Student Mobilization Committee

spreads in high schools, colleges

- see pages 12-13 - Antiwar heat sears Nixon; fake 'peace' talk backfires

By DICK ROBERTS cusing of leading Democratic senators, including some who OCT. 1 - Richard Nixon's war policies have suddenly decided to support the Vietnam moratorium. run into a massive groundswell of opposition that is more • A Louis Harris poll that President Nixon's handling deeply rooted and more widespread than the hatred for the of the war has been rated a new low for his eight months war which toppled Lyndon Johnson. in office. Only 35 percent of those interviewed were Nixon's attempt to defuse the antiwar movement with a favorable. .pretense of seeking to de-escalate the war has boomeranged. • An hicalculable sweep of college and high school sup­ ·This week saw: port for the Oct. 15 moratorium and the Nov. 14-15 na­ • A big red-letter headline emblazoning the Sept. 25 tional student strike and mammoth march on Washington. Berkeley Daily Gazette-~~city ~Backs' Antiwar Rally." It The Columbia University senate adopted aresolutioncalling announced that the Berkeley city council endorsed the Oct. for immediate withdrawal of American troops. 15 moratorium on the war. Warding off a battery of questions on the war at his • Dissension in Congress. It included a bill proposed third news conference Sept. 26, Nixon labeled the Con­ by Senator Charles Goodell (R.-N. Y.) that Congress set gressional moves ~~defeatist." He claimed that ~~under no a 1970 deadline on troop withdrawals and the secret cau- circumstances" would he be affected by antiwar demon­ strations on campuses. But it reminded one of Johnson's demise. ~~we are not going to be appeasers, and we are not going to cut and run," the former President asserted two weeks before an­ nouncing his abdication. Nixon ~~said he would not be affected by the coming student moratorium and other demonstrations against the war," the New York Times commented in its main editorial Sept. 27. u But as a ~political realist' Mr. Nixon cannot ignore the implications of these surface manifestations of deep-seated discontent with his Vietnam policies," the in­ fluential newspaper concluded. The reality is that Nixon is trapped in a powerful vice between the stunning blows of the Vietnamese revolution on the battlefield and the forces of the American antiwar move­ ment at home. In his press conference, the president contended that the uvietnamization program"-handing the war over to the Saigon regime-was u moving forward." But Thieu him­ self demolished that argument the next day. On Sept. 27 Thieu stated that he saw no prospect of South Vietnamese forces assuming the full burden of the fighting by the end of 1970. And to top it off, the brassy dictator offered the spine­ chilling assertion that Saigon's ability to endure the with­ drawal of more U. S. troops hinged on an increased flow of military hardware including u more sophisticated wea­ pons like atomic warfare.... " Meanwhile, Nixon got a sharp reminder of the power of public opinion as an obstacle to the warmakers, with the publication of the inside story of Johnson's decision to halt the bombing of North Vietnam. The revelations, by former Undersecretary of the Air Force, Townsend Hoopes, appear in the October Atlantic. Hoopes discloses that enormous obstacles confronting the U. S. military on the Vietnamese battlefield coupled with mounting antiwar sentiment at home had created a serious rift right in the Pentagon. Johnson had been informed by top advisers that con­ tinuation of escalated war uwould have generated a whole­ sale domestic cataclysm as well as a major explosion in WHISTLE AND A PRAYER. As opposition to his war policies mounted the Democratic Party that neither Lyndon Johnson nor on all sides, President Nixon tookholdofhimself and asserted he didn't intend to be moved by antiwar demonstrations. Observers were reminded his Vietnam policy could have survived." of way LBJ had been talking just prior to throwing in the towel. (Continued on page 4) Page 2 THE MILITANT Friday, Oct. 1 0, 1969 THE No need to choose lesser of 3 evils MILITANT Editor: HARRY RING Poster gets out the word on analagous to the period of cultural na­ Business Manager: BEVERLY SCOTT tionalism gone through by the blacks. Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Boutelle mayoral campaign It is already leading to demands for Ass'n., 873 Broadway, New York, N. Y.10003. Phone 533-6414. Second-class postage paid women's studies programs in the uni­ at New York, N.Y. Subscription: domestic, Brooklyn, N.Y. versities similar to the black studies $4 a year; foreign, $5.50. By first class mail: [The following letter was sent to the domestic and Canada $10.50; all other coun­ programs. tries, $15.00. Air printed matter: domestic and NY Socialist Workers Campaign Com­ Canada, $15.00; Latin America, $24.00; Eu­ rope, $28.00; Africa, Australia, Asia (including mittee by a young Afro-American.] Hopefully, many other aspects of the USSR), $33.00. Write for sealed air postage My attentions haverecentlybeencalled question will be dealt with by contribu­ rates. Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent TheMilitant'sviews. These to your mayoral campaign. In this tions to the discussion, especially a con­ are expressed in editorials. election year I am extremely unsatis­ temporary analysis of women's roles in the economic mode of production and Volume ~ Number 40 fied with the candidates for mayor with 33 ~·· whom I am familiar. I feel strongly reproduction of life and the social re­ that Procaccino, Marchi, and Lindsay lations that flow from them. Unfortunate­ are not fit to be the mayor of any city. ly the women's liberation movement at this stage seems to be putting its As a Black person and a resident Closing news date- Oct. 3 of New York City, I am able to sense main emphasis on women as consumers the resentment toward black people that rather than women as producers, their radiates from each of the three major­ needs and grievances and a transitional party mayoral candidates. I don't think such as Irving Howe, Michael Harring­ program to meet their demands. any of them understand the needs of ton, Bayard Rustin and Arnold Kauff­ Atlanta socialist candidate man. In the current issue of Dissent, I would also like to suggest that in the Black community and I am also spite of the fact that the class composi­ offers a correction doubtful as to whether this point worries Irving Howe argues that student radi­ tion of the women's liberation movement Atlanta, Ga. them in the least. I did at one time think cals should work for social reform is middle class, reflecting the radicalizing There was an error in Stacey Seigle's that I would have to choose between through a left-liberal coalition. This line student milieu out of which it has article 'Workshop on Women's Libera­ the lesser of the three evils. After having has had some effect on students. evolved, an emphasis on working wo­ tion" (The Militant, Sept. 26) which I seen Mr. Boutelle's poster, I may not The ultimate fate of the social demo­ men is necessary to such a discussion. would like to correct. Although individ­ have to resort to this. cratic movement will be the same as that ual members of the Atlanta chapter I would like to learn more about of the larger liberal movement of which I have made a written contribution of the National Organization of Women Mr. Boutelle's campaign for mayor and it is a part: namely, loss of identity. to the discussion in the form of an and the Women's Liberation Group en­ more aboutthe Socialist [Workers] party. American liberalism has appropriated article recently published in pamphlet dorse my election campaign, neither Although I am not of voting age, I the right's basic values. For example, form. It is available by sending 15c group have given the campaign organ­ feel a duty to support the candidate who it was difficult to distinguish between the per copy to the New England Free izational endorsement as the article denunciations by Bayard Rustin and Press, 791 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. best encompasses my ideals. I would states. appreciate any information you are able Barry Goldwater of the black struggle 02118 for The place ofAmerican women: Linda Jenness at Cornell last April. to send. economic exploitation of women. Socialist Workers Party candidate M.M. The present plight of the ruling class Joan Jordan for Mayor of Atlanta is that it has preserved the rhetoric and symbols of democracy but not much of its substance. In other words there Lindsay move against SWP is a gap between the professed ideals Intensified U.S. attacks on Cuban Revolution of America and the stark reality under dismays Canadian reader capitalism for the huge underclass of Minneapolis, Minn. press solidarity with the Cuban people. the poor and the minorities. The following indicates an intensifica­ We must demand an end to these attacks. Montreal, Quebec Province Mark W. Weber tion by the U. S. to destroy the Cuban Demonstrations should once again be May I express my support for the YSA, member-at-large Revolution: undertaken. How about Oct. 8andApril SWP in its fight against the self-serving Colgate University 1. Expelling of a UN diplomat on 19 for national days of demonstration and absurd campaign of Mayor Lind­ August 21,1969. for Cuban solidarity? say to have his name placed on the city 2. Refusal to allow re-entry of another Damon Lee ballot twice. That story was reported in Exposing the myth UN official, now in Havana. Canada, though many Canadians un­ 3. Constant threat of assassination of doubtedly read it in disbelief. of women's inferiority Cuba's Permanent Representative. M.E.B. 4. Constant surveillance and harass­ Keep the light shining San Francisco, Calif. ment of the members of the Cuban Mis­ Where social The recent Militant articles by Mary­ sion, including break-ins at their living DeKalb, Ill. Alice Waters and Evelyn Reed were quarters. I think that The Militant is one of democracy leads excellent. It was good to see you come 5. Plans to install new military training the finest informing sources around, out for separate organizations for wo­ camps in Guatemala, Nicaragua and especially in DeKalb. Being plagued New Hartford, N.Y. men's rights and supporting the aspira­ Panama for the purpose of launching by such propaganda as Chicago "news" The article on the Socialist Party and tions that come out of a situation of of hit-and-run attacks against Cuba: papers and many textbooks, I look the Young People's Socialist League oppression. It is a promising first step 6. Exposure of a Mexican Embassy forward to reading something real every by Robert Langston in the Sept. 19 forward but only a beginning and a official in Cuba working directly for the week. If I didn't move around so much Militant was a much needed critical somewhat tardy one at that. CIA. I'd get a lifetime subscription. Keep the analysis of a tendency in American The particular aspects of the woman As revolutionaries, it's our duty to light shining! radicalism. Mr. Langston'sillumination question that Reed chooses to deal with, support the Cuban Revolution and ex- C.S. of the SP-YPSL statistical procedures is the myth of women's inferiority and the well known to this writer, who, along institution of the family, are expecially Phoenix blacks and Chicanos fight to control education with Mr. Langston, is probably still valuable and inspiring at this early being counted among the 1,000 YPSL stage of the development of the move­ Tempe, Ariz. teachers and ( 4) provisions for ade­ "active members." ment for women's liberation. Any minor­ Something new is happening in quate facilities to make the school con­ However, the real force of the social ity group must of necessity reconstruct Phoenix; her two oppressed minorities, ducive to learning. democrats lies not in a few scattered and rewrite its own history in order to the Chicanos and blacks, are taking to Earlier this year the white-dominated YPSL chapters but in the outpourings lose feelings of inferiority and gain a the streets and boycotting school to pro­ citywide school board that controls the of a few able but misguided intellectuals sense of self-confidence and pride. It's test the substandard quality of education inner-city schools as well as the more in the inner city. affluent white high schools attempted Showing that they are sick of listening to completelydowngradePhoenix Union to the likes of Goldwater and want High, which is 24% black and 51% action, demonstrators marched about Chicano. The school board proposed 600 strong Sept. 15 along Washington that the school be designated for ter­ Avenue, which divides black-Chicano minal vocational education. The citi­ IF YOU SUPPORT THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT, THE South Phoenix from afluent and lily­ zen's committee was formed at that time BLACK LIBERATION STRUGGLE, THE FIGHT FOR SO­ white North Phoenix. The demonstrators to fight the latest attempt to keep minor­ were students from Phoenix' one inner­ ity groups from "educating theirwayout CIALIST DEMOCRACY IN EASTERN EUROPE, A SO­ city school, clergymen, parents and sup­ of the slums," but the board has yet CIALIST AMERICA, YOU BELONG IN THE YSA ... porters. to act upon the recommendations of the The Rev. Frank Yoldi, a leader of committee. the march, and Joe Lopez, chairman Lopez stated that the school adminis­ ------clipandmail ------of Chicanos por la Causa, listed the tration had been given one week to re­ Young Socialist Alliance, Box 471 Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10003. nonnegotiable demands they presented spond to the demands, "or we'll find to the school board: ( 1) doubling the other ways to implement them, including 0 I would like more information 0 I want to join the YSA size of the counseling staff for the Chic­ student strikes and further demonstra­ ano and black students, (2) immediate tions." Name .. implementation of all proposals outlined The YSA in the Phoenix area has by the community's citizens' curriculum endorsed this effort oftheAfro-American Address . committee that emphasized the need for and Mexican-American minorities to an extreme upgrading of the curriculum control their own communities and their City ...... State ...... Zip ... . at the high school, ( 3) recruitment of own education. more black and Mexican-American David J. Murphy Friday, Oct. 10, 1969 THE MILITANT Page 3 Drive for new readers Ballot rights refusal fails to runs ahead of schedule By BEVERLY SCOTT will act on their convictions, and help Militant Business Manager to mobilize many new forces for the slow Jenness campaign OCT. 1- Forthesecondstraightweek, demonstrations scheduled in the com­ \i,,. we have gained over 600 new readers ing months. And they will come to for The Militant and Young Socialist, understand the need for fighting the ATLANTA, Sept. 29- The high point national police force used to police the which puts us even further ahead of imperialist system itself. of this week's busy schedule of speak­ world." Mrs. Jenness then called op. the schedule in our drive for 4,000 new The fact that many more people are ing engagements, interviews, and radio student and faculty audience to .yar­ readers by Nov. 15. By today we becoming radicalized makes it easier and television appearances for Linda ticipate in the massive antiwar ma,rch should have met 28 percent of our to sell them a subscription to the two Jenness, Socialist Workers Party write­ in Washington, D. C. on Nov. 15. quota of new supscriptions. Instead we publications. in candidate for mayor, was a meet­ An example of the impact of her Cllfll­ have actually fulfilled 37 percent of our For example, three socialists from ing at Georgia State University on paign at Georgia State is the fact that goal. Over half of the cities listed on the Berkeley and San Francisco reported Sept. 24. several student leaders attempting, to scoreboard are ahead of schedule, the tremendous response they received Invited to speak under the auspices democratize elections for student-body everywhere from Providence to Cham­ in a recent visit to Stanford University. of the Political Science Forum were the officials are using her successful cam­ paign. The antiwar sentiment there is so high five "major candidates": Linda Jenness, paign against high qualifying fees as We view our campaign for new read­ that a leaflet on the Oct. 15 Morator­ Horace Tate, Rodney Cook, Everett a precedent. · ers as an integral part of the antiwar ium was included in the official mate­ Millican, and Sam Massell. Three ob­ fall offensive. On the one side, mem­ rial handed to each student at the be­ scure candidates who happen to have Beginning today, the Atlanta ConSti­ bers of the SWP and YSA are conduct­ ginning of registration. They received ballot status weren't invited. Linda tution is giving front-page coverage to ing a vigorous campaign to build the a very enthusiastic response to The Jenness' talk was interrupted with ap­ 400-word statements from each can­ major fall antiwar actions as large as Militant, and were able to sell 28 sub­ plause several times by the audience didate. The first two to appear were possible, culminating in a gigantic mo­ scriptions in their one-day visit. of 400, especially when she attacked those of Rodney Cook and Linda Jen­ bilization in Washington D. C. on Nov­ The YSA local at Kent State Uni­ U.S. intervention in Vietnam and called ness. In her statement, Mrs. Jenness ember 15. versity in Ohio has done an outstand­ for the immediate withdrawal of all stated, "I am the only candidate who has And on the other side, we aim to ing job. They have sold 37 subscrip­ U. S. forces. Referring to recent pro­ presented a program to deal with the double our readership to reach the tions, which shot them way over the tests against police brutality in Atlanta, immediate concerns of the black com­ many newly radicalized young people 100 percent mark on their original she stated, "It really shouldn't surprise munity and the working people of At­ with a socialist approach to combat­ quota. As a result they have voted to us that this type of police action is lanta." She particularly emphasized her ing the imperialist aggression in Viet­ double their quota to 50 subs. going on here at home in Atlanta, be­ programs for ending the Vietnam war nam. We are confident that our new The Binghamton YSA has also dou­ cause isn't that precisely what is hap­ and for dealing with the unbearable con­ readers, who from reading our pages bled its quota to 80 subscriptions, and pening in Vietnam today? American ditions under which black Atlantans regularly, become convinced of the ab­ they predict: ''We are confident that this military power is big business' inter- are forced to live. solute necessity of building an all-en­ amount can be sold in several weeks compassing coalition in opposition to time. Literally hundreds of students on the U.S. imperialist role in Vietnam, campus are very interested in our ideas." One student at Harpur College wrote us: "Please send me the combination subscription. I saw the offer in the Sept. 26 issue, but my friend got the sub­ scription blank first. I saw the sub­ scription quota for Binghamton, and I promise that my friends and I will do our best to top tbe list." Sounds like he should also join the YSA. A note from the Twin Cities, Minne­ apolis and St. Paul, reads: "Here are more subs to bring our total to 75 ... and that's before school has even begun! Next week we'll really get crack­ ing with the opening of the University of Minnesota." Later they write: ''We've found that freshmen at the university are very open to our press. It's reached the point where we have kids coming up to us for their copy of The Militant. And Cleveland reports: ''We've had very good sub sales at college regis­ tration lines, primarily Case Western Photo by Tom Coffin CONFIDENCE IN PRODUCT. Reserve and Kent State Universities. Linda Jenness Militant salespeople, like this We're planning a "trailblazing" type sub bea,ming lady, can sell the paper drive to some of the nearby campuses with assurance that it's based on on Saturdays. large Atlanta demonstration~ And finally, from Boulder, Colorado a clear, consistent political line. comes the report, "Although our quota This issue, sold at the 1965 SDS is only 30, we feel that we can collect March on Washington, hammered at least 100 subscriptions. Thus far, protests police brutality at the current fake "peace" bid by without really trying, we have already LBJ and reiterated paper's "get­ sold 20 subs." By DOUG JENNESS wife of a Georgia Tech profe~sor, were out" stand. Just keep them coming. ATLANTA-Nearly 600 demonstra­ beaten with nightsticks. tors marched from Piedmont Park to Twelve people have been falsely the city police station here Sept. 27 charged with various infractions ofthe in a spirited protest against police bru­ law, ranging from "assault and battery" Militant-Young Socialist tality. Chanting loudly, they marched to "inciting to riot." · .. .. ·through the downtown area along At­ Police brutality has become a heated subscription scoreboard lanta's main street-Peachtree Street­ issue here recently, following e~posures to the police station, where they heard of beatings administered to blad¥ pris­ City Quota New Subs Champaign, Ill. 30 10 several speeches and demanded to see oner:s by cops in police stations and Providence, R.I. 40 35 Washington D. C. 75 19 Police Chief Jenkins. jai}s. Several large rallies have, .been Low renee, Kansas 30 25 Berkeley, Calif. 225 52 .·held. in the black communit!', a Kent, Ohio 50 37 San Diego, Calif. 45 10 The action, called by a wide range .in:d Boulder, Colo. 30 20 Austin, Texas 150 32 of organizations and individuals in the grand jury is now investigati,ng the Binghamton, N.Y. 80 53 Bloomington, Ind. 30 6 radical movement and hippie commun­ police depi;U"tment. A number o(prga- Madison, Wis. 75 47 Antioch College, Ohio 30 6 ity, was in response to a vicious peUce . nizations ip. ,the black. community ,h~ve Ann Arbor, Mich. 25 15 Seattle, Wash. 150 23 attack on a rock concert held in· Pied­ filed suit in the U. S. district court, -de­ San Francisco, Calif. 250 148 Houston, Texas 50 6 mont Park on. Sunday, Sept,f2l:; !The manding that Police Chief Jenkins be los Angeles, Calif. 275 156 logan, Utah 25 3 incident was triggered by:a' plainclothes removed. Ypsilanti, Mich. 25 12 Albany, N.Y. 25 3 Phoenix, Ariz. 30 14 DeKalb, Ill. 80 9 narcotics agent, whenc,hlP arrested· ia . '"'Following the police attack ,on the Philadelphia, Pa. 200 93 Gainesville, Fla. 35 4 young person who waiv:pointing.. :wm .Pi.edmont Park gathering, Linda Jen­ Twin Cities, Minn. 200 89 Chicago, Ill. 275 23 out to everyone. in ·:the·' crowd. When ness, the Socialist. Workers Party can­ Cleveland, Ohio 250 100 Carbondale, Ill. 25 2 others in the crowdLp:rotes:ted; the nark didate for mayor, issued a statement Boston, Mass. 275 105 Chapel Hill-Durham, N.C. 30 2 frantically pulled outo:a: •gun and shout­ to the news media declaring: It becomes Detroit, Mich. 275 105 Hayward, Calif. 40 1 ed, "Stand: back: or \.l~ll>blow his head Kansas City, Ma. 30 11 East lansing, Mich. 30 0 more clear each day that Police Chief off!" The angered crowd then moved St. louis, Mo. 30 11 Portland, Ore. 20 0 Jenkins should be fired, that the black Newark, N.J. 35 12 General 205 95 ,, ·:t;ntbe: 'Mptured youth, . community should select and rontrol New York, N.Y. 425 148 Total 4330 .~:, \ 1581: .. WhE!reupow the' cops clilled in reinforce­ its own police, and that all · police Atlanta, Ga. 125 39 ,}\\i .'!:~ ( / ·ini~:ents ·B'nd teat~gassed· the. entire area. should be removed from the Peachtree- ,p:.j i·.·.i.' i:'l''>i' ,., ).: ,; '"··}• :; ,~;u· ~ ·rA.· number of ··y(Hiths/' ·as well' as the 14th Street area." Page 4 THE MILITANT Friday, Oct. 10, 1969

Is Moratorium being co-opted?

By HARRY RING torium and equally important to note in favor of what they are trying to Reporting that a number of Demo­ the political limitations of the Mora­ discredit. cratic congressmen are considering sup­ torium leadership. But this in no way In that spirit we offer some quota­ porting the Oct. 15 Moratorium, a Sept. suggests that radicals should draw tions from a critical assessment of the 27 New York Times article said: back from building the Moratorium ac­ Moratorium offered in the Sept. 29 New "The Democratic objective, as one tion Oct. 15. America, voice of the Socialist Party. member put it, is to turn the Oct. 15 Actually, the prospects for develop­ The article is written by Penn Kemble, Moratorium into 'an important moral ing the Moratorium in a healthy, mili­ the party's national secretary. Thestate­ event,' comparable to the 1963 civil tant direction are very good. There are ment of "critical support" to the Mora­ rights march on Washington." today wide layers of militant antiwar torium appears somewhat to the right Or, in plainer English, they want to activists who will resist moves to re­ of that of the Democrats. try to co-opt a movement that poses duce the Oct. 15 action to what double­ Kemble writes: a political threat to them. talking capitalist politicians conceive as "One obvious problem is that the Mo­ The capitalist politicians, hawk and a "moral event." ratorium . . . emphasizes a unilateral dove alike, are concerned by the swift Further, there is the significant factor U.S withdrawal as a solution to the growth of the Moratorium and the po­ of the active intervention of the SMC war. Unilateral withdrawal is not the of­ SAME STAND. Bayard Rustin tential they correctly see lodged in it in building the action. A militant, or­ ficial policy of the Moratorium ... but of Socialist Party smeared origi­ for further developing militant, mass ganized antiwar force, SMC can prove withdrawal will certainly get the great­ nal SDS antiwar march in 1965. antiwar action. an effective counter to the reformists, est emphasis. Now SP is complaining Mora­ And they also spot the fact that lack with its program of mass action for "A second difficulty is that while the torium is too far left. of clarity among Moratorium leaders immediate U.S. withdrawal. national leadership of the Moratorium on key political issues opens the door The moves to co-opt the Moratorium has not once given an official sugges­ for trying to maneuver the movement can be effectively blocked if antiwar tion, in many local areas students may into "safe" channels. activists press for militant, campus­ demand that schools be completely tions of the New Left are hoping to hold The lack of a clear-cut perspective based actions and if they insist that the closed down on the 15th.... massive marches against the war. In among Moratorium leaders is indicated withdrawal position be heard at every "Third, the Moratorium has not clear­ the past these marches have been scenes in a number of ways. While a number meeting and rally-most particularly ly disassociated itself from irresponsible of Viet Cong flag-waving, backlash­ of them favor immediate U.S. with­ those where capitalist politicians and or undemocratic elements in the New producing confrontations and incen­ drawal from Vietnam, current Mora­ others will be presenting a differing and Old Left. An understanding has diary speeches." torium ads in the New York Times stand. been reached with the National [New] This disgusting red-baiting is evoked speak ambiguously of "early with­ Further assurance that the Mora­ Mobilization [Committee] Against the by the SP's concern that the movement drawal." torium will be a meaningful action will War in Vietnam (a coalition of some against the war will not only force a Similarly, while Moratorium leaders be provided if activists build it as part liberals and pacifists with Communists U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam but pro­ have cooperated with SMC and New of the fall offensive against the war. and Trotskyists.) mote further militant action in the U. S. Mobe, they have thus far refrained from It should be used to help build the "The Moratorium leaders have allow­ "We should oppose the demand that publicizing or endorsing the Nov. 14 Nov. 14 student strike and the Nov. ed the Mobilization to publicize the schools be completely closed on the student strike or Nov. 15 mass marches 15 mass mobilizations in Washington Moratorium as part of its 'Fall Offen­ 15th," Kemble writes. "There are good on Washington and San Francisco. and San Francisco. sive'- a term which suggests the de­ civil liberties grounds for such a posi­ Clearly, it is important for revolu­ Occasionally, an opponent of a par­ gree to which the Mobilization is really tion; it is unfair to deny those who wish tionaries to take note of the efforts by ticular movement or action will offer a peace movement." to learn or to teach their opportunity capitalist politicians to co-opt the Mora- arguments which prove most persuasive Carefully noting that the Moratorium to do so-whether they support the and New Mobe are located in the same war or for any other reason- because building (their sleuth overlooked the we wish to oppose the war. Pacific Stars and Stripes fact that the SMC is too) and that one "If universities are closed, it can set newspaper reported that they "send out a troublesome precedent; why then can't speakers to campuses in fraternal conservatives or blacks close univer­ really 'Hanoi Herald'? teams," Kemble dolefully warns: sities to protest their grievances." "As time goes on the activities of the Next, we assume the SP will be ex­ The Pacific Stars and Stripes, the Pacific Stars and Stripes is published two organizations probably will be­ plaining why striking workers have no Army-sponsored servicemen's daily, in Tokyo with a daily circulation of come even more closely coordinated. right to shut down plants and deny which is hardly noted for giving the 250,000- about 100,000 copies going The Moratorium leaders plan a second scabs their "inalienable right to work." enlisted man's viewpoint on the war, to combat troops in Vietnam. Once pre­ two-day-long event a month after the Meanwhile, genuine socialists and all appears to be bending to the massive viously in its history, the newspaper Oct. 15 demonstration ... if all goes others who favor self-determination for discontent of G Is in Vietnam- and en­ reflected the views of G Is- at the end to present schedule, this second Mora­ the Vietnamese people will help build the dangering its reputation with the brass of World War II, when U.S. troops torium will take place on Nov. 15- Moratorium as part of the offending for doing it. stationed in the Pacific staged "bring­ the same day that the National [sic] "offensive" to end U.S. aggression in This was disclosed in a Sept. 28 As­ us-home" mass demonstrations and re­ Mobilization Committee and some fac- Vietnam. sociated Press dispatch from Saigon. fused to serve as occupational troops. According to AP, "The U.S. high com­ mand in South Vietnam is so incensed with news reports appearing in the Pa­ cific Stars and Stripes, the U.S. Armed • • . Nixon seared by antiwar heat Forces newspaper in Asia, that it has started calling it 'The Hanoi Herald.'" (Continued from page 1) ises of de-escalation and his talk of larger than meetings it held on these AP uncovered a secret speech that a milder draft program have served same campuses before previous mo bi­ had been delivered by Army chief in­ "The shock wave would run through only to intensify popular hatred of the lizations. This is not to speak of the formation officer in Vietnam, Col. the entire American body politic," a war. planning that is going on in a whole James W. Campbell, to a closed session high Pentagon official argued. "The At the same time Nixon's policies series of new campuses. of the U.S. Pacific Command informa­ antiwar demonstrations and resistance have deepened the divisions within the The depth of student hatred for the tion officers conference, held in Taiwan to the draft would rise to new cres­ ruling class and among its political war is dramatically apparent in the on Sept. 3. cendos, reinforced by civil rights representatives on how best to contain response to the moratorium. Two full­ In the secret session, Col. Campbell groups who would feel that the Presi­ the Vietnamese revolution and how to page ads in the New York Times, hun­ had attacked two articles. One was a dent had once again revealed his inner contain the antiwar movement. dreds of prominent endorsers, and wide story by a Stars and Stripes combat None of them, of course, oppose U.S. campus support make clear the mora­ reporter which disclosed the number conviction that the war in Vietnam was torium will be huge. of casualties of an American infantry more important than the war on pover­ aggression in Vietnam on the basis of If the moratorium is built as part of company in action. ty." principle. None of them, including the national fall offensive, if it is built "Whether these figures are true is com­ Pressure within the administration, in­ Goodell, favor immediate, uncondition­ pletely besides the point," Campbell cluding slated resignations by top Pen­ al withdrawal of U.S. forces from Viet­ big enough and militant enough. it will complained. "It is my contention that tagon officials, finally forced Johnson nam- a demand dictated by the needs escape the grasp of the capitalist poli­ such irresponsible reporting is absolute­ to change his course. He announced the of the American people and by the ticians. That is because the fundamen­ ly devastating to the morale of sol­ halt of the bombing of North Vietnam principle of self-determination for the tal direction of antiwar sentiment runs diers. . . . Such reporting . . . is of and, at the same time, his decision not Vietnamese. counter to the programs and policies tremendous aid and comfort to the en­ to seek reelection. But despite their intentions, the cap­ of the capitalist ruling parties. emy." But Washington escalated the attack italist politicians' tactics -like Nix­ The masses of American people who on South Vietnam. This made it clear on's -can serve to further accelerate oppose the war want the Gls brought genuine antiwar sentiment among the home now. They don't see why there The other article Campbell objected that Johnson's actions were fundamen­ population and among the Gls them­ should be more slaughter, and they to was the now-famous story of Com­ tally designed to dupe the American totally reject the Thieu-Ky types which pany A's revolt by AP reporters Horst people into believing that the govern­ selves. Washington must rely on in Saigon. Faas and Peter Arnett. Campbell con­ ment was seriously seeking peace. In Preparations for the fall antiwar of­ The key to unlocking this sentiment tended that, "It is the opinion of USARV fact, it was attempting to buy time for fensive on all fronts reveal the deepest that such stories do not border on trea­ continuing the effort to wrest some kind student opposition to the war so far. is militant mass action around the slo­ son, they are treason." of victory. The Student Mobilization Committee, gans of self-determination for the Viet­ Campbell's attack was apparently a Nixon, confronted by even more planning for a nationwide student strike namese, no reliance on Democratic and bit too crude. The brass has since with­ massive opposition to the war, is play­ Nov. 14 and the march on Washington Republican Party politicians, and bring drawn his slated assumption of editor­ ing the same crooked game-with Nov. 15, reports that every SMC cam­ the troops home now! The opportunity ship of Stars and Stripes. equally disastrous results. His prom- pus meeting is three and four times for doing so has never been better. Friday, Oct. 10, 1969 THE MiliTANT Page 5

In passing. .. The military writings of Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky's Military Writings pro­ nobility too lazy even to play chess; vides graphic insight as to how Marx­ later, with the growth of cities, intel­ ism can and ought to be applied to a lectuals and merchants appeared on the particular area of endeavor, in this scene and there also arose the need of case, questions of military strategy and exercising the brains by playing check­ tactics. The author comes down espe­ ers and chess. And now in our country cially hard on those who dogmatize workers go to chess clubs. Workers historical materialism into a set of fin­ now play chess because they have over­ ished, all-encompassing prescriptions thrown those who used to ride on their DEFENSE OF THE REVOLUTION. Armed Bolshevik sailors, 13,000 for action. backs. All this can be excellently ex­ strong, arrive in Petrograd from Kronstadt to fight Kornilov's counter­ Trotsky makes very clear what he plained by Marxism. revolutionary uprising. After Bolsheviks took power, Trotsky orga­ thinks Marxism can and can't do: "It is possible to show the entire nized and led Red Army to victory over imperialist intervention and Marxist analysis can provide a histori­ course of the class struggle from one domestic reaction. cal context for any field of human ac­ angle- that of the history of develop­ tivity; it can provide a political orien­ ment of chess play. I repeat that it is tation for the practitioners of any sci­ possible by using the Marxist method miliar to present-day readers. The book comic book hero). Taken together ence, craft or art; it can provide a use­ to write an excellent book on the his­ reads well and easily anyway, but per­ Fonda and Hopper are symbols for the tory of the development of chess play. ful general way of looking at things, American dream and the pioneer spirit But to learn to play chess 'according haps when the publishers bring out a but it cannot be a substitute for learn­ set against the confining restraints of to Marx' is impossible. Chess play has second edition, they will include more ing the particular laws, principles, prac­ contemporary bourgeois America. its own 'laws,' its own 'principles."' complete footnoting. Also useful would tices, operation or whatever of the spe­ be an index or, at least, a fuller table In their own way, the two protagon­ cific area of work one is engaged in, To put this in a modern context: of contents. ists view themselves as opponents of whether it be physics, painting, mili­ Contrary to the Maoist press, there is (Order from Merit Publishers, 873 the system. The movie is an attempt tary affairs- or chess. Trotsky writes: no way to play better ping pong or Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003. to show why the hippie drop-out mode "Marxism may be applied with the grow bigger watermelons "according to $1.95. Ask for Merit's catalog.) of protest is inadequate and futile. The greatest success even to the history of Mao." hippie commune they pass through on chess. But it is not possible to learn how The selections which make up this • • • their journey may be very nice in some to play chess in a Marxist way. With book were written in the early 1920s. Easy Rider, starring Peter Fonda and ways, but we are informed shortly after the aid of Marxism we can establish Therefore a number of the personages Dennis Hopper, has been causing a lot they arrive that most of the original that there once was an old Oblomovist and events referred to will not be fa- of controversy among radicals. In members of the farming commune have brief, the plot is basically a motorcycle left because of the inability of the semi­ odyssey from California to Louisiana arid land to support the whole colony. by two hippie-type characters- Fonda Hopper and Fonda themselves are Panther H.Q. attacked is emblazoned with an American flag blasted off the road by a couple of on the back of his black leather jacket Southern crackers filled with the intol­ and wears a red, white and blue striped erance of hateful politics. Moral: It is • helmet; Hopper is dressed as a fron­ not sufficient to just change yourself tiersman. by doing your own thing because the 1n Philo. frame-up raid The symbolism in obvious. Hopper system is designed to force you back keeps referring to Fonda as "Captain in line. By PEARL CHERTOV At 10:30 that night, Lt. George Fencl America" (N. B. for the uninitiated: a -MALACHI CONSTANT PHILADELPHIA- The FBI and the and a squad of his men from the Civil plainclothes Civil Disobedience Squad Disobedience unit, the local spiffy-suited, of the Philadelphia police raided the elite political police, apprehended five Black Panther Party headquarters here Panthers at gunpoint outside Black New issue of review brings Sept. 23 and arrested six party leaders, Panther Party headquarters at 1928 bringing preposterous frameup charges Columbia Avenue. Fencl and his men against two. then went across the street and arrested The morning of Sept. 23, three FBI Reggie Schell. study of Mao and Stalin agents entered a house in the Straw­ While the Panthers were being berry Mansion ghetto area for the al­ searched, the police smashed down a leged purpose of looking for a sus­ door to the headquarters, confiscated Did Mao Tse-tung break from the tions of the Kennedy, Johnson and pect in a Philadelphia bank robbery. the Panthers' mimeograph machine, pe­ foreign policies of the Kremlin when Nixon administrations. Author Dick It is purely coincidental, the FBI would titions containing 10,000 signatures for he led the Chinese revolution to victory Roberts, writer on economic develop­ have us believe, that this house is the decentralization of the police and the after World War II? Those who have ments for The Militant, shows why these residence of the sister of Reggie Schell, flies on their breakfast program for become familiar with the basically re­ policies inevitably led to the recession­ Defense Captain of the Philadelphia children. They ransacked the office and formist character of Stalin's theories ary course Nixon is now following. Black Panther Party. left it in a shambles. of "peaceful coexistence" and socialism "Sociology and Historical Material­ The FBI didn't find any suspect, but Branch Secretary Clarence Peterson, in one country" will recognize the sig­ ism" by George Novack poses three new after searching the house one agent Lieutenant of Finance Rene Johnson, nificance of the question. questions and answers in Novack's ex­ said he discovered an M-14 rifle, which West Cook and Craig Williams, Black Beginning in the Stalin era, Commu­ plication and development of Marxist he immediately identified as stolen from Panther candidate for Philadelphia City nist Parties around the world dis­ philosophy: What are the main arenas the Camp Lejeune, N.C., marine base Council, were all released without couraged revolutionary movements and of investigation of the science of so­ in July 1968. charges the next morning. promoted policies of political collabora­ ciology? What is the contribution of Defense Captain Schell was charged tion with the national bourgeoisie. historical materialism to sociology? Large-Format Paperback Books with possession of stolen government If those were Mao's policies, how And most interestingly, what is the From Merit Publishers property (the M-14 rifle, allegedly could he take state power? The featured class character of sociology? Produced in thia format to keep prices down, found at his sister's house, where he article in the new International Socialist The September-October ISR is avail­ thne booka have pages, 8 1/2 X 11 inches, is not a resident), which carries a max­ containing 2 1/2 to 3 times as many words Review offers a carefully documented able for 50 cents from 873 Broadway, imum sentence of 10 years. Also held aa thoae of the average book. answer to the question. Written by ISR New York, N.Y. 10003. A full year was Rollando Montae Hearn, Panther editor Tom Kerry, "A Mao-Stalin Rift: subscription of six issues is $2.50. Leon Trotsky, The Man and His Breakfast Coordinator, on a bench war­ Myth or Fact?" examines for the first Work rant for contempt of court, allegedly be­ time from a Marxist standpoint the fa­ cause he did not show up in court Reminiscences and appraisals by 18 writers mous U.S. State Department White Pa­ 12 8 pages, illustrated $2.45 several years ago. Hearn's "crime," Next Weal: says a Panther statement, "was putting pers on China, as well as pertinent Revolt in France Maoist texts. Special feature into practice the theory that the Minis­ . WOMEN'S UBERATION AND Reports and analyses of the Mty-June The new ISR also contains these ar­ ter of Defense has instituted, that all THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION 1968 events. should eat." ticles of interest to revolutionary social­ 168 pages, illustrated $1.95 By George Novack The Panthers told The Militant ·that ists: A comprehensive historical review Marxist Essays in American they desperately need funds to replace "Palestinian Liberation and Israel," and theoretical analysis of the History the wrecked and stolen office equipment an article-length review of two impor­ stages in the development of the 128 pages $2.45 and to repair their ransacked headquar­ tant recent books on the Middle East movement for women's liberation Writings of Leon Trotsky ters. Funds may be sent to 1928 W. by Peter Buch. He pays particular at­ over the past 200 years. (1939-40) Columbia Ave., Philadelphia 19121. tention to the military history and the A landmark article by one of the 128 P•l"ea, illustrated $2.45 The Panthers observed that the raid role of the UN in the Mideast crisis. outstanding socialist scholars in the Merit Publiahera, 873 Broadway occurred only one week after they suc­ "The Keynesian Record: U. S. Eco­ New York, N.Y. 10003 United States. Write fot free catalol"ue cessfully qualified two candidates for nomic Policies in the Sixties," a close city council for the November election. look at fiscal and monetary machina- Page 6 THE MILITANT Friday, Oct. 10, 1969

Background analysis American

•1ntervent1on •

in Laos

By DICK ROBERTS While the Nixon administration is making a pretense of de-escalating the Liberation News Service photo war in South Vietnam, it has been in­ Pathet Lao guerrillas entrenched in jungle grass tensifying the U.S. attack on neighbor­ ing Laos. "In a series of secret military opera­ eign commitments was already investi­ sections of the trail have increased From Vientiane on Sept. 22, Sou­ tions in the last three weeks," the New gating. greatly in the last two weeks, the vanna Phouma issued an evasive state­ York Times reported Sept. 18, "Amer­ "We have been at war in Laos for sources said," according to the Sept. ment attempting to cover Nixon's es­ ican-backed troops have seized two years and it is time the American peo­ 18, 1969, New York Times. "They said calation of the U.S. attack on the Pathet strategic areas of Laos long held by ple knew more of the facts," Symington as many as 500 sorties a day were Lao. pro-Communist forces.... stated. being flown over Laos, and that the In 1952 and 1953, the Pathet Lao "Well-informed sources today said Just how many facts will be in the increase in bombing in Laos was part was directly aided in the battlefield by that the successes were the result of hands of the American people when of the reason for the lull in the air Vietminh divisions, and it greatly ex­ fully integrated American-Laotian mili­ Symington's subcommittee gets through war in South Vietnam." panded the region it governed. When tary planning and the most intense investigating is another question. The Washington's real objective in Laos the Geneva conference assembled in American bombing ever seen in truth of the matter is that Washington is to devastate the region long held 1954 to pick up the pieces of the French Laos.... has been deeply involved in Laos for by the Pathet Lao. Escalation of the collapse at Dienbienphu, Malcolm Sal­ "[These sources] confirmed that U.S a long time, and this is well-known to ground and air war in Laos is an mon, an Australian correspondent, planes- of Air America, Continental Symington and the other members of extension of the attack on Vietnam to sympathetic to the anti-imperialist Air Services and the U.S. Air Force­ the Senate Foreign Relations Commit­ another country and another enemy forces, calculates that: were flying reinforcements, supplies and tee. of U.S. imperialism. But the Pathet "The Pathet Lao resistance forces held arms to advanced areas, while Amer­ For instance, in the sensational, na­ Lao isn't be any means a new enemy. bases covering about one-half of Lao­ ican Army officers and agents of the tionally publicized Senate Foreign Re­ Washington's hostility to it goes back tian territory and about one-third of Central Intelligence Agency were advis­ lations Committee hearings on Viet­ to the early 1950s and the crumbling the population. They held firm control ing local commanders. nam, in January and February 1966, of French colonial rule in Indochina. of the two northern provinces of Phong "So far, there has been at least one AID Administrator David E. Bell testi­ The Laotian People's United Front Saly and Sam Neua and of the confirmed American battle death in fied that "there are American advisers [Pathet Lao] was formed in 1950, when southern province of Attopeu against Laos. It occurred last week when an working in each of the provinces of independence forces in Laos split over the South Vietnam border. Besides these American CIA agent was killed by gun­ Laos ...." Bell asked for and got $60 the question of the terms of their rela­ main bases, there were smaller ones in fire at an advanced post." million to support a "rural development tion to France. France had granted mountainous areas in all other prov­ The same day this dispatch was pre­ program" (the language of"pacification" Laos a semi-independent constitutional inces. French military strength- and pared in Vientiane, the U.S. Senate differs little from one CIA enterprise monarchy with the promise of freedom Royal authority-was in effect restrict­ passed- by a remarkable 86 to 0- to the next). for all political parties. ed to the cities and plains." (Focus an amendment to the military appro­ In fact, on a per capita basis, Laos Some of the forces which had suc­ on Indochina, Hanoi, 1961.) priations bill, the words of which ap­ has received more U.S. AID money cessively resisted Vichy-French, Japan­ But like their comrades-at-arms in peared to prohibit the use of U.S. than any other nation-$528,300,000 ese and Chinese occupation during the the Vietminh, the Pathet Lao made forces in combat in support of local between 1946 and 1968 (Congressional war, and had fought the French once heavy concessions at Geneva. Soupha­ forces in Laos and Thailand. Record, March 12, 1969, p. H 1620). again after the war, returned from exile nouvong accepted an agreement in re­ Even before they voted on it, how­ Most of that is for military purposes. to participate in the new government. ality dooming the country to future years ever, the senators were read a Penta­ Northern Laos has been murderous­ They were led by Prince Souvanna of civil war: The Pathet Lao pulled gon memorandum stating that their bill ly bombed since the beginning of the Phouma, who today, after a number back its forces to the two northern prov­ "would have no impact on the use of escalated war in Vietnam. This is the of governmental reversals, still rules inces, agreed to the formation of a coali­ funds for the support of U.S. forces region held by the Pathet Lao (they in Vientiane. tion government following "free elec­ in Laos and Thailand." In so many have governed it since 1953) that is A section of the resistance forces, how­ tions," and promised to dissolve its guer­ words, the Pentagon explicitly told the supposed to be part of the "Ho Chi ever, under the leadership of Souvanna rillas into the new government army. senators that their law would be Minh Trail" which North Vietnamese Phouma's half-brother, Prince Soupha­ What was quite differentfrom the situa­ violated. "infiltrators" follow en route to "sub­ nouvong, refused to enter the pro­ tion in Vietnam, however, was that the Coming on top of this affront, the verting" South Vietnam. French Vientiane regime. Souphanou­ post-Geneva government in Vientiane New York Times dispatch, undoubted­ On Aug. 30, 1966, Senator J. W. Ful­ vong had led the Laotian guerrilla was far from being the superloyal hand­ ly "leaked" by military sources in Laos, bright, Foreign Relations Committee forces during the resistance, and he picked CIA regime of a Ngo Dinh Diem. was too much to take. Senator John chairman, told the Senate, "More than threw his lot in with the Vietminh, the At this time, Souvanna Phouma was a Sherman Cooper, sponsor of the Sen­ 1.500 bombing and reconnaissance Vietnamese independence force, and es­ "neutralist"- of the type so highly prized ate amendment, demanded an investi­ missions are made each week from tablished an independent government in in Moscow and Peking in the late Stalin gation. On Sept. 19, Senator Stuart bases in Thailand into North Vietnam Northern Laos. From its birth, con­ and Khrushchev era-who actually fa­ Symington revealed that the Senate and the Communist-controlled corridor sequently, the Pathet Lao has been vored forming a coalition government Foreign Relations subcommittee on for- in Laos." linked to the Vietnamese revolution. with the Pathet Lao. Stanley Karnow, Washington Post The Laotian struggle since 1950 has The next decade of Laotian history foreign service reporter, wrote from seen three periods of civil war between was to be dominated above everything A NEW PAMPHLET Bangkok Aug. 19, 1966, "In Lopburi various government combinations and else by Washington's frantic search for Province ... green-bereted U.S. Spe­ the Pathet Lao: from the origin of the a Diem type in Laos; the establishing LEON TROTSKY cial Forces instructors are setting up Pathet Lao in 1950 to the Geneva Ac­ of his regime when they found one- a camps to train Thai guerrillas, possibly cords of 1954; from the collapse of military man named Phoumi Nosavan; ON· THE for harassment of the Ho Chi Minh the Geneva treaty in 1958 to the second and the civil war which erupted when Trail in Laos." Geneva Accords of 1962; and from the CIA-Nosavan government came to LABOR PARTY There is abundant testimony that the the collapse of these truce terms to the power for a period. bombing of North Vietnam, let alone present. This caused two major international IN THE U.S. Laos, made practically no dent on In this period, Souvanna Phouma crises, in 1958-59 and 1961-62, both North Vietnamese troop and supply has moved steadily toward collabora­ of which threatened to pit Washington ti()~ movements to South Vietnam. But when tion with imperialism. Once favoring directly against Moscow in world war. Merlt PU.. en the bombing of North Vietnam was a Popular Front type coalition with the Both times Washington discussed send­ 873 Broadwtly stopped, the bombing of Laos was Pathet Lao, he now leads the govern­ ing U.S. troops into battle against the New York, N.Y. 10003 stepped up, under the old pretense. ment whose U. S.-"advised" armies are Pathet Lao. "U.S. B-52 strikes along the Laotian attempting to suppress the revolution. [To be continued] Page 7 Friday, Oct. 10, 1969 THE MILITANT

Socialists and the antiwar movement

By GUS HOROWITZ Introduction On Labor DayweekendinNewYork, the Socialist Workers Party held its national convention. One of the cen­ tral points on the agenda was a res­ olution assessing developments within the movement against the Vietnam war and the role of the SWP within that New York antiwar demonstrators. movement. corned to participate on the ground floor. The next stage of struggle in the anti­ Discussion on the resolution was in­ movement did not emerge fully devel­ And finally, the nature of the action was war movement took place over these itiated with a report by Gus Horowitz, oped. It was won in struggle, in large questions. a member of the Party's national com­ part due to the efforts of the revolution­ that of a militant, mass demonstration. mittee and its representative to the ary party. In this room are seated It was independent and did not support In 1965, hundreds of teach-ins and New Mobilization Committee to End not only organizers, builders, activists any capitalist politicians. antiwar demonstrations occured allover the War in Vietnam and participants in the antiwar move­ the country. They were organized pri­ Gus Horowitz's report offers an out­ ment, but also-and most important­ The social democrats and sections of marily by ad hoc, nonexclusive, campus line of the political development of the its conscious political leadership. the old peace movement waged a bitter Committees to End the War In Vietnam antiwar movement. We present it here At each stage in the development of struggle against that march on Wash­ ( CEWVs ). High points included a na­ with the thought that it will illuminate the antiwar movement, it has required ington. They exerted all the pressure tional teach-in in Washington which was why and how the antiwar movement the conscious intervention of the revolu­ they could to tone down its political broadcast to 100,000 students on more has been able to make such an enor­ tionary party to win a coursethatwould line and impose the old exclusionary than 100 campuses; a 34-hour mara­ mous impact on U. S. policy- and, indeed deal blows to the imperialists. anticommunist norms. They demanded thon teach-in in Berkeley, attended by equally important, what a vital con­ Although we are small in numbers, complete bureaucratic control over the 15,000; and local demonstrations on tribution a revolutionary ~rxistforce our conscious leadership has been re­ action and, failing to achieve that, they the International Days of Protest in like the SWP can make to the develop­ quired to move the struggle forward, even tried to have it called off. On the October, which involved many tens of ment of such a movement. to project each succeeding series of ac­ eve of the demonstration they issued a thousands. * * * tions and to drive back threats to anti­ public statement denouncing it. A new challenge was thus posed to all imperialist mass action as the axis of But the march occured. Some 20,000 The history of the antiwar movement tendencies in the antiwar movement. the struggle. came to Washington- more than twice has been not only one of demonstra­ How would they orient to these action It is this essential continuity of our as many as had participated in any of tions, teach-ins, rallies and hundreds committees to end the war? This really line and the struggles for it that this the old peace demonstrations -which of other actions, it has also been a boiled down to the root questions of report will undertake to describe. proved the feasibility of organizing mili­ history of continual and turbulent in­ independent mass action and with­ To see how much has been accom­ tant mass actions against the war. ternal struggle over political line-over drawal. plished, we need only contrast the pre­ It was this demonstration that es­ how and for what purpose to mobilize From the frrst, the SWP and YSA sent movement against the Vietnam war tablished many of the basic political the mass sentiment against the war in helped to build these CEWVs in a totally to the old peace movement of the early characteristics of the then new antiwar Vietnam. nonsectarian way. We sought to bring 1960s. The Militant, in April 1963, de­ movement that remain to this day: non­ The Communist Party and the lib­ together all political tendencies opposed scribed a typical Easter peace march exclusion; self-determination; and mass erals have persistently tried to draw to the war around the single issue of in Chicago, where a few students - action. the antiwar movement into class-colla­ action in the streets. At the same time, among them, YSAers-carried signs The SWP and YSA played a large borationist politics, to use it as a means we argued for immediate withdrawal against the war in Vietnam: part in the struggle for the march on of pressure within the Democratic party. and were able to convince many anti­ "Some self-appointed 'officials' tried Washington. The issue was settled, not At the same time, various pacifists and simply in meetings between SDS and war committees of this perspective. This ultralefts have tried to divert the move­ to have these signs removed. But the the cold-war social democrats, but in left wing formed the backbone of the ment into ineffectual acts of individual Northwestern students insisted on carry­ battle-in actually building the march antiwar movement. witness and small adventurist actions ing them. One argued, 'If you are not on the basis on which it had been con­ The leadership of SDS drew back which would isolate it from masses of against the Vietnam war, you are not ceived. from the antiwar movement almost im­ people. for peace.' We recognized that this demonstration mediately after the successful march on In contrast, theSocialistWorkersParty "A leaflet distributed by the Young So­ was a test. It was a means of establish­ Washington. And that has remained has consistently fought for massive dem­ cialist Alliance called for nonexclusive ing the new antiwar movement along the policy of SDS nationally to this onstrations, politically independent of picket lines. It also explained the so­ the lines that we had fought for earlier. day. Needless to say, SDS turned its the ruling class, which could express cialist position that capitalism causes And so we plunged into the work of back on the CEWVs and counterposed the sentiment of the tens of millions of war." insuring its success. itself and its line to them. people who are opposed to the war. That was a peace movement in which The YSA endorsed the march. We The Maoist Progressive Labor Party Within the broader antiwar movement we had to fight to carry signs against sent speakers touring the country to was, in its own way, equally sectarian. we have built the militant left wing, the shooting war in Vietnam. And, ex­ build it and distributed literature on a Wielding control over a group called centered on the demand for immediate cluded from the meetings which far wider scale than had ever been done the May 2nd Committee, PL proclaimed and unconditional withdrawal of all planned the demonstrations, we had before. We took the lead- much more it to be the exclusive agency through U.S. troops from Vietnam. to argue for political nonexclusion by so than SDS itself-in establishing non­ which all antiwar actions must be chan­ Although the antiwar movement has distributing leaflets to the demonstra­ exclusive, ad hoc committees to build neled. This factional, ultimatistic policy suffered many temporary setbacks in tors. the march, to explain why it was im­ did not work. Isolated from the real, its history, the policy we projected has The new antiwar movement was born portant, and to argue for the policy rapidly growing antiwar movement, PL been able to win decisive influence over in a break with the policy of the old of self-determination for the Vietnamese. dissolved the May 2nd Committee to the long run. Opposing lines have been peace movement. This was most evident By getting the ball rolling, by con­ enter SDS, an SDS that had also aban­ strong on occasion, but never strong in the first national demonstration vincing the activists, it was assured that doned the struggle against the war. enough to divert the antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam, the April the march would occur. That was how Shake-ups occured in the old peace permanently from its independent axis 17, 1965, mass march on Washington the issue was ultimately decided. So movement. These groups faced the alter­ of mass action. called by SDS. In calling the march, that when Bayard Rustin, the social native of cooperating with the CEWVs The basic character of the antiwar a section of the SDS leadership broke democrat, demanded that SDS call off or standing aloof and trying to orga­ with the League for Industrial Democra­ the march, they had to answer in effect: nize the old-style peace actions, a perspec­ A new pamphlet cy, a social-democratic relic which at "We can't. It has wide support. The tive that was none too promising, given that time was the official parent organi­ Trotskyists are going ahead and build­ the temper of the new militants. Under Revolutionary Analysis, zation of SDS. ing it. And they'll carry it off without pressure of the mass actions, many Strategy and Tactics The march was not for "peace" in the us." groups in the old peace movement felt abstract; rather, it was directed against Following the march on Washington, Today compelled to align themselves with the the specific war in Vietnam. In a break two aspects of the present antiwar move­ new antiwar committees. This laid the with cold-war liberalism, it characterized ment remained to be established: ( 1) basis for the broad, mass-action coali­ 50 cents the Vietnam war as a civil war and a national coalition to coordinate the tions that were to develop later. called for self-determination for the Viet­ much more massive actions that were Merit Pub Iishers namese people. The march was orga­ to come; (2) popularization of the de­ The Communist Party's basic linewas essentially the same then as it is today. 873 Broadway New York, N.Y. 10003 nized on a nonexclusionary basis; in mand for immediate withdrawal of U.S. particular, the SWP and YSA were wei- troops from Vietnam. (Continued on page 8) Page 8 THE MILITANT Friday, Oct.lO, 1969

• • • 'multi-issue' vs. withdrawal fi

(Continued from page 7) with our aid and support, took the fight The CP has supported the mass actions to the ranks of the antiwar movement only intermittently and always with the and waged an intensive and successful intent of using them as a means to educational campaign. By the March draw antiwar activists into capitalist demonstrations, the central demand was electoral politics. To avoid collision with "Bring the Gis Home Now," and that liberal capitalist politicians, the CP has been the norm ever since. Most of pushed a negotiations line and opposed the original opponents of withdrawal withdrawal. The CP persistently counter­ have in the meantime changed their posed a "respectable," multi-issue pro­ position. gram of social reform and community The NCC's political perspective, set electoral organizing to nationally co­ by the pro-CP elements in its leader­ ordinated antiwar demonstrations. ship, was not geared to organizing the The mass action and withdrawal per­ March mass action. So we threw forces spective of many CEWVs hampered the into that task as well. Travelers toured CP's ability to implement its popular­ the country to build the action. Literature front line. Accordingly, the CP took was published in quantity. In every a hostile and sectarian attitude to the city the militant CEWVs, mostly student antiwar committees and worked mainly based, spearheaded the action. These through the old, "broader" peace groups CEWVs eventually became a key ingre­ which supported negotiations. Among dient in the formation of the Student the students, they tried unsuccessfully to Mobilization Committee. Then, as now, counterpose the DuBois Clubs to the the militant, withdrawal-based youth sec­ A FIRST. Scene at first national mass demonstration in Washington CEWVs. tion of the antiwar movement has been sponsored by SDS in April 1965. Immediately afterward SDS threw The struggle between these contending the decisive factor in pushing the other in towel on building antiwar movement. political lines reached its first climax sections of the movement along. at the convention of the National Co­ Thanks to this effort, the NCC was The Student Mobilization Committee crush the national liberation struggle ordinating Committee to End the War unable to divert the whole movement was formed soon after- at a conference in South Vietnam and deal a major in Vietnam (NCC) attended by 1,500 away from militant mass action. Al­ which was to be the second round in setback to the socialist revolution in in November 1965. There the CP and though some antiwar committees de­ the series of confrontations between the southeast Asia. SWP positions met in head-on collision, stroyed themselves trying to carry out SWP and CP in the antiwar movement. For the imperialists to withdraw from the first of a series of national political the NCC line, others switched their It was initially a narrow conference Vietnam in defeat would contradict this encounters which were decisive in deter­ course. The majority of the antiwar called and controlled top to bottom strategic goal. The struggle of the Viet­ mining the future course of the antiwar movement was won to the line we fought by the CP. But we had won enough namese has already given greatimpetus movement and in helping to change for. support for our line to be able to turn to revolutionary developments in other the relationship of forces on the left. But the antiwar movement lost pre­ it around and form a united front of countries. A definitive revolutionary vic­ At the NCC conference, the central cious time because the first attempt at students, based on the withdrawal tory would magnify that impact many­ battle over mass action and withdrawal forming a national coalition was demand. fold. took an organizational form. We argued aborted. A gap existed between the ob­ With that, the line we had fought for But two factors have caused the Amer­ for a national organization of CEWVs jective possibilities of the antiwar strug­ at the NCC convention a year before ican ruling class to adjust its tactics. based around the withdrawal demand, to gle and the formal organization needed had won out. The relationship of forces The first is the fact that the U.S. has be a part of a broader coalition to or­ for it. It was to be a year before the in the antiwar movement had been re­ so far been unable to win an outright ganize natiqnal mass actions. The sup­ next major actio,n could be mounted versed. military victory in Vietnam despite a porters of negotiations, with the CP in on April 15, 1967. But this action was The political struggles of 1965-1966 massive effort. Though imperialism has the lead, tried to block this perspective. to be a qualitative lead forward. were necessary to organize the great by no means been totally defeated, its We were in a minority. The relationship While the N CC declined in 1966, the mass demonstrations of 1967 and 1968. inability to win a victory is in itself of forces was still unfavorable, and it process of building antiwar actions led On April 15, 1967, a half-million peo­ a tremendous setback. wasn't until a year later that these orga­ to the creation of broad-based, local ple marched in the streets of New York The second factor compelling a tactical nizational forms would arise. antiwar coalitions on a fairly permanent and San Francisco. On Oct. 21, 1967, shift by the U.S. ruling class is the But the vigorous struggle we waged basis. The most important of these was 150,000 marched on Washington in a growth of the worldwide opposition to was crucial in preventing the CP'smulti­ the New York Fifth Avenue Vietnam direct political confrontation with John­ the war, in particular the mounting pro­ issue, antiwithdrawalline from domina­ Peace Parade Committee, which brought son's war policy. And on April 26, tests in the U.S. itself. For to carry on ting the broad movement, even though hundreds of organizations together for 1968, the SMC organized a remarkably the war in Vietnam, the American ruling they held decisive influence over the the demonstrations it organized. successful nationwide student strike. With class needs social peace at home. Un­ NCC's apparatus. Under pressureofthe The Parade Committee was central to close to a million participants it was able to win wide support for the war, political battle, the CP was reluctant uniting the forces that eventually formed larger than any of the student antiwar it needs at the very least a disoriented to try and block a call for the next mass the new national antiwar coalition. strikes of the 1930s. The following day, and disarmed opposition. action. A second International Days of Smaller demonstrations in August and mass demonstrations were held in cities For this reason, the mass mobiliza­ Protest was set for March 1966. In these November 1966 set the stage for the all over the country, thelargest-inNew tions strike blows at the ability of the demonstrations the battle was joined conference which called the huge April York-some 200,000 strong. ruling class to wage the war. The capi­ once again. 15 demonstrations in New York and These historic actions illustrate the talists face the threat of an intolerable The withdrawal-baaed, NCC conven­ San Francisco and formed what was power of the tactic of the united front growth of class conflict as the mood tion minority formed a caucus and pub­ to become the National Mobilization and its particular application in the form of protest and opposition spills over lished the Bring the Troops Home Now Committee, the national antiwar coali­ of the antiwar coalitions. No single and exacerbates social tensions on all Newsletter. This grouping of CEWVs, tion for the next period. group acting alone could have organized fronts. such large and militant demonstrations. In 1968, Washington responded to this In those united fronts, the left wing, threat with a major diplomatic and pro­ the SMC, was the best builder and the paganda offensive. militant spearhead of the actions. First, the talks were set up in Paris. These actions also helped solidify the Washington's aim in these negotiations international antiwar movement, which is at minimum a Korea-type settlement also developed independently of the that would mean the derailment of the Stalinist and social democratic parties Vietnamese revolution. As we know, and to the left of them. This had been the Paris talks did not signal a signifi­ a key factor in developing a renewed cant slowdown of the war or a genuine spirit of internationalism, militancy and move towards peace. While there was a anticapitalist consciousness, especially pause in the bombing of the North, the among the youth. This shakeup and re­ same high level of bombing continues, alignment of class forces has in turn all of it now concentrated in the South. opened expanded opportunities for Orders to the Pentagon called for bring­ building the Fourth International. ing maximum military pressure on the liberation fighters, and the level of fight­ But the struggle for our antiwar line ing stays high as they try to force the was far from over. The most recent Vietnamese to capitulate. period has seen the continuation of the At the same time a slick propaganda struggle- in slightly different form and offensive was mounted to dissipate the under slightly different conditions, but antiwar sentiment of the American mass­ showing the same basic characteristics. es. The Paris talks and the pause in the These struggles arose out of the need bombing of the North were demago­ for the antiwar movement to mount gically portrayed as steps towards a an effective response to the tactical ma­ speedy peace. The token troop with­ A BIT ABSTRACT. 1963 Easter Peace Walk in New York focused neuvers of the ruling class. drawals are just the latest such ma­ on such themes as inhumanity of war. Demonstrators with placards American imperialism faces a dilemma neuver. opposing ongoing war in Vietnam had to fight for right to join in Vietnam. Its central strategic objec­ The hated President Johnson withdrew the walk. tives remain the same. It still aims to as a candidate for reelection. Nixon, Friday, Oct. l 0, 1969 THE MILITANT Page 9

portraying himself as an alternative, won a temporary respite from the wrath of millions of people. This was all com­ pounded in 1968, when the McCarthy campaign was mounted with the stated goal of getting the antiwar movement off the streets. But although the mass antiwar senti­ ment was temporarily diverted and con­ fused, the ruling class had also paid a price. All the talk about deescalation raised the anticipation and desire of the masses of people for a quick end to the war. Antiwar sentiment grew consi­ derably. It was only a matter of time before there would be another wave of indignation and hundreds of thousands would once again take to the streets and tear away the facade of lie and illusion. The propaganda maneuvers of the ruling class posed another major test for all tendencies in the antiwar move­ ment. How to respond? American impe­ rialism was in deep trouble, and the 1969: European students gather in Brussels to protest Vietnam war situation cried out for keeping on the course that had put it there. The importance of, and potential for, The class collaborationists, full of il­ most important-that is what we were In recent months the ultralefts have lusions about the Paris talks, abandoned able to carry out in action. had less influence, but they continue to reaching Gis is something we have long pose a problem for the antiwar move­ mass action. They turned to the elec­ The SWP's approach to the 1968 elec­ emphasized. We pointed to the power­ ment. Some of them have even degene­ tions, with the aim of using their in­ tions differed from the class collabora­ ful social weight that the G Is would fluence in the antiwar movement to drum tionists in two important ways. rated to the extent of introducing hooli­ bring into the antiwar movement- our up support for McCarthy and the pro­ First, we ran our own candldates. We gan methods into the movement. The basic Marxist approach has always capitalist peace candidates. did not abandon the field to the pro­ low point was reached in New York stressed reaching the socially decisive As a result of these defections, many capitalist candidates, but counterposed when a small group was able to take sectors of society. of the local antiwar coalitions tended our revolutionary socialist program to over the rally platform on Aug. 9. In 1965, we published our pamphlet to fall apart. On a national level, Na­ them. By waging an all-out campaign The key to combating ultraleft ad­ on the Bring the Troops Home Move­ tional Mobe lost its broad coalition effort, we were able to win considerable ventures lies in the scope of the ac­ ment of World War II. In 1966, we character. The old Mobe's apparatus support from antiwar militants. tions themselves. In the recent past went on a campaign to defend the Fort came to be dominated by frustrated But that was only one side of our smaller antiwar mobilizations gave the Hood Three and publicize the case to ultralefts who saw no future in mass approach. Our policy in the antiwar hardened ultralefts the opportunity to the movement. In 1967, defense of action. And in the spring of 1968, the movement was completely nonsectarian. exert disproportionate influence over im­ Howard Petrick was an important Communist Party and pacifists in the The supporters of Halstead and Boutelle patient and inexperienced activists. Now, model in the fight for GI rights. Student Mobilization Committee split continued building demonstrations dur­ however, the possibility exists to mo­ In 1968 and 1969, the vindication of from the organization, in retreat from ing the election period. We did not make bilize hundreds of thousands. A political our line was apparent in the wide cir­ mass antiwar action. the mistake of withdrawing from the line geared to involve such numbers of culation of GI papers, the big jump In contrast to every other political antiwar movement in the illusion that people will be the single greatest deter­ in G I participation in the demonstra­ tendency, the SWP and YSA put for­ we could then allot added forces to rent to isolated adventures. They tend tions, and in the unprecedented fights ward a line that encouraged the in­ make greater gains for our campaign. to become simply lost in the crowd. for GI rights, particularly those of Gis dependence of the antiwar movement On the contrary- revolutionaries al­ In addition, we must wage an educa­ United at Fts. Jackson and Bragg. from the capitalist parties in the elec­ ways gain when the mass movement tional campaign in the antiwar move­ It is not surprising that the political tions. It was a line designed to main­ is built effectively. ment to explain the need for preventing differences that exist in the antiwar move­ tain the perspective of reaching out and One of the precedents that we had hooligan disruption of the demonstra­ ment extend to its G I sector. Most other drawing larger numbers into action. fought for previously- in particular, tions. It will then be possible to orga­ tendencies project a line which would It was designed to maintain the posi­ during the 1966 elections- was that the nize adequate marshalling to insure that be ineffective or lead to defeats. Such tion of immediate withdrawal a.nd to antiwar movement, as a movement, the decisions of the antiwar coalitions proposals include individual "acts of puncture the illusions about the Paris should not get involved in electoral are carried out. conscience," such as draft resistance or talks. And it was designed to lay the politics, but should rather continue to This is particularly important because desertion; underground organizing; and groundwork for building even larger unite everyone possible, regardless of of the Gis. Once Washington launched GI union organizing which emphasizes mass mobilizations than those which divergent political views, for antiwar its propaganda offensive, with its con­ issues other that the war in Vietnam. had already occurred. actions during the election periods. That tinual talk of peace, the average GI The threefold approach to GI work That is what we argued for, and- precedent made it exceedingly difficult naturally questioned the need to continue which we have supported has proved for the class collaborationists to scuttle to risk his life, expecially in a war most effective. It may be summarized: the antiwar movement in 1968. which he was most likely opposed to 1) for collective action, rather than iso­ And we stuck to that policy. Even or had serious doubts about. As a lated individual acts of conscience; 2) in those antiwar organizations where result, there has been a big increase emphasis on the legal rights of Gis as our campaign had considerable support, in G I antiwar activity, and this will citizen-soldiers; 3) opposition to the Viet­ we resisted attempts to put them on be a permanent feature of the antiwar nam war as the central issue of concern record for the Halstead-Boutelle cam­ movement from now on. (Continued on page 10) paign. There were many antiwar acti­ vists who did not agree with the pro­ gram of the SWP, but wanted to en­ gage in antiwar actions, as we did. It would have narrowed the scope of the antiwar movement to make agree­ ment with any full political program the basis for antiwar action. The antiwar movement did suffer a setback in the 1968 election period and immediately afterwards. But it was a temporary setback. The movement was not scuttled. A series of demonstrations­ even though they were generally smaller than before- continued the mass-action perspective that we had fought for. In that period ultraleftist adventurism also exerted considerable influence over many antiwar militants. Frustrated be­ cause the war continues despite the mass opposition to it, the ultralefts aim at shortcuts through the isolated acts and adventures of a few, which renders im­ possible the arduous but solely effective Veteran pacifist A. J. Muste, who path of winning over the masses of the died in 1967, played a key role people. The actions of the old National in developing coalition action Mobe, SDS and some smaller groups against the Vietnam war. tended to project this disorienting line. Antiwar movement has embraced many constituencies. Page 10 THE MILITANT Friday, Oct. 10, 1969

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(Continued from page 9) are a symbol of his coming dilemma. to Gls and around which they are util­ He wants out on the installment plan, izing their civil liberties. but the weekly installments are the lives The past period, to repeat, posed a of one or two hundred American sol- . major challenge to the antiwar move­ diers, and he cannot get away from the ment. To counter the maneuvers of the insistent question: Why? To what pur­ ruling class required the conscious lead­ pose? ership of the revolutionary party. We "The breaking point comes in politics were the ones who fought for continu­ as it came to Company A, and it is not ing on a course of effective action that far off." could mobilize masses in independent Finally, if there is one point that should be emphasized, it is the impor­ antiwar struggle. LETHAL The key to this fight was the Student tance of the Student Mobilization Com­ Mobilization Committee. It was the mili­ BoMB mittee. This fall, through its Nov. 14 tant, withdrawal-based, student wing of student strike, the SM C will be the cen­ the antiwar movement that backed the tral organizer of the student antiwar perspective of mass antiwar mobiliza­ upsurge that will surely take place. tions. The objective situation on the college As always, it took a political struggle, campuses has never been more favor­ and there was a major fight in the SMC able. Antiwar sentiment is no mere over this perspective. The CP and paci­ majority view. It is overwhelming. The fist section walked out. In so doing, wave of protests against ROTC and they tried to brand the SMC as an im­ campus complicity that shook the cam­ potent, paper organization, containing puses last spring are but a preview to no one besides the SWP and YSA. They the action this fall. were proven dead wrong. The same holds true in the high We had-and have-no interest in schools. All indications point to a paper organizations or in capturing Note to Nixon: Demonstration prior to LBJ abdication. highly favorable objective situation, one ourselves. To the contrary, our in which the SMC has already registered approach has always been one of build­ impressive gains. ing broad united fronts for mass action. The SM C seized the opportunity offered coalition was set up to organize it. One of the most important features Those who quit the SMC were splitting by April 5-6 to emerge as the authori­ The next day, an SMC conference called of the SMC's approach on the cam­ from this line, from what the SM C had tative national organizer of the antiwar for a student strike on Nov. 14, which puses will be its efforts to build united stood for all along, and from what it youth. In many local areas, the April can involve hundreds of thousands and fronts to wage the most effective and stands for now. 5-6 demonstrations also enabled us to build wide support for the march on militant struggles. This is particularly The needs of the antiwar movement rebuild the antiwar coalitions. This set Washington. important in offering an alternative to required the maintenance of the perspec­ the stage for calling the next national We must see the importance of the SDS' political line and methods of or­ tive of mass action. The SMC stood for demonstration, one with a potential of Nov. 15 demonstration in the context ganizing. that, and we backed it to the hilt. The being more massive than any previous of the overall political situation. Amer­ Last spring, SDS's sectarianism, ex­ SMC called for antiwar demonstrations one, at a time when that is of central ican imperialism is in deep trouble in clusion, ultraleft formulations and ad­ in August 1968, and October 1968, political importance. Vietnam. It hasn't been able to win. venturist tactics led to many a setback. and it initiated the conference that called All that was needed was the conference And its strategic goals make it shy But this fall, the faction-ridden SDS, the demonstrations on April 5 and 6, to call it and a new national coalition away from withdrawing in defeat. It continuing on its course of political de­ 1969. These demonstrations laid the to organize it. And that occured on hopes to force the Vietnamese to cap­ generation, will flnd it increasingly dif­ groundwork for remobilizing the en­ July 4 in Cleveland, when the national itulate in Paris. But that is a question­ ficult to win antiwar students to its in­ tire antiwar movement. antiwar conference called the Nov. 15 able proposition at best. And it needs sane adventures, and increasingly diffi­ Even though there were considerable march on Washington. time for that anyway. It needs time cult to organize anything at all. difficulties in convincing others to act Here again, the SWP and YSA played above all. The SM C has a unique opportunity in that period, we avoided any tempta­ a central role in insuring that the anti­ But the U.S. is running out of time. to win over, not only non-SDS antiwar tion to go it alone by substituting the war movement would take the next The crux of the matter is this: The activists, but also the many SDS mem­ vanguard of the struggle for the move­ necessary steps forward. It took a po­ strategic objectives of American imper­ bers who are fed up with the SDS na­ ment as a whole. We sought to flnd litical struggle to win the conference, ialism do not allow it to scale down tional offlce - either one. It can involve every conceivable way to involve other and it took a political struggle at the the fighting to any significant degree. them in the student strike, in Nov. 15, groups in united fronts for the mass conference to win the call to the demon­ Their Achilles heel is that as the war and in all related antiwar actions. actions. stration. continues, the death toll mounts. More Our perspective, in short, is one of The payoff came with the April 5-6 The key again was the SM C. The SM C and more people will see through their expanded and powerful mass antiwar demonstrations. took the call to the conference and pub­ lies and duplicity, be outraged and de­ action. The march on Washington on The second Tet offensive in Vietnam licized it far and wide. The SMC pushed mand a halt. Nov. 15 will deal another major blow and the high rate of battle casualties and prodded others to come along (and And now is the time that they can be to American imperialism's war in Viet­ began to destroy the illusion that the more than a few came, somewhat re­ brought to Washington to say, "No! nam. war was coming to an end. There was luctantly at first). The SMC made the Stop it! Bring all of the G Is home now!" Our role in the antiwar movement is a shift in mass consciousness. The April conference a representative gathering All indications, including the polls, a powerful example of what even a 5-6 demonstrations, organized by united of the antiwar movement with the author­ show that there is deep and growing small party can do in taking our rev­ fronts, were able to mobilize tens of ity to call the march on Washington. impatience with Nixon's war in Viet­ olutionary program and applying it in thousands across thecountry-100,000 After a thorough political debate, there nam. The demonstration Nov. 15 can life, in being able to guage accurately in New York alone-with a larger turn­ was a highly favorable response to the be both massive in size and devastating the objective situation and pose the next out of G Is than ever before. idea of Nov. 15, and a new national in its political impact. The antiwar necessary steps forward for the mass movement must set itself the task of movement. preventing American imperialism from In the process we have grown, and gaining the time for maneuver that it the struggle for the international social­ so desperately needs. ist revolution has taken steps forward. As the resolution before this conven­ The Nov. 15 demonstration must aim tion states: "Our central tasks in the to involve new sectors of the popula­ antiwar movement are to continue to tion. Last April 5-6, significant num­ build the mass mobilizations that are bers of Gls and high school students dealing hammer blows to American im­ demonstrated. Their numbers can be perialism and to recruit from the grow­ increased. Now, there are new oppor­ ing numbers that have begun to move tunities to draw in sections of the trade­ in a radical direction as a result." union and black and brown move­ ments. Every effort must be taken to A new book ------, make this potential a reality. Make no mistake about it. The main LEON TROTSKY spokesmen for the ruling class are wor­ The Man and His Work ried. Just listen to what James Reston had to say in his New York Times Reminiscences and Appraisals column Aug. 27, shortly after the pro­ By: Joseph Hensen, James P. Cannan, Natalia tests by the Gls of Company A who Sedov Trotsky, Jan van Heijenaort, Farrell Dobbs, refused to obey battle orders: li Fu-jen, Charles Cornell, John G. 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"They may not be typical, but they Friday, Oct. 10, 1969 THE MILITANT Page II Seattle blacks wage fight Hayward Chicanos for jobs in construction in school walkout By DEBBIE LEONARD project at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport. SEATTLE, Sept. 28- The fight for After arriving at the airport and wait­ By STEVE CHAINEY cialist Alliance who teaches at the Chic­ jobs for blacks in the construction in­ ing during a period of fruitless nego­ HAYWARD, Calif., Sept. 22-0ver ano Studies Department at Merritt Col­ dustry has spread to Seattle. Initiated tiations between protest spokesmen and 1,000 Hayward Chicanos from junior lege. by Tyree Scott, a young black con­ airport officials, the demonstrators, high through college level walked out At 3:00 p.m. everyone assembled for tractor, demonstrations began two now numbering over 400, proceeded of their classes promptly at 10:30 a.m. a three-mile march through the city, weeks ago at government construction through the construction ropes and Sept. 16, the day of the national Chic­ culminating at a Safeway store in the sites. went out onto the apron of the air­ ano walkout. heart of downtown Hayward. There Last Tuesday, 11 arrests were made port runway. Highway patrol cars by Many teachers and administrators they formed a massive, two-hour picket after two busloads of cops converged the dozen arrived from nowhere, and tried to keep the students from walking of Safeway, the chain that sells scab on demonstrators who were closing firefighting equipment was rolled onto out by such tactics as serving tacos grapes. The Safeway was completely down a large construction project at the runway and pointed at the demon­ in the cafeteria-for the first time­ shut down. the University of Washington. Tyree strators. or having a guest Mexican-American A significant aspect of the day's event Scott and Larry Gossett, the head of Suddenly, airport and Port of Seattle "tio-taco" speaker in their classrooms was the youthfulness of those who or­ the Alliance of Black Student Unions, officials arrived on the run. As jets that day. Some schools even declared ganized it and carried it out. were arrested and charged with "con­ began to back up behind the human the day a school holiday, hoping to spiracy to incite riot." barricade, these gentlemen had dis­ drain the political implications of the Over 200 attended a meeting in the covered that perhaps they had author­ walkout. Nun in St. Louis black community that night where it ity to shut down the construction site While there was no central leadership was decided to make a more decisive after all. The sites were ordered closed, to plan the walkout, the seeds had been move to close down the university site. and men began leaving the job. planted earlier during a visit by Corky fights expulsion Some 300 students and other suppor-. That night another meeting was held Gonzales, leader of the Chicano move­ '.!'< ters showed up for a second meeting in the black community, and two days ment in Denver. Each high school or ST. LOUIS-A Catholic nun, Sister at the university where they voted to were set aside for negotiations. As of junior high organized its own contin­ Cecilia Goldman, faces expulsion from join the action. this writing, the construction sites re­ gent of students who marched from the Maryknoll order for joining At 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, 250 main closed and negotiations continue. their schools and converged at a city ACTION, a St. Louis human rights demonstrators lined up at the university park where a rally was held. group, and participating in a "Black site. A formation of 300 cops with tear­ SEATTLE- In a statement being Among the speakers at the rally were Sunday" campaign aimed at exposing gas canisters and riot helmets stood passed out to unionists in the Seattle a representative of the United Farm racism in St. Louis churches. in formation across from them. With­ area, Tom Leonard, Socialist Workers Workers of California and Antonio Sister Cecilia has been declared "not in minutes, the university president or­ Party write-in candidate for mayor, Camejo, a member of the Young So- in good standing" by the Maryknoll dered construction stopped. calls for support to the struggle of Order of St. Dominic and steps are Demonstration leaders then decided blacks for more jobs in the construc­ being taken to expel her from the order. to take on the massive construction tion industry. Leonard denounces the A hearing is to be held in the Vatican. opposition of the Seattle Building and No funds have been provided for her Construction Trades Council to the to make the 9,000-mile trip for the black workers' demands and proposes hearing and she and her supporters that instead of opposing blacks the say they cannot afford the plane fare rank and file of the construction union to Rome. fight for a shorter W<:)rk week with no An Ad Hoc Committee to Secure a cut in pay to provide more jobs for Fair Hearing for Sister Cecilia has been black workers. set up to publicize this injustice and to demand that a fair and open hearing SEATTLE, Sept. 20-A demonstra­ be held in St. Louis. According to the tion in support of the struggle going on defense committee, the case involves sex in Northern Ireland was held here yes­ discrimination as well as a denial of terday. The size of the demonstration due process. A priest similarly charged was held down by a stiff rainfall, but would be entitled to some procedural it was able to draw significant atten­ rights. tion from workers on their way home The Ad Hoc Committee asks that let­ from work. The demonstration was ters and telegrams be sent to the Apos­ called by the Socialist Workers Party tolic Delegate to the U.S., Bishop Luigi and Young Socialist Alliance. Raismondi, and to Pope Paul VI. Send Last night Bill Massey of the Social­ copies of letters and telegrams, and ist Workers Party gave a talk on "Ire­ contributions to Fair Hearing, Box land in Revoir at the Militant Labor Photo by Bill Stephana 405, 30 Plaza Square, St. Louis, Mo. Forum. Rodolfo .. Corky" Gonzales 63103. Some jolts for the teachers' union bureaucracy

Continued stirrings in the union ganized for the first time and attracted played a racist and reactionary role. movement were evidenced at the mid­ more than 150 delegates. Zeline They prevented the vote on the Viet­ August convention of the American Richard, executive board member of nam bylaw and fought against a res­ Federation ofTeachers in New Orleans. the Detroit Federation of Teachers and olution providing for teacher election The convention opened with a success­ cochairman of the New Caucus, was of principals. ful delegate revolt against the AFT lead­ elected chairman. She had received one The New Caucus distributed a leaf­ ership which had invited two notorious quarter of the vote in the race for AFT let condemning Shanker's strike against strikebreakers to address the assembly. presidency against Selden at last year's community control last September. The revolt was staged by the New referendum on Vietnam disassociated convention. -ALEX HARTE Caucus, the opposition party in the the AFT from the AFL-CIO's support The growing antibureaucratic atti­ AFT, which conducted a militant picket of the war but resulted in the union tude of the delegates was reflected as line on the convention floor demanding itself adopting no position on the ques­ they defeated a whole series of con­ that the mayor of New Orleans and tion. stitutional maneuvers designed to fur­ the president of the New Orleans board The proposed bylaw would have al­ ther tighten the grip of the AFT leader­ of education go home. Both of them lowed a resolution opposing the war ship on the ranks. played a key role in smashing a New to come to the floor immediately. It One such amendment provided for Orleans AFT local strike. was defeated on a technicality when receivership of locals which use "un­ AFT president David Selden favored Albert Shanker, president of the New democratic'' procedures. Another re­ hearing the "invited guests." But there York AFT, argued that such a change quired a two-thirds vote of the delegates was such negative reaction that the would require a constitutional amend­ to place minority resolutions on the president of the board of education ment which would have had to be sub­ convention floor. eventually left. The New Orleans mayor mitted 90 days before the convention. The New Caucus also conducted a never showed in the first place. Nevertheless it appeared that an in­ floor fight to remove the long standing At another point a group of delegates creasing number of locals and delegates anticommunist clause from the AFT j moved to place a resolution on Viet­ support the New Caucus in its demands constitution and received the votes of nam on the floor. This involved pro­ for immediate withdrawal from Viet­ approximately 40 percent of the dele­ posing a bylaw to require that AFT nam and support of self-determination gates. referendums be binding on the union for blacks. The delegates representing the Shan­ for only one year. Last year an AFT A permanent black caucus was or- ker bureaucracy in the New York UFT Albert Shanker Page 12 THE MILITANT Friday, Oct. 10, 1969

~No peace for Nixon' NO drive opened by SMC PEACE WASHINGTON, D. C.-Leaders of by the student activists, have been un­ the Student Mobilization Committee to usually large this fall, as the student End the War in Vietnam held a nation­ activists respond to the three-pronged FOR ally publicized news conference here antiwar offensive Oct. 15, Nov. 14 and Sept. 29 to blast Nixon's Vietnam war Nov. 15. policies as "government by a minority Attending the SM C steering committee for a minority." were students from Boston, New York, Don Gurewitz, a spokesman for the Philadelphia, Washington, Cleveland, group, charged that Nixon's Sept. 26 Chicago, Detroit, Ann Arbor and Twin statement that "under no circumstances" Cities. The meeting outlined an ambi­ IXO would he be affected by antiwar protests tious campaign of action, and unpre­ STUDENT AC£ was "a virtual declaration of indepen­ cedented attempts at fund-raising, pub­ dence from the American people. Nixon licity and outreach. was saying in effect that he will refuse MOBILIZATIO~ .... ,.DR to heed the legitimate wishes of the over­ whelming majority of the American 150 map plans in Austin public." Members of the student organization's By MELISSA SINGLER national steering committee, which met AUSTIN -A hundred and fifty anti­ in Washington Sept. 28, stated that they war activists attended the first meeting had laid plans "to force Nixon to resP"t of the Student Mobilization Committee majority rule." The SMC announced a to End the War in Vietnam at the Texas nationwide "No Peace for Nixon" cam­ U campus here Sept. 27. The meeting paign. decided to back the Oct. 15 Moratorium liZAiiON ''We will demonstrate wherever Nixon and build towards the Nov. 15 march travels in this country," said George on Washington. Shaffer, a student at Dickinson College, Outlining the history of American ag­ Pennsylvania. "President Nixon will be gression in Vietnam, Larry Waterhouse, met with the same kind of reception a leader of the SM C and a member of that met President Johnson, who also SDS, called upon the students to work thought that he could ignore the Amer­ for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. Photo by Sheldon Ramsdell ican public." troops from Vietnam. Barbara Roseman SMC pickets greet Nixon in New York. "Antiwar sentiment has never been of the SMC suggested a goal of ten buses deeper or more widespread," said Gure­ from Texas for the Washington action. 15 Moratorium, the Nov. 14 student Columbia SMC sesssion witz. "The SMC today has chapters in The meeting divided into workshops strike and the march on Washington. nearly one thousand high schools and on fund-raising, Oct. 15, transportation, A mass march and rally are being By PAULA REIMERS colleges, and the number is growing. publicity and campus complicity. The planned in Boston Oct. 15 by a faculty­ NEW YORK-A hundred and fifty These chapters and those still to be serious attitude of the students present student committee. Tentative speakers students attended the first organization­ formed will be leading the most massive was indicated by the number of people include Sen. George McGovern, Prof. al meeting of the Columbia Student student strike in history on Nov. 14. who volunteered for work. By the next Howard Zion and Peter Camejo of the Mobilization Committee Sept. 30. Students, like the rest of the population, evening, the first leaflet on campus The group heard Andrew Pulley, an have simply not been fooled by the token complicity and the Oct. 15 Moratorium SMC. It is anticipated that the march will be the largest ever in Boston. organizer of Gis United Against the withdrawals." was completed and the publicity com­ War at Ft. Jackson. The group urged support for the mass mittee had begun work on posters ad­ The Boston U SMC received a posi­ After reports on plans for the fall marches in Washington and San Fran­ vertising the actions. tive response at a football game when cisco on Nov. 15. "The hundreds of thou­ a petition was distributed calling for offensive, the meeting broke into work­ shops that discussed the Oct. 15 Mora­ sands in the streets will demonstrate that loston regional meet the school to be shut down Oct. 15. Nixon speaks only for a tiny minority," More than 125 student attended the torium, the Nov. 14 Strike, and plans said Frank Greer, a student at U. of second BU SMC meeting where plans for the mass march on Washington Maryland. BOSTON -About 100representatives were made to hold a mass rally Oct. Nov. 15. Also discussed was Colum­ The SMC expressed its support for the from 10 campuses attended an SMC 15, cosponsored by students and fac­ bia University's complicity with the war and its relation to the SMC campaign Oct. 15 Vietnam Moratorium and said steering committee meeting Sept. 29. ulty. for "War Machine Off Campus." that the SMC "has been building the The meeting mapped plans for a city­ A broad coalition is organizing the Moratorium and helping to make it wide drive to raise $10,000 for the Moratorium at Columbia U., which will the opening round in a massive, contin­ SMC's needs in the immediate future. N.Y. citywide meet feature a large mass rally in the day, uing campaign to bring all our Gis Reports of national SMC activity and and a possible rock concert in the even­ coordination with faculty, the Morato­ home from Vietnam now." By CARL FRANK ing. The steering committee meeting heard rium Committee, and other groups were NEW YORK-More than 200 repre­ reports indicating that the SM C has discussed. sentatives from 25 colleges and 35 high taken the lead in many areas in orga­ The SMC in the greater Boston area Action in St. Paul schools in the New York City area nizing the Moratorium. The SMC meet­ now involves more than a thousand attended the first citywide meeting of the ings, with democratic decision making student activists working on the Oct. By DAVID KEIL SMC Sept. 27. ST. PAUL, Sept. 26-Gen. William Joanna Misnik, New York coordinator Westmoreland was picketed here tonight of the SMC, outlined the political context at a demonstration organized by the of the fall offensive against the war and Twin Cities Resistance and Macalester reported on national developments. College SM C. Marilyn Marcusson, Hunter College Mo­ The occasion was the Region 10 Boy ratorium coordinator, sketched the plans Scouts meeting. Earlier that day, for­ for Oct. 15, emphasizing this as the mer Eagle Scout Westmoreland said first major effort for the student antiwar that giving Nixon only 18 months more movement this fall. to withdraw troops "would give the After general discussion, the meeting enemy a timetable that would work to divided into three action workshops: his advantage and not to ours." 1) Oct. 15 Moratorium and Nov. 14 Demonstrators demanded immediate Strike; 2) High School; 3) Building withdrawal. Boy Scout ushers at the the Nov. 15 march on Washington. meeting said that scouts are divided on The high school workshop, attended the war and discuss it late into the night by more than 75 high school activists, while on camping trips. opened discussion of high school parti­ cipation in the fall actions and decided Harassment in Detroit to form a high school SMC. The general consensus called for this year's strike DETROIT, Sept. 27 -Authorities here to include a militant mass action of have launched another attack on the thousands of high school students, giv­ democratic rights of high school students ing the protest a mass action focus. to organize against the war. Last year, on April 26, more than On Thursday, Sept. 18, Gordon Fox, 200,000 New York City high school a senior at Detroit's Cass Technical Photo by Sheldon Ramsdell students conducted a political strike High School, was distributing leaflets SMC meeting in New York maps fall actions. against the war. advertising a meeting of the Detroit Friday, Oct. I 0, I 969 THE MILITANT Page 13

New Mobe travelers get good response

The second issue of the New Mobilizer, a publication of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, reports that New Mobe traveling teams have met with more than 5,000 ac­ tivists and organizers in 50 cities to launch the fall offensive against the war. Important meetings have been held to set up coalitions in areas that previously have not had strong antiwar formations. Ninety people from all over Maine attended the meeting in Port­ land and made plans for the Oct. 15 Moratorium and the march on Washington Nov. 15. More than 200 people attended the first meeting of the Miami Mobilization Committee, 30 in Oklahoma City, 40 in Toledo, 80 in Dallas-Ft. Worth, 100 in New Orleans. These are a few samples from the reports the New Mobe has received. A meeting of the New Mobe steering committee Sept. 27 heard reports that Coretta King will participate in the March Against Death Nov. 13-15. On this march, a prelude to the mass march Nov. 15, every participant will symbolize and carry the name of a G I killed or a Vietnamese village destroyed. It is expected SMC meeting at Texas U in Austin to take 36 hours to complete the march, which will proceed from Arlington cemetery past the White House to the Capitol where the mass march will be assembling. Co-chairmen for the rally Nov. 15 will include the Rev. William the Oct. 15 Moratorium. Our third meet­ the state. Stephen DiBasio, an eighth­ Sloane Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Julius Hobson, and Bobby ing, Sept. 25, drew 200 people and many grade student, told the meeting, "You Seale. Speakers for the rally are being selected now. more are expected at the next meeting, have to work. You. have to organize. Leaflets, buttons, stickers, posters, New Mobilizers and other In the kindergartens, everywhere. That's literature to build the demonstration can be ordered from the New Oct. 2. Mobilization Committee; 1029 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 900, Wash­ Plans for Oct. 15 are being set-it's where the government starts and that's ington, D. C. 20005. amazing how many people, students and where we have to go." faculty alike, are anxious to contribute In addition to the high school and in some way- and include two sympo­ junior high campaign, there is a strong sia featuring localfaculty, severalindivi­ SMC at Brown University in Providence dual speakers, a continuous showing and one in formation at the Rhode High School Student Mobilization Com­ UC Berkeley, and Joe Cole of the Ft. of antiwar films, a poetry-reading, folk­ Island School of Design. mittee Against the War. Almost imme­ Jackson Eight. singing, a student-sponsored teach-in Fourteen different groups in the Provi­ diately after he began leafleting, five Discussion centered on the three major workshop, heavy leafleting, a silent vigil dence area are planning an Oct. 4 dem­ police cars arrived on the scene, in­ antiwar actions this fall-the Oct. 15 at the Military Science Building, and onstration that will kick off the fall cluding several "tactical mobile units," Moratorium, the Nov. 14StudentStrike, a reading of the names of the American offensive. and two sergeants. and the Nov. 15 mass march in San war dead. Beginning on Oct. 13, students at Sgt. Jensen asked Fox if he was fam­ Francisco. At the request of the Joe The Kansas U. SMC affirmsthedesire the University of Connecticut will read iliar with a city ordinance prohibiting Hill Caucus of SDS, a workshop was of rational men everywhere to end ibis the list of 38,000 Gis killed in Vietnam the distributing of leaflets within 300 set up to discuss actions Nov. 8-15, senseless war now. as part of the Oct. 15 Moratorium. feet of a school. Fox stated that he and the meeting passed a resolution Wesleyan U. students plan a rally was familiar with the ordinance, but making Nov. 8-15 a Vietnam Solida­ Youth lead in R.I. on Oct. 15. Students at Yale plan a that a legal precedent made it clear rity Week on the West Coast campuses. candlelight service. the law did not apply to political leaf­ Workshops on G I organizing, high By JEFF POWERS Both faculty and students at the U. lets. Jensen then stated that such deci­ schools, campus complicity, third PROVIDENCE-A meeting of90peo­ of Hartford, Trinity College, Hartford sions were purely "court" matters and world, women and the war, and college ple, mostly junior high and high school College for Women, and Manchester proceeded to write up a ticket for "dis­ organizing all stressed the opportunities students, laid plans for organizing Community College plan an Oct. 15 tributing handbills within 300 feet of to reach out to new and wider layers SMC chapters at schools throughout rally in Hartford. a school in session." Violation of this of antiwar youth for the fall antiwar law is a misdemeanor, which carries offensive. a fine of $50. David Hilliard and Ray Masai Hew­ YSA slate wins new posts A defense campaign is being planned litt of the Black Panther Party addressed to publicize this latest attempt at re­ the conference and read messages sent • pres~:>ion of student rights and legal to the UN from several African nations In Harpur College election action is being taken against the police and Noth Korea protesting Bobby department in an attempt to get an in­ Seale's arrest. By PETER GELLERT whether the student government should junction prohibiting the cops from en­ The conference then passed a resolu­ BINGHAMTON, N.Y.- In the wake finance buses for the Nov. 15 march forcing this law. tion demanding: 1) an end to the war; of last spring's election of a Young So­ on Washington. It is expected that the 2) an end to oppression and suppres­ cialist as student body president at Har­ referendum will pass after SM C cam­ sion, especially of the "Conspiracy 8"; pur College, the Young Socialist paigning. West Coast SMC parley 3) freedom for Bobby Seale and Huey Alliance is once again victorious this The student government has already Newton, and urging Rennie Davis to fall in the student government elections endorsed the fall antiwar actions and By BARRY DAVID return to North Vietnam to call from here. the Student Mobilization Committee has SAN FRANCISCO- Some 225 high there for the free return from exile of The YSA ran a slate of five can­ been set up as a subcommittee of the school and college antiwar activists, Eldridge Cleaver. didates, three for the district represent­ student government. representing 21 West Coast colleges and ing students who live off-campus, and Mter the most recent election, five many Bay Area high schools, attended two for Hinman College, one of three of the student government represen­ an SMC regional conference here Sept. Lawrence, Kan., SMC on-campus sections of the Harpur cam­ tatives are YSAers and 11 of the 12 28. The meeting was one of the largest holds meeting of 200 pus. When the final results were in, the are members of the Student Mobiliza­ and most representative regional anti­ YSA had scored a fantastic election tion Committee. In addition, two of the war conferences held on the Coast to By ERIC WOLFE success in the off-campus constituency, six students on the USG executive com­ date. LAWRENCE, Kan.- The Lawrence with 125 straight-ticket votes. All three mittee elected last spring are YSA mem­ Keynote speakers at the meeting were Student Mobilization Committee is YSA candidates were elected with vote bers. Thus the student radicalization Dan Siegal, student body president at having great success in organizing for totals far higher than those for non­ is quite well represented in the Harpur YSA candidates. student government. In Hinman, over 250 students voted a straight socialist ticket, and one YSA candidate was elected. In this race the vote totals were very close. Radical candidates also won where YSAers were CALENDAR not running in other sections of this college of about 2,500. As part of its campaign, the YSA LOS ANGELES distributed three educational election HOW GI'S FORCED THE BlASS TO lACK DOWN. leaflets and presented a talk on "Marx­ Speaker: Ex-Pvt. Joe Cole, of the Ft. Jocl

Many fed up with SDS;

it continues to split

By ROBERT LANGSTON noticeable by his absence from the Readers may be somewhat confused pages of Revolutionary Youth Move­ by the multitude of SDSs now in ment. At the same time, he has resumed existence. At last summer's SDS con-­ publication of the Red Papers, previous­ vention, a minority of the delegates ly the factional organ of his Bay Area expelled the Worker Student Alliance, Revolutionary Union. which is dominated by the Progressive Right on. Labor Party. This action was taken by a bloc con­ sisting primarily of the Weatherman, Boston SDSers to 'educate' or Revolutionary Youth Movement I, 'backward' antiwar activists led by Mark Rudd and Bernadine Dohrn; the Revolutionary Youth Move­ JEFF JONES. At Aug. 9 N.Y. C. antiwar demonstration, RYM I BOSTON, Sept. 30- The Worker Stu­ ment II, led by Mike Klonsky; the Bay leader (center) expressed solidarity with "Crazies" who had seized dent Alliance SDS called a New Area Revolutionary Union, led by platform. England regional conference to project Robert Avakian; and the Joe Hill Cau­ their own Oct. 4 antiwar march, which cus. they hold will "get the jump" on the forced their way into the meeting shout­ man faction of SDS to involved the Since the split, the WSA-SDS has put other antiwar groups. Prior to the con­ ing "revolutionary" slogans. Cniversity of Kentucky SDS chapter out several issues of a paper under the ference WSA-SDS suggested that any­ Seizing the microphone, Jones berated in their adventuristic schemes planned name of New Left Notes, the pre-split the 800 people present as "white student for Oct. 8-11 in Chicago was met with SDS paper. The Rudd-Jones-Klonsky­ one wishing to make proposals bring chickens" who need to "struggle in the a thorough rebuff. Avakian group continues to issue their a thousand copies of them. It turned streets" to get rid of their white skin A contingent of Weatherman's "Red New Left Notes on a regular basis. out that this was unnecessary. 125 privilege. The immediate response of Army" led by .Jeff .Jones spent several The Aug. 29 New Left Notes reported people showed up for a dull, sectarian the entire assembled group was ex­ hours trying to convince about 15local the departure of Mike Klonsky, and session. The meeting concluded by pressed in shouts of "adventurist," "off SDSers that going to Chicago and tear­ Avakian went with him. The Rudd­ adopting a proposal to send SDSers the stage," etc. ing up the town is the correct way to Jones proposal on how to "bring the to antiwar meetings urging that Oct. 15 Jones went on to assert that all the smash imperialism. Failing to be con­ war home" at the national action sched­ and other actions be called off. This revolutionaries in the U.S. would be vinced, the SDSers here were told that uled for Oct. 8-12 in Chicago was too the SDSers consider "educating" the in Chicago Oct. 8-11. When asked if he they are racists, anticommunists, chau­ wild even for Klonsky, who is not noted "backward'' students who want to pro­ would be in Washington Nov. 15, .Jones for unduly sober thought. test against the war in Vietnam. vinists and pro-imperialists, among replied: "Fuck your peaceful demonstra­ Since splitting with RYM I (Weather­ The first meeting of the Tufts SD S other things. tions." Two nights later, the Weatherman man), RYM II (Klonsky) has put out ended when 75 of the 100 participants As .Jones's diatribe continued, a local group reappeared at a general SDS one issue of a paper (undated) called walked out and went to the initial Tufts Revolutionary Youth Movement. In it, SMC meeting of 200. The remaining SDS leader standing in the back of the meeting, and the 75 people in atten­ there appears a call to the Chicago 25 then adjourneS chapter and urging tate the counterrevolutionary butcher week when 20 "Weathermen," including LEXIN(;TON, Ky.- A recent at­ cooperation with all other independent Stalin as a revolutionary hero, is now interorganizational secretary Jeff .Jones, tempt by spokesmen for the Weather- SDS groups.

Chicago students support Black high school rebellion Loop teachers picketline hits Detroit northwest side By GORDO.:-.r FOX marched north on Wyoming Ave. to By TONY DE LEON Mr. Shabat's position was that "the DETROIT, Sept. 26-A widespread Beaubien .Jr. High, where they held a (The author is a student at Loop administration has the prerogative to rebellion of black high school students brief but militant rally. In order to Jr. College, a predominantly black and transfer teachers at any time." He also forced the closing of a number of keep the Beaubien students inside the Third World college in downtown Chic­ claimed it was the teachers who were schools here this week. school, all the doors were locked. Hun­ ago.) breaking the contract by going against The rebellion began on Friday, Sept. dreds of cops were seen in the area CHICAGO, Sept. 29-When I came a two-year no-strike pledge. 19, when students from a number of and a number of students were brutal­ to school on Monday, Loop Jr. Col­ After the meeting with Shabat we went ghetto schools, including Northern ized. lege was being picketed by the Loop back and joined the teachers on their High, Murray-Wright High, Northeast­ Schools all over the northwest side teachers who had gone on strike in line. The next day we held a meeting ern High, and Malcolm X Junior and were closed Wednesday. When they re­ protest against the transfer of two teach­ of students where it was decided to con­ Senior Highs (formerly McMichael Jr. opened, the mayor and others, includ­ ers from the Bogan City College Cam­ tinue to support the union and to call and Northwestern Sr.) walked out of ing the Detroit Free Press, called for a pus by the City College board. for a mass picket of all the junior col­ school in a strike in defense of Ahmed crackdown on the students. The city The administration seems to think leges in front of the Chicago City Col­ Evans, the black nationalist who faces apparently thinks it can stop the grow­ that it can transfer teachers without lege administration board offices. the electric chair in Cleveland. ing student militancy by using the old the teachers' union having anything to Unfortunately, that same day the By Monday, the rebellion had spread carrot and stick routine. But the stu­ say about it. The teachers say that this court issued an injunction against the into the northwest-side ghetto. The De­ dents have not been intimidated by the is a breach of their contract, and an strike and the teachers voted to return troit Free Press reported that "extreme calls for repression. They are going attempt on the part of the board to to their classes. This tended to demor­ racial tension" touched off fights be­ ahead with plans for the city-wide stu­ break the union. alize the students and undercut the pro­ tween black and white students at Cool­ dent strikes against the war Oct. 15 and In solidarity with the teachers, a stu­ test. ey High School. In reality, most of the Nov. 14, and the March on Washing­ dent picketfine of about 200 students As things stand now, the union and violence at Cooley was perpetrated by ton Nov. 15. outside the board of education was or­ the board are trying to select an impar­ the cops and was directed almost en­ ganized. We then went inside the build­ tial arbitrator in order to reach an tirely at black students. This was also ing and demanded a meeting with Mr. agreement. the case during an outburst at nearby Shabat of the City College board. After The teachers now know that the stu­ Post Jr. Hlgh. BACK AT SCHOOL? If so his secretary tried to put us off by dents are prepared to support their Mumford High School, still further please let us know your change telling us Mr. Shabat was in a press struggle, and this action by the students northwest, blew on Tuesday. Hundreds of address. Important: Be sure conference, we made our way into the has opened the way for other actions of Mumford students, virtually all of to include your old address. office and spoke with him. at Loop this fall. them black, walked out of school and Page 15 Friday, Oct. 10, 1969 THE MILITANT Reading for revolutionaries ------. 1 A primer of Marxism Ask a foolish question ... -"Would money to buy food, the report explains the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong that while this may be a "humanitarian" observe a three-day truce if I were to notion, studies have confirmed that "the die?"- Saigon boss Thieu's response unsatisfied demand for food in the United SOCIALISM ON TRIAL, by James P. to the idea of going along with a three­ States is much less than agriculture's Cannon. Cloth, $4.95. Paper, $1.50. day truce for Ho Chi Minh. capacity to produce." Merit Publishers. This is the complete stenographic re­ And just about as accurate- The SDS Liberation candidate-An adforJohn cord of Cannon's testimony in the Minne­ Weatherman caucus reportedly refers Marchi, Republican candidate for mayor apolis "sedition" trial of 1941. This was to its leadership as the Weather bureau. of New York, declares: "Women are the first trial held under the notorious intelligent. They do not go by looks Smith Act. Included are the questions Not their bag-Wall Street magnates alone .... Women want a realist like and answers under both direct examina­ tion and cross examination. do have some hangups, according to John J. Marchi for mayor." The ad In his far-reaching testimony Cannon, a study by the University of Minnesota's was sponsored by ''Women for Marchi­ the founder of the American Trotskyist Center for Interest Measurement Re­ Alexander E. Light, Chairman, and movement, ranges over the whole field search. Among other things, the re­ His Down-to-Earth Girls." of revolutionary politics. The attitute searchers found, the money boys "don't Tis the season to be jolly- Georg of revolutionary Marxism towards vir­ like babies. And cripples terrify them." tually every current question is care­ Jensen's, one of Fifth Avenue's more fully and fullyexplained. Examples used tasteful shops, kicks off the Xmas season They catch on-A Washington broker are frequently from familiar historical with an ad declaring: "DESTROY who taught a course in stock manage­ events. The language is clear and sharp YOUR FRIENDS WITH A CHRIST­ ment at a local reformatory says the and there is no room for misunder­ MAS CARD FROM JENSEN'S- Let's students really dig the subject. "Some standings. of these kids may be almost illiterate," face it, it's hard worktotopyourfriends. The occasion of the trial was, in the he said, "but they're money-savvy." The But this may be the year to strike a immediate sense, the fact that the Minne­ students were really impressed, he added, bit of envy in their hearts. With a Jen­ apolis drivers union, in which the Trot­ by what capitalism could do for them. sen's Christmas card." skyist Socialist Workers Party was in­ Observed one student: "So this is how fluential, had refused to permit Daniel James P. Cannon the fat cats do it." The things that really count-A bro­ J. Tobin, president of the Teamsters chure from New York's plush Plaza Union, to appoint a receiver for the Freedom marker- Celebrating the Hotel explains what it takes to main­ union. This was a fight for union demo­ American entry into the Second World 50th anniversary of American Legion tain "a few reminders of a more civilized cracy. Another reason for the trial was War. Post #1 at Van Tassell, Wyo. (pop., 15), age": "Two men do nothing all day the militant opposition of the SWP to In his testimony, which was conscious­ Gov. Stanley Hathaway dedicated a but polish the chandeliers. Two more ly designed to explain the real ideas marker there, declaring "We cannot al­ spend a full work week breaking wine and program of the party, Cannon deals low a small percentage of young people" and liquor bottles so they won't be used 150 attend opening with many questions that are pertinent to take away our freedom. The freedom again. The Plaza has two full-time fur­ for our own times. In addition, he ex­ marker was prepared by inmates at niture experts, two full-time ice sculptors, plains the origins of the American Trot­ the state penitentiary. one silversmith and one full-time chick­ forum of Austin YSA skyist movement. en boner." Among the questions that receive ex­ Socialism anyone?- Some people har­ tended treatment are the internal laws of bor the silly notion that people go hun­ Thought for the week-"The value of By GENE RICHARDS capitalist development, the question of gry because there isn't enough food. advertising is overrated. The only thing AUSTIN, Texas-About 150 people war, of fascism, the class struggle, the Actually, an Agriculture Department re­ less credible than an ad is a politician." attended the opening forum oftheAustin coming revolution, the role of violence, port explains, the problem is that there's -Advertising man Gene Case, who has Young Socialist Alliance, held Sept. 23 the workers state, internationalism, the too much food. Rebutting the notion that written ads for Lyndon Johnson and in the student union of the Univ. of unions, the Russian Revolution, the atti­ tude of the party towards Marx, Lenin, it would help to maintain farm prices Nelson Rockefeller. Texas. Dan Styron, a member of the Trotsky and Stalin and many others. and profits by giving poor people more -Harry Ring national committee of the Socialist Work­ ers Party, spoke on the topic, "Should Virtually every one of these questions America Go Socialist?' are still being debated in radical circles. Addressing himself to the many stu­ In other words, these are the kind of dents in the audience unacquainted with questions that appear and reappear at socialist ideas, Styron focused on three every new turning point in history. topics: Is there a ruling class in America? In Cannon's explanations, given al­ If so, does it run the country in the best most 28 years ago, one finds not the incidental that holds good only for the ARIZONA: Phoenix: YSA, c/o lindley Garner, P. 0. MINNESOTA: Minneapolis-St. Paul: SWP, YSA and interests of the people? And, can the system be fundamentally changed? day, but the fundamental doctrine that Box 750, Tempe, Arizona 85281. Tel; (602) 966-0430. Labor Bookstore, 1 University N. E. (at E. Hennepin) deals with the very heart of the question. CALIFORNIA: Berkeley: SWP and YSA, 2519-A Tele­ 2nd fl., Mpls. 55413. Tel: (612) 332-7781. Using several "capitalist press" maga­ That is why this pamphlet reads as well graph Avenue, Berkeley, Calif. 94704. Tel: (415)848- MISSOURI: Kansas City: YSA, c/o Paul Schmidtlein, zines, Styron demonstrated that a small 9334. 5437 Charlotte, K.C., Mo. 64118. Tel: (816)523-5468. now as it did when it was first published. handful (.05 percent) of American busi­ An example: Cannon was asked about Hayward: YSA, Caryl Towner, 2010 B Street, Hay­ St. Louis: YSA, c/o Bill Onasch, Schardell Hotel, Rm. nesses make 75 percent of the profits. ward, Calif. 94541. Tel: (415)537-3653. 30, 280 N. 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DeKalb students Welfare mothers face Wis. troops stand fast behind striking workers

By LAURA MILLER DEKALB, Ill.- The strike of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has now en­ tered its third week here at Northern Illinois University. Spirits are high among both the workers and their stu­ dent supporters, despite ruthless at­ tempts by the state government and the school administrators to break the maintenance workers' strike. Thus far the union and its supporters have withstood two police attacks on picket lines, six arrests, a temporary state injunction designed to limit strike activities of the union and "all those in consort" with the union (i.e., all stu-· dent and faculty supporters), and even a new state law promising stiff pen­ alties for anyone disrupting the "nor­ mal functioning" of the university. The Student-Faculty Strike Support Committee, a broad-based coalition, has been instrumental in building outside support for the strikers. Through the SFSSC, worker-student solidarity has reached a strength never before seen in this region. Photo by Chuck Shoengrund The DeKalb Young Socialist Alliance STATE OF SIEGE. Wisconsin State Guard mobilizes Welfare mothers had come protesting cuts in starva­ has played a leading role in the SFSSC, in front of capitol as though expecting Vietnamese. tion dole. Legislators were upset by this. successfully countering the proposals for sabotage and other isolated actions By HARRY BRENT ducted a march from the university to way through the forest of riot clubs by the campus ultralefts with concrete MADISON, Wis., Sept. 30-A thou­ the State Capitol, but upon arriving and M-1's to serve Father Groppi and proposals for united mass action in sand Wisconsin National Guardsmen found access to the meeting room of the the mothers. with an order to halt their support of the union. continue to encircle the State Capitol State Assembly denied to them. Failing march. Suspecting the illegality of such Plans are currently under way for a tonight to prevent from entering a group to convince the state officials of the peo­ an order, the mothers decided to obey mass march and rally Oct. 6, w~ich of welfare mothers whose public~assis­ ples' right to enter their own halls of it for the moment and to return to their is expected to draw in unionists from tance allotments have been severly cur­ government, the marchers removed a headquarters for consultation with their the DeKalb area, community members, tailed by the legislature. door and occupied the assembly lawyers. By· this evening, they had re­ high schoolers, faculty, clergy and NIU The mothers and their supporters occu­ chamber. turned to the capitol with vows to regain students. pied the assembly hall of the capitol Throughout Monday afternoon sev­ admission tomorrow. Endorsements of the strike have come building for eleven hours yesterday after eral of the mothers took the rostrum Throughout the last two days, Gov. from the NI U student government, the some of them had walked 91 miles from of the assembly hall to explain their Knowles and the legislators have used American Federation of '"Teachera, the Milwaukee to dramatize the seriousness plight. One told how the state had re­ the familiar ploy of attempting to make Afro-American Cultural Organization, of the welfare reductions. In many cases duced her monthly allotment from $281 it appear as though the criminal is the the Student Mobilization Committee to the reductions left children without food. to $209- she has three children and victim and the victim the criminal. After End the War in Vietnam, the Young Led by Father James Groppi, the pays $135 in rent. Another revealed sentencing children to starvation, the Socialist Alliance, and a host of local mothers, along with 2,000 supporters statistics proving that more publicfunds members of the State Assembly have unions and prominent community and from throughout the state, many ofthem are spent per capita each day to feed spent their words in the public press faculty members. from the University of Wisconsin, con- the chimpanzees in the st~te's zoos than self-righteously castigating the mothers is spent to feed the children in her family. and their supporters for damaging the But when the demonstrators cleared the carpeting in the assembly hall. assembly hall to allow the legislators to rconspiracy' judge works meet, the assemblymen. quickly ad­ journed without discussing their de­ mands. to earn contempt Using the presence of the mothers and hard their supporters as an excuse for not coming to grips with the state's most OCT. 2- The court of Judge Julius facing a gall bladder operation. pressing human problem, Assembly J. Hoffman, which opened the trial of Seale had attempted to delay the trial Speaker Harold Froelich attempted to the 'Conspiracy 8' in Chicago this week, on these perfectly justifiable grounds. put the blame for the lack of legislative is such a gross travesty of justice that He contends the trial is illegal without action on the demonstrators themselves it almost makes other bourgeois courts the counsel of his choosing. But Hoff­ by accusing them of failing to observe seem reasonable. ·· man refused to delay the trial and or­ "normal decorum." The 74-year-old Hoffman has been dered lawyers previously connected with Groppi answered Froelich: "We think described as closely resembling Mr. the case arrested in order to make it that your attitude has been a little ridi­ Magoo. His near-sighted indifference on seem like the "Conspiracy 8" lawyers culous. There is cooperation [from the legal rights makes Hoffman almost the hadn't shown up. .demonstrators in clearing the floor of equal of his cartoon counterpart. There have been a number of omi­ the assembly hall]. This room belongs The trial of the eight, who were charged nous developments in the trial. Bobby to us, you know." Thelegislatorsseemed with leading the demonstrations at last Seale and Jerry Rubin were being held quite upset with the contention that the year's Democratic National Convention, in custody in California prisons before capitol is a public building. One of them opened Sept. 24. Within two days Hoff­ being taken to Chicago. was later to comment on television, "They man had made the unusual move of don't own that assembly chamber any PAUL BOUTELLE. SWP candi­ arresting and jailing two of their pre­ In a handwritten letter written from more than the rest of the people do." date for mayor of New York City vious lawyers, Gerald B. Lefcourt and the Cook County Jail, Rubin described That evening, after a campus rally will directly encounter liberal Michael Tigar. the way he was seized at 2 a.m. on Sept. in support of the mothers, sponsored · Mayor John Lindsay at Columbia The move was so unprecedented that 17 frod\ Santa Rita prison near San by the University of Wisconsin Black University Moratorium meeting it propelled into existence a lawyers' Francisco and brought in handcuffs, Student Association, the YSA, SDS, and on Oct. 15. Lindsay forces are committee that is trying to stop the trial chains and shackles in an unmarked other campus groups, 4,000 students attempting to throw SWP and So­ proceedings altogetht!r. Hoffman sub­ car across the states. marched from the university to the capi­ cialist Labor Party off ballot to sequently was forced to release the law­ The harrowing trip took five days. tol to show their support for those who secure better ballot spot for yers. On Sept. 30, Hoffman announced that had continued to remain inside. mayor. The case is now pending One of the defendants is Bobby Seale, two of the jurors had been threatened Today, the mothers, students and other in New York supreme court. On national chairman ofthe Black Panthers. in letters supposedly signed by "Black supporters returned to the capitol and Oct. 24, Boutelle will debate Seale wants as his lawyer Charles R. Panthers." The move appears to be a were denied entrance by the legislators. Charlene Mitchell, 1968 Com­ Garry, noted for his defense of Huey further attempt to frame the eight and At 3 p.m., two well-dressed agents of the munist Party presidential candi­ Newton. But Garry is seriously ill also to prejudice the jury. office of the attorney general made their date.