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Reagan's Budget Cuts Threaten Family Farmers Ex-contra leader returns to Nicaragua • • 9 THE CIA 'mystery man' new UN ambassador 11 Baltimore Black party protests apartheid 15 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 49/NO. 7 FEBRUARY 22, 1985 75 CENTS Reagan's budget cuts Massive revolt in threaten family farmers Dominican BY MOHAMMED OLIVER The Reagan administration. supported Republic by the Democrats. has launched a frontal assault on working farmers. Reagan's pro­ posed budget includes plans to eliminate BY MARCEL BLACK virtually all federal price-support and sub­ Tens of thousands of Dominican work­ sidy programs for small farmers. ers joined in a one-day general strike on The elimination of these already meager February I I to protest new austerity meas­ programs would further shift the econol'nic ures imposed by the U.S.-dominated Inter­ burden of food production onto the hacks national Monetary Fund (IMF). of small working farmers. They would he The general strike capped two weeks of forced to shoulder soaring debts and chron­ protests fo llowing the January 23 an­ ically low prices for their crops with no nouncement by Pres. Salvador Jorge government aid . Blanco that the price of gasoline would be Farmers a lready face increasing foreclo­ hiked 34 percent. sures on equipment and land, and a deep The new measures came on top of last economic depression. Coupled with April's hikes of up to 100 percent in the Reagan· s proposed cuts. the picture is price of food , cooking oil , and other essen­ bleak enough that one bankrupt Minnesota tial items. Last year' s price increases farmer said. "they' ll find a few farmers in sparked a massive rebellion in which gov­ the barn rafters before this is over." Suicide ernment troops killed at least 60 people, among farm communities is 30 to 40 per­ wounded some 200. and arrested more than cent above the nonfarm rate. and it's ris- 4,000. mg. The Dominican government owes $2.7 But despair isn 't the onl y responsewel­ billion to imperialist banks. This year it ling up among family farmers . Farmers must pay $ 1.4 billion to be current. groups have announced plans f(Jr protests Jorge Blanco's regime adopted the au­ against the proposed cuts. A major rall y sterity measures as part of an agreement has been projected by the National Farm with the IMF. The imperialist banking con­ Organization for February 27 in Ames. cern refused to loan the Dominican govern­ Iowa. And the American Agriculture ment any more money unless it imposed Movement has call ed for a national march price hikes and other austerity measures. on Washington on March 4, to be foll owed The new U.S.-imposed price rises ig­ by four days of lobbying. nited widespread revolt. Unions, left-wing Reagan and the media have coupled the political organizations, community groups, call fc)r devastating cuts with a fi erce and others joined in calling on the Domini­ ideological campaign against fam ily farm­ Hart can Republic's poor and working people to ers. This campaign seeks to shift the blame Farmers' protest rally in Washington, D.C., in 1979. Farmers' groups plan another strike against the government's austerity Continued on Page 6 national demonstration in capital for March 4 to protest government attacks. decree. Businesses in · Santo Domingo' s working-class neighborhoods - such as Los Minas , Vietnam, and Katanga - were closed and workers· stayed horne from their Farm Workers head backs antiwar march jobs. Strikes swept the barrios of other cities as well , including San Francisco de BY ANIBAL YANEZ travelled around California for the farm the coalition: Berkeley Mayor Eugene Macoris, Mao, Tarnboril , Barahona, and SAN FRANCISCO - Cesar Chavez, workers he saw the need for a renewal of "Gus" Newport; Sister Judy Cannon of the Santiago . Government food dispensaries president of the United Farm Workers the social activism of the 1960s and the General Council of the Sisters of Mercy in were sacked in several locations. Union, joined Dave Meggyesy, president Spring Mobilization could be. "a Burlingame, California; and AI Lannon, The popular organizations that called the of the National Football League Players springboard for that resurrection." president of the International Longshore­ strikes saw the escalating actions as leading Association, and a broad array of other Meggyesy echoed Chavez, noting that men's and Warehousemen's Union toward a general strike. The protests de­ labor, church, and community leaders at a "people joining together and pulling to­ (ILWU) Local 6. mand a break with the IMF, a cancellation press conference in City Hall here on Feb­ gether have changed history and changed The breadth of the press conference was of the Dominican Republic's debt repay­ ruary 5. They announced their support for this country" and that it can happen again . indicated by the additional statements of ment, and the lowering of prices. the Spring Mobilizati on for Peace, Jobs, Charlene Tschirhart, director of the San support from the Rev. Cecil Williams of The government immediately cracked and Justice. Francisco Nuclear Freeze and cochair of Glade Memorial Church; Charles Lamb, down on the popular resistance. The capital More than 350 groups in the Bay Area the Spring Mobilization coalition here, vice-president of the California Labor Fed­ became a militarized zone as infantry are building the march and rally on April opened the City Hall press conference. She eration, AFL-CIO, and president of the _ troops and cops occupied Santo Domingo. 20 around the themes of: opposition to was joined by the other three cochairs of Continued on Page 4 Continued on Page 3 U.S. intervention in Central America and the Caribbean, end U.S. support for South African apartheid , freeze and reverse the nuclear arrns race, and jobs and justice. Behind New Zealand-U.S. nuclear ar01s 'rift' "I am extremely concerned about inter­ vention in Central America," Chavez said, BY NEIL J ARDEN The government's stand has wide popu­ from those who had atomic bombs dropped "about the fi ght for jobs, about apartheid in AUCKLAND, New Zealand - A naval lar support among working people in New on them at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; to the South Africa." Chavez added that as he training exercise between the ANZUS Zealand . There has been an ever deepening people of the various Pacific islands and powers - Australia, New Zealand, and the opposition to visits by U.S . nuclear-armed the aboriginal people of Australia, who United States .::._ has been canceled fo llow­ warships since they were renewed in the have suffered the effects of U.S., French, ing the withdrawal of the United States. mid- 1970s under the previous National and British nuclear weapons testing. The exercise, Sea Eagle '85, had been Party government of Robert Muldoon. The The stand taken by the New Zealand schedul ed to take place off the southeast National Party is New Zealand 's main Labor government retl ects . the pressure of coast of Australia in March. capitali st party. this sentiment. For example , in 1983, The Pentagon has also announced that it Opposition to the entry of nuclear-armed when Labor was in opposition, party leader wi ll conduct its next Pacific region tests of vessels has been expressed in protests by David Lange, now New Zealand's prime the MX missile without using bases in Aus­ waterfront unions and other workers minister, attempted . to have Labor's anti­ tralia. The move followed the announce­ against such visits, and by street demon­ nuclear policy overturned . This move was ment by Australia's Labor Party premier strations involving tens of thousands of forcibly blocked by opposition from the Robert Hawke that antinuclear sentiment in people. The main union fede ra tio~ . many party' s ranks and by the unions. the party would force him to reverse prior individual unions, and successive Labor Since labor came to office, peac:e organi­ agreement to allow use of the bases. Party conferences have adopted policies zations in New Zealand have mounted an The U.S. government 's withdrawal opposing the visits and calling fo r New extensive campaign to pressure the new from the ANZUS naval training exercise Zealand's withdrawal from the ANZUS al­ government to maintain an antinuclear followed the refusal of the Labor govern­ liance. stand . While seeking to accommodate this ment in New Zealand to allow a port visit In addition, throughout the Pacific the pressure, Labor's officials have repeatedly by a U.S. warship, the USS Buchanan. The past decade has seen a growing movement stressed their continuing political and mili­ Labor government, which is based on New among the indigenous people of the region tary commitment to the "Western alliance" Cesar Chavez, head of United Farm Zealand's unions and was elected last July , for the Pacific to be nuclear-free. It is in and to the ANZUS pact. · Workers, urged big turnout for April 20 has said it will no longer allow nuclear­ this region that are found most of the ANZUS is a military alliance, signed in march. armed vessels to visit New Zealand ports. world's victims of nuclear weapons - Continued on Page 5 -SELLING OUR PRESS AT THE PLANT GATE------- BY BETSY SOARES layer of Louisville's industrial pected us to show up and if we explaining the Militanr. We also of the Militant, and others just LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Militant workforce by sending out 15 Mili­ didn't, they would ask us what felt the need to become more stopped to talk. sales teams in this area are looking tant sales teams to different plants happened, and more would stop to familiar with what was going on in The same week a Militant sales forward to using our weekly pre­ in the area.
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