WfJRKERI ",1N(;(I,1" 25¢ No. 315 :..r..:=::: l(~7J 15 October 1982

more givebacks. Bloody fascist terror and cop brutality are on the rise. The "You Can't Fight Reagan with Democrats!" Democrats plan to ride this tide of misery to electoral success in November. The Democrats?! They're the reason Reagan got elected in the first place! American Nightmare: After years offalling wages, pounding inflation and massive layoffs, working people wanted anybody but Carter. The Democrats paved the way for Reagan reaction. It was Jimmy Carter, 13 Million Jobless not Ronald Reagan, who first told the cities to drop dead. Carter's last It's official. One out of every seven million have already run out of ery cannot be achieved without some budget, anticipating Reagan, involved Americans is jobless-the highest rate unemployment benefits. For black pain." As he chops unemployment a massive increase in military spending in 42 years, since before World War II. people it is the second Great Depres­ benefits, food stamps, welfare and combined with major reductions in That's 11.3 million people unem­ sion: black unemployment is twice that Medicaid, working people and minori­ health care, education, school lunch ployed ... 13 million (over 14 percent of whites, and over half the black ties are feeling it. The big cities rot. programs and welfare. Even the of the workforce) if you count those teenagers eligible to work can't find a Assembly lines stop and steel mills Democrats' own Congressional Black who've given up looking. Seven job. Reagan says, "Permanent recov- stand idle while the bosses scream for continued on page 8

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• to do is dip your hand in and pick it out." Dump Company Man Anyone who says Chrysler workers should wait for Fraser, a cop for the Fraser-Elect bosses, to lead a strike is preaching a strategy of guaranteed defeat. Shut Strike Committees! down Chrysler now in both the U.S. and Canada! No more contract extensions! DETROIT-Chrysler workers are in an For elected strike committees-Oust uproar over Doug Fraser's new give­ Fraser! A Chrysler-wide strike could back contract. After two and a half ignite Ford and General Motors work­ years of concessions, they've had more ers and lead to an industry-wide strike. than enough. And they showed it when They could join up with UAW ag imp the old contract expired on September workers, led by the Caterpillar strikers. 15: there were angry wildcats all over the For mass picketing and flying squads country. from Delaware to Twinsburg to spread the strike! Throw back all in Ohio to Jefferson Assembly here in the givebacks! Restore the uniform Detroit. And they just got madder three industry-wide contract-with a big pay weeks ago, when Fraser told them hike! they'd have to eat givebacks for three more years! The United Auto Workers For a General Strike in Detroit! (U AW) chief said he'd personally canvass the big locals to sell the deal. In Detroit where Chrysler is centered, Instead the workers were forced to sit there is a burning need for a citywide through a videotape of Fraser's speech labor offensive to shut the city down. to the UAW Chrysler Council. At Tens of thousands of workers in this Jefferson hundreds of disgusted work­ black and labor city have been perma­ ers walked out with fists raised, chant­ nently "scrapped." Those who still have ing, "Vote No! Vote No!" And they did. jobs have taken colossal wage cuts. Nationwide the Chrysler deal was Coleman Young, the black Democratic stomped by a two-to-one margin. Party mayor, has imposed Reagan-style Across the Detroit River Canadian austerity on workers 'and the poor, Chrysler workers erupted on October 6. busting AFSCME strikes while slashing When Fraser postponed the strike city services. deadline to scuttle the possibility of a The conditions are ripe for a general joint strike with V.S. Chrysler workers. strike. Full employment and decent van plant workers in Windsor answered wages will never be achieved under with a wildcat. They also said they decaying capitalism, but a general strike L WV PhOto could defeat the bosses' anti-labor opposed the tentative accord in the U.S. UAW workers strike Chrysler's Jefferson Avenue plant against Fraser's offensive. For a 20 percent wage hike for Ignoring the police, hundreds began sellout contract, September 16. picketing with makeshift signs. A truck city workers! For unlimited unemploy­ trying to bring parts into the plant was be scabs were reminded that picket lines giveback deal passed. In fact, this traitor ment compensation at union wages with halted, its tires flattened and its contents mean "Don't Cross!" The same day who sits on the Chrysler Board of full cost-of-living for all laid-off work­ emptied onto the road. The plant stayed workers wildcatted at the die casting Directors is the company's hardliner! As ers, retirees and the poor! shut the next day; angry pickets even and piston plant in Etobicoke. his contract was being clobbered by A Chrysler strike could lead the way, kept the plant manager out. Meanwhile Fraser's contract is in shambles. But it overwhelming no-votes, Fraser com­ unleashing the full power of the labor 800 Chrysler workers walked out of the will take militant class struggle to bury plained that Chrysler boss Lee Iacocca movement. First and foremost is Ford's Ajax trim plant near Toronto in it. Otherwise the UAW bureaucracy will was boasting about the company's $1 River Rouge complex in Dearborn. solidarity with the Windsor strikers. just wait it out until the anger dissipates. billion cash reserve: "They've been told Once the largest factory in the world Tires on 200 cars were slashed as would- Fraser is determined to get another there's a big pot of gold and all you have continued on page 9 Free Black Panther Geronimo Pratt! He has been behind bars for II years, Later in 1969, Pratt's wife, eight months to keep the Panther leaders out of violating his civil rights by holding him more than six ofthem in solitary in such pregnant and also a Panther member, circulation, no matter how phony the in solitary confinement for six years. hellholes as Folsom and San Quentin was mysteriously shot in the head and "cases" against them. The federal jury, however, which prisons, for a murder he did not commit. dumped onan L.A. freeway. No arrest As the WV interview with Pratt's reached a unanimous verdict after three The only "crime" offormer Los Angeles was ever made for this murder. In 1971, attorney, Stuart Hanlon, published days deliberation, still refused to award Black Panther Party leader Elmer while injail on the 1969 weapons charge, below demonstrates, the decade that Pratt one cent ofhis suit for $1 million in "Geronimo" Pratt was to be a member Pratt was framed for the brutal and Pratt has spent in prison has revealed a damages. And Pratt's principled refusal of the best and most militant wing of senseless 1968 murder of a schoolteach­ mass of incontrovertible evidence that to admit "guilt" in the Olsen murder has black nationalism which the govern­ er, Caroline Olsen. he was subjected to a racist frameup. meant his rejection of the humiliating ment sought to physically annihilate in It was exactly the sort of crime that Pratt recently won a federal court parole and pardon process provided by the late '60s and early '70s. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover liked to decision in which two former San capitalist "justice." Only four days after Panther leaders pin on respected radicals. The point was Quentin officials were found guilty of The Spartacist League recognized the Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were importance of the development of the murdered in cold blood by the Chicago Panthers as the most militant expres­ police, the notorious racist killer cops of sion of the "black power" movement. the Los Angeles Police Department But unlike those reformists and fake­ came for Pratt. On 9 December 1969, leftists who cheered the Panthers' hundreds of Metro Squad and SWAT eclectic black nationalism which served team commandos, armed with M-60 as an obstacle to black liberation, we machine guns, tear gas launchers, intervened to try to win these militants dynamite and helicopters, bombarded to a proletarian revolutionary perspec­ the Panther office where Pratt lived. tive and the building of a Leninist Pratt, a decorated Vietnam war veteran, combat party. Today the rest of the left survived only because his war wounds remains silent about Pratt while their forced him to sleep on the floor. former black nationalist heros like Nevertheless, he was arrested for "con­ Newton and Bobby Seale have made spiracy to assault policemen." But the their peace with the racist establishment police conspiracy was so obvious that and crawled into the Democratic Party. even an all-white jury acquitted Pratt of In the case of Eldridge Cleaver, he has all charges except a relatively minor become a spokesman for one of its most weapons charge. reactionary and sickest manifestations, Having failed to kill Pratt in bed, the the Moonies. Pratt. who refuses to government turned to those "dirty renounce his radical nationalist political tricks" that were part and parcel of the past. remains behind bars. Pratt is a notorious COINTELPRO program and symbol of resistance to racist oppres­ the FBI's "neutralization" campaign to Victims of cop vendetta: Black Panther militants led by Geronimo Pratt sion. The fight for black liberation is a "disrupt, misdirect and discredit the (right) after their headquarters was shot up in SWAT team attack, Los motor force of the American workers activities" of the Black Panther Party. Angeles, 1969. revolution. Free Geronimo Pratt!

WV: I understand Pratt is now waiting identification two weeks after the killing and the judges are making their deci­ the courts. There's been enough evi­ for a decision from a federal district of a guy [who was] in jail at the time of sions based on what they think is going dence produced to let five people out of court on his request for a new trial. Is the killing. But that information was to get them elected. In another political prison, and it's clear he didn't get a fair this appeal based on the new evidence kept from the jury at the time ofthe first climate he would have been out of trial. It's clear he was framed, yet which came out in the FBI COINTEL­ trial. prison years ago. The evidence showed because of the right-wing political PRO documents? Then the whole COINTEL program: he didn't get a fair trial, yet he's still in activity the judges are afraid. And he's Hanlon: Yes, that is the basis of the there was a motive to have this done, prison and has lost three times. been getting screwed because he does present writ of habeas corpus. Pratt these incidents don't exist in isolation. WV: We've done a couple of articles on maintain the politics he always had. should get a new trial because the main He was the head of the [L.A.] Panther his case, one after the incident where That's what people ought to know. witness against Geronimo confessed to party and the FBI was out to get the two guys climbed up the Statue of WV: What about a review by a parole being an FBI informant, for about 25 Panther party and him. And all the Liberty to publicize it. Nationally, board? . months prior to the trial. That informa­ evidence we use to prove this comes though, he has gotten almost no Hanlon: He refuses to go. They want tion was not only not turned over by the from the FBI themselves, or from the attention. We're continuing to cover it him to admit he did it before they can government, but the witness himselflied Los Angeles Police Department. because we consider this to be a clear­ parole, but he refuses to admit it. So he's about it during the trial. The FBI, with WV: So the judge has been sitting on this cut case ofa racist frameup, and Geroni­ just stopped going, as a political the Los Angeles police, had informants for over a year. What about the mo Pratt one of the most honorable statement about them. in Pratt's defense team during the trial. immediate conditions of Pratt's impris­ representatives of the black power That should be grounds to reverse his onment? You had filed a suit against movement, who stood fast to his convic­ ***** trial. him being held in solitary confinement. tions. Those who wish to send messages of Pratt's alibi was that he was in Hanlon: We filed a suit in 1976. Itcame Hanlon: He certainly has, and I think if solidarity or financial contributions for Oakland during the time of the murder, to trial finally in April of this year, and he had not done that, he'd probably be the defense of Geronimo Pratt can write which was in Los Angeles. And we now we won the trial. He has been moved out of prison sooner. But because he's to Stuart Hanlon, 214 Duboce Avenue, know that the FBI had wiretaps above and he's living on the main line, so that maintained his politics, the reason he's San Francisco, California 94103. Or the Oakland and L.A. offices of the was a really big thing for him. But in there, he's not getting any play. We they can write directly to: Geronimo Panther party. They say they've now strangely, the jury didn't give him any proved what he had to prove, ten times Pratt, B40319, San Quentin Prison, lost those wiretaps, which existed at the money damages, even though saying over, and he hasn't gotten anything in Tarnal, California 94964.• time ofthe first trial. Ifin fact he was not he'd been locked up illegally for six in Oakland like he said, then the years. SPARTACIST LEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY government would have come forward WV: We heard a report that he was with the wiretaps, proving that he was in returned to solitary. L.A. So now they've "lost" them-just a National Office Champaign Los Angeles Hanlon: He was returned about two Box 1377, GPO c/o SYL Box 29574 way of not turning them over. That's the weeks after the verdict, on the grounds New York, NY 10116 P.O. Box 2009 Los Feliz Station third ground. The fourth ground is that (212) 732-7860 Champaign, IL 61820 Los Angeles, CA 90029 that he refused double-eelling, which is a (213) 663-1216 the husband of the woman who was big issue out here. They're trying to Chicago killed made an identification prior to double-cell all the prisoners. He refused Ann Arbor Box 6441, Main P,O. Madison Pratt of somebody else, a positive c/o SYL Chicago, IL 60680 c/o SYL to do it, he was put in isolation, but then P.O. Box 8364 (312) 427-0003 Box 2074 within about two days the prison moved Ann Arbor, MI 48107 Madison, WI 53701 (313) 662-2339 Cleveland (608) 251-3398 him back to the main line, and he's not Box 91954 in double-eelling now. Cleveland, OH 44101 Berkeley/Oakland New York $2.50 MnIIt.-. WV: That's two people for a cell that was (216) 621-5138 P.O. Box 32552 Box 444 built for one? Oakland, CA 94604 Detroit Canal Street Station WffATrnwtsY (415) 835-1535 Box 32717 New York, NY 10013 Hanlon: (212) 267-1025 "1lACI~ Right, in a cell that's approxi­ Detroit, MI 48232 ~ mately six feet by nine feet. And the (313) 961-1680 ... main line people are now spending Boston San Francisco Box 840, Central Station Houston Box 5712 ".'!fI. about 20 hours a day [in those cells]. The Cambridge, MA 02139 Box 26474 San Francisco, CA 94101 prisons are overcrowded, and they're (617) 492-3928 Houston, TX 77207 (415) 863-6963 trying to deal with it by double-ceiling. He refused so they put him in the hole

-~...... ,-...... -~~ ...... _~- ...... ,.".,,;;;; for two days. It was real clear it was TROTSKYIST LEAGUE OF CANADA retaliation for the verdict. He's not in the hole now, but we're in a reactionary Toronto Vancouver Make checks payable/mail 10: Box 7198, Station A Box 26, Station A Sparlacist Publishing Co. political climate, especially out here in Toronto, Ontario M5W 1X8 Vancouver, B. C. V6C 2L8 Box 1377 GPO terms of the judiciary. The state judi­ (416) 593-4138 (604) 681-2422 New York. NY 10116 ciary is under attack by the right wing, 2 WORKERS VANGUARD . ' Morenoite Thugs Attack Trots~ists with Claw Hammers em e urner!

At a "public" forum held in Los Angeles on October 2, leaders of the International Workers Party (IWP­ formerly Revolutionary Workers Front [RWFJ) carried out a potentially mur­ derous assault against the Trotskyist supporters of the Spartacist League (SL). Offering up their services to the reformist/liberal popular front in the United States, these armed thugs at­ tacked us with deadly weapons-claw Claw­ hammer hammers and numchakus (two pieces of attack by hardwood linked by a chain). Using the IWP methods of anti-communist Cuban assailant gusanos and Ramon Mercader, the (see arrow) murderer of Leon Trotsky, IWP Politi­ on militant cal Bureau member Nicholas Kramer phone aimed a hammer blow at the head of a worker: militant phone worker while the latter's They would back was turned. The trade unionist kill to silence the truth. required hospital attention for blows to both the head and shoulder. Nicholas Kramer: we accuse you of attempted murder! These cowardly senoritos, followers of Argentine adventurer Nahuel More­ no, fear political combat with the SL because they cannot defend their anti­ Soviet politics while maintaining pre­ tensions of Trotskyism. Last spring, in a slanderous "open letter to the left," Kramer accused us of "non-political l Stalinist-type provocations or insults" in order to excuse his own disruption of an RWF forum in San Francisco. There he cut off an SL speaker who was denouncing the Morenoites for not even mentioning defense ofthe Soviet Union against imperialism and counterrevolu­ tion in a speech on Poland (see WVNo. 304, 30 April). Now it is demonstrated that Kramer's classic Stalinist lies and cop-baiting were the prelude to Stalinist-style gangsterism. And the claw hammers used by these would-be killers can be just as lethal as the ice-ax WV Photos used by the GPU assassin to murder SL picket (right) protests anti-communist exclusion moments before murderous attack. Trotsky in 1940. The vicious assault began with the Kramer, his strutting hatchetman Gre­ murderer of leftists, homosexuals, up in army fatigues, renamed himself exclusion of Spartacist supporters from gorio andtwo or three others who aimed national and religious minorities. He comandante and toured around raising the IWP forum. Prior to the attack, the potentially lethal blows. backed CIA-armed reactionary mullahs thousands ofdollars for a brigade which Kramer and his sidekick Gregorio Every IWP member and supporter in Afghanistan who oppose land reform never fought a day against Somoza. treated their own members like idiots. should ask, what is your leadership and shoot Communists for teaching Political banditry, cafe guerrillaism, SL leaflets were snatched away and they afraid of, what are they trying to hide? girls to read. The Morenoites support anti-Sovietism, cowardice, treachery were told not to speak with SLers. This vicious thug attack on the Trotsky­ Polish Solidarnosc, company "union" and criminal swindling: this is the truth Several did nevertheless, which in­ ist SL flows from the cowardly oppor­ for the CIA and Western bankers, and about Moreno. No wonder Kramer will creased the frenzy of their leaders, who tunist and virulently anti-Soviet politics call for a government including the stop at nothing to prevent "his" mem­ declared that only two Spartacists were of the IWP and the Morenoite current most counterrevolutionary clerical­ bership from discussing with the au­ to be allowed in. This anti-communist internationally. Nicholas Kramer was nationalist and anti-Semitic groups in thentic Trotskyists of the international exclusion would, moreover, leave them trained in the school ofNahuel Moreno, Poland. Spartacist tendency. completely vulnerable to a physical a notorious swindler guilty of the most Most recently, they supported Argen­ continued on page 9 assault. We loudly protested this viola­ brazen political banditry and violations tina's butcher Galtieri against Britain's tion of workers democracy, briefly of proletarian morality. "Iron Lady" Thatcher in a bloody chanting "Political exclusion!" At this • Moreno has tried to pass himself off squabble over some barren islands in the point Morenoite goons slammed the as a Peronist in the 1950s, publishing his South Atlantic (the Falklands/ WfJRKERS forum doors shut so people inside could magazine "under the discipline of Malvinas). Left and labor support for not see them pull out lethal weapons and General Peron and the Peronist Su­ this diversion has prolonged the life of VANGIJARD threaten SL comrades and supporters. preme Command"; as a Guevarist and the Argentine military dictatorship, a Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of We immediately set up a picket line on (briefly) a Maoist in the '60s, a social­ regime which has jailed, tortured and the Spartacist League of the U.S. the sidewalk 50 feet away in protest. One democrat, a Sandinista and a black murdered more than 300 ofthe Moreno­ EDITOR: Jan Norden SL sign read: "Fake Trotskyists of IWP nationalist in the last decade. He even ites' comrades. Nahuel Moreno has PRODUCTION: Darlene Kamiura (Manager). Exclude Defenders of Soviet Union!" occasionally claims to be an orthodox taught his followers to salute their Noah Wilner The Morenoites formed a line of Trotskyist. executioners! CIRCULATION MANAGER: Linda Jarreau EDITORIAL BOARD: George Foster, goons brandishing their deadly weap­ • But when some of his lieutenants put He has also taught them every Liz Gordon, Mary Jo McAllister, ons. When an SL supporter took Moreno's guerrillaist program into financial con game in the book. In Peru James Robertson, Reuben Samuels, Joseph Seymour, Marjorie Stamberg pictures of these armed thugs, the IWP practice, this cowardly caudillo turned in 1962 Moreno was accused of running Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published leadership went berserk, launching their tail and ran. He pledged support to the off with $12,000 belonging to peasant biweekly, skipping an issue in August and murderous assault. But they were second Peron regime even while Peron­ organizations led by Hugo Blanco. In a week in December, by the Spartacist Publishing Co., 41 Warren Street, New York, unable to destroy the evidence (see ist gunmen were shooting leftist workers Argentina he cheated another left group NY 10007. Telephone: 732-7862 (Editorial), accompanying photos). Our comrades in the streets (in 1974). Nicholas Kramer out of $19,000 for the publication of 732-7861 (Business). Address all corres­ pondence to: Box 1377, GPO, New York, NY escaped without serious injury in part learned to stab in the back from a books for his Editorial Pluma. When he 10116. Domestic subscriptions: $5.00/24 because most of the goon squad did not master! transferred his publishing operation to issues. Second-class postage paid at New use their weapons or join in the attack. Moreno has a particular predilection Colombia, his business partner accused York, NY. Opinions expressed in signed articles or In fact, several IWPers who witnessed for macho Third World nationalist him of fraud. Moreno's much­ letters do not necessarily express the editorial this unprovoked attack were so shaken strongmen, the bloodier and the more publicized Simon Bolivar Brigade in viewpoint. by the anti-communist violence that ferociously anti-Soviet the better. He Nicaragua was a similar operation: a they were in tears. It was Nicholas hailed Islamic feudalist Khomeini, Colombian Morenoite leader dressed No. 315 15 October 1982 15 OCTOBER 1982 3

I Keith Anwar: "Picket Lines Mean Don't Cross!" \~\J~.~Offl I c P.O\.OvJS~\ ~p.~\)\l..£.\rIC:;" PK:r

A three and a half year fight has won rights. To stop them it takes c1ass­ an important legal victory for the struggle militants and determined union fundamental principle of labor solidari­ action to fight for the traditions and ty. On September 24 the National Labor weapons which built the powerful Relations Board (NLRB) upheld an industrial unions of the CIO. NLRB judge's ruling that the Inland Such labor victories do not come Steel Company wrongly fired Keith easy. Wide steel worker support was needed to push the Anwar case all the Anwar, a member of the United Steel­ Victory for workers (USWA) Local 1010, in May way through the union's grievance Keith Anwar is 1979 for honoring a picket line at the procedure to arbitration. When the a victory for company's mammoth East Chicago, arbitrator upheld Anwar's firing, thou­ militant sands of dollars had to be raised from Indiana plant. unionism. ~"~ , According to the NLRB order, Inland rank-and-file steel workers to defray the must reinstate Anwar with full back pay legal expenses of taking the case to the and seniority. The company must also Labor Board. USWA backing for eliminate any reference to the discipline Anwar-including a USWA District 31 against Anwar from its files and post conference resolution pledging "all for 60 days a "Notice to Employees" available resources" to the defense of WV Photo that says: "WE WILL NOT discharge, workers who honor picket lines, and a to the slag heap) to force through a local their future battles with the steel bosses, or otherwise discriminate against em­ rally by Local 10 IO-was the critical concessions contract. Instead of"saving USWA members must revive the princi­ ployees because they engage in their factor in winning the case before the jobs" the deal will eliminate jobs by ples of union solidarity, like "picket statutory right to refuse to cross picket NLRB. combining work assignments. Such lines mean don't cross." Many steel lines ...." But as a leaflet issued by the Keith local giveback deals are being used to workers instinctively know that the Also on September 24 the Labor Anwar Defense Committee (KADC) whipsaw the entire union into a conces­ working people can only defend them­ Board ordered U.S. Steel to repay a points out: sions deal worth $6 billion! selves by sticking together against the former member of Local 1014, Gene " ... the fight isn't over yet. Inland can Lending the steel bosses a hand, of capitalists. They know that winning Goldenfeld, for the 38 days he was appeal the NLRB ruling to a federal course, is racist labor-hater Ronald Anwar's job back strengthens the whole appeals court. And if they do it could union. This has been demonstrated time suspended in September 1978. Golden­ mean a trip all the way to the U.S. Reagan, who smashed the striking air feld was disciplined for honoring picket Supreme Court .... We've done damned traffic controllers union (PATCO) in and time again throughout the Anwar lines at Gary Works set up by members well beating Inland in Reagan's NLRB. 1981. Reagan's union-busting attack defense campaign, as USWA members of the Brotherhood of Railway and Now let's make sure we're prepared to was aided and abetted by union mislead­ have donated time, energy and money go all the way! It's time to put the 1979 ers who refused to carry out a basic act toward the victory of this case. Airline Clerks during the 1978 nation­ District 31 resolution into action, The of labor solidarity: shutting down the wide rail shutdown. USWA should throw 'all available The Fight tor Workers' The decision in both cases was a 3-2 resources'-lawyers, money, publi­ airports until PATCO won its strike. Solidarity at Inland split, with two Reagan appointees city-into this precedent-setting fight The PATCO betrayal of 1981 helped (including NLRB chairman John Van for union solidarity!" make 1982 the Year of the Giveback. The Inland picket line fight began in de Water) supporting the companies' Backed into a corner by layoffs and 1978, the year ofthe llO-day coal miners reprisals against the unionists. In the Labor's Weapons concessions, steel workers must look to strike. A one-week strike by Inland's Anwar case the minority sided with the the weapons that built the unions in the masons, organized into Bricklayers arbitrator, whose central argument was: Steel workers have a special interest 1930s-like strikes, mass picketing, Local 6, posed to the Local 10 10 leaders ..... that within the knowledge of the in winning this fight today. The Ameri­ sitdowns-for the only way out. Many the hard question: Which side are you Company, no Inland Steel employee can steel industry is running at only 40 USWA leaders want to return to the on? When Anwar fought at both a Local who is a member of Local 1010 ... has percent of capacity-the lowest since cozy ENA deal of the 1970s, which 10 10 membership meeting and at the ever refused to report for work because he did not wish to cross a picket line the Great Depression-and massive prohibited strikes even after contract yearly District 31 conference two days established by striking employees of a layoffs and plant closures have put expiration. Instead steel workers must later for Local 10 10 to instruct its 18,000 company that performed services on 136,000 USWA members in basic steel fight to bust the still remaining contrac­ members to honor Bricklayer picket Inland Steel premises .... [T]he Union out on the street. Since the mid-'70s tual no-strike clause that has been used lines, he was ruled out of order. Still has never raised a contention that it total USWA membership has plummet­ as an excuse for herding them across the Anwar honored the picket lines. The should be permitted ... to honor picket lines.... In no instance, however, did ed from 1.4 million to below 900,000. picket lines of other unions. Bricklayers won their strike by picketing Local 1010 ever urge or suggest to the The profit-greedy steel companies see The picket line, the battle line of the the parking lot used by construction membership that they should or could this weakening of the union as an class struggle, is a basic weapon in workers building Inland's new coke engage in a sympathy strike." opportunity to extort billions ofdollars labor's arsenal. For over a century the plant. When construction was brought Thus these professional union busters in concessions from those who still have presence of a picket line has called for a to a halt because ofcraft union members use the betrayals of pro-company jobs. At U.S. Steel's South Works in uniform response from all workers: respecting the picket lines, the steel bureaucrats, who regularly stab each Chicago, the company recently used the don't cross! This is a powerful and company capitulated to the union's other in the back by crossing picket threat of complete closure (in a plant essential tool against the capitalists' contract demands. lines, to outlaw labor's most basic where over 9,000 jobs have already gone "divide and rule" strategy. To win in continued on page 10 TH~IMES -4 October 1982 ~'::' ~own one by one," he said_ .'The air 1/0111" \",r~"I//lI'r "f ,1", ('I/'lllld H,·~il>ll By MARK PUTUK controllers' strike shows how much Times Business-Labor Writer we need pIcket lines that no one crosses." A politically-split National Labor Anwar, a member of United Relations Board has upheld an earlier Steelworkers Local 1010, several order reinstating an Inland Steel times refused to cross a picket line worker tired for refusing to cross a thrown up near Inland's Indiana picket line. Harbor Works by USW Local 8180, NLRB rules for two steelworkers In a decision which expanded the representing 37 Apex Steel and Supply order by Administrative Law JUdge By Jim Procter Inland Steel Co. who was fIred in Arbitrators InItially ruled a picket lme. Co, employees who had been working 1979, be reinstated with back pay agaInst both Anwar and Arline Pacht, the NLRB voted 3-2 to inside the giant steel plant. Those Post-Tribune Staff Reporter Anwar, a millwright's and seniority. Goldenfeld after grIevance apprentice when he was fired in order the steelmaker to restore Keith workers struck Apex May t. 1979, The National Labor Relations - That Eugene Goldenfeld, a proceedings May 1979. refused to crosS a Anwar's job and accord him full back after their contract expired. Board has ruled In favor of two USW Local 1014 member at US In both case-S, the steel pIcket lme establlshed by USW pay and seniority. Inland has 20 days Anwar was at first suspended, and area steelworkers who were Steel Gary Works, be repaId companies argued that no-stnke Local 8180, which represented from the sept. 24 decision to appeal to later fired, for his refusal. disciplined for refusing to cross money he lost dUrIrig twO provlslor.S in the ·baSlc·sleel brIcklayers workIng for an a federal appellate panel. In her earlier opinion, Pacht had picket lInes set up by unIon (Onlrao With the Cniled suspensions In late 1978 outSidE' COp.lractor at Inland, An Inland spollesman said today an sharply criticized the company for locals other than theIr own ThE board further ordered bolh Slf'ejv,'nrkf"rs prohIbIted appeal is being considered. failing to back up its legal claims and In IdentIcal 3·2 votes. the steelmakers to post notices that employees from hononng pIcket Goldenfeld. a motor inspector, Dissenting from the order were the arbitrator, whose finding she NLRB ordered last month employees won't be disciplined lmes was suspended without pay for NLRB Chairman John R. Van de wrote was "repugnant" to - That Keith Anwar. a for exercIsIng theIr "statutor) The no-strike clause, called the penods of three and 35 days for Water and member Robert P. Hunter, established labor law, member of USW Local 1010 at nght to refuse 10 cross picket Expeflmenlai :\egollatlng refusing 10 cross a picket lme set both appointees of President Reagan The company's position pivoted on a lines" Ag:eement. probably will be up In September 1978 by whose nominations were stiffly op­ no-strike clause included in the Inland and U.S, Steel have 30 dropped from the next baslc-sleel Brotherhood of Rallwav and posed by an array of unions and labor master contract governing most USW School lunch tested days to appeal the deCISIons, ;-In contraCt, unIOn and Indusrn Airline Clerks members support groups, basic steel locals. Attorneys argued NLRB spokesman said offlClals have saId . employed by the Elgin, Joliet & The arbitrator's decision that proviso excluded sympathy CHICAGO (AP) - Fifteen Spokesmen for Inland and CS CitIng the E~A, offiCIals of Eastern RaIlway overturned. by Pacht's order was strikes that could hurt the school children were released Steel saId deCISions to appeal the Local IOlO and 1014 didn't Goldenfeld was suspended for "palpably wrong," the majority said steelmaker. from a hospItal after beIng NLRB rUilngs are under endorse the picket lines Anwar three days for refUSing to cross in their written opinion. But Pacht ruled that only contract treated for suspected food conSideration. and Goldenfeld chose not to the pIcket line. and then was "The totality of bargaining history language specIfically excluding such poisonIng. but the cause of theIr DIssenting yotes were cast In cross suspended for 35 days for evidence relied on by the arbitrator action - and not a pattern of e3;rlier yornltmg and headaches remains bolh cases b\' John R, Van de The :\LRB I1..JJed, however, tha[ dlslnbuting a leaflet supportlng was, as a matter of law, insufficient to practice - could have protected In­ under investlganon, hospital Water, NLR·B chairman, and despite ESA, unlOn members the strike by EJ&E employees, warrant finding a waiver a statutDry land, officials said Robert P. Hunter. dldn't waive theIr nght 10 honor accordmg to ~LRB record~ right" to engage in a sympathy Pacht had ordered Inland to pay strike, the 5-page opinion said in part. back wages dating to the end of the Anwar, a millwright's apprentice Apex strike, reasoning Anwar would before being fired in May 1979, called not have been drawing wages until the decision"a real victorY at a time then anyway. But the NLRB 6 October 1982- when the labor movement is under expanded that, ordering the company Pust .:fibune attack on all fronts." to allow pay and seniority from the Ak,' An• .,pH", "';ng /;w by Inl•• serving the city of Gory daily "We've got to fight together or we'll date of Anwar's discharge. In-f." d.11

4 WORKERS VANGUARD

• Spartacist Candidates in S.I=: "For Moss Strike· Action to Bring Down ReogonI" WV Photo Spartaclst Richard Bradley (right) VS, DSA Democrat Ron Deliums. SAN FRANCISCO, October 6-The Board of Supervisors to call people out reformist relics and parliamentary for struggle. For instance, when the cretins of California's Peace and Free­ PATCO strike was going on, there was a ~Aartacist dom Party (PFP) couldn't believe their great need that the other labor unions, to Dellums: eyes and ears when Spartacist Party especially the lAM and Teamsters, candidates Diana Coleman and Richard honor those picket lines and shut down Bradley addressed their candidates' the airports." "You're Part of the night with Bolshevik politics. They Richard Bradley began his remarks: couldn't imagine how a call to class "I sort of resent, actually, having the struggle was relevant to an election and American flag in the background-I'm thought prospective city office-holders speaking here as a socialist candidate. Problem" should have more "concrete" concerns. The American flag symbolizes the death of millions in Vietnam and the death of Their questions to Coleman and Brad­ are the people who have laid off the millions across this country. ADAPTED FROM working class and cut back long ley reflect their astonishment that here "As to your question, 'What legislation YOUNG SPARTACUS NO. 103. before Reagan came to power. They were leftist candidates who were not would 1 propose or support to stop OCTOBER /982 just laid the basis for Reagan and runaway shops and plant closures?' they continue to do the same thing." sewer socialists like themselves. Running for re-election on the began~ You're dreaming. I worked as an auto Diana Coleman "You ask me a worker for ten years and everyone I saw, slogan, "Time to take up the chal­ In his own way, Dellums lot ofquestions about Propositions; you from politician to labor bureaucrat to lenge," liberal black Democrat and confirmed what the SL has been didn't ask me anyone about class the so-called left who wished a strategy saying for some time-there is a of reliance on the bourgeois state, did so Democratic Socialists of America struggle. What do I think about Prop (DSA) member Ron Dellums got a bipartisan consensus on the anti­ 'M' and tax-the-rich schemes? rlliet you only to defuse militant class struggle in the form of sit-down strikes, which 1 challenge he couldn't meet-the Soviet war buildup which ties the in on a secret. Under capitalism the rich fought for against plant closures," communist criticism and exposure by Democrats to Reagan's racist don't get taxed much and the bosses' budget-slashing. "One of the frustra­ Bradley nailed Peace and Freedom as supporters of the Spartacist League state will never put people before (SL). At a September 25 meeting in tions that I have as a black man in the profits." At this point, there were gasps the tail of the capitalist Democratic Richmond, Richard Bradley, Sparta­ Democratic Party," he said, is that from the audience. Coleman went on, Party, as witness the PFP's all-out cist Party candidate for San Francis­ "we are not posing a significant "You can't change the priorities of support for "Solidarity Day 11"­ co Board of Supervisors, nailed alternative." That's for sure! When capitalism at the voting booth and you election day 1982. In San Francisco the Dellums for his lament that the black Bradley noted that Dellums' budget can't reform the capitalist state to sen'e AFL-CIO, Teamsters and ILWU have Democratic Party hustlers haven't "alternative" to Reagan's $269 billion the interests of working people and called a rally October 24 to "Vote Labor been able to get out the black vote: war chest was a "mere" $200 billion, minorities. It must be replaced with a for Jobs and Justice." "They say 'vote the black Congressman replied, "The labor,' but everyone knows that means "Recently at the Congressional workers state and it will take a socialist Black Caucus there was a comment overwhelming amount of money is in revolution to get it." 'vote Democrat'," Bradley said. In made by Congressman Dellums, and the personnel side." Like paying for When someone asked, "If you're contrast, the SL calls for "mass strike I hope he responds to this. He said, sending the Marines to Lebanon, elected, what are you going to do?" and action to bring down Reagan." And in 'Black people in this country over the which Dellums and the pro-Zionist the fight against growing race-terror, last two years have been docile to the "What does EI Salvador have to do with point of embarrassment.' Black DSA proudly support! Democrat running the city?", Coleman replied that the SL is not pushing bills to have the people have seen what the Demo­ Dellums and his DSA have histori­ Reagan's drive to "draw the hne against government "ban the Klan." "What's crats and the Republicans have done cally supported the Israeli govern­ Communism" in Central America by going to stop the Klan and Nazis is a to blacks in this country, what they ment, which is now involved in a have done to the working class .. , supporting the bloody Salvadoranjunta mass mobilization oflabor, blacks, Jews genocidal attack on the Palestinians and gays and Latins, not the damned and what they are going to continue was a pressing question for the Ameri­ to do. in West Beirut as well as being a can working class and the left. The SL Democratic Party." "For instance, the big cities in the major supplier and ally of South candidate said she would "advocate To the question, "Concretely, what country all have Democratic Africa in its program of racist apart­ are you going to do?" Bradley replied: mayors-San Francisco: Feinstein; political strikes against U.S. involve­ Detroit: Coleman Young; back to heid. As a second Spartacist spokes­ ment and stopping economic and "First thing is to have the working class Chicago: Byrne; then go to Atlanta man told Dellums, "You're part of military aid to thejunta in EI Salvador." remove that flag that's hanging in the and you have Andrew Young. These the problem." She added, "I would use the seat on the continued on page 9

.·t>"¥olr Can't 'Fighf .Fte~fgll·ri·WltJ".-O·erri(fcr~f~?/:"· For Mass Strike Action to Bring Down Reagan! Build a Workers Party! imperialist armed forces! ForMass Strike Action • Unconditional defense of USSR, Poland, Cuba and all bureaucratically to Bring Reagan Down! against Taft-Hartley injunctions! Break harassment! Down with censorship! deformed workers states against impe­ from the AIFLD and all other CIA labor Abolish all laws against pornography, rialism and internal attempts at capital­ • Mass strike action against Reagan fronts! drug use, prostitution! ist restoration! and the Democratic mayors! Unchain • Throw out the bosses! Seize all • For strict separation of church and • Communist unity against Imperial­ labor-Oust the sellout bureaucrats! banks, major industry and bloodsuck­ statel No prayers in public schools! Ism through proletarian political For a class-struggle workers party ing utilities without compensation! Es­ • Stop INS raids and deportationsl Full revolution to overthrow the Stalinist based on the unions! Fight for a tablish a workers government! citizenship rights for undocumented bureaucracies! Down with Stalinist workers government! workers! nationalism-For revolutionary unity • Strike to winl Picket lines mean of Polish and Soviet workers! "Don't Cross!" No more PATCOs-For • Israel, U.S. Marines, French and For Working-Class concrete labor solidarity against SmashKlan/Nazl Terror! Italian troops out of Lebanpnl Defend union-busting! For mass militant pick­ Defense of the Palestinians! Israeli/imperialist et lines and flying squads for defense troops out of the West Bank and Gaza! against strikebreakers! Democratic Rights! • For labor/black/Latino mobilizations For a socialist federation of the Near • For sit-down strikes against mass to smash KKK/Nazi terror! East! layoffs! Seize closed plants! For un­ • Fight discrimination in schools, • Disarm the racist cops! No reliance • Military victory to Salvadoran left­ limited unemployment compensation housing, jobsl Equal pay for equal on racist government to "ban the Klan"! ists! Take San Salvador! No sellout at full union wages! Fight runaways­ work! Decent low-cost housing! No tax • Gun control disarms workers/ "political solution"-Break with the Organize the unorganized! No to breaks for segregated schools! minorities/gays-No on Prop 15! capitalist parties! Defense of Cuba, import quotas-Trade wars lead to • For busing against segregated • For black liberation through socialist USSR begins in EI Salvador! Shooting wars! schools-Extend it to the suburbs! revolution! • Hail Red Army In Afghanistan! Down • Jobs for all! 30 hours work at 40 Free, quality higher education for all­ with Islamic reaction! No to the veil! hours pay! For a massive program of Open admissions and free tuition with Extend gains of October Revolution to public works under union control! 100 stipend! Stop Reagan's War Drive­ the Afghan peoples! percent cost-of-living escalator! • Free abortion on demandl Free Defend the Soviet Union! • Smash apartheid in South Afrlca­ • For union political independence available birth control! Free quality For workers revolution! For a black­ trom the capitalist statel No court suits medical care! Free childcare! centered workers and peasants gov­ against unions! Cops/prison guards • Government out of the bedroom! • T.J1e main enemy is at home-Not ernment! For international labor action out of the unions! For solidarity strikes Down with anti-gay laws and cop one man, not one penny for the in defense of black trade unions!

15 OCTOBER 1982 5 ty House headquarters in Detroit says: "Toyota-Datsun-Honda and Pearl Harbor." Last year in Milwaukee a group of UAW members slashed and stomped on a Japanese flag. This kind of flag-waving and flag-burning chau­ eware: vinism also inflames racist attacks on black and Hispanic workers in this country. Even more than the Democrats and Republicans it is the Klan and Nazis who are the real "buy American" fanatics. Remember, Hitler's Germany was a model of national economic protectionism. Black workers who support anti-Japanese trade measures are making common cause with the same racist pigs who mobilize lynch mobs, screaming to send them "back to Africa" or to death camps, with lies that "blacks take jobs away from white people." Protectionism is racist poison. Protectionism will not bring full employment and economic salvation; it is the road to industrial rot. While building up the imperialist war machine, threatening the Soviets with nuclear holocaust and raining napalm death on Vletnamese peasants, America's capital­ ists have driven this country's industrial piant into the ground. That's why steel, auto, machine tools, electrical products-the list goes on·-can no ionger compete in world markets. The necessary reindustrialization of Ameri­ ca will never happen under this degener­ ate capitalist regime. The moderniza­ tion and reconstruction ofthis countrv's industrial capacity requires socialist economic planning. And that requires a workers revolution.

Trashing a Toyota: Democrats, bureaucrats have no answer to capitalist depression except flag-waving chauvinism The Workers and Poor and trade war against Japan. Pay for Protectionism To speak about the benefits of the international division oflabor may seem abstract and bookish. However, every man, woman and child in this country appreciates this in their everyday life. Millions of American workers, includ­ ing auto workers, buy Toyotas, Datsuns and Volkswagens because they are rotectionis cheaper, better quality and less expen­ sive to operate. In their chauvinist frenzy the UAW tops banned foreign cars from the Solidarity House parking lot. This shows that the UAW's own employees, members and even officials find foreign cars good for theirpersonal I economy. In fact, the clerical workers union at Solidarity House rightly protested the ban. Why the flood of Japanese auto "We've been running up the white to "solve" the capitalist crisis by export­ When United Auto Workers (UAW) imports in recent years? Contrary to the flag, when we should be running up ing it leads straight to imperialist war. chief Doug Fraser is not negotiating claims of "buy American" demagogues, the American flag! ... What do we In the U. S. the main peddlers of this giveback contracts-that is, cutting his it is not because Toyota and Datsun are want our kids to do? Sweep around "economic planning of fools" are the members' wages and benefits to increase low-wage companies. Wage rates in Japanese computers? .. union bureaucrats and "friend of labor" company profits-he is pushing a "local Japan were relatively far lower 15 years "We have got to get tough-and I Democratic Party politicians. In fact, content" bill which would require auto ago, when Japanese auto imports were mean really tough!-with nations more trade protectionism is the Demo­ companies which sell half a million or minimal. But beginning in the early that use our markets but deny us crats' and pro-capitalist labor bureau­ more cars a year in the U.S. (as do 1970s the American/British oil cartel their markets! And I'll tell you crats' only answer to Reaganomics. Toyota and Datsun) to manufacture 90 (the Seven Sisters) and its friends the today that if you try to sell an Liberals no longer talk about a new New percent of the components in this Arab sheiks jacked up the price ofcrude American car in Japan, you better Deal, about large-scale public works country. This bill is aimed not only at oil by over 1,000 percent! As gas prices have the United States Army with projects, about rebuilding this country's Japanese producers but also at the took off, U.S. companies were too you when they land on the docks'" crumbling highways, urban transit foreign operations of U.S. companies. shortsighted and profit-greedy to retool -Democratic Party leader systems and waterworks, about extend­ For example, this year GM used 400,000 for the smaller, fuel-efficient cars Walter Mondale to a recent ing education and social welfare bene­ engines made in its Mexican plants in American consumers were demanding. convention ofthe International assembling cars in the U.S. If enacted Union of Electrical Workers fits. On the contrary, the Democrats' Almost all imported cars are small-size only difference with Reagan is over how into law, the UAW's "local content" bill models, while the U.S. auto plants In nineteenth and early twentieth much to cut Social Security pensions, would immediately throw thousands of which have been shut down mainly century Europe it was common to Medicare, food stamps and similar Mexican GM workers into the streets. produced the traditional Detroit gas blame Jewish bankers-especially programs in order to build up the The Fraser gang couldn't care less about guzzler which many cannot afford any the Rothschilds-for all economic ills: military machine for war on the Soviet these Mexican auto workers who would longer. depression, inflation, bankruptcies, Union. face truly desperate poverty. Ifthey would not have to worry about pauperization. When times got hard The only New Deal the Democrats The "local content" bill is so extreme foreign competition, what is to prevent Jewish merchants and pawnbrokers are offering is a new trade war and and disadvantageous to Detroit's Big the Big Three from charging the moon were attacked, mobs invaded Jewish behind that a shooting war. Fritz Three that at first no one took it for the cars they're producing? Nothing. ghettos. That is why the old German Mondale and Teddy Kennedy are seriously. However, UAWand AFL­ A study done a few years ago by the Marxist August Bebel called anti­ competing for their party's presidential CIO lobbyists have quietly lined up the Congressional Budget Office calculated Semitism "the socialism of fools." nomination by telling union conven­ endorsements of a majority of Con­ that a 20 percent cut in imports would Today, with the capitalist world suffer­ tions that nobody, but nobody will be gressmen, though it is unlikely to get add $4 billion to new car prices and put ing the worst economic conditions since tougher against the Japanese. When through the Senate at this time. In the only 16,000 auto workers back to work. the Great Depression of the 1930s, it is Democratic Congressional leader Tip meantime Reagan is using Fraser's This means it would cost American becoming common in West Europe and O'Neill spoke in Detroit last March, he ultra-protectionist bill as a stick to beat consumers a quarter of a million the U.S. to blame it all on the Japanese. blustered, "If I were president ... I'd fix additional "voluntary" export restraints dollars(!) for each additionaljob created Taking a leaf from Bebel, one can call the Japanese like they've never been out of the Japanese. through auto protectionism. anti-Japanese protectionism "the eco­ fixed" (Los Angeles Times, 19 March). The anti-Japanese protectionist drive Access to lower-cost foreign goods is nomic planning of fools." Ultimately, as Remember that his fellow Democrat necessarily appeals to "yellow peril" especially important for the poorest .the quote from liberal Democrat Mon­ Harry Truman dropped two A-bombs racism and warmongering. A bumper sections of the population. Walk down dale suggests, this reactionary program on the Japanese! sticker displayed at the UAW's Solidari- any big street in a black neighborhood 6 WORKERS VANGUARD and you will see teenagers with Japanese Walkman cassette players. Go into any ghetto playground and you will see satchel-size Sanyo radios.

Uncle Sam's Capitalism ys. Japan, Inc.

The American ruling class, especially the Reagan administration, is now making much noise about forcing the Japanese to "open up" their domestic market. Japan, Inc. is certainly no paragon of free trade. But the notion that if only Japan dismantled all import restrictions then U.S. Steel, GM and .. ... -..-. .", ~.~:-"'- ...... -....»"!-"" '"'~ ~~~_~ •.~_,"~ ~,.~,,, _-, _,~"w .~.,~..,_,.• ~,, .....~ .. ".-~~~~-,.- .•=.-.,.,.~ Zenith could effectively compete with WV Photo Fortune Nippon Steel, Toyota and Sony in their U.S. Big Three bosses wreck auto industry: Chrysler'S Dodge Main demolished in Detroit (left). Datsun's automated home market is laughable. As a r-Vash­ plant outside Tokyo (right). ingron Post (8 October) editorial ob­ By pre-empting one-third or more of the producer in the capitalist world. It had a Mechanism tariff system. And every served drily, "It's hard to think that, with nati.on's supply of scient~sts and production capacity of 130 million tons; year the U.S. steel industry becomes the most open market in the world, engIneers. the. perSiStent high level Japan had only 14 million tons. Japan's more backward, its plants more dilapi­ Japan would buy many American cars." emphasIs on milItary-related technolog- . . ~as dated, productive capacity is cut. No kidding. ical activity produced a serious retarda- umt cost also somewhat hIgher than tion of the rate of growth of civilian- the Amencan, although at that time Additional protectionism will only The only American exports seriously related technology in the U.S. This wage rates in Japan were but a small perpetuate a high-cost, low-investment affected by Japanese protectionism are retardatIOn played a ~ey role In pro- fraction of those in the U.S. Yet within steel industry. And the high cost of agricultural products. Japan's ruling dUCIng a serIOUS siOWIng. even to the . American steel contributes to the high bourgeois Liberal Democratic Party has ooint of reversaL of the nation's 20 years Japan not only surpassed the productivity growth." U.S. in steel-producing capacity but did cost of American autos and acts as a artificially preserved a relatively large, -Current Research on Peace and so at a cost per ton almost 50percent less significant drag on the entire industrial politically conservative peasantry as a Violence. ':\.0. 2, 1980 than in American mills, and this despite economy. crucial voting bloc against the Socialists the fact that Japanese wages rose far Trade protectionism-"the economic and Communists. Thus the Japanese The Road to industrial Rot more rapidly than American. planning of fools"-is the road to working class has a direct and immedi­ How did this happen? Because the industrial rot. To see the long-term ate interest, political as well as econom­ The collapse ofproductivity growth is American steel cartel refused to mod­ effects of trade protectionism, just look ic, in dismantling their country's import the root cause of American industrv's ernize. Since 1960 exactly one-that's at Britain. When British industry restrictions. loss ofcompetiti veness in world mark~ts right, one-new integrated steel mill has reigned supreme in the middle of the Japan is an island which has to import and consequently the increased pres­ been built in the U.S. (Bethlehem's nineteenth century, free trade was an almost all of its energy resources, sures for protectionism. Between 1973 Burns Harbor works). As a result the article of faith for the British capitalist metallurgical ore, etc. The dollars which and 1978 U.S. manufacturing output largest mills in Japan have twice the class. However, with the rapid develop­ Japan earns selling steel, autos and per worker increased at an annual rate capacity of American mills; 53 percent ment of German industry following its televisions in the U.S. are largely spent of 1.7 percent ~ompared to 3.1 percent of Japanese steel is produced by victory in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian buying oil from the Persian Gulf states in the rest of the capitalist world. Is it continuous casting compared to only 17 War, protectionist pressures emerged and iron ore from Australia and Brazil. any wonder that industry after industry percent in the U.S. When a district and grew in Britain. As Trotsky wrote in If American manufacturers cannot in this country is going down the tubes? director of the Steelworkers, Robert his 1925 pamphlet, "Where Is Britain compete in these "third country" mar­ Take machine tools, for example, the Petris, visited Japan a few years ago, he Going?": kets, this failbre has nothing to do with core of an industrial economy. A decade reacted as if he were visiting a more "German competition was the first import restrictions in Japan. ago the value of U.S. machine tool advanced planet: serious warning to British world he­ exports was twice that of its imports. By Between 1962 and 1979 the U.S. share "It's unbelievable! The way they are gemony, and inflicted the first serious of world exports of motor vehicles fell 1978 the U.S. was a net importer of making steel at the new works we visited injuries. Free trade encountered the superior German techniqu;;: and from 23 to 14 percent, of telecommuni-. machine tools, ::;incipdlly from Japan. appears to me to be a, lea,[ five to [en years ahead uf anything we can build organization... With the middle ofthe cations equipment from 29 to 15 With their more up-to-date facilities 1870s. poor business sets in; free trade is percent, of metal-working machinery Japanese firms:an not only undersell here in America even if v.e start right now. discredited; the protectionist movement from 33 to 22 percent, of agricultural U.S. machine tool producers, but can ..... the biggest single difference is the begins: the bourgeoisie is conquered machinery from 40 to 33 percent even fill orders more quickly, even kind of engineering, plant technology. more and more by imperialist (Business Week, 30 June 1980). The halfway around the globe in the Ameri­ the size of the blast furnaces and the tendencies." same story right across the board. In no can market. According to an executive computerized processes that they em­ Under the impact of the Great ploy compared with what I was used to Depression in 1932 Britain turned to major branch of manufacturing has the of Tokyo's Makino Milling Machine working with and what I see here in U.S. increased its share of world Co., "It's much easier competing against America today." protectionism, claiming it would "ra­ exports. U.S. firms. In fact, I don't even think -quoted in Richard Bolling and tionalize" its declining industries behind What accounts for the collapse of Japanese companies view American John Bowles, America's tariff walls. After World War II succes­ American manufacturing competitive­ companies as competition" (Wall Street Competitive Edge (1982) sive Labour governments nationalized ness, especially as against the Japanese? Journal, 23 December 1981). It is important to emphasize here that and then subsidized failing or bankrupt In brief, America's capitalists have run The decay of American industry is for the past 15 years the U.S. steel industries and firms (British Steel, this country's industrial plant into the nowhere more striking than in steel, industry has been protected. In 1968 the Leyland Motors). The result of half a ground. Since the late 1960s they have whose owners and union bureaucrats Nixon gang muscled Japan into so­ century of protectionism is an industrial invested in new plant and equipment at complain most loudly about "unfair called "voluntary" export restraint in wasteland, depression-level unemploy­ a rate less than one halfofthe Japanese: trade" and foreign dumping. In 1956 the steel. The Carter administration ment and the wholesale impoverishment 7.5 percent of gross national product U.S. was far and away the largest steel strengthened this with the Trigger Price of the British working people. This is the compared with 17 percent in Japan. "future" which the liberal Democrats ::E and sellout bureaucrats like UAW chief And now they demand protection from < 'U Fraser and the Steelworkers' McBride superior Japanese competition! ~ o And why the low U.S. rate of o offer to millions of laid-off and investment? Certainly a major factor is concession-ridden workers and im­ the enormous expenditure of limited poverished blacks who are suffering industrial and technical resources on from the bankruptcy of American playing the role of imperialist world cop capitalism. and striving "to prevail"-Pentagon chief Weinberger's euphemism for Depression, Protectionism, holocaust-in nuclear war against the Imperialist War Soviet Union. While Japanese imperial­ When Fritz Mondale says that send­ ism is now undertaking an accelerated ing the U.S. Army into Japan is the only arms buildup of its own, throughout the way to end the depression at home, he is postwar period it spent less than one reliving an important chapter in the percent of total national output on the history of twentieth-eentury American military compared to 6 to 10 percent for imperialism. There is adirect line from Uncle Sam. 4'300,000 LAID-OFF the Great Crash of 1929 to Pearl Harbor The cream of this country's technical to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A key link know-how has been devoted to Fraser gang in - UAW MEMBERS UAW spews between the Great Depression and developing fragmentation bombs to anti-Japanese World War II was protectionism­ slaughter defenseless Vietnamese and racist filth, "beggar my neighbor" policies. Palestinians, neutron bombs to fight a -- DON'T LIKE YOUR bans foreign One year after the stock market crash "limited" nuclear war in Europe and cars from which began the depression, the U.S. MX missiles for a first strike against the Solidarity House enacted the highest tariff in its history, ft •. parking lot. Soviet Union. A careful study on "The IMPORT. the Smoot-Hawley tariff. Roosevelt and Impact of the Military Budget on the also Hitler came to power a few years Domestic Economy" by liberal econo­ tplE;ASE PARK IT later on a program of economic nation­ mist Lloyd Dumas of the University of alism. In his inaugural presidential Texas concluded: f!i address the great liberal FOR pro­ " ... the military budget has had an enormously negative long term lrnpact claimed: "Our international trade on the functioning of the U.S. economy. continued on page 8 15 OCTOBER 1982 7 aid Reagan's favorite "union." But the agJn!~Workers pipeline sanctions cost Caterpillar Strike Against Concessions workers hundreds, perhaps thousands ofjobs. At the Communications Work­ ers convention this summer, Fraser directed his fire not at Reagan or the companies, but at the Japanese for stealing jobs: "So we said to the Caterpillar Com­ Bulldoze the CAT Bosses! pany, in Peoria. Illinois, and to the Fiat Allis plant in East St. Louis, Illinois, On September 30 the United Auto was rejected by CAT," a Solidarity Three years ago the target was John 'You can no longer sell this pipe laying Workers (U AW) struck Caterpillar House spokesman told wv. An "exten­ Deere but workers at Caterpillar's giant machinery to the Soviet Union.' Tractor Company, the world's biggest sion agreement" based on the existing Peoria plant walked out, despite Inter­ "And what happened? Komatzu of manufacturer of earth-moving equip­ agreement and subject to cancellation national threats to withhold strike Japan moved in and they sold the pipeline laying machinery to the Soviet ment, in an effort to throw back the with five days notice was accepted by insurance and benefits, and forced Union, which not only undermined our company takeaways that have swept the John Deere & Co. on September 30. Solidarity House to sanction a foreign policy but actually steals the automotive industry. With bloated Worse still, in May at International company-wide strike. A month later, jobs of the Caterpillar workers and the inventories, CAT bosses figure 1982 is Harvester the Solidarity House gang despite the same threats, Harvester Fiat Allis workers." the year to get the union. Said one gave back $200 million in concessions. workers hit the bricks. A solid industry­ Protectionism won't save jobs any company official: "We are in a stronger As in auto these concessions were wide victory was prevented only by the more than givebacks will. Company position than we've been in for decades" rammed down the workers' throats as a union misleaders who settled first with man Fraser's program is to protect (Wall Street Journal, 24 August). But job-saving measure. Since the settle­ John Deere, and then with Caterpillar, American corporate profits from for­ with $470 million in their war chest, the ment Harvester has announced plans to forcing Harvester workers to strike for eign competition. Protectionism means UAW workers have dug in and are close two plants. CAT workers have nearly six months before company unemployment, inflation and war. ready to fight. "It looks like it's going to decided not to take this crap. They're demands for mandatory overtime were Import quotas and high tariffs only be a long hard winter," said a picket at going to fight. repulsed. Nevertheless, the solidarity promote industrial inefficiency and the Peoria, Illinois plant. For 35,000 The tactics for victory come from the which began the '79 strike is key to invite retaliation against U.S. industries CAT workers, the question is: "How to UAW's own arsenal of struggle. Cater­ victory in '82. Strike John Deere-no which still manage to export. Caterpil­ win?" pillar spokesmen are already talking contract, no work!-and pull out the lar relies heavily on export sales. Over The willingness of the ranks to fight is about moving equipment out of the concession-saddled Harvester workers. 15,000 Caterpillar workers build pro­ not in doubt. In 1979 they fought the struck plant. "That might lead to a real With Chrysler workers already turning ducts sold overseas. If those markets company for nearly three months before bloodbath," a company spokesman thumbs down on Fraser's sweetheart disappear, so will their jobs. If the U.S. being sold out. The obstacle to victory is threatened. They're talking about work­ deal at the Number Three auto maker, automotive industry can't compete it's the pro-capitalist UAW tops led by ers' blood! Urgently needed are mass the stage is set. A solid ag imp strike by because the capitalists have pocketed president Doug Fraser and top negotia­ pickets at every Caterpillar plant. In the UAW could be the long-awaited their profits instead of investing in the tor Stephen Yokich (UAW veep), who response to General Dynamic's threats spark for a militant fight against the modern plants and equipment used by stood by as the company laid off 15,000 to scab a struck tank plant near Detroit givebacks across the automotive overseas producers. Fraser's "Love workers-40 percent of the Caterpillar last month, UAW Local 1200 revived industry. American bosses, hate Japanese work­ workforce-and sent an extra $300 the flying squads which were crucial in ers" protectionist poison only serves to million in products to dealers in recent the union's first organizing GM in 1937. Flag-Waving Won't Save Jobs line up workers behind U.S. imperial­ months in anticipation of this strike. After eight days, General Dynamics Caterpillar prov.,9.ked this strike and a ism's war drive. Flag-waving won't save Emboldened by Fraser's $5 billion settled with an 18 percent wage increase. company spokesman made it quite clear jobs-class struggle will. giveback to the Big Three, the CAT For mass, round-the-clock picketing why: "We've got to get our labor costs American workers' enemies are at bosses have demanded a wage freeze, and flying squads at every CA T plant! down so we can meet the Japanese head­ home in the board rooms ofWall Street, reduction in the cost-of-living allowance Nobody goes in and nothing comes out! on." But instead of leading the fight Chicago and Detroit. In order to win the and elimination of some paid days off, Caterpillar workers must not fight against Caterpillar and Chrysler, the fight for jobs and a decent standard of though they've socked away $3 billion in alone. Fraser's one-at-a-time "strategy" Fraser gang is acting as the bosses' living, labor traitors like Doug Fraser profits in the last six years. In response is a gift to the bosses which allows the shock troops in the anti-Japanese trade must be swept away and the weapons of Fraser and Yokich are "demanding"­ "target company" to hold out longer war and the U.S. war drive against the the class struggle-the picket line, sit­ literally nothing! On September 29 the with the knowledge that its turn for Soviet Union. Fraser wholeheartedly down strikes and labor solidarity-must UAW bargainers "took everything we strike action rol1s around only once in a backs Reagan's pipeline sanctions. He .be brought to bear. In the depression- had off the table and offered a three year decade. But the defeatist cycle can be wants to punish the Soviets for mistreat­ ravaged auto!ag imp industry, Caterpil­ extension" of the existing agreement broken and the agricultural implement ing his political soulmates in counter­ lar workers have shO\....n the way to (Wall Street Journal, 4 October). "It workers know it. revolutionary Polish Solidarnosc, Ron- begin. Victory to the CAT strike!.

were devastated. So after its victory Reagan in busting a nationwide rail Protectionist American imperialism was able to Nightmare... strike. impose a free trade regime on its war­ The future won't be determined at the damaged capitalist allies and the defeat­ (continued/rom page 1) ballot box but on the battle lines of the Poison ... ed Axis powers. The 1948 General Caucus called it "an unmitigated disas­ class struggle. The labor tops sell out (continued from page 7) Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ter for the poor, the unemployed and strikes, then tell their members to go to (GATT), dictated by Washington, minorities." Reagan wasn't the first to tlie polls and vote Democratic. We say, relations, though vastly important, are called for "a substantial reduction in "roll back" civil rights either. It was the "You can't.fight for jobs with Demo­ in point of time and necessity secondary tariffs and other barriers to trade." Democrats who offered up the token crats!" (see article on page 5 on Sparta­ to the establishment of a sound national However, the U.S. commitment to free gains ofthe liberal civil rights movement cist candidates in the San Francisco economy." The following day another trade lasted just as long as "the Ameri~ to the anti-busing racists in the streets. elections). It will take militant labor believer in a "sound national economy," can century"-about 20 years. Republicans, Democrats-no "lesser action and a workers party to beat back Adolf Hitler, was given full powers in As its West European and Japanese evil"! There's a bipartisan war drive the anti-black, anti-labor offensive. For Germany. Nazi Germany was even more rivals rebuilt a more modern industrial against the Soviet Union and that means sitdown strikes against layoffs and plant protectionist than New Deal America. plant, beginning in the late 196Os, a bipartisan war on blacks, workers and closings! For concrete labor soli­ The Nazis regarded foreign manufac­ protectionist sentiment developed in the the poor here at home. Reaganomics darity-picket lines mean don't cross! turers much as they regarded "foreign" American capitalist class and even more isn't the problem-capitalism is. The For mass labor/black mobilization Jews. so among its labor lieutenants. Now twin capitalist parties have only one against racist terror! For internation­ The "beggar my neighbor" policies of with a world economic crisis coming on answer to the stagnation of the Ameri­ al workers' solidarity, not the bosses' the 1930s prolonged the world depres­ top of the long-term decline of Ameri­ can economy-imperialist war. Today protectionist poison! Bring down Rea­ sion and drove the capitalist powers can industry, this protectionist senti­ the Democrats are trying to win back gan through mass strikes! Struggle­ toward war over markets and spheres of ment has become a kind of hysteria. union voters by threatening trade war that's the only way you can save your colonial exploitation. Japan in particu­ Look at Mondale and the Solidarity against Japanese imports, while joining job.• lar was hit hard by the worldwide tariff House gang! The American bourgeoi­ barriers erected against what was then sie's only answer to world depression called "the Japanese trade menace." and 10 percent unemployment is trade A Spartacist Pamphlet $1.00 Imperial Japan reacted by trying to protectionism first and war second. establish its own economically self­ Liberal Democrat Mondale's talk of Order Now! sufficient Asian "Co-Prosperity conquering the Japanese auto market Sphere." American and British imperi­ with the U.S. Army is no joke. Only alism sought to counter Japanese socialist revolution on a world scale can Spartacist expansionism at first by economic prevent the outbreak of renewed inter­ warfare. In July 1941 Roosevelt and imperialist war and the barbarism which Pamphlet $1.00 Churchill cut off Japan's oil supply. such a catastrophe would bring. Fighting for its economic survival, The working-class answer to mass Name _ Japanese imperialism responded in the unemployment and competitive wage­ Address _ only way open to it-by force of arms. slashing is not protectionism. It is the American From the Smoot-Hawley tariff the expropriation of capitalist wealth and Workers Revolution road led to Pearl Harbor, December the establishment of a planned econo­ City _ 1941. my. An internationally planned socialist State Zip 315 Needs Entering World War II from a deeply economy would not only secure perma­ depressed economic condition, the U.S. nent full employment but would do so Make checks payable/mall to: Black leadership Spartacist Publishing Co., was able to combine a vast armaments with a greatly reduced work year and a Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 - S"artaC'&1 pUO';.~,ng B~, "po ..."'" ~) ...... '0"6 program with extensive capital renewal, far higher standard ofliving for working while the other leading capitalist powers people throughout the world.• 8 WORKERS VANGUARD An RMC supporter took the floor while coming out (on paper) for a "Anglo" white workers, saying that Chrysler... amid the bureaucratic chicken fighting general strike! For sure, a fighting black and Latino unity was the answer (continued from page 1) (sparked when Wilson appointed his working class will not need leadership to Reagan's racist raids. Now, however, son to one of the few full-time union from the likes of these fakers, who with its eye on the anti-Reagan popular with more than 100,000 workers, the jobs in the DAP unit!) to argue for a believe that a fight to drive out the front, the IWP has launched an appeal Rouge is being dismantled and shut motion for a general strike. He was present misleaders of labor is for a "united slate of left-labor candi­ down, piece by piece. For these UAW applauded several times, particularly impossible. dates." Yet everyone of the groups members the choices are either fight the when he answered Wilson's redbaiting But the Spartacist League and class­ which they address is up to its ears in bosses or follow Dodge Main to the on Poland by pointing out that in the so­ struggle unionists say that now is a time collaboration with the Democrats, scrap heap. Meanwhile 9,500 members called "democratic" U.S. there are well when the stranglehold ofthe Frasers can either directly or via "broad coalitions" of the Detroit Federation of Teachers over II million workers on the streets! be broken. We are building a party to like the "nuclear freeze" fraud. Today were sent back to work after a three­ Another RMCer attacked labor's ties to lead that fight in the unions and in every the price of admission to this unholy week strike, but maybe not for long. the strikebreaking Democratic Party, struggle of the oppressed, to forge the alliance is anti-Sovietism, and here the They are now voting on a binding which administers the capitalist hell of leadership the working class truly lWP fully qualifies: it sings "solidarity arbitration deal that would give up cities like Detroit. deserves: a revolutionary leadership.• with Solidarnosc" along with Ronald everything they struck for: money, A couple of phonies calling Reagan and refuses to defend the Soviet health insurance, class size, etc. Teach­ themselves the Committee for a Militant Union in Cold War hot spots from EI ers must vote this down and get back on and Democratic UAW, backed by the Salvador to Afghanistan to Vietnam. the picket lines! picket-crossing Revolutionary Workers And now they have joined the rest ofthis This stinking arbitration deal was S.F. League (RWL), showed up at the anti-Soviet popular front in the Big Lie engineered by a so-called "citizens' meeting with a motion for a one-day campaign of slander, thuggery and cop committee" made up of the main forces Local 600 strike, which completely Candidates ... repression against the Spartacist behind Democrat Young's anti-labor ignored the impending DAP shutdown. (continued from page 5) League. administration. This "popular front" Even this motion for a one-day diver­ background because it does not repre­ As part of this turn to popular initiated by the Board of Education sion was too much for the RWL to raise sent the working class. The second thing included: Board chairman, preacher is not rely on the city to run Bethlehem frontism, the RWF recently fused with on the floor: the RWL supporters, the "Revolutionary Unity League," a William Ardrey (who in 1967 helped denouncing the Militant Caucus call for Shipyard [where layoffs of beleaguered bring in the National Guard to crush the shipyard workers are being adminis­ two-man operation of Harry Turner a Detroit general strike, used all their tered by the city] but to have the ghetto rebellion); the Ford-funded and minor union bureaucrat Earl floor time to argue for a DAP seniority working class run it." Owens. Owens is notorious on the left "New Detroit" organization; Horace list! As one worker bitterly observed, a Sheffield, Fraser's former special assis­ When a voice in the audience cried out, for urging that cops be recruited into a seniority list doesn't help much when the "aside from insulting us and calling us labor party and even the revolutionary tant and a leader of the Coalition of whole plant's about to go down! Black Trade Unionists; Democratic city class traitors ..." Bradley shot back, "If party. Logically, the IWP must invite the shoe fits, wear it." into its ranks the hated Border Police councilmen Erma Henderson and For a Workers Party! Maryann Mahaffey; black liberal Con­ With a self-styled "central commit­ and La Migra, which daily deport gressman John Conyers; Detroit AFL­ Every real step forward for workers tee" consisting of 1960s New Leftovers hundreds of undocumented workers, CIO head Tom Turner; and the and oppressed blacks today can come and representatives of the Communist many of them (such as Salvadoran NAACP. about only through militant struggle Party, Socialist Party, Democratic refugees) to certain torture and death. At the same time these union bureau­ counterposed to the Coleman Youngs, Workers Party and the Revolutionary And if Owens says cops are okay, the crats, black liberals and Democrats the courts, the cops, the Frasers-to all Workers League, the PFP is a halfway Morenoites have nothing against scabs organize for a big vote against "Reagan­ defenders ofthe capitalist system. In this house for the reformist left to give either. In the one union where they are omics" on November 2, they impose period of capitalist decline, the govern­ electoral support to the capitalist active, Morenoite supporters in Com­ virtually the same racist austerity ment is ripping up unions (PATCO) Democratic Party. They endorse Con­ munications Workers Local 11502, program in Detroit. To wage a Detroit while the pro-capitalist labor bureauc­ gressman Ron Dellums and SF supervi­ stewards Jim Green (who was promi­ general strike it is necessary to break the racy rips up historic gains like the sor Nancy Walker. As one member told nent and armed on the fWP goon stranglehold of sellout bureaucrats like uniform nationwide contract, handing the Spartacists later, "You would have squad) and Elizabeth Wiatr, have been Fraser who tie labor to Coleman Young over billions of dollars to the compa­ had our endorsement ifyou hadn't come scabbing for over three months on an and his Democratic Party machine. nies. To win these battles, workers needa here tonight and said those things.". fA TSE (broadcasting) strike for union The Spartacist League has fought to militant leadership with a program of recognition at Group W Cable in Santa build a class-struggle opposition in the class struggle. Decades ofclass collabor­ Monica. For Trotskyists, for any class­ labor movement. Within the UA W, the ation by sellouts like Fraser, Woodcock conscious worker, picket lines mean Rouge Militant Caucus (RMC) has and Reuther have gotten the unions in Attempted don't cross! It is clear that Kramer and campaigned for a general strike linking the fix they're in today. We need a his pals need some elementary educa­ up Rouge workers, Chrysler workers workers party that will fight for a tion in the realities of the class struggle and the teachers. These militants say workers government. Only such a party, Murder... in the U.S., which if they continue their Ford's threatened closure of the Dear­ built by working-class militants as part (continued from page 3) scabbing and gangsterism, they will born Assembly Plant (DAP) at Rouge oftheir fight to oust the Frasers from the From his debut in the U.S., when he certainly get and regret. requires immediate strike action. An labor movement, can lead the workers' took over the Los Angeles Sandinistas With its murderous thug assault on October 9 DAP unit meeting of UAW struggles to victory. for Socialism in Nicaragua some three the SL, the Nicholas Kramer leadership Local 600 recently degenerated into four Various fake-lefts arejust throwing in years ago, Kramer has used the organi­ has sent a message to the anti-Soviet hours of squabbling between bureau­ the towel. The reformist Communist zational methods learned from his popular front and all the purveyors of crats who had one thing in common: no Labor Party (CLP) ended one auto teacher Moreno and borrowed from the anti-Spartacist Big Lie: IWP cop­ program to fight the assembly plant leaflet accusing the working class of Stalinism. Pretensions to being a mass lovers, scabs and goons are for hire, to be closure and save even their own jobs. deserving the leadership it gets: "A movement by inventing more and more used against the Trotskyists. This was a DAP president Hank Wilson reportedly working class that does not choose to front groups. Projecting the image of cynical attempt to draw a blood line to did take time out in his presentation to fight does not need leadership or a the honcho maximo, Kramer. But the seal off the IWP from the Spartacists. attack communists who "disrupt unity." party-the choice is up to you." Then as IWP has gone far beyond that now in Those who don't wish to follow this "Look at Poland," Wilson said, where Chrysler workers voted down Fraser's attempting to murder our comrades. road of thuggery should not confuse the he united with Doug Fraser, Ford sellout, they crowed, "We Did It!"-and Nicholas Kramer (who has next to Morenoite fraud with Trotskyism. For Motor Company, Ronald Reagan and not one word about the need for a strike. nothing, other than language, in com­ the rest, we put the IWP on notice: the Wall Street in praising Solidarnosc, a A leaflet by the Stalinist Progressive mon with impoverished Mexican immi­ SL, with our consistent record of "union" which wants to bring back "free Labor (PL) sect, whose specialty is thug grants) and his small-time macho defending workers democracy, will enterprise" (capitalism) in league with attacks against Trotskyists, proclaims hustler pals posture as the champions of defend our own democratic rights, the CIA. 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I workers Vanguard and Young Spartacus. ..•_ I ______L.:Make payable/mall 10: Spartaclsl Publishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, New York 1:.:..J 15 OCTOBER 1982 9 the picket lines of its union brothers in pealed Pacht's ruling to the Labor 8180. Once again Anwar fought for this Board itself, which again ordered $$$ Needed Anwar ... Wealthy Inland Steel has made it (continued from page 4) policy, but the 10 10 leadership was Anwar's reinstatement. The NLRB content to let the small USWA local go minority of Van de Water and Robert clear it will spare no effort in its Anwar received a disciplinary letter it alone for all seven weeks of its strike. Hunter, however, go further in their drive to establish a legal precedent for refusing to cross the Bricklayer Anwar was fired on May 18, after written dissent than even the company against basic labor solidarity. A picket lines, but it was withdrawn after honoring the 8I80 picket lines for more lawyers, arguing that any broad no­ lengthy and expensive court battle the steel militant filed a grievance. than two weeks. Local 10 10 fought a strike clause would prohibit a worker could go right up to the Supreme Apparently the Inland bosses were grievance in Anwar's behalf, which from honoring a picket line. _ Court. unwilling at that point to contest the reached the final stage of arbitration The recent KADC leaflet announcing The Keith Anwar Defense Com­ legality of Anwar's actions. But in a only in September 1980. In the mean­ Anwar's victory before the Labor Board mittee is asking for contributions to huge steel works like Inland the picket time Anwar's case generated significant points out that the AFL-CIO has come help pay the continuing and antic­ line question is posed repeatedly. The support within the Chicago-Gary Steel­ out against Van de Water's appointment ipated legal expenses. The costs vast bulk of Inland's workforce belongs workers district. Resolutions ofsupport last year by Reagan as NLRB chairman, arising just from this recent NLRB to Local 10 10, but the plant also has a were adopted by Locals 10 10 and 65 due to his long years as a union-busting victory have already put the Com­ crazy quilt of some 15 different unions, (South Works), and the 1979 District consultant in Southern California. Van mittee several thousands of dollars whose members are employed by Conference unanimously passed a de Water's appointment still has not in debt. Send contributions to: Inland's many subcontractors. The resolution demanding Anwar's rein­ been confirmed by the Senate. In a 1973 Keith Anwar Defense Committee, bosses play upon the craft and union statement and resolving to "use all seminar, Van de Water described how Box 7914, Chicago, IL 60680. divisions to keep the workers from available resources to reverse these he helped General Dynamics drive a acting in concert. A militant Steelwork­ attacks by defending all union members union out of its Astronautics division: And the social-democratic cult around ers leadership would slice through these victimized for honoring picket lines." "The firm ... called the employees college-town guru Peter Sollenberger, divisions and forge workers unity by Rank-and-file steel workers formed the together in groups-35 groups in 24 the Revolutionary Workers League hours, to cover the 4,500 employees. (RWL), has made a principle out of They said, 'This union is building a class scabbing (as they did on a 1977 0--9272 war-with its attacks on management. APPEND': X We build Atlas missiles to protect our AFSCME strike at the University of NOTICE TO EMPLO'fEES nation against the nations that repre­ Michigan). The RWL devoted almost Posted by Order of the sent the class-war ideology abroad, if National Labor ReIdt i:=>ns Board half the first issue of its newspaper to Ar. Agency of the U!l i ted States G-')vernment necessary. And here we have class war fomented right here'." attacking the Spartac;st League for our WE ~'lLL NOT j~scharge, or other .... ise discriminate defense of the picket line principle. In .3galnst, e,mployees because they engage in their In that same seminar Van de Water statutory :-igh~ to refuse to ::-ross picket lInes particular, these scab "socialists" de­ established by labor organ12:atlons other than their boasted that he had helped defeat 125 colIect i Ve-biHg a 1n ~ r:g re presen tat i ve. nounced the Anwar case as an "adven­ union organizing drives during an anti­ WE WILL ~OT In d:1y lIke or related manner turist moral gesture," claiming that all L":terfere .... lth, r'?s':.raln, or COerce our employees In labor career stretching back to 1943. the exercise of t~e rights g'-.Jaranteed them in SectIon 7 he did was to "reinforce the defeatist )f the Act. Among his targets have been the view that to be militant means to lose USWA, Autoworkers, Machinists, WE WILL offer Keith A~war rp. nstatement to his your job." Tell that to the hundreds of former position or, if Such posit on no longer exists, IBEW and IUE. Here's a man well to a substantially equivalent pas tion, and make him Inland steel workers who have actively Whole for any less of earnings he may have SUffered by prepared for the Reagan years! gIving him backpaj with interest from the date that supported Anwar and made this impor­ Kei th An .... ar was discharged. NLRB orders tant legal victory possible! WE: WILL expunge from Our flIes any reference to Defend Workers' Rights the suspension and subsequent dIScharge of KeIth An .... ar Inland Steel to It would be a dangerous illusion to see on May 18, 1979, and WE WILL notify him in writing that post notice: Through Workers' Struggle this has been do!"'.e and that eVidence of thIS unlaWful this legal victory as proof that the discipline .... ill not be used as a basis for future "WE WILL NOT But these right-wing Republicans personnel actions against him. discharge, or NLRB, or any organ of the bosses' aren't the only enemies oflabor, not by a government, can be relied on to defend INLAND STEEL COMPANY otherwise ------discriminate long shot. The NLRB was created under workers' rights. And the "friend of (Employer) against Democrat Roosevelt to head off class labor" Democrats are no better than the Dated ------By _ employees struggle by channeling labor disputes Republicans: Teddy Kennedy rushed (RepresentatIVe) because into an endless and costly system of from a speaking engagement at last they...refuse anyone.This is an official notice and must not be defaced by hearings, briefs and appeals. Far from month's USWA Convention to join to cross being "impartial," the Board is but a reactionary Orrin Hatch in drafting up a This notice must remai~ posted for 60 consecutIve days from picket lines." weapon used by the capitalists to keep Senate bill to bust the nationwide the date of ?Cst a~d must :'10':. be altered. defaced, or ;overed by any other mClt""r 3:. A~y questIons cOncer:li:;g this "lOtlce or labor at bay. However, its effectiveness railroad engineers strike. Even if the complia;tce \o,'lttl :~s provisl:lns m:1Y be directed to the Board's Office, Everett ."1cKinley Dirksen BUilding, 219 S. Dearborn requires at least the appearance ofeven­ Anwar case finally wins in the courts, Street, ChIcago, Illinois 60604, Telephone 312--353--7597. handedness. Thus, before Reagan no will the bosses and their government­ president ever appointed an out-and­ the cops, the courts, the Labor Board­ out union buster as NLRB chairman. sit on their hands and watch 18,000 steel orgamzmg all USWA members to Keith Anwar Defense Committee to This necessity to appear fair and workers shut down Inland by honoring honor other unions' picket lines­ build support for the case. This commit­ impartial is an opening through which another union's picket lines? Not likely! always. During any USWA strike action tee was endorsed by USWA officials all the working people can squeeze out a Unionists who lead such labor solidarity such a leadership could expect-and over the district, including many Local small-scale victory-like the Anwar actions better be prepared to withstand would demand-the same in return. 10 10 leaders. In October 1980 Local case-every now and then. And only attack from every agency of the capital­ It was this spectre of facing a united 10 I0 held a rally to "defend the right to because militant unionists fought to ist government, whether it's Reagan or a working class in action that prompted honor picket lines," at which Anwar was defend labor's rights and to build broad Democrat in the White House. Inland to fire Anwar eleven months a speaker along with USWA officials. labor support for this struggle. Only workers' struggle can ultimately later, when he again respected picket Not only Inland's corporate lawyers defend workers' rights. The Local IO IO lines at the plant. On May I, 1979 some Picket Lines Under and Reagan's labor-hating appointees leadership could have (and should have) 40 members of USWA Local 8180 went Reagan Reaction on the NLRB were lined up against the won the right to honor picket lines long on strike against Apex Steel and Supply ago, by exercising that right. As Anwar This broad support was reflected at union militants. Various pseudo-leftists Company. Apex leases a section of the arbitration hearing, where several joined pro-company union bureaucrats told Workers Vanguard, "The way we'll Inland property, where its employees Local IO 10 officers turned out to back in trampling on the principle that picket settle this picket line question once and bale scrap steel before it goes into Anwar and observe the proceedings. lines mean don't cross. The reformist for all is when we organize thousands of Inland's furnaces as an ingredient in The union's case, presented by Griev­ Socialist Workers Party (SWP), for steel workers to help a smaller union man its picket lines. That will shut down steel production. While these workers ance Committee chairman Joseph instance, ran as their 1980 presidential are an integral part ofthe industry, their Gyurko, was that Anwar's right to candidate Andrew Pulley, a scab steel the whole damned plant. Then we'll write a law into labor's law books-that wages and benefits were and still are far honor picket lines was protected under worker who crossed the same BRAC picket lines mean don't cross!". below those covered by the Basic Steel the National Labor Relations Act. In picket line that Goldenfeld respected. Industry contract. Their strike would other picket line cases that have gone to have been over and won by May 2 if the courts, judges have ruled that this STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, Local IO IO had collectively respected 9. For completion by nonprofit organizations right can be "waived" in a company­ MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION authorized to mail at special rates. union contract, but the waiver of picket (Required by 39 U.S.c. 3685) 10. Extent and nature of circulation: Average no. I. Title of Publication: Workers Vanguard. copies each issue during preceding 12 months: A. Total Spartacist League/ line rights must be in "clear and IA. Publication No. 098770. no. copies printed (net press run): 17.208; B. Paid Spartacus Youth League unmistakable language." Gyurko point­ 2. Date of filing: I October 1982. Circulation: (l) Sales through dealers and carriers, ed out that while there is a no-strike 3. Frequency of Issue: Bi-weekly (Skipping an issue street vendors and counter sales: 10.029. (2) Mail Public Offices in August and a week in December). subscriptions: 2.789. C. Total paid circulation (Sum of clause in the Inland contract, it says 3A. No. of Issues Published Annually: 24. lOBI and IOB2): 12.818. D. Free distribution by mail, -MARXIST LlTERATURE­ nothing about honoring picket lines. 3B. Annual Subscription Price: $5.00. carrier or other means, samples. complimentary. and Bay Area 4. Location of known office of publication: 41 other free copies: 75. E. Total distribution (Sum of C Inland was represented at this hearing Warren St.. New York, NY 10007. and D): 12,893. F. Copies not distributed: (I) Office Fri.: 5:00-8:00 p.m., Sat: 3:00-6:00 p.m. 5. Location of the headquarters or general business use, left over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing: 1634 Telegraph, 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) by a top lawyer from the expensive, offices of the publishers: 41 Warren St., New York, NY 4.315. (2) Returns from news agents: O. G. Total (Sum Oakland, California Phone: (415) 835-1535 "prestigious" law firm of Vedder, Price, 10007. of E. FI and 2 should equal net press run shown in A): Kaufman & Kammholz. The arbitrator Chicago 6. Names and complete addresses of publisher. 17,208. agreed with Inland's claim that the editor. and managing editor: Publisher-Spartacist Actual no. copies of single issue published nearest to Tues.: 5:30-9:00 p.m., Sat.: 2:00-5:30 p.m. Publishing Co.• 41 Warren St.. NY. NY 10007: Editor­ filing date: A. Total no. copies printed (net press run): 523 S. Plymouth Court, 3rd Floor intent of both the company and the Jan Norden. 41 Warren St., NY, NY 10007: Managing 18,000: B. Paid circulation: (I) Sales through dealers Chicago, Illinois Phone: (312) 427-0003 USWA in negotiating the no-strike Editor-None. and carriers, street vendors and counter sales: 12,599: clause was to outlaw honoring picket 7. Owner (If owned by a corporation. its name and (2) Mail subscriptions: 2,367; C. 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Trotskyist League Last January the arbitrator's ruling address. as well as that of each individual must be Total (Sum ofE, FI and 2-should equal net press run of Canada given.): unincorporated association Spartacist Publish­ shown in A): 18.000. was overturned by NLRB administra­ ing Co., 41 Warren St.. NY. NY 10007. II. I certify that the statements made by me above are Toronto tive law judge Arline Pacht, who noted 8. Known bondholders. mortgagees, and other correct and complete. Sat.: 1:00-5:00 p.m. that if the union intended to outlaw security holders owning or holding I percent or more of (Signed) 299 Queen St. W., Suite 502 total amount of bonds. mortgages or other securities. Jan !'iorden. Toronto, Ontario Phone: (416) 593-4138 honoring picket lines, it wouldn't have (If there are none. so state.): None. (editor) supported Anwar's case. Inland ap- 10 WORKERS VANGUARD tween church and state" that inspires NBC Peddles CIA Disinformation "the Polish nation" to "dream the impossible dream"-ofcapitalist restor­ ation, that is. One "U.S. intelligence source" says: "He [the pope] is the real king of Poland. Get rid of him and you deliver a body blow to Solidarity." He Whose Kill Pope Plot? claims Wojtyla sent a secret letter to Moscow threatening to go back to A monstrous new Big Lie against the an alleged "Bulgarian Connection." murdered thousands of leftists during Poland and lead a holy war against the Soviet Union has been launched. "Brez Here's the pitch: Agca's fake passport the I970s. The manwho supplied Agca's Soviets if they invaded. "Ifyou had sent Ordered Pope Slain" screamed Mur­ and gun supposedly came from two gun, Orner Bagci, is a "Gray Wolf." And that letter, you would be in no doubt doch's Post. But not just the yellow associates of one Abuzer Ugurlu the pope's would-be assassin had been who really took the shot at you or why," press. A September 21 NBC-TV special, (known as the "godfather" of the sentenced to prison in Turkey in he comments (San Francisco Chronicle, "The Man Who Shot the Pope," would "Turkish mafia"), "boss ofan enormous February 1979 for murdering the liberal 14 September). have us believe that the attempted gunrunning ring based in Sofia [capital editor of a leading Istanbul daily One problem: upon escaping from assassination of John Paul Wojtyla in of Bulgaria]." Ugurlu supposedly owns Milliyet whom the fascist National prison in Turkey, Agca had left behind a May 198 I by a fascist Turkish hitman a "spacious villa in Sofia, a privilege Action Party (of which the Wolves are note, widely reported at the time, was orchestrated by ... the KGB. This generally reserved for high-ranking the terrorist action squads) wished to threatening to shoot the pope, "the fantastic and absurd scenario is lifted Communist Party leaders." Sterling's silence. masked leader of the Crusades," in straight from a Reader's Digest (Sep­ punchline: ''The long and short of it, Moreover, after escaping from prison revenge for the attack (by Muslim tember 1981) "exclusive report" by then, is that Ugurlu worked for the (with whose help?) Agca spent many fanatics) on the Grand Mosque in months with Turkish ultra-rightists in Mecca. That was in 1979. a year before Claire Sterling, author of The Terror -- Network. This "disinformation special­ ~Z'i1{"\Vi7ttmln'M~";:'j Germany. This was known to Western Polish Solidarnosc was born. ist" offers not a shred of proof, of intelligence agencies, for after the attack The obscure, crazed killer Agca is a ::. ~~r,ToT'7~~ ~~ course, while explaining away or cover­ ~2 LU...1J,.'~~ -..nrr.u on pope Wojtyla the West Germans type common enough in the underworld ~:;.~,;' ,;;,_~.::.:.:_ "::~.'::.II" ing up the considerable evidence of lU,.....'. _,_ ... •• admitted having received ten warnings of Turkish fascism, where rightist terror gunman Mehmet Agca's ties to ultra­ that Agca was holed up on their intersects religious/ethnic vengeance. rightist terror groups and their relations BREZ ORDERED territory. Anq the Italian police later His brother bitterly told NBC, "A priest with Western spy agencies. As the U.S. reported having bugged the call from is wounded and the whole world is escalates its anti-Soviet war drive, it is Agca to Bagci asking for delivery of the excited. It's like the buzzing of a fly to pounding public opinion with a big­ POPE murder weapon (so why were they us." But to blame the Soviet Union?! bang propaganda barrage about a monitoring this call, and why did they This hatchetjob is so crude, so incompe­ Kremlin-masterminded "International SLAIN do nothing?). There may be a terror tent, that we can't see it discrediting Terrorist Conspiracy," Cold War II Bid to block network at work here, but it's not the anybody except its inventors. No direct ~rityi[2 version ofJoe McCarthy's "Internation­ --__.1 - .. ' one Sterling and NBC claim. proof? No matter: this "complex layer­ al Communist Conspiracy." '·NIfM ..,. Which bring us to Polish Soli­ ing of responsibilities" is "said to be The NBC broadcast, narrated by darnose, the only "union" in the world typical of the KGB." This from Sterling, Manin Kalb. would have made Goeb­ that Ronald Reagan, Wall Street and who claims that the Basque nationalist bels blush. According to a press release the CIA love. Why is this ludicrous ETA are really "Soviet surrogates" by this latest affiliate to Sterling's How about Grace Kelly? "Brez Ordered Pope Slain" plot being because they are in contact with the Irish "terror network," the program "strongly floated now? Because the Reaganites IRA, who have purchased weapons suggests that Pope John Paul II was Bulgarians. The Bulgarians do what the have a severe case of sour grapes over from Qaddafi, who buys his arms from targeted for assassination because ofhis Russians want them to do." Therefore Poland. They were counting on Solidar­ the Russians. (With petrodollars from close ties to.the Solidarity movement in ... the KGB pulled the trigger?! Of nose to spearhead a drive to "roll back" Western companies.) Poland; and, further, that the plot itself course, as the Washington Post (6 Communism in East Europe, or at least Perhaps they will now blame'Moscow was developed with the knowledge, and October) later reported, the link to to provoke a Russian invasion that for the death of Princess Grace as well! perhaps assistance, of the Turkish Ugurlu is based exclusively on Agca's could be used to whip up anti-Soviet But why stop there? Doesn't Kalb keep Mafia, Bulgarian secret service and the say-so. And it turns out that our frenzy in the West. But instead, Solidar­ harping on how changed the pope Soviet K.G.B." This crude concoction "Turkish mafia" kingpin has been living nost' counterrevolutionary grab for seems, so "wounded in spirit" since reeks of the kind of sensationalist for the past year not in a luxurious Sofia power was frustrated by a crackdown, at being "checkmated by the KGB." It's "disinformation" the CIA fabricates for mansion but in an Istanbul jail! the last moment, by the Polish Stalinist not the old Wojtyla at all-why, just consumption in the "Third World." The So much for the "Bulgarian bureaucracy. look at his recent meeting with Arafat. USSR's news agency TASS certainly Connection." Their only hard "evi­ So now American "disinformation The conclusion is so obvious. Did the pointed its finger in the right direction: dence" is that Agca spent some time in specialists" accuse the Russians of Kremlin switch popes on us? Come to "Soviet, Asserting CLA. Lies, Denies Sofia in 1980 (along with more than one trying to off the Polish pope. Kalb think of it, we don't remember ever Any Plot to Kill Pope" headlined the million Western tourists). But there are soulfully recounts Wojtyla's "local boy seeing pictures of John Paul II and Yuri New York Times (23 September). some connections. First of all, his ties to makes good" tour of his homeland, his Andropov at the same time and the Sterling/NBC parade as their"proof' the Turkish fascist Gray Wolves, who resurrection of "the magical link be- same place...•

Washington-especially Begin's and Assads into the camp of Reagan's sive factor in war is ... "international Lebanon ... biblical/Nazi plans to annex "Judea" Pax Americana. When Israel invaded public opinion"-especially for the likes (continued from page 12) and "Samaria" (the West Bank) and to Lebanon, those Third World nationalist of Begin and Sharon!! On the contrary, "purify" Lebanon. cheerleaders par excellence Sam Mar­ these butchers knew well that to destroy Hussein, the butcher of Jordan's 1970 The expansionist dynamic ofZionism cy's Workers World Party (WWP), PLO forces in West Beirut would have Black September. The fact that the enormously intensifies the internal demonstrated for "effective U.S. action required house-to-house fighting and PLO's Yasir Arafat welcomes the contradictions of Israeli society, pro­ to achieve Israeli withdrawal." Well, the lots more Israeli soldiers being shipped imperialist "peacekeepers" and em­ ducing triple-digit inflation, falling Marcyites got "effective U.S. action" back to the Zionist "homeland" in body braces Hussein is dramatic proof of the living standards, constant military alright. After that, the Palestinians got bags. As we wrote during the siege of bankruptcy of Arab nationalism. mobilization and a net emigration of the Sabra and Shatila massacre. West Beirut: Jews. But despite these tensions, the Even after this Zionist-organized "If the Palestinians can inflict heavy Begin/Sharon vs. the Goyim "Labor" Party opposition is scarcely in enough casualties on the Israelis, butchery, the cowardly reformists ofthe however heavy their own, there could As Israeli war minister Sharon's a position to protest terror against the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) apolo­ well be a rebellion on the home front hands drip with the blood of Sabra and Palestinians. (This is not a reformist gized for the withdrawal of the PLO against Begin's Lebanese adventure." Shatila, the Americans at least want to workers party like the British Labour under its U.S. Marine guard. It was, -"Zionist 'Final Solution' " WV No. 309, 9 July , put a better face on things. Thus, pro­ Party, but a pillar of the bourgeois they say, "a remarkable accomplish­ Reagan and hardline pro-Zionist col­ Zionist order.) The very basis of the ment under the circumstances.". Reject­ Instead, Arafat withdrew the PLO umnist William Safire advised in a Israeli state, which "Labor" established ing the perspective of social revolution commandos from Lebanon, leaving the cynical "Letter to Sharon": "This and governed for three decades, is the in the Near East, overawed by Zionist half million Palestinians to the tender [massacre] is a nine-point shock on the expulsion and terrorization of the power, the SWP's Militant (8 October) mercies of Sharon's army, the fascist Watergate scale.... But a slim chance Palestinian people. Within the frame­ writes: "The only thing a fight to the end Phalange, Reagan's Marines and the exists that you could make yourself the work of Zionism there is no escaping the would have accomplished would have French Foreign Legion. lightning rod and absorb most of the monstrous and expanding garrison been to help the Israelis in their aim of As long as the Israeli and imperialist anger" ... by resigning (New York state. And if all else fails, the crazed destroying the PLO and its forces." In forces remain in Lebanon there will be Times, 27 September). The American Zionist leaders have made it clear they other words, for these reformists (as well more Sabras and Shatilas. The libera­ ruling class knows how to sacrifice its are willing to unleash their ultimate as the WWP and many other pseudo­ tion of the Palestinians-driven out of Nixons for the greater cause ofimperial­ weapon: the nuclear bomb. socialists), Reagan's Marines and the their homeland by the Zionists, dis­ ist order. French Foreign Legion acted as the Smash Pax Americana persed in the surrounding Arab bour­ But Israel is not simply a vassal of saviors-indeed, the only possible in the Near East! gs:ois states-is inseparable from the U.S. imperialism, and Begin and Sha­ saviors-of the PLO. struggle against imperialism and for ron have no intention of stepping down The accelerating drive toward World Once the Israeli juggernaut crossed social revolution throughout the Near to appease Washington. "Jerusalem is War III in the Near East can be the Litani and all the Arab regimes East. The fissures in Israel provide a not Saigon!" shouted Sharon at a countered only by the development abandoned the Palestinians to their fate, crucial opportunity to break through September 30 rally which greeted him as of proletarian internationalist parties in the choices facing the PLO were the Zionist garrison state mentality. "Arik, King of Israel." And a recent Israel, the surrounding Arab states and certainly grim. Yet Begin/Sharon's What is needed is a communist interna­ issue of Begin's Likud bloc publication in the very imperialist countries them­ Blitzkrieg halted at the gates of West tionalist vanguard which can unite the announced on its front page: "The selves, especially the U.S. But at a time Beirut. Why? According to the liberal Hebrew-speaking working class and the Americans are trying to overthrow the when the notion of "radical" Arab Pollyannas of the SWP, "international Arab toilers against the Begins, Hus­ government." Israel has its own particu­ nationalism has never been more obvi­ public opinion prevented the Israelis seins and Assads, who promise only end­ lar appetites which often conflict with ously discredited, most of the American from simply breaking off negotiations." less bloodletting, and open the road to the Pax Americana envisioned in left has followed the Arafats, Jumblatts Sure, "everyone knows" that the deci- a socialist federation of the Near East.• 15 OCTOBER 1982 11 WfJliNEIiS 'ANfifJAIiIJ • eae:an el!ln- • ell!n 0 error Imperialists, Israeli Troops Out of Lebanon!

OCTOBER ll-In the final hours of the grisly massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, the remaining Palestinian men tried to make a last stand. They went searching for guns but found virtually none. The Palestinians had been disarmed by the imperialist "peacekeepers"-the U.S., French and J Italian troops who had "escorted" the t PLO soldiers out of the country only a U.S. Marines land in Beirut: imperialist policemen out of the Near East! UPI few days earlier. The imperialists' "gun control" paved the way for the Israeli West Beirut, detaining thousands of Beirut! Boycott all Israeli cargo and lently opposed Washington's interven­ invasion of West Beirut and the Zionist­ Palestinians for "questioning." Many of transport until Israel gets ouL of tion, the Arab regiInes, including the organized mass murder of the unarmeci these refugees without passports are Lebanon! "radical" Syrian Ba'athists, welcome the Palestinian refugees. threatened with expulsion. In the The U.S., French and Italian troops Marines. So, too, the left cheerleaders Now the bloody "peacekeepers" have southern suburbs the U.S. and Italian are paving the way for more massacres, for a mythical "Arab Revolution." The returned to complete the job of disarm­ troops watched as Lebanese army furthering the Israeli aim of terrorizing New York Times "national security ing and terrorizing the Palestinians and bulldozers destroyed "illegal" homes Palestinians into fleeing Lebanon alto­ adviser" and former Pentagon spokes­ Lebanon's Muslim majority. They are and shops belonging to Lebanese gether. Elementary defense of the man Leslie Gelb expressed pleasant there to shore up the new Gemayel Muslims. The American embassy clear­ Palestinian people's right to exist, as surprise at the new-found respect for the regime which is based on the same ly approved of the searches, while well as the advance of proletarian butchers of Vietnam: Phalange killers who carried out the issuing a cynical public relations com­ revolution in the Near East, demand "A most striking thing about the events Sabra and Shatila massacre. Not sur­ ment, "Don't be too rough." Like My first of all: Marines get out! No of last week was how Arab and Israeli Lai. leaders alike readily accepted and even prisingly, the "multinational force" did imperialist "peacekeepers"! Israel out of sought the renewed American military not occupy the Phalangist stronghold of Meanwhile, Begin's Blitzkrieg inva­ Lebanon and the occupied territories! presence in Lebanon. For one reason or East Beirut. Instead the French Foreign sion and Nazi-like massacre of Pales­ West Beirut-Never Again! Not anoth­ another-Israeli dependence on Ameri­ Legion-murderers of Algerian women tinians in Lebanon has fueled fascist, er dime or bullet for the Zionist can ties and military aid, the futility of and children and countless other colo­ anti-Semitic terrorist attacks in West butchers! the military option for Arabs now, the fact that only Washington might be able nial peoples-occupied Muslim West Europe, most recently the murderous to pry negotiating concessions from Beirut; U. S. Marines, who have not seen attack on a synagogue in Rome where a World Imperialism's Israel-the United States has fallen into active duty since their Vietnam "search two-year-old boy was killed and 34 Policeman on the Beat and assumed the role of Middle East and destroy" missions, set up a staging Jewish worshippers were injured. These policeman." By sending in the Marines on an -New York Times, 3 October area at the airport; and the plumed outrages echo the Zionist lie that anti­ open-ended mission in the Near East, Itatian "bersaglieri" commandos, who Zionism equals anti-Semitism. The Reagan has brazenly reasserted U. S. Some "peacekeepers"! Washington specialize in terrorizing civilians during labor movement must mobilize to crush imperialism's role as world gendarme. applauded and aided Israel's destruc­ raids of Red Brigades hideouts, held the these fascist killers at the same time as And there has been hardly a peep of tion of the PLO forces and its humilia­ Burj al Brajneh Palestinian camp. taking vigorous class-struggle action to protest from the Congressional "doves" tion of Moscow military client Syria. (It In recent days French marines and solidarize with the defense of the of both parties. Considering that the is certainly poetic justice that the first paratroopers actively participated with Palestinians from Zionist genocide. For U.S. now also maintains an 800­ Marine killed in Lebanon was done in by the Christian-dominated Lebanese an unlimited boycott of military goods member battalion of the 82nd Airborne a Pentagon-supplied cluster bomb which army in house-to-house searches of to Israel and to the imperialist troops in Division in the Sinai as "peacekeepers," the Israelis dropped on civilians as a it is clear that Washington has sharply terror weapon.) As Russian diplomat escalated its direct military presence in Andrei Gromyko noted in a UN speech, the region. Certainly this is related to the it is the anti-Soviet "strategic consen­ fact that Lebanon's neighbor Syria is the sus" which at bottom unites American principal Soviet client state in the Near imperialism and the Zionist state. But East and that the Soviet border itself is while Washington wants to include but a few hundred miles away. The U.S. various Arab regimes in its "consensus," forces in Lebanon are a beachhead for for Begin and Sharon "the only good large-scale military intervention in the Arab is a dead one." region-directly posing the danger of a The fanaticism of the Begin/Sharon nuclear World War III. No U.S. "strike regime, and underlying this the expan­ forces" and bases in the Near East! U.S. sionist dynamic of the Zionist state, cut Navy out of the Mediterranean and across U.S. imperialism's global anti­ Indian Ocean! Soviet war drive. Hence the present The collection of warring feudal tensions between Washington and fiefdoms known as Lebanon has long Jerusalem. Needless to say, the Reagan provided an opening for direct U.S. "peace plan" for the Palestinians does intervention. In 1958 Eisenhower sent not even add up to a powerless mini­ the Marines to help suppress an uprising state, but would simply place the West AP by the Muslims against Christian Bank/Gaza population into a Bantu­ Imperialist "peacekeepers" mean more massacres: Lebanese army rounds Maronite domination. But today, un­ stan existence under the thumb of King up Palestinians with help from French Foreign Legion. like 1958 when Arab nationalists vio- continued on page JJ 12 15 OCTOBER 1982