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A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS 0~ n-.E WORKING PEOPLE Nixon's trio to Moscow

President Nixon's trip to Moscow most blatant chapters of this be­ and all the declarations and com­ trayal. muniques he signed there did not While U. S. bombers carried out bring the world one step closer one of the most ferocious attacks to peace. The war in Indochina on North Vietnam in the history isn't one day nearer to being over of the war, the Soviet officials wel­ because of this "summit" confer­ comed Nixon to Moscow, where ence. Nor are the causes of im­ they wined and dbied him. They perialist war any closer to being exchanged fancy gifts. They Dew eliminated. Aq~.erican flags and played the On the contrary, Nixon proved "star Spangled Banner." They that he can promise peace and provided him with free time on even put his name to "peace" Soviet radio and television. They agreements at- the same time that drank toasts with him. he steps up one of the longest and What did they hope to gain from · bloodiest wars in history. all this? A science and cultural He has been able to get away agreement; an arms control prom­ with this because the Soviet bu­ ise; and trade concessions. What reaucracy has made one of the penny-ante objectives these are worst betrayals of a revolution­ compared to the stakes involved ary movement in its history. The in the struggle of the Vietnamese! Kosygin-Brezhnev regime, which The Soviet regime's response has failed to adequately support tries to give credence to the lie the Vietnamese revolution from the that war can be ended through Nixon and Brezhnev exchange copies of 'p1eace' agreement. beginning, turned its back on the agreements between itself and the imperialist government in Wash­ Vietnamese workers and peasants took place were organized in spite they can intensify the bombing of at a time when their struggle ington. of the Soviet regime. Vietnam, mine its ports, and cut against the capitalist-landlord re­ In their attempt to achieve this H Moscow would call for united its supply routes without Moscow gime in Saigon is close to vic­ state of "peaceful coexistence," the mass protests and urge Commu­ making a serious attempt to cir­ tory. Thus, Moseow turned its Soviet bureaucrats not only fail nist parties throughout the world cumvent or protest these actions. back on a victory that would to expose but actually cover up to exercise maximum effort to help As a Chigago Daily News cor­ inspire everyone throughout the the reBI roots of wars today­ organize those actions, their size respondent reports from Saigon, world who is fighting against op­ imperialism's inherent drive to would be considerably larger and "Ranking U.S. sources here are pression.- bring all-the world's markets, raw their political impact greater. The _ encouraged that neither Russia There is nothing inherently materials, and labor under its mass Communist parties in Italy nor China, North Vietnam's two wrong with the Soviet .regime dis­ controL No· proclamations signed and France, for example, are both major allies, has attempted to cussing, negotiathig, or even trad­ in Moscow can suppress the strug­ capable of organizing genuinely break, bypass or repair the dam­ ing with U. S. imperialism. How­ gles of the oppressed nations and massive actions. But they have age resulting from the American ever, when this is done at the ex­ the workers republics against im­ done virtually nothing. blockade and bombing cam­ pense of a revolutionary struggle perialist domination. However, paign." anywhere in the world, it can only such pacts do serve to miseducate, Not only has the Kosygin­ This comes on top of Moscow's be called by its real name-be­ disorient, and demobilize millions Brezhnev response failed to bring policy throughout the war of dol­ trayal. who would have engaged in mas­ the world closer to peace, but in ing out aid to North Vietnam with In the context of Nixon's min­ sive international protests against fact, it has actually set the stage an eyedropper. ' ing of North Vietnamese ports, Nixon's intervention in Indochina. for the imperialists to escalate the Such .treachery by the bureau­ the Soviet bureaucrats decision As has been the case during the conflict. The Soviet bureaucrats' cratic regimes in both China and to go ahead with the scheduled entire history of the ~ar, the sig­ treacherous policy ·is a signal to the Soviet Union not only encour­ meetings represented one elf the nificant international actions that the warmakers in Washington that Continued on page 6 Thousands in African solidarity march/3 Big crowds hear Jenness in ArgentirJa/5 Why the workers in Quebec. revolted/8

VOLUME 36/NUMBER 22 DOUBLE STANDARD? A May 20 ·Associated Press dis­ ANTIWAR UNIVERSITY EXPLAINED TO NEW YORK patch reports that two women were confined for 50 years 'l'IMES READERS: An article on the antiwar university, in a British mental hospital because they had had "il­ written by Student Mobilization ·committee national co­ THIS legitimate" babies. ordinator Fred Lovgren, appeared on the editorial page Both were committed as "moral defectives" at the re­ of the May 27 New York Times. quest of their parents under laws in force in Britain during WEEK'S the 1920s. Although new mental health laws took effect ASSAULT ON GAYS NOT A CRIME? On May 22, a in 1959, the women "continued to stay on because they Manhattan grand jury charged Michael J. Maye, head MILITANT had nowhere to go." of the New York Uniformed Firefighters Association, with 3 African Liberation Day "harassment" in the beating of a member of the Gay SOVIET DISSIDENT: Alexei Tumerman, a citizen of Activists Alliance. actions the Soviet Union who has been active in the struggle A number of people at the GAA protest that was at­ 4 Brezhnev: portrait of an for democratic rights, expressed the hope that "the ques­ tacked by Maye and others were seriously hurt, and the imposter tion of human rights in the USSR" would be raised by grand jury said that Maye "struck, shoved and kicked" 5 Thousan.ds hear Jenness Nixon at the Moscow summit conference. On May 22 Morty Manford of GAA. Despite these facts, no criminal in Argentina he was arrested and confmed to a psychiatric hospital. charges were lodged against Maye. The charge of "ha­ 8 Quebecois nationalism rassment" is a violation similar to the charge of speed­ PATHFINDER PRESS BOOK CITED BY PUBLISHING ing. It carries a maximum penalty of 15 days in jail. fuels workers' revolt JOURNAL: The May 1972 issue of Choice, a major District Attorney Frank Hogan, who was very reluc­ 9 Quebec workers took publishing trade journal, selected W. E. B. DuBois Speaks, tant to carry out any investigation of the attack, hinted over mining city edited by Philip S. Foner, for its list of outstanding aca­ that the grand jury might also bring charges of trespass­ 10 Mine union dissidents demic books published during 1971. ing against the gays. Their protest took place at the New A two-yolume collection of speeches and addresses from hold convention York Hilton April 15 during a dinner attended by city 1890 to 1963, W. E. B. DuBois Speaks is available from officials and news reporters. · 11 Five in Bloomington Pathfinder Press, 410 West St., New York, N.Y. 10014. join YSA, reject YWLL Paper: $2.95 per volume; cloth: $7.95 per volume. BRITISH FAIRNESS A TRADITION: General Sir Walter 12 Moscow's pact with Walker, former commander of NATO land forces in North­ Washington ern Europe, has invoked the tradition of British justice 13 lnt'l program to defend M'GRAW Hill against the militant Catholic communities in Northern BIOGRAPHY Ireland, the Irish Times reported on May 20. Vietnamese struggle PUBliSHERS The general, who just retired from the British army, 14 SWP ballot campaign said at a press conference: "I have engaged in campaign gains thousands of new against Blacks, yellows and slant-eyes. Why should we signatures have one rule for the whites and one for the coloureds." 15 Socialist challenges Walker urged that the "no-go" areas in Northern Ire­ Democrat Dellums land be "softened up" and that the British army be sent into them. 16 The April Coalition: many splits, few gains CLARIDAD OFFICES BOMBED: The San Juan offices 17 New Zealand women's of Claridad, weekly newspaper of the Puerto Rican So­ march cialist Party (PSP), were bombed by right-wing terrorists 18 U~ S. war destroys Viet May.18. Two bombs were planted, but one was removed ' .•• BUT, SIR, HOW CAN WI BE !!!!! TH_IS IS THE GENUINE, AUTHENTIC, before it exploded and the other caused little damage. ecof~gy AUTHORIZED MAO TSE·TUI\IG BIOGRAPHY?' Luckily, no one was in the office at the time of the ex­ 19 longsh,ore leaders and BARBARIC TREATMENT OF SAN QUENTIN SIX: plosion, since Claridad reports that the type of bomb . the Pay Board The San Quentin. Six are prisoners , charged with mur­ used would have caused severe injuries. The attempt was . 21 Farm workers r"OIIy in der and conspiracy. The charges stem from the events the second such explosion in Claridad's offices, which had Phoenix in San Quentin on August 21 that resulted in the death been burned down in February 1970 by an incendiary 24 Angela Davis trial of three prison guards and three prisoners, including bomb. Juan Mari Bras, general secretary of the PSP, announced Portland SMC fights George Jackson. . - that "Under no circumstances will this paper stop circula­ frame-up suit The Prisoners Solidarity Committee in San Francisco c reports that when the San Quentin Six appeared in court ting." He said that the staff of Claridad was taking steps on May 12, David Johnson, one of the defendants, an­ to defend the office. Response to a massive fund-raising nounced' to the spectators that Hugo Pinell had been iso­ campaign to repair and defend the office has been en­ 2 In Brief lated from the other prisoners and provided with food thusiastic. 6 In Our Opinion filled with glass and human waste. Pinell was recently Four days before the blast, Claridad had commented in one of its columns that Clark Anderson, FBI chief in Letters convicted of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of a prison guard. Puerto Rico, had recently bragged, "we have several sur­ Great 7 The Society The Six are ~emanding better treatment of Pinell; loos­ prises in store for Claridad." Women: The Insurgent ening of their handcuffs in court; removal of guards from Majority the area surrounding the defendants to ensure confiden­ THE RIGHT TO HEAR: The May-June issue of Rights, 15 '72 Socialist Campaign tial communication with their attorneys; a weekly meeting the publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties 17 The Militant Gets of the defendants to discuss their case; and the appoint­ Committe& (NECLC), contains an article by George No­ ment of attorneys of their choice. vack on the case of Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel. Around Judge Wilson denied these requests· with the excuse that 19 The National Picket Line he couldn't interfere with "prison operations." When John­ 20 In Review son demanded additional time from the court to speak 21 La Raza en Accion about Pinell, Judge Wilson banished him to a holding cell. Johnson spat contemptuously- and accurately- at the judge as he was forcibly carried out.

Gl ANTIWAR ACTIONS ON MAY 20: GI-civilian anti­ war protests took place throughout the country on Armed Forces Day, May 20. Fear of antiwar demonstrations caused the cancellation of military parades and other THE MILITANT activities in New York and other cities. VOLUME 36/NUMBER 22 In Chicago, 3,000 people demonstrated at the Great JUNE 9, 1972 Lakes Naval Training Center. Actions took place at five CLOSING NEWS DATE-MAY 31, 1972 military bases in California, in Albuquerque, N. M., in Tampa, Fla., at Fort Devens, Mass., and at many mil­ Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS itary bases in between. Active-duty G Is participated in Managing Editor: DOUG JENNESS spite of harassment and alternative attractions organized Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS Ernest Mandel Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING by the brass. Mandel's exclusion from the United States in 1969 by Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., ANTIWAR PROTESTS: Some 300 persons were arrested former attorney general John Mitchell was found uncon­ 14 Charles lone, New York, N.Y. 10014. Phone: Edi­ during civil disobedience pro"fests in Washington, D. C., stitutional by a federal court on the grounds that the torial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) right to hear is an essential part of the First Amendment 929-34B6. on May 22-24. Southwest Bureau: 1107 1/2 N. Western Ave.~ los Also on May 23, the General Assembly of the United right to full and open debate of political issues. The case Angeles, Calif. 90029. Phone: (213)463-1917. Presbyterian Church followed the example of the United is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court as a result Second-doss postage p'Oid at New York, N.Y. Sub­ Methodist Church, which a month earlier had condemned of a government appeal. A decision is expected by the scription: domestic, $6 a year; foreign, $7,50. By first­ class moil: domestic and Canada, $22; all other coun­ the U. S. government for its war against the people of end of the·current session in June. tries, $24. Air printed, matter: domestic and Canada, Indochina. The United Presbyterian Church has 3.1 mil: The case was argued before the Supreme Court by $26; latin America and Europe, $40; Africa, Australia, lion members. NECLC General Counsel Leonard Boudin. Contributions Asia (i_~cluding USSR), SSO. Write for sealed air post­ The New York City Bar Association condemned the to help pay for legal costs may be sent to the Mandel age rates. Defense Committee, cjo NECLC, 25 East 26 St., New Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily war on May 23, calling it the "gravest current threat represent The Militant's views. These ore expressed to the rule of law at home and abroad." York, N.Y. 10010. -DAVE FRANKEL in editorials.

2 African Liberation DaY-,actions 25,000 march on Washington 3,000 in san Francisco

Part of the massive crowd at D. C. rally Photo by B. R. Washington out through plate-glass windows, the South Africa and Nixon's recent deal D. C., thousands of Blacks demon­ washington, D. c. throng chanted "Free Africa Now!" to pay Portugal close to a half billion strated in the Caribbean. By DERRICK MORRISON and "Nation Time!" dollars for U. S. use of the Azores. The police estimates for demonstra­ WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27 -As The signs displayed by the demon­ In his message to the rally, read tions in Dominica and Antigua were the crowd at the foot of the Washing­ strators denounced the Portuguese and by Cleveland Sellers, field coordina­ 5,000 and 8,000. Several thousand ton Monument, renamed Lumumba U.S. governments and the white ra­ tor for the ALDCC, Stokely Carmi­ were reported to have marched in Square for the day, chanted "We are cist regimes in South Africa and Rho­ chael said he was an "Nkrumahist." Grenada. an African people," African Libera­ desia. He also denounced Israel, hailed the tion Day came to a close. The in­ The marchers finally arrived at the offensive of the Vietnamese revolution­ san Francisco - By KEN MILlNER spiring demonstration and ,rally were Sylvan Theater, near Lumumba aries against U. S. imperialism, and Square. After some brief entertainment, called for an "independent Black po­ SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 -"Africa acts of .solidarity with the African lib­ for the Africans!" and "Free Africa!" eration struggles going on in South the rally opened. A huge Black na­ litical party" in opposition to the Dem- ocrats and Republicans. ' were some of the chants of 1,500 to Africa, Rhodesia, and the Portuguese tionalist flag of red, black, and green Baraka reviewed the history of the 2,000 militant Black demonstrators colonies of Angola, Mozambique, and was draped across the speaker's stand. struggle beginning with the Montgom­ who marched here through the Fil­ Guinea-Bissau. Right in front of the flag there was a ery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955 through more District, a Black community, on Owusu Sadaukai, national chair· large photo of Marcus Garvey, the the civil rights movement and into African Liberation Day. man of the African Liberation Day most prominent nationalist in the early the nationalist phase of the struggle. The demonstrators, some with pos­ Coordinating Committee (ALDCC), twentieth century. The photo was cut He said that a "tremendous leader­ ters reading "Colgate fights cavities estimated that 25,000 to 30,000 peo­ to the profile of the African continent. ship" had been thrown up in the 1960s and freedom" and "IBM computes rac­ ple participated in the march and ral­ The Reverend Walter Fauntroy, but that the task of the 1970s was ism," were greeted along tlie way with ly. Most of the demonstrators were D. C. Delegate to Congress and a mem­ ber of the Congressional Black Cau-, organization. "We now must organize the clenched fist salute by people on young, primarily students. Although the street and leaning out their win­ many were from D. C., the majority cus, chaired the rally. The speakers a political structure c,>r party that can transform our reality ... that can dows. came from outside the capital. They included Cecil Elombe Brath of the run people for office.... We must After a five-mile march, the demon­ came in buses and cars from the New York African Nationalist Pioneer South, the Midwest, and the New En­ Movement; Representapve Charles have a Pan-Africanist party," Baraka strators returned to a rally in Kim­ gland area. Forty buses came from Diggs ( D-Mich. ), member and former exhorted. bell Park, renamed DuBois Savannah the city of New York alone, with trans­ chairman of the Congressional Black He cited Ma1colm X on the need Park. The San Francisco African Lib­ portation on all but one of these buses Caucus; Elaine Brown of the Black for "co~munity contol" and "unity of eration ·Committee, the coalition that free, provided by Black students from Panther Party; Dr. George Wiley, exec­ groups." Although he said the Black organized the action, estimates be­ campus resources. utive director of the National Welfare convention in Gary was the beginning tween 3,000 and 4,000 participated of the process of building a political Thousands assembled in the morn­ Rights Organization; Imamu Amiri in the march and raily. structure, he made no mention of the ing in Meridian Hill Park, renamed Barak a (LeRoi Jones) of the Congress of Africhn People; Roy Innis, national National Black Political Assembly and Black supporters of the Socialist Work­ Malcolm X Park four years ago, to its pro-Democratic Party orientation. ers Party presidential and vice-presi­ begin the five-mile trek to Lumumba director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); and Sadaukai. The speaker from the Front for the dential candidates, Linda Jenness and Square. The first stop was the Portu­ Messages were read· from Brother Liberation of Zimbabwe described th.e Andrew Pulley, distributed thousands guese Embassy, where a brief rally Imari, president of the Republic of . regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa of pieces of campaign literature at the was held. The march then went on to _New Africa, who is now in jail await­ as trusteeships over property held by May 27 actions in Washington, D. C., the Rhodesian Information Center. ing trial on frame-up charges in Jack­ the U.S., West Germany, Japan, and and San Francisco. A mock South African Embassy son, Miss.; and from Stokely Carmi- Canada. He said that just as Black In D. C., supporters sold 300 copies stood at the juncture of Rock Creek people in the U.S. are moving in of The Militant, 205 copies of the Drive and Massachusetts Avenue. Rev­ behalf of their brothers and sisters on May International Socialist Review, erend Doug Moore of the D. C. Black the continent, he wanted to see Afri­ $200 worth of revolutionary books United Front and the Reverend Lucius cans in Africa moving in solidarity and pamphlets, and signed up 64"new Walker of the Interreligious Founda­ with the struggle in the U. S. He said campaign supporters. tion for Community Organization the struggle in Southern Africa was In San Francisco, supporters sold spoke. not just for civil rights but' for land. 100 copies of The Militant and $250 Moore condemned the U.S., West Sadaukai urged the crowd to keep worth of literature. German, and Israeli governments for the local ALDCCs together. He said The speakers . at the rally ranged their complicity with the apartheid re­ that there would be a boycott of Gulf from African freedom fighters and rev­ gime in South Africa. Because of the Oil, which operates in Angola, and olutionary nationalists to Black Dem­ recent criticisms of the Black Agenda's of other American corporations ocratic politicians. Shirley Graham call for the dismantling of Israel, Photo by B. R. Washington operating in Southern Africa. He then DuBois, wife of the late Dr. W. E. B. Moore, to cheers from the crowd, re­ Owusu Sadaukai addressing D. C. went into some of the trials and tribu­ DuBois, and Brother Imari, president peated his condemnation of the Zion­ lations of organizing the demonstra­ rally. · of the Republic of New Africa, sent ist government. (The Black Agenda tion. Afterwards he led the crowd in statements to the demonstration. originated from the National Black chael, the former chairman of SNCC the chant, "We are an African people." Political Convention held in Gary, who presently resides in Conakry, The demonstration was a graphic David Sibeko of the South African Ind., last March.) Guinea. There was also a speciker display of the power of Black people Pan-Africanist Congress denounced Even while this brief rally was go­ from the Front for the Liberation of and a testimony to the depth of Pan­ colonialism, neocolonialism, and im­ ing on, thousands of marchers had Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Africanist and nationalist sentiments. perialis:p:l. He also paid-tribute to the passed on down Massachusetts Through all of the speeches ran the late Kwame Nkrumah. Avenue because the intersection could theme of Pan-Africanism-the idea More than 1,000 Blacks marched and A tape_ recording by another South not contain the huge throng. Thou­ that the struggle of Black people in rallied on May 27 in Toronto, re­ African freedom fighter was both in­ sands more stood behind the rally, the Americas is linked with that on the ports Militant correspondent Norman spiring and educational. He pointed jammed on Rock Creek Drive. African continent. Faria. Support actions were held by out that Vietnam was the focal point At the State Department building, the Diggs commented, "No longer will Blacks in other Canadian cities. of the world revolution and that to main speaker was Kasisi Weusi (Les the move!Jlent for justice in America According to the national office of defend Southern Africa it was neces­ Campbell) of The East in Brooklyn. stop at the water's edge." He attacked the African Liberation Day Coordi­ sary to defend the revolution in Viet­ As employees in the building peered the U.S. government's support of nating Committee in Washington, nam. Continued on page 22

THE MILITANT/JUNE 9, 1972 3 Brezhnev= portrait of an imposter Nobody likes imposters. In fact, when they are ing on special preserves kept for high officials. exposed t~y must be about the most despised He is especially attracted to fast and fancy cars. people around. Take George Meany for example. From the various newspaper and magazine ac- He pulls down $90,000 a year, not including counts it is difficult to determine how many he fringe benefits. He lives well. He eats well. He actually owns. I counted five, a figure somewhat does his best to keep peace between workers and above the Soviet national average. their employers. Yet he has the gall to strut around For state occasions he uses a Soviet-made !a- pretending to speak for the people who work for mousine. For personal use, however, he keeps a living in this country. The full contempt of the a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud on hand. He also American workers hasn't been heard yet, but their has a Citroen-Maserati, an executive-style sports day will come. car he received as a present during a state visit But Meany is actually pretty small potatoes when to France last year, and a Renault 16. As a fare- it comes to imposters. Take Leonid Ilyich Brezh, ~ell gift, Nixon, presented him with a 1972 Cad- nev. As head of the Soviet Communist Party he iliac on behalf of General Motors. claims to speak for the oppressed of the entire But the general secretary's fine living doesn't world, including Vietnam! And of course, he says stop there. He is also fascinated with expensive he also represents the Soviet people. What pol- cigarette lighters and cases. During his trip to icies does his government follow? None other than France. Ms. Pompidou was so impressed with the revolutionary policies of Lenin, he asserts. his gold lighter from Italy, that he gave it to her. It wasn't clear from the reports whether this was Now there's one thing about revolutionaries. in exchange for the sports car. -You can tell a lot about them from the way they He also has a cigarette case with a timer to Leonid Brezhnev at his country home live. Not everything, of course. But a lot. · let it open only every 45 minutes. A chain-smoker, When Lenin and Krupskaya came to Moscow he claims this limits him to 17 cigarettes a day. ileged parasites who feed off the labor of others. from Petrograd shortly after ·the October 1917 Just the thing every Russian can pick up for a He doesn't speak for the Moscow resident who revolution, they moved into a three-room apart­ few rubles, assuming they would want to. angrily told a government cop as Nixon's motor­ ment on the second floor of the Kremlin. It had While in Moscow, Tricky-Dick put on a big feed cade came into town, "Why all this fuss about previously been occupied by the caretaker. They for Brezhnev and his cohorts. As scores of U.S. Nixon? For Vietnam, he should be hanged at lived and ate like most of the Russian workers planes bombed North and South Vietnam, Brezh­ the corner lamppost, and you try to put every­ of the time. nev tasted his first baked Alaska. "America is a thing in order." This was a breath of revolutionary But the life-style of Brezhnev, the self-proclaimed land of miracles," he exclaimed in excitement. internationalism that someday will be part ?f the revolutionary, is quite another story. It turns out An imposter reigns in the land where the workers storm that will throw Brezhnev and all other im- that in addition to a large flat in Moscow, he and peasants first took power away from the cap- posters out on their ear! has a country home. His favorite pastime is hunt- italists. An imposter who represents only the priv- -DOUG JENNESS U.S. ferocity in Vietnam at new peak By DICK ROBERTS cally cut and then cut again .as they stratofortresses, each of which drops plants, and they are on notice that MAY 31-A U. S. military official in are repaired. The two rail lines lead- 24 tons of bombs, have been used their industrial factories will be next Saigon told reporters last week, "I'm ing from Hanoi to Red China are against enemy groups as small as and that even the destruction of the not aware of any wraps placed on bombed daily. 20 or 30 men." Red River dikes..is not ruled out. our operations during President "Now, the White House has added Tank advances of the revolution- "Meanwhile, the Chinese diplomats Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union." to the target list such nonmilitary in- ary fl'ghters are repulsed by U.S. air- almost seem to be going out of their This turned out to be the understate- stallations as power plants, factories, craft. For example, Times reporter way these days to be pleasant to ment of the year. During the Mos- repair shops and industrial facilities. Craig Whitney described the Kontum Americans in the capitals of the cow summit U. S. air operations . "From May 8 through May 25, front May 28. "The four tanks report- world, and the Soviets are signing an against the Vietnamese reached his- American fighter-bombers flew more edly knocked out in Kontum yester- toric peaks. than 4,600 missions against the day were hit by wire-guided air-to- "Never before in the Vietnam war, North." · 1 ground missiles fired from helicopters or 'Perhaps in any war, has air power In the article in which he described of the United States Army's First Antiwar Convention been used with such ferocity," New the air war as the most ferocious in Aviation Brigade," Whitney reported. Nixon's most recent escalation of the York Times correspondent Sydney the war, Times reporter Sehanberg The implications of the intensive war underscores once again the neces­ Schanberg wrote from Hue May 26. also stressed the degree to ·which it U. S. air offensive in Vietnam while sity for continued antiwar actions. A "The war from the skies was dead- has aide& the Saigon armies. "So far, Nixon visited Moscow were spelled national convention to plan fall ac­ lier than ever," Time magazine states American air power is what has kept out by James Reston, the Times' in- tions will take place in Los Angeles, - in its June 5 issue. '.'The Nixon Ad- the North Vietnamese from advanc- fluential Washington correspondent. July 22 and 23, hosted by the Na­ ministration last week ordered an- iilg on Hue, just as it has been the "The North Vietnamese should be get- tional Peace Action Coalition. For other increase in the bombing of crucial factor on the two other fronts, ting the message by now," Reston de- further information, contact NPAC, North Viet Nam," Time continues. in the Central Highlands and Anloc," clared on May 25. 150 Fifth Ave., Room 911, New York, "Qne additional squadron of B-52s Schanberg said. "Their main ports are closed by N.Y. 10011. Telephone: (212) 741- was ordered into action, and the . - He described forays of a Saigon American mines. There are now six 2019. Or NPAC-West, 111 N. Vermont range of targets was expanded to in- unit. "The marine division, one of the U. S. aircraft carriers off their coast, Ave.~ Los Angeles, Calif. 90004. Tele­ elude factories, power plants and few effective units defending Hue, has bombing them night and. day. The phone: (213) 487-6463. chemical works." carried out some offensive ip-and-out railroad lines from China to Hanoi The same theme was repeated in sallies behind enemy lines in the last · are now under constant attack, and agreement a _9.ay with President the June 5 issue of U. S. News & two weeks. These operations would the weather and American air power Nix"'n on issues which are more-· im­ World Report, a magazine that ech- not have been possible without Amer- have slowed down their offensive portant to Moscow than Vietnam. . . . oes the views of the Pentagon. "Prac- ican helicopters to lift the men behind against Hue and Danang in the ·"The plain fact is that President tically every major railhead, supply the lines, and American bombers and north, Kontum citY in the central Nixon now has no incentive to stop depot, gun emplacement, airfield, ra- fighter-bombers to soften up the highlands, and Anloc, north of Sai- the bombing and lift the blocade, dar installation, truck park and fuel enemy pockets and provide direct fire gon. other than the human tragedy, which dump in. North Vietnam is coming support when the marines made con- "Moreover, the U.S. counteroffen- does not seem to move him." under air attack," U.S. News stated. tact with the enemy. . . . sive in the air is not only battering As these lines emphasize, Nixon has "Roads and railroads leading south "Military sources have confirmed, their lines of communication and sup- already reaped great benefits from his to the battlefields are being methodi- for example, that strikes by B-52 ply, but turning to theirtelectric power Peking and Moscow visits.

By VINNIE LONGO for ISA activists' friends and relatives "The present trip is to consolidate WASHINGTON, D. C., May 30- living in Iran. the 'Nixon Doctrine' in Iran. Despite March More than 100 Iranians, Palestinians, Chants included "U. S. get out of its failure in Vietnam, [it] remains the and others protested Nixon's visit to Iran, U.S. get out of Vietnam," "Free basis of the U. S. foreign policy in Iran and the Shah's repressive police the Iranian political prisoners," "Down dealing with N a tiona! Liberation regime here today. The demonstra­ with the Shah," and "Stop the torture movements and / U.S. interests protests tion was organized by the Washing­ in Iran." abroad." ton-Baltimore Iranian Students Asso­ The action focused on the need to ciation. -end what was called the U.S. gov­ Nixon­ According to ISA spokesman Fahad ernment's attempts to apply "Vietnam­ Bibak, the World Confederation of ization" to the Middle East. Iranian Students (National Union) An ISA statement pointed out that Shah initiated the call for May 30 protest this is Nixon's second trip to_ Iran. actions to coincide with Ni~n's ar­ "He first visited Iran in 1953, soon rival in Iran. Other actions were slated after the CIA engineered a coup which for Chicago and San Francisco. overthrew the popular government of meeting The demonstration went through Dr. Mossadegh. In opposition to this downtown Washington to the Iranian trip, massive demonstrations erupted embassy. Most of the marchers wore throughout Iran. In order to suppress paper masks over their faces to avoid this wave of protest, the Shah's para­ identification by the Iranian secret po­ troopers attacked the University :of lice. Such identification in the past Teheran and brutally murdered three has led to imprisonment and torture students. The Shah of Iran

4 Speaks on socialism and Vietnam lhousands hear lenness in Argentina By BEN ATWOOD with the Fourth International." Ricans, women, and workers. The ness and announced that the meeting BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, May 29 Newspapers in several cities have case of Angela Davis is well known was an expression of solidarity with -A standing-room-only crowd of 3,- covered Jenness's tour. Articles hav.e here as in all other Latin American the American antiwar movement. A 000 jammed into a theater here on appeared in La Opinion; the main countries, and Jenness's appeal for large banner calling for immediate May 26 to hear Socialist Workers Par­ Buenos Aires daily; in Cronica and support to the case drew thunderous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet- ty presidential candidate . Linda Jtln­ Clarin, two other Buenos Aires pa­ applause. - · . nam covered the wall behind the ros­ ·ness. The gathering was organized in pers; in La Capital in Rosario; a~d As she ended her speech, Jenness trum. solidarity with the struggle in the in El Pueblo and La Gaceta in Tu­ expressed her conviction that revolu­ Toward the end of a lively one- . United States against the Vietnam war cuman. tionaries around the world will build and-a-half hour discussion period, and for socialism. mass working-class parties to fight Jenness was asked to comment on This meeting was the highlight of B"enos Aires meeting for freedom from exploitation and op­ the activities and policies of urban several large gatherings in Argentina. The Argentine Socialist Party co­ pression, for a socialist world. guerilla groups. In Argentina there These meetings are part of the U. S. sponsored the May 26 meeting with Mobbed by well-wishers and auto­ are at least five such groups which candidate's speaking tour of several the Partido Socialista Popular (PSP- graph seekers, Jenness made her. way attempt to influence national politics through the crowd and walked three through armed actions by·small guer­ blocks to her hotel, surrounded by rilla units. Jenness began by pointing a crowd of admirers. out that it was not her intention to She left on the overnight train for use her visit here to intervene in Ar- her next stop-Mar del Plata. Her - gentine politics. She then stated that meeting there May 27 at the Provin­ her party's position is that small cial University drew 1,000 people, in­ groups of people isolated from the cluding many workers. La Capital, majority of workers and their allies the local daily newspaper, had an­ cannot successfully mobilize the mas­ nounced her arrival in advance. ses in the struggle for national inde­ The success of the meeting for Jen­ pendence and socialism. ness was a tribute to its organizers, The previous day Jenness had vis­ who united to build the meeting in ited historic Tucuman, the seat of the spite·· of the serious divisions between first independent Argentine govern., the different leftist groups. Represen­ ment in 1810; during the struggle for tatives of six different campus organi­ independence from Spain. Reporters Typical of the enthusiastic response to Jenness's visit in Argentina, zations spoke to the crowd before Jen­ from· the two daily newspapers met she is welcomed by 200 young supporters at the Buenos Aires airport ness's speech and presented statements her when she arrived. At the National onMay21. of soliparity with the struggle for so­ University of Tucuman she spoke to cialism in the U.S., the U.S. anti­ a meeting of 1,000 organized'by a Latin American countries. In the past Popular Socialist Party) and the Par­ war movement, and the Vietnamese broad committee of socialist and rad­ few days, Jenness has addressed over­ tido Socialista Democratico (PSD­ revolution. Campus activists reported ical campus groups. flow crowds of more than 1,000 peo­ Democratic Socialist Party). that it was the first such united meet­ The auditorium originally intended ple in the Argentine cities of Tucuman, Although the meeting was scheduled ing in their memory. for the meeting proved too small, so Rosario, and Mar del Plata. to begin at 8 p.m., the theater was That evening, 300 women came to amid shouts of "to the patio!" from Jenness is the guest of the Partido already packed when Je-nness arrived a meeting to ,hear Jenness discuss the those who could not gain entry, ev­ Socialista Argentino (PSA-Argentine at 7:3'0 p.m., and many people had feminist movement in the United eryone moved outside. The audience Socialist Party), which publishes to be tur-ftt!d away at the entrance. In­ States. broke into enthusiastic applause when Avanzada Socialista, a weekly paper. side, banners and placards, mostly Earlier, on May 24, the SWP can- Jenness called for support to the Viet- The party is currently engaged in an against the war in Vietnam, covered effort to gain ballot status for the the walls. TV cameras were present. March 1973, national elections. Sylvia Diaz chaired the meeting, The enthusiast,ic response J,enness which included speeches by Jenness, has received here-both from the news Nora Giattoni of the Argentine' So­ media and particularly from young cialist Party, and 87-year-old Alicia people- demonstrates the wide inter­ Moreau del Justo, a historic figure est in socialist ideas as a result of the in . the Argentine socialist movement profound radicalization taking place and a leader of the Argentine feminist in Argentina today. Of special note is movement. Moreau, speaking imme­ the deep opposition the young people diately before Jenness, said she had are showing to Nixon's escalation of accepted the invitation to address the the war. gathering because she wished to col­ The kind of reception the press has laborate in the bold struggle under­ given Jenness all over Argentina is taken by her North American compa­ illustrated by a two-page interview nera Linda Jenness. with the SWP candidate printed in the Jenness's 45-minute speech, deliv­ Photo by Ben Atwood May 23 issue of the Buenos Aires ered in fluent Spanish, was interrupt­ On May 19 Jenness joined 25,000 to 30,000 demonstrators in Lima, magazine ASL The interviewer wrote, ed repeatedly by cheers, chants, and Peru, in that country's first march ag(Jinst the war in Southeast Asia. "This most distinguished visitor has showers of confetti from the balcogy. just arrived in the country to denounce She expressed the solidarity of those didate spoke to 1,000 people-- who namese revolution and condemned the aggression of the government of fighting against Yankee imperialism· squeezed into the auditorium at the U.S. imperialism. her country in Vietnam and to, give in the United States with those who University of Rosario. Another 500 That evening Jenness appeared for an impetus to the women's liberation fight to free their own country from stood outside, attempting to listen 30 minutes on the local TV station and movement." U. S. aggression. She said that a vic­ through the doorways and windows. overnight became a figure known to Asked to describe herself politically,' tory for the Vietnamese revolution A generous sprinkling of older people nearly everyone·in town. Jenness replied, according to ASI, "I will be a victory for the American from past socialist movements joined Jenness also had a meeting of 200 am a revolutionary socialist." She told workers and the workers of the en­ the predominantly young crowd. in Bahia Blanca, which attracted of the reactionary U.S. laws that pre­ tire world. Nearly every point of view was rep­ many older socialists. vent the SWP from formally affiliating The crowd showed enthusiastic soli­ resented in the audience. Today Jenness flew back to Buenos to an international party. "But," she darity with the struggles in the United The chairman of the Rosario Ar­ Aires for an interview with reporters said, "ideologically I am in agreement States of Blacks, Chicanos, Puerto gentine Socialist Party introduced Jen- from the Italian and French press. Protest set to defend Argentine prisoner By FRAN COLLET and she faces the possibility of four ican Section of the National Coun­ against the barbaric treatment of po­ NEW YORK, May 29- Support is years in exile on a prison ship. Ear­ cil of Churches; and Judy White, edi­ litical dissidents in Argentina ap­ mounting for the campaign in defense lier reports that the sentencing had al­ tor of the USLA Reporter. peared in the May 25 New York of Casiana Ahumada. Ahumada, the ready taken place were erroneous. A picket line in defense of Ahumada Times. editor of the Buenos Aires monthly The U. S. Committee for Justice- to is scheduled for June 6 at the Argen­ Norma Nubia Morello, 'a school­ Cristianismo y Revolucion, was ar­ Latin American Political Prisoners tine consulate in New York (12 West teacher and rural organizer for a rested in December 1971 and has been (USLA) has called a June 1 news 56th St.) from noon to ·2 p.m. Par­ Catholic lay organization, was re­ held incommunicado ever since. The conference in New York to publicize ticipating groups will include Clergy leased after five months' imprisonment charges against her stem solely from Ahumada's case and to 'express sup­ and Laymen Concerned; radical Cath­ and torture. No charges were ever material critical of the Argentine mili­ port for her. Participants will include olic organizations, Puerto Rican stu­ brought against her. tary dictatorship that was published Gloria Steinem, feminist author and dent and political organizations, Latin Morello's was released only after in the maga2;ine and from her op­ editor; Jose Torres, writer for the New American cultural groups, political or­ much public pressure was brought to position to the harsh repression in Yark Post; Thomas E. Quigley, as­ ganizations such as the- Socialist bear on the Lanusse regime, including Argentina. sociate director of the Division for Workers Party, and a number of de­ publicity in · major Buenos Aires Ahumada is currently being tried Latin America of the United States fense committees for political pris­ dailies and significant efforts by in­ in a federal court in Buenos Aires. Catholic Conference;' the Reverend oners. dividuals in the Roman Catholic hi­ Sentencing is scheduled for June 7, William L. Wipfler of the Latin Amer- The most recent news of a victory erarchy.

THE MILITANT/JUNE 9, 1972 5 In Our Opinion Letters New blight spreads course, the less fortunate are ex­ ... Nixon's trip This is to apprise your readers of Continued from page J . ploited. I think it would be more the existence of a new blight that is age further U.S. attacks on North Vietnam but increase the danger reasonable to say 100 percent tax spreading across the United States. over $100,000 rather than $25,000. of attacks on China and the USSR as well. Such attacks could lead To be forewarned is to be forearmed, to nuclear war. If by chance McGovern is elected, so if it shows up in your town or I will probably support the SWP There is no question that the impact of Moscow's betrayal of the neighborhood, don't just stand there campaign in 1976. McGovern is lib­ Vietnamese revolution is being felt in Communist parties around the aghast, do something. eral. The country would move more world, including the CP in the _United States. The blight I refer to is plastic to the left, and in '76, especially in And it can certainly be said that a betrayal of this magnitude is grass. And if you think that is just 1980, the SWP would have a re­ raising questions in the minds of many people in Eastern Europe and something they put in Houston's alistic chan~e of getting elected. in the Soviet Union, where a significant opposition movement among Astrodome because regular grass Aside from the afore-pointed-out, intellectuals and students already exists. wouldn't grow there and on other I think The Militant is the best ex­ football fields you are wrong. What­ But in spite of the criminal policies of Moscow and Peking, the U.S.­ 1 pression of the movement and the ever outfit it is that produces the SWP is the best representation of the backed regime in Saigon is closer to defeat now than at any other stuff has salesmen all over the coun­ time since the war began. This is due to the determination of the Viet­ true voice "of America. try trying to drum up a market, Mark Olmsted namese to continue their struggle, on the one hand, and to the inter­ and they've already got a number Mount Vernon, N. Y. national antiwar movement on the other. of cities and towns to put down The Vietnamese, fighting to end foreign domination and to win land strips of it to test out_ public reaction. In reply- According to the 1971 Sta­ reform and a little better life, are demonstrating the strength of a popu­ Right now it's mos.tly in strips along tistical Abstract, only 24.1 percent lar revolutionary movement. The antiwar movement has expressed its highways, but mark my word, if of males and 2.4 percent of females power by forcing Nixon to withdraw several hundre_d thousand U. S. they get away with it there, they'll with incomes earned $10, 000 a year troops. be laying off gardeners in parks or more in 1969. The percentage before long. There's no telling where One of the most inspiring and encouraging features of the antiwar of people who received more than it will end. $25,000 would be much smaller. protests this spring was their international scope. In Western Europe, I first noticed it along Hawthorne the actions were the most significant in foUl' years; in some countries Thus a 100 percent tax on incomes Boulevard in a suburb of Los An­ over $25,000 would affect only a like Sweden, the actions were the largest ever. There were huge actions geles called Lawndale. I passed it small minority of the American in Mexico and Peru and widespread antiwar sentiment is reported off as a bad joke until I also no­ people. Such a tax would make throughout Latin America. · ticed it on University Avenue in billions of dollars available to be­ In the face of Washington's savage attack on Indochina and the Berkeley, Calif., right off the turn­ gin answering the needs of the peo­ betrayal of Moscow and Peking, it is doubly important to recognize off from the Bay Bridge. But it real­ ple of this country-for medical the historic significance of the independent antiwar movement and to ly scared me when, on a recent visit care, pollution control, mass public continue building that movement. to Washington, D. C., while strolling transportation, better schools, child­ Coming antiwar actions include protests called by the Student Mo­ down. a street lined with trees, care centers, etc. azaleas, and lush bluegrass, I no­ bilization Committee at high school and college commencements, and The SWP believes that the right of ticed one unbelievably regular lawn. the vast majority of people to a local protests called for Aug. 6-9 by the National Peace Action Co­ Sure enough, it was plastic. alition to commemorate the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Naga­ decent standard of living comes be­ Now who the hell would do a fore the right of a small minority saki. In addition, a national antiwar convention is scheduled for Los thing like that? The house turned to live in luxury. The capitalist sys­ Angeles July 21-23 to discuss antiwar actions for_ the fall. A major out to be the residence of the late tem is based on the right of the effort should be made to turn out as many people as possible for all J. Edgar Hoover, who had an ob­ tiny number of capitalists to make of these actions around the .demand that the U.S. immediately with­ session for keeping everything profits by exploiting working people draw all its forces and materiel from Indochina. trimmed except the budget of the -who are the vast majority. Social­ FBI. ism is a system that puts the rights I hardly know what else to say. of working people-the majority - Fred Halstead first. Chicago, Ill. If a tax on high incomes woilld Significant actions "ruin" this capitalist economy, this only shows the need to reorganize The May 27 African Liberation Day actions in the United States, Can­ SWP Platform the economy on the basis of coopera­ ada, and the Caribbean w~re highly successful and very significant. I have been reading The Militant tion and public ownership and con­ These actions mobilized tens of thousands of Black people in solidarity for five weeks now and continually trol of industry-instead of on the with the African liberation struggles and in opposition to the U. S. look forward to it each Saturday. basis of exploitation and competition However, I still support McGovern. role in Africa. for profits. I do this reluctantly and only be­ For the doctors who would quit if They showed that growing numbers of Black people are becoming cause he is better than Nixon. None­ aware of the links between struggles against racist oppression in this they couldn't get rich off people's theless, I am still enclosing 25 cents miseries, there would be many more ·hemisphere and such struggles elsewhere. for a McGovern Truth Kit. If it who would place dedication to their The. May 27 actions put the spotlight on another area of the world really "gets to me," I will send for work a-bove the desire for personal where the U.S. government and U.S. business interests are deeply more because I.know other McGov­ yachts and luxuries. Especially since involved in denying oppressed peoples their right to determine their ern supporters. one of the things such a tax could own destinies, Such actions expose the false claims of the Nixon ad­ I showed the Socialist Workers finance would be free university edu­ ministration, the corporations, and their apologists that the u.s. role Party Platform (printed in the April cation for everyone. in Africa benefits the masses of Africans. Facts are coming out about 28 Militant) to my father. He called ·some of the state~ents irresponsible, U.S. complicity with Portuguese tyranny in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and there is one I agree with him A lot to do and Mozambique, as well as about U.S. support for the reactionary on. After being affiliated with the Black white settler regimes in South Africa and Rhodesia. The platform states, "A 100 per­ Panther Party for over a year and Opposition to the role of the U.S. in Africa has sharpened the con­ cent tax on incomes above $25,000 speaking out against the system to sciousness of the need to actively oppose U.S. aggression in South­ per year." I oppose this and here's help all oppressed people, I am now east Asia. Nixon's escalation of the Vietnam war was vigorously de­ why. If the maximum amount of being incarcerated in the State Cor­ nounced at the rallies. As a South African freedom fighter pointed out, money anybody could make was rectional Institution at Graterford, Vietnam is the focal point of the world revolution today and to aid $25,000, then no one would be Pa. The district attorney said at the the struggle in Africa it fs necessary to oppose U. S. aggression in spurred to make more. The economy trial that I was in a shoot-out with the police on Aug. 30, 1970, when the Vietnam. would be ruined because there would be no balance of the amount of police raided the Black Panther Par- The African Liberation Day organizers welcomed the support the money !fistributed. ty office and that I was a menace actions received from a broad range of Black people-from Demo­ Many people become doctors not to society. It seems like anyone who cratic Party politicians to Black nationalists and revolutionary social­ because they like the profession but does not go along with the system ists. This was partially reflected in the national steering committee of because of the money and fringe is a threat. the African Liberation Day Coordinating Committee, in local coali­ benefits. But knowing they could only Black and oppressed people all tions, and on the speaker's platforms. Organizers of future actions make $25,000 would mean they over this country are being subjected should draw on this example and seek ways to democratically involve would only work 10 weeks a year. to this same type of treatment. This even more Black activists in planning and coordinating these actions. ) am for the "no taxes under $10,- system wants us to be like cattle It is clea'r from the success of the May 27 actions that further actions 000" position because that would al­ going to the slaughter. Only to do can and should be organized to deepen the challenge to U.S. policies leviate the burden of the poor. But as we are told and to think the way the 100 percent tax is no good. It that they want us to think. But this in Africa. would mean one middle class. It's will never be as long as there are good to help the poor, but there oppressed people in the world. could be no luxury. It is wrong to In Philadelphia, Hitler Rizzo is ask­ deprive anyone of comfort. No one ing for 1,500 more police to control could have yachts and such because the Black community. If Black peo­ there wouldn't be enough money._ ple are not yet aware or hip to what Being rich is only bad if, in the Rizzo is trying to do, I say we The Great Society A model man- Paul du Feu, the Brit­ American time- The Pulsar, a solid­ mental to health, the committees said," ish Cosmopolitan nude pinup whose state job reportedly ten times as ac­ according to the Los Angeles Times. previous principal claim to distinction curate as normal watches, discloses brothers and sisters with political was his marriage to Germaine Greer, the time only when you press a but­ Researcher!/ at work- The American ·knowledge or awareness have a lot takes a dim view of women's libera­ ton. Available at fine stores "while Medical Association, long the paceset­ of work to do. tion. "Many of them don't know what supply lasts,". it's "very modestly ter in original research, studied~ some · Walter A. Williams they want," he said, "they just think priced· at $1,200." Pulsar, the manu­ census figures and determined that State Correctional Institution that if those male chauvinist pigs facturer assures, "was conceived, de­ poor people get sick more often than Graterford, Pa. would behave, life would be lovely." signed, developed and is produced in rich, and that health improves as in­ Maybe if they put a fig leaf over his the USA." We took that for granted. come goes up. - HARRY RING Militant posters? mouth, he'd be lovely. The Militant centerfold always con­ It's expensive to be poor- Comment­ tains a feature article. How good What would Adelle Davis say?-"It ing on a report that at least 101 Cali­ it would be to see a poster printed is doubtful that regular people-eating fornians with incomes over $50,000 there! Sales would be spurred. Hun­ ever had much nutritional meaning." paid no state income tax· last year, dreds would be· put on walls. Three -The American Anthropologist. State Senator Mervyn Dymally (D­ years ago The Militant printed a Los Angeles) said: "I find these figures poster of Malcolm X. How about a Narrowing down the field- William very hard to explain to people in my poster of an early feminist? An SWP Crowder, who trains dogs to sniff out district in Watts who make $6,000 a campaign poster? A poster agitating bombs, sees their use as emotion de­ year and pay both state and federal for an antiwar demonstration? A tectors as an "intriguing possibility," income tax." series of posters? though still "wild speculation." A dog Marty Rothman that could detect fear, guilt, or anger Los Angeles, Calif. in people, he says, might be able to Blond tobacco, we trust- Christie's of point out potential skyjackers or bank London auctioned off a box of cigars Unemployed vets robbers. Or even, possibly, people who made especially for Nazi Air Minister The capitalist state certainly operates live in a capitalist society. Hermann Goering. in a mire of cynical deception. The rulers first created the current "re­ All in favor say oink- Most Los An­ "Judicious estimate- Two subcommit­ cession" to indirectly attack the work­ geles Blacks like policemen and want tees on pollution recommended that ers' real income by creating a large more of them in their neighborhoods, Los Angeles county officials allocate industrial reserve army of unem­ according to a recent surv~y. The sur­ funds for smog health research. "Lim­ ployed. to compete with those fortu­ vey was conducted by the Los Angeles ited evidence indicates air pollution nate enough to remain employed. Police Department. over an extended period may be detri- stan Mactc But now this army is beginning to pose a problem, primarily among the returning Vietnam-era veterans. The Emergency Employment Act Funds-where I myself work in the administrative bureaucracy-has now been turned into a direct tool Women= to undercut the growing militancy of unemployed Vietnam-era veterans. Less than four days after the explo­ sion of tensions at the recent public­ The Insurgent Majority relations oriented job mart fair for WOMEN: A JOURNAL OF LIBERATION recently came have children? Wouldn't winning equal pay for equal returning vets in Chicago, the edict out with its eighth issue, entitled "The Power and Scope work represent a gain for the millions of working women came down: EEA positions-at least of the Women's Movement." One important question that in this country? in the main of three sections- are several articles in this issue raise is how and if feminists Winning reforms can pave the way for more funda­ to be reserved for vets and vets should fight for reforms in the course of struggling for mental changes. In the process of fighting around specific alone. the complete liberation of women. needs, women. gain an understanding of the immense The bourgeoisie worries about the Claudia Leight and Linda Shopes, two Women staff struggle it will take to eliminate all forms of sexual· op­ effects the rapidly expanding radical­ members, contributed an article called "Working on Many pression. Every victory the feminist movement wins dem­ ization of returning vets will have Levels." The article purports to be an argument for wom­ onstrates that only by relying on our own power can we . on an already disintegrating military, en concentrating their efforts on "local organizing," as bring about change. the organizational and training ca­ opposed to building national actions and campaigns. The But Leight and Shopes show their disdain for the many pacities they can carry into other main point the authors try to get across, however, is their women who enter the movement for the first time on a radicalizing sectors, the potential they rejection of the strategy of mass action. demonstration. They say that these wom~n are simply . possess for drawing together the Shopes and Leight quote from art article submitted to Manipulated by "male-dominated" groups and falsely ranks of the unemployed, and the this issue of Women by Socialist Workers Party presi­ charge that the SWP in particular seeks to use mass ac­ immediate effect they can have on the dential candidate Linda Jenness. (Unfortunately the Jen­ tions to further some unspecified ulterior motive. They imperialists' designs in Southeast ness article was not printed.) Jenness says: "Through offer no evidence for these red-baiting charges, which Asia. massive actions around specific issues . . . we are inter­ they substitute for a real discussion of their differences The only answer to the EEA and vening in the politics of this country; we are forcing peo­ with the strategy of mass action. its political overtones- designed as ple to take notice of us and our demands; we are making The pessimistic tone of this article-which reveals the ~no more than a showpiece, a de- authors' lack of confidence in the potential of masses of vice to undercut the militancy of the women to struggle for .their liberation-contrasts sharply unemployed- is to demand an im­ with another article in Women, entitled "Action Committee mediate decrease in the hours worked for Decent Childcare: Organizing for Power." Written by by those presently employed, without Day Creamer and Heather Booth, tqis article defends the any cut in pay, large enough to need for mass actions fighting for specific demands and absorb the unemployed who wish to shows how such actions can advance the movement as work. a whole. The authors write, "In many places the word A reader reform is associated with cooptation- if you win, you Albany, N. Y. must be doing something wrong, or what you are fighting for must be 'counterrevolutionary.'" Creamer and Booth Correction reject this concept, pointing out that "in the struggle for I am sending a correction of some­ concrete victories women will gain both a sense of our thing you printed in the May 21 is­ power and the'meaning of power in society." The article sue of The Militant. On May 6, Abor­ Mass demonstrations show the, power of women goes on to describe how the Action Committee for Decent Childcare successfully used demonstrations and public tion Action Day, in Philadelphia, united in action. you stated that "right-wing forces sent tribunals to dramatize the problem of child care in Chi­ 75 people to heckle the speakers." the movement visible . . we are confronting and answer­ cago and to put the city government on the spot. In reality, only about 20 of these ing the prejudices and lies . . . that women are power­ The near success of the recent right-wing campaign in. types were present. Because this lis a less and incapable of fighting for our rights." While they New York to overthrow the liberalized state abortion rather large difference, perhaps you say they agree with her, Leight and Shopes spend the law shows precisely how crucial the fight for reforms could print this correction. rest of their article trying to refute Jenness's points. is and how women must stand ready to defend eve'ry Carol Lisker They argue that massive mobilizations against the war gain that is won. The opponents of women's right to Philadelphia, Pa. in Southeast Asia have been "ineffective" because they abortion applied the same tactic-mass action-that fem­ focus on one central demand-"Out NowJ" Leight-and inists used in 1970 to win the present New York abortion Shopes warn that organizing mass actions around one law; The anti-abortion forces organized a large demon­ The letters column is an open forum central demand. of the women's movement is also "inef- stration around the demand of ending legal abortions, for all viewpoints on subjects of gen­ fective" because "The sirigle issue can be resolved, with­ and this action clearly had a powerful impact on the eral interest to our readers. Please out significantly changing the condition of women in so­ New York state legislature. keep your letters brief. Where neces­ ciety." In the future the feminist movement will organize masses sary they will be abridged. Please in­ Certainly no one reform will end the oppression of of women in action to win not just the repeal of anti­ dicate if your name may be used or women. But wouldn't the repeal of all state anti-abortion abortion laws but decent child-care facilities, equal pay, if you prefer that your initials be use

THE MILITANT/JUNE 9, 1972 7 Quebecois nationansm fueled workers· revolt The following analysis of the May upsurge of Quebec workers is based on an article scheduled to appear in Labor Challenge, a revolutionary-so­ cialist biweekly published in Canada. By DICK FIDLER TORONTO- The massive strike up­ surge of the Quebec workers did not · achieve its immediate aims: amnesty ·for the imprisoned labor leaders and repeal of the Bourassa government's strikebreaking Bill 19. But the strike of over 100,000 work­ ers, which lasted over a week, by no means ended in defeat. It forced the Liberal government to negotiate with the 210,000 workers in the publ,ic and related sectors, foregoing the use of Bill 19, which empowered Premier Robert Bourassa to impose a settle­ ment by June 1. The strike forced the replacement of the Civil Service minister to make way for concessions by the government. Above all, the upsurge was a mag­ nificent demonstration of Quebec la­ bor's collective strength, its readiness to take militant action in defense of its interests. It was the biggest spontaneous la­ bor upsurge of this character in Ca­ nadian history- snowballing across Quebec from the North Coast St. Law­ rence /mining port of Sept-lles to the modern industrial parks at Saint-Je­ rome; from the huge asbestos exploi­ tations at Thetford Mines (portrayed in the film Mon Oncle Antoine), to 'Quebec for the Quebecois.' July 1971 demonstration independence was part of nationalist ferment the pulp and paper plants of Abitibi that led to general strike. . in the Northwest. In April, the 11-day general strike the province and the wide public sym­ the strikers who were occupying the The strike wave revealed anew the of public service workers had revealed pathy for the strikers from other layers hospital and administering it under instability of the Bourassa Liberal the fighting militancy of these new of the population. Support came frot:n workers' self-management. government-faced at the he-ight of layers of_ Quebec labor. And in the such unlikely elements as the reporters The struggle of various sectors the upsurge with the proffered resig-. May upsurge the teachers, nurses, hos­ of the French-language newspapers merged with others. Students in anum­ nations of two more ministers and pital workers, municipal employees, and Radio-Canada, who staged 24- ber of Montreal high schools and ju­ the rumored impending resignations and other public-sector workers were hour sympathy strikes; and the pro­ nior colleges mogilized against gov­ of two more, all of them said to be prominent once again. But with them, vincial father-superior of the Freres ernment attempts to extend the school moving toward the independentist Par­ and playing a leading role, were the des Ecoles Chretiennes (Christian year ·because of the teachers' strike. ti Quebecois. These resignations raised private-sector workers in heavy in­ Teaching Brothers), who issued a pas­ The students' struggle, a La Pr~sse in the sharpest way the question of dustry-construction, steel, and ship­ toral letter. reporter observed, brought forward whether the Quebec government, lack­ yard workers, auto workers and min­ "fairly pronounced aspirations for self­ ing the powers of a national state ers. Many of them are members of By their actions, the strikers chal­ management (autogestion) . . . or, in its own right, could cope with the "international" unions affiliated to the lenged some key institutions of their more precisely, the takeover of the challenge posed by this working-class Canadian Labor Congress and the oppression. The takeovers of radio institutions by the students, the teach­ revolt. Quebec Federation of Labor (Fede­ and television stations reflected the ers, and support staff." Prime Minister Trudeau,_ for his ration des Travailleurs du Quebec­ deeply felt consciousness that the me­ So many issues were· raised in the part, tried to turn the argument the FTQ). All were violating their con­ dia is in the hands of forces hostile course of the ·strike upsurge that the other way: the Quebecois, he told a tracts, which forbid sympathy strikes to the majority of the Quebecois, Such editors of one Montreal daily com­ Toronto Star reporter, should be for political reasons. tactics come more naturally in a na­ plained they couldn't tell what P-eople thankful they have a strong govern­ The strike w_ave found its highest tion where striking reporters at the were striking for any more! A;d far ment in Ottawa! Yet Ottawa was clear­ expression in the "peripheral" towns largest 'daily newspaper have twice from being "manipulated by goon ly reluctant to intervene with its "strong and cities outside Montreal, the finan- in the last decade published daily squads," as Bourassa alleged, the government" as it did in the fall of - cial and commercial center of the Que­ strike newspapers, and where the strikers' innovative tactics underscored 1970. This time, it was up against bec nation. In these towns, usually trade-union movement published a the spontaneous nature of their revolt. thousands upon thousands of mobi­ dominated by a few big foreign-owned popular labor/nationalist tabloid lized workers, not a population demo­ industries with English-speaking man­ weekly, Quebec-Presse. 'Quebec is a nation' bilized and demoralized by terrorist agers, the class struggle is sharp and Another favorite target was the big Even bourgeois commentators in kidnap pings. bitter. commercial chain stores, with their English Canada could not overlook Some of the dozen or so towns and inflated prices that exploit workers' the obvious significance of this up­ The bourgeoisie, of course, is tak­ cities taken over by the strikers read families and tie up their credit in the surge. Toronto Star columnist Dennis ing steps to meet the problem of its like a ''Who's Who" of Quebec's his­ company towns. Braithwaite, hardly a radical, put it lessened maneuverability in Quebec. toric labor struggles: Asbestos (Thet­ The upsurge was sparked by pro­ this way: "Nowhere else in Canada ,As the strikes began to lose their mo­ ford Mines), Gaspe (Copper Mines), tests against a judge's jailing of prom­ could such events occur. Even dur­ mentum businessmen began to form Sorel, Sept-Iles .. Workers in the key inent labor leaders. The courts are ing the most violent demonstrations vigilante squads ("citizen committees") industries- quickly spread the strike widely regarded by the Quebecois as of the depression, the relief camp riots in occupied towns. It was revealed throughout the surrounding regions, nothing more than instruments of the and the 'March on Ottawa' from the that the president of the Quebec Lib­ taking over radio stations, sending party in power. West, there was never any question of eral Party had sent telegrams to Lib­ out flying squads to shut down the As the revolt became generalized, workers' leaders seizing control of ra­ eral riding (electoral district) associ­ big commerCial establishments, main­ each group of workers raised its own dio stations, shutting down metropol­ ation presidents throughout the prov­ taining order under the control of lo­ greivances: the Montreal longshore­ itan newspapers or launching a mas­ ince at the height of the crisis, urging cal trade unions grouped together in men, violations of their new contract sive propaganda campaign demand­ them to initiate these strikebreaking "common fronts" thrown up in the by the bosses; the Montreal civil work­ ing the overthrow of the capitalist sys­ bodies by forming "political-action course of the struggle. The local po­ er~, their failure to win an agreement tem. . . . Quebec, let us face the fact, committees." lice force·s were immobilized, in some with the city after months of negb­ is a nation." In several towns, local reactionaries ca·ses for days. The towns were ef­ tiations and the breaking of an ear­ As Quebecois workers organize, they were deputized and put under the com­ fectively ruled by strike committees. lier strike by an injuction; the hos­ become more nationalist. The urbani­ mand of the police forces. In Sept" pital workers at the Albert Prevost zation and · proletarianization of the lies, which is dominated by a few More than a strike Institute,_ an obstinate administration last 30 years have brought the Que­ big U. S.-owned · corporations, the This was more than a strike, or tha( has rejected workers' demands becois face to face with the "English Chamber of Commerce President Jean even a multiplicity of local strikes. for a share in running the institute. fact"- the foreign control of Quebec. Girard formed the Comite des Citoyens It was a vast national outpouring The longshoremen and civil workers They are fighting back; and their re. Respectueux de Ia Loi et de L'Ordre of the Quebecois-manifested in the a;e still on strike; at Albert Prevost, volt has a radical, anticapitalist thrust (Citizens Committee for the Respect rapid spread of the walkouts across the J:iot squad invaded and ejected to it. of Law and Order). "We had to get

8 back our only means of communi­ Despite . these rotten positions, how­ bor leaders was well-publicized in.­ cation, our radio station," he told a ever; the PQ has emerged from the English Canada. But Lewis's state­ Globe and Mail reporter. recent lal:>or struggles' stronger than , ment, too, was in ·no way motivated "But we're not going to end here. ever. Its fund drive for $300,000 in by solidarity with the labor upsurge. Before the end of the week we'll have March netted more than twice the ob­ He was simply advising the ruling set up a permanent vigilance commit­ jective- $632,000. Its membership class not to use the courts to control tee," he said. has doubled to 66,000 since the fall. the labor movement. Asked to am­ 'rrade-union militants have charged Opinion polls indicate it is gaining 0£ plify his remarks, Lewis told Toronto that the Liberal Party is working with­ support from the other parties, espe­ high school students that if he were in the Confederation of National cially the ruling Liberals, who are MO•tR£lL the judge he would have given the Trade Unions (Confederation des slipping seriously. union leaders not one year, but 30- Syndicats Nationaux- CSN) to pro­ Far from contradicting the radical­ UJCAl dzy sentences! voke and deepen a split that has ization of Quebec workers, this rise The CLC convention voted solidar­ emerged in the CSN. This is a fur­ in support for the PQ, a bourgeois 315 ity with the immediate demands of ther ominous indication that the bour-' party, simply confirms the nationalist Quebec labor. But far from mobiliz­ geoisie is actively mobilizing within character of the workers' struggle. It ing solidarity actions in the English­ the workers' organiz-ations to combat is precisely because the PQ is inde­ Canadian labor movement, the CLC the spread of nationalist and left-wing pendentist that the majority of Que­ leadership appealed for. calm in Que­ ideas. becois do not see it as a bourgeois, bec unions by urging resumption of reactionary party. And because the negotiations before the freeing of the Advisers and mediators recent strike wave served to strength­ labor leaders, and warned repeatedly The strike upsurge also confirmed en and deepen nationalist conscious­ of the. "dangers" of "general strike," the hardening of the Parti Quebecois ness among Quebecois workers, the "demagogues," and "revolution" ln as the alternative party of "law and PQ- in the absence of a mass labor­ Quebec. Instead of expressing solidar­ order" in Quebec. The PQ resisted de­ based political party-was bound to ity with Quebec labor, CLC President mand!! that it solidarize with the work­ be the principal beneficiary. Donald McDonald offered to act as ers' demands for repeal of Bill 19 But if the PQ's hostility to the labor an intermediary between the unions and amnesty for the imprisoned la­ movement is to be expected, given and the Quebec g:overnment! bor leaders. Its leadership cast itself the party's class nature, what is to Relea'sed from jail May 23, the la­ in the role of advisers to the Bourassa .be said about the scandalous state­ bor leaders vowed to fight the Bou­ government, warning of the danger ments of the leaderships of the New rassa government "to the finish." While of "anarchy" and counseling Bourassa Democratic Party and the Canadian the "May crisis"- as it is now known to seek a settlement with the public Labor Congress (CLC), AFL-CIO, -fell short 'of posing workers' power workers by offering yearly wage in­ during the Quebec upsurge? at the governmental level, it was a creases of 6 percent (the unions were NDP leader David Lewis's attack portent of the big struggles that are demanding 8 percent). on the judge's ruling against the la- coming in Quebec. Quebec strikers took over mining city The following report is based on Commun. "A number of speakers summit, "the Front Commun was over­ would any other movement that want-· an article scheduled to appear in called for a general strike the next whelmed; our slogans were not lis~ ed to use it. Labor Challenge. morning, but toward the end of the tened to," stated Tremblay. The mayor appealed for all stores By ART YOUNG rally the police attacked us. There The strikers were able to show the to close "in order to avoid useless and SEPT-ILES, Quebec, May 29- Sept­ were a number of arrests, and many population that the city was under regrettable spilling of blood." The lies is a smal~ city of 20,000 scraped were injured." . their control. This produced a rude unions and council agreed, however, out of the rock and sand. Located on The police assault only added to shock among the businessmen, who that drugstores, the hospital, credit the north bank of the St. Lawr ~nee the workers' anger. "If they can throw for several hours at least, felt them­ unions, banks, and gas stations would River more. than 500 miles northeast Louis [Laberge] in jail like a criminal, selves at the mercy of the workers, remain· open. In the hands of the of Montreal, it is an important trans­ then they can do it to any one of as the Toronto Globe and Mail re­ workers, the town remained relatiye­ fer point for raw minerals. Today us," said one unionist, a stocky con­ marked. It must have been quite a ly tranquil and orderly. the city symboliZes the massive revolt struction worker on the verge of tears. shock indeed for these capitalist bar­ But in the meantime, the Quebec of Quebec labor against the jailing of Bruno Girouard, the staffrepresenta­ ons, so used to controlling everything government had rushed several hun­ its three top leaders. . tive of the CSN (Confederation of Na­ they surveyed. dred provincial police to the town, Quebec's national exploitation is tional Trade Unions) National Con­ The bosses' panic led to a grave using Canadian army aircraft. They seen graphically in Sept-Iles, with its struction Union described what hap­ provocation. During a public rally commandeered bulldozers to smash very thin lay-er of English families, pened next: "The next morning [May May 10, a Liberal Party activist and down the barricades, allowing further who live in the most luxurious part 10] the whole town was shut down. a pattisan of the bosses drove his police reinforcements to arrive. of the· city. They are the top admin­ The mines, the factories, the schools, car into the crowd. More than 20 On Friday, May 12, La Presse re­ istrators of the mining companies the offices, the construction sites, were injured, many seriously; a few ported, there were about 600 cops whose owners live far away in Toron­ everything. The strikers moved down days later, Hermain St. Gelais, .a 22- in the area. They were not idle. Strik­ to or New York. Close to 100 percent the streets from store to store, re­ year-old lab technician, died from his ers were evj_cted from the radio sta­ of the workers .are French, but the questing that they be.closed. And their injuries. tion. Known union militants were re~ companies are English right down to demands were met. There were few The next morning, tempers were peatedly searched and arrested on the the smallest detail. incidents. All chain sto!'es were closed, short at the mass rally of 5,000, which main' street. More than 100 arrests Since the early sixties, this mixture but the corner groceries and other is almost half the adult population. of unionists and their supporters on of heavy proletarian composition, a -essential services were allowed to stay The strike continued. It was further minor charges were made over the high degree of unionization, and ever­ open. decided to demand that the town coun­ weekend. present national exploitation has made "Meanwhile, a group of strikers took cil support the movement. That eve­ Thus reinforced, the bosses took the Sept-Iles a center of nationalist agita­ over the radio station at about 10 ning the workers invaded city hall initiative. The mayor reneged on his tion. a.m. The regular programs remained, and forced the holding of an emer­ promises, met with the Chamber of For two days in May the workers but the strikers occupied the station gency council meeting. The mayor Commerce, took to the radio to blast controlled this city. All work stopped. to ensure that all the statements of and council had little choice but to the unions, and called on shops to All stores were closed except those the the strike movement were broadcast. comply. open their doors. Some did on Satur­ strikers permitted to stay open. The In a town like ours, the radio is the day. city was effectively sealed off-barri­ vital means of communication- we The sports palace, which had been cades went up on the main road, the have no daily paper and our only used up until then by the Front Com­ airport was shut, and telephone lines TV comes from across the St. Law­ mun for mass meetings of up to 5,- were jammed. The mayor and city rence River from Matane. 000 people, was closed by the city. council were powerless. "At about the same time, another The workers had no other halls hold­ One of the first moves the strikers flying squad of workers seized trucks ing more than 400 people. Without made was to seize the radio station and buses to build barricades across the radio or meeting halls, they were and to begin spr~ading news of the the' only highway into town. They gagged and could not reply to the general strike. Within a few days, closed the airport and jammed the bosses' offensive. Five hundred of the striking workers occupied some 18 phone lines for a few hours .. The whole town's upper crust gathered in a TV and radio stations across Quebec. place was sealed off from the outside." plush hotel, where they heard the ma­ The rest of the North Shore was The barricades were intended pri­ jor companies announce they would soon shut down by a general strike. marily as a symbol that the town reopen Monday morning. With massive walkouts already begun, was under workers' control, unionists In fact, that morning a large num­ the news of the events in Sept-Iles had told me. It was· also hoped that they ber of workers returned to work and an electric effect throughout Quebec. would impede the arrival of police by Wednesday, May 17, the Front "A number of us had been in Quebec reinforcements. In fact, there are only Commun issued a back-to-work call. City May 9 to accompany [the three about 45 police in the Sept-Iles force. Given the spontaneous nature of the union heads] Pepin, Charbonneau, Brave in their attack against the dem­ In a hall overflowing with strikers strike and the lack of clear national and Laberge to jail. We returned Tues­ onstrators Tuesday night, May 9, they and their supporters, they agreed to perspectives or even of strike funds, day evening in time to participate in had virtually disappeared from sight demand that Quebec Premier Robert the return to work is not surprising. a large gathering outside the [Sept­ by Wednesday. Bourassa withdraw Bill 19, which The mood of those returning was lies] courthouse," Valmore Tremblay Nominally, the strike movement was broke the civil-service strike, and Bill hardly one of defeat. l attended the told me. Tremblay is a staff repre­ led by the Front Commun, but in real­ 15, earlier legislation againstconstruc­ last meeting of the Front Commun sentative of the International Associa­ ity the movement was largely sponta­ tion workers; and that he free all ar­ on May 17. While recognizing that tion of Machinists [Quebec Federation neous. During the decisive events of rested union leaders. It was agreed a return was necessary, the strikers of Labor] and a leader of the inter­ W~dnesday and Thursday, May lO­ that the Front Commun would have felt that something had been won. "We union coordinating body, Le Front ll, when the movement attained its full access to the radio station, as are not beaten," was the c~y.

THE MILITANT/JUNE 9, 1972 9 ·Mine union dissidents hold convention By CALVIN GODDARD The MFD steering committee called eligible for his pension immediately. years of hard work to win the full WHEELING, W.Va., May 28-About the convention itt" the wake of a May 1 It would also permit a miner to keep confidence of the active miners," h·e ·500 dissident members of the United federal court decision invalidating the J¥s hospital: welfare card beyond the said. "If we say the word, the miners Mine Workers met here May 27-28 1969 election. The grounds for the present limit of one to four years. will go out" to choose candidates to oppose the invalidation were that UMW officials To reform the union, the platform MFD lawyers are asking the Labor present UMW bureaucracy headed by had engaged in massive vote fraud, ,calls for a reduction in the salaries Department to monitor the upcoming W. A. (Tony) Boyle. intimidation, and illegal use of union of top union officials, an end to full­ UMW elections. They are also seeking The convention was called by the funds. 'l'his was followed by two otlfer salary retirement with union payroll­ FBI protection for MFD candidates. Miners for Democracy, formed in court rulings that called for autonomy ers receiving the same pension as min­ In interviews with this reporter, how­ April 1970 by those who had sup­ in eight UMW districts. This now al­ ers, mandatory retirement of officers ever, rank and -filers expressed little ported Joseph (Jock) Yablonski. Ya­ lows more than a third of the union's at age 65, and moving the UMW faith in federal protection. blop.ski was murdered in December membership to elect district officers. headquarters from Washington, D. C., Patrick· was quoted in a recent Min­ 1969 -three weeks after his unsuc­ (All but five districts are "trusteeships" to the coal fields. Full autonomy for er's Voice. the MFD's publication, as cessful bid fa..r the UMW presidency. under the direct control of the iriter­ all UMW districts was also demanded. saying that the UMW "shoUld be the (Seven people, including three UMW national union.) New elections may Two delegates asked why rank-and­ leader in the fight against wars like officials, are under indictment in the _ be ordered for December. file contract ratifiCation was not in­ the one in Vietnam that's taken the killing of Yablonski and his wife and Although a platform was unani­ cluded. The chair replied that this lives of our sons and relatives and daughter. Funds used to pay the al­ mously adopted by the delegates, the would be added to the fmal draft. fellow workers." Patrick told The Mil­ leged assassins have been traced to selection of candidates able to defeat Robert Payne, president of the Dis­ itant that the MFD slate will- take a UMW headquarters.) the UMW "establishment' was declared abled Miners, Widows and Orphans position for total, immediate with­ Participants included members of the "paramount job" of the delegates of Southern Western Virginia, was drawal of U. S. forces from Indochina various rank-and-file groups that by MFD Chairman Mike Trbovich. honored by the convention for leading in contrast to the prowar position of have sprung up in recent years, strug" Trbovich, 51, was narrowly defeated the wildcat mine strike in June 1970. present UMW officials. gling for demands ignored or opposed for nomination as union president by In that strike, 65,000 miners walked An unfortunate incident of red-bait­ by the UMW officials. Fifteen of the Arnold Miller, 49, _Yablonski's Dis­ ing marred the convention. Conven­ union's 24 districts were represented trict 17 campaign chairman, who tion chairman Karl Kafton announced at the convention, which was open to heads the West Virginia Black Lung the first day that people selling "lit­ all UMW members. The average age Association. Trbovich was chosen to erature with a red taint «;>n if' out­ of those present appeared to be around run for vic~president Henry Patrick, side the hall at Wheeling College had 40. MFD vic~hairman, was selected to been ordered off the campus by county run for secretary-treasurer. police acting on behalf of convention officials. It was learned that those forced to Boyle may seek reelection_, although leave had been selling The Bulletin, he will be prevented from holding of­ a paper published by a sectarian fice if his recent conviction under the group called the Workers League. Corrupt Practices Act is upheld. In Kafton then warned that anyone seen any case, the Boyle machine is sure distributing the Daily World, a news­ to field a full slate. paper reflecting the views of the Com­ The 34-point MFD platform d~ munist Party, would also be removed nounced the "production-oriented from the convention site. union bureaucrats" and ·pointed out Although there was some applause that "the mechanization of the mines for Kafton' s red-baiting, many del­ in the 1950s not only cost the jobs egates expressed their disapproval of ·of more than half our union brothers, UMW President W.A. (Tony) Boyle these undemocratic actions in inter­ but also caused health and safety con­ out in protest of the UMW's failure views with this reporter. "Miners ditions to worsen." to provide its members with decent should be allowed to read what they The platform's health and safety medical and pension benefits. want and think for themselves," one proposals include more power to mine Payne, a Black, 48-year-old dis­ delegate said. safety committees, a UMW division abled miner, spent two_ weeks in jail Speakers at the convention included to monitor enforcement of federal dust­ for his role in this "illegal" strike and Yablonski's two sons, Kenneth and Photo from Miner's Voice Henry Patrick, vice-chairman of level and safety laws, and a six-hour still faces a trumped-up federal charge Joseph, who serve as the MFD's law­ · day with one of four shifts devoted of "perjury." Payne told The Militant yers; -Representative Ken Heckler ( D­ Miners for Democracy, favors to safety maintenance. his acquittal is almost certain, since W. Va.); and Joseph Rauh Jr., a Wash­ UMW . participation in the antiwar One plank says ·that a miner who his victimization could result in fur­ ington lawyer and prominent Dem­ movement. becomes totally disabled should be ther wildcats. "It has taken us two ocrat active in MFD litigation. Union threatened in Calif. beverage strike By MATT JEFFRIES Most strikers feel that this conces­ the beginning by vicious antiunion ing began with a unanimous vote to OAKLAND, Calif., May 30- The sion alone represents a major defeat action on the part of the employers reject any settlement that did not pro­ for beverage workers. They have. no vide amnesty for all strikers. fiv~month old Bay Area soft drink and the courts. Workers have been illusions_ that they can win in arbi­ faced with injunctions; heavy fines;· Several speakers referred to the need strike entered a critical stage ~ast week. The strike involves six Teamster lo­ tration what they couldn't win on the private· cops armed with clubs, guns, for a general Teamsters strike and picket line. · and police dogs; the hiring of strike were met with thunderous applause. cals and 1,300 drivers and bottl~rs. For the first time, the Food Employ­ breakers; and the widespread use of A motion was unanimously passed· ers Council (FEC), mouthpiece of the scab beverages brought in from out­ to set up a general strike committee beverage industry, openly threatened side the Bay Area. consisting of all shop stewards and to smash the striking union. a number of strike committee leaders. To date, top officials of the Team­ This committee was to explore ways The companies informed all strikers ster international union have refused of carrying out a general strike of that their jobs "were available." Team­ aid to the striking Northern Califor­ Teamsters. sters who refused to cross their own nia locals. They liave denied strike While the ranks are eager for ac­ picket lines to take their jobs would sanctions to · Southern California tion, local officials clearly have no be replaced by scabs. Teamsters in the soft drink industry such thoughts in mind. At almost ev­ Telegrams were also sent to -all lo­ currently working without a contract. ery opportunity, including a so-called cal unions stating that "In those cases Taking advantage of this major ~eak­ "chance appearance" at the· May 24 where a defensive lockout was nec­ ness, the companies have flooded the meeting,· local officials have taken essary, the lockout is being terminat­ Bay Area with beverages produced steps to limit and discourage militant ed." by Los Angeles Teamster bottlers, strike activity. The pretext for these actions was who are members of the same state­ So far the general strike committee . brazenly stated by John Bacon, vic~ wide local as the Bay Area strikers. has not taken steps toward organiz­ president of the F EC and spokesman Despite the refusal of the Teamster ing such a strike. At this time its mem­ for the beverage industry. He charged local officials to stand up to the bers are convinced that no such strike that the unions had refused to sub­ treachery of the international, the action is possible without the support mit all outstanding issues to media­ union rank and file has remained sur­ and sanction of the international. timi, and binding arbitration if nec­ P-hoto by Diana .diT ullia prisingly solid. Last week, four of the smaller locals essary. In response to this latest employer reflected the first signs of demoraliza­ But conservative Teamster officials However, the employers. are not con­ threat, rank-and-file Teamsters pro­ tion when they signed a memorandum had agreed at least one month ago tent with forcing the union to accept posed, and local officials agreed to, agreeing to end the strike on terms to bend to the employers on this vital a humiliating setback on economic an unprecedented meeting of all six that represent a clear defeat question. The sole exception they and job-security issues. They are now striking locals on May 24. The meet­ Although the ranks have made im­ 'made was on the Teamster demand seeking to divide and demoralize the ing was attended by more than 400 portant progress in understanding the for amnesty. The union officials ranks by refusing to rehir! those strik­ strikers, mostly from the two largest reason for the strike's weakness, it agreed to submit all other outstand­ ers they claim have been "implicated locals. It was conducted by rank-and­ does not appear that they will be able ing issues to arbitration without a Jn illegal action." file militants. Floor mikes were open to prevent a victory for the employers vote of the ranks. The strike has been marked from to all proposals for action. The meet- in this particular conflict.

10 -~ j• Socialist 5 from radical collective summer

join· YSI, reject YWLL schools• By FRED MURPHY Angela Davis Defense Committee. "We were in a collective with lots BLOOMINGTON, Ind.- The main The YSA's activity in the movements of different kinds of people. There were open1ng grou'ps vying for the allegiance of against the war, for self-determination a few YWLLers in the collective, and ra4icalizing youth in this country are for Black people and La Raza, and I began to have a lot of disagreements By LEE SMITH the Young Socialist Alliance, which for women's liberation impressed the with them, especially over sexism. I As campuses and high schools close is in political solidarity with the So­ members of the collective. began to see that I really agreed with down for the summer, hundreds of cialist Workers Party, and the Young Barbara Webster commented on the the YSA position. student activists across the country are registering for Socialist Summer Workers Liberation League, an or­ importance of these independent strug­ "I went to the May 6 WONAAC ganization thal shares . the political gles: "Some groups on the left, in par­ School. Twenty schools are being or­ demonstration in Chicago, and while ganized in 18 cities by the You)lg outlook of the Communist Party. ticular the YWLL, seem to think that there Barb and David went to the Recently five members- of the East the women's movement, the gay move- Socialist Alliance and the Socialist YWLL convention. They came back Workers Party. with some reports that pretty much Many Young Socialists for Jenness made my decision for me, especially and Pulley and other activists who the YWLL's positions on women and have recently become interested in so- · gay people. When they were con­ cialist ideas as a result of the SWP fronted with this in various ways at 1972 election campaign are expected the convention, the leadership tried to attend these schools. The programs to cover it up by saying they didn't will end with a week-long Socialist Ac­ want to divide the convention. I tivists and Educational Conference. could see that the YWLL was not The subjects to. be studied include: a group I could work in. I saw that' The United Front versus the Popular in the Y SA if I had any disagree­ Front; the Transitional Program; ments there was ample opportunity Revolutionary-Socialist Electoral Pol­ to discuss and resolve them." icy; The Origins and Nature of Stal­ The YSA supports the Socialist inism; Revolutionary Strategy in· the Workers Party's campaigns and the Labor Movement; and· Principles of nature of· those campaigns impressed Leninist Party Organization. both Martin and Webster. They con-· In addition to New York, where trasted the SWP' s electoral strategy there will be three schools, the fol­ with that of the Communist Party. lowing cities will have summer "The SWP," said Webster, "is trying schools: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chi­ -Four of the five members of Bloomington, Ind., collective who joined to educate people about socialism and cago, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Young Socialist Alliance. Left to right: Barbara Webster, Sandi Sherman, build an alternative to the ruling­ Houston, Los Angeles, Oakland, Paula Westfall, and David Martin. class party, while the CP election Philadelphia, Portland, San Diego, strategy is a contradiction. It doesn't San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, Bloomington Labor Library, a rad­ , ment, and an independent Black make any sense to run an alterna­ and Washington, D. C. ical collective here, decided to join movement divide the left or divide tive to the ruling-class parties and Lectures by by local socialist lead­ the YSA. All five had experience work­ the working class. I don't think so. then support a 'progressive' element ers will be supplemented by national ing with both the YSA and YWLL. I think it's sexism and racism that of the ruling class· at the same time. speakers. Among the national sum­ Two of the group attended the YWLL divide the working class a:o.d the left. At the YWLL convention, I couldn't mer school speakers will be Militant national convention in Chicago just I think the only way that sexism and tell if the YWLL supported Hall and prior to joining the YSA. The key racism can effectively be dealt with staff writers Dick Roberts, Frank Tyner or George McGovern." , Lovell, Tony Thomas,. Derrick Mor­ reason they gave for joining the YSA is for people who are oppressed by ) Martin added, "The Hall-Tyner cam­ rison, Dave Frankel, Cindy JaqtJith, was the Y SA's active role in build­ sexism and racism to build their own paign rally at the YWLL convention and Dan Rosenshine; Fred Feldman, ing the antiwar, women's liberation, movemerits to struggle against them." was just terrible. They were throwing and other independent movements. The collective played a major role out what was essentially ultraleft slo­ associate editor of the International Socialist Review; Harry Ring, head They also cited the YSA' s democratic in building antiwar actions- on· the ganeering, 'We are the Communists,' decision-making process and its uni­ of The Militant's Southwest Bureau; Bloomington campus and worked ex­ 'Support the Communists,' and so ty in action. Susan Lamont, former national chair­ tensively on the April 24, 1971, anti­ forth. Everything but red flags and The five who joined the YSA were: women of the Young Socialist Al­ war march on Washington, D. C., and hammers and sickles. But when they Barbara Webster- an activist who liance; Fred Halstead, 1968 SWP can­ the Mayday actions that occurred a got to the essential points, it became worked on both antiwar and pro­ didate for president; Dan Styron, SWP week later. . The Militant asked them clear that they were essentially mak­ abortion activities in the spring of organizer in Los Angeles; and Lynn how they felt in retrospect about May­ ing speeches for George McGovern. 1971. She has belonged to several Henderson, SWP National Commit­ day's approach to the antiwar move­ They were attacking Nixon, they radical collectives at the Blooming- tee member. ment. were attacking Wallace, but treading - ton campus of Indiana University For further information, contact fhe "It didn't seem to be oriented toward very lightly on the _liberal Democrats. (IU). YSA or SWP nearest you (see page building a mass movement, toward I really don't see why they bothered David Martin- a leading activist at 22 for the socialist directory). involving in action all the people who to run a campaign anyway." IU who first became interested in pol­ Some cities held spring socialist ed­ are against the war," commented Web­ Webster summed up the group's feel­ ucational weekends to prepare for itics as a high school supporter of ster. , ings about joining the YSA. "The rea­ the Socialist Workers Party 1968 pres­ launching the summ~ schools. More "It was fun, and I got arrested," son I decided to join theY SA," she said, than 75 persons attended the Social­ idential election campaign of Hals.tead "is that I could be the most effective Sherman added. "But after 36 hours ist Activists Conference May 19 and and Boutelle. He was a member of in jail I began to think it wasn't ·so in building the antiwar movement, several new-left formations, including 20 at the University of Washington far-out and that it was really absurd. the women's movement, and making in Seattle. Speakers at the conference ·the United Student Movement, which I see now that it wasn't really pro­ a socialist revolution in this country ran a successful student-government included SWP 1972 National Cam­ ductive. In fact, it may have been by joining the radical organization paign Chairman Peter Camejo, who election campaign at IU in the spring counterproductive." I most agreed with." of 1970. He became interested in the spoke on "How to Make a Revolu­ The disorganization and lack of po­ When asked if he would encourage tion.. ; Ken Miliner, SWP congression­ YSA and YWLL after studying the other people to join the YSA, Ike Na­ litical clarity within the groups , and al candidate in California, who spoke writings of Marx and Lenin. hem stated, "Definitely. From my ex­ Sandi Sherman- an antiwar activist collectives they had been involved in on the National Black Political Con­ convinced the five to join a national perience from being in various col­ who participated in the 1970 student lectives, from reformist to ultraleft, I vention held in Gary, Ind., last strike in Bloomington and in the 1971 organization. March; Helen Myers, who spoke on "I was instinctively against the anti­ can say that they're all dead ends. Mayday actions in Washington, D. C. A sincere revolutionary has to be in "Is Biology Women's Destiny?'; and organizational bias. of the new left," Lisa Potash, who spoke on "How Stu­ She has been active in the gay lib­ an organlzed group with a coherent eration movement at IU. Dave Martin said, "but I wasn't su.re dents Can Help Change Society." why. I began to study Marx and be­ program." Five people asked to join the YSA Ike N ahem-originf:!-1\y became in­ gan to take politics seriously. I began , . "' after attending the Seattle conference. volved in· radical politics while a high· to see Marxism as scientific. As soon Close to 250 people turned out for school student in Cincinnati, Ohio. as I did those things, I had to come the Northern California SWP 1972 Na}).em worked there with a group to grips with the whole question of Join DOW Campaign Weekend, "For _a Socialist of Black students fighting for student -Leninism. It became clear when I stud­ America." The weekend included an ( ) I want more information. rights. Since attending IU, Nahem has ied history that a Leninist party was address by SWP Texas gubernatorial been active in the antiwar movement necessary in this countrr.. When I be­ ( ) I want to join the YSA. candidate Debby Leonard, a debate and chaired the Student Mobilization gan to seriously consider a Leninist on election strategy between a Jenness Committee in 1971. [Regular readers organization, I found that I needed supporter and a McGovern support­ of The Militant may remember read­ the experience and guidance of a na- Name~.------er, and the YSA film, To Make A ing in the Feb. 25 issue a letter from tional organization." _ Address------...------Revolution. Nahem critical of our analysis on Chi­ During the fall and spring of the The weekend was wrapped up by na · and a reply by Tony Thomas, past year, the collective was active City______State ___ a campaign rally Sunday evening "Why Peking supports peaceful coex­ in the antiwar movement and con­ May 21 in the International Long­ istence."] tinued to ·discuss joining a national Zip Phone _____ shoremen's and Warehousemen's Paula Westfall- a former pacifist organization. Sherman explained how Send to YSA, P. 0. Box 4 71, Union hall in San Franscisco. Seven and a Yippie, Westfall worked on the developments in the collective and ex­ Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. people asked to join the YSA after­ People's Peace Treaty last spring. Ear­ periences with the YWLL convinced ward. ' _J lier this year she was active in the her to join the YSA. ~0003.

THE MILITANT/JUNE 9, 1972 11 Moscow's pact Washington ns more war,. n peace

By DICK ROBERTS gorny in a toast to President Nixon of world peace was overthrowing cap­ of all in tile most advanced, power­ MAY 29 -The most publicized May 22. italism on a global scale. They taught ful, most enlightened and free capi­ achievement of the Moscow summit "As far back as in the early years that the Russian revolution itselfwould talist countries, the world imperialist so far is the pact on "arms control." of the young Soviet state, its founder, be in danger until the revolution butchery and the Versailles 'Peace'­ This pact has been accompanied by V. I. Lenin, substantiated the objective spread to the more advanced capitalist the very thought of peacefully sub­ a few other agreements. Each. time need for and possibility of peaceful countries. They founded a world rev­ ordinating the capitahsts to the will one of them is signed, the world is coexistence of countries with different olutionary organization, the Com­ of the majority of the exploited, of treated to views of President Nixon social systems. Today, as before, the munist International, to help lead the the peaceful, reformist transition to smiling and shaking hands with all Soviet Union is prepared to develop fight for world socialism. Socialism, is not only extreme philis­ of the top leaders of the Soviet Union. and deepen relations of business co- · tine stupidity, but also downright de­ President Nixon also went to the operation and mutually beneficial ties Internationalism ception of the workers, the embellish­ Moscow .ballet (where -a woman who with states of a different social sys­ The central doctrine· of Leninism­ ment of capitalist wage slavery, con­ dared to shout out her objections to tem. that the revolution must be internation­ cealment of the truth." the U.S. invasion of Vietnam was "This fully applies to the relations alized-flows from the actual char­ Lenin put quotation marks around hauled off by security guards). And with the United States also in the sense acter of capitalism, not from any the word peace in reference to the Nixon even made a TV speech to the that peaceful coexistence must not be preachments about it. Capitalism is Versailles agreements that followed Russian people said to be filled with limited to absence of war." a permanent generator of war. The World War I because he knew that "folksy aphorisms." The Daily World echoes the same system of world monopoly rule for the these agreements could not bring last­ Meanwhile, massive U. S. bombard­ phony line. "Today," the World de­ private profit of a tiny few cannot be ing peace as long as imperialism ex­ ment of Vietnam continues. at historic clared in an editorial May 23, "the a peaceful system. Permanent peaceful isted. levels. U. S. bombs alone prevent the attempt of U.S. imperialism to solve subservience of the workers and peas­ collapse of Saigon armies on three that general crisis by armed might ants in the capitalist world to the major war fronts. Reporters in South Arms control? could envelop the world in nuclear , industrialists and bankers is not pos­ Can "arms control" agreements Vietnam describe how whole units of sible. conflict. Clearly, the prime need is to signed by the imperialists be steps revolutionary fighters are killed by frustrate those who would venture on Proof lies in the history of the bombs dropped by American B-52s. toward world peace? This issue is not that road, and to negotiate planks twentieth century. It is a history a new one in the history of the twen­ Administration officials repeat that of agreement on every issue where marked by interimperialist world tieth century. Before and during the "there ~re no places off limits" to the there are differences between the U.S; wars, by economic crises, and by rev- U. S. bombers. Correspondents in First World War, there were many Hanoi report that areas of Haiphong who believed that war could be pre­ vented, or stopped after it started, by have been flattened and that the bomb urging the imperialist antagonists to damage is worse to the south. come to peace terms. Lenin tirelessly President Nixon mouthed pious polemicized against those "socialists" phrases as the "arms control" pact who promoted such illusions. In April was : signed: "We want. to be remem­ bered by our deeds, not by the fact 1917 he wrote: that we brought war to the world, "There is one, and only one kind but by the fact that we made the world of internationalism in deed: working a more peaceful one for all peoples wholeheartedly for the development of of the world.'.' the revolutionary movement and the Soviet Communist Party leader revolutionary struggle in one's own Leonid Brezhnev chimed in, "This is country, and supporting (by propa­ a victory for all peaceloving people, ganda, sympathy and material aid) because security and peace is the com­ such, and only such, a strUggle and mon goal.'' such a line in every country without Followers of the Kremlin bureau- exception." ( Emphasis in original.) .. cracy around the world also clapped These lines were written b~ore the their hands. "The importance of Fri­ Bolsheviks came to power. They were day's Soviet-U.S. agreement can written before Lenin or anyone else hardly be overestimated and repre­ could even dream that the Soviet sents a historic victory for the USSR's workers state would one day become -policy of peaceful co-existence," de­ the world's second most powerful na­ clared the May 27 Daily World, a tion. Is there any doubt that the rev­ newspaper reflecting the views of the olutionist ·Lenin would be appalled Communist Party in the United States. by the counterrevolutionary course the A porter in a Moscow hotel more Moscow bureaucrats are following? nearly described the feelings of every They are supplying only the most supporter of the Vietnamese revolu­ minimal aid to the Vietnamese; they tion. The porter told New York Times are not attempting to build an inter­ correspondent Hedrick Smith what he national antiwar movement in de­ thought about Nixon's speech to the fense of the Vietnamese revolution; Russian people. ( In the speech, Nixon and they are doing business with the did not mention the war in Vietnam; chief agent of U. S. imperialism. The instead the president professed to weep central point of this business is pre­ over young people killed in. World cisely the deception that there can be War II,- recalling the war diary of an "arms control" agreement with the a Russian school girl named Tanya imperialist warmakers. · Savicheva.) One only has to turn to the agree­ "Hundreds have died in Vietnam and ment signed in Moscow May 26 to he talks about Tanya," the hotel porter see how much peace it actually guar­ said, "but there are kids like Tanya antees. New York Times correspon­ in Vietnam.'' dent Max Frankel on May 27 de­ and U.S.S.R., toward the creation olutionary and counterrevolutionary scribed the probable results of the Invoked Lenin of a world structure of peace. struggles. The world has not seen one agreement: "The arms. race will go Earlier in the week, Soviet President "That has been the position of the month without gunfire since the end on, not only in the regular army, Nikolai Podgorny explained thepolicy Soviet Union since the October Rev­ of World War II. The revolutionary navy and air force weaponry that of "peaceful coexistence.'' Podgorny in­ olution." struggle of the Vietnamese has itself is unaffected by the accord but also voked one of the leaders of the Russian The World editorial and Podgorny's continued for three decades. in the quality of nuclear warheads­ revolution to justify Moscow's strategy statement are almost totally false. The Contrast the following statement by that is, their size and accuracy and of betraying revolutions. one element of truth in them is that Lenin with the positions of Podgorny evasive skills-and in the arts of anti­ "We stand for a radical turn toward the war policj.es of U.S. imperialism and the Da'ily World editors. Lenin's submarine warfare and even in the relaxation of the existing tensions in do threaten to trigger a nuclear holo­ statement appears in the "Theses on technology of the missile defense sys­ all continents of the world, for freeing caust. the Fundamental Tasks of the Second tems that the treaty is to limit severely the peoples from the heavy arms bur­ But it is not true that seeking agree­ Congress of the Communist Interna­ at inadequate levels. den, for a peaceful political settlement ments about arms control with U. S. tional." The congress was held in "Indeed, under certain conditions or of problems through negotiation and imperialism will reduce this danger of 1920, when the young Soviet state political pressures, the treaty itself with due account taken of the aspira­ nuclear conflict. And it is not true that faced a sea of hostile imperialist may stimulate further competition in tions and will of the peoples and their such a course was advocated by powers. Lenin declared: these uncovered areas." inalienable right to decided their des­ Lenin. The Bolsheviks who led the "In the concrete situation whiCh has It's clear that the agreement does tinies themselves without interference overturn of capitalism in Russia in been created by militarism, imperial­ not reduce the danger of nuclear war and pressure from outside," said Pod- 1917 believed that the only guarantee ism, all over the world, and most Continued on page 22

12 .An internationalist program· to defend Vi e revolution

The following is excerpted from a re­ have reacted? One can visualize a re­ call on the American workers to or­ determination to come to the aid of port on "Vietnam and World Politics" gime, genuinely following Lenin's tra­ ganize a revolutionary-socialist party the beleaguered freedom fighters in by Joseph Hansen, given at the 1965 dition, taking a course about as fol­ to struggle for power and by taking South Vietnam. national convention of the Socialist lows: power, end once and for all the stand­ It goes without saying that a rev­ Workers Party. Hansen, editor of First, a statement would be issued ing threat to world peace which Amer­ olutionary Soviet government would Intercontinental Press, a weekly inter­ informing the entire world about the ican imperialism represents. set the example in sending such aid national news magazine, delivered the true situation. This statement would In reply to the imperialist argument to the National Liberation Front .of report about seven months after Presi­ point out the- aims of U. S. imperial­ that such an appeal constituted inter­ South Vietnam. dent Johnson began bombing North ism: ( 1) The U. s. imperialist aim vention in the internal affairs of the It is not difficult to visualize what Vietnam in February 1965. of taking over the colonial empires United States, the appeal might well an impact such a course of action Washington's action signified a ma­ which the European powers are no list all the places on this planet where would have had. On the one hand it jor turning point in world politics; longer capable of dominating. (2) The Washington is intervening in the inter­ would have offered incomparable rev­ it represented an acid test for all U.S. imperialist aim of beating back nal affairs of other countries, and it olutionary inspiration to the. masses parties and governments that profess the colonial revolution that began in might well call attention to the need for on all continents. It could have been to be socialist. Hansen's report de­ the Far East at the end of World War some responsible and weighty force to a decisive catalyst in a number of scribed the failure of the Soviet and II and which has swept through Af­ remind the American people of their countries where the class struggle is Chinese regimes to respond to ·that rica and all of Latin America. (3) The obvious duties to humanity in the not far from a revolutionary level escalation in a revolutionary manner U.S. imperialist aim of crushing the struggle for a world of enduring right no':". And, on the other hand, and outlined what a revolutionary workers states-both the first one that peace. it would have paralyzed the strategists policy might have been. came into being after World War I Thirdly, a revolutionary Soviet gov­ in Washington, who calculate their ac­ Since 1965 the Kremlin has con­ and the newer ones that came into ernment would notify Washington that tions in accordance with what they tinually failed to respond to each es­ being after World War II. ( 4) The in view of the attack on North Viet­ think they can get away with, this calation by Washington with the U.S. imperialist aim of converting the nam and the clear threat this repre­ being the only principle they either counteroffensive required by the situa­ entire world into a vast slave-labor sented to other workers states, the So­ know or observe. tion. Moscow's most disgusting and camp with the earth's masses toiling viet deterrent to nuclear war was be­ If these strategists weren't sure about servile betrayal of the Vietnamese for the profit, benefit and pleasure ing strengthened. The exact form of the meaning of the Soviet reply to struggle has been its reaction to of the tiny circle of colossally wealthy this strengthening would be specified: their provocation, the readings on Nixon's recent blockade and stepped­ families ruling North America. the equipping of the People's Repub­ their electronic calculating machines up air attack on North Vietnam. In addition, the statement would of- lic of China with a full panoply of would have been unmistakable: "With­ Not only did the Kosygin-Brezhnev draw at once. Alternative is suicide; regime fail to call for a massive polit­ and suicide doesn't pay." ical offensive that would inspire and Instead of a reaction like that, or mobilize people throughout the world, anywhere near it, · what was the re­ but it even refused to cancel Nixon's sponse of the Kosygin'-Brezhnev re­ visit to Moscow. gime? We are reprinting this excerpt from They talked about the "need" for Hansen's report because the revolu­ "peaceful coexistence" and how the pos­ tionary Fespons~ he outlined for 1965 sibility of peaceful coexistence with is as timely today as it was then. American imperialism was being "en­ The full text,_of the report is avail­ dangered" by escalation of the war able in the winter 1966 issue of the in Vietnam. International Socialist Review. They issued perfunctory denuncia­ -Editors tions of the U.S. imperialist aggres­ All their [American imperialists] cal­ sion. culations thus called for a step-by­ They talked about bitcking North step tactic in which they could feel Vietnam and even dropped bold hints their way, testing the ground as they about the possibility of sending·"vol­ proceeded, leaving open the possibil­ unteers" to help in the struggle . . . ity of backing down at any point if if needed. it turned out that the Soviet Union As Johnson continued methodically did react sharply to a military at­ to bomb North Vietnam day after tack on another workers state; or if day, week after week, and month af­ China proved to be neither a paper ter month, the Kosygin-Brezhnev re­ tiger nor a sleeping tiger; or if the gime hinted that they would finally plunge into Vietnam set off a chain respond to the need to send material reaction in a revolutionary direction. aid to North Vietnam. Of course, one great danger was in­ At the same tiiJ?.e, Soviet diplomats volved. Suppose they committed them­ spread the word that the Chinese were selves so deeply, in the absence of a holding up shipments of arms or mak­ stiff response, that a poillt of no re­ ing it difficult to get them through turn was reached? That is, a point to Vietnam. where it would seem like an over­ In brief, Moscow follqwed a course whelming defeat to draw back? What that fitted almost perfectly with the then? Wouldn't it be necessary to risk prognostications of the Pentagon brain everything in a desperate gamble and trust, offering substance to the im­ begin using nuclear weapons? perialist propaganda about Moscow's That is one of the great unknowns "lack of interest" in Vietnam and about in this situation and why effective.po­ the "common interest" of Washington litical opposition to Johnson's war and Moscow in cutting down China's course is so important. influence there. It was clear from the beginning that Moscow has not followed an internationalist policy capable of defend- The policy of Kosygin-Brezhnev is Johnson's escalation of the war in ing Vietnam from U.S. bombs. · so scandalously out of keeping witlL Vietnam was a major world develop­ the needs of the situation that under ment. It constituted a military thrust fer a Marxist explanation of why the nuclear weapons. their inspiration the big Communist squarely at the workers states, directly capitalist system breeds war and why Fourthly, as an immediate measure, parties of western Europe, particularly involving the defense not only of a planned economy eliminates the eco­ a revolutionary Soviet government in France and Italy, have failed even North Vietnam but of China and the nomic motive for war and why it is would most likely announce that it to stage protest rallies at the Amer- · Soviet Union. It constituted a direct that the long-standing alternative of was rushing full' material assistance ican embassies, · still less engage in threat against every colonial people socialism or barbarism has now to the people of North Vietnam in any kind of effective or dramatic cam­ seeking political and economic free­ reached the extreme stage of facing order to enable them to offer an ef­ paign in behalf of Vietnam and dom, for the United States was clearly humanity with the alternative of so­ fective defense against the raids of against the danger of a third world trying to terrify them with the thought cialism or atomic annihilation. American bombers. It would most war. of what might happen to them if they likely announce that this material aid Not the slightest step has been taken should rebel. . . . Secondly, a revolutionary Soviet included not only a big stock of toward a countermove somewhere in The advance of American imperial­ government would issue an appeal ground-to-air rockets but fleets of the_ world. No embarrassment for ism in Vietnam hinged on Washing­ to the American workers and their planes. Johnson in Berlin. No embarrassment ton's calculation that Moscow would allies to resist the imperialist game And, finally, a revolutionary Soviet for Johnson over Santo Domingo. In offer no effective opposition. Up to of pitting the United States against government would almost certainly is­ Greece today, where it would not take this point, the calculation appears to peaceful peoples in other parts of the sue an ~appeal for international as­ much to bring down the hated mon­ have been well founded. world and blocking their aspirations sistance from all peoples and govern­ archy, the Communist Party leaders How should the Soviet government for a better life. The .appeal would ments who stand for the right of self- Continued on poge 22

THE MILITANT/JUNE 9, 1972 13 N.Y. cops assault SWP ballot campaign gains high thousands more signatures Illinois MassachUSBIIS WashiDDIOn,D.C. school By BARRY DAVID By JEFF POWERS By BARBARA MUTNICK CHICAGO, May 30- Last Saturday BOSTON, May 28 -A rally here yes­ WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28-The Suzanne Haig arrived early at the terday, attended by 17 5 people, of­ drive to put the Socialist Workers students shopping center located at Madison ficially launched the Massachusetts pe­ Party on the ballot in the District of By MARTY BOYERS and Pulaski in Chicago's Black com­ tition drive to put Jenness and Pulley Columbia got off to a good start last NEW YORK- Students at Stuyvesant munity. Instead of new clothing or on the November ballot. 56,000 sig­ week, with petitioners collecting well High School here are preparing to groceries, she intended to go home natures are required by law, but pe­ over 8,000 of the required 13,000 defend their rights in the wake of· an with hundreds of signatures to ·place titioners plan to get more than this signatures. More than 6,000 of the unprovoked police attack on a peace­ the Socialist Workers Party on the to ensure a place on the ballot. signatures were obtained on Saturday, ful demonstration outside the school lliinois ballot. The featured speaker at the rally May 27, when 66 campaign sup­ May 23. After six and a half hours, Haig was Peter Camejo, national chairman porters mobilized in the first big push Approximately 200 students struck collected 513 signatures. This repre­ of the SWP 1972 Campaign Commit­ to gain ballot status. their classes that day to protest the sents the highest number of signatures tee. Paul McNaulty of the Friends of Although all the petitioners were en­ suspension of Howard Straker, a lead­ collected by a single petitioner in one Irish Freedom, Diana Travis of the thusiastic about the response they re­ er of the Black and Latino Student day, according to the national SWP Daughters of Bilitis, Russell Johnson ceivied, those who petitioned in down­ town Washington did the best. Aver­ Union. Although the principal claims Campaign Committee. of the American Friends Service Com­ aging well over 25 signatures an Straker was suspended under a pre­ "I used three boards, so I didn't mittee, and Nancy Charpentier of· the hour, they reported that almost every­ viously unannounced board of edu­ have to wait for anyone to finish sign­ Young Socialists for Jenness and Pul­ cation policy for missing classes and one they approached signed the peti­ ing before asking someone else," Haig let gave greetings to the campaign tion. Most of the signers were Black, loitering near the school, students be­ said. She added that· she placed pho­ supporters at the rally and endorsed lieve Straker's political activity is the they said, and many of them sported tographs of the candidates, Linda Jen­ the SWP' s attempt to achieve ballot African Liberation Day buttons and real reason for the action. ness and Andrew ,Pulley, on the backs status in Massachusetts. had just returned from the demonstra­ The 200 striking students stayed in of the boards, and would show the In a May 29 story on the rally head­ tion. the vicinity of the school, occupying a photos to the persons she approached. lined "Camejo says 'no' to both par­ Dee Moss, D. C.'s top petitioner, has section of East Fifteenth Street closed to ties," the Boston Globe printed quotes averaged 200 signatures a day since traffic during the school day. At about "I mentioned that the candidates sup­ from Camejo's speech. They included the drive began. He reported, "Almost 9:30 a.m. eight cops attacked and port Black control of the Black com­ his statement that p:utting Jenness and without exception, everyone who lis­ roughed up two women students who munity and asked people to sign for Pulley on the ballot will give thou­ tens to what I am doing agrees. to had been standing near a school en­ them," she said. sands of Massachusetts voters who sign because they agree that my can- _ trance. The two had not been blocking As a result of her work, Suzanne are fed up with the Democratic and didates have the right to be on the the entrance-which was chained shut won $5 worth of radical literature Republican parties a chance to vote ballot." anyway- and the cops' action an­ from Pathfinder Press. This was· the for a real alternative. Another petitioner, Vinnie Longo, gered the rest of the students. How­ prize for the highest number of sig­ More than $800 was raised for the noted that D. C. residents seem much ever, the students took no action in natures in a competition sponsore~ petition drive at the rally. One person more ready to sign petitions this year. response to the provocative violence by the Illinois SWP Campaign Com­ who had never heard about the so­ Longo, who petitioned last year, at­ of the police. mittee. cialist campaign until the day of the tributed this to the heightened interest Shortly afterward, someone inside Suzanne said that the spirit of com­ rally gave $100 that he had been in the presidential election. the school poured sulfuric acid down petition bad definitely added to her saving for a donation to George Mc­ To assure ballot status, the SWP on the demonstrating students, injur­ signature total, since petitioners sent Govern. These contributions will help Campaign Committee in D. C. has an­ ing 10 of them with second- and third­ regular reports into the campaign to finance the 35 people who are pe­ nounced that it will aim for· twice the degree burns. This incident was sub­ headquarters during the.day and w~re titioning full-time for three weeks to required number of signatures. Be­ sequently used by cops and school ·able to learn how petitioners in other colleet a large number of the required cause th'e D~ C. election law requires. officials to excuse an all-out police areas were doing. The extra effort signatures. that the candidates be legally qualified attack on the strikers. But this ex­ paid off. According to Jeannie Reynolds, Mas­ in order to run for office, the cam­ planation fails to note two facts: 1) Runner-up Bob Cantrick· narrowly sachusetts petitioning co-coordinator, paign committee is substituting the The initial police violence against the missed the prize, returning with 500 names of Evelyn Reed and Clifton 10,048 signatures have already been two women occurred before the acid­ signatures. Illinois petitioners have DeBerry, two well-known members of collected. In addition to shopping cen­ spilling and 2) in further attacking the Socialist Workers Party, for Linda now collected a total of 18,378 sig­ ters and downtown areas, petitioners the crowd,- the cops were joining the natures. Jenness and Andrew Pulley. Jenness are going to other places where large acid-spiller. . Haig noted that her signature total and Pulley do not meet the require­ numbers of people can be reached in At about 10 a . .m. a phalanx of 60 was made possible by the deep dis­ ment that they be 35 years old to a short period of time. A team of four serve as president and vice-president. cops moved in and attacked the 200 trust people have for the front-run­ who went to a Boston Red· Sox game Two other parties are also collecting ·. students without warning. Called by ning Democratic candidates and by called back for more petitioners be­ signatures in the District-the Com­ the principal, the cops clubbed dozens the Black signers' agreement that cause of the enthusiastic response. of students until the demonstration dis­ Blacks should control the institutions The office staff in Boston -plans to munist Party and the People's Party. persed. Gaspar Fabbricante, the prin­ that affect their lives. begin validating signatures next week, A campaign rally to kick off the cipal, told reporters afterward he was Haig is a relatively . new petitioner and volunteers are still needed for petitioning drive was held on May considering mass suspension of the and was unable to compare the l."e­ this task as well as for petitioning. 27. Andrew Pulley was the featured students involved. But this did not sponse to previous ballot drives. For more information, contact the speaker. After the meeting, a supporter occur. Instead, an assistant principal "I can only tell you that it's pos­ Massachusetts SWP campaign head­ of the Young Socialists for Jenness has now said he will press charges sible to come up with a lot of sig­ quarters at 655 Atlantic Ave., Boston, and Pulley asked to join the Young against the leaders of the strike for . natures," she said. "I know. I did it." Mass. 02111. Socialist Alliance. "inciting a riot." A Student Mobilization Committee city-wide steering committee meeting that same evening unanimously de­ clared its solidarity with the Stuyve­ .sant strikers and its support for their SWP ballot~drive scoreboard SIGNATURES SIGNATURES democratic rights. STATE REQUIRED COLLECTED Volunteers and money are needed The following day, May 24, the Connecticut 12,600 2,000 to help complete the petitioning Stuyvesant Young Socialists for J en­ Florida 27,960 51,600 (completed) in these states. If you would like ness and Pulley issued a leaflet say­ Idaho 1,500 3, 000 (completed) to help, clip the coupon below and ing: "On Tuesday morning, the stu­ Illinois 25,000 18,378 send it to: SWP Campaign, 706 dents at Stuyvesant High School were Iowa 1,000 begins in June Broadway, Eighth Floor, New victims of a brutal and vicious at­ Indiana 8,466 York, N.Y. 10003. tack by the Police Department. ... 16,500 (completed) Kentucky 1,000 2,007 (completed) It is key that a mass meeting be held Louisiana 0 I would like to help petition to to respond to this attack. . . . Stu­ 1,000 3, 000 (completed) Massachusetts put the SWP on the ballot. Send dents must answer this assault in one 56,038 10,048 Michigan 14,256 28,732 (completed) me information. voice, demanding: COPS OUT OF Mississippi 1,000 begins in June 0 Enclosed is $ _ to help pay OUR SCHOOLS! AMNESTY FOR petitioning costs. ALL STUDENTS!" New Hampshire 1,500 500 New Jersey BOO 2,350 (completed) 0 I endorse the SWP campaign As the shock of the attack is wear­ as a positive alternative to the ing off, students are preparing to de­ North Dakota 300 begins in June Ohio 5,000 9, 767 (completed) Democrats and Republicans, al­ fend those who are threatened with South Dakota 4,799 6,619 though I do not necessarily agree suspension. Tennessee 225 begins in June with all the planks of the SWP Texas 22;253 43,000 platform. Utah 500 942 (completed) Name ______Vermont 1,535 3,000 Address Phone __ Washington, D.C. 13,010 8,263 City State __ Zip_ Plans for petitioning in additional states will be announced in the future. School/ organization ______

14 Socialist challenges Democrat Dellums · By FRANK BOEHM student in Detroit. He was elected to •71 Sodalist BERKELEY, Calif. -"He said he will the central committee of the Associ­ oppose [Ron] Dellums 'because [Del­ ation of Black Students at Highland lums] uses radical rhetoric to lead Park Community College in Detroit the mass antiwar movement and in 1968. It was while participating Blacks and Chicanos into the Demo­ in a series of strikes demanding cratic Party, which is our greatest en­ Blitck control of the all-Black High­ emy.'" This is how the San Francisco land Park Community College that he became a revolutionary socialist. Chronicle desc.t:ibed the campaign of Miliner also became Involved in the Ken Miliner, Socialist Workers Party Michigan· antiwar movement. In the On May 20, Shirley Chisholm ad­ Candidates for University of Mary­ candidate for U. S. Congress from fall of 1969 he was an organizer of dressed 1,000 people at San Diego land student government president, in­ California's 7th C. D. The seat is now· an antiwar march in which more than State University, asking for support cluding Steve Sluchan of the YSJP, held by Black Democrat Ron Dellums. 5,000 Black high school students par: in her presidential race and urging were interviewed by the campus TV The 7th C. D. encompases all of ticipated. That same month he joined those interested in social change to station. Each candidate taped three Berkeley, major parts of Oakland, the Young Socialist Alliance. He is depend on deals made at the upcom­ five-minute broadcasts. and several other cities. Within the currently on the national committee ing Democratic National Convention Sluchan's first broadcast dealt with district's boundaries are the U niver­ of the YSA. in Miami. campus complicity with the Indochina sity of California at Berkeley, with During the massive student upsurge She pledged that "new goals and war through Air Force ROTC. (On its 28,000 students and 10,000 em­ of May 1970 following Nixon's in­ new priorities for all mankind will April 27, 5,000 people participated ployees. There is also a large and vasion of Cambodia and the murder be set at this convention." Helen Hol­ in an anti-ROTC candlelight march.) very poor Black community, a Chi­ of students at Kent and Jackson lander of the San Diego Young So­ Sluchan, the only candidate uncondi­ cano _community, and three large State, Miliner was elected to the city­ cialists for Jenness and Pulley writes: tionally opposed to ROTC's presence high schools with radical student bod- wide student strike committee that led "When I asked her how she expect­ on campus, supported a strike coali­ ies. the student actions in Detroit. ed to effect changes from within the tion's demand to utilize the ROTC Dellums got elected in 1970 by con- Miliner was a founder of the Black Democratic Party, which is sexist and building for a women's studies cen­ vincing voters that the Democratic Moratorium Committee and was ac- racist and has involved us in wars, ter. Sluchan also cited a student-gov­ Ms. Chisholm got angry. She asked ernment-sponsored referendum in . 'why don't you (YSJPers) go after which students voted overwhelmingly them (Humphrey and McGovern)? I'm against ROTC. only a little Black woman.' She con­ In his second broadcast, Sluchan tinuously referred to the Socialist called for yearly student referendums Workers Party as a 'splinter party.' to determine the allocation of funds Her final response was 'trust me.' She obtained from the student fees. said that she 'wouldn't engage in fu­ In the third broadcast, the YSJP tility' and that she believed 'many candidate called for student-worker­ things can still be done within the faculty control of the university to established party.' But, she conclud- transfmm it into a vehicle for social . ed, 'The time may come when I too change. Sluchan pointed to the recent may have to change my opinion.' " upsurge on campus, which raised the "People who attend antiwar demon­ demand for an "antiwar university." strations usually know about the The following are excerpts from let­ Truth Kit," said David Salner of New ters recently received by the national York, who sold 65 of the YSJP Mc­ campaign office: Govern Truth Kits at the May 21 anti­ "I am a young man in Boston, 16 war rally in Washington, D. C. "I ex- years old, and I am quite interested 'Plained to people that it lists all the in the Socialist Workers Party. I have reasons why many antiwar activists read a few articles and books and are not going to support McGovern. I would certainly like a closer look In addition to the enthusiastic re­ at socialism. I used- to be apathetic, sponses of those who wanted to know but now I am quite concerned about Ken Miliner Ron Dellums the facts, I got a few vehement rejec­ the worker. Sometime& what we have tions from enraged Democrats. This to face is no joy to me. I attend an Party could be used as a vehicle to tive in the national defense effort often interested onlookers and in­ excellent school and· I am being pre­ bring about funda!Jlental change. around the struggle of Afro-Americans creased sales. Everyone wants to read pared for a fine future, but I wish Miliner's campaign has emphasized in Cairo, ill., against the racist city a controver&ial item." to do something more constructive in the contradiction in fighting for the government and police. my life to make this a better place liberation of Blacks, Chicanos, and Prior to the historic April 24, 1971, to live." J. E. B., Boston, Mass. women while remaining inside the antiwar demonstration in Washington, Democratic or Republican parties. D. C., Miliner served on the national "Could you please send me buttons, In his speaking engagements since staff of the Third World Task Force stickers, posters, and all-materials that he announced his candidacy, Miliner of the National Peace Action Coali­ they allow you to send me on the has stressed the need for Blacks to tion, the organizer of the action. Socialist Workers Party and our can­ break with the racist Democratic So far Dellums has avoided appear­ didates for president and vice-presi­ Party and to construct an inde­ ing on the same platform with Miliner dent, Jenness and Pulley.'' J. M., Avon­ pendent Black political party. Up­ to debate their differences. Dellums de­ by-the-Sea, N.J. on returnJng from the National Black clined the opportunity to speak on Political Convention in Gary, Ind., the same program with Miliner when "Could you possibly send 100 en­ he·· spoke on the meaning of that the soci~list candidate was interviewed dorser cards so I can begin a cam­ gathering to meetings in Berkeley, Los by the local Pacifica radio station, paign drive to collect donations? rm Angeles, and on campuses in San KPF A. In that interview, Miliner quite sure I can increase the number Jose, Stockton, and Modesto. He also talked about the Gary convention and of endorsers from this area. Anything addressed regional socialist education challenged Dellums to join him in a else you send to help would be great­ conferences in Seattle and Berkeley. discussion of the strategy for Black Jeanne Lafferty ly appreciated." M.G., Cincinatti, Miliner has actively participated in liberation. Ohio. the struggles that have broken out in Many of Dellums' supporters are On May 25, Jeanne Lafferty, SWP the 7th C. D. The most recent example supporting Senator G~orge McGovern candidate for U. S. Congress from involved the strike of Black, Chicano, or Representative Shirley Chishohn. Massachusetts' 9th C. D., issued a and Asian law students at the Univer­ Miliner feels that this experience will statement condemning ,a bill recently sity of California. The students were lead a great number of them to re­ passed by the state House. The bill protesting administration cutbacks in examine their support to Dellums. gives the "right to life" to the fetus the admission of Black, Chicano and "Right now the McGovern support­ "from the moment of conception." Asian students. ers are watching their candidate veer "The state do"'es not have the right Miliner spent every day of the strug­ to the right as he smells a possible . to determine by decree 'the moment gle on the campus in discussions with victory at the Democratic Party con­ of conception' or fuat the unborn have the Boalt Hall strikers and walking vention," Miliner commented. "At the the picket lines. He participated in rights over and above those already same time, Chisholm has made it living.... " the mass decision-making meetings clear through the course of her cam­ and helped build support for the Lafferty called for the elimination paign what she is really after- a few of all laws "which attempt to force strike, which the students eventually more token Blacks in government po­ won. childbearing on women" or "that re­ sitions. Most of Dellums' supporters strict the right of women to abortion Miliner' s background reflects his par­ also support either McGovern or Chis­ on demand." ticipation in the social movements holm, and I think that by the time by Ellen that have shaken the country in the of the Democratic Party convention Address all requests for Jenness-Pul­ last few years. He became active in Dellums will have a lot of explain­ The May-June Southern Gay Libera­ ley endorser cards, McGovern Truth the Black struggle while a high school ing to do to his supporters." tor (Delray Beach, Fla.) reprints fr~m Kits, posters, buttons, etc. to 706 The Militant Linda Jenness's March Broadway, Eighth Floor, New York, · 13 statement in support of the struggle N.Y. 10003. for gay liberation. -STEVE BEREN

THE MILITANT/JUNE 9, 1972 15 Observers sympathetic to the April Coalition gen­ tor, Morton charged that as a result of their con­ This is the second of four articles assessing the erally conceded thal Simmons and Bailey worked · duct, "the Blacks in South and West Berkeley still Berkeley April Coalition's first year in office. The more diligently for their own election than they have no more to do with City Hall than before coalition, a bloc of movement activists and Demo­ did for adoption of the police-control amendment. Bailey and Simmons ~ere elected-perhaps even crats, elected three members otQ the Berkeley City Similarly, it is. pretty well agreed that Ron Del­ less." Council in April 1971. Harry Ring is the head lums put more effort into winning election for At a separate news conference Aug. 17, the Ber­ of The Militant's Southwest Bureau. He spent sev­ Simmons, Bailey, and Mayor Widener than he keley Black Caucus declared that "Councilmen eral weeks in Berkeley gathering material for these did into working for passage of the amendment. Bailey and Simmons have persisted in remaining articles. out of touch with those of us most responsible Questions about money for their election. They have erected themselves By HARRY RING From the time of their election, many questions as a closed institution and their intentions are - Despite some of the things the April Coalition have been raised about Bailey and Simmons. Mem­ questionable." has done, even those who had initial apprehen­ bership on the citY council is a part-time job pay­ The ~lack Caucus charged the two had become sions are generally agreed that Berkeley has not ing only $300 a month. (The mayor gets $500 inaccessible to the Black Caucus and "refused to taken the high road to revolution. and the real power is the city manager, who gets consult the Black community" about the then pend­ One of those who seems to be breathing a bit $35,000 a year.) ing city budget. easier is Mike Culbert, editor of the right-wing Despite such limited official resources, Bailey "We're not concerned that Bailey and Simmons Berkeley Daily Gazette. and Simmons set up a headquarters soon after did not consult the Black Caucus," the Caucus said, according to the Berkeley Monitor, "they did not consult anybody." However, both the Black Caucus and the April / Coalition rejected the sugge,stion that ·the two be recalled. Bailey and Simmons then held a news conference ~pril at which they declined to answer the specific The coalition'= charges levelled by their former campaign man­ ager and by the Black Caucus.. "Whatever differences we may have with the Cau­ cus, or any other of our brothers and sisters in many splits, few gains the Black community, we will deal with •within the Black community," Bailey said. Thus far there has been no word of a resolu­ A bit different than the typical mindless right­ the elections with a fulHime .paid staff. Estimates tion of the problem within the Black community. winger, Culbert is, from his vantage point, an of the budget for the operation run as high as astute political observer. $10,000 a month. Panthers & Dellums A month after the elections, in a June 11, 1971, Bailey and Simmons have refused to explain Appearing in support. of Bailey and Simmons editorial, the Gazette said: "This newspaper was to the Black Caucus, the April Coalition, or any­ at their news conference was Bobby Seale, chair­ quick to lump our youthful mayor into the 'rad­ one else where this money ·is coming from. At man of the Black Panther Party. ical' camp.... However, a month of watching various times they have suggested to the press While embroiled in the -dispute with the Black Mayor Widener at work has convinced us that that the source is a wealthy, socially conscious Caucus, Bailey a-nd Simmons were also at odds Mayor Widener is trying- and hard, we would Eastern family and/ or a private foundation. · with their council associate, Loni Hancock. .From say-to be mayor for all' of Berkeley." all reports of council proceedings, it seems quite Several months later, while still berating Ira ·If. apparent that from the time they were seated, there Simmons and D' Army Bailey. as "obstructionists" has been no real consultation, not to speak of on the council, Culbert was taking a somewhat , serious cooperation between Hancock and the softer view of Ilona ( Loni) Hancock. J Bailey-Simmons team. In an interview at that time with this reporter, The public face of the dispute between them seems Culbert had this to say about Hancock: to take the form of a conflict of interest between "I would say-and this is my pure speculation the needs of women and the needs of Blacks. This an an individual observer- I think she probably is expressed most often on the issue of the allo­ is moving a little closer to the £enter due to her cation of city funds. sudden exposure to the nitty-gritty, day-to-day un- During council deliberations on a new municipal -romantic problems that exist in just moving the budget, Hancock presented a motion to allocate city along. funds for a women's health center, including a "Also I think she is essentially honest in 'her center to aid women who had been raped. The concerns and is willing to learn and try a dif­ motion died for lack of a second. ferent approach and attitude. ·She does have her Later Bailey and Simmons asserted that they areas of specific interest-this women's trip is the would not put women's liberation on an equal most outstanding one. But insofar as she is going footing with Black liberation· and that they saw to be more pragmatic and less idealisti~, I think Blacks as more oppressed than women in general she is moving a little bU more toward what sonie and white women in particular. people would call the center." "I agree that white women ought not be dis­ Hancock, who defines her radicalism as "a re­ criminated against," Bailey said, "but l.'ll be god­ turn to ·Jeffersonian democracy," addressed a Ju­ damned if I'm going to put that concern ahead nior Chamber of Commerce meeting last Septem­ of my concern for ~lack people." ber, where she offered a balanced appraisal of The proposed health center would have been the new City Council. "The city," she said, "has available to all Berkeley women, not just whites, not disintegrated into anarchy or blossomed into and there was no reason to assume that funds utopia." for such a center could be allocated only at the Putting it another way, she said: expense--of projects for the Black community. "Radicals are here to stay in Berkeley, and so In a later division, Hancock abstained when are conservatives. The question is how are we Bailey and Simmons presented a proposal for going to live together." funding a Third World Cultural Center. She said ~ there were no provisions for women's participa­ Tenuous alliance tion. She did not say why she didn't seek to amend Living with Berkeley's conservatives is not Han­ the proposal to include such provisions. cock's only problem. She is also having difficulty ' The adoption of a mere policy statement on living with her coalition allies, Bailey and Sim­ affirmative action in city hiring policies was de­ mons. The rift between them began to develop layed for many months, in large part because shortly after they were seated on the council. Bailey and Simmons were determined to vote This should not have surprised as many Ber­ against the inclusion of women in the policy state­ keleyans as it did since the alliance was at best ment. In defending their position, Bailey has ex­ tenuous from the outset. plicitly stated that the struggle for Black libera­ It was initally agreed in the April Coalition tion requires that the demands of the women's that the whites would select two candidates and movement be subordinated. the Blacks two. The basis for unity would be As the dispute between Hancock and Bailey­ a minimal one-support to the police-control Simmons widened, Dellums sought to ameliorate amendment. Selection of the Black nominees was the situation. His contribution consisted of a state­ left to the Berkeley Black Caucus. A relatively ment to the University of California Daily Cal­ ·narrow formation, including poverty agency work­ ifornian declaring, "What persons elected through ers and other activists, the Black Caucus is es­ Lack of a common political program among the new politics have got to do is concentrate on sentially a Black faction within the Democratic members of the April Coalition is shown by the issues that cut across lines of race and sex; Party. Its principal claim to recognition was that the counterposing of the Black struggle and order their priorities that way.... But the bur­ it had b~en associated with t;pe election of Ron the women's liberation movement by Coali­ den is on the people who put them in office to Dellums, Warren Widener, and Wilmont Sweeny tion members. In reality, these struggles are make sure they do this." to the Berkeley City Council. All are Democrats. He didn't indicate how this should be done. ·The Black Caucus selected Bailey and Simmons complementary. He stressed,. however, that there was no reason as its nominees, even ·though neither was too well Four months after their election, their campa1gn why the April Coalition and Black Caucus could known in the community. Bailey had arrived in manager, Eric Morton, held a news conference not continue to work together. Berkeley from New York in 1969, Simmons from at which he denounced the two council members Since Dellums is up for reelection this year, it Washington in 1968. Both are attorneys and had for completely ignoring the Black Caucus, which is not difficult to comprehend his desire to gloss been associated with the civil rights movement. had nominated and helped elect them. He charged over the disputed issues among the partisans of One explanation of why the Black Caucus nomi­ they had betrayed the Black community and urged the "new politics" and his concern for continuing nated them is that they had announced they were their recall. the unity of the two groups. going to run anyway. According to the Aug. 20, 1971, Berkeley Moni- To &e continued.

16 caused a commotion by trying to The pressure will be kept up in the shout down the speakers. coming months, as the elections ap­ New Many high-school women took part proach. The enthusiasm shown in Antiwar in the actions and a high-school Abortion Action Week is a sign that speaker at the Wellington rally was the abortion campaign will grow rap­ Zealand very well received. idly as many more women demon­ strate to demand their right to actions Abortion Action Week was organised choose. women by women's liberationists and mem­ bers of the Abortion Law Reform As­ . in.ltaly, sociation, in some centres through march joint action committees. The May From Intercontinental Press Abortion Action Committee in Well­ Britain, By KAY GOODGER ington acted as a national coordinat­ Abort•~n WELLINGTON, New Zealand­ ing body, distributing publicity Abortion Action Week had a nation­ throughout the country. This commit­ wide impact in New Zealand, with tee also organised a deputation to campaign. Austria six cities taking part. In Wellington Minister of Justice Sir Roy Jack, which SALZBURG, Austria- Four thou- and Christchurch, a total of more brought forth an expected response: sand demonstrators marched against than 500 persons marched May 5, "The government has no plans for set in the war here on May 20, prior to the large majority of them women. changing the law on abortion." Nixon's arrival in Austria on his way On the marches and at pickets and The government is obviously eager to Moscow. The action was called by other activities, the demand was to keep the abortion · issue quiet in Scotland the Communist Party of Austria, and raised for the repeal of all anti-abor­ this election year. The right-wing lead­ From Intercontinental Press 2,000 marched in its contingent. An­ tiqn laws and for free, easily avail­ ership of the opposition Labour party GLASGOW, Scotland-A national other 2,000 marched with the Indo­ able contraception and sterilisation. is similarly unwilling to rock this par­ conference of Scottish women's libera­ china Solidarity Committee ( ISC) con­ The demonstrations were probably ticular boat. tion groups was held here April 22- tingent. the first such actions around a fem­ Unfortunately for Labour party 23. Eighty women (considerably more Stephanie <;:oontz, a National Peace inist issue in New Zealand since WOJll­ leader Norman Kirk and his friends, than expected) from eight groups in Action Coalition coordinator, brought en fought for the vote in the late nine­ abortion did become the subject of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aber­ greetings to the rally from the Amer­ teenth century. Certainly onlookers debate at the annual conference of deen, and St. Andrews attended. ican antiwar movement. Representa­ found it novel to see so many wom­ the party, which took place the week The conference decided to launch tives of the Provisional Revolution­ en, of all ages, chanting "a woman's following the abortion actions. The a national campaign for free contra­ ary Government of Vietnam were re­ right to choose" as they marched Labour Youth Conference, which im­ ception and ab'ortion on demand, with fused permission to enter the country through the crowded city streets. mediately preceded the main gather­ actions organised particularly around to attend the rally, and a large num­ Public reaction, par-ticularly that of ing, had voted overwhelmingly in fa­ the Abortion Action Week called by ber of German demonstrators were women, was generally favourable. An vour of repealing the abortion laws. the Women's National Abortion Action turned back at the Austrian border. information booth set up in Christ­ Such was the bureaucrats' fear of a Coalition in the United States and One American soldier told Coontz that church encountered many women who repetition of this vote by the full con­ supported by the Women's National dozens of Gis stationed in- Germany wanted to petition for the repeal of ference that Kirk himself took the floor Abortion and Contraception Cam­ had been prevented from crossing the restrictive abortion laws. However, in and spoke at length against abortion. paign in England. border as well. Wellington, supporters of the "Society Despite th~ efforts of several pro-abor­ Two of the groups had already Later in the day, the Indochina Sol­ for the Protection of the Unborn Child" tion delegates, Kirk's "right to life" de­ planned activities on this issue, par­ idarity Committee led a march of 1,- tried to sabotage the pro-abortion liverance won out and the conference ticularly the Women in Action group 500 to the airport to greet Nixon. demonstration. About fifty "fetus rejected even a weak proposal to g~ive of Glasgow. This march was brutally attacked by freaks," mostly men, followed the main "favourable consideration" to the lib­ The conference also agreed to cam­ the Austrian police, but some pro­ march and later, at a public meeting, eralisation of the laws. paign for equal pay when specific is­ testers did make it to the airport. sues arose. '· Coontz spoke to an outdoor rally Each group gave a short report on in downtown Salzburg the following its aims and activities. Papers on day, also called by the ISC. In the equal pay, women's magazines, the coming days she will speak at anti­ myth of motherhood, and women and war rallies in England, Switzerland, revolution were presented and dis­ Italy, and Germany. cussed. Because of the coincidence of the conference and the international In Rome, 30,000 people demonstrated day of protest against the Indochina on May 13 against the continued U. S. war, conference participants who aggression in Vietnam. A large con­ wished to march were excused to per­ tingent of American students took part mit them to attend the demonstration in the action, which was not reported in Glasgow. in the American press.- The first activities set for the abor­ In Great Britain, 1,500 demonstrat­ tion and contraception campaign were ed at the U.S. embassy in London 1 poster parades ln Glasgow, Edin­ on May 13, while two demonstrations

Photo from Sociolist Action burgh, and Dundee May 6. Tentative hurriedly organized in Glasgo'Y, Scot­ plans were made for further activi­ land, for the same day drew 200 and Part of May 5 abortion march in Wellington, New Zealand ties in the near future. 600. The Militant gets around ... OMAHA, CONTINUED: First we reported receiv­ on. One salesman from the Upper West-Side sold TOP SALESMAN FOR THE MILITANT at the ing a bundle order from Omaha, Neb. Then, a 10 Militants in one half hour in front of the un­ African Liberation Day demonstration in Wash­ few weeks later, we reported that it had been can­ employment office last week. ington, D. C., was Baxter Smith from the Upper celled at the insistence of our salesman's parents. West Side in New York, who sold 84 papers. At the same time, however, we received a new MILITANT BOUND VOLUMES: Bound volumes Over 50 copies of the May International Socialist bundle order from Omaha. This week we received of 1971 Militants are now available in two books Review were sold by James Harris from Wash- a letter from Omaha seller #2, which said in part: at $15 for the set. An index for 1971 is included . ington, D. C. "I sold The Militants in two days. Half on the with the bound volumes or can be ordered for streets _and the others at the University of Ne­ 25 cents each. Send order to The Militant Busi­ braska at Omaha and at Central High. Students ness Office, 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. BRINGING IT HOME: With the spring sessions are interested in the socialist movement but aren't 10014. coming to an end, rnany students who receive familiar with it. The Militants will help ...." DETROIT SELLS 840 OF ONE ISSUE: In an regular Militant bundles are leaving campus for "D. S. (seller #1), who ordered Militants, has effort to step up distribution of the May 19 Mili­ the summer. One member of the Young Socialist quite a hassle to talk about. His parents, when tant with the banner headline "March on Wash­ Alliance isn't content to leave it at that, however. they saw the newspapers, told him to send them ington May 21," many areas doubled or tripled He writes, "I will be spending a few weeks in my back or leave home. He left home." their regular bundles. home town of Flint, Mich., after spending nine One• area was Detroit, which took a bundle of months in the South. Please rush a bundle of 15 FALLACY FREE: A supporter from the Oakland/ 1,000 for that week and sold 840 of them. Sales Militants to me immediately.... Who knows, a Berkeley area sent us the following quote from director Debbie Deegan reports, "Articles on the YSA local could be formed here.... The first a letter she received from her mother: "There was May 21 demonstration in Washington, D. C., and step. towards that is introducing The Militant to a peace demonstration on Times Square and I on African Liberation Day were the best sellers. the populace." bought a Militant. Your Dad was quite impressed Special selling places included two Shirley Chis­ with the paper. Said he coufdn't find any fallacies holm rallies, a Ralph Nader meeting, an antiwar in it. He's taking logic, you know. He usually rally at Michigan State University in East Lan­ WANTS TO VOTE SWP: With an address change, finds the best fallacies in political speeches and sing, and a May 13 Chicano moratorium, where a subscriber in San Jose, Calif., included the fol­ cuts them out for ·his term paper." 70 papers were sold. Thirty papers were sold at lowing comment: "The Militant has put out a lot two plants and 10 at a teachers union meeting. The of enormously important articles, especially in re­ SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN bulk, almost 400 of The Militants, were sold on lation to the meaning of the economic crisis; also, SUPPORTERS IN NEW YORK'S UPPER WEST six campuses, where the article on the strike policy the statements by Jenness/Pulley on immediate is­ SIDE set up literature tables on three street corners debate at Columbia was the key selling feature. sues have moved me right to a place where I on a recent Saturday and sold 36 Militants. They Other Militants were sold at shopping areas and want to vote SWP in the upcoming elections." plan to do this at least once a week from now at two high schools." -NANCY COLE

THE MILITANT/JUNE 9, 1972 17 _u.s. war destroys Irish republicans . discuss repression By DAVE FRANKEL vord, the press officer of the Derry Vietnam's ecolouv- NEW YORK, May 25- Last Aug. 9, Civil Rights Association and a mem­ "lt has been a war against the land ening of the soil to a bricklike state) as much as against armies . . . the the removal of vegetation and humus at 4:30 in the morning, British troops ber of the six-county executive of damage caused by the large scale dis- may make the area in and around beat down the door of Frank Mc­ NICRA, stressed the need for an in­ organization of the environment may craters permanently barren." In hilly Glade's home in Northern Ireland and ternational. inquiry in to the Jan. 30 be felt for centuries." These were the areas, craters promote erosion, in the dragged him out of bed. McGlade, ("Bloody Sunday") Derry massacre. conclusions of environmentalists delta it destroys irrigation systems, who is 61, was taken to an interro­ Havord said that immediately fol­ Arthur H. Westing. and E. W. Pfeiffer inviting the encroachment of salt water gation center. He was held there for lowing the killing of 13 people dur­ after their latest firsthand examination near the coast. Weeds and bamboo, 48 hours along with others, many ing the British army's attack on the of the effects of the Indochina War. economically worthless and difficult of whom were beaten and otherwise civil rights march, activists in the Der­ The study, published in t)le May issue to remove, invade the pockmarked brutalized. He spent the next three ry CRA began collecting statements of Scientific American under the title farmland and shattered forests. weeks in prison and was then trans­ . of eyewitnesses to the shootings. More "The Cratering of Indochina," drama- The average crater is 20 to 40 feet ferred to Long Kesh internment camp. than 900 such statements were col­ tically exposes the ecological effects across and can be up to 20 feet deep. McGlade was released from Long lected, the bulk of them from Derry of massive U. S. bombing and shelling. Pfeiffer and Westing reported some fill- Kesh last month after being held for residents. The sheer volume of munitions di- ing in of the older craters from sur­ eight months without charge or trial. . "We didn't give any evidence at all rected against •Indochina is unprec- rounding soil, "but this is limited be­ An activist in the Northern Ireland to Widgery, and Widgery never asked edented. Between 1965 and 1971 that cause old craters almost completely Civil Rights Association ( NICRA) us to," Havord says. "Twenty or 30 region was hit by bombs and shells covered with grass were still five to and a long-standing member of the of the people we took statements from "amounting to approximately twice the 10 feet deep ... thus they becameper­ Irish republican movement, he is cur­ went before the Widgery tribunal, but total used by the U. S. in all the manent features of the landscape." rently in the United States speaking their testimony was just dismissed," theaters of World War II." These 13 Rain-filled craters have become mos­ on behalf of NICRA. ~e continued. million tons of munitions equal the quito breeding-grounds, increasing the In a recent interview he told of the Although he expeCted the Widgery energy of 450 Hiroshima nuclear dangers of malaria and similar dis­ plight of those in internment. He de­ tribunal to whitewash the actions of bombs, or 584 pounds of explosives eases. scribed Long Kesh, which is sur­ the British army, Havord expressed for every man, woman, and child in rounded by barbed-wire fences and · surprise at its crudity. He feels that Indochina. Further, the bombardment Stripping the forests gun towers, as being often flooded the Widgery tribunal was convened was concentrated in South Vietnam To replace the chemical defoliants and having inadequate recreation and primarily to prevent the reports of (21 billion pounds,. compared to 2.6 that laid bare 5.5 million acres before study facilities. British troops, he said, what had happened on "Bloody Sun­ billion for Laos and 1 billion for being "phased out'' last year, the U. S. carried out many sudden searches, day" from appearing in the British North Vietnam) and within the South military has introduced massive, sys­ forcing the interned men to leave their press. (According to British law, the mainly focused on the northern prov­ tematic bulldozing in its unceasing war beds and stand outdoors in silence press is forbidden to discuss a case inces and' the region around Saigon. with Asian greenery. The Rome plows for hours. The soldiers frequently de­ that is under judicial investigation.) "From the air," Westing and Pfeiffer (20-ton armored Caterpillar tractors stroyed or stole personal effects dur­ Havord pointed out that the report, "some areas in Vietnam looked with massive 11-foot wide plow ing such raids. . Widgery tribunal heard no evidence like photographs of the moon." They blades) are more effective in stripping In attempting to break the spirit from the Irish Republican Army estimated that craters produced be­ forest down to a bare soil-and more of the internees, the British also con­ (IRA), which the British army ac­ tween 1965 and 1971 totalled 26 mil- destructive to the environment. ducted humiliating searches before cused of starting the shooting. Both visits and even refused to allow vis­ the Official IRA and the Provisional its, which were limited in any case IRA have, however, agreed to testify to a half hour each week. McGlade before an international inquiry. Such mentioned one man who went insane an inquiry could consider all the ma­ as a result of the treatment he received, terial available from people who saw and he said that others suffered from the attack on the Derry march, not· nervous disorders. just the selections used by Widgery. News of the demonstrations in Ire­ The Northern Ireland Civil Rigl)ts land and in other countries against Association is demanding the end of internment was an important factor internment and the repeal of all re­ in heartening those in the camps, Mc­ pressive legislation; the right of one Glade said. Demonstrations such as person to one vote and ending the those organized in New York by the gerrymandering that has prevented Anti-Internment Coalition are still nec­ the Catholic minority from control­ essary, he stressed, because 600 men ling areas where it is.a majority; and remain in Long Kesh. the outlawing of discrimination in jobs In another interview, Michael Ha- and housing. Bomb craters in fields 20 miles northwest of Saigon. Attica ·leader speaks in lion, with a· surface area of 423,000 In the wake of their treads come acres, and with shell fragments flying erosion and invasion of valueless over an area of 32.6 million acres cogon grass; forest recovery. is un­ Ga.-urges defense effort ( disregard~ng overlap). In other likely. These monster versions of the By JESSICA DEFOREST Emory University Black Student words, in a region only slightly larger machine that has come to symbolize ATLANTA-Richard X Clark, a Union. than Texas, shell holes alone have a environmental destruction have leader of the Attica prison rebellion Clark received good media coverage combined surface area larger than the cleared about 800,000 acres to date. last September, made a speaking tour here. A press conference was attend­ state of Connecticut! Noting that "only about 5 to 8 of the Atlanta area May 12-14. The ed by reporters from the Atlanta Jour­ percent of the U.S. bombing missions tour, which was arranged by the Mil­ nal and Constitution and several ra­ in Indochina have been ... in di­ Unexploded bombs ·itant bookstore, was cosponsored by dio stations. Clark was interviewed rect support of troops," the ·two ecolo­ the Southern Christian Leadership on "Ebony Beat," a Black TV-talk The delicate relationships that sup­ gists concluded that "one of the main Conference ( SCLC), the Harriet Tub­ show; on the SCLC radio program ported prosperous rice, rubber, and strategies of our military effort has man Prison Committee, the Peoples "M. L. K. Speakes," carried on approx­ timber industries are shattered. Farm­ been to dis~upt and destroy the social Committee to Insure Justice, and the imately 200 radio stations; and in ers live in fear of striking one of the and economic fabric of rural, agri­ the Atlanta Voice, Atlanta's major hundreds of thousands of unexploded cultural Vietnam in order to drive Black newspaper. bombs with their plows, while "the the peasant population into areas In the three days he was here, Clark ubiquitous missle fragments in the under central control and deprive the had speaking engagements at the John ground cut the hooves of the water guerrilla enemy of a power base." F. Kennedy Memorial Center, Emory buffaloes used as draft animals Mter attending a report by Dr. University, the University of Georgia, causing infection and death." Westing in January, Senator Gaylord and the Militant Bookstore. Approxi­ Loggers claim losses of more than Nelson (D-Wis.) delivered an empas­ mately $200 was raised for the At­ 30% in the price received for timber, sioned address to Congress, saying tica defense at these meetings. due to bombardment so intensive that that "never before has a land been When asked about the takeover of the trees are filled with metal shards so massively altered or mutilated ... D block, Clark said that the rebel­ . . . in trees left standing the missle­ these programs should be h11lted im­ lion erupted spontaneously when the fragment wounds provide ready entry mediately." But the bill he introduced oppressive conditions finally became for fungal rot." This rot is especially provided for only a six-month study more than the prisoners could endure. serious for rubber trees, the basis for of environmental war damage in Indo­ He also outlined the defense campaign a rubber industry already staggered china. The Congress will not yet enact, being wa-ged for the Attica inmates, from chemical herbicide losses. Pro­ nor will any Democratic or Republican · who will probably be charged with duction fen from 77,560 tons of dry presidential candidate advocate, an the crimes that the state committed rubber in 1960 to 42,500 fons in immediate end to all bombing and at Attica.' Clark emphasized the nec­ . 1967, a loss the Rubber Research In­ withdrawal of all troops and materiel essity for people everywhere to sup­ stitute of Vietnam blamed largely on from Southeast Asia. It is up the the port the rights of prisoners, particu­ defoilation. American people, through in,dependent larly, at this time, the rights of those The very earth itself is damaged. mass action, to halt and reverse the at Attica. "In Ind_ochina, where some of the soil ecocide in Indochina. is vU.lnerable to laterization (hard- -STEVE BECK

18 Ans•r to the DailY world Long lea I By FRANK LOVELL rs the PaJ Board and other North Atlantic ports, and Throughout the extended negotia­ increases. We have it on dubious authority that for the "A" men in the ILWU on the tions and strikes, the union ranks nev­ Morris reports the obscene display the recent longshore wage settlement Pacific Coast. er faltered. Bridges and ILA Presi­ of servility by Gleason, who sought ' came after a "good fight" by the In the West Coast ports longshore­ dent Thomas Gleason devised and to curry favor with the Pay Board Bridges leadership of the independent men were paid $38.52 for an eight­ pursued their own characteristic strike by announcing his 'support of Nixon's International Longshoremen's and hour day under the previous contract. strategies and give-and-take negotiat­ blockade of North Vietnamese ports. Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) on They now get $42.30, an average ing. Gleason let it be known that under the West Coast. of $5.28 per hour. The catch is that Gleason, as in the past, sought to such circumstances it would be un­ George Morris, veteran Communist they don't often work a full week. trade off working conditions and the thinkable for him to call a strike in Party ltbor commentator, makes this The favored "A" mEi!n may average limited measure of job protection pro­ U. S. ports. Such prostrations, how­ pronouncement in the May 20 Daily four days a week over a year, but vided by the ILA' s guaranteed an­ ever, had little effect. World. He hopes to take some of the "B" members get only one or two days nual wage plan in exchange for wage The Pay Board knocked down the sting out of the verbal blows ex­ work a week. gains. Similarly, on the Pacific Coast wages side of the bargain. It left un­ changed between Harry Bridges and The provisions for a guaranteed an­ the Bridges leadership ran a "soft" touched, however; the concessions won old-time CP members of the ILWU. nual wage have been so circumscribed strike, permitting cargo to move in The dispute concerned strike strategy by the new contracts that few long­ and out of Canadian and Mexican and tactics, including overtures by shoremen on either coast will be able ports. Bridges, like Gleason, sought Bridges to merge the 15,000-member to collect anything beyond their pay to win wage concessions at the ex­ ILWU with the much larger East for the few hours actually worked. pense of jobs and union control of Coast International Longshoremen's The old methods of collective bat­ job conditions. In the end, a bargain Association ( ILA). gaining-which presumed a common was struck that gave the employers Morris says that tlie 15 percent wage interest between labor and manage­ the concessions they wanted. increase granted by the government ment to increase productivity and Both the employers and the union Pay Board, after slashing 5 percent guarantee a relatively Petter standard officials then went to the Pay Board off the contract negotiated between the of living for a limited number of w9rk­ to report their agreement and ask for employers and the ILWU, may not ers in a particular industry.,.-have approval. Both testified to the union's H-.ok so bad to many other workers proved shortsighted for the needs of cooperation in handling containerized "who are held to the Pay Board's even those workers. Only the employ­ cargo, use of new methods of load­ 5.5 percent or less.'\ ers have gained from the new equip­ ing and discharging of ships, great­ Besides, says Morris, it was fool­ ment and methods of cargo handling. er efficiency of work crews, and the ish to think that the ILA would join Since government wage controls ready acceptance of technological the ILWU in a serious challenge of were imposed hist August, the old changes. The union's acceptance of the government Pay Board. "Those methods of collective bargaining were these measures, they both argued, ren­ w~re hopes unfounded as long expe­ superseded by arbitrary rulings of the dered the agreed-upon wage increases Photo by Ed Harris rience with the ILA indicated- and Pay Board. In the case of the long­ noninflationary because of the fan­ Harry Bridges which were confirmed fully in recent shoremen, these traditional methods tastic leaps in labor productivity that by the employers for greater control weeks. The Nixon Administration ran their stormy course. On the West would result. of hiring and job speedup. played on the well-known conserva­ Coast the waterfront bosses broke off This does not sound like "a good A subsequent arbitration rttling un­ tism of the ILA' s leaders to main­ negotiations in July, provoking aJour­ fighf' by Bridges against the employ­ der terms of the new contract on the tain the division." month strike. Between July and March ers, as his· old friend George Mor­ West Coast has already eliminated the The truth is that there was really separate strikes were provoked on ris would have readers of the Daily container tax the employers were ex­ no basic division between the methods both coasts. The government inter­ World believe. On the contrary, it was pected to pay into the longshoremen's employed by the leaders of these two vened in both instances to force the a defensive effort to reconstitute the guaranteed annual wages fund. This unions (the trade-union policy of the strikers back to work. long-established collaboration - with is an additional gift of millions of CP is not much different either). Both Negotiations continued throughout the waterfront employers. (This collab­ dollars to the employers. union bureaucracies have sought over the long test-of-strength between the hration had worked so well between Longshoremen are now in a worse, the years to maintain a relatively high unions and the waterfront employers. 1948 and 1971 that there were no position than they were last July. Most wage level for a limited, 1and constant­ The strategy of the employers, with . longshore strikes on the West Coast recognize that they have lost ground ly decreasing, number of union mem­ the advice and assistance of several during those years.) and are seeking ways to regain it. bers. They have sought to protect their government agencies, was to wear An additional element was a tacit It is becoming clearer to many dwindling memberships by negotiat­ down the strikers and force them to agreement by union officials on both workers that what most consideredto ing a guaranteed annual wage for make concessions on unio_n control coasts to support the employer's plea be "economic" questions are in reality registered longshoremen in New York of jobs and protective work-rules. for government approval ofcargo-rate Continued on page 22 The National Picket Line GEORGE MEANY'S "PROGRAM FOR AMER- of isolationism. We believe in a defense establish- ICA": George Meany, the garrulous president of ment strong enough, but no stronger than neces- the AFL-CIO, has started on his rounds to the sary, to meet these obligations." platform committees of the Democratic and Re- On inflation: "We have been prom_ised effective · publican parties. This is a small service he per- policies to combat inflation. Where are they?" forms every four years when these political tools On unemployment: "We seek a rejection of un- of Big Business draft their election platforms to employment as an· instrument of national policy hide their real aims and deceive the voters. Meany .... the government must assume the obligation shows signs of having caught the election fever of being the employer of last resort." and sounds more like the politicians in Congress _. On poverty: "An adequate minimum wage cover- than ever. ing all workers is the best single step this country When Meany goes before these platform com- can take to alleviate poverty." mittees, he brings along a 35,000-word document On racism: "We reject the demagogues who in- prepared by his social-democratic advisers in the cite racial unrest. ..." publicity and political-education departments of There you have all the necessary planks of a the AFL-CIO. That's a lot of words, even for the firm platform for most any self-righteous Repub- deceitful candidates who have the job of talking lican or Democratic candidate to stand on. without saying anything until November. If elected on such a platform, they can then Meany advises them to use what his pul;>licity George Meany Photo from AFL-CIO News go on to Congress and pass war appropriations, agents call the AFL-CIO "Program for America," make more tax loopholes for the -rich, and vote which he says will satisfy the needs of the workers This all sounds desirable, but it is unclear how down such "radical" proposals as the AFL-CIO- in this country. He also hastens to add a couple some of these things are to be won for the vast sponsored bill for a $2 minimum-wage law. ot assurances· of his "responsibility." "They are majority except at the expense of some others. This happened in the House on May 11 when not proposals to make labor strong to the detri- For example, how can we eliminate l!nsafe prod- the -minimum-wage law came to a vote. It was ment of others, for that would not be proper or ucts, fraudulent warantees, and deceptive insur- rejected 217 to 191. Sixty-nine Democrats and just. We do not ask for a labor government. ..." ance and bank practices without hurting the manu- 148 Republicans ganged up to kill the measure. In order to dress up the AFL-CIO proposals, facturers and bankers who are the beneficiaries With such performances by the political repre- Meany says his is a "put-people-first program." of these fraudulent and deceptive practices? sentatives of the employers, it should be clear to He says, "This means the right to a job with· The more basic question is how will any of any but the most craven that nothing of benefit decent pay and working conditions; good health the objectives mentioned by Meany be won by to working people will come from that quarter. and quality medical care; quality education for the union movement? Certainly not through the It is true that only the working class can de- all children; clean water to drink and clean air Democratic or Republican parties. velop a program to solve the social ills in Amer- to breathe; decent housing; safety on the street, The truth is that Meany is not asking for any- ica. But this will develop through the independe1;1t in the home, at the workplace and on the high- thing. His talk is all make-believe. His proposals action of the workers and their unions, not by ways; dignity in the latter years of life; protection on the urgent issues most talked about by unlon submitting meaningless generalities for inclusion in the marketplace from unsafe products, fraud- members are extremely modest when not identical in the election propaganda of the Democrats and ulent warrantees and deceptive insurance and bank with those of the most conservative employers. . Republicans. practices." On the war: " ... we flatly reject the concept -FRANK LOVELL

THE MILITANT/JUNE 9, 1972. 19 In Review Books Film Our Gang Slaughterhouse 5 Slaughterhouse 5. A Universal The movie Slaughterhouse 5 comes Film. Directed by George Roy Hill. across as a faithful enactment largely Produced by Paul Monash. because it has the same strong anti­ war impact as the novel. There are several differences, however, }'hich lie Slaughterhouse 5 is an interesting ex­ primarily in the fact t_hat George Roy perimental movie with a strong anti­ Hill (before this he directed Butch Cas­ war impact. The movie revolves sidy and the Sundance Kid) has not around the bland character of Billy attempted to recreate on the screen " statement encouraged forn­ Pilgrim, several absurd accidents many of Vonnegut's literary devices ication. (lucky and unlucky ones), and the and several of his most interesting Federal troops shoot down Boy recurring spectacle of the U. S. destruc­ characters. Scouts marching in the streets, and tion of Dresden, Germany, during Billy, the antihero, is played by Tricky suavely explains it away. He_ World War II. Michael Sacks, who does a remark­ and his advisers, from Attorney Gen­ It is based on a novel by Kurt able job of developing this character eral Malicious to the Reverend Billy Vonnegut Jr., an author whose ~ork purely through an occasional facial Cupcake, concoct a plan to prove that is as widely acclaimed by science fic­ expression. Billy has as little control the root of the whole problem is the tion fans as it is by the connoisseurs over his activity on earth as he does baseball player Curt Flood. Tricky, of experiment~! writing. Vonnegut, in over his activity on Tralfamadore, in his best performance of the book, real life, is a veteran of the fire­ the planet he visits involuntarily on goes on television to explain why the bo~bing of Dresden, one of the few his time travels. His helpless immo­ U.S. must take military action against who lived to tell about it. bility on the screen gives us a very Denmark, where Flood is hiding. The details of what happened in faithful image of Vonnegut's determin­ - An assassin drowns Tricky inside Dresden during the U.S. air raid of ist view of life. a Baggie, in the fetal position. In Feb. 14-15, 1945, are still virtually As both a time-traveler and a sur­ Hell, the hero then proceeds to launch unknown in the U. S. The Air Force vivor of the firebombing of Dresden, a smear campaign for Satan's posi­ firebombed the city in such a way that Billy is condemned to rclive the ex­ tion, accusing Lucifer of being soft the carnage caused by fire and explo­ humation and incineration of many on godliness. sion was augmented by an insidious of the Dresden firebombing fata-lities, It sounds insane, but is it any wilder special effect: because much of the as well as the firebombing itself. than what happens in the real world? bombing was on the perimeter of the - Hill allows the camera to conduct Roth's book is, in novel form, ap­ city, a vortex was created that pro­ a very careful study of the city of proximately what the documentary duced suffocation on a massive scale. Dresden before the bombing-its Millhouse is on film. Many history texts do not touch statues and its finely ornamentE)d Tricky's address to the nation is on this episode at all. The Columbia buildings. Vonnegut compares the city patterned on Nixon's April30, 1970, Viking Desk Encycolpedia says.coyly to OZ; the encyclopedia says, some­ speech on the Cambodian invasion, that three-fourths of the city was de­ what less poetically, that it once con­ with snatches thrown in from the stroyed by this mysterious event, re­ tained some of the greatest art trea­ Checkers speech, the invasion-of­ fusing to list exact figures on the num­ sures of the world. North-Vietnam-to-retrieve-American­ ber killed. Vonnegut uses the figure In the novel, life on Tralfamadore speech, and doubtless prisoners-of-wa~ 135,000. Perhaps this is conser­ is pictured as a firsthand experience many other speeches as well. vative- after all, the population of of what life in a Sears-Roebuck catalog His speech abounds with genuine the city decliped by several hundred might be like- a relief from Dresden, Nixonisms, many of them direct quo­ thousand during the course of the war. but a far cry from the fantasy world Our Gang by Philip Roth. Bantam tations. His invasion of Denmark is At a time when strikes and demon­ portrayed in the movie. really not an invasion, he explains, Books. New York. 1972. Paperback strations were posing an internal This discrepancy between the book "but the liberation from Danish dom­ threat to German fascism, the U.S. 95 cents. and movie also involves Hill's heavy­ ination of a landmark that has been destroyed Dresden, a nonmilitary tar­ handed treatment of Montana Wild­ sacred for centuries to English-speak­ get. The strategic purpose of this sav­ hack, Billy's companion on Tralfama­ Our Gang, which has just come out ing peoples around the world and age act was to demoralize the German in paperback, is a masterpiece of polit­ dore. That they enjoy sex together particularly so to Alllericans"- Ham­ working people-to make certain that is presented as a routine development ical satire. It is also a profoundly let's castle. Tricky maintains that "un­ their struggle against Hitler didn't car­ by Vonnegut. The moviemakers, how­ truthful book, both in its detailed at­ like the Danes," he has no intention ry over into a socialist revolution, ever, see this as an opportunity to tention to the hypocrisies of the admin­ of conquering foreign territory or of inject some "box office" footage into istration of "Trick E. Dixon" and his interfering in others' affairs. this otherwise cerebral movie. Most real-life counterpart, and in its general If Our Gang can't be mistaken for of the other discrepancies are less im­ picture of the presidency. Our Gang is a literal report of genuine events, it portant, probably resulting from Hill's outrageous and hilarious, but hardly is only because its characters flaunt attempts to avoid difficulties in the more so than the object of its satire their hypocrisy and ambitions. Tricky process of adaptation. (seen in the right light). That is the candidly ,explains on television that -- Overall, the movie lacks the internal novel's success. by demanding Denmark "negotiate in logic of Vonnegut's science fiction, Some reviewers have missed this good faith," he means "giving us what being much more of a film fantasy. point. Arthur Cooper, for example, we want." The real Nixon is more In the movie, time travel is reduced wrote in the Saturday Review, " . . . subtle. to a matter of flashbacks, whereas Nixon's rough treatment at Roth's Roth does not, of course, show how in the novel it involves actual travel­ hands may well invite more sympathy such people get into positions of power ing from one place to another in the than anything since the Checkers under capitalism. Ont: even suspects fourth dimension. speech." that he blames the problem on the Vonnegut views human history as Cooper's obvious discomfort shows gullibility of the voters. an accomplished fact, not a process the power of Roth's message. Here But that weakness is really beside involving continuous change and de­ is a work that, unlike MacBird, can't the point. The book is not a political velopment. In his view, time stopped be dismissed as pure fantasy, because argument, but literature in the truest with the firebombing, which will al­ its plot is based on real events. sense (despite Janet Burroway, who, ways exist in his mind. If past and MacBird was a Shakespearean story in the New Statesman, calls it an ex­ present can coexist in a static universe, with topical characters for current ample "of how a good writer ... can then efforts to change the world are, satirical interest; Our Gang is a story, blunt his talent by taking up a cause"). if not absurd, at least doomed. almost out of the newspapers, with Roth has said that he expects the This is the point of view that Von­ fantastic twists to make us see that book to accomplish little i_n the way of negut presents in his powerful vision the story is not only abominable, but political effectiveness. It is, to him, of annihilation. Its logic doesn't mix also funny. not moral preaching or political pro­ very well with the decisive action Roth begins his book with Nixon's paganda, but art. Nonetheless, this undertaken by the Vietnamese freedom surrealistic statement on abortion and work of art helps us see the kind fighters during this past spring. But the sanctity of human life, made at of man this capitalist president is and the emotional impact of Slaughter­ San Clemente in April 1971. Roth the role he plays. Not only is he a house 5 (both the book and the movie) has simply analyzed that statement warmaker and a liar: he is a petty, is not muted by these faults in logic. and shown us its logical consequences: sniveling hypocrite and egomaniac. I hope the movie will be seen by large If Lieutenant Calley was not guilty But such is the nature of the presidency numbers of people. It is an enter­ of murder, then was he possibly guilty of the imperialist U. S. in its death taining film fantasy that will help to of abortion if one of his victims was agony. Such is the character of the publicize the little-known facts about a pregnant woman? Tricky clears Cal­ man who is called forth to fill it, for the Dresden holocaust. ley of this crime, but the Boy Scouts who else would do the job so well? claim that the president's same "San -DAVID KEIL -DAVID SALNER . 20 tion performed in a New York clinic. to demand that Williams veto the bill. Ranch. It is estimated that the ranch A series of workshops on Asian, Chi­ The main speaker at the rally was crew is approximately 90 percent "il­ Abortion cana, and Black feminism drew more Cesar Chavez, national leader of the legal ·aliens," workers without citizen~ than 50 men and women on May 10. UFW. In his speech, Chavez referred ship papers or work permits. They The Asian Women, a group of cam­ to the . refusal of seve-ral senators to earn from $5 to $6 a day. The ranch · week. held pus and community feminists, pre­ keep May 9 appointments with UFW refuses to hire union workers and fires. sented a slide snow with skits and members. "Some of the people in workers who join the union. Norma poetry. Maria Elena Gaitan, a repre­ there," Chavez said, gesturing toward Salas, Paula Salas, and Dolores in L.A. sentative of CASA (Centro de Accion the Senate building, "are afraid of their Padron were all fired recently when Social Autonomo- Autonomous Cen­ constituency. When our people came a foreman discovered their union By LAUREL KELLY ter for Social Action), discussed the to see the legislators, the doors were membership. Although each of them LOS ANGELES-More than 300 peo­ dynamics of Chicana feminism. Laura,· closed to them." He said the senators' had worked three hours the day they ple participated in Women's Right to Moorhead, Socialist Workers Party action showed a lack of respect for were fired, they were not paid for their Choose Week, May 4-11, cosponsored candidate for U.S. Congress from the the farm workers, who "came to the work. by the Los Angeles Women's Abortion 37th C. D., spoke on Black liberation state capitol in a very humble way." The farm workers plan to hold a Action Coalition (LAWAAC) and Sis­ and feminism, noting the importance "The governor wouldn't meet with Mass each evening during Chavez's ters United, the California State Col­ of the abortion law repeal campaign us," Chavez said, "and wouldn't even fast. On May 15, some 300 farm lege (L.A.) women's liberation group. for Black women. wait until today to sign the bill." workers attended such a Mass. Five The week's activities were scheduled · Evelyn Reed, noted Marxist anthro­ Chavez vowed to go on a fast "to hundred attended one the following later than most abortion law repeal pologist and a member of the 1972 show love" for the legislators. day. events around the country to avoid Socialist Workers National Campaign Another speaker, Delores Huerta, a According to LeRoy Chatfield, a ·conflicting with the traditional Mexi­ , Committee, spoke to a large and re­ local UFW vice-president, said, "They UFW press representative, the union can Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Los ceptive audience on the evening of say this law gives. us the right to may move its national headquarters Angeles May 1-6. May 10. Her talk, which ·dealt with organize. We have that right in the to Arizona. There has been "official ·A well-attended production by. the the origins of women's oppression, Constitution.... They say this law discussion" of such a move, Chatfield Los Angeles Feminist Theater on May was followed by a lively discussion gives us the right to work. We don't said. 4 kicked off the week. Many of the period. · need a law to give us that right." Chavez fasted 25 days in 1968 in skits focused on the issue of abortion Women's Right to Choose Week Huerta continued, "Drinking water conjunction with the launching of the and the California state law, which ended with a debate over the abortion in the fields, toilets, protection from national table grapes and lettuce boy­ stipulates that a woman must be "cra­ issue on May 11. Dr. Norma Sad- pesticides- these ar7 the rights we cott called then by the UFW. This zy" to obtain an abortion. The Planned ' wick, a psychologist representing want. And only the union can get time he is fasting in a 6-foot by 8- Parenthood film "Each Child Lo;,ed" ~ LAWAAC, confronted Lorna Lincke, th£!m for us." foot office in Phoenix. "He's not eating a board member of the Right to Life Lloyd Dalton, a staff representative anything," said Chatfield, and a nurse League of Southern California. Fifty of the United Steelworkers in Phoenix, is observing him to "make sure he people attended. said the members of his union "are takes enough water so his system with you and there are thousands of doesn't dehydrate." Chicanos throughout the mines and smelters in this state." Dalton,was one of a number of speakers fJ;om other Farm unions at the rally. A few weeks earlier, when Senator Barry Goldwater spoke to a banquet workers at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, he was confronted by UFW members. Dur­ ing a question-and-answer period, rally in Lupe Sanchez of the UFW stepped forward·· and asked: "Why does your brother hire illegal aliens to pick his citrus crop?" As Sanchez asked his Phoenix question, three other union members By STEPHEN PERRY passed out leaflets to most of the PHOENIX, Ariz.- Five hundred CllOWd. farm workers and supporters rallied in front of the state capitol here May Goldwater answered Sanchez: "My 12 to protest the passage of House brother is over 21 and knows what Evelyn Reed Pnoto by John Gray Bill 2134. The new Ia w is designed he's doing. If you people would get to stop the United Farm Workers off your butts and go to work, he was shown on May 9 at California ( UFW) from organizing in Arizona. would not have to hire Mexica-n na­ State College. Slated for national TV Governor Jack Williams signed the tionals." next fall, the film contrasts the deg­ bill into law 45 minutes after it was Robert Goldwater, the senator's Cesar Chavez speaks at May 12 radation of a back-alley, illegal abor­ passed by the Senate May 11. The brother, is co-owner of Goldman En­ rally on steps of Arizona state cap­ tion to a competent, safe, legal abor- May 12 rally had been called earlier terprises ·-Inc., which owns Arrowhead itol. iLa Raza en AccicSn! FARM WORK CLASSIFIED AS THIRD MOST of the United States Constitution." State repre­ controlling political majorities." . DANGEROUS OCCUPATION: A fact sheet pub­ sentatives from Bexar County have always been Third, the court ruled that when a minority lished by the United Farm Workers gives some elected at-large. In the past, this has meant continued to suffer discrimination socially and of the results of the working conditions endured that the Chicano West Side was "represented" by politically, "a peculiar districting scheme, which by migrant laborers in the U. S. A study con­ Anglos $ince they could muster a majority of gives it 'less opportunity' to participate success­ ducted by the Salud Medical Clinic in . Tulare - the votes county-wide. In addition, the money fully," would be voided by the courts. County, Calif., found that 80 percent of 774 farm involved in running a county-wide campaign This case could provide an important prece­ workers interviewed had pesticide poisoning symp­ has traditionally been out of the reach of most dent for La Raza in areas where we are a minor­ toms.· A. nutritional study in the same county re- Chicanos. ity but concentrated in particular areas (like in \ . vealed that 50 percent of· the workers' children The court made three significant determinations many major cities) and yet city councils, school were also affected by the pesticides. in its decision. First it recognized Chicanos boards, county boards of supervisors or county What malnutrition and poor ·living conditions as a distinguishable group that had been dis­ commissioners are elected at-large. In some cases mean specifically is revealed by statistics showing criminated against in the past. The ruling stated: (such as in Oakland, Calif.), a candidate runs the death rates 'of farm workers compared to the "Because of long· standing educational, social, le­ from a "districf' but the voting is at-large. This national average rates in 1967: gal, political and other wide-spread prevalent guarantees that the Anglo majority will continue restrictions, customs, traditions, biases and pre­ , determining what takes place within the Chicano Infant mortality...... 125% judices, "'some of a so-called de jure and some and Black communities. Maternal mortality...... 125% of a so-called de facto character, the Mexican The Bexar County. ruling could set the legal Death from flu or pneumonia. 200% American population of Texas, which amounts to stage for the incorporation of East Los Angeles, Death from TB and other about 20%, lias historically suffered from, and which is majority Chicano and yet ruled by the infectious diseases . 260% continues to suffer from the results and effects Los Angeles County Board, of Supervisors, which Death from accidents . . . . 300% of invidious discrimination and treatment in the does not have a single Chicano member. This fields of education, employment, economics, health, kind of situation is repeated in city after city TEXAS REAPPORTIONMENT PLAN STRUCK politics and others." throughout the country. At minimum, a good DOWN: The March issue of the Mexican American Second, the court determined that the barrio case ·could be made for electing county super­ Legal Defense and Educational Fund Newsletter on the West Side of San Antonio had never visors by districts. reports a decision by a three-judge federal court been adequately represented in the state leg­ . The plaintiffs in the Bexar County case were in Austin, Texas, Jan. 28 that could have far­ islature and that no legislatiOn was introduced· represented by Ed Idar Jr., Associate Counsel reaching implications for La Raza and Black at the last session by the representatives from of MALDEF in San Antonio. He was,assisted by communities throughout the country. Bexar County that could help remedy the seri­ George Korbel, a MALDEF-VISTA attorney. - According to the Newsletter, the court ruled ous problems faced there by La Raza. "Race is Those interested in further information on the in the case of Regester v. Bullock that the "Texas still an important issue in Bexar County," the court victory or in receiving the MALDEF News­ legislative reappor,tionment plan discriminates court stated, "and because of it, Mexicap. Amer­ letter can write: Ed Idar Jr., 319 Aztec Build­ against Chicanos in Bexar County (San Antonio) · icans are frozen into permanent political minor- ing, 211 W. Commerce St., San Antonio, Texas and therefore violated the equal protection clause . ities destined for constant defeat at the hands of 78205. -ANTONIO CAMEJO

-~ THE MILITANT/JUNE 9, 1.972 21 for Jenness and Pulley, Young Socialist Alliance. For · nist Party in- Spairi: has· even found ,' more information, call (713) 673-9445. "positive elements" in the Franco re­ NEW YORK: LOWER MANHATTAN gime. VIETNAM FOR THE VIETNAMESE. U.S. OUT NOWI Economic, cultural and tourist ex~ Speakers: Tran Khanh Tuyet and David Sung, Viet­ Continued from page 12 changes continue to be fostered with nomes.e students and representatives of the Indochina the United States while American ·Calendar Resource Center; end Fred Lovgren, notional coor­ as its signers and supporters claim. ATLANTA dinator of the Student Mobilization Committee. ·Fri., It leaves the warmakers in Washing~ bombs crash on the towns and in­ NIXON'S MOSCOW VISIT: ANOTHER BLOW TO THE June 9, 8 p.m. 706 Broadway, Eighth Fioor (at 4th ton in full possession of their nuclear dustries of North Vietnam and the VIETNAMESE REVOLUTION. Speaker: Seth Widgerson, St.). Donation: 51, h.s. students 50c. Ausp. Militant arsenal and with a green light to build Pentagon uses that unfortunate coun­ Socialist Workers Party. Fri., June 9. 8:30 p.m. 68 labor Forum. For more information, call (212) 982- try as a proving ground for fiendish 6051. it "bigger and better." Peachlree St., Third Floor. Donation: 51, h. s. students new instruments of death and destruc­ 50c. Ausp. Militant Bookstore Forum. For more infor­ NEW YORK: UPPER WEST SIDE This, it must be repeated, is an mation, call (404) 523-0610. WASHINGTON, MOSCOW, AND THE INDOCHINESE "arms control" pact signed during a tion, for the "blooding" of raw Amer­ REVOLUTION. Speaker: Joanna Misnik, Socialist Work­ shooting war_ In Vietnam, the U.S. ican troops, and for "test runs" of B- ers Party candidate' for Congress from the 20th C. D. BOSTON has mounted the heaviest bombing 52s capable of carrying H-bombs SOCIALISTS IN THE '72 ELECTIONS. A series of classes. Fri., June. 9, 8 p.m. 2744 Broadway (1 06 St.). Do­ deep into China or the Soviet Union_ 7:30 p.m. at 655 Atlantic Ave. (opposite South Sta­ notion: 51, h.s. students 50c. Ausp. Militant labor attack ever known in war against a tion). Admission: $1 per doss. Ausp. Young Socialists Forum. For more information, call (212) 663-3000. popular revolution. Not only does the The "test runs" of the B-52s have now lor Jenness and Pulley and the Socialist Workers Cam­ "arms control" pact have no effect on paign Committee. For more information, call (617) TWIN CITIES the U- S. imperialists' counterrevolu­ 482-8050. SOCIALIST SUMMER SCHOOL. Studies in Revolution. Mon., June 5: The Election Campaigns of Eugene1 June 8-Aug. 6. Classes on Monday and Thursday eve­ tionary slaughter in Southeast Asia, V. Debs. Speaker: George Weissman. ning_s at 7:30 p.m. 1 University Ave. N. E., Minneapo­ it has no effect whatsoever on the :::dOCkers Continued from page 19 Wed., June 7: Yankees with their Pants Down, or lis. Opening series of classes on The Soviet Union military dictators and other imperial­ central political issues. The questions What the Schoolbooks Don't Tell about New England and World Revolution- An Assessment of Stalinism. ist stooges the world over. History. Speaker: George Weissman. Thurs., June 8: Stalinism, Some Central Questions. of wages and unemployment are re­ Mon., June-12: Block Political Power. Speaker: Der­ Teacher: Charles Scheer. "Peaceful coexistence" does not stem lated to government policy. Contracts rick Morrison. Mon., June 12: The left Opposition Inside the Com­ from the needs of the world revolu­ negotiated between the unions and em­ Wed., June 14: Black Liberation .. Speaker: Derrick munist Party. Teacher: Paul Chelstrom. tion- It is rooted in the narrow .na­ ployers can now be torn up by the Mor:rison. Thurs., June 15: The Betrayal of the Chinese Rev­ tionalist outlook of the Kremlin bu­ olution. Teacher: Dean Hall. government. BROOKLYN Admission: $7.50 lor entire summer school or 50c reaucracy, which under the leadership Unions can ·cope with these condi­ IN DEFENSE OF THE LATIN AMERICAN STRUGGLE. per cfoss. Ausp. Young Socialist Alliance. Telephone: of Stalin, usurped power in the So­ tions when a leadership develops that Reports on Argentina, Brazil, and Puerto Rico. Fri., (612) 332-7781. viet Union. and crushed Lenin's Bol­ recognizes that the employers have June 9. 8 p.m. 136 lawrence St. (at Willoughby). shevik Party_ Donation: $1, h. s. students 50c. Ausp. Militant Forum. come to an understanding among For more information, call (212) 596-2849. These bureaucrats replaced the doc­ themselves to drive down the work­ trine of world revolution with the doc­ ers' standard of living, using their CHICAGO ... Africa trine of "building socialism in · 9ne Continued from page 3 control of the government for this pur­ WAGE CONTROLS AND THE UNIONS. Speaker: Frank country," a cover for subordinating Other speakers were the reverends pose. lovell, Socialist Workers Party trade-union director. the needs of the world revolution to Fri., June 9, 8 p.m. 180 N. Wacker Dr., Room 310. Charles Koen of Cairo, IlL, and Cecil This means that those who hope the needs of the bureaucracy itself. Donation: $1, h. S. students 50c. Ausp. Militant Labor Williams of San Francisco; Willie to fight for better wages must be pre­ Forum. For more information, call (312) 641-0147. Instead of promoting world revolu­ Brown, state assemblyman; D' Army pared to summon the independent tion, Stalin and his followers sought Bailey, Berkeley city councilman; might of the entire labor movement DETROIT Bobby Seale, chairman of the Black ways of curtailing the world revolu­ to challenge present government pol­ GAY PRIDE DAYS. Speakers: three members of the tion to curry favor with imperialism­ steering committee for Michigan Goy Pride Days, Panther Party; and Mayor Richard icy. June 23-25. Fri., June 9, 8 p.m. 3737 Woodward. Hatcher of Gary, Ind. Tanya Russell, In 1943 Stalin himself buried the Such a challenge cannot be made Do notion: $1, h. s. students 50c. Ausp. Militant Forum. a member of the national steering Communist International founded by in collaboration with the employers, For more information, call (313) 831-6135. Lenin as a sop to Churchill and committee of the Mrican Liberation as was attempted in the longshore Roosevelt. The leaders of the Soviet Day Coordinating Committee, chaired settlement. It cannot be made through HOUSTON the rally. Union who followed him, including the political parties of the employers­ SOCIALIST WORKERS CAMPAIGN CONFERENCE. Sot., the present ones, never bemoaned its June 10. University of Houston, University Center, Hatcher, the main speaker of the the Democratic and Republican par­ loss. San Jacinto Room. Donation: $1. day, explained how (he struggle of ties-as will be attempted by many They don't believe in promoting the 10 a.m.: Socialist Slrategy for '72. Speaker: Richard Mrican people around the world is in the general elections this fall. Garcia, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. world revolution. They believe in mak­ one and the same. He denounced those It can only come in the course of Senate. ing deals with the imperialists. That Black leaders who had refused to par­ an independent struggle by the unions 1:30 p.m.: Capitalism Fouls Things Up. A panel of is why the woman who spoke out socialist candidates from· Texas speaking on health ticipate in the May 27 action. for their elementary rights. But this care, governmental corruption, education, the pris­ for the Vietnamese at the Moscow bal­ calls for the really "good fighf' that let was not greeted with applause by ons, and pollution. According to Larry Jones, chairman yet needs to be organized. 2:30 p.m.: Making the American Revolution. Speak­ the chiefs of the Soviet Communist of the Black Youth for Progress This is why the Socialist Workers er: Mike Alewitz, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Party_ .. lieutenant governor of Texas. ( BYP), about 400 Blacks in New Party calls for an emergency confer­ Orleans, La., marchec;l and rallied on ence of the ·tabor movement. Such a CAMPAIGN BANQUET AND RALLY. Sot., June 10. Mrican Liberation Day_ The coali­ conference, composed of delegates· 6409 lyons Ave. 6 p.m.: refreshments. 7 p.m.: inter­ ... program democratically elected by the rarik and tion that built the action consisted of notional smorgasbord. 8 p.m.: rally. Speakers: Andrew Continued from page 13 file of all unions, could unite the work­ Pulley, Socialist Workers Party candidate for vice­ the BYP, Congress of Mrican People, president; and Debby leonard, Socialist Workers Party Black Panther Party, Republic of New are doing their utmost to restrain the ing class in a struggle against the candidate for governor of Texas. Donation: $2.50. Ausp. Mrica, Black Workers Congress, and people and to keep them behind Pa­ costly war program of the employers, Texas Socialist Workers Campaign '72, Young Socialists the NAACP. pandreou. The pro-Moscow Commu- inflation, and unemployment.

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THE MILITANT/JUNE 9, 1972 23. THE MILITANT Davis trial Portland SMC wages battle judge against frame-up damage suit By GEORGE KONTANIS a permit and then surrounding the violent confrontations. sets fine PORTLAND, Ore., May 30-0n May march with an army of 500 CQps. Georgia Pacific, by singling out the By MICHAEL SCHREIBER 18 the Georgia Pacific Corporation The May 11 action, called to an­ SMC, its organizers, and 15 named SAN JOSE, May 30- The prosecution announced in the news media here swer Nixon's escalation of the war individu~ls (many of whom are not concluded its rebuttal in one hour to­ that it had filed a suit against the in Southeast Asia, was one in a se­ SMC members), is attempting to in­ day without being able to discredit local Student Mobilization Committee. ries of recent public protests endorsed timidate and gag the antiwar move- last week's testimony for the defense. The SMC's organizers, 15 individuals, and organized by the SMC. It was . ment. Its attack on the civil liberties The prosecution hinted that it might and 100 "John Doe" SMC members hardly a "secret plof' against the lum­ of the citizens of Portland is not going have succeeded in contradicting a por­ were named in the suit. The company ber monopolists at Georgia Pacific. unanswered. tion of the defense's case if it had asked for $120,000 in damages and The Oregonian, Portland's major The SMC has already obtained legal been able to question Lester Jackson a permanent injunction against future newspaper, noted that the march was help. With other organizations it has Jr., the father of George and Jonathon protests near their downtown head­ peaceful and orderly. It also reported initiated the formation of a broad de­ Jackson. quarters. that a small group of individuals split fense committee, the Committee to De­ Jackson, however, refused to answer This suit stemmed from alleged off the march at Fifth and Taylor fend the Right to Protest. This com­ any of the prosecution's questions. He events at a legal, peaceful antiwar pro­ and threw rocks at an induction cen­ mittee is going full-steam ahead in was fmed $100 for contempt of court. test organized by the SMC on May 11. ter and later, at Georgia Pacific. A getting endorsements from the polit­ With the jury absent from the court­ Georgia Pacific characterizes the SMC, letter in the same paper by a par­ ical, antiwar, labor, student, Black, room, prosecutor Albert Harris asked the sponsor of many of Portland's ticipant in the May 11 march, not and women's groups in Portland. It Jackson if he had driven his wife and peace demonstrations, as a conspir­ an SMC member, stated: "The fact is getting out publicity on the real his son Jonathan to the Los Angeles atorial, violence-bent organization. It of the matter is that the demonstra­ facts of May 11, which have been airport at 9 a.m. on Aug. 1, 1970. charges the SMC and the individuals tion started peacefully at Portland obscured by Georgia Pacific's vio­ An affirmative answer wouldhavecon­ named of plotting destruction of Geor­ State University and was made up lence-baiting in the mass media. The tradicted the previous testimony of de­ gia Pacific property to create public­ not only of students, but also mothers chairwoman of the Committee is Shir­ fense witness Tamu Ushindi (Valerie ity for the antiwar movement. and children, some businessmen, and ley Gold, executive secretary of the Mitchell) that on the same date Jona-, The suit is riddled with slanders some middle-aged working men. The Portland Federation of Teachers. Its than Jackson visited her Los Angeles and innuendos. For example, it states fact is that the march of 1000 pro­ treasurer is David Linder, director of apartment, where several weapons · that on "not less than two other oc- testers or more marched through the Medical Research at the University purchased by Angela Davis were casions, similar acts were committed designated streets of Portland under of Oregon Medical School. stored. Ushindi had intimated that that the plaintiff believes to be con­ police escort." Ann Powers, a member of the Port­ Jonathan Jackson took the weapons nected with the said SMC." These This letter and many others in the land Federation of Teachers and a from the apartment without the knowl­ charges came on the eve of a mayor­ local press, in addition to an article member of the Committee to Defend edge of Davis. al contest between Bill deWeese and in the Scribe, Portland's largest under­ the Right to Protest, said, "We are Lester Jackson made his reply care­ Neil Goldschmidt. Oeorgia Pacific has ground newspaper, expose the ludi­ going to fight the suit and see it fully, although obviously in anguish: poured thousands of dollars into de­ crous charge that the SMC is "vio­ thrown out of the courts. We are con­ "Sir," he told the prosecutor, "I have Weese's campaign. Goldschmidt, a lib­ lence prone." They point out that the fident that the people of Portland will lost two sons. I just don't want to take eral, as acting mayor had issued per­ SMC has always supported peaceful, support the Committee to Defend the part in these pi;_oceedings for the pres­ mits for the May 11 march and later legal protests that can involve as Right to Protest, and see the Georgia ervation of my mental health." Jack equivocated under pressure from many people as possible who are op­ Pacific suit for what it really is-an Tenner, counsel for Jackson, said later Georgia Pacific. At first denying a posed to the war. In fact, the SMC unconstitutional attack on the civil lib­ that his client would not participate ·permit for the march, he later set the has often been criticized by those with­ erties of the thousands of Portlanders in the trial proceedings against Angela stage for a police riot by granting in the antiwar movement who favor who have protested the war." Davis because of the circumstances in which his sons were shot down by the state and because "this trial is of interest to people of color from around the world." Sixty-five dollars U of Cal Senate attacks SMC was raised from spectators in the By JOHN VOTAVA to $480 for the SMC, have consis­ antiwar groups. Instead, they main­ courtroom to help pay Jackson's fme. BERKELEY, May 27- On May 24, tently opposed the SMC's attempts to tained, it should support all of them Mter sentencing Jackson for con­ student lobby groups at the University mobilize massive numbers of people while fighting for the expansion of tempt, Judge Richard Arnason denied of California here banded together against the war, independently of any inadequate funds for student organi­ an earlier motion by the defense to with so-called anti-imperialists to pass political candidates. zations. dismiss all charges against Angela a motion in the Berkeley student It was also pointed out that such Davis. Final arguments by the prose­ senate to "phase ouf' the Student Mob­ The "anti-imperialists" disagree with actions on the part of the senate turned cution and the defense begin tomor­ ilization Committee ( SMC) from stu­ SMC's insistence on peaceful mass ac­ students against each other instead row, May 31, and the case should dent government sponsorship and tion as opposed to trashing. Five of of uniting them against the admin­ go to the jury within a week. funding. them abstained from the vote and two istration and the forces supporting the Defense supporters are planning The resolution would have only very voted in favor of the reactionary war. daily vigils outside the courthouse in limited practical effect, but its inten­ motion to deny the SMC senate ·The SMC is launching an effort to San Jose, in New York, and in other tion was to use the student senate as funding and endorsement. The mo­ have the "phase ouf' motion over­ cities while the jury is deliberating. a bludgeon against organizations tion was carried by a vote of 10 to turned. It requests that telegrams of The National United Committee to whose views differ from the ideas of 8. protest be sent to: ASUC, University Defend Angela Davis is calling for those who made the motion. Brenda Brdar and Marilyn Winch, of: California, Berkeley, Calif. 94720, local protest actions to demand that ·The student lobby groups, which both members of the student senate with copies to the SMC, Third Floor the state dismiss the charges if the initiated the action and which granted and of the SMC, argued that the sen­ Eshleman, University of California, jury returns undecided or with a ver­ themselves almost $20,000 compared ate should not discriminate among Berkeley, Calif. 94720. dict for conviction. If the jury votes for acquittal, they plan to use the victory to build the movement to free Women fight Conn. abortion law all political prisoners. By BERNIE KRAWCZYK state legislature. This bill retained all One of th!'! plaintiffs in this new suit NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 29- the restrictions contained in the old is a pregnant woman. Women v. Women v. Connecticut the group law, making abortion illegal except Connecticut reports that outraged whose court suit knocked down Con­ to save a woman's life. In addition, women are responding enthusasitical­ necticut's old anti-abortion law, has criminal penalties were increased in ly to the suit. Many are women who filed suit against the reactionary new the new bill, which Meskill signed into have never before taken action around abortion law passed by the state legis­ law May 23. any political issue. In a statement con­ lature last week. demning the Catholic Church hier­ The women involved in Women v. archy's support for the new abortion After a federal court ruled Connec­ Connecticut have pointed out that this law, a leader of Catholic Women for ticut's abortion statute unconstitution­ new law violates women's right to the Right to Choose said, "As a Catho­ al in April, Women v. Connecticut choose whether to have children, just lic woman who takes issue on the won an injunction on May 10 bar­ as the old law did. They are demand­ doctrine of the Church, but not of ring the state from prosecuting under ing that the injunction granted May 10 · God, I believe that as it is not the that law. But Governor Thomas Mes­ be extended to cover this new law. Catholic Church who will in the end kill and anti-abortio~ groups were They have also filed a contempt-of­ , sit in judgment upon my actions, nei­ quick to force a new bill through the ccourt motion against Meskill. ther should it legislate it."

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