ThousandsofArab Refugees Flee InWake of Israel's''Blitzkrieg'' THE Use of Napalm Infliefs MILITANTHeavy Toll in Jordan Published in the Interest of the Working People

Vol. 31 - No. 25 Monday, June 19, 1967 Price 10¢ JohnsonStores DoubleGain wit/, Israel'sVi,tory By Harry Ring JUNE 14 - The victory of the ways higher than in Southeast Israeli army over the Arab peoples Asia. That's why, if the Israeli is proving a many-sided blessing forces had faltered, the U.S. stood for the Johnson administration ready to move in militarily even and a spur to its program to though already pinned down in a secure the domination of the U.S. major war in Vietnam. And despite throughout the world. For a brief the double-talk emanating from moment, when the Israeli army Washington, the rulers of the U.S. first swept into the Arab countries, were and are ready to escalate Washington felt it might have to their aggression into the Mideast intervene with its own forces. if need be. FLEE ISRAELI BLITZKRIEG. Arab refugees on road to Amman, Jordan, after crossing Jordan But the Israeli success achieved The assurance being shown on River. Reports indicate that more than 100,000 have fled Israeli aggression in western Jordan. Johnson's aim and - as a bonus - the Mideast by the Johnson admi­ while doing so left him looking nistration today is by no means By Barry Sheppard doctors from the American Uni­ ern diplomatic sources reported like a man of peace and modera­ what prevailed in the initial stage JUNE 14 - In a gloating pro­ versity Hospital in Beirut, which from Jordan said that in Jerusa­ tion. of the crisis. The outlook then was Israel editorial on June 9. the New has returned here from the Syrian lem Tuesday night there had been Since its inception, Israel has summed up by the Wall Street and Jordan fronts, estimated that ... a full-scale Israeli mortar assault Journal. On June 6, the day after York Times described the Israeli enjoyed a flow of U.S. dollars and attack on the Arab countries as napalm bombs were responsible on the Augusta Victoria Hospital guns. Like all U.S. foreign aid, the Israeli forces plunged beyond a "blitzkrieg" - Israel's "own for 75 percent of the casualties." in the Jordanian sector of Jerusa­ this aid had a very concrete pur­ their boundaries, a bank of head­ lem. According to the reports, the lines on the front page of the version of Pearl Harbor." Dr. Kemal Bikhazi, leader of the pose - one that was in no way American University Hospital mortar fire was directed against Journal declared: Scattered reports are just be­ predicated on the welfare of the team, "said he treated only second­ the hospital, which was put under Jewish people. The purpose, simply " 'Neutral' - to a Point; U.S. ginning to come in concerning the a strong searchlight glare from the nature of that blitzkrieg attack. degree cases," according to the put, has been to utilize Israel as Hinges Its Policy on Hopes that June 11 New York Times. Third­ dominating Israeli position on a means of thwarting any anti­ Israel Will Win - And Quickly; In the section of Jordan now Mount Scopus." occupied by the Israelis, reports degree burn cases had to be left imperialist development in the Washington Fears It Will Be on the battlefields because the In this sector of Jordan west of Arnb world that could threaten Forced to Intervene Alone If Arabs place the number of Jordanian the Jordan River, resided many of dead between 10,000 and 25,000. chances of saving them were too the U.S. hold on that oil-rich area. Get Upper Hand; A Vietnam in small. the refugees driven from their The stakes are high for U.S. the Middle East?" The June 13 Christian Science homes in Palestine by the Zionists capitalism in the Mideast, in some (Continued on Page 6) Monitor reports: "A team of 24 "The casualties were fearsome. Many were burned to death," Dr. in the 1948 war. In addition to Bikhazi reported. Jordanian soldiers and civilians, these refugees were also victims "He recounted that wounded of the systematic blitzkrieg and soldiers could talk of nothing but napalm attack. "There seems to be BlackPanther Leader Beaten 'firebombs, firebombs,' which, they little doubt that the 60,000 in­ said, spread flames for 100 yards, habitants of the three big United [John Hulett, chairman of the where. Gunfire was exchanged by house, where there were approxi­ incinerating whole units. At the Nations camps around Jericho," Lowndes County Freedom Party, black and white residents. Later mately 40 persons, the majority of one hospital in Amman, he said, the Times reported on June 12, that evening, a meeting of black was badly beaten in Prattville, them women and children. one entire floor was filled with "were attacked by planes on the people was taking place in the Alabama on June 13. The beating The police cordoned off a large burned soldiers,'' the Times said. second day of the fighting." was part of a wholesale attack on home of Mr. Daniel Houser, a local area of the community; newsmen "As he returned to Amman from As the Jordanian army and SNCC members and black citizens resident. Ku Klux Klansmen and and others were not allowed Zatqua," the Times continues, "Dr. civilians retreated, the June 13 carried out by Prattville police other whites began firing on the Bakhazi reported, he saw remains through_ A unit of the National Times reported: "On Wednesday and the Alabama State Patrol. The of a mobil medical unit destroyed Guard arrived from Montgomery. morning, after the Israeli forces following is from the statement by napalm. He said the unit had The house remained under seige had taken Jerusalem, their Mirage released by SNCC detailing the been marked with a red cross." jets streaked over the Judaean events.] until approximately 4 a.m. The local telephone operator repeatedly The same dispatch added, "West- (Continued on Page 3) On the afternoon of Sunday, cut off calls between the house June 12, a meeting of black people and SNCC staff as well as news­ to discuss political organizing was men. Rumors that Stokely Car­ held on the grounds of St. Mark's michael had been lynched spread U.S. Planes Step Up church in Prattville, Ala. Prattville through the town. is a small town about 40 miles At about 4 a.m., police ordered from Montgomery. It is in. this those in the house outside. SNCC Bombing of Vietnam county that Ladybird Johnson has Executive Secretary Stanley Wise extensive land holdings. together with Theophas Smith and JUNE 14 - With the eyes of the Meanwhile, Washington revealed The meeting was being ad­ Ulysses Nunley, two Alabama world turned toward the Middle the second record week of Ameri­ dressed by former SNCC chairman volunteers working with SNCC, East crisis, Washington took the can casualties, May 25. In the week Stokely Carmichael when a police were arrested on a charge of incit­ opportunity to escalate the bomb­ reported that day, 337 American car drove up and an officer began ing to riot. ing of North Vietnam. On June 10 troops were killed in combat, 2,282 harassing Brother Carmichael for That morning, Johnnie Jackson and 11, U.S. bombers struck deep were wounded, and 31 missing. speaking of "Black Power" to the of SNCC reported that the Alaba­ into that country hitting Hanoi This brought the total of GI gathering. After continuing the ma State patrol had "taken over and the port of Haiphong. combat deaths over the ten thou­ harassment for some time, the the town" and was searching peo­ The North Vietnamese Kep air sand mark to 10,253, and the total officer arrested Carmichael on ple's homes, forcing black people base was bombed for the eighth of wounded to 61,425, according charges of disorderly conduct and off the street into their houses, time since April 24. B-52 bombers to the New York Post. Casualties disturbing the peace. and denying entry to the town by attacked near the demilitarized have not been reported during the Black people in Prattville, an­ persons from out of town.. 1\/Ir. zone for the first time in more Mideast crisis, but heavy fighting gered by the arrest, moved swiftly John Hulett, chairman of the than six weeks. according to the appears to be continuing in and tu protest it at the jail and else- John Hulett (Continued on Page 6) Pentagon. near the demilitarized zone. Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, June 19, 1967

Germ-Warfare Research, Anyone? PennTries to UnloadSpicerack By Joel Aber PHILADELPHIA, June 12 - NEW YORK, June 9 - The So­ mitment with the SSEU to enter Five weeks ago, a two-year bat­ cial Service Employes Union voted fact-finding." They further stated tle by antiwar activists culminated in victory when the University of overwhelmingly today in a city­ that this attack on the SSEU rep­ resented an attack on all labor. Pennsylvania board of trustees wide referendum to conduct a Dr. Israel Kugler, president of was forced to accede to student "work-in" June 19 - doing other the United Federation of College and faculty demands that Penn get than regular work - unless the Teachers, AFL-CIO, sent a similar out of the germ warfare research city of New York honors a com­ letter to the mayor, and stated business. The trustees' decision that germ warfare research was mitment made to the union to further that "there is no reason for the city to refuse fact-finding, no longer a profitable investment bring all issues unresolved by the unless its position is indeed un­ for Penn was only the beginning January strike to fact-finding. tenable." of difficulties for the Pentagon. The "work-in," similar to the Welfare Local 371, of the Amer­ On Sunday, May 14, the Phila­ action a't the Non-Residence Wel­ ican Federation of State, County delphia Bulletin reported that the fare Center last February, has and Municipal Employes, AFL· Army and Air Force, contractors been provoked by the city's dis­ CIO, which bargains for clerks for Projects Summit and Spice­ regard of their public agreement and supervisors in the Welfare rack, were having their problems with the SSEU, and is the city's Department, said today that it was in trying to find a new home for most blatant 1,mion-busting posi­ the policy of their loca1 not to the contracts: "There were reports tion yet. perform case workers' tasks, and of 'feelers' to other institutions in Not only was it reported in the specifically, no supervisor should the area. A spokesman for the Jan. 19 New York Times and Post do a caseworker's work on June Franklin Institute Research Lab­ that all unresolved issues would 19. oratories, which had been men­ MADE THEIR POINT. U of Penn students held sit-in at univer­ go to fact-finding, but the report Local 259, United Automobile tioned as a possible candidate for sity administration offices last month, successfully culminating of fact-finder Benjamin Wolf, Workers, in New York caUed upon the work, said 'we wouldn't touch March 15, 1967 clearly stated that two years of struggle against germ and chemical warfare re­ the city to "drop its union-busting it with a ten-foot pole.' He ex­ search at Penn. one of the conditions for the union position" at once. Leon Davis of plained that the Franklin Insti­ going back to work after the strike Local 1199 of the Hospital Work­ tute depends on membership fees was the bringing of all unsettled ers, and Barry Feinstein, presi­ and public subscriptions to help initially desired to transfer the Pentagon blueprints for crushing issues to fact-finding. dent of Teamsters Municipal Lo­ meet operating deficits. 'Getting germ warfare projects to the Uni­ the colonial revolution. Among these issues is the ques­ cal 237 also sent messa'ges of sup­ involved in this kind of contro­ versity City Science Center, a pri­ Some, like Michigan State and tion of paid overtime, which the port. versy would be cutting our own vate corporation in which Penn the Massachusetts Institute of city refuses to grant; automatic In addition, the union has re• throats,' he said, 'even though it's owns 53 percent of the stock, and Technology, have been involved clothing grants to clients, which in which most other Philadelphia ceived support from important a nice chunk of money, and we in a direct political sense, work­ the city opposes; and the contin­ area colleges are minority stock­ civil rights and community organ­ could handle the work.' " ing hand in glove with the CIA uation of the 4 p.m. quitting time izations, such as Harlem CORE, holders. Originally, Dr. Harnwell to run puppet dictatorships and during the summer, which the city Dr. Gaylord P. Harnwell, presi­ and various tenant councils in dent of the University of Penn­ had conceived of the transfer to to develop "contingency plans" is trying to eliminate. the Science Center as a way to New York. sylvania, explained to the reporter for the war in Vietnam. Others, It is generally felt throughout quell the controversy, but he be­ -Howard Reed from the Bulletin that he had like Cornell, Maryland, NYU and the union that an important rea­ came afraid that the protests Johns Hopkins, have helped de­ son for the city's intransigent at­ would continue even afterward. velop the weapons necessary to titude is the onerous new RAT ~1111111111111111111111Socialist Fund 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIn fact, Dr. Harnwell indicated starve and kill the peasants of antistrike law, which is even that transfer to the Science Cen­ colonial countries that become harsher toward public employes ter would compound his troubles "trouble spots." than the previous Condin-Wadlin because the protests would spread Every top university is part of law. The city is trying to use the Su.pportfrom Old-Ti1mers to other colleges that participate government plans to the extent SSEU as an example of what will in the Science Center. According that the universities are needed happen to other unions that fight By Marvel Scholl Fund Director to the BuUetin article, Harnwell to train the brains to run the against the law. said that the presidents of Swarth­ capitalist system. Many of these However, the SSEU has gained I would like to take this op­ came from Mrs. V.G. of Fresno, more, Haverford and Bryn Mawr brains remain on university cam­ important labor support during portunity to send special thanks Calif. had met with him and "warned puses after their training, So what the last week. Matthew Guinan, to three elderly friends from Plen­ Today the membership of the of picketing and controversies on could be a better location than a international president of the tywood, Montana who each sent SWP is young. During the past their campuses if the Science Cen­ large university for Projects Sum­ Transport Workers Union, AFL­ in $10 to the SWP Party Build­ few years the average age of our ter got the contracts. mit and Spicerack? According to CIO, and Douglas L. Macmahon, ing Fund. members has dropped drastically. Meanwhile, Dr. Jean Paul Math­ an old University of Pennsylva­ international secretary-treasurer In making these contributions It doesn't show on the scoreboard er, executive director of the Sci­ nia brochure, these projects are said last week that they "strong­ W.L., J.B., and A. R. are uphold­ but the truth is that all those ence Center, and, according to the "interdisciplinary.'' ly urged the city to honor its com- ing a socialist tradition in that branches now in the 100% and Bulletin article, a direct lineal small Montana town. Many years 83% bracket have a large com­ descendant of Cotton Mather, the Cooperation ago there was a strong socialist ponent of their members in the notorious prosecutor in the Salem In other words, computer sci­ movement in that area. A social­ under-30 age group - away under. witchcraft trials, was very bitter entists busily correlate the infor­ Special to Readers ist sheriff, Rodney Salsbury, now The performance of these branches that the college presidents had mation fed in by biologists work­ dead, used his jail for a very is an indication that the young acceded to the demands of the ing on the most virulent strains Of The Militant unique purpose - he kept the people understand fully their fi. protestors: "Those beatniks on the of bacteria;. chemists and toxi­ doors open, beds ready, and the nancial as well as political respon­ street can go climb a tree as far cologists create the most effective kettle boiling to feed hungry men sibilities to the movement. as I'm concerned . . . If pickets poisons; geographers provide sta­ ThreePamphlets who, in those days, "rode the But among Militant readers are show up, I'm going to have them tistics on the terrain of such hypo­ rods" during wheat harvest. many people who are no longer arrested as trespassers," Dr. Math­ thetical places as Vietnam; me­ On MalcolmX These Knights of the Road able to be active in the movement er was quoted in the Bulletin. teorologists study weather condi­ proudly called themselves hobos because of increasing age with all Dr, Mather's frustration at los­ tions and the types of wind likely its attendant limitation on physi­ ing the $945,000 germ warfare to prevail in certain geographic Only 60c and they formed the backbone of the then powerful IWW. Today cal activity. However, since no plum is no doubt exceeded by the localities; physicists study the that area with its vast wheat fields one ever "retires" as a socialist, frustration of the U.S. Army and aerodynamics of dispersal of small • Two Speeches by Mal­ is owned by corporations, the there is still a way older socialists Air Force. "We could get along particles; psychologists, sociol­ colm X wheat is harvested with huge ma­ can do their share. And that is by without Penn, but we wouldn't ogists and political scientists de­ • Malcolm X Talks to Young chines, the itinerant farm laborers supplying the wherewithall (mo­ like to try," a Pentagon bigwig termine the possible effects of People follow the crops for miserably low ney) to keep these youngsters told Science magazine last Jan­ starvation, death and disease upon wa·ges. But the socialist tradition busy spreading the SWP program, uary. The military establishment the morale and fighting ability of • Malcolm X, The Man and is still alive and will remain alive building the party, participating needs the cover of respectable in­ certain peasant populations. His Ideas by George Breit­ so long as there are people like in antiwar and other work. stitutions like the University of A large university is needed to man our friends to teach the youth the Please use the coupon below, Pennsylvania. Penn was only one plan genocide effectively and sci­ no matter what your age, to send of dozens of institutions exposed entifically. And the exposure and order from lessons of the past and the tasks of today. in your contribution toward the for their complicity in the Vietnam embarrassing publicity which re­ MERIT PUBLISHERS We also thank two other old future. war and their development of sult when such projects are dis­ 5 East Third St. friends for contributions received covered by the antiwar movement decrease the likelihood that any New York, N. Y. 10003 this week. I.H.R. from Rutland, Vt., sent in $50! Another check large university will want either Fund s~orehoard Project Spicerack or any new pro­ Branch Quota Paid Percent ject cooked up by the Pentagon Detroit $1,400 $1.400 100 brass as long as the antiwar move­ Cleveland 1,000 1,000 100 ment remains strong on American I Want to Help Twin Cities 1,200 1,200 100 campuses. Oakland-Berkeley 1,200 1,200 100 The lead editorial in the May 8 Boston 1,300 1,300 100 St. Petersburg Times (Florida) I want to help fulfill the quota in the $21,000 New York 5,800 4,791 83 gives credit to student activists for Socialist Fund. Enclosed is my contribution of...... Philadelphia 500 416 83 forcing the U of Penn trustees to San Diego 200 165 83 drop "the black art of govern­ ment-financed germ warfare re­ NAME ...... _...... _., __ ,.. ,- ...-···-···-··-·-··-··- ...- ....-.--- Chicago 1,800 1,375 76 San Francisco 1,200 840 70 search." STREET...... -....-...... -... - ...... __ ...... ----- ..,-... ·-·······--" Denver 125 81 64 "Hopefully," the editorial con­ tinues, "this example will cause CITY ...... -...... - ..-- ....-... - ...... _. ZIP ... - ...... - .. STATE ...... --- St. Louis 100 62 62 Newark 100 47 47 agonizing among other universities Send check or money order to: Los Angeles 4,500 1,874 41 which have compacted with the Allentown 135 50 37 Pentagon to delve into the abom­ SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Seattle 200 50 25 inable ways of inflicting mass hu­ 873 Broadway General 240 156 65 man suffering, terror and death. New York, N. Y. I0003 ------Hopefully, it will produce a na­ Totals through June 13 $21,000 $16,007 76 tional assessment of how far this morbid work has spread.'' Monday, June 19, 1967 THE MILITANT Page Three

(ul,aSMideast Declaration: THE MILITANT Editor: JOSEPH HANSEN Manag!n& Editor: BARRY SHEPPARD Business Manager: KAROLYN KERRY Published weekly, except during July and August when published biweekly, by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003. Phone 533-6414. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Subscription: domestic, $3 a year; Canada and Latin America, $3.50; other foreign, $4.50. By first class Solidaritywith Aral, Nations mall: domestic and Canada. $8.50, all other countries, $14.00. Air printed matter: 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. [When the Sov:fot delegation at tic People's Republic of Korea, sions in Korea, in Cambodia, Sy­ Signed articles by contributors do nat necessarily represent The Mllltant's views. the United Nations capitulated to and in the use of the "green be­ ria, the UAR, Algeria or Cuba, to · These are expressed in editorials. Washington and voted for a cease­ rets" as military adjuncts and mention only a few examples. Vol. 31 - No. 25 Monday, June 19, 1967 fire resolution that did not de­ props of the dictatorial, military The prediction made by the cen­ ...... 345 mand the immediate withdrawal "gorilla" governments of th e tral committee of our party has of Israeli armies that had invaded Americas in an effort to halt the been proved right in the Middle neighboring countries, the Cuban advance of the liberation move­ government issued a statement ment in our continent. East today. For this reason, the Enduring Mid,ea.stPe,ace? characterizing such a cease-fire as Cuban Revolutionary Government, The central committee of our fully aware of the principles for­ Intoxicated by military victory, many partisans of Israel now ta;ntamount to imposing surrender party, in a declaration May 18, mulated in this declaration of our believe that the Arab nations are vanquished for a long time on the victim in face of imperial­ 1967, warned the world against ist aggression. party, reiterates its strongest soli­ to come and that the extension of Israeli borders will ensure a the dangers that this imperialist darity with the Arab nations fa­ [A translation of the statement, policy represented for all the long period of peace in the area. This is a utopian notion. wh~ich was issued June 7, follows.] cing imperialist aggression today, peoples. No country can feel se­ and condemns this aggression. Even if Israel were an independent power there would be cure because Yankee imperialism Analysis of all the news, data The Cuban Revolutionary Gov­ little realism to such a belief. A nation of 2.5 million cannot in­ and facts related to the initiation can tomorrow launch new aggres- ernment states its support of the definitely hold back an opposing force of 80 million. And the and development of the dramatic UAR delegation's rejection of the events in the Middle East prove Security Council's agreement to hard fact is that despite its victory Israel remains but a pawn beyond doubt that the United limit itself to ordering a cease­ in the hands of the imperialist powers that brought it into being Arab Republic and the other Arab fire without condemning the ag­ - most specifically, the United States. Israel's financial stability peoples were victims of a treach­ gressor and holding responsible erous surprise assault by the the imperialism that armed and and military supplies are derived not from any independent pro­ armed forces of Israel, which in­ instigated it. This is tantamount, ductive resources but from the aid given by the U.S. and, to a stigated and supported by im­ as stated by the UAR delegation, lesser extent, Great Britain. perialism, perpetrated this aggres­ to imposing surrender in face of Any nation in such a state of dependency is in a precarious sion that threatens the freedom imperialist aggression. and integrity of the Arab nations. position. Israel could smash ahead today because its desire to do The Cuban government will so coincided with the interests and desires of U.S. ruling circles. The Arab nations today consti­ support the government of the But that could easily change. It need only be recalled that in tute fresh victims of the global UAR in any attitude of resistance strategy of world imperialism. that it may adopt in face of the 1956 when the Israelis joined hands with the British and French These events, which have aroused shameful and bungling agreement to attack Egypt, they were forced to retreat. It was not in ac­ indignation among peoples every­ of the United Nations Security cord with the interests or wishes of the U.S. to see the French where, are but part of a series of Council. and British gain a renewed foothold in the area. unending aggressive moves by the imperialists carried out in various [The government of the United Nor will the Arab people long accept defeat. The record of parts of the world. Arab Republic subsequently felt the Israelis in creating a vast multitude of Arab refugees, first in It is the same policy and strate­ forced to accept the cease-fire.] 1948 and again in this war, and the napalm-blitzkrieg attack on gy of global piracy and crime that It is very painful for the peoples the Jordanians, can only promote Arab hatred. is being inflicted on the peoples of the world to observe the gov­ And, the terrible exploitation visited on the impoverished of Vietnam and Laos; it is the ernment of the United States Arab masses by oil imperialism drives them toward struggle with same hypocritical and criminal demonstrating joy over what it imperialism and its agents, including the Israeli ruling circles. policy that resulted in the military no doubt considers to be a politi­ Osvaldo Dorticos cal, diplomatic and military vic­ The Israeli masses, if they are to avoid the death-trap being intervention in Santo Domingo, in laid for them by Zionist policies, must break with U.S. and British provocations against the Democra- President of Cuba tory for imperialism. imperialism, break with Zionist colonization at the expense of the Arabs, and turn toward integration into the Arab revolution Roleof Anti-Semitismin Mideast for a socialist and united Middle East. By Barry Sheppard failure to carry through a con­ East through support to the Arab sistent struggle against capitalism revolution. But until progressive ... Plightof Arab Refugees The swift success of the Israeli and imperialism on all fronts, in­ Arab leaders offer the Israeli mas­ aggression against the Arab coun­ cluding in their own countries. ses the prospect of coexistence (Continued from Page 1) the refugees believe that a pat­ tries brings into sharp focus the without national oppresion, it will tern of expulsion is emerging. crisis of leadership of the Arab This article will discuss only one hills and down the length of the aspect of this problem, the at­ be difficult to win them away from road [from Jericho into Jordan] They say the Israelis appear to be peoples. titude of the Arab leaders to the Zionism to this course. bombing everything that moved." concentrating on pushing out the Many of the Arab countries are Israeli masses. The Zionists also use the call Just as in Vietnam, such terror inhabitants of the big refugee ruled by feudal potentates like for a "holy war" to cover up their The Egyptian and other Arab is producing new refugees. The camps ... King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and aggression against the Arabs. Israel leaders have approached this ques­ Christian Science Monitor reports "In the frontier villages, they King Hussein of Jordan. These is only "defending" herself, they say, soldiers have ordered people reactionary regimes are propped tion on strictly nationalist terms. that the first wave of refugees They have called for a "jihad" or claim. streaming into Jordan is more out of their homes to police sta­ up and supported by U.S. and In addition Arab anti-Semitism tions, where they have been picked British imperialism, and used by holy war against Israel. This call, than 100,000 in spite of Jordanian combined with anti-Jewish pro­ is used to divert attention from pleas that they stay in their up by buses, bound for a pl~ce the imperialist powers as counters the virulent anti-Arab racism the paganda and the fact of discrimi­ homes. called Wadi Baden. From there to the left nationalist regimes in Zionists have pumped into the they have been obliged to walk to Algeria, Syria and Egypt. Such nation against Jews in Arab coun­ In a June 12 dispatch in the tries, leads the Israeli Jewish Israeli masses, so evident in the the river, the officials said. feudal lords, living in fear of a swagger and contempt of the Times, Terence Smith writing "In some other places, they popular uprising of their own masses to fear that a successful from Jericho says, "According to Arab struggle against Zionism Israeli generals, their use of na­ added, loudspeakers warned the people, cannot be expected to lead palm against the Arabs, the attacks Shihaden Dajani, the director of would result in the extermination inhabitants: 'You have two hours their people in a resolute struggle upon the Arab refugee camps, etc. the nearby Boys Town farm, the or suppression of the Jews in the to leave. After that we cannot against imperialism and its Zionist Finally, by rejecting anti-Semit­ refugees were hit by Israeli fight­ guarantee your safety.' ... Middle East. ers. 'They came in flights of 40 agents. ism, the Arab leaders would make Some Drowned More important is the leadership Strengthens Zionism it clear that their object is to planes each,' he said. 'They came of the left nationalists. What was destroy Zionist colonialism, and in low, shooting their machine gun "United Nations officials who This fear serves to unite the not to subjugate the Jewish people bullets all along the road.' " drove down to the Jordan bridges their record in the crisis? It was Jewish Israeli masses behind the dismal. In a number of important in the Middle East. This would Further Evidence said that the King Abdullah bridge reactionary Zionist government. had been so badly damaged by areas their policies proved to be help expose the true role and aims Arab strategy should be just the Smith says, "On the road lead­ bombs that it was impassable and inadequate or wrong. of Zionism, and aid in mobilizing ing out of Jericho to the Jordan opposite - to split the enemy, and opposition to it. that people were wading across These areas include the military isolate the Zionists from mass there was evidence that not all the river. failures themselves; the lack of Israeli support as much as pos­ the refugees heading for the east­ Arab unity; the failure to inspire "Some women were said to have sible. ern bank [of the Jordan River] been drowned in places where the and mobilize the masses the way, It is a mistake to view Israel made it. The bodies of at least a bottom is slippery and muddy." for example, Fidel Castro has done as a monolithic country. Like every dozen men and women were lying Reports from the other Arab in Cuba; and, related to these, the capitalist country, Israel is divided next to a barbed wire fence about countries are more scanty. One into classes, into exploiters and 15 yards back from the road." story in the June 14 Times indi­ exploited. The real interests of the Along the road, "Even private cated that Egyptian prisoners in Jewish workers and peasants in cars, many of which may have the Sinai desert are not receiving 1 HUGO8LANCO Israel are not at all identical been carrying soldiers,'' Smith water. "The Israelis were reported with Zionism, but in fact are op­ says, "were hit. The squashed, to have provided a ration of a

1 posed to it. gutted remains still dot the gul­ quart a day for their troops and MustNot D i:e Zionism will keep Israel a hostile lies on either side of the broad none for the Egyptian civilians" By beachhead for foreign colonization asphalt highway. of Qantara, the Times reports. in the Middle East, cut off from "Once the air force had done "According to a Reuters report Andre Gunder Frank her neighbors, in a hostile environ­ its work, Israeli armored units yesterday, some Egyptian prison­ ment, and completely dependent poured down the road, finishing ers kissed the hands of Israeli sol­ (Text of address to solidarity upon U.S. and British imperialism off what little resistance re­ diers in Qantara as they begged meeting in Canada by the for its political, military and mained." for water after being marched noted Latin-American expert.) economic existence. The Israeli Almost the entire population of across the desert . . . masses have nothing to gain from Jericho and the refugee camps "The Israeli commanding offi­ 30 cents this course. around the city has fled. cer, Major Joseph Koller, was ·Order from The workers and peasants of The Israelis are also forcibly quoted as having said that some Israel, if they are to survive, must driving out those who do not flee. prisoners who had retained their MERIT PUBLISHERS break with Zionism and imperial­ The Times reports on June 12: arms 'tried to shoot their way to 5 East 3rd St. "Senior United Nations officials a drink' and 'we had to kill two New York, N. Y. 10003 ism, and turn toward integration in a free and independent Middle Nasser who have sifted many reports from of them like that.' " Page Four THE MILITANT Mond; PalestineArab Refugees Politics ir [The following document, writ­ ism. One of its various activities ten last January, was submitted is fund-raising among Jewish com­ for discussion among the mem­ munities all over the world. (Al­ bers of the Israeli Socialist Or­ though we do not possess exact Victimsof Zionist Politics ganization. As outlined] in a state­ figures it is not exaggerated to ment published in The Militant, say that it raises sums of the order By Les Evans June 5, this grouping stands in of $112 million annually.) Israel's recent attack on the opposition to the Israeli govern­ This money finances all Zionist Arab states has uprooted more ment. It advocates taking the road activities; a considerable part than 100,000 Arabs and forced to socialism and forging Israeli­ goes to subsidize the Israeli econo­ them across the Jordan River. Arab unity in the framework of my (mostly the agricultural sec­ These people are now homeless , ---,.\·>\~ \ ,,. .... a socialist federation in the Middle tor, the Kibbutzim, etc.), another and stripped of everything they ~~ .. East. part to finance the Zionist parties, owned. What does the future hold ,~.1.v..ifi !:· [We are publishing the full text all of them - from Herut to Ma­ for them? We can gather some 0NA8LUS of this document in two install­ pam. idea of that by examining the Iii.: ments due to its interest in the These parties receive according 19" •• Q~ plight of the 1,317,000 Palestinian ·~·=·· light of the current crisis in the to their size and bargaining power Arab refugees of the 1948 war I . -~ :: 2 Middle East.] between $840,000 to $2,240,000 an­ still in camps throughout the Mid­ I .-'·:·.. . t ... ~ nually, each. dle East. \ . The left-wing parties existing Thus, a Zionist party can fi­ ll:1;: "' today in Israel were all founded Crowded into United Nations \ nance a large daily paper, pay ... before the state of Israel came camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria .. ::.. wages to many party officials, and I into existence; no new left party and the Gaza: Strip, these hapless ---.;.·:. ~-· . keep a whole political organiza­ ,\\•:••.... ·.... was formed after 1948 (apart from victims live in mud huts and JERUSALEMJ!:!::: •'if.• tion running although the rank :E::J.: splits which had a brief existence and file hardly pay membership shacks, subsisting on a basic ra­ BETHLEHEM.f.1.t; ; • • before 301mng another party.) fees or their newspaper subscrip­ tion of 1,500 calories a day. The _, -'lii1.. Therefore, in order to understand United Nations Relief and .Works I ··:t. tions. these parties one must analyze This peculiar circumstance en­ Agency admits "The ration is I.. .: their history prior to 1948. dietetically unbalanced and in­ ...• Btr:::.. ... JORDAN ables political parties to exist long adequate." To stay alive they de­ ,.... .:::c-·: This history is ( exempting one after the social forces that brought notable case: the CP [Communist pend on what little food they can ' ,• .'.' H;BRON them into existence ceased to grow on the arid land, or the ...:.__ , Party]) the history of the Zionist exist. limited income brought in by those left; i.e., the history of a national­ * * * who can find work. :: KARAX ist left. The Zionist left originated in czarist Russia (mostly Poland) in Destitute * * * In order to give the reader an the closing decades of the 19th The UNRWA report for 1966 idea of the unusual character of century and the early 20th. describes a typical "home": Zionism and its left wing consider ISRAEL I The Russian Jews participated "The average hut is no more I the following fact: actively in all anti-czarist parties, than a IO-foot-square room in All Zionist parties, from the in the Social Revolutionary, Men­ which a family of five lives, eats rightist "Herut" ["Freedom"] to ARAB REFUGEES. Palestinian Arabs were forced to flee their shevik, Bolshevik, and others. and sleeps." the leftist "Mapam" ["United Martov and Dan, Radek and Zino­ The UNRWA spends about 10 homes during 1948 war. Many have been living in camps in Workers Party"], whatever their western Jordan. Each dot on this map represent 1,000 refugees, viev, Trotsky and Rosa Luxem­ cents a day for each refugee. enmity on the Israeli political burg, are only a few of the revo­ The refugees constitute an im­ as of June, 1966. Area of Jordan west of Jordan River is now arena, are members of "The Jew­ lutionaries of Jewish origin who mense block of destitute people occupied by Israeli army. Map was prepared by UN Relief and ish Agency." This agency is the participated in the revolutions of for the backward, poverty stricken Works Agency. organizational backbone of Zion- 1905, February 1917 and October Arab economies to absorb. In 1917. (These revolutionaries were, Syria: they constitute 3 percent Arabs fled at the outbreak of the the letter from the regional Haga­ of course, anti-Zionists.) of the total population; in Leba­ 1948 war in response to appeals nah commander agreeing to the The percentage of Jews among non 8 percent; in Jordan, 37 per­ broadcast by the Arab League; attack. ArabSpokesman the revolutionaries was always cent; and in the Gaza Strip 69 per­ that they were enemies of Israel greater than their percentage in cent (as of June, 1966, UNRWA The same month the Irgun at­ who chose to join the other side tacked Jaffa, the Arab twin city TellsMilitant of the population. This was the re­ figures). in the war. This argument was sult of a few factors: (1) Jews Where did the refugees come to Tel-Aviv, which had maintained invented after the war was over friendly relations with Jewish tended to concentrate in the urban from and why? Israel is a "new" to justify an immense land-grab LBJ'sDouble-Talk areas. (2) A large Jewish prole­ country. Where in the twentieth authorities. by the Zionist organizations. NEW YORK, June 9 - A tariat existed in Poland (mostly century is one to find a "new" The message was plain: No dis­ On the basis of these claims, the spokesman for the Arab States in the textile industry). (3) There country ready for settlement where play of friendship on the part of was a large Jewish intelligentsia nobody already lives? Short of An­ Israeli government refuses to al­ Arabs could save them from the Delegations office raised some im­ portant questions when inter­ in Russia. (4) The Jews were op-· tarctica it should be apparent that low the Arab refugees to return to slaughter. Israel was going to be Israel, refuses to compensate them viewed by The Militant today in pressed by the czarist regime not there is no such place. an all-Jewish state. At this point only as proletarians, but also as In 1919 the Jewish minority in for the property seized, and dis­ panic struck the Arab villages and regard to American and Israeli intentions in the Middle East after a national minority. Palestine amounted to seven per­ claims any responsibility for the the flight became massive. cent of the population. During and refugees themselves. The British Middle East expert, the cease-fire. Tahseen M. Basheer Political Parties The falsity of the Israeli charges George Kirk, has added that pointed out that on June 5 Israeli after World War II there was a The persecution of the Jews vast influx of Jewish immigrants against the refugees was admitted ". . . The Israeli armed forces did officials said "Israel did not covet one inch of Arab territory." Now gave rise to social and economic into Palestine. They were entering to by Ben-Gurion himself when he not confine their pressure on the Moshe Dayan says "Jerusalem is interests, which eventually gave one of the areas of the world least wrote just before the war broke Arab civilian population to play­ out that " ... the Arab villages ing upon their fears. They forcibly united never to be parted." birth to a number of political par­ able to aborb such an influx. The ties. Western "democracies" were tota'l­ have in their overwhelming ma­ expelled them: for example, the Mr. Basheer said that a recent jority kept aloof from the strug­ population of 'Akka (including issue of the Manchester Guardian A whole spectrum of left-wing ly unconcerned by that, however. parties came into existence, all They calculatingly closed their gle." ("The Fighf for Freedom," the refugees from Haifa) in May "reported that the Israeli Ambas­ Palestine and Middle East, Jan.­ [1948]; the population of Lydda sador told a meeting of the Anglo­ seeking to alleviate the plight of doors to the flood of Jewish re­ the Jews as proletarians as well fugees and encouraged the move Feb. 19t8) This was before the and Ramla ... in July; and the Israeli Committee that Israel land-grab gave the Zionist leaders population of Beersheba' and west­ started the attack. Later this ad­ as members of a national minority that would inevitably pit Jew group. against Arab in the barren lands a reason to rewrite history. ern Galilee in October." mission was denied to save the United States the embarrassment The main difference between of the Middle East. It was the Zionist organizations "Smashed the Place" these parties was between Zion­ themselves that sought to drive of having to declare Israel an ag­ Zionism In 1949 Hal Lehrman wrote in gressor." ists (a minority) and non-Zionists. the Arabs from their land. As war The largest party was the Bund The one hope of the Jews in the the liberal Jewish magazine Com­ "On Monday," Mr. Basheer com­ · approached, many of the upper­ ["Fraternity"]. This was basically Middle East to live in peace with mentary: mented, "Johnson talked of pre­ class Arabs fled, but the great "Now that I've traveled every a Social Democratic party of the their Arab neighbors was in a serving the territorial integrity of mass of poor peasants and work­ corner of this country [Israel] it Second International, which, un­ multiracial Palestine based on the all states in the area. This was ers remained. On April 9, 1948 has become clear that the Israeli der the conditions of czarist Rus­ people who lived there - after all, before he was sure that Israel was the Irgun, ii' Zionist terrorist or­ troops must have been decidedly sia, was driven to the revolution­ the Arabs had lived there for cen­ winning. The statements of Mr. ganization, attacked the Arab vil­ tough even with non-combatant ary side. The Bund never aimed turies, it was their land and Goldberg in the UN and the state­ lage of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem Arabs during the war. There are, at political power, only at improv­ homes, and they were a clear ment submitted yesterday did not on the highway to Tel-Aviv. for instance, too many dynamited, ing the lot of the Jewish prole­ majority in Palestine. say one word about the territorial Jon Kimche, a well-known Brit­ desolated native villages where tariat. It was here that the utterly integrity of states. reactionary policies of Zionism ish Zionist, testifies that in this little or no :fighting ever occurred. Lenin waged a long ideological betrayed the only long-term hope assault the Irgun murdered "some The Jews simply came in and "The U.S. is dumping the Amer­ struggle against the Bund, insist­ of the Jewish masses in Palestine. 250 innocent Arabs, among them smashed the place . . . it is ob­ ican 'commitment' repeated with ing that the proletariat must be They were opposed on princ,iple more than a hundred women and vious, too, that the Israelis . . . did such vehemence until the day be­ organized on a territorial basis to anything but a Jewish state, en­ children." (Seven Fallen Pillars an extra-thorough job of destruc­ fore yesterday. (i.e., all proletarians living and couraging colonization by Jews - The Middle East 1945-52.) tion to make sure that the Arabs "There is no mention of Pales­ working in the same region or from all over the world, which Was this in retaliation for some would have nothing to come ba'ck tinian refugees. All of them are country, irrespective of their na­ meant in practice that the Arabs act of the Arabs? Was Deir Yas­ to." now under Israeli control - very tionality) whereas the Bund must be driven from their homes sin hostile to the Jews? On the More than 250,000 Arabs ·still few have been able to flee. Now claimed that existing circum­ and land regardless of whether or contrary. Again the testimony of remain in Israel, not ·counting the we will see how Israel will try stances of national persecution not they were willing to live in Jon Kimche: hundreds of thousands conquered to push the refugees .across the forced the Jewish proletariat to peace with the Jews. "Deir Yassin was one of the few last week. They are victims of Jordan River. Israel will try to defend their daily rights as a na­ The scope of the land confisca­ Arab villages whose inhabitants severe economic, civil and national keep the Gaza Strip, but it will tional minority especially as con­ tion is indicated by estimates by had refused permission for for­ oppression. have to get rid of the Arab re­ siderable parts of the Polish pro­ the UN's Conciliation Commission eign Arab volunteers to use it as a The Palestinian Arabs are the fugees. letariat participated in anti-Jewish for Palestine in the early fifties base of operations against the Jew­ first and greatest casualty of Zion­ "It is alarming that .the United riots. tl).at the amount of Israel's cultiv­ ish life-line into Jerusalem; they ism, but they promiSe not to be States has said nothing in the The Bund, however, never ac­ able "abandoned" Arab land was had on occasions collaborated with the last. In the long run the racist United Nations about returning to cepted the Zionist principle that nearly two and a half times the the Jewish Agency." and reactionary program of Zion­ the situation prior to the aggres­ only in an independent national total area: of Jewish-owned prop­ The Haganah, the official Zion­ ism is sowing such seeds of hatred sion." Jewish state ean the Jewish pro­ erty at the end of the mandate ist army, claimed the Irgun had for Israel in the Middle East that Mr. Basheer commented that letariat become free. The Bund in 1948. attacked Deir Yassin without any it promises to turn Israel into a there was disappointment that the was nationalist but not Zionist. Today official Zionist propa­ military authorization, but the death trap for the Jewish masses Soviet Union did not take a When Hitler exterminated East ganda claims that the Palestine Irgun then published the text of themselves. stronger stand. European Jewry, the Bund was ~T - Monday, June 19, 1967 Page Five • in Israel • An Inside Vievv exterminated, too. Remnants still overcome anti-Semitism. their jobs, salaries, possibly In Israeli politics Mapam does professional jobs. When work is exist in the USA. Latin America They considered the persecution houses and health insurance, by not play an independent role; it over, the hired men go back to and Canada as a result of mass of national minorities to be a per­ voting otherwise. follows the lead of Mapai ( some­ town. For them the Kibbutz is immigration of Jewish proleta­ manent feature of mankind (a Mapam is the second largest times reluctantly, but always sub­ rians in the first decades of this view which the revolutionaries party of the Zionist left. It was mitting in the end). However, it an employer like any other ca­ century. strongly opposed). Politically they formed in the forties as a bloc does play a significant role in pitalist, except that capitalists The ideologist of the Zionist left, diverted many people from parti­ of bodies, the most important of presenting Zionism to socialists don't preach socialism. who contested the ideas of the cipating in revolutionary politics which was Hashomer Hatzair. and left-wing intellectuals in both \Vhen a strike occurs in a Kib­ Bund as well as those of Lenin, by their "emigrate to Palestine" Mapam is torn between nation­ the East and the West. butz factory, the owners call in was Ber Borochow. policy. alist Zionist practices ( e.g., expro­ Thus Mapam publishes a spe­ He formulated the idea of the When the founder of political priating fellahin [Arab peasants], cial periodical in English (New the police without scruples. "Inverted Pyramid." meaning, Zionism, T. Herzl, met the czarist as in the case of the village Biri'm Outlook) for the West: also, Israeli The slogan "From the Com­ briefly, the following: every na­ foreign minister Plehve (a noto­ in 1952) and internationalist slo­ ambassadors to Eastern countries mune - to Communism" proved rious anti-Semite), he mentioned tion consists of a pyramid of so­ gans. This is reflected in the slo­ like Poland or Yugoslavia are doubly false. It did not bring cial layers; a broad basis of pea­ explicitly the last point in order gan in the heading of Mapam's often Mapam leaders, whereas for about a transformation of Israeli sants, a layer of proletarians, then to persuade him to grant permis­ daily paper Al-Hamishmar [The negotiations with right elements a layer of transport and services, sion for mass emigration of Jews Guardian] which reads: "To Zion­ the Israeli government sends a society to socialism, let alone com­ civil servants; on top of this - from Russia. ism, Socialism, and friendship be­ right winger, and to Afro-Asian munism. Instead, the communes the self-employed, artisans, doc­ • * * tween nations." conferences - ( often) a dark­ themselves were transformed from tors, lawyers, intellectuals, scien­ The primary division in Israeli The order is significant. When­ skinned Jew. phalansteries [ utopian socialist communities] into collective ex­ tists. politics is between the Zionists ever Mapam was forced to choose Mapam's name is often con­ ploiters, profiting from hired la­ In the Jewish case this pyramid and non- or anti-Zionists. between Zionism and socialism, or nected with Kibbutzim, although bor. The history of the Kibbutz most other parties (including the extreme rightist Herut and the re­ (indeed the history of the whole ligious parties) run a few Kibbut­ Zionist left) is the history of a zim of their own. Social Democracy corrupted by nationalism and the harsh econo­ * * * mic realities of capitalist econo­ A Kibbutz is a communal agri­ my. cultural settlement. Its members A point often overlooked is the join it voluntarily and are free to significance of the Kibbutz for leave at any time. The members Zionist colonization. A spirit of do not own anything privately ex­ pioneering, collective, organized cept a few clothes. The land be­ labor, a social structure specially longs to the Zionist organization, suited to absorb newcomers, to the means of production, too - defend itself, to carry out, through but they are donated to the Kib­ great personal sacrifices, unpro­ butz. All labor is carried out fitable economic tasks in order to communally, decisions on policy, establish Zionist presence in a development, investment, election hostile area - these are the rea­ of chairman, secretary, treasurer, sons why Zionist institutions fi­ etc., are made by the general nanced the Kibbutzim, whether meeting of all members. they belong to Mapai, Mapam, These elements of "Free Social­ Herut, or the religious parties. ism" fascinated many intellectuals (To be concluded next week) and socialists in the West, and are much advertised by Mapam all over the world. A closer scrutiny reveals some flaws: Detroit YSA Lack of Democracy (l) The Kibbutz is usually a HoldsForum one-party affair, people voting Communist were expelled from Kibbutzim of Hashomer Hatzair and those voting Mapam - from OnMideast Kibbutzim run by Mapai, etc. DETROIT - More than 60 stu­ There is little political tolerance dents took time out June 7 from in the Kibbutz. preparation for finals at Wayne (2) The Kibbutz is part of a State University to participate in whole ideological setup. Namely: a symposium on the Middle East "From the Commune - to Com­ crisis sponsored by the campus munism"; or - let us fill the Young Socialist Alliance. country with Kibbutzim [Com­ Carol Lipman of Detroit YSA munes] and eventually the majo­ introduced the symposium by say­ rity of the population and econo­ ing that, while YSA does not un­ my will be of the Kibbutz type; derestimate the seriousness of the UN Relief and Works Agency photo i.e., a peaceful transition to Com­ divisions in the Middle East, it REFUGEES' "HOMES." Two youngsters in front of hovels in Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, munism. hoped that the symposium would Lebanon. Reality proved this to be a falla­ contribute to clarifying an issue cy. All Kibbutzim are in debt to dividing many people otherwise was deformed; many lawyers, doc­ The division into right and left between Zionism and internation­ the government, private banks united in the anti-Vietnam-war tors, intellectuals. and other is of secondary importance (both alism (and this happens quite and firms. Without constant sub­ movement. sidies from Zionist institutions middle-class occupations, w i th subjectively and objectively). often in Palestine), it chose Zion­ Role of U.S. few, if any peasants, and little pro­ The division inside the Zionist ism, justifying this by the "unique­ they would have been unable to letarians. Therefore he claimed left is a family affair. Once, there ness of the Jewish case." exist. Fuel, cash, fertilizers, water, YSA national committee mem­ that the social structure of the was a considerable gap between One has to remember that the electricity, and machinery, have ber Jan Garrett pointed out the Jewish people must first be recti­ the Social Democrats (Mapai) and internationalism of a party like to be bought from sources ex­ role of the U.S. government in fied before it could undergo a those who considered themselves Mapam has to be tested not by ternal to the Kibbutz, and the pro­ the formation of Israel and the transformation to socialism. This revolutionaries (Mapam), but in its policies toward the U.S. but ducts must compete in the mar­ creation of the plight of the Arab meant that the Jews must first the last decade it narrowed so first of all by its policies and prac­ ket with goods produced by refugees; he argued that all Amer­ establish a national state and much, and the whole political tices toward the Palestinian others, sometimes - by Arab fel­ icans should demand that the U.S. therein become peasants and pro­ spectrum of the left shifted so Arabs. lahin. The Kibbutz (whose cre­ keep its military forces out of the letarians and only after accom­ much to the right that ideological ation was largely motivated by Middle East, which serve mainly In words Mapam supports so­ the Borochow ideology) proved to plishing this step could they pro­ and political feuds gave way to a cialism, the USSR, Cuba, the to protect the investments of the ceed to the step of revolution. squabble for economic benefits. be uncompetitive and was kept oil monopolists. He read the posi­ people of Vietnam. Once in a while alive by Zionist subsidies. (Theory of Steps.) Mapai ["the Palestine Workers it organizes a demonstration; but tion paper of the Israeli Socialist Organization, which proposed a Following this theory in daily Party"] has, for the last three de­ the nearer the issues come to Pa­ Kibbutz Capitalism practice, the Zionist left preached cades, been the central party in lestine - the more nationalistic solution of the crisis in terms of (3) Faced with this reality, the and practiced emigration. After a Israeli politics (for reasons we it becomes. the de-Zionization of Israel and period of training and indoctrina­ shall explain later). Originally it Thus, Mapam supported the Kibbutz turned to industrial acti­ the integration of .the Hebrew na­ vity, at first processing its agri­ tion they sent their recruits to was a Social Democratic party Suez campaign to the full, its min­ tion into a socialist Middle East­ cultural products but gradually Palestine, mostly t~ the agricul­ preaching gradual and peaceful isters stayed in Ben-Gurion's Suez ern Union. tural settlements. Ben-Gurion, transition to socialism. About a cabinet and justified (they still moving into other fields such as The Arab speaker, Hasan New­ Eshkol, Lavon, and many other decade ago it dropped this aim in do!) the Israeli aggression. Later, plastics, crockery, furniture and a ash, outlined the origin of the prominent Zionist socialists who order not to antagonize the USA, when Ben-Gurion was forced to host of other light industry pro­ Palestine problem. He denied the later became leaders in Israel on whose direct and indirect sup­ withdraw from Sinai and the Gaza ducts. However, the small popula­ Zionist charges that the purpose came from these parties. port Israel depends for its exis­ Strip, Mapam organized mass tion of a Kibbutz (a few hundred) of the Arabs was to "drive the Some of these parties continue tence. demonstrations against the with­ could not provide the labor force Jews into the sea." Newash did these practices even today in the In Israel there exist three ma­ drawal, insisting on the annexa­ for both agriculture and industry. not outline a separate solution, U.S. and Latin America. We refer jor power structures: the Histad­ tion of the Gaza Strip to Israel. Since giving up the agricultural saying that he felt the general out­ to Habonim ["the Builders,'' affi­ rut, the Jewish Agency, and the Mapam refuses to recognize the activity would be tantamount to line of the Israeli Socialists' pro­ liated to Mapai], and Hashomer official government. Mapai was right to self-determination of the betrayal of the principles of Zion­ posal was acceptable. Hatzair ["the Young Guardian," always the largest in the first two, Palestinian Arabs, or the right of ist socialism, the Kibbutz was A heated debate followed in affiliated to Mapam]. hence - also in the third. the Palestinian refugees to repa­ forced to employ hired labor from which North American socialists, These parties had sharp politi­ Its main asset is the fact that triation; recently it went so far as nearby towns. Thus the communal Afro-American and Armenian­ cal conflicts with all those parties it is in power, thereby possessing to oppose a UN proposal to hold Kibbutz society became a com­ American students and Arab for­ which aimed at a transformation all benefits resulting from power, a referendum among the -refugees munal exploiter of hired labor. eign students opposed the Zionist of their own societies; ideologically which in the special case of Israel to find out whether they prefer Usually the Kibbutz members contention that the Middle East they upheld the principle that no are all-embracing. Its voters are, restitution payment to repatria­ act as overseers in their factories situation was in no way analogous transformation of society can ever mostly, people who might lose tion. while the hired men do the less to the one in Vietnam. Page Six THE MILITANT Monday, June 19, 1967 ••• JohnsonS Mideast Gain ( Continued from Page 1) dignantly, "There has been con­ "progress" the Arabs are likened Six days later, on June 12, the siderable cheap amusement in to whiskey-drinking Irishmen. same paper reported: "The politi­ recent days at the spectacle of Radical-minded Americans who cal view from the top has bright­ Senators Kennedy, Clark, Morse align themselves with Israel ened. More specifically, President and the others who are doves over against the Arabs should ponder Johnson and his top political lieu­ Vietnam suddenly becoming hawks Approximately 500 delegates at­ the question of why it is that on tended a black power conference tenants are considerably more over Israel." this issue they find themselves in optimistic than a few months ago held in Washington, D.C., May 19- Admittedly, he states, some con­ the same camp as the most reac­ 20. The conference was called and about LBJ's 1968 prospects . . . gressmen are concerned in terms tionary forces in the country. Can organized by Howard University The latest lift to White House of Jewish voters. But, Shannon they seriously believe that through spirits springs from a feeling that Professor Nathan Hare and How­ explains, this is only one side of some mysterious process Life, Wil. ard students. the president has emerged from the story. "Last week," he points liam Buckley, George Meany and the Middle East crisis with his Among the topics discussed out, "when Colonel Nasser's armies Lyndon Johnson are supporting a were the establishment of a na­ prestige enhanced . . ." were getting mauled, there was progressive cause? While Johnson was ready to take tional black power organization, vicarious satisfaction on Capitol For those who are active in the independent political action, black the fateful military plunge if the Hill, and it extended from Brook­ movement to stop the U.S. war situation demanded, he didn't want participation in the antiwar move­ lyn Democrats to Iowa Republicans machine the issue is particularly ment, antidraft organization and to look eager. William Shannon, who have scarcely a Jewish voter urgent. The hard fact is that the member of the editorial board of community dontrol of ghetto social in their district." right-wingers have lined up behind and economic institutions. the New York Times explained Similarly on the general political Johnson and the Israeli govern­ The delegates came from black June 12 "If American military front, the consensus covered a wide ment because they understand that involverr{ent occurred he did not campuses and from the major spectrum. a heavy blow is being dealt to the northern ghettos, as well as areas want it thought that he had left Arab revolution. Such a blow is any peaceful alternative unex­ A three-quarter page ad in the in the South including Lowndes a setback to the struggle against County, Ala. plored." June 7 New York Times called on President Johnson to break the imperialism and to the struggle Those who were critical of against war. The upsurge of the * * * Johnson's alleged neutral stance, blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba. A picket line in support of Mu­ It urged that LBJ "act now with colonial movement has been a Shannon said, were rather foolish major 1eterrent to Washington's hammad Ali was held in Cleve­ "inasmuch as his fundamental courage and conviction, with nerve land, Ohio, June 3. Over 50 peo­ and firmness of intent, to maintain plans for global war. The U.S. vic­ determination to take overt action, tory in the Mideast strengthens ple participated in the demonstra­ if necessary, was not really in free passage in those waters . . ." tion held at the Federal Building. Among the public figures who its hand on a world scale, specif­ doubt." ically in Vietnam. The demonstrators ch an t e d , signed this strident appeal were "Fight, Fight for Muhammad's Dual Victory numerous critics of Johnson's Viet­ Danger for China Rights," and "Fight, Fight, for SON FRAMED-UP. Mrs. Mil­ "As events developed," Shannon nam intervention. Included were Moreover, the success of the G.I.'s Rights, Bring the Troops added, "Israel's swift victory and Socialist Party leader Michael Israeli "blitzkrieg" serves as a Home Now." Passers-by were gen­ dred Thomas, mother of one of the Soviet Union's refusal to sup­ Harrington; H. Stuart Hughes, potent shot in the arm for the erally sympathetic to the march­ Harlem Six. port its Arab clients took the presi­ former peace candidate for gover­ Washington hawks who would ers, and several of them joined dent off the hook politically." nor of Massachussetts; author escalate the war in Vietnam into the picket line. ally resolved until next fall at the The victory was, in fact, a dual Hannah Arendt; columnist Murray a direct attack on China. After Among the organizations sup­ one for Johnson. He shored up the earliest. Kempton and writer Dwight Mac­ all, if tiny Israel can deliver a porting the demonstration were: Powell's lawyers asked the Sup­ oil magnates in the Mideast by Donald. lightning blow to such a numer­ Cleveland Committee to End the reme Court to invoke a rule un­ helping unleash a military force ically superior foe, why can't the War in Vietnam, United Black der which it could review a case · that dealt a heavy blow to the "Doves for War" mighty U.S. pull the same kind of Youth, Young Socialist Alliance, still unresolved in a lower court development of the Pan-Arab Charles Silberman, author of blitz attack on the Chinese? Socialist Workers Party, Draft if the case was of "imperative movement. (And after the way Crisis in Black and White, who initiated the ad, said that John P. This mood is strengthened by Resisters Union, and Committee public importance." The Supreme U.S. planes were repainted with Against War and Fascism. Cuban markings during the in­ Roche, Johnson's house intellec­ the incredible Soviet cop-out in the Court decided that Powell's suit vasion of Cuba, the Arab charges tual had ironically suggested that Mideast. After that performance, * * * was not such a case. that U.S. planes were involved the 'ad be signed "doves for war." Washington is not likely to be Intimidation and vi o 1 enc e * * * cannot be dismissed out of hand.) But it wasn't simply congress­ particularly impressed by Soviet against SNCC staff members in On June 1, the mothers of the At home, LBJ racked up an men and liberal-minded doves who declarations on where it draws the Atlanta has been stepped up dur­ Harlem Six submitted a petition added gain. To a significant degree, were beating the war drums. Israel line on Vietnam escalations. This, ing the past weeks. Friday, June to the Appellate Division of the the Mideast events helped to re­ suddenly found it had staunch and too, intensifies the danger of world 2, a SNCC car occupied by Cleve­ State Supreme Court. They pro­ store the Johnson "consensus" even rabid supporters among such war. land Sellers and other SNCC tested the failure of court-ap­ which played such a big role in figures as George Meany (he took Equally important, jingoism is workers was followed closely by pointed lawyers to notify the de­ helping him to carry through his a two-column ad in the Times to an infection that cannot be local­ police. The apartment of Fay Bel­ fendants of an appeal hearing barbarous escalation in Vietnam. state his pro-Israel view) ; the oily­ ized. The chauvinist spirit whipped lamy, SNCC office manager, has May 11 1967. Counsel for one of As in the days of the "stop Gold­ mouthed racist egg-head of the up in this country against the been broken into three times - the youths did not even appear in water" drive, forces from right to right, William Buckley, who Arabs can be directed toward the the second time it was ransacked court. left were cheering him and the chortled at the inconsistency of Vietnamese. Like it or not, the and the third time a fire was set The teenage young men, known Israeli army on. the liberals; South Vietnamese right-wing demagogs make a tell­ in the closet. as the Harlem Six, were framed­ Shannon writes, somewhat in- dictator Ky; U.S. puppet warlord ing point when they assert you On June 4 there was a fire in up on a murder charge in the Chiang Kai-shek and, last but not can't be a hawk in the Mideast the apartment of a popular black spring of 1964. least, Life magazine. and a dove in Vietnam. singer - the Mighty Hannibal - * * * At a recent Philadelphia seminar Life, too, invested in a full-page who along with SNCC has been 1 on equal employment, the chair­ Black Students Times ad to declare its solidarity involved in picketing and pro­ tests in Atlanta. man of the U.S. Equal Employment with Israel against the Arabs. The Opportunity Commission charged Israelis it declared, are "patriotic, 1 * * * that one out of every three per­ At ColumbiaAct brave and skillful soldiers, bril­ ... Hulett On June 13 an all-white federal sons in the North Philadelphia liantly led." Of the Arabs, Life (Continued from Page 1) jury acquitted eight white men ghetto has a serious unemploy­ OnRa 1ci,alJibe sternly enquires: "Was there ever Lowndes County Freedom Party, charged with attacking black chil­ ment problem. a people so bellicose in politics, so was badly beaten in front of the dren on their way to a desegre­ * * * By Robert Gebert reckless and raucous in hostility Houser home; Mr. Houser himself gated school in Grenada, Miss., Truckloads of Alabama Guards- - and then so unpugnacious in was also picked up and beaten; last fall. The white racist mob men turned back about 120 black Black students at Columbia pitched combat - as Nasser's SNCC worker Worth Long was threatened and beat the children. University recently seized over demonstrators who were march­ Egyptians?" To round out this beaten. One boy suffered a broken leg. ing on the state capitol in Mont­ 1,500 copies of Jester, a campus declaration of alignment with Throughout the night, SNCC of. Among those attacked was a child humor magazine, in protest against gomery June 12 to protest the at­ ficials had made appeals to the crippled by polio who was unable tacks on the black community by an article which referred to Af­ Justice Department for federal to run from the mob. ro-Americans as "black ants in police and the Ku Klux Klan in protection. Mr. John Doar of that Prattville, Ala. purple beanies," and the "noble department informed the national * * * black savage." The Logic The Supreme Court ruled on * * * office of SNCC in Atlanta that June 12 that states cannot out­ Four Afro-American organiza- About 30 black students were people were "bothering" him. involved in the incident which led Of Marxism law marriages between whites and tions in Boston have issued a Doar's response typifies the at­ non-whites. statement in support of black peo­ to a meeting between the students titude of the federal government and Dean Truman. ple attacked by police in the four By in this and similar situations which * * * day Roxbury uprising. The state­ An informal committee of 45 The Supreme Court has refused George Novack have faced black people. to speed up consideration of Adam ment was signed by Boston SNCC, students presented the dean with Ataugua County, in which Pratt­ United Militant Headquarters, a wide range of demands includ­ Clayton Powell's legal attempts $1 ville is located, is adjacent to to be reseated in Congress. The Afro-Americans Against the War ing the appointment of an Afro­ Lowndes County, where the first in Vietnam, and Rebellion News. American advisor and Afro­ ruling means that the Powell suit MERITPUBLISHERS county Freedom Organization ran for reinstatement cannot be fin- -Elizabeth Barnes American faculty members. They 5 East Third St., candidates under the black panther also demanded the creation of a New York, N. Y, 10003 ballot symbol November, 1966. course in Afro-American history. They won sufficient votes to be­ If you enjoy reading The Militant and are interested. in The spokesman for the group, come an official county political what the young socialist movement is thinking and doing, who asked to be unnamed, was party. you will want to subscribe to America's leading young so­ quoted by the Columbia Daily At a press conference in Atlanta, Spectator as saying, "How can we Rap Brown, chairman of SNCC, cialist magazine respect the law when we can't said "We will no longer sit back ever get a fair deal? We won't and let black people be killed by compromise our basic rights as Send for a free copy of our murderers who hide behind sheets '"fHE YOUNG SOCIALIST people . . . If we hadn't confis­ latest listings. Books and pam­ or behind the badge of the law. $1 a year (eleven issues) cated the Jesters, nothing would phlets on socialism, labor and It is clear that the law cannot and have been done about them or any will not protect black people . . . Send i,ou1' dollar to of the other issues we raised." Afro-American history, Cuba, We extend a call for black brothers According to several witnesses, the colonial struggle and much now serving in Vietnam to come P.O. Box 471, Cooper Statton. New York, N. Y. 10003 the meeting with the dean result­ more. home to the defense of their ed in his acceding to most of the • mothers and families. This is their Name ...... group's demands, although Tru­ MERIT PUBLISHERS fight. We say to brothers in the Street ...... Zip ...... man subsequently denied some of 5 East 3rd St. armed forces: If you can die the most important agreements New York, N. Y. 10003 defending your motherland, you City ...... State ...... they reported. can die defending your mother." Monday, June 19, 1967 THE MILITANT Page Seven

[This column is an open forum issue of June 5th, I felt that I San Francisco Referendum Thought for the Week for all viewpoints on wbjects of could not, in the interests of truth San Francisco, Calif. gene,,al inte,-est to OU1' 1'eade,-s. and justice, allow you to remain "The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a Please keep t/OU1' Jette,-s brief. uncorrected and your readers mis­ Some weeks ago I read an ar­ ticle in The Militant about a group fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, WheTe necessa;,, thev wm be informed on matters concerning preferably by burning.'' Annin & Co., flag manufacturers. cibridged. Write,-s' initials will be Israel and the Arab nations. being formed here in San Fran­ cisco to put a referendum on the used, names being withheld unless The June 5th issue had two ar­ authorization is given f01' use.] Vietnam war on the ballot. I ticles on the Middle East; the first thought other readers of The Mili­ Because the article then goes Instead of isolating themselves issued by the Israeli Socialist Or­ tant would be interested to know on to explain how significant anti­ in prison or exile to avoid their Gets Green Beret Appeal ganization and the second ("Back­ that the group, Citizens for a Vote war activity can be continued individual involvement in the kill­ Reed College ground Analysis'') by one of your on Vietnam, has been sponsoring within the Army, this statement ing, such soldiers would be in a Portland, Ore. correspondents. The former repeat­ very successful mobilizations to might be misread to the effect position to help end the involve­ edly claimed: "The majority of that some necessary sacrifice of ment of the thousands of other Less than a year ago I saw a get 20,000 signatures on their peti­ Palestine's Arabs were dispos­ tion, which calls for an immediate "pureness," i.e., political principle, young men who are now being or­ friend off to the wars. He was sessed of their homes and fields is involved when one wishes to be dered to kill. I think they will be eager to get to Vietnam and be­ cease-fire and withdrawal of during and after the 1948 war ... " American troops. "effective." judged, especially by the Viet­ come a Special Forces Ace fightiµg It is the author's use of the word namese, to have lived up to the man. This week he finally wrote People who are interested in Is it, then, a compromise with "dispossessed" that I object to. helping can come down to 55 Col­ principle when a young man en­ highest standards of moral con­ me: duct because they worked to reach Please do.two things for me: (1) In May, 1948, when the British ton Street at 10 a.m. Saturdays - ters the U.S. Army knowing that withdrew and the State of Israel or call the office (431-9771) for it is an imperialist murder ma­ a part of the population, i.e., the need the address of the American soldiers, who are in a particularly Civil Liberties Union headquar­ was proclaimed, the Jews of Pa­ further details. The committee has chine? Regardless of his "effec­ lestine were perfectly willing to meetings Monday evenings, 8 p.m. tiveness" in convincing his fellow good position to stop the war. ters. (2) need the address of the Peter Buch VISTA. I would like (1) because let the Arabs remain and partici­ at Colton St. soldiers about the war, the draftee pate fully in the rebuilding of the I want to send this blood money J.V. may ponder whether he is not im­ land. But the Arab leaders, in Legal Prec·edent to a worthy cause. I want (2) be­ plicated as long as he serves in cause I desire to atone for the particular the Grand Mufti of Draft Resistance the Army which is carrying on a Montreal, Canada Jerusalem, spiritual leader of the vicarious murders I am commit­ New York, N.Y. bloody racist conquest. Isn't he The May 27 Montreal Star re­ area, told the . Arabs of Pal~tine ting in the name of democracy. I At one point in his very fine helping kill Vietnamese and isn't ported: "An attempt by the last to leave their homes and fields need your help. article, "Draft Resistance: A he bloodying his hands while talk­ descendant of coal and steel baron Needless to say, the te,rse note and go to Arab-controlled areas. Marxist View," Harry Ring deals ing to his fellow soldiers? Henry Clay Frick to suppress a They left Israel on their own free indicated neither time nor place. with the choice confronting the in­ Ring's article answers this type textbook which described him as How appropriate that we young will, fully expecting to return to dividual opponent of the war: of question implicitly by posing a wage-cutting industrial autocrat their homes in a few weeks after men are called upon, without so either to go to prison or accept the task of stopping the war as a was dismissed in the court of com­ much as asking our opinion, to the victorious Arab armies had induction into the Army and take task for masses of people, not mon pleas in Carlisle, Pa. The divorce ourselves from the world pushed the Jews into the area. part in a reactionary war. Ring isolated individuals. I would say judgment vindicated the right of in time and in space. How else But the Arabs were defeated by points to the basis on which this further that antiwar soldiers who scholars to make judgments on the would it be possible to ignore the a people fighting for their fam­ choice must be made by the anti­ convince their fellow citizen-sol­ basis of reasonable research." young lives we are sacrificing so ilies and homes, and the refugees war draftee: concern for the "pu­ diers that the war is wrong help Don't you think the judgment blindly and religiously? did not re-enter Israel. Asfor rity of his own conscience or with to make it impossible for LBJ to protects The Militant from libel We are shown pictures (in the Israel letting them return today, taking effective action to help end go on wasting American and Viet­ suits? popular magazines) of enemy such an action would be impos­ the war.'' namese lives. Reader dead, but apparently our victims sible. There are over one million are not photogenic, or any more refugees today, and about two and so than the bombed civilians. As a half million Israelis. To let into war becomes the policy of our Israel so many people who sup­ people, untruth and thoughtless ported the attempted destruction It Was Reported in the Press propaganda will be our daily diet. of Israel less than two decades ago If the youth who resist the draft would be ridiculous and an act of Original Hippies - Other com­ tobacco industry and our free-en­ tives debated an "ethics" bill that suicide for Israel. have a message, it is that one need mitments prevented us from at­ terprise system. It is difficult would require lobbyists to make not go into war (as my friend did) A more practicable solution tending the Fat-In at New York's indeed to comprehend how the known their expenditures. An 'to learn what millions learned would be for Israel, her Arab Central Park which assembled un­ fairness doctrine, which has al­ amendment would have exempted several times in this century. The neighbors and other nations to der such banners as "Fat Power," ways been questionable at best, medium, in this ignoble case, is contribute jointly to an interna­ "Buddha Was Fat" and "Help Cure can be construed as it has been the first $500 a week of a lobby­ definitely not the message. tional monetary fund to train and Emaciation.'' One participant ex­ here . . ." Satterfield comes from ist's spending. One solon indig­ D.B. rehabilitate the refugees, and then plained to newsmen that if every­ Virginia, a tobacco producing state. nantly inquired if anyone thought P.S. Here's a dollar for a couple to resettle them in Jordan, Egypt, one was fat there'd be no war that members of so august a body months of The Militant. Syria and Lebanon. since no one would be able to pass In Memory of Dachau? - The As for the quarter-million Arabs the physical. West German government agreed could be "bought" for $500. An­ Disagrees on Mideast who remained in Israel in 1948, to sell 20,000 gas masks to the other replied: Perhaps not, but Rego Park, N.Y. they are certainly not "victims of None of That Nonsense - Free government of Israel. they could be rented. severe economic, civil and national world sub-leader Ky said criticism I have been a reader of The of candidates would not be per­ Pro-Celibacy - By a slim ma­ New York Special - Our spirit Militant for several months now, oppression." While there is some discrimination practiced by those mitted in the coming "election" jority, New York area Catholic of New York patriotism was and in that time I have found it for the national assembly. "I don't priests voted in favor of the swelled by a Village Voice clas­ extremely interesting and informa­ few Israelis who view all Arabs as their enemies, the Israeli Arabs think its nice to allow people to church's policy of celibacy. Curi­ sified ad which illustrated what tive on matters concerning social­ use the free press to issue critic­ ously, the poll takers found that Our Town has to offer. It stated: ism. However, after reading your enjoy the same rights as all other citizens of the State of Israel, and isms of each other because it cre­ older priests favored celibacy and "Three rooms. Quaint. 'Tub in live in better economic conditions ates more confusion and division younger ones did not. Meanwhile, kitchen. $100 a month." than the Arab peasants of Egypt, among the people,'' he explained. church officials in Rome disci­ plined a priest for psychoanalyz­ For Dad - As usual they're of­ Syria, Lebanon, Jordan or Saudi Capitalist Confrontation - A ing monks at a Mexican monas­ fering a lot of silly junk for Fa­ WeeklyCalendar Arabia. New York reader, who should be tery. He was trying to determine ther's Day. The only useful, bud­ chastized for negligence, fished out It is hard to see, also, how a so­ if they were fit for monastic life. get-priced item we've seen so far The rate for advertising In this column cialist party like the Socialist of his wallet a tattered March 12 is a set of 14-karat, adjustable is 40 cents • line. Display eds ere $2 • Workers Party can be against New York Times item that had Loan Agency - Members of collar stays. Only $15. column inc:h. T,here is • ten percent dis­ Zionism, and the State of Israel, escaped us. It reported the suc­ the Florida House of Representa- -Harry Ring count for regular advertisers. Advertising and call Israel the aggressor. cess of Ralston, the cereal empire, must reec:h us by the Monday prior to · as explained by its president, R. the date of publication. Israel was willing to live in peace with her neighbors; it is the Arab Hal Dean. Ralston's business, he CLEVELAND nations who have provoked the explained, "is simply to put food -i THE CASE OF PFC. HOWARD PET­ present war in the Middle East, It into the mouths of people and RICK - The Right of Free Speech for make a profit doing it. This means FOR Gls. Speaker: Lew Jones, Sun., June 25, was only after President Nasser of I 7:30 p.m. 9801 Euclid Ave. Contrib. 50 the United Arab Republic decided belly-to-belly selling in a volatile cents. Ausp. Young Socialist Alliance. to violate . international law by industry." , I blockading the Strait of Tiran, af­ Savings Plan - Recently we re­ NEW HEADERS I ter repeated Syrian border provo­ LOS ANGELES• ported that what with skyrocket­ WEST COAST RECEPTION FOR cations, after futile appeals to the ing prices there has been a marked ~ I LBJ. Antiwar Rally ( 6 p.m.), Marc:h, United Nations, after exercising increase in the hijacking of meat I If you are a new reader and would like to get better and Peac:e-in ( 12 noon). Speakers in­ the utmost restraint that Israel trucks. Now two brothers have acquainted, you may obtain a special four-month Intro- I clude: Dr. Benjamin Spock and H. Rap was forced into military action. been arrested in Brooklyn and Brown, new SNCC national chairman. I therefore think it is incorrect charged with amassing a stock I ductory subscription by sending this blank and $1 to I Fri., June 23, Cheviot Hills Park ( on Motor Ave., near Pico, West Los An­ for you to call the State of Israel of 150,000 pills with a value es­ geles). Peace-in features: Barbara Dane, an imperialist agent and aggres­ timated at $200,000. Police claimed Phil Ochs, others. Call: 462-8188 or 467- sor, to blame the international the tw<'>men, employes of a drug 3744. Peace Action Council of South­ Zionist movement for the evils of company, patiently accumulated ern California. the world or to place the blame the stock over a five-year period I THE MILITANT I * * * using subjective evidence alone. , by walking out with 150 barbituate MARXIST COMMENTARY. A bi­ Z.L. and pep pills a day. 873 Broadway weekly analysis of the news by Theodore New York, N. Y. 10003 Edwards, a member of the Socialist [Regarding Z.L.'s contention Questionable Doctrine - Rep. Workers Party. Mon., June 26, 6:45 that the Arabs were not driven Davis Satterfield waxed indignant p.m. ( repeated Thurs., June 29, 9:45 out of Palestine, see Les Evans' at a Federal Communications I a.m.) KPFK-FM (90.7 on your dial.) article on page 4. On the charge Commission ruling that radio and Name that the remaining Arabs are not television stations must make -·-·-····-·····-··---..···--·------···"··- ...... ------1 NEW • YORK discriminated a-gainst, here is one equal commercial time available CURRENT SOCIAL AND POLITICAL key fact: Histadrut, the Zionist to antismoking groups. "The rul­ Street ·-----···--- ..·--- ... · ----- ...... -._ Zip.. DEVELOPMENTS IN CUBA. Speaker: labor organization, which controls ing," declared Satterfield, "con­ I Harry Ring, staff writer, The Militant. the bulk of the country's jobs, stitutes a shocking abuse of power Fri., June 23, 8:30 p.m. 873 Broadway which strikes at the very heart at 18th St. Contrib. $1. Ausp. Militant bars Arabs from membership. ICity- .....·-·-··---- ..·--··------·-· ... State····-·······--·- I Labor Forum. EDITOR,] . of the advertising industry, the ------Page Eight TH£ MILITANT Monday, June 19, 1967 N.Y. Meeting Demands Fla. Police Occupy Ghetto Releaseof HugoBlanco Aft K. . T y th 1n:..:;::;,'!;.-1m~J:!: ;::~: er 111 1n g ampa ou vian peasant leader Hugo Blanco was held here June 9. A large JUNE 13 - Ghetto areas in came of looting in the ghetto, the city called the Central Village, number of speakers representing a Tampa, Fla., were under seige by broad cross section of the Amer­ "riot" squad moved in, marching but Monday it spread to other police this week after residents ican left addressed the audience through the streets with automatic areas. Over 1,000 guardsmen and rebelled against the shooting of of 135, demanding freedom for the weapons, bayonets, and police police were moved into the ghetto. a black youth. The victim, 19-year­ revolutionary leader who is threat­ dogs. A six-ton vehicle known as According to police, black re­ old Martin Chambers, was killed ened with the death sentence. The a "riotmobile" was moved in. It is sidents set approximately 18 fires. when fleeing from the scene of a equipped with tear gas, guns and Accompanied by police, Florida meeting was sponsored by the burglary June 11. Militant Labor Forum. a cannon that shoots water at Gov. Kirk visited the Central Vil­ The meeting was chaired by According to James Hamilton, great pressure; and its bottom lage area on Monday and talked George Novack, the well-known an administrator of the Tampa edge is razor sharp so that it can­ to a crowd of about 200 people Marxist philosopher and author. In Commission on Community Rela­ not be tipped. including the mother of Martin opening the meeting he drew spe­ tions, some of the young people On Sunday, June 12, the con­ Chambers. After telling the tense cial attention to the cases of other involved in the rebellion were frontation was confined mainly crowd that there must be calm, political prisoners in Latin Amer­ friends of Martin Chambers. The to an area near the center of the and that "justice must prevail" ica, particularly Regis Debray in mayor of Tampa has agreed to he walked through the crowd Bolivia; Victor Galan and Adolfo suspend the patrolman who did shaking hands with those who Gilly, and a number of Trotskyists the shooting pending an investiga­ would shake. Many simply turned in Mexico. tion. their backs on him. The first speaker was Edward Over 80 black people were ar­ Police marched through the area Boorstein of the U.S. Committee rested during the two nights of after Kirk left, followed by for Justice to Latin American confrontation between ghetto re­ guardsmen riding jeeps with Political Prisoners. John Wilson sidents and police which followed mounted machine guns. He pointed out that "Hugo the shooting. There were many According to Robert L. Gilder, Blanco has been fighting our bat­ of the colonial world." black casualties including Bobbie president of the Tampa branch of tle, because anybody who is fight­ Other speakers included Peter Johnson, 24 years old, who is in the NAACP, many blacks wer·e ing in Peru, in Cuba, in Africa Henig of Students for a Demo­ the hospital in fair condition as a demanding to see the mayor about or in Asia, is taking a chunk out cratic Society; Theodore Torre­ result of multiple gun-shot wounds. the problems of unemployment of imperialism." Bueno, a Peruvian-American; and Another black youth was stabbed and police brutality, but the by a police bayonet, and a boy of NAACP head said he was unable Empathy Richard Garza of the Socialist Workers Party. 15 caught a buck-shot blast from to persuade Mayor Nuccio to gv to Ron Clark of CORE was quite a policeman's riot gun. the ghetto area. ill but said he felt so strongly on A number of messages were re­ There were no police casualties the subject that he got out of bed ceived from important figures who outside of a deputy sheriff who A rebellion in Cincinnati, Ohio, to come. He said that "Black peo­ were unable to attend in person. died of a heart attack while in followed the conviction of a black ple have empathy for Hugo Blan­ Many of these were copies of the ghetto during the rebellion. man, Postel Laskey, for the mur· co. We are the only g1·oup who, cables sent to Peruvian President Police said that after news first der of a white woman. like Hugo Blanco, are fighting for Fernando Belaunde Terry. The chief of police signaled a survival." Such a message sent June 6 by "mobilization alert" and rushed John Wilson of SNCC spoke of Paul J. Lyons, executive director 100 squad cars into the ghetto the world as a big plantation run of Amnesty International of the when, according to the June 18 by American oppressors. He said USA declared: Fort Hood Three Appeal New York Post, "carloads of "There is trouble down on the "Amnesty International strongly young Negroes cruised and crowds plantation, and one of the biggest opposes abuses of political pris­ gathered ominously for five troublemakers is Hugo Blanco." oners. We are highly disturbed Goes Before Army Court hours." Melissa Singler of the Young over reports of beatings of Hugo A number of fires were started Socialist Alliance read a letter to Blanco by military guards." The case of the Fort Hood the defense was denied permission and there was some looting and the YSA from Hugo Blanco writ­ Paul Sweezy, co-editor of Month­ Three, the three Gls from Ft. to introduce such evidence. This smashing of store windows. Three ten in prison. ly Review sent a message which Hood, Texas, who opposed being will be one of the grounds of the black youths were arrested and Pedro Juan Rua, New York or­ read in part: "It would be advis­ sent to Vietnam, is coming up be­ appeal. charged with damaging a news ganizer for the Puerto Rican Pro­ able for you to release Hugo fore the Army review board on The defense will also argue a car. Helmeted policemen, accom­ Independence Movement declared: Bltmco, not simply as a matter of appeal on June 21. number of other points. It will panied by dogs and armed with "It is gratifying for us to come elementary justice but for the contend that the war in Vietnam three-foot clubs, tear gas and riot today and see that a representative sake of the reputation of yourself Pfc. James Johnson and Pvt. guns. sealed off an eight-block David Samas were sentenced to is illegal and therefore the order section of the U.S. left speaks out and the government you head." to go to Vietnam was not a law­ area. against the brutal repression of Other messages were received five years in prison each, and Pvt. Dennis Mora, to three years, ful command. Latin-American freedom fighters ... from John Gerassi, former editor The U.S. action, the Gis will Hugo Blanco represents, like many for Time and Newsweek maga­ after a court-martial last Septem­ ber. argue, violates the laws of land others, the courage and 200-year­ zines and correspondent for the warfare and their participation in ChangesStripes? long struggle of the Latin-Amer­ New York Times now teaching at The Fort Hood Three had at­ it would make them guilty of ican masses against class oppres­ New York University; Dr. James tempted to obtain an injunction violation of international law. preventing the Army from order­ Hitler-LovingKy sion colonialism and racism ... " Petras, University of California Also, the defense will contend, En'selmo Rodriguez, a spokesman at Berkeley; Dr. Connor Cruise ing them to go to Vietnam, on the Army was guilty of illegally for the Casa de las Americas, said, O'Brien, former high official of the grounds that the war is illegal, restraining the defendants' con­ PlumpsforIsrael "We Cubans in New York - I the United Nations in the Congo immoral and unjust. This action stitutional rights of free speech. Positions on the Middle East refer to those who are with the now teaching at New York Uni­ was in the civilian courts when They were arrested without cause crisis are quite clear in Vietnam. Cuban Revolution - we give our versity; Michael Myerson of the the Army moved to block it by while on leave, just before they In Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh issued a whole support to this campaign to Tri-Continental Information Serv­ arresting the men while on leave were scheduled to address a pub­ statement supporting the Arabs liberate Hugo Blanco." ice; and Professor Louis Menashe and then swiftly ordering them to lic meeting in New York last go to Vietnam. When they re­ and condemning the U.S. and Bri· Irving Beinin, of the coordinat­ of the Columbia University Sci­ summer. tain. ing committee of the National ence Department. fused, they were charged with dis­ The appeal will be heard in In Saigon, on the other hand, Guardian, said, "We have a big The audience voted to send a obeying an order. Bailey's Crossroads, Va., a sub­ Nguyen Cao Ky said June 8: "I'm debt to Hugo Blanco. We owe a message to Bela(mde Terry de­ At their courts-martial, coun­ urb of Washington, D.C. for Israel. As we live far from debt of struggle to the oppressed manding amnesty for Hugo Blanco. sel for the three Gis attempted to For further information, con­ Israel, we do not know what part introduce evidence that the war tact the Fort Hood Three Defense America and England played in is illegal. Unlike the recent court­ Committee, 22 E. 17 St., New this but we see that Israel alone martial of Capt. Howard Levy, York, N.Y. 10003. is fighting many other countries." Calif.Parents Protest Death He maintained that the Arabs were backed by "international Communism" in a plot to involve

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