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little Nazi Fuhrer paced back and forth chanting for an hour, until the Hitler­ behind the fence like a caged hyena. lovers gave up and were ushered out by June 27: Labor, Blacks, Next to the jackbooted brownshirts of the police to a thunderous roar of"Nazis the American Nazi Party from Chicago, Out! Nazis Out!" the SS Action Group from Detroit, As the Nazis left, Don Andrews, a Jews, Gays Respond to dressed up like a punk motorcycle gang, spokesman for the Committee and lamely waved their swastika-embla­ member of the Spartacist League Spartacist Campaign zoned shields. But no one could hear Central Committee, declared to the them as a steady din of anti-fascist cheering crowd, "We did it! We prevent­ chants effectively drowned out their ed them from carrying out their provo­ CHICAGO-Sunday, June 27 here was stretches from the Nazis to the White "death to queers" poison. For an hour cation!" This was a victory for all decent a big victory for opponents of fascist House. the crowd boomed out, "Chicago is a people of Chicago, he said. More than terror throughout the country. It was When the gang of Nazi storm troop­ labor town, Chicago is a black town, 3,000 demonstrators had rejected the the largest militant anti-Nazi protest in ers drove a rented truck up to the edge of Chicago is a gay town, Chicago is a appeal by liberals and the official Gay the area in decades, 'with more than Lincoln Park Sunday afternoon, they Latino town, Chicago is a Jewish Pride Parade Committee to ignore the 3,000 participating. And the presence of found the site where they planned to town-N0 room for Nazis!" Nazis. Instead, representatives of the protesters from a broad cross-section of stage a provocation against the Gay The demonstrators brought out by labor movement, gays, blacks, Catho­ the Chicago population in a demonstra­ Pride Day march already occupied by the June 27 Committee took over the lics, Jews, Arabs and others came out to tion led by socialists is a landmark in several thousand anti-Nazi demonstra­ "public forum" area of Lincoln Park block the fascists' attempt to victimize anti-fascist actions nationally. As Ron­ tors who turned out in response to where the fascists had threatened to homosexuals. Someone had to stop ald Reagan's killer cutbacks and the determined organizing by the SL­ goose-step on Sunday. The protesters these would-be killers, said Andrews, Klan/Nazis' guns target black and initiated June 27 Committee Against the were angry and militant and only the "so the Spartacist League did this simple working people, it is clear that there is Nazis. As the fascists were spotted, the massive police presence stopped them decent thing, mobilizing labor and all no future for the oppressed and exploit­ crowd surged forward chanting "No from driving the fascists out. More than the sections of the oppressed to defend ed in this rotting system. The class­ Hitlers in Chicago-Stop the Nazis 165 uniformed cops were officially on the rights of gays, blacks and Jews in struggle strategy of the Spartacist now!" Unable to enter the park, the two hand, and many scores of plainclothes­ this city." League (SL), for labor/black mobiliza­ dozen Hitlerites in brown and black men circulated in the crowd, ostenta­ The thousands who showed up at tions to stop racist terror, shows how to uniforms clustered behind a chain-link tiously sporting their red, white and blue Lincoln Park Sunday came in response fight back and win. June 27 proved it fence. protected by hundreds ofChicago buttons. Thirteen protesters were arrest­ to the organizing efforts of the June 27 can be done. cops, including a line of mounted ed during the afternoon, charged with Committee Against the Nazis. More They came from the steel mills of East cossacks. disorderly conduct and released. But the than 75 individuals representing large Chicago and the Harvester plant in The whole rally-podium, sound crowd would not be provoked into a sectors of the Chicago community Melrose Park, from heavily gay New system and all-charged up to the front disastrous confrontation with the Chi­ endorsed the Committee's call to action. Town and the largely Jewish suburb of lines as anti-Nazi demonstrators pressed cago police force. The protesters More than 250,000 Committee leaflets Evanston. There were even East Eu­ against police barricades. The pudgy drowned out the Nazis with spirited continued on page 9 ropean Catholics from North Side neighborhoods. But most important in this the most segregated city in the U.S., with the meanest white suburbs in the Special Supplement Inside: country, they came from the giant South Side ghetto on Sunday to SlOp the Nil:is and defend themselves. "Wherever the Nazis march, that means 'whites only'," "No Hitler$!nChi~ago, they said. And wherever the fascists are stopped, it means hope for the future of black people and all the oppressed. On Off:the;Streels!~! June 27 a breach was made in the wall of Nazis fear engendered by the racist front that Letter to the NYC Transit Militants Protest Gay Community News Outrage Over Big Lie: They Can't Lynching of Black Sell It in Chicago 6 July 1982 New Left sectoralist notion that nobody Gay Community News but gays will defend gay rights; they Transit Worker confined their "organizing" to empty Boston gestures li~e a Stonewall march through To the Editor: the gay community consisting of six We are writing to object to your false people! These are the people who are The following leaflet was issued think they can get away with murder. and misleading report on the important now spreading, with your assistance, by militant New York City transit We demand that the racist anti-Nazi demonstration in Chicago on slanders against the organizers of the workers on June 23. murderers be jailed! But that won't June 27 which appeared in Gay Com­ anti-Nazi mobilization. put a stop to this sort of atrocity munity News, 10 July. Noting that the Most of your readers, unfortunately, Monday night a racist mob against the TWU and its members. fascist American Nazi Party had sched­ will have no way ofknowing what really clubbed to death car maintainer The police have a special "taskforce" uled a "Death to Queers" rally on Gay happened. But all over Chicago are William Turks and beat up two other to find the criminals, but since when Pride Day in Chicago, your article in plenty who do. Prior to the demonstra­ black transit workers. Maybe those are cops friends ofthe working man? gross disregard for the facts attributed tion, Chicago's gay weekly (GayLife, 25 club-swinging scum thought Turks The cops recently shot down token to something called the "Stonewall June) provided serious reporting ofour had no friends and no union broth­ clerk Anthony Ruggiero of Staten Committee" the sizable anti-Nazi mobi­ organizing efforts. While making clear ers. Maybe they didn't know Turks Island, and they've also got a lot of lization which shouted down the fascist the Pride Week Planning Committee's was a member of the Transport experience busting up picket lines. provocation. Your article then slanders "decision not to facilitate a confronta­ Workers Union, the most powerful in Koch wants to disarm us in every the organizers of the anti-Nazi tion with the Nazis," GayLife also New York. Well, we better make it way-gun control and union busting. demonstration: reported on the June 27 Committee our business to see that them and We need the right to bear arms, for "The counter-demonstration was fur­ press conference where a former leader ther complicated by the presence of the their kind find out! They murdered one thing. If that right were exer­ Spartacist League, whose members of the Los Angeles-based Lavender and Turks, whose right arm was in a cast, cised, William Turks might still be used a large sound system to 'try to steal Red Union, Gene Shofner of the a few hundred feet from the Coney alive. the whole show,' in the words of Spartacist League, called for a "mass Island shop. That's union territory. , But most of all we need union Stonewall member Richard Wilson. mobilization oflabor, blacks, minorities One thing every union member action. The TWU must organize an Wilson said the Spartacists refused to and gays to stop the Nazis" and address the specific question of lesbian knows is solidarity-we stick togeth­ immediate rally and march of and gay pride. He told GCN that in explained the June 27 Committee's er, black and white. When you attack mourning and solidarity-starting several cases Spartacists aided the determination not to engage in futile one of us, you're taking on all 33,000 right at the Coney Island shop police by pointing out to them persons (not to say suicidal) confrontations with of us. entrance. Every union and black who had thrown objects at the Nazis." the Chicago police. Gay Life noted as Koch cries crocodile tears, but who organization in the city should be This is a lie from start to finish! well the formation of a separate Stone­ paved the way for this outrage? 1980: mobilized. Call your union rep Everyone who was there in Lincoln wall Committee and the split from it ofa Strikebreaker Koch campaigns on now-call the TWU headquarters Park on June 27 knows that the anti­ dozen members who were critical of the the Brooklyn Bridge to make us the (873-6000). The New York City labor Nazi mobilization was organized by the manipulations of the Revolutionary scapegoat for what the banks and the movement is largely minority­ June 27 Committee Against the Nazis, Socialist League. bosses did to this city. 1981: The TA black, Latin, Jewish. All are targeted initiated by the Spartacist League The subsequent 2 July issue of kills motorman Jesse Cole, then by the Klan, which has begun working with Chicago-area unionists Gay Life, in an article headlined "No blames him (and all transit workers) leafleting Coney Island high schools. and neighborhood groups. The crowd Room for Nazis!" accurately reported for the collision. Koch and the city Let's nip it in the bud! The TWU of 3,000 which turned out to "greet" the on the demonstration: bosses put the gun to our head; is it can-and must-show the way Nazis with chants of"Chicago is a labor "The largest contingent of counter­ any wonder that a bunch of racist against the racist terrorists. town, Chicago is a gay town, Chicago is demonstrators Sunday appeared to be a Jewish town, Chicago is a black members of the June 27 Committee punks pulled the trigger? In Koch Against the Nazis, which was initiated and Reagan's America, unionists and Ed Kartsen town-No room for Nazis!" were by the Spartacist League. ... The blacks are considered subhuman. David Brewer mobilized by the work of June 27 committee received a permit June 24 to The racist vigilantes, the Ku Klux Keith Anwar Committee volunteers who distributed bring sound equipment to the site and members, TWU Local 100 260,000 leaflets and soapboxed at union set up a platform Sunday from which Klan, the Nazis get the message: they black and labor representatives and halls and plant gates, at schools and in [Spartacist] league members spoke...." working-class, black, Jewish and gay neighborhoods. We do not claim to understand why the has solidar­ The "Stonewall. Committee" was Gay Community News ized with and given currency to a dirty, from the beginning a parasitic and factionally motivated smear job. By so contradictory venture which split under doing you have misinformed and the impact of June 27 Committee disoriented your readers. You have also organizing efforts. Though the Stone­ destroyed your credibility among the wallers differed with the official Gay Pride organizers' plans to avoid con­ hundreds of Chicago gay militants who fronting the Nazis directlYl they also turned out against the Nazis under the opposed the June 27 Committee's banners of the June 27 Committee. broad-based, labor/black-led strategy Gene Shofner of anti-fascist work. The Stonewallers' Alison Spencer own "strategy" was premised on the old for the Spartacist League

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2 WORKERS VANGUARD Black Miners Massacred in South Africa Strikebreaking cops and company r with their families, forbidden to leave '"c guards killed eight black miners near (0. the prison-like compounds, paid wages Johannesburg last weekend in South ~ o only a fifth of white miners' and are Africa's most explosive labor struggle o 9: regarded by the mine owners as more this year. Police used attack dogs, tear :;' expendable than any slaves. Many are gas grenades and a helicopter to disperse o '"3 imported from Mozambique and other angry strikers, who burned down an "0 black-ruled states whose governments, administration building at the West despite ritual condemnations of apart­ Driefontein mine on July 2. Firing into heid, value the South African currency the crowd, the apartheid killers shot the miners bring home more than the seven black miners dead, while another rights and lives of their citizens. was stabbed to death. Two days later The murder of the West Driefontein 1,000 miners refused to go underground miners is not just another in the endless and left for home. racist atrocities committed against The miners, contract laborers from helpless blacks. For despite the prison­ the black "homelands" and neighboring Gold miners like conditions, despite the savage states, live in concentration camp-like toiling in repression, the five-million-strong black racist hell. barracks and work in horrendously proletariat is undermining the apartheid dangerous conditions in the world's system. The recent period has seen the deepest mines. Tension was high at West creation of mass unregistered black Driefontein and other mines ofthe Gold unions. The black workers of South Fields of South Africa company after Africa occupy a strategic position in the the bosses refused to match 16 percent heart of the industrial powerhouse of pay increases (equal to the inflation June 27. By the following weekend a to divide and repress the black working the entire continent. They have the rate) granted by rival Anglo American wildcat walkout had spread to four area class of South Africa. Denied perma­ power to break the chains of apartheid Corporation. The miners' anger over­ pits. nent employment, or even the rights of slavery and free the entire region from flowed after the death of six black The contract labor system is at the citizenship in their own country, the the white racist gold-and-diamond workers in a Gold Fields mine accident heart of the apartheid regime's strategy contract miners are forbidden to live capitalists.• Feinstein Bans Handguns in S.F.

SL: No to Gun Control! '''-_~",,"';''--' .. 78 _ SAN FRANCISCO-Mayor Dianne the Police Department reported receiv­ violence we saw last September at the These days the liberal-authoritarian, Feinstein has just signed into law her ing a lot of calls about qualifying for a anti-Duarte EI Salvador demonstration "we know what's good for you" move­ draconian ban on handgun ownership, permit, and the local DA held off when mounted police charged demon­ ment takes in everything from gun demanding gun owners turn in their enforcement pending a legal battle. strators in an example of unprovoked control to outlawing smoking and weapons in 90 days or face up to six Meanwhile, the ominous anti-gun of­ police brutality? And more generally, banning pornography. The smugness of months in jail and a $500 fine. (Of fensive is spreading: Berkeley passed a the wholesale murder of the Black the whole thing is repulsive to the course, the law exempts cops and a few similar ban, Oakland is talking about Panther Party by cops and the FBI? average person who has to live in the select groups such as store owners and holding hearings, and a statewide And the everyday police violence that grubby real world. So the liberals try to "gun collectors.") The new law had been November ballot initiative threatens to every black ghetto in this country, from make gun control palatable by appeal­ approved by the Board of Supervisors put a freeze on all handguns with a Watts to Miami, has endured? [SF ing to everyone's real fears of being despite the protests of hundreds of registration requirement. police chief] Murphy and Hongisto mugged, raped or murdered. There's no people from a broad spectrum of the Just as the gun control proponents try want gun control because they want the solution to crime under capitalism, but population-white conservatives, the to appeal to anti-black racism over cops to have the monopoly on guns. self-defense is sure a whole lot easier National Rifle Association, the White street crime, many of the anti-gun­ We were shown earlier in the hearings when you've g~t a gun. Unlike the Panther Party and a group called Gay control witnesses at a June IO public the gun that killed [city supervisor] feminist alternative of karate lessons, Guns. So-called "progressive" labor hearing in SF tried to make use ofracist Harvey Milk, and we were told that this the handgun is rightly seen as the Great leaders like Charles Lamb of Hotel, arguments. All more or less openly is an argument for gun control. But it Equalizer. Restaurant Employees and Bartenders agreed that cops should have guns. All isn't. Because Feinstein's ordinance The hypocrisy ofpeople like Feinstein Union Local 2 and the ILWU's Jimmy except one, that is. Spartacist League would allow selected individuals to keep is appalling. She's known to have Hermanjoined with the guardians ofthe spokesman Diana Coleman rejected their guns. And of course off-duty cops carried a .38; she's got a bodyguard; bosses' "law and order," such as former controls as a threat to minorities in or ex-cops like [Milk's murderer] Dan she's got a private limousine and a SF sheriff Richard Hongisto (now an particular, pointing out that "ifguns are White would never have trouble getting chauffeur at taxpayers' expense. And SF supervisor), in supporting the banned, only the cops and the Klan will a permit. The gay Democratic clubs are she's telling those of us who have to ride disarming of working people. have guns." (To their credit, the Gay for gun control-well, maybe if Harvey the Muni bus that we shouldn't be But in the first two days of its passage Guns' spokesman was the only other Milk had had a gun he wouldn't be dead allowed to have a gun-or for that no one had turned in their guns; instead speaker to note that gun control hurts now. And maybe if the old people at the matter, unions, decent working condi­ blacks, women and gays.) International Hotel had exercised their tions or affordable housing. She's a While some conservatives and racists constitutional right to bear arms, [then representative of the ruling class of this WfJRNERS hissed and interrupted Coleman's re­ SF sheriff] Hongisto would have been a country, who are determined to make marks, she was greeted with consider­ little less free in sledgehammering down the working class pay for capitalism's VANGIJARD able applause as she finished. We reprint their doors. crisis. (Shouts of "Out of order!") So Marxist Working-Class Biweekly below her testimony: Then there's the rising tide of fascist while restraints on the fascists are being of the Spartacist League of the U.S. • • • • • violence in this country, and of course relaxed, the push is on to disarm the EDITOR Jan Norden My name is Diana Coleman, and I'm they're armed to the teeth. When the working class, especially blacks, as part ASSOCIATE EDITOR Charles Burroughs speaking on behalf of the Spartacist Nazis wanted to celebrate Hitler's of a drive toward a bonapartist state PRODUCTION ,Darlene Kamlura (Manager). aimed at keeping working people down. Noah Wilner League. As socialists we oppose Fein­ birthday in San Francisco, the police We better fight these anti-democratic CIRCULATION MANAGER linda Jarreau stein's gun control measure and all of gave them a permit, and Feinstein and EDITORIAL BOARD George Foster, liz the other gun control measures being the Board of Supervisors agreed­ measures while we can. Gordon, Mark Kellermann, James Robertson, proposed here. Ifguns are banned, only advising people to ignore this threat. It Gun control kills. It kills blacks in Reuben Samuels, Joseph Seymour, MarJone Stamberg the cops and the Klan will have guns. was only a united front of unions and particular. It kills in the service of a Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published Police and fascist violence are on the rise minority organizations organized by the desperate ruling class which long ago biweekly, skipping an issue in August and a in this country, and gun control would Spartacist League that stopped the became a bar to human progress and week In December, by the Spartaclst Publishing Co, 41 Warren Street, New York, NY 10007 leave blacks and other minority people Nazis from preaching and practicing will seek to maintain its position Telephone 732-7862 (Edltonal), 732-7861 defenseless in the face of racist terror. racist terror in this city. Those who rely through naked state terror. It is this (BUSiness). Address all correspondence to Box 1377, GPO, New York, NY 10116 Domestic Feinstein and the police chief talk on the police to protect them from the class and its thugs which must be subscriptions $500/24 Issues Second-class about fighting violence, but the best­ fascists will soon find out that a goodly disarmed, through victorious proletari­ postage paid at New York, NY organized perpetrators ofwanton hand­ number of those who burn the crosses an revolution. No to gun control! For Opmions expressed m signed articles or letters do not necessarily express the editorial gun violence are the cops. Yet of course and wear the white hoods at night are the right of black armed self-defense Viewpoint. these thugs in blue are deliberately wearing blue uniforms during the day. against racist terror! For labor/black No. 309 9 July 1982 exempt from the liberals' gun control Labor/black mobilizations to stop the mobilizations to stop the fascists! campaign. What about the kind of fascists! Thank you very much.• 9 JULY 1982 3 SRartacist Don Andrews S~ks on Chicago Black Radio Blacks Under the Gun We print below excerptsfrom a radio fighting labor movement that champi­ organization of black and white revolu­ interview with Don Andrews of the ons the right of labor and blacks and all tionaries who have a vision of a better Spartacist League andJune 27 Commit­ of the oppressed. They may need these world, a world in which the working tee Against the Nazis broadcast live on shock troops to drown in blood the class can rule and black people can WVON, Chicago's leading black radio workers movement, the struggle for finally have their equality. That costs station, on June 26. black equality in the future. money, that means time and dedication, Steele: I haven't seen too much in the and that means bodies. We think a lot of major media about the event on people will see its importance by being Sunday. there on the 27th. Richard Steele: Why have you formed Andrews: Well, they certainly didn't the Committee Against the Nazis? ***** mind playing up Greensboro as a Caller: I'd like to say I appreciate their Don Andrews: Well, the June 27 "shootout" between two "extremist" cause, and I'm certainly going to be at Committee Against the Nazis was organizations, and of course white­ the park. Another thing, they are also initiated by the Spartacist League in washed the Klan/Nazi killers. Where against Catholic people. response to the Nazis and the Klan was the liberal outcry when the anti­ Steele: You're talking about the Nazis. [threat] to march on Gay Pride Day. racist militants were gunned down in Certainly the gays are on their hit list, Caller: Yeah, and the Ku Klux Klan. I broad daylight in Greensboro? One of don't know how they could let them be but they have other targets in this city. our purposes, since the major media Especially they want to go after blacks, Don Andrews there with a Nazi uniform. I believe have maintained a conspiracy of silence what he is talking about tonight. and Jews. I understand that not so long on this issue, has been to make this an showed up. Also in San Francisco in Steele: So you're going to be out in ago they demolished the home of a issue among blacks and Jews and April '80, labor, minorities and gays support, is that it? Jewish family in Evanston. And they working people in this city, and other stopped the Nazis from celebrating would like to preach their "White ethnic minorities, and the response we Hitler's birthday. Our strategy is one of Caller: I certainly am. I told my Power" madness in the city of Chicago. are getting is very, very positive. There mobilizing the power of the labor husband I'm going to be there. I just Steele: Why not have a demonstration are a lot of angry people who do not movement, alongside its allies, to wanted to give credit for what they're at another day, at another time, as want to see the Nazi/ Klan filth raise prevent such race-hate organizations doing. opposed to that time and that place on their heads in this city, to get a recruiting from gaining a foothold. Sunday? ***** station in order to recruit to genocide. Steele: What's the City's attitude at this Caller: I want to appreciate what Andrews: The underlying assumption They dream of their death camps; they point? they're doing too. Every black person dream of making Chicago a vast that's behind that is that if you ignore Andrews: Well, they would like people should be there. All of those Jews out cemetery of Jewish, black and labor the Nazis and the Klan, they will ignore to stay home. They would basically like there in Evanston, when they [the Nazis] corpses. We have to do everything in our us. You see, the Klan and Nazis are a to give the Nazis and the Klan a were supposed to march out there, they power through a labor-led fight to deadly threat right now. Under Rea­ platform on Sunday under the guise of stopped them. And that's what we gan's war against black people, against organize black people, Jewish people their "right to Constitutionally protect­ should do. Every black person, every labor, against women and all minorities, and all of the oppressed to stop the ed free speech," which is another way of Jew and everybody should be down and gays, in this country, the Klan and Nazis and the Klan from raising their saying the "right" to organize lynch there. I'll be there. I will. And I want to Nazis feel that they can come into a heads in the city. mobs against blacks and others. From get the number where I can send some powerful industrial center like Chicago Steele: Let me ask you, what is the the very beginning we have been very money to help them along. Where and carry out attacks on one ofthe most Spartacist League? determined to make one thing absolute­ should I send the money to? vulnerable sections ofthe oppressed, the Andrews: We're a labor-socialist or­ ly clear: our strategy is to avoid Steele: Let's get you a phone number, gays, and then from there to launch a ganization and, very simply put, our confrontation with the police. We are and then you can call. What is that drive for genocide against black people, struggle is to build a racially integrated out there to demonstrate our outrage number again? and the Jews. Since Reagan has come to workers party in this country that can against the Nazis and the Klan. Andrews: That's [312] 427-0003. power they have grown enormously: fight for the rule of the working class. Steele: There may be people who are Steele: Let me ask you a question they number 10,000, they have 100,000 Talking about combatting Nazi/Klan not affiliated with any organization, and before you go. Doesn't it bother you supporters. terror in the industrial centers through­ you have no control over them. about the prospect that there is al­ Steele: Also psychologically they have out this country: I'm from Detroit, and Andrews: The truth of the matter is, ways a possibility of some direct gained probably a lot of strength based one of the things the Spartacist League where does the violence come from? confrontation? on what is the perceived attitude of the did along with militant auto workers Who has been maiming and murdering current administration. right in the aftermath ofthe Greensboro Caller: Sure it bothers me. But what are and bombing black people's homes and you going to do? If we don't stick Andrews: Yes. Bill Wilkinson of the killings was we were able to mobilize other minorities' homes from coast to Klan, shortly after Reagan was elected, blacks, many of whom were auto together and be there, what're we going coast in this country? The violence to do? Every word they said tonight is made the statement that his platform workers, socialists and black youths, to comes from these race-hate terrorist could have been written by a Klansman. stop the Klan from riding in downtown really true. It's getting worser and organizations. I can spell that out very worser. And that is not far from the truth. The Detroit. This was in the face of deter­ graphically. For example, even in Reagan government certainly has pro­ mined opposition on the part of[May­ Detroit recently three Klansmen were Steele: So basically, your feeling is the tected these fascists. They see the or] Coleman Young and the Democratic convicted for blowing off the hand of a cause far outweighs the negative possibility of unleashing them, particu­ Party administration, who threatened black woman. I have a friend who was a thought.... larly in the context of a resurgent, to arrest anti-Klan militants who phone worker in California, who was Caller: Just like the lady [said] who shot down off a pole by the Ku Klux called just a while ago. Why would the - ~ Klan. And also Greensboro. These are government let them[the Nazis] demon­ S!orilwawl , not isolated incidents. This comes in a strate like that? Why? Anything a black context of a decaying economy, a person tries to do, they cut it down. PP't«lftion crumbling capitalist economy that .~Jiws ***•• cannot provide the smallest reforms. Caller: I would like to ask, do they They are taking away every single gain .~ foresee a possible reformation of the BIacb that black people and working people Menlbtr (LSWA Black Panthers, or some other ethnic have fought for in the past, and so these organization that will fight, maybe Nazi and Klan organizations feel that physically, against the Nazis? it's open season on blacks and working people and Jews and gays. Andrews: Well, I'd like to comment on By the way, our organization, in that. First of all, black people today are terms ofdefending the democratic rights absolutely leaderless. They're vulner­ of homosexuals, we have done thateven able, they're disorganized and they are before there was a gay movement, full of despair. Because, for the most because our party views itself, and we part, the black "leaders" in this country, are in reality, the tribune of the people. what they're about particularly now is We want to fight every single instance of finding another racist Democrat to sell oppression and tyranny that this capi­ to us. People have their eyes on Teddy talist government visits on people, Kennedy. Do you know what Teddy because the only way we're going to get Kennedy did when the racist mobs were out of this situation is by stopping the menacing and attacking black school­ Nazis and the Klan and laying the basis children in Boston during the fight for for an integrated fight for jobs for all. school integration? Absolutely nothing. That's why on June 27 it's so important He turned a blind eye. that we turn out masses of people who On the question of the Black Panther are the enemies of fascism. The Sparta­ Party and what happened to it, I'd like cist League is a socialist organization to comment first ofall that the only way which has initiated this, but we can't do black people can attain their freedom is Blacks know Nazis/Klan are a deadly threat. it by ourselves. Weare a small socialist continued on page 11 4 WORKERS VANGUARD WfJliNEliS ,,1N(;(Jl1lilJ

Dean Paul/NFl ~~ • • • o I ers In Icago, aZls• 'treets!" Printed below are excerpts from Chicago is a gay town-No room for extermination camps or forced labor just the Nazis. They're just one sick speeches given at the rally ofthe June 27 Nazis!"] camps and use us for cannon fodder in group that couldn't make it. We've got a Committee Against the Nazis in Chica­ These Nazis, when they carried out the next war. But we are here to say no, bigger problem. And I'm joining you, go's Lincoln Park. their racist terror down in Greensboro, .they will not do this, we will not allow the labor movement's joining you, and North Carolina, the people that were on them. all these groups are joining you to tell • • • • • the other side of their gunsights were you that there's a sicker group-and labor union organizers, civil rights Willie Harris they're sitting right up on Capitol Hill in Ed Kartsen workers, black women and leftists. They Secretary-Treasurer ofLocal372, Serv­ Washington, D.C.! What are we going Chairman ofthe rally and New York target all of us for the extermination ice Employees International Union. to do? We're going to stop the Nazis, City transit worker. camps. They want to put all of us into Well, today, brothers and sisters, I number one. But number two, we're I'd like to welcome everyone to this meat grinders, and they want to make think it's a serious test. I admit to you going to organize. rally to stop the KKK and the Nazis. I'm this country go to war on the basis of the labor movement has been lax on We're in a serious situation. They're glad to see people come out here to stop race, god and country. They are here to some issues. But on this issue, we've got trying to divide the workers, and make this Nazi filth. They come out to carry put everyone in this demonstration in to come to the forefront. And it's not them think you don't need a union, you out terror, and I know from what don't need this, you don't need that. happened to one of my fellow transit --"'Q- :E What you need is unity-and we're '.."'1 # vs, Ours, < ~ going to get it. And today is just one workers on Monday that they mean ". ~ o stride forward. On behalf of Local 372 business: the racists clubbed him to Cl'IlSt the NaZis (; death in Brooklyn, with iron pipes. and all its 6,000 members, I want to say That's what the Nazis mean. Here in to you: I'm proud to be out here today! Chicago many of you are familiar with I'm proud to be a part of this type of what went on in Marquette Park, where organization. But I will not be satisfied the Nazis carried out racist terror until we come together as one and knock against the black community. You're those big Nazis out of the Capitol and familiar with what went on in Evanston, say to ourselves, we've done the job! where the Nazis burned down a Jewish This is only one phase-Washington, home. They think that gays, blacks D.C. is the next! should be exterminated. They think the labor movement must be smashed­ Myra Owens they're for slave labor. They want to Spartacus Youth League. prepare this country for war. But we are The Nazis are using the gay demon­ here to stop them! Ed Kartsen, left; stration as a scapegoat. The real focal Jackie Brooks. We want to let them know that we will point is the black community. But we not tolerate their presence in Chicago! are here today to stop them again, and We will not allow them to come here to we will if they show their faces! It is only build for race terror, for anti-gay t«rror, the Spartacist League and the Spartacus for anti-union terror! We are here to say Youth League who raise the fight to stop the Nazis will not march in Chicago! the Nazis and the Klan. There is not one {Chanting: "Chicago is a union town­ black organization, like Rev. Daugh­ No room for Nazis! Chicago is a black try's Black United Front or Ben Chavis' town-No roomfor Nazis! Chicago is a National Black Independent Political Jewish town-No room for Nazis! continued on page 6 .~,.

9 JULY 1982 5 "No Hillers in Chicago" ... (continued from page 5) Party or Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH, that even raises a finger to stop Reagan's Cold War drive or even to fight against the Nazis and the Klan. Their main concern is building a future in the Democratic Party. But there's no future for you in the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. They're both equally dedicated to the anti-Soviet war drive that fuels the growth of the Nazis and the destruction of humanity. So we need our own party, you need your own party, which is a workers party, a party that will fight in your interests. And that party is the Sparta­ cist League and its youth group, the Spartacus Youth League. With the growth of the Nazis and the Klan, there are candidates of the Nazis and Klan in both ruling parties. Remember Tom Metzger, the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan who got the Democratic nomination in San Diego? Neither party has anything to offer black youth in this country. But the Spartacus Youth League does, and we 'want you to join us. Just like we said on EI Salvador, it applies to blacks: Take a side! It is revolution or death for black people in this country! It is blacks who will be in the forefront of fighting against the Nazis and the Klan. If the cops don't get blacks, the Nazis will. Remember the Black Pan­ ther Party leader Fred Hampton, murdered here in Chicago? Remember Ron Settles, murdered by the Signal Hill police in Long Beach, California? Recently two black GIs were killed in Germany by a Nazi-lover, and one of "Labor must show the way-Stop the Nazis and KKK!" "Remember Nazi them was a sergeant in the Army. And Willie Harris ~\a~ just last week a black transit worker in death camps-:-It must not happen New York was murdered by a racist here!" "Remember Auschwitz!Remem­ gang. ber Treblinka! Remember Dachau! It's great that you're all out here to :-. Remember Lidice! Remember the Warsaw Ghetto! Remember Greens­ fight the Nazis. But the fight is not over boro! Nazis offthe Streets!" "No Hitlers today. We must continue to fight and we must win that fight. The Spartacus in Chicago-Nazis off the streets!" Youth League has a future for blacks. "Smash the Nazis, this is the hour­ Come and join the organization that Labor and blacks have got the power!" initiated this demonstration. Have a And finally, as the Nazis leave, "Nazis shot at something else besides being the out! Nazis out! Nazis out!" Cheers.] Myra Owens burnt-out ash of history. There are some Norm Roth of you out there who want to fight and Don Andrews give a shot at socialism. So come and Steel, auto, construction, housing: have the slogan, "When the going gets join the Spartacus Youth League. Join Spartacist League Central Committee. millions are out of work and the tough, throw in the towel." I say that it's us today, because tomorrow might be You people did it! We all did it! We conditions are continually getting too late. We have the world to win! time to fight these concessions. The drove the Nazis out of here! We can be worse. I have ten years service out there UAW was built when millions of auto proud of ourselves that we stuck at Harvester and I've been laid off since workers and other workers throughout together here. [Cheers} Black people Chuck Marino January. There's a good chance I'll this country sat down and instituted stuck together. Jews stuck together. Member, United Auto Workers Local 6 never see the inside of that plant again. industrial unionism in this country. Labor stuck together. Gays stuck (International Harvester). Right now they're literally dismantling That kind of solidarity is what's neces­ together. And we can do other things Besides myself, other endorsers from it piece by piece. There's a thousand sary to stop the layoffs and plant when we stick together. There's no room the Local include Vice President Jim people working there-in '73 they had closings. for Nazis here. There's no room for the West, Committeeman Dan Johnson, 3,500 people working. And our so­ [The Nazis arrive. Chants: "The Nazis Ku Klux Klan. There's no room for stewards Melvin Lewis, Miller Rogers, called union leaders like Doug Fraser killed six million Jews! Stop the Nazis those who want to kill gays and blacks Charles Graham and several other rank­ say there's nothing we can do, times are now!" "Labor, blacks, Jews, gays­ and Jews. But there's room for those and-file members. UAW Local 6 has tough, we have to grant these conces­ Unite to stop the Nazis!" "Nazis want to who want to fight for the oppressed in a history of fighting against race terror­ sions to keep the companies going. They destroy us all-Nazis off the streets!" this country. Because we aren't going to ism in this area. In 1975 one of our brothers, C.B. Dennis, moved into an all-white section of the suburb of Broadview, and his new home was Jay Goldberg, member, Stonewall firebombed on several occasions. He Committee Gilbert Gorden, former Senior Attorney, brought his problem to a Local mem­ Ust of Endorsers, Village of Skokie bership meeting and we passed a motion Charles Graham, Alternate Steward, UAW to immediately institute a civil rights June 27 Committee to Stop the Nazis Local 6 defense committee. We cbntacted local Greek-American Union unions throughout the Chicago area. Joe Gutierrez, Griever, USWA Local 1010 Joseph Gyurko, Chairman, Grievance Over 200 workers participated in my Mohamad Akhgar, The Crescent Mildred Cornelius, member, Teamster Committee, USWA Local 1010 local, plus other workers from the Robert Allen, Editor, Black Scholar Local 743 Willie Harris, Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU Steelworkers, Meatcutters, etc. We Keith Anwar, member, USWA Local 1010, Wallace Davis, Jr., Working Hard to Insure Local 372 fired for honoring picket line People's Protection David Harrison, member, ATU Local 241 stayed out at C.B.'s home for three Karl Armstrong, Student Government, Patricia Dejean months. Our defense proves that once University of Illinois/Chicago Circle Asa D. Dempsay, President. UAW Local 588 Rocky Heng, student, Loyola University labor stands up to these Nazi and Klan Lee Brooks, University of Chicago student Roberto Flores, Financial Secretary, USWA Daniel Herwitz, Amnesty International, Hyde Park Chapter scum they crawl right back into their Jan Carew, Co-convener, Dennis Brutus Local 1010 Defense Committee; Professor, Leslie Friedman, Chairman, Chicago Elisa Horowitz, Secretary, University of holes. I'm very happy to say that c.B. Northwestern University Greensboro Justice Committee Illinois/Chicago Circle Hillel Dennis is still living in that house, and Dr. Joy Carew, Dennis Brutus Defense William Gailes, First Vice Chairman, Dan Johnson, Shop Committeeman, UAW that section of Broadview is now Committee Grievance Committee, USWA Local 1010 Local 6 Edward Clark, President UAIA; Steward, Manuel Gaspar, Latino radio announcer Jackie Jordan, Executive Board, CWA completely integrated. Letter Carriers Union of Canada Local 1 Gay Academic Union of the University Local 4050 (Detroit) You know, every major industry in John T. Coffey of-Toronto Lisa Katzman,graduate student, University of this country is literally falling apart. William Cook, member, ATU Local 241 Charita Germany, postal clerk Chicago

6 WORKERS VANGUARD the Russian working people and peas­ ants in 1917. Gains which the capitalists would like to take back. Those gains belong to us. There's plenty ofproblems in that country, like the absence of working-class democracy. And we Trotskyists fight to overthrow the bureaucrats that are against world working-class revolution. But we have a program that makes sense to the working people, the blacks, the Jews, the minorities in this country. A program that says we've got to rely on our own strength and build that into a powerful movement for socialism, to fight for a workers government, for a planned economy, for jobs for all. ... We desperately need a fighting workers party in this country. The only way we're going to stop the Klan and the Nazis, is through mobilizing labor and all of the oppressed. The Spartacist League is the party for those who really want to fight this racist dying capitalist system. I want to appeal to people here. Don't sit on the sidelines. Join the Spartacist League and Spartacus Youth League, because our organization shows the way forward to a socialist future, in which the working class has taken the power out of the hands of the capitalists. And you've got to fight for it, because it's not going to be given to you.

WV Photo Norm Roth Former presi, ent, United Auto Workers Local 6 (Melrose Park, Illinois). First let me congratulate all those who organized this demonstration against hate, who organized this demon­ stration for democracy, for the Ameri­ can people, on behalf of all the people who suffered in World War II. The world has paid its price. It was former let these people come out here to try and White House, by both Democrats and to crack the divisions that divide the Supreme Court justice Jackson, who destroy us and goose-step here. They Republicans, who are waging a war on working people in this society. That's was the American counsel at Nurem­ didn't expect thousands of people to labor, blacks and all of the oppressed. why the Spartacist League did the burg, who said that the world cannot stand in their way. They were wrong, So we put out thousands of leaflets, simple decent thing, mobilizing labor endure a revival of Nazism and fascism. weren't they. {Shouts of "Yes!"} So, hundreds ofthousands ofleaflets raising and all sections of the oppressed to Such a revival would mean the end ofall brothers and sisters, we should all be the question, "Who Are These Nazis? aefend the rights of gays, blacks and civilization. What is the real meaning of proud of being able to mobilize our What Do They Want to Destroy? Who Jews in this city. You see thefascists can the Nazis and the Klan, those who forces successfully today and prevent Do They Want to Kill?" We've all got to be stopped. preach hate and division? They are the them from carrying out their program. get together to fight this Nazi threat. Now Reagan is talking about peace bulwark of reaction, those who would I'm from the Spartacist League, and Because you see the bosses in this and we know he means war. And they're tear apart the people's movements when when we heard that the Nazis were going country are desperately trying to set us driving toward a war against the Soviet the people fight for a decent life, for to be here, we said somebody had to do at each other's throats. We have to begin Union, to overturn the gains made by unity and democracy. something. We said we believe that the There is no reason on earth why this, WV Photos labor movement and other sections of the wealthiest nation in the world, the oppressed would defend the rights of should have about 15 million unem­ gays. We know that the Nazis and the ployed. This is the danger to American Klan have gays at the beginning of their democracy, something that cannot be hit list, but they mainly want to kill Boris Ross tolerated in America. And in order to blacks. And where were the so-called keep us from solving this problem the black organizations today? Like Opera­ is Nazis and Klan are nourished, by those tion PUSH-where were they, these so­ who led us into World War II and now called leaders? They're busily running hope to turn the people's fight for peace, around to the stinking racist Demo­ an end to nuclear armaments. Peace and crats. Like Jimmy Carter. Like Ted friendship around the world with all Kennedy. Like Jane Byrne, who wanted nations, and resolving our problems us to ignore the Nazis and the Klan. She through the United Nations through told us to stay at home today. They Gene Shofner discussion and give-and-take bargain­ don't ignore us, right? So it's important ing instead of the dead-end way of war. that we came out here and we mobilized There are no nuclear wars, it's only our forces. Because there's a lot of wind mutual suicide. Cliff Mezo being put in their sails by the racist in the I say once again: do not look for division, look for unity. The people yes! You have showed your strength today. Maintain it and go on to a victory that Joesephus King, President. AFSCME Organization of Nigerian Students, University Landon S. Stigall, member, Teamster Loca~ 23 (Detroit) of Illinois/Chicago Circle Local 743 will produce a bigger and better Ameri­ LeBlanch LeDree, member, ATU Local 241 John Park, bus driver Ronald Strong, Black Student Association, ca in a world of peace, where all can live Mildred Leonard, member, USWA Local 1010 Partisan Defense Committee Jane Addams Graduate College of together and Nazism belongs with the Mike Logan, Editor, The Banner, Loop William A. Pelz, Political Science Department, Social Work dinosaurs in museums. College student newspaper Roosevelt University David C. Thomas, Associate Professor of Conrad Lynn, attorney and civil rights activist Keith Phelps, lIUNA Local 1165 Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law Stephen MacDonald, member, The Body Darral Pugh, member, Gay-Lesbian Illini David Thorstad, gay rights activist and co­ Cliff Mezo Politic Collective, Toronto Red Rose Collective author of "The Early Homosexual Rights Clay Martin, former member, Teamsters Rod Rhodes Movement, 1864-1935" Vice president, United Steelworkers Against Racism Gerl Richman, member, ATU Local 241 R. Trebotich, Steward, CWA Local 5050 Local 1010 (Inland Steel). Tim McCaskell, member, The Body Politic Luis Rios, member, Teamster Local 743 Universal African Improvement Association The labor unions around the area Collective, Toronto Rouge Militant Caucus, members, UAW Alan Vukman-Tennenbaum, Secretary- Otis McDonald, Vice President, University of Local 600 Treasurer, Labour Rights for Domestic should be represented in a great more Chicago Council of SEIU Local 321 Miller T. Rogers, Committeeman, UAW Workers numbers than they are here today, Chuck Marino, member, UAW Local 6 Local 6 Alphonso Wells, Executive Board member, because the goal of the Nazi party has UAW Local 1776 (Willow Run, Michigan) Eugene Melvin, Steward, UAW Local 6 Rich Rubenstein, Academic Dean, Antioch been and was in Germany to break up Ralph H. Metcalfe School of Law Jim West, Vice President, UAW Local 6 Michael Mezo, Griever, USWA Local 1010 Israel Shahak, Chairman, Israeli League for Meredith While, Alternate Steward, UAW the unions. In their quest for power they AI Miller, Professor, Political Science Human Rights; survivor of Nazi Bergen­ Local 6 prey on racial prejudice, any prejudice, Department, Mundelein College Belsen concentration camp Preston Williams, member, AFL-CIO 18B but their real goal is to enslave the Women's Building, Bay Area Kathy Mills, member, ATU Local 241 Lorrie Shaw, member, Teamster Local 743 workers once they come to power. And Roberta Morris, Instructor, School District Robert Simpson, Business Agent, Teamster Working Hard to Insure People's Protection 201-U CMEA Local 743 Organizational affiliation listed for purposes this is what happened in Germany. Reverend John Norwood, Pastor Spartacist League/Spartacus Youth League of identification only. continued on page 8

9 JULY 1982 7 E American working class to work as o .c cheap as the workers in Taiwan, the "No Hillers in Q. ~ S{a~fO?' workers in Hong Kong, the workers in saY.S. South Africa. We have over 12 million Chicago" •.. unemployed today, and that's only the ~a..,~ Q (continued from page 7) ~-:Jl.... want to ,.., people who are getting unemployment When they were coming to power they S1'OP I,; insurance. There's six millions who were persecuted the Jews. In this country they never employed. Black Americans who try to stir up prejudice against the graduate high school, who dropped out blacks, the Latinos and the gays. 7 ,rn~ittee of high school, who lost all hope for a I think the biggest fear we have is job, and then they blame them, say laughing at the clowns who were across they're criminals. the street and not really taking them -, T£J/' We have to organize the workers, seriously. This was what was done in SL spokesman ~\ Don Andrews: ,\, ZI organize them and take over the Germany. Everyone laughed at that We are the factories. The workers can run the little paper hanger with the funny party for those I( / factories without the bosses. The bosses mustache: "Nothing serious could come who want to AN cannot run factories without help. From of that." And people say, "Well. this is fight this racist the day Hitler dropped dead, the not Germany. Our people aren't like dying TERlhl ' American imperialists took over the that. It can't happen here." I tell you it capitalist COl I? , anti-Soviet flag. All over the world \",a5 happening here, brothers and system. I~ (J\/~ '/'; !!~I riItl: they're fighting Sovietism. But the sisters. Before World War II there were -1/ Nil . Soviets destroyed the Nazis. They huge demonstrations and the Nazi sacrificed 20 million people! Organize sympathy ran rampant in. this country. and fight! There were German-American Bunds and youth movements. There were Jackie Brooks people of Chicago came out in the take advantage of that and unionize prominent people-Lindbergh, movie 27 thousands to oppose the Nazis here. every factory that everyone of us works Activist in the June Committee stars-who were openly sympathetic Against the Nazis. and helping the Nazi movement in They said the Nazis will not march in in. Because the first thing any totalitari­ our town. There were some people who an country does is to get rid of trade Thank you all for coming out here Germany. today. I didn't think we'd have this large If we don't take the Klan and Nazis said you should ignore these Nazis. unions. And Ronald Reagan and all of a turnout. I was very happy for this. seriously, they will succeed in stirring up When you ignore the fascists it's like his henchmen are doing their best to ignoring poison. If a rattlesnake bites crush unions and working people in this Everybody in the League worked hard you in the leg and you ignore that, country. for the past month or so. And I'd like to you're dead in 15 minutes. The econom­ People today that have come out here make a point that we have people with "Labor Must ic conditions in this country breed right­ have shown that we do have the power buckets out here. We'd like to solicit wing reaction. These fascists tried to to fight back. We've sent the message your donations. This whole thing cost us Defend the Rights unite the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan loud and clear from our demonstration. a lot ofmoney and we need your support to help us offset it. of Gays!" and the America First Committee to Let's not let it die. Let's go back and come out to call for "Death to Queers." make it work in our communities, day I want to tell you how I got affiliated And the people of Chicago said, "No! and night, until w~ have victory. with this. I saw someone distributing Statement from Jim West, vice leaflets and I read it and I said: "Wow, president of Local 6, United Auto We will not allow ourselves to be piecemealed to death." That's why it is Boris Ross this is of importance. Is there anything I Workers, at International Harvest­ can do to help?" I was reading the er, Melrose Park, Illinois. very important that labor came out and Fought with the Red Army in the blacks came out and minorities and Ukraine in 1918 during the Civil War, leaflets where the Nazis were talking I, Jim West, Vice President of Jews came out with the gays to fight long-time activist in anti-fascist about a final solution for blacks as being UAW Local 6 at International against this fascist reaction. That's an organizing in Chicago. canned for dog food, and it reminded Harvester in Melrose Park, have important victory. Friends, fellow workers and anti­ me that their final solution for the Jews endorsed the June 27 Committee Nazis. All my life since I was 17 years old was to exterminate them, six million. Against the Nazis. It is important Joe Lamm 1 fought against Nazism. I fought And it jolted my memory as to the 60 that we stop the Nazis. Today they Vice president, Service Employees against the White Guardists who were million blacks that were killed during are going after gays because they International Union Local 372. trying to massacre the Jews in the slavery by people of the same racial represent the weakest link. But if I want to congratulate all of you for Ukraine~ They were supplied with mentality. Which is totally psychotic to they chop off the weakest link the tremendous demonstration today. American guns and Americanweapons. me. today, tomorrow the next op­ But I'd like to add caution that if there's And we had to fight against them. Ifthe You people out here today, we love pressed group becomes the weakest anybody here today who thinks that by Red Army hadn't given the Jews guns to you all for coming out here and really link-blacks, minorities, the trade coming here that's the end, they're organize the self-defense groups, there supporting this. And don't think that it's unions and so on up the chain. I wrong. Because the Nazis can only exist wouldn't be a single Jew left in the over just because we ran them off. encourage the entire labor move­ when there's a climate of hate, oppres­ Ukraine. Now here in the United States They'll show up again. They showed up ment to turn out on June 27 in sion. And we've got to all stick together I had a very bitter experience. I saw the in Marquette Park, telling us we can't Lincoln Park to stop the Nazis. as a coalition. The greedy and the danger of Nazism coming. In 1931 we come over here, we can't come across corporations are united. Whatever their called a demonstration against the the tracks, we can't move here, we can't differences are, they take a firm stand Nazis, when everyone was pooh­ shop here. We can't even just drive prejudice, and once they gain a foothold against the working people in this poohing them. Twenty-five thousand through there. And that's crazy. I mean, your workers are through. They're little country. And unless we stick together people were marching from Douglas we all work, and those of us who don't more than slaves. . and set aside our differences, only they Park to Grant Park and we organized we wish we were. Me for one. We pay can benefit from that. the Anti-Nazi League. taxes and this is a so-called free society. Gene Shofner There are only 20 percent of Now who are the Nazis? The Nazis We're supposed to have the pursuit of Spartacist League Central Committee, American workers that are unionized. were a bunch of hired hoodlums of the so-called life and so-called liberty. But formerly a leader of the Red Flag That means a lot ofpeople right here are capitalists in Germany, and now they people like these fascists tell us we can't Union/Lavender & Red Union, a left­ working in factories where they have a are being supported by the multination­ do anything, I don't see how that can wing gay collective in Los Angeles. dictatorship of the boss that oppresses al corporations in the United States. happen. Brothers and sisters, this was an them. People fought and died for the The multinational corporations decided [Chanting: Chicago is a labor town­ important day today, because the right to have unions, and we've got to they want to reduce the status of the No room for Nazis!].

Spartacist League/ Spartacus Youth League Public Offices -MARXIST L1TERATURE­ Bay Area 3,000 Mobilize to Stop "Labor Must Show the Way! Stop the Nazis and the KKK!" Fri.: 5:00-8:00 p.m., Sat: 3:00-6:00 p.m. the Nazis in Chicago! 1634 Telegraph •. 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) Thousands Mobilize to Stop Nazis in Chicago Oakland. California Phone: (415) 835-1535 Reaganism Breeds Fascism from EI Salvador to Chicago: Lynch Mob Murders Black Transit Worker Speaker: Chicago Wliliam Turks-Chicago Rally Shows the Way Diana Coleman, SL candidate for Tues.: 5:30-9:00 p.m., Sat.: 2:00-5:30 p.m. For Workers Action to to Stop Racist Attacks! SF Board of Supervisors 523 S. Plymouth Court, 3rd Floor Chicago, Illinois Phone: (312) 427-0003 Bring Down Reagan! Speakers: Friday, July 16, 7:30 p.m. Gene Shofner. SL Central Committee. formerly New York City Speaker: of Red Flag Union/Lavender & Red Union UC Extension, Room 202 Don Andrews. SL Central Committee; 55 Laguna, San Francisco Tues.: 6:00-9:00 p.m .• SaI.:12:00-4:oo p.m. Myra Owens, SYL National Committee 41 Warren SI. (one block below Detroit socialist candidate for City For more information call (415) 863-6963 Guest Speaker: Chambers SI. near Church SI.) Council; organizer, successful anti-fascist Ed Kartsen, NYC transit worker; chairman of the Saturday, July 17, 7:30 p.m. New York. N.Y. Phone: (212) 267-1025 mobilizations, Detroit '79, Ann Arbor '82 June 27 Chicago mass rally to stop the Nazis Laney College, 0-200 9th & Fallon, Oakland Saturday, July 10, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 10, 7:30 p.m. Trotskyist League For more information call (415) 835-1535 Second Unitarian Church Machinists Hall, 7 E. 15th St. of Canada 656 West Barry For more information call (212) 267-1025 Toronto For more information call (312) 427-0003 Sat.: 1:00-5:00 p.m. 299 Queen St. W., Suite 502 CHICAGO NEW YORK CITY BAY AREA Toronto. Ontario Phone: (416) 593-4138

8 WORKERS VANGUARD IlI!S""" sage said to "turn to your bibles ... to ... Thousands find out why god says the queers and their supporters must be put to death." As the June 27 Committee's campaign ~ Mobilize... picked up steam we began getting hate­ (continued from page 1) calls from crazies calling themselves the

~ "Committee to Put Jews in Ovens," who for the protest had been distributed in cackled about Auschwitz. Just rhetoric? ~ the area over the previous two weeks. At What about the Jewish couple in the demonstration members of dozens Evanston whose home was ransacked of local unions were present. Speakers and covered with swastikas? included Norm Roth (former president, The main recruiting pitch of the United Auto Workers Local 6), Cliff fascist terrorists has been "White Pow­ "Cowboy" Mezo (vice president, Steel­ er," and their focus has been the workers Local 1010), Willie Harris and neighborhood of Marquette Park, a Joe Lamm (secretary-treasurer and vice racist pocket ofEast European "Captive president respectively of Service Em­ Nations" emigres on Chicago's South ployees International Local 372). A Side. This has given these little Hitlers a B'nai B'rith concentration camp survi­ degree ofcredibility they lack elsewhere. vors chapter mobilized for the demon­ Meanwhile, the homosexual population stration, and a Palestinian support is an isolated minority here in the heart committee turned out as well. Some of "Middle America." The June 27 feminists and gay groups, the Red Rose Committee leaflet, "Who Are These These Nazi creeps claim to be the "master race"! Collective and various self-proclaimed Nazis? What Do They Want to Destroy? socialists also showed up. Who Do They Want to Kill?" pointed seat. One drove around the block so that killer psycho scum are the worst. That's Black participation in the demon­ out: "The Nazis have targeted Gay Pride a Committee activist could take up a what brought them out. stration was key. To come up from the Day, because they know that homosex­ collection before getting off. Phone For homosexuals the Nazi provoca­ South Side to Lincoln Park on a Sunday uals are the weakest link in their chain of company workers formed a small con­ tion posed an unavoidable political morning took not only commitment but terror. But in the factories, union halls tingent that made their banner in a bar. choice. Although the Gay Pride Parade guts. Black people have been stoned by and neighborhoods, Chicagoans know Understanding that labor could be Committee sought to ignore the fascists, racist mobs when they marched for that this attack on gays is only a next on the fascists' hit list, the unionists hundreds of Chicago gays turned out to integration. Terrorist nightriders have beginning.... The Nazis have their guns were not afraid to defend homosexuals. confront the fascists. Hardly a bar in firebombed their homes when they loaded and pointed directly atyou!" We And they were not the only ones. A New Town did not have a stack of moved into the "wrong" neighbor­ cited the famous statement by German declaration by the Greek-American leaflets, and the widely read weekly hood. They remember the cop Protestant theologian and World War I Union, printed in the national Greek­ GayLife reported fully on the press murder of Black Panther leader Fred U-Boat commander Martin Niemoller, language daily Proini (24 June), stated: conference by the June 27 Committee Hampton as he lay in his bed. They which begins, "First they came for the "The Greek people have suffered as few Against the Nazis. On Sunday as the remember the Nazis' "white power" communists, but since I was not a others have from the brutality and blind Gay Pride parade entered Lincoln Park, rallies in Marquette Park. Jackie communist I did not protest. ..." violence of the Nazis.... Our dead call marchers cheered our bullhorn an­ Brooks, a young black militant who We said, "Chicago is a union town, a for the full participation ofthe Greeks of nouncements that thousands had worked with the June 27 Committee, black town....a city of ethnic minori­ Chicago at the anti-Nazi demonstration stopped the Nazis. As a dozen gays recalled that "even a dog that belonged ties." In particular, the Spartacist in Lincoln Park." A chapter of B'nai stood around a Committee leafletter, to a black person wouldn't cross the League leaflet warned ofthe Nazi/KKK B'rith named for Warsaw Ghetto one argued that you should ignore the railroad tracks there." But blacks also threat to blacks: uprising hero Janusz Korczak sent out a Nazis; the rest vigorously objected, know that they are No. I on the Klan/ "For blacks-the central and immedi­ notice "calling on you to be present in "That's crazy ... these people did the Nazis' death lists, and you've got to do ate target of Nazi/ Klan race­ Lincoln Park.... We as Holocaust right thing." terrorists-a Nazi rally in Chicago is an something. Survivors have a moral obligation to The victory party held after the anti­ But not everyone sought to mobilize especially ominous provocation. The Nazi program for blacks makes the protest any Nazi rally." In Evanston, Nazi rally at a nearby bar was attended mass opposition to the Nazis' death apartheid butchers of South Africa look where the Nazis were driven out of by 350-400 people, a third of them threats. The mainstream gay organiza­ like benevolent liberals. The racist Lovelace Park in 1980, people ap­ black. Many were interested in talking tions chose to "ignore" the Nazis, rulers of South Africa think blacks plauded Committee leafletters and more with members of the Spartacist League, making sure that their march didn't should be forcibly segregated and than $100 was collected at a community viciously exploited; the Nazis think they which had initiated the mass protest arrive at Lincoln Park until after the should be exterminated and canned for art fair. At the moment of Zionist against fascist terror, and learning storm troopers were gone. And while dogfood. Black Chicagoans had better terrorist Begin's monstrous crimes in about Trotskyism. People applauded as labor officials endorsed the socialist­ turn out in the thousands to stop these Lebanon, the question ofopposing Nazi a new member joined the Spartacus initiated demonstration, many "leftists" organizers for racist genocide!" murderers at home sharply split Youth League and a chervonetz gold did their best to defeat it. The Commu­ The Spartacist League campaign Chicago-area Jews. medallion was awarded to a supporter nist Party (CP) got out ofthe way ofthis touched a responsive chord in the city, Especially among Chicago blacks we for meritorious service at the March 27 rally, although various of its supporters particularly in the labor movement and received an enthusiastic response. An EI Salvador march in Washington, D.C. such as Roth, a leader of the CP's black community. Early on support early endorser was Wallace Davis, Jr., The Internationale was sung at the "Trade Unionists for Action and De­ came from the International Harvester who was shot in the back by Chicago conclusion. mocracy" group, came and spoke. plant in Melrose Park (UAW Local 6), police in 1977, successfully sued the city Progressive Labor and its International where in 1975 the union had organized a and now heads a black organization Big Liars Caught Red-Handed Committee Against Racism (PL/ civil rights defense guard to protect a against police brutality. While the major InCAR) worked against the demonstra­ black union brother's house from TV stations and daily newspapers But the day thousands streamed into Lincoln Park to stop the Nazis was a day tion. First InCAR honcho Finley nightriding racists. The executive board maintained a conspiracy of silence of infamy for the motley crew which Campbell claimed disingenuously that it of UAW Local 551 (Ford Sterling about the anti-Nazi demonstration was a "trap" by Mayor Byrne (who Heights stamping plant) sent the Com­ being planned, every black radio station makes up the Anti-Spartacist League. Through petty sabotage-Stonewall endorsed the Gay Pride march), later mittee a letter announcing their "deci­ in the city picked up the news and leaflets pasted over Committee posters, admitting that PL's real position was sion in favor of giving their support to broadcast it across Chicago (see WVON trying to rip up leaflets-the Revolu­ Moral Majority bigotry ("The SL is the demonstration to stop the Nazis." interview with SL spokesman Don tionary Socialist League in particular stopping the Nazis for a bunch of 'fags' A number of officials and union Andrews, page 4). Around 63rd and tried to undercut the anti-Nazi protest who are part of the Nazi movement"). militants at the Inland Steel plant in Halsted every liquor store in the on June 27. First of all, their maneuver Meanwhile, the Revolutionary Socialist East Chicago (USWA Local 1010) also neighborhood took at least 100 flyers. in the gay milieu blew up in their face, League (RSL), which postures as macho supported the demonstration. Inland And people would come up to the Nazi fighters, retreated for cover into has been the site ofan important picket­ Committee sound car at stoplights and with full accounts of the fiasco pub­ lished in the local gay weekly. Then the gay milieu. The RSL formed a line defense case around class-struggle ask for stacks ofleaflets to hand around. after the RSL's Stonewall Committee Stonewall Committee which soon crum­ militant Keith Anwar. The largely black At the rally, while many left after the collapsed, they were unable to organize bled as its defeatist policy was swamped and Latino bus drivers were among the Nazis drove off, a lot of blacks stayed to anyone at all. Worse yet, the supposedly by the organizing of the SL-led June 27 most enthusiastic backers of the anti­ the end. Black people know that in this "sectarian" Spartacists managed to Committee. Nazi protest. They took piles of leaflets, racist country every rotten thing is going bring out more than 3,000. The SL­ making sure they were placed on every to hit them hardest. And the Nazi/Klan First They Came for the Gays initiated June 27 Committee Against the Nazis got numerous endorsements and The Chicago outfit which calls itself participation from the labor the American Nazi Party announced movement-which isn't supposed to that it would hit the Gay Pride march in move for anything but dollars and cents, Lincoln Park. For years this little band says the RSL. But there they all were of swastika-brandishing thugs was led occupying the site where the fascists by a two-bit Fiihrer, Frank Collin, until planned to strut. he was arrested in 1980 as a "child Faced with the SL's strategy oflabor/ molester" and "exposed" as half-Jewish. black mobilization translated into The Chicago Nazis were then "cleaned reality, the RSLers resorted to down­ out" by the North Carolina fascists of right piOvocation, trying, again unsuc­ Greensboro infamy. The Nazis' planned Building for June 27 among cessfully, to turn the protest into a provocation followed an increasingly Chicago's black confrontation with the cops. Their usual familiar and ominous pattern. Working community. M.O. is to dress up in football helmets the fringes of Reagan's anti-Soviet war and heave rocks, resulting in a bash with drive and appealing to reactionary the police in which the fascists get off Christian fundamentalists of the Moral scot-free. This time, in a demonstration Majority, the fascists proclaimed: that was confronted by mounted police "Smash the Communist-Queer Alli­ and shot through with more than a ance." Their "Dial-a-Nazi" hate mes- continued on page 10 9 JULY 1982 9 Spartacist League. Thousands This is the program for the emancipa­ tion of black people enslaved by the Mobilize ... Urgent! chains of racist American capitalism. (continued from page 9) Blacks know the Nazis and KKK are an The successful anti-fascist mobili­ tributed at the large San Francisco immediate, lethal threat. Recent history zation in Chicago June 27 cost gay pride march and $234.24 by New in Marquette Park was written in black hundred clearly marked plainclothes­ blood and white terror. But they also men traveling in groups of up to a money! Especially given the blackout York gay marchers. But much more in the major news media, the action is still needed to cover printing costs, remember that it was in the Chicago dozen, their scheme was to get young suburb of Cicero that Martin Luther militants to start throwing things. When was built by street corner soap­ sound equipment rentals, legal fees, boxing, appeals to labor and neigh­ telephone bills. King, Jr. was stoned by white racist security squads of the Committee mobs when he tried to bring the liberal­ Against the Nazis warned them that we borhood organizations and mass Workers Vanguard salutes the leaflet distribution. Altogether 3,000 militants who turned out on led civil rights movement north. That' wouldn't tolerate any stunts to get movement ran head-on into the capital­ people beaten and arrested, the RSLers 260,000 leaflets were given out and June 27 in Chicago to oppose the more than 5,000 placards were Nazi provocation. We appeal to ist economic basis of black oppression. let fly with a stream ofcop-baiting. They And ever since then the token gains for also directly provoked arrests. In one posted, readers around the country who The June 27 Committee reports would have liked to be there too to black rights have been steadily eroded: case, when marshals were restraining a busing dead, CETA terminal and overt demonstrator, an RSLer came up that it has raised $3,689.44 in support that action now by sending Chicago. Over $1,100 of that was generous donations to: racism in the saddle from the White yelling "let him do what he wants"; the House to the courthouse. In Reagan's fellow threw an egg and ten seconds collected in small amounts on the June 27 Committee Against America, more than two-thirds of all later was arrested by the cops, while the streets of black, working-class, gay the Nazis black youth are unemployed. Black RSL provocateur started screaming and Jewish neighborhoods. Else­ Box 6441, Main P.O. parents, many jobless and despairing, about SL "fingermen"! . where, another $1,525.98 was con- Chicago, IL 61820 can't keep their kids off the street and OnJune 27, it was not just 3,000 anti­ their grandmothers on welfare. Nazis against two dozen fascist punks. It has become a commonplace to say Directly confronting the crowd was the Ann Arbor, where 2,000 responded to 3,000" were present at the anti-Nazi that decaying capitalism underlies racist Chicago Police. And those stupid the SL campaign and ran the Nazis out protest, the wire services and daily oppression in the U.S. Most of the "last adventurists who simply identify the of town, the RSL/RWL claim we papers said 1,000. "13 Foes of Nazis hired and first fired" haven't had a state power with these tiny gangs are attacked our own demonstration, be­ Arrested During Lincoln Park Rally" steady job since the 1974-75 recession. capable of criminal provocations. In the cause we blocked their attempt to take it was the Sun- Times headline. The But many have become demoralized by 1930s, Leon Trotsky wrote of an over with their own sound system. And Associated Press wrote: "The Chicago unrelieved oppression. Black misleaders incident in Paris where the Stalinists in Chicago, June 27 their ludicrous line gay parade, its 13th annual, was marred say that salvation can be found in the provoked a confrontation with police is that we brought out thousands, by protesters who hurled rocks, eggs "lesser evil" Democratic Party ofJimmy protecting a fascist meeting. distributed a quarter million leaflets in and smoke bombs. It was not immedi­ Carter. After the demonstrated bank­ "In this period it is very important to little over two weeks, put up 5,000 ately clear which ofthe three groups was distinguish between the fascists and the ruptcy of civil rights liberalism and state. The state is not yet ready to posters in three days-all calling to responsible for the violence and which subordinate itself to the fascists; it "Stop the Nazis"-just so that when groups the arrested demonstrators wants to 'arbitrate.'... Politically it is masses came out we could prevent them represented." Yet in interviewing a part of the nature of a pre-Bonapartist, from doing just that! As Stalin said, spokesman for the June 27 Committee, 'arbiter' state that the police hesitate, paper will take anything written on it. hold back, and on the whole are far AP Chicago correspondent T. Lee from identifying with the fascist gangs. But who will believe them after Hughes had asked: "Were you surprised Our strategic task is to increase these Chicago?! that there wasn't any violence?" Of hesitations and apprehensions on the The RSL's adventurism is based on its course, the real source of violence is the part of the 'arbiter,' its army and its lack of faith in the capacity and will of fascists, and the capitalist society that police. How? By showing that we are stronger than the fascists, that is by the working class to fight for the breeds such terrorists. But the capitalist giving them a good beating in full view oppressed. Its defeatist sectoralism­ press, which treated the Greensboro of this arbiter without, as long as we are telling each sector ofthe oppressed to go massacre as a "shootout" between not absolutely forced to, directly taking it alone-and reliance on the liberals "extremists" (equating the leftist victims on the state itself. That is the whole point." have the same roots. On March 20 in with their NazijKlan murderers), wasn't -letter to the French Communist Ann Arbor, the RSL/RWL sought to interested in that story. League, 2 March 1934 in conciliate the "ignore the Nazis" Dem­ June 27 was not merely a gathering of Writings of Leon Trotsky, ocrats. Later they denounced the Spar­ several thousand people who oppose the Supplement [l934-40J tacist League for "trade union fetish­ Nazis. It gave a taste, but only a taste, of June 27 was an important show of force ism," simply asserting a supposed the social power of a labor and black to stop the Nazis; it was built in political "failure of the trade-union movement to militant mobilization which can sweep struggle against liberals and others who mobilize seriously against the Klan and away the unspeakable Hitler punks and would "ignore" the fascist threat. True, Nazis." Yet it was precisely labor defend embattled minorities. A full­ there should have been tens of thou­ support that turned Ann Arbor into a scale mobilization of the workers sands to run off the Hitlerite creeps, and mass protest. In Chicago they tried to movement and minorities would send this time the cops stood in the way. But tail after "ignore the Nazis" Gay Priders, these mad-dog elements of the enraged we showed it can be done. while the SL mobilized labor, blacks, middle class packing. In the context ofReagan reaction and Jews and gays to stop the fascists. Those As several speakers emphasized, the a bipartisan anti-Soviet war drive, there who walk in the middle of the road are fascists feed off the present depression has been a sharp political shift to the bound to be run over. And by the end of conditions. They are the fringe products right in this country, including by the the day on June 27 you could almost see of the anti-Soviet war drive backed by bulk of the so-called "left." As the the tire tracks where the Anti-Spartacist both Democrats and Republicans, a re­ Spartacist League increasingly stands League had been run over by 3,000 anti­ newed Cold War that seeks to "roll out as the clear communist pole, various Nazi fighters. With tneir sectoralism, back" not only Communism abroad but pseudo-socialists have resorted to slan­ the RSL/RWL didn't defend gays; with every gain won by the union movement der and provocation against us. In order our political opposition to sectoralism, and minorities at home. The fascists' to keep EI Salvador protests "ready for we did. appeal is to increasingly desperate and Teddy" Kennedy, they call on the backward working-class and lower capitalist cops to exclude the SL Smash the Fascists-For middle-class white layers who are radical pseudo-nationalism, many black because of our call for military victory Workers Revolution! persuaded not by rational arguments militants are open to a class-struggle to leftist insurgents and for defense of In the aftermath, the demonstration but by force. The Nazis and Klan road to black emancipation. The Spar­ Cuba and the USSR. As we have of several thousands in Lincoln Park understand this well: their "propagan­ tacist League alone raises that program, successfully mobilized labor and blacks against the fascists was the object of a da" consists oflynchings, cross burnings fighting to finish the Civil War at last. to stop the fascists from penetrating violence-baiting media campaign. and swastika painting. As it was in On the streets of Chicago and Detroit, northern urban centers-Detroit, No­ While TV news accounts said "close to Germany, the question is: who will win, the SL organizes to crush the race vember '1979; San Francisco, April who will die? Will the Red Guards or the terrorists, to harness thOe power of labor 1980; Ann Arbor last March 20 and storm troopers prevail? to the struggle for equality, building a Chicago on June 27-these fake­ The fascists' ultimate function is as communist vanguard party that fights revolutionaries resort to ever more capitalism's shock troops to destroy the for revolutionary integrationism and absurd lies to cover their own capitula­ unions, to whip up genocidal racism socialism. tion to the liberals. And these Big Lies against minorities. Today they are small It is desperately necessary to fight! by little centrist clots are then picked up gangs waiting in the wings to be used on Failure to do so means descent into race and circulated by the far larger refor­ a grand scale tomorrow. But in Rea­ war and destruction. But the key to mists to smear the reds. gan's America they have demonstrated victorious labor/black struggle is the In Chicago, the RSL claims we their appeal, occasionally winning tens forging of black leadership in a commu­ fingered anti-fascist militants to the of thousands of votes in white racist nist vanguard party. With only a few cops and condemns the SL as anti-gay! pockets-North Carolina, Detroit sub­ hundreds and a growing black compo­ Their sidekick, Peter Sollenberger, guru urbs, southern California's Orange nent, the Spartacist League was able to of the tiny Revolutionary Workers County. They must be crushed in the bring out thousands to stop the Nazis in League (RWL), claimed the "Sparts" egg! The means are not small-group Chicago on June 27. With a few didn't bring people out, the Nazis did. confrontations with the cops, or suicidal thousand militants gained in massive This is not the first time they have and idiot appeals to the capitalist state black recruitment, the SL can lead the stooped to slanders. The RWL labeled Make checks payable/mail 10: which systematically protects them, but way to black liberation through socialist Detroit, November 1979 a "fraud," Sparlacisl Publishing Co. militant class struggle leading to the revolution. In this race-divided country, Box 1377 GPO saying black demonstrators were New York, NY 10116 conquest of power by the working class. the Spartacist League is America's last, "passers-by" who had been "duped." In This latter is the strategy of the best hope.•

10 WORKERS VANGUARD for labor/black mobilizations against was once Sidon and Tyre. Even long­ Black Radio ... the Klan, for sit-down strikes against Lebanon ... time American Zionist scribblers Na­ (continued from page 4) layoffs, and for fighting the anti-Soviet (continued from page 12) than Glazer and Sevmour Martin war drive, which is one of the important Lipset, certified political swine, have through joint struggle, united struggle aspects of the political program of both Washington Shultz reunites with called the war "ill-advised" and argued with white workers. And we haven't capitalist parties. another Bechtel alumnus, its former that "Israel must recognize that it seen that in years. The idea of blacks Steele: And part ofthat is through what chief counsel Cap Weinberger, Haig's cannot have peace or an end to attempting to overturn racist American you are planning to do on Sunday, as it arch-rival. terrorism without giving the Palestini­ capitalism by themselves without being relates to the Nazis.... Closely tied to the oil majors, the ans the right to self-determination" part of a socialist organization of Andrews: Yes, it's part of a whole Bechtel gang represents that section of (New York Times, 30 June). workers ofall races is the road to defeat. struggle to change this system from top the American bourgeoisie which be­ What does self-determination for the And the Black Panther Party, despite to bottom, so that we have a workers lieves the key to Near East policy must Palestinians mean concretely? The usual the heroic effort of many of its militants government, a planned economy in this be good relations with the "moderate" liberal answer is some variant of a West to fight against the racist status quo, had country. The question ofjobsfor all, the Arab regimes, centrally the house of Bank mini-state, with the Gaza Strip no strategy that could show the way out. question ofdecent housing, the question Saud. Consequently, they regard one­ thrown in. But this small, impoverished Unfortunately they were a nationalist of decent education, the elimination of sided support to Israel (in part a result of area cannot possibly support the four organization, which meant that they Klan/Nazi terror. People will see how domestic pressure by American Jewry) million Palestinians dispersed through­ wrote off the working class, the white barbaric this system is, that it can't even as being against the true interests ofU.S. out the Near East. Even assuming such a and black workers. And that's where the provide the slightest reforms, the small­ imperialism. Moreover, the company state could be created, it would become power is in this society-in the factories, est improvement in the people's condi­ lobbied hard (and successfully) for the simply a "bantustan" in which Israel and where the black and white working tions of life. We can't get our justice U.S. sale of AWACS surveillance the neighboring Arab states would people face their enemies. under this system, and that's why we planes to Saudi Arabia last fall. When dump their unwanted Palestinian populations. Steele: Isn't that power right now being have to build a racially integrated asked in 1980 what he thought of the A genuine solution to the Palestini­ eroded by the fact that there are many workers party.... Republican presidential candidate, Bechtel president Shultz replied that "if ans' right to self-determination is people who are obviously out of work, •• • • • conceivable only on both banks of the people are scared about their jobs? I Caller: I am black and I think that I I have any differences with Reagan, it's about Middle East policy." Jordan, through the destruction of the would think that people are so con­ would have to take a neutral stance on Since Reagan personally admires the Hashemite monarchy and the Zionist cerned and hesitant about speaking out this issue, because I'm not pro-gay nor clerical state. Both of these states were in many situations because your first am I pro-Klan. Itjust appears to me that martial spirit of Israel (much as many American rightists in the 1930s admired carved out at the expense of the thinking is, "I want to keep my job." when the economy is bad and everything . Palestinian people. While the Hebrew­ seems to fall apart, blacks are always the discipline of Nazi Germany), Andrews: Well, first of all we have to speaking nation is today an oppressor of called upon to rally behind this group Shultz's appointment may not lead to an understand about the demoralization the Palestinian people, a democratic and that organization. I would just like immediate sharp change in line. In any and despair among working people, solution is not one which simply to throw the question out, if it's not too case, the Bechtel gang are no more who's responsible for it? It's the fat cat reverses the terms of oppression-that demeaning to your two guests, as to concerned with Palestinian national labor sellouts who have given up every rights than is Haig. Like the late "vicar," is, an Arab Palestine in which the whether they are gay. Hebrews are denied their right to self­ single gain imaginable. Look at Doug Weinberger/Shultz want to convince Fraser, who sits on the board of Andrews: We have gays in our organi­ determination. Only within the frame­ zation who are socialists. We are the Arab sheiks and colonels that only directors of the Chrysler Corporation­ the U.S. can restrain Israeli expansion­ work of a Socialist Federation of the he gave away five billion dollars and socialists and we have all types ofpeople Near East can there possibly be a just in our organization. You hear Reagan ism. Unfortunately. for U.S. imperial­ now is talking about giving up more to ism, the only way to restrain Menachem solution to the conflicting national the greedy companies. The only way to and everybody talking about getting the claims of both the Arab and Hebrew­ government off our back. Well we're for Begin would be for the CIA to kidnap respond to such a situation is for the him and put him in a straitjacket. speaking peoples. workers to use their power through sit­ the government getting out of the Arab Nationalism at a down strikes, to occupy those plants and bedrooms. People should be able to be Cracks in the Israeli Juggernaut to appeal to other sections of the what they want to be. And as far as we're Literal Dead End working class and the poor. The concerned, we don't surrender to that If madman Begin has not yet ordered If Begin's invasion of Lebanon Spartacist League, especially in the anti-gay bigotry. We fight it tooth and the final assault on west Beirut, this is exposed the genocidal logic ofZionism, current period, has fought for this nail. The crucial issue is the gays are on not due to the minimal American it also exposed the Arab bourgeois perspective. Our supporters, for exam­ the Nazis' and the Klan's hit list. They pressure or the mealy-mouthed declara­ regimes, the "radical" ones as well as the ple in the Ford River Rouge plant in want to go after them because they're tions of the Common Market countries. "moderates," as his indispensable col­ Detroit, recently energetically fought isolated, and we want to prove just the Rather Begin's adventure in Lebanon laborators. Not a single Arab govern­ for a two-day sit-down strike through­ opposite: that there are intelligent, has produced a certain disunity within ment has come to the aid of its out southeast Michigan, but especially thoughtful working people, decent the Zionists' ranks. beleaguered PLO "brothers" in Beirut. centered on the powerful Ford River people in this city who will rally to the Zionist terror against innocent civil­ "It's not Israel that broke us. It's the Rouge plant, to show the way out to the cause ofdefending the democratic rights ians is not at all new. But the scale is Arab world," exclaimed one PLO concessions/giveback fever. of the oppressed, gays and everybody unprecedented. The Lebanese invasion commando bitterly. Its commitment to else. What I'm pointing out is that the has now become Israel's longest war Arab nationalist ideology has now led black workers who are at the point of Caller: But the gay professionals, the since 1948. Given the chauvinist elitism the PLO into a deathtrap, isolated in production, like their white class broth­ gay businesses are just as much anti­ of its relatively small population, even west Beirut facing eight Israeli divisions. ers and sisters, in united struggle can black as the Klan. That's why I take a the 270 Israeli battle deaths are consid­ "Curse their mothers," exclaimed a turn this situation around by fighting neutral point of view. And I hate to see ered heavy, and there is fear ofLebanon Palestinian militant waiting for thefinal for jobs for all. You've got a lot of any group pull in blacks, to use blacks. turning into Israel's Vietnam. Although Israeli assault: impoverished blacks and other minori­ Andrews: Well, is it in the interests of Israel is now up against only Palestinian "you see where the Israelis are. Well ties who are trapped in the ghettos and black people along with other oppressed guerrillas, casualties are climbing to­ behind the Israelis is King Fahd and sections of this society to stop the Nazis ward the losses in the 1967 "Six Day" Hafez el-Assad and King Hussein. They the barrios in this country who would are all in this together, and every love to join a picket line that is to fight when they try to come to a city like war, when it fought the armies of Palestinian, every child, will know what for jobs for all. And of course, the only Chicago? several Arab states. And the 2,000 to do with them." way we're going to get that is to dump Caller: I think that any group which is deaths in the 1973 October war led to the -New York Times, 4 July the labor fakers, the so-called leaders of cancerous, which is backstepping, fall of the Meir/ Dayan government and But if there is one thing that is now these major industrial unions who see which is an oppressive group should not gave rise to the "Peace Now" movement proved, it is that the petty-bourgeois their role as defending the interests of have certain rights. And Ijust think it's a initiated by officers in the army reserve. nationalists of the PLO (whatever their the company. very bad atrocity to have people use For the first time in Israeli history a personal courage) do not know what to large domestic protest movement has The fight against the Nazis and the downtrodden people. do with Begin's Israel, Hussein's Jor­ broken out in the middle ofa war. In Tel Klan is the fight against the rotting Andrews: The Democratic Party does dan, Assad's Syria and the rest of the Aviv 20,000 people demonstrated under system that we live under. We say that that. reactionary regimes of the region. Since the sponsorship of the Committee the factories, the banks, the mills and Caller: That's right. the calamity of 1948 the Palestinians Against the War in Lebanon. Typical of the mines-we want to mobilize the have suffered defeat after defeat, betray­ Andrews: So we're against the Demo­ their slogans were "How many more working class to take these into their al after betrayal. How to break out of cratic Party. dead will it take?" and "We have no own hands, to fight for their own this tragic cycle? Caller: Well what party are you in favor future on the graves of the Palestinians" government. You'll be hearing from us The liberation of the Palestinians of? (Jerusalem• Post, 27 June). On July 3, because the fact ofthe matter is, we have cannot be achieved through a purely Andrews: I'm in the Spartacist League. 50,000 protested in Tel Aviv. Perhaps the only program that can stem the tide national struggle of the J>alestinian We're in favor of building a workers even more significantly, in Jerusalem of racist attacks, that can stop the people, or through some utopian rap­ party in this country, and our work on a group of 30 soldiers, returned from layoffs when we fight for sit-down prochement between Zionist "doves" behalf of black people, on behalf of the the front, demonstrated against the war. and PLO "moderates." It requires that strikes in the plants, that actually has an working man and working woman and One of them called it tragic "to confront Zionist Israel and the surrounding Arab answer to the two bankrupt capitalist on behalf of defending the democratic civilians with our weapons." bourgeois states be exploded from parties. You know, if the Ronald rights of gays, is part of our struggle to Reagans of the world tell you to stay But these dovish protests have not within by revolutionary proletarian change this whole society. In Boston we away from groups like the Spartacist escaped the bounds of "left" Zionism, struggle. The emergence of antiwar were the only ones calling on the labor protest within Israel, extending even League that fight on the basis of hankering after days when Israel was principles, then people better start movement to stand by those black supposedly a society oppressing no one. into the ranks of the army, demolishes checking it out. schoolchildren in the face ofthose racist But there never was such a period. The the. Third World nationalist notion of mobs out in the streets. The fact is that Zionist state wasfounded in 1948 on the the Zionist state as a reactionary The Spartacist League, as I indicated our perspecti.ve of the way to achieve graves ofthe Palestinians. While Zionist monolith without deep internal contra­ earlier, is a small socialist organization. black freedom is to base yourself on the propagandists were producing films dictions. What is desperately needed is a We have been in existence since 1963, power of the labor movement. It sounds about idealistic "socialist" kibbutzim communist vanguard which can unite fighting for black rights and fighting for like you've given up on the fight. But planting orange groves, the Palestinian the Hebrew-speaking working class and the interests of the working class. We there are others who see the necessity of Arab population was being systemati­ the Arab toilers against the Begins, also participate on our socialist pro­ building a racially integrated workers cally terrorized into leaving their home­ Husseins and Assads, who promise only gram in elections. I ran for city council party. Black workers have potentially land. Today the "liberal" Zionist picture endless bloodletting, and open the road in 1981 in the city of Detroit on the the power to lead the kind offight we are of Israel lies buried, along with thou­ to a Socialist Federation of the Near program I'm talking about right now, talking about. • sands of Palestinians, in the rubble that East. • 9 JULY 1982 11 W'Il/(EIiS 'IINfiIJIIIlIJ Defend the Palestinians! • • lonls " Ina• olution"

After killing thousands, leaving hun­ dreds of thousands homeless, totally destroying the cities of Tyre and Sidon, the Zionist Blitzkrieg stands poised at the gates of west Beirut. The Israelis are now preventing all food. water and fuel from reaching the besieged population of half a miliion Palestinians and Lebanese Moslems, attempting to starve them into submission. Seven thousand PLO commandos trapped in the city are said to be dug in, vowing to fight to the death against overwhelming odds. Meanwhile, Reagan is talking about sending in the Marines as Eisen­ hower did in 1958. Zionist expansion­ ism and U.S. imperialism join hands in the rape of Lebanon. As Israeli planes, tanks and artillery reduce west Beirut to rubble, even one American military officer is reminded of the Nazi Holocaust. "In the end, Beirut would look like the Warsaw ghetto," he predicted (Newsweek, 5 July). Indeed, just as the SS demanded the surrender of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 in order to "resettle" them at Auschwitz and Treblinka. so the Israelis have dropped leaflets telling the population to move out and have AP demanded that the PLO lay down their Israeli Blitzkrieg levels Sidon. Now west Beirut is targeted for destruction. arms and "~o to another country." We are "not out to harm innocent citizens," when the Jordanian Arab Legion home in coffins. problems for U.S. imperialism. Certain­ the Israeli leaflets claimed. Tell that to massacred thousands of them with the With Israel's economy under siege ly Washington is happy to see the PLO the innocent citizens of what were once Israeli army ready to join the slaughter from the draining of Jewish workers by destroyed and the Moscow-allied Syri­ Sidon and Tyre, cities totally destroyed and the Syrians turning a blind eye. "We the army's mobilization, Arab labor ans humiliated and perhaps driven out by Israeli bombs. Palestinians who have nowhere else to go," said a senior from the occupied West Bank assumes of Lebanon. At the same time, the managed to survive (and "suspect" PLO official waiting for the end in west an ever greater importance to the Reagan administration has sought to Lebanese) were then marked with a Beirut. maintenance of the Zionist garrison put together an anti-Soviet alliance in black X and shipped to secret concen­ The PLO's situation is not as abso­ state. If the present general merchants' the Near East (the so-called "strategic tration camps in Israel. Instead of using lutely hopeless as it may first appear. strike in the West Bank over the Israeli consensus") embracing both Begin's Is­ boxcars, the Zionists transported the The Palestinians can turn to their invasion were extended to the 100,000 rael and various reactionary Arab sheiks Palestinians in nets suspended from advantage the extreme chauvinism and super-exploited Palestinian migrant and colonels. The frustrating efforts helicopters as if they were fish. racism of Israeli society, the Zionist workers, this would strike a crippling to achieve this impossible dream have One opposition member of the Israeli belief that one Jew is worth hundreds of blow to Israel's economy and further tax produced certain, at times sharp, divi­ Knesset (parliament) protested that "it Arabs. If the Palestinians can inflict its overextended army. Certainly Begin/ sions within the American ruling class. was as if the Government did not even heavy enough casualties on the Israelis, Sharon would react with savage repri­ In the middle of Begin's Lebanese consider the Palestinians human be­ however heavy their own, there could sals as they are now doing with the adventure the most prominent partisan ings." It doesn't. The Israeli military has well be a rebellion on the home front merchants' shutdown, but the fate ofthe of Israel in the Reagan administration, announced repeatedly that the interna­ against Begin's Lebanese advent.ure. Palestinian people now hangs in the Alexander Haig, is suddenly out of a tionally recognized treatment of prison­ And the Palestinian commandos seem balance. Defend the Palestinians! Israel job. Just how much this reflects differ­ ers of war will not apply to the to grasp this. As one declared, "Maybe Out of Lebanon! U.S. Imperialism ences overthecurrentcrisis remains to be Palestinians. Hence, no right to contact the Israelis will come and maybe they Hands Off! seen. Charging that his hard pro­ their families, no right to receive Red will win here, but I promise you it will be Israel line was being undercut by Vice Cross parcels, no rights period. The a big cemetery for them" (New York Haig Out, Bechtel In President Bush and Pentagon chief 100,000 Palestinians who once lived in Times, 4 July). Begin faces not only mounting inter­ Weinberger in their discussions with Sidol) and Tyre have largely disap­ Reaction against the atrocities of the nal opposition, but also possible prob­ Arab leaders, Haig submitted his peared into the Zionist night and fog­ Israeli war machine and, more impor­ lems with his American godfather. resignation to Reagan for the ump­ killed outright, shipped to concentra­ tantly, fear of never-ending casualties in Washington has up to now supported teenth time. This time it was readily tion camps in Israel, left to die of a prolonged occupation of Lebanon Israel's invasion of Lebanon. At the accepted. Haig says he left over policy starvation and disease wandering in the have already produced significant United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick differences, while the White House gang wasteland of war-battered Lebanon. fissures within the Zionist camp. Tens of torpedoed a French resolution calling dismisses it as a personality clash. He Even the pro-Zionist New York Times thousands have taken to the streets of for Israeli withdrawal. And while a few just wasn't a "team player." Certainly a (3 July) admits that the Israeli army has Tel Aviv to protest the war. One poster Congressmen mutter privately about megalomaniac like ''I'm in charge here" "a difficulty in separating the fighters showed defense minister Ariel Sharon the "misuse" of American weapons (like Haig must have appeared to Reagan from the noncombatants who support drenched in blood with the words: "The cluster bombs used to massacre civilian and his inner circle as uncontrollable. them, or who are their wives and Butcher of Lebanon." Another said: populations), there is no move to cut off But the would-be "vicar" of U.S. children." "They are all terrorists," in "Begin-Sharon-You Murdered My the arms supply-especially F-15 and imperialism not only played wildly, he the words ofone Israeli officer, meaning Son." A Rakah (Communist) member F-16 warplanes, which to the Penta­ played a different position than will his the only good one is a dead one. of the Knesset shouted at Sharon, "You gon's delight have taken out the Soviet­ successor, George Shultz. Why do the Palestinian militants in are the biggest terrorist of all!" It is made missiles which the Syrians de­ Shultz comes to the Reagan team west Beirut appear willing to fight beginning to dawn on the Hebrew­ ployed in the Bekaa Valley. (Even New from the presidency of Bechtel, a major against fearsome odds rather than speaking people of Israel that they Left Democrat Tom Hayden and his construction and engineering company surrender? For one thing, they under­ cannot conquer and subjugate millions wife, rad-lib superstar Jane Fonda, have well known for its massive investment in stand (despite all the rhetoric about upon millions of Arabs and that the dropped their usual enthusiasm for Saudi Arabia. Bechtel was the only "Arab unity") the fate that would await occupation of Lebanon is a sure path to Third World causes and are supporting American firm charged with violating them in Assad's Syria, Hussein's Jordan self-destruction. But internal opposition the Zionist war of extermination.) antitrust laws for complicity in the 1973 or Mubarak's Egypt. The Palestinians to the war right now depends, above all, Still, this "all the way with mad Arab oil boycott against the U.S. In well remember Black September 1970 on how many Israeli soldiers come bomber Begin" line has created serious continued on page 11

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