First Published: Workers Viewpoint, Vol. 5, No. 16, May 12, 1980.
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Last week, the Workers Viewpoint did not go to press because we were doing evaluation of the form and content of the newspaper and how it serves the class struggle of the 80’s. In summing up, we felt the past few issues of the Workers Viewpoint have a lot of weaknesses. In the main, they did not reflect the Party’s analysis of what it is like living in the 80’s. Consequently, they failed in its task of being a propagandist, agitator and organizer of the masses in resistance against the oppression of the U.S. monopoly capitalist system now and in the coming period.
The 1980’s is going to be a decade of stormy class struggle with the American people unable to live in the old way and th6 bourgeoisie unable to rule in the old way. Living in the 80’s is like living in a whole different world from life in the 50’s, 60’s or 70’s. The capitalist permanent economic crisis is crushing the people’s standard of living to unprecedented depths and awakening them to resistance so fierce that it will make the mass uprising of the 60’s look like a picnic. Bankrupt of any more tricks to cool out people’s anger, the bourgeoisie is driven to total desperation to save their rule. They are trying to unleash naked terror–fascism–against the American people and whip them into a world war.
Unlike the 60’s, the American people today has its Party, the Communist Workers Party, to tap them to beat back fascism and World War III, and educate them about the bright prospects of socialist revolution–the dictatorship of the proletariat–in the 80’s.
The deep significance of the present decade, great danger of fascism and world war, and the great opportunity of socialist revolution, has not been reflected in the pages of the WV in the last few issues. This error has the devastating class effect of lulling our readers to sleep thinking that the 80’s will be just like the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. It will numb them to downplay the danger and opportunity of the coming decade. With this issue, we are trying to correct our error and we will continue to struggle for a communist paper that will reach the majority of America, touch their hearts and minds and tell them the truth about the 80’s.
BRING WV INTO EVERY LIVINGROOM! PREPARE FOR THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT!