Mary-Alice Waters is asocialist and activist in theUnited States.
Waters became involved inTrotskyist politics at a young age, and joined theSocialist Workers Party (SWP) in the fall of 1962 while a student atCarleton College in Minnesota.[1] She became the editor of their youth paper,Young Socialist, and the national secretary of theYoung Socialist Alliance.[2]
In the early 1980s, Waters, along withJack Barnes and others in the SWP leadership, began to reject the label of "Trotskyism" and the theory ofPermanent Revolution, in favour of building links with theCuban Communist Party andSandinista National Liberation Front.
In December 1968, she joined the editorial staff ofThe Militant and was named managing editor in 1969 and editor in chief in January, 1971.
Today, Waters is the President of thePathfinder Press and the editor ofNew International magazine. She has written a handful of books, published by Pathfinder, on political topics.[3]
