WfJRltERS ,,1N(JIJI1R' 25¢ No. 295 .:~) X-523 18 December 1981 Solidarnosc Counterrevolution Checked
DFCEMBER is-With the imposition "I '-i "state of \" (~n {"'~:'\..~~i. ;...... :.r!~ .. ;;.'~ , ~~ '''In. ... COU,p. The Polish Stalinists managed to pull off an effective coup d'etat in their own country. Contrary to every instinct and appetite cf the ruling bureaucracy, constantly seeking accommodation with imperialism. they were forced to take measures defending historic gains of the proletariat. For it must be recognized that Lech Walesa's Solidar nose was moving to overthrow not merely the corrupt and discredited Stalinist regime, but social gains inherit SipaiBlack Star ed from the Bolshevik Revolution Polish police surround Solidarnosc headquarters In Wroclaw. centrally a collectivized planned economy-which were bureaucratically something like the tenuous social the program of "Western-style ment bodies. Under existing conditions extended to Poland after the Red Army equilibrium which existed in Poland democracy"-that is, capitalist restora in Poland, this would have meant liberated the country fromNazi occupa before the Gdansk strikes last August tion under the guise of parliamentary placing governmental power at the base tion. That is why this Polish "free trade a tacit understanding that if the people government. To underscore their ties to of society in the hands of anti union" is supported by the forces of left the government alone, the govern the West, Solidarnosc even demanded Communist nationalists such as the neo imperialist reaction-from Wall Street ment would leave the people alone that Poland join the world bankers' Pilsudskiite and anti-Semitic Confeder to the Common Market and the conditions will be opened again for the cartel, the International Monetary ation for an Independent Poland. Vatican-and why Ronald Reagan crystallization of a Leninist-Trotskyist Fund (lMF), and invited to its congress The event which led directly to the declared that the Polish crisis represent party. Especially in a country as Lane Kirkland, the hardline Cold crackdown was Solidarity's attempt to ed "the beginning of the· end of historically evolved as Poland, the Warrior head of the American AFL organize the firefighter cadets in War Communism." proletariat has the capacity to recognize CIO, and notorious CIA operative saw, a group whose legal status (as With such inflammatory statements, its own historic interests, given time and Irving Brown, chief of the AFL-CIO's throughout Europe) is similar to that of the U.S. imperialist chief sought to a relatively open political situation. European operations. the police. This was one remove away provoke a bloodbath in Poland, in order There must be elements-outside Soli Certainly the mass of deluded from organizing in the armed forces and to fuel his anti-Soviet war drive to a darnose, within Solidarnosc, in the workers in Solidarnose did not and do militia. The night after police dispersed white heat. It is in the interests of the Communist party-with genuinely so not consciously seek the chronic unem the cadets' sit-in on December 2, the working class, in Poland and interna cialist impulses which have been smoth ployment, wage gouging and deteriora Solidarnosc leadership met in Radom in tionally, that the present suppression of ered by the particul~r confrontation tion of safety conditions that capitalism a closed meeting where they made plam Solidarity·s counterrevolution remain that has dominated Poland over the last would bring. If the IMF ever got its for a counterrevolutionary seizure of "cold"-that is, without bloodshed. The year. They must be won to the program hands firmly around the neck of the power. The head of the powerful Polish workers must be warned that of defending proletarian state power Polish economy, the workers would Warsaw region, Zbigniew Bujak, de strikes, protests and other acts of against the kind of clerical-nationalist soon hanker after the "good old days" clared that "the government should be defiance against the martial law would mobilization that brought Poland to the under Gomulka and Gierek. It would finally overthrown" and proposed the unly play into the hands of reactionary brink of counterrevolution, while fight presage the reunification ofGermany on organization ofa Solidarnose militia for adventurers. Massive violence would ing for a proletarian political revolution a capitalist basis, and set the stage fairly that purpose. Someone turned the tapes lead either to the reimposition of a against the Stalinist bureaucracy. directly for a nuclear Third World War, of this meeting over to the government, Stalinist totalitarian police state, crush one way or another. In keeping with the which repeatedly played them on state Solidarnosc Bids for Power ing the workers movement for years, or Catholic spirit of Solidarnosc, one can radio (see "Solidarnosc Counterrevolu the victory of capitalist counterrevolu At its first national congress, held in say: "Forgive them father, for they tionary Plot Exposed" on page 10). tion, a world-historic defeat for the Gdansk in September, Solidarnosc know not what they do." Many Poles were no doubt shocked, socialist cause. Trotskyists seek above consolidated around a program of open In their own way the Stalinists especially at the duplicity ofthe "moder all to maintain a relatively open situa counterrevolution. Its appeal for "free recognized that Solidarnosc was bent on ate" Walesa who told his colleagues to tion, so that a process of recrystalliza trade unions" in the Soviet bloc, long a a final confrontation, but nonethless keep saying, "we love you socialism," tion can begin to take place to forge a central slogan for Cold War anti they temporized. Negotiations between while plotting the government's proletarian and internationalist Communism, was a deliberate provoca Jaruzelski and Walesa finally broke overthrow. vanguard. tion to Moscow. Behind its call for "free down centrally over Solidarnosc' de With their secret plans exposed, the If the present crackdown restores elections" to the Sejm (parliament) was mand for free elections to local govern- continued on page 10 mounted "Operation Brightstar," ajoint military exercise with the Egyptian army along the Libyan border. In another twist of this complex script, "The Libyans are Coming, Qaddafi, as everyone now knows, has armed himself with the help of "retired" CIA operatives Wilson and Terpil, who have remarkably escaped prosecution by the massive apparatus of the U. S. government (see "The CIA's Libya The Libyans are Coming!" Connection," Workers Vanguard No. 294, 4 December). Ironically, there is considerable evidence that the U. S. Having failed to uncover a made-in alarmed at the reports of the assassina originally sponsored their current Liby Moscow "international terrorist con tion squads...." And ABC's Ted Kop an bogeyman as an anti-Communist spiracy" in the United States, the pelon "Nightline" remarked how remi prop in the Arab world. Reagan regime came up with the Libyan niscent it all was of the 1964 Gulf of The anti-Libya campaign is linked to Plot. A five-man hit squad (or ten-man, Tonkin incident, later proved to be a administration plans tojustify increased if you read the Washington Post) has U.S. government fabrication designed domestic police power for the CIA, a supposedly been sent by Colonel Qad to whip up pro-war sentiment. move which even has former Agency dafi of Libya to assassinate the Ameri The absurdity of it all is not that director Stansfield Turner worried ("the can president in revenge for stufflike the Qaddafi is incapable of dreaming up ethic of intelligence is to get the job done U.S. shooting down two Libyan aircraft such a plot-he is a messianic Muslim in spite of local laws"). And it's all part over the Gulf of Sidra in August and fundamentalist dictator who has sup of the anti-Soviet war drive begun by earlier shutting up Billy Carter. The ported terrorists from the PLO to Idi Carter and rolling ahead full steam Libyan plans involve (take your pick) Amin-but that the imperialist U.S. under Reagan. Qaddafi is no flower "shooting down Air Force One, the government has become fixated on the child, but he's certainly small fry Presidential jet, with a surface-to-air threat of Libya, a country of barely two compared to U. S. imperialism, the most missile, blowing up the President's million. With Washington threatening a monstrously armed terrorist power limousine with a rocket or attacking the naval blockade in the Caribbean and ever, whose nuclear war aims are a clear President at close range with small after its provocation against Libya in and present danger to all the peoples of arms" (New York Times, 4 December). the Mediterranean last August, Rea the world. Only revolutionary action by Behind it all, it's now revealed, lurks gan's charges of "unlawfulness" against the international working class can elusive superterrorist "Carlos the Jack Qaddafi are like Hitler condemning Al prevent the American imperialists from Capone for brutality. As for terrorism, al" (whom no one has ever seen for sure) II Mondo embarking on new adventures that may publicized by Claire Sterling in the Under Reagan's bed? CIA-trained gusanos are the biggest end in World War III. Reaganite bible, The Terror Network. assassins around, and don't forget what A little while ago, Qaddafi's menace But the only "evidence" so far ofLibyan The Libyan Plot is such a clumsy the "land of the free and home of the was held to be concentrated above a!l in terrorists going after U.S. officials is an production that not even the gullible brave" did to the peasants and workers his takeover of Chad, the key domino to alleged attack on the American charge bourgeois press is buying it wholesale. of Vietnam. Central Africa. Hence the panicky call d'affaires in Paris last month. In an The Washington Post (8 December) Qaddafi complains, with rather more from the anti-communist Sudan to hold article entitled "He Came from Central carried a front-page analysis by Haynes justification, that the United States is the Libyan threat at bay. But Qaddafi's Casting," social-democratic journalist Johnson calling it "The Believe It or Not trying to assassinate him. Reports have feelings were hurt by Chad's president, Diana Johnstone noted that the pur Show" and concluding that the reports been circulating for months of current who demanded hundreds of millions of ported assassin missed hitting anything "are setting a new standard ofincredibil CIA plots for the "ultimate" removal of dollars in aid, and the few thousand with seven shots fired at pointblank ity." Moreover, they are "reminiscent of the Libyan strongman: the plan as Libyan troops left, doubtless flown out range against the unprotected diplomat the talk about Castro in the days when presented to the House Select Commit as they'd been flown in-by freelance (In These Times, 25 November-I De the United States was planning the Bay tee on Intelligence reportedly includes a Americans. P.S. to General Haig-the cember). It all sounds like a script for of Pigs invasion, and, in fact, commis "disinformation" campaign, the crea southern fringe of the Sahara is the road Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. in "The FBI," but sioning 100 assassination schemes tion of a "counter-government" and "an to nowhere and even harder to get out of it's an all-too-real attempt to generate' against Castro." The New York Times escalating paramilitary campaign" than into, as the new African "peace xenophobic hysteria as part of Reagan's (II December) noted that "European (Newsweek, 3 August). Just last month keeping" force for Chad is surely finding anti-Soviet war drive. spokesmen seemed more amused than the U.S. "Rapid Deployment Force" out. • Village Voice Redbaits Transit Militants We reprint below two letters you supports the candidacy of Ed Kartsen. on their own mobilized strength to get ment want to see candidates who share probably won't see in the Village Voice. What's wrong with a labor socialist what they need: bust the Taylor Law our program run for union office? organization endorsing candidates for through strike action, get the bosses While you rushed to the defense of union office? It'.s a question of program. courts out of the union, for union action Arnold Cherry against the smear attack New York City In fact throughout the union there are a to fight racial discrimination, break of Lynn Marcus' "New Solidarity 14 December 1981 number of slates that correspond to a with the Democrats-build a workers International Press Service" which To the editor of the Village Voice: number of political programs. "No party to fight for a workers government. charges that the dissidents are "mushy strike, Giveback" Lawe who's done his Last July, when black motorman Jesse headed disrupters controlled from the We tried to have a letter printed in the best to destroy the militant traditions of Cole bled to death in his crumpled cab, Voice protesting your dirty little piece of outside," you dismiss the Kartsen this union is the preferred candidate of Kartsen and Brewer fought to shut the campaign with the same kind of swipe. red-baiting by Joe Conason against some of the city's financial powers. The system down and make the funeral a militant candidates in the Transit You singled usput in particular. It's just anti-labor Post supports Mike Warren massive protest. More recently, they gratuitous, gutter red-baiting in the best Workers Union elections and the whose specialty is dragging the bosses fought for union action to shut down the traditions of your owner, Rupert Mur Spartacist League. However, you insist courts into union affairs. It is correct "Train to the Plane" to defend the right doch. You sure work for the right guy. ed in making editorial changes not and logical that the wretchedlyrefor to strike and support PATCO. Why dictated by questions of space. Our mist Communist Party backs Arnold wouldn't we just like every other George Crawford purpose in writing was not to go Cherry. Their programs coincide: reli political tendency in the labor move- for the Spartacist League through your editorial process but to ance on the Democratic Party and the protest against it. Since that is not government-and everything flows SPARTACIST LEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY possible anyone who is interested in from this. Cherry was one of the seeing what we had to say can read the founders and leading spokesmen for the National Office Champaign Houston letter in Box 1377, GPO c/o SYL Box 26474 Workers Vanguard. Citywide Coalition of Blacks for Barba New York, NY 10116 P.O. Box 2009 Houston, TX 77207 ro, the phony "friend of labor" the CP (212) 732-7860 Champaign, IL 61820 Jan Norden (217) 356-1180 Los Angeles for the Spartacist League hustled votes for throughout the unions Amherst Box 26282 and ghettos of this city. Cherry runs to c/o SYL Edendale Station P.O. Box 176 Chicago Los Angeles, CA 90026 Box 6441, Main P.O. the courts as a substitute for mobilizing Amherst, MA 01004 (213) 662-1564 Chicago, IL 60680 (413) 546-9906 New York City the ranks of the union to fight just as the (312) 427-0003 Madison II December 1981 CP calls on the racist bourgeois state to Ann Arbor c/o SYL ban the Klan rather than mobilize labor c/o SYL Cleveland Box 2074 To the Editor of the Village Voice: P.O. Box 8364 Box 6765 Madison, ""I 53701 and blacks to smash these vermin. Ann Arbor, MI 48107 Cleveland, OH 44101 (608) 255-2342 Your article "TWU Reformers Split We stand for working class inde (313) 662-2339 (216) 621-5138 New York Again" penned by Joe Conason simply pendence from the capitalist parties and' Berkeley/Oakland Box 444 P.O. Box 935 Detroit Canal Street Station dismisses the campaign of Arthur [sic] for the mobilization of labor to defend Oakland, CA 94604 Box 32717 New York, NY 10013 Kartsen as a "token campaign," "sup workers rights. That's why we support (415) 835-1535 Detroit, MI 48232 (212) 267-1025 ported by the Trotskyist splinter group Ed Kartsen and David Brewer, who is Boston (313) 868-9095 San Francisco known as the Spartacist League." If the running for executive board of the car Box 840, Central Station Box 5712 Cambridge, MA 02139 San Francisco, CA 94101 author had even taken the time to peruse maintenance division. They are the only (617) 492-3928 (41 5) 863-6963 Kartsen's election material he would candidates who recognize the need to have at least realized his name was Ed strike, the need to mobilize the power of TROTSKYIST LEAGUE OF CANADA not Arthur, and that Arnold Cherry is the union to fight the attacks on the Toronto Vancouver Box 7198, Station A Box 26, Station A not, as your article claims, the only TWU and the racist cutbacks of Reagan Toronto, Ontario M5W 1X8 Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2L8 black candidate for president. and Koch. Their class struggle program (416) 593-4138 (604) 681-2422 Of course the Spartacist League demonstrates that the workers must rely 2 WORKERS VANGUARD r-- ~ ." ~ "Well, Jack got serious on us," says left-wing causes in right-wing America, the dilettante left-wing editor Max Reds hasn't generated political contro Eastman in Reds. He was consoling versy-even Ronald Reagan, who saw it John Reed's wife Louise Bryant, dis in a private showing with Beatty, traught over her husband's intense reportedly liked it. (Although according plunge into building the American to the New York Times he was "hoping Communist movement. Such scenes for a happy ending." For Reagan doubt make Warren Beatty's Reds particularly less this means the defeat of the gains of interesting to revolutionaries. Part of October and a victory of the White the film's obvious popularity surely is armies which he and his class have due to the careful construction of a film been working for since 1917.) Ofcourse that allows for many levels of percep the love story dominates the film, but tion, including the one that communists Communist. Unusually, Beatty takes actual historical characters. We were Beatty's shrewd and artistically brilliant bring to it. Although the Reed/Bryant more liberties with the love story than surprised by Reds. The political argu use of a "chorus" of aged real-life love story is the film's focus-it is not with the socialist politics. The events of ments, though condensed, are powerful, "witnesses" also acts to lend distance really a political film-nonetheless its the Russian October 1917 Revolution, as Beatty has his hero answer the best from the political present. The various political background is extraordinary in the subject matter of Reed's stirring Ten· arguments of his opponents. This is speakers are contradictory: Henry Ronald Reagan's America: sympathetic Days That Shook the World (see box, particularly true in the confrontation Miller is a beaten solipcist, George treatment of the Russian Revolution page 10), appear only briefly. But there is between Reed and the anarchist Emma Jessel sings "Yankee Doodle Dandy" in and the founding of the American a good deal of politics in Reds. Not only Goldman in the midst of the bitter cold, uniform, the ex-Trotskyist Arne Swa the politics of Reds reflect Reed; the film misery and starvation of revolutionary beck explains how revolutionary Russia A Review also reflects his romanticism and some Russia. There he effectively defends the was surrounded by the imperialist times, to its detriment, his sentimentali Bolsheviks' struggle to consolidate the armies like a noose. The overall effect is by Pat Kincaid ty. Beatty is interested in what made revolution against the efforts by 16 to fix the events in a distant, dimly if at Communist movement. There is the Reed different from Eastman and imperialist armies and the Russian all remembered past. Reed/Bryant/Eugene O'Neill triangle, Louise Bryant, from the frustrated White Guards to strangle it. But the ideas and impetus to class but the powerful impact of the Russian liberal muckraker Lincoln Steffens and More surprising still was that Beatty struggle cannot be relegated to a Revolution itself becomes almost a third the rest of his libertarian Greenwich took on directly the shaping influence of romantic past, a lost American inno party to Reed and Bryant's affair, a field Village friends. From Harvard gadfly the Russian Revolution on American cence. Reds is no mere nostalgia piece, against which character is developed and culture hero, Reed raised reporting radicals. Here is a film that comes along or as one movie critic put it, "radical and tested. to an art, and then graduated from in Reagan's America, amid the most chic antique." If simple expositions of Beatty treats the stormy politics of theatricality to the social drama of the massive war build-up in history with the class-struggle politics sound strange to the First World War and postwar greatest events of the class struggle. deepest bourgeois consensus since most Americans, it is not because of revolutionary upheavals seriously be Beatty is clearly fascinated by the McCarthyism. In Cold War II, the film some increased "sophistication" in end cause his hero becomes a serious tension in Reed between the artist-rebel presents a hero who struggles against century America, nor the result of time and the revolutionary who decides for capitalism and defends the Russian and aging. Fundamental class counter the disciplined vanguard party against Revolution. U.S. audiences aren't likely positions remain; it is the degeneration his temperament. However, the film to leave the theater humming the of the left, the result of massive defeats does not emphasize Reed's participation "Internationale" or "Trotsky's Red and the betrayals of Stalinism, which in the Paterson, New Jersey textile Army," but coming from the man who has changed the political terrain. What strike and IWW miners strikes in the made Shampoo, Reds is quite an is needed now is exactly the sort of West, where he came first to a working accomplishment. forthright class opposition shown by the class perspective of struggle. If leftists are likely to enjoy Reds and early Communist movement. Many reviewers place Reds in the respect Beatty's research, feminists The American Communist Party ..Zhivago tradition" of counterrevolu shouldn't be too happy with the portray today is no less reformist and pro tionary heroes whose private lives are al of Louise Bryant. Beatty is true to the continued on page 11 tragically torn apart by great historical accounts of her as a self-centered, rather events (Nicholas and Alexandra). But flaky "emancipated" woman. Against Reds is something of an anti-Zhivago the great political events of the period, WfJRKERS whose hero resolves his conflict between her all-consuming desire to make a private and public life with ever name for herself is shown as petty, VANGIJARIJ deepening political commitment. Thus narrow egotism. For the first part of Marxist Working-Class Biweekly many reviewers like the movie despite its Reds she is a pill, carping about her self of the Spartaclst League of the U.S. political background. We like Reds development even on the train to EDITOR: Jan Norden because of it. Petrograd, 1917: Annie Hall goes to the ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Charles Burroughs PRODUCTION: Darlene Kamiura (Manager). We have become used to the anti Russian Revolution. With Bryant and Noah Wilner . Communist distortions and primitive the boy scout portrayal of Reed, Beatty CIRCULATION MANAGER: Linda Jarreau class prejudice that characterize Holly shows the difficulty, indeed the general EDITORIAL BOARD: George Foster, Liz wood's product, the stupidity and failure of a layer of romantic libertari Gordon, Mark Kellermann, James Robertson, Reuben Samuels, Joseph Seymour, Marjorie massive disregard ofhistorical truth, the ans to emancipate themselves from Stamberg unerring ability to get the politics sexual jealousy and to actually make Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published wrong-in the service of ideology. We lives out of their notions of "free love." biweekly, skipping an issue in August and a week in December, by the Spartacist Publishing do not expect Hollywood movies to Bryant's real development in Reds Co., 41 Warren Street. New York. NY 10007. realistically present meetings ofmilitant comes with the recognition of the Telephone: 732-7862 (Editorial). 732-7861 (Business). Address all correspondence to: Box workers and socialists, nor to character importance of the Russian Revolution 1377, GPO, New York, NY 10116. Domestic ize political confrontations fairly in tone and some perspective on her own life subscriptions: $5.00/24 issues. Second-class and substance, movies peopled by with Reed. She rejects the cynically postage paid at New York, NY. individualist Eugene O'Neill to enact Opinions expressed in signed articles or letters recognizably serious socialists. Still less do not necessarily express the editorial do we imagine Hollywood can present what Beatty portrays as a heroic act of viewpoint. John arguments on the left with anything love for Reed. 1915. resembling honesty or generosity to the Despite its sympathetic portrayal of No. 295 18 December 1981 18 DECEMBER 1981 3 Chicago Transit Crisis: Bust "Battle-Ax" Byrne! CHICAGO-Once this city's mass mouthpieces as the Civic Federation for transit system was a showpiece of "the being soft. Clearly, all sections of the city that works." Now it's a rotten mess, city workforce will come under the and mayor Jane Byrne along with the cutback ax if Byrne wins this critical test banks and industrial capitalists she of strength. represents has decided that the primari There's only one way to repel such all Jane Byrne's blues for ly black transit workers and the riding out assaults on working people: plain Chicago public will pay. old-fashioned class struggle. But union workers, The Chicago Transit Authority leaders continue to preach reliance on blacks (CTA) has savagely cut service and the capitalist Democratic Party at a time turned maintenance into a joke. The when it's Democrats like Byrne who fare was recently raised to 90¢-the administer Reagan austerity in the form highest in the country. As another harsh of municipal misery for· blacks, Latinos Chicago winter begins everyone knows and the entire working class. freeze through 1984 because the Demo cut is restored, that every "eliminated" they're in for hell on the CTA. As usual, Under Byrne, the racist, brutal crats in the state legislature won'tanswer city worker is rehired and that Chicago's the black areas will be victimized the Chicago police force has broken the his pleas for aid unless transit workers working people finally win high-quality worst. grisly record for prisoners "committing "sacrifice," Back in '79 Weatherspoon free mass transit. The bosses' campaign to make work suicide"-more than New York and Los and other misleaders of the Chicago It's reached the point under Byrne ing people pay for the city's financial Angeles put together! In two years, 23 ATU locals came to Byrne's assistance that you have to chuck a buck into the crisis is spearheaded by an escalating men-mostly black or Latino and by ending a powerful four-day strike fare box to take an express bus to work. war on the Amalgamated Transit Union typically arrested only hours before on without a contract. Such agents of the But it's not just Chicago. Soon they may (ATU, which represents CTA workers. minor charges-have allegedly hanged bosses must be booted out in the bring back the Susan B. Anthony "tin" Having effectively cut off all city aid to themselves in jails throughout the city. struggle to break labor's ties to the dollar, which everyone knows was the transit system, "Battle-ax" Byrne And trigger-happy, racist transit police Democratic Party. intended to serve as a subway token. now intends to make up for the CTA's shoot CTA riders for such "Grimes" as The 1979 defeat was a minor episode What's happening is the decay and $138 million deficit by slashing service, smoking. compared to what the bosses have in deliberate ruin of America's inner cities. imposing layoffs and freezing wages. The December 19 "Solidarity Day II" store for city workers today. And the Arid as usual it's blacks and other Byrne even demands that the ATU rally called by the ATU is intended only attack won't stop with transit. The minorities who are told to ride at the reopen its contract, which doesn't expire to let off steam and rebuild faith in the betrayal of two years ago helped the back of the bus. The Spartacist League until next December, to pave the way racist anti-labor Democrats. Such class bosses pick off the municipal unions rejects the "New Deal" illusions perpet for massive contractual takeaways. collaborationism is the road of utter transit, teachers and firemen-one at a uated by reformists and liberals to keep Despite this attack on a key section of defeat for minorities and other working time. Now joint class-struggle action by the working class politically disarmed. the Chicago city labor movement, Byrne people. ATU Local 241 president John the city unions is even more necessary. For class struggle to bust the Reagan/ is being criticized by such capitalist Weatherspoon has consented to a wage Only strike action will ensure that every Byrne offensive!. Detroit Labor" Blacks, Students: Clean Out South End Racist Nest! DETROIT, 15 December-After two nounced (Detroit Free Press, 26 No calling on unionists to join the student newspaper of WS U. As angry weeks of turmoil over racist provoca vember) at the very time three Klans campaign: students proclaimed today, Wayne tions in the Wayne State campus men, one an admitted FBI informer, "Auto workers slave on the assembly State is becoming a breeding ground for newspaper, the South End, the Student stand trial here for conspiring to kill a line so our kids can get out of the the Klan. This is intolerable. Run the ghettos and out of the plants. Now as Newspaper Publications Board today black man. Last week the South End layoffs mount and tuition goes up, racists out of the South End! tried to hide from black outrage behind published an interview with a Klansman black students are being driven out of Even while support for the SYL closed doors and a barricade of police. which waxed lyrical on a cross-burning Wayne State. The racists don't want to initiated campaign to oust the racist A public hearing called to rule on the and "failed" to mention that the KKKer stop there. They want a lily-white editor has grown, a wretched black status of racist FBI-loving editor E. served six years in prison for fire- school in the middle of a black city." nationalist outfit and some scab "social Dale Lee had been moved to a secret ists" finally came out into the open to location. But the Spartacus Youth direct their main fire ... against the SYL. League (SYL), which brought out some The tiny pan-Africanist "Association of 60 black and white students and auto Black Students" (ABS) drew 25 people workers from several Detroit-area to a rally December 10 with a leaflet plants, found out and the whole group advertising their "principal [sic] struggle marched over to the meeting. They against Spartacislfl." The rally was co found the room blocked with riot sponsored by Peter Sollenberger's equipped Detroit cops, but to no avail. miserable Revolutionary Workers For over an hour the spirited crowd League (RWL). rallied in the hallway, chanting, discuss This disgusting policy comes from ing strategy to fight the fascists. Finally, two groups who have abstained on every they spotted the Publications Board recent struggle by black students at sneaking out a side door and forced WSU, starting with last year's successful them to hold the public meeting. campaign by the SYL which drove out Succumbing to pressure from the the South End editors who applauded SYL, which had initiated a student the acquittal of KKK/Nazi murderers in Committee to Oust Racist Editor Lee, Greensboro. The ABS' paper, Spir;t and the board had earlier announced Lee's Drum, says openly: "Should we demand 'fire the editor'? No." And at the temporary suspension. On Monday the Young Spartacus SYL forced them to agree to hold Lee's December 3 rally by the Committee to SYL-Inltlated rally December 3 mobilizes Wayne State students In anti-racist Oust Lee, one RWLer tried unsuccess hearing publicly. But when they finally campaign. faced the students, it was only to fully to circumvent the security mea announce they were postponing any bombing school buses in Pontiac, Last Friday the protest against South sures undertaken to protect against decision until next Tuesday, by which Michigan; an article on Hitler which End racist provocations was taken to possible right-wing violence, an act time classes will be over and the students never mentioned the Nazis' murder of the Detroit city council by Spartacist which provided an opening for the cops scattered or embroiled in exams! six million Jews; and yet another racist League spokesman Don Andrews. to harass the meeting. At a time when "cartoon," this time on a rape case at However, the council members refused the campus is polarized over the issue of The protests were sparked by Lee's WSU. Thefront-pagedrawingshoweda to take a position, using bogus argu the South End's racist editor, when publication in the South End of a vile weeping blond girl menaced by sinister ments about freedom of the press. (This Committee supporters have been physi racist "cartoon" entitled "How Many eyes from the surrounding darkness. is not surprising coming from a body cally attacked by racist thugs, their Honkies Are in This Picture?" and On December 3, a protest by the which permits fascists to parade their actions go beyond sectarianism to ob depicting five identical black basketball Committee brought out some 100 swastikas and KKK paraphernalia in jectively aiding the Klan and the FBI! players and a white-sheeted Klansman. people (see "South End Racist Editor downtown Detroit while arresting anti The South End must not be allowed Even after this "cartoon" generated Has to Go!" Young Spartacus No. 96, fascist demonstrators.) And the ACLU to continue as a racist mouthpiece! widespread outrage, Lee kept up his December 1981/January 1982). And is now defending racist Lee. But free Remove Lee and all those responsi provocative filth. ". personally do militants in the giant Ford River Rouge speech is not the issue-a nest of racist ble for the South End's racist support what the FBI does," he an- plant here have circulated a leaflet provocateurs has taken over the official provocations! • 4 WORKERSYANGUARD 1 ~ - The Russian Question Pointblank SL/SYL Faces the Reagan Years The Central Committee of the Spar tacist League recently held a major and full meeting of its membership in the Midwest. This was the second plenum of the sixth SL Cc. Some 200 comrades attended the weekend's proceedings, including visitors from several other sections of the international Spartacist tendency (iSt). The main political report by SL National Chairman James Robertson took place on Friday evening and was open to attendance by all SL and Spartacus Youth League members. The next day was reserved for the Central Committee plenary session to which all full members of SL Midwest branches were invited. Over 90 SYL members and various interested party SYL holds observers attended the SYL Active Active Workers Workers Conference held on Sunday. Conference to Youth members from as far away as assimilate new California and Massachusetts made the recruits. trek so as to be able to participate in the SYL conference. A memorandum prepared for the gathering entitled "SL/U. S. Faces the Reagan Years: The Russian Question 'i Pointblank, For Workers Action to WV Photo Bring Down Reagan! For a Workers bourgeois university student with a finally slough off the effects of'Vietnam in 1944 the Russian army rolled through Party!" provided the primary focus for chance at the "good life" ora proletarian syndrome' with an aggressive propa Poland fighting the Germans they the plenum discussion. The plenum ganda campaign to refurbish the dis created completely fresh from the egg a backed up against the wall. The half credited slogans of the Cold War ('free brand new bureaucratic apparatus unanimously adopted the memoran million workers who marched in Wash trade unions') and enlist the American completely in the image-completely, dum, noting the necessity to add to it a ington on September 19 showed that people in an anti-Communist crusade." utterly without a trace of hypocrisy due particular section on the black struggle what has long been true for the black to old norms and old forms-in the There has beel). surprisingly little and to more decisively set the section on population is now becoming true for image of then Stalin's Russia. So while I overt internal trouble over the party's don't think this has any particular Poland into an international context. broad layers of the working class: they line on Poland throughout the iSt. decisive qualities compared to the Also approved by the Central Commit know they have an enemy in the White fli~<;.!!..in Stalinist party of Romania, Hungary or tee were a series of personnel shifts House. Thus the adoption by the party Rightist impulses to the U.S. the rest of them, at least these other tended to be posed as excessive worry aimed at strengthening party branches Central Committee of a fighting per parties had cadres who were old about world reaction to Russian inter Stalinists and who knew better .... in the industrial heartland of the spective: vention, with the implication that it "Certainly the Polish Stalinist party Midwest. Due to the combination of "The objective possibility exists to bring that took over the administration of pronounced inflation and the corre Reagan down in sharp class struggle by might not be worth the popularity cost. Poland were simply guys that they sponding sharp increases in federal the proletariat leading the oppressed. While our position will send our grabbed from around who were willing income taxes, which have resulted in a We remember that despite U.S. consti opponents into StaIinophobic spasms to do the job. And they had to be, tutional peculiarities, Nixon was and isolate us somewhat in the U.S., therefore, overwhelmingly scoundrels two-sided financial squeeze on the party dumped one jump ahead of a jail there is no reason to assume its universal without even an honorable past to live membership and on the organization as sentence and more significantly that down, an enormous gang of careerists a whole, the CC also approved a LBJ was effectively brought down after unpopularity-particularly in countries who were willing to become quislings necessary reduction in the minimum the Tet offensive of 1968.... It was the with a mass Stalinist base and a for one of the historic enemies of heroism of the Vietnamese that brought sustaining pledge each comrade is traditional antagonism to the church Poland. Johnson down. Our perspective is a "And one has to have some sort of expected to pay. fighting labor movement todo the same among advanced workers (e.g., Italy, France). motive-so what's the motive going to The SYL' conference included a to Reagan." be? Massive corruption that would spirited discussion on recruitment op In any case, the need to stop the threat shame the chief of the KGB. Poland and the Russian of bloody capitalist restoration and the portunities, particularly among black Question "The irony is that in that sector of the youth, and the task of education and establishment of a NATO eastern front tsaristempire which first produced a Central to a revolutionary opposition is the decisive criterion for the formula good workers party, the party Proletari assimilation of the large number of new at, born in Warsaw a decade or two comrades recruited last spring and to Reagan reaction is defense of the tion of our line. As the reporter on the before they had a party circle in summer out of our intervention into the Soviet Union against the U.S. drive document commented: Petersburg, and that produced what protest activism ignited over EI toward imperialist war aimed at the "We do not like and do not find it an used to be called the best party in the ordinary experience in history, but Salvador. heart ofthe Soviet degenerated workers Communist International-had to be state. The Russian Question is the certainly when the program of the so thoroughly destroyed root and "We are entering a period ofconsider emancipation of the working class is in branch that the Polish Workers Party of able opportunity and considerable question of proletarian revolution in the flat contradiction with a section of the today has less nominal continuity than danger," the SL m,~mora~dum noted. U.S. and internationally. Appropriate working class our loyalties reside with the American CP, small though it is." "It is this combination which challenges ly, both the main report to the Central the program." Committee plenary session and a special Against the Anti-Soviet our small fighting propaganda group That the bulk of the working class in educational point at the SYL conference Popular Front! struggling to meet the tasks of a Poland has embarked on a counterrevo took up crucial aspects of our demand vanguard nucleus in the changed cli lutionary course behind the clerical/ The Russian question is key not only that Polish Solidarity's counterrevolu mate of the Reagan years." In light of nationalist, pro-imperialist Solidarnosc because of direct military threats from tion must be crushed by any means the rapid political changes which have is one of the great crimes of Stalinism. the White House, but also because the necessary. occurred in the U.S. since Reagan's An account of the destruction of the developing class-eollaborationist anti Reagan's embracing of Solidarnosc election-with considerable effect on once-superior Polish party by the Reagan mood has an explicit or implicit occurs within the context of U.S. the world at large-the ability of the SL Stalinist usurpers given in the main anti-Soviet thrust as well. The Demo imperialism's campaign to forge a leadership to discuss and quickly adopt presentation underlined this: cratic Party and its labor lieutenants are a series of analyses, observations on and global anti-Soviet war axis. From "In the old days of the Communist just as anti-Soviet as is Reagan. Sup a guide to action for the immediate Central America (where the murderous International under Lenin and later the porting the military buildup against the period demonstrates a cohesiveness of right-wing Salvadoran junta is backed saying was, as I remember Shachtman Soviets, Kirkland & Co. can have no quoting from back when he was a both program and cadre in this critical by the U.S. as a bulwark against consistent economic program, can "Soviet/Cuban aggression" even as Communist, 'We used to say that the juncture for the party. German party is the biggest and the mount no credible opposition to Rea Reagan's election meant a turn Haig steps up threats to blockade Polish the best.' Well, comrades, the gan's austerity drive. Their anti further to the right on all political and Nicaragua and Cuba) to the brutal Polish party really was the best. It was Sovietism can be the millstone that sinks social questions. But now with PATCO apartheid regime of South Africa which the biggest of the main Comintern them; it is our opening. Our sales of has now taken its real place as a bastion parties that, when the issue that Trotsky style union busting and drastic social is not so hot came out in 1923, abstained some 9,000 copies of Workers Vanguard programs which economically threaten of the "free world" (i.e., U.S. surrogate on the question in their Political Bureau at the September 19 AFL-CIO demon every known sector including the aged in the region) the anti-Soviet war drums pending receipt of the documents. That strations indicated more than the power and the crippled, the mood is beginning beat loudly. The memorandum states: was the regime ofthe three W's [Warski, of our unique call to shut the airports to crack. And it is tending to crack along "It is in Poland that Reagan sees the Walecki, Wera Kostrzewa]. best possibility to realize his revanchist "They were purged. There were two and win the strike. Among the up to class lines. While the politics ofsectoral appetites toward the Soviet Union by more purges, complete purges of the 500,000 workers at the Washington, ism dominated the radical opposition in rolling back the social and economic Polish Central Committee, and still D.C. march called by a frightened and the late 1960s and '70s, when each gains of the postwar transformation of Stalin was not satisfied with the Polish brittle labor officialdom, there was at oppressed group was urged to organize Eastern Europe carried out as a 'cold' Communist Party; and in about 1938 he least an openness to pro-union social process by the Russian army in the wake liquidated it on the grounds that it was on the basis of its own oppression, of the defeat of Nazi Germany. The nothing but a nest of police spies and ists. There is a huge political vacuum in opposition to Reagan is differentiated Polish crisis is seen as well as a choice provocateurs, i.e., Trotskyites .... the labor movement between ourselves depending on whether one is a petty- opportunity for the U.S. ruling class to "It had the interesting effect that when continued on page 8 18 DECEMBER 19,i'1 5 The most spectacular blowup in a federation, Comisiones Obreras mass Communist Party since World (CC.OO.). The "Afghans" were not War II is tearing apart the Spanish merely or even mainly old Stalinist Communist Party (PCE). The latest act hardliners left over from the Civil War in this escalating drama came on years. but younger union leaders who December 10 when the leadership ofthe had built Comisiones in the clandestine PCE's Catalan affiliate (PSUC) ex struggle against Francoism. pelled or suspended 29 central commit Discontent in the Catalan party tee members on charges offactionalism. against Carrillo and his policies reached The purge victims are the heads of a so the flashpoint last January 5-6 at the called "pro-Soviet" left wing represent Fifth Congress of the PSUc. Bya vote ing possibly half the party ranks in of 424-359 all references to Eurocom Catalonia and especially its working munism were struck from the party's class base. programmatic theses. A motion with Earlier this fall, the Basque drawing earlier PSUC criticism of Communist Party split in two as its Soviet intervention in Afghanistan was leaders moved to dissolve into a social defeated, but altogether 19 amendments democratic nationalist coalition. This by the "pro-Soviets" were adopted. move was supported by the ultra Among them were calls for a referen "Eurocommunist" right wing of the dum on Spanish entry into the Common PCE. In response, Communist Party Market (the PCE is for entry), for ..Kappa/Liaison chief Santiago Carrillo no~ only dis dismantling U.S. bases in Spain (the Hapless Eurocommunlst Santiago Carrillo. solved the Basque central committee PCE is silent on the issue), and for (which thereupon declared its independ relations of "friendship and solidarity" ence) but dumped six right wingers from with the USSR. This strong offensive by the national CC and booted half the the "Afghans" led to the resignation of PCE city councilors in Madrid out of the Eurocommunist PSUC general the party. This in turn provoked secretary Antoni Gutierrez Diaz, who protests, resignations and expulsions in was replaced by the "Leninist" Francesc Carri 110 Pays the Price every CP stronghold in Spain. Frutos. (At the PCE's Ninth Congress in Already party membership had fallen 1978, Frutos was the minority spokes drastically, from 200,000 in 1977 to man against Thesis 15 which eliminated 100,000 today, and the current explo references to Leninism in the party of Eurocommunism sion could easily cut that number in half. program.) The challenge to Carrillo was The PCE is not so much hemorrhaging crystal clear. But for all the ideological as breaking up along every conceivable thunder, the PSUC had not broken line of division-and there are plenty. politically with Eurocommunism, much The origins of the crisis lie in the less gone over to anything resembling abysmal failure of Eurocommunism, a Leninism. product of the long process of social The liberal weekly Cambia 16 (19 democratization of once-Stalinist par January) noted the confused nature of , ties who despite their reformism are still polemics at the PSUC congress, com considered pariahs by their "own" menting that the CP was rent by several bourgeoisie. Carrillo was the standard overlapping divisions: "Eurocom bearer ofthis tendency, breaking his last munists vs. pro-Soviets, intellectuals ties to Moscow and sloughing off vs. workerists, Carrilloists vs. anti vestiges of Leninist terminology in the Carrilloists, centralists vs. federalists, hopes of gaining acceptance from the old vs. young, party vs. trade union." capitalist state. But in the climate of The political distinctions were far from renewed Cold War, the imperialist clear. The "Leninists," for example, had bourgeoisies have not been interested in split from the Eurocommunist leader a deal. ship over Carrillo's Thesis \5; otherwise So the PCE has been left out in the they were virtually politically identical cold, with marginal electoral strength, with Gutierrez& Co. On the other hand, outflanked by the Socialists and nothing the "Leninists" are based on the Catalan to show for its concessions on every Comisiones where they had joined with thing from wages to democratic rights. "Afghans" in throwing out the Carrillo Now petty-bourgeois sectors want to go ists in mid-1980. On the hottest issue the all the way and complete the liquidation new general secretary voted with the , into social democracy. Sectors of the minority for retaining the term Euro I working class, however, facing interna communism. Yet Frutos and a whole 110...- tional capitalist economic crisis and the group of his "Leninist" cohorts were threat ofa bonapartist military takeover elected to run the PSUC with the in Spain, are pressing in a confused and support of the "Afghans," in horse contradictory way for a more militant trading aimed at keeping out both policy of class struggle. That gives the "Euros" and the even more right-wing present crisis of the PCE special social-democratic grouping known as importance for authentic Trotskyists, the banderas blancas (white flags).· who alone have an international com As a result of the "Leninist"I munist program to sweep away the "Afghan" rotten bloc, even after this legacy of Francoist dictatorship and spectacular rebetli6h which was greeted open the road to European revolution. with enthusiastic support in the PSUC ranks, the new central committee ended Act I: PSUC and the "Afghans" up with a majority that fundamentally When Jimmy Carter unleashed a supports Carrillo. (While "pro-Soviets" Cold War barrage over Afghanistan in won many of the policy fights at the early 1980, Carrillo was the most "upset congress," when it came time to shameless of the Eurocommunists in elect a CC they took only 25-30 seats out toeing the State Department line. A of 110.) This time the wages of oppor "Condemnation of the Intervention of tunism were paid on the barrelhead. Soviet Troops in Afghanistan" was Madrid's El Pais (8 January) headlined published in the PCE's Nuestra Bandera that "Eurocommunists Support New (March-April 1980) alongside a photo PSUC Leadership to Contain Pro featuring a placard calling for "Death to Soviets." Frutos immediately turned on Russia-Get Out of Afghanistan." But his allies, removing the organizational this virulent anti-Sovietism did not go secretariat from "Afghan" hands. PCE down well with much ofthe Communist tops began spreading rumors ofconnec tions with the Soviet embassy and ranks. District and local organizations complaints that the weekly Madrid of the Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya (PSUC) in the Barcelona Aeroflot flights were booked up with industrial belt (notably Baix Llobregat Catalans. After a few months of this and Valles Occidental) issued resolu kind of dirty pool, a PSUC central tions supporting Soviet aid to Kabul committee meeting simply brushed against the CIA-armed Islamic reac ·So-called because they are the remnants of tionaries. Soon a wing of the PSUChad a Maoist split from the '60s. known by the crystallized which became known as the name of their paper Bandera Raja (Red At PCE 10th Congress last July Carrillo admlUed, "This party could "" "Afghans" and was based on sections of Flag). who returned to the PSUC fold in the destruct." the leadership of the CP-Ied labor '70s on a rapid rightward course. 6 WORKERS VANGUARD aside the Fifth Congress, declaring Eurocommunism "synonymous with a revolution of the majority" and again condemning Soviet intervention in Afghanistan (El Peri6dico, 17 May). What really took the wind out of the "Afghan" sails, however, was the PS UC's limp response to the February 23 coup attempt, ostensibly by a couple dozen Guardia Civil troops who seized the Cortes (parliament), but actually backed by top military leaders. That night the working class all over Spain was ready to fight, yet the PCE and Comisiones refused to mobilize and only called for a two-hour strike the next day. In Catalonia the PSUCj CC.OO. 'originally called for a 48-hour At Fifth Congress general strike, but by the morning of the of Catalan PSUC, 24th this had been reduced to the token left-wing "Afghans" rebelled against two-hour stoppage with workers to stay Eurocommunists. at their jobs (i.e., no demonstrations). There were local general strikes in the "Afghan" strongholds around Barcelo na, but the "Leninists" followed the PCE line of "serenity." Expressing confidence that normalcy reigned de J. Gol spite the tejerazo, the PSUC tops even entitled, "What Are CPs Good For in vaguely for a "new political formation" opposed the sanctions as did the held a meeting in their own headquar Europe?": ters. To top it off, the May CC meeting along the lines of British Labourism. Salamanca provincial council, all the '"In our time it will only be possible to With an eye on the "Afghan" ranks he PCE councilmen in Valladolid, hun that "recuperated" Eurocommunism construct a solid left alternative, in the voted to show its faith in the "democrat countries where the Socialist and twice made positive remarks about the dreds of party members in Valencia, etc. ic" military by participating in Armed Communist parties are strong, by Russian October Revolution. To reas Madrid locals representing 9,000 mem Forces Day! The Catalan working class overcoming the tragic and absurd break sure the generals he made explicit the bers demanded a special conference. of the 1920s.... For our part, we Meanwhile, the internal fights in the logically concluded that the "new" PCE's renunciation even of"democratic Communists have already said what propaganda" in the military (Mundo Catalan PSUC were boiling over. In PSUC was no different from the old. this means in our opinion: a complete break with the Soviet model, accepting Obrero, 26 July). Bilt toward "renova May, party president Pere Ardiaca, a Act II: The PCE Tenth Congress an international policy in the frame tor" and "pro-Soviet" leaders he made it 74-year-old founder of the PSUC, was and the "Renovators" work of West Europe." clear that at the Tenth Congress there ousted for his "pro-Soviet" views. Then -La Calle, June 1981 would be winners and losers. If the at the annual fair for the party newspa With the left-wing "Afghans" held in Carrillo refused to publish the formation of tendencies is not stopped, per Treball in September, several check, the right wing ofthe PCE, the so document of this "critical tendency," he said, "this partycould self-destruct in hundred "Afghans" drowned out Carril called "renovating Eurocommunists," but the "renovators" won a majority at a very short time." However, the lo with shouts of "traitor" and "out, began making noises. Beginning last the Madrid regional conference in early tendencies had already formed ... out!" The dissidents wore badges with December, long-time party leader and July. At the PCE's Tenth Congress (28 the slogan, "I'm Communist. Long Live CP deputy mayor of Madrid Ramon 31 July) the Carrilloists trained their Act III: Basques, Catalans, the Fifth Congress. PSUc." The Euro Tamames launched a campaign for a sights on this liquidationist social Everyone communist tops retaliated by cutting off "profound democratization" of the democratic current, which (with about a electricity and water to stands belonging ... and the self-destruction of the to the Baix L10bregat and Valles Spanish Communist Party is under way. Occidental districts, which were dis The chain reaction began in mid tributing Soviet-made handicrafts (El September when Roberto Lerxundia~.~i' C()muni.sl~ Sh9rtly~ter. 9 October). a ~.... ~.;.; a majority of the leadership of the CP's number of left-wingers were expelled by Basque affiliate, the EPK, decided to the PSUC executive committee for liquidate into Euzkadiko Ezkerra (EE), booing Carrillo at a mass meeting in a social-democratic nationalist group March. ~ linked in the past with the "Political With tendencies banned, the political Military" wing of the ETA Basque fights take place in a counterpoint of nationalist guerrillas (ETA-pm). Ajoint physical attacks and bureaucratic :ft. eJtv fiet; document by the leaders ofthe EPK and abuse. When district party conferences EE called for: in Barcelona's industrial belt returned '" ... the creation of a broad, mass, non big "pro-Soviet" majorities, PSUC's ~e1 rrJb~ dogmatic class party, which would not overcome in theory and practice the "Leninist" majority retaliated by simply j) a e;iiA historic division within the work dissolving them, putting dissident locals tJ. ing class between socialists and under its direct financial control. In rnl, c.a. oTAN. communists." early November the PSUC youth split in As a condition for "fusion" negotia two. And at a CC meeting the Catalan ~fla lib ~ti tions, Euzkadiko Ezkerra demanded .party leadership set a special conference that the EPK break all ties with the PCE for next March in order to ratify "full ~ and that the term "democratic social support to the strategy of Eurocom f:M r)oj,1U ism" replace "Eurocommunism." This munism." Delegate elections were in turn provoked opposition among the rigged so two-thirds of the membership, ~nJe·~' working-class sectors of the Basque in the big Barcelona-area locals, pre biWOI! , ..1l.AtMW1H SA,;': Communists, which by and large are of dominantly left-wing, received one-third non-Basque origins. When Lerxundi of the delegates. When "Afghans" on agreed to the EE diktat, Carrillo the CC objected that these highhanded Mundo Obrero dissolved the EPK central committee measures were undemocratic ...all 29 of Parliamentary cretins of the PCE call for referendum on NATO entry. and ordered a special conference. them were expelled or suspended from As a result there are now two Basque the PSUc. No one can say Carrillo party and to "kick out the Old Guard" quarter of the votes) was easily beaten. CPs, roughly equal in size, one subordi didn't teach "Leninist" Frutos how to in the first instance Carrillo himself. The "pro-Soviets," with only 6 percent nate to Carrillo & Co. and the other do it! Having gotten nowhere, Tamames quit of the delegates, thanks to Frutos & Co., preparing to dissolve into nationalist Eurocommunism on the Rocks the party in early May. But the "renova took a dive, not even answering direct social democracy. However, at last tors" drew up a platform calling for the attacks or the expulsion of one of their July's PCE congress Lerxundi was a The debacle of Eurocommunism right to form "currents of opinion" in leaders, Garcia Salve, from the party. main spokesman for the "renovating must be located firmly in the interna place of the PCE's Stalinist ban on Cambio 16 (10 August) called it the Eurocommunists." So in early Novem tional context. It was U.S. imperialism's factions. This tendency is based in carrillazo, although there was one hitch ber he was invited to speak publicly in post-Vietnam anti-Soviet drive that particular on the CP municipal council in Carrillo's coup: the general secretary Madrid by six "renovator" CC members ultimately led to the demise of the ors, who hold office' in coalition with himself only came in 15th in voting for and five city councilmen of the same French popular front (see "Why the Felipe Gonzalez' Socialists (PSOE). the Cc. . tendency. Carrillo thereupon demanded Union of the Left Fell Apart," WVNo. Thus they represent that layer of the In his report Carrillo made some and obtained the ouster from the CC of 280, 8 May), and which relegated the t party which is most integrated into the "self-critical" gestures to assuage dis the six offenders and the expulsion from PCE to the political ghetto. Early in capitalist state apparatus, and their aim content over the poor results ofthe CP's the party ofthe Madrid councilmen who 1978, Jimmy Carter's State Department is to carry Eurocommunism to its "policy ofconcentration" (amounting to had sponsored Lerxundi. Among the announced it would not tolerate CP logical conclusion by dissolving the partial support of the reformed Franco CCers dumped were the PCE's leading participation in West European govern PCE altogether and liquidating into ist governments of Suarez and Calvo anti-Soviet theoretician Manuel Azcar ments, whether or not they called social democracy. A leading "renova Sotelo). Taking note of the "Mitterrand ate, and several Cortes deputies. This themselves Eurocommunists. Whatever tor" (and PSUC bandera blanca) Jordi syndrome" and appealing to the "reno sparked protests throughout the coun his previous chances, that was the end of Borja expressed this clearly in an article vating Eurocommunist" ranks, he called try. The CC of the Andalusian CP continued on page 8 18 DECEMBER 1981 7 defense." It was under this sign that the called repeatedly for a working-class Spanish CP... PSUC was born in the mid-1930s. And offensive against the hated bonapartist SUSYL... it was on this platform that it played a dictatorship in the wake of Franco's (continued from page 5) (continued from page 7) decisive role in defeating the most death. The PCE in all its wings, and the mainline bureaucracy; the other Santiago Carrillo's hopes for a "govern important class mobilization of the Eurocommunist or neo-Stalinist, ostensibly revolutionary organizations ment of national concentration" with Catalan proletariat-the May Days of sought a pact with "democratic" sectors in industry have simply become social Felipe Gonzalez' Socialists and Prime 1937. of the bourgeoisie. Carrillo settled for democratic appendages to, or satellites Minister Adolfo Suarez' reformed Today left-wing "Afghans" reject less, the "Afghans" want more-but the of, the labor tops. Francoist UCD. The French and Italian Carrillo's cringing oaths of loyalty to fundamental program is the same. That section of the plenum document CPs faced the same imperialist veto, but king and Carter. Yet the theses of the Genuine communists fight not for a dealing with our left opponents is aptly they had a solid electoral and trade PSUC's Fifth Congress, which they "neutral Spain," a slogan common to all titled "The U.S. Left Moves Right." union base to fall back on, abandoning defend, endorse the PCE's program of wings of the PCE, but for unconditional Simply by remaining stable, the SL/ or toning down their Eurocommunist "national reconciliation" during the defense of the Soviet Union against SYL have become the only left opposi fervor. In Carrillo's fundamentally I960s and early '70s-the Stalinist basis imperialist attack, for socialist revolu tion to pro-Democratic popular weaker position, the only card he could for today's Eurocommunist sellouts. tion throughout West Europe and frontism. play was ever greater sellouts. PSUC left-wingers now object to the workers political revolution in the Stalinist-ruled deformed! degenerated "The U.S. political terrain has become At the time of the PCE's Ninth "implementation" of the Moncloa more 'traditional' with the effective Congress, in April 1978, we concluded Pacts. And indeed, when the Pacts were workers states of the Soviet bloc. "Pro disappearance of Maoism, the increas that Carrillo's party had crossed the first signed in 1977, 100,000 protested in Soviets" only tail after the discredited ing irrelevance ofthe SWP, the splinter ing ofthe Shachtmanoids and the end of Rubicon in the direction of social Barcelona, led by the same CC.OO. bureaucracies, whose bankruptcy has been demonstrated in Poland, while the a definable black movement. The democracy: leaders who today are called "pro Russian question draws the line clearly. "Although apparently the French and Soviets." Yet the protest stopped with a Eurocommunists (renovating or Carril There is the'State Department socialist' Italian CPs are not ready to take such a single march-for the latter-day "Lenin loist) tail after Reagan and Schmidt. complex, the Stalinist orbit, and us."' dramatic and showy step as the PCE's ists" and "Afghans" were not prepared The anti-Carrillo "Afghans" in Spain Despite the fact that we are in an renouncing of 'Leninism: it is clear that to wage a head-on struggle with the have tapped widespread proletarian in the case of Carrillo's party there has enviable political position to recruit been a definitive break with the Mos Spanish state. They dissented from rejection of Eurocommunist class radicalizing worker militants, the de cow bureaucracy such that it can no Carrillo & Co. but had no independent collaboration. But only the program of pressed condition of the U.S. economy longer be called Stalinist." policy of their own. Trotskyism provides a revolutionary has meant massive layoffs for much of -"Spanish CP Goes Authentic Trotskyists (not the social answer to the bankruptcy of the industrial proletariat and therefore a 'Eurocommunist'," WV No. democratic imposters of the LCR) Stalinism.• 205, 12 May 1978 weakening of our industrial concentra And we predicted that after Carrillo's tions. This is a situation we urgently party officially chose the Spanish king seek to rectify. over the Kremlin, "the level of dissi "On guard against routinism!" was a dence poses the possibility oflarge splits Free Fulani Sunni-Ali! recurring theme throughout the plenum to the left." Now this is occurring before discussion and applies with full force in our eyes. But the leftists do not have a the trade-union arena. Episodic cyni Cynthia Bosto/1 (Fulani Sunni Leninist program. The so-called "pro cism on the part of union militants Soviets" have no proletarian interna Ali), a leading member of the black about activity in the union is not nationalist Republic of New Africa tionalist policy to replace Carrillo's uncommon, particularly where the Eurocommunist class-collaboration in (RNA), is back in jail in Manhat bureaucracy is conjuncturally so dis ternationally; they had no answer to the tan-sentenced to up to 18 months in credited yet so entrenched (e.g., the February 23 coup attempt internally. prison-although there are absolute United Auto Workers). In many such ly no criminal charges against her. situations, the possibility of proletarian Trotskyism ys. Stalinism She is being held "in contempt of revolution may literally seem more court," as a result of the vicious realizable than ousting the bureaucrats In their amendments to the draft government "Weather-witchhunt" and replacing them with a class-struggle theses for the Catalan PSUC's Fifth and its grand jury inquisition in the leadership. Comrades must not there Congress, the "Afghans" of the District wake of the Nyack Brinks robbery. It fore fetishize any particular trade-union Committee of Valles Occidental simply began when Sunni-Ali woke near tactic (e.g., elections) nor should we proposed to eliminate criticism of dawn October 27 in her Mississippi eschew the likelihood of recruiting Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. farmhouse to see a land-and-air directly to the party from the plants. Theyadmit the bourgeois character of invasion-involving a helicopter, Workers Vanguard readers circles the "Iranian Revolution," recognize the camouflaged tanks, hundreds of both in areas distant from established problems posed by the Iraq-Iran war armed men, including SWAT teams, SL local committees and in locals with (between two purportedly radical FBI agents and cops-surrounding large concentrations of WV readers nationalist Islamic regimes), but do not her home. This mighty army AP among workers-can serve as transi present a coherent international class managed to capture her, along with Fulanl Sunnl-AII tional organizations for recruitment. line. Their criterion is the foreign-policy 12 children. "All the children down to into the courtroom! "One of the alignment toward the USSR of the age six were handcuffed. They simply clear purposes of Mr. Lumumba's Reagan Reaction and bourgeois nationalist dictatorship in had none small enough for the application is to enable him to carry Repression question (which would have made babies," she told a New York press on a propaganda campaign," said Our bourgeois opponents are not idle. Egypt "progressive" under Nasser and conference November 6. federal district judge Irving Ben They are instead preparing to suppress reactionary under the latter-day Sadat). They claimed she was involved in Cooper (New York Times, 11 No and repress the workers movement International questions are decisive the Nyack Brinks robbery, but vember). As if the federal through lynchings "legal" and illegal. one need only look at the impact of the they couldn't make it stick. After prosecutors-who in their Brinksjob The single most important, though not Polish events throughout Europe-and Fulani Sunni-Ali proved she was in investigation have tried to implicate by any means the only, protectionwe can the Trotskyists of the international New Orleans at the time, the govern Cuba, Vietnam and anyone who have is our links to and the firm rooting Spartacist tendency (iSt) have been ment was forced to release her with favors "the creation of a socialist of our organization in the labor move unique in fighting for a consistent all charges dropped. But the feds state"-hadn't brought politics into ment. That we are being subjected to a Marxist analysis and program. The iSt were out to teach a lesson in racist the courtroom! Fulani Sunni-Ali is systematic campaign of slander in the calls for "Hail Red Army in Afghani American "justice." Their instrument being railroaded on political charges, press from campus tabloids to pres stan!" and "Stop Solidarnosc Counter was the witchhunting grandjury with and she has a right to defend herself tigious bourgeois dailies is obvious. revolution!" in Poland, while struggling its power to slap "uncooperative" against this frame-up politically. Equally obvious is that we can expect no for a proletarian political revolution to witnesses in jail without appeal as it Now the attorney general and "buffer" in the left milieu to stand oust the Stalinist bureaucracies conducts a fishing expedition under Rockland County prosecutors have between us and state repression-quite throughout the degenerated/deformed the draconian RICO laws which backed down, saying they will with the opposite. The reformists and cen workers states. allow for virtually unlimited persecu draw objections to Lumumba. But he trists are more than willing to act as cops Leftist militants breaking from Car tion of alleged "co-conspirators." still hasn't been granted the right to for the bourgeoisie when it comes to the rillo's Eurocommunist fiasco must These "racketeering" statutes are represent his client, who remains confront above all the question of now being turned into a deadly behind bars in the Metropolitan Spartacist League/ Stalinism vs. Trotskyism. As Trotsky weapon against the left in Reagan's Correctional Facility. "'" predicted as long ago as 1928 (in The Spartacus Youth League Cold War America. So they dragged The federal government's attack Public Offices Third International After Lenin), the her back before the grand jury, on Sunni-Ali and her lawyer has ugly definitive subordination of the denied her the right to representation McCarthyite precedent. During the -MARXIST LlTERATURE Moscow-loyal Communist Parties to by her lawyer, Chokwe Lumumba, height of the post-war witchhunt, Bay Area their "own" bourgeoisies is simply the and then jailed her again on Decem lawyers willing to defend left-wing Fri.: 5:00-8:00 pm., Sat.: 3:00-6:00 pm. logical extension of Stalin's dogma of 1634 Telegraph, 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) ber 7 for "contempt of court"-that clients faced attempts to disbar them, Oakland, California Phone: (415) 835-1535 "socialism in one country." From this is, for protesting the outrageous subpoenas for HUAC, and anti flows the class-collaborationist policy of violation of her elementary right to Communist loyalty oaths by the Chicago Tues 530-900 p m, Sat 200-530 pm the popular front, allying with the her chosen counsel and refusing to American Bar Association. The 523 S Plymouth Court. 3rd Floor "national" bourgeoisie, and "national provide hair and handwriting sam lawyers who defended the CP in the Chicago. illinOIS Phone (312) 427-0003 ples to these witchhunters! 1948 Smith Act trials were them New York City Lumumba, a practicing member of selves sentenced for contempt of Tues. 600-900 pm. NOTICE SaL 12:00-400 pm the Michigan bar, is also a member of court. 41 Warren S1 (one block below the RNA. In a dangerous ruling The Partisan Defense Committee Chambers St near Chu'ch SI) Workers Vanguard violating every constitutional has sent a telegram to the U.S. New York. NY Phone (212) 257-1025 ski ps a week in amendment on the right of free Attorney General demanding the Trotskyist League speech and representation, a federal immediate release of Fulani Sunni of Canada December. Ali. This vicious state witchhunt judge granted the prosecution's Toronto Our next issue will be motion barring Lumumba on the must be opposed. Stop the Weather Sat.: 1:00-500 pm grounds that he would bring politics Witchhunt! 299 Queen St. W, Suite 502 dated January 8. Toronto, Ontario Phone (416) 593-4138 ~ 8 WORKERS VANGUARD Trotskyist Spartacist League. We have and read again the article "FBI Targets Rouen, it initially "failed" to come to the faced a series of attempted exclusions the Spartacist League" in Workers France ... meetings to organize the Mobilization from demonstrations and meetings Vanguard No. 151 (I April 1977). (continued from page 12) Committee. Only when the LTF initia including frequent use of the police: in Continued augmented recruitment is tive began to pick up support, especially Chicago by the CP, in Washington by not narrowly dependent on the issue of but also among students at the Ecole among the social-democratic CFDT the Marcyites, in New York by CISPES EI Salvador. The Reagan years will not NQrmale (teachers college) and by leaders so assiduously tailed by the LCR et aI., everywhere they can by the SWP. be years of domestic quiescence, and immigrant and civil liberties organiza (and who in Rouen are often ex-LCR "Particularly with our aggressive cam opportunities for a socialist propaganda tions. The united-front appeal by the members), did the Pabloists even give paign against counterrevolutionary group posing a labor-led struggle Mobilization Committee warned that paper support to the demonstration. threats in Poland, the SLjU.S. is the fascists threaten labor, racial minor marked as 'Russia lovers' in an increas against capitalist economic crisis, racial Yet the LCR repeatedly refused to ingly anti-Soviet period. The enemies of oppression and imperialist war will ities and democratic rights generally: endorse the Mobilization Committee or U.S. Cold War policies are branded occur. These opportunities will tend to "Today, still weak but determined, the participate in the united-front defense according to the new coded vocabulary be occasional and fleeting, requiring fascists must be stopped before they squad. When an LCR delegation was as 'international terrorists' and Kremlin grow and gain confidence. Behind the 'surrogates' spreading KGB 'disinfor energetic and timely intervention as well leaflets there are clubs and revolvers. pushed as to why they had initially mation.' The code for us seems to be as an intelligent combination of bold The arms theft from the army base at boycotted the committee but now changing accordingly. Increasingly now ness and self-defense. Now as last Foix and the Danet affair underline the suddenly wanted to support the demon the international bourgeois media refers spring, the "three whales" of contem real danger. stration, their local leader responded in "The mass murderers of Auschwitz to the SL as 'pro-Soviet'.... No less a porary Bolshevism (recalling Lenin's exasperation, "What do you want me to bourgeois force than the Wall Street began their sinister careers by minor Journal (29 September) in a lead capsule program against tsarism), the acts of intimidation, terror and appeals say, that the LTF built a mass campaign editorial described our anti-Solidarnosc bottom line for the recruitment drive, to racial hatred. and that the LCR had to tag along?" picket as the sort of 'dirty business' that are: (I) "Build Picket Lines, Don't Cross '''Germany, wake up!' was the slogan of must be stopped, ending with an Them!" (2) "Defend Cuba and the Hitler in 1926, then an obscure agitator unmistakable threat. ..." bankrolled by big capital in a Germany USSR!" and (3) "Smash Klan/Nazi in the midst of economic crisis, ravaged It was noted at the plenum that one is TerrorThrough Labor/Black Defense!" by unemployment. hard put to recall when the Wall Street The last demand confronts the bour '''France, wake up!' was the slogan of Journal had previously undertaken to geoisie's anti-communist drive at its the leaflet distributed by the fascists two threaten a radical or socialist group. weeks ago in Rouen. Everything must fringe, indicating the strategy we have be done to prevent this slogan from With all proportions guarded, if we successfully demonstrated can interdict becoming the banner of all the despair learned any single lesson from the brutal the fascists from the major northern ing clements to be hurled against repression of the Communist Party in industrial centers. The plenum noted in democratic organizations and labor." the 1950s it is this: better to fight. particular the acquisition ofa Spartacist In the united-front committee it was Bourgeois democracy, even if narrow black cadre in both the party and youth nevertheless necessary to combat the and brittle, does mean that the state in organizations. Leading black comrades reformist arguments advanced by the mounting attacks on its critics and at the national and local levels will PSU (United Socialist Party, a decrepit opponents will pay a certain price. It is further enable the party to transform left social-democratic outfit) to the our job to make it as difficult and costly into recruits our powerful program for effect that the LTF was "fantasizing" as possible. We intend to bring our revolutionary integrationism and a about the fascists or (like the PS energy and resources to bear to make class-struggle fight for the rights of the nationally) "we don't want to give them certain we are not nameless, faceless specially oppressed. Discussion on the any publicity." The same refrain was nohodies who can be blown away in the special problems of black recruitment echoed by LCR "observers." Yet even dead of night. Thus when California included the necessity to politically organizations and union militants quite attorney general Deukmejian issued an defeat the vestiges of black nationalism, distant from revolutionary Marxism official report on "Organized Crime in that remain to act as psychological rejected these shameful arguments for California, 1979" naming us as purport solace, perhaps, but offer no program passivity. It's quite sufficient to open the ed left-wing criminal terrorists, we not for the forward motion of the black morning papers to see the need to act. only brought suit against him but raised masses. The call for working-class mobilization the slogan "Workers Party Has the Our program, proven correct time to stop the fascists met with a response Poster of Trotskr.lst-Inltiated united Right to Organize!" We took the case to and time again, indeed has the power to from class-conscious militants: a peti front In France: ' Stop the Fasclstsl" worried elements-in the labor move recruit. A qualitative transformation of tion for labor action circulated by LTF ment, among the black community, the SL from a fighting propaganda supporters at Renault-CU:on was signed After having minimized the importance liberal Democrats and civil libertari group to a revolutionary workers party by some 50 workers. But the PCF and of the fascist attacks, LCR spokesmen ans-who rightly saw the threat as requires more than Marxist clarity, CGT bureaucrats turned a blind eye to then argued they should be allowed to directed against much more than just however. It requires our successful these proposals, thus blockingagenuine attend meetings to build the march! Up the SL alone. intervention into a major and victorious mass mobilization. to the last minute the Pabloists did their struggle of our class. A story about the Individual CP/CGT militants broke clumsy best to brake the momentum of On Recruitment early Trotskyist opposition recounted with their organizations" cowardly mis the campaign. And while they did man by the reporter on the document leadershiptojointhedemonstration. Yet age to turn out for the demonstration, Time is of the essence in politics. We underlined that the struggle for revolu though not for the defense squad, during enjoyed our largest single . burst of some CGT union officials even uttered tionary leadership is not an intellectual openly racist sentiments in oppositionto the rally they disappeared, not even recruitment since 1972 last spring and exercise abstracten from the conditions bothering to accept an invitation to summer because our clear-cut and the march, agreeing with the fascists that of the class struggle. Trotsky had immigrants were responsible for unem speak. communist class-struggle line appealed correctly predicted that unless the The LCR's despicable role was the to the best of the radical youth tempor ployment. As the LTF leaflet pointed Chinese Communists independently out, the Euro-Stalinists' chauvinist call result ofits support to Mitterrand's anti arily in political motion over the El and in opposition to the bourgeoisie and working-class popular front, which ties Salvador issue, and because we struck to "Produce French" and their racist the imperialists mobilized the proletari anti-immigrant provocation at Vitry are the workers to the class enemy in the while the iron was hot. At the same time, at, taking in tow the peasantry, there name ofbourgeois"democracy."Intheir a number ofcadre quit heading into the counterposed to and block mobilization would be a disastrous defeat of the of the working class against the fascists. parliamentary cretinist framework, the Reagan years, a reflection both of the Chinese Revolution. Suchadefeatinfact fascists are not seen as a mortaldangerto "conjuncture" and of the aging process The LTF banner at the Rouen march occurred for the very reasons the proclaimed: "The Popular Front Dis the working class but rather minor (the latter being at bottom a lack of Trotskyists had warned of. When a auxiliaries of the bourgeois opposition energy and a tendency for personal arms the Working Class! Crush the number of the younger and less experi Fascist Vermin! Workers Self-Defense!" to Mitterrand. The LCR claims that the difficulties to become keener and more enced members of the opposition had latter are plotting a Pinochet-style coup. The question of actually implement keenly felt). Some were prominent exclaimed that since their predictions Capitalist opposition to Mitterrand is ing working-class mobilization against union oppositionists uneasily aware of had been proved correct, then surely real and may indeed take extraparlia the fascists was sharply posed by an their personal "high profile" in a period new forces would be won to the mentary form. But at this point such an incident on December 9 at the teachers of virulent bourgeois anti-Sovietism. As opposition's faction, Trotsky is sup "analysis" is panic-mongering to cover college campus. At a meeting called by noted at the plenum, this places a posed to have replied to the effect that: political supportto socialdemocracy. As students to build for the Friday demon greater burden on the party and youth "If only we'd been wrong, then we might its answer to the coup danger, the LCR stration, an LTF member of the defense cadre to direct the education and have been heavily strengthened. Be proposes its latest social-patriotic gim cause we are the wing of Russian squad was obliged to use the necessary assimilation of our newly won com mick of six months compulsory military rades, the bulk of them student-aged Bolshevism that is optimistic and force to eject a couple ofprovocateurs of revolutionary and depends for its the royalist Action Fran9aise. The LCR service. youth. Party comrades in particular felt forward motion on the expression of argued, in the worst reformist manner, The Ligue Trotskyste, French section basic education on the fundamentals of power of the working class on this ofthe international Spartacist tendency, revolutionary Marxism was an urgent planet. The expression of power has that these scum should be allowed to been put back by the defeat of the present their "arguments." But this line did not limit its intervention to building necessity after repetitive instances of the united-front committee, calling for Chinese Revolution. Thus the conserva was defeated and the defense squad public misrepresentation of our line workers self-defense and "no platform tizing forces that cause people to cling carried out its duties. suggested that in and around the fringes to Stalin or Bukharin have been for fascists." The LTF speaker at the of the youth organization a program reinforced.... It's not an intellectual rally warned against any confidence in game in which we won the crossword "No to NATO Popular Front of matic feeling containing elements of Mitterrand: "From the beginning, we New Leftism had been brought into our puzzle fastest. Yes, perhaps a few score Cold War"and Austerity!" thoughtful youth capable of living a called on the workers to use strikes to movement along with some of the new somewhat detached existence will come It was not surprising that two of the fight against this NATO popular front recruits. As the memorandum states: over to us. But the vast mass of the party major ostensibly Trotskyist organiza of austerity and anti-Sovietism." In "Impatience, spontaneism and a pen will draw the conclusion 'Russia is chant for self-gratifying verbal extrem thrown on herself and the theories of tions in France were notable for their stead, he said, "We must continue the ism mav be understandable diseases of socialism in one country and the turn to absence: the social-democratic Organi tradition of the Black Sea revolt in 1919, youth but their political incarnation is the middle ~~,d upper peasants will be sation Communiste Internationaliste when French sailors solidarized with the counterposed to the program of scien deepened .... (OCI), with its enthusiastic Stalino Russian Revolution against their 'own' tific socialism. It is our political respon Our perspective, as the plenum docu phobic support to Mitterrand, and the bourgeoisie." The social democrats' sibilitv to educate our members in the politiZ·s of the organization they joined, ment concludes, is to "grow through latter-day worker-priests of Lutte Ouv anti-Sovietism, he pointed out, aids the not the least because the party as a quantum leaps to the point that we can, riere (LO), one of whose leaders fascists. "We revolutionaries say: Free whole can and will be victimized for the when the bourgeoisie is deeply split and dropped by the demonstration to dom of expression is not the question. irresponsible statements of its newest demoralized, come forward as Ameri observe that he didn't like "political The fascists don't discuss, they strike! candidate member." ca's last, best hope to lead our class to speeches." As for the LCR, which has Workers self-defense to crush the Every new member is obligated to read victory.". several times the forces of the LTF in fascists in the egg!". 18 DECEMBER 1981 9 Right after the first part of the month and a half, reportedly in order to Solidarnosc congress in early Septem work out a line article on Poland (its ber. we concluded that "decisive ele first since over a year ago). And then it Solidarnosc ments of Solidarity are now pushing a only mentions the danger of counter program of open counterrevolution" revolution to deny that it exists: and that "the whole activity and spirit of "For their own reasons, the Western Solidarity is that of an organization capitalist press, the Soviet bureaucratic making a bid for power" ("Stop Solidar press and some of the more crazed Counterrevolutionary ity's Counterrevolution!" WV No. 289. elements of the American left have seized upon these weaknesses, blown 25 September). We did not have nor them out of all proportion, and deliber need access to tapes of secret leadership ately lied about the Polish working meetings to recognize this. The actual class. making the absurd claim that it goals and intent of Solidarnosc were seeks the restoration of capitalism in Plans Exposed Poland. A simple review of the actions readily available in Western sources for anyone not blind to reality. of the Gdansk congress shows this to be If anyone doubted that the anti things isn't likely to surprise anyone a blatant lie. Communist leadership of Poland's since they have a reputation of being Willfully blind to this reality are the "In fact. the maior weakness of the Solidarnosc was planning to seize power Solidarnosc hardliners. The leader who fake-Trotskyist opportunist outfits, Solidarity congress was that even the in the name of the eagle. the cross and was really exposed by the Radom tape is opposition was too conciliatory to the most of which simply call the pro Polish bureaucracy and to the Walesa "the free world." these doubts were the "moderate" Lech Walesa, who is imperialist, counterrevolutionary mobi leadership." [emphasis in original] certainly laid to rest when ~omeone shown up as a total dissembler. Walesa lization of Solidarnosc a developing - Workers Struggle, November turned over to the government tapes ofa cultivates an image of a simple. honest proletarian political revolution. Black is 19H1 secret Solidarnosc leadership meeting in workers leader, soft-hearted and even a called white. A few fake-Trotskyist The Radom tapes expose the sophis Radom on December 3. The authentici bit soft-headed. The tapes show that this groups, however, notably Workers tries of Workers Power and the RWL as ty of the tapes. repeatedly broadcast is an act to disguise his counterrevolu Power in Britain and Peter Sollenberg clearly as they expose Walesa. The over state radio, is not denied by the tionary aims. "We should not speak er's Revolutionary Workers League difference between the so-called Soli participants. loudly about confrontation." he advises (RWL) in the U.S., tried to cover up darnosc "moderates" and "radicals" is his colleagues. "We have to say, 'We Solidarnosc' counterrevolution by main According to a December 7 UPI over timing and public posture. not final love you, we love socialism and the taining the organization is too concilia dispatch, Warsaw region Solidarnosc aims. As Walesa explained to his party and of course we love the Soviet tory to the Stalinist regime. Workers chief Zbigniew Bujak asserted: "The colleagues at the Radom meeting, he Union·... But all this love talk is just a Power (October 1981) informs us that government should be finally over wanted to make the seizure of power stratagem to buy more time for a the dominant tendency in Solidarnosc. thrown, unmasked and deprived ofany appear as a gradual escalation rather counterrevolutionary mobilization: "articulated in nationalist and Trade credibility." He then proposed the than a confrontation forced by Solidar "The confrontation is unavoidable.... Union colours," is "towards accommo establishment of workers guards to nosc. As defenders of the proletarian I wanted to reach the confrontation in dation with the Stalinist bureaucracy." counter the state police. Jan Rulewski a natural way, when almost all social dictatorship. even if bureaucratically demanded a "transitory government" to groups were with us. But I made a Likewise. the Sollenberger outfit is. if deformed as in Poland, we didn't need stabilize thesituation before the election mistake because I thought we would anything. even more blatant in its access to secret tapes to understand the of a new parliament. keep it up 10nger and then we would overthrow these parliaments and coun whitewash. It held up publication of its reality and raise the battle cry: Stop That Bujak and Rulewski said these cils and so on." "monthly" Workers Struggle for a SolidarnosC' Counterrevolution! • becomes a central part of the "free prosperity. Then he ruinously mort quietly. quickly and bloodlessly as Poland ... world" in attacking Angola with Israeli gaged Poland's wealth to Western possible. (continued from page 1) supplied weapons. In Afghanistan, the bankers and also ruinously subsidized In the course ofheading offthe bid for CIA arms Islamic reactionaries fighting the landowning peasants. So after this power by capitalist-restorationist ele Solidarnosc leadership made an open along the southern border of the USSR repeated experience. when the Polish ments. a number of Solidarnosc leaders bid for power. announcing a national to maintain feudal and pre-feudal workers rose again in the summer of have been arrested, The right to strike referendum for the establishment of a slavery. Washington's ally China con 1980 they now looked to the powerful and protest have been suspended, a temporary government and "free elec stantly menaces Vietnam. which hero Catholic church opposition and nation curfew imposed. Poland's borders tions," Hours later the regime struck ically fought U.S. imperialist barbarism alist dissidents. behind whom stands sealed. telephone and telegraph commu back, declaring a "state ofwar" under a for decades. But it is in Poland that Western imperialism. For a year the nications interrupted or cut off. As the Military Council of National Salvation. Reagan sees the best possibility to clerical-reactionary leadership of Soli immediate counterrevolutionary threat A thousand Solidarnosc leaders were realize his counterrevolutionary designs darnosc around Lech Walesa stopped passes. these martia/law measures must reportedly detained. and. as a sop, five against the Soviet Union by "rolling short of calling for the overthrow of the be ended. including release of the former Communist party leaders back" the postwar social and economic official "Communist" system (a bu Solidarnosc leaders. A Trotskyist van arrested-ex-party leader Edward Gier gains in East Europe. The seizure of reaucratically deformed workers state) guard seeks to defeat them politically, ek and his close associates. While power by Solidarnosc would mean a and its replacement with (bourgeois) by mobilizing the Polish working class General Jaruzelski. the prime minister victory for Wall Street and the Penta "democracy." Now the mask has fallen. in its true class interests. and party leader. insists this is not an gon. for the Common Market and the army takeover. there is here a disturbing What Next in Poland? For Trotskyists. the current Polish IMF. for bloody Latin American crisis powerfully reaffirms the need for element ofmilitary bonapartism. In this dictators and South African racists. The there is perhaps a concession to anti The Warsaw regime's preventive coup proletarian political revolution against creation ofa "free world" Poland on the is apparently effective. Solidarnosc the Stalinist bureaucracies. particularly Communist nationalism. While the western borders of the USSR would Stalinist party is utterly discredited. the activists at large are agitating for a brittle in East Europe. In its scale and bring much closer the dreadful prospect nationwide general strike. While news form, the social mobilization around army retains a certain popularauthority of anti-Soviet nuclear holocaust. as the embodiment of the national state, reports from Poland are very scanty. Solidarnosc demonstrates the power of If today much of the Polish working reported strikes appear to be limited to the working class to take control of supposedly above politics. The Stalin class looks to Western imperialism for ists only make hypocritical reference to particular Solidarnosc strongholds and society. Yet coming under the influence salvation, this is not simply a response there seems to be little serious active of the Catholic church and the leader socialist forms, the acknowledgment to the terror of the Stalin period which that vice gives to virtue. But compared resistance to the martial law. It remains ship of neo-Pilsudskiite nationalists and gradually trailed off into abuse and possible, especially given the desperate pro-Western social democrats. the to the naked armed fist. those forms are mismanagement under Gomulka and important. economic conditions, that anti social content of Solidarnosc is pro then Gierek. An earlier crime of Stalin Communist agitators in and around foundly anti-proletarian. A proletarian ism destroyed the important traditions Solidarnosc could provoke mass pro internationalist workers movement in Imperialism and "Liberal" of international communism in Poland. Stalinism tests which could escalate into violence Poland can be rebuilt only under the Thousands of Polish Communist mili and even civil war. Under these condi leadership of a Trotskyist vanguard "Free trade unions" and "free elec tants who fled to the USSR from the tions Soviet military intervention could with a program of revolutionary unity tions" for Poland have become key fascistic dictatorship of Pilsudski were well be the only available means to between the Polish and Russian work slogans in Reagan's Cold War II. and killed in the purges of the late ·30s. The suppress counterrevolution. But it is by ers, This unity. necessarily directed the imposition of martial law will Polish Communist Party itself was far in the best interests of the working against the Stalinist bureaucracies. is certainly be used to fuel the anti-Soviet officially liquidated. and then Nazi class that Solidarity's counterrevolu~ key to defense of the collectivized war drive. especially in West Europe. In occupation finished the job of behead tionary bid for power be pushed aside as economies and the gains of October. • France. in particular. mass pro ing the Polish proletariat, especially its Solidarnosc demonstrations have been important Jewish component. The post held. led by Socialist Party notables, 1945 ruling bureaucracy was, therefore. producing a "holy union" running from largely constructed from purely career the fascists. royalists and Gaullists to ist elements who lacked even the social democrats and Stalinophobic degenerated Communist traditions of Order Now! fake-Trotskyists like the OCI and LCR. the old Stalinists. In the U.S.. imperialist war criminal The present crisis is, above all. a I enclose $__for __copy(ies) of Henry Kissinger. a man directly respon reaction to the bankruptcy of liberal "Solidarnosc: Polish Company Union for CIA and Bankers" at $1.00 each. sible for the murder of millions of Stalinism. When in 1956 Wladyslaw defenseless Vietnamese. condemns the Gomulka came to power in the wake of Name ------1 crackdown on Solidarnosc as "a very the Poznan uprising. he promised the grave offense against human freedom." widest workers democracy. Then he Address When Kissinger speaks of"freedom" he turned and suppressed the workers City _ means freedom to exploit the workers councils and leftist intellectuals who had I and peasants of the world. a "freedom" supported him against the hardline State Zip _ maintained by mass terror. Stalinists, while at the same time In the name ofcountering"the export strengthening the position of the Cath Phone ~ ~- of revolution" to El Salvador, American olic church and the smallholding peas Make checks payable/mail to: 295 war materiel and Green Berets are antry. When Gierek replaced Gomulka Spartacist Publishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 propping up a kill-erazed junta. The after the 1970 Baltic coast workers' racist apartheid South African regime uprising, he promised unparalleled 10 WORKERS VANGUARD Reds ... (continued from page 3) Reed Ys. Stalin capitalist than the social democracy it split from to form revolutionary parties. In Reds we see an excellent scene "Ten Days That Shook the World" portraying the famous Socialist Party split convention in Chicago, at which John Reed was the most important tion of an uprising afresh and adopted "John Reed Clubs" in the U.S. in the the SP leadership called the cops on American popularizer of the Russian a decision to organize it. early '30s-until the big turn to the "This is not merely a rumour, com Reed and the Communists. And we hear Revolution. His columns in the pages rades. It is related by the well-known Popular Front in 1936, when the Reed denounce the social democrats for of the Liberator stirred radical Ameri John Reed in his book Ten Days. proletarian internationalism of Ten calling the cops, the armed fist of the cans to the support of the Bolsheviks Reed was remote from our Party and, Days became an embarrassment in the capitalist state. There is a logic in and their October. Reed's main politi of course, could not know the history search for bourgeois respectability. cal accomplishment and literary mas of our secret meeting on October 10, reformists calling the cops on revolu and, consequently, he was taken in by Then the John Reed Clubs and Ten tionaries. They continue to do it today. terpiece is Ten Days That Shook the the gossip spread by people like Days were ditched. But the book On the streets of New York and Chicago World, the classic account of the Sukhanov. This story was later passed remains a source of proletarian inspi it is the Stalinists of the CP who call the Bolshevik Revolution. The book was round and repeated in a number of ration, and indirectly demolishes cops on the revolutionary Trotskyists of such an honest and inspiring account, pamphlets written by Trotskyites." Stalinist theories of "socialism in one filled with eyewitness vignettes of the . -Stalin, "Trotskyism or the Spartacist League. Leninism?" November 1924, country"-as in this excerpt of the seizure of power, that it won a ringing Collected Works. Vol. 6 scene at the Congress of Soviets on John Reed and the Comintern endorsement from Lenin, who wrote In its essence, Reed's account was November 8, right after the seizure of an introduction for it in 1919: In Reds, history is seen through accurate: the fact is the Bolshevik power when the Bolsheviks were Reed's vision-which was sometimes "With the greatest interest and with Central Committee at first did waver accused of establishing an isolated and never slackening attention I read John right and sometimes wrong on the on the question of the insurrection in doomed regime: issues. Reed was right in his battle with Reed's book, Ten Days That Shook "And now Trotzky stood upon the the World. Unreservedly do I recom October 1917, and Zinoviev and Louis Fraina to stay in the Socialist raised tribune, confident and domi mend it to the workers of the world. Kamenev openly threatened to split mlting, with that sarcastic expression Party, in order to win over militants Here is a book which I should like to the party over the question. Reed about his mouth which was almost a who supported the Russian Revolution see published in millions ofcopies and simply could not know that the sneer. He spoke, in a ringing voice, translated into all languages. Itgives a but were not yet ready to form a "worker" referred to was Lenin him and the great crowd rose to him. Communist Party. Fraina originally truthful and most vivid exposition of "'They speak of the necessity for a the events so significant to the com self, who spent agonizing days in agreed with this perspective but capitu coalition. There is only one coalition prehension of what really is the October trying to win over the sluggish possible-the coalition of the work lated to the sectarian foreign language Proletarian Revolution and the Dicta CC to the idea that insurrection was ers, soldiers and poorest peasants; and federations whose members' hearts were torship of the Proletariat." now on the agenda. Lenin felt so it is our party's honor to have realized really in South and East Europe. The But after Lenin's death Stalin found strongly about the deadly danger that coalition.... split was premature and terribly crip "'There are only two alternatives; that the thunderous proletarian inter posed by this initial hesitation that he either the Russian Revolution will pling for the early American Commu nationalism of Ten Days clashed with even threatened to resign from the create a revolutionary movement in nist movement. The Reed/Gitlow ten his counterrevolutionary bureaucratic Central Committee and go to the party Europe, or the European powers will dency was correct to insist on the rank and file, stating "there is a destroy the Russian Revolution!' theme of "socialism in one country." "They greeted him with an immense importance of developing an American Furthermore, Reed's honest account, tendency ...among the leaders of our born leadership. crusading acclaim, kindling to the in which Lenin and Trotsky figure as party which ... is opposed to taking daring of it, with the thought of Reds is accurate in pointing out the co-leaders of the revolution while power immediately" and castigating championing mankind. And from that demagogic aspects of the Baku Con Stalin is barely mentioned, under the shameful sluggishness and "unwill moment there was something con scious and decided about the insurrec gress of Peoples of the East in 1920. mined the developing Stalinist mythol ingness of the Central Committee Zinoviev did indeed call for an Islamic tionary masses, in all their actions, ogy, in which Trotsky was erased from even to consider this question" (Alex which never left them." "jihad" (holy war). This call for religious history and Stalin was painted as ander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks In his introduction to Ten Days holy war was an aberration of Commu Lenin's right-hand man. Thus when Come to Power). nist International (Comintern) policy That Shook the World, British histori Stalin launched his attacks on "Trot Lenin won over the Central Com an A.J.P. Taylor caught the essential toward the colonial regions. Surely skyism" in the early '20s, Reed post mittee instead, with the exception of Beatty was reflecting on Khomeini's problem for the Stalinists with Reed's humously came under fire as well: Zinoviev and Kamenev, who then book: Iran, as many reformist organizations themselves threatened to split the hailed Khomeini's mullah "jihad" in "Rumours are being vigorously "In Reed's book Stalin was barely spread among members of the Party party on the question. Only nine days mentioned and Trotsky was the hero part on the authority of the Baku that the Central Committee as a whole after the famous October 10 Central of it. The book was banned along with Congress. But Reed was right: commu was opposed to an uprising in October Committee meeting referred to by its hero. In the years since Stalin's nists are for class war against imperial 1917. The usual story is that on Stalin, Lenin sent a letter to the CC death, Reed's book has received a ism, not holy war. October 10, when the Central Com grudging tolerance from the Commu mittee adopted the decision to organ denouncing Zinoviev and Kamenevas nists and no more. For while Stalin's The film also stressed accurately the ize the uprising, the majority of the "strikebreakers" whose "threat of a other victims have been rehabilitated, sharp political confrontation between Central Committee at first spoke split" must be answered by their Trotsky can still not be mentioned and Reed and some of the leaders of the against an uprising, but, so the story expulsion from the party. By 1924 yet no account of the Bolshevik runs, at that moment a worker burst in Comintern. It is with the figure of Stalin felt compelled to attack Reed in revolution can be given without him. Zinoviev, sharply insisting on the on the meeting of the Central Com To the present day a citizen of the mittee and said: 'You are deciding order to cover up his own role and that Soviet Union can find no book party's monopoly of truth, that Beatty against an uprising, but I tell you that of his new-found bloc partners, Zino Reed's or any other-to tell him in does make some concessions to anti there will be an uprising all the same, viev and Kamenev. detail how his state was born. Reed's in spite of everything.' And so, after Communist stereotype. Yet as Reed's Reed's book was so widely read and book will survive the ban. It stands desire to return home by the holidays is that threat, the story runs, the Central unrivalled as a monument to the Committee, which is alleged to have moving that the Stalinists found it Bolshevik revolution and to its two portrayed in the film, in the midst ofthe become frightened, raised the ques- useful to use his name by forming leaders, Lenin and Trotsky." Russian Civil War, we do not find Zinoviev's sharp and angry objections to this powerful propagandist's taking notions of revolution (the foreign authority of the Russian Revolution impulsive and powerful man up until his off to be out of line. language federations) or to an IWW behind it. ... " death was on a trajectory from observer -"The Russian Revolution and Reds can leave the impression that syndicalist idea of mass action (Reed). the American Negro to committed party revolutionary. Reed Reed was always right and the The question was not the Wobblies (by Movement," appendix to intended to carryon his arguments Comintern always wrong. This was 1919 in decline, in part due to state Cannon, The First Ten Years within the Comintern-hardly the by no means the case. Taking Reed's repression) versus the A.F. of L., as of American Communism perspective of disillusionment. It is to view there is an implicit tendency to line presented by Reed in Reds, but whether Reed fought doggedly and openly for Reds' credit that it doesn't buy the up behind. American exceptionalism communist work in established his positions in the Comintern-a apocrypha of "disillusionment." Per against the Comintern, which was dom reformist-led trade uniorls was needed powerful indictment of its later bureau haps Reed's essential honesty as a inated by the enormous authority of the at all. Essentially the U.S. section had to cratic destruction by Stalin. Only a few political leader inspired Beatty as a victorious Russian revolutionaries. be fought with to adopt a realistic trade years later heads would roll for far less. filmmaker. • In fact the early Communist move union policy. As Theodore Draper noted, in those ment in America was sectarian, Another vital Comintern interven days: wooden and wrongheaded in all of its tion-not dealt with by Reds-was on "It was possible to defy the highest permanently warring factions. It is a leaders of the Comintern, to stand up WfJRIlERS the black question. The early Commu openly and fearlessly for what one very good thing for the cause of nists, reflecting the Debsian Socialist believed, to go down to defeat pro American communism that the Comin Party policies of benign neglect or claiming victory for one's ideas the next 'ANGIJARD tern and Lenin in particular intervened outright white chauvinism on the race time, and to be rewarded with the Marxist Working-Class Biweekly before it was too late. There was not a highest honor bestowed by the Comin of the Spartacist League question, ignored the special racial tern on its most faithful servants. John principled basis for two Communist oppression of blacks, reducing it to Reed proved that it was possible-in parties, and the Comintern was quite 24 issues-$5 simply an economic question. The 1920." Introductory offer (10 issues) $2 correct to arrange the shotgun fusion Russian Bolsheviks, principally Lenin, - The Roots of American Communism International rates: 24 issues-$20 airmail/ between the Reed/Gitlow group and the cut through this, as James P. Cannon $5 seamail Fraina group by refusing to recognize wrote: Reed's death before the Stalinist 10 introductory issues-$3 airmail -includes Spartacist either as the official section. Each would "Under constant prodding and pressure degeneration of the Russian Revolution have been qualitatively weaker than the from the Russians in the Comintern, the makes it possible for all sides on the left fused party. party made a beginning with Negro to claim him. Even middle-class intellec Name _ work. . .. The old theory of American Reed and Fraina were united at the tuals argue that had he lived he would Address Second Congress of the Comintern on radicalism turned out in practice to be a certainly have gone the way of Max formula for inaction on the Negro front, City the American trade-union question and-incidentally-a convenient shield Eastman into the camp of imperialist the entire American Communist move for the dormant prejudices of the white Cold War. There are even "disillusion State ---- Zip 295 ment was dual unionist, rejecting on radicals themselves. The Russian inter ment" stories about Reed, originating "revolutionary" principle work in reac vention changed all that.. .. After from a series of contradictory state Make checks payable/mail to: November, 1917 this new doctrine Spartacist Publishing Co. tionary trade unions. After years of with special emphasis on the Negroes ments by Louise Bryant and Emma Box 1377 GPO fighting the A.F. of L., they mistakenly began to be transmitted to the Ameri Goldman. Certainly Reed had contra New York, NY 10116 clung either to passive propagandistic can communist movement with the dictions, but it is at least clear that this 18 DECEMBER 1981 11 WfJlillEIiS 'AN'UAIiIJ 'll'o"'~ REI , , j--' ... -- ---"," ,- _.. . \J. \j ~ (CRASONs LA V£RMJNE ~AtCISTfl AUTOD£F£NS£,~~ '.J J Li::lUel~trD tSK~ste },~d..... l/Frl811 .... ~e ygue Trotsky'ste Leads United Front Le Bolchevik nionists Mo i ize to Stop French Fascists ROUEN, France-The city of Rouen, as five left-wing pOlitical organizations, important by fighting against them. We response was now starkly posed. The regional center of Upp~r Normandy, three civil rights associations and two must stop the fascists!" issue was now citywide in scope and no saw one of the largest and most immigrant defense organizations. It was longer a simple question of defending combative leftist demonstrations in also signed by seven individual Commu Fascist Provocations Escalate sales at the stations. The fascists of the years as more than 400 people turned nist Party members, and a number of In recent weeks, fascist goon squads Front National had launched a cam out on Friday, December II to protest members of the CP-Ied CGT union have stepped up their attacks. In Paris, paign around a local rape case (perpe against a recent series offascist provoca federation attended, particularly from after wrecking the PS office in late trated by a mixed group of French and tions. This was a genuine united-front Renault-Clt~on and the local Shell and October, they sacked a leftist publisher, Algerian youth) in order to whip up a labor mobilization in one of the indus Baroclem refineries. EDI (which publishes Trotsky's Writ racist frenzy against immigrant work trial and maritime centers of northern The march was organized by the ings), on November 26 and a few days ers. They also tried to cash in on the France (including the Renault-Cleon Mobilization Committee Against the later attacked CP newspaper salesmen Cold War atmosphere with a leaflet auto plant, which played an important Fascists on the demand, "[We Must] in several open markets in the capital. against the "Soviet danger." And they role in the worker-student upheaval of Stop the Fascists!" The bureaucrats At Rouen, for nearly two years the had extended their attacks to the local May 1968). Nearly half the demonstra were reluctant to mobilize heavily, royalists of Action Fran9aise have campus, where a member of the LCR tion consisted of a contingent of some looking instead to the Mitterrand harassed and threatened the far left. was attacked and tear-gassed, leading to 200 trade unionists which linked up with popular-front government to counter Rather than being a nostalgic monar hospitalization. the militant traditions of struggle the fascist threat. When a Socialist (PS) chist sect, AF in Rouen works hand in This rash of fascist gangsterism against the fascists by the Rouen-area local office in Paris was attacked glove with local fascists, serving as reflects the fact that these vermin are working class. recently, PS national leaders opposed advance scouts. In March of this year a hoping to capitalize on the growing As the demonstrators gathered at the mass mobilization, arguing the"necessi joint royalist/fascist commando ap unemployment to step up their drive assembly point on the banks of the ty of not setting off a cycle of violence"! peared to threaten LTF salesmen, against immigrant workers and exploit Seine, word spread that the local fascist However, the Rouen demonstration chanting "Kill, kill the communists!" anti-Soviet pronouncements of the hangout-a cafe called "Le Metro appealed not to the bosses' state but to The point of confrontation between social-democratic Mitterrand/ Mauroy pole"-had been closed up tight special working-class action. And the Mobili the far left and these reactionary scum government to lend their fanatical anti ly, in anticipation of the march passing zation Committee's official defense has been the train station located in the Communism an air of respectability. before it. As banners unfurled and the squad was prepared to translate this center of the city. Again and again, The fascists have infested Rouen, and it contingents formed up, the crowd perspective into action: on three occa leftist groups have had to band together is obvious that they mean business with chanted "Stop the fascists!" and "Work sions it chased away handfuls offascists in order to protect their right to sell at their terror attacks. Two months ago, a ers, French and immigrant, same boss, skulking around the edge of the march. the Rouen station. On November 13 the local fascist leader and ex-mercenary, same fight!" The march made its way As our spokesman at the concluding LTF initiated a united mobilization of Danet, was arrested on charges of arms through the length of the city center, rally put it: left organizations, bolstered by com trafficking. slogans echoing off the cathedral and muting workers coming out of the ''I'm a worker at Cleon and a member of surrounding buildings, and ended up at the LTF. For several weeks, together station, which succeeded in chasing "For Workers Self-Defense!" the railroad station where a short rally with my organization I have been away the royalists. The following week was addressed by speakers from some of working to mobilize workers at Cleon. the royalists and fascists returned in That the Ligue Trqtskyste, with its the organizations supporting the There are 15 of us here today. I believe force to avenge this defeat. Once again modest forces and implantation in demonstration. that if the Cleon workers, the chemical they were repulsed by a mobilization of Rouen, was able to galvanize a success workers, the dockers from the port Initiated by the Ligue Trotskyste de mobilize, the Nazis will be driven back leftists, but were able to regroup and ful demonstration of 400 worker and France (LTF), the demonstration was into their holes like rats. counterattack when the Ligue Commu leftist militants testified to the power of supported by several local trade unions "You can't count on this government to niste Revolutionnaire (LCR-pseudo our program for labor mobilization and numerous individual militants. The get rid of them either. Now when the Trotskyist fraternal organization of the against the fascists. Our demands and fascists are raising their heads around poster for the march was signed by the the country, the government is protect American SWP) precipitously withdrew class-struggle strategy received a wide CFDT hospital workers local, postal ing the enemies ofthe workers by saying from the station. hearing not only among union members workers local and teachers local, as well that you shouldn't make them too The need for a massive labor-centered continued on page 9 12 WORKERS VANGUARD SUBJECT INDEX Workers Vanguard~2 January to .18 December 1981 (Issues Nos. 271-295) Australian SWP Thugs Attack Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Strikes for Air Controllers!, #288, GUIDE TO THE SUBJECT INDEX Contingent, #284, 3 JUly (2, 11) 11 Sept. (2) e This subject index covers issues of Workers Vanguard published during 1981, from issue No. 271 (2 January) AUTO WORKERS Cannon, James P.-See Poiand: History; through the end-of-the-year issue No. 295 (18 Socialist Workers Party: General. December). During this time, WV was published bi • General-See also Maoism. weekly. To Hell With Fraser's Parking Lot Patriotism!, e The fullest listing is by SUBJECT. Subject headings #272, 16 Jan. (6) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY are arranged alphabetically. Entries are listed chron "Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW" (R), (CIA) -See U.S.: International Relations. ologically with two exceptions: all entries comprising #272, 16 Jan. (7, 8) See also Labor: General; Poland: General; a series are listed together immediately following the Social Democrats, U.S.A. first entry of the series; corrections immediately Rouge Militants Demand Sit-Down Strike at follow the relevant entry. An asterisk (*) after the page DAP, #275, 27 Feb. (2) Down with CIA Cover-Up Bill!, #290, location of an entry indicates that a correction 9 Oct. (5) follows. Support for Sitdown at Ford's River Rouge: "Not a Nickel, Not a Layoff!", #277, The Spike: CIA's "Disinformation" e Entries are listed under subject heads. In some cases, Mercenaries (R), #292, 6 Nov. (6, 7, 8) subject heads are broken down into subcategories. 27 Mar. (5) These subcategories are listed immediately after the Victory to the Brothersin EI Salvador!, #279, The CIA's Libya Connection, #294, 4 Dec. initial subject head and preceded by a dot (e). The 24 Apr. (8) (3,9) numbers following each entry headline give the issue number, date and page number(s) for the article. Gripes of Rothe (L), #282, 5 June (2) "A Buck Is a Buck Is a Buck", #294, 4 Dec. (3) Thus: "We Need a Sitdown!", #290, 9 Oct. (10) Civil War in EI Salvador, #272,16 Jan. (12, 11) Ceylon-See Sri Lanka. • Chrysler Bankruptcy means the headline of the article, issue No. 272, 16 January 1981, beginning on page 12 and continu No Concession to Ch rysler Blackmail!, #271, Chicago Politics-See Biack Question; Transit ing on page 11. 2 Jan. (1,8,9) Workers. e No entry is listed twice; refer to cross references for Chrysler Takeaways Thr~aten UAW, #272, guidance in locating the subject head for particular 16 Jan. (6, 8) Chicano Question-See Fascism. articles. Cross references are of two types: those following the word "see" deal centrally with the Vote "No" on Chrysler Takeaways!, #273, China-See U.S.: International Relations. subject head; those following the words "see also" are 30 Jan. (12, 11) related articles. Subject heads in cross references are Dodge Main, 1914-1981, #273, 30 Jan. (11) separated by a semi-colon, while subcategories of CIVIL LIBERTIES subject heads are separated by a comma. Thus: "Don't Let It Shut Down-Sit Down!", #274, Unemployment-See Auto Workers: General, 13 Feb. (9) • General-See also Central Intelligence Chrysler Bankruptcy; Steel Workers. • Elections Agency. means that articles on unemployment can be found Hicks, DuBois for Rouge President, V.P.!, Polanski Witchhunter Gets Burned: Bigot by going to the subject head AUTO WORKERS and Boomerang, #274, 13 Feb. (2) looking under the subcategories General and Chrys #281, 22 May (12, 10, 11) ler Bankruptcy and by going to the subject head Fight Layoffs and Racist Terror! Vote Hicks/ California Anti-"Extremists" Bill Threatens STEEL WORKERS. DuBois!, #282,5 June (12, 11) left, #274, 13 Feb. (7, 10, 11) e Individuals mentioned in articles are usually not listed It'll Take Class-Struggle leadership to Make California Witchhunt Bill Threatens left, separately unless the article is primarily about the #286, 31 July (10) given person. UAW a Fighting Union!, #284, 3 July (3) e Entries relating to foreign countries are listed under Japanese Americans Demand Reparations, #286, 31 July (5) geographical headings and not necessarily under any BLACK QUESTION -See Auto Workers: other subject heading. Unless listed separately for Justice for Japanese American General; Civil liberties: Cases; Fascism; "'.S.: some unusual reason, all foreign political organiza Concentration Camp Survivors!, #288, tions are listed under appropriate countries, while General.·See also Pollee. 11 Sept. (9) U.S. political organizations are listed under their Oust South End Apologists for KKKlNazi organizational names. Murder!, #271, 2 Jan. (5) • Cases-See Black Question; Socialist e Specific defense cases (e.g. Wilmington Ten) will be Workers Party: Suit Against FBI; Steel found under CIVIL LIBERTIES: Cases. Black Anger from Atlanta to Harlem, #277, Workers. See also Brazil; Iran. e Articles on historical aspects of the Marxist 27 Mar. (3) movement are listed under HISTORY OF THE Mayor Byrne's Racist Stunt, #278, Wilmington Ten Convictions Thrown Out, MARXIST MOVEMENT. 10 Apr. (10) #272, 16 Jan. (4, 10) e Abbreviations used in entries are: L.A. Black Football Star Beaten to Death by Free All the "Pontiac Brothers"!, #281, C: Correction Cops, #290, 9 Oct. (5) 22 May (3, 10) L: Letter Dashiki Democrats: Part of the Problem..., NASSCO 3 Railroaded, #283, 19 June (4) S: Series #291,23 Oct. (4., 5,10) Drop Charges Against Anti-Nazi Protester R: Review SYL: "Run Out Racist South End Editor!", Carlton Grisson!, #289, 25 Sept. (3) #294, 4 Dec. (2) • SL v. DeukmeJlan Case Black Outrage in L.A.'s "Signal Hell", #294, SL/SYL Sue California Attorney General 4 Dec. (9) Deukmejian-Spartacist League: Workers Abortion-See Italy; Woman Question. Clean Out South End Racist Nest!, #295, Party Has the Right to Organize!, #286, 18 Dec. (4) 31 July (12,11) Afghanistan-See United Secretariat; U.S.: Free Fulani Sunni-AIi!, #295, 18 Dec. (8) Fight Deukmejian's Red Scare!, #286, International Relations. 31 JUly (12) AFL-CIO-See Labor: General; Poland: Boycott: Labor-See Air Traffic Controllers; SL Suit Needs $$$, #286, 31 July (10) General. Labor: General. We Accuse Deukmejian!, #286, 31 July (11) SL Protests Deukmejian Set-Up, #287, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS -See BRAZIL 14 Aug. (9) Labor: General. See also Canada; Public Hands Off Lula!, #278, 10 Apr. (4) SL California Court Suit Needs $$$, #288, Employees; Revolutionary Workers Group; 11 Sept. (8) Socialist Workers Party: General; Transit Defeat California McCarthyite Smear!, #294, Workers. BRITAIN -See Ireland. 4 Dec. (2) Labor: Shut Down the Airports!, #287, Welsh Miners Beat Thatcher, #275, 14 Aug. (1, 10) 27 Feb. (10) Committee in Solidarity with the People of EI For Solidarity Strikes with PATCO!, #288, Blacks Battle Cops in South London, #279, Salvador (CISPES)-See EI Salvador: Anti 11 Sept. (1,10) 24 Apr. (9) War Protests; Socialist Workers Party: Bureaucratsand Boycotts, #288, 11 Sept. (5) Leftists Purged from British IMG, #282, General. PATCO Strike and the Left, #289, 5 June (4, 9) 25 Sept. (5) British IMG: "Sparts" Under the Beds!, #284, Communications Workers of America (CWA) Militant PATCO Pickets Stop Traffic at S.F. 3 July (7, 10) See Phone Workers. Airport, #290, 9 Oct. (2) Thatcher's Britain Burns, #285, 17 July Air Controllers Shafted, #292, 6 Nov. (12, 11) (1, 10) Communist Parties: International-See France; Spain. "All-Peoples Congress"-See Workers World Brown, Irving-See Poland: General. Party. COMMUNIST PARTY (USA) -See CANADA Longshoremen. See also AIr Traffic American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)-See Sit-Ins Sweep British Columbia Telephone, Controllers; Civil Liberties: General. Socialist Workers Party: General. #274,13 Feb. (12,11) At Chicago EI Salvador Protest: Stalinists Set American Institute for Free Labor Development Sit-In Sold Out, #274, 13 Feb. (12) Cops on Anti-Imperialist Contingent, (AIFLD)-See Labor: General. West Coast Phone Workers Send Support #282, 5 June (12, 10) Telegram, #274, 13 Feb. (12) Letter to the Communist Party, #283, Angola-See South Africa. All Out to Smash Union Busting in B.C.!, 19 June (3) #275, ,27 Feb. (4) Midwest Trade Unionist Quits CP: Real Anti-Imperialist Contingent-See EI Salvador: For a B;C. General Strike, Now!, #276, Communists Don't Call Cops on Leftists!, Anti-War Protests. 13 Mar. (3) #287, 14 Aug. (2) B.C. Telephone Strikers Sold Out, #278, CP Nailed for Calling Cops on AUSTRALIA -See also Sri Lanka. 10 Apr. (5) Revolutionaries, ##285, 17 July (3, 10, 11) SUANZ Conference Marks Rapid Growth, Victory to Canada Postal Strike!, ##285, Condemn CP/Cop Exclusion, #285, ##277, 27 Mar. (2, 4) 17 July (5) 17 July (3) 11 DECEMBER 1.1 13 COMMUNIST WORKERS PARTY Tom Janota on NYC Black Radio Forum: Anti HOMOSEXUAL RI GHTS (CWP) -:See Civil liberties: Cases. Imperialist Contingent Fights for Leftist Gay Activist Alliance Hits Feminist Anti-Porn Why CWP Flip-Flopped on Russia, #283, Victory, #281, 22 May (7, 8) Crusade, #278, 10 Apr. (5) 19June(5) S.F. Cops Assault Anti-Duarte Protest, #290, Independent Gay Movement? (L), #279, 9 Oct. (3) 24 Apr. (2, 10) Cuba-See EI Salvador; U.S.: International SL Protests S.F. Cop Smear, #291, Relations. Gay Activist Alliance Leader Joins SL, #283, 23 Oct. (2) 19 June (3) Defense-See Civil Liberties. Reformists Call Cops on Reds, #294, 4 Dec. (12, 11) HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee England-See Britain. Leon Davis Sabotages 1199 Strike, #276, (DSOC)-See Air Traffic Controllers. 13 Mar. (10) Eurocommunism-See Spain. Deportations-See Immigration. Koch's Cuts Kill Patients, #277, 27 Mar. (2) FASCISM -See also Black Question; Civil Detroit Politics-See Auto Workers; Black IMMIGRATION -See also France. Question; Elections: U.S. Liberties: Cases; Elections: U.S.; France; Revolutionary Workers Group; Socialist Stop Deportation of Salvadoran Refugees!, #272, 16 Jan. (2) Deukmejian, George-See Civil Liberties: Workers Party: General. General, SL v. Deukmejian Case. For Labor/Black Defense Against Contra Asylum for Refugees from EI Salvador!, Costa Klan Terror!, #271, 2 Jan. (4,5) #276,13 Mar. (1, 11) Disarmament-See West Germany. Mobilize Labor, Blacks Against Reagan Militant L.A. Demo: "Stop Deportations to EI Racism!, #272, 16 Jan. (1,9) Sal vador!", #277, 27 Mar. (11)* Dockers-See Longshoremen. Drive Nightriders Out of Contra Costa!, Militant L.A. Demo (C), #281, 22 May (11) #272, 16 Jan. (2, 10) Reagan's Mass Deportations to Death, #286, ECONOMICS -See Poland: General; U.S.: Detroit Labor Protest Cancels TV Platform for 31 July (5) General. Klan Terrorist, #272, 16 Jan. (9) Stop Deportation of Haitian Refugees!, #288, Anti-Galbraith, #271, 2 Jan. (9) Anti-Klan Network Doesn't Fight Fascism, 11 Sept. (11) Wall Street BI ues, #290, 9 Oct. (1, 8, 9) #273, 30 Jan. (8) Haitian Victims of Reagan Racism, #293, Reformist Answer to KKK Terror: Lobby Your 20 Nov. (2) Education-See Religion. Congressman, #274, 13 Feb. (6, 10) Imperialism-See EI Salvador: General; Egypt-See Near East. Mobilize Against Anti-Semitic Terror!, #274, Poland; U.S.: International Relations. 13 Feb. (10) Elections: International-See France. Send War Criminal Demjanjuk to Soviet INDIA Ukraine!, #275, 27 Feb. (2) Indian Left Chauvinism over Assam ELECTIONS: U.S. KKK/Nazis Attack SWP Candidate's Home, Violence, #271, 2 Jan. (10) For a Socialist Fight to Defend Labor/Black #276, 13 Mar. (4) Detroit!,#287, 14 Aug. (12,11) Klan Gets Bloody Nose, #277, 27 Mar. (3) International Association of Machinists "Labor/Black Defense Against Klan Terror!", Nazi Shoots Reagan, #278, 10 Apr. (1, 11) (IAM)-See Air Traffic Controllers. #289, 25 Sept. (3) San Jose Chicanos Drive Out KKK, #279, "Real Democrat" Barbaro No Answer to 24 Apr. (3) International Longshoremen's and Racist Koch, #292, 6 Nov. (9) Warehousemen's Union (ILWU)-See Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)-See Longshoremen. EL SALVADOR U.S.: General. See also SoCialist Workers Party. international Spartacist tendency (iSt)-See • General-See Immigration; U.S.: Australia; Iran; Spartacist League/U.S. International Relations. Feminism-See Homosexual Rights; Woman For Workers Revolution in EI Salvador!, Question. IRAN -See U.S.: International Relations. See #271,2 Jan. (12, 10, 11~ also Seamen. Civil War in EI Salvador, #272, 16 Jan. FRANCE -See also EI Salvador: General; United Secretariat. Iranian Left and the Test of War, #271, 2 Jan. (12,11) (6, 7)* Press Policy and Trotskyist Program in "Reform by Death", #272, 16 Jan. (12, 11) Iranian Left (C), #278, 10 Apr. (8) France, #272, 16 Jan. (5, 10) Smash Junta Terror!, #276, 13 Mar. Free Saiid Soltanpour!, #281, 22 May (4) (1,6,7,8,9) French Communist Party Feeds Anti Immigrant Racism, #276, 13 Mar. (5, 10) Bani-Sadr On the Run: Iran in Chaos, #284, EI Salvador: New Vietnam?, #276, 13 Mar. (8) 3 July (1, 9) Polish Solidarity Confronted byTrotskyists in Military Victory to Left-Wing Insurgents!, France, #278, 10 Apr. (4) IranianLeftistsJoiniSt, #287, 14Aug.(3, 11) #277, 27 Mar. (1, 10) Why the Union of the Left Fell Apart, #280, On Iranian "Communist Unity" (L), #289, Interview with Ex-Peace Corps Teacher: 8 May (4, 5, 10) 25 Sept. (2) Eyewitness to Betrayal in EI Salvador, Mullahs' Blood Frenzy, #291, 23 Oct. (1,9) #278, 10 Apr. (6, 7, 10) Giscard Never, Mitterrand No!, #280, 8 May (5) Avenge the Blood of EI Salvador!, #279, Iraq-See Iran; Near East. 24 Apr. (1, 6, 7) Mitterrand Victory in French Elections: No to NATO Popular Front!, #282, 5 June (5, 8) "Revolution or Death" (R), #279, 24 Apr. (2) IRELAND French CP Capitulates to the Atlanticist Salvadoran Insurgents Speak, #279, 24 Apr. Mitterrand: We Trotskyists Defend the Bernadette Devlin Shot-Outrage!, #273, (5, 8) USSR!, #284, 3 July (4, 5) 30 Jan. (3) EI Salvador 1932: La Matanza, #282, 5 June LO and French Elections (L), #286, Letter from H-Block (L), #278, 10 Apr. (2) (6,7) 31 July (2) Thatcher Kills Bobby Sands, #280, 8 May Leftist Guerrillas Say: Win the War in EI Solidarnosc Walks Out on the (12, 11) Salvador!, #282, 5 June (7) "I nternationale", #291, 23 Oct. (7) "Butcher Thatcher-Blood on Your Hands", Smash the Junta, Workers to Power!, #283, Strikes End "Socialist" Honeymoon in #280, 8 May (11) 19 June (1, 14, 15) France, #293, 20 Nov. (3, 9) Avenge Irish Martyrs!, #281, 22 May (3) Behind Franco/Mexican Communique on EI Unionists Mobilize to Stop French Fascists, A Class-Struggle Answer to the Irish Salvador-Social Democracy: . #295, 18 Dec. (12,9) Question, #283, 19 June (6) Imperialism's Soft Cop in Central America, Ireland Divided: Fake-Lefts Change Tune, #292, 6 Nov. (4, 8) Galbraith, John Kenneth-See Economics. #283, 19 June (7, 15) • Anti-War Protests-See Communist Party Garza, Hedda-See Socialist Workers Party: H-Block Protesters Revile Prince, #284, (USA); Immigration; Labor: General. See also 3 July (2) Auto Workers: General; Longshoremen; Suit Against FBI. Socialism vs. Irish Republicanism (L), #286, Phone Workers; Socialist Workers Party: Gay Rights-See Homosexual Rights. 31 July (2) General; West Germany. "London, Belfast, Liverpool-Smash Bloody Anti-Communist Exclusion Fails at EI Guardian-See Maoism. Salvador Demos, #273, 30 Jan. (2) Thatcher's Rule", #287, 14 Aug. (10) GUARDIAN ANGELS Madison: SYL Leads 400 in EI Salvador Rally, Israel-See Near East. #274, 13 Feb. (3) Racist NYC Subway Vigilantes: They're No Angels!, #275, 27 Feb. (3) Bay Area SL Overwhelms Anti-Trotskyist ITALY Exclusion, #275, 27 Feb. (12) Gun Control-See Pollee. Italy: Struggle forPower (L), #271, 2 Jan. (2) Build the Anti-Imperialist Contingent, May 3!, #278, 10 Apr. (12, 11) Vatican Anti-Abortion Crusade Defeated, Haiti-See Immigration. #283, 19 June (13) March for Military Victory to Salvadoran Leftists!, #279, 24 Apr. (1,7,8) HISTORY OF THE MARXIST Japanese Americans-See Civil Liberties: Anti-Imperialist Contingent, May 3, #280, MOVEMENT -See also EI Salvador: General. 8 May (1,6,7) General; France; Poland: History. EI Salvador: A Program of Protest at St. Marks The Russian Revolution of 1905 (S) Ku Klux Klan-See Fascism. Cinema, #280, 8 May (2) Part 1, #288,11 Sept. (6,7,8) Speeches at D.C. Anti-Imperialist Contingent Part 2, #289, 25 Sept. (6, 7, 8) LABOR Rally, #280, 8 May (8, 11) Reds on Reds (R), #295, 18 Dec. (3, 11) • General-See U.S.: General; specific PAM Marches for Imperialist Doves, #281, Reed vs. Stalin: "Ten Days That Shook the occupations. 22 May (6, 8) World", #295, 18 Dec. (11) It Takes a Tough Union to Break the Chicken 14 WORKERS VANGUARD King, #272, 16 Jan. (3) Israeli Nuclear Terrorists, #283, 19 June Polanski, Roman-See Civil Liberties: General. Union Boycott of Military Goods to EI (1, 15) Salvador Ruled "Out of Order": Bay Area Mad Bomber Begin, #286, 31 July (1, 4) POLICE -See Black Question. See also Labor-Fakers Cover for CIA/AIFLD, #274, Imperialist Murderers Weep for Sadat, #291, Communist Party (USA); EI Salvador: Anti 13Feb.(3,11) 23 Oct. (1, 8) War Protests; Mine Workers. Get the Chicken King! (L), #275, 27 Feb. (2) Koch's Cossacks Kill, #275, 27 Feb. (3) Labor and EI Salvador: Class Struggle vs. New York City Politics-See Elections: U.S.; Racist Cop Terror in Battle Creek, #294, Cold War, #286, 31 July (3, 4) Guardian Angels; Police; Transit Workers. 4 Dec. (11) Unchain Labor!, #288, 11 Sept. (1,3,4, 5) See also Hospital Employees. NYC Labor Day 1981, #288,11 Sept. (2, 9) POSTAL WORKERS -See Canada. New York Times-See Terrorism. September 19: Labor Has the Power!, #289, Strike Against Reagan Postal Union 25 Sept. (4, 9) Busting!, #284, 3 July (12,11) For Labor Action to Bring Down Reagan!, NICARAGUA -See EI Salvador; U.S.: On Postal Workers (L), #285, 17 July (2) #289, 25 Sept. (1, 4)* International Relations. For Labor Action (C), #293, 20 Nov. (9) Nicaragua on the Razor's Edge, #277, Protectionism-See Auto Workers: General. 27 Mar. (6, 7, 9, 10) • History-See Auto Workers: General, Chrysler Bankruptcy. The Spectre of Trotskyism in Nicaragua, PUBLIC EMPLOYEES -See Air Traffic #277, 27 Mar. (8) * Trotskyism and the Labor Party Question: Controllers; Hospital Employees; Transit "Dump the Bureaucrats! For a Workers The Spectre of Trotskyism (C), #278, Workers. Party!", #294, 4 Dec. (6, 7, 8) 10 Apr. (8) Victory to the Philadelphia Teachers Strike!, Sandinista Nicaragua Under Reagan's Guns, #291,23 Oct. (12, 11) Labor Party-See Labor: History. #285, 17 July (12, 8, 9) Smash the Taylor Law!, #291, 23 Oct. (11) Nicaragua Heads for Showdown, #292, Libya-See Central Intelligence Agency; 6 Nov. (5) Racial Discrimination-See Black Question; Terrorism; U.S.: International Relations. Hands Off Nicaragua!, #294, 4 Dec. (12, 11) Britain; Fascism; Immigration; South Africa; Zimbabwe. LONGSHOREMEN North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Two Militants Elected in New Bay Area ILWU See France; U.S.: International Relations; RAIL WORKERS -See Mine Workers. West Germany. Vote, #271, 2 Jan. (3) 20,000 Rail Workers Protest Reagan Cuts, ILWU Boycotts Military Shipments to EI #280, 8 May (9) Salvador!, #271,2 Jan. (11) Nuclear Power-See U.S.: International Relations. GOIN and Keylor Re-Elected in ILWU Reagan, Ronald-See U.S.: General, International Relations. See also Fascism. Longshore, #272, 16 Jan. (2) PATCO-See Air Traffic Controllers. Militant ILWU Steward Wins Reinstatement, Reds-See History of the Marxist Movement. #275, 27 Feb. (4) People's Antiwar Mobilization (PAM)-See EI Howard Keylor Elected Delegate to ILWU Salvador: Anti-War Protests. See also Spar Convention, #275, 27 Feb. (4) taclst League/U.S.; Workers World Party. RELIGION -See also Italy. Sellout Herman Redbaits ILWU Militants, Sacramento Monkey Trial, #276, 13 Mar. (4) #276, 13 Mar. (3, 11) Philadelphia Workers Organizing Committee (PWOC)-See Maoism. Science and Religion (L), #283, 19 June (2) Herman Company-Baits ILWU Militants (L), #278, 10 Apr. (2) REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS GROUP ILWU Militants Fight Anti-Soviet Resolution, PHONE WORKERS -See Canada. (RWG)/REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS #282, 5 June (8) U.S. Hands Off EI Salvador!, #279, 24 Apr. LEAGUE (RWL) Keylor Speaks Against Cold War Poland (4, 8) Resolution, #282, 5 June (8) Phone Militants Call for Leftist Victory in EI Would Sollenberger Kiss the Cross? (L), L.A. Longshoremen Walk, #283, Salvador, #280, 8 May (2) #271, 2 Jan. (2) 19 June (16) "I Don't Fink on Fellow Workers!", #291, More from the "Flinching Scab", #272, For Military Victory to the Salvadoran 23 Oct. (10) 16 Jan. (3) Leftistsl, #286, 31 July (3) Militants Win Over 20% of Vote in L.A. Phone, Centrists in Quicksand, #287, 14 Aug. #292, 6 Nov. (10) (4, 5, 9) S.F. Phone Militant Wins, #293, 20 Nov. RWL CLAPs for Bureaucrats (L), #289, MAOISM (12, 10) 25 Sept. (2) What About the "Trend"? (L), #271, RWL: Swimming with the Anti-Soviet Stream, 2 Jan. (2) POLAND #290, 9 Oct. (4, 11) Where is the "Trend" Going?, #273, 30 Jan. • General-See France. See also RWL's United Fraud Against Fascism?, #290, (6, 7, 8, 9) Longshoremen; Socialist Workers Party: 9 Oct. (4) End of the Line for American Maoism, #281, General. RWL Joins Teamsters for a Democratic 22 May (5, 9) AFL-CIO Tops-Hands Off Poland!, #274, Sellout, #293, 20 Nov. (2) Maoists Pimp Off Unemployment, #290, 13 Feb. (5, 9) 9 Oct. (10) Rhodesia-See Zimbabwe. U.S. Imperialists Provoke Soviet Union: Mexico-See EI Salvador: General. Whose Poland?, #279, 24 Apr. (12, 10, 11) Russia-See Soviet Union. Economic Chaos Engulfs Poland, #287, 14 Aug. (6, 7, 8) MINE WORKERS -See also Britain. Russian Question-See Communist Workers "Market Socialism" Is Anti-Socialist, #287, Party; EI Salvador: Anti-War Protests; Coal Miners to Reagan: Don't Dare Cut Black 14 Aug. (7, 8) Maoism; Poland; Sojourner Truth Lung Fund!, #275, 27 Feb. (10) Stop Solidarity's Counterrevolution!, #289, Organization; United Secretariat. See also Miners: Don't Beg, Strike!, #276, 13 Mar. 25 Sept. (12, 10; 11) France; Revolutionary Workers Group; (12, 11) Irving Brown: Cold War Criminal, #289, Socialist Workers Party: General. Miners: Strike to Win Big!, #277, 27 Mar. (12) 25 Sept. (9) Give 'Em Hell Miners!, #278, 10 Apr. (1,8) SL Protests Solidarnosc Counterrevolution, Schools-See Black Question; Public Reporter's Notebook: They Voted with Their #290, 9 Oct. (1, 7) Employees; Religion. Matchbooks, #278, 10 Apr. (9) Wall Street Journal Loves Poland's Company Miners, Railroad Workers: Strike Together!, Union, #290, 9 Oct. (6, 9) SEAMEN #279, 24 Apr. (4) Spartacist slogans at September 24 Hostage Flag-Waving Flops in NMU, #273, Miners Heckle "Sellout Sam" at Pittsburgh demonstration, #290, 9 Oct. (7) 30 Jan. (2) Rally, #280, 8 May (9) Spartacist Pamphlet Just Out!, #291, 23 Oct. Social Democracy-See EI Salvador: General; Miners: Stay Out and Win Big!, #282, (6, 7) France; Poland; United Secretariat; Workers 5 June (9) Fake-Lefts Support Solidarnosc Power. Company and Cops Gas Illinois Miners, Counterrevolution, #292, 6 Nov. (3, 19) #288, 11 Sept. (9) Walesa: From the Horse's Mouth, #292, SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, U.S.A. 6 Nov. (3) Moral Majority-See Religion; Woman CIA's"Truth Squad" for Death Squads, #276, Question. State Department Socialists Rally for 13 Mar. (9) Solidarnosc Counterrevoiution, #293, 20 Nov. (7, 10) . National Anti-Klan Network-See Fascism. SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY (SWP) Solidarnosc Counterrevolution Checked: National Black Independent Political Party Power Bid Spiked, #295, 18 Dec. (1,10) • General-See also Fascism. SWP Scurrying Over FBI Informer (L), #271, (NBIPP)-See Black Question. Solidarnosc Counterrevolutionary Plans 2 Jan. (2) Exposed, #295, 18 Dec. (10) National Maritime Union (NMU)-See Seamen. SWP: Thought Police of the Left, #274, • History 13 Feb. (4) National Question-See Ireland; Sri Lanka. Pilsudski and Counterrevolution in Poland, SWP: Lawyers for Polish Kulaks, #274, #293, 20 Nov. (6, 7, 8) 13 Feb. (5) Nazism-See Fascism. The Warsaw Uprising of 1944, #294, 4 Dec, SWP Welcomes KKK, Excludes Trotskyists, (4, 5, 10) #277, 27 Mar. (2) NEAR EAST Cannon vs. "Third Campism" on the Warsaw SWP Goons for CISPES: Protest Anti Near East War Threat, #281, 22 May (1, 4) Uprising, #294, 4 Dec. (5, 10) Communist Exclusion!, #277, 27 Mar. (11) 18 DECEMBER 1981 15 How They Renounce Soviet Defensism: SWP State Capitalism-See Sojourner Truth Coleman Young's Anti-Union Tax Hike, Slanders James P. Cannon, #278, 10 Apr. Organization; Workers Power. #284, 3 July (3, 11) (3,8) The Nyack Brinks Job: We Don't Know, No to SWP Anti-Trotskyist Exclusionism!: STEEL WORKERS #292, 6 Nov. (2, 9) Letter to the SWP, #281, 22 May (2) Reagan's War on Labor, #294, 4 Dec. (1, 11) Anti-Union Decision in Anwar Case, #271, ACLU Activist Protests, #281, 22 May (2) 2 Jan. (4) elnternational Relations-See Central SWP Transit Forum Excludes Transit 10,000 Apply for 0 Jobsat Inland Steel, #273, Intelligence Agency; Near East; Nicaragua; Workers, #292, 6 Nov. (11) 30 Jan. (12, 11) Poland: General. See also Immigration; South SWP vs. PATCO (L), #293, 20 Nov. (2) Africa. Balanoff: The Wages of Reformism, #280, e Suit Against FBI 8 May (3, 9)" Reagan Targets Central America, #273, 30 Jan. (1,4) SWP's Lying Frame-Up of Hedda Garza, Balanoff (C), #281,22 May (11) Hostage Mania, Cold War Fever, #273, #285, 17 JUly (2, 9) NLRB Takes Up Anwar Case, ~281, 30 Jan. (1,2) Reformism on Trial, #286, 31 July 22 May (11) CIA Atrocities, Hostage Hypocrisy: The Real (6,7,8,9, 10) Anwar NLRB Case (L), #282, 5 June (2) SWP Exclusions and Watersuit, #286, Torture, Inc., #273, 30 Jan. (3) 31 July (2) War President, #274, 13 Feb. (1,8) Students-See Black Question. Reagan Stands By His Butchers, #274, SOJOURNER TRUTH ORGANIZATION Syria-See Near East. 13 Feb. (1,8) (STO) Central America: Hot Spot of the Cold War, SL Debates Sojourner Truth Group: Teachers-See Public Employees. #275, 27 Feb. (12, 11) Trotskyism Exposes Anti-Soviet BI indspot, U.S.lChina Anti-Soviet War Axis, #284, #275, 27 Feb. (6, 7, 8, 9) Teamsters-See Revolutionary Workers 3 July (1, 8, 9) What is the Sojourner Truth Organization?, Group. How U.S. Arms Afghan Counter #275, 27 Feb. (6) revolutionaries, #290, 9 Oct. (2, 9) Telephone Workers-See Phone Workers. How "State Caps" Render Engels More Reagan Threatens Nuclear War in Europe, Profound, #275, 27 Feb. (8) #292,6 Nov. (1,8) TERRORISM -See also Israel. SojournerTruthaCult? (L). #278, 10 Apr. (2) Reagan/Haig Threaten Blockade, #293, The Terror Times, #276, 13 Mar. (2) 20 Nov. (1,4,5) SOUTH AFRICA NATO's "Demo" Bomb, #293, 20 Nov. (5) Black Trade Unions Take Off in South Africa, TRANSIT WORKERS -See also Socialist Workers Party: Gen.:ral. "The Libyans are Coming, The Libyans are #272, 16 Jan. (4, 10) Coming!", #295, 18 Dec. (2) Racist U.S.!South Af rica Axis, #281, 22 May TWU Tops Back Racist Strikebreaker Koch, (1, 10) #283, 19 June (12) Smash Apartheid invasion of Angola!, #288, Chicago Transit Crisis, #283, 19 June (16) United Steelworkers of America (USWA)-See Steel Workers. 11 Sept. (12,11) NewYorkTA Kilied Jesse Cole, #285,17 July (1, 4, 5) Drive Springboks Out!, #288, 11 Sept. Vietnam-See E! Salvador: General; Spartacist We Won't Pay with Our Lives!, #285, (12,11) League/U.S.; U.S.: International Relations. Reagan's Cold War Axis in South Africa, 17 July (4) #290,9 Oct. (12, 11) "Stop the Train to the Plane!", #288, Wall Street Journal-See Poland: General; 11 Sept. (10) Spartacist League/U.S. South End-See Black Question. NYC Transit Workers: Defend the Right to Strike!, #291, 23 Oct. (12, 11) Weather Underground-See U.S.: General. Soviet Union-See EI Salvador: General; Transit Workers Can Bust Union-Buster History of the Marxist Movement; Poland; Koch!, #293, 20 Nov. (12, 11) U.S.: International Relations. See also WEISS, MURRY Redbaits Transit Militants, Fascism; Terrorism. Village Voice Medical Bulletin on Comrade Murry Weiss #295, 18 Dec. (2) (L), #274, 13 Feb. (2) SPAIN Chicago Transit Crisis: Bust "Battle-Ax" Byrne!, #295, 18 Dec. (4) Coup Attempt in Spain, #275, 27 Feb. (1, 10) WEST GERMANY -See also Sri Lanka; United Secretariat. Spanish CP Rips Apart, #295, 18 Dec. ''Trend''-:See Maoism. 20,000 March in Frankfurt EI Salvador Demo, (6, 7, 8) #274, 13 Feb. (4) Truck Drivers-See Revolutionary Workers Group. Nationalist "Peace" Movement in West SPARTACIST LEAGUE/U.S. (SL/U.S.) Germany, #291, 23 Oct. (3, 7) See Civil Liberties: SL v. Deukmejian Case; Unemployment-See Auto Workers: Gene.ral, Elections: U.S.; EI Salvador: Anti-War Chrysler Bankruptcy; Steel Workers; U.S.: WOMAN QUESTION -See Homosexual Protests; Poland: General. See also General. See also Maoism. Rights. Homosexual Rights; Sojourner Truth "Women's Liberation through Socialist Organization. United Auto Workers (UAW)-See Auto Revolution", #277, 27 Mar. (4) Spartacist League Educationals: SL/SYL Workers. March to Defend Abortion Rights: Stop Moral Recruitment Drive Takes Off!, #283, Majority Tyranny!, #281, 22 May (2) 19 June (8, 9, 10) United Federation of Teachers (UFT)-See Join the SL/SYL!: "Which Side Are You On?", Poland: General; Public Employees. WORKERS POWER #283, 19 June (8, 10) With the Reagan Current, #276, 13 Mar. (2) "Take a Side and Join Us Now", #283, United Food and Clerical Workers International (UFCW)-See Labor: General. 19 June (11) WORKERS VANGUARD "Fight for the Principles of the Picket Line", United Mine Workers (UMW)-See Mine Workers VanguardSubscription Drive, #288, #283, 19 June (11) Workers. 11 Sept. (4) "The Officers Were Afraid of the Troops in Workers VanguardSubscription Drive, #289, Vietnam", #283, 19 June (11) UNITED SECRETARIAT (USee) -See also 25 Sept. (2) Ex-PAM Marshal Joins SYL, #285, Australia; Britain. Workers Vanguard Sub Drive at 65%: Two 17 July (9) USee Calls for Soviet Troops Out of Weeks to Go, #290, 9 Oct. (3) SL Answers the Wall Street Journal, #292, Afghanistan, #284, 3 July (5) Workers Vanguard Subscription Drive 6 Nov. (2) USec's Turn to Social Democracy, #284, Success, #291, 23 Oct. (5) SL/SYL Faces the Reagan Years, #295, 3 July (6) 18 Dec. (5, 8, 9) Trotskyists Break from United Secretariat: WORKERS WORLD PARTY (WWP) -See LCR Auto Militant Joins LTF, #284, 3 July EI Salvador: Anti-War Protests. Spartacus Youth League (SYL)-See (6,10,11) Spartaclst League/U.S. See also EI Salvador: YAWF Goons Beaten Attacking SL Demo, Resignation from GIM, #284, 3 July (6, 11) Anti-War Protests. #283, 19 June (9, 12) Marcyite Exclusion Attempt Fails, #284, Springboks Tour-See South Africa. UNITED STATES 3 July (8) e General-See Economics. See also Central All-Peoples Circus: Front for the Democrats, SRI LANKA Intelligence Agency; Fascism; Labor: #290, 9 Oct. (12, 11) General. Stop Anti-Tamil Terror in Sri Lanka!, #282, Too Many Peoples' Congress, #291, 23 Oct. 5 June (3) Reagan's "Honeymoon": Inflation, Recession, (2,11)" Austerity, #271,2 Jan. (1,8) NYC Demo Blasts Anti-Tamil Terror in Sri Too Many Peoples' (C), #293, 20 Nov, (9) Lanka, #283, 19 June (2) SL Forum: "Facing the Reagan Years", #273, Interview with Ceylonese Tamil Leader, 30 Jan. (5,9, 10) World Politics-See U.S.: International #285,17 July (6,7,11) Reagan: Let'em Eat Bullets, #275, 27 Feb. Relations; specific countries. Asylum for Tamils in West Berlin!, #287, (1, 9) Youth Against War and Fascism (YAWF)-See 14 Aug. (5) Reagan Pardons FBI Criminals: Green Light (~, Workers World Party. SUANZ Protests Anti-Tamil Terror in Sri for Secret Police, #279, 24 Apr. 10) Lanka, #289, 25 Sept. (2) War BUdget Hit List: Blacks, Poor, Aged, #282, 5 June (1, 10) ZIMBABWE Stalinism-See specific countries and What Next? Lt. Calley for Human Rights Tribal Clashes in Zimbabwe, #275, organizations. Adviser?, #282, 5 June (1, 3) 27 Feb. (5) 16 WORKERS VANGUARD 18 DECEMBER 1981