The Party: The Socialist Workers Party, 1960-1988, Volume 1 |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 5 |
Preface | 7 |
How I Came to Join the SWP | 11 |
First Lessons | 29 |
The Southern SitIns and the Founding of the YSA | 35 |
Early Battles | 41 |
The Cuban Revolution Changes the World | 48 |
The Freedom Rides | 54 |
The Assassination of Martin Luther King | 188 |
The MayJune 1968 Revolutionary Uprising in France | 191 |
The Prague Spring | 199 |
Talking to the GIs | 202 |
A Trip Around the World | 204 |
Farrell Dobbs and the Political Committee | 217 |
Brussels | 225 |
The 1969 World Congress | 231 |
Rifts in the SWP | 58 |
The SinoSoviet Split | 72 |
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | 76 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis | 80 |
Subversion in Indiana | 86 |
The March on Washington | 93 |
The 1963 Convention of the SWP | 98 |
The Kennedy Assassination | 105 |
Malcolm X | 110 |
A Black for President | 119 |
Leave the YSA and Become Militant Editor | 124 |
The New Antiwar Movement | 129 |
The Overthrow of the Algerian Revolution | 139 |
The 1965 Convention of the SWP | 142 |
Fidel Castro Attacks Trotskyism | 151 |
Antiwar Sentiment Deepens | 156 |
A Political Assassination | 161 |
The First Black Panther Party | 165 |
A New Stage of the Antiwar Movement | 168 |
Big Events in World Politics | 171 |
The Struggles Heat Up | 176 |
The 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam | 183 |
Another World Trip | 236 |
Growth as the Radicalization Deepens | 245 |
The 1969 Fall Antiwar Offensive | 252 |
The Deepening Faction Fight in the International | 261 |
May 1970 the Great Student Strike | 266 |
New Assignments | 274 |
Chicano Moratorium and Mass Marches for Womens Rights | 277 |
Black September and Martial Law in Québec | 283 |
April 24 1971 | 289 |
A Campaign Party | 296 |
The 1971 SWP Convention | 299 |
The End of the War | 308 |
Functioning as National Secretary | 313 |
Discussion on Gay Liberation | 319 |
The 1973 Party Convention | 325 |
What the Radicalization Accomplished | 332 |
Notes | 337 |
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