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Barry Sheppard. The Party: The Socialist Workers Party, 1960-1988.
Chippendale, Australia: Resistance Books, 2005/2019. 2 volúmenes.
CONTENTS
Volume I
The Sixties
Preface
1 – How I Came to Join the SWP
2 – First Lessons
3 – The Southern Sit-Ins and the Founding of the YSA
4 – Early Battles
5 – The Cuban Revolution Changes the World!
6 – The Freedom Rides
7 – Rifts in the SWP
8 – The Sino-Soviet Split
9 – The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
10 – The Cuban Missile Crisis
11 – “Subversion” in Indiana
12 – The March on Washington
13 – The 1963 Convention of the SWP
14 – The Kennedy Assassination
15 – Malcolm X
16 – A Black for President
17 – I Leave the YSA and Become Militant Editor
18 – The New Antiwar Movement
19 – The Overthrow of the Algerian Revolution
20 – The 1965 Convention of the SWP
21 – Fidel Castro Attacks Trotskyism
22 – Antiwar Sentiment Deepens
23 – A Political Assassination
24 – The First Black Panther Party
25 – A New Stage of the Antiwar Movement
26 – Big Events in World Politics
27 – 1967: The Struggles Heat Up
28 – The 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam
29 – The Assassination of Martin Luther King
30 – The May-June 1968 Revolutionary Uprising in France
31 – The Prague Spring
32 – Talking to the GIs
33 – A Trip Around the World
34 – Farrell Dobbs and the Political Committee
35 – Brussels
36 – The 1969 World Congress
37 – Another World Trip
38 – Growth as the Radicalization Deepens
39 – The 1969 Fall Antiwar Offensive
40 – The Deepening Faction Fight in the International
41 – May 1970, the Great Student Strike
42 – New Assignments
43 – Chicano Moratorium and Mass Marches for Women’s Rights
44 – Black September and Martial Law in Québec
45 – April 24, 1971
46 – A Campaign Party
47 – The 1971 SWP Convention
48 – The End of the War
49 – Functioning as National Secretary
50 – Discussion on Gay Liberation
51 – The 1973 Party Convention
52 – What the Radicalization Accomplished
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Volume II
Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988
INTRODUCTION
Part One
Interregnum, 1973-1979
1 – THE EBBING OF THE RADICALIZATION
2 – THE MILITARY COUP IN CHILE
3 – ARAB-ISRAEL WAR
4 – THE FACTION STRUGGLE IN THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL DEEPENS
5 – THE EXPULSION OF THE INTERNATIONALIST TENDENCY
6 – TWO VIEWS OF INTERNATIONALISM
7 – POLITICAL FERMENT
8 – THE BOSTON BUSING WAR
9 – REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL
10 – NEW CAMPAIGNS
11 – CONTINUED GROWTH
12 – A NEW SITUATION IN THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
13 – REBUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL
14 – DISTURBING DEVELOPMENTS
15 – THE TURN TO INDUSTRY
16 – THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION
17 – REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA
18 – THE 1979 WORLD CONGRESS
Part Two
Decline and Collapse, 1980-1988
19 – THE DRAFT, THE PRDF SUIT, AND A NEW BLACK PARTY
20 – THE EMERGENCE OF A CULT
21 – AFGHANISTAN
22 – IRAN
23 – POLAND
24 – GRENADA
25 – WAR IN NICARAGUA
26 – THE TURN DERAILS
27 – AN ALTERNATIVE PATH FOR THE TURN
28 – FACTION FIGHT AND SPLIT
29 – MY CULPABILITY
30 – I LEAVE THE LEADERSHIP
31 – CAROLINE AND I LEAVE THE SWP
32 – CONCLUSIONS
APPENDIX: AN EXAMPLE OF WORK IN THE UNIONS