• AUSTRALIA$2.00 • BELGIUM BF60 • CANADA$2.00 • FRANCE FF10 • ICELAND Kr150 • NEW ZEALAND $2.50 • SWEDEN Kr10 • UK £1.00 • U.S. $1 .50 INSIDE A reply to Boston area attacks on Mark Curtis THE PAGES 7-9 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 56/NO. 26 JULY 17, 1992 Defend Wave of mass protests abortion rights! sweeps across S. Africa The following statement was issued June 30 by James W..rren and Estelle DeBates, the Socialist ~rkers candidates for U.S. ANC breaks off negotiations after massacre president and vice-president. BY GREG McCARTAN long for democracy." In upholding both the Pennsylvania re­ Facing government intransigence at the ANC secretary gen- strictions on abortion rights and the princi­ negotiating table and a campaign of intim­ eral Cyril Ramaphosa pal pillars of the Roe v. Wade decision, the idation involving assassinations and mas­ told the press that the sacres, workers, youth, and rural toilers random shootings of Supreme Court has handed working people !" and youth who support abortion rights a new across South Africa are joining in a sus­ township residents a­ cross the country and challenge: mobilizing the majority support tained series of mass rallies, protest the court fears, to combat the persistent marches, and strikes called by the African the massacre at Boi­ patong are the govern­ chipping away at abortion rights under way National Congress. ment's response to the since 1973. The country was virtually shut down June mass action campaign. As shown in the inspiring victory for 29 as millions observed a day of mourning ., l . In the days leading up ~-...... ,. _....._ women 's rights scored in Buffalo, we can for some 40 residents of Boipatong town­ ' ship killed in an attack organized by the to the launching of the rely on our own power and strength to fight actions, 79 people were both rightist assaults on clinics and new regime's security forces. .. Picket lines and other events took place reported killed. legislation aimed at curtailing the right of "We charge [South ~ · \ *- women to safe and legal abortion. In that around the world, heeding a call by demo­ cratic organizations in South Africa for in­ African president] F.W. fight the Democratic and Republican parties de Klerk and his gov­ and their candidates- whether male or fe­ ternational solidarity with the antiapartheid struggle. ernment with complic­ male -are not the ally of working people, ity in this slaughter," he African National Congress (ANC) pres­ but the chief architects of the assault on said of the Boipatong ident Nelson Mandela called for the July abortion rights that has hit working women massacre. " It is becom­ mass action campaign after the latest round the hardest, especially those of oppressed ing clear that the of the Convention for a Democratic South nationalities. government's agenda Africa (Codesa) negotiating sessions, in­ From Buffalo to Milwaukee to Baton is that they want to ne­ volving 19 political organizations in the Rouge young people, especially, are dem­ gotiate with an ANC country, hit a deadlock. The South African onstrating a different road forward than that that is powerless and Congress of Trade Unions and other orga­ practiced by the established leaderships of has no following." nizations fighting for a democratic repub­ the National Organization for Women, The London Inde­ lic are also joining in the July actions. Planned Parenthood, and the National Abor­ pendent wrote of the tion Rights Action League. The leaders of "We are determined that the minority in Boipatong events: these organizations have said abortion rights this country is not going to dictate to the "Everybody - about will survive only if supporters elect majority," Mandela said in response to the 30 reporters fanned out Rally in Evaton addressed by Nelson Mandela was one of many "friendly" Democrats or Republicans and South African regime's insistence that mi­ around the township actions that protested massacre in Boipatong township. look to November to make a statement at nority veto rights be codified in any new interviewing eyewit­ the ballot box. They went so far with this government. The ANC has long fought for nesses-gave a similar version of the fense teams had prepared for an anack since dead-end strategy as to urge the court to majority rule, based on one person, one event." word had spread earlier in the day that overturn Roe if it did not choose to declare vote. Late in the evening police arrived in ar­ residents of a nearby hostel, the crude dor­ Pennsylvania's laws unconstitutional. mored vehicles and dispersed, with pellets mitory for workers at the state-run metallur­ The court's decision was overtly politi­ The power of the oppressed and tear gas, youth guarding barricades gical monopoly, lscor, were preparing an cal. It registered what the wealthy rulers of ''The government currently has no inten­ erected to protect the community. The de- Continued on Page 14 this country have achieved in pushing back tion of being persuaded by argument to give women's right to choose abortion. It is con­ up power," an ANC statement said. "We sistent with the character of attacks on abor­ have no choice but to call on the only power tion rights, from the Hyde Amendment to a at our disposal: the voices of the disenfran­ 100,000 demonstrate against Continued on Page 12 chised and oppressed who have waited too war at Belgrade protest rally Socialist candidate visits jevo and forces backed by the Croatian gov­ Washington moves closer ernment increasing their actions in Bosnia­ to military intervention Herzegovina. Cuba, pledges solidarity Reflecting some of the hesitations within in Yugoslavia's civil war the Bush administration and U.S. ruling cir­ cles. Secretary of State James Baker told the BY SETH GALINSKY Senate Foreign Relations Committee June In the biggest demonstration yet against the 23 that the White House had "not ruled out policies of Serbian president Slobodan Milo­ - we haven't ruled it in but we have not sevic, some l 00,000 people demonstrated June ruled out- participating in some multilat­ 28 in Belgrade demanding that he resign. eral operation" in Yugoslavia. The New York Times reported that "at the The senators questioning Baker made it rally, religious figures, labor leaders, students clear that they favor military action. and professors deplored what they described "I would support efforts that would, say, as the dictatorial and demagogic rule of the allow helicopter landings of food and med­ government and called for replacing blood­ ical supplies supported by fighters," Sen. letting with a policy of negotiations." Paul Simon told Baker. The toll from the war has reached 7,200 The world needs "some type of interna­ dead, 25,000 injured, and 1.3 million driven tional police force" under U.S. leadership, from their homes in the last three months. Simon stated. Meanwhile, the United States is moving The day after the hearings the outgoing closer to military intervention in Yugoslavia. commander of the North Atlantic Treaty President George Bush met for two hours Organization, U.S. general John Galvin, June 26 with Pentagon and Defense Depart­ said that NATO forces were "uniquely ment officials to consider "options for an ready" for such a mission. expanded role.'' Galvin described intervention in Yugosla­ In recent days the conflict has escalated, via as "our moment of great chance," and with military units of Serbian rightist forces an opportunity to "stabilize this part of the maintaining constant bombardment of Sara- Continued on Page 6 Militant/Selva Nebbia Socialist presidential candidate James W..rren (right) meets with Parmenio Or­ ' tega (left), head of 32nd brigade of Bias Roca contingent, and other members of 1 brigade, which is now working in agriculture. See article on page 16. J Campaign reports - Pages 10-11 - -·------·------IN BRIEf______

Germany passes pro-choice bill hitting on June 20 it's lowest point since October 1986. The marlcet dropped 598 The Gennan Parliament voted June 26 to points to 15,92 1.22 which represents a 59 adopt a new law allowing abortion on de­ percent decline in value since the market mand in the fu'St three months of pregnancy. peaked in 1989. The stock plunge comes as In spite of opposition from Chancellor Hel­ more pessimistic news was released on the mut Kohl, the law was approved by a vote direction of the Japanese economy. of 357 to 284, with the support of many deputies from Kohl's ruling Christian Dem­ Iraqi people continue to suffer ocratic Union. After East and West Gennany were reuni­ Recent studies show the extent of suf­ fied in October 1990, abortion remained fering that the Iraqi people continue to legal in the east and heavily restricted in the endure, nearly 16 months after the U.S. west. war on the country ended. Nearly 30,000 ''The final decision can and must be up children under the age of five have died to the woman," said Rita Siissmuth, a in the first four months of 1992. The most leading Christian Democrat who backed common cause of death is malnutrition the bill. and dehydration. This follows a Harvard Study Team report, which documented Israeli military favor negotiations more than 70,000 children under five that died in 199 1 as a result of the war and A survey published June 2 1 indicates that continuing economic sanctions. Infant a large majority of fonner Israeli generals mortality has risen 310 percent compared believe the government should be open to ~ ... (! ~· • to pre-war Iraq. conceding complete control over territories Police wade through a wheat field to reach road blockaded by French farmers occupied by Israel since 1967 in exchange Iraq's ability to purify water has yet to recover, and the country's electrical system for advancing negotiations with the sur­ tling groups seeking to become pan of Rus­ lions. The agreement will eliminate price is only at 60 percent of pre-war levels. rounding Arab regimes. The poll showed sia. In Moldova, separatist forces have re­ support guarantees. Governments will in­ Much of Iraq's agriculture depends on the that 68 percent were prepared to allow some ceived active military support from Russia's stead supplement fanner's income with di­ electrical system for suppling power for limited fonn of Palestinian control of the 14th Anny, which is still based in the coun­ rect aid payments. irrigation. A recent U.S. government report West Bank and Gaza Strip; seventy-one per­ try. "We have to call a spade a spade - we revealed that 70 percent of U.S. conven­ cent would return ''a substantial pan" of are at war with Russia," Moldovan president Casper ~i n berger indicted tional bombs missed their targets; 20 per­ Syria's Golan Heights if it would help win Mircea Snegur said. accords. Former defense secretary Caspar cent of the 88.500 tons of bombs dropped Ramos new Philippine president Weinberger became the highest ranking on Iraq have yet to explode. Labor Party wins Israeli vote Reagan administration official to be charged Fidel Ramos was proclaimed the winner with crimes in the Iran-contra investigation. El Salvador teachers strike The Labor Party, headed by Yitzhak ofthe Philippine presidential election by the Weinberger was indicted June 16 on five Rabin, soundly defeated the governing congress, after six weeks of counting ballots felony counts including lying to Congress The National Association of Salvadoran Likud Party in national elections that took and fraud investigations. Ramos, a leading and obstructing government investigations. Educators (ANDES) called a strike of place in Israel June 23. A central debate in figure in both the Ferdinand Marcos and Among the charges is concealing 1,700 27,000 teachers May 31. Jorge Villegas, the elections wac; the ongoing Mideast peace Corazon Aquino governments, will be inau­ pages of diary notes on the government general secretary of ANDES, said that negotiations involving Israel, Palestinian gurated June 30. operation to finance the contra war against teachers' average salary of 1,200 colons representatives, and the surrounding Arab Ramos has stated that he intends to hold Nicaragua with sales of military equipment ($ 150) per month doesn't even meet basic countries. Rabin promised he would open peace talks with the New People's Anny, the to Iran at a time when aid to the contras was needs. ANDES is seeking a raise of at least discussions on Israeli control of the occu­ anned wing of the Communist Party, as well prohibited by law. 400 colons. The union has just announced pied territories as pan of the negotiations. as with a layer of military officers that have Weinberger's indictment has led to in­ that it intends to begin organizing hunger Likud leader Yi tzhak Shamir rejects that made several coup attempts against Aquino. creased calls by the right wing for Presi­ strikes in selected areas to press their de­ perspective. dent Bush to stop the investigation by mands. French farmers protest independent counsel Lawrence Walsh. Russia threatens Moldova Fanners in France have organized a series Some are demanding an end to all inde­ Navy chief resigns pendent counsels. Walsh's five-year-long Russian president Boris Yeltsin said he of protests against the European Com­ Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett, the investigation, which began under the was ready to order the Russian anny into munity's new fann policy. Fanners have U.S. Navy's highest-ranking official since Reagan administration, has cost an esti­ regions of the fonner Soviet Union. Yeltsin dumped tons of produce in the streets of 1989. resigned June 26. said that Russian anned forces would take major cities, set up road blocks on high­ mated $30 million. action in Moldova if the conflict did not ways, and have jammed traffic in many His resignation stems from his atten­ end. "We have the strength to do it," areas with tractors. A group of fanners has Zaire seizes oil company assets dance at a convention of the Tailbook As­ sociation, a private group of Navy pilots Yeltsin stated. Russian vice-president Al­ announced plans to blockade Paris until the The government of Zaire announced held September 7 in Las Vegas. Drunken exander Rutskoi added, " If one more shell policy is reversed. June 6 that it is seizing the assets of all groups of pilots and officers surrounded falls on the territory of a military unit or The movement, spearheaded by large foreign oil companies in an effort to ease women in the hotel and forced them to pass on civilian headquarters, the side that farming concerns and capitalist growers, is fuel shortages and "to prevent the already a gauntlet where the men grabbed at their launched it will get 10 times as much in protesting an agreement reached by EC sick national economy from dying of suf­ breasts and buttocks and stripped their return." member governments in May. Many work­ focation." The government said that the clothes. In Georgia, government annies are bat- ing fanners have been drawn into the ac- measure is temporary, that companies will be reimbursed for supplies taken, and that Garrett claimed he was unaware of the equipment and property would be returned, mass sexual harassment. 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2 The Militant July 17, 1992 Pro-choice activists defend abortion clinics in Milwaukee against right-wing

BY RICHARD GAETA ney supporting the coalition said, "lf they MILWAUKEE-The Milwaukee Clinic had let us do our job this wouldn't have Protection Coalition is organizing success­ happened." ful countennobilizations against attempts According to pro-choice activists, it took by Missionaries for the Prebom to close 30 cops one hour to arrest the "antis" while down the city's six clinics that provide 600 choicers watched. abortion services here. The antiabortion Janet Barisonzi, an activist from Madi­ group has turned out 750 people who have son, said, "If the antichoice groups try to gathered for a six-week campaign to shut break our line we're going to stop them." the clinics down. Joann Maske, a teacher and antiabortion Protests have taken place at three of the activist, protested across the street with ten city's clinics. At Summit Women's Health others from the Lutheran Pastors for Life. Organization, 300 defenders of abortion "1 don't have a problem with the way they rights faced off opponents. At the Affiliate express their opinion," stated Maske. "But, clinic, pro-choice activists outnumbered I personally won't do it that way. Abortion rightists and at the Wisconsin Women's goes against what my lord says, thou shall Health Care Center clinic, defenders num­ not get pregnant. You have a choice. And if bered 800 to 150 antichoice protesters. she did not have a choice God will get her At the Women's Health Care Center, Rick through it somehow." Giombetti, a student from Madison, said, "I Businessman and Missionary activist came here last November and witnessed a David Borchardt said of the actions: "We 'rescue' where the cops took three hours to worry about children protesting but we are arrest 96 people. There were 35 pro-choicers not concerned about children getting watching - there was no defense. Two killed." months ago there was no pro-choice coali­ A petition to the mayor was circulating tion. But, today this says it all." among the Missionaries for the Prebom, Over the course of the week, 326 anti­ demanding the release of those arrested for abortion protesters were arrested, 116 of "saving lives." In a cynical attempt to por­ them children - some as young as seven tray themselves as victimized civil rights years. The children do not pay fines for advocates, the petition states that "at one trespassing or disorderly conduct, and were time Blacks and Jews were non-entities. released to the custody of an adult. Now Christians that are saving lives are At the Women's Health Care Center, non-entities." They chanted, "He be ho ho, clinic defenders locked arms in rows three murder for profit has to go." Pro-choice supporters defending abortion clinic in Milwaukee. Antiabortion protesters or four deep and surrounded the parking lot Pro-choice advocates retorted, "Freedom have been successfully outmobilized at three of the city's clinics. chanting, "Hey hey; ho ho; we kicked you is a lot to loose - we '11 protect our right to out of Buffalo. He, ho; he, he; we'll kick choose." you out of Milwaukee." Clinic defender Josie Osborne said, "It A few clinic defenders held placards that only one tactic. Without action like this Applause erupted when two buses with really surprised me to see how many cars said, "Pass the Freedom of Choice Act." - it's meaningless." sixty officers arrived. Many credited the would go by and honk for choice. Con­ referring to a congressional bill to legalize Clinic supporters carne from all over the police with keeping the clinic open. struction workers, truck drivers - not abortion if Roe v. Wade, the Supreme country to defend Milwaukee's clinics. The following day abortion rights activ­ your stereotypical feminists - they all Court ruling decriminalizing abortion, is Among the activists were members of Buf­ ists were barred from the clinic. After 30 honk." overturned. But most clinic defenders falo United for Choice, who are teaching abortion foes were arrested for charging Another activist added, '1'he days of the didn't know much about the Jaw and pro-choice activists successful techniques the doors, police allowed clinic defenders redneck trucker is dissipating- the truck­ placed little hope in it. used to oust supporters of Operation Rescue free movement. Stephen Glynn, an attor- ers keep honking." An elderly woman said, "The Jaw is in Buffalo. Outcome of railroad dispute 1992 International Socialist Conference is setback for labor movement THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO TODAY August 5-9 at Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio BY PAUL MAILHOT rier, Congress would not be able to pass The outcome of the latest dispute between back-to-work legislation under the pretext rail workers and the wealthy owners of the of a "national emergency." Join with unionists, students and other morel Conference classes and feature rail industry was a setback for the labor But the tactic backftred when the employ­ youth, participants in protests against po­ presentations will discuss how fighters movement. ers responded in a decisive manner by or­ lice brutality and in defense of abortion and revolutionary minded workers and On June 25 Congress ordered rail workers ganizing their own strike against the unions, rights, socialist· candidates for public of­ youth can draw on the historic lessons back on the job for the 18th time since 1963 locking out rail workers within hours at 38 fice, and others from around the world. of the working class and communist after employers responded to a strike by different companies, and thereby causing a There will be classes, workshops, fea­ movement in confronting the wars, rac­ 1,500 members of the International Associ­ slowdown of goods moving across the coun­ ture presentations, social events, and ism, and economic crisis of capitalism. ation of Machinists (lAM) against CSX with try. Companies heavily dependent on "on a nationwide rail shutdown. time" delivery of goods by rail, such as the Conference schedule Three separate rail worker disputes came auto manufacturers, began announcing pro­ duction cutbacks almost immediately. When to a head on June 24-one involving ma­ Wednesday, August 5: Friday, August 7: chinists and the entire rail freight industry, the rail union officialdom made it clear they EVENING FEATURE PRESENTATION: "The another with the Brotherhood of Mainte­ had no intention of turning the lockout into Feature presentation: "The Struggle in a strike, Congress quickly passed legislation Communist Manifesto Today" by Jack South Africa Today" by Greg McCartan, nance of Way Employees (BMWE) against Barnes, National Secretary, Socialist Editor, the Militant. the Conrail freight line, and a third involving ordering a settlement for all the rail unions involved in disputes. Workers Party. • Lunch six unions and the Amtrak passenger line. • Classes and Workshops Union members in all three disputes, who Congress imposed a new 20-day negoti­ • Dinner haven't had a contract since 1988, were ating period for the companies and the Thursday, August 6: International Youth Panel. legally free to strike on June 24 after having unions. lf no agreement is reached after that gone through lengthy, federally mandated time labor and management are to submit FEATURE PRESENTATION: "The Communist their "last best offer" to an arbitrator who Foundations of the Fight for Women's "cooling off' periods. Rights" by Mary-Alice Waters, Editor, Saturday, August 8: picks one or the other within 15 days. Unless Rather than organizing a strike at all the New lntemational. FEATURE PRESENTATION: "The Changing affected lines, union officials decided to set President Bush disapproves of the arbiter's • Lunch Face of Europe" by Sven Carlson. up pickets at CSX, the nation's third largest decision it becomes law within three days. • Class and Workshops • Lunch freight carrier. They rationalized the limited This latest government action brings vir­ • Dinner • Classes character of the strike by arguing that, since tually every rail worker in the country under MULTI-MEDIA PROGRAM: "Expanding the Ar­ • Dinner the strike would only affect a regional car- Continued on Page JS senal of Revolutionary books and Litera­ RALLY: Hear James Warren and Estelle ture-Reconstruction of the Pathfinder DeBates, Socialist Workers candidates Building." for U.S. President and Vice-President. Judge awards funds to Curtis and his attorneys • Housing and meals costs per day: Sunday, August 9: $27.60 per person, double room BY BRIAN WILLIAMS monetary compensation judgement they • Registration cost per day: $12.00 FEATURE PRESENTATION: "Tasks of Revolu­ Imprisoned unionist and political activist had won against Curtis on January 9, 1991. tionary Workers and Youth in 1992." Mark Curtis won a victory in federal district Curtis won his suit against the Des Moines court June 29 in the final settlement of a cops a year later on January 31, 1992. civil rights case against the Des Moines Morris had demanded that money cops. Judge Charles Wolle ruled that the awarded to Curtis's attorneys for costs in Yes, I want to attend the conference. Send me more infonnation. defendants, police officers Wolf and taking this civil rights case should instead Name Addre-~------Dusenberry, must pay to Curtis $11,000 and go to him. The judge ruled against Morris, to his attorneys $49,000 plus interest. stating, "The attorney fee contract signed by City State Zip.______The ruling stems from a challenge filed Curtis operates as a valid assignment to his Phone Age.______attorneys of any recovery on this claim." by attorneys for Keith and Denise Morris, For more information phone: (216) 861 -6150 the parents of the woman Curtis allegedly The court also rejected Morris's claim to raped. The Morris's argued they were enti­ the $11 ,000 awarded to Cwtis because they Send to: Socialist Workers Party, 406 West St., New York, N.Y. 10014. tled to this money as a result of an $80,000 filed the necessary legal papers too late.

J uly 17, 1992 The Militant 3 Delegates throughout the Americas attend conference on legacy of Che Guevara

BY ARGIRIS MALAPANIS ROSARIO, Argentina-"Discussion a­ bout political alternatives in Latin America and the Caribbean today must begin from an international perspective," said German Sanchez at the opening of an international seminar on the occasion of the 64th anni­ versary of the birth of Emesto Che Guevara. "There has been a historic fai lure of cap­ italism, which Cbe explained," Sanchez added. Around the world, and particularly in Latin America, "there can be no develop­ ment within capitalism. Claims of 'growth"' hide the fact that "there is a dramatic decline in the living standards of working people. It is necessary to look for solutions outside of and in opposition to capitalism," he said. Sanchez was one of two delegates of the Communist Party of Cuba at the conference, which took place June 12-14 here at the birthplace of Che Guevara - an Argentine who became one of the central leaders of the Cuban revolution. The gathering, hosted by the Argentine Communist Party and a number of other Of$anizations on the left in this country, was entitled, "Debate and Search for a Revolu­ tionary Political Alternative in Latin Amer­ ica and the Caribbean Today: Homage to Emesto Che Guevara" Some 300 delegates and observers took part in the conference. Forty-nine of these } ..Propue sta delegates came from 23 organizations in 13 countries in the Americas other than Argen­ Some 300 participants attended conference in Argentina: 'Debate and Search for a Revolutionary 1\>litical Alternative in Latin tina. America and the Caribbean.' Final declaration stated, 'Capitalism has not offered any solutions to crises affecting our societies.' Participants included representatives of PT of Brazil, had issued a strong declaration meeting was what caused the breakup of the Los Angeles, and the recent threats of im­ the Workers Party (PT) of Brazil, the Com­ on behalf of the socialist and anti-imperialist Soviet Union and its implications for the perialist military intervention in Yugoslavia munist Party and the Sim6n Bolivar Guer­ left in Latin America and the Caribbean. The relationship of forces in the working-class and Haiti show that the capitalist rulers will rilla Coordinating body of Colombia, the final resolution adopted by the Mexico City movement internationally. lead humanity to World War ill if they can Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) meeting of the Forum registered a notable Grave errors committed during the pres­ inflict defeats on the working class, ex­ and the Communist Party of Chile, the retreat from the Sao Paulo declaration. It idency of Leonid Brezhnev in the former plained the socialist candidate. "The resis­ Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front reflected the weight of procapitalist forces Soviet Union "facilitated the entry of the tance of working people, from South Africa (FMLN) of El Salvador, the Guatemalan such as the Revolutionary Democratic Party Trojan horse, perestroika, which destroyed to Thailand, to the onslaught by the wealthy National Revolutionary Unity (URNG), the of Mexico, the host organization, which ori­ the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe part rulers," said Ruby, "show that the working Revolutionary Democratic Party of Panama, ents to electoral contests in the hope of by pan," said Manuel Ramos of the CP from class will get its chance to take the power the Communist of Paraguay, the Uni­ Party taking over the reins of the capitalist gov­ Paraguay, "until it decimated those coun­ out of the hands of the warmakers before fied Mariateguista Party (PUM) of Peru, ernment. It also reflected the accelerated tries under the political banner of ' more such a world disaster." several organizations that are part of the rightward shift of organizations such as the democracy, more socialism'." Ruby pointed to a speech in March by Broad Front of Uruguay, and the Socialist FMLN and the Sandinista National Libera­ Ramos argued that "it was the anti-com­ former president Richard Nixon, who ex­ Workers of the United States. Party tion Front (FSLN) of Nicaragua, as they munist gang headed by [Mikhail) plained that the U.S. did not win the cold Besides the Communist Party of Cuba, increasingly abandoned the vestiges of an Gorbachev in collaboration with imperial­ war. "In fact Washington lost the cold war," the only other organizations from the Car­ anticapitalist program and searched for ac­ ism" that was responsible for the fall of said Ruby. "The collapse of the bureaucratic ibbean that sent representatives were the commodations with U.S. imperialism. "Eastern European socialism." regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Lavalas movement from Haiti, and the A third meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum The Cuban delegate presented a different Soviet Union means that imperialism has to Communist Party of the Dominican Repub­ is scheduled to take place in Managua, Nic­ view. "It is not our socialism. not the social­ confront workers there directly. There is for lic, whose delegate also represented the Do­ aragua, July 16-19. ism that we aspire for, that died," said the first time in decades the possibility of minican Caarnafiista Revolutionary Front. Sanchez. What many refer to as the "crisis joint action between workers there and in Many of the organizations and individu­ Most of the organizations at the Rosario of socialism" in the former Soviet Union has the capitalist world." als at the Rosario conference had joined the meeting had participated in two previous its roots "in strategic errors committed in the "In today 's world, Che's communist per­ debate as part of the anti-imperialist and gatherings ofpolitical parties from Latin Amer­ second half of the 1920s." spective and the example of the revolution prosocialist forces at the Mexico City gath­ ica and the Caribbean called the Sao Paulo The late 1920s and the early 1930s was he helped to lead are more relevant than ering last year. Forum. The Forum was first convened in Sao the period, after the death of V.I. Lenin, ever," stated Ruby. Paulo, Brazil,inJuly 1990. 1tssecondmeeting Soviet Union breakup when a bureaucratic layer headed by Joseph Conference participants were quite inter­ took place in June 1991 in Mexico City. Stalin consolidated control of the leadership ested in discussing politics in the United The Sao Paulo gathering, hosted by the One of the points of debate at the Rosario of the Bolshevi k party and destroyed it as a States, including the recent antipolice riot revolutionary organization. in Los Angeles. The socialist candidate was "We don't think that that kind of old interviewed by several radio stations, in­ socialism will be reborn nor do we wish that cluding a live show. and a local TV station further reading from Pathfin der on it be reborn. We strive for the socialism that during the course of the conference. the Cuban revolution fought for," said Sanchez. "Cuba does not just deserve your Role of elections Che Guevara today solidarity, but the course of the revolution Another point of discussion was the par­ that Che advocated serves as an example." ticipation in electoral contests and the elec­ In a written contribution distributed to tion to government posts of candidates from conference participants. Sanchez explained, some of the parties at the gathering. ''The grave errors and explosive failures of "We want to win governmental elections the self-proclaimed real socialism, which in not to administer the economic crisis, but in the name of so-called socialist democracy order to fonn popul ar, national, anti-impe­ attempted to impose unpopular, anti­ rialist policies," said Hugo Cores, parlia­ democratic and therefore anti-socialist re­ mentary deputy of the Party for the Victory gimes, laid the basis for its self-destruction." of the People (PVP) from Uruguay. The Dozens of delegates and observers took PVP is part of the Broad Front, a coalition the floor throughout the two-day conference of parties headed by retired Gen. Lfber to address some of the same themes. The Seregni, which runs the city government in CheGuevara Che Guevara: Che Guevara, meeting was organized as a single plenary Montevideo. Uruguay's capital. and the Cuban Economics and Cuba, and the session, which allowed most of those who Luis Eduardo Greenhalgh, a member of Revolution. Writ­ Politics in the Road to Social­ spoke to address the gathering only once. the national directorate of the PT and deputy ism. An exchange mayor of Sao Paulo, recounted recent ex­ ings and Speeches Transition to So­ 'New world disorder' of Emesto Che cwlism, by Carlos of views on the periences of the party in winning local gov­ Guevara. The Tablad.a. Che Gue­ place ofChe "Co ntrary to what many spokespeople for ernmental posts. ''Many comrades who most extensive col­ vara saw political Guevara's perspec­ imperialism argued earlier, we are not faced spoke of revolution. who were part of the lection in English consciousness and tive. 204 pp. $10. with a new world order but a new world struggle, after they get elected in office tell of Guevara's writ­ control by working disorder," said Aaron Ruby of the Socialist workers to be reasonable, patient, and re­ ings. 413 pp. people as key to Workers Party from the United States. He is sponsible," he said. The PT needs to focus $20.95. building socialism. a candidate for city council in Washington, its attention on advancing the interests of 286 pp. $16.95 D.C. "We live in a period of a world eco­ the workers, Greenhalgh said. nomic depression when the conflicts be­ Greenhalgh referred to Cuban president To order a copy of these publications or obtain a copy of the complete Pathfinder catalog. visit the tween Washington, Bonn, Tokyo and other Fidel Castro's June 13 speech at the Earth bookstores listed on page /6 or write Pathfinder, 4 /0 West St., New York, NY 10014. Please include $3 imperialist powers are intensifying." Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "Fidel for postage and handling for first title. $50 each additional title. The U.S.-Ied war against Iraq, its domes­ spoke yesterday for four-and-a-half minutes tic application in May aga inst the people of Continued on Page 5

4 The Militant J uly 17, 1992 Argentine students protest government plan to slash funds for public education

BY AARON RUBY debt. We can never allow the standard of BUENOS AIRES, Argentina- Huge living of workers and peasants to be de­ banners reading "In defense of public edu­ stroyed in order to pay the debt." cation" filled the streets of central Buenos "We're not willing to pay for a diploma. Aires June 19 as more than 10,000 high Education is our ri ght! " said Paula school and university stude nts marched Guersenyvaig, 20, a science major at her from the School of Medicine to the National first demonstration. Luciano Delaura, an 18- Congress. It was the largest student protest year-old sociology major, asked, "If they since 1986. don't have the money for education then The demonstration capped off a series of how can they pay the foreign debt?'' Veron­ rallies, marches, and sit-downs in the streets ica, another sociology student, wasn't sure against proposed government measures to if the students would win but, "the only slash federal funding for education. The thing we can do is to protest." Militant/Argiris Malapanis student protests coincide with a fight by The protests began in early June with the June 19 march in Buenos Aires was la rgest student protest since 1986 high school and college teachers across the resignations of75 teachers at the Bernasconi country for higher pay. school over pay inequalities and then rap­ teachers union, which has called a nation­ 3,000 aircraft workers, organized in the As­ "We're marching in defense of public ed­ idly spread to other schools around Buenos wide 72-hour strike for the last week of sociation of State Workers (ATE) occupied ucation so that it doesn't become a privilege Aires. "We 're not going to let them privatize June. the highway to C6rdoba, one of the largest of the rich," explained Daniel Yasky,a student the schools even if we have to shut the whole Recent government moves to end fed­ cities in Argentina, to protest 15-day layoffs at the School of Social Communications. country down," said Leandro Rodriguez, eral education funding, by transferring fi­ by the company. general secretary of the student council at Banners and signs called for"No tuition!" nancial subsidies currently paid by the ln addition, medical center employees in Public university education is currently free. the Carlos Pelegrini High School in Buenos federal government over to the cities and Buenos Aires have organized sit-downs de­ Aires during a 5,000-strong demonstration The proposed measures by the government provjnces by July 1992 are seen as an manding that they be permanently assigned of high school students June 17. "Students of Carlos Saul Menem will result in monthly attack on the right to free public education. at full pay to their current jobs. tuition fees of up to $ 120. Students also and teachers are together in this fight," he Municipal and provincial authorities say The protests by students and workers are carried placards demanding, "No to pay­ added. they do not have the necessary funds. unfolding as the economic and social crisis ment of the foreign debt" and "Don't con­ Teachers at federally funded schools re­ There is no government proposal as to how in Argentina worsens. Thirty children die vert the university into a shopping mall!" ceive a monthly base pay 40 percent lower educational budgets will be met following each day of malnutrition. Illiteracy has now than at municipal schools. the proposed transfers, which leaves open Ariel Rodriguez, president of the Feder­ reached 80 percent in some northern re­ the possibility of massive privatization of ation of University Students of Argentina A government-announced pay raise to gions of the country. Tuberculosis has in­ schools. (FUA), which called the march, said. "The gradually level salary inequalities between creased by 40 percent since last year. Chol­ government is slashing funds for education teachers paid by the municipalities and the Other workers have also been taking to era has reached epidemic levels with more and other social services to pay the foreign state was rejected as insufficient by the the streets in protest. On June 10, nearly than 400 officially acknowledged cases this year. ln this situation rightist forces using populist demagogy are getting a hearing. Conference discusses Che Guevara Military officers who led attempted coups Continued from Page 4 tragedy that continues to get worse." armed forces of Peru. over the last years have formed the Move­ and was applauded for more than five min­ The declaration affirmed the participants' A separate resolution was adopted calling ment for National Dignity (Modin), a utes. Fidel told the heads of state what we've "anti-imperialism." ln vague terms it spoke for an end to the repression by the military rightist party. Modin posters in Buenos tried to explain all along in Rio. That the of "the necessity to fight for alternative regime in Haiti and the return of deposed Aires call for "Loyalty, stability, and pa­ biggest environmental problem, the animal economic and political models that with the president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Another triotism." By denouncing corruption and that faces extinction in Latin America and the protagon ism and participation of the people resolution demanded the freeing of political the increasingly difficult conditions that world is called 'human being'," he said. can produce integral democracies that can prisoners throughout the Americas. the poor face in strident nationalist terms, The PT delegation attracted the interest guarantee the advance toward an authentic At the end of the conference, a meeting Modin garnered some 20 percent of the of many participants. Luis Bilbao, director socialism." of representatives of all the parties present vote in the September 1991 elections in of the magazine Crftica published in Buenos Most delegates felt that, even with the decided to launch a Latin American mag­ poor working-<:lass sections around Bue­ Aires, said that the formation of a similar ambiguities of the adopted declaration. the azine to continue the discussion begun at nos Aires. workers party was possible and necessary in gathering would help to increase collabora­ the Rosario gathering. The magazine's ed­ Former army colonel Aldo Rico, who is Argentina. tion of the anti-imperialist forces in Latin itorial board will include representatives the head of Modin, stated in a recent news­ America and the Caribbean. of the PT; the PRD of Panama; the Com­ Defending Cuba paper interview that Argentina is "on the The declaration condemned the suspen­ munist Parties of Cuba, Argentina. and the edge of a conflict with Chile" due to the Defense of Cuba's sovereignty and its sion of the constitution and democratic Dominican Republic; and the magazine "imbalance produced by the lack of national right of self-determination was a theme that ri ghts by president Alberto Fujimori and the Crftica. power." ran throughout the conference. The final declaration adopted by the meeting called for defending Cuba ''from the prescriptions and changes that the United States attempts Supreme Court strikes down 'hate crimes' law to impose on it. "We call for defense of [Cuba's] self-de­ BY GREG ROSE cials have done little to press. Civil liberties and civil rights groups took termination and its socialist road, which has ST. PAUL. Minnesota-The U.S. Su­ Court Justice Antonio Scalia, writing the opposing positions on the law. The NAACP, permitted it to exhibit gains and values that preme Court unanimously struck down as majority opinion, was joined by Chief Jus­ Asian American Legal Defense Fund, and demonstrate its superiority over the dramatic unconstitutional a St. Paul "hate crimes" tice William Rehnquist, and Justices An­ B'nai Brith supported it, while the American conditions that face the rest of the continent." ordinance on June 23. Similar laws have thony Kennedy, David Souter, and Clarence Civil Liberties Union argued against it. Reflecting the assessment of many dele­ been adopted in dozens of cities across the Thomas. Scalia concluded that "the ordi­ Thomas Zachary, youth coordinator for gates that the crisis of capitalism has caused United States and at public universities. nance is facially unconstitutional in that it St. Paul's NAACP, told a press conference devastating conditions for working people The St. Paul law states, "Whoever places prohibits otherwise permitted speech solely "if a person bums a cross on my yard, I'm in Latin America and the Caribbean, the on public or private property a symbol, ob­ on the basis of the subjects the speech ad­ going to shoot him. There's no ifs, there's final declaration said, "Now more than ever ject, appellation, characterization, or graf­ dresses." Scalia said that the "First Amend­ no ands, and there's no buts about it. The this barbarous capitalist civilization has fiti, including, but not limited to, a burning ment does not permit St. Paul to impose Supreme Court will never get a chance to brought life in our underdeveloped and op­ cross or Nazi swastika, which one knows or special prohibitions on those speakers who do any of that if you bum a cross on my pressed part of the conti nent to the brink of has reasonable grounds to know arouses express views on disfavored subjects." yard." death." anger, alarm or resentment on the basis of Scalia wrote, "Let there be no mistake Russ Jones, whose family was targeted in In the United States, the declaration said, race, color, creed, religion or gender com­ about our belief that burning a cross in the cross burning, told the Minneapolis Star "intense racial and social protests, a sharp­ mits disorderly conduct and shall be guilty someone's front yard is reprehensible. But Tribune, "The people who did this will think ening of the recession and the questioning of a misdemeanor." St. Paul has sufficient means at its disposal of it as a victory. That's where I have a of its bipartisan system by broad sectors of The chalJenge to the law was brought by to prevent such behavior without adding the problem when I think of the constitution." that society, exhibit a growing deterioration Robert Viktora, a self-proclaimed white sep­ First Amendment to the ftre." Several liberal Rev. Oliver White said, 'This ruling by of its internal situation and its notable de­ aratist. On June 21, 1990, Viktora and some commentators wondered aloud whether the the Supreme Court now provides 100 per­ cline as an economic power. friends were drinking and talking about court's ruling inferred that cross burning is cent octane of horror. " "Thecrisisalsoaffectsothercapitalistpow­ causing some "skinhead trouble," and an act of free expression. Chris Nisan and Jo Rothenberg, Socialist ers and is reflected in strong inter-imperialist "burning some niggers." The four teenagers Since the city of St. Paul brought charges Workers candidates for Congress from Min­ contradictions. That points to conflicts for the constructed a cross, took it into the yard of on the basis of such "speech," it allowed neapolis and St. Paul, respectively, de­ redivision of the world which result in serious Russ and Laura Jones. a Black family that Robert Viktora to claim that he was simply nounced city officials and the cops for not tensions and risks of new confrontations. had recently moved into that east St. Paul exercising "freedom of expression" by doing enough to convict the teen thugs "But that is not all. .. Capitalism has not neighborhood, and set it on fire. burning the cross on the Jones's lawn. under ordinary leglislation. offered nor can it produce any solutions to 'The problem with the law," said the crises affecting our societies." Both Vtktora and his friend Arthur Miller Justices Byron White, Harry Blackmun, were charged under the "hate crimes" law. and John Paul Stevens concurred with the Rothenberg, "is that it is so vague and gen­ In the Third World, the declaration con­ eral it can be used to deny freedom of ti nued, "all the models and policies imple­ Miller pleaded guilty and was sentenced to majority opinion, but were critical of its thirty days in jail. But Vtktora challenged breadth, arguing that more narrowly worded speech, not just terrorist and threatening mented through the structures of dependent actions like cross burnings. Under a law like capitalism, whether fascist, liberal, populist, the ordinance as unconstitutional. Viktora hate laws might be consistent with First Continued on Page 16 neoliberal, or reformist have generated a still faces assault charges, which city offi- Amendment protections. July 17, 1992 The Militant 5 - - INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO WIN NEW READERS 'Militant' gets good response from rail workers

BY BRIAN WILLIAMS Many bought the Militant because it is the The Militant has been part of the discus­ campaign newspaper and the way to follow sions about how to respond to the bosses' what the campaign has to say. Of great offensive against the rights and living stan­ interest was the Militant's coverage on Rod­ dardofrailworkers.Asthesediscussionshave ney King and the demand to stop the frame­ unfolded over the past several weeks, social­ ups in Los Angeles." ists active in the United Transportation Union Many of the participants in the June 12-14 have sold 65 Militant subscriptions to rail conference on the legacy ofChe Guevara held workers - I 08 percent of their goal. in Rosario, Argentina, eagerly signed up to Sales to rail workers have been brisk receive the Spanish monthly Perspectiva leading up to the contract deadline and what Mundial. A total of 45 Perspectiva Mundial turned into a national lockout by the rail subscriptions and one to the Militant were bosses. In Los Angeles, campaign support­ sold to those attending this gathering. ers have been organizing special teams to reach rail workers with the Militant. During As the circulation campaign heads into the the past week more than 60 papers have final stretch towards the July 25 deadline, a been sold to rail workers in the Los Angeles number of cities have raised their Militant area and at a rail center located in Barstow, goals. These include: Los Angeles, New California, where socialist campaigners sold Haven, Connecticut, Vancouver, British Co­ 4 papers at the rai I yard and another 16 at a lumbia, and Auckland and Wellington, New Militant/Steve Marshall nearby shopping center. Zealand. Supporters in Sweden have already 'Militant' sales at Newark, New Jersey, protest to condemn cop shooting of Howard In New York, sales teams visiting several reached 100 percent of their goal. Caesar. rail yards sold 15 papers last week in addition to some 15 papers sold by socialist rail work­ ers on the job during the past several weeks. Massive antiwar protest in Belgrade As petitioning drives to place the Social­ ist Workers candidates on the ballot have moved into high gear in a number of states, Continued from front page framed as a question of how to stop the The Serbian rightists in Bosnia are world - not only the alliance, but Central socialist campaigners have been meeting Serbian "aggressor." The United States in­ backed with heavy arms and in some cases, and Eastern Europe." and introducing the Militant to thousands of sists that any intervention take place under air power, from the Belgrade-based Yugo­ working people and youth. The New York Times and Washington United Nations cover or with the support of slav army, giving the lie to Milosevic's other European governments. In Chicago, where a drive to collect Post have repeatedly called on Washington claims that he has no control over them. But underlying the discussion is 30,000 signatures has just been successfully to intervene sooner rather than later. In a One of the main groups behind the fight­ completed, supporters sold 25 Militant sub­ June 24 editorial, the Times argues that Washington's desire to defend its miJitary ing is Radovan Karadzic 's Serbian Dem­ scriptions over the course of the three-and­ fears about "a bloody Balkan quagmire" and political dominance and strike a pre­ ocratic Party, the sister party in Bosnia of a-half-week petitioning effort. Pat Smith re­ should be put aside and decisive action emptive blow against its potential rivals in Milosevic's Socialist Party. Other armed ports: "Most of these were sold from cam­ taken. Europe, especially Germany. groups tied to rightist political parties that paign tables set up by the petitioning teams. The debate over intervention is often From the beginning of the war between back the campaign of Karadzic, for "an rival regimes in the various former regions ethnically pure" Bosnia purged of non­ of Yugoslavia the goals of the rulers of the Serbs have names 1ike the Tigers, White United States, along with its junior partner Eagles, and Chetniks. Sales Drive Scoreboard in Britain, have collided with those of According to news reports, the Serbian Germany. Bonn backed early recognition rightists have some support among Serbs in of Croatia as an independent state, forcing the Bosnian countryside. But in the cities, Perspectivs L'lnter- New Washington to reluctantly foiJow suit. they have relied entirely on terror, not just The Militant Mundis/ nstlonsllste International Total Washington's fears of Bonn's intentions against Muslims and Croats but also against Tatel to play an increasingly dominant role in Serbs. Serbs who refuse to join the rightist Areas Goel %Sold Goal Sold Goal Sold Goal Sold Goal Sold Sold Europe were further heightened by the May forces have been beaten. announcement of a new joint French-Ger­ U,..D STAms man military corps that by its very existence Seattle 120 107 89% 35 20 3 3 25 22 183 152 calls into question U.S. leadership in the Des Moines. lA 130 105 81% 25 20 2 1 40 16 197 142 Los Angeles· 200 150 75% 110 87 4 1 110 66 424 304 region. Washing1on DC 130 96 74% 20 23 10 3 55 35 215 157 The German government has begun sup­ Selling the Salt Lake City 130 94 72% 20 8 2 0 30 9 182 111 plying modem arms to the regime of Franjo Philadelphia 85 61 72% 20 22 3 0 30 12 138 95 Tudjman in Zagreb, Croatia. An article in socialist press Birmingham, AL 80 57 71% 5 2 2 0 40 2 127 61 the June 24 Washington Post states that 150 Chicago 150 104 69% 35 19 5 0 70 25 260 148 German-made 205 millimeter Messer­ Twin Cities, MN 140 97 69% 20 12 2 0 30 15 192 124 schmitt howitzers, with computerized tar­ to unionists Pittsburgh 90 60 67% 5 5 2 0 30 3 127 68 geting systems and a 17 -mile range, were Greensboro, NC 80 52 65% 8 8 2 1 15 6 105 67 sold by Bonn to the Croatian government San Francisco 150 96 64% 50 12 8 0 70 45 278 153 four months ago along with tanks. A Bosn­ Mlllta.nt• Newlnt'l Atlanta 90 57 63% 8 8 2 1 30 14 130 80 ian artillery specialist described the guns as Union % Sold (Goal) Sold (Goal) Sold Houston 80 50 63% 20 13 2 0 20 6 122 69 UNITED STATz:S Newark. NJ 160 100 63% 50 23 15 9 70 22 295 154 "the best howitzer in the world." AClWU 53% 55 29 25 5 lAM 63% 110 69 19 Morgantown. WV 49 61% 2 115 72 The Croatian government, after losing 8 80 3 3 0 30 20 ILGWU 70% 46 32 5 6 St. Louis 100 60 60% 5 1 2 0 25 1 132 62 one-third of its territory to Serbia in earlier OCAW 92% 39 36 15 3 Portland 10 6 60% 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 6 fighting, has begun to take the counteroffen­ UAW 93% 75 70 15 3 UFCW Boston 135 78 58% 40 39 15 2 50 24 240 143 68% 90 61 30 10 sive both in Croatia and Bosnia with the aid USWA 78% 85 66 20 1 Baltimore 110 62 56% 12 8 3 2 30 5 155 77 of its newly acquired German weapons. UTU" 108% 60 65 20 15 Detroit 140 69 49% 10 3 2 0 30 18 182 90 The new armaments allowed the pre­ TOTAL 76% 560 428 149 51 Miami 110 48 44% 30 20 15 15 45 27 200 110 viously outgunned Croatians to push Serb SHOULD BE 75% 420 112 New York 250 103 41% 100 17 20 6 110 39 480 165 forces out of one part of Bosnia­ AUSTRALIA Cleveland 90 33 37% 10 2 1 20 11 122 46 MTFU 120% 5 6 2 0 Herzegovina last week and place it under SHOULD BE 75% 4 2 New Haven. CT* 20 7 35% 4 0 0 6 3 30 11 Croatian control. BRfTAIN Cincinnati' 39 13 33% 3 0 0 0 5 2 47 15 The French government meanwhile, ac­ AEU 10% 10 1 5 1 Wilmington, DE 10 2 20% 0 0 0 0 0 0 to 2 NUM 30% 10 3 0 0 cording to the Post, refused a U.S. request RMT 100% 17 17 14 3 Ft. Madison. lA 5 1 20% 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 TGWU 73% 15 11 5 0 U.S. TOTAL 2,814 1,817 375 125 1,016 4,703 2,685 to fly U-2 spy planes headed for the Balkans 62% 648 45 448 TOTAL 62% 52 32 24 4 AUSTRALIA* 45 32 71% 14 9 1 0 20 12 80 53 over French territory. SHOUL.DBE 75% 39 18 ULQIUIII* 6 5 83% 2 1 12 1 8 4 16 11 Paris told Washington to obtain United CANADA IIRITAIN Nations authorization first. The Post claims AClWU 75% 8 6 3 1 CAW 46% 15 7 2 2 London 80 58 73% 6 2 2 2 40 17 128 79 that France is "soft on Serbia." lAM 80% 5 4 2 1 Manchester 50 36 72% 2 1 1 1 30 20 83 58 USWA 50% 16 8 8 4 Sheffield 50 36 72% 3 1 2 0 25 15 80 52 Not an ethnic war TOTAL 57% 44 25 15 8 BRITAIN TOTAL 180 130 72% 11 4 5 3 95 52 291 189 SHOULD BE 75% 33 11 Muslim, Croat, Serb, and other residents CANADA SWEDEN of the Bosnian region have a long history of FOOD WORKERS 50% 4 2 3 3 Vancouver· 130 97 75°.4 15 10 8 3 30 15 183 125 METAL 'M)RKERS 118% 11 13 3 3 185 112 living and working together. Intermarriage Montreal' 75 50 67% 20 20 30 12 60 30 TOTAL 100% 15 15 6 6 Toronto 90 58 64% 20 15 5 2 45 34 160 109 is common and in many neighborhoods the SHOULD BE 75% 11 5 CANADA TOTAL 295 205 68% 55 45 43 17 135 79 528 346 various ethnic groups are intertwined. niAIICE 5 1 20% 2 1 15 11 5 14 27 27 lso Papo, a 70-year-old retiree, told the ACTWU - Amalgamated Clothing and Textile ICELAND 20 13 65% 1 0 1 0 5 2 27 15 New York Times that the Belgrade-backed Workers Union; AEEU -Amalgamated Engi- MEXICO 1 1 100% 5 4 0 0 0 0 6 5 forces that have been reducing Sarajevo to nearing and Electrical Union; CAW- Canadian NEWDAL.AND rubble "are fascists." Auto Workers; lAM - International Association of 1 1 10 62 Wellington· 50 48 96% 0 9 58 "Look at the people here," he said point­ Machinists; ILGWU - International ladies' Gar- Auckland' 65 88% 5 4 0 13 11 64 72 57 ment Workers' Union; MFTU -Metal Trades Christchurch 40 35 88% 1 0 1 0 10 2 52 37 ing to those sharing a Sarajevo basement Federation of Unions; NUM - National Union of OtherN.Z. 4 4 100% 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 shelter. 'This gentleman is a Serb. So is this Mineworl

6 The Militant July 17, 1992 Boston campaign against jailed unionist tries to bolster cop, prosecution frame-up This is a case about politics, not about rape, Curtis supporters explain

BY GEOFF MIRELOWITZ rape, namely that ( 1) persons of certain class of the arguments put forward by Bertin, 'The conclusion I reached is that he simply AND ANDREA MORELL or political stature could not possibly commit Pelka, and Shuchter require close examina­ wasn't there and that he made up the entire BOSTON - New England has become rape and (2) the rights of the rapist dwarf tion by all defenders of democratic rights. incident." an important battleground in the Mark those of the victim - especially if the victim Literature distributed by anti-Cunis forces Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter hope to con­ Curtis · fight. Curtis is serving a 25-year is a person of color." takes direct aim at two democratic conquests vert the Curtis fight into a simple "case" of sentence in Iowa after being framed-up on "MARK. CURTIS IS A VIOLENT RAP­ of working people: the presumption of inno­ rape where the only issue is whose word is rape and burglary charges in 1988. IST!", Bertin concluded with emphasis as cence and the right to due process. In addi­ to be accepted: the accused or the alleged A union and political activist, he was in­ she urged all Curtis supporters to "dis­ tion their arguments are laced with a gener­ victim. volved at the time in a fight to defend immi­ endorse" the Curtis fight. ous dose of anti-communist redbaiting, in­ Just as Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter try to grant coworkers jailed by the Immigration In fact Bertin has "discovered" nothing sisting that most Curtis supporters have been do now, from the beginning the cops tried to and Naturalization Service (INS) after a raid new. She simply boldly advances the police "duped" by the SWP. use the rape charges to make the frame-up at the Swift-Monfort meat-packing plant and prosecution case against Curtis, attempt­ In response to this assault on the Curtis stick, deflect support for the unionist, and where he worked in Des Moines, Iowa. ing to give it new credibility. fight, New England supporters of the impris­ justify putting him in prison. Since his arrest Curtis has rallied interna­ Bertin's letter was accompanied by a raft oned unionist have stepped up their efforts to tional support to prevent the Des Moines of additional material, chief among it reach out, win new endorsers for the Mark Turning fighters into criminals cops and prosecution from achieving their Pelka's article. Also included was a piece Curtis Defense Committee, and answer this Campaigns like the one against Curtis are aims. They want to close down political produced by an outfit called the Workers campaign. In an interview, Curtis supporter not unknown in political struggles. space for rank-and-file unionists and politi­ League entitled, "Reject [the] Mark Curtis In Des Moines itself Dudley Allison, who cal activists who seek to resist employer and Hoax. A warning to all trade union and civil led pickets against cop brutality at city hall government attacks on the labor movement rights organizations." In addition, readers earlier this year, was arrested as the protests and democratic rights and oppose moves found a letter to Bertin from Des Moines abated. Another example is that of Larry toward war abroad. NAACP president Larry Carter backing Milton, a Black worker brutally beaten by A vitriolic campaign against Curtis has Curtis's conviction. Des Moines cops last December. After pro­ been underway here for months. A key com­ Bertin is also a member of the International tests against his beating, Milton and his wife ponent is an article by On the Issues contrib­ Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. She were framed up on "theft" charges. uting editor Fred Pelka titled, "The Strange serves on the board of the Haymarket Foun­ The cop beatings of both Larry Milton Case of Mark Curtis: Victim or Victimizer?" dation which provides funding to a number of and Rodney King were justified by the po­ It appeared in the spring 1991 edition of the different projects in Boston and elsewhere. lice on the grounds that both were either magazine. Pelka, who is based here, and Bertin has followed up her letter with a "drunk" or "drug-crazed." This is routine other forces opposing Curtis's fight began to full-time phone-calling campaign demand­ procedure in every city, and backed by the circulate this attack. ing to know whether Curtis supporters have big-business media and the courts. In January 1992 Curtis won an important sent their "disendorsement"letters. As of this Striking workers often receive similar victory for all opponents of cop brutality writing 20 individuals have done so, includ­ treatment when they are tagged as "violent" when a federal judge ruled that Des Moines ing John Roberts of the Civil Liberties Union and dragged into court on trumped-up cops violated Curtis's civil rights when they of Massachusetts and professors Howard charges. beat him brutally the night he was arrested. Zinn and Mel King. Another recent example can be seen in The judge awarded Curtis $11,000 in dam­ Bertin and Pelka, who in addition to being Minnesota. Chris Nisan, a young worker ages and attorney's fees. The ruling con­ a writer is an activist in an organization with more than a half decade of experience finned that the cops, who four years ago con­ called Men to End Sexual Assault (MESA) already under his belt leading struggles ducted their own investigation of Curtis's joined forces further during the spring. On against racism and police brutality, was a beating and declared themselves innocent, April 29 they participated in a Cambridge, central leader of a demonstration of 6,000 in lied about what happened that night. Massachusetts, cable television show, "55 Minneapolis May 2 called to protest the Curtis's victory on this score is important Alive." Interviewed by a sympathetic mod­ acquittal of the Los Angeles cops. Nisan is because he maintains that the arresting erator for 30 minutes, they promoted the also the Socialist Workers candidate for U.S. officers' story about finding him with his cop-prosecution frame-up of Curtis. Congress there. pants down in the midst of an assault on a Benin, MESA, and others produced a flier Within days Nisan received a series of 15-year-old Black woman is a lie as well. headlined, "Stop Racism in Your Own Back­ Militant/Stu Singer death threats. Subsequently a newspaper Many who learned of Curtis's civil rights yard," which deepens their attack on Curtis Mark Curtis in Anamosa prison in 1989. popped up running an article titled, "We Say victory were persuaded that, at a minimum, and the SWP. At a demonstration here pro­ He was sentenced to 25 years on frame-up Fuck the SWP." Curtis did not receive fair treatment at the testing the acquittal of the Los Angeles cops charges of rape and burglary. Every such fight that develops helps to hands of the cops and that his fight for justice who beat Rodney King, Bertin and some of unify working people. It works against the deserves attention and perhaps support. her supporters occupied their time distribut­ efforts of the employers to play on the com­ Opponents of Curtis here reacted quite ing this leaflet. Davis singled out some key features of the petition among workers. The rulers seek to differently. Within weeks of Curtis's victory Bertin and Pelka have also been aided by Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter campaign. deepen divisions among working people in the campaign against Curtis escalated. On Barry Shuchter who is associated with the Curtis's political activity order to keep them from organizing more March 14 Mary Bertin, civil rights commit­ LAbor Page, a now defunct newsletter. In the effective resistance. tee chairperson of the Boston branch of the spring and summer of 1990 Shuchter en­ Davis notes that Curtis opponents must It is fighters like ordinary working people National Association for the Advancement gaged in a polemic with New England Curtis deny or shunt aside as insignificant Curtis's and youth at Caterpillar and in Buffalo who of Colored People (NAACP), addressed a supporter Russell Davis in the pages of that record as a political fighter. They seek to pose the greatest threat to the employer's letter to Curtis supporters and others. Bertin's publication. minimize the importance of the fight to de­ assault on the unions and democratic rights. letter was also signed by Boston NAACP fend immigrant coworkers that he was in­ These fighters, many of whom are becoming president Louis Elisa. Picket line volved in at the time of his arrest. This is politically active for the first time, develop Claiming she had "thoroughly investi­ On May 16 Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter because many people are aware that the cops into the leadership that will be required in gated the Mark Curtis matter," Bertin as­ led a picket line with five others in front of frame activists like Curtis. the future. Today they are leading by acting serted she had discovered "some disturbing the Pathfmder Bookstore here in an attempt Like other packinghouse workers in the politically. information." to disrupt a Militant Labor Forum. The Midwest, Curtis was under attack before he Curtis opponents try to tum activists' eyes She accused the Mark Curtis Defense forum, which went ahead as planned, fea­ was ever arrested as the employers and the away from this reality onto other issues. Committee (MCDC) of a "campaign of mis­ tured a panel discussion on, "Indict the guilty government drove steadily against wages, Pelka, for example, quotes and takes sharp information." Curtis's party, the Socialist cops now: Justice for Rodney King." Out­ health, safety, and other working conditions issue with "an SWP supporter" who states, Workers Party (SWP), was perpetuating "lies side, the picketers chanted, "Racist, sexist as well as workers' rights. "This is not a case about rape." and distortions" in order to defend a member, SWP!" and "Keep Mark Curtis in jail!" Federal immigration cops, in collabora­ The source of this comment is not "an she claims. The three opponents of Curtis's fight for tion with Swift-Monfort management, ar­ SWP supporter" -one of the countless lies, ''The efforts of the Defense committee are justice use the name of the NAACP in par­ rested 16 Salvadoran and one Mexican wor­ distortions and unattributed quotes liberally both racist and sexist," asserted Bertin. ticular to try to give their campaign some ker on charges of working without legal larded throughout Pelka's piece-but Edna 'They perpetuate the worst falsehoods about progressive coloration. The political content papers. They hoped to take advantage of the Griffm, a veteran of decades in the civil divisions along lines of nationality and lan­ rights struggle in Des Moines. Griffin, an guage in the plant to deal the workers a fresh 82-year-old woman who is Black, has de­ blow. fended other frame-up victims iri the past, But they miscalculated. In response they including Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Since Uterature avallable from the got a reaction, a fight. As a rank-and-file looking into the fight following Curtis's ar­ worker who had worked day by day to pro­ rest she has been a solid supporter of his mote working-class unity, Mark Curtis defense committee. Mark Curtis Defense Committee joined in that fight. Curtis 'a dangerous man' The Stakes in the Worldwide Political Campaign to Defend Mark Enough support was mobilized to force the cops to drop or lower the charges against Curtis by John Gaige. A pamphlet that explains the political background to Griffin said more than, "This is not a case the Swift 17, as they were known. But in the about rape." She continued, "It is about the Curtis's case, the frame-up, and unfair trial. 25 pp. $1. course of the battle the cops got their hands issue of immigrant workers." On Trial, video of a 21-minute segment on the trial of Mark Curtis from on Curtis and were successful in framing him "Mark Curtis is a dangerous man, in my broadcast in 1988 on this nationally sindicated lV show. $15. Available on up. opinion," said Griffin, "because he speaks VHS, Beta, and PAL. "He's not that important a person," Marti Spanish and can communicate with the im­ Anderson, the Polk County Victim Services migrant workers and worked side by side State of Iowa v. Mark Stanton Curtis. Transcript of September 1988 director at the time of Curtis's trial, told with them in the Swift plant." jury trial proceedings that found Curtis guilty of rape and burglary. 446 pp. $30. Pelka, who quotes her approvingly. Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter decline to On the television show with Bertin, Pelka identify Griffin because her credentials as a For these and other materials (including in Spanish) write or call the Mark Curtis Defense takes his slander of Curtis one outlandish fighter are unquestioned and her entire com­ Committee, P.O. Box 1048, Des Moines, lA 50311. Phone (515) 246-1695. Payments step further. Referring to a protest meeting ment accurately captures the conclusion that should accompany orders and checks can be made out to Mark Curtis Defense Committee. held following the arrest of the Swift 17 and so many other fighters have reached. Curtis's participation in it Pelka baldly states. Continued on Page 8

July 17, 1992 The Militant 7 Boston campaign against jailed unionist

Continued from Page 7 Pelka cannot stomach this but a key point teet their abusers. It is about backlash against individual based on such testimony, the odds When the cops got their hands on Curtis is involved. Supporters of Curtis do not try the stop-rape movement. are at least 98 percent that the accused is they took the keys to his car. If they didn't to, or have to, prove he is "innocent.'' They " It is about how easy it is," says Pelka, guilty. Thus the prosecution need not prove know who Cunis was before that point they point out Curtis's record of political activity, "for a rapist and his friends to recruit allies guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. 1lte ac­ did when they opened the car and found the struggle he was involved in at the time in their attack on a courageous young woman cused must prove innocence. political leaflets publicizing protests against of his arrest, the unfair trial he received, and who dared to speak out against her abuser." This is exactly what Bertin, Pelka, and the victimization of the Swift 17, police rac­ the fact that he was beaten by the cops. It is race- and sex-baiting, the purpose of Shuchter demand of Curtis. Any efforts by ism, as well as a meeting to celebrate the Curtis supporter Davis notes that Bertin, which is to numb objective political thinking. Curtis to counter the testimony of the alleged victory of the SWP and Young Socialist Pelka, and Shuchter's arguments have much This is the opposite of what all fighters, victim and her younger brother - II years AJiiance in their successful lawsuit against in common with recent rulings by the Su­ women, workers, and members of oppressed old at the time of the trial - by pointing to FBI spying and disruption. preme Court that deny prisoners the right to nationalities must do if they are to think and facts that reveal the frame-up nature of the Curtis opponents to the contrary, Curtis's due process and habeas corpus, the ability to act clearly. prosecution are decried as "racist and sexist" political activity was anything but irrelevant receive a review of new evidence, or to seek A piece of literature called "Rape Myths as well as a "vilification" of the alleged to the cops. They confirmed Edna Griffin's other court action. The Court, in its rush to and the Mark Curtis Case," states, "In fact, victim. point when they called Curtis, "a Mexican­ make sure that deadlines for the execution of more than ninety-eight percent of all rapes lover just like you love those coloreds," prisoners are met by the states, has trampled reported to the police actually occurred as Right of due process while they shattered his cheekbone as they on all these rights. described by the victim. Women and children The anti-Curtis forces are equally willing beat him in jail. Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter - like the rape survivors don't lie about their experi­ to gut the right to due process. Supreme Court justices - hold the view that ences." Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter lash out at once "convicted," working people like Cur­ What is the source of this remarkable Curtis's contention that he did not get a jury tis have had their "day in court." Possibility discovery? The flier does not say nor does it of his peers including those workers who are of a frame-up, violation of due process, or offer any evidence to back it up. Black or Latino. The Curtis Defense Com­ similar actions are set aside. Presumably the source - if there is one mittee has explained, "Workers, especially The full danger of this course was dem­ at all -is the police themselves, who do Blacks and Hispanics, are more aware of onstrated this May when both the Supreme most of whatever investigating is done of police lies, beatings, and frame-ups from Court and Virginia governor Douglas Wilder "rapes reponed to the police." their own life experiences." denied clemency for Roger Coleman, a for­ This argument is an attempt to appeal to A badly misnamed "Fact Sheet on the mer coal miner convicted of rape and mur­ emotion and guilt-bait those who are willing Mark Curtis Case" that rehashes arguments der. to give consideration to other evidence that from Pelka's article replies, "Curtis, a col­ Coleman affirmed his innocence and might be brought forward in rape cases. lege-educated white male from a middle pointed to new evidence but Wilder ignored It is a gain of previous struggles for class background, was tried by an all white the pleas to halt the execution and sent Cole­ women's rights that more women come for­ jury. The judge was white, as were both man to his death. ward when they are attacked. And it remains prosecuting and defense attorneys. For Cur­ necessary to fight to insure that every woman tis to identify himself with people of color, Race- and sex-baiting or child who says they have been attacked Latinos and farm workers is condescending Arguments advanced by Curtis opponents gets a fair and adequate hearing of their and arrogant." here are also laden with race- and sex-bait­ charges. Like their attempts to define Curtis solely ing. On the picket line in front of the Path­ In rape cases, like all others, the accused as a "white man," the anti-Curtis forces try fmder Bookstore, Bertin reduced the entire must still have the right to the presumption to deny that he is a worker. Curtis fight to a choice between the ''word of innocence and the state must be required For the better part of his adult life Curtis of a white man" and that of "an African­ to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. has been a factory worker. Like many work­ American girl." The notion that any section of the popu­ ers today, his fami ly may have been some­ This is exactly what the cops and prosecu­ lation provide information to the cops with what better off economically than he is now. I 98 percent accuracy is more than mistaken What has that to do with a working person Militant/Arnold Weissberg tion hoped for when they pressed the rape - it is dangerous. receiving a fair trial? Nothing. Dudley Allison, leader of anti-police bru­ charge against Curtis - that the charges The murder of Carol Stuart in Boston in tality fight, at rally celebrating Curtis vic­ themselves would be enough to scare people Like millions of other workers, Curtis October 1989 is a case in point. The murder tory in lawsuit against Des Moines cops. away from supporting his defense. The cops has some college education. That too hoped fighters for social justice would aban­ was reported by Stuart's husband, Charles, changes nothing about the class he belongs don Curtis for fear ofdividing the movement. who told the cops that he and his wife had to. It is these facts and the politics ofthe Curtis Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter claim to speak been shot by a Black man. The cops who arrested Curtis knew ex­ fight that have led to the worldwide support for "victims." In particular they try to appeal Subsequently an "anonymous" source led actly who he was and acted accordingly. Curtis has won. Curtis was setting a valuable to women whom they portray as powerless the cops to a Black man named William Ben­ Neither the color of his skin nor his educa­ example in his political activity, but he was and voiceless. Appealing above all to emo­ nett. The cops proceeded to railroad Bennett tional level mattered to them. 1lte "back­ not that exceptional. He was and is part of a tion and the fear of sexist violence, they urge relying on the testimony of several young ground" that did matter was that Curtis is a layer of vanguard workers and youth who women to look to the cops, the courts, and want to fight against the attacks on working the prosecutors who wilJ work with rape people. Many other fighters and defenders of crisis centers to get convictions. These forces democratic rights identify with him. are put forward as the real defenders of women's rights and physical safety today. Presumption of innocence They counterpose this to a course where A component of the campaign against women rely on their own united strength and Curtis has been an assault on democratic look to other working-class fighters. They rights, beginning with the presumption of urge women not to look in the direction of innocence. the working class and its vanguard fighters This was signaled shortly after his arrest today, who Benin, Pelka, and Shuchter mis­ when Des Moines mayor John Dorrian wrote name "the left" and describe as "sexist." to a UAW official who had inquired about They point to a "stop rape movement" Curtis's arrest. which does not exist. Blows that advance the "Mr. Curtis was attempting to rape a 15- dignity, fighting capacity, and social standing year-old female. Charges have been filed, of women in society are being struck today and the evidence is quite clear," Dorrian -in front of abortion clinics from Buffalo wrote. Dorrian then repeated the police story to Boston - by women and men who are that Curtis assaulted the cops and defended winning victories against right-wing oppo­ the beating Curtis received. nents of women 's rights. In his article, Pelka quotes Des Moines Violence against women is a part of class NAACP president Carter who said he "be­ society. It grows out of the second-class lieved from day one that [Curtis I was guilty status of women enforced by capitalism and as sin." the terrible distorted relations between men Militant Carter told Pelka that the Des Moines and women that result, as well as the daily, March 12, 1988, protest against deportation of Swift 17 in Des Moines, Iowa. Mark NAACP "told the county attorney's office growing brutality of a system that recently Curtis was framed because of his activities in defense of his immigrant coworkers. from the start that we wanted this man pros­ produced the mass slaughter of tens of thou­ ecuted just as strenuously as we imagine they sands of Iraqis. would prosecute a Black man charged with Fighters demand that the government take people who are Black including some who worker who was involved in struggle. raping a white teenager." action against those who commit violence testified before a grand jury that Bennett had Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter's attempt to This is perhaps not so surprising in light against women. But that is different from reenacted the murder in front of them. deny the facts about who Curtis is and to of the fact - another one Pelka chooses not charting a political course that calls for in­ This attempted frame-up unraveled when divide him from other workers and fighters to report - that in 1991 Carter presented an creased reliance on the cops, prosecutors, Charles Stuart jumped off a bridge to his is another sign of the notions their arguments award to Des Moines police chief William and courts to defend women's right'> or the death when he feared that his own role as the are laced with. Moulder for Moulder's "crime fighting ef­ rights of any working person. actual murderer of his wife was about to "Skin color doesn't mean a damn thing forts." In his article Pelka attacks the "left" or become known. today when it comes to the battle for justice," While not defending the right to the pre­ "progressives" seven different times. In the wake of this explosive development Edna Griffin told a September 1988 rally sumption of innocence for Curtis or Blacks In a particularly revealing moment Pelka the U.S. Attorney's office here was pressured backing Curtis in Des Moines. Bertin, Pelka, accused of a similar crime. Carter was more refers to the 1930s case of the Scottsboro to conduct a probe of the cops' attempted and Shuchter argue otherwise. inclined to defend the presumption of inno­ defendants. young Black men falsely ac­ frame-up of Bennett. AJthough no charges No worker gets a fair trial in the capitalist cence for the Des Moines cops who beat cused of rape by white women and con­ have ever been brought against a single cop, courts. The odds are stacked against working Larry Milton. He was booed on two occa­ victed. Pelka points to a similarity with the the investigation revealed that the cops pres­ people from the beginning. Rather than the sions at mass meetings there when he urged Curtis case. sured their witnesses into testi fying against presumption of innocence, the courts rely on opponents of the beating not to act until all "'In both cases," Pelka asserts, "the prose­ Bennett with threats of beatings, imprison­ juries and the public at large presuming that investigations were completed. cution witnesses. women without access to ment, and frame-ups on false drug charges. the police teU the truth when giving testi­ Pelka also quotes former Iowa Socialist power and unable to tell their stories. were Benin, Pelka, and Shuchter's intention is mony in court. Twisting of facts or straight­ Party chair Linda Nelson who incredulously vilified by the left. In 60 years that much, at equally clear-and dangerous. lf women out frame-ups are not uncommon, but a fact told him she had asked Curtis supporters least, hasn't changed." and children never lie about their experi­ of life for working people caught up by the "face to face, 'Do you think he's innocent or "The Mark Curtis case," Pelka concludes, ences and 98 percent are never even mis­ cops and the courts. guilty?' and they'd say, '1 don't really know, "is about the insidious and pernicious myths taken about any detail of what they report, Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter argue that but he was framed'.'' that work to silence rape survivors and pro- once the cops bring rape charges against an Curtis's guilt was established by the testi-

8 The Militant J uly 17, 1992 mony of the alleged victim and her younger - because members of the SWP are known Striking workers from copper miners in brother. But that testimony was inconsistent for the fact that they do not use illegal drugs Arizona and meat-packers in Austin, Min­ with Mark Curtis being the attacker. and encourage other activists to folJow their nesota, to paperworkers in Maine and Penn­ The alleged victim, Demetria Morris, tes­ example to avoid government victimization. sylvania have had their own experiences tified she could place the time of the attack In carrying out this course against Curtis with the Workers League. They know this she says occurred because it began just after and his supporters, Bertin, Pelka, and Shuch­ group specializes in provocative actions in one of her favorite TV shows, "Video Soul," ter use the technique of the "big lie'' supple­ the midst of sharp battles with the employers began. The broadcast log shows that program mented by any number of other distortions all and cops, attempting to divide the union began at 8:00 p.m. aimed at discrediting the Curtis fight and membership when unity is needed the most. From a little after 7:00p.m. until 8:30p.m. scaring away support. The Workers League has carried out a Mark Curtis wao; with dozens of other people They accuse the Curtis Defense Commit­ campaign against the SWP for nearly two at Los Compadres bar where he went follow­ tee of not telling the truth about the charges decades. They claim the party is controlled ing the meeting to protest the arrest of the against Curtis including the rape accusation by FBI agents and is an enemy of workers' Swift 17. One of his coworkers testified to and the age and nationality of the alleged struggles. It is no surprise that early on they this at the trial and the prosecution did not victim. became active agents of the prosecution case dispute it. They can back none of this with refer­ against Curtis. Demetria Morris told the doctor who ex­ ences to the basic material put out by the In the article featuring the interview with amined her that her attacker was 5 feet 6 committee, which is a matter of public Bertin, Workers Leaguer Martin Mc­ inches, about her own height. Mark Curtis is record. The information they charge the Laughlin, a main Pelka source, writes, "For over 6 feet tall. She said her attacker had defense committee "hides" is all included years the Socialist Workers Party's interven­ smoke on his breath. Mark Curtis has never there. Moreover, when Keith Morris, the tions in the working class have had a sinister smoked. She insisted her attacker had a belt. father of the alleged victim, addressed an and bizarre character." Both Curtis and the police testified he had open letter to Curtis supporters in October "What is new in the Curtis campaign," no belt. 1988 in which he repeated all the prose­ McLaughlin charges, "is that the SWP has What about the testimony of the alleged cution charges and added some lies of his been caught in lies so vicious that they take victim's brother who was 11 years old at the own, the committee not only released a on a virtually criminal character." time? Bertin, Pelka, ·and Shuchter say that detailed reply but has circulated Morris's "The SWP leadership is not engaged in children ''never lie." They should tell this to letter itself in thousands of copies so others the mistaken defense of a party member Benny Powell and Clarence Chance, two can read it for themselves. whom they believe to be innocent," Mc­ Black men released from prison Man:h 25 after Bertin, Pelka. and Shuchter falsely charge Laughlin asserts. "The SWP leadership is 17 years. Powell and Chance were framed by the committee and the SWP with using deliberately promoting as a martyr of the Militant/Yvonne Hayes names that are not authorized as public Cur­ labor movement a man whom they know is the Los Angeles police for murder. A key 'Curtis is a dangerous man,' says Edna tis supporters. In her letter Bertin wrote, "Be witness was an 11-year-old"eyewitness"tothe Griffin (above), a veteran civil rights guilty. There are two crimes involved in the alleged crime who, it was later learned, testified advised that some individuals have asked to Curtis campaign - the rape of Demetria fighter, 'because he speaks Spanish and under relentless cop pressure. have their names removed from the Defense communicates with immigrant workers.' Morris by Mark Curtis, and the tremendous Demetria Morris's brother Jason was Committee's List to no avail." injustice carried out against the Morris fam­ asked by the prosecutor what time the Bertin deepened this charge on the tele­ ily by the Socialist Workers Party." stranger who allegedly attacked Demetria vision show with Pelka. "Some of the SWP as part ofthe working-class vanguard. All of these charges and anti-communist knocked on the door of the Morris home. people I've spoken to in the Boston area The party and its members are seen as slanders fmd their way into the argumentation "Probably around 9:08," he answered. were just literally incinged with anger dangerous to the wealthy rulers. That is why presented by Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter. This is some 15 minutes after Curtis was upon learning they were on the list. The they launched a 50-year attack against the "No doubt Curtis will be out on parole in arrested and more than an hour later than his Rev. Graylan Ellis-Hagler kind of like had party, documented in "Washington's 50-Year a year or two," Pelka wrote in his article. sister said the attack began. a conniption," Bertin claimed. Domestic Contra Operation," by Larry Sei­ That is false - unfortunately. The parole Where did he get such a precise time? He " He had heard he was on the list," Bertin gle, which appears in the magazine, New board has made it clear that they have no wasn't asked. But whether it is what he truly continued. "He had asked them not to utilize International No. 6. intention now of releasing Curtis although believes or what he thought he was supposed his name, that he had not authorized them to In addition, the SWP's record in its fight he is an excellent candidate for parole based to say, it does not confirm the other testimony do so, and had assumed that they had done against the FBI demonstrated the vanguard on time served, conduct in prison, and the against Curtis. the honorable thing, the right thing to do. role it plays in fighting for the democratic support he will receive when be is released. As is most often the case in court the Someone says don't use my name, you say rights of all fighters, not only itself and its Wmning Curtis's release on parole will testimony that was decisive at the Curtis trial 'OK, thank you.' " members. not be easy. was that of the arresting officer, Joseph Gon­ The facts are these: Rev. Ellis-Hagler This is another reminder of the high po­ zalez, who claimed he found Curtis with his signed an endorser card that is on file in Des Collaboration with the Workers League litical stakes that are involved in this fight. pants down. Moines. At some point thereafter he told a Bertin,Pelka,andShuchter'sdecisiontojoin Those who oppose Curtis have escalated The jury never learned that Gonzalez, far Curtis supporter in Boston he no longer forces with the Workers League in the attack on their efforts. But Curtis supporters are not from being a reliable witness, is an estab­ wanted his name used publicly as a supporter. Curtis is revealing. Bertin sent out Workers backing down either, and they welcome lished liar. Ten years before he arrested Cur­ Boston supporters stopped circulating the League material in her mailing. Pelka makes fresh forces in the effort to defend this tis he was suspended from the police force only piece of material that included Ellis­ substantial use of their material and interviews framed-up working-class fighter. for lying and brutality in another case. Curtis Hagler's name. Curtis supporters acted hon­ with their leaders as a credible source of infor­ was denied the right to cross-examine Gon­ estly. It is Bertin who today acts otherwise. mation throughout his article. He inaccurately Geoff Mirelowitz is a member of Amalga­ zalez on exactly this point. She further disputes the support offered to describes this outfit as "a socialist group which mated Clothing and Textile Workers Union Pelka continues to defend and make ex­ the defense committee by James Bond, an is an ideological foe ofthe SWP." Local/87. cuses for the cops when he admits in his NAACP member in Atlanta. On the televi­ article that Gonzalez, " had been suspended sion show she charges. "There is no James 10 years before the Curtis trial for fudging Bond in the branch at all." She accuses the an arrest report." MCDC of attempting to give the impression Workers League provocations What Gonzalez actually did, according to that Julian Bond, who she says is the Atlanta the May 24, I978, Des Moines Register, was NAACP president, is a Curtis Defense Com­ The Bulletin article featuring the inter­ Gelfand also dragged the SWP into a beat up someone he had helped arrest and mittee endorser when he is not. view with Mary Bertin argues that her cam­ long court battle in which he demanded to then lied about it. No one has used Julian Bond's name as paign in the name of the Boston NAACP, be reinstated as a party member. The jury was not allowed to Jearn that an MCDC endorser. An individual named "completely vindicates the Workers But, like the issues in the SWP's suit Curtis had been beaten. He was not allowed James Bond signed an endorser card. He League's protracted struggle to expose the against government spying and disruption to testify that the cops called him, "a Mexi­ identified himself- for identification pur­ Curtis campaign as a political hoax." of union and political activists, the SWP's can lover just like you love those coloreds," poses only-as a member of the NAACP. This has led, the article claims. to "con­ fight against the Gelfand suit involved key as they beat him. siderable interest in the political exposure issues of importance to all defenders of Targeting the SWP Curtis was not allowed to present the facts of the SWP which the Workers League has democratic rights. concerning the files the FBI maintained on The attack on Curtis and his supporters carried out for nearly two decades." At issue was the basic right of voluntary him as a result of his earlier activity in the launched by Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter Writer Martin McLaughlin directs read­ political associations - such as unions Committee In Solidarity with the People of leads them to a direct assault on the SWP as ers to copies of the documents of a lawsuit and Black, women's, or other political or­ El Salvador. Thus the jury did not know that well. Their intention is to close down the fLied by Alan Gelfand against the Socialist ganizations - to run their own affairs. If the cops would have found out more about political space for this vanguard communist Workers Party. "These documents," Mc­ Gelfand had won it would have encowaged who Curtis was as soon as they punched his organization to carry out politics. Laughlin writes, "establish the origins of more government intervention in unions name into a police computer. It is precisely Pelka tries to belittle the SWP as "a Marx­ the present SWP leadership in the police and in civil rights and political groups. Curtis's background as a socialist, unionist, ist party with a seemingly unequaled propen­ disruption of the workers movement." Gelfand 's operation failed. After many and political activist that gave the cops a sity for internal squabble and mass defec­ What was Gelfand's lawsuit? In 1979 years, the court ruled there was no evi­ reason to frame him. tion." Gelfand, an attorney in Los Angeles and a dence whatsoever for his charges. Instead, Bertin, Pelka, and Shuchter ridicule Pelka adds this because he is compelled supporter of the Workers League, infil­ Judge Mariana Pfaelzer wrote on an Aug. Curtis's explanation of how he got to the to concede that, "what adds credibility to the trated the SWP. At the time, the SWP was 15, 1989, decision, the purpose of the suit Morris porch. But it is consistent with the SWPpitch [that Curtis was framed], is a long involved in a historic battle against gov­ "was to disrupt the SWP." other established facts about where Curtis history of actual FBI harassment, virtually ernment spying and disruption, and its This victory could not have been won was, and at what times, that night. from the party's founding in 1938." lawsuit against the FBI and other govern­ without substantial support from union What is really fantastic is the prosecution He briefly acknowledges the historic law­ ment agencies was preparing to go to trial. and political activists who denounced the story accepted by Bertin, Pelka, and Shucb­ suit waged by the SWP against the FBI and The Workers League had opposed the Workers League provocation aimed at the ter. It contends that Curtis stopped at random the U.S. government for illegal spying, ha­ SWP suit-standing against the broad SWP. at the home of someone he never met before rassment, and disruption. The suit won broad support for the fight that was won by the Despite being discredited through these support in the labor movement and among and immediately attacked a young woman SWP. and other activities, the Workers League defenders of Black, women's, and demo­ who came to the door despite knowing that Gelfand took another step supported by continues its drive against Curtis and the cratic rights. After well over a decade the her younger brother was home and not know­ the Workers League. He went into federal SWP. This is the outfit that Bertin, Pelka, SWP won an injunction against such illegal ing who else might be inside the house! court and challenged the SWP suit saying and Shuchter make common cause with as government activity as well as a monetary Without a motive as to why Curtis would that the SWP could not sue the FBI be­ they too join the assault on Curtis. award. rum up at the Morris house, the prosecution cause he claimed the SWP was run by the Workers who have had any experience This successful struggle sticks like a bone introduced an equally unbelievable explana­ FBI. He urged the court to take control of with the Workers League are not so quick in Pelka's throat. In the first place, what it tion: Curtis was looking to buy drugs from the SWP and make decisions about who to accept their dangerous political conclu­ proved adds credibility to the charge that Cur­ a former neighbor and mistakenly turned up its members and leaders could be. sions. on the Morris's front porch. But this doesn't tis was framed. Why? Because the suit dem­ hold much water- beyond lacking proof onstrated that the government goes after the

July 17, 1992 The Militant 9 30,000 sign election petitions in Illinois to place socialist candidates on the ballot

BY ELIZABETH KEALY, RICHARD ings, plant gates, and on cam- SORRENTINO, AND PAT SMITH puses in Chicago. Supporters . CHICAGO-Supponers of the Socialist also took the campaign to coal The fight to put socialists on the ballot in 1992 Workers 1992 campaign wrapped up a suc­ fields in southe rn Illinois and campuses throughout the state. cessful three-and-a-half-week drive June 19 WISCONSIN to collect 30,000 signatures and put the At the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana 100 stu­ NEW YORK Socialist Workers presidential slate of James VERMONT Warren and Estelle DeBates on the ballot in dents signed petitions and 15 NEW HAMPSHIRE Illinois. Also on the ballot will be Kate Kaku issues of the Militant were for Senate, and Pat Smith, Margaret Savage, sold. and John Votava for University of Illinois Discussions with Caterpillar MASSACHUSms Board of Trustees. workers in Aurora about the A team of ten full-time volunteers panic­ campaign and the conditions ipated in the effort along with many other they are facing since returning supponers from Illinois. to work led to the sale of 7 Socialist campaigners met some young Militants and 35 signatures. people who wanted to help and began col­ After similar discussion with lecting signatures right on the spot. One Caterpillar workers in Decatur young man collected 80 signatures in an and Peoria 88 signatures were hour and returned to petition later in the collected. One United Auto drive. Workers member bought a sub­ scription to the Militant. Nearly 100 people signed campaign en­ FLORIDA dorser cards. Some offered to set up meet­ Supporters campaigned on ings with candidates. And three people the job, selling subscriptions joined the Socialist Workers Pany during and collecting signatures in railyards, steel mills, and facto­ the petitioning effon. Suppone11> of the Socialist Worke11> 1992 Campaign are • District of Columbia: petitioning is underway ries in Chicago and southern Campaign supporters petitioned at sub­ petitioning to put James Warren for U.S. president and Rhode Island: Will petition in near future lllinois. Fifty members of the Estelle DeBates for vice-president on the ballot in 23 way stops, shopping centers, union meet- United Steelworkers of Amer­ states and the Oistrict of Columbia. In addition. effons Will petition in near future are underway to place on the ballot socialiSt candidates ica at Castle Metals and Preci­ for Congress and Senate in many of those states plus Petitioning is underway sion Scientific signed to get Florida. Michigan. and Pennsylvania. where Socialists ask their coworkers, James Warren anti-democratic restrictions have made petitioning for Petitioning is completed and Kate Kaku, on the ballot. the socialist presidential candidates prohibitive for the 1992 elections. for volunteers One petitioner collected 113 On the ballot signatures in an hour at a vic­ Militant map by Eric Simpson tory rally for the champion to help Alabama Chicago Bulls basketball team. The night the Chicago Bulls won the locations for sales of the Militant and pe­ nomic depression. petition effort NBA championship, 1,000 people were titioning. Campaigners sold 25 subscriptions to the arrested and an 18-year-old was killed Collective studies were organized of Militant during the three-week drive and BY JOHN HAWKINS when police fired into a crowd near where "The Action Program," a pamphlet provid­ about 50 single copies a week while peti­ BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Support­ looting had occuned. The next day, peti­ ing worldng-class solutions to confront the tioning. ers of the Socialist Workers 1992 campaign tioners got a good response at campaign economic and social c risis, articles from the Every Wednesday evening campaign sup­ here launched an ambitious effort June 20 literature tables set up where the arrests Militant newspaper, and speeches by Mal­ porters organized work meetings where signs to place the party's candidates for U.S. pres­ were made. colm X. This, coupled with daily discus­ were made, campaign statements prepared, ident and vice-president, James Warren and Each morning the full-time volunteers sions with workers and students, bolstered and endorsers were called inviting them to Estelle DeBates, on the ballot in Alabama. met to share their experiences from the the petitioners' confidence in presenting the join in responding to political events such as In a little over three days of petitioning day before, assess their progress, and chan socialist alternative to war, racism, and eco- the attacks on abortion clinics in Milwaukee. campaign volunteers collected more than 1,200 signatures. Five thousand valid signa­ tures are needed to win ballot status for the socialist candidates. Campaign supporters On Philadelphia tour, Warren explains plan to gather 7,500 signatures - half again as many as required by law. If the ftrSt full day of petitioning is any socialist alternative to war, depression indication, getting the socialists on the ballot here will be easier than ever. BY KATHY MICKELLS interview with Wanen, which had been too big and can we make a difference?" Half a dozen campaign supporters staffed PHILADELPHIA - A fast-paced and broadcast on WRTl, the Temple University Warren said. "This country isn't too big and campaign tables for about five hours at two successful tour of James Warren, Socialist radio station. Since many workers wear neither is the world. It's not a question of shopping centers and at "City Stages"- an Workers candidate for U.S. president, in the Walkmans, the tape is currently circulating geography. We're the most organized soci­ annual entertainment extravaganza here. By Philadelphia and Delaware region June 9- along with a tape of Warren's speech at a ety in the history of the world. We have day's end 424 signatures had been gathered. 12 registered gains for the socialist alterna­ local campaign rally. thousands of organizations." Of those who signed to place the social­ tive in the 1992 elections. 'There are unions, women's rights orga­ ists on the ballot 15 also bought copies of In interviews on the major Black radio Petitioning drive in Delaware nizations, Black rights organizations, immi­ the campaign newspaper the Militant and 13 station and at house meetings and plant gates, In Delaware, Warren met with new sup­ grant rights organizations, and youth orga­ signed up as endorsers of the campaign. Warren stated that what the socialist cam­ porters of the socialist campaign who are nizations," Warren explained. 'The problem Many of those who stopped to sign en­ paign offers is a working-class voice and a helping to organize the effon to get the pres­ isn't organizations. The problem is leader­ gaged campaign supponers in lengthy dis­ perspective to fight the effects of the world idential slate on the ballot. They have already ship. The leadership of our organizations cussions on the economic and social crisis capitalist economic crisis. "I'm not like these printed a leaflet to promote the signature drive doesn't offer a view of the world and a gripping the United States, and the develop­ people who present themselves as a savior of and are organizing to build meetings for the perspective of struggle that worldng people ing political polarization engendered by it. people who are oppressed and exploited. Peo­ campaign during the petitioning effon. can act on to make a difference." Many young people who signed were ple who are oppressed and exploited can Socialist Workers candidates have not 'That's what our campaign offers: a per­ attracted to the campaign's active involve­ struggle against the wars and economic ca­ been on the ballot in Delaware since 1976. spective in the interest of our class - the ment in the fight to defend women's right tastrophe today only through massive politi­ The election laws were changed after that working class - an international class. A to abonion, the fi ght against cop brutality cal action that advances our interests as work­ election to exclude independent candidates. class that can act in it's own interest and and to win justice for Rodney King, and the ing and young people," he said. Signature requirements were raised and re­ change the world," said Warren. struggle against racist and fascist violence "Any leaders who tell you they have a quired for each candidate. After meeting The socialist candidate was also inter­ like the recent murder here of Benny solution to your problems, just follow them with Warren, three students and four other viewed on WDAS, the major Black radio Remben, a Black homeless worker, by neo­ and 'Do what I say,'- they 're not leaders supporters concluded that it is possible to station in the Delaware Valley. The tour Nazi skinheads. at all," Warren said. organize a petitioning campaign to get the culminated in a rally where $1 ,250 was One group of white teenagers gathered "What we offer is a perspective that socialist alternative to war, racism, and eco­ raised for the national campaign fund. So­ around the campaign table at City Stages to working people can fight for, but it can only nomic depression on the ballot there. cialists then hit the streets in the Philadel­ talk about Malcolm X and the relevance of be implemented by us - worldng people Warren was a guest on the lrv Homer phia area on the following two days and his ideas. - fighting to carry the perspective out." show on WWDB talk radio. WWDB, a were able to collect 1,440 signatures toward The most common discussion, however, This idea brought nods of agreement and major Black station, has more than a million a goal of 4,000 for placing social ist congres­ was on the significance of billionaire Ross questions for the socialist candidate at the listeners in the Philadelphia region. In the sional candidate Wyatt on the ballot. Perot's candidacy for president. Pincus Brothers and Maxwell plant gate. As course of the hour-long interview, Warren Although a good number of those who hundreds of garment workers from Haiti, took calls from the radio audience. One Order a bundle of declined to sign petitions cited their suppon Korea, China, India, Italy, Portugal, Pueno woman caller said she agreed with the so­ for Perot's presidential ambitions. a surpris­ Rico, and the United States streamed out of cialist candidate and liked what he said, but campaign brochures ing number readily agreed that much of the employee door, Warren and campaign added, "We're just too unorganized. This what Perot promised was simply demagogy. supporters greeted them. A group of Chinese country's just too big." In the past, she said, Copies of a four-page brochure on the The campaign to get the socialist candi­ workers stood around one young woman things were easier because the country was campaign of James Warren and Estelle dates on the ballot in Alabama runs through who translated the campaign leaflet for smaller and a small group of people could DeBates, Socialist Workers candidates July 18. Anyone interested in helping petition them. One came over and signed the petition make a difference. "I just don't think we for president and vice-president, are now available for 10 cents each. can contact the Alabama Socialist Workers to put Mark Wyatt, the socialist candidate can make a difference today." I 992 Campaign Committee, I II 2 1st St. for U.S. Congress District 2, on the ballot. Send your pre-paid order to: Socialist South, Birmingham, Alabama 34233 or 'We can make a difference' Workers 1992 National Campaign, 191 Supporters of the campaign worldng at 7th Ave., New York, NY 10011. phone (205) 323-3079. Pincus Brothers brought a tape of a radio "That's a good question: is the country

10 The Militant July 17, 1992 Warren to Haitians in Miami: U.S. policy is criminal behavior BY JANET POST who run the system have nightmares about. MIAMI-On tour here June 14- 16, So­ "This is capitalism at work and is the way cialist Workers candidate for U.S. president it really works as opposed to the period of James Warren campaigned with workers and relative expansion during the last forty years." youth to expose and counter the perspective For the capitalists the decisive factor, he of war, racism. and economic depression pre­ said, is that they will attempt to force working sented by the twin parties of the ruling rich. people to pay for the crisis of their system. In discussions, speeches, and interviews "Worldwide, they want us to pay and sacrifice. Warren hammered horne the need to "practice The ruling rich do not have any 'favorite politics in a period when there are more open­ working people' in any particular country." ings for revolutionary fighters to do so than While in Florida, Warren visited immi­ we've seen in the world since World War 1." grant workers waiting for processing outside Warren said that woricing people are inter­ the Immigration and Naturalization Service ested in world events but get no clarity from Florida headquarters. He spoke with work­ the Democrats, Republicans, or Ross Perot. ers from Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, and Warren laid out the political situation Haiti, including a reporter for Le Nation­ workers face in the aftermath of the war aliste, a newspaper in Haiti. Socialist presidential candidate James Wlrren campaigning among immigrant against Iraq. He explained that the war, in Warren was later interviewed on a Hai­ workers in Miami. At a meeting of ~ye-Yo, a Haitian solidarity group, "Wclrren combination with fragmenting of the former tian-American radio program where he said, 'Your fight advances the entire struggle in this country by those who are Soviet Union and the world economic crisis, stated, "The U.S. government is having a .oppressed.' Protesting, meeting, and discussing is 'the most important thing that has made problems facing imperialism discussion about using military force in we can do,' "Wclrren added. worse and has heightened competition be­ Haiti. If that happens Washington 's military tween the major capitalist powers. power will not be used against the Haitian Tile competition between the major in­ military but against the Haitian people, just demands on the government. They have no march and protest. and meet and discuss, dustrial powers for domination of the world as they use the Coast Guard to kidnap peo­ morals. They have no humanity." and it looks like nothing is being accom­ market "is a reflection of what working ple, imprison them, and deliver them to the To resounding applause Warren said that plished. But don't ever believe it This is the people faced going into World War D as military dictators. We consider this criminal wherever he spoke between now and the most important thing that we can do ­ well," Warren stated. "That is why we say behavior and international piracy. November elections he would be raising moving into action. practicing politics." that the war against Iraq was the opening "All Haitians who attempt to come to this solidarity with the people of Haiti, including The Miami tour was covered in a brief guns of World War Ill and that the challenge country should be allowed in without excep­ support for the refugees. Miami Herald article. Warren had been inter­ for the vast majority of humanity begins tion. Unions, civil rights groups, students "I just want to encourage you to do one viewed extensively by reporter Dan Holly. with fighting against such a catastrophe." and youth need to fight for this," he said. thing." he added. "While what you are fight­ The Herald reporter also asked Warren The socialist presidential candidate was ing for is completely connected to the struggle about the socialist's stance on health care. The way capitalism works warmly received by more than I 00 people in Haiti, also consider it as an example for "We are for universal health care. The During his tour Warren emphasized that at a meeting of Veye-Yo. a Haitian solidarity working people throughout this country. Your health care industry is a corrupt, rotten. de­ "this current economic crisis is not an epi­ organization. He told the audience, "The fight advances the entire struggle in this coun­ humanizing business. Medicaid, which is sodic problem that can be solved with a little force and violence perspective that the rul­ try by those who are oppressed." supposed to help poor people on welfare. time, a new commodity, or 'balancing the ing rich carry out in Haiti and in the world "I want to encourage you not to despair, spends very little money on health care, on budget. • This economic picture is what those will not change unless we protest and place even though at times it seems like you just taking care of people who are sick," said Warren. "By far, the vast majority of Medicaid funds go directly into the pockets of the Socialists, Greens challenge Florida ballot law medical industry. I want to take the profit The impact of these laws is demonstrated in SWP presidential candidate Linda Jenness. out of medicine and health care and make BY JANET POST it free for everyone." MIAMI - Tile Socialist Workers Party the fact that since 1931 only two candidates In 1989 the same court ruled against a sim­ and the Florida Green Party fLied a lawsuit of third parties have been on the Florida ballot ilar case brought by New Alliance presiden­ The presidential candidate and campaign against the State of Florida June 22 chal­ for a position other than president. tial candidate Lenora Fulani. supporters joined a June 16 picket line of lenging two laws that restrict the ability of "These are laws especially designed to AT&T worlcers, members of Communica­ The lawsuit filed in Miami challenges the tion Workers of America (CWA) Local alternative political parties to participate in keep woricing people and rebel youth out of rightward push by the federal courts to electoral politics. politics in a time of social crisis," Fiske said 3122. The unionists have been working close up political access to all citizens. This without a national contract since the begin­ "At stake in the lawsuit are the rights at the news conference. "'Thousands of worlc­ was most recently exemplified by the U.S. ing people signed the petitions for Garza to ning of June. The picketers also protested of millions of people, not simply the two Supreme Court decision that permits states company plans to replace thousands of tele­ parties which have started this lawsuit," demand an end to Washington's war moves to prohibit write-in votes. phone operators with voice robot technol­ said Tom Fiske, treasurer of the SWP state against Haiti and Yugoslavia. Thousands ogy. The union estimates that 500 jobs campaign and one of the plaintiffs at the signed to demand justice for Rodney King Supporters of the SWP campaign have would be eliminated in the South Florida press conference announcing the suit. and to demand that the cops who beat him be initiated a nonpartisan effort to gain pub­ telephone exchange alone. "This is a fight about the right of common indicted. Thousands signed to demand a halt licity and support for the lawsuit. Cam­ people- worlcing people, youth, and to sending back the Haitian refugees. Many paigners are organizing to collect letters CWA members told Warren that they many others -to participate in politics to signed to stop the embargo of Cuba. At issue of support from civil rights organizations, simply could not continue to go along with defend their interests." is whether or not working people can organize civil liberties figures, fighters against po­ all of the takebacks and that there was The two laws are designed to keep work­ around issues like these in politics. At the time lice brutality and for abortion rights, local increasing tension at the workplace be­ ing-class parties off the ballot. One law of growing social crisis, this right is more and trade union leaders, teachers, and others. tween the bosses and workers. requires that political parties post a $10,000 more important." insurance bond with the state. While this is The news conference was covered by the a smaH amount for the Republican and Miami Herald, a radio news station. and Democratic parties, it is an undue burden Miami's two Spanish-language TV stations. Contribute today to the and an obstacle for others. Florida Network News carried a brief inter­ Tile second law requires parties not on view with Fiske on radio affLiiates state-wide. $75,000 socialist campaign fund the ballot to pay ten cents for each signature Also appearing at the news conference collected on nominating petitions required were attorneys Randall C. Berg Jr., Julie A. Funds and volunteers are needed to produce national campaign literature. to place a candidate's name on the ballot. Moxley, and two representatives of the Lib­ help put the Socialist Workers presiden­ Those interested in helping to petition or For example, supporters of the SWP cam­ ertarian Party. At the news conference, state­ tial campaign on the ballot in 23 states. to make a contribution to the campaign paign have collected 8,600 signatures to put ments in support of the lawsuit were released Contributions to the $75,000 fund will should write to the Socialist Workers 1992 congressional candidate Laura Garza on the from the Miami chapteroftheSouthem Chris­ help expand press coverage of the cam­ National Campaign, 191 7th Ave., New ballot requiring a $860 payment to the state. tian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the paign, cover travel for the candidates, and York, NY 10011. Tel: (2 12) 675-6740 This is a large proportion of the money heads of the National Lawyers Guild and the supporters are spending on campaign leaf­ Haitian democratic organization Veye Yo. lets, telephone calls, and travel needed to get The SCLC said the ballot access require­ Contributions to the 1992 Socialist Campaign out the message of her campaign. The Flor­ ments "are a violation of the U.S. Constitu­ As of June 25 ida Green Party is petitioning in the tion similar to the old poll tax." The poll taxes were used throughout the South to Tallahassee area to collect over 5,600 sig­ City Goal Received City Goal Received natures to put Barbara Ann Rogers-Hen­ prevent Blacks from voting until the victo­ dricks on the ballot and would have to pay ries of the civil rights fight in the 1960s. Atlanta $2,800 $860 New Haven $700 $30 a similar amount. When asked why these restrictive laws Baltimore 2,300 80 Newark 7,000 1,075 Birmingham 2,200 740 New York 9,000 2,960 While these sums are an undue burden on exist, lead attorney Berg replied. "Obvi­ Boston 3,000 445 Philadelphia 2,500 0 the SWP and the Greens, they are only ously the laws in Florida and in the country have been written by the Democrats and Chicagto 3,500 500 Pittsburgh 2,100 1,470 pocket change for candidates like Ross Cincinnati 700 Portland Perot and Deana Ros-Lehtinen, Garza's Re­ Republicans who have been in power in 0 600 500 Cleveland 2,600 450 Salt Lake City 3,000 1,760 publican opponent in the election. In fact, their own interests. They want to keep alter­ Des Moines 2,000 965 San Francisco 3,380 both Perot and Ros-Lehtinen can legally native parties off the ballot so they won 't 6.000 Detroit 2,200 0 Seattle 2,000 300 avoid paying the fee while Garza and Rog­ have any competition." Greensboro 1,600 50 St. Louis 2,500 2005 ers-Hendricks cannot! In 1972 the U.S. District Court in Miami Houston 2,700 1,2 17 Twin Cities 3,600 2,150 To place a full slate of candidates on the ruled against the State of Florida and its Los Angeles 5,500 1,551 Wash., DC 2,300 1310 ballot in the November elections, a new po­ requirement of ten cents per signature. The Miami 2,000 230 Other 11 5 litical party is required to collect 120,000 case, Jenness vs. Miller, was brought by Morgantown 1,800 550 TOTALS: $75,600 $24,693 signatures of registered voters and pay well Socialist Workers Party campaigners who over $12,000 to have the signatures checked. had collected 25,000 signatures for 1972 July 17, 1992 The Militant 11 Court upholds 'Roe v. Wade' decision, backs restrictions in Pennsylvania law

BY ESTELLE DeBATES ships and made choices that define their The June 29 Supreme Court decision on views of themselves and their places in the Pennsylvania Jaw restricting abortion society, in reliance on the availability of sparked protests by both defenders of a abortion," and that "the ability of women to woman's right to choose abortion and oppo­ participate equally in the economic and so­ nents. The 5-to-4 decision reaffirmed the cial life of the nation has been facilitated by basic underpinnings of the historic 1973 Roe their ability to control their reproductive v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, lives." while also upholding several restrictions en­ "The societal costs of overruling Roe at compassed in the Pennsylvania Jaw. this late date would be enormous," wrote The Court's majority decision, written by Justice John Paul Stevens in his opinion. justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony "Roe is an integral part of a correct under­ Kennedy, and David Souter, rejected Bush standing of both the concept of liberty and administration demands to use this ruling to the basic equality of men and women." overturn Roe v. Wade. It also did not agree with the parties challenging the statute who The recent months leading up to the de­ argued "that none of the enactments can be cision have seen sharp conflicts between upheld without overruling Roe v. Wade. We pro-choice forces and opponents of abor­ disagree with that analysis." The Court tion. For 15 days in April, hundreds of acknowledged that "our decisions after Roe pro-choice advocates took to the streets in cast doubt upon the meaning and reach of front of clinics in Buffalo, New York, suc­ its holding." cessfully thwarting Operation Rescue's na­ The decision reaffirms the three pillars of tional campaign to close that city's clinics. the 1973 decision: Only days before the decision, abortion • "A recognition of the right of the rights defenders emulated the Buffalo ex­ woman to choose to have an abortion before perience in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. viability ... without undue interference Militant/Brian Williams The decision pointed out that only in one from the state"; Defending abortion clinic in Buffalo, New York, against Operation Rescue last April. other case, Brown v. Board ofEducat ion of • "A confirmation of the state's power to Young people have been in forefront of battle to defend women's right to choose. Topeka, has the Court ever been asked to restrict abortions after fetal viability, if the rule to resolve a national controversy. "But law contains exceptions for pregnancies when the Court does act in this way," said which endanger a woman's life or health"; tion "constitutes an 'undue burden and is tion rights. An example is the 1976 Hyde the majority, "its decision requires an Amendment, which the use of Medic­ • "The principle that the state has legit­ therefore invalid. A significant number of bars equally rare precedential force to counter aid funds for abortions. An increasing num­ imate interests from the outset of the preg­ women will likely be prevented from ob­ the inevitable efforts to overturn it and to taining an abortion just as surely as if Penn­ ber of states have adopted legislation limit­ nancy in protecting the health of the woman thwart its implementation ... to overrule sylvania had outlawed the procedure en­ ing access to abortion. All combined, this and the life of the fetus that may become a under fire in the absence of the most com­ tirely." has hit working women the hardest. child." pelling reason to reexamine a watershed The restrictive provisions upheld include While the Supreme Court decision codi­ decision would subvert the Court's legiti­ 'Undue burden' a 24-hour waiting period between a fied the accomplishments of this offensive macy beyond any serious question." In handing down its opinion, the Court woman's first visit to a doctor or clinic and against women's rights, it delivered a sting­ Randall Terry, leader of the antiabortion majority imposed a new criterion for deter­ when the abortion is performed. Pennsylva­ ing rebuke to the Bush administration and group Operation Rescu mining whether or not state laws that restrict nia also requires clinics to inform women antiabortion forces such as Operation Res­ e, rejected the Court abortion rights pass constitutional muster. about fetal development as a means to dis­ cue. Fundamentally, it was a political deci­ decision. "Three Reagan-Bush appointees stabbed the pro-life movement in the back," While states cannot place a "substantial ob­ suade them from going ahead with the op­ sion that took into account the fact that he said. "It is inconceivable to me that stacle in the path of a woman seeking abor­ eration, and that minors seeking abortion get simply declaring abortion illegal does not Justice Souter would have the gall to say tion before the fetus obtains viability," re­ consent of one parent or a judge. settle the question. The majority opinion that the legitimacy strictions that do not pose an "undue bur­ The Pennsylvania law is an example of clearly takes into account the ongoing battle of this body is more important than the lives of innocent children den" were upheld. the government drive to whittle away at the taking place concerning a woman 's right to and the protection of mothers." He said the The Court ruled that one portion of the scope of the Roe v. Wade decision. Since choose. three justices "should be ashamed of their Pennsylvania Jaw requiring a woman to no­ 1973 there have been constant probes into The Court pointed out that for 20 years cowardice and their betrayal of the children tify her husband prior to obtaining an abor- curbing and, if possible, eliminating abor- "people have organized intimate relation- and of justice." Terry promised "a lot of unrest in the streets" by Operation Rescue in response to Socialist candidates: Defend abortion rights! the decision. Patricia Ireland, president the rights, standard of living, and organiza­ the influence of other social movements that of the National Continued from front page Organization for Women, said, "Roe v. host of other regulations that make it most tions of working people. preceded it. Wade is dead despite the flimsy stay of difficult for poor and working women to get The victory codified in the Roe v. Wade The Supreme Court decision will not stop execution that the Court issued today," add­ an abortion. decision was the result of struggles that the attacks on abortion rights-only mobi­ ing that the decision gives further momen­ But the Supreme Court majority also re­ came out of profound social, economic, and lizations in the streets and the participation tum to NOW's strategy to elect candidates jected calls by the Bush administration and political shifts taking place in the United of the ranks of labor in the fight can tum who say they are in favor of abortion rights, antiabortion forces to overturn Roe. Instead States and around the world. The women's that around. The Socialist Workers Cam­ and in particular women candidates. Ireland the Court majority - despite the fact that liberation movment emerged because of the paign and its supporters pledge our full par­ also urged people to lobby in Congress for most are opposed to abortion rights-recog­ changing role of women in U.S. society and ticipation in that fight! passage of the Freedom of Choice Act nized that tens of millions hold as a right the ability of women to control their own bodies. They know that simply "declaring" that abor­ tion is not protected under the Constitution will not settle the question nor end the fight. Titles on the fight for women's rights In that they had to take into account the resistance mounted over the past months to Cosmetics. 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12 The Militant July 17, 1992 New Zealand restricts democratic rights Government 'law and order' campaign scapegoats Maoris for crime BY MIKE T REEN rights have been demanded by the police racists among the National Party members serve on juries until the 1960s. Official AUCKLAND, New Zealand-The hierarchy led by the Police Officers Associ­ of Parliament that support Bolger. A number figures confirm that they are more often government has been spearheading a major ation. They have aimed their fire at the Bill of middle-class Maori leaders and liberal stopped by the police, suffer higher rates of "law-and-order" campaign here designed to of Rights Act and the Children, Young Per­ academics also agree with Race Relations arrest if stopped. higher rates of conviction lay the basis for further attacks on the dem­ sons and Their Families Act, which protects conciliator Chris Laidlaw who charges that once before the courts. and higher rates of ocratic rights of working people. A central working people against arbitrary search and "there are a high number of Maori involved custodial detention when sentenced. feature of this campaign has been seizure and allows for the right to consult a in violent crime." According to a 1985 Justice Department scapegoating the indigenous Maori people, lawyer if detained. These charges are aimed at turning the report, Maoris comprise 12 percent of New accusing them with being responsible for In late January Sir Peter QuiJiiam, the victim into the criminal. The Maoris and Zealand's population, but 50 percent of its most crime. one-person Police Complaints Authority Pacific Islanders who live in New Zealand prison population. Five percent of 15- to Seizing on public concern at a series of who rarely upholds a complaint against the are victims of a racist police and judicial 24-year-old Maoris go to prison. which is brutal murders in January, Prime Minister police. admitted that cops are acting ille­ system. Maoris were not even allowed to ten times the rate for non-Maoris. James Bolger called a "Crime Summit" of gally when they stop cars for "suspected" government ministers. officials from the involvement in general criminal activity. Justice Department, and the police. This was This tactic, known as "turnovers" is com­ followed by a special meeting of the Na­ monly used by police to harass young work­ tional Party parliamentary caucus, which ers who, if they object, will end up in court endorsed a range of antidemocratic policies on a charge of "resisting the police." PATHFINDER including: As the debate on crime has unfolded, gov­ • strengthening laws which allow courts ernment ministers and the police have sought AROUND THE WORLD to prohibit people from "consorting with to blame criminal activity and violence on known criminals"; working people, the unemployed, and the RICH STUART • a broader use of preventative detention; indigenous Maori people in particular. • making it more difficult to be released "Let's be frank about it [there is a) high Pathrmder, located in New York with blackt/Repub/ican News from lreland in­ from prison on bail; level of violent offending in the Maori com­ distributors in Australia, Britain, and cludes an ad for the Sinn Fein Bookshop • stricter conditions that prisoners must munity," stated Prime Minister Bolger. Canada, publishes the works of work­ featuring four Pathfinder titles: The meet before becoming eligible for parole or Bolger's statement was quickly backed ing-class and communist leaders who Frame-up of Mark Curtis by Margaret home leave; up by other National Party members of par­ have made central contributions to the Jayko; Democracy and Revolution by • passage of the Arms Amendment Bill, liament. Ross Muerant, a former cop, called forward march of humanity against ex­ George Novack; Che Guevara, Cuba. which makes it more difficult for citizens to for measures to target the Polynesian family ploitation and oppression. Pathfinder and the Road to Socialism (New Interna­ own weapons. because "that is where 90 percent of the bookstores are listed in the directory on tional magazine); and Malcolm X Talks Since September 1990, when the Na­ criminals are. The eight-year-old Polynesian page 16. to Young People. tional government came to power, worKing kid out stealing milk in Mangere tonight to In 1992 Pathfinder Press has consider­ YSB magazine, ''the magazine for people have faced severe restrictions on the buy a hamburger becomes tomorrow's crim­ ably expanded worldwide awareness of young sisters and brothers" distributed legal rights of unions, migrants, and refu­ inal. If it's a girl, she gets pregnant at 13 and Pathfinder books by participating in nationwide in the United States, includes gees, as well as savage cutbacks in health, repeats the problem. If it's a boy he's locked major bookfairs and booksellers conven­ a feature section in the May issue on education, and welfare services. up by the time he's 18." tions in Havana, Cuba; London, E ngland; Malcolm X. The spread has a full page of Even further restrictions on democratic However it's not just the more outspoken Tehran, Iran; Prince Edward Island, Can­ excerpts from Malcolm X Talks to Young ada; and Sydney. Australia. This fall, People by Pathfinder Press. YSB also lists Pathfinder will have booths at the Frank­ the book in "Your Malcolm X Study furt Bookfair in Germany. the largest Guide." 'Art and Revolution' bookfair in the world, and the Gothenberg ln a feature section "We Remember Bookfair in Sweden. Malcolm X" in its May issue, Spare Rib In the United States, Pathfinder has ex­ magazine, a widely circulated monthly in hibited its titles this year at national con­ Britain, prints seven pages of quotes by reissued by Pathfinder ferences of the American Booksellers As­ Malcolm X from books published by sociation in Los Angeles, California, the Pathfinder. AJI seven Pathfinder books Art and Revolution by Leon Trotsky. Association of College and Research Li­ on Malcolm are included in Spare Rib's 252 pp. New York: Pathfinder Press, braries in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Amer­ " Malcolm X reading list.'' The issue also 1992. $19.95. ican Library Association in San Francisco, contains an advertisement for the Path­ California, and the National Women's finder bookshops in London, Manchester, BY DAVE PRINCE Studies Association in Austin, Texas. and Sheffield, England. Pathfmder's publication of Art and Revo­ lution by Leon Trotsky (formerly Leon * * * * * * TrotskyonLiteratureandArt),editedand with The recently published Pathfinder book, During the Gulf War in 1991, orders an introduction by Paul Siegel, is a welcome Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the for Pathfinder books from U.S. soldiers event, after being out of print for over a year. World Unite! got a boost when the May around the world increased dramatically. Themagnificent new cover is a photo detail issue of Choice Magazine. a major library This year Pathfinder continues to get a of the Mexican artist Diego Rivera's mural review journal, concluded its review by steady flow of orders for books and cata­ "Literacy," painted in Mexico City in the saying this book "Should be in all academic logs from soldiers on bases. ships-at-sea, mid-1920s. The cover was designed by Eric libraries." Referring to Pathfinder's four­ and in military prisons. Simpson as part of Pathfmder's program to volume series that this book is part of, the Orders for Pathfinder books including upgrade the appearance and presentation of review says " Anyone interested in 20th­ Woman's Evolution by Evelyn Reed, My already published works ofrevo lutionary and century political history is in the debt of Life by Leon Trotsky. books by Malcolm communist leaders in new editions. those who made them possible." X, and others have come from Fon Hood, The selection of reviews and articles span Pathfinder bookstores in Boston, To­ Texas; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort the years 1908 to 1939. They give the ronto, and Vancouver recently celebrated Jackson, South Carolina; Fort Ord, Cali­ reader an excellent presentation of the opening new storefront locations. And the fornia; Camp Pendleton, California; Fort Marxist approach to art and culture by one Pathfmder bookstore in the Twin Cities of Leavenworth, Kansas; McGuire Air I. I! 0 ;>. T R 0 T S 1.. \ of the outstanding revolutionary leaders of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, just Force Base, New Jersey; the U.S. Navy's completed a major renovation. USS Wainwright, USS Suribachi, and the 20th century. Trotsky was a central Pathfinder's new edition of Trotsky book leader of the Russian Revolution of 19 17 USS Eisenhower: and soldiers from Ger­ and a defender of the revolution and com­ * * * many, Panama, and other U.S. bases the rich debate and discussion opened on The May 28 issue of An Pho- around the world. munism against the counterrevolution led culture by the Russian Revolution of 1917. by Joseph Stalin. Other articles include Trotsky's defense Trotsky's lifelong interest and knowledge of the Bolshevik policy of e ncouraging cul­ of literature- novels, plays, and poetry - ture in the early years of the revolution and currents of cultural thought comes against the Stalinist bureaucracy's strangu­ through in all the selections. lation of culture. The book also contains a 1938 manifesto Writing about that period he said, "While that Trotsky contributed to, "Towards A Free the [proletarian) dictatorship had a seething and Revolutionary Art," signed by the in­ mass basis and a prospect of world revolu­ ternationally known artist Diego Rivera and tion, it had no fear of experiments, search­ Andre Breton, a poet and leader of the ings, the struggle of schools, for it under­ French surrealist movement. Written on the stood that only in this way could a new eve of World War II. the manifesto is a cultural epoch be prepared. The popular powerful call to fight against capitalism's masses were still quivering in every fiber, perspective of war and social catastrophe. and were thinking aloud for the first time in and presents a revolutionary perspective for a thousand years. All the best youthful artists. forces of art were touched to the quick." Three of the selections, "Literature and Revolution" ( 1922-23), "Class and Art" Trotsky also discusses the importance of (1924). and "Culture and Socialism" (1926), the fight against illiteracy launched by the take up the place of culture in class society. Bolsheviks immediately after the revolution These articles discuss the crisis of culture and steps taken to expand and make I ibraries that has developed under capitalism, and the accessible to workers and peasants. prospects for a new flowering of culture The book also contains articles, reviews, opened by the socialist revolution. Trotsky and comments on Tolstoy, Jack London, argues against, as did Lenin and other lead­ Dante, Maxim Gorky, and a broad range of ers of the Bolsheviks, advocates of "prole­ writers, playwrights, and poets of the 1920s tarian culture." The three items document and 1930s from around the world. New Pathfinder storefront bookstore in Toronto, Canada.

July 17, 1992 The Militant 13 Mass protests sweep across South Africa

Continued from front page Security Council to "undertake measures Law and Order spokesperson Capt. Craig other ANC leaders- that of drawing in the assault in the area. which will help stop the violence and rein­ Kotze said. broadest millions of people, both Black and Hostels were constructed as single-sex force our efforts aimed at bringing about a De Kler:k suggested that a renewed state of white, into a united and disciplined struggle temporary living quarters for workers democratic order.·· emergency might be imposed, to which that fights to establish a republic and open brought in from rural Bantustans. These Mandela told reporters that the ANC is Mandela responded: '1lte introduction of anti­ up the possibility to address the needs of the "homelands" were set up under apartheid, "convinced that his [de Klerk'sj method of democratic measures will result in a defiance vast majority - can be derailed through a which millions of Blacks were driven into bringing about a solution to this country is campaign, with me leading that campaign." combination of intimidation and offers of as the regime sought to uproot peasants war. We are going to respond to that. co-option. and create a landless. migratory pool of "The gulf between the oppressed and the A new tur ning point The success of the mass action cam­ cheap labor. oppressor has become unbreachable." he These events mark a new turning point in paign so far shows the extent to which the The hostel at Iscor, as with others across said. "Mr. de Klerk owes his loyalty not to the revolutionary struggle to establish a process of political education- in the the country. has become a center for organ­ the people of South Africa but to the Na­ democratic South African republic, as the aims and goals of the revolutionary move­ izing of the Inkatha Freedom Party. an or­ tional Party. He wants to keep it in power major class forces in the country mobilize ment and the need for the disciplined orga­ ganization that opposes the policies of the by brute force." in a test of strength. nization of a mass social movement that ANC and has a tradition of collaboration For its part, the South African regime The regime hopes it can divide the does not prematurely challenge the gov­ with the regime. Many Inkatha members blamed the ANC mass action campaign for ANC, close down space for political action ernment for power but instead builds the are from Natal province and are Zulu­ the violence. on the part of working people, and impose self-confidence and experiences of the speaking. ''It is now quite obvious that the political a social order that, while stripped of the largest numbers possible- has put the re­ The government has taken advantage of temperature has been pushed unacceptably legal structure of apartheid, retains eco­ gime in a weakened position. It has ex­ the relative isolation of these workers to lure high by ' mass action • and has created a nomic and social power in the hands of a posed its true colors not only to masses of some into participating in attacks against climate which can make incidents such as wealthy few. people in South Africa but to world opin­ ANC supporters. Police have routinely re­ these much easier to happen," Ministry of It hopes the course set by Mandela and ion as a whole. fused to investigate or prosecute those re­ sponsible for the attacks and the regime has used the situation to try to portray the fight­ ing as a conflict between the ANC and ANC statement places demands on regime, Inkatha. After clearing the barricades in Boi­ patong. residents say, police ferried hostel launches international action campaign residents to the area in transports, where­ upon the Inkatha supporters went from Statement of the emergency meeting of house to house killing men, women, and the National Executive Committee of the children. White men were reportedly seen African National Congress, June 23, firing at fleeing residents and police ar­ 1992: mored vehicles were used to smash open­ ings in some township homes. The National Party regime of FW de Police and security forces participation Klerk has brought our country to the brink in similar attacks, and their collaboration of disaster. Riddled with corruption and with training lnkatha hit squads, has been mismanagement. the regime is determined widely exposed over the past several to block any advance to democracy. It pur­ months. One outfit, the army's elite 32 sues a strategy which embraces negotia­ Battalion. has been so discredited that a tions. together with systematic coven judicial commission headed by Supreme actions. including murder. involving its se­ Court Justice Richard Goldstone recom­ curity forces and surrogates. This subver­ mended that the unit be barred from any sion of political processes to destroy the domestic policing role. democratic movement in South Africa led by the ANC cannot be allowed to prevail ANC breaks off negotiations any longer. Following the massacre, the ANC held an We cannot tolerate a situation where the emergency National Executive Committee regime's control of state power allows it the meeting. The body decided the events had space to deny and cover up its role in fos­ left the organization "no option but to break tering and fomenting violence. off bilateral and Codesa negotiations. A The Boipatong massacre is one of the June 23 statement placed a number of de­ most chilling instances of the consequences South African police gun down Blacks protesting F.W. de Klerk's visit to Boipatong. mands on the regime. (See text of statement of the actions of the FW De Klerk regime. ANC statement condemns government role in fomenting violence. on this page.) Before the people of South Africa and the "This subversion of political processes bar of international opinion it cannot escape reached with the ANC almost a year ago. ing and solidarity with the victims of the to destroy the democratic movement in culpability. In particular: Boipatong massacre as the dead are buried. South Africa led by the ANC," the state­ What is at issue is more than the crisis of • The immediate implementation of the ment said, "cannot be allowed to prevail the negotiations process. The fundamental program to phase out of the hostels and Appeal to the International Community any longer." reason for the deadlock is whether there is convert them into family unit accommoda­ The National Party regime is acting in "We all. black and white together, share to be democratic change, or white minority tion. contempt of the wishes of the international the responsibility to stop the regime from veto powers. There is only one way forward. • Installation of fences around these es­ community for a speedy end to apartheid. plunging our country into chaos and anar­ It is a road which must unmistakably and tablishments. Now, more than ever, the international chy." the statement said. "Unity and disci­ unequivocally lead to the establishment of • Guarding of these hostels by security community is required to compel the De plined struggle remain the surest basis for a democratic South Africa. forces on a permanent basis, monitored by Klerk regime to bring violence to an end and realizing peace and stability." To this end it is necessary that the De multi-lateral peace structures, and the expul­ to commit itself to solutions based on inter­ The ANC called on the United Nations Klerk regime agrees to: sion of those who occupy the hostels ille­ nationally accepted democratic principles. • The creation of a democratically elected gally and sovereign Constituent Assembly to draft • Regular searches of hostels with the In consultation with sporting bodies, we shall From Pathfinder and adopt a new constitution; and participation of multi-lateral peace struc­ be reviewing the forthcoming futemational Further reading • The establishment of an Interim Gov­ tures sports engagements involving South Africa. on South Africa ernment of National Unity which is the only • Banning the carrying of all dangerous We appeal to the United Nations Security way all South Africans will recognise that weapons in public on all occasions. includ­ council to convene as a matter of urgency New International no. 5 the country shall have moved decisively to ing so-called cultural weapons. to undertake measures which will help stop end white minority rule. We insist that the regime agree to: the violence and reinforce our efforts aimed Special • The implementation of the universal at bringing about a democratic order. Demands on the Regime demand requiring at least the establishment We call on the international community issue on The regime must immediately end its southern of an International Commission of Inquiry to act in solidarity with our people on the campaign of terror against the people and into the Boipatong Massacre and all acts of day of the funeral for the victims of the Africa the democratic movement. In this regard it violence as well as international monitoring Boipatong massacre, June 29. In particular must immediately carry out the following of the violence. we appeal to all workers throughout the The revolutionary measures: • Release aJI political prisoners forthwith world not to handle South African carriers struggle to • Terminate all covert operations includ­ • Repeal all repressive legislation, includ­ and goods on this day. overthrow ing hit squad activity. ing those laws which were so hastily passed apartheid in • Disarm, disband and confme to barracks during the last days of the recent session of On Negotiations South Africa, the all special forces as well as detachments parliament. L-.---"-- --'' Freedom Charter, made up of foreign nationals. The ANC reaffirms its commitment to a Cuba's role in Angola. 198 pp. $9 • Suspend and prosecute all officers and Call to the People of South Africa negotiated resolution of the conflict in our country which would bring about democ­ security force personnel involved in the vi­ The crisis caused by the regime consti­ racy. peace and justice. The refusal of the New, expanded edition of olence. tutes a challenge to all South Africans to regime to accept such a settlement com­ • Ensure that all repression in some of the unite in a broad movement for democracy, The Struggle Is My Life pelled the NEC to review the current nego­ self-governing states, and in the so-called peace and justice now. We all, black and by Nelson Mamlela tiations process. New edition includes speeches foUowing independent states, is ended forthwith. white together, share the responsibility to Mandela's release from prison. 281 pp., Our people are compelled to live in a stop the regime from plunging our country The ANC has no option but to break off 32 pp. of photos. $12.95 perpetual state of fear-be it in their homes, into chaos and anarchy. The ANC shall con­ bilateral and Codesa negotiations. The NEC Available in Spanish on their way to work, in trains and taxis, at sult all formations with a view to holding a will be keeping the situation under continu­ funerals and vigils. at their places of work summit to unite and mobilise our people ous review. The response and practical steps Nelson Mandela, Fidel taken by the De Klerk regime to these de­ Castro: How Far We and entertainment. This is the stark reality. against continued white minority rule and Between July 1990 and April 1992 there for democracy. Unity and disciplined strug­ mands will play a critical role in determin­ Slaves Have Com e! have been 261 attacks on township residents gle remain the surest basis for realising ing the direction and speed with which bona 83 pp. $7.95 by hostel inmates, which led to 1,207 deaths peace and stability. fide negotiations can take place. Also available in Spanish and 3,697 injuries. We call on the entire people of our country, The decisions taken today will be con­ Pathfinder. 410 West St., New York, NY 10014. Add $3 shipping and handling. We further demand that the regime im­ including the business community, to join in veyed to the regime by ANC President Nel­ plements agreements on curbing violence observing 29 June as a National Day ofMourn- son Mandela as soon as possible.

14 The Militant July 17, 1992 Outcome in U.S. rail dispute is setback for labor movement Continued from Page 3 ilar to a letter sent out to railroad execu­ a contract either negotiated or imposed by tives last year by Robert Schmiege, chief Congress. In April 1991 Congress voted to executive of the Chicago and North W­ cut off a nationwide strike after just 18 estern line. In pointing out that individual hours. A government-imposed contract set railroads were not able to withstand a pro­ major work rule changes and modest wage longed strike and needed to coordinate increases that favored the bosses. their strategies, he wrote, "Railroads need Rail workers involved in the current dis­ a legal framework which makes it difficult pute have been demanding back pay dating for unions to create economic tests of back to 1988 and a heftier wage increase strength." than the bosses are offering. They also hope "Railroads need a framework that permits to push back company demands for contin­ us to tactically manage the sequencing of ued cuts in the size of the work force which the bargaining and mediation phases," have led to drastic work rule changes and Schmiege said. "Without the threat that a declining safety in the industry. 'The in­ labor crisis will affect the national economy, creased cost of health care was also in dis­ our companies are at a terrible disadvan­ tage.'' Militant/Lisa Hickler pute. Protest in Sheridan, Wyoming, during April1991 rail strike. Congress ordered unionists 'We need class solidarity' back to work 18 hours after stoppage began. In cur rent dispute, rail bosses locked out Company lockout workers. No actions were organized by the union After shutting down most railroads, officialdom to counter the companies' ac­ Edwin Harper, president of the Association tions against the lAM strike. Rail workers hand," Flanders said. "We need to build our rail union officials. "There is a conspiracy of American Railroads, said the carriers had across the country report that officials urged class solidarity if we're ever going to beat of the large railroad corporations to further no choice. "Because of the seamless nature them not to set up picket lines or hold picket them." demolish any vestige of power left in the of the nation's freight rail system," he said, signs near any rail yards. As a result, hun­ At the Oak Island Yard in Newan, New railroad labor movement. In what "a strike that begins in one region of the dreds of thousands of rail workers became Jersey, a dozen union members came down amounted to a thoroughly illegal maneu­ country affects service in the entire nation. spectators of the events. In some areas, how­ to the yard and held up signs condemning ver, they held the American public hostage Thus, the freight railroads are taking steps ever, rail workers showed up for work to the lockout. Joel Morecraft, another lAM to a ' national rail crisis' of their own mak­ to proceed with a safe and orderly shut­ make it clear that the companies were re­ member, told a Newark Star Ledger re­ ing. down." sponsible for the nationwide rail shutdown porter, "If we're so important to the coun­ "Congress fell right in line and provided An article in the June 15 issue of the and the difficulties and hardships it was try, then they ought to give us a decent the railroads with the exact solution they JourTUJl of Commerce, though, sheds more causing. wage." had desired, to end the strike and to impose light on the employers' action - fear of the John Flanders, a member of the lAM at In Oakland, California, about 25 rail a settlement." enormous potential power of rail workers Conrail's Selkirk Yard, said that "when workers rallied at the Union Pacific Oak­ and their ability to seriously disrupt the workers saw management explaining on TV land terminal. A picket line was set up and Denny Dollahon, an Amtrak engineer economy through effective strike action. that we were on strike, about I 00 of us wori which would result in a "back to work, cooling the shutdown did demonstrate once again The Changing Face of U.S . Politics off' order under the terms of the old contract. the potential power of railroad workers. by Jack Barnes. Examines the process of building a party of Asked on Channel 6 WRGB TV during With farms and industry dependent on the sociallst workers In today's world of imperialist wars and • • TPADE UNIONS f~(IA' railroads and many factories operating with economic crisis. PAST PQ'CS!N' AND hllUR'l the confrontation, what he thought of the 346 pp. $18.95 , K.WI ~t\~\ arrest of one of his members, lAM Local just-in-time inventories, a shutdown of the 1145 president Joe O'Leary said, "This man rail system for even a short duration has a Teamster Rebellion is no criminal. All he was trying to do was big impact on the economic life of the by Farrell Dobbs. The story of the strikers and organizln~ drives to go to work to feed his family and the country. In the 1930s that transformed the Teamsters union In Minne­ apolis and the Midwest Into a faghting industrial union move­ railroad won 't let him." Many rail wori

July 17, 1992 The Militant 15 -MILITANT LABOR FORUMS------The Militant Labor Forum is a weekly MISSOURI rica! A panel ctiscussion. Sat., July II, 7:30p.m. Zimmerman, Socialist Workers Party. member free-speech meeting for workers, farm­ 2000-C South Elm-Eugene Street. Donation: $3. International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; St. Louis Tel: (919) 272-5996. others. Sun., July 19, 7 p.m. 4905 Penn Ave. ers, youth, and others. AU those seeking Defend Rail \\brkers Jobs a nd Safety. Fri., July to advance the fight against injustice and The Socialist Alternat.ive to the Two Parties of Donation: $3. Tel: (412) 362-6767. 3, 7:30p.m. 1622 S Broadway. Donation: $3. Tel: War, Racism, and Economic Depression. Come Celebrate 33 Years of the Cuban Revo­ exploitation are welcome to attend and (3 14) 421-3808 Speaker: James Warren, Socialist Workers candi­ lution! Sun., July 26, 7 p.m. 4905 Penn Ave. participate in these discussions on issues Support the Protests Against the War in Yu­ date for U.S. president. Sun., July 19, 4 p.m. Donation: $3. Tel: (4 12) 362-6767. of importance to working people. goslavia. No US. Intervention! Speaker: 2000-C South Elm-Eugene Street. Donation: $3. At the Militant Labor Forum you can spokesperson, Socialist Workers Campaign. Sat., Tel: (919) 272-5996. • express your opinion, listen to the views July II, 7:30p.m. 1622 S Broadway. Donation: of fellow fighters, and exchange ideas on $3. Tel: (314)421-3808. PENNSYLVANIA NEW ZEALAND bow to best advance the interests of work­ Pittsburgh Christchurch ers and farmers the world over. NEW YORK Yugoslavia, Haiti, North Korea, Libya, and Manhattan Haiti Under the Gun. Speaker: Linda Joyce, the U.S. Drive to War. Sat., July 4, 7p.m. Socialist Workers Party, member International 593a Colombo St. (upstairs). Tel: (3) 656-055. MASSACHUSETTS Rail Workers Discuss t.he Recent Strike and Union of Electronic Workers Local 627, visited Lockout. Sat., July 4, 7:30 p.m. 191 7th Ave. Haiti twice in 1989. Sun., July 12, 7 p.m. 4905 ~llington Boston Donation: $4. Tel: (212) 675-6740. Haiti: The €risis Deepens. Open US. Borders PeM Ave. Donation: $3. Tel: (412) 362-6767. The Employment Contracts Act and the to Haitian Refugees! Speaker: representative, Commemorating the tOOth Anniversary of the Employers' Offensive. Speakers: A panel of Socialist Workers Party. Sat., July II , 7:30p.m. NORTH CAROLINA Homestead Strike: Lessons for the Labor union activists. Sat., July 4, 7p.m. 23 Majori­ 780 Tremont St. (comer Mass Ave.) Donation: Greensboro Movement Today. Speakers: Steffi Domike, cur­ banks St., Courtenay Pl. Donation $3. Tel: (4) $3. Tel: (617) 247-6772. Support the Freedom Struggle in South Ar- rently making a film on the 1892 strike; Matilde 384-4205. The Fight to Bring Down Apartheid. Speaker from the Communist League. Sat., July 11, 7 p.m. 23 Majoribanks St .. Courtenay Pl. Donation Socialist candidate visits Cuba, pledges solidarity $3. Tel: (4) 384-4205. SWEDEN BY SELVA NEBBIA to produce in Cuba itself as much food as material. They worker with care to make Stockholm MJAMI-"My visit to Cuba wi ll allow possible to meet the needs of the people. sure there is as little waste as possible and Swedish Imperialism and Trade Wars in Eu­ me to better explain what is at stake in the This work is organized primarely through maximize the resources they have," noted rope. Speaker: Carl-Erik lsaksson, Communist defense of the Cuban revolution and the voluntary efforts on the part of all the insti­ the socialist candidate. League. Sat., July 4, 4 p.m. Vlkingagatan 10 road forward it points for working people tutions in Cuban society. People join work During his visit, Warren was asked many (T-bana St Eriksplan). Tel: (08) 31 69 33. throughout the world," said James Warren brigades for periods of time anywhere from questions from everyone he met about U.S. in an interview hours after arrivintg back in a week, to 15 days, to several months. They politics and the 1992 elections. Miami. Warren is the Soccialist Workers are even growing food on land inside the "People follow events in the United Court rules candidate for U.S. president. He spent six city of Havana, in collective gardens in the States very closely because they realize days in Cuba at the end of June. communities." the direct role played by Washington in "The reason I went to Cuba was to get a The urgency of achieving the goal of food the conditions they face as a result of its on 'hate crimes' first-hand idea of how the Cuban people are self-sufficiency reached crisis proportions criminal embargo of Cuba," said Warren. Continued from Page 5 meeting the challenges before them today last year as previously imported vital sup­ "So the biggest question people had for us this one union militants could be prosecuted in light of the continuing U.S. blockade and plies ceased arriving fonn the Soviet Union had to do with the 1992 U.S. elections and for leading an effective strike, which might massive loss of trade since with the collapse and Eastern Europe. Mobilization of volun­ the place of developments like the Ross be considered ' hateful' by a boss." of the fonner Soviet Union and the Eastern teer work brigades and contingents to meet Perot campaign. The second biggest ques­ "We're for the prosecution of these European countries," he said. the labor shortage in agriculture is at the tion on peoples' minds was the signifi­ thugs", said Nisan, "but we don' t need any Warren was accompanied by Selva Neb­ heart of the program. cance of the Los Angeles explosion. And new laws to do it. When a law like this one bia, editor of the Spanish-language monthly The socialist candidate also met with rep­ the third thing we got the most questions is used against fascists and rightists once, it Perspectiva Mundial. resentatives of the Peoples Council's, the on were the prospects for building a rev­ will be used a thousandfold against commu­ "What I found in Cuba is a situation Federation of Cuban Women, and the Cuban olutionary movement in the United States nists, the labor movement, fighters for Black where the combined effects of these two Workers Federation (CTC). Warren visited and the place of raising solidarity with the and women's rights, and opponents of developments are having a devastating im­ the Institute of Biotechnology, and learned Cuban revolution. Washington's criminal wars." pact on the conditions of life for the people about the building up of the tourist industry "We pointed out that the possibilities for Cross burning is not an act of free in that country," Warren pointed out. "At being developed as a source of hard cur­ building solidarity with Cuba in the United speech, Nisan explained, but of threatening the same time I saw that tbe government, rency. States are gre.ater today than they have been and violent behavior. Furthennore, he the Communist Party, and the people in for many years," he said. "We pointed to the said, the St. Paul ordinance lumps such Visit to Cubana de Acero Cuba are doing everything they can to meet efforts we carried out in Miami to get so­ crimes together with actions by working the challenge posed by this situation - es­ One of the high points of the fact-find­ cialist candidates on the ballot - the fact people and youth against exploitation, pecially on the level of energy and food­ ing tour was a visit by Warren, a steel­ that we ran into no obstacles in the streets wars, and oppression. "What about the to the best of their ability." worker in Chicago, to the Cubana de Acero to being able to do that - as an example of 'hatred' workers can express for a brutal While in Cuba, Warren was able to meet steel plant in Havana. Pedro Ross. general the political space that exists today in the employer during a strike?" he asked, "or and talk with workers in a voluntary work secretary of the CTC, gave Warren a tour United States, and the willingness of a layer for cops like those who beat Rodney King? brigade at the AJquizar agricultural farm as of the plant and introduced him to the of young fighters to join in the effort and Is this equal to the racist hatred of the cops well as with youth at El Parafso agricultural workers there. become part of the communist movement." for working people, especially those of us who are Black? Or the hatred of the boss camp run by the Union of Young Commu­ "We met workers of all generations inside "Coming out of my experience in Cuba nists (UJC). The young communists were the steel facility who are joining the efforts this week,'' the socialist candidate pointed for workers who wage an effective fight haJVesting banana, plantain, sweet potato, of the special period," said Warren, "they out, ''I thought that if any other country in to defend their union?" Nisan noted that while Scalia called the cucumber, and other vegetables, as part of included a 73-year-old retired steel worker Latin America was faced from one day to the effort to rapidly expand the production who has been carrying out volunteer work the next with the hardships experienced by cross burning "reprehensible," he did not of basic food items. in the plant for the past six years ... the Cuban people, we would see thousands call for the prosecution of Viktora on exist­ ing laws. ''The food plan was introduced in Cuba Most of the production of Cubana de more in the streets begging, going hungry. Youth and political activists here are plan­ to meet the special period they are in today," Acero is geared to producing equipment for and homeless. And while the Cuban people ning a meeting to discuss what steps to take explained the socialist candidate. "Its aim is use in Cuba's biotechnological industry. are facing tremendous shortages, the possi­ ''Workers at the plant are doing much of bility of such a thing happening in Cuba is next in demanding the prosecution of Viktora. this work with stainless steel, an expensive unimaginable." r-- §et you 'I. copy today --..... The Communist Manifesto - IF YOU LIKE THIS PAPER, LOOK US UP--- by Karl Marx and Federick Engels Where to find Pathfinder books and MISSOURI: St. Louis: 1622 S. Broadway. Sheffield: I Gower St., Spital Hill, Postal The foundi~ program of the revolu­ distributors of the Militant, Perspectiva Zip: 63104. Tel: (3 14) 421 -3808. code: S47HA. 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16 The Militant July 17, 1992 GREAT SOCIETY------"Afewbadapples .• .''-Frank when an American Eagle commuter ing the recent outbreak. decided not to air the episode. have to bribe someone to bring in Rossi, a quadriplegic with artificial plane crashed. The company is a contaminated fish. subsidiary of American Airlines. Barefoot - Imelda Marcos's But you're free to choose­ Rescue workers were dispatched to New Society Movement has de­ While brooding over the prospect The greatest - According to a the scene, as weU as a maintenance manded that the government return of tomatoes genetically engineered recent report, the United States has Harry worker to paint over the American the 1,200 pairs of shoes she left to extend their shelf life, we learned 100 billionaires - more than any Eagle logo. behind when she and her late that currently most tomatoes are other country. And, not unrelated, Ring spouse, dictator Ferdinand Marcos, picked green and turned red with among the major industrialized na­ Then again, maybe be is as split the country in 1986. Appar­ ethylene gas. tions, it's also tops in the number of d umb as be looks - If he weren't ently she is not demanding other children and elderly living in pov­ so despicable, we could almost wardrobe items, not even her bul­ The enforcers - After bring­ erty. limbs, is suing the Miami Beach sympathize with a vice-president letproof bra. ing in some two million pounds police. Arresting him at a bus stop, who doesn't know how to spell po­ of contaminated fish over a A deal -A collector's edition the cops demanded his artificial tato. Sounds real- Fox's TV po­ seven-year period, a Food and of MONOPOLY.® The game arms, shoved him in a squad car, hit lice-reality show "Cops" happened Drug inspection supervisor and board features houses, hotels, him, and demanded his artificial legs. Aid to t he needy - Wash­ to have its cameras on the scene four importers were busted for etc .. accented with touches of One cop joked about not having "a ington's disaster agency, the Fed­ when Seattle-area cops smashed bribery and fraud. The Customs gold and silver. Plus, twice as leg to stand on in court." eral Emergency Management Ad­ into a suspected crack house, Service said it's continually in­ much paper money as you get ministration, sent $16.7 million storming a sleeping couple and vestigating "ingrained, pervasive with the cheapo edition. Only Didn't want free advertising ­ to Los Angeles to pay the over­ their children before they realized corruption among inspectors and $495, payable in monthly install­ In Puerto Rico, five people died time racked up by city cops dur- they were in the wrong house. Fox importers." We didn' t realize you ments. Twelve-year-old gunned down by Chicago police

BY ROSALINDE HOWELL at the Davis School seeking a burglary sus­ automatic and ducked behind the building. The coroner reported that three bullets AND RICHARD SORRENTINO pect at 3: 15 p.m., June 6. Joey had been Friends who were with Joey said he was struck Joey, one in the right ankle, one in CHICAGO - Neighbors, friends, and playing basketball with friends. The police leaving the area to check in with his father. the buttocks, and one in the right arm which family of 12-year-old Joey Cblopek, killed claim Joey turned away as if trying to hide He walked north in the alleyway across from deflected into his chest , Although police by Officer David Jarmusz, held a vigil and something. As Jarmusz, a "gang crimes" the school, and one officer stepped from the claimed Cblopek held the gun in his right march in Brighton Park. The majority of specialist, left the car, Joey started to run squad car to begin chasing him. Joey was hand, the 12-year old is left handed. those who parti.cipated were children, many and the officer chased him. Joey ran into an afraid of police because of two previous Smeared fingerprints on the gun the boy were Joey's classmates. alleyway where he was killed. Police claim incidents in which he was falsely accused, was allegedly carrying do not match that of According to Richard Wedgebwy, acting the boy aimed a gun at the officer, who slapped around, and hit in the head with a the victim's. Tony Pontarelli, Joey's uncle, assistant deputy superintendent, two under­ ordered him to drop the weapon. Jarmusz flashlight. Neighborhood children say po­ said the family was not surprised that the cover officers were circling the playground then fired three shots from his 9mm semi- lice harassment is common. boy's fmgerprints weren't found on the gun. ' That throwaway gun they had belonged to the cop. It didn't belong to Joey." Jarmusz, a 19-year veteran and South Side resident, Canadian cops attack miners in Yellowknife is still on active duty and "has no history of using excessive force in previous cases; BY NED DMYTRYSHYN Wayne Campbell, a striking miner and of the RCMP bill - $58,000 a day - with however, he was involved in two previous VANCOUVER, British Columbia ­ jumbo roller operator for 3 years at Royal Ottawa paying the rest. shootings of suspects," authorities said. Wearing bullet proof vests, helmets, and Oak. said in an interview, "1llis attack was On June 2 1 a successful motorcade for Police have harassed and threatened the canying shields, over 50 Royal Canadian a case of police entrapment and union bust­ Father's Day and in solidarity with miners family. After the killing, police patrolled the Mounted Police (RCMP) charged a rally of ing." As the rally started, he recounted, the was organized by United Steelworkers of neighborhood, and encountered Joey's 50 strikers and their supporters at the Royal Pinkerton guards "started insulting people America Local 802, which organizes the uncle, Richard Agee. Agee asked, "Why did Oak Mine in Yellowknife, North West Ter­ and throwing rocks at them. Our members gold miners at nearby Nerco-Con mine. One you have to kill my nephew?" The police ritories (NWT). took steps to defend themselves and their hundred fifty vehicles in the caravan wove slammed him into a car, removed a pocket The police fU'ed tear gas and discharged families and took measures to disarm the their way through town. knife from his belt, and clubbed him three firearms in the air. Several strikers suffered security guards. Then, from three points in On June 23, over 50 members and sup­ times on the forehead. It took I 0 stitches to minor injuries. Agnes Christensen, wife of the area, over 50 RCMP riot cops appeared porters of CASAW Local 4 packed a city close the wound. Agee was charged with striking miner Steve Christensen, was hos­ wielding batons and lobbing tear gas and council meeting to oppose the company aggravated assault and unlawful use of a pitalized overnight. Agnes, who is pregnant, concussion grenades. Thirty members of application for a development permit to weapon. Chlopek 's grandmother, Carol, was holding a 17-month-old baby when the CASAW were arrested for mischief, assault, continue to house the replacement work­ was told by police, "We have a license to cop assault took place. possession of dangerous weapons (sticks ers. kill. We' ll kill you next." and bats), and willful damage." No Pinker­ Since May 22, 240 gold miners, members Messages of Solidarity can be sent to The media and police have gone on a ton cops were charged. of the Canadian Association of Smelter and CASAW Local4. P.O. Box 1628, Yellow­ campaign to slander Chlopek, claiming he's AlliedWorkers(CASAW)Local4,havebeen Bill Schram, president of Local 4, ex­ knife NWT, XlA 2P2. a gang member. waging a militant fight against company at­ plained to the Militan.t that the union has tempts to run the mine with scab labor. The written a letter to Doug Lewis, the Solicitor main issues are health and safety, and job General of Canada, demanding a pubHc in­ - 25 AND 50 YEARS AGO-- security. Between January and April of this quiry into the conduct of the RCMP in year there have been 81 accidents at the mine. Yellowknife. a press release as follows: "Before a full house. The president of Royal Oak, Peggy A 58 member"tactical team"ofRCMPwas he. Howard Petrick, discussed his reasons for Witte, has stated that she is following the flown in from Edmonton, Alberta, May 26 by THE opposing the Vietnam war (he is not a pacifist) and thedilemmaofhis fellow servicemen who example of Caterpillar, which threatened the Department ofNational Defense to bolster to use scabs when United Auto Workers the Pinkerton security forces already on site. are forced to subdue native Vietnamese in The NWT government is footing 70 percent MILITANT revolt against the corrupt and oppressive Sai­ members struck the company. Publi•hec:f in the lnte re• t of the Working People gon regime.... Although the audience was July 10, 1967 Price 10< somewhat disconcerted by the presence of Austin detectives, two FBI agents and an army The Committee to Defend the Rights of officer in civilian clothes, spunky Petrick Pathfinder Mural Bookstore Pfc. Howard Petrick has more than 300 could not be intimidated. He wore a freshly prominent sponsors. The committee was starched uniform with shiny brass and shoes. formed to defend the constitutional rights of his Good Conduct Ribbon and training profi­ scheduled to open July 18 a 2 1-year-old Gl at Fort Hood, Texas, who ciency badges... " has been threatened with court-martial director of Friends of the Pathfinder Mural. ln Madison, Wise.. the local Howard BY TAMAR ROSENFELD merely for expressing antiwar and socialist Petrick defense committee has been handing NEW YORK - On July 18, the list of Up until now, these people have walked views and for distributing antiwar literature. out leaflets on the case to thousands of Gls Pathfinder bookstores around the world away empty-handed. With the opening of Petrick's literature was confiscated April who stop at the University of Wisconsin grows by one with the grand opening of the the bookstore, passersby can come in, buy I by Military Intelligence. The Army refuses cafeterias on their way to maneuvers. Pathfinder Mural Bookstore in Manhattan's books, and get information on political to return it because they say Petrick is under Greenwich Village. events going on in the area. a continuing investigation. His case is now The store will stock a full selection of Volunteers have set out on a fund-raising in the hands of the Pentagon. drive to raise the substantial resources TH£ MILITANT titles distributed by the publisher, as well as At Fort Hood, Howard Petrick reports that II'U&LJtMtO IN ftU INliUIU Of'"' WOti U ... PIO*U other books on history and current social needed to launch the storefront operation. many Gls are interested in his case and struggles. They are taking to heart the slogan embla­ support his rights. Several soldiers have At the comer of Charles and West streets, zoned on the centerpiece of the mural, "The written to the defense committee expressing J uly 11, 1942 the site is adjacent to the internationally truth must not only be the truth. it must also their support, with such comments as: "I've Why, when the British are shouting about known Pathfinder Mural. This six-story be told." known Howard since I've come into the a crusade for "democracy," do the oppressed work of art was painted by more than 80 A raffle is on to raise money for both the Army. and his defense against the Army's masses in the British Empire show so little artists from around the world. There are opening of the Pathfmder Mural Bookstore persecution is of great importance to me .. enthusiasm for the war [World War Ill? Is it some 150 portraits of fighters depicted on and the rebuilding of the Pathfinder Book­ I too have begun to talk to other Gls about perhaps because they want the Axis to win­ the wall, many of whose writings will be store in Los Angeles that was destroyed in their opinions of the Vietnam war. Most as so many lying propagandists have available in the new store. the recent antipolice riot. soldiers are against the war, but are afraid to claimed? Visitors and admirers come to see the First prize is a 25-inch color TV with voice their opinions for fear of being pun­ The answer to these questions was re­ mural every day. Many stop for long pe­ remote. A $100 gift certificate from the store ished ..." Some Gls request more literature cently given by none other than an officer riods of time, picking out figures they is second prize and third prize is a framed on the case. "The faster the public learns of commanding British forces in the Far East, recognize. The portraits include Nelson poster of the mural. Anyone wishing to help the case the stronger Howard's defense will General Arnold. Mandela. Fidel Castro, Malcolm X, Che sell raffle tickets can call (212) 727-8421. be," was one comment. At a press interview in New Delhi, he Guevara, and V.I. Lenin. Donations to help get the bookstore's Howard has been invited to speak for sev­ described the attitude of the Burmese people "'The interest has always been there. Even doors open by the target date are needed. eral antiwar groups in Texas. On June 23 he to the war in Burma as follows: as the mural was being painted, people of Checks made out to Pathfinder Bookstore spoke on his case for the University of Texas' "The Burmese were 10 percent pro-Brit­ all ages and walks of life were attracted to can be sent to Pathfinder, 191 Seventh Ave., Committee to End the War in Vietnam. The ish. 10 percent pro-Japanese, 80 percent pro­ the project," explained Meryl Lynn Farber, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10011. antiwar committee described the meeting in Burmese and therefore indifferent."

July 17, 1992 The Militant 17 This column is devoted to a discussion with our -EDITORIALS readers - printing remarks, questions, suggestions, and other comments sent to the Mililani. Where possi­ ble we will take up issues raised in notes and letters as a way to help clarify and expand on the coverage in the Join South Africa protests! paper. A reader's letter in the June 26 issue raised several Millions of workers, rural toilers, and youth in South sis ted that the legal structure of apartheid is a crime against questions about Korea, including the possible effects re­ Africa are going on strike, taking to the streets, and holding humanity. Moreover, it has pointed to the need to carry out unification would have on the regimes in the South and rallies to press forward their fight for a democratic South far-reaching measures necessary to uproot the legacy of North; any lessons from reunification of Gennany that African republic. The de Klerk regime's resistance to apartheid in the country: denial of land to Blacks; lack of might apply to Korea; and communists' relationship to the majority rule based on one person, one vote is an attempt housing, education, and medical care; extreme segregation regime in North Korea. by the old order- which held power by the boot, the whip, and low wages; and more. The fight for Korean reunification is completely bound and the gallows- to block the aspirations of the over­ Central to advancing these rums is the establishment of whelming majority of South Africans. a government in which the majority can detennine the Responding to the call by the African National Congress future of the country. This is why the conflict in South (ANC) for worldwide protests is an important way union­ Africa remruns a sharp one, and one in which working DISCUSSION WITH ists, students and other youth, and all democratically people and youth around the world can have an impact. minded individuals can condemn the continued massacres ''We are determined that the minority in this country is OUR READERS committed by the regime's security forces, such as that in not going to dictate to the majority," ANC president Nelson the township of Boipatong. They can add a necessary voice Mandela said when announcing the suspension of negoti­ to the call on the de Klerk regime to immediately step aside ations with the regime in the wake of the Boipatong up with all the struggles waged by Korean working people in favor of an interim government and an elected constit­ massacre. "We are prepared to pay any price for that over the past five decades. Division of the Korean penin­ uent assembly. Solidarity actions at this important turning decision." Open to continuing negotiations if the govern­ sula, a step taken without any consultation with Koreans, point in the decades-long battle against apanheid can show ment meets its demands, the revolutionary-democratic was f~rst imposed in 1945 by the imperialist victors in the white-minority regime - and its backers in Washing­ movement has shown its determination to fight to achieve World War II, with the collusion of Moscow. It was ton, London, Paris, and Bonn - the breadth of support the its goal - the establishment of a democratic, nonsexist, reinforced by the Korean War, which was imperialism's revolutionary struggle holds around the world. and nonracial South Africa. attempt to get rid of the conquests of the people of the The struggle in South Africa is at the forefront of the The overwhelming response inside South Africa to the North and fasten a puppet government that would do the fight against oppression, for the expansion of democratic ANC-initiated call for mobilizations is a reflection of the bidding of Washington and its allies on the whole of Korea. rights, and for the forward march of humanity. lt is an progress made in the organization of a massive social and MiUions of Korean workers, peasants, and students have example of the power of working people and their allies political movement that advances its interests through waged mighty struggles from the Korean War down to today to build a social and political movement that uncompro­ disciplined and united action. to get rid of the Washington-imposed regime in the South. misingly advances these interests. Millions around the world can join in that fight and bring In the Korean War, which began 42 years ago this June, The revolutionary-democratic movement has long in- closer the end of the apartheid regime. the peninsula was invaded by forces from several imperialist countries, including Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zea­ land, and South Africa, as well as the United States. Between 2 and 3 million Koreans were casualties of the war. Their main fighting ally was the force of more than I million Challenges facing rail workers Chinese peasant and worlcer volunteers, who threw them­ selves into the battle to defend Korea Another blow has been struck against rail workers and ers to use the strike weapon to win their demands. But the Threats continue their fight for safe working conditions and a decent stan­ rrul unions don't have to face the actions of the employers The end of the fighting in 1953 did not see the end of dard of living. Instead of turning the railroad bosses' and Congress with such impotence. It is precisely because the imperialist effort to get rid of the workers state in North lockout into a national strike that could have brought the rail workers have the power to shut down the country and Korea. Some 40,000 U.S. troops remrun in South Korea to power of workers to bear in the current dispute, union win the support of other working people - those who ride this day, armed with chemical, "conventional," and nuclear officials allowed the companies to cause a "national emer­ trains to work and those who depend on the goods that weapons-all aimed at North Korea. Each year they have gency'' and give Congress a handle to intervene. trains haul across the country - that the government acts carried out extensive practice invasions of the North - so quickly in defense of the bosses. A limited strike by 1,500 members of the International until a decision in December last year by the South Korean Association of Machinists agrunst the CSX rrul line was In 1978 when President James Carter declared a "national government put an end to this operation, following last met by united action on the part of the wealthy owners of health and safety" eme~gency in order to force coal miners year's big wave of student protests against police brutality the nation's rail industry. The Association of American back to work after nearly 100 days on strike, members of the and U.S. domination. Railroads was willing to disrupt the economy and the lives United Mine Workers of America ignored the order and Today Washington - the only government in the world of millions of working people because the employers in a organized demonstrations and protests to win working peo­ ever to have used nuclear weapons on people - is making "bargruning group must shut down in defense of their ple to their side. Their actions made it possible to beat back a hue and cry with its charges that North Korea might be struck member ... not solely to protect the struck member the combined assault of the companies and the government. building atomic bombs, while it aims hundreds of its own but also to protect the bargruning group itself from the Railroad machinist Paul Kennedy recently explained, nuclear weapons at the heads of the North Korean people. ultimate result of exorbitant and costly settlements." "We have to realize that they can only put us back to work This hypocritical campaign is part of the continuing impe­ Congress, going along with the rail owners defense of if we let them." riaHst aggression against the people of Korea. their profits, acted quickly to order workers back on the By the beginning of August President Bush will sign a In this situation it is the elementary duty of communists job. contract forced on the rail workers by Congress. If the pact -first and foremost those living in countries whose gov­ ernments take part in the relentless drive to wall off, threaten, Rrul workers have just demands. In the past years, wages imposed on rail workers after being ordered back to work have been cut drastically for many; jobs have been elimi­ in April 1991 is any example, this new contract will contain and bring to heel the governrnent of North Korea - to stand nated, making the railroads less safe for workers and the major work rule changes and stingy wage increases. The shoulder to shoulder with the government and people of North Korea in opposing this imperialist carnpajgn. public; and union members are having to pay a greater share imposed agreement will only postpone the inevitable fight of their wages for health care. that rrul workers will have to find a way to mount against The outcome of the fight for Korean reunification, and the results of any significant steps in that direction, will be Rail union officials say that the actions of the carriers the employers. In that struggle they deserve the support and government make it virtually impossible for rail work- of all working people. detennined in the course of this ongoing struggle. It is beside the point to speculate on what the results of some abstract "unification" of Korea would produce. For example, many South Korean business people have eyed up North Korea as a possible "cheap labor zone"-a Solidarity with Canada strikes source of great profits for South Korean capital if they could secure unification on terms favorable to them.llley overlook the entire dynamic of the five-decade long reunification An important shift on the part of employers and their by corporations. Detennined to regain the offensive in their struggle against the capitalist-imposed division of Korea. governments in Canada has developed in recent weeks: the strike, unionists mobilized to retake the factory, forcing use of scabs backed up by police violence against a number the cops, goons, scabs, and company managers out. Struggles raise confidence of important strikes, in a new attempt to push back the It was a similar mobilization that led to the victory over Every such struggle, and every serious step towards labor movement. Gainers in 1986 and Canada Post in 1987. Until recently, reunification (such as the abandonment of the annual This is the first such concerted effort since fighting the employers in Canada have not agrun attempted to practice invasions of the North), raises the confidence of unionists defeated similar attempts in the period starting establish the use of scabs or the threat of hiring what they working people throughout Korea and brings them closer with the strike at the Edmonton Gainers meat-packing call "replacement workers" as the nonn in union disputes. together as workers capable of fighting to advance their plant in 1986 through to the letter carriers' battle against This practice has been more widely utilized in the interests, not as tools for more efficient exploitation. This Canada Post in 1987. United States, and the employers in Canada are now is precisely why the regime in South Korea, with Wash­ Now. as then, the task of the hour for the labor movement hoping to follow suit. An important test came earlier this ington standing at its shoulder, has bitterly fought to across the country is to mobilize solidarity with striking year when 13,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) members mruntain the division of Korea, with Seoul's National union members. at the earth-moving equipment giant, CaterpiUar, went Security Law forbidding any contact by southerners with From gold miners at Royal Oak Inc.'s giant gold mine in on strike. When the company threatened to bring in North Koreans as its centerpiece of repressive legislation. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, to fish plant workers in scabs, the strikers' detennination stiffened and they won There are substantial differences in the Gennan situa­ Arichat, Nova Scotia, unionists have fought pitched battles solidarity from fellow unionists across the country. But tion. In that case it was the East German Stalinist regime in an effort to defend union rights. They have faced Royal the Achilles' heel of the labor movement proved to be that walled off its people, while the imperialists were able Canadian Mounted Police officers with M-16s, Pinkerton the strike's undoing- Owen Bieber and other UAW to pose as champions of freedom and openness. The cops with attack dogs, and the companies' use of helicopters officials organized to end the developing battle and sent crumbling of the BerHn wall accompanied the fall of the to fly scabs and supplies over their picket lines. the strikers back to work. hated police-state regime there. Elsewhere across the country unionists are fighting the Bosses on both sides ofthe border gloated over their defeat The Gennan capitalists, like their counterparts in South use of scabs to break their strikes - from the 1,600 work­ ofthe U AW. In Canada, employers openly discussed that the Korea, hoped to grun through unification of their country ers on strike at the Toronto Star newspaper to the 450 flight time was ripe to deal similar defeats to unions there. a docile and low-paid workforce and a big expansion of attendants at Canada's third largest airline, Nationrur. However, as in 1986-87, what remains to be tested is their internal market, and thereby to greatly strengthen The combination of these strikes and the get-tough the level of working-class resistance to new attacks and German capitalism. More and more of them are now tactics of the employers rruse the stakes for both the bosses the potential of the rank and file of the labor movement to admitting they have gained more problems than benefits. and the labor movment. The wealthy owners of industry join in battles that develop. In that test of strength. the llley have not been able to impose a new capitalist class will see if they can take advantage of the continued con­ unionists in Nova Scotia are leading the way. of exploiters as the owners of industry in the East; they are omic crisis - and resultant rise in unemployment - to set Unionists everywhere can discuss ways to come to the faced more and more with demands from workers in the their sights on major unions in central industries in Canada. aid of those now on strike. A combination of effec.tive east insisting on their right to equal wages with their Unionists in Nova Scotia won a powerful victory at the picket lines and widespread solidarity can show the em­ western counterparts; and they also confront a new com­ Arichat Clearwater Fine Foods lobster plant June 11 that ployers as a whole that their attempts to deal the labor bativity on the part of workers in the west who are unpre­ helps show the way forward and the fact that working movement some serious setbacks will not only be defeated, pared to make bigger and bigger sacrifices to finance people can effectively respond to strike-breaking moves but will result in a stronger labor movement. Gennan capitalism 's attempts to take over the east.

18 Tbe Militant July 17, 1992 Strikers picket New Zealand steel company

This column is devoted to re­ win against a company the size of sponse brought a rapid reaction from eted the Cone Mills plant early in ing a permit for pickets to continue porting resistance by working Fletcher Challenge. He explained . both the bosses • courts of the Indus­ the morning on May 18. through the afternoon. Strikers people to the employers' assault that winning or losing was in some trial Relations Commission and from The one-day strike was called to took rums walking in front of the on their living standard, working ways irrelevant because ''when you the top leadership of the Australian pressure Cone management during plant gates. while others stood on conditions, a nd unions. are attacked, for your own self-re­ Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). contract negotiations, which began the comer in front of the union hall ~invite you to contribute short spect you have to fight back." Working overtime during a long hol­ that day, affecting 2.400 workers holding signs. iday weekend, they sought - and who are covered by union contracts Cone singled out 19 workers, got - nominal agreement from the in Salisbury, Greensboro, and Haw saying they would be "replaced." ON THE PICKET LINE company on a "peace package." River. Cone Mills in Salisbury em­ Fifteen are now back at work, al­ At a mass meeting, strikers voted ploys 700 workers. though at different jobs. The union items to this column as a way for Paperworkers end strike in for the agreement by a large major­ Workers are demanding that "ju­ is fighting to get jobs back for the ity, if reluctantly, as the basis of a nior preferred stock," which they other fighting workers around the Thsmania, Australia other four workers. world to read aboutand learn from return to work. ACTU president hold under an employee stock own­ these important struggles. At a mass meeting June 9 in Martin Ferguson told the meeting ership plan, be changed to common Auto workers in Belgium Brunei, an industrial town on the that the agreement was "a clear vic­ stock - which is worth more - protest layoffs north coast of the island of Tasma­ tory" since it reestablished the right and that they receive a bonus when Workers at Pacific Steel in Auck­ nia, Australia, more than 850 pulp Ninety temporary workers on the land, New Zealand, have main­ and paper workers voted to end afternoon shift at the Renault auto tained a 24-hour picket line since their month-long strike against As­ assembly plant in Vilvoorde, near voting to strike June 4. They are sociated Pulp and Paper Mills Brussels. refused to go back to work fighting the bosses' demands for (APPM). aftertheir lunch break June I I. They flexible work hours, including 12- The attack by APPM manage­ stayed in the lunchroom for an extra hour shifts with no overtime pay. ment on union rights and conditions half hour, causing "holes" on one of The picket area, where the 170 at the Brunei plant provoked the two assembly lines. strikers take turns on 12-hour shifts, strike and escalated it into one of has a look of permanence. A trailer, The workers were protesting a the most fiercely fought industrial decision by Renault to lay them off portable toilets, and tents have been disputes in Tasmanian history. It set up. At night those on picket duty at the end of their contracts. Of achieved national prominence as a 3,400 manual workers, I 0 percent warm themselves over fires in oil test case on the future role of unions drums. At the plant gate a big sign are employed in temporary posi­ in defending workers' basic rights. tions. Until now, young workers with pictures of several of the man­ During the course of the strike, agers hangs with the question, hired at Renault would first get well organized pickets braved near­ "Would you trust this lot?" A large several six- or seven-month con­ freezing conditions at 13 gates and mirror has also been set up in re­ tracts and then, in most cases, a one rail line on the 300-acre site of "permanent" one. sponse to one of the manager's often the mill. Production was brought to repeated phrases, 'Til look into it." a halt Company management at­ The strike began after manage­ A second picket line is occasion­ tempted to ram trucks through the ment broke off negotiations, stating Striking workers at tbe Associated Pulp a nd Paper Mills facility in ally set up at the head office of picket line, turned firehoses on they would enforce their decision Tasmania, Australia. Mass pickets stopped trains from taking rolls of Fletcher Challenge, New Zealand's unionists, and brought in security on the layoffs. In response to the paper out of the mill. largest company, which owns Pa­ thugs trained in martial arts. The protest action, management prom­ cific Steel. strike achieved national headlines ised to reopen negotiations, but re­ affirmed their intention to cut over­ Support for the strike is growing. after a mass picket blockaded a gov­ of union representation at the the company goes back on the stock all employment in the plant for the A meeting of wives and girlfriends emment train. In the last week 300 APPM plant. market. second half of the year. of the strikers drew 60 participants. pickets confronted up to 150 police Ferguson indicated that the un­ Strikers persuaded a number of Workers from other factories have in a pitched battle as the cops tried answered questions and continuing workers to take the day off and join The fact that young, temporary dropped by and financial support to escort a handful of "replacement conflict anticipated by many strik­ the picketing. Those on probation workers organized a work stoppage from other steel workers has started workers" through the main gate of ers after the vote to return to work or who had no excused-absence was a surprise to everyone in the to come in. the plant. One striker and one cop would be fought out "inside the days left were told by union mem­ plant. Many "permanent" workers The strike has also gained some were hospitalized, several others workplace." Many pickets on the bers to continue working. These expressed support for the right of coverage in the news media. An were injured, and 43 pickets were eve of going back to work felt that employees reported that the plant those working temporary jobs to item appeared on one national tele­ arrested. this was just another round in the was unable to operate as normal. strike. vision program and the strike has The strikers were winning na­ battle with the company over Management called in non-bargain­ been featured on the front page of tional and international solidarity. A management's attempts to drive ing-unit employees in an attempt to The following people contributed the main Auckland newspaper. A 24-hour solidarity work stoppage against union rights and conditions. keep production going. to this week's column: Tony Gib­ television crew from the Australian by miners around the country and Although the police did not in­ son. member of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) fellow pulp mill workers in Tasma­ Textile workers mount terfere with the early morning Engineers Workers Union at Pa­ spent two hours filming for a pro­ nia was being planned. A nation­ one-day protest strike picketing, the city manager and cific Steel, in Auckland, New Zea­ gram on attempts by Australian wide boycott on APPM products the police chief showed up after­ land; Manuele Lasalo and Ron bosses to follow the example of was threatened by truck drivers Chants of "Strike! Strike! ward and harassed union mem­ Poulsen from Burnie, Australia; their New Zealand counterparts in from the Transport Workers Union. Strike!" filled the air over the town bers. Six pickets were given Devin Oldendick, member ofAmal ­ stepping up anti-union attacks. Local farmers donated food and of Salisbury, North Carolina, as citations for demonstrating with­ gamated Clothing and Textile One worker summed up the spirit wood to the strikers. some 50 workers, members of out a permit and were threatened Workers Union Local 1113T in of the strikers when he was asked The prospect of this strike produc­ Amalgamated Clothing and Textile with arrest if they did not stop. Haw River, North Carolina; and by an ABC reporter how they could ing a wider and deeper union re- Workers Union Local 1584, pick- The union succeeded in obtain- Eric Wils in Brussels, Belgium. -LETTERS------Family values ily is noteworthy. bly. An economic stranglehold may lutions of Nicaragua, Grenada and Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, " ... [I]t is the highest task to make hurt the ruling class of Haiti, but the Cuba. He enthusiastically partici­ Don came to the aid of the workers The Militant editorial "Quayle the founding of a family possible to rich will never go hungry. Of pated in marches and rallies from and peasants fighting Franco. Dur­ scapegoats the poor" rightly nailed the mates in life and companions in course, an economic boycott will San Diego to San Francisco defend­ ing the following decade Don was the central political aim of the vice­ work. Its final destruction would have some positive influence: it ing the rights of workers nationally an active member of the Socialist president's "Murphy Brown" speech mean the end of every form of higher may stimulate unpaid soldiers to and internationally. Bob was a reg­ Workers Party in California. Al­ - a demagogic effort to turn the humanity. No matter how far overthrow their dictator. ular attender of Militant Labor Fo­ though he resigned sometime in the victims of the crisis of disintegrating woman's sphere of activity can be But it seems to me that the Mil­ rums and a reader of the Militant. late forties, he remained a Militant capitalism into its cause. stretched, the ultimate aim ofa truly itant should ask: What do the peo­ The Pathfinder Bookstore had a reader and supporter, often attend­ Something else, however, was organic and logical development ple of Haiti want done by the out­ special significance for Bob. It was ing meetings over the years. Don operating in Quayle's message. must always be the creation of a side world? If indeed, the common a center of education for commu­ worked for the state as a truck me­ "When families fail, society family. It is the smallest but most sentiment supports a boycott, even nist thought and action. Hearing chanic before retiring in the 1980s. fails," the vice-president stated. valuable unit in the complete struc­ with all of its attendant hardships, that the Los Angeles bookstore had Don was a strong supporter of "The anarchy and lack of structure ture ofthe state." (AdolfHitler: Mein then it deserves support. But if the been destroyed during the anti­ Mark Curtis. Shortly before he in our inner cities are testament to Programm. emphasis added). boycott is a tactic supported only police riots, Bob, during the last died. Don attended a meeting on how quickly civilization falls apart Jon Hillson by Aristide and his supporters then weeks of his life, requested that behalf of the imprisoned meat­ when the family foundation crum­ St. Paul, Minnesota let us think twice. contributions be made to rebuild packer at the home of film director bles." Quayle's reference to Mur­ A boycott is only one tactic the Pathfinder Bookstore. Nick Castle. Although he had re­ phy Brown, an "unwed" mother, Haiti Sanctions among many. I think we should The memorial celebration was at­ cently undergone surgery for a bro­ was not simply, as the Militant The issue of the Militant I re­ review all of the options before en­ tended by 22 people and at this time ken hip, Don was in fine spirits and states, to make sure his speech got cently received had excellent anal­ dorsing a tactic that may visit fur­ a total of $800 has been donated. stayed throughout the afternoon "maximum attention." yses of two vexing and tragic situ­ ther horror on a people who have More contributions are expected. event, listening closely as Curtis's Quayle's speech was a straight up ations for the world's working already suffered so much. Sylvia Hansen wife, Kate Kaku, told how the Cur­ appropriation of key themes of Pat­ class: the debacles of Afghanistan Albert Fried-Cassorla Santee, California tis case had become part of the new rick Buchanan's self-proclaimed and Yugoslavia. Melrose Park, Pennsylvania larger fight against police brutality. "revolution'' based on "faith, family However, your analysis of the Don Boynton Nelson Blackstock and country." situation in Haiti left me wonder­ Life-long fighter Don Boynton, a longtime friend Lost Angeles, California. Fascist elements, who emerge in ing: do Haitians truly want an eco­ A celebration of the life and ac­ of the Socialist Workers Party, the tumult of "breakdowns" with nomic boycott of their country? complishments of Bob Hansen was died in Los Angeles on May I. A their own aggressive action agenda We no doubt agree that socialists held in San Diego June 7. Bob was skilled automotive mechanic, Don The letters column is a n open and scapegoat solutions make spe­ need to examine each country's sit­ a life-long fighter for social justice is probably best remembered for forum for all viewpoints on sub­ cial use of the "cri sis of the family." uation individually. While an eco­ and a supporter of the Socialist his generous contribution of labor jects of general interest to our Given the limits of analogy, the nomic boycott helped the South Workers Party. He died May 19th during more than four decades in readers. Please keep your letters similarity of Quayle's Buchananite African's struggle, for example it from leukemia. repairing and maintaining cars brief. Where necessary they will remarks and those of the 1932 Na­ may not be right for Haiti, where so As a supporterofthe SWPhe had used in party work. be abridged. Please indicate tional Socialist German Workers many people are on the brink of been active in the party's election Don was born in Ohio in 1914. if you prefer that your initiaJs be Party election platform on the fam- starvation and are suffering horri- campaigns. He defended the revo- As an ambulance driver during the used rather than your full name.

July 17, 1992 The Militant 19 TH£ MILITANT Protest condemns U.S. stand on Haiti BY MIKE FITZSIMONS from the U.S. government. "Haitian im­ WASHINGTON, D.C. - Nearly 400 migrants know the parallel histories of protesters, mostly Haitians. marched from racism and oppression of both countries," the U.S. Capitol to the Organization of he said. American States June 27. The march and Representatives from several Haitian or­ rally were called to demand the immediate ganizations, including Jean Vane! of the and unconditional return of Haiti's elected Coordination of Haitian Students in Boston, president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, whose gave greetings to the rally. Many messages government was overthrown by a military of solidarity were also sent. Speakers in­ coup in September 1991. cluded Hilda Mason, at-large member of the Demonstrators also demanded that the D.C. Council; Bill Callahan of Witness for U.S. government grant Temporary Protec­ Peace; Mike Dupuy, a candidate for Con­ tive Status to Haitian refugees, that an inter­ gress in Maryland; and Ron Daniels, candi­ national embargo of oil and other strategic date for U.S. president. goods be carried out against the military Ellen Whitt, the Socialist Workers can­ government in Haiti, and that there be no didate for D.C. Council, also spoke. She military intervention there. said that Washington is afraid that the A number of organizations sponsored the Haitian struggle for democracy will spread action, including the Washington Office on and become an inspiring example to U.S. Haiti and Komite Mete Men, an organiza­ workers. For that reason, she said, "Youth tion of Haitian immigrants in Washington and working people must call for a halt active in support of the struggle for democ­ to the forced repatriation of Haitian refu­ racy in Haiti. gees." She also demanded an end to police Groups in the Haitian communities of Demonstrators in Wclshington, D.C., demanded that Haitian refugees, such as those brutality including against participants in Philadelphia, Boston, and Quebec, Can­ the demonstration. ada, also organized participation in the above, be granted asylum in the United States. protest. Members of Komite Resistance in D.C. cops had refused to allow the Boston came in three buses as well as cars march to continue to the State Department Telephone, thinks the U.S. government is he said. and forced protesters to turn and stop at and vans. complicit with the Haitian government in its Joe Razza, a student at Swarthmore Col­ the Organization of American States. Cops After gathering to hear messages of soli­ attacks on the people. "Would you hand over lege who marched in the protest, said that injured a Haitian woman and charged her darity. the march stepped off with songs and refugees for identification and finger-print­ it inspired him to see people from another with assaulting a police officer when she chants of "George Bush, Dan Quayle: ing to a government you don't recognize?"' country standing up and demanding action protested their redirecting of the march. Haiti's not for sale!" and ''We want Aris­ tide!" Protesters carried signs that read, "Tighten the Embargo," and "Asylum for Refugees." Banners also demanded, " Bush out, Bazin out. Titid in." Marc Bazin is a 'Toronto Star' strikers rally support former Aristide aide who has agreed to ad­ minister the government under military con­ BY JOHN STEELE in the strike has been the drive by the Star letin. "During its tOOth anniversary the Star, trol. Titid is the name Aristide's supporters TORONTO-At a mass meeting June bosses to contract out jobs. Many workers, founded by striking union members in 1892, have given him. 25 at the Toronto Exhibition grounds, 1,600 such as the drivers, will lose their jobs is putting its own workers out of jobs and One Haitian woman from Maryland said, Toronto Star strikers voted by a substantial through contracting out on the street." "American Airlines still flies to Haiti. So there majority to reject the company's latest offer Pressmen, who belong to another union Over 700 strikers and supporters turned is no embargo. The United States can stop the and continue their 17-day strike. The Star is and whose leadership has just signed a ten­ out to a rally June 12 to confront the scabs small boats of Haitian refugees fleeing the Canada's largest circulation daily newspa­ tative agreement, continue to work. Man­ and try to stop the delivery of the Saturday island, but why can't it stop the ships bringing per. agement has hired scab drivers to deliver the edition. Unionists from the Canadian goods to the regime in power?" She said most The members of the Southern Ontario paper to stores and newspaper boxes. One Union of Postal Workers, Canadian Auto­ Haitians favor the embargo, which is aimed Newspaper Guild (SONG) walked out June daily edition, instead of the usual three, is mobile Workers, Canadian Union of Edu­ at bringing down the repressive government 8. The strike involves truck drivers, loaders, being published. cation Workers, Amalgamated Clothing there. porters, mechanics, clerical workers in the "For the second time in the Guild's his­ and Textile Workers Union. United Steel­ Her husband, a shop steward in the Com­ circulation and advertising departments, ed­ tory the company has forced us out on workers of America, and others partici­ munication Workers of America at C&P itorial writers, and others. The central issue strike," explained the Star guild strike bul- pated. In spite of threats by the cops, strikers held up scab drivers entering and leaving the plant for 15 minutes before releasing Minnesotans build event on cop violence them. The rally dispersed in the early af­ ternoon after 150 riot-equipped cops BY GREG ROSE The Minneapolis Police Department has onstration in council chambers during de­ threatened to attack several dozen strikers ST. PAUL, Minnesota - Leaders of the recently mass distributed a flyer aimed at bate over the laws. who had sat down in the street to prevent delivery trucks from coming out of the fight against police brutality in the Twin restricting democratic rights. It states "NO­ Keith Ellison. from the Coalition for Po­ plant. Cities announced plans for a July I I plan­ TICE. The following is illegal in Minneap- lice Accountability and an organizer of the ning meeting in Minneapolis to discuss the olis and you will be arrested for... begging, July II meeting, told the press conference The strikers have pressured the Toronto next steps in the fight to win federal prose­ trespassing on state property ... unlawful that "the governments of Minneapolis and City Council to pull advertising from the cution of the cops who beat Rodney King. assembly (gathering in groups of 3 or more) St. Paul, within weeks of each other, have paper until the strike is over and a similar The news conference announcing the ... interfering with pedestrians or vehicular served notice that they intend to usurp the motion is before the Metro Toronto Council. meeting was covered by Twin Cities news­ traffic." democratic rights of the poor, the minority. The Ontario New Democratic Party govern­ papers, TV, and radio stations. Spokespeo­ This law, pushed by the "Community and the young," in the wake of the Los ment has also withdrawn $40,000 a week in ple also slammed new laws aimed at se­ Crime/SAFE" unit of the police, has been Angeles events. advertising. verely restricting democratic rights. used to roust homeless working people from Newly elected Canadian Labor Congress Norvell Laurent, director of the Inner City public areas, young Blacks from street cor­ Chris Nisan, Socialist Workers candidate president Robert White spoke to about 100 Youth League and member of the St. Paul ners, and political activists from public for Congress, said that "supporters of my strikers on the picket line June 18 along with Police/Community Relations Task Force, areas. campaign are joining together with other Leo Gerrard, the Canadian Director of the explained that "people still want justice for Following protests, the police issued a activists involved in the fight against police United Steelworkers of America. Rodney King." With this fact in mind meet­ new leaflet reaffuming the ordinance but brutality to organize a campaign against this On June 23, guild representatives re­ ing organizers expect a solid turnout of stated it was not meant to interfere with First attempt by Minneapolis and St. Paul police ported that agreement had been reached on youth and political activists from throughout Amendment rights. to trample on the Bill of Rights." the contracting out issue. However, the Star the Twin Cities area.. In addition, activists The St. Paul City Council considered a Nisan described a June 11 incident where bosses are insisting on the right to discipline from several other cities are making plans new law that would allow cops to "ban" Officer Farreel of the Minneapolis police workers they say damaged company prop­ to attend. people from the city's skyways for up to ordered Nisan 's campaign supporters to take erty. They also want guarantees the guild Called by the leadership of a May 2 twenty-four hours. The skyways are walk­ down a socialist campaign table in that city, won't take any action against workers who march of 6,000 in Minneapolis demanding ways and shopping areas that connect build­ threatening them with a citation. have crossed the picket lines. The company justice for Rodney King, the July II meeting ings downtown, and are especially popular is also refusing retroactive pay in any set­ "I demand that this harassment of my will be an opport unity to draw more youth in the severe Minnesota winters. The new tlement. That would mean a loss of $1,000 election campaign cease immediately," he and working people into a discussion on the version of the law came in the wake of the for each guild member. said. "On July 7 my campaign will launch fight against police brutality. It will be a city's defeat in a lawsuit filed by Eugene Pickets are still up. To avoid an injunction an intensive two-week effort to petition to chance to share experiences and political Brown, a Black teenager, who was limiting pickets and a threatened $10 mil­ get on the balJot in Minnesota. We expect conclusions on how to mount effective "banned" from the areas by police. lion lawsuit by the the guild has agreed to have our constitutional rights respected Star, struggles aimed at prosecuting cops who are In addition, council member Paula to let more scab delivery trucks enter and - including by the Minneapolis police." guilty of brutality. Maccabee introduced legislation that would leave the plant. However, delivery is late Meeting organizers explained at the news allow banning people from libraries or any Vernon Bellecourt of the International In­ and sporadic, and the most recent guild conference that several recent moves by the public areas for as little as the crime of body dian Treaty Council also spoke, citing the strike bulletin reported that the Star has lost cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis in the odor, kneeling on the floor, staring, or mum­ poverty and bomelessness faced by many 28 percent of its readers. wake of the Simi Valley verdict be vigor­ bling. Native Americans in the state and denounc­ ously opposed because they are aimed at Within hours of introducing these pieces ing the skyway banning bill as an attempt John Steele is a member ofLoca/836 ofthe narrowing political activity here, including of legislation, the city council backed down to further deny the humanity of Indian peo­ Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers actions against police brutality. as public protest mounted, including adem- ple. Union at the Coats Patons textile mill.

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