----•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
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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
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By JOSEPH HANSEN shattered or greatly weakened since Why did Nixon do it? the end of World War II. - '''*"" One answer may occur to countless The American ruling class has fol --;,.;:# persons throughout the world - the lowed a two-sided policy toward these • United States now has a psychopath old empires. It has strengthened them in the White House. in their home territory so as to main Leaving aside the question of Nix tain a strong capitalist front against on's mental balance, we must seek to world socialism. At the same time, understand the political and military on a global scale it has reduced them reasons for his decision to escalate to junior partners and has even moved the war from Vietnam into all of Indo against them in the colonial areas, china. seeking to take over their holdings. Nixon is following the same basic An almost perfect example of this policy that led Kennedy to intervene is to be seen in the case of France and in Vietnam in the first place, and that Indochina. Truman and later Eisen led Johnson to widen it into a ma hower backed the French imperialist jor colonial war. armies against the insurgent Vietnam What is this policy? ese in their struggle for national free The gist is to keep the "third world" dom. When the French were defeated safe for investments. These areas are in 1954, the State Department began sources of exceptionally high profits, moving into position for a U. S. take of important raw materials, of cheap over. labor. This was done first by backing the But the peoples of the third world reactionary South Vietnam govern are not content to remain colonial ment. Then came more direct interven tion- military "advisers" under Eisen hower, some 15,000 troops under Ken Help sell the nedy. Having thrown out the old colonial masters, the Vietnamese people were special issue! not inclined to bow to new ones. In face of the stiffening resistance, John Supporters are .pitching ·in to son escalated U.S. intervention on the give maximum distribution to premise that if sufficient military pow this special antiwar-strike and er were brought to bear no people, memorial issue of The Militant. however heroic, could withstand it. war were much greater than antici the time needed to throw out the hold Our press run is 50,000. Lead He escalated the war in 1965 be pated; the opposition was becoming overs of the Johnson administration ing distributors as ofthis writing cause his advisers in the Pentagon and so massive as to threaten social and and bring in a new team. To further are New York, which ordered State Department saw a "golden op political stability inside the United reduce the opposition to the war, 8,000 copies; San Franclsco portunity." States itself. Nixon displayed a "new" image- a Peking and Moscow had become em The result was Johnson's 1968 ab president sage and thoughtful, a pres Berkeley, . 4,000; Chicago, ident in favor of reducing tensions, 3,000; Detroit, 5,000; ·Boston, broiled in a dispute so bitter that it dication and Nixon's campaign for was not likely they would close ranks the presidency on the assurance that of bringing the country together, of 4,000. even if one of their allies, North Viet he had a "plan to end the war." a "low profile" in foreign policy, of nam, were attacked. But Nixon was committed to follow yes- withdrawing troops, but in a slaves. They want control over their The political calculations of John ing the same basic policy. Had he gradual, measured way. own fate. They want to establish a son's advisers proved accurate on this. ended the war in Vietnam and with better economic system and lift their Step by step, Johnson escalated the drawn the Gis as his first major act This worked for a while. As the countries out of abject poverty at the war until half a million U.S. troops in office, this would have dealt that American people began to show im swift rate possible in the modern world. had become involved. basic policy a staggering blow. It patience, and antiwar demonstrations They know it can be done. The ex What Johnsol'l did not foresee was would have signified such a clear-cut mounted, Nixon countered with token amples of the Soviet Union, China, the political side. He failed to cor victory for the valiant Vietnamese peo withdrawals that seemed to imply that Yugoslavia, and above all Cuba have rectly weigh the capacity of the Viet ple that other small countries around he was proceeding along the road of convinced them. namese people to resist. It never oc the world would have taken fresh heart pulling out of Vietnam, even if in a Among the key steps, they now un curred to him that this small nation, in their own struggles to shake off the leisurely way. This gained more time. derstand, are the establishment of na subjected to bombings greater than grip of imperialism. As to his famous "plan to end the tional independence and the expropria those inflicted on Europe in World The nationalizations of U. S. com war," he put off spelling this out as tion of foreign holdings. If this means War II, would still continue to fight. panies that took place in Peru and long as possible. When it could no socialism or communism, they believe Johnson failed to foresee something Bolivia in the past year were indica longer be avoided, he announced that is for them to decide. else: the depth and vigor with which tors of what could be expected to hap "Vietnamization" of the war. This was This new vision is what animates the American people would oppose pen on a much greater scale if Nixon such a palpable fraud as to raise the political struggles of hundreds of the war. were to carry out his campaign prom- fresh doubts about the sincerity of his millions of human beings in the colo An additional political miscalcula is e. campaign promise. Nevertheless, these nial world today. It is what sustains tion was his judgment of the effect To gain time ruses took in not a few people who them in face of the most strenuous and among America's ruling families. As Nixon had no intention of carrying ought to have known better. savage efforts of the imperialist pow the war dragged on, a sector began out his campaign promise. It should Obviously the tactic of bidding for ers to beat them down. to think that Johnson had made a be clear now to everyone what he time could not be used indefinitely. Thus the old empires centered in tactical error. He had got in too deep. sought to do. He tried, first of all, Sooner or later, Nixon had to dis Britain, France, the Netherlands, Bel He had not succeeded in smashing to gain time. close his real aims, which were the gium, and Portugal have either been Vietnamese resistance; the costs of the His first pitch was to wheedle for same as Johnson's; that is, in face of the difficulty of winning an out right victory, to settle for an outcome comparable to the one at the end of the Korean war. Time was running out on Nixon. His tricks and dodges were less and less effective. To make matters worse, it became evident that it was not realistic to count on an outcome like Korea. Nixon may have reached this con clusion some time ago. Possibly that was why last November he withdrew Henry Cabot Lodge and in effect sank the Paris talks on Vietnam. On top of this, impatience with the slowness of withdrawals and opposi tion in the United States to the war began to rise again as shown by var ious signs, including the ever deepen ing radicalization of the youth, and the mid-April demonstrations. Cambodia What precipitated matters was the coup d'etat in Cambodia that ousted Prince Sihanouk. This had all the ear marks of being at least approved by U.S. planes plunge into Cambodia spewing defoliants (Continued on page 10) Page 4 THE MILITANT Friday, May 15, 1970 Chicano youth derail In defense of printers (Ill) Nixon Texas scheme Newspaper union ranks HOUSTON -A plan by the Nixon walkout which left the conference in question the leadership administration to assist Republican shambles. hopefuls in Texas was skillfully de The evening session- also claiming railed April 22 by the Mexican-Amer to be nonpolitical and designed to in By JEAN TUSSEY accept less than they need to main ican Youth Organization (MAYO). volve the Chicano community- was (The following is the third install tain their standard of living? A one day conference had been held in the Emerald Room of ment in a series of articles on the Each working printer paid over called for that day- billed as a "Mex the Shamrock Hilton Hotel in down contract recently accepted by the Cle $500 in union dues last year and didn't ican-American Exchange of Ideas town Houston. Republican senator veland Typographical Union No. 53. object, since he felt it was to maintain Conference" to keep the Nixon admin John Tower was there with a few words The author has been an active so a strong union that would back his istration in "closer liason with the of praise for the banquet's honored cialist and trade unionist for 30 years struggle to improve his wages, job S p a n ish s p e akin g communities guest, Martin G. Castillo, chairman of and a member of the International security and working conditions. Why throughout the nation." Typographical Union for the past 13 is his own money in the ITU strike Proclaiming to be nonpolitical, con years.) fund used as a club over his head ference organizers hoped that in the The recent newspaper contract settle to force him to accept a poor con course of "the exchange of ideas" Chi ment in Cleveland made at least one tract by the threat to withhold strike canos present would exchange their thing clear to the union membership: benefits? votes in the fall election for a few Under present conditions the nation Why is he told by the ITU repre kind words from some Spanish-sur al officers made the decisions- not sentative that "there is no more money named officials of the Nixon admin the working printers- on wages, hours to be had" from his employer with istration. An extremely vigorous at and working conditions. out a "long and costly strike in which tempt had been made by intermedi It was also demonstrated how the we might lose more than we gain"? aries to involve MAYO which would democratic, secret ballot rejection of The younger members particularly provide some left cover plus a few the contract by the newspaper print are rebelling against the conservative Chicano faces for the government ers was overruled: By refusing strike argument that Cleveland printers officials to talk at. sanction (and benefits), then mount should have fought to improve their As the conference opened at the Uni ing a campaign through the local sat conditions ten years or twenty years versity of Houston, it was clear that ellites ofthe political machine controlled ago and can't expect to make up this the "exchange of ideas" would take a by the union's national officers to se time for complacency of the member different form than expected. Partici cure a referendum vote. This makes ship in the past. Why should we be pants were greeted by a strong picket the Presidential Cabinet Committee on it possible to divide the ranks by mo held down by the dead weight of the line manned by over one hundred Opportunity for the Spanish Speak bilizing all of the elements who do not past, they ask? Or for mistakes of the MAYO supporters who filed into the ing. Castillo had flown in from Wash have to work under the contract (pen past? auditorium just as the first session ington, D. C., for the occasion. sioners, job-shop men, foremen and And thinking printers of all ages began. Fifteen minutes after the $7.50-a others paid over union wage scale) are beginning to see that they are Houston attorney Hector Azios al plate banquet began, Yolanda Bird to vote for it, and to demoralize many not alone. The postal workers, the lowed MAYO spokesmen to take the well led seventy MAYO supporters of those who had rejected the contract teamsters, teachers, and others are floor as they outnumbered the rest through a hopelessly outnumbered po in the previous vote. Divide and con fighting to defend their standard of of the assembled group. MAYO lice squad and into the Emerald Room quer. living in spite of the fact that they of the Hilton. Addressing herself to the Who benefits from this kind of settle spokesmen charged that the conference are getting the same arguments from was in no way concerned with prob Spanish surnamed functionaries, she ment? The newspaper publishers, of their national officers. attacked the record of Nixon and pre course-whose rate of profit is pro lems of the Chicano people, that it The Cleveland Press on April 9 car vious administrations and stated, "To tected for another 39 months- but not was held on a weekday so working ried a three-and-a-half inch squib: day is the day we are marking a the printers. They still work longer people could not attend, that it was "Printers okay 39-Month Pact with hours and for a lower hourly rate located at the University of Houston line. We are going to deal with the Press, PD [Plain Dealer]". than printers in other major indus rather than in the Chicano community, enemy be he white, Black or Brown. The same issue ran the first of a Today we are here to tell you-don't trial cities, and without any protec and that attendance at the evening series of three articles by labor writer tion (such as a cost-of-living clause session cost $7.50 which few could ever push us anymore." Norman Mlachak. Under the general The Houston Chrinicle reported, or wage re-opener) against a steady afford. MAYO members charged it was heading "Ranks Are Restless" the three "During the occupation Mrs. Birdwell deterioration of their relative position. designed to aid the election campaign installments were entitled: "Union and her followers dined on tortillas, Now many rank-and-filers are ask of George Bush, Republican senatori Members Challenge Decisions of Their ing why they were frustrated in their al hopeful. Bush had been referring to burritos, and other Mexican food while Leaders"; "Young Union Activists attempt to protect their standard of the conference in campaign speeches conference delegates nervously ate tur Want the Whole Package- NOW"; and as an example of Nixon's concern key." After making clear MAYO's at living. "Labor Says U.S. is Defiant Land." No one can convince the Cleveland for Chicanos. titude toward the conference and the Local printers who read the series newspaper printers that the contract The pitiful record of the Democrats administration it represented, the grasped the general point that they is a good one, or that anyone else and Republicans was laid bare and MAYO supporters exited from the hall. were not alone, that other unions both knows better than they do what is those present were called upon to join Visibly shaken, Nixon's representa here and throughout the country have together to help build an independent tive, Martin G. Castillo, stated to the good for them. problems similar to theirs. But a much Why should they have to work at Chicano party in opposition to the press that similar conferences were to more powerful illustration of that fact a lower hourly rate than New York, Democrats and Republicans. have been "implemented in many sec is the experience of the local teamsters. Following a heated exchange with tions of the country, but that cannot Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, conference organizers, Yolanda Bird happen now because word gets out etc.? Why should they settle for a sec The rank and file of that union, too, well, head of Houston MAYO, led a that we were beaten." ond-class contract? Why should they is struggling against an attempt to force an inadequate contract settlement down their throats. The teamsters went out on strike, "unauthorized" but not in violation of law since their contract (like the print ers') had expired. Despite all the pres tiUre tactics of the national leaders, the drivers have refused to go back to work as of this writing (April 27) and the opposition is growing. On April 16, hundreds of dissidents and their wives demonstrated outside the union hall then marched down Euclid Avenue to Public Square (the route of the antiwar demonstration the day before) in protest against a contract that faila to protect them against the high cost of living. The teamsters have rejected all the arguments the printers faced as to why they should not fight for a better settlement. They refused to abide by "national patterns." They refused to accept the argument that "there is no more money to be had." They indignantly rejected the red-baiting slanders of national leaders who blamed their militancy on "outside in fluence," "SDS" or "communists." Now the teamsters, like the printers, are faced with a "referendum vote." Printers are asking themselves, "If the teamsters can do it, why can't we? Is it true we don't have the guts? What's wrong with our union? What Photo by Suzanne Camejo can we do to make it more respon El Teatro Popular de Ia Vida 0 Muerte, Denver Chicano Conference, March 25-29. sive to our needs"? Friday, May 15, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 5 sity students voted 44,236 to 27,252 in favor of Times, April 23, ex-Green Beret George Hooper immediate and total withdrawal in a campus refer told a reporter: "I consider my purple heart to be endum on the Vietnam war conducted April 13-18. an insult ... A symbol of stupidity." .... GI PE The poll was initiated by the Student Mobilization TITION: More than 600 signatures have been Committee chapter and the Young Americans for collected on a petition for immediate withdrawal Freedom at American University in Washington, from Vietnam, currently being circulated by anti D. C. Seventy-five colleges and universities from war Gls on U.S. bases throughout the United coast to coast participated.... COME AND GET States and around the globe. To obtain copies of IT: Each year you eat three pounds of nonfood the petition write: GI Press Service, 1029 Vermont additives in your food .... NEW LOCALS: The Ave., N. W., Rm. 907, Washington, D. C. 20005 Young Socialist Alliance added two new locals, .... SCHOOL DAYS: A vivid description of life Fullerton, Calif., and Nashville, Tenn., this in reform school appears in the April 22 Specta week .... PLAINFIELD TRIAL: Bobby Lee Wil tor in Bloomington, Ind. Questioned by a Specta liams, accused on a frame-up charge of assaulting tor reporter about food at the Indiana Boys School a policeman with intent to kill during the 1967 at Plainfield, an inmate said, "Like you never eruption in Plainfield, N.J., went on trial in Eliza get enough, there are bugs in it, man, like you beth April 28. His attorneys include William Kunst have milk and there's maggots swimming around ler.... HOLDING TIGHT: The longer the strike, in it and cockroaches in the soup and ants in the the better the odds of winning the demands, a study bread and pastry ... " on "Student Protests 1969" by the Urban Research Corporation reveals. Researchers found that in protests where students struck for more than two PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL: A People's Tribunal is weeks, administrators granted one or more de scheduled for Columbus, Georgia, outside Fort mands in 70 percent of the cases. Benning May 16. The tribunal will put the U. S. government on trial for its role in Vietnam. Spon WOMEN'S LIBERATION IN HIGH SCHOOL: sors are the Columbus Patriots for Peace and RAP, A women's liberation meeting at Kenwood High the base underground newspaper. For more infor School in Chicago drew some 50 people last month. mation, contact Wayne Draznin, Box 5421, Sta. The meeting, including panel discussion and films, E, Atlanta, Ga. (404) 522-2075 .... THEYMAY was reportedly spirited with future organizing BE STARVING BUT: At least someone eats well. around high school issues projected.... HIGH The Nixons have been entertaining guests at the By RANDY FURST PROFILE: Socialist Workers Party candidates in rate of 45,000 a year, White House aides report. California have spoken more than 200 times since That figure eclipses the 26,000-guests-per-year rec RECORD HARVEST: Cuba has passed the half the campaign was launched last fall. Audiences ord pace set by the Lyndon Johnsons. The total way mark on its 1969-1970 objective of harvest have ranged from 15 to 3,000. of 45,000 includes a group of wounded veterans ing 10 million tons of sugar by July 26. The cur that Tricia Nixon hosted on a yacht cruise down rent harvest is already Cuba's second largest on the Potomac. (Julie Eisenhower reportedly favors record. As of April 23, some 6,368, 799 tons had underprivileged children.) been cut. ... DOCTOR DRAWS SENTENCE: A NIXON WINS ETHICAL VOTE: Richard Dunn, New London, Conn., physician was sentenced to an administrative aide to Illinois State Senate Re one to three years in state prison April 27 for publican leaders, added his voice to the list of performing an abortion. The severe sentence was sterling characters endorsing Nixon's action on NO KNOCK: The sheriff's department has vol handed down in a Connecticut superior court Cambodia. Said Dunn: "I favor the president's unteered to pay the damage on the door of the against Dr. Morris Sulman. His attorney, William action because this whole thing of 'let's win' is home of a Prince George County, Va., construction Hadden, argued that the state law prohibiting abor kind of the American ethic or something." . • .• worker. It seems the police broke down John Mol tions "makes something a crime which is not a STOCK MEETINGS DISRUPTED: Demonstrators loy's door with a sledgehammer, tipped off that crime," and that the statute is unconstitutional. An disrupted the annual stockholders meeting of Hon there were narcotics in the house .. After breaking in appeal is planned. eywell, Inc., in Minneapolis April 28. In Pittsburgh, without a warrant, they informed Molloy's wife, demonstrators held a protest at the annual meeting "This is a raid. Isn't this 7302 Forest Road?" of the Gulf Oil Corporation.... "No," said Mrs. Molloy, "this is 7308." .... HARRIS POLL: Results of a Louis Harris sur CLASS BY THEMSELVES: A seven month strike vey published May 4 indicate the extent of Presi by some 1,200 workers at the Iowa Beef Processors dent Nixon's latest blunder in Southeast Asia. NIXON ASSAILS BUMS: " ... you finally think ended last month. The union, Amalgamated Meat A cross-section of Americans were asked by pollers: of those kids out there," President Nixon observed Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, "If it appeared that the Communists were going to during a conversation May 1. "You know, you settled for a raise of 20 cents per hour. Says com take over the government of Laos, would you see these bums- you know, blowing up the cam pany president Roy Lee Jr., quoted in Forbes favor sending in American troops to keep the puses. Listen, the boys on the college campuses magazine May 1, "We don't feel that a man needs Communists from taking over, continuing to send today are the luckiest people in the world, going a union to be treated fairly here ... " in military advisers and conduct bombings as to the greatest universities, and here they are burn we are now, or staying out of Laos altogether?" ing up the books. I mean, storming atound about Some 59 percent favored staying out altogether; this issue. I mean you name it, get rid of the VIETNAMIZATION: Spiro Agnew explained on 20 percent endorsed a "continuation" of advisers war, there'll be another one-and then, out there NBC's Frank McGee Report May 3 that the U.S. and bombings; only 10 percent backed sending we got kids who are just doing their duty and I've invasion of Cambodia is part of President Nixon's troops. Asked approximately the same question seen them and they stand tall, and they're proud." Vietnamization program .... ARRANGEMENT on Cambodia, 59 percent said stay out of Cam WITH NORTH VIETNAM?: "It is not a new bodia altogether; 23 percent favored sending ad BLACK SOLDIER CHARGED: Pvt. Willie Wil policy at all," Secretary Rogers commented, re visers and conducting bombings; and only 7 per liams of the 143rd Supply and Service Company ferring to the bombing of North Vietnam. He cent supported sending in U.S. troops. Poll was at Fort Lewis, Wash., was charged Feb. 21 with was quoted in the New York Times May 4. "We conducted on eve of President Nixon's Cambodia "conduct discrediting the armed services." Specifi have before on previous occasions made these speech April 30. cation one of the charge was "threatening the life attacks when it was necessary to protect recon of the President of the United States"- an accusa naissance flights, part of the arrangement made tion based on a poster Williams painted. Williams with North Vietnam when we stopped the bomb PANTHER DONATION: A microbiologist at has been confined to the post stockade although ing." Harvard University who was awarded a $1,000 no court-martial has been set. A vehement op prize for isolating a pure gene, has announced ponent of the war, Williams says of the charge, (Contributors to this week's report include the that he was giving the money to the Black Pan "The service is a discredit to itself." . . . . AN IN Independent Servicemen's Movement, Tacoma, ther Party. Dr. Jonathan R. Beckwith made the SULT: Interviewed by San Francisco's Good Wash.; Geoff Mirelowitz, and Kitty Cone, Chicago.) statement in Boston April 28.... SEIZE THE TIME: That's the name of Bobby Seale's new book, subtitled "The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey Newton."
MOTION FOR ACQUITTAL: Judge Julius J. Hoffman has taken under advisement a motion for acquittal filed by defense attorneys William Kunstler and Leonard I. Weinglass, representing the Conspiracy 7 who were framed earlier this year. The defense cites newspaper stories by one of the jurors, Kay S. Richards, 23, who described how the jury worked out a deal on the decision. Kunstler and Weinglass charge that the jury il legally "compromised" in reaching a verdict. ... CHICANOS PROTEST: Several hundred Chicanos picketed an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where students' demands include bilingual educa tion. One youth was arrested.... WOMEN'S LIB ERATION PARLEY SET: A Conference to Unite Women is scheduled for the Los Angeles Trade Technical College, 400 W. Washington Blvd. May 16-17. The two day gathering includes workshops and panel discussions. Sponsor is an ad hoc group of women representing several women's liberation organizations in Southern California. For more information, call the Women's Center, (213) 937- 3964; in Orange County, (714) 497-1875. "Dear President Nixon • • • what really tickled my funny bone was when you said you were sending troops to Cambodia to save lives. • CAMPUS REFERENDUM: College and univer- . ." Page 6 THE MILITANT Friday, May 15, 1970 Frid Unprecedented protests sweep nation's campuses
By DAVID THORSTAD calation of the war in Indochina has ton University voted at a mass meet MAY 5-When President Nixon, been completely spontaneous. It is un ing last Friday to go on strike. The with unmatchable cynicism, an precedented in its scope. And both Princeton strlke is estimated to be 99 nounced his decision to order the in by its breadth and by its spontaneity percent effective. vasion of Cambodia, he unleashed a it is qualitatively different from any One of the most striking indications storm of antiwar opposition that will thing that has ever occurred before of the enormous potential of this anti close down nearly every college and in the history of this country. war wave came in several mass meet university in the United States, and Of the close to 150 universities con ings on Boston-area campuses where has the potential for reaching millions tacted by the Student Mobilization more than 15,000 students voted May more Americans not on the nation's Committee as the strike movement was 4 to strike and support a mass rally campuses. just getting underway at the begin at the State House called by the Stu As the partial list on this page in ning of the week, for instance, only dent Mobilization Committee to pro dicates, strikes have either been called one had no plans to call a strike. test the invasion of Cambodia and or are already in process in hundreds The pace for the movement that is the Kent massacre and to demand of schools. And they are spreading. sweeping the country was set when a statewide vote on the war. Sched This phenomenal reaction to the es- 2-3,000 students and faculty at Prince- uled speakers included legislators James Shea, sponsor of the bill ex empting Massachusetts residents from serving in the Vietnam war, and Maurice Donahue, who has sponsored A PARTIAL LIST ... a bill providing for an antiwar ref erendum. The following is a partial listing Grinnell Princeton Typical of the current surge of pro of the schools that as of /11\a y 5 University of Hartford Providence College test was the size of these mass strike were either on strike or discussing Harvard Purdue strike plans: Haverford Queens College meetings: 5,000 at Harvard; 2,000 at Albany State Hobart Radcliffe Boston University; 1,000 at Tufts; American University Holy Crass Regis College 1,800 at Northeastern University; Amherst Hunter University of Rochester 2,000 at Brandeis; 2,500 at MIT; Barnard College U. of Indiana in South Bend Rochester Institute of Technology 1,100- two-thirds of the student body Beaver College U. of Indiana in Bloomington Rosary College -at Clark University. They joined Berkeley, U. of California Jackson Rutgers these other Massachusetts colleges in Tear gas~perses sh Bloomington State Kansas State Santa Barbara, U. of California deciding to go on strike: Simmons, Boston College Kent State St. Cloud State College Holy Cross, Assumption, Worcester to strike at Southern Community State the Boston University Knoxville College St, Norberts State, Springfield, and the University College in New Haven, a college with plan Bowling Green University LaSalle St. Josephs of Massachusetts in Amherst. no previous reputation for student ac Tl Bradford Junior College lawrence University Sacramento State Three thousand students voted a tivism. Students are protesting the war ever Brandeis University lewis &Clark Salva Regina strike at Brown University in Provi and the fact that they were locked out the ! Bryn Mawr luther College Skidmore dence. All other campuses in Provi of school by the administration last vi go Buchard lycoming Simmons dence were reported on strike. Wednesday in anticipation of the week to v University of Buffalo /11\anhattanville College Springfield College end Panther rallies only,· as they later cam Uni varsity of Chicago Marion College Stanford The strike at Yale University is ex discovered, so the campus could be Tl: Case Western Reserve University University of Maryland Stony Brook pected to continue today despite pleas used to house the National Guard. part Clark University Merrimac College Syracuse by President Kingman Brewster that Several other colleges in Connecti spea Colgate University of Miami in Florida SUNY Farmingdale it be ended. The strike began there two cut, including Trinity, Wesleyan, the University of Colorado MIT SUNY Oswego weeks ago in protest of the Black Pan who University of Bridgeport, the Univer Colorado State U. of Massachusetts in Boston Temple University ther trial scheduled to take place in cal a sity of Hartford, and the University mos· Colorado College Memphis State University of Tennesee New Haven. The invasion of Cam of Connecticut, have followed suit. Columbia University of Minnesota University of Texas, Austin bodia prompted a Panther defense ral of tl Cornell Monmouth University of Texas, El Paso A mass meeting yesterday evening ly last weekend to issue a call for a time Carleton Moore College of Arts Trinity College at Case Western Reserve University nationwide student strike demanding N< CCNY Moorhead State College Tufts in Cleveland voted on a strike that the immediate withdrawal from South be f< University of Connecticut New Paltz State Vassar will shut down all campuses in the east Asia, freedom for political pris rath• Dartmouth New York University University of Vermont state of Ohio. Following the meeting, oners, and an end to campus complic war Uni varsity of Delaware University of North Carolina Villanova 3,000 participated in a midnight me ity with the war. clain Dennison University North Carolina State University of Virginia morial march for the four Kent State can Drexel North Pork College Wabash Yesterday the Yale Law School, University students killed by Guards of tb Duke Northeastern Washington University, St. louis which until now had not been sup men earlier in the day. tiom East Baptist Notre Dame University of Washington porting the strike, voted 239-12 to More than 2,000 surged through Arne Emerson Oberlin Wellesley strike for the remainder of the school downtown Seattle stopping traffic last and Emory Ohio State Wesland year. Friday in a march rapidly organized imp~ Fitchburg State Oregon State Westchester State A rally of 1,000 voted yesterday by the SMC to protest the escalation of Fordham Oswego State Williams presl Genesco University of Pennsylvania Wilmington College to tl George Washington Philadelphia Academy University of Wisconsin fail I one Georgetown Philadelphia College College of Worcester The Militant's extra effort Glasboro State Philadelphia Community College Wyoming popt Goddard College University of Pittsburgh Ulster County College and Goucher Portland State Yale needs your financial support It the This special antiwar issue is being published three on t days early with a press run triple the number published senti mov last week. A month ago we responded to the postal explt workers strike with a large-run postal special. The sub the r sequent financial contributions from supporters enabled rent ing t us to repay the loans required for that special effort. pus Make it possible for us to continue to respond as that the explosive escalation of the antiwar movement de gove mands. Send in as generous a contribution as you can. Do it today. s~ Use the coupon below. BRING THE TROOPS HOME FROM INDOCHINA NOW! The staff '] ali ------pol spl Enclosed is as a contribution to help cover the cost of Wei The Militanfs special antiwar coverage. i.an Name ______se.r ian Street------Apt.------mo 3PI City ______State ______Zip ______Photo by Petrick Mil New York high school demonstrators, April 15. 1970 Friday, May 15, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 7 SMC emergency appeal for world antiwar action At a press conference in Washington on May 5 the Student Mobi lization Committee to End the War in Vietnam issued an emer gency appeal to antiwar forces around the world to join with the American antiwar movement in building mass actions for the immediate withdrawal of all U. S. troops from Southeast Asia and in memory of the four martyred victims of the J{ent massacre. The following is the text of a call released by Carol Lipman, national executive secretary of the SMC: ...... Events over the past week have dramatically exposed Nixon's promises to reduce conflicts in Southeast Asia and to de-escalate the war in Vietnam as yet another in the long line of blatant lies to issue from the White House. Neither the American people nor those in other countries of the world will be deceived by words when the facts clearly show the real intentions of the United States. In the face of open escalation of the Vietnam war, the invasion of Cambodia by U.S. troops, the renewed bombing attacks on North Vietnam, and the martyring of the four student victims of the Kent massacre, we call on people throughout the world to speak out and to act. In the United States, student strikes and mass demonstrations erupted immediately following the disclosures of the new escalation of the war. The latest moves have provoked an unprecedented outcry against the policies which the U.S. government follows abroad and at home. More and more Americans know that there is no end to their government's adventurism, to its policies of brutal slaughter, and that it is time to act. We call on people all over the world to join with us in massive demonstrations demanding the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Southeast Asia and paying tribute to the memory of the martyred students of the Kent massacre. Tear gas~perses students at Kent State University, May 4
Hate the war. Further actions are being with planned. meeting at t ac The same story could be told for Mass antiwar strike Columbia U war every region of the country. While . out the strike wave may have begun most last vigorously in the East, it has spread ·eek to virtually every town with a college .ater campus. Plans for New York regional action l be The millions of students who are a rd. participating in the actions today tecti- speak for millions of other Americans By ROBERT LANGSTON protest the Nixon administration's es Americans who can force an end to the who in no way support Nixon's es calated aggression in Indochina and the war. lver calation. These actions represent the NEW YORK, May 5- Fifteen min to demand the immediate, uncondition The assembly unanimously voted rsity most dramatic manifestation thus far utes before the meeting scheduled for al withdrawal of all U.S. troops, the for three proposals offered by Pat Gro of the mobilizable mass antiwar sen nine o'clock last night, the auditorium release of all political prisoners, and gan of the SMC: that a citywide anti ning timent that exists in the United States. of Columbia University's Wollman an end to campus complicity with the war strike rally be held on the Co rsity No more resounding rejection could Hall was filled. By the time the chair war machine, it faced the task of im lumbia campus May 6; that the steer that be found for the advice of those who, man mounted the podium, an adjoin plementing its decision, of establishing ing committee mobilize maximum pos the rather than organize this mass anti ing lounge and a lecture hall on the an organizational structure, ofmaking sible participation in the May 9 dem ting, war sentiment, have preferred to pro floor above were overflowing too, and the strike real. onstration in Washington, D. C.; that me claim the antiwar movement dead. One the corridors were dense with people. A representative of the New Univer a strike committee aim at making the May 30 national actions called by Hate can think of no more telling proof There had been mass meetings on sity Conference moved that a strike the SMC the mightiest expression of trds- of the fact that it is through mass ac the campus almost continuously since steering committee be established with opposition to imperialist war in U.S. tions that the broad layers of the noon. By agreement between students, one representative from each group ac history. mgh American population will be reached faculty and the administration, the uni tively supporting the strike, which The steering committee met imme last and brought into motion against the versity had effectively been closed for would make proposals to a mass meet diately after the mass meeting. The lized imperialist war. For this massive ex the day. Columbia's president Andrew ing each morning and then carry out same seriousness prevailed; the point 111 of pression of militant student opposition Cordier had addressed a noon rally the decisions of those meetings. was to build the strike. The committee to the government's policies will not of some 3,000, but by evening it was The small minority of ultralefts pres established a strike headquarters, de fail to make an unprecedented impact evident that the one-day moratorium ent knew that with such a democratic cided to issue a daily strike newspa on every other sector of the American was going to become a genuine strike. structure they would have no chance population- GI and civilian, young of imposing their politics on the strike. per, and called a news conference for and old. Everyone was tired, but it didn't So they resorted to a demagogic this morning. Working committees lt has already helped to exacerbate make any difference. They were con maneuver that has occasionally were established: a picket-line commit the divisions within the ruling class vinced they were just beginning, they worked in the antiwar movement in tee, a leaflet committee, a press-con were determined, and, aware that sim e on the question of the war. It is es the past: mobilizing the guilt feelings ference committee, and an editorial ilar meetings were taking place simul i sential- and possible- for the antiwar of white students. A fraction of the committee for the daily paper. Since movement to do everything it can to taneously on campuses all over the Third World Coalition proposed that representatives of most metropolitan J exploit these divisions by providing country, they sensed their collective Third World students be guaranteed a area campuses attended the steering power. 1- the necessary organization for the cur mechanical majority on the steering committee meeting, coordination rent spontaneous upsurge and byhelp Everyone present also knew by the committee. The ultraleftists hoped throughout the area was automatic. i time the meeting began that Ohio Na ing to spread it beyond its solid cam through that device to be able to im The strike was on. f tional Guardsmen had murdered four .. pus base into those sectors of society pose their line on the strike in a rule Kent State students only hours before. F""\ii!!!!f·-····1 that have the raw power to force this or ruin fashion. s Altogether there were perhaps 3,000 government out of Indochina. people- mainly students, but a good Their ploy did not work. A Third bring 1 l. many faculty mem hers too- present. World spokesman for the Student And it was not just a Columbia af Mobilization Committee had no diffi fair; representatives from practically culty exposing the demagogy of the ALL Serj~s pn G(J~J.iili every campus in the New York area proposal and explaining the need for were there in the expectation that this a democratic structure. The NUC mo the.Gis to .. ·be con.tin.ued meeting would initiate the organiza tion passed by a ninety percent ma tion of a strike to close down every jority; not much was heard from the ff 'l'he Militant has ~n .runniil college in the region. sectarians after that. home a weekly series of ~~les In some ways the mood was like The general orientation outlined by p()Utica1 •.. •issl1es •• ~~~fil;•·.l4~ the early mass meetings of the spring speakers from the SMC clearly reflected split tlie ··. sbl(f the l'adie~ '68 Columbia strike. And if, despite the sentiment of the overwhelming ma NOW! f iJl of 'WeeklY' •·•· new~paper,. the Gu.aid~ the fatigue, there was some expectancy jority of the students. The strike, SM C and gaiety, there was also a general representatives stressed, is above all i~~ 'J;~e t~.tr~ ~st~~li!~to! seriousness far surpassing that of '68. series,· deaU~g \\lith ... the Qu a strike against the U.S. imperialist Sectarian crotchets and adventurist ian's ·.. Po!ition, aggression in Indochina, and the strik ~n tit~ ~ti~at schemes received at most a reluctantly ing students have the opportunity and ~ovetnel1t. itt recent tlloJ1tJi~, 'Y~l polite hearing. obligation to lead the antiwar move ttJ>pe.a,r• iJ1 the nexJ is~ne of 'I'Iie The major test came early in the ment to an altogether new level of Militant. meeting. After the assembly had shout breadth, militance and unity, to reach ed its unanimous call for a strike to out to and help mobilize millions of Page 8 THE MILITANT Friday, May 15, 1970
fles during that attack, SDS and PL goons prbmised to "run Bresnahan • out of town." Boston PL and SDS 1n Their vendetta against Bresnahan gained momentum in the period lead ing up to and culminating with this spring's April 15 mass antiwar action, and other individuals were apparent new physical assault ly added to the list in this period. John McCann, an SWP member who is a coordinator of the Massachusetts By DICK ROBERTS Meanwhile, however, others at the con antiwar referendum, found his apart CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- At approxi ference had heard the commotion. They ment "under surveillance." John Barz mately 1:30 p.m., May 3, eight mem pushed aside the five in the "front man, a field spokesman for SMC and bers of the Boston-area Progressive line," pulled two of the attackers off a YSAer, recently woke up to find Labor Party and Students for a Demo Bresnahan while he dealt with the several.PL and SDS members sitting in cratic Society raided an educational third. Shortly later the eight made for a car outside his house. conference of the Young Socialist Al a back door and disappeared. Bresnahan was cochairman of the liance at Harvard University, in order Immediate X-Ray examination Boston antiwar coalition's arrange to carry out a physical assault on showed that Bresnahan had not suf ments committee. His central respon Robert Bresnahan, a leader of the fered a serious head injury. Four sibility was to organize the marshalls stitches were required. antiwar movement here, YSA mem Robert Bresnahan for the April 15 action- and this seems ber and member of the Socialist Work What prompted this throwback to to have particularly irked the PL and ers Party. Hitler's brown shirt methods? Why Bresnahan traced the evolution of SDS thugs. Six of the PL and SDS attackers were Bresnahan? Such physical attacks on this incident back to meetings held PL and SDS had adopted an ultra identified by witnesses. Bresnahan was political opponents are not new to PL. last August by a group presently called left, sectarian and exclusionist line to not seriously hurt. They have been part and parcel of the November Action Coalition- The wards the April 15 Boston demonstra The raiding hoodlums fled as other PL's method of operation since the Day After [NAC-TDA]. At that time it tion, at the end, virtually isolating conference attenders came to Bresna formation of the organization. And belonged to SDS. But, PL-SDS had themselves from the antiwar move PL learned its organizational lessons proclaimed that no one except them han's help. ment. from its Stalinist parent, the Commu selves could call a meeting under the This attempt to regularize physical At first they claimed they would not nist Party. However, such attacks have name of SDS without its being broken attacks on political opponents as a participate in the demonstration be intensified in recent months, and Bres up physically. "legitimate" means of dissent in the cause it would allow"imperialistspeak nahan, a six-foot-two YSAer, saw the Four instances followed in which ers." So they left the coalition of some antiwar and socialist movements was attack on him as one more step in the members of the group now called immediately denounced by the Bos 35 antiwar organizations in the Bos frenzied reaction of PL and SDS to the NAC-TDA were assaulted by PL and ton area and attacked those who were ton YSA and SWP. collapse of national SDS last summer. SDS hooligans. A campaign to expose and explain organizing to fight Nixon's escalation. "It illustrates their frustration, their In one of these, Aug. 28, 70 SDS Then, as April 15 approached, they the real dangers to the movement in inability to deal with the SDS collapse and PL members had descended in adopted the opposite line. They in herent in such methods, and the neces in a political manner- and especially battle order upon a meeting of some sisted upon speaking on the platform $ity of categorically rejecting them by their sectarian politics and goon-squad 25 people at which Bresnahan and a each and every movement organiza methods in the antiwar movement." few other YSAers were present. In scuf- (Continued on page 10) tion, has been launched. The Student Mobilization Committee, a major force in the Greater Boston antiwar coalition, has announced plans to publicize the PL and SDS at tack, and to ask for movement repudi ation of it. Third World liberation notes Both the immediate circumstances I I of the May 3 raid and the background On Monday, May 4, .Judge James tants, Ralph Featherstone and William who is 71 years old and a writer, to it make it clear that this was a pre Macgill revoked the bail of SNCC "Che" Payne, were blown to bits while playwright and composer, had applied planned attack directed against one militant H. Rap Brown and issued a driving from the city that night. And for a visa in February in order to individual. warrant for his arrest. the next day, a white woman was seen visit and speak at Fisk University in The PL and SDS squad chose a The warrant was issued after a three leaving the scene after an explosion Nashville, Tenn. She had also wanted lunch break of the educational con judge federal panel from the 4th U.S. ripped apart the Cambridge court to attend to some personal affairs. ference to mount their attack. With Circuit Court of Appeals denied a mo house, the original site of the trial. But in a spineless, boot-licking state about 150 in regular attendance dur tion by Brown's lawyer, William M. * • • ment by a Fisk University official, ing the weekend meetings, only about Kunstler, to have the case moved to In another racist action, the .Justice it was said that the head of the Pan 20 persons were around Burr B hall federal court. Kunstler made the move Department overruled the State Depart Africanist student organization, which of Harvard when the PL and SDS on the basis that Brown could not ment by denying a visa to Shirley extended her the invitation, had been thugs showed up. get a fair trial in the state courts. The Graham DuBois, wife of the late expelled from school and that the or At about 1 p.m., a known SDS mem SNCC leader is being tried on charges W. E. B. DuBois. According to .John ganization didn't have enough money ber named Norm Daniels had come to of arson and inciting to riot because V. Wilson, a .Justice Dept. spokesman, to bring her here in the first place. the conference hall, apparently, as it of a speech he made on .July 24, 1967, Mrs. DuBois was ineligible for a visa Shirley Graham DuBois was DuBois' developed, to look the place over. The in Cambridge, Maryland. because of association with "numerous second wife. They married in 1951, eight who subsequently showed up at It is obvious that Brown's life is subversive organizations." He then after which the couple went to <;hana 1:30 included, according to witnesses: in danger when you consider the fact said official procedure prevented him and subsequently took out Ghanaian Jamie Kilbreth, SDS regional office, that when the trial opened in Bel Air, from revealing the organizations. citizenship after 1957. PL; Jay Sargent, SDS regional office, Md., last March 9, two SNCC mili- Mrs. DuBois, a native of the U.S. • * • PL; Larry Olafsky, SDS Boston State; Continuing in the government's fork Jim Cronin, SDS Brown University tongued tradition, the Nixon admin istration sought- unsuccessfully- to (R.I.), PL; Stu Soloway, SDS; Fran pull off a 100 year celebration of Windling, SDS Boston State; and two former President Ulysses S. Grant's others, not yet identified. "peace policy" toward N ative-Amer After milling around for a few min icans. utes, these eight located Bresnahan In March, the federal government coming out of a men's room in a side invited Native-American representa hall. Three of them assaulted and mo tives from as far away as Alaska to mentarily pinned him down while the attend a planning meeting. The meet five others formed further down the ing was presided over by Secretary of hall. the Interior Walter Hickel, a man who "I had tried to break throl!gh them many Native-Americans would like to when I saw them coming," Bresna see impeached because of his displace han explained. "They got me down. ment of Indians from their lands. As They were holding me down while it got underway, the representatives one was kicking me. I guess one of denounced Grant as a whiskey-drink them kicked me in the head." ing soldier who fought Mexicans and A bruise on Bresnahan's temple herded Indians into impoverishment. showed where this had happened. What they wanted was a :'-J' ational Council of Indian Awareness to pro mote a project on the "concept of self determination and assertion." At this Maoism in the U.S. point, the meeting was broken up, with the discredited Bureau of Indian Af A critical history of the Pro fairs declaring that no federal money gressive Labor Party would be used to back up such a project. by Mary-Alice Waters -DERRICK MORRISO:'-J'
24 pp. 8 1/2 X 11 50~ Life ia an A1to Pla1t PATHFINDER PRESS, INC. (formerly Merit Publishers) ly Tom ec.,,e 25c 873 Broadway, Photo by Michael H arcty Pathfinder Press, Inc. New York, N.Y. 10003 New Haven Panther support demonstration, May 1-3- 15,000 came. 873 Broadway, NYC 10003 Friday, May 15, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 9 against the persecution of Arab stu dents or Arab citizens of Israel. And Interview with Arie Bober (I) of course we are trying to expose the atrocities against Arabs in the occu pied territories, like shooting, throw ing grenades, torturing, blowing up houses, all those things. Inside Israel today The second level of our work is in the factories. We publish a special leaf let for workers, and the main point The following interview with Arie it Communist-by saying that on is of our propaganda is trying to show :Sober of the Israeli Socialist Organi sues of world affairs it is thoroughly that you cannot be a chauvinist and zation (ISO) was obtained by Les Stalinist, adheres to the policy of adhere to the "Greater Israel" and then Evans of Intercontinental Press and peaceful coexistence, and takes its line demand higher wages or a rising stan Robert Langston of The Militant in from the Soviet CP. But concerning dard of living or be astounded by the New York April 6. Bober, who is 29 the Israeli conffict it has a dispute with profits that people make while they years old, was born in Haifa. He the stand taken by the Soviet Union demand from you that your wages served three and a half years in the on the Middle East. should go down. Israeli navy and is at present a re The Rakah group is comprised The third level of work is directed search assistant in the Berwald School mostly of Arabs and is much stronger at the Jewish community, espcially re of Social Work of the Hebrew Univer than the Maki group. It won most of cent immigrants, mostly young peo sity in Jerusalem. the votes of the younger radicalized ple. A great part of them came as left The interview originally appeared Arabs in the last election. It has three ists, as radicals, as revolutionaries in the April 20 issue of Intercontinen members of parliament and has a very but with a Jewish entity, which is· very tal Press. Extensive excerpts from it strong hold on the Arab sector in understandable. We have told them, will appear in two installments. Israel if you accept a Zionist outlook then It has a traditional pro-Moscow po you cannot be a socialist, and if you * * * sition. It so happens that the Soviet are a socialist you cannot be a Zion Union is for the November 22, 1967, ist. This has been very embarrassing Question. What is the status of the United Nations resolution and they anti-Zionist left in Israel today? Would adhere to it. you describe the organizations it com The ISO certainly does not support Arie Bober prises, particularly the Israeli Socialist the stand proclaimed by Maki. It does Organization. not support the Rakah position either, revolutionary party which for them because we don't agree with their con is very Stalinistic and bureaucratic. Answer. The anti-Zionist left is com cept of world policies or their particu The ISO was established at the end prised of only two organizations: the lar stand on the Middle Eastern ques of 1962. It has a Hebrew paper, Matz ISO and the Communist party led by tion. Inherent in the November 22 pen [Compass]. It has Arabs and Jews Wilner, the group that most closely resolution is the assumption, which is in its ranks, but it has no Arabic pub follows the traditional line of Moscow. not stated explicitly but is a certain lication because under the Emergency There is no other organization in Is outcome of this solution, that all the Regulations we are forbidden to print rael today, left or otherwise; that is guerrilla movements in the Middle an Arabic newspaper. anti-Zionist. There are some organi East will be exterminated. Otherwise The ISO has grown very rapidly zations that pretend to be non-Zionist, it would solve nothing. since the June war. It was the only but when probed on the basic ques This resolution takes as its starting organization with the exception of the to the government. In their sympo tions like their stand on the Law of point the status quo, the existing re most chauvinistic Zionists that was siums and in the Ulpan, the schools Return, or other basic assumptions of gimes, including a Zionist Israel. It not broken up or confused by the war. that teach the students Hebrew, etc., Zionism, they are very quickly shown regards the Palestinians and the Pales Most of the groups such as Mapam, the main discussion, if there is a polit to be Zionist. tinian problem as a humanitarian Avneri's group, different leftists, lib ical discussion, is Matzpen versus the There are two Communist parties. problem that can be solved by letting erals, etc., saw the June war as either others. The one led by Moshe Sneh, which is the refugees return if they please or a miracle or a catastrophe- or both. These three fields of action are inter called Maki-it split from Rakah, the get reparations if they remain in the For them Zionism was dead before the woven. One of the most important Wilner group-has been not only im Arab states. June war. Whenever we tried to argue areas where we cannot work freely is plicitly but explicitly stating that it is On this question we cannot agree with them and point out that Zionism in the Arab sector. Right after the war, "returning home," returning to Zion and we are fighting this proposal, was still a live ideology and policy when every Jew was going to the "lib ism. Maki defends the national right but because of the special conditions they would laugh at us. erated" territories and meeting with of the Jews, which is equated with in Israel we work together with the Suddenly it arose in front of their Arabs and buying up everything, we Zionism. But, of course, it is more Rakah CP as far as possible because faces and it confused most of these or also joined the march and tried to liberal than the Zionists. It is impor the objective facts are that the Stalin ganizations, including the Communist meet various known radicals, some tant to note that Sneh, its leader and ist Rakah CP is fighting- and some party. of whom had been members of the its sole member of parliament, has times under heavy attack - for the The ISO is comprised of proportion Jordanian Communist party, which never, since the June war, supported rights of the Arab population in Israel. al parts, students and young intellec was outlawed under Hussein, or other the demand for complete withdrawal We oppose and criticize them on all tuals, a smaller part of workers, and leftist groups. of the Israeli armies from the occupied the international questions, such as a still smaller number of Arabs. There While we were not harmed, the peo territories. the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and are many more Jews than Arabs. The ple we met were later either expelled We can sum up the position of this world revolution in general, and, of reason is that our Arab members are or put into jail. Communist split-if you can still call course, on the internal structure of the much more heavily persecuted than In the Arab villages it is the same. Jewish members. An Arab member is It is not illegal to go to an Arab vil much more easily accused of being lage, but it is not legal either. When with Fateh, a terrorist, or a spy we go there we are promptly arrested there have been such cases. As a mat and held for anywhere from a few ter of fact all our Arab members are hours to a couple of days. Our litera either in prison, in exile, under house ture is confiscated and the people we arrest, or under restriction of move meet are put in serious danger. ment. We do not have one Arab mem In this area we are very limited in ber who is allowed to move freely in our effort to build a base, to establish the country. chapters in Arab villages. On one hand We have distributed propaganda to the government is very hard on us, Arab students in Jerusalem and in and on the other hand the CP, which Haifa. Any time an Arab comes more has a base there, works against us. than once to our meetings he has a Rakah needs us in the Jewish sector visit from the security forces advising but is very afraid of us in the Arab him- very benevolently, like a good sector. father- that for his own sake he (To be concluded. ) should leave us alone, if he doesn't want to have trouble. Sometimes people are arrested. The latest case was Nabil Sa'ad who was arrested during the last election WAR AND REVOLUTION campaign. He was held for six weeks. IN VIETNAM He was questioned for two and a half By Doug Jenness 35c hours with the "question" consisting only of "For your own good, leave Gls AND THE FIGHT Matzpcn." He was released two days after the election. AGAINST WAR Some 800 activists of the Rakah By Mary-Alice Waters 25c Communist party were arrested or re stricted to their homes during the elec IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL tion campaign, including members of VS. NEGOTIATIONS their Politbureau, their Central Com By Caroline Jenness 25c mittee, etc. The ISO is working on three levels. PATHFINDER PRESS First is the student body, where our (formerly Merit Publishers) main propaganda emphasis is criti 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003 "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" cizing Zionist policy and fighting Page 10 THE MILITANT Friday, May 15, 1970
The only subject on feminism that is worth doing is on this new militant phenomena and the proper Playboy approach is to devastate it." (For full background story on the Playboy ar wo2en's liberation notes ticle, see April 29 Liberation News Service.) • • • Source Book Press has decided to One indication of the fantastic year have been collected together in tancy," a report from the Presidential make some money off the rising in growth of thewomen'sliberationmove a new magazine, Notes From the Sec Task Force on Women's Rights has terest in women's liberation. They ment has been its rapid spread ond Year: Women's Liberation. Includ called for a special White House wom have published 40 volumes of docu throughout the South and Southwest. ed in the collection are documents from en's conference. Says the report, mentary material on the history of An activist in the movement in Austin the movement, popular articles such "Coupled with corrective legislation, the women's movement, the entire col just wrote us that there are groups in as "Politics of Housework" by Pat it [the conference] would be a deterrent lection which is available for $850 all the following Texas cities: Austin, Mainardi, and some more controver to the radical liberation movement's (prepublication price). Although the Killeen, El Paso, San Antonio, Hous sial contributions such as Ti-Grace preaching revolution." reprints will help to provide libraries ton, Arlington and Dallas. Atkinson's "Radical Feminism." The • • • with many useful books on the strug • • • magazine can be ordered for $1.50 A newspaper ad for "Mothers' Day gle- such as Bebel's Women and So A conference on cooperative child from Radical Feminism, P. 0. Box AA, specials" at ASC stores carried the cialism and the famous History of care will be held in Bloomington, In Old Chelsea Station, N.Y., N.Y. headline: "Great things to please any Women Suffrage by Stanton, Anthony, diana, May 15-16. For information, 10011. mother- the old-fashioned type or the Gage and Harper- the prices are out write Jan Wagner, 512 S. Washington, • • • head of her women's lib. group." rageous. For example, A Vindication Bloomington, Ind. 47401. The White House is apparently up • • • of the Rights of Women by Mary Woll • • • tight about the women's liberation Congressman Bingham (Democrat, stonecraft is $16.50. The same book A number of significant articles writ movement. To counter what it refers Bronx) has come up with what sounds sells in bookstores now for $1.7 5. ten by radical feminists in the past to as "the danger of accelerating mili- like a good idea. On April 23, he told • • • the Congress: "There are an increas Quote of the week- "Our confeder ing number of American women who acy was a democracy and a matriar do not wish to be identified as Miss chal society in which the woman had or Mrs. I sympathize with the way they superior status to the man, unlike tl>~ feel and I suggest that they should white man's world. The hereditary start using the abbreviation 'Ms.' pro chiefs were elected by the clan mothers, nounced 'Mis.' leaders of family groups within the "This may seem to some like a friv tribes, and could be deposed by olous suggestion, but it is not. I know them ..."-Chief Joseph Logan of the from many conversations with wom Brantford, Ont., Six Nations Confeder- en, including my wife and my daugh acy. ter-in-law, that they resent being asked -ELIZABETH BARNES by strangers whether they are Miss or Mrs. They point out that men are called Mr. whether or not they are married.... I believe that a profound question involving the status of wom ... Boston en is involved here." • • • (Continued from page 8) Over 600 women attended the Sec ond Congress to Unite Women in New in order "to denounce the imperialists" York this past weekend. The next is and promised to attack the rally if sue of The Militant will carry a full they did not get their way. report on the conference. The coalition unanimously rejected • • • this flagrantly undemocratic ultima Playboy editor Hugh Hefner report tum, insisting that the right to speak edly circulated the following message at an antiwar rally requires working in a memo to his staff concerning the to build that rally- not working recent Playboy article on women's lib against it. eration: ''What I am interested in is The April 15 turnout was an impor the highly irrational, emotional, tant success, the largest antiwar dem kookie trend that feminism has taken onstration in the country. It set the Photo by Michael Hardy in the past couple of years. These political groundwork for the impor At New Haven Panther support demonstration chicks are our natural enemy! tant Massachusetts antiwar referendum now being planned. And April 15, with 80,000 demon strators at Boston Common and 300 at the PL and SDS rally, also showed ... Why Nixon escalated the war what was the correct program for building mass antiwar actions. How ever, this did not deter the PL and SDS (Continued from page 3) "6. Probably the Russians will join from other countries or from inside crowd from launching its attack. the CIA if not directly masterminded the Chinese. . . . the United States which can blunt the Local and national TV viewers got by the U.S. spy agency. "7. Communism in Cambodia will force of the attacks themselves. No to see the hysterical ultralefts, sticks But the response of the Cambodian infect Laos, and Thailand, and the matter what may be said in Congress, and bottles in hand, trying to force people indicated that Lon Nol had infection might then spread farther to Mr. Nixon can see this one through their way onto the platform. Several little chance of surviving long. If the the south. at least until the rains come. Nothing young people were badly injured. junta were to be toppled by a popular "This, literally, is what the President Congress can do can force him to Fran Windling (one of the May 3 movement, this would give fresh in is being told from the military side call this off within three weeks. And raiders) was allowed to speak in order spiration to the National Liberation of the table of his advisers. The men by that time it will have been a suc to cool her and her supporters off. Front in Vietnam. are not the same ones who advised cess, or a failure." She did speak for about 15 minutes, The Nixon administration went into Mr. Johnson, but the advice and its and even that failed to turn the tide Or a failure! What then? Nixon has a huddle. There was opposition to sources are." of mass sentiment in favor of PL- and disregarded the political consequences plunging in deeper. But the voices In the May 4 issue of the same SDS-brand hooliganism. The PL and of his move. He has engaged in a urging caution were drowned out. paper, after Nixon had made his fate SDS conclusion from this experience desperate gamble. He is betting on a Under the headline ''Will 'Guam doc ful decision to invade Cambodia and "get Bob Bresnahan." military success of such proportions trine' survive? Pentagon prods Nixon bomb North Vietnam, Harsch indi "The actual physical danger to as to outweigh the political cost. on Cambodia," Joseph C. Harsch cated the latest thinking in Washing young people from such attacks," Bres He leaves out the reaction in Hanoi. wrote in the Christian Science Mon ton: nahan declared, "should not be under He leaves out the reaction in Peking itor of April 25: "Richard M. Nixon has begun a estimated. For a moment I saw one and Moscow. He leaves out the effect battle at a time and place of his choos girl, her front teeth seemed to be kicked on all the people of Indochina. He "Literally, the President is being told out, in terrible agony. We were unable ing, and the military odds are in his leaves out what the rest of the world that: favor .... to get to her, to get her to a hospital. may think or do. "1. Recent events in Cambodia have '"If we can't pull this one off,' said She disappeared after the rally, which Above all, he leaves out the con provided a 'golden opportunity.' one high administration official, 'we broke up about a half hour later. sequences inside the United States, not "2. If he will only move into Cam had better forget about Southeast Asia "But what is crucially important in only among the ordinary people but bodia with American weapons and and just go home.' . . . addition for the movement to under in the worried sectors of the ruling advisers he will be able to strangle "If the Pnom Penh regime can hold stand, is the way such gangster tac class. enemy forces in South Vietnam and out until the rainy season it might tics weaken and mislead the entire These consequences will become ap win a military victory there. movement. conceivably last a long time. In ad parent with such speed that even a "3. It will take relatively little in the "They obscure the fact that the main ministration eyes this is worth a "golden" military victory in Cambodia way of Americans because the Com perpetrators of violence in capitalist try .... would not enable Nixon to recover munist forces in the area are stretched "So this is the kind of battle gen society are the capitalist rulers, not politically. thin at the end of a long supply line erals dream about. Everything com the oppressed classes. This method and are weary from years of war. bines to make it the best opportunity Nixon, it seems, has not yet learned of argument through violence is a "4. But if he fails to act all of Cam the American command has yet had in from history that people do not like method of the ruling clas'l. It is a bodia will be taken over by the Com the entire Vietnam war to score at least war, especially a dirty war of imperi method of those whose ideas cannot munists within four to six weeks and a small tactical victory. And it could alist conquest. He has succeeded, how stand up in free debate, and it is ab lost forever to the West. ... turn into a strategic success of sub ever, in putting himself into position solutely imperative that the entire "5. Chinese Communists will begin stantial proportions. to have that lesson administered even movement unite to repudiate such supplying enemy forces in South Viet "In this case the operation leads more forcefully than in the case of methods and in defense of the demo nam through the southern ports of from every possible military advan his predecessor, who was also a gam cratic traditions of radicalism and so Cambodia.... tage. And there is no effective pressure bler. cialism." Friday, May 15, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 11
The ISR-a New Magazine of Theory, Strategy, and Tactics
New breakthrough - After prelim 31-year-old writer and traveler from By JOSEPH HANSEN have misinterpreted Marx or consid inary investigation which failed to per Chatanooga, Tenn. The mystery began ered his appreciation of alienation in suade him, Dr. Arnold Schaefer pressed March 7 when two British climbers The May 1970 issue of the Interna a one-sided way. ahead with his studies and arrived discovered a skeleton in a blue pin tional Socialist Review turned out as A short article by Leon Trotsky, at the definitive conclusion that, "The .stripe suit sitting with an umbrella advertised in The Militant: "A monthly published here in English for the first poorer you are, the more likely you under its arm on a small ledge half magazine for the new radicalization." time, deals with a topic of considerable are to suffer from serious malnutri way down a sheer 250-foot cliff." By combining their resources, the current interest among the radicalizing tion." The fearless doctor's findings staffs of the two magazines- The Tank the Lord! - "Shlomo Goren, yd"uth- ultraleftism. The article con were bared before the Senate Com Young Socialist and the International chief rabbi of the Israeli army, issued sists of comments by Trotsky on a mittee on Nutrition and Human Needs Socialist Review-have been able to speech by Lenin that was suppressed where it was expected to bolster a special directives to soldiers on how to produce something quulitatively supe by the Stalinists. In an editorial note, drive by crusading congressmen to celebrate the Jewish festival of Pass over ... inside a tank. The rabbi rior to either of the former publica Lee Smith puts Trotsky's article in give the hungriest of the hungry fed tions. The new monthly, while retain eral food stamps free. said in Tel Aviv that a shortened context. "Nearly forty years after Trot version of the Passover service com ing the name of International Socialist sky prepared the article and nearly Review to clearly indicate the revolu Pure-minded- The Daughters of the memorating the exodus of the chil fifty years after Lenin delivered his tionary Marxist tradition it represents, American Revolution convention de dren of Israel from Egypt could be speech," he comments, "the question cried the antipollution movement as recited inside the tanks in the dark is genuinely fresh both in appearance of ultraleftism remains a burning subversive. The chairman of the reso through the earphones of an inter and content. issue in the contemporary struggles of lution committee warned: "Subversive com." The April 20 Boston Globe. A key article in the May issue of the the new generation of young radicals elements plan to make American chil ISR "Ten Years of the New Left" by in the Third World liberation, wom dren live in an environment that is How spartan can you get - In the editor Larry Seigle provides the en's liberation and antiwar move a new slash of federal expenditures, good for them." The resolution noted essential background for appreciating ments." two presidential yachts - the Patri that "pollution of the mind" is most the significance of the new monthly. Elizabeth Barnes in "Building a dangerous of all. cia and the Julie, named after the The New Left, Seigle explains, for president's daughters - were decom Mass Movement for Black Liberation" all its ambitious claims and promises, missioned. This leaves the President reviews a new book by Robert Allen For services rendered - The New ended in demoralization and defeat; Black Awakening in Capitalist Amer York Telephone Co., which accord of the Free World with a loJ?.e 99- foot cabin cruiser to float on. and this despite exceptionally favor ica. Her comments are critical but she ing to a recent survey has the dis able objective conditions. An analysis finds that the book is a valuable one tinction of providing the worst ser of the political errors .committed by on the whole. She is especially appre vice in the nation, recently asked for Brass-tacks dept's- Senator George McGovern, the Vietnam dove from the New Left shows that these stemmed ciative of Allen's recognition of the and received another rate hike. In from inadequacies in theory. Instead Yiddish, they call it chutzpah. South Dakota, spoke in Wyoming in need to build a mass Black political support of Senator McGhee, a Viet of developing new theoretical concepts party. nam hawk. To critics of this, McGov as hoped, the New Left was unable to The issue includes a play by Myrna Mystery Dep 't - We're not certain ern explained: "You have to make a break out of some very dated concepts. Lamb "But What Have You Done for of the social significance, but: "LAND'S judgment on these things that takes These were crucial in determining the Me Lately?" This is a dramatic presen END, England, April 27 (AP) -Po into account more than Vietnam. You attitude of the New Left toward the tation that seeks to bring home to men lice said today they are almost cer have the whole question of who is class struggle and toward the problem the abortion problem as felt by wom tain a body found on a Land's End going to control the Senate next year." of building a revolutionary party. en. cliff is that of James Leland Payne, -HARRY RING But a part of the New Left learned By publishing the play, the editors from the experience and began turning indicate their intention of including toward a more adequate theory. This in the field covered by the ISR at least is the source of the current recruitment a certain amount of literary material. to the Young Socialist Alliance and the It is to be hoped that they can succeed Socialist Workers party; and this is the in meeting the standard set by Myrna immediate audience to which the ISR ARIZONA: Phoenix: YSA, c/o Pamela Starsky, P.O. St. Louis: YSA, c/o Bill Onasch, 316 laurel, *A9, Lamb. 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• • • Kent eyewitness report
(Continued from page 1 ) There was a tree about 15 yards coming up the hill. Gas cannisters behind us. There were repeated sounds were lobbed. Students threw them of thuds and splintering noise as bul back. lets hit the tree. More bullets hit the We retreated again. The scary thing cars in the lot, smashing the wind about it was that the Guard was still shields, hitting the fenders and the coming, shooting tear gas. sides of the cars. The Guard came down toward the One of us-Mike- dived behind a hill. Maybe as many as a thousand curb and lay flat. The other one students had regrouped on a hill near Fred-raced for a trash can and dived a parking lot. The Guard came to behind it. That's where we waited. ward us. A few guys were throwing Until the shooting stopped. rocks- more like pebbles. They There was a steady rattling of bul weren't big. One Guardsman brushed lets. stones away with his hand. We saw one student run for Then the Guardsmen got to their the parked cars. He almost made it. knees. They aimed. There was no Suddenly, he spun around, his legs sniper fire. If the commanding gen crumpled underneath him, and fell, eral claims there was sniper fire com half behind the car. A student who ing from a building, why didn't they had made it tried to drag the body shoot up at the building? Why did behind the car but he wasn't able they shoot at the crowd? to. At first no one was sure what was A girl was screaming. happening. There was a steady, loud "They're not using blanks. They're rattle, like machine guns. not using blanks." Someone yelled, "Those are only Another student fell over, dead. blanks." A student collapsed to the ground, Then we heard bullets whistling past hit. our heads. Dirt flew up in our faces, Suddenly, after about 30 seconds, where bullets were hitting the ground, the shooting stopped. We got up and landing only a few feet from us. looked around. One girl was lying on the ground, holding her stomach. Her face was white. Ohio Guardsmen fire tear gas at Kent students Call issued There were others, lying on the ground. Some moved. Some didn't. The whole area was one of panic. for of We heard a girl crying hysterically. day "Get an ambulance, get an ambu Socialist candidates • lance," others were shouting. A guy picked up one girl and held mourn1ng her in his arms. The front of her was covered with blood. "She's dead," assail Kent murders WASHINGTON, May 5-At a press he was shouting. "She's dead. I know conference here today plans were an she's dead." The following statement was issued existence that often a more limited nounced for a national day of mourn Some guys were leaning over an May 5 by the national campaign com but horrifying crime closer to home ing Friday, May 8, for the four Kent other girl using jackets as makeshift mittee of the Socialist Workers Party will have a more profound impact State University student victims. The compresses. Another was giving her on behalf of the SWP candidates for then a wholesale slaughter at a dis announcement was made by Carol mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Senate in the 1970 elections. tance- a slaughter whose very mag Lipman, national executive secretary Another guy was helped hobbling * * * nitude sometimes defies genuine human of the Student Mobilization Committee to a dorm. One leg had been shot. Allison Krause, Sandra Lee Scheuer, com prehension. to End the War in Vietnam, and One fellow lay in the parking lot. Jeffrey Glenn Miller and William E. The death of these four young Amer Charles Palmer, president of the N a Just lay there. Schroeder are dead- victims of the ican students drives home with a sud tiona! Student Association. There were sounds of ambulance same capitalist government that has den clarity what is really happening Also participating in the press con sirens. The ambulances pulled up. killed hundreds of thousands of Viet to masses of people in Southeast Asia. ference were Mike York and Fred "Over here," some students were yel namese and more than 50,000 Ameri And that the time has come to stop it. Kirsch, students at Kent State whose ling. "Over here." Students were point can Gis. The millions of American students harrowing story is told in this issue ing down at the wounded lying on the With millions of Americans mourn now galvanized into action have both of The Militant. ground. "Please hurry, please hurry." ing their martyrdom, a decisive new the historic responsibility and the Announcement was made at the con The attendant lifted one fellow on chapter is being written in American equally historic opportunity of mobi ference that the slated action had been to a stretcher. One side of his head history. lizing additional, massive sectors of endorsed by the Washington Feder was puffed way out and his face was Who is responsible for their mur the American people to stay the hands ation of Teachers. blue. der? The individual most directly re of the warmakers and to deal serious The national day of mourning was People were crying and screaming, sponsible is Richard Nixon himself. blows to the social system responsible. backed this afternoon by a Boston saying this thing was uncalled for. When American students cried out May 30, Memorial Day, must be a rally of 25,000. Called by the Boston We blame Nixon for this. He's the against the violence capitalism is visit day of unprecedented giant street mo SMC, the rally at the State House man responsible for these murders. ing upon the people of Indochina, bilizations. The students must reach was addressed by speakers from the He sent the troops to Vietnam and Nixon publicly branded them as out and bring into action as never entire antiwar coalition. Peter Camejo, sent more to Cambodia. The students "bums"! Nixon and his cohorts have before hundreds of thousands of work Socialist Workers Party candidate for are outraged. created the kind of atmosphere ing people- Black, Brown and white U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, was What is there to do now? The an where a National Guard commander G Is, high school students and every given a standing ovation when he swer is immediate, total withdrawal can order his men to fire into an other strata of the population that can called Nixon responsible for the mur of troops. unarmed assemblage -because "we be reached. This will honor the mem der of the four students at Kent State. Kent is closed now. The university's were out of tear gas." ory of the four martyrs of the Kent At one point the moderator called president sent all the students home. But while Nixon bears the central State massacre. upon the governor, who was watching But we want the killers brought to personal responsibility for the crime The gunning down of the Kent State the rally from his office in the State trial. committed at Kent State University, Four illustrates the harsh reality that House, to lower the American flag in Right now, we're still in sort of a his responsibility is not individual. the barbarism of capitalism is not lo front of the building to half-mast in state of shock. We can still see the He bears the burden of guilt as the calized to the ghetto or to the oppressed honor of the four murdered students. National Guardsmen firing. principal political spokesman for and. is not solely for export. If not A chant to this effect broke out. Within Each of us tried to go to sleep last American capitalism. The four Kent replaced by a rational, socialist order, minutes it was lowered to half-mast, night. But you can't. You put down students fell victim to the same violence capitalist barbarism will ultimately during which everyone stood in si your head, and you keep hear being directed against the. people of drown all of humanity. lence with fists raised. ing shots. Indochina. Stop the war. Bring every single The Nixon administration and the G I home. End all capitalist violence imperialist system it represents are de at home and abroad. Move toward termined to maintain their domination a socialist society cleansed of barbar of Southeast Asia- no matter what ism- a society where for the first time the cost in lives of Vietnamese. And, freedom, justice and humanity will pre if need be, they are entirely capable vail. of attempting the same kind of cold blooded violence against those in this Dianne Feeley, California; Naomi country who raise their voices to say, Allen, Illinois; Peter Camejo, Massa "No! Stop it!" chusetts; Paul Lodico, Michigan; Nan Millions of Americans have been re cy Strebe, Minnesota; Kipp Dawson, pelled by the American violence visited New York; James Harris, Ohio; Robin upon the Vietnamese. They were Maisel, Pennsylvania; Marianne Her shocked by the horror of My Lai and nandez, Texas; Bill Massey, Washing sickened by the new slaughter in Cam ton; and Linda Jenness, SWP candi bodia. But it is a reality of human date for governor of Georgia.