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A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE ere i eno • e sou

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THIS EX-NUN FREED, EXPELLED FROM BOLIVIA: that while voiceprints are accurate in a laboratory, they On Jan. 13 the regime of Colonel Hugo Banzer Suarez are not reliable under field conditions, including the re­ WEEK'S released from jail and degorted Mary Elizabeth Harding, corded telephone conversation introduced as evidence a former Maryknoll nun from Worcester, Mass. Harding, against defendant Nehemiah Jackson. who was arrested last Dec. 5, was accused ofbelonging to The prosecution attempted to show that a scratchy police MILITANT the ELN (Army of National Liberation), a guerrilla or­ recording of a telephone call luring two police officers 3 U.S. raises nuclear ganization founded by Che Guevara. into an ambush in April 1971 was a recording of Jack­ threat In a letter to a friend in the U.S. dated July 1972, son's voice. 4 Reply to Tom Hayden Harding spoke of her work in the Committee for Defense On Jan. 15 a support rally was held at noon at the of Human Rights and pleaded for protests in the U.S. on 'peace' accords courthouse. Speakers included Billy Dean Smith, a re­ to answer Banzer's repression. cently released political prisoner; the Reverend AI Dortsch Rockefeller's drug pro­ 9 Her release came after growing protests and extensive of Operation Breadbasket in Los Angeles; Woody Diaz gram news coverage drew attention to her imprisonment and of the Young Socialist Alliance; Mike Wolsson ofthe Young 10 Chicago teachers strike the plight of thousands of political prisoners in Bolivia. Workers Liberation League; and representatives of the gains support The U. S. Committee for Justice to Latin American Po­ Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the ACL U. litical Prisoners (USLA) reported that letters and tele­ 11 Price rise highest since Funds are urgently needed to continue the defense ef­ grams had been sent to Bolivian officials, and that seve­ fort. Contributions may be sent to the Riverside Political Korean War ral demonstrations were being organized when Harding Prisoners Defense Committee, P. 0. Box 5154, San Ber­ 12 Israeli socialists call for was released. nardino, Calif. 92412. Telephone: (714) 684-8131. solidarity 13 Detroit Blacks hit new VICTORY IN TOMBS CASE: On Jan. 16 a New York cop attacks State Supreme Court jury acquitted Earl Whittaker of GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE WINS RIGHT TO IN­ two counts of kidnapping and one of unlawful imprison­ 15 Program for March CORPORATE: After more than two years of court battles, ment. The charges stem from a rebellion in 1970 at the abortion tribunal takes the New York Gay Activists Alliance has won the right Manhattan House of Detention, better known as the Tombs. to establish itself as a corporation under that name. In shape Whittaker, a guard at the prison, was accused of taking a 6-to-0 decision New York State Court of Appeals ruled 16 l. A. officials rule Rodri­ the side of the prisoners during the rebellion, during which Jan. 12 that Secretary of State John. Lomenzo acted ar­ guez can't appear on he and 11 other guards were held hostage. He faced bitrarily in denying GAA the right to incorporate. ballot as 'socialist'· life imprisonment on the kidnapping charge. The jury Lomenzo had argued that the GAA, which advocates has not yet returned a verdict on lesser charges of criminal 17 What's wrong with Ber­ the repeal of the state's archaic sodomy law, would be solicitation and obstructing governmental administration. promoting "activities which are contrary to the avowed keley 'Community' slate? Guards at the Tombs had testified that Whittaker was public policy of the state.... " 18 Issues in N.Y. Dist. 1 not considered trustworthy or cooperative. Whittaker ex­ school fight plained that he would not falsify reports, could not co­ 19 Uganda: meaning of operate with other officers who did, and would not use NEW GOVERNMENT ATTACK ON YWLL: The court­ Amin's nationaliza,tions excessive force against inmates. This case is the second resulting from the Tombs re­ martial of Clifford (Heshima) Broadnax on a charge 21 How ADL distorts Pales­ volt. Earlier three prisoners were acquitted of charges of being absent without leave from the Armywas scheduled tinian struggle similar to those against Whittaker. Two other prisoners, to begin Jan. 15. Broadnax, a member of the Young 24 Scandinavians spear­ Herbert Blyden and Stanley King, remain to be tried. Workers Liberation League, was arrested in Berkeley head Viet protests Dec. 4 by a dozen FBI agents. Taken under armed guard to the Presidio Army Base in San Francisco, he was 'THE UNITED STATES AT ITS BEST': That's what shipped to Fort Lewis in Washington State the next day. Nixon says about the $10.6-million his administration The YWLL pointed out that Broadnax was AWOL from 2 In Brief doled out as emergency relief to Nicaragua following the Fort Ord, in Monterey, Calif., and that his transfer to Fort 6 In Our Opinion earth-quake there. He spent $2-billion for bombing Viet­ Lewis can only be interpreted as an attempt to isolate Letters nam just in the last nine months. him. His arrest came the day after that of Leonard McNeil, 7 Women in Revolt the chairman of the Northern California YWLL, who was arraigned on a charge of draft evasion Jim. 13. National Picket Line YWLL leaders have urged that letters and telegrams 8 Great Society be sent to Staff Judge Advocate Lieutenant Culpeter · at By Any Means Neces­ Fort Lewis, Wash., demanding that Broadnax be returned sary to the San Francisco Bay Area immediately, that ali American Way of Life charges be dropped, and that he be given an honorable discharge.

SORRY- WRONG HOUSE: On Jan. 9, 15 men carry­ WORLD OUTLOOK ing rifles and handguns broke down two doors _ and 1 left Caucus has impact stormed into a house in Winthrop, Mass. William Pine in Canadian labor party awoke to the screams of his wife and daughter, who were 2 Revolutionary workers begging, "Please don't kill us." He saw several men with guns trained on him and felt a gun barrel pressing against alternative in Argentine his temple.· election campaign As Pine was pushed out of his bedroom, he was·asked 3 Argentine press com­ his name. When he told them, the men suddenly rushed ments on workers and out of the house. One of them turned around at Pine's socialist front questions and yelled, "State police." This incident, in which police on a narcotics raid picked 4 Out Now-Sign Now de­ the wrong house, merited an editorial in the Jan. 16 New bate in British antiwar Managua, Nicaragua. Rumor has it that Nicaraguan dictator York Times- and rightly so. The Times quotes Ms. Pine: movement Somoza is insisting that the city be rebuilt on the same site "I didn't know police operated like that in America. I'm because of his real estate investments. ashamed that this could happen here." Unfortunately, the Times neglected to mention in its editorial the fact that exactly such raids as the one visited PROSECUTOR COMES UP WITH NEW ARGUMENT IN on the Pine family are a common occurrence in Black MAGEE CASE: The prosecution has begun its case in and Chicano communities throughout the country. (See THE MILITANT the trial of Ruchell Magee for murder and kidnapping. article on Detroit police attacks on Black community, The charges against Magee stem from an incident on page 13.) VOLUME 37/NUMBER 3 August 7, 1970 in which police opened fire on the escape JANUARY 26, 1973 vehicle of several San Quentin prisoners. Judge Harold CLOSING NEWS DATE-JAN. 17, 1973 Haley and three of his captors were killed. If you subscribe to The Militant and plan to move Editor: MARY-AliCE WATERS Chief prosecutor Albert Harris added a new twist to the soon, don't forget that the post office does not for­ Managing Editor: DOUG JENNESS case, arguing that Magee had committed a robbery when ward newspapers. Send your old address label Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS he disarmed several sheriffs deputies during the escape Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING attempt. Harris claimed in his opening statement that and your new address into The Militant business you ensure Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., Magee should be convicted of murder not only on the office at least two weeks before move to 14 Charles lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Phone: Ed­ direct evidence against him but also because of a Cali­ that you will not miss any issues. itolial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) fornia law that holds that a defendant may be charged 929-3486. with murder if he participates in a robbery during which Southwest Bureau: 11071/2 N. Western Ave., los EX-Gis PLEAD GUILTY ON REDUCED CHARGES IN Angeles, Calif. 90029. Phone: (213) 463-1917. a killing takes place. Second-doss postage paid at New York, N.Y. Sub­ WIS.: On Jan. 16 Thomas Chase, Steve Geden, and Dannie scription: Domestic, S5 a year; foreign, S8. By first­ Kreps- the Camp McCoy 3 -.pleaded guilty to charges class mail: domestic and Canada, S25; all other coun­ DEFENSE OPENS IN LAWTON TRIAL: The defense of dynamiting a water reservoir at Camp McCoy, Wis., tries, S41. Air printed matter: domestic and Canada, began its presentation this week in the fifth month of the in 1970. Originally the men had been under indictment S32; latin America and Europe, $40; Africa, Australia, Indio, Cali[, murder trial of Black activist Gary Lawton on. counts carrying a maximum of 35 years in prison. Asia (including USSR), S50. Write for sealed air postage rates. and his two codefendants. The reduced charges they pleaded guilty to call for a Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily An entire week was spent inhearing four experts explain maximum term of 30 months. -DAVE FRANKEL represent The Militant's views. These ore expressed in editorials.

2 U.S. raises nuclear threat New accords won't bring peace What ever ByCAROLINELUND ·r happened Jan. 17 -As The Militant goes to f p~ess, rumors ~re circulating that a ·.---· • t ~ VIetnam cea_se-fue agreement will ~e w··· ' 0 peace announced m a matter of days, m preparation for the signing of an d •d - agreeme~t. Neither Washin~ton, _the can I ate' North VIetnamese, nor the liberation forces in South Vietnam have so far M G v? confirmed this speculation. C 0 On Jan. 15 President Nixon ordered • a halt to all U. S. bombing of North The man who campaigned for pres- Vietnam, citing "progress" in the secret ident in 1972 as "the first to speak Paris negotiations. out against the war," Senator George Only four days earlier, however, a McGovern, has shown his true colors spokesman for the Nixon administra- by refusing to back the Jan. 20 anti- tion made headlines by refusing to war protests. The Democratic senator rule out U.S. use of nuclear weapons from South Dakota told a staff mem- in Vietnam if the talks "fail." ber of the National Peace Action Co- The U.S. has been continuously alition that he wouldn't support the bombing North Vietnam, and replen- .. -.,, demonstrations because he might look ishing mine fields in North Vietnam's '• like a "sore loser." · main harbors, since last spring. ··~· ,_ "' In the meantime, while McGovern A Jan. 8 United Press International :-__ . ."""" worries about his image,. the Vietnam- dispatch ·surveyed the extent of U.S. ese people face a daily struggle to sur- terror bombing in the past nine s·mger J oan Ba ez an d oth er antiwar Americans walk through Hanoi's international vive this brutal war. months. Forty pounds of explosives airport,- heavily damaged by B-52 raids in December. Nixon bombed to wring more In the spring of 1972• when Nixon were dropped for every man, woman, concessions from the Vietnamese. was mining the harbors of North Viet- and child in North Vietnam. The ton- nam, McGovern also cautioned nage of the bombs dropped was the against demonstrations. At that time, equivalent of 20 Hiroshima-sized nies with the least possible embarrass- The Times reports "reliable" sources he said that instead of demonstrating, atomic bombs. ment from antiwar demonstrators. in Saigon say the new agreement will the American people should work "qui- UP! also estimates that the nine Various unconfirmed reports are cir- permit North Vietnamese troops to etly and firmly" to change who was months of bombing has cost tax- culating as to the substance of con- remain in the South but will legitimize in power-i.e., campaign to get Me- payers in this country an estimated cessions said to have been made dur- the Saigon regime's sovereignty over Govern elected. $2-billion. ing the latest round of negotiations. South Vietnam. McGovern's refusal to join in sup- U.S. bombing continues in South CBS News claimed Jan. 17 to have Whatever the provisions of a final porting antiwar actions, in the wake Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. On had access to a draft of a new agree- accord-if indeed any accord is of the most murderous bombing yet Jan. 16, for example, U.S. fighter- ment. agreed upon-last month's bombing unleashed by Nixon, exposes his ear- bombers carried out 134 raids against According to CBS, one provision raids on Hanoi and Haiphong made lier promises as nothing but an at- rebel forces in northern Quangtri Prov- not spelled out in the October version it clear that Nixon is out to wring tempt to win votes. ince alone. of the accords is an international con- more concessions from Hanoi. In the Other "doves" in Congress have also In addition, Washington has made trol commission of 3,000 or 3,100 latest round of secret talks, Nixon failed to take action against the war. a massive shipment of military hard- to "supervise" implementation of the and Kissinger have been attempting Senate Majority Leader Mike Mans- ware to the Thieu regime in Saigon. accord. This is rumored to be a con- to cash in on these raids by demanding field (D-Mont.) even admitted recently The U. S. previously planned to get cession by Hanoi and the Provisional more provisions favorable to the that Congress was not going to do 2,100 aircraft to Saigon by mid-1974, Revolutionary Government, who want- maintenance of a pro-imperialist re- anything to end the war. "We can pass but it managed to complete this goal ed a smaller force. Nixon, said the Wall gime in Saigon, under the threat of resolutions," he told CBS-TV Jan. 14, in the 10-week period following the Street Journal, wanted an armed body renewed bombing. "but we can't end the war.... " announcement of a possible cease-fire large enough to "prevent Hanoi from Despite all the talk in Congress Oct. 26. using force in the South whenever it As if this weren't enough, Nixon about ending the war, the Senate Not satisified with this, Thieu has chose." In other words, the U.S. rulers even let out the threat of using nuclear Armed Services Committee, which is weapons in Vietnam if Hanoi doesn't 11 d D sent 20 of his loyal legislators to lob- want a military force that can take contro e by the emocrats, voted accept his terms. On Jan. 11 William by what they apparently consider their over where U.S. troops leave off in unanimously Jan. 16 to approve Nix- Clements Jr., Nixon's new deputy sec- • · tm f w p representatives in the U.S. Congress repressing any resistance the Viet- :. on s appom ent o illiam . Clem- retary of defense, told a Senate hearing J for stronger measures against the Viet- namese people make to the dictatorial ents r. as deputy secretary of defense. namese rebels. Thieu regime. that he would not rule out use of clements told the Senate committee on nuclear weapons in Vietnam. This am- J 11 th h 1 A s the Jan. 16 Wall Street Journal The Jan. 17 New York Tfmes sug- an. at e wou d not rule out plified Nixon's threat last summer to th noted, by making the bombing halt gests that the North Vietnamese made e use of nuclear weapons by the "wipe out North Vietnam in an after- u s v over North Vietnam a unilateral step, another concession in relation to the noon." · · in ietnam. "Mr. Nixon left himself the option of Demilitarized Zone dividing North Although the White House was quick sending the bombers back if talks went and South Vietnam. The new accords to formally deny that it was consid- wrong again." reportedly recognize the DMZ as a ering using nuclear weapons, Cle- Meanwhile, Nixon's move was cer- "provisi·onal" m il"tI ary b oun d ary, WI"th ments's statement served as a trial tainly designed in part to help him military movements across the zone balloon, allowing Nixon to take the Australian get through his inauguration ceremo- strictly ptohibited. response as an indication of what op- tions are open to him. seamen to hold While the worldwide antiwar upsurge continued to mount, even after the halt antiwar march B-52 flier refuses ~mass killing' to the bombing of Hanoi and Hai­ Australian seamen will march "The goals do not justify the mass sentence against him. "If Heck gets phong, the response from the Soviet against the war in Indochina Jan. destruction and killing," said for­ off with a kiss on the cheek," said and Chinese regimes remained one of 20. Elliott V. Elliott, the federal mer B-52 pilot Captain Michael one Pentagon official, "he won't pressuring the Vietnamese to accept secretary of the Australian Sea­ Heck. Heck submitted his resig­ be the last guy who pulls this Nixon's demands. On the same day men's Union, announced the pro­ nation to the Air Force after the sort of thing." that Nixon's lieute-nant was rattling test in a telegram to the National December bombing raids over nuclear bombs, Soviet party chief Peace Action Coalition Jan. 16. Hanoi and Haiphong convinced ---- Leonid Brezhnev told reporters, "the The telegram reads: him he didn't want to take part two sides [in the Vietnam war] are "Voice of American people in any more U.S. combat opera­ determined to settle the affair peace­ strengthened with voice and action tions in the Vietnam war. fully." Peacefully! After the U.S. terror peoples other nations shall thun­ According to the Pentagon, four bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong! der through corridors of Wash­ other U. S. pilots have also refused Obliquely pressuring Hanoi to come ington to hasten peace and inde­ to bomb Vietnam since the air to Nixon's terms, Brezhnev said, "the pendence for people of Vietnam. operations began more than eight Vietnam affair [he attempts to belittle We seamen of Australia alongside years ago. Heck, however, is the the Vietnamese revolution by calling other citizens demonstrate this day first to come to public attention. it an 'affair'] is drawing slowly to its with you all. Unity gives us Heck stated after his decision, conclusion." strength to herald and guarantee "This is the first time in my life Whether or not Washington and peace." that I have been able to feel really Hanoi sign an accord, the same cru­ happy and good, because I have cial task remains for the American made the right decision." and international antiwar movements: According to the Jan. 22 News­ to build a powerful force demanding week, the Air Force is expected the withdrawal of every U.S. soldier, to try for a harsh court-martial Captain Michael Heck plane, bomb, and military base from Southeast Asia.

THE MILITANT/JANUARY 26, 1973 3 RePlY to Tom Hayden= 'Peace' accords wouldn't end u.s. domination ol s. Viet By LARRY SEIGLE details of the new proposals are not Peking and in Moscow while he was signal to Hanoi's observers abroad What lies behind the diplomatic agree­ available at this writing, it seems un­ unleashing murderous bombing that Washington is not the only cap­ ment that is apparently being nego­ likely that Hayden would view them against North Vietnam as well as min­ ital to which protests should be ad­ tiated in Paris? Is the long period of in a substantially different light, since ing its harbors. dressed." U.S. intervention in Vietnam coming his fundamental premise is that if the Not only did the sellout by Moscow It is not often that the Vietnamese to an ·end? Vietnamese accept them, they must be and Peking allow Nixon to inflict dev­ leadership in Hanoi openly takes is­ These questions are on the minds a "good deal." astating attacks on Vietnam, but it sue with the policies of either Moscow of many of those who have been fight­ He does not admit the possibilty allowed Nixon to present himself as or Peking. But, as the heavy U.S. ing for the right of Vietnam to self­ that the Vietnamese, under the pres­ the "peace candidate" in the U.S., dis­ bombing continued after the Nixon determination. Beneath these ques­ ~ure of Nixon's military onslaught orienting and demobilizing antiwar vo-yages, there were some indications tions is a basic uncertainty in the and the refusal of Moscow and Peking activists who believed that the war of Hanoi's criticism. minds of many antiwar activists: Is to provide an effective defense, may would soon be over. In a Nhan Dan editorial last Aug. the proposed settlement a victory for be forced to accept terms not to their Hayden himself doesn't try to deny 17, Hanoi leaders wrote, "to carry the Vietnamese revolution, or does it liking. these facts, but he does attempt to out the 'Nixon doctrine' U.S. impe- represent a setback for the Vietnam­ Hayden is not the only one to at­ ese, who have been pounded into mak­ tack Stone's "cynicism" about the ac­ ing substantial concessions? cords. I. F. Stone earned the enmity These issues are raised by Tom of the pro-Moscow U.S. Communist Hayden in a lengthy letter in the cur­ Party and pro-Peking groups like rent issue of the New York Review the Guardian newspaper when he of Books (NYR). Hayden's purpose blasted Moscow and Peking for host­ in writing his letter is to defend the ing Nixon last spring. In the June 15, terms of the nine-point agreement, re­ 1972, NYR he wrote, "To speak plain­ leased by Hanoi on Oct 26, as being ly, the chief running dogs of US im­ ·advantageous for the Vietnamese. His perialism now seem to be Brezhnev letter is an attack on an article by and Chou En-lai. This is how it must I. F. Stone that appeared in the Nov. look from Hanoi." 30, 1972, issue of NYR. Stone called the terms a "bad deal" for the Viet­ Isolation of Vietnamese namese, a deal that won't bring peace. Throughout the history of the war, Hayden writes, "I returned from Moscow and Peking have failed to Settlement or no settlement, U.S. bombers will remain stationed in Thailand and Guam North Vietnam in mid-November puz­ counter Washington's step-by-step es­ and off the shores of Vietnam, ready to resume bombing if things don't develop ac­ zled to find so many antiwar activists, calations. Their material aid to North cording to Nixon's wishes. especially intellectuals, expressing the Vietnam and the NLF has been to­ cynicism summarized by I. F. Stone." tally inadequate to prevent the hor­ dismiss their significance. Even if rialists have applied the policy of rec­ Arguing against Stone's position rible devastation inflicted by U. S. Moscow and Peking have betrayed onciliation toward a number of big that the draft accords were the result forces, especially the virtually unre­ the revolution in their deals with Nix­ powers in the hope of having a free of a "tight squeeze" put on Hanoi as stricted bombing campaigns. The min­ iscule aid sent by Moscow has been on, Hayden argues, "these 'greatpow­ hand to consolidate their forces, op­ estimated at less than one-ninetieth of er' moves did not prevent Vietnam pose the world revolutionary move­ the amount spent by the Pentagon from carrying out its longest offensive ment, suppress the revolution at home, in Vietnam. of the war and continuing to receive bully the small countries, break the Moscow and Peking, Hanoi's "al­ material aid from both the Soviet national liberation movement while lies," have refused to form a govern­ Union and China. (Emphasis in the not relinquishing its plan to prepare mental united front in the face of original.) a new world war. Washington's aggression. Nor have The Vietnamese revolutionaries' "For the socialist countries, safe­ they used their political influence to courageous fight against the tremen­ guarding peace and carrying out mobilize united action fronts even in dous military machine of the U.S. peaceful coexistence cannot be sepa­ countries like France or Italy, where has inspired revolutionaries through­ rated from the world movement of there are massive Communist parties. out the world. The fact that a small· independence, democracy and social­ Despite this betrayal by their country has dealt such blows to the ism. If this is aimed only at caring "friends," the Vietnamese have contin­ greatest military and economic power for the narrow, immediate interests ued to struggle, providing an example in world history is testimony to the of a country, it will not only harm of courage and determination that is depth of the social revolution inside the revolutionary movements of var­ undoubtedly among the most heroic Vietnam and the burning desire of ious countries, but, in the end, will in the entire history of the revolution­ the Vietnamese for national indepen­ bring these very countries incalculable ary movement against imperialism. dence. losses and make them give up their This determined resistance, coupled But the fact is that the Thieu regime, lofty internationalist duty ...." with the growth of an international fortified in Saigon and other cities, But, Hayden says, "The question antiwar movement, including a mass armed with the third largest air force Stone should ask is: why do the Viet­ antiwar movement here in the U.S., in the world, with a lavishly financed namese, who after all drafted the forced Washington to adopt a policy and equipped army, still remains in Agreement themselves, think it is fa­ of slow withdrawal, accompanied by power! And it is still there because vorable?" Hayden tries to cover up "Vietnamization," that is, turning the of the military might of the U.S. and the fact that the proposals under dis­ ground fighting over to Thieu's pup­ the treachery of Moscow and Peking. cussion include major concessions that Le Due Tho and Henry Kissinger during pet army. It is true that aid still comes to Hanoi Hanoi has been forced to make as· Paris negotiations. The Vietnamization plan has been from Moscow and Peking. But this a result of its international isolation­ a total failure, as the disintegration aid is totally inadequate. The small both military and diplomatic- and a result of the Nixon-Moscow and of the Saigon army in the face of amount that does come through is the intense U.S. military pressure. Nixon-Peking detentes, Hayden last spring's offensive by the libera­ used- through the threat that it will Regardless of which side formulated claims, "It would be more realistic tion forces proved. be reduced even further or stopped the wording, it is ridiculous to assert and balanced to view the Peace Agree­ It was in this context that Nixon altogether- as a sledgehammer to that the Vietnamese leaders, of their ment within the framework of the sit­ turned with renewed energy to Mos­ compel the Vietnamese to go along own free will, would favor the con­ uation in Vietnam itself, assuming cow and Peking, offering diploma tic with the "new relationships" between cessions to U.S. imperialism that are that the concrete realities there are and trade concessions to them in re­ U.S. imperialism and the workers contained in the nine-point draft, and, more important than any relation­ turn for their putting the squeeze on states of China and the Soviet Union. without question, also in the accords ships between the 'great powers.'" the Vietnamese revolution. As Stone now being worked on. Hayden argues that the nine-point wrote last June, "Peking bought its For example, it is obvious that the draft would be advantageous to the admission to the United Nations, Vietnamese not blind Vietnamese agreed to any new con­ Vietnamese revolution because "their bought its way out of containment, There is evidence that the Vietnam­ cessions contained in the accords now diplomatic initiative has given the with the blood of the Vietnamese peo­ ese are not blind to world realities, being discussed only because of the PRG and North Vietnamese the po­ ple. The same commodity -in such as Hayden seems to be. blackmail of Nixon's December terror litical advantage of standing for plentiful supply... brought Nixon to For example, in his NYR article bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong. peace, probably the most passionate Moscow." last June, I. F. Stone reported, "A rare Will Hayden support these provisions desire of the South Vietnamese in cities The details of the secret agreements glimpse of [Hanoi's) true feelings was as "favorable" to the Vietnamese, even under Thieu's control." He states fur­ reached in the Nixon-Brezhnev and provided in a brief AP dispatch from if they are forced to accept them? Will ther that the agreement "not only Nixon-Chou meetings are still not Paris. . . . It said: "Paris ( AP) - The he take the side of the "supervisory" would end the present American kill­ known, but it is impossible to deny Rev. Daniel Berrigan conferred with military force likely to be set up to ing for the moment, but would also that the Vietnamese served as a pawn North Vietnamese and Viet Cong of­ enforce these provisions against the put the U.S. on weaker political and in these negotiations. ficials for six hours yesterday and Vietnamese rebels? militnry ground than ever before." Nixon demanded, as his part of described them as 'intensely worried' The nine points have now receded the deal, the right to an unlimited about, President Nixon's coming visit Is U.S. geHing out? into past history; they are evidently escalation of the air war. The proof to Moscow .... ' Hayden refers to the nine-point ac­ superseded by the revised accord now that he was granted this lies in the "From diplomats so discreet and sea­ cords as a "face-saving 'peace with being discussed in Paris. Although the fact that he was wined and dined in soned, this can only be read as a honor'" for Nixon, who can now get

4 out of Vietnam.. But is this really the cas~? DesP-ite '~ace' rumors It is true that the October accords call for a halt to the bombing of Viet- J nam and the withdrawal of all U. S. Protests against war continue uniformed personnel from South Viet­ nam. These would be concessions by By CINDY JAQUITH tisanship in elections, and did not give again," the editorial said. the U. S., and a gain for the revo­ JAN. 17 -Despite efforts by the Nixon support to the Democratic Party cam­ One-third of the musicians in the lution. administration to undercut the anti­ paign. Philadelphia Orchestra, scheduled -to But in return for these concessions, war movement with "peace" rumors, The same day Gordon labeled state­ play for Nixon's inauguration, met the liberation fighters would have to Inauguration Day protest organizers ments by Jeb Magruder, Nixo~'s In­ Jan. 12 to discuss how they could give up a great deal. The most im­ continue to build for the Jan. 20 anti­ auguration Day chairman, as a "de­ show their opposition to the war. "We portant concession to the U. S. in the war demonstrations in Washington, ceitful smear." At a news conference feel we're being asked to be 'good October accords was that the proim­ D. C., and other cities. Jan. 16 Magruder "appealed" to mem­ Germans,'" one musician explained to At a packed Jan. 16 news confer­ bers of Congress who have endorsed a Washington Post reporter. perialist Thieu regime would remain en<:_e, the cosponsors of the actions, the Jan. 20 demonstrations to Leonard Bernstein has announced in control of the key cities of South the National Peace Action Coalition "restrain"' demonstrators \so that the that he will conduct a free "Concert Vietnam. U. S. bases would be turned (NPAC) and the People's Coalition inauguration could be "peaceful." as a Plea for Peace" at the Washing­ over intact to this butcher, and he for Peace and Justice (PCPJ), an­ Building also continues for the Jan. ton Cathedral while the official inau­ would continue to receive U.S. arms nounced that the protests would go 19 actions in high schools and on gural concert takes place. Dean Fran­ and materiel. Thieu is given veto pow­ on as planned. college campuses, called by the Stu­ cis Sayre of the cathedral and former er over the tripartite election commis­ NPAC national coordinator Jerry dent Mobilization Committee and oth­ senator Eugene McCarthy will partic­ sion. Can anyone believe that Thieu Gordon said that no trust could be er student groups. ipate in the counter-concert ·will allow free elections, which would placed in Nixon's latest announce­ The SMC and representatives of the Several prominent women, including undoubtedly be his undoing, so long ments. He said that "If Nixon were National Student Association have author Betty Friedan; Linda Jenness as he retains control of the cops and serious about ending the war, he sent out a joint ad for the Jan. 19 of the Socialist Workers Party; and the· army? He hasn't even allowed would immediately and permanently actions to more than 1,600 college Congresswomen Bella Abzug (D- procapitalist dissidents to oppose him end all bombings in Indochina. He in previous elections.· would order the withdrawal of all U.S. OUT,. Thieu is preparing a counterrevo­ military forces and materiel from QMBINGI--US. lutiomiry bloodbath. He is likely to Southeast Asia." , TH£ 8 MARCH ON direct his first fire against the more -During the news conference, some­ than 200,000 political prisoners held one from the audience got up and in his prisons. But the nine-point draft said there were reports that an agree­ ;"JAN .20 WMHINGTOj did not provide for the release of these ment would be signed on Friday, Jan. prisoners. Thieu has given notice as 19. ... 691-3270- to the kind of policies he will follow Expressing skepticism about the re­ after a cease-fire by banning all po­ port, Gordon said that_ even if it were litical groups and making sweeping true, "such an agreement would not new arrests. eliminate the need for this demonstra­ Hayden admits that Thieu's police tion Saturday and for future demon­ will remain in control. "But," he asks, strations. Even if such an agreement "what will be the morale of these po­ were signed, the question remains, lice when the US leaves? Temporary Who will govern Vietnam? Will it be savagery at most (which is why Amer­ a government of the Vietnamese peo­ ple's choosing, or will it be a U.S.­ icans must show immediate concern .~- at the plight of political prisoners in imposed government? Militant/John Hawkins Thieu's jails), but certain disintegra­ "The [nine-point draft] accords," Gor­ A news conference organized by NPAC-Brooklyn was held Jan. 12 to announce plans tion if they provoke their enemies at don pointed out, "leave Thieu in power for the march on Washington. Participants shown are (I to r) City Councilman Ken­ Saigon's borders." What Hayden and the U.S. continuing to back him. neth Haber, State Senator Carol Bellamy, Brooklyn Borough President Sebastian Leone, They leave the prisoners in South Viet­ NPAC-Brooklyn spokesman Tony Hodges, and Paul Massas, president·of Brooklyn Col­ seems to ignore is that one outburst nam in jails, they leave U.S. bases lege student body and head of the Third World Federation at that school. Congress­ of "temporary" savagery can produce in Thailand, and the U.S. fleet off woman Elizabeth Holtzman (0-N. Y.) also spoke. the slaughter of all those Thleu now Vietnam's shores. holds in prison! "We are going to continue to de­ newspapers. In addition, they have N.Y.), Elizabeth Holtzman (D-N. Y.), "Once the Agreements are signed," mand that the U.S. get entirely out sent letters to some 800 student body and Patricia Schroeder ( D-Colo.l, will argues Hayden, "Thieu 's army will of Southeast Asia," Gordon said. presidents urging their support speak Jan. 18 at a news conference be no match for its revolutionary ad­ Sidney Peck, representing PCPJ, said In Washington, D. C., the High in support of the Jan. 20 actions. versaries." It is obviously true that, he was also skeptical of the peace School SMC and the Washington Another side of the continuing anti­ if left alone, Thieu's army could not rumor, but he expressed a different Teachers Union called on the board war protests was the announcement stand up. That was proved during evaluation of the draft accords. "We of education to facilitate antiwar ac­ by Medical Aid for Indochina that the offensive last spring, when "Viet­ view it as a victory, as the first step tivity in the high schools on Jan. 19. $100,000 has been raised in the U. S. namization" was shown to have failed. in the final phase of the struggle to In New York, several student gov­ to help rebuild Bach Mai Hospital But what makes Hayden believe that end the war," he said. The PCPJ fa­ ernments have provided office space in Hanoi. Nixon's Christmas-time Thieu's army would be left alone? vors "Sign Now" as the major slo­ to the SMC so it can operate campus bombing destroyed the facility. ' Does he really believe that if things gan for the antiwar movement organizing centers for the Jan. 20 On the West Coast, between 2,000 should proceed adversely for Thleu, While characterizing the signing of march. and 3,000 people turned out at the the U.S. would stand idly by and the accords as a "victory," Peck told The SMC national office reports that University of California at Berkeley allow him to fall? reporters that "many other kinds of rallies and teach-ins are scheduled this to hear Joan Baez, who was in Ha­ Continued on page 22 questions will not be resolved until week at many schools, including Yale noi during the recent bombing raids. the U.S. completely ends its involve­ University, University of Maryland, The Bay Area antiwar demonstra­ ment and pulls_ out all support to the University of Houston, Georgia State tion on Jan. 20 has been endorsed Thieu regime." University, Boston University, and by the Central Labor Councils (AFL­ He added that "PCPJ is a multi­ Northeastern University. CIO) in Marin, Santa Clara, Alame­ issue group, and we consider this dem­ New trade-union support for the da, and Contra Costa counties. onstration not just a demonstration Jan. 20 demonstrations hascome.from In Los Angeles, the Jan. 20 ac­ against death in Indochina butagainst the Detroit Metropolitan AFL-CIO and tion has the joint sponsorship of the death of our communities at home." its head, Tom Turner; the Minneapolis NPAC-West, the L.A. Peace Action A smear attack was leveled yester­ Central Labor Union Council; the St Council, PCPJ, the Jan. 20th Com- day against the Inauguration Day Paul Trades and Labor Assembly; Continued on page 22 protests by Gerald Alch, defense at­ John Wright, president of the Atlanta torney in the Watergate trial. Alch Central Labor Council; and Abe Fein­ told reporters that defendant James glass, international vice-president of McCord Jr. would justify his actions the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and to the court as an attempt to prevent Butcher Workmen. "violence" by groups supporting the In Cleveland, Local 17 46 of the Democratic Party. These groups, he American Federation of State, County claimed, include NPAC, PCPJ, and and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. the Social Agencies Employees Union, Jerry Gordon issued a sharp state­ and the local chapters of the Nation­ ment in response to Alch. "As is well al Association of Social Workers and known," Gordon said, "the National the National Welfare Rights Organi­ Peace Action Coalition has organized zation have formed the Health and Militant/Mark Satinoff this demonstration to be peaceful, le­ Welfare Coalition for Peace. The Two hundred and seventy peo­ gal, and orderly -the same as all group is building the Jan. 20 dem­ ple came to a New York city­ previous demonstrations sponsored onstration. wide forum Jan. 12 on 'Where by our coalition." The Louisville Courier-Journal pub­ Gordon pointed out that "Nixon is lished an editorial on Jan. 3 calling does the Vietnam war stand? on the defensive, both on the war on its readers to join the march on How to end it: Sign Now or and the Watergate break-in." Before Washington. "No part of the inaugu­ Out Now?' Barry Sheppard, all major antiwar demonstrations in ral process ... should be free of dem­ Socialist Workers Party nation­ past years, he noted, scare tactics have onstrators and pickets quietly bearing al organization secretary, gave been used in an attempt to discourage signs of protest against the inhuman­ ity this nation perpetrated for 12 days the talk. participation. NPAC follows a policy of nonpar- in December and could well perpetrate Militant/Harry Ring

THE MIUTANT/JANUARY 26, 1973 5. • In Our ·Opinion Let ten Gets beHer and beHer after being arrested during an anti­ Watergate I have been a Militant reader for war demonstration. They went so far three and a half years now, and as to consider whether to suspend It now appears that it will be a long time before the Amer­ the paper keeps getting better and him. ican people learn the full story about the Watergate affair better. It was The Militant that first , Some of those who saw the demon­ and the scope of Republican Party espionage and sabotage introduced me to the Trotskyist stration say Walton was heeding the activities against the Democrats. This information will not movement and gave me a clearer. order to leave but didn't move fast come out of the court proceedings against the Watergate understanding of the movements for enough. "It was like a three-second defendants because five of the seven accused spies have social change. violation," one said. "He got caught pleaded guilty to all charges, and therefore will not face Keep up the excellent work, and in the key." a trial. I promise to keep introducing the Walton's subsequent boycott of the Time magazine reported that the defendants were offered paper to more peo~le. Olympic Games, to protest the geno­ some $1,000 per month payment for pleading guilty and L.D. cidal war in Vietnam, was a big fac­ tor in the United States's poor show­ keeping their mouths shut about which higher-ups in the Chicago, Ill. ing in basketball. Nixon administration they were working for. Reports thus We should all work harder to force far have indicated that funds for the Watergate operation Science for the People the U. S. government out of South­ came from former cabinet members and from Maurice Stans, east Asia so this type of protest by Nixon's top campaign fund raiser. However the prosecution In an article in the Jan. 12 Militant Walton needn't happen again. in the Watergate trial is conveniently-for Nixon- refusing on "Scientists, church leaders protest Sam Chetta even to call former Attorney General John Mitchell or Maurice bombing," you mentioned the war Catskill, N. Y. protest made by the American As­ Stans as witnesses in the case, much less bring them up sociation for the Advancement of on charges. Science (AAAS) and the Federation Meanwhile it has also been revealed that high officials of American Scientists. Unfortunately, in the Republican campaign are "unable to account for" you do not mention Science for the Correction (that i~, unable to account for in a legal manner) some People, which has led or aided anti­ The review of "Lady Sings the Blues" $900,000 in campaign funds. war demonstrations at the AAAS in the Dec. 29 Militant has an error The whitewash of the Watergate affair demonstrates the convention and proposed antiwar of fact. On page 68 of her autobiog­ total corruption of the Nixon administration as well as the resolutions before. raphy, Billie Holiday describes her rottenness of all the Democratic politicians and the courts Science for the People is a group father's death-by hemorrhage be­ who are cooperating in the effort to hush up this scandal. of radical scientific workers and stu­ cause no hospital would take him. dents that is developing a critique of The Watergate operation gave the American people a Skip Ball science use. Our areas of interest in­ glimpse of how the Democrats and Republicans in the gov­ Denver, Colo. clude not only antiwar and women's ernment treat each other in the course of their squabbles issues but expand into a critique of within the ruling class. It only suggests the elaborate, brutal science in capitalist society. methods of !iabotage and other illegal operations that both We have done scientific research on Transit worker replies parties carry on all the time against the movements for behalf of the Vietnamese people, New York City Councilman Robert social change, especially the Black, Chicano, and Puerto joined production workers around Postel has charged that New York Rican movements. occupational health, and attempted transit workers spend their work day to arm oppressed groups with tech­ sleeping and drinking. A film shown nical skills. on channel 5 TV in December was We would like The Militant to the basis for the attack. It was ob­ know scient~fic workers· are begin­ vious to any transit worker that the ning to attack the roots of their film was a clumsy frame-up. alienation. The councilman charged that tran­ D.C. sit workers !ire paid "grossly inflated · Israeli witch-hunt Washington, D. C. overtime payments." The truth is Last December Israeli police claimed to have discovered a most transit workers don't work "spy and sabotage ring" working in cooperation with Syrian much overtime. (I haven't worked any for three years.) Those who do intelligence. Within a week 46 "suspected spies" were arrested, Athletes and politics work overtime would gladly give it including four Israeli Jews. Using this case as a pretext, the When I was hawking The Militant at up for a decent hourly wage. Tran­ Zionist regime has unleashed a campaign of witch-hunt, ar­ New Paltz State College, a student sit workers are forced to work over­ rests, and torture against the Israeli left in general. (See story inquired about the role of sports, if time because the. Metropolitan Tran­ on page 12 for details.) any, in world politics. A query I've sit Authority refuses to hire sufficient The Militant has received a copy of an appeal for support gotten before. Being an ex-sports workers. to democratic rights in Israel from five Israeli organizations­ magazine editor, I've come across a As for the charges of drinking and few acts of protest by athletes I here the Avant-garde Group, Israeli Socialist Organization (Marx­ sleeping on the job, I heard these relate for sports-minded Militant stories before I started working for ist), Israeli Socialist Organization, Revolutionary Communist readers. Alliance, and the Arab Students Union at Heb;rew University the MTA. After spending five years Jane Blalock, a professional golf­ looking for this utopia, I have de­ in Jerusalem. In addition, we received an international ap­ er, was leading the women's tour for peal from the Israeli Socialist Organization (Marxist) calling cided that it is a rumor designed to a time, in earnings, earlier this year, shanghai workers for the MTA. on supporters of democratic rights throughout the world to but was suspended from the cirauit, Councilman Postel charged that the bring all possible pressure against this witch-hunt campaign (later reinstated) for allegedly "cheat­ abuses by transit workers have cost by the Israeli government. ing." She stood accused of moving the taxpayers more than $500-mil­ We urge readers of The Militant to respond to this impor­ her ball to a more advantageous lion in the last 10 years. The truth tant appeal by sending telegrams or letters of protest ta Prime position after marking it, a common is that by state law the 35-cent to­ Minister Golda Meir, Jerusalem, Israel. occurrence among golfers since the ken, and not taxes, has to finance ball can't always be replaced in the The following telegram was sent to Golda Meir by Linda the MTA and pay the workers. exact spot it was picked up from. Jenness, Socialist Workers Party 1972 presidential candidate, In making these charges Council­ Which doesn't make it a too far­ man Postel gave Lindsay and Rock­ and Andrew Pulley, national secretary of the Young Socialist fetched assumption to say that Ms. Alliance and SWP vice-presidential candidate in 1972: efeller a weapon with which to at~ Blalock was singled out and victim­ tack the wages of transit workers at "Golda Meir: We are informed that your government has ized because she displays a peace the next contract expiration. initiated a campaign of political repression, including arrests symbol on her golf bag and is a James. Mendieta vocal opponent of the Vietnam war. and torture of both Jews and Arabs whose only "crime" is Brooklyn, N. Y. political opposition to Zionism and refusal to cooperate with . Billy Jean King, a fine tennis pro­ your secret police against the Palestinian liberation struggle. fessional and Sports fllustrated Your current witch-hunt against the left-which lays the prec­ "Sportswoman of the Year," publicly edent for broader attacks on the democratic rights of all advocated abortion on the basis of her personal experience. And when Israeli working people-provides further evidence of the fal­ Ms. King won the U. S. Open Cham­ Terrorism sity of the Zionist claim to guarantee democratic rights to pionship at Forest Hills, she gave a It looks as if the recent rash of at­ the people living in Israel- Arabs or Jews. strong women's rights speech, saying tacks by the bourgeois press across The Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance she was not going to defend her title the world directed at Leon Trotsky intend to expose your government's barbaric torture and again unless given a chance to earn and the world Trotskyist movement political persecution and to initiate and join in protests against as much money as the men. are not at an end. The slanders and these measures by democratic-minded forces in the United Before the 1972 Olympics, UCLA's outright lies they have printed are States. We demand the release of all those arrested and an All-American Center Bill Walton was proof of the ruling class's fear of end to your campaign of political persecution." criticized by basketball's officialdom Trotskyist ideas and goals.

6 Women In Revolt The latest attack was printed in an article in the January 1973 issue of Current History entitled "Black Sep­ Cindy Jaquith tember: Militant Palestinianism" by John B. Wolf. Wolf states that "the Black September organization may be attuned to the directions of Leon Anti-feminists open up new front Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary Have you seen any women wearing pink "I know increasing alcohol and suicide,' one thundered. Others who advocated the unrestricted use H. 0. W." buttons lately? HOW stands for Happiness predicted 'pimps and prostitutes everywhere,' with of terror by elitist bands, and who of Womanhood, one of several antifeminist orga­ armies of 'homosexuals, bisexuals and other devi­ placed little emphasis on a Maoist­ nizations. Some others are AWARE (American Wom­ ators' coming out of the closets. There was a curious style, broadly based national guer­ en Are Richly Endowed), the League of Housewives, fear that ERA would ban sex distinctions in public rilla movement." and the·-sfop ERA committees. toilets and a dark reminiscence of 'the Russian Army The true Trotskyist view of ter­ All of these groups are gaining national prom­ with men and women ... squatting over open la­ rorism is put forth by George No­ inence from their campaign to prevent ratification trines.'" vack in Marxism versus Neo-Anar­ of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a bill that Where have we heard these predictions of impend­ chist Terrorism. He writes: "U.S. would make sex discrimination illegal. The ERA ing "moral cataclysm" and "promiscuity" before? imperialism has to go; its crimes has already passed 22 state legislatures, but it must From the. anti-abortion forces, of course. The same must be avenged. But this cannot be ratified by 16 more in order to become law. The people who are backing this assault on the ERA and will not be done by lone aveng­ right wing is determined that it won't get passed. are in league with the well-financed campaign against ers. It will require intervention by Despite their names, these groups represent more the right to abortion. · the masses conscious of the necessity than a fringe element. Their leaders and backers According to the Jan. 15 New York Times, the of abolishing capitalist power and have embarked on a serious campaign against the anti-ERA forces include American Party 1972 presi­ property and organized to carry women's liberation movement. dential candidate John G. Schmitz (a Birch Society through that colossal task. The func­ Last week both the New York Times and News­ member), the National Council of Catholic Women, tion of genuine revolutionists today week ran feature articles on the Stop ERA commit­ and figures in the Catholic Church hierarchy. Last is not to study the uses of dynamite, tees and their founder, Phyllis Schlafly. She is the fall, anti-abortion groups in Washington openly or­ but to le~rn how to release the cre­ well-known Midwest conservative who, in 1964, wrote ganized opposition to ratification of the state equal ative energy and revolutionary po­ A Choice Not an Echo- the book that promoted rights amendment. tenti~l of the masses in order to the presidential campaign of Senator Barry Gold­ The emergence of an anti-ERA campaign under­ speed the day of that historical reck­ water. Schlafly told the Times her organization is scores just how deeply women's oppression is woven oning." active in 26 states. into the fabric of this society. Every gain women D.W. The Jan. 15 Newsweek credits Schlafly's group make will take a major struggle, and then further Medford, Mass. with preventing a vote on the ERA in the illinois battles to maintain that gain. House of Representatives and nearly defeating the Ratification of the ERA occurred in many states bill in the state Senate in 1972: in 1972 because legislators realized that a strong "Spurred on by Mrs. Schlafly's adherents, legis­ sentiment for women's equality stood behind this lators scaled oratorical heights in denouncing the bill. It's up to women to show that there is massive Imprisoned Citizens Union Equal Rights Amendement. 'I see the darkness of support for equal rights. Last year a number of prisoners formed the Imprisoned Citizens Union in an effort to change the country's barbaric prison conditions. Some of ICU's objectives are: oust­ ing all sadistic and incompetent pris­ on employees; eliminating the use of National Picket Line all torture devices, such as the sweat box, wall chains, wrist clamps, and underground dungeons; eliminating Frank Lovell discrimination; proper food, clothing and medical treatment; the right to vote; and the right to pursue our political beliefs without harassment. Construction industry woes Subscriptions to our monthly news­ When outgoing Housing and Urban Development In most cities more than half of all construction letter, the Prisoner's Free Press, are director George Romney told a convention of 56,000 work is nonunion, often let to the same contractors available for $3.50 a year. building contractors Jan. 8 that the Nixon adminis­ who are signed up with the unions but operate under Imprisoned Citizens Union tration had decided to freeze subsidies for housing a second name for purposes of hiring nonunion Box 4371 construction, the builders panicked. It seemed to them workers at low wages. Philadelphia, Pa. 19134 the end of an era. Lush government handouts van­ Officials of the building trades unions are meeting ished before their eyes, the primary source of their this problem head-on-by changing their work r~les system of graft and piece-off and shakedown gone. and conditions of employment to meet nonunion They set up a clamor about the danger of unem­ standards. ·· Toronto mayoralty race ployment in the building trades, the terrible lack Some building trades unions have agreed to forgo In the Dec. 29 issue of The Militant, of low-cost housing, the crying need for urban re­ wage increases due under their contracts. Others have you quote Guerilla newspaper as development, and the plight of the urban poor. None accepted the wage scale at the beginning of a job supporting Jacquie Henderson for of these real problems have ever worried the con­ and agreed to hold to it until the job is completed. mayor of Toronto. The article was tractors, but they figured out that this was the best There have been agreements for Saturday work a news story of a debate between the way to regain their lost subsidies. without payment of overtime when the workweek candidates in which Jacquie Hender­ of course, under the old subsidies system low-cost is 40 hours or less, and some second-shift workers son participated. It did not indicate housing became high-cost housing, urban renewal get only straighttime. an official policy statement of the developed into urban blight, unemployment remained Contractors have \Jeen given the right to decide newspaper. a chronic feature of the industry, and the urban poor the size of crews for all types of work and to lay Our publicly stated endorsement of had no decent housing. But the builders and the off workers without regard to seniority. mayoralty candidates came after Nel­ loan sharks and the real estate promoters all got Tools to be used are decided by the contractor. son Clarke, Communist Party candi­ fat at the taxpayers' expense. Consequently all types of power tools. have been date for mayor of Toronto, entered The temporary freeze of housing subsidies, urban brought onto the job without regard for safety or the race. At that time Guerilla news­ renewal funds, water and sewer grants, open-space quality of work. paper ran a center-page endorsement grants, and public facility loans will aggravate the These are some of the nonunion standards that of both Henderson and Clarke. This acute social crisis. But the bankers and builders union officials are now accepting. They are not accep­ does not in any way indicate or en­ were assured that they would be taken care of as table to union building t:tadesmen who often find their courage divisiveness. On the con­ usual. Romney gave first the bad news, then the own ways to get back what is being taken away from trary, at this point we firmly believe good. Obligations that have accumulated over the them. in a working coalition of the left that years under HUD's community development pro­ This is all part of the agreement, signaled by the must supersede ideological differ­ grams total more than $5.5-billion and will reach recent return of Meany & Associates to the National ences. $7 .3-billion by the end of June. Romney said that Commission on Productivity, to join the government The Guerilla Collective despite the freeze these obligations will be met. drive to raise the hourly output per worker in all Toronto, Canada Among the many benefits for contractors that come industries. with government manipulation of financing in the The AFL-CIO building and construction trades chaotic construction industry is a vise-like grip on department will map plans for a national campaign the building trades unions. Utilizing competitive bid­ to speed up production at its Feb. 12 meeting in The letters column is an open forum ding on federally funded projects,. the contractors Miami Beach. for all viewpoints on subjects of gen­ have slipped out of their obligations under union Right now it looks to the big General Contractors eral interest to our readers. Please agreements. Instead of getting labor only from union Association like there can be no cloud without a keep your letters brief. Where neces­ hiring halls, they have begun hiring nonunion work­ golden lining. But they haven't yet seen the real sary they will be abridged. Please in­ ers in large numbers. storm clouds. dicate if your name may be used or if you prefer that your initials be used instead.

THE MILITANT/JANUARY 26, 1973 .7 The Great Society Harry Ring

The march of science- A Swedish doc­ cent and vetoed another to -provide proved. If it can, Ingram said, he main a dime. Instead, the weight will tor reports he has placed the death needy children hot lunches. would have all the Metroliner cars be reduced eight percent, down to a beds of terminal patients on highly put through the shops at a cost of hefty 1.26 ounces. sensitive scales and found that the And don't walk around too much­ $20-million."- United Transporta­ scale needle dropped 21 grams­ New York researchers report that tion Union News. Progress report- Writing in the Los about three-quarters of an ounce­ acidic soot from cars disintegrates ny­ Angeles Times, a local meat processor as the patients died and their souls lon stockings and pantyhos.e. They ad­ Who researches the researchers?­ takes umbrage over the notion that left their bodies. Which sounds per­ vise wearers, "Never, never stand in Eight tobacco companies chipped in the American hot dog has deterio­ fectly reasonable, our only question back of your automobile exhaust pipe $2.8-million for a five-year Harvard rated, quality-wise, over the years. In being whether the souls were able to when the engine is on." study on the role of tobacco in var­ 1928, he reports, the average frank depart without stopping at the cash­ ious diseases. The grant, a coffin-nail contained about 12 percent protein, ier's office. On the right track, we'd say-"A mar­ pusher explained, reflects "the insis­ 28 percent fat, and 60 percent water. tini was spilled so Metroliner cars go tence of the tobacco industry to help Today, he reports, the breakdown is Just doing his job-A friend with an to the shop. J. W. Ingram, head of find answers to many questions about just about the same. And, he might apparently deep-seated hostility to­ the Federal Railroad Administration, smoking and health." We hear Nixon well have added, that doesn't even ward public servants felt we should said he knew the service wasn't up is giving the school a grant to find include the new chemicals. say something disparaging about Cal­ to par when the cocktail dashed out out who's bombing Vietnam. ifornia's Governor Reagan merely be­ of his glass the last time he rode the News of the week- A Brookings In­ cause he closed out 1972 by signing train to Washington. He had two cars The sweet approach- Even though the stitute study found that the social se­ a bill to increase the wages of mem­ take~ out of service and stripped to Price Commission approved an in­ curity tax structure is unfair to low­ bers of the state legislature 10 per- see if the spring system could be im- crease, the dime Hershey bar will re- and middle-income wage earners.

By Any Means Necessary Baxter Smith A national plot to kill cops? The recent "Battle of New Orleans" revived claims through the Black communities questioning anyone Several major cities, including New Orleans, by top police officials that there is a nationwide who looked like a "Black militant." Daley later have special bands of elite cops whose job is to plot to murder cops. On Jan. 8, shortly after the admitted that this "army" was not an organized "stop crime." Operating mainly in the Black com­ shoot-out with a sniper or snipers- it is unclear group but that "anybody who espoused that munities, these bands have frequently committed how many there were since several of the cops philosophy we speak of as Black Liberation Army." provocative and questionable acts in the name of who were killed or wounded were apparently hit New Orleans tops are now carrying out a similar "law enforcement." by fellow officers- Louisiana Attorney General sweep through the Black community, and accord­ The actions of these elite cops have drawn wide William Guste asked to meet with U.S. Attorney ing to press reports, have arrested and "questioned" criticism from Blacks. The Southern University of General Richard Kleindienst. many Black suspects. New Orleans Observer commented in its October Guste wanted to discuss his belief that a Black The 23-year-old sniper in New Orleans, whose issue, "The police department is apparently shocked terrorist group was involved in the New Orleans body was riddled by 100 bullets fired from a at tp.e Black community's outrage concerning this gun battle and confer with Kleindienst on how to helicopter gunship, was motivated by Black rage, 'service'. Many citizens of the white community handle it. rage ignited by two years of racist abuse in the have jumped down the throats of Black state legis­ The alarm was quickly echoed in Congress. "new" Navy. lators who· have voiced the Black community's Senator Richard Schweiker ( R-Pa.) said he would Nellie Essex, his mother, remarked at a news alarm and dismay. . . . . press for a bill making "cold-blooded assassina­ conference held by his family in Emporia, Kans., "Blacks see the F. A. S. [Felony Action Squad] tion attempts on policemen, firemen, or judicial "The Navy became Jimmy's [Mark James Essex, as another deadly tool of harassment and racism. officers a Federal crime." Arch witch-hunter Richard nicknamed Jimmy] own private hell.... In his Too many Blacks have been beaten and killed lchord (D-Mo. }, head of the House Internal own way he was trying to tell whites that Ameri­ mysteriously by elements of the police force in the Security Committee, also chimed in on this tune. can Blacks are not going to take it anymore." past. Yet, now we are expected to sit quietly as Mark Essex's mode of expressing his rage was harsh, overt tactics are implemented by the same Such cries of a "national conspiracy to murder futile and based on frustration. His mother said, force." policemen" are not new. A year ago in New York "I don't agree with the killings. But Jimmy wanted There is no war on police by Black militants. City, two cops were killed and New York Deputy change. And talking hasn't done any good. He The recent police murder of two Black students Police Commissioner Robert Daley tried to whip was pushed to this. I knew something was going at Southern University at Baton Rouge, police up a racist hysteria in response. He declared that to happen." frame-ups of Black militants, brutal suppressions a group known as the Black Liberation Army, But we must understand the real intent of the of ghetto rebellions, and murderous raids on Black which he claimed was made up of "hardened cop "plot" wolf cries of Guste and the others. They want Panther headquarters (two have occurred in New killers," was responsible. to turn reality on its head a'nd help legalize further Orleans) and other Black liberation groups across New York cops organized a dragnet and swept abuse of individual rights. the country is the reality.

The American Way of Life Michael Baumann Wisdom from the White House "The Bible," Billy Graham once confided to the "I've been blessed with a strong physical makeup. Nor can decisions be affected by the demonstrators public, "teaches that the policeman is an agent ... You know, I've never had a headache in my outside." and servant of God.... " Graham, the president's life and my stomach never bothers me." Self-assessment: "I am probably more objective­ adviser in spiritual matters, doesn't give many On objectivity: "I could go up the wall watching ! don't mean this as self-serving- than most other interviews these days. Neither does his boss. TV commentators. I dpn't. I get my news from the leaders.... " It was something Of an occasion then when Nixon news summary the staff prepares every day and Equanimity under fire: " ... there are so many granted two special interviews recently, one Dec. it's great.... " emotional issues these days, such as the war and 20, the other Jan. 8, the eve of his sixtieth birth­ Reporters: " ... when Henry Kissinger comes busing and welfare. But I never allow myself to get day. Ground rules for both were explicit: keep it in here in the morning and brings up what Scotty emotional." short, no embarrassing questions about Vietnam. Reston and other columnists are saying, I tell Life in the White House: "The presidency has Apparently troubled by the thought that the him, 'Henry, all that matters is that it comes out many problems but boredom is the least of them." Christmas-time terror bombing of Hanoi and Hai­ all right. Six months from now, nobody will re­ Some of the reporters who have to cover these phong may have obscured other sides of his per­ member what the columnists wrote.'" presidential monologues do get bored, however. sonality, Nixon focused both interviews on per­ Other pests: "The major weakness of inexperi­ At a Jan. 9 White House briefing, Sara McClendon sonal concerns. Here are a few of the highlights. enced people is that they take things personally, of the El Paso Times asked if Nixon couldn't go While Harry Truman used to boast that atom especially in politics. . . . Decision-makers can't beyond such "froth" and express at least "a birth­ bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki never cost him be affected by current opinion, by TV barking day wish." a night's sleep, Nixon seems more proud of the away at you and commentators banging away "It's his birthday," a press aide snapped. "He fact that Vietnam never gave him an upset stomach: with the .idea that World War III is coming.... can express what he wants to."

8 Demands life imgrisonment Attica Rockefeller·s drug plan not a d~te~ants solution to addiction & crime win ba_ll By CAROLINE LUND tinction. Since almo•t all heroin are allowing !hi• [drug rraf!ic)lo hap- reductions "With deep understanding and good addicts are driven to become pushers pen? Are they going to get life?" By BAXTER SMITH will ... with love as our guJding in· order to make money to support State Senator Joseph Zaretzki pub- JAN. 17 -A Warsaw County, New principle.... " These are the words their habit, the bill would virtually licly admitted that "apparently New York, judge today reduced the bail New York Governor Nelson Rocke- make addiction a crime. York City is the greatest pusher of for seven men indicted by a grand feller used to motivate his recommen- It would give police the go-ahead all," refering to the recent discovery jury last month for their alleged role dation to the state legislature for man- to further victimize addicts-as many that policemen had stolen some 300 in the September 1971 Attica prison ditory life imprisonment of convicted as half of whom are Black or Spanish- pounds of cocaine and heroin from revolt pushers of"hard drugs." speaking. Police agents could more a vault in the New York police head- The seven are former prisoners who Rockefeller's proposal, made in his easily entrap addicts by posing as quarters. were recently picked up on charges "State of the State" speech to the New users and asking to buy the illegal In its fin.al report after a two-year stemming from the uprising. Most had York legislature on Jan. 3, also in- drugs. investigation of the city police force, their bail reduced to $500 from orig- cludes: mandatory life imprisonment Second, even the state Commission the Knapp Commission concluded inal bonds that ranged as high as for anyone who commits a violent on Evaluation of the Drug Laws, Dec. 27 that a "sizable majority" of $50,000. crime "under the influence of hard which Rockefeller himself set up, criti- New York City police are corrupt More than 60 prisoners and former drugs"; and end to plea bargaining cized the proposed legislation for It documented cop involvement in vir- prisoners were named in the 37 sealed (pleading guilty to a lesser charge in lumping hashish, a form of mari- tually every conceivable type of or- indictments. The grand jury, which is order to get a lighter sentence); no juana, which is nonaddictive, in with ganized crime, including big-time her- still in session, has been investigating parole except for defendants under 19 heroin, amphetamines, LSD, and oin traffic. the revolt for more than a year and years old, who would become eligible "other dangerous drugs." A presi- The commission also reported evi- may issue more indictments. None of for parole after 15 years; no dential commission as well as other dence that high-ranking police and the indictments has named a guard suspended sentences; and a $1,000 investigations have come out in city officials knew of this police role or state trooper. but did nothing about it. The charges range from possession The role of the Lindsay administra- of prison contraband to murder. The tion in promoting heroin traffic is par- three men charged with murder are alleled by the activities of the federal John Hill, Mariano Gonzalez, and government. Alfred W. McCoy's book Charles Pernasilice. Most of the others The Politics of Heroin in Southeast are charged with coercion and assault. Asia documents U.S. government pro- Some, like Richard X Clark, are tection of the heroin rackets of its pup- charged with kidnapping, and face pet regimes in Indochina. Last month life sentences. it was discovered that drugs were be- The brutality of these indictments ing shipped into the U.S. inside cas- can be seen in one particular case. kets and even inside the bodies of James Richey, a former prisoner, was dead Gis from Southeast Asia, ob- charged with 48 felonies, including viously with the participation of high five assault charges, three each of co- officials in the U. S. armed forces. ercion and unlawful imprisonment, Black, Puerto Rican, and Chicano and 37 counts of kidnapping. activists have good cause to suspect The fact that all of the indictments that the rulers of this country are issued so far are against prisoners consciously promoting the use of her- drew sharp criticism from many. Even oin in the Black and Spanish-speak- Time magazine hit the indictments in ing communitie~ in an attempt to lull a Jan. 8 article entitled "Attica: Who's these oppressed peoples into passivity. to Blame?" " ... there has been one Heroin addiction, like alcoholism, striking omission. Though all 39 men is a medical problem, and addicts who died in the recapture of Attica must be provided with medical treat- were killed by official bullets, no guard ment, not incarceration. Addiction will or state trooper has yet been charged only be ended by eliminating the so- with anything." Rockefeller drug proposal would throw thousands of addicts, many of whom are Black cial conditions that foster it-the pov- The report of the McKay commis- and Puerto Rican, behind bars instead of providing them with medical help. erty, unemployment, racial discrimi- sion . also stands at odds with the nation, and alienation of this capital- grand jury's indictments. This com- ist system. mission was the state-appointed body reward for anyone who turns in an support of legalization or decriminali­ A crucial step must be the fight by created to investigate the revolt. addict or pusher. zation of marijuana. Blacks and Spanish-speaking people It charged that the entire "rescue" Similar reactionary legislation has Other opponents of the bill have to control their communities, includ- plan was faulty and could not have been proposed recently in at least five pointed to the legal inequities it con­ ing the police. With the power to de- saved the lives of hostages. It pointed other states across the country. In New tains. For instance, the law would cide how best to cope with heroin out that the state troopers acted like York, however, the problem of drugs mean that a person who committed addiction and crime, the communities "righteous vigilantes." The type of guns and crime is particularly acute, since a robbery after taking heroin or could implement the necessary medi- and ammunition they used made approximately half of the estimated speed would be subjected to a harsher cal treatment programs. Massive al- death and serious injury inevitable. 500,000 heroin addicts in the coun­ sentence than a person who committed locations of federal funds under com- The troopers supposedly had orders try live in New York City. the same crime under the influence of munity control should be provided to fire only at inmates engaged in As many commentators have noted, alcohol or without taking drugs. for this purpose. "overt, hostile acts." Nevertheless, it is likely that Rockefeller introduced New York "corrections commis­ Such steps constitute the beginnings filmed accounts showed unprovoked this proposal with such a fanfare in sioner" vanden Heuvel expressed the of a program for dealing with this gunfire. The commission found that order to bolster his tough, law-and­ concern of some government figures immense social problem. They run after the assault, prisoners were made order image. It is possible he designed that the bill would simply make for directly counter to Rockefeller's reac- to run the gauntlet and were viciously it as part of his bid for a fifth term too many prisoners. He noted that if tionary proposals. beaten. It also found that even after as governor next year. Rockefeller's bill had been in effect the initial assault was over, two pris­ The proposal met with immediate last year there would now be at least oners were shot to death -by guards. condemnation and criticism from a 10,000 people who would have been The total inhumanity ef the state's wide spectrum of New Yorkers. One sent to prison for life, and billions attempt to prosecute these prisoners drug rehabilitation worker, for would have to be spent to enlarge the was further underscored on Dec. 28, example, noted the repressive nature prison system. when, only four hours after indict­ of the bill: "This was his [Rockefeller's] Spokesmen for the Lindsay adminis­ ments were read against him, Ernest position on Attica. This is how he tration have criticized the Rockefeller Bixby tried to hang himself in his solves all problems." bill by pointing out that New York cell rather than face further humilia­ Even William vanden Heuvel, chair­ laws are stringent enough, but that tion and victimization. man of the New York Board of Cor­ enforcement has been "shamefully The court has set the week of Jan. rections, commented ironically: "Mr. weak." Current laws prescribe a man­ 29 for arraignment of those indicted. Rockefeller lost his nerve. He should datory penalty of 15 years to life have consulted further with his friend, for selling more than a pound of the Shah of Iran, and ordered the exe­ heroin or other illegal drugs. cution of addicts." This· criticism is especially ironic The bill is clearly aimed against coming from Lindsay. His administra­ addicts, not big-time narcotics dealers, · tion and its police force have been and it treats addiction as a criminal responsible for protecting the big-time matter rather than a medical and heroin traffic in the city. social problem. As Wallace Andrews, a block asso­ First of all, it would prescribe a ciation director in Harlem, put it, mandatory life sentence for both small­ "Who is going to deal with the State Nelson Rockefeller time and big-time pushers, with no dis- Senator or the police lieutenant who

THE MILITANT/JANUARY 26, 1973 9 Chicago schools closed Striking teachers gain support Ph illy By BOB KISSINGER Healey said that gains would have dren would be allowed in these teachers CHICAGO, Jan. 15- Public school to be made in the areas of welfare schools. So, for the past three work­ teachers here have been on strike for of children, teachers' rights, and wages days, the board has been throwing six days, with the prospect of many before a settlement could be reached. away money by paying scab teachers firm as more to come. to sit in empty classrooms. The Chicago Teachers Union, Local The union's major demands include: The union and PUSH held a joint 1 of the American Federation of a 2.5 percent wage increase, more meeting commemorating the birthday strike Teachers, AFL-CIO, held its second money for classroom supplies, more of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which strike rally Jan. 14 at McCormick preparation time for elementary was designed to broaden support for Place. The CTU counts 21,000 of school teachers, a guaranteed 38-week the strike in the Black community. continues Chicago's 25,000 public school school year, extension of class size To date, neither Democratic Chicago By DONALD KENNEDY teachers in its ranks. The rally was limits to all elementary schools and Mayor Richard Daley nor newly PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16 -Public attended by 1,500 teachers, about the all high school subjects, and teacher elected Democratic Governor Daniel school teachers here remain on strike same number that attended an earlier participation in instituting new pro­ Walker has promised the necessary in the second week of a walkout by rally. The strike has been 90 to 95 grams in the schools. funds to meet the teachers' demands. the Philadelphia Federation of Teach­ percent effective. The board of education's response The CTU, one of the strongest sup­ ers ( PF T). Yesterday the board of Messages of support came from to the strike has been to close all porters of Walkers' campaign in 1972, education acknowledged that 90 per­ striking teachers in Philadelphia and schools but one in each of the 27 got only vague promises from the cent of the city's 13,000 public school Buffalo, and from Albert Shanker of districts. The purpose of these "scab" new governor. teachers were observing the strike. New York's United Federation of schools is to "serve" teachers who Walker has insisted that Mayor School officials claim that 230 of the Teachers. "want to exercise their right to abstain Daley use federal revenue-sharing 280 schools in Philadelphia are now Lester Davis, editor of the Chicago from the strike," according to James funds to meet the school crisis. Daley open, but union sources point out that Teacher, reported to the rally on the Redmond, superintendent of schools. claims these funds are all earmarked most are staffed by skeleton crews status of the "alternate schools." The'se Redmond pointed out that no chil- for other projects. of administrators and substitute teach­ schools have been· organized by the ers and are "open" more in name than CTU in cooperation with PUSH in fact. (People United to Save Humanity), The board of education is demand­ a civil rights organization led by the ing that the te~chers accept a longer Reverend Jesse Jackson, for children workday, larger classes, and the elim­ who wish to attend school during the ination of 385 teaching jobs. The strike. The alternate schools are in­ union is opposing any changes in tended to make clear that the teachers working conditions and is demanding are striking against the school board a 6.2 percent pay increase this year. and not against the parents and chil­ The board's offer amounts to a cut dren. in real wages over the course of the The CTU has also received the sup­ three-year contract. port of unions representing janitors, The union has announced its inten­ firemen, and engineers, who have tion to defy a court injunction order­ pledged not to cross the teachers' ing teachers back to work. Union picket lines. leaders said they were willing to go CTU leader Robert Healey ad­ to jail rather than return to work with­ dressed the rally to explain the present out a contract, as they have done state of the negotiations. He reported since a 22-day strike. last September. that the board has so far agreed to The board, afraid of hardening the drop its proposal to fire 1,200 teachers strikers' resistance, has not yet pressed and increase current class loads. It the courts to enforce the injunction. has also promised to restore some of A broad spectrum of community the other provisions of the 1972 con­ groups have appealed to Mayor tract. Chicago teachers at Jan. 14 strike rally Militant/Bob Kissinger Frank Rizzo, a Democrat and former police chief, to supply more funds for tlie schools, primarily through in­ creasing business taxes. Rizzo has flat­ ly refused, declaring "not one nickel" Detroit schools: more tax, less aid? will go to the teachers. He said it By LEE ARTZ on Detroit residents. But even without so that necessary financial support would be "all right," however, for po­ DETROIT- The state and city boards the new tax, Detroit already has the is provided." lice and firemen to get a 5.5 percent of. education have yet to come up highest tax rate in Michigan. And Even the DFT, which is directly af­ wage increase this year. with a way to avoid closing the public Bursley himself pointed out that "in fected by the threatened shutdown, has · Approximately $130,000 a day is schools here in March. The shutdown the past 10 years the share of city done no more than call for a ''blue­ being spent to station extra police at will affect 300,000 students and 11,- tax collections going to Detroit schools ribbon committee of business, educa­ all city schools "to guarantee the safe­ . 000 teachers. has decreased 60 percent." tors, and the community." ty of those going in and out," accord­ Faced with a Feb. 1 deadline for The city board passed a resolution It is clear that none of these pro­ ing to police officials. renewing the contract with the Detroit Dec. 26 "urging" the city government posals will solve the school crisis for The PF T has received expressions Federation of Teachers (DFT) and to "divert $28.2-million of city tax any length of time. The r'esidents of of support from the International an $80-million deficit, which must be revenue to schools." Detroit Mayor Detroit's Black community will pay Brotherhood of Teamsters and the overcome to complete the school year, Roman Gribbs, a Democrat, re­ heavily in higher taxes or drastic re­ Building and Construction Trades the Detroit school board is desperately sponded, "I want to help in any way ductions in the already poor education Council. The Philadelphia AFL-CIO looking for a way out. So far it has I can, but not with city financial as­ offered Black youth, or both. is reported to be discussing plans for a labor rally in support of the strike. only come up with patchwork solu­ sistance." The city controller claimed A real solution would begin not with One result of the strike has been a tions. increased aid to schools would mean a coalition of big businessmen but with small shake-up in the local AFL-CIO On Dec. 13 the Michigan legislature either massive layoffs and cutbacks a coalition of parents, students, and bureaucracy. Last week the PFT offered the board $16-million in emer­ in municipal services or a substantial the D F T-the victims of the crisis. brought charges of strikebreaking gency funds, one-fifth of the amount income tax increase for city residents. Such a coalition would demand an against board of education President needed just to stay afloat. Detroit received $57.1-million from end to the financing of schools by William Ross, who has been the vice­ A week later, the state board of federal government revenue sharing the property tax. The increasing num­ president of the Philadelphia AFL-CIO education offered its solution in a for 1972, which lasted until July of ber of students and falling property Council since 1960. Ross is also gen­ series of three recommendations: 1) last year. Since then the city has been values in the city mean that an urban eral manager of the Joint Council of centralize the eight regional school spending 1973 funds. The city con­ school system funded by property the International Ladies' Garment boards; 2) stop the subsidy of $4- troller revealed that with only $48- taxes is going to be grossly inferior Workers' Union and vice-president of million from school property tax to million in revenue sharing funds left to a suburban system. the Pennsylvania State AFL-CIO the Detroit Public Library; and 3) for 1973, the city budget already has Such a coalition would demand that Council. He responded to the charge end the teachers' salary equivalency a built-in deficit. the state and federal government di­ by resigning from the local council. with the seven surrounding school dis­ The city school board's latest move rectly finance urban education to en­ tricts. (The equivalency formula had was to establish an education task sure equality. Moreover, it would de­ been the basis for Detroit teacher con­ force. It will be financed by donations mand Black control of schools in the tracts until 1971, when the DFT ac­ from a group of businessmen headed Black community and call for sub­ cepted a "no-raise" contract.) by Stanley Winkelman, owner of an stantial city, state, and federal taxa­ In response to the state board's re­ exclusive department store chain in tion of the wealth produced by port, State Senator Bursley from Am~ Michigan. Winkelman's first step was working people but controlled by the Arbor announced plans to introduce to request $500,000 to accomplish the auto corporations and other big busi­ a~bill to impose a special state tax goal of "renewing public confidence nesses in Michigan.

10 Wage ~ueeze won't be 'voluntary~ Phase 3 controls: same wine in new bottle By ED SMITH Jan. 13. Many prices were being raised working class. They only claim to rep­ The immediate job of this new gov­ JAN. 15 -President Nixon's "Phase within a day of President Nixon's an­ resent their unions. In practice they ernment-appointed labor-management 3" program of economic controls is nouncement of the new plan. General try hardest to protect their own privi­ committee is to negotiate a wage pat­ billed as a big change. Mandatory Motors announced it would wait may­ leges as union bureaucrats, and after tern that can then be imposed on the controls are supposedly replaced by be a month, but not much longer, be­ that, the interests of the union bureau­ five million workers whose union con­ voluntary controls. Business can raise fore putting through price increases cracy as a privileged group. tracts expire this year and who are prices and workers can raise wages. averaging $107 per car. The composition of this Nixon-ap­ expecting wage increases to offset the This is a fraud. The Phase 3 program explicitly ex­ pointed Labor-Management Advisory rising cost of living. The administration's new economic cludes raw food prices, although they Committee dictates the agreements it Meany and his "labor" associates control program is aimed at holding are increasing at the most rapid rate will reach and the advice it will give. on the Labor-Management Advisory back wage increases in 1973. More in 26 years. It also relaxes controls The substantive decisions will ac­ Committee are preparing to come be­ than five million workers will be in­ on supermarket prices, "in line with tually continue to be made by the fore the union movement, as they did volved in contract negotiations this what the stores wanted," according to Cost of Living Council with a new year, including the electrical, rubber, theJan. 14 New York Times. director, John T. Dunlop. This Har­ trucking, rail, and auto industries. Phase 3 merely exhorts landlords to vard economics professor has gained These settlements will take place un­ pursue "excessive restrainf in raising esteem in financial circles for his role der government pressure to keep wage rents. in heading the Construction Industry increases within limits set by the newly Phase 3 looks the same or worse to Stabilization Committee (CISC). created Labor-Management Advisory workers because the monopolists who "In the past year," according to the Committee. rule this country have the same aims Jan. 13 Business Week, "the CISC Treasury Secretary George Shultz now as they did before. The aims are brought down construction union told a White House news conference to make American workers pay for wage settlements to levels not far out that the government retains "an ability the problems of increased competition of line with those in other industries, to bring the stick out of the closet ... in world markets. This requires dimin­ at times ordering cuts of up to $1 an people who don't abide by the pro- ishing the gap between the wages of hour in settlements." American and foreign workers. Dunlop is supposed to repeat this achievement for the ruling class on a Main hope bigger scale. The greatest hope of the Nixon ad­ The union bureaucrats have been ministration for the success of this pulled in only to fill chairs and nod AFL-CIO head Meany calls Phase 3 'step stepped-up attack on living standards approval after the decisions have been in the right direction.' The five million is the newly appointed Labor-Manage­ made by Dunlop's council. "Meany workers whose contracts come up this year ment Advisory Committee. This is the Calls Phase 3 Plan Step in the Right won't be feeling that way. 10-member panel selected by Nixon to Direction," was the headline ofMeany's keep wages in check while prices sky­ newspaper, the AFL-CIO News, Jan. rocket and the bosses turn the screws 13. Meany expressed the hope that last year when they were on the gov­ to increase productivity. the changeover "will result in an 'equi­ ernment Pay Board, and argue that Members of the committee are equal­ table and fair method of combating they are doing their best "on the in­ ly divided, five from the highest circles inflation," said the newspaper. side" to get a fair shake for the of finance and industry and five care­ Woodcock said that "voluntary re­ workers. fully selected union bureaucrats. The straint on prices and wages has long Union men and women will gain management spokesmen are bona fide been a goal of the UAW," according nothing from their efforts. They have Nixon's economic adviser Shultz: ' ... peo­ and will faithfully promote the class no need of '"inside" agents who seek ple who don't abide by the program may interests of the employers. to help solve the economic problems get clobbered.' They represent powerful concentra­ of the employers by providing a stable tions of capital: James Roche for Gen­ and docile work force. eral Motors, R. Heath Larry of U.S. The union movement was organized gram may get clobbered." Steel; Stephen Bechtel for shipping and to defend the wo.rking class against And it is workers, not industry, who construction; Edward Carter of the the ·attacks of the employers. It has will get "clobbered" under the new pro­ Broadway-Hale retail chain; and Wal­ no need of "inside" operators. What gram. Its key provisidn allows cor­ ter Wriston, chief of the powerful First it needs is leaders who will fight now porations to change the base years National City Bank. to break the back of the government in determining profit margins for per­ The other five advisers are supposed wage-control system, to . defend the mitted price increases. Under the lo represent the interests of workers. right to strike for higher wages, and Phase 2 program companies were pro­ Nixon selected them from the highest to demand an escalator clause in hibited from raising prices if the re­ rungs of the union bureaucracy with every contract as a guaranteee that sulting profits exceeded an average an eye to their proven dependability wages will rise automatically with of the best two of three previous fis­ to negotiate "statesman-like" wage every jump in the cost of living. cal years ending before Aug. 15, 1971. settlements. This is not a fight that can be suc­ This period included recession years cessfully conducted by individual They are AFL-CIO President George Teamster President Fitzsimmons has stuck in which many companies had lower unions in different industries, isolated Meany, Teamsters President Frank E. with Nixon's wage control schemes all profits. from the power of the combined union Fitzsimmons, Auto Workers President the way. The Phase 3 program extends the Leonard Woodcock, Steelworkers movement. It is a fight that requires period to include the best two profit President I. W. Abel, and newly arrived mobilizing all unions. years of 1968 through 1972. Cor­ Nixon toady Paul Hall, who is presi­ to the Jan. 12 Chicago Sun-Times. The central purpose of the govern­ porate profits reached record highs dent of the Seafarers International The game involves some negotia­ ment's Labor-Management Advisory in 1972 and were generally high in Union. tions at the Advisory Board level, Committee is to prevent such a mobili­ 1968 and 1969. Unlike their counterparts, who are much like the negotiations that man­ zation. The first step to bring the "Surge of Price Increases Forecast authentic representatives of the em­ agement and the union bureaucracy forces of labor together in their own by Businessmen" was the headline of ploying class, these five do not pro­ conduct on a continuing basis in such self-defense is to mobilize to get these a front-page New York Times article fess to represent the interests of the major industries as auto and steel. "inside men" out.

Working people, who have seen their increase in November. control scheme is shown by the Labor paychecks eaten into by rising food These wholesale price increases will Department report that wholesale Price rise costs over the past year, are in for be passed on to retailers and then prices rose at an annual rate of 6.6 an even worse year in terms of rising to consumers. Thus the Agriculture percent during the 14 months of the prices. Department is forecasting even greater Phase 2 controls, whereas the whole­ highest The Department of Labor has re­ supermarket price rises than it had sale price rise was only 5.2 percent ported that wholesale prices rose in previously predicted. in the eight months before controls • December at a seasonally adjusted an­ The Labor Department reported were imposed. . s1nce nual rate of 19.2 percent This was that during 1972 farm prices rose by These soaring price increases are the largest increase since 1951, when 18.7 percent and prices for processed accompanied by the dropping of fed­ the beginning of the Korean War food and feeds by 11.6 percent These eral rent controls, greater taxes with­ brought about a rapid inflation. were the biggest increases since 1950. held from paychecks for Social Secu­ Korean The greatest price increases were Under Nixon's Phase 3 controls, rity, and in many areas, rising utili­ for food- one of the largest and most prices at the farm level are still ex­ ty prices. essential parts of the family budget empt from controls, and new regula­ To protect themselves against this War of working people. Wholesale food tions will have the effect of decreas­ skyrocketing cost of living, workers prices rose in December at a season­ ing controls for food processors and need to guard their right to strike ally adjusted annual rate of 62.4 per­ distributors. for adequate wage increases, with no cent. This was three times the rate of The total fraud of Nixon's price government interference.

THE MILITA~T/JANUARY 26, 1973 11 Israeli socialists call for solidarity 'La Migra' JAN. 18 -As we go to press we have The Israeli government used the (Rakah) has been the target of simi- learned of a mounting campaign of Dec. 10 announcement of an alleged lar attacks because one of the arrested frames· repression in Israel. We received an "Syrian spy ring" as a pretext to ar- "spies" is the son of a Rakah Knesset appeal dated Jan. 9 from the Israeli rest dozens of Israeli and Palestinian (parliament) deputy. Palestinian res- Socialist Organization (Matzpen- militants. Many taken into custody idents of Israel who attempt to par- Chicano Marxist), the Israeli supporters of the have been beaten and tortured. ticipate alongside Israeli Jews in anti- Fourth International. Zionist organizations h_ave been still The appeal describes "an all-out Four of those charged as "spies" another target of this repression. activist were members of the Revolutionary Matzpen has appealed to supporters By MIRTA VIDAL Linda Jenness of Socialist Work­ Communist Union, an anarchist of democratic rights and opponents Many Chicanos and Mexicans hate ers Party and Andrew Pulley of grouping that split from Matzpen in of Zionism around the world to dem- "La Migra," the special cops assigned 1970. The government used their con­ Young Socialist Alliance protest onstrate their opposition to this witch­ to police the long border with Mex­ nection with the anti-Zionist left in hunt campaign by holding demon­ ico. An incident involving the Colo­ Israeli witch-hunt. See editorial Israel to launch a crackdown on anti­ strations, meetings, and other actions rado Raza Unida Party activist Brian on page 6. Zionist organizations, backed by a against the Israeli government. Sanchez shows how well-deserved this hysterical press campaign. sentiment is. effort of the Israeli authorities to wipe Matzpen has been one of the main They call on all organizations and Sanchez is serving a three-year sen­ out or at least greatly weaken the anti­ targets of the press campaign, despite individuals opposing these acts to tence in La Tuna federal prison near zionist left in Israel, and to prevent its declaration that "in no way can write letters of protest to Prime Min­ El Paso, Texas, on trumped-up by every means Arab activists in Is­ Socialism and Marxism be compatible ister Golda Meir. Copies of such pro­ charges of assaulting a federal officer rael from carrying on their political with the 'individualistic ,terror' and tests should be sent to ISO, P. 0. Box last Sept. 2. The events that day are work with anti-zionist organizations 'spy networks' of which the govern­ 22<34, Jerusalem, Israel. described in a recent press release in this country. (This is] a matter of ment accuses members of the 'Red Future issues of The Militant will from the Brian Sanchez Defense Fund. life and death for anti-zionist orga- Front.'" carry more information on the cam­ Sanchez, his wife, and nine other nizations and for the ISO." The pro-Moscow Communist Party paign against repression in Israel. Chicanos attending the national con­ vention of Raza Unida parties were returning to El Paso after a brief visit communist Party would r~ther forg~ to the Mexican city of Juarez. One member of, the group became con­ fused when questioned about his cit­ On-dropping the A-bomb, then and now izenship by a U.S. immigration of­ By DAVE FRANKEL On Aug. 7, 1945, the day after the on has been created. Production for ficer. According to the Chicano wit­ The outpouring of panegyrics prompt­ obliteration of Hiroshima, the Daily victory is still necessary in all fields, nesses, Sanchez offered to help. The ed by the death of Harry Truman Worker (the forerunner of the Daily as well as in the field of atomic officer told him to "shut up and move Dec. 26 was only to be expected. After World) ended its editorial with the bombs." on, boy." all, it would hardly do for the cap­ admonition that "The enemy [Japan] The cartoon below is reproduced Sanchez asserted, "I am a citizen, italist media to admit that the thirty­ has several times rejected unconditional from the editorial page of the Aug. and I have basic rights." The officer third president of the U. S. had or­ surrender. He must now feel the bomb­ 10, 1945, Daily Worker. It appeared answered, "l'he only rights you have dered the calculated slaughter at Hiro­ shell of the United Nations action. the day after the bombing of Naga­ are the rights this badge gives you." shima and Nagasaki for anything The enemy must be thoroughly saki. The officer pushed Sanchez and told other than humanitarian reasons. smashed.... " It would have been better for Art him to "get away." A second officer Nixon said of Truman: "He did The next day the Worker warned Shields and the Daily World to pass appeared and began to beat Sanchez. what had to be done, when it had that "The war is not over here at over the whole thing in silence. There's The witnesses report, "At this point to be done, and because he did the home, even though a vast new weap- already been enough hypocrisy. some of Brian's friends jumped be­ world is a better and safer place­ tween the officers and Brian. Brian and generations to come will be in and his friends were pushed out be­ Doily Worker his debt." Perhaps Nixon was think­ fore any other incidents could occur." ing of the recent refusal of William One of the Chicanos, Jose Calde­ Clements, his nominee for deputy sec­ ron, decided to file a complaint. How­ retary of defense, to rule out the use ever, as he and Sanchez were waiting of nuclear weapons in Vietnam. to do so, the officers locked both of Unfortunately, the mass murderers them in a building. One officer yelled, responsible for the war in Vietnam "We're gonna file charges against you, weren't alone in their hypocrisy. A boy." few days after Truman's death, the Soon a group of officers came into Daily World, the newspaper reflecting the room, handcuffed Sanchez, and the views of the Communist Party, took him away. As he was being car­ labeled him a "monster" and a man ried to a police car, Sanchez fell, along who lost "all sense of humanity" in with one of the officers. Another of­ using the atomic bomb. ficer lost his balance and also fell. Art Shields, writing in the Jan. 4 This gave them the excuse they need­ World, waxed particularly indignant. ed. Sanchez was slapped with three "It was hardest of all to excuse the charges of assaulting a federal officer. atomic massacres in Hiroshima and A quick trial was held. According Nagasaki," he wrote. Shields has a to the defense committee, the trial was short memory. conducted in a witch-hunt atmosphere. The prosecution cited evidence of San­ chez's political activity, his active membership in the Raza Unida Party. ~,000 at L.A. meeting The judge refused to grant a contin­ uance so the defense could prepare for the trial. Sanchez's jury of his Dockers oppose Teamster merger "peers" included not one Chicano. The More than 2,000 members of the Inter­ ficialdom, the fact that Teamsters Pres­ members take on the officers hour judge locked the Chicano witnesses national Longshoremen's and Ware­ ident Frank Fitzsimmons is the ''house after hour and the president himself in the courtroom until the jurors had housemen's Union jammed ILWU Lo­ labor flunky" of the Nixon adminis­ has to just take it? Our two unions time to get to their homes, lest "vio­ cal 13 headquarters in the Los An­ tration, and the current raiding of are totally different." lence" occur. geles harbor area on Jan. 11 to hear the United Farm Workers Union by The West Coast longshore union When Jose Calderon filed a com­ a report from the union's Internation­ the Teamsters. was born in the struggles of the 1930s plaint with the FBI in December, the al President Harry Bridges on the Curt Johnston, ILWU Local 13 and has since then managed to keep FBI quickly initiated an investigation. prospects of merger with the Team­ president, told the meeting that this alive the tradition of rank-and-file con­ Calderon told The Militant that soon sters union. All dock work on the L.A. was the chance for all members to trol even though the will of the mem­ after he filed the complaint he received harbor waterfront was halted for 24 get the facts about the merger out into bership has often been thwarted by a call from the FBI, who proceeded hours to ensure a full turnout at the the open since many felt that they the Bridges machine, which seized con­ to interrogate him about his political meeting. had too long been kept in the dark trol of the organization. activities. Bridges, a strong proponent of mer­ about Bridges's negotiations. Local Bridges long ago learned how to Among the questions he was asked ger, reported that he had finally re­ 26 President Paul Perlin said that a ride with the tide. He said the ILWU was whether he worked at Ames Col­ ceived a proposal from the Teamsters merger between the 60,000-member wants to become an autonomous "wa­ lege. A few days later Calderon was union after protracted negotiations but ILWU and the 2-million member terfront division" of the Teamsters fired from the college, with the ex­ that he had not at meeting time had Teamsters union "would be like a union, with the right to negotiate its planation that he was giving the col­ an opportunity to study the details. shark swallowing a sardine, and we'd own contracts and determine its own lege a bad name. be the sardine." jurisdiction. If these conditions are not An appeal on Sanchez's case will Despite the fact that Bridges's re-· Labor reporter Harry Bernstein of met, Bridges said, "then we will hold be sought in Fifth Circuit Court on port was vague and inconclusive, a the Los Angeles Times quoted an un­ an executive officers' meeting Jan. 30 the grounds that a "continuance was long list of speakers from the floor identified ILW U official who said of and just report that the negotiations disallowed." Funds for his defense are denounced the proposal as detrimen­ the meeting, "This is one of the real for a merger have failed."- urgently needed. Donations can be tal to the interests of longshoremen reasons why a merger with the Team­ A spokesman for Teamsters officials sent to the Brian Sanchez Defense in particular and the labor movement sters would never get passed by our was quoted as saying they "have no Fund, 1841 Athens St., Boulder, Colo. in general. They cited the dictatorial membership. Can you imagine a intention of giving the ILWU the kind 80302. practices of the Teamsters union of- Teamsters Union meeting where the of autonomy they are demanding."

12 A weekly international supplement to The Militant based on selections from Intercontinental Press, a newsmagazine reflecting the viewpoint of revolutionary socialism.

JANUARY 26, 1973

us. That doesn't happen in three days at one .convention. "They've got to become more famil­ Canada iar with our program and strategy." The Left Caucus program for the party was outlined to the delegates by Steve Penner of Toronto who polled close to 400 votes in a losing bid left Caucus has impact in labor party for the Party presidency, and by Heather Jon Moroney of Peterborough By Mark Gans Left Caucus helped to mobilize that the group's unsuccessful nominee for dissension against the leadership. party secretary. Penner was later [The following article is reprinted From the outset, the caucus sharply elected to the twenty-six-member pro­ from the December 25 issue of Labor polarized debate. It forced the party vincial executive, the sole representa­ Challenge, a revolutionary-socialist bi­ leadership to alter the first morning's tive of the Left Caucus to crack the. weekly published in Toronto. The New agenda by including a tWenty-minute tight leadership slate. Democratic Party is C~nada' s labor debate on Vietnam, which it used to "The leadership of this party has party. With 30 seats in 1- uliament, it win delegates to a motion opposing shown itself to be completely inade­ holds the balance of power between a Canadian peacekeeping force. quate to provide a clear socialist al­ the Liberals and the Progressive Con­ · Later in the convention, the caucus ternative to the bankrupt politics of servatives.] narrowly missed amending a leader­ the parties of the corporations," Pen­ ship proposal to increase the taxes ner charged. of the resource industry in favour of "During the federal election, David outright nationalization. Lewis said. the corporations were not The left wj.ng is alive and well in The caucus also carried strong de­ the enemy. the Ontario NDP [New Democratic bates on housing policy, where it "But ask the people of Northern Party]. posed public ownership of the housing Ontario who are faced with pillage Barely a half-year since the Waffle industry against the reformist leader­ of their resources by greedy corpora­ ship's feeble scheme to set up a land tions. was purged at Orillia, * the left re­ Lobar Chollenge/Arnie Mintz emerged with surprising vigor as the bank for urban development; on "Ask autoworkers faced with increas­ Left Caucus at the party's provincial women, where it urged the estal;llish­ Women's rights was key issue for Left ing speedups and worsening condi­ ment of a permanent NDP women's Caucus. Here, Left Caucus spokeswoman convention in Toronto, December 8- tions of work whether corporations commission to forge links between the Liz Barclay addresses convention. 10. are the enemy. · The left's unexpected strength, in the party and the women's liberation "Ask the people of Eastern Ontario movement and fight for women's wake of the exodus of the majority who are living in poverty because rights in the party; and on a pro­ of the Waffle from the party, clearly capitalism is unable to provide bal­ startled the party brass and the cap­ posed party anti-strikebreaking cam­ shepherded back into the fold, the lead­ anced and equitable growth who the italist media. paign, where it called for mass action ership's position carried, amid noisy enemy is," Penner stated. "Plainly it was the ghost of Christ­ by the workers going beyond the nar­ disruptions and protest from the floor. Moroney told delegates the first thing row confines of the leadership's parlia­ mas past. Embarrassingly it was the Discontent was also reflected in the she would do as party secretary would ghost of Christmas present, and, chill­ mentary lobbying. 300-400 votes the Left Caucus polled be "to request all ridings to immedi­ ingly for the NDP, it showed every The most contentious debate of the in debates and in voting for its nom­ ately link up with union locals, ten­ promise of being the ghost of Christ­ convention, however, was initiated out­ inees for party office, and in the mul­ ants, students, consumers, women's mas yet to come," commented the side of the Left Caucus, by a labor tiplicity of caucuses which character­ groups, and so on in their com­ 1bronto Globe and Mail. caucus of rank-and-file union militants ized the convention. In addition to munities and actively participate in seeking to ban parent labor organiza­ That was laying it on a bit thick. the Left and labor caucuses, there were their day-to-day struggles. tions from appointing delegates to But beneath the obvious desire of the separate caucuses of women, teachers, "We see the secretary encouraging NDP proceedings in the name of their media to create an exaggerated im­ and Franco-Ontariens, each of which a lively process of internal discussion pression of an NDP still bedevilled local affiliates. The resolution was had its own special grievances against and debate in the party-starting with aimed particularly at many Steelwork­ by a noisy, radical left, lay the recog­ the bureaucracy. the establishment of a weekly labor ers staff bureaucrats who are ap­ nition that the caucus was able to Unlike the past period, however, paper-and throwing the weight of pointed to conventions by the union consistently gain the support of almost when discontent was generalized polit­ the party behind the extraparliamen­ apparatus rather than by workers on a third of the convention's 1,300 dele­ ically around a single pole-the Waf­ tary movements and struggles that the job. gates. In two debates, on Vietnam fle-dissent at this convention was dif­ are exploding daily around us." and women's liberation, the Left Cau­ That this was striking at the heart fuse, expressed through a variety of In coming months, the caucus will cus position was able to carry the of the trade-union bureaucracy's con­ caucuses, and often organizational in systematically begin promoting its convention. trol of the party was evident from character, turning, for example, on ideas in the party. It plans to issue The mood of dissent and openness Lewis's later statement to a post-con­ questions of raising the party dues, a re~lax newsletter, convene a provin­ to socialist ideas among convention vention press conference that the res­ Lewis's "personality," and the weight cial conference of its supporters in delegates made a mockery of provin­ olution "represented a more serious of the trade unions in the party struc­ early 1973, and begin organizing cial leader Stephen Lewis's claim be­ challenge to the party than the Waffle ture. While caucus influence radiated across the country in preparation for fore the convention that "internal dif­ had." through the convention, its meetings the next federal NDP convention. ficulties were a thing of the past." The That recognition underlay Lewis's of 75-100 delegates were considerably Its future would appear to lie pri­ ID-timed and arrogant intervention smaller than those held by the Waffle marily in the new generation of party into the debate after delegates had ap­ at the peak of its support. militants, many of whom surfaced for • Shortly after the passage of a motion proved the resolution. "I urge you Caucus organizers are confident, the first time in the various caucuses banning the left-wing Waffle Caucus, which was rammed through the Ontario to reconsider the matter," Lewis said, however, they will be able to organize at the convention. New Democratic party's provincial coun­ "because I don't think you realize what much of the sentiment they tapped They are, for the most part, young cil at a meeting held June 24 in Orillia you've done." during convention debates. workers, women's liberationists, teach­ (see Intercontinental Press, July 24, 1972), He followed this with an evening "It's a process," said Peter Horbatiuk ers, government workers, Franco-On­ a majority of the Waffle leadership split of intensive lobbying, and when the of Toronto Beaches-Woodbine riding, tariens, who have in some cases come from the NDP to form the Movement for convention reconvened the following one of the leading spokespersons of out of the storm centers of the class an Independent Socialist Canada. A large minority of the Waffle opposed the split morning, Chairman Gordon Vichert the Left Caucus. "Party members have struggle in Canada. They are looking and advocated continuing the fight within reopened debate by declaring that the to see us as a viable alternative to for radical answer13 to the explo-itation, the NDP against the ban and the reformist previous day's resolution had been the right-wing bureaucrats, rather than inequality, deism, and sexism that are policies of the Lewis leadership. -IP "out of order." With its strays safely as a ginger group, before they join built into capitalist society. 0 World Outlook W0/2

-e··--.·.·.·_·_>;,·.·.. ¥0 '~.~:· ·:-:¢/·:: Revolutionary workers alternative '>·".<, .._ .. =,... <- in the Argentine election campaign [The following are major excerpts to accomplish this, it was obliged to mg) the problem is who will guaran­ from an article describing the posi­ allow Per6n to return and to permit tee it. For not one sector of the bosses tion of the Argentine PST (Partido the participation, within certain limits, is capable, in the present circum­ Socialista de los Trabajadores-So­ of the Justicialist [Peronist] movement. stances, of adopting and carrying out cialist Workers Party) on the elections The comp-afieros who are followers a consistent policy of solving the prob­ scheduled for March. The PST, which of Per6n must ask themselves in a lems facing the people. Only the work­ will be on the ballot, initiated a broad completely candid way what prompt­ ers in power can do this. Workers Front (Frente Obrero) in­ ed Lanusse to allow the presence of We ask the parties of the bosses 'long live the workers candidates! The Wo volving rebel trade-union leaders and Per6n and the Justicialist movement, and their vario11S fronls and candi­ at the founding conference of the Frente Obren activists from around the country. The as well as why Per6n is declining to dates, who are promising us every­ party is offering 75 percent of the run, why he is joining with our worst thing under the sun if we vote for opportunity to do this. The PST's call possible candidacies to the Workers enemies, and why he is refusing to them: Why have you refused up to for the formation of a workers' front Front. struggle against the repression, hun­ now to initiate any mobilization of has coincided with the hopes of this [The. article is reprinted from the ger, and high prices. the working people in behalf of a vanguard, of hundreds of union com­ December 20 issue of the PST's weekly minimum [monthly) wage of 1,200 mittees, delegates, and activists­ newspaper, Avanzada Socialista. The· No Faith in False Promises pesos [U.S. $1 equals approximately many of them fired from their jobs­ translation is by Intercontinental 10 pesos] and freedom for all :e_ris­ and heroic union leaderships like that Press.] Our party is also intervening in the oners? of SITRAC-SITRAM [Sindicato de elections. By doing so, we are going Trabajadores Concord-Sindicato de In June 1969 in the city of Cor­ We are going to unmask all these Trabajadores Materfer- Concord doba, we began to say "Enough!" to to defend the small amounts of legal­ parties with the truth that only strug­ ity that the masses have won and Workers Union-Materfer Workers hunger, exploitation at the hands of gle and mobilization can guarantee Union], which led the Cordobazo. imperialism and the national bour­ respond to the challenge of the gov­ bread, dignity, and justice for the ernment and the bosses' parties. We Thus, we have been able to launch geoisie, persecution, torture, and also workers- never the promises made a workers' front in which the class­ to the sellout directives of the trade­ are taking part in the elections in by bourgeois military men and pol­ order to proclaim a very simple truth: struggle union vanguard, community union bureaucr.ats, who always em­ iticians. representatives active in the mass braced whatever government hap­ In the face of the economic disaster Not that we seek violence. We are mobilizations, and activists of various pened to be in power. Hundreds of in the country, which constitutes a working people and as such we suf­ organizations have come together. We strikes and mobilizations followed the merciless burden on the backs of the fer from brutal exploitation and per­ working people, there is no possibility are united around one, principled Cordobazo [the semi-insurrectional secution. Many of our brothers live of getting out of the situation without point, which differentiates us from all uprising that occurred in C6rdoba], in pigsties, earn miserable wages, and the other forces: Our candidates are engulfing entire cities in raising the removing the oligarchy, imperialism, have to watch their children die of neither generals, nor bosses, nor trade­ : demand for bread, dignity, and jus­ and the big national bourgeoisie from hunger and illness. We hope to change union bureaucrats, but workers elected tice for the workers. political and economic power. this state of affairs by getting rid of by the Workers' Front. While the We are far from having obtained All the · parties of the bosses are exploitation of man by man. And we trade-union bureaucrats are calling for these things. But the oligarchic and promising everything under the sun hope to accomplish this peacefully. support to Campora, and while every ·; imperialist dictator~hip, which had in exchange for our votes. Yet, under­ But we have learned that winning even front put together by the bosses is planned to rule for twenty years, had neath all their pompous phraseology, a pitiful increase in salary requires looking for a general or dignitary none of them are guaranteeing- real to renounce its plans, change its list a struggle, that to keep ourselves irom with links to the oligarchy or with of priorities, and call elections. Thus, solutions, none are calling for a show­ being .thrown out of the shacks we "progressive" credentials, the Workers' . it opened up the possibility of exercis­ down and a break with the oligarchy live in requires putting a whole mu­ Front has sought out the best fighters ing civil liberties, although it is main­ and imperialism, and none foresee a nicipality on a war footing, and that of the workers' movement and work­ taining a monstrous repressive appa­ reorganization of the country in the even the constitutional right to have ing-class communities, and the Partido ratus that threatens the life and free­ interests of the workers. But even when an election has to be taken by force Socialista de los Trabajadores has dom of the people's fighters. they do-demagogically-put for­ through Cordobazos, Tucumanazos, turned over 75 percent of its spots on · With the elections the regime is at­ ward some proposal that would bene­ Rosariazos, and Mendosazos. All the the ballot to these candidates. The tempting to divert us from our strug­ fit the workers (as when Alsogaray, more will we have to struggle to bring Workers' Front is the only movement gles by getting us to place our trust for instance, proposes an end to un­ about real solutions to the daily trag­ that is offering a solution to the great in electoral promises and to support employment, or when all the parties edy that is the life of the workers. problems facing the people. On the the various fronts put together by the of the bosses ·assure us that they will one hand, through its program it is old politicians of the bosses. In order defend the people's standard of liv- In the Election Campaign, Let's Build a Workers' and Socialist seeking -to reorganize the country to meet the needs of the workers. On Front the other hand, by _organizing the But we are also taking part in the workers on a trade-union and political elections in order to build a most basis, it is laying the groundwork necessary instrument: the workers' and for the future workers' and people's socialisHront. government that will be capable of For many years, the workers' move­ carrying out these solutions to the ment has been the captive of a trade­ problems of hunger, high prices, un­ union and political leadership that has employment, housing ~hortage, lack brought it defeat after defeat. of medical care, and imperialist and For years, thousands of working­ capitalist exploitation in general. class activists and leaders have been rebelling against this kind of leader­ This Campaign Will Give Us a ship and searching for an independent Chance to Build o Strong Work­ path to follow. Generally, they have ers' and Revolutionary Party been kept down by the weight of the government, the bosses, and the bu­ The elections have led to a small reaucracy, or else they remain in a subsidence in the struggles of the state of cautious expectation, knowing working people. While the bourgeois that if they take chances, they will parties are seeking frantically, by be crushed. In any case, this indepen­ making promises on all sides, to pro­ dent, antiboss, and antibureaucratic long this subsidence, we are certain vanguard is desperately looking for that the struggles will begin anew in a way to unite in order to create a the near future. new, alternative leadership for the But the indisputable precondition for · enabling the coming Cordobazos to 'Section of crowd at Frente Obrero conference that launched the workers and socialist workers' movement. The election campaign and political end in a triumph of the workers and election campaign in the coming Argentine elections. struggle are giving us the historical the people is that when they break W0/3

- Argentine press comments on workers and socialist front Dec. 27 La Opinion said that the can­ By Mirto Vidal didates were nominated at a meeting attended by "numerous delegates and Coverage in the Argentine press re­ activists of important trade unions in flects the broad impact of the election this city." campaign recently launched by the The article notes that SITRAC­ Frente Obrero (Workers Front) and SITRAM, of which Paez is a leader, the Partido Socialista de los Traba­ "played a notorious role in the strug­ .i adores (PST- Socialist Workers Par­ gles ·of the workers of Cordoba, par­ ty). ticularly after the popular uprisings . In an article written before the for­ of 1969." mation of the Frente Obrero, the Dec. "The designation of a woman for 7 issue of Panorama (comparable in the second position on the slate," adds Argentina to Time or Newsweek) list­ La Opinion, apparently still amazed PRJ: ed the PSA (as the PST was formerly by this fact, "seems to indicate a ten­ called) as one of the six formations dency of this grouping of socialist participating in the elections, and origin. At least it goes along with p Front of Cordoba is present!' reads the banner held by Cordoba workers pointed out that it was the first Marx­ the nomination of Juan Carlos Coral ist group to decide to run candidates. and Nora Ciapponi on the national Panorama notes that, among others, slate. The Frente Obrero is the only out they find a workers' vanguard, into the workers' and socialist front such "notorious trade-union leaders" grouping to put forth so many women organized into a great revolutionary­ by forming their own committees. as Jose Paez, Leandro Fote, and "leg­ for such high positions." D socialist party, that is able to set Enough of military and capitalist endary Trotskyist leader of the '30s" political goals for the struggles. With­ governments! For a workers' and peo­ Mateo Fossa had endorsed the PSA's out it, the battles will have only a ple's government! proposed electoral front. partial character, they will be Free the political prisoners and those In a lengthy article, the Dec. 19 frustrated, or they will be co-opted imprisoned for related social reasons; daily La Opinion reports that more by the bosses. The PST, the only apply democratic freedoms! Down with than 2,000 persons attended the workers' party that is challenging the the repressive legislation! founding meeting of the Frente Obrero bourgeoisie in the opening offered by For an immediate 40 percent wage on Dec. 16. It lists 13 trade unions the elections, is planting the seeds of increase, a minimum salary of 1,200 and provinces represented at the meet­ this great revolutionary party that will pesos, and a periodic adjustment of iag and quotes verbatim what La Opi­ lead the coming, inevitable struggles wages to keep up with the cost of nion considers "the key planks" in the to the taking of power by the working living. For an end to plant shutdowns platform of the Frente Obrero. class. and for the nationalization under "The PST," reports La Opinion, We call on the best compafieros of workers' control of any factory that "seeks, by putting forth a front of the class-struggle vanguard, the archi­ stops production or shuts down. working-class candidates, to attract tects of the workers' front, to swell Expropriate summer or luxury sectors of the Peronist movement and the ranks of the party whose task homes and distribute them among other popular currents through a it will be to issue the call for a socialist those who have no roof overhead. strong repudiation of the Justicialista Argentina. For loans to build housing amortized [Peron's party] leadership." at a rate of 10 percent of family in­ Visibly impressed by the PST's de­ Fill the Country With Committees come. cision to run a woman, Nora Ciap­ of Workers, Youth, and Socialists Free medical care and medicine poni, for vice-president, the headline ·for the Candidates of the Workers' through nationalization of medicine, of La Opinion's story is: "Socialist and Socialist Front clinics, and laboratories. Workers placed a woman on its tick­ Equality for women in work, wages, et." Since March, the PST has opened opportunities, and rights. Free, twenty­ La Nacion, one of the two major one local a week in the main cities four-hour child-care centers. Allow­ daily newspapers in Buenos Aires, al­ in the country. These fifty centers ances to unmarried or separated so carried news of the PST conven­ represent the base of support and the mothers equivalent to half of their tion and the announcement of its pres­ leverage with whichvthe workers' and wages for each child. idential slate. socialist front will be able to begin For control over retirement funds Reporting on the Frente Obrero's its election campaign. In these centers, by the retired. Authorize the nationali­ decision to run Jose Paez for gov­ and in the limited time allowed by the zation, under workers' control, of ernor of Cordoba and Maria del Car­ Jose Paez, Workers Front candidate for restrictions and the deadlines set by those establishments that do not pay men Gonzalez for vice-governor, the governor of Cordoba. the statute on political parties, we have into the retirement funds. drawn up the lists of workers' candi­ For a university government con­ dates. Unfortunately, the restrictions sisting of a majority of students and and obstacles prevented us from reach­ made up of students, teachers, and ing thousands of working-class, youth, nonteaching workers. Venetians resort to gas masks and socialist fighters, who have re­ Nationalize the imperialist and na­ New York, once the world's title­ district. Without warning the provincial mained off these lists and who would tional monopolies; nationalize foreign deserve to have been placed on them trade under workers' control;· re­ holder in the pollution race, lost out Labor Office ordered the local oil rt:­ a couple of years ago to Tokyo. The finery, petrochemical plants and auxil­ in the interests of making them more pudiate the foreign debt air of the Japanese capital is so "un­ representative. But all these compa­ For the immediate recognition of iary enterprises to equip all their 50,- fieros must now link up with the Cuba, withdrawal from the OAS satisfactory" today that traffic cops 000 workers with army-style gas political struggle that is beginning, [Organization of American States] and take oxygen-breathing breaks. masks by Monday." thereby assuming a role of enormous all international bodies that tie us to Scores of workers had recently suf­ responsibility. Hundreds of support imperialism, and repudiation of all Now Venice, Italy, appears to be fered gas poisoning, and air pollu­ committees for the workers' and colonizing agreements. bidding seriously for the title. An of­ tion had reached the "dangerous level." socialist candidates must be created For diplomatic and material sup­ ficial order was issued January 3 to The companies are resisting. The in every factory, neighborhood, port to peoples struggling against im­ 206 companies in the suburb of Mar­ required military-st)rle gas masks cost union, and locality. These committees perialism- above all to the heroic ghera to provide gas masks for their $25 to $30 each. And just where can will have all the autonomy they need Vietnamese people-and any step to­ employees within four days. you get that many high-quality gas to democratically debate positions and ward national independence taken by The New York Times played up masks on such short notice? to decide on the form, methods, and the people or government of any Latin the news from Marghera on its front The gondoliers are also downcast. content of the electoral campaign. American country. page: "Once there was merry mummery on . These committees will be the nerves For an economic plan worked out in "Enveloped by clouds in many the Grand Canal this time of the year," and lifeblood of the workers' front. a Rank-and-File Convention of the shades of gray and baneful yellow, said one. "Now we'll soon all have We especially call on the working-class CGT (Confederaci6n General del Tra­ this industrial mainland suburb of to wear gas masks day and night." and student youth to form youth sup­ bajo- General Confederation of La­ Venice has become a place of fears Such pessimism will hardiy last. port committees. The youth; together bor] in order to develop the national and tensions. There's the possible renown of Venice with the working women, constitute the economy in the interests of the "The scare started last Wednesday outdoing Tokyo. And that will help most exploited sector of the people; workers and the country. for the 200,000 Venetians who reside popularize the romantic sight of gon­ that is why they sparked the Cordo­ Nationalize and distribute the big and have jobs here and in the adjoin­ doliers singing in gas masks on the baws; and that is why we believe rural landholdings, thereby imple­ ing- and equally unlovely- Mestre canals of Venice. D they will be able to begin, without the menting a new rural settlement pro­ aid of tutors, to organize themselves gram. D World Outlook W0/4.

Out Now-Sign Now debate World news notes in British antiwar movement S. African regime takes aim at students White racists in South Africa are worried about the radicaliza­ The debate over whether to call for to base solidarity actions on the fol­ tion of both Black and white students in that country. Last June immediate, unconditional U.S. with­ lowing slogans, rather than restricting police used clubs and dogs to break up mass student protests drawal from Vietnam, or to call for them to the changing diplomatic needs against racial discrimination. The government charged the students Nixon to sign the October nine-point of the Vietnamese comrades: with threatening "the South African way of life," and "the apartheid settlement, is taking place within the "Solidarity till final victory! status." antiwar movement on an internation­ "Withdraw all imperialist troops In a New Year's speech Prime Minister John Vorster attacked al scale. now! the student activists, accusing them of attempting "to force their This was the main point of discus­ "Victory to the PRG! will on the majority by what could best be described in a demo­ sion at a Solidarity Conference on "End British complicity!" D cratic society as extra-parliamentary action." He complained that Indochina attended by 600 people in "this last tendency will, I believe, manifest itself more forcibly in London in December. Ly Van Sau our country in 1973 and will be dealt with firmly and effectively." of the Democratic Republic of Viet­ The government is already making plans to impose harshly re­ nam, American professor N oam Recent issues of the weekly pressive measures on the universities, including huge fines against Chomsky, and journalist I. F. Stone universities for any student or professor "charged" (not even con­ news magazine Intercontinen­ addressed the gathering. victed) with participation in illegal demonstrations. tal Press contain two features The International Marxist Group, The National Union of South African Students, which represents British section of the Fourth Inter­ that will be of special interest some 28,000 white students, is being investigated for using its funds national, explained its position in a to many Militant readers: to support scholarship programs for Black students, a prisoner­ leaflet distributed at the Dec. 23 anti­ In the January 15 issue an aid fund, and various programs aimed at eliminating racial dis­ war demonstration of 700 in London article by George Novack dis­ crimination. protesting Nixon's bombing of Hanoi cusses the role of the leaders and Haiphong. The leaflet stated: of the American revolution of "Nixon has made his motives clear. 1776 and what Marxists can London workers protest wage freeze He wants to bomb the Vietnamese into learn from them. It is a po­ For the first time in history, thousands of British government accepting a settlement which is 99% lemic against an article attack­ employees (clerks, secretaries, and office workers) held a work favorable to the imperialists. The Viet­ stoppage on January 10 to protest the 90-day wage freeze imposed ing Novack's views on philos­ namese have clearly and unequivo­ by the Tory government. Other government employees- such as cally rejected this. General Giap de­ ophy and politics by Alex Stei­ mail carriers and railway workers- have struck in the past, but clared in a broadcast yesterday: 'The ner of the Workers League. never the office civil servants. U.S. hopes to bend the will of the The January 22 issue con­ In its report on the action, the January 11 New York Times Vietnamese people by mass bombings tains the first part. in a seri­ noted that the strike "treated Londoners to such unusual sights as in Vietnam. This will prove to be an alization of an article written staid functionaries who usually carry nothing but carefully furled illusion. Hanoi, Haiphong and other umbrellas angrily waving protest placards in the precincts of by Max Shechtman in 1933 en­ cities may be bombed and even razed, Whitehall, the Government center near the Houses of Parliament." but the will of the Vietnamese people titled "Ten Years- History and will never give.' Giap's defiant state­ Principles of the Left Opposi­ ment is in marked .contrast to the tion." Published on the tenth E. Germany suppresses Iranian CP muted criticism of the U.S. uttered anniversary of the formation in Moscow by Brezhnev. The fact that of the Left Opposition in the The government of Iran recognized the German Democratic Repub­ the Vietnamese have knocked down lic on December 7, and the two sides agreed to base their relations Soviet Union, it explains the 15 B-52s over the last week shows on "principles of peaceful coexistence." what they would be capable of doing key programmatic issues divid­ While the belated recognition of the East German workers state provided they were given more mili­ ing Stalinism from Trotskyism. by the shah is welcome, the effect of the "peaceful coexistence" part tary hardware. Last year the Kremlin The first part is accompanied of the agreement will be to curtail the activities of the Tudeh party bureaucrats gave North Vietnam mili­ by an introduction by Joseph (the Iranian Communist party), which has its headquarters in East tary aid worth only 100 million dol­ Germany. Hansen. lars compared to the 350 million dol­ The Tudeh party was declared illegal by the shah in 1949. Follow­ lars given to the wretched anti-commu" To order these issues of Inter­ ing the CIA-engineered coup in 1953, its underground cells were nist regime of Sadat in Egypt. continental Press, send 50 cents discovered and many of its militants were executed. Today its ac­ for each to: IP, P. 0. Box 116, tivities are essentially limited to operating its press and a radio sta­ "Given Nixon's tactics it would be Village Station, New York, N.Y. tion in East Germany. incorreCt in our view to back the 'Sign 10014. Within the last decade, the shah has established diplomatic and Now' bandwtrgon which has accumu­ economic relations with the other East European workers states. lated some rather odd bedfellows. The But he held back from recognizing East Germany, demanding that Vietnamese comrades are absolutely the activities of the Tudeh party be suspended. justified in trying to use all means nec­ In its December 7 air edition, the Teheran daily Keyhan reported essary to get the US out of Vietnam that East Germany has accepted the shah's demand to suppress the even though this involves or might in­ How Nixon is Tudeh party. The same paper reported on December 19 that the volve certain concessions on their general tone of the Tudeh party broadcasts had changed. However, part. it did not elaborate. "Our position, however, should be 'Vietnamizing' The fate of the Tudeh members in East Germany is uncertain. the following: we, as socialists in the In recent years, some Tudeh militants have reportedly been handed imperialist heartland, are not in fa­ mass murder over to the Ii'anian regime by the Moscow bureaucracy, only to be vour of US imperialism and its allies subsequently executed. After the executions, the Tudeh leadership nson first. Then Nixon. Each week gaining or forcing any concessions has claimed that the murdered militants had gone to Iran of their from the Indochinese and we do NOT since the beginning, Intercontinental Press has been exposing the real aims own free will. In the 1930s, leaders of the Ii'anian Communist party recognise their right to do so. Further­ of the White House, the Pentagon, forced to go into exile in the Soviet Union were executed by Stalin. more the 'Sign Now' position implies the State Deportment, and the CIA that the struggle would be over once in Indochina. a peace treaty were signed. This is Our forecasts hove been borne out also false, as a civil war against the with remarkable consistency. French Communist League convention puppet regimes in Cambodia, Viet­ U.S. troops out of Indochina NOW! The third convention of the Ligue Communiste (Communist nam, and Laos would undoubtedly To make your efforts more effective, League), French section of the Fourth International, was held in continue, and to imagine that "Sign arm yourself with the facts. Read Versailles December 7-10. The convention adopted theses on building Now" would solve every problem is Intercontinental Press every week. a revolutionary Leninist party in France. Another focus of discussion to disarm the solidarity movement. at the convention was the upcoming elections and the meaning of "CONTINUING SOLIDARITY AS the "Union of the Left" campaign by the Communist and Socialist FAR AS THE IMG IS CONCERNED Intercontinental Press parties. The Communist League plans to run 133 candidates in the P.O. Box 116 IS THE ONLY ANSWER. first round of the elections for National Assembly. Future issues of Village Station "The International Marxist Group The Militant will deal with the issues in the French elections. New York, N.Y. 10014 participated in and sponsored the In­ There were 287 delegates at the League's convention; their average dochina Solidarity Conference held a Nome ______age was twenty-three. They represented 386 cells, 80 cities, and few weeks ago. We intend to step up 18 sections of Paris. Of the del':.f:{ates, 176 were workers, Street------....-- our committment to the Vietnamese City ______100 students, and 11 high-school students. and Indochinese struggle in the com­ State ______Zip ______The League has cells or members in 270 fa~tories and carries ing months. We will participate in the out regular activities at 180 others. Between 10,000 and 15,000 January 20th (Inauguration Day in ) Enclosed is S7.50 for 6 months. copies of the League's weekly newspaper, Rouge, are sold each the U.S.) mobilisation and will help ) Enclosed is S15 for one year. week. The organization has more than fifty full-time party workers build an even bigger action in Feb- ) Enclosed is 50c foro single copy . throughout the country. . ruary. That is why we feel it essential STRESS unit runs amuck Detroit Blacks protest new police attacks By RONALD LOCKETT year-old Black man. Foshee, who , ~, filii DETROIT, Jan. 15- The polarization didn't know that the men invading here between the Black community and his home were plainclothes cops, took the police department grows wider as his shotgun and fired two shots. But each day passes. he never got a chance to find out who Tensions have reached such heights they were-he was killed instantly and that one conservative TV commenta­ his house was riddled with bullets. tor was recently compelled to say, No reports of this slaying appeared "Detroit police had better reconcile in either of Detroit's two daily news- their differences with the Black com­ papers. munity rapidly or be faced with anoth­ On Dec. 27, Bethune, Brown, and er '67." He was referring to the ghetto Boyd were allegedly involved in the uprising that rocked this city in the killing of one STRESS officer and the summer of 1967. • wounding of another. They are now The current situation stems from a the object of what has been charac­ predawn shoot-out Dec. 4 between four terized as "the most intensive manhunt white STRESS police officers and three in this city's recent history." Blacks. STRESS (Stop The Robbertes Police have blocked off large sec­ -Enjoy Safe Streets) is a group of tions of the Black community, forced plainclothes cops who have been in­ Black women to disrobe at gunpoint, volved in 16 known deaths-15 of and broken into homes. The Detroit whom were Blacks-since the group's News reported receiving as many as inception one year ago. 110 claims of police harassment and When the smoke cleared, the four violations of rights since Dec. 4. STRESS officers were wounded and The police department, in co~labora­ Detroit Black community, summer of 1967. A TV commentator recently said, 'Detroit the three Blacks, identified as Mark tion with the News and the Detroit police had better reconcile their differences with the Black community rapidly or be Bethune, 22, Hayward Brown, 18, Police Officers Association, has offered faced with another '67.' and John Boyd, 23, had escaped. a reward of $19,000 for information . That same day the cops went to the leading to the arrest of the trio. home of John Boyd's parents and The Guardians, an association of It would provide a clearinghouse for nation of Police Commissioner John announced their presence by knocking Black Detroit police officers, has re­ getting information about police Nichols and the abolition of STRESS. down the front and back doors. They ported that the word is out through­ harassment out to the Black commu­ The Detroit Common Council, in then entered the home without a search out the department to shoot the men nity. an attempt to quell the growing anti­ warrant; took items without permis­ on sight The Jan. 10 meeting was sponsored police sentiment in the Black commu­ sion; held guns on the mother, another Two meetings held Jan. 9 and 10 by an organization called "Strength nity, held a public hearing Jan. 11. son and daughter, the daughter's two­ called for the abolition of STRESS to Families under STRESS." Nearly The hearing had to be moved to a year-old baby; and arrested all with­ and for the creation of a mechanism 400 Black people heard members of larger auditorium because of an over­ out informing them of their rights. to "get the correct news our about the the families of the three men. They flow crowd of 2,000 Blacks. The families of the three men later current reign of police terror. told of cops entering their homes with­ The crowd was visibly angry. Rela­ won a court injunction against fur­ out search warrants, maliciously de­ tives and friends of the suspects and ther police harassment On Jan. 9, an anti-STRESS coali­ stroying their property, and drawing others told of midnight raids on their Also on Dec. 4 police invaded the tion held a meeting on the Wayne guns without provocation. homes, unexplained searches, physical home of a Detroit minister, the Rev­ State University campus. The gather­ The families and other speakers ex­ abuse, and harassment erend Leroy Cannon, on a "tip" that ing of 50 Black people included rep­ pressed concern about the erroneous Police Commissioner Nichols at­ Bethune, Brown, or Boyd was inside. resentatives of the Young Socialist AI- stories the media and police are tempted to read a statement defending Cannon, his wife, daughter, and a "-'liance, Republic of New Africa, Work­ spreading. They said that the infor­ the action of his officers but was re­ gilest were led from their rooms at ers League, Students for a Democratic mation that the suspects were under­ peatedly interrupted with boos and gunpoint. A plainclothes policeman Society, and otheu who met to map world "hit men" (assassins) or drug shouts of "Lies! Lies!" He finally left told the minister, "Nigger, if you a plan of action. addicts was incorrect the meeting without completing his breathe loud, I'll blow your head off." A proposal for an independent They asserted that the brothers were statement. Later, police discovered that they had Black commission was discussed and putting intense pressure on the nar­ Attorney Ken Cochrel stepped to the the wrong address. passed overwhelmingly. The commis­ cotics dealers to get out of the city. podium and presented the council with On Dec. 8, police, acting on another sion would be similar to the one estab­ A leaflet circulated by the group that petitions containing 30,000 signatures "tip," kUled Durwood Foshee, a 60- lished recently at Southern University. called the meeting demanded the resig- calling for the abolition of STRESS. Rep. McCloskey supports Zahraie defense By FRED LOVGREN The committee also announced that activity as national secretary of the SEATTLE, Jan. 16 -At a news con­ the three defendants will be speakillg committee. A decision is expected soon ference here Jan. 8, the Committee across the U.S. to gain support. Babak on his motion to have the order to Defend Babak Zahraie announced Zahraie is currently scheduled to speak dropped. that Representative Paul McCloskey at the National Lawyers Guild con­ Siamak Zahraie has also challenged (R.-Calif.) had endorsed its efforts to vention in Austin, Texas, Feb. 19 to Immigration's attempt to deport him stop the deportations of Babak request their. support for the three for his activities in support of the Zahraie, Bahram Atai, and Siamak cases. committee. On Dec. 15 he received Zahraie. McCloskey's endorsement is In other action on the legal front, a deportation order from John Boyd, part of the co-mmittee's stepped-up drive committee attorney Michael Whitby Seattle Immigration district director. to draw national attention and sup­ filed a motion Jan. 11 demanding Last week, Siamak Zahraie filed an port for the three defendants. that Immigration drop the deporta­ application for permanent residence In the last 12 months the U. S. Im­ tion order for Bahram Atai, restore in the U. S. (He is married to an migration Service has intensified its his student status, and grant his ap­ American citizen.) The permanent intimidation of foreign students who plication for a transfer in schools. residency application is now. being are politically outspoken. In Seattle Atai was ordered deported because processed at the Boston Immigration alone there have been several such he allegedly was not carrying a full office because he is currently attend­ cases in The last year. course of study during the spring 1972 ing school at the University of Mass­ The attempt to deport Zahraie, Atai, quarter at the University of Wash­ achusetts at Amherst. and Zahraie is thus part of a threat Bobak Zahraie ington. to the basic civil liberties of all for­ In a letter accompanying the mo­ Babak Zahraie's petition for perma­ eign students studying in the U.S. tion, W. W. Washington, registrar at nent residency remains in a Seattle In a statement released at the news sky, and Irwin Silber, exeeutive edi­ the university, states, "Mr. Atai (in Immigration office. A hearing on this conference, Atai, national secretary of tor of the Guardian. the same quarter) ... continued his application is expected soon. At that the committee, described its aims. "In "Students are supporting our case work on the completion of Mathemat­ time, Zahraie will be called upon to our struggle for the right to hold and on a nationwide scale," Atai reported. ics 402 and Mathematics 403. The present evidence showing why his express our opinions," he said, "we "Jack Baker, former student body incompletes were converted to credits petition for permanent residency should hope to expose the witch-hunt cam­ president of the University of Minn­ in time for his graduation in June." be granted. paign of the Immigration Service to esota, and Robert Turner, student body The committee told the news con­ such an extent that th~y will be forced president of the State University of In June, Atai received a B. S. in ference that in light of the recent de­ to drop all acts of harassment and California at San Francisco, have re­ electrical engineering. He is currently velopments they will increase their ef­ intimidation of foreign students." cently endorsed our defense effort enrolled in a Ph.D. program in elec­ forts to gain national support. Funds In addition to McCloskey, the com­ Also, the Associated Students at the trical engineering at the University are urgently needed to cover legal mittee has received endorsements from University of California at Berkeley, of Portland. and publicity expenses. The commit­ Representative Joel Pritchard ( R­ Portland State University, and the The Immigration Department is thus tee's address is Box 133, HUB, Uni­ Wash.), Eugene McCarthy, Wayne University of Washington have en­ trying to distort Atai' s academic rec­ versity of Washington, Seattle, Wash. Morse, Gloria Steinem, Noam Chom- dorsed the defense campaign." ord in order to deport him for his 98105.

THE MILITANT/JANUARY 26, 1973 13 WHAT STRATEGY TO SAVE· N.Y. ABORTION LAW? By LINDA JENNESS are essentially being told to remain spectators- at Now, I think w~ have to unite as many people "Both Sides Gird for Battle on Abortion" was a most, to send a letter -while a few people get ac­ as possible around the demand for abortion, re­ headline in the New York Times on Jan. 2, 1973. cess to the legislators. gardless of their political positions on other things. "This year, both sides say they are ready for the Sue: We could do both. Lobbying certainly We have to unite Democrats, Republicans, social­ renewal of the struggle, which is expected to pro­ doesn't hurt anything, and it might help persuade ists, people with no political affiliation- anyone vide once again the most explosive issue of the a few legislators. who is ready to fight for a woman's right to legislative session that begins tomorrow." Jane: The problem is not with individual women choose. In 1970, New York State replaced its archaic who might want to write a letter to their legisla­ To win this fight it's going to take unity of the abortion law with the most liberal law in the coun­ tor, or even go visit them because they think it entire movement. But this united movement has try- a law that allows abortion on demand when might help a little or because they don't know to be independent of the Democratic and Republi­ performed within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. what else to do. can parties. It can't be beholden to anyone for Two years later, after almost half a million abor­ The problem is that many leaders of lobbying~ its ideas, for its money, or for its votes. tions have been safely performed, the battle over oriented groups want to prevent the building of Sue: Well, I haven't heard the lobbyists talking the law continues and intensifies. a mass action-oriented abortion movement. These about the abortion struggle being beholden to the Within the abortion rights movement in New people are. not saying we should do both. They're Democratic or Republican parties. York there is much discussion about how to use counterposing one-to-~me lobbying to mass action. Jane: But that's exactly what lobbying is all our energy and forces most effectively to defend They're saying we should only lobby and that we about. The leaders of the lobbying strategy are the reform law. The discussion often goes some­ shouldn't demonstrate or build a large indepen­ attempting to threaten the legislators with reward thing like this: dent force. or punishment at the polls. They're telling these Sue: I read in the Washington Post last week Sue: Why do they do that? legislators that if they'll vote the right way on that Planned Parenthood, the Feminist Coalition, Jane: It's the whole logic of their orientation. abortion, then the abortion movement will cam­ and other groups are planning "one-to-one" lobby­ They believe that they can make changes through paign for them and vote for them next time ing of every legislator in Albany who might con­ depending on traditional behind-the-scenes politics around. What the lobbyists are really saying is ceivably vote to keep the present liberal abortion in the Republican and Democratic parties. They that the solution for us rests with electing pro­ law. The article also said that Citizens for Abor­ believe in doing things quietly, not rocking the abortion people in the Democratic and Republican tion Rights and Religious Liberty ( CARRL) thinks boat too much, not being too "militant' in their parties. that demonstrations and other similar activities approach. Sue: Well, it certainly wouldn't hurt to elect pro­ are counterproductive and that on-to-one lobbying Many of these women are even so tied in with the abortion Democrats and Republicans to office! is the only effective way to save the law. Betty Democratic and Republican party politicians that Jane: But how do legislators get to be for or Friedan has also said that, and so has Wilma although they might personally favor abortion, against abortion? Look at the fight against the . Scott Heidi, president of NOW. What do you think? they oppose organizing for it because they're afraid Vietnam war. How is it that the sentiment against the war has been built up in this country? Not by one-to-one lobbying of the Congress and not by "politics-as-usual." A giant movement against the war has been built. And if we end this war, it will not be because antiwar Republican or Democrats have been elec­ ted to Congress. It will be because massive num­ bers of people have become convinced the war is wrong, and millions have taken action against the war. Many people in Congress today were elected because they said they were opposed to the war in Vietnam. But what they say and what they do are two different things! In spite of all the anti­ war speeches, in spite of the debates, in spite of the bills, Congress has dorie absolutely zero to end the war. On Jan. 20 thousands of Americans are march­ ing in Washington, D. C., and in other cities around the country because we have learned that the U. S. government can't be trusted to end the war. We have learned that the only way to end the war is for the American people to take the ques­ tion of the war into our own hands and act against it. For instance, when the workers in Italy and Australia struck against U. S. ships as a protest against the bombing, they had a much greater effect than if they had all just written Nixon a letter. The same is true for the abortion struggle. We can't rely on the government. We have to show Militant/Greg Cornell them that women are fed up and aren't going New York Women's Strike rally of more than 35,000 on Aug. 26, 1970. The massive, visible character of this to let them take away rights we've won. action helped inspire women all over the country, showing them the potential power they possess in the struggle Sue: But that might take a long time. And in for liberation. the meantime women will continue to die from botched abortions. We have to get these legisla­ tors to vote to keep the reform New York law Jane: One thing we've learned is that if we just that if we raise too much of a ruckus it would right now! depend on the strategy of one-to-one lobbying, then embarrass these politicians. Jane: You're right on both counts. It's going we're sure to lose this fight. We can't simply de­ That's what happened in the McGovern cam­ to be a long battle, and we have to do what we pend on convincing these legislators on moral paign, remember? can to influence the legislators right now. But or rational grounds. The way we convince them We can't afford to keep quiet. I think our strategy the best way to do both of those things is the is by showing them that we're a political force. must be to build a loud, powerful, independent same-build an independent force! The legisla­ Just look at what's happened in the past year. force. tors are going to be more influenced right now by The New York law is in danger precisely because Sue: What force do you mean? And independent actions that show large numbers and show that the anti-abortion forces have out-organized the of what? we're not going to be passive and "ladylike" but abortion rights forces. The so-called right-to-life Jane: We do have a force on our side. In fact, that we're going to be out there fighting, than people have been very active-holding picket lines, we have the only power in existence that's capable they will be if they think they can make us some debates, demonstrations, TV debates, meetings, etc. of wringing concessions from the capitalist gov­ promises and we'll "negotiate" with them. The only way we'll be able to take on these ernment-and that's the power of the majority of And for the long battle, take a look at Ameri­ "right-to-lifers" is to meet them on their own ground. American people, if they organize to fight for some­ can history. Did women trust the government to We have to organize as massive a movement as thing. But that power hasn't been organized yet, give them the right to vote? No, women took to possible to defeat them. We have to win people ithasn'tbeenunified. That'sourjob. To reach out, the streets in militant action and forced the govern­ to our side, and one-to-one lobbying isn't going convince people, and organize that power- espe­ ment to give us the right to vote. to do that. cially the power of women. Did we count on a "friendly and faii' court to Sue: But you didn't tell me what you mean by free Angela Davis? Protests all around the world Sue: Why not? Especially if lots of people lobby? independent. were built to assure her freedom. Jane: One-to-one lobbying isn't oriented toward Jane: I mean independent of the Democratic and Did Blacks trust the "good conscience" of Con­ convincing or involving large numbers of people. Republican parties. Those two parties, on both gress to pass the civil rights laws? Protests through­ Lobbying is aimed simply at convincing a few a state and a national level, are controlled by big out the South, where many civil rights activists legislators, not toward the tens of thousands of businessmen and bankers and uphold this entire were murdered, forced the passage of the civil people who are confused by the anti-abortion ar­ rotten system. They don't want to lose control rights laws. guments and who have yet to be convinced. Lobby­ of women-they need to control us to keep their Did workers trust the bosses to grant the eight­ ing turns us away from masses of people, and system going. hour day? No, they fought for the eight-hour day, toward a small group of officials. They're responsible for these laws to begin with. as well as for public education. In fact, not only does an orientation toward lob­ They're responsible for the women who have died Over and over and over again it has been proved bying not reach out to new women, it actually dis­ from illegal abortions, not to mention the millions that concessions -from the smallest reforms to courages new women from getting involved. The who have died in Vietnam. Our struggle can't be the most basic democratic rights-are won only tens of thousands who support abortion law repeal dependent on them or subordinate to them. when masses of people mobilize to force a change.

14 N.Y. abortion strugg~ Abortion hearings Jan. 30 We are not about to Program for March surrender this gain' tribunal takes shape A Jan. 11 news conference in New ciple of [separation of) church and By HELEN SCHIFF On Saturday evening a rally in de­ York City, organized by the Women's state in our history. It represents the NEW YORK, Jan. 15 -Abortion fense of the New York abortion law National Abortion Action Coalition use of vast money and power-an rights forces in New York State are will be held to draw attention to the (WONAAC), marked a high point in estimated $1-million was spent by focusing their attention on the Jan. New York struggle. Congresswoman the growing offensive to defend the church-supported groups in Michigan 30 legislative hearings on abortion Bella Abzug, Black feminist attorney right to abortion in New York. Hosted recently to impose the view of one in Albany. The hearings were initiated Florynce Kennedy, and Gordon by the the Cleaners and Dyers union religion on all other Americans." by Assemblyman Franz Leichter, in Chase, administrator of the New York Local 239, the gathering heard state­ cooperation with the New York Wom­ City Health Services, are already ments from an impressive range of Brenda Feigen-Fasteau, American Civ­ en's National Abortion Action Coali­ scheduled to speak. individuals active in many different il Liberties Union: "Those of us who tion (WONAAC). A noon rally at the A letter signed by Jules Feiffer, Bar­ organizations. believe in individual liberty and the Capitol steps will precede the hearings. bara Harris, Anne and Dustin Hoff­ Reporters from the major news­ right of a woman not to be forced Buses and car pools have already man, Muriel Rukeyser, and Yoko Ono papers and radio and TV attended; by the government to bear children been organized for the hearings from has been sent out to entertainers, re­ the New York Times and the New are on the offensive now. We must Buffalo, Rochester, Suffolk and Nas­ questing them to participate in the sau counties on Long Island, Wood­ Saturday night program. stock, Vassar College in Poughkeep­ Sunday will be devoted to work­ sie, Westchester, Oneida, Staten Island, shops. RaGHT To CHC('Yf and New York City. Representatives from WONAAC af­ In addition, the executive board and filiates in Boston, Washington, At­ membership of Local 1930 of lanta, Philadelphia, Cleveland, De­ the American Federation of State, troit, Chicago, and New Haven re­ ORt.IONIii tl I County and Municipal Employees ported at the NCC meeting that they (AFSCME) have just announced their plan to rent buses to come to the tri­ litGar ro ABorrr10111 ~ y' support for the hearings. bunal. For further information on the Jan. In Atlanta, the WONAAC chapter 30 hearings, contact WONAAC at 150 demanded and received space in the Fifth Ave., Room 315, New York, city's leading daily newspaper,· the At­ N.Y. 10011. Telephone (212) 675- lantn Constitution, to answer 12 anti­ 9150. abortion articles. Debates, teach-ins, The biggest event in the abortion statewide organizing meetings, and action offensive this spring, both na­ TV and radio programs are all part tionally and internationally, is the In­ of the campaign to build the tribunal. ternational Abortion Tribunal, which A report to the NCC from Joan will be held at Town Hall in New Campana, representing the Canadian York City, March 9-11. Coalition to Repeal the Abortion A WONAAC National Coordinating Laws, gave everyone an idea of the Committee (NCC) meeting, attended tremendous impact the tribunal can Militant/Flax Hermes by more than 60 women, was held have on the worldwide struggle of WONAAC national coordinator Susan LaMont outlines abortion action offensive at here Jan. 13 to discuss plans for the women to control their lives. Jon. 11 New York news conference. To her left are Congresswoman Bella A.bzug (O­ tribunal. The NCC gathering voted to make N. Y.) and Ms. editor Gloria Steinem. In the dramatic format of a trial, Susan LaMont a national coordinator supporters of abortion rights will pre­ of WONAAC, along with Dr. Barbara sent their case:- that abortion is a Roberts. York Post both ran articles on the fight for our rights and the principle woman's right to choose. A panel of news conference. of individual liberty aggressively." women commissioners will act as the The following are excerpts from judges; the audience will serve at the some of the statements presented. Dr. Henry Foner, president, Joint Board jury. Benjamin Spock and Assemblyman of Furrier, Leather and Machine The tribunal will open Friday even­ Franz Leichter were unable to attend Workers Union and vice-president of ing, March 9, with the indictments but sent written statements. Congress­ New York Liberal Party: "I intend of those who have denied women ac­ woman Shirley Chisholm also sent to speak to my own union and see cess to safe, legal abortions. Con­ a message of support. to it that we are represented in the gresswoman Bella Abzug (D-N. Y.), Others who participated in the news lobby in Albany, that we speak out and WONAAC national coordinator conference included State Senator in behalf of our own members and Dr. Barbara Roberts have agreed to Carol Bellamy and Mike Blumenfeld, in behalf of the right of women to serve.on the commission. deputy administrator of the New York have a free choice." A multimedia presentation on the City Health Services Administration. history of women's struggle to control Franz Leichter, New York state as­ their own reproductive lives will also Susan Lamont, WONAAC nationalco­ semblyman: "Among the many steps be featured at the opening session. ordinator: "Those of us in the Women's we will take to express support for On Saturday morning, March 10, National Abortion Action Coalition the present law is a hearing I and the tribunal will be devoted to inter­ feel that what happens in New York other legislators are sponsoring with national testimony-both professional will have a tremendous impact on the Women's National Abortion Ac­ and personal. That afternoon there the struggle for abortion rights tion Coalition and women throughout will be a presentation of the testimony Attorney Florynce Kennedy will be throughout the country. Therefore, we the state on Jan. 30 in Albany." gathered at local abortion hearings speaking at March 10 rally in defense are launching an abortion action of­ throughout the U.S. last fall. of New York abortion low. fensive, aimed at reaching the millions Bella Abzug, U.S. Congress, (D­ of New Yorkers who agree with us, N. Y.): "Once we win this fight, I hope which will galvanize and mobilize pub­ that we then turn our full attention lic support. . . . One of the biggest to the campaign for adoption of my Ms. spotlights 1ound women' events coming up this spring is the federal Abortion Rights Act, which The January issue of Ms. maga­ these women to New York for a International Abortion Tribunal, would declare invalid any state laws zine contains a feature called news conference, followed by a which will be held in Town Hall, New restricting abortion. . . . I understand "Found Women." It is a collection luncheon for the "found women," York City, March 9-11." that the Women's National Abortion of short biographies of women the Ms. staff, and women from Action Coalition has already collected from all over the country who the media. Eleanor Holmes Norton, head of New 50,000 signatures in support of my exemplify the kind of confidence, The impact of the women's state­ York City Human Rights Commis­ bill, and I know there will be many assertiveness, and competence that ments was to dramatize the fact sion: "I feel a special duty today to more." women are increasingly striving that the women's liberation move­ speak in behalf of those women who for since the rise of the women's ment is not any one organization have least access to abortion through­ Gloria Steinem, Ms. editor: "I hope liberation movement. or group of individuals. Rather, out this state's history and the history that we put an end to the idea that They range from Eve Queler, as Ms. put it, the movement is of this country and who are literally [abortion) is not a political issue. It orchestra conductor; to Connie wherever women are fighting "to under siege in New York City today. is a political issue." Slaughter, the 26-year-old Black change their own lives, the lives ... If we take away legal abortion, attorney who filed suit against the of their sisters, and the world every women, in every circumstance, Kate Millett, author: "We in the state of Mississippi for the deaths around them." wi)l suffer. But it will mean untold women's movement are not about to of the two students at Jackson State Pat Carbine, publisher and edi­ suffering to Black and Puerto Rican surrender this one gain we have made in 1970; to Barbara Roberts, tor-in-chief of Ms., announced at women. We cannot let that happen." against an adamant and chauvinist abortionist and abortion rights the luncheon that Ms. will continue society. Under no circumstances will fighter; to Joanne Glus, a hi-lift to hold similar meetings in the Lawrence Lader, National Association we capitulate.... " operator who won an equal pay future at which the Ms. staff and for the Repeal of All Abortion Laws: suit to the tune of $548,000 for media women can discuss topics "We believe the attempt by the Roman Dr. Benjamin Spock: "Thank God New 246 women. of interest in the women's move­ Catholic hierarchy to overthrow the York State joined the twentieth cen-. On Jan. 8 Ms. brought 28 of ment. New York State abortion law is the tury in regard to abortion. Let's not most dangerous attack on the prin- allow the neanderthals to take it back."

THE MILITANT/JANUARY 26, 1973 15 L.A officials rule Olga Rodriguez RazaUnida can't appear on ballot as 'socialist' Party in By ANN WILCOX radio and 'IV reports. It is only the paign supporters are actively building LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15- The eight smaller parties, whose candidates are the Inauguration Day antiwar dem­ Los Angeles municipal candidates en­ not so well known, who suffer from onstration. Although Yorty, a Demo­ S. Calif. dorsed by the Socialist Workers Party these laws. crat, complains that it would cost too and the Young Socialist Alliance were Olga Rodriguez held a news con­ much to end pollution, provide free told this week that they may not use ference Jan. 13 in the rotunda of the mass transportation, and build more race the word "socialisf in designating city hall to protest incumbent mayor­ schools, hospitals, and day-care cen­ By MIGUEL PENDAS themselves on their filing applications al candidate Sam Yorty's crass use ters, he has not once spoken out LOS ANGELES-La Raza Unida or on the ballot. The candidates were of public funds and facilities to kick against U. S. involvement in South­ Party has entered Andres Torres, a informed of this decision in a letter off his campaign. Rodriguez demand­ east Asia. Two other mayoral can­ professor of Chicano studies, in the from the elections supervisor three ed that Yorty reimburse the city trea­ didates, Democrats Tom Bradley and race for state senator in the 22nd days after filing. sury for a campaign luncheon he held. Jesse Unruh, have also refused to en­ District in the San Fernando Valley. Municipal elections in Los Angeles Morris Starsky, Rodriguez's cam­ dorse the Jan. 20 antiwar action. A special election is being held to are "nonpartisan." According to the paign manager, will attend a meeting Rodriguez told the press, "Everyone fill the vacancy created by the death city charter: "The names of candidates of Democrat Tom Carrell. for each office shall be arranged on Torres told The Militant of the dis­ the ballot for the primary nominating criminatory requirements the Chicano and general municipal elections in al­ party must meet to qualify for the phabetical order. There should be ballot. Democratic and Republican nothing on any ballot indicative of candidates have to collect only 40 the party affiliation, source of can­ to 65 signatures of party members didacy, or support of any candidate." on petitions. Raza Unida, on the other Instead, each candidate designates hand, is required to gain 500 signa­ in three words or less his or her "prin­ tures of registered voters. Despite this cipal occupation, vocation or profes­ obstacle, Raza Unida activists are sion." The slate endorsed by the SWP finding the support needed to get on and the YSA used the designation the ballot. "In two short drives we . "Young Socialist activisf or "Social­ got nine hundred signatures," said To­ ist Workers activist." rres. Since the candidates were not in­ Unless one candidate wins 50 per­ formed of this at the time of filing, cent of the vote in the Jan. 30 pri­ the election supervisor's letter stated: mary (which is unlikely), there will "You will be allowed to come to the be a runoff. One Democrat, one Re­ office of the city clerk's Election Di­ publican, and one Peace and Free­ vision to amend your principal occu­ dom candidate. will automatically be pation on your Declaration of In­ placed on the ballot for the runoff. tention. If you do not amend it, the ·"In the [primary] election itself," To­ word Socialist will be deleted by this Militant/Harry Ring rres explained, "we have ·to out-poll office and will not appear on the bal­ Olga Rodriguez, SWP candidate for L.A. mayor, being interviewed by radio reporter. the top vote-getter of one of the es­ lot." (Emphasis added.) tablished parties." If La Raza Unida A letter to the election supervisor, can do this, Torres will be on the signed by Olga Rodriguez, candidate of the city council's public works com­ who wants to make real change in for mayor, and the other candidates mittee, which will hear a request from Los Angeles and cut off the violence ballot. on the socialist slate, protested the Rodriguez to use the city hall press of this government at its source A former steelworker and railroad action. The wording on the Declara­ room. should join with me and other peo­ switchman, Torres is now an assis­ tion of Intention was changed pend­ Petitioning began this week in a ple who are opposed to the war in tant professor of Chicano studies at ing discussions with a lawyer on drive to secure a minimum of 500 demonstrating against it Jan. 20 at California State University at North­ whether to challenge in court this ob­ signatures of registered Los Angeles noon in Pershing Square. I urge all ridge. viously discriminatory move by the voters for each candidate. One thou­ candidates for public office in He pointed out that although the election officials. sand signatures per candidate will be this election to participate in this dem­ salary for the senatorial office is $19,- The "nonpartisan" election code is collected· to ensure that enough valid onstration." 000 a year, some of his opponents a fraud. Municipal elections in Los signatures are submitted. On Jan. 5 are spending as much as $100,000 Angeles are as partisan as anywhere a court order allowed petitioning to Those interested in campaign ac­ on their campaign. else. The major capitalist candidates begin pending the outcome of a Jan. tivities or in making contributions A leading Democratic contender, As­ are backed by their parties. The par­ 18 hearing on the legality of the resi­ should contact the Socialist Workers semblyman James Keysor, has ty affiliation of the Democratic and dency and filing-fee requirements. campaign office, 1107 1/2 N. West­ charged, according to the Jan. 12 Los Republican contenders is known to Meanwhile, Rodriguez and the other ern Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 90029, Angeles Times, that the Republican everyone through press coverage and socialist candidates and their cam- or phone (213) 463-1917. Party may be spending as much as $250,000 to win the election. The reason this seat is worth so much money to the capitalist politi­ cians is that it will decide the balance of power in the state Senate, where Suit to challenge Calif. election code Democrats and Republicans are now deadlocked 19 to 19. By JUDY UHL and fear of the inroads being made parties have turned to the courts. La Raza Unida is protesting the Of the 23 states that failed to list a by George Wallace, resulted in the Ohio law required 433,100 signa­ gerrymandering of the Chicano com­ socialist presidential candidate on certification of the Peace and Freedom tures; California, 664,340. Ohio re­ munity in the San Fernando Valley. their ballots, the state with the largest Party by this method. quired new parties to set up a party They are demanding that any redis­ share of voters and the most restric­ The example of the recent Raza apparatus, with state and local com­ tricting plan adopted by the state leg­ tive laws is California. According to Unida Party attempt to qualify shows mittees. California also requires the Committee for Democratic Election how the present California law has a large and complex party apparatus. islature allow the Chicano community to vote as a whole. Laws, it would take at least 180 per­ been modified to further limit the pos­ Ohio, like California, required candi­ During his campaign activities, To­ sons working full time for a year­ sibility of a repeat of the Peace and dates of new political parties to go with no days off- to collect enough Freedom ballot success. through a primary election. rres explained, he has found that "there are many people who are sym­ signatures to qualify a new political The California Raza Unida Party The Socialist Workers Party filed pathetic with the ideas that we are party. has been conducting a campaign to suit against the California law in espousing. But they are trapped in California requires that petitions be register enough voters in the name 1970. The federal court refused to de- the Republican and Democratic par­ signed by 664,340 voters, equal to of the party. But many of the voters cide the issue at that time. According ties, thinking that through these par­ 10 percent of the vote for governor in who previously registered Raza Unida to the justices, the SWP had filed the ticular parties they are eventually go­ the last election. have recently been dropped from the suit too close to the election. ing to solve the problems. An alternative method is to convince voter rolls because a new law requires The court did recognize that the "I point out to them that this country 66,434 persons to register in the name voters to cast ballots in each general courts should decide the issue, an im­ has been run since the 1800s by the of the new party. The odds against election to remain registered. portant step forward in view of a Democrats and Republicans, that ev­ success by this method are obvious. According to the Los Angeles Times, 1957 California Supreme Court rul­ Voters are asked to affiliate with a the voters with the highest non-voting ing that the question was solely a ery law in the books was written by new party before its views are pub­ record were those persons registered legislative matter. them and nobody else. licized. There is no assurance that in the name of a political party not In 1968 the U. S. Suprem_e Court "We see them as a one-party sys­ the party will be recognized by the yet recognized by the state. In Los set an important national precedent tem with two components collaborat­ time of the next primary election. If Angeles alone, 11,540 members of when it invalidated the Ohio election ing to perpetuate the existing system." it is not, the voters have forfeited their unqualified parties, primarily Raza law. Speaking for the court in the Anyone interested in the campaign chance to cast a ballot in the primary, Unida registrants, were dropped from Williams v. Rhodes· decision, Justice can contact: La Raza Unida Party, where many nonpartisan issues are , the rolls. Now these people will have Black wrote, "Competition in ideas and 10211/2 San Fernando Rd., San Fer­ taken up. to be registered all over again if they governmental policies is at the core nando, Calif. 91340. Telephone: (213) · Only once has a party succeeded in are to be counted toward Raza Unida of our electoral process and of the 361-6281. registering enough voters. In 1967, ballot status. First Amendment freedoms. New par­ a massive campaign, inspired by anti­ Because the legislature has refused ties struggling for their place must war opposition to Lyndon Johnson to change the requirements, smaller Continued on page 22

16 Rent board elections in Berkeley_ _ What !Is wrong with the 'Community~ slate? On Jan. 23 Berkeley voters will elect in different ways. No organization convention that nominated the "Com­ of return fro~ their housing invest­ five candidates to a newly formed rent bound them to its intent." munity" slate is sprinkled with rad­ ment, one that is sufficient to "pro­ control board. This board will be em­ This was certainly the case with the ical rhetoric, it is vague in its specific tect investment." powered to hold public hearings to April Coalition candidates elected in prescriptions. At a Unitarian Church meeting on determine rent levels and the criteria April 1971. "Different candidates" did It promises to eliminate "excessive" Jan. 7 Barbara Dudley was asked for evicting tenants. It was created "choose to represent the platform in profits, to stop evictions where ten- if this could mean that profits could last June when Berkeley residents, fed go as high as 20 percent in some up with the abuses of landlords and cases. "Yes," she answered, "it is pos­ real estate interests, voted to freeze sible, but I don't think that that would all rents in the city. be the average case." The Fair Rent Three slates are running for the po­ Slate, which is most directly tied to sitions: a regular Democratic Party the Democratic Party, calls for a max­ ticket, a group known as the Com­ imum rate of return to the landlord munity Rent Control Slate, and a So­ of "only" 5 to 10 percent. cialist Workers Party slate. The "Com­ But the worst aspect of the "Com­ munity" slate represents a number of munity" slate is that it holds out a diverse forces. On it are Bill Walker, dead-end perspective for changing so­ a member of the Democratic Party's ciety. The crisis in housing is part Berkeley Black Caucus; Karen Steven­ of the general crisis of American so­ son of the Black Panther Survival Pro­ ciety. It is part and parcel of the whole gram; Barbara Dudley, a sympathiz­ profit- system. The "Community" slate, er of the New American Movement; \ however, has no specific proposals to .;-~ .,.., Ella Walker, a Black businesswoman; Among the candidates on the Community Rent Control Slate are Barbara Dudley (1), get at the root of this crisis. and Marty Schiffenbauer, a longtime Karen Stevenson, and Marty Sch iffenbauer. In some respects the "Community" ;Berkeley radical activist. slate is similar to an earlier develop­ The coalition behind the "Commu­ ment in American radicalism. In the nity" ticket is a replica of the April early 1900s a number of American Coalition formed two years ago to different ways." D'Army Bailey and ants fulfill "reasonable obligations," cities had "socialist" governments. elect a slate of candidates to the Ber­ Ira Simmons, two of the candidates and it insists that landlords must have These socialist reformers provided rel­ keley city council. Elections to the city elected to the city council with the "a just cause to evict." Just what is atively honest and relatively efficient council are scheduled again for this support of the April Coalition, op­ meant by "excessive," "reasonable," city governments and made some spring, and the Community Rent Con­ posed some programs to benefit wom­ and "just"? worthwhile municipal reforms, but trol campaign is generally seen as en, counterposing them to the needs The SWP program is clearer. The they are mostly forgotten today. the first step in the revival of the old of Blacks. SWP agrees with the "Community" They failed to rouse the population April Coalition. This has led to a Bailey and Simmons refused to sup­ slate's call for an immediate rollback around the broader issues of national good deal of discussion among rad­ port the funding of a women's health of all rents to the Aug. 15, 1971, and international politics, to put for­ icals in Berkeley on the role of elec­ center and opposed including a sec­ level. But the SWP further proposes ward a program for social revolu­ toral politics in social change, and tion on discrimination against women that a maximum of 10 percent of tion, and to organize their followers questions as to why the SWP is run­ in a statement on city hiring policy. a person's income be charged for rent. into a party that meant to challenge ning its own slate. Ilona Hancock, the third candidate "If landlords claim that these rates the right of the capitalists to rule. In essence, the Community Rent elected with the support of the April are too low to run an apartment build­ The real politics of the "radicals" Control Slate, like the April Coalition Coalition, responded by refusing to ing, the city should confiscate the units who are leading the Community Rent before it, is an electoral bloc between support funding for a Third World and convert them to public housing, Control Slate are indicated by their assorted radicals, community activ­ Cultural Center. The April Coalition operated without a profit!" (See the refusal to break with the Democratic ists, and "left-wing" groupings inside slate had "a shared political perspec­ Jan. 19 Militant for the full program.) Party and to call on others to do so the Democratic Party. Nick Rabkin, tive" in wanting to get elected, but In contrast to this, the Daily Cal­ as well. The rule of the capitalist class a member of the New American Move­ they had no such agreement on the ifornian, the student newspaper at the can hardly be challenged without ment and a supporter of the "Com­ need to support and defend the in­ University of Califontia at Berkeley, fighting the political parties through munity" slate, discusses his view of terests of all oppressed groups within reports: "The radical and liberal slates which it rules. its selection in the Dec. 20, 1972, is­ society. say they will raise or lower rents on The Community Rent Control sue of Grassroots, a Berkeley com­ The lack of a clear program and an individual basis, depending on a Slate's refusal to take on the Demo­ munity newspaper. the inclusion of candidates represent­ number of considerations. cratic Party not only rules it out as Rabkin explains that "in the absence ing sections of the Democratic Party "'If the rent's too high, we'll lower a revolutionary force. It also ensures of a shared political perspective, de­ within the Community Rent Control it; if it's too low, we'll raise it,' said that if it is elected, the "Community" cisions over candidates were, in fact, Slate promise further_ developments Dudley of the radical slate." slate will back down from a real fight most important. Different candidates along these lines should the slate win. Members of .this "radical" slate say for the interests of the tenants of Ber­ could choose to represent the platform Although the platform passed by the that landlords should get a "fair" rate keley.

Reprisals follow inmate strike at San Quentin By JEFF BENEKE returned to work. According to War­ since Dec. 28. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14- There den Louis Nelson, it was necessary to It was also learned that five inmates has been no letup in the wave of "find the men who were causing the are in strip cells as a--result of a fight repression against the inmates at San trouble" because he "didn't want the that broke out Jan. 7 in the adjust­ Quentin prison following the recent place to burn down." ment center. The five include Fleeta two-day strike there, which involved To date, no inmate has been charged Drumgo,' Hugo Pinnell, and Willy 85 percent of the prison population. with arson, though dozens of Tate, all members of the San Quen­ Though prison officials and the daily "suspects" are being rounded up and tin Six charged with murder in con­ press are keeping silent on the situa­ thrown into isolation cells. Two nection with the Aug. 19, 1971, in­ tion, it was possible to learn of the reasons authorities have given to jus­ cident in which three guards and three extent of the repression from a few tify the disciplinary measures are that inmates were killed in the center. of the inmates. some of the inmates possessed strike literature and others refused to work Larry Justice, who is facing trial Through interviews with inmates during the strike. for killing a guard. in July 1971, and Nathan Eli on Jan. 4 and Fleeta A letter from an inmate to the Com­ former Los Angeles Black Panther Drumgo on Jan. 6, representatives of mittee for Prisoners' Humanity and Party leader Elmer Pratt are also the Prison Law Collective learned that Justice in San Rafael, Calif., gives ' being held. approximately 600 prisoners are not some indication of present conditions Drumgo was being escorted back to being allowed to leave their cells except inside San Quentin. The letter, dated his cell following a visit when he was in some cases for showers and meals. Jan. 8, described the atmosphere in apparently attacked by some guards. Of these 600, 150 are being held in the prison as "extremely tense," with The four other inmates witnessed the total isolation cells. Some of them were "constant harassment" from the attack and allegedly began throwing thrown into strip cells, where they are guards. food, feces, and urine at the guards forced to sleep on bare concrete with­ The prisoner reports that more than in an attempt to defend Drumgo. out clothing. A hole in the floor serves half of the inmates in the east cell Prison officials still refuse to meet as their toilet. block were being confined to their cells with a negotiating committee to dis­ Officials say they ordered the present and that only two meals a day are cuss the demands of the strike and Demonstrators in front of San Quentin lockup because of two small fires dis­ being served. There has been no medi­ the disciplinary measures being taken last July. In center is Andrew Pulley SWP covered Jan. 4, the day most inmates cal treatment for any of the inmates against the strikers. vice-presidential candidate in 1972.

THE MILITANT/JANUARY 26, 1973 17 ' Fuentes= need bilingual education, more money_ Issues in NY. District 1school fight

By ARTHUR HUGHES World Federation, which has a ma­ teachers. NEW YORK.,.-- Luis Fuentes has been jority on the student government, "In September, when I came to Dis­ in the center of the New York City backed the Fuentes appearance despite trict l, there were over 800 regular school crisis since he was appointed threats by the campus Jewish Defense teachers in the 20 schools of our dis­ superintendent for District 1 on the League to disrupt the meeting. On trict. Six spoke Spanish, one, Chinese. Lower East Side last July. He is now two days' notice an audience of 125- Our teachers and students can't even appearing before closed hearings con­ largely Puerto Rican and Black -as­ talk to each other. ducted by former police commissioner sembled and made it clear that they "In a situation where illiteracy is Vincent Broderick at the central board supported Fuentes and District 1 linked with the systematic deprivation of education. against the spurious charges of anti­ of Puerto Rican and Chinese students These hearings are a result of Semitism. of the right to learn their language, charges of "anti-Semitism" initiated by Shanker lets it be implied that Dis­ the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Need for bilingual education trict 1 faces a reactionary strike if B'rith and vigorously supported by Shanker's allocation of large re­ any 'racist' attempt is made to change Albert Shanker, president of the United sources to the attack on District 1 has the ethnic composition of the teaching Federation of Teachers. obstructed the local board's attempt staff." The ADL refused to cooperate with to change conditions in the Lower Fuentes pointed out that Shanker, and then ignored the results of an East Side schools, especially their ef­ after smashing the attempts by the investigation by the District 1 local forts to create a bilingual and bicul­ Black community of Ocean Hill­ school board last October. The tural district. Brownsville to change its staff during board's report concluded that the In his tour, Fuentes made a case the 1968 school crisis, made sure that ADL's charges were unsubstantiated. for implicating the UF T and the CSA the 1969 "decentralization" law prohib­ The Broderick hearings began Dec. 1. (Council of Supervisors and Adminis­ ited local school boards from having Militant/ Arthur Hughes · Fuentes and District 1 parent acti­ trators, the organization of principals any power to hire, replace, or evaluate luis Fuentes, superintendent in District 1. vists completed a highly successful and other school administrators) in teachers. tour of six New York City campuses the educational disaster in District 1. But Fuentes and the local board ship to the historic and decent impulse Dec. 19. The tour's purpose was to "There is perhaps one issue," he said, have committed themselves to fight of the working man to organize." present the truth about the real issues "that demonstrates best the total op­ for an extension of their powers so He stated, "Community and unions in the struggle for community control position of these up.ions to any posi- that there is the possibility of them should be allies, should be provoking together concerted governmentsupport of education. Nonetheless, the union leadership of the UF T and the CSA has irrevocably chosen the path of co­ operating with those in government and business who manipulate and dominate the society. This union leadership has consistently made war on the minority communities." Fuentes said he hopes the teachers will join the community in the strug­ gle for the District 1 budget, which will be taking place at the same time as the school board election campaign. Over the last three years District 1 has lost 170 teachers because of cut­ backs. This year alone $555,000, or about 5 percent of the district's bud­ get, was cut. It was a similar cut in East Harlem's District 4 that led to the massive community boycott of schools there in late November and early December. The District 1 school board has de­ Militant/ Arthur Hughes manded a 270 percent increase-from $15.7-million to $42.2-million-in Dec. 19 hearing on redistricting. Community activists from District 1 opposed the redrawing of present boundaries and pointed funds for the next school year. Of this out that their district has been gerrymandered before. increase, a minimum of $7 .2-million is slated for bilingual and related pro­ in District 1 and convince student ac­ tive change: bilingual education. I am solving the District 1 cns1s. Fuentes grams, including a $4-million increase tivists to work in this struggle, par· a superintendent selected by a commu­ made it clear that he and the local in funds for bilingual paraprofession­ ticularly in the community school nity whose school district consists of board will not serve as "overseers for als. board elections to be held in May. 73 percent Puerto Rican youngsters, junkie production lines." By way of camparison, City School District 1' s efforts to achieve com­ 15 percent Black, 8 percent Chinese, Chancellor Harvey Scribner, in re­ munity control have been in the news and the remainder are Jewish, Polish, Shankerism questing the highest figure ever, asked for more than a year and have in­ Ukrainian, Indian, and Italian. Although Fuentes placed the blame the city for only $15.4-million for bi­ spired vicious attacks from the mass "Eighty-five percent of these young­ for the antagonism between the Lower lingual programs for the entire city. media, liberal politicians, conservative sters are functional illiterates by the East Side community and the teaching Approximately one-tenth of the Span­ Jewish groups, and the Shanker time they reach the eighth grade­ staff on Shankerism, he indicated that ish-speaking students in New York leadership of the UF T. For this rea­ three to four years behind grade level Shanker's policies ''bear no relation- City live in District 1. son there was great intetest among in reading. There are those who call On Dec. 19 Fuentes, local school Puerto Rican students in particular these statistics. a sign of failure. But board members, and 150 community in getting a factual account of what if 85 percent of the products of any activists defended District 1' s present Fuentes, the school board, and the industry shared a basic characteristic, boundaries at a central board of edu­ parents were doing. we would assume that it was the in­ cation hearing on redistricting. More than 600 students- the ma­ tention of the industry to mark its Although Isaiah Robinson, board of jority of whom were Puerto Rican and product with that characteristic. education member for Manhattan, Black -heard Fuentes in the course "The 15 percent of the products not promised that no changes would be of the tour. One hundred and fifty so marked with this characteristic made, District 1 representatives signed up to work with the Coalition would be the ones considered deviant. pointed out that their district had been for Education in District 1, the or­ And thus it is that I conclude that the gerrymandered behind their backs be­ ganization that has led the communi­ 15 percent of the children in my dis­ fore. ty struggle there for three years and trict who graduate from our schools There is a fear that because the dis­ was one of the sponsors of the tour. able to read and write at their grade trict has shown its militancy, the board The tour was also endorsed by stu­ level are deviant. The system is 85 of education might attempt to include dent governments; Black student percent successful because illiteracy is big sections of the largely white East unions; Puerto Rican organizations, its prod4ct." Side above Fourteenth Street. This such as L UCHA at New York Uni­ Fuentes continued, "There are 2,000 would ha" e the effect of adding great versity and the Union Estudiantil Ped­ children in District 1 who speak no numbers of white voters who do not ro Albizu Campos at Queens College; English at all, 4,000 who speak it so send their children to the public and the Young Socialist Alliance. hesitantly they cannot be understood. Albert Shanker, president of United Fed­ schools but who could vote for a reac­ At Brooklyn College the Third Understood by whom? By their eration ofT eachers. tionary District 1 slate in May.

18 \I Goal of 10,000 readers by_ May_- Young Socialist sales campaign underway By LAURA MILLER school students, and we're planning tion. And very careful organization of thinking on a particular question. That JAN. 15 -Publications of the radical to sell the paper regularly at high the campaign- YS salespeople have person should feel free to order a youth movement tend to be sporadic schools across the country." to be out hawking the paper wherever stack of papers to distribute to others. and short-lived ventures. The Young young people gather. "We're offering the top five YS sales­ Socialis~ which just launched a na­ Are there particular features of the "But we're confident that we're people each month a choice of one of tional campaign to increase its month­ YS that students find most interesting? going to succeed. There's a lot going five hard-bound books from Pathfind­ ly sales to 10,000 by May, is a "Our coverage of the war and dis­ in our favor. er Press: Land or Death by Hugo notable exception. cussion of the various debates in the "First of all, the YSA decided at its Blanco; By Any Af_eans Necessary by The YS has been published since antiwar movement is probably one national convention last November to Malcolm X; The Decline of the Dollar 1957. It has appeared in a number of our strongest selling points. We've make sales of the YS a top priority. by Ernest Mandel; or My Life or The of different formats, including a news­ been covering the antiwar movement YSAers will be taking major respon­ Spanish Revolution (1931-39), both paper, a bimonthly magazine, and since it first began and we'll continue sibility for organizing the sales cam- by Leon Trotsky. a monthly magazine. Its current for­ to devote a lot of attention to it un­ mat-a 16-page monthly newspaper til the U.S. is forced out of Indochina -was adopted last fall. and the Vietnamese are free to run YS editor Rich Finkel recently dis­ their own country." cussed some reasons for the success Finkel went on, "That's another of the paper. thing that many students respect about "The Y.S:" he said, "is the only reg­ the YS- the fact that it consistently ular, national youth newspaper that defends those who are oppressed in reports on, analyzes, and helps build this country. the struggles of youth today- the "For instance, we were the first Black movement, the women's libera­ youth publication to defend Malcolm tion movement, the fight against the X. While others in the student and war, the Chicano struggle, and the radical movement were calling him struggles of students and workers. a 'hatemonger,' we devoted a lot of "We want to gain new readers in space to his ideas on Black nation­ order to win people to these struggles alism and self-determination. And and let them know that there's an we're still doing it. Our February is­ organization:- the Young Socialist sue reprints one of Malcolm's most Alliance-that's participating in these famous speeches: 'The Ballot or the struggles because it's interested in Bullet.' changing the entire society." "We have consistently highlighted the I asked Finkel how the paper has struggle of women. We spoke out been received. against the reactionary abortion laws U.S. OUT Of SOUT~ "More young people are interested as early as 1958. And we've regular­ YOUTH REIIEU.IOI· DEMONSTRATE in radical change than ever before," ly carried news of the women's move­ JEIIESS 811 'SOCIAL YOUNG SOCIAL! DEFEIID mGHT ABOBTIOIIIIl/7 he replied, "and this is strongly re­ ment throughout the world. SOCIALISTS I VIETIA CONVEITION CLEVI m flected in the response to the YS among "We've always been staunch inter­ students. One of the main reasons for nationalists. In recent issues, we've the sales campaign is to reach as run articles on the student movement paign and selling the paper. "Of course, the biggest thing going many people as possible with the so­ in Argentina and Egypt. This month "We've also gotten a good response for us is the paper itself. Once you cialist answers and proposals that the we have ,an interview with three lead­ to the sales drive from a lot of our show a person a copy of the Young paper is talking about. ers of the student struggle in Belgium." other readers. We want to involve as Socialis~ the rest is easy. "YS salespeople have discovered Does Finkel anticipate difficulty in many activists as possible in selling Those interested in selling the YS that the paper can be sold easily al­ meeting the 10,000 goal of the sales the paper. can write to Box 4 71 Cooper Sta­ most anywhere_.:_ on campus, at mov­ drive? "Say, for example, an activist in tion, New York, N.Y. 10003, or con­ ies and rock concerts, shopping cen­ "No big undertaking like this is a campus Black Student Union or tact the nearest chapter of the Young ters, airports, ~ou name it. Some ofthe easy," he answered. "It's going to take a feminist reads a YS article and de­ Socialist Alliance (see the Socialist best responses have come from high a lot of hard work and determina- cides that it presents his or her own Directory on page 22). Uganda: the meaning of Amin's nationalizations By TONY THOMAS in the army. In October, Ugandafaced pulsion of thousands of Asian resi­ At the close of December, Uganda's an invasion by a force of exiles, based dents of Uganda (mostly Indian and president, General Idi Amin, an­ in Tanzania, who were loyal to Obote. Pakistani) who were formally citizens nounced a series of measures directed During the past year, Amin has re­ of Great Britain. Popular sentiment against foreign corporations and Brit­ sponded by taking measures calcu­ favored this step since the Asians dom­ ish residents of Uganda. These pol­ lated to appeal to nationalist senti­ inated the small businesses of Uganda. icies have provoked a renewed interna­ ments and to build up his support Amin tried to further shore up his tional campaign against his regime among capitalist and middle-class regime by creating a xenophobic by the imperialist powers, particularly layers in Uganda. frenzy. He claimed that neighboring the U. S. and Britain. Some of his steps have had an anti­ Mrican regimes were plotting to in­ According to the Dec. 29 United imperialist character-such as his ex­ vade Uganda. At the same time he Nations Report, published by Black pulsion of Israeli advisers and his was making territorial claims on these nationalist journalist Winston Berry, stated support to the Arab peoples countries. the Amin regime seized on Dec. 18 against Zionism-although this has Amin's anti-imperialist measures "all Ugandan tea estates as well as been accompanied by reactionary, and the general instability of his re­ the eight largest industrial concerns anti-Semitic statements. gime have led the imperialist powers in Uganda, most of which belonged Others have not, such as his ex7 to become increasingly hostile. They to British firms and citizens." fear the Ugandan masses will go be­ Generalldi Amin Thirty-four British companies and yond his limited measures and set estates are involved, as well as one off a social revolution that would af­ ment and local firms were also told U. 8.-owned firm, International Televi~ fect their holdings. to leave by Dec. 31 or suffer a 40 sion Sales. Amin said the seizures were This hostility reached a peak at the percent drop in pay. This would bring "an expression of the desire and aspira­ time of the expulsion of the Asians, their pay scales down from their cur­ tion of the people of Uganda to be UGANDA when an international press campaign rent privileged levels to what Amin masters of their own country." was launched to portray Amin as a termed "local standards." He also Amin came to power Jan. 25, 1971, "buffoon," a"racist," and a "Nazi." Brit­ placed limit on the amount of capital in a coup that toppled the regime of ain, the main imperialist power in­ that departing British citizens could Dr. Milton Obote. The coup had been volved in Uganda, took a number remove from the country. encouraged by the imperialists, who of economic sanctions against Uganda A further attempt to appeal to anti­ felt threatened by Obote's plans for at that time. imperialist sentiment was a campaign limited nationalizations. At that time Amin's admirers have pictured the to change the names of roads, na­ Amin pledged firm allegiance to Brit­ most recent seizures as an anticap­ tional parks, and other institutions ish imperialism. He also expressed italist as well as an anti-imperialist to bear the names of leaders of M­ his warm admiration for the Zionist action. But according to the Jan. 1 rica, Asia, and Latin America. Brit­ regime of Israel and brought Israeli Ti_me magazine, Amin stated the firms ish names such as Queens Road were military and civilian advisers into "would not exactly be 'nationalized,' replaced with names honoring Mal­ Uganda. because 'that is a Communist term.' colm X and Patrice Lumumba, as However, Amin's base of support Besides, the enterprises will not be well as Nasser, Nkrumah, Sukharno, among the different nationalities that run by the government but will be and Nehru. had opposed Obote has narrowed in sold off to black citizens who can Not surprisingly, these actions have the past year. In some areas there raise the capital- presumably through aroused the opposition of the impe­ have been rebellions against his re­ government loans." rialist powers. On Dec. 19 Washington gime, and mutinies have taken place British employees of the govern- Continued on page 22

~HE MILITANT/JA~UARY 26, 1973 19 In Review

An appeal Rage Rage. Directed by and starring to Angela George C. Scott. 1972. Four thousand sheep were killed in 1968 by poison gas being tested by the U.S. Army at Dugway Proving Davis Ground in Utah. Another 1,000 sheep The Czechoslovak Frame-up Trials perished in early 1971 at the same by Caroline Lund. Pathfinder test site, despite claims by the Army Press. New York, 1973. 15 pp. that the gas was no longer being used. Although the Pentagon attempted to 35 cents. brush off these events as one-in-a-mil- August 21, 1968. On that day an invasion force of 650,000 troops from the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries occupied Czecho­ Film slovakia, snuffing out what became lion boo-boos- the incidents had cer­ known to the world as the "Prague tain·· bone~chilling as well as nerve­ spring," an attempt to build "social­ deadening implications. ism with a human face." The movie Rage, actor· George C. The Czechoslovak events still rever­ Scott's first effort as a director, is an berate throughout the Kremlin­ attempt to reintroduce these events into oriented Communist parties. Last the minds of moviegoers. summer, for example, a number of Sheepfarmer Dan Logan, played by CPs in Western Europe and Australia Scott, and his son Chris are sprayed protested the frame-up trials of 46 The rights of Gls with a deadly experimental gas, MX3, persons associated with the movement The Rights of Servicemen by Robert Rivkin. Avon Books. New while out on a camping trip. The next for socialist democracy in Czechoslo­ York 1972. 154 pp. Paper 95 cents. morning Logan finds the hillside lit­ vakia. tered with dead sheep (the blood And Jiri Pelikan, an exiled Czecho­ Attention! Robert Rivkin, a lawyer specializing in military law who spotting their noses becomes one of slovak Communist who was a leader works with the American Civil Liberties Union, has written an the recurring images of Logan's fate.) of the "Prague spring" and former di­ excellent handbook on the rights of servicemen and women. You Chris dies, but the military brass rector of Czechoslovak TV, wrote a may want to get it if you are in the military or get one to send and the doctors they control conspire moving appeal in behalf of the po­ to someone who is. to keep this news from the boy's father. litical prisoners. He addressed the ap- The book is short. One wit commented that any book written The remainder of the movie is the about the rights of enlisted personnel must necessarily be short. story of the rage that transforms Dan But servicemen and women have rights, many more than they Logan from a patient sheepfarmer at suspect or are told about. The book's size does not prevent it from harmony with his environment into Pamphlets being thorough, and very readable. It's a no-nonsense .w?rk, free of an individual terrorist whose single "legalese," that will succeed in its stated goal of giVmg Gis the purpose in the last few days of his peal to Angela· Davis, a prominent confidence to confront military superiors who overstep legal bounds. life is to destroy the military instal­ member of the American CP who has Ten chapters cover subjects ranging from military law and the lations where MX3 was created. been persecuted here for her work in courts-martial system, to the right of privacy, filing complaints The film's pessimism is most gro­ support of Black political prisoners. against military superiors, and First Amendment rights of freedom tesquely expressed in the last scene, This latest pamphlet from Pathfinder of expression. in which Logan dies at the feet of his Press contains the Pelikan appeal­ Rivkin knows the ins and outs of military life, both legal and enemy, the U.S. Army. Surrounded which Davis never answered-and practical. He recognizes that First Amendment rights are fragile statements protesting the frame-ups by a host of MPs and helicopters, from the Australian, Dutch, and he is unable to complete his mission Italian CPs. of revenge. It also contains two articles by Books Scott has demonstrated two impor­ Caroline Lund, staff writer for The tant points with this first film: ( 1) de­ and have only been won, protected, and extended through struggle. Militan~ which take up the American spite his many successful years in the These rights include the right to publish poli~cal an? .social com­ CP' s abject defense of the Czechoslo­ world of Hollywood, he has main­ vak trials. mentaries off base on your own time, the nght to JOin an orga­ tained a compulsion to express his nization, the right to possess literature, the right .to ~e~~on legis­ The American CP was one of the indignation in the most direct forms lators on grievances, and the right to demonstrate m cl.vihan cloth­ few pro-Moscow parties to give un­ possible; (2) although practically with­ yielding support to the 1968 invasion ing in political actions. These rights ha~e be:n won .with the onset out equal as an actor in front of the of antiwar, antimilitary, and Black nationalist sentiment and ac- and the Kremlin lie about a threatened camera, Scott has considerable diffi­ "counterrevolution." tivity in the armed services. . . culty in working behind it. A model for organizing Gis against racism, the VIetnam war, and But this claim was refuted by a cor­ For example, in order to provide respondent of the American CP on for democratic rights was the work of Gis United Against the War a transition from an awkward silence the scene at the time. "There was no at Fort Jackson, S.C., in 1969. The story of their successful efforts early _in the film, director Scott has counter-revolution here. Only plans for is told in Gis Speak Out Against the War by Fred Halstead (Pa~­ actor Scott spit out a long stream finder Press, 410 West St., New York, N.Y. 10014, $1.75). This better socialism, for democratic so­ of tobacco juice. The camera obedi­ cialism," wrote George Wheeler in the book makes a good companion volume to Rivkin's. . . ently follows this cinematically mean­ Aug. 31, 1968, issue of the People's The events at Fort Jackson resulted in important VIctones. suc.h ingless brown fluid all the way from World, the CP's West Coast newspaper. as the May 1969 Army directive Guidance on J?iss~nt which IS Scott's mouth into the next scene. Thus This was his description of the de­ included as an appendix to Gis Speak Out The directive acknow­ the transition is accomplished, but mands the Czechoslovak masses ledges for the first time in writing the extent of GI right~ .. only at the expense of the film's cred­ Rivkin includes citations and quotes from key mihtary regula­ raised for the limitation of the power ibility. tions. He lists places where regulations can be looked up and a~­ of the secret police, freedom to travel, Most of the big-media film critics dresses where they can be ordered, many for free. Also useful IS and the right to express differences (Time, Life, New York Times, for a section listing a number of foreign and domestic military coun­ within the Communist Party. example) panned Rage because of its The depth of this movement, which seling groups and lawyer-referral agencies. clear-cut values and blunt technique. saw the formation of workers coun­ As a lawyer who formerly practiced military law, I kn~w of no But the overall impact of the film is cils and threatened to go beyond liber­ better handbook for Gis and for civilians who work With them. extremely powerful, despite disrup­ I only regret that the book did not come out earlier. I would have alization to the creation of a genuine tions like the one cited above. workers' democracy, brought sharp passed a copy along to each of my clients, with the assurance that What the film critics called a "failure" Rivkin gives that the book is your private property and cannot protests of the invasion from Western was a more compelling and worth­ CPs accustomed to toeing the Kremlin be taken away from you by the brass. . . . . while project than all but a few of This book is one of a recent series of American Civil Liberties line. the last year's "successes." And Scott, Union handbooks that serve as guides to the rights of such groups Documents such as the Pelikan ap­ the peerless actor turned less-skillful as teachers, mental patients, prisoners, students, women, and the peal show that the movement is still director, has become a more signifi­ very poor. The general editors of this series are Norman Dorsen alive, a specter that haunts bureau­ cant and admirable film figure as a and Aryeh Neier, who are respectively general counsel and execu- cratic rule all over Eastern Europe­ result of his experiment. and especially in the Soviet Union. tive director of the ACL U. . . -DAVID SALNER -DERRICK MORRISON The Rights of Servicemen (and the other books m the senes) can be ordered from Civil Liberties Books, 22 E. 40th St., New York N.Y. 10016. Get one soldier, that's an order! ' -MICHAEL SMITH

20 EnemY. is Zionist r~ime, not Jews How ADL distorts Palestinian str By PETER SEIDMAN ist exclusivism would mean not that the "Jews The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has produced would be driven into the sea" but that peoples a document entitled "Danger on the Lefr to try regardless of their religion or culture would live to justify its claim that the SWP and other radi­ peacefully as equals. cal organizations in the U.S. have crossed the Second, the document noted the growing num­ line into "outright anti-Semitism" with their opposi­ ber of Jews who had allied themselves with the tion to the Zionist state of Israel. Palestinians in support of these views. The ADL takes the position that since, in its And third, the particular passage selectively opinion, "Jewish communities the world over have quoted by the ADL revealed the very real sensi­ a deep, abiding commitment to the survival of tivity to the condition of the Jews expressed by Israel," any opposition to Israel is inherently anti­ Al Fateh in its resolution. Semitic. The logic of this position forces them to Here is how the resolution appeared in The maintain that the driving force behind the Pales­ Militant: "Jews contributed men, money and in­ tinian liberation movement is not a desire for fluence to make Israel a reality and to perpetuate self-determination, but rather a rabid anti-Semi­ the crimes committed against the Palestinians. The tism. By extension, all supporters of the Pales­ people of the Book, the men of light, the victims tinian people's right are also accused of being of Russian pogroms, of Nazi genocide, of Dachau anti-Semitic. and other Polish concentration camps shut their The real basis of the Palestinian liberation strug­ eyes and ears in Palestine and changed roles from gle lies not in anti-Semitism but in opposition to oppressed to oppressor. This is THE Jewish dilem­ the Zionist policies that led to the creation of Is­ ma of modern times." rael at the expense of the Arab inhabitants of Pales­ Far from "disdain," this document reveals that tine. genuine fighters against oppression challenge in­ It is true that because the Zionists carried out justice of every kind.- In their resolutions, the ADL their crimes in the name of "the Jewish people," and other Zionist organizations have shown no it has been possible for reactionary forces in the such sensitivity to the plight of the people Israel Middle East to use the anti-Zionist feelings of Pales­ oppresses. tinians as a base for anti-Semitic campaigns. But It is strong testimony to the liberating and hu­ Der Spiegel this is not the basic issue in the fight against the manitarian thrust of the Arab revolution that it SWP and Arab liberation movement oppose Israeli state of Israel, nor are the Palestinian liberation is the oppressed, from the despair of their refugee government and repressive apparatus, not the Jewish fighters motivated by anti-Semitism. camps, who seek to define the moral dilemma people. The ADL deliberately misquotes the statements of their oppressors. of Palestinians in order to "prove" its charge that Another "proof' the ADL offers for its charge they are anti-Semitic. For example, the "fact sheer of anti-Semitism against the SWP is the editorial land and property, and condemned them to mis­ quotes from The Militant of Oct. 9, 1970, a pas­ that appeared in The Militant on Sept. 15, 1972, af­ erable lives in refugee camps. The Israeli state's sage from a document entitled "Towards a Demo­ ter the death of 11 Israeli athletes kidnapped by wars of aggression have cost the lives of many cratic State in Palestine," which this paper reprinted members of Black September, a Palestinian organi­ thousands of Arab civilians. The 'humanitarian' from Al Fateh, a Palestinian liberation organiza­ zation. The ADL quotes this passage from the Israeli state tortures Arab liberation fighters that tion. editorial: "The deaths of 11 Israeli participants it captures, uses napalm against Arab civilians, The ADL describes this as a "broad attack on the in the Olympics on Sept. 5 brought forth a hypo­ and destroys entire villages as retribution for acts Jews of all countries," and prints the passage as critical uproar of indignation from government of resistance by Palestinian liberation fighters. follows: "Jews contributed men, money and in­ officials and news media in capitalist co~ntries "Such Israeli atrocities against the Arab people fluence to make Israel a reality and to perpetuate around the world." do not produce headlines or condemnations from the crimes committed against the Palestinians. The The ADL then proceeds to attack The Militant capitalist government officials and politicians." people of the Book . . . changed roles from op­ because "there was no uproar of indignation what­ In fact, as long as the Zionist state exists, the pressed to oppressor." The ADL claims that this soever from The Militan4 which criticized the mur­ people of Israel will face Munich-like dangers or quote shows, in a "glaringly apparenf' way, "dis­ erous outrage merely as being 'ineffective' and a worse-because the state of Israel stands in the dain for the Jewish people." 'diversion.' The SWP paper added that the purpose' way of liberation for an entire oppressed nation. What did the Al Fateh resolution really say? of the world's outcry had been 'to make the crimi­ This is precisely why revolutionists oppose Zion­ First of all, the whole point of the resolution was nal look like the victim' -thus laying the blame ism as any kind of defense for the Jewish people. to define what was meant by the call for a demo­ for the massacre on the corpses of the murdered The capitalist press did not record its outrage cratic and secular Palestine-where an end to Zion- Jews while blaming the Arab terrorists only for at Munich because of its concern for the Jewish a mistake in tactics." people-no, the headlines were aimed against the But this is a lie. The Militant did not place the Arab revolution. blame for the massacre on the 11 Israeli victims. When the Olympic games were held in Munich Rather, the editorial blamed the Zionist state of in 1936, capitalist newspapers did not publicize Israel: "The entire publicity campaign is designed the anti-Semitic exclusion of Jewish athletes from by the capitalist rulers to bolster the image culti­ the German team, nor any of the other anti-Semitic vated by Israel as a small, defenseless country crimes of the Nazi government. Has the capitalist at the mercy of the Arab people. The reality is press become more benevolent since then? Or is the opposite. it not that the advancement of imperialist aims "The state of Israel-backed to the hilt by U. S. today, unlike in 1936, requires headlines about military might-is based upon the brutal suppres­ the death of the Israeli athletes. sion of three million Palestinian Arabs. The Is­ In another article we will show how support to raeli government expelled hundreds of thousands Zionism leads to political solidarity with imperial­ Der Spiegel Results of Israeli attack on lebanon of Arabs from their homeland; expropriated their ism throughout the world.

Militant Gets Around Nancy Cole

Militant supporters around the country might want cents for each ISR sold, and nothing for those bility for paper work and payments. However, The to try out some new sales techniques this year. not sold.) Militant and ISR business offices can service them One method that has been around for a long "Emphasize that these are not fly-by-night pub­ directly on a consignment basis (giving full credit time, but is still underutilized, is newsstand and lications but have been around for many years," for the return of mastheads of all unsold copies). bookstore distribution. Doganges adds. "In addition, guarantee regularity And if areas come in contact with commercial For the last four years, Paul Doganges from of service. Usually little more than this low-key, distributors interested in handling The Militant or the Upper West Side in New York has been spend­ neutral, businesslike approach is necessary." He · ISR, the business office should be contacted to ing a few hours each week distributing The Mili­ suggests that about 10 copies of each publication follow up. tant By servicing 25-35 newsstand locations in be left initially. This can be adjusted later to con­ The business office will provide free sample cop­ Manhattan each Saturday, he and Jimmy Kutcher form with actual sales. ies to any areas that need them for approaching account for monthly sales of some 400 Militants, After some outlets have been established, it's bookstores and newsstands. 120 copies of the International Socialist Review, important to service them without fail each week Along with regular hawking, newsstand and and 80 copies of Intercontinental Press. at the same time. This entails delivering the new bookstore distribution can play an important part Doganges says comparable results can be bundles, picking up the old copies, and collecting in getting The Militant around. In most cities, achieved in any other city, arid he has some hints money for those sold. Doganges has found that this is a sales method that allows for expansion for areas just starting off. The first step is simply having one person in charge of keeping records by continuing to open new accounts. And every to take some sample copies to select bookstores of the locations, bundle sizes, and number of copies bookstore or newsstand carrying The Militant and and newsstands and explain the discounts and sold each week is absolutely necessary. ISR, as Doganges puts it, "provides at least 40 credit-on-returns policy. (Newsstands and book­ Many newsstands and bookstores prefer this hours per week exposure to potentially interested stores pay 12.5 cents for each Militant sold, 30 method of servicing because it eliminates responsi- people."

THE MILITANT/JANUARY 26, 1973 21 tion of the actual course· of events. Telephone: (212) 691-3270. In Wash­ mittee for Democratic Election Laws ... Hayden It is an illusion to believe that gen­ ington, NPAC and SMC are located attempted to file a suit against the uine peace can come to Vietnam at 1346 Connecticut Ave. N. W., Room election laws in the California Su­ Continued from page 5 through any U. s:-imposed accords. 1122, Washington, D. C. 20036. Tele­ preme Court That coqrt refused to If Nixon were willing to let that The basic social contradictions that phone: (202) 293-3855. hear the suit, giving no reason for happen, why did he undertake one produced the civil war in South Viet­ its decision. of the biggest airlifts in history to nam, into which the U. S. intervened In 1973, CoDEL will again seek a fill Thieu's armories and hangars on the side of the landlord-capitalist hearing, this time in the federal courts. when it looked as if a cease-fire might clique in Saigon, have not been re­ ... Uganda Vincent Hallinan, noted civil liberties occur? If Nixon were really ready solved. The class struggle in South attorney, is handling the case for to cut loose from South Vietnam, why Continued from page J 9 Vietnam will continue, and without threatened to suspend all .aid to CoDEL on behalf of the Socialist the latest destruction of Hanoi and question, the United States will con­ Uganda unless the owners of Interna­ Workers, Socialist Labor, and Prohi­ Haiphong by the B-52s, and the in­ tinue to do everything in its power tional Television Sales were compen­ bition parties. CoDEL is also seeking sistence on even mor_e concessions to prop up the proimperialist regime sated. plaintiffs from other political groups than those in the nine points? Can and to maintain a base for itself in Britain raised a bigger uproar. Ac­ in California. anyone think that Nixon would not Southeast Asia. cording to the Dec; 20 New York Attorneys hope to present oral testi­ be willing to use the bombers still As I. F. Stone correctly points out, Times, Alec Douglas-Home, British mony on a number of aspects of the based in Thailand and on Guam, and "It will be a miracle if the new cease­ foreign secretary, said that Britain law. For example, they will introduce the carrier-based planes, to punish fire does not breed another, a third, would demand "prompt, adequate and expert testimony to show how the any alleged "violation" of the accords? Indochinese War." effective compensation for all British California law compares to similar Hayden tries to dismiss this danger The antiwar movement, in the interests affected." British newspapers, statutes in other states. by saying that "if the US chooses to United States and on a world scale, which branded Amin as a racist after Testimony will also show the diffi­ culty of collecting signatures, and of re-escalate with more bombing in the must continue to do everything it can the expulsion of the Asians, initiated future, it can do so, but only at a registering voters in the name of an to expose Nixon's maneuvers, and a similar campaign around this issue. greater disadvantage than now." But unrecognized party. Members of the to mobilize opposition to his contin­ Some threats of intervention have been if the international antiwar ~ement California legislature's Joint Commit­ uing violation of the right of Viet­ made. can be lulled into thinking that the tee for Revision of the Election Laws nam to self-determination. There can Amin's actions against the foreign­ war is over and the U.S. has given owned firms are designed to benefit have also volunteered to testify on the be no peace in Vietnam until the U.S. up, and if Nixon can use the inevit­ a tiny upper-middle-class stratum in legislature's attitude toward revision gets completely out of Southeast Asia, able "violations" of the accords as a Uganda and to prop up his reaction­ of the law. and abandons its goal of crushing justification for U.S. bombing, why ary regime. He has no intention of According to Julie Roberts, a the Vietnamese revolution. would he be at a "greater disadvan­ doing anything to benefit the masses CoDEL volunteer working on prep­ tage than now?" of Ugandan workers and poor peas­ arations for the suit, generating public The Vietnamese in Hanoi, in an ants who produce the wealth of these support in California for a revision article written before they felt com­ corporations. of the current law will be a crucial ... protests part of CoDEL's -campaign. Litera­ pelled to abandon their long-standing The Amin regime stands in danger demand that the Thieu regime be Continued from page 5 of being toppled by imperialist inter­ ture will soon be available outlining scrapped as part of any agreement, mittee, Vietnam Veterans Against the vention or by proimperialist forces the history of the California law and correctly observed what would happen War, and the SMC. within Uganda. Amin should remem­ the attempt to repeal it. if a cease-fire was agreed to without Marching for the first time under ber that .he himself came to power as For more information on the resolving the question of who is to their own banners, Raza Unida Party an expression of imperialist attempts CoDEL suit, or to send contributions, rule in South Vietnam. The article activists in Chicago are building a to thwart the limited nationalizations WE,ite to: CoDEL, Box 40445, San contingent for the Jan. 20 demonstra­ appeared in the September issue of Obote initiated. Francisco, Calif. 94114, or Box 649 tion there. The Vietnam Caucus of Vietnam Courier, published in Hanoi. Only when the land and industries Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. the Chicago Teachers Union, is also 10003. ". . . Let's take a closer look at of Uganda are in the hands of the planning a contingent. The union is workers and poor farmers, and only things and see what will be the prac­ currently on strike. when the Ugandan masses are armed tical results. First, Mr. Nixon will be Five hundred people marched in a to resist imperialism, can the people able to present himself to the US elec­ Brooklyn antiwar action on Saturday of Uganda be "masters of their own N.Y. campaign torate as having made peace, and, afternoon, Jan. 13, and a smaller country." And that requires getting rid The New York City Local of the So­ what is no less important, the Sai­ number marched in New York's of Amin's capitalist regime, as well gon regime can appear as the legal cialist Workers Party will launch Greenwich Village. Local 1199 of the as opposing any imperialist-backed government of the country, all attempt its city-wide ticket for the 1973 Drug and Hospital Workers union in intervention in Uganda. to overthrow it being now a viola­ New York has scheduled lunchtime elections at a rally on Feb. 10. tion of the agreements signed, which antiwar rallies at work centers all over The rally will be held at 8 p.m. might set in motion a terrible mech­ the city on Jan. 19. in Tishman Auditorium at the New anism of reprisals. Mr. Nixon will NPAC and SMC have also issued ... ballot York University Law School {Wash­ have won on both scores: to get him­ a call for a national antiwar con­ Continued from page J 6 self re-elected and to consolidate the ference to be held in Washington, D. C., have the time and opportunity to orga­ ington Square South between Mac­ power of his placemen in Saigon, no.t the weekend of Feb. 23-25. For infor­ nize in order to meet reasonable re­ Dougal and Sullivan}. Admission to mention the recovery of captured mation, contact the NPAC and SMC quirements for ballot position, just as is $1. For further information call US militarymen." national offices at 150 Fifth Ave., the old parties have had in the past" {202} 982-8214. This was quite an caccurate predic- Room 737, New York, N.Y. 10011. In 1972, attorneys for the Com- Socialist Directory ALABAMA: Tuscaloosa: YSA, P. 0. Box 5462, University, Ala. 35486. IOWA: Cedar Falls: YSA, c/o MarkJacobsen, 2310College St., Apt. B, OHIO: Bowling Green: YSA, Box 27, U. Hall, Bowling Green State ARIZONA: Phoenix: YSA, c/o Angelo Mercure, P.O. Box B90, Tempe, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613. Tel: (319) 277-2544. University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43402. Ariz. B52B1. KENTUCKY: Lexington: YSA, P. 0. Box 952, University Station, Lexing­ Cincinnati: YSA, c/o C. R. Mitts, P. 0. Box 320B4, Cincinnati, Ohio 45232. CALIFORNIA: Berkeley-Oakland: SWP and YSA, 3536 Telegraph .Ave., ton, Ky. 40506. Tel: (513)242-6132. 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THE MILITANT/JANUARY 26, 1973 23 THE MILITANT Scandinavians spearhead Viet protests

Part of crowd at Dec. 23 demonstration of 10,000 in Copenhagen. On Jan. 10 North Vietnamese Communist Party newspaper Nhan Dan gave special thanks to antiwar Scandinavians, saying· they had shown 'a brilliant example of international solidarity, and of the vigilance and determination of the peoples against American imperialism, mankind's most ferocious enemy.'

From Intercontinental Press De Forenade FNL-Grupper), an anti­ bombing must not be resumed." By DAVID THORSTAD war organization, had barely enough Scandinavian indignation at the 11xon worried A vast anti-Vietnam war petition petitions to meet the demand, accord­ U. S. bombing is not limited to Recent demonstrations and other campaign is under way in Sweden. ing to Dagens Nyheter. "DFFG re­ Sweden. There is talk of launching a antiwar protests in Europe have The decision to launch the campaign ceived only 16,000 petitions, but plans similar petition campaign in Norway. been of such scope that both Nixon was made at the end of December to mimeograph the rest itself. In the Finland announce4 its decision to and the European governments by the five parties with members in first run, it plans to print 50,000. n recognize North Vietnam on December are afraid to go ahead with a the Riksdag (parliament). These are The response of many, if not most, 28, partly in response to the new planned tour by Nixon this spring. the Social Democratic Workers party, Swedes was that the bombing had bombing. They fear that new demonstrations - the Center party; the People's party, gone just too f,r. One elderly lady When Nixon responded to Palme's will break out, reported the Jan. the Moderate Coalition party, and the who signed explained: "Normally I criticism by asking Sweden not to send 11 New York Times. Left party of Communists. It is sched­ don't take a position on things like a new ambassador to the United On Jan. 16 West German Chan­ uled to conclude on February 1. this because I feel you shouldn't stand States, he succeeded only in further cellor Willy Brandt finally bent to The petition, which was drawn up too much on one side or the other, but estranging his administration from popular pressures demanding that in response to the December bombings when it comes to the war in Vietnam public opinion in Scandinavia. One he criticize Nixon's bombing of North Vietnam, calls for an "im­ you just have to protest. All peoples Finnish newspaper reported the policies. Brandt stated· that con­ mediate halt to the bombings of Viet­ must be allowed to have what they American reaction under a big head­ tinuation of the war would result nam" and urges "all contending par­ want. I hope we can bring a stop to line "Mass Murder is Mass Murder." in a deterioration of U.S.­ ties to sign a peace agreement based these horrors as quickly as possible. n A newspaper in the capital, Helsin­ European relations. on the principles that the U.S. A. and Another housewife, who said her en­ kin Sanomat, termed Nixon's move Brandt's statement came on the North Vietnam indicated they had tire family planned to sign, said: "What an indication that his government was heels of an antiwar demonstration reached agreement on in October." is happening in Vietnam is so fright­ basing its decisions on the politics of of more than 20,000 in Bonn on ful, and I can only describe the bomb­ desperation. Jan. 14 -the largest antiwar llC­ The five parties call on "all trade­ ings being carried out against these The Swedish-language paper in Fin­ tion ever held in West Germany. union, political, religious, and other poor Vietnamese farmers as an out­ land, Arbetarbladet, noted public In East Berlin more than 150,000 idealistic organizations to actively rage." She said she had recently seen opinion in Sweden is almost 100 per­ demonstrated against the war, ac­ participate in carrying out this na­ a photograph of Mrs. Richard Nixon cent opposed to the war, and in Fin­ cording to the Jan. 15 Washing­ tional demonstration for peace and holding an armful of roses aRd added, land people are beginning to feel that ton Post. Another demonstration independence in Vietnam." "If I were her, I would try to hide North Vietnam is on the threshold of was reported to have taken place Petitions with space for signatures behind the roses." obliteration. in Melbourne, Australia. totaling twice the Swedish population The depths of the indignation in Dagens Nyheter also reported De­ Demonstrations in solidarity have been printed and are being dis­ Sweden against the U.S. bombing was cember 30 that "the Danish dock work­ with the U.S. antiwar movement tributed to every corner of the coun­ reflected in an article in the December ers in Aarhus and Copenhagen have are scheduled in cities throughout try. The reported aim is to collect 30 Dagens Nyheter by Lars Gyllen­ decided to boycott all unloading of Canada and in London for Jan. some 2 million signatures by the end sten expanding on Palme's compari­ goods to and from the USA as a 20, Inauguration Day. The of the campaign. Sweden has a popu­ son of Nixon to Hitler. The article protest against the American bomb­ Canadian actions have been en­ lation of only 8 million. was entitled "The Nazi Olympics All ings of Hanoi and Haiphong. The dorsed by David Lewis, head of Premier Olof Palme's sharp state­ Over again," and it asserted that the boycott is to continue until the bomb­ Canada's labor party,. the New ment c-omparing the United States air Apollo moon mission in December ing stops." The dock workers also Democratic Party. assault on North Vietnam to Nazi 1972 played the same role in asked the Danish trade-union move­ atrocities clearly reflected a general American war strategy that the 1936 ment to push for an international boy­ revulsion throughout Sweden. This Berlin Olympic games played in cott of trade with the United States. was expressed in a number of ways, Hitler's: "President Nixon and his ad­ This proposal was scheduled to be including massive support for the ministration are sending astronauts to discussed at a meeting of European petition campaign. On the first day the moon-strangely enough at just trade-union leaders in Copenhagen of signature-gathering, December 29, the moment when that government is January 2. In addition, Hans Eric­ the distribution of petitions had only planning or beginning to unleash new son, representative of the Danish begun to get under way. Yet, reported terrorist acts in Indochina. It is a transport workers, proposed Decem­ the December 30 issue of the Stock­ spectacular of the same kind as the ber 28 that his international union, holm daily Dagens Nyheter, "at the Nazi Olympics of 1936- and the pat­ which has some 6 million members, few places where materials had tern is being re-played today as un­ organize some action against the war. arrived, people stood in line in order mistakably as if it were being dis- "The representative of the seamen's to sign. Teams from the various par­ covered for the first time." · union, Gunnar Karlsson, expressed ties and NLF [National Liberation Speaking from the throne on the strong sympathy for a boycott action Front] organizations were surrounded occasion of the opening of the Riks­ from the Australian seamen's union by people who wanted to take peti­ dag January 11, King Gustaf VI against the U.S.A.," reported Dagens tions." On one street corner, there was Adolf took a determined swipe at U. S. Nyheter December 29. He said he was a line hour after hour of persons wait­ Vietnam policy. "The Vietnamese hoping that the transport workers' in­ ing to sign, and more than 200 signed people must be given the opportunity ternational union "will launch an inter­ 100,000 demonstrate in forty-five minutes. to shape their own destiny, II the ninety­ national blockade within the next few The Netherlands, Jan. 13. The United NLF Groups (DFFG- year-old king said. "The merciless days."

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