WfJRKERS ,,IN'IJ,IR' 25¢ No. 316 .~~~~. X-S23 29 October 1982 Protesters·Rout Klan- Boston COliS Riot

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BOSTON, October 16-Hooded and j 1 I • white-sheeted Ku Klux Klansmen were • surrounded by an angry, jeering crowd of 1.500. pelted with eggs. and. scared II ;:,ut of their w~ts, were tlln off the sheets of Boston today. Not even a full-scale riot by scores of motorcycle and mounted police defending the KKKers could disperse the protesters. who came determined to stop the fascists' provoca­ tion. It was the first solid anti-racist stand after years of unrelieved racist terror for black people in Boston. October 16 was a stunning blow against the cross-burners and lynchers that has been heard across the whole country. Under Reagan reaction, the KKK figures it has a license to spew out its race-hate poison everywhere. A Klan­ endorsed president in the White House, Democrats and Republicans united in an anti-Soviet war drive have made it open season on unions and minority rights at home. And Boston is where rampaging mobs ofwhite racists took to the streets against busing. An ideal place for a Klan march, figured "imperial wizard" Bill Wilkinson. But the all­ WV Photo purpose hate mongers of the KKK not (Above) Boston cops protect Klan. (Below) Spartaclst contingent on October 16. only target blacks, Jews, communists, labor: Catholics are also high on their TV cringing. The cops, meanwhile, protesters in Cambridge Street. Motor­ the Plaza, directed this time at the hit list. So when Wilkinson said he'd began beating on anyone around, cycle cops roared into the crowd in City police. WEEI Radio broke into the parade in front of City Hall on Satur­ particularly news photographers. As the Hall Plaza. Then came the club­ World Series broadcast with bulletins day, they all came out to stop him: Irish crowd threatened to overwhelm the tiny swinging, mace-spraying riot police, on the police charge. Many thousands from South Boston and Dorchester, phalanx, the terrified. humiliated fas­ pushing demonstrators into other cops. more were shocked as they watched the Italians from East Boston and Somer­ cists were bundled into paddy wagons­ There were police sharpshooters on the scene on TV. Everyone saw it: the cops, ville, students from Cambridge, blacks under police protection, not arrest­ rooftops, plainclothesmen riddling the mortal enemies of blacks and workers, from Roxbury, unionists and others, and whisked away. Only the cops crowd. For many protesters there was are defenders of the Ku Klux Klan. A mobilized in part by several left groups. prevented them from being stripped of no escape: everyone was fair game. Our couple from Somerville told WV: The Klan never made it to the plaza. their KKK costumes and pounded into own comrades barely escaped serious "When we came here and people were When the robed nightriders appeared in the pavement. As the police vans left, injury: some were maced, others black­ chanting that the police were going to broad daylight a block away from their the protesters cheered their victory. The jacked. Twelve demonstrators were protect the Klan we didn't believe it. ... I target, hundreds of anti-Klan demon­ Klan would not parade its racist terror hospitalized, scores received lesser tmly understand it now." strators surged forward and surrounded in the streets of Boston. injuries. There were two arrests, but all The KKK attempt to march on them (and their police escort) on all But the fight was far from over. No the criminals-cops and Klansmen­ Boston City Hall grew out ofa television sides. Seconds later, the Klansmen were sooner were the Klansmen gone than the went free. appearance by Wilkinson on a local bombarded with eggs, tomatoes, bot­ racists in blue abruptly launched an For hundreds of anti-Klan demon­ station two days earlier, part of the tles, garbage and anything else that obviously planned attack on the demon­ strators, the bloody cop attack was a KKK's camp~i~n to gain a "respectable" could be found. The KKKers ducked; stration. Mounted police wheeled brutal lesson on the class nature of the image. As the "imperial wizard" spoke, Wilkinson was shown on nationwide around their horses and charged into capitalist state. Cries of "fascists" filled continued on page 8 Steel Local Welcomes Anwar Victory EAST CHICAGO, Indiana-Angered forward this fight to complete victory." over Inland Steel's blatant refusal to However, Inland has simply ignored reinstate Keith Anwar, members of the NLRB decision. This arrogant United Steelworkers (USWA) Local obstruction of the Labor Board order ID 10 once again came forward to comes during an intensified campaign of Keith Anwar support Anwar's fight for labor solidari­ intimidation and harassment designed speaks at rally ty. On September 24 the National Labor to weaken the union in the face of the In support of Relations Board (NLRB) ordered In­ industrywide giveback campaign. Al­ land to reinstate Anwar, a Local 1010 most one third of Inland's 18,000 member fired in May 1979 for refusing workers have been forced onto unem­ to cross a picket line (see "Steel Unionist ployment lines that in places like East ::~~~~!f: ~ \Nk~ Wins Key NLRB Case," WV No. 315, Chicago and Gary extend for city uotm PICKbT L 15 October). This ruling was enthusiasti­ blocks. Those still on the job are cally welcomed by USWA members working virtually without a contract, as who have closely followed the case and in each department foremen tear up past WV Photo who understand the critical importance agreements on seniority, safety, job preacher ought to be preaching in a The case will now go to the federal of picket line solidarity against the steel descriptions, etc. And at the same time padded cell! courts. The Keith Anwar Defense bosses. An October 21 meeting of the that the ineffective, no-strike grievance The response of the McBride USWA Committee, already in debt because of Inland local warmly applauded Anwar procedure is clogged with cases, Inland leadership to such attacks has been to legal expenses arising from the NLRB on this victory, and unanimously passed singles out grievancemen for victimiza­ offer the steel companies billions of suit, is urgently appealing for financial a resolution that said, "Local 1010 tion. Anwar told Workers Vanguard dollars of concessions. But many steel support to keep this struggle for the congratulates Keith Anwar for winning that last week a highly active griever was workers are looking for class-struggle right to honor picket lines alive. WV the recent NLRB decision that-supports hit with a five-day suspension for weapons to fight back, like picket lines calls on its readers to generously our right to honor picket lines, and we commenting to a fellow worker that a nobody crosses. This is what the Anwar contribute: Keith Anwar Defense Com­ encourage brother Anwar to carry vicious foreman who moonlights as a picket line case is all about. mittee, Box 7914, Chicago, IL 60680.•

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Congratulations to all comrades more class-conscious than the stu­ on the successful completion of the dents are radical, our aim was to 1982 Workers Vanguard subscrip­ expand readership among workers tion drive. The five-week drive and blacks as well as on the cam­ reached 121 percent of the national puses. Summing up the effort, the quota, bringing WV subscriptions Los Angeles sub drive director, (U.S. and overseas) to nearly 3,000. comrade Cesar, reported: "We met The drive also netted 948 Young our quota ... but most important was Spartacus and 610 Women and the quality of the points obtained.... Revolution subs. Most exciting and satisfying was the This year's drive took place in the large percentage of black subscrib­ midst of considerable political ers." In Los Angeles, 4~ points were activity-emergency Spartacist sold to phone workers and 59 in demonstrations against Zionist gen­ black housing projects adjacent to ocide in West Beirut, auto workers' locations where WV is sold on a and teachers' walkouts in Detroit regular basis. Of the 52 points sold at and elsev>fhere, the Coleman/ UCLA, nearly half were to black and Bradley election campaign in San Latino students. Francisco. Immediately after the sub Especially given the current drive, the Boston local played an vacuum of black leadership, the UPI active role in the militant mobiliza­ Spartacist League's active work in FINAL TOTALS tion which successfully confronted opposing the provocations of the the Ku Klux Klan on October 16. racist terrorists was key to winning Local Quota Total % Quota Total % (In points) In keeping with the observation new subscribers. As one black man (In points) that American workers are presently in Chicago told us, "It's about time Berkeley/Oakland 550 606 110 Los Angeles 400 440 110 somebody did something about the Boston 430 514 120 Madison 100 124 124 Klan and Nazis." In Chicago, where Chicago 450 468 104 New York 850 1,064 125 WORKERS last June 27 the SL organized 3,000 Cleveland 250 207 83 San Francisco 450 525 117 protesters against the Nazis' attempt Detroit 280 322 115 At-large - 278 VANGIJARD to rally against Gay Pride Day, an National Total 3,760 4,548 121 Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of impressive 178 points were sold the Spartacist League of the U.S. door-to-door in black and working­ EDITOR: Jan Norden class neighborhoods (129 on the focus, it was particularly gratifying estimated 42 percent of Berkeley/ PRODUCTION: Darlene Kamiura (Manager), South Side). that 95 points were sold at Harvard, Oakland subs were to black and Noah Wilner Detroit sold 57 points to unionists, where the Spartacus Youth League Latino readers, including several CIRCULATION MANAGER: Linda Jarreau mainly auto workers, and 21 points has been subjected to a concerted new subscribers from the Richmond EDITORIAL BOARD: George Foster, Liz Gordon, Mary Jo McAllister. door-to-door. U. of Michigan (Ann and repetitive campaign of arrogant area which has recently been the James Robertson, Reuben Samuels, Arbor) led the campus sub sales with administration witchhunting. At U. scene of protests against the racist Joseph Seymour, Marjorie Stamberg 105 points and Michigan State was Mass. Amherst 79 points were sold, killer cops. The campus fraction at Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published U.C. Berkeley sold 63 points, while biweekly, skipping an issue in August and second with 67. Cleveland sold 32 and 66 at Tufts. . week In December. by the Spartacist points .in Pittsburgh and 18 in The New York City comrades sold regional sub trips brought in 154 ,.~I·shing Co., 41 Warren Street, New York, 16 29 points to transit workers. The points at U.C. Santa Cruz and 194 IG07. Telephone: 732-7862 (Editorial). Oberlin; points were sold door­ (Business). Address all corres- to-door. local relied heavily on regional from a tour to Oregon and Washing­ to: Box 1377. GPO, New York, NY In Boston, 51 points were sold in campuses to make its quota: notably ton State. i 0; 10 Uvmestic sUbSCriptions: $5.00/24 ;,',.:·s Second-class postage paid at New the predominantly black Mattapan Cornell (111 points), Rutgers (108) The individual winner was York. N\!. neighborhood; following the anti­ and Yale (85). Particular interest was comrade Peter A. from Berkeley with expressed in signed articles or Klan mobilization, over 1,600 WV noted from foreign students. 101 points; congratulations also to ·,or-;"cfJssarily express the editOrial supplements were distributed in the The two Bay Area locals sold 58 Tom D. (Boston, 85 points), Gloria same area. In the Boston area, where points to phone workers and 56 to N. (Chicago, 72) and Fred H. (New I - L-_ ._. ,HS 29 October 1982 campus work remains a primary longshore/warehouse w9rkers. An York, 69) .• 2 WORKERS VANGUARD J __

Israel was right there, with U.S. en­ couragement, to take up the slack. Carter's "human rights junta" in EI Salvador, led by that darling of the Israel: Quartermaster for liberal Democrats, Jose Duarte, killed 12,000 workers and peasants in 1980. During that same year, 83 percent of its arms imports came from Israel. More recently, faced with Congressional resistance to increased American mili­ Global Counterrevolution tary aid to the blood-soaked junta, Israel reportedly "lent" $21 million ofits own U.S. aid allotment ($2.7 billion a Israel's genocidal Blitzkrieg into U.S. imperialism and Israel. Israel imports. This fact assumes great impor­ year) in weapons to El Salvador. A Lebanon demonstrated'a "state of the supplies the hardware and training, tance if we recall that in the last two years alone the Somoza regime killed spokesman for the Israeli defense art" military capacity which received including whole arms industries, to about 50,000 people, or that his regime ministry refused to comment on reports enthusiastic cheers from the Pentagon U.S.-backed neo-colonial regimes so bombed the poverty slums of Managua, of Israeli advisers in El Salvador. and White House, especially when it was unsavory that even the blood-soaked as well as other towns with Israeli-made In Guatemala mounting repression Arava and West Wind planes." used to take out Soviet-supplied Syrian Pentagon avoids direct contact, prefer­ caused the U.S. to cut off military aid weapons. This capacity is based on an ring to use Israel as a go-between. Thus Israel became the principal arms temporarily in 1977. Again the Israelis arms industry which could not have it was the U.S. Marines, now in West supplier for all the murderous military jumped into the breach. Uzis, helicop­ come into existence without direct Beirut to impose a "stable" Lebanese juntas in Central America, a "market" ters, virtually the entire Guatemalan technological and massive capital trans­ arsenal has since been supplied by Tel fers from the U.S. (in which tax-free Aviv. Collaboration with the Guatema­ donations to the Zionist state play no lan military became so close that the little role). And it could not be sustained country's new president General Rios on Israel's regional needs alone, as Montt ("god made me do it") said on expansionist and as bloody as these are. television that the coup which brought Israel arms butchers of him to power was successful "because Book Review: the world as military many of our soldiers were trained by the subcontractors for U.S. Israelis" (Manchester Guardian Week­ Israel's Global Role: imperialism's anti-Soviet ly, 5 September). While Reagan howls Weapons for Repression war drive. about (unfortunately non-existent) by Israel Shahak Soviet/Cuban military aid to leftist Association of Arab-American insurgents in Central America, Israel University Graduates, Inc. trains and equips the junta butchers and Belmont, Massachusetts, 1992 their infamous death squads, as military subcontractors for U.S. imperialism. The infamous Uzi submachine gun, Likewise in South America, Israeli the preferred weapon for death squads FDIIIIH: arms merchants are doing a booming from southern Africa to Central Ameri­ business including with those tradition­ ca; Gabriel missiles which arm Taiwan­ A feisty company calied al havens for escaped Nazi war crimi­ 1.A! exports ese gunboats in the Formosa Strait; miSSiles Trlat nals, Paraguay and Argentina. In the electric fences built for South Africa to brings mone'y'-and serves the embatt!ed nat;on's latter country the junta has used Israeli keep Angola-based SWAPO guerrillas diplomatiC aims too weapons to terrorize the Buenos Aires out of Namibia-all these are "Made in Jewish community as well as massacre Israel." Zionist mass murder in the Near workers and leftists. Shahak reports East is armed by industry built on the that a former Israeli chief of staff and blood ofworkers and peasants through­ high official in the Zionist "Labor" out the world. Party made a "good will" trip to The first systematic study of this Argentina and Chile. While in Santiago notorious Zionist merchandising in he declared to Pinochet: "I know Chile's international counterrevolution was army is now used to winning and has an published last year in Israel by Israel appetite for victory." It is also known Shahak, survivor of the Bergen-Belsen ISRAEL'S OWN whose blood whetted that "appetite." concentration camp and chairman of In Africa, Israel has since the '50s the Israeli League for Civil and Human MIUTARY· actively participated in the regimes that Rights. Military censorship, which are the most degenerate products of INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ,ycDCISKR"R suppresses public discussion of many imperialist domination-from Idi aspects of the Israeli arms industry, Amin's Uganda to the Centr~l African made many cuts in Shahak's text, "Empire" of the cannibalistic Bokassa indicating the "sensitivity" of this regime under American/Israeli protec­ which had grown dramatically for these and most recently Zaire's Mobutu, a subject. An English translation of this tion, who put the savage Somoza counterrevolutionary merchants of despot so corrupt that even the gang­ study has now been published in the dictatorship into power in Nicaragua death. Remember Jimmy Carter's "hu_ sters in the American CIA are thinking U.S. (Israel's Global Role: Weaponsfor four decades ago. But by 1978-79, it was man rights" drive that supposedly cut of cutting him off. Until its demise in Repression, with an introduction by the Zionist butchers in the "Promised off U.S. military aid to certain right­ 1979, the white supremacist Rhodesian Noam Chomsky and an appendix of Land" who had become quartermaster wing despots whose anti-communist regime was a prime Israeli arms custom­ articles which supplement Shahak's for the "jackal ofManagua." As Shahak and anti-labor zeal would be sometimes er, even producing the Uzi submachine study). states: found "excessive," whose death squads gU!1 under license (the so-called "Rhu­ The Shahak study exposes the "In the last year of that dictatorship, would target journalists and nuns as zi"). During the civil war Israel also division of labor that exists between Israel supplied 98 percent of its arms well as workers, peasants and students? continued on page 12

cana. But today, faced with the horror of Begin/Sharon's massacre, and lack­ ing a proletarian revolutionary perspec­ tive, Shahak is drawn into illusions in the Zionist "Labor" left and even worse Israel Shahak and Pax Americana illusions in American imperialism-the most powerful force for counterrevolu­ tion in the world-that bears ultimate responsibility for the bloody massacres. Begin/Sharon's genocidal invasion of ing to a Spartacist League (SL) spokes­ defenseless before the Israelis and the In his Berkeley presentation Shahak Lebanon and the horror of Shatila/ man who explained our demand that Israeli-backed forces of the Phalange stated, "The first duty pragmatically is Sabra have generated a deep polariza­ imperialist troops get out of Lebanon, and Major Haddad? Any more naive to stop further wars of domination" by tion within Israeli society. A large Shahak denied that these troops had than was Sharon about the conse­ Sharon. But these are wars of domina­ section of the opposition to the invasion anything to do with the massacre: quences of sending Haddad and the tion that have been waged during 30 in Israel, led by the Zionist "Labor" "In fact, I think that if the troops would Phalange forces into Shatila/Sabra to years of "Labor" Party rule in Israel Party, looks to RonaJd Reagan to check have remained in the first place (how­ "mop up"? A point that Shahak made when Sharon was their general and chief Begin/Sharon's fanatical expansionism, ever, the U.S. intervention behind Israel is wrong) massacres would not have powerfully in his Berkeley speech and in military adviser. And these wars will not which threatens not only the stability of taken place. Even at this time [when] the his recent interview with Workers be checked by the imperialist power Reagan's Arab allies but the Zionist situation is bad-and I agree that it is Vanguard ("I Accuse," WV No. 314, 1 which has armed and bankrolled them. state itself. Israel Shahak has been one bad-I would strongly suggest that October) is that the Israeli creation and The greatest danger in the Near East is of the most informative and scathing Israeli troops in West Beirut are worse utilization of local right-wing forces is than the troops of America. France and the presence of imperialist troops in critics of the "Labor" Party, especially Italy, and that [as] the lesser evil (for a no different from the Nazi utilization of West Beirut, in the Sinai, offshore in the its claims in opposition to be the party of time I would say that) the troops of local fascist forces in East Europe. More Mediterranean Sixth Fleet and in bases "peace" against Begin. But in a recent those states are in my opinion fundamentally, it was the U.S. which throughout the region. They serve only speaking tour in the U.S. Shahak has preferable." backed the Israeli invasion and dis­ to assert the goals of U.S. imperialism lent his voice to one of "Labor's" most Does Shahak believe that Reagan (or armed the PLO in Lebanon. and amplify Israel's regional expansion­ dangerous planks: support for Reagan's Mitterrand, or the Italians) were naive Professor Shahak's observations in ism in the service of Reagan's anti­ Pax Americana in the Near East. about the consequences of their disarm­ the past argue against his present Soviet war drive with its threat ofglobal In Berkeley on October II, respond- ing the _PLO and leaving the camps preference for a Near East Pax Ameri- nuclear holocaust.• 29 OCTOBER 1982 3 First They' Tried to Kill Our Comrades Morenoite Deadly Lies Before Stalin had Leon Trotsky to "get the Sparts," Kramer & Co. have tops posing as innocent victims and their lies. Not Nicholas Kramer. The assassinated, he claimed that the great linked up with some big-time witch­ defenders of workers democracy is two-page IWP printed leaflet justifying communist revolutionary, founder of hunters. But it's open to question something like genocidal Cambodian its October 2 assault on the SL, "Self­ the Red Army and co-leader with Lenin whether the Morenoites or their allies ex-tyrant Pol Pot organizing a war Defense Group Defeats Attack on of the Russian Revolution, was an agent are the more sinister. crimes tribunal. Workers' Meeting in Los Angeles," is an of the Nazis and the Mikado. (During On October 2, IWP thugs in Los For all their macho posturing and unbroken string of fabrications out of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, of course, it was Angeles carried out an attack with a gangsterism, Nicholas Kramer and his the whole cloth. No, we did not supposed to be "agent of Roosevelt and deadly weapon on SL supporters "Internationalist Workers Party" are physically attack their meeting or use Churchill.") In the United States the protesting outside a supposedly "pub­ extremely tender when it comes to force to enter the building. No, we did Stalinists launched goon attacks trying lic" IWP meeting from which we had political debate. And no wonder. With not refuse to pay the admission price. to silence the Trotskyists, while instigat­ been excluded. Kramer himself aimed a an international /ider maximo who is a No, we did not physically attack a ing red-baiters in the unions and the murderous blow at the head of a well-known swindler and thief-whose woman, Anna Ramirez, at the ticket capitalist state to employ naked repres­ militant phone worker (see "Attempted political course zigzags from Peronism table, nor did SL supporters try to sion against supposed "fifth colum­ Murder!" WV No. 315, 15 October). to Castroism to Maoism to social attack a Latina IWPer on August 21. nists." This ultimately led to the jailing Then the Morenoites put out a slander democracy to Sandinismo to support And we didn't threaten to call the police. of the Minneapolis 18, Trotskyists sheet retailing every lie by U.S. refor­ for the bloody Argentine military Quite the contrary. The IWP refused to railroaded by the government in league mists against the Trotskyist SL and dictatorship-they find it desperately let our comrades enter and slammed the with the Teamster bureaucracy of throwing in their own fabrications to necessary to hide the facts of their own doors to the room when we chanted Daniel Tobin. pepper the sauce, in order to smear the history. In fact they are willing to kill to "political exclusion." They said only These methods of the Big Lie, targets of their vicious assault. Now the suppress the truth and to quarantine two SLers would be permitted to buy murderous provocation and frame-up IWP would-be killers have embarked on their members from the Trotskyism of tickets to this "public" event. As for are now the modus operandi ofNicholas a McCarthyitepurge campaign in the Spartacist League. (For further Kramer's mythical "large number of Kramer, the strutting boss of the Los league with the most rabid anti­ information about the checkered career workers who had come to attend the Angeles-based Internationalist Workers communists in the American labor of Nahuel Moreno, see our Moreno event" who spontaneously "organized a Party (IWP), and of his mentor Nahuel movement, the bureaucracy of the Truth Kit, available from the Spartacist self-defense squad to expel the aggres­ Moreno. The Morenoites have been Communications Workers of America Publishing Company.) sors from the building," this was an stung by the exposure of their political (CWA), against class-struggle unionists armed goon squad which showed up at banditry, their endless violations of and Workers Vanguard, the newspaper Big Lies and Total Fabrications the event with lethal weapons. They' proletarian morality and virulent anti­ of the Spartacist League. The spectacle attacked SL protesters without Sovietism by the Trotskyists of the of the hammer-wielding Morenoite Most smearjobsthrow in a sprinkling provocation. Spartacist League (SL). In their frenzy goons and the CIA-eonnected CWA of facts to give a veneer ofplausibility to continued on page 14 ~p-artacists , Defend Argentine Workers WfJIiKlIiS'VINGIJIIiIJ

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~~Ge~~J~~ for Bloody Junta The Bloody Repression Behind "Gentleman's Coup" in Argentina What is Nicholas Kramer's Interna­ social democracy in the struggle against the Galtieri dictatorship in Argentina? tionalist Workers Party (IWP) and Quite simply, none of these organiza­ whose interests does it serve? The tions ever published a single article or fundamental political line of this carried out any campaign against the centrist-talking, Los Angeles-based Argentine dictatorship before the war group is a left-wing version of Latin with England. Just like their newspa­ pers, the bourgeois and imperialist press American nationalism. The IWP is an has now discovered that under the fJII Re!lfee Cgs Raided offshoot of the current led by Argentine Galtieri dictatorship human rights were Rightist Terror adventurer Nahuel Moreno, a notorious violated." Stalks Argentina political quick-change artist who -EI Bolchevique, June 1982 switches his line so often that we have Not only is this slander of the SL a dubbed him the Cantinflas of pseudo­ demonstrable lie, it is a cynical attempt Trotskyism. And it is in his Argentine to hide the Morenoites' own record of habitat that Moreno's treacherous alibiing the murderous junta. Where reformism is most starkly revealed. His was the Spartacist League? On thefront despicable support to the murderous lines, in fact leading those who de­ Galtieri junta in its South Atlantic war nounced the Argentine military butch­ with Margaret Thatcher's Britain ers from the very moment ofthe Videla should repel all class-conscious work­ coup in March 1976. No articles, no ers. To justify this betrayal, Kramer campaign? On the contrary, when the resorts to wholesale lying about the pro-junta Stalinists and the bourgeois internationalist line of the Trotskyists. liberals tried to cover up the reign of This textbook example of Morenoite terror engulfing Argentina we were the slander ominously prefigured their ones, in the United States and interna­ potentially murderous assault on sup­ tionally, who exposed the bloody reality porters of the Spartacist League (SL). as part of our campaign to free Chilean The June issue of the IWP's newspa­ union leader Mario Munoz, then being per carried a polemic entitled "The'Left' held in one of Videla's prison camps. Wing of Imperialism," with a second Beginning with our article "Military headline, "Social Democrats, Maoists, Coup in Argentina-Down with the PLP and Spartacists in the Military Junta! For Workers Revolution!" Camp of Reagan and Thatcher." Thus Workers Vanguard published no less the IWP cynically lumps together than 15 articles on Argentina in 1976 reformist supporters of "democratic" alone, in addition to another 21 articles (or at least anti-Soviet) imperialism with on the Munoz campaign! The headlines Spartaclst League campaign against junta terror In Argentina, 1976. alone tell the story: "The Bloody the communist SL, which called for the many as 1,300 Chilean refugees sent defeat ofboth reactionary regimes in the Repression Behind 'Gentleman's Coup' Jails") and with lawyers who had gone to Buenos Aires to investigate the back to Pinochet's torturers. We called bloody Falklands/Malvinas diversion. in Argentina," "Rightist Terror Stalks horror ("There's a Bloodbath Going on and participated in scores of anti-junta To back up their amalgam, the Moreno­ Argentina," "Argentine Junta Tightens in Argentina"). We broke the news in protests. ites make the incredible claim: Bloody Grip." We published lengthy interviews with those who had escaped the U.S. of 20,000-30,000 Argentine More than any other individual, "And by the way, where were PLP, the continued on page 14 Spartacist League, the Rep and the the junta's hellhole ("Life in Videla's leftists seized by the military, and as WORKERS VANGUARD 4 Los Angeles Phone Militant SaYE Stop the Witchhunt Against MAC!

We reprint below a leaflet issued by least 1,700 phone workers. With lO-plus ber Kathy Ikegami on trial for her Los Angelesphone union militant Larry . forward he leered at Britton and asked, percent unemployment on the one hand, political views. This purge trial grew out "Do you support the political views of Ackerson on October 25 in reply to a increasing company harassment, forced of Imerzel's vendetta against an April witchhunting campaign launched by Leon Trotsky?" So what if she does'? I transfers, downgrades, layoffs and MAC leaflet exposing his and Wood's think our union would be a thousand C WA Local 11502 president Janice firings on the other, the potential for a policy of covering up for the impending Wood. Ackerson was the target of an times better off if it were' run by a militant response to the company's job cuts. leadership that did, rather than the assault with lethal weapons by the attacks, as happened recently in River­ Kathy was elected by members of the Internationalist Workers Party, follow­ weak, sniveling, pro-CIA, pro-company side and San Diego, is more and more a local as an alternative to Imerzel's pro­ bureaucrats that run it now. ers of Argentine pseudo- Trotskyist reality. Watts, pro-Democratic Party, pro­ Nahuel Moreno. What Imerzel's trial and Wood's MAC warned of the impending company leadership. Imerzel's initial recent actions have in common is trying company attacks last April after presi­ claim for the trial was that Kathy was to make an issue out of the well-known ***** dent Wood spilled the beans at an April not carrying out her duties as an fact that Kathy Ikegami, myself and Last week I attended the October 21 14 stewards meeting. When MAC executive board member. The real many other members of the Militant membership meeting of Local 11502. At printed this information and called for problem for Imerzel is that Kathy was Action Caucus are supporters of the that meeting president Janice Wood an immediate fight against the layoffs, carrying out her duties the way MAC political positions of the Spartacist rammed through a dirty lying motion Janice Wood denounced the leaflet as a thinks a union representative should­ League which publishes Workers Van­ aimed against members of the Militant pack of lies. In San Francisco CWA, by telling union members the truth, by guard. Workers Vanguard is an honest Action Caucus (MAC) and against MAC member Kathy Ikegami is being urging a fight against Ma Bell to save paper written from the standpoint ofthe Workers Vanguard, a socialist newspa­ per. The motion not only defended the; scabbing of Jim Green, a CWA m.::mber and steward (who daily crosses the AFL-CIO-sanctioned IATSE picket line at Group W Cable), butalso his role in a potentially murderous attack carried out by the Morenoite Interna­ tional Workers Party (IWP) at a misnamed "public" meeting October 2. Green was part of a goon squad armed with claw hammers and other weapons that prevented unionists and socialists from entering this "public" forum. Green personally took part in the goon squad's assault on myself and oth.ers who were there protestingexclusion and violation of workers democracy. I bore the brunt of this assault. A hammer blow was aimed at my head, which missed my head and struck me on the shoulder. 1 was struck on the head with Claw-hammer murder attempt (see arrow) on mintahtphone\Yorker tarfy"AcfeF"SOit.. ~.- ...... _, a martial arts weapon, a numchaku. Luckily my skull wasn't cracked but my subjected to a political purge trial for injuries did require hospital attention. having brought our union leadership's This attack is documented in photo­ collusion with Ma Bell's job-cutting to graphs as is Green's role in it. the attention of CWA members there. Now Green and his cohorts are But MAC's charges have already been compounding their crimes by slandering shown to be tf'le! PT&T now openly the targets of their goon attack. And declares these plans, some ofwhich have SL pickets union president Wood is backing them been known to our local leadership for protest anti­ . up with suppression and outright months. communist physical intimidation. At the October 21 On March 30, 1982, CWA District 9 exclusion official R.W. Rivers sent a letter to moments union meeting, the exec board brought before in a motion in the service of Green and "all PT&T and Bell of Nevada local presidents-subject: distribution ser­ murderous fellow scab Elizabeth Wiatr which attack. sought to alibi their scabbing and vices, CEAjl&M-forced surplus in 1982 attacked as "slanderous lies" Workers and 1983." The punch line ofthis letter is Vanguard's truthful account of the the same as recent company announce­ October 2 IWP meeting. After present­ ments: "it is inevitable that some of-our ing this outrageous motion-asking people face choices between unattrac­ Local 11502 members to take a position tive options.... If the available options our jobs, by speaking out at the last working class and all the oppressed. It is on what happened at a meeting ofa left are unacceptable some may have to union convention against the American the paper that told the truth about Ma group most of them never heard of­ choose separation or retirement." Such Institute for Free Labor Development Bell's job-cutting schemes, the paper Wood basically filibustered until a few "unattractive options" include "invol­ (AIFLO, the CIA's labor front through that brought the news about the Kathy minutes before the meeting was ended. untary resignation" of employees in which our union makes itself an accom­ Ikegami show trial to phone workers The atmosphere created by Wood's Riverside who refused to take a $130 a plice of union-busting and murderous here in L.A. It is the only paper to remarks was one of witchhunting week pay cut for a job 100 miles away. reaction in Latin America and all over actively combat the lie that the Demo­ hysteria as Workers Vanguard was So I ask, "Who was really lying, the world). cratic Party is a friend of the working denounced, slandered, threatened with Janice?" Last week I myself witnessed part of people and to expose the link between legal action in the bosses' <;ourts; Wood As it has become more obvious to the Imerzel's insulting show trial, an outra­ the unton bureaucrats' pro-Democrat, said she wished something could be membership of Local 11502 that MAC geous violation of the rights of Kathy pro-Cold War policies and their refusal done to stop Workers Vanguard from was right in pointing out the union Ikegami and the union members who to lead the unions into action against the selling outside our union meetings. leadership's fronting for the company, elected her to represent them. The fact bosses and against Reagan's union­ Then she turned the floor over to Green Wood's attacks on the MAC have that this is a kangaroo court has also busting, the racist cutbacks, etc. It is for an unrestrained barrage of total escalated. It is common in union been obvious to other union members the paper that says, "Picket Lines fabrications about the October 2 meet­ meetings for Wood and her thought­ attending. Imerzel asks all the ques­ Mean Don't Cross," the paper that ing and vicious cop-baiting slanders. A police to use red-baiting worthy of~Joe tions, responds to all the testimony, and fights for mass mobilizations of labor MAC supporter was not permitted to McCarthy and Ronald Reagan. decides the validity of objections. The and minorities against the KKK and respond, a vote was quickly rammed The Wood witchhunt in Local 11502 "trial" court judges say nothing, as does Nazi race-terrorists. It is a newspaper I through and the meeting hastily is an extension of the elaborate purge his trial court chair and sometime am proud of. adjourned. trial in San Francisco. The recent red­ girlfriend, Olga Vargas. All of these What Workers Vanguard wrote baiting attacks in Oakland, San Fran­ people are hand-picked by Imerzel and about Green and his friends' violent Why is Wood so ready to whitewash a cisco and L.A. are being orchestrated run on various slates for office with him. assault at the October 2 IWP meeting cowardly thug, liar and scab like Green from the upper echelons of the CWA. At On Wednesday October 20, Barbara was also nothing but the truth. And it is before the membership'? In order to the CWA Convention in Detroit last Britton of the L.A. MAC testified about strange and sinister that union president obscure her culpability in keeping the July, Watts closed the last session with: Wood's change of story concerning her Wood felt it advisable to jump into a company's job-slashing plans hidden Get MAC! report to the April 14 stewards meeting. dispute between leftist groups (on the from the membership.. In myoid Local 9410 (San Before his cross-examination Imerzel wrong side, of course). Why did she? Wood sits on a powder keg in this Francisco), president James lmerzel has announced that he was going to refute Was it just vulnerability to the questions local. PT&T has formally announced its put executive board member, conven­ the statement that he was running a of scabbing and job-cutting raised by intention to destroy the livelihood of at tion delegate, steward and MAC mem- McCarthyite witchhunt trial. Leaning continued on page 15 29 OCTOBER 1982 5 Spartacist Candidates in S.F. Elections Vote Coleman and Bradley'

SAN FRANCISCO-Two years ago many traditionally Democratic workers were so fed up with conditions under Carter (runaway inflation, mass unem­ ployment) that they voted for Reagan or stayed home. Now that things have gotten even worse-in fact, the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression-the Democrats and their friends the labor bureaucrats are telling the workers, in effect, that they got what they deserved and should return to the fold. But the worldwide depression shows the problem isn't just "Reagan­ omics," it's the capitalist system-a system which the Kennedys and Mon­ dales defend as ruthlessly as Reagan. While the liberals and reformists are rebuilding the classical "popular front coalition," Spartacist candidates for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors say: "You Can't Fight Reagan with Democrats-For Mass Strike Action to Bring Down Reagan! Build a Workers Party!" And their message is getting through. The Spartacist candidates have con­ centrated on the black and working­ class areas of the city. We have gone to shipyard workers, phone workers, longshoremen, transit drivers, super­ markets and banks in black neighbor­ hoods with our call. The Coleman/ Bradley campaign against both the capitalist parties has attracted wide attention and publicity this year. The socialist union militants have appeared on two local TV stations, at least five radio stations, and their successful suit against the political censorship and slander of the Spartacist candidates by the Registrar of Voters was covered in both major dailies, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Examiner. Richard Bradley often tells labor audiences and journalists that the first thing he would do ifelected is take down the Confederate flag, symbol of slavery, that has flown for years in a flag display over the San Francisco Civic Center. Spartacist candidates take program of class struggle to Word must have gotten back to City black and working-class areas: Bethlehem shipyards (top Hall, because that flag was taken down left and bottom right), with phone workers (bottom left), at before this Sunday, October 24, when SF State University (middle right). the labor marchers arrived. Last year, after 32 years' absence, San Francisco labor leaders revived the tradition ofa Labor Day march. (ILWU You Can't Fight Reagan with DemocratsI head Jimmy Herman commented, "There is a lot of pressure from the For Mass Strike Action to Bring Down Reagan I bottom, a lot of discontent.") In 1982, the AFL-CIO, Teamsters and ILWU Build a Workers Party! had 20,000 unionists march up Market Street for the Democrats on the eve of the elections, under a thin veneer ofnon­ nor, state attorney general George handguns. Coleman/Bradley say, "No and black Democrat/DSAer Ron Del­ partisanship, "Vote Labor for Jobs and Deukmejian: both support the death to Prop IS-For the right of black lums advocate legislation to "ban the Justice." "The intent is to get out the penalty and both plan to get the armed self-defense!" Klan." Well, they got it. A bill outlawing vote," said ILWU's Dan Beagle, "We're unemployed off the streets by sponsor­ That gun control leaves all those on "extremist" groups originally initiated basically. supporting the Democratic ing mammoth bond propositions to Reagan's hit list defenseless was seen as by Deukmejian and introduced by black slate in this election." build more jails. the shotgun terrorists and nightriders Democratic state senator Diane Wat­ All the same, the union tops were surfaced last year in Contra Costa son, just passed the California legisla­ afraid to let Republican or Democratic No to the Gun Ban-for the County to drive three black families ture. Last January the Spartacist candidates speak at the rally, remember­ Right of Self-Defense! from their homes. On September I, the League denounced the bill as setting ing what happened last year when A major issue in the election has been NAACP announced a settlement in its "the legal framework for police action former VP Fritz Mondale and SF gun control. Mayor Feinstein's total suit for damages against the Richmond against the left." mayor Dianne Feinstein were vigorous­ ban and confiscation of handguns in SF police for "negligence" in protecting Witchhunter Deukmejian proved his ly booed. Rally speakers Lane Kirkland, left the citizenry, particularly blacks, these families, a settlement hailed as an intentions when he slandered the Spar­ Jimmy Herman and Ed Asner urged, helpless before the killer cops and the "historic pact" by the Communist Party tacist League as "terrorists" in a 1979 "Fight Reagan ...on November 2." crazies. Meanwhile, Feinstein (who had (CP) of Angela Davis. Some victory­ Report on Organized Crime in Califor­ What candidates could they risk putting the confiscated guns melted down and when the families were forced to sell nia, a label which set us up to be gunned up at the microphone? Democrat­ molded into a cross which she gave to their homes and flee the county long down in the streets. Coleman and mystic Jerry Brown who tells working the pope!) is driving around town in a before the lawsuit ever came up in court! Bradley worked on a campaign ofpublic people, "Small is beautiful"? Black limousine with armed bodyguards. And what will more cop "protection" protest and legal redress which beat that Democratic Los Angeles mayor Tom Recently, the local gun ban was over­ mean from the same police who just beat lie and forced Deukmejian to retract. Bradley, career veteran of the racist turned on appeal, but Proposition 15 is on black prisoner Willie Drumgoole to But the state ofReagan, ofJerry Brown, chokehold-killing LAPD? Even the the ballot to outlaw most pistol sales in death in his Richmond cell! of Tom Bradley and Deukmejian can media had difficulty politically distin­ California, freeze gun ownership to the Consistent with their calls to rely on only be "relied upon" to defend the race­ guishing law-and-order Bradley from ones already owned and mandate prison the bourgeois state for protection terrorists. Bradley and Coleman call for his law-and-order opponent for gover- terms for those caught with unregistered against the race-terrorists, both the CP continued on page 12 6 WORKERS VANGUARD San Francisco Democrats' "Dirty Tricks" Spartacist Candidates Beat Back Elections Censorship/Slander

o SAN FRANCISCO, October 22-The (5 J::: city thought they could get away with c.. knocking the political guts out of the > City OKs fix of 3: Spartacist campaign for Board of goof on socialist Supervisors and help the Democrats by censoring the campaign literature and Yote statement ballots of candidates Diana Coleman B,· .\m\ Linn Examiner ~taff writer and Richard Bradley. But they were ...... ~~~~_~.~:..., "·;'h ",n", l,,~ dead wrong. Today, in a court-ordered Candidate Richard ~! ~nn!ranri~rotxnminer agreement the Spartacist candidates Bradley: city won their demands for reasonable tried to , - .. • r>. _' • redress of this gross violation of demo­ slander ten­ cratic rights. The Registrar of Voters year union was ordered to correct the candidates' militant and 5.F. Will ballot designation in every voting black activist booth, mail out their corrected political as "enemies statements to all 300,000 legal registered of labor/ Fix Errors voters of San Francisco, and to make minorities." They didn't public notice in the major newspapers. get away Onlwo Nobody could recall such a gross case of with It. tampering with candidates' statements. Candidates The candidates sued Jay Patterson, Registrar of Voters, charging political 'Break with blank, build a workers designation clearly benefits the Demo­ Two Spartaclst candidates for the censorship after his office mailed out party.' So the heart of our program cratic Party in its campaign to present San Francisco Board of Supervisors won political statements of all the candidates which is that we are socialists who say an out-of·court settlement yesterday you can't fight Reagan with Democrats, itself. as the "friend of labor and that calls for the city to spend $40,000 to which deleted all references to "Demo­ minorities" and the only alternative to correct errors about them printed in the was cut out of our statement." voters' handbooks. crats" from the Spartacist political Reagan. This pro-Democratic Party statements and the word "socialist" Patterson claimed it was a "typo" and a Richard Bradley and Diana Coleman had "misinterpretation of the law." But we bias was underlined by the refusal of sued Registrar of Voters Jay Patterson for from the ballot designation. Where deleting the word "Democrats" from the politi­ had documentary evidence that refer­ every member of the Board of Supervi­ Bradley had proclaimed, "Democrats­ sors contacted to lift a finger to help this cal statements allowed each candidate. They ences to the Democrats had been also charged that the designation "Socialist Un­ enemies of labor/minorities" the state­ suit in defense of democratic rights. ion Militants" which they wanted placed under allowed in previous candidates' state­ ment was doctored to read: "enemies of Their "I got mine" attitude was openly th~ir names on the sample ballot had been ments, and a proof sheet of the ballot changed to "Social UniOD Militant." labor/minorities," a particularly dirty expressed by liberal Democratic super­ designations with the words "socialist "This is a blatant case of political censor­ trick to make it appear as if Bradley, visor Richard Hongisto, who asked union militants"-demonstrating that ship:' said Coleman in a statement. himself a black activist and ten-year Coleman, "Why should I politically aid there had been deliberate censorship. Karen Coshak. Coleman's campaign manag­ union militant, was calling himself an people who are trying to take my job?" er, said the Spartacists are a local group affiliat­ But it is no accident that the working­ anti-labor racist! Throughout the proceedings the ed WIth the national Spartacist Party. They class socialist candidates were singled regard themselves as a labor-socialist organiza· Coleman and Bradley are the only behavior of the registrar and his tion. Their program is to mobilize the working out for political censorship. Dianne candidates campaigning against the assistant graphically demonstrated their 1-1 class through tbe unions, Feinstein doesn't get her ballot Democrats. As Coleman said at a contempt for socialist and working­ In their lawsuit, the two charged violations censored. of the election code and demanded that all victory press conference, October 21: class candidates, Deleting the critical references to the and showed the con­ ballots for next month's election be reprinted. "My statement which is supposed to scious motivation for their action. The Democratic Party and the word "social­ Under the settlement w:.rked out between read. 'Break with the Democrats-build registrar said he didn't think the a workers party,' has been changed to ist" from Bradley and Coleman's ballot the city attorney's office .md the candldates' correction was "worth it." And even lawyer, the city will have to ~!Id out notices to all registered voters correcting the mistakes.., after the settlement was ordered by the Patterson estimates that notice2 will have to be judge he did not want to comply. When sent to 300.000 households. i City and County of San Francisco Registrar of Voters it became clear that the candidates' According to Patterson, a printer's error socialist program was going to be was responsible for changing the word "Social­ ist" to "Social." ~; mailed, his assistant, Michelle Corwin ERRATA Patterson did acknowledge that he misin­ I stated, "You mean, we have to print this terpreted the election code by deleting the This mailing supplements the San Francisco Voter Information crap?" word "Democrats" from the phrase that was Pamphlet already mailed to you. Below are printed the statements The settlement is a victory not only supposed to read "Democrats, Enemies of labor/ of Board of Supervisors candidates Richard Bradley and Diana Coleman minorities!" from Bradley's statement and from as original~y~ubmit~ed! T~~.urderline,d ,m~teri~l w~s ~~rope~us~~ for the Bradley/Coleman campaign but the phrase that said "Break with Democrats, deleted in theirstate~ents as printed in the Voter Pamp10~t. - Also build a worker's party!" from Coleman's state­ enclosed you will find the corrected ballot designations for candi­ for the democratic rights of all leftists, ment. dates Bradley and Coleman. workers and minorities. Sponsors ofthe Patterson said he thought the election code Spartacist candidates and supporters of nrpvpntPrl ('::lnrlirl::at~co Irnm m&ontinD;na nnUH~ DIANA COLEMAN RICHARD BRADLEY the campaign came to court prepared to My address is 1726 Grove Street My address is 603 Kansas Street ~ranti~f() (!~ronidt My occupation is Letter Carrier [jan My occupation is Building Maintenance Mechanic testify against this outrage. I: My age is 32 My age is 36 This suit was endorsed by Matt Ayon M)' qualifications for office are: Supporter Spartacist, la­ My quallfiealions for offiee are: Supporter Spartacist, la­ bor/socialists who mobilized to stop Nazi provocation bor/socialists who organized stopping Nazi celebration of (secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local SF press (21 October) covers out­ against gays-Chicago, 1982. Ten years UAW militant. BJa(:k Hitler's birthday, San Francisco 1980. Union militant, six activist, South Carolina desegregation struggles, 1966-67. years CWA. Member National Association Letter Carriers. 9), Dr. Steve Becker (director, Home rageous censorship as "goof." Oppose ami-Soviet war preparations/austerity drive! Not a Break with Democrats-build a workers' party! Strike action Care Program, UC Medical Center), man or penny to imperialist armed forces! Military victoryto to bring down Reagan! No gun control-labor/black defense Salvadoran leftists! Israeli/imperialist troops out of Leba­ against Klan/Nazi terror! For massive public works under Manuel Ceballos (vice president, Mexi­ are trying to stop the Bradley/Coleman non! Democrats-enemies oflabor/minorities! Build a work­ union control! Jobs for all, decent housing, free medical care, transit~ can American Political Association), eu' party! Strike action to bring down Reagan! Jobs for all, childcare, education. Full equality-minorities, campaign and the Spartacist League decent housing, free medical, childcare, edocation, transit! women, homosexuals! Citizenship rights for undocumented Jacquelyn Clark (executive board mem­ Stop INS raids-citizenship rights for undocumented work­ workers! From Afghanistan to Poland to El Salvador-down from getting its program to the working anti~So ers! No gun control! Smash Nazi/Klan terror! Throw out with Reagan's ... iet war drive! Throw out the capital­ ber, ILWU Local 6), Greg Day (candi­ class and minorities-don't try it! The bosses-establish workers' government! ists! Seize banks, industry-no ..:ompensation! Establish workers' government! date for Board of Supervisors), Stan point was made by Diana Coleman at Richard Bradley Diana Coleman Gow (executive board member, ILWU the press conference which announced Local 10), Paul Harris (past president, R~~~:t~-Wi~~tI'Militanlede UniOn Socialista It~:±';ftlf9j~r~± the court-ordered settlement: National Lawyers Guild), Kathy Ikega­ "Now these measures are the minimum D~~tist~~n~~t~t.ntl~ilillllie ±'A~Mfj± de Union Socialista f±it mi (executive board member, Commu­ necessary to insure our democratic right nications Workers of America, Local to present our uncensored views to the 9410), Paul Kangas (candidate for voters. And they are the minimum necessary to allow the voters to exercise Board of Equalization), Mike Kasian their democratic rights to know our II (executive board member, ILWU Local views and to vote for us if they so desire. The name of PHILLIP BURTO~ was incorrectly spelled on page 6), and Howard Wallace (community We think it's a shame that someone in 3 of the sample ballot. His name should also be added to the list organizerand labor activist) [material in the Registrar of Voters office, by their of supporters of the argument in favor of Proposltion A on page stupid and misplaced malice towards 11S 45. parentheses for purposes of identifica­ is going to cost the citizens of S"n III tion only]. Francisco approximately $60,000. 1 ;11t As Coleman and Bradley have been is very unfortunate. But we have a Your poll ing place ~ ha\·e changed. Pleas£> refer to the address label on the reverse side saying to San Francisco workers message to the voters and that message throughout the campaign: "You don't is going to get out. We are campaigning as the revolutionary class-struggle get anything unless you struggle"­ alternative to the Democratic and Registrar ordered by court to send this uncensored statement to all 300,000 including democratic rights. And the Republican parties ofcapitalist austeri­ voters In San Francisco. message ought to be clear to those who ty, racism and imperialist war.". 29 OCTOBER 1982 7 KKK Run Out... (continued from page 1) members of the Progressive Labor Party (PL) and its International Com­ mittee Against Racism (InCAR) rose from the audience and pelted Wilkin­ son's pin-striped suit with eggs. One PL supporter made it to the stage and tried to throw a few punches as the show stopped. Infuriated, the KKK terrorist leader on Friday morning pemanded the arrest of the anti-racist protesters and vowed to stage a provocation the next day by parading in full Klan regalia. In response to Wilkinson's threat, PL/InCAR announced a counterdem­ onstration at City Hall Plaza. Later Friday afternoon the All-Peoples Con­ gress (APC), a vehicle for the Workers World Party (WWP), announced an anti-Klan rally at the same time and place. An APC leaflet advertised a noon Saturday press conference with black WV Photos State Representative Mel King. (The A graphic lesson in the class nature of the state: TV NAACP closed down its office and told shows Mayor White's cossacks attack anti-Klan people to stay home on the 16th.) On protesters. Friday evening, the Spartacist League! Spartacus Youth League (SL/SYL) brought homemade signs saying, "Ku Klan arrived. major industry was restricted to outly­ held a forum on "Black Liberation Klux Sux" and "Fux the Klux." Mean­ As the Klan marchers neared City ing areas: General Electric in Lynn, Through Socialist Revolution," with while, a dozen or so PL/InCAR Hall Plaza shortly before 2 p.m., the General Motors in Framingham, Gen­ guest speaker Charles Dubois, a mili­ supporters showed up chanting "Death crowd saw what was happening and the eral Dynamics in Quincy. Unlike De­ tant auto worker from Detroit, where to the Klan." First they refused to enter picket line broke as militants rushed up troit and the Midwest generally, there we announced a class-struggle contin­ the picket (by now up to 300), then to stop the KKK. At this point Workers was no mass migration from the South. gent for the Saturday demonstration. briefly marched on the line only to World bullhorners tried to stop them, _ So today, while non-union high-tech Most of the audience stayed to make withdraw again to the sidelines. saying, "Stay where you are, keep the industries flourish along Routes 128 and posters and calls were made to mobilize While the sectarian PL Stalinists have picket line going-That's not the way to 495, Boston's Irish and Italian white Spartacist supporters. been known to leave anti-Klan protests fight the Klan, stay on the picket line." ghettos have an even lower standard of Mel King never showed up at the rather than participate in any united­ Thus they proved that their call to "Stop living than black Roxbury. Who would APC conference, as Boston's establish­ front action, Workers World sought to the Klan" was just empty rhetoric. But the KKK appeal to today, the ment black leadership entirely boycot­ build a classic "popular front" with the militant elements in the demonstra­ Portuguese? ted this crucial protest to stop the KKK representatives of the capitalist class. tion ignored their advice. This history set the stage for the bitter terrorists. By 1 p.m. Saturday a few From their podium, they called upon The cops were not able to drive away struggle over Boston busing. In 1974, hundred anti-Klan demonstrators had strikebreaking governor Ed King and the anti-Klan protesters, despite their thousands of segregationist bigots led gathered at City Hall. When a contin­ mayor Kevin White to join them. All­ vicious attacks. At one point the cop by Louise Day Hicks' ROAR marauded gent of several dozen SL/SYL support­ Peoples Congress signs demanded, motorcycles headed straight for the through South Boston and marched on ers arrived, the police demanded that "Roll Back Reaganism"-a veiled call middle of the Spartacist contingent in City Hall denouncing "forced busing." our signs be taken off the wooden sticks to vote Democratic in November. Most the hopes of breaking it up. But every Racist punks stoned school buses which are standard in Boston demon­ ominously, APC leaders invited time there was an opening, the crowd bringing courageous black children to strations. They clearly wanted protes­ Curtis Sliwa's Guardian Angels to join simply flowed around the cops. After integrate all-white schools. Paramilitary ters defenseless against what was com­ the line. The "Angels" are a lumpen 10-15 minutes of the police riot, demon­ fascistic outfits like the South Boston ing. WWP spokesmen, who have vigilante group that stomps through strators returned to the plaza where Marshals fielded vigilante squads to frequently resorted to anti-communist New York City subways and has spread many regrouped around the SL/SYL terrorize minorities. It was this mobili­ violence to exclude Spartacists, this to other cities. We have called them banner reading, "No Trust in Capitalist zation ofrace hate in Boston that spelled time invited the SL/SYL tojoin a picket potentially "a paramilitary auxiliary to Politicians/Troops/Cops! Black/Labor the defeat of school integration line, noting that we had the largest the cops in terrorizing the ghettos" Defense Against Racist Attacks!" In throughout the North. contingent present. Many youths from ("They're No Angels!" WV No. 275, particular, blacks were attracted by the Suburban liberals had subjected the white working-class districts seldom 27 February 1981). The sinister presence Spartacist soapboxing (see excerpts city to a savage racial polarization by associated with anti-racist protests also of the Guardian Angels at today's dem­ back page) as union militants from trying to bus poor blacks into the white showed up. One group carried a sign onstration was clear; they appeared Detroit auto, Chicago steel and New Irish/Italian ghettos, with a plan that s, ying, "Dorchester and S. Boston Says to concentrate on forming a cordon York maritime called for class struggle provided no significant educational Klan Keep Out." Some Irish kids in front of PL just minutes before the to smash the fascists. Many joined in gains. But to be for or against busing our chants, "Smash the Klan, this is the became a plebiscite on racism. As hour-Labor and blacks have got the supporters of racial integration in every power!" area of social life, the Spartacist League Scandalously, at this point Bob fought unequivocally to smash the racist Avakian's Revolutionary Communist offensive. We called to implement Party (RCP) made common cause with busing, even though it is a somewhat anti-communist racists against the artificial democratic demand that by Trotskyist SL/SYL. When Spartacist itself cannot bring about real integra­ supporters stressed the duty to defend tion and quality education for op- the Soviet Union against Reagan's

imperialist war drive, an RCP bullhorn­ A spartacist pamphlet er began screaming about "Soviet social imperialism" while a clot ofwhite punks cheered, "Right, what about Poland?" When SL comrades pointed out to black militants that the Avakianites had joined the ROAR racists in opposing busing in 1974, the RCPer stammered, "That was a wrong position." But while .\ :f j these "Jim Crow socialists" say they've .. , -t/l ~._. changed their line on busing, they still line up with Ronald Reagan and the lmerican~ BOSTON COMMON, 12 OCTOBER 1974 KKK on Russia. workers Revolution Spartacist contingent at protest seen around the world. The Battle for Boston Busing against rising tide of racist anti­ The SL was the only organization Boston is not Klan territory, yet in Heeds busing mobilizations, terror against on the left which consistently and black schoolchildren, stoning of unambiguously struggled to support recent years it has been a hotbed of Black leadersbip school buses. While Democrats in busing (and its extension to the racist hatred. The reason is historical. In Sparta;:,.,1 l'ut>I,,~,~g- (C eo- 1}" "'''~ ','" N" Congress echoed the anti-busing suburbs), stood against the call for the 1800s, rich Boston merchants - - program of racist mobs on the government troops, and called for refused to allow heavy industry (steel, streets, and black Democrats and labor/black defense of the bused auto) into Boston proper because "the $1.00 reformists called for troops and cops schoolchildren and black areas (such Yankees wanted to maintain its sereni­ to protect Boston blacks, the SL's as the embattled Columbia Point ty" (Boston Globe, 27 September). The Make checks payable/mall to: city was scarcely touched by the CIO Spartaclst Publishing Co., call upon trade unions and blacks to housing project) attacked by night­ Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 build integrated defense squads was riders and racist cops. organizing drives of the 1930s. After the decline of textiles and shoemaking,

8 WORKERS VANGUARD Black Auto Militant on Boston Radio Labor Must Break with the Democrats, Smash the Klan

We print below excerpts from re­ punch at him. Were those techniques marks by Charles Dubois, a Detroit thatyou feel are going to get the cause of black auto militant who spoke at the racial harmony anywhere? Boston anti- Klan demonstration, on Dubois: First, we're talking about WRKO radio in Boston, October 16. tactics, and tactics flow from strategy. We say that only labor and black Dubois: I wanted to comment on the mobilizations can stop these people. speaker that was speaking previously. Moderator: Does physical violence Moderator: Frank Neisser. have a place in a practical assault on Dubois: He's from the All-Peoples racism? Congress, right? Dubois: Self-defense has a practical SL calls for mass labor/black mobilization. Moderator: That's right. purpose and in fact is essential and Dubois: Here's the thing about this effective in stopping race terrorism. pressed minorities. We called for ex­ These people don't organize and march tending busing to the suburbs and for group, you see. which had supposedly organized a "stop the Nazis" demonstra­ to just speak. Like in Greensboro, or low-rent, racially integrated public like in Chattanooga, back in 1979, when housing. As for the hard-core anti­ tion down there. The way they organ­ ized it politically leads into the Demo­ they assaulted two black women. That's busing bigots, said the SL, they must be not free speech. What is key for black crushed by "mass mobilization of black cratic Party; what they want to do is tie the working people and black people people and working people in this organizations, trade unions, socialist country to understand is that we must groups and all other forces prepared to back to the Democratic Party. And what gives that away is the gentleman's organize self-defense in the form of defend black schoolchildren...." workers defense guards. Yet in the midst of this race terror, statement that he was "surprised" at the police's behavior. When we organized Moderator: Well, you know something, with the lives of black schoolchildren the [November 1979] demonstrationin Charles. I'm going for a moment to threatened, the bulk of the so-called play-act the role ofa white supremacist, "left" was just as treacherous as the Detroit [to stop the KKK], and also a similar thing just recently in Chicago, take what you just said as spoken by a black and white liberals. While the SL this last June 27 when the Nazis tried to white supremacist. If I don't take my campaigned with mass leaflets for gun and go shoot the niggers, they're labor/black defense, the reformist march against the gays on Gay Pride Day, one thing you have to take into going to come rape my wife and Socialist Workers Party (SWP) op­ WV Photo Workers World Party (left) and consideration is the police. It's all daughter and take all my worldly goods, posed this as "make believe." The so it's self-defense. "realistic" SWP called instead for Progressive Labor at Boston City this liberal claptrap about being sur­ federal troops-the armed fist of the Hall. prised at the police's behavior, and the Dubois: Let's look at what's really racist, capitalist state-as a "real, whole question of "free speech for the going on. That doesn't happen. What the Trotskyists call for factory occupa­ Nazis." does happen is the Klan murders people. meaningful solution." (We pointed out tions (sitdown strikes) against plant that if troops were brought in, it would Moderator: You consider that liberal Moderator: So what's their jus­ shutdowns; for unlimited, uncondition­ claptrap, free speech? tification? be to enforce a segregationist "law and al unemployment insurance; for a 30 Dubois: Look, the Nazis or the Klan do order" and prevent any organized hour workweek for 40 hours pay and to Dubois: I don't care about their not organize for free speech. They did defense by black and union militants.) provide jobs for all. justification; their justification is the not debate with the people in Greens­ fact that they stand for the racist, While "daishiki' Democrats" and Black Liberation Through boro. They shot them down in the broad capitalist system. I think that workers reformist hustlers lead the black masses Socialist Revolution light of day. [Moderator: Right.] You and blacks have to defend themselves. down to defeat with illusions of "com­ see, that's what they will do to us when Look, it relates to the question that the In 1974 and again today, the Boston munity control," the Spartacist League they can actually get away with it. person two speakers ago asked about black masses are sacrificed to racist fights for a program of revolutionary Moderator: Unless you get them first? the Panthers, saying that the so-called reaction by the black and white liberals. integrationism and a multi-racial van­ "extremist" groups ... The reformist phony socialists call on guard socialist party. We seek to harness Dubois: Unless we stop them. And the racist, capitalist state to send troops the power of labor in the struggle for that's what was important about today. Moderator: He thinks they're just as to enforce busing (1974) and to "ban the black equality, fighting within the Because people turned out in massive wrong as the Klan. Klan" (1982). Meanwhile, as any Marx­ unions against the poisonous racism numbers, I guess to the tune of 1,000 Dubois: [ ... equating the] Panthers ist could have predicted, the bosses' cops which cripples united class struggle, and people. This is very important, because with the Klan. It's typical liberal and troops repeatedly attack those who for a class-conscious leadership to oust if they [the Klan] had gotten away with moralism, when people look at all things fight against the race terrorists. Only the the pro-capitalist bureaucrats. This is a marching today, unopposed ... in fact, as being equal. All things are not equal. Trotskyist Spartacist League has fought road of long, hard struggle, to mobilize they got run out. You see, Boston was The Panthers didn't go around bombing for the program of independent labor/ the workers movement as the vanguard the city where busing got killed in the churches and killing little schoolgirls. bl~ck mobilization, so sorely needed in of all the oppressed. But it is the only streets, which has set the climate for They were not involved in race-terror. 1974 and the key to today's victory. This one which can liberate us all. what's going on in America today. In They advocated self-defense, and the means a struggle against the capitalist For labor/black mobilizations terms of not only Ronald Reagan, also police/FBI organized terror against order which breeds racist reaction. against the Klan! Break with the Jimmy Carter [whose] talk about them. The police and the FBI do not Today as the KKK preys on the Democrats, black and white-Build a "ethnic purity" was right after busing organize terror against the Klan, be­ frustrations of poor whites suffering workers party to fight for a workers [was killed]. cause the Klan stands for the racist from massive unemployment and the government! For black liberation Moderator: I'd like to know your view status quo. And what that means is we catastrophic decay of American cities, through socialist revolution! • of the actions of the individuals in have to finish what the Civil War didn't Channel 4 studio the other day, specifi­ finish. cally throwing eggs at [KKK "Imperial Moderator: You've made it quite clear SPARTACIST LEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY Wizard"] Bill Wilkinson and throwing a where you stand. I thank you.• National Office Champaign Los Angeles Box 1377, GPO c/o SYL Box 29574 Jt; ; New York, NY 10116 PO. 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After protesters had driven off the Reaganomics. The problem is capital­ KKK terrorists on October 16 in r··-t:'~{ ism. Remember "ethnic purity" Carter? Boston, cops rioted against the anti­ The Klan carried out the murders in Klan demonstrators. Supporters ofthe Greensboro then. You can't fight SL/SYL galvanized the crowd with Reagan with Democrats. You have to soapboxagitators. We print below some LIBEf" build a class-struggle workers party. oftheir remarks. THROUGH Keith Anwar Charles Dubois iCT Steel worker militant who recently won Detroit black auto militant, who led a ~. SOC1Al an NLRB ruling after being fired for fight that drove KKK-hoodedforemen honoring picket lines. from Ford's River Rouge plant. Brothers and sisters, my eyesight's We had the Klan try to march twice in REV beginning to come back now. I just got Detroit and in Ann Arbor, and we maced by that scum in blue defending stopped them both times. The key to SPARl the scum in white sheets. That tells you that kind of mobilization is centralizing something about what the cops are, that on labor, organized labor. That can tells you something about who rules this nullify the kind of police presence you society, about the state and the federal see here today, if you turn out organized government. labor along with the black community Now, why do the union leaders say organizations and other minority that we have to rely on the Democrats? organizations-we can be successful in It's because they are against any kind of driving out the Nazis and the Klan. real struggle by the working class. What They're not wanted here. Everybody they tell you is that the Democrats are a showed they didn't want them here, they lesser evil. Well the Democrats paved got run out. But who were their friends? the way for Reagan. When did the war The damn police. And who did they go drive and the military buildup which is after? They went after you, and you, and bleeding our cities dry begin? When did all of us. These guys in the blue shirts, the plants begin shutting down and they're with these guys in the white throwing people out in the streets? It sheets. began under the Democrats. Well, we can get labor together, and So, somebody yelled before, go back black people together. We can organize WV Photo to the Soviet Union. Well, I'm going to to crush these fascist creeps. When they Rouge auto militant, Charles Dubois (left): The racists in the blue shirts are tell you something-in the Soviet were stopping busing on the streets, the with the racists In the white sheets. Union, the Klan and the Nazis don't racists mobilized. What should have ride. I want to tell you something else­ happened, and what should happen with Teddy Kennedy and Ronald That's what we're talking about-For we got unions in this country that are today and tomorrow against the racist Reagan and [Chrysler chairman] Lee labor action to smash Reagan reaction. ours, that belong to the working people. South Boston Marshals, against the Ku lacocca-he ain't gonna stop the Klan. There are bureaucrats up there that Klux Klan, is to get the blacks on the But everybody else-he's selling their Alison Spencer think otherwise, who think that the streets, and most important, the labor jobs out, he's giving their money up, Spartacus Youth League. unions should be an instrument for unions. We're not talking about[United they've got the reason to be out here We taught the Klan a lesson, that keeping down the workers on behalf of Auto Workers president] Doug Fraser. today. We can mount an effective drive there's no room for the Klan on the the capitalists. Well, we have to kick out We're talking about the people that to not only get the Nazis and the Klan, streets of Boston. And there's another the union leaders who tell us that we Doug Fraser's selling out. He's in bed but their buddies in the White House. lesson for all of us to be learned here can't fight, who do everything they can today. Which side were the cops on? to prevent a fight. Who did they protect here today? We We must defend the gains that we say no trust in the capitalist politicians, have made, we must go forward to a in the troops or the cops. What we have planned economy run in the interests of confidence in is in the power of the labor the workers. And the only way we're movement. When labor flexes its mus­ going to get it is by building a revolu­ cle, the fascists turn and run. tionary workers party. I want to tell The Klan and the Nazis have been everybody here that the Spartacist emboldened in the Reagan administra­ League which has this contingent has tion. Because it's his war on commu­ the only answers in terms of fighting the nism, his anti-Soviet drive, that's killing Klan and the Nazis. So, I want you to labor and blacks at home. We're paying pick up a copy of Workers Vanguard, for this war drive: workers' wages are and the newspaper of the Spartacus being cut, social services for minorities Youth League, Young Spartacus, and are being taken back, and the fascists see find those answers. Because the future that as a green light to go out and held up by capitalism is a future of war murder in their white sheets, with their and fascism-it's a future of barbarism. Nazi swastikas. And we have a future of revolutionary But the problem isn't just Reagan or struggle. So take a side and join us.•

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10 WORKERS VANGUARD who neither provoked nor participated in the incidenl." How many bottles are enough to Liberals, Reformists Defame warrant a cop riot against anti-Klan demonstrators, according to the CP? The Daily World criticizes the cops for clubbing the "innocents." What about those who are not so innocent of Boston Anti-Klan Demo wanting to smash the Klan and Nazis? They are left to the tender mercies ofthe On those all too rare occasions when it as a focus for getting out the selling this treacherous line to the 1,500 cops. Even if the CP gets its "anti-Klan" the KKK/Nazis get a taste ofwhat these Democratic vote. It bemoans the fact in the crowd at City Hall Plaza who saw, laws, history shows that the capitalist racist terrorists deserve, there is a that in Boston on October 16, "the weak and in some cases felt firsthand, the state will use them not to ban the predictable outcry from the liberals over presence" of"the anti-racist movement" clubs and motorcycle rampage of fascists, which it needs in times of the "rights" of the fascists and a [?] allowed "the political character ofthe Mayor White's racists in blue. economic/social crisis, but to ban the denunciation of the "violence" of anti­ demonstration to fall to immature and The Communist Party (CP) "ban left. fascist demonstrators. No sooner are the adventurist elements who emphasized the Klan" strategy wasn't dampened The liberals and reformists (such as Klan/Nazis sent packing than the physical attack over political confronta~ at all by the cop riot in Boston. They the Socialist Workers Party) who liberals and their reformist hangers-on tion." And just what kind of political offered some gentle criticism of Mayor oppose the Stalinists' "ban the Klan" complain that they should have been confrontation is desired by these "ma­ White's cossacks in the Daily World strategy do so from a civil libertarian debated, or that the capitalist govern­ ture elements"? No attempt to stop the (20 October): position of "free speech for fascists." ment should have "banned the Klan." Klan at al!. Instead the letter insists that "Over 100 cops were on hand protecting This offers the KKK/Nazi terrorists a "Mayor White should have denied the the Klan when trouble started. Some platform for their racist provocations. After the KKK was run out ofBoston rocks and bottles were thrown, but not City Hall Plaza on October 16and the Klan the opportunity to march." enough to warrant the wholesale club­ As we wrote after the June 27 demon­ cops attacked the demonstrators with NAROC is going to have a hard time bing of the large numbers of protesters stration in Chicago which brought 3,000 clubs, the reformists who stayed at to Lincoln Park to stop the Nazis: home predictably attacked the anti­ "The fascists' appeal is to increasingly desperate and backward working-class Klan demonstrators with words. They and lower middle-class white layers who apologized for the cop riot and made are persuaded not by rational argu­ excuses for the KKK. Most disgust­ ments but by force. The Nazis and Klan ing was a letter from the National understand this well: their 'propaganda' Anti-Racist Organizing Committee consists of lynchings, cross burnings and swastika painting. As it was in (NAROC, associated with ex-Maoist Germany, the question is: who will win, Irwin Silber's Line of March) to who will die? Will the Red Guards orthe Boston's black weekly newspaper, Bay storm troopers prevailT' State Banner (21 October). Arguing in -WV, No. 309,9 July 1982 c-Y.',vwr Iili ' the style and perhaps with the purpose d'flt I '•. 1hfV!, Even today as the Kluxers threaten to of the bourgeois press after the Greens­ AGAlllS stage a provocation in Washington, boro massacre, the letter wonders if the IHrEMALlST D.C. on November 6, the liberals and Klan was provoked by the anti-Klan reformists are squabbling over tactics. I ATTACKS demonstrators: . SYL They are not falling out over how to stop "In the aftermath of the confrontation t the Klan, but over how best to rely on that took place, we are left thinking that the government: whether to call on this Klan march was a freak incident, Mayor Marion Barry to deny a permit that the Klan felt compelled to defend its honor after suffering an egg-in-the­ or guarantee their "free speech." But face." these expressions of faith in the capital­ ist state-its courts and cops-won't The letter goes on to describe the mass stop the rising race-terror in Reagan's outrage against the KKK as part of an America. It will take the class-struggle event which "could be viewed as a policies ofthe Spartacist League, which circus." WV Photo has initiated and led mass labor and NAROC does not want to see the Boston, October 16: SL contingent says, nothing to debate-stop the Klan black-centered mobilizations which can Klan smashed, but instead wants to use nowl run the KKK/Nazis off the streets.•

tions, from a speech by Angela Davis at wv Su~~lement: "KKK Run Out!" the Hollywood Palladium to Midwest Chrysler workers now on the front lines of the American class struggle. At press time, sites where 1,000 or more supplements were distributed 40,000 Distributed to Workers, Blacks included: Boston: Northeastern Uni­ versity (1,000), black neighborhoods (9,000). New York: transit yards and When 1,500 angry protesters ran the to stop the Klan, while known racists at from Alabama. I know all about the depots (1,450), Harlem Hospital Ku Klux Klan out of Boston October the job laid low-they had been defeat­ Klan. Once they marched through town (1,000), !15th Street & Lenox Avenue, 16, it electrified the city-it was the first ed. At Eggleston Station a black woman and when we pulled their hoods off, we Harlem (1,000). Detroit: Ford River setback for the race-terrorists there in bus driver took a supplement, came found the mayor underneath one of Rouge (l,030). Chicago: "EI" stops in years. This solid anti-racist stand back for more to supply her bus, and them." black neighborhoods (1,000). Chrysler touched a real chord in Boston-witness directed our comrades to leave stacks at Our comrades fanned out across the workers (I ,325)-including Detroit's the enthusiastic reception for our WV the starter's booth for the other transit country with the supplement. With a Jefferson Avenue (500), Cleveland's supplement "KKK Run Out!" particu­ workers. print run of 75,000, some 39,500 had Twinsburg plant (325) and Newark, larly among the black population. At A black token collector at Central been handed out in the first four days. Delaware (500). San Francisco: October press time, our comrades had distribut­ Square talked about the interlocking of Distribution points included major 24 labor march (2,900), black neighbor­ ed almost 13,000 supplements in the the fascists and the bourgeois state: "I'm radical centers and industrial concentra- hoods (2,100).• Boston area. Everywhere we went people were talking about the action. One young woman clubbed by a cop "hanged in his cell" this February: during the police rampage, who was Free Barbara Hog!!!!! thousands of blacks and whites listed as a victim in the newspapers, marched together at his funeral, where worried what her reception would be the ANC flags were openly raised for the next day at the construction site where '~ustice": first time in a generation. Like Aggett, she works. On Monday her fellow Apartheid Hogan's courageous work is an impor­ workers congratulated her for helping tant break in the white racist front of the South African ruling class, for Labor Organizer Jailed whom the rise of the black working class represents a potentially mortal for Treason threat. South Africa's superexploited black workers have the power to The racist South African regime, South Africa. This is also the first time smash apartheid slavery; despite sav­ seeking to crush the explosive rise of that membership in the ANC, what she age repression, they are gathering their black labor, has just convicted a white was actually convicted of, has in itself strength, as last month's sweeping woman member ofthe banned African been declared tantamount to treason, strike wave shows. National Congress (ANC) of "high which carries the death penalty. The international labor movement treason" because of her union organiz­ Hogan's ANC work included must come to the aid of their South ing efforts among blacks. Barbara organizing consumer boycotts in African black brothers and sisters. Hogan was seized in September amid a support of striking black workers and Labor action-boycotts and secon­ black strike wave, beaten by security seeking to organize a union of the dary strikes-can be decisive in secur­ police, and condemned to ten years in unemployed to fight apartheid. The ing victory for the embattled black Make checks payable/mail to: Sparlacisl Publishing Co, prison on October 21. She is the first last white union organizer punished by unions. Free Barbara Hogan! Smash Box 1377 GPO white woman convicted of treason in the regime, Neil Aggett, was found apartheid-For workers revolution! New York, NY 10116

29 OCTOBER 1982 11 " Vote Coleman and Bradley ... (continued from page 6) mass labor/black mobilizations to stop Klan/Nazi terror, as was done in Detroit in 1979, San Francisco in April 1980 (ANCAN) and Chicago ·on June 27. Both the "gun freeze" strategy to disarm the working class and the "nuclear freeze" strategy to disarm the Soviet Union have become liberal calling cards. Coleman and Bradley tell the voters that the "nuke freeze" movement led by Teddy Kennedy and the LBJ-era Vietnam War criminals is another channel for leading people back into the Democratic Party. The Sparta­ "'""~~ cist candidates expose "freeze" hoax­ WV Photos es like California Proposition 12 Spartacist campaign supports picket line militancy at Bethlehem Shipyard against mass layoffs. with their provisos for "bilateral disar­ and the city bought the land for $1. Bradley told of his own experience October 22 Spartacist forum: mament" (i.e., the USSR must disarm) Seizing upon the deal as a supposed fighting for sitdowns and plant seizures "The .Sp~rtacist League is the only and for "national security" (i.e., in­ renaissance of the city's ship-repair against layoffs in auto, and was ap- organizatIOn that repre.sent.s a way creased conventional U.S. weaponry). industry and a boost to her sagging plauded as he concluded "What we ~orward f~}f black and mmor.lty people Coleman and Bradley call for defense of .. .'. . In this city. We want an mtegrated political fortunes, an arrogant Mayor need IS a workers party that will fight for revolutionary party. We look to the the Soviet Union against counterrevo­ Feinstein crowed, "The sale itself is the the interests of the working class, and proletariat of this country. especially lution-Not one man or one penny for best thing that's happened since the sale not for the interests of Bethlehem and the black .proletariat.. as key in .le?ding the imperialist army! They are telling of Manhattan Island in 1624 for $24." Todd Shipvards." Diana Coleman the Amencan revolutIOn. We thl!1 K you . - need a party to do that. and we thmk the the working people of this country that a~ the fight· against Reagan's domestic Not for the. shipyard workers. Of t.he called the rally for the yard to be Spartacist League has the program and hundreds laid off at Bethlehem, Fem- expropnated. is the nucleus of that party. But it won't austerity and race-terror is necessarily stein sniffed. "That was going to happen The Spartacist candidates are become that party until we recruit S?n:e linked to the fight against the anti­ no matter what" .. .. of you people out there. So we say Jom Soviet war drive. You can't fight one . .. campmgnmg on a program of .mlhtant the Spartacist League and fight for a Abandoned by their .11 UnIons, the class struggle. As Coleman said at an socialist future.". without fighting the other. betrayed and enraged shipyard workers Bradley/Coleman Campaign stormed at least four Board of Supervi­ Addresses Laid-Off sors meetings in Septemberand October have been added to the costs of the Bethlehem Shipyard Workers protesting the deal. On one occasion Spartacist Campaign campaign publicity, brochures, pos­ they filled the chamber with thunderous ters and all the rest. On October 20 Coleman and Bradley chants, "We want jobs! We want jobs!" Needs $$$ Too The Democrats and Republicans addressed a meeting ofover 100 workers In mid-October they threw up a picket rely on well-heeled backers and the fighting to get their jobs back at line for a few days and held $22 million Election campaigns are always "machine" to finance their cam­ Bethlehem Shipyards. Coleman told in repair work (literally) at bay. expensive, but this year in San paigns, but those who run on a class­ them, "When Reagan smashed PATCO Despite the Bethlehem workers' Francisco the candidates who are struggle program against the parties he sent a message to every employer in picket line militancy, their misleaders running against both capitalist par­ ofracism, union-busting and nuclear the country to go after the unions. What are trying to lead them into the embrace ties ran into plenty of expense they Armageddon turn to you for sup­ the workers here at Bethlehem are doing of Republican candidates, while Demo­ hadn't counted on. Those who would port. Workers Vanguard readers in fighting back is what we need more cratic Congressman Phillip Burton told try to stop the Coleman/Bradley everywhere can support this cam­ of." shipyard workers at an October 20 rally, campaign forced the candidates into paign by sending a generous check to: Some 370 office and shipyard work­ "I'm the best thing you've got." Speak­ court to fight for democratic rights Spartacist Party Campaign Commit­ ers were dumped September 30 when ing at the same rally, Spartacist candi­ against "dirty tricks" political censor­ tee, Suite 46, 55 Sutter Street, San Todd Shipyards bought the Bethlehem date Bradley told the unionists not to ship. Legal fees and court expenses Francisco, CA 94104. drydocks and equipment for $14 million trust any of the capitalist politicians.

comrades of the Ligue Trotskyste de to the forces of Major "Blowtorch" War comes not last to Cambridge. Israel ... France say that Begin's holocaust in d'Aubuisson. In his study Shahak stresses the (continued from page 3) West Beirut arms anti-Semitic fascist impact that this burgeoning arms mobilizations in West Europe, this must Begin/Reagan Anti-Soviet industry has on Israeli society. In 1978 served as a conduit for American be taken literally. The Israeli-equipped "Strategic Consensus" Israeli arms exports were $425 million, counterinsurgency weapons to the Phalange trained the German neo-Nazi Shahak writes that: "The Western by 1980 they had grown to between $1.3 Rhodesians, a convenient means of group behind the September 1980 press is full of reports about the alliance and $1.45· billion or more than 40 circumventing the imperialists' own Oktoberfest massacre in Munich in a of South Africa, Israel and Taiwan percent of Israel's total export revenue. hypocritical "sanctions." bombing that killed 53 and wounded which tries to drag the U.S. into a Israel's largest industrial concern is also Most important are Israeli ties with 215. particularly harsh policy against the its largest arms producer: the Israel the pro-Nazi apartheid butchers of Third World and the Soviet Union." Aircraft Industries, employing more South Africa. Shahak documents these Israel "Labor" Party's For the imperialists, of course. their than 20,000 workers. Not only does this extensive political, economic and mili­ Dirty Hands cold and hot war against the Soviet breed a bloated and privileged military tary relations. A particularly sinister Although the Israeli arms industry Union began the day of the October officer caste but it fuels chauvinism development is joint Israeli-South has grown dramatically under Begin, its Revolution. The Israeli quartermasters within a working class dependent for African collaboration in the production foundations were laid and the interna­ and their military clients are but their livelihood on war industries. The of nuclear weapons. South African tional connections made under three convenient shock troops in that 65-year­ bonapartism and militarism represented uranium is turned into nuclear devices decades of rule by the Zionist "Labor" old global war that now threatens by the Begin/Sharon cabal running the at the Israeli facility in Dimona and Party. Shahak quotes the Labor Par­ humanity with a nuclear holocaust. In country today threaten to overwhelm then tested offthe coast ofSouth Africa. ty newspaper Davar (16 November this context it is slanderous for Noam Israeli society as a whole. Mad bombers Begin and Sharon will 1979): Chomsky in his introduction to Sha­ Some left-wing and Arab nationalists certainly have little hesitation to use "A large arms industry is apt to hak's study to equate U.S. apologists for have long claimed that Israeli society, nuclear weapons on Arab capitals in contribute a decisive share to the Israeli Israel and for the American invasion of with the exception of its Palestinian their drive for an "Eretz Israel" that war effort in terms of emergency Vietnam with the "'critical support' of Arab minority, is simply a garrison state stretches from the Nile to the Euphrates. conditions and prestige. It is important many Trotskyists" for Soviet interven­ without internal social or class contra­ to state that the decisions on this issue Israel peddles its weapons for were taken years ago and responsibility tion in Afghanistan (an unmistakable dictions. No doubt the massive growth repression throughout Asia as well. Its for them for better or for worse rests in reference to the international Spartacist of this arms industry, combined with the spy . agency Mossad trained and the political sphere with former Defense tendency). continued Israeli occupation and re­ equipped the hated secret police of the Minister Shimon Peres." While the U.S. imperialists and their pression of the West Bank and Gaza, ex-shah of Iran, SAVAK, adopting Peres is now the leader of"Labor" in Israeli allies carry out mass murder on a push Israel in this direction. But Begin's Gestapo techniques wholesale. Now opposition and hopes to ride the storm genocidal scale to further global coun­ holocaust in Lebanon has deeply polar­ Israel continues to ship spare parts to in Israel over the Zionist holocaust in terrevolution, the Soviets' (reluctant) ized an already fractured society as the great "anti-Zionist" Ayatollah West Beirut to the premiership. But just intervention in Afghanistan has spread shown by the wave of anti-government Khomeini, who uses Israeli bullets to as the Democrats paved the way for democratic measures such as land protests it unleashed inside Israel. kill Kurdish peasants and Arab work­ Reagan in the U.S., so the bourgeois­ reform and female education against the Massive demonstrations, antiwar senti­ ers, and whose "Revolutionary Guards" Zionist Labor Party paved the way for resistance of CIA-financed and -armed ment in the armed forces with many have proven a congenial home for the Begin in Israel with three decades of feudalist mullahs. And as Chomsky, officers threatening to resign over talents of many Israeli-trained ex­ anti-Arab chauvinism and militarism. It usually a master of precision in his field Lebanon, a restive working class with SAYAK agents. Of course, the Near is grotesque and pathetic to see the of linguistics, well knows, the Trotsky­ one of the highest strike rates in the East arms transfer that has gotten the Salvadoran Revolutionary Democratic ists call for proletarian political revolu­ world, could blow up the Zionist most attention recently is Israel's equip­ Front (FDR) appealing to their "Labor" tion to oust the counterrevolutionary fortress from within. But this requires ping and training ofthe fascist Phalange Party comrades in the "Socialist" Stalinist bureaucrats who endanger the an internationalist vanguard that can and Major Haddad's forces, Begin's International to stop arming the bloody defense ofand block the extension ofthe unite Hebrew workers with Palestinian Lebanese Ustashi and SS Einsatzkom­ Salvadoran junta. This arms trade is gains of the Russian October. As is toilers in a joint struggle for a socialist mandos, respectively. So when our as vital to the Zionist state as it is historically the case, the chill of the Cold federation of the Near East.• 12 WORKERS VANGUARD Waterbo~s for Kenned~ and Messengers for Oaddafi Sewer Socialists in '82 Elections' I After having greased the skids for the pavement for classical liberal Dem­ behind the voting booth curtain. Mean­ candidate for governor of Illinois. "Our Ronald Reagan, the Democratic Party ocrats like Phil Burton and Robert while the CP's veteran labor writer own political party" (whose?), she says, is now trying to make a comeback. It's Kastenmeier. The DSA even refuses to George Morris proclaims, "Organized could "win some real democracy in this the year of the anti-Reagan popular endorse their own member running for labor's real test-Nov. 2" (Daily World, country." "A real majority government front, and of course the pro-capitalist Michigan governor, Zoltan Ferency, 8 October). "Labor has endorsed candi­ ... wouldn't have government strike- AFL-CIO bureaucracy has joined in by because he failed to gain the backing of dates in many states like California's .breaking." No tax breaks for corpora­ declaring "Solidarity Day II" on No­ the AFL-CIO bureaucracy. And Con­ Governor Jerry Brown ..." Got it now? tions, either. Hot diggity dog! Better vember 2 to re-elect the same people gressman Dellums, who has sat for years Occasionally the CP runs fake "in­ remember those campaign promises! who screwed labor in the past. The on the House Armed Services Commit­ dependent" candidates like Richard But about socialist revolution, "expro­ "ready for Teddy" crowd-comprising tee, is pushing an "alternative" military Giovanoni in Chicago or the perennial priating the expropriators," not a most of the so-called "left" groups­ budget of a "mere" $200 billion and Joelle Fishman in New Haven. But Gus whisper. have heard the call and are walking the supports U.S. Marines in Lebanon. Hall lectured a December 1981 central This is the party that debates the Ku precincts, while those who shrink from Klux Klan on TV and advises blacks to publicly endorsing Democrats are mo­ rely on the cops for "protection" against bilizing indirectly through the "freeze 1~. ~: i race terror. In California as elsewhere movement" and other pacifist/reformist l around the country, SWP gubernatorial schemes. Only the Spartacist candidates D)A HEl':."O'--: OEMOCRATS- ," • t· candidate Mel Mason is running on a in San Francisco, Richard Bradley and ~ f\; PARrY Of ., ' platform for a "workers and farmers" Diana Coleman, are fighting for an FRAS!~_4 '1" government. How many of these fabled ',DOUb HIROSHIMA, independent working-class program: "working farmers" do you suppose he "You Can't Fight Reagan with Demo­ RlJNNING !JOG. \ SAl Of PIGS, has found in this land of multi-million crats! For Mass Strike Action to Bring dollar agribusiness? But it seems the Down Reagan! Build a Workers Party!" " OF TH £ t V\ETNAM ! American bourgeoisie does not at The Democratic Socialists of t!~~QWSSfS: present have much use for the SWP's America (DSA), a collection of right­ nutty brand of reformism, which touts wing social democrats and New Left­ Sfltf\7AC is r Yasir Arafat, Fidel Castro and "social­ overs, is not only working deeply in the ist" Grenada. Democratic Party-in certain places Speaking of dustbins, something just they have become the Democratic crawled out-the so-called Workers Party. "More than 200 DSA members League (WL). After years of lurking in hold elective office," boasted DSA Akron with its widely unread Bulletin, honcho Joseph Schwartz in In These the WL has suddenly popped up in Times (22 September) and some ofthem Detroit with a seven-person slate for have been influential Democratic office­ WV Photos various offices. With their four-color holders for years: e.g., California twice-weekly press and six "election Congressman Ron Dellums, New York headquarters" in Detroit, they've obvi­ City councilman Ruth Messinger, SF ously got a lot of money to throw supervisor Harry Britt, Berkeley mayor around for a tiny group. Who the hell Gus Newport, and so on. While ITT SL protests finances them? Their election propagan­ "State engages in endless "dialogues" over the Department da talks about a general strike, but in problems of running "socialist" candi­ socialist" DSA reality they are a bizarre sect that dates, DSAer Ruth Messinger present­ conference in takes its orders from outside the ed the Democratic politicians' solution: August. Below: working class. "Simply put, where our members have Spartacist These political bandits tried every get­ been elected, we want to reelect candidate rich-quick scheme in the '60s and '70s. them"-i.e., look out for No. I (ITT, 28 Richard Bradley The hallmark of the early Bulletin was July). These people are ordinary, run­ (right) nails DSA its endless calls for a "Congress of of-the-mill Democratic politicians using Democrat Labor" to "build a labor party," which Dellums on war, "socialist" verbiage ... and not much of racism. they saw being formed by the Cold War that. anti-communist Meanyite labor bu­ The DSA is a stalking horse for Ted reaucracy. Today the WL pretends to be Kennedy, and DSAleader Schwartz a champion of black youth. But as a sign made this crystal clear for the more Other DSA officeholders are just as committee meeting that where a "right­ of their orientation towards the racist naive ranks: wedded to the capitalist system. Take wing reactionary, racist Reaganite" is union bureaucracy, the Bulletin backed "Nor would it be sectarian to consider SF supervisor and DSAer Harry Britt, on the ballot, "if a bourgeois politician the 1971 New Yprk cop strike, a posi­ running a prominent socialist such as for instance. His latest gambit is a who is running against him/her is not tion never repudiated by the Workers Michael Harrington or Ron Dellums in "Police-Britt Ballot Alliance." He is 'evil', we must give support, critical League! a few key 1984 Democratic presidential primaries if either Kennedy chooses not offering up the "gay vote" for ballot support or outright, wholehearted In the mid-'70s the WL and its British to run or if Kennedy runs a centrist propositions which would enhance support-whatever is necessary-to godfather Gerry Healy went spinning rather than staunch left-liberal [!] police pensions and overtime pay in achieve our overall goal." This appar­ out of the workers movement altogeth­ campaign." exchange for the cops' neutrality on ently created some dissidence among er, developing a penchant for CIA­ -ITT, 22 September another initiative which provides for a more militant ranks, so the line was baiting its opponents (and internal Thus the social democrats are very fig leaf "civilian investigation" into rammed down everyone's throat at an dissidents). Their London daily Work­ much in the Democratic mainstream, police conduct. The fact that the cops "extraordinary conference" in Milwau­ ers Press suddenly folded and was and while Kennedy broods about his will use their overtime pay to bash kee last April. More than any other mysteriously replaced by News Line, career, the DSA/Democrats do their homosexuals, among others, has not "socialist" group, the CP bears the which spent many pages reprinting the best to prop up the system. They pound gone unnoticed, and one writer for a historic responsibility for criminally communiques of Libya's Colonel Mu­ local gay paper recently remarked: subordinating the trade unions to the ammar Qaddafi. Year after year the "But, some will object, do not most of Democratic Party, from the Popular Healyite press lauded Qaddafi's dicta­ Spartacist League! them [cops] come from the working Front period of the 1930s on. torship as some kind of "socialist" class? Yes. So do scabs. But, their The reformist losers of the 1982 regime, even though it is based on a Spartacus Youth League historic role is that of strikebreakers." Public Offices -Coming Up!, October 1982 election must surely be the Socialist fanatical devotion to the Koran, which Workers Party (SWP). Who needs these sanctifies the feudal enslavement of -MARXIST LlTERATURE­ The Harry Britts and Ron Dellums are idiosyncratic social-democratic elector­ women and prescribes barbaric legal Bay Area bourgeois politicians, pure and simple, alists when the DSA is around? The punishments such as cutting off the Fri.: 5:00-8:00 p.m" Sat: 3:00-6:00 p.m. and the DSA is deeply immersed in the 1634 Telegraph, 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) SWP has recently lost hundreds of hands of thieves. As spinoff of the Oakland, California Phone: (415) 835-1535 capitalist Democratic Party. Appropri­ members. The Barnes clique is running a Qaddafi connection, the Healyites ately, in San Francisco the DSA sports a messy purge of old-timers in faction­ became publicity agents for the PLO. Chicago genuine boss: Muni director and mil­ More recently the Bulletin has become a Tues.: 5:30-9:00 p.m.• Sat.: 2:00-5:30 p.m. ridden and bureaucratic bloodletting. 523 S. Plymouth Court, 3rd Floor lionaire Richard Sklar, a direct agent of And despite this hemorrhaging, the fanatical apologist of the ruthless Chicago, Illinois Phone: (312) 427-0003 labor-hating Mayor Feinstein. SWP is still sounding off like it is going reactionary Ayatollah Khomeini of New York City to take over the country through the Iran. Workers beware of this bizarre Tues.: 6:00-9:00 p.m., SaI.:12:00-4:oo p.m. What "Lesser Evil"? ballot box. It's election fever as usual for and sinister group! 41 Warren St. (one block below the SWP, running 60 candidates in 26 U.S. elections in 1982 reveal not only Chambers St. near Church SI.) New York, N.Y. Phone: (212) 267-1025 Rather than openly calling to "Vote states as they turn out their demoralized the decay of the capitalist system but Democratic," the Communist Party members for another campaign ofsewer also the utter bankruptcy of the oppor­ Trotskyist League (CP) has revived its classical "fight the socialism. tunist "left." Only the Spartacist League of Canada right" popular-front rhetoric. Ron The endless SWP blather about a is fighting for an independent working­ Toronto Dellums and Gus Newport are de­ "peaceful, legal" road to socialism class perspective, fot: socialist revolution Sat.: 1:00-5:00 p.m. 299 Queen St. W., Suite 502 scribed as "progressives" and "labor would have made old Karl Kautsky and a workers government! Vote for, Toronto, Ontario Phone: (416) 593-4138 candidates" so the party faithful will blush. A choice tidbit comes from a Bradley and Coleman in San know how to pull the lever when they get statement by Marie Cobbs, SWP Francisco! • 29 OCTOBER 1982 13 RWL cult-sect and the El Salvador truth to the workers about impending ous anti-Sovietism of Moreno/Kramer Deadly Lies ... CISPES popular front therefore label layoffs, bureaucratic purges and the & Co., who join with Ronald Reagan in the Trotskyist SL "disruptive" and labor fakers' determination to bind the singing "solidarity with Solidarnosc," (continued from page 4) "violent." Of course, the IWP's sources workers to the Democratic Party. the Polish company union for the CIA The IWP leaflet claims that the fact are not exactly paragons of workers But there may be far more ominous and Western bankers; who refuse to that we brought out signs (protesting democracy. The DSA is organic to the forces at work. Local 11502 president defend the Soviet Union in Central this anti-Trotskyist exclusion) shows labor bureaucracy and firmly enmeshed Janice Wood, so eager to alibi the America, where Reagan is attempting to that "their provocations had been in the Democratic Party, and the CP has Morenoites' anti-Spartacist thuggery "draw the line against Communism"; planned in advance." Not at all. Itshows a record of Stalinist thuggery going and anti-union scabbing, broke a tie who want to extend Khomeini's reac­ that given the threats of force by back decades. (Including against the vote to defeat a MAC resolution calling tionary "Islamic revolution" to the Kramer's lieutenant Gregorio against Morenoites: witness the Stalinists' on the phone union to break from the USSR, supporting CIA-aided mullahs Young Spartacus salesmen at Los September 1980 knife attack on Kram­ American Institute for Free Labor in Afghanistan. While calling for prole­ Angeles Community College a week er's Revolutionary Workers Front Development (AIFLD), a CIA­ tarian political revolution to oust the beforehand, Kramer's shoving of SLers [RWF].) But in the service of anti­ connected labor front for U.S. imperial­ Stalinist usurpers who endanger the at an August 21 Lebanon demonstra­ Spartacist slander, anything goes it ism, whose task is to smash militant conquests ofOctober with their illusions tion, and the threats by Kramer in an seems. unionism in Latin America. Here the in "detente," we unconditionally defend "open letter" last spring to use "ANY What all of these groups-DSA, CP, virulently anti-communist bureaucrat­ the degenerated/deformed workers MEASURES NECESSARY" against SWP, RSL, LRP, RWL, WWP, ic/Morenoite alliance becomes under­ states against imperialism. Moreno/ the SL-we expected they might ex­ CISPES-have in common is opposi­ standable. At every union convention Kramer offer themselves up as murder­ clude us (which they did), and we were tion to the Spartacist League's revolu­ since 1972, the MAC has agitated ous instruments for the agents of determined to protest this act of tionary program. A de facto alliance of against the AIFLD, which was largely Yankee imperialism against the bureaucratic cowardice. The IWP came Big Liars -against the SL was forged the creation of CWA founder-president Trotskyists of the Spartacist League. prepared, too, with claw hammers and particularly to suppress our call for Joe Beirne. This was a considerable The Spartacist League consistently martial arts weapons (numchakus), military victory to Salvadoran leftists. - embarrassment for Washington's "la­ defends workers democracy and our both quite deadly. But their Big Lie The reformists and liberals have repeat­ bor" age.nts, who prefer to carry out own democratic rights because the account of October 2 doesn't mention edly resorted to goon violence and their dirty tricks in the dark. MAC's struggle for the emancipation of the their use of hammers, sticks and chains called on the capitalist cops to exclude record as the main opposition to this working people is thwarted by finking, in assaulting weaponless SL supporters the SL from their popular-frontmarches CIA union operation certainly has a lot scabbing and thuggery.• and trade unionists. No wonder Kramer for a treacherous "negotiated settle­ to do with the current kangaroo court and his pals went after our photogra­ ment" in El Salvador. The Spartacists trial of exec board member Ikegami in pher, unsuccessfully trying to destroy warn that an illusory "deal" with the S.F., and it may be behind the witch­ Front for the evideQce of their attack. But the bloody Salvadoran junta-especially hunt in Los Angeles as well. proof is there (see accompanying now that death squad leader d'Aubuis­ MAC and Workers Vanguard have photos). son is running the show-means a exposed the U.S. government and -Junta ... bloodbath of the workers and peasants. corporation funding of the AIFLD; its (continued from page 4) Then there is the Morenoite claim The Morenoites formally oppose nego­ role in whipping up "popular" opposi­ that Spartacists were "provoking... Mario Munoz became the focus of tiations, but never counterpose the call tion to the leftist Allende regime in Chile mostly immigrant Latin workers, with international protest against the rightist for an insurgent military victory to the in 1973; its phony agrarian reform racist attacks." This lie is positively terror threatening political refugees in liberal/ reformist attempt to head off aimed at undercutting revolutionary Argentina. This was due to the tireless, absurd. Cui bono-who benefits? Why social revolution through a "political leftists in El Salvador. The class­ would any group make racist attacks exemplary and successful class-struggle solution." Above all, the Morenoites struggle opposition in the CWA has defense campaign waged by the Partisan against workers it was seeking to win violently oppose the SL slogan, "De­ shown that the AIFLD's "union­ over? Or, alternatively, why would Defense Committee (together with the fense of Cuba, USSR Begins in El building" activities are literally union­ Committee to Defend the Worker and unarmed demonstrators "provoke" an Salvador!" Their anti-Spartacist witch­ busting. That AIFLD officials played a attack when the IWP goons were Sailor Prisoners in Chile) and the hunting and murder attacks are their key role in engineering counterrevolu­ international Spartacist tendency (iSt). flaunting their lethal weapons? This ticket for full acceptance into the anti­ tionary coups d'etat in Brazil (1964), ridiculous fabrication is of a piece with By mid-June 1976 more than 500 Soviet popular front extending from the Chile (1973) and elsewhere. That is why individuals and organizations on five the U.S. claim that the Soviets are centrists all the way to Ronald Reagan. MAC has demanded, "CWA Out of the dumping "yellow rain" on brown­ continents had endorsed the PDC This is the real meaning ofthe IWP's call AIFLD!" And that is why the Beirne/ campaign. In August, bowing to inter­ skinned peoples from Afghanistan to for a "unified slate of labor and socialist Watts bureaucracy of the CWA has Laos in order to help Haig show how national pressure, the junta released candidates." made the Militant Action Caucus, and Munoz who flew to asylum in Austria. evil Commies are. What's going on here? Workers Vanguard, their target. Faced with the impossible task of We also defended numerous other left Witchhunt in the CWA At the very least, the Morenoites' political prisoners held in the Argentine defending Nahuel Moreno, who in his anti-Spartacist frenzy links up with the politics has the constancy ofa prostitute We reprint on page five a leaflet by junta's jails, Chilean militant Gabriel AIFLD "labor" spooks' determination Salinas, Brazilian leftists Paranagua plying her trade, Kramer & Co. must Larry Ackerson, a member of the to rid the Communications Workers­ seal off their supporters with national, Militant Action Caucus (MAC) in the and Pilla, other Chilean worker the most consciously anti-communist refugees ... and members of Nahuel linguistic and physical barriers from our CWA who bore the brunt of the union in the U.S.-of its class-struggle exposure of this charlatan. Thus IWP .Morenoites' murderous attack on Oc­ Moreno's organization, the Partido opposition. And maybe there's more Socialista de los Trabajadores (PST). leaders literally ripped out of their own tober 2. Ackerson points to the coinci­ than meets the eye. In Colombia, his members' hands SL Spanish-language dence of interests between CWA Local SL demonstrators carried signs, "PST base of operations since the 1976 Leaders in Videla's Jails-Free Jose leaflets about our emergency protests 11502 president Janice Wood, trying to Argentine coup, Nahuel Moreno's against Reagan's racist deportations last cover up the mass layoffs now facing Paez and Arturo Apaza!" visceral Stalinophobia led his followers The iSt's record of militant opposi­ spring. L.A. phone workers, and Morenoite in the PST to sabotage (on behalfoftwo To back up its fabrications about scabs Jim Green and Elizabeth Wiatr, tion to the Argentine dictatorship's AIFLD unions) a May 1977 strikecalled terror is powerful and consistent. The October 2, the IWP cites "at least ten both appointed stewards in the Wood by the Stalinist-led laborfederation. The physical attacks against different left regime, who have been regularly cross­ Morenoite tendency in contrast has AIFLD ties with the CIA and use of sought to achieve a modus vivendi with organizations and labor groups" alleg­ ing picket lines at an AFL-CIO sanc­ counterrevolutionary Cuban gusanos edly carried out by the SL, supposedly tioned strike at the Group W Cable the junta by covering up its crimes. are sinister; but the Morenoites are • The first PST-supported newspaper provoking cop intervention "on five company. In a broader framework, the plenty dubious themselves. Beware of Morenoites' anti-Spartacist frenzy coin­ issued after the Videla coup (Cambio, different occasions." Proof? The Spar­ Morenoite thugs and scabs! tacist League's program of working­ cides with the CWA bureaucracy's I-IS May 1976) wrote, "The present class struggle (against both capitalist witchhunting red scare aimed at driving government, judging by its statements Trotskyists Defend to date, also is not inclined toward parties) directly cuts across the attempt out the MAC, the leading opposition Workers Democracy to put together a new "popular front" force in the union. This campaign is a policy of 'blood and fire' favored by drawing in the labor movement behind focused on the attempt to purge MAC For the ranks of Kramer's IWP, who the most hardline regimes on the the Democrats. Virtually the entire left spokesman Kathy Ikegami, an execu­ have been fed a structure of lies about continent." is tied to this perspective by a thousand tive board member of CWA Local 9410 the Spartacist League, we would like to • In an interview with his Portuguese threads. (And most of them know it full (SF). As in the L.A. witchhunt, the present some pertinent facts. When the supporters, Moreno asserted that the well.) A truly marvelous array of bureaucrats are seeking to whip up an SL mobilized 1,200 unionists to stop coup was "not a historic defeat for the centrists, reformists and liberals includ­ anti-communist frenzy over the mili­ Nazis from demonstrating in San Argentine proletariat," and went to ing Harrington's Democratic Socialists tants' support for the political views Francisco on 19 April 1980, your great lengths to distinguish it from the (DSA), the Stalinist CP, the "peaceful, expressed in Workers Vanguard. The leadership refused to attend because it Pinochet takeover in Chile (Combate legal" ex-Trotskyist SWP, the Shacht­ class-struggle oppositionists have re­ was "inconvenient." When the Los Socialista, IS October 1976). manites of the RSL and LRP, the tiny plied that WV is the paper that told the Angeles Spartacist League initiated a • When the junta in early 1978 started united-front demonstration defending talking about a "political opening," the Salvadoran refugees in March 1981, PST responded that "the political your leadership backed out at the last opening could become a truly democrat­ minute even though the date had been ic outcome" under mass pressure (Op­ Getthe Goods! changed to accommodate them. Work­ cion, April 1978). While the iSt called Forty-one pages of documentary exposure: ers Vanguard defended Nahuel Moreno for workers revolution to smash the • Moreno in Argentina I: when he was arrested at a leftist meeting junta, the Morenoites' maximum de­ From Left Peron ism to Social Democracy by Brazilian police in 1978 (WV No. mand was for "free elections and a • Moreno in Argentina II: 215,22 September 1978). We defended sovereign constituent assembly." Back to Peron ism Morenoite Carlos Petroni, arrested by • The next month they made their • Moreno's Left Face: the Nicaraguan Sandinistas in 1979 intentions even clearer, referring to Portugal, Angola, Eurocommunism (WV No. 245, 7 December 1979). The "military and management sectors who • Opportunist Chameleon Sui Generis Partisan Defense Committee, defense have democratic intentions", who "can • Moreno the Swindler arm of the Spartacist League/U.S., come to playa positive role." The PST protested against the LAPD attack called for a new version ofthe "Commis­ Price: $.75 against an RWF demonstration on May sion of the 8," a popular front which Order from/make checks payable to: I, 1981. joined them together with the Stalinists Spartacist Publishing Co., P.O. Box 1377 G.P.O., New York, NY 10116 But we have denounced the treacher- and six bourgeois parties under the 14 WORKERS VANGUARD workers desperately need a leadership of elected strike committees composed of Workers Must those who want to fight for the program they need: Fight... •A shorter workweek with no loss in (continuedfrom page 16) pay ("30 for 40") to immediately create jobs for millions of unemployed. Foran necessary to "save jobs." Since then, automaticfull cost-of-living adjustment 40,000 jobs have been lost at Chrysler. If to protect reai wages against inflation. the capitalist depression continues and • Mass organization of the unem­ deepens, Chrysler could well go bust ployed under the leadership of the trade even if the workers gave up concession unions. Full unlimited recall rights and after concession. As the Russian revolu­ union membership rights at nominal tionary workers leader Leon Trotsky dues for laid-off workers. said during the Great Depression of the • Fight all forms of racial and sexual 1930s: "The workers cannot and do not discrimination. For labor/black defense wish to accommodate the level of their against Klan/Nazi terrorism and all living standards to the exigencies of racist attacks. individual capitalists, themselves vic­ • Against chauvinist trade protec­ tims of their own regime." tionism and deportations of "illegal aliens." Full citizenship rights for all Toward a Motor City foreign workers. For international Labor Revolt WV Photo Chrysler Trenton Engine Plant workers outside their union hall. working-class solidarity. Certainly it will not be easy to extract • Not a man, not a penny for the U.S. gains from the depressed auto compa­ down Detroit, mobilized the unemploy­ workers desperately need a leadership of imperialist war machine. Defend the nies, especially Chrysler. But for that ed, held mass labor/black rallies, there works program and full union rights Soviet Union, Poland, Cuba and the very reason auto workers must break would be a first-class political crisis in and wages and unlimited benefits at full other bureaucratically ruled workers with the traditional trade-union view this country. And while the capitalist union-scale wage levels. states against imperialism. that what they can get out of a strike politicians-"friend of labor" Demo­ A Motor City labor revolt sparked by • Break with the Democrats and Re­ action is limited by the corporate crats no less than Reaganite a Chrysler strike would end the period publicans, with the Teddy Kennedys as balance sheet oftheir particularemploy­ Republicans-would attack the work­ of one-sided class war against the well as the Reagans. Oust the sellout er. If the auto industry is now in sorry ers as lawbreakers and fomenters of workers which began under Carter and union bureaucrats like Fraser and financial shape, the American capitalist anarchy, they would also be desperate to escalated under Reagan. It would open Kirkland-For a workers party based class as a whole possesses enormous buy labor peace before a revolt centered a new period of social struggle against on the unions to fight for a workers wealth-$190 billion alone in the annual on Detroit spread to other industries this racist capitalist system. What is government! military budget aimed at destroying the and regions. Demands that are now lacking is a leadership with the will to • Expropriate capitalist industry and Soviet Union. A Detroit labor revolt dismissed out of hand as "impossible" fight and a program to win. finance without compensation. For a must be directed as much at Washington and "pie in the sky" would suddenly Fraser's only paycheck should be planned socialist economy to end as at the Big Three. become winnable. At the minimum auto coming from the people he works for on unemployment, inflation and Ifauto workers seized the plants, shut workers must demand a mass public the Chrysler board of directors! Auto poverty. 8 t second Peron regime (Opcion, May Morenoites' international organ, down the airports and PATCO was Wood's whitewash of Green's mur­ 1978). Correa /nternacional (April 1982), said broken. Air controllers in Portugal took derous attack on me fits nicely with the that if the PST's latest martyr, Ana more concrete solidarity action with increasingly heavy-handed way she has I • But the Morenoites really pulled out the stops in whitewashing the junta at Maria Martinez were alive, she would PATCO than the American unions did! conducted union meetings. Her bureau­ the time of the World Cup soccer have gone to die for the junta in the With leaders like this, no wonder cratic attempts to silence us have been tournament in Buenos Aires. They Falklands/Malvinas! And their Ameri­ American workers are reeling from largely ineffective, so now there is an denounced "a campaign organized can outfit headed by Moreno's strutting d'efeat after defeat. appointed goon squad that moves to outside the country by the ultraleft" (the Gauleiter Nicholas Kramer mentioned The responsibility for the scabbing physically suppress MAC members call for a boycott of the games) and its leftist victims of the junta only in order against the Group W strikers rests while they are speaking. J.V. Stalin ( -l "exaggerations and imprecisions about to denounce the Spartacist League for squarely with our union leaders, who would understand Wood's methods the repressive reality which we endure." bringing the subject up! say it isn't scabbing and organize our very well. They even praised Videla's wife for Nahuel Moreno, Nicholas Kramer: members to cross the IATSE lines. And Wood already purged MAC member participating in a "positive and great you lie!8 what about Green and Wiatr, who claim Manuel Morales from the stewards list. advance for women" by attending the to be some kind of militant working­ The charges against him are so flimsy games! In a small inside note, the PST class leaders? MAC stands for a differ­ that it is obvious to the majority of co­ mentioned that 55 ofits own comrades ent kind of leadership, a class-struggle workers that it was a political purge to had been kidnapped by the regime leadership that sees its job not as drop him as a steward. A petition signed (Opcion, July 1978). MAC ... apologizing for the company but as by two-thirds of his work crew demand­ So much for who denounced Argen­ (continued from page 5) organizing union members to fight and ing that he be reinstated has had no win. I urge CWA members to read in effect. tine junta terror before the Falklands/ MAC members here? Does Imerzel have Workers Vanguard about the case of Wood's tactics are of a piece with her Malvinas war! What about during the a hand in this? And what about the Keith Anwar, a militant Chicago steel avid support for the AIFLD. At ~he fighting, when Buenos Aires was seized CWA leadership's cronies in the worker who recently scored an impor­ April 1982 membership meeting Wood by patriotic fervor whipped up by the AIFLD, who have had to put up with tant NLRB victory in his three-year broke a 21-to"21 tie to pass a motion _I generals to divert attention from the many years of outspoken MAC opposi­ struggle to reverse his firing for honor­ that restored our union's money going disastrous economic situation (and to tion to the CIA dirty tricks carried out in -, frustrate a planned general strike)? Here ing a picket line. to this union-busting outfit. The '" the name of labor on behalf of Central A1FLD's reputation is so widely known " the Morenoites' bloody betrayal of the American military dictators and the (2) I can personally testify that I was " Argentine workers reached its zenith. assaulted with lethal weapons on Octo­ that even the anti-labor Herald­ like? Examiner has referred to its CIA Under an enormous headline, "In the The motion passed at the October ber 2 and that Green participated in that Military Camp of the Argentine Dicta­ attack. connections. The AIFLD sets up com­ meeting was that Workers Vanguard pany unions, breaks strikes of militant torship," they called on the masses to "slandered" Green and Wiatr in three (3) No one is accusing Green and salute their butchers (Correa /nterna­ unions, and is complicit in the jailing ways: (I) that they are supporters of a Wiatr of being members of the IWP or and torture of union militants in Latin cional, April 1982). They claimed a socialist organization, the International any other group, but why are they in military defeat could mean the replace­ America. Workers Party; (2) that Green partici­ such a hurry to disclaim their known Every member should ask themselves: ment of Galtieri "by a government a pated . in a physical attack against political sympathies? Green and Wiatr thousand times worse." A Peruvian by attacking MAC, whose members .. Spartacist League supporters; and (3) say they "are willing to sign affidavits have consistently tried to break our l Morenoite leader said after a visit to that both Green and Wiatr have been stating that they are not members or It Buenos Aires that to call for "Down union's ties to this CIA front, is Wood f scabbing. supporters of any socialist or commu­ attempting to carry out AIFLD policy i with Galtieri" would be "objectively on All these are statements of fact! nist organization." Yet Green was a I the side of England"! So craven was the in our union? Examining them in reverse order: prominent participant in the IWP goon If Janice Wood had the slightest I Morenoite line that a high-ranking (1) Group W workers in IATSE squad on October 2, and both Green .. government official invited a PST interest in the truth she would hardly i (broadcasting union) are on strike for and Wiatr have been publicly featured have lined up with Green's lies about the leader to a private audience (reported in union recognition in Santa Monica. in photos in the IWP's paper, Working a scan<;lalous article, "The PST and the October 2 events while preventing us Labor solidarity is what will win the Class Opposition, showing them in from replying. It is clear that the i Paradoxes of War," Correa /nterna­ strike. If CWA members daily cross attendance at IWP events. Their asso­ cional, May 1982). marriage of Green and Wood has as its their lines then it is scabbing. If CWA ciation with and evident support of this purpose doing the company's dirty I And the victims of the junta torturers ever strikes at Group W then the IATSE organization is their right. The question work. Green and Wiatr have block ed , and killers, the tens of thousands of bureaucrats will use this scabbing as a is, why do they now deny what the IWP with the pro-AIFLD leadership of t "disappeared," their own comrades, justification to tell their members to press has publicly acknowledged? Why local to conduct a virulent witchh " some 100 of whom had been jailed or cross our lines. do they want to see a special loyalty oath against members ofthe Militant ActIOn killed by the dictatorship? What about This kind of class treason is a recipe against socialists introduced in this I Caucus and in particular those who the "mothers ofthe Plaza de Mayo" who for defeat for us all. Look what local? I know why. They have volun­ support the Spartacist League. We call demonstrated weekly in front of the happened in last year's air controllers teered to be Wood's kept "opposition," on all CWA members to repudiate the presidential palace holding pictures of (PATCO) strike, the strike which was leading the charge to witchhunt and witchhunt organized by this unholy their kidnapped sons and daughters? Reagan's personal test case for outright purge MAC. By their craven and alliance of a pro-CIA bureaucrat and a During April-May while the war was union-busting. Thanks to the union dishonest denial of their own political pair of renegade socialists. on, the PST effectively abandoned tops' notion that it's okay to cross the sympathies, they target union members them. The 15 May issue ofthe Argentine picket lines of other unions, the Ameri­ who would not do the same. MAC is Larry Ackerson ! PST's paper, Palabra Socialista, didn't can airport unions (like the Machinists, intended to be [he first victim. but MAC for the Militant Action Caucus even mention the "disappeared." The who service the planes) refused to shut would not be the only one. October 25, 1982 I 29 OCTOBER 1982 15 I -,t .. 1 WfJ/iIlE/iS ,,1N'(JII/ifJ Fraser's Anti-Strike Referendum Solves Nothing Chrysler Workers Must Fight!

DETROIT-Last month Chrysler understand that the labor bureaucrats Communist Party, is pushing the same lacocca for presenting too favorable a workers greeted United Auto Workers and Democratic politicos-"the popu­ old game of "pressure Fraser" in a new picture of the company's financial (VAW) president Doug Fraser's latest lar front" in Detroit-who just forced package. This crew of opportunists and situation. Detroit local vice president sellout with walkouts in Detroit, Ohio the teachers back to work under binding aspiring misleaders is led by the same and Fraser loyalist Charlie Ryan said and Delaware. After three years of arbitration will once again send the Lee Cain who in 1979 invited Conyers angrily, "Iacocca started opening up his giveback contracts the ranks said: same "liberal" labor-haters like Con­ and Mahaffey into the Save Dodge big mouth, said he had $1 billion, and Enough! The contract deal was rejected gressman John Conyers, Detroit coun­ Main Committee to keep it safe for the workers listened to him instead of by a better than two to one margin. cilwoman Maryanne Mahaffey and the Fraser. Now they say they want "to the leadership." The Los Angeles Times Fraser, who has broken more New Detroit/Coleman Young machine hammer out in clear terms to the (7 October) commented about the "odd wildcats than the Pinkertons, had no into UAW meetings to break their national negotiating committee just juxtaposition of classic union­ intention of leading a strike no matter strike. Speaking of "liberal" labor­ exactly what we want." Fraser and the management postures: The UAW is what the membership wanted. So he haters, remember it was Fraser's fa- negotiating committee know damn well arguing that Chrysler is in worse called an anti-strike referendum for October 26 to demoralize and split Chrysler workers by making them vote and vote again. Fearing that they could not win a strike saddled with the likes of Fraser, a majority (reportedly 70 per­ cent) voted to extend the negotiating to the end of the year. But come New Year's, things will only have gotten worse. The question facing militants at Chrysler, particularly the 30 percent who voted to strike now, is not whether to fight but how to win against Fraser and his local henchmen. Fraser's gunpoint anti-strike "referendum" solves nothing. Chrysler workers, an­ gered by years of givebacks and layoffs, will explode. Saddled with a leadership hell-bent on sabotaging their struggle, Fraser's sellout they hesitated to enter the battle. But the contract sparks situation is intolerable and they must walkout at Detroit's fight, and they must forge a militant Jefferson leadership with a class-struggle program Avenue plant, to win. There is no other way! September 16. Key is the formation of elected strike committees with the authority to launch mass picket lines and spread the strike. Such committees would send out flying squads (as in the 1930s) to appeal to ,..~cm:nu):. union brothers throughout Detroit and in the militant Canadian locals, starting with the giant Ford Rouge complex vored candidate for governor, Demo­ what Chrysler workers want. They want financial shape than the company would where thousands face being thrown into crat James Blanchard, who as a to throw back all the givebacks, restore have people believe." the streets. The Rouge Militant Caucus Congressman wrote the original Chrys­ the uniform industrywide contract and Taking its cue from Solidarity House, has c,dled for joint mass picket lines as ler concessions bill, and voted against win a big wage hike. Chrysler officials are now saying that"a the means to spread the strike citywide school busing and for tax breaks for Another similar reformist outfit, the strike of any duration at all would and industrywide. segregationist schools. Communist Labor Party, says that a severely cripple us and could ruin us." A strike now is what the bosses and strike would be "unrealistic" and calls But if Chrysler were really facing the labor traitors in Detroit fear most. Beware of Phony on the Chrysler Council, which ap­ bankruptcy, lacocca & Co. would be in Since the air controllers union was Anti-Fraser "Militants" proved the sellout, to elect a new a total frenzy. Instead they're playing it fined, jailed and busted last year, any negotiating team. What all these fake­ very cool. It's clear Chrysler has decided strike in auto will immediately run up VAW chief Fraser is so hated in left groups, both inside and outside the to take a strike in order to keep its $2.50 against Reagan and the Democratic Chrysler plants across the country that plants, have in common is a perspective an hour wage giveback advantage over Party leaders, who are trying to make he has to appear before the workers on of pressuring Fraser. One black worker GM and Ford. According to Harvey the workers pay for the U.S.' anti-Soviet videotape. But the workers must beware with 15 years seniority stood in front of Heinbach, the auto expert for the giant war drive. Chrysler workers must of the fake "militants" who refused to the Jefferson Assembly plant last Wall Street firm of Merrill Lynch: call for a strike while pleading with Thursday as Progressive Labor, the "Chrysler has made a big thing ofsaying Fraser and V AW Chrysler division head Workers League and Spark as well as it's got $1 billion in cash. As long as they Marc Stepp to resign so as to salvage the the Spartacist League were selling and are in a decent cash position, they are Solidarity House program of class not in any danger of insolvency." said, pointing to the Challenge, Bulletin -Detroit Free Press, 19 October collaboration and betrayal. Typical of and Spark salesmen: "All you people do The givebacks would reportedly this breed of fake "militant" is Larry is talk, talk, talk and you never act. The Leach, president of Local 1264 in allow Chrysler to save a few hundred only ones who do anything are these dollars in labor costs per car over GM Sterling Heights. While he postured guys," pointing to Workers Vanguard. against Fraser's rotten deal, he took and Ford. Does anybody think that a The phony militants don't act because few hundred is going to make that much down the picket lines at Sterling Heights they're still waitingfor Fraser! And now when the local actually walked against difference when it comes to selling an he's making them wait until January 1­ $8,000 to $9,000 automobile? Only if the sellout. A member of the Rouge that is, until hell freezes over. Militant Caucus told WV that Leach's Chrysler drove wages down to the level of, say, South Korea or Brazil would it I response to its call for joint picketing by The Chrysler Bankruptcy Scare gain a real competitive advantage over ~ Rouge workers at Chrysler plants was that these union brothers would be From the very start of the negotia­ GM and Ford. "resented" and that donations of coffee tions Fraser has tried to frighten the How many cars Chrysler can sell and sandwiches would be better! workers with the claim that any gains or depends primarily on the state of the The newly formed Chrysler Rank and any strike would mean instant bank­ economy. Remember in 1979 Fraser /UPI Two sellouts: UAW misleaders Doug File Committee for a Better Contract, ruptcy for Chrysler. In fact. Solidarity told workers that the givebacks were Fraser and Marc Stepp. supported by the pro-Moscow Stalinist House has attacked Chrysler boss Lee continued on page /5 16 29 OCTOBER 1982