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Vol. 31 - No. 40 Monday, November 6, 1967 Price 10¢ 1111111111111111111lllllllllllllllllillltlllll!l111111111tlllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllll\11111111\11111111111111!111l!llll\lllllllllllllllllllll\11111llllllllillt!1111lllllllllill!!IIIIJ111lllllll!IIIIIIIIIIIIII lllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lll!llllllllillllillllllllll!;:1L<1 '68 Socialist Ca mpa1gn• Launched at N.Y. Rally By Dick Roberts NEW YORK - A jam-packed The speakers' podium was de­ rally at the ballroom of the Em­ corated with posters of Malcolm pire Hotel here on Oct. 28 official­ X, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, ly launched the Socialist Workers Leon Trotsky, Karl Marx and Party 1968 presidential election V. I. Lenin. Reproductions of Rus­ campaign. It was probably the sian revolutionary posters were most spirited campaign rally in displayed in the hall. the party's history. Over $2,600 was contributed or Earlier in the day, delegates to pledged to the campaign by the the national convention of the members of the enthusiastic au­ SWP had unanimously approved dience. Fred Halstead and Paul Boutelle A number of messages were sent as the party's candidates for to the rally, from James Aronson, President and Vice President. The former editor of the National antiwar leader and black power Guardian; Ruth Gage-Colby, Wom­ spokesman had been nominated en's International League for Aug. 30 by the party's national Peace and Freedom board mem­ committee. ber; and Pfc. Howard Petrick. The enthusiastic crowd repeat­ Abner Grunauer, administrative edly interrupted Halstead and committee member of the National Boutelle's nomination acceptance Mobilization and New York Fifth speeches with applause and cheers. Avenue Peace Parade committees, (See pages 2 and 3.) spoke at the rally. (See stories this In addition to launching the page and page 6.) SWP campaign, the rally celebrat­ Ruth Gage-Colby wrote: "Dear ed the 50th anniversary of the Fred and Paul: I will be speaking Russian Revolution. in Bonn the night of your party. I am sorry to miss the occasion. It looks to me as if a lot of peo­ ple are going to vote for your 1 ticket. Best greetings to you both Jim Aronson Photo by Shannon I and to all my friends in the SWP." A telegram came to the meeting CAMPAIGN RALLY. Nearly 500 people were at rally to kick off Socialist Workers campaign, Here SalutesSWP (Continued on Page 6) Paul Boutelle, SWP candidate for Vice President, accepts nomination. [James Aronson, co-founder and former editor of the National Guardian. sent the following mes­ sage to the SWP campaign rally.] VietnamKey Issuean S.F.Ballot It makes eminent good sense that you joined the two reasons By Mary Kraft and withdrawal of U.S. troops will be a clear proof that the in newspapers, and mobilizations for your meeting tonight. Whether from Vietnam, so that the Viet­ SAN FRANCISCO - On Nov. 7 American people do not support every Saturday where campaign one agrees entirely with the course namese people can settle their own of the Soviet Union since the Rev. San Francisco will become the the war in Vietnam; that they workers go out in crews with leaf­ problems." olution, or whether one agrees en­ first major city in the United want the U.S. to get out, to bring lets and sound trucks. tirely wth the politics of the So­ States to hold a popular referen­ All local candidates are being the G Is back home and to stop forced to take a position on the the atrocious and brutal war of In the final week of the cam­ cialist Workers Party is not mate­ dum on the war in Vietnam. Near­ paign the Citizens Committee is rial. ly 300,000 San Francisco voters referendum. A three-hour TV show extermination being waged by this Oct. 30 interviewed candidates for mighty nation against a tiny coun­ putting out 200,000 pieces of litera­ For my part, I may have some will say yes or no to Proposition ture. Twenty-five thousand phone differences with each; but I am P, which states: "It is the policy office. The referendum was one of try whose heroic fight for self­ the main subjects and each can­ determination has impressed and calls are being made, seven sound eternally grateful to the memory of the people of the city and coun­ trucks are touring the city. ty of San Francisco that there didate was asked to say whether inspired all the peoples of the of Karl Marx that the Revolution A car parade of 300-400 cars is took place and that the SWP exists shall be an immediate cease-fire he was for or against. The same world." thing is taking place at neighbor­ At a recent meeting of 200 in scheduled for Nov. 4. Headed by to carry on the struggle for social­ sound trucks, the caravan will tour ism in the United States. hood meetings and candidate ral­ the Fillmore ghetto Mrs. Cumming lies. declared that "It is self-defeating the entire city, break up into 10- The joining of the overriding car units to go into the districts issues of peace and racial equality The most uncompromising sup­ to vote for capitalist candidates, porters of the antiwar vote are even if a particular Democrat or to do extensive leafleting and - as embodied in the life and door-to-door work. work of the two candidates - Socialist Workers Party candidates Republican is opposed to the war. testifies to the clear understand­ Robert Davis for Mayor and Clyde It is these parties which are ing by the SWP of the nature of Cumming for Board of Super­ prosecuting the war in the inter­ the domestic and world crises. visors. ests of the giant corporations." These crises cannot be separated Davis and Cumming have de­ Davis received enthusiastic ap­ because the source of both is right clared that "A large yes vote will plause when he expressed this idea here in our own country. have worldwide repercussions. It at a "candidates' night" meeting In this time of decision for in the Western Addition ghetto. radical Americans, there can be Davis told a rally of 500 stu­ only one question: Which side are dents at San Francisco State Col­ you on? And the only possible RexrothBacks lege that "San Franciscans can slogan follows from this question: shatter the myth of Johnson's con­ Know your enemy and support sensus. A large yes vote for Pro­ your friends. S.F.SWP Slate position P will make it clear to SAN FRANCISCO - Kenneth millions of people throughout the llll1Jl!illllllllllllll!lll!!111111ll111lllllllllllllllll\11111111111Jll11111lllll!ll11!11111111 Rexroth, the famous poet, told a country and throughout the world meeting of Proposition P support­ that Johnson does not speak for NEXT WEEK: ers to vote only for those can­ the American people." didates who gave the measure The Citizens for a Yes Vote on 50 Yearsof the clear and unequivocal support. He Proposition P is waging a forceful added that only Socialist Work­ campaign, with no holds barred: ers Party candidates Robert Davis street rallies, precinct work, mas­ RussianRevolution and Clyde Cumming, in his opin­ sive distribution of house signs, mlm111::11H1111111u1111111111111111111111111111111u11111111111u11H11111111111i111!1111 Robert Davis ion, had done so. window posters and literature, ads Clyde Cumming Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, November 6, 1967 PAUL BOUT,E,LLE'SSPEECH ''We·Will Defend Black Power'' [The following are excerpts from the nomination acceptance speech given by Paul Boutelle at By Frank Lovell the Oct. 28 socialist campaign rally in New York. Paul Boutelle is the DETROIT, Oct. 25 - Striking to grow despite ratification by the So,cia.list Workers Party candidate UAW members at Ford plants Ford strikers. Immediately follow­ for Vice President.] across the country voted today to ing Reuther's appearance on the accept a three-year contract that television screen yesterday, rep­ This is a moment in my life that is expected to set the pattern for resentatives of the $1-an-hour-now has no previous comparison. It is wages in the auto industry. movement appeared for 30 min­ a privilege and an honor to rep­ The new contract raises wages utes to expose shortcomings of the resent an organization such as the of production workers 20 cents per contract. They were skilled work­ Socialist Workers Party and also hour and that of skilled workers ers from Ford, GM, Chrysler, and have the support of the most the­ 50 cents, bringing the average for Burroughs Corporation. oretically advanced, well-organized production workers to $3.50 and Chris Manning, president of and fastest-growing youth group for skilled workers to $4.90. At UAW Local 160 and chairman of in America, the Young Socialist expiration of the three-year con­ the $1-an-hour-now committee, ex­ Alliance ... tract production workers are ex­ plained that Ford workers were In this campaign we will be ex­ pected to get $3.72 an hour aver­ being asked to ratify the new con­ posing the policies of the Dem­ age. Skilled workers will fare bet­ tract without ever having an op­ ocratic and Republican parties on ter, gaining another 30 cents in portunity to know what is in it a national and international basis. the last two years of the contract. and what they are giving up. We will expose the racism that is an inherent part of the capitalist Ford said the overall average Old Escalato,r Better base rate of workers will go up system. We will defend and pub­ anywhere from 39.5 cents to 84.5 Don Johnson, from Ford UAW licize the growing nationalism that cents an hour over three years. Local 600, said that under the cost­ is being expressed by black people of-living provision of the old con­ through the concept of black pow- Photo by Shannon Reuther tract UAW workers would be bet­ er .... PAUL BOUTELLE. Speaking at rally in New York, Evelyn Reed "In 1916, the Negro was between ditional at least 3 cents an hour up and production standards, and Fund Directar the devil of Wilson and the deep in the second and third year of these have often in the past re­ sea of Taft. In 1920, Cox refused quired strike action before they When fashions become political planks in their platform is "Bring even to receive a Negro delegation, the contract, or a total of 6 cents. and radical, that's news! the Gis Home Now!" This will be paid in a lump sum can be resolved. and Harding got the Negro vote. An ingenious San Francisco man­ We can't offer a whole "peace quarterly. Depending upon how GM and Chrysler Immediately he went to Texas and fast the consumer cost of living ufacturer recently designed a dress" with every contribution Florida and consorted with the index rises, wages may go up 8 Negotiations on the basis of the "peace dress" that has become a from a Miiitant reader. But we white Southern politicians. cents a year, or 16 cents total. Ford settlement are proceeding runaway best seller from coast can offer one antiwar button. "The Democrats won't have us There will be no new allowance with General Motors and Chrysler to coast. It bears the familiar cir­ For every donation of $3.00 or and the Republicans don't want in the first year of the contract, and it remains a moot question cular peace symbol in an all-over more we will send you an attrac­ us. Is there anything to do but but an accrued lag of 5 cents under whether a contract can be drafted print. tive SUPPORT THE SWP CAN­ impotently wring our empty the old contract will be paid. with these corporations without a So many women and girls rush­ DIDATES button! hands? There is. This is our op­ All this sounded good to Ford strike. ed to buy the dress to wear at the To receive our thanks and your portunity. This spells our political strikers who had been out for 48 Whatever the outcome of the big antiwar mobilization in Wash­ button, clip the coupon on this emancipation. We are invited not days and they voted in large ma­ auto negotiations the auto barons ington Oct. 21 that the stores page and mail it to us with your to support either of the old, dis­ jorities to accept the new rates. will attempt to· pass on wage in­ couldn't supply the demand. contribution. credited and bankrupt political In an hour-long television broad­ creases to the consumers. As Not so long ago no commercial parties. May God write us down cast Reuther hailed the new con­ Ford's Mr. Denise said, "all of our dress house catering to the mass as asses if ever again we are found tract as "the finest we have ever costs are reflected" in prices. The market would dare to mix peace putting our trust in either the negotiated" and later threatened auto industry operates on mono­ politics with piece-goods. But the Republican or Democratic par­ the strikers that if they "are so poly price fixing computed to antiwar sentiment is so deep and ties .... " foolish as to reject the proposed guarantee an average rate of prof­ widespread in this country that it So, in closing, I want to say contract, I think they will be walk­ it of 23 percent after taxes. That breaks through in unexpected thanks to the Socialist Workers ing the bricks for a long time." is why General Motors was able ways and places. Out of 800 stores Party for nominating me and hav­ Opposition has developed among to report the best third quarter stocking the dress only half a ing the confidence that I can ade­ the skilled workers and promises profit returns in its history. dozen returned them to the manu­ quately represent the only revolu­ facturer upon learning that the tionary socialist movement in pattern stood for peace action. America. Thanks also to our many friends and sympathizers who will That isn't all. The manufacturer be aiding us in many ways dur­ is reportedly donating a portion ing the coming elections. We will I Want to H,elp of his profits on these "peace not let you down and we will car­ dresses" to finance the important ry our message throughout Ameri­ Enclosed is my contribution of $...... to referendum in San Francisco call­ ca for you, for us, and for all the ing · for the withdrawal of U.S. oppressed masses of the world. help fulfillthe $20,000 Socialist Fund. troops from Vietnam. 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One of the principal Monday, November 6, 1967 THE MILITANT Page Three FRED HALSTEAD'S SPEECH THE MILi.TANT A CampaignAgainst the War Ectttor: JOSEPH HANSEN Manal(1nll Editor: BARRY SH!!PPARD Business Manager: KAROLYN KERRY fThe following are excerpts Published weekly, except during July and August when published biweekly, by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003. Phone from the nomination acceptance 533-6414. Second-class postage paid at New York N.Y. Subscription: domestic, speech given by Fred Halstead at $3 a year; Canada and Latin America, $3.50; other foreign, $4.50. By first cllu• mail: domestic and Canada, $8.50, all other countries $14.00. Air printed matter: the Oct. 28 socialist campaign rally domestic and Canada, $11.50; Latin America, $23.00: Europe $27.00· Africa, Australia, Asia (including USSR), $32.00. Write for sealed air postage rates. in New York. Halstead is the So­ Signed articles by contributors do nat necessarily represent The Mllltant's viewL cialist Workers Party's candidate . These are expressed In editorials. for President.] I see by the papers that the Vol. 31 - No. 40 ~345 Monday, November 6, 1967 government is complaining that the Oct. 21 confrontation with the warmakers in Washington cost them over one million dollars in A Distortion of History expenses and clean-up. Isn't that In paying tribute to the late Che Guevara, Claude Lightfoot a blooming shame? I wonder how of the Communist Party sought to further his factional viewpoint much it cost them to scrub that on the great issue dividing the world radical movement - whether paint that said "Che lives" off the walls of the Pentagon? That was to pursue a course of revolutionary anticapitalist struggle or to money wasted. remain on the road of reformism and class collaboration. (See A million dollars. That's just story page 8.) about what it costs for the fuel In polemicizing against the revolutionary road, Lightfoot alone for a big bombing raid over seeks to involve the lessons of history, as he perceives them. To Vietnam. Not for the planes that give substance to his arguments, he telescopes historic events in are lost at $3.5 million apiece, not order to skip over chapters that are devastating to his central for the pilots who are killed at thesis. who knows how much human grief and a quarter of a million dollars Arguing against Che's insistence op the need for action to apiece to train. No, just for the Photo by Shannon extend the revolution, Lightfoot recalls that, in the days of Lenin, jet fuel and gasoline for one big PRESS CONFERENCE. Fred Halstead being interviewed on Oct. the Russian revolutionaries also looked for an extension of the raid. That's the way they spend 30 in New York on plans to fly to San Francisco to help work on revolution into Western Europe. But it just didn't happen that way. our money these days. antiwar referendum in Nov. 7 elections. Referendum group had Instead of a revolution in Germany, he recalls, fascism triumphed. I say with some pride that the issued appeal for those opposed to war to come and aid effort. All of this, Lightfoot suggests, was due to some supra-political antiwar opposition within this process which defies analysis, no less being subject to control. country is going to get more and But if you think the most vital developing, as an independent "The Lord moves in mysterious ways," he observes philosophically. more expensive for them - in What happened in Europe was actually quite concrete and more ways than one - as long as thing in this country is the abili­ force, independent of the profi­ this illegal, immoral war contin­ ty of big business to invest its teers in whose vital interests the quite explainable. The explanation confirms Che and rebuts Light­ ues. money profitably and that every­ war is being pursued, and inde­ foot. You know, after the April 15 thing, every human value, must pendent of their political machines In the days immediately after the victory of · the Russian demonstration they felt called be subordinated to that, then you and agents. Revolution there was good reason to expect revolutions in Western upon to bring General Westmore­ come up with a different an­ It would be a terrible folly, a Europe. In 1919 German workers and soldiers formed revolution­ swer ... land back from directing that terrible waste, a terrible crime, if ary councils. In Italy a little later, the workers occupied major bloody adventure to speak in New The vital interest of which John­ this rapidly growing movement, factories in massive revolutionary sit-ins. York City and attack the antiwar son and Humphrey speak is the sparked by thousands upon thou­ These, and other revolutionary struggles of the time, were movement. This time Johnson and vital interest of profitable invest­ sands of young people becoming Humphrey themselves had to do ment for big business, the guts radical, were to be channeled back defeated. And the reason was an important one. In each case, the the job ... of the capitalist system. into the trap and the cesspool of workers had not succeeded in building a mass Marxist-Leninist Hubert Humphrey, speaking on "Support our boys in Vietnam" capitalist politics, back into sub­ party capable of leading them to power. Oct. 23, declared: "The vital means for them send our boys to ordination to and control by those In Germany the workers again had their opportunity in the American interest in Vietnam lies die to protect existing investments to whom the war is a vital in­ early 1930s. But Hitler come to power - and did so without a in stability and security in Asia." and to secure areas for further in­ terest ... serious struggle. This incredible defeat came despite the fact of We hear that phrase more and vestment of the swollen profits. This socialist election campaign the existence of powerful, mass Communist and Socialist parties "Stop communism" means stop more now. "Vital American in­ is not going to be a small or a rou­ in Germany at the time. The defeat was the direct result of the terest in Vietnam." What is it in revolutions which cut off areas of tine, or a purely educational af­ false and treacherous policies of these two parties. The Socialist that tiny country Vietnam, 10,000 investment. "Support the free fair. it is going to be a widespread, miles away, that is so essential to world" means keep and extend the massive, aggressive campaign Party leadership was incapable of revolutionary struggle against the very guts of this rich and areas in which U.S. big business against the war, · for black control fascism and the Communist Party leadership, under the tutelage powerful United States of Ameri­ is free to make a profit. "Fight for of the black communities and for of Stalin, blindly insisted that the Socialists were the "main ca? freedom" means fight for the free­ necessary, fundamental social enemy" and refused to forge a united antifascist front. Well, it all depends on what you dom of a tiny minority of the U.S. change. Later in the 30s the Communist parties of Europe veered consider to be vital, essential, population to make profits off for­ On the war issue alone, we sharply from this ultraleft insanity to reformism. Their reformist eign investments ... within this country. You see, if speak for more people in this coun­ policies in Spain, France and elsewhere led to further defeats you think the lives of our young That's the cause and the contin­ try than either Johnson or the Re­ of the revolution. men are most vital, if you think uing reason for the war in Viet­ publicans. That's according to their a itentic 'l to replacing our slums nam. That's why the ruling class, own polls. I'm utterly convinced Today those same reformist policies, which led to these costly with ac:ce:1t housing is vital, if in spite of splits over strategy, we speak for a majority of the defeats, are being pursued by Moscow-influenced Communist you think solving the transporta­ pursues it, and that's why no poli­ Gis themselves in Vietnam when parties in Latin America, in the U.S. heartland of imperialism, tion problems which choke our tician who is subordinated to their we demand: "Bring the Gis home and elsewhere. It was against these ruinous policies that Che was cities with traffic jams and smog interests - which all Democratic now!" fighting when he gave his life in the struggle in Bolivia. is vital, if you think cutting the and Republican politicians are - If they had fair elections in this It is an irony for Lightfoot to cite the bitter fruits of previous cost of living, and eliminating can lead an effective opposition to country, that is, if I could get as reformist policies to bolster present ones. poverty and getting decent educa­ this adventure in Southeast much radio, TV time and news tion and higher wages and short­ Asia ... coverage as Johnson, and if I could er hours are vital, then obviously To be effective, the antiwar debate him on national TV, we the war is irrational and mad as movement in this country must could come close to winning this Senat·e Witch-Hunt can be. continue to develop as it has been election. James 0. E;astland, the Senate's paunchy crusader for political Of course, we know there will reaction, white supremacy and anticommunism, is preparing to be no such fairness, no such dem­ ride out to slay the new crop of "un-American" dragons that are ocracy, but we are going to force terrorizing the peaceful folks in the White House and the Pentagon. this war issue into this campaign Carrying on in the tradition of his former colleague, the late at every point. We're going to trav­ el all over the country to hun­ big cheese from Wisconsin, McCarthy, Senator Eastland is armed dreds of campuses, cities and meet­ with a mandate for "a full and complete investigation of the ings. I look forward to joining you activities of the National Conference for New Politics and any in the many mass demonstrations organizations and individuals affiliated or associated therewith." which will protest the war wher­ Even the staid New York Times observes ominously that this ever Johnson speaks in a major "amounts to a license to hunt for subversion in practically every city on his campaign. organization of dissent now in existence." Those opposed to the war in this Aimed initially at the NCNP and the Mississippi Freedom country will have a ticket to vote for in good conscience, and this Democratic Party, the Times assumes the witch-hunt investiga­ is it. So let's get out and meet tion will be broadened to cover many other groups that attended those people who were only just the Labor Day New Politics convention in Chicago, including represented by that massive turn­ "various Trostkyite and sodalist groups." out in Washington a week ago. Eastland's Senate Internal Security Subcommittee has begun Let's get to the antiwar fighters, its latest assault on civil liberties with a series of moves in keep­ to the students just waking up, to ing with the ethical standards that can be expected of suc.h a body. the black people rising in their Sneak thieves stole files and papers from the rooms of the communities, to the workers, the parents of young men being draft­ MFDP and other organizations at the Palmer House in. Chicago ed, to the Gis themselves. during the NCNP gathering. These papers are now in Eastland's Yes, they have a right to vote. hands. Lawyers demanding the return of the stolen documents Photo by Dan Hodak Surely they have a right to read were shown the hitherto secret mandate quoted above, author­ DETROIT ARSON. At 4 a.m. on Oct. 29 the headquarters of De­ election literature, the right to use · izing the "investigation" and making Eastland immune to prosecu­ troit area antiwar activity was broken into and set afire. Fire their vote to oppose the war which tion for theft. The mandate, however, was dated five weeks after oppresses them above all. the papers had been stolen. Department arrived in time to prevent spread of fire, but damages Let's get out and have a clean­ to office equipment, files, etc., was extensive. Response of civil cut head-on confrontation with the The antiwar, black and radical movements should unite in liberties and antiwar movement was immediate. Funds are being warmakers in politics as well as vigorous opposition to this new witch-hunt. Eastland - and the collected and broad united effort being organized in response to in the streets. administration - will find the movement of dissent cannot be right-wing attack. I accept the nomination. · intimidated. Page Four THE MILITANT - Monday, Castro's Tribute to El [The following is the full text only a soldier, but the most out­ walked some distance when we the city of Santa Clara, entering, ber of men, has set about a task of the speech by Major Fidel Cas­ standing soldier in that battle, car­ remembered some rifles of some with a column of barely 300 men, of such import; a case in which tro in memory of Major Ernesto rying out for the first time one farmer-soldiers who had been with a city defended by tanks, artillery a leader, with such a limited num­ Che Guevara, at the Plaza of the of those singular feats that char· us in the first actions and had and several thousand infantry sol­ ber of men, has set out to fight Revolution, Havana, on Oct. 18 acterized him in all military ac· then asked permission to visit their diers. against such large forces. Such before a mass :memorial meeting tion. Our forces continued to de· families at a time when there was Those two heroic deeds stamped proof of confidence in himself, of hundreds of thousands.] velop and we faced another battle still not much discipline in our him as an extraordinarily capable such proof of confidence in the of extraordinary importance at embryonic army. And right then peoples, such proof of faith in Revolutionary Comrades: leader, as a master, as a virtuoso that moment. it was thought that possibly the in the art of revolutionary war. man's capacity to fight, can be I first met Che one day in July The situation was difficult. The rifles were lost. However, now after his heroic looked for in the pages of history or August, 1955. And in one night information we had was erroneous I recall that the problem was and glorious death, some attempt - but the like of it will never - as he recalls in his writings - in many respects. We were going not brought up again and, during be found. he became one of the future ex­ to attack, in full daylight - at to deny the truth or value of his the bombardment, Che volunteer­ And he fell. peditionaries of the Granma, al· dawn - a strongly defended, well· ed, and having done so, quickly concepts, his guerrilla theories. though at that time that expedition armed position at the edge of the went out to recover those rifles. The master may die - especial­ The enemy believes it has de­ possessed neither ship, nor arms sea. Enemy troops were at our This was one of his principal ly when he is a virtuoso in an art feated his ideas, his guerrilla con­ nor troops. rear, not very distant, and in that characteristics: his willingness to as dangerous as revolutionary cepts, his point of view on revolu· And that was how, together with confused situation it was neces· instantly volunteer for the most struggle - but what will surely tionary armed struggle. And what Raul, Che became one of the first never die is the art to which he they accomplished, by a stroke of two on the Granma list. And 12 dedicated his life, the art to which luck, was to eliminate him phy­ years have passed since then - he dedicated his intelligence. sically - what they accomplished they have been 12 years filled What is so strange about the was to gain an accidental advan­ with struggle and historical sig­ fact that this master died in com· tage that an enemy may gain in nificance. During this time death bat? What is stranger is that he war. has cut down many brave and in­ did not die in combat on one of And we do not know to what valuable men, but, at the same the innumerable occasions when degree that stroke of luck, that time, throughout those years of he risked his life during our rev· stroke of fortune, was helped our revolution, extraordinary per­ olutionary struggle. And many along, in a battle like many others, sons have arisen, forged from times it was necessary to take by that characteristic of which we among men of the revolution, and steps to keep him from losing his spoke before - his excessive ag. between those men and the people, life in actions of minor signifi· gressiveness, his absolute disdain bonds of affection and of friend· cance. for danger. ship have emerged which surpass Achilles Heel This also happened in our war all description. of independence. In a battle at And so it was in a combat - in Dos Rios they killed the apostle Extraordinary Comrade one of the many battles he fought of our independence. In a battle Tonight we are meeting to try - that he lost his life. We do not at Punta Brava, they killed An­ to express, in some degree, our have sufficient evidence to enable tonio Maceo, a veteran of hun­ feelings toward him who was one us to make deductions about what dreds of battles. Countless leaders, of the closest, the most beloved circumstances preceded that com­ countless patriots of our war of and, without doubt, the most ex­ bat, to imagine how far he may independence were killed in simi· traordinary of our revolutionary have acted in an excessively ag­ lar battles. And, nevertheless, that comrades - to express our feel· gressive way, but - we repeat - did not spell defeat for the Cuban ings for him and for the heroes if as a guerrilla he had an Achil· cause. who have fought with him and les' heel that Achilles' heel was fallen with him, his international­ his excessive daring, his complete Grievous Loss ist army that has been writing a contempt for danger. The death of Che - as we said glorious and never-to-be-effaced And this is where we can hard­ a few days ago - is a hard blow historical epic. ly agree with him, since we con­ for the revolutionary movement Che was one of those people sider that his life, his experience, in that it deprives it, without a who is liked immediately, for his his capacity as a seasoned leader, doubt, of its most experienced and simplicity, his character, his na­ his prestige and everything his able leader. turalness, his comradely attitude, life signified, were more valuable, But those who are boasting of his personality, his originality, incomparably more valuable than victory are mistaken. They are even when one had not yet learned he himself, perhaps, believed. mistaken when they think that his of his other characteristic and His conduct may have been death is the end of his ideas, the unique virtues. profoundly influenced by the idea end of his tactics, the end of his In those first days he was our that men have a relative value in guerrilla concepts, the end of his troop doctor. And so the bonds history, the idea that causes are thesis. For the man who fell, as of friendship and warm feelings not defeated when men fall, that a mortal man, as a man who faced for him were ever increasing. the powerful march of history bullets time and again, as a sol­ He was filled with a profound cannot and will not be halted dier, as a leader, was a thousand t,pirit of hatred and loathing for when leaders fall. sary to ask the men to make a dangerous m1ss1on. And naturally times more able than those who imperialism, not only because his Ana that is true, there is no supreme effort. this aroused admiration, and twice killed him by a stroke of luck. political awareness was already doubt about it. It shows his faith the usual admiration, for a fellow However, how must revolution­ considerably developed, but also Comrade Juan Almeida had in men, his faith in ideas, his faith combatant, fighting alongside us, aries face this serious setback? because, shortly before, he had taken on one of the most difficult in examples. However - as I said who had not been born here, a How must they face this loss? If had the opportunity of witnessing missions, but one of our flanks a few days ago - with all our man of profound ideas, a man in Che had to express an opinion on the criminal imperialist interven­ remained completely without heart we would have liked to see whose mind stirred the dream of this point, what would it be? He tion in Guatemala through the forces - one of the flanks was him as a forger of victories, to struggle in other parts of the con­ gave this opinion, he expressed mercenaries who aborted the rev­ left without an attacking force, see victories forged under his lead­ tinent and who was, nonetheless, that opinion quite clearly when olution in that country. placing the operation in danger. ership, since men of his experi­ so altruistic, so disinterested, so he wrote in his message to the And at that moment, Che, who ence, men of his caliber, of his willing to always do the most dif· Latin American Conference of Partisan was still functioning as our doc· really unique capacity, are not ficult things, to const.antly risk his Solidarity that if death surprised tor, asked for two or three men, common. A man like Che did not require life. him anywhere, it would be wel­ elaborate arguments. It was suf· among them one with a machine come as long as his battle cry gun, and in a matter of seconds Example ficient for him to know that there And that was how he won the had reached a receptive ear and were men determined to struggle rapidly set off to assume the mis· rank of major and leader of the We have a full understanding another hand was stretched out sion of attack from that direction. against that situation, arms in second column, organized in the of the value of his example. We to take up his rifle. hand - it was sufficient for him On that occasion he was not only Sierra Maestra. Thus his prestige are absolutely convinced that And his· battle cry will reach to know that those men were in· an outstanding combatant but also began to increase; he began to many men will strive to live up to not just one receptive ear, but spired by genuinely revolutionary an outstanding doctor, attending gain fame as a magnificent com­ his example, that men like him millions of receptive ears. And and patriotic ideals. That was more the wounded comrades and, at the batant who was to reach the high­ will emerge from the heart of the not one hand but millions of hands than enough. same time, attending the wounded est posts in the course of the war. peoples. will be stretched out to take up One day, at the end of Novem· enemy soldiers. Che was an incomparable sol­ It is not easy to find a person arms. After all the weapons had been dier. Che was an incomparable with all the virtues that were com­ ber, 1956, he set out on the expe­ New Hands dition toward Cuba with us. I re· captured and it became necessary leader. Che was, from a military bined in him. It is not easy for a call that that trip was very hard to abandon that position, under· point of view, an extraordinarily person, spontaneously, to develop New leaders will emerge. And for him, since, because of the cir­ taking a long return march under capable man, extraordinarily cour­ a personality like his. I would say the men - of the receptive ears cumstances under which it was the harassment of diverse enemy ageous, extraordinarily aggressive. that he is one of those men who and t~e outstretched hands - will necessary to organize the depar­ forces, it was necessary for some· If, as a guerrilla, he had his are difficult to match and virtual­ need leaders who emerge from the ture, he could not even provide one to stay behind with the Achilles' heel it was this exces­ ly impossible to surpass. But I ranks of the people, just as leaders himself with the medicine he wounded, and Che stayed with the sively aggressive quality, his ab­ would say that the example of have emerged in all revolutions. needed; and, throughout the trip, wounded. Aided by a small group solute contempt for danger. men like him contributes to the Those hands will not have avail­ he suffered from a severe attack of our soldiers, he took care of The enemy believes it can draw appearance of men of the same able a leader of Che's extraordin­ of asthma, with nothing to alle· them, saved their lives and later certain conclusions from his death. caliber. ary experience and enormous viate it, but also without ever rejoined the column with them. Che was a master of warfare. He In Che, we not only admire the ability. Those leaders will be complaining. From that time forward, he was a virtuoso in the art of guer­ fighter, the man capable of per­ formed in the process of struggle We arrived, set out on our first stood out as a capable and valiant rilla struggle. And he showed that forming great feats. And what - those leaders will emerge from march, suffered our first setback leader, of that type of men who, an infinite number of times. But he did, what he was doing, the among the millions of receptive and, at the end of some weeks, as when a difficult mission is pend· he showed it especially in two ex­ very fact of his rising, with a ears, from the millions of hands you all know, a group of those ing, do not wait to be asked to traordinary deeds. One of these handful of men, against the army that will sooner or later be who had survived from the expedi· carry it out. was in the invasion, in which he of the ruling class, trained by stretched out to take up arms. tion of the Granma was able to Thus it was at the battle of El led a column, a column pursued Yankee advisers sent in. by Yan­ It isn't that we feel that his reunite. Che continued to be the Uvero, but he had acted in a simi· by thousands of enemy soldiers kee imperialism, backed by the death will necessarily have im· doctor of our group. lar way on a not previously men· over flat and absolutely unknown oligarchies of all neighboring mediate repercussions in the prac­ We came through the first tioned occasion in the first days terrain, carrying out - together countries - in itself constitutes tical sphere of revolutionary strug­ battle, victorious, and Che was when, following a betrayal, our with Camilo - an extraordinary an extraordinary feat. gle, that his death will necessarily already a soldier of our troop and, little troop was attacked by sur­ military accomplishment. He also And if we search the pages of have immediate repercussions in at the same time, still our doctor. prise by a number of airplanes and showed it in his lightning cam­ history, it is likely that we will the practical sphere of develop­ We came through the second vie· we were forced to retreat under paign in Las Villas Province, espe­ find no other case in which a ment of this struggle. The fact is torious battle and Che was not the bombardment. We had already cially in the audacious attack on leader, with such a limited num- that when Che took up arms again Monday, November 6, 1967 Page Five :rnesto Che Guevara he was not thinking of an im­ repulsiveness of the procedure, a man who does not belong to our mediate victory -- he was not they do not even seem aware of time, the model of a man who be­ thinking of a speedy victory the shamelessness of the admis­ longs to the future, I say from the against the forces of the oligar­ sion. They have published it as depths of my heart that such a chies and of imperialism. As an if thugs, oligarchs and mercenaries model, without a single stain on experienced fighter, he was pre­ had the right to shoot a seriously his conduct, without a single stain pared for a prolonged struggle of wounded revolutionary combatant. on his action, is Che! If we wish five, 10, 15, or 20 years, if nec­ And even worse they explain to express what we want our chil­ essary. He was ready to fight five, why they did it. They assert that dren to be, we must say from our 10, 15, 20 years, or all his life if Che's trial would have been quite very hearts as ardent revolution­ need be! an earthshaker, tl:iat it would have aries: "We want them to be like And within this time perspec­ been imposstble to place this rev­ Che!" tive, his death - or rather his olutionary in the dock. Che has become a model of example - will have tremendous And not only that, but neither what men should be, not only for repercussions. The force of that have they hesitated to spirit away our people but also for people ev­ example will be invincible. his remains. And be it true or erywhere in Latin America. Che false, they certainly announced carried to its highest expression Those who cling to the idea of they had cremated his body, thus revolutionary stoicism, the revolu• luck try in vain to deny his ex­ beginning to show their fear, be­ tionary spirit of sacrifice, revolu­ perience and his capacity as a lead­ ginning to show that they are not tionary combativeness, the revolu­ er. Che was an extraordinarily so sure that by physically elim­ tionary's spirit of work. able military leader. But when we inating the combatant, they can Che brought the ideas of Marx­ remember Che, when we think of liquidate his ideas, liquidate his ism-Leninism to their freshest, Che we do not think fundamental­ example. purest, most revolutionary expres­ ly ~f his military virtues. No! Che fell defending the interests, sion. No other man of our time Warfare is a means and not an has carried the spirit of interna­ end - warfare is a tool of rev­ defending the cause of the ex­ ploited and the oppressed peoples tionalism to its highest possible olutionaries. The important thing level as Che did. is the revolution - the important of this continent - Che fell de­ fending the cause of the poor and And in the future, when an ex­ thing is the revolutionary cause, ample of a proletarian interna­ revolutionary ideas, revolutionary disfranchised of this earth. And the exemplary manner and the tionalist is sought, that example, objectives, revolutionary senti­ high above any other, will be ments, revolutionary virtues! selflessness with which he de­ fended that cause cannot be dis­ Che's example! National flags, And it is in that field, in the puted by even his most bitter prejudices, chauvinism and egoism field of ideas, in the field of senti­ enemies. had disappeared from his mind ments, in the field of revolution­ and heart. And he was ready to ary virtues, in the field of intel­ And before history, men who act as he did, men who do and shed his generous blood sponta­ ligence, that - apart from his neously and immediately, in be­ military virtues - we feel the give all for the cause of the op­ pressed, grow in stature with each half of any people, for the cause tremendous loss that his death of any people! means to the revolutionary move­ passing day, and find a deeper And thus, his blood fell on our ment. place in the heart of the peoples CHE POSTERS. These posters, 17" by 22", with red background, with each passing day. The im­ soil when he was wounded in sev­ Because Che's extraordinary are available from Young Socialist Alliance, P.O. Box 471, New perialist enemies are beginning to eral battles - and his blood was personality was made up of virtues York, N.Y. 10003. Cost 50¢. see this, and it will not be long shed in Bolivia, for the redemp­ which are rarely found together. before it will be proved that his tion of the exploited and the op­ He stood out as an unsurpassed death will, in the long run, be like pressed. That blood was shed for man of action, but Che was not with less than extraordinary pro­ fundamental lever in the construc­ fundity - and we have no doubt tion of communism in human so­ a seed which will give rise to the sake of all the exploited and only an unsurpassed man of a.:­ many men determined to imitate all the oppressed - that blood was tion - he was a man of visionary that some of his writings will pass ciety. on to posterity as classic docu­ He thought, worked out and him, many men determined to fol­ shed for all the peoples of Amer­ intelligence and broad culture, a low his example. ica and for the people of Vietnam, profound thinker. That is, in his ments of revolutionary thought. wrote many things. And it is fit­ And thus, as fruits of that ting to bring out, on a day like And we are absolutely con­ because while · fighting there in person the man of ideas and the vinced that the revolutionary Bolivia, fighting against the oli­ man of action were combined. vigorous and profound intelligence, today, that Che's writings, Che's he left us an infinity of mem­ political and revolutionary think­ cause on this continent will re­ garchies and imperialism, he knew Integrity ories, an infinity of narratives ing, will be of permanent value in cover from the blow, that the rev­ that he was offering Vietnam the that, without his work, without his the Cuban revolutionary process olutionary movement on this con­ highest possible expression of his But it is not only that Che pos­ efforts, might have been lost for­ and in the Latin American revolu­ tinent will not be crushed by this solidarity! sessed the double characteristic of ever. tionary process. And we do not blow. It is for this reason, comrades of the man of ideas - of profound An indefatigable worker, dur­ doubt that his ideas, as a man of From the revolutionary point of the revolution, that we must face ideas - and the man of action, ing the years that he served our action, as a man of thought, as a view of our people, how must we the future with optimism. And in but that Che as a revolutionary country he did not know a single man of untarnished moral virtues, view Che's example? Do we feel Che's example, we will always look united in himself the virtues which day of rest. Many were the re­ as a man of unexcelled human we have lost him? It is true that for inspiration, inspiration in strug­ can be defined as the fullest ex­ sponsibilities assigned to him: As sensitivity, as a man of spotless we will not see new writings of gle, inspiration in tenacity, inspira­ pression of the virtues of a rev­ president of the National Bank, conduct, have and will continue to his, true that we will never again tion in intransigence toward the olutionary: a man of total integri­ as director of the National Plan­ have universal value. hear his voice. But Che has left enemy, inspiration in internation­ ty, a man of supreme sense of a heritage to the world, a great alist sentiment! ning Board, as Minister of Indus­ The imperialists boast of their honor, of absolute sincerity - a tries, as commander of military heritage, and we who knew him Therefore, after tonight's im­ man of stoic and Spartan living triumph at having killed this guer­ so well can become in great degree pressive ceremony, after this in­ regions, as the head of political rilla figher in action - the im­ habits, a man in whose conduct or economic or fraternal delega­ his beneficiaries. credible demonstration of multitu­ not one stain can be found. He perialists boast of a triumphant tions. He left us his revolutionary dinous recognition - incredible constituted, through his virtues, stroke of luck that led to the thinking, his revolutionary virtues for its magnitude, discipline and what can be called a truly model His versatile intelligence was elimination of such a splendid man - he left us his character, his spirit of devotion - that dem­ revolutionary. able to undertake with maximum of action. But perhaps the im­ will, his tenacity, his spirit of onstrates that our people are a sen­ assurance any task of any kind. perialists do not know or pretend When men die it ls usual to work. In a word, he left us his sitive, grateful people who know And thus he brilliantly represent­ not to know that the man of ac­ example! And Che's example will how to honor the memory of the make speeches, to emphasize their ed our country in numerous in­ tion was only one of the many virtues, but rarely as on this oc­ be a model for our people - Che's brave who die in combat, that our casion can one say of a man, with ternational conferences, just as he facets of the personality of that example will be the ideal model people recognize those who serve greater justice, with greater ac­ brilliantly led soldiers in combat, combatant. And if we speak of for our people! them, that demonstrates the peo­ curacy, what we say of Che: that just as he was a model worker in sorrow, we are saddened not only If we wish to express what we ple's solidarity with the revolution­ at having lost a man of action, we he was a pure example of revolu­ charge of any of the institutions expect our revolutionary com­ ary struggle and how this people that he was assigned to. And for are saddened - at having lost a tionary virtues. batants, our militants, our men to will raise aloft and maintain ever him there were no days of rest; morally superior man, we are sad­ But he possessed another quali­ be, we must say, without hesita­ higher aloft the revolutionary ban­ for him there were no hours of dened at having lost a man of ex­ tion: "Let them be like Che!" If ners and revolutionary principles ty, not a quality of the intellect rest! quisite human sensitivity, we are nor of the will, not a quality de­ we wish to express what we want - in these moments of remem­ And if we looked through the saddened at having lost such a the men of future generations to brance, let us lift our spirits, with rived from experience, from strug­ windows of his offices, he had the mind. We are saddened to think gle, but a quality of the heart: He be, we must say: "Let them be optimism in the future, with ab­ lights 9n until all hours of the that he was only 39 years old at like Che!" If we wish to say how solute optimism in the final vic­ was an extraordinarily human night, studying, or rather, working the time of his death. man, extraordinarily sensitive. we want our children to be edu­ tory of the peoples, and say to or studying. For he was a student We are saddened at missing the cated, we must say without hesita­ Che and to the heroes who fought That is why we say, when we of all problems, he was a tireless additional fruits that we would tion: "We want them to be educat­ and died with him: Ever onward think of his life, that he constitut­ reader. His thirst for learning was have received from that intelli­ ed in Che's spirit!" If we want to victory! ed the singular case of a most ex­ practically insatiable, and the gence and that ever richer ex­ the model of a man, the model of Patria o Muerte! Venceremos! traordinary man, able to unite in hours he stole from sleep he de­ perience. his personality not only the char­ voted to study. We have an idea of the dimen­ acteristics of the man of action, He devoted his scheduled days sion of the loss for the revolu­ If you enjoy reading The Militant and are interested in but also of the man of thought, off to voluntary work. He was the tionary movement. But, neverthe­ what the young socialist movement is thinking and doing, of the man of immaculate revolu­ inspiration and provided the great­ less, here is the weak side of the you will want to subscribe to America's leading young so­ tionary virtues and of extraor­ est incentive for that work which imperialist enemy: They think that cialist magazine dinary human sensibility, joined is today carried out by hundreds by eliminating a man physically with an iron character, a will of of thousands of persons throughout they have eliminated his think­ steel, indomitable tenacity. the country, he stimulated that ac­ ing - that by eliminating him And because of this, he has left tivity in which our people are physically they have eliminated his THE YOUNG SOCIALIST to the future generations not only making greater and greater ef­ ideas, eliminated his virtues, elim­ $1.25 a year (eleven issues) his experience, his knowledge as forts. inated his example. an outstanding soldier, but also, at And as a revolutionary, as a And so shameless are they in Send your dollar to communist revolutionary, a true this belief that they have no hesi­ the same time, the fruits of his P.O. Box 471, Cooper Station, New York, N. Y. 10003 intelligence. He wrote with the vir­ communist, he had a boundless tation in publishing, as the most tuosity of a master of our language. faith in moral values. He had a natural thing in the world, the His narratives of the war are in­ boundless faith in moral values, by now almost universally accept­ Name ...... comparable. The depth of his he had a boundless faith in the ed circumstances in which they Street ...... •...... Zip ...... thinking is impressive. He never conscience of man. And we should murdered him after he had been wrote about anything with less say that he saw, with absolute seriously wounded in action. They City ...... State ...... than extraordinary seriousness, clarity, the moral resources as the do not even seem aware of the Page Six THE MILITANT Monday, November 6, 1967 PeruvianMilitary Tribunal SparesHugo Blanco s Lile BlackLiberation Notes According to an Agence France­ Presse dispatch from Lima, Oct. If Stokely Carmichael wanted to the Navy hospital where he works. 12, the Supreme Military Court visit Jamaica on his present world­ Edward Lynn now faces prosecu­ handed down a decision "confirm­ wide tour, he wouldn't be able to tion simply for passing out mimeo­ ing the 25-year sentence'' imposed do it. He and James Forman, graphed leaflets stating that the on Hugo Blanco, the well-known SNCC's director of international U.S. Navy Hospital in San Diego peasant leader. affairs, have been "banned" from discriminates against black and The prosecution had countered that country by the Ministry of Mexican-American employes. Hugo Blanco's appeal of the sav­ Home Affairs. According to the hospital public age sentence by demanding the In doing this Jamaica is follow­ affairs officer, Lynn's attempts to death pepalty. ing in the path of its former col­ expose discrimination in work as­ Had the court conceded to this onial master, Great Britain. Car­ signments, housing assignments, demand, Hugo Blanco could have michael was banned from England and promotions, constitutes a dan­ been executed within 24 hours last summer because the British ger to "order and discipline" in the after the verdict. government was afraid of the hospital and is in violation of the World-Wide Defense radicalizing influence he might Uniform Code of Military Justice. have on Britain's oppressed minor­ Charges against him include "dis­ An international campaign was ity peoples, many of whom have respect for the President of the mounted to save Hugo Blanco. immigrated from the West Indies. United States" and "disrespect for Peruvian consulates and embassies the commanding officer." were picketed in cities around the world. Hundreds of messages and • • appeals were made to President The Malcolm X Memorial So­ Martin Luther King and three Belaunde to spare Hugo Bianco's ciety at Howard University has other clergymen went to jail this Charles P. Howard announced that each week they life and commute the sentence. Hugo Blanco week because the Supreme Court The appeals came from a wide intend to hang in effigy a "Tom of decided to back up the State of the Week.'' This week, during a payroll to arrest any blacks who range of sources, including prom­ Alabama in its use of the courts start to gain prominence. inent intellectuals in many coun­ onstrate their solidarity with Hugo demonstration for student power as a means to oppress black peo­ tries and such world-famous fig­ Blanco. and a black-oriented curriculum, ple. The higher court decision ap­ ures as Jean-Paul Sartre and Ber­ The decision of the court, reject­ students set fire to an effigy of plied to a case which grew out • trand Russell. ing the demand of the prosecution Howard University President of the historic demonstrations in Charles P. Howard, the colµmn• Organizations representing thou­ to kill Hugo Blanco, represents a James Nabrit. Birmingham, Ala., in 1963. ist whose writings are carried in sands of members added their victory for the international cam­ In calling for Afro-Americaniz­ A number of prominent politi­ i:nany Afro-American papers, re­ weight to the international protest. paign waged in his behalf. How­ ing the curriculum, one of the cians are using the decision to cently devoted a lengthy column to the memory of Che Guevara. Actions in behalf of Hugo ever, it is only a partial victory. speakers pointed across the quad­ attack the black freedom struggle. Hugo Blanco still faces a quarter Calling his death a "tremendous Blanco continued right up to the rangle and said, "That's Douglass On Oct. 30, for example, Gov. of a century in prison because of blow to the cause of freedom in very eve of the court hearing. On Hall, named for a great black man, Romney told a meeting of news­ his revolutionary-socialist views. Latin America," Howard writes Oct. 10, for instance, some 500 but they don't even have a course paper executives in Boston that it The campaign to win his free­ that "the imperialist powers, the people were reported by Le Monde where you can learn anything is right for Dr. King to go to jail dom will certainly be continued. about him." "if he has broken the law." rich, and the privileged, concerned to have assembled before the Pe­ only with the tremendous profits ruvian embassy in Paris to dem- The partial victory gained should serve to intensify the demands to • • garnered out of the exploitation President Belaunde to grant am­ A black Navy Reserve Corps­ According to the Oct. 26 Wall of that area, are unrestrained in nesty to Hugo Blanco and his com­ man is finding out the hard way Street Journal, not one black per­ their glee." GrunauerSalutes rades who are in prison with him. that free speech is nonexistent in son is in a position to draw a sub­ Howard calls Che an "incom­ stantial share of profits made by parable freedom fighter" who has the Mafia - despite the fact that "made a tremendous contribution SWPContribution much of the annual take from to the liberation and independence ... launchSWP Campaign numbers and narcotics comes out of Cuba both as a guerrilla fighter ToAntiwar Fight of the ghetto. and as an administrator in the In enforcing discrimination in early days of the Castro Govern­ [Abner Grunauer, administra­ (Continued from Page 1) Stalin triumphed over the Bol­ the underworld, racketeers often ment." tive committee member of the from Pfc. Howard Petrick, the GI shevik leaders in the mid-1920s. use white cops on the syndicate -Elizabeth 6arnes National Mobilization and New who has fought for his right to He drew particular attention to York Fifth Avenue Peace Parade speak against the war in the army, committees, paid the following per­ in the face of threatened court­ the "Theses of the Central Com­ sonal tribute to Fred Halstead at martial: mittee of the Communist Party WhyPres. Johnson Favors the SWP campaign rally.] "Greetings on the 50th anniver­ of the Soviet Union on the Fiftieth As one who has never been a sary of the first successful socialist Anniversary of the Great October member of the Socialist Workers revolution. To remain true to the Socialist Revolution" published Stokesfor Cleveland Mayor Party and who does not now neces­ spirit of revolutionary socialism we earlier this year. sarily subscribe to many of its must strive to bring the program tenets and programs, I wish nev­ of the Socialist Workers Party to The document attacks Trotsky­ By Eric Reinthaler ertheless to pay a personal tribute the American masses by means of ism for "using the screen of ultra­ CLEVELAND - Carl B. Stokes, political editor Richard L. Maher to Fred Halstead, with whom I the Halstead and Boutelle cam­ left revolutionary phraseology" in Negro Democrat who won the wrote: "Months ago it was dis­ have worked for the past two and paign. Warmest regards." order "to impose an adventurous nomination for mayor of Cleve- closed here that President John­ a half years in a somewhat close The rally concluded with a policy of artificially pushing the land in the Oct. 3 primary, is clear- son wants desperately to elect a and always harmonious relation­ speech by Tom Kerry, editor of the revolution in other countries and ly the preferred candidate of the Negro mayor in Cleveland, and ship in the Fifth Avenue Vietnam International Socialist Review. dooming the building of socialism ruling class. Stokes has the en- that Stokes was his choice. Peace Parade Committee, the Kerry attacked the Soviet bureau­ in our country to failure." dorsement of the Cuyahoga Coun- "Political observers feel that Spring Mobilization of April 15, ty Democratic organization. Both Johnson has written off Ohio, cracy for deceiving and mislead­ Pointing out that the logical and the recent national mobiliza­ ing the world revolution since Cleveland daily papers endorsed which he carried by a million tion in Washington. consequence of the Kremlin posi­ Stokes in the primary, and the votes in 1964, that he wants to tion was the fact that the USSR Plain Dealer just endorsed him get Stokes elected to use this as Dedication "has not rendered adequate ma­ over Republican candidate Seth a campaign argument in other terial aid to the embattled Viet­ I wish on this occasion to ex­ DowProtested Taft. northern areas to hold large blocs press particularly my ever-in­ namese freedom fighters," Kerry In 1965 Stokes ran as an in- of Negroes in line in 1968." creasing admiration and respect warned that an implicit target of dependent for mayor and narrow­ the Kremlin polemic was the rev­ In the election two years ago, for his high personal and political At HarvardU. ly missed election. A short time Stokes was opposed by the Demo­ integrity, for his many and varied olutionary Cuban government and later, Vice President Humphrey CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In the its line of promoting revolution cratic incumbent, the Republican organizational abilities, and espe­ came to Cleveland to hold a pri­ aftermath of the Oct. 21 mobiliza­ in Latin America, adopted by the candidate and by a rabid white cially for his manifest and un- vate meeting with Stokes. Last tion, a rally and sit-in protesting recent Organization of Latin supremacist. That election was a . shakable dedication to the cause year Stokes was reelected as a job interviewing on the Harvard American Solidarity Conference. massive expression of the pos­ of peace, justice and freedom for campus by Dow Chemical Com­ Democrat to the State Legislature. sibility of mounting a successful all peoples, his profound involve­ Kerry noted that the very day pany, manufacturers of napalm, the pro-Moscow Chilean Commu­ Vietnam campaign outside the Democratic ment in the struggle for a better were organized by Students for a and Republican parties. The ex­ society and a happier human con­ nist Party announced the murder Stokes' campaign budget was Democratic Society. said to be $160,000. When ques­ tension of it would have provided dition everywhere. of Che Guevara, it took the oc­ On Oct. 24, 500 to 600 students casion to attack Che and OLAS as tioned on the war in Vietnam, he a powerful impetus to black in­ Moreover, I cannot let this occa· assembled in Harvard Yard to dependent political action in other sion slip by without paying tribute "adventuristic." stated, "I stand with my Presi­ hear eyewitnesses describe the dent." This was true in spite of large cities. also to those other members of On the contrary, Kerry asserted, Oct. 21 action at the Pentagon, the fact that a large number of The ruling class hopes to head your party . . . and all the won­ "the murderous Bolivian puppets including a report by the editor the more than 10,000 signers of off such a development. They be­ derful young people who have . . . feared, and with good reason, of The Crimson, the campus news­ that the very ground in which Che the petition for an antiwar referen­ lieve that the expected Stokes vic­ contributed so much, so unsparing­ paper, on the distortions and delib­ tory in Cleveland will have a na­ ly, so astutely and so efficiently was buried would become an in­ dum in Cleveland were from the erate oversights of the daily press. black community. tional impact, fostering illusions to the great historical mass peace ternational shrine and a symbol Speakers emphasized the pos­ of man's eternal struggle against Stokes supported Republican about the possibility of achieving manifestations of the past two a degree of "black power" within years. sibilities for organizing against the oppression." Governor Rhodes' Ohio Bond war as a result of the mobiliza­ Kerry recalled that although the Commission proposal, which was the framework of the Democratic Although this audience I'm sure Party. will not construe this tribute of tion, and urged that more work Bolivian authorities had cremated a give-away program to large cor­ mine as a political endorsement be done, especially on the Cam­ Che's body, they had preserved the porate interests. Stokes favored The only problem is that the of the ticket, which I cannot do bridge referendum on the war. hand for identification with finger­ selling the Cleveland Municipal capitalist system, and the Demo­ at this point, I do extend to both The following day 200 people prints in Argentine files. "They Light Plant, the publicly owned crats and Republicans who support Fred Halstead and Paul Boutelle sat in and effectively prevented burned Che's body, that is true, low-rate company, to the privately it, cannot change the oppressive my sincerest wishes for success personnel recruiting by two Dow but the specter of that hand shall owned Cleveland Electric Illumin­ ghetto conditions which gave rise during the campaign in bringing Chemical agents on campus. haunt them until the day of their ating Co. Several key figures in to the struggle for black power. home to the American electorate Posters read, "Dow Shalt Not deaths, for that hand shall yet be­ the latter, like Ralph Besse and Negro representation in the Demo­ the basic evil of the Vietnam war Kill." come the symbol, the banner, the Cyrus Eaton, were avid backers cratic machine will not change and the immediate urgency for A similar action at Boston Col­ flag around which legions shall and financers of the Stokes cam­ this. It will only give the ruling ending it. Good luck to both of lege was conducted by 150 stu­ rally to finish the job that Che paign. parties a longer stranglehold on you. dents. began." In the Cleveland Press, Oct. 7, the ghettos. Monday, November 6, 1967 THE MILlTANT Page Seven

[This column is an open forum dent the co-op will succeed if we perpetuate himself in power in­ would like to perpetuate the cul­ Even though the original ideal­ for all viewpoints on subjects of can hold on through the shaky definitely. tural life of the Jews evaluated the ism has vanished from the Kib­ general interest to our readers. beginnings of business . without What can the American people war differently. butz, yet the country is not mono­ Please keep your letters brief •. any money. And we will hold on to do about? Whoever said the pen I am of the opinion that Israel lithic. Under peaceful conditions Where necessary they will be build meaningful employment is mightier than the sword has is placed in the role it is now in the· reactionary forces would not abridged. Writers' initials will be where there isn't any. yet to prove it. by the deliberate action of the dominate, nationalism would not used, names being withheld unless People are leavil}:g ·Doddsville, I prefer to give anyone the Arabs. The fact that the Arabs up permeate the consciousness of the authorization is given for use.] Senator Eastland's home town, benefit of the doubt and I some­ to now· have not recognized Israel people, a climate would be created faster than almost any other town times think Johnson is a captive and are a constant threat to its where ideas would flourish. Israel Landslide? in the county, As in much of the rather than a leader of the mili­ existence pushes Israel into a de­ would become an exporter of new Minneapolis, Minn. Delta, there's no industry, and tary-industrial complex. fensive position and into the arms ideas and the biggest item would A few statistics· that you might work on Eastland's plantation and Many people riow believe that of the imperialists. be socialism. be interested in on the recent others is being done by machines. President Kennedy's assassination But, assuming that the Arab na­ L.S. ' . was not the act of one deranged Saigon elections, and how much After school let out last spring tions would recognize Israel as support Thieu and Ky "really" most of the young people old ex-Marine but a well-organized part and parcel of their environ­ African Gu·errillas have. Based on reports accepted enough left for Florida, St. Louis, conspiracy carried out by a coali­ ment, a state they can coexist Long Island, N.Y. by the government, of the total and other places looking for work. tion of Texas oilmen, crackpot with, this assurance to Israel's 'I have been reading The Militant population of South Vietnam only We would be grateful for any rightists and Cuban refugees. stability without fear of attack now for about seven months. I one.third were allowed to vote, contributions you can make at this President Johnson, better than would turn Israel toward a devo­ enjoy reading The Militant but I giving us 33.3 percent. time. We also appreciate very anyone else, knows he himself is tion to peaceful endeavors. would like to know why it does Of these, the dictators claimed much material and clothes that are expendable and if he were sud­ Israel would in all likelihood not say anything about the Af. 85 percent voted, which is 28.3 per· sent here. denly to call -a halt to the war he become the catalytic agent for in­ rican guerrillas fighting in the ,would probably suffer the fate of cent of the population. Thieu and Otis Brown dustrial development in the Mid­ southern part of Africa. Ky received 35 percent of the vote, his predecessor. dle East. And this would lead to C.D. President, Sunflower Dale Rasmussen which is 9.9 percent of the pop­ County Improvement Association, a new awakening, a real possibil­ ulation. Box 398, Sunflower, Miss. 38'7'78 lsra'el ity for socialism. Sounds Credible To top it off, practically nobody New York, N.Y. · I have read the position paper Detroit, Mich. believes that the dictators got even Rusk Racist? The six-day war between Israel of the Israeli group in The Mili­ Did you know that President that large a vote without resorting New York, N.Y. and her Arab neighbors created a tant. This group proposes that once Johnson uses "Sheer Magic" by to extensive fraud. In the Saigon division among well-meaning rev­ again Israel should be dominated Max Factor to give him a natural­ Of course it's absurd to charge by others and become a minority ly glamorous look when he goes National Assembly, handpicked Dean Rusk with invoking the rac­ olutionary',minded people. It was by Thieu and Ky themselves, 48 hard to accept the accusation that in their own country. This pros­ on TVJ ist image of the "yellow peril" pect is unacceptable to Jews. J,W, of the 103 members voted to throw when he warns of the threat of a Israel is imperialist in nature. It out the election as fraudulent. billion Chinese armed with nuclear was hard to accept that Israel was s.w. weapons. fighting ~ war of conquest. Those who so characterized the Thought for the ~eek Mississippi Rep,ort In fact it's almost as absurd as the charge that Lyndon Johnson conflict were individuals who did "He even does my hairbands. Why bother going to other people Sunflower, Miss. was talking like a racist when he not care much whether Israel re­ · when one person can do everything?" - Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, We are trying now to get up the told the House of Representatives mains a state in the family of na­ wife of a Texas oil baron, explaining why she does all her shopping tions. On the other hand, it soon money to start a supermarket. back in 1948 that unless we had with Paris clothes designer Hubert de Givenchy. People in the community know a big air force we'd be "a bound became apparent that those who about the market we want to and throttled giant; impotent and build,. and they want it up also.~ easy prey to any yellow dwarf Starting the market would make with a pocketknife." very real to the people our will­ Who could possibly argue with It Was Reported in the Press ingness to progress upward as ex­ Johnson when he pointed out in pressed in our campaign promises. a statement defending Rusk that Art of Positive Thinking - Ac­ leased after a $100,000 indemnifi­ obey the housing code. So now Mrs. Brooks, who gave us the "we have utterly repudiated the cording to the report in Herb cation payment to the Cuban gov­ they're going to do something land for the center, has agreed to racist nonsense of an earlier era"? ernment in a deal that had Wash­ let us move her house over so Caen's San Francisco Chronicle In fact, to charge people like column, U.S. Attorney Cecil Poole ington's blessings, about it. With $4 million of federal we'll have land on which to build Johnson or Rusk with racism is was impressed by the way the tax money in hand, they're going the market. We have found this is Better Ask Them - In an edi­ almost as silly as asserting that Oakland cops clubbed antidraft torial salute to the Oct. 21 Wash­ to open a major campaign to per­ the' only land available to us in Adolph Hitler was anti-Semitic. Sunflower, what with all other demonstrators. "I think they used ington demonstration, the Oct. 24 suade landlords to comply with B.C. a minimum amount of unnecessary land controlled if not owned by Worker noted that some of the the law. the white man. violence," he opined. demonstrators at the Pentagon had Martial Law? sung, among other things, "Ameri­ Suggestion?-The Ukiah, Calif., The sewing cooperative took a San Francisco, Calif. Glum Gusa.nos - Participants week's vacation from sewing to in a Miami Halloween dance spon­ ca the Beautiful" and the national Journal recently did a feature pick a little cotton for some im· I would like to point out a facet sored by a Cuban exile group were anthem. "These young people," story on the weird mansion built mediate cash. The women who are of this country's descent into war­ routed from the hall by tear-gas said the Wo'!"ker, "have a deep at the turn of the century by Sara time madness that The · Militant feeling of patriotism." sewing and ourselves are confi· bombs. Officers of the club Winchester, widow of the firearms and most other antiwar publica­ charged that the job had been Beautification Project - Lynda manufacturer. A rambling 160- tions apparently overlook or fail done by followers of Felipe Rivero, Bird is having a big problem de­ to emphasize. Every intelligent per­ a counterrevolutionary currently ciding which of several fashion­ room house, it has secret passage­ WeeklyCalendar son, on reading about the savage incarcerated by the U.S. and fac­ able hairdressers should do her ways, doors leading into blank brutality inflicted on peaceful ing deportation for conducting un­ hair for the wedding. "Lynda's walls, trapdoors and other safety demonstrators by the minions of authorized terrorist acts against hair styles are tremendously im­ features. Mrs. Winchester feared The rate for advertising in this column the law, must realize that we are Cuba. Club officials asserted the portant to her," the New York the spirits of all those who may is 40 cents a line. Display ads are $2 a regressing into a sort of fascist Rivero gang tossed the tear gas Post confides. "They contribute have been killed by her husband's column inch. There is a ten percent dis­ state, but apparently very few peo­ because they feel exiles should most to her personal beautifica­ guns and the prospect that their count for regular advertisers. Advertising ple. realize how near we are to vengeance would follow her. We must reach us by the Monday prior to not be enjoying themselves while tion pr,oject." martial law and a complete mili­ their leader is in the pokey. were wondering if the story was the date of publication. tary takeover. It Figures - New York housing prompted by current plans for add­ CHICAGO Wishful thinkers in the antiwar No Way to Treat Guest - Felipe officials have finally conceded ing to the White House and the 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUS­ movement continue reiterating Rivero's lawyer is going to ap­ that meager fines and empty jail LBJ ranch house. SIAN REVOLUTION. Film: Ten Days that President Johnson will prob­ peal a government decision to ex­ threats don't convince landlords to -Harry Ring That Shook the World. Friday, Nov. 10, clude him from the U.S. on the 8 p.m. 302 S. Canal St. Contrib. $1. ably end the war by '68 to im­ Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. prove his chances in the presiden­ grounds that the government had tial election of that year. But I· invited him here. "After he was • claim he knows he has all the sent by the United States to fight -, LOS ANGELES armed forces behind him and, if at the Bay of Pigs," the lawyer FOR MEMORIAL FOR STEVE ROBERTS­ it appears probable that he will said, ''he was brought back in a I Revolutionary Socialist. Speakers: Milton lose out in the election, he can U.S. plane." Rivero was captured Alvin, longtime associate; Martin Hall, and will declare martial law and at the Bay of Pigs and later re- Executive Board member, Peace Action NEW READERS I Council; and others. Severance Hall, 2936 W. 8th St., L.A. Friday, Nov. 10, 8:30 p.m. I If you are a new reader and would like to get better * * * I BIWEEKLY RADIO COMMENTARY Socialist Directory acquainted, you may obtain a special four-month intro• over KPFK ( 90.6 PM) by 'Jiheodore Ed­ wards, So. California chairman, SW'P; I ductory subscription by sending this coupon and $1 to I Monday, Nov. 13 and 27 at 6:45 p.m.; BOSTON. 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It was the only political party tion, a group formed in March, besides the SWP to denounce the 1966, in order to fight against con­ emergency proclamation by which sumer frauds perpetrated by Philadelphia's present Democratic ghetto businessmen and also mayor attempted to choke off against illegal sales of homes and demonstrations, street meetings furniture by the sheriff, so preva­ and other political activities in lent in the black community. the black community. After carrying on the struggle They have also denounced the against the onslaughts of war­ "poison plot" case in Philadelphia induced inflation and greedy ghet­ as a frame-up of black militants to businessmen for some time, and have organized demonstrations members of the association formed against it at the police adminis­ the Consumers' Party because they tration building. found there was no way to solve The Consumers' Party consists their problems within the present largely of black trade-unionists. political structure in Philadelphia. The party includes some whites, They are challenging both the Re­ and two of the candidates for publican _ and Democratic party councilmen are white. They have candidates for mayor with their the perspective of maintaining candidate, the Rev. Leonard themselves as a party independent Smalls. of the Republicans and Democrats The Socialist Workers Party beyond the Nov. 7 election. here is supporting the independent Another indication of disaffec­ campaign of the Consumers' Party. tion with the two capitalist parties During the campaign, the Con­ in Philadelphia is the fact that, in swners' Party has conducted mili­ addition to the Rev. Leonard tant picket actions and their mem­ Smalls, Cecil Moore, another in­ bers have been· frequently subject­ dependent black candidate, is run­ ed to police brutality. ning for mayor on the Freedom The struggles against the in­ Rights Party ticket. Moore, the flationary effects of the Vietnam NAACP leader who was recently war have led the Consumers' Par­ suspended from that organization, ty to take a strong antiwar posi­ has been campaigning against tion. They supported the April 15 police brutality and for better and Oct. 21 demonstrations and housing, Lightfoot,at Ch,eMe,morial,

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By Joel Aber or in Italy. But the revolution did NEW YORK - Claude Light­ not come in the West. "History didn't come the way foot, secretary of the national com­ they perceived it, not even the way mittee of the Communist Party, Lenin perceived it. So the Soviet expressed "profound disagree­ Union had to struggle through ment" with Ernesto "Che" Gue­ difficult times to create socialism, vara at a memorial meeting here the greatest achievement in hu­ Oct. 26 for the fallen revolution­ man history . . . As the Good ary. The meeting was chaired by Book says, the Lord works in mys­ Michael Myerson of the Tricon­ tinental Information Center (this terious ways . . . organization has no connection "I have expressed my disagree­ with the Tricontinental organiza­ ment with Che, but I am not here tion head.quartered in Havana). to discuss my disagreements now. Other speakers hailed Che and I am here to say that Che gave characterized his death as a blow his life in the hills of Bolivia in to the colonial revolution. pursuit of the answers to the ques­ Speakers included Ossie Davis, tions of how to spread the revolu­ CONFRONTATION. Scenes at Pentagon on Oct. 21. the actor; Dave Dellinger of Lib­ tion. eration magazine; James Aronson, "Ours is not to criticize Che. All Photos by Joseph R. Knock former editor of the National Ours is to find the answers to the Guardian; Julius Lester of SNCC; questions for which he gave his Luis Gonzales of the Movement life . . . In the ballot boxes of for Puerto Rican Independence; America we will put our power. author Lee Lockwood; and Carmen I am confident that the American Ristorucci of the DuBois Clubs. people will rise to the occasion. Antiwar Actions Mount Lightfoot began with the asser­ From LBJ to a government pre­ tion that Guevara will go down pared to live in the world as a The deepening intensity of anti­ celed all classes Oct. 30 after school placement office to protest in history "alongside Nikita friend of man." (See editorial, war sentiment is evidenced by 2,000 of the school's 2,500 students the napalm manufacturer's use of Khrushchev, Ahmed Ben Bella, page 3.) the wave of militant student ac­ boycotted classes to attend a campus facilities. Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkru­ Carmen Ristorucci, on the other tions that have swept the country "think-in" against the war. Stu­ Also symptomatic was the meet­ mah and Fidel Castro." hand, praised Che's international­ since the Oct. 21 Washington con­ dents demanded an end to on-cam­ ing in Detroit of the United States "U.S. imperialism," Lightfoot ism. Che, she said, "helped set the frontation. Last week we reported pus recruiting by the military and Conference on Church and Society continued, "did not realize the stage for more Cubas in Africa, on student clashes with police in a campus referendum on the war. Oct. 26, where a subcommittee speed with which Cuba would go Asia and Latin America." Oakland, Madison and Brooklyn Four men, including the Rev. brought in a resolution urging the over from a bourgeois democratic Dave Dellinger said that Che before Oct. 21. Further protests Philip Berrigan, were arrested in National Council of Churches to revolution to a socialist revolu­ was murdered "either by North aimed at campus recruiting by the Baltimore Oct. 27 for pouring bot­ declare a one-day general strike tion." In the future, he said, U.S. Americans or by Bolivians armed armed forces and Dow Chemical tles of blood into the files of the if the government were to carry imperialism will be better pre­ and trained by North Americans." Company have now hit the hal­ local Selective Service headquar­ out certain steps in the escalation pared to prevent this transition. Lee Lockwood quoted from Fidel lowed halls of Harvard and a half ters. Sixteen drawers were stained of the war. Lightfoot said that Guevara's Castro's speech on Guevara's dozen other widely separated uni­ with blood before the four were In Austin, Tex., 1,000 people at­ solution was to "confront U.S. im­ death. versities. arrested by the FBI. tended a rally at the State Capitol perialism with revolutions in sev­ Julius Lester, field director of At Harvard, angry students im­ In Williamstown, Mass., students after a march up Congress Ave. eral countries at the same time. SNCC, gave an inspiring speech. prisoned a Dow representative in at Williams College prevented a on Oct. 21, in solidarity with the With this I profoundly disagree. "The duty of a revolutionary is to an office on the campus for more CIA agent from setting up a re­ Washington mobilization. A Texas I want to go back to the Russian make the revolution," he said, re­ than seven hours on Oct. 25. cruiting office on the campus. delegation also went to Washing­ Revolution of 1917. At the time peating the slogan of the Cuban A Navy recruiter was held in Marine recruiters were barred ton and took part in the action the Soviet Union faced a hostile leaders. He drew parallels between his car for four hours at Oberlin from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, there. capitalist world. Some said, well, the life and death of Malcolm X College in Ohio on Oct. 26. Stu­ N.Y., Oct. 26 by a student sit-in. other demonstrations included the revolution will soon come in and Guevara. Paraphrasing Che's dents surrounding the car were At the University of Minnesota picket lines against Dow recruiters Germany. But instead fascism call for "two, three, many Viet­ dispersed by police who used tear a sit-in against Dow Chemical re­ at the University of Illinois at came in Germany. Some said the nams," Lester said, "We must gas and fire hoses to break up cruiters that began Oct. 24 in­ Champaign and at Boston College revolution would come in France, create two, three, many Guevaras." the demonstration. The college can- cluded an all-night sleep-in at the in Massachusetts.