WfJ/iIlE/iS ",1N(JO,1" 25¢ No. 290 :"':;:'~ X-523 9 October 1981

World Ca~italist Economies in Trouble a ree

Blue Monday, 28 September 1981. out the fall was checked and reversed. For a moment everyone feared another Late in the trading day the big institu­ Black Thursday, 24 October 1929, the tional investors, insurance companies Great Crash which ushered in the world and pension funds, stepped in to buy depression. The panicky selling on stocks at now bargain-basement prices. world stock exchanges followed the sun. So Blue Monday did not become Black The trading day opened in Tokyo on a Thursday ... this time. truly blue note as the Nikkei Dow Jones While the panicky selling from Tokyo index plunged 300 points, the largest fall to New York was something of a chain in its history. A two-week slide in the reaction, investors were also reacting to London market turned into a full-scale the specific economic and political rout, the third largest decline in its conditions of their respective countries. history. Stock prices in Zurich hit a six­ And these conditions are, each in their year low. The Paris bourse and Frank­ own way, bad. For months Wall Street furt exchange likewise suffered severe has been saying that Reagan's policy of declines. "The markets in the West are financing a massive arms buildup by like a snowball rolling downhill," said reducing taxes is just plain crazy. It will one French hroker of the day's dealings ruin the economy. After unsuccessfully ( ~Va/l Srreer Journal, 29 September). trying to bully the moneymen into Everyone's eyes turned to the giant lowering interest rates, the tough-guy l':ew York Stock Exchange, which on president made an effort to appease Friday had closed at a 16-month low. them by red ucing the budget deficit. On (Prices on the Big Board had fallen Thursdai September 24, Reagan an­ almost 200 points since June.) Stock nounced an additiogal$J I billion of market tipster Joseph Granville was bUdget cuts In Medicare, Medicaid. predicting prices would fall right welfare, food stamps, veteran's benefits, through the floor. And when the Big government employee pensions, subsi­ ber Spiegel Board opened, it looked as if Granville dized housing and student loans. Wall Panicky traders on Wall Street. The Big Board has dropped nearly 200 points was dead on target. Prices fell 14 points Street's verdict was: not enough! On since June. in the first hour. "There is panic in the Friday stock prices fell to a new low and London, financial capital of the sick the sun. The means: tear down the Street. The market looks as if it is having on Monday a crash was averted only at man of the imperialist West. Two years "welfare state," revive the "magic" of a free fall with 'no end in sight," the eleventh hour. ago Margaret Thatchercame to office as free-market capitalism squeeze the exclaimed one broker (New York The most depressed of the world's right-wing crusader, much like Reagan, money supply to choke off inflation and Times, 29 September). But as it turned depressed stock markets is naturally vowing to restore Britain to its place in continued on page 8 SL Protests . S L9 REAGAN ;a:. -~_~ Solidarnosc zabif - ail POLISH, , Counterrevolution ~y Un~ PAT~O,~~~.. AGjNT~ .ER- K.ochCV, ,(RT, COuNTER- "State Department Socialists" Provide NYC Office ~k~lIl~g~d.R ~.1A~;;;JI ~.~.·~.S~~O'fl!~ &.14'1 \);;lff'" 1U1.",~ 5, R.. '-Blii-~ When Polish Solidarnosc opened an swered. Outside on the street there was a ~"~~} rH~J~"I1f!'::;";'lau.~""> {~t_;AI office in New York's United Federation demonstration by the Spartacist League of Teachers (UFT) headquarters Sep­ (SL) which proclaimed, "Polish Soli­ tember 24, it was a significant step in darnosc Agents of Counterrevolution." their link-up with Western imperialism. The 50 protesters carried placards and That was recognized by all sides, chanted "No Rollback! No Capitalist including capitalist propagandists who Restoration in Eastern Europe!" and try to cover this up with their "free "Social Democrats, AFL-CIO Front for world" rhetoric. The inaugural "Soli­ CIA in Poland, Too!" darity" press conference was jammed An SL press release pointed out it was with representatives from every NYC no accident the Solidarnosc office was newspaper, TV network and major news sponsored by UFT president Albert t weckly, plus government mouthpieces Shanker, a leader of Social Democrats, like Voice of America and Radio Free USA (SDUSA), a gang of super Cold Europe. a handful of East European Warriors. It also noted that Lech news agencies. and Workers Vanguard.. Walesa had invited AFL-CIO "Euro­ WV Photo But the o,minous declaration of intent by pean representative" Irving Brown to New York, September 24: "Reagan busts American union PATCO, loves pro-imperialist labor fakers was an- continued on page 7 Solidarnosc... Labor Must Shut Down the Air~orts! Militant PATCO Pickets Stop Traffic at S.F. Airport SAN FRANCISCO, 25 September­ Today the largest Bay Area airport demonstration yet in support of the air traffic controllers strike got out of the hands of the AFL-CiO officials who called it. Some 600 to 800 picketers from PATCO (the air controllers' union), the International Association of Machinists (lAM) and a score of other unions surged into the streets, blocking all traffic into San Francisco International Airport for an hour and 20 minutes. Picketers first surrounded a car Air controllers which broke down in the passenger and Machinists pickup lane and began chanting, "On defy bureaucrats, strike! Shut it down!" Then they chant "Hell no, we fanned out across all lanes of traffic, won't go'" defying orders from California AFL­ CIO secretary John Henning and Jeff Pector, head of the AFL-CIO's SF Airport Coalition, to uselessly restrict picketing to the central terminal. TV coverage from helicopters showed freeway traffic backed up for miles WV Photo around the airport. Many air travelers by the cops to clear the street. breach. "You heard him!" yelled leaflet calling on unionists to "write missed their flights. But had these Wringing his hands, Pector asked a Bryant, unsuccessfully trying to herd your congressman"! To do what-shut militant pickets been led in 'mass group of lAM stewards for help, but demonstrators back to the curb. But down the airports? When Henning picketing of airport employee en­ they just laughed at him. The IAMers no one listened to Bryant either. Such raised the same call to "write your trances at shift change, there would mstead joined with other militants to opportunist shenanigans expose the congressman" at today's demonstra­ have been no departing flights to ,.get protect the demonstration from R WL's paper position-plagiarized tion he was loudly booed, but not by on. Such a strategy ofsolidarity strikes would-be thugs and hit-and-run driv­ from Workers Vanguard-for labor to the likes of Bryant. to shut the airports down would have ers. One such driver cooled down in a "shut down the airports" as so much Tying up passenger traffic into the won the PATCO strike eight weeks hurry when a burly trade unionist hot air. According to the RWL, such airports won't win the PATCO strike. ago. suggested the picketers "flip the fucker action should take place only with But even such action is too militant for Faced with hundreds of workers in on its side." Unfortunately, another "international union sanction," i.e., Henning, who fears it will lead to more the street, Pector pleaded with the hostile driver escaped after ramming a never. The RWL's real program is to effective tactics. Those 800 demonstra­ crowd on his bullhorn: "You can all go picketer, throwing him across the tail bureaucrats like Henning who tors who came out today should have home now. The demonstration is hood of his car. occasionally blow smoke about form­ been led in mass picketing at the over." This appeal was met with jeers When the lAM stewards refused to ing a "labor party." At an earlier SF airport worker entrances. As the sign and the chant, "Hell no, we won't go!" do Pector's bidding, Steve Bryant of airport demonstration on August 21, carried by a militant warehouseman Despite his protest that "it's not my the small Revolutionary Workers Bryant paid his dues to such fakers by said: "Bust Union Buster Reagan! demonstration," Pector was ordered League (RWL) stepped into the handing out a Central Labor Council Shut Down the Airports!"

CIA International Terrorism Ex~osed How U.S. Arms Afghan Counterrevolutionaries In the first days of 1980, James Earl Eurocommunist renegades from Mos­ foreign personnel" (In These Times, 16­ Operation Afghanistan, reports Bern­ Carter fired the opening shots of Cold cow to pseudo-Trotskyists whose "anti­ 22 January 1980). Recently, however, stein, was "personally ordered by War II. The American president dema­ Stalinism" has more in common with investigative reporter Carl Bernstein of President Carter and carried out under gogically whipped up popular anti­ Amnesty International than with the Watergate fame has lifted the veil on the direct supervision of his national Soviet frenzy over Russian intervention founders of the Communist Interna­ imperialist intervention in Afghanistan. security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, against counterrevolutionary Islamic tional. While the British IMG initially Bernstein's article for the New Republic and his CIA director, Stansfield Tur­ guerrillas in Afghanistan. And the bulk headlined "Soviet Troops Out of Af­ details the CIA's intriCate gunrunning ner." So the "captured Soviet AK-4T' of the left soon fell into line, from ghanistan!" its comrades of the mis­ operation, part of a war drive aimed at with which Brzezinski posed at the named "United Secretariat of the overturning the historic social gains of Khyber Pass, the weapons used to Fourth International" (USec) hesitated the Russian October Revolution: gun down "Communist schoolteachers" to take up the imperialist refrain so "A year and a half after Soviet troops who taught young girls to read and W'liKEliS blatantly. But now the USec is echoing marched into Afghanistan. the U.S. write, are supplied by the "free world." VANtiIJAiiI) the imperialists' anti-Soviet "human Central Intelligence Agency is coordi­ But appearances had to be kept up: rights" crusade, demanding "End Soviet nating a complex, far-flung program, "I ncreased American assistance, the Marxist Working-Class Biweekly Occupation of Afghanistan!" The inter­ involving five countries and more than President told his aides, should do of the Spartacist League of the U.S. $100 million, to provide the Afghan EDITOR: Jan Norden national Spartacist tendency (iSt) has resistance with the weaponry ofmodern nothing to disturb the impression that ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Charles Burroughs stood alone in defending proletarian guerrilla warfare. The result is an the Afghan struggle was an Islamic PRODUCTION: Darlene Kamiura (Manager). internationalism with our battle cry, emerging anti-Soviet alliance-the struggle." Rather than being run as a Noah Wilner "Hail Red Army in Afghanistan!" (see United States, China, Pakistan. Egypt straight-out CIA setup, this operation CIRCULATION MANAGER: Karen Wyatt and Saudi Arabia.... Spartacist No. 27-28, Winter 1979-80). "Shortlv after the invasion of December was played through counterpart intelli­ EDITORIAL BOARD: George Foster. Liz 1979, there were scattered newspaper gence agencies of friend ly Arab coun­ Gordon, Mark Kellermann. James Robertson, An integral part of the imperialist reports that the United States intended tries. With this cover, the article notes, Reuben Samuels. Joseph Seymour. Marjorie propaganda barrage has been to cover Stamberg to supply arms to the Afghan resistance not a single objection was raised to the up massive U.S. military backing for the fighters.... In fact, the American role in Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published secret American gunrunning conspira­ biweekly, skipping an issue in August and a Afghan reactionaries. Even frequently Afghanistan~as described by senior cy in the Congressional "Oversight week in December. by the Spartacist Publishing perceptive leftist observers have been officials of the Carter and Reagan Co.. 41 Warren Street. New York. NY 10007. administrations-is far more extensive Committee" then headed by liberal Telephone: 732-7862 (Editorial). 732-7861 taken in, as for example Fred Halliday than any of those initial reports~uggest­ Democrat Birch Bayh-unlike 1975, (Business). Address all correspondence to: Box who wrote that "the Russian claim 1377. GPO, New York, NY 10116. Domestic ed. For the United States the stakes are when the Senate cut off funds to South about direct foreign interference in especially high. This is the first time that subscriptions: $5.00/24 issues. Second-class African-linked, CIA-backed guerrillas postage paid at New York, NY. Afghanistan is wide of the mark: the weapons supplied with American help in Angola. Opinions expressed in signed articles or letters fighting against the central government have been used to kill regular troops of do not necessarily express the editorial the Soviet armv.. " The Afghanistan network was is being done by rebel Afghan tribesmen viewpoint. -reprinted in the Manche.\(er elaborate. Washington coordinated, the and there is no serious evidence ofdirect Guardian Week II'. No. 290 9 October 1981 participation in the fighting by any 9 August . continued on page 9 2 WORKERS VANGUARD Silver/City on a Hill Miller/SF Progress

Reagan's Pup~ Tours US. for "Negotiations by Death" S.F. COPS Assault Anti-Duarte Protest

On September 27, club-wielding San LeaguejSpartacus Youth League (SLj against the demonstration last Sunday Reagan-style. In San Francisco such Francisco police, on foot and on SYL) under the banner, "Military were not just aimed at the Spartacist dangerous illusions are met with police horseback, repeatedly charged into a Victory to the Leftist Insurgents! Stop League or Eimil's alleged "agitators." clubs. In EI Salvador they are met with picket line of more than 6,000 demon­ All U.S. Aid to the Salvadoran Junta! They were above all intended to disperse the reactionaries' machetes and bullets. strators ringing the Jack Tar Hotel U.S.jOAS Hands Off Central America! the protest. From EI Salvador to Angola to Poland, where EI Salvador's junta president Defense ofCuba and USSR Begins in EI The massive police presence and U.S. imperialism is waging an anti­ Jose Napoleon Duarte and National Salvador!" These demands sharply assaults at the anti-Duarte demonstra­ Soviet war drive that threatens all of Guard commander Colonel Casanova contrasted with those of the official tion occurred because Ronald Reagan humanity. Popular fronts, at home and were being wined and dined by Salva­ sponsors, CISPES (Committee in Soli­ did not want his murderous puppet abroad, are. at:ecipe J()LgIQ,Qqy .d.~. doran reactionaries. Inside the hotel, darity with the People of EI Salvador), Duarte to be'ernbarrassed. CISPES and The key to viCiory is the forging ofc1ass­ members of Hotel Workers Local 2 which opposes socialist revolution and the reformists who call for a "negotiated struggle workers parties-for the re­ refused to serve Duarte's banquet; two calls for a "political solution" with the settlement" got a taste of "negotiations" birth of the Fourth International!. waitresses joined the picket line. Out­ junta. Many demonstrators picked up side, the cops injured picketers and SL picket signs and spread our chant up bystanders alike: 15 were treated on the and down the line: "I, 2, 3, 4-Leftist scene and two were taken to hospitals. Rebels Win the War! 5,6,7, 8-Nothing Total Quota % The scene was bloody. About 2:00 to Negotiate!" An official CISPES p.m. a phalanx of helmeted riot police sound truck picked up and broadcast Ann Arbor 76 80 95% flooded Van Ness Avenue and charged our slogan, "Down with the junta­ Berk./Oak. 309 630 49% the crowd, driving protesters away from workers to power!" until a CISPES Boston 454 450 101% the hotel. Freely swinging their billy marshal stopped the announcer. Champaign 55 80 69% clubs, cops struck, kicked and pulled SF Board of Supervisors member Chicago 316 500 63% demonstrators by the hair ifthey did not Nancy Walker was at the demonstration I Cleveland 166 260 64% retreat fast enough. People waiting at a and witnessed the brutal cop assault. At (, Detroit 117 200 59% bus stop were knocked to the ground a Board of Supervisors meeting the next LA 261 400 65% during the charge. Even as the protesters day, she said the protest turned violent Madison 76 80 95% attempted to depart from the hotel for a only after police moved to drive out the New York 595 910 65% rally site at St. Mary's Cathedral, police crowd without warning. In response, SF 253 470 54% charged them once more, driving the deputy police chief George Eimil denied remaining demonstrators from the the cops had rioted and blamed it all on TOTAL 2678 4100 65% scene. left groups: ----- ..... such as the Revolutionary Commu­ Since Ronald Reagan's inauguration, nist Party, the Spartacus Group and he has put out the word: his administra­ several others who were there Sunday to Workers tion stands by it butchers. Duarte was cause trouble, and their purpose was to on a shopping trip for arms in the U.S., be violent and cause violence." -San Francisco Examiner, 29 and he received VIP service in San September Vanguard Francisco: massive police protection and a 55-room wing ofthe hotel blocked Two days later, the SF police commis­ • off and guarded for his entourage. sion brazenly "declined to watch a mini­ 65% version of a videotape of the purported Ive at Duarte's opponents got the billy club. San Francisco is home to many big riot at Sunday's demonstration against coffee company families-among them the visit of the president ofEI Salvador" to Go (Examiner, I October). Once again eeks Hills Brothers and Folgers-but the junta president said he came here "to be Eimil tried to blame the police brutality ----, near the Salvadoran community." on the left. All lies, attempting to turn Indeed there are an estimated 50,000 the liberals' complaints against the SUBSCRIBE NOW!' victims of the cop assault, to scapegoat Salvadorans living in the Bay Area, but Name __ ,__ many of them are refugees from the the Spartacist League. --,- ....~.- -,._- ._-- -,._.._-~----'--_.--~-~-.--.-'---'~"-----_._-----_._._- junta's bloody terror. His claim to This was a clear case of unprovoked Address ._ popular support was given the lie by cop brutality. There was indeed provo­ thousands of demonstrators chanting cation on September 27. But the , Phone ( "Duarte asesino! Duarte asesino!" A provocateurs were the ultra-right-wing City State I Zi P 290 special sense of outrage was provoked cult followers of Sun Myung Moon, who by the presence of National Guard chief staged a pro-Duarte provocation that Casanova, whose troops and death was protected and given encouragement 0$5/24 issues of Workers Vanguard 0$2/4 issues of by the cops. The real violence camefrom (i ncl udes Spartacist) Women and Revolution squads have murdered over 20,000 o New 0 Renewal workers and peasants in the last two the San Francisco police. By raising his 0$2/10 introductory issues of years. false and slanderous accusations, Eimil Workers Vanguard is trying to get the skull-cracking cops o $2/9 issues of Young Spartacus (includes Spartacist) The largest organized contingent in off the hook by blaming the demonstra­ Make payable/mall to: Spartacist PU'blishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, New York 10116 the demonstration was the 100-plus tors themselves for the violence. The militants organized by the Spartacist repeated charges by mounted police 9 OCTOBER 1981 3 land says: "As our brothers and sisters in See No Russia, Hear No Russia,j~eak No Russia Poland have shown the world, [solidari­ ty] is a quality of the human spirit that can never be defeated." Solidarnosc leaders have shown what kind of "action" they are interested, in by inviting to their congress U.S. imperial­ ism's top anti-Soviet labor lieutenant, Kirkland, and "M r. AFL-CIA" himself, HWL: Swimming with the sinister Irving Brown, who has been disappearing "reds" and busting unions in West Europe with CIA bucks since the end of World War II. At the San Francisco "Solidarity Day" rally, for­ mer Democratic vice president Walter the Anti-Soviet Stream Mondale launched into an anti­ Communist diatribe over Poland culmi­ The latest addition to the U.S. left Francisco International Airport for by emphasizing as No. I among its nating with "Show me a nation with free press calls itself Workers Struggle, over an hour, labor bureaucrats tried "areas of agreement" with labor their unions. and I will show you a nation that heralding the latest incarnation of Peter unsuccessfully to herd demonstrators backing for a "strong defense." In fact, is free"-at which point he was shouted Sollenberger's Revolutionary Workers back onto the curb while RWLer (ex­ the Meanyite misleaders were super­ down by workers chanting "PATCO, League (RWL, formerly RWG / BLT/ SL-DC) Steve Bryant tagged along hawks when Ronald Reagan was still PATCO, PATCO~" But the RWL only BLG/CDU/OCC/CLSG) after swal­ shouting, "You heard him." "Keep the making movies. They are in the fore­ echoes the Kirklands and the Mondales. lowing Steve Bryant's minuscule So­ airports open" is the RWL's line in front of the bipartisan war drive against At least Workers Struggle is consis­ cialist League Democratic-Centralist practice. the Soviet Union. And the Sollenberger­ tent here. An article on the recent French (SL-DC). Replacing the RWL's previ­ There's an ocean separating the words ites are bringing up the rear. elections (in which Mitterrand is mis­ ous Fighting Worker (known to WV and deeds of Sollenberger's cult. as we For if there's one thing the RWL spelled throughout) notes that Reagan readers as the "Flinching Scab" for its have pointed out before (see "Centrists vociferous defense of picket-line cross­ in Quicksand," liT No. 287, 14 Au­ ing) and the SL-DC's wbor News, this gust). But there's something missing new Sollenberger product bears a altogether in the first issue of Workers ;~~61t_.-·f,_'R__ i.-"AN~flA''t~ curious and deliberate resemblance to Struggle which gives the measure of this ------Workers Vanguard. A banner front­ bunch: any defense ofthe Soviet Union r !!:!.!I§..!!!' 1Jre.rn!, Accept no centrist page headline borrows the Spartacist against imperialism. The Russian ques­ substitute for League (SL) slogan "Break with the tion is the touchstone for any tendency Workers Vanguard Democrats and Republicans: Build a claiming to be Trotskyist, but in the Workers Party." The back page on the context of Carter/Reagan's Cold War n-;::::'~:::;, ------~------.. air controllers strike copies WV from the RWL tries to duck the decisive the headline, "Shut Down the Air­ question of our day. Their lead article ports." to the photo of PATCO leaders directed at the AFL-CIO "Solidarity III SH'ilM~~AIlPOOS in chains. In this case, however, imita­ 'i' ;:' ~ . Day" march, spread over four pages, , ' "" MH I 1ffl- tion is not meant as the sincerest form of has not one word about the anti-Soviet I n -~ I "",. c-- flattery, for every mention of the SL is war drive, much less anything about Unchain , l - coupled with the adjective "sectarian," which side they're on. In the laundry list I I; -- .- the epithet centrists always reserve for of demands at the end there is a vague Labo~1 revolutionaries. reference to "war preparations"­ There's a difference, all right: Work­ against whom? The only mention of the ers Vanguard has teeth; the RWL's USSR is a non-eommittal reference to &: imitation doesn't. As Leon Trotsky "the rise of the military power of the I En pointed out in "Centrism and the Soviet Union" as one of the factors that I -.r$J,i. Fourth International," centrists are have "undermined the foundations of _worke.~~.~uiile~-.l:- parasites who borrow their arguments the 'Pax Americana'." i-·. .. against the Marxists from the reformists General Haig could agree with that ... and their arguments against the right or the AFL-CIO executive council, from the Marxists, "dulling however the which began its latest statement by sharp edge of criticism, avoiding practi­ saying it was "steadfast in its support for -IJ~~~~'~~ cal conclusions, thereby rendering their a strong national defense" against criticism meaningless." This fits the "totalitarian expansionism." The RWL RWL to a T. Look at the air controllers talks about breaking the American strike. Shut down the airports? At a Bay union movement from the capitalist won't do, it is swim against the stream of "said he was surprised by Mitterand's Area PATCO strike-support meeting in parties, yet it does not challenge the bourgeois public opinion. Poland is [sic] 'resoluteness with regard to the August, the RWL called for a one-day anti-Sovietism which defines the subser­ where the Russian question is posed Soviet threat'." And what does the airport shutdown ... but opposed the vience of the labor bureaucracy to U.S. pointblank today. Workers Struggle RWL think of this alleged "Soviet demand by union militants and the SL imperialism at least since Cold War I. says: "As workers of Poland have threat"? What about the imperialist to set a date. And last week when angry On September 19 the Reagan adminis­ already done, we must turn solidarity threat to the Soviet Union? NATO? unionists blocked traffic into San tration tried to strike a conciliatory pose from a word into action." Lane Kirk- continued on page 11

different from that of the Detroit City take any responsibility for the protest­ Council, which issued a march permit ers that get set up and hurt in the small­ RWL's United Fraud to the Nazis and kept that fact a secret. group confrontation. The RWL, which "borrows" SL At a recent RWL/RSL conference, slogans and pins them to its own the bloc partners' "anti-fascist united strategy of opportunism, did not want front" strategy was exposed when an Against Fascism? the SL involved in the August 22 RSL speaker explained they did not protest. So it held a secret "united approach the powerful Detroit unions Workers Struggle "introduces" itself organize a broad, labor-eentered front" meeting with a few other small because the workers aren't ready. An with the claim that "in all its articles, mobilization of more than 1,200 which left organizations and decided to keep SL spokesman who helped build the Workers Struggle will do more than stopped the Nazis from "celebrating the SL out, while borrowing the SL's San Francisco anti-Nazi protest ex­ just report the facts." The problem is Hitler's birthday" in San Francisco on slogans and even the graphics from the plained the difference between the SL's that the RWL paper does considerably 19 April 1980. Twenty-two unions San Francisco protest posters. Now strategy of"labor/black mobilizations less. It lies, distorts and slanders. participated along with leftists and Workers Struggle claims the SL against KKK/Nazi terror" and the Consider Workers Struggle's front­ community groups, but the RWL "refused" to participate. In fact, the RWL's use of the same words. It is the page claim of"victory" for its so-called denounced this protest as "sectarian" RWL leafleted the River Rouge plant difference between revolutionaries "labor/black united front" against the and chose to participate in a much (where the RWL even has some whose program becomes action and Nazis in Detroit August 22-a "victo­ smaller splinter raliy of Democrats supporters) only as a token gesture at centrists whose words are borrowed ry" in which the cops protected the and Maoists meant to pressure the the eleventh hour. Was the RWL from the revolutionaries, but whose Klan/Nazis, charged the crowd, beat City Council while avoiding a "con­ afraid to raise their demo among deeds are those of cowardice and_ up protesters and arrested nine. The frontation" with the Nazis. workers? Were they politically op­ despair. The Spartacist speaker said: RWL claims the SL "refused to work Question: So why are these larger posed to appealing for working-class "We didn't call a little group meeting within the united fronL" mobilizations that reach out to labor support? Or were they afraid of of little left groups. We went to the unions in San Francisco, to the What are the facts? and blacks-and actually stop the alerting SL supporters in the plant to strength of the labor movement. We Fact: When the SL and worker fascists!-"sectarian" while an RWL the demonstration? went to the ILWU. we went to the militants at Ford's River Rouge demonstration where the cops beat up The RWL talks about "labor/black UAW, we went to all of the major initiated the 10 November 1979 mobi­ the leftists is a "victory"? mobilization" but their strategy is no unions. and we leafleted the plants. We got a united front of the labor lization of 500 in Detroit's Kennedy Answer: The RWL is a lot less less adventurist and despairing of the movement and that stopped the Nazis. Square, in response to the Klan's interested in stopping the fascist possibility of such mobilization than The Nazis were forced to cancel their threat to celebrate its Greensboro terrorists than they are in building a that of the Revolutionary Socialist march. They were unable to show massacre there, the RWL (then the slander campaign against the SL. League, their "united front" partner. their faces.... Labor marched in San RWG) dismissed the mobilization as a Regarding the August 22 demonstra­ Francisco on Hitler's birthday. Hit­ But unlike the RSL, the RWL lacks ler's birthday was no holiday in San "fraud" and "media hype." tion, the RWL participated in a even the necessary street courage for Francisco. It was the labor movement Fact: The Spartacist League helped "conspiracy of silence" not much this "strategy." Nor do these centrists that won!"

4 WORKERS VANGUARD Hands Off Philip-!gee, Covert Action! Down with CIA Cover- Up Bill!

The Reagan administration has around the world. But even the liberals was a Supreme Court decision on June launched a vendetta against anyone are worried about this one. Major 29, in "Haig v. Agee," to uphold the daring to expose the crimes of its secret bourgeois papers like the New York State Department's lifting of Philip police and spies. This campaign to Times instantly decried the new bill as Agee's passport, overturning the rulings refurbish the reputation of imperial­ "going too far"-every workingjournal­ of lower federal courts. The top court ism's hated spy/assassination!torture ist in the country is under threat of held that he is a person deemed likely experts in the CIA and elsewhere is part criminal penalties if the bill becomes "to endanger national security." Agee, and parcel of the anti-Soviet war drive law. Such exposes as the Watergate author of Inside the Company: A CIA and is intended to intimidate and silence affair (the original burglars included Diary and a member of Covert Action's CIA opponents. In an ominous new former CIA agents) or Seymour Hersh's advisory board, has been a thorn in the escalation of this campaign, the House detailed New York Times account ofthe side of the vindictive spooks ofLangley, Reagan seeks to clear the decks in of Representatives on September 23 bloody arms-dealing trail offormer CIA Virginia, who have hounded him out of preparation for World War III. But passed the "Intelligence Identities Pro­ agents Edwin Wilson and Francis Terpil country after country. Now they've got what the secret police and spies of tection Act," which makes it a crime for could be forbidden in the future and the Supreme Court on their side: any imperialism need most in order to carry anyone to reveal the name of any their authors imprisoned. Editorials U.S. citizen can have his passport taken out their deadly work is ... secrecy. present or former U.S. intelligence simultaneously expressed pious hopes away without any criminal charges What is most sinister about the new bill agent, whether or not that information that the bill could be declared unconsti­ against him, simply by administrative is the general climate of repression and is already publicly available. In fact, this tutional after all, while ostentatiously decree. Anybody Haig or Reagan thinks intimidation it is designed to enforce, in "official secrets act" would make it dissociating themselves as responsible is against them (and that's a lot of which the U.S. government and its illegal not simply to name names of bourgeois patriotic journalists from the people, these days) is now an open target hitmen can literally get away with government provocateurs and infiltra­ "Philip Agees of the world." for McCarthyite harassment. murder without anyone daring to raise a tors, but also to reveal anything which Already legal precedents for censor­ The Reaganauts hope these new laws voice in protest. could identify the spooks. It is intended ing critics of the CIA are in place. Even will put an end to the "Pentagon This campaign to smear and silence to put a stop to any and all exposures of gung-ho pro-CIA Frank Snepp, w_hose Papers/Watergate era" of widespread critics of the bloody American state and. the spy agencies' dirty work. Decent Interval devastatingly exposed disgust with the CIA's Murder, Inc. and its secretive, deadly agents must be Senator Jeremiah Denton, the Moral CIA incompetence in the last days ofthe intimidate more active exposers like stopped! Hands off Covert Action! Give Majority ofone, said that the purpose of Vietnam War, has been slapped down, Covert Action. Ofcourse the CIA, FBI, back Philip Agee's passport! Down with the bill was to shut down Covert Action, forced to turn over all profits from his NSA et al. intend to "refurbish" them­ the new witchhunters! It'll take proletar­ the Washington-based journal commit­ book to the CIA and submit to CIA selves in any case, with or without the ian revolution to put the CIA out of ted to uncovering CIA dirty work prior censorship. Even more dangerous benefit of protective legislation, as business! • L.A. Black Football Star Beaten to Death by Cops LOS ANGELES-Chanting "Police was dead. The cops said Settles hanged ber 12, and further protests have been kill in Signal Hill" and "Justice for Ron himself in his cell. They then proceeded announced. The bourgeois press has Settles," several hundred mainly black to destroy all radio tapes and written made the case front-page news as they students from California State Universi­ records of the arrest to cover up their hail the coroner'sjury verdict and grand­ ty at Long Beach demonstrated Septem­ crime. Settles' parents refuted the cop lie jury investigation as proof that "the ber 12 at the Signal Hill civic center. that their son was "suicidally system works." Of course, the inquest More than 100 armed sheriffs in full riot depressed"-the starathlete had already verdict. is not binding on the district gear manned barricades to prevent the been contacted by the Dallas Cowboys attorney, who is closely tied to the police demonstrators from marching on the and Seattle Seahawks in his junioryear. department, and the DA announced police station, instead bottling them up On September 3, a coroner'sjury ruled it some cops involved would be granted in nearby Hinshaw Park. Meanwhile was murder; subsequently a grand jury immunity in exchange for grand-jury SWAT team sharpshooters stood on investigation has been convened. The testimony. Meanwhile, none of the rooftops, police helicopters circled only real question was whether the police are being prosecuted. Neverthe­ overhead and undercover officers police choked Settles to death or strung less, the ever-so-respectable NAACP mingled in the crowd. No representative him up alive. urged Long Beach State students to be of the police department would accept a Cop terror and murder are common­ "cautious" with their protests and wary list of ten demands from the demonstra­ place in this deeply racist country, not of "outsider provocations." According tors, who called for arrest of the cops least in the Los Angeles area where to the Long Beach Press Herald (9 who refused to testify before an inquest paramilitary police run roughshod over September), local NAACP president on charges of murder. a large minority population including Frank Berry sent a letter to the Signal Ron Settles, a 21-year-old black an estimated one million "illegal aliens" Hill mayor and city council calling only Jail killer cops of Ron SeUles! running back at Cal State Long Beach, who have no legal rights at all. The tiny for the cops' temporary suspension (!) was killed this summer in his jail cell in 30-man police force in the mean little "until the case is considered closed by Los Angeles is an open-shop town, a Signal Hill, a small town bordering town of Signal Hill is a miniature model the Los Angeles County District Attor­ transplanted Southern industrial city. A Long Beach. On June 2, Settles was of the nationally infamous LAPD. The ney's office and the Central District of strong, militant labor movement and stopped by the local cops, supposedly officer who arrested Settles, Jerry Lee California, U. S. Attorney's office." this paramilitary police force could not for speeding. He was handcuffed, Brown, had been fired by the LAPD on Such faith in the workings of racist, long coexist. brutally clubbed on the legs and head misconduct and drug charges-and was' capitalist Americanjustice is dangerous. Race terror and union busting are and hauled offtojail. Two hours later he then hired by Signal Hill. Six years ago Ron Settles' murder is no isolated mounting ominously in Reagan's Amer­ he arrested one Ruben Carrillo, who incident. One only has to recall the ica. Like the anti-black, anti-labor was so savagely beaten with repeated Spartacist League Forum acquittal of the LA cop killers of black budget cuts-passed by a Democrat­ blows to the head that he collapsed in a gas station attendant Cornelius Tatums controlled House of Representatives­ coma from severe brain damage two and black housewife Eulia Love. ACLU these are the domestic face of the Smash U.S.lSouth Africa hours after being arrested. Carrillo figures reported to a Congressional bipartisan anti-Soviet war drive. And Anti-Soviet Racist Axis! remained comatose for two years, then investigating committee last year Los Angeles already has its black • South Africa Out of Angola! died. Again, just one week after the showed, that 123 people were-killed by Democratic mayor. Demands for more • Military Victory to SWAPO! Settles murder a second man, Jack Los Angeles police in a three-year investigations, calls for civilian review • For Workers Revolution in Brown, was found dead in the Signal period, yet not one cop was convicted. boards, reliance on the liberals and the Southern Africa! Hill jail. And in neighboring Long The futility of attempts to "reform" the courts cannot fight this climate of Film: "Last Grave at Dimbaza" Beach cops removed Keith Kouba from race-terrorists in blue was shown in the generalized reaction. What's necessary Speaker & Discussion a common cell and put him in solitary fa:nous LAPD shredding affair in which is to mobilize the power of labor, the Saturday, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m. confinement where he, too, died "from the department destroyed four and one­ social force which has the strength and Antioch School of Law hanging" on August 25. half tons of citizens' complaints under interest to sweep away racist capitalist Room 200 2633 16th Street NW. After this spree by kill-crazy cops, the guise ofdisposing of"miscellaneous "law and order," leading the black (between Euclid and Fuller. 1 block south of and with Reagan racism in the White records"! The official thugs of the masses and all of the oppressed in a Columbia Road) For more information: (212) 267-1025 House, the Settles murder has sparked capitalist state are only doing their job struggle for socialist revolution. That is outrage in the Los Angeles! Long Beach when they terrorize black ghettos and the only road to justice for the countless WASHINGTON, D.C. black community. One thousand dem­ break workers' strikes. The LA-area thousands of victims of cop terror. Jail onstrated July II, 300-plus on Septem- cops are particularly vicious because the kilJers of Ron Settles!.

9 OCTOBER 1981 5 Wall Street Journal Loves Poland's Company Union

Western imperialism figures it has an talist exploitation through bloody imperialist drive to "roll back" Commu­ mouthpiece ofthe American ruling class unprecedented opening in Poland, a counterrevolution. nism throughout the world. has in mind is not an exchange of chance to strike a blow against the It is no surprise that the anti­ In this context, the opening of a polemics on Poland, but a government USSR deep in its own sphere. From the Communist AFL-CIO bureaucracy, Solidarnosc office in New York at the assault on the right ofcommunists in the Pentagon to the Common Market forged in the 1950s McCarthy period headquarters of Albert Shanker's teach­ labor movement to challenge the pro­ Commission to the Vatican, the forces when "reds" and militants were forcibly ers' union on September 24 was a capitalist line of the American labor of reaction are egging on Solidarnosc in purged from the labor movement, is graphic symbol of Polish Solidarity's' bureaucracy. The article ends with an its recent call for "free trade unions" deeply involved in this enterprise. With application for membership in the "free unmistakable threat: "Anyone seeking throughout Eastern Europe. In the a zeal which recalls their ultra-hawk world." And outside the press confer­ to delegitimize" the AFL-CIO's crusade mouths of these certified labor-haters, stance for U.S. imperialism's dirty war ence which celebrated this event, the for "political freedom" "should be the call for "free trade unions," long against Vietnam, the American union Trotskyists of the Spartacist League aware ofjust how serious an attack he is the fighting slogan of Cold War tops are up to their necks in the U.S. demonstrated against Solidarnosc' launching." anti-Communism, really means "free government's schemes to manipulate counterrevolutionary course, demand­ The threat is no less ominous because enterprise": the .restoration of capi- the Polish crisis as a spearhead of the ing "No 'Rollback'!-No Capitalist it leaves implicit the mechanisms of Restoration in Eastern Europe!" Ap­ repression envisioned by the editors. Is pealing to the socialist and internation­ the editorial's title, "Communists and I~ WAL~.~~.~~~t alist traditions of the Polish workers the AFL-CIO," intended to evoke an ITHE JOURNAL. movement of Rosa Luxemburg, the intensification of McCarthyite witch­

.. [.«TU. ,pm"" TL&"In:\y. SF:fYJ'EMBEH. :;9, 1981 P1a"'1:ro" J'fp J-. protesters exposed the "solidarity" hunting against communists in the trade between Solidarnosc and the unions? Nor should anyone miss the AFL-CIO tops as brokered by the CIA. sinister import of the Wall Street Communists and the AFL-CIO For example, Lech Walesa extended Journal's suggestion that our demon­ AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland an stration was inspired by the Russian Poland's Solidarity movement is Counterspy was not .the last source invitation to visit Poland in the com­ Stalinists. The notion of Trotskyists as holding the second stage of its national to strike this theme. Just a little While pany of the notorious Irving Brown, some kind of Russian agents may be convention in Gdansk without the ago, broadcasts from the Soviet Union long-time creature of the CIA whose ludicrous, but you can be sure the social presence of one of its best known in­ could be heard denouncing Solidarity's credentials as "AFL-CIO European democrats will not be far behind the vited guests: Lane Kirkland, presideht American connection and cutely refer­ representative" furnish the "labor" Wall Street Journal in painting us as of the AFL-ClO. Mr. Kirkland had pre­ ring to Lane Kirkland as among the cover for his decades-long career of sinister Stalinist spies, the better to pared a speech to deliver to the Soli­ "chief stockholders" in the Polish dis­ provocation and gangsterism against cement their own united front with the darity meeting, but at the last minute sident movement. Over on this side of the European labor movement.' The CIA. the Communist government of PDland the ocean, when Solidarity recently Spartacist demonstrators carried pla­ What is perhaps most interesting refused to grant visas to him and his opened an office in New York, a re­ cards like "Reagan smashes PATCO about the editorial is that it makes no AFL-CIO delegation. This is no big spectably-sized group of demonstra­ American Union, Loves Solidarnosc" attempt to claim that the accusations surprise, really; American labor's tors was organized to picket the open­ and chanted "Kirkland/Shanker/ about the "AFL-CIA" are anything but support for Solidarity has gravely em­ ing in protest against the American Brown-CIA Stooges." barrassed Warsaw, and the Polish imperialism it allegedly represented. true. "How easy it is," says the Wall The protest was covered by a couple government keeps trying to discredit Street Journal. "to make lists ofthe CIA the effort. It is also sadly unsurprising American labor is indeed aiding of local TV stations but was blacked out connections: the parallel aims, the that the Polish Communists are get­ the' Solidarity movement, openly and by the networks and the newspapers. instances of collaboration, the commu­ Then the devoted ting help here in the U.S. unashamedly. It has a long history of Wall Street Journal nications and shared acquaintance­ the lead editorial in its You can get an idea of how the an­ fighting Communist domination of la­ 29 September ships." And how easy it is! Irving Brown ti-AFL campaign is working by taking bor movements. It learned early in the issue to a sharp attack on those who was American imperialism's main man a look at a recent issue of Counterspy, game that Communist parties and dare to expose the common thread in Western Europe after World War 11, a Washington-based magazine that free unions are natural mortal ene­ linking the American labor bureaucra­ where he used CIA dollars to plant proclaims itself devoted to exposing mies, more violently so because free cy's political and financial support to agents, buy officials and hire goons to the nefarious work of the CIA and its unions, more than any other free insti­ Solidarnosc with the U.S. State split, smash and subdue combative agents of American imperialism wher­ tution, threaten Communist claims to Department/CIA appetites for counter­ unions. And talk about "parallel ever they roam in the world. An arti­ legitimacy. When American labor revolution in Poland. After several aims"-Albert Shanker's outfit, "Social cle in the magazine is straightfor­ goes head to head with Communists, paragraphs dismissing an expose ofCIA D~mocrats, USA," was an una­ wardly titled "AFL-ClO: Trojan Horse the obvious counterattack for the involvement in AFL-CIO "aid" to shamed Vietnam hawk after even Nixon in Polish Unions. ", A special editorial Communists is to claim that American unions internationally which 'appeared gave it up as a lost cause; Shanker nQw introduction to the article put the the­ labor is an arm of the American gov­ in CounterSpy magazine more than six joins with Kirkland in the right-wing sis just as straightforwardly: In coun­ ernment, manipulated by the, CIA. months ago, the editorial says: militarist "Committee on the Present try after country, "AFL-ClO aid has How easy it is to make lists of the CIA "Counterspy was not the last source to Danger," whose program is a nuclear invariably had the ulterior motive of ,connections: the parallel aims, the in­ strike this theme. Just a little while ago, first-strike against the USSR. establishing, securing and expanding stances of collaboration, the communi­ broadcasts from the Soviet Union could Simply put, the Wall Street Journal's cations and shared acquaintanceships. be heard denouncing Solidarity's Amer­ U.S. corporate and strategic inter­ ican connection and cutely referring to line is: CIA'! Sure, but so what? Albert ests." How easy to use the list to try to dis­ Lane Kirkland as among the 'chief Shanker, in his "Where We Stand" How do we know this is true? For credit the AFL-ClO enterprise in Po­ stockholders' in the Polish dissident column in the October 4 Sunday Nev... one thing, says Counterspy, we have land, and more important, to try to ex­ movement. Over on this side of the York Times "Week in Review" section, ocean, when Solidarity recently opened before us the record of American la­ punge the colossal embarrassment takes the same tack. Shanker quotes Solidarity represents to world-wide an office in New York, a respectably­ bor's reactionary efforts in Latin sized group of demonstrators was Radio Moscow's charge that Shanker's America. In Guatemala, George communism. organized to picket the opening in union "annually receives $100,000 from Meany worked with CIA-connected or­ protest against the American imperial­ the CIA for international contacts and This is a very dirty business we are ism it allegedly represented." ganizations to undermine the properly dealing with. American-labor has been activities." "Totally false," says Shank­ progressive, truly, "labor-oriented" active on the international scene in or­ The Wall Street Journal editorial er, who goes on to boast ofthe money he forces in the country., In the Domini­ der to further its own perfectly legiti­ which attacks ourdemonstration is more gets from the Agency for International can Republic, the AFL-ClO set up an mate purposes. One result ants activi­ than a political statement. What this continued on page 9 organization that "ran propaganda ties has been to expose, time after units as well as goon squads against time, the gulf between Communist in­ the legitimate unions." terests and worker interests. This ex­ And, comrades, this is no accident. posure has often worked to the benefit Counterspy tells us that AFL-ClO offi­ of eln activist U.S. foreign policy, and cials have always denied working with opponents of such a policy have rea­ the CIA or taking CIA money for their son to want to tarnish the whole con­ activities, but these denials "ring hol­ nection. low." After all, do we not have the tes­ timony of a former CIA official who But they should not be allowed to says he actually handed over bucks to do so easily. While the American labor an AFL representative? Do we not movement has at times in recent know that the CIA read the mail of years identified itself too closely with high labor personnel "in order to mon­ political parties and administrations itor their handling of CIA money"? for our liking, on the whole it remains So when we see American labor at a free and independent force pitting work in Poland, we should know that its weight against state power both in we're not viewing anything like an ex­ the U.S. and abroad. Its efforts on be­ pression of genuine solidarity among half of political freedom are thus sig­ the working classes. Instead, what nific'ant. Anyone seeking to delegitim­ we've got is just another variation on ize its performance in this realm a decades-old American capitalist should be aware of just how serious an plot. attack he is launching. WV Photo "State Department socialists" flank zipped-lip Solidarnosc spokesman.

6 WORKERS VANGU/; SL Protests Solidarnosc ... (continued/rom page J) attend his congress in Gdansk. "It is well-documented that Brown is a notorious CIA operator who has dis­ rupted militant European unions with gangsterism and corruption since the 1940s," said the release, adding: "The Spartacist League warned that Solidarnosc is making a bid for power in Poland and offering itself as an agent of counterrevolution throughout East Europe on the Cold War platform of 'free elections' and 'free trade unions.' These are standard CIA propaganda ploys under the guise of which the U.S. has crushed labor unions and over­ thrown leftist governments from Chile to Indonesia." The Spartacist demonstration caused a stir among journalists arriving at UFT headquarters. A Time magazine report­ er shouted, "Long live the counterrevo­ lution!" as she went in the door. Upstairs a group of Poles was buzzing about "Trotskyists." This was a demo with a sharp, angular Spartacist slogans (some in Polish and Russian) at september 24 demonstration: message: "Polish Solidarnosc­ Running Dog of Imperialism" and "Reagan, Haig: Hands Off Poland!" No Rollback! No Capitalist Restoration in Eastern Europe! Two slogans directed against Polish Polish SOlidarnosc-Agents of Counterrevolution nationalism received particular atten­ Social Democrats and the AFL-CIO Front for CIA in Poland, Too! tion: "Death to Pilsudskiite Anti­ Semites!" and "600,000 Red Army Reagan Smashes PATCO American Union, Loves Solidarnosc! Soldiers Fell Liberating Poland from Reagan and Haig: Hands Off Poland! the German Nazis!" Walesa & Co. would have opposedthat historic Soviet For Class Struggle Workers Parties-In Poland and America! victory, which laid the basis for tremen­ Don't Sell Poland to the German Bankers! dous social and economic progress in post-war Poland, as anti-Communists PolishSolidarnosc-Runnlng Dog of Imperialism did at the time. Polish reporters noted 600,000 Red Army Soldiers Fell Liberating Poland from the German Nazis the sign, "Long Live the Party of For Military Defense of the Soviet Bloc against Imperialism! Luxemburg, Jogiches, Warski, Walecki & Wera Kostrzewa!" Luxemburg and Death to Pilsudskilte Anti-Semites! Jogiches, Polish internationalist leaders Warynski, Not Wojtyla! of the Communist Party in Germany, were murdered by the Social Democrat­ Long Live the Party of Luxemburg, Jogiches, Warskl, Walecki & Wera Kostrzewa! ic government in the "Spartacus upris­ Stalinism Undermines the Workers'States-For Trotskyist Workers Parties to Power! ing" of 1919; the "three W's" were the founders of the Communist Party of For Rebirth of the Trotskyist Fourth International! Poland, later dissolved (and its leaders shot) by Stalin on charges of Trotsky­ ism. Another placard read, "Warynski, Przetakiewicz: I don't know, but I Polish emigres it is associated with. To stdewalk. Here was something to report might ask, in your name, if you like. Not Wojtyla"-for the father of the first repeated questions about where the about: socialists, in fact Trotskyists, Polish socialist party, Proletariat, not When another reporter asked about money for his office was coming from, protesting Polish "Solidarity." The the present anti-Commuhist Polish PATCO, he too was rebuffed. And Przetakiewicz talked of the cheap $290­ Shachtmanite'ladies ofthe UFT appara­ pope. A sign in Polish said, "Reagan when they did ask about the opening of a-month rent from the UFT, made tus with their Solidarnosc buttons Smashes PATCO American Union, the office, Przetakiewicz said it did not vague references to "student contribu­ stomped around complaining about the Loves Solidarnosc." Another in represent Solidarnosc, he himself was tions" and spoke of a "start-up loan" press attention being given to the SL Russian proclaimed: "For Military not a spokesman for Solidarnosc, that from the AFL-CIO. But as Peter Kihss demonstration. Several TV channels Defense of the Soviet Bloc Against he could make no comment on the noted in the New York Times (25 shot film clips and statements were Imperialism!" Polish situation, nor could he talk about September), the Solidarnosc operation given to the New York Times, the Post, At the press conference, Solidarnosc the U.S. here will cost about $15,000 to $18,000 a Daily News, UPI, Reuters and other American representative Zgmunt Prze­ The Solidarnosc non-representative month just for the telex communica­ agencies, and several radio stations. But takiewicz quickly managed to alienate had good reason to be cagey, it turns tions. All from "subscriptions"? from all this, virtually nothing about the virtually the entire NYC press corps by out. According to his statement, the Przetakiewicz made a special point of demonstration came out in print or on refusing to answer any substantive NYC office will be a "wholly indepen­ thanking a number of people for their the air. Outside the U.S. it was news: the questions. WVasked for a comment on dent" "self-governing" non-profit corpo­ "support and help and advice during Toronto Globe and Mail printed two the fact that: ration called "The Friends of Poland's these first difficult days in America." He paragraphs; the London Daily Mailalso WV: American socialists are demon­ Independent Trade Union, 'Solidarity,' singled out: carried it. Inside the U.S., however, strating and saying that Solidarity is Inc." with Przetakiewicz as president. "Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL­ there were only a couple of lines in counterrevolutionary.... How do you On its board are Bayard Rustin, CIO and his assistant, Tom Kahn; Newsday, a brief interview on a small explain Solidarity's close ties with chairman of the A. Philip Randolph Albert Shanker, president of the UFT, independent NYC television channel. known CIA men in the labor movement Institute, and Tadeusz Waldendowski and his wife Edie and secretary Yetta They obviously didn't get the word, like Irving Brown? Barsh; Susan Glass, UFT director of Przetakiewicz: I would like just a of the Poland Watch Center in Wash­ public relations; Bayard Rustin...." because this story was spiked. question concerning the opening of the ington, D.C. Rustin has long been a office. spokesman for Freedom House, a CIA­ It sounded like a "Who's Who" of the U.S. imperialism has gone all out to WV: Reagan is attempting to break the associated propaganda outlet for anti­ social-democratic Meanyite Cold War build up Solidarnosc as a "democratic" American air controllers union Soviet liberals. As for the shadowy brain trust. If you don't know the opposition to Stalinism. With its "press" PATCO ... for striking against the players without a scorecard, Kirkland is offices, its U.S. dollars funneled government. Why has Solidarity been "Poland Watch," nobody seems to silent on this') know which nest of "captive nations" also a member of the anti-Soviet through the AFL-CIO, its echoing of militarist Committee on the Present Cold War propaganda, Polish "Solidar­ Danger; Kahn is a top leader ofSDUSA ity" has become an instrument of the ,:,;~i;·~ and editor of the AFL-C10 Free Trade capitalists' crusade, more than six ~~>:4 Union News; and Yetta Barsh is the decades old, to overturn the social and ...... ~1.1J'.l widow of Max Shachtman, who broke economic achievements won by the ~1YtJ,. with the Trotskyist movement in 1940 Russian October Revolution. And they s , refusing to defend the Soviet degenerat­ don't want any Western socialists 7IWARYNSKr=~ ed workers state against imperialism fouling up the works by exposing the and ended up in the morass of "State counterrevolutionary danger for what it . NO" tu...~ The dem- 'I 'I ~/ onstration the Department socialism." in the end, is. Newsmen reported that, 'on more TYL~l~··. Przetakiewicz needed a good deal of than one occasion, references to the ·WO"." ~Ii., blackedbourgeoisout.press help from his "AFL-CIA" friends. Spartacist demonstration in stories on r 0" Silver-tongued Rustin tried to smooth the opening of the NYC Solidarnosc ;if! over the rough spots ("what Ziggy office were cut out by the editors. This meant to say ...") and chairman Sue was a blackout. That is, until five clays Glass repeatedly tried to end the fiasco, later, when the Wall Street JOl!1l1al finally warning her Polish protege, published its threatening edirora.:, "don't you dare" take another question. "Communists and the AFL-CIO .­ As reporters streamed out of the non­ made it clear who the Americar J~, .~ conference there was commotion on the 01 Polish Solidarnosc are.•

OCT08, i' lI1come taxes by 30 percent, to do Wall Street critics, Sam Nakagama, put In just eight months Reagan has Wall Street... nothing to hurt "the truly needy," to it: "When you are trying to have a managed to enrage everyone from the (continued/rom page 1) achieve full employment, to reduce massive rearmament program and are Kremlin to the West German Social break the power ofthe trade unions. The inflation to a trickle and still balance the facing Social Security entitlements for Democracy to the AFL-CIO to Wall th~ result: a collapse in industrial produc­ budget by 1984. How was this miracle of an aging population, someone has to Street and National Association of tion worse than the Great Depression of the loaves and the fishes to be accom­ pay for this" ( World Business Weekly, Home Builders. Not even Adolf Hitler the 1930s. Last summer this hated Tory plished? Some call it voodoo economics; 21 September).' Nakagama and his antagonized so many centers of power, government was shaken as thousands of Reagan calls it "supply-side" econom­ colleagues would be quite happy to see domestic and foreign, in his first months jobless youth, black and white, battled ics. Cut taxes enough, he claim-ed, and the MX missiles and B-1 bombers paid in office. this would stimulate such a vast out­ for by black school children going with cops and set impoverished neigh­ A Return to the Gold Standard? borhoods aflame in almost every major pouring of work effort and capital without their lunches, but alas the investment that national income would city in England. Retreating into a ghetto poor don't have enough money No one believes Reagan will balance increase enough to restore the old total bunker mentality, Thatcher has since to be soaked. So America's capitalists the budget ever, and everyone thinks the tax revenue, even more. purged her cabinet of the so-called understand that one way or another V.S. and world economy is set for a new "wets," who want to relax the economic surge of inflation. But cultists and austerity and pump a little money into con men are used to dealing with a loss the blighted neighborhoods. She is now of public credibility. The "supply-side" setting out for a decisive showdown with quacks, like Arthur Laffer, are now the labor movement and her legion of peddling a return to the gold standard as enemies among the British people. the latest cure-all for the capitalist Britain's capitalists are deeply pessimis­ world's economic ills. Reportedly Rea­ tic, not only fearing that Thatcher's gan, who seemingly learned his econom­ unrelenting monetarism will further ics in Disneyland, is sympathetic to a depress production, but that it will I return to gold. trigger a social conflagration of which What would the restoration of the the burning of Liverpool 8 was but a gold standard, if it were possible (which small prelude. it isn't), mean? The primary condition Across the Channel the Paris bourse for the pre-World War I gold standard was reacting to a ....ery different sort of was a labor movement too weak to resist government. Years ofeconomic austeri­ periodic cuts in money wages. In the ty and ever-mounting unemployment nineteenth century if Britain or France under the haut bourgeois Giscard ran a balance-of-payments deficit, the produced a landslide victory last May central bank lost gold. The central bank for social democrat Francois Mitter­ would then automatically call in loans, rand, who promised Keynesian meas­ contract the money supply, raise interest ures to stimulate the economy and an rates, etc. Some firms would have to cut ambitious program of nationalizations back production, others would go and other economic and social reforms. bankrupt. In the absence ofstrong trade While no one questions Mitterrand's ~3¥" --~. unions, increasing unemployment or commitment to capitalist rule and to _-' even the threat of it forced workers to NATQ anti-Sovietism (he's building John Branch accept a cut in money (and real) wages, San Antonio Express-News nuclear weapons like a small-time in this way restoring the country's Reagan), the French bourgeoisie believe international competitiveness and gold. his economic policies are highly infla­ Of course, no banker in the world they're going to have to pay for part of That is how the gold standard worked. tionary and are displeased at the extent believed this patent nonsense and (even this. World War I basically destroyed the of the nationalizations. Thus, French as they were praising the new "pro­ If the Federal Reserve keeps its foot gold standard not only because all the capitalists are quite capable of going on business" president) interest rates on hard on the monetary brake, the combatants financed the unprecedented strike, i.e., not investing, under a Wall Street shot up anticipating the massive government b~rrowing will military expenditure by running the government they regard as too radical. great "Reagan inflation" to come. These certainly "crowd out" corporate bond printing presses, but also because their Shades of Allende's Chile. record-high interest rates sucked in offerings, not to speak of mortgage working classes. in part inspired by the While capitalists are for different speculative capital (e.g., Arab oil mon­ loans. Reputable and profitable busi­ Russian Revolution, emerged as a reasons unhappy with the right-wing ey) from financial markets throughout nesses will have to pay interest rates contender for power. Traditional defla­ crusaders Reagan/Thatcher and the the world. Thus, Reaganomics pro­ traditionally associated with Mafia loan tionary wage slashing became too reformist Socialist Mitterrand, neither duced an excruciating dilemma for West sharks. If, on the other hand, the Fed politically difficult and dangerous. are they happy with the Bonn govern­ European governments, one aggravated reverses its tight money policy (and the Enumerating the main changes in the ment, long considered the most stable, by recessionary conditions on the betting is that it will), then the rate of world economy in the post-World War I pragmatic and effective government in continent. If they do not raise interest inflation will once more spiral up period the liberal American economist the Western world. For the past twelve rates correspondingly, they will suffer toward Latin American banana­ Charles Kindleberger singles out "an years the coalition led by Brandt/ massive capital flight, enormous republic levels, devaluing money capi­ increased reluctance by labor to accept Schmidt's Social Democrats (SPD) has balance-of-payments deficits and a tal. Small wonder the financial commu­ wage decreases after about 1921, overseen the rise of West Germany as rapidly depreciating currency which will nity has proved to be the strongest making for an irreversibility of wage the dominant country in capitalist generate domestic inflation. If they do obstacle to Reagan's economic policies. and price increases" (The World in Europe. But now a severe and pro­ raise interest rates to New York levels The Wall Street vs. White House feud Depression 1929-1939 [1973]). Since the longed recession threatens to rip the more or less, this will choke off new has some of the stu~f of political satire. 1920s and especially since World War II coalition apart. The small bourgeois­ investment, none too robust in any case. Right-wing Republicans now sound like capitalists have generally intensified the liberal Free Democratic Party wants to This dilemma is especially acute in William Jennings Bryan-style populists rate of exptoitation by holding money slash West Germany's relatively high West Germany, which has a relatively as they denounce Wall Street cabals and wage increases below the inflation rate. social-welfare benefits '11 la Reaganj low rate of inflation by international threaten the big moneymen with puni­ This, incidentally, is a key element in the Thatcher, while the SPD wants to standards (about 6 percent over the past tive taxation. In turn, Democratic Party so-called Keynesian revolution in bour­ increase public spending to reduce year). If the Bundesbank jacks up national chairman Charles Mannatt geois economic thinking._ unemployment, even if this means interest rates high enough to prevent a invites the country's bankers and stock A return to the gold standard could raising taxes. The West German press is capital outflow to New York, West brokers as the latest oppressed group to work only if it produced a depression so full of anticipatory obituaries for the German industrialists and consumers join the grand anti-Reagan coalition: deep and prolonged the trade unions SchmidtjGenscher regime and specula­ will be paying an extraordinary real cost "The nation's financial community has would not resist a large cut in money tions that the FOP will switch partners (interest rates minus the rate ofinflation) joined women, minority members, wages, thus allowing a lower price level. to form a new government with the on borrowed funds. We now have "the labor, and conservationists in being The gold standard is one form-an right-wing Christian Democrats on a highest rates of interest in Germany jolted to the full implications of an extreme form-of deflationary mone­ program of economic austerity. since the birth of Christ, as far as real unrestrained Reagan administration" tarism. This is clearly understood by the The respected bourgeois economist interest rates are concerned," exclaimed (New York Times, 11 September)! high priest of right-wing monetarism, Edward Bernstein, one of the men who Helmut Schmidt in one ofhis numerous In their glee at finding Wall Street Milton Friedman, who dismisses the in 1944 designed the Bretton Woods tirades against Reagan's policies (New denouncing their arch-enemy, Reagan, gold standard as irrelevant in the real international monetary accords, saw in York Times, 21 July). many liberals (and even reformists) world: the panicky selling on the world stock The one-sided "interest rate war" overlook the "small point" that the "It may well be that in order to stabilize markets "renewed fears of a worldwide quite dominated the international eco­ financiers are opposing the right-wing prices you will have to go through a depression" (New York Times, 29 nomic summit in Ottawa last July. president from the right. In general, recession. That has been the experience September). Bernstein is surely right Rel;lgan smiled prettily and basically of most countries that have stopped America's bankers and industrialists inflation. Ifit is not political~l' possible about that. The basic conditions which told his European critics they would have no quarrel with Reagan's drive to accept that cure without a gold produced Blue Monday will not go have to eat it. The ritual summit toward nuclear first-strike capacity standard, it will not be politically away-two years or so of stagflation declaration conceded that "interest rates against the Soviet Vnion, only with how possible to do it with a gold standard." and declining profit rates in West in one country can make stabilization [our emphasis] it is to be financed. Chemical Bank vice -Business Week, 21 September Europe and the V.S. with no recovery in policies more difficult in other coun­ president Thomas Johnson, for exam­ sight, record-high interest rates devas­ tries," but didn't indicate the V. S. would ple, is calling for cuts in Social Security Milton Friedman's "Cure": tating long-term capita~ investment, do a damn thing about it. While Reagan programs to balance the budget. The Washington's unrestrained military could tell Thatcher, "I love you, Mag­ Pinochet's Chile, Thatcher's Congressional Budget Office estimates Britain expenditure destabilizing the entire gie" (and Schmidt, I don't love you, that without further cuts, Reagan will world economy. The capitalists are in Helmut), back home Wall Street could run a $160 billion deficit by 1984. Wall We can see what political conditions trouble. neither be charmed, bullied nor ignored. Street is talking in terms of trimming he's talking about in that first living military expenditure around $30 billion. laboratory of Friedmanite economics, "Highest Interest Rates Since The Wrath of Wall Street To balance the budget then will require General Pinochet's Chile. Not long after Jesus Christ" One thing bankers understand very cutbacks in social-welfare programs the 1973 coup in which 30,000 workers Reagan promised to restore military well is that there is no such thing as a free approximately three times the savage and leftists were massacred and the superiority over the Russians, to cut lunch. As one of Reagan's more acerbic cuts Reagan has already made! labor movement beheaded, Friedman 8 WORKERS VANGUARD an October 2 public television special backed counterrevolutionary enter­ tion. Carter/Brzezinski's role as a bridge Poland's titled "Specter Haunting Communism: prise. Our aim is not merely to expose between post-Vietnam imperialist par­ Polish Workers." The ad for the the unholy alliance between the U.S. alysis and Reagan/Haig's wild anti­ program in the October 2 New York government and the American labor Soviet warmongerine was most clearly Company Times gloated: "When Karl Marx urged officialdom, but to break that alliance exposed in Afghanistan like EI Salva­ workers to unite, he never dreamed through the forging of a class-struggle dor, points where the Cold War is Union ... they'd do it against communism." And union leadership which will militantly running hottest. The Kremlin bureauc­ (continued from page 6) who paid for the TV show? DuPont's oppose U.S. imperialism's sinister racy, meanwhile, which still clings to Conoco oil company, product of the schemes to export counterrevolution.• illusions in "detente" with "peace­ Development, frequently a conduit for world's biggest capitalist merger. This loving" imperialists, is reaping the CIA "counterinsurgency" which has friend of Solidarnosc is, among other rewards of past betrayals. Arms squan­ financed operations from Guatemala to things, one of America's big coal dered upon capitalist Egypt to buy Thailand. For Shanker, there's nothing companies. A comparison of its safety u.s. Arms Anwar Sadat's favor are now being used unholy about an alliance between the record with that of the Polish coal mines to kill Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan. American labor tops and the American should explode any idea that Solidar­ And the Chinese, similarly following the nose and its American patrons are Afghans... nationalist logic of Stalinism, have supporters of workers' rights! (continuedfrom page 2) thrown themselves into an increasingly The spectacle of the Wall Street overt anti-Soviet military alliance with . When Journal, a main ideological voice of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia did most of the Washington. This counterrevolutionary U.S. bourgeoisie, posturing as a parti­ bankrolling. "The Egyptians have pro­ axis, which threatens the existence of ··Karll\1arx san of a "free and independent" Ameri­ vided training for the Afghan guerrilla the Chinese deformed workers state as urgedw()rkers to can labor movement is certainly ob­ fighters and serve as the major source of well, is engaging in provocations which scene. But no more obscene than a arms-supplying weapons obtained could plunge the world into nuclear . unite, be never Polish "union" which looks for salva­ from the Soviet Union during the years holocaust. tion to the U.S. imperialist-led "free of Egyptian-Soviet friendship, and tons Today, General Haig again demands .dreaitled they'd world," the pope ... and now even the of replicated Soviet armaments, turned a Soviet pullout from this region vital to do it-against International Monetary Fund! Is there a out in factories on the outskirts of the defense of the USSR as the price for union leader anywhere else in the world Cairo." Pakistan, with the personal a "working relationship" with the West. communism. who would dare to so openly make ,~:i approval of President Zia, allowed the In a recent speech he alleges that, "The common cause with the international weapons to be transshipped into Af­ Soviet Union still prefers to promote a bankers' cartel? If the IMF ever gets a ghanistan. The role ofChina, in particu­ bizarre theme: that the United States is See "Specter Haunting Communism: chance to implement its program for lar, was hushed up. When Carter's war unwilling to negotiate about questions Polish Workers" on Poland, it will surely begin by starving secretary Harold Brown visited Peking, of critical international concern; that Ben Wattenberg At Large most of the Polish population. Ameri­ writes Bernstein, "the secret part of his the U. S. wants a return to the Cold War; Fri., Oct. 2, 9:30 pm, Channel 13 can workers may not understand the toll agenda dealt primarily with Afghani­ that the U.S. is the source of the trouble in human suffering and death contained stan.... 'We let it be known we were in Afghanistan" (New York Times, 12 \lade ('O~<'ihle In part by a grant.. from beneath those initials, but workers all going to do certain things. They let it be August). Bizarre indeed! Slipping Ka­ over the globe know what the IMF known they were going to do certain lashnikovs across mountain passes to means. Pinochet's bloody coup in Chile things. There was an implicit mullah-led feudal clericalists in Afghan­ was for the purpose of making the agreement'.... The Chinese agreed to istan is only part of the imperialists' Counterrevolutionary friends of country "safe" for the 1M F. If Conoco permit overflights of their territory for drive to "roll back" social revolutions Solidarnosc. and the IMF ever get their hands on planes carrying arms bound eventually that have wrenched a third of the world Poland, Polish miners will be lucky to for Afghanistan. The Chinese also from the grip of capitalist exploitation. government; it's a legitimate anti­ live long enough to get black lung. Lech would help supply the SAM-7s [anti­ While the bulk of the left marched to Communist united front stretching Walesa's affection for the IMF is the aircraft missiles] and RPG anti-tank Carter's tune, the iSt proclaimed that in from the UFT office to Langley. clearest possible demonstration of rockets." the military confrontation pitting Soviet Virginia and blessed by the Wall Street Solidarnosc' real role as a company "The Reagan administration has soldiers backing the left-nationalist Journal to boot. union for the CIA and the bankers. since reviewed the clandestine operation regime in Kabul against imperialist­ American social democracy stands in The Spartacist League's defense of and ordered it expanded," the article backed counterrevolutionaries, Marx­ the front line of a broad counterrevolu­ the workers movement demands the reports. But no matter how fanatical the ists side with the Russian tanks. Now tionary chorus of Solidarnosc fans. An most vigorous protest against the pro­ nuclear sabre-rattling of the Republi­ more than ever: Hail Red Army in intimate of Shanker's Social Demo­ capitalist American labor tops' witting cans, they inherited this operation from Afghanistan! Smash Carter/Reagan's crats, USA, one Ben Wattenberg, hosted collusion in Solidarnosc' imperialist- the previous Democratic administra- anti-Soviet W

himself visited Chile to explain his And what of the second living not supplement monetary policy with nothing to offer the working people economic "shock treatment" to its new laboratory of Friedmanite economics, the executioner's bullet and the tortur­ except impoverishment, oppression and leaders. Friedman counseled Pinochet Thatcher's Britain? As in Chile, there is er's electric shock, much as they might war. The British working class hates to harden his heart to humanitarian a collapse in industrial production and like to. Here then is the critical differ­ Thatcher, as increasingly the American concern: mass unemployment. In the past two ence between the right-wing regime in working class hates Reagan. These "Don't worry about your international years manufacturing output has fallen Chile and Britain or the U.S. Those despised and isolated right-wing re­ image any more, Mr. President. Just 17 percent, a steeper fall than in the British workers who have held theirjobs gimes can and must be brought down. make sure that the international corpo­ rations find it profitable here, and worst period ofthe 1930s. Over a million have kept their money wage increases But this will prove no real victory for the nothing more." manufacturing jobs have been lost, roughly in line with inflation. At the working masses if they are only replaced Here is how the New York Times (21 almost one in seven of those employed shop floor level militants have prevent­ by the same Labourite social democracy March 1976) described the Chilean and more than all the jobs lost in the ed speed-up, attacks on safety rules and and Democratic Party liberalism which economy after more than two years previous twenty years. What of the other means of intensifying the rate of paved the way for the right-wing under Friedman's cure: declared goal of Thatcher's great de­ exploitation. Between Thatcher's relent­ fanatics. "Last year the gross national product pression, to squeeze the inflationary less monetarism and a still-strong labor As capitalists throughout the world declined by more than 12 percent. ... pressure out of the economy? When movement Britain's capitalists are in a talk of a second Great Depression and Unemployment, which is climbing Thatcher took office in May 1979 sorry condition indeed. Excluding the_ imperialist powers, led by the United above 16 percent, has reached its most consumer prices had risen 14 percent North Sea oil, the rate of return on States, drive toward nuclear war against dramatic level in three decades. Malnu­ trition is widespread in the urban over the previous year. Today, despite British industrial and commercial capi­ the Soviet Union, the words of Leon slums." the enormops unemployed productive tal has been halved, from an anemic 6 Trotsky in 1938 retain all oftheirforce: Even Business Week (12 January 1976), capacity, despite the bankrupting of percent in 1978 to a marginal 3 percent "Without a socialist revolution, in the scarcely a voice of liberal protest, hundreds of firms, despite the impover­ in 1980 (Economist, 4 July). Given this next period at that, a catastrophe recognized that only a brutal military ishment of whole sections of the pitiful rate of return, Britain's industri­ threatens the whole culture of man­ dictatorship could fully impose the population, the inflation rate is effec­ alists would just as well spend their kind." What is needed for the victory'of Friedmanite economic model: "Coun­ tively unchanged at 12 percent (Econo­ money at the race track (as many do). that socialist revolution is the leadership mist, 26 September). tries that try the cold-turkey approach Socialism or Barbarism of a Leninist vanguard. Under revolu­ to inflation therefore tend, like Brazil But unlike Chile, the British trade tionary leadership the international and Chile, to be regimes that use police unions have not been broken through Thatcher's Britain and Reagan's working class can sweep away the power to contain the social fallout of mass terror. Unlike fellow Friedmanite America represent the dramatic decay Reagans, Thatchers and Pinochets these economic policies." Pinochet, Thatcher (and Reagan) can- of the capitalist system, which has forever. •

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• Fremont GM Militants Say~ "We Need aSitdown!" We reprint below a September 24 the 1,500 facing permanent unemploy­ ING! All we've gotten is bullshit about The brothers and sisters on layoff leaflet distributed by the Militant ment now, but for the remaining 3,900 "retraining" for "new careers" and how now facing loss of their jobs would Caucus and other members of United in passenger and skilled trades. We had the "flov/' will go from truck to support the sitdown. They and the Auto Workers (UAW) Local 1364 better understand that without truck passenger. Their position is whatever families of all union members could calling for a sit-down strike to prevent production, Fremont becomes solely GM wants. GM gets. So since G M's organize mass picket lines outside the the loss of 1,500 truck production jobs dependent on passenger car sales. That announcement August 26 the "stunned" plant to defend and support the sit­ at the Fremont, California General means totalplant closure becomes a real union officials have simply been acting down. The sitdown would inspire the Motors plant. possibility. Fifteen years seniority will in open collusion with the company. As support of thousands of UAW members In response to the massive permanent mean nothing. There are no jobs out the September 3 "retraining" meeting ind ustry-wide across the country who layoff, Local 1364 officials organized are themselves facing layoffs or already two "informational" meetings to pre­ on the street. pare members for training in "new The Local 1364 officials have already careers" at local junior colleges. Over said such a strike would be "illegal" and 600 turned out in an angry mood for the they oppose it. Let them say that to our first of these sessions (see "Maoists Maoists Pimp Off faces at the Union meeting. They don't Pimp Off Unemployment" on this have the right to give our jobs away. page). At the September 16 meeting, From [UAW president Doug] Fraser members in attendance applauded and Unemployment down to [Local 1364 leaders] Mays, solidarized with the call by a Militant Scrempos, Nano, Martinez, Gus Billy, Caucus member to "hold the plant and the rest, all accept G M's "right" to hostage for our jobs!" The Fremont OAKLAND-A few years ago pro­ post on a union committee, a spot on make a profit by laying us off. Interna­ Argus (17 September) reporting on the Peking Stalinist Liz Stanley used to a bureaucratic slate or a column in tional President Fraser sits on the meeting said "union leaders were more repeat a Maoist saying, "The future is the local union newsletter. First they Chrysler Board of Directors and en­ receptive" to a petition by the Maoists' bright." She must have meant her joined one longstanding faction in forces wage cuts and speedup for Concerned Autoworkers Movement own. She now heads a joint United the Local 1364 bureaucracy (the Chrysler. Their job is to prevent union (CAM) "urging GM to establish an Auto Workers/community college Brotherhood) and later the other action and keep the membership "in 'inverse seniority' clause." This anti­ committee as well as the UAW Local (U nited Independents). Then in 1977 line." union proposal would allow the com­ 1364 (Fremont GM) Education when these same bureaucrats led a The clearest expression of this pro­ pany to rip up the hard-won seniority Committee and makes a career out of richly justified local strike for the first company policy was revealed by the system which provides a minimum of "educating" her fellow union mem­ time ever, and GM fired them for it, remarks of ex-vice president Sam protection against arbitrary manage­ bers to go look for new "careers." Stanley said they should stay fired! Marsh at the September 16 "flow" ment victimization. "Your future in the auto industry When GM workers were threatened meeting. When people applauded the But union officials presented a solid isn't the best," chirped Stanley to 600 with mass layoffs, the Maoists' idea of a sitdown strike he said, "It front against a sitdown at the "careers" auto workers at a union meeting, answer was the seniority-busting might sound good, but it's not going to meetings and effectively convinced the called to shepherd them out of the 1974 women's lawsuit against the work." Instead, he said, we should frustrated members that their union plant and onto the unemployment union. When militants in the plant "launch a voter registration drive and would do nothing to defend theirjobs. A lines. But as an article, "Angry Auto agitated for a sitdown that same year, work through political channels." In Local 1364 meeting three days before Workers Confront Union Leaders," Stanley and her friends opposed a sit­ other words, don't strike to save your the layoff went into effect drew only 50 in Oakland's East Bay Today (4 down strike and perversely dubbed jobs-wait four more years and vote to or 60 members, with most of the shop September) reported, black auto themselves the Stand Up caucus. put the Democrats back in. That means committee and executive board boy­ workers among the I,300 facing No doubt, for someone who has to hell with our jobs now! The Demo­ cotting the meeting. Of the officials permanent layoffs didn't much like defended Stalin's anti-Bolshevik crats as well as the Republicans are present, some said vote Democrat, Stanley's advice to find a new job: purges and murders, Pol Pot's strikebreakers and unionbusters. This others said sitdowns were illegal, and all "Why weren't we notified?" about the genocide in Cambodia and China's policy of sacrificing the jobs and opposed a real fight against the layoffs. shutdown of the truck assembly line, invasion of Vietnam, it is no sweat to working conditions of autoworkers to This time the Peking Stalinists rushed to asked five-year GM employee Danny stand before American auto workers the interests ofthe political parties of the their aid with a substitute pr()posal to Jackson at the meeting. and defend the UAW's refusal to auto companies is what has crippled the "fight" the layoffs by holding a "'The company would not give us fight layoffs. Liz Stanley may feel UAWand led to thousands of layoffs demonstration ... after the layoffs were your addresses,' Stanley replied. she's got hers, but black auto workers without a fight. to take place! You might call it the 'The union has our addresses!' We better fight now or we will be Jackson shouted. 'What are vou know what "future" awaits them in CAM-shaft. talking about?' Others joined him, Reagan's America where minority facing the same grim future as the UAW While the organized efforts of Local accusing the union of collusion with youth unemployment is more than 50 brothers and sisters from the shut down 1364 leaders and their Maoist junior the company." percent. "Bullshit" was the response GM Parts plant: lost homes, ruined partners succeeded in shepherding WV readers may recall some ofthe of the angry Fremont UAW mem­ lives, minimum wages, welfare or worse. union members out of the plant without exploits of Liz Stanley, Charlotte bers to their careerist misleaders, If we don't fight it's guaranteed we lose. a fight, the program raised by the sit­ Casey and supporters ofthe CP-ML/ who have proved themselves capable But many UAW members learned the down militants remains the only way to Call at the Fremont GM plant. They of doing just about anything except hard way what did not work in the fight fight layoffs and plant shutdowns in were endlessly willing to sell out for a what's needed: hard class struggle. to save the Parts plant: politicians didn't auto. work; concerned citizens didn't work; Fraser didn't work and the leadership of ***** there, especially for banged up ex­ was only a week later, it's hard to believe Local 1364 didn't work. The one thing GM intends to throw 1,500 more autoworkers. Shop Committee Chair­ the union had no prior knowledge ofthe that will work to stop the truck line from UAW members out on the street man George Nano admitted this to the shutdown. With the local leadership leaving GMAD Fremont is a sitdown October 2. Truck second shift was Fremont Argus (September 17), "Ifthey groveling, GM is reported to be de­ strike. already laid off two years ago. Now GM don't sell cars, I think they're going to manding contractual take-aways on It is urgent that every member of says it's going to rip out the entire truck close the plant." PPH's [paid personal holidays], 63B Local 1364 show up at the Union line and ship it to St. Louis! Ifwe let this So what is the union leadership transfers, absentee control, line speed meeting 12:00 noon, September 27, Call happen it will be a disaster, not only for proposing to do about this? NOTH- and revisions of guidelines and forced every member you know, working or layoffs for skilled trades. But all we're laid off, tell them about the sitdown SPARTACIST LEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY being told is "tough luck"-Iearn basket strike and make sure they show up, We weaving or go on welfare. know the Local leadership is opposed to National Office Champaign Los Angeles strike action, but they are not the union, Box 1377. GPO c/o SYL Box 26282 We have a union and we should use it New York. NY 10116 PO Box 2009 Edendale Station to fight for our jobs. We need a sitdown the membership is. If the membership (212) 732-7860 Champaign, IL 61820 Los Angeles. CA 90026 decides to take action, no sabotage by (217) 356-1180 (213) 662-1564 strike demanding that THE TRUCK LINE STAYS IN FREMONT! The the officers can stop it. Be there! Ann Arbor Chicago Madison Box 6441, Main P.O UAW was built by sitdown strikes UA W Militant Caucus c/o SYL c/o SYL Chicago. IL 60680 PO Box 8364 Box 2074 during the depression in 1936-37. (312) 427-0003 Ann Arbor. 11.11 48107 Madison, WI 53701 (313) 662-2339 Properly organized it has proved to be Now Available: Cleveland (608) 255-2342 the most effective strike tactic ever Box 6765 Berkeley/Oakland Cleveland, OH 44101 New York devised. Because the strikers are on the Workers Vanguard PO Box 935 (216) 621-5138 Box 444 inside occupying the plant and the Canal Street Station Oakland, CA 94604 Detroit management and other usual strike­ Bound Volumes (415) 835-1535 New York, NY 10013 Box 32717 (212) 267-1025 breakers are on the outside. Big stock­ Detroit, 11.11 48232 Vol. VI WV Nos. 139-162 piles and low sales can weaken a regular 7 January-17 June 1977 Boston (313) 868-9095 San Francisco Box 840, Central Station Houston Box 5712 strike but not a sitdown. With the Vol. VII WV Nos. 163-186 Cambridge, MA 02139 Box 26474 San Francisco, CA 94101 strikers holding GM's sacred property 24 June-23 December 1977 (617) 492-3928 Houston, TX 77207 (415) 863-6963 hostage, all production, including TROTSKYIST LEAGUE OF CANADA passenger startup, comes to a halt. With Also available: Vals. I-V Toronto Vancouver no production and the ensuing publicity Make payable/mail to Box 7198, Station A Box 26, Station A we could force GM to reverse its $15.00 Spartacist Publishing Co per volume Toronto, Ontario M5W 1X8 Vancouver, B. C. V6C 2L8 decision. They get their plant back when Box 1377 GPO (416) 593-4138 (604) 681-2422 New York, New York 10116 we get our jobs back. 10 WORKERS VANGUARD the bureaucrats' September 19, as a first All-Peoples step ... and the APC. Lots of good that will do PATCO strikers! This circus is an attempt to tie labor to the class Circus ... enemy, not to win workers' struggles. (continued from page 12) Any unions that have endorsed the anti­ against feminists over abortion; gays peoples circus should withdraw now! against Chicanos in SF's Castro district. Reagan has declared war on all Now Reagan has killed sectoralism: he fronts. Along the way he has antagon­ hates everybody. What's needed is ized other elements of the ruling class, certainly not a new sectoralist federa­ from the Democratic Party to sections tion but a Leninist vanguard party of the of the Pentagon. Now the Marcyites working class, a tribune of the people (and other reformists) want to build a leading the struggles of the oppressed. popular front extending from welfare mothers to Wall Street. The Marcyites' The Cobo Hall confab is being run as first attempt at an anti-Reagan pop a typical Stalinist front group. For the front was the May 3 El Salvador march uninitiated it seems like a grab-bag of on' the Pentagon. With Demo.crats welfare rights groups, community or­ Abzug and O'Dwyer on the platform ganizations, etc. One local union official they appealed for a "political solution," said he was assured that "no communist brokered by the Kennedy liberals, with groups" would be involved. But 10 and Reagan's blood-drenched junta. Mean­ behold, at the center of it all is Marcy's { while they used PAM "marshals" to WWP, which has developed a veritable WV Photo keep marchers from attending an Anti­ waterfall of cascading fronts (Y AWF/ Solidarity Day, 'September 19: APe feeds illusions in the Democrats. Imperialist rally, spons-ored by the PAM/APC). Heaven forbid that any­ fleeting popularity of Marcy's would-be some union endorsements, particularly Spartacist League, which called for one should openly espouse communist popular front. The CWP complained from Michigan AFSCME locals. But military victory to Salvadoran leftists. politics here instead of this elaborate that El Salvador had been dropped as a what does the "All-Peoples Congress" Then on June 6. when the SL demon­ con game. And now Marcy has a focus and "national minorities" were offer labor? Among the Democratic strated against Marcy's bloc with Bella problem: Poland. It isn't going to be so slighted. (This is a cheap shot that the Party endorsers (John Conyers, Bella and Teddy, the WWP chose to seal its easy to tail the Kremlin bureaucrats, as cynically "Third Worldist" Marcyites Abzug, Ron Dellums, etc.) is that of alliance with the bourgeoisie in blood ... he has done for the past quarter­ richly deserve.) The RWL complains Irma Henderson, president of the and got beat. century, and also chase after virulently about the lack of"democratic structures Detroit City Council and close ally of If you are for solidarity strikes with anti-Soviet American liberals and union and bylaws" so that they can fully Mayor Young. Coleman Young, in PATCO to shut down the airports; if misleaders. So the WWP tries to keep participate in this popular-frontist turn, is the black Democratic bosom you call for a break with the Democrats the Cold War out of its hot appetites. EI scam. Perhaps there will be others buddy of Henry Ford II who welcomed and Republicans, to build a workers Salvador? Nothing to do with Cuba or preaching slightly more militant policies Reagan's Republican Party convention party; if you fight to oust the labor the USSR. Budget cuts? Nothing to do to prettify the WWP's sucker bait for the to town last year by busting an lieutenants of capital, for a class­ with the anti-Soviet war drive. Poland? Democratic Party, like the social- AFSCME city workers' strike. 'Some struggle leadership of the unions; if you Marcy admits that Solidarnosc is democratic IS used to do in the NPAC "ally"! Or take the crucial PATCO oppose the bi-partisan anti-Soviet war counterrevolutionary, but don't expect Vietnam antiwar pop front a decade strike. The Spartacist League called on drive and want to fight for socialist it to come up in Detroit. ago. But the Trotskyists say no to labor to shut down the airports to beat revolution-the Marcyites' anti-peoples Then there are the tagalongs­ treacherous popular-frontism: not class Reagan's union busting. The WWP circus is no place for you. The Spartacist reformists and centrists like the CWP, collaboration but class struggle! refused to call for solidarity strikes with League says bring down Reagan RSL, RWL who tried to cash in on the Marcy & Co. have reportedly secured the air controllers; their program was through labor action.'.

have fought, especially in the unions, for soviet democracy so that the Soviet alism and Stalinism." Again they South Africa ... labor action against apartheid terror Union can once again become a beacon refused to take on the Russian question, (continued from page 12) and to force multinationals to grant full for socialism! This is the program ofthe even when repeatedly challenged by SL union rights to black workers in South Trotskyists who fight for the rebirth of supporters. massive rearmament of u.s. imperial­ Africa. Labor and its allies must be the Fourth "International, the party of As ReaganjHaig threaten to plunge ism and the Cold War drive that paved mobilized to give concrete aid to the the Russian October and world socialist humanity into a nuclear holocaust in the way for Reagan/ Haig and the U.S./ South African black proletariat, the revolution.• order to wipe out the social gains of the South Africa axis. It is only to retain a motor force for liberation in southern October Revolution, Trotskyists insist little "human rights" hypocrisy that Africa, to organize themselves to ex­ that the call for workers political representatives of the party of Jimmy propriate the tremendous wealth that revolution to oust the Stalinist usurpers Carter, Mayor Koch and KKKer Tom they, not the imperialists, have created. is part ofour program to unconditional­ Metzger are sponsoring this conference. Just as the CP yearns for "people's RWL ... (continued from page 4) ly defend and extend those revolution­ The conference call states: unity" with tiberal bourgeois politicians ary conquests. Today the Russian "We know that billions of dollars at home to "ban the Klan," internation­ They never heard ofit. The article is also question is the central issue dividing invested by U.S. multinational corpora­ ally their program is for alliances with tions like IBM and General Motors in very resolute in not telling workers what revolutionaries from reformists. The "progressive" Third World capitalist the apartheid economy would be better they should have done in the French RWL has long tried to present itselfas a regimes and "peace-loving" spent 011 improving the lives of U.S. presidential elections. But their interna­ blurred carbon copy of the SL, but as citizens than on enhancing white privi­ imperialists-the global popular front. tional mentors, who brokered the they come out into the open they are lege and reinforcing black oppression in But these days the reformists are hard­ SOllthern Africa." RWL/SL-DC fusion, Alan Thornett's rapidly defining themselves as left social pressed to find any Democrats willing democrats over the Soviet Union. It is Capitalism works for profits, not British' Workers Socialist League even to pay lip service to "detente" with (WSL). called for a vote to Mitterrand's no accident that on the eve of Reagan's philanthropy. Black workers in Detroit the USSR. For the U.S./South Africa thrown onto the streets through plant anti-Soviet popular-front candidacy in inauguration, the long-since ex­ racist axis, like Reagan's onslaught the May elcctions. And shortly after, the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party closures know that. Who really believes against leftist rebels in EI Salvador, is that IBM profits made selling computer WSL shut down its paper to go (SWP) should repudiate any support-to part of the anti-Soviet war drive. And Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. And systems to the Pentagon will be spent on underground in the social-democratic while some liberal politicians may Labour Party, where they support anti­ it is no coincidence that the RWL, which "improving the lives of U.S. citizens" protest Reagan's open embracing of the except for those who own a piece of the nuke pacifists (who attack "both super­ seeks to carve out a niche between the despised Botha regime, all support the powers") without ever raising defense of deeply reformist SWP and the Trotsky­ Fortune 500? This patriotic appeal to global imperialist offensive to "roll U.S. fina'nce capital to "improve lives" the Soviet bloc. ist Spartacist League, takes the fifth back" Soviet power, beginning in amendment on the Russian question.• hcre is just as ludicrous as pretending it I Poland. This question can't be ducked. The RWL's silence on the Russian could hav,. a "democratic" mission in When threatened by imperialism, question in Workers Struggle is no Africa. Moscow will sometimes fight the forces oversight. When Jimmy Carter Spartacist Leaguel Rather than pushing "divestment" I of social reaction (Afghanistan, Viet­ launched a Cold War blitz over Afghan­ - Spartacus Youth League schemes and appealing to the corpora­ nam). But in maneuvering to protect its istan, the then-RWG couldn't decide ifit Public Offices tions' "conscience," SL/SYL supporters privileged position, the bureaucracy is was for or against Soviet intervention to -MARXIST L1TERATURE- also capable of ~upporting genocide by crush CIA-armed Islamic reactionaries. tinpot dictators in Ethiopia or backing (The SL proclaimed "Hail Red Army in Bay Area reactionary strongmen like the late Afghanistan!") Last fall the RWG co­ Fri.: 5:00-8:00 p.m. Sat.. 3:00-6:00 p.m. 1634 Telegraph. 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) MarxistBuUr!&e- Sadat ofEgypt, who later turned to U.S. sponsored a forum on Poland with Oakland. California Phone: (415) 835-1535 $2.50 imperialism and now supply Russian Shachtmanite groups who hold that the arms to Afghan mullahs who use them Sovict bloc countries are "state capital­ Chicago WHAT SJRATEGJ ist." Sollcnbcrger refused to uphold Tues: 5:30-9:00 pm, Sal. 2:00-5:30 pm F08 BLACIl1JBf.RA11ON? to kill Soviet soldiers. The only way to 523 S Plymouth Court, 3rd Floor Trotskyism protect the gains ofthe October Revolu­ Trotsky's unconditional defense of the Chicago, Illinois Phone (312) 427-0003 V$. tion. liberate the black masses of deformed workers states against coun­ IIlack Nationalism New York City southern Africa and put an end to race terrevolution (see "Bloc for Anti-Soviet Tues.: 6:00-9:00 pm.. Thurs.. 6:00-9:00 p.m. terror in the U. S. is through powerful Propaganda in Detroit," WV No. 264, Sat.. 12:00-4:00 pm class strugglc. 19 September 1980). Over the May 3 El 41 Warren St. (one block below Ch~mbers St. near Church SI) Republicans and Democrats alike are Salvador march in Washington, the New York, N.Y. Phone: (212) 267-1025 enemies of workers and oppressed Bryants' Labor News attacked the SL as "...",.,,,.----~ .• -,.:'",,<"' .• -,;-},. _., ,.',i(: peoples of the world: Reagan must be "sectarian" for OUL slogan: "Defense of Trotskyist League brought down by labor action! South Cuba, USSR Begins in El Salvador!" of Canada Make checks payable/mail to: African black workers: fight for prole­ And to announce their fusion, last May Toronto Spartacist Publishing Co. tarian revolution through smashing thc RWL and SL-DC held ajoint forum Sat· 1:00-500 p.m. Box 1377 GPO 299 Queen SI. W.. Suite 502 New York, NY 10116 apartheid! Russian workers must oust with a WSL speaker under the "Third Toronto, Ontario Phone: (416) 593-4138 the burcaucracy, to restore Lenin's Camp" titlc, 'The Fight Against Imperi- 9 OCTOBER 1981 11 WfJliNEliS IIIINfitJllli1J

Smash Ap'artheid! Defend the Soviet Union! Reagan's Cold War Axis in South Africa For the first time ever the Africa" in :',jew York this weekend. The Springboks-the rugby ambassadors ~;~r,~51iurf ..., stated purpose of this conference is to for South African apartheid-recently "intensify pressure on the U.S. govern­ tour.ed the U.S. The tour came on the t ~»(,~ , ment and the corporate sector to end heels of the murderous South African llWi TO SWAPO. their relations with the apartheid re­ invasion of Angola and was followed by ~Vlcr(j((r'.rQIC4 gime." This is reminiscent of the CP's the Senate's repeal of the Clark Amend­ U1i'J RA support to the demand raised at a ment, intended to unleash the CIA again r National Anti-Klan Network confer­ SMASH ~jSaUrH Art' in Angola (and elsewhere). Apartheid ence that Reagan "declare a state of South Africa is becoming a central part \.~ i~6R AX\S~ emergency concerning the rise of Klan of the "free world." Reagan/ Haig want COLD "r and racist violence." To call on the a bloody showdown by proxy with the • racist. warmongering Reagan, elected Soviet Union in Southern Africa, in the AR1A i with KKK endorsement, to act against first place Angola. Here the South _e t\S lEAGUE/SYl the South African apartheid racists or to African army is to play the role of stop American race terrorists is as surrogate for direct U.S. military grotes4ue as calling on Hitler to save the intervention. The Springboks' tour was Jews from Holocaust! . intended to build support for Washing­ The sponsors of this conference are ton's Cold War alliance with the attempting to create the illusion that the Pretoria racists. blood-drenched racist U.S. government The Spartacist League and Spartacus can be "pressured" to be a "~emocratic" Youth League actively participated in imperialism that fights racism at home anti-apartheid protests against the >NV Photo and abroad. That was the-mo1ivattun Chicago, September 12-SLISYL said: Drive Springboks Out! Reformists behind the liberals' and reformists' Springboks tour, demanding "Drive asked Reagan to cancel their visas. Springboks Out! Military Victory for appeals to Jimmy Carter's "Human SWAPO! Independence for Namibia! to cancel are those for Soviet scientists Springboks games was their fear of Rights" campaign. But under that Smash U.S./South Africa Cold War and artists, Salvadoran refugees fleeing militant protests. hypocritical slogan the U.S. brokered Axis!" In contrast, various liberals and junta terror, Haitians fleeing Baby The CP, together with these same the bloody Duartejunta in El Salvador, reformist lefts including the Communist Doc's savage repression and ravaged liberal forces and Democratic Party launched the CIA intervention in Party (CP) responded with the demand, economy. And the only reason racist politicians, is sponsoring a "Conference Afghanistan, imposed a boycott on the "Wire Reagan: Cancel Springboks politicians like New York mayor Koch in Solidarity with the Liberation Moscow Olympics and began the Visas." The only visas Reagan is going and Chicago's mayor Byrne canceled Struggles of the Peoples of Southern continued on page 11

;>tirm Sam Marcy Tries to Fool All the Peo~les All the Time MARCY: RUNNIN( DOG FOR fiB2U All-Peoples Circus: ~ KENNED) 'i. Front for the Democrats

The "All-Peoples Congress" to be administration in Washington that then? Or, fQr that matter, the Marcys? held this month in Detroit will be a viciously busts unions and tells ghetto The program of the Marcyites' three-ring circus of class collaboration. school children, "Let'em eat ketchup," "congress" is summed up in its slogan, Every conceivable constituency and mass hatred of Reagan is escalating "fight Reaganism." "Overturn the Rea­ single-issue group is supposed to be daily. Up to half a million, mainly gan Program of Cutbacks, Racism, & represented. Various left groups will vie unionists, demonstrated in Washington War!" says their brochure. What this September 19 to express their outrage. translates into in practice is "make the . >NVPh~o for a say in running the show, which is New York City, June 6-Marcy's & Democrats fight." But the Carters and controlled from behind the scenes by But like the sellout union tops, Marcy cl'ass treason in EI Salvador civil war Sam Marcy's Workers World Party Co. want to channel this anger back into Kennedys are no less strikebreakers, exposed. (WWP). Above all, this "anti-peoples the Democratic' Party of war and budget-cut killers and anti-Soviet war­ circus" is a Democratic Party trap-an racism. This is a program for defeat. The mongers. The real program of the everyone. "The Congress is for women attempt to sucker radicals, labor and hundreds of thousands who marched "APC" was stated in an official Septem­ who don't want their lives endangered black militants into bringing in a new through the streets of the capital have ber 19 placard: "Carter's Peanuts Were by anti-abortion laws," for undocu­ Jimmy Carter. But the last Jimmy the power t(:) bring the capitalist govern­ More Nourishing Than Reagan's Jelly Carter set the stage for Ronald Reagan, ment to its knees. To use it they must Beans." No way. Capitalism is the mented foreign workers, for Viet vets, for anti-nuke and anti-draft activists, through the Cold War drive against the break from the phony "friend of labor" problem. for everyone from Dykes Against Soviets, dismantling the busing pro­ Democrats, dump the pro-capitalist This "all-peoples" get-together is a Racism Everywhere to the Grey Pan­ gram, and economic policies which bureaucrats, and build a workers party. lame attempt to amalgamate a hundred thers. In the '70s. the heyday of gutted workers' paychecks. Who needs If the unions shut down the airports to different sectors on the level of tradi­ sectoralism. it was black nationalists another one? support the PATCO strike, where tional (bourgeois) constituency politics. With a nakedly big business would the Conyers and the Kennedys be There's supposed to be something for continued on page 11' 12 9 OCTOBER 1981