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Throughout the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, the paper supported so-called "[[national liberation|national liberation struggles]]", Africa in the 1950's, Southeast Asia in the 1960's and early 1970's, and Latin America in the 1980's.

Throughout the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, the paper supported so-called "[[national liberation|national liberation struggles]]", Africa in the 1950's, Southeast Asia in the 1960's and early 1970's, and Latin America in the 1980's.

==post-60s radicalism==

==Post-60s radicalism==

By the 1980s as it became more and more obvious even to Marxists that Marxism-Leninism was failing, and Marxist class struggle was a hard sell, the ''Guardian'' reinvented itself along with other elements of the American left and shifted to issues of ethnicity and gender and a kind of Marxism-Leninism of race and sex emerged, complete with a special vocabulary of clichés', buzzwords and slogans.  Epitomized by a new knee-jerk rhapsodizing about the radical [[feminist]], [[gay agenda|gay rights]] and anti-racist movement.  In the 1980s they took on a new intensity and significance. Radical antiracist, gay, and feminist cadres with Marxist-Leninist tendencies found a congenial home in the new ''Guardian''. <ref>John George and Laird Wilcox, [http://www.questia.com/library/book/nazis-communists-klansmen-and-others-on-the-fringe-political-extremism-in-america-by-john-george-laird-wilcox.jsp''Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America''], Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1992, (ISBN 0-87975-680-2), pgs. 125-131. </ref>

By the 1980s as it became more and more obvious even to Marxists that Marxism-Leninism was failing, and Marxist class struggle was a hard sell, the ''Guardian'' reinvented itself along with other elements of the American left and shifted to issues of ethnicity and gender and a kind of Marxism-Leninism of race and sex emerged, complete with a special vocabulary of clichés', buzzwords and slogans.  Epitomized by a new knee-jerk rhapsodizing about the radical [[feminist]], [[gay agenda|gay rights]] and anti-racist movement.  In the 1980s they took on a new intensity and significance. Radical antiracist, gay, and feminist cadres with Marxist-Leninist tendencies found a congenial home in the new ''Guardian''. <ref>John George and Laird Wilcox, [http://www.questia.com/library/book/nazis-communists-klansmen-and-others-on-the-fringe-political-extremism-in-america-by-john-george-laird-wilcox.jsp''Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America''], Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1992, (ISBN 0-87975-680-2), pgs. 125-131. </ref>

[[Carl Davidson]], webmaster of [[Progressives for Obama]], was a regular pro-[[Maoist]] cotnributor in the 1970s.<ref>[http://www.wengewang.org/read.php?tid=10925 ''Left in Form, Right in Essence''] defends Maoist doctrine. Retrieved from 对当代托洛茨基主义的批判：英文论集百花齐放 - 中国文革研究网, March 15, 2010.</ref>

[[Carl Davidson]], webmaster of [[Progressives for Obama]], was a regular pro-[[Maoist]] cotnributor in the 1970s.<ref>[http://www.wengewang.org/read.php?tid=10925 ''Left in Form, Right in Essence: A Critique of Contemporary Trotskyism,''] Carl Davidson, (1973). This pamphlet was originally published as a series of 12 articles in early 1973 in the ''Guardian'' newsweekly. Second printing Spring 1974. Retrieved from 对当代托洛茨基主义的批判：英文论集百花齐放 - 中国文革研究网, March 15, 2010.</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==