No. 374, March 8, 1985
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25¢ WfJ/lIlE/lS,,1N'U,1,,. No. 374 -$~JX'523 8 March 1985 Im~rialist Beast on the Loose • ea an Irs s • Icara ua MARCH 4-Broadcasting from his . California hilltop ranch "Eagle's Nest," American president Ronald "Adolf" Reagan declared in a nationwide radio speech February 17 that the blood thirsty counterrevolutionaries waging war against Sandinista Nicaragua are "freedom fighters struggling for liberty and democracy." Comparing these cutthroat killers with such bourgeois revolutionary generals as Lafayette and Bolivar, Reagan proclaimed the CIA mercenaries "our brothers." At a press conference five days later he openly called for overthrowing the Nicaraguan government. And speaking at a right wing political convention March I he called the "contras" the "moral equal of our Founding Fathers"! "Freedom fighters"? These are psy chopathic sadists, murderers and tortur ers, whose specialty is raping and mutilating women, bayoneting babies and executing unarmed civilians. "Struggling for liberty and democracy"? To a man, the top military leaders of the largest contra group, the FDN, are former officers of dictator Anastasio Sornoza's mercenary National Guard. As one of these Somozaist officers declared a couple of years ago, "Come UPI the counterrevolution, there will be a Big Broth.er Reagan and his contra massacre in Nicaragua. We have alot of cutthroats, like "Comandante scores to settle. There will be bodies Suicide," center, standing. from the border to Managua" (News LeMoyne/Newsweek week, 8 November 1982). They're there. "Our objective in Nicaragua," he February 21, Reagan spelled out V.S. is not a Government chosen by the already making good on that pledge. declared in his fireside radio chat, "is to policy toward the Nicaraguan govern people." Just what gives this arrogant Last year alone they killed 600 civilians achieve a pluralistic andfully democrat ment more explicitly than ever before: imperialist pig and liar the right to in hit-and-run attacks on farming ic government. This can be done the V.S.' goal is to "remove it in the impose Yankee "democracy," on a cooperatives, schools and clinics. without the use of V.S. military forces." sense of its present structure, in which it country, moreover, whose citizens just But Reagan's Big Lies don't stop And at a televised press conference is a Communist, totalitarian state and it continued on page /4 Bloody Thatcher Beats Back Heroic British Miners MARCH 5-The British miners' strike and most deep-going conflict of British the scab herding tops of the trade devastated by Thatcher's occupation has been defeated but the union has labor since the turn of the century. The unions and Labour Party, the miners army of cops and thugs. Hardship not been broken. For one full year, Thatcher regime and the rotten edifice and their wives resisted heroically conditions rivaling those of the period twelve long and bitter months, the coal _ of British capitalism was profoundly against tremendous odds. Their pick of the General Strike of 1926 were miners fought valiantly against the shaken by the miners union who ets were arrested and beaten, even imposed on the miners' families.' British bosses and the bloodthirsty fought for all of labor and the murdered; martial law was instituted On March 3, a delegates conference Thatcher regime. It was the sharpest oppressed. Isolated and betrayed by in the coal fields; mining villages were continued on page 8 Koch's D.A. Still Covering for Co~ Michael Stewart Was Murdered! Once again. the transit police lynch the far lesser charges of criminally wounds on his body. When he died mob which murdered black artist negligent homicide, reckless endanger medical examiner Gross, in a ghoulish Michael Stewart is getting \\ hire ment and assault. A total of six cops, cover-up, secretly removed Stewart's washed bv the Xcw York Citvviusricc" originally granted immunity, were eyes since their massive hemorrhaging 1.~lst hrc~\ l~ut charged with perjury. These obscenely proved that he had been strangled. systelll. fa II a judge t even Michael the slap-on-the-wrist manslaughter trivial charges are so murky legally They used to steal the pennies off a dead Stewart indictments brought hy courageous that Stewart family attorney Louis man's eyes; now they steal the eyes. grand jurors will' refused to go along Clayton Jones branded them a "cha With racist pig Ed Koch fanning the with the n.:\:s whitewash. But the rade" that wouldn't stand up in court. flames, New York is on the brink of a continuing furor over this racist cop Jones is right. racial explosion, and the cops want to the charges against the uniformed murder. the "rescue" team execution Michael Stewart, the 25-year-old push the city over the edge. When the assassins, the widespread outrage over of (>- -~ car-old. infirm black grand son of a retired transit worker, was triggerman who executed Mrs. Bum the case will be dissipated. But Koch, mother Eleanor Burnpurs, and the arrested and beaten unconscious on 15 purs, Stephen Sullivan, was belatedly Morgenthau and the NYPD can't cover-up 111 both cases by Mayor September 1983 for allegedly. scrawl indicted-simply for manslaughter, wash the blood from their hands. Put Koch's notoriously discredited killer ing graffiti in a 14th Street subway not murder-IO,OOO armed cops sur the lynch mob killers in Attica and Cl)P coroner Elliot Gross. has put the station. Morgenthau admitted that 40 rounded the Bronx Supreme Court throwaway the key! The New York heat ,)11 City Hall to do something witnesses saw at least eleven white cops building. In response to the latest labor movement, and especially the about the Stewart case. kick and bludgeon their victim during indictments, an attorney for one of the heavily integrated Transport Workers So two weeks ago. Manhattan D.A. and after his arrest. Stewart was killer cops cynically said, "Michael Union must respond to this racist Robert Morgenthau dropped the man brought to Bellevue Hospital hogtied Stewart is responsible for his own murder and cover-up by mobilizing to slaughter charges and got his grand and handcuffed, his ankles bound death." demand vengeance for Michael Stew jury to indict three of the murderers on together and with more than 60 The D.A., hopes that by trivializing art and Eleanor Bumpurs. quoted an unnamed East Bay colleague, I!!IArea Hosgitals Killed Eugene Barnes "You know, this is happening about once a week." And it's not just with expensive specialists like neurosurgeons. As a re Medical "Care," U.S.A. sult of the Reagan budget cuts, ap proved by both Democrats and Repub OAK LA:'-I D-Eugene Barnes died Jan were summoned, then the fire depart three other hospitals; all refused to licans in Congress, medical services for uary 31 because he was black, poor and ment, finally an ambulance. Barnes was admit him. Finally San Francisco the poor have been dismantled and didn't have medical insurance. He wasa taken to Brookside Hospital, where he General, over 20 miles away, was replaced by ... nothing. Dr. Max Bader victim of racist murder by America's was clocked into the emergency room at contacted. A doctor there began calling of the Oregon state health department "health care" system and Reagan's killer 5:20 p.m. For nearlyfivehours, Barnes other hospitals closer to Brookside, reports: "We're seeing many incidents budget cuts. lay there slowly dying, without the "increasingly amazed to find that' no where mothers without insurance and in Barnes, described as "an uninsured emergency surgery he so desperately facility-private or public-would ac need of immediate maternity care 32-year-old" (Oakland Trihune) unem needed. Barnes' mother, brother and cept the transfer of the patient" (Oak literally have to park outside of hospi ployed black mechanic, collapsed on a four sisters gathered in the waiting land Tribune, 7 February). SF General tals until they're in labor before they are street in the heavily black and poor city room, but were never told that he was finally agreed to take Barnes; he arrived admitted" (Tribune, 16 February). of Richmond in the north Bay Area, not being treated. there about 10 p.m. and was immediate American medical care has always shortly before 5 p.m. on January 28. A Brookside Hospital administrators ly taken into surgery. But it was too been for profit, and therefore viciously crowd gathered where Barnes lay with a claim that their three staff neuro late-Barnes never regained conscious race- and class-biased. A recent national gaping stab wound in his left temple, the surgeons were either"busy" or "unavail ness and died three days later. survey indicated that over 20 percent of victim of an unknown assailant. Police able." Hospital officials say they called Why would no one treat Eugene the population has no health care Barnes until it was too late? There has insurance whatsoever. Reagan's meat been an avalanche of conflictingcover ax budget cuts have decimated health stories, denials and "no comments" programs for the poor, disproportion The, Revolutionary Part) from doctors and hospital administra ately minorities. Federal officials re and British Labor tors involved, motivated in no small cently revealed that a 20-year decline in part by the $10.5 million lawsuit filed on infant mortality has radically slowed, The British coal miners and 1926 Gen behalf of the family by attorney Melvin and that black infant mortality remains eral Strike were hetrayed by the British Belli. But the truth is Eugene Barnes almost twice as high as for whites (New labor traitors with the complicity ofStalin. died because he couldn't afford to live.