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Freedom Socialist Wice 1? /?Evp/Y/Ilt«1 This planet is our Miners' message planet-labor & to Moscow: the environment "Gorbachev out!" Page 3 Page 24 f&, Freedom Socialist Wice 1? /?evP/y/ilt«1"1 fiMiN;M. May-July 1991 Volume 12, Number 4 ($1.00 outside U.S.) 75 .. Bush's obscene vidory: recession, repression, reaction & ruin wenty years after Vietnam, the glow, doesn't it? All that high-minded Big Oil, bankers, and brokers of U.S. Air Force finally got to garbage out of Washington about arms are rich from this war. bomb a Third World country "stopping Saddam's aggression"-and American workers, and T back to the Stone Age. now these post-blitz atrocities. Oh well, workers abroad, will Iraq was blown to smithereens. as Henry Kissinger remarked after the shoulder the billions Roads, bridges, farms, homes, hospitals, U.S. betrayed the Kurds in the 1970s, it cost. electricity, food warehouses, communi­ U.S. foreign policy isn't about "social to page 23 cations and sewage treatment facili­ work." What it is about in the Mideast ties-wiped out. Between 100,000 and is retaining imperialist control of the 200,000 Iraqi soldiers and civilians were oil. For this Bush needs compliant dic­ blasted to shreds by the bombs. Dead tators, not democracy, in the region. mothers and children litter the cities The hundreds of thousands of and towns. Water supplies are glutted Kurdish refugees on Iraq's northern with poisons and cholera is now up­ borders awaiting starvation or slaugh,t.er ping the body count. .by Saddam are proof of this. Bush sure struck ablOWtoTfte-enum, didn't he? In the aftermath of Desert Desert Storm: war for profit. Storm, after Iraqi Kurds and Shiites rose The U.S. antiwar movement could not up against Saddam at Washington's stop the slaughter that commenced on prodding, the U.S. sat back and let January 15. Cries for peace were Saddam massacre them all to hell. Bush drowned in the blitz. And oh what a wants Saddam out, and was willing that blitz! The Pentagon barked, the media Kurds and Shiites be cats' -paws in the snapped to, and while horror rained on effort to oust him. But Bush wants one Baghdad a propagandistic carpet-bomb­ of Saddam's Ba'athist generals in the ing strafed and savaged the USA. saddle after the smoke clears. Victorious The boys in the international board­ Kurds in Iraq would mean restive Kurds rooms needed this war, to make plain also pressing their legitimate national to a recalcitrant world that their rent-a­ demands in Turkey, home to the largest cop, the U.S. military, will level the U.S. nuclear stockpile in Asia. Shiite earth to further the interests of Big Oil gains would stir Islamic fundamental­ and the banks. Washington needed this ists from Tehran to Cairo, sorely dis­ war to rivet attention away from politi­ tressing Bush's Saudi and Egyptian cal time-bombs at home. partners in crime. Sort of smudges the patriotic after- New Freeway Hall 5018 Rainier Ave. S. BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE Seattle, WA 98118 PAID SEATTLE, WA ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED PERMIT NO. 1003 2 Freedom Socialist May-July 1991 l' In This Issue Letters Vol. 12, No.4 May-July 1991 Black Panthers sample copies of your anti- the majority of today's work- International I just bought my first Free- Semitic newspaper; I am not ing class has achieved a new Special Supplement interested in receiving them. dominance capable of shaking Bush's Gulf victory 1 "On the Nature of the dom Socialist (Feb.-April '91), which included the article on Nancy Nachum the world. Dateline Australia 1 Nicaraguan State" 5 jerusalem Betty Maloney U.N. & Gulf war 1 Malcolm X by former Panther Aaron Dixon. I was happy to Radical Women Organizer Mideast history 20 Labor New York City Merle Woo victory 2 discover that Dixon is still ac- Women workers Soviet Union 24 tive and writing a book on the I want to share with readers Reporter's free speech 24 Black Panther Party. I would my thrill at the explosive re- She likes us! National Features like to contact him! sponse to the groundbreaking I appreciated greatly "On Stagolee new Radical Women paper the Nature of the Nicaraguan Jobs vs. ecology 3 Sam Deaderick 4 New York City "Women Workers-Sparkplugs State" and the article on war in Logger's interview 3 Editorial 20 of Labor" (available from all the Mideast (Vol. 12 #3). Earth First! vs. FBI 3 Clara Fraser column 21 Anti-fascist RW branches; see box on page I was especially impressed Freeway Hall Case 4 Voices of Color 21 Greetings! This is Christian 22). It was presented this by Clara Fraser's "Long Arabian of Front Range Anti-Racist Ac- spring at the Marxist Scholars Nights." Made dozens of copies tion. I received a complimen- conference in Philadelphia, the and distributed them. Hope I tary copy of the Freedom Socialist Scholars conference in have the distinct pleasure of Freedom Socialist Credo Socialist with a letter requesting New York, and the Labor Notes meeting her personally some our evaluation of the article conference near Detroit. day and shaking her hand. "United Front repels Neo-Nazi Based on the latest statistics jean Duffy The Freedom Socialist boldly confronts and on labor-force demographics, West Palm Beach, Florida makes sense ofthe dizzying events shaping today's threat" (Vol. 12 #2). The grammar/writing style this paper provides the theo- revolutionary world. and content are all top notch! retical analysis for a new level War resisters It's a very good thing to see of Marxist organizing. 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