WfJRNERS ,,IN(;O,I,, 25¢ .:~~: No. 343 X_"523 2 December 1983

• , m fl II u.s. Out of Grenada!

Central America is at the crossroads of revolution or bloody counterrevolu­ tion. There is no in-between. Reagan is getting readv to invade and evervbodv knews it. BU"t '\'icafflgl1a~~ Oteflml"i. ~"icaraguan p The peupk lost 50,000 r· , in the struggle to overthrow the bloody tyrant Somoza, and they won't submit without a fight. It is that prospect which has thus far stayed Reagan's hand. But at precisely this moment when revolu­ tionary will and internationalist solidar­ ity are in greatest need in Central America, we hear the suicidal din for "negotiated solutions." The more Rea­ gan escalates his threats, the more the petty-bourgeois nationalists try to accommodate Yankee imperialism, And every attempt to appease Reagan just makes the U.S. capitalists more bloodthirsty. It is the nationalism of the popular front which threatens to disarm the Central American masses before the con/ras and Yankee invaders. Looking for a deal with Reagan, the 1\icaraguan Sandinistas have told Salvadoran rebel leaders to get out. They have thrown out Cuban teachers and military advisers. They are trying to appease Washington with offers to the "democratic" counter·· Big Pine II "war games" prepare invasion of Nicaragua. U.S. troops wade ashore in Honduras. revolutionary opposition within-at for much of its population... For precisely the time when revolutionary suggesting the leadership of Nicaragua Eden Pastora. Nodoubt the Kremlin in Nicaragua then to forswear smuggling measures should be taken against or the EI Salvador guerrillas could sell turn is telling Castro not to upset the arms or otherwise aiding rebels in EI Reagan's confederates. While the peo­ out. Now the New York Times is writing status quo in the Caribbean and Central Salvador or Guatemala would be no ple dig trenches, the leaders are digging editorials demanding that the Sandinis­ America, lest Reagan vent his wrath concession at all." Their conclusion: tas dismantle their army and set up a against the Soviet Union. their graves. The only deal Reagan and "If the United States is to swallow its the contras want is to leave a trail of coalition with the contras in order to The nationalists and reformists, from disappointment over the betrayal of death all the way to Havana. then be "allowed to manage their own Managua to Moscow to New York City, genuine democrats in Nicaragua it can The reformists' and nationalists' talk society." have had as their major plan reliance on hardly be asked to give up the right to Reagan's rape of tiny Grenada has the liberal Democrats in the U.S, So assist democrats elsewhere. If there is to of "negotiated solutions" with the be a deal, it should be one that contains Yankees and their "democratic" contras put the Yankee imperialists on a "high." what about the liberals? The New York the Sandinistas in return for their being, can only mean defeat. As revolutionary The Sandinistas are pressuring the Times (29 November) editorialized: if not welcomed, allowed to manage communists we have clearly posed the Salvadorans to accept a "political "The Sandinista leftists are broke and their own society." choices facing the Central American solution" which would leave the masses beleaguered by rebel forces supplied by What shameless imperialist arrogance! defenseless before the death squads. the United States. In piling offer upon masses. When we called for "military promise, the Managua regi:ne seems to The "deal" is. the U.S. continues to arm victory," the reformists called for a Castro, in turn, declares that Cuba will be asking that it be allowed to survive." Salvadoran death squads while Nica­ "political solution" and chanted back not militarily aid Nicaragua if the U.S. ragua dismantles its army and disarms What should be the terms fOl capitula­ the classic popular-front slogan, "The invades and is reportedly trying to its people!! And all the imperialists. tion. asks the Times. Since "Nicaragua people united will never be defeated." broker a deal between the Sandinistas would retain an army of 25.000 and guns continued on page 5 They called us CIA agents for even and the CIA's "liberal" contra terrorist.

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~ ,I Bronx Cheer for Decal City

It's Mayor Koch's capitalist miracle York Times is embarrassed by Koch's on the Grand Concourse. In a neighbor­ decal city, as it quotes the bitter irony of hood that is part of the poorest area residents who say the city should Congressional district in the country, provide "designer clothing decals to where on countless streets the "skyline" place over the tattered apparel of consists of the shells of burned-out impoverished residents, large Mercedes­ tenements standing amid acres of Benz decals to strap to their sides and rubble, New York City is pasting up decals of strip sirloins for them to eat." large decals depicting louvered shutters, And then there's Charlotte Street, Venetian blinds, drawn shades and where Jimmy Carter stood on the rubble potted plants over the shattered win­ in 1977 and promised a housing project dows of abandoned, city-owned build­ (later canceled). In 1979 PopeJohn Paul ings. It's 1984 in 1983. "Perception is Urban renewal Wojtyla denounced consumerism and Reagan-style: reality," said the Commissioner of reminded the faithful to keep their federally Housing Preservation and Develop­ minds on "moral matters." He prayed funded fake ment. Not since Reagan turned ketchup over the rubble. Deo gratias. In 1980 windows into a vegetable have the government's candidate Ronald Reagan appeared (complete with image makers had such a field day with too, with some Republican hot air. And potted plants the lives of the ghetto poor. and louvered today there is "Charlotte Gardens," two Officials "explained" that Federal shuUers) cover heavily barred, single-family, ranch­ "deep funding" programs for housing abandoned style model houses, complete with white have been shelved and that there is no buildings picket fences, standing in the middle of in desolate money for rehabilitation. There isn't the South Bronx desolation. The homes South Bronx. even any cash to demolish these fire­ cost $53,000 in an area where average traps. Instead the government is provid­ family income is $8,448, less than half ing fake windows, part of a $300,000 the national average. Federal program to improve the images The bourgeoisie is wincing over the of rundown neighborhoods. The "new WV Photo look" is not intended for the black and exposure of the decay of the South Hispanic residents of the area, mind Bronx. But knowing that they are Three years ago we hailed NYC city paint. It was the Russian people's own you-the bankers and politicians don't powerless to stop the rot, the bosses seek councilman Gilberto Gerena-Valentin promise that their city, cradle of the give a damn what they think. to cover it up in the shabbiest of ways. for taking a delegation from the Soviet October Revolution, would rise again The posters, which even from 100 feet Mayor Koch claimed credit for the Peace Council up to Charlotte Street after victory. And it did. The South away look like absurd props from poster idea, stating that "In a neighbor­ and asking the Russians for $5 billion in Bronx however is finished under capi­ Sesame Street, are primarily for the hood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, foreign aid. In response, his seat was talism. It stands as a product ofterminal backs of buildings facing the Cross much better than a raw or festering redistricted out of existence. We also capitalist decay. The rotting ghettos of Bronx Expressway so that New England wound." So that's what the South recall that in 1942, during the darkest America are part ofthis racist, capitalist and New Jersey-bound motorists will Bronx got-a picture ofa bandage over hours of the Nazi siege of Leningrad, system. Not promises of presidents, nor get an upbeat view of"Fun City." But up a very real festering wound. Thecourt of false fronts were erected on buildings prayers of popes, nor decals of mayors close the first floors are covered with Catherine the Great, creators of the shelled by the Wehrmacht. Windows, can change this fact. It will take the graffiti and trash accumulates in front of original Potemkin village, have nothing doors and cupolas were faithfully socialist revolution to rebuild America's boarded-up doorways. Even the New on Koch's camarilla. reproduced in plywood, plaster and cities.•

isn't so neat and "surgical" as they claim: vicious, crazed, empty youth? Costrot­ bloody and deeply painful, there's ing rapists won't stop rape. Just as blacks, who are the primary Slave Law Barbarism '" plenty ofthancefor infec'1rbnor death­ and just how "careful" do you think the victims of the violence of this sick Southern white prison administration society, are also the majority of those will be with its three black "subjects"? thrown into Death Row, so too rape The "theory" is that castration cuts laws have always been used to victimize Carolina Racist Judge: off the production of male sex hor­ and terrorize blacks. Since 1939, 455 mones, supposedly blocking the "male men were put to death for rape-405 of sex drive." Judge Pyle now allows them black, and 398 convicted in the maybe "chemical castration" will be Southern states. And the cry "rape!" 30 Years or Castration okay-that is, repeatedly injecting them was always the signal in white Southern with Depo-provera, a female hormone communities to bring out the lynch Southern prisons, the defendants are In a horrifying move reminiscent of that (temporarily) does the same thing. rope. In the 1931 "Scottsboro Boys" reportedly considering the castration the worst of the old slave South, three This "treatment" with similar drugs in case, eight black youths were sentenced "option," by which they would be young black men who pled guilty to rape British prisons results in nausea and to death on the frame-up charge of have been offered a "choice" of sen­ released on five years' probation­ intense pain in the stomach, chest and raping two white girls they were travel­ tences: 30 years in prison or...surgical mutilated for life. testicles, besides causing many men to ing with, despite overwhelmingconflict­ castration! The ruling in Anderson, The hideous "choice" before the three develop huge, distended breasts that are ing testimony at the trial. Though not young men illustrates the sick, vicious South Carolina by white Circuit Court then amputated. executed, thanks only toa world protest Judge C. Victor Pyle stunned the racist violence underlying American But this cruel punishment doesn't campaign, they all spent many bitter courtroom, including even the prosecu­ bourgeois "justice." Even the Southern even "work" in terms of"curing" rape, a years in prison. tor. State Representative Theo Mitch­ slaveowners, who considered black form of violent criminal assault. Males Even outside the capitalist "criminal people subhuman chattel, eventually en, one of the defendant's lawyers, castrated after puberty are still quite .justice" system, blacks are still treated as rightly condemned the sentence as sickened of castrating men for rape as a able to have sex-withoutejaculation­ subhuman in this racist society, In the barbaric and "a badge of slavery," form of torture, retaining the death and therefore quite able to rape, or, for infamous Tuskegee"bad blood" opera­ penalty instead. Moreover, castration Nevertheless, facing 30 years in hellhole that matter, quite able to make love with tion begun in 1932 under the federal a woman. Not that the judge and prison Centers for Disease Control, 400 black system really care: the barbaric castra­ men infected with syphilis were left IPAITACIST lEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY tion penalty is intended simply as a untreated and just "'watched" for de­ vindictive form of punishment by cades to see what effects the raging Ndon8I 0ftIce C1efttand Norfolk torture, like the death penalty which continued on page 8 Box 1377. GPO Box 91954 P.O. Box 1972 everybody knows doesn't stop murder. New York. NY 10116 Cleveland. OH 44101 Main P.O. (212) 732-7860 (216) 621-5138 Norfolk. VA 23501 Rape isn't the result of "raging male hormones," as some feminists think. It's Spartacist League Forum Ann Arbor Detroit Box 32717 San Francisco essentially a violent act of sexual clo SVL Box 5712 P.O. Box 8364 Detroit. MI 48232 coercion, whose aim is to overpower, Blacks Need Power, Not Front Men (313) 961-1680 San Francisco. CA 94101 for Racist Democrats­ Ann Arbor. MI 48107 (415) 863-6963 abuse and completely degrade the Build a Workers Party! Atlanta Houston victim. Box 26474 Box 4012 Washln~ton, And this was a particularly brutal and Houston. TX 77207 D.C. Atlanta. GA 30302 P.O. Box 5073 violent case of rape. The victim, an 80­ Don't Buy Los Angeles Washington. D.C. 20013 pound black woman, 23 years old, was BerkeletOakland Box 29574 (202) 636-3537 P.O. Box 2552 Los Feliz Station trapped in a motel, repeatedly raped and Jesse Oakland. CA 94604 Los Angeles. CA 90029 (415) 835-1535 beaten for six hours, burnt with ciga­ (213) 663-1216 TROTSKYIST rettes; she lost four pints of blood and Jackson! Boston was in the hospital for five days Madison LEAGUE OF Speaker: Bernard Vance Box 840, Central Station c/o SYL, Box 2074 afterwards. It was an outrage, and a Cambridge. MA 02139 Madison, WI 53701 CANADA SL Central Committee (617) 492-3928 bloody reminder that blacks are dispro­ New York portionately the victims ofviolent crime Saturday, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m. Box 444 Toronto Hyde Park Hilton, Oxford Room Chicago in America. How can a victim get any Box 6441. Main P.O. Canal Street Station Box 7198. Station A For more information: (312) 427-0003 Chicago, IL 60680 New York. NY 10013 Toronto, Ontario M5W 1X8 real justice in this racist and exploitative (312) 427-0003 (212) 267-1025 (416) 593-4138 society, which willy-nilly continues to CHICAGO L- produce an endless supply of abused, 2 WORKERS VANGUARD Soviet Nukes Deter Im~erialist Holocaust Nuclear Soap Scares Hell Out of America While the bombs were landing on Truman A-bombed the defenseless Kansas City in ABC's nuclear soap populations of Hiroshima and Nagasa­ opera "The Day After" in TV movie­ ki. Indeed this U.S. nuclear first strike land, in the real world NATO's Pershing was intended primarily to intimidate the United States-even in the extremely as a propaganda boost for the Demo­ 2 and cruise nuclear missiles were Soviet Union. Japan had already been sanitized and mild version presented by cratic Party liberals in the next elec­ already being unloaded at sites in defeated and was suing for surrender. ABC. The American people have not tions. "White House to Counterattack Britain and West Germany. These so­ If the USSR had not developed its suffered a war on their soil in more than Movie" was the Washington Post's called "intermediate range" missiles own powerful nuclear arsenal, the a century, not since the Civil War. One headline on the initial response by the take only six to eight minutes to hit population of the Soviet Union and of the reasons that the Reaganites and Reaganites. While those crewcut kids in targets in the Soviet Union, creating a many other peoples would have suffered their far-right allies like Jerry Falwell Young Americans for Freedom were deadly and provocative escalation in the nuclear incineration at the hands of U.S. and Phyllis Schlafly "High Frontiers­ out there picketing ABC studios with ring of nuclear warheads practically on imperialism. To achieve and maintain men" were so furious about "The Day "Better Dead than Red" signs, some­ the USSR's doorstep. While liberal rough nuclear parity with the U.S. war After" was that it blew holes in their what wiser heads at the White House "nuke freeze" forces in the U.S. exulted machine has demanded great economic attempts to convince the public that finally figured it was better to outflank that the ABC melodrama of nuclear sacrifices from the Soviet masses, and they can nuke the Soviet Union without the peaceniks by claiming that the movie holocaust in Middle America vastly they were not the only ones to make a single white middle-class American bolstered Reagan's "deterrence" poli­ strengthened their forces, the deploy­ sacrifices in this cause. The heroic, getting killed. Last January the deputy cies. So they shoved Secretary of State ment of these offensive weapons right decades-long revolutionary struggle undersecretary of defense claimed, in a George Shultz out in front of the on schedule starkly revealed the impo­ waged by the Vietnamese peasants and wierdly revealing moment, "Every­ cameras right after the last scenes of tence of the "hot autumn" of European workers tied down the Pentagon war body's going to make it if there are irradiated rubble faded, where in an anti-nuke daisy chains and peace crawls. machine and so allowed the Soviets to enough shovels to go around.... Dig a oddly uneasy and shifty-eyed perfor­ The Soviet Union at least is not living catch up to the American nuclear hole, cover it with a couple ofdoors and mance he attempted to sell the Ameri­ in a pacifist fantasyland. Soviet defense arsenal after their humiliation in the then throw three feet of dirt on top. It's can public the incredible proposition minister and marshal Dmitri Ustinov 1962 Cuba missile crisis. the dirt that does it." that the movie actually supported the had warned beforehand the USSR That 1962 confrontation was much The basic message of"The Day After" president's massive nuclear arms build­ would never accept the American recalled in the past week or so. "The Day is that it doesn't matter who started it. up ("peace through strength"). preparations for "nuclear blitzkrieg" on After" had the good doctor Jason By the time the nukes have hit Kansas For many, the panel discussion after Soviet command and communications Robards and his wife harking back to City and reduced the green and gold "The Day After" was even scarier than centers. The USSR promptlydid what it the Cuba missile crisis in simple fear, Midwestern prairies to a mass of rubble the nuclear soap itself. The main said it would if these first-strike missiles reflecting the very real terror of many and bloated cow carcasses the survivors qualification for this panel was being a were deployed, announcing necessary Americans who felt they might well go couldn't care less. (To bring nuclear war certified Vietnam War criminal­ measures to balance the latest offensive over the "brink" then. Meanwhile NBC home to Middle America, all cars are Robert McNamara for the Democrats, lurch by the U.S. and pulling out of the broadcast a 20th anniversary salute to disabled-but miraculously the horses Henry Kissinger for the Republicans. talks on medium-range missiles in John F. Kenn~dy, the imperialist chief survive.) The most devastating image is General Brent Scowcroft. head of Geneva. And Soviet leader Andropov who launched the Bay of Pigs and of smoking, charred ruins over which Reagan's commission on the MX warned the U.S. that it would not escape escalated the Vietnam War, glowingly the U.S. president's voice floats eerily, missile, explained that the lower the carried by deadly radioactive winds: number of warheads. the more "un­ "My fellow Americans ... I wish to stable" the situation, the more likely a assure you that America has survived. nuclear war. ABC followed up this There has been no surrender, no retreat macabre performance with "The Crisis from the principles of libertv> and Game." presenting a bunch of real-life democracy for which the Free "World former CIA spooks. national security looks to us." The image is of"some types. secretaries of state/war and utterly isolated nut-Hitler in the generals "going to the brink" and back bunker~-but the date is 1983. sLlccessfully in backing the Soviets down The imagery of Hiroshima wa,~ used in Iran by threatening to use tactical throughout "The Day After." though nukes. The message: nuclear brinkman­ everyone admits the reality of !)uclear ship can work. The best moment: war would be far, far worse toda},,, They Hodding Carter III asked. "What will didn't even show anybody retching on we tell the American people'?" about TV-one of the immediate efflicts of sending troops into Iran. Someone pipes up, "Tell them American lives are radiation sickness. Raging fires spding in danger-like we did in '65 in the up oxygen. gigantic craters, no pos,sibili- Dominican Republic," and everybody ty of medical aid-many of these breaks up in spontaneous laughter. immediate effects are well knowlJ. Carl The main political effect of "The Day Sagan and other scientists have rJ:cently After" is likely to bolster tlTe "nuclear pointed out what. ·is .perhaps the most continued on page 8 deadly effect of nuclear war-the "nuclear winter" they project will result from dense smokedoudsflvng i(1to the atmosphere, (blockihg ·'tlie slii'l' '(Hrus .... 'tf:i preventing plant growth) and creating a WfJRNETiS . Silk/Time months-long pitch-black night with The real day after: Nagasaki 1945. U.S. A-bom~ed defenseless Japanese subfreezing temperatures around the "'NGIJ'RIJ population. The purpose: to intimidate the Sovi~ts. globe. Most human survivors would Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of starve: our species. along with many the Spartacist League of the U.S. the consequences of a nuclear attack recalling the days of "Camelot"-i.e., others. could be wiped out. But you EDITOR: Jan Norden launched from West Europe: the days of overwhelming American nu­ couldn't show that on 'The Day After," PRODUCTION MANAGER Noah Wilner "During the two world \\ars the flames clear superiority. From the Soviet side. which was explicitly and successfully CIRCULATION MANAGER: Darlene Kamiura of destruction spared the territory of the officials kept repeating that "the missiles EDITORiAL BOARD Jon Brule, Charles t:nited Stales at America. :\o\\'. too. the designed as a nuke soap opera with Burroughs. George Foster, liz Gordon, people in Washington \\ould like to of 'O\ember [the U.S. Pershings in characters you could "identify with" and Mary Jo McAllister. James Robertson, Europe] Me more dangerous than the Reuben Samuels. Joseph Seymour. think that by derlo\ll1t' their mcdium­ thus put the horror on a "human scale." Marlorie Stamberg range nlissiks in LUfOPC and lTeatint5 Il1lssilcs (\/ Ocwher [the Soviet missiles (\Ve're waiting for the spinoffs: Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published ~\n thl"Cal t.'-, thercb\ additional nucicar in Cuba]' As indci::d they are. because biweekly, skipping an Issue in August and s()~'ial~st "Where's Dallas?"' "General Hospice." the countrtc'o:. thc'. v,'oult1 hL: America ha' iost its nucle"r blackmail a week in December. by the Spartacist able to dinTt the return strike tn,n' "Little Shelter on the Prairie" "The PCJblishing Co. 41 Warren Street. New York. their house." Jchanta!!'; and Reagan's dcspnatc '\ukes of Hazard" and of COllr"C. "As NY 10007. Telephone 732-7862 (Editorial), 732-7861 (BUSiness). Address all corre­ --- .\C\1" rurk Iitne.\.~) \'('1\'Cnlt"1i;-: atlcmpts ',. rcga'fl It are incvitahly thc \Vorld Burns" followed hI, "\0 Life spondence to: Box 1377. GPO, New York. NY deadly pri..:)\-;JCatHH1~. The nght-wing h~iit In shel\\ "'The Da\ to Live ") 10116. Domestic subscriptions $500/24 Issues Second-class postage paid at New After"' in Russia is doubly obscene. '\0 "The Day After": "Official" Response: York, NY. POSTMASTER Send address PCl1ple suffered morc during World War changes to Workers Vanguard. Box 1377, Scaring the American Public War Criminals Cover Up GPO, New York, NY 10116 II than those of the Soviet Union. For Opinions expressed In Signed articles or c\'ery American kilied. HO Russians los( It\ pmbably it good thing that Cleaned-up and folksy as it \\as. still letters do not necessarily express the editorial their li\es (20 million in all)! And the milliom of Americans who watched "The Day After" did horrify a lot of viewpOint. Soviet people have lived under the Americans. and infuriated the Reagan "The Da\ After" were forced to con­ No. 343 2 December 1983 threat of U.S. nuclear attack cver since front the effects of nuclear war on the administration which saw it (correctly) 2 DECEMBER 1983 3 organization that has distributed photos and documentation exposing Richard­ Defend Postal Unionists Schneider and Mares! son and Graham to unions, minority and left organizations. Richardson physically threatened one of the mar­ shals who was in charge of the protec­ tion of all in attendance. The police ordered Richardson to leave the rally site at Nathan Phillips Square. Stop the Frame-Up by Now this terrorist is trying to have Paul and Mike thrown in jail for defending the demonstration and them­ selves! These brothers are being singled out because they are union militants, leftists and fighters against Klan terror. Canada KKK Union Basher! Supporters of the Trotskyist League of Canada, Paul and Mike helped build support in the Canadian labor move­ We reprint below the statement ofthe unioh-busting attack by postal manage­ • 1976, provoked a fight with two ment for the mass labor/minority Committee to Defend Anti-Fascist ment. Where "legal methods" are found Amalgamated Clothing and Textile mobilizations initiated by the Spartacist Unionists initiated by the Trotskyist wanting the bosses have in reserve the Workers Union organizers at Dylex League/U.S. that have stopped the Klan League of Canada in defense of two fascist storm troopers with their guns Ltd. to set them up for firing and and Nazis. Their union, LCUC Local I, Canadian postal workers, Paul loaded and aimed at organized labor, smash a union organizing drive gave its financial support to the 5,000­ Schneider and Mike Mares. Members minorities and the left. The sister union • 1981, posing as an opponent of the strong Labor/Black Mobilization in of the Letter Carriers Union of Canada of the LCUC, the Toronto local of the KKK, Richardson tried to infiltrate Washington, D.C. last November 27 (LCUC) Local I, Toronto, these two Canadian Union of Postal Workers, the Riverdale Action Committee that stopped the Klan from marching militants have been set up for "legal" hooded and robed in the U.S. capital. lynching by William Lau Richardson, The arrest of Paul and Mike, who the self-declared "intelligence director" were dragged from their workplace by of the Canadian Ku Klux Klan! This is Fascist Scum plainclothes cops, fingerprinted, photo­ an outrage! Richardson, Canada's most graphed and thrown behind bars for the notorious agent provocateur-union­ .. "0.. day, is an open attempt to silence and busting terrorist, convicted bomb plant­ C.. intimidate all of us who want to stop er and Klansman-is charging these two U Ul, fascist terror. But we had better not be postal workers with "assault causing ­ silent! Ifthese charges stick it will give a bodily harm" for defending themselves ~ ~ green light to the racist, labor-hating and others against this thug's provoca­ en fascists to carry out their program of tion, intimidation and harassment of an destroying the labor movement, terror­ abortion rights demonstration. izing and murdering unionists, blacks, Richardson is targeting Schneider Nazi George Graham (left) Jews, East Indians, gays, socialists and and Mares because they are union all decent people. Paul and Mike must militants, fighters against Klan terror and William Lau Richardson, not go to jail! and supporters of the Trotskyist League self-described Remember the words of Martin of Canada (TLC). They were active in "intelligence Niemoller, a German Lutheran church­ warning their union about this labor­ director" of man and WWI U-boat commander, sent hating fascist as part ofa TLC campaign Canadian KKK. to a concentration camp by Hitler: exposing Richardson, distributing pho­ Below: "First they came for the communists, tos and documentation of his 15-year Graham's but since I was not a communist I did record of crimes against the workers official Nazi not protest. Then they came for the movement to unions, left and minority membership Jews, but since I was not a Jew I did not card. protest. Then they came for the Catho­ organizations. In their union Paul and lics, but since I was not a Catholic I did Mike have consistently fought for the not protest. When they came for me, only strategy that works to stop the there was no one left to protest." fascists: militant mass mobilizations of The defense of Paul and Mike is the labor, minorities and all the oppressed. This card certifies that defense ofus all. Your support, endorse­ They won the local's support for the George F Graham ment and contributions are vital to this 5,000-strong Labor/Black Mobilization is an OFFICIAL SUPPORTER of the defense. We are depending on you to 1 1 1 that stopped the Klan in Washington, NATIONAL SOCIALIST WHITE cf.fi ey; cJ:9 raise the thousands of dollars needed to D.C. last year. Richardson's outrageous PEOPLE'S PARTY '; ~r! ",)J_~ July Aug. Sept. wage this fight against Richardson and frame-up charges against these two El;pud 'Dec 31 8 Mtmbtnhip Sc:creury his ilk. Join with us to demand:

p'~l1rr Oct. Nov. Dec militants is an open attack on all those NOTE· J1,'J ,oJ,d If ,,, ...d,d 'f ..... /},r-rt 0' "'"0" ,"o"'!U DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST In ."~.rJ ". if ",, ~.~. ,,,,.~·o '" ,,,..,,,,.1 _nin,,- who would organize to stop fascist PAUL SCHNEIDER AND MIKE terror and defend themselves against the MARES! murderous KKK. en.dorsed the demand to drop the Against Racism, making off with a WHAT YOU CAN DO Schneider and Mares have received charges and made a generous $500 partial list ofmembers andsupporters widespread support from the labor contribution, clearly understanding that • 1983, Richardson and Graham I) Endorse the demand of the Com­ movement, left and opponents of "defen'se of Paul and Mike is defense of consorted with the Canadian Anti­ mittee to Defend Anti-Fascist Union­ fascism across the country. From us all} Soviet Action Committee, an outfit ists: Drop the Charges Against Paul Quebec to B.C., unionists have en­ full of self-declared Nazis' and other Schneider and Mike Mares! dorsed the Committee's demand to drop fascists, in provoking the April 23 2) Make a much-needed financial the charges. Among the almost 200 "Against Cruise Testing~ Toronto contribution to the Committee. union endorsers are 7I union officials Brothers and Sisters: demonstration ; Contact/send contributions to: Com­ representing public sector, auto, steel, William Lau Richardson, self­ The KKK and Nazis have found mittee to Defend Anti-Fascist Union­ wood and brewery workers, as well as a declared "intelligence director" of the fertile ground on the fringes of the new ists, P.O. Box 463, Station E, Toronto, number or' members of the social­ lynch-mob, race-terrorist Ku Klux Cold War. It is no l\ccident tha,t William Ontario, M6H 4E3. For more informa­ democratic New Democratic Party. Klan, is targeting Paul Schneider and John Beatty, ex-fuhrer of the Canadian tion, call: (416) 977-0647. Ominously, however, defenders of Mike Mares, two brothers from the Nazi Party, together with for.mer mem­ 2 November 1983 Richardson have wormed their way into Letter Carriers Union of Canada Local bers of the white-supremacis.t Western LcuC'Local I. Richardson's scandal­ I, Toronto. On October 13, Paul and Guard like Geza Matraiand Paul ous charges against Paul and Mike Mike were arrested on charges of Fromm resurface today as theiCanadian coincided with a vicious witchhunting "assault causing bodily harm" laid by Anti-Soviet Action Committee. The Spartacist League/ campaign inside the union. A supporter Richardson and another fascist creep, fascists are the domestic shock troops of Spartacus Youth League of the Canadian Anti-Soviet Action the Nazi George Graham. This is an the drive to ignite the entire earth in Public Offices Committee (CASAC)-an outfit full of outrage! These unionists face a possible thermonuclear war against tpe Soviet self-declared Nazis and other fascists ten yeafs' imprisonment! Union. CASAC, the Nazis, Richardson, -MARXIST L1TERATURE­ tied into the sinister, ultraright Moon William Lau Richardson: CIA agent, the Klan are targeting us and ours Bay Area for union-busting, race-terror and Fri.: 5:00-8:00 p.m., Sat.: 3:00-6:00 p.m. cult-attempted to have Paul, Mike and RCMPinformant, union-busting agent 1634 Telegraph, 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) 30 other unionists expelled or sus­ provocateur, convicted bomb-planter, genocide. Oakland. California Phone: (415) 835-1535 pended from the union for issuing a Klansman. An avowed enemy of the On October I, the sinister criminal Chicago statement exposing Richardson and the labor movement, minority and left and Klansman Richardson provoked, Tues.: 5:30-9:00 p.m.. Sat.: 2:00-5:30 p.m. fascist-infested, labor-hating CASAC. organizations, Richardson is a danger­ menaced and terrorized the Toronto 523 S. Plymouth Court, 3rd Floor At the last local meeting the union ous terrorist. The following is only a "Day of Action for Choice on Abor­ Chicago, Illinois Phone: (312) 427-0003 membership voted overwhelmingly to sampling of his long, well-documented tion" rally. At this rally for women's New York City throw out these atrocious charges. and deadly history of crimes against the rights, endorsed by the Ontario Federa­ Tues.: 6:00-9:00 p.m., SaI.:12:00-4:oo p.m. However the redbaiting and witch­ left and workers movement: tion of Labour and the Canadian 41 Warren St. (one block below Chambers St. near Church St.) hunting was taken up by a two-bit one­ • 1968-69, worked for the murderous Labour Congress, were union brothers New York, N.Y. Phone: (212) 267-1025 time Mao lover, Ji.m Turnbull. In the American CIA and sisters including Paul, Mike and tradition of the two Joes, Stalin and • 1974, made bombs planted in the car other LCUC militants, pregnant wom­ Trotskyist League McCarthy, Turnbull's supporters mobi­ of the UAW bargaining agent at en, children, leftists and other support­ of Canada lized to defeat a motion in defense of McDonnell-Douglas and in the car of ers of democratic rights. Richardson Toronto Sat.: 1:00-5:00 p.m. Paul Schneider and Mike Mares. The an Arab worker and union organizer was tracked by rally marshals who were 299 Queen St. W.. Suite 502 defeat of this motion is a frontal blow to at Ralph Milrod Metal Products in alerted to his dangerous presence by the Toronto. Ontario Phone: (416) 593-4138 the union itself, which faces an all-out Mississauga Trotskyist League ofCanada, a socialist 4 WORKERS VANGUARD cally talked of Grenadian resistance even though the so-called "People's Reformists Learn Reagan's Revolutionary Army," inherited from the Gairy dictatorship, collapsed as soldiers shed their uniforms. We ask: what kind of a "revolution" was it that Grenada Lessons took power by a coup d'etat and was undone by another coup, where the imperialists could invade and install a The Yankee imperialists are certainly revenge for the U.S.' humiliating defeat tions of democratic centralism and, puppet regime without reversing a single playing Grenada for all it's worth. by the Indochinese masses, as it project­ ultimately, of Moscow." revolutionary gain? Racists grooved on TV shots of white ed itself once again as global policeman. This disgusting apology for "moder­ In reality, Bishop's Grenada was a U.S. Army Rangers in those mod Naturally, the "free world" democracy ation" explicitly takes up themes from left-nationalist Third World regime like Wehrmacht helmets training their M­ introduced on American bayonets the State Department propaganda mills many others, popular but without the 16s on black islanders. Cold Warriors excluded freedom of the press, freedom (which are posthumously rehabilitating mass mobilization characteristic of a got off on the spectacle of Cuban and of assembly or any political activity. Bishop as a radical the U.S. could "live genuine social revolution, even if bu­ Soviet diplomats lined up, body And it was indeed a lesson to be with," even though they plotted his reaucratically deformed. That is what searched, loaded onto trucks and filing imparted to would-be anti-imperialists: ouster and murder from the day he came explains the striking contrast between past American paratroopers for eight fool around with Castro and the to power). It was "highly possible," say the passive response of the Grenadian hours while their belongings were Soviets, and the American empire will Ridgeway and Cockburn, that the masses to the U.S. invasion and the ransacked prior to their being expelled strike back. Significantly/predictably popular Bishop "would have been powerful defense of revolutionary Cuba from the island. In direct violation ofthe much of the left is heeding this lesson. agreeable to a return to free elections" by the Havana workers who rushed to Geneva Accords, captured Grenadian Most explicit was an article by Alexan­ ... as if the electoral farces staged by Playa Giron (the Bay of Pigs) to beat coup leaders Austin and Coard were der Cockburn and James Ridgeway in theosophical UFO nut dictator Eric back the CIA-sponsored gusanos in handcuffed, blindfolded and stripped to the rad-lib Village Voice (8 November) Gairy with his Mongoose Gang of April 1961. In Grenada the backbone of the waist to be displayed on a soccer blaming supposedly pro-Moscow tontons macautes thugs had anything to the resistance was some 600-plus Cuban field. "Hard-core Grenadians" were "hardline sectarians" for providing do with "freedom." Ridgeway and construction workers, most of them held in cramped, asphyxiating, hot-as­ Reagan with a pretext to invade. Cockburn are eager to blame everything over 40 years of age, building the new hell isolation crates reminiscent of the According to this story, Grenadian on "ultraleft sectarians" whose "overall airport at Port Salines. And what a fight "tiger cages" into which suspected Viet leader Maurice Bishop was the repre­ beneficiary" is Ronald Reagan. they put up! These internationalists not Cong were thrown a decade ago. sentative of a "populist nationalist This same theme is taken up by the ex­ only defended themselves, they gave the For Reagan, Grenada's importance upsurge" while Bernard Coard, who and now explicitly anti-Trotskyist, American paratroopers a taste of the has always been as a pawn to be taken in ousted Bishop in a bloody coup, "had "peaceful legal" Socialist Workers Party reception they'll get if they try a Bay of his anti-Soviet war drive. It was cheap far closer affinity to the austere tradi- (SWP). The ultra-reformist SWP cyni- Pigs II in Cuba itself..

country might be wiped off the face of a nuclear World War III is more The imperialist doves (and their refor­ Central the earth, but it will never be conquered problematical. mist tails) call for "No more Vietnams" and subjugated." Stalin's program of "socialism in one because for them, no less than Reagan, country" was a retreat from the program Vietnam was a defeat. But for the The giant billboard on the edge ofthe America ... of international workers revolution impoverished masses of the world, the (continued from page 1) plaza proclaimed, "Siempre interna­ eionalistas"-always internationalists. advocated by the Communist Interna­ opposite is true. In his April 1967 And the example of the Cuban interna­ tional of Lenin and Trotsky. This meant "Message to the Tricontinental," Cuban from Reagan to the "dove" liberals, revolutionary hero Che Guevara pro­ cionalistas in Grenada is an inspiration abandoning the working masses of smell blood. Managua's concessions claimed that "the Cuban Revolution has to workers throughout the world. China, Germany and Spain "to their only whet their appetite. before it a task of much greater Certainly the Cuban masses have own fate," while Stalin vainly sought relevance, to create a second or a third But revolutionaries can see the tremendous achievements to safeguard. "peaceful coexistence" (today called Vietnam...." The Spar/aeist League potential for victory. Revolutionary When the Rebel Army marched into "detente") with the imperialists. For the class struggle is the way to defend, Havana oll I, 1959, average life Soviet Union, covering one-sixth of the proclaims: Vietnam was a victory.' JaRuary surface of the globe, this was a danger­ Two, three, many defeats for complete and extend the Nicaraguan expectancy was 58 years, there were one u.s. ous illusion, undermining the defense of imperialism! revolution. The U.S. and the contras million illiterates while 10,000 teachers the USSR itselfas the second imperialist can be handed an historic defeat south were unemployed and infant mortality world war approached. But in the island For Revolutionary War of the border. As the White House turns was astronomical. Today the average bastion of Cuba, located only 90 miles Throughout Central America! to Central America to attack the next life span in Cuba is higher than in the from the U.S. Navy's Caribbean Com­ targets on its hit list, they could find U.S., and the literacy rate is the highest At the United Nations debate on the mand at Key West, such betrayals can themselves bogged down in a debilitat­ in the Americas, while child deaths have U.S. invasion one delegate stated that be immediately fatal. Speaking to ing war like Vietnam, which sapped the been reduced from 70 to 17 per Grenada was "a small nation whose American correspondents after the July strength of U.S. imperialism for a thousand. The standard ofliving ofthe people are being butchered with the 26 celebrations of the attack on the decade. What's needed above all is a Cuban masses is higher than in any Moncada Barracks in Santiago de most sophisticated weapons, whose genuinely internationalist communist other country of Latin America, with only fault is the desire to build an airport Cuba, Castro remarked: leadership which answers Yankee inva­ the possible exception of the oil state "I said to the journalistsjokingly that by and to choose a government that does sion with revolutionary class war Venezuela. Compare this to the misery trying to prevent the United States from not please the United States." In an throughout the region and in the heart endemic throughout the Third World intervening in Central America we were exchange in the New York Times (13 of the imperialist monster. The Trotsky­ (or the South Bronx, for that matter). helping Reagan. Because 1 really con­ November), Massachusetts Democratic ists ofthe Spartaeist League say: Smash For youths in San Salvador where one sider it would be a very serious error, Senator Tsongas remarked ironically, one that would cause a split between the Reagan's Bay of Pigs, Nicaragua Needs child in two never sees its fifth birthday United States and our peoples that "Let's take Nicaragua. Nicaragua has an MIGs! For workers revolution, not and three adults out of five are illiterate, would last for a long time." airport, too." That, of course, is just negotiated sellout in Central America.' Cuba is an inspiring example of libera­ -Granma (English weekly what Reagan would like to do. But it's tion from the imperialist yoke of edition). 14 August not so easy. For unlike Grenada, Cuban Revolution poverty and repression. This is no joke. . Nicaragua has experienced a popular Under the Gun With all the heroism of the Cuban revolution which drove out the hated But the heroism of the Cuban masses, masses, led by a self-appointed bloodsucking Somoza dynasty, the As Reagan threatens to "roll back" and even the courageous dignity shown bureaucracy-the guerrillas if} power, "jackal of Managua" installed by the revolution from Managua to Havana, by Castro, are mobilized to defend the so to speak, rather than the soviet U.S. half a century ago much as it is the contradictions of the Stalinists and patria (fatherland) rather than proletar­ democracy of Lenin and Trotsky's establishing a Caribbean "peacekeeping nationalists become excruciating. While ian iriternationalism. In Grenada, sur­ Russia-successful defense of their force" (neo-colonial constabulary) in Castro seeks an accommodation which rounded by a U.S. war fleet of 20 ships revolutionary gains against th~ Ameri­ Grenada today. The Nicaraguan people may sacrifice someone else's revolution, and saddled with a murderous bona­ can capitalists, who still dream of will defend the conquests of their he also stands on the gains ofthe Cuban partist junta, Cuba was unable­ turning Cuba (as Barry Goldwater put it revolution. But to do so effectively they Revolution. We hail the tenacious physically and morally-to provide earlier this year) into the 51st state, must go beyond the trilogy of "mixed resistance of Cuban construction work­ effective .aid against the Yankee imperi­ requires an internationalist communist economy, non-alignment and political ers in Grenada. This will give the alist invasion. But at a press conference mobilization throughout the Americas. pluralism"-the pipe dream of a imperialist war machine pause where in Havana on October 27, Castro went Not pandering to bourgeois national­ "middle road" between capitalism and empty United Nations resolutions just on to claim that in Nicaragua as well the ism, such as Castro's support to the social revolution-to expropriate the roll off the back of slimy East River rat Cubans would be unable to militarily Argentine generals in their Falklands/ bourgeoisie. Jeane Kirkpatrick. In Havana the aid resistance to imperialist invasion. (It Malvinas adventure (whose defeat has Today Nicaragua is besieged from Cuban masses poured into the streets to has also been reported, and nowhere opened the way to ousting the blood­ within and without. Across its borders show solidarity with their comrades' denied, that the Cubans have been sucking military dictatorship), but come the CIA-financed comras, heroism in Grenada. Several thousand negotiating with ex-Sandinista traitor promoting workers revolution that will whether former Somozaists or the waited for days at Jose Marti Interna­ Eden Pastora, looking for a "negotiated really "sock it to the Yankees" (0 los Pastora pseudo-democrats. ("Coman­ tional Airport to greet the returning solution" in Nicaragua.) This is treach­ yanquis dories duro, as the chant goes). dante Zero" recently admitted that he heroes, held hostage by the U.S. Castro ery, not a consequence of logistical In his speech on the 30th anniversary of had 25 former National Guardsmen in shook the hand of each returning realities so much as of the narrow the attack on Moncada Barracks, his forces, but this was okay because veteran. And even though the Ameri­ nationalist perspectives of a Stalinist Castro remarked: they accepted his discipline [San Fran­ cans asked every single one of the 784 bureaucracy which is prepared to "A new Vietnam in the heart of the cisco Examiner, 20 November 1983].) Cuban volunteers on Grenada if they sacrifice the next guy's revolution in the American continent? May it never Inside the country the capitalist "fifth happen. and there's still time{o avoid it! wished to defect, not one could be hopes of negotiating its own deal with column" is at work, milking the econo­ bought ojJwith promises ofthe easy We imperialism. This is also a reflection of The peoples of Our America and the rest of the world would not sit back and my by exporting capital, working in in Miami. In his speech before hundreds the Soviets' attitude toward Cuba itself, observe a crime of such magnitude." tandem with Reagan's assault from of thousands in Revolution Square, where political support is a given but -Granma (English weekly Castro again proudly proclaimed: "Our adequate aid in the face of threats of edition). 7 August continued on page 8 2 DECEMBER 1983 5 Moon Cult in the Service of 'BloodyJi!ght-Wing Terror Fascists, Gusanos and Moonies

One year ago, on November 27, five nist League/ Asian People's Anticom­ "The Moon Machine in Japan thousand overwhelmingly black and munist League (WACL/APACL), ... operates ... a trading firm known as working people stopped the Ku Klux "In a top position is Professor Juitsu Toitsu Sangyo (Unification Industries) Klan in the streets of Washington, D.C. Kitaoka, a leader of the United Nations which raised eyebrows several years ago The most effective anti-fascist protest in Association and member of several pro­ by importing several hundred shotguns decades, the Labor/Black Mobilization American rightist organisations, He is and powerful air rifles manufactured by to Stop the KKK was initiated and described as a violent anti-communist the Reverend Moon's munitions facto­ organized by the Spartacist League/ advocating rearmament, stronger police ries in South Korea which assemble M­ Spartacus Youth League (SL/SYL) in powers and capital punishment for 16 rifles on a knockdown basis under collaboration with trade unionists from communists.... Kitaoka is a long-time US licence and manufacture parts for Norfolk, Washington and elsewhere. associate of Dr Tetsuzo Watanabe, a the same weapons. Significantly, the Three days later the Washington former film tycoon whose ideas are no shotguns and air rifles mentioned above Times printed a libelous article charging less violent. Organiser of the APACL in were imported for the militant IFF­ Spartacists with having tried to provoke Japan, Watanabe became international VOc. presumably to be used (when Dpr deadly violence against the police. The president of the WACL/APACL, the Tag comes) against targets whom the I-Vashington Times, which aspires to be IFFVOC's alter ego. Watanabe was Messiah chooses to designate as the mouthpiece for the conservative closely connected with US Army intelli­ communists." right, is the cornerstone of the drive for gence and maintained relations with -John Roberts. "Happiness ginseng anti-communist respectability by the prominent McCarthyites in the US.... from earth-conquering Moonies." sinister South Korean fanatic Sun "Genri leaders, by their own Far £astern fconomic Review, Myung Moon. Our Marxist organiza­ admission, have been collaborating with 23 June 1978 tions have become the targets of their the KCIA [Korean Central Intelligence falsehoods, aimed at setting us up for Agency], and their movement worked in bloody repression at the hands of the alliance with.,. the IFFVOC, estab­ Moon Sponsors police and intelligence agencies. As an Gusano Assassins Village Voice lished jointly by Moon and gambling Notorious Japanese fascist and elementary act of self-defense, the SL/ czar Ryoichi Sasakawa in 1967 with the "Feeding the hopes of [Cuban] exile Moonle supporter Ryolchl Sasa­ SYL have filed a $20 million libel suit participation of several prewar ultra­ terrorists through the years have been kawa posing with Mussollni. against the Moonies' publishing arm, a nationalist, terrorist and underworld powerful outside interests. First came lawsuit vital to our democratic rights bosses., .. and respectability in the Middle East by the CIA, recruiting for the Bay of Pigs, setting up their own publication-The and the liberties of all Americans. The "The IFFVOC was based originally the Congo, and Vietnam, Later came E. Moonies' hit list probably includes you. Middle East Times, first published in Howard Hunt for Nixon's re-election Cyprus in March.". But few of the In previous issues of Workers committee, After that, the Chilean Vanguard and Young Spartacus, we writers, including those who helped to secret police. And in 1977 a representa­ set it up (and fewer ofthe readers), know have exposed some of the Moonies' tive from yet another heavily financed sinister activities in promoting murder­ that it is funded and run by Moon's international organization dedicated to right-hand man, former South Korean ous anti-eommunism in Honduras, EI fighting world Communism appeared Salvador and Uruguay, their links to officer Colonel Bo Hi Pak... , on the scene: a Reverend Jose Casado "To achieve his aim of a world South African and South Korean of Sun Myung Moon's Unification intelligence agencies, their venomous theocracy, Moon has set up corpora­ Church. tions engaged in everything from gin­ anti-Sovietism on U,S. campuses. Yet "Over the past two years, it was every day more evidence comes to light seng exporting to the manufacture of learned, Casado arranged' and paid for M-16 rifles, They have turnovers of tens of financial and operational ties be­ buses to transport exiles to the World tween Moon's multimillion-dollar cult­ of millions of dollars. Together with Anti-Communist League conferences in Colonel Pak, said to be the man empire and a vast collection of bloody Washington. [Cuban Nationalist Move­ tyrants and ex-tyrants, gusano assas­ responsible for the day-to-day running ment leader] Armando Santana also of the UC [Unification Church], Moon sins and fascist war criminals around the said Casado supplied $2,000 to the world. also cultivates the most conservative of Cuban Nationalist Movement to help politicians and regimes worldwide to Below we reprint a small selection of People pay legal fees for the three members material-some of it quite chilling­ help spread his message by offering Sun Myung Moon, dangerous cult convicted for their parts in the Letelier them assistance in fighting the left. from a variety of sources about the pic~ed leader with links to International murder. Casado also up the " .. , some politicians are unworried by Moonies and their ominous allies. right-wing terror network. publishing costs for the first three continued on page 8 months of this year of El Cubano Libre, on Sasakawa's Federation of Motor­ Moonies and the one of the most right wing of the area's boat Racing Associations, which Japanese Ultraright exile tabloids, according to owner­ grosses US$5 billion a year and employs editor Pedro Hernandez." "In Japan ... the Unification Church tens of thousands of people, mostly is known variously as Sekai Toitsu -JeffStein, "An Army In Exile," New Help Fight young men. It appears that the IFFVOC York magazine, 10 September 1979 Kyokai, Toitsu Genri, or Genri Undo, serves Sasakawa as a private police Moonie Libel with numerous variations, The main force.... Sasakawa's remarks indicate adjuncts or manifestations of the that he considers it as a patriotic militia ...And the "Current When the 5,000-strong Labor/ Church are the Kokusai Shokyo Rengo in reserve for political crises, similar to Black Mobilization stopped the (International Federation for Victory Hitler's brownshirts and the uniformed White House Staff" KKK in Washington, D.C. last No­ over Communism or IFFVOq, which militarist party that Sasakawa, a self­ "The ubiquitous 'Reverend' Sun vember 27, the Moonies targeted is essentially the Japanese chapter or proclaimed fascist, organised during the Myung Moon and his Unification the principal organizers. The counterpart of the World Anticommu- 1930s.... Church are making a bid for influence Moonies' Washington Times falsely branded the Spartacists as "vio­ lent provocateurs," would-be cop­ killers-a set-up for violence against us which compelled the SL Endorsers of SL/SYL Anti-Moonie Libel Suit to sue for libel. The Moonie libel is such a pack Partial List of Endorsers Kathy Ikegaml, Exec Board Member, CWA Local 9410." San Francisco, CA Tom Beardsley, General President, American Postal Workers URion Oakland ILWU Ship Scalers & Painters Union Local 2 Exec Board, San FranCISco, CA of lies their lawyers have no defense Local: Oakland, CA Ed Kartsen, Candidate for President, Transport Workers Union Local 100: and so have tried to squeeze AI Belmonte" Member, UAW Local 216'; State Vice President, Mexican American New York, NY Political Association'; Exec Board Member, Democratic Party State Committee." Florynce Kannedy, Civil Rights Attorney, New York, NY through a legal loophole using an Los Angeles, CA Carl C. Kessler, Committeemember, lAM Local 758: Los Angeles. CA Chip Bertet, Editor, Public Eye Magazine." Chicago, IL Bill Lueders, Poetry Editor, The Crazy Shepherd." Milwaukee, WI anachronistic law in the District of Paul Bigman, Co-Director, Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights." Conrad Lynn. Attorney and Civil Rights Activist, New York, NY Chicago,IL Philip J. Lyons, Vice President, B.C. Government Employees Union Local 604." Columbia stating that political Spurgeon L. Boone, President, IBEW Local 2280: Portsmouth, VA Vancouver. Canada organizations cannot sue. Ofcourse Brtan Campbell, Former NDP Candidate for Mayor, Vancouver, Canada James McCarter, Managing Editor, The Crazy Shepherd." Milwaukee, WI Reginald R. Carrington, President, ILA Local 1458." Norfolk, VA Michael Mearopol, Member, National Committee to Re-Open the Rosenberg we wanted to keep the case in Construction and General Laborers Local 304 Exec Board, Hayward, CA Case." Springfield, MA Paul Copeland, Attorney, Toronto, Canada Militant-Solidarity Caucus in the National Maritime Union' Washington, D.C., the city which Sheila Delany, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada E.L. Pete Moreno, Business Manager. Construction and General Laborers Carter R. Dodge, Attorney, Cleveland, OH Local 304: Hayward, CA experienced the event. But on E.H. Duncan Donovan, Vice President, Southern California ACLU." Partisan Defanse Commlttea November 18 we moved the case to Los Angeles, CA Martha Phillips, Spartacist Candidate for Oakland City Council 1983, Oakland, CA Robert Edwards, President, ILWU Local 2." San Francisco, CA Georgia L. Roberts, Former Executive Secretary, Norfolk NAACP." Norfolk, VA New York State. The Moonies must Marvin Foreman, Business Rep, Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 23." Israel Shahak, Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights: Jerusalem, Israel Norfolk, VA Bernard Smallwood, Exec Board Member, lAM Local 1518: Oakland, CA not be allowed to get away with this Richard S, Fraser, Historic American Trotskyist, Member, Democratic Socialists of Donsld A, Smith, Exec Board Member, NALC Branch 2200." Los Angeles, CA America: Los Angeles, CA N.L. Smokier, Allorney, Detroit, MI libel that kills. Stan Gow, Exec Board Member, ILWU Local 10: San Francisco, CA T. Srttharan, Somerville, MA Money, and lots of it, is urgently Ford Greene, Allorney; Ex-Member, Unification Church'; Anti-Moon Activist, Shellon Tappes, Retired Member, UAW: Detroit, MI Ross, CA David C. Thomas, Attorney, Chicago, IL needed to win this lawsuit against Eliot Grossman, Attorney; Member, Immigration Committee Steering Commillee, David Thorstad, Gay Rights Activist and Writer, New Yurk, NY National Lawyers Guild Los Angeles Chapter: Los Angeles, CA Ronald Avon Tyree, Building Stewarr!rCWA Local 1150: New York, NY the dangerous, well-financed ultra­ Thomas Hansen, Member, Canadian Union ofPublic Employees Local 391'; James Vollvlo, President, UAW Local 919: Norfolk, VA Former Ten-year Member, Left Wing NDP, Vancouver, Canada Alfonso Wells, Retirees Chairman, UAW Local 1776: Willo..., Run, Ypsilanti, MI rightist Moon cult. Send contribu­ Cleoph.. C. Hawkins, Steward and Treasurer, IBEW Local 2280." Portsmouth, VA Peter Woolston, Exec Board Member, ILWU Local 6: Oakland, CA tions to: Partisan Defense Commit­ Calvin Hernton, Professor, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Lynn Yaeger, Chief Shop Steward, Village Voice, UAW District 65." New York. NY Daniel A. Hertz, Amnesty International: Chicago, IL tee, P.O. Box 99, Canal Street Glanna Hocksteln, Member, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee." Los Angeles, CA _• ., ·Organization listed for identification purposes only. • Station, New York, NY 10013. .,

6 WORKERS VANGUARD STOP THE RACIST ANTI· LABOR FRAME-UP! LAUREN MOZEE " RAY PAlMIERO Why Keith Anwar Case Isn't Going MUST NOT GO TO JAIL 1 \. ,,/ to Supreme Court Picket Line Militant Says: "Back Lauren and Ray" We reprint belmt· excerpts from a who've been pushed to the wall by leaf7et issued by fired Chicago steel givebacks and layoffs. And the worker andpicket line militant Keith chances are damned slim that the Anwar: Supreme Court would uphold our When Inland Steel fired me in 1979 right to hit back at the steel bosses for the "crime" of refusing to cross a with militant solidarity. USWA picket line, thousands of Originally I took my case to the Rousing Benefit for District 31 steelworkers saw the fight NLRB on the grounds that even for my reinstatement as their fight for when you're playing against a picket lines that no one crosses. It stacked deck you might win a hand or Victimized Phone Strikers was easy to see we needed the weapon two. But I recognized that the Labor of labor solidarity-not fine phrases Board and the courts are not neutral, but united action--to defend our­ as a leaflet issued by the Keith Anwar selves from the bosses' anti-labor and Defense Committee pointed out at racist campaigns. Rank-and-file the time (December 18. 1980). They USWA members dug into their are arms of a government whose pockets to help pay legal costs. Many prime purpose is to maintain this circulated petitions and sent post­ system of exploited labor and racial cards supporting the picket line fight oppression. What we need to do is to to USWA officials. The 1979 District take matters into our own hands. OAKLAND- Some 250 people mobilizing supporters to fill the court­ 31 Conference unanimously voted to reviving the traditions of labor jammed into "Your Place" in south room to send yet another message to demand my reinstatement with back solidarity by building mass picket Berkeley on November 14 to hear the the D.A. and phone company: Drop the pay. My own Local, 1010, organized lines that no one dares to cross. hottest blues musicians in the Bay Area charges! Freedom and jobs back for a rally for our right to honor picket From the Memorial Day Massacre in a rousing benefit for framed-up Lauren and Ray! lines. It was this support which last to Newport News to Phelps Dodge, phone strikers Lauren Mozee and Ray Victory for Lauren and Ray requires year won a decision from the NLRB picket lines have always been the Palmiero. Sonny Rhodes, singer Max­ money-and lots of it. We congratulate ordering Inland to put me back to battle lines of class struggle. And the ine Howard, The Right Kind and others the San Leandro phone worker who work. companies know that whenever they donated their time and talent. Opening sold $105 worth of benefit tickets, and But last summer a federal Appeals can punch holes in our battle lines, with the song "Money," blues band urge Workers Vanguard readers to Court in Chicago overturned the they've got us beat. That's why Malik and The Plus Factor kicked off contribute as generously as they can for NLRB decision and backed the judges, politicians (Republicans and the fund-raiser, which was broadcast this important defense effort. Checks company all the way. This left me Democrats) and cops are always so live over radio station KPFA. People and money orders can be sent to: Phone with one legal recourse: an appeal to concerned about protecting the so­ came out for a good time and for a good Strikers Defense Committee. P.O. Box the U.S. Supreme Court. I have called "democratic rights" of scabs. cause: more than $2,000 was raised for 24152, Oakland, CA 94623. In defend­ decided not to do this. Such an And that's why they go after militant Ray and Lauren's defense. ing themselves and their union picket appeal could cost tens of thousands union pickets who try to put into Phone workers from San Leandro line against a racist management scab of dollars-money which would have practice the First Commandment of and around the Bay Area, trade union­ attack, Lauren and Ray fought for all of to be raised from working people continued on page 8 ists, socialists of the Spartacist League/ us-now we must fight for them! • Spartacus Youth League came to see justice done. Virtually everyone in the predominantly black crowd had their own stories about racist cop harassment and scab violence. The audience re­ National Black Press Covers sponded warmly when Lauren and Ray addressed them. "They're not going to railroad me to jail," said Lauren. "They Mozee/Palmiero Defense did it to me once before, years and years ago. My kids were young. They took me away from my kids for a while, but 400 March in Oakland they're not going to do it again." For several minutes, the nightclub echoed to protest 'frameup' with chants of "Hey, D.A.-Workers say. get your hands off Lauren and Ray.I" Darlene Posey, a member of the Labor Black League for Social Defense and of the Militant Action Caucus in the CWA (phone workers), spoke to the need to fight racist attacks, union­ busting and cop terror: "I worked with Lauren. In my garage we have less than 50 people and we have been off strike for two months. And in two months we had three people fired­ for defending picket lines. for fighting overtime. And when I sav overtime. I mean 12-13 hours a night for \\eeks at a time... "They're not just doing it to us. They did it to PATCO. \\ hich set the trend to all the union-busting going on right now.... Look at what they're doing to Grevhound.... Lauren and Rav were two'people who finally said no.:' Following the successful fund-raiser, four Oakland Police cruisers descended on the area. Two of the squad cars tracked Ray and Lauren-who were In a demonstration with Ms. Mozee, a founding through the picket line and overtones of the '60s, over member of the Black Pan­ hit her several times in the accompanied by an armed security 400 "Black militants" and ther Party, is Black and face. But Mozee and members of a socialist or­ Palmlero is white Suppor· Palmiero say the charges ganization marched through ters of the lwo contend that are untrue and insist that guard hired by the Defense Commit­ TlrmLi"aol '"dOOl" mlK>dor,~<""",~",* .. h'" , ....,., '" t~"r'«< _01'''., recalls earlier police efforts to set up and nationwide strike "Black Nigger Bttch" In res· a legal defense committee The two, Lauree Mozee, ponse to cries of "scab" set up to defend the couple destroy the Black Panther Party, of 38, and Ray Palmiero, 30, Ms. Hansen allegedly who face up to seven years are accused of having as· struck Ms. Mozee in the in prison, they are the only which Lauren Mozee was a member for saulted a Pacific Tefephone face and the scuffle erup· persons in the nation fac­ Company manager during ted when Palmlero and ing felony charges fOf strike­ ten years. \htotflle-clionslnlfl.fo a picket-hne scuffle in last others came to her defen­ related incidents. Ms On November 21. defense attorneys August's nationwide phone se. According to pro­ Mozee is a phone installer Humanities strike. Both were fired and secutors, Ms. Mozee grab­ and Palmiero works to di· filed motions for discovery and dismiss­ both in.$ist that they are bed Hansen, 27, ;n a ham· rectory assistance ..o\I~H Jl>brlin Wlrf Elrctt'CI 1'1I.110••1 innocent mer10ck as' she waiked al of the charges. These motions will be Prnidtnl Of NAMW

argued in a December I hearing at the r,,"'· ....r Hayward Municipal.Court. The Phone -'I.><>'r>nn, 'OC"'. 1'""",·"",,,,nI,,.,,,,O/I Strikers Defense Committee has been 2 DECEMBER 1983 7 "winning" in a "nuclear exchange," Reagan's invasion of Grenada. Yet of the treasury, and many others, Garolina through "survivability ofcommand and despite this liberalism, La Premo including, it is said, current White control" and by having "a capability announced it is closing down supposed­ House staff." that inflicts more damage on the ly for lack of newsprint. This is an - The Middle East magazine, JUdge ... opposition than it inflicts on you." Colin imperialist provocation on the order of September 1983 (continued from page 2) Gray, one of Reagan's top "arms the truck owners "strike" in Chile in disease had on their mortality rate-a control" experts, put it more explicitly 1973. The World cruel "experiment" just a step away in his notorious "Victory Is Possible!" By kicking out the Salvadoran left­ Anti-Communist League article (Foreign Policy, Summer 1980) from Nazi Germany. And poor black ists, conciliating the Vatican and the "In the first ten days ofJanuary, 1966, calling for the ability to "initiate capitalists, the FSLN risk women on welfare have all too often comandantes delegates from some 30 countries met in strategic nuclear use." slitting their own throats. Their success­ regained consciousness after childbirth Seoul, South Korea, to officially charter And the Reaganites are not just to find themselves forcibly sterilized. ful 1979 revolution destroyed the the World Anti-Communist League. Its talking about starting a nuclear war. capitalist state apparatus of Somoza­ In Europe, the bourgeois democratic main offices were established in Seoul's They are, with bipartisan support, ism. But the petty-bourgeois FSLN revolutions terminated the last rem­ Freedom Center, which was organized preparing to do just that: nants of the abominable practice of regime has not taken the decisive step of by the Korean Cultural and Freedom • Development of the MX missile castration. It took Napoleon's army expropriating the capitalist class. By Foundation (KCFF), a Reverend Sun which ex-president Jimmy Carter stated preserving the property ofthe bourgeoi­ conquering Frankfurt in 1815 to abolish Myung Moon fundraising arm started would give the U.S. "a capability to sie intact, the Sandinistas are keeping the use of "castrati" in "boys choirs," by Moon's interpreter, close friend and destroy most of the Soviet silo-based the door open to successful counterrev­ castrated to keep their voices from Unification Church member, Bo Hi ICBM force in a first strike." olution. No matter how much they try to changing. Today the American rulers' Pak. Funds for the Freedom Center • Deployment of the Trident sub­ accommodate the imperialists and willingness to snatch up the ancient came principally from the Korean marines and their very accurate D5 domestic capitalists, the latter will bloodstained knife, to geld the black government with $796,000, and the missile, which can be brought undetect­ recognize their interests as stand­ man and sterilize the black woman, class KCFF, which derived the bulk of its ed close to Soviet shores. ing far higher than national interests. reflects the poisonous and unbearable money through tax-exempt donations • The Pershing 2s now being And when the Yankee invasion begins in racism which characterizes American in the U.S .... deployed in West Europe, six to eight earnest, these powerful counterrevolu­ capitalism. A direct violation ofthe U.S. "By the early 1970's, WACL had minutes from their Soviet targets. tionaries will undertake sabotage on a Bill of Rights prohibition of "cruel and proven itself to be the legitimate flame­ • The multi-billion-dollar "harden­ massive scale. To crush them it will be unusual punishments," this barbaric bearer for neo-fascist causes.... ing" of Bell System phone complexes necessary to unleash the working blow at the manhood of blacks, the "On May 23, 1975, a WACL-financed against the effect ofnuclear explosion to masses, forcibly kept in check for the ultimate cruelty of castration, reveals conference was held in Las Palmas preserve Pentagon "command, control last four years in order to preserve the the terrible fear, and the terrible reality (Canary Islands) in the name of the and communications" systems. FSLN's utopian/reformist "third road." of racist America. 'Secret Atlantic Alliance'. Gathered For this the urgent need is for Trotskyist It's going to take nothing less than • The Pentagon's emergency pro­ together were the world's active terror­ gram for 50,000 hospital beds in the parties built on the program of perma­ socialist revolution to finish what the ists from Argentina's Anti-Communist U.S., for the spillover from a "limited" nent revolution throughout Centra1 Civil War started, to wipe out the racist Alliance, militants from the Italian­ nuclear war in Europe. America. oppression of blacks, the central ques­ based Ordine Nuovo, extreme right We could add ten times more In EI Salvador, the leftist guerrillas of tion ofthe American revolution, and the activists from Legion Afrika (South evidence that the government of the the Farabundo Marti National Libera­ central agony which has vastly acceler­ Africa), British neo-Nazis from Column United States is actually planning a tion Front (FMLN) have established a ated the slide into barbaric degeneracy 88, and like-minded extremists from nuclear first strike. But no amount of corridor across the northern tier of the of this rotting capitalist society.• France, Switzerland, Spain, and Brazil. holocaust handwringing or pacifist country. More than 60 municipalities, a "In 1976, the League underwrote the protest is going to stop these madmen. fifth of the national territory, are founding of the International Anti­ As Karl Marx said against the wooly­ controlled by the insurgents. But to Communist Front, to be headed by the Nukes ... headed do-gooders of his day: "material achieve real strength the FMLN must Belgian heir to the Rexist Movement, (continued from page 3) force must be overthrown by material link up with Nicaragua's Sandinista Vlaamse Militante Orden (VMO) which force." And the material force which army, sparking a revolutionary civil war freeze" proposal taken up by Democrat­ has ties with the U.S. Ku Klux Klan.... prevents the Pentagon from unleashing throughout the isthmus. Artificially ic presidential hopefuls like Mondale "[WACL members] have access to its arsenal of megadeath is, first of all, separating the struggles in the name of and Cranston. In one sense the "freeze" formidable resources and friends and nationalism only aids the U.S. imperial­ is just the latest example of the "arms fear of a Soviet second strike. It is the allies in corporations and governments ists who seek to drown the Salvadoran control" fraud. Remember that SALT I, Soviet nuclear arsenal which has until around the world, and represent a key insurgency in blood, "roll ba~k" the signed by Nixon and Brezhnev in 1972, now stopped the men who A-bombed consolidation of the Nazi network., Sandinistas and besiege the Cuban was supposed to freeze the U.S. and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who carpet­ rightist terrorists, cold war rhetoric and Soviet nuclear arsenals at the then bombed Vietnam, from pushing the Revolution. In EI Salvador itself it is obsessive anti-communists." existing level. For many U.S. ruling­ button. The peoples ofthe worldshould necessary to fight for workers revolu­ -"World Anti-Communist League," class politicians, the "freeze" is mainly be very thankful for those SS18s and tion rather than "democratic" reform Public Eye, 1979 intended to free up Pentagon funds for SS20s. which would safeguard capitalist/ more conventional weapons. It is no At the same time, the Kremlin landlord property and preserve the accident that two of the prominent Stalinists disarm the world working genocidal army which has lorded it over Keith Anwar... advocates of the "freeze" and "no first class politically by preaching the need this long-suffering country for the past (continued from page 7) use" of nuclear weapons were also main for "peaceful coexistence"and "detente" half century. All of Central America labor: "Thou shalt not cross!" architects ofthe Vietnam War-Robert with imperialist militarism. Yet all the must burn with the flames ofrevolution­ Today, two such militants are being McNamara and McGeorge Bundy. women's vigils at Greenham Common ary war. This is the only real answer to viciously framed up on the West Coast. Vietnam waS the supposed test­ near London and all the anti-nuke the impending threat ofYankee imperi­ Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero, ing ground for "flexible response" to protests at U.S. Army bases in West alist invasion. members of the Communications "Communist aggression" (i.e., social Germany did not and will not stop or Reagan has escalated from not-so­ Workers of America (CWA), face up to revolution). even delay a single Pershing or cruise secret support to Somozaist contras (at missile. Here is exposed the bankruptcy a cost of more than $80 million to date) eight yearJ in prison! Their "crime''? "America Ober Alles"-Or Else of Stalinism as well as the impotence of to direct CIA attacks against Nicara­ Doing picket duty during the nation­ pacifism. guan ports and rehearsals for a U.S. wide phone strike last summer. On The mass of the American people The only force which can overthrow invasion of Sandinista Nicaragua. August 10, in the KKK-infested city of know in their guts that they will not imperialist militarism is working-class Washington's ultimate aim is to reverse San Leandro, California, a racist scab survive nuclear war, and "The Day revolution. Thus German Trotskyists of the Cuban Revolution and overthrow boss walked up to the CWA picket line After" strongly reinforced this sense of the international Spartacist tendency the conquests of the Russian October and punched Lauren in the face, calling reality. Yet the aim of the American demand: "Stop NATO First-Strike Revolution. Contrary to the illusions of her a "black nigger bitch"! Lauren ruling class-under the Democrats as Weapons with Workers' Strikes!" The the reformists and nationali~ts, accom­ defended herself, with assistance from well as Republicans-has been to Soviet nuclear arsenal has bought the modation with the imperialists is im­ Ray, her companion. Later both were destroy the Soviet degenerated workers world working class precious time to possible. And therefore all attempts to arrested, charged with felonies and fired state through an effective nuclear first resolve the historic alternatives facing negotiate a "political solution" short of from their jobs. The CWA bailed Ray But they can't come right out and strike. mankind: socialism or barbarism. And social revolution only aid the counter­ and Lauren out of jail and provided say that. Hence the right wing's seething that time is fast running out. The revolution. The Central American lawyers for their defense. Their cause hostility to a movie which actually American working class, in particular, working class is relatively weak and has been taken up by several Bay Area understates the effects of nuclear war has both a great opportunityand a great divided. But it can link up with the union locals, scores of labor officials and Shultz's shifty-eyed effort to enlist responsibility-to destroy this war­ millions ofproletarians, from Mexico to and many notable individuals, including "The Day After" in the service of the crazy capitalist system before it destroys the Southern Cone of Latin America, Congressman Ron Odiums. Now a most massive nuclear arms buildup in the world.• whose only hope for liberation is massive outpouring of labor/black history. through workers revolution against support from across the country is From Truman's atomic bombing of tinpot dictators and the bloodsucking needed to keep these union members out Japan in I94S to Eisenhower's A-bomb International Monetary Fund. Defeat of the state penitentiary! threats in Korea to K.ennedy's nuclear central Yankee imperialism in Central I want to thank every USWA brother bullying against Cuba, the American America!. and sister who has supported the ruling class has repeatedly demonstrat­ America ... campaign for my reinstatement-a ed its willingness to launch a nuclear (continued from page 5) campaign for picket line solidarity. All war, in particular to get the Soviet funds which the Keith Anwar Defense Union. What the Reagan administra­ without. Recently, the FSLN has sought Moonies ... Committee has raised for a Supreme tion has done is to make this policy more an accommodation with the hierarchy (continued from page 6) Court appeal will be returned to the public and to bring it closer to reality of the Roman Catholic church, which, various aspects of the UC in their zeal to contributors. At the same time, I through an accelerated application of however, is waging an open campaign to join forces with such militant anti­ strongly urge all such contributors to the latest computer technology. Cam­ encourage draft resistance, undermin­ communism. These include Jacques send this money to the Phone Strikers paigning in 1980 George Bush spilled ing defense of the revolution against Soustelle, governor of Algeria during Defense Committee (Box 24152, Oak­ the beans in an interview with Los CIA/contra aggression. The Sandinis­ the war of independence, Colombia's land, CA 94623). Lauren and Ray have Angeles Times correspondent Robert tas have also eased censorship of the former president (and its present de­ their freedom on the line because they Scheer in which former CIA chief and bourgeois daily La Premo, which fence minister), the chief of staff of the believe "picket lines mean don't cross!" current vice president Bush talked about printed provocative articles endorsing Honduran army, a former US secretary October 29, 1983 8 WORKERS VANGVARO ger" and then shot himas he fled back to one point Judge Randall Thomas, as witness. Taylor the house were the cops: officers Les frustrated by Evans' refusal to give any On Sunday, Folmar himself arrived Brown and Ed Spivey of the Montgom­ kind of justification for the stop-and­ at the courtroom, walkie-talkie in hand, ery PD. search of Chris Taylor that night and herded all the police into the grand Family ... More cops burst into the house. In the exclaimed, "You know the citizens have jury room for a briefing. This was not 15-minute confrontation which ensued, rights too. This isn't Korea." (continued from page 12) Folmar's first appearance in court. He Brown was shot twice. Evidence sug­ attended at least three times last week, gests that he was shot by another cop Battle Lines in the Courtroom arriving armed, and once in combat racist attack. In his summary District who was gunning for the Taylors. The fatigues direct from a parachute jump. Attorney Jimmy Evans told thejury: "If The Taylor trial became a DMZ for gun has since "disappeared." Then II Montgomery. The cops came to the trial Folmar is well-known for his paramili­ you break into my home, I'll kill you. Is members of the Taylor family were tary recreational activities. that the message you want to send out of armed and ready for intimidation. But dragged down to Montgomery city jail the Taylors' black supporters filled the this community?" The estimated 150 Build the Taylor Defense where they were beaten so badly they courtroom daily, standing up to the blacks who were in the courtroom were "bouncing off the walls of the cops' threat. The jury's first full day of The five members of the Taylor replied, "Yeah." police station." Even Judge Thomas deliberations began Saturday at 9 a.m. family still face charges which could put The hung jury was a defeat for the suppressed the "confessions" that were Montgomery mayor Folmar's troops them away for 20 years in Alabama state prosecution. They went after Worrie beaten out of the Taylors. One week arrived early to stake out the seating. prison-where any black man branded Taylor first, but they couldn't make it after the arrest, the Taylors' home on Over 100 members of the Montgomery as a would-be cop killer faces nearly stick. They couldn't shove the mon­ Todd Road was vandalized, with PD were there by mid-morning, ap- certain death. Folmar's racist thugs in strous lies, the doctored tapes, the "KKK" spraypainted on it. The Ala­ "missing" gun down the throat of the bama lynchers want to string up the jury made up of eight whites and four Taylors as an example to all black blacks. On Friday, the judge threw out people. The victims are being tried as His Life Is in Dang!!: the charges of kidnapping and robbery criminals. against Worrie Taylor. On Sunday the Montgomery is the birthplace of the jury was deadlocked and they couldn't civil rights movement, but the capital of No Extradition of Chris Taylor! get a conviction ofWorrie Taylor on the Alabama is also a small, segregated, remaining charge of attempted murder. insulated, repressive place. Montgom­ The following urgent telegram was Rouge). Among the signatories are As a local black state representative put ery mayor Emory Folmar aims to keep sent to Governor Blanchar~. of Mike Rinaldi, President of UAW it, "We're gratified, but not satisfied that it that way. He has personally cultivated Michigan demanding no extradition Local 600; Winston E. Lang, Execu­ we got a hung jury." a police force which resembles nothing of Christopher Taylor to Alabama tive Secretary, Detroit NAACP; The Taylors' lives are still very much so much as an elite Southern cavalry where he faces a lynch law frame-up. Joesephus King, President, AFSCME in danger. Worrie Taylor can be tried corps, owing its allegiance to one The telegram, circulated by the Par/­ Local 23; and Roy Greer, Business again (and next time they'll rig a lily­ particular Confederate general fighting t' an Defense Committee, Labor Agent, Laborers International Union white jury no doubt). Meanwhile, four to restore the slavocracy. One spectator ~~ack Struggle League. and RO~~~ Local 959 (organizations listed for other members of the Taylor family are at the trial observed, "Folmar is our Ku Militant Caucus, was Signed ,by identification purposes only). The due up next in the dock. Chris Taylor, Klux mayor." What has these racists Detroit area union~sts, labor and growing support for the Taylors must the 21-year-old student from Pontiac, screaming mad is that the Taylors black leaders, includmg 95 mem~ers be mobilized in powerful labor/black Michigan who was shot by the cops and defended their home and lived to tell of UAW Local 600 (Ford River action to bury the racist frame-up! then charged with kidnapping and about it: cops are not supposed to get assault, is now fighting extradition back whipped by blacks in racist America. Governor James BlanChard to Alabama. So far the rallies, petitions Spivey and Brown, the prosecution State Capitol and fund-raising campaigns, both claimed, were justified in stopping and Lansing, Michigan 48909 South and North, have helped to stay attempting to search Chris Taylor the legal lynch mob's hands. There must because there were "a lot of shiny new We, the undersigned, demand that Christopher Taylor not be be a national spotlight focused on cars with out-of-state plates in front of extradited to Montgomery, Alabama, Where he faces jailor Montgomery. Drop the charges against their rundown shack, probably a dope worse at the hands of lynch law "justice" in the State of the Taylors! No extradition of Chris ring." (It was the Chevy Corvette and Alabama's racist frame-up of the courageous Taylor family. Taylor! Jail the racist cops! A million the two Lincoln Continentals which dollars compensation to the persecuted really gored their ox. As one black Drop the charges against the Taylor family! Taylors! residertt' said, '¥'heythinkblae4t people No extraditionptChris Taylor! aren't supposed to have that.") As lying Racist Lynch Trial D.A. Evans pilayed to the gallery ofcops The trial began on November 14. But and the jury, he kept screaming that the the Taylor family ordeal began on Taylors had said, "This is the way we February 27 of this year when family treat police up North." His message was proximately one-third of the entire blue and their friends in the D.A.'s office members from Michigan and Ohio clear: the South shall rise again. Evans department. The chief of police at­ are pursuing this proud black family gathered in Montgomery for thefuneral told the jury; "I want you to come back tended the trial every day, while the with a vengeance. Stymied for now in of Mrs. Annie Bell Taylor. They were here with a verdict that says 'we are a assistant chief of police showed up in a the courtroom, look for them to wreak sitting around the table at home when community"'-that is, this "communi­ hunting outfit modeled after camou­ their terror indiscriminately in the Christopher Taylor came running into ty" will make your lives hell if you don't flage fatigues, armed. There were cops streets against the 40 percent black the house screaming, "Two white men come back with a guilty verdict. in uniform, cops off duty, plainclothes population of Montgomery. As defense are shooting at me!" The next moment Evans pOinted to the impassive, detectives. And every morning about 20 lawyer Seay remarked about the tension the two white gunmen, pointing .357 drawn Worrie Taylor and raised a cadets from the Montgomery Police in the city, "In terms of the black magnums, kicked open the door. The picture of a' bottle of gin purported to Academy showed up fully uniformed. community ... we're simply on the brink Taylors, thinking they were under KKK have been on the Taylor dining room The defense attorney remarked tthat it of war, and they won't believe me" attack, disarmed the racist thugs, then table that :night, and screamed that might have been an ideal time for (Atlanta Constitution, 28 November). phoned the cops. But the two thugs who Worrie Taylor had been "fermenting his someone to rob a bank-all the cops But if Folmar, Evans and the boys had stopped Chris Taylor outside his mourning" and that "the machinery of were in the courtroom. think they're still fighting the Civil War, grandmother's home, called him "nig- pure violence was working in this man's Taylor supporters stood their ground. let them remember who won and who mind." On the fact that the mayor of More than a few had grown up with lost. The Montgomery blacks who have Warren, Ohio had come and testified to Worrie Taylor. A Montgomery-based courageously stood up for the Taylors in Worrie Taylor's good character, Evans Taylor defense committee has raised the courtroom have powerful allies, in CORRECTION intoned, "There isn't a man in the South over $43,000 and sponsored numerous the plants, in the ghettos across the who woulon't have 'said John Wilkes mass meetings-sometimes up 'to 800 North, among working people every­ "Remember 'The Bedford Inci­ Booth had a good character until he people, overflowing the church meeting where who stand for the dignity of the dent''' (WVNo. 342, 18 November) climbed over the balcony and shot hall. The fact that the Taylors defended black man and the basic right of the incorrectly states that in the 1960s Abraham Lincoln, the greatest presi­ themselves and their home against people of this country to defend them­ 'movie; a U.S. warship hounds a dent we ever had." This was too much Folmar's racist cops means a great deal selves and their homes against racist Soviet submarine offthe Greenland for most of the audience. A spectator to these people. In their support of the attack. In Pontiac, Michigan the Taylor coast "until it is forced to surface." remarked, "There isn't a Southern white Taylors, Montgomery blacks were family's union brothers and sisters in the While in the final moments of the man alive who thinks Abraham Lincoln determined to show that another Scotts­ UAW have shown support, and hun­ movie the Soviet sub raises its was our greatest president." boro Boys case would not be rammed dreds have come out to black church conning tower to take in air, at no In his closing argument defense down their throats. rallies there and in Warren, Ohio. The point does it surface and submit to attorney Soloman Seay said a guilty On Saturday, "General Folmar's Spartacist League and the Labor/Black the torture ofthe imperialist psycho verdict would be a revival of the 1857 regiment" occupied the first several Struggle League have fought for mass commander. Instead, when the Dred Scott decision where the Supreme rows of seats on both sides of the aisle, labor/black action to free the Taylors Bedford moved in for the kill-and Court declared once a slave, always a including the seats that ha~r been from the threat of the Alabama lynch the American captain had his crew slave, even if he has gone North, and occupied by the Taylor family and their mob. They have sought to mobilize so wound up that they fired away­ that a black man "had no rights which a friends and relatives througffilut the support through demonstrations at the submarine completely sub­ white man was bound to respect." At trial. One row of these arrogant thugs Wayne State University in Detroit, a merged and retaliated with nuclear issue was Worrie Taylor's constitutional finally gave up their seats to the fund-raising benefit, telegram cam­ torpedoes. As we noted, if in the right to self-defense, said attorney Seay, immediate family of Worrie Taylor, paigns to stop Chris Taylor's extradi­ recent real-life attack by an Ameri­ and the jury "must say that a black man after being instructed to do so by Chief tion. The Rouge Militant Caucus at can destroyer on a Soviet subma­ does have rights." When another mem­ Swindall, but continued to surround UA W Local 600 and the Labor/Black rine carrying nuclear weapons, the ber of the defense team, Vanzetta them. The police conduct during the Struggle League have rallied outside Soviet commander had done the Durant "i~pealed to the jurors, saying trial was a conscious political provoca­ that giant auto complex to win the black same-with full justification­ "You must be a Taylor," the frenzied tion. Donald Watkins, the former black workers there to this critical case. Mass there would be a large hole in the D.A. Evans leapt up and screamed, city councilman who blew the cover-up labor/black action can stop the Dixie Atlantic Ocean where the U.S. ship "Thank god you're not a Taylor, of the brutal jailhouse beatings of the lynchers from carrying through this used to be. Reagan had better stop because then you might jump out of the Taylors, was effectively barred from racist crime against the courageous messing with the Russians! jury box and finish the job," .as he the courtroom when the prosecution Taylors and all black people. Drop the clutched the shoulders ofcop Spivey. At refused to release him from subpoena charges against the Taylor family!. 2 DECEMBER 1983 9 same day in Boston there were more Greyhound than 50 arrests as 300 pickets, including hardhat volunteers from nearby con­ St. Louis: struction sites, blocked the Greyhound Strike ... Strikers burn Greyhound's back-to-work order. terminal. (continued from page 12) The next day about 250 workers, who Thanksgiving, ATU "Solidarity" rallies knew that their unions had pledged were held in Washington, Boston and support and who had seen the cop New York. They were designed as mere violence on TV. showed up on the line. protest affairs, but the thousands of When the Boston pickets noticed that trade unionists who jammed areas Greyhound was sneaking a bus out the adjoining the Greyhound terminals back exit, 100 ran to the rear of the didn't come there to listen to speeches. terminal to stop it. Militants struggled In Boston some 3,000 workers, with to stay in front of the vehicle but were heavy representation from the building forced back by mounted police, yet after trades, turned out in Copley Square and 20 minutes the bus had moved only one marched to Greyhound. There the block. The cops, with badge numbers bureaucrats attempted to disperse the covered, attacked again. A 53-year-old rally and the militancy, warning against construction union official was struck "violence" and pleading that the "police by the front wheels ofthe bus after being are our friends." But the workers driven into its path by a mounted taunted cops: "If you're on our side then policeman. The Boston cossacks why didn't you get the 'Blue Flu' today?" charged into the fuming crowd which Demonstrators chanted, "No more continued to bang on the sides ofthe bus PATCOs!" and a group of iron workers screaming "Arrest the fucking scab!" demanded, "Let us strike!" Over a When a fire engine roared up, everyone thousand workers refused to disperse braced for the water cannon but the and it took mounted police to break up firemen jumped out waving their fists, the rally. leaving their truck in the way of the bus That evening, more than 2,000 until they too were forced to move. workers, including several hundred In San Francisco, stones and bottles transit workers, turned out for the rally rained down on scab buses on the 17th at New York's Port Authority Bus as 300 pickets, again including militants Terminal. As two dozen speakers from other unions, manned the lines. droned on endlessly with "we're with Again the cops were vicious. ATU co­ you all the way" platitudes, members of steward Mike Boswell got a dislocated the Committee for a Fighting TWU and Fresno, California: shoulder. Department Store Employees other militants began chanting "stop the Scab Greyhound president Walter Johnson was billy buses!" which spread throughout the driver in training kills clubbed and Molders business agent crowd. Finally the crowd was instructed a woman driving a car. Ignacio de la Fuente had his arm to move, not to the nearby bus plat­ broken. At least one picket, a Machin­ forms, but to the Greyhound ticketing ist, was hit by a scab bus. area. Half an hour later, protected by a In city after city, rank-and-file mili­ wall-to-wall line of cops, the company rolling out of Cleveland, with militant a massive mobilization to bury the tants, in most cases with their local closed up the area and the crowd Ohio Teamsters on the highways. The union-busters! leadership absent, relied on their own cheered wildly. Reluctantly these work­ bosses have moderated their scabherd­ resourcefulness in the face of over­ ers, who stayed long past the speeches in ing tempo to a limited number oftargets From Boston to Seattle whelming police force. In Los Angeles, the hope that there would be a fight initially. But the scabbing must be On November 17 in Philadelphia, close to 200 pickets massed in front of against the scabbing, left the terminal. stopped now before it kills this strike! more than 1,000 pickets from ATU and Greyhound's first scab bus. Cops The next day there were only minimal The courage of the Greyhound workers, 30 other unions held up Greyhound's pushed the strikers aside but militants, pickets and Greyhound's buses were as well as the enthusiasm expressed by first scab bus for more than 12 hours. with young black workers especially rolling. thousands of trade unionists-who Hundreds of strikers and supporters prominent, filled in the holes. A car Despite the failure to mount effective know damn well what union-busting pushed through police lines and manned by sign-carrying strikers "broke picket lines, Greyhound has resumed here portends for all of labor-show pounded on the bus. Cops arrested 43, down" in front of the next bus and only about 10 percent of its normal that if the unions take a determined but evidently fearing a massive labor strikers massed around to lend "assis­ service. Significantly, there are no buses stand in even one location it could spark response, the courts set them free. The tance." This time the cops moved in with

Pholle Strikers Def~nse Committee at Greyhound Strike Meeting "Shut Down Every Airline, Bus Terminal, Railroad... I"~ Supporters of the Phone Strikers obscetle gestures. She approached are aiming at you. So we're going to try ing in a legal strike? Answer: No. Defense Committee have joined other Lauren and called her a "black nigger to be with you. to mobilize support to although you can be fired for miscon­ trade unionists on the Greyhoundpicket bitch," and hit her in the face. Lauren shut those terminals down and make duct on the picket line, hitting a lines in San Francisco, where the defended herself, and her companion sure no scab bus runs in this country. supervisoL" [LaughteL] What if a popular chant from last summer's and fellow union member Rav Pal­ And if it comes to it, if Reagan and supervisor hits you? [Interjections: phone srrike, "Picket lines mean don't miero) who couldn't be here today, came Greyhound keep pushing it, let's shut "Right, yeah !"] What if they hit you and cross.'" was readifv taken up by embat­ to herr assistance. down every airline; every hus terminal, call you lots of names ...? I was on the tied Greyhound strikers. On November As ·a result of that, the management every railway ... [Cheers and enthusias­ picket line and I saw a truck coming at 16, A TV Local 1225 vice president Lee scab, that racist, still has herjob; Lauren tic applause.] The working people in this me, 40 or 50 miles an hour. I don't care. Peschell inVited representatives of the and Ray have been fired from thei·rjobs country have thv,· power to shut ·this I'vegot a job..l got kids to supporLAnd committee to speak at t1 special mo!Ys and face four years in state prison on countrydown__ we won't ha,

Reprinted below are excerptsfrom a reallv needed is a solid national and lAM to join with the air control­ leaf7et issued to New York City transit transport workers strike to stop this lers to shut down the airports. We union busting crap. We should mobi­ workers by the Committee for a lize our members and the entire union called for our own union to shut down Fighting TWU. The Committee, a to get out to help man the ATU picket the train to the plane as an act of class-struggle opposition in the union, lines on Thursday morning. when solidarity. But Lawe chose that mo­ is current(1' contesting elections in Grevhound has threatened to run the ment to announce the TWU would buses with scab drivers, to make sure Transport Workers Union Local 100 those buses do not roll-because give up our long-standing policy of"no against the conservative John Lawe they'll be rolling over American trade contract, no work" and submit our bureaucracy. unionism," contracts to binding arbitration. He, If the bosses succeed in busting But it's going to take a massive like the rest of the AFL-CIO tops, ran the Greyhound strike, who's next? mobilization of labor because the big up the white flag before the battle ever started. Well, Reagan's not going to let Where's this union busting going to city mayors, most of them Democrats, up. His war on the unions, blacks and stop? We need a nationwide strike­ have called out their cops, and the the poor here at home is meant to force Teamsters, rail, airlines, transit­ police terror daily unleashed against the working class to march in step with everything stops. We need mass picket the black community is now being his plans for war against the Soviets lines manned by all the unions to stop used against the labor movement. The which have dramatically escalated the scab buses! cops have beaten pickets and arrested with the KAL 007 spy mission provo­ The Committeefor a Fighting TWU over 130 strikers. We cannot let these cation and his committing what has been fighting to get our union people go down. This fight is our fight. amounts to acts of war against the behind the Greyhound strikers. We What they do to the ATU they will try Soviet navy in every ocean of the were out there Thursday morning on every union. The bottom line is the world. But labor has the power to stop helping man the picket lines. Jimmy picket line. If you don't have the right this war-mad union buster. A national Smith, who's running for exec board in to strike, if you don't have the right to transport strike would not only beat the Motormen, along with other defend your picket lines, you don't WV Photo supporters of the committee raised the have a union. Picket lines mean don't Transit militants support Grey­ back the Greyhound union busting, it following motion at last Wednesday's cross! hound strikers at NYC labor rally, could bring down that maniac in the White House before he blows up the meetings of that division: When Reagan went after PATCO, November 23. world. We need a labor offensive to "Greyhound's scabherding union­ the rest ofthe labor movement let them union misleaders refuse to unleash the bust the union busters and our own busting attack on the Amalgamated hang alone. This is the payback. power ofa massive labor mobilization. Transit Union (ATU) is an attack on workers party to lead it! No more Continental Airlines fired their whole We said it would take actions oflabor not only the transport workers unions PATCOs! but the entire labor movement like workforce. Now the bosses have got solidarity to defend PATCO. We Reagan's attack on PATCO. What's the ATU in their sights. And still the called for unions like the Teamsters 22 November 1983

riot gear. man John Teets to the hilt because if the leadership that backs Reagan's anti­ strike action against the government's All across the country, cops have been ATU is wiped out here, it's open season Soviet crusade to the hilt. Lane Kirk­ union-busting assaults on the unions. employing the sort of violence against on the unions elsewhere. Appeal to the land, Owen Bieber & Co. are the hand­ For a nationwide transport strike­ the strikers which they ordinarily Democratic Party city bosses? In Cleve­ picked descendants of a union nothing moves until the Greyhound reserve for the daily treatment ofblacks. land a city council resolution urging the bureaucracy consolidated by driving strikers are back at work with a decent But despite Greyhound's attempt to set mayor to enforce a local ordinance out the socialists and other militants contract! Amnesty-no victimizations! black against white, based on mass banning the employment ofstrikebreak­ who led the struggles that built industri­ Rehire the PATCO strikers, release recruitment of scabs in heavily minority ers was laughed out of court. In San al unions. The union tops never fought jailed PATCO leaders and fire the urban areas where unemployment has Francisco labor leaders pleaded with Taft-Hartley, Landrum-Griffin - and scabs! Bury the Taylor Law and the gone through the roof, the strikers aren't Mayor Dianne Feinstein to do some­ other major postwar anti-labor laws RTA bill in Chicago-and make Taft­ buying the company's union-busting thing, so she made the record by sending because they lined up in favor of Hartley a dead letter now! A national racism. On November 15 a white scab in a letter asking Governor Deukmejian to their anti-communist witchhunting transport workers strike could smash Cleveland told a black picket, Marvin suspend Greyhound operations in the proVISIOns. the union-busting and pay cuts imposed Sealey, that he'd "rather be a scab than a state. The letter is gathering dust in The Taft-Hartley Law provided for on Teamsters and airline workers nigger." The scab's companion tried to some state agency. But what can you strikebreaking injunctions and out­ through government-fostered deregula­ start a fight. Sealey effectively defended expect from Democratic Party mayors lawed hot-cargoing, secondary boycotts tion schemes. himself, and as a dozen plainclothes and whose cops right now are shepherding and other weapons of labor solidarity. Such a struggle would immediately uniformed security guards jumped him, scabs through the picket lines! From Government snoop laws were used to become a political confrontation with the picket line came to his defense. In Feinstein (a leading labor-baiter during put away Jimmy Hoffa. And embold­ the government that could turn the Atlanta, strikers assert that a company the 1976 city workers strike) to Ed Koch ened by the union bureaucracy's refusal racist, union-hating cowboy in the vice president has committed racist to Coleman Young, there's not one of to fight, the government's attacks on the White House into a lame duck. But you bombings against black churches. On these Democratic party pols who unions have mushroomed in the last can't fight Reagan with Democrats. the picket line, he's been met with chants doesn't have a trail a mile long of couple of years to outright union­ What's needed is a workers party to rally from black and white workers of attacking city unions and enforcing busting: PATCO smashed, National millions of the oppressed to the banner "Church bomber!" and "KKK!" Reagan's austerity on working people Guardsmen called out to bust the of a fighting labor movement: Jobs for Despite the efforts of rank-and-file and blacks. copper miners in Arizona, a whole all through a sliding scale of wages and unionists, the ATV and AFL-CIO Union officials keep claiming this is a union workforce fired at Continental. hours! Organize the unorganized! For bureaucrats have consistently undercut "legal" strike, but the only picketing the There's Taylor Law fines imposed on labor/black defense guards to defend the militancy ofthe ranks. Elected strike cops want to permit is the kind that transIt workers in NYC and new picket lines and smash racist terror! committees are needed now to organize doesn't stop any buses! This strike legislation in Illinois that eliminates Fight for a workers government that mass picket lines drawing in the broad confronts the whole range of govern­ cost-of-living protection for Chicago's would put an end to decaying capitalism ranks of labor. In Boston, a company ment strikebreaking, from Reagan on subway and bus drivers. The state once and for all. request for an injunction was refused down. The way to win is not through outlaws respecting picket lines and Transport workers: the batik lines because ATV officials agreed voluntari­ impotent appeals to labor-hating politi­ victimizes picket line militants like Bay are drawn. If the A TV goes down_ you ly to limit the pickets and state AFL­ cians, but militant mass labor action. Area phone workers Lauren Mozee and are next. No more PA TeDs! Bust the CIO officials agreed to go along. In It's a question of power. As a former Ray Palmiero. union-busters! For a national transpon Detroit, the AFL-CIO president "kept PATCO leader put it, "The only illegal Now is the time to deliver powerful strike!- order" by personally directing scab strike is a strike that fails." Postal buses through the ATU's lines. Mean­ workers struck against the government while, the VAW'S misnamed Solidarity in 1970 and beat back the strike­ House is daily playing the role of breaking. Coal miners defied Taft­ strikebreaker by instructing its Grey­ Hartley in 1978. What it will take to hound bus mechanics, baggage handlers smash Reagan/Greyhound scabherding Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of the SpartaciJt League , and ticket clerks from UA W Locals 656 now-to make a dead letter of injunc­ and 985 to work behind the ATU's tions limiting pickets and send the D $5/24 issues of Workers Vanguard D $2/4 issues of picket lines. strikebreaking cops packing-is the (includes Spartacist) International rates Women and Revolution organized muscle of the heavy battal­ D New 0 Renewal $20/24 issues-Airmail D $2/10 introductory issues of For a National Transport Strike! ions of labor to shut down rail, trucking, $5124 Issues-Seamail Workers Vanguard The "strategy" of the ATU and AFL­ transit and airlines. D $2/9 issues of Young Spartacus (includes Spartacist) cIa leaders boils down to "hang tough Greyhound workers and other and ride Trailways." If there's ever a unionists are getting a cold, hard taste of Name _ situation where this kind of go-it-alone the kind of force that Reagan metes out Address _ business unionism won't work it's right to working people in Grenada and El now. Because this is no ordinary trade­ Salvador. Reagan's smashing of picket ______Phone ( union dispute where you can even find lines at home is part of his preparation City State Zip --::-:-:: somebody to cut a deal. "Pressure" to terrorize the unions and any organ­ 343 Greyhound through a consumer boy­ ized resistance to his mad plans to cott? But the bosses at Trailways and launch a war against the Russians. And Make checks payable/mall to: Spartaclst Publishing Co., Box 13n GPO, New York, NY 10116 elsewhere are backing Greyhound chair- American workers are saddled with a

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Stop the Buses! No More PATCOs!

On November 17 Greyhound started operating with scabs. It should have been the signal for an immediate response by labor of mass pickets and strike action to stop the buses! On November 29, after union members defiantly rejected the company's surren­ der terms by a 97 percent margin, Greyhound announced it was firing all strikers. If Reagan and the bosses can break the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) at the nation's largest bus company, then no union is safe. They got away with it at PATCO and now they're herding scabs in union towns from New York to Detroit to San Francisco. We say: No More PATCOs! The Spartacist League calls on other bus workers, Teamsters, railroad workers, pilots and ground crews, city transit workers: All out to stop the scab buses! For a nationwide transport strike! When Greyhound began to run the 3,000 unionists rally buses, rank-and-file ATU members with Greyhound attempted, essentially without leader­ strikers in Boston, ship, to stop the scabherding. The cops November 23. Inset: answered with mass arrests and assaults Strikers defend picket on strikers. In the face of this blatant line against cops' government-sanctioned strikebreaking, scabherding in Seattle. the response of the ATU and AFL-CIO tops has been to appeal for a consumer AP boycott-the same impotent tactic that won, but union militants must fight now hound will settle for nothing less than Initiative. As one Teamster on strike paved the way for the PATCO disaster. to reverse these disastrous policies. total union-busting. The unions didn't against Budweiser put it. "We didn't do Mass picketing has been dismantled and The ATU leaders tried to run away pick this battle, but they better win it! what we should have during PATCO ... precious time needed to mount a labor from this strike. They offered to work Every decent trade unionist understands we need a little [muscle] out here to stop mobilization has been wasted on ap­ without a contract and even proposed this. Individual militants and some the union-busting." peals to Democratic Party city bosses to their own takeaway package of wage officials from dozens of unions have On November 23, the day before "ban" the scabbing. This strike can be and benefit concessions. But Grey- joined the ATU picket lines on their own continued on page 10 Hung JurI in Alabama Racist Frame-Up. Drop the Charges Against the Taylor Family!

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, November 1861, where today George ("Mr. Segre­ 27-The racist frame-up trial of Worrie gation") Wallace is governor and jack­ Taylor, 49, of Warren, Ohio, ended here booted "Fuhrer" Folmar is mayor, they today with Judge Randall Thomas were fighting the Civil War all over declaring a mistrial at 4:05 p.m. Three again. For the 13 days of the trial, the courageous black jurors stood firm for Montgomery Circuit Court was the / 1 acquittal throughout some 20 hours of battleground as scores ofgun-toting cops deliberation, refusing to "compromise" packed the courtroom to enforce the despite the judge's repeated order to the prerogatives of Southern lynch law and "'I/lj hung jury to go back in and reach a intimidate the Montgomery blacks who ~ unanimous verdict. dared to show up in the Taylors' support. ~ i / (i/ I The state was out for a legal lynching But the cops did not succeed: each day l .~ e of the Taylors, the family of black auto some 80 to 100 determined black sup­ / /../ J... \ ~'\ i: ,<,i."ll"._ workers from the North who had come porters were there when the court opened \\W back to Montgomery for a funeral and at 9 a.m., staying until 10 o'clock each dared to defend themselves against a night. The Taylors' fight was their fight.

nightriding Alabama cop attack. Here in At stake was the right of the black man to A the "cradle of the Confederacy" where defend himself and his home against Lillie Bell Taylor and Worrie Taylor at the start of his trial in the South seceded from the Union in cOlllinued on page (,) Montgomery.

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