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Waiting was worth while, you can relax. Here it is: The “Proletarian
Review” just in time for the end of summer! When you have to spend your
days inside your homes and on the telly they are showing boring stuff you have
something for passing the time – a new “Proletarian Review” is
not only nice from the outside but also thrilling and instructive.
Quite a lot of things have happened in recent months. Nobody had thought it
possible but it really happened: The workers in Austria went on strike. More
than 1 million people went on strike to demonstrate against the total social
deforestation by the right/rightist FPÖVP government (formed by socalled
Freedom and People’s Parties). Therefore we bring some articles related
to this topic. Both reports on activities from our correspondents in the federal
provinces (pp.5-6) and an assessment of the role of the Austrian Federation
of Trade Unions (ÖGB).
We have occupied ourselves in detail with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
There is a red thread running through the history of this country, spun by
racist European colonists, extended further by the greed for profit of imperialists,
soaked in the blood of millions of Congolese people. (p.8ff.)
The killing of Cheibani W. (a black immigrant in Vienna) hit us in the middle
of our faces. After his death and also after the mass scuffle in Traiskirchen
(camp for asylum-seekers) the comments of the bourgeois politicians made us
puke and again showed us the racist fundamental consensus in Austria. We bring
an interview about asylum and state terror on page 17.
Again and again we have written about the “Communist” Party of
Austria (“K”PÖ) that has for a long time been no longer a
revolutionary party. But what about the other errors and aberrations in the “leftist” microcosmos,
from its left (punk-rockers, Anarchists) to its right ends (“Anti”-Nationals)
who long ago gave up any progressive aspects. We are planning a loose series
on those and start it in this issue with views and comments on Trotskyism (pp.
21ff).
In the end something for your temper: a not totally serious self-assessment
of the systematic activities of KOMAK-ML in factories and workplaces (p.35).
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