Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 14:10:37 EDT
From: greeman-AT-uhavax.hartford.edu
Subject: books for struggle appeal


From:Richard Greeman
To: Marxism
Subject: Books for Struggle Appeal

Boris Kagarlitsky and I would like to appeal to your readers to support a 
fabulous project: "Books for Struggle." We need your help in filling a 
container with radical literature and shipping it to the "Victor Serge 
Labor Library," the reading room and distribution center we are 
establishing in Moscow. 

Think of all those left-wing books and magazines lying unread in your 
attic or your friends' basements! They contain precious knowledge to 
Russian activists and intellectuals, who have been cut off for seventy-
five years from serious information about Western labor struggles and 
trends in socialist thought. 

Such knowledge is vital to the new Russian left that is struggling to 
find its way among the most difficult and confusing conditions. For 
example, while rapacious new capitalists privatise the Russian economy, 
well-financed AFL-CIO agents are lulling Russian workers with fairy tales 
of a U.S. "worker-owned capitalism" based on fables about profit-sharing 
and pension funds. Meanwhile, the facts about actually existing 
capitalism and the lessons of labor struggles from the Homestead strike 
to the Hormel strike are "blank pages."

"Books for Struggle" is a material aid project with a difference. Ideas 
are political dynamite, the tools that move mountains. In any case, for 
radicals with a sense of history, the irony of importing socialist 
literature into Russia 100 years after Lenin smuggled in Iskra should be 
irresistable.

So ransack your own and your friends' radical libraries, pack cartons 
with useful material on any subject from Alinsky to Zapata, and mail them 
to "Books for Struggle" c/o News & Letters, 59 E. Van Buren, Room 707, 
Chicago, IL 60605. If you don't have the heart to part with your books, 
send some money to pay for the container.

Please foreward to other relevant bulletin boards and download to pass on 
to your friends and interested parties. We are especially eager to get 
left magazine editors to publicise it and book publishers to send us 
returned and slightlly damaged books. Thankyou!


Yours in Solidarity,


Richard Greeman

Identifications: Former Moscow City Council member Boris Kagarlitsky is a 
leading member of the Party of Labor. His most recent book is The Mirage 
of Modernization (MR Press). Richard Greeman of the U.S. Committee for 
Democratic and Human Rights in Russia is the translator and biographer of 
Victor Serge.

email:greeman-AT-uhavax.hartford.edu	 	


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