The Politics of the AIDS Crisis

As always, the Democrats co-opted and then crushed a liberation movement. We can clearly see that the Democrats were no allies or friends of those fighting against AIDS. The Spartacus League had only mentioned AIDS once in passing before 1984. Monthly review did not cover AIDS until the mid 80s and has not had an article on the crisis since 1989. Labor militant held a work arist attitude to AIDS and the gay liberation struggle generally.