YOUNG SOCIALIST Ten Cents Voice of America's Future
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YOUNG SOCIALIST Ten Cents Voice of America's Future Vol. 4, No. 8, (38) May, 1961 U.S. STUDENTS DECRY CUBA INVASION 'Kennedy: We Condemn You In every corner of the world, in support of the Cuban Revolu- angry people have gathered in Witchunt Hits tion. At City College of New York, Fair Play Secretary demonstrations protesting the Richard Gibson, Acting- Ex- fur example, the Fair Play Stu- Yankee-sponsored invasion of rev- ecutive Secretary of the Fair dent Council set up a literature olutionary Cuba. The United Play for Cuba Committee, was table for two days during the States, with Kennedy at the top handed a subpoena to appeal- week after the invasion and re- (proudly claiming full responsi- before the Kastland Committee bility for the crime, and with the as he finished addressing a pcrted a "fantastic response." unanimous suoport of Congress protest rally at Union Square The Bay Area has been the from Mike Mansfield to Barry April 21. Mr. Gibson issued a scene of the most intensive stu- Goldwater, stands alone and con- statement in which he said: dent activity against the Cuban demned. "Instead of investigating: the invasion thus iar (see story page Fortunately, the U.S. Govern- Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 3). I would suggest that you in- ment cannot claim to represent Students at Cornell, Oberlin, the views of the entire popula- vestigate the patently un- American activities of the the University of Wisconsin, and tion. Despite the almost universal Antioch have also demonstrated. —Jack Arnold smears of the Cuban Revolution White Citizens Councils and UNION" SQUARE JAMMED: Some 5000 demonstrators joined a rally in the daily press; despite the di- the Ku Klux Klan. And Called by the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New York's famed rect pressure of the witchhunt on why not investigate the Mis- U. of Minnesota— meeting pSace. YSA'er Camejo' (shown above) denounced the U.S. supporters of the Cuban Revolu- sissippi police who last month intervention in Cuba. The campus was sharply divid- tion; despite the State Depart- unleashed savage dogs on Ne- ed on the Cuba question. 1,200. ment ban on travel to Cuba — gro students in Jackson, Mis- students attended a rally sponsor- growing numbers of Americans sissippi?" ed by the FPCC on April 18; Pair are speaking, writing and acting Play speakers were heckled, jeer- to protest the cynical policy of greeted by Lincoln Rockwell and ed at, and snowballed by a vocifer- Stand With Cuba! "their" government which would about 10 of his supporters, dressed ous group of anti-Castro students. risk a full scale war to defend the After hearing speakers on both The United States Government organized, planned, financed an< interests of a small minority. in full regalia including paratroop led an invasion force to crush the sovereignty and independence of boots and swastika armbands. The sides of the question, the meeting Some of the U.S. demonstra- broke up, but small groups stayed the people of Cuba. In doing so, it brought the American people to the two FPCC picket lines were called very brink of a global war, threatening the life of all humanity. This tions are described below: on for several hours in heated is not an idle unsubstantiated charge but the terrible truth. to support a two-week hunger discussion. As a result, a number Washington, D. L-* strike by a newly former group, of students joined Fair Play. In the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson—the beacon light of U.S. the Non-Violent Committee for liberals—categorically denied Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa's May 13, Saturday, Pair Play for Cuban Independence. II. of Washington— Charge that the U.S. was directly involved in the ill-fated invasion of Cuba has called a mass picket line Cuba. However, as the Cuban workers and peasants came forth to in front of the CIA headquarters FPCC has called rallies and Seattle students have been ac- crash this imperialist attack, the U.S. press itself blurted out the in Washington, B.C. Buses and picket lines in a number of cities, tive also. A protest was held un- Whole story bit by bit. carloads of picketers will arrive inluding Berkeley. San Francisco, der Fair Play auspices on April 29 from Boston, New York, Philadel- Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, in front of the Federal Office The day after the invasion, April 18th, the N.Y. Times stated in Building. Anvil club, on campus, its editorial; "It is also no secret that the U.S. Government has been phia, Baltimore and other Eastern Denver, Minneapolis, Detroit, Bos- helping the Cuban exiles over a period of many months with arms, areas. Pair Play campus chapters ton and New York. Fair Play stu- also held a meeting that day. "The training and facilities on American soil and in Guatemala. This has will mobilize student participa- dent chapters on several campuses j Crime Against Cuba," addressed been too well publicized to be ignored today." The U.S. Government tions. On April 30, 150 picketers have organized meetings, protest by John Caughlin, Seattle attor- operated through the cloak and dagger CIA in its attacks against in front of th? CIA building were demonstrations and other actions (Continued on Page 4) Cuba. It should be quite clear, however, that the CIA does not operate independently of the American ruling class. The plan to invade Cuba YOUTH FRUSTRATE COPS: was initiated with Eisenhower's approval and the final orders came directly from President Kennedy. Kennedy, himself, now claims full responsibility for the Cuban invasion and U.S. involvement is freely admitted. This is an open confession by the President that he and the CIA have violated the New Yorkers Protest CD Drills treaty obligations of the Organization of American States, the agree- by Jack Arnold j our ground and sang such songs U.S. government toward Cuba," ments in the United Nations charter, and the law of the land—the For seven years the Civil De- same law under which Batista henchman Rolando Masferrar was con- i as "We Shall Not Be Moved." and pointing out that "the U.S. gov- fense people have staged drills. v ernment is considering direct in- victed only a few weeks ago when he tried to launch his own '•un- For seven years the citizens of "We Shall Overborne," the police authorized" invasion. New York have been required to managed to arrest nearly 50 tervention in Cuba." The YSA Yet the only "crime" which has apparently outraged the major take shelter when the siren ! participants. Even that was not so asked, "What threat does a free press. Congressmen, Senators and other high officials is that the CIA sounds. For seven years there ! easy. Before they could haul their Cuba present to the 'security' of i the U.S.?" The answer, it said, bungled the job and did not succeed in overthrowing the Cuban have been protests at City Hall prisoners away in the wagons they Revolution. The "right" of U.S. imperialism to interfere economically, against this law. In the last two could be found in the relationship politically and militarily in the affairs of another nation is taken for drills, the latest of which was had to arrest three more young of the interests of the different granted by these great "democrats" and the American people are given staged April 28th, the small num- men who obstructed this task by segments of the American people a hard sell job to accept it. ber of pacifists of earlier demon- laying down in trout of the wheels. to the actions of the Cuban gov- ernment. Hence those of us who The truth is that millions of people throughout the world now suations swell into a mass pro- ! The reason that more weren't ar- test of thousands. own nothing' and must pay high Stand up to condemn U.S. imperialism for committing one of the I rested was no doubt due to some rents and utility rates would find paost criminal and heinous acts in this hemisphere. As the sirens sounded, a police ! police officers who apparently official mounted a bench and no threat in a government which ' The fact that the CIA could not carry through its malicious plot | were not convinced that the situa- cut rents and utility rates through. asked everyone to take shelter. | tion was serious and tended to is testimony to the fact that the workers and peasants of Cuba are The crowd, the great bulk of nationalization. "But for those solidly in support of their revolution and are ready to defend it even | try and blend into the crowd rath- who stand to lose from such ac- at the price of death against the "liberating army" from the North. which was composed of students, er than act in an aggressive man- some of whom had come from tions," the holders of capital in- Kennedy and his big-business administration have thus far shown ner. vestments, "these changes could BO concern for the wishes of the Cuban people. They are not willing hundreds of miles away, greeted him with hoots of laughter. He Those who participated as only be a 'menace' and a 'threat to accept the democratic decision of an armed populace as it was appealed to them in the interest members of the New York Young to democracy.' democracy to in- exercised last month. The new "liberal" frontier, like the old. offers of the nation's welfare and the Socialist Alliance distributed. vest and exploit." "This threat," Us horizons of nuclear destruction.