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. plays in our society is due to Capital. visional Revolutionary Government's What do you suppose bappeoed?' Bronx, N.Y. Instead it leaves the impression that In response to James Erickson's let­ Ministry of Health and the NLF Red ter (The Militant, Dec. 12 ), I wish to Cross. differ with his characterization of the The committee, Aid to Vietnamese Vic­ USSR as the "main bulwark against tims of U.S. Bombings, was forme<". U.S. imperialism." The USSR's policy last summer by individuals concerned of peaceful co-existence has been trans­ by the medical situation in the resistance lated into using its influence to appease areas and the imbalance of what aid is imperialism by discouraging revolu­ provided by relief organizations in the tionary activity around the world. liberated areas and North Vietnam com­ IF YOU SUPPORT THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT, THE BLACK LIBERA­ In Cuba, communism came to power pared with that received by the people TION STRUGGLE, THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT, THE despite and not because of the par­ under Thieu-Ky control. Sponsors in­ FIGHT FOR SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY IN EASTERN EUROPE, A SO­ liamentary politics of the so-called van­ clude the Catholic Peace Fellowship, guard pro-Moscow CP. Dave Dellinger, Episcopal Peace Fellow­ CIALIST AMERICA, YOU BELONG IN THE YSA ... In France, the pro-Moscow Commu­ ship, and Dr. Spock among others. nist Party voted war credits to help The committee is now seeking other the fight against the Algerians, and the individuals and organizations to be­ ------clipandmoil ------PCF moreover characterized the Alge­ Young Socialist Alliance, Box .471 Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10003. come involved with them in larger at­ rian revolutionaries as provocateurs. tempts at fund raising in hope that In 1968, the PCF would have opposed such actions would arouse generosity 0 I would like more information 0 I wont to join the YSA the revolution whether or not it was premature, because the USSR had ear­ that might not otherwise be shown as well as helping to vitalize and expand Nome . lier this decade made a decision to side with the West against China. In mass antiwar sentiment. More information can be obtained Address . this regard, it uses its influence to prop up Western capitalism-going so far from and funds can be sent to the com­ as to build Krupp's factories inside mittee cfo Trinity Lutheran Church, City . . State . Zip . the USSR. 602 E. 9th St., New York, N.Y. 10009. In Italy, the PCI is dragging its heels Jerry Deines Friday, Jan. 16, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 3

West Coast Chicanos hit Viet war

Photo by Della Rossa Chicago Moratorium Day march

By DELLA ROSSA held in front of the speakers' stand. more by the army through the year "The general feeling of Chicanos is LOS ANGELES- Chanting "Chicano Lozada, Socialist Workers Party can­ than by the ranchers, and he will get completely against the war in Vietnam. Power!" and led by sharp-marching didate for California attorney general, fed every day. Twenty percent of the guys who die over Brown Berets, nearly a thousand Chi­ said his group was there because "the "The ironic thing is that what would there are Chicanos, yet we are not rec­ canos marched down a hill and spilled majority of Chicanos around the state give the farm workers economic secur­ ognized here in our own country, we into Obregon Park in East Los Angeles are beginning to realize the war is not ity and self-respect, a union with col­ don't have equal rights to housing, to Dec. 20 in a Chicano Moratorium pro­ a 'mistake' but part of the deliberate lective bargaining with the ranchers, education or opportunities. test against the war in Vietnam. foreign policy of this country. They are such as Cezar Chavez is organizing, Another 500, predominantly young beginning to find out this war has noth­ is being undercut by the Defense Depart­ "I live among my people, the people Chicanos, joined the marchers for a ing to do with the interests of the Chi­ ment, which is the largest consumer of on welfare, and I know the feelings. rally in the park. Although the general canos." California table grapes. The Army is There could be a war right here, be­ feeling among Chicanos has been in One sign carried by a demonstrator keeping the farm worker from economic cause a lot of us are ready to die for opposition to the war in Vietnam this said, "No Dead Chicano for a Rich security by supporting the ranchers, our rights." was the first Chicao antiwar demon­ Man's War." while they send the youth to be killed Oscar Acosta, Chicano movement at­ stration of any proportions. One of the rally speakers, Rosalio in Vietnam. torney, read a list of Chicanos who had The demonstration was organized by Munoz, former UCLA student body "The same thing is happening here in died in Vietnam to the rally and asked, a Chicano coalition composed mainly president and now head of Chicano the barrios with the welfare system. If "Why did they die? Not for their fami­ of the Brown Berets and MECHA Draft Resistance, said that draft defer­ a Chicano youth works they take his lies, but for the U.S. government which (Match), the former United Mexican­ ments, such as for students, "are not mother off welfare, but if he goes into sent them to Vietnam against their will. American Students. Busloads and car­ really available to Chicanos because the Army, his mother can keep her wel­ loads of young Chicanos joined the although about 70 percent of America's fare check, and he gets a check from "What did they leave behind? The demonstration from the Merritt College youth go to college, only about four the Army." police harassing us on the streets and Latin American department in Oakland, percent of Chicano youth go to college. Alicia Escalante of the Welfare Rights the police helicopters like the one flying from La Raza studies at Fresno State This means about 20 Anglos get de­ Organization, told the rally, "If Nixon over us now!" College, San .Jose supporters of the De­ ferments to every Chicano. doesn't stop the war in Vietnam he will Carlos Montez, a Brown Beret spokes­ lano grape strikers, and from San "The reason Chicanos are drafted and find a war on his hands in his own man at the rally, said, "We're here to Francisco, Riverside, Cucamonga, and die," Munoz said in an interview at the country." protest the high death rate of Chicanos San Diego. rally, "is precisely because he does not In an interview later she said, "There and to protest U. S. aggression against The Merritt College delegation was have any economic security or political should be an immediate withdrawal of the Vietnamese people." led by Froben Lozada, head of the freedom here, the very reason for which all U. S. troops from Vietnam. The Through the march and rally, demon­ Latin and Mexican-American Studies wars are supposed to be fought. money being spent in Vietnam should strators greeted each other with "Viva department. The Oakland Chicanos "A Chicano will go into the service be used here for the kids who are doing La Raza!" Speakers would yell out, marched with a streetwide banner read­ because the service will pay him more without food and mattresses and beds. "Chicano-", to be answered with "Pow­ ing "Venceremos. Merritt College Chi­ than he can get by working. A farm I feel this is a useless war and too many er!" from the crowd. It was a day for cano Student Union" which was later worker youth, for instance, will be paid Chicanos are dying. La Raza. In passing: Women's lib; The Committee; Palestinians

The movement for women's libera­ revolutionary force because it absolute­ center their attention on issues like the Career of the House Committee on Un­ tion is now emerging as the newest ly necessitates a change in life style." vote. It may be that in our re-examina­ American Activities by Walter Good­ struggle of mass proportions on the For women or men, to support wom­ tion of women's problems we will return man. Published by Penguin Books. 564 American scene. It comes upon the stage en's liberation without hypocrisy re­ to their starting point." pages. $2.95 paperback.) of history as a movement-wide trauma, quires a genuinely self-critical attitude. Joyce Cowley's prognosis has been • • • as Vicki Pollard writes in an article in The ideology of male supremacy is confirmed over the course of the past Four spokesmen for various Palestin­ the initial issue of Women: A Journal largely a nonconscious ideology as year. Women's liberation groups have, ian guerrilla organizations outline their of Liberation: Sandra L. and Daryl J. Bern point out for example, demonstrated against com­ political positions in the September-Oc­ "Many radicals do a great deal of in another article in Women. This mercialized bridal fairs, marriage li­ tober issue of Tricontinental magazine talking about their politics, but they means that sexist, as opposed to racist, cense bureaus and abortion laws- all which is published in Havana by the seem to lack seriousness because they attitudes are seldom explicitly articu­ of which strike at the foundations of the Organization of Solidarity of the People do nothing to change their own lives lated although they are constantly acted social relations governing the bourgeois of Asia, Mrica and Latin America and in accordance with their beliefs. The upon in an unthinking way as the "nat­ family structure. has just recently arrived in the U. S. women's liberation movement has such ural" manner of doing things. Sup­ Joyce Cowley's article has been re­ Yasser Arafat, Commander of AI Fat­ posedly it is "natural'' for women to do printed as a pamphlet entitled Pioneers ah, Dr. Mandua, a spokesman for the the housework and care for the children, of Women's Liberation (Pathfinder Popular Front for the Liberation of while it is equally "natural'' for men to Press, 873 Broadway, N.Y. 10003. Palestine, Abu Hicham, leader of AI work for money and not be tied to the 25c). It reviews and analyzes the his­ Saika, and Nayif Hauatmch, secretary home. Within the nonconscious male tory of the women's liberation move­ of the political bureau of the Democratic supremacist frame of reference, d man's ment in the nineteenth and early twen- Front for the Liberation of Palestine, all home is his castle and his woman is tieth centuries. strongly emphasize their opposition to his maid. • • • anti-Semitism while affirming that their Thus, supporting women's liberation You wouldn't think that a history of 3truggle is with the racist, expansionist means that revolution begins at home, the House Un-American Activities Com­ Zionist state. although it certainly doesn't end there. mittee written from a liberal anti-com­ As the ultimate political solution to (Women: A Journal of Liberation is munist point of view would be worth the Palestinian situation all four spokes­ a new quarterly that is open to a variety much, but, for the most part, Walter men (in the words of Arafat) envision of different approaches to the question Goodman's The Committee makes up that a free Palestine will be "a demo­ of women's liberation. The articles in in sound and scrupulous scholarship cratic, secular, nonracial state where the first issue are consistently sophisti­ for what it lacks in political clarity. all Palestinians- Christians, Jews, and cated and informative. Subs are $5 a Goodman doesn't explain why capi­ Moslems-will have equal rights." year to Women: A Journal of Libera­ talism requires witch-hunters and witch­ Hicham and Hauatmch add (in Hi­ tion, 3011 Guilford Ave., Baltimore, hunting committees as an integral part cham's words) that "the best solution Maryland 21218.) of its repressive apparatus. Neverthe­ to all the problems that might affect • • • less, the information contained in The or concern the citizens [both Arabs and In 1955, Joyce Cowley wrote, "I be­ Committee conveys how wide-ranging Jews] is to set up a democratic and so­ lieve it is significant that the first women and scurrilous the activities of one of cialist nation that will shelter them un­ who fought for equality and woman's the most infamous of the government's der the banner of a common homeland." rights directed a large part of their thought control agencies has been and Arafat and Mandua do not state the protest against bourgeois family rela­ is likely to continue to be. political solution in terms of socialism. tionships. Only at a later date did they (The Committee: The Extraordinary -MALACHI CONSTANT Page 4 THE MILITANT Friday, Jan. 16, 1970 Cuban exiles make attack Great Train Robbery: on Los Angeles socialists LOS ANGELES-At 8:25 p.m. New N.Y. straphangers hit Year's eve three armed, unmasked thugs, believed to be Cuban counter­ revolutionaries walked into a private The pattern of transit worker wage and bus fares would be raised to 30 residence where a New Year's celebra­ negotiations in New York reveals the cents. And they were, immediately. This tion of the Cuban revolution was sched­ types of attitudes and practices that was up 50 percent from the old 20 cent uled and threw a fire bomb combined keep workers everywhere on a tread­ fare. with tear gas. The celebration, spon­ mill trying to catch up with the rising This is the way it is all over. When sored by the Socialist Workers Party cost of living. wages go up, the boss raises prices. Then and the Young Socialist Alliance was As soon as the Transport Workers he complains about inflation, hoping continued at a different address. Ex­ Union ( TWU) calls its 100-member ne­ tensive damage to the home was averted everyone will accept this as part ofthe gotiating committee together and draws natural order of things. General Motors only by the quick action of the residents. up its list of contract demands, almost raises the price of cars every year This is the third terrorist attack on the everyone else in the city begins to talk whether or not auto workers get a wage SWP and YSA in the last year and a about two questions. increase. General Electric raises prices half. The first is, will the fare go up? on household appliances while G E Dave Frankel, SWP candidate for lieu­ The idea that the politicians and the workers are striking for wages to catch tenant governor of California stated: press have built up over the years since up with previous price rises. "This attack, following so soon after the 1948, when the nickel fare was raised recent YSA convention where plans were Dr. Ronan said, "You can't run the to a dime, is that wages and fares go made for further activities in behalf of system on words and promises." He together like bread and butter. the Cuban revolution, antiwar actions took the hard cash. The other question is will the subways and building the revolutionary socialist There are some protesters. Mayor be tied up again the way they were in movement can only be seen as an at­ Lindsay says he thinks the fare ought 1966? That closed the city down for tempt to terrorize the growing left move­ be have been raised only to 25 cents. almost two weeks. ment in the United States into dropping Some union leaders deplored the big This time a settlement was reached its activities. They will not succeed. We jump in the cost of getting to work. when the contract expired Jan. 1. The will not only continue but strengthen the Moe Foner, an official of local 1199, TWU, headed by Matthew Guinan, had activities projected at our convention." Drug and Hospital union, was quoted been asking for a 30-percent wage raise, Terry Hardy, SWP candidate for state as saying, "We in the hospitals know Photo by John Gray plus some fringe benefits. The average controller and a resident of the district you can't expect the working people on Dave Frankel wage of subway workers was $4.02 an in which the bombing occurred, issued the subways to subsidize the transit hour, and they thought they should get the following statement: "This attack is fares through their wages." The TWU ganizations, including Dr. Bruce de $5 at least. The union negotiators set­ a direct result of the climate fostered by rank and file committee, headed by Monterice, executive secretary of the tled for less. the government and the police of this Joseph S. Carnegie, campaigns against Berkeley-Oakland Medical Committee The new wage for porters, the lowest country. By their actions in the Chicago charging to ride the subways. for Human Rights; Prof. Willard Car­ scale, is now $3.68, up from $3.40. On murder of Black Panther leader Fred The subways were subsidized from penter of the American Federation of July 1, 1971, it goes to $4.05. Skilled Hampton, in the Los Angeles attack on the beginning. Otherwise they would Teachers; and eleven members of the maintenance men now get $5, and will the Black Panther headquarters the po­ never have been built. For 44 years coordinating committee of the Bay Area the fare was a nickel, from 1904 until lice nationally have by example en­ Peace Action Council. couraged violent attack on organiza­ 1948. In those years the general con­ tions of the left. In Chicago and De­ cept of public service fmanced by taxes Kalb, Illinois, identified members of levied on commercial and industrial Legion of Justice, a fascist-like ultra­ Paris meeting property and on high incomes was com­ right organization, invaded YSA and mon. Nobody was expected to pay the SWP headquarters and other antiwar, fire department when his house caught antiracist organizations. is attacked by fire. The free school system was accept­ "We demand that the Los Angeles ed. Bridges and roads and rapid transit police take every possible step to ap­ systems were built with public funds, prehend these three thugs and arsonists Zionist goons and there were few toll bridges. Toll and that they make available to witness­ roads disappeared. The subway es present photos of known Cuban coun­ Hy ROHER'!' LA:\'GSTO\.' charged a toll, but it was kept low and terrevolutionaries for possible identifica­ A right-wing Zionist goon squad in­ was meant for the use of working peo­ tion. The continued failure of the police jured several dozen students in an at­ ple to be on time at the job-or to get to stop this kind of attack means we tack on a Palestine-solidarity meeting to Macy's and Gimbel's to do their must continue our effort to organize and Dec. 9 at the Censier campus of the buying. By 1935 the need of free medi­ defend ourselves." University of Paris. Four of the injured cal care for everyone was very gener­ She announced that a united front students were hospitalized according to ally accepted and it was shunted aside Rouge, a French Trotskyist publication. in the U. S. Congress only by the most meeting of all key people and organiza­ Rockefeller tions interested in halting attacks of this The meeting was called by the Pales­ reactionary wing. character will be held soon to discuss tinian Committee, and its participants go to $5.50 July 1, 1971. The contract Following World War II the idea that defense measures that can and will be included members of the Israeli Hevolu­ expires Jan. 1, 1972. working people ought to pay for every­ taken. tionary Action Committee Abroad There is no escalator clause. The rise thing gained ascendancy The rich still Meanwhile messages of solidarity (IS RACA ), which is in political solidar­ is calculated to be 18 percent over the have most of the money. But they are were received from individuals and or- ity with the revolutionary anti-Zionist two-year period. TWU officials hope the not supposed to pay for anything. Israeli Socialist Organization. cost of living will not climb more than Whatever they buy-their cars, their The goon squad was composed of 18 percent in the next two years. The dinners, their club fees- is all tax de­ members of the Hethar, a Zionist or­ Consumer Price Index for urban wage ductible. Their money is different. It is ganization associated with the fascist­ earners shows cost of living up 15.1 not supposed to be spent, only invested. like Herut Party in Israel. (The Herut percent from January 1967 through Oc­ Otherwise, it would not make more CHEROKEE has merged with the National Liberal tober 1969 and still rising. money. Party to form the Gahal, which holds The head of the Metropolitan Transit This is what business is all about. a fourth of the cabinet posts in the gov­ Authority, which is the state agency that This idea is fostered by Big Business. EXAMINER ernment of "socialist" Golda Meir.) negotiates with TWU over wages and And in accordance with this we now FOURTH ISSUE NOW The attack came just as the meeting working conditions, is headed by Dr. have an abundance of toll roads. The AVAILABLE was starting. Some 50 of the Zionist William J. Ronan, a Rockefller appoin­ private school system is gaining favor An independent hard hitting thugs, helmeted and armed with clubs tee. Ronan gets $70,000 a year. again. There is serious talk in high NA'l'l V~ AMERICAN and knives, burst in on the assembled Very little was said throughout wage circles of seeking private management PERIODICAL students. The meeting was undefended. negotiations about the problems of in­ for the postal system. The water reser­ written by The goon squad clearly had instruc­ flation. But its presence was felt. TWU voirs are polluted and anyone con­ HOSTILE AMERICAN INDIANS tions on where to concentrate its vio­ negotiators kept explaining that the cerned about the water he drinks is History Problems of today lence: three of the hospitalized students wage gains of two years ago had been advised to shun the public drinking Potential solutions. were members of ISRACA, and the completely wiped out by the rise in fountain (if any are available) and "We Will have justice for buy pure bottled water. And in accor­ our people!" fourth was a member of the Palestinian prices. Committee. Hut most of the talk, especially in the dance with the tenor of the times and CHEROKEE EXAMINER Similar right-wing Zionist violence newspapers, was about what the Transit the general drift of events it is only P.O. Box 687 was directed against Palestinian-soli­ Authority could afford to pay. TheTA natural that the New York subway fare South Pasadena, Calif. 91030 darity meetings at two other French complained about a $120-million defi­ should keep going up. campuses, on Nov. 13 and Dec. 5. In cit. And after the wage settlement they Now they tell subway riders how well Please enter my subscription for 12 consecutive issues at $5.00, those attacks, no one was seriously in­ said this added another $120-million to off they are because bus fares in some or 6 consecutive issues at $3.00. jured. the costs of operating the transit system. other cities are higher. Business inter­ Subscription prices reduced in Following the Dec. 9 events, activists The pay raise does not amount to that ests explain how necessary it is to support of the Christmas pur· chasing boycott. Enclosed is supporting the Palestine national strug­ much, but they always add somerhing charge for all public services. The pol­ eheck, cash or money order for: gle drew the obvious conclusion. On to round out the figures. iticains all accept the idea in principle. Dec. 11, the Palestinian Committee and It seemed unreasonable that an outfit They argue about how much. And it Name,$------~---- ______the Communist League (the French sec­ that can afford to pay one man $70,000 won't change until the working class Address. ______tion of the Fourth International) called a year would be so far in debt. Others moves into the political picture with its Citx______Zip__ a meeting at Censier. This time, though, argued that this might be the reason. own independent party and a whole M a large, carefully organized defense Whatever the reason, the Transit Au­ different set of ideas about how society guard was present. There were no inci­ thority announced the very next day must be organized. dents. after the wage settlement that subway -FRANK LOVELL Friday, Jan. 16, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 5 Calif. teachers face union-busters

By ANATOL ANTON and blatant. Every nontenured member which would normally result in 15-day administration, or remammg silent, and WILLARD CARPENTER of the union's executive committee has suspended sentences. Continual petty hoping against hope that no one will [The following article was written Dec. been fired, including the union's presi­ and serious harassment by the institu­ notice them. 6 by t.vo professors who have been dent. tions of justice has been our experi­ The AFT is united on the issue of fired in the wave of victimizations of In many cases these firings come ence from the original denial of "own job security for the brothers and sis­ American Federation of Teachers mem­ down unilaterally from President Haya­ recognizances" release to denial of free ters being fired. There is less agree­ bers attempting to unionize the state kawa's office, usurping the traditional transcripts on appeal. ment that this struggle requires an al­ college system. Anatol Anton is a pro­ faculty prerogative of having hiring In the face of this repression the cam­ liance with the other groups mentioned fessor of philosophy: Willard Carpenter, and firing decisions a purely profes­ pus has polarized. Most of the liberal above. <1 professor in international relations.] sional and thus departmental matter. faculty have moved to support Haya­ Yet, as we see it, short of an alliance The firing last month of 21 teachers In a number of other cases, such as kawa, either openly cheering his attacks between all groups concerned and a of AFT Local 1352 at San Francisco S. F. State's notorious Dept. of Inter­ on the BS U and taking positions in his fight of nationwide proportions, ideo­ State College is traditional union bust­ national Relations, departments have logical control of institutions of higher ing. In this case it is particularly open determined to do the establishment's education and therefore of elementary house cleaning with a vengeance. What and secondary education and mass started two years ago with the arbitrary media will be merely handed over to dismissal of John Gerassi on the part the establishment. Socialists Leninism, Trotskyism, The Rus­ it will retrogress to study safe subjects who have fought for freedom." sian Revolution and its impact upon such as ancient African history- wheth­ Garry charged the U. S. government the American communist movement, er Black students and faculty can con­ and the Oakland Police Dept. with geno­ and contemporary issues such as Black tinue the unity of theory and practice, liberation, the Cuban revolution, the cide and warned that the genocide and or whether the activists will be fired worker-student upnsmg in France harassment of the Black Panthers is and expelled. 1968, women's liberation, Vietnam and "only the prelude to the genocide of all American imperialism, and the revolu­ White student radicals face the same types of undesirables by the men and tionary potential of the working class. oppression. Some have been expelled; women who rule this country." Over 30 Clark students have ex­ others are now being called in by the David Hilliard, BPP chief of staff, pressed an interest in attending all of Financial Aid office to discuss termina­ spoke on the need to demand free speech the sessions. Many others will attend tion of loans. and stated that "the only people who one or more of the classes. Most of the Just as in the case of the Panthers, enjoy the right of free speech are those course will be taught by Boston mem­ the courts are part of the process. Ac­ who have nothing to say." bers of the Socialist Workers Party and tivists arrested during the strike last Other speakers included Mae Mallory Photo by Dave Wulp Clark YSAers. year face 12 months in jail for "crimes" of the July 23 Defense Committee and David Hilliard Page 6 THE MILITANT Friday, Jan. 16, 1970 Young Socialist convention maps expanded action program for 1970

By MARY-ALICE WATEf{S MI~~EAPOLIS- The ninth national convention of the Young Socialist Alli­ ance, which was held on the campus of the University of :\linnesota here Dec. 27-30, was the largest convention in the 10-year history of the organiza­ tion. But far more impressive than the size even was the confidence, optimism and spirit of the more than 800 dele­ gates, members and sympathizers who made their way through heavy snow and freezing weather to attend the con­ vention. The mood of the delegates reflected the significant growth of the YSA in the last year, the successes registered by the YSA in its many fields of work. Present in the hall were many of the key orga­ nizers of the million-strong antiwar demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco on ~ov. 15; leaders of some of the most successful Black and Third World student actions of the last year; leaders of many other campus strug­ gles; organizers and leaders of the Delegates to ninth national YSA convention growing women's liberation movement. The experiences gained, the victories Action teague in New Zealand; Cather­ since the Second World War, changes aries the world over, but particularly won, and the lessons learned from some ine Versene of the Communist League that have resulted in the qualitatively here in the U.S., must be judged not of the defeats suffered by other radical in France; Jg4i1 Young of the Young So­ greater social and political weight of by their verbal protestations of solidar­ organizations with opposing perspec­ ciall.8ts/Ligue des Jeunes Socialistes in the student movement. On the basis ity with the Vietnamese revolution, but tives and analyses of the needs of the Canada; and Pierre Martin of the Rev­ of this analysis and the concrete ex­ by the effectiveness of their actions. The current stage of struggle- all these olutionary Marxl.!it League in Switzer­ periences of the student movement, it YSA can be proud of the key role its things were reflected in the reports and land. They brought greetings from their projects a program of democratic and members played in mobil~ing one mil­ discussion throughout the four-day con­ organizations and took part in a panel transitional demands for the student lion Americans in the streets of Wash­ vention. discussion on international socialist radicalization, designed to tie the stu­ ington and San Francisco on Nov. 15, for those who had attended a num­ youth activity, dent struggles into those being waged demanding an end to the Vietnam ber of YSA conventions, the growth, The convention was also greeted by by other sectors of society and lead war-the largest political demonstra­ both qualitative and quantitative, was three representativ~s of tl:le Palestiiilan them in an anticapitalist direction. tion in American history. While every striking. liberation struggle. · The convention report, which centered other political tendency, without excep­ Delegates were present from 30 states There were five major reports dis­ on explaining the basic Marxist con­ tion, has failed to consistently support plus the District of Columbia, represent­ cussed and adopted by the YSA dele­ cept of the transitional program, dealt and build such mass, anti-imperialist ing locals from Florida to Washington, gates. with some of the questions that have actions, the revolutionary socialist California to Maine. And greetings were Caroline Llihd gave the report on been discussed in the international Trot­ movement has played the indispensable received from Anchorage, Alaska, from the relibl.UUon entitled "The Worldwide skyist movement concerning this per­ YSAers Joe and ~latilde Miles. Pvt. YOuth Radicalization and the Tasks spective. The discussion that followed Miles was exiled to Alaska last .July of the Fourth International." The docu­ was one of the best of the convention, by the Army as punishment for his ment, which was origitlaliy presented following which both the report and GI-organizing activities. More than 20 by the Uni~tl Secretariat of the Fourth resolution were adopted by the dele­ new locals were represented and dozens IB.lernational to a world congress of gates. of new campuses and cities sent frl1ter­ that organization last spring, is cur­ Larry Seigle, YSA national chairman, nal delegates. The growth of the Black, rently under discussion in the world reported on the document, "The Deep­ Chicano, and Puerto Rican cadre of Trotskyist movement. Neither the YSA ening Radicalization: Revolutionary the YSA was clearly evident. nor the Socialist Workers Party are Perspectives for the 1970s." Seigle dis­ While the convention had the broadest affiliated to the Fourth International cussed the relationship of the YSA, the national scope ever, it was also the because of reactionary legislation which Marxist current in the new radicaliza­ most international. prohibits it, but they are both in po­ tion, to the other political tendencies in Members of the YSA's fraternal orga­ litictU sl)lidarity with the Fourth Inter­ the youth movement, and placed the nizations in six countries were pres\!hll lUttional, which was founded by Leon various campaigns in which the YSA Pete Jensen of the Revoluti6nary So­ Trotsky. is involved- antiwar movement, Black cialists in Denmark; John Percy of the The document discusses the changes and Third World struggles, campus ac­ International Marxist League in Aus­ that have taken place in the student tionS, women's liberation, socialist elec­ tralia; George Fyson of the Socialist movement on an international scale tion campaigns -in an overall perspec­ tive. The report and resolution adopted by the convention stressed the central im­ Credentials data shows YSA gains portance of the 1970 socialist election campaigns which will be conducted all over the country by the Socialist Work­ Photo by Hermes Caroline Lund MINNEAPOLIS- The credentials committee of the ninth an­ ers Party, and projected the building of young socialist supporter groups for role in building them. nual YSA convention, meeting here Dec. 27-30, reported a total these campaigns. convention attendance of 821. Questions that had been raised during The YSA is an independent youth or­ the preconvention written discussion The average age of those at the convention was 23.5. Fifty gaiilzation that has fraternal ties to about the way the YSA should relate percent were students, including 60 high and junior high school the Socialist Workers Party which it to such actions as the peripheral dem­ students. Forty percent were under 21. considers to be the only revolutionary onstrations that took place in Wash­ Of those in the YSA, the average length of membership was party in the United States today. The ington on Nov. 15, and the attitude mutual respect and close relationship, 1 YSA should have to such slogans as one year, four months, a sharp drop from the two-year average based on common political goals, that of the previous convention. "Support the Vietnamese Revolution," exists between the two organizations were thoroughly discussed by the dele­ Thirty-seven percent of those present were not members of either was reflected in the greetings brought gates and the perspectives outlined in the YSA or the Socialist Workers Party. - from the SWP by Militant editor Harry the report and resolution adopted. There were 30 states represented at the convention. Among Ring, and by the warm response he . The YSA voted to support and help the most significant delegations were: Minnesota, 229; New York, received from the YSA delegates. build the upcoming national conference 108; California, 77; Illinois, 73; Texas, ·21; and Georgia, 18. YSA national field secretary Tony of the Student Mobilization Committee, In a related report by Nelson Blackstock, YSA ..national orga­ Thomas gave the report on "Strategy which will lay plans for future mass nizational secretary, figures were given for the\&mposition of and Tactics in the Struggle for Black actions against the war. An antiwar Self-Determination." (See story by Der­ workshop held during the convention the YSA as of a survey of membership Dec. 15. discussed concrete plans for implement­ Blackstock reported YSA members in 41 of the 50 states. Forty rick Morrison.) "The New Stage in the Antiwar Move­ ing the decisions made by the delegates. percent were women; 10 percent were Third World, including ment: A Strategy for Young Socialists," The report on the internal functioning Blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Native Americans, Asian-Amer­ was reported on by Susan LaMont. of the YSA was given by Nelson Black­ icans and other oppressed national minorities; 55 percent were The war in Vietnam, far from being stock, national organizational secre­ students; 8 percent, high school and junior high school students. nearly over, remains the focal point tary. After a brief summary of the his-. of the world class struggle. Revolution- tory of the YSA, he reviewed many of Friday, Jan. 16, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 7 the various organizational tasks of the locals, at-large members and national office- finances, education, literature sales and distribution, regional travel­ ing, national tours, recruitm~nt, expan­ sion of the national staff, defense work, and publications. In addition to the decisions made on publications, report­ ed on seperately, the convention voted to launch a $28,000 fund drive in the spring. The YSA, which is a totally self-financing organization, raises its en­ tire budget from such fund drives plus regular dues and contributions from the locals. The importance of each local becom­ ing a regional center for organizing new YSA units was a perspective en­ thusiastically endorsed by the delegates. Telegrams of solidarity were sent by the convention to a number of individ­ uals and organizations, particularly victims of political repression in Latin America and the Black Panther Party. In addition to the major resolutions and reports there were a number of excellent panel discussions and special WORKING CLASS FIGHTERS. Convention paid Norton; Farrell Dobbs; Marvel Scholl; Harry De­ sessions. Aside from the panels reported warm tribute to participants in historic 1934 Minne­ Boer; Max Geldman; Lou Miller; Jake Cooper; on separately, there were workshop dis­ apolis Teamster strike. From left to right: Orrie Ray Rainbolt; V. R. Dunne. cussions on high school organizing and The Militant- both sales and distribu­ tion, and writing for the paper. There were two special sessions of the convention for which the commer­ cial press was admitted. One was the fThere was no generation gap' report by Lee Smith and Laura Miller concerning the recent attacks by a fas­ cist-like gang on DeKalb and Chicago By ROBERT LANGSTON Specifically, Dobbs related these les­ fact. Program decides everything, pro­ YSAers. The other was a session paying sons to the tasks of the 1970 socialist vided there is a revolutionary combat tribute to the men and women who led "Old militants met young militants electoral campaigns. "Let's make it an organization and a leadership capable the drive to unionize Minneapolis in at the University of Minnesota Saturday all-out socialist propaganda offensive," of carrying through the program." the 1930s. Farrell Dobbs, national sec­ night, and there was no generation gap." he said. Let's help the young rebels As Dobbs pointed out frequently in retary of the Socialist Workers Party Thus did Jack Miller of the Minneapolis "develop a whole new outlook, out the course of his speech, "constructing and one of the leaders of the Minnea­ Tribune report his impression of the through the capitalist propaganda, re­ the revolutionary socialist vanguard is polis strikes gave the main address. Dec. 27 session of the Young Socialist fute the lesser-evil swindle, point the the most basic need." The delegates (The radical press was permitted to Alliance's ninth convention that honored way toward mass anticapitalist politi­ agreed with him, and were conscious cover the entire convention and the the Trotskyist militants who 35 years cal action." of the vital contributions he and the Guardian. Liberation News Semice. the ago led the bitter but successful struggle other leaders on the platform had made Daily World, and a number of under­ to transform Minneapolis from an open­ toward that goal. Their appreciation ground newspapers sent reporters.) shop, slugger-ridden town into a bas­ was reflected in the numerous standing tion of trade-union strength. At the final, closed session of the ovations accorded the veteran revolu­ convention, a new national leadership Nine veterans of the 1934 strikes and tionaries. was elected to carry out the decisions of the great organizing drives that fol­ of the convention during the coming lowed were on the platform that night. year. A national committee of 30 mem­ The chairwoman, Mimi Harary, intro­ Greetings sent bers and 27 alternate members was duced each of them to the thousand elected. In a national committee meeting YSA members and supporters, and told following the adjournment of the con­ a little about the role each played in to Hugo Blanco vention, a national executive committee the class wars of the 1930s. Harry was selected and Larry Seigle was elect­ DeBoer, Max Geldman, Vincent Ray­ national chairman, Susan Lai\lont na­ mond Dunne, Jake Cooper, Orrie Nor­ tional secretary, and Nelson Black­ ton, Ray Rainbolt, Lou Miller, Marvel The following telegram was stock national organizational secretary. Scholl and Farrell Dobbs: they are sent by the YSA convention National field secretaries and editors among the men and women who or­ to Hugo Blanco, a leader of of the YSA publications will be elected ganized the Minneapolis truck drivers, the Peruvian section of the by the new national executive com­ coal handlers, warehousemen and un­ Fourth International, who has mittee. employed in 1934. They were among been in jail for more than six The YSA convention took place on the rank-and-file leaders who conceived and a half years. He is cur­ the threshold of the '70s. With a decade the tactics and sustained the workers' Photo by Karl Berman rently serving a 2 5 year sen­ of development behind them, with deep willingness to fight that ended the Minne­ apolis bosses' reign of anti-union terror Farrell Dobbs tence, imposed on him by a roots sunk in the radical student move­ military court, for his key role ment of the Cnited States, with impor­ and even, for six years, held the Team­ Further, Dobbs asserted, "Our cam­ tant ties to all the developing arenas sters' bureaucrats and their hired goons in organizing the Peruvian paign should relate directly to more peasants. of struggle, with a history they can be at bay. They brought the over-the-road than the electorai "sphere. In the course proud of, the YSA convention projected truckdrivers into the organized labor of the electioneering, questions will arise * * * a course of struggle for the next year, movement for the first time. Five of about mass action around specific is­ The 1969 YSA national con- and took a confident step into a new them served more than a year in pris­ sues and opportunities will arise to help vention, meeting in Minne­ decade. on on frame-up charges of violating educate militants against ultraleft ad­ apolis, Minnesota, the site of the witchhunt Smith Act, because of venturism, against sectarians who don't mass workers struggles led by their opposition to the Second World know how to read the mood ofthemass. our movement in the thirties, War; several others served time on It is necessary to educate in the con­ is a concrete expression of the frame-up felony charges of one sort or cepW! of a transitional approach to the another for their trade-union activity. growing revolutionary social­ building of the social struggles against ist youth vanguard in the heart They have remained revolutionary so­ the status quo as they are developing cialists, members or supporters of the of world imperialism. today in the direction of anticapitalist This convention, more than Socialist Workers Party. And they have consciousness and anticapitalist politi­ educated two generations of revolution­ cal action. To show how it is necessary any other national gathering ary socialists and trade-union activists. in our history, embodies the Jack Miller was right: there was no to relate to the issues that are the most spirit of the growing interna­ generation gap on Dec. 27. These vet­ cogent to given sections of the popula­ tional struggle for socialism. erans were honored by the assembled tion at this time, and on that basis, and with an understanding and appreciation Comrades and allies from Young Socialists. They were honored, France, New Zealand, Aus­ however, not' as monuments of a dis­ of the present level of political under­ tant and heroic past but as comrades, standing, help those battling for one or tralia, C an ad a, Belgium, older contemporaries, whose experience another progressive cause to carry the Switzerland, Denmark, the and reflection are sources of the knowl­ struggle forward and learn politically Palestine liberatiop. struggle, edge that is essential today to the suc­ in the process and develop a deeper the Dominican revolutionary cessful accomplishment of the tasks that political consciousness that must, in the struggle have joined us here confront and will confront the new gen­ very nature of things in life today, go in the Twin Cities. eration of Bolsheviks. in an anticapitalist direction." This convention has outlined Farrell Dobbs, who is now national At the same time, Dobbs stressed the plans to build our part of the secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, need "to refute the scoundrels who cor­ rupt program in the name of bigness. international campaign to help addressed the session. Consistent with free comrades jailed in Boli­ the whole tone of the evening, his talk Sheer force of numbers does not assure was anything but ceremonial. It was attainment of goals. If a movement via and Peru. a carefully stated distillation of the les­ lacks a class-struggle program and a Free all Latin American po­ sons of the 1934 struggle and of their class-conscious leadership, it will crum­ litical prisoners! application to the social movements that ble in the test of battle, no matter how Revolutionary solidarity and Photo by Ron Payne have been developing again in the last big it may be. The pages of history are greetings. Tony Thomas decade and a half. replete with proof of that fundamental Page 8 THE MILITANT Friday, Jan. 16, 1970

Panel forsees mass women's movement

By ELIZABETH BARNES A focus of YSA activity in New York The workshop on women's liberation has been support for an abortion suit at the YSA convention provided the challenging the constitutionality of the flrst opportunity for YSAers active in New York state abortion law. A major the women's liberation movement to demonstration around this issue is get together on a nationwide basis and planned for March. compare experiences. The most striking YSAers are also participating in the aspect of the discussion was the tremen­ coalition which was formed at the Con­ gress to Unite Women in New York dous optimism about the potential for last month and are working with others building a mass women's liberation in the coalition to implement the propos­ movement in this country. als passed at the Congress. Almost all the speakers stressed the Toba Singer, who has been active need to build broader struggles and in the women's liberation movement actions around the concrete issues and in Boston, described some of the groups demands being raised by the move­ which have developed there: Cell-16, ment-demands such as repeal of abor­ which was formed by some of the ear­ tion laws, equal employment opportu­ liest initiators of the women's libera­ nity, women's studies programs on tion movement, Bread and Roses, which college campuses, etc. It was felt that serves as a coordinating group for Photo by if the movement became more action­ many of the radical women's groups TRIPLE OPPRESSION. At women's liberation workshop Jacqueline oriented, and in this way more visible, and which was instrumental in calling Rice of Detroit discussed oppression of Black women as Blacks, as tens of thousands of women can be the New Haven demonstration in sup­ women and as workers. won to the struggle in the coming port of the jailed Black Panther Party women, and Womens Liberation, an­ period. a pedestal and Black women were de­ other prominant group of radical wom­ Five YSAers who have been active nied pride, beauty and so forth." en who have been carrying out projects in the women's liberation movement "Now you have the radicalization of around abortion reform and child-care in different parts of the country made the youth, the whole development of centers. She also reported on a very initial presentations to the workshop. nationalist sentiment starting with Mal­ Solidarity successful women's liberation class Ruthann Miller discussed the rapid colm X, the feeling of pride and dignity sponsored by the YSA at Boston Uni­ growth of the women's liberation in and respect for Black women." But, versity. New York, where there are now some Dianne Feeley, SWP candidate for this has been contradictory, she said. with Bolivia 100 different women's liberation U. S. Senate in California, described "You have Black women being told groups. how a course on ''Women as An Op­ by Black men that they must take a pressed Minority," at San Francisco step behind the men, that they should revolutionaries State became the basis for organizing not be too aggressive, that their role a teach-in on women's liberation which is to support the men and bring up The following telegram was Greet imprisoned attracted 500 people. A united front revolutionary children. But, we are al­ sent by the YSA convention to of campus organizations including YSA, so seeing a reaction against this, we the Revolutionary Workers PL, an independent SDS group, and see changes going on among Black Party (POR), the Bolivian sec­ Mexican fighters others, was set up as a result of the women, we see them demanding their tion of the Fourth Internation­ teach-in. rights and identifying with women's lib­ al, many of whose members Another important vehicle for winning eration, for example the New Haven The 87 political prisoners in Panther demonstration." have been recently arrested and broader support for the struggle for tortured on charges of engag­ Mexico City's Lecumberri jail women's liberation will be the SWP elec­ Ruth Getz, who has been active in a who are conducting an unlim­ tion campaigns. Dianne Feeley pointed liberation group in DeKalb, Ill., made ing in guerrilla activity. ited hunger strike called for an out that women's liberation has become clear YSA's support for the building international day of solidarity, a key issue in her own campaign of an independent women's liberation * * * movement. It is only by organizing Jan. 10. The 87, in wards A highly significant aspect of the The ninth national conven­ movement in California has been the ourselves that we can build the in­ tion of the Young Socialist Al­ C, M and N, will have com­ dependent power to free ourselves, she pleted one month of their strike growth of a militant women's caucus liance solidarizes itself with in the Western Pulp and Paper Workers said. "If you don't have a women's by that date. They are demand­ liberation group on your campus or you in your heroic fight Union. Women telephone workers have against the barbaric attempts ing the unconditional release also formed a group called ''Women in your community, you can start one." of all Mexican political pris­ Against Ma Bell" which is protesting Kipp Dawson, who was chairman of the Bolivian military junta oners. job discrimination in the Telephone of the workshop, summed up the po­ to destroy your movement. The following telegram was Company. litical significance of women's libera­ We are confident of your sent in the name of the YSA Jacqueline Rice, SWP candidate for tion movement as a "historically un­ ability with the backing of the Congress in Michigan, devoted most of precedented, extremely revolutionary revolutionary movement national convention in solidar­ development which is exposing the deep­ ity with these comrades: her remarks to a discussion of the throughout the world to thwart triple oppression of Black women "as ly oppressive nature of the basic insti­ the savage repression carried * * * part of the working class, as part of tutions of this society and of the cap­ A central theme of the ninth italist system itself." She pointed out that out by the demagogic, inhu­ the Black nation, and as Black women." man Ovando regime. national YSA convention has She pointed out the changes which have "when we participate in this movement, been the revolutionary implica­ taken place since the days of the civil we aid history in not only liberating Though this struggle will be tions of the international youth rights movement, before the rise of na­ ourselves, but men as well, through difficult, it is in the tradition struggle, of which the 1968 tionalism, when "white women were on a socialist revolution." of the Trotskyist movement in struggle in Mexico City, for Bolivia and throughout the which many of you were im­ world to not only survive prisoned, set the highest ex­ against enormous odds but to ample. turn the bourgeois repression We shared with you and with around by utilizing defense revolutionary forces the world against it to help build the over shock and horror at the very movement under attack. vicious campaign ofrepression We pledge our support in launched against your move­ your struggle to defeat the ment by the Diaz Ordaz re­ counterrevolutionary bootlick­ gime, above all symbolized by ers of American imperialism the Tlatelolco massacre of Oct. who are responsible for the 2, 1968, a date that will never current campaign of victimiza­ be forgotten in the history of tion and harassment which you imperialist ignominy. We will not let the world for­ are fighting. get or ignor the fate of those The intrigues of General who today remain buried · in Ovando and his military clique the prisons of Mexico. are a real but temporary ob­ We intend to press the inter­ stacle in the historic struggle national revolutionary strug­ of the Bolivian working class gle until this regime stands ex­ and peasant masses. Their posed and all its prisoners are struggles, led by the revolu­ freed. tionary Marxist vanguard, will We salute your courageous one day sweep away all the hunger strike! General Ovandos and their ilk Free all Latin American po­ in the coming Bolivian revolu litical prisoners! tion. Venceremos! Photo by Hennes Venceremos! Members of New York delegation Friday, Jan. 16, 1970 THE MiliTANT Page 9 YSAers and other revolutionary-mind­ ed nationalists. The united front is the achievement of the broadest possible Support received unity in the community when confront­ Black students playing ing the government over the issues raised in the struggle for self-determina­ from Palestinian tion. If this type of policy is pursued on the campus, in the community, fac­ key role in struggle tories, high schools, and barracks, it revolutionaries cuts across the isolation of the revo­ lutionaries and provides them with a Greetings to the YSA con­ By DERRICK MORRISON ple through national oppression that base. Actions stemming from such for­ vention were received from The report and discussion on the reso­ makes Black workers the most exploit­ mations will educate the masses as to three representatives of the lution entitled "Strategy and Tactics in ed section of the North American work­ the need for a Black political party. Palestinian liberation struggle, the Black Struggle for Self-Determina­ ing class. By the maintenance of this Coupled with this strategy, Thomas and telegrams were received tion" marked a new stage in the devel­ double yoke, the North American ruling indicated that the SWP election cam­ from the Beirut headquarters opment of the YSA's analysis and par­ class is able to concentrate the worst paigns would also provide a channel of two of the organizations. ticipation in the struggle. aspects of poverty, exploitation, and through which to wage the campaign Abu Marwan of the Demo­ In the report, Tony Thomas attributed unemployment among Black and other for a Black party. He considered the cratic Popular Front for the the initial stages of the present upsurge Third World national minorities. task of building the multi-national Liberation of Palestine, Ibn Al­ to the popularization of revolutionary Central to enforcing this situation is youth vanguard organization, the YSA, Mtn from the magazine Free nationalist ideas by Malcolm X. Since the control exercised by the U.S. ruling as central to this whole course of ac­ Palestine, and Abu Walid from Malcolm, the struggle has been charac­ class over the Black community. The tion. the Popular Front for the Lib· terized "by the ghetto uprisings of 1964- struggle of Black people for control The discussion that followed con­ eration of Palestine saluted the 68, by the growth of massive struggles of the community thus has far-reaching cretely took up some of the points made for community control such as the young socialists and called for anticapitalist implications. The demo­ in the report. unity in the world revolution­ struggle in New York in 1968, by the cratic task of self-determination will growth of Black caucuses within the Several delegates discussed their ex­ ary struggle against imperial­ have to be won through the overturning periences in building united fronts of labor movement, and most evidently of capitalism, i.e., socialist revolution. ism and Zionism. by the explosion of Black student strug­ Black and other Third World people The telegram from Fatah In terms of the present level of strug­ against the war in Vietnam. In some gles in the past year." gle, Thomas pointed to the need for stated, "The Palestine Nation­ The depth of this struggle, Thomas cities, like New York and Chicago, this a mass Black political party to coor~ al Liberation Movement ex­ stated, "flows from the combined na­ gave rise to Third World Committees tends its greetings to the ninth dinate and unify the struggles among for Solidarity with Viet N am. And in tional and class aspects of the oppres­ the students, workerR, and rebellious convention of the Young So­ sion and exploitation of Black people." others, such as Philadelphia and De­ cialist Alliance and wishes it Gl's. Such an instrument could bridge troit, Black militants used the vehicle It is the class exploitation of Black peo- the ever widening gap between the com­ exposin~ of the Student Mobilization Committee success in to Amer­ bative mood of Black people and the to build opposition to the war. ican revolutionaries our com­ lack of an authoritative national lead­ A couple of delegates pointed out that mon enemy which is world im­ ership and organization. both the reformists and ultralefts try perialism and its Zionist off­ Pledge efforts Of the independent struggles moving to skirt the issue of mass mobilization shoot We extend our hand in this direction, it is the Black student in the Black community against the to all movements in the world struggles that are setting the pace. war. The reformists, such as SCLC, for the solidarity and revolu­ in defense The campus battles truly display the Urban League, and NAACP, limit their tionary coordination of efforts power of the Black minority. Faced by opposition to talking about the im­ against the common enemy." the transitional and democratic de­ propriety of the war, avoiding like the of Panthers mands of Black students, the liberal A telegram was also received plague mass actions which could slip pretensions of the university administra­ from the Popular Front for the The following telegram was out of their control. The ultralefts, lack­ tions have been ripped away. As the Liberation of Palestine, and a sent by the YSA convention ing faith in their ability to mobilize undemocratic and racist nature of the representative of the Democrat­ the people, avoid the antiwar move­ to the Black Panther Party. university rises to the surface, whole ic Popular Front participated ment. But it is the growing numbers campuses have been mobilized in sup­ in the panel discussion on the * * * of high school and campus militants The ninth national conven- port of the Black students. And this in international rev o u tionary who are involved in mobilizing masses tion of the Young Socialist Al­ turn has detonated self-determination of people around Black demands that movement liance declares its outrage at struggles amongst Chicano, Puerto see the war as an issue around which the vicious repression and na­ Rican, and Native and Asian Amer­ to organize. tionwide series of murders that ican students. There was also a lot of discussion have been unleashed against At the same time, because different about the experiences that YSA locals sectors of the Black community devel­ your party by the white capi­ have had with the Black and Third op political consciousness unevenly, the talist protectors of racism and World student struggle. Delegates from Black student movement is plagued with private property. Boston and Providence and Chicago the problem of ultraleftism. As Thomas The rulers see in the dramatic described recent struggles at Tufts, rise of Black nationalism a analyzed it, the problem arises from Brown University, and the University terrifying threat to their bar­ the absence of any thought-out social of Illinois. At issue was the exclusion perspective, a lack of confidence in the baric rule. We consider this of Black workers from university con­ masses, and the relative paucity of struction sites. Murder Inc. to be a conscious Black revolutionary socialists. Mistak­ From Cleveland came a report by assault on the entire movement ing the tempo of radicalization, some a delegate on the recent united front for social change and we re­ of the revolutionary nationalists act out defense meeting held for the Black Pan­ affirm our commitment to de­ the ninth month pregnancy in the third, ther Party and delegates from Detroit, fend the Black Panther Party thereby aborting the struggle and iso­ against these attempts to ha­ lating themselves from the masses. San Francisco, and New York dealt with the ultraleftist tendencies in the rass and liquidate it Ultraleftism has affected not only the movement. This convention has decided campus, but also those advanced orga­ There was also a Third World work­ nizations that were initiated by student to intensify our campaign to shop at the convention, led by a panel elements, such as the Black Panther win mass support for the right of Miguel Padilla, a New York delegate of Black people to engage in Party and the Detroit League of Revo­ lutionary Black Workers. who discussed the Puerto Rican student political activity and to orga­ movement; James Harris, a Cleveland nize their own political party. Thomas outlined the united front as the key to the strategy of Third World delegate who ran for board of educa­ tion last fall and spoke on the Black struggle and the antiwar movement; Herman Fagg, a delegate from San Francisco and the SWP gubernatorial candidate in California, who spoke on the state of the Black student move­ ment; Antonio Rios, a delegate from Berkeley and a teacher in the Chicano studies program at Merritt college, who spoke on the history of the Chicano movement; and Froben Lozada, head of the Chicano Studies program at Mer­ ritt and SWP candidate for attorney general of California, who spoke on the Merritt program. What came through to those attend­ ing the workshop was the significance of the Merritt College Latin American Studies program. Operating under the democratic control of the Chicano Stu­ dent Union, which decides what is taught and who teaches it, it is probably by Ron Payne the most advanced Third World studies CHANGING TIMES. Long program in the U.S. From this discus­ noted for its abstinence from such Photo by Ron Payne sion and others, one could sense the "reformist" activity as picketing, CONVENTION TABLE. Des Moines Black Panthers were among rising influence of revolutionary social­ the Socialist Labor Party startled groups with literature tables at convention. A Des Moines Panther ist ideas and organization as the strug­ YSA convention with half dozen brought greetings to the conven~lon. gle for self-determination deepens. pickets. Page 10 THE MILITANT Friday, Jan. 16, 1970 YSA notice to right-wing thugs

carry out its activities. The committee has made available a brochure stating its aims, present sponsors, background of the DeKalb attack, and other infor­ mation helpful in bringing pressure to bear against the Legion and its sup­ porters. The committee address is: Committee for Defense Against Terrorist Attacks, Student Activities Center, :\"orthern Il­ linois Cniv., DeKalb, Illinois 60115. "Sutton is subject to the error ofunder­ estimating his adversaries," Smith told the convention, "and the statements he made before the DeKalb city council meeting Dec. 20 indicate that he has made just such an .error in Laura's case." Sutton appeared before the city coun­ cil to answer a resolution brought to the council by the Northern Illinois l"niversity Student Association con­ demning the police for their behavior following the Dec. 6 attack. In the course of his speech, Sutton referred to Laura ~liller as "a little teenage girl who is the tool of adults who are intel­ lectual prostitutes and moral whores." "Laura and the other comrades in Photo by Hermes DeKalb are, like most of our member­ Media covers Lee Smith's convention report on right-wingers ship, young in years," Smith said, "but their actions in this case and the con­ By DICK ROBERTS The committee intends to make the going after them, the police interrogated fidence and professionalism with which MINNEAPOLIS -A national effort to goals and methods of this illegal fascist­ the YSAers about their revolutionary they carried them out have demon­ mobilize opposition to the fascist-like like organization known to individuals activity. Almost the first question a de­ strated that they are Bolsheviks and Northern Illinois "Legion of Justice"was concerned about the democratic rights tective asked them was, "can you prove leaders. We have a movement of lead­ described Dec. 29 at the ninth annual of American citizens. Blacks did not participate in the at­ ers, not tools and stooges." convention of the Young Socialist Alli­ A revealing summary of the activities tack?" Sutton made this mistake, not only ance. This report was open to the major of the Legion has been written by 1968 At the hospital, police wrote on the in regard to Laura and the others in press and covered by NBC and CBS­ SWP presidential candidate and nation­ medical records that the YSAers were DeKalb, Smith said, "but in ever daring TV as well as local TV, radio and al antiwar leader Fred Halstead. This "injured in a political action altercation." in the first place to touch one hair on newspapers. summary includes reproductions of the It proved extremely difficult for the the head of any one of our people." Last Dec. 6, Legion thugs broke into Legion's avowed statement of purposes defense committee to obtain charges an apartment, gassed and attempted to and the death threat to Richard Hill. from the police against Sutton and it beat up six members of the DeKalb, It is available from !<'red Halstead, 873 was obvious that the police and right­ Illinois, YSA. (See The Militant, Dec. Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003. wingers were on a first-name basis. 19 and Dec. 26, 1969. ) The attack The second purpose of the committee When Richard Hill brought the death Chicago trials appeared to be part of a local drive to is to get Sutton de-barred in Illinois. threat to the Chicago police and asked intimidate revolutionary socialists. On Charges have been filed against him that it be entered into evidence, the cops Nov. 1, the same gang attacked the for association with the theft of material shrugged it off. are postponed headquarters of the YSA and Socialist from the SWP-YSA hall in Chicago on The most bizarre evidence of thE: po­ Workers Party in Chicago. Chicago Nov. 1. lice attitude also occurred in the DeKalb At court hearings in Chicago SWP organizer Richard Hill received The third purpose of the committee is interrogation of YSAers, according to on Jan. 6, the trial of Richard a written death threat from them Dec. to expose the role of the police in rela­ Laura Miller. One cop asked them if Hill and Carl Finamore, 10. tion to Legion activities. At a press Fred Hampton was in the apartment. framed up on charges of il­ But intimidation couldn't have been conference following the YSA conven­ The Black Panther Party leader had legal restraint by Legion of further from the tone of the reports tion report, Smith and Miller cited evi· been brutally gunned down by Chicago Justice associate Greg Schulz, given to the convention by YSA na­ dence of police sympathy for and le­ police two days earlier. was continued to Feb. 19. The tional executive committee member Lee niency toward the fascist-like gang. The fourth defense committee goal, trial of S. Thomas Sutton for Smith, and DeKalb YSA organizer When cops arrived on the scene of Smith said, was to build a list of na­ possession of stolen property Laura Miller, one of the six attacked. the DeKalb attack, for example, instead tional sponsors for the committee and was continued to Feb. 17. They described the formation of a of finding out about the attackers and raise funds that would be needed to defense committee that sets an example to the entire movement on how to re­ spond to right-wing attacks. They ex­ plained to the convention why it is im­ portant to take such attacks seriously, and mobilize support against them im­ Election activity a YSA-build er mediately. Within 20 minutes of returning from the hospital the night they were gassed, the DeKalb YSAers were on the phones "Our candidates must be the very best. oppression and the history of women's Texas SWP campaign, was equally op­ ringing up support for a broad defense We should know more than anyone struggles, explained that the campaign timistic. So far, he stated, the press doesn't really believe the YSA is serious committee. else." This remark expressed the spirit committee was holding meetings with of a panel on 1970 election campaigns professional ecologists in order to learn about supporting a socialist campaign Within hours they had enlisted the at the YSA's ninth convention in Min­ more about the effects of industrializa­ in Texas. By the end of the campaign, sponsorship of leaders of such diverse neapolis. tion on nature. however, he predicted that the SWP and groups as the Young Americans for The panel discussed YSA plans to The California campaign committee YSA would be known as the socialist Freedom, the Young Republicans, the help launch and actively support a is also planning fact-finding tours for tendency in Texas. Arab Club, the Students for Israel, and number of statewide election campaigns its candidates in the Far East, Middle over 100 faculty members. He underlined the importance of Chi­ of the Socialist Workers Party in 1970. East and Cuba, Miss Feeley announced. A "Committee for Defense Against Ter­ cano liberation as an issue in the Texas Building Young Socialist supporter Another factor that was stressed was rorist Attacks" has been established with campaign. Marianne Hernandez, a Tex­ groups for the campaigns was pro­ good relations with the press. Bill Per­ headquarters at Northern Illinois Uni­ as-born Chicano, is the SWP candidate jected. Key to the success of the cam­ due of the Washington State campaign versity. Its officers are: chairman, Dr. for U.S. Senate. Speaking at the panel, paigns, it was felt, was making them committee noted that contacts establish­ Sean Shes green, English Dept., NI U; she urged Latino socialists to coordinate relevant to the ongoing concerns and ed with newsmen in Seattle made it pos­ treasurer, Dr. Stephen Haliczer, History their electoral work on a national basis. immediate issues of local communities. sible for the SWP to hold well-attended Dept., NIU; secretary, Laura Miller; "In order to do this we must become monthly press conferences in order to Campaigns for campus posts were attorney, Irving Birnbaum. experts in each field," stated Dianne Feel­ present its stand on current issues. also examined by the panel. Gary Wurt­ Initiating sponsors of the committee ey, who is running for U. S. Senate in Marcia Sweetenham, who is running zel, who is the student-body president at Harpur College in Binghamton, N.Y., include: Leonard Boudin, New York California Areas that YSAers are re­ for governor of Ohio, emphasized the attorney; Richard Criley, Committee to searching include: the effect of the Viet­ possibilities for this revolutionary so­ discussed some of the problems as well Defend the Bill of Rights: Sidney Lens, nam war on inflation; union struggles; cialist campaign in Ohio to build a func­ as advantages of student election cam­ cochairman, New Mobc; Carol Lipman, antiwar G I activities on California tioning regional apparatus of the YSA. paigns. executive secretary, Student Mobe; and bases; the educational system for Blacks She pointed out that in 1968 sup­ The biggest difficulty, Wurtzel felt, was Bob Lucas of the Black Liberation Al­ and Chicanos; and the problems of porter groups for the Halstead- Boutelle in explaining why the election of social­ liance in Chicago. air and water pollution. campaign had developed into YSA lo­ ists to campus posts alone was insuffi­ Lee Smith outlined four main goals 'The 29-year-old senatorial candidate, cals. Regional work this year will lead cient to fundamentally alter university of the defense committee. The first is who is a leading activist in the women's to a "huge breakthrough on campus," conditions. It is necessary to mobilize to expose the Legion of Justice and its liberation movement and a well-known Marcia Sweetenham predicted. massive student and faculty support to apparent spokesman S. Thomas Sutton. speaker on the question of women's Travis Burgeson, speaking for the bring about significant changes. THE MiliTANT Page 11 now supports strikes such as the one From Flint, the Post said the 400 against General Electric." SDSers were "disappointed as they end Reporters were particularly interest­ a five-day convention here that has ed in the YSA's participation in the been more an ideological bull session new upsurge in the movement for than the war council that was pl~mned." women's rights. Several papers inter­ To avoid "factionalism," the Weather­ viewed women leaders of the YSA. man leadership had decided that no The December 29 St. Paul Dispatch, concrete plans would be made and for example, carried an extensive in­ no policy statements adopted, with the terview with Angela Vinther. result that the sessions "went no fur­ "Angela Vinther says women are op­ ther than general agreement on the pressed," staff writer Robert Protzman need for armed revolution some time began. "And as a participant in the in the future." women's liberation movement of the The mood, according to the Post, Socialist Workers Party and the was summed up by one delegate who Young Socialist Alliance, she and complained: "Abstractions, nothing but thousands like her hope to do some­ abstractions." thing about it.... From Minneapolis, Post correspon­ "What she and others in the libera­ dent Bill Woodward wrote: tion movement are against is the role "Pledging 'to continue the revolu­ they say they are forced by society tion,' 800 Socialist students ended to play.... their convention here today. They left "A socialistic society in which wom­ in a cloud of rhetoric, preaching the en were totally equal to men would thoughts of Marx, Trotsky and Che be the only way to liberate women Guevara, and arguing for a new de­ and men and children, she says. 'The mocracy and an end to war." supportive role of women in our so­ The YSAers, the reporter said, "adopted a program of building their ciety also warps men, and even chil­ own campus chapters and organizing dren.'" students for this spring's planned anti­ The December 31 New York Post war demonstrations." reported the closing of the SDS and YSA conventions. Intercontinental Press

Convention was given major media coverage

ByLES EVANS tablishment is supposed to look- con­ servatively dressed, conservatively One indication of the growing in­ maned." fluence of the Young Socialist Alliance, the American Trotskyist youth orga­ The Minneapolis Star interviewed nization, was the coverage given by Nelson Blackstock, the YSA's nation­ the daily press to its national con­ al organizational secretary, on De­ vention in Minneapolis December 27- cember 25. The reporter commented Photo by Harry Ring 30. Newpapers ranging from the New that there was "nothing garish" about York Times and the Washington Post BETWEEN SESSIONS. Among convention delegates and partici­ Blackstock's clothes. His background, pants were (left to right): Militant staff writer Derrick Morrison; to the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the the interviewer said, was "poor, white, Marianne Hernandez, Texas SWP candidate for U. S. Senator; Froben Chicago Tribune featured accounts of and Southern," which "might disqual­ Lozada, head of Merritt College, Oakland, Latin American Studies the proceedings. In Minneapolis itself ify him for membership in the 'im­ Depl and SWP candidate for Calif. attorney general; Antonio Rios, the press carried daily reports of the pudent snob' corps popularized by faculty, Merritt Latin American Studies Depl convention decisions and interviews Vice President Spiro Agnew." with the participants. The solidarity between old and The New York Times singled out young revolutionists, evident at the the YSA's support for the antiwar December 27 rally during the conven­ 2 major publication steps movement as the most newsworthy tion honoring the leaders of the 1934 feature of the gathering. A United Teamsters' strikes, flew in the face of Press International dispatch appeared another favorite notion of the press, agreed upon by delegates in the December 29 issue of the in­ that youth do not trust anyone over fluential Eastern daily, reporting that thirty. Two important proposed steps in the members throughout the country. delegates "attending an international "Old militants met young militants publication plans of the revolutionary Leaflets and posters that have proved convention of the Young Socialist Al­ at the University of Minnesota Satur­ socialist movement were discussed and effective in campaigns; discussions and liance voted today [December 28] to day night," the December 28 Minne­ approved by the ninth YSA conven­ debates with members of other tenden­ support a new round of antiwar dem­ apolis Tribune repo'rted, "and there tion in Minneapolis. cies; activities of antiwar, Third World, onstrations planned for the spring of was no generation gap. These steps reflected the basic polit­ women's liberation and other local frac­ 1970. A secret vote by about 900 "The old militants were leaders of ical perspective of the convention that tions; high school and college campus of the 1,000 delegates from the United the 1934 truck drivers strike in Min­ this country is in a period of steadily actions; work with antiwar G Is-the States and nine foreign countries was neapolis, and the young militants were deepening radicalization in which there many-layered local activities of YSAers said to be unanimous, but there was delegates to the Young Socialist Al­ will be continued and expanded recruit­ will become rapidly known to the whole reportedly heated debate over protest liance ( YSA) national convention." ment to the revolutionary socialist pro­ organization and serve as a basis for tactics." gram. more effective work. In addition to summarizing the res­ The first step is the publication be­ The New York Post contraSted the This will be particularly helpful to olutions passed by the convention­ ginning this January, of a biweekly YSA convention to a gathering of the the increasing number of YSAers who which, except for two sessions, was newspaper, The Organizer. This news­ "Weatherman" faction of Students for closed to the press- reporters inter­ are joining in high schools and colleges paper will have several functions. far away from established locals and a Democratic Society held simul­ viewed YSA members and leaders ex­ For some time the national office of it will be distributed by the regional taneously in Flint, Michigan. tensively. the YSA in New York has regularly organizers of the YSA who are contin­ "Eight-hundred Young Socialist Al­ distributed a number of mimeographed "By contrast with the long-haired, uously in the field. liance delegates, meeting in conven­ bitter, cynical rebels of the New Left," reports, covering such activities as: fund tion here, claimed they have pushed the December 30 Minneapolis Tribune raising campaigns; subscription drives The second step, planned for this Students for a Democratic Society out wrote, "mem hers of the Young Social­ for The Militant and the Young Social­ spring, is the publication of a new, of first place in the struggle for left­ ist Alliance ( YSA) tend to be clean­ ist; recruitment of new locals and "at monthly theoretical magazine of revo­ lutionary socialism. At this time the ist leadership on the campuses," wrote cut, cool, confident and optimiJ;tic. . .. large" members (that is, members where Post correspondent William Wood­ there are no .locals); antiwar actions; Young Socialist and the International "The way they look reflects their Socialist Review, the bimontly publica­ ward in the December 29 issue. aim of winning support from all seg­ election campaigns; participation in conferences of other radical tendencies; tion of the Socialist Workers Party, will "'YSA has [more] active members ments of American society. and policy statements by the national be discontinued. The new magazine will than any of the SDS factions,' said "They reject arrogance and elitism office. be published in collaboration with the Jon Rothschild, 19, a student orga­ -what one of them calls the 'liberal­ nizer from New York." These reports will now appear in The SWP. intellectual milieu.' And they eschew Organizer so that they will be easily "We want to wage an offensive in the The press seemed puzzled by the the individualistic pleasure-seeking of accessible to all YSA members and also field of ideas," Blackstock stated. The fact that the YSA did not seem to fit the hippie and drug subcultures. . . . available to those who are thinking new magazine will provide a forum for the stereotypes of how revolutionists "Ultimately, the YSA believes, there about joining the YSA new forces in the ranks of revolutionary are supposed to look and act. "Larry must be a worldwide socialist revolu­ Further, The Organizer will provide journalism and help carry the program Seigle," the Minneapolis Tribune said tion. It sees a massive general strike a regular forum for the exchange of and theory of Marxism to radicalizing December 14, "looks the way the Es- as a prelude to the revolution, and ideas and experiences of locals and young people. Page 12 THE MILITANT Friday, Jan. 16, 1970

Australian antiwar fighters hear Student Mobe leader

Sydney Demonstrations were also held in Some 3,000 persons took part De­ other cities around Australia the same cember 15 in the most militant street weekend. There were protests in Can­ demonstration ever held here to pro­ berra, Melbourne, :'-Jewcastle, and test the war in Vietnam. The action Manly, a suburb of Sydney. In Can­ was called in solidarity with an ap­ berra, eight persons were arrested, one peal of the U.S. Student Mobilization of them for climbing the Christmas tree Committee for international protests in the prime minister's garden and from October 15 to December 15. The affixing a large star reading "Get Out main slogan of the action was "With­ of Vietnam Now!" draw All Troops from Vietnam Now!" The Sydney demonstration was or­ (There are 8,000 Australian troops ganized by the Vietnam Mobilization in Vietnam.) Committee, a coalition of young radi­ The rally was enthusiastic and mili­ cal groups spearheaded by Resistance tant. One of the main speakers was (a militant, left-wing youth organiza­ Allen Myers, a former GI now on the tion), the Vietnam Action Campaign, staff of the Student Mobilization Com­ High School Students Against the War mittee in New York. He is editor of in Vietnam, Students for a Democratic the G/ Press Service, a biweekly news Society, and the Labor clubs at Syd­ service for the more than fifty G I an­ ney and New South Wales universi­ tiwar newspapers that have sprung ties. The action was successful in spite up inside the U.S. army around the of the virtual abstention of part of world. Myers twice successfully fought the more conservative section of the courts-martial for his antiwar activity peace movement and a significant sec­ PRONOUNCED SPLIT. Bernadine Dohrn announces split with in the army. tion of the Communist party of Aus­ Progressive Labor at June 1969 SDS convention. Anti-PL group The demonstrators assembled in tralia. then split into Weathermen and RYM. She became a principal lead­ Chifley Square, in front of the Com­ Both sections of the movement, the er of Weathermen. monwealth Centre, headquarters of the younger antiwar activists and the federal government's Department of older peace movement, have now Labor and National Service (the draft called for mass actions in April or agency). May. The Weathermen: violence Police refused to issue a permit to march in the streets, but the protesters, through force of numbers, spilled out for the sake of violence onto the roadway shortly after leav­ ing Chifley Square. (When several hundred SDS Weather­ crazy motherfuckers and scaring the Large squads of cops made repeat­ men tried to take on the Chicago po­ shit out of honky America." ed attacks on the marchers as they lice force last October it was clear that A 20-foot poster adorned anotherwall headed up the narrow canyon of Pitt they had extended SDS's ultraleftism of the ballroom. It was covered with Street, past the U.S. consulate, toward to the point of near lunacy. Now drawings of bullets, each with a name. the town hall. But the police were un­ the national convention of the Weather­ Along with the understandable targets able to disperse the demonstration or men, held in Flint Dec. 27-30, indicates like Chicago's Mayor Daley, the Weath­ make it keep to the sidewalks. the process of degeneration has gone ermen deemed as legitimate enemies to even further. be offed, among others, the Guardian At the corner of Pitt Street and Mar­ (The following are excerpts from a [the radical newsweekly which has crit­ tin Place, the city's "business heart," Liberation News Service report on the icized the Weathermen] and Sharon the police used vans and buses to gathering. Space limitations make it Tate. barricade the road. The cops sought necessary to present it in this abbre­ "Honkies are going to be afraid of to prevent the marchers from outflank­ viated form.) us," Dohrn insisted. She went on to tell ing the roadblock. After a sharp clash * * * the war council about Charlie Manson, in which a dozen persons were ar­ Weathermen now talk less about a the accused leader of the "Tate Eight," rested, the police line broke. A few "strategy to win," more about their his­ who allegedly murdered the movie star hundred demonstrators, who were un­ toric role as catalyst. ... and eight others. . . able to get through the break, quickly A new Weatherman catchword was Weathermen, the Bureau says, digs circled the block and rejoined the main Photo by Shannon "barbarism." The Weathermen see them­ Manson. :-Jot only for his understand­ contingent. Allen Myers selves as playing a role similar to that ing of white America- the killer pur­ of the barbarian tribes, such as the portedly wrote PIG on the wall in blood Vandals and the Visigoths, who invaded after the murder- but also because he's and destroyed the decadent, corrupt a "bad motherfucker." Rome ... "Dig it, first they killed those pigs, U.S. district court rules against Bernadine Dohrn, former inter-orga­ then they ate dinner in the same room nizational secretary of SDS for 1968- with them, then they even shoved a fork 69, gave the opening speech ... She into a victim's stomach! Wild!" said began by admitting that a lot of Weath­ Bernadine... Ft. Jackson Gls; appeal is slated erman's actions have been motivated The "crazy, violent motherfucker" by a "white guilt trip." theme was picked up in a long ad­ "But we fucked up a lot anyway. dress ... by Weather Bureau member A federal district court has denied of the G Is by attorneys Leonard Boudin We didn't fight around Bobby Seale John "J.J." .Jacobs, who laid out the G Is the constitutional right of freedom of New York, David Rein of Wash­ when he was shackled at the Conspir­ "White Devil" theory of all world his­ of assembly in a ruling on a civil­ ington, D. C., Howard Moore of At­ acy trial. We should have torn the court­ tory... liberties suit arising out of the Fort Jack­ lanta, and Thomas Broadwater of Co­ room apart. We didn't smash them "We're against everything that's 'good son Eight case. But the decision opens lumbia, S. C. when Mobe peace creeps hissed David and decent,"' J. J. declared. This notion, the path for further appeals in higher Judge Russell ruled against the G Is Hilliard on Moratorium Day in San coupled with the "White Devil" theory, courts. on the grounds that "... the denial Francisco. We didn't burn Chicago formed the basis of what they call These details were contained in a Dec. of the right for open, public meetings down when Fred was killed." "Serve the People Shit." 25 press release issued by the GI Civil at advertised meetings on post for the Dohrn characterized violent, militant Liberties Defense Committee in New discussion of the propriety of the po­ response in the streets as "armed strug­ Works by Ernest Mandel York: litical decision to participate in the Viet­ gle against imperialism." "Since Oct. 11 Marxist Theory of the State 50c Dec. 22, Chief .Judge Donald Russell nam War was justified 'by reason of [the last day of the national SDS win­ Marxist Economic Theory 2 Vol. cl. $15.00 dow-breaking action] we've been wimpy of the U. S. District Court i~ South the peculiar circumstances of the mili­ 50 Years of World Revolution: on armed struggle... We're about be­ Carolina, denied that soldiers at Ft. tary' and represented no infringement An International Symposium cl. $7.95 ing a fighting force alongside the Jackson have the right to hold an open of the constitutional rights of the plain­ paper $2.45 Blacks, but a lot of us are still honkies meeting on post to discuss the war and tiffs ..." Key Problems of the Transition and we're still scared of fighting. We related issues. But the judgment grants the juris­ from Capitalism to Socialism have to get into armed struggle." His decision was in response to a (with George Novack) 75c diction of the federal conrt to intervene Part of armed struggle as Dohrn and suit which grew out of the harassment in cases involving constitutional rights others laid it down is terrorism. Po­ On the Revolutionary Potential and imprisonment of eight leaders of in the military and this was a defeat litical assassination - openly joked of the Working Class (with Gis United Against the War in Viet­ for Army lawyers. They had tried to about by some Weathermen- and lit­ George Novack) 65c nam at the South Carolina base last keep the case in military courts and erally any kind of violence that is con­ The Revolutionary Student spring. The day following an informal also argued that since the Ft. .Jackson sidered antisocial were put forward as Movement: Theory and meeting at which many Gis spoke out Eight were no longer in the Army the legitimate forms of armed struggle. Practice 65c against the war, eight leaders were ar­ case was moot. "We were in an airplane," Dohrn re­ Revolutionary Strategy in the rested; three of them served 61 day~:J The G I Civil Liberties Defense Com­ lated, "and we went up and down the Imperialist Countries 35c imprisonment in the base stockade. mittee has announced plans to continue aisle 'borrowing' food from people's They were released when their case re­ the suit. The address of GICLDC is: plates. They didn't know we were Pathfinder Press ceived nationwide attention. Box 355, Old Chelsea Station, New Weathermen; they just knew we were (formerly Merit Publishers) The present suit was filed in behalf York, N.Y. 10011,212-243-4775. crazy. That's what we're about, being 873 Broadway, NYC 1 0003 Friday, Jan. 16, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 13

.Japanese government technological in­ formation relevant to SEFOR, a fast­ I breeding nuclear power reactor, devel­ Right-wing thugs COMMAND! oped by G E with L'. S. government TAte£ ITOR funds. This can become one link in the L£AVE IT! chain leading to the development of .Japan as a nuclear power. vandalize paper e GE still has holdings in West Ger­ many, and recently increased its share of the AEG-Telefunken electrical trust in San Diego there. e In France it is Bull-General Electric. By BERNIE SE~TER e General Electric Information Sys­ tems Italia is a wholly owned GE oper­ SAN DIEGO- On Dec. 25, the San ation in Italy. Diego Street Journal, (SDSJ). formerly This brief listing, far from complete, the Free Press, suffered over $4,000 shows some of GE's international con­ damage to their type-setting and office nections and touches upon the deep in­ equipment due to vandalism by right­ volvement of this giant corporation in wing thugs. the power politics of this country and This latest attack is part of a pattern the world. It is, therefore, ironical that of threats, harassment and attacks GE's labor relations experts should try aimed at the left in San Diego. As re­ to stampede GE strikers in Utica back ported in the Dec. 5 Militant, the local into the plant by pretending that .Japan­ SM C has been subjected to phone ha­ ese electrical workers have hatched a rassment and threats. Minutemen stick­ cleverly diabolical scheme to steal jobs ers with gunsight symbols have ap­ away from workers in this country. peared and a sulfuric acid bomb was All the jobs being stolen from workers thrown doing $500 worth of damage here are stolen by GE and farmed out to the SMC chairman's car. to its foreign subsidaries because in this The staff of the Street Journal has had way it increases its profits. If G E work­ similar threats on their lives, and a ers in Utica would leave their unions month ago 2,500 papers were stolen and ask GE to please pay them lower from the Journal's office. wages than are paid the .Japanese work­ The present rash of attacks against ers, then GE might consider resumption the San Diego Street Journal began of radio manufacturing in this country shortly after the first appearance of a Whatever help the GE strikers receive fine expose series on .James S. Copley from any source is badly needed and and C. Arnholt Smith. will surely be welcomed. The .Japanese electrical workers and the 147,000 GE Copley owns and controls the Copley strikers here have a common enemy, Press and other affiliated press services. GE. So it is natural and proper that He owns a major portion of UPI and they would try to he1p each other. enjoys a monopoly in 26 of the 28 cities The "yellow peril" scare story about he publishes in, including San Diego. UENews Utica appeared after the collapse of a C. Arnholt Smith is director of Ryan more elaborate propaganda campaign Aeronautical, a big war contractor, part to get the GE strikers back to work dur­ ing the Christmas holidays. Union ne­ GE revives gotiators obtained a confidential GE memo revealing the company plans which consisted of letters and telephone calls to strikers homes- plus radio and 'Yell ow Peril' newspaper advertisements- in an all­ out effort to convince them to return to By FRANK LOVELL in .Japan. G E owns 10. 64 percent of work before Christmas. The plan was General Electric rounded out its back­ Toshiba (Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co.) for each striker to get at least nine let­ to-work appeal to strikers at year's end which has sales of nearly $2-billion ters besides phone calls from foremen with a play upon race prejudice and annually and is expanding rapidly. and local plant managers. patriotism, thus adding the oldest of .John Shambo, chief negotiator for the eGE reports in "The Utica Story" strikebreaking tricks to the long list strikers, declared that the campaign was that radios may cease to be manu­ already tried. "doomed to failure. It is another exam­ factured in this country. "In 1966 Gen­ On Dec. 30, a full-page ad in the ple," he said "of this arrogant compa­ eral Electric had 4,877 employees mak­ ny's self-delusion-as far from reality New York Times and other major ing radios in Utica. In August 1969, as when GE's top management told dailies carried what is called "The Utica that number had dropped to 2,505 and You have been lower-echelon officials that the strike Story" wherein the complaint was made we were the last major company mak­ would collapse in the third week." that the 13-union coalition refuses to ing radios in this country." The fact visited by bargain on company terms. None will that GE was still making radios in its GE's strike strategy is to starve the comply with wages and conditions dic­ Utica, N.Y., plant had nothing to do strikers back to their jobs. But as the strike entered its 11th week, there are your local tated by GE. So the company speaks with tender concern for the workers by more GE workers on strike than the directly to its former employees. G E management as is here implied, nor does the present strike have anything to first week. MINUTEMAN In this year-end appeal, the strikers Meanwhile the company even tries are asked to forsake their unions and do with GE plans for radio production. Long ago, as revealed by its own state­ to do its scab-herding on the cheap. crawl back to the old conditions of Strikers at the GE Hudson Falls-Fort work after being out for ten weeks. ment, GE began shifting this operation owner of the San Diego Padres, and is to its Japanese plants. Edwards plant, across the Hudson Riv­ In purporting to tell how the machin­ er from Glens Falls, N.Y., learned that a board member and president of West­ gate-California Corp. and U.S. Na­ ists' union allegedly tyranized work­ e GE deals mostly in heavy equip­ the company was offering big $10 re­ ers at the Utica plant, GE taunts the ment- power plants, dynamos, jet en­ wards to office employees who would tional Bank. The San Diego Street Journal has strikers with the following twisted and gines, nuclear power reactors. Con sum­ recruit strikebreakers for the production suffered bullet holes through their win­ loaded observation (just something to er items are a small part of G E sales. lines. The facts spread quickly and GE dows, arrest of staff members on con­ think about): "Funds recently pledged fn November 1969, GE sold to the retreated. trived charges, threats on the life of by Japanese labor unions to keep the their landlord which has lead to their General Electric strike going must have eviction, as well as two previous inci­ seemed particularly ironic to Utica em­ 2,000 in Portland march dents of breaking and entering and ployees. Japanese workers can only vandalism at their offices. gain from a prolonged strike, or a Conspiracy? super-inflationary settlement which demand end to Viet War The Street Journal has reported that pushes U.S. wage rates even further according to a reliable source with close out of line." By HEfL\lAN PORTER Speakers in the rally at the South connections in the "Smith-Copley circle" There are some known facts about PORTLA~D, Ore.- \lore than 2,000 Park Blocks were selected to represent a telephone conversation was held be­ GE's foreign investments and its finan­ antiwar demonstrators marched the broad range of participants in the tween Copley and Smith in which they cial ties with manufacturers of electrical through downtown Portland during the antiwar movement. They included: agreed to "crush" the Free Press/ Street equipment in other countries, and the noon hour the day before Christmas. David Linn, chairman of the High Journal. huge amounts of money stockholders The theme of the march and rally that School \loratorium Committee; Robert So far no libel action has been taken rake out of this far-flung empire. followed, "Bring All Our \len Home Reynolds, chairman of the Oregon against the Street Journal regarding this eGE stockholders received $375-mil­ from Vietnam Now," was displayed on Council for New !'')litics; Mike \lcCus­ reported conversation. lion in 1968. In the first nine months many banners and hundreds of signs. ker, a Vietnam veteran; Tonie Porter, Although the police have maintained of 1969 they took another $250-million. The march was the third successive of the Young Socialist Alliance; Kent constant surveilance of the SDSJ offices, e Fred .J. Borch, chairman of G E, re­ monthly mass demonstration through Ford, captain ot the Portland Black photographing all those seen entering, ported on Dec. 10, 1969, "The installed downtown called by the Oregon \'iet­ Panther Party; Nick Braun, of the they were missing on the three nights value of GE information systems equip­ nam Moratorium Committee. The \lor­ Workers Revolutionary \lovement; and in which the incidents of vandalism ment has been increasing very rapidly occurred. to the point where it now totals some atorium Committee decided to call the Father Dubey representing the clergy. $1.3-billion on a worldwide basis." march despite the likelihood of inclem­ .Jim Garner, a clergyman associated Many concerned people have made e.J. Stanford Smith, director of GE ent weather and the fact that the colleges with Portland State University, chaired the move to form a broad united front international operations, reported for­ would not be in session. The previous the rally. defense committee. We have as yet met eign sales in 1969 at nearly $2-billion. marches had been so successful (about One of the more interesting talks at with little help from the established news Only about $500-million of this was 10,000 participants in each) that it was the rally was given by McCusker who media, particularly that part which is exported from the U.S., all the rest felt an adequate, though much smaller, had been a photographer and reporter owned and controlled by Copley. How­ being manufactured in plants abroad demonstration could be mounted at this with the \larines in Vietnam. He told of ever we are determined to defend our representing GE's foreign investments. time traditionally given to "peace" mes­ a number of atrocities he had witnessed constitutional rights and to repel these eSome of GE's biggest holdings are sages. in Vietnam. sinister attacks. Page 14 THE MILITANT Friday,Jan.16, 1970

Life in an auto plant

At contract time workers face bosses, bureaucrats

By TOM CAGLE two years ago when they rejected the ( This is one of several articles on UAW national agreement by a two-to­ lzfe in an auto plant. The author is a one vote. Of the seven "rebel" GM locals veteran union activist who has worked throughout the country (out of 300) our for many years at the General Motors local racked up the largest "no" vote, on plant in Fremont, Calif) a percentage basis. The workers showed a willingness to take on both GM and When it appeared that a Black Pan­ the UAW International, if need be, to ther caucus at the Fremont GM plant maintain and advance our working might influence UAW membership deci­ conditions and living standard. sions, General Motors moved swiftly In the last plant election, our mem­ against the caucus. The company's ac­ bership- angered and disappointed­ tions were described in a statement by dumped (defeated) the majority of the the central committee of the Black Pan­ shop committee and top local officers ther caucus, Local 1364. It said: in an effort to improve the fighting "On Thursday, Oct. 23, the BPC was quality of our local leadership. distributing leaflets concerning the set­ Sober approach tlement they (GM) are trying to shove Workers, of objective economic ne­ on us. cessity, tend to be realistic. They value "GM sent one of their company pigs the union and they try to improve it by the name of Hughes #38 to investi­ by replacing and renewing local union CELEBRANTS. UAW President Walter Reuther and machine mem­ gate the leaflets. When pig Hughes re­ leadership. bers celebrate reelection at union convention. Principal function of ported to the lion's den (Borden's office) There are other ways they show their .. team" is to ram unsatisfactory settlements down throats of union he was instructed to return for rein­ sober, realistic judgment. If striking for ranks. forcements. an additional week will not produce any "Pig Hughes came back with another tangible results, they will settle for the ever had, and a provocative manage­ There are some general conclusions labor relations member, camera in best offer now. This "common sense" ment seems only too anxious to take have come to from these, and other, hand. They took pictures of the union will always prevail when workers dis­ us on in a strike." He added that this experiences in the auto plants. In an­ brothers handing out leaflets OFF OF cuss the advantages of strike action, or settlement "may be" the best that our other article I want to write about what COMPANY PROPERTY. When they fin­ what tactic is best, or if a certain strat­ committee can come up with, "but it does I think ought to be done. ished this, another labor rep. (pig in egy will produce maximum results. not begin to fill our needs or solve our clean white shirt) by the name of John Only out of desperation or anger will problems." His opinion was that "it only Myers asked for a copy of the leaflet. they act against great odds, or take "Ten minutes later GM called the unnecessary risks, or engage in what shows up the inadequacy of the union's Fremont police dept. and instructed appears to be "irrational action." When collective bargaining procedure, when 'Riot conspiracy' them to arrest the leader of the BPC, it comes to deciding what must be done management is waging open class war­ Kenny Horston, at any cost. the "level heads" always win out. fare against us in the form of speedup "The Fremont polk-e are in fact tools This is what happened at the contract and discipline." He then called on the charges against of racist and fascist GM. ratification meeting that Sunday as ar­ membership to organize their own ac­ "GM wants a 'yes' vote Sunday on guments were presented by the chair­ tion within the plant in the form of slow­ Austin students the settlement. They do not want oppo­ man of the shop committee and by the down and mass organized resistance. sition from anybody. International negotiator. They ex­ It should have surprised no one when the International negotiator agreed, en­ "We must stand together against GM. plained that in their opinion the offer AUSTIN, Texas- Twenty-two young They are animals, insane madmen, ex­ of management was the best we could dorsing the "job action" approach. He people who were present at a distur­ ploiters of people, anti-union. We must possibly get without a lengthy strike. seized the opportunity to take some heat bance on the University of Texas cam­ off himself. beware the beasts are upon us. If we This report was greeted with boos pus have been charged with rioting and Another member got the mike to say vote 'yes,' GM will eat us alive." and catcalls. Then the floor-mike was property damage, according to the that this was probably the best settle­ Despite acts of intimidation such as open for questions and discussions. Southern Conference Educational Fund. ment our committee could come up with this, the workers at GM Fremont are One worker, seizing the mike, stated The charges-which are based on without striking. He also said he was not afraid of a fight. They proved this that "this is the worst speedup we have the idea that anyone present at the time opposed to a strike against speedup be­ of the disturbance was a conspirator cause management has the power to in it-carry prison terms of two to regulate line speed and take away our 20 years. "victory" the day after we settle. He The incident occurred in the Chuck rsterile Cuckoo': reverse charged that our union uses "obsolete Wagon-a cafe in thestudent-subsidized tools," and suggested that we "find more Union Building. It has been a haven effective means to oppose the abusive for activists from the community as power of GM." well as the university. image still comes out same In support of his general attitude Police were harassed there in early about the possible success of a strike, November, when they came in to take this speaker cited a recent four-week away an 11-year-old runaway. The po­ Everyone interested in women's libera­ to relate to outside of his relationship strike at the Van Nuys, Calif., plant lice drew guns to silence the crowd; their tion should see the movie, "The Sterile with the girl. He has friends with whom where a good settlement was won, forc­ car tires were slashed; four nonstudents Cuckoo." On the surface, the plot is of he enjoys spending time, he is worried ing the company to put additional man­ were arrested; and the student-controlled the old-fashioned boy-meets-girl variety about his college grades, he is con­ power on the line. Management can­ Union board closed the Chuck Wagon with a titillating twist: in this case it is cerned with his future career. Love and celed out this "victory" the week after to people not connected with the Uni­ the girl who acts the typically aggres­ sex are an enjoyable part of his life the strikers returned to work. "They versity. sive masculine role by initiating a but not the totality of his existence and just cranked up the line speed." On Nov. 11, a large group of stu­ friendly relationship and then pushing certainly not the most vital expression This generally distrustful and uncer­ dents and nonstudents occupied the the boy into dating and sexual involv­ of his selfhood. He is a true male after tain approach prevailed and the settle­ Chuck Wagon to protest the ruling. At ment; the boy plays the traditionally all as society defines that sex role. ment was ratified, without enthusiasm. 4:15, they were told they would be ar­ passive female role throughout the first His basically masculine nature is "So u came to pass. . . " rested if they did not leave. Most people part of the movie, at first accepting made even more obvious by contrast­ Management lost no time in hedging moved toward the exits, but before they and then responding to the girl's ad­ ing him with his roommate, a he-man on their agreement. One example ofhow could get out about 50 riot-equipped vances, finally falling in love with her. type who boasts continuously about they did this occurred on our motor police moved in. They sprayed mace his sexual conquests. In a moment of line. Here 15 grievances of speedup and into the crowd. In the rush to leave, But then the double-twist comes in. candor, the roommate reveals that he overwork had been filed. All these were several windows were broken, tables Despite the seemingly masculine behav­ is really a virgin and all his manly settled in exchange for one additional ior of the girl, she is totally dependent talk is false. So, there is the very mas­ job, a new operation on the line. But were overturned, and crockery was broken. Eight people were arrested that upon males. The worst tragedy of her culine-looking and sounding room­ management was not satisfied with this. life to date was that her father failed rate-who is really a failure in living They brought new work from the chas­ day. to love her sufficiently. Now that she up to society's expectations of male sis line to the motor line, leaving us with Three weeks later, the grand jury has formed this attachment with the behavior. And there is the hero-on only an additional half an operation to issued sealed indictments for riot and young hero, her whole life, her every the surface not very masculine but un­ take the pressure off 15 overworked destruction of property against 22 peo­ thought is centered on their moments dermeath it all, a real man. men. ple. They gathered their information together. She lives only with him and I think the makers of "The Sterile Then to make matters worse, manage­ from police and by looking at photo­ through him. It is when she thinks she Cuckoo" only wanted to make a poi­ ment eliminated one repairman. This graphs taken at the scene. Apparently is pregnant that she is at last able gnant film about first love and growing left us with minus one-half operation. they believe that anyone identified as to face the world with the greatest de­ up and the joys and miseries thereof­ In other words, we ended up doing being at the Chuck Wagon when the gree of self-confidence. You see, in spite and they have succeeded in creating more work with fewer men. (Bunko incident occurred is liable for prosecu­ of her seemingly masculine pursuit of a sensitive portrayal of young men artists please take note: if GM didn't tion under Texas riot laws. the hero, she is caught in the tradition­ and women in today's America. They invent the old shell game, they discov­ Bond has been set at $2,500 each. al sex role assigned to her by society have, also, succeeded in presenting the ered a lot of new ways to operate it.) Eighteen people have been arrested so and fully accepted by her as part of negative aspects of sex roles as defined And while all this goes on, they crank far, and the FBI has charged two peo­ her womanly nature. by our society. up the line enough to steal an extra ple with unlawful flight to avoid pros­ The boy, however, has a whole world -EVELYN SELL job or two per hour out of our labor. ecution. Friday, Jan. 16, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 15

Post-Xmas note - Neiman-Marcus and students who get support from their had the perfect symbolic American gift parents." for that successful relative or friend­ a $400 antique candy machine filled Oops, wrong image-Vatican officials IN DEFENSE OF MARXISM By Leon with antacid pills. were chagrined when a donated paint­ Trotsky. Pathfinder Press (formerly ing on their press office wall which Merit Publishers). 211 pages. $2.45 pa­ Non-cause-and-effect dep 't - A Dec. seemed to be a tunic-garbed umbrella­ perback. 31 New York Times editorial notes bearing priest turned out to be a copy A common mistake made by both that Dr. Mina S. Rees is now the first of a painting of Mao Tsetung. friends and enemies of the Soviet Union woman president of the American Asso­ is to look upon it as a single, undiffer­ ciation for the Advancement of Science Not so wrong- Maybe those Vatican entiated phenomenon. In reality, the and somewhat sourly adds: "The mod­ officials weren't too far off, religion­ first workers' state is a complex of var­ ern breed of women militants will no wise, about that Mao painting. A de­ ious elements, with different economic, doubt take it for granted that male scription of the original in Peking Re­ political and other interests. chauvinism was primarily responsible view says it "vividly portrays the lofty, No one has more throughly and ac­ for denying members of their sex ear­ great image of Chairman Mao. His curately analyzed Soviet society than lier occupancy of the AAAS presidency." eyes, encompassing the turbulent storms Leon Trotsky, and In Defonse of Marx­ Ever tolerant, the Times adds: "There of the era, are gazing ahead over the ism is a collection of his writings on is probably some truth to that view." road of advance for the revolution... the question. The occasion was the ap­ But, it explains, "a more fundamental The worn umbrella symbolizes Chair­ pearance of differences regarding the reason is simply the relative paucity man Mao's working style of shirking Soviet Union which arose in the Social­ of women scientists in this country." no hardships for the revolution and ist Workers And clearly there couldn't be the faint­ Party in the fall of 1939 at travelling from place to place in all the start of the Second World War. est relation between that paucity and kinds of weather... Against a back­ discrimination against women. These differences led to a protracted ground of seething unrest and impend­ factional struggle in which virtually ev­ Stalin ing storm, the brilliant image of our erything about the Soviet Union and Progress report- The New Jersey Su­ great leader in his youth appears ma­ the attitude of revolutionaries toward it to build a socialist society in a single preme Court ruled that the city of jestically. . ." were debated. Trotsky's contributions country? Bayonne can no longer prohibit serv­ These are the questions dealt with by ing liquor to women seated at a bar. Second worst- The courts have taken to the debate, in the form of articles and Trotsky. A mere listing of them indi­ The decision, which seems to leave moot a dim view of Pall Mall Golds and Silva letters, comprise the content of this vol­ whether or not they can be served stand­ Thin advertising which proclaims them ume. cates the fundamental importance ofthis ing at or leaning on the bar, said that "lower in tar than the best selling filter Trotsky's opponents were members of matter. The very fact that the first suc­ the presence of women in saloons can king." This may be, but 18 other brands his own organization, the Fourth Inter­ cessful workers' revolution was made no longer be considered "a threat to are lower in tar than Silva Kings and national. A number of them had been in Russia and the first workers' state the health, safety and welfare of the 37 are lower than Pall Mall Golds. associates for years. These were polit­ established there in 1917, under the public." ically educated people who knew, or leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, im­ Wants to police advertising- Accord­ more accurately had known, a good poses upon all modern-day revolution­ Can't win-A young Ohio entrepre­ ing to the Wall Street Journal, a Madi­ deal about the Soviet Union and the aries the duty to study this question and neur who hires hippies for his elec­ son Avenue executive has proposed an Stalinist bureaucracy. They raised ev­ understand it completely. tronics company finds, according to annual "pig" award to the company ery conceivable objection to the position The opposition that arose in the So­ the New York Times, "that they would producing the most distasteful ad. held by Trotsky and the majority of cialist Workers Party, and later split work for practically nothing just to the Fourth International. In taking up from it, tried to overthrow all the basic White House gift item?- A former earn a. decent living (??] but he also their arguments, the author throws light principles of Marxism that had guided British Air Force pilot is offering to sell found they were methodical and clean upon some difficult questions, questions the work of the fourth International and took pride in their work." Mean­ a souvenir he liberated in Germany that are still debated within the radical and the Third International before its while, the UPI reported Dec. 17: "The at the close of World War II-a ma­ degeneration under Stalin's leadership. House Agricultural Committee voted hogany toilet seat used personally by movement to this day. 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Points the way Student Mobe sets national Chomsky urges conference mass actions The Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam has called a national against war student antiwar conference to be held Feb. 14 and 15 at By ROBERT LANGSTON Case-Western Reserve Univer­ Last Nov. 15, a million Americans sity in Cleveland. Hundreds went into the streets of Washington and of young people, especially San Francisco to protest the U. S. im­ high school and college stu­ perialist genocide in Vietnam. Just a dents and G Is, are expected to month later, the steering committee of attend. the New Mobilization Committee to End The SMC national office has the War in Vietnam- the national coali­ reported that the topics to be tion under whose auspices these actions discussed include the organi­ were organized-met in Cleveland. This zation of mass antiwar demon­ meeting rejected the strategy of building strations in the spring, devel­ yet bigger and more militant mass dem­ oping campus struggles onstrations around the principled, anti­ against university complicity imperialist demand, "Bring the troops home now." It adopted, instead, a pro­ in the war, organizing high gram that would, at a time of rapid school students, cooperation growth of popular antiwar sentiment, with the G I antiwar movement, dissolve the movement into an inchoate developing the relationship of mass of small, uncoordinated and un­ the student antiwar movement related actions around a multitude of to the rising struggles of work­ issues. (See The Militant, Dec. 26, 1969.) ers for higher wages to com­ Permeating much of the argument pensate for the war-caused in­ that seeks to justify this kind of retreat flation, and resisting recent from the struggle against the Vietnam government attacks on sections war are two closely related, usually un­ spoken, assumptions. One is that the of the movement U. S. has been militarily defeated by the To register in advance for forces of the National Liberation Front the conference or to receive in­ and of the Democratic Republic of Viet­ formation on arrangements, nam. The other is that the U.S. gov­ agenda, housing and transpor­ ernment has, in any case, "decided" to tation, write to Student Mobi­ "phase out" the war. lization Committee, 1029 Ver­ In an excellent article, "After Pink­ mont Ave. NW, Suite 907, ville," in the Jan. 1 New York Review Washington, D. C. 20005, or of Books, Prof. N oam Chomsky of call (202) 737-0072. MIT convincingly refutes both of these assumptions. And from his analysis, he draws the compelling political con­ clusion: militant mass action against Feb. 2 trial date the war must continue if the Vietnamese nation is to survive. for Panther 21 He stresses the central strategic im­ portance of control of Vietnam to the people with an ever smaller direct com­ asserts that "a merely liberal President By ELIZABETH BARNES U.S. imperialist goal of a "new Pacific bat commitment of men. ... could stop the war," but as there NEW YORK- On Feb. 2 the Pan­ age." "To perpetuate this new order," Chomsky writes, "Our science may yet is no possibility of doing anything ther 21 will be going to trial here, ten Chomsky notes, "we need military bases succeed in bringing to reality the fears along this line until 1972, he suggests months after they were arrested. The such as that at Cam Ranh Bay, which of Bernard Fall-no alarmist, and fun­ three "actions or approaches" that- note final pretrial hearings were held Dec. can play the role of the Canal Zone damentally in favor of the war during well-"would need minimal organiza­ 18 as hundreds of demonstrators pick­ in the Western Hemisphere. There we its early years-who wrote in one of tion." The most extraordinary of these eted outside the court building in soli­ can base our own forces and train his last essays that 'Vietnam as a cul­ proposals is presented under the rubric, darity with the Panthers. At a news those of our loyal dependencies." tural and historic entity is threatened "The economy": "If we were urging and conference in the courthouse pressroom, Further, Chomsky points out, central with extinction as the country literally assisting the organization of workplace actress Ruby Dee spoke out against to U.S. military strategy in Vietnam dies under the blows of the largest mil­ peace committees, by May or June we the victimization of the Panthers, calling is the attempt to utterly destroy the so­ itary machine ever unleashed on an could think seriously about a massive it "outrageous." cial fabric of Vietnamese life. For only area of this size.'" The final defeat of one or two day strike. We could start The frame-up charges againstthe Pan­ in this way is there some chance to U.S, imperialism in Vietnam, in short, this by calling for teach-ins in every ther 21 include conspiracy, attempted undermine the rural popular base of must be a political defeat inflicted within workplace in the country on Jan. 20 ..." murder, arson, attempted arson and support for the NLF. To defeat a peo­ the United States itself. But what really excites Waskow's im­ about 20 weapons-possession charges. ple's war, the people must be destroyed. Contrary to those "radicals" now en­ agination is contained in the last para­ The 16 Panthers in custody are scat­ Thus far, this effort has notsucceeded. gaged in a race away from mass mobi­ graph of his memo. The Mobe "should tered in seven different jails, each in The almost incredible morale of the lization, Chomsky draws the necessary give a Left direction to the country" by a solitary cell and under 24-hours-a­ Vietnamese people and ofthe NLF sol­ conclusion from this insight: "The large attacking the "Death Machine." day, lights-on surveillance. diers has been able to withstand the upsurge of antiwar sentiment can be an Lee Berry, a Panther defendant who systematic destruction of the country. effective device for changing national Now the Death Machine has two "as­ has suffered serious epileptic seizures But it would be foolish to fall into any policy if it is sustained in continuing pects." One is "the hunger and malnutri­ during his imprisonment, has been held mystique of people's war. The ever mass actions across the country. Other­ tion, bad medical care, rat-infested in maximum security since his arrest. growing technological sophistication of wise the administration can ride out the housing, etc., which afflict the under­ He was transfered to Bellevue Hospital U.S. weapons and information systems storm and continue as before to sys­ class"; the other is "pollution, dangerous prison ward only after his condition makes it possible to inflict ever more tematically demolish the society of autos and other machinery, and abom­ became so bad that he went into a diabolical wounds on the land and its South Vietnam and Laos." inable working conditions which afflict coma. The government of the DRV concurs middle-class and workingclass Amer­ A demonstration was held outside in regarding mass demonstrations in icans as well as the poor." To get at Bellevue Jan. 3 demanding that Berry, the United States as vitally important the double-decker Death Machine, Was­ who is in serious condition, be trans­ to the struggle against U. S. imperial­ k ow suggests a "two-pronged major ac­ fered out of the prison ward to a ward ism. The Nov. 24, 1969, Vietnam Cou­ tion in April," one prong to poke each where he can get adequate medical at­ ' .. ';_. ·;: ·'' :. -~ ·:~. ;~ ·:~. ":\. rier, the DRV's English-language infor­ deck. tention. c•if•r A Christmas vigil which lasted from mation weekly, headlined its news story Of course, the evils inflicted on human LOS ANGELES on the Nov. 15 actions, "U.S. Mid­ Christmas Eve to New Year's day was REPORT FROM AUSTRALIA. Speaker: John Percy, beings by decaying capitalist society, November Mass Actions -A Relevant which Waskow hints at with his "Death held to support the Panther 21 and secretary of the lnt'l Marxist League; founder of Re­ Answer to Nixon Policy." And its front­ other political prisoners. Some 2,000 sisto .. ce, Australian revolutionary youth organization; Machine" metaphor, are real and ter­ page editorial on the November mobi­ rible. But such a heterogeneous coali­ people took part at one time of another. organizer or antiwar demonstrations. Fri, Jan. 16, lizations speaks of "this combination Another demonstration for the Panther 8:30 p.m. 1702 E. 4th St. Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. tion as the New Mobe would be wholly · of efforts, those of the Vietnamese and unsuited to the task of taking on the 21 will take place Jan. 10 across from • American peoples," that "will carry ever the Women's House of Detention at one MINNEAPOLIS Death Machine. On the other hand, greater weight in the evolution of o'clock. THE NEW RADICALIZATION AND THE TRADE groups like the New Mobe have shown events." that they can effectively mobilize mili­ Meanwhile, in Chicago, the Black Pan­ UNIONS. Speaker: Frank Lovell, staff writer for The ther Party has condemned the city-spon­ Militant. Sun, Jan. 18, 8:00 p.m. Skoglund Hall, 1 In contrast to the serious work of tant opposition to the imperialist war sored coroner's investigation into the Univ. Ave. NE. Ausp. Twin Cities Socialist Forum. Chomsky, one may consider the frivo­ in Vietnam. Waskow is proposing to lous nonsense solemnly purveyed by renounce this real chance to deepen the shooting of Panther leaders Fred Hamp­ • ton and Mark Clark. Asserting that NEW YORK Arthur Waskow of the Institute of Policy process of radicalization in the U.S.­ the investigation is a handpicked "tool" DEFENSE MEETING FOR THE BLACK PANTHER 21. Studies, who has emerged as a leading and to preserve the Vietnamese revolu­ Fri., Jon. 16, 8:30 p.m. 873 Broadway (nr 18th street). spokesman for the Mobe. tion and nation from destruction -for of the Daley-Hanrahan administration, Contrib. $1, h.s. students 50c. Ausp. Militant Labor In a Dec. 2 memorandum to Mobe the sake of his version of an impotent the Panthers have refused to take part Forum. ·- steering committee mem hers, Waskow "left." in the inquest.