Chicano antiwar action p. 3 L.A. socialists attacked p. 4 Calif. teachers vs. union-busters p. 5 The Weathermen meet p. 12 GE gets rrpatriotic" p. 13 Young Socialist convention maps '70 action program The ninth national convention of the Young Socialist Alliance was the biggest in the history of the organization and marked the significant growth of the revolutionary socialist youth movement in the U. S. in the last year. But even more impressive than the size was the spirit, confidence and optimism of the more than 800 delegates, members and friends who gathered in Minneapolis at the end of December to discuss campus struggles, the Third World liberation movement, women's liberation, socialist electoral activity and other arenas of struggle. Coverage begins on page 6. Page 2 THE MILITANT Friday, Jan. 16, 1970 THE Resolution protests attaclcs on Panthers MILITANT Editor: HARRY RING men are at fault and that to solve her Managing Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS Local union for release Business Manager: BEVERLY SCOTT problems, she must abstain from hetero­ Published weekly by The Militant Publishing sexual activity. Ass'n., 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003. of all political prisoners letters from I also see The Militant use the term Phone 533-6414. Second-class postage paid "sex objecf' in a sense that it is bad or at New York, N.Y. Subscription: domestic, Los Angeles, Calif. $4 a year; foreign, $5.50. By first class mail: evil. Being a sex object is not a prob­ domestic and Canada $13.50, all other coun­ This statement was adopted by the our readers lem. Males are sex objects to females, tries, $20.00. Air printed matter: domestic and executive board of the Los Angeles chap­ and females are sex objects to males. Canada, $20.00; Latin America and Eu­ ter of the Social Workers Union, Local rope, $40.00; Africa, Australia, Asia (including This column is an open forum The problem is that in our capitalist USSR), $50.00- Write for sealed air postage 535: for all viewpoints on subj~ of society sex has become a commodity rates. Signed articles by contributors do not "On Monday, Dec. 8, an army of to be bought and sold on a market. necessarily represent The Militant's views. These general interest to our readers. are expressed in editorials. 300 policemen invaded the Black com­ Please keep your letters brief. Where One more thing, the cover of McCall's munity of Los Angeles, and with bombs, necessary they will be abridged. Christmas issue depicts only a child Volume 34 Number 1 gas, and automatic weapons, attempt­ with flowers in her hair. It suggests ed to kill or imprison a small group Wrtters' initials will be used, names Friday, January 16, 1970 being withheld unless authorization that Christmas is for children. To im­ of Black militants. The previous week, ply anything else would bean exaggera­ in Chicago, police succeeded in mur­ is given for use. tion. Closing news date-Jan. 9 dering two leaders of the Black Pan­ Tom Hanna ther Party-one while he was sleeping [We would suggest that you reread political prisoners. Toward this end, in bed. In every major city across the the ''Why Women's Liberation?" article we participated in last Thursday's [Dec. nation, members of the Black Panther and take another look at the picture and communist administrations have 11] demonstration at City Hall together Party, who have been leaders in the of the McCall's cover. Responses from been picketed by striking workers. with a broad coalition of community struggle against racism and poverty other readers are invited. -Editor] The USSR has lost its prestige in its in this country, have been killed or groups including the Panthers, the own camp. Hence the boycott of the imprisoned on trumped-up charges. NAACP, and the Urban League, as well 1969 World Conference of Communist This attack on the Panthers is clearly as figures like Senator Mervyn Dymally Parties by half of the world's commu­ part of a nationwide pattern. and others." Quotes not contained nist parties (not including Trotskyist "As welfare workers, we have an im­ Walter Lippmann parties); hence also the opposition to portant responsibility to express our in 'little red book' the CPS U by great numbers of the outrage against these attacks. An at­ CPs that did attend; and hence in ad­ tack on the Panthers is really an at­ A criticism Philadelphia, Pa. dition, revolts by the working class and students against Soviet-oriented bureau­ tack on the Black community as a I am now finishing a seminar in Marxism given at the University of crats in Czechoslovakia. To charac­ whole, and on its right to self-defense. Los Angeles, Calif. terize as counter-revolution, as you do The Panthers are being singled out now In an article in the Dec. 6 Militani Pa. (The seminar is not, of course, given by a Marxist.) Readers might Mr. Erickson, a revolt of labor against for special repression, but police ar­ a writer referred to an SWP candidate be interested in the book we are now bureaucrats, is to standMarxism-Lenin­ rogance and brutality will continue and who "... would be running against reading, The Political Thought of Mao ism on its head. grow if these attacks are allowed to tap-dancer George Murphy... " I am Tse-tung, edited by Stuart R. Schram. In the U.S. the pro-Moscow CP is continue and if massive public opposi­ delighted that arch-conservative Murphy Shram's selections include essays not the betrayer of the American fight tion is not made manifest. will face a socialist opponent in 1970. generally quoted by red-book-waving against imperialism with its opposition "When the government uses armed I was not so happy to see the slight­ Maoists. For example, in an essay en­ to a working-class party, and its sup­ force to suppress dissent, every mem­ ing reference to Murphy as a former titled "The Kuomintang has a brilliant port of the imperialistic Democratic Par­ ber of a political party, a trade union, tap-dancer. I oppose Murphy for his future," (written only 11 years before ty. In short, the USSR is today the a religious or racial minority is ruling class politics; not because he the revolution!) Mao writes: "The Kuo­ main prop of U. S. imperialism. threatened. Therefore, we, as members was once an entertainer. mintang and the Communist Party are Hal Levin of Local 535, must join with the com­ The ruling class has fostered the idea the foundation of the Anti-Japanese munities we work in, to protest these that only those with a certain back­ United Front, but of these two it is the armed attacks on a political party, and ground and training are fit to serve Kuomintang that occupies first place. The deepening Without the Kuomintang it would be to demand the immediate release of all in government. We must not yield one radicalization inch to this elitist concept, even in at­ inconceivable to undertake and pursue tacking the most unredeemed reaction­ the War of Resistance... [The Kuomin­ Philadelphia, Pa. ary. tang] has had two great leaders in It seems the radicalization and anti­ In the coming years, steelworkers and in succession-Mr. Sun Yat-sen and war sentiment reach down to younger waitresses will be contending for power Mr. Chiang Kai-shek; it has a great and younger people. One of the super­ with university graduates and sons of number of faithful and patriotic active members." visors where I work (who sometimes America's "besf' families. The reaction­ In another essay, Mao contrasts his vear a tie with peace symbols on it) aries will scoff at waitresses aspiring line with "the Trotskyite approach, told me that his daughter works as a to positions of leadership. But we know which rejects the bourgeoisie and stig­ salesgirl in a department store for the that only workers can lead us to a matizes the alliance in the semi-colonial Christmas holidays, and at her counter socialist America where, in Lenin's countries with the revolutionaries] Mao's she has crayons and paper for children words, "every cook can be an admin­ emphasis!] among the bourgeoisie as to draw and write things. One six-year­ istrator." capitulationism simply because of the old wrote: "How many shopping days Hayden Perry transitory nature of the bourgeoisie's before peace?" participation in the revolution." AL One of the most interesting features Shocked of the book is the footnotes which com­ pare Mao's original version with the An appeal for victims San Francisco, Calif. version of a later volume published by the Chinese CP. This technique was I was shocked by a terrible mistake presumably learned from the man of U.S. bombing "Tbls looks like a foundry clinker; here's in the Dec. 26 issue. The article, ''Why whom Mao constantly praises, Joseph a fossilized Uver segment fuD of pestl• Women's Liberation," was printed with­ Stalin. Seattle, Wash. dde1, and these are crystaUized byclro­ out any response or interpretation. Also, Marc Bedner A medical relief committee is now send­ carbons from eombustlon of petroleum the cartoon made it worse. In this issue, ing desperately needed medical supplies derivatives, with a layer of sulphur The Militant failed to show that the to the resistance areas of Vietnam dioxide from soft coal smote • • • primary cause of women's economic Reply to Erickson through a British counterpart which fills Obviously, the moon once bad lntelll· oppression and the restrictive role she orders on the direct request of the Pro­ gent life bt a friendly environment.