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,~ Big Stick invasion of Grenada (left) can't hide Reagan's Beirut bombing disaster, which killed more than 230 (right). 00
NOVEMBER I-Finally they thought Fyen c;,n,r;n"t:\c h;,;wks like Georgia they found a country small enough for sen,lIor Sam '\U:1il ,H:rc fpr a phased Reagan's supercommandos to cream, withdrawallrom "M:s,ion Impossible," Ronald Reagan had to divert attention And Marint:s interviewed in Beirut quickly from the Beirut bombing that wanted out, !lOW. alive. '1"/~ can support wiped out Marine headquarters in that. Lebanon. killing more than 230 U.S. In this particular deal America has troops. "We need a win," kept insisting been manipulated into becoming Is election-minded White House adv isers. rael's eat's paw. Poiming to Israel's Invading tiny Grenada. only twice the We reprint below a commu "We can only tell you that at withdrawal. Sam Nunn argued: area of Washington. D.C. with a nique bJ the Cuban govrw(;;ent 0955 hours the Cuban embassy in "Lebanon i, surel\ no morc \italto our population no larger than a couple of interests than to' 'hose of israel. \et Harlem housing projects. appealed to broadcast over Radio FLn ana at (.renada reported that the atest Israel has recogni7cd that irs soldiers' the Pentagon because it was "do-able." 4 p.m., Wednesda:. October 26. enemy attack on our positions il\es should flot he risked further in the But five days after the leathernecks "4', carried out using all a \ LiHable cauldron,f Lcban')!']', factional strife." stormed the white sand beaches of this "The people were inLrnwd mCim~< fighter aircraft. h('!icop Gi\Ui the cDnparativc populations. if Caribbean island. the "can do" generals that at approximat"l~ 07no hni:)' leh. he,ny and medium ,:i1ne the 2~O-plus de:ld in the Octoher 23 blast and admirals still couldn't seem to do it. communications heh~ ('ell th~' artillery and mortars. Rw the had beed Israeli, it \"ould be the With 1,900 Marincs, several units of Cuban embassy in Grenada and e[icL a group of six co!:nldes, equivalent of 2J rhowimd American Rangers. more than 5.000 paratroopers the Cuban defensive positions clutrhing our flag. com:n;,ed ,oldier, riikd. And with the Zionist "ma~tel race" rSychologywhich equates of the 82nd Airborne and a war fleet of were cut off. fighting. 20 ships. they managed to sei7e two one rlead I'radi \vith 100 Arabs. the "It was not possible to recehe "At 1117 hours our a IT' h~;'isa airports and the town of St. George's. country \\i)(dd have exploded. So They said it could take weeks to clean any more information on the dol' communicated that tb: is Israel's terroriq generals and terrorist out CUh,lflS holed up in the hills. The course of the latest fighting and no further Cuban resb.hw,;', The cabinet miTli>t,~rs are openly laughing Yankee shark will succeed in swallowing the individual fate of each Oih' ..f fighters in the final redoubt did themselvc' :,dly. They did it smart: the Caribbean sardine. of course. But the comrades defending their not surrender and gave their lives swearing they wouldn't leave Lebanon, after all the flag waving has died down. positions. for the homeland." dragging in the Americans to cover not even the unprecedented press them when they got trapped in Beirut censorship can turn the Grenada inva and then precipitously withdrawing. sion into a great U.S. victory in its anti they stopped announcing the number of Vietnam again.... Those poor boys leaving the U.S. holding the bag. (And Soviet war drive. dead and began announcing the survi dying, and I'm sure they don't know at least the Israelis do know how to Reagan is in big trouble over vors. It was the largest number of U. S. what they're dying for." protect a military compound ... or how Lebanon-big enough to be the undo troops killed on a single day since the "Go in or get out" was a cry heard to blow one up-witness the Zionists' ing of his administration. Those body height of the Tet offensive in Vietnam. particularly from the military, which 1946 attack on British HQ in Jerusa bags being flown into Dover Air Force And the immediate reaction of Marine has been more than a little gun-shy over lem's King David Hotel.) Base should be stacked up in the White families was to see their sons as victims Central America-wary of another As the shock hit America last Sunday, House. Things got so bad last week that rather than heroes: "It almost seems like unwinnable war without public support continued on page 10 Don't Extradite Chris T3Y.1or! Alabama Out to Lynch Taylor Family The case of five members of the days in the Montgomery city jail, where down to Ed (Maj. E.B.) Alford's office" stars and bars still waves over George Taylor family who defended themselves they were subjected to beatings, torture (Detroit Free Press, 7 October). "Segregation Forever" Wallace's capi from a Klan-style marauder attack by and South Africa-style forced confes Watkins didn't want to divulge his tol, it is clear that the Taylors will receive Alabama cops goes to trial in mid sion. Now they're on trial for their lives contacts until they testified publicly but no justice. When they come to trial, it November. Already evidence from for the "crime" ofdefending themselves when hewas cited for contemptand fined will be presided over by H. Randall recently concluded pre-trial hearings against racist terror. $2,000, he named Captain T.J. McLain, Thomas, known as a "hanging judge." has revealed the monstrous police lies The cover-ups, lies and destruction of head of the Montgomery cops' internal And in Alabama a jail term for blacks and cover-ups being strung together vital evidence revealed by the pre-trial affairs division. McLain suddenly re sent up for shooting white cops can into a Southern lynch law noose. The hearing are grotesque. Simply verifying quested early medical retirement while easily become a death sentence. Small Taylors face up to life imprisonment in that the Taylors themselves called for denying that he had given information to wonder that Chris Taylor is fighting the racist hellholes of Alabama prisons. police assistance would in itselfestablish Watkins. But he was contradicted by extradition! They are battling for their lives. In their innocence, so naturally the cops another cop, retired police captain The Taylors can be saved not by particular, Chris Taylor is now fighting are claiming that the automatic tape Robert Lynch, who testified that he had relying on "justice" from the racist extradition from Michigan. Workers, recording ofthe call wa~ "inadvertently" warned McLain to change his earlier Southern courts, but by a mass outpour blacks, all decent people must come to erased. A police clerk has been forced to testimony and admit that he had know ing of labor and blacks. When the their defense! quit because she testified that two ledge of the Taylors' station house Taylors were first arrested, their defense On February 27 the Taylor family, policemen came back the night the beating! Two other cops have refused to won immediate support from workers including five members of the United Taylors were assaulted and listened to testify at all, and four cops, including in Warren, Ohio, in Pontiac and Auto Workers from Pontiac, Michigan the supposedly nonexistent tapes. A McLain, who are involved in the case Detroit. If the Taylors are convicted, were gathered in Montgomery to mourn black city councilman, Donald Wat have been put out to pasture since the any black who journeys down South for the death of Annie Bell Taylor. Shortly kins, did his own investigation. His hearings began-each on paid adminis a vacation, or to mourn a relative in before midnight two unidentified white sources told him that the official police trative leave by order of notoriously dignity, is taking his life in his hands. men screaming racial epithets broke version of the tapes was a lie, and racist mayor Emory "Fiihrer" Folmar. The defense of the Taylors must become down the door and burst in with guns indicated strongly that the cop wounded Despite the blatant lies and cover a focus for mass labor-centered demon drawn. Twenty-one-year-old Chris Tay at the Taylor home was shot by a fellow ups, not a single one of 27 motions by strations, North and South. Nothing lor was shot. The Taylors, thinking they policeman. The cops were covering up the Taylors' attorneys to dismiss indict less can win the fight. were under KKK attack, disarmed the the beating of the black family: Watkins ments was granted! The courts also re No extradition of Chris Taylor! Drop racist thugs and called the cops. But the was told the Taylors were "bouncing off fused their lawyers the right to examine the charges against the Taylors! Jail the racist thugs were the cops. Eleven the walls" of the police station, "You the recorder and police tapes. In racist cops! A million dollars compensa members of the Taylor family spent ten could hear them screaming all the way Montgomery, where the Confederate tion to the Taylors!.
mobilization against KKK/Nazi racist conscious than the students are radical. terrorism and cop brutality. The SL In Boston, a branch that does mainly Workers Vanguard initiated mobilization of 5,000 that student work, comrades estimated it stopped the Klan from marching on the took twice as many hours' work as in streets of Washington on 27 November past years to sell a roughly equal number 1982 has gained us a hearing among of campus subs. This year we targeted Subscription Drive blacks and other anti-racist militants, colleges with large concentrations of particularly in the South. We note with minority and working-class students. pride the sub drive success of our two Atlanta sold 65 points at the Atlanta Success new Southern branches-Washington University complex of colleges while and Atlanta-which grew directly out of Washington sold 35 points at Howard the November 27 victory. The Atlanta University-two historically important Congratulations to all the comrades This year's drive started off early with comrades sold 31 introductory subs at centers of black student radicalism and on the successful completion of the 1983 the sale of 400 sub points at the M.L. Atlanta's first Labor Day march in more Southern black cultural/intellectual life. Workers Vanguard subscription drive. King Day marches in Washington and than 30 years. The Washington comrades also sold 11 The six-week drive reached 126 percent San Francisco and 293 more at Labor points at Morgan State in Baltimore. of the national quota, bringing WV subs Day marches nationwide, mainly to Sub drive work on campus, always (in the U.S. and overseas) to nearly black and Latino workers who rejected important in introducing the Spartacus Though campus sales still accounted 3,100. We also sold 855 Young Spartacus the Democratic Party vote-hustling Youth League to studehts at the begin for a lot of points, most locals spent a and 461 Women and Revolution subs. theme of these events and were in ning of the school year, brought mixed good proportion of their time in black This year's individual winner was com trigued by WV's headline, "Black libera results this year. As we have observed and integrated working-class neighbor rade Paula of SF with 107112 points; tion Through Socialist Revolution before, under the impact of Reagan hoods where WV is regularly sold at runners-up were Debbie H. of New York Labor, Blacks: Don't Crawl for the reaction and anti-Soviet war drive, the street sales and where door-to-door with 96 and Gordy of Detroit/Ann Arbor Democrats'" petty-bourgeois radicalization of the late work has been done in the past. Boston with 91. Honorable mention to Xandra Key to winning new readers among 1960s has mainly evaporated, with sold 60 points door-to-door in Cam (SF), Peter A. (Oakland), Kathie S. blacks and other working people has American social relations reverting to bridgeport, Mattapan and Dorchester; (Boston) and Tom D. (Boston), with been the success of the Spartacist the historically more normal pattern Washington sold 22 points on regional more than 60 points apiece. League's strategy 'of labor/black mass where the workers are more class- trips to the Tidewater, Virginia area; L.A. neighborhoods yielded 30 points. But FINAL TOTALS the most systematic efforts were made by the comrades in Chicago. Last year Local Quota Total % (In points) the Chicago local sold an impressive 178 points door-to-door to follow up the Atlanta 120 140 117 success of the SL-organized labor/black Berkeley/Oakland 450 498 111 protest of 3,000 that confronted a Nazi ·.·.···~W$ Boston 350 424 121 .,;---.-- "1~?.. ·1 Chicago 300 395 132 provocation against gay rights marchers Cleveland 170 234 138 in Chicago on 27 June 1982. This year I...... '4 Detroit 300 351 117 the Chicago comrades revisited these Los Angeles 280 322 115 readers in their homes to talk about WV New York 900 1,074 119 and urge them to resubscribe-nearly San Francisco 350 423 121 Washington, D.C. 120 130 108 half did (84 points). The Chicago com At Large - 229 - rades also sold 102 points in new subs door-to-door on the South and West National Total 3.340 4,220 126 Sides and in the industrial cities of Gary \, and Hammond, Indiana, and Milwaukee. r------, The Bay Area locals' Northern sub tour to OregonlWashington State netted IName I 194 points, while New York comrades I Address I sold 93 points in Philadelphia in two I trips. Also important were Cleveland's ftU f'N. I Phone () I trips to Warren, Ohio, a depressed auto 1i~11 town and home of one branch of the vic VI' ., City Zip I timized Taylor family. 341 I 'J I We welcome our new readers. And we 81 0 $5/24 issues of Workers Vanguard 0 $2/10 introductory issues of I hope that many of them will become our ~lIfJ-nil (includes Spartacist) Workers Vanguard (includes Spartacist) I active supporters in the struggles of the working people and oppressed for .'111 I 0 New 0 Renewal . I st8,1£ .'. I 0 $2/9 Issues of Young Spartacus freedom and socialism. Let us hear from !, .~ International rates: $20/24 issues-Airmail I you with comments and criticisms about f8\1JI\~ $5/24 issues-Seamail Iti·.···1 0 $2/4 issues of Women and Revolution I our articles and views. And we urge you ~.ftfl·- to help introduce WV to new readers by ...... -d ••. IMake payable/mall to: Spartacist Publishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, New York 10116 I bringing our paper to the attention of co IIII_------~ workers and friends._ 2 WORKERS VANGUARD Yankee Big Stick Hits Grenada
"Eternal glory to the Cubans who have fallen and to those who have fought and are still fighting to defend their honor, their princi ples, their internationalist work, their homeland, and their own personal lives threatened by the unjustified, treacherous and crimi nal imperialist attack." -Statement of the Communist Party and Government of Cuba, Havana, 26 October 1983 Armed only with light infantry weapons, facing Cobra helicopter gun ships, jet fighters and heavy artillery, 700 Cuban construction workers in Grenada heroically resisted the on slaught by thousands of U.S. Marines, M. Norcia Rangers and paratroopers. Though they It took 6,000 U.S. troops to subdue tiny Grenada, and they're stili "mopping up." could not win, they defended their positions until they ran out ofammuni army ... had given up fighting. They tion. When Cuban foreign minister Cuban embassy to leave the country powerful Comandante Castro, Cuban were just taking off the uniforms and even prior to Bishop's murder. This Ricardo Alarcon denied on ABC-TV's asking people for regular clothes just to workers have resolutely defended it "Nightline" (27 October) that Cuba had sort of fade back into the background." suggests that the country was going the arms in hand, from the CIA's 1961 Bay way of Suriname, where in the wake of of Pigs invasion to the present day. In soldiers in Grenada, interviewer Ted The Cubans were allied with the NJM the U.S. invasion of Grenada, the local contrast, Grenada has experienced only Koppel responded: and many on the left equated Castro's military strongman, a Colonel Bouterse, a series ofpalace coups, not revolutions, Koppel: "Well, I must compliment you Cuba with Bishop's Grenada. For the broke with his erstwhile Cuban allies in which the core of the government because apparently your laborers make Reaganites they were all "Communist an extraordinary army. I shudder to and expelled the embassy, thus trans apparatus was preserved. It is inconceiv terrorists." Why, then, such a striking think what the Cuban army is like if forming himself into one more "free able that one of Batista's mercenary difference between the internationalist your laborers fight that well." world" dictator. killers could have become a leader ofthe Alarcon: "I can tell you that our people Cubans who stood their ground and Even though Cuba sharply con Cuban CPo But Grenada's short-lived as a whole is prepared and has the fought, and Grenadian "revolutiona political will. the consciousness and also demned the execution of Bishop and a strongman, General Hudson Austin did ries" who wouldn't even defend their the preparation to fight and to defend whole section of the NJM leadership, it just that-rising from prison guard and own revolution? themselves. If such an invasion like the warned that "imperialism will now try to corporal in Gairy's army to become the one in Grenada occurred in Cuba. for sure the world will see a bigger demon Palace Coup use this tragedy and the grave errors NJM leader who overthrew Bishop. stration of how our people-workers, committed by the Grenadian revolu students, intellectuals, normal persons, One of the most macabre aspects of tionaries to sweep away Grenada's SWP's Fantasy Island ~ot prof,~ssional soldiers-know how to the U.S. invasion of Grenada was revolutionary process." When on Oc For the anti-Trotskyist U.S. Socialist flght. ... Reagan's new-found concern for the tober 23, faced with the imminent U.S. Workers Party (SWP), the Grenadian In contrast, according to all accounts, assassinated Bishop, now described as the Grenadian "People's Revolutionary "a Marxist-Leninist, but one which his Army" more or less dissolved. The PRA Caribbean neighbors could live with." was good at shooting down unarmed This is garbage. Maurice Bishop and his civilian demonstrators and executing populist-nationalist New Jewel Move cabinet ministers. Two weeks ago when ment have been targeted by the U.S. as a Grenada's radical nationalist prime "Soviet/Cuban proxy" ever since the minister Maurice Bishop was freed from NJM came to power in 1979. As soon as house arrest by a crowd of supporters, Bishop established relations with Cas troops in an armored car fired on the tro, Washington rehabilitated his prede population. Bishop and a half dozen cessor Sir Eric Gairy, a neocolonial other Grenadian leaders were murdered dictator fascinateJ by UFOs and whose in cold blood. Then the "Revolutionary infamous "Mongoose Gang" of thugs Military Council" imposed a 24-hour, terrorized the island's black population, shoot-to-kill curfew to consolidate its as a "constitutional" government. hold. But when the Yankee imperialists When the new regime refused to Maurice Bishop (left) took advantage of this bloodbath to knuckle under to State Department with Fidel launch an invasion, the PRAjust melted warnings, the Pentagon began planning Castro away. This is attested to not only by the its overthrow. Two years ago it staged capitalist media but also by supporters operation "Ocean Venture 81," a mock of Bishop's New Jewel Movement invasion of the Puerto Rican island of (NJM). Amina Hassan, a reporter for Vieques which is remarkably similar to Pacifica News who spent the last year in Grenada. Last week TV showed film Grenada, said in an October 28 radio clips of Bishop declaring: "They [the interview: Americans] are right now, right now this "There was a lot of support for Bishop very minute, sitting down and planning attack, Grenada's junta requested Cu coup must have come as quite a shock. and then when the coup came there was the final stages of their armed attack ban troops to defend it, Castro replied Bishop's NJM, which is affiliated with a lot of division now. But the PRA, the against our revolution." At the time forthrightly: the social-democratic Second Interna these charges were dismissed as "para " ... the unfortunate developments in tional of Mitterrand and Schmidt, had Grenada render the useless sacrifice noia" and "Communist propaganda." been one of the shining stars in the entailed by the dispatching of such SWP's firmament of "revolutionary WORKERS But last month they just dusted off their reinforcements in a struggle against the plans and staged "Ocean Venture 83." United States morally impossible be proletarian leaderships." The SWP's ,,1NfilJ,1RIJ The U.S. has tried to pin the blame for fore our people and the world. Mary-Alice Waters incredibly claimed "That, as a matter of our countrv's Bishop's ouster on Cuba. But while of these petty-bourgeois nationalists in Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of honor, morality and dignity we will power: the Spartacist League of the U.S. many of the partiCUlars are murky, one keep the Cuban personnel there at a "Nicaragua, Grenada, Cuba-the 'three EDITOR: Jan Norden thing is clear: Castro was horrified by time when powerful Yankee naval giants rising up on the doorstep of PRODUCTION MANAGER: Noah Wilner the brutal murder of Bishop. A press forces are approaching Grenada. "That, if Grenada is invaded bv the imperialism'-have altered the course CIRCULATION MANAGER: Darlene Kamiura release by the Cuban mission to the UN United States, the Cuban personnel will of world history in the last eighteen EDITORIAL BOARD: Jon Brule, Charles issued on October 20 stated: defend their positions in their camps months.... Burroughs, George Foster, Liz Gordon, "In fact, in our view, more than a "Their literacy drives give the Nica Mary Jo McAllister, James Robertson, and working areas with all their energy raguan and Grenadian revolutions Reuben Samuels, Joseph Seymour, conflict of substance, there was a and courage." conflict of personalities and in the a qualitative advantage over the Marjorie Stamberg Russian-even if, like the Bolsheviks, Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published conception of ruling methods, where And they did. The Grenadian PRA, in subjective factors were not absent. ... they suffer from the lack of cadre to biweekly, skipping an issue in August and contrast, dissolved, and the people fulfill all the tasks." a week in December, by the Spartacist "No doctrine, principle or proclaimed could not fight because the army had Publishing Co., 41 Warren Street, New York, revolutionary position nor any internal -SWP International Internal NY 10007. Telephone: 732-7862 (Editorial), division can justify procedures as disarmed the militias after October 12. Information Bulletin, 732-7861 (Business). Address all corre September 1980 spondence to: Box 1377, GPO, New York, NY atrocious as Bishop's physical elimina The difference between the regimes in 10116. Domestic subscriptions: $5.00/24 tion and the death of the group of Cuba and Grenada was a fundamental Grenada was hailed as having a "work issues. Second-class postage paid at New outstanding, honest and honourable class difference. The Cubans had some ers and farmers government"-the York, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address leaders who were killed yesterday. changes to Workers Vanguard, Box 1377, thing to fight for: a social revolution catchword for the Barnesites' discovery GPO, New York, NY 10116. "The death of Bishop and his comrades must be clarified. Should thev have which had sent the Cuban bourgeoisie of embryo Cubas throughout the Third Opinions expressed in signed articles or letters do not necessanly express the ed/tonal been executed in cold blood: those swimming to Miami. Even though that World. For Barnes' predecessors 20 viewpOint. guilty must be exemplarily sanctioned." revolution was bureaucratically de years ago, it was Ben Bella's nationalist The Pacifica Radio reporter noted that formed from the outset, with political regime in Algeria that was so honored No. 341 4 November 1983 Grenada's new rulers had asked the power solely in the hands of the all- continued on page 11
4 NOVEMBER 1983 3
• " ";" -O!) Vote Kartsen, Brewer and Smith in NYC Transit '#. For aFighting TWU!
The newly formed Committee for a Fighting TWU is running in the current elections in Transport Workers Union Local 100 as the sole opposition to the incumbent John Lawe leadership. With the collapse of the out-bureaucratic lash-up around "dissident" Arnold Cherry, the Committee offers a clear choice to New York transit workers who want to struggle against the Transit Authority bosses and racist, strike breaking mayor Koch. Local IOO's enormous fighting capaci ty has been shackled by leaderships that have surrendered to the dictates of the bankers' Big MAC austerity program and the Democratic Party city bosses. The real wages and benefits of transit workers have been halved over the past decade; an elaborate system of manage ment spies, or Beakies, operates to harass and victimize workers; the union's "no contract, no work" provi sion has been discontinued in favor of binding arbitration. Transit workers are literally being murdered both on thejob and off the job. Two years ago a black motorman, Jesse Cole, bled to death in David Brewer Jim Smith his cab while TA president John Simpson organized a press conference working conditions and wages. must be past decade or so. our wages and mer when the motormen pulled a to scapegoat him for a faulty signal a movement without interference from benefits have been virtuallv cut in half in slowdown against the slanderous system. And black union brother Willie all outside groups." real terms. It doesn't have to be so. Bv "cowboy" smear of the union Turks was bludgeoned to death by a restoring the tradition of labor solidarl Pretty foul stuff coming from a man management's attempt to blame transit racist lynch mob only a few hundred feet tv with L1RR and PATH unions and who in the past has run on a common e'xtending solidarity to the big city workers for the dangerous state of NYC from his shop in Gravesend, Brooklyn. slate with supporters of the reformist unions like sanitation workers and bv subways-as usual he was nowhere to The candidates of the Committee for Communist Party (CP). drawing in blacks and Hispanics in ou'r be seen. In Cars and Shops. where a Fighting TWU are Ed Kartsen, for fight for jobs and safe. clean. rapid and Cherry works, the Committee for a Local 100 president; David Brewer. for free subwavs. we can turn the tide and "Rather Be Called a Red by a Rat win big against the city and T.A. czars Fighting TWU obtained more signa exec board of car maintenance; and Jim Than a Rat by a Red" and the big bankers! This means a tures than this do-nothing "dissident" Smith, for exec board of the motor political fight by labor and the op who is running only for a "safe" E The Commitee answered Cherry in a men's division. Kartsen, Brewer and pressed against the Democrats and Board slot. Meanwhile, Cherry's former leaflet, "Cherry: Where He Falls": Republicans.... Smith are militants who have actively bloc partners haven't uttered a word of fought to mobilize Local 100 against the "Arnold Cherrv has decided not to run "We need a class struggle leadership to win. We do not pretend that such a public condemnation against his red T A, Koch and the race-terrorists. As a against Lawe (n the elections and now he's put out a leaflet which says vote for leadership will be built by elections and baiting. Mike Scott, chairman of the leaflet announcing their candidacy Lawe or vote for nobody' Cherry has paper ballots. Leadership is built in the motormen's division and prominently course of waging strikes and struggles explained: left the field open to Lawe and now says quoted in the CP's Daily World, nobody else has the right to oppose against our oppressors. We are running "The TWU needs a class struggle reportedly refused to sign the nomina leadership to stop the attacks against Lawe! Cherry has become the spoiler in this election because we have a the unions, minorities and foreign for Lawe in this election. He criticizes program that can show the way to tion petition for Kartsen, thereby workers. When the T.A. let Jesse Cole some of Lawe's sellout policies but the victory in these much needed battles. If asserting that there should be no bleed to death, Kartsen, Brewer and proof is in the pudding. Is Cherry voting you want to fight the T.A., smash racist opposition to Lawe! terror and build a workers party to fight Smith fought to close down the whole for Lawe or for nobodv? Cherry is part of a now vanishing subway system for his funeral. We "It's no secret that Kartsen and Brewer for a workers government run in our fought for labor solidarity with PATCO sought to make a no-contest agreement interest-then join us." breed of union "dissidents" that arose in by demanding the shutting down of the with Cherry: without hiding our differ Committee members told WV that the middle and late '70s in an attempt to ences, we offered not to run for train to the plane! We fought to there was widespread disgust among exploit widespread anger at the sharp mobilize union forces in flatbed trucks president if Cherry ran against Lawe. decline in living standards and worsen Cherry was given every opportunity to transit workers at Cherry's cowardly to establish safety and order against ingjob conditions in the T Their stock lynch mob killers in Gravesend. We respond to our offer. He indicated, and shameful action. This ex A. helped organize and lead the only union however, that he would not run against oppositionist blames the membership in trade was unprincipled maneuvers protest of the acquittal ofthe murderers Lawe! It would be a defeat for all for failing to pay dues when it was the like suing the TWU leadership and of Brother Turks. We helped organize transit workers if Lawe were to run TWU tops' capitulation which allowed bringing the capitalist courts into union the November 27th Labor/Black victo unopposed.... affairs. But their bluff was called during ry in Washington against the planned "Were we as insignificant as Cherry the courts and the TA to take away the KKK march. If you want to turn this claims we are, we doubt he would spend dues check-off. Cherry accuses the the 1980 transit strike. Although the union around. vote Kartsen. Brewer so much time bad-mouthing us. In fact, ranks of demoralization, but last sum- continued on page 11 and Smith!" many supporters and ex-supporters of Cherry have worked with us to build More recently, Ed Kartsen spoke at an labor solidarity against union busting, Oakland, California rally in defense of to close down the svstem to smash SPARTACIST LEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY fired phone workers Lauren Mozee and deathtrap job conditions and to stop racist lynch mob terror. And we know Ray Palmiero, and the Committee has many workers who've backed Cherry in National Office Cleveland Norfolk mobilized transit workers to support Box 137'7, GPO Box 91954 P.O. Box 1972 the past can't stomach the kind of red New York, NY 10116 Cleveland, OH 44101 Main P.O. these victims of a racist, anti-labor baiting you'd expect from an Albert (212) 732-7860 (216) 621-5138 Norfolk. VA 23501 frame-up. Shanker or Lane Kirkland. If Cherry Ann Arbor Detroit Meanwhile, Arnold Cherry's reform calls us 'ultra-left' for fighting to unite our union across race lines and stop the c/o SYL Box 32717 San Francisco ist opposition has completely disinte P.O. Box 8364 Detroit, MI 48232 Box 5712 lynch mob killers who seek to divide us, Ann Arbor. MI 48107 (313) 961-1680 San Francisco, CA 94101 grated. Cherry announced he would all we can do is quote Mike Quill: 'I'd (313) 662-2339 (415) 863-6963 refuse to oppose Lawe, then launched rather be called a red by a rat than a rat Houston an attack on Kartsen's candidacy by a red.' Maybe Cherry thinks if he Atlanta Box 26474 does enough red-baiting he can ingra Box 4012 Houston, TX 77207 Washington, D.C. thereby giving Lawe implicit support. Atlanta, GA 30302 P.O. Box 75073 tiate himself with John Lawe. Washington, D.C. 20013 Cherry engaged in gross red-baiting to Los Angeles "It's no accident that Cherry doesn't Berkeley/Oakland Box 29574 (202) 636-3537 underscore his loyalty to the capitalist mention the need for strike action or say P.O. Box 32552 Los Feliz Station system and ingratiate himself with anything about fighting racism. He Oakland, CA 94604 Los Angeles. CA 90029 (213) 663-1216 Lawe. In his "Where I Stand" leaflet, believes in relying on the racist govern (415) 835-1535 TROTSKYIST ment, its courts and cops. Cherry, like Cherry attacks Kartsen and his fellow Boston Madison LEAGUE OF Lawe, hustles votes for the Democratic Box 840, Central Station c/o SYL. Box 2074 militants: Party-the party of racist Koch and Cambridge, MA 02139 Madison. WI 53701 CANADA "Transit workers must denounce this liberals like Cuomo who appoint union (617) 492-3928 group of ultra-left elitists. and all busting CIA spymasters to run N.Y. New York 'outside' political groups. whether on transit. Chicago Box 444 Toronto the left or far right. For attempting to "We believe and fight for the independ Box 6441, Main PO. Canal Street Station Box 7198, Station A Chicago, IL 60680 New York, NY 100 1 3 Toronto, Ontario M5W 1X8 use transit workers for their political or ent mobilization of labor and blacks to (312) 427-0003 (212) 267-1025 (416) 593-4138 ideological causes. A rank and file fight for our needs. The labor move movement for union democracy, better ment can and must be rebuilt' Over the
4 WORKERS VANGUARD Ex-Dashiki Democrat No Answer to Born-Again Bigm Populism and Racism in Boston Elections
BOSTON-For the first time in Bos ing the labor-hating capitalist govern ton's 350-year history a black candidate ment to rip up contracts, demolish hard has made it to the run-off election for won seniority and union hiring hall mayor and stands a chance to win this rights and bust unions in the name of city's top post. Mel King, a black liberal "racial equality." In his book Chain and former dashiki-wearing state repre of Change (South End Press, 1981), sentative will be pitted against Boston King opposes "existing white unions," city council member Ray Flynn from equating the entire union movement the racist enclave of South Boston. In with the job-trusting labor aristocracy. this city-known as the Birmingham of King's answer is to form "a parallel the North, where racist mobs rampaged institution designed to meet the specific through the streets in the 1970s attack needs of Black workers." He has applied ing blacks and busing and where only a this strategy in creating the United year ago the Ku Klux Klan tried to stage Community Construction Workers-a a racist provocation by marching scab labor l:ontracting outfit which through City Hall Plaza-many blacks serves to reinforce racial divisions and see King's election as a symbol of black the racist policies of the labor bureauc power and a "dream come true." But racy, as demonstrated by its support like Chicago's Harold Washington and for Flynn. As against these government all the other black elected officials from sponsored union-busting "affirmative the two capitalist parties upon whom action" schemes. an integrated class UPI blacks have placed their hopes, if elected Black liberal Mel King debates Ray Flynn. struggle union movement can only be Mel King will betray those aspirations. forged by conducting aggressive cam As head of a capitalist city government code words for Jim Crow and racist stopped the Klan in Washington the paigns of preferential recruitment and he will have the job ofadministering the terror. While defending the existing following month. training through their own union hiring same racist austerity, union-busting and plans against racist attack, the SL By running a campaign of "neighbor halls, cop terror that has always been inflicted insisted that busing had to be extended hood" populism, King has allowed A key component of both candidates' on the black, poor and working people to the more affluent suburbs to be Flynn and the bourgeois media to dress campaign has been the call for bringing of Boston. meaningful. The Boston busing strug up this arch-conservative bigot ana more police into the "community." In the 1970s King put himselfforward gles of the mid-'70s were of decisive racist demagogue as a "genuine liberal," Flynn even advocates "sensitivity train as one of the foremost proponents of importance for blacks 'not only in that "born-again populist" and "Boston's ing" for the cops! These are the same busing while Flynn was one of its most city but throughout the nation. The own Lech Walesa" (the one characteri cops who last year, after protecting the active opponents. In the present elec Spartacist League was the only organi zation he richly deserves). Flynn has KKK, turned around and launched an tions both candidates are hiding issues zation to agitate for a united front of received endorsements oftenant organi obviously planned attack on the anti of race and class as King runs for mayor Boston's trade unions, black and social zations and most trade unions, includ Klan protesters, injuring scores and on a campaign platform that is virtually ist organizations to defend black school ing the Boston Teachers Union and sending 12 demonstrators to the hospi indistinguishable from Flynn. They are children against racist terror. Boston Central Labor Council. His tal. These are the same cops who have both running as representatives of the Mel King along with other liberals campaign manager was an activist in the killed over a dozen people in the past alienated "neighborhoods" against the and the reformist left demanded federal Revolutionary Student Union and three years, including black teenagers gentrification and downtown office troops to defend black schoolchildren SDS. But Flynn has maintained his base Levi Hart and Braxton Mitchell, and tower develvpment of 16-ynr incum from the racist mobs of the 1970s. But in Irish Catholic South Boston by 27-year-old Gary Lee, who was gunned bent mayor Kevin White. Even though federal troops no less than the National catering to the most backward senti down because the cops said he "looked the purported big business candidate, Guard and cops are all armed defenders ments of his constituency: he is a suspicious" as he sat on his own front David Finnegan, lost, the chairman of of the racist imperialist status quo. notorious opponent of integrated edu porch, the Chamber of Commerce hailed the Instead the SL demanded integrated cation through busing, and as a state The choice between King and Flynn election outcome as "an extremely defense guards recruited from organized representative in 1975 even filed legisla has posed a dilemma for the city's healthy one" because "all' that racial labor and black organizations. The Mel tion to end compulsory education so liberals and "progressives," as well as for divisiveness is over and done with." King and NAACP legalist strategy of that Southie parents could pull their the fake-leftist organizations, Workers Not hardly. Mel King's primary reliance on the bourgeois state allowed children out of integrated schools. He World Party, the Communist Party victory, like that of other black elected busing to be defeated on the streets by opposed abortion (the Flynn/ Doyle (CP) and the Communist Workers officials, represents the spoils of Flynn and his allies in ROAR and the amendment denying women on Medi Party have all, of course, gone whole defeated black struggle, which in Boston racist vigilante South Boston Marshals. caid the right to abortion), opposed no hog for King-after all, he's a black centered on busing. Segregated educa The Klan smelled fertile ground in fault divorce, opposed an anti-sex "independent." But he is an independent tion, like the rest of black oppression, is those streets, and eight years later when discrimination law for the state civil largely because the Democratic Party in a legacy of slavery, when it was a the KKK so:ught to "go North" in the service, opposed repeal of Boston anti Massachusetts has never seen any need "seditious" capital offense to teach present climate of Reagan reaction they communist laws, opposed birth control to woo black politicians into its fold. blacks reading and writing. The Sparta chose Boston as a testing ground, calling for minors, and is for the mandatory Unlike cities in the Midwest, there was cist League (SL) supports busing as a a race-hate rally at City Hall Plaza in death penalty. no mass migration from the South to partial step towards school integration October 1982. When 1,000 angry dem King and Flynn run mirror image Boston, and major industry was restrict and therefore part of the struggle for onstrators ran the KKK out of town, campaigns exploiting "neighborhood ed to outlying areas. Consequently, genuine racial equality. But the court King and the rest of the city's black power" and "community control" rhet power brokers for the Italians and Irish enforced plans, especially in Boston, establishment were nowhere to be seen, oric, one in the service of black who made up the majority of the city's restricted to the impoverished inner city, boycotting the only solid anti-racist nationalism and the other in the service population were brought into the by hauling black and white students to stand seen in Boston in years. And that of Jim Crow racism. King's latest machine, but blacks were usually seen as each other's run-down schools generat victory over race-terror in which the SL gimmick is Jesse Jackson's "rainbow insignificant. Former senator Edward ed resentment and racist backlash out of and its youth organization, the Sparta coalition." His strategy of "community Brooke and liberal state representative which racist demagogues like Flynn and cus Youth League (SYL) played an control" through tax-the-rich schemes is Bill Owens both switched from the Louise Day Hicks of ROAR made their important part, paved the road for the utopian at best, but his "Boston Jobs for Democrats to the Republican Party political careers. Anti-busing slogans bigger victory of the SL/SYL-initi Boston People" affirmative action after realizing they weren't being like "neighborhood schools" became ated Labor/Black Mobilization which program is downright dangerous, invit- brought into the power structure. Owens' decision to switch parties in 1981 was influenced by the remark by .///{. ,,'$0t'.. ;. the house speaker to the Black Caucus ".,/ ,,/.: that "I don't need you guys" (Boston Globe, 20 February 1981). So King's IMPLEME~~\)s\"G~~~B~~\ "breaking" with the Democratic Party in 1981 has nothing to do with a BUSING IN10 \\\~ S\\~"R repudiation of the twin parties of . capital; he just couldn't reap the spoils #0 flflff,f! II/TEGRAT£OrRt~ ~\\~~ of electoral politics within the Demo , ;r~t4:J,/?I'1 cratic Party. ., t\}\!CATION fOR ~\.\.\ The King/Flynn contest hasn't been ) it'fA!ll:tAT[;) PARl AC\S1 \.t~G\\t J~~\. so easy for the anti-Trotskyist Socialist -"11171'1/111' • • "'l"!}·~P'*"'J~ Workers Party (SWP) and the stars , rr..,fA AIff.' .fA.'.\' '" and-stripes "socialists" of the Demo r fJ!f!;f.fEI cratic Socialists of America (DSA). The DSA in particular has been thrown into #!'Mtlid /'''' .ku! ,7. ,,\ a tizzy over its endorsement of Flynn. _,··,,·-.w:st UPI WV Photo DSA national vice chairman Manning 1974 Boston busing crisis: white racists attack Haitian passer-by (left); Spartacist contingent in pro-busing Marable publicly disagreed with the demonstration. continued on page 11 4 NOVEMBER 1983 5 i~~,. "_ ~~;~~i1i.~.\k.\ '"t'Fr.""·~ f.;:;~ i:}.:,;,...... '!'l~#if_... flreJ<.JJ:.;''''' !II'':::'.', PII't,'.,,".lUREf-' ,,"':-:"1 <::',, Dic~.', ~~)J", ~~~ ." ,4 #JUsT' ,- J' 4..r <:,/1 ,.. j:\\ .. ~'fJN[ STR[KERS~~""~" ~1Ii ~! ¥.l?? ~ ft' 'lr' ~ <'_ dJ ,.,I" . -F" " oil( .... ~\~:;?!'.t';:~~1;;~f4 , "~iW#~1':"IJ:&<'U hlml'~·~ ~9Al~~~~ ,,~ ~ - L A ~~,,,, ,--"",-,.-..oIl .."...... ".',,',' "'.".".''''1'..''.''.''- 0"If!J,,-~,, ~'.~~-.-' '" '1(' \/''",1;"~~",,, 11___ _ .1- _ill•• > WV Photos Demonstrators march through downtown Oakland to Alameda County Courthouse to defend phone workers Mozee and Paimiero, who face prison sentences for defending the picket line (left). Black workers and youth respond to call to defend framed-up phone workers (right). (continued from page 12) evicted from its headquarters in the demonstrators were not cowed by the USWA Local 1304; Ann Fagan Ginger, Oakland cops' attempts to harass and President, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties learned from our experiences and we've Piedmont township-traditional home been taught that we must unite in order of the local bourgeoisie-and told that provoke them, As the march proceeded Institute; Father William O'Donnell; to survive, That is why I say I'm glad unions were not tolerated there. On the down 14th Street to the courthouse, John George, Chairman, Alameda that you have cast aside your prejudices day of the rally, the local was moving its motorcycle cops deliberately grazed County Board of Supervisors; Wilson against one another and stand united office, but was able to send a three marchers with their bike mirrors, C Riles, Jr., Oakland City Council against this overt act of suppression directed towards poor. working people spokesman, Midway through the march another member; Ed Kartsen, Transport Work and minorities, We will not tolerate this Many of those who came out to protester was hit in the back by a cop's ers Union Local IOO, New York, damnable act to deny us our right to defend Lauren and Ray had strong handlebar. Upon arriving at the Fallon Endorsers of the march included S. defend ourselves on the picket line," personal political reasons. One of the Street entrance to the courthouse, some Deacon Alexander and Angela Davis of The demonstators greeted with cheers interracial couples that participated told six motorcycle cops zoomed through the National Alliance Against Racist the announcement by Ray Palmiero us of their firsthand experience with the and Political Repression, and the Com that the phone company, under pres racist cops in nearby Richmond: the Bt·,·..··61'.· munist Party's People's World publi sure, had distanced itself from the racist husband. a black man and member of .. cized the rally. Other endorsers included scab Hansen, Ray also told the protest Local I, public employees, was the the Freedom Socialist Party and Nelson ers: "I want you to know that your victim of the notorious "choke hold"; he Johnson of the Communist Workers efforts have already paid off to some still has the marks on his neck. A black Party, degree. Now the fight isn't over, but student told WV, "My mother's a nurse That most of the petty-bourgeois yesterday at our court appearance the and goes out on strike. ,. that could have "left" milieu neither endorsed nor District Attorney with a very sad been my mother out there," Just about participated in the October 29 march expression on his face made a motion to everyone had a story to tell about living and rally is a measure of their demorali drop one of the charges," Defense under Reagan reaction, As one young zation and disinterest in militant prole motions for discovery and for dismissal man put it, "Young, gifted and black-I tarian struggle, Groups like the Socialist of charges are scheduled to be heard don't stand a chance," Many protesters Workers Party and Workers World December I. were veteran unionists and former civil Party instead chose to turn up in San Another rally speaker was Tom rights activists; for others, the protest Francisco to protest in liberal fashion Sullivan, president of striking USWA was their first political act. A young the U,So invasion of Grenada, Local 1304 in Emeryville. Members of CWA member told us that'the recent Supervisor John George in his speech that Steelworkers local have been out strike was his first and the October 29 termed the scab assault on Lauren for five months, fighting a concerted demonstration the first he'd ever y10zee "an insult to all black women." union-busting campaign by Grove attended. 1 hat some black Democratic politicians Valve, One black member is currently A victory for Ray and Lauren can felt compelled to speak out in support of facing charges for picket duty; he served punch a hole in the racist, anti-labor the militant phone workers reflects the as a leader of the monitors at Saturday's offensive of the Oakland bosses and Motorcycle cops barrel through outrageous character ofthe racist attack demonstration. These unionists know their cops, The October 29 march and demonstration, breaking earlier and the broad labor backing mobilized that the attack on Ray and Lauren is an rally points the way forward to fight agreement granting this rally site. to defend Lauren and Ray, attack on the right to have real picket back against Reagan reaction and racist Most warmly received by the lines. And if you've got no picket lines, attack: integrated, labor-centered mobi crowds of demonstrators on the street. demonstrators was the speech by Diana you've got no union. The building trades lizations in the streets to fight for our This attempt to "clear" the street Coleman of the Spartacist League, too are being hit by a union-busting rights, contravened a prior agreement between campaign. And AFT Local 77 I was just Determined and disciplined, the the march organizers and police depart ment officials, Whatever the Oakland cops' until final victory of our defense motivation for their harassment of the SPECIAL Funds Urgently campaign wins their reinstatement, demonstration, we must assume that BLUES BENEFIT back pay and gets the charges they view in particular the memory of To Stop the Racist, Anti-Labor Frame-Up Needed dropped. It costs thousands of Charles Briscoe wi th a mixture of hatred of Mozee and Palmiero dollars to fight in the courts and on and fear. After a series of racist cop PERFORMERS The hard work of defending the streets. killings, the murder of lAM member Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero Over a hundred thousand leaflets Briscoe represented something of a SONNY RHODES against the racist vendetta of the and some 2,000 posters were distrib turning point. Hundreds of angry MAXINE HOWARD phone company and the Alameda uted to get the word out about the Machinists crowded into the Oakland And Others District Attorney costs money! Ma October 29 march and rally to defend City Council demanding justice and Monday, Nov. 14 Bell and the D.A. have millions at Lauren and Ray-all this takes forcing certain public exposures of the 8:00 p.m.-1:30 a.m. their disposal-Lauren and Ray have bucks. And the fight is far from over. murderous cop rampage against black you: the workers movement, black The defense effort desperately "Your Place" Oakland. 6528 Telegraph Ave,. Berkeley community and student organiza needs your contribution now. The Despite the efforts at provocation by tions, concerned individuals who next time someone is framed for the police, the protesters maintained Tickets $5 in advance, $7 at door defending a picket line, for defending Tickets can be purchased at want to see justice done. their discipline and the rally proceeded Old Mole Bookstore The racist anti-labor frame-up of themselves against racist attack-it without incident. Music was provided 1942 University Ave" Berkeley Ray and Lauren has cost them their could be you. Please make checks by Houston Person's excellent jazz Or call/write Phone Strikers Defense Committee jobs. The two phone workers have payable and send to: Phone Strikers ~eakers Sponsored by band. included Tim Ligosky, Phone Strikers Defense Committee been denied unemployment and must Defense Committee, P.O. Box Exec ~ard, lAM Local 284; Victor P,O, Box 24152. Oakland, CA 94623 somehow support three children 24152, Oakland, CA 94623. Pamiroyan, Business Agent, ILWU (415) 763-1382 Local 6; Tom Sullivan, President, 6 WORKERS VANGUARD Diana's remarks drew applause and Labor contingents rally to cheers at several points as she sketched defend the picket line (right). the class-struggle strategy of the SL: Houston Person's jazz band "Reagan and hIS millionaire cronies, plays for rally (below right). they hate black America and they hate the unions.... You cannot fight Reagan •__"______:'Jl __'t- j with Democrats. We need labor action to hring down Reagan. Does anyone here think that Walter "Mundane" Mondale is going to stand up for the MAR'Cltand RALLY! minorities and the working people against Reagan reaction? .. "We of the Spartacist League intend to Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero build a mass, class-struggle workers Must Not Go to Jail! party.... The working people produced lila. .~ everything in this country and that's STOP THE RACIST AN11- L~SUl< what we want. We want everything! We l / FRAME' UP I want our own workers government, and Stop ttle KaciS' fr~'UPS' AUREN MOZEE tRAY PALMlERO you need a workers party to get it. ... MUST NOT GO TO JAIL! And right now Reagan~with a little Down wit" Sou th Arrit:a' 5t tylp .Ji:itice, lIfITT shadowboxing in Congress from the ~w \l£Ff.t4S£ ClllA ££ Democrats-is trying to lead us into a 1,:'>V LilleR lit \ fjlj;\l'F 1''''' SDC1RL lJ£FENSE thermonuclear war which will blow up the whole earth.... Yuri Andropov may L....'" """_.~------i not be the best friend that black people I in this country ever had, but I will tell Stop the Racist Anti-Labor Frame-Up! C"AuIJUSlIll...... "". __ olt>o you he is not their worst enemy. Because -'_-'9I1"'''IO"~ =~i6Iy~~'";.?£C~ -=.~.=~~~~;::;=;;: the worst enemy is here at home." ~.....n_",.,"~ D" • """,tI ....., '0 ,...""" ~~;:-=~Ef= ~~§~~~~g;~ '..... ""'V"'to Endorsers of October 29 March and Rally to Stop the Racist Anti-Labor Frame-Up of Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero Partial List of Endorsers Veronik6 S. FUkson, Member, Berkeley City Council National Conference 01 Black Lawyers, Bay Area Chapter Fred Gaboury. Editor. Labor Today.' Chicago. IL National Lawyers Guild, Bay Area Chapter AFSCME Local 444. Oakland. CA William GaUes. First Vice Chairman, Grievance Committee, USWA Local 1010: J.B. Neilands. Past President, AFT Local 1474.' UC Berkeley AFSCME Local 2620 East Chicago, IN Gene Nelsen. Member, Revolutionary Socialist League: San Francisco, CA AFSCME Local 3235. Los Angeles, CA John F. Gardenhire, English Department,' Laney College, Oakland, CA Judd Newman. Steward. CWA Local 4309: Cleveland. OH Carolyn Dukes Alexander. President, Laney Chapter, Council of Black American John George, Cr.airman, Alameda County Board of Supervisors Eugene "Gus" Newport, Mayor 01 Berkeley Affairs.~ Oakl8nd. CA Kenneth ;.libbons, Recording Secretary. lAM Local 284: Oakland, CA Ann Noel, Regional Vice President, National Lawyers Guild' S. Deacon Alexander. Director, NAARPR. Los Angeles Chapter J. Lance Gilmer, Executive Editor, Reporter Publications~ Richard aba, Recording Secretary-Treasurer. AFSCME Local 444, Oakland. CA Robert L. Allen. Director of Ethnic Studies, Mills College. Former Editor. Ann Fagan Ginger, Attorney. Berkeley, CA Father William O'Donnell, Pastor. Sf. Joseph the Workman Church." Berkeley, CA Black Scholar· Harvey Gomez, Treasurer, ASSOCIated Students,' Laney College. Oakland CA MIke Olszanskl, Trustee, USWA Local 1010: East Chicago. IN N. Amare. Afro-American Studies Department,' UC Berkeley Franciscc S. Gonzalez, Gnever. USWA Local 1010: East Chicago. IN Martin Omelsl, Senator, Associated Students: UC Berkeley American Postal Workers Union. Oakland, CA Stan Go... Executive Board. ILWU Local 10 and Editor. Longshore Militant, San Lauro Pacheco, Senator, Associated Students,' UC Berkeley Barbara E. Andrews. Legislative Chair. CWA Local 9410 and Chair. Finance Francis<.:o CA Partisan Defense Committee Committee, Congressman Ronald V. Dellums. San Francisco, CA Saundra Graham, Massachusetts State Representative and Cambndge City Joe Patrick, Instructor, Economics, Diablo Valley College Dr. M.H. Anwar. Author, Memories of Afghanistan CounciHQ~ Cambridge. MA Peace & Freedom Party, SF Central Committee, San Francisco. CA Bettina Aptheker. AFT UCSC Local" and Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Willia Gray, Professor, Social Work Department: San Francisco State University People for Justice, Richmond. CA Dr. Cecilia Arrington, Ethnic Studies Chairperson, Merritt College, OaKland, CA Frank GriMon, District Representative, ORTT/IBEW Local 1011: Oakland, CA John L. Pettus. Extended Opportunity Programs & Services Counselor. Lsney Association 01 Graduate Student Employees. UC Berkeley Brian Groseciose, President, Associated StUdents: laney Coilege, Oakland, CA College. Oakland, CA Beverly Axelrod, Civd Rights Lawyer, San Francisco, CA Joe E. Gulierrez. Griever, USWA Local 1010: East Chicago. IN Martha Phillips. Spartaclst Candidate for Oakland City Council, 1983 Reuben Barr, Veteran. Abraham Lincoln Brigade," San Francisco. CA William D. Haesch. President, Graphic Arts International Union Local 507: Phone Strikers Defense Committee Bay Ares Enlorce,s Van Club, Richmond. CA Madison, WI Andy Pollack. Steward. CWA Local 4309: Cleveland. OH Tom Beardsley. Genera! President. APWU, Oakland Local Harvard·"ladcliffe Black Students Association. Cambridge. MA Jim Quillin, Secretary-Treasurer, California Conference of Machinists,~ Jefferi Beaty, Black Student Union: Laney College, Oakland. CA Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Socialists 01 America. Cambridge, MA Oakiand. CA Fred Beaulord, Afro-American Studies Department," UC Berkeley James H. Heard. AFT Cook County Teachers Union: Chicago. IL J.W. Reid. Professor, Afro-Amencan Sfud,es.' Merritt College, Oakland, CA Willie Lee Bell. Cnairman, Civil Rights Committee, lAM Local 739, Oakland. CA Erma Henderson, Detroit City Council President Revolutionary Communist League (Internationalist). New Haven. CT Black Student Alliance, UCLA. Los Angeles. CA Reverend Will L. Herzfeld, Miilister, Bethlehem Lutheran Churcn' AI Richmond. Former Editor. daily People's Wo"d: San Francisco. CA Black Student Union, Contra Costa College, Richmond, CA Percy Hintzen, Assistant Professor, Afro-American Studies Department,~ Wilson C. Riles, Jr., Member. Oakland City Council Frederick Blum, Chapter Executive Committee. University Professlonal of Illinois UC Berkeley Georgia L. Roberts. Executive Board, Norfoik NAACP: Norfolk. VA AFT Local 4100: Chicago State University. Chicago. IL Diane Hirshberg. Senator, Associated Students: UC Berkeley Jim Robertson, National Chairman, Spartaclst League Domenic Bouoho, President, Hotel and Restaurant Employees Local 26: lAM Local 284 Executive Board. Oakland. CA Alma Robinson, Executive Director, Bay Area Lawyers for the Arts~ Boston. MA lAM Bay Area DistrIct Lodge 115, Oakland. CA Ana Marl. Robles. Vice PreSident. Pre-Health Club.' Laney College. Oakland. CA Richard Bradley. Spartacist Candidate for San FranCISco Board of lAM Locai Lodge 739. Oakland. CA Darling D. Rockett. Steward, CWA Local 4309: Cleveland, OH Supervisors. 1982 Kathy Ikegami, Executive Board. CWA Local 9410 and Head. Militant ActIOn Ronald J. Rose. Alameda County Central Labor Council Delegate, lAM Local 284" Allan Brill, Director, San Francisco !nterns and Residents AssocIation: San Caucus, San Francisco, CA AI Rossi, President. United Teachers of Oakland, AFT Local 771: Oakland, CA Francisco, CA ILWU Local 10, San FranCISco. CA Norm Roth. Past President, UAW Local 6: Chicago. IL Bonnie Brodie, Editor, Young Spartacus Jane Jackson, Human Rights Activist, Gray Panthers: Oakland. CA Michael Rotkin. AFT UCSC Local member and Santa Cruz City Councilmember Cleophas T. Brown. Executive Board. NAACP: Richmond. CA Philippa Jackson, Cultural Activist. Washington, D.C Bobby Rush. Aiderman, 2nd Ward. Chicago, IL H'6'~I~~:''t'::'t, Chairperson. Black Studies Department: Laney College. Randy Johnese. Senior Field Representative, SEIU Local 535, Oakland. CA SEIU Local 535, Alameda County Chapter AI Johnson. President, ATU Local 192: Oakland, CA SEIU Local 616. Oakland, CA Leonard Buford, Treasurer. American Muslim Mission Center: Richmond, CA Clyde Johnson. President. Black Employees Association" Los Angeles. CA Dennis L. Serre"e. Steward and Former Vice President, CWA Local 1101 and John Carr. President. ILWU Local 10. San FranCISco. CA Geraldine Johnson, President, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists: Former President. NY Coalition of Black Trade Unionists· RegInald R. CarrIngton, President. ILA Local 1458: Norfolk, VA San Francisco, CA Charles Shain. President. Berkeley campus AFT Local 1795: Berkeley, CA Patricia Carroll, Lecturer. San Francisco State University Nelson N. Johnson. Area Spokesperson, Communist Workers Party,' Dennis ShattUCk, Griever. USWA Local 1010: East Chicago, IN Desmond Carson. President, Black Students in Health Association," UC Berkeley Greensboro, NC Barbara Sheldon, Chief Steward, WFT-SWEP Local 3271: Madison, WI Rose Chemin, Cha'rperson NAARPR, Los Angeles Chapter Walter Johnson, PreSIdent, Department Store Employees Union Local 1100. San Carl Shier. Retired UAW internatIOnal Rep. and Chair of UAW Local 6 Retired Sherri Chiesa, Secretary-Treasurer, Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 2,' Francisco. CA Workers Chapter' San Francisco, CA Oliver A. Jones. Attorney. Oakland. CA Jim Shoch, Western Regional Coordinator, Democratic Socialists of America· Robert Chin, Head of AS'an Studies Program: Merritt College. Oakiand. CA Ed Kartsen. Candidate for PreSident 01 TWU Local 100: New York. NY Dan Siegel. Attorney. Oakland, CA Jackie Clark, General Executive Board, ILWU Local 6: San Francisco. CA Florynce KE'nnedy. Co-founder. Black Women United for Political ActIon: Sarah Slaughter. GUide, USWA Local 1010: East Chicago, IN Clyde Cleveland. Councilman, Delrolt City Council. Detroit, MI New York, NY Bernard Smallwood. Executive Board. lAM Local 1518.' Oakland, CA Diana Coleman, Spartacist Candidate for San Francisco Board of Supervisors, C.B. King. CIVil Rights Lawyer, Albany. GA Bernadette Smith, Business Manager. Northern California CB Club" 1980 and 1982 Arthur Klnoy. Professor of Law, Rutgers University, Newark. NJ Michael J. Smith, BUSiness Rep .. Hospital Workers Local 250: Oakland. CA Colin Cooper, Senator. ASSOCiated Students." UC Berkeley Francesca Kugler, President, Berkeley Feminist Alliance' Rusty Smith. Sleward, SEIU Local 715: Redwood City, CA David Creque, Vice President. United Teachers 01 Oakland. AFT Local 771" Labor Black League lor Social Delente . M. Spencer. Secretary-Treasurer. AFSCME Local 3235. Los Angeles. CA CWA Local 9410. San Francisco C.A James T. Lafferty, ,t,CLU Founder and Former Chair. Oakland County. MI Bruce M. SI. Cyr, Vice President, AFSCME Local 2620 and Executive Board. CWA Local 9415 Executive Board. Oakland, CA EI Learned. President. lAM Local 824: Richmond, CA AFSCME Council 57" Audrey Daniels, First Vice President. AFSCME Local 444. Oakland, CA Kerry M. Lewis. PreSident. African Students ASSOCiation.' UC Berkeley Thomas SUllivan. President. USWA Local 1304: Emeryville, CA Betty L. Darow, President. Wisconsin State Employees Union Local 634' Richard Lewontln, Chaired Professor, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Jan Sunoo, Business Agent, Teamsters Local 278: San Francisco, CA Madison, WI University, Cambridge, MA James W. Sweeney, Member. Berkeley City Council Margot Dashiell, Department of Sociology and Afro-American StudH3S.· Laney Timothy L1gosky, Executive Board, lAM Local 284: Richmond, CA Reverend Ron Swisher. Easter Hill United Methodist Church: Richmond, CA College, Oakland, CA. Ronald J. lind, Director of Organizing, United Food and Culinary WorKers Local Ronald TakakI. A.FT Local 1474: Prolessor of Ethnic Studies. UC Berkeley Angela DaVis, Co-Chair, National Alliance Against Racist and Political 428: San Jose, CA Y. Ray Talavera, Executive Officer, Teamsters Local 85,' San Francisco, CA Repression~ Paul Litton. Assistant Griever, USWA Local 1010: East Chicago. IN Ron Tenlnty. Business Agent, Teamsters Local 315: Richmond. CA Danny Davis, Alderman, 29th Ward, Chicago, lL Ed Logue, Jr.. Union Representative, lAM Local 824.' Richmond, CA Cliff Leo Tillman. Peralta Student Trustee, Oakland. CA Ignacio De La Fuente, Business M,nager, Molders Locai 164.' Oakland. CA Cassie. Lopez, CommunIty Activist Oakland, CA Robert Treuhaft, Attorney. Oakland. CA Ronald V. Dellums. Member of Conqress Conrad Lynn. C,v;1 R,ghts Attorney. New York. NY Ronald Tyesky, President. National ,A.ssociation of Letter Carners, Golden Gate Paul Dempster, President. Sailors Ur\lon of the Pacific: San FrailCISGO, CA Mae J. MagdaluyCi Filiplno-Amencan Collegiate Endeavor.' Former CORE Branch. Local 214· Member Department Store Employees Local 1100, San Francisco. CA United Tenant Action Council, Inc., Los A.ngeles, CA Frank Donner, Attorney, New York, Maryann Mahaffey, Detroi~ City Councilmember NY Lloyd K. Vandever. Presid~nt. UE Local 1412: Oakland CA Kuntima Makidl, Professor of POlitIcal Science, Atlanta UniverSIty. Atlanta GA Harry Edwards. Department of Soc'ology.' UC Berkeley Howard Wallace, Co-Chair, Lesbian/Gay Labor Alliance,~ San FranCISco, CA William Mandel Author and Lecturer Jim Eggleston, labor Attorney, Oakland, CA Syivia Weinstein. Mernbf!r, National Organizatiorl for Women: San Francisco, CA Halford H. Fairchild, Chairman, Afro-American Studies' UCLA Los Ange:es CA Arvaughn MannIng, Vice President, ASSOCIated Studerts' Merritt College Oakland, CA Jack Weintraub, Past President, Teamsters Local 85,· San Francisco. CA Robert Farrell, Cou'lc'lman, Eighth Distnct, Los Angeles, CA Bobbie J. Williams. PreSident. CWA Local 9415." Oakland. CA ~ Tom Meyer. National Lawyers Guild and Member, Raclai Justice In Richmond" Tim Fernandez, Vice President, Painters Local 376, Vailejo, CA J.A. Wllllamt. instructor. Laney College. Oakland, CA Cliff Mezo. ',jice President. USWA Local 1010.' East Chicago. IN Marvin A. Foreman, Secretary-Treasurer. Hotel Employees and Restaurant John Williams, Staff Rerorter, California Voice' Emp!oyees Local 23,' Norfolk. VA Michael Mezo Griever, Outer Guard, USWA Local 1010: East Chicago, IN Peter WoolstC\n, General Executive Board. ILWU Local 6' and Member, Militant Jesse Foster, Jazz Vocalist, San Francisco, CA Archiaus L, Mosley! Sr., President. Faculty Senate,' Laney Coliege, Oakiana, CA Caucus, Oakland. CA Richard Fraser, Historic American Trotskyist and Member, Democratic Socialists Antion Nadar, PresifjenL Black Student Union: Merritt College, OaKland, CA Elaine Yoneda. President, ILWU Auxiliary No. 16: San Francisco, CA of America,' Los Angeles, CA National Alliance Against Racist and Political ReprelOlon, Los Angeles Chapter Michael ZaharaklB. Region Organizer, Socialist Party. USA~ Freedom Socialist Party. San Frane,sco. CA National Assoclalion of Letter Carrlars, Branch 2200 Executive Board, William F. Freeman, First Vice President, NAACP: Oakland, CA Pasadena, CA 'Organization iistea for tdentification purposes only. 4 NOVEMBER 1983 7 ExcerDts From SDeeches at October 29 8ally_ "No South Africa-Style Justice in Oakland!" Ed Karlsen Now more than ever we must maintain telephone company to dismiss this case NYC transit worker, candidate vigorous and dedicated leadership to and withdraw. for president of TWU Local 100 guarantee a secure and prosperous This is a labor dispute because all The first thing I'd like to say, I'd like future for our membership and the workers are being threatened, health to read a telegram which was signed by peoples of the world. We have learned benefits are being eroded, plant closures over 156 transit workers, a telegram to from our experiences and we've been are taking place. We've got a corporate ALL OUT' taught that we must unite in order to community which includes the tele the president of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company: survive. That is why I say I'm glad that phone company that will not talk about 11 An 0 "We, the undersigned members of Local you have cast aside your prejudices affirmative action-because affirmative 100 of the Transport Workers Union in against one another and stand united action is not losing any jobs. This case is New York City, demand that Lauren against this overt act of suppression a manifestation of this war on the Mozee and Ray Palmiero not go to jail. workers of America. I am joining with Drop all charges! Stop the racist anti labor frame-up' Down with South the people, Ray and Mozee, until we can HE African-style justice! Freedom, jobs win this case. back for Mozee and Palmiero! Picket lines mean don't cross!" Ben Visnick I'd also like to say we have collected over United Teachers of Oakland Local 771 $100 so far in collecting money in I'm here today representing United helping in this defense. Teachers of Oakland. The teachers The bottom line is the picket line. The strike of 1983 showed that Oakland is picket line must be respected, it must be still a labor town. The integrated backed up by the force necessary to teaching force in Oakland was able to galvanize the thousands of trade-union obtain the support of thousands of militants that can ensure that when Oakland working and middle-class Reagan mobilizes the kind of force that families who did not send their children he used against PATCO or the type of ,,~ to scab-run schools. They knew from WV Photo force he used against Grenada, that he .. '\; the last strike in 1977 that scabs are can be repulsed effectively. We cannot immoral mercenaries who need an Lauren Mozee let Ray and Lauren go to jail! Labor education themselves and are not fit to Fired telephone worker facing years solidarity, militancy and the picket line !t WV '-Photo teach the students of this fine city. in prison for defending her union mean nothing if these people go to jail. Willie Lee Bell It's obvious that union-busting has picket line and herself from racist What we need to do is build a class directed toward poor, working people arrived in both the private sector, management/scab attack struggle workers party to beat back the and minorities. We will not tolerate this Pacific Telephone, and the public As everyone knows, I'm a victim of political offensive by management, by damnable act to deny us our right to sector, public schools. Our response a racist, anti-labor frame-up. Why? the bosses, against every right the work defend ourselves on the picket line. And must be strong and militant unionism One, I'm a black woman. Two, Ray and ers have won. And let nobody forget I say we must see and stop the racist and labor solidarity between unions to I are an interracial couple. Three, that anti-communism is a dirty word! anti-labor frame-up against Ray and take the offensive to win strikes and to I'm a militant-I said militant-trade Anti-communism means that union against Lauren! organize the unorganized. We can't unionist. [Voice from the crowd: "Right militants who stand up and fight against accomplish this if our best militants are the politics of the rich man's class and on, sister!" Applause.] A former mem John George rotting in Reagan's and Deukmejian's ber of the Black Panther Party for many the rich man's government go to jail. jails. Therefore we repeat again: "Free years. And I'm a firm believer-I said Anti-communism means blacklisting. Chairman, Alameda County Board of Supervisors Lauren and Ray-Give them back pay! firm believer-in socialism. I've always Stop Reagan from San Leandro to You know, I heard that we had a been a fighter against racism and cop Grenada!" terror, and a fighter for unity of the labor dispute on the picket line and, my friend, they called her a "black bitch." working class against the bosses. Now, Tom Sullivan for these things and for doing my duty Now that's fighting words. The tele President, United Steelworkers on the picket lines by defending myself phone company ought to apologize. The against this racist attack, and for District Attorney has got to know that Local 1304 defending my picket line and our jobs there is community support and if this I want you to know that the Steel against those who want to break the community support continues on aday workers are with you, Lauren and Ray. unions and take our jobs, I've been to-day basis, this is the way that we win United Steelworkers have been on strike victimized. the freedom of our friends Mozee and where I work for five months, that's 150 Ray and I aren't the only ones who Palmiero. We need to tell the doggone days. The Steelworkers have been on face this kind of situation. On Wednes day, October 26th, in Oklahoma City (I have a brother-in-law and a sister that were deported there from General !iFIN1SH,:~"rbvIL Motors Fremont), the Klan marched WAR I into the plant in full dress-hood, robes ...... BlACK~lIBERAt\ON and all-and worked on the assembly WV Photo THROUGH lines! Until my brother-in-law, my -- Ed Kartsen brother and my sister stopped the line. [Applause. Chants from the crowd: Anti-communism means frame-ups. WORKERSREVOLUnON' "Stop the Klan! Stop the Klan!"] So Anti-communism means witchhunts. SF!~-aZACIST~AGUE these people are all over. They're all And picket lines mean you better not over, I mean they follow them all the cross! The phone company's trying to way to Oklahoma. This is their second erode that tradition. They're trying to encounter with the Klan in only five say that management can dance across months that they've been there. I mean, picket lines because they're manage two hours after my brother-in-law was ment. Well, let it be known that a in the city they tried to arrest him for management scab is no different from armed robbery. any other kind of scab. And let it be I am a member of the Militant Action known that a management scab is just as Caucus, which is a real, living part of fragile as any other kind of scab. [Voice our union. As with Jane Margolis, an in the crowd: "Scabs must go!"] elected delegate to the National Con SCABS MUST GO! SCABS MUST Spartacist vention of CWA in 1979: she was GO! SCABS MUST GO! spokesman Diana dragged off the convention floor bodily And this was a racist scab at that. So picket lines mean don't cross. We will Coleman by Jimmy Carter's Secret Service men. with rally Later, in 1980, they sent her a letter of not let these people go to jail. Labor must continue to fight from here. chairman apology and a $3,500 check which she Don Andrews. signed over to the CWA Defense Fund. Freedom and jobs for Mozee and So as you see, we can win with this Palmiero! Smash the South African kind of support. We need to win not style justice! Smash this anti-labor only for ourselves, believe me. That's a frame-up! real important point, important in the long run for all blacks and working Willie Lee Bell people. An injury to one is an injury to Chairman, Civil Rights Committee of all. It's not Ray and myself who are the lAM Local 739 criminals here. The criminals are Ma Brothers and Sisters, it was told to us Bell, the San Leandro Police Depart that the '80s would undoubtedly be a ment and the District Attorney. decade of serious challenges to our I thank all of you. determination for continued progress. ." 8 WORKERS VANGUARD strike down in Arizona for four months, since the 1st of July. They're fighting €ommunitationll l»orllrrll of lamtrica An,·ClO Phelps Dodge-the copper barons. The lUI Pork loolo.anI _. 0akIaDd. CalUon>lo 9460& Steelworkers are on strike at Judson 134-l1US (h.. Steel, they've been on strike here in Emeryville for two months. They all That charges be dropped against Lauren Kazee and Raimondo CommunkafwM send you their greetings, Lauren and Palmiero and all other phone strikers. This Local will give Wo,.ke~ ot..America full support to the legal defense efforts for members of this LOCAL No, 9410 @ AII\l;a,. .".. AF\..(IO Ray, and we're going to stand behind " you. local and all other phone workers who have been It;ogdlly 2.0 SECOND STun • 777.'.10 SoAN PlAN(I$CO, CAl.lfOtNlA '.,0$ victimized in C.lifornia and around the country. September 13, 198] ,.- Diana Coleman Former SpartaCl'st Party candidate for Vlce Presldent MiJrle H<3.111ett lTlQde the :ol1okllng mot .. on: ",~A San Francisco Board of Supervisors ;:~'_'{d "I IOOve th.at: CWA tociJ1 9410, based on inforrtlGtJon to ddte, 4 NOVEMBER 1983 11 WlliNEliS "N'(JlllilJ 400 March in Oakland Against Racist, Anti-Union Frame~Up ~~ reeoom an fl], :}:. i~ - ae or auren an ayl" OAKLAN D-"Hey, D.A.! Workers 11,&1# , HMMC say: Hands Off Lauren and Ray!" A L..AUREN MOZEE 6& determined and militant protest ofsome , 400 put the Alameda County District ':,~ f MUS'" ( Attorney and Pacific Telephone on notice Saturday: Stop the racist, anti labor frame-up of phone workers ,~ Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero! The demonstrators assembled at Oakland City Hall and marched to the Alameda County Courthouse, chanting with raised fists: "Picket lines mean don't , cross!" and "Eight years, no way Freedom and jobs back for Lauren and Ray!" Union contingents formed the front of the march with banners from Communications Workers of America Locals 9410 and 9415, American Feder ation of Teachers Local 771 and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 10 II. Drizzling rain held , down the turnout but did not dampen the angry spirit of the mainly black protesters who came out to say no to the D.A.'s Alabama-style "justice." Lauren and Ray were facing up to seven and a half years in state prison. having been fired from their jobs and denied unemployment benefits. for doing picket line duty during the recent ff.#~;~;r~<~ national phone strike. While on the WV Photo picket line in Klan-infested San Lean Oakland, October 29-From left: Rally chairman Dor:: Andrews, Ray Palmiero and lauren Mozee lead chants: "Hey, D.A.! Workers say: Hands Off lauren and Ray!" dro, Lauren was called a "black nigger bitch" and hit in the face by a racist Pacific Telephone, the cops and the The vicious frame-up of Lauren and fhe demonstration brought out a scab/manager. one Michelle Rose D.A. are using this gross frame-up to Ray is a blatant ac~ ofpoliticized racism ,;,:rlOUS hard core of black, Latin and Hansen ~kcaust' Lauren defended send a message to the population: black and union-busting and was recognized \\ hlte union activists who know who the her' '),inst this violent company people don't have the right to defend as such by many thousands of working rea I criminals in this country are. because her companion Ray themselves against racist attack, work- people in the upi.o!\S and black neigh- Prominently displayed from the po to her assistance. the two are ers dOll't have the right to defend their borhoods where v(;'unteers went w get clium in front of the courthouse "cmg multiple felony assault charges. picket lines. out the word Of' the case. Saturday's were large portraits and flowers to demonstration wa', endorsed by 12 honor the memory of two black victims :::;: unions, 49 union officials and 24 hlack < of racist killer cops: Patrick Mason. the -0 student and civii [[ghts organizations. fi vc-year-old shot to death by an Orange :;, o Some 50 phone w;)rkers turned out for 0" County cop last March, and Charles the march; unionists from the Interna Briscoe, the 37-year-old Machinists tional Longshoremen's and Warehouse union official brutally gunned down in men's Union, the International Associa 1979 by Oakland cops. tion of Machinists, Teamsters and Unit Patrick Mason's killer, cop Anthony ed Steelworkers provided monitors to Sperl, was recently awarded $35,000 in help ensure an orderly march and rally. bounty by the California Worker's From the steps of the Alameda Comp Board for "psychological stress." County Courthouse, Lauren Mozee Oakland cop Robert Fredericks explained: pumped 10 rounds of ammunition into "As everyone knows. I'm a victim of a Charles Briscoe; this was the same cop Marchers racist, anti-labor frame-up. Why? One, involved in the killing of 16-year-old carry photos of I'm a black woman. Two, Ray and I are Panther Bobby Hutton and in no less black victims an interracial couple. Three, I'm a of police terror, militant-I said militant-trade union than four other shootings ofblacks, two five-year-old ist. A former member of the Black of them fatal. That Sperl and Fredericks Patrick Mason Panther Party for many years. And I'm walk the streets as free men today is an a firm believer-l said firm believer-in unspeakable crime that says it all about and Machinist socialism. I've always been a fighter Charles Briscoe. against racism and cop terror, and a racist "justice" in America. fighter for ur:;', of the working class Among those who addressed the against the boss~s. '\low for these things crowd was lAM Local 739 spokesman and for doing my duty on the picket Willie Lee Bell. a close personal friend lines ... I've been ,iictimized.... It's not Ray and myself who are the criminals of Briscoe's: here. The criminals are Ma Bell, the San "Alone. we are powerless. and alone Leandro Police Department and the each one of you is powerless. We have District Attorney." continued on page 6 12 4 NOVEMBER 1983