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-PAGE 4 In Our Opinion VOLUME 44/NUMBER 40 OCTOBER 31, 1980 CLOSING NEWS DATE-OCT. 22 Who stands for peace? American working people want peace. been far higher if the operation hadn't col­ That's why no program for peace will be Recognition of that fact is shaping the lapsed in its initial phase. forthcoming from Carter or Reagan. campaign rhetoric of the Republican and He ~ants to keep us in the dark about the But there is such a program. It includes: Democratic presidential contenders in the last fact that U.S. military advisers are fighting in • abolition of draft registration; days of the campaign. El Salvador today. They are trying to keep in • ending nuclear weapons production and "Peace is my pledge," intoned President power a brutal dictatorship that has murdered abolishing nuclear stockpiles; Carter October 19. Ronald Reagan countered 7,000 people in 1980 alone. • spending the money in the war budget to by promising, "Of all the objectives we seek, Washington's war in Vietnam also began provide jobs, housing, and medical care for all; first and foremost is the establishment of with the sending of advisers. • pulling all U.S. planes and ships out of world peace." Carter's pledge of peace promises to be the Persian Gulf region; They know that American working people worth about as much as the campaign pledges • shutting down all U.S. bases abroad and are deeply opposed to new Vietnams and even he made in 1976. bringing our soldiers home; more hostile to any steps they think could lead Until his pollsters began warning him to • ending the economic blockade of Iran, to a nuclear holocaust. This despite a year of cool it a little, Reagan's campaign focused on Cuba, and Vietnam. non-stop efforts by politicians and the· media belligerent rhetoric, more prowar than Car­ • Instead of threats and war fleets, massive to whip up warlike attitudes around Iran, ter's. aid should be sent to these countries and to Cuba, and Afghanistan. Reagan's open advocacy of unfettered ex­ Nicaragua to help their rebuilding efforts; The mood Reagan and Carter confront was pansion of nuclear weapons and his call for a • nationalizing big oil, instead of sending indicated in a poll published last July. Taken "get tough" policy around the world indicate another generation of youth to die for it. by the International Association of Machin­ even more clearly the intentions of the rulers Working people need their own \party to fight ists, the survey found only 12 percent of those of this country. for this program against all the Reagans and questioned wanted Washington to "get tough" The owners of Exxon and the other billio­ Carters-a labor party based on the unions. in foreign policy. naires who run both the Democratic and In 1980 this antiwar program is represented Carter is· trying to capitalize on antiwar Republican parties need the draft, more nu­ by Andrew Pulley and Matilde Zimmermann, sentiment by presenting himself as a peace clear weapons, and stepped-up war moves. the Socialist Workers Party presidential ticket, candidate. Reagan has taken the mood into They face growing rebellions by working peo­ and by local SWP candidates across the coun­ account by trying to assuage fears that his ple from South Africa to El Salvador. War and try. policies mean war. violence are the only answers they have. Vote Socialist Workers! But these candidates stand on programs that mean increasing militarization, new Viet­ nams, and, ultimately, the threat of a nuclear conflagration that could doom humanity. Given Carter's record, it doesn't take a crystal ball to figure out where this "peace candidate" is trying to take us. Carter has upped military spending each year since he took office. He gave a huge boost to the arms race by pushing the MX and Cruise missiles. He sent a fleet of warships and planes to the Arabian Sea, near the coast of Iran. He sent radar and surveillance planes, and U.S. military personnel to operate them, to the shaky Saudi Arabian monarchy. He organized the "Rapid Deployment Force," which is training for war in the Middle East. He authorized planning for "limited" nu­ clear wars. And he reinstituted draft registration as a step toward bringing back the draft. Carter. tells us that his policies have been carried out "without recourse to violence and war." That's a lie. He wants us to forget about the eight Ameri­ can soldiers who died during his failed inva­ Militant/Lou Howort sion of Iran last April. The toll would have New York antidraft demonstrations. Unlike Republicans and Democrats, Socialist Workers Party has given all-out support to fight against draft.

Militant Highlights This Week The Militant Editors: CINDY JAQUITH ANDY ROSE 3 Black Panthers target of FBI Business Manager: NANCY ROSENSTOCK 4 How to stop Reaganism Editorial Staff: Nan Bailey, Fred Feldman, Suzanne Haig, Osborne Hart, Diane Jacobs, 6-13 Vote Socialist Workers! Harry Ring, Vivian Sahner, Priscilla Schenk, Stu 14 El Salvador solidarity Singer. 15 Confrontation in Jamaica Published weekly by the Militant (ISSN 0026-3885), 14 Charles Lane, 16 Boston cop free in killing New York, N.Y. 10014. Telephone: 17 Why are unions in trouble? Editorial Office, (212) 243-6392; Busi­ 18 Rail worker on nuclear hazards ness Office, (212) 929-3486. 19 Blacks form patrol in Atlanta Correspondence concerning sub­ 20 Debate on Canada's Constitution scriptions or changes of address 21 How bankers squeezed Poland should be addressed to The Militant Business Office, 14 Charles Lane, 22 Iraq trying to crush Iran New York, N.Y. 10014. 23 Behind news on Iran Second-class postage paid at New 24 Socialists demand INS/FBI files York, N.Y. Subscriptions: U.S. $24.00 a year, outside U.S. $30.00. By first­ 9 Campaigning for New Readers El Salvador solidarity committee class mail: U.S., Canada, and Mexico: 25 The Great Society Five hundred gather in East and West Coast Their Government $60.00. Write for airmail rates to all What's Going On conferences to launch solidarity movement with El other countries. Salvador. Santa Clara, California, Labor Council Signed articles by contributors do not neces­ 26 Our Revolutionary Heritage sarily represent the Militant's views. These are Letters denounces AFL-CIO officials' support to junta. expressed in editorials. 27 Learning About Socialism Pages 14-15.

2 Black Panthers targeted by FBI By Suzanne Haig Earl Caldwell described in an Oc­ The Federal Bureau of Investigation tober 20 Daily News column how he tried to use Black journalists, forged was harassed and then threatened letters, and anonymous phone calls with court action by the FBI when he during the late 1960s and early 1970s refused to comply. At the time he was a to disrupt and politically discredit the reporter for the New York Times, in­ Black movement. vestigating government complicity in How the FBI did this is revealed in raids against the Panther headquar­ FBI documents made public in con­ ters in San Francisco. junction with a $750,000 suit for dam­ ages filed by Dhoruba (Richard) In 1970 a number of Black journal­ Moore, a former leader of the Black ists were forced to hold a secret meet­ Panther Party in New York. Moore-in ing in Jefferson City, Missouri, to fight jail since 1973 for allegedly trying to "for our rights and freedom to function kill two cops-has sued the FBI and as reporters," Caldwell wrote in the other federal agencies, charging he Daily News. The journalists saw that was framed up. the FBI was trying to prevent fair The documents are part of the FBI's coverage of the Black movement and Cointelpro (counterintelligence pro­ wanted to organize a counterattack. gram), which, according to FBI docu­ ments released in 1974, was set up to The FBI also attempted to destroy "expose, disrupt . . . or otherwise neu­ the ties between Black organizations tralize the activities of black national­ and the community. Clergy in New York City received letters trying to ist hate-type organizations ... ," as keep them from aiding the Student well as anti-Vietnam War groups, so­ Defense rally, February 1970. FBI tried to divide supporters of Black Panther Party. cialists, women's organizations, and Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). others. documents were "substantial evidence, against the Panthers, ordering that a Hoover suggested that newspaper The documents, summarized in the now available to all, that the FBI right-wing column attacking them be articles criticizing the Panthers' October 19 New York Times, detail the conspired to ferment hatred and vio­ sent "to unions such as the teamsters "Breakfast for Children Program" be poisonous methods used to prevent lent dissension among blacks, among and others involved in the handling of mailed to clergy, political leaders, and growing support for the Black struggle. Jews and between blacks and Jews." B.P.P. newspapers." others. In 1970, J. Edgar Hoover, then head The FBI also tried to incite violence The documents also claim that the Justifying his actions, Hoover said of the FBI, ordered his New York among various groups. For example, FBI persuaded several Black journal­ the Panthers used this program "to agents to send out anonymous letters after Communist Party leader Angela ists to spy on and write articles dis­ poison the minds of small children charging the Panthers with anti­ Davis was arrested in October 1970 on crediting the Black Panthers and other who take this hate to their homes." semitism. The letters were sent to trumped-up charges. of murder, the FBI Black organizations. These most recent disclosures-the guests who had attended a Panther sent anonymous letters to Ebony Mag­ A number of journalists, including tip of the iceberg-underscore the fund-raising party at the home of azine and the Village Voice, falsely nationally syndicated columnist Carl hatred and fear of the racist rulers of composer and conductor Leonard Bern­ · asserting that Panther leader Huey Rowan and Gil Noble of ABC news,· this country for the Black movement, stein. Newton was the "fingerman" responsi­ have reacted in outrage to the implica­ as well as the ruthlessness and totally In a statement printed in the October ble for Davis's capture. tion that they went along with the illegal means with which they have 19 Daily News, Bernstein said the In 1970 Hoover tried to pit labor FBI. tried-still unsuccessfully-to crush it. Iran premier at UN blasts Washington's role By Suzanne Haig he said of the Iraqi masses, "American was because of U.S. intervention that to achieve a quick victory is having Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed imperialism which directly or indi­ Iran was held hostage by the shah for damaging repercussions for Washing­ Ali Rajai denounced the Iraqi invasion rectly has been helping the Baathist twenty-five years. The CIA engineered ton. of Iran and the role of the United Government of Iraq." a coup in 1953 that restored the bloody Correspondent Eric Rouleau of the States before an October 17 session of Rajai condemned the U.S. radar monarch to the throne. Paris daily Le Monde spelled out this the United Nations Security Council. planes recently sent by Carter to the And in a Tehran interview, Iranian concern in an October 19 article pub­ "I have come here straight from the Saudi Arabian monarch. He charged President Bani-Sadr said of Washing­ lished in the New York Times. (Rou­ front," Rajai said. "The spectacle of that the information gathered by the ton's role in the hostage crisis, ''Every leau is one of the few Western corres­ the dead and the wounded would have planes on Iranian. troop movements time we were on the verge of a way out, pondents to have traveled in Iran moved the most heartless of men. I was passed on to Iraq. they started provocations to torpedo a during the war.) saw that spectacle with my own eyes: He also denounced Washington for solution." Rouleau wrote, " ... the morale and. the land-to-land missiles which struck In response to Rajai's UN speech, assembling a fleet in the Arabian Sea. combativeness of the Iranian popula­ the city of Dezful demolished a large Secretary of State Edmund Muskie More than sixty American, British, tion have reached a level comparable part of the city and many of the insisted that the spy planes would be French, and Australian warships are to that prevailing during the uprising courageous population perished." kept in Saudi Arabia. And he gave no now ominously poised in the Arabian against the Shah. In this area also, Rajai exposed the Iraqi regime's indication that the U.S. economic boy­ Sea and the Indian Ocean. Washing­ Baghdad miscalculated: not only did pretext for launching its aggression cott against Iran-a virtual act of ton has begun using military facilities Iranians not revolt against the Islamic ag_ainst Iran. "The true aim of the war-would be removed at any time in Oman, located on the southeast tip regime, they have joined forces with Iraqi regime and its masters is not to soon. He said Washington would do of Saudi Arabia, to resupply its naval the Government to oust the in­ gain a few kilometers of territory," he task force, and U.S. military equip­ nothing to prevent Jordan's King Hus­ declared. "What they are trying to vader. . . . Everywhere, residents of ment continues to be dispatched to sein from aiding the Iraqi forces. achieve is to throttle the revolutionary With the approach of Rajai's visit to all political opinions and ages are Saudi Arabia. resisting the Iraqis. . . movement of the Iranian revolutionary the United Nations, the Carter admin­ people." Ali Shams Ardakani, Iran's chief istration began to shift its public "The longer the war continues, how­ In an appeal to the people of Iraq, delegate to the United Nations, dis­ stance on the war. Nearly five weeks ever," Rouleau warned, "the greater the Iranian prime minister said, "We missed a suggestion that Washingtmi after the invasion, Carter acknow­ the likelihood that the population will will not only expel the aggressor but might allow spare parts purchased by ledged that the Iraqi regime was the become more radical, because among we will allow the friendly, fraternal Iran to be shipped there in exchange invader. He later suggested-very other factors of the mounting influence. people of Iraq to become aware of the for the hostages. softly-that its forces should be with­ of leftist parties which are participat: tyrannical and dependent nature of "Spare parts is your issue, not my drawn. ing in guerrilla warfare against the Saddam Hussein's regime. issue. Our boys are fighting with what The Carter administration is becom­ Iraqis. This could alter the balance of "They will then be able to deal a they .have." ing worried that the failure of Iraqi power among the various ideological lethal blow to American imperialism," Ardakani reminded reporters that it President Saddam Hussein's invasion factions in Iran once the war is done."

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THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 3 By Nan Bailey . vention in July. Ultrarightist forces and stop all traffic in and out." currents, who feel more confident to " ... that looks like a code word to from the Stop ERA movement and Roger Fontaine, Reagan's chief aide organize openly under the cover of the me that it's going to be all right to kill Christian fundamentalists opposed to on Latin America, explains the Rea­ escalating bipartisan attacks on work­ niggers when he's president." abortion, equality for women, and civil gan perspective for that part of the ing people. That was how Andrew Young cor­ rights for homosexuals played a highly world. But this shift comes at a time when rectly took note of Ronald Reagan~s visible role in the debate there. ·With In Bolivia, for example where a July · the attitudes of the majority of work­ statement, "I believe in states rights," Reagan's support they were able to put military coup denied the presidency to ing people are going in the opposite made in a speech last August in Phila­ their stamp on the party platform. the winner of the elections, Fontaine direction. The gap between the atti­ delphia, Mississippi. Philadelphia, says a Reagan administration would tudes of workers and the perspective Young explained, was the place where Bigoted forces have been "more cautious" in support­ and policies of the ruling class in this three civil rights workers were mur­ Reagan's campaign has served as a ing the elections last June. "Bolivian country is widening. dered in 1964 "by the sheriff and the pole of attraction and an organizing politics tend to become polarized," he The overwhelming majority of Amer­ deputy sheriff and a government posse center for all of the most reactionary, said, "and we would have been more ican workers support the Equal Rights protecting state's rights ..." bigoted forces in American society. careful in promoting things like elec­ Amendment and a woman's right to Young was abruptly slapped down Reagan himself has set the tone, sur­ tions." choose abortion. They oppose the ra­ the next day by the Carter campaign, rounding himself with advisers such Reagan has opposed the paltry $75 cist violence of the Ku Klux Klan and which he is backing. "The President," as Lyn Nofziger, a former member of million Congress is considering giving what the "states rights" segregation­ said Carter's press secretary, ... does the ultrarightist John Birch Society. to Nicaragua. ists stand for. not believe that Governor Reagan is a The Invisible Knights of the Ku Klux Reagan's number one platform prior­ Yet most officials of the AFL-CIO racist or is running a campaign of Klan endorsed the Reagan campaign, ity is the restoration of United States and other major unions say we should racism." praising the Republican platform be­ "military superiority." vote for Carter on November 4 as the But millions of working people know cause it "reads as if it were written by He urges policies from "the earliest way to stop Reaganism. Reagan is a :recist who seriously a Klansman." possible deployment" of the MX mis­ The United Auto Workers Washing­ threatens our interests. The very fact Last August, Reagan was the hon- sile to producing the neutron bomb. ton Report says:

that Carter covers up for his opponent ored guest at a rally of 15,000 right­ Carter's militarization drive and "Carter's record may not be the shows the dilemma working people wing fundamentalists. The tone of the $175 billion war budget are not answer to everyone's dreams, but it face in this election. meeting was indicated by the Rev. enough, Reagan maintains. "In na­ stands in strong contrast to those of James Robison's speech, in which he tional defense," he says, "you have to his opponents.... " Despite his attempts to camouflage declared: spend whatever is necessary to deter But does it? his platform, Reagan is reactionary to "I'm sick and tired hearing about all the enemy." the core. the radicals and the perverts and the Carter's record liberals and the leftists and the Com­ Behind Reaganism We're all aware of what four years of Anti-woman, anti-Black munists coming out of the closet. It's What is the significance of the fact Democrat James Carter in office has He stands for tax cuts that would time for God's people to come out of the brought us: closet, out of the churches and change that one of the two major candidates in benefit the huge corporations, for roll­ this election openly attacks the rights Skyrocketing inflation. High unem­ ing back government safety and pollu­ America." ployment-50 percent for Black youth. It was at that meeting that Bailey of Blacks and women and urges that tion standards, and for anti-union Washington adopt an even more bellig­ Entire plants shut down. Budget cuts "right to work" laws. Smith, the president of the Southern erent posture around the world? against child care centers, hospitals, The cutting edge of Reagan's attack Baptist Convention, told his audience: schools. U.S. war threats in the Per­ on the working class is his aggressive "God Almighty does not hear the The Reagan campaign is a sign of sian Gulf and the Caribbean. attempt to deepen divisions by going prayer of a Jew, for how in the world the times-the times, that is, from the Registration for the draft. Three Mile after the rights of Blacks and women. can God hear the prayer of a man who perspective of American big business. Island. Black outrage in Miami and says Jesus Christ is not the true Mes­ Through the Reagan campaign the Chattanooga as racist killers get off The Republican platform attacks siah? It's blasphemous." employers have pushed the entire affirmative action and quotas in jobs scot-free. A ban on Medicaid funding These are the forces-anti-Semitic, framework of capitalist politics further for abortion. and education. These acquisitions are racist, anti-women and anti-union­ to the right. being fought for by women and op­ that are deeply involved in the Reagan This is their response to the crisis of Things will get much worse if Rea­ pressed nationalities to undo the un­ campaign. the capitalist economy and to the gan is elected, the labor bureaucrats' equal treatment they've been handed Reagan's foreign policy is cut from upsurge of the world revolution since argument goes. But that begs the ques­ for centuries in this country. Reagan the same cloth. the U.S. defeat in Vietnam. And it tion. Things are already bad and will labels these measures, "inherently dis­ Speaking of the Vietnam war, Rea­ indicates the kind of political, eco­ get even worse as long as big business criminatory." gan told supporters, "It is time we nomic, social and military measures runs this country. No matter who is Reagan is an enemy of women's recognized that ours was, in truth, a they want to implement. president. rights. He supports a constitutional noble cause." The further shift to the right sets the The idea that it makes a difference amendment that would outlaw abor­ framework within which all the capi­ which individual candidate gets into tion and opposes the Equal Rights Cuba the enemy talist candidates, of both parties, are office-or which capitalist party-is Amendment. He has called for a blockade of Cuba. conducting the 1980 campaign. This the fundamental myth that's been used The issue of women's rights came to "One option," he said, "might well be also has led to increasing visibility of for years to get workers to vote for the fore at the Republican Party con- that we surround the island of Cuba ultraright and semi-fascist political their enemies. In 1976 the UAW and

4 other union officials called on their members to elect Carter and defeat The Abernathy rhubarb Ford. Carter, they said, would provide jobs. But regardless of the platforms of capitalist candidates, the elections Is endorsing Carter any better? don't decide policy. Carter got elected By Harry Ring He added: "Inflation has increased, Isn't that a perfectly reasonable con- and millions got thrown out of work. Ralph Abernathy's endorsement of unemployment has increased, interest elusion? The individuals sitting in the White Reagan for president drew the fire of a rates have increased. Poor Black peo- Yet, on October 15, the White House House and in Congress are not the number of Black public figures. ple cannot make it under this type of formally and vigorously disassociated ones who determine major policies­ The endorsement was made by the system. And we don't need this doctor itself from Young's remarks. like war or the budget. The big deci­ former president of the Southern Chris- [Carter] any more, because we as the Why? sions are made by an unelected body tian Leadership Conference October 16 patients are getting sicker and sicker, Because, a White House aide ex- that we have nothing to do with choos­ in Detroit. Joining Abernathy in the and we need to change doctors." plained, the president "regrets the ing-the corporate boards; the capital­ endorsement was Hosea Williams, also Isn't that the truth? injection of the racial issue into the ist think tanks; the corporation law­ a former SCLC leader, and currently a Where Abernathy goes off the deep present campaign and would like to see yers and advisers; and the permanent Democrat in the Georgia legislature. end is not in his diagnosis of the it eliminated." governmental bureaucracies from the Charles Evers, Black mayor of ailment but in his prescription for the Could it be that racism is no longer a CIA and the Pentagon to the depart­ Fayette, Mississippi, also participated cure. problem requiring discussion? ments of Labor and Agriculture. in the meeting, which was arranged by Or is it because the plight of Black They base their decisions on their Reagan' a campaign staff. Evers did Recommending Reagan as the people has gotten even worse and estimate of the relationship of forces not formally endorse Reagan, but said needed new doctor is like recommend- Carter wants to sweep the issue under between the employers on one side and he was urging people to vote against ing the Boston Strangler to treat peo- the rug? the working people on the other, not on Carter. ple with asthma. Of course Young was telling the election results. Dr. Joseph Lowery, present head of Reagan's true stand was pegged by truth when he called Reagan a racist. At the convention of the Interna­ SCLC, said he was "a little stunned" former UN ambassador Andrew And Ralph Abernathy was equally tional Association of Machinists in by Abernathy's support to Reagan. Young when he commented on Reagan truthful when he said Carter has done September, lAM president William Caretta Scott King said she was assuring his support of "state's rights" nothing for Black people. Winpisinger described what working "appalled." in a speech in Philadelphia, Missis- Those concerned with advancing the people are up against: SCLC board members were said to sippi. cause of Black liberation should accept "The causes of economic decline and be so outraged they might dump their Philadelphia gained international Young's diagnosis of Reagan and stagnation in Canada and the U.S. are traditional stand of neutrality and notoriety when three civil rights work- Abernathy's diagnosis of Carter. Both locked in the structure of corporate endorse Carter. ers were murdered there by local cops candidates should be rejected. America and corporate Canada. Few in the Black community would in 1964. What then? Do nothing? Stay home "Government doesn't control them, defend Abernathy's support to Reagan. Young declared: "If he had gone to election day? they control government. The Carter But it comes with poor grace from Biloxi, Mississippi, and talked about There is a meaningful choice in this and Trudeau administrations are cor­ public figures who are hustling votes state's rights, if he had gone to New election, Andrew Pulley. porate caretakers and the handmaid­ for Carter to be so righteous about Orleans, or Birmingham, Alabama, I A Black steelworker, the Socialist ens of corporate strategy and tactics." Abernathy. What they are doing is not would not have gotten upset. Workers Party presidential nominee is Dennis McDermott, president of the one bit better. Both sides are betraying "But when you go to Philadelphia, a lifelong fighter for Black rights and Canadian Labor Congress, also ad­ the interests of Black people. Mississippi, where James Chaney, is running on a program for the elimi- dressed the convention. Carter backers can make telling Andy Goodman, and Michael nation of racism and the capitalist points about a stone racist like Rea- Schwerner were killed-murdered-by system that breeds it. 'One-party system' gan. the sheriff and the deputy sheriff and a But it isn't practical? Pulley can't "I submit to you," he said, "that But Abernathy also scored some government posse protecting state's win? when you have got two parties that are pretty solid points against Carter. rights, and you go down there and That's standing the problem on its almost identical in philosophy and "I campaigned for Governor Carter start talking about state's rights, that head. Nothing is more impractical outlook, then that ain't a hell of a lot four years ago, but President Carter looks like a code word to me that it's than a vote for Reagan or Carter. different than having a one-party sys­ has not kept his campaign promises," going to be all right to kill niggers That's because it's guaranteed. tem. A'bernathy declared. when he's president." Whichever wins, Black people lose. "It's like a community of mice who get to vote for a black cat one year, and a spotted cat the next year, and a white cat the year after. "It's like chickens getting to vote for N.Y. socialist hits racist attack at school Colonel Sanders or Kentucky Fry." By Maureen Coletta issue of quality education is directly Some of the white students who have McDermott got a standing ovation STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.-Reba Wil­ linked to those of class size and formed friendships with Blacks have when he talked about Canada's labor liams Dixon, Socialist Workers candi­ teacher employment. been beaten up by other white stu­ party, the New Democratic Party. date for Congress in the 19th District Students said that the October 10 dents. And the convention voted not to (Harlem) visited New Dorp high school events began when there was a fight Black students here believe an imme­ endorse either Carter or Reagan. It here. The school was the scene of a between two women students, one diate solution to their problem would passed a resolution to initiate a discus­ racist attack on Black students Oc­ Black, the other white. Both were sus­ be to "even up" the Black-white ratio sion on forming a labor party based on tober 10. pended. at both New Dorp and Curtis high, a What happened, Dixon said, was not the unions in this country. But then rumors flew when a white predominantly Black school. an isolated incident, but part of a female student, apparently overdosed Unlike the Republican and Demo­ A labor party is exactly what's pattern of stepped-up racist violence in on drugs, was put in an ambulance. cratic candidates, Dixon is speaking needed to put a brake on the rightward this country. It has resulted in such White students, claiming she was out against such racist attacks. She drive of the U.S. ruling class. The outrages as the recent murder of six beaten by Blacks, gathered in front of has marched in pro-busing demonstra­ decades-long support of labor for the Blacks in Buffalo. tions in Boston; anti-Klan marches in parties of big business has given the the school. "Racists have been emboldened by School officials responded by gather­ Greensboro, North Carolina; pickets capitalists the go-ahead to cut deeper the refusal of government officials, against the racist closing of Sydenham and deeper into our rights. It has, in ing the Black students together and Democratic and Republican alike, to then having them bused home. As the Hospital in Harlem; and the recent fact, helped pave the way for Reagan­ move against them," Dixon declared. Buffalo rally demanding action on the ism and everything that represents. buses pulled out, white students threw Accompanied by campaign support­ rocks and shouted racist epithets. killing of Blacks there. ers, Dixon talked to students at New For more information on Dixon's In addition, Black students feel that Labor candidate Dorp high to find out what happened. campaign, all are encouraged to attend racist white students are bolder, know­ Think how different this election Dixon is a member of the United a forum entitled, "Stop Racist At­ ing the teachers and administration would have been if labor had its own Auto Workers employed at the General tacks." Dixon will be among a panel of will do nothing to stop them. candidate in the running. That would Motors Tarrytown plant. Now twenty­ speakers giving first-hand reports from have busted wide open the framework four, she is a leader of the Young One student who was called a Buffalo and Staten Island. the capitalists have imposed on the Socialist Alliance. In the mid-1970s, "nigger" protested to his teacher, only It will be held Saturday, October 25, presidential campaigns. Instead of a she was active in the fight to desegre­ to be told not to get upset and cause 8 p.m., at 108 East 16th Street in "choice" between big-business candi­ gate Boston schools. ·problems. Manhattan. dates who all favor bigger attacks on At New Dorp high, the issue also working people, there would have been was desegregation. In 1972, yielding to a real choice: a candidate speaking up a federal order, New Dorp school offi­ for and defending the interests of the cials instituted token desegregation, working class and all the oppressed. busing but eighty-five Black pupils to 'Perspect1va Mund1a1· IS the Span1sh-language The discussion on forming a labor the previously all-white New Dorp SISter publ1cat1on of the 'Militant· L1ke the party shows that more and more work­ high school, which has a total student 'Mil1tant. 1t carnes regular coverage of the labor ers want such an alternative, and see enrollment of over 3,000. movement and the struggles for soc1alluSt1ce 1n that it is urgent. the Un1ted States and abroad. plus news and In addition to the small number of analys1s w1th a spec1al emphas1s on the workers A labor party would fight for jobs Black students, there are only three movement 1n Lat1n Amenca and against the racist terror spawned Black teachers at the school. by the policies of the Democrats and Black community leaders have de­ 0 $8 for 6 months Republicans. It would defend women's 0 $16 for 1 year manded that more Blacks be hired. 0 $25 for 1 year (air ma11 Lat1n Amenca) rights. It would join in helping stamp They have also insisted that the board 0 $30 for 1 year (air ma11. rest of the w0rld) out ultraright outfits like the Ku Klux of education ensure that a new high Send check or money order to Perspect1va Klan. It would campaign against war school now being built be fully desegre­ Munj1al. 408 West Stre&t. New York. NY 10014 and the draft. · USA gated. 0 US$8 por 6 meses The Socialist Workers Party candi­ In this effort they plan to seek the 'Perspect1va Mund1a1· es una rev1sta soc1al1sta 0 US$16 por un ano dates, Andrew Pulley and Matilde support of the United Federation of destmada a defender los mtereses del pueblo 0 US$25 por un ano (correo aereo a Ar·· Latma) Zimmermann, are the only ones cam­ Teachers. traba1ador lncluye reporta1es sobre el nwv1- paigning for the labor party perspec­ m1ento obrero y las luchas por Ia IUSt1c1a soc1al 0 US$30 por un ano (correo aereo al res:' In a discussion with Dixon, Staten en Estados Un1dos y el mundo. ademas de mundo) tive in 1980. If you agree, vote SWP on Island Urban League Director Robert not1c1as y anal ISIS con un enfas1s espec1al en las Env1a cheque o g~ro postal a nombre November 4 and join us in the work of Alston said there was common ground luchas de los obreros y campes1nos en Amenca Perspect1va Mund1al. 408 West Street. ~"' Lat1na York. 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THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 Vote Socialist Andrew Pulley /president Pulley: ~working people should run the country' The following statement was re­ countries are the other side of the same leased October 18 by Andrew Pul­ battle they're carrying out against ley, Socialist Workers candidate American workers. They would send for president, as he concluded a Detroit auto workers to fight and kill tour of Detroit. Iranian auto workers, oil workers, and c 0 farmers in a war to defend the profits "'c. Detroit today is the epitome of the of the U.S. oil corporations. E Ui inhumanity and irrationality of the Carter and Reagan are currently .'=? capitalist system. Many auto workers "debating" about the most modern w ~ still on the line are working fifty-eight nuclear hardware to add to the U.S. c or more hours a week, some of them nuclear arsenal. The closest they've ~ doing jobs that used to be done by a come to a "solution" to unemployment combination of two or even three work­ is the draft! ers. Yet hundreds of thousands of those Working people are learning that we who used to work beside them are on can't look to the rich and their politi­ the streets looking for work and stand­ cians to solve our problems for us. ing in unemployment lines. We need a labor party to lead the Matilde Zimmermann and I have fight to put our class in power. Work­ been campaigning with simple and ing people have to run the government straightforward proposals to put an if it is going to be run in the interest of end to this madness. the majority of Americans. Until we take up this task, the fate of all hu­ Jobs manity remains in the hands of the Like shortening the workweek with warmongering agents of the big corpo­ no cut in pay to create more jobs. rations. Everyone now working would put in Breaking the monopoly held by their thirty hours weekly instead of forty or political parties and building a labor more. This would create jobs for the party is necessary for our very survi­ Q) unemployed. 0 val. a:"' Like organizing a massive program >. "C of building new schools, housing, c Workers government <( ~ child-care centers, hospitals, and rec­ Only a party of workers can lead the c reation facilities. We'd put millions to fight to establish a workers govern­ .~ work on this project from coast to ment-to put working men and women ::2 coast. Top, Andrew Pulley campaigns at May 1980 march for jobs in Washington, D.C. at the helm of running this country Bottom, Pulley talks to auto workers at Ford plant in Metuchen, New Jersey. Like opening the account books of and take political power out of the the big corporations to public investi­ hands of the private profiteers. gation. Nationalization of those corpo­ A workers government would mean Workers would be the masters of the gua, Vietnam, and Iran. rations that shut down and throw our representatives in the White House factories and the administrators of the Aren't these the kind of goals that workers on the streets. and Congress. It would launch a cam­ social programs. Those who work to the majority of working people favor? And like eliminating the massive paign to end joblessness, hunger, and produce the wealth of this country These are the goals of the Socialist war budget and using that $175 billion illiteracy. It would reopen the shut would make the decisions on how to Workers Party. for human needs instead of private down plants in Youngstown, Detroit, use and distribute it. More and more American workers profits. and around the country. are beginning to realize that the fight Carter, Reagan, and Anderson have A workers government would make Aid Nicaragua, Iran for peace and security in the world, for been stumping the country with a the Equal Rights Amendment law and A United States government of work­ a decent standard of living, and for united proposal: that working people enforce affirmative action on the job to ing people would establish relations social justice requires not only their sacrifice to solve capitalism's economic end race and sex discrimination. It with other countries based on the support, but their active participation. and political problems. The parties of would put the unemployed to work common interests of our peoples, not Turn your disgust at the capitalist big business that they represent are meeting the needs of society. It would the needs of big oil and the other candidates into positive action. united in their assault on the working tax the rich, not the incomes of work­ corporate giants. We'd send grain, Join the Young Socialist Alliance or class and the rights of the American ing people. It would draw up an eco­ trucks, and medical supplies to help Socialist Workers Party in campaign­ people. nomic plan based on producing for the reconstruct countries once devastated ing for the ideas of the 1980 SWP The American rulers' preparations needs of the country, not the profits of by brutal regimes that were backed by presidential slate. Vote Socialist Work­ for wars against the peoples of other a few. Washington-countries like Nicara- ers on November 4.

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6 Workers Party! Matilde Zimmermann/vice-president Zimmermann: ~Labor party would fight for all the oppressed' By Andy Rose ing people around some of the same SAN DIEGO-"In this election, issues Andrew Pulley and I have been Blacks, Chicanos, women, and other raising: working people are by and large trying " • demanding that cops who beat to figure out who to vote against," up and kill Blacks and Chicanos be Matilde Zimmermann, Socialist Work­ prosecuted to the full extent of the law; ers vice-presidential candidate, told "• demanding that the government supporters at a rally here October 19. lock up terrorists like Gary Rowe and "And they're having a hard time decid­ throw away the key; ing which of the racist, antilabor can­ " • demanding that the secret files didates is worst," she said. on government involvement in the "American workers need to take the killings of Malcolm X, Martin Luther disgust and suspicion we feel about the King, and Black Panther leaders be Democratic and Republican candidates made public." and translate it into something posi­ tive, a labor party. Strengthen unions "Is it possible to create a real alter­ From the time this country was native? Yes. The organizations that founded and built upon the labor of can do it already exist, the unions. And Black slaves, she said, the rulers have a discussion about the need for a labor profited and kept themselves in power party is gaining momentum, particu­ by fostering racial and national div­ larly among unionists here in Califor­ isions among working people. nia." "That's why it is not a moral ques­ Black and Chicano workers, who tion but a question of self-interest for have gotten the least from the two all workers to oppose the discrimina­ capitalist parties, will be in the fore­ tion, low wages, and high unemploy­ front of building a labor party, Zim­ ment suffered by Blacks and Chicanos. mermann predicted. And such a party "In recent years," Zimmermann con­ will be a powerful new weapon against tinued, "we have seen how the unions racist discrimination. have been strengthened by their sup­ "Racist violence is on the rise in this port to affirmative action, to desegre­ country," she said. "Why? gation, and to the Equal Rights "Not because working-class whites Amendment. are becoming more racist. To the con­ trary, interviews in Miami and Chatta­ "So a labor party will grow and be nooga during the Black rebellions strengthened as a result of its cam­ showed that more and more white paigning for affirmative action, for \~ workers are understanding and even busing to achieve school desegrega­ tion, and for special jobs programs at Top, Matilde Zimmermann at picket of transit workers in Dallas. Bottom, Zimmer­ identifying with the injustice and pov­ mann campaigns at Stewart-Warner plant in Indianapolis. erty that caused the explosions. union wages to deal with Black and "But racist violence is tolerated and Chicano unemployment. even encouraged by the rulers of this "A labor party will have to be the "They'll be a lot like the young parties of the warmakers," Zimmer­ country and by their two political par­ party of undocumented workers, fight­ Blacks in Miami who refuse to tolerate mann said. ties. ing against deportations and all forms police brutality, who refuse to register She pointed to statements by top "What else can you conclude from of discrimination against workers who for the draft. officials of the United Mine Workers the fact that cops kill Blacks and come here without the blessings of la "Those Liberty City youth are ex­ union and the Machinists union Chicanos and walk off scot-free? migra. Many labor party meetings and actly the kind of people a labor party against the United States going to war "What else can you conclude from rallies will take place in Spanish." will inspire." in the Middle East, to the recent con­ the fact that a judge recently dropped Zimmermann said that a labor party ference of 1,000 unionists against the charges against Gary Rowe, the most will be "a big movement of the op­ Nuclear danger danger of nuclear power, and to grow­ famous FBI agent in the Ku Klux Klan pressed and exploited, not just a vote­ The threat of war and nuclear anni­ ing labor opposition to the draft. in the 1960s?" getting machine for elections. Its can­ hilation further "shows the high stakes "The labor movement is coming Zimmermann said that a labor party didates will be a lot like ours in this involved in getting off the ground a more and more to the center of every "will have to unite and mobilize work- respect. labor party that can challenge the effort to save humanity from those whose thirst for profit has brought us to the crisis we face today," Zimmer­ mann said. "But to win, labor must California campaign wins endorsements have its own party." She urged those who agree to vote SAN DIEGO-The rally here kick­ power, and are for the deportation of the Klan. Two hundred and fifty for the Socialist Workers candidates, ing off Matilde Zimmermann's two­ undocumented workers." people attended. Although the major who are the only ones advancing this week campaign tour of California The Citizens Party further stated San Diego dailies have largely perspective, and to help in the two also heard news of impressive gains that its endorsement of Friedman blacked out word of Friedman's can­ final weeks of all-out campaigning. in Mark Friedman's campaign as reaffirms its "desire to stand with all didacy, it has received good coverage Socialist Workers Party candidate progressives despite differences in from some area press. Friedman was Join YSA for congress against Democrat and ideology and approach and to say no highlighted in a major front-page "And I urge you to think about Ku Klux Klanner Thomas Metzger. to racism and no to the Klan." feature in the September 28 Escon­ joining the Young Socialist Alliance. California state officials have un­ Friedman has been spreading the dido Times-Advocate and in the The YSA is a national organization of democratically kept the socialist message of his campaign against September 16 Daily Californian. The young people who want to end racist ticket off the state ballot, but that Metzger and Burgener not only October 8 San Diego Newsline car­ discrimination, stop the draft, close hasn't stopped the SWP from cam­ throughout the Forty-third Congres­ ried an article by Friedman on down every nuclear power plant, pass paigning-or winning support. sional District, but all across Califor­ Metzger and the KKK's record of the Equal Rights Amendment, and In the past week Friedman has nia. racist violence in this area. nationalize the oil companies. been endorsed by the state executive On October 18, he addressed a "It is an organization of young peo­ board of the Peace and Freedom meeting of seventy-five in Seaside. ple who support the revolutions in Party and by the Southern Califor­ Twenty people signed up for more The socialists urge California residents to cast write-in votes Cuba, Nicaragua, and Grenada and nia executive committee of the Citi­ information or to join the Young the popular movement in El Salvador. zens Party. Socialist Alliance. for the SWP ticket on November The Citizens Party statement not­ Seaside is the small community 4. Vote for Andrew Pulley and "And the YSA is an organization of ed that both Metzger and incum­ where Mel Mason, a supporter of the Matilde Zimmermann; George young workers active in their unions bent Republican Clair Burgener, SWP, was elected to the city council Johnson, SWP candidate for and determined to build a mass party "oppose organized labor, the rights last year. U.S. Senate; and Mark Fried­ of labor so that for the first time of farmworkers, the Equal Rights At Laney College in Oakland on man, candidate for Congress in working people-Black, Latino, and Amendment and affirmative action October 14, Friedman was among the Forty-third C.D. white, men and women, with or with­ and both support the draft, nuclear those addressing a speak-out against -A.R. out immigration papers-can fight for political power in this country."

THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 7 Chicano fighter for socialism Archuleta presses New Mexico campaign By Floyd Fowler in Congress. Kennecott, and Phelps-Dodge reap fan­ and Andy Rose The lAM president also declared tastic profits from exploiting the ALBUQUERQUE-Receptivity to that "the only group that stands to state's natural resources. the socialist campaign is greater than gain anything by an adventuresome These powerful forces are pressing ever says Manuel Archuleta, Socialist war in the Persian Gulf is the big oil for "right to work" laws to hamper Workers candidate for U.S. Congress companies-to save their profits and union organizing. from the First District. real estate. And I'll pass on that one." A labor party is needed to stop "right As someone active in New Mexico to work," Archuleta explained. The politics for more than a decade, he is in Labor party Democrats and Republicans can't be a position to know. Archuleta told the machinists he trusted to do it. They passed the anti­ Archuleta was a founder and organ­ "couldn't agree more" with the lAM's labor bill in the last state legislature. izer of the New Mexico Raza Unida refusal to back capitalist candidates Only emergency protests by the union Party in 1972. He became widely for president. He hammered away at movement brought about a last-minute known in the state as a writer, speaker, the need to form a labor party now. veto. and candidate for the partido. Archuleta's brief remarks drew ap­ On October 14, Archuleta appeared His experiences as a student activist plause as well as friendly comments along with SWP vice-presidential can­ fighting against the Vietnam War and from several delegates afterwards. didate Matilde Zimmermann on a pop­ for Chicano rights had convinced him It was not an isolated incident. ular talk show on KRKE radio here. that Chicanos could never be repre­ Last summer Archuleta was the only sented by the Democrats and Republi­ candidate invited to address the South­ Undocumented workers cans, but needed their own independ­ west Council of Industrial Workers, an On the issue of undocumented work­ ent party. affiliate of the Carpenters' union, in ers, he told the listening audience, "we In 1978 Archuleta joined the Social­ Las Vegas, New Mexico. should have open borders. Just as ist Workers Party. "I came to the Las Vegas is an overwhelmingly corporations have the right to go all conclusion that for Chicanos to liber­ Chicano town where the Raza Unida over the world to exploit the peoples of ate themselves, there would have to be Party was founded. Archuleta lived other countries, so working people a socialist revolution, that it would there at the time and was well known should have the right to travel any require a revolutionary party to resolve in the city as a fighter for Chicano place in search of work without losing the problems all working people face." rights. any of their rights." In extending the invitation for him Nuclear contamination is another Archuleta is a mill operator at the major issue in this state, which is both General Electric aircraft engine plant to speak, Archuleta said, the unionists "were not bothered by the fact that I the largest uranium producer in the here and a member of International country and the proposed site of a Association of Machinists Local 794. was a socialist. In fact, they welcomed it." federal dump for radioactive wastes. Addresses Machinists At a statewide meeting of COPE, the Archuleta told the radio audience Last month he addressed a statewide MilitanVAndy Rose AFL-CIO Committee on Political Edu­ that "the whole cycle of nuclear power meeting of the Machinists Non­ MANUEL ARCHULETA cation, Archuleta's call for a labor is unsafe and must be ended." This Partisan League, the union's political party provoked a half-hour discussion. stance, too, gets a warm response arm. He has also spoken to the Rio Arriba among New Mexico working people. When Archuleta arrived, one union County convention of the Raza Unida Later he told us, "Our party is gain­ official tried to deny him the right to Before the socialist candidate spoke, Party, to a state council of the Carpen­ ing respect in the unions. More work­ speak, but some of his co-workers came lAM President William Winpisinger ters, at an antinuclear rally in Rio ers are coming to our events. Even I to his defense. It was put to a vote. gave a lengthy speech. He defended Arriba, and at other events. am surprised sometimes at the re­ the recent lAM decision not to endorse Archuleta stresses the difference a sponse." The chairperson stressed that Ar­ Carter, Reagan, or Anderson, but to labor party could make in New Mexico, And all this, it should be added, has chuleta was from the Socialist Workers pursue discussions on forming a new which has the highest poverty rate in been accomplished without Archuleta's Party and asserted it would be the first. party to "faithfully represent the inter­ the country next to Mississippi, and name being on the November ballot. time a "non-viable" candidate had ests of working people." where manufacturing wages are only At a campaign rally October 15, addressed the group. Evidently that Winpisinger said the corporations 77 percent of the national average. Manuel Archuleta put it this way: "I'm meant anyone not a Democrat or Re­ have "always owned the Republican Electronics firms are relocating to a write-in candidate and not likely to publican. Party, but now they've bought the New Mexico to avoid unionization. win this election. But the ideas of the The meeting voted unanimously to Democrats too." Nevertheless, he urged And such giant corporations as ARCO, Socialist Workers Party are winning hear Archuleta. reelection of Democratic "friends" Texaco, Kerr McGee, United Nuclear, every day."

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Zimmermann tests Texas campus ban on Militant At a meeting at the Uni­ her meeting. cials had illegally discrimi­ I did this morning, calling me about a debate she had versity of Texas at Arling­ "Give me two dollars for nated. Had the socialists' for improvement and expan­ with a Libertarian candi­ ton, Socialist Workers vice­ an eight-week introductory petitions been judged by the Sion of public transporta­ date m Chicago earlier in presidential candidate subscription, and I will same standard as Ander­ tion. Because the Libertar­ the campaign. Matilde Zimmermann suc­ hand you free a copy of this son's or the Libertarians', ians want to do away with She had pressed him on cessfully defied a ban on newspaper they say you can­ the SWP would be on the public transportation. They the Libertarians' reaction­ sales of the Militant. not buy. ballot. don't think cities and states ary opposition to all govern­ Last March, Chris Homer "I think they don't want The reason for this is poli­ should provide this service ment services, hidden be­ of the Dallas SWP and you to read the Militant for tical, Zimmermann ex­ at all. hind a mask of defending Floyce White of the Young the same reason Texas offi­ plained. "To put Anderson "The Libertarians also "individual freedom." Socialist Alliance were ar­ cials don't want socialist on the ballot is no threat to call for doing away with In many cities today, she rested on the campus. They candidates on the ballot. the people who run this state unemployment insurance, pointed out, if you are hurt were charged with "criminal They're afraid you just and this country. Social Security, medicare in an accident and need an trespass" for distributing might agree with much of "Anderson's appeal rests and medicaid, public parks, ambulance, they won't even campaign literature, includ­ what we say." on a two-point program. public fire protection, and take you to the hospital un­ ing the Militant. The two Five students took Zim­ One, he's not Carter. And public schools. less you can prove your abil­ socialists were handcuffed, mermann up on the offer. two, he's not Reagan. "They say any employer ity to pay. frisked, and locked up in the "In reality Anderson is a has the right to discriminate And the Dallas YSA and The same would be true of Arlington city jail. clone of Carter and Reagan. against Blacks, Chicanos, fire protection if the Liber­ But a free-speech fight SWP plan further legal and He calls for more sacrifices public action to establish the women, or anybody else tarians had their way, Zim­ drew broad support on cam­ by workers-such as a fifty­ they choose in hiring and right to sell. mermann charged. pus. The administration was cent-a-gallon tax on gaso­ firing-without fear of 'gov­ forced to back down. line-and even bigger tax ernment interference.' "If your house was on fire Charges against Homer and * * * breaks for the corporations," and you called the private "Well, that is the direction White were dropped, and Why will "independent" Zimmermann said. fire department," she said, in which the rulers of this campus officials conceded John Anderson and Liber­ "The courts also have very "maybe they would take country are thinking. The the right to pass out free tarian Party candidate Ed good reason for treating the your credit card. Otherwise Libertarians just take it to literature. The name and Clark be on the Texas ballot Libertarians different from it would be cash on the the most outrageous ex­ ideas of the YSA became while the Socialist Workers the Socialist Workers Party. barrelhead or they let your treme. So I'm not surprised much better known. Party was ruled off? That is that the Libertarians home burn down." at all they would put the But the administration That was one student's are a right-wing party, not a The response of the Liber­ Libertarians on the ballot still tries to prohibit Militant question for Matilde Zim­ socialist party, not a work­ tarian? and not us." sales. "Find out for yourself mermann after she spoke at ing-class party. "Well, under those circum­ why they don't want you to the University of Texas at "The Libertarians would stances, I'm sure they would read this newspaper," Zim­ Arlington. never be out marching with * * * take a personal check." mermann urged students at She replied that state offi- striking transit workers, like Later Zimmermann told -Andy Rose

8 Union victory against J.P. Stevens Seventeen years ago, the drive to of the contract, "the company con­ organize textile workers at J.P. Stev­ tinues to be openly and strongly op­ ens Company began. On October 19, posed to unions in its nonunion the workers finally forced one of the plants." most notorious anti-union companies It will take a major effort to extend in the country to sign its first contract the organizing drive to other plants. with the Amalgamated Clothing and But the victory represented by this Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). contract will inspire the other 30,000 The two and a half year contract J.P. Stevens workers and the hundreds was approved unanimously by 750 of thousands of other nonunion work­ union members from the seven J.P. ers in the South. Stevens plants in Roanoke Rapids, The ACTWU victory follows seven Tidewater area sets pace North Carolina. The contract covers months after the United Steelworkers The Tidewater branch of the Socialist Workers Party, located in the between 3,000 and 3,500 workers in won a contract at the Tenneco ship­ industrialized area of Newport News, Virginia, has enjoyed an excellent North Carolina, South Carolina, ar.d yard in Newport News, Virginia. Both response in the drive to win new readers to the Militant. Alabama plants. victories are among the most impor­ At the midway point, the branch has already sold eighty-six of its quota Stevens has about eighty plants and tant union successes ever in the South. of 120 subscriptions. So, it's increasing its goal to 150. 34,000 hourly workers throughout the They point to the potential to achieve Most of the new subscribers have South. the long expressed goal of the labor come from the East End of New­ The contract comes six years after movement: organize the South. port News, a predominantly Black, the union won a government-super­ working-class community. Teams vised election in Roanoke Rapids. Stev­ of socialists have been canvassing ens violated innumerable federal laws door-to-door there each week. and court decisions since then. The SWP organizer Miguel Zarate strongly pro-union work force in Roa­ told the Militant, "Many people noke Rapids was denied pay raises invite us in to talk. We have found given other Stevens workers, to dis­ a tremendous interest in the Mili­ courage organizing efforts. tant, and in our candidates." J.P. Stevens agreed in the new con­ They have also been selling sub­ tract to recognize the union and offer scriptions at Hampton Institute, a the same contract at any other plant Black college in Virginia. organized in the next year and a half. One energetic Militant salesper­ son, Miesa Patterson, sold five sub­ The union agreed to give up special scriptions in a half hour. organizing rights it had won through Inspired by their success in their court decisions, such as the right to local area, the Tidewater socialists conduct organizing activities in com­ are sending out teams . to other pany parking lots. It also agreed to southern cities during the ten-day period prior to the elections. Among terminate its nationwide boycott of other places, they'll be getting down to Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, J.P. Stevens goods. scene of the recent union victory over J.P. Stevens. Company chairman Whitney Stev­ ens told a news conference that in spite Latin American conference Some 700 people attended the national conference of the Latin American Studies Association in Bloomington, Indiana, October 17-19. Thirty-three of them bought subscriptions to Perspectiua Mundial. Subscription scoreboard Campaigning in the Northwest Seattle socialists gave their drive a solid boost by sending a three-day As of October 18, 1980 sales team to Bellingham, Yakima, and Spokane. MILITANT SUBS PM SUBS TOTAL TOTAL The three-member team combined selling subscriptions with campaign­ AREA GOAL REC'D GOAL REC'D GOAL REC'D % ing for Jim Levitt, their candidate for U.S. senator from Washington. They sold subscriptions at several campus meetings where Levitt spoke *Kansas City 100 88 10 5 110 93 85 and also canvassed some working-class neighborhoods and visited plant Phoenix 55 55 20 9 75 64 85 gates. 100 77 77 Dallas 75 64 25 13 The results: twenty-two subscriptions to the Militant, forty-two individ­ Indianapolis 110 86 10 6 120 92 77 *Milwaukee 175 139 25 12 200 151 76 ual copies, plus twenty-seven copies of the Young Socialist. Gary 85 73 15 2 100 75 75 Thirty people signed up for more information about the socialist *Atlanta 140 101 10 2 150 103 69 campaign. Iron Range 90 55 0 5 90 60 67 *Salt Lake City 135 91 15 7 150 98 65 Workplace sales Denver 85 63 15 1 100 64 64 Seattle socialists who work at the giant Boeing plant, organized by the *Washington, D.C. 1010 85 45 13 155 98 63 International Association of Machinists, set themselves a goal of obtain­ Detroit 185 114 15 5 200 119 60 ing thirty new subscribers from among co-workers during the drive. Morgantown 100 59 0 0 100 59 59 They've already reached that goal, so they've upped the ante to forty-five. Portland 95 55 0 1 95 56 59 Sales were facilitated by the heightened discussion in the plant about 100 57 57 New Orleans 90 55 10 2 the recent union contract and the convention of the union that was just *Piedmont 125 70 0 1 125 71 57 *Tidewater 150 86 0 0 150 86 57 held. Baltimore 115 59 5 6 120 65 54 Prizes to pacesetters San Diego 70 44 30 10 100 54 54 Twin Cities 190 105 10 3 200 108 54 To spur socialist competition, prizes will be awarded to pace-setting subscription-getters. Cleveland 100 55 30 6 130 61 47 The one who sells the most subs on the job will be awarded a three-year Louisville 100 46 0 1 100 47 47 subscription to Intercontinental Press!lnprecor. (That's a $105 value!) Newark 240 129 60 12 300 141 47 Cincinnati 120 53 0 2 120 55 46 The same prize will go to the person who sells the most subscriptions to Albuquerque 60 33 20 2 80 35 44 Perspectiua Mundial, as well as to the one who sells the most subscrip­ Birmingham 50 22 0 0 50 22 44 tions nationally. Miami 75 36 15 4 90 40 44 The area that sells the highest number of subscriptions per capita will Pittsburgh 165 72 10 4 175 76 43 receive a bound volume of the Militant for 1980. Brooklyn 300 147 100 22 400 169 42 Capital District 90 36 5 4 95 40 42 Midway, a boost is needed Manhattan 300 155 200 54 500 209 42 The accompanying scoreboard gives the results of the first half of our Chicago 300 118 50 23 350 141 40 ten-week effort. Two areas have raised their quotas since the last 30 7 90 35 39 San Antonio 60 28 scoreboard appeared. Tidewater from 120 to 150, and Piedmont from 100 Toledo 60 23 0 0 60 23 38 Seattle 210 76 15 3 225 79 35 to 125. Philadelphia 115 43 35 8 150 51 34 B11t a number of important areas are not doing nearly as well, and, as a St. Louis 120 37 0 1 120 38 32 result we are behind schedule, particularly in subscriptions for Perspec­ Boston 180 46 20 1 200 47 24 tiua Mundial. Los Angeles 200 70 150 14 350 84 24 This issue of the Militant, our election special, is being used for a Oakland 125 38 50 2 175 40 23 national target week to accelerate the drive. Many areas have taken on 14 50 17 150 31 21 San Jose 100 special added goals for the week. San Francisco 100 13 100 2 200 15 8 Houston 105 6 35 0 140 6 4 New York's Manhattan branch has set a target of doubling its regular TOTAL 5555 2843 1235 292 6790 3135 46 weekly quota, aiming for 100 subscriptions. Boston is aiming for sixty new readers this week, and Los Angeles has set its sights on seventy-five, Miscellaneous 62 14 210 76 36 including twenty to PM. National Teams 167 7 1000 174 17 Eight thousand new subscribers to the Militant and Perspectiua Mundial will be a solid gain for our movement. With an effectively TOTAL GOAL 5555 3072 1235 313 8000 3385 42 SHOULD BE 2833 630 4080 51 organized, all-out final effort we can make that important political goal. -Nancy Rosenstock *indicates area that has raised goal

9 THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 SWPcandid ndocumented By Andy Rose , ji);\';:·; ',' '\ ; \\\ \,' ) Zimmermann explained that the un- In her campaign swing across the ions in this country were built by Southwest, Socialist Workers vice-pres­ immigrant labor-always against ef­ idential candidate Matilde Zimmer­ forts by the employers to keep workers mann has spoken out sharply against divided according to what country they the racist abuse suffered by undocu­ came from and what language they mented workers. spoke. Just before Zimmermann arrived in A Chicana campaign supporter in Houston, news broke that Mexican and Phoenix told Zimmermann about the Salvadoran workers were being held in struggle to organize the copper mines virtual slavery by one of the biggest in southern Arizona. Her father, a oyster businessmen in Te"'as, at Smith Mexican, had worked and died in the Point on Galveston Bay. mines. The owner, Benjamin Nelson, was The owners used deportations in a charged under federal antislavery laws very sweeping way to try to keep for holding the workers against their unions out, Zimmermann learned. will until they paid off smugglers' fees. They took Mexican or Chicano or It's a lucrative racket all around. The Indian strikers and dumped them smuggler, or "coyote" charges the busi­ across the border into Mexico. nessman or rancher $100 or more for They also took Anglo strikers and each undocumented worker he delivers. dumped them across the border into The employer then proceeds to "de­ New Mexico! duct" this from wages-at least once. One worker was paid only ten dol­ Oppose deportations Undocumented workers in west Texas lars for fifteen days work-about To this very day, the government twelve cents an hour. uses deportations to go after not only At least one worker, who tried to flee party of the slavemasters," Zimmer­ ery are only the most extreme form of Mexican workers but other militants before his delivery fee was paid off, mann said, "where is the party of the the oppression of undocumented work­ as well. Washington is currently trying was brought back at gunpoint by Nel- slaves?" ers, Zimmermann pointed out. to deport Marian Bustin-a young son's son. A few days later a front-page story "Whenever undocumented workers woman coal miner from Scotland ac­ in the New York Times reported how can be forced to work for low wages tive in the women's rights and anti­ Democrats & slavemasters thousands of Mexican workers are held under miserable conditions, the wages draft movements-because of her so­ "I think they should throw the book in similar slave conditions "from the and conditions of all workers are cialist views. at this guy," Zimmermann declared, tomato fields of Arkansas to the apple dragged down and the labor movement "The labor movement needs to take "both because he deserves it and as a orchards of Virginia, from the cotton weakened,'' she said. the stand that we in the Socialist warning to other slavemasters. But the fields of North Texas to the orange Workers Party do-that we couldn't "But the problem is not the immi­ care less about borders,'' Zimmermann Democratic state representative for the groves of Florida." grant workers, it is their illegal status. district where this happened had a declared. "That we couldn't care less It described workers being sold from That is what the unions have to direct different idea. He called Nelson up to about the imaginary line between what master to master, children being held their fire against. offer his assistance. is now Mexico and states that used to hostage to prevent their parents from "In our campaign we demand an end "'He's an honest fisherman,' this be part of Mexico. running away, and the constant threat to all deportations. Open the borders! "We care only about the line between Democrat said of Nelson. 'He makes of deportation being used as surely as We say every worker, with our without his living by the sweat of his brow.' workers, born on either side of the a gun or chain to keep workers in line. papers, has the right to a decent­ border, and the bosses who exploit "When the Democratic Party is the These instances of modem-day slav- paying job and union protection." them all." Railworker explains why she joined YSA Among those planning to attend the Girls are supposed to sit at home, have company. The fight continues to get Young Socialist Alliance national con­ babies and cook dinner-and that's it. such facilities throughout the railroad. vention in Indianapolis is Beverly But even at that early age I knew that I've been with the railroad over a Andalora. Now twenty-one, she is a wasn't for me. I wanted an exciting year, and I know damn well that locomotive fireperson for Conrail and job, and they all happened to be classi­ women can handle the job very well. a member of the United Transporta­ fied as "men's jobs." Later on I real­ But I spent a major part of my first tion Union. Last July, she joined the ized that they just "happened" to be year trying to prove to the company Newark Young Socialist Alliance. the better paying jobs as well. that I could do the work. Andalora was among the speakers at Well, now I am a locomotive engi­ an October 4 Newark election rally for neer. I've joined the growing number of Last March I was involved in an the Socialist Workers presidential women who are breaking into pre­ accident at work. I was, to use an old ticket. The following are excerpts from viously all-male fields, who believe cliche, a victim of circumstance. The her remarks. that equal rights and equal opportun­ accident was not my fault, I could have ity should be available to all. But still done nothing to stop it. Yet, the com­ * * * we face the discrimination and in­ pany claimed that merely because I Being a woman, I learned when I equality. The majority of the men I was on one of the engines that collided, was very young about discrimination work with are still hesitant to accept I was responsible for the accident. My and inequality. When other girls talked women on the railroad. This attitude immediate supervisor recommended about becoming housewives, mothers, tends to reflect the policies of the that I be fired. I ended up with thirty teachers, and secretaries, I wanted to company. Just this past summer the days suspension without pay. be an airline pilot, a locomotive engi­ women had to put up a fight merely to Militant/L. Paltrineri I finally returned to work-4 months BEVERLY ANDALORA neer, a carpenter. Of course my family get bathrooms and lunchroom facili­ later. It turned out that I had injured a discouraged me. They're "men's jobs" ties-we had none. We finally won knee during the accident and had to and "ladies" don't pursue such careers. them, but only in one area of the It was through the Socialist Workers have it operated on. I was not eligible, Party that I was introduced to an under railroad rules, to collect either organization of young workers and unemployment or disability. Nor did I students called the Young Socialist qualify under state regulations. Alliance. In July, I joined the organiza­ However, some positive things have tion so that I might continue learning developed from this incident. With about revolutionary politics while be­ more spare time on my hands, I got ing actively involved right now in the involved in the union's Women's Com­ fight for positive social change. mittee, which participated in the Janu­ Someday, I believe the working class ary 13 ERA march in Virginia, and our of this country will come to realize that We Will Discuss: fight for washroom facilities, among the present government is not their other things. As a result of meeting government, but rather the govern­ • No Registration! No Draft! and working with other women, and ment of the rich. And when they do, learning that the problems I faced they'll start to change it. And I'll tell • Solidarity with Cuba, Nicaragua, and were common to most women, I gained you something-when that happens, Grenada! much more confidence and trust in my I'm going to be there. Because I'm abilities. determined to someday see in this Ill Money for Jobs-Not War! It was during this time also that I country a government that outlaws • Stop FBI and CIA Spying! came in contact with the Socialist discrimination of every kind. That Workers Party, who!'le members were a does;n't allow a chosen few to take such major force in instituting the Women's gross advantage of the working major­ J()itl the Young Socialist Alliance Committee. And as I soon discovered, ity. A government that makes sure all 0 I want to join the YSA. we agreed on much more than just how of its people are fed, clothed, housed, ;\{~,:~n:·: J 0 Send me more information on the YSA impersonal the company is. Our social healthy, and educated. Such govern­ C!t~ _____ State ______convention. and political views were almost identi­ ments do exist elsewhere-such a gov­ Zip _Phone ______0 Enclosed is $2.00 for one year of the cal. I was amazed. I'd actually found a ernment can exist here. And it will, I Young Socialist. real political party, a very highly or­ believe, in the not-so-distant future. Clip and mail to: YSA National Office, P.O. Box 471 Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. ganized, committed, working party That's why I joined the Young Social­ 10003. that believes in and fights for the same ist Alliance. I know they'll be instru­ convictions I hold. mental in making it happen.

10 'We're not going back to slavery:_ Dallas unionists welcome so.cialist campaign By Andy Rose the movements of the people." DALLAS-This city may be the best Four Iranian students came to Dal­ place in the country to see the widen­ las the next night for the socialist ing gulf between image and reality in campaign rally, as did fifteen other American politics. people who were not members of the In Dallas-deep in the heart of SWP or YSA. They included high "right to work" Texas-700 transit school students, activists from the workers are conducting a militant and Nicaragua solidarity committee, and determined walkout for decent wages members of the National Organization and humane working conditions. In a for Women. city only 8 percent organized, it's shap­ One of those present was Paul Law­ ing up as a showdown battle for union rence, a young army veteran from a rights. small town outside Dallas. He had In Dallas-considered a bastion of joined the army at seventeen, he told Sunbelt conservatism-working people me. "I was brought up very conserva­ are increasingly open to class-struggle tive, thinking America was always ideas. right." But in the army he began to have Transit strike questions-about military discipline When Matilde Zimmermann, Social­ and about whose interests the U.S. ist Workers vice-presidential candi­ armed forces serve. He got interested date, began her two-day tour here in radical ideas while stationed in Ger­ October 10, her first stop was the many. transit workers picket line. Her support A couple of weeks ago in Dallas he was welcomed by workers, who were was driving by the Militant Bookstore. shocked and bitter at seeing the Demo­ It's an attractive storefront on a busy crats and Republicans on the city comer. A big sign outside-"Human council close ranks against them. needs before profits-Vote Socialist Bus drivers, mechanics, and cleaners Workers-Lea Sherman for Con­ have been off the job since October 1. gress" -caught his eye. He stopped in Their grievances include low pay, and got some books and leaflets. His advice to young people facing the draft is to "realize they are being TEXAS VOTERS: State officials put on the line-they can be sent to have ruled the Socialist Workers war regardless of their personal be­ Party off the Texas ballot, despite liefs. ·the fact that the SWP collected far "The Iranians, they believe in what more than enough signatures to they're fighting for. If people here qualify. Supporters of the socialist believed it was right, they would go alternative in· Texas should cast a fight. But people realize the govern­ write-in vote November 4 for An­ ment is out of their control." drew Pulley and Matilde Zimmer­ mann and the local SWP candi­ Inspired by Cuba dates. See page 12 for the Also at the campaign rally was Maria Vidales. She grew up in the Rio candidates running in your area. Grande Valley and worked, with the rest of her family, as a migrant farm forced overtime, split shifts that extend worker. the working day to twelve and fourteen Attending a small Chicano college in hours, and harassment and abuse from the valley in the early 1970s she had transit management. read and liked the Militant. But the first SWP event she ever attended was "City officials say it's illegal for Militant/Andy Rose Zimmermann discusses transit walkout with picketers after she moved to Dallas this summer. them to even talk to you about transit She came to a July 26 open house to policy," Zimmermann told bus drivers. celebrate the Cuban revolution. Now "But it's just fine for them to discuss she is eager to visit Cuba the first with the oil companies and other cor-· November 2,000 people demonstrated · red-baiting her. It stated she was a chance she gets. porations that profit from keeping against the Ku Klux Klan, while the member of the local only because "by Th gains of the revolution in Cuba, unions out of Dallas, and that pay racists held a tiny march under heavy the law we cannot deny her member­ Nicaragua, and around the world "give little or no taxes to support the bus police protection. ship" and complained of "the problems you hope that people can create system or other services needed by The marchers' anger was directed the Socialists are causing in Afghani­ changes in this country too," she told people here. not only at the KKK but at blatant stan and Iran." me. "In fact, those corporations give the segregation of city schools and at­ To be part of making those changes, Democrats and Republicans their tempts to deny education to children of Iranian students Maria Vidales recently joined the So­ marching orders. That's why we need undocumented workers. The leaflet ended by announcing the cialist Workers Party. a labor party. One young Black demonstrator said executive board's endorsement of Jim Two television stations came to the "You are the ones who care about then, "The days of being stepped on Mattox, Sherman's Democratic Party Dallas rally to interview Zimmermann. providing decent bus service-not the are through." opponent. Their coverage focused on the SWP's Democratic and Republican politi­ It's the same sentiment that inspired Sherman replied with an open letter fight for ballot status in Texas. cians. You could do a lot better job the transit walkout. "We're not going to Western Electric employees explain­ While Zimmermann explained the running the bus system. And you and to let them take us back to slavery," a ing her program and exposing Mat­ party's case, the WFAA-TV camera other working people like you could do woman bus driver told Matilde Zim­ tox's antilabor record. Mattox voted to showed the crowd at the SWP head­ a lot better job running Dallas and this mermann. prohibit strikers from receiving food quarters and zoomed in on the cover of entire country." Despite the best efforts of the Dallas stamps, he has never sought repeal of the Young Socialist newspaper, on a rulers, the city is not isolated from the "right to work" laws in Texas, and he "no draft" poster, and on the big 'How it should be' changing world. backs Carter's restrictive wage guide­ banner: "Working people keep the It was a popular idea among workers "If Polish workers have the right to lines. country running, working people we talked to. . representation, so do workers in Dal­ Far from isolating Sherman, the red­ should run the country." Putting workers in office is "how it las," Willie Chapman, secretary treas­ baiting leaflet increased interest in the On the other TV station, the inter­ should always have been," bus driver urer of the Dallas County AFL-CIO, plant in her campaign. Over time the viewer kept trying to belittle the im­ John Stoke said. "I'm not voting for told a news conference in support of atmosphere turned around to the point 1' pact of Zimmermann's campaign. He either the Democrat or Republican for the transit workers. where Sherman was able to address spent most of his time repeating the president. The people they're running The· ruling-class attack on the transit the local union meeting in September Texas secretary of state's claims that just don't seem qualified." workers may backfire, provoking a as SWP candidate. the SWP had too little support for major challenge by labor and the One vivid example of the changes ballot status. If he votes at all it might be for John Black and Chicano communities to was a co-worker of Sherman's who had But viewers also got to hear Zimmer­ Anderson, he said, because he likes the anti-union laws and open-shop condi­ been harassing her with anticommu­ mann's response: idea of an "independent." He would tions here. nist and pronuclear remarks. He has "Our idea of launching a labor party, also read the socialist campaign litera­ since changed his mind on nuclear of nationalizing the oil companies, of ture he had just gotten and consider Red-baiting power and is now a subscriber to the opposition to the draft, of support for voting for SWP candidate Andrew Pul­ Attacks on the Socialist Workers Militant. women's rights, of opposition to all ley. Party have also backfired. Zimmermann held a meeting at the forms of racist violence-whether it's As we talked, a truck driver going Lea Sherman, SWP candidate for University of Texas at Arlington. against Blacks or against undocu­ past honked and yelled encouragement Congress from the Fifth District here, Among those present were several mented workers and Chicanos-these to the pickets. A fire department ambu­ is an assembly worker at Western Iranian students, supporters of the ideas are more popular than ever. lance roared by with lights flashing Electric. People's Mojahedin inside Iran. "And it's this growing distrust of the and siren wailing in a sign of support. Shortly after she announced her "We support struggles for justice all Democrats and Republicans, the grow­ "You all hang in there," the driver candidacy, the executive board of Com­ over the world," one explained, citing ing search for alternatives like a labor shouted. munications Workers Local 12260 Nicaragua and El Salvador as well as party, that is the reason why the state Times are changing in Dallas. Last mass distributed a leaflet at the plant Iran and Palestine. "History is with of Texas has ruled us off."

THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 11 Donald Hanrahan~University of Illi­ Party candidates for federal, state, and nois Board of Trustees RHODE ISLAND local office in the November 4 elections. David Tucker-University of Illinois DeBerry-Zimmermann DeBerry-Zimmermann Write-in candidates are indicated with Board of Trustees an asterisk (*). If your state is not listed, NEW JERSEY SOUTH DAKOTA cast a write-in vote for Andrew Pulley Pulley-Zimmermann Pulley-Zimmermann and Matilde Zimmermann. INDIANA Christine Hildebrand-U.S. Con- Pulley is twenty-nine-years-old, mak­ DeBerry-Zimmermann gress, 10th C.D. ing him ineligible under the U.S. Consti­ *Etta Ettlinger-U.S. Senate TENNESSEE tution to serve as president. Since state Jon Britton-U.S. Congress, DeBerry-Zimmermann *Danny Booher-Governor 11th C.D. officials have attempted to use this *Elizabeth Sommers-Lt. Governor discriminatory law to rule socialist can­ TEXAS didates off the ballot, Clifton DeBerry is IOWA NEW MEXICO *Pulley-Zimmermann the stand-in for Pulley in many states. In Pulley-Zimmermann *Lea Sherman-U.S. Congress, Ohio, Rick Congress is Pulley's stand­ DeBerry-Zimmermann *Manuel R. Archuleta-U.S. Con­ 5th C.D. in. gress, 1st C.D. If you have questions about how to *Arturo Ramfrez-U.S. Con­ Diane Prokipchak-State Legisla­ vote, contact the SWP campaign head­ KENTUCKY gress, 18th C.D. ture, 8th District quarters in your area. Addresses and Pulley-Zimmermann *Laura Garza-U.S. Congress, phone numbers are listed on the facing Elaine Baca-State Legislature, 14th 23rd C.D. page. District *John Sarge-Railroad Com­ LOUISIANA missioner ALABAMA DeBerry-Zimmermann NEW YORK DeBerry-Zimmermann DeBerry-Zimmermann UTAH Mohammed Oliver-U.S. Senate Victor Nieto-U.S. Senate DeBerry-Zimmermann MARYLAND Keith Jones-U.S. Congress, *Pamela Burchett-U.S. Senate ARIZONA *Pulley-Zimmermann 14th C.D. *William Hoyle-Governor *Geoff Mirelowitz-U.S. Senate *Robert Miller-U.S. Congress, David Hurst-U.S. Congress, DeBerry-Zimmermann 17th C.D. 2nd C.D. Josefina Otero-U.S. Senate Reba Williams Dixon-U.S. Con- Rob Roper-U.S. Congress, 1st C.D. MASSACHUSETTS gress, 19th C.D. VERMONT DeBerry-Zimmermann Patricia Mayberry-U.S. Congress, DeBerry-Zimmermann CALIFORNIA Nelson Gonzalez-U.S. Congress, 28th C.D. *Pulley-Zimmermann 6th C.D. *George Johnson-U.S. Senate NORTH CAROLINA VIRGINIA *Mark Friedman-U.S. Congress, MICHIGAN DeBerry-Zimmermann DeBerry-Zimmermann. 43rd C.D. R F. h us Se te Sharon Grant-U.S. Congress, *Pulley-Zimmermann e b ecca mc - . . na t C D Louise Goodman-San Francisco 1 *William Arth-U.S. Congress, Douglas Cooper-Governor s · · Board of Supervisors 14th C.D. *Andrew Walden-Detroit School WASHINGTON NORTH DAKOTA DeBerry-Zimmermann COLORADO Board DeBerry-Zimmermann DeBerry-Zimmermann *James Levitt-U.S. Senate Silvia Zapata-U.S. Senate MINNESOTA *Mary Nell Bockman-Governor Harold Sudmeyer-U.S. Congress, OHIO 1st C.D. DeBerry-Zimmermann Congress-Zimmermann James Kendrick-U.S. Congress, John Powers-U.S. Senate WASH., D.C. 4th C.D. Scott Breen-U.S. Congress, DeBerry-Zimmermann FLORIDA Stephen Thomas-U.S. Congress, 1st C.D. Glenn White-City Council- *Pulley-Zimmermann 5th C.D. Toby Elizabeth Emmerich-U.S. at-large *Andrea Baron-U.S. Senate Ilona Gersh-U.S. Congress, Congress, 9th C.D. WEST VIRGINIA 8th C.D. *Pulley-Zimmermann GEORGIA *Tom Moriarty-Governor *Pulley-Zimmerman~ OREGON *Janice Prescott-U.S. Senate MISSISSIPPI *Pulley-Zimmermann Pulley-Zimmermann *Joel Shapiro-U.S. Senate WISCONSIN DeBerry-Zimmermann ILLINOIS Susan Hagen-U.S. Senate DeBerry-Zimmermann MISSOURI PENNSYLVANIA Lynn Rashkind-U.S. Congress, Lee Artz-U.S. Senate DeBerry-Zimmermann DeBerry-Zimmermann 4th C.D. Susan Browne-University of llli- Martha Pettit-U.S. Senate Linda Mohrbacher-U.S. Senate Frank Forrestai-U.S. Congress, nois Board of Trustees Martin Anderson-Governor Tory Dunn-State Treasurer 5th C.D.

Planks in SWP plaHorm No to war build new schools, housing, and • Abolish draft registration medical facilities • Eliminate the war budget • All U.S. planes and ships out of the Equal rights • Jail racist killers in Atlanta, Buffalo, Persian Gulf Greensboro, and Miami • Affirmative-action quotas to root out job discrimination against Jobs for all Blacks, Chicanos, and women • Cost-of-living escalator clauses in • Ratify the ERA all wages, salaries, pensions, and • Abolish the Hyde Amendment; for welfare benefits women's right to choose abortion • Thirty-hour workweek with no cut in pay to spread available work Save the environment • Nationalize and reopen shutdown • Shut down all nuclear power plants 48 pages. $.50 each, or $.35 for ten or more. auto and steel plants Order from Socialist Workers Presidential Cam­ now paign Committee, 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. • A massive public works program to • Nationalize the oil industry 10014.

12 Hear Pulley and Zimmermann live Nov. 4 over national telephone hook-up

Socialist Workers campaign committees across the country will host election-night rallies and celebrations. Andrew Pulley, in Chicago, and Matilde Zimmermann, in New York, will address the rallies via a national telephone hook-up. To find out about the election night rally in your area, call the Socialist Workers campaign headquarters listed below.

Andrew Pulley Matilde will speak at 9:10 p.m. CST from Zimmermann Chicago at 434. S. Wabash, Room will speak at 10 p.m. EST from 700. New York at 108 E. 16th St.

Socialist campaign headquarters: ALABAMA: Birmingham: SWP, YSA, 205 18th St. 46409. Tel: (219) 884-9509. Indianapolis: SWP, NEW JERSEY: Newark: SWP, YSA, 11-A Central burgh: SWP, YSA, 12l0 E. Carson St. Zip: S. Tel: (205) 323-3079. Send mail to P.O. Box YSA, 4850 N. College. Zip: 46205. Tel: (317) Ave. Zip: 07102. Tel: (201) 643-3341. 15203. Tel: (412) 488-7000. State College: YSA, 3382-A. Zip: 35205. 283-6149. NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque: SWP, YSA, 1417. c/o Bill Donovan, 1240 E. Branch Rd. Zip: ARIZONA: Phoenix: SWP, YSA, 1243 E. McDo­ IOWA: Cedar Falls: YSA, Box 352. Zip: 50613. Central Ave. NE. Zip: 87106. Tel: (505) 842- 16801. Tel: (814) 234-6655. well. Zip: 85006. Tel: (602) 255-0450. KENTUCKY: Louisville: SWP, YSA, 131 W. Main 0954. TEXAS: Austin: YSA, c/o Mike Rose, 7409 Berk­ CALIFORNIA: Oakland: SWP, YSA, 2864 Tele­ #102. Zip: 40202. Tel: (502) 587-8418. NEW YORK: Capital District (Schenectady): man Dr. Zip: 78752. Dallas: SWP, YSA, 5442 E. graph Ave. Zip: 94609. Tel: (415) 763-3792. Los LOUISIANA: New Orleans: SWP, YSA, 3207 SWP, YSA, 323 State St. Zip: 12305. Tel: (518) Grand. Zip: 75223. Tel: (214) 826-4711. Hous­ Angeles: SWP, YSA, 2211 N. Broadway. Zip: Dublin St. Zip: 70118. Tel: (504) 486-8048. 374-1494. New York, Brooklyn: SWP, YSA, 335 ton: SWP, YSA, 806 Elgin St. #1. Zip: 77006. 90031. Tel: (213) 225-3126. San Diego: SWP, MARYLAND: Baltimore: SWP, YSA, 2913 Green­ Atlantic Ave. Zip: 11201. Tel: (212) 852-7922. Tel: (713) 524-8761. San Antonio: SWP, YSA, YSA, 1053 15th St. Zip: 92101. Tel: (714) 234- mount Ave. Zip: 21218. Tel: (301) 235-0013. New York, Manhattan: SWP, YSA, 108 E. 16th 1406 N. Flores Rd. Zip: 78212. Tel: (512) 222- 4630. San Francisco: SWP, YSA, 3284 23rd St. St. 2nd Floor. Zip: 10003. Tel: (212) 260-6400. 8398. Zip: 94110. Tel: (415) 824-1992. San Jose: MASSACHUSETTS: Amherst: YSA, P.O. Box New York: City-wide SWP, YSA, 108 E. 16th St. UTAH: Salt Lake City: SWP, YSA, 677 S. 7th SWP, YSA, 201 N. 9th St. Zip: 95112. Tel: (408) 837. Zip: 01002. Tel: (413) 546-5942. Boston: 2nd Floor. Zip: 10003. Tel: (212) 533-2902. East, 2nd Floor. Zip: 84102. Tel: (801) 355- 998-4007. SWP, YSA, 510 Commonwealth Ave., 4th 1124. COLORADO: Denver: SWP, YSA, 126 W. 12th Floor. Zip: 02215. Tel: (617) 262-4621. NORTH CAROLINA: Piedmont: SWP, YSA, 216 VIRGINIA: Tidewater Area (Newport News): Ave. Zip: 80204. Tel: (303) 534-8954. MICHIGAN: Ann Arbor: YSA, 4120 Michigan E. 6th St., Winston-Salem. Zip: 27101. Tel: SWP, YSA, 111 28th St. Zip: 23607. Tel: (804) FLORIDA: Gainesville: YSA, c/o Mary Randazzo, Union, U. of M. Zip: 48109. Detroit: SWP, YSA, (919) 723-3419. 380-0133. 1223 Northwest 18th Ave. Zip: 32601. Tel: (904) 6404 Woodward Ave. Zip: 48202. Tel: (313) OHIO: Cincinnati: SWP, YSA, 2531 Gilbert Ave. WASHINGTON, D.C.: SWP, YSA, 3106 Mt. Plea­ 372-1973. Miami: SWP, YSA, 8171 NE 2nd Ave. 875-5322. Zip: 45206. Tel: (513) 751-2636. Cleveland: sant St. NW. Zip: 20010. Tel: (202) 797-7699. Zip: 33138. Tel: (305) 756-8358. MINNESOTA: Mesabi Iron Range: SWP, YSA, SWP, YSA, 2230 Superior. Zip: 44114. Tel: WASHINGTON: Olympia: YSA, Room 3208, The . 1012 2nd Ave. South, Virginia, Minn. Zip: (216) 579-9369. Toledo: SWP, YSA, 2120 Dorr Evergreen State College. Zip: 98501. Tel: (206) GEORGIA: Atlanta: SWP, YSA, 509 Peachtree St. 55792. Tel: (218) 749-6327. Twin Cities: SWP, St. Zip: 43607. Tel: (419) 536-0383. 866-7332. Seattle: SWP, YSA, 4868 Rainier NE. Zip: 30308. Tel: (404) 872-7229. YSA, 508 N. Snelling Ave., St. Paul. Zip: 55104. OREGON: Portland: SWP, YSA, 711 NW Everett. Ave. South. Zip: 98118. Tel: (206) 723-5330. ILLINOIS: Champaign-Urbana: YSA, 284 lllini Tel: (612) 644-6325. Zip: 97209. Tel: (503) 222-7225. WEST VIRGINIA: Morgantown: SWP, YSA, 957 Union, Urbana. Zip: 61801. Chicago: SWP, MISSOURI: Kansas City: SWP, YSA, 4715A PENNSYLVANIA: Edinboro: YSA, Edinboro State S. University Ave. Zip: 26505. Tel: (304) 296- YSA, 434 S. Wabash, Room 700. Zip: 60605. Troost. Zip: 64110. Tel: (816) 753-0404. St. College. Zip: 16444. Tel: (215) 734-4415. Phila­ 0055. Tel: (312) 939-0737. Louis: SWP, YSA, 6223 Delmar Blvd. Zip: delphia: SWP, YSA, 5811 N. Broad St. Zip: WISCONSIN: Milwaukee: SWP, YSA, ,3901 N. INDIANA: Gary: SWP, YSA, 388 Broadway. Zip: 63130. Tel: (314) 725-1570. 19141. Tel: (215) 927-4747 or 927-4748. Pitts- 27th St. Zip: 53216. Tel: (414) 445-2076. Fund puts socialist campaign teams on the road By Susie Berman final blitz as well as for special na- cumbent Democrat Jay Rockefeller 400 years and the more than 20,000 Pulley-Zimmermann campaign sup­ tional campaign teams. and Republican Arch Moore. Moriarty state coal miners could be put back to porters have contributed $51,690 so far Some socialist campaigners have 'backs fully the public employee's right work.... Nuclear power is not in the to help publicize the socialist program. already hit the road. A team of four, to organize and, if necessary, to strike.' interest of the majority of the people- There are just two weeks left to raise including Socialist Workers candidate In fact, he strongly urges the working coal is." the remainder of the $75,000 necessary for Governor of West Virginia Tom class to organize a strong labor move- Through campaigning door-to-door to wind up the SWP campaign. This Moriarty, recently toured the southern ment which can take control of the and the media coverage, the team of money is needed to pay for campaign coal region of that state. They talked government away from 'big busi- West Virginia socialists has reached literature, the candidates' travel, and with hundreds of miners and rail work- ness.'" tens of thousands of people. What kind campaign staff expenses. So now is the ers, as well as other working people The campaign of this socialist coal of response did they get? time to send that contribution you've and students. During the tour, Mor- miner running against oil and coal "I've gotten a very good response," been thinking about making to the iarty was interviewed by more than a billionaire John D. Rockefeller IV has Moriarty told the Militant, "when I tell Socialist Workers Presidential Cam- dozen newspapers, television, and ra- made a big splash in West Virginia. people I'm a coal miner running paign. dio stations. One of the major issues Moriarty has against Rockefeller, a bona-fide In the last ten days before the elec­ An article in the Beckley Raleigh campaigned around is nuclear power. member of the ruling class; that I want tions, socialist campaigners will be Register explained, "Moriarty, a Fair- "Moriarty also said he differs with to shut down nuclear power plants and mobilizing in cities and towns through­ mont coal miner, is a member of the Moore and Rockefeller on nuclear switch to coal; that I'm against the out the country to talk to thousands of Socialist Workers Party (SWP). He said power. All nuclear power plants should draft-these things make sense to most people about the Socialist Workers he has taken a five-week leave of be shut down nationwide and replaced working people in West Virginia." campaign. They'll be going door-to­ absence from the mines to travel with coal, he believes," explains the And they make sense to working door selling subscriptions to the Mili­ through the state and is 'getting out Raleigh Register. people throughout the country. Help us tant and Perspectiva Mundial and the political program to the people.'" An article in the Bluefield Daily reach the thousands who have not yet handing .out tens of thousands of cam­ The Register went on, "there can be Telegraph picks up on the same theme. heard about the SWP by contributing paign brochures. 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THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 13 The following article was pre­ Salvador and will start with East and FDR. She pointed to the great impor­ some 200,000 last January and on the pared by Joel Britton, Toba Sin­ West Coast organizing centers here tance of the U.S. solidarity movement massive funeral for Archbishop Oscar ger, and Fernando Torres. and in San Francisco. to the struggle in El Salvador. She led Amulfo Romero, slain while celebrat­ A conference resolution mandated a minute of silence for the more than ing mass. WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U.S. these offices "to promote solidarity 6,000 people killed so far this year by Strikes of agricultural laborers and movement in solidarity with th,e people work among national organizations the army and right-wing terror gangs. urban workers are shown, as well as of El Salvador took a big step forward and to aid in the formation of solidar­ Farid Handel, another leader of the the struggles of the dispossessed peas­ at conferences here October 11-12 and ity committees on the local level," to FDR, addressed both conferences, pro­ ants. The junta's fake land reform is in Los Angeles October 4-5. The new "disseminate up-to-date information on viding background information on the exposed for what it really is-a U.S.­ movement will center on demanding the situation in El Salvador," and "to history of El Salvador and on the contrived pacification scheme modeled an end to all U.S. aid to i.he brutally mobilize around emergency situations revolutionary process that has now after the genocidal Phoenix program repressive government in El Salvador as the need arises." reached massive proportions. attempted in Vietnam. and on getting out the truth about the In carrying out these efforts, close The movie highlights the heroism revolutionary struggle raging in this communication will be maintained A powerful movie and determination of the Salvadoran Central American country. with the Frente Democratico Revoluci­ The movie "El Salvador-Revolution people and shows the overwhelming Some 500 people attended the two onario (Revolutionary Democratic or Death" was shown, underlining in a support the FDR enjoys. conferences, representing nearly 200 Front-FDR), the broad coalition of most dramatic way the urgent need to Conference organizer Phil Wheaton solidarity committees, human rights revolutionary and popular forces that force an end to U.S. government back­ of the Ecumenical Program for Inter­ groups, religious orders and organiza­ is leading the struggle against the ing to the blood-drenched rulers of this american Communication and Action tions, and other groups. The new move­ U.S.-backed junta. Central American nation of 5 million (EPICA) told the East Coast partici­ ment will be called the U.S. Committee · Diana Oqueli brought greetings to people. The movie includes footage of pants that "you will be the persons in Solidarity with the PE:)ople of El the East Coast conference from the the murderous attacks on a march of who will bring in the hundreds and

Socialists back solidarity effort Lisa Hickler attended the East Coast conference as a representa­ tive of the Young Socialist Alliance National Executive Committee. She told the Militant that her or­ ganization and the Socialist Work­ ers Party are "stepping up our efforts to build opposition to U.S. intervention in El Salvador and to win support for the struggling peo­ ple there. "Young people in this country, working people-men and women -don't want another Vietnam War in Central America. We join the solidarity and antidraft move­ ments in demanding: 'NO DRAFT, NO WAR, STOP U.S. INTERVEN­ TION IN EL SALVADOR!"' YSA members will discuss how to help build the U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador at their twentieth Na­ tional Convention in Indianapolis December 27-30. · For more information on the YSA convention, write to the YSA National Office, P.O. Box 471 Cooper Station, New York, New York 10003. El Salvador Solidarity Conference in Washington, October 11. Speaking is Revolutionary Democratic Front leader Farid Handal Get out the facts Labor body denounces AFL-f Committees in Solidarity with "Abuses of Medical Neutrality­ The following resolution was with the solidarity committee the People of El Salvador and Report of the Public Health Com­ adopted without dissent at the for a showing of the slides. others who want to get out the mission to El Salvador July 1980." September 15 meeting of the For more information con­ truth about the struggle there and Committee for Health Rights in El Central Labor Council of Santa tact: Central American Solidar- · the U.S. role in propping up the Salvador, 66 West 87 Street, New Clara County, centered in San ity Committee, P.O. Box 3045, repressive regime will want to util­ York, New York 10024. Jose, California. San Jose, California, 95116, ize these materials: "The Militarization of the Agrar­ The council speaks for more telephone (408) 251-7862. MOVIE: "El Salvador­ ian Reform _in El Salvador," by than 100,000 members of the Revolution or Death." To rent or Alberto Arene, Peter Shiras, and AFL-CIO. Among the major WHEREAS, the Human Rights purchase: National Council of Philip Wheaton. $3 from EPICA unions represented are United Commission of the Archdiocese Churches, Attn.: Wm. Wipfler, 475 Task Force, 1470 Irving Street NW, Food and Commercial Workers, of San Salvador has documented Riverside Drive, New York, New Washington, D.C. 20010. International Association of 3509 assassinations and hun­ York 10027, telephone (212) 870- "El Salvador-Why Revolution? Machinists and Aerospace dreds of disappeared persons and 2424. Part I (March-April 1980)" and "El Workers, and Service Em­ illegal detentions in El Salvador Salvador-Part II (July-August ployees International Union. from October 15, 1979, to June 21, SLIDE SHOW: "El Salvador: A 1980)." Each of these NACLA Re­ Country in Crisis." Half hour, 160 In July, the council viewed a 1980; and ports on the Americas is 48 pp., slide show on El Salvador pre­ slides with cassette. Rental: $15 per WHEREAS, said Human Rights $2.50. North American Congress on sented by members of San Jose commission has reported that week, purchase: $60. OVERVIEWI Latin America, 151 West 19 Street, Latin America, 9 Sacramento Federation of Teachers Local 80% of the assassinations have 9th floor, New York, New York 957 who work with the Central been committed directly by the Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 10011. 02138. American Solidarity Commit­ Salvadorean Armed Forces, and "Revolt in El Salvador." Includes tee. the rest by paramilitary groups PAMPHLETS: "U.S. Military platform of the Democratic Revolu­ Following the vote in the supported by the Armed Forces; Involvement in El Salvador, 1947- tionary Front and articles by council, a number of union offi­ and 1980." 28 pages, $1. U.S. Friends of Nancy Cole, Will Reissner, and cials and religious figures sent WHEREAS, a majority of the hu­ the Salvadorean Revolution, P.O. Anibal Yanez. 48 pp., $1.25. Path­ a letter to union locals in the man rights violations have been Box 4087 4, San Francisco, Califor­ finder Press, 410 West Street, New area urging them to arrange directed against the working peo- nia 94140. York, New York 10014. ·

14 El Salvador/revista."' de las LP-28 thousands of others." Activists in this they are nearly unrecognizable. It was cause, he said, will come from a very agreed that media work should be an broad range of organizations and expe­ essential component of solidarity activ­ riences. It will be necessary "to mobil­ ity. ize everyone possible," including peo­ ple on "all different political levels." Anti-draft allies The East Coast conference was also Representatives from the movement addressed by William Wipfler of the against draft registration attended Human Rights Office of the National both conferences. It was clearly recog­ Council of Churches and Beverly nized they would be a central ally in Keene of the Inter-religious Task the fight against U.S. intervention in Confrontation Force, among others. El Salvador. A vital task of the solidar­ Speakers at the West Coast confer­ ity movement will be to provide speak­ ~nce included David Mancias of the ers, literature, and movies for antidraft Legal Aid Office of the Archdiocese of activities. in Jamaica San Salvador, Prof. Arnon Hadar, and A lengthy discussion took place at General elections will be held in the government. . . . The man responsi­ 0arlos Galvan of the Farabundo Marti the conference here on how to most Caribbean island nation of Jamaica ble, Prime Minister Michael Man­ Solidarity Bloc. effectively organize and broaden out October 30. ley.... " the solidarity movement. The activist Nearly 500 people have been killed According to Melloan, Manley "be­ Labor against AIFLD core of the solidarity committees in a since the beginning of the year in a gan early to wage war against wealth The workshops on agrarian reform number of large cities is centered campaign of right-wing terror to oust and privilege. His weapons included 'lnd on doing work in the trade unions among Salvadorans. Hundreds of the regime ·of Prime Minister Michael high taxes.... .ocused on the need to get out the truth thousands live in the United States Manley. Much of the violence has been "He thus encouraged the baser ele­ "'.bout the involvement of the U.S. and are mostly sympathetic to the directed against supporters of Man­ ments of Jamaican society to feel ~overnment, major corporations, and revolutionary struggle. ley's People's National Party (PNP) or justified in inflicting whatever violence top AFL-CIO officials in AIFLD, the Two structure proposals were de­ against residents of Kingston's large they might choose on their 'oppres­ American Institute for Free Labor bated. At issue was the role of the working-class districts. sors.'" Development. This agency, long notor­ solidarity committees of Salvadorans On October 14 Deputy Minister of But the real oppressors of Jamaica ious for its collaboration with CIA­ in the on-going movement and in the National Security Roy McGann was are not suffering. The U.S. and Cana­ instigated coups such as that in Chile · coordinating committee to be selected killed. He was the first government dian aluminum companies, which in 1973, has been playing a big role in in November by a nominations com­ official ever assassinated in Jamaica. mine bauxite ore, and the oil monopo­ imposing the rural .pacification pro­ mission designated by the conference. A week earlier, assassins also tried to lies, which take 30 percent of the gram in El Salvador. General agreement was reached to kill Manley and Minister of National country's foreign exchange, are drain­ Union members present pledged to provide for "fair and equitable repre­ Security Dudley Thompson. ing the wealth of Jamaica's workers step up their efforts to pressure the sentation" for the solidarity commit­ Much of the right-wing violence in and peasants. AFL-CIO Executive Council to termi­ tees and to move toward additional Jamaica has been carried out by Manley's crime in the eyes of U.S. nate the AIFLD operation in El Salva­ regional organizing centers in New armed thugs of the pro-imperialist business is to refuse to keep going dor and to sever its connection with York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Aus­ Jamaica Labor Party (JLP). along with the austerity drive de­ this antilabor outfit. tin, Texas. manded by the International Monetary A model for this work has been the The outcome of this discussion was Their terrorist attacks are intended Fund. To punish Jamaica, banks re­ campaign in Santa Clara County, Cali­ greeted by spirited chants of "u-u­ to intimidate supporters of the PNP fuse badly needed loans. fornia, unions that led to the passage unidad," reflecting the strong determi­ regime. Washington backs this effort In a thinly veiled call for a military ·Jf a resolution September 15 by the nation and sense of unity that per­ to topple Manley because it is hostile to coup, Melloan stated that Jamaican Central Labor Council there (see box). meated the conference. his regime's close ties with Cuba and police and security forces are "increas­ The Media Workshop discussed the Many other ideas were presented at to some of the social measures that ingly concerned about the PNP's flirta­ Clews blackout about El Salvador, the both conferences for how to get out the have been carried out. tions with Fidel Castro." Cuban doc­ The destabilization drive against '11isrepresentation of what little news truth about the struggle in El Salvador tors and teachers have fanned out Jamaica is similar to the one that led ,s reported, and the need to find ways and to oppose U.S. intervention there. across the country "to do the thing to the overthrow of the Allende regime to break through this censorship. Sev­ Nationally coordinated efforts to they do best, political indoctrination," in Chile in 1973. eral journalists who have been cover­ answer the lies in the capitalist press according to Melloan. ing El Salvador participated in the and to raise money will be highlighted JLP head Edward Seaga has prom­ Supporters of the PNP campaign ised if his party wins the elections to iiscussion. in a regular newsletter of the U.S. have held rallies in Kingston and other ease restrictions on foreign companies They noted the continuous attacks Committee in Solidarity with the Peo­ cities to begin mobilizing opposition to and threats against journalists who ple of El Salvador to be edited by Phil operating in Jamaica. He says J a­ a possible coup. are simply reporting the facts, and Wheaton. maica should follow the "Puerto Rican The people of Jamaica are today Model" for development. The JLP elec­ ~ven the recent murders of three jour­ Until the initial coordinating centers fighting for the right to choose their tion campaign has received large nalists and the kidnapping of one by are set up in Washington and San own government, free from imperialist amounts pf money from U.S. sources. the police. When journalists are able to Francisco, useful materials can be intervention. In face of a concerted send their dispatches, they are heavily obtained from various sources (see An October 6 Wall Street Journal American drive to deny them that edited by U.S. editors, to the point that box). article by George Melloan said, "Ja­ right, they now need the widest possi­ maica . . . has not been devastated by ble international solidarity. an invading army but by its own U.S. hands off Jamaica! 0 support to right-wing junta ple of El Salvador; and the bomb­ RESOLVED, that the Central La­ ings of union halls such as the bor Council of Santa Clara Coca Cola and Electrical Indus­ County calls on the AFL-CIO to try locals in the week of June 26- recommend to the U.S. govern­ July 3, 1980, have impeded free ment to suspend economic and trade union organizing; and military aid to the present Salva­ WHEREAS, the National Council dorean government; and BE IT of Churches, Amnesty Interna­ FURTHER tional, and the three largest Ital­ RESOLVED, that the Central La­ ian trade union federations have bor Council of Santa Clara protested these violations of hu­ County recommends that the man and workers' rights; and AFL-CIO disassociate itself from WHEREAS, the U.S. government the AIFLD program in El Salva­ has fully supported the present dor, and BE IT FINALLY Salvadorean regime since its Oc­ RESOLVED, that the Central La­ tober 15 inception, and has auth­ bor Council of Santa Clara orized more military aid to El County, AFL-CIO, send copies of Salvador since April of this year this resolution to the Director of than it authorized in the preced­ the Inter-National Affairs De­ ing decade; and partment of the AFL-CIO, to the WHEREAS, the American Institute President of the AFL-CIO, to the of Free Labor Development, U.S. State Department, and to sponsored by the AFL-CIO, oper­ the Central American Solidarity ates in El Salvador and has not Committee. condemned these violations of ADOPTED without dissent in Reg­ human and workers' rights; ular Meeting, Monday, Sep­ THEREFORE BE IT tember 15, 1980. Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley

THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 15 Boston cop gets off scot-free in racist killing By Nelson Gonzalez saw one officer ... grab the individu­ This prompted a state probe, which fines against their key officers, and the BOSTON-Black rights have been al's left arm with his right, and then led the racists to announce the boycott firing of the entire union leadership, 1truck another blow here. On October deliver a crunching blow with some­ was "officially ended." However, they the strikers ·have initiated a labor­ 6, an all-white federal grand jury thing in his left hand, followed almost predicted, many white parents would community support group to help them mnounced its decision not to indict immediately by a gun shot." continue to keep their children home. beat back the union-busting attack. 3oston policeman Robert Bourque for The now officially sanctioned Hart Meanwhile, school bus owners have The Boston Teachers Union is also he cold-blooded slaying of Black teen­ killing was one of a series of slayings, prolonged a bus drivers' strike by becoming increasingly militant. The \ger Levi Hart. mob assaults, firebombings, stonings, refusing to meet the drivers' demands. teachers are faced with an attempt by Bourque shot and killed fourteen­ and stabbings that plagued Boston's This has kept about half the school Democratic Mayor Kevin White to tear lear-old Hart on July 15 following a Black community this summer. system's 67,000 students away from up the contract they negotiated with tolen car chase. The federal investiga­ school. the school committee. This unchecked violence emboldened If White is successful, some 1,900 of .ion was held in response to Black The union, which supports peaceful mger after an earlier county grand the racist movement here in a series of the system's 5,000 teachers could be incidents at South Boston High School desegregation, was forced on strike by ury refused to indict Bourque. contract violations. laid off. The case was widely seen by whites, when it opened in the fall. On October 15, teachers joined with 1s well as Blacks, as a clear case of These culminated in a violent attack Union grievances center on safety other city workers in a protest against )olice brutality. Bourque claimed that on Black students that forced the clos­ for student passengers and drivers. the withholding of city paychecks for ,1e never struck Hart and that Hart ing of the school October 2. They have won significant support two weeks in a row. had grabbed his gun from his holster. When "Southie" reopened October 6, from Black leaders, including state The demonstration coincided with a But medical testimony showed that the racist South Boston Information Rep. Mel King and state Sen. William visit to the city by President Carter. Hart's skull had been crushed by a Center announced a white boycott. For Owens, as well as the Boston Teachers The angry protesters delayed the presi­ 1low before he was shot. two weeks the boycott kept the big Union and other unions. dent's motorcade for a half hour by This is how Harcourt Lewis, a white majority of white students away from In the face of a court back-to,work blocking the tunnel from the airport to -vitness, described what happened: "I "Southie." order, the jailing of six of their leaders, the city. Food conference in Havana The_fight a er in Latin America By Harry Ring \\\\ "I wonder," Fidel asked, "what sense Increasingly acute food and agricul- · ·... there is to the arms race, the cold war, tural problems beset the peoples of the policy of force, and the sharpening Latin America. of world tensions if an era of coopera­ The Food and Agricultural Organi­ tion and unprecedented commitment is zation (FAO) of the United Nations necessary to save mankind from cer­ discussed these problems at its six­ tain disaster. Surely that way lies total teenth regional conference for Latin madness." America, held in Havana September 1- Fidel pointed to the road that the 6. victims of imperialism must take. The opening session of the confer­ ence was highlighted by a speech by Agrarian reform Fidel Castro, the closing session with ·"Agrarian reform," he declared, "is one by Edouard Saouma, of Lebanon, certainly essential and indispensable the director-general of the F AO. in every one of our countries. Any solution based on oligarchic methods There were delegates from twenty­ and latifundist agriculture is unthinka­ five member states in the region, and ble. The fight against hunger and observers from the Vatican, the United poverty will never be won without States, Canada, Denmark, the Nether­ social justice. lands, and Spain. "I also believe that small plots and Established in 1945 to aid in world subsistence agriculture are unproduc­ agricultural development, the F AO has tive. Manageable holdings with so­ had the most active participation from cially just and efficient forms of pro­ colonial and other developing coun­ duction and distribution are what is tries where the food problems are most needed. deep-going. "Meanwhile," he continued, "expen­ Taking aim at Washington, Fidel "Experience has shown," he added, The September 14 issue of the weekly ditures for arms have reached unimag­ said: "A recent, in-depth report by a "that agrarian reform is only the first English edition of the Havana paper, inable levels, and a world incapable of group of specialists, drawn up at the step. Without a certain level of me­ Granma, reported on the F AO confer­ feeding its inhabitants properly is behest of the United States govern­ chanization and the use of chemicals ence and published the texts of the perfectly capable of killing them all ment to determine what serious prob­ . . . agricultural production will be speeches by Castro and F AO director off, a dozen times over." lems mankind will face in the near unable to meet the local and interna­ Saouma. Saouma indicated the necessary future, analyzed the terrifying pros­ tional needs of a world increasingly road for underdeveloped countries in pects in considerable detail and con­ threatened by hunger. Imperialist squeeze his expression of appreciation to the cluded that required changes are way "This," Fidel affirmed, "is where Among the problems discussed by host country of the conferenc~. beyond the capability and responsibil­ agriculture fits into the general prob­ the delegates was the increasing "If all countries," he declared, ity of one or another individual nation lem of development and the urgent squeeze by the banking and credit "showed the same interest-the way and can only be made in an era of need to answer the questions that face institutions of the major capitalist Cuba does through its top leader-in cooperation and unprecedented com­ us on the road to a new international countries. They are imposing onerous solving the problems of agriculture, we mitment. economic order." terms on loans and food credits to would have reason to be more optimis­ developing countries. As a condition tic than we are now." for credit, the bankers are demanding Fidel told the conference that Cuba they impose further cutbacks on living is persevering in its efforts "to develop standards. modem and highly productive agricul­ ture on a socially just basis" and stood The depth of the food problem con­ ready to make available its social and fronting the great majority of human­ technological experiences to other ity was depicted by Fidel. countries. His estimate of the gravity of the "Every nation," Fidel declared, "has problem was buttressed by Saouma's the responsibility to do as much as it address. can for itself and to cooperate to the The situation of the developing coun­ maximum with other countries. tries, Saouma declared is one of "mis­ "This," he emphasized, "is the only ery and malnutrition ever-present and way our peoples can win the difficult, spreading." decisive, and vital battles that lie ahead." These nations find themselves "re­ Citing grim F AO statistics on the duced to the state of captive economies extent of world hunger, Fidel said: of the major powers. . . . Crushed "Not only does agricultural backward­ under a monstrous debt of more than ness mean poverty and suffering for $360 billion, depriving them of any these hundreds of millions of people freedom of action. who lack the means to feed themselves "To crown it all," Saouma continued, properly, but it also forces our coun­ "energy crisis, inflation, and recession tries to import large amounts of food constrict their export markets ever in order to remain within the narrow more painfully . . . while assistance boundaries of undernourishment; and, from the developed countries remains as the F AO has noted, these imports shamefully sluggish, despite all the only add to the negative balance of endlessly-renewed declarations of good payments, pushing these countries to will." the brink of disaster."

16 Fewer strikes, more ~lant closing.§ Why are the unions in trouble today? By Frank Lovell , The union turned down the bosses' The economic crisis has directly demand, but Teamster President affected union-management relations. Frank Fitzsimmons said that "in re­ Workers have become more critical of cognition of the depressed state of the union leaders and more wary of the economy, which has caused problems employers. in the industry and loss of jobs for our The Bureau of Labor Statistics re­ members, we will review the problem." ported that in the first six months of 1980 the total number of strikes was Lose it to save it the lowest in eleven years. This reflects In general the union movement growing caution among workers and senses its weakness. And many em­ lack of leadership among union offi­ ployers are taking advantage of it. cials. When contracts expire some employers Inflation and high unemployment refuse to negotiate a new one. They say are undermining wages and working they need a "union-free environment." conditions. The union movement has failed to offer protection. Most union Union officials do not know how to officials pretend the economy is not organize a successful strike under their problem, and anyway there is 1980 United Auto Workers convention offered no program on how to fight high these circumstances. They advise nothing they can do about it. How the unemployment and plant closings. against strike action, which they say is employers regulate the economy and "a scheme by management to break adjust their productive capacity is a the union." Workers are asked to take "management prerogative." They have a pay cut and work under non-union been endorsing this concept in contract hikes and even pay cuts "reflects a nia, the United Steelworkers agreed to conditions to "save the union." language for so long that these union growing awareness of some unions give up a one dollar an hour pay raise Government conciliator Wayne Hor­ officials have come to believe that that a job at eight dollars an hour is when management threatened to close vitz, director of the federal Mediation workers must always be totally de­ better than no job at ten dollars an the mill. Service, is urging what he calls a "real pendent on employers for jobs. hour." The Steelworkers also took a pay cut at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, hoping detente" (meaning no strikes), envis­ Plant closures and mounting unem­ Give Chrysler $450 million to "save jobs." aged as a top-level accomodation be­ ployment are accepted as necessary tween unions and management to meet The cut-rate contract signed last evils of the capitalist system, some­ The United Rubber Workers union problems ranging from foreign compe­ year by the United Auto Workers to made a similar deal with Uniroyal thing that must be endured like a "save" Chrysler is the best known tition to inflation. natural catastrophe. Union officials when the corporation claimed it was example. The Chrysler "wage adjust­ on the verge of bankruptcy. Top union officials favor such an tell the working membership that ment," demanded by the federal gov­ "things will get better soon." arrangement supervised by an "impar­ ernment as one of the conditions for More recently, the entire trucking tial" government agency. The trouble The employers take advantage of loan guarantees to the bankrupt corpo­ industry covered by the Master Freight is the employers see no need for it at this temporary union paralysis to im­ ration, was $450 million less than Agreement with the Teamsters union present. Rudy Oswald, chief economist pose wage cuts while consumer prices Chrysler workers would have received demanded a reduction in the terms of for the AFL-CIO, says efforts by em­ are rising. under the terms of the UAW contracts the present three-year contract. The ployers to fight unions through such Nick Fidandis, federal Mediation at Ford and General Motors. The hope companies claim they are hurt by the organizations as the Committee for a and Conciliation Service Commis­ at Chrysler was to "save jobs," but economic crisis and by the new deregu­ Union Free Environment make hopes sioner in Washington, said recently Chrysler plants are still closing. lation law. They want the union to bail for a real detente "most difficult." that the decision to accept low pay At Kaiser Steel in Fontana, Califor- them out. Facts of life Most top union officials are keenly aware that the unions are in trouble, but they don't like to talk about it because they don't know what to do ~organize to launch labor party' about it. John Henning, head of the California AFL-CIO, is an exception. The following article appeared on the front page of the October issue of '65 News,' the paper of Steelworkers Local 65 at the He wants the labor movement to build U.S. Steel South Works in Chicago. Alice Peurala is president of the local. a labor party in this country. At the recent AFL-CIO state conven­ tion in California, Henning told the 1,000 assembled delegates, nearly all of them officials in their local unions, b5NEWS some of the facts of life. Union leaders, he said, "tend to ignore the reality ~-·;;,;,~. Pub~ Nonlllly by Hlldloi Aod•- "-1 65 • U. S:W. A.· AFL • CIO ~ tJIO SOUTH CHICAGO AVE., CHICAGO. ILL.INOII IM17 because we are comfortable. We have Vol. 39 No. 10 SecaadCa•PIIIIIIIePaNa&Cideqo.m. jobs. We are busy" mostly dealing with USPS 710 • 340 collective bargaining problems or capi­ talist politicians. by Allee Peurala Labor again chooses lesser evil He informed them that there has Predictions are that most working said, "We as union members sup­ epidemic proportions. For the labor leadership not been a drastic drop of 17 percent since people will sit out the national port and vote for those purported to Business profits have risen to personally hurt by present con­ elections in November, especially be our friends, but we often find historically high levels, and at the ditions, a labor party is something to 1950 in the proportion of upion for the presidential office. after the election they are not really same time the after-tax buying talk about, but not act upon, as Pres. members to the total California work Yet other political analysts are our friends ... " power of workers' paychecks has Fraser of the United Auto Workers force and he warned that as that trend expecting a large number of Much of the legislation that the been declining as inflation erodes and others have done for many workers who traditionally vote labor movement felt would be the value of the dollar. Real ear­ years. They always end up stating continues "our strength in politics and Democratic to defect to the enacted by electing Carter and a nings for workers are down from a that we need a labor party, but this at the bargaining table fades." He Republican column, the Reagan­ Democratic majority in the year earlier and well below the level is not the time. So when will be the urged them to reverse that trend by Bush ticket, this time around. One Congress in 1976, went down in of five years ago. time? experienced labor political dismal defeat. The need for a war I think the tragic conditions of mounting a serious drive to organize strategist said, "It's going to be That is bad enough, but now we When workers begin to talk about many of our members, with.no let-up the unorganized as the CIO did in the damn tough to get union members to find many of these so-called friends the need for a war, and some believe in sight, is an imperative call for all 1930s. vote for Carter." voting with big business interests, it is inevitc.ble, to get the economy labor unions to organize a national This despite the fact that the AFL­ and giving lip service in public to moving, aren't we as a society in congress for the purpose of laun­ A resolution presented by the Cali­ CIO Executive Council and the labor causes. pretty bad shape? It is certainly a ching a labor party. Those millions fornia Building Trades Council called General Council voted almost The labor movement has tried to devastating commentary on our of dollars spent to support pro-labor for the state AFL-CIO to "organize a unanimously for the Carter-Mondale get Labor Law Reform through­ current government policies. candidates could be put to better use ticket. There were a few defections Congress for over 20 years, but it But who is to blame for this kind of - to elect our own people to office. series of public demonstrations among council members, namely, hasn't happened. As a result, more thinking, and the attitude that it They would then owe their throughout the state to defend labor's the president of the Inter. Assn; of states have right-to-work laws, doesn't matter who is elected, we allegiance to us and not to the big oil political rights, support OSHA and the Machinists Union, W. "Wimpy" which make union organizing costly are going to get screwed anyway. companies, etc. Wipinsinger, who has personally and almost impossible (Example: Who is to blame for the frustration? All unions would be invovled in Davis-Bacon Act, oppose the planned J.P. Stevens Co., Newport News endorsed Barry Commoner of the Honest thinking needed. hammering out a platform for our policy of high unemployment, and Citizens Party for president. The Shipyards) own political party that would really expose the aims and goals of the right­ Our so-called Democratic friends Labor spends millions of dollars other holdouts have since fallen in telling workers to register and vote put America back to work. of labor were partially responsible wing groups such as the Business line and endorsed Carter. for their friends. But who can tell Interestingly the speaker at our At the recent convention of the for the legislation to water down and who is friend and who is foe? recent Steelworkers convention who Roundtable;" also "that this shall be lAM (Machinists' union) Wipin­ dilute tl1e effects of OSHA. Without a clear and honest received the most applause was a seen as a first step towards political We have tried to get a national singer and the membership voted to evaluation of the political realities of representative of the New health insurance bill for many independence for organized labor in explore the formation of a pro-labor today, workers will no longer blindly Democratic Party of Canada, a party after the elections in years, without success. follow the advice of their leaders. party launched by the labor America." November. The resolution calls on The Dept. of Labor has estimated Top labor leaders are not faced movement in Canada. This resolution indicates that the the executive council members of that over two million American with the loss of their jobs, homes and It is time to seriously consider this the machinists' union to contact workers are presently in ill health as possibility. Hopefully, our union will demands of the ranks for action cars. It isn't diffi~ult to say that against the anti-union drive of the other unions for the purpose of ex­ a result of chemical and toxic ex­ Reagan is bad for labor, but can they join with the Machinists' union to ploration and study of the pro-labor posures in the work place (at South honestly say that Carter is our discuss and debate the question of a employers is beginning to find expres­ party concept. Works silicosis, PCB) . friend? labor party. Are there reasons why the of­ Plants are closing, and thousands I would appreciate hearing from sion among the officials. It shows that Workers will not be fooled forever some are beginning to realize that ficialdom of labor feel they may not of workers have lost their jobs -- they must begin to look for an­ our members relating to this be able to deliver the labor vote for permanently. During Carter's ad­ swers elsewhere, rather than being proposal. Our 65 NEWS can be used action is necessary despite the eco­ Carter? ministration the unemployment rate content to pick the best of the worst. as an open forum for your opinion, nomic crisis. More accurately, because Perhaps I. W. Abel, retired has reached 8%, from 4% wh\!n he pro or con. Please submit your ideas president of the Steelworkers' took office. For minority young Another direction. in writing, addressed to Don Jordan, of the economic crisis and the failure of Union, had a partial answer when people, unemployment has reached What about an American labor Ed. 65 News c/o 9350 South Chicago capitalism to provide for the needs of speaking at our recent convention, 40% in many cities, considered to be party? Ave. Chicago, IL. 68617. the workers.

THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 17 Railworker hits hazards of nuclear cargo An article in last week's issue of to climb. vice was prohibitive. They have been our unions. The membership will be­ the 'Militant' reported on the La­ At the back end of the fuel cycle­ fighting it out in the courts for the last come increasingly clear on the dangers bor Conference for Safe Energy that is, once fuel assemblies leave the few years. posed by nuclear power and how much and Full Employment held in reactor-they are a million times more we stand to benefit by ending the Pittsburgh October 10-12. radioactive than when they went in. We live here too nuclear program. We can set up safe Below are excerpts from a report I want to make one last point. In energy committees in our unions to to the conference workshop on Storage capacity dealing with shipments containing extend even further this educational transportation and storage of nu­ The dimensions of the irradiated fuel many times the radioactivity of the process and to help organize labor's clear materials and waste. shipments problem confronting trans­ bombs dropped on Japan, it soon be­ participation in the broader antinu­ Future issues of the 'Militant' portation workers are not readily ap­ comes apparent that the problem we clear movement. will carry other reports and inter­ parent from daily conditions on the railroaders are confronting goes views from the conference. job. Few such shipments are seen. A beyond just health and safety on the .To those of you here who aren't few years back we saw more than we job. While we work for the railroad unionists, but are antinuclear activists, My name is Doug Hord. I'm a rail­ do now. eight hours of the day, we do remain· orient yourselves toward the unions. It roader and member of Local 620 of the on the face of this planet for the other is here you will find your most open United Transportation Union in Chi­ One reason is that most commercial sixteen. We have a real stake in a safe, and receptive audience. It is also in the cago. As a rail worker and member of irradiated fuel assemblies have been clean, and livable environment. ranks of labor that the antinuclear Citizens Against Nuclear Power, over temporarily stored on-site. Only a movement will find the strength and the last year and a half I've spoken small percentage of such assemblies The point is, because of our special power for this fight. In the final analy­ before a number of rail union locals on are transported annually. But on-site position as workers directly involved sis that is what we are talking about storage capacity is rapidly running the dangers of nuclear power. I'd like in the nuclear fuel cycle, we have a when we consider putting an end to the out. Currently the government is push­ to make some general observations larger responsibility to society. Not nuclear menace-power. ing rapidly to open up "away from about this experience. only are we in the best position to reactor" storage sites. Once such sites expose the dangers to public health Working people need to form our own are established the number of irra­ and safety involved in transport, we diated fuel shipments will skyrocket. energy policy, completely independent are also in the best posi11ion, once we of the dictates of the banks and energy One government estimate is that by put our minds to it, to put a stop to the Nuke accident 1985 we'll see 1500 truck and 652 rail corporations who are beset with nu­ nuclear program as a whole. , By Mary Ann Kellogg clear madness. We need to examine the shipments annually. And if the gov­ SEATTLE-On October 9 at the facts from the standpoint of our inter­ ernment allows reprocessing of irra­ As I said earlier, rail workers have Handford Atomic Reservation near ests, and then get involved as union­ diated fuel to begin anew, the number every reason in the world to oppose Richland, Washington, eight em­ ists in the antinuclear movement and of such shipments will climb to an nuclear power. One reason is coal. Coal ployees were contaminated during take the antinuclear message to other even higher level. Not only would is the only available immediate alter­ a laboratory plutonium fire. workers. reprocessing mean that fuel assemblies native to nuclear power. Coal would Two workers were in the process Being directly involved in both the would have to be shuffled around mean a lot more jobs in our industry. of putting a small can of plutonium front end and back end of the nuclear again, but reprocessing itself generates Not only operating jobs either. into a large can when the pluto­ fuel cycle, we, as rail workers, are ex­ large quantities of lethal high-level Hundreds of millions of dollars would nium ignited and the lid blew off. posed to dangers that are summed up waste that will also have to be dis­ have to be invested in track and Six fellow workers who came to in one word-radiation. posed of. roadbed. Such investment would help their aid were also contaminated. reverse the long term decline of the rail We were reminded of this danger just Another factor that has slowed down These six were, according to a industry we have been witnessing. last month when a head-on collision of the appearance of spent fuel shipments Rockwell Handford spokesperson, two N&W freight trains in southern has been the actions taken by the rail "cleaned up and sent home." The two who had been handling West Virginia killed three brakemen. carriers. The intense radioactivity of Take knowledge back Radioactive cargo. was on the rear-end irradiated fuel combined with the ha­ the plutonium received burns and zardous conditions implied in rail It is necessary for us to make a skin contamination and were kept of one of those trains and the Bluefield judgement on the advisability of the Telegraph reported that one of the transport prompted the Association of overnight at a medical center for American Railroads to unilaterally nuclear power program as a whole. decontamination and further exam­ cannisters cracked and leaked out That is what we're here for today: to some of its contents-uranium hexa­ implement a special trains policy in ination to determine the extent of educate ourselves. In this workshop on fluoride. defiance of Nuclear Regulatory Com­ internal contamination. mission and Department of Transpor­ storage and transport we will be gain­ Tom Bauman, Washington De­ ing valuable knowledge to take back to While accidents like this one on the tation directives. "Special Trains" partment of Energy spokesperson, front end of the nuclear fuel cycle pose meant trains no more than five or so work. We can continue the educational said of the accident, "It was no big process that has begun here at this a growing threat to the health and cars in length; speed restrictions, and deal, and none of the contamina­ conference by drawing on the resour­ safety of rail workers and the general specially designated routes that avoid tion was that big." A company ces and knowledge available in the public-the government estimates urban areas and bad trackage; with no spokesperson said of the contami­ antinuclear groups to be found in our 40,000 shipments of enriched uranium additional cargo; and often times nation, "We have no reason to local areas. by 1985-it is at the back end of the under armed guard. For the utilities believe it poses a health problem." fuel cycle where the stakes really begin and government the cost of such ser- This will help us in our work inside Undocumented citrus workers on strike in Arizona By Ellie Garcia PHOENIX-About 250 undocu­ mented citrus fruit workers have been on strike since October 2 at Fletcher's Farms here. They are members of the Arizona Farm Workers Union, for­ merly the Maricopa County Organiz­ ing Project (M-COP). It was M-COP that won the nation's first union contract for undocumented farm workers. That contract was won after a bitter strike at the Goldmar Ranch, owned by the Goldwater fam­ ily. At Fletcher, the workers were being paid ten dollars a day, or less, for an eight-hour day, which is recorded as two hours because of minimum wage regulations. At the unionized Goldmar Ranch, the workers earn fifty to seventy dol­ lars a day. Other issues forcing the strike are the incredible conditions suffered by the workers. They are not provided housing but are compelled to sleep on discarded matresses under trees, using paper and cardboard for covers. The drinking and bathing water is contaminated with DBCP, a pesticide known to cause cancer and sterility. Soon after the strike began, the courts forced the workers to leave their campsite and they are now living on the roadside. On October 9, sheriffs deputies tried to force 100 workers from the roadside, asserting it was "private property." The outraged workers sur­ rounded the fifteen deputies, shouting, "Our land, our land!" The deput~es left. Socialist Workers congressional candidate Josefina Otero, center, talks with strikers on picket line.

18 Atlanta Blacks on patrol to search for children By Hattie McCutcheon tion that the authorities are not doing It was horrifying, she added, to see brother put it this way: "If they can ATLANTA-A search party of what is needed to end these horrible the bodies in the wreckage and the blow up a day care center, why not nearly 300 Blacks, and some whites, crimes. maimed children among the survivors. someone's home?'' He has stopped taking his child to combed Black community areas where Two days after the nursery center She said that one of the children who school, saying he prefers to try to sixteen children have disappeared in explosion, police got around to check­ was wounded and now in the hospital, educate him at home until he can feel the past· fifteen months. Nine of the ing out the identity of a body held in insists that she saw two white men assured his son will not be the next sixteen have been found murdered. the morgue since last July. A simple lurking around the center and that she check of dental records established saw one of them throw something just victim. The October 18 search, initiated by a One thing people do not agree with is that it was the body of Alfred Evans, before the explosion. parents' committee at a Black housing the media attempt to put the blame for 14, one of the missing Black youth. project, came in the aftermath of the The woman said that the child con­ the "boiler explosion" on maintenance explosion at a day care center October I talked with residents at the Bowen stantly talks about the two white men workers, mostly Black, who were con­ 13 which took the lives of four Black Homes housing project where the she saw. But there has been, she ducting a sickout at the time. Supervi­ children and a teacher. nursery explosion occurred. added, no police follow-up on this. sors were attending to the boilers. They still insist it was a faulty boiler. City officials insist the explosion One woman who lives directly across Since people don't believe it was a was caused by a defective boiler. But in from the nursery told me she had No one I talked to believed that city faulty boiler to begin with, they're not the Black community, most are con· witnessed the explosion. officials are telling the truth about buying that story, one woman told me. vinced that it was a bomb, and many It was, she said, "terribly frighten­ what happened. People insist that if it Meanwhile, the community searches believe it was the work of the KKK. ing," but she ran across the street and really was a gas explosion there would will continue on a weekly basis, and a Along with the fear and tension, tried to help in some way to get the have been flames. series of community meetings are there is a mounting anger-a convic- children out. A lot of people are fearful. One slated. Pulley participates in Buffalo antiracist rally By Mohammed Oliver the government, through its attacks BUFFALO, N.Y.-"If I were Presi­ on Black rights, to encourage right­ dent," Andrew Pulley told a Black wing racist groups." student from Buffalo State Univer­ "What can we do to stop these sity, "I would round up every known attacks?" asked a laid-off Black Ku Kluxer as a suspect." worker from Republic Steel. . ' Pulley, the Socialist Workers Party Pointing to the thousands ga­ candidate for president, was explain­ thered around them in Niagara ing what he would do about the Square, Pulley said, "This is a fan­ brutal murders of six Blacks in the tastic beginning. We need to build a past month. He was here in Buffalo movement that draws together to participate in the October 19 Blacks, unions, community groups, protest against the murders. and churches to demand justice." "Racist cops have murdered Blacks in New York City, Miami, Pulley, himself a laid-off steel­ Philadelphia and other cities around worker, explained how the unions the country and they've gotten off could give an organized expression scot-free. Racists feel they can kill to the fight against racism by pro­ with impunity under the Carter ad­ viding a political alternative to the ministration. Democratic and Republican parties, "And it wouldn't be any different a labor party based on the unions. under Reagan," Pulley said. "The "We have to build a movement to Klan has even endorsed Reagan." end the rule of the billionaires," Two women from a suburb of Pulley said. "They're the ones with a Andrew Pulley talks with other participants during rally Albany asked Pulley-after they got vested interest in the increase in his autograph-whether he thought racist attacks." bought 136 copies of the Militant. Buffalo. When one of them spotted the murders were the result of a The protesters were very friendly Eight people purchased subscrip­ the socialist campaign table, she conspiracy. toward Pulley and the other SWP tions to the socialist newsweekly. said, "The Socialist Workers Party. "Yes," Pulley replied. "There's one candidates and campaigners who Among the new subscribers are two Wow! I've been looking for you guys conspiracy for sure-a conspiracy by were with him. Rally participants women who attend the University of for years!"

Roque Aguilar, president of the Puerto Rican-Chicano Community ... Buffalo Center, said, "We're here today to Rally organizers issue Continued from back page express a sense of unity" with the is attacked, discriminated against, and antiracist movement. murdered, we all are potential victims? Many Blacks here believe the antiracist statement What begins as the inequality of some, murders were committed by some inevitably will end up as the inequality right-wing group like the Ku Klux The following excerpts are from zation for Women to the Sierra Club, of all." Klan. Officials, including the mayor, a statement released October 16, Buffalo citizens are stepping forward Stern urged everyone to denounce continue to downplay the possibility 1980, by the organizers of Buffalo on this unprecedented show of solidar­ the racist murders because through and deny that there are groups like the Unity Day. The statement con­ ity. "negligence and silence we all become KKK or Nazis operating in Buffalo. demns the murders of six Blacks accessories" to the injustice committed Rev. Charles Fisher, executive direc­ as racist and calls for a united The good will, the capacity of our against Blacks. tor of BUILD, a civil rights group, laid response from Buffalo citizens on community to respond, the willingness A host of speakers included represen­ to rest the myth that the KKK doesn't October 19. of people to say they stand apart from tatives of Black, Latino, Native Ameri­ exist in Buffalo. He described an inci­ racism in any form, is today being heard. can, religious, and labor groups. dent of several years ago, when robed "Now is the time for Buffalo to show George Wessel, president of the Buf­ Klanners marched into City Hall that the besieged Black Community is falo AFL-CIO Council, representing chambers. not alone in their sorrow and outrage some 125,000 unionists, pledged the Fisher said to cheers and applause: at the recent barbaric murders; that support of the labor movement to the "We don't want these racists here... the White Community joins the Black Black community. They should be run out of Buffalo." Community in overwhelmingly con­ demning these acts and the racist By and about attitudes that lie behind them. . . ." Buffalo rally sponsors We stand before you today and pro­ Malcolm X BUFFALO, N.Y.-The call for Association of Machinists, District claim that that call has been heard. In Malcolm X Speaks. the antiracist rally was issued six 16. a phenomenal outpouring of support 242 pp., $1.95 days prior to the action. Yet, in Other endorsers included the Na­ and representative of common convic­ Malcolm X on tion, 200 civic, labor, religious, neigh­ that time, some 200 organizations tional Organization for Women; Afro-American History. borhood and educational organiza­ endorsed the action. These included NAACP; PUSH; BUILD Federa­ 74 pp., $2.25. labor, Black, religious, and com­ tion; Coalition for Abortion Rights tions, representing memberships in the By Any Means Necessary. munity organizations. and Against Sterilization Abuse; tens of thousands of Buffalo citizens, by Malcolm X. Endorsements came from the Buffalo Girl Scouts; Buffalo Board have stepped forward to declare their 192 pp., $3.45. endorsement of this Call to Buffalo Buffalo AFL-CIO Council; United of Rabbis; Puerto Rican-Chicano The Last Year of Malcolm X. Unity. Auto Workers Region 9, Western Committee; Coalition for Native­ by George Breitman. New York area; Coalition of Labor American Sovereignty; Buffalo From the Chamber of Commerce to 169 pp., $3.45. Union Women; local chapters of Hispanic Association; Polish Com­ the Sisters of St. Joseph, from the Assassination of Malcolm X. the Letter Carriers and Postal munity Center; and Coalition on faculty of the University of Buffalo to by George Breitman, Hern; , Workers; Amalgamated Clothing West Valley Nuclear Waste. the United Steelworkers of America, Porter, and Baxter Smith. Workers; Service Employees Inter­ So deep-going is concern over the from the Fillmore Leroy Association to 190 pp., $2.45. national Union, Local 200; UAW killings that even the American the Polish Community Center, from Order from Pathfinder Pre:."· Local 424; United Steelworkers, Legion and Chamber of Commerce the Coalition of Native American Sov­ West Street, New York, N.Y. 1CJ:J, . Please include $.75 for postage o:; Locals 2603 and 593; International endorsed the rally. ereignty to the Puerto Rican-Chicano 1, Committee, from the National Organi- handlin . ~.i

THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 19 Quebec rights real issue Behind debate on Canada's Constitution By Jim Collins The first ministers who gathered around the conference table, in front of and Jean Lepine television . cameras, and behind closed On October 2 Canadian Prime doors at Trudeau's home were, for the Minister Pierre Trudeau, after most part, Tories and Liberals. While failing to win the support of Cana­ they discussed issues of concern to da's ten provincial governments working people such as civil rights and on a formula for constitutional energy prices, as faithful political ser­ change, announced his plans to vants of the capitalist class their pro­ proceed unilaterally. Although posals in no way met the needs of Canada achieved full independ­ working people or the Quebec nation. ence from Britain in 1931, its con­ stitution remains based on the Not one first minister from English Canada supported the concept of Que­ British North American Act of bec as a nation. None proposed na­ 1867, and amendments to the con­ tionalization of the oil industry from stitution are passed by the British the wellhead to the gas pump, for Parliament at Canadian request. example, as part of an economic plan Trudeau proposes to "patriate" geared to meeting human needs rather the constitution by bringing it than profit. fully under Canadian control. The only NDP [New Democratic However, Trudeau's constitu­ Party] premier, Allan Blakeney, didn't tional plan grew out of his govern­ do any better, for the most part acting ment's reactionary campaign as a mediator between the squabbling against the struggle of the French­ premiers and the federal politicians. speaking people of Quebec for As a representative of the labor their national rights. Thus, one of the items in a proposed "charter of movement, of which the NDP is the rights" that Trudeau wants the mass political expression in English British Parliament to add to the Canada, Blakeney completely blew constitution before relinquishing this golden opportunity to champion its control would guarantee the the demands of the labor movement perpetuation of English-speaking and the need for solidarity with the schools in Quebec. One of the main Quebecois national struggles. Instead demands of the Quebecois national he went along completely with the bosses~ game. liberation movement is for com­ pulsory schooling in French, both Quebecois miners favored 'yes' vote in referendum on Quebec sovereignty. Referen­ Quebecois Premier Rene Levesque, as a means of preserving the cul­ dum was defeated, but support for Quebec national rights blocked Trudeau's push while taking a firm stand against the ture of the Quebecois and in order for new, more repressive Constitution. "people's package" and in this way to help eliminate the privileged reflecting the power of the nationalist movement, accepted the federalist status of the English-speaking mi­ tions. On the No side, the American The government's constitutional framework of the conference. He could nority within Quebec. and Canadian corporations, the fed­ proposals went down to a stunning have used the conference better to The following article analyzing eral government, and the privileged defeat. Why? explain the case for Quebec's sover­ Trudeau's failure to win support anglophone minority in Quebec. Firstly, because the Quebecois wer­ eignty and independence to working from the provincial governments In the very middle of the referendum en't fooled about the real aims of the people across Canada and around the for his constitutional proposals battle, the Canadian Labour Congress conference. appeared in the October 6 issue of Trudeau's "people's package" was world. Caving in to federalist pressure, (CLC) affirmed its su(lport to Quebec's Levesque failed to make this case. the Canadian Trotskyist news­ right to self-determination. Despite immediately denounced by every major paper, 'Socialist Voice.' political party and personality in Que­ Other spokespersons for the op­ strong opposition from the major fed­ pressed who requested a voice at the eral political parties, polls showed a bec. The opposition included not only conference, like the native people, the What lies behind the failure of the majority of people in English Canada Rene Levesque and the Parti Quebe­ Acadians, and francophones outside constitutional talks at the first minis­ favored negotiations with Quebec in cois, but also Claude Ryan's Liberals Quebec, were rejected outright. ters' conference September 8-13? And the event of a Yes majority for the and the Quebec Conservatives. what is their meaning for working PQ's sovereignty-association proposal. The three main union federations­ people? The pressure for change ran so deep the Quebec Federation of Labour How rights are won Throughout history, new constitu­ that Trudeau and the federalist forces (FTQ), the Confederation of National The overriding weakness of the tions and progressive constitutional had to promise that a No vote was a Trade Unions (CSN), and the Quebec talks, and the ultimate reason for their reform have generally come about vote for basic change in the federal Teachers Federation (CEQ)-held failure, was that working people and through huge social upheavals, big system in the direction of satisfying press conferences condemning any the oppressed were denied any real mass struggles by working people, and Quebec's grievances. This helped the attempt by the federal government to voice in the constitutional discussions. revolutions. Constitutions of this kind No position win a majority-but al­ increase its powers at the expense of Real rights can only be entrenched have codified in law important rights most half the francophone votes went the people of Quebec. through the struggles of those who toil and gains of working people. to the Yes side. themselves. This is the lesson of Po­ Codifying the rights of working peo­ Mass opposition land and Nicaragua. ple was not the purpose of these consti­ As in the period of the referendum The Polish workers through their tutional talks, which broke up in a The 'people's' package? and despite another multi-million dol­ strikes have begun to change Polish shabby spectacle of bickering over After this brief retreat, Trudeau re­ lar federal advertising campaign, society from top to bottom, winning for questions like the division of Alberta's turned to the attack with his proposals working people in English Canada instance the right to strike and to form oil revenues between the provinces and to the first ministers. His proposals refused to be drawn into the federal independent trade unions. the federal government. were aimed at whipping up support for government's campaign against Que­ In Nicaragua, the mass uprising Far from codifying rights, the Tru­ measures that could be used by the bec' ' national rights. against the Somoza dictatorship deau government tried to use the con­ federal government to push back and Tl _·ough common struggles against brought to power a workers and stitutional talks to deny the people of undermine the nationalist movement. layo fs, plant closures, speedup, infla­ farmers government. The rights of Quebec their national rights, and to • Trudeau put forward a preamble tion, and unsafe working conditions, workers and peasants have been codi­ deal a body blow to the Quebec na­ to the constitution which specifically workers of both nations have formed fied in the new Nicaraguan constitu­ tional independence struggle. denied the existence of the Quebec strong ties. As a result of the Quebec tion. In this Trudeau failed miserably. nation. Such a measure would codify referendum, many in English Canada Only the actions of working people Not so much because of differences in the constitution the denial of Que­ now understand and sympathize more in Quebec and English Canada can between the provincial premiers and bec's aspirations and right to self-de­ with Quebec's struggle. Plant occupa­ block Trudeau's hand in coming the federal government, but because of termination as a nation. tions in Ontario and the strike of months as he returns for a third time the deep opposition of the people of • He proposed a charter of rights federal government workers show that to the attack with his threat of unilat­ Quebec to challenges to their rights with a specific twist. The charter, by the interests and concerns of workers eral patriation of the constitution. and the refusal of workers in English giving the federal government the say in English Canada, as in Quebec, lie in The October 16 demonstration called Canada to join Trudeau's crusade over provincial language legislation, an entirely different direction from by the main Quebec union federations against the struggle of the Quebecois. would lay the basis for stepping up the Trudeau or the provincial premiers. against the Liberal government's im­ attack on Quebec's language Law 101, The Quebec Liberals and even the position of the War Measures Act in Two round battle already under attack from the Supreme [Toronto] Globe and Mail, fearing the 1970 is the kind of action that can The real battle was fought in two Court. Law 101, which makes French response of the Quebec masses, backed force Trudeau back, and push the PQ rounds: during the Quebec referendum the sole official language in Quebec, is off from Trudeau's measures. Using to stand up to the federalist attack. and in the following month when seen as one of the most important the lever of Quebec's refusal to kowtow To defend and extend national and Trudeau announced his basic propos- acquisitions of the Quebec national to the federal government, Tory premi­ labor rights, the Quebec labor move­ "L. (11~. struggle in the past decade. ers east and west began to raise their ment needs urgently to discuss build­ The massive confrontation during These anti-Quebecois proposals are own demands for a bigger slice of the ing a mass labor party based on the the Quebec referendum between the the heart and soul of Trudeau's "peo­ resource pie. unwns. Yes and No forces reflected growing ple's package" and repatriation By mid-summer, the latest attempt In English Canada, the unions have .letermination by working people in scheme. They underscore the fear of at constitutional reform was dead . an important role to play in bringing ~ }uebec to end the discnmination and Canada's ruling class of the Quebec Shot down, not by the provincial pre­ the NDP into line to ensure that in . ,:justices they face within Confedera­ independence struggle-fear that as miers-though they were the main coming months itb parliamentary . nn and fight for control of their own the determination of Quebecois work­ actors in the media show-but by the spokespersons defend the real interests ir~stiny as a nation. On the Yes side ers to demand their rights grows, they working people of Quebec, indirectly of working people and the Quebec na­ were the Parti Quebecois (PQ) and the will become a threat to capitalist rule assisted by the workers of English tion. masses of workers and their organiza- itself. Canada.

20 How capitalist bankers squeezed Poland By William Gottlieb apparatus are controlled by a caste of privileged American capitalism has paraded as the cham­ and corrupt bureaucrats. There is no system where­ pion of the Polish workers. But it is American and by the workers and peasants can select and re­ other imperialist banks that insisted that the Polish move the leaders of the government and planning government institute austerity plans, the very aus­ agencies and control the whole government and terity plans against which the Polish workers economy from top to bottom. initially launched their strikes. And that is what the movement for new trade This is admitted quite openly by Juan Cameron unions in Poland is all about. Unlike in capitalist in the September 22, 1980, edition of the big busi­ countries, the unions are not demanding the right to ness magazine Fortune. bargain collectively with the bosses over wages and Cameron writes, "Poland became a major consu­ hours, but rather to determine the direction of the mer of Western credit during the Gierek regime. whole economy. Gierek wanted to hasten development of Poland's For example, the new unions are demanding a rich coal and copper resources, as well as its sulfur, voice in determining the division of the national titanium, and lignite deposits. To build up its income between wages and social services and the automobile and refrigerator industries, he developed fund set aside for further economic growth. a modern steel industry. During the 1970s an They want to decide how much is invested in the electronics industry took shape and Poland's ship­ housing industry and other industries producing building industry was enlarged and modernized­ goods needed by workers and farmers. all with the help of Western technology and West­ The Polish unions want to be able to determine ern capital. when and where factories are constructed. "From $741 million in 1970, Poland's hard­ They also want to exercise control on the shop currency debt rose to $10.6 billion by 1976 and $20 floor level over working and safety conditions. billion last year. The Western banks, including Polish union leader Lech Walesa is greeted by The unions are also demanding access to the those of the U.S., were willing to risk their money workers at Cracow rally. Walesa drew big crowds in tour protesting government refusal to register worker­ mass media. In Poland the radio, TV and most because they saw Poland as 'a dream investment,' controlled unions. newspapers are controlled by the government. The in one banker's words. Besides having rich resour­ new unions want these facilities to be put at their ces, particularly coal, the country was willing to disposal. pay premium interest rates, higher than those the However the bankers had quite other plans for The workers want to reduce wage differentials banks could earn in financially weaker countries the Polish workers. When the negotiations were and put an end to the special privileges of cops and like, say Brazil. Poland also has an excellent record finally over the Polish government got a mere $325 functionaries. of paying its debts, and some banks regard its million, 35 percent less than what they had asked credit as being assured by the Soviet 'umbrella.'" for. And they have to pay a rate of interest 1.5 Traditional communist goals However, various factors intervened to disrupt percent above the Eurodollar rate. The Poles will be These demands are the traditional aims of the this idyllic picture. Among them the economic crises forced to begin payments in three years instead of communist movement. The Polish workers want and inflation that have wracked the capitalist the three and one half years requested. socialism. . world. This sharply limited Poland's exports, which Cameron writes, "Most of the bankers were The employers' media, for all their noise about the government had planned to vastly expand. pleased when the Polish government-although Poland, has kept mum on this subject. As a result it is estimated that 92 percent of without warning-doubled the price of sugar in Their real attitude toward the events in Poland Polish export earnings go to pay debts to capitalist June and raised the price of meat on July 1. But was revealed in an article by Clyde H. Farnsworth banks and 85 percent of new borrowings have to be many were shocked by the ensuing strikes, which published in the business section (where working used to "roll over" the maturing debt. they hadn't foreseen.'' people are unlikely to read it) of the August 31 Quite a take for the capitalist loan sharks. edition of the New York Times. How Poland is different Farnsworth writes "Because of the spectacular Banks crack down The Polish workers in their struggle against the expansion of lending to Poland and other Commu­ So when the Polish government requested still austerity drive dictated by the imperialist banks nist countries in the last decade, both Communist more loans, the bankers decided it was time to crack have advantages that we workers in the "free authorities [he means the bureaucrats] and the down. Descending on Warsaw, the bankers laid world" do not have. capitalist bankers recognize a convergence of inter­ down the law to the spendthrift Poles. Due to earlier revolutionary struggles, the Polish est in stability-so much so that one Western Cameron describes the meetings: "The meeting at working class has established a nationalized, banker who asked not to be cited by name said that which the Poles floated their proposal began the planned economy. There is no Polish capitalist if the Russians actually did intervene in Poland, the night of April 23 with a reception in the new class to exploit the workers. Production is carried nation's creditworthiness might actually increase." Handlowy Bank building at which the bankers out for use not for private profit. Prices are deter­ In other words, some of the bosses think that were served drinks and cold cuts. The next day the mined not through the blind laws of the market but Soviet intervention might not be such a bad thing, briefing-and a fish-and-chicken lunch-took place through the planning process. Prices of necessities since it might insure that the bills are paid on time in the Victoria Hotel. That evening the group drove are set low, much lower than would be the case in a and-even more importantly-crush the movement an hour from Warsaw to dine at an inn in Zelazowa capitalist economy. of the Polish workers before it inspires workers in Wola, Chopin's birthplace.'' No austerity here! The problem is that the government and planning the capitalist world to struggle for socialism also.

Nazis get routed by 15,()QO .tefugee.s in 1:1 Salvador ~A;f'J ~.At:V~f?OR-'the ReB .Cross oeclared October2o that about 1?.0~~ ·· r~f~gees ~ave fletf lrpm northeast El Salvador. thousands in Illinois Sharp. armed cl(lshes have been taking place there between By Mark Severs survivors of the Holocaust, Hitler's insur~ent forces. of the People's Revolutionary Army. (ERP} and CHICAGO-Some 6,000 anti-Nazi slaughter of six million Jews. government troops, which began a major operation in· the area Jast demonstrators gathered at two separ­ week. Eleven Nazis showed up at the park ate sites October 20 to protest a rally Th.~ ···Re.dO.r()sse~trtr}.ateo Jhei'eto, .. Power on···O~tober 15, ... ·1979, had were survivors of World War II concen­ nearby Point Marion. Initial en­ ~S. se<.~.re .R~t !;ln. ~p.?·to .. ·.violence and.corruption•. Jo guar~ntee dorsers of the protest included tration camps. Kay W aidmen and a group of her friends, all survivors, hu (ights, ~pd t() tl(;hl~ve. a. just di~trJbution of wealth. in the chapters of the NAACP, YWCA, decided to come to Lovelace Park to y. National Organization for Women, show their disgust with the Nazis. She n¢;>~f'QY c~n sp~ak ql human' rightS in the midst of so much and United Steelworkers District 15. stated, "They preach hatred. They are bl<;)~(.ish~d,'' o~elared RivElf!;l; . 1'Wt.y do .. those who think differently free to march, but I am free to come ~~¥~ !() b~ p~r~ec;u.ted? .. VJl)y deny trade union rights? Why not here. I owe it to my dead parents and dl1;l.loguewith. the.political organizations instead ot persect,.~ting NAACP and other groups, drew 2,500. to my children, whom I raised to be Simultaneously there was a second here today. We must let people know th~rco?'' he askf!

THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 21 Why Iraqi regime is trying to By Janice Lynn Why has the Iraqi regime launched a war that serves the interests of impe­ i.alism? This question is puzzling to .nany who know that the Baghdad government has strongly stated its ')pposition to imperialist intervention 'n the Middle East and is among the most vocal opponents of the Zionist state of Israel. Shortly after the massive uprising by Iran's workers and peasants a ··on vergence of interests developed be­ veen the Iraqi regime and Washing­ :m. Both were determined to prevent :1e example of the Iranian revolution ::-om spreading to other countries hroughout the Middle East. And both >'ere seeking ways to try and impose a ·nore stable regime in Iran like that of she shah's-one that would be better able to put a brake on the massive mobilizations of the Iranian toilers that, if unchecked, could lead to a socialist transformation in Iran. This recent convergence with Wash­ ington, however, is the product of a long political evolution of the Iraqi regime. Overthrow of monarchy Like most of the Arab countries in the Middle East, Iraq was ruled by the Turkish Ottoman Empire until World War I. After that war, the British and Iraqi people cheer 1972 nationalization of Iraqi Petroleum Company. Baath Party carried out some progressive measures like this French victors divided the Middle East but feared the masses and wanted to maintain a capitalist regime. between themselves. In order to bolster their position, the British set up mo­ narchies in Iraq and Jordan in 1921. engineered coup restored him to power. industrialization, and housing and In Egypt, Nasser .nationalized the Abdullah Ibn Hussein was given the In 1958 the Iraqi masses had enough social reforms. Suez Canal in 1956 and turned to the Jordanian throne, and his brother of poverty and tyranny under the rule The new regime also issued decrees Soviet Union for military aid that the Faisal was named king of Iraq. of King Faisal II. They rose up against cutting rents, reducing the price of imperialist powers refused to provide. this British-backed monarch. National­ bread and other consumer items, and In Iraq, the Iraq Petroleum Com­ Faisal and his heirs faithfully served ist army officers responded to this placing limitations on landlord's pany-previously owned by British the interests of imperialism. In fact, upsurge and carried out a coup that shares of harvests. Petroleum, Shell, Standard Oil of New Iraq was the only Arab country to successfully overthrew and completely Jersey, and Mobil-was nationalized formally join the system of anti-Soviet crushed the monarchy. After Israel's June 1967 blitzkrieg, military alliances built up during the the Iraqi regime severed diplomatic in 1972. The same year, Iraq signed a Cold War. In 1955 the Iraqi monarchy Progressive measures relations with Washington and Lon­ fifteen-year friendship treaty with the entered into an alliance V\-'ith Britain, The new regime, supported by the don, protesting their support to Israel, Soviet Union. Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan that be­ Iraqi Communist Party, quickly and even banned oil shipments to But all of these progressive measures came known as the Baghdad Pact. earned Washington's hatred. Iraq them. Later that year, the oil embar­ were carried out from above. Both withdrew from the Baghdad Pact, ef­ goes were removed and relations with Nasser and the Iraqi Baathists, while The Baghdad Pact was aimed more Britain resumed. Relations with Wash­ against the radicalization of the Arab fectively scuttling it. The influence of at times encouraging the mobilization the feudal landlords, on whom the ington, however, were never formally of the masses as a counterweight to masses and the growth of anti­ restored. imperialist, Arab nationalist move­ imperialists had counted to protect imperialist pressure, always sought to ments than against Moscow. During their interests, began to be destroyed. maintain tight control over such mobil­ Baathism and Nasserism izations. They feared the independent the 1950s the Arab world was swept by Powerful sheikhs who held vast Over the course of the ten years action of the workers and peasants, an upsurge in the colonial revolution. tracts of land had not been paying any following the overthrow of the mo­ and clamped down with harsh repres­ The Egyptian monarchy was over­ taxes. The new regime announced that narchy there were a series of military sion whenever independent organiza­ thrown in 1952-53, and the continuing the land would be taxed and that a coups. These culminated in 1968 with tions began to develop. radicalization in Egypt was symbol­ new land reform program would be the Baath Party coming to power in ized by the nationalization of the Suez This fear of the masses reflected the implemented. It announced a new five­ Iraq. Canal in 1956. The shah of Iran almost year plan was being prepared to stress class character of N asserism and lost his throne in 1953, until the CIA- agricultural reform and expansion, The Arab Baath Party was founded Baathism. While striking blows in 1941 in Syria. It was an Arab against the landowners who had been nationalist party that aspired to throw dominant under the monarchy, the off the yoke of imperialism and to cadres of these petty-bourgeois nation­ unite the Arab world. Although it alist currents used the state apparatus called itself socialist, its ideology was to enrich themselves. The capitalist Free Nemat Jazayeri! anti-Marxist. class was partially transformed, not Nemat Jazayeri, a leader of the International pressure from sup­ abolished. The Baath Party was based primar­ Iranian Revolutionary Workers porters of the Iranian revolution ily among military officers, intellectu­ Party (HKE) was arrested in Teh­ can help secure Jazayeri's release. No substitute for revolution als, and the petty bourgeoisie. It was a ran September 8. The following telegram should be petty bourgeois formation that came to Because the N asserists came to sent to Iranian Prosecutor General Although no charges have been power in Iraq without the involvement power in Egypt prior to the Baathists Ali Ghodosi, Office of the Revolu­ brought against him, he is being of the masses. There are many similar­ in Iraq, it is easier to see how the tionary Courts, Tehran, Iran: held in Evin Prison in Tehran. On ities between Baathism and the Arab Egyptian regime evolved. During October 6, he was finally allowed to I am a supporter of the Iranian nationalist current led by Gamal Abdel Nasser's last years, Egypt had reached have visitors, who reported he was revolution and an opponent of the Nasser in Egypt. an economic and social impasse. The well and in good spirits. U.S. government's threats and the workers and peasants, left without any While in exile in the United Iraqi regime's criminal military In trying to solve the problems of independent mass organizations and States before the overthrow of the aggression aimed against your rev­ underdevelopment that are the legacy facing repression from the N asserist shah, Jazayeri served as national olution. of imperialism's exploitation of the police apparatus, were unable to move colonial world, the Baath Party kept secretary of the Committee for Ar­ I am deeply concerned about the forward toward the establishment of a within the confines of capitalism. This tistic and Intellectual Freedom in arrest of Ray-0-Vac worker Nemat workers state. Iran (CAIFI), helping to focus in­ is similar to the approach that was Jazayeri, a staunch anti-imperial­ followed by Nasser. On the other hand, the capitalist ternational attention on the crimes ist fighter who is being detained class that had been nurtured within of the Pahlavi dictatorship. without any charges. Within this framework, both Nasser the state apparatus under Nasser be­ Prior to his arrest he worked as a I call on you to secure his imme­ and the Baathists struck some impor­ came increasingly bold in its demands lathe operator in the repair shop of diate release. tant blows against imperialism and for greater access to the international a Tehran factory. carried out some measures that repres­ market and for greater scope in its Jazayeri's co-workers, friends, Copies of the telegram should be ented real advances for the Egyptian sent to President Abolhassan Bani­ commercial activities. Its hand was relatives, comrades, and others in and Iraqi masses. For the first time, strengthened by the pressure exerted Iran are campaigning for his re­ Sadr, Tehran, Iran; Ayatollah Mo­ industrialization was encouraged. hammad Beheshti, Tehran, Iran; by world imperialism on the Egyptian lease and pointing out how his Agricultural projects were initiated economy. skills can be put to use in defense Enqelab-e Eslami, Tehran, Iran; and housing was constructed. Educa­ of the Iranian revolution against and Kargar, Box #43/174, Post tion and medical care began to be Nasser died before these pressures the Iraqi invasion. Area 14, Tehran, Iran. provided to the masses. Wages were came to a head. It was left to his raised. successor, Anwar el-Sadat, to carry out 22 crush the Iranian revolution the changes being demanded by the In 1972 U.S. President Nixon all­ its image in the Nonaligned Move Egyptian ruling class. proved a request from the shah of Iran ment, the Iraqi regime recently began for military support to the Kurdish an experimental program of providing Although Sadat has been accused of $254 million to some twenty under· "betraying" Nasserism, the fact is that rebellion in Iraq. Some $16 million in arms aid was provided. Nixon and the developed countries. Beneficiaries of there are no lack of examples of radical shah hoped to maintain the Kurdish aid from the Iraqi regime include such nationalist regimes in the underdeve­ rebellion as an ongoing internal prob­ diverse countries as Vietnam, Paki· loped countries which come to power, lem for the Iraqi regime, while not stan, North Yemen, Jordan, and Cuba. play an anti-imperialist role for a giving the Kurds enough aid to attain number of years, carry out radical The Iraqi government ha~ provided their objectives. reforms, but in the end are unable to considerable aid to revolutionary Gre­ nada as well as to Nicaragua. It co­ lift their countries out of the imperial­ A CIA memo dated March 22, 1974 sponsored along with Cuba a United ist trap. Two of the better-known re­ confirmed this "destabilization" policy Nations resolution calling for inde­ gimes of this type were those of Juan towards Iraq. The memo, made public pendence for Puerto Rico. It has con­ Per6n in Argentina and Kwame in 1976 by the U.S. House Select Com­ sistently refused to support the Camp Nkrumah in Ghana. mittee on Intelligence stated: David Accords, denouncing this at­ As Fidel Castro explained in his "We would think that [our ally] tempt to sell out the Palestinian strug­ speech this year on the anniversary of would not look with favor on the gle. the July 26 uprising in Cuba, there is establishment of a formalized auto­ no substitute for a socialist revolution. nomous government. But the military aggression There is "only one road to liberation: launched against Iran only benefits that of Cuba, that of Grenada, that of "[Our ally] like ourselves, has seen the world's imperialist powers, not the Nicaragua. There is no other formula." the benefit in a stalemate situation countries adhering to the Nonaligned . . . in which [our ally's enemy] is Movement, which are themselves sub­ In the case of Iraq, the influx of oil intrinsically weakened by [the ethnic ject to imperialist exploitation. revenues since the mid-1970s has group's] refusal to relinquish its semi­ strengthened the capitalist class and autonomy. Neither [our ally] nor our­ Nor is the Iraqi regime's vaunted accelerated the Baathist regime's tum selves wish to see the matter resolved support to the Palestinian liberation toward the imperialist powers. The one way or the other." struggle advanced by its attack on the Iraqi regime's intervention against the arrests. Iraqi oil workers, in their ma­ Iranian revolution. The Palestinian jority Shi'ites, looked to the positive Iranian revolution marks a watershed Crushing of Kurds people were inspired by the example of in this process. gains oil workers in Iran were able to the Iranian revolution and encouraged In March 1975 the shah decided that make-winning wage increases, better by the new Iranian government's cut his interests could be better served by working conditions and beginning to off of oil to Zionist Israel and its Repression of workers an agreement with Baghdad. The Iran­ take control over their workplaces. In recognition and support to the Pales­ Baathist hostility to the slightest ian and Iraqi regimes resolved a long­ April, Ayatollah Bak'r Sad'r, the reli­ tine Liberation Organization. standing border dispute over the Shatt expression of political activity by the gious leader of Iraq's Shi'ites, was In contrast, in April 1980 the 'Iraqi al-Arab waterway. The accord, signed secretly brought to Baghdad and exe­ working class is nothing new. In 1963, regime expelled two Palestine libera­ with the aid of the CIA, the Baathists by the shah and Iraqi leader Saddam cuted. tion organizations from the country­ Hussein, changed the border between inflicted a bloody defeat on the Iraqi Severe repression was also directed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Communist Party. The Baathist re­ Iran and Iraq from the Iranian side of against Iraqi communists and social­ Palestine and the Democratic Front for gime has never allowed real trade the waterway to its middle. It was this ists. In 1978 thousands of suspected the Liberation of Palestine. unions to function. It has relied on treaty that Hussein abrogated as a Communists were imprisoned and at Popular Front leader George Habash continual arrests, torture, and execu­ pretext for launching the invasion least twenty-one Communist Party tions to maintain its political monop­ against Iran. charged that Hussein's actions were leaders were executed for alleged sub­ part of the "rightist cause" being pro­ oly and to stifle any opposition among version in the army. the Iraqi workers, peasants, and op­ In return for the concessions from moted by the Iraqi regime against the pressed nationalities. Iraq, the shah agreed to cut off all aid In June of 1980 Amnesty Interna­ Iranian revolution. to the Kurds. Washington and Tel tional reported that since 1974 an Habash is right. The Iranian revolu­ Even the literacy campaign the re­ Aviv quickly followed suit. average of 100 people per year have gime carried out was accompanied by tion represents the biggest break­ Baghdad, of course, was forewarned been executed solely for political rea­ through for the anti-imperialist strug­ threats of jailings or fines for not sons, with more than 100 executed just attending classes. of the aid cutoff and launched a brutal gle in the Middle East since the Iraqi search-and-destroy mission against the in the six weeks beginning in March revolution of 1958. By standing But the Iraqi regime's resistance to Kurdish rebels. More than 200,000 1980. against the upsurge of the Iranian imperialist domination, its genuine Kurdish refugees had escaped into people, Hussein and the Iraqi Baath­ opposition to Zionist Israel, and its Iran, but the shah forced more than Nonaligned movement ists have confirmed their rightist support for Arab nationalism was 40,000 of them to return to Iraq where Iraq is scheduled to host the 1982 course and clearly indicated their aspi­ strongly supported by the Iraqi thousands were placed in concentra­ meeting of the Movement of Non­ rations for the future. masses. The measures it felt compelled tion camps. aligned Countries. To try and bolster From Intercontinental Press to take were a real threat to imperial­ ism. The Iraqi regime began to evict hundreds of thousands of Kurds from Destabilization efforts Kurdistan to desert areas in the south. Arab families were then settled in the The CIA and Israel responded to the homes of the evicted Kurds. Names of Behind news on Iraq/Iran war Iraqi regime's hostility to imperialism Kurdish towns and villages were Media coverage of the Iraq-Iran on what is happening on the battle­ with efforts to destablize it. In 1972, changed to Arab names. Teaching in war is becoming a public scandal. field. Despite repeated requests, they began to provide covert aid to the the Kurdish language in schools in The daily reports of Iraqi victories there has not been a single briefing oppressed Kurdish people in northern Kurdistan was stopped. Hundreds of and advances have aroused growing by a military official on the details Iraq who had been fighting for their Kurdish rebels were executed, and skepticism about the reliability of of the fighting. There is a nightly national rights for decades. some 1,500 relatives and children of media war news. bulletin issued through the Iraqi In 1958 the Kurdish movement had Kurdish fighters were arrested and In the October 16 New York press agency in Baghdad, though joined in the overthrow of the British­ sent to prisons in southern Iraq. Times, correspondent John Kifner, not here, but it is usually of little use. backed monarchy. But in 1961 the new And today, the Iraqi regime claims writing from Basra, Iraq, lifts a The closest journalists have come to regime launched a full-scale attack on to be the defender of the oppressed in comer of the curtain on how this actual fighting, and to comparing the Kurds beginning a war that was to its invasion of Iran! biased coverage is produced. the slow progress with the euphoric last off and on until 1970. In that year Among other things, Kifner notes official announcements, has been the Iraqi regime was forced to sign an Hussein reacts what he calls the "Arabic hospital­ when Information Ministry people autonomy agreement to end the civil The Iraqi workers and peasants ity" given journalists. They are have blundered into Iranian artillery war. could not help but be inspired by the treated royally with all expenses fire while taking journalists into supposedly But the regime refused to implement overthrow of a hated dictator in neigh­ paid by the Iraqi government. safe areas. the terms of the agreement and in 1974 boring Iran. Fearing the same kind of In other words, they're being Many of the correspondents carry fighting was resumed. massive mobilizations that led to the bribed. identical portable radios. Exactly on toppling of the shah, the Iraqi regime Kifner quickly adds that most the hour a bristle of antennas shoots Despite the current regime's hypo­ began to move closer to Washington American newspapers, including the up as the reporters tune in the BBC critical claims to be defenders of the and other imperialist governments, Times, decline such "hospitality." [British Broadcasting Company] rights of the Kurds in Iran, the history despite its anti-imperialist declara­ Their anti-Iranian propaganda is shortwave news broadcast and fran­ of the Iraqi regime's brutal repression tions. evidently produced free of charge. tically take notes for details to put of its own Kurdish population is a Below are excerpts from Kifner's into their dispatches. . . . matter of record. In 1978, shortly after the revolution report. It is . . . illegal to own a typewri­ in Iran began, the Baathist regime ter in Iraq without registering it, The Iraqi Kurds, today numbering expelled Iranian leader Ayatollah Ru­ nearly 3 million, suffer from extreme * * * much as pistols are registered in hollah Khomeini who had been living some other places. . . . economic, educational, and cultural in exile in Iraq. In a deliberate show of The frustrated correspondents Today, an English journalist who discrimination. The regime's policy support for the shah, the Iraqi rulers c6mplain that they have been effec­ wants to buy a typewriter here found was to extract raw materials from the welcomed Empress Farah on a hastily tively prevented from covering the himself applying for a permit in the Kurdish region and process them else­ arranged visit to Iraq. war. The ministry officials ... alter­ where. Major industries, like oil refin­ nately threaten the reporters with office of one of the nation's ranking eries, iron and steel plants were all After the revolution's triumph, the expulsion and take them on tours intelligence officials, where the built outside of Kurdistan. The few Iraqi regime expelled thousands of that provide little or no information. chairs had manacles attached to industries that were located in the Shi'ites of Iranian origin. There were The correspondents have almost them. He decided to keep writing his Kurdish areas followed a policy of a number of demonstrations among no firsthand or reliable information copy in longhand. hiring Arab workers in preference to Iraqi workers in support of the Iranian Kurds. revolution, resulting in widespread

THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 23 Socialists demand gov't turn over INS/F 81 files By Vivian Sahner litigation that plaintiffs' revolutionary NEW YORK-The recently exposed socialist program and political activi­ attempt by the Immigration and Natu­ ties justified the investigation.... " ralization Service and FBI to deport Marian Bustin, a coal miner in Mor­ This is illustrated by the govern­ gantown, West Virginia, and member ment's argument for supposedly end­ of the Socialist Workers Party and ing its investigation of the SWP in Young Socialist Alliance, was center 1976. It claimed to have halted the stage in federal Judge Thomas Grie­ investigation only because, in its opin­ sa's courtroom on October 16. ion, the SWP was unlikely to become At the pretrial hearing, lawyers for involved in "violent action within the the SWP and YSA explained how the forseeable future." Bustin case goes right to the heart of their lawsuit against government spy­ "Plaintiffs, on the other hand," the ing and harassment. brief concludes, " ... do not only seek Bustin, born in Scotland, moved damages for the burglaries and other permanently to the U.S. in 1977. The crimes against them by the FBI, which only "crime" she is accused of is an­ now claims to have 'reformed'. Of even swering "no" to a question on her visa greater importance in plaintiffs' view, application that asks if she is a not only for plaintiffs but for the public member of a "subversive" organiza­ generally, is a declaration that plain­ tion. tiffs' political advocacy and ideas ... The government's right to label the Auth/Philadelphia Inquirer are fully protected by the Constitution, SWP and YSA as "subversive" organi­ 'Positively un-American . . . they play by the rules.' and may not be disrupted, investi­ zations and victimize and harass their gated, and penalized by the Govern­ members is exactly what the SWP and ment." Referring to Bustin's INS files, the The obvious extension of the govern­ YSA suit is out to stop. brief notes, "It has now been revealed ment's logic is a claim by it that the A court hearing on the SWP and In fact, it is clear from the FBI that the federal defendants' blacklist­ government has a right to investigate, YSA request for the INS/FBI files is documents already released and from ing, investigation and harassment of infiltrate, and spy upon the SWP and expected to be scheduled soon. government actions during the suit the plaintiffs [SWP] continue to the YSA-in order to determine whether that it is not the YSA and SWP but the present day, under a new guise and there are any deportable aliens in their government agencies themselves that with a new justification." midst, or to follow up on "leads" that a act with total disregard and contempt After a 1962 U.S. Court of Appeals' noncitizen is associating with the SWP for basic rights such as free speech, ruling that membership in the SWP or YSA. free press, freedom of association, was not grounds for deportation, the Lawyers for the government have equality of opportunity, and the right Political Rights INS and FBI joined forces to cook up raised the preposterous notion that the to privacy. another scheme to kick out the social­ SWP has no grounds to complain since Defense Fund At the pretrial hearing Margaret ists. Bustin hasn't been deported yet. Winter, an attorney for the socialists, The Political Rights Defense Fund is Information in Bustin's files shows That's like telling the SWP and YSA pointed out to Judge Griesa that pre­ orgamz1ng support and raising that the INS and FBI established their to disregard the government's forty­ vious requests for information on the funds for the Socialist Workers own secret characterization of the year disruption program because, in INS/FBI conspiracy had been met - party's lawsuit against government SWP-they claim that the SWP advo­ spite of their best efforts, it has not spying and disruption. with fourteen months of evasion and cates establishing a "totalitarian dicta­ resulted in a single federal indictment. stalling by the government. torship in any or all the countries of "The purpose and effect of this secret Will you help? Return this coupon And when lawyers for the SWP and the world." Then they tried to establish program is to disrupt the SWP and to: Political Rights Defense Fund, YSA interviewed INS investigator grounds for deportation of SWP YSA, to lessen support for them and to Post Office Box 649, New York, New Godfrey England about Bustin, the members based on alleged "falsifica­ weaken them," reads the SWP brief. York 10003. government quickly dropped any pre­ tion" of visa applications rather than "That was precisely the purpose and tense that it was attempting to comply on SWP affiliation. effect of the government blacklists and Enclosed is my contribution of with requests. They sent a letter to the "Thus," the brief points out, "if an disruption programs against the SWP $ ____ judge urging that the SWP and YSA be applicant for permanent resident sta­ and YSA that have previously been Name ______barred from receiving further material tus [like Bustin] answers 'no' to the revealed in this case." on the INS. question of affiliation with a party The brief emphasizes that, "the fed­ Address ______In a brief filed October 17 by the that advocates totalitarian dictator­ eral defendants have never retreated City ______socialists' lawyers, the SWP and YSA ships, the federal defendants rely on from their historic characterization of requested that the court order the SWP affiliation to establish that the the SWP as a 'subversive' organiza­ State ______Zip ______government to tum over all the files on applicant 'falsified information,' an tion .... To the contrary, the govern­ the INS/FBI plot. independent ground for deportation." ment has continued to assert in this Felt-Miller FBI trial: the cover-up continues By Duncan Williams fense claims that this just meant that The victims of these FBI smears get to organize mass demonstrations WASHINGTON, D.C.-The trial any evidence obtained on a break-in no opportunity to answer them. around this demand; they also ap­ here of former FBI officials W. Mark could not be used in court-otherwise The government prosecutors not plauded the May 1970 antiwar student Felt and Edward S. Miller is supposed they were completely legal! only do not object to or challenge these strikes on more than 400 campuses, to show that the government has To prove their point, defense lawyers tales, they agree with them. In a and expressed their condolences to the cleaned up its act. The "new FBI" and have brought into court a parade of number of "stipulations," the govern­ families and friends of the four stu­ the Justice Department don't spy, wire­ past and present FBI and Justice ment and defense have summarized dents massacred on May 4, 1970 at tap, burglarize, and harass people the Department officials. Given the slight­ contents of FBI files and present them Kent State University in Ohio during way they used to. To prove it, they're est prompting, these spies and witch­ as fact. an antiwar protest. prosecuting people for doing just that. hunters launch into well-rehearsed One such document reads: "VB [Ven­ The message of the trial is clear: speeches about "Marxist-Leninist-Mao­ ceremos Brigade] trips to Cuba re­ Anyone who opposed the genocidal In fact, the real targets of the trial ist Communist revolutionary mili­ sulted in the participants expressing war in Southeast Asia, or who defends are those who participated in the tants," "Al Fatah terrorist cadre solidarity with the Revolutionary Peo­ the Cuban revolution or visits Cuba, or movement against the Vietnam War; members," "guerrilla training," and ples of Cuba and the World and their just listens to broadcasts from coun­ the antiwar and antidraft sentiment "connections with hostile foreign pow­ leaders." (The Venceremos Brigade tries. the FBI doesn't like on a short­ that is still strong today; revolutionary ers." has organized several trips to Cuba.) wave radio, is a legitimate target for Cuba and al~ those who show solidar­ At one point this got to be too much Just in case you didn't fall for the FBI surveillance and investigation. ity with it; the Palestinian struggle for even for the judge, William B. Bryant, attempt to pass off solidarity with The only disputed issue is whether self-determination and its supporters who asked a retired gumshoe: "Can't Cuba as a criminal activity, another these agents went ever so slightly too in this country; and all who disagree you just give a question an answer and stipulation alleges that Cuban intelli­ ·far-by getting caught. with the government's pro-war poli­ stop making speeches?" gence "has provided training in clan­ The American working people, who cies. destine intelligence tradecraft to a few are the real victims of police spying, For example, Elmer Linberg, a re­ Felt and Miller are on trial for violat­ VB members, and to a very limited have no advocate in this proceeding. tired FBI man, told of a secret (of ing the civil rights of relatives, law­ number, training in guerrilla warfare But trade unionists, civil libertar­ course) program of the Palestinian yers, and friends of people in the techniques including the use of arms ians, civil rights activists, opponents nationalist group Al Fatah "to recruit Weather Underground by authorizing and explosives." of registration and the draft, and sup­ Ku Klux Klan members in the Ameri­ break-ins of their homes in 1972-73. For proof of these charges, the de­ porters of the Cuban revolution will can South and send them to Libya for The Justice Department, in prosecut­ fense enters into evidence a photo­ have their day in court. training in desert warfare. Then they ing the two, has cast itself in the role graph of then SDS leader Bernadine When the Socialist Workers Party v. were to come back to this country to of defender of the Bill of Rights and Dohm leaving the Cuban Mission to Attorney General lawsuit comes to kill Jewish people." opponent of illegal FBI spying. the United Nations-well before the trial next year, the SWP and the On the basis of this lie, he organized The defense, which has been present­ Weatherpeople launched their bomb­ Young Socialist Alliance will assert a 1972 bag job on the home of an Arab ings. their right to hold and express their ing its case for the last two weeks, student, who "had been listening to the argues that the break-ins were neces­ Several telegrams from the Provi­ revolutionary views against all govern­ radio late at night, and our source told sary to protect the national security sional Revolutionary Government of ment claims of "foreign connections," us it was probably Radio Cairo." and that they were standard operating South Vietnam to the Students for a "national security," and "subversion." procedure against "subversives with Although the burglars did not find Democratic Society have also been in­ That trial will be a real battle foreign connections." the weapons and explosives they were troduced. against the government and its spy Numerous FBI documents refer to looking for, they did find the radio, In these messages, the Vietnamese agencies, and the big-business inter­ the break-ins, or bag jobs, as "illegal" which could indeed receive short-wave urged SDS to fight for the withdrawal ests they represent, not a sham like the and "clearly unlawful." But the de- broadcasts from the Middle East. of American troops from Vietnam, and one now going on in Washington.

24 The Great Society Harry Ring

Some of his best friends . . • - the Democrats "have given labor eve­ than cars. Put the environmentalist in day for stealing $46,000 from a bank­ Defending the pope's admonition that rything you've got." a sealed garage with a tree, the paper ruptcy fund. But a compassionate men should not lust after their wives, suggested, and Reagan in one with a judge reduced the sentence so that he'll an American prelate, who preferred running auto and see who hollers first. be out after doing five months. anonymity, said his holiness meant Full speed ahead-Taxpayers, Ar­ "you shouldn't treat a person as an kansas residents, and others concerned Do you fear tunnels, low pay?­ Wrong note-The Toronto owner of object." He added, "If anything, his for their lives will be interested to Conrail's New York region is hiring an a $22,000 Buick said his car suffered statement should be seen as his sup­ know that the air force plans to rebuild industrial psychologist to help improve port for women's rights." that missile-torn silo at an estimated $3,000 damage when he got stuck in the morale, and output, of its workers. cost of $100 million. traffic as youth were leaving a rock concert. The Buick displayed a bumper sticker, "Respect Law and Order." Food for thought-"It's a popular A Los Angeles garage-The San thing for consumers to feel that they Peanut shells and all-Rep. Jo­ Jose News suggested a solution to the are entitled to cheap food .... We've seph Minish of the New Jersey legisla­ dispute between Reagan and an envir­ The wheels of justice-Samuel L. really spoiled the American public." - ture assailed union officials reluctant onmentalist who called him a quack Garrison III, former Republican Water­ The president of the Florida Fruit and to endorse Carter, advising them that for saying trees give off more pollution gate counsel, was given a year and a Vegetable Association.

Their Government Fred Feldman How justice gets blinded This week's column is by Duncan Williams "The defense and prosecution are trying to create The jury in the Felt-Miller trial is being fed a who has been attending the Washington, D.C. an atmosphere of fear and confusion which will steady diet of government hogwash, at the same trial of two FBI agents charged with burglary. allow for the revocation of the Freedom of Informa­ time they are being denied the facts they need to tion Act, the passage of a repressive FBI charter, make a just decision. The worst part of covering the Felt-Miller trial is and the exoneration of government officials." Every day, the prosecution and defense lawyers not the boredom of the courtroom, although that Another plaintiff, Judith Clark, said that several wheel in carts of documents, which they refer to but can get pretty bad, but the recesses, when everyone which the jury doesn't have access to. goes out in the hall to talk and smoke. Since being of the plaintiffs' apartments had been broken into since the suit was filed. Government spy operations are referred to by in the company of beady-eyed defense lawyers and names like "Program C" or "Operation Y," in a hard-faced FBI men began to get on my nerves, it Also at the news conference was David Truong, a deliberate effort to keep the public and the jury was a real pleasure to get out during the lunch Vietnamese citizen framed up in 1978 on a charge of confused and in the dark about their real aims and break on October 16 and cover a protest called by passing "national defense information" to "an activities. victims of FBI crimes. enemy of the United States." And, about ten times a day, for about ten minutes About thirty people joined the picket line, chant­ In his trial, the government introduced evidence ing "CIA, FBI, U.S. Justice Is a Lie" and "The at a time, government and defense lawyers meet obtained from illegal wiretaps and break-ins. His with Judge Bryant at the bench in hushed conferen­ Human Rights Problem in the World today, is Right case is now on appeal. Here in the U.S.A." ces, deciding what information to keep from the The protest was called by the Committee for the "This whole trial is sort of a sham," he told me jury. Suit Against Government Misconduct, which has concerning the Felt-Miller hearing. "What it comes This is all bad enough, but the jury has also been filed a $100-million damage suit against FBI agents down to is the government is trying to legitimize .sequestered for the duration of the trial in a Wash­ and officials on behalf of eight FBI victims in New investigations based on a foreign agent connection ington hotel. That means they aren't allowed to York. even when one does not exist. read newspapers, see their families, or even discuss At a news conference after the picket line, Dana "Activists in the antidraft and antinuclear move­ the case. Biberman, one of the plaintiffs, charged that "we ments are now also threatened by political surveil­ They will have a hard time dispensing any are being put on trial, not Felt and Miller. lance." justice. But then that's the whole point. What's Going On

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THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 25 Our Revolutionary Heritage Letters

Why the great crash? Excessive absences $50,000 to stick vinyl decals Below are excerpts from a shaped like shutters, shades, October 29 marks the fifty-first anniver­ circular to all employees that and flower pots on the sary of the stock market crash that has was put up on bulletin boards windows of abandoned come to symbolize the start of the Great by a few workers as a practical buildings. The program is Depression of the 1930s. joke in my plant, FMC designed to give vacant, The Depression slashed production by Corporation, Ordinance boarded-up buildings "the half in the U.S. alone and brought untold Division, in San Jose. occupied look." misery to workers and farmers around the The decals are being placed world. A decade after the crash unemploy­ "Due to the excessive number on the sheet metal that the city ment was still at double-digit levels in the of absences from work, the nails over the doors and u.s. following rules and procedures windows of vacant buildings. Goods piled up in warehouses because will be put into effect as of this Maybe here in Los Angeles there were no buyers while people went date. they'll take the cue and begin without basic necessities because they "Sickness No excuse. We will putting up billboards of blue, lacked the money to pay for them. no longer accept your doctor's clear skies, if, that is, anyone The cause of this misery was a classic statement as proof as we can remember what they look capitalist crisis of overproduction-the believe that if you are able to like. And if they can find most devastating such crisis up to that go to the doctor, you are able to anyone unaffected enough by time. The 1920s had been a time of great come to work. the smog willing and able to business prosperity. But this very prosper­ "Death (other than your climb up the scaffolds to affix ity led to gross overproduction from the own) This is no excuse. There them! capitalist viewpoint. is nothing you can do for your Kathleen O'Nan Not overproduction in the sense that deceased and we are sure that Los Angeles, California more was being produced than people someone else with a lesser needed or could use, but overproduction position can attend to the relative to the profit needs of the rich. arrangements.... Maine antinuke vote More was being produced than could be "Death (your own)'This will Two errors crept into my sold at profitable prices. be accepted as an excuse but article on Maine's Antinuclear The effects of overproduction were held we would like a two week referendum vote (October 17 off for a time by expansion of credit, but notice, as we feel it is your duty issue). in the fall of 1929 the credit bubble burst to teach someone else your job. In reporting the returns for and the crisis was on. "Also, entirely too much time the "yes" vote (to shut down The Depression was the way the prob­ is being spent in the restroom. Yankee), it was stated that lem of "too much production" was solved Wall Street In the future we will follow the Ward 11 went 77 percent. It at the expense of the workers and farmers. practice of going in was actually Ward 2· and that The Great Depression of the 1930s was alphabetical order. For is where I interviewed people only the most extreme example of the chaos, tightening international trade com­ example, those names that who had just voted. Both Ward economic insecurity that plagues us under petition, and sharp swings in business begin with an "A" will go from 1 and 2 are working-class areas the profit system. There have been many conditions indicate that the threat of 8:00 to 8:15, "B" will go from and together they went 65 lesser depressions and recessions, includ­ another great depression in the not too 8:15 to 8:30 and so on. If you percent "yes." ing the current one. distant future is very real. are unable to go at your Furthermore, it would be Even in times of capitalist prosperity, This shows that the capitalist class is appointed time, it will be­ more accurate to say that the we wonder whether we will be working no longer fit to oversee production. Mod­ necessary to wait until the next debate sponsored by Local 6 tomorrow or laid off because business is em industry needs a new master, one able day when your turn comes (shipbuilders) was not as "slow." to fully accept its social character by again." instrumental in swinging the The basic cause of these crises is the replacing production for profit with pro­ It may be a joke, but it is not sentiment in the Bath Iron contradiction between production, which duction to meet human needs. that far from the truth; and, in Works yard towards a "yes" is carried out socially, and appropriation, the face of increasing pressure vote as was the persistent which remains private under capitalism. This role can only' be played by the campaign of leafleting and working class. It is labor that actually for production and "quality" Modem industry requires the coopera­ work, many co-workers took it discussiOn by antinuclear produces. It is labor that operates all workers inside the yard. tion of hundreds of millions of working industry. that way. One went as far as people around the world. One branch of Finally, one last important Our class alone is capable of organizing going to the front office to industry depends on another. All depend point that was left out. industrial production according to a com­ complain about the company's on agriculture. Nowhere could production new unfair policies on Antinuclear unionists I talked mon plan. Such a common plan will with felt strongly that the - be carried out for any length of time enable production to be determined by absenteeism. without goods produced in other places. Mickey van Summern "yes" forces were seriously what people can use, and not their ability hampered by the "neutral" Capitalism created this system of social­ to pay. San Jose, California ized production over the past two to three stance taken by the state's That this is no utopia is indicated by hundred years. But for capitalists, private labor officialdom. Their failure the success of planned economies in Cuba to step forward and help lead profit remains the sole stimulus to produc­ -and elsewhere. tion. Urban renewal the struggle, to forcefully This contradiction between socialized To banish capitalist depressions I read in the Los Angeles answer the lies about layoffs, production and the private appropriation forever-with their shattering effects on Times of the Big Apple's latest more inflation, brownouts, etc. of the product by the capitalists periodi­ the lives of workers and farmers-it is attempt to renovate the city of left the referendum high and cally leads to great collisions-the general necessary that political power pass from New York. According to the dry in many parts of the state. crises of overproduction. the capitalist minority to the working­ Times, the city is spending While some local officials Every attempt to solve the problem of class majority. periodic crises within the framework of The anniversary of the 1929 crash is a capitalism has failed. reminder of the urgency of that task. Today rampant inflation, monetary -William Gottlieb

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JOIN THE SWP Dangerous levels of smog in Los Angeles have forced some, like this parking lot attendant, to wear gas masks on the job. 26 Learning About Socialism How Marx became a Marxist endorsed a Labor Appeal for Up to the early part of 1844, when Karl Marx wrote his A few months later, in July, Marx was writing something Safe Energy, the organized "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of fundamentally different: "It has to be admitted that the power of working people was Right. Introduction," he had not yet reached the point of German proletariat is the theoretician of the European not brought to bear. breaking with his past. He was a radical critical philo­ proletariat. . . . The disparity between the philosophical This makes the 41 percent sopher, not yet a proletarian revolutionist. and political development of Germany is not an anom "yes" vote even more By 1844 Marx had absorbed the dialectical method of aly . ... A philosophical people can find its corresponding significant, for in the next Hegel and had been won to the materialist views of Ludwig practice only in socialism, hence it is only in the proletariat round of battle, with labor Feuerbach. But he had not yet developed historical material­ that it can find the dynamic element of its emancipation." firmly won to its side the Ism. At this point the proletariat had become not only the antinuclear movement in Marx was not a Marxist yet. heart but the head of emancipation. Marx had adopted the Maine has every chance of In general, professors and intellectuals consistently fail in standpoint of socialist revolution. He stopped ascribing a winning. explaining Marx's political evolution. passive role to the proletariat in the revolutionary process. Richard Cahalane Lucio Colletti, for example, in his introduction to Marx's His new contributions appeared in an article entitled Somerville, Massachusetts Early Writings, says, "Politically speaking, mature Marx­ "Critical Marginal Notes on the Article by a Prussian," ism would have relatively little to add to [Marx's "Introduc­ dated July 31, 1844. It was a reply to an article written by Appreciated sub tion" on Hegel]." For Colletti, Marxism would have little to Arnold Ruge, who up to that point had been a collaborator I'm writing this letter to add to anything, because in his personal opinion Marxism of Marx. inform you that my release represented only a distorted version of the contribution from Something happened between January and July 1844 that date from prison is soon to earlier thinkers. Marx "owed much, in particular, to Rous­ made an impact on Marx. It was the revolt of the Silesian come. As a matter of fact, I get seau (to what extent he was conscious of the debt is another weavers.. out October 31, 1980. So I'd like question)," says Colletti. " ... This implies in turn that the On June 4, 1844, the impoverished Silesian weavers rose to say that I highly true originality of Marxism must be. sought rather in the up in Germany. Troops had to be called by the King of appreciated the subscription of field of social and economic analysis than in political Prussia to crush the uprising. your paper, which was very theory." Marx wholeheartedly came out in support of the Silesian enlightening. I learned things workers. that are essential in the No one denies that Marx learned a great deal from the teachings of great representatives of philosophy, economy, Ruge, the liberal, scorned them. struggle for freedom, justice, Marx wrote: "Confronted with the first outbreak of the and equality. So in closing, and politics of his time. Silesian workers' uprising, the sole task of one who thinks keep on advocating the truth! The true originality of Marx's political ideas consisted of A prisoner explaining the historical role, potential, and tasks of the and loves the truth consisted not in playing the role of industrial working class as the emancipator of humanity schoolmaster in relation to this event, but instead in studying its specific character. This, of course, requires Long-time socialist from all kinds of exploitation. Marxism fused the dialectical method formulated by some scientific insight and some love of mankind, whereas I enclose five dollars. Send for the other operation a glib phraseology, impregnated of me the Militant. Hegel with the fundamental outlook of materialism. This empty of oneself, is quite enough." I started to study Marxism revolutionized philosophy. Combined with the discovery of For Ruge, the Silesian workers weren't "political." In his and socialism in young the objective role that the proletariat plays as a revolution­ peoples' organizations. I ary social force, this marked the birth of Marxism, the article he expressed contempt for their struggle. graduated as a Public Service science of the working class. Marx praised the class consciousness the weavers re­ Speaker in 1924 in Chicago, "As to myself," Marx said, ''no credit is due to me for vealed as greatly superior to the "meek, sober mediocrity" of Illinois. I was a speaker discovering either the existence of classes in modern society the German liberal bourgeoisie. For Marx, the struggle of nationally from 1924 to 1932. I or the struggle between them. Long before me bourgeois the German workers was more advanced than that of the have now in my lifetime given historians had described the historical development of this English and French workers earlier. my help since 1919. class struggle and bourgeois economists the economic The Silesian weavers saw the capitalist system as the Clarence M. Hemmingson anatomy of the classes. What I did that was new was to enemy. Although they destroyed the machinery that en­ Grand Marais, Minnesota demonstrate: 1) that the existence of classes is merely linked slaved them, their attacks were primarily directed against to particular historical phases in the development of produc· the bourgeoisie, banks, titles of property. Correction tion, 2) that class struggle necessarily leads to the dictator· It was this show of consciousness and the workers' ship of the proletariat, 3) that this dictatorship itself only capacity to struggle that made clear to Marx that philo­ In the article "NOW dis­ constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and sophy would not change the world, but the proletariat cusses elections & draft," ap­ would. For Marx, the weavers' struggle was an expression pearing in the October 24 Mili­ to a classless society." of the ·generalized interests of the working class as a whole. tant, Lea Sherman was David McLellan in his book Karl Marx: His Life and That's how Marx learned socialism, by learning from the mistakenly identified as a Thoughts gives the following explanation: "Marx's sudden member of the International espousal of the proletarian cause can be directly attributed workers' movement to which he dedicated his entire life. Association of Machinists. In (as can that of other early German communists such as Marx was not a professor, nor an interpreter or intellec­ fact Sherman is a member of Weitling and Hess) to his first contacts with socialist tual. He was a proletarian fighter. Just a comrade from the Communications Workers intellectuals in France." There, says McLellan, Marx was whom we can learn a lot. One who in the period of rise of of America Local 12260 at "at the heart of socialist thought and action." the bourgeoisie had full confidence in the potential of the Western Electric in Dallas This is not true. industrial working class. Texas. ' In his introduction to the Critique of Hegel, Marx, the Today, we are living in the period of decay and death radical philosopher, had not fully grasped the potential of agony of bourgeois society. The industrial working class Correction the independent movement of the working class. The has become a mighty giant. We have already scored some victories. The final one is still to come. More than ever, we An error appeared in the revolution, he said, "begins in the brain of the philosopher." have every reason to share with comrade Marx his confi­ article "Machinists' shift to "The head of this emancipation is philosophy, its heart is left reflects new mood of work­ the proletariat." dence in our strength. ers," which was in the October This was written in January 1844. -Hector Marroquin 24 Militant. In the second para­ graph, the description of the membership of the Internation­ al Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers should have read: "These include more than 200,000 in the aerospace industry, 85,000 airline em­ Lessons ployees, 80;000 auto workers, thousands of tool-and-die mak­ ers and other machinists, as well as brewery workers, rail workers, and others." from

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THE MILITANT/OCTOBER 31, 1980 27 THE MILITANT ited rally against racist killings in Buffalo, N.Y. By Osborne Hart Acker concluded by demanding that BUFFALO, N.Y.-The wave of ra­ U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civi­ cist murders here prompted several letti and Assistant Attorney General thousand city residents-Black and Drew Days come to the city and per­ white-to demonstrate their outrage at sonally supervise the investigation. a rally October 19. Mayor James Griffin and Erie Called just six days earlier by an ad County Executive Edward Rutkowski hoc group of sixty individuals, "Buf­ read a joint proclamation from their falo Unity Day" was endorsed by some respective governmental bodies ex­ 200 community, civil rights, religious, pressing condolences to the victims' campus, and labor organizations. families and condemning racism. Ear­ Participants-estimated as high as lier in the week, the mayor declared a 5,000-wore black ribbons in a show of twenty-one day mourning period dur­ solidarity with the Black community ing which flags would be flown at half­ mourning the deaths of six Black men. mast and citizens encouraged to wear Four of the men were killed in Sep­ the black mourning ribbons. tember by a white gunman labeled the Following the mayor's remarks, ".22 caliber killer." The victims were Reverend Will Brown, co-chair of the shot with a .22 caliber gun. Two other rally, articulated the sentiment of the victims-cab drivers Parlor Edwards Black community to the cheers of the and Ernest "Shorty" Jones-were crowd. killed in early October. Their bodies "I'm sure that you join with me in were mutilated and their hearts cut saying to the mayor and our county out. executive that we thank you for those An array of speakers at the rally very symbolic remarks. But at a time denounced racism and voiced the de­ like this we need more than symbo­ llland of the Black community for lism," Brown declared. "We will be effective government action to appre­ looking to our political leaders and our hend those responsible for the killings. mayor, and our county executive dur­ Daniel Acker, Buffalo NAACP presi­ ing the following days to give us dent, welcomed the rally as demon­ something more specific than symbo­ strating "that Black people and white lism." people are unified in condemning ra­ Shortly after Brown's statement, the cism and violence." mayor left the rally grandstand. But Acker also emphasized the dis­ Linking anti-Semitism and racism content that Blacks feel toward city directed against Blacks, Rabbi Sholom officials. Stern, president of the Buffalo Board "We are unhappy with the fact that of Rabbis, told the crowd, "The stench after twenty-six days of the investiga­ that rose from the crematoriums and tion we have no arrests," Acker said. ovens of Auschwitz and other concen­ "We urge that all possible and poten­ tration camps in Europe ... continue tial resources should be utilized in to pollute the air of our community Thousands of Buffalo residents from a broad spectrum of the city's population government in finding these killers. whenever violent acts are perpetrated turned out to condemn the racist murders. "All of the resources at the presi­ against one group because of the color dent's command, the governor of the of their skin." state, the mayor and the county execu­ Stern tied the recent anti-Jewish parking lot outside of a synagogue in same satanic and evil minds of racism. tive-all of these resources should be terrorist attacks in Paris by a Nazi­ Paris during recent Jewish holidays "How many disasters do we have to utilized and doubled in solving these type group to the Buffalo murders: and the bullets that killed six innocent endure to realize that when one group killings." "The bomb which exploded in the Black civilians are the workings of the Continued on page 19 Socialist coal miner target of FBI/INS plot By Vivian Sahner Virginia, and is a member of United sents an attack on the rights. of all Marian Bustin, a young coal miner Mine Workers Local 2095. working people in this country. It's an in Morgantown, West Virginia, is A staunch supporter of equal rights attempt to convince us that it's not fighting attempts by the government for women, twenty-six-year-old Bustin safe to speak out against the draft, not to deport her because of her member­ has helped build several Labor for the safe to be a union activist or to fight ship in the Socialist Workers Party ERA marches and participated in the for ratification of the Equal Rights and Young Socialist Alliance. Women Mine Workers Conference in Amendment. Because of her socialist politics she Beckley, West Virginia last summer. The attempt to deport Bustin is part has been the target of a six-year effort Bustin is also active in the antidraft of a decades-long campaign of harass­ by the Immigration and Naturaliza­ movement and is a member of the ment by the government against tion Service, the FBI, and the State Morgantown chapter of the Coalition members and supporters of the SWP Department to deport her from this Against Registration and the Draft. and YSA. country. Like many other coal miners, she is In 1973 the SWP filed suit to end the opposed to the use of nuclear power government's illegal activities and to This b~hind-the-scenes campaign and attended the recent National La- was recently revealed when lawyers protect its members, like Bustin, from for the SWP and YSA lawsuit against harassment. The Political Rights De­ government spying obtained copies of New developments in SWP suit fense Fund (PRDF) was organized to the INS and FBI files on Bustin that against the government. See page raise money and support for the case. spell out their campaign of snooping 24. Letters and telegrams demanding and harassment. that the government end its harass­ bor Conference for Safe Energy and ment of Marian Bustin should be sent Who is Bustin, an.d what has she Full Employment in Pittsburgh. More to Attorney General Benjamin Civi­ done to merit all of this government than 100 other miners and officials of letti, Justice Department, Washington, attention? the UMW A participated in the confer­ D.C. 20530. Born in Scotland, Bustin moved to ence, which drew nearly 1,000 union­ Donations and copies of the letters the U.S. permanently in 1977. She MARIAN BUSTIN ists. should be sent to PRDF, P. 0. Box 649, works as a belt cleaner in Republic The outrageous attempt to victimize Cooper Station, New York, New York Steel Kitt No. 1 Mine in Philipi, West Bustin because of her politics repre- 10003.