JUNE 18, 1976 25 CENTS VOLUME 40/NUMBER 24 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/P.UBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE JERRY BROWI SKIIFLIIT OURU OF THE . RULIIB RICH • -PAGE 17 Syrian invasion threatens new Middle East war Nelson -PAGE 18 WYORK CRISIS BITTER FRUITS OF UNION SUPPORT TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY. PAGE 6. ·Thrown In solitary BLICK LEADERS AID ·Klan harasses lamiiY BUSIIO SOCIALIST ASSESSES ·light riders terrorize STRATEGY THAT HAS LED TO lew Orleans Blacks SETBACKS. PAGE 9. -PAGE 3 GOV'T QUESTIONS SOCIALIST WHAT MAKES A REVOLUTION? TO FIND OUT ... PAGE 13. HELP PUT IRAI REZA BARAHENI EXPOSES SWPO SHAH'S TORTURE. PAGE 20. BALLOT PLYUSHCH REPLY TO CP SLANDER OF Thousands sian SOVIET DISSIDENT. PAGE 23. petitions In Mass.: mammoth Calli. SOCIALIST drive set lor July COIVEITIOI -PAGES 4,5 SWP GATHERING SET Militant/Susan Ellis FOR AUGUST 8-13. PAGE 24. In Brief THIS DEFEND DOMINICAN LONGSHOREMEN: Answer­ the people who came to show their support for the E.R.A. ing a call for solidarity from the Dominican longshoremen's This diversity included Asians, Latins, American Indians, WEEK'S union, Sindicato Portuario de Arrimo (POASI), the United Blacks, lesbians, older women, teenagers, working women, States Committee for Justice to Latin American Political housewives, fat women, women on crutches, and with MILITANT Prisoners (USLA) and the POASI Defense Committee have seeing-eye dogs, independent political groups, women from 3 Guards abuse Gary Tyler announced plans to support POASI's democratic rights. all walks of life. This diversity was further exemplified in on death row Public meetings, rallies, and picket lines will be organized Springfield with women and men in wheelchairs, among in this country to pressure the Dominican government to demonstrators from thirty states. Such diversification has 4 Good pace set for withdraw its police from POASI headquarters, which have been demonstrated at other E.R.A. events; yet the media has Mass. petitioning drive been occupied since October 1973. repeatedly focused on the false concept that the feminist movement is one of young, slender, white, middle class 6 Bitter fruit of union Since then, no union meetings have taken place. Union militants have been blacklisted from the ports and jailed. women. Let us resolve on our return to work to eliminate support to Democrats For more information contact: USLA, 853 Broadway, these discriminatory practices which result in the alienation 7 Thousands rip Suite 414, New York, N.Y. 10003. Telephone: (212) 254-6062. of these people from the struggle for the E.R.A., and to CUNY closing pressure the media to correct this false image they have been projecting. Thank you." 8 Ford campaigns for antibusing legislation NOW calls ERA WHAT THE MEDIA SAID: Unlike the media's treatment 9 The Black leadership of many women's liberation events, coverage of the May 16 on busing national ERA demonstration was predominantly accurate vigil at White House and extensive. National TV and radio news reported the 13 SWP national secretary CLEVELAND-The National Organization for Women event. The Chicago Daily News compared the march to answers government (NOW) has called for a July 4 through August 26 vigil at the "civil rights and antiwar rallies of the 1960s.... " The New White House in support of the Equal Rights Amendment described the broad participation in the march: 17 Jerry Brown: skinflint York Times (ERA). The vigil will be followed by a march in Washington, "There were contingents representing lesbian groups, guru of the ruling rich D.C., on Saturday, August 28. housewives, church groups, labor unions, the Socialist 18 $yrian attack on Lebanon: NOW decided to call this action at its national board Workers party. Democratic and Republican speakers were new Mideast war threat meeting here June 5-6. The proposal for the vigil reads in heard." The New York Daily News ran a full-page story. part: The Minneapolis Tribune gave editorial endorsement to the 23 Answer to CP slander "With 2 1/ 2 years left in which to ratify the ERA our effort march. of Plyushch can no longer be solely on a local, state by state level. Several radical and campus papers printed enthusiastic National support and attention is imperative.... 24 SWP convention set reports, including Majority Report, a bi-weekly feminist for August 8-13 "The struggle for equal rights is continuing as was newspaper published in New York, and the Guardian. The demonstrated by the ERA Express and Rally in Springfield, Guardian also ran a forceful editorial headlined, "ERA, all 25 Froben Lozada: story of Illinois, on May 15-16, 1976. But in 1976 we have not come the way." a Chicano socialist much further than the suffragists had in 1917 when they One paper that neglected even to take note of the march maintained a vigil in front of the White House for one and a was the the newspaper of one of the ERA's 28 400 attend national Daily World, half years to demonstrate support for the right of all women most ardent opponents-the Communist party. Perhaps, Chicano forum in Utah to vote." due to the widespread dissemination of news on the march, Modeling this summer's protest after the suffragist the CP did not dare to discredit it with the old Stalinist trick 2 In Brief actions, NOW will organize delegations from different of rewriting history. So, they modified the trick-if you can't 10 In Our Opinion states, celebrities, and other ERA supporters to participate rewrite history, don't write about it at all. Letters in the vigil. To top off the ERA support activities there will be "a 'Shoulder to Shoulder' march around the White House 5,240 NEW READERS: The final results of the Militant's 11 National Picket Line as part of Women's Equality Day. activities planned by the spring subscription drive are now in. A total of 5,240 new By Any Means Necessary Washington, D.C. area NOW chapters on August 28." subscriptions were sold. This represents 95 percent of our 12 The Great Society NOW has already designated August 26 as "ERA Action goal of 5,500. Next week the Militant will print an area-by­ Their Government Day," urging local NOW chapters to hold pro-ERA activi­ area scoreboard and highlight some of the accomplishments American Way of Life ties. of this circulation effort. -Ginny Hildebrand WORLD OUTLOOK 19 Canadian trade unions NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF BLACK FEMINISTS: On threaten general strike Monday, May 17, a Chicago press conference announced the formation, philosophy, and program of the National 20 Washington's crowned Alliance of Black Feminists (NABF). The new group, an cannibal: shah of Iran umbrella organization for Black feminist groups in Illinois, hopes to form chapters nationwide. 22 Ex-agent reveals spying An N ABF press release explains that the concept of the on Australian socialists organization grew out of a cross-country speaking tour by NABF founder and executive director Brenda Eichelberger. The organization has issued a "Black Woman's Bill of Rights." It states, "We now feel the need to organize around THE MILITANT our own priorities as Black women against both racism and sexism." The document raises demands in ten areas of VOLUME 40/NUMBER 24 concern .to Black women, including education, job rights, JUNE 18, 1976 and child care. CLOSING NEWS DATE-JUNE 9 Membership is open to any Black woman interested in Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS advancing the cause of Black feminism. The group is Managing Editor: LARRY SEIGLE located at 202 S. State Street, Suite 1024, Chicago, Illinois Business Manager: ROSE OGDEN 60604. 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