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NUMBER 129 SUMMER 1988/1989 IfO cents Social Patriots Enlist for New Pacific War • own 1 • 1- For Proletarian Internationalism!

Dwarfed by a huge Australian flag emblazoned with "heart of a na tion," second-hand dealer Bruce Whiteside proclaimed: "We are again facing a threat of invasion." The 1300 people packed into this hall on Queensland's Gold Coast in May, including the state Labor Party deputy leader .T')m Burns, erupted into massive applause. Later the announcement of a bomb threat provoked cries of "the Japanese have done it" and Tokyo stock exchange, largest in the world. Rise of Japan Inc fuels chauvinist fears in White Australia. "yellow peril," ment, which is now triggering a (Australian, 28-29 May). The 31 ~ational Action posters proclaim- The coming of Japan as the filthy anti-Japanese backlash in October morning edition of ing "White Australia, the workers' Asian economic. "superpower," Australia. The hysterical, racist Yomiuri Shimbun, circulation 9.6 cause!" and "Oppose the Japanese symbolised by the rise of the Gold Coast meeting prompted the million and one of Japan's two property invasion." value of the yen against both the Japanese consulate to complain main bourgeois dailies, carried a, Anti-Japan chauvinism extends US and Australian dollars, has led that "people were confusing mem- page four headline "Rising anti- far beyond the tiny fascist fringe. to a surge in Japanese tourism and ories of World War II with the Japanese feeling in Australia." Its Treasurer Keating weighed in, a mini-boom in property invest- realities of. modern-day Japan" article featured photos of fascist Continued on page six Russian Nazis Raise Their Heads Soviet Workers Must Crush Pamyatl

Recent statements in Soviet Leningrad which does not evoke "t" ~':' newspapers report an ominous memories of this hero city's %: development. An outfit calling 900-day stand against the Nazi $; itself the "Russian National­ invaders and of the million or ¥ Patriotic Front Pamyat" has more who died to defend this been staging weekly demon­ western gateway to the Soviet strations in the city of Lenin­ homeland. From the somber ft grad. An Italian tourist who mass graves of the Piska­ .~ witnessed a Pamyat demon­ revskoye Memorial Cemetery, stration wrote to Moscow News . burial place of . more than (14 August), "A weekhas passed, 500,000 Leningraders who died in and I'm still horrified. I felt as the Nazi siege, it is but a few if i' d attended a real fascist minutes' drive to the Rumyant­ meeting of the 1930s." "Sur­ sevsky Garden. Yet here, every rounded by bodyguards in black Thursday, in this public park in shirts," Pamyat leader Dmitri the heart of Leningrad - the Vassiliev rails against Jews while city of Lenin, the birthplace of his cohorts blame the Chernobyl the internationalist October nuclear disaster on "enemy Revolution - Pamyat has staged forces." The blood of every its disgusting spectacle. The decent Soviet citizen boils over proud people of Leningrad can't Pamyat's racist outrages. allow this to continue. Leningrad must be cleansed of Leningrad writer Valery Vos­ this fascist filth! koboinikov described one of the Novost: Press There is scarcely a street in Continued on page eight Pamyat fascists march in Moscow, May 1987.

Registered by Australia Post - Publication no NBF0710 down by the CI in 1921. The Res­ olution's applicability to the SL reflects our roots in earlier com­ munist organizations in this country, from whom we have sought to choose the best prac­ tice. In stark contrast, the 1921 Leninist Resolution on Organization Trotskyist organizations of Europe and the ex-colonial world had The article below is reprinted their fragile human threads of from Workers Vanguard no 460 (9 continuity with the early Commu­ September) biweekly organ of the nist movement snapped by war Spartacist League/U S. and fascism and Stalinist terror. Study of the Resolution has The Prometheus Research Li­ GUidelines on the been hampered by the lack of an brary, archive and library of the Organizational Structure adequate English-language trans­ Central Committee of the Sparta­ lation (the translations produced cist League [US], is pleased to of Communist Parties, by the Comintern in the 1920s are announce the publication of on the MethOds and Content flawed and also fail to include the "Guidelines on the Organizational of Their Work amendments adopted by the Structure of Communist Parties, Congress in its final session). on the Methods and Content of The translation published in Their Work." This 94-page bulletin ReSOlution of the Prometheus Research Series No 1 Third Congress 01 the Con,munist International contains a complete and accurate 12 July i921 appears to be the first accurate translation of the final German New TranSlation 01 th, Final German Text one ever based on the final InClUding RePorts and DiSCUSSion Irom the Congress text of the Organizational Resol­ With IntrOdUction and Notes German-language text. The bull­ ution of the 1921 Third Congress etin includes a survey of the vari­ of the Communist International ous language versions of the (CI), with accompanying introduc­ Resolution including the Russian tory and documentary material. It in "A Note on Translation." Also is the first in the Prometheus included are the reports on and - -= P'OM""",,-.~---~~-.--.- .,,""" 1""" Research ~eries, whichSeeks~to­ LIl\'> ~, .. discussion of the Organizational make available important ma­ Resolution at the 22nd and 24th terials from the history of the in­ sessions of the Congress. This ternational communist lTlovement. material appears here for the first time in English. When the Third Congress of revolutionary material of the first organized in the International At the Fourth Congress of the the Communist International met four congresses of the Communist Federation of Trade Unions in Moscow in the summer of 1921, Communist International in 1922, International of Lenin and ("Amsterdam International") and the revolutionary wave \Vhich had Lenin repeatedly stressed the Trotsky's time. in the reformist Second and swept Europe following the Octo­ importance of "Guidelines on the Historians of the CI of this centrist "Two and a Hal fIt Organizational Structure of ber Revolution had for the most Internationals. part receded. As against those period (eg, the eminent EH Carr) Communist Parties, on the have persistently diminished Members of organizations on Methods and Content of Their ultraleftists who argued that the the left which base themselves on International must continue the Lenin's role in drawing up the Work," in private meetings with the "cell structure" used by the "offensive" against the capitalist Resolution, especially misinter­ various delegations, and in his preting his remarks endorsing it at Comintern as it degenerated after only speech to the Congress. His world order, Lenin and Trotsky in­ 1924 will be particularly sisted that the young International the CI' s Fourth Congress, his last remarks remain the best testi­ intervention into the political life interested in "Guidelines on the mony to the 1921 Resolution's take stock of the lull in the class Organizational Structure of the struggle. In the main Congress of the International. The Introduc­ significance for the international tion to Prometheus Research Communist.. Parties, on· the communist movement: resolutions, which included not Methods and Content of Their Series No l-ci"ocuments· the- Tm: "That resolution must be car­ only the Organizational Resol­ Work." In contrast to the practice portant role Lenin played in the ried out. It cannot be carried ution but also the "Theses on Tac­ of the Stalinized Comintern, drafting of the Organizational out overnight; that is absol­ tics," the Bolshevik leadership which in order to straitjacket Resolution. The Resolution em­ utely impossible. The resol­ attempted to codify the 20 years internal discussion abolished party bodies Lenin's developed under­ ution is too Russian, it reflects of experience in struggle against units based on territorial organiz­ standing of the party and his the Russian experience. That the tsarist empire - the unique ation (eg, a neighborhood branch struggle to shape an authentic is why it is quite unintelligible Russian experience which pro­ or citywide local) in favor of revolutionary vanguard out of the to foreigners, and they cannot duced the party capable of leading small "cells" ostensibly based on partially sorted-out components be content with hanging it in a the world's first successful pro­ the factories, the 1921 Organiz­ of former social-democratic corner like an icon and praying letarian revolution - so that the ational Resolution advocates that parties which formed the bulk of to it •••• They ••• must study new Communist parties in the rest cells and fractions operate in of the world could study its the would-be Communist parties in a special sense, in order in Europe in 1921. Lenin was par­ ~o.!!l~!!s:_tion with territorial units-:- that they may really under­ lessons. "Guidelines on the Organ­ The Spartacist League began izational Structure of Communist ticularly concerned that the stand the organization, struc­ German party forge itself into a to study the 1921 Organizational ture, method and content of Parties, on the Methods and Resolution in the early 1970s Bolshevik vanguard and the Resol­ revolutionary work. If they do Content of Their Work" is an under the impact of building the ution was drafted in German. With that, I am sure that the pros­ important component of the great party's first industrial fractions. Germany very unstable and the pects of the world revolution An educational session of the will be not only good, but Spartacist League German party one of the biggest SL/US 1975 summer camp was excellent." in the Comintern, the perspective then devoted to presentations on GPO Box 3473, GPO Box 2339, of world revolution reduced itself the Resolution. What was striking, To receive a copy of Sydney,2001 Melbourne, 3001 in the first instance to the per­ but not accidental, was the extent Prometheus Research Series No I Ph: 281-2181 Ph: 6.54-431.5 spective of a German revolution. to which the SL' s organizational send $8• .50 (includes postage) to (Events in Germany tragically practice embodied, on the appro­ Spartacist ANZ Publishing Co, Australasian--~ confirmed the correctness of priate scale, the principles laid GPO Box 3473, Sydney 2001 •• Lenin's urgent emphasis on the [SpARTACIST ~) need for a Bolshevik party in

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Ross St, Glebe. ship of the majority of the prolet­ ariat away from the misleaders 2 AUSTRALASIAN SPARTACIST Smash Hawke/ACTU/Bosses Union- Busting "Restructuring"! neilain·lne nionsl "The day the miners began sur­ ~ convenors but when BHP flew in rendering to reality" was how the ~ extra staff as scabs, the entire Australian 0-2 October} described ~ workforce walked out. Many other the narrow vote by aggregate ~ sections of the working class are meetings of coal miners to accept also under the same gun - their leadership's wholesale give­ teachers, postal workers, nurses, backs of working conditions. John shop assistants, rail workers, sea­ Maitland and the union bureau­ men, waterside workers and build­ crats had run up the white flag ing workers. What is striking is before the fight even started, but the contrast between the defeat­ it took them a year to wear down ist, legalist, ineffectual way the mineworkers' resistance to the unions have fought these strikes betrayal of the five-day week, and the no-holds-barred vicious­ seven-hour shifts and Christmas ness of the bosses.. shutdown. Fostering racist protec­ Why is this class war so one­ tionism, Maitland and Co tried to sided? Because the workers' sup­ shift blame from the big Aust­ posed "leadership" is on the other ralian coal bosses, for whose side. Not content with being profits 3,500 jobs have already Hawke/Keating's industrial police gone, onto the Japanese. With and spearheading the smashing of their do-nothing lobbying in Can­ the BLF, the ACTU bureaucrats berra and limited protest strikes, have drawn up a blueprint for they steadily sapped the miners' capitalist "restructuring," Aust­ will to fight, dissipated their mili­ ralia Reconstructed. Its trial run tancy and left them isolated - was union-busting at Williams­ then told them, you're isolated, town. But while Crean and Kelty you can't win a national strike. Striking Mt Newman miners warned "scabbing is a health hazard." But imagine themselves following in These are lies! Counting local and Eureka flag nationalism is an obstacle on the road to workers power. Hawke and Keating's footsteps, national strikes, the miners have the unions are going to hell, the been out for about two months out working class pay for their huge Island Dockyard in Sydney, a percentage of unionised workers of the last year, in the front line foreign debt and trade deficit as Spartacist League supporter, Neil falling from 51 to 46 in the last of Hawke/Keating's war Oil international trade rivalries hot Florrimell, was sacked because he decade, mostly under Labor. The unions. Had even that two months up - slashing real wages to slow had consistently defended union "left" bureaucracy bleats that if been spent in an all-out national im ports and "restructuring" in­ condi tions and fought for occupy­ they don't implement "restructur­ strike that unleashed their enor­ dustry in the hope of boosting ing the yard to save jobs, linking ing," the so-called New Right will. mous power, they could have been exports. Naturally, the massive this to political opposition to pro­ They like to rail against "Amer­ well on the way, at least, to a vic­ military build-up and the chauvin­ tectionism, Hawke's Accord and ican-style" strikebreaking as at tory which could have rallied the ist Bicentennial spree are spared his Cold War build up. Militants Hoyts, but it only succeeds be­ whole working class, plus op­ .. Keating/Walsh~s budget .axe, for knew this anti-communist victim­ cause of their Australian-style pressed sectors like blacks and Reaganomics complements Cold isation was a prelude to closure of class-collaboration. Crean/Kelty/ women, behind them. Instead, War Labor's enlistment in the the yard, but a two-week iron­ Carmichael/McDonald - these are though the miners aren't com­ anti-'Soviet war drive of the workers strike to defend Flor­ the union-busters! pletel y broken, the bureaucrats' Reagan years and beyond. rimell was sold out. Now, workers surrender was the green light for are being told the yard could be PICKET LINES MEAN DON'T ACTU UNION BUSTERS a stepped-up bosses' onslaught on closed as early as 1990. CROSS! award conditions across the board. Oespite the stranglehold of the In September, workers at Yet anger is building up, To get the latest measly three bureaucracy, some strikes have Hoyts cinemas struck against de­ Labor's electoral base is increas­ percent pay "rise," unions have broken out here and there. In Mel­ mands that they sign away many ingly alienated and the sellouts had to agree to "award restructur­ bourne last July, a week-long jobs, working conditions and their aren't going down that well. 'vlili­ ing." This means the bosses can go transport strike culminated in right to strike in humiliating indi­ tants are asking - how can we after any and all award provisions nearly half a million workers out vidual contracts. After three fight to win? A few fundamentals that obstr1Jct jacking up the rate for one day. But the militancy of weeks on the picket line, the are worth re-stating. A strike that of exploitation - shift and week­ the ranks was being cynically used union tops forced a return to doesn't shut down production is a end penal ties, overtime rates, by "left" Trades Hall Council sec­ work, whereupon the boss sacked lost cause. Mass militant picket lea ve provisions, rosters, safety, retary John Halfpenny as a press­ 120 strikers and moved to deregis­ lines that mean "don't dare cross" trade classifications, manning ure tactic on Arbitration over the ter the union. At the BHP-owned are essential to concentrate the scales - just about anything that national wage case, after which Mt Newman mine in the Pilbara full power of the workers to stop makes a job bearable. "Multi­ Halfpenny and the union tops duti­ region of Western Australia, 2,700 production. Scabbing is too easy skilling" means you have to do any fully applauded the court's three iron ore miners struck for three when, like at Hoyts, a "picket job the boss wants; casual and percent scam. weeks, later joined by 700 miners line" is only ten people or so contract labour, often non-union, That same month a long strike at nearby Robe River. Originally handing out balloons and free is increasingly replacing unionised at Williamstown Naval Dockyard, two unions were out in defence of tickets to the rival show down the permar.ent workers. To enforce it, a historic centre of union their union condi tions and union Continued on page nine Hawke's Industrial Relations Bill militancy, ended in a. crushing . will give a revam ped Industrial defeat. Last December the Hawke Commission more teeth - powers government privatised the yard to outlaw strikes, impose punitive and the new owner set about fines, seize union assets and de­ slashing the 1,000-strong work­ register unions. The Bill sanctions force through "voluntary" redun­ "enterprise agreements" whereby dancy. An ACTU-inspired plan to plants can "opt out" of observing cut the number of unions to three awards and workers have to sign provoked the strike. All 270 individual contracts, like the re­ strikers were sacked and the cent de-unionisation of the 500 ACTU then signed a new giveback meatworkers at the Castle Bacon agreement behind their back, factory in Victoria. Defend the leaving the yard closed, the unions - smash this slave labour workers sacked, the shop com­ Bill! mi ttee broken and its leaders blacklisted. The yard is to be The name of the game is forc­ reopened with jobs, wages and ing fewer workers to work harder conditions slashed to bid "com­ for longer hours in more danger­ petitively" to build the twelve ous condi tions for a whole lot less ANZAC frigates for Australian pay. Pursuing what US economist and NZ imperialism to police the David Hale called "a trade union­ Pacific. ist version of Reaganomics," Anti-Soviet war plans necessi­ 1969 - Mass strike by almost one million workers smashed Arbitration Hawke/Keating want to make the tate union-busting - at Cockatoo penal powers and freed Tramways union leader Clarrie o· Shea. SUMMER 1988/1989 3 Shut Down Immigration's Concentration Camps I Stop Haw~e's Racist Deportations I

Late on the night of 21 Octo­ ber NSW cops swooped through Kings Cross in central Sydney raiding brothels and hotels in search of Asian women. Forty­ three women, Thais and Malay­ sians, were arrested, guilty of nothing but avoiding the net of Australia's racist immigration laws. The prostitutes, many of whom had valid papers but of­ fended the law by working, were victims of exploitation by the criminal underworld, Sydney police and politicians and finally the racist Hawke government. Under the full blaze of television cameras more than half the women were herded in tears into the airport for i!l)mediate deport­ ation. The remainder were in­ terned at Villawood Detention Centre, awaiting the same fate. It was a pUblicity coup for the government, intent on proving itself a better watchdog of White Australia than Howard's Liberals clamour to be. A mass deportation few could be expected to protest, aimed to appeal to racist ar,d Policing the borders of White Australia. Arrested Indonesian fishing boat under naval escort off Darwin. sexist chauvinists by targetting immigrants at once women, pros­ Inset: barbed wire and security cameras surround Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre. titutes and .l\sian. And a message to the 60,000 to 70,000 "illegal" supported his appeal, said that the fake documents racket which Immigration" (Australasian Spart­ immigrants living in Australia only response from the immi­ feeds off the desperation of those acist, no 128, October/November that they could be next. gration minister, Senator Ray, turned down by Immigration, and 1988): "All attempts to maintain Two weeks later about 23 im­ was an edict stating that he won't unable to work while their case is Australia '3.S a privileged white migrants being held in Mari­ intervene in any cases. The work­ being considered. Their story, one outpost in conflict with the sur­ byrnong Detention Centre in ing class must 'demand -the right of' of,nisery;r fear; 'destitution' ahd' rounding'region are hot only reac-' Melbourne went on hunger strike, asylum for all victims of' reac­ victimisation is that of tens of tionary but historically doomed. in protest against not getting a tionary terror! Stop racist thousands of Asians, Islanders and Geographic and economic reality fair hearing in their bids to stay in deporta tions! refugees from the Middle East and dictate that one day the popu­ Australia. Seventeen ended their Australasian ~~rtacist spoke Africa who managed to get lation will be many times larger, hunger strike on a promise from with one of the hunger strikers, through the frontier of this white and of mainly Asian descent. The immigration officials that their Fijian Indian Peter Nagaiya. He racist enclave. only progressive way this can hap­ cases would be considered. The was held in Maribyrnong for 110 The high-security Detention pen is through socialist revolution majority were quickly deported. days and twice rejected for Centres at Villawood, Maribyr­ to expropriate the White Australia Women and children were sep­ refugee status. His wife was ar­ nong and around Australia are bourgeoisie.... We aggressively arated from the men and force­ rested on 21 November when virtual concentration camps. oppose the White Australia immi­ fed. The Palestinian strike leader making her regular twice-weekly Illegal migrants are held for long gration laws and all forms of was "disappeared." Later it was report to police. The Spartacist periods, often incommunicado• .l\ racially and nationally discrimi­ confirmed he had been deported League alerted press and left wing 1983 enquiry into Villawood by the natory quotas, and defend the to Singapore. His appeal to the ALP MPs to their plight. The Age Human Rights Commission was rights of migrant workers - Determination of Refugee Status and SBS television carried the told of 24-hour television sur­ , legal' or not - against chauvin­ (DORS) Committee was rejected. story and Immigration told the veillance (including in toilets and ist persecution and deportation. The appeal included a support family their deportations would be showers), no physical contact with We demand full citizenship rights submission from Gerry Hand, min­ reconsidered. Then on 22 Novem­ visi tors permitted, babies and for all foreign-born working ister for Aboriginal affairs, saying ber they were cruelly deported small children held in unsuitable people who have managed to make "I have reason to believe that (the anyway. Their son-in-law and conditions, telephone calls only in it into the country!" man) will be severely persecuted, daughter also face deportation. English, censorship of mail, no Behind the veneer of the "im­ punished and jailed for his pol­ The daughter told us that follow­ right to bail, and no access to migration debate" the Hawke itical activities" (Age, 14 Nov­ ing a terrifying 6 am immigration legal or welfare advice. And de­ government is enforcing a vicious ember) - on his ,return to the department raid and the arrest tainees were charged $34 a day crackdown against illegal Asian Middle East. Which is precisely of her husband in August, she for staying there! A Melbourne immigrants. Early this year we the treatment he got here! The suffered a miscarriage in an solid tor described Maribyrnong, denounced the deportation of nine Palestinian Human Rights Com­ advanced state of pregnancy. "People are caged up. There's Tamils back to the bloody commu­ mittee in Melbourne, which also They are penniless, victims of a barbed wire around the grounds nalist horror of Sri Lanka: "This and no exercise yards of any mag­ potentially murderous act was a nitude. They lose human dignity. calculated statement to the world They're unaware of the facilities that the Cold War Hawke regime available." These concentration plans its Bicentennial to be an Rally against camps are an affront to humanity. obscene 'celebration' of the 200- Hawke's racist They should be shut down, razed year history of racist White Aust­ fees and quotas to the ground and turned into ralian capit'3.lism" (Australasian for overseas parks for the common enjoyment Spartacist, no 124, February! students, of the people who live in those March 1988). Hawke defended the Sydney, 1985. neighbourhoods. deportations: "If we have a Spartacist The racist chauvinism of White position where some people can placards include Australian capitalism mirrors that just fly in and say 'Here we are, "Full citizenship of the racialist states of apartheid now you must keep us because if rights for South Africa and Zionist Israel, you don't we will be hurt when we foreign-born except that here the equivalent of 'go back,' you make a mockery workers and the blacks and Arabs are the of an orderly immigration students!" masses of Asia, thousands of miles system" (Australian, 8 January). away. As we said in our article Now another three Tamils, cur­ "Ugly Racist Furore over Asian rently held in Villawood, face

4 AUSTRALAS~SPARTAC~T Hawke's Cops Doing Botha's Dirty Work Delend PAC Against "Terrorism" Frame· Up! On Friday 14 October Hawke's ambassador and the police - an destroy us and also the people in apartheid activists, including a federal cops in Canberra raided allegation which she denies. Australia. Secondly, the only midnight "necklacing" of an effigy the office of the black nationalist Browning, the sole breadwinner people who can benefit from that at the home of Uniting Church Pan Africanist Congress of Azania was then denied bail on the· is the 'apartheid "authorities and Minister Dorothy McMahon.' Mc­ (South Africa), the main anti­ grounds that she would not be in­ their embassy, because they get Mahon has publicly complained apartheid organisation other than convenienced, but appealed to the to have us isolated and get public about cop refusal to provide pro­ the ANC. The cops also raided Supreme Court. The next day she sympathy around them and it's tection for her and her parish­ PAC representative Maxwell was released on a whopping not our job to create sympathy for ioners against a prolonged and Nemadzivhanani's home and $10,000 surety and placed under a them.... Such issues to us are pol­ systematic campaign of terror by searched a community housing itically sensitive, they don't make the National Action fascists. project where his wife, Kerry ~ military sense either. We would be The Coalition Against Apart­ "0 the last people to undertake such heid formed in Canberra to defend Browning, a long-time ACT anti­ -::r racist activist works. Twenty cops ;,. ,-+o acti vi ties." the PAC includes the Canberra spent 18 hours ransacking files, ".,,~:_=~ 0 Nemadzivhanani noted that Trades and Labour Council personal possessions and household the cop raid was "designed to in­ amongst its 31 supporting organis­ effects, seizing carloads of ma­ timidate anti-apartheid activists ations. Rather than mobilising the terial. Doing the dirty work of the here in Australia" and denounced working class they seek to press­ South African embassy, the it as a service to South African ure the ALP government to "re­ Hawke Labor government has intelligence: "During the raid, pair some of the damage which framed up Nemadzivhanani and among the over 300 bags they has been done to Australia's in­ Browning for the firebombings of took, they took photographs of our ternational reputation as an op­ South African and US diplomatic army, and those photographs have ponent of the [South African] cars between April and August no bearing on the government regime" (CAA press release, 23 this year. Browning faces ten case. They took addresses of PAC October). But Hawke is an anti­ charges with potential sentences members inside [South Africa]. Soviet ally of Botha and one of US of 15 years to life. Nemadzivha­ Those addresses have no bearing imperialism's most craven Cold nani could get 15 years on two on the case. We can only suspect War lackeys. Hawke rules over charges, including intent. The they will hand that over to South Australian Apartheid where the "evidence" produced by th,e cops African security.... We will not be death rate for blacks in prison is was an empty coke can and a surprised if we see new state wit­ higher per capita than for South "black substance," supposedly a nesses in the six PAC trials going Afr ican blacks: His occasional home-made bomb! on inside the country of late fol­ hypocri tical anti-apartheid pIa ti­ The vindictive racism implicit lowing this rn.id •••• We see Aust­ tudes are a posture for public con­ in the heavy charges laid against ralia as siding entirely with sumption - an acknowledgement Browning (a white woman marri:!d Maxwell Nemadzivhanani enemies of our people and directly of the hatred the world's working to a black man) was emphasised pandering to the interests of the people feel for the apartheid by a second cop raid on 21 10 pm-6 am curfew until at least US and the South Africans." butchers. Novem ber. They again searched 1 December when the charges are The "terrorism" frame-up of An attack on one is an attack Browning's workplace taking to be heard! Drop all charges the PAC contrasts with cop indif­ on all! The working class has the various documents including a now! Defend Browning, Nemad­ ference to the real and escalating social power and the interest to register of the immigrant resi­ zivhanani and the PAC against terror carried out by fascist smash these attacks. There must dents. Later they attempted to Hawke's racist cops! groups against anti-apartheid and be a storm of protest by the left smash their way into the Nemad­ A PAC press release issued anti-racist activists. In Canberra and labour movement over this zivhanani home with a hammer, after the raid denied any engage­ earlier this year there were arson outrageous frame-up •• then searched the house, brutally ment in illegal activities in attacks on Radio 2XX' s trans­ Send protest messages to pushing their two children, aged Australia. In an interview with mi tter building, the Southern Lionel Bowen, Attorney-General, three and seven, along wi th the Australasian Spartacist, Nemad­ African Liberation Centre and House of Representatives, Par­ grandmother outside. The next zivhanani elaborated: "We would BLF offices. In Sydney the liament House, ACT, 2600. Send day Browning was slapped with see bombing cars as an agent pro­ Afrikaner fascist A WB, which has copies and donations for defence two more charges alleging she vocateur activity which provides a links to National Action, has been to Coalition Against Apartheid, sent a letter threatening the US weapon for the establishment to escalating its attacks on anti- GPO Box 4, Canberra 2601.

deportation. A mere 356 claims "immigration debate" has pro­ for refugee status were even con­ vided them with a pretext to sidered by the DORS Committee defend the hated Hawke govern­ in 1985-86 and around 500 in ment, on precisely the cutting 1986-87. Australia is notorious Senator Ray, Minister for Immigration 15 November question which divides revol­ throughout Asia for its racist im­ utionaries from social-democratic migration laws, its consulates' "Recent reports of hunger strike of up to 23 detained persons of Australian nationalists. The derogatory denials of even tourist Fijian, Mplaysian, Indian, Iranian and Palestinian origin being held Fourth Congress of the revol­ visas to the vast majority of ap­ in inhuman conditions at the Maribyrnong Detention Centre in utionary Communist International plicants, its zealous officials at Melbourne highlight once again the racist White Australian im­ directed in 1922 that communists airports using the infamous Sec­ migration policies of the Hawke Labor government. Refusal to in Australia "must conduct a vig­ tion 36 of the Immigration Act to grant resident status and government deportation criminally en­ orous campaign against restrictive turn people around at the airport dangers the lives of persons fleeing reactionary terror. We de­ immigration laws and must ex­ or hold them for months in deten­ mand: No deportations! No reprisals! Immediate release of all plain to the proletarian masses ... tion. A recent decision by a Fed­ detainees and their right to asylum! Full citizenship rights for all that such laws, by inflaming racial eral Court judge on a case of four foreign-born workers and students!" hatred, will rebound on them in Tamils held that the rules of natu­ Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand the long run" (Theses on the ral justice do not apply to those Eastern Question). The working held under Section 36 as they have of the country by punitive tariffs and the Cold War Hawke class has a strategic interest in technically not entered Australia! in 1906, hard on the heels of the government has stirred the pot of the fate of their Asian class proclamation of, the White Aus­ anti-Indone'sian chauvinism to brothers and sisters under the The airports are not the only tralia policy. Nearly 650 trochus strengthen its "national consen­ weight of capitalist oppression place where the government shell and shark fishermen have sus" as it mobilises for anti-Soviet abroad. What's needed is some of guards its frontier against the been caught so far this year and war. the class-struggle internationalist Asian masses. In between the war jailed or repatriated, their boats Racist exclusion at borders, spirrt that saw Australian trade games the Australian military - their livelihoods - confiscated. refusals of refugee applications unionists shelter and fight for plays against an imaginary Indo­ Now arrogant immigration de­ and deportations are shamefully Indonesian seamen who jumped nesian invasion, the Navy patrols partment officials plan to burn ignored by the nationalist left, ship during the post-war Indo­ the northern coast stalking Indo­ the boats. "We also want to show which accepts the . necessarily nesian struggle for independence. nesian fishermen. The Macassans, the Indonesians we mean business. racist immigration laws of this The liberation of the Australian forebears of these fishermen, Torching the boats is bound to get white imperialist bastion. "The proletariat demands an inter­ visi ted Australian shores and pUblicity over there" (Australian, White Australia policy is dead!" nationalist revolutionary party to mixed with the Aboriginal popu­ 19-20 November). Anti-Asian claim the likes of the Socialist fight for a racially-integrated lation in the north for centuries. racism has always gone hand­ Workers Party and Socialist Party. workers republic of Australia, They were hounded and driven out in-hand with anti-communism, It's a lie and they know it. But the part of a socialist Asia•• SUMMER 1988/1989 .5 had been sunk! Everyone knows (Marxist-Leninist), which direly is fracturing along the same fault Anti-Japanese that the likelihood of Australian warns that the "Australian traitor lines as in the 1920s and 1930s war criminals being tried forty class of capitalists and poli­ when depression, trade war and Racism ••• years on is less than zero. And the ticians" is preparing public economic autarchy led to the Continued from page one Nazis won't get their just - des­ opinion for "Japanese air bases in second imperialist world war. serts from Hawke/Bowen; they Arnhem Land." Cold War ideologists have pro­ complaining that "The Japanese should be shipped back to East If the Maoists are the most claimed the Pacific Rim the most view Australia like a sort of Europe and the USSR to face tri­ rabid on the left and these days a dynamic arena for capitalist lung.(!?) But if we are a lung, we bunals of their victims. The small, discredi ted sect, they are growth and the "highway to the should be treated like a lung with Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun far from alone. The Laborite bu­ 21st century." In reality the a bit of respect and sensitivity," (circulation nine--mIilion) re­ reaucracy's racist protectionism entire Pacific region is being adding that "we don't just want sponded: "The controversy has resulted in an ugly demonstration shaken up by a rising tide of inter­ some concrete jockeys from completely blurred the fact, at Port Melbourne on 30 August. imperialist rivalry centred on the Tokyo throwing up blockhouses up shocking to the Japanese, that 350 As a protest against cheap Japan­ resurgence of Japan and the rela­ and down the coast" (Financial defenceless Japanese troops were ese cement imports 400 cement tive decline of the productive Review, 18 July). In March Liberal opposition leader John Howard went to Tokyo and, hoping to re­ trieve the reputation stolen from Protectionist Poison his party by Hawke as the Cold Warriors par excellence, called on ~ Japan to join "a triangular politi- 2 cal and security relationship with ~ the United States and Australia," ~ and eventually "go nuclear" to t "counter the Soviets" (Sydney ~ Morning Herald, 26 March 1988). ::i! Columnist Peter Hastings summed g> up mainstream bourgeois opinion: ~ t "Howard out of step on Japan" ~ (Sydney Morning Herald, 28 March). Whereupon Howard launched his racist "One Australia" policy against Asian immigntion in a desperate grab for electoral popularity over a Labor government which was already carrying it out, with a vengeance. Japan-bashing goes hand-in­ hand with the racist furore over Bosses, A WU tops whip up immigration promoted by the rul­ racist protectionism. In the ing class. The bourgeois dailies second of two attacks, have been filled with recollections cement workers hurl of "Japanese brutality" in World cement bombs at Japanese War Il, all designed to remind the ship, hitting a seaman, Port population of the enemy in the Melbourne, 2 November. Pacific War. The recent revel­ ations of Australian war crimes­ killed. Whichever way, Japan is workers, members of the AWU, capacity and financial strength of the cold-blooded machine-gunning always cast as the - villain" armed with cement bombs,-1t;..' the US. This decline was rapidly of 350 Japanese troops adrift in (Australian, 24 November). tacked Japanese seamen and local accelerated by the Reagan wharfies gathered to unload a regime's drive to achieve nuclear lifeboats off the New Guinea ANTI-JAPAN JINGOISM­ Japanese ship. This obscene dis­ first-strike capacity against the coast in 1943 - serves to confirm DEADL Y THREAT TO play exemplifies the reactionary Soviet Union. The US is now the that the endlessly canvassed WORKING CLASS crimes of the Japanese were logic of protectionism. The world's largest debtor nation matched by similar atrocities by Perhaps the clearest expres­ cement workers were given a paid while Japan is its major credi tor. the "democratic" Allied imperial­ sion of the current wave of anti- day off by the bosses and organ­ In fact Japan has been footing the ists. Not to mention the ultimate Japan scaremongering was one ised by the A WU tops to wage war bill for Star Wars. Immediately war crime, the atomic bombing of front-page article titled "Japan­ on Japanese seamen. 3y this George Bush was announced Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The ese 1m perialism - The Rising shameful act they have commit­ president-elect the central bank controversy was cynically engin­ 'v1enace to the Australian People" ted a crime against the interests of Japan warned him to cut the eered by the likes of the NCC and with an underline "After the of the proletariat of both· Aust­ deficit, or there would be trouble. Captive Nations to try and tor­ Toyotas, cameras, investments - ralia and Japan. Trade war is a Hopeful talk of a new era of pedo the government's new war the troops." On page five appears precursor to imperialist shooting "mutual dependence" between crimes legislation providing for a contribution from "a patriot," a war. Down with the poison of pro­ Japan and the US as Japanese trials of Nazi war criminals in member of Bruce Ruxton's reac­ tectionism! The main enemy is at finance capi tal props up Wall Australia. Howard's line was that tionary Returned Services League. home! Street and the US Treasury to Australian servicemen should be The Murdoch gutter press? Wrong. The "left" leadership of the "manage American decline" is exempt from the bill. Attorney­ This jingoist hysteria comes from ~trategic coal mining unions sur­ unreal the relationship is General Bowen said they would the social-patriotic left, namely rendered to the ruthless assaul t on inherently and explosively be, because their Japanese vic­ Vanguard (6 April), paper of the jobs and conditions by the coal unstable. tims were "engaged in hostile ac­ pro-China Stalinists of the bosses and Hawke government, Nowhere is this changing bal­ tion" - two days after their ships Communist Party of Australia blaming the Japanese importers ance of power viewed with more for the crisis. This racist poison is alarm than by the ruling class of <:i"',,·,>·,,',,,·:"'//"·,{"i')·' 5 typified by an article from the White Australia. Even before q Miners Federation journal Admiral Togo sank the tsarist CD ~ Common Cause by Queensland fleet at Tsushima in 1905, White -+ mineworker Don Schmidt, which Australia was obsessed with the complains that the coal importers rise of Japan. Today, standing "prostituted themselves to the outside the world's emerging Asian masters. " Scandalously this trading blocs, Australia is caught was reprinted without criticism in in the middle of a growing con­ a flyer advertising a meeting in flict pitting its US military pro­ October on the miners, by the tector against the country that Sydney Defend the Unions Com­ has been its major economic life­ mittee, a reformist sandbox sup­ line, but which is also its historic ported by the Socialist Party of Asian enemy. The White Australia Australia (SPA), the Socialist bourgeoisie feels vulnerable and Workers Party (SWP) and the scared. Hawke has waged war on Interna tional Socialists. the unions to drive up the rate of exploitation at home, but on its WALL ST/JAPAN INC RIVALRY own that is not enough. Hence the FUELS WHITE AUSTRALIA grandiose plans for "enmeshing CHAUVINISM with Asia" riding on the back of US power. The white racist basis The capi talist economic order of Australian capi talism, however, Hiroshima, 1945 - imperialist barbarism. in the Pacific and on a world scale makes a pathetic utopia out of the 6 AUSTRALASIAN SPARTACIST dreams of economic integration Poland, on this fundamental class with the region. That image is question they have been with the slipping out of sight as the pros­ Maoists in the camp of "their pect of a new Japanese Greater In October 1986 iSt own" imperialist ruling class, for East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and Japanese whom anti-Soviet Cold War is in­ looms over the horizon threaten­ Group laid wreath surance for White Australia. ing to supplant declining US im- . at the grave of Coming from a group which calls perialism. For example, Japan has Richard Sorge, on the Labor "lefts" to "form a been taking a higher profile in Hero of the Soviet workers government," denunci­ regional crises - offering to Union, in Tokyo's ations of protectionism aren't finance a counterrevolutionary Tama Cemetary, worth the paper they're printed "peace-keeping force" in Kampu­ as first step on. The fight against Laborite chea. In December last year the towards common racism is inseparable from de­ Japanese prime minister, Noboru work in Japan. fence of the Soviet Union and Takeshita, announced in Manila Inscription honours Vietnam! a $US2 billion loan package for Sorge and fellow Prior to, and ever more viru­ ASEAN, the bulk of it destined for Soviet spy Ozaki lently during the Pacific War, the the Philippines to help prop up the Hotsumi, "who died CPA peddled the racist ruling fragile Aquino regime. Preserving " fighting in the class propaganda portraying the the giant US bases in the Philip­ cause of the Japanese people as a "fanatical pines has been the main foreign international horde" ready to "die as one with policy concern of the Hawke proletariat." the emperor." Today the left government of late, because those nationalists buy the lie, promoted bases represent the military by the Australian and also by the power behind which White Aust­ Japanese bourgeoisies, each for ralia shel terse the fight for socialism is a fight unity," the SWP and SPA, cannot its own reasons, of Japanese capi­ For Canberra the rebirth of to prevent the annihilation of so easily escape the contradiction talist society as one reactionary the Japanese military - Tokyo is the human race. Mankind must between their socialist preten­ mass, collectively mourning their the third largest military spender now -exterminate the capitalist sions and the racist logic of their dying emperor and with a uniquely on the planet despite the so-called system - or be exterminated!" shared commitment to "indepen­ loyal, quiescent working class. "anti-war" constitution - is the - Militant, 18 August 1945 dence and national sovereignty." They deny the immense objective re-emergence of a threat which is The SP A in an edi torial on the weight of the proletariat in Japan mitigated for now by the conti!1u­ IMPERIALIST WAR AND anti-Japanese Gold Coast meet­ and wilfully ignore the role of the ing US nuclear hegemony. Hawke's STALINIST RACISM ings concludes with some evident Allied occupation army, which answer to Pacific region insta­ embarrassment, "Let there be a stabilised capitalist class rule in bility is to lock in ever harder as In bidding for power in 1983 in campai'gn against selling off the Japan by breaking mili tant trade regional deputy sherriff for the the midst of Reagan's anti-Soviet farm, but racism never!" unionism and purging tens of thou­ US anti-Soviet war drive. While war drive Hawke stressed that his (Guardian, 1 June). Twist and turn sands of communists in the 1950s. Australia's rulers need yen, they model was wartime Labor "hero" as they might neither the SPA nor The present wave of anti­ also have no intention of taking John Curtin. All the remnants of anyone else will ever find a "pro­ Japanese hysteria being promot.:!d their marching orders from Tokyo. Australian Stalinism also look gressive" Australian nationalism by the Laborite bureaucracy is a Hence Hawke and Beazley's osten­ back to the politics of the CPA of apart from the whole reactionary deadly danger to the working the late thirties and the war as tatious public announcement on 22 tradition of White Australia. class. It is the road to class de­ November of the new, renego­ their "great" period. Abandoning The political bandits of Nick feat, to the subordination of the tiated Pine Gap and Nurrungar any pretence of proletarian inter­ Beams' Socialist Labour League proletariat to a ruling class bent bases agreement, guaranteeing nationalism the Stalinists beat the (SLL) denounced the Maoists with on busting the unions and ever their presence for a minimum of drum of anti-Japanese jingoism an editorial in Workers News (15 ;oor.= iSrinding austerity to make ten years - a "time frame" to en­ for all it was worth. This jingoism April), "Maoists push racist filth." weak Australian capitalism "com­ is shamelessly celebrated by his­ sure their use in the nuclear first Promoting themselves as "born petitive" h a capitalist world in strike US imperL:tlism is preparing torian Rupert Lockwood in his again Trotskyists" they quote its death agony. Ultimately this book War on the Waterfront, an for the Soviet Union. And quite from a statement by the Inter­ is the road to a renewed and final unlike the furore which forced account of the 1938 waterfront national Committee of the Fourth imperialist bloodbath. Against this Hawke to back down on MX miss­ bans on pig iron to Japan. Interna tional of their new guru, relentless drift to barbarism an ile testing in 1985, in 1988 Lockwood lauds the Stalinists as David North: "The trade union internati0nalist multi-racial Bol­ Labor's parliamentary left made the true patriots, warning of the and labour bureaucracies, which shevik party must be buil t through not a whimper about the bases. "Japanese threat," as opposed to today attempt to tie the working splitting the working class away The anti-Americanism of the ruling class "quislings" typified by class to their 'own' bourgeoisie on from the death grip of racist, pro­ reformists has nothing to do with "pig-iron Bob" Menzies supposedly the basis of economic nationalism, capitalist Laborism. We are com­ appeasing Japanese militarism. genuine anti-imperialism but is a will become the recruiting mi tted to building sections of the reflection of the frustrated During the war the CPA de­ sergeants for imperialist war reforged Fourth Internati')nal in chauvinism of a necessarily junior scended into obscene racism, tomorrow." Despite its superficial both Australia and Japan to link and lackey imperialist country. breaking working-class strikes and orthodoxy, the SLL polemic is just concretely the struggle for a Applied to Japan this is even more greeting the atomic bombing of empty verbiage. For all their racially integrated workers repub­ starkly true for it involves an ad­ Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a warnings of the threat of imperi­ lic of Australia, part of a socialist aptation to the worst traditions of vile racist cartoon: "Jappy alist war there is not a word about Asia, with the mighty power of ending." Laborite white racism. As the the Soviet Union, the primary tar­ the Japanese proletariat, whose The Pacific War was a classic Hawke/Keating hard times grind get of the imperialist war prep­ destiny it is to play the decisive imperialist conflict for the re­ on, the Laborite bureaucracy arations from the US to Japan to role in shattering imperialism in seeks to divert and contain work­ sources and markets of Asia which Australia. From Afghanistan to Asia and the Pacific•• ing class anger with anti-Asian the white imperialists, especially protectionism. They would have Australia under Labor and its +­ the working classes of Australia Stalinist sergeant-majors, fought and Japan fight all over again the as a race war. General Thomas imperialist horror of 1941-45. The Blarney, Commander of the Aust­ cycle of capitalist depression and ralian Armed Forces, said in an war can be broken only by the address to his troops in New proletariat in power. A revol­ Guinea in early 1943: "Your en­ utionary workers party must be emy is a curious race - a cross built to defeat Laborite national­ between a human being and an ism and win the proletariat to the ape •••• We must go on to the end program of revolutionary inter­ if civilization is to survive. We nationalism. As the American must exterminate the Japanese" Trotskyists of the SWP wrote just (quoted in John W Dower, War days after the atom-bombing of Without Mercy). Dower said, "The Japan: reputation of not taking prisoners "Let the cataclysmic horror of also became associated with Aust­ Hiroshima and Nagasaki serve ralian troops in general." Against as a clarion call to the working the tide of hysterical racism, the class! The workers must wrench Trotskyist Fourth International the power from the hands of uniquely upheld the Marxist pos­ the blood-drenched capitalist ition of revolutionary defeatism criminals and take their destiny against all the warring imperial­ Eastern Department at the Fourth Congress of the Comintern, Moscow in their own hands. The fight ists, combined with intransigent 1922. Included are Tan Malaka of Indonesia and MN Roy of India (back for socialism is now more than defence of the Soviet degenerated row, third and fourth from left), Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam (front left), a fight to end poverty and in­ workers state. Eizo .Kondo and Sen Katayama, founders of Japanese communism equality, to abolish the exploi­ The rancid Maoists have no (front, second and third from left), Jock Garden, WP Earsman and Tom tation of man by man. Today shame but their partners in "left Payne of Australia (back, fifth and seventh from left, front right). SUMMER 1988/1989 7 to smash the Bolshevik-Leninist Crush Pamyat ... Opposition led by Leon Trotsky, Stalin resorted to vile anti­ Continued from page one ;;0; Semitism. The Russian fascist ii groups that flourished among Pamyat rallies (Moscow News, 14 the counterrevolutionary emigre August): communities in the 1920s and' 30s "One speaker demanded that it ultimately came to praise Stalin should be forbidden for Russian because he "had killed more men and women to marry mem­ Communists than Mussolini, Hit­ bers of definite alien races. ler, and Chiang Kai-shek com­ Another called for the immedi­ bined," as one historian of Russian ate deportation of Jews and fascism observed. members of other 'alien races' IS TIllS WHERE GORBACHEV' S to 'their historical mother­ RUSSIA IS HEADING? TO land.' Still another suggested PAMY AT? IT HAD BETTER declaring a ruthless war on NOT BE! those who 'concealed their ethnic origin under a Russian Describing the dual character name' ." of the nationalist bureaucratic In recent months, leaflets have caste, resting atop the inter­ appeared on walls demanding, nationalist foundations of the "Russia is for Russians - Death workers state created by the to Yids!" Jewish gravestones in October Revolution, Trotsky cemeteries in Moscow and else­ wrote: "If it were possible to X-ray where have been defaced. At a Victorious Red Army tramples Nazi swastika, Austria, 1945. Twenty poetry reading by Andrei Voznes­ political1y the whole Soviet million Soviet citizens died to rid the Soviet Union of Nazi murderers. ensky, who recently published a apparatus, we would find in poem denouncing these acts, it: concealed Bolsheviks, con­ Russia's "memory" (pamyat in anonymous notes were sent to the WHY HAS PAMYAT BEEN fused but honest revolution­ Russian), Pamyat crawled to the stage reading, "All of you are TOLERATED? aries, bourgeois democrats, and surface and started organizing. Jews or sold out to Jews," "We finally, candidates for fascism." Writer Voskoboinikov bitterly While still party chief in Mos­ will kill you." With their appeals - "New Defectors" relates how at one of the weekly cow last year, arch-perestroika (March 1938) for an anti-Semi tic "Final Sol­ Pamyat rallies: advocate Boris Yeltsin granted a ution," with their ostentatious Under glasnost and perestroika, a "One scene was particularly two-hour audience to a Pamyat black shirts, with their racist dia­ whole political spectrum which outrageous, when one of the delegation. Both Raisa Gorbachev tribes against all non-Russian had lain dormant under decades of Leningraders raised a poster and anti-Gorbachev "hardliner" nationalities, these Great Russian heavy-handed repression has come with the words: 'Workers of all Yegor Ligachev heap praise on "patriots" are more than extreme to the surface in Gorbachev' s lands, unite!' Before the eyes Russian artist Ilya Glazunov, nationalists or latter-day Black Russia. Pamyat stands at one ex­ of both militia and 'commis­ whose latest work commemorates Hundreds tsarist pogromists. Ihey treme - outright fascist counter­ sars' this poster was snatched the 1,00Oth anniversary of the are dyed-in-the-wool Nazis, the revolution. Lopping off that out of his hands and torn up, Russian Orthodox church by de­ Great Russian offspring of Hitler. excrescence would open up possi­ and he himself was immediately picting Stalin, Trotsky and Lenin pushed back by Pamyat mili­ bilities for a revolutionary Pamyat should be made to feel leading a Bolshevik mob over a transformation that would bring the wrath of the survivors of the tants. Why did the militia of­ road of skulls, under the gaze of ficials so carefully 'safeguard' authentic socialism to the Soviet 20 million Soviet citizens of all Russian tsars and saints! (The Union. nationalities who died fighting the the interests of the sponsors of government's official celebration Hitleri te invaders. For everyone the meetings?" of the millenium in June swelled Having in the past suppressed of these Pamyat fascists, there It is an open secret that Pamyat Russian nationalist obscurantism everything which was seen as a are tens and hundreds of fascist­ has its protectors within the .bu­ - and seems to have provided the threat to its bureaucratic order, hating workers, students, veterans reaucracy. One of its Moscow occasion for Pamyat to initiate its now that the lid has been some­ and youth in mili tary service who leaders is Valery Yemelyanov, a weekly rallies.) Most recently, what lifted, the Stalinist regime would eagerly come out to the professional anti-Semite attached tsar-lover Alexander Solzhenitsyn allows Great Russian fascists to Rumyantsevsky Garden on a to the Soviet diplomatic corps in (who blames the gUlags on Lenin) run loose in the streets. We cer­ Thursday to teach the Russian the 1950s, who was convicted of was invited to participate in an tainly do not look to the Stalinist Nazis a lesson. Who can doubt the grisly murder and dismember­ official committee appointed to regime, which won't recognize that a single militant demon­ ment of his wife in 1980. He was erect a monument to the victims genuine fascists under its very stration of 50,000 outraged Lenin­ let off with a short term in a of Stalin's crimes. nose, to now crush the Pamyat graders, suitably prepared to psychiatric hospital, only to re­ With its conservative program menace. Many Soviet citizens may defend themselves, coming out to emerge in Moscow when Pamyat of "socialism in one country," be fearful, with good reason, that burn Nazi swastika flags in became active. As we wrote last its repudiation of Leninist any crackdown would be a signal Pamyat's face, ready to chase year, "With the advent of Gor­ internationalis:n, its embrace of for renewed all-sided repression. these Nazis to the nearby Neva bachev 's glasnost (openness), the hoary traditions of Russian The Soviet people must reassert River or drive them into the everything from leftist currents nationalism, the Stalinist bureauc­ their right to mass political canals, would put an end· to to sinister ultranationalists are racy at best politically disarms demonstrations. Pamyat? The Pamyat Nazis must coming out of the closet" the Soviet masses in the face of What is necessary now is an be crushed before this. festering ("Pamyat: Russian Fascists Raise nativist fascist reaction and at aggressive mobilization organized sore becomes a gangrenous cancer Their Heads," Workers Vanguard times dangerously overlaps with as widely as possible - from threatening the Soviet state and no 434, 7 August 1987). Obsceneli outright Great Russian reaction­ below, independently of the auth­ its multinational people. declaring itself the guardian of aries. In his murderous campaign orities - in Leningrad, to ensure

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8 AUSTRALASIANSPARTAC~T threat of deregistration. We'll Unions ••• fight when times get better, he Continued from page three said. But things aren't going to get much better in this crisis­ "The Partnership of Capital street. Most of the projectionists ridden capitalist system and its scabbed so the reels kept rolling. precisely in hard times that The Mt Newman strikers have a workers need to fight for demands and Labour is a Lie" better idea of what a real picket like 30 hours work for 40 hours line is, judging from their solici- ' In his article "The Maritime Strike" (Labor Action, 28 November tor's warning, "scabbing is a pay, against unemployment. The bosses make the rules and the 1936, reprinted in Notebook !!i ~ Agitator), American Trotskyist health hazard - just don't do it" leader James P Cannon wrote: (West Australian, 13 November). unions weren't built by playing by them. Maybe, when a strike is won The maritime strike of the Pacific Coast, now four weeks old~ Many of the staff quit because by mass picketing, "illegal" sec­ is still stalemated and is clearly becoming a test of strength and they didn't like the idea of living ondary bans, defiance of court endurance. A good deal is said about strike "strategy" - and that as a scab fn a small, strongly orders and stashing the union has its uses within certain clearly defined limits - but when you union town. However, some pro­ funds somewhere safe, some get down to cases this strike, like every other strike, is simply a duction co'ntinued at the mine and strike leaders might have to go to bullheaded struggle between two forces whose interests are in port and the picket aimed more at jail. But that's the price the constant and irreconcilable conflict. The partnership of capital dissuading staff from performing working class has always had to and labor is a lie. The immediate issue in every case is decided struck work rather than stopping pay to defend its basic interests. by the relative strength of the opposing forces at the moment. them crossing. Potential scabs One important victory could spark The only strike strategy worth a tinker's dam is the strategy that need to be educated - you can't an upsurge of old-fashioned class begins with this conception. cross a picket line on two struggle that could make all the The problem of the strikers consists in estimating what their broken legs. But building mass anti-union laws a dead letter - strength is, and then mobilizing it in full force and pressing picket lines means fighting the like the 1969 mass strike which against the enemy until something cracks and a settlement is pernicious Australian tradition of freed 0' Shea and buried the penal achieved in consonance with the relation of forces between the mutual scabbing by different craft powers. unions and and the organizations of the bosses. That's all there is unions. At Williamstown, just to strike strategy. You cannot maneuver over the head of the twelve storemen and packers FOR REVOLUTIONARY class struggle. picketed for months before the LEADERSHIP! We pass over entirely the question of who is "right" in the bosses finally provoked the other maritime strike, for we believe with Ben Hanford that the work­ unions into walking out. The real Making the unions weapons of ing class is always right. From our point of view the workers have alternative to the Australia Re­ struggle is above all a political a perfect right to the full control of industry and all the fruits constructed plan for no-strike question. It requires a fight for thereof. The employers on the other hand - not merely the ship­ "industrial unions" through forced class independence from Arbi­ owners; all bosses are alike - would like a si tua tion where the amalgamations is not to defend tration and the capitalist state; workers are deprived of all organization and all say about their the craftist status quo, but to for proletarian internationalism work and are paid only enough to keep body and soul together and forge real industrial unions in against protectionism and racism; raise a new generation of slaves to take their places when they struggle on the picket line - one for defence of USSR/Vietnam drop in their tracks. union covering all workers in a against imperialism; against male Any settlement in between these two extremes is only a tem­ plant. And strike committees chauvinism and the special op­ porary truce and the nature of such a settlenent is decided by elected at mass meetings of all pression of women; and to oust power; "justice" has nothing to do with it. The workers will not unions are necessary to take con­ the pro-capitalist .Labori te mis­ have justice until they take over the world. trol of the struggle out of the leadership of the working class. In hands of the sellout bureaucrats. all the mass meetings the crying the Socialist Labour League, all "exposing" open class traitors by need is for revolutionary caucuses tied in knots.' Having previously "placing demands" upon them to YOU CAN'T WIN PLAYING BY to offer a clear al terna ti ve clamoured for the ALP "left" to overthrow capitalism, the SLL' s THE BOSSES' RULES program for victory. The bureau­ expel the right and form a cynical, tail ist methodology onl y crats are sacrificing the working workers government, the SLL now entangles it in::lbsurd contradic­ After the BLF, SEQEB, class to keep the ALP in -office; demands that \IIaitland get serious tlons. Spreading Laborite illusions Mudginberri and Dollar Sweets we must split the ALP along class about disaffiliation. Its Workers everywhere they go, such "left" defeats, an array of state and lines to forge a revolutionary News says "Miners should leave opponents are in fact a godsend federal anti-union laws, court­ workers party that stands for a the ALP precisely because it has a for the bureaucracy. The Trotsky­ imposed damages and punitive workers government to expropri­ nationalist, . that is c::lpitalist, ist party will not be buil t by pre­ fines have virtually outlawed any ate the bourgeoisie. program!" Yet the sam'e article tending the ALP can carry out a effecti ve strikes or bans. And the Mai tland' s recent charade of calls for "the sacking of the socialist program, but only in an bureaucrats brandish them as "disaffiliating" the Miners Feder­ Hawke-Keating right wing from open struggle against all the ALP threats to stifle any struggle. ation from the ALP is no more the Labor government, the re­ tops, parliamentary and trade Maitland direly warned the miners than a cynical manoeuvre and a organisation of the Labor govern­ union, left and right. Build a rev­ of the as yet untested NSW Essen­ pressure tactic. However, it has ment to implement a socialist olutionary workers party! Unchain tial Services legislation and the got his sometime "left" cri tics, program" (4 November). Forever the Unions!.

the greatest preponderance in the. self-defense by the Soviet people from the Spartak, Dynamo and reactionaries in Afghanistan, and relationship of forces against the will be a step on that road. Red Army Clubs. are well trained in defending dangerous Pamyat fascist fa­ Reporting on an attempted The political climate which themselves and the Soviet state natics. People from many differ­ Nazi demonstration in Moscow in emboldens Pamyat to show its against reactionary rabble. They ent political persuasions can join 1982, the New York Times (29 face has been enhanced by the are not about to let a ragtag gang together in action to smash Pam­ April 1982) commented: "Mem­ Gorbachev regime's encourage­ of Nazis muscle their way into the yat. They will undoubtedly attract ories of the war against Nazi ment of capitalist profiteering city of the October Revolution. many Leningraders with em­ Germany and its 20 million Soviet and its disavowal of even lip ser­ The mullah-led child-murderers bittered memories who make up in victims remain sacred in the vice to the cause of the inter­ should have been wiped out in zeal what they lack in physical Soviet Union, and Muscovites who national class struggle. But there Afghanistan; the Pamyat Nazis stamina. Massive and determined heard reports of the attempted are many thousands of Red Army had better be stamped out i'1 demonstrations must eliminate rally generally expressed shock vets who remain proud of having Leningrad! this nativist Hitlerite menace, that anyone would openly profess fulfilled their "internationalist - Reprinted from Workers presenting the authorities with an fascism." When the handful of duty" combatting CIA-backed Vanguard no 461, 23 Sept 1988 accomplished fact. Russian Nazis showed up in Mos­ It will take a Trotskyist party cow's Pushkin Square to "cel­ at the head of the Soviet working ebrate" Hitler's birthday, they people to restore genuine soviet were immediately pounced on and Subscribe! democracy. The crushing of Pam­ given short shrift by hundreds of yat as a necessary measure of students and youthful sports fans [-SPARTACIST ~ J THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION NAME ______THE BUREAUCRATIC DEGENERATION OF THE SOVIET STATE ADDRESS ______INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTION vs THE POPULAR FRONT STATE ______POSTCODE PHONE ______------WHERE IS GORBACHEV' S RUSSIA GOING? o Australasian Spartacist - 6 issues (1 Year) for $3 (Includes Spartacist) overseas rates: Classes will be held at 6.30 pm, al terna te Thursdays beginning o surface mail -$3 for 6 issues o airmail - $7 for 6 issues December 1 at the National Hotel, 238 Victoria Street, North Mail/make cheques payable Melbourne (Near Victoria Market). o Women & Revolution - 4 issues for $5 Spartacist ANZ Publishing Co. For more information phone Spartacist League, (03) 654 4315. o Workers Vanguard - 24 issues for $10 GPO Box 3473, o Workers Hammer - 10 issues for $6 Sydney, NSW, 2001

SUMMER 1938/1939 9 Labour/Black Power ••• Continued from page twelve where the KKK was stopped. At the rally, the speakers platform became a tribune for those who have resisted state terror to speak of their pain, their anger and (e­ termination. Nelson Johnson, survivor of the Greensboro Mass­ acre, Beverly Africa on behalf of MOVE, leaders of Philadelphia unions, black and gay or­ gani za tions, socialist groups including the Spartacist League - these were among those who reaf­ firmed the common goal of this united front to stop the Klan, and presented their own particular points of view. . This victory against the fas­ Sholom, in Philadelphia was de­ of the anti-Klan demonstration. "The first lesson of common cists came on the eve of faced with swastikas. Skinhead They came from AFSCME [Amer­ struggle is that an injury to American capitalism's election Jon Metzger was invited to spew ican Federation of State, County one is an injury to all. That "contest" to pick which million­ his filth on the NBC Geraldo and Municipal Employees] District means we are non-sectarian. aire would head up the ruling­ Rivera show. Just how fascists Council 33 and a hefty contingent We defend cases irrespective class war on the working people, "debate" was shown when the from the Laborers' union in Philly, of people's political views. the poor and minori ties. After skinhead thugs initiated a brawl fro.'ll black shipyard workers in That means we defend people a decade of Carter/Reagan on national TV, assaulti ng black the Virginia Tidewater area, wi th whom we disagree, some­ reaction, and a campaign between reactionary Roy Innis and break­ transit workers from New York times people who wouldn't Republican plutocrats and the ing Rivera's nose. As we .s2. to and Chicago, phone workers from defend us if the tables were Democrats' technocrat/Dixiecrat press, in PortlanMulugeta Seraw, wa~ beaten to safe, orderly and democrCl;tic class and not at all on the back. Al together, over 100 union deat~ with .baseball bats.!2Y..~ ~ demonstration. courts." locals and officials, as well as of white supre!!lacist skinheads. The November 5 Vlobilization numerous civil rights and gay A handful of skinheads from npARTISAN ON THE SIDE OF was a striking confirmation of the organizations, student groups, Balti'llore appeared at the rally, THE WORKING CLASS" Trotskyist strategy for combat­ endorsed and contributed their not knowing that Weiss had turned The Partisan Defense Com­ ting fastism with mass united­ efforts. The appeals from labor tail and canceled out. They mi ttee, which issued the call for front action. This revolutionary are a testimony to the deep chord sported Confederate flags and the mass labor-centered mobiliz­ strategy contrasts sharply with struck by the mobilization. Nazi swastikas on their black ation to stop the KKK, is a class­ the reformists and nationalists There was a real outpouring of jackets and gav~ stiff-arm "Heil struggle non-sectarian legal who ended up as irrelevant side­ community and labor volunteers in Hitler" salutes for the TV cam­ defense organization in accord­ shows to the November 5 Mobiliz­ Philly. A quarter million leaflets eras. The cops tried to escort five ance with the political views of ation. The "African People's were passed out on the streets, Nazis into the rally in an attempt the Spartacist League.· Charles Socialist Party" postured with thousands of posters snapped up. to provoke trouble. But they were Brover, co-chairman of tbe PDC, stopping the Klan "by any means Literature depots were set up at a met by black, white and Hispanic told demonstrators that the PDC necessary," but their only real union hall and local universities. workers defense guards lining is based on the heritage of the activity was to petition "Mayor of Sound trucks cruised the streets. Market Street in solid formation International Labor Defense, Murder" Wilson Goode to protect On campuses across the country, who quickly closed ranks and headed by James P Cannon, the black Philadelphia! where minorities have been under repelled the skinhead scum. The founder of American Trotskyism. In a grotesque display of the siege, the November 5 Mobiliz­ squad of trade-union marshals was "We're par tisan on the side of the twisted "logic" of black national­ ation became an opportunity for one of the most impressIve parts working class," he said: ism, the APSP leaflet demanded the first nationwide protest blacks not rally with the "Ku Klux against racist attacks. While the Kommunists." When a black newspapers and TV tried to black woman worker getting off the out the anti-Klan protest, follow­ All Out to Stop the Ku Klux Klan Boston bus was told the leaflet ing the party line of the Main she had been given was for "blacks Line bourgeoisie, radio spots an­ on November 5 ! only," she crumpled it up and nouncing the demonstration were The KKK lynchers and the violent skinhead filth are meant being born Into slavery The CIVil War took care of threw it back. Across the street played on black radio, Hispanic threatening to strut Into the heart of Philadelphia at chattel slavery We need to finish the Job-and one step Independence Mallon November 5 With their burning toward that can be by stopping the KKK 'skinheads now from the quad, the All-Peoples radio, sports radio, news radio, crosses and their swastikas. they are a deadly threat The unions were bUilt against the vlolpnt to blacks, Jews Hispanics, gays. CatholicS, unions ~ all lion of the KKK, and If the unions' power IS we Congress front group of Sam campus radio. of us can make the streets of Philly safe from these raCist Marcy's Wor kers World Party held The anti-Klan protesters came The Klan and skinheads have already marched In criminals Valley Forge, and Parkslde where they got a hot recep­ We Will be at Independence Mall. Saturday Novem­ a picket line of a couple hundred, out on a cold, rainy Saturday tion Now they're bnnglng their deadly provocation to ber 5 to honor the working people who bUilt th IS country Philly There must be a maSSive, defiant display of ,md have been denied the frUits of their labor Todayas then marched to City Hall. The morning to make a defiant state­ labor'black power, together with minorities and all In­ hlacl< Amenca IS under the gun, all of labor IS faCing a tended Victims of the lynchers, on Independence Mallon LHlIorl-bustmg offenSive to roll back hard-won gains APC never intended to mobilize ment. A week earlier, in a "pact" November 5 to stop these faSCist terrOflsts remember the PATCO air controllers who were dragged the sodal power of labor and were with the KKK, federal authorities Make no mistake-the KKK are sadistic killers, In away In chains I The Klan and sklilheads are a threat to and out of their white sheets Their Idea of' free speech our livelihoods and our lives The power to stop them lies too sectarian to join those who praised the Klan for its "straight­ IS what the government did to MOVE-burning alive with the' Integrated combative unions In thiS clty·­ eleven black people. Including five children And the tranSit sanitation. Teamsters, teachers, longshoremen did. They were also cut off from forward" negotiations and "or­ MOVE mothers are stili locked up In Jall l When the KKK tfled to march against Immigrants In We do not forget the Birmingham church bomb­ Washington. D.C. In November 1982, the Integrated their usual Democratic Party derly" intentions as the fascists Ings, the Greensboro massacre and now the torChlr"lg of power of 5,000 workers and minOfitles. backed by over synagogues In NYC And the degenerate skinheads Wltrl 70 unions and union offiCials from Norfolk to Boston. allies, who were too busy viol­ backed down in the face of the their NaZI regalia and Jackboots want to act out their sent them packing The faSCists must be stopped-and ence-baiting the November 5 murderous Hltlerlte fantaSies If we don't stop them here, we can stop them here All out to stop the KKK and mounting mobilization. Two-bit who will be next to pay with their lives? skinhead thugs on November 5! Be there' Mobilization. KKK "grand dragon" John Weiss These labor-hatmg racists say they are gOing to bring their lynch ropes and NaZI salutes to the Liberty INITIATED BY THE PARTISAN DEFENSE COMMITTEE whined on Tom Metzger's "WAR" 8ell, In the "cradle of liberty" For millions that "liberty" 1530 Locust 51 SUI Ie #92 Philadelphia, PA 19102 • 1215) 790·1822 BATTLE OF CLASS FORCES ("White Aryan Resistance") phone tape: "We had to stop and post­ From the moment the Partisan pone it because of the opposition Defense Committee issued the who are socialists who came out call "All Out to Stop the KKK," it with literature covering from New touched off a battle of opposing York to God knows where." class forces in Philadelphia. Weiss and Metzger had threat­ Mayor Goode, backed up by anti­ ened to bring hundreds of white communist outfits like the mis­ supremacists into Philly. The named "Fellowship Commission" November 5 Mobilization stopped and the B'nai B'rith Anti­ a major incursion of the KKK/ Defamation League, immediately skinheads into a multiracial went on the warpath, slandering Northern city. In the days before our demonstration as prone to the demonstration, there were "violence" in order to keep people vicious reminders of the fascist . away. There's something obscene threat. In New Yark a gang of Philly labor, minorities: This is the power that can stop the Klan! about the black mayor, who skinheads assaulted a New Jersey ordered the bomb dropped on family who objected to their A quarter of a million of the November 5 Mobilisation call were MOVE, slandering the people who Hitlerite epithets. Temple distributed on the streets of Philadelphia. organize to stop racist terror as a

10 AUSTRALAS~SPARTAC~T to struggle separately for its own must be stopped from staging liberation. At the close, when the their deadly provoca tions like U1 Nat Turner Brigade filed out to they did in Chicago's Marquette < the bus for the long trip back Park last August. Welding the OJ home, the audi torium rang wi th power of the working Class to the OJ applause and cheers for the black oppressed minorities, November 5 ci. worker militants. As each of the shows the way forward against the other contingents filed out, the racists and the capitalist state hall was filled with thundering which breeds them. The inte­ chants of "We Stopped the Klan!" grated union marshals who stood shoulder to shoulder in defense Our victory came in a reac­ against the KKK represent the tionary social and poli tical promise of the workers party clima te where abortion clinic which must be buil t in this bombers are followed by the "god country - a multiracial workers squads" of Moral Majority terror­ party to lead the fight for workers izing women, where racist attacks revolution. mount on the campuses and on the - Reprinted from --,-'- streets of white enclaves, where Workers Vanguard no 465, Solid line of union marshals from Philadelphia and East Coast, defend AIDS victims are witchhunted, 18 November 1988 November 5 rally from skinhead provocations. and homeless people left aban­ doned on the streets of this vastly "danger." There's something hour to attend the demonstration rich country. The November 5 shameful about the ADL, which was blocked from entering Inde­ Stopping the KKK on November 5 Mobilization showed that the purports to defend Jewish people, pendence Mall by Philly cops who cost a lot of money - for printing working people of America are slandering those who would told them, "It's not a rally against over 420,000 leaflets, posters, ready to fight to defend the prevent another Holocaust as the Klan, it's a rally against the advertising, organising buses and interests of their class, if given "violent. " police." The cops are used to much more. Supporters in Aus­ the chance. The key is revolution­ having free rein and were enraged tralia have already contributed Within the labor movement, ary leadership, a Leninist party at the integrated labor power pro­ generousl y but more is still the union bureaucrats who have with the program and determi­ tecting the rally. needed. And souvenir copies of rolled over in front of Reagan nation to lead the coming class the November 5 Mobilisation reaction hardlined it against the BLACK LIBERATION THROUGH battles and champion the defense poster are available for $5 or November 5 Mobilization. In face SOCIALIST REVOLUTION of all the oppressed. of strong support for the demon­ more (including postage) through stration from key ci ty unions, the Driven inside by the rain after The Greensboro Massacre by a the Spartacist League, GPO Box Central Labor Council pressured a two and a half hours, the rally KKK/Nazi death squad in Novem- 3473, Sydney NSW 2001. few endorsers to withdraw as speakers. "Progressive" union tops like Transport Workers local head Roger Tauss and Hospital Workers chief Henry Nicholas refused to endorse, just as they stood silent when Goode bombed MOVE. Instead, they were lining up their union members as voting cattle for Dukakis. The Democrats cam­ paigned desperately in Philly in the final week - in one of their rare joint appearances, Jesse Jackson joined Dukakis and Wilson Goode at a rally in Germantown. In the interests of the Philly establishment, the Philadelphia Inquirer tried to do in the anti­ Klan demonstration, first by blacking it out, and then toying wi th a little yellow journalism redbai ting smear. Inquirer staff writer Murray Dubin probed for a "background" job on the Mobiliz- . ation: instead of listening to the speakers he crawled into the med­ ical tent to ask the doctors if they Members of were out-of-towners! A unionist Dignity & Justice to the Homeless in Michigan told the PDC that (inset) joined hundreds in celebrating Dubin had called him up, fishing victory over Klan at the Blue Horizon for whether his endorsement was Audi torium. legit, implying he was "duped" by Workers Vanguard the PDC. The unionist strongly continued at the Blue Horizon ber 1979 gave the go-ahead to stood by the PDC and its meticu­ Auditorium in North Philly, where racist terrorists in America. But ~8/(18S~A~ lous practices. over 600 packed the hall. For from Detroi t to San Francisco to Democrats lose Dirtv. Race for Racist \fote The city's campaign of lies and many the party was the first inte­ Chicago and Washington, DC, intimidation continued right grated social event they had ever labor/black mobilizations initiated CIA's Man through the demonstration. On attended. White college students by the Spartacist League success­ in the White House the eve of the rally, Park Service from Madison celebrated with fully interdicted the Klan in the " ffli]i: police split the rally site with black shipyard workers and long­ Northern cities of America in the I steel barricades, hoping to fence shoremen from the South. The first years of Reagan reaction. " in the anti-Klan protesters. 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As the Malcolm X contingent gents honored slain Chicago Black pulled up at Philadelphia's Inde­ Panthers Fred Hampton and \~ark pendence Mall after a 19-hour bus Clark; Nicaraguan Sandinista Nora ride from Madison, Wisconsin, Astorga; Jewish Soviet general they formed up and marched in David Dragunsky, a World War II together with the two Chicago hero; and Jewish Communist busloads, chanting, "Stop the Leopold Trepper, head of the "Red Klan, this is the hour - Labor and Orchestra" network which oper­ blacks have got the power!" ated inside Nazi-occupied Europe. On this rain-soaked day, they The November 5 Mobilization joined with over 1,000 determined Notes reported that: "Upon learn­ anti-Klan protesters on the site ~the driver of their bus where the KKK and Nazi skin­ belonged to the same union local heads had said they would stage as Ray Phillips, the Greyhound their "white pride" provocation. striker murdered by a scab driver On November 5 there were no five years ago, Chicago trade fascist killers in Judge Lewis Over one thousand trade unionists, black activists, students and leftists unionists named their bus the Ray united to make sure Klan didn I t ride in Philly. Quadrangle - only a victorious Phillips Brigade." celebration of black, white, His­ Philadelphia was the city that had forced the Klan and Nazi November 5 \Ilobilization to Stop panic working people and students where the Reagan White House skinheads to back down. When the the KKK in Philadelphia. who were there to ensure the Klan and its black overseers engraved KKK lynchers and skinhead thugs Many came in contingents won't ride in Philly. their racist signature in the blood named for heroes of the struggle threatened to strut into the heart of black people. On 13 May 1985 Defending the rally against of Philadelphia, the Partisan against slavery: the Nat Turner the government dropped a bomb Defense Committee issued a call Brigade from Norfolk, Frederick fascist intrusbn was a disciplined on the MOVE commune, inciner- and effective workers defense for a mass mobilization under the Douglass (Bal timore/W ashington), > ating eleven black people, includ­ guard of union members, many in banner, "All Out to Stop the John Brown (Cleveland), Harriet ing five children, turning a black Klan!" In response, hundreds of Tubman (Toronto/Cornell), Gen­ union caps and jackets, from the neighborhood to ashes. On 5 people from Philly joined 13 bus­ eral William Tecumseh Sherman Philadelphia area and up and down November 1988, this was the city the Eastern seaboard. This was a loads from the East Coast and (New York) and the Massachusetts taste of the labor and black power Midwest to be there at the 54th from Boston. Other contin- Continued on page ten

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