TH£ What was Dimitrov's "united front"? - page 5 MILITANT Poll shows nse 1n black militancy Published in the interests of the Working People Vol. 33- No. 29 Friday, July 18, 1969 Price 15c - page 3 March on D.C. Nov. 15 cago called by SO in support of the eight Student Mobe activists fr a med up on a "consp ir a t~ y" ch arge in connect ion with the Chicago Nat'l antiwar parley police rio t last year . SMC will a lso help build the nationwide maps progra m mo r atorium against the war, planned by the Vietn am Moratoriu m Co mmittee for sets fall offensive Oct. 15; leaders of SMC a nd the Mor a to­ of action rium Committee a greed to cooperate in By Harry Ring getting the participati on of hundreds of By Joel Aber tho usands of students. CLEVELAND- A broadly representative gathering of antiwar activists CLEVELAND-About 500 student a nti­ Escalation of the fa ll offensive is plan­ meeting here July 4-5 initiated plans for a massive fall offensive against war activists from around the country ned for ovember, with a student strik e the Vietnam war culminating with a giant Washington demonstration meeting at Case-Western Reserve niver­ to be built for ov. 14, one day before sity here July 6 voted to plunge into build­ the massive march on Washing ton. Nov. 15 for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Vietnam. ing the fall antiwar offensive, which will Politica l diversity In two days of political discussion at the conference it was generally culminate in a massive ov. 15 march Many ideas were expressed in the plen­ agreed that opposition to the war is now clearly a m ajority sentiment on Washington, as mapped out during a ry session a nd workshops, but ther e was in the country and that, effectively organized, the Washington action the previous two days by a general a nti­ one point of general agreement - the need war conference. for effective, militant m ass action for with­ could be the most immense in the nation's history and could have ex­ Spon ored by the Student Mobilization drawal of troops from Vietnam. plosive political impact in the fight to end Washington's aggression Committee to End the War in Vietnam, the The differences of opinion exp ressed du­ against the Vietnamese revolution. Sunday conference was the most geograph­ ring the previous two d ays' conference The program of action, and creation of an organizational structure ically diverse gathering of the student wing and the d ia logue with SOS a t the SMC of the a ntiwa r movement in the past two confer ence p rovided a backdrop for much to carry it through, were agreed on after two days of discussion, some- years, with representation from mo re than (Continued on page 7 ) ( Continued on page 6) 150 loca l and national student group . Austin (Texas) Student Mobilization Com­ mittee, eattle GI-Civilian Alli a nce for Peace, Buffalo Draft Resistance Union, Madison Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Berkeley SMC, Terre Haute Draft Project, Committee of Returned Volunteers, Minnesota Resistance, Boston GI-CAP­ these were just a few of the o rga niza tions represented, in addition to a bout 10 mili­ tary bases and many high schools. For the majority, this wa their first a ntiwar conference. SDS, which had refrained from participating in a ny student a ntiwar con­ ierence for the past three years, intervened a t th is SMC conference. FaJI offensive The fall offensive charted by the SMC at this conference is a n a mbitious plan to build the most massive and intense series of antiwar actions yet-with a pre­ Jude to the fall already planned fo r Aug­ ust. SMC voted to make Hiroshima-Naga­ saki week, Aug. 3-9, a wee k of a ntiwa r actions a nd protests against the L. .­ Japan security treaty and l . S. presence in Okinawa and Viet nam. On Aug. 17, SM will help build a demonstration initi ated by the Southern California Peace Actio n Council to ta ke place at San Clemente, California, Lxon' summer White House. Photos by Shannon To begin the fall actions, SMC decided to endorse and throw its forces into helping build the Sept. 27 demo nstra tion in Chi- Prof. Sidney Peck, co-chairma n D. C. demonstration project. Student Mobilization Committee session (top) and national antiwar conference. Page 2 THE MILITANT Friday, July 18, 1969 Mississippi black proiect harassed THE MILITANT Editor: HARRY RING Business Manager: BEVERLY SCOTT the establishment. Workers from Published weekly by The Mauant Publishing Ass'n., 873 Broadway, New York, 'Nothing to the law LLL had helped the movement N.Y. 10003. Phone 533-6414. Second-class postage paid at New York, N: Y. grow in many western Kentucky Subscription: domestic, $4 a year; foreign, $5.50. By frrst class mail: domestic Letters cities, in places like Owensboro, and Canada $10.50; all ather countries, $15.00. Air printed matter: domestic m Sunflower' and Canada, $15.00; Latin America, $24.00; Europe, $28.00; Africa, Australia, Paducah, Bowling Green, Hop­ Asia (including USSR), $33.00. Write for sealed air postage rates. Signed articles Sunflower, Miss. kinsville, Henderson, Madison­ by contributors do not necessarily represent The Militant's views. These are ex­ pressed in editorials. After continual harassment for from our ville, Mayfield and numerous the past year by local residents smaller towns. It had worked with in cooperation with the mayor and students at Murray State Univer­ Vol. 33- No. 29 Friday, July 18, 1969 justice of the peace, we have sity, Western Kentucky State Uni­ •· readers versity, Brescia College and sev­ decided that we should leave the The closing news date for this issue was July 11. community center and the town eral community colleges. of Sunflower. Clothes were stolen This column is an open forum It had reached people who other­ from the center, dashikis were for all viewpoints on subjects of wise might have remained stolen from the sewing coopera­ general interest to our readers. untouched and under the thumb tive, and a teenage girl signed an Please keep your letters brief. Where of the establishment news and ally it with the capitalist United dam proposal on the grounds that affidavit charging Otis Brown necessary they will be abridged. opinion. It had worked steadfastly States. it would destroy a valuable rec­ with threatening to kill, which is Writers' initials will be used, names for an end to the war in Vietnam I don't think PL has been wrong reational area for sportsmen in a felony. The sheriff set bond at being withheld unless authorization and an end to injustice at home. in all its differences with the SWP. groups like the National Rifle $500. We got Otis out of jail that is given for use. At present there are no plans for Its position on "Jeff' labor-fakers Association. For some reason its morning and decided to press its reopening. Those who worked of the Bridges ilk has improved. effect on the lives of Indians living charges against those who had to whom you give and why you with the Liberal Lending Library PL is wrong in considering black in the area never seemed to be broken into the center and the are giVmg. We are more will, however, continue to be nationalism reactionary, but considered. worst troublemakers. concerned about the children than active in the movement for peace when nationalism is used as a Rick Feinberg The law listened to a witness of about anything, because they are and freedom. cover for "build the black bour­ the burglary and saw for them­ the ones who will be running the R.A.C. geoisie," then we should crack selves the fuss around the center, world tomorrow and they are Chairman, Committee for a down. Even Nixon can accept but they wouldn't take our com­ going to need love to encourage Liberal Lending Library nationalism on such terms, and Pittsburgh gains plaints. We couldn'tevengetpeace them to go forward. They are the SWP's attitude has been too bonds issued. The illiterate con­ also going to need good teaching, uncritical. One of the big prob­ Militant reader stable even stood outside the and coming up in Mississippi they lems has been the attitude toward center and said the people in it do not get much. We need what­ Best m America the peace movement, and this re­ needed to be killed, the center ever help you can give to help quires special discussion. Pittsburgh, Pa. burned to the ground and us carry on. Two years ago in San Fran­ I am a relatively new reader, "nothing would be did about it." Mail can still be sent to Box 398, cisco, some PLers attacked SWP but I have read The Militant with Folks around here always said Sunflower, Miss. Boxes sent by Yosemite, Calif. supporters who were handing out great enthusiasm. I was especially there was nothing to the law in other means can go to 411 Grey I have enclosed money for a leaflets. 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