WlltNEltS ,I1NI',1" 2se No. 463 21 October 1988 Democrats, Republicans Wage War on the Poor

Sylvia Plachy New "workfare" bill will cut off last lifeline for poor black women and their children, throwing millions off the welfare rolls. • enaGI e -II II For black people in racist America, supreme expression of how in America, welfare reform, it's a plan to turn the ity of which happen to be white-while the "land of the free" has always been a to paraphrase Gore Vidal, there is only ghettos into vast cemeteries-because demanding that one of the parents do 16 prison house of terror and degradation. one party, the property party, with two there are nojobs to get. The aim of this hours of unpaid "community service" Over the past couple of decades, the right wings. legislation is to see to it that layers of the every week. This provision is closer in inner cities have become dumping In the obscene "newspeak" of Rea­ minority population die, because this concept to the old workhouses of Vic­ grounds for millions of.human beings ganite reaction it's called the "Family decrepit capitalist system no longer torian England or to the chain gangs of thrown on the scrap heap by the racist Security Act." It has about the same needs them. convicts who broke rocks in quarries rulers who have looted this country dry. relation to the security of black and His­ As Andrew Hacker. pointed out in an and built roads in the South. Over three million people have been panic families as the sign Arbeit Macht article titled "Getting' Rough' on the Women with children over the age of turned out of their homes, to huddle, Frei (Freedom Through Labor) posted Poor" (New York Review of Books, three (which can be lowered to six starve and die in the streets. The black over Hitler's concentration camps had 13 October), the overwhelming biparti­ months by individual states) will be ghettos and Hispanic barrios are rav­ to the freedom of the Jewish victims it san consensus behind the new welfare compelled to enroll in job "retraining" aged by AIDS, while hospitals there taunted. The same day this "workfare" law "derives from the fear that growing programs. Yet the government has cut have been shut down. Abortionclinics law was passed, the Senate shot down a numbers of black and brown Ameri­ back funding for job training and are terrorized and bombed by "right to measly 40 cents an hour increase in the cans are ... producing children who may employment programs by a whopping lifers," forcing black and Hispanic minimum wage. In this club of million­ be a burden to society." This brings to 68 percent over the past six years to help women to bear children they can't aires, the Republicans demanded that mind nothing so much as Jonathan finance the trillion-dollar high-tech afford to feed, or to be butchered in any increase be coupled with an even Swift's "A Modest Proposal," a biting "Star Wars" Pentagon boondoggles. back-alley abortions. And, embold­ lower sub-minimum "training wage"! satirical attack on Britain's malign And for "child care" during the "retrain­ ened by Reagan reaction, the fascist And to top it off, the Senate once more neglect of starving Irish children in the ing," the Family Security Act will dole nightriders of the Ku Klux Klan and refused to ratify a 19-year-old interna­ 18th century famine. To prevent "the out six bucks a day, which couldn't even skinhead Nazis murder and maim. tional treaty outlawing genocide! children of poor people from being a get one of the more destitute people on Now Congress has .enacted a "wel­ Genocide is what this new "workfare" burthen to their parents or country, and the street to watch your kids. fare reform" which embodies like is all about! Millions of single mothers for making them beneficial to the pub;' Pimping off desperate poor people nothing else the wanton cruelty and on welfare who refuse to take a job­ lie," Swift proposed that the wealthy who want to be trained for jobs has cold-hearted viciousness of the Reagan any job, anywhere, at any starvation buy and eat the babies ofthe poor, offer­ become one of America's few growth years-written, engineered and pushed wage-will be cut off without a cent, lit­ ing up various recipes. industries. Hustlers stand outside wel­ through by the Democrats. Crafted by erally left to starve. Suspected fathers At least then the poor and huddled fare and unemployment offices hawk­ New York Senator Daniel ("henign are supposed to be hounded down masses of Europe could hope to emi­ ing phony training programs which neglect") Moynihan and proudly pa­ through genetic "paternity" tests to have grate to the "land of opportunity." But "offer little meaningful training or job raded by Texas millionaire Lloyd Bent­ their wages garnished or be forced into today, if the racist white rulers have placement. Instead they make money by sen, the new "workfare" law was passed the same scheme if they can't cough up their way, for America's black and His­ taking students incapable of doing the with the most overwhelming Dem­ "child support." The children will either panic poor there will only be someplace required work, keeping them long ocratic and Republican unity that has be left to wander the mean streets alone to die. We the working people pro­ enough to collect a share of govern­ been seen in years. The filial act of the or be ripped away from their mothers duced the wealth of this country, it ment tuition payments and leaving the lOOth Congress, it represents the con­ through "protective payments" to un­ belongs to us, and it's going to take a most naive ones responsible for pay­ sensus of the whole capitalist class, a specified "third parties." This is not socialist revolution to take it back. ing back large Government-guaranteed loans" (New York Times,6 August). "Training" for ... Death Even Business Week (2 November The new welfare act is a horrifying 1987) has admitted that: "Jobs that get Workers' Protests Spread, . maze of deadly Catch-22s which center mothers off AFDC are likely to pay low around the elimination of the Aid to wages, and exclude health benefits: a Nationalist Agitation Deepens Families with Dependent Children Faustian bargain at best, since many (AFDC) program, what has passed for a of these women would find themselves "safety net" for the downtrodden and in the growing ranks of the work­ dispossessed in this society. Underlin­ ing poor. ..." Moreover, what "low ing the explicit racism behind the new entry"-i.e., below poverty level-jobs legislation, the Family Security Acttries there are are certainly not to be found in to piece off the white poor by extending the impoverished inner-city hellholes. SEE PAGE SIX AFDC benefits to two-parent families where most of these women live. So, if on welfare-the overwhelming major- continued on page 4 ~rRogers Brain-Trusts Another Defeat International Paper Strikers Shafted After 16 bitter months, on October 10 threatened to cut offthe meager strike the men who broke ranks in the 1921Jay the outset of the strike in June 1987, strikers at the sprawling International payments. paper strike are known as "sons of IP took the rbad of old-style union­ Paper plant in Jay, Maine took down Now most of the 1,250 Jay paper scabs." busting, contracting for hundreds of their picket lines. Hundreds of shocked workers are out of a job, along with hun­ At- least one striker, in a phone live-in scabs from the sinister BE&K and angry workers descended on Unit­ dreds of strikers at two other IP mills in interview with WV, laid the defeat to strikebreaking outfit, turning the Jay ed Paperworkers International Union De Pere, Wisconsin and Lock Haven, "dirty politics," speculating that their plant into a barbed-wire compound sur­ (UPIU) Local 14 headquarters to learn Pennsylvania. Feelings are running high strike had. been sacrificed on the rounded by 15,000 feet of chain link that the International bureaucrats had along the Androscoggin River against altar of Michael Dukakis' presidential fence and surveillance cameras. At "stabbed them in the back," as local the scab replacements brought in by the ambitions. Mobile, Alabama the company locked officials rightly put it. Not only did company, and even more bitter against Unfortunately, the local leadership out the union. Yet the International the UPIU tops refuse to call indus­ the 78 "super-scabs" who deserted their made the International's treachery a lot leadership allowed the strikers to twist trywide solidarity action, they even coworkers. To this day the children of easier by falling for strike-out artist Ray in the wind, keeping at least 77 other Rogers' "Corporate- Campaign" line, locals at work for IP, 21 of them with­ which also screwed the hard-fought out a contract. Hormel strike in-1986-87. Instead of The strikers' watchword had been organizing to shut down production "Scabs Out-Union In." Now UPIU through mass picketing, seizing the members must bitterly watch as IP plants, "hot cargoing" scab products stands pat with its scab workforce, who and spreading the strike to the rest of the will be the only ones allowed to vote IP empire, they allowed Rogers to in NLRB decertification elections. It's squander the strikers' energy in Madi­ going to take some hard class struggle, son Avenue-style appeals to get house­ absorbing the lessons of this backstab­ wives to boycott certain cosmetics. bing defeat, to avenge the bosses' union- Ray Rogers The only way to beat International , busting. For a class-struggle leadership preaching Paper was by playing hardball. From in the trade unionsljs "consumer boycott" strategy, proven recipe for losing strikes. Workers Vanguard Subscription Drive Final Totals Quota Final Quota Final Local (In points) Totals % Local (In points) Totals %

Organized Workers Power Atlanta 190 207% 109 Oakland 800 894 112 Can Stop Fascists Boston 300 358 119 San Francisco 380 532 140 With Hitler and Mussolini on themarch Chicago 550 715 130 Washington, D.C, 160 209 131 in Europe, emboldened Americanfascists Cleveland 230 292 127 At-large 200 248 124 staged a rally in New York's Madison Los Angeles 240 367% 153 Square Garden in February 1939. The New York 1,250 1,518% 121 Nati.onal Total 4,300 5,341% 124 Trotskyists ofthe Socialist Workers Party responded by organizing a massive united­ front mobilization outside the Garden TROTSKy which drew 50,000 workers ofall commu- LENIN nities-t-blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Italians, Irish. Following this display oflabor's power, the SWP called for union-centered action everywhere to crush the.fascist menace. Fascism is a movement of scabs and thugs .... It wants to smash and prohibit every labor union, every workers' organization. It wants to smash and prohibit every labor political movement. It wants to deprive us of our right to free speech, free assembly, free press, the right to organize, to strike, to picket. ~ It wants to send the Jew back to, the Ghetto, or wipe him out altogether. It wants to deprive the Catholic and Protestant of the right to worship as they seefit. Last Monday night was Fascism's first big mobilization in New York. The 50,000 workers who demonstrated against the thugs and scabs showed that they want to fight them, are ready to fight them .... The lesson of the Madison Square Garden mobilization of the Fascists is: Labor must have a counter-mobilization! It must immediately organize its Workers Defense Guards! It must put the fear of ORGANIZED WORKERS POWER into the cowardly hearts of the Nazi hoodlums! Only a fool will wait until he is in a concentration camp. The workers of Italy, Germany and Austria are sorry THEY waited. Don't wait-act now. Act strongly! Act militantly! il8i -"Fight Fascism With Workers' Guards!" 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In Dallas last February, 600 terrorizing clinics around the country. violent Hitlerite skinheads to bring hold a "White Pride Day" provocation black, white and Hispanic protesters They, too, have targeted Philadelphia as their racist terror to the heart' of Phil­ on federal property at the Liberty Bell. routed the skinheads and KKK. And part of a national action on October 29. adelphia, November 5, is a deadly Federal spokesmen have repeatedly said when they tried to march in Atlanta dur­ provocation against blacks, unionists, that if the Klan applies for a permit, they ing the Democratic convention in July, A Century of Racist Terror Jews, Catholics, Hispanics-virtually will get one. The Klan says they will be a crowd of 1,500 trapped them in an Millions of Americans revile the the entire city population. "We will not joined by skinhead youth, violent bands underground garage and trampled on Klan, knowing that these racist terror­ allow the burning cross and the swas­ of psychotic killers decked out in swas­ their fascist regalia. ists want to reverse the results of the tika to terrorize the people of Philadel­ tikas and jackboots. John Weiss, the It's significant that the Klan wants to Civil War, the second American Revo­ phia," said organizers of the Novem­ local KKK rabble-rouser from South parade in Philadelphia just days before lution which smashed chattel slavery. ber 5 Mobilization to Stop the KKK. Philly, says "the color of our skin is our the presidential election. These shock The history of the KKK is marked by Initiated by the Partisan Defense Com­ robe." In a three-hour interview with troops of Reagan reaction have grown three periods: the original Klan, night­ mittee, the mobilization is now in full Philadelphia glossy magazine SCAN increasingly frustrated of late. As KKK riders who hunted down freed blacks swing to bring out the power of labor, (October 1988), Weiss and a KKK/skin­ "Pennsylvania Grand Dragon" Rick during Radical Reconstruction; the together with minorities and all those head sidekick spewed outracistTilth Fogel, put it: . reborn Klan of the 1920s, based in who share the common determination against blacks and Jews. Weiss, whose "I think the reasonourgrouphasgrown Northern cities and targeting immi­ to "make the streets of Philly safe from stepfather was Jewish, raved that Jews sofastisbecause of ReaganintheWhite House. Not just us, but other right­ grants and unions; and the "new" Klan these racist criminals." of Europe staged the Holocaust. wing-I guess you.could say extrem­ of today, where "dragons" in three-piece In one week, more than 140 groups The Nazi-loving skinheads origi- ist-groups, because Reagan made suits go on TV talk shows while their and individuals have signed up to say nated in Margaret Thatcher's Britain promises about abertion, pornogra­ skinhead allies- roam the streets with "All Out to Stop the KKK!" November -and have now spread to Reagan's phy,guncontroland busingand allthis chains, knives and guns. But through all 5 at Independence Mall. Among the stuff,and 1think all he did wasgive lip America (see "Fascist Metzger and His service to the right-wing peopleand he its incarnations, the KKK with its white endorsers are Philadelphia unions, Deadly Skinhead Thugs," WVNo. 462, hasn't really delivered." sheets, lynch ropes and burning crosses including city workers of AFSCME 7 October). In Pennsylvania, the de­ -SCANmagazine, October1988 has stood for white Protestant suprem­ District Council 33, social services pressed industrial city of Allentown has While racist terrorismis on the rise from acy enforced by murder, and terrorism union SEIU Local 668, and -officials of become a center for these gangs, where Howard Beach, Queens to Southern against all supporters of racial equality. AFSCME DC Council 47, the OPEIU, on October 9 a "skinhead concert" at a California, - brutal assaults against The original Klan was formed in Newspaper Guild and other bibor local nightclub attracted hundreds of homosexuals have escalated as the cut­ Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866 by a group organizations. Four members of the skinheads from all over the region. ting edge of the AIDS witchhunt. And of ex-Confederate officers. The first Philadelphia City Council have also These depraved scum have provoked the anti-abortion bigots of Operation "Grand Dragon" was General Nathan endorsed. At Temple University, the wide revulsion among the American Rescue have been doing Bush's work continued on page 10 African American Student Union, black fraternities and sororities, and the les­ bian/gay student union have joined in. And with endorsements from scores of labor officials, unions, civil rights groups and others across the country, the November 5 Mobilization has tapped a deep determination to stop the lynchers and Nazi scum. The "Invisible Empire, Knights ofthe Ku Klux Klan" have said they're "inch­ ing their way to Philadelphia." OnMay 21 they marched through Parkside, a white suburb just outside Philly. More than 1,000 people, including blacks City workers from nearby Chester, lined the streets manning the shouting "racist pigs" and "take your picket lines In masks off" while pelting the couple Philadelphia, dozen Kluxers with rocks and bottles. July 1986. Meanwhile, Klan activity in rural Pennsylvania is on the rise. A cross was burned in Shrewsbury. In June 200 KKKers rallied on a farm in Lancaster County. And on August 7, fifty fascists, half of them in robes, had a "picnic" at Valley Forge. When the Klan requested a permit in ~ September to hold a "recruiting drive" across from Philadelphia City Hall, they 21 OCTOBER 1988 3 that the nation's welfare system must Genocide stress family responsibility and com­ munity obligation, enforce the princi­ ple that child support must in the first U.S.A.... instance comefrom parents" (New York (continued from page 1) Times, 13June). What obscene hypocri­ you do manage to get one, you have to sy! The rulers of this country destroyed travel every day back and forth from any black family in the ghettos through Harlem to northern Westchester Coun­ the ravages of the economy of their ty to clean somebody's bathroom. deeaying 'social system. They deci­ Look at the "workfare" program mated whatever community structure recently implemented in Koch's New there was in the ghettos and now preach York. Women called in for an interview "community obligation." Through a are told th~t they have three weeks to policy that at best can be called "malign enroll in a job training program. Ifthey neglect" they let thousands of black can't, they're forced to work for city babies die ...and now they talk about agencies, like one woman whose "job" "child support." was checking toilet supplies in a Bronx Democratic SenatorDaniel Moyni­ welfare office: "Tome, this system is set han, the leading architect of the new up to keep you down, not to help you workfare bill, has'been blaming the get on your feet" (New York Times, "breakdown of the, family" among 23 March 1987). Sadist Ed Koch, a blacks for causing ghetto poverty and Democrat of course, gloats over misery degradation since he wrote The Negro and even goes so far as to claim that New Family in 1965. Back then he suggest­ Yorkers who give a coin to the home­ ed that one solution to ghetto unrest less and destitute are simply abetting among unemployed black youth was to criminals. draft them for the Vietnam War. The Lopez/NY imes drill sergeant was put forward as the American Apartheid Reagan (with Democratic Congressional leaders Daniel Moynihan, left, and Dan Rostenkowski) after signing ''workfare'' bill into law, calling It "the substitute for the missing father figure For the past 15years the conditions of lasting emancipation" for those on welfare. to instill discipline and "family values" life in America have steadily eroded. among blacks. At the time Moynihan black sociologist .William Julius Wil­ social services, no medical care, and the Twenty million go to bed every night was advising Nixon on dismantling the son points out in his book The Truly state sure as hell doesn't pay the rent. hungry, close to another 14 million live Democrats' "Great Society/War on Disadvantaged (1987), as the number of At one time American capitalism had in poverty, and more than two million of Poverty" programs whose purpose was employed black men plummeted, the an "industrial reserve army" which the American poor are full-time, year­ to keep the ghettos cool following the number of black single welfare mothers could be mobilized at times of labor round workers (The State of Working 1964 Harlem, 1965 Watts and 1967 skyrocketed. At the same time; what­ shortage. In "good times" black youth America, September 1988). The report Detroit ghetto upheavals. When the ever social infrastructure there had been could hope for a job. But now the notes that "since 1979, some 85% of the Vietnam War was escalating they in the ghettos completely crumbled. (relatively) "good times" are gone for­ new jobs have been in the lowest paying wanted to ensure their supply of young The black middle class, largely white­ ever. Today ghetto youth are an expend­ industries-retail trade and- personal, blacks as cannon fodder. Now black collar workers, who were the benefici­ able surplus population for the racist business and health services." And for a youth are expendable even for that aries of the "Great Society" programs of rulers of this country. The U.S. govern­ big chunk of America, the "Reagan purpose. the 1960shad already moved out. Then ment has already let thousands die in the recovery" has meant permanent unem­ "Family values" has been a rallying the income of black industrialized work­ ghettos by simply allowing disease to ployment. Last year less than a third cry for social conservatism in the Rea­ ers which had sustained the ghetto run rampant. After 100 years of steady of the jobless got any unemployment gan years. But for all the talk of a economy was cut off. Stores closed. And decline, rates of tuberculosis, a disease woman's place being at home with her benefits. with the mid-'70s "fiscal crisis," schools, of poverty, are soaring; 62 percent of During World War II millions of children in the "sanctity" of the family, recreation centers, hospitals, firehouses those afflicted are black. In 1985only 40 blacks migrated from the South to the white and black women have massively were shut down. A New York Times percent of non-white kids were immu­ booming war industries in the North joined the workforce to make up for fall­ (3 October) article captured the devas­ nized against polio. Speaking about and the West. In 1954, at the tail end of ing real wages. And with the number of tation of what was once Motor City: conditions of life in Central Harlem, the Korean War boom, 75 percent of all day care facilities utterly inadequate, the "Since the 1950's, Detroit has seen the even the New York City Health Com­ black men were working. By the '60s kids are left alone to be preyed upon by departureofdozens offactories,Stroh's missioner admitted: "In these dilapi­ ~ increasing numbers were in unionized, the pimps and pushers and terrorized by brewery, the city's only department dated buildings infants who survived the relatively well-paying jobs in the auto store and 850,000 people. the cops in the ghettos. Just remember first weeks of life are dying of pneumo­ plants and steel mills. Butin the mid-late "And in rundown neighborhoods what happened to five-year-old Patrick blighted bydrug-dealing and c~ime, the nia" .freezing-.to death, falling from '70s millions were permanently thrown Mason, the black child playing alone in churches, many of them architectural windows." his own home when an Orange County, 'out of work-in the deindustrialization of landmarks, are often havens for the America which turned much of the Mid­ elderly or the poor, offering food and California cop burst into the apartment west into a rust bowl. comfort and the only signof stability." Capitalism Destroys and shot him dead. To top it off, his Today blacks are three times more The Polish workers following Soli­ the Black Family mother was charged with "child abuse" likely than whites to be poor, over half darnosc who want to "free" the eeon­ The report of the Senate Finance because she was out working at the time. omy, introducing "a little" unemploy­ of black families are headed by single Committee headed by Democratic vice­ Communism: America's mothers, and the poverty rate for black ment, should see what's happened to presidential candidate LlaYQ, Bentsen Last, Best Hope kids under the age of 18 is a shocking their relatives who migrated to Ham­ declared that the new welfare law 67.1 percent. In 1986,only 40 percent of tramck, now nothing more than an "builds upon a strong consensus, joined For over a decade, beginning under all black men had a full-time job. As industrial wasteland, where there's no in by liberals and conservatives alike, Jimmy Carter, the American ruling

The rich revel in their mansions while'the homeless "live" in inner-city wastelands.

4 WORKERS VANGUARD New York Magazine,' 3 October 1988 Greed Beyond Belief N MARCH 1982, WHILE FIELDS'S ACCOUNTANTS WERE BUSY going through the Helmsley Palace books, Leona Helms­ The Helmsleys. According to Jeanie Kasin­ Leona Helmsley is "conservatively estimated at ley's son, Jay Panzirer, died suddenly after suffering a heart dorf's article "Leona and Harry: Money and $5 billion." The Helmsleys, Trumps and their attack. The death plunged Harry and Leona Helmsley into a Love" (New York Magazine, 3 October), which class are the people we want to overthrow-and much more bizarre legal battle. Panzirer, who was 40 when he died•.had lived near Orlan- we excerpt here, the wealth of Harry and do you believe they're going to go easily? do, Florida. with his third wife. Mimi, and his fourteen-year­ old son. Craig. one of four children from his first marriage. He collapsed during a meeting at the Orlando Harley Hotel and was rushed to a nearby hospital. Harry and Leona immediately boarded their BAC-I-II to fly to Florida, but Jay died before they got there. Leona had the body flown back to New York on a commercial jet for burial at Woodlawn Cemetery, where she and Harry have a mausoleum. A few weeks later, according to Mimi Panzirer, Harry Helmsley showed up at her house in Florida. "He said he wanted me out," she says. "I asked him why he was doing this. He said he needed the money. He went into a detailed expla­ nation of why he could no longer charge the expenses of the house to Deco. He was very businesslike. very calm," She begged him to let her stay until Craig finished the school year. He agreed. Six months later, Harry Helmsley sued Jay Panzirer's estate for the money it had cost to have his body flown back to New York. Leona Helmsley sued the estate to recover money that she said Jay had borrowed from her-$IOO,ooo that she said she had lent him to buy a share of stock in the Helmsley Palace. Leona also sued Mimi, claiming that she had lent Mimi an $18,000 ring from Buccellati and Mimi had never returned it. Mimi said that the ring, whichwas set with a 24-carat white topaz surrounded by 136diamonds. was a present to celebrate Craig's bar mitzvah. In the end, the court refused to reimburse Harry Helmsley for the cost ofshipping his stepson's body home. Leona with­ drew the claim to the ring after Mimi produced a newspaper story in which Leona had called it a gift. But the Helmsleys did get most of lay Panzirer's $149,000estate. Mimi got $2,171, and his four children got $432 each. At the time. a spokesman for Leona Helmsley said that, she had set up trust funds for the grandchildren. "She loves them," he said, "and she is taking care of them," New York Times Leona Helmsley plays herself in New York Times Magazine ad: "It's the only Palace in the Copyright @ 1988 News America Publishing, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of world where the Queen stands guard." New York Magazine.

class has waged an escalatirig war on against the ravages ofthe Reagan years? working people and minorities. Unions In fact, isolated sections of the Ameri­ have been broken, millions of workers can working class have fought, and have had giveback contracts shoved plenty hard. But they have been held down their throats, "two-tier" wages back and defeated by the laborcops who have become the norm in workplaces, let the leaders of the P Ac-T£--D air -eon­ keeping many full-time, unionized trollers strike be led away in chains and workers and their families below the have kept their own members shackled, poverty level. And the rights of all the bowing to the bosses' laws, capitulat­ most vulnerable sections of the popula­ ing to union-busting. And the union tion are mercilessly trampled on. As we bureaucrats and black establishment wrote last year in the main document of politicos, spearheaded by hesse Jack­ the Eighth National Conference of the son, then try to channel the deep hatred Spartacist League/ U.S.: for "Reaganism" into support to the "In sneering at hunger and homeless­ Democratic Party. The result: Duka­ ness, in taking aim gloatingly at those kis/Bentsen, who are running as "Rea­ most helpless like ghetto children, gan Democrats." AIDS victims, non-citizens, old-age At the same time, the different sec­ pensioners and so forth, Reaganisrn as an ideology highlights the objective tions of the exploited and oppressed need for a fighting proletarian van­ remain divided and often pitted against guard as a tribune ofthe people." one another. While selling out their members, the miserable AFL-CIO Why has there been so little struggle bureaucracy pushes Japan-bashing pro­ tectionism and whips up flag-waving anti-Communism. The black Demo­ cratic mayors who oversee the ghetto hellholes for the Reagan White House Der Mass-produced by American capitalism: three million homeless and twenty talk about "black empowerment" while million hungry. rats ravage black and Hispanic chil­ dren. Meanwhile various reformist left­ For decades liberal Democrats homeless, welfaremothers, drug users, ists push the divisive politics of sector­ preached "welfare state" reformism as etc. And we communists intend to do alism as a cover for supporting the so. But you have to first smash the the alternative to both cutthroat cap­ power of the bourgeoisie. For that you Democrats. italism and socialist revolution. Today needto build a workers party, one that Union-busting and "workfare" geno­ the liberal Democrats have united with doesn't 'respect' the property values of cide, anti-abortion terrorism, the rise of right-wing Republicans to eliminate the the bourgeoisie, a party that saysto the KKK racist terror and the emergence of last minimal measures of social welfare exploitedand oppressed: wewant more, we want all of it, it ought to be ours, so skinhead fascism have the same root in this country. Even such a genuinely take it. And when we have the wealth cause: the decay of American capital­ modest proposal as raising welfare pay­ of this country, we will begin to build ism. The only time American capital­ ments and wages to the equivalent of the a planned socialist economy on an ism has ever achieved genuine full .official poverty level (which wouldn't international scale. Then we can right employment, including for the black somehistoricalcrimesand payoff some cost a tenth of what they are pouring debts left over by our rulers, like some poor, is during an all-out war, such into their military machine) requires tens of billions of dollars to the Viet­ as World Wars I and II. In 1941-42, sharp class struggle by the working peo­ namese and others whose countries they took millions of uneducated rural ple, under a revolutionary leadership have been maimed under the passing Southern black and white teenagers and that won't stop short of the fight for treads of American tanks." in the space of six months trained them power. As we wrote after the stock To say that "workfare" genocide is a to become skilled welders-because market crash a year ago (WVNo. 439, program for barbarism is an insult to L.A. they needed the workers for their war 30 October 1987): barbarism. The only answer is socialist Five-yea ....old Patrick Mason, shot - industries. But now job "retraining" is a "You can solvea lot of problems with revolution to take the productive wealth and killed by racist cop while playing cruel hoax and World War III won't cre­ 'domestic cash transfers'-make life out of the hands of the murderous rul­ in his own home. ate jobs, only nuclear holocaust. livable for blacks, Hispanics, jobless, ers of this country! • 21 OCTOBER 1988 5 Workers' Protests Sp-readJ. Nationalist Agitation Deep-ens • u OS ana n ame

Invoking. the catchword perestroika, the London Guardian (I8 June): "'Slo­ Mikhail Gorbachev proposes "market gans accusing the Government of socialism" asthe nostrum to cure the ills betraying the people and condemning brought about by over six decades of privileges, incompetence, corruption, Stalinist usurpation and misrule in the and the luxury-style of top government USSR. But Gorbachev's panacea has and 'party leaders, were heard; together already had a trial run-in Yugoslavia. with shouts of 'Thieves'." After decades,of "market socialism," In July, five thousand leather and Yugoslavia is bankrupt. The multina­ 60 percent. In response 150,000 work­ No. 444, IS January, reprinted in the shoe workers from Borovo, Croatia tional workers state was forged through ers in over 1,000 enterprises walked off Spartacist pamphlet, "Market Socia/­ journeyed to Belgrade and marched on great sacrifice by the Yugoslav workers the job (see "Yugoslavia In Turmoil," ism" in Eastern Europe.) the parliament. Clashing with security and peasants in securing the victory of WV No. 429, 29 May 1987). By year's As inflation soared at an annual rate police, thousands broke through police Tito's Communist partisans,over the end over 1,500 strikes had taken place, of 859 percent in June, wages remained lines and stormed inside to present their Nazi occupation during World War II. including one by Croatian coal miners frozen or were cut by up to 30 percent. demands, which included calls for a Today it is a powder keg threatening to , that lasted for two months, the longest Taking their cue from a late May march doubling of wages and for funds to revi­ explode sooner rather than later. While talize their factory complex employing workers strike over starvation wages 23,000 workers. The angry workers ordered by Belgrade on behalf of the chanting "Down with the Govern­ imperialist banks, bureaucratic manip­ ment!" waved red flags, banners and ulation could spark bloody, internecine pictures of Josip Broz Tito. Police cor­ national conflict opening the road to doned off the area to keep thousands of possible capitalist counterrevolution. passers-by sympathetic to the strikers Recent weeks have seen an ominous from joining them. The Borovo strik­ rise in Great Serbian nationalist agita­ ers, joined by 2,100 leather and shoe tion fomented by the new strongman of workers in Vojvodina and Serbia, called the Serbian bureaucracy, Slobodan for united action by the whole Yugo­ Milosevic, who comes off like a full­ slav working class, raising the spectre of blown fascist. Wearing old Serbian mil­ a general strike against the govern­ itary caps, tens of thousands have taken ment's vicious austerity measures. to the streets with banners calling for "Death to All Albanian Nationalists!" Ominous Resurgence of In the nationally-mixed autonomous Serbian Nationalism region of Vojvodina a pro-Serbian rally Along with the massive working-class engineered by Milosevic forces chanted unrest there has been a dramatic "One state, one army, one language." At escalation of nationalist agitation. the same time, these protests have also The bureaucrats and intellectuals of expressed a deep hatred in the working Slovenia-the most developed region, class for bureaucratic parasitism, which bordering Austria-have long com­ Milosevic is seeking to exploit dema­ plained about subsidizing the poorer gogically. Thus posters at the Vojvodina regions to their south. Increasingly, rally proclaimed, "We Have Strength, Slovenian nationalists want to link But We Have No Bread" and "The Same their future to a German-dominated Bread for Everybody"-referring to the Central Europe. In fact, all things inedible "people's bread." German (including the language) have By uncorking the genie of Serbian become very fashionable in Slovenia. At nationalism Milosevic is literally play­ the opposite end of the national spec­ ing with fire. The mass explosion ofSer­ AP trum are the Albanians of Kosovo, who bian nationalism will rekindle the Carrying red flags and pictures of Marshal Tito, thousands of factory workers resent being the poor stepchildren of memory of the bloody national feuds of march on Yugoslav parliament in Belgrade last JUly. the Yugoslav federation and bridle at prewar bourgeois Yugoslavia, when the Serbian overlordship of their "auton­ Serbian monarchy and its army ran the strike in the country's postwar history. on the federal parliament by 400 strik­ omous province." And now we are' rest of the country as a heavy-handed And the strike wave has not abated. This ing Bosnian coal miners, in June and seeing the spectacular eruption of Ser­ military dictatorship. While Milosevic's year strikes have already erupted in all July tens of thousands of strikers bian nationalism, that is, the national­ "liberal" opponents in the Yugoslav areas of the country.'- "- marched on Belgrade and demon­ ism of the dominant people. This is bureaucracy denounce him as a would­ A big impetus to the latest round of strated outside parliament in bitter partly economic resentment at pouring be Mussolini, all they can offer-is strikes was another set of IMF-dictated protests against the government's IMF money wastefully into the impover­ preserving a status quo that has become austerity measures imposed late this starvation policies. Over 5,000 workers ished regions of Kosovo and Macedo­ intolerable for the working masses. spring. The intent is to dismantle the at the Zmaj tractor factory located on nia and partly is a backlash against the Today the country is saddled with a system of "workers self-management." the outskirts of the city downed tools in vocal pro-Western nationalism of the foreign debt of over $21 billion owed to Subsidies to money-losing enterprises mid-June, and flying red flags and Slovenes. the imperialist loan sharks; inflation is would be cut off. Personal capital chanting "We want bread!", descended The recent wave of Serbian chauvin­ raging at over 200 percent annually; and investment in the economy through on parliament. According to a report in ist demonstrations, ostensibly in defense unemployment approaches 20 percent bonds, shares and stocks would be per­ of the workforce. Fixed investment and mitted, while restrictions on foreign industrial production have spiraled investments are loosened. This raises down, and the workers have seen their directly and inevitably the rapid spawn­ standard of living drop by more than 40 ing of a layer of petty entrepreneurs percent since 1980. The liberal-Stalinist linked to the imperialist financial cen­ policies of Tito and his heirs have ters and ultimately bent on capitalist brought the Yugoslav deformed work­ counterrevolution. ers state to economic ruin and pro­ Already Yugoslavia has been racked voked the dangerous, rise in national by corruption scandals (such as the antagonisms. Together these disastrous Agromerc affair last year) linked with developments pose pointblank the ur­ foreign trade. Now a millionaire busi­ gent and desperate necessity 'for prole­ nessman has been awarded the "Order tarian political revolution. of Labor," an honor "customarily Capitalist,Bankers Take Over reserved for shock workers of Com­ munism" (New York Times, 29 Sep­ the "Self-Managed" Economy tember). Most ominously, "bankrupt" In 1987 Yugoslavia literally ran out of state enterprises are now to be sold off. money. The Yugoslav bureaucracy, hat Yet from the standpoint of the world in hand, went begging to the imperialist market almost all Yugoslav firms are bank cartel, the International Mone­ "bankrupt." To whom do Milosevic and tary Fund (IMF). In exchange for a the Croatian and Slovenian party lead­ financial quick fix the Yugoslav gov­ erships intend to sell these assets? (For ernment imposed a savage austerity pro­ a- historical analysis of the Yugoslav anjug gram orr the workers, freezing and economic collapse, see "The. Bank­ Josip Broz Tito (left) led pan-Yugoslav anti-Nazi partisans, transcending cutting wages while raising pr~ces 25 to ruptcy of the Yugoslav Model," WV national antagonisms through revolutionary struggle. . 6 WORKERS VANGUARD of the Serbian minority living in for October 17. Yugoslavia's Federal Kosovo, are far from spontaneous, but President RaifDizdarevic, from Bosnia, rather have been whipped up by HUNGARY has threatened to impose a state of Milosevic. Milosevic, a former director emergency. And in an unprecedented of the Belgrade Bank, purged the Ser­ ROMANIA act two Politburo members, Franc bian party of his anti-nationalist oppo­ Setinc and Bosko Krunic, resigned their nents last year, and is now intent on but­ seats on that body in protest against tressing his power by overturning the Milosevic's chauvinist policies. The 1974 constitutional provisions that leaderships of the Slovenian and Croa­ removed the autonomous provinces of tian republics are clearly alarmed by the Kosovo and Vojvodina from the direct rise of Serbian nationalism. The Croa­ administrative control of the Serbian tian newspaper Danas called Milosevic republic. "the greatest danger since the Second Six years before his death in 1980 World War." Tito, in an effort to curb the growing Big sections of the liberal-Stalinist national antagonisms fostered by his Yugoslav bureaucracy are worried regime's economic policies, imposed on about Milosevic's "extraparliarnen­ - Inlernahonal bounda!')' both the Yugoslav state and the League - RepublIC boundary tary" mobilizations for another reason. of Yugoslav Communists (LCY) a com­ --- Autonomous proYlnce boundary They have also been the occasion for pletely federated structure. Thus, for * NatIOnal capital giant outpourings of proletarian out­ example, the Yugoslav presidency is a @ Republic Of autonomous provmce capital rage over the bureaucracy's corruption o 25 50 75 100 1"lomelllfl collective presidium shared among the ~III and mismanagement of the economy. A l " _n II[ six republics and two autonomous prov­ o 25 50 75 September 22 demonstration at the Ser­ SOUHC£ Pr"p~'.6 to' Problems of Comm .."' .... b~ t"- inces. Chairmanship of the presidency C."lnll"""" So- "," l.bor• .....,. o.p..fl 01GRg'.""'. bian industrial town of Kraljevo, for U""... ~"y lit yl.",1 C Pll" P...... 0 It US C_,al rotates annually. Likewise anyone of 1..1.1I,1I ·.AlI "lJ I'!>Il••I13 '1' 1-...,1., example, was as much a protest over the eight constituent republics can veto economic conditions as a nationalist any measure before parliament. What Problems of Communjsm rally. Speaking at the meeting, the local made the whole unwieldy structure Rising tide of nationalism is threatening to rip apart the Socialist Federal union chief at the railway car factory, Republic of Yugoslavia. Below: Picture of rabid chauvinist Siobodan work while Tito was alive was that he, Milosevic, new strongman of the dominant Serbian republic, carried in ! the town's main industry, said: elected president for life, served as the demonstration. "We don't want imposing villas, planes, arbiter. With his death the whole sys­ yachts and private beaches. You are not tem has spiraled into autarky and our comrades because you do not line up at dawn to buy 'people's bread.' You paralysis worthy of the Hapsburg don't share our destiny on the first, Empire in its final years. second or third shift. You don't go Former bank director Milosevic is down in the mine shafts; you don't perhaps one of the LCY's strongest climb high to build bridges. You are not our comrades." advocates of what the IMF calls the -e-New York Times, "structural reform" of the Yugoslav 23 September economy. Thus Milosevic is encourag­ According to the Times report the ing the nationalist demonstrations to crowd responded enthusiastically, put himself in the role of arbiter, "first shouting "Thieves!" "Down with those among equals" of that utterly corrupt who sit in armchairs!" and "The people wing of the Yugoslav bureaucracy intent should judge them!" on bailing out their regime by selling the It's clear that Milosevic's Kosovo country to the imperialist bankers at demonstrations are heavily fueled by bargain-basement prices. The national­ plebeian outrage. Such mobilizations ist outbursts also deflect attention from may blow up in this miserable dema­ the economic misery that he and his gogue's face when the masses discover cothinkers have been and are planning that their fool's gold of Serbian nation­ to inflict on the Yugoslav working class, alism purchases them an IMF shock not least the powerful and militant Ser­ treatment-administered by a former bian proletariat. bank executive in a pin-striped suit sit­ Milosevic and his cohorts in the Com­ ting in his own armchair in Belgrade and munist League of Serbia have seized Independent himself not lacking in access to Mer­ upon the Kosovo question precisely to cedes, villas or yachts. whip up the most extreme Serbian chau­ poorest, least developed area in Yugo­ So far Milosevic has been able to ride vinism. For diehard Serbian national­ slavia, with an unemployment rate of the wave of Serbian chauvinism he has : For a Socialist Federation ists Kosovo is the Serbian question. over 35 percent. The billions of dinars in unleashed in. his intra-bureaucratic of the Balkans! Cradle of the medieval Serbian king­ "development funds" which have been struggle for power. He has managed dom and site of the definitive albeit poured into Kosovo have mainly been with impunity to openly defy an LCY In late 1945 a constitution establish­ glorious defeat of the Serbs (along with squandered on palatial government party presidium directive against na­ ing the Federal People's Republic of their Albanian allies) by the Turks in buildings. Since 1981some 34,000 Serbs tionalist rallies. He forced the resigna­ Yugoslavia (FNRJ) was passed which 1389, it is woven into the national liter­ and Montenegrins have left the area, tion ofthe Vojvodina party leaders who stated that the republic was: ature and messianic national myth. of many claiming they were driven out by tried to oppose his Great Serbian chau­ " ...a community of peoples equal in the Christian Serbs defeated yet stead­ Albanian terror tactics. Certainly there vinist policies, while mass pro-Milosevic rights who, on the basis of the right to self-determination including the right of fastly resisting the Turkish infidels for have been incidents as the Albanian rallies demanded the resignation of the secession, have expressed their will to 500 years. nationalists workon reversing the terms Montenegrin party leadership as well. live together in a federative state." When Kosovo was captured by the of oppression. Charges of arson, rape, Milosevic has provoked a strong -cited in Paul Shoup, Serbian bourgeoisie from Turkey dur­ robbery and murder abound, and are backlash from among other elements of. Communism and the Yugoslav ing the course of the first Balkan War vastly exaggerated in the superheated the Yugoslav bureaucracy. Now, as ver­ National Question (1968) (1913) the region was already heavily atmosphere of national animosity. bal battles escalate in the Politburo, this The gap between these words and the Albanian, the Turks in the 19th century The Serbian exodus from Kosovo crisis is coming to a head at an LCY situation in Yugoslavia today could not having encouraged the settlement there owes much to the deep economic Central Committee plenum scheduled continued on page 8 of additional Moslem Albanians as a depression of the region, another ex­ buffer against the Serbs. During the pression of which is the fact that fully 1930s Serb nationalists, aptly named one-third of the adult male Albanian "colonialists," moved into the province population works in northern Europe. A pamphlet on the economics in large numbers in an attempt to The Albanians in Kosovo have the high­ of the East European deformed guarantee Serbian hegemony. In turn, est birthrate in Europe, 34 per 1,000. workers states, analyzing during World War II the Italians en­ Pooling their hard currency received Yugoslavia, Hungary and couraged another wave of Albanian from family members abroad, Alba­ East Germany in the context of settlement. nian clans have been buying up Serb Gorbachev's perestroika. The Following the partisan victory in property by offering enormous sums. pamphlet considers the history 1945, Kosovo became an autonomous According to the London Guardian of the ruling bureaucracies' province of Serbia, although in name (12 September), houses in Kosovo sell efforts to combat stagnation The Bankruptcy of the only. The province was tun by the Serb for between $140,000 and $298,000. through decentralization Yugoslav Model minority with a mailed fist via the Serb­ The current round of demonstra­ and "market-oriented" ---'-----PAGE e _ dominated UDBa security police of tions has in any case raised tensions reforms, and counterposes .. Hungary: Alexander Rankovic. In 1966 Rankovic between the two communities to a fevh the Trotskyist program for GOUlash Communism" pitch. Both are armed and the situation centralized economic planning Goes Bust was purged and by 1968 both Kosovo's ------PAGE , _ and Vojvodina's autonomous status was could explode into an intercommunal based on workers democracy. redefined, making them in many re­ bloodbath of Lebanese proportions. Includes "The Bukharin For Central Planning Dossier," concerning Through SOViet Democracy spects the equal of the six Yugoslav Should that happen it would threaten PAGE 16 republics. the unity of the one remaining effective Right Opposition leader Since the late '60s national tensions in nationwide institution in Yugoslavia­ Nikolai Bukharin, frequently Kosovo have escalated dangerously. In the army. Dominated by Serb officers presented today as the 1981 the region was hit with a wave of and noncoms, the army is one-third "godfather of perestroika." angry Albanian protests. Many were Albanian at its conscript base, a bloodily suppressed and some 3,500 concrete expression of Albanian demo­ $1.00 (32 pages) Albanian nationalists imprisoned. To­ graphics (Albanians are today the Order from/make checks payable t:o~:------!!!5i!!!5i======'m day Kosovo is populated by 200,000 third-largest national component in Spartacist Publishing co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 Serbs and 1,800,000 Albanians. It is the Yugoslavia). 21 OCTOBER 1988 .. 7 Eastern Unions: Fight or Die! BOSTON-Eastern Airlines workers, licized by the Harvard Union of Clerical an appeal by the university. Harvard University campus workers and Technical Workers (HUCTW), The airline unions are under the gun. and hundreds of students held a protest whose hard-fought victory in union rep­ Later in the day a federal court gave rally September 30 outside the Harvard resentation elections last May may be Eastern the green light to ax 4,000 class reunion of vicious union-buster overturned by the anti-labor National workers. And last week Lorenzo sold off Frank Lorenzo. The protest was pub- Labor Relations Board as the result of Eastern's money-making shuttle to New York City real-estate and casino bil­ lionaire Donald Trump. What's needed is hard class struggle to bust the union-busters, from Lorenzo to Harvard CEO Derek Bok, But the September 30 protest turned out to be a lackluster rally for the Democratic Party's presidential ticket. When Jesse Jackson showed up to speak, scores of Dukakis-Bentsen placards popped up. Jackson blamed the Republicans for "the political context that allows a Lo­ renzo," but it's the labor bureaucrats' alliance with the capitalist Democratic yan oston G obe -Party that has kept the unions from Eastern Airlines workers protest fighting the anti-labor offensive. "Darth Vader" Lorenzo, speaking at The Harvard Spartacus Youth Club Harvard. carried signs reading, "Eastern Work­ ers-i-Sock'It to Lorenzo!" and "Avenge gestion that Lorenzo be stripped of his PATCO, Philly MOVE-Build a degree unless he takes a Business School hoto Workers Party!" And in opposition to ethics course, we said: "Harvard loves At Machinists convention in Atlanta last May, thousands march against liberal hand-wringing about Harvard's union-busting Lorenzo, hates campus union-buster Lorenzo. reputation, such as one speaker's sug- workers-Victory to HUCTW!".

or economic unity of Yugoslavia, and Baltic nationalists want. to get even dead end of bloody national conflict. far from being a "counterrevolution" as richer (at the expense of other Soviet And it will take a revolutionary inter­ Yugoslavia,... the current Belgrade nationalists blus­ peoples}. At the same time, there is cer­ nationalist leadership to repudiate the (continued from page 7) ter, it would quickly bring big changes in tainly a potential for resentment among country's foreign debt to the imperialist Albania and open the road to a socialist the poorer, more culturally backward bankers. be more glaring, demonstrating graph­ federation of the Balkans. ' Turkic-speaking peoples of Soviet Cen­ Clearly the massive nationwide strike ically the inability of Stalinism, even of But national Stalinists in Belgrade, tral Asia, analogous to the Albanians of movement presents a crucial oppor­ the most "liberal" variety, to bring committed to nostalgic folk dreams of Kosovo. tunity for a genuinely communist van­ about a just solution of the national lost medieval glory and to' defending But the greatest danger lies in resur­ guard to reforge the fraternal links question. Certainly Tito stands head every inch of soil grabbed by the Ser­ gent nationalism among the dominant among the Yugoslav working people so and shoulders above the sinister dema­ bian monarchy in the Balkan Wars, are people-the Russians, like the Serbs in badly eroded by decades of "market gogue.Milosevic and the ineffectual pol­ incapable of solving this democratic Yugoslavia. The nucleus of such a socialism." As Trotskyists we stand for iticians now playing musical chairs in task. They show themselves to be no nationalist movement already exists in equality among peoples on the basis of Belgrade. But the crisis now ripping different than the Romanian' Stalin­ the nativist Russian fascist organiza­ increased material well-being. This can . apart Yugoslavia cannot be resolved ists bulldozing away thousands of tion Pamyat, which is protected by sec­ only be achieved through a proletarian through a return to the spirit of Tito­ Hungarian-minority villages, or the tions of the bureaucracy, As we wrote political revolution to establish work­ ism. The answer to resurgent.Serbian, Bulgarian regime in Sofia, ~hich forces recently: "The Pamyat Nazis must be ers democracy, soviet power, central Albanian and Slovenian nationalism is Bulgarian citizens of Turkish descent to crushed before this festering sore be­ planning and a rational allocation of not the pan-Yugoslav nationalism of adopt Bulgarian names. comes a gangrenous cancer threatening investment resources. Above all this Tito. The fundamental inability of any the Soviet state and its multinational requires a definitive break from the Sta­ Take the explosive Kosovo question. Stalinist bureaucracy to resolve the people" ( WV No. 461, 23 September). linist dogma of "socialism in one coun­ So far the Albanian population seeks national question is strikingly demon­ The danger of the Soviet Union rip­ try," and its replacement with the pro­ only the status of a seventh republic in strated by the eruption of nationalism ping apart through national conflict still gram of proletarian internationalism. the Yugoslav federation, a measure of and national conflict in the Soviet lies in the future. In Yugoslavia that As Trotsky stated in a discussion with their distaste for the miserable ultra­ Union, fueled by Gorbachev's pere-: danger exists right now! It isthe absence his Greek supporters in {heearly 1930s; Stalinist Albanian deformed workers stroika. Yugoslavia prefigures what of a revolutionary leadership in Yugo­ "A revolutionary perspective is impos­ state. But should the Albanian people of could happen in Russia. At present the slavia today that permits the inept, sible without a federation of the Balkan Kosovo and western Macedonia wish to most aggressive nationalist movements increasingly corrupt and nationally states, which obviously will not stop place themselves under Tirana's rule, are in the richest, most advanced fractured Yugoslav Stalinist bureauc­ here, but rather will extend into a feder­ that desire should be recognized. It regions-Estonia and Latvia-anal­ racy to divert the natural unity of the ation of the United Soviet States of would in no way disrupt the geographic ogous to Slovenia in Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav workers in struggle into the Europe.".

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8 WORKERS VANGUARD the FBI, using C-4 explosives provided by the feds, and praised by Ed Meese as FBI Whitewashes Racist Murder a "good example"-took place only days after Reagan visited the SS Nazi war graves at Bitburg. The war-crazed regime in Washington emulates Hitler's Third Reich, bombing black babies at home, .as they lust to nuke the Soviet Free All the MOVE Prisoners ! Union. The combative Philly unions should On September 21, the U.S. "Justice" were driven by gunfire back into the which culminated in August 1978,when have shut the city down over the MOVE Department announced it was closing blazing inferno to die. 60 cops moved in for the kill. Twelve massacre and driven Goode out of its 38-week "investigation" into the The federal grand jury "finding," like MOVE people were framed up because town! Now Goode thinks he's off the Philadelphia MOVE massacre. Eleven the state grand jury report in May, was a cop died (likely killed in the police hook and all's forgotten. But we of the black people; including five children, intended from the beginning to cover up crossfire) and Were slammed into prison Spartacist League seek to sear into the were incinerated alive on that day of the real perpetrators of calculated rac­ infamy, Mother's Day 1985, when city ist murder: Mayor Goode, who vowed police; brain-trusted by the FBI, "I would do it again," city managing dropped a bomb on the black radical director Leo Brooks, Police Commis­ MOVE commune. sioner Gregore Sambor, FireCommis­ The federal grand jury (using reports sioner William Richmond and the Rea­ from the FBI, which was "investigat­ gan/Meese White House gang. Yet even ing" itself) returned no indictments, Goode's hand-picked commission con­ and, with supreme racist contempt, demned his "grossly negligent" act of also returned no report. In a three­ ordering the "unconscionable" bomb­ paragraph statement the Justice De­ ing and the "unjustified homicide" of partment's man for djsmantling civil five children. William H. Brown Jd, the lawyer who 'chaired Goode's commission, lam­ basted the federal whitewash, saying that to "deliberately place a bomb on that house, and having done that, then make a decision not to put the fire out and let it burn while children are in the house, if that's not sufficient grounds to find that their civil rights were violated, I don't know what is." Brown also noted, "We have got a dual system of 'UPI justice in this country...if these victims Philadelphia, Mother's Day 1985-Eleven black people, including five children, were incinerated and a neighborhood burnt to the ground in had been white, I think we would have "final solution"-style bombing of MOVE commune by Democratic mayor had a different result." Wilson Goode and the Reagan regime. Today, the full force of state repres­ sion continues to bear down on the sole for terms. from 31 to 99 years. memory of the working class this terri­ adult survivor of the MOVE massa­ The MOVE massacre was the bloody ble crime against black people at the cre-Ramona Africa. Serving a seven­ signature of the Reagan years, a "mes­ hands of this racist capitalist class. We year term for "criminalconspiracy" (i.e., sage" to black people from the White are fighting to forge a multiracial Len­ she survived to bear witness to the mas­ House, a threat aimed at all who dare to inist vanguard party to lead the struggle sacre), Ramona has been denied parole "step out of line." The bombing-car­ for workers revolution that will finally because, above all, she refuses the gov­ ried out with the advice and consent of avenge the MOVE martyrs.ja ernment's obscene demand that she not associate with her MOVE family upon release. Ramona Africa is imprisoned in the women's prison at Muncy, Pennsylva­ nia, along with six of her Africa family Delbert Africa, stomped by Philly sisters, including the mothers of the chil­ Demands: police in 1978 assault on MOVE, Is poe stili in prison. dren murdered in the Osage Avenue firebombing. They are Consuewela rights, William Bradford Reynolds, said Dotson, Susan Leon, Janine Phillips, there was insufficient evidence to seek Debbie Sims, Merle Austin and Janet Let Mumia Speak! indictments on civil rights violations. Holloway. Among the Africa brothers, This "finding" is an outrageous white­ held at separate men's facilities, are Wil­ PARTISAN DEFENSE COMMITTEE wash of cold-blooded racist mass liam Phillips, Edward Goodman, Del­ murder! bert Orr, Charles Sims, Carlos Perez 17 October 1988 The 13 May 1985 attack on MOVE and Michael Davis. Free Ramona Governor Robert Casey -, was a willful massacre of black people Africa and all the MOVE prisoners! Main Capitol Building, Room 225 with no name (they all called them­ Philly blacks have faced murderous Harrisburg, PA 17120 selves Africa) who had committed no police repression for years. Former Dear Governor Casey: crime. Philadelphia's black Democrat­ mayor and police commissioner Frank ic "Mayor of Murder" Wilson Goode Rizzo was notorious for his assaults on On November 5 the Partisan gave the go-ahead for the bombing. the black ghetto and vicious strip-search Defense Committee will join trade Nearly 600 cops pumped'IO,OOO rounds roundup of the Black Panthers. Rizzo is unionists, civil rights organizations, of ammunition into the MOVE house, the architect of the city's vendetta gay rights activists and many more then dropped a bomb on it, and let it and against MOVE. He targeted the group to demonstrate against a Ku Klux 60 other homes on the 6200 block of for five years and in the fall of '77 Klan provocation in downtown Phil­ Osage Avenue burn to the ground. Res­ ordered the yearlong cop siege on the adelphia. This demonstration against idents of the MOVE bouse who fled Powelton Village MOVE commune genocide WIll honor the working peo­ ple who built this country and have been denied the fruits of their labor. Mumia Abu-Jamal is a death row "ilrti~n .-.ef~""", political prisoner at Huntingdon. £oanDiittee'--'--':: For 20 years, Mr. Jamal has ded­ icated his life to fighting racist terror no credit Ef"i"'i';lU«d"')#ji#j~r;.1.n·)'d Mumia Abu-Jamal in 1980. • NWuI£R 8 $1.00 ~ and championing the rights of poor ~ ..., $EPTEIIBER 1988 and oppressed people. A renowned journalistand former president of the equally obscene that the KKK, along The poe is a class-struqqle, Philadelphia chapter of the Associa­ with their skinhead allies, are parad­ non-sectarian legal defense tion of Black Journalists, Mr. Jamal ing for genocide in the "cradle of lib­ organization in accordance has been called the "voice of the erty," and Mr. Jamal is in solitary with the political views of voiceless." He has rightfully earned confinement, fighting for his life, for the Spartacist League. a place on the speakers platform the crime of opposing this racist filth, November 5. There is historical precedent in this With your contribution Twenty years ago, at the age of 13, country for granting special parole of $5 or more receive Mr. Jamal and teenage friends were underspecific circumstances, It is our a subscription to beaten and arrested by police for belief that you should grant Mumia Glass-Struggle protesting a George Wallace pres­ •Abu-Jamal parole to address the Defense Notes, idential rally in South Philadelphia. November 5 Mobilization to Stop For a single copy For Jamal, it was obscene that this the KKK in Philadelphia. send $1 to: advocate of segregation forever be Very truly yours, Partisan Defense Committee, allowed to spew his appeals to race­ Deborah Mackson P.O. Box 99, Canal Street hate in largely black and minority Executive Director Station, New York, NY 10013 Philadelphia. Twenty years later it is Partisan Defense Committee

21 OCTOBER 1988 9 Klan Lynchers­ Target Philly... I (continued from page 3)

Bedford Forrest, responsible for the bloody massacre of more than 300 black troops and their families at Fort Pillow two years before. (The "Klavern" which marched in Parkside last May was named after Forrest.) Forrest's Klan, modeled on the antebellum slave pa­ trols, went after the black V nion Leagues and a few black militias which defended freed blacks. The federal gov­ ernment, having crushed the slavocracy which had threatened Northern capital, ended military occupation after the Compromise of 1877, markingthe end of Reconstruction. Blacks were forced into sharecropping, and Jim Crow seg­ regation (named after another KKK founder) was sanctioned by the courts. With the Klan now in the statehouses and courthouses of the South, there was no need for the paramilitary bands. In the 1870s, Klan terror had also turned' otos against the budding labor organiza­ 27 November 1982-Determlned black youth came together with forces from the integrated labor.movement In a tions, particularly the Colored National 5,OOo-strong mobilization that stopped the Klan from marching in Washington, D.C. LaborV nion and the integrated Knights of Labor. But it was with the waves of immigration which filled the factories of the industrial North around the turn of the century, and the black migration from the South during World War I, that the lynchers reappeared. In 1915, inspired by the film Birth of a Nation which was viewed by 50 million Ameri­ cans, as audiences cheered on the KKK nightriders, Joseph Simmons took a small band up Stone Mountain, Geor­ gia (site of a monument to the Confed­ eracy) to revive the Klan. In the 1920s the Klan became a mass movement in the Northern industrial cities. It had some three to five million members nationwide, with Klaverns of 50,000 members in Chicago, 30,000 in Philadelphia. In 1925, tens of thou­ sands of hooded and robed Klansmen marched through Washington, D.C. With the post-World War I "red scare," the KKK's nativist fascism was directed at Jews, blacks and especially Catholic immigrants from Southern and Eastern .black girls. The next year, KKKers provocation on Gay Pride Day. That Here everyone is in their sights. But the Europe, while the state rounded up "for­ in Philadelphia, Mississippi murdered October the Klan was run out of Boston. Democrats certainly aren't going to stop eign" Communists for deportation. As three Jewish and black civil rights And when in November 1982the Klux­ them. When Democratic presidential the labor movement was decimated in workers. ers tried to march in Washington, D.C., candidate Dukakis spoke in Philadel­ the late 1920s and restrictive immigra­ While liberal pacifists like Martin a 75 percent black city, the SL joined phia, Mississippi to an almost entirely tion laws were passed, the Klan's pro­ Luther King appealed to the cops and with unionists from the Tidewater, white crowd on August 4, 24 years to the gram was again co-opted by the bour­ the FBI against the Klan, those very Virginia area in initiating a Labor/ day since the bodies of slain civil rights geoisie. But in the South, KKK terror agencies were hand in hand with the rac­ Black Mobilization to Stop the Klan. workers Goodman, Schwerner and remained a potent force, freezing out ist terrorists. FBI informant Gary Rowe On November 27, some 5,000 anti-Klan Chaney were found, he never once men­ industrial unions during the rise of the was the Klan triggerman who shot down demonstrators turned out at the KKK's tioned the gruesome Klan killings or CIO. civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo on the assembly site, and after blocking the even civil rights. In Philly black Dem­ Following World War II, thousands highwayto Selma. But many blacks did KKK we marched in triumph up the ocratic mayor Wilson Goode ordered of black GIs returned, trained in the use not buy the pacifist line. Forexample, in route to the White House that the Klan the 1985 Mother's Day police bombing of weapons and determined to fight for 1957local NAACP head Robert F. Wi!­ had vowed to take. It was a taste of the that murdered eleven residents of the their rights. SouthernJim Crow became Iiams in Monroe County, North Caro­ workers and black power that can turn black MOVE commune, five of them an embarrassment to V.S. imperialism lina led blacks to arm themselves in self­ this country around. children. And Goode isn't Philadel­ as colonial peoples won independence defense and to drive the Klan off. The phia's only "mayor of murder": his from their former masters. The civil Klanreactivated around the mid·'70s Crush the Klan: Philly Labor, Republican opponent in last year's rights movement was born which vowed battles over school busing, but failed in Blacks Have the Power election was racist former mayor and to tear down the legal basis of segrega­ their forays into the North. Now the Klan wants to bring its rac­ top cop Frank Rizzo. tion. But in response, racist terrorists . It was in the anti-Soviet atmosphere ist terror to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Not only blacks and Hispanics have once again put on the KKK robes in a of Cold War II, begun under Jimmy frenzied attempt to maintain white ("ethnic purity") Carter, that the "new" , supremacy. "Freedom riders" were set Klan began to surface in close alliance upon by KKKers with clubs at bus sta­ with anti-Communist Nazis. The tions; in 1963Klansmen bombed a black Greensboro massacre of 1979, in which church in Birmingham, killing four five leftist civil rights and union organ­ izers were murdered, was a joint KKK/ Nazi effort (with the cooperation of local and federal police). When the kill­ Spa rtacist League ers were let off by one all-white jury after Public Offices another, it was a green light forracist terror. In 1980 the Klan endorsed-Ron­ ~MARXISTLlTERATURE­ aId Reagan for president, and feeling the Bay Area wind in their sails after his election they Thurs.: 5:30-8:00 p.m., Sat.: 1:00-5:00 p.m. tried to penetrate the North ina big way. 1634 Telegraph, 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) But the lynchers were not welcome. Oakland. California Phone: (415) 839-0851 The Spartacist League took the initia­ Chicago tive in organizing mass labor/black Tues.: 5:00-9:00 p.m., Sat.: 11:00a.m.-2:00 p.m. mobilizations which in several cities 161 W. Harrison st., 10th Floor Chicago, Illinois Phone: (312) 663-0715 interdicted the Klan. Detroit, 1979:the KKK was stopped from "celebrating" New York City Tues.: 6:00-9:00 p.m., Sat.: 1:00-5:00 p.m. the Greensboro massacre; San Francis- 41 Warren St. (one block below _ co, 1980: Nazis were prevented from Chambers St. near Church St.) their obscene attempt to celebrate Hit­ NY blic Library New York, NY Phone (212) 267-1025 ler's birthday; Chicago, 1982: thou­ Klan terror against Radical Reconstruction in the post-Civil War South: sands came out against a KKK/Nazi ex-Confederate soldiers burn down black school in Memphis, 1866.

10 WORKERS VANGUARD November 5 Mobilization to Stop the KKK in Philadelphia "We endorse and will help build a mass labor/black demonstration in Philadelphia: 'All Out to Stop the Ku Klu~ Klan November 5'."

Partial List of Endorsers as of 17 October 1988 Linda Kaye Holmes, Recording Secretary and Chair of Civil Rights Committee, Geronimo II Jaga (Prall), Tamal, CA _ , SEIU Local 82: Washington. D.C. Homer Reed, Second Vice President, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241,' Ruuell L Adams, Associate Professor, Afro-American Studies Department James Hunter, President, AFSCME Local 2799,' Detroit, MI Chicago, IL , Howard University: WaShington, D.C. Linda Hunter, Associate Professor, Department 01 African Languages and Lewis G.Roblnson, Vice President, Grassroots Political Action Committee: African American Student Union, Temple University: Philadelphia, PA Literature, University of Wisconsin: Madison, WI Shaker Heights, OH AFSCME Dlslrlcl Council 33, Philadelphia, PA lAM Local 1111, HaW1horne,CA Joel Rogers, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Wisconsin,: AFSCME Local 2412, Madison, WI ILA Local 1408, Jacksonville, FL Madison, WI AFSCME Local 2586, Philadelphia, PA Vves A. Isldor, Professor, Roxbury Community College: and Officer of the Selwyn Rogers, Mid-West Regional Chair, Black Rank and File Exchange: Amalgamated Transit Union Local 732, Atlanta, GA Commillee of Solidarity with Haiti,' Cambridge, MA Detroit, MI A'lll"lcan Federation of Government Employees Local 1457, San Francisco, CA Edgar S. Jackson, Business Agent;'Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192: Seth Rosen, Director, CWA Local 4309 (Ohio Bell): Cleveland Heights, OH American Federation 01 Taachers Local 1474 Executive Board,Berkeley, CA Oakland, CA Richard E. RUbenstein, Professor of Public Affairs, George Mason University,' Gary Andersen, Vice Chairman, Conductor/Tower Division of TWU Local 100: Willie Jenkins, ex-Business Manager, Laborer's International Union Local 334: Fairfax, VA Bronx, NY Detroit, MI Joseph RUbin, Vice President, lAM Local 311: Azusa, CA Anti-Apartheid Commltlee, AFSCME Local 1644: Atlanta, GA Cynthia Johnson, Assistant Director, Legislative Office, Women Strike for Peaca,' Anthony Russo, member, U.S.Nietnam Friendship Association: Donald L. Barnell, President, NALC Branch 24,' Los Angeles, CA Washington, D.C. Santa Monica, CA James R. Barratt, Executive Board and Past President, USWA Local 8751,' Roscoe D. Johnson, President, Pennsylvania Social Services Union, James W. Ryder, Business Agent, ILWU Local 6: Oakland, CA Hyde Park, MA SEIU Local 668, Philadelphia Chapter, Philadelphia, PA David Schermerhorn, Business Agent, ILWU Local 6: San Francisco, CA Paul Blgman, International Representative, Retail, Wholesale and Department Harllel Jones, member, Grass Roots Congress: Cleveland, OH William R. Scoll, Chairman, Black Studies Department, Oberlin College,' Store Workers,' Chicago, IL Joesephus R. King, President, AFSCME Council 25 Local 23: Detroit, MI Oberlln,OH Frank Boone, Vice Chairman, United Motormen Division 01 TWU Local 100: Andre Kolomper, President, Canadian Union of Postal Workers Toronto Local,' James P. Shenton, Professor 01 History, Columbia University: New York, NY New York, NY Toronto, Ontario C. Shone, Shop Steward, Leller Carriers Union of Canada Local 1,• Ajax, Ontario Preston Browning, Associate Prolessor, Department of English, Peter J. KolI, Professor, Borough of Manhallan Community COllege, George Smllnak, Treasurer, CWA Local 4309: Cleveland, OH University of Illinois.' Chicago, IL City University of New York,' New York, NY Donald A. Smith, Executive Board member, NALC Branch 2200: Pasadena, CA sadie Campbell, Business Agent, CWA Local 1150: Bronx, NY Maggie KUhn, National Convener, Gray Panthers: Philadelphia, PA $parteelst League Caribbean Students Association, City College of New York: New York, NY WIlliam Kunstler, Allorney, New York, NY Spertacus Vouth Club, New York, NY Bren"a L. Carroll, Steward, Teamsters Local 743: Chicago, IL Labor Black League lor Social Qelense, Oakland, CA Albert E. Stewart, Organizer, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers,' Jerry Carter, Financial Secretary, USWA Local 436: Atlanta, GA Labor Black Struggle League, Chicago, IL Cambridge, MA John H. Carter, Council Administrator, AFSCME Council 67: Baltimore, MD George Lach, Executive Board member, AFSCME Loca12203: Baltimore, MD Davtd Stewart. Executive Board member, ILWU Local 10: Berkeley, CA Augusta A. Clark, Councilmember-at-Large, Philadelphia City Council: Susan L. Lantz, Director, Labor and Community Affairs, Independent Federation of William J. Storrlng, Vice Local Chairman, United Transportation Union Local 483,• Philadelphia, PA Flight Attendants," Forest Hills, NY Toronto, Ontario David Cohen, Councilmember-al-Large, Philadelphia City Council,' Frank Laraque, Associate Professor, Black Studies Department, City College of John F. Street, Councilmember, Philadelphia City Council: Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, PA New York: New York, NY Students for Non-Intervention In Central America and the Caribbean, Laroy Collier, Branch President, NALC Branch 2200: Pasadena, CA James Leehan, Director, University Christian Movement, City College of New York,' New York, NY Comlte por la No Intervenclon en Centroamerlca, San Francisco, CA Cleveland State University,' Cleveland, OH Hugh Tague, Business Manager, OPEIU Locai 14: Philadelphia, PA Thomas Paine Cronin, President, AFSCME District Council 47: Philadelphia, PA Mildred F. Leonard, Steward, ISEW Local 134: Chicago, IL Temple Lambda Alliance, the lesbian and gay student union at Temple University, William E. Cross, Associate Professor, Cornell University: Ithaca, NY Isaac Levert, Financial SecretarylTreasurer, UAW Local 486: Philadelphia, PA Day Session Student Gov!,rnment, Hunter College: New York, NY Cleveland Heights, OH Ron Tenlnty, President, Teamsters Local 315: Martinez, CA Day Student Government, City College of New York,' New York, NY Jack Llebleln, Steward, CWA Local 1150: Brooklyn, NY Gerald Tillermary, Vice President, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Tracey T, Devlin, Test Lab Shop Steward, TWU Local 100: New York, NY Conrad Lynn, Mid-Hudson Regional Counsel, NAACP: Nanuet, NY Workers Union Local 1034,' Philadelphia, PA Byron Dickens, Vice President, Canadian Auto Workers Local 1459: William Marshall, Pacoima, CA Stanley E. Tolliver. Sr., Allorney-at-Law and member, Cleveland Etobicoke, Ontario Carlton McBurrows, President, AFSCME Local 2920, Michigan Council 25,' Board of Education: Cleveland, OH Bernie Dlnkln, Education Director, Philadelphia Joint Board, ACTWU: Detroit, MI Terence S. Turner, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA Fred McMullen, Executive Co-Coordinator, Temple Lambda Alliance, University of Chicago,' Chicago, IL WIlliam Easterling, Retired President and Business Agent, Amalgamated Transit the lesbian and gay student union at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Ronald A. Tyree, Vice President, CWA Local 1150: Mount Vernon, NY Union Locai 268: Cleveland Heights, OH . James M. McPherson, Edwards Professor of American History, Ujamaa (Wesleyan's Black Student Alliance), Wesleyan University: Rev. Graylan Scott Ellis-Hagler, Minister, Church of the United Community,' Princeton University: Princeton, NJ Middletown, CT Roxbury, MA Sheila McTighe, Assistant Professor, History of Art, Cornell University, • Ithaca, NY United Transportation Union Local 1741, Richmond, CA Henry English, President/CEO, Illinois Black United Fund, Inc." Chicago, IL Michael Mezo, President, USWA Local 1010: East Chicago, IL L1oy~ K. Vandever, President, UE Local 1412: Oakland, CA Jesse S. Everett, Shop Steward, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 732: Harold Mitchell, President, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Cleveland Chapter,' Anna C. Verna, Councilmember, Philadelphia City Council,' Philadelphia, PA Atlanta, GA and President, AFSCME Local 100, Cleveland City Employees: Cleveland, OH Esteban Volkov, Curator, Leon Trotsky Museum,' Coyoacan, Mexico Eric Foner, Professor of History, Columbia University: New York, NY Parren J. Mitchell, Retired member of U.S. House of Representatives, Mark von Hagen, Asst. Professor of History, Columbia University: New York, NY Benny Foster, Vice Chairman, Power Division of TWU Local 100: Maryland's 7th District,' Baltimore, MD Arthur Watson, Secretary/Treasurer, American Federation of Government Brooklyn, NY Alicia A, Montes-Matzger, District Council member, ILWU Local 6: Oakland, CA Employees Local 1457, San Francisco, CA Richard S. Fraser, Historic American Trotskyist, Los Angeles, CA Jim Moran, Director, PHILAPOSH: and Executive Board member, Edward A. Watt, Executive Board member, TWU Local 100: Brooklyn, NY Freedom Socialist Party Newspaper Guild Local 10: Philadelphia, PA Jerome Walls, President, ILA Local 1429: Baltimore, MD Jeremy Genovese, Executive Board member at large, CWA Local 4309,' Thom J. Moss, Secretary/Treasurer, OCAW Local 1-547,' Lawndale, CA Donald Wheeldln, Vice President, Pasadena Resource Allocation Commission: Cleveland Heights, OH Mark Nalson, Professor of Afro-American Studies, Fordham University: Pasadena, CA Louis Giannetti, Professor of English and Film, Department of English, Brooklyn, NY _ Ira L. WIlliams, Vice President, Social Service Employees Union Local 371: Case Western Reserve University: Cleveland, OH National Association lor Chicano Studies, Midwest Reglon,Minneapolis, MN New York, NY John Glasel, President, American Federation of Musicians Local 802,' Morton Newman, Business Agent, ILWU Local 6: San Francisco, CA Je.naR. Williams, President, AtncanAmerlcan Student Union, Temple University,' New York, NY Bertell Oilman, Professor, Department of Politics, New York University: Philadelphia, PA Michael Goldlleld, Professor of Government, Cornell University,' Ithaca, NY New York, NY Lois A. Williamson, Executive Director, Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants Vaughn Goodwin, President, NAACP Temple Chapter-SCORE,' Philadelphia, PA Louise Palmer, Coordinator, Amnesty International, Wesleyan University (CURE),' Philadelphia, PA Samuel Green, Executive Board member, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 732,' Chapter: Middletown, CT Edward Wolkensteln, Former President, Erie #1 Co-op Teachers Assoc. Atlanta, GA Panhellenlc Council 01 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA NYSUT, AFT: BUffalo, NY James Grimes, New York City transit worker (retired), Riverdale, GA . ~ Partisan Delense Commlttelt Richard I. Vates, Clinical Counselor, Cleveland State University,' Haitian Student Association, City College of New York: New York, NY Pennsylvania Social Services Union, SEIU Local 668, Philadelphia, PA Cleveland Heights, OH Alexander Harrington, member, Democratic Socialists of America,' New York, NY Martin Perllch, Writer/Producer, Los Angeles, CA Richard Ziebell, President, UAW Local 477: Chicago, IL Leon Harris, Secretary/Treasurer, ILWU Local 6: San Francisco, CA Keith Phelps, Business Representative, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Willie F. Harris, Staff Representative, SEIU Local 25: Chicago, IL Workers Union Local 1064: Dearborn, MI 'Organizational affiliation for identification purposes only. Calvin Hernton, Professor of Black Studies, Oberlin College: Oberlin, OH Sterling D. Plumpp, Professor, Black Studies, University of Illinois: Chicago, IL Mary B. Hester, Secretary, CWA Local 4309,' Cleveland, OH Jonas Pontusson, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, We want to make it very clear that these endorsers do not Gene Hoffman, General Chairman, lAM: Lynbrook, NY Cornell University: Ithaca, NY necessarily.~gree John Holmes, Chairman, Daily ReView Chapel. Bay Area Typographical Union Janice Poyer, Shop Steward, AFSCME District Council 37 LOcal 1549,' in.a.ny,particular with the call by the Partisan Local 21: Oakland, CA Brooklyn, NY Defense Committee printed on page 12.

been the butt of police state tactics in sanitation and other blue collar work­ to mobilize labor/black 'power in class town, a Hispanic, Catholic and Jewish Philadelphia. Last year it was revealed ers of AFSCME District 33 during their struggle against both capitalist parties city. All the fascists' intended victims, all that the cops had infiltrated everything July 1986 strike. The Wall Street Jour­ and the racist terrorists. The Klan rides defenders of democratic rights, every from the Lesbian and Gay Task Force to nal headlined that Goode's strikebreak­ for Reagan. And as Malcolm X said, decent person in this city should unite CISPES, the Pledge of Resistance and ing "Restores Confidence in His Ability when you're voting Democrat, you're behind the power of labor to crush this sanctuary groups protecting Central to Lead." But Philly labor has real for the Dixiecrat. Never has this been deadly threat to one and all. All out American refugees from death squad power, and they've shown they're not clearer than in the '88 elections where­ to stop -. the Klan in Philadelphia on terror. And on the bicentennial celebra­ afraid to use it. Over the past decade, the Dukakis/Bentsen ticket has pitched November 5 at Independence Mallf- tion of the U.S. Constitution, "free­ transit workers and teachers have struck its campaign to Southern white racists. dom" meant that everyone wearing repeatedly. SEPTA rail workers went The convention was a calculated insult protest buttons, carrying placards or out in a 109-day strike in 1983, shutting to Jesse Jackson and millions of blacks handing out literature was summarily the system-down with hard class strug­ and labor voters-and they've disap­ It'll Take $$$ to banned from Independence Mall. gle. When Greyhound bus drivers struck peared him ever since. What this coun­ Goode was put into office by the insur­ later that year, 1,000 pickets from the try urgently needs is a workers party, a Stop the KKK! ance companies, bankersand Main Line ATU and other unions held up scab class-struggle party that fights for black IT WILL TAKE sss AND PEO­ upper crust establishment to keep the lid buses for hours, taking scores of arrests. rights, that-fights to bust the union­ PLE TO STOP THE KLAN-Dig on Philadelphia. And one of his main And in last year's football strike, the busters with a fight for power. For as deep and give NOW. Get your targets has been labor. most militant support demonstration in long as racist American capitalism union, community and campus After the MOVE massacre, Goode the country was at Philly's Veterans remains, it will time and again spawn group to pledge. Expenses are tried to regain "credibility" with the rul­ Stadium. terrorists like the Klan: mounting-we expect to print over ing class by threatening to fire 13,000 What's needed is militant leadership Philadelphia is a labor town, a black 250,000 leaflets and thousands of posters. We'll need over $7,500just for printing costs, and much, much A SpartaeiSt _""lei A Spartacist Pamphlet 75' more to get the word out and to get Black History buses in. Sign up to work distribut­ ing leaflets, fund-raising, selling bus and the tickets, and making posters. We lass Struggle need you and your help. Call us at ,"!:l /, (215) 790-1822 or your Partisan Defense Committee representa­ tive. Send contributions to: November 5 Mobilization c/o Partisan Defense Committee P.O. Box 99, Canal St. Station New York, NY 10013 or: November 5 Mobilization 25¢ (16 pages) 75¢ (32 pages) 75¢ (32 pages) 75¢ (32 pages) $1.00 (32 pages) 1530 Locust Street, Suite #92 Make checks payable/mail to: Spartacist Publishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 Philadelphia, PA 19102

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We reprint here the demonstration pendence Mall on November 5 to stop "cradle of liberty." For millions that threat to our livelihoods and our lives. call initiated by the Partisan Defense these fascist terrorists. "liberty" meant being born into slavery. The power to stop them lies with the Committee on 7 October 1988. Make no mistake-the KKK are The Civil War took care of chattel slav­ integrated, combative unions in this sadistic killers, in and out of their white ery. We need to finish the job-and one city-transit, sanitation, Teamsters, sheets. Their idea of "free speech" is step toward that can be by stopping the teachers, longshoremen. The KKK lynchers and the violent what the government did to MOVE­ KKK/skinheads now. When the KKK tried to march against skinhead filth are threatening to strut burning alive eleven black people,_ The unions were built against the immigrants in Washington, D.C. in into the heart of Philadelphia at Inde­ including five children. And the MOVE violent opposition of the KKK, and if November 1982, the integrated power of pendence Mall on November 5. With mothers are still locked up in jail! the unions' power is unleashed we can 5,000 workers and minorities, backed by their burning crosses and their swas­ We do not forget the Birmingham make the streets of Philly safe from over 70 unions and union officials from tikas, they are a deadly threat to church bombings, the Greensboro mas­ these racist criminals. Norfolk to Boston, sent them packing. blacks, Jews, Hispanics, gays, Catho­ sacre and now the torching of syn­ We will be at Independence Mall, The fascists must be stopped-and we lics, unions-all of us. agogues in NYC. And the degenerate Saturday, November 5 to honor the can stop them here. All out to stop the The Klan and skinheads have already skinheads with their Nazi regalia and working people who built this country KKK and skinhead thugs on Novem­ marched in Valley Forge, and Parkside jackboots want to act out their murder­ and have been denied the fruits of their ber 5! Be there! where they got a hot reception. Now ous Hitlerite fantasies. If we don't stop labor. Today as black America isunder they're bringing their deadly provoca­ them here, who will be next to pay with the gun, all of labor is facing a union­ INITIATED BY THE tion to Philly. There must be a massive, their lives? busting offensive to roll back hard-won PARTISAN DEFENSE COMMITTEE defiant display of labor/black power, These -labor-hating racists say they gains: remember the PATCO air con­ 1530 Locust St., Suite #92 together with minorities and all intend­ are going to bring their lynch ropes and trollers who were dragged away in Philadelphia, PA 19102 ed victims of the lynchers, on Inde- Nazi salutes to the Liberty Bell, in the chains! The Klan and skinheads are a (215) 790-1822

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