NOVEMBER 17, 1972 25 CENTS VOLUME 36/NUMBER 42

A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE • IXOn -page 3

Mil ilant/Peggy Brundy Socialist candidate Linda Jenness speaks to Gls at historic Ft. Dix campaign rally. See page 11.

'Trail of Broken Treaties' protest demands abolition of Bureau of Indian Affairs. See page 12.

Louisiana Black student protest/1s ·March for 'Out Now' on Nov.18/24

. , ' I' . -. •' "- THIS WEEK'S In Brief JDL ATTACKS PUBLIC MEETING: On Oct. 26 some The latest charges that have been dropped concerned MILITANT 20 to 30 members of the right-wing Jewish Defense League a "conspiracy" to bomb a bank in New York. Other 3 Meaning of Nixon victory attacked a public meeting on the Middle East called by cases in which the government has dropped charges rather 4 Why won't 9 points Youth Against War and Fascism in New York City. The than reveal information on its secret surveillance of dis­ bring peace? attackers, who used chains and iron pipes, failed to break sidents include contempt charges against Black Panther 5 NLF 'irritated and un­ up the meeting, but seven members of YAWF were injured. leader Bobby Seale, an indictment against Abbie Hoff­ happy' man, and a Michigan case against members of the White NEW YORK POLL ON ABORTION RIGHTS: A poll Panther Party. Apparently, disclosure of the wiretap ev­ Socialist ,campaign 'a 9 released by NBC-TV on Nov. 5 showed that 70 percent idence would prove considerably more damaging to the tremendous victory' of the men and women surveyed favored the legaliza­ government than to its opponents. 10 Brooke challenged to tion of abortion, despite the intensive anti-abortion cam­ debate by SWP paign carried out by right-wing forces in New York. ANOTHER GOVERNMENT FRAME-UP: When' eight 11 Socialists campaign on Fifty-eight percent of the Catholics in the poll supported antiwar activists, including seven members of the Viet­ the legalization of abortion. nam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), were indicted U.S. military base on Oct 18 by a federal grand jury, the New York Post 12 500 Indians occupy ran the headline: "Indict 8 in Plot to Kill Cops." An gov't office Associated Press dispatch said the eight were accused 13 Open letter concerning Max Shachtman dies of plotting to attack police with "automatic weapons Max Shachtman died Nov. 4 at the age of 68. Shachtman assassination of and incendiary devices, and with planning to use sling­ was a founding member of the U. S. Communist Party, Leon Trotsky shots and crossbows to fire lead weights, cherry bombs, one of the initiators of the American Trotskyist movement ball bearings and marbles at the police." The action 14 Nixon-McGovern lies hit and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party until 1940, was allegedly being planned for the Republican national by Raza Unida and more recently a leader of the Socialist Party-Demo­ convention last August. 15 Black students protest cratic Socialist Federation. All eight of the defendants pleaded not guilty on Nov. 6, in La. The SP-DSF is planning a memorial meeting in New and their trial is set to begin in January. York, but as we go to press the time and place have not 16 Land or Death, the peas­ been set. ant struggle in Peru MORAL DEPRAVITY IN CALIFORNIA: Robert Mitchell, chairman of Governor Ronald Reagan's social welfare 17 Final push needed for board, complains that "It is amazing to find how many sub drive people do not regard illegitimacy as much of a problem 19 Israel's pol icy: attack and who do not think there is anything morally shocking Arabs ana strikers about its growth." 21 Abortion debate in According to the Oct. 30 New York Times, Mitchell's Detroit committee has proposed legislation that "would allow a third illegitimate child born to any woman to be taken 24 NPAC affirms 'Out Now' away and placed for adoption, on the legal assumption demand for Nov. 18 that the mother had shown herself to be 'morally de­ praved.'"

2 In Brief HUMILITY OR INSIDE INFORMATION? A group of Black clergymen have been sitting in at the Council of 6 In Our Opinion Churches of New York City in. protest of the council's Letters failure to condemn the virulent racism manifested in the 7 Women in Revolt Forest Hills housing dispute and in the Canarsie school By Any Means Necessary ZIONIST RABBIS GETTING WORRIED: The Nov. 6 struggle. The clergymen have released copies of letters 8 Great Society New York Times reports that a new commission set up showing that the council attempted to award Henry Kis­ National Picket Line by the Religious Zionists of America "will publish lit­ singer its "Family of Man 1972 Award for Excellence in the Field of Peace." American Way of Life erature on the compatibility of Judaism with modern life and its relevance to social justice. . . . " Kissinger wrote on Sept. 9 that "Because of this year's 18 The Militant Gets Around Social justice- perhaps the Religious Zionists are going particular circumstances . . . I believe I must regretfully 20 In Review to carry out a campaign in behalf of the rights of Blacks decline to receive the award at this time," according to in Forest Hills and Canarsie? No. They want to combat the Nov. 6 New York Post. "indifference and hostility" toward Israel and Judaism WORLD OUTLOOK among "leftist Jewish students." "When a Jewish student 1 Canadian election results cries out for the liberation of Palestine. from the Israeli conquerors," said Dr. Maurice Sage, the head of the Re­ pose challenge for NDP ligious Zionists, "he strengthens every hate-monger." 2 Western CPs denounce Leaving aside the usual crude attempt to identify anti­ Czechoslovak trials Zionism with anti-Semitism, the formation of this com­ 3 Revolutionary socialists mittee is an indication of the mounting impact that op­ in India discuss tasks ponents of the Israeli state are having on the thinking 4 Chilean military gets of young Jews. 3 cabinet posts NOVACK-HARRINGTON DEBATE: "The, road to so­ cialism in America" will be the subject of a New York debate between George Novack, a leader of the Socialist Workers Party, and Michael Harrington, who recently resigned as cochairman of the Socialist Party-Democratic THE MILITANT Socialist Federation. The debate will take place at Queens VOLUME 36/NUMBER 42 College on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 1 p.m. in Room 310 Front of the Communist Party's national headquarters in New NOVEMBER 17, 1972 of the college union building. York after two Molotov cocktails were thrown at it on Nov. 5. CLOSING NEWS DATE-NOV. 8, 1972 Becky Finch, Socialist Workers Party candidate in the 18th C. D., Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS where the headquarters is located, condemned the firebomb­ Managing Editor: DOUG JENNESS ing as "an attack on the entire left, and on the rights of all CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST LESLIE BACON: On Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS Americans to hear rmd vote for differing views." Southwest Bureau: HARRY Rl NG Nov. 1 the federal government announced that it would drop the last ·of its charges against Leslie Bacon rather Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., than reveal the contents of wiretaps used in surveillance 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Phone: Ed­ NIXON'S CHINA POLICY: NEW TACTICS FOR itorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) of her. Bacon, an antiwar activist, was initially arrested COUNTERREVOLUTION IN ASIA: That's the title of an 929-34B6.' in April 1971 during the investigation of a bomb explo­ article by Militant staff writer Dick Roberts that originally Southwest Bureau: 11071/2 N. Western Ave., Los sion in the Capitol building. She was indicted on perjury appeared in the March 1972 issue of the International Angeles, Calif. 90029. Phone: (213) 463-1917. charges as a result of her grand jury testimony about Socialist Review. Since then, it has been translated into Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Sub­ scription: Domestic, $5 a year; foreign, sa. By first­ the Capitol bombing, but those charges were dropped Spanish and printed in Espartaco, the revolutionary-so­ class mail: domestic and Canada, S25; all other coun­ because the government refused to dil!lclose the contents cialist magazine in Colombia. tries, S41. Air printed matter: domestic and Canada, of its wiretaps. -DAVE FRANKEL $32; Latin America and Europe, S40; Africa, Australia, Asia (including USSR), $50. Write for sealed air postage rates. Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent The Militant1 s views. These are expressed in editorials.

2, By DOUG JENNESS millions of voters Nixon appeared to be as much NOV. 8-With the lowest turnout of voters in 24 of a peace candidate as McGovern. In the last years, President Nixon won yesterday's presiden­ days of the campaign McGovern was even hailing tial election with about 60 percent of the votes. Nixon's ·unjust nine-point proposal for settling the There was no significant shift in either the House Vietnam war. · of Representatives or the Senate. Both will con­ In reality, neither candidate was a genuine peace tinue to have Democratic majorities. candidate. Both support the aims of U. S. imperial­ Not all the votes have been tabulated, and final ist foreign policy, which include the use of U.S. anything to stop the inflation that shrinks the val~e figures are not available at this time. But pro­ military forces anywhere in the world. of our paycheck every week. He's not going to do jections reported in this morning's New York Nor is Nixon's detente with Moscow and Peking anything to find jobs for those out of work." Times indicate that about 54 percent of the voting­ designed to bring world peace. Its purpose is to None of the basic social problems that plague age population went to the polls-the lowest since get these two world powers to help control revolu­ our society are going to be resolved or even eased 1948. This flies in the face of election-eve pre­ tionary movements throughout the world. This by Nixon or the 93rd Congress. They are going dictions that there would be a record turnout. The policy is bearing fruit for the U. S. rulers in Viet­ to get worse. percentage has been more than 60 percent in every nam, where the Moscow and Peking bureaucrats There was no labor party, based on the unions, pr-esidential election in the last 24 years. have helped twist Hanoi's arm to accept an un­ that workers could support. Likewise, Blacks had These figures indicate that · many voters wer:e fair settlement. no party, based on the Black community, to figh\ not happy about choosing between Tricky Dick In addition to the question of peace, Nixon's for their interests. The central choice. was between and the senator from South Dakota. A national opposition to busing and increased welfare bene­ two parties of big business. poll taken for the New York Times by Daniel fits won him support from the more privileged It was different with Chicanos in a few areas. In Yankelovich revealed that when voters were asked and racist strata of the working class and from Texas and Colorado, there were La Raza Unida to name the "more .attractive personality" running the South-a traditional stronghold of the Demo­ Party candidates on the state ballots, opposed to for president, 33 percent said Nixon, 23 percent cratic Party. said McGovern, and 37 percent said neither one. In 1968 George Wallace, running on the Ameri­ Among students this feeling was especially com­ can Independent Party ticket, won 13 percent of Reporting from Sioux Falls, S.D., on election mon. Steven V. Roberts, writing in the Oct. 2 the vote, mostly from these sectors. Nixon clearly day, New York Times writer James Naughton New York Times, observed that "The catch phrase picked up votes that would have gone to Wallace was on hand when George McGovern voted. if he had been in the race this year. This partly on campus this fall is 'the lesser of two evils,' " ... he looked at the Presidential ballot," and, if given the chance, many students would accounts for Nixon's much larger margin of vic­ vote for 'none of the above.' " tory this year. (He received 43 percent of the total Naughton states, and "expressed surprise that The reasons for this apathy and cynicism are vote in 1968.) Linda Jenness of the Socialist Workers party many. Neither candidate presented serious answers Nixon's catering to the racist sentiments held was able to get on it in this conservative to the urgent social needs of the American peo­ by many white workers also accounts for why state . ... " The SWP presidential ticket was most Blacks and Chicanos voted against him. ple. There was also the Watergate and grain scan­ officially on the ballot in 23 states and Wash­ dals and the Eagleton affair, along with the usual His substantial defeat in Washington, D. C., where ington, D. C. dose of doubletalk and transparent promises. the majority of voters are Black, testifies to his Of those who did vote, three out of five pulled lack of support among Blacks. Although unemployment is still high and prices the lever or marked an "X" to reelect Nixon. Why the Democratic and Republican party candidates. keep rising, a slight upturn in the economy in the did he win such an overwhelming victory? These parties are new and relatively small, but last few months offered a little hope to some voters The most important reason is that he created · they were able to elect a number of county of­ that things might get better. This probably decided an image of himself as a peace candidate. He ficials in Texas and score impressive votes in other withdrew more than 500,000 Gis from Vietnam some votes in favor of Nixon. races. These gains will serve as an inspiring ex­ Another factor involved in Nixon's victory is that since taking office; he went to Peking and Mosco; ample throughout the country for those fighting he successfully manipulated the advantages of an to hold historic summit meetings and establish to develop an independent political alternative to incumbent. His . trips to Moscow and Peking were closer relations; and he announced his intention the capitalist parties. organized to make the biggest possible impact on to sign a settlement of the Vietnam war. The final returns for the radical parties are not the electorate. On the pretext of doing important in yet. The experience in previous years has been McGovern won Democratic primaries and his business he avoided public debates and did very that it takes more than a month before they can party's nomination because of his criticism of Nix­ little personal campaigning until the last week of on's Vietnam policy. But Nixon swept the carpet the campaign. out from under McGovern's feet. In the eyes of Nixon also had the backing ·of the country's , top financiers and businessmen and 600 news­ papers. Only 38 newspapers backed McGovern. RAZA UllOA VICTORIES Nixon's forces spent at least $50-million, and As we go to press election returns are still 'SO THAT'S WHY SHE~ it's publicly known that he received two contribu­ incomplete, but Texas Raza Unida .Party can-­ tions of at least $1-million. It's estimated that Mc­ didates have won five seats in Zavala Coun­ Govern spent about $25-million. ty: sheriff, Joe Serna; county attorney, Ray WAS RULED OFF Nixon also benefited from McGovern's loss of Perez; county commissioner, precinct 5, Elena Despite the fact that she. had been ruled off credibility due to his backtracking on positions Diaz; county commiSsiOner, precinct 7, the Ohio ballot, Socialist Workers Party presi­ and because of the Eagleton affair. dential candidate Linda Jenness was running Antonio Rios; and constable, precinct third after Nixon and McGovern in Cuyahoga The large vote for Nixon did not signify a na­ 6, Rodolfo Espinosa. Since 1970, the R UP County, according to preliminary returns tionwide shift of loyalties from the Democratic to has controlled the administration in 'Crystal published in the Nov. 8 Cleveland Plain the Republican Party. There were no significant City, the county seat for Zavala County, but Dealer. The socialist candidate received 9,773 changes in either house of Congress or in the these are the first county offices to be won votes ( 1.4 percent) in the returns of 8,427' proportion of governors that are Democratic. by the Chicano party the~e. of the county's 12,826 polling places. Cuya­ The Republicans are back in the White House, hoga County encompasses the Cleveland and the Democrats control Congress again. B~t area. the American working people have lost. all be obtained. As soon as they become available The American Independent Party came in Speaking to an election-night rally in New York they will be published in The Militant. fourth, with 9,567 votes; followed by the So­ City, Socialist Workers Party candidate for presi­ It's not expected that the SWP vote will be la:rge. cialist Labor Party, with 1,562; and the Com­ dent Linda Jenness told supporters in 17 cities Most Americans still have illusions in the major munist Party, with 1,256. over a special telephone hookup: capitalist parties. Furthermore, discriminatory elec­ Jenness had filed suit and lost in court in "Those who lost this election, those who will tion laws kept the SWP off the ballot in half the her bid to overturn the decision by Ohio suffer from the results of this election, are the states, and election officials often don't bother to Secretary of State Ted Brown that she was working people of this country, the oppressed of count the votes that are cast. Nor was the SWP "too young" to run. However, her name had this society, the victims of capitalist injustice, in­ permitted the same access to the mass media as already been printed on the state ballot. Elec­ equality, racism, and sexism. . . . the Democrats and Republicans. tion officials announced they would not count "WE: now face four more years of a man in the Nevertheless, given its modest resources, the SWP votes for the SWP presidential ticket, but ap­ . White House working hand in glove with the bank­ campaign was very successful. It reached more parently there was a slipup in Cuyahoga ers and businessmen to squeeze every last nickel's people with socialist ideas than any campaign worth of profit out of our labor. We know that in its history and won many of them to the so­ \..County. that man in the White House is not going to do cialist movement.

THE MILITANT/NOVEMBER 17, 1972 3 u.s. beefs ug saigon air gower Why won't 9-point plan By DOUG JENNESS Another reason for stalling is that surrender." anything about the 45,000 U. S. NOV. 7-On election day, i972, U. S. the U. S. government needs time to Nixon's "peace with honor" means troops stationed in Thailand or the planes are still bombing Vietnam. rush more military equipment to its an unjust settlement imposed on the 39,000 U. S. troops attached to the Nearly four years after President Nix­ puppet regime in Saigon before a Vietnamese workers and peasants by naval fleet off Vietnam's coast. The on took office and 12 days after Hen­ cease-fire is signed. This includes F-5A the U. S. government with the assis­ four aircraft carriers in the fleet carry ry Kissinger, his chief foreign policy jet fighters provided by the reaction­ tance of the bureaucrats in Moscow 240 fighter-bombers. The Thailand­ aide, affirmed that the U. S. had ary governments· in Iran, Taiwan, and Peking. We don't know what se­ based armada contains 500 combat agreed to sign a settlement, the war and Soutq Korea, which in turn re- cret agreements have been made or planes, 50 B-52s among them. These continues. And the bombing attacks ceived then1 from the U. S. . will be made, or what the final out­ would be available to intervene if are particularly heavy. On Nov. 4 According to an Associated Press come of the present discussions will things don't go the way Washington alone, waves of B-52s dropped 2,000 report in the Nov. 4 New York Pos~ be. But the proposals made public wants. tons of bombs on Vietnam. the present military aid is the largest by Hanoi on Oct. 26-proposals the Although the proposal says there Meanwhile, the Oct. 31 deadline set since the war began. "It will make U.S. says it supports-won't solve will be no introduction of military the social evils the Vietnamese workers advisers, reports have already leaked and peasants have been fighting out that the U. S. government has against for so long. If signed it won't plans under way to send in civilians guarantee peace in Indochina. as military advisers. To see why, let's examine the nine­ According to an Associated Press point proposal as presented by the dispatch in the Nov. 3 New York North Vietnamese government andre­ Pos~ "U.S. military sources said the printed in the Oct. 27 New York advisers would be employed by ci­ Times. Let's take it point by point. vilian firms that would be under con­ e Point One: "The United States re­ tract either to the U. S. Defense or spects the independence, sovereignty, State Dept. They would be on the unity and territorial integrity of Viet­ order of Air America, the charter air­ nam as recognized by the 1954 Ge­ line which the CIA finances in Laos." neva agreements." The remaining paragraphs in Point It's good that the U.S. says it will Two indicate that the two South Viet­ respect Vietnam's right to self-deter­ namese parties will be allowed to mination. However, it is contradictory make periodic replacements of arma­ for the U. S. to concede this point ments, munitions, and war materials. and then assume that it has the right This offers the Saigon regime an op­ to negotiate an agreement about Viet­ portunity to upgrade its military nam's affairs. It has no right to ne­ equipment periodically. gotiate anything about the fate of Viet- e Point Three: "The return of all captured and detained personnel of On election day 1972 Nixon was still bombing Indochina. ·nam. Also, the 1954 Geneva settlement the parties shall be carried out simul­ is not the best model for self-deter­ taneously with the U. S. troops' with­ by Hanoi for signing the nine-point the South Vietnamese air force the mination. It was agreed to at a con­ drawal." proposal has passed without an agree­ third largest in the world, with more ference that included representatives It is not unusual that prisoners are ment being signed. President Nixon than 2000 aircraft." from several imperialist powers, and exchanged when an armistice is continues to delay signing while ne­ Rogers, in his "Meet the Press" ap­ the USSR and China, none of which signed. However, this provision does gotiations continue with Hanoi on oth­ pearance, explained that this is being had any right to settle anything in not include the estimated 200,000 ci­ er points. done "to assure" the South Vietnam­ Vietnam. vilian political prisoners in South Viet­ Appearing on NBC television's ese "that they will have the necessary There were provisions in the agree­ nam. Hanoi made a major conces­ "Meet the Press," Secretary of State supplies in the event the agreement ment that clearly infringed on Viet­ sion here. Previously it had demanded William Rogers predicted that an doesn't work out." nam's right to control its own affairs. the release of the political prisoners agreement will be reached but that For example, the arbitrary division in Thieu's jails as a condition for it will take at least several weeks be­ Thieu's bloodbath of the country at the seventeenth par­ settlement. fore the remaining details can be But President Nguyen Vari Thieu allel and the stipulation that "inter­ e Point Four: " ... The South Viet­ ironed out. isn't waiting for a cease-fire, or for nationally supervised" elections be namese people shall decide themselves Asked why the administration is so it to prove unworkable, before launch­ held. the political future of South Vietnam certain peace is on its way in Viet­ ing a massive bloodbath. While the through genuinely free and democratic nam, Rogers replied, according to the U. S. beefs up his arsenal, Thieu is 84,000 troops to remain general elections under international Nov. 6 New York Times, "that 'ma­ stepping up the arrest, imprisonment, e Point Two: "Twenty-four hours af­ supervision. . . . jor suppliers,' such as the Soviet torture, and execution of thousands ter the signing of the agreement, a "An administrative structure called Union and China, agreed with the of South Vietnamese civilians. He is cease-fire shall be observed through­ the National Council of National Rec­ United States that the war did 'not attempting to wipe out every voice or out South Vietnam. The United States onciliation and Concord, of three serve anyone's interest', that the peo­ potential voice of opposition. As part will stop all its military activities and equal segments, will be set up to pro­ ple in Indochina had 'come to the of this campaign he has decreed that end the bombing and mining in North mote the implementation of the signed conclusion that military solution is every South Vietnamese family must Vietnam." agreements by the Provisional Revo­ not possible, that the problem should have two government flags or suffer If the U. S. were to do this it would lutionary ·Government of the Repub- be solved by political methods.'" The severe penalties. Possession of a Na­ bring badly needed relief to the Viet­ . lie of South Vietnam, and the Gov­ reference to "major suppliers" confirms tional Liberation Front flag is pun­ namese, who are suffering the worst ernment of the Republic of Vietnam other recent reports that both Mos­ ishable by death. bombing in human history. and to organize the general elec­ cow and Peking are exerting consid­ Thieu has, so far, stubbornly re­ This point continues: tions ...." erable pressure on Hanoi to make fused to endorse the nine-point pro­ "Within 60 days there will be a total Neither elections or a three-part this settlement even if it means ma­ posal. On Nov. 5, some 10,000 to withdrawal from South Vietnam of council (composed of the PRG, the jor concessions. 15,000 of his most ardent support­ troops and military personnel of the Saigon puppet regime, and "neutral­ One of the reasons Washington ers, Catholics who fled the North in United States and those of the for­ ists") would resolve the basic social doesn't want to sign the agreement 1954, rallied in Saigon to protest the eign countries allied with the United .problems that led to the struggle for right away is that it's trying to squeeze proposed terms for settlement. States and with the Republic of Viet­ independence and social justice by the more concessions from the Vietnam­ In the days just before the elections nam. The two South Vietnamese par­ Vietnamese masses. The effect of the ese. For example, the U.S. is trying in this country, Nixon has been ex­ ties shall not accept the introduction cease-fire and the nine-point proposal to convince the North Vietnamese to pressing optimism about reaching an of troops, military advisers and mil­ would be to create a situation where­ a_gree to pull some Qf their troops agreement. His theme is that he seeks itary personnel, armaments, muni­ two armies occupy South Vietnam, out of the South. "peace with honor," not "peace with tions, and war material into South each administering the areas under Vietnam." its control. It is a concession for Washington T~ese armies represent opposing so­ to agree to withdraw its remaining cial forces. The million-man army of Around-the-clock bombing 30,000 troops from South Vietnam. the U.S. puppet regime in Saigon rep­ A year ago there were no B-52 s to Vietnam. Previously it had declared this un­ resents the tiny clique of landlords, on Guam, a small island in the Another six B-52s are always acceptable. And if the U.S. actually bankers, corrupt politicians, generals, Pacific. Today there are 150, ac­ in the air from the base at Uta­ withdraws its forces it will help ease and millionaire dope peddlers. cording to a report in the Oct. 30 pao, Thailand, where 50 of the the pressure on the liberation forces. On the other side are the Vietnam­ Washington Post. giant bombers are based. It should be noted, however, that ese masses -workers, peasants, and This is the most massive con­ if the U.S. truly respected Vietnam's students. They have been fighting for centration of military striking The Post reports that "About 90 sovereignty as indicated in Point One, land reform, national independence, power ever collected on a single flights a day are being mounted it would stop the bombing and with­ and democratic rights, and against base-including missile bases-in out of these two airfields-2, 700 draw its troops immediately. It would economic exploitation. These demands history. Every day of the week flights and 135 million pounds not wait for the cease-fire or for 60 .reflect the basic needs and desires of of bombs a month, the highest 33 planes are in the air at all days following a cease-fire. the Vietnamese for a more decent life. times on their 12-hour missions levels of the long air war." Also, the nine-point draft doesn't say However, they can't be ·won within

4 Saigon Catholic appeals for political prisoners From Intercontinental Press Dear N. [There are an estimated 200,000 po­ What we are experiencing here is a litical prisoners in the jails of South nightmare. In the past six months, bring peace? Vietnam. Their ranks include not only the number of persons arrested has the framework of a capitalist Vietnam. e Point Five: "The reunification of fighters of the National Libera­ increased at a staggering rate. A num­ Much of the land is owned or con­ Vietnam shall be carried out step by tion Front, but Catholic and Buddhist ber have been deported to the island trolled by absentee landlords - big step through peaceful means." oppositionists as well. Now that every of Con Son (Poulo Condor); others bankers and businessmen who live The issue of reunification is a mat­ indication points to the fact that South are being held in the prisons and in Saigon or abroad. They will not ter for the Vietnamese to determine Vietnamese President Nguyen Van other penal institutions in Saigon or permit the peasants to assume control themselves. It has no place in an Thieu is preparing to liquidate his in the provinces. Since we have re­ over the land they farm, and they agreement in which the U.S. is a par­ opposition, their lives are in grave ceived no word from many of them, refuse to sacrifice the profits made ty. danger. we have no way of knowing if they from keeping rents high and wages This point also dodges the essen­ are living or already dead. low. tial question of whether a united Viet­ [The following is a letter from a We no longer know which saints Only a socialist government would nam would be capitalist or socialist. Catholic activist in Saigon appealing to turn to. Our only hope is to wait meet the demands of the masses. But The masses in North Vietnam will to world public opinion to prevent for international religious, humani­ the capitalist-landlords would certain­ not voluntarily and peacefully aban­ a massacre of political prisoners. The tarian, or legal bodies and movements ly not be willing to accept elections don their nationalized and planned author, a member of the Committee of our friends abroad to come to our that .could lead to a socialist South economy in order to become part of to Reform the Prison System in South rescue. As soon as possible. We are Vietnam. a united capitalist Vietnam. Vietnam, addressed it to a Vietnamese in danger. The documents and infor­ The nine-point proposal does not priest in Paris. It is dated August mation that you find attached have settle the question of whether South lnt'l control commission 20, 1972. been gathered under conditions of the Vietnam will be administered by a • Point Six: "There will be formed strictest clandestinity. In spite of the socialist or capitalist government. It a four-party joint military commis­ [The French revolutionary-socialist fact that they are incomplete, do every­ would leave instead a very unstable sion and a joint military commission weekly Rouge published the text in its thing you can to get them trans­ situation in which the struggle would of the two South Vietnamese parties. October 28 issue. The translation is lated and publicized. Thanks in ad­ break out again in some form. "An international commission of by Intercontinental Press.] vance. The proposal that the elections be control and supervision shall be es­ internationally supervised is contrary tablished. An international guarantee to the right of the Vietnamese to con­ conference on Vietnam will be con­ trol affairs ·inside their own borders vened within 30 days of the signing NLF Paris delegation without the meddling of other coun­ of this agreement." tries. Furthermore, in other situations According to a dispatch from Paris it has proved to be a way of giving in the Oct. 31 New York Times, diplo­ legitimacy to totally fraudulent elec­ ~irritated and unhappy' matic sources have revealed that this tions. Elections in the Dominican Re­ commission would include representa­ From Intercontinental Press "The accord provides only that they public in 1966 are a case in point. tives from Poland, Hungary, Canada, The National Liberation Front's 'will do their utmost' to set up a three­ and Indonesia. delegation in Paris is reportedly "ir­ part National Council of Reconcilia­ Besides the fact that none of these ritated and unhappy" with North Viet­ tion and Concord within three months countries have the right to "control" nam for dropping three key demands after a cease-fire begins." or "supervise" anything in Vietnam, in reaching a cease-fire agreement with Lewis also indicated that the NLF's there isn't anything they can do to the United States, according to a No­ concern over the perils facing politi­ prevent a breakdown in the cease­ vember 1 dispatch from New York cal prisoners in South Vietnam has fire. Times Paris correspondent Flora prompted it to step up its efforts to The Saigon puppet regime, the Pro­ Lewis. The three demands are the re­ alert world opinion about the ques­ visional Revolutionary Government of lease of political prisoners in Thieu' s tion. On November 1, for instance, South Vietnam, and North Vietnam jails, the resignation of Thieu, and its Paris delegation made public a would take part in the proposed inter­ the liquidation of Saigon's police ap­ letter smuggled out of Saigon's Chi national conference. In addition, the paratus. Hoa Prison. The letter, signed simply Soviet Union, France, the U.S., Chi­ Lewis based her report on informa­ "The Students Imprisoned at Chi Hoa na, and the four members of the cease­ tion from "American sources in close Prison, Saigon," is dated October 11, fire commission would participate. But touch with the Vietcong's delegation 1972, and was received by Vietnamese these latter countries have no more in Paris." Catholic sources in Paris. It describes right to sit down at a conference table Although the NLF, unlike Thieu, the torture of a student leader, Le in 1972 or 1973 to settle the future has made no public statements chal­ Cong Giau, said to be at the point of of Vietnam than the participants in lenging any aspect of the announced death in the prison. the 1954 Geneva conference did. draft agreement, Lewis noted, its rep­ The letter concludes: 'We beg you e Point Seven deals with Cambo­ resentatives have "repeatedly ex­ to do everything possible (alert pub­ dia and Laos. The central proposals pressed their concern for political pris­ lic opinion, take all necessary steps) here are that all foreign military ac­ oners held by the Saigon government. to bring help to our friend whose tivities in these countries cease and Many of the prisoners are people state is so critical. Otherwise Giau may that their neutrality be respected. whom the Communists would rely up­ not survive." It is not clear whether Hanoi will on to staff their administration, the The NLF statement did not mention be expected to withdraw its troops sources said, and to represent them Giau, but it reported that "more than that have been aiding the liberation in three-part councils of Communists, 10 prisoners" had to be rushed to a fighters in these two countries. If so, Saigon loyalists and neutralists en­ hospital following severe beatings by this would be a significant concession visioned in the pact." guards October-25. They had tried to to U. S. imperialism. The release of Vietnamese civilian protest against "the condition of on<> • Point Eight indicates that the U. S. prisoners is left up to negotiations of their fellow inmates.'" will help in the postwar reconstruc­ between Saigon and the NLF by the tion of the Democratic Republic of draft agreement. As a result, no time Vietnam and throughout Indochina. limit is placed on their further deten­ This is certainly the least the U. S. tion. Meanwhile, there is the very real can do after years of raining death danger that Thieu will massacre thou­ and destruction on the people of Indo­ sands of these prisoners in the blood­ china. Of course any strings Wash­ bath for which, according to every ington tries to attach to this aid should indication, he is already making prep­ be opposed. arations. e Point Nine: "This agreement shall The NLF is also reportedly con­ come into force as of its signing. It cerned over the absence of guarantees will be strictly implemented by all the in the agreement announced by Hanoi parties concerned." and presidential adviser Henry Kissin­ It should be noted here that the U. S. ger that a three-part council of rec­ government has a long record of vio­ onciliation will ever be set up. The lating such agreements, not "strictly agreement provides that both the implementing" them. NLF's apparatus and the Thieu pup­ Although the above terms for settle­ pet administration will remain in ment include concessions by the U.S., charge of the areas they control on there are significant concessions by the day the fighting stops. "That 'tem­ Hanoi. If implemented they would rep­ porary' arrangement," Lewis ob­ resent a setback to the revolutionary served, "is to last until elections can struggle. be held to form a new unified gov­ If these concessions were made be­ ernment. But there is no date fixed cause the Vietnamese liberation fight­ for elections and all further political ers feel they can't continue to fight moves are to depend on agreements PRG's Nguyen Thi Sinh: "Women and chil­ There ore 9 million refugees and other any longer, this is understandable. worked out by Saigon and the Viet­ dren ore being tortured and killed in the war victims in Vietnam. Continued on page 22 cong. Saigon jails."

THE MILITANT/NOVEMBER 17, 1972 5 In Our Opinion Letters

From a South Carolina prison has spoken out consistently for the human rights of all oppressed peo­ Before stating my reason for writ­ ple-including gay people, prisoners, Russian Revolution ing I would like to introduce my­ high school students." self. I am a victim of injustice, American style, serving 15 years in and Vietnam the state prison in South Carolina. Nov. 7 was the fifty-fifth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. I am 21 years old, a high school A New York Times report from Moscow indicates that the of­ graduate, and a Vietnam veteran. YSAers excluded from My brother in New York mailed ficial Soviet celebrations were "relatively low-key." Tyner meeting me a copy of The Militant. I was Perhaps the Kremlin did not want to use the attention focused quite surprised by the things printed On the night of Oct. 26 two mem­ on the revolution's anniversary to spoil Nixon's election day­ in your paper, things that hap­ bers -of the Young Socialist Alliance a day when more than 400 U.S. air strikes were flown over pened while I was overseas. The were thrown out of a Jarvis Tyner Vietnam-by calling for an international campaign of solidarity Militant is unknown to most Black speaking engagement at Fisk Uni­ with the Vietnamese freedom struggle. On Oct. 5, the Los Angeles people in South Carolina. The in­ versity here in Nashville. Cindy Times. quoted Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny as looking "for­ mates here don't have the money Carver and I were thrown out by ward to working with President Nixon for several more years." to obtain this paper directly. But a member of Tyner's staff who re­ fused to identify himself. "You're Since May 22, when President Nixon went to Moscow in quest· if you can mail some subscription racists. Get out of here and don't of a Soviet agreement to impose a settlement on Indochina, the blanks for the paper, I'm sure our families will help us. come back," was all he would say. bomb tonnage dropped on Vietnam every two weeks has equaled We had set up a table on the the total bombing endured by Britain during six years of World I could arrange things myself, but at the moment I'm in isolation Black liberation struggle after dis­ War II. in the maximum security building. cussing the possibility of problems Soviet complicity in the U. S. plan to impose a settlement on I am here because I am Black with two representatives of the Tim­ Vietnam is a measure of how Stalin and his heirs have aban­ and my destiny is for Black aware­ buktu Bookstore, a Black libera­ doned the internationalist heritage of the Russian Revolution. ness, among the Black people. So tion bookstore, which was also set­ In a speech on the first anniversary of the revolution, Lenin that makes me dangerous in the ting up a table. We were told there outlined how the Bolsheviks exposed the imperialist "peace plan" sight of these KKK clowns. would be no problems. Shortly after­ for World War I: Everyone is talking about McGov­ ward Jarvis Tyner and his staff en­ tered, and it was then that the Tyner "We frankly told the working people the whole truth. We ex­ ern or Nixon and the Vietnam war. official demanded that our table be posed the secret imperialist treaties, the fruits of a policy which I've spent 29 months in the Marines, 13 months in Vietnam, and have removed and that we leave. serves as a massive instrument of deception, and which in Amer­ In an open letter to the Nashville ica today, the most advanced of the bourgeois imperialist demo­ been wounded twice, but still don't know what the war is all about. Young Workers Liberation League, cratic republics, is more than ever deceiving the people and lead­ What's the purpose of Black Gis who helped to build the meeting, ing them by the nose. . . . jeopardizing and giving their lives the Nashville YSA has called upon "We exposed the secret treaties and declared, through Comrade for this·so-called America when vet­ them to state their position on such Trotsky, to all countries of the world: We appeal to you to put erans like myself come home, exper­ attempts to restrict opposing views, an end to this war in a democratic way, without annexations ienced in trades, and can't find jobs, and to act in the best tradition of and indemnities, and frankly and proudly declare the truth, a come back to their homes and face socialist democracy to avoid simi­ lar events in the future. bitter truth but the truth nevertheless, that only a revolution prejudice and injustice. Warren Duzak against the bourgeois governments can put an end to this war." A prisoner Nashville, Tenn. If a revolutionary leadership were in power in the Soviet Union South Carolina today, Nixon would not be wined and dined in the Kremlin. The Soviet government would initiate a worldwide united front of all forces opposed to U. S. war aims. The most modern weap­ Joins sub drive ons would be made available to North Vietnam and the National Buffalo Creek I would like to have 50 subscrip­ Thank you for sending a copy of Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Under these conditions the tion blanks. I can promise that these U.S. warmakers would not be able to bomb with impunity, to the article on the Buffalo Creek Mas­ blanks will be filled and that the sub­ sacre Coalition that appeared in the shell and defoliate without fear of the consequences. And under scribers will be well pleased with the Oct. 27 Militant. these conditions Nixon would not be able to impose the unjust results. · However, a rather serious error "peace" settlement currently being discussed. T.V. is contained in it. We are definitely The Russian Revolutio_n marked a turning point in human &ranton, Pa. not an arm of the Miners for De­ history. One-sixth of the world was wrenched out of capitalist mocracy, even though we support control. The existence of the first workers state remains an in­ that campaign. I have gone over our spiration to the oppressed throughout the world who are strug­ newsletter and can see no indication gling for their liberation, despite the usurpation of power by a Gay rights in it which would have led to that bureaucracy that does not represent the Soviet people. The Militant's election issue, Nov. 3, conclusion. I But the Moscow bureaucrats not only fail to help lead the deep­ 1972, has ignored the gay civil rights As we specifically point out at the end, several groups and many in­ ening world revolution forward- they stand in mortal fear of plank publicly taken by the Social- dividuals have supported our efforts it. The struggles of the Vietnamese; of liberation fighters in Africa ist Workers Party and the party's presidential candidate, Ms. Linda and worked with us, but linking us and Palestine; of the workers and students of France, Argentina, Jenness. Does this mean The Mili­ with the Miners for Democracy is Quebec, and countless other places; of Blacks, Chicanos, Puerto tant has doubts about the political neither helpful to us or them. Ricans, and students in the United States; and of fighters for expediency of endorsing civil rights Jim Mauro socialist democracy in Eastern Europe are finding their echo for America's 20 million gay men Buffalo Creek Massacre Coalition within the Soviet Union itself. and women? New York, N.Y. The Soviet people will one day throw the nationalist-minded Senator McGovern too endorsed a bureaucrats out of the Kremlin and restore to their workers state gay civil rights plank but then pub­ its original heritage of democracy and internationalism. licly denied that his office ever is­ sued any such document. It is curi­ Harvard's ties with Portugal ous how The Militant fights for the I am a recent Militant subscriber civil rights of other groups but has and would like to commend you to run for cover on this "controver­ on the quality articles you have been sial" issue now that the time has coming out with. I am writing in Loyal opposition come to stand up and be counted. regard to the article called "Harvard It is time for The Militant and tries to justify ties with Portugal," When George McGovern gave his concession speech in South other newspapers to realize that we which appears in the Oct. 27 issue. Dakota on election night, he read a telegram to President Nix­ take our rights seriously. Blacks I have been unable to get an ad­ on. It stated: "Congratulations on your victory. I hope that in or Jews or Puerto Ricans or Italians dress to write to at Harvard to get the next four years you will lead us to a time of peace abroad or American Indians do not accept a more complete picture by the stu­ and justice at home. You have my full support in such efforts. hidden endorsement, and neither do dents as to what has been going on, Best wishes to you and your gracious wife, Pat." gays. the history of the strikes, and the Half an hour earlier, at a rally in New York City, socialist Garret Ormiston actions that are planned following candidate Linda Jenness predicted, "I bet that when George New York, N.Y. Harvard's racist conclusion that McGovern gives his concession speech tonight, he is going sale of their Gulf stock would have In reply- Garret Ormiston is mis­ "no practical effect in advancing the to urge the American people to unite in support of President taken. In its statement urging a vote Nixon. I'm :n,pt going to tell you that. I'm telling the American independence of black Angolans." for the SWP candidates, the Nov. 3 As I am quite involved in political people to unite in the streets against President Nixon." Militant specifically cites as one rea­ work here in the Bay Area, and What more can we say? son the fact that the "SWP campaign would therefore like to expand radi-

6 Women In Revolt Cindy Jaquith cal consciousness on this issue, I am requesting that you send me some addresses of groups I can get in contact with. I do not know who New low for anti-abortion forces else could help me on this matter, Making the victim into the criminal is a favorite physically support herself or himself independently. and I would like to find out as trick of the anti-abortion forces. A fetus cannot- it is totally dependent on a woman soon as possible. Take for example the full-page ad signed by for its existence. Fred Lowe "Women for Life," which appeared in the Oct. 8 New Unlike fetuses, women and Blacks have thoughts, Oakland, Calif. York Times. The ad is a crude attempt to equate aspirations, and feelings. Blacks slaves, for example, supporters of women's right to abortion with those organized struggles against their slavemasters in an In reply- One group that has been who supported slavery in the nineteenth century. effort to win freedom. active in exposing Harvard Univer­ Beneath the headline, which reads "The Disposable Or take the forced comparison the ad makes between sity's complicity with repressive re­ Humans?", is a comparison between the arguments the statement "A woman has a right to do what she gimes in Africa is the Pan-African used to defend slavery and arguments (some of them wants with her own body," to the slaveowners' excuse Liberation Committee, P. 9· Box totally distorted) used to defend abortion as a basic that "A man has a right to do what he wants with 514, Brookline Village, Mass. 0214 7. right of women. his own property." Those who owned slaves did so A pamphlet entitled Gulf Oil: Portu­ The ad reads, for example: ''Why not compare by choice. But when women become pregnant against guese Ally in Angola has been pub­ today's rhetoric with that of the last century and their will, they are denied the right to exercise choice lished by the Corporate Information see whether there are any similarities?" Two of the by laws that outlaw abortion. Center, 475 Riverside Drive, New phony parallels drawn are the following: "A black The truth is that women are the victims of anti­ York, N.Y. 10027 (60 cents). Ad­ man only becomes a legal person when he is set abortion laws, just as Blacks were the victims of laws ditional information can be obtained free./ A baby only becomes a legal person when he that upheld slavery. And if you trace back the history from the American Committee on is born"; or, "Although he may have a heart and a of the fights for wom~n's liberation and for Black Africa, 164 Madison Ave., New brain, and he may be a human life biologically, liberation, the whole question becomes even clearer. York, N.Y. 10016; and the Gulf a slave is not a legal person./ Although he may Right from the start, women and Blacks were in Boycott Coalition, Box 123, D. V. have a heart and a brain, and he may be a human the forefront of the Abolitionist movement. They were Station, Dayton, Ohio 45406. life biologically, an unborn baby is not a organizing to win the freedom of slaves long before legal person." (Emphasis in original.) the Emancipation Proclamation. Apparently, the reader is supposed to conclude from Suffragists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and this that if you're for outlawing slavery and for giv­ Lucy Stone played leading roles as Abolitionists. ing Black people legal rights, then you should be They were the forerunners of the women who are Illinois straw poll for outlawing abortion and for giving fetuses legal today struggling against the anti-abortion laws, which Students at the Illinois Masonic rights. maim and kill thousands of women each year. It Medical Center School of Nursing Needless to say, there ar·e some very obvious dif­ is the women in the abortion rights movement who voted Oct. 26 and 27 in a straw ferences between fetuses and slaves. A slave can are the real "women for life." · poll. Nixon, McGovern, Jenness, and Spock were listed on the pres­ idential ballot. The results were as follows: Nixon, 56.5 percent; Mc­ Govern, 26.7 percent; Jenness, 7 per­ cent; Spock, 7 percent; no vote, 2.8 percent. It is interesting to note that Jenness J By Any Means Necessary . and Spock received a combined to­ tal of one-seventh of the vote. It shows that in this traditionally con­ I John Hawk1ns servative profession soine people are refusing to accept the lies of the GOP and Democrats. A further example of the radical Defeat for white colonialists trend in this profession is the fact The United Nations General Assembly voted Nov. 2 sisters in southern Africa. that Pat Grogan, Illinois Socialist to condemn colonialism in Africa. Such condemna­ • Coming under increasing attack for their role in Workers Party candidate for gov­ tions of colonialis'm are perennial occurrences in South Africa, U.S. business and the federal govern­ ernor, will be addressing the Stu­ the UN and are usually couched in such general ment have joined with. the government of South Af­ dent Nurses Association of Illinois. terms that even the cabal of imperialist thieves that rica in a campaign to portray that role as beneficial Paul Obis Jr. dominates that august body feel perfectly comfor­ to Africans. Part of this campaign calls for the use Chicago, fll. table with their adoption. But not so with the reso­ of Black "leaders" and "celebrities" to lend their en­ lution passed last week. dorsement to the status quo in South Africa -with Besides condemning colonialism in the abstract a few changes of course. the General Assembly recognized the "legitimacy" of Since the beginning of this year several Black "lead­ the "anticolonial armed struggle" -this at a time when ers" and "celebrities" have proved more than willing Questions about The Militant the world's imperialist powers, led by the United to lend themselves to this campaign. When Roy Wil­ I have decided finally to subscribe States, are attempting to brand all revolutionary kins of the NAACP toured South Africa investigating to The Militant. You people have fighters, especially those in their colonies, as terror­ the involvement of U.S. business in that country, been so nice in sending me sample ists. The resolution was adopted by 99 countries with he returned to report that U. S. corporations were copies of your excellent newspaper. Portugal, South Africa, Great Britain, France, and playing a progressive role there-providing higher However, I do have some ques­ the United States casting the only opposing votes. wages, job upgrading, etc. tions for you. For instance, is The According to a report in the Nov. 5 New York Eartha Kitt made a trip to South Africa and per­ Militant the official newspaper of Times, the resolution "repeated past calls for the world formed before segregated audiences. Upon her re­ the Socialist Workers Party? Does organization, its agencies and all countries to with­ turn, when interviewed on NBC's morning news pro­ it always support SWP candidates? hold all assistance from Rhodesia, Portugal and gram, Today, she voiced hope that the apartheid Also, how about an article on the South Africa, and it called on the colonial powers regime would reform itself. She cited as a sign of history of the SWP. to withdraw military installations from colonial ter­ changing times an incident in which she gained ad­ Dan Harrison ritories." mittance to a "white" amusement park for several Chappaqua, N. Y. In three separate resolutions on Africa the General Black and "coloured" children. Assembly voted to increase dissemination of litera­ In reply- The Militant is published ture on colonialism; to convene in cooperation with One "celebrity" who was saved despite himself from by The Militant Publishing Associa­ the Organization of African Unity an "international being used in this fashion is Muhammad Ali. Ali tion, not the Socialist Workers Party. conference of experts for the support of the victims recently canceled a bout with AI Jones, an Afro­ It does, however, reflect the views of southern Africa" next April; and to designate the American boxer, scheduled for Nov. 18 in South of the SWP and support SWP can­ week of May 25 (African Liberation Day) a "week Africa. Ali's cancellation came after a massive cam­ didates. of solidarity with the colonial peoples of southern paign of condemnation on the part of major Black Africa" and Guinea Bissau in their fight for "free­ newspapers across the country and organizations dom, independence and equal rights." supporting the African liberation struggles. Also noteworthy is the seating of Amilcar Cabral, Speaking to the Second International Congress of The letters column is an open forum secretary-general of the Partido Africano da Indepen­ African Peoples in September, Owusu Sadaukai com­ for all viewpoints on subjects of gen­ dencia da Guine e Cabo Verde (PAIGC -African mented, "The question in southern Africa is who will eral interest to our readers. Please Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde Is­ control. ... Who said jobs were the problem? Who keep your letters brief. Where neces­ lands) as an observer at a session of the UN Com­ said American investment was needed? Did the PAC sary they will be abridged. Please in­ mittee on Trusts and N onselfgoverning Territories. say it? Did ANC say it? Did MPLA say it? Did dicate if your name may be used or This is the first time a leader of a guerrilla movement FRELIMO say it? Who said it? Polaroid said it! if you prefer that your initials be used has been accorded such status. General Motors said it! Gulf Oil said it! instead. Such resolutions and actions on the part of the UN "And true to form, once they said it we obedient help legitimize the struggles being waged for the liber­ followers of the white man's gospel chimed in. So ation of African colonies. And skillfully used they now we have in our midst the disciples of the white can help cut through the lies, deceit, and whitewash man's new rationale for the continued control of the U.S. government uses to cover the real nature the lives of African people." of their complicity in the oppression of brothers and Luckily for Ali he avoided joining those "disciples."

THE MILITANT/NOVEMBER 17, 1972 7 • The Great Society Harry Ring

Nothing sacred-Nearly 4, 000 Cad­ Be patient- The London Sunday The grime is always greener ••• - illacs, including hearses, were recalled Times reports that the real estate op­ The major of Jersey City asked the for defective axles. Commented a erators who bought the London mayor of New York for expert guid­ UAW official: "You're not even safe Bridge and transported it to Lake ance in keeping streets clean. He said from General Motors when you're Havasu in the Arizon1i. desert are now he was impressed by New York's "sci­ dead." concerned that the clean air is eroding entific approach to cleaning streets." a half-century of tradition-laden soot A dirty joke? Housecleaning time- Syndicated col­ from the bridge and that in ten years umnist Nick Thimmesch reports on it will be looking bright and shiny. current antibureaucratic jokes in Po­ What with the giant power generator For the decision-makers - A New land, including the one about Soviet system going up in nearby New Mex­ York jeweler was offering a novelty science bringing Lenin back to life. ico, we don't think it's much of a gold coin engraved "head" on one After hearing a state-of-the-nation re­ problem. port from the Politburo, Lenin says side, "tail" on the other. The theory he will rest overnight and then make apparently being that those who can afford the $65 price tag can also af­ an important announcement. The next Who?- A New Jersey pollster reported ford to use it at the polls. morning he advises: "I have reviewed that Paul Krebs, Democratic U. S. sen­ our situation, and I've decided to go atorial nominee, has a public recog­ back to Switzerland and start the nition level so low as to defy com- · whole damned thing over again." puter analysis. Only 5 percent of those Better than gold- The FBI is probing queried correctly identified the aspi­ the theft of more than 77,000 rounds Spreading the benefits- The Times of "The mining companies say it"s only rant. Incumbent Clifford Case, who of ammo from Ft. Knox. Members India reported 26,000 carved rose­ right they pay no income lax--due has served the people for four terms, of the nearby Louisville police de­ to the high risks they assume.,.:· wood elephants had been sold to Re­ was identified by 19 percent of those partment seem to have been the prin­ publican campaign workers. polled. cipal recipients.

National Picket Line Marvel Scholl Rail workers cheated on pension Recent happenings in the U.S. Congress relative on the lines would drop from the present 600,000 road unions are now backing the U. S. commis­ to the railroad industry and some tragic accidents workers to 200,000 by the year 2000. The UTU sion's proposals-with no mention of Chesser's on the railroads draw attention to this very sick [United Transportation Union] News for Sept. 16 ton-mile freight tax. Chesser is not only the presi­ industry, which has long suffered from a bad reports that this dire prediction contradicts another dent of the two-year-old AFL-CIO United Trans­ case of mismanagement by profit-hungry "free section of the same report, which emphasized that portation Union (an amalgamation of four former enterprise." the Retirement System's reserve, now more than Brotherhoods). He is also chairman of the Con­ The rapidity and decisiveness with which both $5-billion, has continuously increased. Moreover, gress of Railway Unions -the 21 unions that ap­ houses of Congress overrode President Nixon's the figures show that the drop of rail jobs over proved the commission's two-tier plan. veto of a 20 percent increase in pensions for rail­ the past few years has leveled off. There are only 600,000 railroaders left on the road workers must have surprised him. The House The commission proposes that railroad workers' job today- automation, corporation mergers, and rejected the veto by a vote of 353 to 29, the Sen­ pensions b.e two-tiered- the first tier, regular So­ bankruptcies having reduced the total work force ate, by 76 to 5. After all, this is election yea~. cial Security; the second tier, supplementary pen­ to about one-third of what it once was. More than Nixon motivated his veto in this way: the 20 sions paid out of the present Railroad Retirement a million retired workers are drawing pensions percent increase in railroad pensions would "jeop­ System. from the Railroad Retirement System. ardize the fiscal integrity of the Railroad Retire­ President AI Chesser of the United Transpor­ During the past decade of rapid deterioration ment System and hasten its bankruptcy ... " be­ tation Union announced a counterplan at a meet­ of the industry and attrition of the work force the cause the bill does not contain any provisions for ing of the union's Association of General Chairmen bureaucrats at the head of the unions have buckled financing the raise. He wanted a railroad pen­ and legislative directors jn Las Vegas recently. under on every important issue- the latest last sion increase on a dollar-for-dollar, not percent­ While Chesser approved the two-tier pension summer when they gave in on a three-year rank­ age, basis to match the recently enacted 20 per­ plan, he proposed further that tier-one benefits and-file fight to keep the lines from phasing out cent increase in Social Security pensions. be tied to Social Security, with the total railroad firemen on diesel locomotives. The Railroad Retirement System costs railroad retirement tax paid by both the workers and the Under this agreement the 18,000 firemen cur­ employees about double what Social Security costs corporations reduced to match the lower tax for rently working will be retained in their jobs, ad­ other workers -9.5 percent per month on the first Social Security. vancing to engineers as these latter die or retire. $9,000 gross earnings, or nearly $7 5 every month. He proposed that tier-two supplementary pen­ Certain others among the already furloughed The rail employers are supposed to match this sion benefits be paid by a ton-mile tax on all 18,000 firemen can return to their jobs if they sum. freight shipments. want to. The only trains upon which it will be Recently a five-man U. S. Commission on Rail­ All this happened during August and September. obligatory to carry both an engineer and a fire­ road Retirement reported that the Retirement Fund On Oct. 21 a New York Times report from Wash­ man are passenger carriers. That's to protect would go broke within 13 years, that employment ington, D. C., said that all 21 of the nation's rail- against an engineer dying at the throttle!

The American Way of Life David James Con Ed's freeze-out New York winters aren't the coldest in the world. the heat. It recently announced that . three of its electronic devices, that has harnessed the atom and But they are plenty cold. The temperature some­ major generators have to be taken out of service sent men to the moon. Yet it can't produce enough times drops below zero, and rain turns to ice at the same time. The result will be a shortage electricity for our needs when it gets too hot or too and snow. This condition wouldn't be so miserable of steam for office and apartment buildings. cold. if the apartments were warm. But on far too many Mayor Lindsay has ordered a special investi­ While Con Edison keeps raising its rates we mornings, usually the coldest, hundreds of thou­ gation. He says he wants to "have all the facts get less and less service. And to top it all off the sands of tenants wake up without heat. The winds in hand and plan corrective steps immediately in company refuses to stop pouring tons of poisonous may even leave a small snowdrift on the window­ order to avoid any undue hardships for the public." chemicals and soot into the air. sill. Why? The city's landlords turn down the therm­ Few people expect much to come of this. Not only do the capitalist rulers steal from work­ ostats to save a few bucks. Electric power shortages aren't a new thing in ing people to make themselves richer. They can't It doesn't make any difference to them that your the city. They've been occuring nearly every sum­ even provide the day-to-day necessities of life in child has pneumonia or that you have arthritis. mer for the past few years when one or another a highly industrialized society. They are incapable They aren't concerned that you may not enjoy of Con Ed's generators fails. Then it orders a of managing this society. And things are getting changing your clothes in front of the oven or cutback in power or "brownout'' as they have come worse. shaving in cold water. For them profits come to be called. Meanwhile, the city administration The capitalist owners of Con Ed should be turned ·before health and comfort. does nothing. out to pasture and this giant utility placed under This winter promises to be even worse. Consoli­ This year, however, is the first time a shortage workers control. Only then will priority be given dated Edison, New York'selectric-powermonopoly, is expected in the winter. to providing enough electric power-and without has given landlords a green light to turn down We live in a society that produces undreamed-of pollution.

8 Jenness on election nig~ Socialist campaign ~a tremendous victory' By PEGGY BR UNDY and their Navy brass at Quonset massive youth organization of revo­ NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 8 -At an Point. We have forced open the doors lutionary socialists and a massive election night rally here, Linda Jen­ to some of their prisons, and we have revolutionary socialist party." He ness and 300 New York supporters emerged from this campaign stronger, urged his young supporters to join of the Socialist Workers Party ticket more confident, better organized, and the Young Socialist Alliance and to wound up 15 months of intensive cam­ better equipped to continue the strug­ attend the YSA convention in Cleve­ paigning. gle. And that is a tremendous victory." land, Nov. 23-26. At 11 p.m., Jenness, the SWP pres­ Following Jenness's speech, the tele­ More than 300 New York campaign idential candidate, simultaneously ad­ phone hookup broadcast a speech by supporters heard Jenness speak at a dressed her campaign supporters at Andrew Pulley, the SWP vice-presiden­ Manhattan rally at Hunter College election rallies in 17 different cities tial candidate. He was speaking from on Nov. 4. One of the other speakers via a national telephone hookup. the Americania Hotel in San Francis­ on the platform was Jane Tam, a "We didn't win this election," she co, where campaign supporters held Chinese member of the school board said. "The people who won this elec­ an election night rally. in New York's District One. tion are the Rockefellers, the Morgans, Pulley reminded the audiences in 17 Tam outlined the history of the General Motors, and Con Edisons of cities that the press calls the SWP a struggle of Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and this country. "minor" party, while it calls the Demo­ Chinese in that district jor representa­ "But those who lost this election are crats and Republicans the "major" tion on the school board. "We are very not just the supporters of the Social­ parties. "I've rejected that notion," he proud to say that we are the only ist Workers Party.... Those who said. "It is not true that we represent school board out of 31 in New York will suffer from the results of this elec­ the interests of a minority. Quite the with a majority of minorities on the tion are the working people of this contrary. We represent the interests local school board," Tam said. country; the oppressed in this society; of the overwhelming majority of the Jenness, she continued, "is the only the victims of capitalist injustice, in­ people." presidential candidate who put out a equality, racism, and sexism.... While the Democrats and Republi­ pamphlet for the poor people. I hope Jane Tom Militant/Mark Satinoff "But we have given Nixon and cans might receive a majority of the that an· the people here come out to McGovern a run-for their money.... vote, he continued, "they represent def­ vote and work for Pulley and Jenness." We have debated their representatives, initely the interests of a minority. So The next speaker was Mary Vasi­ the SWP and the People's Party, Jen­ and we have certainly never lost a they are the minority parties, not the liades, a member .of the National Or­ ness said, was in their understandings debate. We have taken them to court, Socialist Workers Party." ganization for Women, the Manhat­ of the class structure in society. The and we have an enviable batting av­ The work of the socialist campaign tan Women's Political Caucus, and SWP believes there are two decisive erage in the courts. We have beaten will not end now that the election is a writer for Majority Repor~ a New classes in this country: the ruling, cap­ back their Army brass at Fort Dix over, Pulley said. "We must build a York feminist newspaper. A Chisholm italist class, consisting of about 2 per­ delegate to the Democratic Party con­ cent of the population, and the work­ vention, Vasiliades urged feminists to ing class. The SWP. believes that the vote Socialist vote for Jenness. working class, a vast majority, should Paul Massas, student body president own and control the resources of this Worl-\ers i ,.. 7 2 of Brooklyn College, also spoke. He country. announced that the Third World Fed­ While the SWP proposes a demo­ eration at his school endorsed the Jen­ cratically planned economy utilizing ness-P~lley ticket. technology's achievements, Jenness On Nov. 6 at New York Univer­ said, the People's Party proposes sity in Manhattan, Jenness debated breaking up big industries into com­ Dr. Benjamin Spock, presidential can­ munity factories. "That is not a new didate of the People's Party, before idea," she pointed out. "That is what an audience of 100. is known as utopian socialism, and Jenness began her remarks by it would be a step backward." noting that "the SWP is particularly Dr. Spock began his rebuttal by grateful to Ben Spock for not having saying that his remarks represented been afraid or backing off from stand­ the position of the People's Party, not ing up with the socialists during this necessarily his own. "At the conven­ campaign. Dr. Spock and I have had tions," he said, "when discussion of several joint suits demanding the cam­ the platform begins in earnest, I'm paign rights of third parties during always being yanked out to talk to this campaign." the press. So they're not my ideas, Lindo Jenness addressing New York election night rally Militant/Mark Satinoff One important difference between Continued on page 22

Pulley condemns phony ~peace' proposal By DERRICK MORRISON tion in the nationwide antiwar demon­ chairman of the speaker's bureau of the political system in the U.S. is the SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6 -Andrew strations planned for Nov. 18. Pulley the local McGovern campaign. best of all possible alternatives. He Pulley, the Socialist Workers Party also blasted McGovern's retreats on Castro admitted to the moderator received a cool reception from the au­ candidate for vice-president, cam­ the issues of the war and women's that he was used to debating Repub­ dience. paigned on the West Coast this week, rights, and his vicious slander of the licans and thus appearing as an op­ Pulley spoke in defense of the right denouncing Nixon's attempt to impose Raza Unida parties. McGovern recent­ ponent of the establishment. But at this of women to abortion and pointed out a settlement on the Vietnamese libera­ ly accused the independent Chicano debate he thought he was sure to be that the demand of "Out Now!" is the tion forces. He told people that a vote parties of receiving funds from the cast as a supporter of the status quo. only demand consistent with the right for the socialist alternative is a vote Republican Party in return for not And defend the status quo he did, of the Vietnamese people to self-deter­ for the U. S. to get out of Southeast supporting the Democratic ticket. apologizing for McGovern's back­ mination. He scored Nixon's phony Asia now. On Nov. 4, Pulley addressed more tracking on women's rights and other peace plan, which McGovern has en­ Today Pulley held a news conference than 200 supporters at a Bay Area issues, and repeatedly claiming that dorsed. here and then spoke to more than 100 banquet in Oakland. He had just re­ students at an outdoor rally at San turned from a campaign rally at Fort Francisco State College. He called for Dix, N.J. The right to hold such a r a socialist vote and urged participa- rally, won in a lower court, was up­ Matching Fund over the top held by the U. S. Supreme Court. (See By SYD STAPLETON at 25 of the rallies and banquets story, p. 11.) NOV. 7- The 10-week drive to at which Linda Jenness and An­ The Bay Area rally was chaired by raise $40,000 for the Jenness-Pul­ drew Pulley spoke during the fall. Susan Vass, the SWP candidate in ley campaign was successfully In addition to the contributions California's 5th C. D. George Novack completed today. The drive began made at these rallies, more than and Harry Ring also spoke. Novack in August when several campaign 240 people sent donations directly is a noted Marxist scholar and a na­ supporters offered to pool their to the national campaign office. tional speaker for the SWP campaign. resources- and match all contribu­ These donations, which averaged Ring heads the Southwest Bureau of tions up to $20,000. $17 and totaled $4,282.38, came The Militant. Supporters contributed The Matching Fund drive got from a broad range of campaign more than $1,000 at the affair. off to a running start with the supporters, including a group of Before flying to the Bay Area, Pul­ Socialist Workers national cam­ Gis in Korea and a person at ley toured San Diego. There he ap­ paign rally held in Cleveland Aug. a conscientious objectors work peared on two TV programs and ad~ 18. Contributions and pledges to camp in Northern Idaho. dressed audiences at the University the Socialist Workers campaign at The total donations to the of California and at La Jolla High that rally totaled $10,007.36. Matching Fund amounted to ····~:~.~. ~*II School. ... Another major part of the more $20,797.94. With the $20,000 in Militant/Derrick Morrison At San Diego State College nearly than $20,000 in donations raised matching funds, the total raised Andrew Pulley speoki ng at University of 100 students came to a debate between "' came from the collections taken thus comes to $40,797.94. Oregon in Eugene. Pulley and Richard Castro, the vice-

THE MILITANT/NOVEMBER 71, 1972 9 LafferW. confronts Hicks on TV Socialist Brooke challenged to debate candidate by SWP senatorial candidate speaks at By CAROL HENDERSON EVANS a very feeble excuse. You know as well ed her three opponents in a half-hour BOSTON, Oct. 27 -"Brooke-Why as I do that there is no better way ... WBZ-TV debate Oct. 24. Her op­ Cleveland Are You Afraid to Debate Gurewitz?" to bring the differences between candi­ ponents are Louise Day Hicks, the "Brooke Is Dodging the Issues-De­ dates into sharper focus .... You well-known racist Democrat; Joseph bate Gurewitz." With signs bearing made these very points yourself when Moakley, a Democrat who ran as an these and other statements, about 20 you were running against Mr. [Endi­ "independenf' to avoid losing to Hicks City Club campaign supporters joined Socialist cott] Peabody and demanding that he in the primaries; and Howard Miller, CLEVELAND-Ohio Socialist Work­ Workers Party candidate for U.S. Sen­ debate you .... Your refusal to de­ a Republican. ers Party congressional candidate ate, Don Gurewitz, in a picket line in bate now makes clear how hypocrit­ The moderator, a columnist from Herman Kirsch confronted his three front of Republican Senator Edward ical your 'concern' for democratic dia­ the Christian Science Monitor, ad­ opponents in the 20th C. D. in a de­ Brooke's campaign office here Oct. 26. logue really is." dressed questions to each candidate. bate sponsored by the Cleveland City Two Boston TV stations have of­ The candidates were also allowed to Club on Oct. 13. fered Gurewitz, Brooke, and John That same night, a local television ask each other questions. Lafferty ad­ The Cleveland Plain Dealer ran an Droney, the Democratic Party candi­ program covering the Senate race dressed her question to Hicks, asking article on the debate the next day, date for U. S. Senate, prime time for noted the extensive financial backing for her position on repealing all anti­ noting that "American Independent a debate. Brooke has refused this for­ ·of Brooke's campaign, and described abortion laws. party candidate Richard B. Kay ex­ mat, recommending instead that each Gurewitz's campaign as consisting of Hicks answered that she was op­ pressed chagrin at finding himself in candidate be given an equal amount "nickles and dimes and a dynamic posed to abortion law repeal, that agreement with [Democratic incumbent of time simply to state his position. speaking style," and as "pursuing the it was a "state matter," but that even James] Stanton on something." Both While the picket line continued out­ issues, such as the war." on the state level, she opposed repeal. candidates said they were unalterably side, Gurewitz and SWP Campaign On Oct. 26 Gurewitz also partici­ A question on busing, a major issue opposed to repeal of Ohio's anti-abor­ Coordinator John Powers, who is the pated in a candidate's night sponsored in Boston, brought out the racism tion law. SWP candidate in the 8th C. D., went by the League of Women Voters in of the Democratic and Republican Republican candidate Thomas Vilt inside to deliver an open letter from Lexington, Mass. Governor Francis parties. Hicks formerly headed the took a position on abortion that was Gurewitz toBrooke. They were accom­ Sargent made an unscheduled appear­ Boston School Committee, which scarcely different from Stanton's and panied by a camera crew from WBZ­ ance at the meeting to give what he maintains one of the most segregated Kay's. He said he thought abortion TV. Unable to speak with Brooke, termed a "nonpartisan" address to the school systems in the North. During should be "a matter between the doc­ Gurewitz talked to hiscampaignmana­ audience-by urging support for Nix­ the debate, she flatly opposed busing tors and the church," leaving the preg­ ger, Carolyn Stuart, who told him, on. in any form. nant woman's right to decide out of the "the senator would prefer to answer Moakley, who is characterizing him­ question altogether. [your letter] himself, with a letter." self as the "liberal" in opposition to Kirsch was the only candidate who In his open letter Gurewitz told By YIPPER FITZGERALD Hicks, said he favored busing, but. gave unconditional support to wom­ Brooke, "Your comment about tele­ Jeanne Lafferty, Massachusetts SWP only within school districts. ( School en's right to abortion. vision debates not being productive is candidate in the 9th C. D., confront- districts in Boston, under the direc­ The Plain Dealer said, "Kirsch at­ tion of people like Hicks, have been tacked the control of the election pro­ carefully drawn to keep Blacks out cess by the two major parties and of the better quality schools.) Miller's what he called 'the Tweedle Dum and position thus amounted to making no Tweedle Dee political mentality . . .. '" change in the institutionalized racism SWP campaign supporters in Ohio in Boston's schools. have been active in the fight to gain Lafferty responded that the decision ballot status for Linda Jenness, the on busing belongs with the Black com­ SWP presidential candidate. She was munity. She called for massive gov­ ruled off the Ohio ballot by Secretary ernment funding under the democratic of State Ted Brown because she is control of the Black community in "too young" to serve if elected. order for Blacks to be able to recon­ Kirsch is running as a write-in can­ struct their community, including the didate, as is Robbie Scheer, the SWP schools, as they choose. candidate in the 23rd C. D. Two SWP candidates are on the Ohio ballot­ Cecil Lampkin (21st C. D.) and Caryl Following the broadcast of the de­ Loeb (22nd C. D.). bate, several people called the SWP Kirsch has filed suit in the State headquarters to get involved in the Supreme Court protesting the unrea­ socialist campaign. sonably short time allowed for small­ Lafferty was scheduled for another Militant/Carol Henderson Evans er parties to collect signatures on SWP senatorial candidate Don Gurewitz (I) and campaign supporters picket office of debate with her opponents on Pub­ nominating petitions. His suit received Senator Edward Brooke demanding debate. lic Broadcast TV, WGBH, on Nov. 1. an unfavorable ruling in a lower court. The three other Ohio SWP candi­ Scores Koch on war, abortion, schools dates have also debated their oppo­ nents at the Cleveland City Club this fall. Ohio campaign supporters are now concentrating their efforts on pub­ Finch debates N.Y. opponents licizing the Young Socialist Alliance national convention, to take place in By SARA GATES Finch expressed her solidarity with his support for community control and Cleveland Nov. 23-26. NEW YORK, Nov. 3-Before an the movement for a woman's right to for bilingual and bicultural education. audience of more than 175 people, abortion by supporting the Abortion Refusing to defend the local school Rebecca Finch, Socialist Workers Rights Act of 1972, now pending in board or Fuentes, Koch repeated his Party candidate for Congress in New Congress, and urged all the other can­ empty formula that he supports "com­ York's 18th C. D., met the Democratic didates to do so. Koch, although pur­ munity participation, not control." To incumbent, Edward Koch, in a debate porting to be for the repeal of anti­ justify his position, he said that just last night. Also included in the debate abortion laws, said it was up to the as he did not support the right were the candidates of the Tenants and states to decide. of whites to exclude Blacks from Free Libertarian parties. The Republi­ Finch pointed out that the "state's their schools, so he could not support can candidate was invited but did not rights" excuse was used by Southern community control in the communities attend. states to sanction slavery and segre­ of oppressed nationalities. Finch called en Koch to support gation. She posed the question in the Finch replied that this position is an the Nov. 18 antiwar demonstrations concrete: "Will you fight for the princi­ apology for the racist status quo in called by the National Peace Action ple of a woman's right to choose? which whites control not only the Coalition and the Student Mobiliza­ The bill is in Congress now. What are schools in their own neighborhoods tion Committee. She stated, "The war you going to do? Are you going to be but in the Black, Puerto Rican, and would end tomorrow if politicians like for or against it?" Koch refused to Chinese neighborhoods as well. George McGovern and Ed Koch sup­ answer the question directly. She pointed out that to break the ported and helped build antiwar Finch pointed out how she has used pattern of racism in communities like demonstrations instead of telling her campaign to defend the com­ District One, the people in these com­ people to get out of those demonstra­ munity school board in its attempt to munities must decide who will be tions and into supporting their election win control over the District One teachers and principals and what will campaigns." schools. She noted in particular her be taught in the schools. She called Koch refused, and said, "What I'm defense of Luis Fuentes, the school for an immediate restoration of the 5 doing to try to end that war is elect superintendent in District One. Fuentes percent cutback in the city's education Madison Geddes Senator McGovern, and that's where has faced slanderous attacks aimed at budget and for a crash program of Herman Kirsch my efforts lie." removing him from office because of funding for the schools.

10 Fort Dix rail¥ a historic first Socialists campaign on U.S. military base By LARRY SEIGLE did so in civilian clothes. A number G Is United Against the War had faced. Black Gis and Chicanos and Puerto FORT DIX, N.J., Nov. 4-For the of others sat in cars parked away "I was court-martialed once for al­ Ricans have died in this war in dis­ first time in U. S. history, a socialist from the rally but within earshot of legedly refusing a direct order to go proportionate numbers. When they election campaign rally has been held the sound system. Others, who ap­ to bed." have come back home as veterans, on an Army base. The rally took proached the rally itself, did so cau­ "When you become a serviceman," they are forced to join the ranks of place here today after the U.S. Su­ tiously, staying on the outskirts of the Pulley said, "you don't lose your cit­ the unemployed. More than 25 per­ preme Court rejected, by a 5-to-4 vote, crowd and away from the cameras. izenship. In fact, one of the things cent of all Black veterans are unem­ an eleventh-hour appeal by the U.S. Although the sky was overcast and they told me when I was inducted ployed." solicitor general for a stay of the court the air cold and damp, the crowd was that the first priority, the first Pulley called on the Gis to reject of appeals ruling that cleared the way was enthusiastic. Not a single person order, was to defend the U. S. Con­ the promises of the Democrats and for the rally. left the rally before it was over. Many stitution against all aggressors, for­ Republicans, pointing out that both Gis sported "Vote SWP" buttons and eign and domestic. parties were responsible for the Viet­ Speaking at the rally were Linda dozens held SWP campaign posters. "So I looked around, trying to see nam war. Jenness and Andrew Pulley, candi­ In his speech Andrew Pulley related who were the foreign aggressors at­ Linda Jenness followed Pulley. "This dates for president and vice-president his own experiences as a GI: "The tacking the Constitution.... I could rally represents a tremendous victory on the Socialist Workers Party ticket, case that developed at Fort Jackson not see how the Vietnamese were do­ for the American GI," she began. "It and Dr. Benjamin Spock, presidential [S.C.] developed around the rights of ing that. also represents a tremendous victory candidate of the People's Party. Ap­ Gis to speak out, around the rights "The only people I could see who for free speech in this country. proximately two hundred people at­ of Black Gis to struggle against ra­ were actually violating the Constitu­ "You know, the Army brass thinks tended the rally, half of them active­ cial oppression, and around the rights tion, attacking the Gis' rights, was that when they draft you into the Ar­ duty Gis. of all Gis to organize against the the military apparatus itself, and the my, they control your mind as well In addition to the candidates, singer war. U. S. government. And we were le- as everything else about you. But I say 'No!' I know that the American Gis are standing up and saying 'No!' And the U.S. Constitution says 'No!'" Jenness talked about the war in Southeast Asia. "It is criminal and it's inhumane that one more GI be sacrificed for General Thieu and his clique! And it's criminal that one more American G I be sacrificed to protect the profits of American businessmen and bankers who are making billions of dollars off of this war!" Jenness urged the Gis to participate , in antiwar demonstrations scheduled for Nov. 18. "I've also heard since I've been here," she continued, "that there is a rumor going around this base that some of the units here are· being pre­ pared to be sent to the Middle East. I doubt very much if there are many Gis who look forward· to being sta­ tioned in the Mideast. "The Zionist government of Israel does not have the right to build a so-called homeland on the backs of two million Palestinian refugees. . .. Militant/Michael Smith "Whether Nixon gets elected or Mc­ On platform at Fort Dix rally are (I to r) Dr. Benjamin Spock, Carl Rogers of the People's Party, folksinger Judy Collins, An­ Govern gets elected, you're still going drew Pulley, and linda Jenness. to be drafted, and you're still going to be sent off to fight to protect some­ Judy Collins appeared at the rally. "And we were busted for that, fol­ gaily correct in defending our rights!" body else's bankroll and to protect Don Gurewitz, SWP senatorial candi­ lowing a meeting on the base. The Pulley told the rally of his campaign the profits of the American ruling date from Massachusetts, and Carl Army called it a rally, a demonstra­ visit to U.S. Army bases in West Ger­ class. Rogers, representing the People's Par­ tion. We called it a meeting. ·I was many, where he discussed with Gis "If you want to cast your vote on ty, chaired the meeting. taken to the stockade along with seven the struggle for Black liberation and the side of the Vietnamese liberation Leaflets advertising the "antiwar other Gis who were victimized for the fight against the war in Vietnam. fighters and on the side of self-deter­ campaign rally" were circulated on that." "When Black Gis find themselves in mination for Vietnam, if you want base last week. The response to the Pulley told the crowd, "In the Army, the Armed Forces, the racial oppres­ your vote to be counted on the side leafletters was overwhelmingly enthu­ you are going to be harassed whether sion just becomes exacerbated. Dis­ of the antiwar movement, and if you siastic. "Antiwar! Right on!" was re­ you are political or not. Only if you crimination goes on constantly. The want your vote to be counted against peated by many Gis as they were are political, you will be harassed racism in the Army is just more ob­ this system, then you should pull the handed the leaflets. a little bit more." vious than it is in the rest of society. lever for the Socialist Workers Party," Many Gis expressed fears that they Pulley told the Gis of the harass­ "And yet we are asked to fight for she concluded. "That's what we stand would be harassed if they attended ment he and other Gis at Fort Jack­ what is called democracy by the ones for, and that's what we've been fight­ the rally. Many of those who attended son who organized a group called who control and run this country. ing for all over this country." Socialist confronts Ron Dellums in debate By JOHN VOTAVA people, Blacks, and women have all ments favoring arms to Israel, main­ OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 6 -During won gains by working independently tenance of the Zionist state, and his the final week of the race in Califor­ of the Democratic and Republican par­ hypocritical refusal to condemn the nia's 7th C. D., incumbent Democrat ties. Israeli bombing of Palestinian villages Ron Dellums was publicly confronted He pointed out that the first civil and camps. twice by Ken Miliner, the Socialist rights bill was passed by a conser­ Workers Party candidate in that dis­ vative Congress and signed by a rac­ Hannaford, who has concentrated trict. ist president. What was decisive in in his campaign on accusing Dellums The first of the two encounters came this case was the existence :of a mass, of being pro-Arab and on personal Oct. 29 at the Jewish Community Cen­ independent Black movement, not the attacks, told the audience that the real ter, where Dellums and his Republican composition of Congress. issue in the 7th C. D. was the fact opponent Peter Hannaford had been The response to Miliner' s remarks that "people are tired of militancy and invited to speak. Although originally was quite good, forcing Dellums to radicalism and the politics of confron­ not invited, Miliner requested and re­ admit that "Many of the things Mr. tation." ceived five minutes to explain his cam­ Miliner says are correct." The Democratic and Republican paign right before the summations by The Nov. 2 meeting, attended by parties, Miliner told the audience, the other two candidates. 150 people, was sponsored by anum­ "have been running this country for Miliner noted that Dellums' s party ber of churches in North Qakland. the last 100 years and that is why and its presidential candidate, George All during the meeting, Dellums pre­ we have the problems we have to­ SWP candidate Ken Miliner (I) and incum­ McGovern, oppose many of the things sented himself as the defender of the day.... If you want to change this bent Democrat Ron Dellums at debate Dellums says he is for. In addition, oppressed. Significant exceptions to society you can't rely on anyone but between 7th C.D. candidates in Oakland, Miliner explained how working this, however, were his bellicose state- yourselves;" Calif., Nov. 2.

THE MILITANT/NOVEMBER 17, 1972 500 Indian protesters occupy gov't office By CALVIN GODDARD "The violence was caused by that could lead to the forceful eviction pressure. and ERNEST HARSCH the cops," Vernon Bellecourt said. "We of the Native Americans. Indian lead­ They also demanded that Indian WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8- came here in peace." Bellecourt is a ers once again expressed their deter­ rights to minerals, water, and land Agreement was reached today between leader of the American Indian Move­ mination to remain until their be recognized; that urban and land­ leaders of the Indian protest occupa­ ment (AIM), the main organizer of demands are met. less Indians be given proper ser­ tion of government offices here and the Trail of Broken Treaties Cara­ Coming from reservations and ur­ vices entitled to them the same as U.S. officials. Details of the agreement vans. ban slums across the country, the Na­ treaty Indians; that the BIA be abol­ · have not yet been announced, Late Friday night, Nov. 3, U.S. tive Americans demanded justice for ished and replaced by a new structure although Indian leaders have indica­ marshals served the Indians with a controlled by Indians; and that funds ted that some of their demands have court order to leave the building while for health, housing, employment, eco­ been won. The government has so far 200 riot cops waited nearby. "You nomic development, and education be agreed to form an interagency task have no right to issue an order to increased. force to hear grievances and pro­ Indian people on Indian land," replied In an interview last week, John Tru­ posals from the Indians. AIM leader Dennis Banks, speaking dell, ~one of the leaders of the 1970 Most of the Native Americans have for the Indians who had taken up occupation of Alcatraz, said: "It begun to go back to their homes positions in and around the building. doesn't make any difference whether across the country. As they left, they ''We will die here if we have to," Banks they call themselves Republicans or confiscated secret files and memo­ said, expressing the determination of Democrats-the same people have randums that outline deals between the occupiers. "There must be no more been screwing us for 400 years. It's the Bureau of Indian Affairs and cor­ Wounded Knees, Vietnams, or Kent the whole system!" porations to cheat Indians out of their States. U. S. troops massacred some The main problem facing Indians, land, mineral, and water rights. 300 Indians, mostly women and child­ Trudell continued, "is that we have no Russell Means, a coordinator of the ren, at Wounded Knee in 1890. The control over our lives. The govern­ American Indian Movement (AIM), country must take a new direction pro­ ment appropriates funds all right, but said the documents would be evalu­ viding maximum self-determination they decide what to do with them. ated and made public. for all people," Banks said. They run the bureau, not us. If we The following article was writ­ About 150 non-Indian supporters controlled our own affairs, we might ten during the occupation of the Bu­ of the protest linked arms to form a make a few mistakes as we went a­ reau of Indian Affairs offices. line between the building and a pos­ long, but that would be a thousand sible police attack. But the authori­ times better than to be systematically ties recoiled from a forceful eviction oppressed by the white businessmen." WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 6-Na­ in the face of the militancy of the Dennis Banks, national director of tive Americans from 250 tribes whose Native Americans and the solidarity AIM, says: "The next 200 years are Trail of Broken Treaties Caravans shown by non-Indians. not going to be like the last 200. We converged on the capital Oct. 30 con­ Negotiations continue with govern­ are going to fight for our rights, and tinued today to occupy the offices of ment officials in the BIA, Justice De­ we're going to run our own schools, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), partment, and the White House. The our own institutions, and we're not which they have renamed the Native immediate demands of the Indians in­ going to fight in any more illegal American Embassy. Since Nov. 2 cluded decent housing for the rest of wars!" more than 500 Native Americans their stay, originally set to end today, have held the federal office building but now scheduled at least through housing the BIA, a symbol of cen­ Nov. 12; the removal of several of­ By ROBIN DAVID turies of oppression. ficials; and the right to conduct me­ SEATTLE, Nov. 7 -Native Ameri­ Approximately 1,800 Native Ameri­ morial services in Arlington Nation­ cans took over the Bureau of Indian cans have come to the seat of their al Ceremony. Affairs (BIA) office here yesterday af­ government overseers to demand self­ An appeals court on Nov. 5 over­ ternoon. The number of demonstra­ determination and to protest U. S. vio­ turned an Army Department ruling the 800,000 Indians in the U.S., sur­ tors grew to as many as 100 during lation of 387 unequal treaties imposed against the Indians' use of the ceme­ vivors of centuries of white oppression the night. on them. tery, where they sought to honor two and genocide. The peaceful occupation is in sup­ The occupation was touched off of their people. One of them, Ira A document outlining their demands port of the Trail of Broken Treaties Nov. 2 at 5 p.m. by an unprovoked Hayes, was a hero of the landing said: "The governmental agencies are takeover of the BIA headquarters in police attack on a group of Native on Iwo Jima during World War II. the prime offenders in the total ne­ Washington, D. C. In addition, dem­ Americans inside the BIA offices. Beat­ The Army claimed such memorial glect of Indian people." The Indians onstrators here have raised demands ings by the cops gave head injuries services would be "political." demanded, among other things, that for tribal control of fishery manage­ to four Native Americans. The police Early this morning, after the Indi­ the U. S. fulfill all treaty obligations ment and for investigations by Indi­ were then driven off and the doors ans had rejected the Interior Depart­ with U.S. tribes; that a treaty com­ ans of those Native Americans jailed barricaded by Native Americans who ment's offer of facilities other than mission be established to negotiate "for refusal to fight in a war which had been negotiating with BIA offi­ the BIA, the government indicated that new treaties, since those of the past is not of our making and one which cials. it would begin contempt proceedings were unjust and made under military we don't believe in." Commission blasts Hanrahan's acquittal By PETER SEIDMAN jectives (to obtain Panther weapons), A federal grand jury showed that the Chicago NAACP raised "serious An independent Commission of In­ was conceived and planned as a in the course of the raid police fired questions about the integrity of the quiry into the Black Panthers and search and destroy mission aimed at at least 99 shots into the apartment, judge, who .made a political rather Law Enforcement has attacked the the leaders of the Illinois chapter of and only one shot was fired by the than a judicial decision." Oct. 25 court decision declaring Cook the Black Panther party." Panthers. Throughout the case, Hanrahan's County State's Attorney Edward Han­ Despite this evidence, Barnabas ties to the corrupt Daley machine have rahan innocent of all charges brought Sears, the special county prosecutor spared him from facing the real against him. Hanrahan and 13 Chi­ conducting the case against Hanra­ charge of murder. cago policemen had been charged with han, made no effort to charge him While protests last winter from other "conspiracy to obstruct justice" in con­ or his 13 codefendants with murder. Democratic Party candidates and nection with the Dec. 4, 1969, police The 14 defendants were charged with Black leaders in Chicago had forced murder of Illinois Black Panther Party consp1rmg to obstruct justice by Daley to withdraw his support from leaders Fred Hampton and Mark thwarting the prosecution of the police­ Hanrahan in the Democratic primary, Clark and the wounding of four other men involved in the raid and by ham­ the Democratic Party machine has Panthers. pering the defense of seven Panthers once again taken him into its fold. Ramsey Clark, former U. S. attor­ who survived the raid and were later Daley endorsed the acquitted Hanra­ ney general, and Roy Wilkins, exec­ indicted in connection with it. The 14 han in his race for state's attorney, utive director of the National Asso­ were also accused of presenting false saying that this case has been a "ler ciation for the Advancement of Col­ evidence and false accounts. son": "We are sometimes too willing, ored People (NAACP), cochaired the After hearing 15 weeks of evidence too anxious to belie_ve." Adlai Steven­ commission, which began its investi­ against Hanrahan, Cook County Cir­ son III, liberal Democratic Senator gation 11 days after the police raid cuit Judge Philip Romiti dismissed the from Illinois, also endorsed Hanra­ on Hampton's West Side Chicago charges without even hearing defense han's bid for reelection. apartment. evidence. Special prosecutor Sears At a Nov. 2 news conference, Clark seemed well prepared for the judge's Hanrahan and his Republican oppo­ and Wilkins charged that those who decision. Moments afterward, Sears re­ nent, Bernard Carey, an ex-FBI planned and carried out the raid "act­ leased a statement assuring his respect agent, are competing with each other ed with wanton •disregard for human Edward Hanrahan for the judgment of the court: "Re­ in a racist "law and order" campaign. life and the legal rights of American spect for law and the maintenance Hanrahan's Oct. 15 murder charges citizens." of the judicial system so essential to against eight Black Vietnam veterans An early copy of the report, made The report concludes that Hampton our survival as a free society alike said to be members of "De Mau Mau," available to the New York Times last "was shot from the doorway to his demand that I do this." an alleged Black murder gang, are March, stated: "The indication is that bedroom as he lay drugged and de­ In response to the decision, however, no doubt intended to further his the raid, contrary to its stated ob- fenseless in bed." Andrew Barrett, executive secretary· of chances in this competition.

12 A weekly international supplement to The Militant based on selections from Intercontinental Press, a newsmagazine reflecting the viewpoint of revolutionary socialism.

NOVEMBER 17,1972

Native aboriginal rights and treaty claims. But the party failed to advance much in popular support from the 1968 election; its 17.5 percent share Canadian election results pose of the total vote fell short of its high­ water 18 percent achieved in 1965. It lost three of its six seats in Sas­ challenge for New Democratic Party katchewan, and suffered small declines in an already-weak electoral base in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, [The following is an editorial on that gave the party's election cam­ be said to indicate a turn to the right. where it was outdistanced for the first the October 30 Canadian federal elec­ paign such initiative and momentum. At most the Tories only offered to time by Social Credit candidates in tion results reprinted from the N ovem­ This is the big challenge before the "do better." Acadian areas. In Montreal, the So­ ber 6 issue of Labor Challenge, a NDP. The election results constitute Far from indicating confidence in creds overcame the NDP in many ri­ biweekly reflecting the views of the a crushing rejection of the Trudeau either of the big business parties, the dings where the NDP had previously League for Socialist Action/ Ligue So­ government- its arrogant, cynical October 30 federal vote carries for­ come second. cialiste Ouvriere. The elections gave anti-working class policies. The pop­ ward the antigovernment feeling that While the NDP did not get squeezed 109 seats in the federal parliament ular disillusionment with Trudeau's has toppled a majority of provincial out in the major shift of votes be­ to the Progressive Conservatives, 10 8 promised "Just Society" of the 1968 regimes during the last three years. tween the two main capitalist parties, seats to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot federal election is registered in Lib­ Underlying the parliamentary stale­ it can't claim to have made much Trudeau's Liberal party, and 30 seats eral losses across the country. mate is a profound political insta­ advance, either. This election saw the to Canada's labor party, the New bility, characterized by fluctuating al­ Liberal ministers, defeated and re­ party move out more aggressively, Democratic Party (NDP). Thus nei­ legiances, regroupments and - most elected alike, are offering up self-jus­ pose a clearer, more distinct class ther the Liberals nor the Conserva­ significantly- the steady emergence of tifying excuses that the government identity than ever before. Yet in the the NDP as a labor-based political tives came close to winning the ne­ was brought down by a right-wing end, the majority of voters who aban­ alternative to the traditional capitalist cessary 133 seats required for major­ backlash. They point to Tory can­ doned previous allegiances to the Lib­ parties. Of the eight minority federal ity control of the House of Commons. didates' appeals for "law and order," erals, chose to throw their support governments since Confederation, this To gain a majority, either major par­ wage controls and denunciations of to the Tories of Robert Stanfield. While is the fifth since 1957, in seven gen­ ty must win the support of the NDP "welfare cheaters" and alleged Quebec not a turn to the right, the vote does members of Parliament.] influence in the inner circles of gov­ eral elections. not indicate any sharp turn to the ernment. left. The most ominous aspect is that At Labor Challenge press time, the It's a little late in the day for the But the election results nonetheless the Tories have succeeded in re-estab­ morning after the October 30 election, Liberals to claim the progressive la­ pose some important questions for the lishing the urban base that Trudeau­ the voting returns are still not clear bel. It was the Trudeau government NDP. The party made some modest mania and the NDP shattered for them as to whether we'll face a Liberal which carried out the War Measures gains in British Columbia, Toronto in the 1960s. Today they are the only or a Conservative minority govern­ occupation of Quebec, deliberately cre­ and Northern Ontario, strengthening party with parliamentary representa­ ment. But no matter. We agree with ated mass unemployment to hold somewhat its urban working class tion from every province and region Donald MacDonald, president of the down wages, and dished out millions base in those areas. It scored a small of the country. Canadian Labor Congress, who told of dollars from the public treasury but significant breakthrough in the Everything in the parliamentary the press that, between the big busi­ to the hard-pressed "corporate welfare Northwest Territories, where the Na­ electoral system, of course, is designed ness parties, "It's Tweedledee and bums." tive majority elected an Indian NDP to demobilize the electorate, to bring Tweedledum as far as we're con­ Since there is no substantial differ­ member- no doubt on the strength out its conservative side-from the cerned." ence between the two parties, the shift of the NDP's opposition to Trudeau's gerrymandered riding boundaries to NDP leader David Lewis was equal­ by some 10 percent of the electorate plans to bulldoze through with North­ the compulsory two-day suspension ly correct to reject out of hand sug­ from Liberals to the Tories can hardly ern resources exploitation, ignoring of campaigning before the polling gestions that the New Democratic Par­ day. The election results reveal only ty might form a coalition government very partially and inadequately the with one of the old-line capitalist par­ impact of the powerful and growing ties. He "would not consider it," Lewis sectors of the population that are in stated, adding that the 30 NDP MPs motion against their oppression and would use their strategic position in exploitation. Insofar as those elements parliament to press for action on the were given expression in the cam­ key issues the party has stressed dur­ paign, it was almost entirely through ing the campaign. "We will not go the NDP campaign. for token reforms." Perhaps the best thing about the The NDP platform includes demands indecisive election result is that there for higher old age pensions, more will almost certainly be another fed­ public housing, measures to shift the eral general election within a matter tax load from individuals to large of months- that is, another oppor­ corporations, and to curb rising food tunity for NDP supporters to mobilize costs. The party also calls for massive and popularize class struggle politics public works to reduce unemployment, in the labor movement. The challenge including construction of housing, to the NDP is to use every opportu­ sewage treatment plants, public transit nity in the next period, both in and systems and day care centers. out of parliament, to project a clear Holding the balance of power, ac­ anticapitalist alternative to the capital­ cording to the peculiar workings of ist parties. As the vote shows, the the parliamentary machine, the NDP party still has a long way to go be­ is well situated to use parliament as fore the masses of working people a tribune, to speak out on all the in this country understand the neces­ key issues, to pose a clear alterna­ sity of independent labor political ac­ tive to the policies of the big busi­ tion- the need for a workers govern­ ness parties. It can carry forward its ment, which the NDP projects in this opposition to the "corporate ripoff' Pierre Elliot Trudeau period. D World Outlook VV0/2

cialist principles. The trials will not suppress the aspirations of the Czech and Slovak peoples for genuine national indepen­ dence and for a real socialist democ­ racy. In fact, the trials are only a [The following excerpts are from symptom of the serious problem aris­ an article, "Prague Trials 'Cause for ing from the so-called "normalisation" Political Concern,"' appearing in the imposed after intervention by armed July 22 issue of L'Unita, organ of Western CPs denounce forces of the USSR and other Warsaw the Italian Communist party.] Pact nations. We do not consider in any way Czechoslovak trials legitimate the criticisms and accusa­ tions raised against the socialist coun­ Netherlands tries by those reactionary and conser­ [The witch-hunt trials conducted dur­ party, and the Dutch Communistparty vative groups which are guilty in their ing July and August by the Czecho­ also expressed opposition to the trials. [The following are excerpts from own countries of the gravest crimes slovak regime headed by Gustav [One Western CP that gave uncon­ an article titled "The Trials," appear­ against the workers and humanity. Husak gave rise to deep divisions ditional and uncritical support to the ing in the August 5 issue of De Further, we have always stressed our within the Communist parties outside Czechoslovak witch-hunt was the Com­ Waarheid, which reflects the views desire not to interfere in the domestic the workers states. munist party of the United States. The of the Dutch Communist party. It was affairs of the socialist countries and [The trials, held between July 1 7 American CP kept silent on the sub­ signed by Joop Wolff.] communist parties. Having said this, and August 11, sentenced a total of ject of the Prague trials for five weeks. however, it is obvious, in our opinion, forty-six persons to prison terms rang­ On August 23 the Daily World, which The Czech press agency CTK is that the trials which have taken place ing from six months to six and a half reflects the CP's views, noted thatforty­ sending out ambiguous reports about in Prague do not concern solely in­ years. Most of the defendants were six persons had been sentenced to trials now taking place in the coun­ ternal affairs, but raise questions and supporters of the Prague Spring prison "for attempting to take up where try. Even relying on the reports of problems for us a·lso. policies of former Communist party the counter-revolutionary movement C TK itself about the prosecution and First, little is known about these general secretary, Alexander Dubcek. around Alexander Dubcek left off in sentencing-to terms of one-half to trials because the real public was ex­ Many of those prosecuted had been 1969." six and a half years in orison- of cluded. This is certainly detrimental leaders of the Communist party, mem­ [The American CP finds itself vir­ persons on charges of distributing to anyone who would like to form a bers of its Central Committee, chair­ tually alone among the Western leaflets, it is clear that these trials considered and informed opinion; but, men of its local committees, and Communist parties in its complete have nothing to do with justice. even more than that, it casts a dark directors of its institutions, educational acceptance of the Kremlin's line on Certainly not with socialist justice. shadow on the legal proceedings. and otherwise. the Prague repression. As for the Communists in the Neth­ There should be no fear of publicity [Although the charges against the [For the information of our erlands, their attitude has been clear concerning the crimes which are by defendants involved "antistate" or "sub­ readers we reprint below excerpts and is still clear now. their nature manifest or considered to versive" activities, no evidence of con­ from statements on the trials from Our party has never seen any value be so. crete antisocialist acts on the part of the Australian, Dutch, and Italian in demarches which the masses do Second, to reach the point of trials the defendants was presented. There Communist parties.] not support. and sentences on the basis of the facts was a total of nine trials- brief af­ fairs often lasting less than forty-eight hours. In violation of Czechoslovak Australia law, they were closed to the public. [These trials were but a part of a [Tbe following is from the August more generalized repression that has 8-14 issue of the Tribune, which re­ involved the purging of student and flects the views of the Communist trade-union orga,I).izations, the closing party of Australia.] of theaters, and the firing of intellec­ tuals (some 30,000 of them) from their The Communist Party of Australia jobs. expresses deep concern at the trial [The Western Communist parties had and conviction of 31 Czechoslo­ already been divided over the 1968 vakians on obviously political Kremlin invasion of Czechoslovakia. charges. Most of the parties that opposed the The C.P.A. protests at the harsh invasion, or expressed reservations sentences imposed, going as high as about its efficacy, continued to voice six and a half years, on vague concern about the repression. charges of "antistate activity" and "sub­ [On July 25 the French CP's Poli­ version." tical Bureau approved a resolution The charges seem to arise mainly that, while it supported all necessary from publication of leaflets, includ­ measures to suppress couP.terrevolu­ ing an appeal for voters to exercise tionary activity by antisocialist their constitutional right to cast in­ forces, noted that the defendants in formal ballots at the 1971 parliamen­ the Czechoslovak trials did not ap­ tary elections. This makes the severity pear to be counterrevolutionaries. of the sentences quite inexplicable and "Now, since it is a question of poli­ unjustified. tical and ideological opposition, we Even more disturbing is that the consider that it is by means of an charges were brought at all. These intense political and ideological are political trials directed at com­ struggle, waged with the support of munists who were excluded by ad­ the workers and popular masses, ministrative means from the Commu­ Many of the Western Communist parties condemned the 1968 invasion of Czecho­ that the opponents of socialism must nist Party after the August, 1968 in­ slovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. Invasion was designed to crush the mass mobili­ be fought and isolated." tervention in Czechoslovakia. They zation for democratic rights expressed in such rallies as the one above in Prague, [The British Communist party, include former Central Committee May 1968. which in the past has been among the members, secretaries of city commit­ most slavish in bowing to the tees, students and youth leaders, and Kremlin's line, this time felt compelled others whose devotion to socialism is to take its distance from the Husak unquestioned. These people have been Our party has taken a clear stand as they have been officially announced show trials. The Morning Star, official removed from their positions, dis­ in all respects. Since the shocking is certainly an alarming political sign. organ of the British CP, wrote missed from their work and discrim­ events of 1968, the Dutch Communist It should be possible to answer ac­ editorially that the charges against the inated against in employment because party has maintained no relations with cusations of "publications of an anti­ defendants arose from political of their political beliefs; now they are the Communist Party of Czechoslo­ state nature" and "slanderous publi­ differences and "should be dealt with imprisoned. vakia. An invitation a year ago to cations" by a reasoned defense and by political means and not by trials The Communist Party of Australia take part in a so-called international public controversy, by an ideological and imprisonment." protests against these political trials, conference in Karlovy Vary was to be and political counterattack, and by a [The Norwegian Communist party which still continue. It calls for the led by Novotny- the man who was, campaign where truth confronts pos­ sent a letter to the Czechoslovak release of all those imprisoned, can­ in his own country, held responsible sible slander. leaders on August 20 in which cellation of the sentences and the drop­ by the masses for the distortion of To resort in these cases to admin­ it referred, among other things, to the ping of all further proceedings. socialism- was turned down unambig­ istrative and judicial methods does "rights that the Norwegian Commu­ These political trials damage Czech­ uously and forcefully by the Dutch not resolve matters but aggravates nist Party thinks a socialist democracy oslovakia's international reputation Communist party. them. This is precisely what strikes must assure to the people in freedom and the socialist cause which is used For us, Dutch Communists, the con­ us most, as an indication of a situa­ of thought and expression." to justify these actions. In our view, cept of socialism is indissolubly linked tion that has not been resolved and [The Italian Communist party, which the suppression of political views in with democracy, with the will of the of problems that are certainly not is the largest outside the workers general, and these trials in particu­ majority of the people, and with the easy, but not for this reason less se­ states, the Australian Communist lar, are a serious departure from so- independence of the country. rious or less grave. 0 W0/3

struggle of the working masses by acy in the family results in such social banning strikes and by resorting to evils as dowry and sale of women, lathi-charges and police shootings. [A both legally by parents and illegally lathi is a heavy stick, often bamboo by seducers. It is conducive to mental bound with iron, used by police and physical tortures, even by edu­ against demonstrators.] The CC de­ cated men who cannot bear being con­ cided to organize a nationwide cam­ tradicted by women and force them paign to defend the civil rights of into the conventional norms of female the people in collaboration with var­ behaviour through physical violence ious left parties and mass organiza­ as well as economic coercion. tions. Employed women have to perform The CC noted the current radicali­ a double duty, as their work on the zation of the youth, the students, and job is only an addition to their work the socially oppressed groups like the in their homes. They are discriminated scheduled castes and tribes, the back­ against in employment and promo­ ward castes, and women, and directed tion and are harassed by their employ­ its units to identify themselves with ers in various ways. the struggles of these groups. It de­ In spite of their lives outside the cided to organize a movement for the home, even these women cannot par­ democratization and unification of the ticipate fully in the social, political, trade-union movement under workers' and cultural life of society. The pres­ control on the basis of one union in ent society continually shuts the door each industry and elected workers' of social life on them and forces them councils at the plant level. The party to go back to the domestic prison. decided to agitate, among other things, It enslaves them through male-oriented for a cent-for-cent neutralization in the personal laws and saddles them with rise of the cost of living, for holding the responsibility of running homes the price line, and against imposition and rearing children. They have no of bans on strikes and against govern­ control even over their bodies and ment control of unions. the course of their lives. Educated and The redrafted ninety-page pro­ employed women resent it and some­ gramme of the party was finalized as times offer resistance in their tradi­ per direction of the party conference tional way- by committing suicide or held in Bombay in .January, 1972. by running away from home. Among other things, it calls for the The women's liberation movement framing of a socialist constitution for in the United States and throughout Militant/Barry Sheppard India, abolishing the right to private the world has had its impact on the property, and guaranteeing the right women of India too. They have begun to work. The programme calls for to express their views and voice their nationalization of the basic and key protests publicly. The existing wom­ industries, financial institutions, ex­ en's organizations have not had much port and import trade, and trade in influence. However, formation of radi­ essential commodities. It calls for the cal organizations of women with a total nationalization and democratiza­ view to educate public opinion and tion of educational institutions, with agitate for reforms despite resistance Revolutionary socialists effective representation of teachers and from orthodox sections of society will students in managing universities, col­ very soon follow. leges, and schools. The struggle against the social op­ pression of women will develop around the demands of free education in India discuss for women, free hostels for women students, hostel facilities for employed women, child-care centers and cheap hotels for married women, reservation political tasks of jobs and the end of discrimination in employment and promotion, a [The Central Committee of the Com­ continent that would include India, lighter workload, fewer working munist League, Indian section of the Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other na­ hours, liberal conditions of work, in­ Fourth International, held a meeting tions on a voluntary basis. Women's cluding transfer only on demand. As during August. For the information The problems of Kashmir, Pakh­ the struggle develops, more basic and of our readers we publish below two toonistan, Sind, and other national­ fundamental questions will be taken documents of that meeting. The first ities could be solved only in such a up, including the abrogation of Hin­ is the official press statement issued framework on the basis of their right liberation on du and Muslim personal laws on mar­ by the Central Committee; the second of self-determination. riage, inheritance, and divorce; the is the resolution on women's libera­ On the question of Muslim minorities right to free marriage and divorce, tion. ] and communal rioting in India, the the Indian especially in cases of physical and CC felt that the failure of the capital­ mental torture and restrictions on per­ ist government in India to resolve sonal freedom; and the right to free The Central Committee of the Com­ the communal question resulted from legal abortions and women's control munist League, Indian section of the their inability to tackle it politically. subcontinent over their own bodies. This was the reason behind the ten­ Fourth International, met atVaranasi, The expansion of women's educa­ The Communist League of India with Somendra Kumar, a trade union­ dency of the bourgeois governments tion since 194 7; the expansion of op­ supports women in all their struggles ist from Bihar, presiding. to resort to police terror against the portunities for employment of women for social equality and for liberation The CC discussed a report on orga­ minorities. The bourgeoisie themselves in education and health services, pri­ from the conditions oppressing them. nizational problems by Magan Desai, needed a communal bias to keep the vate offices, post offices, banks, and It calls upon all employee unions and general secretary of the party, and working masses divided, and for administrative services; the rising cost student associations to raise and sup­ decided to strengthen party journals this reason practised discrimination of living, which forces men to send port women's demands relating to edu­ and publications in regional lan­ against the minorities in education their wives to take employment; and cation and jobs. But it is only through guages. and employment and in cultural and the spread of a liberal attitude toward women's own organizations that their The party has state units in West linguistic areas. women among men have led to the struggle for personal liberation, for Bengal, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and The problem of minorities cannot destruction of the myth that women a uniform civil code that respects their Kerala, and has ad hoc committees be solved on a communal basis, with­ are made only for household duties personal rights, for control of their in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. out a united struggle of the exploited and are inferior to men in intelligence bodies and personal lives, etc., can be The CC discussed the impact of the masses. Nor can a successful struggle or in capacity for handling outside best and most successfully fought. India-Pakistan agreement reached at be launched without the cooperation jobs involving responsibility. Such organizations have to be inde­ Simla and was of the view that though of the exploited masses of the majority The existence of a political frame­ pendent, mass-based, and democrati­ the agreement would reduce tension community, who will be the best al­ work in India wherein more and more cally controlled in order to be able on the subcontinent, it failed to tackle lies in the fight against social discrimi­ women get elected to representative to lead women's struggles to their logi­ the basic problems created by the com­ nation against the minority. The final bodies and hold offices in political cal anticapitalist conclusion. munal partition of India in 194 7. solution will come only through the organizations has contributed to an The Communist League of India The emergence of Bangladesh as an overthrow of the common exploiters apparent sense of equality which has will support all women's organiza­ independent nation has reopened the who maintain communalism to keep further infused women with confidence, tions in their struggle and will help problem of nationalities, which has the working masses divided. especially educated and employed them to build a really effective, mass­ remained unresolved in both India The CC took serious note of the women. The drive for family planning based, radical organization through and Pakistan. The CC held that the growing assault on the civil liberties has given them some relief and shown fraternal cooperation and criticism on problem could be resolved only in of the people and the tendency of the them the way to reduce their slavery. the basis of a nonexcluding united the larger framework of the Union state and central governments to re­ Yet they are greatly handicapped in front on a common programme of of Socialist States of the Indian Sub- sort to a ruthless suppression of the private and public life. Male suprem- action. 0 World Outlook W0/4

cal military in the Cabinet must not be allowed to freeze the progress to­ ward socialism." Allende moves to placate opposition In addition to broadening the repre­ sentation in his cabinet to include the military, Allende has taken some other steps in his attempt to deal with the opposition's offensive and to reduce Chilean military gets 3 cabinet posts the possibility of a military coup d'etat. Kalfon reported, for instance, By David Thorstad blow to the Chilean popular front in interior minister was to call in strike that thirty-four colonels and lieutenant next March's elections, during which leaders for talks. .Jorge Mario Mar­ colonels "were officially transferred to all 150 members of the House of Rep­ tinez, a representative of the striking the reserves, among them several In an effort to placate a seemingly resentatives and twenty-five of the fifty shopkeepers, left the meeting with Gen­ known for their right-wing opinions. intransigent opposition, Chilean Presi­ senators will be selected. If it should eral Prats saying, "There is optimism Meanwhile, in an apparent effort to dent Salvador Allende appointed two win a two-thirds majority in parlia­ for a prompt solution to the conflict." apply the law "equally," Allende seems generals and an admiral to cabinet ment, where it currently holds only a The general also announced that "The to have responded favorably to a letter posts November 2, including the key simple majority, it would be in a posi­ nation will return to full normalcy he received from the Supreme Court post of minister of the interior. The tion to impeach Allende. Monday [November 6]. That is the telling him, his cabinet, and the police decision to name the three military There are some indications that Al­ Government's desire." to enforce judicial decisions. Accord­ men was made in an attempt to quell lende's appointment of military brass A United Press International report ing to an Associated Press dispatch nearly a month of strikes and demon­ may persuade the opposition to call off from Santiago suggested that there from Santiago October 31, "The jus­ strations against Allende's Popular its current offensive. "Opposition lead­ was some opposition within the Popu­ ~:.::es pointed out that on Sept. 27 they Unity government. ers have said such a move would help lar Unity coalition to the appointment ruled that a newspaper in the south­ The key appointment went to Army insure honest balloting next March," of military men to the government. central city of Talca, taken over by Commander in Chief General Carlos observed the Wall Street Journal N ,_ The report, which appeared in the its employees, should be returned to its Prats, who as minister of the interior vember 1. November 2 issue of the New York owner, but that the order 'still hasn't will be the number two man in the Spanish-language daily El Diario-La been carried out.'" A late report from In order to give Allende more leeway government and head of the country's Prensa, noted that opposition within Talca the same day indicated that the in attempting to reach an understand­ internal police apparatus. Allende's Socialist party, one of the police had intervened and forced the ing with the opposition, the entire Air Force General Claudio Sepul­ main components of the popular front, workers to turn the newspaper back fifteen-member cabinet resigned on Oc­ veda became mining minister, and "could be the reason for convening the to its owner. D tober 31. Allende immediately accepted Rear Admiral Ismael Huerta public so-called national plenum, which is the resignations of interior minister works minister. to discuss the present situation and .Jaime Suarez and education minister Allende's appointment of military of­ possible formulas that Allende might Anibal Palma. Both were among the ficers, who in Chile come mostly from four ministers whom the opposition use in order to solve the cabinet crisis the ranks of the bourgeoisie, appeared announced October 29 that it was plan­ brought on by the resignation of the to satisfy one of the major aims of the fifteen ministers." ning to impeach. Both had planned opposition: to further undermine Al­ A subsequent UPI report indicated to resign anyway by November 4, lende's base of support by forcing him that "Dr. Allende's Socialist party the official deadline for them to declare to pull back from implementing his urged him not to give in to the strikers' their candidacies in the coming elec­ Popular Unity program and to rely demands or to slow down the sociali­ tions. increasingly on the military. The op­ zation of Chile. The party said that position now hopes to deal a heavy The first official action of the new inclusion of the traditionally apoliti-

Folk, told the daily Information that he didn't know anything about the matter. "I just saw the picture in the paper," he lamely explained. He added that he didn't remember which of his paper's two photographers took the photo. D

e FOR GRYNSZPAN: Against the Fascist Pogrom Gangs and Stalinist fVietnam Scoundrels. • Interview with the Copenhagen Socia!-Demokraten, 1932. Week' held e letter to the Communist league of China (section of the Internation­ al left Opposition). in Sweden e How the Workers in Austria Should Fight Hitler. Antiwar exhibitions, meetings, and e Polish Fascism and the Mistakes film showings were scheduled for of the Communist party. nearly 200 locations throughout Sweden during this fall's "Vietnam These are just a few of the articles china. The Communist party daily Week" October 15-21, according to and letters by Leon Trotsky that In­ Land og Folk ran the above picture a report in the Stockholm daily Da­ tercontinental Press has published. of this demonstration. The photograph gens Nyheter October 14. The week, Most were translated from the orig­ 4,000 in contains a series of signs in which it explained, is one of "intensified inal Russian and appeared in the texts are clearly visible. The one in work in support of the people of pages of Intercontinental Press for the center, however, has been tampered Indochina. Such a week is organized the first time in English. Copenhagen with to make it illegible. every spring and fall and involves For any of those listed above, Before the CP editors crossed out tens of thousands of people through­ send 50c for each article desired. the sign's lettering, it stated: "Bakaemp out Sweden in working to mobilize Or, if you want to follow the im­ im perialismen med revolutionaer protest and make visible the opposition to portant news of the world each week klassekamp- S UF" (fight imperialism the USA's aggressive war in South­ and get features like these, send with revolutionary class struggle­ east Asia." in a check for $7.50 for six months S UF [Socialistisk Ungdoms Forbund The last day of the week saw thou­ Viet war or $]5 for a year to: -Socialist Youth League]). The S UF sands of Swedes take to the streets Copenhagen recently changed its name to the RSF to protest the war. Some eighty dem­ Some 4,000 persons marched on the ( Revolu tiona ere Socialisters For bund onstrations took place that day. INTERCONTINENTAL PRESS American embassy in Copenhagen Oc­ -League of Revolutionary Socialists), In Stockholm, an estimated 6,200 P. 0. Box 116, Village Station tober 14 in a demonstration staged Danish section of the Fourth Interna­ persons marched; in Uppsala 1,500 in connection with the hearings of the tional. The sign also included a ham­ took part; and in Lund, there were New York, N.Y. 10014 International Commission of Inquiry mer and sickle insignia. two demonstrations, one of 1,000 into United States War Crimes in Indo- Orley Olsen, the editor of Land og and the other of 200. D To the editor ol the 'DallY world' Billy Dean Smith An open letter concerning the defense assassination ol Leon Trotsky exposes S. W. Gerson, Executive Editor Novicky and Edward Foulches. The with the Loyalists in the Spanish civil Daily World three boarded a waiting airliner and war and lost his life (and passport) frame-up P. 0. Box 544, Old Chelsea Station flew to Havana. There Trotsky's mur­ there. New York, N.Y. 10011 derer was kept in hiding at the coun­ An especially instructive line of ques­ By MICHAEL SCHREIBER try estate of the Czechoslovak mis­ tioning might be developed concern­ SAN.FRANCISCO, Nov. 7 -The de­ Dear Mr. Gerson, sion. The next report was that he ing the unusually skilled forgers who fense rested its case Nov. 2 after bring­ In the November 1 issue of the Daily had been flown to Prague. altered the passport. How did they ing Billy Dean Smith to the witness World you published a review of Jo­ In its lead editorial in the issue of get the passport in the first place? stand to speak for himself. Smith's seph Losey's film The Assassination May 8, 1960, the New York Times Didn't the Stalinists exercise command statements climaxed two weeks of de­ of Trotsky. The reviewer, David Gor­ said of this: over the brigades in the Spanish Re­ fense testimony that effectively demol­ don, alleges -without citing any "Last Friday the Mexican Govern­ publican Army to which volunteers ished the Army's charges that the source -that Lenin used the epithet ment finally released the man who like Tony Babich, the original pos­ Black GI murdered two officers and "poseur" to describe Trotsky. Gordon calls himself Jacques Mornard. This sessor of the passport, were assigned? attempted to kill two others by det­ then continues: "Richard Burton, play­ is the killer who twenty years ago Was it just coincidental that Trotsky's onating a fragmentation grenade in ing Trotsky, makes him resemble a wormed his way into the confidence murderer, whose real name was Jaime Vietnam. poseur, posturing, making some pom­ of Leon Trotsky and then ended the Ramon Mercader del Rio Hernandez, The jury, composed of seven career officers, is expected to rule on the pous (and some incomprehensible) latter's life with axe blows on the head. also participated in the Spanish civil statements." case this week. Only five "guilty" votes That ought to have won five stars are needed to convict Smith. in the Daily World for the film, since Smith told the jury Nov. 1 that he Burton's Trotsky is patterned on the had had no motive to attempt to kill Stalinist image of the coleader of the his commanding officer and his first Russian revolution, cofounder of the sergeant, as the Army charges. Smith maintains he did not dislike Sergeant firstganizer workers of the state armed in history, struggle and thator- ; ·.•.••. ,·.. ···.\ . '. Billy Willis, because Willis was "kind of like a mascot" for the artillery unit. won victory in the civil war. Gordon l'~ even concludes: "The film is poorly . Smith testified that a threat by his commanding officer to give him an acted incohesive and badly told; per- . £ haps that suits Trotsky's political rec- · undesirable discharge did not disturb him too much because he had wanted ~ to get out of the Army. Joseph Hansen is the editor of In a soft voice Smith related that he Intercontinental Press and a lead- • heard the explosion of the grenade er of the Socialist Workers Party. March 15, 1971, while he was smok­ His review of the film "The As­ ing marijuana with two other Gls in­ sassination ofT rotsky" was printed side a bunker in another unit area. in the Nov. 3 Militant and is Smith's testimony corroborated that of former GI Henry McClay, who re­ available for 25 cents from the vealed Oct. 24 that he had been in­ Militant business office. side the bunker with Smith for about two hours when they heard the ex..: ord." With all due consistency, the re­ plosion. view is entitled "Inept film fits Trotsky McClay said he did not tell Army legacy." investigators he had been with Smith Since the film fits so well with the because of a rumor among Gls that Stalinist view of Trotsky's personal- Stalin (I) with Bolshevik leapers Rykov, Kamenev, and Zinoviev. Stalin had all three "Billy had confessed and had impli­ ity why such lack of enthusiasm for shot following the Moscow frame-up trials of 1936-1938. Trotsky was the main target cated many brothers." L~sey's production? The reason is at these trials, but the CP still denies that Stalin ordered his assassination. Testimony from other witnesses has that Losey presents the truth concern- exposed the tactics of intimidation and ing Stalin's responsibility for the mur­ der of Trotsky. For two decades the world has been war, working with members of the How important this is to the Daily reasonably sure the killer was a Mos­ NKVD, Stalin's secret political police? Pulley backs Gl World's reviewer is shown by his as­ cow agent sent by Stalin to murder Exactly when and where did Merca­ The following letter was sent by serting in the very first paragraph: the hero of the Bolshevik Revolution der get this passport? Why did he SWP vice-presidential candidate "The film attempts to tell the story of who had lost the Kremlin power strug­ adopt the name of "Frank Jacson"? Andrew Pulley to Billy Dean Smith Trotsky's last days, in Mexico, and gle. If any doubt of this remained, Other questions come naturally to on Nov. 7, 1972. to fix blame for his assassination up­ it was dispelled last Friday when the mind. Besides murdering Trotsky, on Stalin and the Soviet Union, a killer walked out of jail with a dip­ was "Jacson" the one who murdered I vigorously protest the Army's charge that to this day has not been lomatic passport from Communist Trotsky's guard Robert Sheldon attempt to railroad you into pris­ substantiated." Czechoslovakia and, accompanied by Harte, kidnapped in the May 24, on. As an ex-GI, victimized and Now, of course Losey did not at­ two Czech diplomats, boarded a plane 1940, assault led by the Mexican framed-up myself, I can readily tempt to fix the blame for Trotsky's with Prague as his final destination." painter and Communist leader David understand the harassment andre­ assassination upon "the Soviet Union." Alfaro Siqueiros? Was "J acson" also pression a Black G I can suffer Losey clearly shows that the plot In view of the location of the mur- the one who murdered Rudolf Kle- at the hands of the racist Army. against Trotsky was spun by Stalin derer's residence, it appears to me ment, the secretary of the group pre­ It is clear from all evidence that and not by the people of the Soviet that with your special connections you paring the founding congress of the you are totally innocent, just as Union. are in a singularly good, position to Fourth International in 1938? Angela was innocent. The mass Has the charge against Stalin not interview him and thus get his views If you think that the answers to these defense of Angela Davis was re­ been substantiated? I will not attempt as to Stalin's responsibility in the questions would still prove insufficient sponsible for her freedom. The in this letter to cite the overwhelming crime. to pin down the identity of the figure Black movement and the antiwar evidence as to Stalin's guilt. What I After all, the Daily World has fully whose orders "Jacson" carried out, I movement must redouble their ef­ would like to do, however, is to sug­ supported the extraordinary efforts­ am quite willing to prepare a list of forts to free you. gest a simple and obvious means by including an invasion by Soviet troops additional questions to help you in a which you and the other members -to maintain the same kind of gov­ quest to settle what must be a nagging the distortions used by the Army to · of the editorial board of the Daily ernment in Czechoslovakia as the one problem for your staff. I could also pin its case on Smith. World can establish the facts through that provided a haveq for Trotsky's provide you with some pertinent back­ Luther Howard confessed earlier in an inquiry of your own. murderer. ground material that might prove use­ the trial that he had lied during pre­ First let me remind you, since you By way of breaking the ice in an ful in interviewing the killer. trial hearings because Army investi­ seem to have forgotten it, that the interview, you or your Prague cor­ There is not much point in doing gators told him Smith had named murderer, who went by the names respondent might ask "Jacson" what that, however, until you have ascer­ him as an accomplice. of "Frank Jacson" and "Jaques Mor­ his current source of income is. That tained for sure whether the present Another witness, Bradley Curtis, nard" among others, was released would lead naturally to his source Czechoslovak government and the So­ said the Army had bullied him into from prison on May 6, 1960, three of income at the time he came to Mex­ viet occupation forces will take your believing he too had been implicated months before. the termination of his ico to kill Trotsky. excellent credentials into account and by Smith and might never get out sentence. He was taken secretly by It would be interesting to know how grant you permission to interview the of Vietnam unless he testified he had Mexican officials to the airport where he got his false passport, which orig­ retired executioner. seen Smith running from th'" scene he was handed over to two officials inally belonged to Tony Babich, a Sincerely yours, of the fragging. of the Czechoslovak embassy, Oldrich Canadian who volunteered to fight Joseph Hansen Curtis shattered the courtroom Sept. 20 by affirming the person he had Continued on page 22

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 17, 1972 13 Nixon-McGovern lies hit by Raza Unida By JOEL BRITTON cerned' about the presidential race, In the final weeks of the election Gutierrez said. 'Both candidates are period, leaders of the Texas Raza indistinguishable,' Gutierrez sum- Unida Party continued to respond to marized." the Oct. 6 charges by George An article in the Oct. 27 Houston McGovern that the independent party Post described a visit to Washington, was in the pay of the Republicans. D. C., by Francisco Benavides, Raza The Nov. 3-17 Chicano Times, "The Unida Party mayor of Crystal City, World's Largest Chicano Newspaper," and other community representatives. published in San Antonio, featured a "Angrily denouncing both presi­ front-page banner headline: "'McGov­ dential nominees as 'liars,' Mexican­ ern A Damn Liar.'" American officials from Crystal City, The accompanying article reported Texas, demanded Thursday [Oct. 26] a recent Texas speech by Raza Unida that federal officials quit playing leader Jose Angel Gutierrez. "Gutierrez 'political football' with the future of said the Raza Unida Party had voted a critically needed public health clinic to support neither McGovern nor in their city." l. Nixon at their recent national conven­ The issue centers on grants for build­ I tion in El Paso. The party is asking ing a clinic that were approved last Mexican-Americans 'not to be con- June by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Office of Economic Opportunity. Preston Smith, the Democratic governor Militant/ Antonio Camejo Union for RUP of Texas, vetoed the OEO grant. OEO Crystal City's need for health clinic is real. Water for homes without plumbing NOV. 2- The Texas statewide of­ Director Philip Sanchez overrode the is stored in drums. fice of the International Paper Mill veto after a Crystal City delegation Workers Union, AFL-CIO, in Dal­ went to Washington, D. C. to apply las, announced its endorsement of pressure on the agency. techniques before first investigating his "trick by the Republicans" because the the entire Raza Unida Party slate, Benavides told a Washington news charges." agencies were holding it up and be­ according to today' s San Antonio conference, "McGovern has publicly The Chicano mayor also blasted cause "when the racist Democratic Express. The statewide endorse­ charged that this grant was only a Nixon: "Nixon is publicly declaring governor of Texas vetoed the funds, ment followed endorsement by San political arrangement between our he has proven his commitment to Chi­ Nixon was nowhere to be found to Antonio Local478. city and the Republicans in re­ canos by pointing to Crystal City and lend public support." The endorsement includes Ram­ turn for the Chieano vote. the grant- typical politics of division. Meanwhile, the Crystal City news­ sey Muniz for governor, and the "As mayor of the city, I here pub­ As mayor of that city, I publicly call paper La Verdad has printed an ex­ more than 50 state and local can­ licly declare McGovern a liar. McGov· him a liar." change of letters between Luz Gu­ didates. ------' ern has used McCarthy red-baiting Benavides said the grant was a Continued on page 22 New. Mexico meeting backs Raza Unida By RICHARD GAR CIA echoed by those connected with federal It is worth noting that these "disrup­ the Crusade for Justice and Raza ALB UQ UERQ UE- Chicano activists agencies and· poverty programs. tions," as Tijerina called them, repre­ Unida Party in Denver, had been took an independent stand on th€ 1972 As the basis for unity, Tijerina pro­ sented political victories for Raza Uni­ scheduled to be present but then an­ elections at the Congreso N acional posed an effort that would center on da forces led by Jose Angel Gutierrez nounced he would not attend. Gon­ de Tierra y Cultura [National Con­ asking the federal governm~nt and the at the D. C. conference and by Bert zales cited other commitments and gress of Land and Culture] held here United Nations to enforce the Treaty Corona at the San Jose meeting. what he termed "my own un­ Oct. 20-22. The meeting of about of Guadalupe Hidalgo (the 1848 Democratic Party politicians had in­ compromising philosophy." He elab­ 1,000 activists from around the coun­ treaty that ended the Mexican-Ameri­ tended to use those gatherings to set orated on this when he released a try voted overwhelmingly, after much can War). The treaty contained pro­ up vehicles for hustling votes for press statement aimed at the Demo­ discussion, to support the candidates visions guaranteeing the land and cul­ George McGovern. cratic Party loyalties of the scheduled and program of the Raza Unida ture of Mexicans living in what be­ Tijerina insisted that the work­ speakers and their influence at the parties, including a plank stating, "No came the southwestern United States. sl}op that would discuss unity had convention. support to either [Democratic or Re­ room for only 16 participants because Gonzales's statement read in part: publican] presidential candidate." The projected format of the con­ of the size of the room. Raza Unida "In the past years, I have dissociated ference and Tijerina's unity proposal Party members and other activists, myself from these people who confuse The outcome of the conference was was to the liking of such Democratic realizing that this workshop would and mislead the gullible members of not what was intended by Reies Lopez Party politicians present as Colorado discuss politics, intervened, and more our Raza. I can no longer bar­ Tijerina and other organizers of the legislator Betty Benavides and New than 300 people were heard. gain with despotic government repre­ conference. In his opening statement, Mexican Lieutenant Governor Roberto sentatives ... I want no part of align­ Tijerina emphasized what he thought Mondragon. The workshop unanimously voted ment with political prostitutes .... I the theme of the conference should be: Tijerina stated throughout the con­ for the resolution calling for endorse­ have no intention of creating reaction "Unity before ideas, leaders, or organi­ ference that he did not want the type ment of La Raza Unida Party. for the profitable benefit of the pro­ zations." He stated that no politics of "disruptions" that occurred at the Tijerina walked out of the workshop, fessional program managers." would be discussed at the conference. conferences sponsored by the National as he did at the general assembly the Conference publicity had announced Furthermore, if anythingcontroversial Spanish-Speaking Coalition in Wash­ following evening when this resolution, that two other Chicano leaders, Cesar was brought up for discussion on the ington, D.C., in October 1971 and together with other resolutions contain­ Chavez and Jose Angel Gutierrez, floor or in any of the workshops, it in San Jose, California, in April of ing pro-R UP stands, was discussed. would address the conference, but would be tabled. This sentiment was this year. Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, leader of neither did. Raza Unida candidate runs Calif. write-in By WOODY DIAZ munity," Granados has replied, "coula out of the 15,650 elected and appointed and MICHAEL MAGGI not trust any Raza candidate who ac­ officials, only 310, or just about 1.98 LOS ANGELES- Roger Granados, cepted money from the Democrats and percent, are Chicanos. None of the Raza Unida Party candidate in the Republicans. top 40 state officials are Chicanos. 38th C.D. in Southern California, ran "If winning means selling out our None of the top 2 8 advisers on the a vigorous write-in campaign in the own people," he added, "then the hell governor's staff are Chicanos. None barrios and on the campuses. with winning. We have to create a of the 132 top state court positions Undemocratic election laws made it party and create a political force based are filled by Chicanos. impossible for him to achieve ballot on the trust of the Raza community. status. To do this we have to make our Another major issue in Granados's On Oct. 28, Jose Angel Gutierrez stand as anti-Democratic Party as we campaign was the demand for better spoke at a community campaign rally are anti-Republican Party." and relevant education for Chicanos for Granados in San Bernardino. Both A statement issued by Granados's at all levels. Granados has cam­ Granados and Gutierrez stressed the campaign committee, "The Raza Unida paigned for more funds to Chicano need to build La Raza Unida Party Politics," said, ''We can no longer de­ schools, multicultural and multilingual as an ongoing social movement and pend upon the Republican and Demo­ programs, civil and political rights not just an electoral campaign. cratic parties to speak and determine for students, and participation on all Granados has been repeatedly ques­ our destiny. Both parties are controlled educational boards and regents bodies tioned at campus meetings and by the by the rich corporations no matter by student and community representa­ press about McGovern's eharges that how often denied." tives. Republican money is behind La Raza Granados's campaign committee Granados also urged the defeat of Unida's refusal to endorse either pointed out that 15 percent of the Proposition 22, the anti-farm-worker El Chicano McGovern or Nixon. "The Raza com- California population is Chicano. But measure on the California ballot. Roger Granados

14 Student ~rotests hit Black colleges in La. YSA convention By BAXTER SMITH On Oct. 24 a march of 2,500 in NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 4- Student support of these demands was held. countdown protests have hit three predominantly The students marched to the state Geoff Mirelowitz, a national executive with the following statement after Black colleges in Louisiana during board of education to present their committee member of the Young So­ Mary Hillery, 25-year-old senatorial the past week. They began at South­ demands to the board superintendent. cialist Alliance, debated Youth for Mc­ candidate of the SWP, was barred ern University in Baton Rouge and Faculty and community support for Govern campus coordinator Al Nel­ from the Minnesota ballot because of then spread to Southern University the students began to grow, and the son at the University of Colorado her age: in New Orleans (SUNO) and Gram­ administration decided to close the at Boulder Nov. 1. After the debate, "The recent refusal of the secretary bling College. school for several days, hoping to which more than 50 people attended, of state to place Hillery's name on The protests began at Baton Rouge defuse the movement. The governor Mirelowitz and a McGovern supporter the Minnesota senatorial ballot is an­ over the forced resignation of Dr. alerted the National Guard, and the from the audience discussed the rel­ other indication of the multitudinous Charles Wydell, a faculty member the students were given three hours to ative merits of Jenness and McGovern. students said was sympathetic to their leave the campus or face arrest. Finally the young woman remarked, problems. A group called Students Students at the New Orleans cam­ "Well, I guess we've reached a stand­ United demanded the reinstatement of pus of Southern University met on still. I'm not going to convince you the ousted professor and the resigna­ Oct. 26 to discuss the possibility of to vote for McGovern and you aren't tion of the university's president. a boycott in support of the students going to convince me to vote for Lin­ On Oct. 20 Students United called at Baton Rouge. One thousand stu­ da Jenness." Mirelowitz responded that a meeting to solicit student support dents turned out and drew up their the socialist alternative would still be and map a plan of action. Three thou­ own list of demands. They called for around after the elections, and sug­ sand students out of an enrollment curriculum improvement and termi­ gested that she _keep this in mind. of 8,300 attended the meeting and nation of the cafeteria contract, which "Oh, I know that," she responded· voted to boycott classes until their had resulted in unsanitary conditions as she walked away. "I'll probably demands were met. The demands cen­ and superexploitation of cafeteria end up joining you!" tered on student control of the cur­ workers. e The YSA is continuing to expand riculum, a student voice in the hiring At an Oct. 30 meeting, 1,500 stu­ throughout the country. New YSA and firing of faculty, and physical dents voted to boycott classes for two chapters were launched this week in improvements on the campus. days. When the administration failed Lexington, Ky.; Albuquerque, N. M.; to give any answer to the demands New London, Conn.; and Lubbock, after two days, the students took con­ Texas. Reports indicate that quite a trol of the administration building and few more areas where YSA chapters vowed to occupy it until the admin­ are being organized will be represent­ Militant/Ellen lemisch istration replied. In response, the ad­ ed at the upcoming Young Socialist Geoff Mirelowitz ministration closed the university. national convention. At Grambling College, which is not e Young Socialists for Jenness and obstacles placed in front of dedicated, part of the Southern University com­ Pulley have been carrying on a de­ involved young people as they attempt plex but is governed by the state bate with McGovern supporters in the to translate ideas into productive ac­ board of education, students also drew pages of the Minnesota Daily, the stu­ tion. In preventing Hillery's candida­ up a list of grievances and presen'ted dent newspaper at the University of cy the secretary has simply reiterated them to the administration. On Nov. 2 Minnesota. This continuing debate has the obsolete dogma that chronological a meeting was held there to plan a touched on a variety of campaign is­ age is equated with wisdom." course of action. sues in a series of opinion articles e The Young Socialist Alliance na­ Following that meeting a group of and letters to the editor. tional office in New York City and 200 students held a rally outside the In an article entitled "Why Socialists the Young Socialist convention cen­ student union. Several windows were Should Vote for McGovern," Chuck ter in Cleveland report that the num­ broken, and the campus cops reacted Klinger, a U of M student, com­ ber of inquiries they receive is steadily by firing tear gas into the crowd and plained: increasing as the Young Socialist na­ bullets over their heads. No injuries "The nominations and candidacies tional convention approaches. Five were reported, but several arrests were of Jenness and Pulley can be inter­ hundred people requested more infor­ made. preted only as a gratuitous gesture mation about the YSA and the con­ Students at all three campuses plan of contempt for the U. S. Constitution. vention through letters and phone to- continue to press their demands And this gesture is nearly peculiar calls to the YSA national office during when the schools reopen. to the SWP since almost every other September and October alone. Students at SUNO successfully won party, including the great Socialist La­ Often these inquiries come from out­ two other struggles earlier in the se­ bor Party, has seen fit to meet the of-the-way places. Last week the mester. They forced the firing of a constitutional age requirements for its phoned inquiries about the convention psychology department head who was candidates." included calls from Alliance, Neb., an active supporter of the American Jack Baker, president of the Minne­ and Logan, Utah. Militant/Baxter Smith Nazi Party. Also, they won a deci­ sota Student Association, responded -LAURA MILLER Students hoist Black liberation flag at sion to have the Black liberation flag Southern University in New Orleans dur­ adopted as the official school flag and ing takeover of administration building. to have it flown on the campus. YSA convention schedule THURSDAY, NOV. 23: International nizing/ Gay Liberation/ Student Gov­ Report/Panel: Imperialism's Anti­ ernments. Brooklyn school crisis Arab Witch-hunt/Political Report and Discussion/Panel: Defending Political FILMS: "To Make a Revolution"/"A Prisoners Around the World/Party. Luta Continua!"/"No Vietnamese Ever simmers despite deal Called Me Nigger"/"Black Unity: By DAVE FRANKEL to redraw school zones in order to FRIDAY, NOV. 24: Antiwar Report Breaking the Chains of Oppression"/ NOV. 9- The presidents and execu­ "promote integration and improve ra­ and Activists' Meeting/ Florida Defense Various films on struggles in Latin tive boards of the Combined Parent­ cial balance" in three junior high Campaign Presentation/Women's Lib­ America. Teacher Associations of Canarsie, schools in the district. eration Report and Activists' Meeting/ which have been leading the two-week­ Socialist Rally, featuring Linda Jen­ REGISTRATION AND HOUSING: old boycott of schools in that area by The three schools involved are JHS ness and Andrew Pulley/Party. Registration begins Wednesday eve­ white parents, called on Nov. 7 for an 211; Meyer Levin .JHS (JHS 85), ning, Nov. 22, in the Mezzanine of end to the boycott. which is 50 percent white; and Isaac SATURDAY, NOV. 25: Black Strug­ the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel, Cleve­ The boycott was originally called to Bildersee JHS (JHS 68), which is 97 gle Report and Activists' Meeting/Chi­ land, Ohio; $5 or $1.50/ day, $3 or protest the admission of 32 Black and percent white. It is likely that any cano Struggle Report and Activists' $1/ day for high school students. Puerto Rican students from Browns­ plan aimed at desegregating JHS 68 Meeting/ Panel: Defending African Lib­ Housing at the Sheraton-Cleveland ville to John Wilson JHS (JHS 211), will draw strong protests from the eration Struggles/Party. Hotel (reasonable rates). Inexpensive a move the white parents claimed parents there, who have already giv­ mass housing also available (bring would "tip the racial balance" of the en widespread support to racist ac­ SUNDAY, NOV. 26: Organization Re­ sleeping bag). school. JHS 211 is 70 percent white. tions against even the threat of such port/Final Reports on Credentials, Despite the call for an end to the moves. Press, Constitution, Expansion- of the Socialist Movement. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Con- boycott, only 11853 out of 9,700 Ca­ Although the local board has agreed narsie students attended school Nov. to accept the continued enrollment of tact Young Socialist Alliance, Box 4 71 8. Statements by the board of edu­ the 32 children bused to JHS 211, WORKSHOPS: International Revolu- Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. cation and the parents association the question remains of whether the tionary Movement/High School Orga- 10003. Telephone: (212) 989-7570. leaders claim the agreement to end central board secretly agreed to limit the boycott was reached after the local the number of children bused from school board, which had been Brownsville in the future in order to replaced - by a trustee of the central maintain the "racial balance" in the board because it refused to admit the Canarsie school district. The central 32 students, was reinstated. The local board had earlier refused to rule out school board has reportedly agreed such· an agreement.

THE MILITANT/NOVEMBER 17, 1972 15 masses to fight against their op­ pression. Transitional approach This approach- the transitional ap­ Land or Death proach applied by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky- is the only way to make a progressively stronger con­ nection in struggle between convinced The peasant struggle revolutionists and the masses, the com­ bination needed to make a revolution. Blanco illuminates this basic con­ cept by describing his own experience in leading the struggle of the Cuzco in Peru peasant unions. He shows how he and ., his comrades were able to link up with ..._. the peasants' desire to struggle and to formulate demands and explana­ tions that would progressively lead the struggle in the direction of an ever sharper and more conscious challenge to the capitalist private-property system. Blanco tells how he would draw from the peasants' own experience in struggle to heighten their conscious­ ness of the significance of their struggle in the context of the entire struggle of the oppressed, and to heighten their consciousness of the ir­ reconcilable antagonism between the exploiters and the exploited and of the need to go further in their challenge to capitalist injustice. As Blanco writes, "It can be said that we represented the fusion of the militant form of peasant struggle with the Marxist conception and experience, with a consciousness of the significance -~-~.•...... ,.,.. of this struggle." • • Part of Blanco's revolutionary transi­ tional approach was to press for forms of struggle and organization that would involve the masses of peasants and show them their own power. Thus he proposed mass meetings, mass demonstrations, and mass, united ac­ tions such as a strike against the landowners. He urged the Blanco (center) with peasants and other members of guerrilla group peasants to rely on their own power rather than on such tactics as court battles to claim land. Land or Death by Hugo Blanco. because of a massive international port among the masses of people, who Such mass actions were especially Pathfinder Press. New York, defense campaign waged in his be­ do not have a full revolutionary con­ important in breaking down the feel­ ings of powerlessness of the Quechua 1972. 178 pp. $6.95 cloth, $2.45 half. sciousness? This section of the book was writ­ The experience of revolutionists peasants, who had been held down paper. ten by Blanco in prison. in Latin America since the inspira­ for centuries under the most extreme The second half of the book is a tion of the Cuban revolution has oppression. In his introduction to this book, Pe­ collection of various other writings­ largely consisted of failures due "The mass meeting put the Indian on ter Camejo writes that Land or letters Blanco wrote from prison to a to their inability to find a correct an­ top of the monster," Blanco writes. "A Death "constitutes one of the most Peruvian student congress and to a swer to this question. concentration of ponchos in the main significant contributions to the theory peasant organizer; an open letter to On the one hand, scores of dedi­ plaza, the heart of the city . . . . The and practice of the Latin American the people of Peru written while cated revolutionists like Che Guevara odor of coca and Quechua, permeat­ revolution since the Cuban Revolu­ Blanco thought he was doomed to have lost their lives in isolated at­ ing the air. Quechua, out loud from tion." Blanco's book has an even execution; three short stories; an anal­ tempts at guerrilla warfare. the throat; Quechua shouted, threat­ broader significance, however. It il­ ysis of the pseudorevolutionary mili­ On the other hand many of these ening, tearing away the centuries of luminates the central questions of tary junta that took power in Peru same revolutionists have taken oppression. A march down the main revolutionary strategy that are appli­ in 1968, and other interesting items. the obverse view when demagogic, streets, before and after the meeting. cable throughout the world. The whole book is written in a sim­ reformist governments have arisen, Windows and doors of the powerful Half the book is an account of a ple, straightforward, highly readable such as that of General Juan Torres fearfully slam~ed shut at the advance rebellion of peasants-many of them manner. Parts are exciting narrative, in Bolivia and of General Juan of the multitudes, aggressive, insulting, Quechuas, the descendants of the In­ including descriptions of the peasant Velasco in Peru. Seeing that the masses threatening, shouting in Quechua truths cas-that began in two provinces of meetings, of Blanco's evasion of the of people have illusions in these silenced by centuries of Castilian Span­ Peru in the early 1960s. Blanco de­ police hunting him down, and of the regimes, many revolutionists have ish. The Indian, master of plazas and scribes graphically the conditions of trial of Blanco and the other peasants given them political support despitethe streets, of the entire street and the side­ life of the peasants, how they began of the guerrilla brigade of the peasant fact that they are not for revolution at walk. That's what the peasant meet­ to organize unions, to take the land union. Other sections of the book in­ all, but for capitalism. ings meant, aside from the specific ob­ that they worked, and to refuse to clude clear political explanation. Still These same mistakes are made ject for each gathering." work as slaves for their landlords. He other parts are passionate and inspir­ throughout the world. In the U. S., Through every possible means explains how the struggle reached ing in identifying with the hatred the for example, revolutionary-minded the stage of incipient dual power­ oppressed feel for their overlords and youth in the Weatherpeople, the old when the organized power of the in showing what it means to be a Students for a Democratic Society, and peasants actually challenged the revolutionist. the Black Panther Party tended power and authority of the local to think it was enough to confront the capitalist state apparatus. And he Revolutionary leadership police, or "pick up the gun," in order tells of how the peasants responded While the struggle described in this to try to create a revolutionary situa­ to armed repression from the land­ book was a peasant fight for land, tion by the sheer will and action of a lords and government through Hugo Blanco was not simply small group. armed peasant militias and guerrilla a peasant leader fighting for land. But then when the election period warfare. He was a revolutionist fighting for came along, many of these same Hugo Blanco was a central leader a socialist government of the workers people, such as Jerry Rubin and Huey of this struggle, elected as the secre­ and peasants of Peru. He is still that. Newton, were out campaigning for tary of agrarian reform of the De­ And he is a leader of the Fourth Inter­ Shirley Chisholm or George McGov­ partmental Peasants Federation of national, whose goal is a worldwide ern, dropping their radical critique of Cuzco and later elected to take system of democratic socialism. society in order not to "alienate" charge of organizing the peasant mi­ Land or Death is not simply about people. litia and guerrilla "commission." a peasant struggle; it is about the This book describes through an Blanco was hunted down and meaning and importance of revolu­ actual experience how it is possible for imprisoned nearly eight years for tionary leadership. It deals with the revolutionists to maintain a per­ his role in this struggle, spending key question facing all those who want spective of uncompromising opposition three of those years in solitary con­ to change society: How is it possible to the capitalist system while at the finement. He was spared a death to maintain a revolutionary per­ &arne time linking up with, and pro­ in courtroom protests injustice of sentence and finally released only spective and at the same time find sup- moting, every impulse among the trial of members of guerrilla group. Blanco and his comrades would peasants in other provinces in sup­ peasant struggles but the lessons of Quechuas, who are doubly oppressed attempt to point out the significance port of the struggle in Cuzco. class struggles of Peru as a whole as peasants and as a nationality. of the peasant actions, such as the This question of the need for a revo­ as well as the class struggle world­ Blanco,· who is half Quechua and work stoppages that paralyzed all lutionary party has been one of the wide. speaks the Quechua language, ex­ transportation, and commercial and main points of discussion among Blanco explains how individual plains how the peasant struggle industrial activity in the province. Latin American revolutionists search­ revolutionary leaders, or small guer­ brought forth the additional element Blanco writes: "we explained then that ing for an explanation for the failure rilla bands isolated from mass strug­ of resurgence of this oppressed people the strike call was a paralyzing decree of the guerrilla warfare strategy. gle, are also not a sufficient instrument demanding to be treated as human issued by the peasantry, and that if Peruvian guerrilla leader Hector for taking on the capitalist state. He beings. it succeeded it was because we had the Bejar, for example, in his book Peru notes that the myth of individual This book will hold special interest strength to enforce it, no matter how 1965: Notes on a Guerrilla Experience; "saviors" of the people is fostered by for the many prisoners in this country illegal it was declared by the bour­ argues against the need to build a the capitalist class because it promotes who, like Blanco, have utilized their geois power." revolutionary Marxist party. He says the passivity and alienation of the time in prison to try to come to grips As the scope of the upsurge grew, the party can only be formed in the masses of people. with questions of revolutionary theory he writes, "we made each demon­ midst of an ongoing mass struggle, "Therefore, Marxists persist in show­ and practice. Blanco was given a 25- stration of peasant power more formal otherwise it will be incapable of ing the masses that their power lies year term and won amnesty along and more explicit." reflecting the interests of the masses in themselves," writes Blanco. "If there with other revolutionists only after At the same time he and the other and will degenerate into bureaucracy. are different levels of organization serving almost eight years on the Trotskyists warned the peasants from Hugo Blanco effectively answers such whose vanguard is the party, it is prison island of El Front6n. the start that the capitalist government objections to the need for a revolution­ precisely because the party brings to­ Short ·parts of the book deal with would not allow them to challenge ary Leninist party by demonstrating gether the least alienated and most the role of women in the Cuzco peas~ the sanctity of private property by the crucial role of revolutionary lead­ combative sector of those masses, the ant upsurge, and will be inspiring taking the land, and urged the peasant ership in the Cuzco peasant struggle sector that believes least in redeemers to feminists. unions to prepare to defend themselves and the problems that arose because and that believes most in the power Finally, the book will be of special against armed repression by the that leadership was not stronger and of the masses; the party is not a col­ interest to civil libertarians and again rulers. was not consolidated in a national lection of exceptional individuals who to prisoners because of the dramatic organization. can substitute themselves for the action success of the worldwide campaign Armed struggle Blanco writes that in Cuzco, "it was of the masses." that saved Blanco's life. Included The approach to armed struggle by Blanco and the peasant revolutionists he worked with was totally different, however, from the approach of those who have elevated guerrilla warfare to a general strategy, unconnected with a mass political struggle. Blanco writes: "It is not revolutionary to climb to the summit of the revolution with the scheme of what is 'inevitable' in your hand, scorning the masses for 'not supporting us,' for 'not following,' looking with disdain at their 'reform­ ist land claims,' their 'low level,' and their 'primitive means of struggle.' "The masses will not 'link up with the armed struggle.' No. That is put­ ting things backwards. The armed struggle will emerge from the masses. The role of the revolutionary is to stimulate and lead this process." He explains how the peasants of Cuzco became conscious of the need for..)_~rmed struggle out of their own experiences. There were numerous in­ cidents of armed attacks on peasants by the landowners. First the peasants demanded protection from the local police, only to find that the police took the side of the landlords. Only then did the peasant federations of La Convenci6n and Lares decide to es­ tablish Union Defense Brigades. Hugo Blanco was one of the two people assigned to head this work. Later Blanco was one of a group of Peasant union banner reads, 'land or death! We shall win!' peasants elected to form a special "com­ mission" that functioned in essence as a guerrilla band. not human material that was lacking, To better understand the role of the in the second part of the book is an Thus the armed struggle grew out for the evolvement of the peasant revolutionary party it is instructive to open letter from Blanco to all those of a mass struggle and took the form struggle in La Convenci6n and in the read Blanco's Land or Death in con­ who aided the campaign against im­ of militias based on the peasant orga­ rest of the department produced junction with another book that is position of the death penalty in his nizations. The armed groups were es­ its own vanguard, as any struggle similar in many ways, Teamster Re­ case. tablished to carry out the decisions does. What was lacking was the dis­ bellion by Farrell Dobbs. Dobbs's Blanco writes in this letter: "With of the peasant representatives and tinct organization of that vanguard in book, which recounts the role of Ameri­ your example, solidarity will extend to were seen as one aspect of a general a disciplined nucleus, completely con­ can Trotskyists in the 1934 Minneapo­ all the political prisoners of Peru; to political struggle. scious of the role it would have to lis Teamsters strikes, shows in a posi­ the victims of repression in Latin Blanco's explanation of the role of play in the process." tive sense the difference that a revolu­ America and in all the countries fight­ armed struggle in the Peruvian tionary party can make in a mass ing to liberate themselves; to the peasant struggle contains answers to He explains how the most militant struggle, even if it is only a very small people w]J.o fight to maintain their many of the questions that have been peasants, and the most militant peas­ party. independence, as in Cuba. Solidarity raised by Latin American guerrilla ant union of Chaupimayo, attempted Reading the two books together with the Vietnamese people, to whom fighters in attempting to evaluate why to fulfill some of the functions of a serves to highlight the common prob­ the human race owes so much, will guerrilla warfare since the Cuban revolutionary party because of the lems of revolutionary strategy and increase beyond measure." revolution has been unsuccessful. necessities of the struggle. Rank-and­ tactics faced by Marxists throughout -CAROLINE LUND file peasants .from the Chaupimayo the world- such problems as the im­ union, for example, would travel to portance of timing considerations in Revolutionary par-ty other areas to function as organizers responding to the ruling class; the im­ While the struggles described in and leaders in spreading the struggle. portance of defensive formulations so Land or Death showed the value of A "general staff' was set up in as to make clear how justice is on the the transitional method, they also Chaupimayo to coordinate the strug­ side of the oppressed and so as not to Land or pointed up a grave need-the need gle in the whole department. This cen­ give undue advantage to the rulers; for a revolutionary party- a disci­ tralized leadership attempted to com­ the importance of a correct judgment plined, homogeneous formation de­ bine the union, political, and military of the level of consciousness of the Death signed to organize, extend, and cen­ aspects of the struggle- one of the masses; and the importance of mili­ tralize the struggles of all the oppressed key functions of a revolutionary tary considerations in such deadly into a unified fight against the entire Marxist party. serious struggles. by Hugo capitalist system of oppression and But this rudimenta~y leadership Land or Death, however, _is not only exploitation. could not take the place of a Lenin­ a book for those interested in building Blanco Blanco shows how the peasant up­ ist party- a party that had roots a revolutionary party. It will also be With an introduction by Peter Camejo. surge in Cuzco suffered and finally among the workers and students of of special interest to African-Ameri­ $6.95 cloth, $2.45 paper. faced a defeat because there was no Peru, not only the peasants, and a cans, Chicanos, and Native-Americans PATHFINDER PRESS, 410 West St., revolutionary party that could have party whose members had assimilated because of Blanco's explanations of New York, N.Y. 10014. mobilized workers, students, and not only the lessons of the Peruvian the power of nationalism of Peru's

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Arab-American Club at the University The Nov. 2 Christian Science Moni­ This state of affairs has been most The spirited marchers, mostly of Minnesota in Minneapolis was in­ tor carries a report by John Cooley, noticeable in the public employees sec­ Arabs, carried Palestinian flags and terrogated twice by FBI agents fol­ who writes that "witnesses said one tor. Last year 63 percent of all strikes signs with slogans such as "Solidarity lowing the Munich events. The ques­ of the areas hit was a housing area were by public employees, including of Arabs and Jews against Zionism," tions he was asked had nothing to for Syrian refugees who fled the Go­ civil servants, teachers, firemen, and ."Stop brutal action of German police do with any supposed terrorist ac­ lan Heights in the 1967 war." Cooley hospital workers. Strikes have also against progressive groups," and "Im­ tivities- they dealt with the activities also mentions the report of news agen­ been called by dock worke_rs, airline perialists are the international outlaws, and membership of his organization. cies in Damascus that "Several time maintenance crews, truckers, and flour not freedom fighters." The demonstra­ Numerous instances in which people bombs exploded after the raids, one mill workers. tors chanted, "Vietnam to Palestine, traveling by air have been separated killing a family of seven. . . ." Most of the strikes have been con­ one struggle, many fronts," "Free Pal­ from other passengers and searched Although the raids came just 24 ducted in spite of industrywide agree­ estine," and other slogans. soley because they were Arabs have hours after the hijacking of a West ments between the Histadrut, which The demands of the demonstration also been reported. This has been German airliner had forced the re­ "represents" the bulk of the workers tied the defense of Arabs against re­ done despite the fact that there have lease of three of the Arab commandos in Israel, and the government. Fifty­ pression and government terrorism in been no cases of terrorist acts on the involved in the Munich events, the two percent of the strikes in the last West Germany with defense of world­ part of Arabs in the U. S., although Israeli military claimed that the raids year were not sanctioned by Hista­ wide struggles for national liberation. such acts have been directed against were not in retaliation for the hijack­ drut. Hassan el Nouty, a professor at the Arabs here. ing. Terence Smith, writing in the Although the Histadrut calls itself University of California at Los An­ On Oct. 16 Aryeh Neier, the execu­ Nov. 5 New York Times "Week in in English "The General Federation geles, told the rally, "Those who shout tive director of the American Civil Review" section, quotes one Israeli of­ of Labor in Israel," it also happens loudest against terrorism are the very Liberties Union, sent a letter to U. S. ficer who said, "the fact is that the to be the largest . employer in Israel. same ones who are spreading terror­ Attorney General Richard Kleindienst raids had nothing to do with the hi­ It owns banks, shipping and airline ism all over the world." He pointed in which he took note of reports that jacking and would have gone off as companies, the largest construction out that the current attacks on Arabs Arabs were being investigated solely in West Germany are a threat to the because they were Arabs. Neier noted struggles of other peoples, such as that such investigations were "consti­ Iranians, Turks, and Africans, as well. tutionally impermissible," and could Ahmad Mobrez of the Iranian Stu­ generate "the impression in the Arabic dents Organization explained that the community that public statements of coalition had sent two delegations this support for the Arabic position in the month to talk to the West German Arab-Israeli dispute will be reason consulate staff here and had gotten enough for federal officers to take an only denials that the incidents are tak­ official interest in the spokesmen of ing place. Meetings of the coalition are · those views." continuing, and further actions are Neier urged Kleindienst to repudi­ peing planned. ate publicly any government intention The U. S. government has refused to of stifling the right of Arabs to speak disclose details of its measures of sur­ openly. So far, Kleindienst has not veillance and "investigation" of Arab replied to Neier's request.

Is ~human failure' cause of recent train wrecks? By MARVEL SCHOLL in a parking lot. No one was killed Suburban riders know full well the but one crewman and four passengers dangers they face every day as they were injured. An operator on the train e commute to their jobs in big cities. said that when he realized something A victim of Israel's 'anti-terrorist' campaign, this Palestinian child was killed by Zion­ Old, broken-down trains, under­ was wrong he pressed an emergency ist bombs. staffed, dirty, cold in the winter and stop button but could not get the train unbearably hot in the summer, are slowed down in time to avert the ac­ scheduled Monday morning even if firm in Israel, and runs the largest a scandal all over the country. cident. it had not occurred." health insurance system, to name only The most recent tragedy involving When the investigation into this ac­ The raids, which were the fourth some of its operations. suburban trains occurred in Chicago cident· is complete will they blame the series of attacks against Arab coun­ The Mapai party, a social demo­ Oct. 30 when a double-deck train over­ control oscillator-or a computer op­ tries in the last two months, were fol­ cratic party affiliated to the Second shot a station, backed up, and was erator? lowed by further attacks on a Syrian International and headed by Golda rammed by a closely following ex­ army headquarters later the same Meir, is the main governing party press train. Forty-four persons were day. The increasing Israeli belliger­ in Israel. It also controls the Hista­ killed, more than 300 injured. ence was expressed by Lieutenant Gen­ drut. The engineer on the double-decker eral David Elazar, the Israeli chief In the past most Jewish workers said his brakes failed when he attempt­ of staff, in an interview published on in Israel have subordinated their eco­ ed to stop. A plethora of local and Nov. 3 and quoted by Smith. Elazar nomic demands to the needs of "nq­ federal investigations are now under­ argues that "'hitting the terrorists is tional unity" and "national defense" way. They will probably come to the the first priority.' If that endangers any time the government whipped up usual conclusion arrived at after trag­ the cease-fire, he said, 'we already a war scare. However, Smith claims ic accidents in transportation- human have more volunteers for the combat that "The siege mentality that pre­ failure. The bad brakes, the possible units than we can accommodate.'" vailed during the 1967 war and the faulty construction of the double-d.eck Inside Israel there has been a grow­ fighting along the Suez Canal in 1969 train, and the inadequate system of ing right-wing campaign, supported and 1970 has given way to concern signals at the station will be side­ by several influential papers and over internal social and economic tracked somewhere along the line. members of the Knesset (the Israeli problems." This concern has been Another commuter train accident on parliament), for the extension of "anti­ heightened by the fact that retail prices the newly opened, almost completely terrorisf' raids to Libya, which gave in Israel rose 23 percent from mid- automated Bay Area Rapid Transit asylum to the three commandos re­ 1970 through 1971. (BART) in California is almost funny leased as a result of the hijacking. The reaction of the so-called social­ in a macabre sort of way. A two-car Meanwhile, the repeated demonstra­ ists in the government was typified train was derailed when a tiny con­ tions of Israel's overwhelming mili­ by Gidon Ben-Israel, the government's trol oscillator transposed a slow-down tary superiority over its Arab neigh­ chief labor-relations officer. "We are command to a speed-up (to 70 miles bors have helped to aggravate some faced with a spiraling situation that an hour) command, and the train of the internal problems faced by the is out of control," he said. "The Gov­ rammed through a barrier at Fre­ social democratic government of ernment has no choice but to crack mont, Calif. One of the cars landed Illinois Central wreck, Chicago. Golda Meir. down."

THE MILITANT/NOVEMBER 17, 1972 19. In Review Books Film Leon Trotsky Speaks Leon Trotsky Speaks. Edited by Sarah Lovell. York in support of another revolution, one that would Pathfinder Press. New York, 7972. 336 pp. shift power to the workers and peasants organized $8.95 cloth, $3.45 paper. in the Soviets. Returning to Russia in May, Trotsky addressed In addition to his many other talents Leon Trotsky the Petrograd Soviet for the first time on the fifth was a great orator. Anatoly Lunacharsky, commis­ of that month. After bringing greetings from Ameri­ sar of education in the first Soviet government, who can workers and German war prisoners in Canada, was familiar with the great public speakers of his where the British government held him for about a time, wrote of Trotsky, "I consider Trotsky probably month, Trotsky said, "I think that the next step the greatest orator of our times." should be the handing over of all power to the So­ The first speech in this book is the final summary viet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies." This position The made by Trotsky in the czarist court in 1906, when placed him side by side with Lenin, from whom he he \Vas 26 years old. Trotsky met the principal had been separated for some years. From then on, charge, that the Petrograd Soviet was preparing an the Lenin-Trotsky alliance led the Russian revolution Ruling armed uprising, head on. to the October victory. The defendants in this case, leaders of the 1905 After the Bolsheviks took power Trotsky held the revolution, had been kept in jail for a year and a post of commissar of foreign affairs in the first So­ Class half before their trial began. Trotsky had been chair­ viet government. One of the first acts of the new The Ruling Class. Directed by Peter Me­ man of the Petersburg Soviet, and his fellow defen­ state was to publish the secret treaties entered into by dants were members of that workers council. the czar and retained by the various coalitions that dak. Screenplay by Peter Barnes. The address to the court is a model of how revo­ succeeded him. At a public meeting in Petrograd This movie won't tell you everything you lutionists can use the forum of a courtroom to ex­ Trotsky denounced the practice of secret diplomacy: always wanted to know about. the ruling plain their ideas and educate a mass movement. "We said then and we say now that a people cannot -:lass. Technically speaking, it's not even shed their blood and that of their brothers for treaties about the ruling class. It's about the cere­ that they have not themselves concluded, have never monial scum that floats above the stag­ read or even seen." nant water of the British ruling class. Describing Bolshevik policy in forthcoming ne­ How can you tell a member of the Eng­ gotiations with Germany to end the war, he said, lish aristocracy? "By the smell, of course," "Secret diplomacy shall not be tolerated for a single blurts out Tucker, the butler. This outburst moment during the negotiations. Our leaflets and our of class-conscious rudeness would give the -radio service will keep all the nations informed of discerning British ear all the evidence it every proposition we make and of the answers they needs to conclude "the butler did it." elicit from Germany." This is in sharp contrast to Sure enough, we discover by the end of the spectacle of Nixon's messenger boy, Dr. Kis­ the movie that these discerning British have singer, rushing from pillar to post in all parts of figured out a way to pin the rap on their the world making secret agreements with other coun­ ungrateful servant, whom they discover tries, the details of which are hidden from the Ameri­ was a secret "Bolshie" all along ("Bolshie" can people. is aristocratese for Bolshevik). In 1924 Trotsky addressed the third anniversary The crime in question is the murder of meeting of the Communist University of the Toilers Lady Gurney, and the real villain is Tuck­ of the East, established in Moscow to teach Asian er's young master, Jack Gurney. revolutionaries. He explained the application of Director Peter Medak and playwright Marxist theory to the growing revolutionary devel­ Peter Barnes turn the traditional British opments in the colonial sectors of the world. mystery-comedy on its head. Usually these dusty Anglo-Saxon cobwebs are filled with painfully polite, painfully daft old men who Defended revolution somehow manage to "muddle along" de­ In 1929 Trotsky was deported from the Soviet spite the mortal threat posed by "lower­ Union by the reactionary Stalinist bureaucracy that" class ruffians and foreigners." had usurped power. Living in exile in Turkey, he Their witless offspring may come under was invited in 1932 to speak in Copenhagen. As bad influences, only later to emerge as the it turned out, the audience of 2,000 was the last pillar of the community and a stable and Trotsky at the podium in Copenhagen, Nov. 27, 1932. large group that Trotsky ever addressed. trusted heir. Of course, crowning God's His speech was a defense of the Russian revolution, scheme (the royal scheme) is that superb~y but he also ranged, as was his custom, over a wider arrogant bit of social propaganda -"the area. For Americans his defense of revolution in gen­ butler did it!" Trotsky said, in part, "we never prepar;ed an up­ eral is interesting. Referring to whether the costs Although the butler (Arthur Lowe) might rising, as the prosecutor thinks and says, we pre­ of the American Civil War of the 1860s were worth­ take the rap, it's Peter O'Toole who steals pared for an uprising-for us, this meant first and while, he said, "From the standpoint of the American the show. O'Toole plays the witless heir, foremost to bring clarity into the minds of the people; slaveholder and the ruling classes qf Great Britain Jack Gurney, confined in an asylum be­ to explain to them that an open conflict was inevi­ who marched with them-no! From the standpoint cause of his paranoid schizophrenic delu­ table; that they would be deprived of everything that of the Negro or of the British workingman-abso­ sion that he's Jesus Christ. A mad fellow, had been granted them; that they could preserve their lutely! And from the standpoint of the development this God of Love, obviously unfit to in­ freedoms only by force; that a mighty organization of humanity as a whole-there can be no doubt herit the Gurney mantle and the Gurney of the revolutionary masses was indispensable; that whatever." millions. it was necessary. to meet the enemy head on; that The book ends not with a speech but with Trotsky's But through hard work, innate British they had to be prepared to go to the end in the strug­ testament, which he wrote in 1940, several months reasonableness, and with the promise of gle; that there was no other road. For us; this con­ before he was assassinated by a Stalinist agent. In it a mighty inheritance to spur him on, stituted the essence of the uprising." (Emphasis in he sums up his life's work, and knowing that his Jack -the prospective fourteenth Earl of original.) This was an accurate forecast of the coming time is growing short, he leaves a brief and beautiful Gurney -manages to cure himself of his revolution of 1917. message to all humankind. delusions. There is, however, one awkward­ His wife Natalia is in view just outside his window. Trotsky in New York ness connected with his cure: Jack murders Trotsky writes, "Natasha has just come up to the women. (But fqr a stoic English gentleman . Compelled to leave Europe at the end of 1916, window from the courtyard and opened it wider so this will prove to be only a mild embar- Trotsky and his family found asylum in New York that the air may enter more freely into my room. I rassment.) · for two months. In February 1917 the czar was over-· can see the bright .green strip of grass beneath the The moral is simple: if you try to be the thrown and replaced by a government of capitalist wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and God of Love, you won't get anywhere; but and social-reformist parties. The Soviets, which had sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future if you succeed in becoming Jack the Rip­ disappeared after the defeat of the 1905 revolution, generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and per, you might make it to the House of now vigorously sprang to life in Petersburg and violence and enjoy it to the full." Lords. many other Russian cities. Trotsky spoke in New -MIL TON ALVIN And so, as this uproarious three hours grinds to its grimly ironic conclusion, we leave Jack Gurney, the fourteenth Earl of Gurney, revelling in the sacrosanct crypt of the House of Lords by day and the back alleys of Jack the Ripper by night. -DAVID SALNER

20 Final week of referendum battle East Abortion debate held in Detroit Cambridge By PAULA REIMERS this fabrication by citing the most re­ ist Workers Party congressional can­ DETROIT, Nov. 2 -Last night near­ cent statistics from health officials in didate in the 13th C. D., explained youth · ly 150 people attended a debate here New York. These figures show a that she had had two abortions, and at Wayne State University on Mich­ sharp decrease in maternal deaths that she and other women had no igan's abortion law. The debate was since the liberal New York abortion intention of allowing the state or the sponsored by Wayne Women's Lib­ law has been in effect. courts to decide what women should protest cop eration and the Detroit Women's Abor­ A lively discussion followed the ini­ do with their bodies. tion Action Coalition (DWAAC). tial presentations. One older Black After the debate, many women Proposal B, a referendum on the woman got up and said that she had stopped by the DWAAC table to pick brutality Nov. 7 Michigan ballot, has become four children and had also had four up literature supporting Proposal B the focus of discussion on the abor­ abortions during her lifetime. She de­ for last-minute distribution. By BERNIE LOUGEE tion issue. If passed, this proposal nounced the Voice of the Unborn BOSTON, Nov. 7- The brutal kill­ would make abortion legal in Mich­ group for trying to take away wom­ The Catholic Church hierarchy and ing of an East Cambridge youth has igan when performed within the first en's right to abortion. anti-abortion groups have conducted touched off a series of angry dem­ 20 weeks of pregnancy by a licensed A high school woman spoke, stating an extensive campaign on TV and onstrations against police violence. doctor in a state-approved facility. she would vote "yes" on Proposal B radio, and through mailings, phone Late Saturday evening, Oct. 21, Participating in the debate in favor if she were old enough to vote. She calls, and billboards for defeat of the Lawrence Largey, 17, and a friend of Proposal B were Gretchen Tucker explained the type of social ostracism referendum. Parochial school students were arrested at Roosevelt Towers­ of Detroit Clergy Counseling, an abor­ faced by young women who become have been released from classes to a white working-class housing project. tion referral service, and Dr. Barbara pregnant. canvass door-to-door against Propos­ Eyewitnesses say Largey entered the Roberts, national coordinator of the A male high school student said al B. police van without resistance. They Women's National Abortion Action that at his school 30 women students This anti-abortion campaign ap­ also saw the cops, nightsticks in hand, Coalition (WONAAC). had been dismissed in one year be-· pears to be having an impact. A poll follow Largey into the truck and close Dr. Ann Pollack, pathologist and cause of pregnancy. The issue of abor­ published this week by the Detroit the doors. member of Illinois Right to Life, and tion touches not only on the right of News showed that 54 percent of the They said, "The truck rocked back Pat Nixon, representing the group women to control their own bodies Detroit electorate now opposes Pro­ and forth as if a fight was going Voice of the Unborn, spoke against but also on their right to attend school posal B. Previous polls had shown on." When the doors were opened, Lar­ Proposal B. or hold jobs while pregnant, he said. a majority in favor of abortion re­ gey was lying in a pool of blood. The presentation by Dr. Roberts was Nanci Kimker, the Michigan Social- form. Three hours later he was dead. especially well received. She outlined By Monday, Oct. 23, it was appar­ how denying women the right to con­ ent the police and city government trol their own bodies helps the rulers were trying to put a lid on the mur­ of this country prevent women from der. That evening hundreds of in­ controlling their entire lives. She also censed East Cambridge youths took noted the hypocrisy of the Catholic to the street. Police used gas to break Church hierarchy in denouncing abor­ up their protests. On Oct. 24 and Oct. tion as "murder," reminding her au­ 25 the protests grew in . size. Riot­ dience of the Church's history of sup­ equipped police again used gas and port to murderous regimes around dogs to break them up. the world. On Oct. 26, Hard Times, a local Pat Nixon based her arguments on social welfare group, announced a the claim that if Proposal B passed, march on police headquarters. That this would amount to the establish­ afternoon the police issued a trumped­ ment of fascism. She tried to justify up autopsy report that attributed Lar­ this fantastic theory by saying that gey's death to an overdose of "rapid the practice of legal abortion is no acting" drugs combined with large different from Hitler's extermination amounts of alcohol. of the Jews. In response, well over 2,500 pro­ Nixon and members of her organi­ testers marched to police headquarters zati_on also tried to convince the rest One week before Michigan referendum, women debate Proposal B, which would le­ demanding the suspension and indict­ of the audience that the maternal death galize abortion. Photo on right is of Barbara Roberts, National Coordinator of WO­ ment of the two cops who made the rate has increased in states where NAAC (I) and Gretchen Tucker from Michigan Counseling for Problem Pregnancy arrest. Chanting "We want justice," abortion is legal. Dr. Roberts exposed ( r), who spoke for women's right to abortion. they then marched to a special city council hearing, where they repeated their demands and called for a new autopsy. The city council requested the city manager to order an "impartial in­ vestigation" of the killing but refused Mayor finds ~nonexistent' funds to order a new autopsy; it also an­ nounced that the two cops were now on leave without pay. The protesters, Cleveland unions gain in strike furious over this attempt to whitewash the murder, showered the council By ROBERT BRENNAN Negotiators for the city claimed they false. When the strikers demanded liv­ members with paper. CLEVELAND, Nov. 1-City em­ were unable to grant any wage in­ ing wages, the city found the money Late Thursday evening, Oct. 26, ployees here ended a nine-day strike creases until they failed on Oct. 2 to pay them. City workers will remem­ Cambridge youths demonstrated on Oct. 4, proving that better wages to get a court order against the strike. ber this in the next round of ne­ again. Police cordoned off the eight­ can be won from a city administra­ Mayor Ralph Perk had issued an ul­ gotiations. block area where the actions occurred, tion that pleads "no funds." The strike timatum Sept. 29, threatening the Another thing to remember is the arrested 15 people, and beat up Ken­ was called by American Federation of strikers with "the full power of my sad lack of unity among the different neth Gustowski, a youth who has cer­ State, County and Municipal Employ­ ·office" if they failed to return to work unions. If the seven that stayed on ebral palsy and who was not part ees (AFSCME) Local 100, and joined by Monday, Oct. 2. the sidelines had joined Locals 100 of the demonstration. by Municipal Foremen and Laborers The mayor implied that he would and 1099 on the picket lines, the strik­ City Manager John Corcoran, who Local 1099 four days before settle­ invoke Ohio's Ferguson Act, which ers' bargaining power would have has an especially cozy relationship ment. Seven other union locals repre­ denies public employees the right to been tremendously increased. The with the police department, has an­ senting workers affected by the strike strike, if Cleveland courts refused to $14.1-million federal revenue sharing nounced the beginning of an inves­ remained on the sidelines, attempting issuE! back-to-work orders. But the fund for Cleveland is enough to triple tigation. Cambridge residents are to reach separate agreements with the strikers' cause was so just and public the piddling 5.5 percent wage increase, skeptical of Corcoran's "impartiality." city administration. opinion so heavily on their side that with $10-million left over to expand Concurrent with the city's investiga­ Despite union division, AFSCME the courts refused the city's request. city services and hire more workers. tion, Middlesex County District Attor­ Local 100 and Laborers Local 1099 Mayor Perk then decided to retreat. Under the circumstances the strike ney John Droney has called for a won some important concessions. The Some important issues of the strike settlement is a victory of the moment, separate investigation of the case. Dro­ city granted a 5.5 percent wage in­ have not yet been resolv~d, but the but it is generally recognized here that ney was opposed in the Massachusetts crease and agreed to a two-step plan small wage gains were a break­ the wage increase will be eaten away senatorial race by Socialist Workers to pay fringe benefits included in the through. The settlement represented a by inflation and higher taxes before Party candidate Don Gurewitz. 1970 contract but never paid. Under complete reversal of the city's position. the contract expires. Gurewitz has demanded that his op­ the new agreement the city will pay On Oct. 19, Perk announced that the Complete union solidarity in future ponent exercise his official powers and these "back benefits" in equal install­ 5.5 percent raise won by the strike negotiations would give city workers indict the cops. He has supported the ments on June 30, 1973, and June would be extended to all city employ­ the power needed to win higher real demand for an independent investi­ 30, 1974. Other gains include a new ees. wages and raise their present low gation into the death of Largey. The $3,000 life insurance policy, fully paid He revealed then that the city expects standard of living. The question is socialist candidate's statements were family hospitalization, and longevity $14.1-million in 1973 from the federal how to unite all local unions represent­ widely reported on radio and televi­ bonuses. revenue sharing plan. This is an ad­ ing city workers. The strike action of s"ion. The unions relinquished step in­ mission by Perk that previous claims AFSCME Local 100 and Laborers creases in wages for 1973 but won a of poverty to deny benefits under the Local 1099 demonstrated what is pos­ Jan. 1, 197 4, reopener clause on old contract and modest wage in­ sible and provides the basis for joint wages and step increases. creases in the new settlement were action next time.

THE MILITANT/NOVEMBER 17, 1972 21 U. S. bombing. It is also the result She then flew to Michigan for more Prieto, an Illinois doctor who was of inadequate political and military campaigning. being considered for the position of support from Moscow and Peking. medical director of the projected clinic. Nobody can fault fighters who are The charges by McGovern and his waging a historic struggle but are Illinois campaign manager that there Calendar compelled to make a settlement. was "an arrangement" between Nixon But the job of those in the U.S. ... Smith and the Raza Unida Party were par­ CHICAGO who defend the Vietnamese revolution Continued from page 13 AFRICA: THE NEXT VIETNAM? Speaker: John Hawkins, tially attributed to Prieto. is not to help Washington impose this seen could not possibly have been Socialist Workers Party candidate in New York's 12th Smith. Hubert Brown testified Oct. 19 C. D. and member of the Young Socialist Alliance settlement. Nor is it to demand that Gutierrez answered Prieto's charges. national executive committee. Fri., Nov. 17, 8 p.m. Nixon sign this arrogant agreement that he saw two Gis fleeing from the She wrote, "Health care does not have 180 N. Wacker Dr., Room 310. Donation: $1, h.s. as quickly as possible. officers' barracks where the fragging a political ideology." She pointed to the students 75c. Ausp: Militant Forum. For more infor­ Our task is to expose the injustice occurred. Brown said that when he mation call (312)641-0147. lack of health services in Crystal City, of this proposed settlement and ex­ informed Army investigators of what he had seen, he was immediately "a Chicano, rural, poor, migrant com­ CLEVELAND plain why it won't bring peace to munity." She cited the "inordinately DINNER AND RALLY WITH LINDA JENNESS, Socialist Vietnam. We must tell the truth about placed on the lineup of suspects along high" mortality rate, "death at infancy, Workers Party presidential candidate. Fri., Nov. 17, this nine-point proposal. with Smith. 6:30 p.m. 4420 Superior Ave. Donation: $2.50. For or, if y~u live through that, an early We must also do what we can to The court-martial is being held in more information call (216) 391-5553. death at 48 years of age from TB." help relieve the pressure on the Viet­ a courthouse at Fort Ord, Calif., She referred to the struggle by LOS ANGELES namese fighters and prevent the U. S. ringed by military police and topped Crystal City Chicanos to take over the THE MILITANT LABOR FORUM presents weekly forums government from wresting more con­ with snipers. on Friday evenings at 8:30 p.m. Some of the topics Gis at Fort Ord told The Militant city government and wrote, "When covered ore: economics; ecology; the struggles of cessions. The most effective way to do this is to help mobilize as many they had been told they would face political control was wrested from the ,women, Blocks, and Chicanos for liberation; the anti· disciplinary action if they discussed gringo in 1970, health had been an war movement; literature and art; the student move­ people as possible in demonstrations ment; trade-union movement; and the struggles in and rallies to demand that the U.S. the case publicly. overriding issue. We saw and are other countries. 1107 1/2 N. Western Ave. Donation: get all of its forces out of Southeast Several Gis who attended a rally seeing that many government dollars $1, h.s. students 50c. For more information call (213) for Smith at Fort Ord about a year that should have gone to health care 463-1917. Asia and let the Vietnamese handle their own affairs. ago have since been transferred to were and are being used for. 'other' NEW YORK: LOWER MANHATTAN This underlines the importance of other parts of the country or have things, and since 1970, this com­ "THE ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY"- A critical ap­ turning out as many people as pos­ been given undesirable discharges. munity has been and continues to be praisal of the movie. Speakers: George Weissman, sible for the Nov. 18 antiwar actions Smith, who has been in solitary con­ demanding, threatening and fighting farmer editor of The Militant; Lenny Rubenstein, co­ finement in Fort Ord for more than to get not one million dollars for one editor, Cineaste.mogazine; James D'Anna, movie critic to be held in cities throughout the and radio commentator, WRVR. Fri., Nov. 17, 8 p.m. country. 19 months, attributed his arrest and clinic in Crystal, but $25 billion for 706 Broadway (4th St.), Eighth Floor. Donation: $1, confinement to the fact that "I did clinics in Chicano communities h.s. students SOc. Sponsored by Militant Labor Forum. not have a puppet mind, and I was throughout the Southwest. For more information call (212)982-5940. a candid, outspoken individual. I had stated time and time again that I re­ "We have been able to wrest PHILADELPHIA around one million for about three THE MEANING OF LIFE: A Marxist View. Speaker: ... victory alized the war in Indochina was un­ communities- a far cry from the $25 George Novack, Marxist scholar and philosopher. Fri., Continued from page 9 just and racially motivated, and that Nov. 17, 8 p.m. University of Pennsylvania, Houston they're the party's ideas." most of all I strictly hated all who billion we need. Nothing is going to Hall, Second Floor, 3417 Spruce St. Donation: $1. In response to questions, Spock said had high regard for the habitual but­ deter us from continuing our struggle Sponsored by U of P Young Socialist Alliance. For that if major industries were nation­ for health care. Gringo bullets and more i~lormotion call (215) WAS-4316. chery of the Vietnamese people." alized, the former owners should be Despite the complete destruction of ballots haven't stopped us yet, so little TWIN CITIES reimbursed. He said the People's Par­ the Army's legal case, the repressive political schemes designed to promote REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM- NOW MORE THAN ty has no position on the Middle East. security measures at Fort Ord are the presidential aspiration of a gringo EVER. Speakers: Becky Bohan, University of Minn. The last week of the campaign trail a constant reminder that the jury is will certainly not get in our way." women's liberation activist; and Dave Zilly, former Gutierrez asked Prieto, "Where were member of the New American Movement and now began in Minneapolis, Minn., where made up of officers. Smith's convic­ a member of the Young Socialist Alliance. Fri., Nov. Jenness spoke at the University of tion or acquittal ultimately rests with you when the governor vetoed our 17, 8 p.m. 1 University Ave. N. E., Mpls. Donation: Minnesota and Augsburg College. this hand-picked panel. project? ... and he's a democrat. ... $1, h.s. students 50c. Sponsored by Militant Forum. After she addressed a campaign rally The Billy Dean Smith Defense Com­ Where were you during the El Paso For more information call (612) 332-7781. Oct. 31 in Minneapolis, five people mittee urges that mass support be dem­ convention when it was unanimously OPEN HOUSE with film To Make a Revolution. Speak­ asked to join the Young Socialist Al­ onstrated as the case goes to jury. decided not to support McGovern or er: Hank Scheer. Sot., Nov. 18, alter the antiwar dem· liance. Telegrams demanding that all charges Nixon? Were you there to hear the onstrotion (approximately 3 p.m.). 1 University Ave., Jenness had two speaking engage­ be dropped can.be addressed to Com­ reasons why? And what were you do­ N. E., Mpls. Donation: $1.25. Sponsored by Young ments at the University of Northern manding General Harold Moore at ing during the McCarthy era? You Socialist Alliance. Dinner and party to follow. For more information call (612) 332-7781. Iowa in Cedar Falls on Nov. 1. A Fort Ord, Calif. 93941. have obviously picked up his red­ total of 350 students heard her at an baiting techniques against us without afternoon rally in the student union bothering to investigate first. . . . and at an evening meeting sponsored "You have proven by your actions by the Controversial Speakers Bu­ that some weak members of La Raza, ... 9 points reau. ... RUP such as yourself, Dr. Prieto, are con­ Continued on page 5 From Cedar Fails, Jenness flew to Continued from page 14 tinuing to let themselves be used by They are under great pressure from New York City to appear on the na­ tit\rrez, a member of the Zavala Coun­ the gringo in his political fights with the long years of war and the intensive tionally televised CBS Morning News. ty Health Association, and Jorge each other." Socialist Directory ALABAMA: Tuscaloosa: YSA, P. 0. Box 5462, University, Ala. 35486. INDIANA: Bloomington: YSA, c/o Student Activities Desk, Indiana Uni· Upper West Side: SWP and YSA, 2744 Broadway (106th St.). New ARIZONA: Phoenix: YSA, c/o Angelo Mercure, 9 E. 13 St., Tempe, versity, Bloomington, Ind. 47401. York, N.Y. 10025. Tel: (212)663-3000. . Ariz. 85281. KENTUCKY: Lexington: YSA, P. 0. Box 952, University Station, Lexing· OHIO: Cincinnati: YSA, c/o C. R. Mitts, P.O. Box 32084, Cincinnati, CALIFORNIA: Berkeley-Oakland: SWP and YSA, 3536 Telegraph Ave., ton, Ky. 40506. Ohio 45232.Tel: (513)242-6132. Oakland, Calif. 94609. Tel: (415) 654-9728. LOUISIANA: Bolon Rouge: YSA, c/o Craig Biggio, 10975 Sheraton Cleveland: SWP and YSA, 4420 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44103. Chico: YSA, c/o Kathy Isabell, 266 E. Sacramento Ave., Chico, Calif. Dr., Baton Rouge, La. 70815. Tel: (216)391-5553. 95926. MARYLAND: College Park: YSA, University P. 0. Box 73, U of Md., Columbus: YSA, 1612 Summit St. (side entrance), Columbus, Ohio Los Angeles: SWP and YSA, 1107 1/2 N. Western Ave., Los Angeles, College Pork, Md. 207 42. 43201. Tel: (614)299-2942. Calif. 90029. Tel: SWP -(213)463-1917, YSA- (213) 463-1966. MASSACHUSETTS: Amherst: YSA, R. S. 0. Box 324, U of Moss., Am· Yellow Spripgs: YSA, Antioch College Union, Yellow Springs, Ohio Riverside: YSA, c/o Don Andrews, 3408 Florida, Riverside, Calif. 92507. hers!, Mass. 01002. 45387. Sacramento: YSA, c/o Norm Holsinger, 817o 27 St., Sacramento, Calif. Boston: SWP and YSA, c/o Militant Labor Forum, 655 Atlantic Ave., OREGON: Eugene: YSA, c/o Dave Hough, 1216 1/2 Lincoln, Eugene, 95816. Tel: (916)447-1883. Third Floor, Boston, Moss. 02111. Tel: SWP- (617) 482-8050, YSA­ Ore. 97401. San Diego: SWP and YSA, 4309 1/2 51 St., Son Diego, Calif. 92115. (617) 482-8051; Issues and Activists Speaker's Bureau (IASB) andRe­ Portland: SWP and YSA, 208 S. W. Stark, Room 201, Portland, Ore. Tel: (714)287-0787. gio no I Committee- (617) 482-8052; Pathfinder Books- (617) 338-8560. 97204. Tel: (503) 226-2715. San Francisco: SWP, YSA, Militant Labor Forum, and Pioneer Books, MICHIGAN: Detroit: SWP, YSA, Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Woodward PENNSYLVANIA: Edinboro: YSA, Edinboro State College, Edinboro, 2338 Market St., Son Francisco, Calif. 94114. Tel: (415) 626-9958. Ave., Detroit, Mich. 48201. Tel: (313) TE1-6135. Pa. 16412. San Jose: YSA, c/o Chico Aldape, 453 S. 9th, #5, Son Jose, Col if. MI. Pleasant: YSA, c/o Rich Ropers, 903 Northwest Apts., Mt. Pleasant, Phil~delphia: SWP and YSA, 1004 Filbert St. (one block north of Mar· 95112. Tel: (408)286-8492. Mich. 48858. ket). Philadelphia, Po. 19107. Tel: (215) WA 5-4316. San Mateo: YSA, c/o Chris Stanley, 1712 Yorktown Rd., Son Mateo, MINNESOTA: Minneapolis-St. Paul: SWP, YSA and Labor Bookstore, RHODE ISLAND: Providence: YSA, P. 0. Box 117, Annex Sta., Provi· Calif. 97330. 1 University N. E. (at E. Hennepin) Second Floor, Mpls. 55413. Tel: (612) dence, R.I. 02901. Militant Bookstore: 88 Benevolent St. Tel: (401) 331- Santa Barbara: YSA, Box 14126, UCSB, Santo Barbara, Calif. 93107. 332-7781. 1480. Tel: (805)968-8354. MISSOURI: Kansas City: YSA, c/o Student Activities Office, U of Mis­ TENNESSEE: Nashville: YSA, 1214 17th Ave. S., Nashville, Tenn. COLORADO: Boulder: YSA, c/o UMC Hostess Desk, U of Colorado, souri at Kansas City, 5100 Rockhill Rood, Kansas City, Mo. 64110. 37212. Tel: (615)292-8827. Boulder, Colo. 80302. St. Louis: YSA, P. 0. Box 8037, St. Louis, Mo. 63156. TEXAS: Austin: YSA and SWP, P. 0. Box 7753, University Station, Aus· Denver: SWP, YSA, and Militant Bookstore, 1203 California, Denver, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Portsmouth: YSA, P. 0. Box 479, Durham, N.H. tin, Texas 78712. Tel: (512)478-8602. Colo. 80204. Tel: (303) 623-2825. Bookstore open Mon.-Sot., 10:30 03824. Houston: SWP and YSA and Pathfinder Books, 6409 Lyons Ave., Hous­ o.m.-7 p.m. NEW JERSEY: Red Bank: YSA, P.O. Box 222, Rumson, N.J. 07760. ton, Texas 77020. Tel: (713)674-0612. NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque: YSA, c/o Vivian Abeles, 503 Carlisle Lubbock: YSA, c/o Tim McGovern, P. 0. Box 5090, Tech. Station, Lub­ CONNECTICUT: Hartford: YSA, c/o Bob Quigley, 427 Main St. #206, S. E., Albuquerque, N. M. 87106. bock, Texas 79409. Hartford, Conn. 06103. Tel: (203)246-6797. NEW YORK: Binghamton: YSA, Box 1073, Harpur College, Bingham· San Antonio: YSA, c/o P.O. Box 774, Son Antonio, Texas 78202. New Haven: YSA, P. 0. Box 185, New Hoven, Conn. 06501. ton, N.Y. 13901. Tel: (607)798-4142. VERMONT: Burlington: YSA, c/o John Franco, 241 Malletts Bay Ave., Storrs: YSA, P. 0. Box V6, Storrs, Conn. 06268. Brooldyn: SWP and YSA, 136 Lawrence St. (at Willoughby). Brooklyn, Winooski, Vt. 05404. FLORIDA: Tallahassee: YSA, c/o David Bouffard, 308 S. Macomb, N.Y. 11201. Tel: (212) 596-2849. WASHINGTON, D. C.: SWP and YSA, 746 9th St. N. W., Second Floor, Tallahassee, Flo. 32301. Long Island: P.O. Box357, Roosevelt, L.l., N.Y. 11575. Tel: (516) Wash., D. C. 20001. Tel: (202)783-2363. GEORGIA: Atlanta: Militant Bookstore, 68 Peachtree St. N. E., Third FR9-0289. WASHINGTON: Pullman: YSA, c/o Dean W. Johnson, 1718 A St., Floor, Atlanta, Go. 30303. SWP and YSA, P. 0. Box 846, Atlanta, Go. New York City- City-wide SWP and YSA, 706 Broadway (4th St.), Pullman, Wash. 99163. 30301. Tel: (404)523-0610. Eighth Floor, New Yark, N.Y. 10003. Tel: (212)982-8214. Seattle: Militant Bookstore, 5257 University Way N. E., Seattle, Wash. ILLINOIS: Chicago: SWP, YSA and bookstore, 180 N. Wacker Dr., Lower Manhattan: SWP, YSA and Merit Bookstore, 706 Broadway (4th 98105. Hrs. 11 o.m.-8 p.m., Mon.-Sot. Tel: (206)523-2555. Room 310, Chicago, Ill. 60606. Tel: SWP-(312) 641-0147, YSA-(312) St.), Eighth Floor, New York, N.Y. 10003. Tel: SWP, YSA-(212) 982- WISCONSIN: Madison: YSA, c/o James Levitt, 411 W. Gorham St., 641-0233. 6051; Merit Books- (212) 982-5940. Madison, Wis. 53703. Tel: (608)257-2835.

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Meeting discusses Nixon ~~ace' offer NPAC affirms Out Now demand for Nov. 18 By WENDY REISSNER PITTSBURGH, Nov. 4- Today, just over a week after Kissinger said, "Peace is at hand," close to 80 people attended a National Peace Action Co­ alition (NPAC) steering committee meeting here to analyze the meaning of the peace talks and lay final plans for the Nov. 18 antiwar demonstra­ tions. Katherine Sojourner, a national co­ ordinator of NPAC, outlined her view of the peace talks. She said, "If the cease-fire is signed we must make clear that we certainly welcome an end to the bombing and a pledge that U. S. troops will be withdrawn. "But we must also make it clear that we will continue demanding the kind of peace in Southeast Asia that will Cleveland Area Peace Action Coalition and Student Mobilization Committee protest Nixon visit at Cleveland airport, Oct. 28 ensure that people stop dying from U.S. aggression permanently - not fight for independence and social jus­ blow up over the fact the U.S. is forces from Vietnam. just for a few days, weeks, or months. tice. trying to wrest further concessions The antiwar movement cannot rely The only way this can be assured If the publicized accords were im­ from the Vietnamese. It was pointed on promises to end the war. As a is immediate, total, and unconditional plemented, the U.S. puppet govern­ out that even if the agreement as it recent NPAC news release pointed withdrawal of all U.S. forces, bases, ment with its repressive apparatus stands is signed, the situation would out, the movement must"... continue and war materiel from Southeast would remain intact. Washington be unstable. to judge the United States govern­ Asia." could continue to shore it up with The Saigon regime is stepping up ment's policies by deeds and not by She pointed out that the vigilance money and war materiel. its terror campaign against the pop­ words. No talk of an impending cease­ of the antiwar movement is needed Sojourner said, "NPAC supports ulation of South Vietnam. The U.S. fire can obscure the fact that nearly more than ever at this crucial stage 100 percent the right of the Vietnam­ has shipped enough war materiel to two tons of bombs are being dropped of the war. The Nov. 18 .demonstra­ ese to negotiate. It is up to them to Saigon to give it the third largest on Asian people every 60 seconds. tions were posed as an opportunity decide for themselves what agreements air force in the world. . . . The whole sordid history of the to continue educating around the cru­ may or may not be necessary on At the same time, the U.S. has made Vietnam war- as the Pentagon Pa­ cial point of the right of self-determi­ their part in their long struggle to it clear that it will continue to main­ pers prove- is one of lies and de­ nation for the Vietnamese. "The anti­ rid themselves of U.S. military and tain military bases in Thailand and ceptions by successive administra­ war movement must demand: 'Out political interference in their country. carriers off the shore of Vietnam in tions. More than one President has Now- No Conditions!"' Sojourner They are the people who are being case of ''violations" of the cease-fire. attempted to demobilize antiwar sen­ said. slaughtered, maimed, and madehome­ There is a very real possibility that timent in order to buy more time to Organizations such as the People's less by a relentless U.S. war. the U. S. would term any upnsmg insure a continued U.S. presence in Coalition for Peace and Justice say "The American antiwar movement, or resistance to the Saigon regime's Southeast Asia. that the antiwar movement should call however, must continue to stress that repression as a "violation" and use "We will be in the streets of 20 cities on Nixon to sign the accords. NPAC not only does the U. S. have abso­ this as a pretext to reescalate the war. on Saturday, Nov. 18 demanding, opposed this perspective and re­ lutely no right to be in Southeast Asia, The steering committee pointed to 'U.S. Out of Southeast Asia Now! affirmed its call for immediate and but the U.S. government has abso­ the importance of the Nov. 18 anti­ No U.S. Conditions!' We are putting total withdrawal of U.S. forces and lutely no right to negotiate- placing war demonstrations. The U. S. anti­ the administration on notice that as materiel from Southeast Asia. NPAC conditions on and demanding con­ war movement has played a crucial long as the U. S. intervention con­ views the publicized accords as an cessions from Asian peoples." role throughout the history of the war. tinues in S. E. Asia in any form the indication that tremendous pressure The steering committee felt that the ll4ass antiwar sentiment forced Nixon majority antiwar sentiment in this has been brought to bear on the Viet­ situation regarding the war remains to end the invasions of Cambodia. and country will not be without organized namese to make concessions in their unclear. The proposed accords could Laos and withdraw U.S. ground focus." U.S. forced to let Argentine activist enter By JUDY WHITE a storm of protest across the U.S. Greater Miami. us as citizens." MIAMI, Nov. 6-Daniel Zadunaisky, and Canada. And from Father Frank O'Lough­ Today at the "deferred inspection" a third-year medical student and ac­ In Miami itself support to Zadu­ lin of St. John the Apostle Church no mention was made of the initial tivist in the Argentine movement to naisky's attempt to gain entry to the in Hialeah, Fla.; the Reverend Jack reason for the detention, the so-called defend political prisoners, was official­ country came from the Reverend Au­ Cassidy, Metropolitan minister of the subversive literature Zadunaisky had ly allowed to enter the U. S. today gust Vanden Bosche, field represen­ United Church of Christ; Angelo Mu­ brought in with him. Instead, ques­ after spending almost four days in tative for Christian Life in Missions niz, Clinic a Borinquen, Inc.; Rabbi tions centered on the technicalities of this city without any legal status. of the National Council of Churches; Sol Schiff, executive secretary of the his tour, the subject matter of his talks, Zadunaisky had been invited here Jack Gordon, president of the Miami Rabbinical Association; and many and the political background of in­ to conduct a speaking tour on the Federal Savings and Loan Associa­ others. dividuals interested in the case. denial of human rights in his country tion; Monsignor Walsh of the Miami This team worked with USLA to After six hours of "deferred inspec­ for the U. S. Committee for Justice diocese of the Catholic Church; Dr. break the case in the media, to or­ tion," which included several hours to Latin American Political Prisoners Gaspar Langella of the Coordinating ganize a delegation of prominent cit­ of waiting for immigration authorities (USLA). The initi.al reason U.S. im­ Committee on Interamerican Concerns izens to accompany Zadunaisky to the to come to an agreement on how to migration authorities gave for his de­ of the United Presbyterian Church; Federal Building when his case came proceed, he was told he would be tention and harassment was posses­ the Reverend Donald Olson, director up, and to arrange for Zadunaisky allowed into the U. S. to conduct the sion of "subversive" literature. of the Center for Dialogue. to present his case before a McGov­ speaking tour in defense of his com­ The literature in question was an Also from Steve Raskin, American ern rally and two church congrega­ rades imprisoned in Argentina. unpublished article analyzing the po­ Civil Liberties Union (ACL U) attor­ tions over the weekend. litical scene in Argentina today and ney; the Reverend Frederick LeShane Meanwhile telegrams began to flood The permission granted to Zadu­ the role of the left in the current sit­ of the First. Unitarian Church of Mi­ the immigration authorities in Miami naisky to speak to North Americans uation. Zadunaisky was refused the ami; the Reverend Lloyd Knox, di­ from well-known people and sponsor­ on. the torture and assassination prac­ right to telephone the USLA office rector of the urban church and Span­ ing groups of the tour all across tices of the Lanusse dictatorship is in New York and was strongly urged ish-speaking work for the Florida North America. Among them was one an important civil liberties victory. -since he was "in serious trouble"­ Conference of the United Methodist from Gloria Steinem that read, "I sup­ If you want to hear what Washing­ to voluntarily withdraw his request Church; Richard Feder, attorney for port the right of Americans to hear ton was afraid might harm Nixon­ to enter the U.S. Otherwise, immigra­ the ACL U; Tom Crowder, Presbyte­ your message. I support your right Lanusse relations, get in touch with tion officials told him, he could be rian chaplain at the University of Mi­ to enter this country freely and with­ USLA at 150 Fifth Ave., New York, jailed or deported. ami; Rudolfo Juarez of Organized Mi­ out political harassment from the Im­ N.Y. 10011, (212) 691-2880, to find Zadunaisky's detention caused de­ grants in Community Action; Jose Mo­ migration Dept. or any other govern­ out when Zadunaisky will be in your lays in the speaking tour and created lina of the United Puerto Ricans of ment agency purporting to represent area.

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