Mary-Alice Waters
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Mary-Alice Waters is a socialist journalist
and activist in the United States
.
Waters became involved in Trotskyist politics at a young age, and joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the 1960s. She became the editor of their youth paper, Young Socialist, and the national secretary of the Young Socialist Alliance
.http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isr/vol29/no4/waterson68.htm
In the early 1980s, Waters, along with Jack Barnes
and others in the SWP leadership, began to reject the label of "Trotskyism" and the theory of Permanent Revolution
, in favour of building links with the Cuban Communist Party and Sandinista National Liberation Front
.
Today, Waters is the President of the Pathfinder Press and the editor of New International magazine. She has written a number of books on political topics.http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?secc=10&cont=culture/num7/aldabon.htm
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and activist in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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Waters became involved in Trotskyist politics at a young age, and joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the 1960s. She became the editor of their youth paper, Young Socialist, and the national secretary of the Young Socialist Alliance
Young Socialist Alliance
The Young Socialist Alliance was a Trotskyist youth group of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States of America. It was founded in 1960, although it had roots going back several years earlier. It was dissolved in 1992...
.http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isr/vol29/no4/waterson68.htm
In the early 1980s, Waters, along with Jack Barnes
Jack Barnes
Jack Whittier Barnes is an American Communist and the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. Barnes was elected the party's national secretary in 1972, replacing the retiring Farrell Dobbs. He had joined the SWP in the early 1960s as a student at Carleton College in Minnesota and...
and others in the SWP leadership, began to reject the label of "Trotskyism" and the theory of Permanent Revolution
Permanent Revolution
Permanent revolution is a term within Marxist theory, established in usage by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels by at least 1850 but which has since become most closely associated with Leon Trotsky. The use of the term by different theorists is not identical...
, in favour of building links with the Cuban Communist Party and Sandinista National Liberation Front
Sandinista National Liberation Front
The Sandinista National Liberation Front is a socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas in both English and Spanish...
.
Today, Waters is the President of the Pathfinder Press and the editor of New International magazine. She has written a number of books on political topics.http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?secc=10&cont=culture/num7/aldabon.htm