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. hoots came again, louder. He i among' other items, a statement the YSA said, "is driving the capi- While speaking before the American Newspaper Publishers Asso- waved his arras and placed all that linked the causes of war with talists toward war in Cuba, in ciation on April 27th, President Kennedy urged the press to cooperate 3.000 under arrest. j the economic interests of the ca- hope of salvaging those vested in- voluntarily with the government as it does in war time to prevent the SOME POLICE APATHETIC ! pitalist class which rules this terests that are endangered disclosure of news helpful to the enemy. Our long cherished right of Talk of arresting us was easier ! country. As proof the YSA offered throughout Latin America and the «MJL Page 2) than the doing. While we stood I "the speech and actions of tin* (Continued on Page 2} Page 2 YOUNG SOCIALIST May, 196;! Young Socialist Nora Roberts, Editor Arthur Phclps, Business Manager Editorial Board: Martha Curti, Nora Roberts, Tim Wohlforth "A World to Win!"

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Vol. 4, No. 8 (38) May, 196] Stand With Cuba . . . ^Continued from Page li freedom of the press is now, apparently, too expensive a luxury for the imperialists to contend with in their plans for the "survival and suc- cess of our system, regardless of the cost and regardless of the peril." What is the "crime" committed by the Cuban people and Fidel Castro for which Kennedy wants to punish them? It is the crime of ridding their country of poverty, of unemployment, of race hatred, of illiteracy and of all aspects of domination by U.S. big business. In short, Fidel Castro committed the "crime" of not betraying the Cuban people and their revolution. The Cubans rid themselves of all those evils concomitant with the needs of American capitalism so prevalent throughout all of Latin America. Major Ernesto (Che) Guevara explained to a rally of Cuban workers on March 28: "The North Americans are aware, they are •- Jack Arnold well aware, companeros, that the victory of the Cuban Revolution will FOLK SINGERS WIN A BATTLE: N.Y.C. official ' attempts to drive folk singers out of Greenwich j not be just a simple defeat for the Empire, will not be just one more Villages' Washington Square, where they have hel 1 forth for 17 years, suffered a temporary setback, I link in the long chain of defeats which its policy of force and op- when the singers rallied and returned after polic ; had driven them out earlier. In the picture they | pression of the peoples has been dragging it to in recent years; the sigr.ify victory with the traditional symbol. victory of the Cuban Revolution will be a tangible demonstration be- fore all America that the peoples are capable of rising up, and that they can rise up independent in the very fangs of the monster; it will ALDERMASTON, YS CONFERENCE: : mean the beginning of the end of colonial domination in America, 1 i.e:, the definite beginning of the end for North American im- perialism." | UN LOOKS AWAY Perhaps that would explain the failure on the part of the United Nations to condemn the United States for its open and admitted in- by Earl Owens Not satisfied, some marchers New Advance, the Right wing's of- tervention in Cuba. Thus, it has been clearly demonstrated that the LONDON--To the accompani- decided to demonstrate in a sit- ficial organ of the Young Social- Cuban Revolution cannot depend on the U.N. for its survival. Just as ment of dixieland jaz/ and bag- down outside the American Em- ists. Before the session began, it stood by while the murder of Patrice Lumumba enraged the world, pipos, the fourth annual Alder- bassy. Attacked by the police, ap- Roger Protz, 2'^ - year - old editor now it is ready to stand by while the United States plots the murder who had been appointed by the of 6' million Cubans. ir-asfon march protesting nuclear parently some of the demonstra- The "liberal" governments of Mexico and Brazil have likewise ai iTiaments began. Simultaneous- tors defended themselves and 31 Labor Party NSC, issued a state- shown their true colors in the face of the open intentions of the Ken- ly, marching from the Wethers- were arrested. A .group demon- ment: "The NEC is the Editor of nedy administration to prepare a direct invasion of Cuba. Both gov- fie-d ?ir base, another contingent starting outys'de the Russian Em- New Advance, not me ... 1. It is ernments failed to vote against the U.S. move to block Cuba's par- bassy, though, was unmolested. I not democratically controlled by ticipation in the recent1 meeting of the Organization of American of bomb protesters advanced on States. Lazaro Cardenas was denied permission to go to Cuba during ,'t London. Canon Collins, as the "leader" of i its readers. 2. It does not cam- the recent invasion. The Mexican government thereby indicated it the CND movement, disowned the paign for conference decisions." Under the :-vmbol of the Cam- would in no way intervene to counter U.S. aggression. The workers When Protz then attempted to I and peasants of the countries represented in the U.N , as in Mexico, paign for Nuclear Disarmament, arrested demonstrators on the ! speak from the rostrum he was however, have demonstrated they are forces upon which Cuba can (which has an uncanny resem- grounds that they had not been I pushed back by officials and a depend. blance to the Mercedes - Benz sufficietnly nonviolent and they In Cuba itself—as its government and people well understand—• number of scuffles broke out. He trademark> marched students had taken publicity away from the the defense of their country rests upon themselves. "Patria or Muerte" has since been fired and the edi- from Oxford, trade union "official" demonstration. is not an expression lightly spoken. torship been given to a middle- However, the imperialist weight that is brought to bear against branches, moihers with prams, BLP YOUTH MEET aged right winger. Young Socialist branches, beat- Cuba in such hysterical intensity threatens not only the Cubans, but niks in sunglasses and derby hats, Following on the heels of the The only success the Right wing- the world working class. The Soviet Union has stated it will come to Young Communists, grandmoth- had at the Conference was in its the defense of Cuba. But it is not enough to depend on this aid. All massive bomb protest, in the same nations and people who believe in the right of a country to determine ers. hall where the 1945 Labor govern- campaign against Keep Left, prin- cipal youth newspaper supporting its own way of life, its own economy and social values, have a responsi- Preceded by a truck from the ment was fO'.-med, 350 delegates the Scarborough decisions. bility both to Cuba and themselves to come to the aid of this revolu- Empire Loyalists that kept re- met in the first National Confer- Through charges that Keep Left tion which is under such brutal physical attack. peating, "Keep the Bomb," the ence of Young Socialists. Twice is opposed to the United Nations Ultimately the defense of Cuba rests in the establishment of a socialist United States of the Americas. Therein also lies the defense procession, four and five abreast, previously the Labor Party has and had once attacked Bevan, the several miles long, weaved through | Right wing was able to confuse and salvation of our own country. the countryside. dissolved its o™n youth organiza- We, as youth, are the future soldiers of a direct military invasion tion for rebelliousness. But not de- I some delegates and won on a reso- lution expressing "concern." of Cuba—or any other country daring to move out of the imperialist 'VIVA FIDKL' terred, by large majorities the orgit. We do not want to shoot down our revolutionary brothers, but Conference called for the resigna- rather to follow them and thus pull ourselves out of this insane Among the 30,000 marchers tion of Gaitskell as leader of the AGE OF PIANOLAS VJ ere interactional contingents i world of Big Brothers with nuclear toys. Labor Party and for a policy of Richard Grossman M.P., author j We demand an end to the imperialist aggression against Cuba! ranging from Germany's 500 unilateralism, including with- marchers to one marcher from of a compromise platform to | HANDS OFF CUBA! drawal from NATO. achieve unity in the Labor Party Cuba with Viva Fidel" on his which the Right wing suddenly placard. The middle-aged chairman, not finds acceptable, addressed the elected by the delegates but sent 11 Negro '-Militant Scoffs at Kennedy | Living' on sandwiches and hard- conference in the name of "unity." to preside by the Executive Com- Unity is necessary, according to boiled eggs, sleeping on hard mittee of th.-: Labor Party, com- The following telegram was sent to Dr. Paul Roa, Cuba's Foreign floors, marching with rain pour- him, if Labor is to achieve power Minister, and read in the course of U.N. debate on the invasion of mented several times: "That's in the next election and questions jug down their cheeks, singing carried too. I'm afraid . . ." or "We Cuba. It was sent by Robert F. Williams, Negro leader in North Caro- and yelling slogans, they arrived of program were secondary. "I'm lina. seem to have a lot ol trouble get- part of the ago when the pianola in Trafalgar Square to listen to ting this through," "To Dr. Raul Roa, United Nations. Please convey to Mr. Adlai speeches from Canon Collins and was the latest discovery," he add- Stevenson this message: Now that the United States has proclaimed Bertrand Russell. Delegates severely criticized ed, but drew no conclusions from military support for people willing to rebel against oppression, op- it. pressed Negroes in the South urgently request tanks, artillery, bombs, The Labor Party leadership is money, use of American air fields and white mercenaries to crush now in the embarrassing position racist tyrants who have betrayed the American Revolution and Civil of having a youth movement War. We also request prayers for this noble undertaking." which it would rather not have, but can't do without. But this leadership faces an even more formidable enemy: the Labor Par- New Yorkers Protest CD... D I want to subscribe to the YOUNG SOCIALIST (1 year, SI.00; ty annual conference, which will (Continued from Page 1) "I couldn't face my students if I 6 months, 50c). be even more overwhelmingly uni-rest of the Colonial World." didn't join with them in this pro- lateralist than it was last year. In addition to the demonstra- test." At the time of this writing D I want to join the Young' Socialist Alliance. But the Right wing will nat stay tion at City Hai!, students in the in a Labor Paity controlled by the city's high schools and colleges it appears as though the school I Name—please print.) Left. It will then be up to the also protested the drill by refusing administrations will take no puni- leaders of the Left to decide to take shelter. Notably, at some tive action against the protesters. whether they want to win the colleges the students were joined We have yet to see what action by a few of their instructors, one the courts will take against those YS. P.O. Cox 471, Cooper Sta., N.Y.C. 3 next elections or whether they want to win Socialism. of whom summed it up by saying, arrested at City Hall. May, 1961 YOUNG SOCIALIST

YS TOUR REPORT: CHICAGO CAMPUS SCENE: New Left Faces New Right Youth and Cuba, An increased tempo of political breaking up meetings, etc. Fasc- by Mack Davis tion has endorsed the Peace Corps from visiting Cuba and China for activity and action is to be noted ism is not." CHICAGO — At the University proposal and sponsored a National fear of their seeing that the only WHY THE RIGHT? on the campus this spring, ac- of Chicago here, there has been^a Conference on Youth Service way to help the hungry and il- cording to James Robertson who This rightist activity is largely complete reorganization of the literate peoples of the world is to in currently on a nationwide tour in response both to the growth of student political system, resulting Abroad which was held in Wash- support such movements and for the Young Socialist Alliance. ! leftist activity on the campus and in a new progressively oriented ington. D.C., on March 29-31. It is events as the revolutions which This is shown by a growth in a certain sense of insecurity in the student party called POLIT which j no coincidence that the dominant the people of those countries have political activity on both the right j capitalist class and its supporters won a majority of seats in the re- I position of the delegates was to made. and the left, Robertson notes. 1 because of its defeats throughout cent Student Government elec- make the corps into something The conclusion easily suggests "The militant right is really mo- the world, Robertson feels. In ev- tions. 1 which would be a real aid to un- itself that th-3 Fair Play for Cuba bilizing. Every area I have visited ; ery area ho visited, Robertson The new party is on record derdeveloped countries and not Committee is doing far more for has experienced new and unpre- found some sort of increased stu- i against the House Un-American serve merely as a propaganda arm peace than Kennedy's so - called cedented incidents of violence dent activity on the left. This in- Activities Committee and has the of U.S. foreign policy. A resolution "Peace Corps" can ever do, by de- and/or overt rightist organiza- cluded activity in the civil liber- endorsement of the campus news- along these lines were passed, call- fending the Cuban revolution tion," he states. "There is a dan- ties field primarily around the paper, Maroon, which has ex- ing for the removal of all "security against Kennedy and his likes. ger," Robertson warns, "among anti - HUAC campaign, continued i pressed editorial approval of its clearance" clauses now imposed some radical students of exagger- civil rights actions, and a growth stand on both campus and off- on the corps pian. ating this development — leaping in a number of different cam- campus issues. On campus issues, from identifying a menace to be- puses of anti-administration stu- The true nature of the Peace Bay Area Rallies the party aims at giving the stu- Corps was brought out in a recent lief that the enormously powerful dent parties. Above all the Cuban dents more power over the admin- existing political-social structure Revolution and other world events meeting at the University of Chi- ] istration and over all aspects of cago, sponsored by the Fair Play To Defend Cuba is in some serious danger of top- such as the execution of Lumum- student life. pling to the right; i.e. fascist-type ba are making a section of the Off campus, POLIT promises for Cuba Committee, featuring by I,ee Mayfield elements are s menace to us, student popualtion more politi- to "sponsor resolutions to increase talks by students who had recent- SAN FRANC7SCO—Some 1.000 cally aware and radical in tem- communication.? and improve re- ly visited Cuba. demonstrators met here at the per. lations between the U.S. and the 'CORPS' TO CUBA? Civic Center Plsza at a rally or- James Robertson's main tour ganized by the Bay Area Fair Play Revolutionary Government of I Someone suggested that a good Cuba Protests... address was directly related to the Cuba." for Cuba Committee to protest upsurge of the colonial revolution way to help Cuba would be for the U.S. intervention in Cuba. Despite (Continued from Paue 1) ROOSEVELT U. BOILS Peace Corps to send some people ney; Lynne Weigert and John —"Yanqui Imperialism—Myth or wind, rain and dripping signs, thy Reality?"—Very good sized audi- At Roosevelt University, where there. An immediate outburst of crowd listened for an hour as Severn, members of the Seattle the campus newspaper, Torch, is snickering followed from people Fair Play student chapter. ences on campuses throughout the speakers—Asher Harer, Exec. Sec- country turned out for these meet- conservative, a left-wing grouping- who quickly sensed the absurdity retary, Bay Area Fair Play for New York— j ings. Also interesting was the fact has started publication of a paper of the idea that the Peace Corps Cuba Commit/oe; Patrick Halli- that Robertson's other tour topic, of its own, Iconoclast. The Fail- would be sent to a place like Cuba. nan, Hastings law student: Mau- New York has been the scene of "The Genesis of American Com- Play for Cuba Committee is well One of the speakers remarked rice Zeitlin, of the University of pro-Cuba activities too numerous munism," which was a review of established at the University. that the People's Republic of California Cjba Forum; Bernardo to recount in detail. The highlight the works of Theodore Draper, However, since its organization, a China needs technical assistance Garcia, Cuban student — con- was the rally in Union Square on also caused a good deal of interest. lunatic - fringe rightist organiza- also, but it is unlikely that a con- demned U.S. backing and organi- Friday, April 21, sponsored by Pair This illustrated that a small but tion called SOC (Stamp Out Com- tingent would be sont th°re. Ken- zation of th? counterrevolutionary Play. Five thousand people listen- ; significant stratum of intellectu- munism) was set up to fight it. nedy has already landed one invaders and praised the gains ed to speeches by Richard Gibson, als on campus is- again becoming Smarter reactionaries, however, "corps" in Cuba and its purpose made by the Cuban Revolution. Acting National Executive Secre- interested in serious Marxist are attempting to dull the knife may not be too far from the one of increasing student protest with to which he is trying to recruit News of the invasion of Cuba tary of FFCC who was handed thought and analysts. galvanized students from Berke- a subpoena to appear before East- Among the campuses that Rob- : promises and concessions, and ' American youth. where possible, they hope to chan- ley and San Francisco into fever- land's committee as he stepped ertson spoke on are: Los Angeles ; The question is thereby raised ish activity. The Bay Area Stu- down from the platform >, Julio City College, East L.A. Junior Col- nel it into service of those inter- of whether Kennedy is serious ested in preserving the status quo. dents Committee to Oppose U.S. Medina of the 26th of July Mvt., lege, University of California at about peace ;uid aid to underde- Intervention in Cuba was formed Mike Stein from Advance, Pete Berkeley, University of Washing- One part of tiiis effort is Ken- J veloped peoples when he is train- nedy's "Peace Corps." The college immediately and organized cam- Camejo of the YSA, and a number ton, Denver University, University ing counterrevolutionaries in Flo- pus rallies in preparation for a of other speakers. They did more of Colorado, University of Min- administrators are pushing this rida and Guatemala and sending with all their might, and unfor- big Union Square rally. The com- than listen, however; they chant- ! nesota, Carle con College, Roose- troops and guns to Laos for the mittee had representatives from ed and cheered throughout. No (velt University, University of Chi- tunately many students are prov- purpose of making war to prevent ing susceptible. five campuses and included more than a hundred well-organ- cago, University of Indiana, Anti- j poverty - stricken peoples from James Petras of the Berkeley ized reactionaries tried to disrupt och College, University of Michi- NSA HITS 'SECURITY' helping themselves; when he con- YSA. The committee is working the meeting with chants of "We gan. Robertson also plans to speak The National Student Associa- tinues to prevent Americans even cU'cely with the Fair Play for Want Kennedy." at a number of universities on the Ci.rja Committee. East Coast during the month of The first week after the inva- Meanwhile a counter - demon- sion saw daily picket lines at the ' May. staration was staged by a newly United Nations; anti-Castro pick- YSA GROWS Molina Witness Spills Beans Robertson also reported that the formed group called "Students ets have also been present. The Associated Against Totalitarian- pro-Cuba picket lines reached 3,- Young Socialist Alliance is exper- iencing a period of significant and About CIA Frame of Cuban ism." Eighteen rightists marched 000 on the day of the invasion, of around the plaza, held their own which 2,500 marched across the solid growth throughout the coun- On April 7th Francisco Molina, if he and detective Weber were a young pro-Castro Cuban, was guilty of the miscarriages of jus- little rally, and the remaining 15 |:ity to Times Square, defying try. Particularly interesting has resumed their lonely march. heavy traffic, shouting "Hands off b-en the growth of YSA locals in found guilty of second degree tice charged by Defense Attorney Cuba," until they were dispersed the two key West Coast campus murder and first and second de- Neuberger, they would be liable for After the rally the dripping de- by mounted policemen. communities of California and the gree assault in the death of a prosecution. Triano's new state- monstrators marched, chanting University of Washington. Our young Venezuelan girl last fall. '.nents raise the question once HANDS OFF CUBA, to the Fed-, Providence— I friends in the Canadian Young One of tho chief prosecution again even more urgently. era! Building where they were Socialist Alliance are also experi- witnesses agaiast Molina, Hum- Molina was charged with the joined by still more picketers. Students at Brown Univer- encing 'growth both in Vancouver berto Triano, a counter - revolu- murder of the young girl who was After about an hour of picketing- sity and Rhode Island School and Toronto. tionary Cuban! was captured in shot in the course of the fight in and shouting, the demonstrators or Design took part in a picket The Young Socialist Alliance the U.S. organized invasion of the El Prado restaurant between were still fresh and eager. line in downtown Providence call- • has also had other speakers tour- Cuba. He testified in N.Y. Court pro and anti-Castro Cubans. At this point they staged a ed by the Fair Play for Cuba ing in different parts of the coun- that he saw Molina with a gun DEFENSE COMM. spontaneous march down Market Committee. Policemen seized try. On April 14th Tim Wohlforth, and thus was one of the state's Street to picket the S. F. Exam- .National Chairman of the YSA, most crucial witnesses. Triano has The Molina Defense Comm .with picket signs from the demonstra- offices at 154 Nassau St., Rm. 832, iner to protest the lies about Cuba tors on the pretext that they debated the question of Peaceful now admitted to the Cuban au- printed in the U.S. press. Here Coexistence with Daniel Rubin, thorities thai" he was one of a N.Y.C., is attempting to win free- they changed their chants to "No should have obtained a parade dom for this political prisoner. In- permit. That night anti-Castro editor of New Horizons and repre- group of five Cubans who went to More Lies," "Print the Trth," and senting the Progressive Youth Or- the El Prado restaurant in N.Y.C. cluded in its national committee "Cuba Si, Hearst No!" people congregated and hung are such prominent people as Dr. Castro in effigy. The Brown chap- ganizing Committee. The debate last September with chains, knives was sponsored by the Wisconsin and guns deliberately intending to W. E. B. Du Bois, Saul Landeau, ter of Fair Play set up an infor- Marvin Gettleman, Dr. Lonnie mation toooth at which over $30 Socialist Club at the University of provoke a fight. Wisconsin. This was the first con- Cross and Rt. Rev. Clarence E. worth of literature wa.s sold. WITNESS LIES Duffy. YSA LOCALS If. you want to add your voice ' frontation of views between the While Tnar.o had testified he Molina is to be sentenced May BALTIMORE: c/o A. Robert aKufman. to the thousands of protesters YSA and the newly organized saw Molina with a gun, he now 2730 Reister .own Rd. LA 3-3703 PYOC and it produced a very 26th at 10:30 A.M. at the Criminal BERKELEY - OAKLAND: c/o Petras, throughout the country, join the admits that tms was a lie urged on 2158 Blake St. TH 5-1550. Fan Play for Cuba Committee. fruitful discussion. Wohlforth ex- Courts Building, 100 Centre St., BOSTON: c/o Boston Labor Forum, 295 him by District Attorney Herman, N.Y.C. The committee is organiz- Hunting-ton Ave. Send your name now to the Com- pressed the hope that more de- and that he never saw Molina with CHICAGO c/o Dengler, 746 Belden. RE mittee at 799 Broadway, Room bates of this type could be ar- ing a protest picket to be held at 9-1903. a gun. the time of sentencing. DENVER: Box 724. TAbor 5-2779. 323, New York 3. N.Y. ranged with representatives of the During the trial itself an un- DETROIT: J737 Woodward. 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THE CUBAN INVASION: Social Democrats Flirt with Counter Resolution by Martha Curti l ionists" \vere the forces which When the political struggle for freedom from foreign ; could restore "democracy" to "to- domination takes the form of an armed conflict, a political talitarian Cuba." In other words, person or a political group must take sides. There is no he supported the invasion!! neutral ground to stand on; whoever tries to equivocate, The next day the Berkeley whoever seeks to take cover under a "third force" specially YPSL refused to allow Shacht- constructed for the occasion, is in reality supporting one man to address a scheduled meet- side or the other. ing- on the Cal campus. Instead So it is with a number of lib-3> — Hal Draper, of the SP-SDF, erals and radicals who claim to printers taking over control of the , spoke. His position as expressed have inside information on what press. The professors opposed the 1 in a five-page mimeographed the Cuban people want. The Cu- students taking over control of statement, is not very different the universities. from that of Shachtman; but it toan. people need no intellectuals does fall on the other side of a to interpret what they want; they These and other middle-class razor-sharp line. Draper protests liave made their wishes clear be- professionals left Cuba because the, intervention in Cuba despite yond a possibility of doubt. things had gone "too far." Most H Mfl>r>ff COIA! his sharp criticisms of the Cas- American intellectuals have— of them had opposed Batista. Most —Sid Brown i ti'o regime, drawing- an analogy With a few outstanding excep- of them realize that the Old Order with the defense of the sla-ve- tions like C. Wright Mills— served cannot be restored; the land re- hoifling- state of Ethiopia against a very useful purpose for Kennedy, form cannot be undone; the in- Mills: 1 Would Fight With Fidel7 the invasion by Mussolini. presently a very unpopular man. dustries cannot be denationalized. Intellectuals flocked, at the last They wish to compensate the for- "Kennedy and company have returned us to barbarism. Schle- Draper's statement ends with minute to be sure, to Kennedy's mer owners of nationalized prop- inger and company have disgraced us intellectually and morally. I an appeal to help the SP with banner last fall. An impressive erty, which would place Cuba [eel a desperate shame for my country. Sorry I cannot be with you. its campaign against interven- phalanx of professors was recruit- again under imperialist domina- Were I physically able to do so, I would at this moment be fighting tion. It is doubtful if a greater ed to Kennedy's brain trust (high tion in a new guise. The decsive alongside Fidel Castro."—Telegram from C, Wright Mills to an April height of hypocrisy can be at- school boys on the make are all point, however is that they organ- 22 San Francisco Fair Play for Cuba rally. tained. Where was YPSL, where applying to Harvard these days'". ized an armed Invasion of Cuba in was the SP, for the past six Since the invasion of Cuba, cooperation with the CIA! What that Kennedy's White Paper, unable to act upon, this resolu- months? The hundreds and thou- though, Kennedy's stock has plum- kind of "democrats" are these, written by Schlesinger, is center- tion. For instance its new paper, sands of people who have been meted even among his own sup- who by force seek to deny Cuba ed on. Castro has "betrayed" a New America, rather than taking working- hard in defense of the porters. Witness the telegram a its basic democratic right of self- great deal, to be sure. He has be- a militant stand in defense of the Cuban revolution through the group of Harvard graduate stu- determination? trayed the best interests of Arthur Cuban Revolution, straddles the Fair Play for Cuba Committee are not going to take kindly to dents sent to their former profes- WHAT ABOUT HUNGAKY Schlesinger, Jr., A. A. Berle, Max fence by printing a debate on the question. The YPSL held this sudden interest of the SP- soa and mentor, Arthur Schle- But. the supporters of the Lerner, and J. P. Kennedy—the singer. Jr.; "Nixon or Kennedy: interests of preserving the capital- its convention in late August YPSL in the Cuban Revolution. "democratic left" answer, you when U.S.-Cuban relations were They will view it it correctly as an 'Was There a Difference?" didn't apply that same criterion ist system at all costs. Castro felt it was more important not to be- far more tense than when the j opportunistic attempt to "cash MAX JLERNER'S IMPATIENCE of self-determination to Hungary SP convention was held. It pass- in" en the tremendous current in 1956. tray the interests of the Cuban Liberal supporters of Kennedy workers and peasants. For a de- ed a resolution on Cuba that is interest in Cuba. such as Max Lerner, Brandeis But we did! Mr. Lerner and his considerably more equivocal in its friends make a mistake unbecom- tailed refutation of Draper's REAL BROADNESS professor and New York Post col- (article, see "In Defense of the support to Cuba than was the umnist, have talked themselves ing to self-styled scholars. Of the Cuban Revolution by Joseph Han- SP one. While this resolution! The SP and the YPSL have into the existence of a "demo- American supporters of the Cuban supports Cuba as against U.S. in- made much of the fact that they revolution, the Stalinists, who did sen, available for 25c from Pioneer cratic" opposition to Castro. Ler- Publishers, 116 University Place, tervention, most of the resolution are a "broad" organization. We ner wrote on May 1 ; "I have writ- indeed defend the Soviet inter- is made up of warnings over 'any now have a graphic picture of vention into the Hungarian re- New York 3, N. Y. what this broadness means: mem- ten in earlier columns about my ENTER YPSL extensions of influence of the j impatience with pro-Castro Amer- volution, are a minority. The vast Communist Party of Cuba' and bers of the same organization can ican liberal intellectuals who have majority of us condemned the Draper's whole theoretical ovtr alleged 'bureaucratic and shoot it out with each other at always supported revolutionary Soviet intervention; and the stiucture comes in handy for the authoritarian tendencies' of the Cochinos Bay! YOUNG SOCIALIST and the So- 'socialist" adherents of the Schle- nationalist movements sponsored Castro regime." Those members of YPSL and by the totalitarian left, and now cialist Workers Party called for singer-Lerner school—the Social- This editorial called upon tho coming to power of the work- ist Party-Social Democratic Fed- the SP who feel strongly about fail to support an anti -Castro YPSL, even with its criticisms the defense of Cuba—without re- revolutionary nationalist move- ers councils in Hungary. Mr. Ler- eration (SP-SDF) and the Young and reservations of the Castro re- ner, who is not so naive as to be- Peoples Socialist League (YPSL). gard to any criticisms they may ment sponsored by the democratic gime, to support the Fair Play have of Castro—against U.S. in- left." The labelling, with total lieve that the suporters of the The support and hard work of for Cuba committee as the only Cuban revolution are all Stalin- tervention, directly or indihectly, disregard for fact, of the Cuban some individual YPSL members united action group in the field. should give full and active sup- revolution as "sponsored by the ists, has distorted reality to fit wro have joined and worked with and to "make defense of the Cu- his view of things. port to the Fair Play for Cuba totalitarian left," and the con- the Fair Play for Cuba commit- ban Revolution their primary Committee, the only American cocting of a "democratic left" op- j Within the radical community, tee is very much welcomed. The concern." organization which has been- position to Castro, are figments of Theodore Draper has done Ken- fact that Norman Thomas was a SP SUPPORTS INVASION consistently working for such the imagination which are very nedy the same service that Lerner signer of the public statement gobls. and which welcomes the has done among the liberals. In by the Fellowship of Reconcilia- How have the social-democra- current among liberals now. These tic organiaztions responded to support of all who agree with figments salve the conscience of his article "Castro's Cuba—A tion attacking the intervention these goals regardless of their Revolution Betrayed?", published is also welcome. But as organiza- the Kennedy-sponsored invasion their creators, who can now sup- of Cuba? views on other questions. They port armed intervention in Cuba as a pamphlet by the New Leader, tions, these groups have done should also demand, if they wish on the pretext of supporting organ of the extreme right wing nothing on behalf of the Cuban ,1'hf National Action Committee of the SP-SDF passed a resolu- their organization to continue to "democracy" against "totalitarian- of the social democracy, Draper revolution except mutter about lav claim to being socialist, that ism." provides a theoretical justification "lack of democracy" and "en- tion on April 20, 1961 on the in- tervention in Cuba. It stated that the SP throw out Shachtman and j of the U.S.-backed intervention in croaching bureaucracy," while anyone else who supports coun- What force within Cuba can very gingerly stating that they the SP-SDF is "opposed to the they point to, for their ''demo- | Cuba. Utilizing some bits and terrevolutionary invasion of Cuba. I shreds of Marxist theory which he defended the Cuban Revolution. American intervention in Cuba. cratic left"? Can anyone have u The last paragraph of the reso- Until this is done we cannot con- picked up somehow from his stu- Ab organizations, on a national, sider YPSL-SP-SDF to be social- single illusion about mass dissatis- local and campus scale, they lution, however, directly contra- faction with the gains • of the dies of American communism, ist organizations. Draper dredges up the same have done not one thing, to help dicts this statement of opposition revolution, after the remarkable build the Fair Play for Cuba to the intervention: "We do not An unaffiliated student social- repelling of the invasion? "democratic opposition to Castro," and bemoans the same "totalitar- Committee. When the Cuban condemn those democratic Cubans ist recently made what may be- What force outside of Cuba can ian dictatorship" which has be- Revolution was in grave danger, who have takei:- the road of open come a classic remark: Just as they point to? The Cuban exiles? fallen Cuba, as his liberal counter- these people abstained from com- opposition. . We sympathize the Hungarian revolution finish- But why are they exiles? They parts have done. He has echoed, ing tc its aid. Indeed, in certain with all Cubans who seek a re- left Cuba precisely because they albeit cloaked with pseudo-Marx- cases YPSL and SP members turn to the original democratic ed Stalinism, the Cuban revolu- opposed the extension of demo- ist phraseology, the same charge have redbaited and smeared the aspirations of the Revolution, tion will irmish the social democ- cracy in Cuba. The newspaper of Castro's ''betrayal" of the PPCC,tried to prevent college ad- with those who have gone into racy. editors and publishers opposed the original aims of the revolution ministrations from recognizing armed rebellion, as well as with FP chapters and tried to prevent those who continue to work for FF speakers from getting cam- change by other means." What is The SPRING number of pus sponsorship. this, if it is not that "democra- LABOUR REVIEW The organiaztional abstention- tic loft" opposition to Cas,tro Acquits S.F. Student wh:'er Max Lerner is so fond of? British Marxist Quarterly SAN FRANCISCO, May 3—A ism (and in individual eases, sab- lack of evidence. otage) of the YPSL and SP to And the Schlesinger-Draper the- CONTENTS INCLUDE: Superior Court jury verdict of With the acquittal of Meisen- the Cuban revolution is an accu- sis of a "Revolution Betrayed?" Pasternak and the Calendar not guilty returned in the case bach it becomes quite clear rate reflection of their political Thus have spoken the great au- of the Revolution of Robert J. Meisenbach, Univer- charges, that .students were re- and theoretical abstentionism. thorities on revolution, on the as- J pirations of the Cuban masses, j Isaac Deutscher sity of California senior, was a sponsible for the riots are un- And as we pointed out above, in SHACHTMAN'S ROLE j Lenin and Trotsky on firal vindication, of the students founded. This is a final blow the struggle between Cuba and Pacifism and Defeat-ism struck at the film "Operation the U.S., to abstain amounts to On Monday. April 22. shortly i who demonstrated against the Abolition" which has been widely supporting- the armed invasion. after the invasion, the YPSL(inj Brian Pearce House Un-American Activities attacked as a film based on dis- A year ago. the SP at its May the Bay Area sponsored a meet- A Socialist Foreign Policy Committee in San Francisco last tortion rather than truth, convention passed a resolution in ing at which Max Shachtman, Cliff Slaughter May. The students had been ac- Jurors said that they had not defense of the Cuban revolution. member of the National .Com- 4?c postpaid: Order from: cused of rioting and 64 had been been impressed with contradic- In December. I960 this paper mittee of the SP-SDF; spoke. He arrested. Charges against all but tory testimony on the part of stated in an editorial: ''However, called for support to the "'trade Young Socialist Forum Meisenbach, who had been ac- prosecution witness.. Appearing with the intensification of the union" section of Miro Cardona's B»x 471, Cooper Station cused of hitting a cop with the for the prosecution were FBI and U.S. drive against the Cuban Revolutionary Council, claiming New York 3, New York latter's club, were dismissed for police witnesses,. Revolution, the SP seems to be that these "democratic trade un-