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"News & Letters" is an organization whose revisionism is captured in its own written history, which reads, "Connecting Marx's philosophy with today's labor consciousness called for a new philosophy, Marxist-Humanism, which was to become the basis for a new type of revolutionary organization ..." The labor consciousness of "today" meant the 1940s, and it holds true in the 1990s -- where the imperialist country working class is a non- revolutionary worker elite, whose consciousness is allied with the ruling class that pays its extra wages from the blood of superexploited Third World laborers. So "News & Letters" hails the expansion of today's unions into service industries and calls the inclusion of 73,000 health care workers in the California Service Employees Union "the biggest union victory since the birth of industrial unionism in the U.S. when autoworkers in Flint, Mich. conducted a new kind of strike, the sit-down." (News & Letters, May 1999, http://www.newsandletters.org/5.99_lead.htm)

In its online statement "who we are," "News & Letters" refers to state-capitalist regimes in the ex-Soviet Union and China, without saying when those economies became state- capitalist, or acknowledging that they were ever socialist. MIM believes that the Soviet Union was socialist until the death of Stalin in 1953, and that China represented the most advanced form of communism to date, until the death of Mao in 1976. To refer to these later, state-capitalist regimes without crediting the great struggles and advances of socialism in both countries, is Trotskyist idealism. By contrast, MIM studies the development of the Soviet Union and China to study the advances of socialism in practice, and also its defeat by reactionary forces. We study Mao's theoretical and practical contribution of the need for "continuing revolution" under the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the danger of a bourgeoisie emerging within the communist party itself, to learn lessons for the future implementation of socialism.

"News & Letters" calls itself a committee organization, "rather than any elitist party 'to lead.'" Without the leadership of a party, the organization aims to unite "workers, Blacks and other minorities, women, youth and those intellectuals who have broken with the ruling bureaucracy of both capital and labor." But a revolutionary united front cannot be built without the leadership of a party driven by its proletarian line.