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.. J(-~2J No. 243 ...... -...... 9 November 1979

For Labor/Black Mass Mobilizations

,GREENSBORO, North Carolina-On November 3, to the horror of more than 100 onlookers, the Ku Klux Klan stormed an anti-Klan rally here with guns blating, murdering five demon­ strators and wounding many others. The unprecedented broad-daylight murder raid upon the integrated crowd was shocking in its openness. This was no night-ride through town. No mid­ night cross burning. No hooded intimi­ dation. This was murder, cold-blooded racist murder. The killers dumped their hooded robes in favor of shotguns and semi­ automatic rifles for this assassination attack outside the Morningside Homes, a black housing project in southeastern Greensboro. They knew what they were doing. There wasn't a cop in sight as thev drove their cars into the middle of the' peaceful demonstration on their miss\()n 0; J(;(\th. rhis \',the New York Times. "Watching in sheer disbelief, I saw four pausing to reload or survey their work. The bourgeois media is treating one or five men step from an old compact Without hesitation, they poured bullets of the most vicious massacres in continued on page 2

Police and city politicians are stone­ walling an explanation as to how that unprecedented daylight assault could have occurred. At a press conference today. held in Greensboro city council Report From Greensboro chambers, Chief William Swing ex­ plained that the Klan had in fact been under surveillance prior to the attack. I The fc)II(}1I'inX radio neil's report lI'as asked why the Klan was not stopped and plared on sel'eral radio stations from Chief Swing responded: "Our police car coast to coast. many or them oriented was watching these cars. At that point in tOll'ard hlack listener audiences. In the time there had been no law violated aftermath or the Greensboro murders. whatsoever. We had no right to stop any WV II'as the onlr left newspaper to vehicle." prol'ide on-the-scene col'eraxe or this Although not one KKK assassin was unprecedented racist hloodbath. wounded, official spokesmen as well as the local and national media are NOVEMBER 4-This is Mark Laugh­ portraying yesterday's murders as a ton reporting for Workers Vanguard in shootout between the Klan and leftists, Greensboro, North Carolina. It's Sun­ involving "outsiders." Today, in fact, day night and the black community here City Manager Tom Osborne issued a is still reeling in the wake of yesterday's statement which blamed equally the bloody Ku Klux Klan ,..,ck which left victims and the perpetrators of this four dead as an anti-fascist rally was vicious crime. assembling in a predominantly black Those actually present, however, tell housing project in southeast Greens­ a different story. Eyewitnesses told me boro. In addition to the dead, ten other that when the police remained several demonstrators were gunned down and blocks away from the rally starting Blood of Greensboro: we will not forget. two of these are in critical condition. continued on page 2 downtown Detroit. This campaign of those arrested include convictions for every right to be." "We were not sure KKK terror must be stopped. Socialists and breaking and entering, assault. assault what was going to happen," he said. So militants in the labor movement must on a female, larceny, forgery and the cops provided an escort to this small call on organized labor to mobilize its drunkenness. Harold Covington, a Nazi army through the black community, Murders... tremendous social power, in alliance from Raleigh, offered this "defense" of right into the demonstration. As Burley with black and other minority organiza­ (continued from page 1) his fellow fascists: "They are guys who Mitchell, State Secretary of Crime tions and the left to stop the Klan in its wcre trained in Vietnam to kill Reds. Control, defended the cops: editorial headline 6 November and tracks. No more Greensboro fheir trainingjust took over" ( Winston­ "They had no authority to stop the cars continuing: massacres-For massive labor/black Sa/em Journa/, 5 November). As they ... until some law was violated. Very tragically, in this case, the first law that "Some Klansmen and Nazis, members action to smash the Nazis and the Klan! waited for their hearing to begin, the No to gun control! Uphold the right to had been violated involved the murder." of the violent fringe, killed five people. killers could be heard singing "My -UPI dispatch, 4 November The victims were from another fringe, armed self-defense! Jail the killer Country Tis of Thec" and "Onward Witnesses report that several vehicles the Marxist left. Tht;y were members of Klansmen! Drop the charges against the Christian Soldiers." the Communist Workers Party U.S.A. anti-Klan protesters! escaped on Saturday. Only after the and they believed that provoking But it is not just the fascist triggermen killings did police finally arrive at the violence from the Klan might promote who have blood on their hands. Why that point they socialist revolution." Racists in Blue shattered rally. At were the Greensboro police more than a arrested three of the survivors! Workers Going beyond the fraud of journalistic In Greensboro on November 5, block away from the demonstration Viewpoint spokesman Nelson Johnson "objectivity," much of the press cover­ twelve of the assassins were arraigned rallying point? One Greensboro Dai/y later told WV, "They charged us with age appeared sympathetic to the Klan on multiple counts of murder and News photographer (according to a 5 instigating a riot in the middle of a war for standing up to the communists' . that had already started." At the Sunday insults, and ominously implying the press conference in city council cham­ demonstrators "got what they de­ bers, local politicians claimed that served." According to the New York "outside radical influences" were re­ Times' southern "movement" specialist sponsible for the bloodshed and Greens­ Wayne King (notorious for his 1976 boro mayor Jim Melvin stated that the articles labeling the victims of the police acted "very responsibly." Ques­ "Wilmington 10" racist frame-up "ter­ tioned by the WV reporter as to how the rorists"), the Klan was just retaliating victims were to blame for the Klan's for an earlier Workers Viewpoint murders, city manager Tom Osborne Organi71ltion (\\ yO) "raid" on a July 8 stonewalled, "I don't blame anyone for KKK rally in which a Confederate flag it, because we don't have all the facts was burned. And a 12 November available yet." This, however, did not Newsweek article gloated that WVO prevent him from banning all parades had "publically taunted" the Klan as and marches until further notice, thus "two-bit punks" and "invited" them to cffectively making a previously an­ show up at the rally. "So they came," the nounced WVO funeral-demonstration magazine smugly concluded. illegal. It was murder, and the bourgeoisie is Currently. 20 fBI agents and the defending it. As John Kissazk, a long­ entire local office of the state under­ time organizer for the Textile Workers cover pol icc. SBI, arc investigating the in the Carolinas, put it in a phone After Klan "possibility" that the demonstrators' interview with WV: " ... it's the old massacre, Greensboro civil rights were violated! These investi­ gimmick-ifyou'redefendinga murder­ gations will undoubtedly be used to er. the best way to defend him is to cops arrest survivors' increase the harassment of left organiza­ convince the jury that the person who wounded leader tions. The state attorney general told the got killed descrved to be killed." In thc Nelson Johnson Ra/eiKh News and Observer (5 Novem­ face of this criminal attitude. it is ever for "inciting a bcr) that in light of stepped-up Klan more urgent that all workers and riot"! activities, he would review plans for socialist organizations, all black and scrutiny of "radical" groups. "We may other minority rights groups, and all have to monitor them more closely." he those concerned with democratic rights said. come forward with a mighty outcry An over the country reformists like against this monstrous deed. It is a the Communist Party (CP) and the reflection of the present weakness of the liberals are calling upon the capitalist black movement that not a single black state to "ban the Klan." Greensboro organization has called for a protest. shows the dangerous stupidity of this Likewise, although several of the vic­ demand. The capitalist state will side tims were union militants, the trade­ with the Nazis and any anti-Klan law u union bureaucracy has issued no re­ "§ will surely be used to attack the left. On sponse. It is in this climate that the ~ the very day of the Greensboro massa­ Q) fascist scum breed, protected by the u cre, some 300 cops in Dallas protected a cops, emboldened by the racist mobili­ ~ gang of 50 KKK marchers in full regalia zations that defeated busing in the conspiracy to commit murder. Two November New York Times account) as they stomped provocatively through streets of Boston and Louisville. more were charged only with conspira­ said he overheard policemen in a patrol that city for the first time in 60 years Every successful cross burning, every cy. With the exception of Ronald car radio say that they were leaving the One can only guess what the response of fascist parade through a Jewish or black Wayne Wood and Rayford Caudle, area. As one veteran observer noted, the Greensboro cops would have been neighborhood, every courtroom victo­ members of a paramilitary Nazi storm­ "During the whole civil rights fight the had they "carefully watched" carloads ry in the liberals' campaign for "free trooper group in Forsyth County, all are Greensboro police were known to of blacks load up car trunks with :. speech for facists" whets the murderers' reportedly admitted members of one of always be ten minutes late." Moreover, automatic weapons and drive into a appetite for more viofence. Today, while North Carolina's five Klan organiza­ Greensboro police 'chief William Swing demonstration of Klansmen. the bodies of the Greensboro Five have tions with an estimated total member­ stated at the November 4 press confer­ Workers Viewpoint (which recently not even been buried in their graves, the ship of 1,000. At least one-and ence that the Klan convoy was under changed its name to the Communist Ku Klux Klan is preparing for a possibly more-of the assailants is still surveillance all the way into the demon­ Workers Party U.S.A.) claims not only "victory" march through the streets of '!-t large. Individual criminal records of stration area "where by law they had complicity by the local cops, but also

weapons in the trunk and sped off. behind Carter's "New South" where Greensboro Twelve Klansmen were stopped and runaway conglomerates like J.P. Ste­ WfJllliEIIS arrested 100 yards away but at least oile vens can brandjsh right-to-work laws in carload escaped and remains at large. order to keep wages down and union VANfilJAltlJ Report... This afternoon I spoke with the organizers out. It is certainly no acci­ Marxist Working-Class Biweekly (continued from page 1) widows of two ofthe demonstrators and dent that two of the Klan's victims had of the Spartacist League of the U.S. Nelson Johnson, a local leader of the been officials of the Amalgamated EDITOR: Jan Norden point, the convoy ot a dozen or more Workers Viewpo,nt Organization, Clothing and Textile Workers Union ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Charles Burroughs cars and trucks suddenly drove into the which organized the rally. Johnson's and worked at two of Cone Mills' area PRODUCTION: Darlene Kamiura (Manager) crowd of a hundred, which included hands were heavily bandaged, both plants. A third was organizing a union Noah Wilner many children, and stopped. Carloads from a stab wound received at the hands among Duke University workers and a CIRCULATION MANAGER: Karen Wyatt of Klansmen emptied into the street of the Ku Klux Klan as well as the fourth, a black woman, was a long-time EDITORIAL BOARD: Jon Brule. George shouting racial epithets. Gunmen lei­ subsequent manhandling he received civil rights activist. s- Foster, Liz Gordon, James Robertson, Joseph surely opened the trunk of a Ford sedan Jii Seymour, Marjorie Stamberg from the police. "There was a massa­ In fact. this atrocity could only have '£ Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published and emerged with pistols, shotguns, lead cre," the demonstra'tors told me, which occurred in a climate where hundreds of JJ!r biweekly. skipping an issue in August and a pipes, knives and at least one automatic could only have occurred with the thousands of workers remain without "'" week in December, by the Spartacist Publishing Co., 260 West Broadway, New rifle-an AR-15, the civilian version of complicity of the police. They de­ union protection, due to the failure of ''- --­ York, NY 10013. Telephone: 966-6841 the army's M-16. scribed how, when the police finally the AFL-CIO national leaders to launch (Editorial), 925-5665 (Business). Address all :s- correspondence to: Box 1377, G.P.O., New They began firing and did not stop for arrived, "they stood around with their a mass organizing drive which would York, NY 10001. Domeslic subscriptions: two full minutes. One woman was first guns trained on us." The women were unionize the South. Elimination of the $300/24 issues. Second-class postage paid at New York, NY. clubbed with ;picket sign and then shot dragged away from their husbands' open shop along with these murderous Opmions expressed m signed articles or as she lay d'seless. Another Klans­ bodies and Johnson was booked on the KKK defcnders remains a vital task of t letters do not necessarily express the man was seen firing two pistols simul­ incredible charge of "inciting a riot." thc labor movement-in fact, it is a editorial Viewpoint. taneously and point blank at his prone Currently, he is free on bail. question of life and death. victim. As the crowd, many screaming Yestcrday's massacre in Greensboro, For Workers VanKuard this is No. 243 9 November 1979 in terror, fled for cover the gunmen site of the first civil rights sit-ins during Mark Laughton in Greensboro, North r7-- returned to their cars, replaced their the carly '60s. exposes the bloody reality Carolina.• ~ 2 WORKERS VANGUARD unchallenged. not only in the eyes of the local KKK. but in the eyes of local activists. It is not really so strange. given the particularism of the South, that activists looking for a party looked to Workers Viewpoint in Greensboro as militants in Harlan County looked to Nelson Peery's Communist Labor Party. Those who saw the WVO cadre shot down knew well it could have been any of us. The Klan was gunning for the· "commies," "nigger lovers" and "labor agitators." The Greensboro massacre was a spectacular show of force in the KKK's deadly race-hate war. Those Although millions saw the cold-blooded Klan attack on their TV screens, the media alibied it as "a shootout." Klan guns were-and are-aimed at every single black and minority-group that the federal government and FBI are wounds were to the face and chest, tionism characterize this bizarre sect. family, every trade unionist and social­ deeply involved in the murders. They indicating careful aim. Thus, a recent Workers Viewpoint (I ist, every social "deviant" in America. have not yet offered any hard evidence. The WVO as an organization is best September) centerfold on Iran boasted But the case of the hooded FBI agent, known for its sectarianism and rabid that "Executing U.S.-Soviet Agents and Gary Thomas Rowe, the "best [FBI] anti-Trotskyism. But the five dead and Trots is Fine!" WVO also thinks it's fine Labor Must Smash the Klan agent" J. Edgar Hoover had ever seen, ten injured were shot down because they to throw a trade unionist down a flight ought to be remembered. Paid by the sought to oppose the Klan's vicious of stairs if they don'! li~e what he says­ The Greensboro massacre is the next FBI and lauded by his Klan cohorts, vendetta against blacks, Jews, unionists which they did in New York last year logical step in the increasing campaign Rowe organized and led the Birming­ and leftists. The victims included indi­ when a militant from the National of Klan terror. Protected by the cops, ham, Alabama Klan action squads. His viduals with a long and honorable Maritime Union called for a transit emboldened by racist mobilizations blood trail of atrocities included the history in the Southern civil rights strike to defend the workers instead of against busing, ttte Klan and the Nazis 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist movement and as union militants in the WVO's position of calling on the do their dirty work with their "rights" Church which killed four young black textile and hospital unions. The dead capitalist courts to "arbitrate" a union defended by myopic civil libertarians girls, the brutal 1961 "bloody Sunday" are: election. such as the ACLU and the Socialist ambush of the Birmingham "freedom Sandra Smith, 29, the only black Workers Party. Above all, it is the riders" and the 1965 murder of Viola among the murdered. A long-time Even now, after five oftheir comrades absence of a combative movement of LiulZo, a white civil rights worker shot Southern civil rights activist, she moved lie dead, Workers Viewpoint is deter­ blacks and labor to defend the demo­ to death on an Alabama highway. In to Greensboro in 1969 and was active in mined to destroy united-front efforts of cratic rights of the oppressed that most return for his "information," Rowe's campus politics and the Greensboro other black, left and labor groups accounts for the Klan and Nazi grateful FBI employers paid him over Association of Poor People. As a against the murderous Klan. At press resurgente. $22,000. production worker at a Cone Mills time it was reported that WVO has even It is not surprising that the Klan has textile plant near Greensboro in 1977, . taken to attacking SYL campus rallies re-emerged with such bloody force in Uphold the Right of Armed Self­ she was a leader of an employee plant protesting the massacre of their com­ the "New South" of.]immy Carter. For Defense! committee fighting for union organiza­ rades! In Berkeley. October 6, a handful that "New South" is built on the promise tion of the 1,000 workers there. of WVOers showed up early at the SYL of a "union-free ·environment." No Amidst all the illusions about cop demonstration site at Sproul Plaza, and James Waller, 37, an early member of wonder that the Klan breathes so easily protection, what stands out is the need after virulent arguing began a brawl the Student Non-Violent Coordinating in such a bitterly anti-labor climate. for the right of armed self-defense with SYL supporters. The WVO at­ Committee (SNCC). A physician, he Greensboro is J.P. Stevens country, against the murderous thugs. Although tempt to destroy the demonstration was was active in health worker groups both where union-busting by-any-means­ WVO spokesmen do not deny that some unsuccessful, as over 200 people at­ at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx and necessary is a way of life. of the demonstrators were armed, it is tended. After their attack was repelled organizing brown-lung screening clinics The Klan and Nazis cannot be self-evident that they were essentially the retreated to another corner of s£l1.~H ~!!~nt.urist in the South. A member ofAmalgamat­ wva defeated by demOn­ defenseless against the Klan's on­ tiie"Campus fO"liold their rally with 15 ed Clothing and Textile Workers Union strations. As the" most recent one in slaught. Police rulings stipulated that people. In Chicago. WVO speakers Greensboro tragically showed, implicit (ACTWU) Local 11132 at the Cone the demonstrators could not carry invited by the SYL to speak refused to reliance on the cops to protect the anti­ Mills Haw River plant near Burlington, weapons and even picket-sign sticks give up the stage to other speakers from racist militants is a deadly strategy. In in 1978 he led a wildcat strike of 200 could be no more than two feet in left. black and labor groups and finally this fight to the finish with the Klan and workers against company cutsin piece­ length. The capitalist state demands a had to be moved out to the perimeter of the Nazis. blacks and labor must rely on work rateS. monopoly on the means of violence and tll~ demonstration by SYL marshals. their own power. No reliance on the William Sampson, 31, a student has been busy passing gun control capitalist state! Jail the Klan killers and activist at Duke University, a former -But that is not the reason the Klan legislation to ensure that the victims of throwaway the key! No to gun member of the New American Move­ gunned them down in the streets. For the racist cops and Nazis are unarmed. control-Uphold the right of armed ment (N AM) chapter there, and a shop the Greensboro Klan, Workers View­ Particularly in the South, the self-defense! Drop the charges against steward at the Cone Mills White Oak point was the "commie" organization in defeatist tradition of liberal pacifism is the anti-Klan protesters! For massive plant in Greensboro. town. And. given the weakness of the strong. Ironically, the Greensboro lunch labor/black mobilizations to smash the Cesar Cauce. Cuban, active at Duke left in America and the insular character counters are among its principal shrines. University organizing the campus work­ of the South. even a tiny bizarre Maoist Klan and avenge the Greensboro But the lunch counters at Woolworth's massacre! • ers AFSC ME chapter. He was a splinter group can occupy this position are not North Carolina's sole memorial hospital worker. to the civil rights movement. In 1957, J1ichael Nathans, died of his wounds three years before the first black November 5 in the hospitaL a physician. demonstrators stoically took the blows Before joining WVO, he was a member of racist cops for the "crime" of ordering of Progressive Labor Party. coftee, a night-riding KKK crew set out Still in critical condition is one of the to attack the home of Monroe. North rally organizers. Paul Bermanzohn, Hands Off Assata Shakur! Carolina black leader, Dr. A.A. Perry. shot in the head. A former NAM Ihey were met with a hail of gunfire. member at Duke, he was active in the Former Black Panther and Black prison. For overj(iUr rears the state held Iht: Monroe branch of the NAACP, led left since the early 1970s. Liberation Army (BLA) leader Assata her without a conviction, staging three by Robert F. Williams, "shot it out" Ihe long record of militancy by these Shakuf (Joanne Chesimard) is out of successive frame-up trials on different with the Klan and drove off the racist martyred activists makes one immedi­ prison-freed November 2 in a dramatic charges. She was acquitted all three vnrnm. ately ask how they wound up in such a and well-executed escape. Three visitors times. Finally, after nearly dying of crazed and criminally sectarian outfit as signed in. got the drop on her guards at wounds suffered during a New Jersey Robert Williams did not offer the WVO. Workers Viewpoint is perhaps the Clinton women's prison, drove her trooper attack on the car she was riding black man's blood in exchange for the one of the most hysterically disoriented out in a commandeered prison van with in. having her baby (born in prison) illusory promise of "protection" by the of all the Stalinist/Maoist groups. two guards as hostages, switched cars taken away from her. spending over a racist. capitalist state. He demanded the Raving supporters of the deposed and got clean away from the New Jersey year in solitary confinement, Shdkur right to live. And so, in 1961, threatened "Gang of Four," Jerry Tung's organiza­ police. The FBI has begun a massive and was successfully framed up in 1977 by. with lynching. framed up on kidnap tion was originally based in New York's deadly nationwide manhunt. an all-white jury, for supposedly charges, he was forced to flee the Chinatown and often acted as if they That Shakur is alive at all today. let wounding one of the troopers with his country while the oh-so-respectable thought they were living in Hong Kong. alone out of prison, is something of a own gun. NAACP turned a cold shoulder to his After fusing with several dissident miracle. A whole generation of black As Workers VanKuard wrote at the defense. But the hooded cowards who Maoist collectives, most importantly a radicals was wasted, some by murder­ time. "Assata Shakur is a class-war. sought an easy prey learned to fear black North Carolina black nationalist group ous cop vendetta, some by the tragic prisoner. . .. It is the responsibility of men with guns and they did not soon out of the African Liberation Support political degeneration of the Panthers. labor and socialist militants and all return. Committee, WVO looks more like the The original cadre of the BLA derived those concerned with defense of demo­ rest of the Mao-Stalinist milieu. But from the old New York Panther cratic rights to rally to her cause.... Free In the Klan's Sights their specialty is still virulent thug leadership. They sought to keep alive Assata Shakur!" (WV No. 146, 25 Members of Workers Viewpoint are violence, particularly directed against the spirit of black rebellion through acts February 1977). Having now escaped insisting that the murders were not Trotskyists. If on Monday WVO is of individual terrorism' which, while the clutches of the brutal, racist,' committed at random, but were, in fact, capable of holding a "Death to the heroic, often bordered on lumpen vindictive bourgeois state, Shakur is executions carried out by "expert Klan" rally, they are on Tuesday criminality and were inevitably suicidal. quite literally running for her life-ifthe marksmen." It cannot be considered capable of holding a "Death to the Trots One of the few survivors of the vicious cops catch her, they'll do their best to coincidental that out of a crowd of 100, and Down with Russia" rally. Vicious FBI Cointelpro conspiracy to "get" the make sure she never gets a second all five dead were long-time prominent sectarianism, the most stupid substitu­ Panthers, Shakur spent over six years in chance. Hands off Assata Shakur!. labor and civil rights activists. The tional adventurism and verbal insurrec- 9 NOVEMBER 1979 3 SWP Joins the Non-Aligned In the past year the normally staid becoming the gray-flannel fidelistas of Pan American Union, as "a society to The notorious Central African Em and flaccid Socialist Workers Party the '80s, looking for a bloc with the which the shark [the U.S.] can belong. pire was represented, whose Emperor (SWP) has really gone batso for Castro. Andrew Youngs and the rest ofthe "far­ temporarily impersonating a sardine." Bokassa was soon to be overthrown by The kickoff came with a "Fidel-taught­ sighted" liberals who see Cuba as a But no more such "epithets" for Cuba­ his French sponsors, along with Equa­ me - everything -I - know - about - social­ "factor of stability" in Africa and they might insult the shark and alert the torial Guinea, whose dictator, the ism" speech by SWP /ider maximo Jack elsewhere. other sardines. record-holding mass murderer Macias Barnes on the 20th anniversary of the So when Castro started his current Then came Cuba's diplomatic (50.000 victims out of a population of Cuban revolution, in which he hailed pro-detente, non-aligned diplomatic triumph as the host and convener of the 300.000) had just been ousted with the the Castro team as "superior to the offensive last spring, it was grist for the "non-aligned" nations summit in early aid of Madrid. There was even a Bol.shevik leadership" ("once you leave SW P's mill. It started with Fidel's September. According to the rules of delegation from "non-aligned" Spain aside Lenin, Trotsky, Sverdlov, and annual 26th of July speech in which protocol of this potpourri of "Third itself. an imperialist/colonialist power people like that"!). Now they've taken to Fidel praised the OAS (Organization of World" Stalinists, "anti-imperialist" about to enter NATO, whose presence reprinting Fidel's every hiccup, includ­ American States) for rejecting a U.S. colonels and out-and-out reactionaries, Castro praised in his speech as offering ing three entire Castro speeches since proposal for an imperialist "peacekeep­ Castro was elected chairman ofthe non­ "a hope for friendly and useful relations July (and they are a lot more interesting ing force" for Nicaragua. According to aligned movement for the next three with all the peoples of the world." than the garbage that usually appears in Zimmermann (Militant, 10 August) years. For its part, the SWP went all Appropriately enough, chairing the the Militant). And when the Castro "rightly hailed" this vote as "a out: a 24 September Intercontinental session was Sri Lankan president J. R. Cuban leader hit town for a speech at great victory for the people of our Pr-ess article by Fred Feldman. entitled Jayawardene. who recently imposed a the UN, his local publicity agents state ofemergency in the Tamil minority published no less than twelve articles in areas and drastic anti-working-c1ass the 26 October Militant, including (in cuts of social services. Back home addition to the complete text, ofcourse) .layawardene was known as "Yankee a full-page commentary by Gus Horo­ Dickie" because in the '50s he was John witz running under the Castro quote "I Foster Dulles' favorite Asian diplomat Speak for the Children Without a Piece for his repeated attacks on the Soviet of Bread." Union. In fact, the SWP's "socialist News­ Yet according to the Socialist week" is beginning to look like the Workers Party, this gang struck a blow Cuban bureaucracy's Granma in more against imperialism. How is that possi­ ways than one. Militant readers have hie'! Feldman wrote: lately been treated to the most vapid "But these countries do confront some­ "human interest" pro-Castro pulp-for thing ·universal.' All are semicolonies or former colonies of imperialism .... The example, "They Call Me Fidel," in the coming together of these countries 31 August issue which turns out to be reflects the realities of the laws of the the story of how a Puerto Rican worker world capitalist market and the result­ from Schenectady saw the light and ing economic and political conflicts with imperialism. even among the became a Castroite. Then there was the most overtly pro-imperialist member sappy travelogue of Cathy Sedwick and governments." Matilde Zimmermann on their Cuban To claim that the "Third World" vacation last summer. Sedwick, head of nationalist and neo-colonialist regimes the SWP's Young Pioneers, declared the are opposed to imperialism denies country "an inspiration to youth" while reality, expressed in the theory of the SWP's lightweight vice-presidential permanent revolution. Jn the imperialist candidate Zimmermann gushed over epoch. wrote Trotsky. the backward every pearl which came out of Fidel's countries cannot achieve nationa\ mouth. To top it off, we hear that plans emancipation short of carrying out a are afoot to recruit a bigger-than-ever proletarian revolution. The weak native Venceremos Brigade under SWP aus­ bourgeoisies are so fearful of a revolu­ pices. Anytime now we expect to see the Prensa Latina tionary mobilization of the worker/ formation of a U.S.-Cuba Friendship Tito pontificates, Castro yawns, at September "non-..ligned" nations summit peasant masses that they cannot break Society-perhaps Linda Jenness will get in Havana. from domestic feudalists and foreign the role of Anna Louise Strong publish­ America." The OAS action was no more "Havana Conference Deals Stinging imperialists. It is these agents of imperi­ ing "Boy Meets Girl on Mechanical a victory for the masses of the Western Setback to Washington," glowed that alism. not the spokesmen for the Cane Picker in the Isle of Pines"! Can Hemisphere than any other occasion on the sunlmit "marks a mighty triumph oppressed masses, who were represent­ the SWP really be naive enough to think which Secretary of State Vance gets one for the Cuban revolution." Separating ed at Havana. And what about the SWP it has a shot at the Cuban "franchise'''! up on "hard cop" Brzezinksi in Carter out Cuba from the rest of the deformed assertion that Cuba's policy is counter­ The SWP and Castro go back a long administration in-fighting. (And don't workers states. the SWP argues that posed to Moscow's'! In his speech to the ways, to the early '60s in fact, when the think the Latin American ministers cast Havana's foreign policy is counterposed "non-aligned" conference Castro assert­ SWP-as part of its definitive rejection their ballots without clearance from to Moscow's: ed emphatically: "We must demand of Trotskyism-labeled Castro an Foggy Bottom-even the U.S. voted "The Castro leadership's class struggle peace. detente. peaceful coexistence and "unconscious Marxist" and declared against its own motion in the end.) stance is in striking contrast to the class­ disarmament." "Thus, we must greet that an independent proletarian van­ But for Fidel it was a "real act of collaborationist approach of the bu­ with satisfaction the SALT II agree­ reaucratic castes in Moscow, Peking guard no longer was necessary to lead insubordination on the part ofthe Latin and Belgrade. Stalinist regimes view ments between the Soviet Union and the the socialist revolution. But with time American states" as a result of which these gatherings as possible points of United States ...." You couldn't ask for the "Fair Play for Cuba" committees "for the first time we can mention the support for attaining economic dnd a more explicit denial of the SWP's went the way of other SWP "progres­ name of the OAS without epithets." So diplomatic deals with the imperialists claims-and straight from the horse's sive" front groups. By 1968, the "Year of for Castro this powerless body is no on the basis of the international status mouth. quo. The Cubans have the opposite the Heroic Guerrilla," the now­ longer the "Yankee ministry of colon­ aims." It's not just that Barnes & Co. are reformist SWP was locked into its ies" as he called it in his Second trying to prettify Castro, making him antiwar coalitions with the Democratic Declaration of Haval1a, the 1961 speech A "revolutiondry triumph",! Hardly. out to be a revolutionary proletarian Party doves and not about to cut cane the SWP falsely hailed as evidence that Just take a look at the guest list. Among internationalist. The SWP actually with Maoist/Guevarist "ultralefts." Cuba was following the path of per­ the assorted luminaries were such well­ approves of Cuban policies. So when When today they again pick up the manent revolution. Even former known "progressives" as Jordan's King Castro hails various Latin American cause of Castro's deformed workers Guatemalan president Juan Jose Areva­ Hussein, author of the Black September hourgeois regimes for supposedly win­ state in the Caribbean. it'.. with an eye to lo referred to the OAS' predecessor, the massacre of Palestinian refugees; Sa­ ning a "victory for the peoples of dat's Egypt, of the U.S.-backed separate America," the Militant cheers, "right peace with Israel; and Ferdinand Mar~ on!" Although the SWP was neutral cos' Philippines. where thousands of when South Africa and CIA-led mer­ leftist and Muslim rebels are butchered cenaries attacked Angola in 1975-76, it in one of the tightest police states of the subsequently hailed Castro's aid to the capitalist world. Among the small-fry Neto regime (including training security reactionaries were "independent" feu­ forces which put down leftist agitation dalists such as King Wangchuk of the in the Luanda slums) as an act of "anti­ Himalayan principality of Bhutan; a imperialist solidarity." And when Cuba slew of black African countries whose props up the butcher Mengistu in regimes rest on the bayonets of French Ethiopia. who is trying to suppress a troops (Chad. Gabon, Djibouti), as well national liberation struggle by the as other neo-colonialist subjects of Somali minority and waging a war of c:;., French imperialism (Ivory Coast, Sene­ extermination against Eritrea, Jack co gal); reactionary Near Eastern oil sheiks Barnes labels the Derg (junta) "revolu­ ~ from Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab tionary" and pretends that Havana c o Emirates. Saudi Arabia and Oman opposes the bloody suppression of the Cl <5 (which not long ago pur down a Cuban­ Eritreans. .. '-' armed insurgency with the aid of the shah's It is not surprising, therefore, that Cuban Stalinist "Lider" greets King Hussein (left) and Wangchuk of Bhutan troops); and even the South African client when Castro declares the "non-aligned" (right). states of Botswana and Lesotho. continued on page II 4 WORKERS VANGUARD Shut Down Agjmpl Victory to Caterpillar/18 Strike!

CH ICAGO-Some 75,000 members of LJ AW tops were forced to call out 35,000 workers. In return Fraser gets a seat on the United Auto Workers (UAW) IH workers November I. Contract talks the Chrysler board of directors, where employed by two large agricultural with both companies have now broken he will help bleed his own membership implements manufacturers have hit the down and are not expected to resume as the company closes plant after plant. bricks to repulse takeaways and sellout for some time. These betrayals only emboldened the contracts such as those imposed on auto At the heart of the contract battle are agriCUltural equipment bosses to hard­ workers earlier this fall. The key strike the bosses' efforts to impose on UAW line it. They want to knock out volun­ issues: full seniority rights and no forced members in agricultural implements the tary overtime and union seniority pro­ overtime. Most important, the walkout same rotten conditions that exist in the visions so they, too, will have a free hand at Caterpillar and Harvester goes auto industry. Long the only UAW­ to layoff workers and speed up those directly counter to the UAW's defeatist organized company without some form who remain. No doubt the ag imp bosses policy of "pattern bargaining" and one­ of mandatory overtime, IH has tried to figured that if they could ram through a at-a-time strikes. Here is a chance to hit reverse this trade-union gain in the past settlement to their liking at Deere, they the ag imp bosses with a solid strike of and appears to be digging in for a could then pick off Caterpillar and the entire industry! showdown this time. Also at issue are a Harvester one by one. But the militant The strike was kicked off by the huge company proposal to limit seniority workers at Local 794 busted this u~ 2S.000-member Local 794 at Caterpillar rights and the union's desire for "auto­ when they downed tools in defiance of (ractor Co. in Peoria, Illinois. When matic recognition" at new IH plants. thcir own International. union contracts with the farm machin­ Caterpillar workers. meanwhile, are Caterpillar and IH workers have ery producers expired on October I, the demanding improvement in their sen­ delivered a powerful blow at the UAW UAWlnternational attempted to im­ iority rights and an end to the mandato­ bureaucracy's bankrupt strategy of pose its disastrous one-at-a-time strate­ ry overtime provision in their last "pattern bargaining," or one-at-a-time gy by striking only John Deere & Co. contract. strikes under which the union sacrifices But Local 794 walked out the same day. While the UAW settled last month the power of a united membership In the face of attempts by the LJAW with John Deere fora contract that mobilized solidly against the bosses. International to force them back to their accepted the same miserable annual 3 Clearly worried about the example a jobs by denying them strike and insur­ percent wage hike that auto workers got militant industrywide strike would set, ance benefits, the strikers stuck to their and retained the mandatory overtime UAW picketer at Chicago IH plant. just last week union officials were guns and forced the union to sanction a provision, Harvester and Caterpillar herding angry UAW members across companywide strike. workers are determined to defend and away ten hours a day. This is the direct picket lines set up by a striking machin­ The UAW bureaucrats had similarly improve their union conditions. Strikers result of the traitorous policies pursued ists local at Deere's Moline, IIlinois threatened International Harvester(IH) at both companies told WVthat they are by UAW president Doug Fraser. Not plant. It is imperative that John Deere workers with loss of benefits if they prepared to hold out for months if only did he negotiate a desperately be shut down companywide to junk last walked out. Members of UAW Local 6 necessary to win voluntary overtime. At inadequate contract for GM and Ford month's contract and that none of the (at the Melrose Park IH plant outside the IH plant in Melrose Park the entire workers, one that provided absolutely striking locals return to work until a Chicago) also reported that local offi­ shop committee reportedly threatened no protection against layoffs and forced uniform contract is won that meets the cials had pressured the workforce into to resign if the International bargains overtime-and even committed the needs of all! "voluntarily" putting in up to 68 hours a away this provision union to assist the.companies in crack­ This battle shapes up as a long and week as a means of "persuading" the UAW members in auto have long iRg-- down on absenteeism-but he bitter one. A victory here in the fight to company that institution of mandatory been subjected to grueling hours of . accepted an even worse deal at Chrysler. smash mandatory overtime could be the overtime was unnecessary. But this overtime in the hot, filthy plants. At a For 40 years workers at the Big 3 have spark that sets off a militant struggle appeasement policy, which only permit­ time when 100,000 auto workers are enjoyed contract parity. Now the Fraser throughout the entire union, Auto ted management to do extra stockpiling, already on the street and ~he industry is leadership has thrown that away to workers must look to the example set by proved futile. When the lid threatened headed for even deeper crisis, many of embrace government bailout schemes their brothers at IH and Caterpillar. to blow off at Harvester as well, the those still in the plants are grinding financed out of the pockets of Chrysler continued on page JJ Militant Strike Against Wester'n Electric

We are reprinting helow a leaflet by ate back-to-work order, criminally ately need our labor they wouldn't or any anti-labor Democratic Party the Militant Action Caucus (MAC) 0/ withholding any support for the CWA impose absence control in the first place. politician. Watts and his gang must go! the Communications Workers ofAmer­ fighters. Despite this despicable stab in In Cleveland last August, 350 angry We need a leadership committed to class ica in Los Angeles. MAC is a c1ass­ the back 500 angry phone workers voted service reps struck and stopped a struggle, not class collaboration-a struggle opposition in the CWA, pres­ nearly unanimously to stay out and win. company attempt to schedule breaks ten leadership that doesn't flinch in the face entlr hased on West Coast locals. On critical issues the National almost minutes after beginning their shift. They of company attacks, that doesn't police never sanctions local strikes. We need defied company threats and back-to­ the militancy of the ranks but organizes the local right to strike! work orders from the local president ... and leads it. The "Committee to Elect a On October 1st 5,000 Western Elec­ and won! The real lesson ofthe Western Militant Delegation to the 1979 CWA Encouraged by the National's refusal tric sales workers from five cities staged Electric and Cleveland strikes is that the Convention" began to construct that to fight, the company threatened to a militant strike against company ranks are strong, combative, and will­ kind of leadership. This alternative count struck days against workers' implementation of the justly despised ing to wage an aggressive defense of leadership must be national in scope. attendance. Then under extreme pres­ absence control plan. The response of working conditions. But we need a lead­ For this reason we have linked up with sure from the National the bulk of the the ranks to the plan was to stand up and ership willing to take on the company. the Militant Action Caucus of San fight-and fight they did. At Montebel­ local leadership completely collapsed. Absence control is a crucial issue of Francisco to form the MAC of Los lo (Yates Street location) a sit-down in First, scab trucks were allowed through national importance. The WECO strike Angeles. JOIN US! front of scab trucks halted the move­ picket lines, and then the picket lines showed we don't have to accept it as a We reprint helow me treacherous IHcnt of supplies. Scab drivers were were taken down altogether. At no time fact of life. We need a national strike in hack-to-work telegram sent by CWA "taught" the union rule: picket lines did the rank and file vote to end their 1980 to bury absence control once and WECO sales director K. H. Bergstrom mean don't cross! The around-the-clock strike! But by October 8 the strike was for all, and win full paid sick leave with over, and the absence control plan was to CWA Local JJ595. picket lines were massive, militant, and no penalties for being sick. Phone implemented-for now without the spirited. In only three days Western workers need a big catch-up pay hike primitive retroactive clause. Predictably supplies dried up, debunking the myth and a full 100 percent COLA. We PMS Chuck Gravette Presiden~, the National will not fight the plan, but that you can't strike the phone demand: No forced overtime! No CW A Local 11595 will try to "sweeten" it for the workers. company. productivity quotas! No secret monitor­ 195 19 Georgina Circle The intensified harassment and com­ WECO workers, who never previous­ ing and other reform school work rules! Cerritos CA 90701 pany reprisals which have already begun ly suffered absence control, now faced a We need a shorter work week at no loss must be met head-on by the union. plan even more vicious than Telco's. It in pay to provide jobs, eliminate 1am hereby directing you to return to included a barbaric retroactive clause For a Solid Strike in 1980! unemployment, and undermine the work because you are in violation of making workers liable for absences company's speed-up drive. If we are to Article 40, SD 79, and that you are to going back three years! This meant Strikes in the phone company are defend our members' jobs and working return all of your members to work automatic termination for hundreds. effective-they can win. Afier only three conditions the CWA""fuust strike in immediately. Strikers told Militant Action Caucus days Western Electric supplies ran dry! 1980! (M AC) members who joined the lines in All the technology in the world cannot CWA President Watts says don't KH Bergstrom solidarity the treacherous news of the run without supplies and manpower. It strike but rely on Jimmy Carter to National Director CWA Sales National leadership's betrayal. On is the leadership's refusal to fight that defend us-7 percent Jimmy Carter, 241 Summit Ave. October 3, the[Communications Work­ leads to defeat, not the power of the turn off the gas pumps Jimmy Carter. Greensboro NC 27401 ers] National telegrammed an immedi- company. Ifthe company didn't desper- We say no reliance on Car~er, Kennedy, 9 NOVEMBER 1979 5 he United Secretariat has ridden European sections, many would­ those who would build a "Trotskyist" After dragging their feet for years at the just become the "Untied be leftists will face the question of re­ party in order to pressure the Sandinis­ Mandel- and SWP-backed proposals Secretariat." Up until three maining loyal to this fake "Fourth tas. But Moreno, while a charlatan of for a rapprochement with the OCI, they months ago it was still International" or going with the the first order whose. policies at home gleefully jumped at this provocation. balmy "unity" weather in Moreno/Lambert lash-up, likely to be are deeply reformist, is an inveterate That same evening they circulated to the the USec. The main fac­ one of the shorter-lived, rottener blocs maneuverist given to bursts of bravado cells a motion demanding condemna­ tions had disbanded and of all time. and verbal leftism-as with the Bolivar tion of the OCI/LTT/BF meeting as a Ernest Mandel was promising one and Le Monde (I November) commented Brigade and his Bolshevik Faction. Yet "split attempt." Not voting for the mo­ all an international that brought togeth­ wryly that "the motive, or the occasion" the BF presents itself in tandem with tion would mean instant "exclusion." er "95 percent of the world's Trotsky­ of the split was a "difference in evalu­ Lambert's hardened and not-very-Ieft "exclusion." ists" (leaving aside only a few "sectarian ating the Nicaraguan revolution." Occa­ social-democratic OCI, whose pseudo­ extraordinary LCR congress which grouplets- like the Spartacists). The sion. si;.motive, no. In a document orthodox critiques of Mandel are a began November I in the Paris suburb "Fourth.- he bragged, hadn't split in 16 establishing a "parity committee" of the cover for virulent anti-Communist I:Hay-les-Roses. When the motion years; in recent European elections OCI/ LTT/ BF. the splitters argue that: Stalinophobia. No real Trotskyist can condemning the "parity committee" was "Trotskyist slates" had gotten close to a "The danger of dispersing the forces of join with those who sided with CIA­ raised. over a quarter of the delegates million votes. The USec was on 'the the Fourth International is much more financed counterrevolution in Portugal! (37 LTTers and 4 Morenoites. out of 160 verge of becoming an "alternative pole serious than the one provoked starting The big loser in the present USec split delegates at the conference) refused to in 1951 by Pabloism, since the attack on of attraction" to the "3 to 4 million our principled positions is even more will surely be Ernest Mandel, who bit off vote and walked out. thereby consumat­ voters of the far left" on the old brutal than in 195\." more than he could chew and now has' ing the split. In an article entitled "The continent. Shining in its diadem would Certainly the provocations have been lost the whole pie. Externally he has French LCR Spits Out Its Seeds." be a French section of 10,000 members. spectacular, beginning with the USec's sought to broker a welter ofopportunist Uheration of 2 November notes the And witb that, he said, echoing another support for (and alleged complicity in) fusions with anti-Trotskyist "far left" "satisfaction" and rapidity with which centrist of the I930s, "everything is the Sandinista Front (FSLN) expulsion reformists, from the OCI and Pablo's the LC R tops "seized the pretext thus possible: No more. His grand schemes of the Morenoite-Ied Simon Bolivar AMR in France to Tony Cliff's SWP in offered by their adversaries." After all, lying in tatters around him, Ernest Brigade from Nicaragua last August Britain, all ofwhich have fallen through. six weeks beforehand it was simply a Mandel looks today like a stock market (see WV No. 240, 28 September). True Meanwhile, within the USec he has question of what pace for a fusion with

Ernest Mandel Jack Barnes Nahuel Moreno Pierre Lambert

speculator on the day after the Crash enough, where Pablo ordered the "deep allowed the hardened reformists of the the OCI which would have left Krivine/ of '79. ' entry" of sections of the FI into Stalinist American Socialist Workers Party to Bensai'd out in the cold. Now they're Now it is the hour ofsplit in the USec. CPs in the early '50s, today his epigones pick off and grind down centrist back in the saddle again. and with the On the eve of its "Eleventh World order their Nicaraguan followers to Mandelite oppositions in their own most obstreperous oppositionists gone Congress" a provocation/expulsion/ liquidate into the FSLN. But aren't bailiwick (e.g.. the demolished Interna­ their "solid" 43 percent plurality on the walkout has ripped out a quarter of the Lambert/ Moreno forgetting some­ tionalist Tendency in the U.S., the CC should be enough to ensure a more­ French Ligue Communiste Revolution­ thing? The USec was founded in 1963 on absorbed Canadian RMG). Up until or-less stable "minority cabinet" in the naire (LCR). The expellees were mainly the basis of total support to Castroism. now Mandel has had the votes to call the hectic politicking at the LCR helm. supporters of the Leninist-Trotskyist Where do they claim to have been for shots at the USec HQ in Brussels. but On the other side there is the Tendency (LTT). the USec friends of the last decade and a half? Barnes' SWP has the tremendous momentum of an aggressive split. but Pierre Lambert's Organisation Com­ The OCI/ LTT/ BF split will pick up a advantage of a consistent political line. with plenty of fraying on the edges. The muniste Internationaliste (OCI). This number of sincerely leftist elements With the departure of the LTT/ BF and Morenoites. ofcourse. knew long before means that the long-rumored marriage aghast at the spectacle of their comrades various leftists they d rag along behind that their number was up and they were of the LCR with the OCI is definitely being arrested at gunpoint and expelled them. the USec will likely consolidate just carrying out rearguard actions as off. and Mandel is left with a French by the Sandinista regime with the around a reformist axis with the SWP they pulled out of the United Secretari­ section not of 10,000 but 1,200. In Latin approval/aid of the USec tops. And if holding the whip hand. at. (Their factional rampaging has been America more than two-thirds of the the issue was reall~ that of maintaining so blatant that more than two years ago USec's supporters have gone with the an independent section in Nicaragua, The Hammer Goes Down at Mandel/ Barnes threatened to chuck Bolshevik Faction (BF) of Nahuel genuine revolutionists would stand on L'Hay-les-Roses them out at the next opportunity.) Moreno, temporarily and miscegenous­ the same side with those opposing The pretext for the split in the United Lambert has nothing to lose at this point Iy allied with the OCI and certain to be liq uidation into the petty-bourgeois Secretariat was a deliberate provocation on the USec side. and presumably felt it expelled at the world congress (it exited FSLN. A split along these lines could by the OCI /LTT/ BF bloc. The weekend better to start carving up the spoils of along with the LTT in France). As the open the way to a struggle for consistent prior to the LCR conference scheduled their raiding operation before Moreno split spreads through the USec's crisis- proletarian independence and against to elect delegates for the USec world starts making inroads north of the congress, the Lambertists and Moreno­ Pyrenees and the Alps. In France it is ites met to form a coordinating commit­ calculated that the take from the LCR tee for the stated purpose of fighting the will be roughly 350-400 militants. who SWP leadership's capitulation to the after a period as a formally independent Getthe Goods! Nicaraguan FSLN. Barnes & Co. were group will simply be swallowed by the Forty-one pages of documentary exposure: accused in the founding document ofthe OCI. • Moreno In Argentina I: parity committee of "abandoning the However. there are those who may From Left Peronism to Social Democracy terrain of Trotskyism and the Fourth oalk at the prospect of life under • Moreno In Argentina II: International and going over to the Lambert. In France the parity commit­ Back to Peronism terrain of Castroism" (true enough, but tee gambit was decided at the top. • Moreno's Left Face: the discovery is about 18 years late). leaving many rank-and-filers disorient­ Portugal, Angola, Eurocommunism And the parity committee adopted a BF ed as the next day they were faced with • Opportunist Chameleon Sui Generls proposal for a "democratic conference peremptory demands for a loyalty oath. • Moreno the Swindler open to all forces claiming to Meanwhile. across the Channel in be Trotskyist"-i.e.. a counter-world Britain LIT leader John Strawson was Price: US $1.50 congress-for January 1980. This was talking of the "French split" and Order from/make checks payable to: the chance which the "historical leader­ swearing fealty to the International Spartacist Publishing Co., P.O. Box 1377 G.P.O., New York, NY 10001 ship" of the LCR. Alain Krivine and Marxist Group (IMG) and the US~c. Daniel Bensaid. had been waiting for. continued on page /0 6 WORKERS VANGUARD

--~ he International Marxist Centrism is by nature transitory and unconditional defence of the workers warm themselves in the reflected glow of Group is visibly in trouble. inconsistent. incapable of engaging in states against imperialism have long "the FI," i.e., the pseudo-Trotskyist Its less and less frequent systematic political combat with the since lost any claim to be considered as USec. If a thoughtful IMGer was only public events attract ever much larger reformist, state-capitalist Marxists" (IMG introduction to "The too aware that the "U nited" Secretariat smaller and more disspirit­ Socialist Workers Party (sWP) lof Inconsistencies of State Capitalism" by was never united and daily demonstrat­ ed attendances. Its grand Tony Cliff] or even with the execrable Ernest Mandel [[969] ). Now, however, ed somewhere in the world that it could initiatives to attract the political tlotsam and jetsam which left . the same 1M G makes crystal clear that it only betray the program on which the children of'6X. through such Menshevik the SWP to the right three years ago. considers defence of the USSR to be of Fourth International was founded, still "regroupment" manoeuvres as Socialist rhe only conceivable alternative for the no fundamental importance. it was much the biggest group claiming Unity and an ostensibly broad "non­ IMG was to grovel before them. The 1M G leaders feel obliged to the mantle of Trotskyism. Not for much party" incarnation of Socialist Chal­ The 1M G formally approached Cliff wilfully distort the history of the longer will USee leader Ernest Mandel lenge. have been clear failures. Plaintive & Co. last year with some centrist idea Trotskyist movement for this, claiming be able to boast that "for 15 years now of discussion and contlict in mind in a in a recent reply to the SWP (authored the FI [sic] has not witnessed a single /:.'XCER PTED FROM ludicrous combination of appeal and by Ali, Ross and national secretary international split" (SWP/GB Interna­ SPARTACIST BRITAIN. NO. 16 attack. An [MG letter last November Brian Grogan) on international perspec­ tional Discussion Bulletin No.9). If the NOVEMBER ff)79 urging formal discussions enclosed a tives: "We do not believe that the state decade-long factional war between the central committee resolution which capitalist analysis ofthe SWP necessari­ American-led minority and European­ pleas in the lifeless Socialist Challenge hoped that the IMG and SWPcould be ly excludes it from the Fourth Interna­ based majority led by Ernest Mandel throughout the summer advertised "moving toward unity in the medium tional. This was the position taken by has, of late, subsided into an SWP/ serious financial problems and suggest­ term" but began with ~he sentence, "The Trotsky at the time of the foundation of U.S.-dominated truce, things are by no ed a dramatic decline in sales. As the SWP's politics represent a syndicalist the Fourth International and we see no means quiet in the USec. backdrop to it all is the increasing break from revolutionary Marxism, i.e., reason to change it" (International The left-posturing Bolshevik Faction factional polarisation and looming split Trotskyism." It added that the SWP is Socialism, Autumn 1979). But Trotsky (BF) led by chameleon-like reformist in the1 MUs crisis-ridden International. "prone to being drawn behind alien class did object on principle to forming a and charlatan Nahuel Moreno is clearly the so-called United Secretariat of the forces" (SWP/GB Bulletin, December common organisation with anyone who headed for an expulsion or split, taking Fourth International (U Sec), a polarisa- 197X). The SWP was quick to pick up on drew from a "state capitalist analysis" with it most of the USee's Latin

tion from which the IMG itself has the inconsistencies. Replying for the the programmatic conclusion of refusal American presence. So, apparently, is predictably not been immune. state capitalists. Chris Harman pre­ to defend the Soviet Union: the French-based Leninist-Trotskyist The organisation exudes an air of tended to be hurt: "The whole course ofthe world workers Tendency (LTT) which politically sup­ movement beginning with July 1914 decay. The student vanguardism and "What disappointed and angered us in ports the OCI of Pierre Lambert. Add to all this was not merely the tone and demonstrates that defeatists and defen­ vicarious guerrillaism of the early IMG sists cannot remain in the same -party if this the extreme organisational difficul­ sectarian phraseology which seems to ties and membership decline of the circa 196X-72 have not aged well. And have been borrowed from some publi­ the concept of the party has in general the heady perspectives of a rapid cation of the Spartacists or the [Healy­ any sort of sense. The basic task of the European USec star sections in France ite] WRP, but what it indicates about present discussion consists in demon­ and Spain and you have a recipe for emergence of dual power in Britain. strating the full political incompatibility which guided the organisation through the majority of your leadership, They gloom. USee members desperately need clearly do not take seriously the aim of of defeatism in relation to the USSR. its next few years of rapid growth. have with membership in the revolutionary to tell themselves that it is better unification of the forces of the revolu­ somewhere else-but it isn't. long since gone tlat. Membership since tionary left." party." has remained stagnant; lately it has -"Defeatism vs. Defensism." While the BF has as yet gained few Writings [/937-38] begun to fall. This September's Marxist !he 1M G response has been to adherents in Britain. there is now a Symposium-the annual fashion show discard more and more criticisms. Thus !hat was the position taken by Trotsky sizable contingent of the LTT headed by for the IMG's latest intellectual fads­ we have the spectacle of a "dialogue" at at the time of the foundation of the a political quick-change artist named featured one cadre after another musing the final session of the recent Marxist Fourth International and it remains true John Strawson whose main talent lies in on the organisation's numerical weak­ Symposium. Amid an atmosphere today. borrowing a political line from else­ ness. and John Ross openly admitted a reminiscent of a chummy Oxford Union The S WP and its predecessors are and where and building an opposition mood of pessimism inside the 1M G. Itis debate. the old mates of the IMG led by have been social-democratic renegades around it. Having led an "anti-Pabloite" not primarily an organisational, but a !ariq Ali. and a few selected SWP cadre from Trotskyism since their definitive split from the IMG to join the [ex­ political crisis which has brought the who pride themselves on dabbling in capitulation to imperialism in 1950 Healyite] WSL [Workers Socialist IMG to this impasse of despair and international affairs led by Harman. when they abandoned the military League] in 1976, Strawson turned disaffection. swapped stories of the bad old days defence of the North Korean deformed around less than a year later to lead a when both groups snarled at each other workers state. In chasing this organisa­ Mandelite split from the WSL back to The Increasing Devotion to and engaged in sly. witty digs all with the tion so assiduously the IMG is only the IMG. A staunch opponent of the Dubious "Lefts" proper coy cameraderie. The IMG's underlining how vastly removed from SWP/U.S. line while in the WSL, theme was that as a "serious revolution­ rrotskyism they themselves are. There Strawson wasted no time in making a roday hundreds of IMGers, having is a potentially fatal organisational bloc with SWP/U.S. suppcrters once stored away their Che Guevara posters ary organisation" the SWP should "join the Fourth International," which Ali corollary to the [M G's politically back in the IMG at the 1978 national and the motorcycle helmets which used liquidationist course. for if the far larger conference. only to go on to his current to be de rigeur on demonstrations, are explicitly stated did not involve interna­ tional democratic-centralist discipline. Cliffite organisation is "revolutionary," stint with the LTT. with yet another ensconced in a mellow routine of then the outstanding differences are vastly different program. parochial reformist campaigns-[social The Russian Question unimportant. The appropriate conclu­ If Strawson's British fol'owers, many services] cuts committees, solidarity sion for frustrated 1M Gers is to vote of whom were doubtless al tracted by the groups. the tired feminist milieu. the Hut how about the Russian question with their feet for the SW P. Indeed there 1.1'1'\ hard "orthodox" p,)se in contrast ANL [Anti-Nazi League). etc. For which should be the key difference are reports that this is already happen­ to the craven liquidatiol1ism of the Ali/ between the ostensibly Soviet-defencist many. continued membership in the ing around the country as the IMG Ross/Grogan ilk, were to exit from the IMG and the "Third Camp" SWP? The IMG is an act of nostalgia. It was not the loses members to the larger and superfi­ USee along with the rest of the LTT they opportunities which were lacking, but a IMCi used to correctly consider this a cially more stable SWP. would rind themselves in the uncomfort­ revolutionary program with which to key programmatic difference. sharply able position of having to unite with the In years past IMGers downcast by intersect them. Reformism has at least a" insisting that "those who have deserted wretched British OCI sectIOn-the consistency of purpose in ItS pursuit of the revolutionary Marxist position by domestic reversals and worn by in­ influence within the bourgeois order. refusing to adopt the class line of cessant inner-party strife could at least continued on page II

9 NOVEMBER 1979 7 At DSOC Conference SYL Lambastes Democratic Party "Socialists"

After years of leading a shadowy caucus the chairman wept as she existence even more marginal politically attempted to silence an SYLer who than several self-proclaimed "commu­ denounced the social-democratic mur­ nist" groups. American social democra­ der of heroic German Communist Rosa cy is starting to come out of the closet. Luxemburg. And the student caucus For decades the descendants of anti­ was simply disbanded after four of those Communist Sunday school socialist in attendance (at a meeting of over 20 Norman Thomas have been content to people) identified themselves as mem­ act as powerless brokers and "influential bers of the SYL during the advisors" for liberal sectors of the introductions. government bureaucracy and labor In the plenary session. keynote officialdom. But with the Kennedy­ speaker Victor Gotbaum. executive Carter rivalry in the Democratic Party director of AFSCME District:'7 and a they now feel the time is ripe to gain the prominent member of DSOC, as much popular backing they have always as told his "comrades" to get lost. "I read lacked. your program," he said. "It's easy to The largest of the social-democratic embrace. But I don't know how the hell groupings. Michael Harrington's Dem­ we carry it out!" This says a lot about the ocratic Socialist Organizing Committee manifest bankruptcy of social democra­ (DSOC). is currently pushing for a cy. particularly in the context of New broad liberal/populist regroupment York City where both DSOC and its with. among others. the pro-free enter­ WV Photo Aging social-democratic Wunderkind Michael Harrington spouts liberal even more openly right-wing CIA­ prise Campaign for Economic Democ­ mush ... linked kindred. Social Democrats USA racy (CED) of Jane Fonda and Tom (SI)USA). have connections to the city's Hayden (which backs the middle-class DSOCs youth chapters on the cam­ ment backfired. as several of the labor labor leaders. "Tax Revolt" and serves as stalking puses will provide the foot soldiers 1'01 fakers in attendance strove to distance Gotbaum wasn't kidding. During the horse for the presidential ambitions of "Students for Kennedy" in 19~W. while themselves from even DSOCs milksop brutal 1975-77 NYC fiscal crisis. neither California's weirdo governor Jerry the newly "socialist" trade-union tops liberalism. At the workshop on "Politics he nor the SDUSA·s Albert Shanker(of Brown). To its "left." DSOC has also set will once again attempt to herd their and Social Change" a cynical Norm the United Federation of Teachers) put its sights on merger with the puddin­ members into the voting booths to pull Adler. AFSCM E District 37 political up any kind of fight to defend union head neo-New Leftists of the New the levers for Democratic Party politi­ action director. boasted that he could members' livelihoods against the rapa­ American Movement (NAM). In early cians. Harrington explains it this way: make or break bourgeois politicians cious onslaught of the financiers. As a October the DSOC front Citizen/Labor "Teddy is the best liberal in America at a from Hay View to the Bronx; and as a result 60.000 jobs were )ost. not to Energy Coalition joined with the time when liberalism is not enough. We "pragmatist" he made it clear that he has need an anti-corporate candidate, mention millions of dollars of union Hayden/Fonda CED. NAM and a slew willing to stand up and say. 'We've got no use for the likes of DSOC. Although pension funds which went down the Big of liberal uni.on tops to sponsor "Stop to attack the corporations.' Teddy Ellen Polansky of the McGovernite MAC rathole. DSOC spokesman Paul Big Oil" rallies around the country. doesn't do that. But [a Kennedy liberal New Democratic Coalition DuBrul suggested in retrospect that victory] would set in motion forces very (NDC) winced as Adler reeled off the At the same time. as the U.S. heads perhaps the unions should have "used beneficial to the formation of an anti­ names of the machine politicians he had into a major economic slump. with a corporate left. At first, if he wins [we their power" during the fiscal crisis. By helped put into office. state senator Olga president who nearly every sector in should] give him a chance. a calling a general strike against layoffs honeymoon." Mendez from East Harlem couldn't see bourgeois politics agrees is a disaster. and cutbacks? No-by withdrawing - Village Voice. 29 October any difference between machine Demo­ the pro-eapitalist union bureaucracy union pension funds from the banks! crats and reform Democrats. Mendez senses a need to engage in some militant Harrington has lately taken to jetting I)u Brul also called for public takeover announced that she had just finished huffing and puffing to create the around the country to explain why of that hated symbol of monopoly price­ eating breakfast with New York City's impression that they are doing some­ socialists should support Kennedy's gouging. Consolidated Edison ... in racist labor-hater mayor. Ed Koch. thing about it. Business Week (24 campaign to become capitalism's chief order to ensure "the salvation of private September) commented: "Unions that executive. But wherever he goes he In the discussion that followed. the enterprise"! used to bait 'commies' and 'kooks' now comes up against the revolutionary Spartacus Youth League counterposed About 30 minut~s before the confer­ join forces with socialists." And in a communists of the Spartacist League/ the need to build a revolutionary ence was over. the building supervisor of 'Chicago Sun- Times (22 October) arti­ Spartacus Youth League (SL/SYL). In workers party to fight for a workers the hospital workers union Local 1199 cle. entitled "Labor and the New Herkeley an SL member asked Harring­ government. "Name me one Democrat­ hall kicked the participants out of the Radicalism." William Winpisinger of ton. "Could you explain how your ic Party politician who stood with the facility, forcing the remaining DSOC the International Association of Ma­ comrades in the German SPD funneled coal miners against the bosses and the loyalists out onto the sidewalk to listen chinists (IA M). a vice chairman of CIA money to your comrades in the Taft-Hartley Act in 1979!" demanded to Michael Harringto.l. Speaking in the DSOC, said. "I tell them [lAM mem­ Portuguese SP to crush the revolution an SYLer. Rather than answer this wake of the stock market nose dive. bers] that their president is a Socialist there in 1975'!" Harrington snapped. challenge. the chairman vainly attempt­ Harrington announced that the capital­ over and over again." ''I'm tired of questions like that." At a ed to silence the comrade. Due to ist system is in a crisis. His idea of a meeting in San Francisco an exasperat­ vigorous protests by SYL members and fight back? Franklin Delano Roosevelt. DSOCs circle of friends also includes ed Harrington lamented that if he got on others in attendance. the chair finally "It took 'til 19:'5. seven years after the Lane Kirkland (slated to replace George a spaceship and went to the moon. as he backed down and in a humiliating depression, until you got some legisla­ Meany as head of the AFL-CIO later opened the door there would be a attempt to maintain bureaucratic con­ tion that really began to respond to it." this month), who. according to the Sun- . Spartacist shaking his finger and accus­ trol over the meeting. offered to alter­ What FDR was "responding" to. Times. even denounces the vicious ing him of betraying the working class. nate between Spartacist and non­ however. was not the suffering wrought "class war" of big business against the And in fact while pseudo-Trotskyists Spartacist speakers. At the feminist by the Depression but the militant union unions. Other labor fakers in this camp like the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) struggles of the working class. reflected include long-time crypto-social demo­ try to nudge Harrington in the direction in the Toledo and San Francisco general crats Doug Fraser of the UA W. and of building a phony "third party" strikes. and the Trotskyist-led Minnea­ Jerry Wurf and Victor Gotbaum of movement. the SL/SYL has exposed his polis Teamsters strike. AFSCME. To top it off. even leaders of long and sordid history. from support­ DSOC has no program to lead such the 17 building trades unions, tradition­ ing capitalist counterrevolution in struggles-its aim is to keep them from ally among the most reactionary of Hungary in 1956 to refusing to call for happening in the first place. while main­ union hierarchs. took out an ad in the the withdrawal·of U.S. troops from taining intact the unions' ties to the September issue of Democratic' Le.li Vietnam in the 1960s (see "HarringtOl~'s dead end of Democratic Party politick­ hailing DSOCs "firm and militant DSOC: Exhuming the Rotting Corpse ing. Hesides. the Democrats didn't lead support of the American labor of Social Democracy:' YuunR Sparta­ American capitalism out of the Depres­ movement." ms. October 1979). sion through the New Deal but through What does it all mean? Actually. the At the New York City DSOC World War 1/. As an SYL leaflet only thing "democratic" about DSOCs convention held October 20-21. Har­ distributed at the New York DSOC ultra-reformist brand of "socialism" (in rington & Co. demonstrated to the conference stated. "The Democrats are reality FDR New Dealism dressed in audience of 75 young bureaucrats and a party of strikebreakers. racists. impe­ .volfs clothing) is Its total subservience aging ex-Shachtmanites that they can­ rialist butchers. a bosses' party which LO the Democratic Party. Thus coming not answer the revolutionary critique of differs not one whit from the Republi­ up this month is the DSOC-organized their "Democratic Party" socialism put cans as an enemy of the workers of the "Conference for a Democratic Agenda" forward by the Trotskyists of the SLj world.... Break with the Democrats! in Washington. D.C. Its aim-to pres­ SYL. Even DSOCs selling point of Dump the Meanys. Millers and Got­ sure the Democratic Party to implement being in tight with the big-time wheeler­ ...AFSCME's cynical baums! For a workers party to fight for its own 1976 campaign platform. dealers of the American labor move- baum shrugs. a workers government!". 8 WORKERS VANGUARD NY Anti-Porn Demo: ""

III Feminists ...... '"

.•.....,: '.'t'.~ in Alliance t. - ._ .t With Reaction

New York's cruddy Times Square However, the "Women Against Por­ pinballjpornj Kung Fu-killer fantasy­ nography" demonstration, led by the land isn't the nicest place to while away a old Ms. magazine-liberal literati New few idle hours-besides being down­ York feminist gang (Gloria Steinem, right dangerous during the almost Susan Brownmiller, Robin Morgan, but nightly lumpen pack-assaults on of course Bella Abzug, etc.), was not just passers-by. But if people actually have another display of feminist radical-chic the guts to go there in search ofwhatever self-righteousness. It was a disgusting WV Photo furtive pleasures the place affords, that's political mobilization objectively serv­ either. At the preparatory conference Pornography is not the source of their own business. Unlike those 5,000 ing the most reactionary interests. for this march, one of the main violence against women. The results of feminists who marched through Times Ayatollah Khomeini-not to mention publications held up for condemnation Denmark's legalization of the most far­ Square October 20, chanting "Pornog­ Anita Bryant's anti-homosexual "Save was ... Playhor magazine (many of out porn prove that! It is this capitalist raphy is the Theory, Rape is the our Children" crowd and small town whose readers would probably faint society with its enforced poverty, rigid Practice," we understand that there is a "dirty" book burners-would have dead away if they ever took a look inside family structure and straitjacket morali­ qualitative difference between the vio­ loved it. The "sisters" did try to keep out those plastic-sealed magazines at the ty whicl1 breeds the poisonous frustra­ lence bred of class society and eroticj the open reactionaries-ripping up one baek of Times Square shops)! It's no tions that explode in violence. But since pornographic fantasies. As Marxists we man's relevant anti-abortion, anti­ accident that "Women Against Pornog­ the feminist leaders of this creepy "clean oppose attempts at puritanical censor­ homosexual poster. But like it or not, raphy" has received heavy financial up America" campaign have all long ship, whether launched by open reac­ that is who they're in a bloc with on this contributions and free office space from since made their peace with the powers­ tionaries seeking to smash whatever issue, all their protestations oftheir deep Times Square real estate and business that-be, it's not surprising that they end (limited) civil liberties formally exist, or love for the First Amendment aside. interests, who have been pushing the up in a political bloc with the most by this new feminist "Legion of And nobody should think it's just cops for some time to "clean up Times reactionary tendencies propping up this Decency." hard-core or sadistic stuff they're after, Square" so they can make a few bucks. violent and hate-filled class society.• Demo Against Mutilation of Women

Under a banner declaring "Women reading "No to the Barbaric Practice of they have been able to maintain from labor in childbirth and often death. Against Genital Mutilation of 30 Mil­ C1itorectomiesjInfibulation," "Stop time immemorial" (Facing Mount The rationale for this savage lion Girls," about two dozen people Brutal Mutilation of Women" and II:enra). Unlike such bourgeois nation­ destruction is the stability of the demonstrated before the United Na­ "Women's Liberation Through Social­ alists, Marxists struggle not to return to polygamous tribal family structure: that tions October 31. Called by "Women ist Revolution." No other socialist the primitive solidarity of the tribe, but is, to ensure a marketable young woman Against Mutilation," the rally protested groups were to be seen. By and large the rather for an internationalist collectiv­ at the time of marriage and a faithful the barbaric practice offemale circumci­ American left hails the "progressive" ism based on the highest level of social one afterwards. Genital mutilation, sion in many African and some Asian demagogy of "Third World" nationalist and economic development. And liberal though immeasurably more brutal, is and South American nations. The regimes. But even many tribalist politi­ prattle about "cultural relativism," not unlike the chastity belt in theory. In demonstration had its post-New Left cians who talk of"African socialism" or supposedly an answer to missionary advanced capitalist countries, the bour­ feminist eccentricities (ending, for ex­ sport the radical-sounding label society ethnocentrism, simply serves to geois revolutions legally and formally ample, with a chant to the "Great "Marxist-Leninist" defend barbaric justify the worst aspects of barbarism. wiped out the more abhorrent aspects of Mother"), and its organizers have plenty sexual mutilation of women. "Progres­ It is estimated that more than ten female servitude. But the Western of illusions in the UN. However, unlike sive" Kenyan nationalist Jomo Kenyat­ million girls annually are subjected to "democracies" did not bring these the fundamentally reactionary anti­ ta, for example, was quite explicit: "The infibulation and at least an equal bourgeois-democratic reforms with porn mobilizations, this protest exposed abolition of irua (circumcision) will number to clitorectomy. Clitorectomy is them into the colonial countries. In­ a little-mentioned but horribly real and destroy the tribal symbol which identi­ the removal of the entire clitoris and deed. the most noticeable "reform" in widespread atrocity. fies the age groups, and prevent Gikuyu labia minora, i.e., to achieve marital the practice of female circumcision in Supporters of the Spartacist League from perpetuating that spirit of collec­ fidelity through surgical frigidity. Infib­ the past century is that it is now often (SL) joined the protest with signs tivism and national solidarity which ulation is the sewing up of the vagina, performed in hospitals! Rather, the with the exception of a small hole penetration of decaying imperialism through which the woman is supposed into Africa has perpetuated the most SPARTACIST LEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY to urinate and menstruate. Although reactionary aspects of degenerated National Office Chicago New York this circumcision is often performed as a tribalism. Box 1377. GPO Box 6441. Main P.O. Box 444. Canal Street Station tribal puberty rite, in many places it is It is not the indifferent, condescend­ New York. NY 10001 Chicago. IL 60680 New York. NY 10013 carried out on children of four to eight ing imperialist thieves in the UN, but the (212) 925-2426 (312) 427-0003 (212) 925-5665 years and younger. The "surgeon" is mobilization of the proletariat for the Ann Arbor Cleveland San Diego generally a village matron; her imple­ destruction of class society in its c/o SYL. Room 4102 Box 6765 P.o. Box 142 MiChigan Union Cleveland. OH 44101 Chula Vista. CA 92010 ment, a razor blade, knife or glass economic foundations and ideological University of Mich. (216) 621-5138 splinter. The result is pain, humiliation, excrescences that will end the mutilation Ann Arbor. MI 48109 San Francisco (313) 994-8051 Detroit Box 5712 shock, infection, infertility, excruciating of millions upon millions of girls.• PO Box 32717 San Francisco. CA 94101 Berkeley/Oakland Detroit. MI 48232 (415) 863-6963 Box 23372 (313) 868-9095 Oakland. CA 94623 Santa Cruz Spartacist League/ Spartacus Youth League Public Offices (415) 835-1535 Houston c/o SYL Box 26474 Box 2842 -MARXIST LlTERATURE- Boston Houston. TX 77207 Santa Cruz. CA 95063 Box 188 M.I.T. Station Los Angeles Bay Area Chicago New York Cambridge. 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9 NOVEMBER 1979 9 Pitiful Labourites Scold Chairman Hua

Squarely in the tradition of the Great shah ot Iran and Chile's Pinochet'? edge of blood and terror, now directed Helmsman, Chairman Mao, who China's 1975 military combination with at immigrant workers, is to be thrown clinked glasses with Nixon while Ameri­ South African/U.S. imperialism to up against the organized labor move­ can bombers were devastating Hanoi, combat Russian/Cuban influence in ment itself. And the earnest reformists Chinese Prime Minister Hua Guofeng Angola and last year's provocative can find nothing better to do than to last week praised British Tory boss Chinese invasion of Vietnam cheered on shake a reproachful finger at Hua as if Margaret Thatcher for "her warnings by the Americans evidently escaped the this representative of nationalistic, about a Soviet military buildup" (New notice of the Little Englanders who now peasant-based "socialism" were a mili­ York Times, I November). Having just expect H ua to come out for higher tant workers' leader. come off a visit to West Germany where wages for British workers. What a As Comrade Trotsky commented in even his capitalist hosts were embar­ laugh! Hua would joyfully depress 1925 regarding the ideological antece­ rassed by his anti-Russian sabre­ British wages even further in the dents of today's British Labour rattling, Hua found Thatcher's creepy, interests of strengthening anybody's "leadership": long-time, obsessional, fulminating anti-Russian regime. 'These inflated authorities, pedants, anti-Soviet Communism very much to The British labor bureaucrats are conceited and pompous cowards are his liking. systematically poisoning the labor fitting descendants ofthe Fabian Social­ movement, obscuring the consciousness The following morning, as Hua was ists like George Bernard Shaw and of the proletariat, paralyzing its will. leaving London's Highgate Cemetery Sidney and Beatrice Webb, proponents AP Thanks only to them, Toryism, liberal­ after laying a wreath of roses at Karl of "socialism" through gradual evolu­ Chairman Hua and the "Iron Lady." ism, the Church, the monarchy, the Marx's tomb, he was approached by a tionary reform of capitalism. While the aristocracy, the bourgeoisie, continue to maintain themselves and even to feel delegation from the Public Employees' Fabians of the second mobilization wait trying. The brutal wage-slashing offen­ secure in the saddle.... Union who told him they disapproved for "socialism" to evolve, they devote sive which has run an uninterrupted "In discrediting them, we are of his support forthe Tories. Said group themselves to buttressing illusions in course through successive Labour and performing an immense service to spokesman Michael Thomas, "Karl both Labourite economism and Stalin­ Tory governments is merely a half-way historical progress. On the day when the English proletariat frees itself from the Marx would turn in his grave if he saw ism, which give the decaying capitalist measure. While the Labourite tops mental baseness of Fabianism, humani­ how Chairman Hua is talking to a order an extended lease on life. disorient and demoralize the workers ty, particularily in Europe, will increase woman who is keeping workers' wages The British economy has gone to hell. with apologies for austerity and class in stature by at least a head." down." A desperate capitalist class prepares for collaboration, sinister racialist and - Where Is Britain Going? So what else IS new'? Is support to an all-out fight to screw up its resolve to fascistic movements are massing and no Where to now-European Maoists­ Thatcher somehow worse than China's try to restore itself to a competitive longer only on the fringe of society, toward invasion ot" Russia or toward the dirty deals with butchers like the former position on the world market or die :lwaiting the moment when their leading working class?_

52 percent, with three oppOSitIOn But reformism is not just doing donkey who does everything With bombast), tendencies receiving roughly 15 percent work for liberal and social-democratic "the beginning ofthe proletarian revolu­ usee ... each (one of these centering around labor fakers. At bottom, when the tion," etc. The international Spartacist (continued from page 6) another "historic" USec honcho, Tariq crunch comes, it means counterrevolu­ tendency alone said, "Down with the Ali, most ardent for total immersion in tion. It means supporting Mario Soares' Shah, Down with the Mullahs" and Evidently he would prefer his comfor­ the SW P). And in Germany last year the CIA-financed Socialist Party in Portu­ warned that Khomeini would put table niche as house critic to the Political Bureau of the GIM became so gal in 1975, or remaining pro-imperialist "women in veils, workers in jails." We, prospect of deep immersion in the inoperative due to clique/tendency neutral in the face of the imperialist and only we, told what would come if Labour Party, which has certainly been squabbling among the leadership that a invasion of Angola in 1975-76. the Iranian proletariat did not forge its the fate of British branch offices of the tie-breaking vote was given to the USec, It also means betrayal, if necessary of own independent leadership. OCI. In Sweden and Germany, Bolshe­ in effect moving the PB to Brussels. their own "comrades"-which is why But finally it was too much for even vik Faction forces appear to be playing Meanwhile, virtually every other Man­ the SWP leapt at the chance to back (or Iranian USecers, and following the for time in order to consolidate support. delite section is in more or less acute engineer?) the expulsion of the Simon H KS' shameful participation in Kho­ But sooner rather than later the logic of organizational/political crisis, includ­ Bolivar Brigade in Nicaragua. As a meini's plebiscitary "election" for an the international split will be felt, ing Spain, Germany, Mexico and recent leaflet by the Ligue Trotskyste de Islamic "Council of Experts" last whether the individual actors like it or others. France, sympathizing section of the August the "fused" (SWP/Mandelite/ not. What the Morenoites do not explain international Spartacist tendency, put OCI) Iranian group has come apart at is the political origin of the malaise in it: the seams. The H KS was patched SWP Calls the Shots the Mandelite ex-majority of the USee. "The United Secretariat is nowhere together early this year as Iranian exiles The BF document notes that after the large enough-and certainly not in The split in the USec comes III a Nicaragua-to exchange, as do the returned from Europe (Mandelites) and "new mass vanguard" evaporated fol­ context where virtually all of the reformist parties, its influence in the the U.S. (SWP), with the SWP support­ lowing the forced-draft cooling down of European sections (and many else­ working class for a ministerial portfolio ers arriving on .the scene first and the pre-revolutionary situation in Por­ in the government. The USec leaders where) are in a state of permanent crisis. dominating the new organization and its tugal (November 1975), Mandel's Inter­ therefore offered themselves up for the Most dramatic has been the French political line. As the most rabid mullah national Majority Tendency (I MT) had dirty little job they figured might win LCR, which ever since its last congress them a place in the Sandinista entou­ lovers and legalists, the SWPers natu­ to find a new tactical orientation. This it in January 1979 has been without a rage: [to be] an international goon rally wanted to participate in the rigged did, in the form of becoming the loyal majority for any tendency. At that squad against left critics of the petty­ "vote." even though Khomeini was left critics of a series of popular fronts bourgeois FSLN and the bourgeois meeting the outgoing leadership Ten­ denouncing all Marxists as "Satanic (France, Italy, Spain). But because Nicaraguan government." dency 4 received 143 votes. while the -Supplement to Le Bolchevik elements" and had already arrested Moreno & Co. have the same policy or semi-oppositional Tendency 3 (of H. No. 13, I November 1979 more than a dozen H KSers. But as the worse toward the Stalinists' and social Weber and J.-M. Vincent) got 142. ranks began to get worried about what democrats' class-collaborationist blocs And the SWP not only did the job itself, (LCR superstar Alain Krivine was not was in store for them. the Mandelites with the bourgeoisie. the Bolshevik but it strong-armed the Mandelites into part of any of the tendencies.) The hot got a majority in favor of boycott and Faction makes nofundamental critique shamefacedly shuffling along behind. issue was whether or not to "fuse" with new off to Europe to get USec backing. of the IMTs post-I975 policies (other While the latest USec resolution on the the by-now substantially larger OCI, While they were away, however, Babak than accusations of lingering "ultraleft­ subject has the mildest critique of the which claims to have over 5,000 mem­ Zahrahi. leader of the pro-SWP forces, ism"). Yet it is precisely the collapse of FSLN, in the final analysis it goes along bers, with Tendency 3 being hard with the SWP's policy of redbaitingand overturned the decision and publicly the French and italIan popular fronts opponents of fusion. The Bolshevik framing up BF and LTT supporters in announced the H KS would participate which placed the Mandelites in their faction Declaration/ Platform quotes a in the voting. The result was an open present dilemma. As Le Monde of I Nicaragua. graphic description of the LCR Political split. now consolidated into essentially November put it: Bureau functioning in this period which separate organizations. as Mandelite " ... within the LCR, the policies out­ Iran! Iran! sounds more like a truce committee than candidates withdrew at the last minute. lined by the leadership of the movement But in Nicaragua it is only a dissident a PB of an ostensibly Marxist organiza­ over the course of the last years have faction in the USec that immediately So the H KS split becomes part of the tion: "The PB ... is a sum of individuals been subjected to revision after the pays the price. The even graver betrayal crisis in the USec, and in September the (who) meet once a week to make sure failure of the Union of the Left without LTT issued a statement condemning the that no major differences have arisen another policy having been clearly is the one that none of the competing defined." SW P for its "shameful policy of'partici­ since the previous meeting" (cited in Pabloist-liquidationist USec gangs pating' in the ... so-called 'election' to a [SWP] International Internal Discus­ Mandel's tendency is that of rapidly dares to mention, for they are all deeply supposed 'Constituent Assembly' ...." sion Bulletin, No.3, July 1979). rightward-moving centrism, in the tow complicit: Iran. For it is there that the of "Eurocommunism" and lacking any women, the Kurds, the Arabs, other But where did this policy come from? If the LCR has long been the "star" current real opportunities to tail a mass ethnic and religious minorities, the oil The LTT only denounces it for having section of the Mandelite majority, the movement. But while the Mandelites workers, leftists, homosexuals and "ruined the unity" of the HKS in the British 1M G was the second most whirl around looking for a new van­ drinkers are now suffering murderous "initial moments of the Iranian revolu­ important of the European USec sec­ guard in the ecology movement, a repression at the hands of Ayatollah tion." That "unity," which included all tions. Its internal situation was no belated feminist upsurge, lost-cause Khomeini and his Islamic fundamental­ of the competing USec factions, was better, and after the failure of various nationalists (Corsicans, Bretons), the ist mullahs. The 12 members of the based on the program of helping the regroupment schemes the IMG leader­ Saharan Polisario Front-anything!­ USec's H KS now sitting on death row butcher Khomeini to achieve power. ship has been discussing for some the American SWPhas the political are the least of the thousands of victims. The "disunity" comes when it is time to months a proposal for fusion/ advantage of knowing what it wants and For over a year we have exposed how pay the piper-and it is not the SWP liquidation into the Cliffite SWP (see a consistent reformist program to get it. the SWP, Mandelites, Morenoites and that flinches at the bloody sight. No, in "IMG in Crisis" elsewhere in this issue). On the prosaic day-to-day level this is Lambertists all hailed Khomeini's "Is­ fact the latest word from the SWP's At its congress to elect delegates to the seen in the USec's SWP-initiated "prole­ lamic Revolution" as "anti-imperialist," Zahrahi was that, "As strange as it may world USec meeting, the IMG leader­ tarian turn," a program to become "one of the greatest revolutions of the seem, there has never been as much ship under John Ross squeaked by with advisors to dissident union bureaucrats. "entury" (this from Moreno, of course, freedom in Iran as now" (quoted in Le 10 WORKERS VANGUARD Matin, 3 October). The cynical leading the blind. Those who k.now that Trotskvism does not mean telling the workmg people of Iran that they "never had it so good"-and that it does mean putting Who Gets the Shah? forward an independent communist program, against both the butcher shah The American ruling class in all of its Strangelove foreign policy advisor the face of the "degenerate Christian­ and the bloody ayatollah-should imperialist arrogance and bourgeois have congregated in the White House's Jewish" U.S., but for lack of an investigate the record oftheinternation­ hypocrisy can never understand the 24-hour Situation Room, brooding alternative source of capitalist stability, al Spartacist tendency. Those that agree explosive hatred that the now-deposed about how to save their imperialist the American ruling class will swallow with Zahrahi will find it more congenial shah of Iran evokes among his former diplomats, CIA/NSA agents and Ma­ it. Nevertheless, the present diplomatic with Barnes, Mandel, Lambert or "subjects." Nor can it understand that rine guards held prisoner in a country crisis has the singular virtue of disrupt­ Moreno ... provided they aren't in Iran the Islamic zealot who deposed the where the U.S. embassy was once the ing American military support for the and don't have to live with the conse­ shah, Ayatollah Khomeini, is a man second seat of government. Should the Islamic clerical regime, thereby giving quences of these betrayals. who says what he believes when he talks U.S. launch an invasion of Iran, some respite to the oppressed of Iran, In early 1977, the iSt proposed that if, about restoring the moral codes of revolutionaries would militantly oppose particularly the tenacious Kurdish under the pressure of revolutionary seventh-century Bedouin tribes to this imperialist adventure. rebels. events in Portugal a section of the USec present-day Iran. They didn't anticipate Khomeini did not come to power had polarized around opposition to that allowing the bloody torturer and But Khomeini is at bottom no enemy simply on the basis of religious fervor, popular frontism and in favor of dual mass murderer who once occupied the of U.S. imperialism and the cooler but because the shah's regime was so power and a Leninist party, we would Peacock Throne to jet to New York for heads in Washington know it, though barbaric that many falsely believed the welcome the opportunity to join with expensive medical treatment would they might prefer a more "modern" rule of the mullahs could not possibly be them in common opposition to the unleash a storm of fury in Iran. And Third World tyrant to deal with, like as bad. But as the ayatollahs consolidate Mandel/SWP USec leadership. As a they did not anticipate that the theocrat­ Marcos of the Philippines or the their clerical dictatorship over the dead model for such a principled Trotskyist ic despots who now rule Iran would not terminated president Park in South bodies of workers, women and minori­ program we put forward a draft plat­ only back but help mobilize fanatic Korea. They understand that the vio­ ties, Khomeini must bolster his anti­ form of nine points, including: no Islamic students demanding the extradi­ lently anti-communist and Persian shah credentials, to hide the fact that his political or electoral support to popular tion of the shah to occupy the U.S. chauvinist mullahs, even as they attempt theocratic dictatorship is reactionary as fronts; for proletarian leadership of the embassy in Teheran and U.S. consulates to take Iran back to the middle ages, was the shah's. froletarian revolutIOn­ national/social struggle; for military, in Tabriz and Shiraz, holding their staff must sell oil on the imperialist market­ aries demand, "No a~ylum for the but no political, support to bourgeois (including Marines) as hostages, forcing place and were originators along with butcher shah!" Of course, it would be nationalist forces fighting the impotent Bazargan cabinet to resign the Kaiser of Carter's "Human Rights" fitting if this sadistic murderer is imperialism-build Trotskyist parties in and precipitating a major diplomatic crusade against godless Russia. This is shipped back to Iran to experience the every country; for unconditional de­ crisis. why in the past few months Washington vengeance ofa "justice" which equals his fense of the deformed/degenerated The U.S. government's immediate has resumed arms shipments to Iran­ own in the lack of due process and the workers states against imperialism, and reaction has been to play down the arms that have been used to drown in barbaric practices of torture. But it is political revolution to oust the Stalinist traditional recourse of "sending in the blood the courageous uprisings of the Khomeini and not the sick and deposed bureaucracies; against violence in the Marines." but talk of a military "rescue oppressed Kurdish minority, crush the "king of kings" who is now the oppres­ workers movement: for communist operation" echoes throughout the feder­ strikes of Arab oil workers and smash sor of the Iranian toiling masses. And fractions in the unions based on the al catacombs in Washington. President demonstrations of women for emanci­ we demand that Khomeini be tried for rransitional Program; for the commu­ Carter. his secretary of state Cyrus pation from the chains of Koranic his crimes bv his victims, through nist tactic of the united front from Vance and various senior-grade Dr. "justice." Khomeini enjoys spitting in proletarian re~'olution and fair trial!. above, for revolutionary regroupment ------_. and intransigent exposure of centrism; its headline. "Who Are the Non­ Meanwhile the SWP is flirting with rejection of the claims of the ostensibly everything except Trotskyism. Its argu­ Trotskyist internationals, for the reforg­ IMG .•• aligned?" and answered. "Tyrants. mentation claiming that Pol Pot's ing of the Fourth International through (continued from page 7) dictators and ... Cuba!" rhe Leninist­ Irotskyist Tendency of the USec, with Cambodia was "capitalist" openly the political destruction of Pabloism Socialist Labour Group. This gang of which the Costa Rican group is aligned, prepares the road to a 'Third Camp" ("Reforge the Fourth International!" reformists has toiled for the past few presented a recent motion complaining position claiming that the degenerated/ WV No. 143,4 February 1977). That is years to build a geriatric base for [the deformed workers states are simply new the program that stood the test of that the SWP position,pn the "non­ Tony Benn/Michael Foot Labour aligned movement" led to ~abandon­ kinds of exploitative class societies. In time.• "left"] Trihune. [ing] the most elementary class criteria" line with this position, arising from The incessant unclear factionalism, (Minutes of French LCR Central capitulation before bourgeois public cynical horse-trading manoeuvres and Committee Meeting, 6-7 October 1979). opinion in the imperialist "democra­ wild programmatic gyrations which are Who are they to complain'! The cies." Max Shachtman broke with the Caterpillar ••• the stock-in-trade of Pabloite politics SWp's support to the Cuban bureaucra­ Fourth International in 1940 by refusing (continued from page 5) have over the years ground down or cy has been a constant for the last two to defend the Soviet Union in the even destroyed scores of subjectively Rather than submitting to' a substan­ decades. And Castro's present foreign Second World War. Jack Barnes and his revolutionary IMGers who gravitated dard contract and more layoffs, Chrys­ policy of seeking alliances with Latin social-democratic friends may not yet be to its earlier impressionistic leftism in ler workers should strike to get full American capitalist governments is a ready for their leap into the Shachtman­ the absence of a genuine Trotskyist wages, benefits and conditions. If replay of its line in the early 1960s (see ite "Third Camp." But they have alternative. A Trotskyist party will not lacocca and the rest of the Chrysler "Castro's Search for Hemispheric De­ certainly already joined the "non­ and cannot be built on the basis of bosses plead bankruptcy and inability to tente," WV No. 141, 21 January 1977). aligned.". tailing a mass movement for Islamic pay, strikers should seize the company The only current which has consistently reaction in Iran; of uncritically hailing assets, sell them off and divide the denounced the c1ass-eollaborationist treacherous Stalinists like Castro and money among themselves without a policies of the rulers of the Cuban Ho Chi Minh; of lauding any and every Correction penny to the parasitic stockholders. deformed workers state and called for petty-bourgeois radical movement UAW members need to dump the political revolution has been the inter­ 4 November 1979 bankrupt Fraser bureaucracy and re­ which comes along as a short-eut national Spartacist tendency. substitute for the uniquely vanguard place it with a class-struggle leadership For the reformist American SWP, the Editorial Board role of the conscious proletariat. that will not only win voluntary over­ class struggle has become something Workers Vanguard There is no substitute for the time, but jobs for all through a strategy fought out in the UN. Reactionary Trotskyist program. That is what is Dear Comrades: of sit-down strikes to combat layoffs capitalist dictators are transmuted into decisive in the struggle for a revolution­ As the reporters responsible for the and plant closings, and a powerful "progressives" when they applaud the ary party. Not numbers, not clever article, "Jeff Mackler: Racist" which industrywide fight for a shorter work­ speeches of Stalinist bureaucrats and appeared in Workers Vanguard No. manoeuvres, not impressionistic organi­ week with a big pay boost and full cost­ "stinging setbacks" "

The following leaflet was issued on Rouge, Wayne Assembly, Wixom, America to Smash the Klan and Nazis! when demonstrators sought to prevent Tuesdal', November 6, br several Cadillac, Fleetwood and Laid-Off Auto Defend the Right of Armed Self­ more deaths. they were arrested! Civil members of United Auto' Workers Workers-Join with the NAACP, Defense! Jail the Killer Klansmen! rights activists in the South learned this Local 600 at Ford Motor Co.'s River Urban League, etc. to Drive These Drop the Charges Against the Anti­ lesson-it took the heroic organization Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan. Bigoted Scum from the Streets! Klan Protesters! of armed self-defense by the black On Monday before the announce­ We must not flinch from the obvious. community to drive back the Klan. The Cold-blooded, pre-meditated murder ment of the KKK march, we met with We must have a reco~nized right to cops. courts and FBI are not our friends. was committed by the Ku Klux Klan in They have a job to do for Carter, or Greensboro, North Carolina. Last whatever resides in the White House. Saturday the Klan leveled a hail ofsemi­ For years the FBI carried out a vendetta automatic weapon fire at a peaceful against Martin Luther King-Gary demonstration of black and white Rowe. the paid FBI informer. murdered textile union organizers, community Viola Liuzzo in 1965 for the Klan. Rows activists and anti-racist militants in the of [Detroit mayor] Coleman Young's black community of Greensboro. In cops. incldentally mostly black, guarded minutes 14 anti-Klan demonstrators lay the Nazi headquarters in Detroit last in pools of their own blood. Five are year. Individuals must not be left now dead. Yesterday the blood-hungry isolated and defenseless. We must have Klan in Michigan announced its chal­ organized. disciplined and effective self­ lenge to the population of Detroit-they defense. We in the organized labor said 1,000 or so Klansmen would march movement must smash the Klan's terror "with or without a permit" at I p.m. on with a mobilization of our thousands of Friday from the Renaissance Center to ranks. Kennedy Square for a rally. We warned Rouge workers were victorious with that [Rouge foremen] McKulen and our anti-Klan petition. Many believed it Beinke's actions [see "Auto Workers was not possible. only to experience Drive Out KKK-Hooded Foremen," jubilation when we got the union to WV No. 242, 26 October] were not a force McKuJen and Beinke out. They joke. That horrible truth could not be must be rUD out of th\:ir holes! Mmions. clearer! passed in the DAP unit meeting last If this provocation is not met by week committing our unit to the fight decisive action on the part of organized for tiring McKulen and Beinke and to labor and black organizations in partic­ action against a small right-wing hate WV Photo ..., ular then it will not be too long before group in the plant called the "Brass .-c SL contingent at 1978 Detroit demonstration to close Nazi bookstore. the Greensboro massacre is repeated Knuckle Caucus." Once again the IlL.­ right here. Let us not forget the membership must make its powerful audacious, brutal razor slashing of a Ernest Lofton, second v-p of Local 600 defend ourselves, our families and voice heard! Demand our Local 600 --- young girl's thigh that happened last and other Local and unit officials calling , homes against attack. We must defend leaders call us together to demonstrate year-right in front of a UAW­ on them to mobilize a mass labor­ the right of armed self-defense. Look at on Friday. Tell your committeeman to sponsored anti-Nazi rally. Our leader­ centered demonstration in response to the black family in [the Detroit suburb fight for this. Call Brother Lofton and ship must immediately announce a the Greensboro massacre. Now, plans to of] Romulus-the Klan attacks, the express your determination that the counter-demonstration for Friday at I hold a Saturday demonstration must be police arrest him for protecting himself! Klan be stopped. We are thousands and p.m. on the same spot as the threatened scrapped and a massive counter­ This is what happened in Greensboro as we are strong! Once the labor movement Klan march. Failure to do so will be a demonstration must be called for well-the cops self-admittedly knew has entered the battle with fierce crime of cowardice that will go un­ Friday. We must raise the slogans: For and allowed armed Klansmen to drive determination the murdering Klan and matched for some time! Turn Out the Mass Labor{ Black Action Across right up to the demonstration. Then, Nazis days are numbered!. Rouge Workers Demand Anti-KKK Demo

Local 600, which collectively repre­ Police arrested 14 persons, a dozen ham (Ala.) in 1963 and 1 know what ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH sents several smaller workers units at of whom they said claimed to be they stand for," she said. "A lot of 4 NOVEMBER 1979 the Rouge plant. KKK members, after Saturday's people here don't like what they violence. Two carloads of whites stand for. 1 think the response of the "Myself and others organized the emptied automatic weapons into a white workers has been great." "We petition drive that drove the foremen DEARBORN, Michigan, Nov. 4 "Death to the Klan" rally in Greens­ were happy jn the plant because we out," Frank Hicks, a Rouge trades­ (AP)-llnited Auto Workers union boro, killing three white men and a thought the foremen had been gotten man, said Sunday. "We found out members at Ford Motor Co.'s black woman. rid of, but when we found out that Friday they just were transferred to Dearborn Rouge Plant passed a they were just transferred we were other plants. The workers thought "The (Dearborn) workers are resolution this weekend demanding really angry," she continued. "The that was just a slap on the wrist. Now really mad," Hicks, a white worker, that two white foremen who wore Ku company didn't tell us anything, we (the demand for their firing) is an said. "We want the union to make a Klux Klan-type garb to the plant in just found out about it Friday. We September be fired for their actions. official union motion." powerful statement in defense of the rights ofblacks." The resolution itself were under the impression they had The foremen, Tim McKulen and Miss Maddox, who has worked for been fired." read: "This unit calls on Local 600, Fred Beinke, were transferred respec­ two years on the Rouge production CAW Local 36 (Wixom] and the Asked why she thought there has tivel~ to Ford's Wixom and Wayne line, said Sunday [members of] the been an apparent resurgence of KKK International to take all necessary Assembly plants in Michigan, ac­ assembly unit also [are] asking Local acthity, Miss Maddox said, "I don't actions to insure the firing of these cording to Portia Maddox, a Rouge 600 leaders to [hold) a "smash the know what's sparking the Klan again two supervisors for their outrageous plant worker who organized support Klan terror" demonstration in dow.n­ but they are twice as large now as KKK provocations." for these resolutions. town Detroit. The rally would they were ten, fifteen years ago. 1 They were approved Saturday by protest what she called growing Klan Miss Maddox, who is black, said guess it has to do with jobs. With the (a union meeting representing] 4,500 power and Saturday's death of four she personally learned about the economy so bad, (maybe they won­ members of the Dearborn Assembly anti-Klan marchers in Greensboro, Klan through the '60s turmoil in the der) why would blacks be working Plant unit within the massive L1 AW 1'O.C. South. "I went through it in Birming- and they're not."

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