Battle Madison Cops

Jackson brass • partial retreat -story page 12 Why the Columbia SDS suffered setbacks -See page 5- Battle Madison cops ~ '~~ (# <it Photo by Chuck Shoengrund When University of Wisconsin students tried to hold a attacked with clubs, mace, tear and pepper gas. Students street dance in a student neighborhood, Mayor William and other citizens reacted with rage (cop in upper left ~~ Bull " Dyke ordered his cops into action like they were corner stepped spryly to avoid ash can) and a series of an invading army. Students and townspeople alike were street battles followed. Story, page 6. Page 2 THE MILITANT Friday, May 16, 1969 Threat of iungle prison for Blanco THE MILITANT Editor: HARRY RING Business Manager: BEVERLY SCOTT An example of economic repri Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., 873 Broadway, New York, Life in jeopardy again sals against faculty members for N.Y. 10003. Phone 533-6414. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. political reasons is Dr. Morris Subscription: domestic, $4 a year; foreign, $5.50. By frrst class mail: domestic Starsky's salary problem. Dr. and Canada $10.50; all other countries, $15.00. Air printed matter: domestic for Peru revolutionary Starsky is the YSA's faculty ad and Canada, $15.00; Latin America, $24.00; Europe, $28.00; Africa, Australia, Asia (including USSR), $33.00. Write for sealed air postage rates. Signed articles viser and has been publicized lo New York, N.Y. by contributors do not necessarily represent The Militant's views. These are ex cally for his radical views. He is pressed in editorials. News has just been received that a tenured professor and the only Hugo Blanco is threatened with member of the philosophy depart Vol. 33- No. 11 Friday, May 16, 1969 being sent to a prison camp in the ment whose "merit pay" increase jungle region of eastern Peru was deleted from the budget. named El Sepa. The Phoenix Gazette reported The closing news date for this issue was May 9. The camp is completely isolated, This column is an open forum for all viewpoints on subjects of that "Regents President W. P. Goss being linked to Lima solely today denied that the regents had through military planes that bring general interest to our readers. Please keep your letters brief. Where ordered a 'squeeze play' on Star in supplies and relief guards. sky, controversial because of his An admission of bankruptcy The hot, humid climate is ex necessary they will be abridged. Writers' initials will be used, names far-left political views." tremely oppressive and the area Starsky said, however, "It looks is noted for the insects that make being withheld unless authorization Growing unemployment, nsmg international indebtedness, de is given for use. as if they consider these pay in life virtually unbearable for those creases as rewards or punish clining shares in world trade, and declining per capita growth confined to the camp under the ments for stepping out of line. rates: that is the balance sheet of the Latin American national most primitive conditions. issue, I recommend a reading of I think they see the salary scale economies-except for Cuba-eight years after the launching of Lacking in medical facilities, as a way of keeping you in line." with the prisoners at the complete Red Flag, Black Flag by Seale the Alliance for Progress. Lindley Garner mercy of brutal guards, it is ob and McConville, which describes The evidence is surveyed in a series of reports prepared by vious that anyone sentenced to how anti-Vietnam-war organizing United Nations experts and recently submitted to a meeting of laid the basis for the revolutionary Socialist advertising being held there has few chances the UN Economic Commmission for Latin America in Lima, Peru. movement which paralyzed for surviving long. According to the UN studies, while population in Latin America The official reason for transpor France last summer. 1n Cuba has been growing some three percent p~r year, the ability of the ting Hugo Blanco and other poli Most important is the question tical prisoners to this hell hole of whether the antiwar movement New York, N.Y. economies to absorb the growing labor force has not increased is that El Fronton, the prison should be of concern to American A day or so ago I was reading since 1961. As a result, thenumberofunemployed men and women island where they have been held revolutionaries. To these rrr Real some of the recent issues of Bo between the ages of 15 and 65 has risen from 18 million in 1960 up to now, is to be closed down. rrr Revolutionaries who answer hemia, one of the widely-circulated to 23 million this year-out of a labor force of 83 million. "no", I counterposetheresounding Cuban magazines, and it struck The government made this deci This rising unemployment is a direct consequence of the sluggish "yes" of the South Vietnamese N a me that Bohemia is showing very sion in view of the ability of the economic growth. Alliance plans projected a 5.5-percent annual prisoners to call national and tiona! Liberation Front (who hold graphically one of the results of international attention to the scan pretty good credentials as revolu a socialist revolution-what hap increase in gross national product. But the GNP grew less than dalous conditions prevailing in tionaries). If that isn't enough, pens to advertising after capital 4.8 percent per year, as compared with an annual average in the prison and the shocking treat then we can add the voice of Lenin, ism is abolished. crease of 5.1 percent during the 1950s. ment afforded the inmates. who held that it is the absolute It's such a common experience While unemployment is rising and growth rates declining, Latin duty of revolutionaries in an im when you're trying to win people The current military junta is American governments and capitalists are becoming increasingly perialist country to support the over to socialism to use the ex carrying out this "reform" initiated indebted to foreign lenders. The external debt, both public and by the regime they overthrew. colonial countries' wars of libera ample of the fantastic waste that Protests are in order on an in tion by propaganda and by takes place under capitalism to private, rose from $10 billion in 1960to almost $20 billion today. ternational scale. They should be action. He laid down the iron rule convince people to buy Brand X Since 1950, Latin America's exports have increased at an average addressed to the Peruvian embas that any party which failed to because it will make you smell rate of three percent annually; world exports during the same period sies and consulates and to the actively support such struggles in better and make you more so increased an average of seven percent per year. As a result, since the colonial world could not join military dictator, General Juan cially acceptable or to buy Brand 1950 the region's share of world trade fell from 11 percent to the Communist International. Y because it will make your aged Velasco Alvarado, Presidential 5.1 percent. Palace, Lima, Peru. Condition number eight of 21 sheets look whiter. So, for all Copies of protests should be conditions for admission to the your readers who want some good With the exception of four or five countries, not even nominal sent to CODDEH ( Comite de De Comintern, drafted by Lenin and examples to counter this practice land reform programs have been put into effect, and in those fens a de Los Derechos Homanos ), passed by the Second Congress of capitalism, here are a few ex countries where they have been adopted they have remained purely Casilla 10149, Lima, Peru. of the Comintern on August 6, amples from the Cuban press. nominal. 1920, says: "Every party which Richard Garza All of the ads I saw are aimed "It cannot but appear a startling paradox," one of the reports wishes to join the Communist In U.S. Committee for Justice to at educating the Cuban people says, "that while so many millions are poor and ill-fed, so high a Latin American Political ternational is obliged to expose on how to improve their society. proportion of the region's resources are standing idle and so many Prisoners (USLA) the tricks and dodges of its im There are a number of ads that P. 0. Box 2303, New York, N.Y. perialists in the colonies, to sup deal with health problems, for ex millions of peasants are unemployed." 10001 port every colonial liberation ample. One ad on this subject From the standpoint of satisfying human needs, the situation in movement not merely in words but shows a woman working in a Latin America is indeed "a startling paradox." But from the stand Free Huey Newton in deeds, to demand the expulsion factory, a young boy playing and point of the logic of world monopoly capitalism, there is nothing of tlleir own imperialists from an elderly man making shoes. these colonies, to inculcate among paradoxical about it. Resources are standing idle while so many demands SNCC It says, "Tetanus affects all ages. millions are unemployed because that state of affairs is profitable the workers of their country a For that reason it is important to the foreign, especially U. S., monopolies that dominate the Latin Los Angeles, Calif. genuinely fraternal attitude to the that you be protected with tetanus We demand thefreedomofHuey working people of the colonies and innoculations." American economies and to the native ruling classes of the area.

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