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Union-Busting and Racist Reaction Reagan's Anti-Soviet War Drive Comes Home -~ NUMBER 93 25 CENTS ·z¢~ )(.-523 SEPTEMBER 1981 Union-Busting and Racist Reaction Reagan's Anti-Soviet War Drive Comes Home . sif - COMlROl~£~ ~~s'\\) Y?£~~~X/J~~l~ d~" ':\~ ~ < iJ>,Cl\GS , . _ .. t>.L~ ......t\'r (. .~~..,~ 11 ~<~~ <~\.,.'IY;t ~,,~ :\.,-,. ~ <0, :..:~/ <\'~">,\ ~\,\\~~ <>-t,';;. PATCO picket line at Oakland airport. SL!SYL demands: "Labor: Shut down the airports!" Ever since 1917 the world's capitalist industrial unions. in God's Eye one character is a com­ (lAM) and vice-chairman of Michael rulers have dreamed, intrigued and Unlike the usual union-busting mander notorious for destroying an Harrington's Democratic Socialist Or­ planned to destroy the gains of the attempts, Reagan's attack on PA TCO entire planet to suppress a rebellion. ganizing Committee. It just so happens Russian Bolshevik Revolution, the has nothing to do with dollars-and-cents When non-human intelligent beings are that the Machinists are a key union in greatest victory for the working class in economics, with driving down wages to discovered, this commander is put in the airlines industry. It was a strike by history. Today the United States-the increase profits. The government will charge of the expedition to their planet lAM airplane mechanics which in 1964 most powerful imperialist country on have to spend an enormous sum to train because, if he is that ruthless toward his broke the Kennedy / Johnson wage earth-is ruled by fanatics intent on thousands of new controllers and in the own species, he certainly won't be soft guidelines. By calling out his men wiping out the "aberration" of commu­ meantime the airlines will lose money toward non-humans. This captures Winpisinger could win this strike in nism with a wave of mushroom clouds due to reduced flights. What Reagan Reagan's attitude in the controllers days, dealing a powerful blow against across the Soviet Union. And Reagan's wants is a political demonstration that strike. If he will do this to Middle Reagan reaction on all fronts. Instead anti-Soviet -war drive also means war he will be completely ruthless and brutal America types, his own people so to this big shot social democrat has given against the American working class. to anyone who defies his will. speak, imagine what he will do to the go-ahead to lAM members to The two are inseparable. And this demonstration is all the blacks, radicals and foreigners! service planes guided by scab This basic truth, scoffed at or piously stronger in that the controllers had Faced with Reagan's massive union­ controllers. denied by liberals and reformists, is now thought they were Reagan people. busting attack, the immediate gut This is not just a conflict over wages demonstrated in the starkest way in the Overwhelmingly white, many Vietnam response of every worker should be: and benefits. What is at stake is the very air controllers strike. Reagan has fired vets, the con.trollers regarded them­ Solidarity Strikes to Shut Down the right of the 20 million public employees all 12,000 striking controllers and selves as middle-class "professionals" Airports! Yet predictably the cowardly in this country to strike, that is, to have declared that their union, PATCO, no rather than as blue-collar workers. In union bureaucracy has done nothing, real trade unions. This is a life-and­ longer exists. The American labor the anti-Soviet hysteria following the absolutely nothing, to support the death struggle which will affect the movement has not faced this kind of intervention in Afghanistan in late 1979, controllers strike. And it is not just the entire labor movement, indeed, all massive, savage union busting in half a New York controllers "boycotted" an right-wing Meanyite neanderthals like aspects of political life for the coming century, since the rise of the CIO in the Aeroflot jet carrying Russian ambassa­ AFL-CIO head Lane Kirkland who are period. 1930s. Just as Reagan is seeking to dor Dobrynin, threatening a possible allowing Reagan to make the air overturn the greatest victory of the crash. P A TCO, with its socially controllers a horrible example of what Carter Paved Way for Reagan working class internationally, the Rus­ conservative membership, was one of will happen to all those who defy him. Reaction sian Revolution, so he wants to reduce the few unions to endorse Reagan for America's most prominent "socialist" It is not only the air controllers who the American working class to the weak the presidency. labor leader is William Winpisinger, are surprised to find themselves the condition before the creation of mass In the science-fiction novel The Mote president of the Machinists union continued on page 10 Racist What Spartacists All 'ndochinti nus" ~ Reagan Fought for in Backs ?~~~~;;;$t the Vietnam ~_IfIi.'!.'>< .. Apartheid :::::­ Antiwar Movement Butchers see page 6 see page 3 --;. ... -... 2 •• • YOUNG SPARTACUS LZ SUSYL Launch Subscription Drlve-- Fight for Socialism! Join the SYL! ~G\H~nL~i"~' ""-'~or W"" "'. "n' to ~~~ ,,"~"""anfSlacks "',,""""~"" It's Us or Them! 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Make payable/mail 10: Spartacisl Publishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, New York 10116 From '~Hail Khomeini" to "Hate Khomeini I"~ .. ; Iranian Left in Turmoil Gamma No sooner had the dust settled from and their student supporters abroad­ the spectacular June 28 bombing of the who all hailed Khomeini's ascent to Islamic Republican Party (lRP) head­ power-now chant "No to the reaction­ quarters in Teheran than Khomeini's ary regime in Iran!" Mujahedin sup­ firing squad~ swung into high gear. Well porters took over the Iranian interests over 500 opponents of the "imam's" section in Washington, D.C. on August theocratic dictatorship have been shot, 7, shouting "Death to the Khomeini including not only supporters of ex­ regime!" At New York demonstrations, president Bani-Sadr, but also those of the Maoist Peykar, the Iranian Student the Moslem populist Mujahedin Khalq Association-Left Platform and sup­ and left-wing organizations like the porters of the guerrillaist Fedayeen Fedayeen Khalq. Thousands more have around Ashraf Dehghani chanted been thrown into the dungeons built by "Down with the monarchy! No to Iranian fake-lefts look to Banl-Sadr, the now-dead shah, where they are Islamic Republic! Long live revolu­ Khomelni's loyal tortured by former agents of his notori­ tion!" In late July, Iranian students servant for two ous secret police, the SA VAK,who are chained themselves to the Statue of decades. now "following the imam's line." Liberty, while their European counter­ With the sword of Islam hanging over parts attempted to seize Iranian embas­ their heads, Iranian leftists, populists sies in protest against Khomeini's savage repression, just as they did previously to demonstrate against the shah's white terror. Young Sparlacus Two years ago the international and political independence of the none other than Bani-Sadr, the ayatol­ Spartacist tendency (iSt) warned that working class to the so-called "progres­ lah's "secular" front man for two Young Spartacus (ISSN 0162-2692) is the Khomeini would be no less reactionary sive," "democratic" and "anti­ decades and later president of the newspa,per of the Spartacus Youth Leogue. The than the shah and demanded "Down imperialist" bourgeoisie. It is this very "Islamic RepUblic." Until his downfall, Sportocus Youth League. youth section of the Sportocist Leoque. is 0 sociolist youth with the shah! Down with the mullahs! dogma that has repeatedly beheaded the he loyally served his "imam" and Great organization which intervenes in sociol struggles For workers revQlution in Iran!" Those working class, from China in 1927 to Persian chauvinism-witness the brutal ormed with 0 working-doss progrOIn. based on the politics of Morx. Lenin ond Trotsky. who hate Khomeini today denounced us Chile in 1973. suppression of the Kurds and Turko­ Editoriol Boord: Keith Anderson. Bonnie Brodie. in 1979 as being inspired by the CIA and Today the pro-Moscow Stalinist mans, and the Iran-Iraq war over Ed Jorvis. Dorothy London, J. Morlow(editor). Amy SA VAK and attempted to physically Tudeh party gives groveling support to Khuzistan. Bani-Sadr and Mujahedin Roth break up our public meetings on Iran. Khomeini. In recent bloody street leader Massoud Rajavi were flown- by Production monoger: Amy "Roth Only now when Khomeini's hands are clashes between the IRP and the Iranian the shah's personal pilot!-to asylum in Circulotion monager: Kate Kelsey drenched with blood do they issue left, Tudeh members manned the France, where they set up an exile Nine issues yearly; published' monthly except belated "warnings" and denounce the barricades on the side of the mullahs. government. Many of those now around December/Jonuory ond June/July/ August. by mullahs' repression, While excoriating Tudeh for this treach­ Bani-Sadr are big bourgeois seeking a the Spa,rtocus Youth Publishing Co., 41 Worren Street, New York, NY 10007. Telephone: 732- Those Iranian leftists who seek ery, Iranian leftists do not call into capitalist "modernizing" alternative to 7867 (Editoriol, Business). Address 011 corre­ Marxist clarity must critically examine question the two-stage methodology of Khomeini who will play the role to spondence to: Box 3118, Church Street Station, New York, NY 10008.
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