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Cleveland Court Condemns Black Man to Electric Chair Socialists Urge THE Revolutionary leader joins MI:I.ITANT French presidential race - See page 6 Published in the interests of the Working People . · Vol..33- No. 21 Friday, May 23, 1969 Price 15c Cleveland court condemns black man to electric chair Socialists urge action to save Ahmed Evans Ahmed Eva ns, milita nt black n a tiona li st leader, was entenced to death b y a n a ll-white jury in Cleveland o n May 13. Evans wa a rrested after a police a ttack o n the black community last s ummer, during which fo ur people were killed, includ ing three cops. The m ost reactio n ary a nd racist enti­ m ents of th e jury were whipped up by the prosecutor, judge a nd press. The judge, refusing to even g r ant a tay of execution fo r an appeal, entenced Evans to the DEMAND FREEDOM FOR RA CIST VICTIM. Syd St aple­ murder by an a ll-white jury. With Stapleton is J a mes ch air o n September 22. to n, Sociali st Workers Pa 11 y candida te for mayor of Cleve­ Ha rris (right) hi · running mate in election, a nd, at left , The Socialist Wo rkers Party . la nd, a t May 15 pre s conference on City Hall ·teps, Pa ul Boutelle. SWP candidate for mayor of New York . candida te for Mayor o f Clevela nd, dema nds governor relea e Ahmed Evans, convicted of Syd Sta pleto n, a t a press confe­ rence on May 15, den o unced the convictio n and death sentence and dem anded th at Mayor Stokes o f Clevela nd use his in!1uence on Gov. Rhode to free Evans. See to ries page 12. Berkeley cops shoot students BULLETIN BERKELEY- Police used shotguns a nd pistol against una rmed civilians May 15 to di perse several thousand people protesting the closing of the newly erected People's Park. Hun­ dreds were injured, 50 ser­ iously, many by buckshot wounds. One police unit fired shots a t onlookers on balconies a bove the Young Socialist Alliance headqua rters. As a result, one youth was blinded a nd a Los Angeles Monday, May 19, ma rk the birlhday of Ma kolm X, who was born in Times reporter was wound­ Omaha in 1925. The day i increasingly being celebrated by revolutionaries ed in the leg. Radio sta tion the world over. Ma lcolm X's unchallenged place as the mentor of the black KPFA reported that one youth revolt he predicted but did not live to see ha been recognized in one hi gh school and university struggle after the nex t, where occupied buildings y outh su ffered a severed have invariably been rena med a fter him. May 19 has been declared a legal spine as a result of being school holiday in Berkeley, Ca lif. , after a petition of the secondary school revealed a vote of 3,520 to 397 in four of the live school polled, fa voring shot by a .38 caliber police such a holiday. The decision was una nimou ly a pproved by the Berkeley boa rd revolver. of educa tion. The student action sets a precedent well w011h lighting for a round the country. Ahmed Evans Page 2 THE MILITANT Friday, May 23, 1969 The tyrannies of high school life THE MILITANT Editor: HARRY RING Business Manager: BEVERLY SCOTT working class, just as white racism Published weekly by The Maitant Publi8hing Ass'n., 873 Broadway, New York, "de-brain washing" has done in the past. N.Y. 10003. Phone 533-6414. Second-dass postage paid at New York, N.Y. While black nationalist move­ Subscription: domestic, $4 a year; foreign, $5.50. By first class mail: domestic ments have reached a peak of and Canada $10.50; all other countries, $15.00. Air printed matter: domestic and Canada, $15.00; Latin Amerlca, $24.00; Europe, $28.00; Africa, Australia, demanded popularity unmatched, unfortun­ Asia (including USSR), $33.00. Write for sealed air postage rates. Signed articles ately, by the socialist movement, by contributors do not necessarily represent The Militant's views. These are ex­ pressed in editorials. Chicago, Ill. and while this movement has St. Phillip Servite High School doubtless raised the political con­ Voi.33-No.21 is located on the west side of sciousness of many blacks, ulti­ Friday, May 23, 1969 Chicago in the black community. mately a nationalist movement There are presentlyabout750stu­ in a highly developed country The closing news dote for this issue was May 16. dents enrolled here, and nearly This column is an open forum like the U. S. does not inevitably half are black. tor all viewpoints on subjects of evolve into a class movement, the The faculty is creating problems general interest to our readers. political goal toward which all for the students here at St. Phillip. Please keep your letters brief. Where socialists should strive. A new revelation on how close They insist that we solve our pro­ necessary they will be abridged. Frankly, many of the activities blems through useof"dueprocess" Writers' initials will be used, names mentioned in The Militant are ab­ only. Whenever we ask them for being withheld unless authorization surd and disgusting in their stupi­ we live to the nuclear brink some changes, they ignore us. is given for use. dity and I do not wish to continue The students here want an im­ supporting coverage of these Writing in the May 6 New York Times, Washington corres­ follies. mediate end to physical punish­ pondent William Beecher reported that "according to top admi­ ment. There have been numerous ciplined, effective way in dealing -W.B. nistration officials, military retaliation was President Nixon's first complaints from students of dis­ with the disrupters, they chose to ciplinary abuses inflicted by half­ display their "militancy" by pro­ inclination as he considered his response to the shooting down crazed teachers. voking fistfights and shouting Progressive Labor April 15 of an unarmed Navy reconnaissance plane by North There must be an end to the matches with hecklers. This be­ Korea." practice of pressuring students in­ havior served only to intensify rather than to quell disturbances opportunism hit Nixon's intentions were learned, Beecher states, from "consistent to bringing in money for St. Phil­ reports in several agencies of government." In fact, "the planning lip's annual fund drive cam­ at the teach-in. had gone as far as the selection of two specific targets [air bases] paigns. Joel Aber Providence, R. I. There must be an end to the In the May 2 issue of The Mi­ in North I~orea, and, according to one source, a speech had been practice of taking black literature From an Arab litant an article on the Progressive prepared to explain the retaliation to the American people." away from students. The schools Labor Party stated that PLP at­ These revelations are one more reminder of just how close we have whitewashed our minds and tacked Che Guevara. When !read live to the brink of another major war, possibly even a nuclear revolutionary this and the article by Mary-Alice brainwashed white students, giv­ one. The madmen in power in Washington know no bounds in ing the illusion that there is a Waters, I was shocked and dis­ Madison, Wis. their contemptuous disregard for either the views or the lives of "democracy" here in America. gusted with PL's opportunism. It I take pleasure in notifying you Now they don't want us to be­ seems to me that PL attacks all the American people, the I~orean people, the Vietnamese, or anyone come de-brainwashed. that I am conducting a campaign great socialist revolutionaries but else who dares interfere with their self-proclaimed right to police The Free Breakfast for School among Arabs and the rest of the their hero and patron saint Chair­ the world. So long as they hold power, the threat of more and even students of the third world on Children program was initiated man Mao. bigger wars remains all too real. the Madison campus to subscribe by the Black Panther Party. It From attacking Che to condem­ What stayed Nixon's hand? Neither rationality nor a change of to The Militant because it is sim­ ning black nationalism, PL has has been set up in Chicago, and heart-of that we can be sure. Washington was simply unprepared we asked for a food drive to sup­ ply the committed revolutionary proven that they are opportunists! port it, but they rejected it. We tried platform of the masses in this R.M. militarily to back up the air strikes against the I~oreans. As one to circulate petitions asking for a country and across the world. government official told Beecher:"Had sufficientforce been available food drive, but they were repres­ Keep up the good work. to stage the raids within 12 to 18 hours after the president tenta­ sed. They took the petitions away Arab Student Disagrees on tively made up his mind to respond, I believe the attacks would before we could present them to the have been ordered." student council. They will go out population problem An additional restraining factor, Beecher says, was Nixon's of their way to keep us from im­ proving the conditions of our com­ On Bernadette Devlin conclusion that, "the American people might consider bombing munity. San Francisco, Calif. raids against North Korea as hauntingly similar to the Gulf of It is wrong for us to expect our The article on population con­ Tonkin air strikes of August, 1964, which led to a broader Amer­ Seattle, Wash.
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