25¢ ...... ;,;_. WfJRIlERS "HIII'R'.. ~. )1:.513 No. 110 21 May 1976
Zionist Settlers Set UP. Military' Outp'osts on Stolen Arab Land Israel Out of the Occupied Territories I Down with Zionist Expansionism! Not Jew Against Arab, but Class Against Class! For a Socialist Federation of the Near East!
\1AY 17 Ye~terday morning Lena Hassan :\abulsi. a 16-year old Arab \\oman. \\a~ shot dCl\\n on the staircase of an apartment h,)u:,c In :\ahlLls b\ an hraeli soldier. \"ablu s i, the heart of the den,ch pUllulated northcrn portllln of the bracli-occuried West H~ink kn,'\\I1:h S:lnurJ di ~~nL1L'ri~}.,.j \! l)alL"~in'.:.~: 1" l,)d~l\ :~~l'L':.:nt('r,,'l rcsi~t~1flC(, tn the rCrrt_",~l\ L' l"'r~ll'h ()\..'LLlp~iTl\)::. \\ ith a flnpuLitll)T1 ~)f XU.UUU. '\ahllh 1\ the la!":!eq cit'. (li tth: \\e,·,t f~al1k and ha, heen :hc ,cc'nc uj rdnieL1!arl\ n~ll!itant' rl<,L"l" ~!r:(: .\trike" :lpt1!bt the milltan ')l·CUp:lll organization had entered a period of extreme right smashing the left and suppressing every form of PL Tells How Mayor ward degeneration. There is a class-collaborationist working-class independence. "logic" linking the SOS campaign to purify the For the sake of consistency, the RMC and LRP White Really Fights universities by burning racist textbooks with the PL both of which spout the anti-communist position that Racism dominated Committee Against Racism's "Freedom the Soviet Union, Cuba and other bureaucratically Summer" petition campaign (which requested the city deformed workers states are totalitarian "state The red-starred May Day ,issue of Challenge. to improve the schools and jail racist leaders) and with capitalist" regimes-should have opposed the M PLA newspaper of the Progressive Labor Party Challenge's support to Mayor White's march. These from the outset as a "pawn of red imperialism" not (PL), carries a headline striking in its apparent gimmicks are aimed at pressuring the bourgeois state essentially different from the FNLAjUNITA "pawns incongruity. Amidst the hyper-militant "Smash the into reforming the capitalist system by attempting to of imperialism." But the methodology of opportunists Bosses, Fight for Socialism" rhetoric, we discover rid it of racism, sexual oppression, imperialism and so is opportunism: never have these groups denounced "Boston: 100,000 Reject Race War," a fulsomely on. Such a strategy has nothing in common with "red imperialism" in public meetings on Angola. enthusiastic description of the April 23 "March Marxism, which understands that these evils are part Instead, they rationalize their support for the MPLA Against Violence" organized by none other than and parcel of capitalist class society and can be on the ridiculous pretense that the massive influx of aid Mayor Kevin White, who in PL's crude Marxoid eliminated only by a revolutionary assault by the from "imperialist" Russia and the introduction of at terminology can be called the "boss of Boston." proletariat on bourgeois class rule. least 12,000 crack troops from "capitalist" Cuba were Contrary to PL's assertion that "the March Against inconsequential. Violence proved that the immense majority of workers While the RMC and LRP capitulated to the MPLA here do not want race war," the law-and-order Political Bedfellows for in spite of its subordination to so-called "red demonstration proved only that the liberal politicians imperialism," another speaker at the forum from the do not want trouble. Political careers and ambitions the MPLA Communist Cadre (CC)-a recent spin-off from the for higher office get washed away when blood flows in therapy cult known as the International Workers the streets. NEW YORK CITY -At a well-attended Spartacist Party-hailed the M PLA because o/its reliance on the For all of PL's notorious adventurist rhetoric, its League forum on "The Struggle Against Apartheid in Soviet bloc. In the Stalinoid tradition of Sam Marcy's crowing over this pious procession of the bourgeoisie South Africa" held here on May Day, supporters of Workers World Party, the CC claims that the "global demonstrates its underlying liberalism and political several pseudo-Trotskyist groupings assailed the SL class war" between the imperialists and the "workers bankruptcy. With typical Stalinist contempt for the during the lively discussion period for refusing to states" compels the Soviet Union and Cuba to playa truth, Challenge features a front-page photo of the recognize the Popular Movement for the Liberation of revolutionary role in Angola: "If Angola is not a march captioned "Black and white construction Angola (M PLA) as the "progressive" representative of workers state, I don't know what is," the CC speaker workers rebuff ROAR fascists." PL "neglects" to the Angolan masses. concluded with a declaration of his massive political mention, however, that construction workers, along Although these opportunists hold counterposed ignorance. He was, however, unable to explain why the with many state and city employees, were given time positions on the fundamental question of the political USSR and China were on opposite sides of the off with pay and strongly encouraged by their nature of the M PLA's Russian and Cuban sponsors. Angolan conflict in this "global class war." employers and by many union bureaucrats to their common appetite to tail a momentarily For these capitulators to Stalinism and petty articipate. PL also "forgets" to mention that the popular movement served to unite them in vociferous bourgeois nationalism, the realities of Angola-the procession was explicitly designated as apolitical in opposition to the SL's intransigent insistence on the preservation of capitalist property relations, the order not to offend the racist anti-busing leaders whom necessity for an independent working-clal>s orientation accommodation to imperialism, the anti-working White and other politicians begged to attend. Some in Angola. class policies of the regime-mean nothing. In fact, the "rebuff' to ROAR! Spokesmen for the Revolutionary Marxist CC speaker had the temerity to claim that "socialist" PL even managed to come out to the right of the Committee (RMC) and the League for the Revolution Mozambique continues to supply South Africa with ultra-reformist Socialist Workers Party (SWP) on this ary Party (LR P)-both decomposition products of the contract labor. as under the Portuguese, simply as a question. Challenge self-righteously notes that "A cliquist disintegration of the Revolutionary Socialist means of smuggling "organizers" into the country! Trotskyte [sic] group, the [SWP-dominated] National League-charged the SL with capitulating to imperial The formal politics of the "state capitalists" and the Student Coalition Against Racism, canceled a Boston ism because of our refusal to give the petty-bourgeois "global class warriors" are certainly quite different. cakewalk on April 24, because they were intimidated nationalist MPLA unconditional military support And their historic origins represent diametrica\\), by the bosses and have no confidence in black or white against its rivals in the period preceding the South opposite responses to the pressures of U.S. imperial workers." But if the SWP's proposed march-which African invasion and the massive introduction of ism: the "state capitalists" originated as a tendency was indeed another attempt by this fake-left outfit to Cuban troops. capitUlating to imperialism and refusing to defend the prostitute itself to liberal politicians-was a "cake The SL insisted that the MPLA in power-like its USSR against imperialist attack at the time of the walk," what was the April 23 march? The latter was not nationalist competitors, the National Front for the Second World War, while the CC traces its roots to the even pro-busing! Libe'ration of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union Marcy tendency which, as a reaction to the Cold War, When PL first oriented its "peoples' organizations" for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) accommodated to Stalinism. Yet today both tenden (read "front groups") to liberal, single-issue, "anti would establish an anti-proletarian bourgeois regime. cies find common cause as apologists for petty racism" campaigns, we noted that, despite continuing This position has already been confirmed: the bourgeois nationalists standing opposed to the class left rhetoric and occasional tactical zigzags, the "progressive" MPLA is now consolidating its rule by interests of the Angolan workers. The shift in membership support opposing ILWU raiding in 1975 of Bureaucratic Scramble for Control away from union officials openly linked unions affiliated to the SIU. (In the to Bridges is the result of deeply felt April balloting Wing was vindicated of dissatisfaction with the c\ass these charges for a second time by the collaborationist policies of the Interna membership, this time by a vote of 686 tional. Longshoremen have found to 588.) Bridges' Grip Loosens themselves increasingly without jobs, Elections were then held initially on with many dockers working only one or January 10 by acting president Watkins, two days a week, while the Pay a pro-Bridges official, in defiance of the Guarantee Plan (PGP), which is sup local executive board. which had or posed to provide longshoremen unable dered the elections postponed in order to get sufficient work with supplemen to include candidates who had been in ILWU Local 10 tary pay, has been sharply cut back. arbitrarily removed from the ballot, Meanwhile, the union hiring hall is such as Larry Wing, Herb Mills and being steadily eroded and work gangs Andrew Delaney. Wing responded by are being eliminated. The Pacific Mari the dangerous ploy of attempting to get time Association (PMA. the employers' a court order postponing the January \0 Elections organization) has also made clear its elections, thus inviting the government intention to undertake a massive de reg into the union. However, the elections istration of both A-member (full status) were held anyway. SAN FRANCISCO, May 16-After Bridges was successful in getting only and B-member longshoremen. Bridges nearly six months' delay caused by one reliable supporter elected in voting has done nothing in the face of these An angry membership meeting of outrageous bureaucratic intrigue, Local for several key offices, including presi attacks. January 15 ordered the elections 10 of the International Longshoremen's dent, vice president, secretary-treasurer, rescheduled with all candidates restored and Warehousemen's Union (lLWU) and representative to the Area Labor Bureaucratic Intriguing to the ballot, but in a high-handed finally completed its elections on May Relations Committee. In addition, Aware of his growing unpopUlarity, countermove, Bridges canceled the 15. The results show a significant decline several well-known militants won posi Bridges has attempted to maintain February 14 elections and announced in the influence of International presi tions on the 35-member executive control over Local 10, the key local in that the matter would be resolved at a dent Harry Bridges, but unfortunately board: Stan Gow and Howard Keylor, the I L WU, through bureaucratic skull meeting of the International Executive the main beneficianes of the leftward publishers of the class-struggle organ duggery. The current elections were Board (lEB). Apparently the IEB found shift were aspiring bureaucrats who are Longshore Militant (LM) were re preceded by the ouster from local the stalling too blatant and overruled programmatically indistinguishable elected with votes of 296 and 273 presidency of Larry Wing, who has been Bridges. The primary elections finally from Bridges. respectively, reflecting an improved a key figure among anti-Bridges bu took place on April 17 and the runoffs The Local \0 elections took place in position over last year. Archie Brown, a reaucrats in Local 10. Wing was on May 15. two parts, beginning with primary well-known Communist Party (CP) removed from office on trumped-up In the interim, the squabbling elections on April 17 and concluding supporter. was also elected with 382 charges of "malfeasance and misfea between pro- and anti-Bridges bureau with yesterday's balloting. Overall, votes. sance" stemming from his correct stance crats largely paralyzed the local. How- 2 WORKERS VANGUARD ever the warring factions shelved their differences in order to stifle any class struggle response among the ranks to the increasingly virulent employer attacks. When the PMA attempted to Chicago Trial Confirms FBI impose the "200 hours rule" (which would force longshoremen to work 200 hours per quarter to qualify for PGP benefits) in January. the local voted to strike. But the strike was scuttled at a January 22 local executive board meeting by both pro-Bridges forces and Killed Hampton, Clark those supporting Wing. Of all the would-be leaders. including work continues to hc unco\ered. The the bunch just voted into office. only FBI Chief Kelley's no-hokb-harred eriminality routinel~ Gow and Keylor argued for a militant Whitewash Fails practiced in the enforcement of hour response. Their January 20 leaflet called geois "law and order" ha, heen exposed for a coastwide strike to abolish the 200 "De-Hooverization" again in the 547.7 million ci\ il damages hours rule and to "restore all cutbacks a Fraud suit hrought in the Hampton Clark case on boards. gangs and PG P" by demand (sec ".Jail \1urderers of Hampton and ing "jobs for all longshoremen through a Lawyers for the suni\ors of the 1969 Clark!", 11'1' :\0. 99, 5 \1arch 1976). sliding scale of hours with no loss in Chicago police raid which killcd Hlack Despite suppression of FHI docllments. 'pay" and immediate promotion of all B Panther leaders Fred Hampton and the stone-"alling "I don't recollect" men to A status. Mark Clark have lahoriously unearthed testimony of gO\ernment \\itnesses and a l1las~ of e\idcnce exposing the FHl's the complicity of the judge in cmering Fight for Jobs role in masterminding the.' hft~syuad the FHI's hlood-stained tracks. the conspiracy. :v1eam\ hile. in yct anothcr plaintiffs' 1,l\\yers ha\e exposed the Meanwhile. new problems com of the rituals of contrition that dominate direct links hetween the Hampton pounding existing ones confront the post-Watcrgatc hourgeois politics. FHI Clark murder raid and Homer's orders Local 10 membership. The local faces a director Clarence Kelley sought to to "dest rO\, d iscred it or ot herwi,e severe financial crisis. A recent separate distance himself from the erimes of his neutrali/e" the Panthers as a central election returned control of the Bay lotorioll', predecessor. .I. Edgar goal ot Cointelpro. Area Longshoremen's Memorial Asso Homer. Ihe plaintiffs faced an uphill struggle. ciation, which owns the hiring hall, to In a pettifogging little sermon deli\ When the trial opened in early January. pro-Bridges forces. A new attempt by ered in Fulton. \1issouri on \1ay 7. Judge Samuel Perr\' ordered the gm this group to sell the choice property on Kelle\ admitted that some of the federal ernment to turn o\er rele\ ,I nt Coi ntel UPI, which the hall is located to Bridges' old snoopers' acti\ities "during the t\\ilight" pro files on the Illinois Panthers hut Fred Hampton pal Alioto-whose family is deeply of Hom er's iron-fisted reign had heen allo\\ed the FHI. I.e .. the defendants. to enmeshed in the shipping industry "clearly \\ rong and yuite indefensihle." delete ",ensiti\e or immaterial" infor FHI agent. \\ ritten shortl\' after ttle could unleash more turmoil in the local "\Ve arc truly sorry \\e \\ere responsihle mation. Argumenh mer the plaintiffs' dcath raid. reyuested a 5300 honus for (a major squabble in Local 10 was tor instances \\hieh no\\ arc subject to demand to sec all the files dominated the Panther infiltrator O·:\eal. Other docu touched off earlier by such an attempt). such eriticism." ,aid the oh-so-humhle tirst two months of the trial. mcnts estahli,hed that all the kno\\ n In addition. there are rumors that Stan Kelb. lhe game \\a, gi\en EDITOR: Jan Norden PRODUCTION MANAGER: Karen Allen CIRCULATION MANAGER Anne Kelley EDITORIAL BOARD: Liz Gordon (Chairman). Chris Knox (Labor), James Robertson (Advi sory), Charles Burroughs (Editorial Staff). Joseph Seymour (Midwest), George Foster (West Coast) Published weekly, except bi-weekly i'n August and December, by the Spartacist Publishing Co .. 260 West Broadway. New York. N.Y. 10013. Telephone: 91')6-6841 (Editorial), 925-5665 (Business). Address all c0rrespon dence to: Box 1377. G.P.O .. New York. N.Y. 10001. Domestic subscriptions: $5.00 per year. Second-class postage paid at New York. N.Y. Opinions expressed in signed articies or letters do not necessarily express the editorial viewpoint. Late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, left, a hard act to follow for FBI Director Clarence Kelley, right. 21 MAY 1976 3 Committee to Save Mario Munoz The Committee to Defend the Worker and Sailor Prisoners in Chile and the Partisan Defense Committee are co-sponsoring a Committee to Save Mario Munot. Among the endorsers of the international campaign are: AUSTRALIA Michele Ray, photographer/journalist, Frank Fried Gertrude Mayes, San Quentin Six Defense Australasian Meat Industries Employees Politique Hebdo', Paris Friends of Indochi,,~ Committee Union Maxime Rodinson, author Marina Garcia, Sec'y, Assoc. of Latin Edward McGehee, English Dept., Kent Laurie Brereton, Legislative Assembly, New Claude Roy, writer, Paris Musicians of America' State U: South Wales Jean-Paul Sartre, Paris Charles R. Garry, Atty. Helen McMillan A. E. Bull, Sec'y, Waterside Workers Catherine Sauvage, singer, Paris Barbara Garson, author John McMillan Federation of Australia', Melbourne branch Laurent Schwartz, mathematician Eugene Genovese, Prof. of History, Rochester Dr. Kim McQuaid, Hist. Dept., Northwestern Hon. Dr. Jim Cairns, House of Syndicat de la Magistrature U." U,' Representatives, Australian Labor Party P. Vidal-Naquet Jorgen Goderstad, Chairman, S. Central MIchael Meeropol (ALP)" Daniel Viglietti, singer Wisconsin local, Socialist Party' Robert Meeropol Hon. Dr. Moss Casso House of Luis Vitale Harvey Goldberg, Prof. of History, U. of Memorial Union Labor Organizations Representatives, ALP' Cristina Whitecross, London Wisconsin' Stewards Council, Madison, Wi. Senator Ruth Coleman, ALP' Richard Whitecross, London William Goodman, Nat'l Pres. Nat'! Lawyers Luis Mendiola, Chicano advocate, U. of Federated Engine Drivers and Fireman's Guild' Michigan' Association of Australia, Victoria and New UNITED STAn:; JoAnne Granquist, U. of Wisconsin. Madison, Militant Action Caucus, Communication South Wales branches Raymond Lee Abraham, Jr., B.S.O.C. School of Nursing' Workers of America (CWA), Local 9410 Senator Arthur Gietzelt, ALP' Father Antoine Adrien, Haitian Fathers' Jim Grant, SCEF' Militant-Solidarity Caucus, National Maritime Frank Hardy, novelist American Federation of State, County and Dick Gregory Union' Bob Hawke, Federal President, ALP'; Pres. Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local Group of Concerned South Asians Militant Solidarity Caucus, Local 906, UAW' ACTU' 1695, Berkeley, Ca. Will Haasch, Pres., Local 507 Graphic Arts John Mitchell, International Rep., Ted Innes, House of Representatives, ALP' Eqbal Ahmad Industrial Union (GAIU)" Madison Amalgamated Meatcutters and Seamen's Union of Australia Ellery Allen Burton Hall, Atty, Butcherworkers' Ship Painters and Dockers Union, Victoria Robert L. Allen, editor, The Black Scholar' Bill Hampton Ian Mueller, Dir. of Grad, Studies in Philo., U. Socialist Workers Party Roxana Alsberg, folksinger Harlem Fight Back of Chicago' Transport Workers Union of Australia, New Associated Student Government, Paul Harris, Atty. Mark Naison, Mid-Atlantic Radical Historians South Wales branch Northwestern U: R. Hauert, Program Co-ord., Ethics and Society' Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists John August, Teamsters for Democracy, IBT Religion, U. of Michigan' National)ury Project Waterside Workers Federation of Australia 695 (RG)" James Haughton, Harlem Fight Back National Lawyers Guild, Chicago chapter Roldo Bartimole, editor. Point of View' Tom Hayden National Lawyers Guild, Massachusetts CANADA Thomas Barton, member 1199' Nat Hentoff chapter David F, Aberle. Prof. of Anthropology, U. of Andrew Beattie, Biology Dept., Northwestern Adam Hochschild, editor, Mother Jones' National Lawyer~ Guild. Yale U.' British Columbia' U: Richard A. Hodge, Atty. New AmeriCan Movement, U. of Chicago' African Liberation Week Committee Larry Bensky, General Manager, KPFA Radio' William L. Hoover, Dept. of Soc., Kent State U,' David Newby, State V.P" Wisconsin David Archer, President, Ontario Federation of Jim Berland, Public Service Dir., KPFK Radio' Independent Caucus, American Federation of Federation of Teac;hers, AFT' Labour' Daniel Berrigan Teachers (AFT)", New Jersey State College' New York Unemployed Council Black Education Project Alvah Bessie International Socialists, Chicago local Richard Newhouse, state senator, Illinois Trent M, Brady, Prof., York U.' Black Students Organization and International Socialists, Madison local Azinna Nwafor, author Andrew Brewin. Member of Parliament, New Communication, Chicago International Student Defense Committee, U. Skip Oberbruner, Steward, Local 171 Democratic Party (NDP)' Frederick Blum, V.P., A.F.T. Loca] 3500'; of Chicago' AFSCME' Ed Broadbent, MP. Leader, NDP' (verbal) Assoc. Prof. of Geography International Workers Party OCAW District Council 8 Brian Campbell, NDP'. Vancouver James Bond, City Council of Atlanta, Ga. Abdeen Jabara, Atty. Dr. Philip Oke, UN rep., Christian Peace Canadian Arab Federation Fred Branfman Paul Jacobs, ex-editor, Ramparts' Conference' Canadian Labour Congress J. Quinn Brisben, VP. candidate, SPUSA' E. Roy John, Dir. Brain Research Laboratory, Organization of Arab Students, Boston Dr. Maria Canive Finley Campbell, Progressive Faculty New York Medical College chapter Dr. Jose Canive Caucus', U. of Wisconsin' Dale Johnson, Prof. of Sociology, Rutgers U.' Grace Paley, Sarah Lawrence College' Denis Cassin, National Organizer, Irish Joe Carnegie, Dir., Brooklyn Fight Back' Sanford Katz, Atty. Partido Revolucionario Dominicano Republican Clubs', USA & Canada John Carroll, Esq" Southern Poverty Law Ira Katznelson, Assoc. Prof. Pol. Sci., U. of Susan Paul, American Friends Service Florrie Chacon. Inter-Chllrch Committee on Center' Chicago' Committee' r.hilp,' Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Neil Kaufler, Dove County, Board of Dean Peerman, Christian Century' P"ul CODeland. Law Society 01 Upper Canada' Repression Supervisors' Eve Pell :;hella iJeraney, I"rol., ::;'lmOIl Fraser U~-' Noam Chomsky Theodore W. Keller Joseph Persky, Union of Radical Political C.H. DeRoo, Instructor 'of English, Simon William E. Clark, Sec, Graduate Assistants Joan Kelly-Gadol, Dept. of History, City Economists (URPE)" Fraser U: Union, U. of Conn." College of New York' James Petras, Prof. of Soc., State U. of N, Y. at Oduardo Di Santo, Member of Provincial Coalicion de Latinoamericanos Florynce Kennedy, Atty. Binghamton' Parliament, Ontario NDP' Fred Cohn, Atty. Michael Kennedy, Atty. Portage County Campaign for a Democratic Dominicans in Support of Progress Comandos de la Resistencia de la Republica Martin Kenner, screenwriter and author Foreign Policy Rosie Douglas Dominicana Ronald Kent, Field Rep., Wisconsin State Adam p'rzeworski, Assoc. Prof. Pol. Sci., U. of Jan Dukszta, MPP, Ontario NDP' Comite Pro Defensa de los Derechos Employees Union, AFSCME' Chicago' Group for Defense of Civil Rights in Argentina Humanos en la Republica Dominicana, New Noah Kimerling Joanne Fox Przeworski, Chicago Commission Janet Howard, Alderman, 7th Ward, Toronto York Rose Kirk, Chief Steward, Local 7507, Oil, to Investigate Status of Human Rights in Jamaica Nationals League Committee Against Friedman/Harberger Chemical and Atomic Workers Union Chile, 1974' Ron Johnson, NDP', Vancouver Collaboration with the Chilean Junta, (OCAW)" Leonard Radinsky, U. of Chicago' Stu Leggatt, MP, NDP' (verbal) Chicago Donald J. Klimovich, assoc. editor, Chicago Rank and File Coalition, Local 6, UAW' Edwin Levy. Philosophy Dept., U. of British Committee of Palestinians in New England Magazine' Justin Ravitz, Judge, Recorders Court, Detroit Columbia Communist Cadre Pat Knight, Pres., Social Service Employees Revolutionary Communist League- Ligue des Droits de I'Homme, Montreal Community Action on Latin America, Madison Union (SSEU)", Local 371 (I nternationalist) Bob McBurney, Shop Steward, Letter Carriers Christopher R. Conybeare, The Ecumenical Paul Krassner, editor, The Realist' Revolutionary Marxist Committee Union of Canada', Local 1 Justice Project' Labor Struggle Caucus, Local 6, United Revolutionary Marxist Organizing Committee Leo McGrady, Atty. Robert H. Cowen, Math Dept., Queens Automobile Workers (UAW)' Jack L. Roach, Prof., U. of Connecticut' Norman Penner, Prof. of Pol. Sci., Glendon College' James T. Lafferty, Atty. Janet K. Roach, Instructor, Eastern College, York U: William V. D'Antonio, Dept. of Sociology, U. of Kenneth P. Langton, Prof., U. of Michigan' Connecticut State College' Alex Power Conn: Lavender and Red Union, L.A. Bill Robinson, Exec. Brd., Local 634, Charles Roach, Atty. Jaime De La Isla, Chicano-Boricua Studies, League for the Revolutionary Party AFSCME' John Rodriguez, MP, NDP' Wayne State U: Amy Lee, Dir. American Indian Rights Assn, Michael Rogin, Prof. Pol. Science, U. of Cal. at H.M. Rosenthal, United Nations Assn:, Dave Dellinger Kent State U' Berkeley' Vancouver Desmond Trotter Defense Committee Gerald Lefcourt, Atty, Norm Roth, former Pres., Local 6, UAW' R.B. Scranton, Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers' Carter R. Dodge John Leggett, Assoc. Prof. of Sociology, Richard Rubinstein, Prof, Pol. Sci., Roosevelt Union' Dominicans in Support of Progress Rutgers U.' U.' Socialist League Frank Donner, Gen. Counsel United Electrical Sidney Lens, author Richard Sable, Atty. Sudbury and District Labour Council Workers (UE)", member ACLU' Denise Levertov J. Leon Samper, Dept. of Soc., U. of Conn' Dorothy Thomas, Alderman, Ward 9, Toronto East Bay Women for Peace Ben Levy, Democratic Socialist Organizing Maria Sam per Vancouver Area Council of the NDP Donn R. Edmark, News Dir., WRJN Radio' Committee' San Quentin Six Defense Committee Vancouver Chilean Association Elizabeth Dore, Latin American Institute, Longshore Militant, S.F. Fay Schmidt Gordon Vichert, Sec'y, Ontario NDP' (verbal) Columbia U.' Richard Lowenthal, Dept. of Soc. and Anthro., Henry Schmidt, Member of Bay Area William Vidaver, Prof. of Biology, Simon Fraser Ecumenical Program for Inter-American Kent State U.' Pensioners' U: Communication and Action Salvador Luria, Nobel Laureate Jay Schulman, National Jury Project Micheline Walker, Dept. of Romance Thomas I. Emerson, Prof. of Law, Yale U: Conrad Lynn, Atty. Charles Schwartz, Prof. of Physics, U. of Cal. Languages, McMaster U: Alexander Erlich, Prof., RUSSian Institute, Staughton Lynd, author at Berkeley' EUROPE Columbia U: Bradford Lyttle, War Resisters League' Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine Rick Feinberg Aadeddin A. Malley, Organization of Arab Dennis Serrette, Pres., Coalition of Black Alliance Against Fascist Dictatorship in India, Michael Ferber, Lecturer, English Dept., Yale Students' London Trade Unionists' U." Tanya Mandel John Sharpe, Sec'y, international Spartacist Louis Althusser, Paris Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights Books, S.F. William Mandel Argentine Support Movement, London tendency Norman Fisher, Dept. of Philo., Kent State U.' Michael Marcus, Prof. of Math., Northwestern Asian Socialist Forum, London James J. Sheehan Mauricio Font, Group on Latin American U.' Sylvia Sherman, Sec'y, Local 171, AFSCME' Association Francaise des Juristes Issues' Robert Mattoon, Jr. Democrates William M. Shepherd, Prof. of Economics, U. of Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, London Michigan' Claude Bourdet, journalist, Paris Carl Shier, International Representative; Dr. Peter Brandt, Berlin Individuals and organizations who wish to endorse the campaign to save Mario UAW' Socialist Party, S. Central Wisconsin local Pierre Broue, Organisation Communiste Munoz, work with the Committee and/or contribute financially should fill out Internationaliste (OCI)" , Grenoble Roney L. Sorenson, Alderman Dist. 5, Campaign for the Release of Indian Political the blank below and send to: PARTISAN DEFENSE COMMITTEE, Box 633, Canal Madison, Wi. Martin Sostre Prisoners, London Street Station, New York, NY 10013. Campaign to Repeal the Immigration Act, Spark London Stan Steiner, author La Raza Carmen Cas'tillo, Chjlean MIA" I.F. Stone Student Government, University of Illinois', Comite International Contre la Hepression, I endorse' Paris D Circle Campus Commission of Overseas Students D My organization endorses' DoriS E. Strieter, Chicago Committee to Save Organization, U. of Birmingham Lives in Chile' Pierre Daix the international defense campaign to save Mario Munoz, organized around Willie Tate, defendant, San Quentin Six H. Dubedout, mayor of Grenoble Walter Teague, Friends of Indochina Jean-Pierre Faye, writer, Paris the demands: Studs Terkel, author Tom Thompson, editor, Los Angeles Mario Felmer, Chilean Young Socialists', Hands off Mario Munoz! London Vanguard' J.-A. Gau, deputy Chilean Working-Class Leader Must Not Die! Rip Torn, actor/director Prof. Helmut Gollwitzer, Free University', United Farmworker Support Committee, Berlin Free all victims of right-wing repression in Argentina and Chile! Madison, Wi. Daniel Guerin, Paris IJniversity of Chicago Student Governmp.nt The Gulf Committee, London Stop the Manhunt! Arluro Vazquez, Latm American :::>tudies OeD!.. Paco Ibanez, singer U. of Illinois', Circle Campus, Irish Republican Socialist Party, London Name Virgil J. Vogel, Sec'y, Socia'iist t-'art~ of Illinois' Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Anthony Walsh, National Lawyers uuild' London Organization Warehouse Militant, S.F. Jean Michel Krivine, Ligue Communiste John F. Weeks, Dept. of Economics, U. of Revolutionnaire (LCR) Wisconsin' Pierre Lambert, OCI Address What She Wants Gerard Lancomme, Grenoble John K. Whitmore, Prof., U. of Michigan' Marxist-Leninist Organization of Britain Sidney E. William, Youth Vision Integrity' Prof. Klaus Meschkat, U. of \-1annover' Women's Coffee House Collectors, Ltd. Miners I nternational Federation D I am willing to work with the Committee to Save Mario Munoz, Bernard Wiltshire, Desmond Trotter Defense A. Minkowski Committee Paul Mistral, senator D I pledge $ __ to help save Mario Munoz, (Make payable to Partisan Howard linn Paul Noirot, journalist, Politique Hebdo', Paris Marvin lonis, Prof., U. of Chicago' North London Committee Against Repression Defense Committee, Earmark for Committee to Save Mario Munoz.) Eddison J.M. lvobgo, lANU' in Spain Parti Socialiste Unifie (PSU) 'Endorsement indicates willingness to permit your name or your organization~s name to be used to 'Organization listed for identification purposes Jiri Pelikan, editor, Listy' internationally publicize the campaign of the Committee to Save Mario Munoz. only. 4 WORKERS VANGUARD MIR Leader Extradited to Chile Free Edgardo Chilean MIR Enriquez' leader Edgardo Enriquez Edgardo Enriquez has been delivered Pinochet into pUblic-opinion quarant collaborationist orientation of seeking a life hangs in the balance. All labor into the blood-stained hands of the ine. and is seeking to hide its brutalities common program with bourgeois oppo militants and socialists. all those con Chilean secret political police by the behind a mask of "moderation." This nents of Pinochet's dictatorship will not cerned with justice. must raise their Argentine military junta. Enriquez. a smokescreen must be exposed. Videla's impede our anti-sectarian solidarity voices now .in united and forceful leader of the far-left Chilean Movimien henchmen have handed Enriquez over with Edgardo Enriquez and all the protest against this atrocity. Freedom to Izquierdista Revolucionario (MIR~ to the bloodthirsty butchers who stri victims of rightist terror. for Edgardo Enriquez! Freedom for all Revolutionary Left Movement). was dently proclaim their war to the death The reactionarv militarv class-war prisoners! working clandestinely in Argentina against guerrillas and· left-wing and dictatorships have joined" forces to track Messages of solidarity and support when he was arrested April 10. On April labor militants. down and murder the exiled leaders of may be sent to: Office for Political 27 he was handed over to the Chilean Behind the Videla regime's lies and the Latin American working masses. Prisoners and Human Rights in Chile. authorities for extradition. Now being censorship. a reign of savage terror has Videla's henchmen have delivered En JJ9 Lafayette Street, New York, NY held at Monte-Maravilla in Chile. he is been unleashed against Argentine radi riquez into the hands of his torturers; his 10012 .• probably undergoing savage torture and cals and unionists and against the faces execution. The only force which thousands of political refugees who fled will free him is a massive campaign of to Argentina to escape Pinochet's May 15, 1976 international protest. Edgardo En butchers and their counterparts in riquez must not die! Brazil. Uruguay and elsewhere. Two poe Ministry of Foreign Affairs Edgardo Enriquez Espinoza. 34 years days after the March 24 coup. the General Caesar Guzetti old. was working in Argentina with the Argentine junta decreed its intention to Buenos Aires, Argentina Junta of Revolutionary Coordination expel foreigners who "abused ... tradi TELEGRAM (which includes the MIR. the Argentine tional Argentine generosity" or were Ambassador Rafael Vazquez ERP. the Uruguayan Tupamaros and involved in activities which "affect Argentine Embassy the Bolivian ELN). according to a 22 social peace. national security or public 1600 New Hampshire Ave., N.W. April communique of the M IR's Exteri order" (Arl(entina In/ormation. April Washington, D.C. 20036 or Committee in Costa Rica. Seized 1976). Minister of the Interior along with him was Regina Marcondes. In the name of preserving this "public General Caesar Benavides a Brazilian national. A member of the order" of official police-state terror and Government Building MIR since 1965 and of its leadership. rampaging extra-legal ultra-rightist Santiago, Chile assassination squads. UN refugee camps Edgardo Enriquez is the brother of Demand official statement on status and whereabouts of Edgardo former M I R secretary-general Miguel are raided and refugees turned over to Enriquez, Chilean, and Brazilian national Mrs. Regina Marcondes, the merciless grip of the police of their Enriquez. who was killed by the Chilean arrested Buenos Aires April 10 by Argentine armed forces. We respective countries. who are given free military in 1974. protest their arrest, demand that their human rights be respected, use of Argentine police stations to carry The ferocity of the repression in and call for their freedom. Pinochet's Chile has embarrassed the out their "interrogations." This is the international bourgeoisie. which prefers reality behind Videla's cynical "respec PARTISAN DEFENSE COMMITTEE greater discretion on the part of imperi tability" ploy. Box 633 Canal Street Station alism's lackeys. General Videla's Argen Our sharp disagreements with the New York, New York 10013 tine junta hopes to avoid following M I R's futile guerrilla ism and c1ass- USlA Sectarians Pull Out in Anti-Communist Panic Build the Campaign to Save Mario Munozl MA Y 18~ The campaign to save the life Munoz many who hold sharply counter appetite for liberal bourgeois supporting the campaign, the sneering of Mario Munoz. Chilean miner, posed positions on many political respectability. anti-communists of USLA have cut and workers' leader and hunted refugee, has questions. Hatred for the blood-stained run. Kelly objected specifically to a dem enlisted the active support of many torturers of the Pinochet and Videla The question of drawing a class line in labor leaders, leftists. prominent indi-· juntas runs so deep that a broad array of onstration at the Argentine consulate in New York on April 22 (for which USLA defense work stands at the heart of the viduals and organizations committed to 10rces. in spite of their differences. are SL's and PDC's long-standing disagree the fight against bloody right-wing collaborating in this exemplary interna had mobilized nobody). He complained that the Spartacist League and others ment with USLA's main slogan. "Free repression in Chile and Argentina. tional defense campaign. All Political Prisoners." USLA has Public protests have been organized in among the 175 demonstrators. who included supporters from nearly a dozen never repudiated in principle the defense several countries. Most recently in the of reactionary and fascist political U.S., a demonstration was held at the USLA Withdraws Endorsement different organizations. ended the rally by singing the "Internationale." With prisoners. and indeed its parent organi Argentine consulate in San Francisco zation. the S W p. actively champions yesterday. Among recent U.S. endorsers rare candor, Kelly explained that USLA I n a campaign characterized above all would not take part in a defense effort the "right" of fascists to propagate their of the campaign are well-known Bay genocidal doctrines. Area attorney Charles Garry and by the spirit of non-sectarian with organizations who "openly advo National Lawyers Guild president mobilization. an ugly incident this week cated communism." This so-called "civil liberties of sectarian abstention stands out in William Goodman. In other words. as a precondition for approach" inexorably leads USLA to A petition circulated in France and sharp contrast. The U.S. Committee for subordinate itself to the sensitivities and Justice to Latin American Political supporting defense campaigns USLA Germany has obtained many signatures. explicitly demands the suppression of , self-serving interests of bourgeois politi In Grenoble. France, where the petition Prisoners (USLA). dominated by the cians while criminally refusing to take ex-Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party groups which advocate revolutionary was signed by 647 people. mayor H. politics! In pursuit of respectability, part in defense activities where all Dubedout personally lent his support. (SWP). withdrew its previous verbal participants are free to put forward their endorsement. USLA has now launched a despicable In France the camp<:ign has also been red-baiting attack on the Mario Munoz politics. Always willing to take up the endorsed by the Parti Socialiste Unifie. USLA spokesman Mike Kelly in campaign, its class-struggle sponsors in cause of prominent intellectuals and Jean-Paul Sartre. the Association Fran formed the Partisan Defense Commit the PDC and particularly the participa former members of the Unidad Popular .;aise des Juristes Democrates and tee (PDC~joint sponsor of the Com tion of the revolutionary Trotskyists of government in Chile, USLA pulls back Pierre Lambert. veteran leader of the mittee to Save Mario Munoz) on May the SL. from the defense of Mario Munoz, a Organisation Communiste Internatio 17 that his organization was withdraw genuine leader of the Chilean proletariat naliste. The 15 May Le Monde carried ing support because of the campaign's USLA's ignominious. red-scared exit and left critic of the Salvador Allende an article on the dangerous plight of "sectarian" character. Surely this is an belies even its claim to a civil libertarian government. The message is clear: red Chilean refugees trapped by the coup in outrageous example of the criminal defense of the democratic rights of baiting and not defense against right Argentina, noting the manhunt which blaming the victim for the crime! victimized militants. Simply stated. wing terror defines the work of USLA. imperils Munoz. USLA~not the broadly-supported USLA will participate only in coalitions It is this sort of shameful sectarianism The extreme urgency of the situation Munoz campaign-is guilty of sectari dominated by liberal bourgeois politics. which underlines the need for the PDC's has brought together in defense of anism. a necessary by-product of its Unlike the civil libertarians who are class-struggle defense orientation .• 21 MAY 1976 5 <.. -----.~----- r -- The National ~ j, . t , i uestion in ~~,., ~' Yugoslavia As part of its efforts to overcome result of a great-power scramble to national antagonisms between the control the peninsula. peoples in Yugoslavia during the parti Following the devastation of the first san struggle against Axis occupiers in imperialist world war, sparked by World War II. the Communist Party Balkan tensions. the nascent Commun (CPY) again recognized the right of self ist International insisted that the bour determination, which had been dropped geoisie was unable to transcend national when the party became Yugoslav rivalries and a Balkan federation would patriots in the popular-front period of only come about through proletarian the late 1930's. The second session of the revolution. When the Bulgarian :\farrow Anti-Fascist Council ofi\ational Liber Socialist Party (the "Tesnyaki") ation, in 1943, decided upon a federal before the war the closest of the structure for the post-war state. and the European socialist parties to Lenin's institutional framework was set up with Bolsheviks~-changed its name to Com the passage of a constitution in late 1945 munist at a May 1919 congress. it issued establishing the Federative People's a call for a Balkan Federation of Soviet Republics (J oseph Rothschild. The Communist Party of Bulgaria, 1959). Part 2 of 2 With CPY leader Sima Markovic downplaying the national question in general-and rejecting the call for an Republic of Yugoslavia (Fl\RJ): autonomous Macedonia in a Balkan Hans W. Silvester "a community of peoples equal in rights federation in particular~-the Balkan Market day in Pee, Kosovo- Metohija who. on the basis of the right to self autonomous province, a determination including the right of Danube Communist Federation hardly predominantly Albanian area. secession. have expressed their will to got off the ground. Later, after Stalin live together in a federative state." had Markovic ousted as Yugoslav party bureaucratic split with the Kremlin 1B Ialsified the history of the Macedoman -Article I of the FN RJ constitu chief in 1925. the demand for a federa llJ4lS: people" by supporting Bulgaria'S cur tion. quoted in Paul Shoup. tion was ritually repeated by the CPY "In March the Yugoslavs informed the rent position that there is no historically Commwli;/II and the Yugoslav Bulgarians of their decision. taken after but remained a dead letter. It was separate Macedonian people and that i\'aliollal Question. 1968 the February conference with Soviet Macedonian history is really Bulgarian abandoned altogether in the popular leaders in \1oscow. to oppose the The federative ~tate included six front period, when each national party establishment of a Balkan history. republics: Croatia. Slovenia. Bosnia swore its commitment to defend the federation .... Disputes on the Macedonian ques Hercegovina, Montenegro. Macedonia "Following the outbreak of the dispute il1\iolability of every inch of soil tion, often punctuated with pistol fire. and Serbia: the latter containing the with the SC'\iet Union .... overnight have been raging for nearly a century. a\\arded its re'pccti\e country b) the Beigrdde bc'came the st~.uIich defender autonomous region of Kosovo imperialists at Versailles. of t-he qatus quo in the> Balkans., Po,session of tbe region has been hotly Metohija (heavily Albanian in popula After World War II. '",ith "lito's Shoup. op. "II, contfsted by Bulgarians, Greeks and tion) and thc aut;.momous prmince of Sc fl), ever since the breakup of the partisans reigning supr<::11C in Belgrade rhis abrupt ~hlft by Tito \\a, matched Voj\·odina. Five nations were recog Ottoman empire. and the Russian army occupying Bul by an eljually abrupt about-face by ni7cd, the Serbs. the Croats. the Slo It is a fact that the bulk of the garia and Rumania. the call for a Balkan Stalin. who just prior to his break with venes. the Macedonians and the Mon Macf:donian Slavs were drawn into the federation regained currency. Ho\\ever, Tito had opposed federation, fearing it tenegrins. Later a sixth "nation" was struggles of the Bulgarians for national the underlying motivations of the dif would undercut Soviet influence in the recognized, the Muslims. independence from Turkish rule and ferent Stalinists had nothing to do with Balkans. Following the split he dema Concentrated mainly in Bosnia and that 'Bulgarian influence has always attempting to· resolve the national gogically insisted on federation with the Hercegovina, many of the latter are been extremely strong among them. But question or with the struggle to intent to bring the Titoists to heel. descendants of Bosnian nobility, the oust the domestic bourgeoisie and 'even among the Macedonians them Bogomil heretics of the Middle Ages, so extend proletarian rule throughout the Macedonia selves there has been a great deal of persecuted by their Christian brothers strategic peninsula; on the contrary, ambiguity about their national identity. that they embraced Islam during the their aims were purely bureaucratic. The decision by the CPY to accord For example, Gregor Prli~ev, the Turkish occupation. Although not a Thus the Yugoslav Communist Party the Macedonians status as a nation has outstanding Macedonian poet of the nation in the Marxist sense, the M us favored the plan because it assumed that been the subject of bitter discord 19th century, was educated in Greek lims constitute a distinct grouping. The as the largest component, and with the between Yugoslavia and both Bulgaria schools and wrote his first major work official classification of them is a prestige of having conquered power on and Greece. Thus in 1974 Yugoslav in the Greek language. Later he rejected reflection of the perceptions of the its own, it would control any federation; commentators bitterly assailed the Hellenism and battled in Macedonia populace, who are still deeply influ Bulgarian leader Grigori Dimitrov, in Great Soviet Encyclopedia for "having against Greek influence in the church. enced by centuries of Ottoman rule turn, backed federation because he when nation and religious affiliation considered Tito his protege; and Stalin were held to be identical. The classifica saw it as a means to control the tion of the Montenegrins as a separate rebellious CPY! nation is also debatable. Nonetheless, The Titoists' commitment to the Tito's policy of devolution, according Stalinist ideology of building "socialism many political and economic decisions in one country" was clearly demonstrat to the various republics, has encouraged ed in the demise of plans for a Balkan the expression of Montenegrin federation. Although a peninsular fed nationalism. eration would have provided the framework for an equitable solution to III-Fated Balkan Federation the thorny Macedonian problem, the While the ending of pogroms and Yugoslavs dropped their earlier de murderous national conflicts was a mands for Macedonian unification after historic achievement of the Yugoslav the Greek Communist Party (K KE), revolution, the antagonisms among the under pressure from Stalin. abandoned South Slav peoples cannot be overcome guerrilla struggle against the British within the borders of present-day occupation troops in 1945. Although Yugoslavia. Already in the 1870's, CPY agitation around the Macedonian SeTbian socialists had put forward the minority in Greece was revived in 1946. Pf\lposal for a Balkan fedcrati,)n ex a II mention of self-detcrn;ina tion forthe tc;;ding from Rumania to Greece. The peoples of the Aegean region \>,as once Second In'ernational later took up the agai:l dropped to\.l/ard the end of that demdnd as th~ only way to pull the fuse year under pres\J rc from the K K E. Yugoslav Information Service from the Balkan powder keg, which I\s for the federation plans. they were continuously threatened to explode as a shd\"ed as a consequence of Tito's Assembly line at "Red Banner" auto plant at Kragujevac near Belgrade. 6 WOkKERS VANGUARD Later still, he emigrated to Bulgaria and autonomous province of Kosovo permitted to buy and sell on the agreement had been rendered null by became a librarian in the Bulgarian Metohija, also bordering on Albania. international market. This left party history. national library in Sofia, where he contain over one million Albanians. i.e .. organizations in a weakened position, The student strike and riots in the unsuccessfully tried to translate the Iliad nearly half the popUlation of Albania since market criteria to a large degree Croatian capital of Zagreb in December into Bulgarian. proper. The Kosmet is the most supplanted politics and planning as 1971 were closely related to this growing Similarly, the nationalist Internal backward region of Yugoslavia and. determinants in many decisions about nationalist re~entment. which had been Macedonian Revolutionary Organiza from the time of the Tito-Stalin split up the economy. smoldering for some years. Yet in tion (IMRO), which carried on guerrilla until the purge of secret police chief Under "market socialism" the powers September Tito had myopically proc and terrorist operations against the Serb Alexander Rankovic in 1966. was under of the republic bureaucracies expanded laimed following a tour of Croatia that monarchy of interwar Yugoslavia, was the dominance of the Serb and Mon enormously, along with a burgeoning in Croatian nationalism was a "myth." from its inception split between an tenegrin minorities living in the area. the numbers, wealth and power of non This was not the view of Croatian party "autonomist" wing and one desiring With the easing of pressures after party petty-bourgeois specialists. Con leaders Mika Tripalo and Savka unification with Bulgaria. Yet even 1966 the Albanians began to demand comitantly there was a growth of petty Dabcevic-Kucar. who together had for 1M RO "autonomists" such as the Mace more autonomy and rights. In 1968 riots capitalist entrepreneurs, villas on the some time been buttressing their posi donian national hero Goce Delcev against the Tito government occurred in Adriatic and other perquisites of privi tions by catering to the resentments and wrote in the Bulgarian language. both western Macedonia and the Kos- lege. By 1970-71, "market socialism" cultural nationalism blossoming in Cro Dunng the BUlgarian occupation of had brought galloping inflation, struc atia. posing as defenders of Croatian Macedonia in World War I large tural unemployment, widespread eco interests against depredations of the numbers of the Macedonian petty nomic corruption and a resurgence of central government in Belgrade. bourgeoisie were given posts as civil nationalism. Tito's swift reaction in purging the servants or teachers by the Bulgarian The contribution of "market social- offending party leaders and his subse occupation authorities. With the return jsm" to the growth of "dinar national quent moves to restore "democratic of large areas of Macedonia to Yugo ism" is quite simple. Investment tended centralism" in the party and to bring slavia after the war and in reaction to to drop in the poorer republics because Yugoslav society back under more Belgrade's policy of forced Serbization of the low return it yielded. A simple direct party control are indicative of the these forces flocked to 1M RO and glance at the capital output ratios for alarm the Zagreb events caused in the launched a bitter resistance. 1M RO the developed republics in comparison central party leadership. The crack itself was to degenerate following a to the underdeveloped republics illus down and purges launched in 1972 are bloody split in 1924 in which the pro trates the magnitude of the problem. still going on. Bulgarians ousted the "autonomists." This has led to a lineup in which the eventually ending up little more than a bureaucrats from the industrialized "Cominform ism and tool of the Bulgarian far right. republics of Croatia and Slovenia have Nationalism" tended. in their majority. to oppose Reoccupation of the area by Bulgari Yet Tito and his cohorts have had to developmental investment in the back an troops in World War II was at first proceed cautiously. Opposition to ward areas. The underdeveloped re greeted by the populace as a liberation. "market socialism" is most strong But this time the civil servants and gions in turn, demand more attention to among the bureaucrats of the less teachers were Bulgarians imported from central planning and oppose "market developed republics and it is no accident Bulgaria proper. causing considerable socialism." that this is where the "Cominformists" disgruntlement among the Macedonian The differences in investment returns Josip Broz Tito (pro-Soviet bureaucrats) tend to be petty bourgeoisie. As the occupation reflect substantial differences in income found. Thus. overlaying the national continued the Macedonians became met. These protests aimed at forcing and living standards: resentments is a political polarization increasingly disenchanted with their better conditions for Albanians from "It may be an exaggeration to say. in the that requires the Titoists to attempt a Bulgarian and German occupiers. the central government and were suc words of a Belgrade economist. that Yugoslavia has India and West Ger delicate balancing act. Tito's crackdown By following a policy of guerrilla cessful in obtaining a greater measure of many in one country. but it is not far on the Croatian right was accompanied struggle against the occupation forces (a home rule. Constitutional guarantees from the truth if one substitutes Austria by repression aimed at keeping in line policy resisted by the Bulgarian Com were given to develop the Albanian and Syria. In respect of living stand elements of the bureaucracy with a taste munist Party) and stressing that Mace minority's cultural life. Belgrade ards. cultural development and histori for Soviet-style Stalinism. donia was a nation entitled to its dropped its control over higher educa cal experience. LjUbljana has more in common with Graz or Salzburg than it The bureaucrats in Moscow, of tion. and in 1969 an independent national rights, the CPY was able to has with Pristina. and the Moslem course. have been making the most of counter the early pro-Bulgaria~' senti University of Pristina was established. peasant from Kosovo would feel more the situation ~lending a sympathetic ment (which had led a section of the These measures have not quieted at home in Damascus than in ear to Croatian nationalism while CPY's Macedonian cadre to go over to protest. however, and the past several LjUbljana." intriguing with the "Cominformists" in the Bulgarian CP!) and by the end of the years have seen the rise of Albanian -Fred Singleton. TH'enrieth Century Yugoslavia the Serb and :\1ontenegrin parties, Even war achieve wide popular support. nationalist sentiment. While only a tiny the fascist LJ stashi claims to have A separate Macedonian republic was minority of Yugosla\' Albanians has Economic decentralization has given discovned sympathv in ;v1oscow for established shortly after the war and publicly supported fusion of the Kosovo many Slownian and Croatian bureau Its struggle for an inaepenoent capitalist agreement was obtained from the and western :v1acedonia into Albania, crat· arpetites for "market ,ociali~m in Croatia! Bulgarian CP to unite the .'vlacedonians this above all reflects a distaste tor the one ~. rU\ ince," The confiscation by the 1 Some bourgeois commentators have of the Pirin region of Bulgaria with the far more reprc:ssivc' and c:conomicai!y cc-,tra ,'ank of 90 :'tTcent of the raised the possibility of a partition of Yugmlav .'v1acedonian republic. The hack ward H oxha regime in Tirana enterpri'ics' foreigr. c,.,·l;~lnge c:arnings, Yugoslavia. with Croatia and Slovenia Yugoslav Stalinists also moved to create rather than loyalty to Belgrade. with some of it going t'J r,pnce and: or maintain an inefficient "p\)litical" facto breaking away and undergoing capital a somewhat artificial literary language Marxists should, of course, recognize ry in Macedonia or Montenegro, is ist restoration while Serbia and the less from a southwest Macedonian dialect the rights of the Albanian people of termed "economic discrimination" or developed regions would come under which bore the least resemblance to Kosovo and western Macedonia to fuse "plunder." Such attitudes find a natural Soviet domination. ;\;eedless to say this Serbian or Bulgarian. Eventually the with Albania. The border in this region culture medium among the intelligentsia would be an utterly reactionary devel government moved to encourage the was established by military conquests of and non-party specialists and very opment, although the Soviet Stalinists Macedonians to form their own Mace the Serb bourgeoisie in 1913 and in no rapidly spill over into out-and-out could well favor such an arrangment. donian Orthodox Church, and in way reflects the national borders of nationalism and xenophobia. (During World War II, Stalin himself general did all it could to promote Albania. Such a fusion would disrupt In Slovenia, while there is a great deal had agreed to a scheme whereby he Macedonian national consciousness. neither the geographical nor economic of resentment at "carrying" the burden agreed with Churchill that British The test of the CPY's Macedonia unity of Yugoslavia. of the underdeveloped regions, there are imperialism and the USSR would share policies came in 1948 during the break The Tito bureaucracy, however, is no illusions that Slovenia can go it 50; 50 in influence in postwar Yugosla with the Comintern and the consequent committed to the sacred soil grabbed by alone. The Slovenes are a nationally via. The arrangement was upset by shattering of hopes for a Balkan the Serbian monarchy in the Balkan compact and homogeneous group, Tito's unexpected victory.) feaeration. Prefering Titoism to Bulgar Wars. Four of the leaders of a December acutely aware of their tiny size and ian Stalinism, the Macedonian party or 1974 demonstration in favor of incorpo cognizant of the fact that outside of Titoism at an Impasse ganization rallied to Tito to a greater rating Kosovo into Albania have been Yugoslavia they would be a tiny morsel Nearly 28 years have passed since the degree than any of the other parties. sentenced to prison terms of from three to be gobbled up by bourgeois Italy and Tito-Stalin split. In that time the liberal Nonetheless, the Tito-Stalin split and to nine years for attempting to over Austria. Most Slovenian nationalism Stalinist regime in Yugoslavia has the defeat of the Greek revolution leave throw "the constitutional order and finds its outlet in agitation around the attempted to construct "socialism in one the Macedonian people divided between territorial integrity" of Yugoslavia. Slovene popUlation living in Austrian country with a human face." In its own Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece. While Carinthia. terms it has failed. Now the Tito many observers contend that Tito's The Major Problem-Dinar Croatia is an entirely different matter. policies led to the crystallization of a Nationalism bureaucracy finds itself compelled to "Market socialism" has ignited tradi Macedonian nation after the war and repress centrifugal tendencies tearing at Far more serious to the stability of tional Croatian separatist yearnings, it that were brought into being by its point especially to the fact that the Titoism are the not-so-distant rum which have been voiced and encouraged own policies of the last two decades. Macedonian language created some 30 blings of the old Serb-Croat conflict, by sections of the Croatian bureaucracy. - The rekindling of national animOSI years ago is taking hold, the democratic fueled for this round by the conditions An example of this resurgence of ties is a threat to all the working masses resolution of the question awaits a created by Titoism's policies of econom nationalist sentiment may be seen in the of Yugoslavia and a signpost of the successful socialist revolution in ic and political devolution. Following 1967 move by Croatian party tops to failure of' Titoism. The Yugoslav Stalin Greece and POlltlccu I eVvlUllOn agams{ its break with Stalinism the Tito add their voices to those demanding that ists came to pc)\\:er in a struggle in which the Stalinist bureaucracies in Belgrade bureaucracy has for various reasons a constitutional amendment rank Croa they were forced to combat the national and Sofia. (see "Titoism in Trouble," WVNo. 91, 9 tian as a distinct language on an equal ist poisons of capitalist Yugoslavia, and The Albanian National Minority January 1976) pursued a course of level with Serbian, Slovenian and the defeat of the bourgeoisie was economic and political decentralizat!on Macedonian. The 1954 Novi Sad accompanied by a tremendous easing of One of the peoples which has pai£"! the which limited the party's ability to declaration had sought to declare national oppression. price for Tito's culti\ation of i\1accdani (;ontrol the trajectory of the economy. Serbo-Croat the standard literary 1,'.:1- '\01"; despite thi.: hl'i"<.:aucracy's :tn !'.J'ionalism has been the ,\!h,;'lian The economic ;'efo:ms of 1965-66 guage. I r] ] 97] the Cf0dti::n intclL·,"l,:al policies of cultural-.,,;,:cln:d aU!i'nomy minurity r~sid!ng in western .'v1acC';i",, ushered in the period of "market litcrar2'- and cultural ~ocicty \·Ll(ic<.-t for the various S,:!·th ~L'" nations, ia:·\s a people the:' have ;J:.?cn ~ocialism" undt'f which the individual H n.:atska \\,ithdrcVt, its signature f~-~_~~:l nationalism has nard up dnc2W. While system:Hically discriminated agaimt in firms, operating on a "profit" basis, this agrc:ement. denouncing "linguistic they have not reached the feverish level the nev, republic. This region and the competed with each other and were unity" at any price and proclaiming the cOlltinued on page 11 21 MAY 1976 7 arm of the Montoneros), outlawed "civili/ed" repression. Thus the Vidcla AssociatIOn (AOT). Construction under the Peron regime. the junta's Agosti Masseri triumvirate skillfully Workers Union (UOCRA) and the Argentina ... practice is to quietly arrest militants. in plays the "soft cop hard cop" game. An Press. Federation (La Opinion. 27 (continued/rom page I) increasing numbers. often taking them indication of the strength of the most March). gation, and there have been reports of from their homes in nocturnal raids to rightist elements is the reappearance of Though Videla's labor minister hyp buses carrying as many as 1,300 persons hold them incommunicado. with confir Jesus Cappellini. ringleader of the ocritically promises the eventual return back to the Chilean secret police. The mation of arrest coming only weeks Catholic fundamentalists of the air of the unions to their elected leaders. case of Mario Munoz Salas. a Chilean later, if at all. It is thus frequently force. who staged the dress rehearsal military tribunals are now in session to miners' leader still being hunted by the impossible to tell whether the "disap coup against the Peron government in try Peronist civil servants and trade Argentine junta. dramatizes the extreme peared" are victims of the government December. The air force rebels were unionists on charges ranging from peril facing the countless political exiles security forces or of the AAA. Every day united not only by their opposition to corruption to possession of arms and trapped in Argentina. brings more stories from parents of the Peron government and the "Com explosives. The AAA offensive had arrested youth, especially members of munist menace." but by their belief that made possession of weapons. now AAA Rampage the Peronist youth movement, who the rise of Communism was a direct outlawed. a necessary elementary meas At the beginning of May-even as the report that their children have not been consequence of the Reformation. Now ure of self-defense for labor activists. founder of the murderous Argentine found in prisons or police offices after under the tutelage of the notorious F or precisely the "crime" represented by Anti-Communist Alliance (AAA), being arrested by men showing police Pinochetist General Menendez, Cappel arms allegedly found when the Bakers' former social welfare minister Jose credentials. lini has been named to head the Union was raided six trade unionists Cordoba air force garrison and training and a minor government official were Lopez Rega, was indicted along with Labor Besieged Isabel Peron for misuse of public school. sentenced to terms ranging from three to When leaders of the Communist funds-the presidential press office Meanwhile, the factories of Cordoba ten years on April 8, in the first official Party called on General Videla in early ordered local newspapers and radio have been among those where the first court martial proceeding. Hugo Gon stations to stop reporting the discovery April to affirm its loyalty to the junta incidents of tentative resistance to the zalez, a leader of the Bakers' Union in of the telltale bullet-riddled bodies, and protest the ungrateful army's raids junta's brutal regimentation of labor Buenos Aires, received the maximum frequently tortured, burned ordynamit . on the party's Bueno's Aires headquar have taken place. According to the sentence of ten years. Two other ed, found almost daily in vacant lots, ters that left two party members dead, Mexican daily Excelsior (1-14 April members of his union got seven and five rubbish dumps or roadside ditches. Videla responded that he was powerless translated by People's Translation year sentences, while three textile Financed from social welfare ministry to prevent such incidents. According to Service), 17 workers were arrested for unionists and a former labor ministry funds under Lopez Rega, the AAA cop the Guardian [London] (14 April), "He holding a work stoppage at a U.S. auto inspector received three years each. terrorists have tortured and assassinat The harsh sentences and massive use ed thousands of suspected leftists and .~ of troops and cops to contain the union militants in the last several years 1,...·.•.····. slightest suggestion of labor resistance §== . ·':fiJiMt-'··:J .:f;""'" reflect the junta's fear that the smallest and have been busier than ever since the ~ March 24 coup. Thirty bodies were spark could ignite a massive explosion, found in one weekend alone, and the that the pre-revolutionary situation that death count since the coup probably .... """'~~ .... ~~~.... " has existed in Argentina since the 1969 numbers several hundred. "Cordobazo," has not been defused. Concern over the rising death toll has The military took power to rule directly, been expressed in Argentine newspa ~·.!i!t!tf as opposed to indirectly as had been the pers. Though the junta's demagogic case throughout the Peron regime, pronouncements frequently couple the pn:cisely in order to behead and "democratic" bourgeoisie's favorite dismantle the mass organizations of a theme of the state's claimed right to an working class which has repeatedly exclusive monopoly on the use of force struck back with strike waves and near with that of its "respect for human insurrections against the economic and rights," it de facto sanctions and political crises which have beset Argen protects the terror campaign of the tina's successive military and civilian AAA, as did the Peron regime. Police, regimes for decades. hospitals and mortuaries, as well as the "Shock Treatments" media, have been ordered to give no When Videla isn't reiterating his official information on political mur pledge to annihilate "political delin ders in cases where the victims are quents" and "subversive criminals, in suspected leftists. "Only official an whatever form," economy minister nouncements of clashes involving secu Martinez deHoz dominates the news rity forces and 'political delinquents' are .«':... ' ...... ~ with promises of rising unemployment authorized now" (New York Times, 2 and prices and falling consumer May). The government censors claim purchasing power. "Austerity, produc that this is not censorship, but a tivity and sacrifice" are demanded from "security measure" to keep the press the workers in order to carry out his from magnifying the actions of guerrilla policy of a "return to the principles of groups, which the military asserts "are private enterprise." reduced to hit-and-run killings of Though he rejects identification of his isolated policemen or ambush attacks economic policies with the notorious on poorly protected victims, such as "shock treatments," that have demol business executives." As a government ished Chile's· economy since 1973, press official explained, "This is a state deHoz's subordinates include a "Chica of war and the Government has the right go Boy," from Milton Friedman's to use this method to prevent enemy Informations Ouvrieres Argentine police University of Chicago school of "free propaganda" (London Times, 26 April). enterprise" that supplies Pinochet with "Political Delinquents" is said to be equally unhappy, and plant on April 9. the plant was economic advisers. A member of an equally impotent in the face of summary surrounded by troops and police who Argentine ruling-class family which News embarrassing to the regime trials of trade unionists which take place entered and arrested union delegates owns enormous expanses of mineral becomes "enemy propaganda" by "po daily in distant provinces, more or less when 4,000 workers stopped work in the and oil-rich Patagonia, as well as real litical delinquents," a category which at the whim of local military command painting section of the plant, demanding estate in Buenos Aires, deHoz has all the covers all opponents of the regime, ers." Cited as an example of the their now forbidden rest break. A May appropriate credentials for his post. He including those who demonstrate every arbitrary atrocities taking place is the 13 communique from the Authentic is a leading stockholder in the Acindar intention to accommodate the new man in Mendoza sentenced to eight Party reports 330 workers arrested in steel monopoly, in which U.S. Steel rulers, like the Peronist union leaders years in jail for cursing a policeman who some 20 factory raids in recent weeks. In holds a minority interest, and owns and the Communist Party, which held him up for questioning in a routine the most massive labor confrontation stock in Pan American World Airways critically supports the junta. The war traffic check. since the coup more than 1,000 workers as well. Educated in the U.S. and being waged against the Argentine Beneath the bonapartist strongman's out of the 8,000 at IKA-Renault near Britain, he is a close friend of David working class, to destroy its organized revolting disingenuousness, the military Buenos Aires were suspended for 24 Rockefeller and headed the economy power and immiserate its masses to prop is clearly internally divided, not on the hours for staging a slowdown according ministry under Jose Maria Guido, the up floundering capitalism, requires a far program it plans for the working class, to a May 7 report. Apparently the civilian puppet installed by the military more systematic brutality than can be but on how to best go about accomplish workers were protesting the junta's after the overthrow of Frondizi in 1962. implemented by the para-police squads ing it. Richard and Cristina Whitecross, productivity drive and ban on union Predictably, a spectacular stock of the AAA. British citizens recently released after activity. market boom greeted the coup with a Official secrecy also covers the armed five months in Argentine jails, confirm vote of confidence. As trading dwarfed forces' systematic raids and roundups of the strength of the Pinochetists among As the junta took power it put tne record levels with prices soaring up to targetted suspected "political delin the Argentine admirals and generals. unions into receivership, freezing their 300 percent on a wide range of stocks, quents," who are otten sadistically Some bourgeois commentators claim bank accounts. arresting their leaders, deHoz announced his economic meas tortured in confinement. The police and that divisions within the armed forces shop stewards and rank-and-file activ ures. Price controls were removed as various branches of the armed services have kept the junta from clearly defining ists. Military intervenors replaced elect wages were frozen. To encourage carry out their raids autonomOUSlY, and a whole series of issues, from the ed leaders and troops occupied union foreign investment he projected liberali continue to compete for "most wanted" appointment of a new chief of police, a offices as strikes and collective bargain zation of the exchange rates and prisoners. No lists of those detained are post vacant since the coup, to what to do ing were outlawed and protective labor promised a quick solution to disputes released by authorities. It took weeks about the trade unions. legislation and safety regulations sus created by nationalizations of foreign for the information that MIR leader The present configuration of leaders pended. The doors of the unions that holdings under the Peron regime. Edgardo Enriquez, arrested April 10, is by no means assured and the impa spearheaded labor struggles in the past Foreign oil companies have been invited had been turned over to Chilean tient gorilas straining at their leash year were sealed, including the Metal to explore and develop Argentine oil authorities. According to a recent press would dispense with the rhetoric of Workers (UOM), Union of Automotive fields under contract to the state oil release by the Authentic Party (political "moderation" and any pretense at Machinists (SMATA), Textile Workers company. 8 WORKERS VANGUARD Increased rates for state services and the Militant, 23 April). Combatiente article Santucho discusses with the "democratic" bourgeoisie. EI state enterprise products are to make The American CP's Daily World (30 the imminent coup: Comhatiente of May 1975 applauded these companies self-sufficient. Those March) all but called the Junta "pro "The PRT also upholds that the the landowners' Radical Party of that fail to meet profitability standards gressive," along the lines of its charac fundamental issue is not to fear the Ricardo Balbin: military coup because. as we have "Our party hails the positive resolutions will be returned to private hands. terization of the Portuguese Armed pointed out before. the step which the Already the price of gasoline and Forces Movement, and announced the of the Radical convention. which are an military intends to take is an irrational important contribution to the demo electricity have increased by 30 percent. PCA's willingness to cooperate in adventure condemned beforehand to a cratic struggle in which our people are Prices for all basic necessities, including paving the way "towards the establish resounding failure .... engaged: at the same time. we empha food, have soared with the lifting of ment of a military and civilian govern " ... Each crime and abuse will generate sile the necessity to unite the forces of greater resistance and the Armed price controls. The state has ended its ment on a broad coalition basis." It is all political currents. progressive and Forces will be obliged to mobilize all anti-imperialist. democratic and popu control of foreign trade to restore little wonder that Argentine workers their power. which every day will lar ... advancing toward the concretila private trading, and farm prices have generally view the CP with sneering become more inadequate. In short. the tion of the democratic and patriotic been increased to encourage exportable contempt, reserving more sympathy for Military Dictatorship will be complete front. indispensible tool to successfully ly isolated. confronting a determined structure the people's struggle." production in an attempt to decrease the the guerrilla activists of the M ontoneros people who will rise up massively in $9 billion foreign debt. and the PRT I ERP (Revolutionary -quoted from in/cJflnaliuns favor of the revolutionary struggle .... OUI'fI"i!res, 28 April-5 May The federal deficit is considered the Workers Party I People's Revolutionary " ... the two roads they [the military] main problem behind the world record Army). could choose in the actual moment Though it mentions in passing the inflation, 713.4 percent from May 1975 However, as "authentic" Peronists, democratization or a repressive coup desirability of a "new Peoples and both favor to varying degrees the Workers Revolutionary Government," to April 1976. Tax changes are to create unlike Isabel Peron, the Montoneros all revolutionary forces." revenues to cover an increased percent but openly called for a military coup, the explicitly stated goal of the Santucho's proclamation precisely age of government spending; by this seeing the generals as a "lesser evil" than PRT i E R P's guerrilla actions is simply parallels that made by a leading German year only 20 percent of government Isabel Peron and her "lopezreguista" democratization, for it accepts the basic expenditures were paid from tax reve cohorts. The attitude of the PRT/ ERP tenet of classical Stalinism that the nues, down from 80 percent in 1970 was similar and the statements of its socialist revolution comes in install (New York Times, 6 April). leader Mario Roberto Santucho indi ments, initiated by a democratic capital Last, but not least, deHoz projects cate that the PRT / ERP thinks the coup ist stage. doubling unemployment to at least 6 signals the advent of an inevitably Santucho's article on the imminent percent of the workforce of ten million. victorious Vietnam-style "people's coup laments that it is "very difficult" to Warning that if inflation continued at war." mobilize the masses against the coup the March rate unchecked it would be given the unpopUlarity of the Peron 4,600 percent higher in December 1976 "After Videla-Us!" government. It was "very difficult" than in December 1975, he has begun because it was very late! The construc The guerrilla movement IS not the implementation of a plan to reduce the tion of a unitt;d front of workers Argentine junta's ultimate target for government payroll by laying off several organizations for defense of the labor repression. It is, however, the military's hundred thousand employees from all movement; deepening the struggles of principal avowed target for levels of government and state enter the insurgent masses to prepare the annihilation-and among its excuses prises. Dismissed workers are to receive necessary offensive against capitalism for the coup. The reactionary officers, one month's indemnity for each year on itself; the forging of the proletarian who claim some tactical differences over the job. vanguard party to fight for socialist how to best go about smashing the The measures speak for themselves. If revolution, not in the name of, but over organized power of the working class, anything, the term "shock treatments" is -Ihecorpse ~lPeronism-this is and has are united in their blood vendetta an understatement. DeHoz himself has been the burning task of revolutionists. against the guerrillas. warned, "You cannot put the brakes on The guerrillas and the PCA aren't the Embarrassed by the war in Tucuman, a car going I ,000 miles an hour without only ones that failed the test. When the among other things, the officers consid the passengers going through the wind U.S. Socialist Workers Party (SWP) er their casualties at the hands of the shield." The only "passengers" whose criticizes the PCA for allying with Peron guerrillas as yet unavenged and their safety concerns him belong to the instead of warning the workers against manhood challenged, despite the capitalist ruling class. Newsweek Peronism, it is a case of the pot calling bloody repression waged with a free the kettle black. The SWP's co-thinkers Rolling Out the Red Carpet hand under a declared "state of siege" Mario Santucho, leader of the in the Argentine Partido Socialista de for some time. Shortly after the coup the PRT/ERP. los Trabajadores (PST) offered to vote The Argentine military was handed army in Cordoba proudly announced for the Peronist FREJULI in 1972 if80 the initiative by the criminal passivity of that PRT political secretary Eduar percent of its slate were workers. Not the workers' own leaders. The way to the do Guillermo Castellano Soto had been Communist Party parliamentarian, only did it then promise to "fight for the junta's reactionary coup was paved by killed by a military patrol. Remmele, who told the Reichstag as continuity of the [Peron] government" the betrayals of those who pretended to Hitler stood on the brink of power in the Even more significant, in the absence and sign a joint declaration with the working-class leadership, from the early 1930's, "Let Hitler take office-he bourgeois parties to support the "insti right-Peronist CGT labor confederation of a proletarian revolutionary party, the will soon go bankrupt, and then it will guerrillas have made some inroads in tutional process," but it condemned the tops to the Communist Party (PCA) to be our day." And the Nazis walked into guerrillas as the "mirror-image" of the the "Trotskyist" social democrats of the the industrial working class. The kid power without determined opposition napping of intransigent management, AAA. PST (Partido Socialista de los from the strongest workers party in The PRT/ ERP's mythical "total war Trabajadores-Argentine counterpart for example, has on occasion brought Europe to massacre the working class speedy settlement to deadlocked labor of prolonged [and headless] resistance" of the U.S. Socialist Workers Party), and six million Jews. is suicidal substitutionism. The collapse not to mention the guerrilla groups. negotiations and disputes, infusing such In his tireless campaign to get the tactics with a certain superficial appeal. of Peronism in the absence of a proletar Among the junta's first acts was a German CP to unite with the social ian vanguard built through the destruc decree suspending the activities of all But most often, the "guerrilla" label was democrats against Hitler instead of bestowed upon labor militants and tion of Peronist and popular-frontist political parties and outlawing six attacking them as "social-fascist" great illusions led not to a "war of resistance" ostensibly leftist parties, including the rank-and-file leaders as a pretext for the er enemies, Trotsky demonstrated that government, often in league with the but to a defeat for the Argentine work PST and Politica Obrera. The long those leaders incapable of preventing ing masses. now under attack by the discredited PCA was not declared Peronist union tops, to arrest striking bonapartists from sweeping into power workers en masse, intervene in the military junta. But the decisive battles illegal, though its headquarters in will be even less capable of sweeping lie ahead. The task for revolutionists various cities have been raided with two unions and get rid of rank-and-file them out, for "resistance" is not a leaders and factory committees that remains the construction of a Trotskyist casualties and many arrests. Within mystical phenomenon as the PRT / ERP vanguard party of the proletariat that days of the coup the PCA debased itself would defy the sellout official would have it. As he said of Remmele's bureaucrats. can mobilize the masses to wrest power to the limit with a statement saluting the boasts: from the junta and replace the dictator junta for "its respect for representative The coup represents a mortal threat '''We are the victors of to-morrow', ship of capital with a workers state.• democracy, social justice, the reaffirma to the Argentine guerrilla groups, which Remmele brags in the Reichstag. 'We are not afraid of Hitler assuming tion of the state's role in controlling anticipated its arrival with "leftist" power.' This means that the victory of society, and the defense of the capacity spontaneist illusions which can only be to-morrow will be Hitler's not Rem for national decisiveness" (quoted from described as suicidal. In a March 3 EI me Ie's. And then you may as well carve it on your nose: the victory of the SL/SYL communists will not come so soon. 'We PUBLIC OFFICES are not afraid' of Hitler's assuming power-what is this if not the formula Revolutionary Literature of cowardice turned inside out?" BAY AREI -L. D. Trotsky. What Next? Friday The bravado of the PRTI ERP faced and W'IlIlEIlS Saturday ...... 3:()(\-6:00 p.mf with the imminent coup is but an 1634 Telegraph (3rd floor) admission of powerlessness to prevent (near 17th street) it. Having done nothing to prepare the Oakland. California masses politically to break from their Phone 835-1535 ,,1."'111) illusions in the bonapartist Peron CHICAGO Name ______regime which paved the way for Videla's TueSday ...... 4:00-8:00 p.m. Saturday ...... , ..... 2:00-6:00 p.m. takeover, the PRT / ERP can only Address ______650 South Clark console itself with comforting excuses Second floor Chicago. Illinois City/State/Zip ______for its political bankruptcy. .Phone 427-0Q93 110 The PRT/ERP's petty-bourgeois NEW YORK adventurist guerrillaism goes hand in Monday includes SPARTACIST hand with class-collaborationist popu through Friday ...... 6:30-9:00 p.m. D Enclosed is $5 for 48 issues (1 year) lar frontism. While the PRTj ERP Saturday ...... 1:00-4:00 p.m. doesn't go so far as to get down on all 260 West Broadway D Enclosed is $2 for 16 issues (4 months)-INTRODUCTORY sub Room 522_ fours to lick the jackboots of the New York, New York order from/pay to: Spartacist Publishing Co.lBox 1377 GPO/NY, NY 10001 military like the PCA does, it is perfectly Phone 925-5665 ready to create lethal strategic alliances 21 MAY 1976 9 ment. The settlements serve entirely as which could only be the forerunner of tion and oppression of the Palestinian border guards and as the front-line in outright annexation because it does people which was embodied in the very Israel ... Israel's conflict with neighboring Arab not want to double its already existing creation of Israel. This was reinforced (cofllinuedfrom paf{e I) states. as Zionist prime minister Yitlhak Arab minority of 445.000 (plus 45.000 by the provocative Gush Emunim two Rabin made explicitly clear in a tour of Druzes). Allon and Rabin further wish day march through the heart of the West Later that afternoon the funeral was the Jordan Valley settlements last to leave open Samaria as a "territorial Bank. The 20-mile march ran from Beit held. attended by many West Bank month. concession" for a future Israel Jordan El near Ramallah to Jericho. Many of village mayors and leading Arab fami peace treaty which would turn the the 20,000 marchers carried submachine lies in addition to Nabulsi's friends and Galilee, the First "Occupied majority of West Bank Arabs back over guns. fellow militants. The funeral was fol Territory" to the suzerainty of the Hashemites Arab counter-demonstrations, even lowed by more demonstrations and (their pre-1967 occupiers) while ringing The "Labour" Party's "official" posi when far from the march route as were stone-throwing confrontations with the West Bank with Jewish settlements tion opposes Jewish settlements in those in Nablus, were brutally dispersed Israeli soldiers. and military bases. Samaria where most of the West Bank's by the Israeli army. In Nablus a protest 700,000 Arabs live. The experience of However Gush Emunim-supported by youths was broken up with tear gas. Military Outpost "Settlements" Galilee has taught the Zionists the perils by the "Labour" Party's governmental Once again Zionist ferocity in pursuing of trying to create a "Jewish state" with a coalition partner, the National Reli demonstrators was indiscriminate. The outpouring of anti-Zionist Three people were wounded, including protests in the West Bank is fueled not large Arab minority. gious Party (NRP) of orthodox rabbis Galilee was not allotted to Israel 55-year-old Zayid Taher Ajba, who died only by the brutal and humiliating and religious fanatics, and by the right under the U. N. partition scheme of on the way to the hospital. According to foreign armed occupation, but also by wing opposition bloc, Likud, led by November 1947. It was conquered by the Los Angeles Times (21 April) "the the provocative sprouting of Gush Manachim Begin, perpetrator of the Israel in the 1948 war and ruled for 18 infamous Deir Yassin massacre wants dead man's personal physician, Hatem Emunim squatter settlements. Gush years by a military administration Abu Ghazaleh, said Tuesday that the Emunim (Band of the Faithful) is a settlements in Samaria precisely in fundamentally no different than that order to thwart any possibility that shooting victim was an amputee who Jewish clerical-fascist movement which walked with crutches and had poor claims, as the "inalienable right of every eyesight. It was implausible, the physi Jew to every part of the land of Israel." cian said, that the man would have been the entire West Bank and Suez isthmus. capable of rioting." This poisonous movement inscribes upon its banner the further forced Zionists Squabble over Kadum dispersal and ultimately genocide of the Palestinian people in order to conquer Finally the government scheduled a the whole of "Eretz Yisrael." debate on Kadum for Mav 9. The The "official" settlement plan of Mapam mobilized its "kibbut;niks" and Israel's misnamed "Labour" Party (the other supporters for an anti-Kadum largest Zionist party in the government. rally of 20,000 in Tel Aviv on May 8. formed from the fusion of the Mapai, or Mapam has threatened to leave the Israel Workers Party, with various government unless the Gush Emunim Zionist splinter groups in 1968) is based squatters are evicted from Camp on the 1968 "Allon Plan," named for Kadum. Israel's foreign minister and deputy But amidst the Mapam rally's denun prime minister, Yigal Allon. It calls for ciations of right-wing Zionism. what concentration of settlements along an 8 went unsaid was that Mapam often used to 12 mile wide "security belt" along the the methods of Gush Emunim and mass Jordan River which constitutes the butcher Begin to build its kibbutz eastern border of the West Bank. in movement. Especially following the sparsely populated areas of Judea (the 1948 war. Mapam grabbed Arab land southern portion of the West Bank) and and blew up adjacent Arab villages to especially around Jerusalem. which carry out its "socialist experiment" in a Israel clearly intends to annex. countryside soaked in the blood of the Thus Israel's "settlements policy" is reactionary war for Israeli "indepen entirely determined by Zionist consider dence"--an "independence" dependent ations of military security. Since the upon how quickly U.S. defense contrac 1967 war. 68 settlements have been tors deliver Lance missiles and the latest established with official Israeli sanction: Phantom jets and tanks and how much 25 in the Golan Heights. 17 along the the Zionist lobby can squeeze out of Jordan Valley, five in the Hebron Jewish philanthropy and Congress to vicinity (in Judea), four around Jerusal DaVid Rublnger:Tlme pay for them. em and 14 in the Gaza strip, and three Israelis erected steel gates in Nablus to enforce curfew. along the Gulf of Aqaba. None of these The IO-hour cabinet debate on May 9 is economically viable, but the debt which exists in the West Bank today. It Israel will relinquish any portion of the threatened to move the Kadum squat ridden Israeli government has already was only in 1966 that Galilee ceased West Bank. ters to an "approved" new settlement invested $500 million in their develop- being an "occupied territory" and the site in the West Bank. But to win the military administration was lifted, The NRP, which holds the balance of abstention of the three NRP ministers, allowing Galilee at least the pretense of power in the Israeli parliament (Kness Rabin promised dozens of new settle self-government. et), is able to exercise pressure dispro ments in the occupied Arab territories in However Galilee continues to be an portionate to its strength. Thus Gush the coming years. The Camp Kadum Arab ghetto. The aims of the Zionist Emunim launched its squatters into the squatters held their own news confer regime in Jerusalem toward Galilee are heart of Samaria. Seven times they were ence to announce. "We will not agree to contradictory. On the one hand it evicted from the Nablus area. However, any decision that will mean the disman attempts to "Judaize" Galilee through backed by the growing pressure of the tling of the settlement" (.Vell' York encouraging Jewish settlement; on the N RP on the unstable "alignment" Times, II May). Thus the squabble other it deprives Galilee of development dominated government (the bloc be within the Zionist establishment funds and social services, leaving it the tween "Labour" and the self-proclaimed continues. poorest part of Israel. Thus the Jews "socialist"-Zionist Mapam). the eighth who are able to do so leave. Presently attempt was met with gentler treatment Israel Out of the Occupied Galilee has an Arab popUlation of from the military. The 120 settlers were Territories! 210,000 and a Jewish popUlation of "temporarily" resettled in the Kadum Israel must immediately and uncondi 60,000. army camp a few miles west of Nablus tionally get out of the occupied territo The Zionist threat to expropriate and were given trailers and construction ries. Yet, as Palestinian nationalists will Arab land in Galilee to develop the materials to build their own water supply system. Thus. irrespective of be quick to point out. the pre-1967 _AN Jewish settlements of Carmiel and borders of the state of Israel are also, as Upper Nazareth is bitterly resented and "official" statements, Kadum was built in the clear case of Galilee, "occupied led to the "Day of the Land" general in collusion with the Israeli military territories." The Hebrew nation was strike of March 30. Plans to expand administration into a permanent West forged through the forcible dispersal Upper Nazareth are threatened by more Bank settlement. and destruction of the Palestinian than Arab opposition. Many apart ,t; Israeli "settlement" policy-both the nation. ments already built there stand empty. "official" Allon Plan and "illegal" Gush A truly democratic resolution of the The town was supposed to be settled by Emunim squatters-has escalated the just national claims of the Palestinian Russian Jewish emigrants. especially seething discontent of West Bank Arabs people cannot be achieved either in from Georgia. But correspondence from into open protest. even when open some West Bank mini-state or through disgruntled friends and relatives who protest is met by the mass terror of the the denial of the Hebrew people's right settled in Galilee (and in some cases Israeli military. It also contributed to of self-determination. The so-called subsequently returned to the Soviet the sweep of West Bank municipal "democratic secular Palestine" of the < '.< ," • ": Union) appears to have been a more elections by candidates known to be PLO, which projects the peaceful successful deterrent to Jewish emigra '-~ sympathetic to the Palestine Liberation cohabitation of Hebrews and Arabs tion from the Soviet Union than Organization (PLO) and the pro without the prerequisite of a socialist Stalinist intimidation. Moscow Israeli Communist Party transformation, would lead merely to Zionist Expansionism: How (Rakah). another Lebanon. Only within the ...... ' Militants like Lena Hassan Nabulsi context of a socialist federation of the ~$' Much? \I .. '1 certainly saw in the Gush Emunim Near East can the just national claims of New York Times Israel's expansion if it annexes The "Labour" Party therefore op settlement at Kadum, only a few miles the Palestinians be equitably and settlements in occupied areas. poses Jewish settlement in Samaria- from Nablus, a symbol of the humilia- democratically resolved .• 10 WORKERS VANGUARD 'j TWW A plays into the racists' hands and resolution opposing Boston's court sites must be aggressively organized to Boston ... reinforces backward white workers ordered school desegregation program. extend union rights. pay scales and (col1lilluedji'oll7 page 12) fears that minority workers can only Building trades union bureaucrats were conditions and root out scabbing. All sites demanding an increase in the advance at their direct expense. The prime movers last fall in the passage of state interference in union affairs and proportion of minority workers to 50 TWW A is pressing its demands for an anti-busing resolution by the state prerogatives. including union-busting percent. quota hiring of minorities and has AFL-CIO (later rescinded on orders "affirmative action" programs. must be' Although many of the demonstrators directly challenged the construction from George Meany). Cleary and other opposed. insisted that race had no bearing on the unions by demanding recognition of the construction union big-wigs have been Through mass marches and militant dispute and a few black union members "Third World Jobs Clearing House." an frequent speakers at anti-busing rallies. actions at scab sites. local construction were present. the rally itself took on a organization financed with federal Boston's construction unions have a workers have repeatedly demonstrated distinctly racist character through the funds through the city-administered long record of confining blacks to a willingness to fight the politicians. menacing presence of the Marshals. CET A program. as the only legitimate unskilled jobs or excluding them alto contractors and corporations whose "hiring hall" in minority Anti-busing demagogue Louise Day gether. Minorities represent only 7 crisis-ridden economy has thrown Hicks spoke to the crowd. denouncing neighborhoods. percent of the building trades unions. 15.000 building tradesmen out of work "these Third World people who want The TWWA pushes fortheallocation and of these. the overwhelming bulk are in Massachusetts alone. It is precisely nothing but chaos." White promised of jobs along narrow ethnic lines. David in the less skilled laborer. painter and this militant impulse which pro increased numbers of cops to guard Lee, head of the Community Task Force mason crafts. Union training programs capitalist union tops like Cleary construction sites in the ghetto and on Construction which works closely are totally inadequate. and government hope to divert into fratricidal racial threatened to cut off city funds to "any with the TWW A. stated in a May 8 press programs almost non-existent. A small confrontations. agency ... engaged in any violence." release that "it is outrageous for subur sheet-metals training program at East I nstead of supporting the racist anti The possibility of a hook-up between banites to come into Boston to work on Boston High School was virtually busing movement and accepting an the fascist-inspired vigilante gangs of construction sites at a time when 12% of destroyed this year by racist assaults on alliance with the rabid South Boston the South Boston Marshals and the the Boston residents are unemployed." black students. By the time a court order Marshals, the construction unions must racist gun-toting bureaucrats of the TWWA leader Leo Fletcher told a WV moved it to another high school, only unite the labor movement and the construction unions is a supremely reporter there were too many "aliens" three or four black 'students were left in besieged black working people to dangerous development. This is particu taking away Boston workers' jobs. the program. defend busing, stop racist violence and larly so in Boston where blacks are a The TWW A claims to be a "labor Unionized construction workers, drive proto-fascist hooligans out of small proportion of the workforce. organization." But it has no contracts white and black, have a right to defend Boston.• unlike Detroit. Cleveland and other and admittedly is making no efforts to their jobs and union hiring halls. But the cities with a high concentration of organize the large numbers of non bureaucrats' policies-ignoring the blacks in strategic industrial unions like union contractors-not a few of which needs of black workers and ~eeking a de the UA W. The Marshals' racist terror are minority-owned-whom the craft facto bloc with the bosses' cops, racist Hampton, Clark ... mobilizations imperil the democratic union bureaucrats are basically unwill politicians and a gang of reactionary rights and the very lives of oppressed ing to organize. Indeed. if it did so it thugs who have no place in a labor (continued/rom page 3) minorities. For the corrupt union tops would promptly lose the backing of the struggle-can never defend the con strations. disrupt the Vietnam Veterans to permit these vicious gangsters Contractors Association of Boston, struction workers. What is required is Against the War and spy on locals of the whose ultimate program is racial geno South End state representative Mel the forging of a new union leadership l!nited Electrical Workers and cide and the smashing of the trade King. Deputy Mayor "Jeep" Jones and committed to a class-struggle program unions themselves to pose as "defend other black capitalist forces. In practice. of unity of all workers through a union A !--SCM E. During the trial of American Indian Movcment leaders of the 197.:1 ers of organized labor" brings the the TWWA's "job actions" are simply led struggle for full democratic rights Wounded Knee resen ation occupation. seething South Boston cauldron ever appeals to the government and private and economic advancement of the Al M's chid security officer. Douglass closer to boiling over into outright race contractors to break the construction doubly oppressed minority workers. Durham. blew his cover as a paid !--HI war. trades unions. which the TWW A has Construction workers must fight for informer. The paramilitary racists are labor's also taken to court. jobs for all through shortening the worst enemies. Only a month ago two workweek at no pay loss and through The public relations face-lilt being black bus drivers were brutally beaten union-controlled public works pro attempted by Kelley cannot hide the faet Bureaucratic Racism that the bourgeoisie's hired goons by a gang of racist punks. as were three grams to build more schools, hospitals commit murder and mayhem with white drivers who came to their co The job trusting policies and crimi and other socially useful construction workers' assistance. For more than a nally racist record of the construction projects. Union skills training programs virtual impunity. In periods of labor year three heavily integrated locals of union tops has made the unions vulner must be qualitatively expanded to make insurgency or renewed political radicali the Amalgamated Meatcutters have able to government-backed schemes to possible a large increase in black and lation. the ruling class will not hesitate been unable to hold meetings in their use minority workers for union busting. minority access to the skilled trades. to unleash its agents for new outrages in Andrew Square union hall because of The bureaucrats fan the flames of race Wage differentials between skilled and defense of its institutions and property. repeated harassment and vandalism by hatred in a situation of massive unem~ unskilled construction jobs should be :'\0 "reform" of the bosses' gO\ernment white hoodlums. In a period of sharp ployment in the construction trades thaI. decreased, exorbitant union entry fees can end these crimes. The armed fist of ened class struggle, proto-fascist forma they have done nothing to combat. In must be abolished and union member the oppressors must be smashed by the tions like the Marshals will be wielded October 1974 the annual convention of ship must be opened to all construction power of an organi/ed and politically directly against the organized labor the Massachusetts ~tate Building and workers, employed and unemployed. conscious proletariat prepared to take movement. Trades Council unanimously adopted a Workers on non-union construction the reins 01 powcr.. The union-busting program of the the profitability of the investment' Now even the great achievements of concerned." the Yugoslav revolution-the over SPARTACIST LEAGUE Yugoslavia ... -Singleton. pp. 295-296. LOCAL DIRECTORY throw of capitalist property relations (continued/rom page 7) An idea of the pressure to which KavCic and the overcoming of bloody national ANN ARBOR...... 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VANCOUVER . (604) 299·5306 money to an enterprise dealing with Box 26, Station A capital investment. which could give Macedonian popUlations are today Box 825 Canal St. P.O. Vancouver. B.C. him interest and perhaps e\ en some pawns in the inter-bureaucratic squab New York, New York 10013 thing extra in addition. depending on bling of Moscow. Peking and Belgrade. 21 MAY 1976 11 W'ItIlEItS ".tiIlAItIJ For Lobor Solidority Agoinst Roeism ond Union Busting! End Discrimination in the Construction Trades! For a Shorter Workweek at Racist Attack at Boston No Loss in Pay to Create Jobs! For Labor IBlack Defense to Smash Racist Offensive! Construction Site BOSTO'. May IS The dangerously and union bureaucrats surrounded the inllamed racial polarization of Boston Barletta Construction Co, trailer and. was the backdrop to an ominous shouting racist obscenities. attacked the 0-~ , ... ¥ incident of racist ,iolence on the blacks. William Cleary. president of the morning of \1ay 7. The South Bo~t()n Association of Buildin!,! Trade, t'nions. Marshals. Klan-inspired armed thugs added fuel to the situation \\ ith the \\ ho h,1\e spearheaded brutal attacks on threat that "there'll be blood on the black people and pro-busing militants. streets" (Bus{()n Herald-,~lI1eri((/l/. I () joined \\ith construction trades union May). bureaucrah to assault spokesmen for Later that day. 2.000 building trades the"rhird World Workers.L\"ociation·· men marched on City Hall shutting (1\\'\\'/\). a communit\-ba,ed pressure dm\fl construction sites throughout the grO!lp of mostl\ black cllnstruction cit~. Pushing through police lines mto \\ orkcrs. m,ide a con,tructlon tr~liler at the lohby. chanting "\\e \\ant White." d build in!,! ,itl' in the S(luth rill!. the~ demanded to 'ee the ll1a~ (Jr. \ I he P~1l'~lllllliL!n \Ia!'sh;t\s aI',' sec'k reluctant Kn in \\'hite \\~l' cllP'rc'li-:d ti) !ng te) l'\plllit the l'()lhtru,'j "'i! tr~!de, adc1re" the tClhc." and angn ,';',)\\l], \\ Ill) (ontronLtl.ll)n .... d\ an l'\t\.-'T1"·inr: \)1 the'!!" hU(lC'li him rL'pc~ltc'dl\. I he dc'[11o!l\1ra rdcI't terror L'(.lrl1r(I;~.!11 Edie Fox Fired at Dodge Main Defend Victimized UAW Veteran ~ Oppositionist' Edie Fox DE IRon In an outrageous com disciplinary la\ofl. Fo\ abo indicated joined In efforh to integrate the bar, \1 ide opposition group, But the maneu pam \ ictimi/ation. longtime L' A W that in thiS case onl\ one time card h;ld and restaurants that ring Dodge Main. \crist L:\C ne\cr transcended its acti\ ist Edith Fox has been fired bl necn punched. not tlIO. showing that the In IlJS4 she led l.ocal 3's Unemployed skillcd-trades parochialism and reform Chnsler after 2X lears at its Ham- \1 hole incident was entirely accidental. Committec. the l! A \V's first unemploy , . ist program. confining it'>elf to pres tramck Assembly Plant. better kno\\n But Chry-;\er has jumped at the chance ed committee since the IlJ-'O's. suring thc UA W bureaucracy around a, Dodge Main, to m;lke this infraction the pretext for Emerging as a respectcd woman minimal economist dem;lnds and cross Charged \Iith punching out a lell(m ending nearly three decades of opposi leader in a predominantly male indus ing the class line to take union officials worker's time card. Fo,\ \Ias hauled into tllln;d acti\ it\ by a' popular union try. Fo\ \Ias elected to numerous union to court. man;lgement offices SCleral days later militant. positiom, She has serled se\eral terms But our sharp disagreement'> \\ ith and then dischargl'd on \1ay J. With Edie ~·O\ \\as hired into Dodge Main on the Local -' executi\e board and was Edie Fo\ and the L:\C in no \Ial contract ne,!,!otiatiol1S coming up. the 111 IlJ4X. Walter Reuther \\a, then a Chief Stnlard for ten year,. the first detract from our solidarit:- \Iith Fo.\ eompan~ is not concerned with a petty consolidating hi, bureaueratic grasp on \\oman in her local elected to that post against Chrysler'S \\itchhunting lictimi Infraction of its arbitrary rules. but is the t'AW through an anti-communist 011 the assembl~ line. She was also lation. In the last lew year,. Dodge perpetrating a prmocati\e \ ictimi/a campaign that ultimately drO\e many elected a plant committeeman and was a Main management \Iith the back tion of a \Iell-kno\\ n oppositional pioneer militants out of the union. Fo.\ delegate to many L'A W cOll\entiom, h;lnded support of the sellout L'AW unionist. nonethele" maintained a high Inel of Edie Fo\. al()ng \\ith her latl' hmband bureaucracy h;l, fired prominent In an inlL'n iew with 11"'. Fo\ pointed acti\ it\ as a pro-socialist militant in Art ;It Ford Ri\er Rougc', 1001 and Die Communist l.abor Part\ supportn out that forl'men's time shedS make the l.ocal 3', traditionally turbulent politi t 1 nit. \Iere politically ,upported tor General Baker (then a leader of ,clocking procedurl' In auto plants c;d lile. In the early IlJSO'" she partici mam.. lear, b\- the then-IT\ olutionan. DRt:\1). L::\C acti\ist Pat O'Brien. merl'l\ a regimenting redundanc\. p;lted In the ,ttll lhnamic FIling Socialist Workers P;1I't\, In the IlJ60's. assl,tant ste\lard John \1erske\ and :\l;ln~ I\orkers clock eo-\\orkers' cards Sljuadruns. facin!,! Detroit', brutal a, thl' S\\I' abandoned any per,pecti\e m;ln\ others, t' A \\' mtlitants l11uq and management generall:- looks the nHlLlntcd pulice in the Sljuare j) strike. of class-,truggle politics. the Fo\c, llL'nwnd: Hands 011 Edle Fo.\! Rein other \Iay: occasional eraekdo\\ns among mall\ others. In predom1l1antl: became leader, of the lnited :\ational .,tate Fo\ with Full Back Pay! Stop the ,eldum IT,lilt in more than a Ie\\ daIs of \\ hill' and Polish Hamtramck. she Caucus (L ' :\C). the L;.-\ W's onl\ nation- Victimi/atiol1S of LAW \1ilitants'_ 12 21 MAY 1976