f KEEP LEFT CONFAB: Can Kennedy Defeat The Cubans? — Page 4 BLP Youth Vow to YOUNG SOCIALIST ht Right Wing's Ten Cents Voice of America's Future Expulsion Moves Vol. 4, No. 4 January, 1961 by Our British Correspondent "We do not recognize Gaitskell as leader of the Labour Party—we only recognize as leaders those who carry out con- ference decisions," said Dennis Gilligan, member of Barking Young- Socialists, at the opening of Keep Left's national con- ference. Applause echoed 'round the hall. Nearly 200 dele- gates from 47 Young Socialist branches and several Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament branches gathered in Manchester to hammer out plans to implement the Scar- borough decision and to build a strong socialist youth move- ment in Britain. 'Stop publishing this paper' is® the directive issued by British strategy," stated Dennis Gilligan Labour leaders to Hendon and at the conference. Wembley Young Socialist branch- He went on, "Keep Left has al- es—the joint publishers of Keep ways supported young people in Left. Following the defeat of their industrial disputes but we also nuclear weapon policies at the think it necessary to bring politics Scarbrough annual Labor Party into industrial struggles and show conference, the Right Wing lead- that the fight can only really be ers have now decided to open fire won when industry is nationalized on that section of the Party which and out o'f the hands of 'prol.it most militantly campaigned seekers'. The fight against the against the H-bomb. The National bomb and the fight for better Executive Committee decided at conditions are one and the same its November meeting that Keep fight to weaken employers and Left—the rank and file Labour eventually put them out of busi- youth paper—must cease publica- ness by taking over industry. The tion. decisions reached at Scarborough both on the H-bomb and on The paper,is well known for its FAIR PLAY PICKETS: Several hundred friends and members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in Left Wing views. During its ten Clause 4 can be the means to- wards recruiting thousands of New York staged a picket line at the United Nations building last month protesting U.S. foreign years of existence it has led many policy in Cuba. The enthusiastic demonstrators were anxious to show that some Yankees defend Cuba, campaigns against the Party lead- young people into the Party. ers on behalf of the youth. It has There is one thing holding us campaigned against conscription back—the right wing who would YSA RUNS PICKET: for democracy in the Labor youth rather split the Party than fight organization, against witchhunts the Tories." of Left Wingers, for the with- To this conference came greet- Boston Protests Venezuelan Tyranny drawal of troops f row the colonies" ings from the Maltese Labor I and has given support to young youth, the Canadian Young So- by Steve Levine to the people who had brought it ises and 'organized the movement trade unionists in industrial strug- cialist Alliance, the American into power in 1958. When the dic- of the Revolutionary Left as their -' Young Socialist, and the Japanese BOSTON—In a demonstration gles. of sympathy and support for the tatorship of Perez Jiminez was political vehicle. Demonstrations Socialist Students League (Left overthrown in that year by work- and street fighting broke out in 'KEEP LEFT' IN FRONT Opposition). They were read by embattled students of Caracas, Recently it has opposed at- the Boston branch of the YSA ers, peasant and student forces, Caracas and Betancourt summon- Elizabeth Thompson from the the people were looking forward ed the army, equipped with tempts by Hugh Gaitskell to re- Chair. called for the end of American move Clause 4, the nationaliza- military aid to the Venezuelan to a change in their conditions. American weapons. The students tion clause, from the constitution ROOTS OF STRUGGLE government headed by Betan- were forced to surrender after A member of North Kensington All the parties contesting the several of them had been killed. It has been in the front of the court. YSA members, their friends, election ran under the necessary campaign to stop the manufac- Young Socialists, Mark Jenkins, and other sympathizers number- The YSA announced its solidar- took up the question of interna- cover of socialist names. Betan- ity with the students and its sup- ture of the H-bomb by Britain ing about 20, marched in the busy court promised a program of land and fully supports the policies tionalism. He explained that the Harvard Square section of Cam- port for the Movement of the struggle in the Party was not just reform, of industrial development, Revolutionary Left. Much of the adopted at Scarborough to close bridge in December. and a reexamination of Venezue- rocket bases, cease manufacture a case of Gaitskell versus Cous- Later a street meeting was or- | crowd which gathered was sym- ins, but one which had its roots la's pro-U.S. foreign policy. Now, pathetic to the cause of the Vene- of nuclear weapons and to with- ganized and more than a hundred two years later. Little has changed draw from NATO. in the international situation as people gathered to hear speeches zuelans. The Boston YSA, whose The real reason for the attack expressed in Japan, Africa, an in Venezuela. United States own- members have played an active attacking the present Venezuelan ed oil companies still exploit the on Keep Left is its growing in- Korea. "The fight for peace Is regime. In line with the YSA's part in the Fair Play for Cuba the fight for socialism," he said rich wealth of the country in al- fluence amongst Labor youth. The policy of free speech, time was liance with the government, while committees, believes that only by national conference which the pa- and that is why the Tories were given to a member of the audi- such revolutionary measures as so disturbed about the situation the masses of the population live per held recently scared the of- ence, a Venezuelan student, who in conditions of poverty and dis- have occurred in Cuban can the ficials at Transport House, Labor's in the Labor Party. "They look peoples of Latin America free disagreed" with the YSA position, ease. H. Q. "The H-bomb decision was upon Gaitskell as a sort of lion to state his views. I themselves from U.S. imperial- an historic one because the Labor tamer—keeping the workers in In a handbill distributed to in- Not satisfied with a govern- ism. Observers of the demonstra- Party drew a line between the in- their place—who had suddenly terested passers-by, and in the ment which promised everything | tion commented that it has been terests of the working' class and discovered that the workers were impromptu speeches, YSA speak- and delivered nothing, Venezue- ' a long time since anyone has those of capitalism by once and not so tame after all." ers charged that the Betancourt lan students and workers called I marched through Cambridge and for all breaking with Tory defense (Continued on Page 3) regime had betrayed its promises for the fulfillment of all prom- called for socialism. 'WE HEAR YOU' CUBA: Mills Tells U. S. About Cuba's 'Great Moment of Truth' by Alice Pelkey " own strength. Within two years, ly free ..." (The writer just returned from a one-month stay in Cuba.) the Cuban people have leaped CUBAN POLITICS (Listen, Yankee, by C. Wright Mills, published by Ballantine Books; 192 pages, 50c.) from an almost animal existence Perhaps one of the most dif- C. Wright Mills spent a month in Cuba traveling and intervewing Rebel soldiers, intellectuals to what will prove to be a new ficult subjects for North Amer- and officials. He has written Listen, Yankee in the form of 8 letters to the American people ex- Renaissance. icans that Listen, Yankee deals pressing what the Cuban Revolutionaries would like to say. Prom this point of view, Prof- with is the question of Cuban pol- "The revolution in Cuba is a essor Mills' section on "Culture tical and economic program, dis- great moment of truth." Mills has ism don't show up yet inside the tion," is due to the "superior" in Cuba" is in many ways the cussed in letters 4 and 6, difficult captured this moment of truth be- United States. They show up capitalist system. Mills' Cuban most exiciting in the book. His because the Cubans do not have cause the truth is not about Cuba, down here, and you're not down presents a new image—in which Cuban says, "We are going to what is thought of as a "political it is a "great moment of truth" here. Down here is where it's the "American way of life" rests gather up all the young children program." They follow no poli- about the United States. After brutal — just as all imperialism on the tyrannical rule of men like from the impoverished and illite- tical ideology. As they say, "you the insurrection succeeded, and is brutal out on its own frontiers: Batista. And that is the "great rate corners of Cuba—all that name it what you wish. We're too the mask was ripped away, it was it can afford to be gentle and nice moment of truth," for the Amer- hitherto wasted talent — and busy building it." So their political not a corrupt Cuba that was re- in its home base, at least for a ican people. with them we're going to estab- and economic education is being vealed, but rather the United Sta- while." There is also a great moment lish in Cuba an intellectual and a developed with every new co- tes—all over the world—wallow- SHOCKS AMERICA of truth for the world. It is the cultural life of the sort most peo- operative and hospital. Still one ing in blood and exploitation that This is why "Listen, Yankee" truth of people. It is that Man, ple the world have ceased even can't help note the similarity be- was revealed. —like the Cuban Revolution itself no matter how suppressed, cajs to dream of ... We want an ab- tween the Cuban solution and the "Perhaps the reason you, —is so highly insulting and shock- make what Mills terms "the Big solutely free manifestation of th^ j Socialist solution. Yankee, don't know about it—and I ing to Americans. It destroys the Connection," the connection be- human spirit . . . and the only If the economic problems of we do—is because the big sharp ! American illusion that our coin- tween daydreams, fantasy, hope way to do that is to open up a I nations are similar, as most rough edges of Yankee imperial- i fort, our high degree of "civiliza- —and reality, just by realizing his true world forum that is absolute- ^ Continued on Page 4) Page 2 YOUNG SOCIALIST January, 1961 *NEW ORLEANS STORY:' Young Socialist Martha Curti, Editor Nora Roberts, Acting Editor ntegrati&n Sherry Finer, Business Manager by Carol Lawrence members of an organization order was issued last May to go Barbara Doritty, Circulation Manager "Token integration," as begun tailed "Save Our Schools," had into effect in the fall terra. The "A World to Win!" in New Orleans on November 14, been driving' children to school. parents of 133 Negro children ap- They began to receive threatening piled for entry of their children SUBSCRIPTION PRICE :$1.(W a year, $.50 for six months. Bundle rates: $7.09 tat has given the world a token of first 100 copies. $500 for each additional 100. The YOUWG SOCIALIST is published what the United States really letters, phone calls at all hours to neighborhood all-white schools. monthly. P.O. Box 471, Cooper sta., N.Y. 3, N.Y. Phone GK 5-9441. Opinions expressed However, under the Louisiana in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the YOUNG SOCIALIST, mea-ns by democracy. The admis- of the night, and rocks crashed which are expressed in editorial statements. through their windows. Two fa- pupil placement law, only four sion of four six-year-old- Negro Official organ of the Young Socialist Alliance girls to two formerly white thers, one Negro and one white, of these children were admitted schools has been the occasion for lost their jobs. At least two others to these schools. violent racist agitation, threats were warned that they would be When it became known that Vol. 4, No. 4 (34) January, 1961 and demonstrations, culminating fired' unless they took their chil- despite orders from the State in a boycott of the two schools by dren out of school. The attend- Legislature, the school board all but a few white students. ance of w*hite childfrcn fell to planned to go ahead even with eight by the end of the week. only this token integration, a leg- Horizons During the first week of "inte- The Negro father who lost his islative committee flanked by A new youth paper, New Horizons for Youth announces a "na- gration,'' racist crowds swelled to armed troopers, marched into the job had worked for a gas station. tional conference of progressive youth who will meet to 'establish a as many as 1,500 people—most of The manager had received threats school board office and deposed them mothers and teenagers. The that his establishment would be the elected school board members committee to organize a national, socialist-oriented youth organiza- mob greeted the four Negro and bombed unless the father was and the superintendent of schools. tion.' " The group is organizing ostensibly to "help advance the two white girls as they entered fired. A city water meter reader, Federal courts upheld the legality democratic, labor and socialist traditions of the American people." school with the cry "Nigger go James Gabrielle, who defied the of the board. The segregationists home!" and banners stating white boycott lost his job. The resorted to other means. In the midst of the current campaign by both the Republicans "Glory Segregation," and shout- Gabrielles kept their daughter ECONOMIC MEASURES and the Democrats headed by President-elect John F. Kennedy to ed, "two, four, six, eight; we don't out one day since "integration" crush by force, if posible, the revolution of the Cuban people to es- want to integrate." The white cit- State aid for education has began. Mrs. Gabrielle debated been withheld. This has forced tablish their own control over their lives and remove U.S. and izens then marched on City Hall. with herself all that night. The police dispersed the crowds, the Board of Education into a Cuban capitalism, young people orienting toward socialism could foa but riot, before a young Negro boy 'WHO AM I?' financial crisis. Meanwhile, the a welcome sign. State has been petitioning the was mauled. Sydney Goldfinch, a "I think I lost ten years of my leader in the recent sit-in dem- life the night I made that final Federal Courts for a temporary At this time, when the students in the South have been so onstrations and a student at Tu- stay of the integration order, with militantly struggling— a struggle against both the Democrats and decision," Mrs. Gabrielle said to no success. lane, went to observe crowds in reporters. "I pulled Yolande out Republicans; and now when the young workers as well as the labor- front of the schools. He was re- On the other hand, 31 white the second Monday I was so citizens have petitioned the court movement as a whole is faced with attacks on the very existence of membered, and with cries of "Jaw scared. Who am I to fight the the unions as repdesented by the Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin Act, bastard nigger lover," the mob whole state of Louisiana and the for a p e r m a n e n t injunction went for him. He is the son of a Governor, I asked myself. But against state interference in in- more young people calling for a clear break with the capitalist parties Protestant minister. tegration. The local NAACP plans would be a welcome sign. that night my conscience tore at to begin court action for a real NEIGHBORS ACCOMMODATE me. Are you going to give in to a implementation of the Federal NO BREAK WITH CAPITALISTS mob? I knew that if I gave up Court order. By the sixth of December crowds the minister would give up too Unfortunately, neither New Horizons nor its "socialist-oriented" The Montgomery bus boycott youth called for such a break with the Democrats and Republicans had dwindled so that there were and there would be no one at all and the recent sit-in movement, only 25 people in front of the left." Her daughter was back in and for support to the socialist candidates. The "progressive youth" by demonstrating the increasing followed very closely the line of the Communist Party's Worker. schools. Twenty-three white chil- Frantz school the next day with militancy of the Negro people dren returned to the William the minister's daughter. The youth paper was saddened by the fact that the Democrats failed have undoubtedly contributed to to nominate Adlai E. Stevenson, whom the paper claimed represent- Frantz School. In the other The struggle for integration in the stiffened attitude of the school, McDonough 19, the white ed to youth (at least to its youth) "a symbol of their desire for re- New Orleans has reflected itself courts, which have refused a stay sponsible leadership for peace." boycott was total, leaving only legally in a contest between the of integration order to the segre- three Negro girls in attendance. state legislature, which has "in- gationists. The rising level of mil- Undaunted, the "progressive youth" gave shame-faced support White children from both schools terposed its sovereign power," and itancy among the Negroes in the to the Democratic party campaign, declaring Kennedy "the lesser.. were accommodated at neighbor- the city school board which is act- South, coupled with -the active of two evils." Even when Kennedy called for open support to the ing al Iwhite schools. ing in its own fashion on a Fed- support of students and the trade counter-revolutionary forces of Cuba, including giving them Amer- Then the more methodical in- eral Court order that integration union movement in the North, ican. arms and military training, New Horizons was unrattled. timidation began. Those break- be started in the first grade of can bring the long arduous legal ing the boycott, which included New Orleans Public Schools. The battle for integration to fruition. At an election symposium sponsored by Student Sane in New York, the paper's editor, Daniel Rubin, called for a struggle and a vote "on the. issues." He added that under no circumstances would he call for support to the Socialist Workers Party candidates, who made defense of and aid to the Cuban Revolution the central point of their platform. Thus, with the Cuban Revolution as the key "issue" by Nora Roberts founded the CP, Carl joined the of the election campaign, New Horizon could give no support to the only party with a program in defense of Cuba, yet it could Carl Skoglund, veteran union struggle of the Trotskyists and was expelled from the CP. cover its tacit support to the saber-rattling Senator from Mass, by and socialist loader, died of a calling him the "lesser of two evils.'' heart attack December 11 at As a truck driver in Minneapo- Washington, N.J., after 76 years lis during the depression, he There are labor and socialist traditions in this country. If the of purposeful life. His life stands played a key role in the drivers' new youth organization wants to advance them, it should first learn as an answer to the cynics, espe- struggle to organize. He was a that these traditions do not include giving tacit support to the candi- cially among the youth of this leader of the 1934 general strike dates of the capitalists. They will not learn these traditions by listen- generation who repeat the lie that which made Minneapolis a union ing to such Communist leaders as Herbert Aptheker and Elmer no workers' leaders can be honest. town, then became president of Benson, who "welcome the launching of New Horizons for Youth." Before coming to this country General Drivers Local 544, which For the CP, these traditions are long forgotten. For the progressive in 1911, Carl had already played took a clear stand in opposition youth whom they welcome, these traditions have never been learned. a role as strike leader among the to the imperialist war drive of Swedish pulp-mill workers. His the Roosevelt administration. 'A HEARTENING POINT' experiences as leader of Swedish In 1941, Roosevelt decided hon- With the election of Kennedy, New Horizons announces what it demonstrations against militar- est unionists with an antiwar feels to be a "heartening point." This, it says in its editorial, "is the ism made him a staunch oppon- program were too dangerous and statement by our President-elect that he is considering the estab- ent of imperialist war. he decided to do something about lishment of a Peace Corps. We not only support this idea, we urge Carl was elected strike commit- it. Carl and 17 other leading Tro- all our readers to activate themselves in behalf of it." tee chairman of the great 1923 tskyists were sent to prison as the railwlay shopmen's strike and was first victims of the Smith Act. Referring to Kennedy's idea in another article, the paper an- blacklisted when the strike was nounces "More than 100 eastern students leaders met with business- Not satisfied with this reprisal, defeated. His activities as a work- CARL SKOGLUND men and experts on emergent Africa, Asia and Latin America . . . er militant brought him into the the government began deporta- in an effort to initiate nationwide support for the peace corps.'1 tion procedures to move Carl back radical movement. He helped 1944 and 1954—because of his so- New Horizons, then is calling on its supporters to join with Kennedy, build the Communist Party after to Sweden. But the Democratic his business colleagues and chosen experts to build a program which administration let him serve out cialist views and class struggle the Russian Revolution in 1917 history. can only be an arm of the State Department to settle the problems and remained one of the leaders his 16-month prison term before of "emergent Africa, Asia and Latin America" to benefit the business- of the CP through the Palmer taking up the deportation matter During the last six year of his men's investments. Kennedy has used the label "peace corps" to cover Raids. in real earnest. life, Carl spent much of his time his attempts to crush the growing colonial revolution short of an When Stalinism began to cor- For nine years following the teaching youth the lessons of his international scandal, and New Horizons becomes his most vocifer- rode and finally betray the revo- end of his prison term, the Skog- struggles in the working class. ous supporter. lutionary principles which had lund Defense Committee carried One link in the direct relation be- on a running fight with govern- Nowhere has the paper called on its "socialist-oriented" readers tween the youth of today and the "to activate themselves in behalf of "the Cuban Revolution by ment authorities to keep Carl out rich struggles of the youth of pre- LIKE THIS ISSUE? of jail. joining and supporting the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. When vious years has been broken with Kennedy calls for youth to help businessmen peacefully exploit the Get some extras to give to your Carl was already suffering from the death of this teacher and be- peoples of the colonial countries, New Horizons is quick to respond. friends. a heart ailment when in the loved comrade. That tie between When the Cuban Revolution desperately needs the support of Amer- height of the McCarthy era in young socialists fighting for a Special bundle rate: for this ican youth to mobilize in defense of their revolution in opposition 1954 he was put on Ellis Island for better world and those who laid to the criminal policies of Kennedy, New Horizons is silent. issue only: deportation. A court order got the foundations for that fight will 20 copies—Sl.OO him off the ship for Sweden with- have to be forged all the more If these "progressive youth" organizing themselves in Chicago in- in 10 minutes of sailing time. strongly. Young revolutionists can tend to be serious about their orientation towards socialism, we 100 copies—$5.00 The Government made it clear forge that link with a close study hope they will break with the politics of the Democrats and Repub- *5c per copy for all orders that it does not appreciate hon- of the lessons which Carl Skog- licans, prepare themselves to support socialist candidates and mobilize over 20. est labor leaders. It locked up lund gave so much of his time to in active defense of the Cuban Revolution by calling on all their Skoglund three times—in 1941, teach. supporters to join the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. January, 1961 YOUNG SOCIALIST Page Toronto YSA Hits School Cadet Training; is Third in Board of Education iaee TORONTO—The slogan, "Give schools phoned in to the YSA j for such a movement exists on ail students a voice in education" campaign headquarters. Some of unofficial basis in a few schools rallied 6,000 voters to the Young them had a iot to say, some were [ a_t present. Socialist Alliance campaign here i This organization, the CSND, to put its candidate, John Darl- very critical of capitalist society, along with the university organi- ing, on the Board of Education. and many agreed that the Cuban zation, are busy with plans to Although the two incumbents in Revolution is doing great things send a motorcade to the Canadian the ward were returned to office for the people of the island and capital in- Ottawa. Cars and dele- should be defended. with ten thousand and 8V2 thou- gations are expected from many sand votes, the socialist platform | The campaign, which was con- i Ontario universities, from Mont- came in with a strong third. The ducted with the Socialist Educa- real and even from the prairies. Communist party, running on a tional League's campaign for The protest at Parliament build- non-socialist, non-commital pro- Mayor and Board of Control in ings will demand that there bs gram, received only 3V2 thousand Toronto, will help the growth of no nuclear arms in Canada and votes. | a high school nuclear disarma- that the country withdraw from The YSA distributed 17,000 ment organization. The nucleus NORAD and NATO. leaflets along with 3,000 special leaflets distributed at ten high schools calling for the abolition of Cadet training in the schools with Trailkiazers in the K&ckies an article on "How to fight in the "KEEP LEFT" CONFAB: British Young- Socialists meet to defend next war." The leaflets showed Scarborough decision. Dennis Gilligan, Elizabeth Thompson and Ken Trail-blazing with the YOUNG the matter into a state-wide scan- that the so-called "extra-curric- dal by suing them for illegal ar- Scarr (from left to right) call for full British nuclear disarmament. SOCIALIST for socialism in the ular" Cadet training is in fact an Rocky Mountain area produced rest. They were then told to leave attempt by Canadian military strange results on the many small the office and finish their busi- brass to use drill and rifle prac- campuses in Utah and Colorado. ness in the town. BLP Youth Fight Right Wing . . . tice in high schools as an ex- The YSA's support of the Socialist The YS salesmen went on to (Continued from Page 1) The instruction issued by the cuse to subject the students to | Workers Party's presidential elec- tour throughout scenic Colorado. v- Delegates from Scottish Young NEC must involve the Right Wing Army authority and their prepa- tion campaign meant an oppor- At Colorado State (Teachers) Col- Socialist branches spoke in op- leadership in a battle with a large ration for a future war. tunity to bring the ideas of social- lege in Greely they sold about 10 position to the establishment of section of the Young Socialists ARMY EDUCATION ism to this otherwise secluded copies of the YS in a few minutes Polaris missile bases in Holy Loch, It must also bring the top-officials area. to a large, very interested student into conflict with the rank and "We suspect the Army brass is Scotland. The conference unani- YS salesmen visited three cam- body. mously passed a resolution pro- file of the adult Party and the interested in showing who's boss," the YSA leaflet declared. "They puses in Utah. At the Uni- At the University of Colorado posed by Roy Caldwell, Chairman Trade Unions since the Right versity of Utah in Salt Lake City of Ayr Young Socialists, which Wing leaders have been openly want to get the students used to in Boulder, YS's sold like hot they sold about 40 papers in 15 and publicly campaigning up and taking orders, used to instant cakes and in the middle of a demanded that the Scottish Trade minutes. A few minutes later, one Union Congress organize demon- down the country against official obedience to an Army command, snow storm. Trail-blazers cried, used to the idea that an officer of the salesmen, was asked to "Support the Cuban Revolution strations of protest at the Polaris Labor policy. leave by a dignified-looking Keep Left is launching a cam- is a .small god and you don't an- —Read the YOUNG SOCIALIST." missile bases and investigate the gentleman who identified himself possibility of direct industrial ac- paign in defense of the paper and swer back." as a vice-president of the univer- YPSL WON'T DEBATE tion. the Scarborough decision. It is "Students want to know ex- sity. Many delegates took part in the calling meetings all over the actly how the soldier fights the The YSAers then sent the fol- discussion which lasted for six country of Young Socialists missiles and H-bombs of future The young socialists then went lowing press release on a sched- to the office of the student news- hours. When Dennis Gilligan branches. wars. There seems to be one logi- uled YPSL debate to the CU cam- paper to describe their encounter wound up the debate he referred HENDON JOINS FIGHT cal way. Fight the button-push- pus paper, .The Colorado Daily. ers, the "brinkmanship" diplo- with the official and request some to the anti-Polaris campaign and The reaction of the Hendon " . . . The Denver Young Socialist stressed the dangers of it becom- mats, the "pre-emptive" war ex- support for the right of students Alliance challenged the CU branch Young Socialists branch to the perts, and this is fighting the war. to hear a new point of view. ing an anti-American campaign. Right Wing's instruction is an in- of Young People's Socialist Lea- Fighting this war is fighting for MORMON CURIOSITY gue to a debate, but has, as yet, 'U.S. WORKERS OUR ALLIES' dication of the response that can peace. "Our quarrel was not with be expected from Labor's rank received no answer. This debate, "And brother, it is going to be At Brigham Young University which it was hoped would take America—it was with the rulers and file. a fight. It will mean establishing in Provo, Utah, the salesmen met of America," ho said. "We must They decided to continue to place before the elections, would a different kind of society, one with a tremendous amount of stu- have discussed the course which distinguish between these rulers publish the paper and passed un- without professional soldiers. The dent curiosity from a conserv- and the American working class animously the following resolu- socialists should follow during an way to start fighting the brass iv> ative, but strangely friendly election campaign. w"ho, alongside workers in coun- tion: "The Hendon Young So- demanding that the Toronto campus. Students gathered tries all over the world, are our cialists believe that the real rea- schools end Cadet training." around the YS salesmen, and ask- "Believing that socialists should allies in fighting nuclear war." son why the Right Wing of Trans- Calling for "a student-labor ed a great many questions about not.support capitalist parties, the "Action by international labor," port House is opposed to Keep program in Toronto schools," the their view of the Cuban Revolu- YSA supported the Presidential he said, "is the way to fight w'-tr, Left is because the paper is the leaflet demanded free university tion and about the socialist move- and Vice-Presidential candidates and riot summit talks between proud supporter of the Scarbo- education by making universities ment. of the Socialist Workers Party, statesmen." rough conference decisions. controlled and financed publicly, Soon the campus security police Farreli Dobbs and Myra Tanner At this conferrnce many pro- "The first number of the youth more student self-government, were called and asked the social- Weiss. The YPSL, on the other - posals were put forward" and paper New Advance, issued by and free textbooks in high schools ists to leave. The YSA'ers started hand, followed the lead of the agreed upon regsrrimg the ex- Transport House, contains not a and universities. an impromptu street meeting on Socialist Party-Social Democratic pansion of Keep Left. It was single word in support of the Scar- STUDENTS PHONE IN civil liberties on the campus. Federation, which ran no candi- agreed to send messages of suv>- borough decisions. The people who Students from a number of Eventually the cop said the papers dates itself, refused to support the port to prominent defenders of are not accepting the principles campaign of other socialist par- the Scarborough decision such as and the constitution of the party could be sold on campus and paid 10 cents for a copy of the YS for ties, and gave tacit, if not open, Michael Foot, Konni Zilliacus are the right wing on the NEC Three Pamphlets of support to the Democratic Party. and Sydney Silverman. who support the policy of Gait- Interest: himself. "Although the elections are now The conference greatly strength- skell. We believe, therefore, that | 'STATE-WIDE SCANDAL' ened the support for Keep Left the letter of A. L. Williams is not THE FIGHT AGAINST over, the YSA is still willing to among Labor youth. The National in accordance with the decisions WAR Because of YS sales at Carbon go ahead with a debate,, as orig- Junior College in Price, Utah, the inally suggested between Dr. Executive Committee has instruct- of the Scarborough conference By Shane Mage ed the Hendon and Wembley but an action taken as part of the YSA'ers were arrested While put- Alex Garber of the Socialist Par- Young Socialist branches to cease conspiracy to witchhunt Left 20c postpaid ting out literature house-to-house ty-Social Democratic Federation, publishing the paper. Support for Wingers who defend these deci- in the town. They were taken be- a member of the CU Faculty, and the paper, however, is growing sions. fore the chief of police, the sheriff, Tom Leonard, Colorado Campaign every day. As a result of the Man- "This branch calls upon all and other assorted dignitaries. Director for the Socialist Workers chester conference, many more Young Socialists to express their HISTORY The trail-blazers, however, gave Party. But from YPSL, and Dr. Young Socialist branches have rejection of the attack on Keep of the them no opportunity to open Garber, has been heard never a now added their names as pub- Left and to rally to the paper's INTERATIONAL their mouths, but instead gave mumbling word. How about it, lishers of the paper. support." SOCIALIST YOUTH them a lengthy lecture on civil YPSL? Or are you afraid to meet liberties and threatened to turn the YSA?" MOVEMENT in next month's YS: 50c postpaid WHERE TO FIND THE YSA Report from Havana BALTIMORE: c/o A. Robert MILWAUKEE: c/o Myrtle Kaufman, 2730 Reistertown Kastner, 3460 N. 16th St. REVOLT ON THE A YS editor gets the inside story on Havana Univer- Rd. LA 3-3703. NEW YORK CITY: 10 E. 23 St. CAMPUS sity as scores of American students see revolutionary Cuba with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee tour. 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Box 471, Cooper Sta., N.Y.C. 3 Page YOUNG SOCIALIST January, 1961 'CUBA'S FATEFUL CHOICE:' Can Castro Defeat a Kennedy-Khrushchev Combo? by Shane Mage such a naked war of colonial re- far the effects of the economic and Cuban. But the Stalinists are Will Cuba be America's Algeria? Will American youth be conquest? aggression have been blocked be- fiercely opposed to "Permanent sent to die in a bloody effort to destroy the Cuban Revolu- This, of course, is what is real- cause the countries of the Soviet Revolution." They maintained that tion? Such a possibility is almost too gruesome to contem- ly basic in U.S. policy toward bloc have agreed to barter oil, the Cuban revolution should have plate—yet every week some event occurs which seems to Cuba. Why did the attitude of the machinery and other essential been a capitalist revolution. And make a U.S. invasion of Cuba more likely, more imminent U.S. government and the media commodities in return for the Cu- now, as a recent N. Y. Times of mass brainwashing switch so ban sugar that the U.S. refusesarticle admitted are trying to hold than ever. «'•">"* quickly and completely from fav- to accept. And, if they continue back the revolutionaries, to keep The military and political p orable toleration of hysterical to do so, the U.S. embargo can be the revolution from becoming a parations for the invasion of Cuba Cuba; deploys the U.S. fleet ferocity, when Castro committed defeated. fully socialist one. have not been kept very secret. around Cuba; lands 1,500 marines the "unforgivable sin" laying Soviet aid, unfortunately, is not In fact, it is hard to find an his- for "shore leave" at the Guanta- rough hands on the United Fruit a disinterested act, motivated by So in addition to the threat of torical parallel for the open pre- namo Bay naval base; and most Co. et al? The nominal dollar loss revolutionary solidarity—it de- invasion, the Cuban revolution paration of an international crime recently and most ominously, de- suffered by U.S. capitalists was pends on the needs and interests now faces a new and grave now taking place. Cuban counter- clares Cuba to a "Communist- sizable in absolute terms, but re- of the ruling bureaucratic caste danger: that the Soviet Union will revolutionaries in Florida give controlled" country, a formulation lative to their total assets was in the Soviet Union. For the use its economic and political newspaper interview boasting of virtually identical to the "under insignificant, particularly since Kremlin the main political goal power to force revolutionary Cu- their armaments, training centers, the domination of international U.S. taxpayers can be made to is not the success of the Latin ba to yield to U.S. imperialism. It invasion plans. Communism" which would be is probable that Kennedy will be- cough up at least 52% of the loss American revolution, it is "Peace- gin his administration with a The U.S. president-elect, Mr. used io give OAS cover to U. S. (and don't be surprised if some ful Co-Existence with the West." military aggression. "conciliatory" approach to Cuba: John F. Kennedy, who in his cam- tax lawyers figure out a way to Today Khrushchev is preparing an offer to reestablish the sugar paign stated that "The forces But the question remains: are actually make money on the for a new summit conference with quota arid rescind the embargo if that are struggling for freedom i;i these threats meant seriously, or deal). Kennedy. Who can doubt that ar> Cuba agrees to return national- exile and in the mountains of do they represent a gigantic bluff? But the effect on U.S. invest- such a conference Cuba would br> ized U.S. property, pay compen- Cuba must be supplied and assist- No doubt the guns and the planes ments in the rest of their Latin one of the main points on the sation on U.S. terms for land ed," gives a vote of confidence to are real, and the Batista gang- American colonial preserve is the agenda? taken over in the agrarian reform, Allen Dulles, head of the CIA, tho sters who make up the core of the crucial point. Such investments The U.S. press has been filled and stop revolutionary propa- organization in charge of the dir- counter-revolution have already outside Cuba, total some $8 bil- with nonsense about the "Com- ganda in the rest of Latin Amer- ty details of this "supplying and shown what they could do. The lion; and what is more, essential munist" nature of the Cuban ica. assisting." Mr. Dulles already has raw materials are supplied by La- revolutionary movement; in fact U.S. would not hesitate a moment A FATEFUL CHOICE on his record the overthrow of to repeat the Guatemala opera- tin America. If Cuba can today this view turns reality inside out. the Guatemalan government in tion—if it could again get away with impunity seize U.S. proper- Prof. C. Wright Mills in his book Such a "compromise" woifld re- 1954. with it. But there's the rub: the ty, what tomorrow, will stop the "Listen Yankee" describes the turn the Cuban revolution to IKE'S LAST ACTS Cuban people are well armed, and rest of Latin America from doing reality as seen from Cuba: ". . . we within capitalist limits, and quick- Meanwhile the Eisenhower ad- ready to fight to defend their the same? Cuban revolutionaries of the 26th ly lead to its collapse. But as part revolution. They could be defeat- of July movement are much more of an over-all deal with Kennedy ministration, acting in consulta- IMPERIALISM'S PROBLEM advanced than the Communist tion with the president-elect, "ad- ed only in a major war. In 1961 the Soviet Union is likely to put can U.S. imperialism envisage Thus the problem is posed for party ever was or is today. . . In pressure on Cuba to accept it. The vises" American families to leave U. S. imperialism; the Cuban a real revolution today in Latin Cuban revolution is approaching revolution must be suppressed in America at least, the local Com- a fateful choice: to surrender to order to "save" Latin America for munists are to the right of the U.S. capitalism or in defiance of capitalism—but military interven- revolution. Here in Cuba, certain- the counter-revolutionary efforts tion in Cuba could set off the ly the revolution has outpaced of the State Department and Youth Notes revolutionary explosion that it in- them and does on every front." Kremlin to move forward toward tends to block! And so while CUBA'S TO THE LEFT socialism. AROUND CAMPUS: Over 300 CCNY students protested Gover- maintaining and intensifying the The CPs are "to the right of the The leadership of the Cuban threat of counter-revolution and revolution." This is why Soviet Revolution has so far shown its nor Nelson Rockefeller's proposal that the college change iits histori- invasion, the U.S. has relied prim- economic aid, though indispensa- unwillingness to tie itself to the cal tuition-free status and adopt a $300 a year tuition. The students arily on economic aggression— ble to the Cuban revolution, pres- Kremlin's political antics and to raised.a banner on the campus lawn saying, "Nelson, who do you think abolition of the Cuban sugar ents great political dangers. The conciliate the revolution for the we are, Rockefeller?" . The CCNY chapter of the Pair Play for quota and refusal to sell Amer- decisive fact about the Cuban sake of the CP's "peaceful co- Cuba Committee invited Raul Roa, Jr. to speak. But the Administra- ican goods to Cuba. The hope is revolution is that it is progressing existence" line. The armed Cuban that, squeezed as in a nutcracker uninterruptedly from limited and workers and peasants have shown tion postponed the club's charter so the Debs Club invited Roa. Its between economic embargo and immediate measures like the land themselves ready to fight to the faculty advisor then refused to sign the necessary forms, referring the threat of military attack, the reform and the overthrow of the death to defend their factories, to Roa as an "unwashed ape." The Student Government then agreed Cuban revolutionary government foreign - dominated dictatorship their land and their homes, even to sponsor the meeting, but the Administration dug up a little-used will either capitulate or be over- toward a complete socialist trans- if their leaders were to accept a ruling postponing the meeting. When Roa rmally spoke he drew an thrown from within. Cuba is to formation of Cuban society. It has "deal" with Kennedy. The desires overflow crowd of 250 students . Evander Childs High School be starved into submission! begun a frontal assault on capital- of U.S. capitalism for Cuba can- students in New York published an independent newsletter, Outlook. Can this strategy succeed? Thus ist private property, both Yankee not be easily satiated. When the first issue came out in isupport of the New York City teach- ers strike, the principal threatened the editors with "everything rang- ing from expulsion to burning at the stake." The students went ahead to publish a second issue which opposed the civil defense drills. They Mills' 'Great Moment of Truth' . . . plan to keep on publishing.... The issue of freedom of speech was (Continued from Page 1) immediately. captures the very essence of the raised sharply on the Wayne campus in Detroit when the University economic problems are, it should The great things the Cuban Revolution. The Cubans are was forced to allow Harvey O'Connor to speak on the "Upheaval in not be considered a conspiracy if Revolution has meant and con- not asking us to throw them a Latin America." The administration had denied campus facilities us- a number of nations solve these tinues to mean for the people of bone, they have thrown us one, ually rented to off-campus groups to the Global Books Forum. The problems in the same way. The Cuba are great undeniable facts. and we better take it. "Listen, Forum took the University to court, charging unfair political dis- only thing that should be con- But what the Revolution has ex- Yankee" now you know what the crimination and won its suit. . . The Los Angeles City College sidered, is that there is probably posed about the United States is U.S. Government has been doing Collegian came out with a vicious, McCarthy-like attack on a meet- a great deal of truth in that solu- an even greater fact, a fact that in your name and the name ot" ing held by New Horizons editor, Daniel Rubin. It went on to smear tion. And perhaps this is a very no one in the world can ignore, democracy . . . Will you allow the antl-HUAC demonstrations in San Francisco with the statement, important lesson—that the Cubans and the American people cannot them to go on using you? We are "Veteran Communist agitators organized and led student mobs . . are reaching Socialist conclusions afford to ignore. watching Yankee, all the hungry against an orderly legislative process." "What does the Bill of Rights through reason, through working 'WE AREN'T WAITING' nations are watching. But we are mean to you?" it asked in a subsequent editorial. "Did you ever real- experience, and through a great The reason "Listen, Yankee" is not waiting. ize the importance behind it?"—Did the Los Angeles Collegian ever desire to relieve the economic the most important book about realize its importance?" . The all-white post of the Knoxville, Tenn. pressures on the Cuban people the Cuban Revolution is_that it American Legion is demanding an investigation of the predominately JAY SELDEN Negro Lane College by the House Un-American Activities Committee. It is with a feeling of sor- The Lane College band had included the Russian national anthem in row that we report that Jay its tribute to the "Big Four" nations at a football game. Where We Stand Selden, a student at Columbia * * * The Young Socialist Alliance is founded in response to the University, died on November f need for a nation-wide youth organization capable of bringing 23 in an automobile accident. YSA IN ACTION: Seattle YSA'ers announce a class on dialectical revolutionary socialist ideas to a new generation. This is necessary While Jay had many political materialism, the philosophy of Marxism. It will be led by Clara Kaye, for building a revolutionary movement which can lead the work- differences with us—he was a a prominent local socialist. ... In Chicago, Isadore Warwick will lead ing class to socialism. The YSA bases itself on the traditions of member of YPSL—we worked a discussion group on the Cuban revolution sponsored by the Uni- Marxian socialism as developed by Lenin, Trotsky, Luxembourg and together in many causes. He versity of Chicago's Young Socialist Club meeting in Ida Noyes Hall. Liebknecht. We believe that socialism can be initiated only as the was an active supporter of the The group will read "Listen Yankee," by C. Wright Mills, "The Anat- result of struggle, international in scope, of the working class sit-in movement, and most re- omy of a Revolution," by Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezy and "The against the capitalist class and its allies—the struggle culminating cently a supporter of Dobbs Truth About Cuba," by Joseph Hansen. . . . New York YSA chairman. in the creation of a new type of state, a workers state. Socialism and Weiss. We shall miss him Rose Jersawitz, will teach a class on the "Trotskyist World View." . . . means that for the first time in history man will control his own and his contribution to the Denver University's International Relations Club wanted to hear creation—society—rather than be controlled by it. The dynamic of struggle for socialism. someone speak "In Defense of the Cuba Revolution" so it invited lo- socialism is of a continual expansion of human freedom in all cal YSA chairman Howard Wallace to speak. . . . From Berkeley, Seat- spheres: in politics, economics, culture and in every aspect of tle, San Diego, Oakland and San Francisco, YSA'ers will meet for a personal life. Order your copy now of two-d!ay regional conference in December. . . . On the East coast, DEFENSE OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION YSA'ers from Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, New Jer- As socialists we defend the Cuban Revolution on several LISTEN YANKEE sey and New York will converge on Mountain Spring Camp in New grounds: (a) we uphold the right of self-determination of the —The Revolution in Cuba Jersey in February for a weekend seminar on the development of Cuban people; (b) we support all anti-imperialist struggles as Leninism. . . . The Canadian YSA is publishing its own six-page mim- by C. Wright Mills such struggles tend to weaken our enemy, world capitalism, which Send 50 cents to: eographed supplement to the YS. The first issuea which came out last has its center here in the United States; (c> we support every Young Socialist—Spartacus month, featured a report on the developing socialist youth movement step taken by the Cuban people in the direction of common Book Shop in labor's New Party. The New Pbrty will formally come into exist- ownership of the means of production—in the direction of social- P.O. Box 471, Cooper Station ence in 1961 as a merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federa- ism. tion and the official Canadian labor movement. New York 3, New York