Vol. 70/No. 35
September 18, 2006
‘Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun’
now in Swedish: a new political weapon
The following are excerpts of a message to the September 2 New York meeting sent from participants in a simultaneous event in Stockholm, sponsored by the Communist League and the Young Socialists in Sweden, to celebrate publication of Ny International no. 4, the Swedish-language translation of the Marxist magazine New International no. 12. A message from the New York gathering to the Stockholm celebration, signed by New International editor Mary-Alice Waters, read in part, “Your capacity to mobilize our movement as a whole—party, youth, and supporters—to produce an arsenal of communist literature in Swedish of this quality is a confirmation of your ability to act as proletarian revolutionists. We look forward to our common efforts to expand its circulation worldwide.”
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We join with you in celebrating the graduation of the students from the summer schools around the U.S. this summer…. Filip [a graduate of the school in Los Angeles] is one of the speakers as we celebrate the publication of Ny International no. 4, the Swedish translation of “Capitalism's Long Hot Winter Has Begun,” which is now off the presses. It is a great achievement of the communist movement and we are proud to have earned this celebration….
Rarely has a magazine been more timely. It is the political backbone of the Communist League election campaign for national and local parliaments going on right now…. We will take it to co-workers, plant gates, soapboxing in working-class districts and political events…. It will bring us into debates about Swedish imperialism, about Sweden's participation in the UN deployment to Lebanon and why it must be opposed. We are also campaigning with our election platform calling for Swedish troops out of Afghanistan.
And every book we can place in the hands of a worker, a farmer, a student will help prepare them for the times we are already living in of imperialist wars and crisis, for the resistance it breeds and for the communist leadership that must be built.
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