NUMBER 122 25 CENTS .:~~~ X-523 NOVEMBER 1984

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November 1984: the issue is war. their defense. For the Central American and with empty stomachs-are going to ing 32 days of "high intensity warfare" Those with the fortitude to make it masses, the very real threat of Yankee fight to the end, until we achieve peace. and three months to complete occupa­ by either defeating the invaders or' through the "great debates" between invasion means a fight to the finish. immolating ourselves if imperialist tion of the country, the authors come up Reagan, the anti-Soviet nut, and Mon­ According to the authoritative Latin aggressiveness leaves us no other with a total of "between 2,392 and 4,783 dale, the Cold War hawk, witnessed a American WeekZr Report (10 August), choice.... We are certain that our dead with 9,300 to 18,600 wounded." contest for warmaker of the year award. quoting an unnamed "US military sacrifice would not be in vain and that "Casualties among the Nicaraguan During the October 21 foreign policy analyst and former army officer": "The all three million Nicaraguans could be annihilated. but olJr example would population are likely to be very much debate, Reagan said on Central Ameri­ [U.S.] body count would be terrible­ triumph and multiply among the higher," the study notes (quoted in ca: "I thought for a moment that instead two to three hundred a week. Probably, peoples of the world and among the Theodore Moran, "The Cost of Alterna­ of a debate I was going to find Mr. within six weeks, the US would have to people of the United States as well. This tive U.S. Policies Toward EI Salvador, Mondale in complete agreement with institute a draft, total casualties would is our contribution to peace." 1984-1989," in Robert Leiken. ed., what we're doing because the plan that be from 8,000 to 10,000. The Reagan Following Grenada, the Sandinistas Central America: Anatoml' o/,Conflif't he has outlined is the one we've been administration would have to be out of began distributing guns to the popula­ New York: Pergamon Press,'1984):, following for quite some time." In­ their bloody gourds to do it." But, with tion so that today Nicaragua has well While the contenders for imperialist deed, Mondale has embraced every key "jokes" about outlawing Russia and over a hundred thousand people under top cop genuflect in the direction of plank of the G.O.P.'s aggressive plat­ beginning the bombing in five minutes, arms. Approximately 75 percent of the "diplomatic avenues" and differ slightly form for death squad "democracy" and we have reason to believe that the country's construction resources have on tactics and limine;, they mean to counterrevolution in Central America. American rulers are not all there. So been diverted to military defense. Given make war. Despite constant attempts at Both candidates support the butcher instead of kissing the ground, lIke the the extreme economic pressures on a negotiated sellout by the Salvadoran' Duarte in EI Salvador, and in Nicaragua "rescued" medical students in Grenada, Nicaragua from U.S. imperialism, such FORI FM LN guerrilla leadership, de­ Reagan's CIA directs the contra invad­ some American youth may be kissing measures are hardly undertaken with­ spite endless overtures by the Sandinis­ ers in the "arts" of assassination, their asses good-bye. out very good reason. tas-including their unconditional ac­ blackmail, kidnapping and sabotage Underscoring the fact that a U.S. In fact, U.S. invasion plans against ceptance of the Contadora group's draft while Mondale threatens a "quaran­ invasion of Nicaragua would be no Nicaragua have been worked out in treaty-the U.S. invasion buildup con­ tine." Too, Mondale has endorsed Grenada-style walkover, Nicaraguan detail. One scenario prepared by three tinues. The Contadora treaty would Reagan's rape of black Grenada. head of state and Sandinista leader Pentagon experts calls for a Marine require Nicaragua to: grant amnesty to While the U.S. prepares for a fuH­ Daniel Ortega vowed at the United division, an Army air mobile division, the contras, hold elections under inter­ scale military invasion-targeting Ni­ Nations: Army light infantry brigade and Ranger national supervision, cut off any aid to caragua and Cuba-the regimes in ..... we want the world to know that the battalion, backed up with Air Force and Salvadoran rebels, send home Cuban Managua and Havana are preparing for Nicaraguan people-barefoot. ragged. Navy air support and logistics. Assum- ('olllinued on page 5 Defense of Cuba/USSR Begins in Central America!

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2 YOUNG SPARTACUS EDITORIAL NOTES

, The Moral Majority Takes Over the Science Times Sex: Is There Ever Enough? \0 The last few years-under both Dem­ and eclectic psychologizing, should be ocrat "born-again" Carter and Moral published as a piece of "science" only The Addictive System Majority Republican Reagan-have underlines its potentially sinister Pattern of exc-essive sex is said witnessed increased government med­ consequences. to resemble alcoholism and IEUEFsmEM Sex is the most important IIIIiIIIIr.. dling in the totally private matter of One "expert," Dr. John Money, di­ compUlsive gambling. Ihlng in. person', life. " consensual sexual activity. Homosexu­ rector of the psychohormonal research ality is ruled unprotected by constitu­ unit at Johns Hopkins Medical School, r IMPAIRED THlllKIIIQ tional rights; Reagan tries to' outlaw UItMAIIAOUIIJTY is quoted, "some male fetishists [sic] AlttIough Ufeilin COII8IquencN of of excessive II8XIIIl activity have all teen sex with his "squeal rule"; report having orgasms up to 10 times a dlurray, the behavior excessive .... are .arks of an addictlaa IDCI caD be treated IIIUII go on. d/aregIrr1Id. campaigns against pornography bur­ day. We don't know why they have that Ion almllar to other addictlolll, aucb u geon in city after city. The former Miss capacity, but one day I'm certain we'll America, the delicious Miss Vanessa find out the underlying neurochemistry t.. ADOICTI~ ~ Williams, the first black woman ever to is unique." And it is equally "certain" SdenceTimes ~ CYCLE"'" win the rhinestone tiara, was pressured that then the (jealous?) Dr. Money will It}eNew Uotic IluttS I into resigning her title because she had diligently apply himself to "curing" the PREOCCUPATION posed for nude photographs (in sexually "affliction" that is the desire of most 'er once more. That cycle, maDy e:iPerta (SeXis all there is , Is Identical to that seen In other to thln~ about. explicit scenes with a white woman)­ healthy men and women. This Dr. ne sex theraplata esti· , while the new Miss Ame~.ica is a bible­ Money is the same ghastly white-coated many as 1 In 12 people I problem, while other (SHAME) RITUALIZATlOH thumping Mormon from Utah who doctor wielding hypodermic needles Is relatively rare. The The preoccupaNon IS sa)" Is not one's _DESPAIR l8Idstolffxed.rouNne, collects soap for a hobby! "Cleanliness that the Spartacist League wrote about N&l preference. Nor ,suchas crUIsing the is next to godliness," sums up the sexual in "Anti-Sex Drugs Deform Male .pIata equattna 1tl'Clll, GUILT '- same streets or bars. program of the Moral Majority, which Prisoners" (Women and Revolution Ire desire focualna with on addiction. the _ COMPU LSIVITY 'JeCOmes the a1l-conaumln& focus of Given the strength 0' the wants to make itself the dictator of every No. 18, Spring 1979) for his "cure" for 'rld1n& passion that Is PIIf8\ICICIat the COlt of obsession. the act ilSa" American's conscience. "sex offenders." Dr. Money tested his ,al Ufe, at the expense of career, family or is virtually inevitable. J But now the government and its lack­ new drug, a hormone called anti­ -...... , 2 44.. d 51 .. • ~ eys in science and medicine are ruling androgen, not only on "sex offenders," that not only are many kinds of sexual but on men showing patterns of "violent Want to screw ten times a day? Men in white coats want to take you away. acts wrong/sick/illegal/evil, but so is behavior"-manifested not only in "too much" of any kind! The lead article attacks on people, but also on objects! in the 16 October issue of the Science He claimed "you can revert their sex 22 October 1984 gies but somebody's attempt to put them Times, the New York Times' weekly drive back to the prepuberty level." That New York Times all under one roof is a reductio ad section on science news, was "Some the New York Times quotes this sinister 229 West 43rd Street absurdum. No longer are only qualita­ Sexual Behavior Viewed as an Addic­ experimenter in chemical castration as a New York, NY 10036 tive departures from the sexual norm (whose?) to be condemned, but now also tion," which outlined sex therapists' legitimate "scientist" says a lot about Attention: Editor, Science Times "discovery" of "sexual addicts." While Reagan's America. even the simple quantitative ones. this term is not yet a formal diagnostic We defend any consensual sexual act Dear sirs: Perhaps the man who wanted to category in medicine or psychology, as.a private matter;.lhe days when sex Your article, "Some Sexual Behavior screw fiv~J9J.enJini~s"F(fay~ foJils.w\fe s' _ .. many researchers are working up a therapists occupied themselves with Viewed as an Addiction" (16 October frigid dismay, needs not to be cured but definition. Leading "sex addict" propo­ helping people have a better time in bed 1984) is an eclectic broth of totally either better technique or a new wife. A nent Dr. Patrick Carnes states, "the were a small step in the right direction. dissimilar sexual phenomena with an lot of women do, you know. Or do you? problem is simply that sex has taken We print here a letter to the editor of overlay of Moral Majority-ism. But it is Sincerely, over their lives." Weask ourselves, what the Science Times by Walt Senterfitt of an extension of reactionary sexual Walt Senterfitt, is so bad-or unusual-about this? That the editorial board of Women and unease. editorial board, this article, a hodge-podge of moralism Re\'olut ion. Surely there are many sexual patholo- Women and Revolution

today, thanks to the decaying society in Young in Reagan's America which they live. Schools are little more than prisons, the inmates illiterate, without democratic rights and subject to search at Hie whim of campus officials. No Booze, No Fun, No Future Unemployment, particularly among black youth, is astronomical and if you're lucky enough to find a job, it's at The normally placid Normal. Illinois lation of morality is integral to Reagan's remembered as the birthplace of Anita the short end of the two-tier wage campus of Illinois State University was attempted ideological regimentation of Bryant's obscene crusade against homo­ system-the bosses' game of setting recently the scene of a small campus American youth into the "new patriot­ sexuality; now s~udents face 15 "demer­ young and older workers against each rebellion. Five hundred students pelted ism." Good, clean conformists, the its" (25 gets you expelled) for attending other. Make it to college and, if you're cops with rocks, not in protest of U.S. Reaganites figure, make good cannon a musical concert which school officials male and draft age, your financial aid support to South African apartheid or fodder. cum dinosaurs fear because "rock music will be withheld unless you've registered CIA assassination"manuals, but against This campaign has reached such is associated with dancing, drinking, the with the draft board. a law banning "lewd campus parties," a absurd proportions that the Dade drug scene and other unacceptable To add insult to injury, Reagan & Co. direct consequence of Rc:agan's bill Christian School in Miami, Florida has behavior," they explain in a letter to now want to impose ajuvenile"prohibi­ raising the legal drinking, age to 21. As forbidden students from atte~ding parents (New York Times, 27 October). tion." These laws are dangerous! Road­ we noted in Young Spartacu5 (No. 120, Michael Jackson's Victory Tour! con­ No sex, no booze, no fun, no future! blocks have been implemented in New September 1984) this mullah-like regu- certs. Dade County, Florida may be In the Moral Majority's America, young Jersey to search automobiles for alco­ people are supposed to believe that the hol. While any encounter with the cops slightest deviation from the values of the is ominous particularly for black and Osmonds or the new M iss America from Hispanic youth, you can bet there won't Utah constitutes social pathology. A be any sobriety tests of the Nixons and recent survey on high school and junior Fords following Republican fundrais­ DEPRoGRJ high school drinking and drug use ers, despite their well-publicized drink­ revealed that II percent of the students ing "problems." N or will the limousine considered themselves "hooked" on bars of Reagan's rich pals be prohibited. alcohol. The survey "defined a heavy As Marxists, we are opposed to any drinker as someone who had five or capitalist law regulating "crimes" with­ more drinks at least once a week." Its out victims, such as pornography, director, not surprisingly, "repeated drwgs, alcohol, prostitution or various calls for an increase in the drinking age sexual preferences. These are private from 19 to 21" (New York Times, 23 matters-the state ought to keep its fist October). The Times noted that "Virtu­ out! Need we say that saving young lives ally all of the students covered in the is not high on Reagan's priority list: the survey. however, were younger than "squeal rule," school prayer and drink­ 19." ing age laws are intended to produce The survey's results. may be taken as an army of sober, patriotic, Christian highly dubious, occurring simultane­ soldiers for nuclear armageddon against Marlette/Charlotte Observer ously with the crackdown on "demon the "godless" Soviets. What next? "Sorry-I've deprogrammed moonies and I've deprogrammed hare booze." There is undoubtedly danger­ Searching for hairy palms to deter krishna$, but there's. noth.ing.l.call

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America, who are more concerned with failing courses than watching Local 34 -go down in defeat, proudly wear their Victory to the Yale Strike! "Settle" buttons as they daily cross the picket lines to attend classes while they sign petitions "resenting" their own role 2 as scabs. Those few students who are After more than a year of contract o 1:. negotiations, 1,800 out of the 2,650 0- honoring picket lines and who want to If) clerical and technical (C&T) workers at ::> see this strike win have been left o Yale University, organized by Local 34 ~ unorganized and leaderless by SNS' to of the Federation ofU niversity Employ­ 0. disgusting scabbing. Many of these CIl ees, set their pickets up against the ivied Ol students had looked to SNS as a "pro­ c ::> walls of Yale on September 26. Since o union" organization before the strike. then, the strikers have held fast in their r Since the beginning of this strike the fight for a decent living wage, even while SYL has intervened to win students to coming smack up against the Yale the side of the embattled Local 34 . administration and the New Haven SYL on Yale strikers-boycott classes, walk the pick­ cops. On October 5, 190 strikers en­ picket lines. et lines, shut Yale down tight! Combat­ gaged in a silent "non-violent witness Boycott classes! ing the (scab) diversion of "off campus" for equality" were arrested and on Shut Yale classes, we say: No Business As Usual­ October 26, 430 more were dragged off down tight! On Strike Means Shut It Down! We to jail during ~(similar protest. Cops off point to the example of the 1971 Local campus! Victory to the Yale strike! 35 strike when militant students not Drop the charges! only boycotted classes and walked the A key issue for this predominantly the bridges and sealing off the campus in Even at this pillar of bourgeois picket lines but blockaded fuel delivery female and heavily minority workforce case of black ghetto rebellion. academia where the students are being depots, at no small risk to themselves. If is equal pay for equal work. But for the The mainly black workforce of New groomed to be capitalist bosses (as this strike is to be won, students must Yale administration, even this basic Haven has a stake in this strike too. Yale opposed to mere professionals), the rally to the side of the striking workers right is too much. Head Yale patrician, is very important in the economy of students have a stake of their own in this and bring the capitalist Yale adminis­ president A. Bartlett Giamatti recently depressed New Haven, the seventh strike. If Yale can get away with lording tration to its knees. An SYL-sponsored put out an expensive four-page glossy poorest city in the U.S. If the union is it over the campus unions, the climate is forum on Octob.:r 21 at the First brochure explaining to the affluent Yale busted at Yale, it will be a defeat for all ripe for assaults on students and faculty Methodist Church, 'strike headquarters alumni why his "poverty stricken" unions in the surrounding community. as well. But as if to underscore their own for Local 34, featured the film "Labor's administration can't afford the strikers' Yale wants desperately to bust Local 34, "class consciousness," on October 24 Turning Point," recounting the lessons demand of a 26 percent increase of their but if labor plays hardball with the Ivy 102 Yale students filed suit against the of the 1934 Trotskyist-led Minneapolis $13,474 5lnnual wages. Meanwhile, the League through mass picketing and university seeking $2 million for each' teamster strikes, where labor played Yale fat cats are sitting on top of a $1.1 solid action by the campus unions, week of the strike, whining that Yale hardball and won! Guest speaker Gene billion endowment! backed up by the local labor movement, "destroyed the atmosphere of collegiali­ Herson, a 20-year militant in the This disgusting display of arrogance faculty and students, they could shut the ty and intellectual inquiry" (New York National Maritime Union, drew the is coming from a racist administration campus down tight-and that's the way Times, 26 October). The money is to lessons of the Minneapolis strikes for which has long viewed the surrounding to win this strike! An example of the be distributed among Yale's 10,000 those striking workers and sympathetic black community of New Haven with type of action that is needed has been set students-roughly $200 per week per students in attendance, and the proceeds contempt. In the 1950s Yale's servant, by Yale's maintenance and dining hall student which, including meal rebates of from the forum were turned over to Democratic Party mayor Dick Lee, tore workers in Local 35 of the Federation of $78, when averaged out exceeds the Local 34's hardship fund. down the Oak Street slum and replaced University Employees, whose own miserable wages ofthe Local 34 strikers! Labor's gotta play hardball to win­ it with a turnpike connector and some contract expires in January. Local 35 This bourgeois arrogance is equally and students can be team players by modern office buildings .. The Yale has been honoring the picket lines of pervasive among so-called "strike taking up their assigned positions on the administration "royalty" figured that their union brothers and sisters in Local supporters" of the Students for a pic\

Congratulations to all comrades on In addition to other sub drive work, . are battling the brutal apartheid regime. the successful completion of the Work­ we covered a broad range of college We have 50 new subscribers at Howard ers Vanguard/ Young Spartacus sub­ campuses: state universities, black col­ University (68 points), where the SYL scription drive. "The six-week drive leges, community colleges as well as has been active with other militant reached 3,874 points, 131 percent of the some of the more elite private schools. students in anti-apartheid protests. At national quota. This includes 861 YSp Except on predominantly black cam­ Harvard, where we initiated a united­ subs, 123 percent of our national YSp puses, we found a polarized student front demonstration against apartheid, quota. We also sold 541 subscriptions to popUlation. While "Youth for Reagan" we sold 55 points. Women and Revolution. and the "new patriotism" do predomi­ Regional trips were important in this For a Leninist propaganda group nate among college students, a signifi­ year's drive. The Northern tour by Bay press circulation is a crucial activity: we cant layer hate Reagan, can't stomach Area comrades, covering campuses in recruit to our program. Many locals got Mondale and are open to communist Oregon and Washington state, rietted off to a late start this year and some had ideas. This layer is hungry for alterna­ 285 points. New York comrades sold a hard time making their quotas. But all tives. At Evergreen State College in 89-1/2 points at the University of Con­ did end up on target and in the process Olympia, Washington, a comrade necticut (Storrs) and 115-1/2 points at got a good sampling of our readers' knocked on a dorm room door and a Yale. wheretheSYL has been supporting __"~ ...... ~.""", #1 .. political interests and views. voice answered, "Come in if you want to Workers Vanguard Photo a campus workers strike. At Tuskegee SL candidate' Ritchie Bradley sells be depressed." It t~rned out the four Institute in Alabama, our Atlanta local popular SL pamphlet, "Black History students inside were depressed about the showed the videotape of the 27 N ovem­ and the Class Struggle," now in its elections-they hated the candidates of ber j 982 demonstration that stopped the fourth printing. Young Sparlacus both bourgeois parties and didn't want Klan in Washington, D.C. to a total of to go to war in Central America. They 125 Tuskegee students in three classes. We welcome our new readers and Young Spartacus (ISSN 0162-2692) is the were excited to see our newspapers and Even though there wasn't much time for hopew hear from you with comments newspaper of the Spartacus Youth League. The Spartacus Youth League. youth section of the pitched in to buy a sub. With the fake­ individual discussions with students, we and criticisms. Help introduce YSp and Spartacist League. is a socialist youth left mainly buried in Mondalecampaign sold 6 points there and plan to make a WV to classmates, coworkers and orga.lization which intervenes in social activities, our headline "You Can't struggles armed with a working-class program. return trip. friends. We have a world. to win! S based on the politics 01 Marx. Lenin and Trotsky. Fight Reagan with Democrats! l3uild a Editorial Board: Bonnie Brodie (editor). Workers Party!" met with interest and Dorie Reed. Alison Spenc6lr sometimes enthusiasm. -I SUBSCRIBE NOWU- Production manager: Dorie Reed With the Reagan administration ---, Circulation manager: Irene Gardner going all-out to force the U.S. popula­ r:Name Nine issues yearly; published monthly except tion into ideological conformity in Address ______December/January and June/July! August. by preparation for war with the USSR, our the Spartacus Youth Publishing Co .. 41 Warren -I Street. New York. NY 10007. Telephone: 732- intransigent defense of the Soviet Union 1r Phone( ____ ) 7867 (Editorial. Business). Address all corre­ sparked plenty of debate. Comrades City State Zip spondence to: Box 3118. Church Street Station. YSp 122 I report that many students were sur­ New York. NY 10008. Domestic subscriptions: prised that communists were openly o $2/9 issues of Young s,;.rhlc:ua $2.00 per year. Second-class postage paid at Make payable/mail to: New York. NY. POSTMASTER: Send address selling papers and some said they were Spartacus Youth Publishing Co .. Box 3118. Church Street Station. New York. N.Y. 10008 changes to Young Spartacus. Box 3118. I intrigued but afraid to subscribe. The Church Street Station. New York. NY 10008. 0$5/24 issues of 0 $2/10 introductory 0 $2/4 issues of fact that our press told the truth at the Opinions expressed in Signed articles or letters Work .... Venguans issues of Wom.nand do not necessarily express the editorial· time about Reagan's KAL 007 anti­ I (includes Spart8cist) Work .... Vanguard R.volutlon Viewpoint. Soviet provocation sold a lot of subs. I ~~New 0 Renewal (includes Spartacist) i . I L:ke payable/mail to: Spartacist Publishing Co.• Box 1377 GPO. New York. N.Y. 10116---1 Students showeq particular interest in No. 122 November 1984 South Africa, where the black masses 4 YOUNG SPARTACUS

John Seymour Black Revolt in South Africa Bury Apartheid: Black Workers Are Key!

Mass revolt against the South African the gravedigger of apartheid in the black to force the white authorities to nego­ apartheid regime exploded this Septem­ proletariat which is necessarily central tiate changes" (Nell" York Times. 211 ber in the wake of insulting sham to its economic functioning and expan­ October). Tutu is looking for an "alter­ "reforms" in the white supremacist sion. Now it is urgent that the interna­ native" to social revolution; he fears the constitution. The continuing rebellion tional labor movement take action in powerful black working class will has encompassed all layers of the concrete solidarity with our South shatter the apartheid system and divest disenfranchised in South African African brothers and sisters: for an the capitalist class of the wealth created society-the Indian and "coloured" emergency boycott of all shipping to by the toilers. Tutu's message to world (people of mixed race) populations and from South Africa! A step in this imperialism is: pressure the butchers granted token "representation" under direetion was the October I II I nterna­ before you lose the whole ball of wax. the new constitution. striking black tional Longshoremen's and Warehouse­ Meanwhile. the attitude of the miners. students who have boycotted men's Union Local 10 meeting in the Western "free world democracies" is one classes in the hundreds of thousands San Francisco Bay Area which resolved of unabashed support for their strategic against the racist educational system. to refuse to work South African cargo anti-Communist ally on the African the popUlation of the black townships. on the next ship of the Nedlloyd Lines continent. Thatcher's Britain drives In spite of and in defiance against the (which handles West Coast-South anti-apartheid fighters (seeking asylum massive show of state terror by the Africa shipping). Militant longshore­ from the torture dungeons of apartheid) apartheid rulers. the black masses are man Stan Gow. an SL supporter and from the British consulate in Durban challenging the foundations of apart­ member of the local's Exec Board. and the U.S.' dragon lady Kirkpatrick Black miners. Here's where the heid rule. In the dawn hours of October fought at this meeting for a boycott of defends Pretoria from mealy-mouthed power lies. Smash apartheid! 23. 7.000 army troops and cops swept all South African shipping. The motion resolutions at the UN. down on the biack townships of Sebo­ that was finally passed-for a token. According to a recently published actual shooting war. None of this has keng. Biopatong and Sharpeville. So one-shot action-falls short of what is survey of 551 black production workers anything to do with the fight for the far. reported deaths of blacks are offi­ urgently needed. Gow will continue the in South Africa conducted by the Center liberation of South Africa's black cially at over 100. According to the New fight to extend the motion into a boycott for Applied Social Sciences, 75 percent masses. York Times (24 October), "Security of all South African shipping. were against divestment as contrary to We reprint below a column from the forces searched houses in the township Because of its profoundly revolu­ their economic interest (New York Harvard Crimson by Carla Williams, a and arrested about 350 people on tionary implications, the black revolt in Times, 211 October). Thoroughly utopi­ black Harvard student who worked' charges ranging from possession of South Africa has revived debate on the an, the demand that imperialist nations with the SYL to build an anti-apartheid firearms to having pornographic mate­ liberal moralistic "divestment" schemes or individual capitalist corporations protest on September 20 which attract­ rial." The article continued: "Political which seek to pressure international "divest" themselves of South African ed some 50 demonstrators. 'n the course analysts said the crackdown was a clear imperialism into economically "pressur­ holdings could theoretically have no of that work, Carla was won to our signal to blacks that unrest would not be ing" the apartheid rulers. As the Times other impact in the real world than revolutionary program (particularly as tolerated. Some speculated that further quoted Bishop Desmond Tutu. the worsening the economic and social the advocates of "divestment" could not rioting could lead to harsher action, general secretary of the South African power of black workers at the point of bring themselves to protest apartheid, perhaps including measures against Council of Churches and winner of this production. More generally, such eco­ preferring instead to beg "Hahvahd" to increasingly powerful black trade year's Nobel Peace Prize: "He says he nomic boycotts only take place in a relinquish its stock) as against the empty unions." sees Western economic pressures as the situation of intense inter-imperialist pro-imperialist gestures of divestment South African capitalism has created only alternative to violence and as a way rivalry, usually as a forerunner to an liberals.

when these cumulative divestments do (in a hypothetical world) take place? "Divestment-Missing the Point" Wi I: ihe money invested in South Africa go into companies that oppress workers in Chile or the Dominican RepUblic or here at home? It is the failure to recognize South Africa as an extreme case in a morally bankrupt system that makes proponents The problem of South Africa and its of the divestment "movement" only so racist apartheid regime has been rede­ many loud proclaimers of liberal guilt. Harvard, fined on this campus and elsewhere as After all, it is easy to be liberal when you 20 September: the problem of divestment. However. SYL-initiated are not poor, oppressed and starving the South African issue is not "Should united-front and you know that your actions will Harvard Divest?" or even President Bok protest in have no real effect on your own and the Corporation's stance on divest­ solidarity with comfortable situation. ment. The issue in South Africa is the black revolt in It is much more difficult to acknowl­ same as it's been since the country . South Africa. edge that the ties between Harvard and adopted a set of laws codifying racism. Divestment South Africa are those of class, that the The issue in South Africa is capitalist liberals stayed same corporate investors remaining profits. away. inactive on issues of oppression in South It is the profit made' from Black Africa remain silent on issues of worker miners and factory workers which has oppression at home. Ford Motor allowed apartheid to flourish. It is profit Company has factories in Detroit as which is made without any concern for apartheid state. alone, cannot change anything in South well as South Africa. moral implications of the gains. And it is Yet members of the so-called liberal­ Africa. Divestment is useful only because it profit-not, as President Bok would left persist in their attempts to ask. But liberal divestment schemers have serves to make people aware of the have people believe, the nature of the demand. cajole, and beg the University contrived a scenario in which Harvard is futility of attempts at reforming capital­ University in society-which is at stake. to "take a moral stance" or "do the right key. It goes something like this: the ism. President Bok's intransigence on The message was stated clearly in thing" and divest from companies doing ACSR advises the Corporation to the issue helps to emphasize which side Bok's October I regurgitation of past business in South Africa. They forget divest; the Corporation, feeling morally he, and others like him. have chosen. open letters. '" do believe that the tactics that America has never seen anything compelled to wash its hands of apart­ Students now must also choose a side. of divestment will not succeed and that wrong or immoral in making an easy heid blood, does so; other universities, Those who are concerned about they would cost the university money." buck. recognizing Harvard's supreme impor­ apartheid repression should ask them­ For those who missed the point, it was But supposing Harvard does. mirac­ tance in the grand scheme of capitalism, ~elves not. "Do I want Harvard to something akin to "sure, apartheid is ulously, follow the advice of the Adviso­ follow suit, as do several state and local divest'?" but, rather, "Have , myself evil, but it is profitable as well." ry Committee on Shareholder Respon­ governments; then, of course, the U.S. divested from the system which allows With these simple facts in mind, the sibility (ACSR) and divests. Would itself divests; the businesses in South apartheid to exist'!" question of divestment becomes moot. such an act change anything in South Africa crumble, breaking the chains Then, the next step would be to ask Not because divestment will or will not Africa'! Did the gestures made by binding South African workers. and "what can I do to end capitalist oppres­ work, but because it will not occur until municipalities like Cambridge and apartheid is buried in the flames of sion worldwide'?" Taking advantage of it is no longer profitable to conduct Boston or by the University of Michigan revolution. the relatively unrestricted ability to business in South Africa. That will change anything in South Africa? No. In Such a scheme is utopian at best and organize and speak freely in this country happen when Black workers in South fact, those who support divestment. if liberal reformism at its worst. Divest­ is a start. Mass student protest, in Africa rise in revolt and crush the pressed, admit that Harvard, acting ment misses the point. What will happen ((}11/ illlled Oil page 1 I '~

NOVEMBER 1984 5 Stop UCLA's Witchhunt Against the SYL!

We print helow the leaflet distrihut­ tion's hullabaloo over "free speech" is ed hy the UCLA SYL cal/inK on really all about is def'endinK mass students and campus orKanizations to murder. Rivas-Gallont is an ambassa­ defend luvenal Martinez aKain~t a dor of death squad terror. justly UCLA administration vendetta. Mar­ protested for his deeds, not his words. tinez, an S Y L supporter and UCLA For UCLA, "free speech" exists only Krad student,faces charKes of'''disrup­ SYLer for those who occupy "Doomsday tion" because he protested the appear­ denounces Floor" in Bunche Hall, where the ance last March of EI Salvador's Salvadoran imperialist think tank Rand Corpora­ amhassador to the u.s., Ernesto "Ambassador of tion and a nest of other Kusanos. Rivas- Gal/ont. 1\1'0 hundred fifty Death," UCLA, contras. and militarists hold court, students were present at the event­ March 1984. where the likes of Professor "Batista" ol'er half' of them were there to protest Four SYLers Gonzalez hang out-a death squad the "Amhassador of' Death." On were arrested, strategist who occupies his time plot­ Novemher I, luvena! Martinez will now one faces ting ways to overthrow the Cuban expulsion. appear before UCLA '.I star chamber to government. denounce the administration's ardent The UCLA administration no doubt defense of mass murder and its is targeting the SYL because it figures repression of those who would leKiti­ months later, the administration is still and is now being revived as a witch­ that in the midst of the bipartisan anti­ mate!y exercise their riKht to dissent. up to its dirty work. SYL supporter hunting body aimed at campus politi­ Soviet war drive it can get away with Juvenal Martinez faces expulsion, cal activists. And this time around, it running out the communists who When El Salvador's ambassador-of­ having been summoned to appear has targeted as its first would-be stand solidly for the defense of the death Rivas-Gallont showed up on before a star chamber Student Con­ victims the communists of the SYL. USSR against imperialism. But its campus last March. he was met with duct Committee hearing to face The administration wants to stifle sights are set beyond the SYL-it the reception he deserved from the 75 charges of student "misconduct" for student po[itical dissent; the attempts wants a campus where imperialist war protesters who shouted down this his participation in the protest. we're seeing today are a continuation criminals have full rein and where butcher whose hands drip with the This hearing is an outrage! The on~l' of its past policies. During the 1960s those of us who defend the rights of the blood of 50,000 Salvadoran workers purpose behind it is the university's the UCLA chapter of SDS (Students workers and oppressed throughout the and peasants. The UCLA administra­ determination to frighten and intimi­ for a Democratic Society) was sus­ world are muzzled. Stop the witch­ tion responded swiftly to the student date all those who would dare exercise pt:nded for 15 months by then-vice hunt! Defend Juvenal Martinez! Let protest of mass murder. Thought-cop thei'r democratic right to protest. Pure chancellor Charles Young. [n [969 UCLA know it can't get away with Berky Nelson called in the campus and simple, the Student Conduct Angela Davis, prominent Communist denying us our legitimate right to police to round up, handcuff, drag off Committee is a kangaroo court, set up Party spokesman, was fired from her protest! and throw into jail four of the and run by the UCLA administration. position as assistant professor of Come to the hearing: Thursday, protesters, supporters of the Spartacus [t was last used for political purposes philosophy for her political views. Of November 1. 10:30 a.m. in the Sunset Youth League. Now, almost eight against anti-Vietnam War protesters, course, what the UCLA administra- Recreation Center Conference Room.

easy time). Two days after the "negotia­ in Carter's "human rights junta" in 1979 Army in 1968" (New York Times, 29 Hands Off ... tions" the Salvadoran army used its new and presided over two and a half years October). Those instructions were used U.S.-supplied H uey helicopters to of massacres, during which the death in the training of the Green Berets in the (continuedfrom page /) launch an offensive against the leftist squads and military murdered 30,000 dirty genocidal Vietnam War brought to insurgents in Morazim. The civil war workers and peasants. Under his admin­ you by Democrats Kennedy and and Soviet advisers and let an "inde­ goes on-and while government troops istration, civil disobedience was made a Johnson. pendent commission" decide how much have not won a single notable victory in "terrorist" act, strikes were banned and Since its ignominious military defeat military power it could have for defense! four years, the FM LN has scored all labor union activity outlawed, the at the hands of the Vietnamese workers But, no matter how much the Sandinis­ several heavy blows. Recently-and "security forces" were given a free and peasants, U.S. imperialism has not tas are willing to sell, Reagan is not much to the delight of those of us who hand to fight against "subversion." In been able to sell the American popula­ buying. side with the leftist insurgents-a last spring's elections hoax, Duarte tion on further losing colonial adven­ helicopter carrying the Salvadoran was pitted against "Blowtorch Bob" tures. A section of the bourgeoisie itself No Negotiated Sellout! army's top combat commander was shot D'Aubuisson, the psychopathic death Military Victory to wants to avoid what Democratic Sena­ down by rebel forces. [n addition to the squad assassin. Congressional Demo­ tor Christopher Dodds called "picking a Salvadoran Leftists! despised Colonel Monterrosa (de­ crats bought the "Duarte difference" loser." The reaction of Democrat Gerry The "negotiations" between Wash­ scribed by the FM LN radio station lock, stock and barrel, and the bucks Studds captures this, when he "won­ ington's bought-and-paid-for puppet Venceremos as the "maximum war began rolling: dered about 'the yearly assurances' by Jose Napoleon Duarte and the FDRI criminal") the helicopter contained one "I n the three months after his [Duarte's] U.S. military that given a little more FM LN leadership at La Palma last Major Armando Azmitia-the com­ inauguration as president of EI Salva­ time and money the war [in EI Salvador] month were a media event allowing mander of the U.S.-trained elite Atlacatl dor Un June], Congress appropriated a would be won. '[n March of 198[, total of $132 million in military aid and Reagan to pose as "peacemaker" after Battalion. $120 in economic aid for the fiscal year General Ernest Graves told this commit­ the unfavorable publicity over the Duarte fills the bill of mass murderer ending September 30. The amount of tee that in a year' the guerrillas would be Sandinistas' Contadora decision. The cum negotiator to a tee. As FDR military aid sent in this short period is defeated" (Latin America Week~1' Re­ fact is there's nothing to negotiate, and spokesman Ruben Zamora observed in nearly equal to the total sent in the port. 10 August). Reagan thinks his previous year and a half." nothing was. Militarily, there has been a a recent interview, " ... Duarte is the best -Central America Bulletin. invasion of jny black Grenada, where lull in the civil war-first during the man for a U.S. invasion of EI Salvador September 1984 7,000 U.S. troops "conquered" against March-May Salvadoran elections and because he is the one who will give more the heroic resistance of several hundred now during the U.S. presidential cam­ cover-po[itical cover" (Frontline, 20 Democrats: Party of War Cuban construction workers, has re­ paign (presumably, from the FDR/· August). And Duarte serves the Yankee armed the U.S. population, filling FM LN viewpoint, to give Mondale an masters of either party: he was installed As Young Spartacus has consistently them with "new patriotism." He can warned: you can't fight Reagan with think again; as Vietnam War criminal Democrats! While the pathetic refor­ McGeorge Bundy put it: "As a target of STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other mist left and "anti-intervention" forces MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION secunties. (If there are none, so state): None. continued on paKe II (Required by 39 U.S.C. 3685) 9. For completion by nonprofit organizations typified by C[SPES (Committee in lA. Title of publicatIon: Young Spar/acus. authorized to mail at special rates. Solidarity with the People of EI Sa[va­ lB. Publication no.: 01622692. 10. Extent and nature of clrculatIon: Average dor) have liquidated even their liberal no. copies each issue during preceding 12 Spartacist League/ 2. Date of filing: 1 October 1984. "peace" crawls in order to campaign for 3. Frequency of issue: Monthly (except Decem- months: A. Total no. copies (Net press run): Spartacus Youth League ber/January and June/July/ Au;;:ust). 11,222; B. Paid and/or requested circulation: (1) Walter "Quarantine" Mondale, we have 3A. No. of issues published annually: 9. Sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors countered: "Remember Bay of Pigs, Public Offices 3B. Annual subscription price: $2.00. and counter sales: 7,035; (2) Mail subscription: 4. Complete mailing address of known office of 1,224; C. Total paid and/or requested circulation Remember Vietnam-Democratic Par­ Bay Area publication: 41 Warren St., New York, NY 10007. (Sum of 10Bl and lOB2): 8,259; D. Free distribu­ ty: We Know Which Side You're On!" Fri.: 5:00-8:00 p.m., Sat.: 3:00-6:00 p.m. 5. Complete mailing address of the headquar­ tion by mail, carrier or other means, samples, The all but invisible C[SPES says: 1634 Telegraph, 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) ters of general business offices of the publisher: ·n complimentary, and other free copies: 45; E. Total Oakland, California Warren St., New York. NY 10007. distribution (Sum of C and D): 8,304; F. Copies not "Votefor Peace in November. Changing Phone: (415) 835-1535 6. Full names and complete mailing address distributed: (1) Office use, left over, unaccounted, Presidents won't end the war in Central spoiled after printing: 2,918; (2) Return from news of publisher, editor, and managing editor: America by itself, but it is an important Chicago Publisher-Spartacus Youth Publishing Compa­ agents: 0; G. Total (Sum of E, Fl and 2-should Tues.: 5:00-9:00 p.m., Sat.: 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. ny, 41 Warren St., New York, NY 10007; Editor­ equal net press run shown in A): 11,222. first step." Toward what? 161 W. Harrison St., 10th Floor Bonnie Brodie, 41 Warren St., New York, NY Actual no. copies of single iSSUd published It turns out that the CIA's Murder, Chicago, Illinois 10007; Managing Editor-None. nearest to filing date: A. Total no. copies (Net press Phone: (312) 663-0715 7. Owner (If owned by a corporation, its name run): 12,500; B. Paid and/or requested circula­ Inc. manual for contra consumption­ and address must be stated and also immediately tion: (1) Sales through dealers and carriers, street detailing Washington's techniques for New York City thereunder the names and addresses of stock­ vendors and counter sales: 8,413; (2) Mail "freedom-fighting" such as the tip to Tues.: 6:00-9:00 p.m., Sat.: 12:00-4:00 p.m. holders owning or holding 1 percent or more of subscription: 1, 135; C. Total paid and/ or request­ 41 Warren St. (one block below total amount of stock. If not owned by a corpora­ ed circulation (Sum of lOBI and 10B2): 9,548; D. "neutralize [read: assassinate] carefully Chambers St. near Church St.) tion, the names and addresses of the individual Free distribution by mail, carrier or other means, selected and planned targets, such as New York, NY samples, complimentary, and other free copies: owners must be given. If owned by a partnership court judges, police and state security Phone: (212) 267-1025 or other unincorporated firm, its name and 45; E. Total distribution (Sum of Cand D): 9,593; F. address, as well as that of each individual must be Copies not distributed: (1) Office use, left over, officials, etc. "-borrowed some pages Trotskyist League glven. If the publication is published by a unaccounted, spoiled after printing: 2,907; (2) from the Vietnam War days. Senator of Canada nonproht organization, its name and address must Return from news agents: 0; G. Total (Sum of E, Fl be stated.): Spartacus Youth Publishing Company and 2 -should equal net press run shown in A): Daniel Moynihan of the Select Commit­ Toronto (Unincorporated Association), 41 Warren St., New 12,500 tee on Intelligence revealed that the Saturday: 1:00-5:00 p.rn. York, NY 10007. 11. I certify that the statements made by me "manua[ included 'word for word' pas­ 299 Queen St. W., Suite 502 8. 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Going someplace? Sproul Plaza, 1964: Berkeley campus cop car containing arrested civil rights activist immobilized by student protesters. The Rise and Fall of the ewLeft

The edited presentation Young Spar­ out there except the Democratic Party, tacus prints helow hy Diana Coleman­ that there's no way to change society Spartacist candidate for San Francisco except by working in the system, and Board of' Supen'isors and a I'eteran Diana Coleman Speaks at that there can never be a socialist actil'ist in the Berkeley Free Speech, revolution in the United States. At least anti- Vietnam War, women's liheration Twentieth Anniversary of Berkeley these guys certainly hope not. This view and Southern cil'il riKhts movement.\'­ represents the capitulation of the refor­ was Kivell at Berkeley durinK a week­ Free Speech Movement mist left to the rightward shift in lonK commemoration of' the 20th American politics. But in no way is this anllil'ersarr of'the Free Speech M(we­ All this week there has been a were talking about four of the figures in justified by a look at the real world that ment (FS M). (For an account of' the disgusting orgy of nostalgia, and part of the FSM dispute: that is, Clark Kerr, the we live in. events of' the Free Speech Movement it is the "me generation" of the '70s president of the UC system; Strong, the So in 1964, speaking for myself. I see article on paKe 7.) Comrade Cole­ reminiscing about the '60s. So we've Berkeley chancellor; Mario Savio, the thought that capitalism was a rotten man's talk is particularlr important had, "how the FS M affected me, how it best-known spokesman for the FSM; system. And in the past 20 years I ,Iince/()r manr routh todar the history transformed my life, what I thought and Jack Weinberg, the man who. was haven't seen much that has convinced of'the socialupheal'al of'the 1960.1' and about as I walked down Telegraph arrested in the car, the CO R E activist me otherwise, frankly. In fact this early JC)70s is redlu;ed to the myths of' A venue." And then we had in the cast who was trying to set up one of the country looks considerably more de­ the capitalist media. Too, the current Bal' Express, "The FS M and myexisten­ tables. This is what the Chronicle says caved and conditions are worse than Kelleration of' rOllth lI'ho .find them­ tial crisis." But behind this stuff. since about it: "Today these four figures of the th~y were in 1964. The situation for se!l'es ill opposition to this oppressil'e, in fact this is the '80s, there is a real FSM dispute have something in com­ blacks is getting worse: unemployment racist and imperialist societr need not political message that is coming mon. Savio, Weinberg, Kerrand Strong is rising, and the Ku Klux Klan is repeat thefatal errors of'the NCII' I.e/t­ through. And it's coming through from are all registered Democrats." That's the growing. You look at women's rights: centralll' the failure to hreak Fom the the bourgeois media and from the real message of all of this whole week of the gains of the '60s are quickly being /i'amell'ork oj'capitalism and the politics reformist left. The [San Francisco] nostalgia to today's youth-the prodi­ reversed, And, if you went to Planned oj' pro- Democra t ic Partl' pressure. Chronicle was pushing it as well. They gal son returns. That there is nothing Parenthood in 1964 you didn't have to Don Kechely fight your way through right-wing mobs Civil rights movement impelled free demonstrating in front of it. For the speech battle; at left, 1964 FSM rally. Below, lunch counter sit-in, working class the standard of living in J.,,~ Chattanooga, 1960. the United States is by all indications Wide World going downward, and there is a concert­ ".:1 ed drive on the part of both the Democrats and the Republicans to bust the unions, of which the air controllers [I' ATe 0] is the most well known. On the political plane, we have a president who makes these jokes "I have outlawed the :;oviet Union and in five minutes the bombs will be dropping." They're not yukking it up about jokes like that in Moscow, and neither is anybody else who has any brains. Because in fact it is no joke. Reagan does want war with the Soviet Union, The gains of the Russian Revolution. the first successful workers ;.:. »'--eX!:!: revolution-that is, the planned social­ .", i7ed economy-stand asi! barrier to capitalist exploitation in those coun­ tries. There is a bipartisan drive to open ~ .~""!I up these countries so as to give decaying capitalism a new lease on life. That's

~':<; ,4 what it's about-it's not simply that NOVEMBER 1984 7 1964: Berkeley Free Speech Rebellion

BERKELEY-Twenty years ago, a Meese Ill-recently Reagan's hoped­ podium in Berkeley's Wheeler Auditori­ reds involved-two Spartacus Youth young activist from the Congress of for appointee as head of the Justice um by outraged students. On campuses League students-threatening them Racial Equality (CORE) set up his Department. The FBI got in the act and throughout the country, Kirkpatrick with expUlsion. literature table to advocate the struggle opened files on over 800 FS M arrestees, was met with similar protest and was Today, with Reagan and the Demo­ for black civil rights. Within half an harassed family members of FSM forced to cancel several speaking en­ crats' anti-Soviet war drive threatening hour after his arrest on October I, 1964, students, trailed FS M spokesmen gagements. Correctly surmising that nuclear holocaust, the 20th anniversary 3,000 students had converged upon the throughout the country and fed disin­ one of their "own" could not step foot meetings at Berkeley were largely a Berkeley campus' Sproul Plaza and the formation to the press. In particular, the on most college campuses, the bour­ pathetic display of nostalgia and politi­ police car containing the CORE activist FBI tried to portray the FSM as a geois press and university adminis­ cal bankruptcy of the old New Left. The Jack Weinberg went nowhere. Instead, "commie plot" to overthrow the govern­ trations began howling about Kirk­ press gloated that yesterday's radicals it served for the next 32 hours as the ment; as Mario Savio told the Daily Cal, patrick's "free speech," demanding had come "home." Indeed, they have. podium for those defending the right of "We had a hard enough time overthrow­ reprisals against protesting students offering nothing better against the anti­ students to "free speech." The radical ing this one bad policy of the university. and a general crackdown on student Soviet nut Reagan then the Cold War student movement which would contin­ I mean, overthrowing the government is activism. hawk Mondale. So "respectable" have ue to confront the racist, imperialist "es­ a fairly big operation in the U.S." And in Free speech is a civil liberty precious they become. that erstwhile firebrand tablishment" for another seven years fact the FSM leadership made no secret to us Marxists, one which we defend Mario Savio could not bring himself to had made its most massive and well­ of the fact that among its numbers were vigorously including for those whose endorse the action of those students who publicized statement. several avowed revolutionary socialists. views we find revolting. But it has drove Kirkpatrick from the stage. The "establishment" responded with Cold War McCarthyism was broken nothing to do with war criminals like I nstead, he offered "prudent" advice: a combination of attempted co-option by the civil rights movement; the red­ a Kirkpatrick or a Kissinger who do not "For our own good. IVe need to find and brute force. On November 29, the baiting did not work. Nor did arrests drop tons of "speech" on defenseless ways of tolerating what is almost popUlations. However, from all the intolerable and I think in that respect we UC Berkeley administration anno'unced and administration reprisals. At issue should make the following distinction that it was pressing new charges against was not only the right to free speech but platforms and in all the newspapers and ... between heckling and disruption." Free Speech Movement activists Art the ability of civil rights activists to media provided for those with state At the large October 2 anniversary Goldberg and Mario Savio for the organize; the reaction of the state and power, they have more than their say. meeting, however, there were those who October events. On December 2, 1,000 This grotesquely cynical "free speech" university was for this reason attempted maintained the need for proletarian protesters occupied the administration campaign aimed at student opponents repression. The status quo was not revolution. A Spartacist supporter told building, Sproul Hall, in defiance and of U.S. policy in Central America was a unduly threatened by some literature the packed auditorium:. Mario Savio delivered their message: tables on campus-but students had forerunner of the larger government "I was here in 1964. but this panel 'There is a time when the operation of begun to swell the ranks of the civil attack on the rights of any political discussion doesn't make me feel nostal­ the machine becomes so odious. makes rights movement engaging in real and opposition, particularly the left. Coin­ gic. Twenty years ago LBJ ran against you so sick at heart. that you can't take modestly successful struggles off the ciding with Reagan's "terrorism" scare Barry Goldwater and there was a pin part: you can't even tacitly take part. that a lot of left-liberals wore that said. and you've got to put your bodies upon campus as well. As Mario Savio put it: and the whole package of police-state legislation, Supreme Court rulings and 'Part of the way with LBJ: LBJ. the the gears and upon the wheels. upon the "which side are you on was a very strong author of the big war in Vietnam. And levers. upon all the apparatus and feeling .... When they (the UC adminis­ virtual license granted the FBI under many activists laughed derisively at the you've got to make it stop." tration) sent those letters out saying that new guidelines, those who would exer­ idea that we should be voting cattle for At 4:00 a.m., on the orders of Demo­ these rights were going tobe suspended, cise their right to protest war criminals the Democratic Party. cratic governor Edmund G. "Pat" there was no light debate 'what does this on the campuses have been met with ... a "So whv is it that the ... old movement leaders: much of the left, is back into the Brown, 600 cops in riot gear began the meanT There was a very clear feeling: combination of attempted co-option Democratic Party'I ... Today it is only arrests-"the largest peacetime arrest in Okay, they are now on the same side as and brute force. The president of the Spartacist League which says United States history": the establishment of the state of M is­ Harvard University was recently moved 'Vietnam was a Victorv' Two. Three. "The police hurled epithets. flung sissippi. Absolutely unacceptable." to write a lengthy encyclical on the Many Defeats for U.S. Imperialism!' students around in the elevators. kicked Nearly 20 years after the birth of the question of "free speech," precisely And in fact should a Republican or males in the groin. dug their nails into Democratic Party administration stage the bare skin of females. and. wielding FSM, Berkeley student protest again because one of Harvard's infamous an invasion of Central America. we billy clubs. formed a gauntlet which became a focus of national attention. In alumni-Secretary of War Caspar stand ready to fight again for labor students had to run as they were being the spring of 1983, Reagan's Dragon Weinberger-met much the same fate as strikes against the war-which today taken away." Lady at the UN and key architect of Kirkpatrick when he spoke at Harvard. will have amuch. much bigger potential -Daily Cali/c)rnian. I October of actually stopping that war than any U.S. support to death squad "democ­ Some 600 students demonstrated their kind of peace crawl that could be Leading the prosecution in the subse­ racy" in Central America-Jeane revulsion at U.S. policy last spring. And organized by those that plan to suck up quent "trial" was, among others, Edwin Kirkpatrick-was driven from the true to form, Harvard went after the to the Democratic Party:'.

Reagan is crazy. So we defend those group and a pressure group on the imperialism and to take a side in the another sliding back into the Democrat­ gains despite the subsequent Stalinist liberal wing of the American ruling Vietnam War with the NLF. But these ic Party swamp. With the exception of degeneration and call for defense of the class. This was brought up in one of the breaks were empirical, and without the those of us who joined the Spartacist Soviet Union against imperialism. [FSM week] talks Tuesday night when benefit of Marxism and Trotskyism, League, that's what happened. Those of As for the Democrats, which is really Art Goldberg, who was active in the that is to say, scientific socialism. They us who joined the SL joined around what all this hype has been about this FSM, said that he was not a sectarian all wound up through one route or basic Marxist conceptions: that is, that week, they are not qualitatively different like the Spartacists, blah, blah, blah. He this is a class society, that the working from the Republicans. There are certain was for coalition politics. Well, that's class is the only truly revolutionary class differences, mostly of timing and a polite way of saying what I just with the interest and power to overturn tactics-should we invade Nicaragua said-he's for a popular front, class­ capitalism, and that only a united now or later?-but not on the basic collaborationist alliance between the working class, by overthrowing capital­ issues. Mondale, when he is not boring working class and oppressed and some ism and establishing a planned socialist the American popUlation to death, is wing of the bourgeoisie. And this is the economy, could lay the basis for ending busy out-Reaganing Reagan. So he says surest method to see to it that nothing all forms of social oppression. This is an he would quarantine Nicaragua. He's fundamental ever changes. elementary premise of Marxism and it rethought Grenada and he thinks it's Now. there were elements that was rejected by the overwhelming one of the best things that ever hap­ attempted to break away from simply majority of the leftists, including those pened. So all of this convinces us in the pressuring the Democratic Party: the who called themselves Marxists. Like­ S L that, far from being the time to make "black power" movement, especially the wise, the Spartacist League was among our accommodation with the system. Black Panthers, some of the New the few groups which fought for the that in fact our time. and the time for the Lefters who began to talk about anti- basic Leninist principle that a proletari­ human race, is growing desperately Burrows/LIFE an revolution requires a vanguard party. short. The ruling class of the United united not on the basis of race or ethnic States threatens us all with nuclear background or sex, but on the basis of holocaust. But imperialist wars will end revolutionary program. only when the proletariat takes power and establishes its own class rule. So The Fight for Black Liberation: ours is the program of socialist revolu­ "Where Is Our Party?" tion. The only way out of this mess is So let me give some of my experiences class struggle. I t's certainly not going to in the civil rights, antiwar and women's be changed at the ballot box. movements as a way of illustrating what So. let me talk some about the New I'm saying. Now in 1955, when Rosa Left, and I want to give the punch line of Heroic Vietnamese Parks, a black woman. was arrested for this talk first. That is, in the main, the militiamen vow to refusing to stand up and give her seat on antiwar movement never went outside keep fighting the bus to a white man, this sparked the the bounds of bourgeois politics. It was (above). U.S. mass Montgomery bus boycott and started a protest politics. The idea was that murderers survey movement that swept across the South. through various methods which would their victims .. It had several different consequences. include mass marches, civil disobedi­ One is th,it it smashed MeCarthyism. ence. and so on-even actually some­ Thcdeadening ideological uniformity of times more militant-one would put McCarthyism was really broken open pressure on the Democratic Party to get by the sight of hundreds of thousands of them to start acting morally and in the black people demonstrating in the interests of the oppressed. The antiwar streets, for whom very obviously the movement was basically a support COII/illl/i'd Oil pagl' 8 1 j

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and the support to the Democrats. and New Left ... this came out most directly in what was (col1linuedji'oll1 page 7) called the "black power" movement. And it was contradictory, bur I'll tell American dream had never material­ you that would have been the time, if the ized. And it also gave the impetusforthe Spartacist League had been bigger, to student movement. win subjectively revolutionary blacks to You have to remember that the guy communism. But in fact the Spartacist Jack Weinberg-who was the one who League was small, it was recently was arrested in 1964 and that [incident] expelled from the Socialist Workers started the FSM-was setting up a table Party. in part over this very question of to collect money for CORE, that is, the struggle to win blacks to a revolu­ Congress of Racial Equality. I was also tionary perspective. But it was small. active here in the Bay Area with rcally too small to have much of an Congress of Racial Equality. and then effect at that time. And this is really a went down South to do voter registra­ shame. because there were tens of tion and fight for integration with thousands of blacks who were opposed SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordi­ to capitalism and imperialism, insofar nating Committee). Now SNCC was ..... as they understood what that meant. initiated in 1960 under the auspices of who were antiwar. Muhammad Ali's Spartacists at Oakland demonstration, 1975-the year Saigon fell to famous statement, "No Viet Cong ever the Southern Christian Leadership victorious Vietnamese National Liberation Front. Conference, Martin Luther King's called me nigger," really represented the sentiment of a lot of black youth. And group. At its inception it shared This is interesting: Hubert Humphrey­ bitterly the SNCC activists hated they hated the Democratic Party, King's pacifist, pro-Democratic Party Cold Warrior, anti-black, and Walter Martin Luther King. His nickname outlook-that through civil disobedi­ Mondale's mentor. Johnson wanted te among the left was "the Lord," as particularly the racist Southern Dixie­ crats. But without strong communist ence, through pacifism, one would keep the white Southern vote, this wa~ in "the Lord says this, the Lord says pressure the government for legal very important to him. So Hubert that." Not too nice, right? And his intervention this "black power" move­ reforms, and so on. But real life taught Humphrey went out and he organized positions were well known. So that ment moved toward black nationalism, these SNCC activists a different lesson and he stopped the Mississippi Free­ Martin Luther King's famous posi­ as best represented by the Black Pan­ than the one that the preachers were dom Democratic Party. And all of the tion, "If there is any blood shed, let it be thers in this area. The Panthers had no telling them. white Dixiecrats were seated as they al­ ours," was beginning not to go over very real orientation toward the working You have to understand what it was ways were, and none of the blacks were. well with SNCC activists who had seen class, even toward the black proletariat. like trying to register blacks to vote And Hubert H umphrey got the vice far too much of their own blood shed Their view was that you had to organize Democrat in the South. And I was down presidency. already. I remember being in the South the unemployed, the "brothers on the there trying to do this. I was in Now, things like this began to open in 1965, reading about the ghetto block." And they conceived of them­ Mississippi, in a state which is always people's eyes. It was a rude awakening. I explosions that were going on across the selves as sort of warrior heroes. that represented by Democrats, right? It want to read a quote, this is actually country, particularly in Watts, and they. this small group, would take on the has Democratic Senators, Democratic from the year before. This was a quote Martin Luther King came out calling for establishment. But not linked to the governors, Democratic everything up from one of the SNCC leaders who the National Guard and the police to go power of the working class, they were and down the line. The Democrats spoke at the March on Washington. in there and to put it down by whatever impotent and vulnerable. So they were control the state. Fine, you try to There is a reason why Malcolm X called means necessary. And so it was quite destroyed in large part by a premeditat­ register blacks to vote Democrat, you it the Farce on Washington. This man, clear to SNCC activists, and to a broad ed government campaign of murder. and they were very likely to get killed. John Lewis, wanted to give this speech layer of people actually, that his Many were killed, some in their beds So in the Delta, Senator Eastland, who but the word came down from the pacifism was pacifism for the black like Fred Hampton. Some of them still was a Democrat of course, ran a large Kennedy White House that he was to be masses, but guns for the National Guard are in jail, like Geronimo Pratt. And plantation. A black person who tried to prevented from doing so and that it and the police to use against them. others, seeing what was happening, register to vote was certainly thrown off should be censored. And so Martin There was a great deal of bitterness capitulated-some very grossly like and lost their livelihood, and very often Luther King and some of the labor and beginning of a real rejection of this Eldridge Cleaver who now is a right­ had the Klan sicced on them. So for bureaucrats saw to it that he was not pacifism and support to the Democrats. wing raving Moonie; others, like Elaine those of us down there, this led to a allowed to give this part of the speech. And when I was in Mississippi in Brown, to being more normal liberal contradiction. I was very uncomfortable And I want to read this because it gives a Gulfport I saw what in embryo was black Democrats. with this, registering people to vote little sense of where people were moving really necessary, and began to happen. This default left a real vacuum, so Democrat. I wasn't sure I wanted to toward. He said: But, god knows, we didn't know enough today there is no mass organization vote Democrat. I certainly believed peo­ ..... the party of Kennedy is the party of to be able to take very much advantage which even claims to fight for militant ple had the right to vote-did then. Eastland .... We cannot depend on any of it. That was, when we weren't doing black struggle. Instead, this goes by and large for the left in this country, what Flax Hermes voter registration (which as I said I :,

official meeting, canceled all classes strike a decisive blow against U.S. arrogance, moralism and a real disdain leaflets in our coats and bags and we - (even though actually people weren't imperialism from within without mobi­ for the working class. To give you a took the tour train. At a prearranged going to that many classes, but in any lizing the power of the working class sense of this, Isaac Deutscher, who was moment we all jumped off the tour train case canceled them) and called for a and going against the bourgeoisie. We a Marxist historian and sometime and began running around the plant like giant assembly in the Greek Theater, raised the slogans "Victory for the Viet­ Trotskyist, I guess you could say, was in maniacs, handing out leaflets and which about 20,000 people came to. namese Revolution!" "All Indochina the United States for a Socialist Schol­ throwing them in the cars. Now, And so Kerr, who is this well-spoken Must Go Communist!" We agitated ars Conference in New York. He was whether or not workers were convinced liberal, got up and made this very for labor strikes against the war. And very positive about the student move­ of our political view I don't know. But reasonable speech in which hedidn't say we demanded: "Bourgeoisie Out of ment in the United States and tried to they thought it was wild. Everyassem­ too much, but that we're all reasonable the Antiwar Movement, Break With pedagogically change some of their bly line in the entire plant stopped, men, we can reason together, and he the Imperialist Doves-For a Workers views. This is what he said: which people always love. All the finished up his speech-very much the Party!" "Do you really take such a contemptu­ foremen ran around like maniacs, attempt to appeal to those students who ous view of your working classes that chasing us around. All the workers hid were undecided as to what was going on However. the war did not end that yOU think that vou alone are so sensitive us. They figured as long as we were there ~r so noblt: as 10 be dissatisfied with this here. So Mario Savio got up to way. It did not end with the U.S. forced the assembly lines would be down. It out of Vietnam by an upsurge of class degrading society ... ." Do you really announce that there's going to be a rally believe they arc so much more prone. took quite a while before they rounded in Sproul Plaza and as he walked struggle at home. Rather, in early 1973, and bv nature conditioned, to be us all up. Management was so discon­ toward the microphone he was jumped Nixon and Kissinger negotiated a corrupted by the meretricious advan- certed by this that they didn't know and knocked to the ground by six cops, 2 what to do with us. Wejust said, "We've ro grabbed by his tie (everyone was very c. had enough of this. We're leaving," and E respectable in those times), dragged off co walked out. This is a typical example of a: the stage by his tie, being strangled by "- "New Left Meets the Working Class." o these six cops. And it created total ~ But for those who turned toward c pandemonium, with people just scream­ co the working class and were serious, iii ing. This was such a revealing incident. what this meant was that they had to re­ Here we have "Behind the Liberal examine the Old Left, that is Marxism, Fa<;ade." You do one thing, whoops! It in some form or other. The real shame is really demonstrated what Marxists have that most of them became Maoists or to say: when push comes to shove the some other variant of Stalinism. And bourgeois state is armed bodies of men Chicago, 1968: the real content of Maoist and all and, man, they'll pull them out, and in a Protesters at Stalinist politics is class collaboration­ fairly big hurry, too. Democratic ism and popular frontism once again. Convention Maoism appeared somewhat more The Anti-Vietnam War brutalized by militant and left-wing at that time. Movement: The Limits of . cops. China was under the gun from U.S. Middle-Class Protest imperialism. It had somewhat more Now, today the old antiwar move­ militant rhetoric. The Spartacist League ment is held up as the great success story predicted the possibility that there of rad-lib activism in America. The rad­ would be an alliance between China and lib version of what happened in the anti­ U.S. imperialism, which certainly came Vietnam War stuff goes something like to pass. Via that alliance, most of those this (with a certain amount of polemical New Lefters-turned-Maoists who hated political compromise, the best they tages of this war-flourishing capitalism U.S. imperialism came back to the fold. exaggeration here): Somehow, byacci­ than you are'?" dent, the U. S. government stumbled could get given their weakness on the So we see the spectacle today of those battlefield. At that point the Vietnam -"On Socialist Man," in into this terrible war in Southeast Asia. Marxism in aLlr Time ( 1971 ) who once chanted "Two, Three, Many antiwar movement simply collapsed, But, never fear, pretty soon men of good Vietnams!" now chanting "No More although the war itself went on for And Deutscher remarked somewhere will, especially very wise college profes­ Vietnams!"-that is, no more losses for another two years, which is fairly that he;d trade all the teach-ins and sors and their idealistic students, also U.S. imperialism. And that's truly decisive proof that it was not an anti­ student strikes for one dock strike Sunday school teachers and their obscene because the defeat of U.S. imperialist movement, or even an against the war. idealistic students, and housewives, all imperialism anywhere can only be of antiwar movement actually, but it was got together in this inspiring movement. "New Left Meets the benefit to the American working class an anti-U .S. involvement movtment. They sent letters to their Congressmen, Workfng Class" , and to the working class internationally. But what you have to understand is that had peaceful vigils, and soon they won Now what really began to change this The Viet Cong did us all a great ser­ it didn't necessarily have to have been over the more intelligent, more humane whole view of the New Left, however, vice by defeating the U.S. in Viet­ that way. By 1970 there was an absolute members of the ruling class, like the toward the working class was the near­ nam, because it created what is called majority, I'm sure, of the U.S. popula­ Bobby Kennedys and the Eugene revolution in France in May-June of the "Vietnam syndrome"-that is, the tion who were for pulling out of McCarthys. And this wonderful move­ 1968. New Left Notes prior to this used American popUlation is not really en­ Vietnam even if that meant Communist ment grew and grew, and more people to have this little statement they printed thused about going to another coun­ victory. At the demos there began to be were won over. In the end even Nixon about how the working class was totally try that has jungles and guerrilla fighters at least the beginnings of labor involve­ and Kissinger saw the light, and they bought off. it was not a revolutionary and getting shot up. That's a real benefit ment. And there was the real possibility pulled the U.S. out of Vietnam. class, and so on. After this real workers to all of us, it gave us all a breathing of the slogans for labor strikes against Now, this really is how they tell it. uprising which came very close to a spell. So that the U.S. did not go into Well, the only problem with it is that it the war. The organizers of these mass revolution and was in fact only betrayed Angola and has not yet gone into marches, that is, the Socialist Workers did not happen that way. In fact, U.S. by the Communist Party, New Lefi Central America. But this isn't going to Party and the Communist Party, fought imperialism was driven out of Vietnam. Notes came out with a new statement last forever. like hell to keep the movement accept­ I t was defeated on the battlefield by the which said that the working class was While the rest of the left has really able to the liberal bourgeoisie and to heroic resistance of the Vietnamese. In bought off. not a revolutionary class ... dived into the Mondale swamp, as we silence our call for working-class action, January of 1968 there occurred what except in France. However, this really said, the Spartacist League is still here. even to the point of physical violence was known as the Tet Offensive and it did have an effect and I remember this And a good thing too, because on the against the Spartacist League. The shook up the U.S. rulers-the Vietnam­ myself, in '68 I was in Berkeley, and one hand there's certainly a rightward "official" slogan was "Bring Our Boys ese were kicking the U.S.' ass. A few there were a series of demonstrations shift in this country. There is also the Home," that is, absolute refusal to take months later Eugene McCarthy an­ here in Berkeley in support of workers in beginnings of class struggle in this a side with the NLF, with the enemies of nounced that he would run against France. country. Look at this Toledo strike, U.S. imperialism. Lyndon Johnson as an antiwar candi­ So I want to give one example of what where auto workers barricaded the front date. Then Bobby Kennedy said he And it's very reminiscent of today, might be called "New Left Meets the of the plant, beat off the cops; we can see would run as an antiwar candidate. though they don't seem to have El Working Class" from my own history. the real beginnings of some militant Then Johnson announced that he was Salvador demonstrations anymore, I This is by popular demand. In 1969 I class struggle in this country. The not going to seek re-election and that he presume it's because it's an election year was part of a women's liberation group, copper miners strike in Arizona. Actual­ was going to open up negotiations with and it would embarrass the Democrats. and then a group that included both ly, there has been a whole series of the North Vietnamese. As we say, the But last year they used to have these men and women. We decided that we strikes in this country: the Greyhound timing on this was no accident. El Salvador demonstrations, and you had to organize the workers and that strike and a whole number of strikes in The "doves," like Kennedy and could just see CIS PES and all the meant white workers because we were San Francisco. And their defeats have McCarthy, were that wing of the various other leftists call the cops, shit a very much followers of the whole black been not due to the fact that people American ruling class which believed brick and so on when they'd see the nationalist view that blacks should haven't fought, because in fact people U.S. imperialism would be stronger Spartacist League with signs that say organize blacks, whites should organize have fought very hard, but most of them overall if it cut its losses, and I do "M ilitary Victory to the Leftists in EI whites. have been stabbed in the back by their emphasize losses, in Vietnam. The body Salvador!" because we took a side with So we did a demographic study of the own "leaders," by the labor bureaucra­ count was going up, that's what they the enemies .of U.S. imperialism. Bay Area. We decided the place we cy. This kind of class struggle gives us a were talking about. They weren't so In fact, in the mid-'60s, there began to could find the most white workers was taste of things to come, and when it does much counting the people in the streets, be-and it does coincide with changes in Hayward [laughter]. What a boring come it's going to need revolutionary they were counting the body bags. The the black movement as well-a wing of suburb that is, I must say. So we all leadership and it's going to need a party. antiwar movement was basically a the student movement that tried to moved to Hayward. One of our people And that's what we're all about. support group for the liberal wing of the break out of total pressure politics on had a job at General Motors in So let me say a word about this American ruling class. Of course, we the Democrats. So there were those who Fremont, and we decided that what we [Board of Supervisors] election cam­ in the Spartacist League did not at chanted "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh-The were going to do was start a caucus paign in San Francisco. As I said, we all turn our backs on the antiwar NLF is Gonna Win!" and put forward there. But that to get working people's don't believe that change comes at the movement which involved the radicali­ the slogan "Two, Three, Many Viet­ attention you had to do something ballot· box. We believe that change zation of hundreds of thousands, mainly nams!" But you have to take a look at really flashy to start it off. We printed up comes on the picket line, in sit-down· of student youth, but quite the contrary, what the beginnings of this anti­ a leaflet, it was on the occasion of H uey strikes and on the streets. This campaign we sought to transform the antiwar imperialist student movement looked Newton's birthday, which we thought offers working people and minorities movement into an anti-capitalist move­ like. Especially in its early stages it was was very appropriate to get people out the opportunity to vote for labor action ment. We said it was not possible to associated with extreme intellectual of their racism. We stuffed all these continued on page 10 --t

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to "roll back communism," only differ­ criminals such as Robert McNamara & ing slightly on the best way to go about Co. Resignation from the it. In order for all these groups to work The only thing which has stopped together revolutionary politics must be Toronto DiSarmament Network them from succeeding thus far is the suppressed in order not to alienate the Soviet Union's military capability to "progressive bourgeoisie." Therefore retaliate. This military strength is talk about socialism, revolution, de­ preventing capitalist restoration within fense of the U.S.S.R.-all these are Soviet borders and abroad. This is the tactfully avoided even by the "socialist" Defend the USSR! heart of the anti-Soviet war drive for groups. This was one of the final blows capitalism needs to reconquer these to my commitment, when I realized that markets in order to expand. Therefore what this was, was an alliance that tied there is a direct confrontation between the working class with the bourgeoisie, Young SjJarlGCUS reprints below a that the political work I had been doing . imperialism and the workers states and i.e., [th~] Popular Front, on a bourgeois letter of resignation from the Toronto was in fact an obstacle to my goal of we must take a stand defending these programme. Disarmament Network (TON) submit­ socialism. states from imperialist attack. I then had to ask myself what strategy ted by Maria L., the temporary youth I now feel my political beliefs have coordinator of the TON. Of the various changed enough and are solid enough Thus we see that this is an anti-Soviet would achieve peace. I knew that WW III would be insanity but it could Canadian "peace" groups, branches of that I can no longer support or be part of war drive and that the interests of all the U.S. nuclear "freeze" movement. the the peace movement. capitalist powers rely on the military up not be prevented and the threat removed TON is the favored playpen of the Up till now I had believed that nuclear to and including nuclear weapons. We forever until capitalism had been over­ therefore cannot pressure U. S. imperial­ Kremlin-loyal Stalinists of the Commu­ war drew closer because of "increased thrown and world socialism established. ism or its Canadian junior partner into nist Party and its youth group, the international tensions," that what we Only this would end the need for war. changing something which is inherent in Young Communist League (YCL). needed was peaceful co-existence and if Thus to build socialism I must work While the CPUSA is going all-out for we could just unite enough people we Democratic Party Cold War hawk could pressure our government into Walter Mondale, its Canadian counter­ negotiations that would bring about parts have marched in "peace" demon­ disarmament. I, of course, being a strations under banners hailing the U.S. "socialist," also felt we needed complete imperialists' Canadian junior partner as disarmament linked with justice. While the "brave neutral mediator." these are commendable aims, what I and The CP has sacrificed every vestige of others in the peace movement sharing my class principle in its never-ending search views lacked was a coherent political for the "progressive" bourgeoisie. Thus, analysis and programme. the Stalinists were among the prime Throughout history the military has Reformist CP looks movers in getting TDN to come out in been directly linked to protecting and to "progressive" support of former Canadian prime expanding capitalist and imperialist imperialists such as minister Pierre Trudeau's anti-Soviet interests. Since the victorious Russian Trudeau (depicted "peace initiative." In her resignation Revolution and up to [the] present day at right) to end statement, Maria-a former active the imperialist powers have consistently nuclear threat. member of the YCL-points out that attempted to militarily defeat the Soviet Trotskyists say: capitulation to anti-Sovietism in the Union and roll back the many gains that you can't fight {I search for an alliance with supposed have been won. The onset of nuclear anti-Soviet war drive "peace-loving" imperialists leads to weapons has changed only the techno­ with anti-Soviet imperialist blocs with outright reactionaries and logical character but has in no way politicians! war criminals. Rejecting the class­ changed the political strategy. collaborationism of the "peace" "move­ From the beginnings of the A-bomb ment," Maria has been won to the to [the] present day the U.S. has been revolutionary program of the Trotskyist planning a first strike against the Soviet (;,01,510". C"lIilda League of Canada, a sympathizing sec­ Union. I quote below from an interview tion of the international Spartacist ten­ with Daniel .Ellsberg [DE], former its system and which they have no for workers revolution and the vehicle dency. Hercritique of the TDN should be specialist to the Pentagon: interest in changing. for this is a vanguard party of the seriously considered by students, youth "Q: What arc most of these (nuclear) The socral-democratic nationalists of working class with a revolutionary and others who want to wage a genuine weapons for? the NDP are also not capable of programme. The only organization I fight against the anti-Soviet war drive. "DE: To threaten or carrv out counter­ achieving real peace. They are just as have yet to find that offers such a force attacks. that is. attacks on Soviet programme is the Trotskyist League. military capahilities ... primarily in the committed to capitalism (only with context of a U.S. first strike. Bv that I bandages), anti-Sovietism and a "strong I encourage you all to critically Tuesday September 18/84 don't mean U.S. 'preventive waf" ... hut West." evaluate your role in the peace move­ I joined the peace movement and a U.S. initiated attack on the Soviet This "pressure" however is the entire ment and decide for yourselves. began organizing youth when I was 14. homeland." basis of the peace movement which tries The alternatives seem quite clear: war -lllquirr. 13 April 19l\ I Like others I was terrified at the thought to unite people across class lines to or rpvolution. of nuclear war. I saw it as the most The latest talk of a technological first "protest and survive." This "classless" "On Iv after we have overthrown. finallv important issue, overriding all others. strike contrary to popular belief did not strategy has led to coalitions with vanquished and expropriated the hour­ geoisie of the whole world and not Over the years I worked, believing that begin with the nut Ronald Reagan. reactionaries such as anti-abortionists onlv one countrv. will wars become somehow I was working towards social­ Jimmy Carter with his Presidential who think all life is sacred (exc~pt imrossihle." . ism. It took me this long to clearly Directive 59 paved the way for "limited women's), western defenders who think -V.1. Lenin analyze my political beliefs/contradic­ strategic war." The U.S. capitalist class conventional weapons should be'beefed Sincerely, tions in a very critical way and realize has a bipartisan consensus on the fight up instead and out and out war Maria

Union is this aggressive power around duty of revolutionists to defend every class, the working class, internationally. New Left ... the world, we condemn the Soviet conquest of the working class even And, to wrap up, to use a favorite New (collfilllledji'o/l/ page 9) bureaucracy for capitulating to U. S. though it may be distorted by the Left phrase-"here in the belly of the imperialism. The rationalization forthat pressure of hostile forces. Those who monster," which is a true enough de­ to bring down Reagan and shatter the is called "socialism in one country" or cannot defend old positions will never scription-here in the belly of the mon­ anti-Soviet war drive, and more impor­ detente-that is, class collaboration on conquer new ones." And that's very ster we have to do our part and make a tantly the opportunity to join with us a world scale. An example of this is El true. We have to defend the gains of our workers revolution .• and fight for those things. Salvador. It is a crime that the Soviet Now, a controversial note: we do see bureaucracy refuses to send guns to El a role for students. Not student van­ Salvador. The workers and peasants in guard ism-that students as students are Ef Salvador would be in much better Spartacus Youth League Directory going to lead the struggle. But there shape if they were armed by the Soviet SYL National Office: Box 3118, New York: SYL, Box 444, Canal have always been those who have turned Union. That's a real betrayal. Ronald Church Street Station, New York, Street Station, New York, NY 10013, their backs on their class backgrounds Reagan and the Democrats hate Russia NY 10008 or call (212) 267-1025 and fought in the interests of the (and, I would say parenthetically, love Ann Arbor: SYL, P.o. Box 8364, Norfolk: SYL, c/o SL, P.o. Box 1972, Ann Arbor, MI 48107, or call (313) working class. We are looking for a few Solidarnosc) not because ~ Russia is Main PO, Norfolk, VA 23501 961-1680 good class traitors. "undemocratic." In the "free world"­ Oakland: SYL, Box 273, Civic Finally, I'd like to say a few words on South Africa, the Philippines, Chile­ Atlanta: SYL, Box 4012, Atlanta, GA Center Station, Oakland, CA 30302 94604, or call (415) 835-1535 the Russian question. Now James P. the lack of democracy has never seemed Boston: SYL, Box 188, M.IT Station, Cannon, who was I think the foremost to bother U.S. imperialism too much. Oberlin: SYL, Box 58, Oberlin Cambridge, MA02139, orcall (617) College, Oberlin, OH 44074, or call American revolutionary, said, "He who What they want to destroy in the Soviet 492-3928 (216) 775-6067 Union is what we want to defend-that touches the Russian question touches a Chicago: SYL, Box 4667, Main PO., San Francisco: SYL, Box 11685, revolution." And that's true. In Russia is, the planned socialized economy. The Chicago, IL 60680, or call (312) , San Francisco, CA 94101, or call in 1917 there was a workers revolution U.S. ruling class and the Spartacist 663-0715 (415) 863-6963 and that provides a model for us even League both understand, from different Cleveland: SYL, Box 6642, Cleve­ Washington, D.C.: SYL, P.O. Box today. They threw out the capitalists class perspectives, that the Soviet land, OH 44101, or call (216) 621- 75073, Washington, D.C. 20013, or 5138 and the landlords, they established a Union, due to its objective economic! call (202) 636-35j7 military strength, is the main obstacle to Detroit: SYL, Box 32028, Detroit, MI planned socialized economy, and despite 48232, or call (313) 961-1680 the subsequent Stalinist degeneration imperialism's global domination. That's Trotskyist Los Angeles: SYL, Box 29115, Los the gains of that revolution still exist. So what they don't like. In fact. it is lucky Feliz Station, Los Angeles, CA League of Canada we call for defense of the Soviet Union that the Soviet Union has the bomb be­ 90029, or call (213) 384-9716 Toronto: Box 7198, Station A. Toron­ against imperialism, and proletarian cause if it didn't, U.S. imperialism would Madison: SYL, Box 2074, Madison, to, Ontario M5W 1X6, or call (416) political revolution to oust the bureauc­ have conquered the world by now. WI 53701. or call (608) 257-8625 593-4138 racy. Far from thinking that the Soviet Leon Trotsky in 1940 said "It is the r

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of Marxist states" in the region. The fact posed to be a pot of gold at the end ot is that in EI Salvador, the civil war pits the rainbow'! Well there ain't shit there "Missing Outrage ... waiting for the working class and workers and peasants against a tiny students of this country today." oligarchy which has slaughtered and (continued/i'om page 12) At a Spartacist campaign rally the Point" ... enslaved them for decades. In Nicara­ bunch of lackeys for Reagan knows this (continued/i'om page 4) gua, the U.S. puppet dictator Somoza October 17, SYL spokesman Paula is a lie. Howard security guards were Daniel told SF State students: was militarily defeated by popular right here, and eyewitnesses say they solidarity with South African students, insurgents. However, despite Reagan's "Well. Reagan's America 1984 doesn't were assisting the INS! The Howard happen to be a very pretty sight if you and workers, and labor action like hot­ ravings about a "Marxist-Leninist" cargoing all goods going to South administration made its stand clear last happen to be young, black. old. female, regime, the petty-bourgeois nationalist unemployed. a trade unionist, or any Africa are others. These are realistic, year when it arrested Spartacus Youth . Sandinista regime has pursued a League members who dared to protest kind of opponent of the government's concrete acts that students can initiate. course of "peaceful coexistence" with policies. And for students, what kind of the Grenada invasion. The invasion was choices are even out there'! One, nuclear Rather than spending one or two the landlords and capitalists within weeks protesting Harvard's limited, but a diversion by Reagan from the bloody annihilation-that's a definite possibili­ Nicaragua-a dangerous fifth column ty. You have unemployment, particu­ significant role in capitalist oppression, mess in Lebanon where 241 Marines of counterrevolution which must be were blown to smithereens-two days larly if you're black, and an increasingly students who care about the future of reactionary social climate as the U.S. expropriated as a class if the rule of before the Yankees landed on Grenada. this world should exercise their rights to Yankee imperialism is not to be government gears up the American Remember two years ago when Hilltop population for war against the Soviet organize year round. If you hate racism, restored. it should not be too difficult to recognize editor Janice McKnight was expelled Union. Reagan's message to youth It is unfortunately an imperialist !lashes like an evangelical neon sign that apartheid is a symptom of a sick for exposing the shenanigans inside the myth that the Soviet Union is backing Cheek administration'? Cheek's message saying: No Sex, No BOOle. No Fun ... capitalist system, and you'll fight to end No Future. capitalist oppression worldwide. the Salvadoran insurgents and defend­ has always been loud and clear: "no "Well. we in the S Y L have a program to These might seem like radical ideas, ing the Sandinistas. Anti-Soviet "ex­ politics or I'll have your head." Dump win. a program to fight and win. and we're running this campaign to point and given the conservative drift of this pert" Leslie Gelb noted in a recent Cheek, Reagan's boy in the A-building! article that "Soviet officials virtually African and Caribbean students are out that the only way forward is and other universities it may be. Also for socialist revolution. If the vouth todav Harvard students, who may have the jump through hoops to sidestep labeling especially threatened by this Reaganite want a future we have to -fight for it. luck of inheriting a system that allows Nicaragua a 'socialist Sandinista re­ repression. What's next? Will INS Look, the capitalist economy is shrink­ apartheid to flourish, these acts are gime'" and that the USSR "scrupulous­ plainclothesmen bust into the next ing. The past few years under Carter and Reagan. they've made sure there's probably out of their range of interests. ly avoid[s] commitments of their own meeting of international students and prestige and troops" (New York Times round up "troublemakers" for "ques­ no jobs out there for you. They've It has taken me a while to come to this written off an entire generation of black point. But I can recall my freshman Magazine, 28 October). Nicaragua is tioning" and perhaps deportation? youth, saying 'We don't want you. we year, when I fasted for eight days to now asking for MIG aircraft and-as we Studenfs must mobilize now to demand don't give a shit. Go deal dope. go die in protest Harvard's investments in South have stated all along-it should get that the U.S. get its hands off Dessima the ghettos.' We say that maybe three. them! Williams. Stop deportation proceedings maybe five. maybe ten percent of you Africa. arc going to get out there and make it if I lost about 10 pounds. That was the The industrial/military powerhouse now! Defend our right to hear her indict you really bust your ass. But we say. put only change. of the non-capitalist world, the Soviet the U.S. rape of Grenada! U.S. get your your talents. put your intelligence. put degenerated workers state, is the ulti­ hands off the world! Dump Cheek!. your energy to use and become a leader -Carla D. Williams mate target of Reagan/ M ondale's war of the working class and the oppressed. "Nothing short of a proletarian rev­ drive. Yankee imperialism is not only olution is going to end unemployment. concerned to keep Central and South is going to end imperialist wars. is America as its "backyard" but is hell­ SF Elections ... going to end the rising race-terror that bent on retaking the one-sixth of the we face. and you cannot speak of Hands Off ... (continued from page 12) fundamental change within the frame­ (continued from page 5) globe wrenched from its clutches 'Yhen work of capitalism. the Russian working class seized power city and vindictive mayor harassed him "So I'll tell you why you should vote for military invasion, Nicaragua is to in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. with a series of legal proceedings on Diana Coleman and Ritchie Bradlev. Grenada as a hand grenade is to a While under the threat of Cold War II such charges as "climbing a monu­ One. if you happen to want a future ora marshmallow" (New York Times, 6 the Soviet bureaucracy has been forced ment." Ritchie said he welcomed a trial; future for your children. you should vote for Richard Bradley and Diana January). to take some steps in its defense of the he and his comrades politically indicted Coleman. If you want to have sex with Reagan's "new patriotism" is superfi­ the workers state, it continues to seek the Democratic mayor for having put up who you want. what you want. and how cial in the extreme and yet to be tested. "detente" with imperialism at the the hated symbol of racism. The jury you want, you should vote for Ritchie The Democrats come in here-they are expense of internat-(onal revolution. heard testimony on the Civil War and Bradley and Diana Coleman. If you the consummate mobilizers of the happen to be black, and are afraid of As revolutionary internationalists, we the betrayed promise of black freedom. getting gunned down in your bedroom popUlation for war, usually under the fight to mobilize the working class, After the jury split 8-4 for Bradley, all by a racist cop. you should vote for banner of "peace" and "democracy." oppressed and youth of this country to the charges were speedily dropped. Richard Bradley and Diana Coleman. oppose their capitalist ,masters' war The Spartacist candidates stand for Because we stand on a program of Defense of Cuba/USSR Begins "Finish the Civil War!" They stand for socialist revolution. to smash race­ in Central America! moves. We take a side against our "own" terror. And we realize this doesn't ruling class and for the military victory union action in solidarity with the black happen through votes. I t's going to The Democrats and RepUblicans of the Salvadoran insurgents; in N icara­ toilers battling apartheid terror in South happen through class struggle. But we converge on policy in Central America gua we say: defend, complete, extend' Africa; "No deportations-Full citizen­ run these campaigns so you can work ship for immigrant workers!"; for c1ass­ with us and see what it's all about and because of their shared hostility to social the revolution. At home we de'rnand a get our program that the only way revolution anywhere in the world. The labor boycott of all U.S. arms\to its struggle unionism; against the anti­ forward is going to be socialist bipartisan anti-Soviet war drive unites Central American butchers and \ ('on­ Soviet war drive; for labor/black action revolution .... the twin parties of capitalism in support­ tras, and call for mass labor action against K lim terror. Bradley's action "So we sav to the vouth of today-who ing brutal regimes from Marcos' Philip­ against any attempt at invasion. And against the slavery flag made him are for the ruling class the 'cannon something of a hero among many blacks fodder of tomorrow-that if yOU hate pines to apartheid South Africa to against the threat of Armageddon by the war and racism. forget about the Central America and tactical differences leaders of the "free world," we uncondi­ and other working people in the Bay Democrats and RepUblicans. That your dissolve before Reagan/ Mondale's tionally defend the Soviet Union. Join Area. The endorsement of Bradley / allies are the workers and black masses common vows to prevent the "creation us in the fight for a socialist future .• Coleman from the Alameda chapter of and vour future is in the destruction of the Peace and Freedom Party is, we this sick. irrational capitalist system. So join with the only reds on campus. Join think, tribute to the widespread popu- the SYL and fight for socialist \ larity of Bradley's action. The PFP is revolution'" • Spartacus Youth League Class Series very much a popular frontist rad-lib \. swamp which supports for president 'feminist Sonia Johnson of the liberal BOSTON OBERLIN \ CORRECTIONS Basic Marxism Marxism and World Revolution eco-freezenik Citizens Party. The Ala­ Alternate Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m. EXCO class series meda PFP voted October 21 to endorse I n Young Spartacus No. 121 November 7, 28, December 12 Alternate Thursdays, 7:30 p,m. the Spartacist candidates and Sylvia (October 1984) we described the Burr Hall, 1st Floor Conference Rm. November 15, 29 Weinstein of the social-democratic efforts of class-struggle militants in (Quincy St., next to Freshman Union) Wilder, Room 211, Oberlin College Socialist Action grouping. the National Maritime Union Harvard University For more information: (216) 775-6067 Sharp exchanges between Bradley (N M U) to mobilize their union to or 621-5138 For more information: (617) 492-3928 and black nationalists marked his stop "all ships and cargo to and MADISON WASHINGTON, D.C. appearance before the Black Students from South' Africa." Our article For International Trotskyism: Union at City College of San Francisco mistakenly report~ that 15 union Workers Revolution! Revolutionary Marxism Today October 23. That same day, Bradley also members submitted a resolution to Saturdays, 2:00 p.m. Alternate Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. spoke at a class at SF State taught by that effect on September 24. The November 3, 17, December 1 November 14, 28 Professor Reginald Major, author of a resolution was supported and en­ (See "Today in the Union" for room) Blackburn Center, Room 142 book on the Black Panthers. There, dorsed by 15 mostly black union UW-Madison Howard University Bradley sharply counterposed the SL's members; it was submitted by a For more information: (608) 257-8625 For more information: (202) 636-3537 Sponsored by the Friends of the program for a revolutionary party to the member of the Militant-Solidarity NEW YORK CITY Spartacus Youth League cynical reformist program of reliance on Caucus in the NMU. Many of the Trotskyism: Jesse Jackson and the Democrats: endorsements for the motion came Revolutionary Marxism Today Trotskyist League of Canada "What is needed is an integrated after it was ruled out of order by the revolutionary workers party that will NMU bureaucrats. Alternate Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Class Series stop at nothing short of a workers November 12, 26, December 9 government; the party like the one In the introduction to Part I of Hamilton Hall, Room 401 TORONTO Lenin and Trotsky built, the Bolsheviks "Germany: Revolution and Coun­ Columbia University Only One Solution­ that led the October 1917 revolution. terrevol!ltion," the centerfold in Alternate Saturdays, 4:00 p.m. Workers Revolution! that threw the capitalist bosses out of YSp No. 121. we refer to "Sparta­ November 3, 17, December 1 Alternate Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Russia. We defend that historic victorY cist educational gatherings held in SL/SYL Public Office November 15, 29 and we fight for a party here that wiil smash the capitalist system. late April and early May in New 41 Warren St. (one block below Sid Smith, Room 2116 "And to the students today I would say: York. Chicago and San Francisco." Chambers St. near Church St.) University of Toronto if you think there's an American dream The Bay Area educational was held For more information: (212) 267-1025 For more information: (416) 593-4138 awaiting you, forget about it. Look at in Berkeley. the 'Rainbow Coalition'-there's sup-

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12 ...... NOVEMBER 1984 I , parlaCDS INS Arrests Former Grenadian Ambassador • aCIS ulrae:e a owar • WASHINGTON, D.C., 29 Ocroher­ (/ij)lomatic status, and now Reaxan Outraxe on/r heXins to dcscrihe the threatens her It'ith deportation as an Octoher 25 arrest and manhandlinx of" "illexal alien",' E)'ewirnesses of" the .IiJrll1cr Grenadian amhassac/or Dessima arrest pointed out that no one could tell Williams outside a "Dialoxuelc)r Peace 11'/70 the plainclothes thuxs were and in the Americas" symposiwl1 at Holt'ard feared that Williams mar have heen University, In a scene that hrinxs to kidnapped. The next morninx, 9() mind Pinochet's Chile, plainclothes INS protesters, includinx several lelt orxani­ axents waited until the two-dar sympo­ zatiof1.l· and indil'iduals, such as Jacque­ Hands Off Dessima Williams! sium H'as ol'erliJr the eveninx and on/r line Jackson, the wif"e o{ Rev, Jesse tlt'O dozen people Hwe lelt helcJre ther Jackson, picketed the INS huildinX $J,50() demanded hy the INS, But defeat in Vietnam. To cap its sick seized Mol', Williams, pulled her into a where Williams' hail was heinx set, H'ith Williams still faces deportation, and a anniversary celebration of this crime, car and whisked her awar to Fair{ax rlacards readinx, "Release Dessima­ preliminafl' hearinx is setlor N(JI'emher Reagan's administration staged a Count)' Detention Center if! Virxinia. Stop INS Terror.'" and "U S. Out of" 27, Reax{[n,INS-Getyour.f/lthrhands Gestapo-style INS raid at Howard as Reaxan's colonial puppet rexime in Grenada-Free Dessima Williams"" otT Dessima Williams,' We reprint helow part of its drive to suppress any Grenada, installed alter the hrutal U,S. Donations collected on the spot helped the leallet issued at Howard Universitr opposition to the U.S. anti-Soviet war inl'([sion last rear, rel'oked Williams' par the $ I ,()()O homl, reduced/rom the on Octoher 29 hy the S Y L. drive. This is an outrage! Where does Reagan get off thinking Last Thursday. one year to the day he'll get away with this atrocity') Some 26 October 1984 after Reagan's racist bully-boy invasion lily-wh ite college ~n Pod unk, Utah? To: William French Smith of hlack Grenada. Dessima Williams. These stormtroopers marched onto :\ ttornev General Grenada's ambassador to the OAS Howard U .. in the middle of hlack D.C. l.S . .Justice Department under Maurice Bishop, was seized by The arrest was a conscious racist prov­ Immigration and Naturalization Ser­ ocation. We don't have to take this vice (INS) thugs outside of Cramton crap! The only fitting response is for stu­ Seiling last legal Ambassador of Grenada is juridical and human outrage. Auditorium after speaking at a tribute dents to shut down Howard and lead l'nhand Oessima Williams! You stand condemned before the entire world. The to Bishop. Williams now faces deporta­ hlack D.C. residents in a march on INS American people han the right to hear her indict )our rape of Grenada. tion as an "illegal alien." Reagan's rape headq uarters! of Grenada-which took 7,000 crack The Cheek administration denies Partisan Defense Committee U.S. troops to subdue 700 Cuban it had anything to do with or even pri­ construction workers-is supposed to or knowledge of the arrest. Anyone be proof of America "standing tall" remotely familiar with this corrupt poe telegram protests racist INS' Grenada "anniversary" atrOCity. again after the imperialists' humiiiating collt illlled on {Jaxe I I

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Finish the Civil WQrl Vote Spartacist For Workers Revolutionl When Richard Bradley twice last diverse as Muni bus drivers and black facilities. He was among the first black '.-_,0.... "-.... ,. April scaled the 50-foot flagpole in college students. ~ students who integrated the University ---00-.... _.. - ... """- ... "'-., ... _... ," .... San Francisco Civic Center and tore Speaking at a "Meet the Candi­ of South Carolina. He worked on an Vote Spartacist down the Confederate flag of slav­ dates" forum at the Ella Hill Hutch auto assembly line for ten years and Richard Diana ery and KKK terror, it touched a community center in SF's Western became a spokesman for a militant Bradley and Coleman chord of anger and pride in black Addition October 26, Bradley said: caucus fighting for factory seizures and working-class neighborhoods "Everywhere we've gone. workers. and industry-wide strikes against mass For S.F. Board of Supervisors . Sm.." A..,.,,', • Sm .." Tatt·H.rtl'r- • U.S. Imperl.IIRn_ blacks recogni7e us as the people who Antl-So'riet War 011 •• , Lnor', Gotta HanD 011 C.nlllll Amerk;al throughout the Bay Area. Bradley's layoffs and plant closures. Now a • Bruk wlttl !tie o.mocr.I._ Pl., "-rdbilUlo Win' • Full Cltilln'hlp Aighl, tore down that racist Confederate For I WO""'" Party! for For,lgn.Bom Work,,,,, courageous action against Democratic building maintenance mechanic, Brad­ ~p..ty~c...... !IIM"".' •• I'~5"" •• Sts."' ..""''''OCAio<1() .. flag. recogni/e that act as a victory for 8tl_ Party mayor Feinstein's official dis­ them. 'Dixie Dianne' Feinstein flew ley is a leader of the Spartacist League play of racism was a testament to the that flag to proclaim the same message and a founder of the Labor Black Spartacist League/Spartacus Youth Reagan and the Dixiecrats want to League for Social Defense. Berkeley campus during the week-long League's 20-year commitment to the deliver: The South will rise again.' It's Diana Coleman, 38, is a long­ commemoration of the 20th anniver­ open season on blacks and unions .... fight for revolutionary integration and We smashed that svmbol. we burnt time union militant and now a mem­ sary of the "Free Speech Movement" united working-class struggle. Now that flag. and we sa~:: Finish the Civil ber of the National Association of (see pages 6-10). as Bradley, and co-candidate Diana War! For Workers Re\olution'" Letter Carriers. Diana spoke of her After Bradley had twice cut down Coleman, campaign as socialists for Bradley, 34, grew up in South experiences in the civil rights, anti­ the slavery flag and then put up a San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Carolina where he participated in Vietnam War and women's mO\e­ historic Union flag on the flagpole, the they find receptivity among groups as demonstrations to desegregate public ments when she campaigned at the COl1fiIlIlCc/ Oil Iwge I I