Letters
Loved talk on Cuba
I loved reading Mary-Alice Waters's talk at the Yale conference in the Militant (see "Washington's cold war against Cuba: a historical perspective"). I am still walking around saying, "The transmission belt broke, not the toilers."
How about making the talk into a pamphlet?
Dan Fein
Atlanta, Georgia
Steve Bride
Steve Bride, a longtime member and supporter of the communist movement, died of liver failure in late September in Philadelphia at the age of 51. Everyone who knew Steve will remember his intensity and his remarkable sense of humor.
Steve represented the best of the radicalized student generation of the 1960s. Early on recognizing that the war in Vietnam was not a "mistake," he was a member of an activist group at the University of Colorado in Boulder, many of whose members joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1971. He immediately moved to Los Angeles where he played a central role in the YSA's work in the movement against the Vietnam war.
Steve also played an important role in the Socialist Workers Party's turn to the industrial unions in the late 1970s, when he was a leader of the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore SWP branches.
A member of the SWP for some twenty years, Steve was a professional revolutionary. He was a fierce party loyalist and held assignments ranging from copy editor for the Militant, to pushing a garment rack in the streets of New York City as a member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, to SWP branch organizer.
Steve resigned his party membership for health reasons in 1992 but always remained a party loyalist.
Arnold Weissberg
Boston, Massachusetts
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