 6, 1994
• Korea, the Pentagon and the nuclear issue -- March 31, 1994
• Why is Korea still divided? -- June 30, 1994
• Kim Il Sung: Anti-imperialist fighter, socialist hero (statement) -- July 21, 1994
• Korea: The danger from without -- July 28, 1994
• Where is U.S.-Japanese rivalry heading? -- March 30, 1995
• Behind the rising discord between the U.S. and Japan -- June 1, 1995

SOUTHEAST ASIA

• From Vietnam to Panama -- Dec. 28, 1989

SOUTH ASIA

• Behind the struggle over 'The Satanic Verses' -- March 16, 1989

WESTERN EUROPE

• The forces of socialism against the counterrevolution (in the GDR & FGR) -- Nov. 16, 1989
• Crucial issue in struggle over GDR course -- Nov. 16, 1989
• After Helsinki, the U.S. military buildup continued -- Sept. 20, 1990
• Yeltsin's trip to Germany -- Dec. 5, 1991
• Diplomacy and deception: Clinton in Europe -- Jan. 20, 1994
• Workers must say: "Move over, we're taking over" -- Dec. 28, 1995

CAPITALIST ECONOMY

• Drug lords and bankers: a deadly partnership-- Sept. 7, 1989
• Who can fight the drug lords? -- Sept. 21, 1989
• U.S. admits big banks launder $110 billion annually -- Oct. 26, 1989
• Political significance of the market collapse: The myth of the free market -- Oct. 26, 1989
• The meek won't inherit the earth, mass action will save the planet -- April 26, 1990
• The vanishing allure of capitalism: from West to East -- Nov. 15, 1990
• Aftermath of the Gulf War: The relentless economic decline -- April 25, 1991
• Capitalist remedies fail to halt economic decline -- May 9, 1991
• Lessons of the BCCI collapse -- July 18, 1991
• The world crisis and the G7 -- July 25, 1991
• The second phase of the Gulf War -- Aug. 1, 1991
• Bank mergers: back to 'bigger is better' -- Aug. 22, 1991
• The slump that won't go away -- Nov. 7, 1991
• The Baltimore national conference -- March 12, 1992
• The ABC of the capitalist crisis -- April 2, 1992
• The Olympia & York crackup -- April 9, 1992
• 'Bugsy' and the Reichmann brothers: The Flamingo and Canary Wharf -- May 28, 1992
• Festival of the vultures -- June 4, 1992
• What kind of epoch are we facing? -- Sept. 17, 1992
• The modern keepers of the vault -- Oct. 8, 1992
• Clinton and the arrogance of the Fortune 500: Role of competition and monopoly -- Jan. 14, 1993
• From Ypsilanti to Rochester, Capitalist crisis rocks incoming Clinton administration -- Jan. 21, 1993
• Wall Street cheers layofff -- Feb. 4, 1993
• Clinton's fundamental economic problem -- Feb. 25, 1993
• A sea change for Clinton -- March 4, 1993
• The GNP and you -- May 27, 1993
• Free trade, monopoly and NAFTA -- Aug. 26, 1993
• NAFTA, APEC and monopoly 'free trade' -- Dec. 2, 1993
• Greenspan visit causing jitters -- March 31, 1994
• Notes on the present economic & political period -- June 8, 1995
• Clinton & the czar's common problem: In the shadow of default -- Nov. 23, 1995
• Capitalism's day of reckoning approaches -- Dec. 7, 1995
• Workers must say: "Move over, we're taking over" -- Dec. 28, 1995

IMPERIALISM, IMPERIALIST RIVALRIES and the MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

• The Pentagon time bomb -- Nov. 16, 1989
• The conspiracy at Andrews Air Force Base -- Sept. 27, 1990
• The anti-war movement and the class struggle -- Nov. 29, 1990
• Hoax at the UN: Imperialist powers manipulate Security Council -- Dec. 6, 1990
• International War Crimes Tribunal: -- Feb. 24, 1992
• Pentagon plans new wars -- Feb. 27, 1992
• Pentagon mania: Bush disowns but won't denounce plan for world domination -- March 19, 1992
• Lenin's imperialism: A weapon for the working class -- Sept. 23, 1993
• Where is U.S.-Japanese rivalry heading -- March 30, 1995
• Behind the rising discord between the U.S. and Japan -- June 1, 1995

NATIONAL STRUGGLE and SELF-DETERMINATION

• Perspective on the Duke campaign -- Nov. 14, 1991
• Message to the workers of Louisiania -- Nov. 21, 1991
• Marxism and insurrection -- May 14, 1992
• Bush's feet of clay -- May 21, 1992
• Clinton, Jackson and Perot -- July 2, 1992
• Sam Marcy on an execution -- April 8, 1993
• An era that begs for working class leadership (speech) -- May 13, 1993

OUR RULING CLASS & ITS GOVERNMENT (U.S. politics)

• Two contradictory trends in U.S. politics -- July 20, 1989
• Clinton, Jackson and Perot -- July 2, 1992
• Wishful thinking and the old colonialism -- April 29, 1993
• A guide to Whitewater -- Feb. 3, 1994
• The nature of Clinton's crisis -- April 7, 1994
• Giuliani & the banks: The cased of the missing $200 million -- April 14, 1994
• Clinton's real problem -- May 26, 1994
• Behind the Helms attack on Clinton -- Dec. 8, 1994
• Lessons for the left: In the aftermath of Oklahoma City -- May 11, 1995

CAPITALIST ELECTIONS

• Behind the fall of Ross Perot -- July 30, 1992
• Racism: the abiding issue -- Oct. 22, 1992
• The Clinton administration -- A working class perspective -- Nov. 19, 1992

LABOR

• Three routes, one destination for Eastern strike -- March 30, 1989
• Next stage in the Eastern strike -- April 27, 1989
• CIA muscles in on biggest U.S. union: former CIA/FBI head to oversee Teamsters -- Aug. 20, 1992
• Wall Street cheers layofff -- Feb. 4, 1993
• Significance of the Kirkland-Clinton meeting -- Dec. 23, 1993

ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT

• The war at home and abroad -- Jan. 28, 1993

ENERGY, OIL, NUCLEAR POWER, SCIENCE

• The lessons of Earth Day -- May 3, 1990
• IBM and the high-tech crisis -- Dec. 12, 1991

MISCELLANEOUS

• Issues behind the World Trade Center explosion -- March 11, 1993
• WWP leader: Goverment trashes suspect's rights -- March 18, 1993
• Doomsday religions & bourgeois pessimism -- April 6, 1995

SOCIALISM: ISSUES and HISTORY

• The Socialist Scholars Conference -- April 19, 1990
• Liberalism and Marxism -- Oct. 25, 1990
• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific -- Jan. 30, 1992
• The bright side of a long struggle: Remembering Vince Copeland -- July 1, 1993
• Engels & the workers' movement: After 150 years -- Feb. 10, 1994
• Old fish in a new wrapper -- June 2, 1994
• Strategies for the struggle ahead: Marxism and mass action (speech) -- Dec. 15, 1994
• The greatest popularizer of Marxism: Engels Centennial -- Feb. 23, 1995
• Karl Marx: Thinker and fighter -- March 9, 1995

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