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• • Honor the Kent Martyrs ----•n• memor1am-------------------• Allison Krause Jeffrey Glenn Miller Sandra Lee Scheuer William K. Schroeder 19-year-old freshman from Pitts­ 20, of Plainview, N.Y. A.ntiwar ac­ 20-year-old speech-therapy major 19-year-old sophomore of Lorain, burgh, Pa. tivist at Mich. State University be­ of Youngstown, Ohio. Ohio. Psychology major attending fore transferring to Kent. Kent on ROTC scholarship. Honor the Kent martyrs - build giant antiwar demonstrations Memorial Day - see page 12 - By MIKE YORK and FRED KIRSCH ing is untrue. It was a one-sided shootout. erty bell and said, "It's time to strike. It's time Special to The Militant We were caught with hundreds of other to strike." (The authors are both students at Kent students near a parking lot when suddenly An Army jeep pulled up. There were four State University. Mike York, 28, is a vet­ a line of Guardsmen turned toward us, knelt men, three Guardsmen and one state trooper eran, working on a federal grant studying down, aimed-almost as if by an order. in it. The trooper had a bullhorn. He said, transportation. He is married and a staff Briefty, the events leading up to the blood­ "Please leave the area. Please leave the area. assistant. Fred Kirsch, 22, is a junior in shed were this: This is an illegal gathering. Leave, before psychology.) On Friday noon, May 1, there was a rally someone is hurt." ' KENT, Ohio, May 5 -Four students were of about 2,000 to bury a copy of the Con­ murdered at Kent State University yesterday, stitution. It was in response to Nixon's speech A few students -no more than a handful­ and several wounded when National Guards­ escalating the war. A serviceman with a silver were heaving rocks. Thousands of students men opened fire without warning. star and a bronze star burned his discharge were in the area. It was cold-blooded murder. We narrowly papers. Later the Black United Students held A group of Guardsmen approached. Before missed getting killed ourselves. a rally. we knew it, we saw tear gas cannisters in The students had been protesting President That evening the Guard was brought in. the midst of us. People started running. Nixon's escalation of the war into Cambodia Saturday night a crowd of several thousand "Walk, walk," people shouted. The students and the bombing of North Vietnam. burned down the ROTC building. When ROTC walked. It was an orderly retreat. The day of the massacre there had been burned, the Guardsmen had orders to shoot an impromptu call for a student strike at anyone who cut firehoses. Several truckloads of Guardsmen pulled up, Kent. On Monday, May 4, we both went down got out, formed a single line, fixed their bay­ The statement from the National Guard to the Commons, an open field, at noon. onets, put on tear gas masks and started that they started shooting in response to snip- Someone climbed up on the base of a lib- (Continued on page 12) Student holds head in anguish as she views body of one of slain Kent State Four Page 2 THE MILITANT Friday, May 15, 1970 THE Palestinian prof speaks in Tallahassee MILITANT Editor: HARRY RING Managing Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS Business Manager: FLAX HERMES Published weekly by Til£ Militant Publishing Ass'n, 873 Broadway, New York, N. Y.10003. Exposes undemocratic nize to fight their oppression. It is Phone 533-6414. Second-class postage paid an absolute necessity for women to at New York, N.Y. Subscription: domestic, nature of Zionist regime have their own organizations since $4 a year ($5 a year with wrapper); foreign, Lalllrslrolll $5.50. By first class mail: domestic and Can­ no oppressed group can depend upon ada $13.50, all other countries, $20.00. Air Tallahassee, Fla. other sections of society to fight its printed matter: domestic and Canada, $20.00; On April 25, the Young Socialist struggle for it. It is, therefore, vital Latin America and Europe, $40.00; Africa, ou:r: readers for women to take the first step to­ Australia, Asia (including USSR), $50.00. Alliance sponsored a talk here on "The Write for sealed air postage rates. Signed Palestinian Liberation Struggle." The wards overcoming their oppression by articles by contributors do not necessarily speaker was Dr. Muhammad Hallaj, ~s •...••..•. e()l\l)llll··· .••. !~·.iari······•·~·~···• for~ self-organization. The next step is to represent The Militant's views. These are ex­ a Palestinian and member of the Jack­ f<:JJ:·······a•l·.•·'\tj(l\\l})olnts••·•.·•· .• on· sn:pJ~ ot find a strategy for fighting male chau­ pressed in editorials. sonville University faculty. ~~~~ral iJ:l~~~t••··•·l~ <<J~ ~et't!: ... vinism and a program for women's Dr. Hallaj outlined the history of Pl~~···k~>'oW·lette.:~.l)fiet'· ~~e liberation. Volume 34 Number 18 Zionism to an audience of 100 peo­ n~ss.~····••/th~ ~})ridged. Central to the strategy that we as ple. He focused on Zionism as the socialists urge the women's liberation ~l'iw.r~~\~~ti~s ... ·..· .. ······ ...· ............. ···· .· ..... ··· .. ~rnes movement to adopt is an orientation direct cause of the need for the Pales­ ~i9-IJ '\Vitltlie19 unl~s··.t~utP.or~ation Friday, May 15, 1970 tinian liberation struggle and empha­ is·Siven. for ~e- towards working class women, because sized that religious or racial enmity the working class, due to its strategic had no part in this struggle. "A po­ position in the economy is the only litical solution must be reached which class that has the power to make any table" firm would not have to give real changes. And because the special creates a Palestine in which all peo­ Closing news date-May 5, ples live freely and without fear of so much as a second thought before oppression of women is maintained persecution or harassment." agreeing to print "such filth." by a society based upon exploitation Dr. Hallaj pointed out the undemo­ Rick Feinberg of labor power, women must fight cratic nature of the Zionist govern­ en's liberation demands- implies a m~nt even toward elements of the Jew­ lack of understanding of the radical­ ish population, citing the banning of izing logic of the antiwar and inde­ the Arab-language Matzpen, the pub­ I WoN Ol::IZS.O J..toW pendent women's struggles in them­ lication of the Israeli Socialist Orga­ .I selves. It means treating those move­ NIXOrJ WAG 6::>1 NG NoW nization. Wdl'JDSF! ments as if they were competing with After his talk, Dr. Hallaj talked with -ro SNI? 11-1&. WA~- WHY:t the socialist movement, taking people students who are organizing an Arab / away from it, rather than seeing such Students Association at Florida State WoND~!ZE:O- struggles as complementary to the so­ u. cialist struggle and leading in the same F.L. direction - toward the socialist rev­ ' olution. [Joann Friedman's letter is still un­ Best possible news service clear as to IS's position on nonso­ cialist women's groups. We think this is an important point because, unfor­ Houston, Texas - .. --.-· tunately, most women who become After careful review of a number of interested in women's liberation are newspapers, we have reached the con­ that exploitation if they are to win not as yet socialists. It is necessary clusion that your newspaper provides An exchange on women's their struggle against oppression. to build organizations in which they the best possible news and informa­ We bring our socialist politics to also can become active, for it is only tion service to our local community. liberation the women's liberation movement and through the experience of struggle that We would like very much to see The urge the movement to become explicit­ they will be won over to a socialist Militant distributed to as many broth­ New York, N.Y. ly socialist because we view workers' perspective. ers and sisters as possible within the This letter is written in response to (both men and women) control of the [If the position of the ISers at the Black community of Houston. an article in the April 3 issue of The means of production as a prerequisite conference was not reflective of the J.J. s. Militant which states, "Organizations like the Worker-Student Alliance(WSA) for the liberation of all oppressed IS, or if IS has changed or clarified and the International Socialists (IS) groups in society. its position since then, we are glad to Wm. Buckley forgets seem to view independent women's or­ The fight for women's liberation is hear it. We look forward to working ganizations as competitors." This is an integral part of the struggle for with IS in helping to build a powerful profit motive just another example of the low-level, socialism. Women must build orga­ independent women's liberation move­ Chicago, Ill. slanderous journalism that The Mili­ nizations now to destroy the ideology ment. -Mary-Alice Waters] In the April 14 Chicago Daily News, tant has sunk to in recent weeks. surrounding women's oppression; so William Buckley cries plaintively about The IS has taken a position and that they can play an active role in the publication of Jerry Rubin's book, agitated for the independent organiza­ a revolutionary transformation of so­ YSA enters elections at U Do It! Not that he advocates censor­ tion of women since the inception of ciety and thus assure that women's ship (we all know Buckley would nev­ the women's liberation movement. In liberation becomes a reality when the of Wisconsin-Milwaukee er do a thing like that), but that a our "program in brief' which accom­ material basis for that oppression is "reputable" firm like Simon and Schus­ panies all our publications, we state, eliminated.
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