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When half a million workers marched on Washing labor, anti-black offensive. For sit-down strikes ton on "Solidarity Day" last September 19, you could against layoffs and plant closings! For concrett: labor feel the potential power of the U.S. labor movement. solidarity-picket lines mean don't cross! For mass Sure, the union bureaucrats just wanted to worry labor(black defense against racist terror! Bring Reagan a little while letting their memberships blow Reagan down through strike action! off stenm. Thev deliberatelv failed to mobilize heavilv But the fat-cat union tops are more afraid of a among Midwestern industrial unions-the hard-hit, fighting perspective than they are of Ronald Reagan. heavily black concentrations of workers likely to be So they are presenting Labor Day 1982 outright to the most vividly aware that a march would not solve their Democratic Party. Lane Kirkland and all the other problems. The AFL-CIO tops even tried to make giveback artists are once again peddling their "alterna Solidarnosc, the Polish "free trade union" for the CIA tive" to the class struggle: the Democrats. Preaching and imperialist bankers, a major focus of "Solidarity the defeatist line that labor cannot fight for its own Day." But the union ranks who came out were looking survival, the bureaucrats now bring us as saviors for ways to fight back through their unions against Walter Mondale, Teddy Kennedy and the rest of austerity, unemployment and union busting. labor's Democratic enemies. The striking air controllers union (PATCO) was on When a Democratic president is in office, the AFL the line. Blacks, workers and the poor were directly CIa doesn't plan Labor Day marches at all. This year, targeted by the Cold War budget ax. Workers were marches are being organized, from New York to San angry and looking for fighting solutions. That's why Antonio. But in San Francisco, the planned Labor more than 8,000 marchers bought copies of Workers Day event has been canceled in favor ofa more explicit Vanguard with the headline: "Bust Union-Buster election rally on October 24 titled "Vote labor Reagan: Shut Down the Airports! Unchain Labor!" (meaning vote Democratic) for jobs and justice." The fighting program of the Spartacist League was Perhaps the Bay Area labor fakers are remembering what was needed to turn "Solidarity Day" into real last September 19, when thousands roundly booed working-das~ soltdarity agdinst the bosses' offensive. Carter's VP Mandale at the S. F. rally. When he The Machinists and Teamsters, in particular, could appealed for solidarity with Solidarnosc, Mondale was have shut the airports down tight and won not only for drowned out by chants of "PATCO! PATCO!" PATCO, but for the whole labor movement. Today more than ever, it is desperately necessary to It will take sharp class struggle to turn back the anti- continued on page 8
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"Solidarity Day," 19 Septem ber1981: ,. Real labor solidarity would have shut down the airports and won. DSA: Braintrusters to Labor Bureaucracl for War on Russia Jay Lovestone's Bastard Grandchildren
SAN FRANCISCO, August 27-Sixty carnage in Indochina. Who would buy supporters ofthe Spartacist League held war criminal LBJ as the "left wing ofthe a spirited 40-minute demonstration • possible"? It was only as Jimmy Carter, outside the West Coast regional confer Dt9R __ defender of feudalism in Afghanistan, ence of Michael Harrington's Demo tried to morally rearm American impe cratic Socialists of America (DSA). ::CrfifJecl I rialism after the Vietnam debacle with With banners, signs and chants the SL \' -;- I his anti-Soviet "human rights" crusade comrades displayed their vigorous v~.a,"L~;lI that Harrington could plausibly sell his political opposition to Harrington's pep (;4!lnl)"'J'eF;"JJ Genocide ..• ". realignment scheme. Now with all wings rally for the capitalist Democratic r '~~llz" of the bourgeoisie engaging in a biparti Party. Chants ranged from the starkly . J 71 I Deftnd thf~= san crusade against the Soviet Union, of programmatic, like "No to Gun Con ... JUortlDft.lm-cJfS course the social democrats march to tro/" and "Hail Red Army in Afghani the orders of their capitalist masters. stan," to the all but unpronounceable: ~TnelsT Thus, as Reagan revs up the war "Not Ebert, Scheidemann and Noske machine, the DSA calls for "genuine But Marx, Lenin and Trotsky!" The national security" while DSAer Ron DSA was frisking everyone going Dellums calls for a Pentagon budget of inside, resulting in a bottleneck at the "only" $200 billion! door and a long, slow-moving line When the DSA talks about "labor -a captive audienc~ for the SL support," they mean endorsing the demonstration. pressure tactics and sellouts of the Featured speakers at the rally in betrayers of the American proletariat. cluded Machinists union bureaucrat The Trotskyists ofthe SL/SYL offer the William Winpisinger and Salvadoran only program showing a way out for FDR spokesman Guillermo Ungo. workers and the oppressed-a class Significantly, only a handful of Latins struggle workers party to fight for turned outfor this rare u.s. appearance socialist revolution. Not government by Ungo, although tens ofthousands of WV Photo bailouts, but the workers must seize and San Francisco, August 27: SL protests the party of the murderers of Salvadorans reside in the Bay Area and Luxemburg arid Lelbknecht. expropriate industry without a penny of many have participated in protests compensation to the capitalists. Not against U. S. imperialistpolicyin Central here tonight against the Democratic dragon" Tom Metzger. endless pressuring of the bankrupt America. Socialists of America (DSA), Michael • Last March DSA called for capitalist state, but the working class Indeed the audience ofover 1,000 was Harrington's latest anti-eommunist continued American aid to Israel. taking full power in its hands to sweep virtually all-white and appeared to front for the Democratic Party. In Today the Zionist butchers slaughter away the capitalist state! And that consist mainly of middle-aged school Reagan's racist America, millions of thousands in Lebanon with U,S.-sup power must be defended by depriving of teacher types-people who lived workers and blacks, their backs to the plied cluster bombs and U,S. jet political power all who would bring through the Vietnam War andknowfull wall, are realizing it is desperately fighters. back the capitalist order of racism, well what the imperialist Democrats are necessary to fight. But the DSA wants to • Harrington's "democratic social unemployment and war! all about. The cynicism was as marked get them "ready for Teddy," to herd ists" make common cause with the Wall While the rest of the "left" is as the anti-Sovietism. One old guy told them back into the capitalist party Street Journal, Ronald Reagan and supporting the Kennedy "nuke freeze" us: "So we have blood on our hands, so which brought Hiroshima, the Bay of Margaret Thatcher in trying to "roll (i.e., more conventional weapons what? Everybody has blood on their Pigs, Vietnam and paved the way for back Communism" in Poland via Soli against the Soviet Union in Europe), the hands.... " These "State Department Reagan. darnose, company union for imperialist SL/SYL stands foursquare for the socialists" are terrified of Reagan and • While Reagan ~lilashed PATCO, bankers and the CIA. military defense of the bureaucratically his "nukes," but don't much care ifthe DSA's Winpisinger stabbed air con • Harrington was a leader of the deformed and degenerated workers Democrats want to bomb the colonial trollers in the back by refusing to pull Socialist Party while it supported U.S. states, above all the USSR, against the masses back into the Stone Age with the lAM out in a solidarity strike to shut holocaust in Vietnam; now he wants to imperialists. While the Stalinists unite "conventional" weapons, napalm or down the airports. prevent "another Vietnam tragedy" in with the social democrats to spread anything else they think won't pollute • Halfa million auto workers are laid El Salvador. DSA supports negotia illusions in detente with rapacious U.S. the air over San Francisco. off as DSA hails UAW chief Fraser's tions with Reagan and with death squad imperialism, we call for political revolu We reprint below the Spartacist billion dollar "giveback" to auto bosses. leader Roberto d'Aubuisson to head off tion to oust the bureaucratic usurpers, leaflet distributed at the event. • Blacks and other minorities face military victory of leftist rebels. who undermine the gains ofthe October •• • • • racist/fascist terror. DSA's "answer": There is a long history of such anti Revolution. The Spartacist League/Spartacus the Democratic Party of Jimmy "eth communist social democrats who act as The social democrats are the sworn Youth League (SL/SYL) is protesting nic purity" Carter and KKK "grand the labor lieutenants of "democratic" enemies of workers revolution since imperialism, Ex-Communist Jay Love World War I, social imperialists who stone, the CIA's main labor operative, supported their "own" capitalist butch was George Meany's right-hand man in ers, tried to strangle the Bolshevik busting militant unions around the Revolution, and drowned the 1919 It i world. Harrington's mentor, Max German revolution in blood. We Shachtman, went from refusing to Trotskyists, Spartacists, who fight for tIItJlJ/(fl$ militarily defend the Soviet Union the rebirth of the Fourth International. against imperialism in 1940 to support are the party ofthe Russian Revolution. ing the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Harrington's DSA is the party of the AI Today Harrington's DSA marches with murderers of Rosa Luxemburg and 'D»M'IlVlIIJ• .~~. •.•.••. ' .··.~.A« t:~ J.t t' the Pilsudskiite anti-Semites ofSolidar Karl Liebknecht. The victorious work nose, who call for "Death to Commu ing class will remember its martyrs ... nism," in lock step with his old Socialist and their murderers.• Party buddy Albert Shanker who sponsored a CIA-front Solidarnose "information office." State Department "socialists" abroad WORKERS are giveback "socialists" at home. As head of the Machinists, DSA vice VANGIJARD president Winpisinger could have shut Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of down the airports last year to support the Spartacist League of the U.S. the striking controllers. Instead, he had EDITOR: Jan Norden his members cross PATCO picket lines. PRODUCTION: Darlene Kamlura (Manager), SUBSCRIBE NOW! Noah Wilner At the DSA fusion conference in CIRCULATION MANAGER: Linda Jarreau Name _ March, UAW secretary-treasurer Ray EDITORIAL BOARD: George Foster, Majerus was given the "Social Justice" Liz Gordon, Mary Jo McAllister, Address _ James Robertson, Reuben Samuels, award-for helping Harrington's pal Joseph Seymour, Marjorie Stamberg Fraser ram through a $5 billion present· ___------Phone ( Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published to the bosses. Harrington even picked biweekly, skipping an issue in August and City State Zip --=_ up Fraser's racist "yellow peril" rhet a week In December, by the Spartacist 312 PUblishing Co.• 41 Warren Street, New York, oric against "importing Japanese NY 10007, Telephone: 732-7862 (Editorial), 732-7861 (Business). Address all corres 0$5/24 issues of Workers Vanguard 0$2/4 issues of capitalism." pondence to: Box 1377, GPO, New York, NY (includes Spartacist) International rates Women and Revolution Harrington has been at this game for 10116. Domestic subscriptions: $5.00/24 o New 0 Renewal $20/24 issues-Airmail over 20 years. Ever since the early 1960s, issues. Second-class postage paid at New $5/24 issues-Seamail 0$2/10 introductory issues of York, NY. Workers Vanguard when he braintrusted JFK's bogus "war Opinions expressed in signed articles or 0$2/9 issues of Young Spartacus (includes Spartacist) on poverty," he has been trying to fetters do not necessarify express the editorial "realign" the Democratic Party on a viewpoint, Make payable/mail to: Spartacist Publishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, New York 10116 liberal program. But his chances were No. 312 3 September 1982 blown away by the Democrats' hideous 2 WORKERS VANGUARD ~
~li Iilil'l:I:;; illfilSi .... Statement Filed By Statement Filed By Diana Coleman Spartacist Candidates for Richard Bradley Supporter Spartacist, labor/so S.F. Board of Supervisors Say: Supporter Spartacist, labor/so cialist who organized stopping Nazi cialist who mobilized to stop Nazi celebration of Hitler's birthday, provocation against gays-Chica San Francisco 1980. Union mili go 1982. Ten years UAW militant. tant, six years CWA. Member Na Member Teamsters. Black activist, tional Association Letter Carriers. South Carolina desegregation Break with Democrats-build a struggles, 1966-67. Oppose anti workers party! Strike action to You Can't Soviet war preparations/austerity bring down Reagan! No gun con drive! Not a man or penny to impe trol-labor/black defense against rialist armed forces! Military victo Klan/Nazi terror! For massive pub ry to Salvadoran leftists! Israeli/im lic works under union control! Jobs perialist troops out of Lebanon! for all, decent housing, free medi Democrats-enemies of labor/mi cal care, child care, education, fight Reagan norities! Build a workers party! transit! Full equality-minorities, Strike action to bring down Rea women, homosexuals! Citizenship gan! Jobs for all, decent housing, rights for undocumented workers! free medical, child care, educa From Afghanistan to Poland to EI tion, transit! Stop INS raids Salvador-down with Reagan's citizenship rights for undocu anti-Soviet war drive! Throw out with mented workers! No gun control! the capitalists! Seize banks, indus Smash Nazi/Klan terror! Throw try-no compensation! Establish out bosses-establish workers workers government! DemocratsI government! SAN FRANCISCO-This year every president in 1984. In Afghanistan they hail the Red intervention by strikes and other mili labor misleader from Lane Kirkland to Against the whole spectrum of this Army intervention against the CIA tant labor action! They demand the Gus Hall is hoping American workers American popular front, the Spartacist backed feudalists and demand the complete withdrawal of Israeli/ have taken enough punishment under Party Campaign Committee in San extension of the gains of the October imperialist troops from Lebanon. Reagan to be driven back forcibly to the Francisco has announced two candi Revolution. In Poland they denounce The Spartacist candidates' stand for Democratic Party fold. Bureaucrats in dates for Board of Supervisors in the Solidarnosc as a company union for the international workers' solidarity is also unions wracked with layoffs tell their November elections. Diana Coleman CIA and Western bankers, calling for expressed in their opposition to the members outright: you deserve this for and Ritchie Bradley are out to tell the the crystallization of a genuine Trotsky labor bureaucracy's protectionist job not voting Democrat like we told you to. working-class public: you can't fight ist party to lead proletarian political trusting. These schemes tell American With the poor and working population Reagan with Democrats! It will take a revolution to oust the venal, incompe workers their real enemy is not their reeling from bipartisan budget cuts and program of independent class struggle tent, counterrevolutionary Stalinist own bourgeoisie but their class brothers bipartisan tax hikes to pay for a to turn labor around, stop the endless bureaucracy and defend the Polish in Japan and West Europe. bipartisan anti-Soviet war drive, the cycle of defeats and sellouts, and bring working class against imperialist Coleman and Bradley say: The main union tops peddle the "lesser evil Reagan down through militant labor inspired counterrevolution. enemy is at home! Not one man, not one Democrats" lie. And the entire Ameri action. Coleman and Bradley raise the call: penny for the imperialist armed forces! can reformist left is up to its neck in this Central to that class-struggle pro Military victory to the leftist rebels in El They denounce the Vietnam war massive fraud, either directly (like gram is an energetic and resolute battle Salvador! Salvadoran workers and criminal-led "nuclear freeze movement" Michael Harrington's DSA) or indirect against the anti-Soviet war aims of U.S. peasants must break with the popular as a bourgeois diversion: imperialist ly through CISPES and the nuke imperialism. As Trotskyists, Coleman frontist FDR and seize power in their wars will end only when the proletariat "freeze" movement (CP, SWP, Marcy and Bradley stand for unconditional own name. As socialist union militants, seizes power from the bourgeoisie and ites, etc.), steering workers into a hoped military defense of the Soviet Union Coleman and Bradley urge U.S. work establishes its own class rule. Their for revival ofthe urbanilabor/ Dixiecrat and deformed workers states against ers to refuse to ship arms to the bloody campaign provides San Francisco coalition to elect Teddy Kennedy imperialism. junta and to oppose U.S. military continued on page 9 WV Photo WV Photc the militant phone workers' suit seeking to unchain the might of the which wrested an apology and UAW to fight against the auto settlement from the U.S. Secret companies. That struggle won him Service for its illegal seizure of CWA to the revolutionary views of the delegate Jane Margolis at her Spartacist League. Always a fighter union's 1979 convention. for the workers and oppressed, in In 1980 Diana was an organizer of 1980 he took the lead in fighting for the April 19 Committee Against factory seizures and an industry Nazis (ANCAN), the Spartacist wide strike against the closure of the initiated united front which stopped Mahwah plant, a perspective which the Nazis from celebrating Hitler's has only acquired greater urgency in birthday at the San Francisco Civic the face of industrial contraction Center. Following that successful and skyrocketing unemployment. mobilization, she was the Spartacist Bradley covered the infamous candidate for Board of Supervisors Greensboro, North Carolina trial as in 1980 and received 7,000 votes. part of the Workers Vanguard news She has been a frequent speaker for team which publicized government the Anti-Imperialist Contingent at EI involvement in the Klan/Nazi murder DIANA COLEMAN, 36, was born in Salvador protests. RICHARD BRADLEY, 32, is a black of five leftist union and black activ San Francisco. Her experience as activist, union militant and commit ists in 1979. When the Klan vowed to an activist in the civil rights, antiwar Coleman was active in the 1981 ted revolutionist. He grew up during celebrate the Greensboro massacre and women's movement and as a defense campaign that won a re the civil rights movement and partic with a rally in downtown Detroit, trade unionist brought her to a traction from California attorney ipated in demonstrations in Orange Bradley was one of the organizers of militant socialist perspective of general George Deukmejian (now burg, South Carolina to desegregate the Spartacist-initiated labor/black support to the Trotskyist Spartacist Reagan's man for California gover public facilities, amid racist attacks mobilization that faced down the League. nor) for his office's lying characteri and National Guard shootings. He threats of Detroit's Democratic Party At an early age she took part in zation of the Spartacist League as marched in protest of cop violence mayor and stopped the KKK provo demonstrations at City Hall which "terrorist" in a report sent to cop against civil rights demonstrators. In cation. Ritchie also worked to build a rode the witchhunting McCarthyite agencies-a characterization which 1967 he was among the embattled similar mobilization of 3,000 which HUAC out of San Francisco in 1960. aimed to set up the Marxists of the black students who were the first confronted a Nazi provocation In 1965 she went to Gulfport, SL for murder by the cops. ever admitted to the University of against Gay Pride Day this year in Mississippi to work with the militant This June, Coleman addressed South Carolina. Chicago on June 27. civil rights organization SNCC. She the City Council to testify against Later he worked for ten years It is desperately necessary to came back to the Bay Area to Mayor Feinstein's gun control as a on the assembly line at Ford Motor fight, and to build a workers party to become active in the Vietnam threat to minorities in particular, Co. in Mahwah, New Jersey. At first lead that fight. The Coleman/ antiwar movement. pointing out that "if guns are a sympathizer of the Communist Bradley campaign is a means to Coleman was a leader of Oakland banned, only the cops and the Klan Party, he soon became disgusted reach out and find the workers, Women's Liberation and an active will have guns." She called for the with the CP's reformist work as a especially black workers, who will union militant for ten years, six of right of black armed self-defense left "pressure" group on pro provide the leadership for the Ameri them at the phone company as a against racist terror and for mass Democratic Party out-bureaucrats. can workers revolution, a socialist member of the Militant Action labor/black mobilizations to stop Ritchie became a leader of a militant revolution to finish what the Civil Caucus of CWA. She was active in the fascists. opposition caucus in the union, War started. 3 SEPTEMBER 1982 3 intermediary, from an official in the Ministry of the Interior." -"Poland Still Defiant." New York Times Magazine, 22 August Reagan Incites Solidarnosc This kind of openness perpetuates the counterrevolutionary danger. But at the same time it makes possible the creation of a network of Trotskyist cells. Many Polish workers and intellectuals are surely seeking 'new answers to the Counterrevolution in Poland prolonged social crisis, and some will be open to the authentic program of revolutionary Marxism which alone can "The struggle continues in Poland," of state power, launched a virtual crackdown against Solidarnose would undercut the disastrous polarization of require Soviet military intervention declared Ronald Reagan a few months countercoup. Polish society which pits workers, along ago as he called upon the British and that would mean a bloodbath. Yet, Had Walesa made good his boastful with petty-bourgeois and outright reac parliament to join him in a new as it turned out, the job was done by the threat, Pol~nd would have been trans tionary elements, against "socialism" as "crusade" against Communism. And Polish army and with only a dozen or so formed into a fanatical ally in Reagan's espoused by the privileged, discredited indeed Poland is the weak link among deaths. There was little bloodshed war drive, bringing NATO's nuclear Stalinist bureaucracy. the bureaucratically ruled workers arsenal right up to the borders of the because, fortunately, there was so little states which make up the Soviet bloc. Soviet Union. Ifanyone doubts this,just resistance. One Solidarnosc supporter Polish Stalinists Cannot Clean The Polish Stalinists' gross economic look at those Solidarnose activists now exclaimed bitterly: Up the Economic Mess mismanagement and flagrant corrup active in the West. Solidarnosc-in-exile "We always believed that Polish sol tion, their suppression of democratic diers would never shoot Polish has put itself forward as Reagan's workers-and it's still true, they haven't The Jaruzelski regime has undertaken rights amid continual promises of ideological shock troops against East really. But the diabolical thing is they a series of sweeping economic measures "socialist renewal" have caused a West detente, the West European anti don't have to." more or less as dictated by Poland's substantial section ofthe Polish people, missile protests and the left in general. -New York Times, I January Western bankers. For more than a including major sectors of the working The most prominent Solidarnose While millions of Poles rallied to decade the Polish Stalinists tried to class, to look toward Reagan's Penta spokesman in North America, Zygmunt Solidarnose as an oppositional move- appease the workers by freezing con- gon and pope Wojtyla's Vatican. U.S. Qi imperialism saw in the counterrevolu Cl CI> '0. tionary eruption in and around Solidar (f) nose (Solidarity) the best opportunity ~ yet to "roll back" the Soviet sphere, Cl leading for example to the reunification of Germany on a capitalist basis. No wonder Reagan howled in frustration when the Polish army spiked Solidar nose' bid for power last December! Hence his clumsy and desperate at tempts to stop the Siberian gas pipeline deal between the USSR and West Europe, which have provoked European capitalists into some howling of their own against Washington. While U.S. imperialism lost an important battle for Poland last Decem ber, Reagan has by no means given up Warsaw, the war. Taking the cue from their 13 August: godfather in Washington, the under Behind the ground Solidarnose leadership has cross of flowers called for stepped-up protests to culmi stands the threat nate in a mass demonstration on August of counter- revolution. 31. Since the communications network of the Solidarnosc underground leaves something to be desired, this call to action has been rebroadcast repeatedly by Radio Free Europe! So much for those self-styled "leftists" who indig nantly denounced as a Stalinist slander Przetakiewicz, exclaimed to a Toronto ment against the despised Stalinist sumer goods prices while periodically our description of Solidarnose as a meeting in March: bureaucracy, many pulled back from granting sizable money wage increases. Polish company union for the CIA and "I don't understand, for example, why Walesa's coup. Apparently they had The predictable result was one of the so many German people-there was bankers. insufficient confidence that Walesa & most extreme cases of suppressed 300,000 Germans-demonstrate Co. offered a way out of the endless inflation in modern economic history. against America, against American arms in Western Europe. Without crises wracking Polish society. Then in February 1982 the inflation was December 13: American umbrella Western Europe Shortly after martial law was imposed unsuppressed as consumer prices were Counterrevolution Checked won't exist for a day." we wrote: on average doubled, in some cases In early December 1981 Poland stood The head of the Dutch Interchurch "A tremendous political/psychological quadrupled. Even so there is still a lot of at the very edge ofcivil war. Solidarnose Peace Council, Jan Faber, described his shakeup has taken place in Poland. excess money demand playing havoc Suddenly Polish society has been with the economy. And while hitting chieftain Lech Walesa reportedly told unhappy encounters with Solidarnose arrested, just plain stopped. But the the minister of labor with whom he had exiles: "They tell us: 'you should be repression has not gone so deep as to urban consumers with massive price carried on lengthy negotiations, "Well, embracing Reagan's policy and cheer prevent the emergence of an under hikes, the regime increased the prices Mr. Ciosek, this is the end. Then we will ing. It is the only way to deal seriously ground opposition.... Now is the time paid to peasant proprietors for their with the Soviets'" (New York Times, 3 to start building educational and products. have to take over power." The following propagandistic cells of a Trotskyist evening at a secret meeting in Radom June). Since some of Reagan's missiles vanguard to defend and extend the At the same time, the government the Solidarnosc high command laid will surely hit Warsaw, Gdansk and historic gains of socialized property, told enterprises they would have to plans to overthrow the government. A Cracow this amounts to a call for the inherited from the October Revolution, become financially self-sufficient-no decision was made to set up militias and extermination of the Polish people in by ousting the usurpers who undermine more subsidies from the state budget to them and crushing those who would cover losses. As a result tens of thou a general strike was announced for the the name of anti-Communist Polish destroy them." second week in December. Under the nationalism. -"What Next for Poland?," sands are being laid off. There are now gun the Stalinist bureaucracy, at the last Before December 13 the one thing WV No. 298, 5 February an estimated 300,000 unemployed in the country, and one Communist party possible moment to act from a position everyone seemed to agree on was that a Contrary to the horror stories manu paper, Rzeczpspolita, projects this factured by imperialist propaganda, the "T1 figure will rise to half a million by 1985. c- repression in Poland has been pretty iii''" The Solidarnose leaders, however, ::l mild. Almost all the Solidarnose inter U5 can hardly criticize these economic '< nees have been released. In fact, Jaru <0 "reforms." They themselves demanded 3 zelski's Poland is still more tolerant, that Poland join the International '" even conciliatory toward right-wing Monetary Fund, the world bankers' forces than any other Stalinist-ruled cartel, which recently told poor coun state. The so-called "underground" is tries they would have to meet their debt remarkably above ground. The West payments even at the cost of mass German Der Spiegel not only inter A Modern starvation. Solidarnose also demanded viewed the organizer of Solidarnose' Holy Alliance: the complete abolition of centralized clandestine radio station, but published Lech Walesa planning in favor of enterprises operat his photo to boot! The New York Times' gets his orders ing on the basis of market profitability. from Pope man in Warsaw, John Darnton, who is Especially under present Polish condi Wojtyla. strongly pro-Solidarnose, reports: tions this is a recipe for instant mass "One man I know who is in hiding comes up from time to time for a meal at unemployment. And Solidarnose fully his favorite restaurant. Another public backed the organization of peasant figure in hiding, the former head of the smallholders (Rural Solidarity) in its journalists' association, is said to have received heart medication, through an continued on page 10 4 WORKERS VANGUARD u.s. Provocations Widen Civil War in Central America Military Victory to Leftist Insurgents! Hands Off Nicaragual After "Major Blowtorch" d'Aubuis son came to power in the March 28 EI Salvador elections with the vow to "exterminate" the leftist guerrilJas with napalm, U.S. imperialism felt encour aged to extend the counterrevolu tionary offensive throughout Central America. Moreover, Washington's. counterrevolutionary drive is explicitly global: from EI Salvador to Sandinista Nicaragua to Castro's Cuba to the Soviet Union. Reactionaries like Rea gan see behind every rebelJion of the oppressed, every struggle for social justice, the red menace of the Bolshevik Revolution even in its Stalinist degener ation. That is why the Spartacist tendency says: the defense of Cuba and Venceremos the USSR begins in EI Salvadorl Salvadoran leftist guerrillas have scored stunning victories over Washington-backed junta forces this summer. Washington is making no secret of its intent to drown the rebelJious Central requirement before additional Ameri out" the FMLN in Perquin. Instead, turned the tables on the government by American workers and peasants in can aid can be sent. Needless to say, the UPI reported, "the column took heavy attacking army barracks in San Francis blood. General WalJace Nutting, who attempt of Congressional liberals to casualties as it moved under constant co Gotera, the provincial capital of heads the U.S. southern command in look clean by cutting the "military" flank attack at a rate ofonly halfa mile a Morazan. Panama, where "counterinsurgency" portion of the scheduled $75 milJion in day" and the rebels claim to have kilJed specialists from various Latin American "economic" aid to d'Aubuisson's death or wounded over 500 soldiers. Even Military Victory to the countries are trained, told the New York squads is of no consequence. Washing more embarrassing for the government, Salvadoran Leftists! Times (22 August) that "EI Salvador ton rumor has it that the military aid will the guerrilJas shot down a helicopter The recent losses on the battlefield was part of a broader regional problem" simply be funneled through the Hon carrying Deputy Defense Minister and he urged more military aid to have prevented the consolidation of duran junta. Francisco Castillo and area commander d'Aubuisson's power, and have fueled Guatemala to avoid the "Finlandiza Despite d'Aubuisson's ferocity, Col. Salvador Beltran. Beltran was tion" of the isthmus. On August II the the ambitions ofso-calJed "reformist" or truckloads of American dolJars and the kilJed and CastilJo captured. The rebels "centrist" army leaders. According to U.S. Senate passed a resolution reas return of elite Salvadoran army units then taunted the army by broadcasting serting the Monroe Doctrine (!) and the well-informed Latin American trained in the U.S., the leftist FMLN an. interview with' Castillo over its Weekly Report (30 July): vowing to prevent the spread of Cuban forces this summer have dealt the clandestine radio. "What all these groups and individuals influence by any means, "including the military butchers a series of stunning The guerrilJa victory was d0ubly have in common is a desire to seek a use of arms." defeats which have largely gone unre significant in that the army units negotiated political solution with the ported in the American press. included companies of the infamous opposition rather than trying vainly for Imperialist Setbacks in an all-out military victory. As the army On June 5 the leftist guerrilJas Atlacatl and Ramon BelJoso battalions, continues to lose ground to the guerril EI Salvador overran the garrison town of Perquin in the former trained by U.S. military las, the opposition's case will undoubt With the election ofcrazed right-wing northeastern Morazan province, near advisers, the latter made up of officers edly find increasing support." terrorist d'Aubuisson as president ofthe the Honduran border. Expecting that and troops just back from 16 weeks The return of "reformist" army leaders Constituent Assembly, even "moderate" the rebels would retreat in the face of training at Fort Bragg and Fort Benning like Colonel Adolfo Majano would not right-wing terrorists who had run the reinforcements, as they had done in the U.S. The Salvadoran military has diminish the terror against the Salva country before found themselves under before, the army dispatched a relief been counting on these elite forces to doran masses, who had a taste of the the gun. Jose Napoleon Duarte's Chris column of 335 troops up the highway turn the tide of battle for them. But the "human rights" junta in 1979-80. tian Democrats, themselves up to their from the provincial capital. They never only "victory" for these troops was the For the bourgeois and petty necks in mass butchery, were labeled made it to Perquin. Some 200 were killing of 135 "subversives" in Chalate bourgeois nationalist leaders of the "Communists" by d'Aubuisson and kilJed or wounded; the rest fled in terror nango province, 95 percent of whom FDR/FMLN, the military gains of the have since been systematicalJy bumped into the hilJs: were unarmed noncombatants includ guerrilJas in the field have always been off by his death squads. Within a few "Government spokesmen simply do not ing women, children and old people. subordinate to a so-calJed "political months of d'Aubuisson's taking office know the fate of the column, but said In July and August the FMLN solution," which explicitly accepts the some of the survivors were found twelve leading Christian Democrats, wandering in the mountains when the guerrillas made more gains: on July 17 "institutionality" of the bloodthirsty including mayors of two cities, were troops finally reached the area Satur the Dominican paper El Sol reported Salvadoran army. On July 22 FDR kilJed. day, 18 days after the ambush." that the guerrilJas captured three towns leaders Ruben Zamora and GuilJermo This, of course, did not prevent the -UPI, 27 June in Chalatenango province, and the Ungo announced that they wanted Reagan administration from "certify This so enraged army commanders Salvadoran army failed to recapture a "dialogue" with the army leaders. ing" that there was "progress in human that they sent in a force of6,000 soldiers, them despite the use of three U.S. A recent FDR/FMLN communique, rights" in EI Salvador, a Congressional one third oftheir total strength, to "wipe trained elite battalions. GuerrilJas even continued on page 10 Der Spiegel Mario Ruiz ~;T The war regionalizes: Victims of "death squads" In Guatemala (above), U.S. trains Salvadoran butchers at U.S. "advisers" In Honduras. Fort Benning (right). Taylor/Sygma 3 SEPTEMBER 1982 5 Militants in the NYC Transport pro-Democratic Party purposes. First needed to get the unions off their knees tion of TWU power in Gravesend Workers Union (TWU) are calling on Roy Innis, a black demagogue whose to defeat givebacks and union-busting. because it would "disturb our good the union to defend its members after political career was capped by his But this proposal was torpedoed by relations with management." Lawe the lynch mob murder of black union apologetics for the South Africa/CIA Lawe and Cherry, whose disastrous starts by giving up the strike weapon "to brother William Turks in Brooklyn on backed UNITA faction in Angola "leadership" of the 1980 transit strike achieve better relations with manage June 21. The militants have been against the nationalist MPLA rebels, has fostered widespread defeatism ment" and now he wants us to surrender campaigning in the TWU for an called a demonstration over the Turks among the TWU ranks in the face ofthe to the racist lynch mobs! effective union response to the racist killing. Then it was the turn of Rev. city bosses' present speed-up/union Arnold Cherry's response to this call assault which killed Turks and injured Herbert Daughtry, best known for busting offensive against the TWU. was to come out with a dirty red-baiting two other black TWUers. The workers systematically channeling black discon We publish below the most recent attack claiming that "extremists" are were on their way home from the Coney tent into anti-Semitic scapegoating in leaflet issued by Kartsen demanding the using the Turks murder for their own Island shop when they were set upon by Crown Heights. Both rallies attracted a a mob of club-swinging racists on couple of hundred black participants Avenue X in the racially polarized and a rather larger number of local 31 July 1982- Gravesend area. Immediately following racist youth who lined the sidewalks this outrage, black TWU Local 100 shouting racist slurs and threats. member Ed Kartsen and two other Cherry kept his distance from these I,,"~",) BROOKLYN News ~."",,"M) 1 TWUers issued a leaflet dated 23 June rallies, but they fit in with his basic demanding the union "organize an perspective, which he shares with Lawe: immediate rally and march ofmourning to throttle the power of the unions, i Transit workers plan rally - I and solidarity:-starting right at the counseling the workers and oppressed Coney Island shop entrance. Every to place their hopes in the election of union and black organization in the city Democrats. Cherry and Lawe may to protest Turk's slaying By ANGEl.A JOSES u:s off our knees and play tbe leadership Jessie Coles last year as an example of "If ODe of Us is attacked, all of us aTe should be mobilized." acquiesce to a few blacks occasionally A mllterda rr. Ne ....sStaff role that we should play <, "what the city thinks of Black transit allackt"d, " be said Some members of the Transit Workers Turks, 34, a TA car maintenan«(' man employees," Shortly after the death of But TWU President John Lawe told tfiE. Union ITY.'Ul - outraged over the murder and two fellow employees were attacked in Coles - who was killed in his cab when a Am News that he is OPJl(l5ed to aI'> The 23 June leaflet provoked broad blowing off steam in Innis/Daughtry of fellow-worker Willie Turks last mooth thE' Gra~'l"'Send area of Brooklyn as they signal maintainer failed to operate organized effOl'"ts by his membership to are urging the membership to organiz/:' a exited a Bagel shop on June 22. Turks was properly, - MTA head John Simpson become involved in publicly decrying \.h(' interest among transit workers. TWU style rallies, but must oppose independ ~~~ ~oor~~~est racist acls against all beaten and stom~ to death, while his hastily blamed th.e accident on "human Turk's murder co-workers Dennis Dixon and Donald error .. "A demonstration would inflame the ent mass mobilization by the working Ed Kartsen, a signalimaintt'nance man Cooper were assaulted whole thing," he maintained. "It '3 head John Lawe was flooded with at the 215th Street ~ignal !;hop, said "it is Pointing to the mayor's "nood of "In Koch and Reagan's America," said m;'~h;~:J~t~O:~he3~~e~~'mbi?r open season on Blacks and the work crocodlJe tears fnllowing the traged)." Karlsen, "unionists and Blacks are union phone calls from union members urging people against the racist system, which force," and maintamed that TY.'L' workers Kartsen accused the mayor of subhuman" saId he has been in close contact with Ro~ ~a;~~r j;'~~.. protection from Mayor perpetuating racism throughoutlhe city Karls!"n and other TWU members are Innis, leader of the Congre;s of Racial a TWU demonstration in Brooklyn. It could blow the lid off the Democrat/ "Who paved th(' way for this outrage" caUing for an immediate mobilization of Equality (CORE' and feels tht' "We have to look. to our O'A'n forces," he he asked the organized labor force throughout the ~f~~t~~~Sbil~~~i~ei~e~~~~~. ve also prompted Arnold Cherry, the union bureaucrat alliance. said. "This WIll be an ongoir,g effort to get He cited the death of Black motorman city to speak-out against racist attacks ,t:a TWU's leading black "dissident" and What is needed is a real show offorce NYC black press publicizes militants' call for union action. head of the Transit Workers Coalition expressing the TWU's determination to of bureaucrats, to issue a leaflet of his defend its members against the rising own a few days later. The undated threat of racist and fascist-inspired TWO answer the Turks murder by a ends. In his leaflet titled "Turks' Killing Cherry leaflet denounced "Extremist violence. The TWU, as well as othercity mobilization of integrated union power. Not Just a Racial Issue" he repeats groups like the far left Spartacus [sic] unions with a high proportion of The leaflet signed by Kartsen and two Lawe's arguments: "All over the transit League, which ran Karstan [sic] for minority workers, must take the lead in other TWU militants is dated 20 system, workers are traveling in fear of President of Local 100 in the last independently mobilizing the organized August. life and property"-as if lynch mob election." Cherry claimed the militants strength of the labor movement in terror is no different than your average were "using the death of a fellow transit defense of the elementary democratic ***** everyday mugging. worker for their own purposes." rights of blacks. It's been two months since the lynch In response to our support to the right Cherry's own "proposal" was to The perspective of massive labor/ mob murder of TWU brother Willie ofarmed self-defense, which is supposed criticize Lawe for not asking TWU black mobilization against race Turks. Our black union brothers, as well to be guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, members to take time off work to attend terrorism was put forward by Kartsen in as the black people who live in the Cherry says: "Their call for the use of Turks' funeral (which had already been his union election platform last fall. encircled projects in Gravesend, live guns by transit workers must be de held!) and to push for attendance at a Kartsen and TWU brother David under the threat ofcontinuing racist and nounced." If brother Cherry is against pro-Democratic Party lobbying "rally Brewer campaigned on an anti anti-labor violence. Brother Turks' the right of self-defense, what is he for? for jobs" in Albany called by the state capitalist, anti-racist action program murder was no isolated incident. A Answer: he's for gun control and for AFL-CIO tops. Key to Cherry's pitch centering on defense of the right to Jewish TWDer was hit with a baseball more cops, the corrupt racist brutal was the attempt to paint Kartsen as strike (see WV No. 293, 20 November bat and blinded in one eye by the racist thugs whose job is to protect the some kind of wild man fanning the 1981). Earlier, Kartsen had fought for thugs. The Amsterdam News says that property of the bosses, and never mind flames of racial violence. To do so he the TWU to shut down the "Train to the at least two of the racist killers are back the lives of transit workers. Cherry's had to pass offthe Turks murder as little Plane" in solidarity with striking air on the streets. Despite a supposed red-baiting attack against the mobiliza different from garden-variety subway traffic controllers, in hopes of galvaniz crackdown by the cops, nothing has tion ofTWU power goes together with cnme. ing similar actions by unions like the changed. his support to Democratic Party politi With Lawe and Cherry united in Machinists, which stabbed the PATCO A couple of weeks ago on August 7 a cian [Frank] Barbaro. He has to be opposition to union action, it was left to strikers in the back by continuing to six-year-old black girl had to fleefor her against the independent mobilization of anti-union black demagogues to seek to service the airplanes. It is this kind of life from a knife-wielding racist in labor's power so he can present his use the lynch mob killing for their own concrete action, he argued, which is Gravesend. politician friends as the only alternative :E Our union has the power to put a stop for workers fed up with Reaganism. < Cherry claims reds are trying to use -u to this crap. We could dispatch squads <\ :::r o of flatbed trucks with thousands of transit workers-while he hustles TWU i \~ ~ o TWU brothers and sisters prepared to votes for the Democratic Party! The e~ ~~ ,~\\ defend our members and smash these Democratic Party is in the business of ()'<~~ ~ updated versions of the Ku Klux Klan cynically using workers and minorities ~'lt~\ southern lynch mobs. to get into office. Once elected, they ~ \ »\ \. \' .\ Right after the Turks murder I put support the interests of the capitalist ~~ \\1' ~> out a call for union action to stop these class against workers and minorities. Ed ttis i~.r \\~\ \,,1" racist attacks. This call has been met Koch, that TWU-hating racist, is a \.~~ ,4 warmly by many individual transit member of the same party Cherry wants \,\ ~}t workers who realize the deadly serious us to vote for. Koch started offjust like t~" ness of this issue. One black TWO sister Barbaro-a liberal Democrat. He cam I" called us to tell us how her son has heen paigned for workers' votes, and once June 27: followed and harassed on his way to elected \vent on a campaign to smash the Transit miiitant work. The uniun hall was flooded \'ltn w<1rkers' organizations (our unions) for Ed Karlsen phone calls demanding union action. ehe Big MAC bankers. Jimmy Carter's addresses But the Lawe leadership has done Democrats paved the way for Reagan SL-initialed nothing but work to sabotage our call by demoralizing and infuriating the mass anti-Nazi for a TWO mobilization in Gravesend. working people. Under the Democrats, demonstration Martin Bellamy, VP of the motormen's the government broke strikes and in Chicago. division, had the nerve to tell me that if I started the war build-up that Reagan wanted something done about the Turks continues. It was under the Democrats lynching I should write a letter to Koch. that even the most minimal democratic Koch-the one who loves to hate us! gains won by the mass civil rights John Lawe went so far as to go on the air movement were taken back in the on a black radio station (WBLS) to streets. promote his opposition to a mobiliza- continued on page 9 6 WORKERS VANGUARD Death of Busing Inflames Racist Terror in Boston • Black, unemployed, 17-year-old began pushing for "freedom of choice" the streets. surrenders to the racist status quo. It Braxton Mitchell was surrounded by for their children, i.e., an end to court Since 1974, black kids have had their must be opposed by all defenders of Boston cops after allegedly stealing a car ordered busing. school buses stoned as they rode to black rights. From the beginning of the for a "joyride." He was shot in the head Busing, mandated in Boston in previously all-white schools. The liber fight over busing, the Spartacist League as he attempted to flee. "You shot him 1974 after a decade of mass-based als' busing plan, with its inherent class has defended busing as a partial step like a dog," Mitchell's mother sobbed at struggles against Jim Crow nationally, bias, was calculated to inflame plebeian toward black equality. Down with Jim cop spokesmen during an emotional represented a formal victory for the racist backlash. The wealthy suburban Crow-implement busing and extend it community meeting in Roxbury. liberal-led civil rights movement. schools were ofcourse always exempted to the suburbs! We insisted that the key • In a traffic altercation which began Given that "separate but equal" educa from busing plans. Roxbury black to winning the busing fight was labor/ in front of Government Center and tion must necessarily be grossly unequal students were shipped to poor working black defense to enforce school desegre ended in Back Bay, four white punks in a racist society, moves toward class schools like South Boston High, gation against the terror campaign of wielding chains and clubs smashed in a integrating the public schools were a and Southie kids-those who didn't criminal racist mobs. black family's car windows. Mayor minimal but real step toward black transfer to private schools-were sent to The liberals and their reformist Kevin White refused to characterize the equality. But in a deeply racist, vicious Roxbury or Mattapan. "Quality educa hangers-on oppose a perspective of attack as racial though one of the exploitative capitalist society the de tion" was nonexistent for all of them. mobilizing labor independent of the assailants had reportedly screamed, fense of even minimal black demands No wonder the demoralized black capitalist state to defend blacks. The "I'm gonna kill you, you black nigger." masses of black people today know they • Gary Lee, black, 27 years old, was don't have a friend in the White House; sitting on his front porch when ap those who remember "ethnic purity" proached by two plainclothes cops who Carter know the Democrats are no said Lee "looked suspicious." Lee answer either. But the liberal misleaders allegedly ran and a scuffle ensued during continue to look toward the racist which a cop was reportedly shot in the Congress, the racist courts and the racist hand and shoulder. Lee was shot in the cops for "protection," and to counter head. Ambulance technicians rushed pose themselves to a struggle to win the the cop away leaving the black man labor movement to champion black lying in the street. Lee was dead by the freedom. The present agitation for time he got to the hospital. "preferential layoffs" of teachers-a bid • Three black families in Dorchester to destroy the hard-won union seniority are suing the mayor and police commis system-pits black and white teachers sioner charging that violence against against each other and threatens to blacks has become so commonplace in generate the same disastrous lineup as Boston that it constitutes de facto city the 1968 teachers strike in New York, policy. The families were driven out of when black nationalists and the Ford their homes by six months of frequent Foundation sought to mobilize the racial assaults involving rocks, knives black community to bust the union in and, finally, molotov cocktails. support of an illusory "community And Mayor White says, "It's been a control" plan which did not even aim at relatively quiet summer." school integration but only at defending Boston's black people are facing a the bailiwick of a high-paid black many-sided racist front: white racist administrator. mobs, official terror in blue, the sanctifi For its part, the Boston Teachers cation of school segregation in the AP Union's narrow "professionalist" poli courts. Certainly, racist attacks are cies have set the stage for a split along nothing new in Boston and they have race lines. A militant, class-struggle become fairly common since pitched' teachers union would be in the vanguard battles over busing began in 1974. But of labor/black struggle to defend the now fascists across the U. S. are working black school children against the anti the fringes of "respectable" politics and busing mobs. It would fight for "No a president endorsed by the KKK sits in Layoffs," appealing for broad support the White House. The racists have taken from other unions like the militant their cue: it's open season on Boston transit workers and among parents who minorities. Without credible black recognize the need for a fight for decent leadership, after eight years oflosing the public education, which includes the busing battle in the streets, Boston's fight for more and better-paid teachers. black people know theirlives arecheap in It would win the working people of this racially polarized city. Maybe Gary Boston to its side by aggressive involve Lee did run when he" saw the cops ment in social struggle for black rights, approaching-he could figure they beginning with militant protests against weren't coming to protect him! atrocities like the shootings of Braxton In a single statement, Dorchester Mitchell and Gary Lee. police superintendent David Walsh The Spartacist League fights for summed up the cops' attitude toward revolutionary integrationism in the fight blacks: "We try to sensitize our men. But Forman/Boston Herald American for an egalitarian socialist society. Our the citizens need to be educated too. We Boston 1975: SL/SYL calls for labor-black defense against anti-busing program to mobilize all the oppressed can't put up a IO-foot high chain link racist mobs. Below: Stars-and-stripes anti-busing thugs attack blacks in behind the power of a class-struggle fence along Washington Street ... there Boston, 1976. labor movement is the alternative to will be crime ..." (Boston Globe, 10 defeatism and despair for the besieged August). In other words, to the cops requires a revolutionary perspective. parents are backing away from busing. black masses of America.• blacks are non-eitizen criminals who The reformist civil rights leaders saw no Why subject your kids to rat-infested should be fenced off from white role for the mass movement they buses, endless racial assaults, schools "citizens." controlled except to exert moral pres like armed camps where students are As racists in and out of uniform sure against racism. They wanted to get run past metal detectors, to get what MarxistBulletin.a.. ~ spread terror in the streets, the courts the good government to move against passes for "education",? Hence the Black $2.50 are also reveling in the black masses' the bad racists. With their perspective, Parents Committee, which proposes to -- ccspcr:ltion. Here, in the city which was they expected that the capitalist rulers capitulate to the racists' "freedom of WHAT STRATEGY II'i' tile ~,orthcrn battleground in the who benevolently granted black people choice" schoo! assignment plan, i.e., the fOR BlACk UBERATION? II struggle for integrated education. the certain formal rights would defend end of busing and the re-sanctification TI'llts/(ylsm ! lIS. courts are tossing the last shovelfuls of black people when they exercised them. of school segregation. In an exception Black NallonaIism earth on the corpse. In December 1981 The liberal-led movement was ca ally interesting Boston Globe poll federal judge Arthur Garrity announced pable of getting busing passed in the released last March, 79 percent of black his intention to exit from the case which courts but not ofdefending black school parents surveyed supported "freedom of in 1974 had mandated court-ordered children. The racist countermobiliza choice" while at the same time 73 busing to desegregate the schools. A few tion which subjected the school buses to percent recognized it as a defeat for civil months later, he got his opportunityas a every kind of harassment and assault rights! A clearer index of defeatism newly formed Black Parents Commit went unopposed by the black and white would be hard to find. Make checks payable/mail to: tee-represented by the former attorney liberals and preachers who posed as The call for "freedom ofchoice," like Spartacisl Publishing Co. Box 1377 GPO for the black plaintiffs in the city's blacks' defenders. What was granted in the black nationalists' program of New York. NY 10116 original school desegregation case- the courts was ripped back by force in "community control of the schools," 3 SEPTEMBER 1982 7 • preaching "trickle-down" economics for and Richard Bradley are running the name of labor as the Israelis were the poor. But nothing's trickling in against the record of the Democratic mercilessly pounding Beirut. The labor Labor: Don't Detroit, except into the pockets of Party. Mayor Feinstein's big electoral traitors have long been the willing Young and his cronies. He's now being issue is gun control: the drive to tools of union-busting CIA "free trade Crawl ... investigated over a scam involving a monopolize the means of organized unions" from Latin America to Poland. (continued from page 1) black-owned oil company, but his real violence in the hands of the cops. As a Solidarnosc: at least here is a "labor crimes against black Detroit stem from Supervisor, Feinstein was the most struggle" that Albert Shanker can his close ties to the auto bosses. To roll prominent gloater over the defeat of the support, while he and his cronies figure fight! The unemployed rolls are ten out the red carpet for the Republican 1976 city craft workers strike. Now her out how much to give back of hard won million and growing. Blacks face de convention, he declared war on the city attorneys are even putting liens on union gains here at home. Their "roll pression conditions compounded by largely black municipal workers union. the union hall of the little 200-member back" unionism abroad and their vicious slashing of basic social services. His message to Detroit's black workers plumbers union Local 38 because it "giveback" unionism at home are linked Bloody race-terrorism and cop brutality is: drop dead. refused to sign an agreement to ignore by subordination to the V.S. ruling are on the rise. The bosses are screaming New York's Koch took office in 1978 other unions' picket lines. class, for more wage cuts as they close plant riding the white backlash and railing But the AFL-CIO is having some after plant. Kirkland calls unemploy against "poverty pimps" and "welfare problems selling the Democrats to the Democrats, Bureaucrats: ment a "human disaster," but his do chiselers." He proposed the electric restive union ranks. John Perkins of The Cold War Connection nothing policy is a political disaster for chair to restore "law and order." His COPE, the AFL-CIO's electoral arm, the working people. Every giveback slashing of jobs and social services on says he "hopes.,. to dilute the wide only whets the capitalists' appetite in the Lane Kirkland's vows to fight behalf of the banks has become a model "Reaganomics" are merely an effort to spread cynicism COPE has found "one-sided class war." And now the of capitalist cutback drives. among so many potential voters, who at AFL-CIO tops want us to march for repair the Democrats' liberal/labor Koch's attack on Harlem reached electoral coalition. The AFL-CIO tops this time do not expect either party to do another Jimmy Carter. something like retrench warfare in much of anything for them" (New York Instead of using the fighting weapons have endlessly stumped for Democratic September 1980 when he sent his "friends of labor," but now it's time for Times, II August). Even Teddy Ken of labor-the picket, the strike, the sit cossacks in a bloody charge against nedy has noticed that people are having down, labor/ black defense, internation the real hard sell. In early August the demonstrators sitting in to save Syden AFL-CIO executive council promised a trouble telling the twin parties apart. al solidarity-we are told to vote ham Hospital. As demonstrators were "The last thing this nation needs," he Democratic, to put in more enemies like break with its tradition of formal "non clubbed and arrested, Koch praised the partisanship," and at this summer's said at the recent Democratic conven the Democratic mayors who are de cops' "restraint" and called the protest tion, "is two Republican Parties." But stroying the cities where workers' and Democratic "mid-term" conference, it ers a "black mob." was clear that the AFL-CIO has become that's what there is: two Republican minorities live on behalf of a social Long before Reagan, Koch with the Parties. Or two Democratic Parties, if program that amounts to mass murder. the Democratic National Committee's help of social-democratic union bureau most reliable financial supporter. you prefer. crats was running a union-busting AFSCME's Atlantic City conven Democrats: Reagan's campaign. He specially targeted the tion, held back-to-back with the Guns, No Butter Partners in Crime heavily black transit union, personally Democrats' Philadelphia meeting, Nobody really thought Reagan could leading the onslaught against their 1980 boasted of the union's influence in Anyone who thinks the Democrats strike. No wonder a Brooklyn lynch run up the highest peacetime military will improve life for working people Kennedy's party. "AFSCME Leaders increases in history, cut taxes and mob was emboldened to beat a black Help Shape Democrats' Program" ought to take a long hard look at the transit worker to death last June. balance the budget. The one promise he Democratic mayors. For if the front headlined Public Employee (August kept was to gear up the anti-Soviet Chicago's Jane Byrne was elected 1982). AFSCME is running a pro lines of Reagan's anti-Soviet war drive military machine for war. It is the anti with 63 percent ofthe black vote and the Democratic pseudo-populist campaign are Central America, the Near East and support of black "leaders" like Jesse Soviet war drive which demands the Eastern Europe, the battleground of his for a "Peoples' Congress." Fund-raising domestic policies of austerity. And it is Jackson. Now her cops knock down efforts will include "PEOPLE T-shirts," domestic war against workers and on the anti-Soviet war drive that the black residents' doors in Cabrini Green "PEOPLE pens," a "PEOPLE raffle"; minorities is the big city. And here Democrats and the labor bureaucrats while she spends a few well protected Public Employee even talks about Reagan has as his field marshals of days there "slumming" for the press. stand shoulder to shoulder with Rea austerity and oppression the Democrat "PEOPLE people"! Workers familiar gan. This is what gives the lie to the This summer she appointed a white with the reformist American "left" ic mayors. Detroit's Coleman Young, bureaucrats' crocodile tears for the majority to the Chicago Housing should consider the identity of pro New York's Ed Koch, Chicago's Jane Authority, which lords it over residents, poor, the "guns vs, butter" rhetoric. Byrne, San Francisco's Dianne Democrat intent with the Marcyite They are for the guns pointed at the 90 percent of whom are black. Workers World Party's effort to set up Feinstein-all Democratic union bust For black hustlers for the Democrats, USSR, and the hell with everything else. ers, all enemies of blacks. The Demo an "All Peoples Congress" last year. But some workers aren't buying it. A like PUSH's Jesse Jackson, this was an For all the talk about "Reaganom cratic mayors were there before Reagan opening for a power play, a chance to recent editorial titled "Remembering with the budget ax, the strikebreaking, ics," there is a deep political consensus Solidarity" in the "black establishment" use Chicago's frustrated black people to between the twin parties of capitalism. the killer cops. Amsterdam News is clearly a response push an intra-Democratic squabble They agree on the fundamental ques Black youth unemployment is now to real disgust with the "let them eat over who gets the keys to The Machine. tions, centrally on the ruling-class drive over 60 percent (in Detroit, over 70 anti-Communism" school of politics: Jackson called for a black boycott of toward war against the Soviet Union. percent). Even black skilled workers are "Eight black South African miners have Byrne's annual August waterfront "Cold War II" was begun by Carter/ finding themselves on the economic been killed while participating in a extravaganza, the "ChicagoFest." The Brzezinski mainly over Afghanistan. scrap heap. Across-the-board attacks strike in Johannesburg recently, The stunt fizzled; only a few hundred Carter's anti-Soviet "human rights" strikers were protesting that white men on black rights accompany the econom picketers showed up at the gates of an crusade was an attempt to morally (and doing the same jobs are paid five times ic assault, from tax breaks for segregat as much as they are. event which blacks do not attend in militarily) rearm V.S. imperialism to ed schools to a green light for race "Has anyone heard from Lane Kirkland large numbers in any case. The Chicago combat communism on a global scale. terrorists. The Democratic mayors of the AFL-CIO? Has Al Shanker and media blabbed onand on about whether At bottom it was a transition between the Teachers Union opened a New York blame Reagan while they carry out the "Kool and the Gang" would sing or the so-called "Vietnam syndrome" and office for the black trade union mem same program. Against the jobless "Leon's Ribs" would sell there. The unabashed warmongering. bers so they can tell the true story about youth they unleash their trigger-happy South Africa? Has anyone heard from racists were delighted with the whole The Cold War budget ax is chopping cops. They cut back job training, crack Pope John Paul about the humanity of idea and some sported T-shirts reading up the lives and livelihoods of countless down on welfare, close hospitals. Their the slain workers? And where is Ronald "Honkyfest." But for Chicago's black millions of Americans, partieularly Reagan that defender of freedom and answer to increased landlord arson is to people, this diversionary gimmick to blacks. A recent Princeton Vniv~rsity justice?" close ghetto firehouses. And they have a test the waters for a black mayoral study confirms statistically what is Black people in racist America are special hate for city workers. candidate was potentially very danger agonizingly obvious on the streets. In forced to see the vicious hypocrisy ofthe Coleman Young, the black Democrat ous. In this segregated northern city on New York City alone: 12,000 lost capitalist system. Yet black Americans who runs Detroit, presides over a living the edge of explosion, to deliberately welfare payments and 39,000 had remain tied to illusions in the Demo hell for black people. His phony inflame the racial polarization is to flirt payments reduced; 42,000 lost food crats and will in their mass continue to "Renaissance" talk has given way to with putting Chicago's blacks directly stamps and more than a million had support them so long as there appears to and physically up against a white them reduced; 4,500 lost CETAjobs and be no alternative. The key to unlocking majority and the notoriously racist, 33,000 lost job training; 30,000 lost this situation is revolutionary leader bonapartist Chicago cops. ship. Black workers particularly will Spartacist leaguel school lunches; nearly half a million And for what? For nothing but a few poor people will pay more for housing play a vanguard role in forging a Spartacus Youth league more "black faces in high places." For a proletarian party of black and white Public Offices (New York Times, 13 August). black version of Byrne, a Coleman The racist Cold Warriors who run the workers' leaders fighting to bring the -MARXIST LlTERATURE Young, aTom Bradley (the Los Angeles American unions can't fight Reaganism power of labor to bear in industrial and Bay Area mayor whose cops' "choke hold" has because they share his program to "roll political action against the bosses and Fri.: 5:00-8:00 p.m .. Sat: 3:00-6:00 p.m. brought about a string of deaths of back" Communism. The V,S. labor their government. The working class 1634 Telegraph, 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) black youth). Oakland, California ,Phone: (415) 835-1535 "leaders" are even more ferocious in needs its own party, built in struggle It will take integrated class struggle anti-Soviet fanaticism than many bour against the racist, Cold Warrior union Chicago against cop and fascist terror-and geois elements. Many of them rose to tops, to link the needs of the unem Tues.: 5:30-9:00 p.m., Sat: 2:00-530 p.m. against the decaying capitalist system 523 S. Plymouth Court, 3rd Floor their exalted positions over the political ployed to the potential power of em Chicago, Illinois Phone (312) 427-0003 which holds black lives cheap-to stop remains of the Communists in the ployed workers, to unite the multiracial the rising tide of violence against black postwar witchhunts, In the tradition of American proletariat around its class New York City people. And that means a political fight Tues.: 6:00-9:00 p.m., Sat:12:00-4 00 p.m. George Meany, who wanted to fight to interests through struggle on behalf of 41 Warren St. (one block below against the Democratic Party, including the last man in Vietnam when most of all the oppressed, to weld our struggles Chambers St. near Church St.) its black frontmen. That program was to those of our class brothers through New York, N.Y. Phone: (212) 267-1025 the bourgeoisie had already given up, glimpsed briefly in Chicago on June 27 the anti-Soviet AFL-CIO tops are an out the world, Down with Cold War Trotskyist league when a Spartacist-Ied labor/black important social underpinning to the austerity-Defend and extend the gains of Canada mobilization of3,000 prevented a fascist imperialist drive to reverse the gains of of the Russian Revolution! For union Toronto provocation against Gay Pride Day. anti-capitalist revolutions throughout action against Reagan and the Demo Sat.: 1:00-5:00 p.m. In San Francisco, the Spartacist the world. cratic mayors! V nchain labor-Oust the 299 Queen St. W" Suite 502 Toronto, Ontario Phone: (416) 593-4138 League is running two candidates for The rabidly pro-Zionist AFL-CIO sellout bureaucrats! For a workers party Board of Supervisors. Diana Coleman took out pro-Begin advertisements in fighting for a workers government!. 8 WORKERS VANGUARD Steel Bosses Demand Givebacks For USWA Action Now to Stop Layoffs! CHICAGO, 27 August-Over 600 to District 31 "progressive" Jim Bala unionists turned out today for a special noff, tell the workers the only way out is Steelworkers (USWA) Local 65 meeting voting Democrat in November. And all called to discuss aU.S. Steel proposal to join hands with the steel bosses in build a new rail mill at its South Works whipping up protectionist opposition to plant here. The company is demanding foreign steel-a chauvinist campaign major concessions injob combinations, that paves the way for interimperialist plantwide. The ranks, reduced from war. nearly 10,000 a decade ago to about 900 In a word, all these misleaders working members today, wanted no recognize the "right" of the greedy part of this extortion. According to a American steel barons to make a profit Local 65 member, union officials who out of the workers' sweat. The refor spoke for the deal were booed, and mists stamp out any impulse toward the District 31 assistant director Carl Alessi hard class struggle that could ignite a was shouted down repeatedly when he workers' political counteroffensive threatened that voting no could result in against Reagan reaction and Democrat the plant closing. ic demagogy. And especially in the Former District 31 director and 1977 social tinderbox of black and working candidate for International president class Chicago, a sit-in at South Works Ed Sadlowski, long the darling of the could be just such a spark. U.S. reformist "left," soft-pedaled his Local 65 president Don Stazak and support for the concessions deal. Re the rest of the McBride-loyal local portedly he admitted that accepting the Decaying capitalism demolishes U.S. Steel plant In Youngstown, Ohio. leadership expected a vote ofconfidence concessions would not guarantee the Nationally 114,000 steelworkers are laid off. at today's meeting. But the angry mood new rail mill would be built, nor that the displayed at this biggest turnout in over plant would remain open. But, contin closures. Kransdorf's line was: "We ing jobs. Meanwhile bureaucrats like a decade prompted these sellouts to ued this member of the team that should vote no and take our chances." It Local 1014 president Phil Cyprian in reconsider taking a vote. Claiming the negotiated the concessions, the union was the Peurala leadership that let 4,000 Gary continue to whine, "We should be packed hall didn't represent the mem had done the best it could. In short, jobs go down the drain without a fight. partners, not adversaries"! bership as a whole, they proposed a mail "Oilcan Eddie" told steel workers to eat Now all they can· say is "take your The recent USWA rejection of the vote and bureaucratically adjourned the it. No more "fightback" rhetoric here, chances." steel industry's mammoth concessions meeting as the members chanted: "vote! only a program of more givebacks. One militant drew applause when he proposal won't stop the companies' vote! vote!" It is clear that among the Sadlowski's remarks received a cold pointed to sitdown action against the anti-labor drive. The present industry ranks of the USWA there is willingness reception here in his former base. steel bosses. The USWA is being gutted wide contract expires next August, but to fight. What stands in the way is a Two local out-bureaucrats, former in basic steel by the loss ofjobs: 114,000 union action is vitally needed now. But brittle and isolated pro-capitalist bu Local 65 president Alice Peurala and steel workers are presently on indefinite instead of mounting a fight against the reaucracy. The task remains to forge the CP-supported grievanceman Joe layoff with no prospect of recall. The job cuts, USWA officials have already leadership that will sweep the treacher Kransdorf, were applauded for calling bosses are riding roughshod over agreed to several local giveback deals. ous defeatists away and lead steel for a no-vote, but neither put forward workers on the shop floor, ignoring All wings of the bureaucracy, from workers on the class-struggle road to any strategy to stop the layoffs and plant union reps, stalling grievances, combin- International president Lloyd McBride victory.• worked actively for such mobilizations, march into the racist stronghold in a call fascists had better expect that while Spartacist including the successful demonstration for police protection. Those marches you're debating one, another one is that stopped the Nazis in San Francisco were a display ofweakness and isolation putting a bomb in your car. The fascists in April 1980. which will provoke more racist violence. are not interested in debating "ideas" Candidates ... Coleman and Bradley stand for a Then the Democrats went home and left they are terrorists organized for murder (continued from page 3) fight for jobs, for decent affordable the Gravesend blacks to face the ous action against blacks and other housing and free public services. Since inflamed racist thugs and the racist minorities! voters with a chance to register princi 1980 42 San Francisco plants and cops. The fascist thugs are emboldened in pled opposition to the program and businesses have closed-thousands of A mobilization of integrated union Reagan's America. They have polled politics of U.S. imperialism. jobs lost without a fight. Working power in Gravesend would expose tens of thousands of votes in several San Francisco is a labor town with a people, blacks especially, are being impotent Democratic Party tactics like communities, and they are growing. The labor-hating Democratic city govern driven out of the city by the converting those marches. It could show a way labor movement better get itself in gear ment. Coleman and Bradley will run or demolishing of low-cost and public forward for the oppressed working to protect ourselves against their racist against the union-busting record of the housing, a practice typified by wealthy masses all over the city-the unions, not terrorism. Board of Supervisors, from strike hotel owner Feinstein. Millionaire the Democratic fakers, as the real A lot of working people are pretty breaker mayor Feinstein to the DSA Muni boss Richard Sklar, the strike champions of the working people and demoralized by the no-struggle "strate Democrat gay politico Harry Britt. breaking "democratic socialist," person minorities. No wonder the political gy" of the American union "leaders." Ritchie Bradley's candidacy is ifies the fare-gouging, service-cutting agents of the Democrats in our union The will to fight back is there but it's particularly welcome in putting forward policies that make life in this city like Lawe and Cherry oppose such a held down by union "leaders" who want a black communist against the black exasperating, expensive and dangerous. mobilization! us to believe the Democrats are some Democrats. Whether they are career Coleman and Bradley are campaign What reared its head in Gravesend kind of "answer." The biggest and most cops like gubernatorial candidate Tom ing on a program of mobilizing labor was not simply ethnic street gangs but racially integrated labor demonstration Bradley or fake-lefts like Congressman and minorities to struggle for a decent the potential recruits for fascism. The in U.S. history took place last Septem Ron Dellums, their role is to lead blacks life. They are fighting to break working KKK has been reported leafleting in the ber 19 in Washington. Half a million back to the party of Jimmy "ethnic people from support to the Democratic area. The fascists grow in times of unionists came out to show their purity" Carter and KKKer Tom Party of capitalist austerity, racism and massive economic hardship and social opposition to Reagan. The size and Metzger. imperialist war. Not only in San chaos. Their program is union-busting militancy of that demonstration sur Coleman and Bradley oppose Fein Francisco but throughout the nation and genocide. The working class must prised and scared the AFL-CIO brass. stein's gun ban, signed into city law by workers need their own party to fight for nip these racist killers in the bud! They're scared to fight the givebacks Board of Supervisor "progressives," as a workers government which will smash And the labor movement has the and cutbacks, scared to fight Reagan; well as the statewide ballot initiative the bosses' state, expropriate major power to do it. The Spartacist League, they tell us nothing can be done except backed by governor Brown for a freeze industry and institute a planned econo the group that Cherry attacks in his wait for election day and vote Demo on gun ownership. Gun control disarms my in the interest of all working people. leaflet, organized a militant mobiliza cratic. But we don't want Jimmy Carter blacks and minorities, women, gays, all A vote for Coleman and Bradley is a tion of3,000 people in Chicago against a back! We need to bring Reagan down in increasingly targets of reactionary vote for forging a mass workers party to provocation by the Nazis. I supported the fight for a class-struggle workers violence in Reagan's America. Teddy lead the fight for successful socialist and participated in that important party fighting for a workers govern Kennedy's party never lifted a finger to revolution.• demonstration, along with many other ment. We need to mobilize our real defend black school children stoned by unionists, on June 27th. But think what strength as unionists and our real allies, racist mobs in their Boston school 33,000 TWU members, taking the lead the working people and all the op buses; the party ofJerry Brown and Ron to mobilize the workers and minorities pressed, to smash racist terrorism. We Dellums did nothing to protect black of this city, could do in Gravesend! don't need more petitions to Koch and families whose homes were shot up and NYC Transit... Supporters of the Communist Party more begging marches in Albany, we vandalized by the Klan in Contra Costa (continued from page 6) call on the capitalist government to need a fighting labor movement with an County. Now Democrats and Republi "ban" the fascists. And the Socialist anti-capitalist perspective. cans join in measures to disarm the The black Democrats under the Workers Party thinks genocide is -Ed Kartsen victims. Coleman and Bradley stand for leadership of people like [Black United debatable. SWP supporter Mark Fried the right ofblack armed self-defense and Front leader Herbert] Daughtry and man, now a TWUer here, debated a Endorsers: David Brewer for mass labor/black mobilizations to [CORE head Roy] Innis cynically used Klansman on TV in San Diego! Any Keith Anwar stop KKK/Nazi terror. They have the blacks down in Gravesend to stage a body who thinks they can debate the August 20, 1982 3 SEPTEMBER 1982 9 , galpa. ,~nd leftist insurgents bombed the siderable pressure on the Sandinista notes that "Nicaragua could go either Central capital's electricity installations. regime, which is still trying at all costs to way," and he proposes in effect that the The escalating Central American war reach an accommodation with imperial U. S. buy off the Sandinistas ratherthan has had a ripple-like effect. Mexico, ism and the Nicaraguan bourgeoisie. try to overthrow them. Reagan, on America ... while posturing as a "friend" of Cuba, "Nicaragua is doing everything it can to the other hand, seems to be trying to (continued from page 5) Nicaragua and the Salvadoran FORI avoid a regional conflict," Sandinista force the Sandinistas down the Cuban while noting the "institutionalization of FMLN, has beefed up its own counter leader Daniel Ortega assured French road so as to justify his bloody "crusade the fascist clique" around d'Aubuisson, insurgency units as it worries about a president Franl;ois Mitterrand in July against Communism" in Central concludes that a more "flexible" solu spillover of peasant unrest from neigh (Lmin American Weekly Review, 16 America. tion might come from "a more direct boring Guatemala. The murderous July). In other words, the heavily armed But this is a dangerous game which negotiation with the White House"! right-wing terror ofGuatemala's Gener Sandinista forces will do nothing to can backfire. The regionalization of the The military victories of the leftist al Rios Montt, a certified religious nut, militarily support the leftist insurgents Central American conflicts and the guerrillas thus may well be thrown away has forced an estimated 100,000 Gua in EI Salvador and other Central prospect of social struggles in Mexico for the sake ofa "political solution." For temalan peasants to seek refuge across American countries even as Washing with its powerful proletariat raise the the workers and peasants of EI Salva the border in Mexico. At the same time, ton's puppet juntas come to each other's stakes. In this context, the calls of the dor, such a treacherous "political the sudden drastic devaluation of the aid! wretchedly reformist American "left" solution" leaving the landlord-puppet peso has popped the Mexican "oil But now Washington's puppet juntas for a "political solution" are more than army and oligarchy rule intact would boom" and further impoverished mil are moving to attack Nicaragua itself, ever an exercise in outright betrayal. mean the greatest bloodbath in the lions of its people, creating a potential however much the Sandinistas may seek The French and Mexican presidents history of their oppression. for revolutionary ferment at the very "peaceful coexistence." And that's some who came out for a negotiated settle The response of the Reagan White borders of the United States. thing Ortega cannot close his eyes to: ment in EI Salvador, like ex House to the military setbacks of its "We are expecting an air attack and an ambassador White with his proposals The Vise Tightens attack by land. To the extent that there Salvadoran puppets is not, however, to for economic aid to Nicaragua to co-opt on Sandinista Nicaragua exists in the United States Government seek a "political solution" with the the desire to provoke this war, it is the Sandinistas, seek no less than Ungos and Zamoras, but to widen the When the decades-entrenched So becoming practically impossible to Reagan to perpetuate the misery and war. When it comes to protecting its moza dynasty in Nicaragua was over avoid it." terror of the masses. Like the earlier -New York Times, 29 August capital, the imperialist bourgeoisie thrown by a popular insurrection in voices ofbourgeois defeatism during the recognizes no borders. So Washington July 1979, U.S. imperialism suffered its The pressure of a hostile American Vietnam War, these elements seek to has been trying to organize a kind of greatest defeat in Latin America since imperialism has brought forth cries for modify imperialist policy to take ac Central American NATO. Honduras in the Cuban Revolution. And Ronald socialist revolution from the Nicara count of a central fact that the anti particular, with an air force considered Reagan, of all U.S. imperialists, has no guan working masses. Last May Day Communist fanatic Reagan refuses to to be the most powerful in the region, intention of accepting that defeat. workers carried the popular slogan, recognize: the U.S. is no longer in a has become a pivotal military force for While the Honduran troops hunt the "Defend the revolution, construct so position, economically and militarily, to the U.S.-directed counterrevolutionary Salvadoran FMLN, they also threat cialism." Sandinista leader Bayardo single-handedly police the globe. What terror. Since 1980 American military aid en the petty-bourgeois radical Sandinis Arce has publicly repudiated the revolu the "moderates" want may be character to Honduras has tripled. Earlier this ta regime, supporting ex-Sandinista tionary demands of Nicaragua's work ized by turning an old phrase on its summer Honduran troops carried out a turned-counterrevolutionary Eden Pas ing class: head: diplomacy is the continuation of joint military "exercise" with U.S. army tora, the CIA-backed somocistas and "This is the slogan of our working class. war by other means. This is important because it is not a line and air force units stationed in Panama. their allies among the Miskito Indians. or a slogan of the revolutionary govern The road forward for the desperate After visiting Washington recently, The Reagan administration has open ment or of the Sandinist front in this Central American working masses is the Honduran army chief Gustavo Alvarez ly boasted of spending millions to period." road of permanent revolution, for went on television and declared war on train such counterrevolutionary armed -EI Sol, 19 July proletarian power throughout the re the Salvadoran FMLN. In June 3,000 bands. The Washington Post (6 August) While the Nicaraguan economy gion. This demands the forging of Honduran soldiers joined Salvadoran observes that "it is hard to avoid the continues to be predominantly capital Trotskyist parties steeled in political army units in a jeint sweep against the impression that the Reagan administra ist, the petty-bourgeois nationalist combat against all manner of reformist leftist insurgents. But this also brought tion is cranking up something like a Sandinista regime could be forced popular frontists and petty-bourgeois the war home to Honduras. In July slow-motion Bay of Pigs invasion as a against its will down the Cuban road of nationalists. Our "political solution" is Honduran counterinsurgency units part of a multifaceted plan to destabilize a deformed social revolution. Liberal workers revolution! Military victory fought a 16-hour gun battle with Nicaragua." Democrat and Carter's former ambas to the Central American leftist guerrillas in the capital city of Teguci- Washington's offensive has put con- sador to EI Salvador Robert White insurgents! • buildings for May Day. The red' flag, it main the same mature workers who nothing more-for a revolutionary Poland ... should be pointed out, has been the formed the backbone of Solidarnosc socialist solution to the Polish crisis. (continued from page 4) symbol of social revolution ever since before December. They are rather This requires above all a Trotskyist the French Revolution of 1789. student/lumpen youth, many of them vanguard party which could restore campaign for higher procurement At the time the Solidarnosc under unemployed, deeply alienated from the Poland's deep and rich Marxist tradi prices. ground directorate (and the Catholic system and now drawn to the banner of tion embodied in Rosa Luxemburg and For all the Jaruzelski regime's episcopate) disowned this kind of street clerical-nationalism or even clerical the early Polish Communist Party. We austerity measures, Poland still is not violence in favor of a different, wilier fascism. The Solidarnosc agitators can are convinced that the mass of Polish living within its means. Without sub tactic. In June the provisional coordi call out these frenzied youth, but have working people can be broken from stantial Soviet aid the Polish economy nating committee of Solidarnosc pro not been able to direct the mass of the their current infatuation with Reagan's would collapse completely. The exact posed a brief moratorium on protests in working class as before. The New York America, Wojtyla's Vatican and the amount of this aid is not known since order to encourage the government to Times (8 August) observed: "A major memory of the reactionary dictator the Soviet government refuses to publi allow pope Wojtyla to attend the 600th disappointment among internees freed Pilsudski, and be won to an authentical cize the figures for fear of upsetting its anniversary of the rite of the Black from detention centers is the contrast ly communist program ofdefending and own hardworking people who deeply Madonna of Czestochowa in late between the gung-ho militance they extending the anti-capitalist gains still and legitimately resent feeding anti August. Solidarnosc undergound chief sustained behind bars and the apathy embodied in the Polish deformed Soviet Poles. Despite martial law, living Zbigniew Bujak and his fellow conspira they are encountering outside." workers state, through workers politi conditions in Poland are still apprecia tors knew, as did everyone else in But the apathy of the masses in the cal revolution. bly better than in Russia, as even the Poland, that a state visit by the arch wake of Jaruzelski's effective counter • Down with clericalism! For strict New York Times.(21 February) admits: reactionary Polish pope would provide coup cannot last forever. All of the basic separation of church and state! "Yet for all the recent economic a "legitimate" occasion for a mass anti factors which drove Poland to the edge • For the collectivization of devastation, Polish shops are still better Communist mobilization as was the of counterrevolution nine months ago agriculture! stocked than Moscow's. Prices rose case in 1979. While the Polish Stalinists continue to operate-an economy • For trade unions independent of sharply Feb. I, but markets display a very much want to conciliate the church ruined by massive debt to Western bureaucratic control and based on variety and quality of food unknown defense of socialized property! in Russian cities-endives, brussels hierarchy, a papal visit at this time was imperialism and saddled with a back sprouts, pears, cheeses, appetizing jars just too dangerous to risk. So on July 21 ward smallholding peasant agriculture, • Cancel the imperialist debt! For of fruits and vegetables. Meat is Jaruzelski announced that Wojtyla's a powerful Catholic church pushing its international socialist economic rationed, but the Polish allowance is visit would be postponed indefinitely. tentacles into all aspects of social and planning! higher and the quality is better." In response Bujak & Co. (presumably political life, enormous popular illu • For soviet democracy, not bour after consultation with their CIA sions about Western, especially Ameri geois parliamentarism! For proletarian The Struggle for Poland controls) decided to go for broke. They can, capitalism. Now added to this is the political revolution! Continues announced that in the last two weeks of dangerous element of military bona • Defend the USSR against The Poles still live better than the August "the presence of our union will partism to which the Polish Stalinists imperialism! For the revolutionary Russians, but they compare themselves be exceptionally visible" and called for have resorted under General Jaruzelski. unity of the Polish and Soviet to the West Germans (although they mass anti-government demonstrations December 13 bought some time- workers! • certainly don't work like the West culminating on August 31, the second Germans!). So the worsening economic anniversary of the Gdansk agreement A SDartaci~t Pamphlet Sloo conditions provide a fertile soil for anti with legally recognized Solidarnosc. - Spartacist Pamphlet I SolidamoSc: Communist agitators. And in early May Despite the best efforts of Radio Free these once again raised their heads. Europe, it does not look as if there will I enclose $__ for_copy(ies) of Polish be an effective, large-scale counterrevo "Solidarnosc: Polish Company Union Company Union for Answering the call of the clandestine for CIA and Bankers" at $1.00 each. Solidarnosc radio station, on May Day lutionary mobilization in Poland at this CIA and Bankers 30,000 marched through Warsaw chant time. To date the pro-Solidarnosc Name _ ing "Down with the junta!" and "Free actions have been sporadic, uncoordi Address _ Lech Walesa!" Smaller demonstrations nated and contained by the authorities. occurred in other cities. Two days later Time magazine (24 May) described the City State _ many of the same youths rampaged events in Mayas "more like a gesture of through the streets of Warsaw, Gdansk frustration than a show of force by the Zip Phone _ and elsewhere ripping down, trampling union." This is still the case. The people Make checks payable/mail to: underfoot and burning the red flags running through the streets chanting Spartacist PUblishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 which had been placed on public "Down with the junta!" are not in the 10 WORKERS VANGUARD r- Reagan's policies are "combining to Lebanon ••• weaken the region's defenses against (continued from page 12) Communist penetration" and that the only way to rescue U.S. interests "is by Palestinian commandos ignited a returning to a policy of promoting a communal-based civil war which over negotiated settlement" ("Central Ameri the next two years took 100,000 Leba ca: The Problem That Won't Go Away," nese and Palestinian lives. An incipient New York Times Magazine, 18 July). social revolution based on the Moslem/ The Marcyites' orientation to the Palestinian toilers was diverted by the Robert Whites and Teddy Kennedys PLO's nationalism ("non-interference" gets an alibi from the reformist/ in the internal affairs of other Arab nationalist Salvadoran FOR which also states) and by the Moslem clan chiefs seeks a "political solution" which would into a sectarian/communal conflict in preserve Salvadoran capitalism and its which both sides engaged in indiscrimi murderous armed forces. WWP's slo nate killing. Uniquely on the left, the gan "No More Vietnams" expresses the Spartacist tendency opposed both sides desire of the U.S. ruling class to avoid in the communal bloodbath and de another humiliating defeat. That's why fended the right of every community, the Marcyites try desperately to Lebanese and Palestinian, Christian ~,- exclude-with the help of the cops and Moslem, to self-defense against ,*!/;.", SL-organized Anti-Imperialist Contin sectarian terror. 'II::.of"iIfIIz»-.... - gents from El Salvador marches; our When the balance of forces appeared Imperialist "political solution" 1958: Eisenhower's marines call for "Military Victory to the Leftist to be shifting to the Moslem/Palestinian beaches. Insurgents" and our assertion that side, Ba'athist Syria intervened on calling for a complete Israeli pullout of Mitterrand's Union of the Left in "Defense of Cuba/USSR Begins in El behalf of the Maronites. The turning LebanslO." France. But in the United States where Salvador" link the struggle against point was the Phalangist siege of the Sure-and if he had some reindeer, he the reformists do not have a mass imperialist militarism to international sprawling Palestinian refugee camp, Tel could be Santa Claus. working-class base to sell out for class struggle. This is poison to WWP/ PAM which is concerned above all to Zaatar, a siege aided by the Syrian "On July 25 the Marcyites and ministerial portfolios, the popular front army. After weeks of watching the Kremlin-line Stalinists got together often takes the form of extra keep the marches "Ready for Teddy." wounded die for lack of medicine and again for a "teach-in" on Lebanon in parliamentary "coalitions" with the While a division exists in U.S. ruling children die from dehydration, the PLO New York City. On one panel Workers Democratic Party along with electoral circles over how to deal with Central fighters defending the camp surren World editor Deirdre Griswold and support to it. America, no such division occurred over dered. After they were disarmed, the Israel's invasion of Lebanon. Every Mark Solomon of the U.S. Peace On El Salvador the Marcyites in inhabitants were slaughtered by Gemay body shed crocodile tears over the "loss Council gave presentations which did particular thought they had a real shot el's Kateab by the thousands. of civilian lives" but applauded the de not mention, much less oppose, the at a popular front with the liberal Today the butcher of Tel Zaatar, the plans to send the marines to Lebanon. struction of the PLO as a military force. Democrats. All wings of the American In Lebanon there now is a "negotiated self-declared fascist who has called for When challenged by a Spartacist imperialist ruling class want to salvage solution" for which Philip Habib will the expulsion of all Palestinians from League spokesman on the June demon the blood-soaked Salvadoran military probably get a Nobel "Peace" Prize, the country, is master of Lebanon. stration for "effective U.S. action," junta which is threatened with humiliat joining a pantheon that includes Behind him stand 30,000 Israeli troops Griswold simply lost her voice. Finally ing defeat by a left-wing insurgency. The Kissinger, Begin and Sadat. and now 2,000 imperialist troops as victory of the leftist guerrillas would Since no Democratic politician well. shatter the Salvadoran bourgeois state advocates breaking the military alliance apparatus, posing the question ofsocial September 11: March for with Zionist Israel, the Marcyites are JOIN WITH US TO revolution. The question for the U.S. "Pax Americana" Protest hard put to find "mainstream" speakers imperialists is how to avoid such an for September II. So with nothing to The elementary demands of every outcome. And there are differences over the Israel Invasion lose they've decided (even contradicting opponent of the imperialist subjugation tactics, with the wing represented by the PLO for a change!) to come out of the Near East and the Zionist of Lebanon Kennedy holding that negotiation rath AND EFFECTIVE U.S. ACTION against U.S. troops to Lebanon-aftl r subjugation of the Palestinians must IJEMAfI) er than provocation might stop both El be: Defend the Palestinians and Leb TO ACllEVE ISHAW WITHDRAWAL they've been sent of course. :-...,,=.::.~:=1':'~1·~~:: :.:=~ .. ~~l.:~.::;. Salvador and Nicarag4a short of the - 1....11 '""- ...... , u ...... ,_ of Look...... ~a~ Even the PLO deserves better cheer anese Moslems Against Phalange Ter ...... -.10'" I "'1. loll 01 <1.111.. '''~.I".. "Cuban road." leaders than the craven and cynical ror! Imperialist/Israeli Troops Out of An articulate spokesman for the FRIDAY. JUNE 18 4 TO 6 P.M. Marcyites. But the PLO's nationalism Lebanon! liberal imperialist line on Central has prevented the Palestinian proletar But the organizers of an announced America is Robert White, former Lt AV bet. 4211II &43rd ST iat from taking the road of class September 11 march on Washington at cx.1~ ~,u.,.,... -..n I"UIOII 01 1.(1"'_ (,n ' ...... '10. ambassador to Jimmy Carter's "human struggle. The solution to Palestinian first ducked the demand "No U.S. rights" junta in San Salvador. Signifi .... 'on_lIt..U_ tor 1.,...1••1 Yuc..r ..... lrl'.d.. national rights lies in joint class struggle Troops to Lebanon" (and still ignore the P&I_tU.. Co-.r- of 110,... _uea .....,1•• Aail '.r ....bUU.tto. ",-,to IIC I.I1.t h.t, cantly, this imperialist troubleshooter other imperialist forces there). The b....,~~~t:: _'le... O.h.r.lt, ~~~~~~~:;::~~~~~IIO. by the working people of the region 4n" "'rle U·D'M'l.l..t1o. r~::~..::ll::~:::~ has been a featured speaker in Marcyite C-.1lt_I"', "D-.t.r) ...... against the sheiks, colonels and Zion omission of this demand when the 411Urlca.~I_ I ..tl_r' ...rt' organized Salvador protest events. ;."ll ...... ".Ir'._rle.. rrl...... UIC.e-II'_· ..... '.D 'In,.lrlcl. 'lael1'lleolop ProJ..,I' ists. As Trotsky wrote in 1930: "The demonstration was first called in late !lIH "Ill, UUtedlietlOolln OffiCi for tIM U.lted Ilal1011.· AlI•• lol_.•l1141...., u ....OJKt· White insists that he agrees with Reagan r·CIr'••u.Ulo... fort r_.ofl...nllflc."o• .",Iy) complete and genuine solution of. .. July was no accident. ll.t.. over ends, differing only over means: achieving democracy and national The organizers behind this march and "President Reagan is right to concern emancipation is conceivable only its sponsor, the "November 29 Marcyltes called for "effective U.S. himself with denying Communism a Coalition," are Sam Marcy's Workers action," now they have It. new foothold in the Western hemi through the dictatorship ofthe proletar World Party/People's Anti-War Mo sphere. He is wrong only in his iat as the leader of the subjugated methods." bilization (WWP/PAM) and the pro the event's coordinator, Iskander Zala nation, above all of its peasant masses." Moscow Communist Party/U.S. Peace mi, rushed to her defense: "Should White warns that Reagan's attempts to This is the road of permanent revolu Council. When Begin came to deliver anyone attempt to make a statement drown every source of opposition in tion, the proletarian perspective which his warmongering harangue to a UN that is unfriendly, I am going to ask the blood only radicalizes the masses and unites the workers of the oppressed disarmament (!) conference in mid security people to make sure that it's makes it impossible to do a deal with nations with those in the imperialist June, these same groups organized a stopped." even the most opportunist reformist centers who do not flinch from opposing protest which called for "effective U.S. At the meeting the "Coalition" and nationalist forces. He argues that their "own" bourgeoisie.• action to achieve Israeli withdrawal." announced the September II demon What did this mean concretely? As stration in Washington based on two Begin himself declared repeatedly, demands: immediate withdrawal of SPARTACIST LEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY Israel would withdraw its armed forces Israeli troops from Lebanon and an end when and only when "a multinational to U.S. arms shipments to Israel. The National Office Champaign Los Angeles following weekend at a similar teach-in Box 1377. GPO c/o SYL Box 29574 peace-keeping force," including U.S. New York, NY 10116 PO. Box 2009 Los Feliz Station troops, took over the job of suppressing in the Bay Area, a Spartacist spokesman (212) 732-7860 Champaign. IL 61820 Los Angeles, CA 90029 the Palestinians. So the Marcyites and asked: "I would like to know why the (213) 663-1216 demand against U.S. troops wasn't Chicago CP, like Begin, were calling for sending Ann Arbor raised in this call." Coalition speaker Box 6441, Main P.O. Madison in the marines! Well, these "Pax c/o SYL Chicago, IL 60680 c/o SYL Americana" reformists finally found a Nubar Hovsepian replied: "I'm not P.O. Box 8364 (312) 427-0003 Box 2074 Ann Arbor, MI 48107 demand they could "win"-"effective particularly interested in convincing the Madison, WI 53701 (313) 662-2339 Cleveland (608) 251-3398 U.S. action" rolled into Beirut last week. Spartacist League as much as I am in Box 91954 Lenin's term for those who believed convincing the churches, people in the Cleveland, OH 44101 Berkeley/Oakland (216) 621-5138 New York their own imperialist governments mainstream of this country...." In P.O. Box 32552 Box 444 could be pressured into playing a truth, Hovsepian and his colleagues are Oakland, CA 94604 Detroit Canal Street Station (415) 835-1535 Box 32717 New York, NY 10013 progressive role in the world was interested in convincing the rulers ofthis (212) 267-1025 country. Detroit. MI 48232 "social-imperialists." But the groveling (313) 961-1680 San Francisco Marcyites would make even Lenin's Anti-:soYleJ Popular Front Boston most opportunist opponents want to Box 840, Central Station Houston Box 5712 Cambridge, MA 02139 Box 26474 San Francisco, CA 94101 throw up. Take the front-page article of The "November 29 Coalition" is (617) 492-3928 Houston, TX 77207 (415) 863-6963 Workers World (25 June) on the simply another instance of Stalinist Reagan-Begin meeting: popular frontism, the political subordi "He [Reagan] could have refused to nation of the interests of the workers TROTSKYIST LEAGUE OF CANADA meet with Begin, and would have, if he and oppressed. The class expression were really a representative of the of popular frontism is a governmental Toronto Vancouver people. He could have issued an Box 7198, Station A Box 26. Station A executive order stopping all U.S. aid to bloc between reformist mass workers Toronto, OntariO M5W 1X8 Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2L8 Israel. Or he could have demanded that parties and bourgeois parties, such as (416) 593-4138 (604) 681-2422 Begin comply with a UN resolution Allende's Unidad Popular in Chile or 3 SEPTEMBER 1982 11 WfJliNEIiS VIINfitJllli1J Smash "Pax Americana" From (I Salvador to Beirut! Imperialist/Israeli Troops Out of Lebanon! Frey/Time They are the world's most notorious imperialist butchers. They have the blood of millions of toilers on their hands, from Indochina to North Africa. The very words are synonymous with the' bloody suppression of colonial revolt: the U.S. Marines, the French Foreign Legion. Last week, joined by the elite Italian Bersaglieri Regiment, they landed in west Beirut. This multi imperialist "peace-keeping" force came to finish what the savage Israeli invasion of Lebanon had started: disarming and dispersing the armed forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The 600,000 Palestinians in Lebanon now stand defenseless before the genocidal onslaught of the Zionist state and its Lebanese Maronite Chris tian allies in the fascist Phalange of Bashir Gemayel. To call this situation a "victory" for the Palestinians, as do the Third World ist nationalist cheerleaders on the left, is cynical treachery to the cause of Palestinian national liberation. As U.S. Imperialism's killer elite pollees Palestinians, spearheads anti-Soviet war drive in Near East (above). Palestinian Begin smirked: "We wish Arafat such a woman ordered to celebrate PLO "Victory" (right). 'victory' every day." In past protests over EI Salvador, the desert compounds. Chanting "Victory!" geous, if poorly armed, PLO fighters. most notorious terrorist, Phalange head reformist American left, hungry to along with the PLO, the September II To take these out would have required Bashir Gemayel, became its new presi make its politics acceptable to the march organizers stand hardest against house-to-house fighting and lots more dent. It was an election Reagan's "progressive" Kennedy wing of the the road of class struggle against the Israeli soldiers being shipped back to the advisers in EI Salvador would have Democratic Party, has marched for a Zionist and Arab rulers-Fora socialist Zionist "homeland" in body bags. This appreciated. The Phalange militia (Ka "political solution." They even call the federation of the Near East! might well have exploded a society teab) rounded up Moslem members of cops to seal off the revolutionists who whose polarization over the Lebanon parliament and marched them to an stand for military victory to the leftist Defend the Palestinians invasion was such as to cause unprece army barracks in Christian east Beirut. insurgents. It's fitting that this same Against Phalange Terror! dented mass peace demonstrations in There, surrounded by Israeli tanks and crew has called for a demonstration It was not humanitarian scruples that Tel Aviv in the midst of war. threatened by Kateab gunmen, these September II over Lebanon. For now prevented Menachem Begin from order So the Israelis were forced to turn to aged clan leaders, Christian and Mos they have their "political solution"; in ing the Zionist army into west Beirut to the imperialist powers, centrally Rea lem, voted Gemayel the new master of Beirut, as the U.S. marines land and the crush the PLO. Ariel Sharon's armed gan's America, to win on the negotiating Lebanon. Palestinian guerrillas are stripped of forces halted at the city gates because of table what even mad bomber Begin The Israeli-backed Phalange origi their weapons and dispersed to isolated the tenacious resistance of the coura- feared to fight for in the streets of west nated in the 1930s as a fascist organiza Beirut. They were aided by the PLO tion deliberately modeled on the Hitler itself, which asked the U.S. marines and Youth and Spanish Falange. It is an French legionnaires to accept their opprobrious irony of history in the surrender and serve as their guardians as epoch of imperialist decay that sun'i they boarded ships, trucks and buses for VOl'S of the Nazi Holocaust have built a their new exile. racialist state whose only ally in the The petty-bourgeois nationalist PLO Arab East is a movement modeled on always looked to the Arab regimes, both European fascism. And that the only the bonapartist colonels and the reac terms which accurately describe Begin/ tionary sheiks, as their champions. The Sharon's invasion of Lebanon and refusal of any of these regimes to so occupation of the West Bank are terms much as lift a finger for the beleagu,ered used to describe the Nazis: Blitzkrieg, Palestinian commandos shows that the Lebensraum, genocide. now terminated president of Egypt, Gemayel's Phalange represents the Anwar Sadat, spoke for all of them at application of fascist ideology and Camp David. The 1,100 PLO comman organization to the warlord politics of dos given a "hero's welcome" on traditional Lebanese society where each arriving in Tunisia were promptly patriarchal family rules a religious/ stripped of their weapons and sent to a ethnic community with its own party barbed wire enclosed camp guarded by and militia. This species of feudalist police and soldiers, a camp virtually gangland warfare was institutionalized indistinguishable from the detention by the French colonialists as the camps Israel maintains for Palestinian Maronite-dominated "confessional" prisoners. A similar fate awaits PLO system, preserved by imperialism. Thus militants deported to Hussein's Jordan a plebeian Moslem rebellion against and Assad's Syria. Maronite domination in 1958 was ,~ ~ And what is in store for the suppressed with the help of 10,000 U.S. .~:~ Palestinians left behind in Lebanon? marines dispatched by Eisenhower. Nachtwey/Black Star TWG days after the first French legion In 1975 a Phalangist massacr'e of Begin's terror bombing destroyed ancient city of Tyre. naires landed in Beirut, the country's continued on page 11 12 3 SEPTEMBER 1982