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No. 555 10 July 1992

Free Abortion on Demand!

HDI WqMENfS'L ERA rlo~ THRO H SOCIAL T REVOLUTIO'NI

wv Reactionary drive to gut abortion rights could provoke explosive opposition in the streets. Left: Philadelphia protest over Supreme Court ruling. Right: March 29 abortion rights rally in San Francisco.

Last week's high court ruling on Souter motivated the decision on explic­ pro-life movement in the back." movement. The campaign to rip abor­ abortion read like it was hatched in itly political grounds. He warned from Both the anti-abortion bigots and the tion rights away from American women an underground parking garage halfway the bench that overturning Roe "under "pro-choice" liberals are pitching the is the spearhead for a general offen­ between the Supreme Court and the fire" and "under the existing circum­ coming election as one which will deter­ sive, organized by the White House and White House. By a five-to-four vote, the stances" would cause "profound and mine the next appointment to the its Supreme Court appointees, against Court endorsed the core of an odiously unnecessary damage to the Court's legit­ Supreme Court and the fate of abortion. women's rights and black rights. restrictive Pennsylvania law requiring a imacy, and to the nation's commitment At the age of 83, Justice, Blackmun, Some 1.6 million abortions are per­ mandatory waiting period for women to the rule of law." With the bourgeoisie author of the Roe decision, says he "can­ formed every year in this country. Barely seeking abortions and forcing teenagers split wide open over the question of not remain on this Court forever." But two people out of ten favor an outright to notify their parents. At the same time legalized abortion, this elitist arbiter for it was not particularly the political com­ ban on abortions, while even among it claimed to reassert the "essence" of the ruling class -is clearly worried. position of the 1973 court-whose chief Republican voters nearly two-thirds the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing The "legitimacy" the black-robed justice, Warren Burger, was a Nixon oppose such a ban. In recent years, par­ abortion nationwide, while in fact under­ judges seek to protect is their position appointee-which led to the legalization ticularly since the 1989 Webster ruling, mining the "fundamental right" to abor­ as the judicial guardians of American of abortion. This was a concession to an hundreds of thousands of people have tion by allowing any restrictions which imperialism's "New World Order." The upsurge of mass social struggle. The taken to the streets to demonstrate do not entail what they deem an "undue same session asserted a U.S. license to women's liberation movement arose as against the reactionary assault on this burden." The decision by the Reagan­ kidnap abroad, and in the guise of strik­ hundreds of thousands of radicalized most personal of rights. But the "pro­ Bush court was consciously crafted to ing down a misguided law against "hate youth took to the streets in the struggle choice" liberals offer only the most timid split the difference with the aim of taking speech," defended KKK cross-burnings for black rights and in opposition to the pressure politics. the explosive abortion question off the as "freedom of expression." Appointing dirty imperialist war in Vietnam. According to National Abortion agenda and saving George Bush's ass itself chief high executioner, the Court Even the most minimal gains for Rights Action League (NARAL) presi­ in the November election. Instead, the chillingly swept aside legal impediments working people, women and minorities dent Kate Michelman, the answer is to ruling made abortion an even bigger to the death penalty, working through have been achieved only as a result of elect "a pro-choice President" and "a election issue. the night to insist that the state murder social struggle, riot through the ballot, veto-proof Congress," in other words, a With the population strongly in favor machine go into high gear. Already more and certainly not through lobbying the Democratic president with a Democratic of the right to abortion, and Bush 'sink­ people have been executed this year on Congress or Supreme Court. But under Congress. In a picture that spoke two ing in the polls against" "pro-choice" disproportionately black and Hispanic capitalism, every reform remains emi­ thousand words, Michelman was photo­ contenders Democrat Bill Clinton and Death Row U.S.A. than in all of 1991. nently reversible, as the onslaught on graphed on the steps of the Supreme the sinister Ross Perot. the Supreme This ruling aimed at pleasing every­ abortion rights demonstrates. In its drive Court as she rushed to report on its deci­ Court ruling was meant to take "the edge body in fact satisfied virtually no to rearm U.S. imperialism and restore sion over a mobile phone to her supreme off a recurring Republican nightmare." one. National Organization for Women its erstwhile hegemonic power in the leader, Democratic presidential candi­ as the New York Times (30 June) com­ (NOW) president Patricia Ireland ~de­ world following its humiliating defeat date Bill Clinton. NOW, N,ARAL and mented. Yet the worries of the new e1ared, "Roe is dead, despite the flimsy in Indochina, the American bourgeoisie the other liberal abortion rights groups "moderate conservative" center of the stay of execution today from the Court." launched an all-sided reactionary on-, are firmly tied to the Democratic Party. court, which the media has been playing The rad-lib New York Village Voice slaught aimed at reversing the gains of Indeed, the challenge to the Pennsylva­ up, went further. Reading from an opin­ (7 July) carried a huge front-page the civil rights movement, ending the nia law in the Supreme Court, initiated ion coauthored by Sandra Day O'Connor headline reading: "Court to Women: "war on poverty" and crippling the labor continued on page 8 and Anthony Kennedy, Justice David Drop Dead!" Even the Wall Street Jour­ nal (30 June) noted, "Frightened Teen­ Agers, Poorer Women Likely to Suffer Most From Court Ruling." At the same time, the head of the National Right to ~ife Committee denounced the ruling as "a loss for unborn children and a victory for pro-abortion forces." Operation Res­ cue terrorist Randall Terry railed, "Three o Reagan-Bush appointees stabbed the Parti§dD Defeu§e £o...... ittee CLASS-STRUGGLE DEFENSE NOTES

Jailed Steelworker Bob Buck Free Robert Buck, refused to fink on union; shown here with his baby Labor Prisoner! daughter. Robert Buck, 27 years old, a popular charge outside the home of a scab on member of Steelworkers Local" 5668 at 4 March 1991. The feds' "evidence" Ravenswood, West Virginia, has been in consisted of the testimony of the scab, prison since last January, railroaded by Edward Piggett, and Church, who turned have rather spent three years in prison as much as they look out for where the federal government for defending his fink and got off with a year of house myself than to see him wear a wire into the big money and campaign contribu­ union and his job from the scabs and arrest for his "services." a union hall." tions are." thugs brought in by Marc Rich and Bob Buck's "crime" was to defend his Mrs. Buck described how the feds "They want to come and bust a union Ravenswood Aluminum Corporation union-not just on the picket line but invaded their home and, brandishing a hall. I think anybody that stands up to (RAC). Bilck was slapped with a prison by refusing to become a rat for the feds. gun, kept her and her husband in Buck's them scares them. They see an outfit like stretch of 33 months, sent far away from Prosecutors and federal officers threat­ . bedroom as they rifled through his our group there, old men, old women, home and family to the hinterlands of ened to send him away unless he wore personal belongings, including pictures young women, young men and every­ Hinton, Oklahoma. a wire and spied on his brothers at union of his young daughter. For sheer spite thing standing up to them, I think it Buck was arrested in the fourth month headquarters. Buck told the Partisan they confiscated Buck's pickup truck, scares them. Anybody that steps out of of the class battle at RAC, convicted of Defense Committee, "The first time I and 15 months later they still haven't . line or opens their mouth too much, two charges of possessing an explosive ever saw these people, the first thing they returned it. they've got a place for them right here device, after the feds alleged that he and said was 'You're going to prison for 40 Buck told us how the state's resporise at Hinton." another U8WA member, Gerald Church, years.' Reminded me of the bullies at to the struggle at Ravenswood has By refusing to wear a wire, Buck aid threw a small homemade black powder school." Buck's mother told us, "I would firmed his resolve: "When they threw a great service for the entire labor move­ us out of that plant, I thought in a ment. The fight for Bob Buck's freedom few days, we'll go to court, the state must be th.e fight of the entire labor cops and everybody would come down movement. When the PATCO air con­ '~n Injury to One here and straighten this out. They trollers union leaders were marched off Is an Injury to All" showed up all right, but to what? To to prison in chains in 1981, and the labor escort the scabs. Maybe I never noticed tops did nothing, it ushered in an era The principle of non-sectarian labor de­ these things before. I spent six years of defeats. Strikebreaking injunctions, fense in this country goes back to the revolu­ tionary syndicalists of the Industrial Workers in the military and it was all 'USA labor frame-ups, armed mercenaries all the way' and everything, but there's from outfits like Vance security, and an of the World. This cause was taken up by the a lot of these things you just don't hear International Labor Defense, established by arsenal of legal weapons recall the late the early Communist Party and headed by about. They. may be our government, 1800s, when the mines and plants were but they don't always look out for us patrolled by private armies, and strikes James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism. Looking not to the courts but to TROTSKY the power of labor, the IW defended many LENIN "Wobblies" and others such as Sacco and Vanzetti. Among the class war prisoners whose defense the IW took up were San Francisco trade-unionists Tom Mooney and Warren Billings ,framed up on bomb charges Black Lawyer Barred-· in July 1916. Today the Partisan Defense Committee continues this tradition of class­ struggle defense. Racist "Dress Code" The path to freedom leads through a prison. The door swings in and out and through that door passes a steady procession of "those fools too stubborn-willed to bend," who will not tum aside from the path because prisons obstruct it here and there. in D.C. Court The doors of San Quentin penitentiary swung outward the other day and three men TheIollowing protest letter was sent stepped forth and drank in their first breath of freedom for several years. They were by the Partisan Defense Committee on workers, members of the I.W.W., who had just finished a sentence under the criminal June 24: syndicalism law.... . District of Columbia Court of Appeals In the state penitentiary in Massachusetts, Sacco and Vanzetti wait for the final Washington, D.C. judgment to be passed upon them because they are rebels and foreigners .... The class-conscious worker accords to the class-war prisoners a place of singular Dear Sirs: honor and esteem. The class-war prisoners are stronger than all the jails and jailers We are writing to protest the unprec­ and judges. They rise triumphant over all their enemies and oppressors. Confined in edented action of Judge Robert Scott prison, covered with ignominy, branded as criminals, they are not defeated. They are in dismissing attorney John T. Harvey destined to triumph. They are the representatives of an idea that will crack the walls from his courtroom for wearing a kente of every prison and crumble them into dust. cloth. It was an outrageous expression There is a way of saying that the clas~-war prisoners are victorious, which smacks of bigoted contempt for the jurors for of superficial optimism and which offers little consolation to men who spend long, Judge Scott to claim the kente cloth almost forgotten years behind the gray walls of the jail. We do 'not mean to speak in would prqmpt them to automatically this sense, as though it were an automatic process. The victory of the class-war sympathize with Mr. Harvey's client. It prisoners is possible only when they are inseparably united with the living labor is also a. racist recipe for excluding movement and when that movement claims them for its own, takes up their battle cry blacks from future juries. and carrIes on their work. . In addition to the racist contempt of -James P. Cannon, "The Cause That Passes Through a Prison," this judge, his action was blatantly Labor Defender (September 1926) unlawful-violating the right of Mr. Harvey's client to the attorney of his choice, and violative of the separation of church and state codified in the First Amendment. As legal commentators have pointed out there have been no Berg/NY Times !!!.!!!!Y!{!!~!!~f~! ~ like proscriptions against wearing a yar­ D.C. attorney John T. Harvey wearing mulke or cross in court-not to mention African kente cloth shawl. DIRECTOR OF PARTY PUBLICATIONS: Liz Gordon the Brooks Brothers suit, Cardin tie, EDITOR: Jan Norden Lloyd & Haig shoes and Rolex watch respect." And as Judge Robert Scott PRODUCTION MANAGER: Joan Parker which appear to be the U.S. legal sys­ demonstrated, that holds true as much CIRCULATION MANAGER: Karen Valdez tern's version of the powdered wig. for Mr. Harvey, an "officer of the court," EDITORIAL BOARD: George Foster, Frank Hunter, Jane Kerrigan, Len Meyers, James Robertson, as it does for the 85 percent of the black Joseph Seymour, Alison Spencer, Marjorie Stamberg What ruffles this judge's feathers is this gesture of solidarity expressed by men in the nation's capital who, mired The Spartacist League is the U.S. Section of the International Communist League (Fourth in a life of enforced ghettoization and Internationalist) . Mr. Harvey with oppressed blacks across poverty, sooner or later pass through the Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published biweekly. except 2nd issue August and with 3-week interval December. the country as well as in his courtroom. by the Spartacist Publishing Co .. 41 Warren Street. New York. NY 10007. Telephone: (212) 732-7862 (Editorial), The acquittal of the officers who beat criminal "justice" system. (212) 732-7861 (Business). Address all correspondence to: Box 1377, GPO, New York. NY 10116. Domestic subscriptions: $7.00/24 issues. Second-class postage paid at New York, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address changes black motorist Rodney King was a re­ We demand that Mr. Harvey's dis­ to Workers Vanguard, Box 1377, GPO, New York, NY 10116. affirmation of Supreme Court Justice missal be lifted. Opinions expressed in signed articles or letters do not necessarily express the editorial viewpoint. Taney's decision in the Dred Scott case Very truly yours, No. 555 10 July 1992 135 years ago that blacks "had no rights Paul Cooperstein which th,e white man was bound to for'the PDC 2 WORKERS VANGUARD were branded as "criminal conspiracies." They've added another deadly weapon to the legal arsenal-RICO conspiracy Ravenswood Strikers laws. Like the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, which was first used not against trusts but against unions, the RICO laws enacted under the pretext of fighting "organized crime" have been a govern­ Beat Back Union-Busters ment dagger aimed at the heart of the organized labor movement. With the Two hours after the last of the scabs Criminally, the USWA tops also bar­ Taft-Hartley. But the USWA tops just help of "reform" groups like the Team­ left the Ravenswood Aluminum Corpo­ gained away the job of jailed striker Bob bowed to the "secondary boycott" laws, sters for a Democratic Union, the feds ration (RAC) plant in West Virginia on Buck. Workers like Buck were the back­ and never called on bargemen to choke have used RICO to place the powerful June 29, the members of United Steel­ bone of the strike. As one union sup­ off the aluminum are being shipped up Teamste~s' union under government workers (USWA) Local 5668 reclaimed porter wrote ih thanking the Partisan the Ohio River. USWA can workers and "trusteeship." , their jobs. They had fought a brutal 20- Defense Committee for a donation to a Teamster brewery workers were never Mine Workers, Longshoremen, Labor­ month battle of attrition with RAC and fund for Buck, "He had the courage called on to refuse to handle RAC alu­ ers and Hotel Workers are. just some of metals tycoon Marc Rich. The wife of a . not to wear a bug and try to trap his minum. Instead, the labor fakers pleaded the unions to feel the RICO sting. And, Local 5668 member proudly told the Par­ co-workers. It didn't take courage for with the brewing companies to drop RAC under the threat of civil RICO suits, fines kersburg News, "We've showed that com­ the rat that squealed." Twelve other aluminum and relied on a campaign to and seizure of union assets, the union pany that people all across the country unionists who were fired for picket line scandalize Marc Rrch in international tops have let militant fighters like Bob are willing to fight union-busting com­ activity will come back to work, but the banking circles. Tax evader Rich, who Buck swing in the wind rather than come panies like Ravenswood Aluminum." settlement explicitly deals away Buck's may be trying to cut a deal with the Justice to their defense. This is the "legality" Workers had endured the long lockout job. Local 5668 members, and all labor, Department to slither back into the coun­ honored by union officials who shun the and defended their union. They approved must not forget men like Bob Buck. try, finally gave in. But the bowing and weapons that built the unions-plant the final contract by a margin of 1,287 In announcing the contract vote, scraping of the union tops to capitalist occupations, picket lines that mean you to 181, but they are also angry. Under USWA International VP George Baker "law and order" cost the courageous better not cross, and solidarity strikes. the agreement hiring "preference" is told/the strikers, "you've had 19 months Ravenswood workers 20 hard months­ The police-state RICO laws have been given to the hated scabs who holed up of putting up with a lot of crap that wasn't and cost Bob Buck his job. used against anyone or anything the in "Fort RAC." Over 100 have already necessary and you won." But what was True to form, the lesson that the labor government doesn't like-from black been hired, while RAC uses physicals "unnecessary" was that it took 20 months lieutenants of capital draw from RAC activists like Mutulu Shakur, to the New to screen out unionists. Militants are to win this 'class battle. Sure, the Inter­ is ... more reliance on the bosses' state. Leftist Ohio 7, to adult bookstores in the being provoked and disciplined. The national sent in strike support funds, and The AFL-CIO traitors are so desperate Midwest. Like.the old IWW slogan said, final contract also gives RAC "flexibil­ thousands of other unionists sent support. in begging for a "striker replacement" "An injury to one is an injury to all." ity" in job descriptions and work rules But from the time RAC locked the gates bill that Lane Kirkland supported an Labor must use the power it still has that will mean fewer, and more danger­ and implemented their plan to smash amendment that would have, subjected to beat back this new union-busting ous, jobs. The USWA bureaucracy and the union, the Steelworkers bureaucracy aI/labor disputes to arbitration! The real tool. For hard class struggle to defeat RAC rushed to settlement, as an NLRB played by the bosses' rules. lesson is the urgent need to forge a rev­ anti-labor repression-the only "illegal" law judge conveniently held back a rul­ Coal miners in West Virginia have olutionary party and class-struggle lead­ strike is one that loses! ing which could have cost the company shown the' rest of labor plenty of times ership that will stop begging and mobi­ In a message for his union brothers $70 million in back pay. what to do with slave-labor laws like lize workers in a fight for power .• and sisters, Buck told the PDC,' "We got to stick together. You can't let one person take the fall by themselves. I could have possibly got out of this mess by putting someone else in it. But I wasn't willing to do that. We've got to stand together Outrage Over NYPD Murders on all of this, and not let them scare us and bully us into taking whatever we're offered, or working unsafely or what­ Dominican Community ever, just to appease the company or the federal officials." Explodes The USWA tops abandoned Buck as his union brothers return to work. Four­ JULY 7-New York's Dominican com­ teen members of Local 5668 faced munity has exploded in two nights of charges stemming from thIS labor battle, angry rioting over the police execution­ but under the contract negotiated by the killing of Jose Garcia on July 3. Garcia union bureaucracy Buck will not get his was shot at pointblank range in the lobby job back. of an apartment building on I 62nd Street At a May 16 rally of 2,000 locked-out in the Washington Heights neighborhood RAC workers, a Partisan Defense Com­ of upper Manhattan. Then as· protesters mittee representative called for labor were in the streets last night word spread defense of imprisoned union brothers. of another NYPD killing of a Domini­ The PDC has added Bob Buck to the list can man. The cops claimed they chased of class-war prisoners to whom we send Dagoberto Pichardo to the roof of his stipends. It was people like Bob Buck Protesters in Washington Heights rally outside building where Jose Garcia was building where he "jumped" to his death. who built the Steelworkers and every gunned down. But an eyewitness saw the cops push other union in this country. Free Bob Dagoberto off the ledge. the cop put the barrel of his pistol up to politically active Hispanic neighbor­ Buck! (Send messages of solidarity _to Today, over 1,000 people, surrounded Garcia's abdomen and pulled the trigger. hoods in the city. And they are a partic­ Robert Buck 03314-088, P.O. Box 200, by' a police army in riot gear, marched O'Keefe was a plainclothes narc squad ular target of the racist cops, from the Hinton, OK 73047.) on, the killer cops' lair at the 34th Pre­ cop who operated out of the notorious narcs to beat cops to the INS immigra­ * * * cinct chanting "jPolicia asesino!" A 34th Precinct, one of ten NYPD pre­ tion police, all of whom regularly shake Spartacist League contingent raised cincts now under federal investigation down bodega owners. We encourage WV readers to continue signs calling to "Mobilize the power of for corruption. He was part of the "Local Meanwhile, the cops have declared to support and build the PDC. Become labor to stop racist attacks!" "For labor/ Motion" team that roamed the neighbor­ open season on Hispanics in New York. a monthly sustaining contributor. Send black/Hispanic defense against racist hood. beating up and terrorizing resi­ More than 30 Latin men have been a donation of $5 or more and receive a cop terror!" "Full citizenship rights for dents. Deputy Police Commissioner gunned down by the police since early subscription to Class-Struggle Defense all foreign-born workers! Jobs for all!" Raymond Kelly praised O'Keefe as an 1990. Their names are familiar to WV Notes. For a single copy send $1 to; and "jJose Garcia presente!" "aggressive cop." Justifying shooting Partisan Defense Committee, Box 99, readers: David Cotto, Jose Luis Lebron, Two months after the L.A. riots, NYC people like Garcia first and asking ques­ Hector Rivera, Federico Pereira, Tomas Canal St. Sta., New York, NY 10013 .• rulers are in a "security" frenzy over the tions later, Kelly said: "You don't want Vizueta, Juan Rodrfguez, Andrew Gon­ Democratic Convention which opens at to chase them down the street, they usu­ zalez. Jose Uviles and Gabino Figueroa Madison Square Garden on July 13. The ally run faster than you" (New York are two recent victims gunned down by Correction - city is seething with the anger of minor­ Times, 7 July). the NYPD in the last two months. And Comrade Eibhlin writes us con­ ity victims of police violence, and abor­ City Council member Guillermo now Jose "Kiko" Garcia and, Dagoberto cerning an error in the article "Fam­ tion rights activists warding off attacks Linares told the press that just 20 min­ Pichardo must be added to this list. ily Values are Killing Youth," WV by clinic besiegers. Meanwhile, cop h!!l­ utes before Garcia was shot, O'Keefe Black "Democratic Socialist" mayor No. 554 (26 June); icopters are buzzing rooftops and police had been involved in a drug shakedown, Dinkins sits atop the New York City "The (ex-) Bishop of Galway is phalanxes patrolling upper Broadway. where the cops beat up a drug dealer, powder keg, trying to balance between Eamonn Casey, not Eamonn Murphy "Napalm the 'Hood" headlined the New confiscated $2,000, three pounds of the minorities and the cops while pre­ as the article states. Comrades in York Post (6 July), "reporting" a police cocaine and two handguns, one of them siding over massive budget cuts and the Dublin Spartacist Youth Group radio message Saturday. a .38 caliber weapon. Conveniently, the police terror. What better proof that the reported that T-shirts appeared in The killing of Jose Garcia was a police "found" a .38 handgun next to Democratic Party "popular front" means Dublin during the Casey scandal, cold-blooded execution. Cop Michael Garcfa's dead body. the murder of Hispanics and blacks. The advertising condoms wi.th the slo­ O'Keefe grabbed Garcia outside the There are now more than 500,000 labor movement, with its heavy compo­ gan, 'Wear a condom, just in Casey!' apartment building, dragged him into the immigrants in New York City from nent of black and Hispanic unionists, As some wit on British television lobby, slammed him with a police radio, the Dominican Republic, where IMF­ must .take the lead in defending the put it, the good Bishop will now go then shot him in the back and in the imposed "austerity" has brought the pop­ beleaguered ghettos and barrios. Break on to take up a missionary position front. On Spanish-language TV, Mayor ulation to the point of starvation. The with the Democrats, build an internation­ in Latin America." Dinkins revealed that the front wound Dominican community in upper Manhat.­ alist workers party to fight for socialist "appeared to be a contact wound"~i.e., tan is one of the fastest growing, most revolution! • 10 JULY 1992 3 German '-Spartakists Tear Down Nazi Flag

photos Our comrades ripped down swastika flag from wall near Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, unfurling red banner proclaiming, "The Red Army Smashed the Nazi Regime!"

BERLIN-On June 23, supporters of roof with the words, "The Red Arm) an energetic protest ensued. Passers­ The Fourth Reich wants to rehabilitate the Spartakist Workers Party (SpAD) Smashed the Nazi Regime." by from various countries, immigrants the Third. They won American imperi­ and the Committee for Social Defense A representative of the gallery tried hawking 'items near the Brandenburg alist backing in 1985 with Helmut Kohl tore down a huge Nazi flag which had to "save" the Nazi flag as it fell to the Gate who were angry over working in and Ronald Reagan's obscene obeisance been mount~d high on a wall near the ground, but anti-fascists seized this the shadow of the swastika flag, as well before SS graves in Bitburg. On 9 Brandenburg Gate. With this act, our bloody symbol of genocide and burned as supporters of the Kurdish Workers November 1991, the anni versary of the comrades put an end to a revolting prov­ it on the spot. The functionary then Party, chanted, "One, two, three-Let fascist Kristallnacht pogrom, the Nazis ocation, to which thousands of Berliners rushed off to summon police, on traffic them go free!" Under their protests, the staged a parade in the East German and tourists who daily pass by the Bran­ duty at the Brandenburg Gate, who duti­ anti-fascists were released. industrial city of Halle. There, and again denburg Gate were exposed. Displaying fully came over and took four people In 1945 the Soviet Army smashed with the provocative appearance of for­ the fascist flag was a direct threat against into custody, holding them in a police the Hitler regime, liberating Europe mer SS man Schonhuber, Fuhrer of the survivors of the Nazi terror regime and fascist Republikaner, in Berlin's Alexan­ an offense to all decent people. derplatz on May 21, the Nazis were pro­ Werner Brand, a spokesman for the tected by a massive police mobilization. Committee, said, "We won't tolerate this! Seeking vengeance for the victory of The swastika stands for the gruesome the Red Army, German imperialism has murder of six million Jews, of Roma and put Erich Mielke, former head of DDR Sinti (Gypsies), homosexuals and other state security (the Stasi), on trial on minorities, of Communists and all anti- charges stemming from the Nazi period . . fascists. Recently it brought death to And in the SPD-governed city of Ham­ •. Mete Eksi, Nguyen Van Tu and Torsten burg, the anti-fascist Gerhard Bogelein Lamprecht," immigrant workers and a was condemned to life imprisonment for - German youth who have been murdered supposedly having brought to justice in ...: by rampaging Nazi/skinhead killers. a Soviet POW camp a notorious Nazi The Nazi flag, with a giant swastika hanging judge. The Spartakists demand . emblazoned dead center, had been hung freedom for Mielke, immediate release '.. from the fourth floor of the gallery on of Bogelein, and hands off Erich Pariser Platz, housing the former East Honecker, the former head of the DDR, German Academy of Art, on the famous who was jailed for ten years in the Third '. promenade of Unter _den Linden. This Reich and is now a "wanted man" in the swastika flag was part of a so-called Fourth Reich! "historical exhibition" of all the flags of The Christian Democratic party of the German Reich since the time of the Helmut Kohl and the SPD prepare the Kaiser. Since the exhibit was mounted soil for the fascists with their mass in May, people passing near the Bran­ deportations of asylum seekers and denburg Gate could be observed stand­ immigrant workers. Meanwhile, the PDS ing stock-still, necks craned as they makes the pages of Neues Deutschland gazed upward at this "exhibit" in horror Red flag raised over the Reichstag, available to SS Schonhuber to spew out and disbelief. vanquished Nazi Third Reich. his racist hate-mongering. The SpAD But after 4:30 p.m. on June '23, there calls on the workers movement to defend was no swastika hanging near the Bran­ van. Those detained were: Werner from fascist terror. Twenty-seven million the right to asylum and fight for full cit­ denburg Gate. Spartakist Toralf Endru­ Brand; Ronald Kruger (photographer for Soviet citizens lost their lives in the izenship rights for immigrants. To drive weit and his comrades climbed out on the newspaper Spartqkist); Renate Dahl­ struggle against the Nazis before the vic­ the murderous bands of Nazis back into the roof of a crumbling neighboring haus and Toralf Endruweit (Spartakist torious Red Army could hoist the red their holes, what is needed are mobi­ building, where Endruweit leaned over spokesmen at the mammoth anti-fascist flag on the Reichstag as a symbol of lizations of workers/immigrants. who the edge wielding a long metal device rally in Treptow in January 1990 and liberation. In the East German deformed showed their will to fight in both West to rip down the flag. The swastika flag candidates for the SpAD in the last workers state, the DDR. the swastika and East in the recent public worker~ fell to the applause of those gathered Bundestag elections) system was destroyed. Berlin is a work­ strike. before the gallery. Shortly afterwards, a As the four were held captive. a crowd ers' city with deep anti-fascist roots. The Spartakists' act of taking dowr. Spartakist banner was unfurled from the gathered around the police van and When in January 1990 the Spartakists the Nazi flag was welcomed by mam initiated a rally against Nazi desecration Berliners, particularly among immlgran, of the Soviet memorial in Treptow. and communities. In several cafes and loca; . the SED (former Stalinist ruling party, gathering spots. photos of the swastik, now the PDS) took up this call. a quarter being torn down are on display. A~ Toral' of a million working people came to Endruweit stated. "We know what tiL express their outrage and their protest. swastika means and how we have I­ Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of the Spartacist League With the social-democratic SPD act­ deal with it. Today we are also hono Ing as the Trojan horse of counterrevo­ ing in a modest way the heroic JeW\\i o $ 7/24 Issues of Workers Vanguard o $3/3 issues Of lution and the SED-PDS selling out the Communist Herbert Baum (who led d' (includes English·language Spartacist) Women and RevolutIon DDR. the Spartakists uniquely opposed underground resistance group in Hitlel " o New 0 Renewal International rates o $2/4 issues of capitalist reunification of Germany. Its Berlin). To eliminate the fascists onCL $25/24 issues-Airmail $7124 issues-Seamail Espartaco (en espanol) aftermath has brought unemployment for and for all we need a workers revolt.­ (includes Spanish-language millIOns, an assault on women's rights tion that will avenge the victims of the: o $2/10 introductory issues of Workers Vanguard Spartacist\ and a rise in rightist attacks. Now the Nazi Holocaust. This is what the Spa'­ Name ______bourgeoisie of Auschwitz is reaching out takist Workers Party fights for. And our Address ______toward rule over Europe. As they do so, comrades of the International Commu­ their minions in the SPD are leading the nist League (Fourth Internationalist) are ______Apt, # ____ Phone ( __ ) ______anti-Communist witchhunt. Meanwhile, fighting against Yeltsin's counterreV(l­ the infamous Gustav Just, the murderer lution, to win back political power for City ______--,- ______State ______Zip _____----== 555 of Jew~ when he was in a Wehrmacht the Soviet workers and re-establish the Make checks payable/mall to: Spartaclst Publishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 death squad. i~ a prominent member of country of the October Revolution as the the SPD~ vanguard of the world revolution .... 4 WORKERS VANGUARD Washington Lies on Vincennes Massacre

Four years after the fact, and four months before the U.S. presidential election, an influential section of the American media has decided to tell (part of) the story about the deliberate shootdown of an Iranian Airbus by the USS Vincennes. After an extensive joint investigation, ABC News Night­ line (1 July) and Newsweek (13 July) blew .apart.· the Washington cover-up. and was still gaining altitude at the time ReagarilBush lies about firing in self­ Newsweek headlined it "Sea of Lies." of the missile impact." defense, we wrote: Nightline host Ted Koppel called the This is indisputable, as Koppel adds: "By any standard of decency and moral­ U.S. story of "self-defense" from Iranian "We know all these things now because ity, the captain and responsible offi­ attack "a tissue of lies, fabrications, half­ the information was later retrieved cers of the Vincennes should be facing truths and omissions." They tefIll the a court-martial. Instead, they're being through a detailed analysis of a tape treated as heroes. Because their orders 3 July 1988 downing of a civilian air­ made by the USS Vincennes' own Aegis were cut right at the top: shoot first and liner which killed 290 innocent people, radar tracking system." ask questions later. Reagan's cops of the including 66 children, a "tragic blunder." The program quotes President Rea­ world are subjecting the people of the But as they exhaustively and conclu­ Near East to a grotesquely magnified gan saying that "the USS Vincennes version of the murderous treatment cops sively document, this was the result of and the USS Elmer Montgomery were mete out to racial minorities in American a U.S. provocation and part of the Rea­ operating in international waters." But ghettos." ganlBush policy of covert support for Koppel produces Admiral Crowe, now -WVNo.457 Four years later, liberal media blows Baghdad against Teheran in the squalid, Bush out of the water with expose of retired, admitting under prodding that While the Congress rallied behind Vincennes provocation, cover-up. decade-long Iran/lraq War. the Vincennes "was in Iran's territorial Reagan, and their "left" hangers-on re­ Of course, you didn't have to wait waters." Indeed, on screen we see actual mained silent, the' Spartacist League until now to find this out. We said as footage of the action on the Vincennes joined a protest demonstration with signs was created of crusading journalists much at the time. Workers Vanguard No. during the shootdown, and hear the including: "~eagan, Democrats: Blood ferreting out the truth. But in reality 457 (15 July 1988) headlined "Massacre ship's navigator shout out; repeatedly, Is on Your Hands!" the critical reporting of journalists "we're about 9.3 miles from Qeshm The media were willing handmaidens reflected splits in the ruling class. Dem­ Island," i.e., about three miles inside the of the bipartisan anti-Soviet war drive, ocrats went dovish on Vietnam, and so 12-mile limit of Iranian waters. The Ira­ which served as the excuse for every you began seeing David Halberstam's nians were defending themselves against kind of militarist provocation, from dispatches contradicting the line put out a U.S. naval provocation. Libya to Grenada to the Persian Gulf. by the U.S. command in Saigon. The The ReaganlBush "party line," as Kop­ Only now that Washington is claiming capitalist powers that be decided that pel terms it, claimed that the Vincennes victory in the Cold War are they willing Nixon had to go, "for the good of the mistakenly shot down the Iranian Airbus to reveal some of their lies. Typically, country" (i.e., the stability of their rule), WIJRItERS ",,''''.11 '" because it had gone into attack mode the New York Times (2 July) buried its and so the Washington Post publishers­ u.s. Warship Kills 290 Airline Passengers answering "distress calls" from merchant coverage of the spectacular Nightline who happen to own Newsweek-printed ships under assault by Iranian gunboats. revelations in the inside pages, with a the stuff dug up by Woodward and Massacre in One was a Pakistani ship, but it wasn't doubting headline, "A Challenge to U.S. Bernstein. attacked and didn't request aid. Another Version of Downing of Iran Airliner," But, only certain truths are "fit to the Persian Gulf was called the Stovall, but as it turns over a small article which printed only print" for the ruling class. So when out, this was a fictitious ship, a decoy­ a limited part of the hot stuff and back­ Bush launched his wanton aerial bom­ likely a radar blip created by patrol boats loaded that. bardment of Iraq last year, a cam­

<\: .. si"~"'. l. .::' .::. •. lined up to mimic an oil tanker profile. And of course, they're all still wary paign of deliberate mass murder worthy Former Marine Lieutenant Colonel of the most dangerous ReaganlBush of Hitler, the media willingly went _.;.,~~.,~''':''''''' ....., ~..... ,A _~'-.w._ <~. Roger Charles, who advised ABC News' provocation-the 1983 KAL 007 affair, along, defaming CNN's Peter Arnett ==--=.:==.~.:;:---"------'----.-.',.. investigation, summed up:' which could have triggered a nuclear for-reporting the truth about the U.S. 1i,'tM'''#;GfWI.i@'' "What we know, beyond any doubt, is World War III (see "KAL 007 Was on bombing of a baby formula plant; claim­ that there was a provocation, that the Deadly Spy Mission," WV No. 547, 20 ing the bombed Amiriya bomb shelter United States forces enticed, in fact, March 1992). Reagan and the imperialist was a military bunker; refusing to entrapped the Iranian gunboats into a situation where we could then say media screamed murder over tbe KAL show photos of the carnage on the "mile that there's been a hostile action by downing, even though they knew the of death" along the highway north of them ... and that then allowed, under this Soviets weren't aware it was a civilian Kuwait. The White House has hands kind of specious rule of loosened hot pur­ plane. In the case of the Iranian Airbus, dripping with blood, as do the Democrats suit, us to take military action.' ... We attacked the gunboats." it really was murder. in Congress and their "Fourth Estate" The NightlinelNewsweek pieces show partners in crime. The truth, as they in the Persian Gulf." In response to Charles noted that "full disclosure of what serious in-depth reporting can recognize, is a powerful weapon in the Republican and Democratic claims that what happened with the Vincennes would do, when there's the will. Kpppel notes hands of revolutionaries, which is why the American warship had the right to have brought about the disclosure of a that "after Vietnam and Watergate," it's > they suppress it, and we report it. From defend itself, we asked: "So what the secret war, the United States as an active impossible to ignore government lying. KAL 007 to the Vincennes, it's no acci­ hell was the U.S. doing there in the first military participant on the side of the Over Vietnam and Watergate a myth dent that you read it here first._ place? It is, after all, the Persian Gulf." Iraqis, fighting the Iranians." An honest Today Ted Koppel intones, "Govern­ probing reporter could have seen much ments lie; they do it all the time.:: But of this at the time. So why the belated not just the government. As we wrote "revelations" now? This investigation SPARTACIST LEAGUE/U.S. LOCAL DIRECTORY back then: "The capitalist·media snapped by NightlinelNewsweek is undoubtedly to llttention, retailing the government's rdated to the November elections and National Office: Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 • (212) 732-7860 lies, as the war criminals in Washington _the Democrats' muckraking over. Iran- Atlanta Detroit Norfolk draped themselves in a blood-drenched gate/lraqgate. (Democratic Representa­ Stars and Stripes for the Fourth of July." Box 4012 Box 441043 BoX 1972, Main PO tive Henry Gonzalez is seeking the ap­ Atlanta, GA 30302 DetrOit, MI 48244 Norfolk, VA 23501 And so they did once again in 1991 , pointment of an independent counsel to regurgitating Pentagon war propaganda "investigate the secret American buildup Boston Los Angeles Oakland in U.S. imperialism's wanton "Desert of Iraq before the Persian Gulf war.") Box 390840, Central Sta. Box 29574, Los Feliz Sta. Box 29497 Slaughter" against Iraq. Still, what they dug up on Bush is Cambridge, MA 02139 Los Angeles, CA 90029 Oakland, CA 94604 (617) 492-3928 (510) 839-0851 Still, it is useful when the curtain stunning. After the USS Stark was hit (213) 380-8239 of lies is lifted, even just a bit. In his by Iraqi missiles in 1987, killing 37 sail­ Chicago San Francisco Madison hard-hitting broadcast, Koppel takes the ors, Reagan vented his anger on Iran Box 6441, Main PO Box 77494 audience step by step through the U.S. instead, using the incident to step up Chicago, IL 60680 Box 1492 San Francisco, CA 94107 MadiSOn, WI 53701 version as presented by the Chairman of secret aid to Iraq. Koppel relates: "U.S. (312) 663-0715 (415) 777-9367 the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Wil­ military officers' were stationed in Bagh­ Cleveland New York Washington, D.C. liam Crowe. Correcting each lie as it was dad, initially to help keep Iraqi planes spoken by Crowe, Koppel notes: Box 91037 Box 444, Canal St. Sta. Box 75073 from hitting any more U.S. ships., But Cleveland, OH 44101 New York, NY 10013 Washington, D.C. 20013 • The plane was not "outside" its pre­ the end result was that the United St$ltes (216) 781-7500 (212) 267-1025 (202) 872-8240 scribed route but was "flying well within helped Iraq conduct long-range strikes the commercial air corridor." against key Iranian targets, using U.S. • The plane did not head "directly ships as navigational aids ... critical tar­ TROTSKYIST LEAGUE OF CAIADA/LiGUE TROTSKYSTE DU CAIADA for Vincennes" but wa~ "actually turn­ geting information was cartied to the ing slowly away from" the ship. Iraqi capital on a weekly basis by U.S. Toronto Vancouver • The plane did not emit "electronic military personnel." A senior U.S. officer Box 7198, Station A Box 2717, Main P.O. indications" of an F-14 but rather "its Toronto, ON M5W 1X8 Vancouver, BC V6B 3X2 was quoted, "We became forward air (416) 593-4138 (004) 687-0353 correct transponder signal identifying it controllers for the Iraqi air force." as a commercial aircraft." "First Casualty of War" Montreal Edmonton • The plane was not "decreasing in C.P. Les Atriums, B.P. 32066 .PSSE P.O. Box 9605 altitude as. it. neared the ship" but rather While the American media were toe­ Montreal, ac H2L 4V5 Edmonton, AB T6E 5X3 "had been steadily climbing from liftoff fng the "party line" and retailing the 10 JULY 1992 5 Young Sparlacus

• COpS Blame Ice-T for L.A. Riots • Clinton Bids for Racist Vote

The fallout from the Los Angeles .-l.~ riots has continued to define the U.S. political landscape, including the recent -iLl 1 presidential campaign proxy war over "tizcnship rap music and performers. After 'the racist acquittal of the L.A. cops who beat Rodney King, the nationwide esca­ lation in police marauding has meant a surge of violence against blacks and Hispanics. This muscle-flexing is also reflected in the cops' campaign, now being championed by Bush and Quayle, against "gangsta" rapper Ice-T and his band Body Count for their hit song "Cop Killer.:' . Then came Democratic Party front­ (8) Sheraton Wasbington ~~;:t"" runner Bill Clinton's widely publicized denunciation of nationalist demagogue "rapper" Sister Souljah at Jesse Jack­ son's Rainbow Coalition conference, Death penalty Democrat Clinton dumps on Jesse Jackson, seizes on "get whitey" remarks by "Sister Souljah" to woo which made headlines nationwide. Pick­ backlash Yote, at Rainbow.Coalition conference June 13. ing up on Souljah 's "get whitey" remarks made in a Washington Post interview, ing effect: last week it was revealed that youth would groove on a celebration of anti-homosexual prejudice, and anti­ Clinton used the occasion to stage a Time-Warner had caved in by vetoing an cops eating lead? This is just fantasy; Korean racism are noxious by-products calculated insult to Jackson on his home album cover depicting a black man the reality is killer cops emptying their of oppression. Thus former NWA mem­ turf. Clinton's purpose was transparent: ambushing George Bush in front of the service pistols (and "throwaway guns") ber Ice Cube's new album, Death by turning Souljah into a new "Willie Capitol. into young blacks, killing several hun- Certificate, contains an anti-Korean Horton," he was appealing for the white This is not the first time the cops have dred a year. _ threat called "Black Korea," addressed racist vote, gone on the warpath to. try to intimidate And what really bugs these uniformed to Korean shop owners, in which he What's really behind all the claptrap black musicians they don't like. In 1988, professional killers is the growing warns, "Pay respect to the black fist/ about rap has little to do with the music, when Compton rap crew NWA came out multiracial hatred of the cops, as evi­ Or we'll burn your store right down and a whole lot to do with the two cap­ with the revenge fantasy "Fuck Tha denced by the L.A. riots. One of the rea­ to a crisp." This vile racism toward italist parties' playing up to racist reac­ Police," the FBI wrote threatening letters sons Ice-T's "Body Count" album may another oppressed group can only serve tion in an election year. The cops, of to NWA's record company, and cops have been targeted is that it is a crossover the oppressor. course, want a license to kick ass in the around the country shut down the attempt to reach a white audience: a In contrast, Ice-T recently criticized ghetto. group's concerts-causing sales of the black rap star singing (OK, screaming) his earlier putdowns of homosexuals, The hysteria surrounding Ice-T has album to triple. with a white speed-metal band. Thanks saying that to be consistent in defending reached ridiculous levels. Dan Quayle The racist hypocrisy of this latest cam­ in part to the reactionary campaign, it's freedom of expression, he had to support gets a standing ovation at a National paign is so obvious even the New York selling like hotcakes. it for gays as well. He backed this up Sheriffs' Association gathering for call­ Timfs (30 June) noted that while Bush Around the country, cops have been by performing at an AIDS benefit. And ing the rapper "revolting." Cops try to intones, "I stand against those who use shutting down rap concerts in mid-song, on the L.A. upheaval he remarked, "I strong-arm record stores to boycott the films or records or television or video beating and arresting black teenagers just hope black people realize it's more album, to pressure Time-Warner (which games to glorify killing law enforcement in the ensuing chaos, most recently a poverty-versus-money thing than a owns the record label) to drop the band, officers," one of his biggest boosters is last month in Boston and New Jersey. black-and-white thing" (Rolling Stone, and even to get theaterS'to stop showing Arnold "Terminator" Schwarzenegger, The reactionary campaign to force rap 25 June). Batman Returns because Warner Bros., whose character has killed and maimed records to carry "Parental Advisory: Sister Souljah says her remark quoted its production company, is owned by dozens of policemen. In Hollywood, the Explicit Lyrics" warnings has picked up by the Washington Post-"if black peo­ Time-Warner! trade term is "body count" movies. But steam, with a law passed in Seattle ple kill .black people every day, why not Most recently, 60 mostly Republican Schwarzenegger is, after all, an Aryan; threatening arrest of store owners who have a week and kill white people"-was Congressmen signed a letter expressing Ice-T and NWA are black. sell such albums to kids. taken out of context, that she was trying "our deep sense of outrage" over Time­ What riles the cops is that rap songs Sure, lots of folks (especially older to convey the view of gang members, or Warner's distribution ,of the album. The like "Cop Killer" are immensely popular. people, black and white) don't like rap she was saying that whites don't care campaign is undoubtedly having a chill- Now why do you suppose that ghetto music. But "hard core" rap's angry social about blacks killing blacks but it would commentary speaks to the experience of be different if whites got killed. What­ young blacks. Moreover, many white ever-Sister Souljah's nationalist pos­ kids like rap, which irks mainstream con­ turing makes all white people the enemy. servatives and liberals no end; a partic­ Dead wrong. The racist capitalist system ularly stupidNewsweek (29 June) cover is the enemy. article sought to portray them as self­ Moreover, while fantasies about kill­ haters. Yet in many cases, a big reason ing cops may have broad appeal, any is they go to schools that are still mar­ attempt to carry this out would be ginally integrated, where they have stupidly suicidal. How many cops were black friends. The bipartisan assault on killed in the L.A. riots? Zero. So what school integration seeks to undo that. Sister Souljah's remarks feed into is As a way of commenting on events, going after the nearest available white accessible to even the poor and illiterate, person. It is this kind of false conscious­ there is a worldwide tradition of trouba­ ness which led to the horrific beating of dours composing lyrics about current white trucker Reginald Denny during the events. There are reportedly alre'ady sev­ L.A. riots, which is exactly what George eral Mexican corridos (popular songs) Bush and Daryl Gates wanted. dealing with the L.A. riots. When Ice-T In a more general way, no matter says, "My life is violent, but violence is how offensive or misguided people may lifelPeace is a dream, reality is a knife," find particular ,songs, they are suppos­ a lot of black youth identify with it. In edly protected under First Amendment fact, it's one of the few things many free speech provisions. But when Dan black youth listen to. But rap is more Quayle cynically cites the First Amend­ than just passive reflection. ment, which he would dearly love to There certainly is an ugly side to abolish, it's because he's more interested AP the "messages" rap conveys, reflecting in promoting racist attacks by going after Roundup of black youth in Los Angeles in aftermath of riots that exploded in widespread backward attitudes in the "PC" bans on "hate speech." outrage at acquittal of cops who brutally beat Rodney King. ghettos, where anti-Semitism, sexism, As we wrote two years ago during the 6 WORKERS VANGUARD LO Fete Bans AIDS Activists, Trotskyists The following article is reprinted skyists!" some 25 protesters demon­ ing impact, comparable, as one comrade Arlette Laguiller, well-known Lutte from Workers Hammer No. 130, July­ strated at the end of the well-attended noted, to what an organised demonstra­ Ouvriere spokeswoman, gave her tradi­ August 1992, newspaper of the Sparta­ debate between LO and' the Ligue tion in a Maoist "re-education" camp tional "Sunday socialism" speech. Said cist League/Britain. Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR, the might have among the inmates. As the speech began with a long paean to LO's French Mandelite organisation). Called placards went up, LO leader Dutiurg was sterling record of... inviting other groups PARIS-We have noted over the years by the LTF, this protest was also joined busily explaining that the question of to the fete for "fraternal debates"! that the LO fete-the annual summer by the British Revolutionary Internation­ voting rights for immigrants was of no In addition to the ACT UP militants gathering of the French and European alist League (RIL). To its credit, the interest. to the working class.. Summing and Trotskyists who were on the receiv­ "far left" organised by Lutte Ouvriere in ing end of LO's method of "debate" this the village of Presles outside Paris­ year, the black youth who last year were has increasingly carried the stamp of the victims of an ugly attack by LO mar­ this workerist, nationally narrow and shals would treat this Orwellian twaddle Stalinophobic outfit's most unsavoury with the contempt it deserves. Our pro­ sides. In the attempt at a populist appeal test against that vile action was docu- to backward elements, their line and - mented in a letter from the Central Com­ attitude on the race question, the poison mittee of the LTF to the organisations of anti-Semitism and their unabashed that participated in the LO fete, reprinted homophobia are designed to compete for in Workers Vanguard No. 529 (21 June the types a Jean-Marie Le Pen would 1991). Despite a guilty acknowledgment target. Last year LO thugs went after that "mistakes" had taken place pre­ black youth. This year, LO outrageously viously, LO's policy continues to be one refused a stand at its 6-8 June fete to of "disciplined" violence and exclusion ACT UP France, a militant gay rights of minority y~uth. group which has fought in particular Lutte Ouvriere has never been very on behalf of AIDS victims, exposing good, let alone Leninist, on the questions the- Mitterrand government's 'criminal of special oppression. But under the policies. impact of Cold War II, the collapse of Upon learning of this exclusion, the Stalinism and the bourgeois lie of the Ligue Trotskyste de France, section of "death of communism," all forms of the International Communist League social reaction, what Marx called "the (Fourth Internationalist), wrote to ACT Le Bolchevik old crap," have flourished, with the fake UP, offering that it share our literature June 7-Protest against exclusion of homosexuals and Trotskyists at the "LO left capitulating to this in a variety of stall at the fete. We noted in our let­ fete" outside Paris. Sign (left) says: "For LO 'Death of Communism' Means Communists Get Out!" - ways. On the domestic terrain, LO's ter that LO is a notoriously homopho­ particular brand of "colourblind" and bic organisation, deliberately refusing to centrist RIL had called at its forum on up their line on special oppression, he homophobic workerism has intensified. recruit gay militants to its ranks. With every decent socialist militant to take concluded with the statement that when Nominally defencist on the Soviet Union the policies of the French government part in the action. women got the right to vote (in France, (but not anywhere else capitalism has on the question of AIDS sentencing As it turned out, decent socialist in 1945) this had not changed anything! been over~urned), LO's support to the whole sections of the population to militants were in short supply among After the protest ended, in the midst forces of capitalist counterrevolution death, LO's exclusion should evoke utter the anti-Soviet fake-Trotskyist atten­ of a growing crowd with whom the ICL from Poland to East Germany places it disgust in every decent human being, let dees at the fete. The LCR made it per­ comrades pursued the debate, we were. in the camp of the anti-Soviet traitors. alone every leftist. fectly clear (including in its newspaper confronted by a goon squad of some 40 Its "neutrality" at the time of the August After discussing our proposal, the Rouge following the fete) that it wel­ males led by one Kaldy, a leading coup predictably gave rise to an internal Paris chapter of ACT UP declined the comed the exclusion of the ICL. True to national spokesman for LO. This mas­ state capitalist opposition, which in tum offer of a shared stall. At the fete, ICL their own policies at home, neither the sive show of bullyism threatened with attracted the tender attentions of the Brit­ comrades went to the stands of the var­ Workers Power leadership (despite the each minute to get out of control-only ish SWP. ious organisations present to publicise initial impulse of a couple of their quick action by an LTF comrade stopped At the same time, there are militants the exclusion of ACT UP, distributing members) nor the Cliffite Socialist the blow headed for a young comrade in and around LO who find our Trotsky­ copies of our letter of protest, printed in Workers Party lifted a finger against the from the ex-DDR; a black sympathiser ist opposition to Yeltsinite counterrevo­ the LTF newspaper, Le' Bolchevik. Most LO's bannings. The ban extended as of the LTF was likewise specially tar­ lution attractive. Indeed, LO's decision of the LO cadres themselves only learned well to the Courant Communiste Inter­ geted. We demanded to know who was to exclude the ICL from future fetes was from the LTF of the decision to exclude nationale, a harmless ultraleft grouplet in charge. Kaldy replied hysterically, _ motivated not simply by our exposure ACT UP. The LO leadership became which had the - intelligent idea of "No one!" of its exclusion of ACT UP but also in unhinged. They sent an LO veteran and distributing to meetings the issue of - Amidst vile sexist, anti-homosexual reaction to our hammering the LO mem­ chief of security to us to dramatically Lutte Ouvriere calling for a vote to the epithets and screams of "Get Out!" the bership on the Russian question. Today announce that since we had broken the Cold Warrior, union-hating Mitterrand in LO goons tried to push the protesters the LO leadership is fostering and con­ rules of the game by "distributing a 1981, exposing LO's hollow claims to back to the ICL stand. We stood our solidating in its cadres a system of values leaflet inside the fete" we too would a consistent anti-Mitterrand posture. ground and LO was forced. to back off; totally counterposed to everything com­ be excluded from future LO fetes. The ICLIRIL protest and a short the protesters withdrew in good order. munism stands for. We said earlier that We did not allow LO's swinish antics speech given by an LTF spokesman drew The following day, at least 40 :'security this organisation could head down dan­ to go unnoticed. Chanting "Down with a lot of attention from those at the debate. squad" members "escorted" two of our gerous paths. So it has, and the picture the exclusion of homosexuals and Trot- The disciplined action had an electrify- comrades at the central rally where is not a pretty one .•

controversy over Miami rappers 2 Live even grotesquely comparing Souljah to based December 12 Movement headed Jackson in Atlanta, to David Dinkins in Crew: "state interference apd infringe­ the fascist terrorist KKKer David by Sonny Carson. Notorious since the New York, black Democratic Party may­ ment on the rights of young people to Duke, Clinton is competing with Bush 1960s for his anti-Semitism, since Je«-­ ors called in the racist cops to bust the get their hands on whatever turns for the white racist vote .by ostenta­ ish shopowners left the ghettos he is now heads of protesters against the King them on is part of the drive to roll tiously kicking blacks and labor in going after Asians. verdict. back all democratic rights and reinforce the teeth. - As Reagan and Bush were hyping For all the talk of "fight the power," every backward, sexist, racist, jingo­ Meanwhile, Dan Quayle's recent "fam­ the "war on drugs" as a way to in­ the most graphic rap songs of "dusting/ istic prejudice to instill obedience to a ily values" campaign, directed against' crease the cop presence in the ghettos, icing/smoking cops" are cries of impo­ racist, right-wing government" ("Rap, the "cultural elite" supposedly infesting Williamson was tight with Carson's tence. If the talentless Sister Souljah can Rock and Race in the U.S.A.," WV No. the entertainment industry, schools and "Black Men's Movement Against get a hearing when she claims that 505, 29 June 1990). Despite the self­ the arts, is designed to appeal to a layer Crack," which conducte<;l i~s own drug "white people and the American Gov­ appointed "guardians of morality" who of the. population that H.L. Mencken raids. During the 1990 protests fol­ ernment want to destroy black African want to silence rap, it shll sells millions christened the "booboisie." What is the lowing the murder of Yusuf Hawkins people wherever they are in the world," of records, tapes and CDs. ' "cultural elite"? It's not the people with by white racists in Bensonhurst, the it is because ghetto youth correctly sense money; Quayle's attacks are usually December 12 Movement was organiz­ that an oppressive force is out to destroy Rappin' with the Enemy delivered to $lOOO-a-plate dinners. And ing a racist boycott of the Korean­ them. That force is spearheaded by the It's not just the Republicans who it's not the people running the country; owned Red Apple deli. Carson's bunch government, the executive committee of find rap music and rap performers a con­ that's Quayle and his boss(es). Taken also played a despicable role in last the capitalist class, which also oppresses venient foil for advancing their reaction­ together with Quayle and Bush's repeated year's turmoil in Crown Heights, whip­ and exploits tens of millions of white ary. agendas. When Clinton denounced New York-bashing, this "cultural elite1' ping up anti-Semitism against Hasidic working and poor people as well as Sister Souljah he was deliberately stag­ crap is thinly veiled anti-Semitism, with Jews, and leading marches against billions of people of every color around ing an incident to embarrass Jesse Jack­ a heavy component of the 1950s-style synagogues by black youth chanting the globe. son, "dissing" him on his own turf. But McCarthyite witchhunting. "Sieg Heil!" To defeat that evil power and not just more than an affront, Clinton's speech As for the so-called angry "militant" In these elections everyone of the cap­ scream at it, you need to mobilize a su­ was part of a strategy to show that Sister Souljah, what was she doing at italist candidates is a certifiable racist­ perior power, the power of the working the Democratic Party is not "beholden" Jackson's Rainbow Coalition? She was and everyone knows it. JacKson's pitiful class. This requires the forging of a rev­ to "special interests," like blacks or on a panel discussion of voter registra­ bluster that he'll now consider endorsing olutionary; integrated vanguard party labor. Of course, the Democrats are be­ tion as a road to "empower" black youth, the sinister corporatist rightist Perot which can mobilize the proletariat, in­ holden to the racist capitalists who run by making them voting cattle for the reflects the utter bankruptcy of black cluding the poor and oppressed of the this country (and finance both parties). Democrats. Souljah, aka Lisa William­ leadership in this country today. From ghettos-and barrios, in a victorious fight By bandying about "reverse racism," son. was a spokesman for the Brooklyn- Tom Bradley in Los Angeles, to Maynard for socialist revolution .• 10 JULY 1992 7 her job or having an unwanted baby Abortion .. iI because she can't take a second day off from work to meet the waiting period (continued from page 1) requirement? How about 30-year-old by Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, Sheela Paine in East St. Louis, who was a political maneuver calculated to with her unemployed husband and five bring about a reactionary decision, with children barely survives on welfare and which these liberals hoped to heat up the who in her 19th week of pregnancy is abortion issue and help elect a Democrat. still trying to scrape together the $425 Even among the overwhelmingly she needs for an abortion? And what white and middle-class crowd who turned about 17-year-old Becky Bell, who died out for the mammoth "pro-choice" from a back-alley abortion in 1989 rally in Washington on April 5, which because she cou1dn't tell her parents and featured Democratic and Republic"an wouldn't humiliate herself before a noto­ speakers as well as repeated attempts by riously anti-abortion judge in her Indiana the NOW organizers to keep out leftist hometown? Instances like these, multi­ literature, :many young protesters were plied a millionfold, have made the right far from enthusiastic about electoral to abortion such an emotional and explo­ politics. While NOW, NARAL et al. sive issue for the vast majority of the stick to the courts and the halls' of Con­ American people. gress, these young . women and men have time and again been prepared to For Women's Liberation put their bodies on the line, defending' Through Socialist Revolutionl abortion clinics against reactionary big­ But for NOW" NARAL and the ots in Wichita, Buffalo and elsewhere. other "liberal ladies auxiliaries of the But rather than being mobilized in WVPhoto Democratic Party," the millions of mass social struggle to defend abortion, NARAL president Kate Mlchelman networks with Democratic candidate Bill Sheela Paines in this country are ciphers. their energy and commitment are being Clinton via cellular phone after Supreme Court decision June 29. Who will they The bourgeois feminists are the self­ cynically exploited to· obtain a Demo­ vote for on November 3-death penalty Clinton, sinister Perot? Some "choice"! conscious expression of a layer of edu­ cratic election victory. cated, largely white, middle-class pro­ form demands restoring the values of e<;onomic conditions for replacing the fessionals who seek to forge their niche Democrats Push Reactionary "work, family and individual responsi­ institution of the family. in bourgeois politics. Their primary con­ "Family Values" bility." In a barely veiled diatribe against cern is to preserve their right to abortion. The Democrats hop~ to capitalize on "welfare mothers" and teen sex, it rails: Poor, You,ng and Mlnorlty­ Well-heeled women have long been able widespread support for abortion rights "People who bring children into this An "Undue Burden" to buy safe abortions. But for poor, to catapult Clinton into the White House. world have a responsibility to care for Perhaps the most succinct description minority and working women, the racist Clinton immediately seized on Black­ them and give them values, motivation of what the new ruling means came from Democratic Party offers nothing. Clinton mun's warning, saying: "You have four and discipline. Children should not have liberal New York City Republican Con- . glories in the fact that he returned home judges plainly committed to repeal Roe children." As a partner party of U.S. cap~ gressman Bill Green: "The Supreme to Arkansas to personally supervise the vs. Wade, three others nibbling around italism, the Democrats are committed to Court didn't kill Roe v. Wade. It gave execution of a brain-damaged black man. the edges and a brave Justice Blackmun maintaining this sexist, racist system. the states permission to strangle it to For that matter, "pro-choice" Clinton's saying he doesn't know how much The right to abortion is no more than death with red tape." This didn't start home state has on the books one of the longer he can hang on. This is one of a simple democratic right to a medical last week. Almost from the moment Roe most invidious abortion laws in the the things this presidential erection is procedure which is now one of the safest was decreed in 1973, a section of the country, banning virtually all abortions, about." Meanwhile, the Congressional in the world. But the reactionary bigots ruling class, whose most vociferous as well as requiring parental notification Democrats made it clear that they would see abortion as a threat to the institu­ spearheads were the Catholic hierarchy and ruling out state funding. push for a vote on the Freedom of Choice tion of the family, a bulwark of social and Moral Majority fundamentalists, has To defend the right to abortion for all Act in the days before the Republican reaction, which along with organized sought to limit and eviscerate the right women means a struggle for free abor­ convention in August, knowing that religion props up the capitalist system to abortion. As soon as Reagan took tion on demand and free quality health Bush will veto it and hopefully shoot of exploitation and oppression. Thus office, he began packing the Supreme care for all. To organize a social force himself in the foot. any question relating to sex-and par­ This is a pretty thin reed for defenders ticularly sex and race-like interracial of women's rights to clutch at in order marriage, homosexuality and even sex to salvage abortion. The 1976 Hyde education in the schools, is a conduit for i~E (P:I) ~S~ \~, ...... :;.. ;.. ; .. Amendment denying access to safe abor­ the most blatant social reaction. '(eO "\\~~~~\l~ to.. tion to poor women was passed with Women are supposed to be chained R'6-\\t ~ ~ \E&»- bipartisan support. And when the for life to husband and hearth. (One ~~\Ot·L. Supreme Court ruled a year later that woman in an L.A. housing project told states could also deny funding for abor­ Quayle, "If the good Lord wanted every­ tion, born-again Democrat Jimmy Carter body to have a husband, he would have callously intoned, "There are many gave them one.") Meanwhile, with the things in life that are not fair." Even the teen "squeal rule" and the outcry over vaunted "Freedom of Choice Act," ini­ distribution of contraceptives at schools, tially designed as a simple affirmation the sexuality of youth is punished with of Roe in the face of Supreme Court and a putative death sentence, either through state encroachments, has been watered AIDS or back-alley butchers. And Amer­ down as the Democrats throw sops to ica's rulers continue to ban the RU-486 their various reactionary constituencies. pill, which would enable women to have Thus the bill would impose parental noti­ safe and convenient abortions at home, fication for teens, allow states to deny out of reach of the anti-abortion terror­ funding and to restrict abortion Jlfter ists. Two days after the latest abortion "viability," and it says nothing about ruling, customs cops at New York's federal funding for ab~rtion.The bill Kennedy airport seized RU-486 from a permits doctors to refuse to perform pregnant woman who brought it for her Wiley/SF Examiner abortions-a woman's right to medical personal use into the country in open Court as part of a conservative strategy capable of defeating the entrenched reac­ care demands that they should be defiance of the reactionary ban. to make "permanent" the rollback of the tionaries-from the Catholic hierarchy required to provide referrals. Bourgeois feminists chant, "Not the gains of the 1960s social struggles. to the American Medical Association­ And the Democrats seek to appeal to church, not the state, women will decide Taking their cue from the White requires mobilizing the social power the same reactionary "family values" our fate!" But under capitalism, the House, anti-abortion "god squads" took crap that potato(e) head Dan Quayle has of the labor movement. Meanwhile, in state-and the exploiting class it repre­ to the streets, besieging and bombing order to be part of the Democratic Party been pushing. The Democratic draft plat- sents-does decide your fate. Coal min­ clinics, terrorizing both women.patients "mainstream," liberal women's groups ers don't "choose" to go down to work and medical staff. Half of all urban coun­ scarcely mention the "A word" these in the pits; they simply know they will ties and 93 percent of rural counties have days. Bill Clinton declares, "Being pro­ starve if they don't. Control over the no abortion facilities at all. From one choice is not the same thing as being Spartacist League reproduction of labor power is a corner­ year to the next, the number of available pro-abortion." In the sa~e vein, New stone of capitalism, and whether it is done facilities continues to go down, as local York WHAM, which sometimes mobi­ Public Offices through the Nazis' limitation of women and state authorities prevent the licens­ lizes for clinic defense, proclaims on -MARXIST LlTERAtURE­ to "Kinder, Kiiche, Kirche" (children, ing of clinics, and doctors are either its press releases "WHAM! is not 'pro­ kitchen, church) or the social democrats' scared away by death threats or lured abortion.' Nobody is 'pro-abortion'." Bay Area welfare state child subsidies to encour­ away by more lucrative work. Only one Even the more militant WAC chants: Thurs.: 5:30-8:00 p.m., Sat.: 1:00-5:00 p.m. age working-class women to be incuba­ doctor provides abortions in all of South ."WAC is watching, we'll remember­ 1634 Telegraph, 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) Oakland, California Phone: (510) 839-0851 tors, the purpose is ultimately the same. Dakota. In Pennsylvania alone, the num­ We'll be voting in November." Even the Roe ruling asserted the bour­ ber of abortion providers has plummeted Buried inside WAC as its "best Chicago geois state's "compelling interest" in an from 147 in 1978 to 90 today, and they builders" are self-styled "radicals" like Tues.: 5:00-9:00 p.m., Sat.: 11 :00 a.m.-2:oo p.m. embryo which had reached "viability"­ 161 W. Harrison St., 10th Floor are all located in 8 of the state's 67 the International Socialist Organization. Chicago, Illinois Phone: (312) 663-0715 thus enshrining the government's "right" counties. Likewise, inside WHAM's New York to mess with a woman's body. Now the black-robed bigots have Clinic Defense Task Force is the Revo­ New York City It will take a socialist revolution to invited the states to further erode the lutionary Communist Party's "Refuse Tues.: 6:30-9:00 p.m., Sat.: 1:00-5:00 p.m. lay the basis for the full emancipation 41 Warren St. (one block below already tenuous access to abortion under and Resist," whose slogan is "Abortion Chambers St. near Church St.) of women by abolishing the whole social their doctrine of "not undue burden." on Demand and Without Apology." End­ New York, NY Phone: (212) 267-1025 ~ order defined by exploitation, inequality What about a 3l--year-old single mother less front groups and liberal slogans with and racism, and creating the social and of two who has to choose between losing a militant veneer~that is what these 8 WORKERS VANGUARD Mass Arrests by Orange County COP1, DeRortations Threatened

"Immigration Refonn and Control Act," which has driven immigrant workers onto the streets to be swept up in migra Stop Migra Strikebreaking raids. In a strike last fall by the ILWU in Livermore, near the Bay Area, the INS grabbed three unionists off the picket line and, in.a dirty deal brokered by then­ president of ILWU Local 6 Jim Ryder, in Southern California! deported the strikers to Mexico (ILWU ,~ Dispatcher, 22 October 1991). This SANTA ANA, July 7-The hated immi­ obscene sacrifice of his own 'union mem­ gration cops of fa migra are waging a bers is part and parcel of the racist, flag­ war against the union movement in Cal­ waving anti-immigrant policy of the ifornia. Taking their green light from the American union bureaucracy. repression of the ghettos and barrios fol­ There is a despicable history of the lowing the racist acquittal of the cops labor traitors using the racist immi­ who beat Rodney King, the INS (Immi­ gration police of the capitalist state. gration and Naturalization Service) has Farmworkers president Cesar Chavez gone after workers from the Bay Area was notorious for "protecting" his doc­ to San Diego in a wave of union-busting umented members by calling on fa migra deportations. to sweep the fields of undocumented Now, in an outrageous assault on strik­ workers. Instead of sparking broad labor ing construction workers from Ventura struggle (which would have threatened County south to the Mexican border, his fellow bureaucrats), Chavez relied Orange County sheriffs have jailed 149 instead on consumer boycotts and looked drywall workers and offered them up to to the Democratic Party, from top cop la migra, which is threatening to deport Bobby Kennedy to former California as many 'as 88 strikers. Their supposed governor Jerry Brown, whose agricul­ "crime"? Defending their livelihood from tural labor act subjects farm workers the building contractors who have adver­ to a grower/bureaucrat-controlled state tised for scabs from as far away as Tulsa board and outlaws militant labor tactics Boster/LA Times and Cincinnati to break the drywallers' Combative Latino construction strikers in three-hour face-off with Orange like "hot-cargoing" scab produce. fight for a union. Los Angeles-area labor County sheriffs, July 2. . Then, as now, the Spartacist League -longshoremen, hotel workers, SEIU fought to bring out the power of labor janitors and the thousands of unemployed dence to boot, so they tried to blackmail years ago. Each wave of newly arrived on behalf of all workers. We say that building trades unionists-must fight now workers into pleading gUilty to lesser workers is used by the contractors as a anyone who has made it to this country to defend these brothers! charges. One striker who was released threat to undercut the wages of their own has the right to stay and work-full cit­ The workers have been in Orange today told WV he and dozens of others class brothers. izenship rights for foreign-born workers! County jail, framed up on l'logus charges were held overnight outdoors in an The Orange County sheriffs/INS While AFL-CIO labor fakers push pro­ of "conspiracy to kidnap" some scabs. empty lot surrounded by a fence topped attack on these strikers follows sharply tectionist poison, we call on Mexican, Early in the morning on July 2, strikers with barbed wire. They were given no increased use of la migra to terrorize U.S. and Canadian workers to defeat the were able to militantly shut down a con­ blankets, and not permitted to lie down. the labor movement. Employers use the bosses' "free trade pact" with joint class struction site in posh Mission Viejo. He was incensed that the court tried to INS to sweep picket lines and rid them­ struggle. We fight for the political inde­ After a three and a half hour standoff, get them to agree to a criminal trespass selves of militant union organizers. At pendence of labor from the capitalists­ the sheriffs carried out the largest mass charge. "But everyone refused to plead a hearing a year ago, an IUE official break with the Democrats, build a work­ felony arrest in Orange County history. guilty," he said proudly. reported that an organizing drive at one ers party! Court officials held the workers over the Arrested strikers told WV that the plant was chilled by an INS inspection The militant fight of the drywall work­ July 4 weekend, hitting them with arrests seemed pre-arranged. Waiting at of 1-9 employment fonns. The ILGWU ers is part of a surge of organizing by $50,000 bail each. In one case they the jail were INS agents, who interro­ reported that at two gannent factories Latino workers, especially in Southern demanded half a million dollars for this gated each worker, targeting 88 strikers the employers broke a drive by promis­ California. Coupled with hugely popular ransom. The D.A. justified this extortion for deportation to Mexico. Migra thugs ing labor certifications to some workers strikes such as those of L.A. teachers by saying that if the workers were let tried to intimidate the men by ripping and firing the union organizing com­ and teaching assistants in recent years, go, they would go back to picketing. up residency "green cards" in front of mittee. Newly organized janitors in union drives by janitors, hotel workers As soon as word of the arrests spread, them. While several dozen have been SEIU Local 399 were hit with workplace and others can bring militant fighters scores of family members and other released, more than 100 remain in jail, inspections for "ilIegals." into the labor movement. workers protested outside the jail. Rep­ including those tagged for deportation. In an ominous development, it was an­ The labor movement, especially pow­ resentatives of the Partisan Defense We call on the labor movement from nounced last month in Washington that erful industrial unions like longshore and Committee and Workers Vanguard spoke L.A. to San Diego to provide legal henceforth Labor Department employ­ aerospace, must defeat INS union­ with them in court and during protests defense and use its muscle to demand ment standards inspectors will "share busting and defend foreign-born work­ for the last several days. Arrested strikers that all strikers be immediately released, information" with the INS-instead of ers. As the fastest-growing component told of racist taunts in jail, cops calling that all charges be dropped, and that looking for unsafe wofking conditions, of the union movement, these workers them "wetbacks." Those who asked for there be no deportationS! they will be used as finks to spot undoc­ are linked in struggle to their black and a lawyer were told they would be in jail For many years, drywall workers in umented workers (Long Beach Press white class allies, and are a bridge to for days. When the drywallers were Southern California have been recruited Telegram, 11 June). Meanwhile, INS combative Mexican workers on the other finally arraigned on Monday and Tues­ from the village of El Maguey in the sweeps of day-labor assembly sites have side of the border. From among them day, they were held in a cage' in groups central Mexican state of Guanajuato, extended as far north as Marin and will be recruited class-conscious cadres of ten, out of sight of their families. Paid as litHe as five cents a foot for the Sonoma counties. La migra is being used who will play a crucial role in forging Prosecutors finally decided that they' backbreaking work of putting up 100- as the spearhead of a concerted govern­ the revolutionary internationalist work­ couldn't get away with charging 149 . pound slabs of sheetrock, the strikers are ment war on labor. ers party that will bring down the racist people with kidnapping. with no evi- getting half what they were paid ten The AFL-CIO pushed for the 1986 capitalist system once and for all! _ ostensible "socialists" and "revolution­ Spartacist League/U.S. and our sister aries" have to offer. All of these outfits sections of the International Communist' will be outside the Democratic Party League around the world have stood Sp-artacist convention in New York City this month forthrightly in defense of abortion rights (Spanish-Language begging this party of war. racism and as part of our struggle against capitalist Edition) exploitation to stand up for the rights of counterrevolution. women The Spartacist League ha~ consl~­ No. 24 At a march in defense of abortion rights tently fought to mobihze the working March 1992 In Manhattan last month. cops clearing class to defend the righb of women and $1 (64 pages) the way for Cardinal O'Connor set upon all the oppressed. We call on labor to and arrested eleven protesters. including defend abortion clinics. seeking to break Spartacist demonstrator~ carrying signs away the ranks of the organized labOt Spartacist IS included proclaiming. "Down WIth Bush. Break movement from the reactlOnarylmlslead­ with all subscriptions to with Democrats! Build a Workers Party!" ers who wallow in all the social back­ Espartaco. newspaper of From Warsaw to Berlin to Dublin to New wardness ordained by their bourgeoi" the Spartacist Group York. abortion rights have become a key masters. The "pro-choice" Democrab of MeXICO. battleground in the struggle between offer the old shell game of "lesser evil" A 4-issue subscription to social progress and social reaction. The politics at the polls in N6vember. We Espartaco is $4 (airmail) Marlha Phillips 1948.1992 march of counterrevolutIOn across East seek to build a revolutIOnary party which or $2 (surface mail) Europe has meant Increasing attacks on will serve as "tribune of the people .... women and mInorities. Yet the bourgeois fighting all forms of social oppression Make checks payable/mail to: thl~ Spartacist Publishing Co. feminists and their leftist hangers-on as we organize to sweep away Box 1377 GPO stood with U.S. imperialism in hailing. disgusting system. Free abortion on New York, NY 10116 the woman-hating mujahedin "freedom, demand! Free quality health care for fighters" in Afghanistan and clerical­ all! For women's liberation. through nationalist Solidarnosc In Poland. The socialist revolution! _ 10 JULY 1992 9 Los Angeles has been transformed into a virtual "free trade zone" of low-wage sweatshop labor which, in the words of one economic analyst, was "competing head-to-head not with Germany and Japan, but with Bangladesh and the Phil­ ippines." More to the point, Mexican workers earning the minimum wage in L.A. are competing with Mexican work­ ers ma19ng one-tenth as much just over the border in the maquiladora plants of Tijuana, which has grown from a honkytonk town into a huge industrial city producing for the American market. At the bottom, L.A. 's "growth economy" is a nightmare for a hard-pressed and increasingly marginalized black popula­ tion for hundreds of thousands of dis­ enfr~nchised and brutally exploited Latino and East Asian immigrants, and for white unionized workers who have seen their jobs and unions decimated. Skid Row "Nickel" district in shadow of glitzy Over the past decade one of the biggest downtown hotels and office buildings. growth industries in L.A. has been private security firms whose armed cops patrol rich white neighborhoods. NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) yuppies have banded together in defense of the "environment" and order" candidate who would root out enue for social programs. The "L.A. against new·development. At a 1987 con­ Los Angeles ... "welfare cheats," hold the line against 2000" reP9rt boasted of the region's ference of "Not Yet New York," one integrated "fair housing" legislation and "robust" economy: "the largest aerospace (continued from page 12) group called for a statewide "Elbow otherwise use an iron heel to keep center in the world; the greatest concen­ the pernicious channeling of black anger Room" (or as the Nazis called it, Lebens­ blacks, Hispanics and the burgeoning tration of high-tech industries; and a raum) initiative to restrict immigration, not against the state but against Korean Vietnam antiwar movement in line. healthy manufacturing sector. The ports store owners. But what really shook the seal the border with Mexico and impose The Reaganites' "supply side econom­ of Los Angeles and Long Beach presently obligatory "family planning." As Davis rulers of this country was that this was ics" of cutting taxes for the rich and handle the highest volume of shipping an integrated explosion of pent-up anger puts it: "hysterical homeowners' associ­ upper income suburbanites, while steal­ of any port in the nation. Moreover, the ations, supported by local businessmen, by the poor, minority and working peo­ ing money from welfare mothers and ports offer direct access to Pacific Rim ple whom they have viciously ground have begun to wage war against the very inner city school kids, was presaged in countries, many of which are exhibiting immigrant labor upon which their master­ down. The L.A. riots were w:idely seen the 1978 Proposition 13 "tax revolt" led spectacular economic growth." But the as a "wake-up call to America." Various race lifestyles depend." Meanwhile real by Howard Jarvis, head of the Apartment rulers were living in a fool's paradise on estate magnates and developers have liberals and reformists saw this as an Owners' Association of L.A. A white borrowed money and borrowed time. opportunity to cement a new "popular demagogically presented themselves as middle-class revolt against government The collapse of the Stalinist regimes the defenders of "cheap" high-rise hous­ front." Thus Mike Davis wrote: programs viewed as benefiting the ghet­ in Eastern Europe and the counterrevo­ "Most of our political and business lead­ ing for the working class-and minorities tos and barrios, in L.A. the Prop 13 lutionary ascendancy in the Soviet Union against the "slow growth" NIMBYs. ers have suddenly given lip service to "movement" was linked with BUSSTOP, burst the bubble for war industry in the portentous ideas like 'the war between L.A. has not built a unit of public West. One-third of Southern California's the haves and the have-nots.' If they are a racist mobilization that smashed even housing since the early 1950s, when any the limited moves that were ordered in aerospace workforce has been axed and serious, then surely they must recognize further plans were defeated by a Los what Los Angeles most desperately 1978 for school integration (after a hundreds of thousands more layoffs are Angeles Times-led campaign denouncing needs is not a Pyrrhic 'victory' over riot­ IS-year court battle). Blacks, Latinos coming down the pipes. Last week the ers, but a truce between hostile ethnic them as "socialistic." Today whole fam­ L.A.-based Hughes Aircraft announced and economic strata that can become a and the poor were increasingly immis­ ilies of immigrants are crammed into the dismissal of 9,000 workers. Mean­ fn:mework for negotiating a new social erated and rigidly segregated. Welfare tiny apartments where they have to "hot contract to replace the faded vision of was slashed, libraries and hospitals were while, East Asian flight capital has taken the Bradley years." bed" it (sleep in shifts) to get any rest. devastated, the public school system was flight. Just as Reagan financed his "Star Others live in "reconverted" garages -Los Angeles Times (15 May) Wars" and other military boondoggles ravaged. The former "education state," with no plumbing or electricity. To get While Davis dreams of erecting some through massive borrowing from Japa- - California now ranks 48th among the 50 to the office buildings and homes that kind of "New Deal" on the smoldering states in per capita expenditure on public nese moneymen, German bankers and they clean, they have to travel for hours ruins of South-Central Los Angeles, the education. Arab oil sheiks, the "redevelopment" of by bus. (Until recently there has been only deal the bosses have to offer the In the 1980s, big businesses reaped downtown L.A. was financed by foreign working class, poor and minorities is an no rapid transit in L.A., as it was also huge tax windfalls from Prop 13 (Stand­ capital. And while the L.A. ports were proclaimed to be "socialistic" by a cabal increasingly raw one. ard Oil for example saved $47 million the busiest in the country, as Mike Davis of West Side developers and General Rather than the pipe dream of class points out, "more than half the contain­ a year). The California "defense" indus­ Motors.) peace, what L.A. showed was the poten­ try grew fat off the biggest peacetime ers which arrive in San Pedro filled with And while City Council members tial for explosive class struggle. As we military buildup in U.S. history. Real computers, cars and televiSIons return debate deporting the homeless to the wrote in our article "L.A. Upheaval estate magnates secured tax breaks for with nothing in them" (City of Quartz). Santa Monica mountains, they have Shakes America" (WVNo. 551,15 May): development-scams and speculation that Of course, there isn't much to trade. implemented various "design innova­ "Conditions are overripe for a massive earned them fortunes while looting rev- The industrial heartland of Southeast social explosion in this country' extend­ tions" to make life even more unlivable ing from' the ghettos and Hispanic bar­ for the completely destitute. The last rios to white skilled workers, many of public toilet in L.A. 's Skid Row, them one paycheck away from bank­ "Nickel," directly abutting the Down­ ruptcy and eviction. The eruption of town citadel, was bulldozed. Round-top integrated protests following the acquit­ "bum-proof' benches, uncomfortable to tal of the racist cops in the Rodney King sit on and impossible to sleep on, were case signals the potential for just such a installed at bus stops. An overhead new wave of militant social struggle." sprinkler system in "Skid Row Park" is To realize this potential, what is required turned on randomly throughout the night is a multiracial revolutionary party that to drive out the homeless. In the winter can bring to bear the consciousness of 1987, when the temperature plum­ - and organization necessary to direct the meted and a number of people froze to anger and outrage that erupted 'in L.A., death on the street, the cardboard shan­ and reverberated across the country, into ties erected by the homeless to protect a revolutionary fight to sweep away this "Open shop" themselves were torn down by the L.A.: Roosevelt whole system of capitalist exploitation, LAPD. The head of the Planning Com­ sent in federal racism and poverty._ mission explained that while it was not troops to break "illegal" to :"Ieep on the streets, erecting Fool's Paradise for the Rich, UAW strike at North American "any sort of protective shelter" was Nightmare for the Poor Aviation in against the law. The bourgeois reaction of the 1980s­ June 1941. brought home in massive union-busting, Bonapartist "The Thin Blue Line" slashing social programs for blacks and cops ride L.A. has been a seething volcano just Hispanics, starving the poor and aged, roughshod in waiting to e~plode and the rulers sitting and a wholesale legal counterrevolution town where on top knew it. The overriding force abrogating democratic rights-was a labor has "hol,ding the line" against the majority historically ofthe city's population-on whose backs program that had been playing out in been weak. California over the last 25 years, ever a thin layer at the top were enriching since Reagan was elected governor in themselves-was the LAPD. As John 1966. Riding to power on a white racist _ Gregory Dunne described it in the New backlash following the 1965 Watts rebel­ York Review of Books (24 October 1991), lion in L.A., he campaigned as the "law "the department functions more like a 10 WORKERS VANGUARD panzer division than a normal police boro case in 1931." The landmark here pects." In,a Rand Corporation study of open-shop town in the United States." force, a high-tech army on wheels trained was that the c'ops were caught on camera 5,633 people arrested during the recent. Key was the jailing of the McNamara to respond to incidents in seven minutes employing the racist terror that is the riots in L.A., more than 2,000 were brothers in 1911. The McNamaras, or less." It's not just on wheels: LAPD daily fare dished out to oppressed minor­ hauled in for "curfew violation." Despite organizers for the Iron Workers, were helicopters, equipped with 30 million ities by police forces across the country. the media images of marauding mobs, charged with dynamiting the Times candlepower spotlights called "Night­ True, the L.A. cops may be one of the barely 10 percent (570) were arrested on Building. Their case galvanized labor sun," thunder over the ghettos and barrios most blatant examples of police bona" "violence" charges, and of those 143 in L.A. against the hated union-busting 19 hours a day. To facilitate joint action partism, acting as a law unto themselves. were for weapons possession. This is an Otis regime. Demonstrations of 20,000 with forces on the ground, rooftops have Right up to his resignation last month, indication not of violent crime but of the came out in support of the McNamaras, been painted with street numbers, in Daryl Gates flaunted the fact that the . fact that any sane person in Los Angeles. and Socialist Party candidate Job Harri­ Davis' words, "transforming the aerial LAPD chief is not even formally respon­ is likely to have a gun. Only ten of those man was poised to take the mayoral view of the,city into a huge police grid." sible to the mayor or,city council. Gates arrested, overwhelmingly Latinos and elections. But when defense 'lawyer In a bnnker on the fourth and fifth became something of an embarrassment blacks, were charged with homicide. Clarence Darrow had the McNamaras sublevels of City Hall is housed the most to the powers that be. To rein in these And of over 50 deaths listed as "riot­ change their plea to "guilty," the tide powerful, state-of-the-art police commu­ dogs of war, the Christopher Commis­ connected," not one was a cop. was turned. The streets outside the court­ nications system in the world~esigned sion report called for increased training, house, which had been filled with the to speed up LAPD response time and "cultural awareness" sessions and the "Forty Year War" on L.A. Labor: McNamaras' defenders, were empty. The coordinate information with database creation of a "citizen Police Commis­ Now a Century Old McNamara boys were thrown behind "hit lists" of "suspects." (This only sion" to review complaints. That the LAPD rivals the military in bars, one for life. Otis rode high in the underlines that the LAPD command As communists with a Marxist under­ some Third World military dictatorship saddle, trampling any opposition to the deliberately refused to intervene when standing of the state, we oppose cop is because they have never felt the mo­ rule of his dynasty. This was the high the riots erupted because the cops wanted bonapartism and warn that the police­ bilized power of an organized labor point of what the Times termed the a conflagration to promote interracial state terror of the LAPD is not going movement. Los Angeles is an anti-union, "Forty Year War" against labor, a defin­ violence and to whip up a white racist to be curbed through better training "open shop" city-a legacy which goes ing event which has conditioned class frenzy that could be channeled into sup­ or "independent" investigation into its back to the robber barons who conspired relations in Los Angeles ever since. port for more murderous cop repression.) , "excesses." The cops are the armed to enrich themselves through the cre­ Davis reports that "one AFL union The "Emergency Command Control enforcers of capitalist "law and order." ation of this sprawling desert metropolis. after another had been broken in a suc­ Communications System" was brought in cession of violent metal trades strikes at the time of the 1984 Olympics and street transport lockouts. Only IWW when the Reaganites' "anti-terrorism" seamen and longshoremen defied the scare was at a fever pitch. Now, Peter Merchants and Manufacturers Associa­ Ueberroth, who was the director of the tion crusade to make the open shop '84 Olympics, is brought in to head the complete" (City of Quartz). Through the "healing process" to "rebuild" L.A. 1920s, white mainstreeters from the The "war against drugs" supplanted Midwest flocked to L.A., making it one the "war against terrorism" as the all­ of the most right-wing nativist cities in purpose ticket for terror sweeps of the country. In the '30s:tens of thou­ the ghettos and barrios. As increas­ sands of "Okies" from the Oklahoma­ ing poverty, lumpenization and despair Texas dust bowl joined the Depression in the black ghettos and' Hispanic migration to the Los Angeles basin. The barrios gave rise to gangs like the first years of the stormy CIO organiz­ Crips and the Bloods, a frenzy was ing drives which established industrial whipped up over "gang-related crime." unions in the Midwest auto, steel and In 1988, the LAPD launched "Operation rubber centers passed L.A. by. But as HAMMER." Declaring "this is Vietnam the U.S. geared up for World War II, here," the cops carried out "search and industry in Los Angeles was booming. destroy" missions. In March 1941, the UAW-CIO won an In August 1988, eighty-eight cops de­ NLRB election at the North American scended on two apartment buildings in LAPD war on minorities: paramilitary SWAT teams useclbatterlng rams Aviation plant in Inglewood. a black neighborhood on Dalton Avenue. mounted on tanks In "search and destroy" missions In ghettos and barrios. On June 5, the 12,000 workers at Armed with sledgehammers and batter­ North American struck. Roosevelt im­ ing rams, they completely demolished The paramilitary forces of the LAPD These are the "titans" who drained the mediately ordered them back to work, four apartments-smashing windows, reflect the fragility of the propertied, Owens Valley dry, diverting water to the and dispatched an army of 3,500 battle­ walls and furniture, ripping out toilets wealthy few whose rule can only be San Fernando Valley where the desert ready troops to open the plant. As and throwing washing machines into enforced and maintained through brutal lands they had procured through various Art Preis reports in Labor's Giant Step bathtubs, and spray-painting the walls subjugation of those whose exploitation real estate swindles began to bloom. The (Pioneer, 1964), "Roosevelt acted with with "LAPD Rules." Meanwhile those and oppression feeds their profits. From water wars of the 1920s were the subject confidence because he felt he had the who were arrested were forced to whistle the standpoint of minorities, poor and of Roman Polanski's movie Chinatown. backing of high CIO and UAW offi­ the theme song of The Andy Griffith working people, the record of the more In Cadillac Desert (1986) Marc Reis­ cials .... Thus, the United States govern­ Show as they were marched through a traditional, corrupt Los Angeles Sher­ ner describes L.A. in the latter years of ment waged its first military engage­ gauntlet of cops beating them with flash­ iff's Department is hardly better. Some the 19th century: "By the end of the Civil ment of World War II on American soil lights and fists. When it was all over, of the worst examples cited in the recent War, when San Francis'co was the against American workers resisting hun­ the LAPD had two arrests of non­ Amnesty International report on police Babylon of the American frontier, Los ger wages." As troops drove workers residents on penny-ante charges of pos­ brutality in L.A. were carried out by Angeles was a filthy pueblo of thirteen back with blows from the rifle butts, sessing small amounts of marijuana and LASD deputies against black and Latino thousand, a beach for human flotsam cries broke out "Heil Roosevelt!" Sol­ cocaine. A year and a half later, an L.A. residents of Lynwood, a neighborhood washed across the continent on the blood diers armed with trench mortars, antitank jury awarded the 55 residents $3mjllion near South-Central Los Angeles. tide of the war." The creation of the city guns, machine guns and two antiaircraft in damages. Small wonder that youth in the ghettos that grew up in its place was plotted by guns cleared the area. Local strike lead­ The Dalton Avenue assault was not a 'and barrios are receptive to the idea a cabal of railway tycoons, developers ers yielded, advising workers to go back. case of cops running amok but rather an (peddled by groups like Progressive and bankers. Led by General Harrison In a final blow, the UAW International example of standard operating proce­ Labor and the Revolutionary Communist Gray Otis, founder of the Los Angeles suspended local union officers, redbait­ dureby the L.A. cops. A May 1991 Daily Party) that they are livjng under a fas­ Times, and his son-in-law Harry Chand­ ing them as communists. News study of 387 LAPD shootings cist dictatorship. To preserve its decrepit ler, who together headed a dynasty that When the UAW was finally estab­ (167 of them fatal) over the period from rule, the bourgeoisie is increasingly turn­ ruled the city for three generations, they lished in the aircraft plants of Southeast 1985 to 1990 showed that not one officer ing this country into some kind of "dem­ looted the region. To compete with San L.A., and the Steelworkers at the Kaiser was criminally charged. A January 1992 ocratic" police state using measures that Francisco they constructed a completely plant in Fontana out in San Bernardino American Civil Liberties Union report found naked expression in Los Angeles. manmade harbor. Against the booming County, it was strictly from the top on the LAPD's canine unit showed more Behind the bonapartist cops stands an port city to the north, at the time the down. During the war years, women than 900 people bitten by police dogs in arsenal of legal repression like the 1988 most unionized city in the world, the rob­ workers were heavily employed in the a three-year period ending early 1991; "Street Terrorism Enforcement and Pre­ ber barons of L.A. boosted their city as aircraft plants, and many black workers 70 percent of the dog-bite victims were vention Act" (STEP). Drawn up by the a haven of "economic freedom" from from the South found jobs there. But the Latino, 20 percent black and only 2 per­ local D.A. 's office and passed with over­ organized labor. pervasive atmosphere of racist reaction cent white. The kill-crazy sadism and whelming bipartisan support in the Cal­ In the 1890s, General Otis militarized (which exploded in the 1943 anti­ thug mentality of this paramilitary ifornia legislature, this law not only labor relations in Los Angeles. Otis Mexican "Zoot suit" riots) continued to force-whose helicopters, armored per­ made membership in a gang a felony drove through the streets in a custom­ dominate the area. (North American sonnel carriers, tanks and SWAT teams offense but allows for prosecutLon of built car with a small working cannon refused to hire any blacks.) Chester have long been the stuff of TV shows parents of gang members. The net effect on the hood and his L.A. Times Building Himes' 1945 novel 1f He Hollers Let and movies-was televised to millions is to criminalize virtually every non­ resembled a medieval fortress. Unions Him Go tells of the experiences of a of Americans who watched in horror at Anglo youth in the city and county, as that existed were locked out or smashed skilled black shipyard worker confronted the videotape of an LAPD gang torturing well as white street kids. by the Merchants and Manufacturers by Jim Crow.segregation in and out of a defenseless black man, Rodney King. L.A. now has the largest prison pop­ Association, picketing was outlawed' the plants. In his autobiography, Himes In the face of nationwide public fury, ulalion in a country which has more peo­ and radicals were run off the streets. noted that he had lived in the South, sur­ the L.A. city administration set up an ple behind bars than any place e!se in As Louis Adamic wrote in his book vived seven and a half years in prison, "independent commission" to investi­ the world. The cops barricade off whole Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence five Depression years in Cleveland, "But gate the cops. The Christopher Commis­ neighborhoods in "Narcotics Enforce­ in America (1931), "Otis had become under the mental corrosion of race prej­ sion report opened with the statement: ment Zones." Curfews are selectively the most savage and effective enemy. udice in Los Angeles I had become bitter "The Rodney King beating stands as a applied to the ghettos and barrios as of labor unionism in the country, and and saturated with hate." landmark in the recent history of law police sweep the streets for violators to as a result of his doings Los Angeles enforcement, comparable to the Scotts- add to their computer database of "sus- was-and is today-the outstanding [TO BE CONTINUED] 10 JULY 1992 11 • Oln •

o Labor battle at Century City: Striking janitors face LAPD attack in successful fight to win a union, June 1990.

Four years ago, in a report commis­ plants. The destruction of industry dec­ Koreans. But in this epoch of capitalist Era, Joel Kotkin argued that the massive sioned by L.A. mayor Tom Bradley, Los imated what income base there was in decay, the melting pot has become a immigration of Asians and Latinos to Angeles was hyped as a "vibrant mosaic," the already impoverished black ghetto. pressure cooker. With this intense social L.A. was emblematic of a new "Manifest the "leading hub of world trade," a "cross-. And on April 29, the smoldering rage at change and strife on its doorstep, the film Destiny" for the declining "American roads city" that "welcomes and encour­ the bottom burst into flames that con­ industry has prodU(;ed a spate of recent Empire," in which the U.S. would ages diversity." The. 1988 report entitled sumed the "city of angels." films on the L.A. cauldron, from the emerge as "a 'world nation' with links By the end of the 1980s, Los Angeles white liberal Grand Canyon to the black to virtually every inhabitable part of the had replaced San Francisco as the West nationalist Boyz N the Hood. globe." But far from representing a revi­ PART ONE OF TWO Coast power center and become the There has also been ito avalanche talized future for American imperialist second-largest financial center in the of books on changing L.A., includ­ global exploitation and competition, Los "L.A. 2000, A City for the Future" U.S. With" the highest percentage of ing David Rieff's vapid Los Angeles: Angeles' much-vaunted "growth econ­ boasted, "Just as New York, L.ondon and immigrants of any city in the country Capital of the Third World (Simon & omy" epitomized the decay and parasit­ Paris stood as symbols of past centuries, (over 40 percent of the total population), Schuster, 1991), the diverse collection ism of U.S. capitalism. Los Angeles will be THE city of the 21 st. it was perhaps the most ethnically of essays edited by David Reid, Sex, The shameless looting of productive century." In a "New World Order" dom- . diverse metropolis in the world. The Death and God in L.A. (Pantheon, 1992), investment and destruction of industry inated by American imperialism, just as L.A. school district. reports that over 80 and leftist author Mike Davis' wide­ was personified by Michael Milken, the Miami would be the capital of Latin languages are spoken by its students, ranging and knowledgeable City of '80s junk bond king who operated out America, L.A. would serve as hub of the while the London Economist describes Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los of Beverly Hills. While Milken raked in Pacific Rim. This calcuhttion was the Los Angeles as a place where one can Angeles (Verso, 1990). In The Third Cen­ a $500 million "salary" in one year, tens basis for an ambitious building boom of buy a kosher burrito in a store run by tury: America's Resurgence in the Asian of thousands of workers in L.A.'s auto, corporate centers financed by Asian cap­ steel and rubber plants were thrown out ital. But the explosion of outrage that of their jobs as the plants were closed ripped through the impoverished ghettos down in the deindustrialization of Amer­ and barrios, following the acquittal of ica. Today over half of black youth in the racist L.A. cops who savagely beat L.A. are unemployed, driven back and black motorist Rodney King, blew a gap­ isolated on increasingly mean streets. ing hole in the city boosters' script. Hovering above them, the "Blue Thun­ In "La-La Land," smug yuppies relied der" helicopters of L.A.'s paramilitary on desperate "illegals" from Central police force maintain a reign of terror America to make their gardens bloom over the ghettos and barrios, against the and care for their kids while they organ­ poor and homeless. And then with the ized in "ecology-minded" movements to blatant injustice of the racist Simi Valley keep "them" out of the neighborhood. verdict letting the LAPD killer cops They would drive past teeming black walk, to paraphrase the city's motto. it and Latino South-Central as they cruised "all came together in L.A." the freeways in their BMWs. At the top, What followed was a multiracial city rulers pointed to their glitzy steel­ social upheaval. The media show endless and-glass developments in Century City reruns of the brutal beating of white and downtown. But at the base, there is trilck driver Reginald Denny, trying to an economy of raw exploitation where paint the conflagration as a vicious race hundreds of thousands of desperate riot (naturally, they play down the fact immigrants labor for the minimum wage WV Photo . that Denny was rescued by blacks). in sweatshops that now occupy the sites Spartacists join protest outside Parker Center after racist verdict in Rodney There were ugly incident!', particularly of the fonner unionized manufacturing King case, April 29. continued on page 10 12 10 JULY 1992