SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Cohesion

Socialist Action No. 179, April 1988 · pp. 6-7 of the scan · 292 words

The scan: 179-April-1988-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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Roosevelt This derelopment of the US working class was brought to an end first by repression following the end of World War I. ther capitals SurE final!

and the cass workers voted Democrats. US imperialism from World War Il not merely in the strongest position any capitalist power has ever occupied accounted for one half of the world's.

of the American Above all it started smashed segregation, of U'S transformed US :92% and her the United States The first crack in Democratic supremacy was the decline in the electoral support of the party itself. After winning seven out of nine presidential elections between Democrats then lost four out of five.

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politics in the states has even increased it is clear that the Republicans nave achieved dominance ai the presidential Coupled with this has been the disintegration of the internal cohesion of the Democratic Party. This has now reached farce proportions with the so 'seven dwarves' running Democratic presidential candidate, the 'on/'off/on/off' candidacy of Hart.

clash between the politics southern Conservative ACKSON Gore, the fact that no candidate is likely to have a majority at the Democratic convention, the refusal Democratic leaders such as Cuomo to stand and so on.

The break up Democratic in fact inevitable. The Roosevelt coalition was built on a combination of support northern labour and southern white racists (the •Dixiecrats') under the hegemony of the capital. but with increasingly great

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That Maine and Vermont, Jackson won 28 and 27 per cent of the vote in the Democratic primary. •hoe he minority populations as a • eat: ==] in the trade union stronghold of MinIn Minnesota, and fairness'.

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