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WfJRIlERS VIIN(JIJIIR' 25¢ No. 320 :~) X-523 31 December 1982 Sit-Downs Not SOUR Lines!

• Soup lines are back. Tent cities have sprung up'around the country as the over one million homeless crisscross the nation in search of work until their cars and their hopes break down. Three hundred thousand will have their heat cut off in the dead of winter. The number of unemployed is the highest in American history. Half the 13 million official jobless are no longer eligible for unemployment benefits. The "American Way of Life" has become a nightmare for millions-especially blacks-as the country begins to look like the depression-ravaged. land of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. Detroit-Mayor Young declares a "state of emergency" in this heavily black city of 25 percent unemployment. while his appointed budget director announces that city workers will face massin: ia\otfs when their contracts c,:nl l c i'l 19:-13 ..\OW tens ofthousands ,J , "1" 1 la\Q-Gli a.u"\,.) v,,;'-..Ji.l\.\"'..i.J iUlUI~ii...J dU,,,,, .1...... -."1, their medical henefits. the city's infant mortality rate is as high as any Central American country. and thousands of families literally face freezing to death this winter because of heat shutoffs. "Liberal" Republican Michigan gover­ nor Milliken-who has slashed $16 million in state aid to the city-chimes in that there is indeed a "human emergency" in Detroit. Phoenix-The unemployed and UPI homeless are told to "keep moving" in Depression '83: Hunger in black proletarian Detroit. no uncertain terms. A new law makes lying down in public a crime. (No "equal thousand steel workers will lose their working people of this Southern black only one choice: fight or starve. And right" for the poor to sleep under jobs in an area already ravaged by over city: five thousand demonstrators re­ every worker who's been laid off knows bridges here.) Garbage is declared city 13.6 percent unemployment. But a sit-in spond to the call of the Spartacist the time to fight is while you've still got a property, and garbage picking is now a in the plant could break the union League-initiated Labor/Black Mobili­ job. One sitdown strike in Detroit is crime as well (some upstanding citizens bureaucrats' class truce and begin to zation and run the KKK out of town on worth more than all the soup kitchens have suggested spraying the refuse with turn things around for working people. November 27. and relief programs you can imagine. poison). Washington, D.C.-Reagan pro­ Class Struggle ys. "Let 'em What is needed are strike actions and Miami-The cops' answer to jobless poses to tax jobless benefits to make Eat Soup" factory occupations that can enlist the black youth is to shoot them down in unemployment "less attractive." And a support of the multitude of unem­ What is to be done? Everybody's cold blood. But when they shot 21-year­ special holiday treat for black youth: ployed, not only for immediate de­ against unemployment. The question is old Nevelle Johnson in a video game reduction of the minimum wage. Con­ mands for relief, but for jobs for all. And how to fight it. The union bureaucrats, room on the night of December 28, the gress, eager to adjourn for Christmas, that means a fight against the boom­ like Fraser, say "concessions" is the ghetto community of Overtown ex­ hurriedly debates a jobs bill that won't bust capitalist system. answer. He sold out the Chrysler ploded in justified and desperate fury. create any jobs. A court victory won by workers for a song. The bureaucrats The question of unity of the employed Buffalo-Bethlehem Steel announces a bunch of liberals forces the Giant and unemployed in this country is the the closure of its Lackawanna, New Food supermarket chain to donate its work hand-in-glove with the Democrats like Mondale, who scream for anti­ race question. Deep rooted and vicious York works-a giant complex that garbage to the poor. However, there's racial oppression ensures that blacks employed 22,000 in the 1960s. Seven been one genuine victory for the Japanese protectionism. They try to force Reagan's racist anti-labor austeri­ suffer twice the unemployment of ty down workers' throats: wage freezes, whites. Black youth unemployment has ~ billions in "concessions" to shore up gone over 50 percent. A whole genera­ "U or company profits, mass layoffs. Conces­ tion has no future. Racist terror groups o SIT­ o sions were supposed to save jobs. But like the Klan and Nazis target blacks and the layoffs and plant closures continue. foreigners in their scapegoat solution. A DOWN Now Ford's threatening to dismantle fighting labor movement must oppose FoR (Tr{\l{}~,' the giant River Rouge complex near the deadly growth of the KKK/Nazi Detroit. terrorism with labor/black defense

, ,.~, Flint auto For the working class there is really continued on page 11 ~~BS workers, both employed and unemployed, protest layoffs Hard Times for the SWP at GM headquarters in Detroit. Barnestown, U.s.A. Se~ pages 6-10 · Co~s to die." Why, he actually threatened Frustrated D.C. Shoot Peacenik "violence" (against a building!). But he did have one point, which wasn't so nutty: the world could very well be blown to irradiated rubble in a nuclear The Washington Monument Kill holocaust by the madmen running this country. For over ten hours the Washington, figure who had picketed the White this cold-blooded execution was One of them, George Bush, Rea­ D.C. police and the media blasted the House daily for months before to "ban done by the Park Police just a week gan's VP and former CIA chief, got nation with horrific bulletins of a the bomb," bidding tourists, "Have a after over 5,000 anti-Klan demonstra­ some kicks out of Norman Mayer's mysterious terrorist "holding Wash­ Nice Doomsday." When he drove up tors frustrated the plans of Reagan and slow death that night. Hosting a fancy ington hostage" last December 8. The to the Washington Monument he his tremendous police forces, who had dinner for the monstrous dictator feds played the terrorist scare to the demanded that a discussion of nuclear sworn the race-terrorists would parade General Zia of Pakistan, he an­ hilt. Government employees were sent war become the "No. I priority," a through the nation's capital. On nounced, "We're relieved ... I don't home early, all day TV played clips of demand politically not very different November 27 the KKK was run out know how to put this delicately-the the "helmeted, jump-suited" mystery from the call of the American Catholic and the police were stymied by a person is no longer with us." The man pacing around his van said to bishops. massive, militant and disciplined audience of mass murderers, torturers, contain 1,000 pounds of dynamite. Even if the police really believed outpouring of the decent citizens of spies, bureaucrats of death, laughed. Then, after they had milked it for all it Mayer had the dynamite, they knew Washington, overwhelmingly blacks And the secretary of the army doesn't was worth, when the "terrorist" tried only he and not the Monument with its and trade unionists. The cops them­ even want to bury Mayer decently in to drive away, the Park Policejust shot 15-foot walls would get destroyed by selves did the rioting that day, tear­ Arlington National Cemetery, his him down like a dog. A hail ofgunfire the blast. Mayer had earlier released gassing the crowds, arresting scores right as a veteran (honorably dis­ flipped the van over. Using infrared the half-dozen tourists and two park and beating black youth, but it didn't charged from the Navy in 1946). night-sights they got him in the head, employees stuck inside. At most an take away the sting of defeat. So on At the Washington Monument, the chest and arms. Federal agents rushed explosion might rattle the windows of December 8 they had a cornered, old man handed a reporter a note to handcuff their victim to the steering the White House a half-mile away. lonely victim at hand-and they asking for "an act of sanity" from the wheel, and there they left him for an And for that they shot the old guy blasted him away, in a vindictive government. Marxists know better.' hour until he had bled to death. down in cold blood. No warning, no bloody assertion of their power to kill We know who the crazy killers are in The cops were no doubt filled with attempt to block the driveway or shoot at will. this society-from Reagan's White pride when their boss, Ronald Reagan, his tires out. What about the supposed In the aftermath, the disgusting line House and his foreign puppets to the caIled them later that night to say he dynamite which would have blown the from the cops and the bourgeois press murderous Ku Klux Klan at home­ was "pleased" with how they handled van sky-high when police sharpshoot­ right through the big anti-nuke groups and how to fight them. The Spartacist the "siege." Some siege. As facts ers fired into it? They just blew him and "respectable" left was that Nor­ ,League is determined to build a mass, trickled out in bits and pieces it turned away. Later it was reported that a man Mayer had it coming. Groups like revolutionary workers party in this out there were no explosives, and the \"command decision" had come down SANE and Ground Zero washed their country to end racist terror and the "terrorist" was no Darth Vader but a to "shoot to kill" (New York Post, 9 hands of him; the Guardian (22 nightmare of nuclear annihilation. 66-year-old eccentric peacenik. Nor­ December). December) called his act "outrageous" Socialist revolution i5 the only way man David Mayer was a familiar We don't think it's just coincidence and said he "must have been prepared forward for mankind. Militants Win in Bay Area ILWU Elections SAN FRANCISCO-In elections held November 18, Militant Caucus (MC) members Jackie Clark and Pete Wool­ ston were elected to the General Execu­ tive Board (GEB) of International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (lLWU) Local 6. Clark got 539 votes, or 52 percent, for her second term as a GEB member from the local's West Bay division. Woolston, from the East Bay division, received 407 votes (43 percent). Two other Militant Caucus candidates, Jack Dow and Mike Ka­ sian, made strong showings with 386 and 389 votes, respectively. Kasian, a West Bay member ofthe outgoing GEB, was fired for his union activity by one of the most notoriously anti-union com­ Campaigning for a fighting ILWU: (from left) Jack Dow and Pete Woolston; (right) Mike Kasian and Jackie Clark. panies in the local and is fighting to get his job back. , explicitly pro-Democratic "Labor Pa­ World supporter, obviously drew votes the Democratic Party is the basis for Warehouse Union Local 6 is hard-hit rade for Jobs and Justice" on October away from Lindsay. Those who watch their economic sellouts. We talked by the recession. Twenty percent of the 24. All wings of the Local 6 bureaucracy closely the intra-union politics of the about the Coleman/Bradley campaign membership is unemployed and the fully supported this "Demo-crawl," at ILWU probably wonder why two long­ and the need to build a workers party. local has lost over 1,000 members in the which ILWU International president time supporters of the People's World This was well received by most of the past 18 months due to plant closures and Jimmy Herman was one of the major ran for the same position. This would workers we talked to. . decertifications. Last June the union speakers. Local 6 presidential candidate seem to indicate political divisions "We also got into some interesting accepted a six-month wage freeze in the Al Lannon, who has run for California within People's World circles, perhaps discussions about Solidarnosc. One Master Contract that covers some Democratic Party central committee, related to problems in coping with the worker said he thought Reagan was a 20,000 workers in northern Califo~nia was ILWU coordinator for the "labor" Reagan years. Ramos' candidacy forced hypocrite for supporting Solidarnosc, ILWU and Teamster locals. Besides this march. a December 16 runoff between Lannon having destroyed PATCo. We pointed first-time-ever wage freeze, the new Joe Lindsay, another' presidential and Lindsay, which Lannon easily won. out that Reagan loves Solidarnosc for a Master Contract allows numerous candidate and supporter of the Com­ At no stage of this presidential contest reason: it is a company union for the exceptions in wages and conditions,'a munist Party's' West Coast weekly, were Local 6 members offered a pro­ CIA and the Western bankers and wants first step towards destroying industry­ People's World, served as a parade 'gram to lead the union forward. Not to restore capitalism in Poland. We wide bargaining. According to the MC's marshal on the lookout for anyone who, only do Lindsay and Lannon actively reminded people about our work with .. Warehouse Militant (24 August): not realizing this was a march for chain the union to- the Democratic ANCAN, the mass labor/Qlack mobili­ .... ,the Local 6 officers and business Democrats, might have wanted to carry Party, they both supported and urged a zation that stopped the Nazis in San agents call the Master Contract with its an unapproved sign. The Militant "yes" vote for the Master Contract. Francisco in 1980. We talked about the six-month wage freeze a victory! These Caucus campaigned for Spartacist During the Local 6 election campaign increasing amount of Klan and Nazi misleaders have no answer except. 'Get activity these days and ~he need for more politically active and vote for anti­ candidates for San Francisco City the Militant Caucus candidates talked Reagan candidates in November.' Council Richard Bradley and Diana with hundreds of workers in over 80 defense guards to protect their intended .. , .. They are willing to grant even more Coleman that day, while not participat­ warehouses and plants about national victims. We stressed that labor has the concessions because they believe in the ing in the march itself because it was and international issues as well as about power to bring Reagan down, win "30 companies' right to make a profit and explicitly a pro-Democratic Party pep union problems. Jackie Clark told for 40" and fight racism, but that the support Reagan's anti-Soviet war drive. It is necessary and possible to bring rally. Caucus members used this oppor­ Workers Vanguard: current pro-capitalist leadership is not down Reagan using labor action. tunity to talk to workers from other "We visited lots of warehouses and going to wage that fight." Voting for Democrats won't do it." unions about the necessity of breaking talked to Local 6 members on their Local 6 members desperately need a The Militant Caucus' fight for with the Democrats and building a breaks or lunches. We usually started class-struggle leadership. The signifi­ working-class political independence workers party. off by teiling them you can't fight cant vote percentages received by Clark was directly counterposed to the labor Running for Local 6 president against Reagan with the Democrats. We point­ and Woolston, as well as by Kasian and bureaucrats' Election Day drive to herd Lindsay and Lannon (the handpicked ed out that the ILWU endorsed mayor Dow. indicate real opportunities for the working people into the Democratic choice of retiring president Keith Feinstein who helped break the 1976 class-struggle militants. The task of the Party. In San Francisco this pro­ Eickman and the entire International city workers' strike and used the cops caucus now is to convert these votes capitalist campaign went so far as to bureaucracy) was business agent Abba against the hotel workers' strike. We into a solid base with a class-struggle replace the Labor Day parade with an Ramos. Ramos, another People's said that the bureaucrats' support for pr.ogram.• 2 WORKERS VANGUARD

Ii totally shut down. The.spartacist team distributed in Roosevelt City, a black SL Southern Tour township between' Birmingham and Bessemer. Alabama, where two elderly black women were imprisoned just last January for voter registration, is notori­ ousfor its racist gerrymandering. But in Roosevelt City, they found a simpler solution and just disappeared the Black Workers ·Welcome whole town off all the area maps! Racist Dixiecrat George Wallace had just been elected to an unprecedented fourth term as Alabama governor-we talked with many black: people disaffected with the help the black bourgeois politicians and Anti-Klan Victory preachers gave to re-elect this arch­ segregationist. Washington, D.C., where the Labor/ supplements were handed out, hundreds response was at the well-known black Black Mobilization stopped the KKK of new readers signed up to help college North Carolina Central Univer­ Across the South we got strong on November 27, is a Southern city. distribute and learn about the Spartacist sity in Durham, where we distributed support from the waterfront unions Many of the thousands of blacks who League. 2,500 supplements in two hours and got (longshore, shipbuilders and various came out that day had experienced first­ In the Washington-Baltimore area scores of names. Our revolutionary craft unions), reflecting the important hand the burning cross of the white­ over 200,000 supplements have been defense of the Soviet Union against role they played in the Washington demonstration. The most militant ILA sheeted terrorists; many more remem­ distributed: from bus barns to liquor imperialism found resonance

Let's get it straight. What happened in against "Trotskyist radicals," but also Washington, D.C. on November 27 was against thousan~s of Washington's best that thousands of black workers and black militants. youth, led by communists, stopped the lfir ~fiilabe1pfiia )lnquirrr Ku Klux Klan from staging a racist The "Shame" of the Liberals provocation in the nation's capital. But the government had vowed. that the After our success in stopping the KKK killers, the front-page headlines of Klan would march. And the sight of ~~~~ a;~C ::c blacks and reds together in action, tuasbington 1)051 the liberal Washington Post read like backed up by the power of organized some yellow journalism tabloid: "Klan .• ~ ~~~,I~da~i.t.\ labor, running the KKK out of town, Klan fut-s Rampal-:".! :t- Foes Rampage, Loot, Battle Police," shook the American ruling class. From :.~t1I{'._.~.~~~. ~ ·.'·.·'~1 ij;~t and "Crowd Turns Confrontational." Loo....1. '''.''_ ...... ii,l.·.·... Allnn.In 1.ournnl the Reaganites to the liberalS, including :::t'I=:~:"': 't[~¢~' ITl'Jt., THE AT~-'!'A-o;.£~~~IT_LT!IQ~- But perhaps because they figured too 1>- ._- '0. --- •• - ,,___ .. I' many of their black front men, they many of their readers saw it for responded with lies, r~cist slander and Anti·Klan themselves, and certainly because the protesters Post editors knew just how explosive a redbaiting about mob terror. To top it battle police off the reformist left, enraged over the Klan march in Washington could be in fact that the black masses followed the fl1t~57i this 75 percent black city, they also revolutionary Trotskyists of the Sparta­ ~=.E2":~~ printed some fairly accurate reporting ... ~-- cist League (SL), while its own diver­ ---_~~fr~~~~=:~~ ofwhat happened on November 27. You sions for the Democrats flopped, has ~_. ='E-":::;::":'-'-::' certainly could get a more accurate .. ------.-'-- ~~-- picture than by reading most of the left taken up the bourgeoisie's "wild in the ;ides in weapons ~eeze debate fear destruction streets" scenario. They hope to steal in rags. In particular, the Post reported newsprint the victory over Klan terror D.C. Metro Police chief Maurice we won in the streets of Washington. =.==,=:=.= ·==1 ""- '~~~~r~:sI~ Turner's explanation for why the KKK The 5,000 militants, overwhelmingly ~ blame radicaJs ij ....::~I~':: march was called off. Turner pointed to • • : :~ wlnels down to the concentration of reds and multi­ black, who gathered at the foot of for antI-Klan f10t ..••. j ~~3o.'0tlll9, Capitol Hill in response to the call ofthe _""J'f"-l'i:::_·J._""::=·"·C:·"C'·:: _,~n;.... I,~',=.",,_ ~#iIl{l '_"=-=='::: tudes of angry blacks along the Klan's Labor/ Black Mobilization to Stop the march route, not far away at McPher­ KKK, initiated and organized by the Bourgeois press violence-baits black anti-Klan protesters. son Square: SL, know what happened because they "The situation would have been much made it happen. The Kluxers never set "violen~e" as well as "riots" and "loot­ recalling the response ofblack Washing­ worse if we had allowed Ihe [Klan] 10 ing." The New York Post headlined ton the night Martin Luther King was march down Pennsylvania A venue.' foot in the street; their white sheets "He said the resentment was so great stayed in brown paper bags. When it "War in the Street" and "Cops blame murdered. Even D.C. Metro Police among the hundreds of ultra-militant was announced that the Klan wouldn't radicals for anti-Klan riot." The UPI chief Maurice Turner tried to pin leftist protesters gathered with thou­ sands of other demonstrators at the march, thousands poured triumphantly story flashed around the globe was "looting" on "opportunists," as opposed typical: to "political demonstrators." But Con­ fringe of the proposed Klan march into the streets. They marched down route that a physical confrontation "Anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstrators gressional delegate Walter Fauntroy Constitution and up Pennsylvania hurled bricks, rocks and bottles at seemed likely. Avenue to the White House-the went hysterical over "Trotskyist radi­ "That group was getting pretty worked police and overturned cars Saturday in up,' [Assistant Chief] Tapscott said." KKK's own announced parade route­ a rash of violence triggered by a cals," resorting to grotesque race­ baiting: - Washington Post, chanting"We Stopped the Klan!" At the peaceful KKK rally across from the 29 November end, the frustrated police erupted in a White House." "Yes, Saturday's events proved to be a propaganda victory for the overt racism cop riot. In the midst of exploding tear­ "Peaceful"?! The cops and the Klan are On Sunday, early editions of the Post of the Klan; for the inverted racism of printed a picture of demonstrators gas grenades, we held a victory rally in the perpetrators of race-terror. If the what I call the Tarzan Trotskyites .... Lafayette Park. KKK had marched in Washington it We think ofTarzan as Ihat white person holding our "Stop the KKK!" placards and holding a sign, "Finish the Civil The white bourgeois media took its would have meant more cross-burnings [who] swings through the jungle of the black experience, telling us if you don't War" above a caption: "Labor/Black headlines from the incidental clashes and more shotgun blasts in the.night for know how to get the bad white people, Mobilization demonstrators at First started by the cops in the vicinity of the innocent black people. The media let me show you how.... They had Street and Constitution Avenue. About far smaller rad-lib All-Peoples Congress campaign to portray the November 27 people going through black neighbor­ 5,000 came from Chicago, Boston, diversion, two miles from the labor/ mass mobilization as "violence" is hoods with leaflets. putting [them] on every car and door possible. They had Norfolk and other cities." One article black demonstration that stopped the nothing but lies to conjure up racist loudspeaker systems. driving through reported: Klan. So in the editorial offices of the images of marauding ghetto youth black neighborhoods. telling people, capitalist media, November 27 became attacking whites. It is a license for the 'Go downtown and stop the Klan­ "Meanwhile. the mood was peaceful among an estimated 5.000 anti-Klan not the day the Klan was stopped but police to murder black anti-Klan pro­ who's afraid of them?'" -WRC radio, 29 November protesters who had begun gathering as testers in the streets. early as dawn along Constitution and But the black press wasn't buying the But most of the American left painted Pennsylvania avenues near the CapitoL Just Out! racist "looting and rioting" line. "5,000 the same lying picture as the bourgeois "Demonstration leaders, speaking from Chase Klansmen" headlined New media. Both tried to hide the central fact a large platform at the reflecting pool, denounced the Klan. the Reagan Women and Revolution No. 25 that the cop riot was launched after the Winter 1982-83 York's Amsterdam News, quoting SL administration and capitalism with spokesman Don Andrews: "It was an KKK had been stopped by thousands of slogans like, 'One, Two, Three. Four, enormous victory for labor, Blacks and demcmstrators at the Labor/Black Time to Finish Ihe Civil War; Five. Six, OIl• .-.. a ..d ~ every decent American." "Ku Klux Klan Mobilization who blocked the Klan's Seven, Eight. Forward to the Workers' "r ~:J State.' R",Tolution----.------Catches 'Hell' in D.C.," was the banner march route at its starting point. In ------"When Ihe demonstrators first learned on the Cleveland Call and Post over a particular, the All-Peoples Congress thai Ihe Klan would not march past No\f€1",l~r.:J . picture of Labor/Black Mobilization (APC) of Sam Marcy's Workers World them, they began cheering. 'We stopped Labor 8lac~ MOb,lldt,Qr ~ Shakes WaShlf19 Ton demonstrators charging up Constitu­ Party (WWP) has big problems with the Klan. We stopped the Klan,' and "We Stopped poured onto Conslitution Avenue as the Klan!" tion Avenue. Internationally, there was November 27. To begin with, it was the police lifted barricades and departed. Spa'tac'SlS F'gn' lor WO~f!"S L'berat:on a sharp class line in the coverage of SL (and not them) which organized the "Some protesters led by far left Ms. Rad-Ub Meets Mrs. Rl!action November 27, seen most vividly in the mass mobilization. By picking a site a Progressive Labor Party organizers and ,~- 3000 Stop Nill'S Ch"::

""""-"~ WWP/ APC has a problem, ofcourse, For the last two years, Marcy's WV Photo since all of the reported cases of Workers World Party has been making Cops attack anti-Klan protesters in Lafayette Park. "looting" occurred around McPherson continued on page 11 31 DECEMBER 1982 5 Hard Times for the SWP Barnestown, U.S.A.

It doesn't look like a happy New Year party become more minimalist, more Cuba) a conveni'ent theoretical excuse for the reformist Socialist Workers anti-Soviet, more consistently a crea­ for junking the revolutionary perspec­ Party (SWP) ofJack Barnes. The ailing ture of "State Department socialism." tive of building Trotskyist vanguard organization has been shrinking at the Mirroring the rightward course of parties based centrally upon the work­ rate. of about a hundred members a year bourgeois politics over the past period, ing class. The SWP's capitulation to for several years. Now the crisis is the whole American fake-left terrain has Castroism was fought by the Revolu- aggravated by bitterfactional wrangling moved sharply rightward-witness the . tionary Tendency, forerunner of the which has necessitated at least four virtual disappearance of American Spartacist League, which now repre­ National Committee plenums since the centrism and the miserable collapse of sents the continuity of authentic Trot­ last SWP national conference less than a Maoist revolutionary pretensions. The skyism in this country. year and a half ago. SWP partakes fully of the general drift The Cuba question was the political The massive hemorrhaging of mem­ while clinging to particular Barnesite vehicle whereby the SWP "reunified" bers has produced a first-rate financial eccentricities (like the idea that Cuba with the revisionist current internation­ crisis necessitating drastic cutbacks in has nothing to do with Russia or the ally which, under the leadership of M. paid staff and full-time branch organiz­ continuing infatuation with the mullahs' Pablo, had destroyed the Fourth Inter­ ers; Mary-Alice Waters herself told the WV Photo clerical-reactionary, Persian-chauvinist national in the early 1950s. This "reuni­ November 1981 plenum that "we don't Jack Barnes, SWP's Great Helms­ "Iranian revolution" long after the rest fication" produced the United Secretari­ think we've bottomed out in total man, pilots sinking ship. of the revisionist left, originally equally at (USec) in 1963, the international bloc membership" (SWP Party Organizer, pro-Khomeini, had backed away in between the SWP and the European Vol. 6, No. I, April 1982). Circulation of The big SWP event of 1982 was the embarrassment). Pabloists headed by Ernest Mandel. But the SWP's public press, the Militant, publication in September ofthe world's whereas the European USec was an has plummeted dramatically (see chart largest internal bulletin ("Defending the Their SWP and Ours impressionistic centrist current which p. 10). Every year Barnes' ultra­ Organizational Principles of a Proletar­ was to vicariously enthuse over the electoralist party contests offices requir­ ian Party") detailing the Barnes crew's As revolutionary Marxists, we of the "guerrilla road to socialism" for years to ing more and more signatures-and intimidation and suppression (and Spartacist League (SL) must be con­ come, for the SWP Castroism was only every year it gets harder to find any sometimes expulsion) of oppositional cerned with the program and practices a way-station in a headlong plunge reporting of the vote totals in the clots all over the country. The bulletin of organizations purportingto fight on toward outright reformism. By about Militant. Wherever the SWP turns-in had to be priced at a whopping $8 to get tbe side of the working class. Reformist 1965 the SWP had consolidated around its "Latin American solidarity work," in in every last investigation, motion and formations like the SWP and Commu­ full-fledged reformist appetite on the the bourgeois-feminist NOW, in the threat. nist Party must be unmasked by patient domestic terrain, expressed centrally in National Black Independent Political If Barnes seems perfectly happy as the polemic because they mislead militants the movement against the Vietnam War, Party-Barnes' party has been getting machine-boss leader of an eccentric and looking for an authentic revolutionary where the SWP was instrumental in bounced around by red-baiters and shrinking political formation, some alternative to capitalist oppression and maintaining the political dominance of outmaneuvered by larger (or in the case among the previously faithful seem to crisis. But the SWP has a special the pro-imperialist liberal-Democratic of the Marcyites, probably smaller but dimly perceive the i'ntimations of irrele­ importance because it was until about politicians over the mass of politically more effective) competitors. vance, The SWP's ambitions to become 20 years ago the revolutionary party in heterogeneous antiwar activists. By any conceivable standard of America's pre-eminent reformist party this country, the Trotskyist organiza­ It was the struggle of the Revo­ organizational success the SWP seems run smack up against something called tion founded in 1928 to carry forward lutionary Tendency against tbe SWP's to be going down the tubes, and not the Democratic Socialists of America, the struggle of Lenin aJ¥)._Trotsky for deepening revisionism which preserved slowly. Still the Barnes clique professes an organization several times the size of revolutionary proletarian leadership. a continuity of revolutionary Marxism every kind of self-satisfaction as it the SWP, with more consistent refor­ The SWP has long since ceased to be in this country. The Leninist vanguard completes the final round of "age mist politics and the inside track on that party in any way except in name. party is the organized repository of the purge:' removing from any even cere­ what reformists really aspire to: influ­ The SWP's qualitative break from the history of the international working­ monial standing within the party the ence among the pro-Democratic Party revolutionary program of Trotskyism class movement, the indispensable remaining old-timers whose dusty mem­ union officials who run the American took place in the period 1961-63, when living memory of the crucial lessons of ories of the once-revolutionary, pre­ labor movement. the party then led by Farrell Dobbs past class battles. In the Cuba dispute, Barnes SWP $ire deemed a threat So it's hardly surprising that an discovered in the Cuban Revolution the RT fought to uphold the SWP's to Barnes' absolute bureaucratic interpenetrated oppositional milieu has (which uprooted capitalism and estab­ revolutionary heritage against Pabloist stranglehold. emerged in the SWP to demand the lished a deformed workers state in centrism, which-despairing of the working class-seeks substitute "van­ guards" among whatever seems to be in AMENDMENT by Shane Mage, James Robertson and Geoffrey White for the Minority motion. The RT also vigorously opposed the to P.e. Draft Resolution [1963]: SWP's capitulation on the black ques­ tion, which cast the SWP as a "white "Preparing for the Next Wave of Radicalism in the United States" party" which could play no role in the liberation of black people except as a substitute the following for the the Negro ghettos and making the working class as a whole, the patronizing, passive cheerleader for entirety ofparagraph 41: vigorous and sharply directed cam­ party must steadily seek to make or black formations. The RT proposed 41. A) Our mass work, linked with a paigns during elections. We will then find opportunities to recreate Trade that the SWP involve itself in the mass general propaganda offensive, is an ourselves be in a position to become Union fractions at selected spots civil rights actions, fighting to provide a indispensable part ofour preparation involved in and grow from new stages across the country in industries socialist alternative to the leadership of for the next wave of radicalism in the and turns in the struggle. An example important to the class struggle. the preachers and aspiring bourgeois United States. Our aim is to prepare of such a turn is that promised by the Moreover, every party branch should politicians. Concretely we proposed for the successful transition from Philadelphia mass picket line for develop contact with the most impor­ that the SWP start doing some work in propagandistic modes of work today Negro jobs at construction sites. As tant unions and factories in its area; the South, where black workers in to the building of a mass revolution­ regards the South today, we are for example, through regular, long­ proletarian cities like Birmingham were ary party and to vying for leadership witnessing from afar a great mass term press sales, and accompanied, involved in massive struggles against in the class struggle in the following struggle for equality. Our separation where possible. by direct electoral Jim Crow; we also proposed the party period. Of pivotal importance is the from this arena is intolerable. The campaign approaches. seek to concentrate some comrades in ability of the party to solidify its party should be prepared to expend D) Unless the party is able to create carefully selected key industries and general gains from current work by significant material resources in and develop nuclei in the broader unions. laying down and strengthening its overcoming our isolation from layers of the working class movement But the SWP was in full flight from roots in the mass movement. Southern struggles. In helping to in this preparatory period, it will be Trotskyism and the RT had to be got rid B) In the Negro movement, North build a revolutionary movement in condemned to sterile isolation or an of. The problem was that the SWP, and South, there are today real the South, our forces should work accelerating political degeneration in thanks to its Trotskyist past, had no opportunities. In the North our directly with and through the devel­ the face of the certain upsurges ahead organizational provisions for purging a spearhead should be based on a oping left-wing formations in the in the class struggle. Thus the party's disciplined minority-a minority that taking hold today in the mass combined approach. We aim to work movement there. A successful out­ continued to abide by SWP discipline in with organizations selected on the come to our action would lead to an movement is a necessary pre­ public work while exercising its right to basis of their militancy in particular historic breakthrough for the Trot­ condition fOJ going forward on the participate in internal discussion with ~;';yist localities and regions; we are also movement. Expressed organi­ morrow in the historic mission of the aim of winning over party members involved in supporting the Commit­ zationally, it would mean the crea­ leading the working class to power. to its views. So after bureaucratically tion of several party branches in the These primary considerations must tee to Aid the Monroe Defendants expelling our comrades in J963, the (CAMD). This kind of activity South for the first time-for exam­ be kept in mind in deciding the SWP set about making it all "legal" after should be coupled with such direct ple, in Atlanta, Birmingham or New division of labor between mass work the fact by propounding new rules, involvement as sustained mass sales Orleans. and general party activity. codified in a resolution entitled "The of appropriate issues of the press in C) In maintaining its orientation to 12 June 1963 Organinftional Character of the Social­ ist Workers Party," which was adopted . 6 WORKERS VANGUARD at the 1965 SWP convention. It is this about Cuba are an application ofsocial­ resolution which still hangs over the democratic rationality, as against the heads of the present SWP dissidents like eccentric and contradictory enthu­ a sword of Damocles. Q: How Does the SWP siasms of Jack Barnes. The SWP Spectre of Spartacism? leadership pretends to discern in the Fight Fascism? foreign policies of the Castro regime a The 1965 organizational resolution is "revolutionary" and "internationalist" quoted no less than 14 times in the $8 content, while castigating the USSR's September 1982 internal bulletin. In his A• It Doesn't I 19 September 1980 bureaucrats as Stalinist sellouts. The report to the August 1982 plenum Larry only problem is that the revolutionary

• • THE"~._ ~ • , " _', ,- ..,,., MILITANT" .•••. ",., ,';", _ '" ; "", h ., C< Seigle says: "A myth exists that the 1965 Cubans and the sellout Russians are in resolution was written to be specifically agreement about everything. Poland is a applied to disloyal minorities, following Socialist vs. K/~,[!~,Qe~oc,at case in point-Castro and the Kremlin the experience with the Robertsonites display complete accord in condemning [Revolutionary Tendency] and Wohl­ Solidarnosc for doing the- work of the forthites." That the resolution was CIA. So it's Castro YS. Lech Walesa"'-a written precisely tojustify our expulsion dilemma for the SWP. The minorities can easily be verified by reading it. What want to choose Walesa, while Barnes is a myth is the apparent assumption of sticks his head in the sand. the present minorityites that they are \ somehow immune from the bureaucrat­ \ The "Turn to Industry" ic norms established in i 965 and used on I MilitanVHolbroOk Mahn \ Both minority tendencies were also in subsequent left critics whenever any open revolt against the SWP's trade­ could be found. Certainly the funniest I The Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Congress in California's union policy of "talking socialism," line in the new bulletin is Peter Camejo's Forty-Third District, Mark Friedman, confronted his Democratic Party which may be described as reformist in incredulous cry of outrage: "They're opponent, Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Thomas Metzger, on NBC's "Speak political line and idiot-adventurist in treating me like a Spart"! But one can't Up America" show September 5. organizational tactics. Applying to the find anywhere in the 1965 document the The program included film clips of a helmeted Metzger leading a pack of labor movement the touching faith stipulation that its anti-democratic club-swinging Klanne'rs in an attack on a peaceful demonstration in Barnes & Co. have in American democ­ provisions will be applied only against ~-'1side, California. Friedman called for unions, civil rights, and women's racy in general, the SWP operates in , . - '"1.,,~--~. • leftists and revolutionaries. .,_, ..... t,.. . unions as if they were campuses. SWP The core of the 1965 resolution is the members who follow their leaders' effective prohibition of !he right to DefendingKKK terrorist"freeThomasspeech"Metzgerfor fascistwh s, S.WP ca.ndldate Mark Friedman debates n directives (lots don't) identify them­ factions, a right which is central to (above). SWP was nowhere to b~ rr a~a Dhemocrat In Californiaelection ~Iun selves more or less instantly as SWP deglOcratic-centralist organizational Mobilization ran the Klan out of Was ngton, w D.C.,en SL-InltlatedNovemberLabor/Black27 (below). members, selling the Militant on thejob structure. The document's essential and so forth. syllogism goes like this: (I »)actions are On no question did the Barnesites permitted in the SWP, (2) factionalists show themselves more arrogant and are disloyal people, (3) disloyal people contemptuous of the counsels of older are expelled. The document admits the party members than o'ver union work. expulsion of the RT took place without SWPers who sought to remind the party any proof of violations of party of elementary tactical lessons learned in discipline: union work-like the need to establish "They seemed to believe the party authority as a good worker and good would have to submit to their wrecking operation until and unless specific acts union militant before putting yourself of disloyalty could be proved against forward in apparent organizational them .... With or without proof oj counterposition to the union specific acts. the party has the right, and leadership-were met with a chorus of its leadership the duty. to stop the self­ abuse from Barnesite sycophants de­ indicted factional raiders who were Ollt to wreck our movement." fending the proposition that six months on the job (and a dose of SWP Specifically, the resolution proscribes leadership school) qualify you as a real a tendency or faction from functioning workers' leader. Frank Lovell. who politically except under the direct formerly directed the SWP's union scrutiny of the majority; intra-tendency WV Photo work on behalf of Barnes, was singled discussion through tendency meetings, out for particular vituperation. circulation of documents among ten­ The results of "talking socialism" dency members, private correspondence last national convention in August 1981. left-nationalist MPLA. None of this were predictable. How many SWP and so forth are prohibited. The Both minoriti;;s were fundamentally provoked much reaction from the public meetings have we seen advertised resolution reads: "A dissenting minority rightist in thrust, despite some window­ present crop of SWP critics. featuring a fired SWP member touring has the right to organize itself, but the dressing in the direction of"orthodoxy" But in the past couple of years a the country to publicize the incredible conduct of organized minorities, just as and a good deal of lip-service to the vigorous discussion has raged in the news that company spies sometimes find that of every individual member, must "Fourth International" (by which they SWP over Cuba. And we've enjoyed the their way into union meetings at defense be subject to regulation by official party mean the Mandelite USec). The West spectacle of both sides in the controver­ plants? How many touching Militant bodies." Coast-based group around Nat Wein­ sy quoting from Joe Hansen's 1962 stories have we read about the mounting The $8 "Organizational Principles" stein seemed animated by a desire to be document, "Cuba: The Acid Test," the support from co-workers enlisted by an bulletin publishes a motion from the left alone to practice reformism in one's way New Left Maoists used to wave the SWPer fired for "talking socialism" at February-March 1982 plenum which private "arena," be it the unions, NOW little red book at each other. some shoemaker's shop organized by states: or whatever. The group led by poor old We can't resist noting the observation the railway engineers' union? (More "To reaffirm the right and responsibility George Breitman (now represented on we made in our obituary for Hansen of the National Committee and Politi­ serious cases-like the time the SWP's the SWP National Committee by (WV No. 224, 2 February 1979) regard­ criminal stupidity resulted in racist fire­ cal Committee to ... regulate the inter­ Lovell/ Bloom) argued with particular nal democracy of groupings, tenden­ ing his skills as a literary technician: bombings against black workers in the cies, and factions of the party, in line urgency that the SWP should go all-out "His real talent-manifestly lIseful for a Alabama coal mines-are, of course, with the party's organizational behind Polish Solidarnosc, manifestly party of mounting reviSIonism-was less likely to appear in the Militant.) principles." the ability to propound a new line in the best opening in years for "anti­ When Spartacist supporters toured the Stalinist socialists" seeking unity with fragments strewn through many para­ The idea that a majority has the right to graphs, punctuated with saving clauses South recently to spread the word about scrutinize the internal deliberations of the servile Cold Warriors who run the and orthodox disclaimets." the Labor/Black Mobilization which American unions. For his part, Wein­ its factional opponents-in order, of "Cuba: The Acid Test" is a triumph of stopped the Klan from marching in stein made the bourgeois papers by course, to make sure the minority is this method. There's something in that Washington, D.C.last November 27, we participating in a "captive nations"­ protecting its own members' rights­ document for everybody, which is why ran across more than a few places where style pro-Solidarnosc demonstration suggests a line of reasoning remarkably everybody quotes from it. But Hansen's SWP supporters had gotten themselves alongside outright anti-Communist similar to the arguments presented in line, saving clauses aside, was the same bounced out of industry. reactioIltlries. court by one Alan Gelfand, but we'll get capitulationist line the SWP supports The oppositions share a gut political to that later. today. So what is it that's bothering the Barnestown: impulse to get into the anti-Soviet Barnes and his henchmen are certain­ oppositionists now? Smash, Chop, Purge ly enjoying rubbing the noses of their mainstream of social-democracy. The The August 1981 SWP convention present internal opponents in the 1965 rightist impulse behind the occasional Well, the whole American fake-left was preceded by the three-month resolution, which all wings of the recourse to "orthodox" arguments is_ has moved very far to the right under the preconvention internal discussion man­ present SWP supported to get rid of the shown most clearly on the question of pressure of the bourgeoisie's anti-Soviet RT. But it isn't the spectre ofSpartacism Cuba. war drive. And then came Poland. The dated by the SWP's rules. Over a that's haunting the SWP old-timers, For at least five years now, the SWP minorities could feel in their bones thousand pages of written discussion unfortunately-they're unraveling to Militant has published extensively from that no softness on Stalinist-ruled were churned out (28 internal bulletins) the right. In fact, there hasn't been any Castro's speeches and Barnes has workers states like Cuba (the bourgeoi­ and there were debates in the branches. motion to the left among significant frequently tantalized his followers with sie's new term is "Soviet surrogates") The resulting delegate elections pro­ elements in the SWP since the Interna­ vague promises of future "organization­ would be permitted among the true duced a substantial showing for the tionalist Tendency, bureaucratically al projects" with the Cuban leadership. devotees of "free trade unionism" in oppositions-especially given the way purged in 1974. Earlier, the SWP changed its line on Poland. They urged the SWP to back the SWP handles delegate elections, Angola from ostensible neutralism with away from its 20-year infatuation with with a high (10: I) members-to-delegates Poland and Cuba a tilt in the direction of the imperialist­ Castro, dredging up orthodox-sounding ratio in each branch, which effectively backed FNLA (even after the South arguments to give themselves a left bars minority delegates from election in The present SWP oppositions took African invasion) to one more in cover. any but the largest branches. shape in the period preceding the SWP's keeping with the Cubans' support of the The minorities' new-found scruples continued on page 8 31 gECEMBER 1982 7 Coast. Harer, a senior citizen and long­ the country, and had no political as Griesa that the SWP was peaceful­ SWP... time mealy-mouthed SWP cadre in San differences. As we shall see, this latter is' legal and would never tolerate anything Francisco, was accused of telling a not exactly true, as revealed in the tainted with the suggestion of "terror­ (continued/rom page 7) majorityite at the February 28 branch September 1982 internal bulletin which ism." And the judge was explicit that the The convention ended with the meeting something along the lines of "I follows the time-honored Barnesite expulsion reassured him mightily of the Breitman grouping opting to declare ought to punch you in the mouth." tradition that differences, insofar as non-troublemaking credentials of the their tendency dissolved; Weinstein & Harer apologized a week later, but on possible, shall be published as an SWP. The SWP underscored its vindic­ Co. said they would maintain an March II the purported victim filed append ix ~o the malefactor's expulsion. tive hatred for the remnants of the IT in organized tendency in order to take charges against Harer. What's really In June 1981 Camejo had a hasty 1981 in court. with its lying frame-up of advantage of tendency rights. (We going on in the Harer case is that the meeting with the S\VP's Olga Rodri­ IT supporter Hedda Garza as a govern­ should note here that we have not been SWP minorityites have a branch major­ guez, then abruptly left the country. The ment fink. able to discern any such "rights" existing ity in San Francisco; Barnes and his SWP claims Camejo resigned from the After about seven years of pre-trial in the SWP in between those preconven­ hatchet-man Barry Sheppard were SWP verbally via Rodrigu·ez. Accord­ hearings. depositions and "discovery" tion discussions every two years, al­ determined to demonstrate that they ing to the internal bulletin. Camejo was proceedings, the case was heard in though there may still be a loophole still rule with an iron hand in California. entirely out of touch with the SWP for federal court for three months begin­ permitting minorityite members of the Accordingly, when the SF branch on six months. Then he reappeared in ning in April 1981. Thus it was unques­ ;\'ational Committee to correspond with April 4 passed a motion basically Miami, saying he had neve'r resigned tionably the SWP's major public activi­ one another.) Some three months later, accepting Harer's apology, battle was from the SWP. Did he Of didn't he?-we ty leading up to the August 198 I in November 1981, the SWP had to joined with a vengeance. The majority don't know. Camejo was refused per­ national convention. Under the pressure convene an NC plenum to "settle" some appealed the decision to the Bay Area mission to attend the "six-day war" of the Watersuit the Barnesites hastily "blow-ups," the settlement arrived at District Committee, which according to plenum which considered his reversed an initial line of softness being expulsions in Minnesota and Los the internal bulletin discussed the case at resignation/expulsion and passed a toward the Soviet intervention in Angeles. five meetings and voted on May 3 to motion against him. Afghanistan. And in court the SWP Four months later, in February­ .censure Harer. That wasn't the end The background to the estrangement attained new depths of explicit parlia­ March 1982, came another NC plenum, either. When the Bay Area district of Camejo includes two criticisms ofthe mentarism and reformism without fig which we'll call for easy reference the leaves: take for example the 15 May "six-day war." The meeting, reportedly Q; summary of Barry c: 1981 Militant's attended by "the entire NC and over 50 E Sheppard's testimony: "SWP advocates x organizers and fraction heads" and W'" peaceful election of workers and farm­ covering nearly a week (the kind of time enLL ers government, which will need allotted for national conventions), SWP ~ changes in Constitution to implement passed 27 motions dishing out discipli­ oppositionist a program." nary actions and threats against adher­ Nat Weinstein Alongside the programmatic rightism ents of minority views. Numerous unites with anti­ was displayed a panicky ineptitude you motions dealt with the pathetic efforts communist don't have to be a leftist to notice, of various oppositionists to find ways to Libertarians at perhaps peaking with the response to politically collaborate with co-thinkers rally for counter­ government demands for more and in between conventions. Both the revolutionary more "disclosure": turning over more Polish Breitman group, which had dissolved its SolidarnoSc, and more names, records, etc., only to tendency, and the Weinstein group, San Francisco, turn around and just destroy the party's which had not, were castigated as 14 December financial records to keep them out of "secret factions" and threatened with 1981. court-a master stroke ofBarnes/Seigle disciplinary action. which the upright patrician judge The general tone of the "six-day war" almost couldn't believe. plenum is captured neatly in Motion membership (in a "straw vote," of SWP leadership back in January 1981. Glowing reports on the Watersuit Number Ten, putting the ranks on course) arrived at a tie vote on June 5, One was a proposal, debated in the New filled countless pages of the Militant in notice: the Barnesites escalated again, up to the York branch, on the city elections put the months prior to the 1981 Oberlin "To inform all party members who California State Committee, which duly forward by Camejo and two others. convention. Yet the case went virtually voted for either of the NC minorities during the August 1981 pre-convention censured Harer on July 18. Their right-oppositional document dis­ unremarked in an internal discussion discussion, and who may be confused plays marked restlessness with the SWP which featured documents on every about the party's organiz"ational norms Peter Camejo: and casts around for "united front" subject from Cuba to why being due to the conduct of the minority NC Did He or Didn't He? electoral bloc partners, principally the physically handicapped doesn't have to members since the convention cited bv Puerto Rican Socialist 'Party (and stop you from making the "turn to the Control Commission. that they are The real bombshell of the August industry." In the 24 bulletins only one instructed to cease and desist from any 1982 plenum was the final fall of Peter behind this, the thinly concealed appe­ organized meetings in their areas." . tite to chase the Democratic Party, comrade submitted any contribution on (a.k.a. "Pedro") Camejo, a Barnes man the court case. No member of the SWP Motion Number Twenty-Three es­ which is the real question facing all the for 22 years and one of the slimiest of leadership recorded any comment on tablished that 1982's annual Oberlin Barnes' creatures. A scion of the Latin SWP oppositionists). At about the same time, Camejo penned a letter to the the case in the written discussion. gathering would be an educational American ruling class (and the Long SWP leadership containing a proposal Perhaps Camejo should have stuck to conference, not a party convention. Island middle class), Camejo's "third to seek TV coverage for the SWP's the Puerto Rican Socialist Party and left The educational was the usual tepid world" pretensions were fulsomely "Watersuit" trial. To the extent Came­ the Watersuit alone. affair. But there was plenty to keep the catered to by the SWP leadership and jo's. sub-inane proposal has political National Committee busy and another his penchant for lying for the sheer fun Bureaucratic Centralism content, it is rightist and civil­ plenum was held at the time of the of it was much appreciated for many libertarian. So far as we can ascertain, What makes the Camejo affair the educational. Plenum highlights in­ years. In 1979 he attained even greater Camejo's letter was never made avail­ real centerpiece of the September 1982 cluded the ruling that 18 Breitman celebritv in certain circles when he was able to the membership prior to the SWP int,ernal bulletin is that Peter group supporters had no right to declare accused by the Morenoite tendency of Camejo was not one ofthe despised old­ themselves the "Fourth Internationalist having fingered leftists of the Simon publication of the recent internal timers belatedly discerning the whisper Tendency," some more expulsions in Bolivar Brigade to the Nicaraguan bulletin. of the axe. Camejo was for more than 20 Minnesota and the case of Asher Harer. government for deportation. What's remarkable about Camejo's years not merely a 100 percent Barnesite The Asher Harer affair casts a So SWPers were mostly quite Watersuit letter is that it suggests a celebrity but one of the few real insiders. revealing light on the factional polariza­ surprised to be informed that Camejo dangerous case of lese majeste. The tion gripping the SWP on the West was no longer an SWP member, had left Watersuit is a civil suit brought by the The transfer of control from the old SWP against the government which boys under Dobbs/ Kerry to the Barnes aims at securing a $70 million settlement crew was essentially complete long to compensate the SWP and its mem­ before the final round of "age purge" SPARTACIST LEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY bers for FBI "COINTELPRO" crimes began; people like Frank Lovell were disclosed by post-Watergate "Freedom mere window-dressing even if they National Office Chicago Madison Box 1377. GPO Box 6441. Main PO. c/o SYL of Information" revelations. Via the suit seemed too dim to know it. Real power New York, NY 10116 Chicago, IL 60680 Box 2074 Barnes & Co. are seeking a special resided solely with Barnes and his (212) 732-7860 (312) 427-0003 Madison, WI 53701 (608) 251-3398 license to practice reformism unhin­ cronies. And who were the cronies? Pre­ dered by the normal and abnormal eminently, it was Barry Sheppard and Ann Arbor Cleveland New York c/o SYL Box 91954 Box 444 "dirty tricks" of government agencies, Peter Camejo, dishing it out to everyone P.O Box 8364 Cleveland. OH 44101 Canal Street Station from the FBI and CIA to the immigra­ else. Ann Arbor. MI 48107 (216) 621-5138 New York. NY 10013 (313) 662-2339 (212) 267-1025 tion and tax authorities. The Watersuit But by the beginning of 1981 Camejo displayed the full flowering of Barnesite was "leading the turn to industry"-i.e., Detroit Norfolk Berkeley/Oakland Box 32717 opportunism, as well as a shocking loss he was sweating it out in the garment P.O. Box 32552 PO Box 1972 Detroit. MI 48232 Main P.O. of basic legal and administrative compe­ district among the desperately op­ Oakland, CA 94604 (313) 961-1680 (415) 835-1535 Norfolk, VA 23501 (804) 485-1964 tence on the part ofthe Barnesized party pressed immigrant and minority work­ Boston Houston (see "Reformism on Tria!." WV No. ers who Barnes thinks are some kind of Box 26474 San Francisco Box 840, Central Station Box 5712 286,31 July 1981). "strategic" sector of the "industrial" Houston, TX 77207 Cambridge, MA 02139 San FranCISco, CA 94101 Back in 1974, the Watersuit proces.s proletariat. What happened? Was (617) 492-3928 (415) 863-6963 Los Angeles directly prompted the consummately Camejo's flamboyantly cynical style Champaign Box 29574 Washington, D.C. bureaucratic expulsion of over a hun­ seen as a threat to Barnes?-after all. c/o SYL Los Feliz Station 210 7th SI. S.E. Suite E12 dred SWP members, left-oppositional one thing about a machine is that it can P.O. Box 2009 Los Angeles. CA 90029 Washington. DC 20003 Champaign, IL 61820 (213) 663-1216 (202) 636-3537 supporters of the Mandelite USee have only one boss. Did the full constituted as the Internationalist Ten­ flowering of the Barnes ego finally TROTSKYIST LEAGUE OF CANADA dency (IT). As the European press and become too much for Camejo's own right-wing ideologues at home were remarkable ego? Was Camejo's interna­ Toronto Vancouver baiting the Mandelites as "terrorists." tional following real enough to make Box 7198, Station A Box 26. Station A Toronto, Ontario M5W 1X8 Vancouver, B. C. V6C 2L8 the SWP simply proclaimed the IT a him a danger in a period of increasingly (416) 593-4138 (604) 681-2422 separate "IT party" inside the SWP and envenomed relations between the SWP expelled them to reassure Judge Thom- and USee'? 8 WORKERS VANGUARD Camejo's documents. letters, appeals lame efforts-e.g., the "Christmas card" an inherently unstable rotten bloc provide no answer. But his materials­ subterfuge for "unauthorized" corre­ between Mandel's European centrist self-serving in the extreme. needless to spondence; the disingenuous bid to keep impressionists and the hardened refor­ say-provide a real look inside the real discussion open in the Young Socialist mist SWP. The bloc underwent periods SWP leadership. Camejo has turned on Alliance after a convention. At the of sharp factional struggle, most nota­ Barnes with a vengeance, and the result subsequent plenum in August was bly during the early 1970s when the recalls nothing so much as the testimony added the "Fourth International" fig question of Portugal and the USec's of the wretched Tim Wohlforth on the leaf. the argument that the opening of continuing vicarious attachment to the subject of his mentor. the British preconference discllSsion in the _USec "guerrilla road" strained relations to the political bandit Gerry Healy. whom ought to open a discussion in the SWP. breaking point. Wohlforth slavishly served for over a In any case there's a lot more to Had the USee been an international decade. When Healy unceremoniously Barnes' ':revolutionary centralism" than formation in the Trotskyist sense-that dumped Wohlforth in 1974. the latter rules. In 1980, for example, in the wake is. a world party seeking to arrive at and .. (en route back to the SWP) penned a of the }.:d Heisler scandal. the SWP took carry out a common international I lengthy expose of Healy's machinations advantage of its "security policy" to do political policy-there would have been I which was serialized in the SWP's some wholesale witchhunting. The a split. To be sure, neither side had I lniercontinental Press. The man hadn't Control Commission rammed through anything approximating an authentic [.. said a true word in over a dozen years, a rash of "disloyalty" expulsions, in Trotskyist program, but the differences .. but his account of life among the particular cleaning out the Houston were still very real. The European ~ Healyites had the unmistakable ring of branch. a perennial hotbed of political sections were very much a part of the truth. opposition and a base of the former "., "".'m, "generation of '68," the -radicalization . ?~ &'­ Camejo's documents. particularly "A Internationalist Tendency. The witch­ /1 ,:." ..< associated especially with the French :'t-' Reply and Clarification," and the hunt was so wide-ranging and so savage WV Photo general strike. They were eclectic, second~hand reports of Camejo's com­ that a halt was called and some of the Barnes hatchetman Peter (a/kJa opportunist, given to carrying red plaints also collected in the internal purges were eventually reversed-not, Pedro) Camejo gets the axe. Fallen banners and chanting "Ho. Ho, Ho Chi I bulletin, partake of something of the of course, those in Houston. honcho squeals, "They're treating Minh" at demonstrations. Meanwhile same quality. Camejo recounts the story The SWP's essential "organizational me like a Spart." the SWP (shaped by the more right­ of his "nomination" for the Political principle," enshrined in statute and wing American political terrain, which Bureau: he would have been its only otherwise, is the suppression of debate: process is if anything the last remaining lacks for example the mass Communist "member" not employed as a full-time turning the YSA into a front group by loophole in Barnesite "organizational and social-democratic workers parties) SWP functionary-and the body holds operating SWP members inside as a principle." We wouldn't mind betting stayed as far away as possible from its meetings during working hours! The disciplined party fraction; perverting that by the time the next discussion is "ultralefts" like SDS and the Panthers, sole effect of placing Camejo on a body the mechanisms for orderly preconven­ opened (probably sometime around chanting "Bring Our Boys Home Now!" whose meetings he could not attend tion discussion into a prohibition of next May), a lot of Barnes' critics just with the other social-patriots and would be to bar him from raising his discussion and inter-tendency struggle won't be around, one way or another. policing antiwar demonstrations differences before the membership, at any time except during a three-month The Barnes crew observes quite against anti-imperialist youth. since the bureaucratic "norms" of the "hundred flowers campaign" once every correctly that the various minorities In the middle run, developments SWP effectively bar members ofleading two years; the "disloyalty" expulsions; have begun to call into 'question the favored the SWP which increased its committees from raising their views the "is he in, is he out?" game; the united obligation of all party members to weight in the USec as the leftism of the outside those bodies. - front ofthe leadership against the ranks; uphold the majority line in public work. Europeans fell into disarray. The The SWP has employed this classic the successive waves of "age purge." (The first was the little group in "guerrilla road" didn't produce any bureaucratic practice-the common Life as an oppositionist in the SWP is Minnesota around Harry DeBoer. a more easy victories in Latin America, front of the leadership before the nasty and above all short. You can beat founding member of the American the heady memories of barricades in the· ranks-along with countless other the odds if you're like the recently Trotskyists in 1928 and now a Stalino­ streets of Paris faded, the Mandelites mechanisms for stifling debate for many departed David Keil, patient and above phobic workerist.) Increasingly, the started to tail social-democracy in years. The fall of Camejo, accompanied all entirely isolated. Then you can write SWP's disgruntled elements are finding earnest. The SWP rammed the "turn to by massive Barnesite gloating (the whatever you want every two years, the the SWP a fetter on their impulses­ industry" down the Europeans' throats claims that garment was "a plum better to display how "democratic" is hence the attraction for them ofperfect­ and things seemed to calm down for a assignment" for example), surely Barnes' party. ly menshevist organizational standards. while. couldn't happen to a nicer guy. But all The problem, though, is that democratic But things sure aren't calm now. In centralism, the appropriate organiza­ the SWP's current leading dissidents Preconvention Loophole January 1982 the USec entered the find themselves in the unpleasant tional structure for a Leninist vanguard Camejo affair with a posture of studied position of having been junior partners Tne decision not to hold a convention party, has no reason to exist without the agnosticism on Camejo's alleged resig­ I in the remaking of the SWP in Barnes' in 1982 was itself a consummately anti­ politics to match. The SWP-with its nation from the SWP. At a USee image, not least where the organization­ democratic move ofthe sort not covered reformist line, its incredibly pollyan­ meeting on January 10 the Mandelites al question is concerned. Dobbs' 1965 by statute. A revolutionary party seeks naish faith in the protections of Ameri­ turned down the SWP's demand that organizational resolution was one wa­ full discussion in order to arrive at can capitalist democracy, its hypertro­ Camejo, one of the SWP's fraternal tershed and the 1974 expulsion of the decisions, above all when there are phy of electoral work, its 9-to-5 representatives on the International Internationalist Tendency on the fourth differences. A Leninist organization leadership, its high proportion of paper Executive Committee (lEC). be re­ of July was another. which found itself confronted with the members exercising the same formal placed by another SWPer. At the end of The 1965 resolution "works" perfectly necessity for a six-day plenum and 27 rights as the cadres who really do the May, the IEC agreed to let the SWP well as a means for bureaucratically disciplinary motions to "regulate discus­ work and pay the money-is in fact a replace Camejo. then turned around "regulating" discussion-so long as sion" would certainly open a discussion social-democratic formation that might and co-opted Camejo onto the IEC asan there is no real current of opposition in and might well schedule an immediate as well have the organizational form to additional member. The SWP retaliated the party. But this situation no longer national convention-the highest body match. "Revolutionary centralism," as best it could by contemptuously obtains in the SWP and suddenly a of the national party-to fully air the without revolutionary politics, is noth­ spitting on Camejo's contention that as whole milieu of disgruntled elements is differences and elect a leadership reflect­ ing but a device for bureaucratic control a member of the leading committee of by Barnes and his coterie. casting around for loopholes in the ing the new relationship of forces the "Fourth International." he should ~ "norms"-mainly for ingenious devices between the majority and the opposi­ That the SWP is really pretty be permitted to attend SWP functions to keep discussion going in the party or tions. But Barnes' party is a bureaucrat­ unconcerned about the plummeting like the Oberlin meeting. I at least between minority co-thinkers. ic organization; the national convention circulation of its public press is itself an Meanwhile, it was revealed that at the t. The "six-day war" plenum in particular is not its highest body in any meaningful index of social-democratic organiza­ end of January, two members of the lowered the boom on the oppositionists' sense and the preconvention discussion tional conceptions. The circulation of a European USec leadership had met Leninist press, one's "collective organiz­ privately with the SWP's Frank Lovell er" in struggle. is a crucial measure ofan and Steve Bloom in Montreal. POLiTlCilL PQLICE ON TRIAL organization's effectiveness. But social­ Politically things have heated up a lot, How Marxists view U.S. Constitution democrats measure their importance in SWP: U.S. Constitution, Yes- Jack Barnes on fight for socialism and democracy with the most significant divergence . terms of "influence" closer to the probably being the Lebanon question. Russian RevoIution N 0 ....!'1y'""'aii6ri(jiinnepejjd~; corridors of power-how many Demo­ , Does the Socialist Workers The SWP's 1982 Oberlin educational believe that their ideas are consist­ crats endorse our defense cases? How was marked by extreme uncritical ent with the philosophy underlying many union presidents do we call by enthusing over the nationalist Palestini­ -the United States Constitution? their first names? Even when the an Liberation Organization (PLO): Socialist Party still had some signifi­ Jack Barnes: Yes, in the sense that a '''Yassir Arafat, chairman of the PLO. J republican form of government-in the qlOce, nobody ever read New America IS displaying capacities that any ( working-class fighter must recognize 24 July 1981 sense of a rule of law, which has elected and it didn't matter. So the insipid, overpriced Militant will go on dropping and identify with,' [Malik] M iah contin­ THE MILITANT officials that govern-is the ued..... He is also placing the PLO in socialist democracy, in circulation, unless the ecologically the strongest political position for the sensitive SWP decides to do some next phase of the struggle·... innocent trees a favor by cutting back ~Mi/ilant. 3 September 1982 revolution the frequency. The shameless SWP sees no reason to I Winter: Mr. Barnes, does the So­ modulate its position now that the cialist Workers Party consider the Enter the USec "strongest political position" is shown Russian revolution to be a model to l to entail the IsraelijPhalangist massacre be followed in the United States? The factional situation in the SWP, and especially the impact of the Camejo of 1.800 Palestinians after the PLO had Barnes: No, not in a concrete sense of affair, is complicated by the touchy been disarmed and dispersed by the an overthrow ofczarism and the mass of question of the SWP's relationship with imperialist "peacekeepers." peasantry and all the thIngs that But the USee in its October 10 discussed in the last several hours. the "fraternal comrades" of the USec. be false. The "reunification" of 1963 was accom­ statement on Lebanon (International plished on the ba'sis of a centrist Viewpoint, I November 1982) charac­ convergence which was for the SWP a terized the situation as a "military Watersuit showed full flowering of SWP's anti-Soviet reformism. transient period in its plunge. toward defeat" and stated that 'The 1982 war reformism; soon, the USee had become continued on page 10

31 DECEMBER 1982 9 hands, demoralization and, for many, bourgeois authorities in the investiga­ the recogmtlOn of the danger to left withdrawal from politics altogether. tion of Trotsky's assassination by a organizations in general and the SWP in SWP... Stalinist agent in 1940-testimony to (continued from page 9) Of course, the present SWP the position of trust Hansen had won in particular, but from our continuing minorities are a horse of a very different theTrotskyist movement-became the commitment to defending the reputa­ and the battle ofBeirut register a radical color. If anything, they stand further excuse for a loathsome Healyite cam­ tion of Trotskyism and its historic paign to slander Hansen as an 'accom­ leaders against the baseless slanders of evolution in the relationship of forces from the USec politically than did the plice' to the assassination and an agent in favor of imperialism in the region." IT-but unlike the IT they stand on the of the Stalinist GPU, FBI, etc. the unspeakable Healyites. It is our The statement is classically centrist in its right, and Mandel's a good deal more "The Spartacist tendency actively de­ revolutionary tradition which is being born-yesterday quality, lecturing the comfortable doing business with refor­ fended Hansen against the slander vilified! But our request last October to campaign, which mimicked the discred­ PLO on the need to base itself on the mists than with left critics. In any case, the SWP for information about the ited Stalinist chorus that Trotsky had Gelfand suit brought the reply: "The class oppression of the Arab masses by the IT was more vulnerable to the been murdered by one of his own their own bourgeoisies and on "interna­ vicissitudes of SWPfUSec relations people. In addition to signing the Socialist Workers Party will not pro­ tionalism," as if the USec had not been because they needed a party, a place to statements prepared by the SWP, we vide any assistance to the Spartacist among the biggest cheerleaders for PLO picketed Healyite 'public' meetings. League." continue their activism as a political demanding, 'Who Gave Healy His nationalism right up until the defeat in current in this country; in contrast, How's about providing a little assist­ Security Clearance?' ... " ance to the late Joseph Hansen and. Lebanon. The statement, which scanda­ many of the SWP's alienated old-timers - WV No. 224, 2 February 1979 lously refuses to demand imperialist are undoubtedly seeking nothing more The sinister Healyites' deeply malicious James Cannon (not to mention their still troops out, is nonetheless miles away more or less living contemporaries like from the"Palestinian victory" line ofthe Farrell Dobbs and Tom Kerry) by a SWP. vigorous public counterattack on Hea­ In Europe. rumors of an iinpending ly's slanders? But incredibly. the SWP's split between the SWP and USec have Where Militant Sales Go Wrong :Hilitant has said not one word about increased. particularly since the USec Comparison of SL's WV and SWP's Militant: Paid press circulation per issue the Gelfand case-not when the SWP's began publication of a new English­ Number , " """"=, t + , motion to dismiss was denied in June 01 1980. not even when the motion for language journal to compete with papers Intercontinental Press. It's clear that the summary judgment was denied in I+~-+------+- Mandelites are enjoying tweaking 20,000 I I III August 1982. Barnes' tail by backing Camejo and Not that Gelfand hasn't occupied the playing footsie with the Breitman leadership's attention. The dire financial grouping, but the dissidents better think report presented at the 1982 Oberlin three times before counting on support 15.000 1----J~-+--tl----':~"'--lkJt~11---rII II educational laid heavy stress on the from the USec when it counts. . heavy expenses incurred by the SWP in The bitter experience of the WV subs and sales the case. And this year's YSA preconfer­ Internationalist Tendency (IT) should ence discussion features the following in I ___ be hard for anyone associated with the 10,000 I------I I' I ,. I~~I a report adopted by the YSA National SWP ever to forget. Framed up and Militant subs and sales Committee last April: "The Healyite lawsuit is not a laughing bounced out of the SWP in 1974 for its matter. ... Fighting this lawsuit is also adherence to the Mandel wing of the costing us plenty in terms of time, "international" during the heat of the 5,000 I ~ ~ I ,.. ! ,.. d Militant paid subs money and leadership attention.... near-split period, the IT was hung out "We have achieved some successes on the line and left there by the already in this effort. We forced them to ~ .J-:-:-t--r=t·· t- -1 wv paid subs admit that the lawsuit is substantially Mandelite maneuverers in the interests financed by the Workers League.... " of preserving their rotten bloc with o ' I ! I , ! I I -"Socialist Workers and the Barnes. 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 Fight to Defend Democratic (Figures from Statement of Management and Ownership filed in October of each year) Rights," YSA Discussion The IT was the last significant left Bulletin Vol. XXVI, No.2, opposition generated in the SWP. It On average, the SWP has been about four and a half times the size of the SL Novem ber 1982 grew out of the Proletarian Orientation over the period in question. Our (biweekly) WV now tops the SWP's (weekly) The decision to treat the Gelfand lawsuit tendency, which opposed the SWP's Militant in paid circulation. What makes the chart so remarkable is not the as a guilty secret-as if Healy's thread­ Militant's low circulation but the direction and slope of the curve. single-minded concentration on middle­ bare lies were unanswerable-is a piece class protest politics and advocated of criminal stupidity if ever there was involvement in industrial struggles. The one. It seems that the last shreds of Proletarian Orientation recognized that than a way to get out of Barnestown campaign against the SWP included elementary political intelligence and on this question the Mandelites were no without explicitly renouncing the "Trot­ such tactics as leaflets fingering industri­ technical capacity in the SWP were better, with their successive "theories" skyism" to which they have committed alized SWPers to management (under buried when Joe Hansen died. defining forces other than the proletari­ many years. the guise of course of exposing "CIA at as the vanguard of revolution (e.g., Be that as it may, the USec's posture agents" to the workers). Intimations of Irrelevance the "red university," "from the peri­ toward the present SWP minorities will While' Hansen was alive, the SWP phery to the center," the "new mass be determined by the outcome of the retained elementary capacity to organ­ The SWP that Barnes has built in his vanguard"). main event. If the sharply exacerbated ize in its own defense. With painstaking own image faces dismal prospects. The But the IT accepted the USec as "the relations between the USec and SWP documentation and characteristic po­ DSA has a lock on "State Department world movement," and within the no­ produce a split, the minorities could get lemical skill, Hansen made a point-by­ socialism" in this country and that win parameters of the SWPf Mandelite the glad hand from the USec, like Peter point reply to Healy's ludicrouscharges doesn't leave much room for the polarization they threw in their lot with Camejo; if not, it's the cold shoulder for (see SWP Education for Socialists reformist SWP. To keep everyone's the latter despite some important them, like Hedda Garza. pamphlet, "Healy's Big Lie," December mind off this central problem, Barnes differences-especially on the. SWP's 1976) and put together the appropriate likes to offer up fantasies of getting role in the right wing of the antiwar The Very Strange Case statements of support from figures in together with assorted potential pa­ movement (a loaded subject too impor­ of Alan Gelfand the socialist movement. The SWP trons: the Cuban leadership; the Nicara­ tant for the Mandelites to touch with a solicited and obtained the endorsement guan government; one or another wing ten-foot pole). Purged by the SWP, the The SWP brQke definitively from its of SL National Chairman James Rob­ (first one, now another) ofthe Salvador­ IT still danced to Mandel's tune- revolutionary Trotskyist heritage 20 ertson as part of this effort. The SWP an FMLN; the"NewJewel Movement" . refusing to characterize the SWP as years ago, but it's taken Barnes a long public press scandalized the Healyites running "revolutionary" Grenada; at reformist and agreeing to seek "reinte­ time to obliterate the last vestiges of and discredited their hatchet job. last August's Oberlin educational, the gration" into the party that had not continuity. And when we talk about Then in 1977 an American Healyite, ~'revolutionary" leadership that moved merely bureaucratically expelled them vestiges, we don't mean just people. one Alan Gelfand, surfaced in the SWP the party membership to the most but had thereby lent its weight to the Long after the Trotskyist content was and began to raise Healy's slanders in cheering and chanting was, according anti-"terrorist" witchhunting which was gone, some elements of basic organiza­ the Los Angeles branch. No concrete to the Militant, the PLO. What the going on against them. tional competence and professionalism action was taken against him, however, SWP has to offer any ofthese hoped-for The IT's first national meeting still functioned; in the service of a until in January 1979 the SWP dis­ bloc partners is a question nobody in the following the expulsion was held three fundamentally different program, a covered that Gelfand had filed an SWP dares to ask. months later in October 1974. The first kind of upper spinal column was still "amicus curiae" brief in Barnes' cher­ We have to feel some human sympa­ order of business was the expulsion there-something that could still organ­ ished Watersuit. On January II Gelfand thy for the veteran socialists, practicing from the IT of two comrades from ize a demonstration, write a polemic, was abruptly expelled from the SWP. social-democrats though they are, un­ Houston (and sympatbetic to· the co-opt an opponent, run a defense case. Following his expulsion, Gelfand dergoing gratuitous abuse and organi­ Spartacist League) who argued that The Watersuit was the most extensive brought suit against the SWP in federal zational indignity from the Barnes "The SWP is finished as a revolutionary and complete display thus far that this court charging that his expulsion was machine. But objectively the departure force." In the sequel, the IT was also sort of competence was just gone. Now the result of FBI control ofthe party and of the reformist SWP from an impor­ finished as any kind offorce. In line with we have another demonstration of the violated his rights. Gelfand's suit re­ tant place on the U.S. left is a good 'same thing. the USec's directives, the IT members hashing Healy's lies not only subjects thing, tending to resolve the competing set about the degrading business of The strange case of Alan Gelfand is the SWP to demands for "discovery" organizational claims to the continuity seeking readmission to the SWP. Some the latest installment in a years-long but puts forward the proposition that ofTrotskyism, the revolutionary Marx­ waited a year, some waited two, some campaign by Gerry Healy to smear the government has the right to ism of our time. The founding cadres of never got back in (and those that did SWP leaders as tools ofthe Stalinist and intervene in the internal life of left the international Spartacist tendency didn't enjoy the treatment dished out to capitalist secret police. Healy's cam­ organizations, ostensibly to enforce were formed inside the SWP in struggle them inside). Two years after the mass paign to slander SWP leaders, particu­ their adherence to their own organiza­ against the liquidation of the Trotskyist purge that removed the IT from the larly the late Joseph Hansen, as "agents tional rules. As a legal device it's very program, the revolutionary program SWP, Mandelite loyalist Milt Zaslow of the FBI and GPU" has been answered British and very Healyite. Such a claim which the SWP had upheld for 35 years. wrote to his European mentors: "You before in WV, most recently in 1979 seeks to provide an ominous prece­ The revolutionary work of the old must understand that there is a very real when we summarized: dent for government snooping and revolutionary SWP lives now through "In 1937 Hansen had gone to Mexico to danger of total disintegration...." The serve as Trotsky's leading secretary. His witchhunting. our organization, the Spartacist IT's reward for its faith in Mandel's highly confidential work in this period, The Spartacist League's concern over League. Forward to the Rebirth of the maneuvers was brutalization at Barnes' and his role as a main contact with the the Gelfand case proceeds not only from Fourth International!. 10 WORKERS VANGUARD campaign throughout the South to RWLjRSL and the bourgeoisie insist (Detroit News, 6 December). Fight or organize the unorganized! that the issue is Spartacist "violence" or Big forces were at work in International working-class solidar­ "sectarianism." In its own fashion, the Washington. Attorney General William ity.' No deportations-full citizenship RSL admits that large numbers of anti­ French Smith declared that the Klan Starve ... rights for foreign-born workers! No to Klan protesters followed the SL's lead would have its day in Reagan's capital, (continued from page 1) trade protectionism! on November 27. However, according and the FBI would see to it. This mobilizations and by showing that there Not a man, not a penny to the to its fictional account: pronouncement was another threat is a class-struggle answer to the depres­ imperialist war machine l Defend the "When the fighting started. the SL from the White House looking to assert sion conditions that these race-haters USS R/Cuba/ Poland from capitalist urged people not to participate. prefer­ its bonapartist appetites. As in the feed off. counterrevolution! Political revolution ing instead to stay off to the side chanting. 'We stopped the Klan: as ifits ABSCAM set-ups, the FBI has been the Take Detroit. Here, labor-powerful to oust the Stalinist bureaucrats and forces alone were responsible. When the instrument of revenge of the executive and integrated-can lead all the op­ install workers democracy! police began to tear-gas the crowd. the upon Congress. Part of the U.S. anti­ pressed to fight for survival. When the Oust the labor bureaucrats-break SL left the square. leaving people to Soviet war drive is the rearming of the teachers and Chrysler workers hit the with the Democrats, for a workers party fight the cops and protect themselves as imperialist presidency after the humilia­ best they could." bricks this September, critica.l sectors of to fight for a workers government! - Torch. 15 December 1982- tion of Vietnam and the exposure of the proletariat were out on the ·street Expropriate industry without com­ 14 January 1983 Watergate. with massive public support. The point pensation! For a socialist planned In fact, amid tear-gas volleys and police The bourgeoisie did not like what it was to link them up and shut down economy! • charges the SL organized the dispersed saw on November 27. The same Carl Detroit in a citywide general strike. protesters in Lafayette Park and held a Rowan remarked that Reagan's racist Hundreds of auto workers should have militant rally registering that labor j America. economically depressed and walked the teachers picket lines. Picket­ black mobilization stopped the Klan. politically volatile. is a "tinderbox line solidarity, elected strike committees And we got the demonstrators out situation in which explosion can come could have broken the back of Mayor Why They Lie ... safely. Evidently the RSL wanted quickly." That's why the people who run Young's rollback drive. But the bureau­ pointless skirmishing with the cops long this country would like to put the crats sold out the walkouts. Now (continuedfrom page 5) after the KKK had been run out. Labor/Black Mobilization that stopped thousands face death by starvation and its bid for the reformist big time by The Maoist League for Revolution­ the Klan "under the jail." Reaganites, freezing in this hellhole city. Now a sit-in organizing demonstrations to channel ary Struggle (LRS) presents a totally liberals and reformists are all united in at the Rouge to keep the plant open protest against Reagan into a "broad" opposite Big Lie: fear of this powerful example. As is could win the heart of the ghetto masses popular front with the liberal Demo­ "The federal government granted a rally often the case with important political and enlist the support of all black crats. The precondition for this class­ permit to the Spartacist League-a events, the fight over what happened in Detroit. collaborationist coalition is exclusion of Trotskyist group known for provoking Washington is a class question. The When it comes to unemployment the open "reds." So WWP now appears violence-while denying such a permit victory over the KKK there can point Democrats say "soup" and the left says to PAR K [People Against Racism and only as the All-Peoples Congress (or the Klan]. ... the way forward for socialist "more soup." They want less guns and some other front group), and they have "The Spartacists' permit placed them at revolution-to do away with the lynch­ more soup. But it's not a question of resorted to thugs, cops, and lies to seal a site close to Lafayette Park where the ers and cross-burners forever. • reshuffling the priorities of the capitalist off the Trotskyists of the Spartacist KKK rally was to take place. While the government. Capitalism itself is the League. In May 1981, Marcyite mar­ KKK was in the park. the federal police barricaded it and kept everyone else at a problem. The anti-Soviet military bud­ shals threw up a daisy chain at the distance. After the KKK left. the police get represents imperialism's inevitable Pentagon to keep protesters from opened up some barricades allowing the drive toward war. The popular-frontist attending a rally of the Anti-Imperialist Spartacists and a number of Black left of today pressures the Democrats to Contingent, organized by the SL, which community residents to enter. Then. South Africa ... pressure Reagan for more relief pro­ suddenly. the police started to push and (can tinued from page 12) called for military victory to leftist beat people. The Spartacists began grams. They're simply using the issue of rebels in EI Salvador. (Democratic throwing rocks. and the confrontation against capitalism itself-for a socialist unemployment to support liberals "doves" want negotiations to end the quickly escalated and spread." revolution. against Reaganites. Salvadoran civil war, not for the leftists -Unity. 10-23 December But the program of the nationalist to win it.) Last March 27. Marcyite This is a total fabrication. from start to ANC, closely allied to the South African A Trotskyist Party, goons called in D.C. police to keep the finish, and a set-up for prosecution. The Communist Party (SACP), is not one of A Fighting Program Spartacists out of another EI Salvador only true statement is that we had a working-class revolution to abolish What is needed is a revolutionary demo. But on November 27. our Labor/ permit (and possibly that PARK didn't. capitalism. Rather the ANCjSACP party of black and white workers whose Black Mobilization brought out the since they spent the day at our demon­ seek to pressure supposedly "progres­ aim is a workers government that will masses while the WWP/ APC diversion stration). A similar demonstrable lie sive" elements of the white South rip the productive wealth of this fizzled. Moreover. the SL-Ied demon­ and false accusation of committing African ruling class such as diamORd country, including all the idle factories, stration was overwhelmingly (85 per­ criminal action was published by the magnate Harry Oppenheimer. Last out of the hands of the capitalist class cent or more) black. Thousands who Daily Californian (7 December). which summer the American CP's Daily and establish a planned economy. This were there know the real score. as well as stated that the "Spartacus League" (sic) World (14 August) noted approvingly is key to the liberation of all oppressed the half-million readers of the special had "received publicity recently when Oppenheimer's call for "cooperation minorities. The struggle must begin now WV supplement, "We Stopped the members attackedpolice officers guard­ between unions and management"! The to forge such a class-struggle leadership Klan!" So Workers World prefers to use ing Klansmen d~monstrating in Wash­ Stalinists' long, one-sided courtship of in the working class. its last weapon, the Big Lie, in the "ington, D.C." (our emphasis). Oppenheimer has not, of course, pre­ Jobs for all-30 hours work for 40 corridors. In a letter protesting this criminal vented him and his colleagues from hours pay! Sit-ins against mass layoffs Others of the Big Liars have not been defamation, spokesmen for the Sparta­ supporting the basic laws maintaining and plant shutdowns! For a massive so circumspect. Among the most vocal cist LeaguejSpartacus Youth League the apartheid system, not least the public works program with union rights are the little Revolutionary Workers pointed out that over the last three draconian Suppression of Communism and union-scale wages! Union control League (RW L), an Ann Arbor-based years: "Act. of hiring-special recruitment of campus cult, and its favorite political " .... the SL/SYL initiated five such anti­ The ANCjCP bloc likewise appeals fascist demonstrations: minorities! bedfellow, the virulently anti-Soviet to Oppenheimer's counterparts in the I. in Detroit. 10 Nov. 1979-against the U.S. and West Europe, calling upon Mass organization ofthe unemployed Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL). Klan Greensboro killings under the leadership of the unions! We strongly suspect the RWL was not 2. in San Francisco. 19 April 1980­ them to impose economic sanctions Unlimited unconditional unemploy­ even in Washington on November 27: against the Nazi celebration of Hitler's against South Africa, divest their stock ment compensation for all jobless we did not see them and neither did birthday in multinationals operating in South anyone else we know; and their article 3. in Ann Arbor. 20 March 1982­ Africa, etc. This campaign serves only to workers! Unlimited recall rights and against the Nazi demonstration union membership for laid-off workers! twice gives the date of the protest as 4. in Chicago. 27 June 1982-against prettify American and European impe­ Finish the Civil War.' Fight racial and "November 25"! They could just as well the Nazi anti-gay pride demonstration rialism, bolstering its claim to be more sexual discrimination! Labor/black have written it beforehand, moreover, 5. Washington. D.C.. 27 November humane. more civilized than its despised 1982-against the Klan attempt to defense against racist attacks-Stop the since they simply made it up: South African ally. "Across the countrv. the cowardlv march in the nation's capital. The petty-bourgeois nationalists of Klan! For the right of black armed self­ "I n each and everv one of these Spartacist League (SL)-which ha's the A;\;T, despite the unquestioned defense-no to gun control! For a labor nn'er stopped the Klan or Nazis-now demonstrations in which the SL/SYL claims credit for the militance in D.C. had major responsibility. necessary courage of its militants, offer no This is a complete lie. The SL did not permits were obtained. poliae authori­ effective strategy to defeat apartheid. ties were consulted with and thev Spartacist League/ oq~anize the crowd to be there and Moreover, their model for post­ provided no leadership on the scene." resulted in no violence against the police Spartacus Youth League and no arrest of any SL/SYL member. apartheid South Africa should' they - Workers Struggle. come to power is based on the anti­ Public Offices January 1983 Whv? Because we know that for anti­ fasc1sts to clash with police is to protect working-class middlemen for imperial­ -MARXIST LlTERATURE­ D.C. police. the Washington Post, and embolden the Klansmen and Nazis. ism such as Mozambique's Samora Bay Area Walter Fauntroy all refute the RWL on "All of the five above listed mass Machel and Zimbabwe's Robert Mu­ Fri. 5:00-800 p.m., Sat 300-600 pm. this one. And so does the Maoist demonstrations dealt fascism a real 1634 Telegraph. 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) blow." gabe. If South Africa's oppressed black Oakland. California Phone (415) 835-1535 Revolutionary Communist Party -Richard Bucci and James masses are to achieve full victory over (RCP). certainly no friend of the SL. Robertson. letter to the Dai/r the white racist regime they must look 'Chicago The RCP's Revolution (3 December) CalifcJrnian. 25 December . elsewhere for leadership. A key task in Tues 530-900 pm. Sat 200-530 pm 523 S Plymouth Court. 3rd Floor writes that "more than 1,000 people" The Big Lie campaign to "get the South Africa is the construction of a Chicago, Illinois Phone (312) 427-0003 gathered at the Capitol to "confront the Sparts" is not justinfighting on the left. Trotskyist vanguard party armed with a New York City Klan." When it became apparent that It is a deadly serious provocation aimed program for workers revolution Tues 600-900 pm , Sat 1200-400 pm the KKK was not going to march, at stopping the most effective fighters through smashing apartheid. South 41 Warren St. (one block below "Others started marching along Penn­ against Klan terror, and it is inspired (at Africa. a regional imperialist power, is Chambers St near ChurCh St ) sylvania Avenue to Lafayette Park with New York, NY Phone (212) 267-1025 least) by the highest levels of the U.S. the key bulwark of racist reaction in all the Spartacists in the lead chanting, 'We government. Former U.S. Information of sub-Saharan Africa. The millions­ TrotskyisJ League Stopped the Klan'." Agency director Carl Rowan, an influ­ strong South African proletariat is of Canada The notable thing about the RWL/ ential black columnist who faithfully therefore in the vanguard of socialist Toronto RSL is that every single time we have puts out the Company line. ended his revolution for all of black Africa. Sat 100-500 pm mobilized hundreds and thousands. column on November 27: "I hope the Free Mogoerane, Mosololi, Mo­ 299 Queen St w. SUite 502 Toronto, Ontario Phone (416) 593-4138 drawing in unions and blacks. actually rioters and looters who are properly taung, Tsotsobe, Shabangu, Moise and stopping the Nazi/ Klan fascists, the convicted will be put under the jail" all victims of apartheid repression!. 31 DECEMBER 1982 11 W'Ii/(EIiS ""GU,Ii, Reagan Backs Racist Killers • rlcan •

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At I a.m. on December 9 a hundred Washington for a "Monroe doctrine for South African commandos crossed the the region" which recognized South border into Maseru, the capital city of Africa's "special responsibility" for the black client statelet of Lesotho, and maintaining "stability" (New York fanned out into five different sections of Times, 10 December). town. They blasted their way into at For the sake of "free world" unity least a dozen homes, and when it was aimed at restoring capitalism in the over 42 people were dead. General Soviet degenerated workers state, Constand Viljoen, chief of the South Washington is backing up Pretoria. African "Defense Force," openly took Hence the recent $1.2 billion IMF loan responsibility for the massacre as part of to South Africa. Not accidentally, the the campaign to destroy the African South African raid came only five days National Congress (ANC). And with a after Prime Minister Botha delivered a Goebbels-like flourish, Viljoen claimed menacing warning to Mozambique that the seven women and children who against accepting Cuban troops, which were murdered had been caught in a are now stationed in Angola as a "crossfire." necessary protection against South But South African black militants African aggression. The crosshairs oC didn'tjust mourn: while 3,500 people led the Washingtonj Pretoria axis are aimed by ANC president Oliver Tambo at­ squarely on the black African national­ tended a seven-hour funeral for 27 of the ist regimes backed by the Soviet Union victims in Maseru, four bombs blew up and its Cuban allies. at timed intervals over 12 hours at South Africa's Koeberg nuclear power station, %. Black Proletariat under construction near Cape To~n. t~ -4.. Must Be Mobilized UPI The ANC said the bombing was a salute African National Congress militants vow vengeance at funeral for comrades The Koeberg nuclear power plant, to "all our fallen heroes and imprisoned massacred at Maseru (above right).' target of the ANC raid, indirectly points comrades," and the action certainly up the Achilles heel of the South African represented an impressive penetration were refugees from South African now on death row. (The prisoners are regime: the black proletariat which of a high-security nuclear complex. oppression. And the Sowetan, the only Theile Mogoerane, Jerry Mosololi, keeps the economic wheels going. Ofthe The Lesotho raid was part of black-oriented daily in South Africa, Marcus Motaung, Anthony Tsotsobe, 4,000 people who had access to the high­ Pretoria's attempt to reverse the rising elaborated that most of those murdered Johannes Shabangu and David Moise.) security plant, security officials note, line of mass upheaval of the past few were student militants from Soweto In comparison, Lech Walesa's brief 2,500 were black migrant workers months: bold ANC guerrilla actions who had fled for their lives from incarceration at a posh hunting lodge brought in from the bantustans of coinciding with a massive strike wave apartheid repression. The details of the makes the Polish regime look absolutely Transkei and Ciskei. Last summer's led by black trade unions. The murder raid-such as the selective bombing ofa humane. But Reagan of course contin­ strike wave of black miners, auto raid was the signal for an even more car owned by the wife of an ANC ues to cry about the fate of the workers and dock workers, led by the vicious repression, and the nominally leader-demonstrated that it was a counterrevolutionary Solidarnosc "un­ militant new black trade unions, gave a "independent" Swaziland police took consciously planned act of mass terror. ion" while welcoming South African hint of the tremendous potential power their cue by arresting about 100 people Indeed, if one is looking for an officials in Washington. Indeed, the of the black working class for revolu­ in dawn raids one week after the Maseru international terrorist conspiracy, the morning after Pretoria's raid on Ma­ tionary change. What is needed is a massacre. The escalating violence by the South African government's activities seru, the South African state radio revolutionary communist party ready to apartheid regime shows the bloody of late certainly fill the bill. In the past broadcast a report about a "joint read the struggle against apartheid and reality behind Reagan's "constructive few months alone, South African agents commitment" between Pretoria and continued on page 11 engagement" policy toward South tried to overthrow the government of Africa, which has been ballyhooed as an the Seychelles islands, organized bur­ attempt to quietly encourage Prime glaries of diplomatic offices in London, Minister Botha's so-called "reforms," and assassinated opponents in several such as the proposal for token voting countries. (Last August, for instance, In October 1971 the Spartacist party is tested by its concrete pro­ rights for the country's three million the well-known journalist Ruth First, a League published our first issue of grammatic intervention into social "coloreds" and Asians (while continuing leading ANCer and Communist, was Workers Vanguard, Weare pleased struggles. Militants investigating the to exclude the country's 20 million murdered in Mozambique, an act which to announce that the continuous set views ofthe SL are urged to study our blacks from parliament entirely). The the government there attributed to the of indexed WV bound volumes are past work through dur press. "anti-apartheid reforms" are in part a South African secret police.) Mean­ now available (Volume I3 for 1982 is Most single issues are also still public-relations fig leaf for the racist, while, the South African army openly being bound). The SL is proud ofour available at 25¢ apiece from the anti-Soviet Washington/ Pretoria axis. and regularly invades Angolan territo­ history. We believe that a political address below. By diplomatic standards, Pretoria's ry, killing anybody it considers to be raid on Lesotho was an act of war on an SWAPO sympathizers. Vol. 1 WV•Nos. 1-34 Vol.5 WV Nos. 115-138 Vol. 9 WV Nos. 205-221 independent state. But the Lesotho In South Africa itself, over 50 Nov. 1970-Dec. 1973 25 June-24 Dec 1976 12 May-15 Dec. 1978 government is hardly independent. In prisoners have officially died while Vol. 2 WV Nos. 35-58 Vol. 6 WV Nos. 139-162 Vol. 10 WV Nos 222-246 reality it is a glorified bantustan, under police custody-in the case of Dr. Jan.-Dec 1974 7 Jan.-17 June 1977 5 Jan-28 Dec. 1979 completely landlocked by South Afri­ Neil Aggett, a white organizer for a Vol. 3 WV Nos. 59-89 Vol. 7 WV Nos 163-186 Vol. 11 WV Nos. 247-270 can territory. The tiny kingdom regular­ black union, a magistrate recently once Jan.-Dec 1975 24 June-23 Dec 1977 11 Jan-12 Dec. 1980 Vol. 4 WV Nos. 90-114 Vol. 8 WV Nos. 187-204 Vol. 12 WV Nos. 271-295 ly sends as much as one quarter of its again exonerated the cops after a 2 Jan.-18 June 1976 6 Jan.-5 May 1978 2 Jan-18 Dec 1981 workforce across the border to work in whitewash official "investigation." And the Orange Free State, a South African then there are the official executions­ $20.00 per volume Order from/make checks payable to: province. The Lesotho government South Africa executed about 100 people Spartacist Publishing Co. Box 1377 GPO, New York, New York 10116 protested lamely that all of the victims in 1982 alone, and six ANC fighters are

12 WORKERS VANGUARD

I I SUBJECT INDEX Workers Vanguard-8 January to 31 December 1982 (Issues Nos. 296-320)

Argentina-See Falklands/Malvinas War; Busing-See Black Question. GUIDE TO THE SUBJECT INDEX Internationalist Workers Party. CANADA e This subject index covers issues of Workers Vanguard published during 1982, from issue No. 296 (8 January) AUTO WORKERS Canadian Union Flunkies Blockade Polish through the end-of-the-year issue No. 320 (31 Seamen, #297, 22 Jan. (11) December). During this time, WV was published • General. biweekly. Stop Givebacks!, #297, 22 Jan. (1, 8) Trotskyist League Beats Back Stalinist e The fullest listing is by SUBJECT. Subject headings Exclusion, #306, 28 May (3) are arranged alphabetically. Entries are listed chron­ Mass Layoffs at Fremont GM, #297, 22 Jan. (8) Spread Canadian Chrysler Strike to Detroit!, ologically with two exceptions: all entries comprising #317, 12 Nov. (11) a series are listed together immediately following the Detroit: For a Two-Day Auto Sitdown!, #298, first entry of the series; corrections immediately follow the relevant entry. An asterisk (*) after the page 5 Feb. (12, 10, 11) location of an entry indicates that a correction Fraser's Billion Dollar Betrayal, #299, 19 Feb. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-See follows. (12,11) Democratic Socialists of America; Labor; e Entries are listed under subject heads. In some cases, Revolutionary Workers League; U.S.:' subject heads are broken down into subcategories. Sit-Ins Not Soup Lines!, #300, 5 Mar. International Relations. These subcategories are listed immediately after the (1,9,10) initial subject head and preceded by a dot (e). The Ford Workers Must Fight!, #300, 5 Mar. numbers following each entry headline give the issue CHILE number, date and page number(s) for the article. (1,11) Thus: Keep the Plant Open-Sit Down!, #300, What's Missing frofn "Missing" (R), #304, We Stopped the Nazis', #303, 16 Apr. (12, 11) 5 Mar. (2) 30 Apr. (6, 9) means the headline of the article, issue No. 303. Fremont Militant Caucus Sit-Down Leaflet, 16 April 1982, beginning on page 12 and continuing #300, 5 Mar. (11) on page 11. CIVIL LIBERTIES Fraser's $5 Billion Giveaway Cripples UAW, e No entry is listed twice; refer to cross references for • General-See also Black Question; guidance in locating the subject head for particular #302, 2 Apr. (2) Immigration. articles. Cross references are of two types: those Fight Fraser's Giveback Unionism!, #303, Malice and the Media, #298, 5 Feb. (2)· following the word "see" deal centrally with the 16 Apr. (12, 10) subject head; those following the words "see also" are • Cases-See also Progressive Labor Party. related articles. Subject heads in cross references are Fraser Strongarms Toledo UAW, #306, separated by a semi-colon, while subcategories of 28 May (5) Bring Ron Settles' Murderers to Justice!, subject heads are separated by a comma. rhus: #296, 8 Jan. (2) Stop Fraser's Givebacks!, #308, 25 June (2) Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL)-See Fascism: POC Telegram (protesting imprisonment of Ann Arbor, Chicago; Spartacist League. Toledo Jeep Militants for Sitdown (L), #308, Julia Wilder and Maggie Bozeman), #297, 25 June (2) means that articles on the RSL can be foynd by going 22 Jan. (9) to the subject head FASCISM and looking under the Flint: Sitdowns, Not Democrats!, #311, subcategories Ann Arbor and Chicago and by going Drop Charges Against Michael Zinzun!: L.A. to the subject head SPARTACIST LEAGUE. 6 Aug. (12) Cops' Racist Vendetta, #307, 11 June (4) e Individuals mentioned in articles are usually not listed Detroit Workers: Fight for Survival!, #314, Free Black Panther Geronimo Pratt!, #315, separately unless the article is primarily about the 1 Oct. (5, 10) given person. 15 Oct. (2) Bulldoze the CAT Bosses!, #315, 15 Oct. (8) e Entries relating to foreign countries are listed under • Spartacist League-See also Spartacist geographical headings and not necessarily under any Rinaldi's Goons Attack UAW Rouge League. other subject heading. Unless listed separately for Militants, #317, 12 Nov. (10) ~ some unusual reason, all foreign political organiza­ Spartacist League Wins California Smear tions are listed under appropriate countries, while • Chrysler-See also Canada. Case, #296, 8 Jan. (12, 6) U.S. political organizations are listed under their Shut Down Detroit!, #313, 17 Sept. (2, 12) #296, 8 organizational names. "Marxists Not Mobsters", Jan. Bust the Chrysler-Fraser Sellout!, #314, (12,7,8) e Specific defense cases (e.g. Michael Zinzun) will be found under CIVIL LIBERTIES: Cases. Articles 1 Oct. (12, 10, 11) SL Oeukmejian Suit: Fight Against pertaining to the civil liberties of the Spartacist Strike Chrysler!, #315, 15 Oct. (1,9) Witchhunting (L), #297, 22 Jan. (2, 9) League will be found under CIVIL LIBERTIES: Spartacist League, while attacks against the SL by Chrysler Workers Must Fight!, #316, 29 Oct. Deukmejian's Frame-Up (L), #298, 5 Feb. (2) ostensible leftists will be found under SPARTACIST (16, 15) Strange Things Under Harvard's Rocks, LEAGUE. #298, 5 Feb. (3) e Articles on historical aspects of the Marxist move­ Criminal Harberger Set Loose, #305, ment are listed under HISTORY OF THE MARXIST "Rig Lie" Campaign-See Spartacist League. MOVEMENT, while reprints from writings of particu­ 14 May (2) lar individuals are listed under ARCHIVES OF THE MARXIST MOVEMENT. Coleman/Bradley Campaign-See Elections: e Articles on actions against the Nazis and the Ku Klux BLACK QUESTION -See Civil Liberties: Klan are listed under the subject head FASCISM and Cases; Fascism; Gun Control; Spartacist Coleman/Bradley Campaign. are subcategorized under the location of the given League. See also Elections: Coleman/Bradley action. Campaign; Pollee. Committee in Solidarity with the People of EI e Abbreviations used in entries are: Blacks Don't Cry for Solidarnosc, #297, Salvador (CISPES)-See EI Salvador. C: Correction S: Series 22 Jan. (3, 10) L: Letter Sup: Supplement R: Review Protest Racist Stabbing at S.F. State, #301, 90mmunications Workers of America (CWA)­ 19 Mar. (10) See Phone Workers. On Recruiting Blacks (L), #304, 30 Apr. (2, 11) Communist Parties: International-See Labor/Black Struggle in Reagan's America, specific countries. #310, 23 JUly (6,7, 8, 9) AFL-CIO-See Archives of the Marxist Black Family Firebombed in Detroit, #311, 6 Aug. (4, 11) COMMUNIST PARTY (USA) -See also Movement; Labor. Fascism: Chicago. American Workers Revolution Needs Black Leadership, #311, 6 Aug. (8, 9) It's a Dog's Life Being a Stalinist Hack, #298, All-Peoples Congress-See EI Salvador: March 5 Feb. (11) Death of Busing Inflames Racist Terror in 27th/Anti-Imperialist Contingent; Spartaclst Gus Hall Ready for Teddy, #307, 11 June (2) League. Boston, #312, 3 Sept. (7) Labor/Black Struggle, Not Black Democrats!, #313, 17 Sept. (5, 15) Defense-See Civil Liberties. American Institute for Free Labor Development George Wallace: Democrats' Racist (AIFLD)-See Democratic Socialists of Overseer, #317, 12 Nov. (12, 11) America; Labor; Revolutionary Workers DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF League; Spartacist League. FBI/Cops Murdered Fred Hampton!, #318, AMERICA (OSA)/DEMOCRATIC 26 Nov. (4, 9) SOCIALIST ORGANIZING Finish the Civil War!, #319, 10 Dec. Amsterdam News-See Black Question; Soviet COMMITTEE (OSOC) -See Spartacist (1, 12, 13) Union. League. John Brown and Frederick Douglass: Heroes Harrington's Giveback Socialists, #303, of the Anti-Slavery Struggle, #319, 10 Dec. 16 Apr. (10) ARCHIVES OF THE MARXIST (4,5, 14) MOVEMENT Jay Lovestone's Bastard Grandchildren, #312, 3 Sept. (2) James P. Cannon on AFL Labor Fakers (reprint from The Left Opposition in the U.S. BRITAIN -See Falklands/Malvinas War. 1928-31), #297, 22 Jan. (9) British Labour's Cold War, #308, 25 June Deportations-See Immigration. How Communists Fight Imperialist War Drive (3,9) (extract of ECCI Manifesto, December British Labor: Beat Back Thatcher's Union­ Deukmejian ~;Jit-See Civil Liberties: 1922), #310, 23 JUly (2) Busting Offensive!, #311, 6 Aug.- (13) Spartacist League.

31 DECEMBER 1982 13

.' Disarmament-See U.S.:General, International March with Us for Military Victory March 27!: List of Endorsers, June 27 Committee to Stop Relations; West Germany. Building the Anti-Imperialist Contingent, the Nazis, #309, 9 July (6, 7) #301, 19 Mar. (6, 7) "You Owe an Apology to the Spartacist Dockers-See Longshoremen. Phone Workers Vote to March for Salvadoran' League" (L), #311, 6 Aug. (7) Leftist Victory, #301, 19 Mar. (9) Toronto Letter Carriers Support Chicago Cops Seal Off Left, #302, 2 Apr. (1, 6, 7, 8) Anti-Nazi Rally, #311, 6 Aug. (7) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC March 27 Coalition Marshal Denounces Stalinism vs. Trotskyism at Chicago SL Hands Off Dominican Leftists!, #301, Slander, Exclusion (L), #302, 2 Apr. (8) Forum, #311, 6 Aug. (9, 10, 11) 19 Mar. (4) Labor Contingent Marches in Bay Area for Conrad Lynn: June 27 Shows the Way, #311, Dominican Elections in the Shadow of EI Salvador Rebel Victory, #302, 2 Apr. (9) 6Aug.(11) Salvador, #306, 28 May (6, 8) Protest D.C. Police Censorship (L), #305, • Washington, D.C. 14 May (9) Killer Klan Must Be Smashed!, #317, 12 Nov. Education-See Civil Liberties: Spartacist (12,11) League. England-See Britain. Stop the KKK!, #318, 26 Nov. (1,6) TWU Militant: Labor Must Smash Racist Terror (L), #318, 26 Nov. (2) ELECTIONS Europe-See U.S.: International Relations; specific countries. Partial List of Endorsers for Labor/Black • General Mobilization to Stop the KKK in BAYCLAP Rots Away, #307, 11 June (5) Washington, D.C., November 27, #318, 26 Nov. (6) Sewer Socialists in '82 Elections, #316, FALKLANDS/MALVINAS WAR 29 Oct. (13) Smash the Klan!, #318, 26 Nov. (7,8) War Over the Falklands?, #303, 16 Apr. (1,5) • Coleman/Bradley Campaign . KKK: A Century of Racist Terror, #318, Falklands: Nowhere War, #304, 30 Apr, 26 Nov. (7, 8, 9) You Can't Fight Reagan with Democrats!, (1, 10) #312, 3 Sept. (3, 9) We Stopped the Klan! (Sup, 3 Dec.), #319, Sink Thatcher! Sink the Junta!, #306, 28 May 10 Dec. (7,8,9) "You Don't Get Anything Unless You (1, 9) List of Endorsers for Labor/Black Struggle!", #313, 17 Sept. (3, 14) "Save Our Boys" Socialists, #306, 28 May (9) Mobilization to Stop the KKK in You Can't Fight for Jobs with Democrats, Thatcher Orders Bloody Slaughter, #307, WashingtOll, D.C., November 27 (Sup, Bureaucrats!, #314, 1 Oct. (4,9) 11 June (12,10,11) 3 Dec.), #319, 10 Dec. (8) "For Mass Strike Action to Bring Down What IstoBeDoneNow(Sup, 3 Dec.), #319, Reagan!", #315, 15 Oct. (5,9) 10 Dec. (10) Spartacist to Dellums: "You're Part of the FASCISM Urgent! Send Money! (Sup, 3 Dec.), #319, Problem", #315, 15 Oct. (5) 10 Dec. (10) . • General Spartacist Election Platform, #315, 5,000 Chase KKK Out of Washington!, #319, 15 Oct. (5) California Nazis Execute High School Youth, 10 Dec. (16, 15) #318, 26 Nov. (3) San Francisco Elections (Sup), 22 Oct. (2) Black Communist on Gospel Radio, #319, U.S. Imports Nazi War Criminals, #318, 10 Dec. (3) . Vote Coleman and Bradley!, #316, 29 Oct. 26 Nov. (5, 9) (6, 12) "The Whole Damn System Has Got to Go!", • Ann Arbor-See also Guardian; Spartacist Spartacist Candidates Beat Back Elections #319, 10 Dec. (6, 11) League. Censorship/Slander, #316, 29 Oct. (7) WhiteHouseBehindKlan, #319,10 Dec. (11) Ann Arbor: All Out March 20th!, #301, Klan are "Outside Agitators", #319, A Bolshevik Campaign in San Francisco, 19 Mar. (12, 10) #317, 1? Nov. (3,9)' 10 Dec. (11) Stop the Nazis!, #301,19 Mar. (12) A Bolshevik Campaign (C), #318, 26 Nov. (9) Letter to People Against Racism and the Klan, You Can't Ignore the Nazis-Stop Them! (l), All-Peoples Congress and Coalition for #301, 19 Mar. (11) Community Unity, #319, 10 Dec. (15) 2,000 Run Nazis Out of Ann Arbor, #302, EL SALVADOR Why They Lie About November 27, #320, 2 Apr. (12,9,10,11) 31 Dec. (4, 5,11) • General-See Guardian; Nicaragua; U.S.: When Nazis Were Cornered in Ann Arbor, International Relations. See also Immigration. #302, 2 Apr. (10) "Human Rights" Massacres, #298, 5 Feb. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)-See '" Would Gladly Do It Again!" (L), #302, Black Question. (1, 9) 2 Apr. (10) CISPES Exclusion Backfires, #298, Labor Endorsers for "Stop the Nazis" 5 Feb. (9) Mobilization, #302, 2 Apr. (10) Feminism-See Woman Question. EI Salvador Leftists Must Win the War!, #299, RSLlRWL Sabotage Spiked, #302, 19 Feb. (1, 10) 2Apr.(11) "Fourth International (International SYL vs. Liberal Doves, #299, 19 Feb. (2) We Stopped the Nazis!, #303, 16 Apr. (12, 11) Committee)"-See France; Internationalist Military Victory to Leftist Insurgents!, #300, Michigan Daily Howls Over Nazi Defeat (L), Workers Party. 5 Mar. (12, 5) #303, 16 Apr. (11) Reagan's Junta Holds "Elections by Death", How to Fight the Fascists (L), #304, #300, 5 Mar. (3) 30 Apr. (2) FRANCE "We Call for Rebel Victory, They Call the • Boston Mitterrand's "Sacred Union" ovei Solidarnosc, #296, 8 Jan. (5, 10) COpSI", #300, 5 Mar. (4) KKK Run Out! (Sup), 22 Oct. (1, 2, 3); also EI Salvador Leftists Must Win the War!, #301, #316, 29 Oct. (1, 8, 9) Fake-Trotskyists Split: Son of Peron Leaves Son of M itterrand, #298, 5 Feb. (5, 10) 19 Mar. (3, 9) Labor Must Break with the Democrats, Smash EI Salvador Protests: Another Vietnam?, the Klan (Sup), 22 Oct. (3); also #316, French Militant Nails RWL on Mitterrand (L), #301, 19 Mar. (4) 29 Oct. (9) #306, 28 May (2, 10) Stop Death Cargo to Butcher Junta (reprint "We Can Organize to Crush These Fascist Israeli/Imperialist Troops Out of Lebanon!, from The Beacon), #301, 19 Mar. (5) Creeps!" (Sup), 22 Oct. (4); also #316, #313, 17 Sept. (6) Transit Militants on EI Salvador, #301, 29 Oct. (10) "Israelis, French Paratroopers, U.S. Marines 19 Mar. (8) Liberals, Reformists Defame Boston Anti­ Out of Lebanon!", #313, 17 Sept. (7, 12) "No Negotiations! Workers Take San Klan Demo, #316, 29 Oct. (11) 40,000 Disfributed to Workers, Blacks, #316, Salvador!", #302, 2 Apr. (3, 4, 5) Gay Rights-See Fascism: Chicago. High Noon in Central America, #303, 29 Oct. (11) 16 Apr. (1,4) . • Chicago-See also Spartaclst League. Gianninoto, Mindy-See Phone Workers: Isn't Everybody for Leftist Military Victory? Who Are These Nazis? What Do They Want to Gianninoto Case. No!, #304, 30 Apr. (7,8) Destroy? Who Do TheyWantto Kill?, #307, Stop U.S. Death Cargo to EI Salvador, #311, 11 June (3) 6 Aug. (3) All Out to Stop the Nazis!, #308, 25 June GUARDIAN Military Victory to Leftist Insurgents!, #312, (12, 10) 3 Sept. (5, 10) Partial List of Endorsers, June 27 Committee Guardian's Anti-Communist "Unity" (L), to Stop the Nazis, #308, 25 June (10) #300, 5 Mar. (5) • March 27th/AntHmperialist Contingent­ Letters Demolish Guardian Lies (L), #305, See Spartacist League. "Stop the Nazis June 27!", #308, 25 June (11) 14 May (7,8) Military Victory to Leftist Insurgents! It is Thousands Mobilize to Stop Nazis in Guardian Lies Exposed (L), #308, Desperately Necessary to Fight!, #301, Chicago, #309, 9 July (1, 9,10) 25 June (2) 19 Mar. (1,8,9) Blacks Under the Gun, #309, 9 July (4, 11) Letter to March 27 Coalition (L), #301, "No Hitlers in Chicago, Nazis off the 19 Mar. (3) Streets!", #309, 9 July (5, 6, 7, 8) Guardian Angels-See Police.

14 WORKERS VANGUARD GUN CONTROL LABOR -See Democratic Socialists of New York Times-See Gun Control. Gun Control Kills Blacks, #306, 28 May America; Spartacist League; specific (12, 10) occupations; U.S.: General. NICARAGUA -See EI Salvador. New York Times'Vested Interests, #306, Militant 7-Month Strike in Rhode Island, Comandante Zero Betrays the Revolution, 28 May (11) #307, 11 June (4) #305, 14 May (3) SL: No to Gun Control, #309, 9 July (3) National Guard Attacks Nebraska Reagan's Dirty War in Central America, Meatcutters Strike, #311, 6 Aug. (12) #318,26 Nov. (12, 11) Haiti-See Immigration. Labor: Don't Crawl forthe Democrats!, #312, 3 Sept. (1, 8) Nuclear Power-See U.S.: General, International Relations; West Germany. HarbergerCase-See Civil Liberties: Spartacist Labor Day: Bureaucrats and Democrats, League. #313, 17 Sept. (14) Strikes Erupt in Reagan's America, #314, OBITUARIES Harvard University-See Civil Liberties: 1 Oct. (12, 11) Toni Randell Memorial Meetings, #299, Spartacist League. SL Pickets AIFLD Gala: Carnival of 19 Feb. (3) Counterrevolution, #319,10 Dec. (2) Toni Randell 1943-1982, #300, 5 Mar. HISTORY OF THE MARXIST MOVEMENT (6, 7, 8, 9) Toni Randell Memorial (L), #301, 19 Mar. (2) Reds and Zinoviev (L), #298, 5 Feb. (2, 10) Labor/Black Mobilization to Stop the KKK­ See Fascism: Washington, D.C. Toni Randell Memorial (L), #303, 16 Apr. (2) In Memory of Toni Randell (L), #306, Homosexual Rights-See Fascism: Chicago. 28 May (2) Lebanon-See Near East. Obituary Note on Evan Phillips (L), #306, Ikegami, Kathy-See Phone Workers: Ikegami 28 May (2) Case. LONGSHOREMEN ILWU Militant Stan Gow Wins Re-Election, Organisation Communiste Internationaliste IMMIGRATION -See Fascism: General. #297,22 Jan. (12, 11) (OCI)-See France. Free Haitians from Reagan's Concentration Riot Cops Attack ILWU Strike in L.A., #299, Camps!, #,296, 8 Jan. (11) 19 Feb. (2) Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-See Near East. SYL Drives Off INS Recruiters, #297, Gow Wins in ILWU Local 10 Vote, #299, 22 Jan. (11) 19 Feb. (2) Parity Committee-See France. Free Haitian Refugees!, #298, 5 Feb. (3) Longshoremen Demand: Save Turkish. Unionists!, #299, 19 Feb. (2) Stop Reagan's Raids!, #304, 30 Apr. (12) Militants Win in Bay Area ILWU Elections, PHONE WORKERS Stop Deportations of Mexican Workers, #320,31 Dec. (2) Salvadoran Refugees!, #304, 30 Apr. • General-See Internationalist Workers (12,11) Party. See also EI Salvador: March 27th/ Anti-Imperialist Contingent. Asylum for Salvadoran Refugees!, #304, Meatcutters-See Labor. 30 Apr. (9) Ma Bell Plans Mass Firings, #304, 30 Apr. (3)* Labor Must Stop Reagan's Racist Morenoites-See France; Internationalist Deportations!, #305, 14 May (12, 11) Workers Party. Ma Bell (C), #306, 28 May (4) New "Palmer Raids" in Chicago, #305, Bay Area MAC: Expropriate Ma Bell!, #304, 14 May (11) Nazism-See Fascism. 30 Apr. (3) Full Citizenship Rights for Undocumented MAC Victory in Bay Area CWA Vote, #306, 28 May (4) Workers!, #319, 10 Dec. (2, 13) NEAR EAST 1 Cops Jail Union Member at CWA • General Convention, #310, 23 July (10) Imperialism-See U.S.: International R~lations. Begin's Annexation by Terror, #303, CWA Tops Turn Convention Into Mondale 16 Apr. (3) Rally, #311, 6 Aug. (16, 15) International Association of Machinists Reagan Stabs Palestinians, #313, 17 Sept. "Unions Must Lead the Fight Against Klan (IAM)-See Labor. (1, 11) Terror!", #311, 6 Aug. (15) Israel: Quartermaster for Global • Gianninoto Case International Longshoremen's and Counterrevolution (R), #316, 29 Oct. "I Won't Be Ma Bell's Fink!", #298, 5 Feb. (12) Warehousemen's Union (ILWU)-See (3, 12) Longshoremen. She Would""t Fink for Ma Bell, #299, From the "Arab Revolution" to 19 Feb. (J1) Pax Americana (S) Part 1-#317, 12 Nov. (6,7,8) Fired Militant Wins Round Against AT&T, International Longshoremen's Associ~tion [See also volume 14 (1983)] #307, 11 June (2) (ILA)-See Longshoremen. 1,200 Protest Butcher Begin in L.A., #318, • Ikegami Case 26 Nov. (4) Bureaucrats' Purge Trial in S.F. Phone Union, #313, 17 Sept. (13) INTERNATIONAL SPARTACIST • Israeli Invasion of Lebanon-See also France. TENDENCY (iSt) Stop the Witchhunt Against MAC!, #316, I Zionist Blitzkrieg, #307, 11 June (12, 10) 29 Oct. (5, 15) The Main Enemy is at Home!, #307, 11 June r Israel Out of Lebanon!, #308, 25 June Stop the Witchhunt of CWA Militant!, #317, I (6, 7, 8) I (1,4,5) 12 Nov. (2) i Stop the Massacre of Palestinians!, #308, : INTERNATIONALIST WORKERS PARTY 25 June (4) i POLAND -See also Black Question; Canada; I (IWP) -See France; Phone Workers: Ikegami France; Italy; Revolutionary Workers League; I Zionist "Final Solution", #309, 9July(12, 11) "I Case. U.S.: International Relations. Beirut Death Siege, #310, 23 July (1,3) 1 Morenoite Lies Exposed (L), #304, SL: "Defend the Palestinians! Israel Out of Anti-Red Front Over Poland, #296, 8 Jan. 30 Apr. (4) Lebanon!", #310, 23 July (3) (3, 10) Attempted Murder!, #315, 15 Oct. (3,9) Friends of Lech Wa/esa, Inc., #296, 8 Jan. (9) "'. Smash Zionist Genocide!, #311, 6 Aug. "' If Morenoite Deadly Lies, #316, 29 Oct. (4, 14) (1,14) Pilsudski: Spiritual Father of Solidarnosc, t' #297, 22 Jan. (2) i Morenoites Front for Bloody Junta, #316, Pro-PLO Gabfest for "Pax Americana", #311, I 29 Oct. (4, 14, 15) 6 Aug. (5, 14) Man of Iron: The Gospel According to Solidarnosc (R), #297, 22 Jan. (6, 7, 10) "Anti-Imperialists" Don't Oppose U.S. Troops ir Israel-See Near East. to Lebanon, #311, 6 Aug. (5) What Next for Poland?, #298, 5 Feb. Imperialist/Israeli Troops Out of Lebanon!, (1,6,7,8) #312,3 Sept. (12, 11) Hail Rosa Luxemburg!, #299, 19 Feb. (5) ITALY Zionist Holocaust, #314, 1 Oct. (1,8,9) Counterrevolution Day, Part II, #299, "We Won't Strike for the Madonna of I "Stop Begin's Final Solution!", #314, 19 Feb. (5) Czestochowa!", #296, 8 Jan. (4, 10) I 1 Oct. (3) Herreshoff's Animal Farm (L), #301, Italian CP Dances to Reagan's Tune, #298, Hot Cargo Goods to Israel! (reprint from The 19 Mar. (2) 5 Feb. (4) Beacon), #314, 1 Oct. (3) Israel Shahak: I Congratulate You (L), #303, Israel Shahak: I Accuse!, #314, 1 Oct. (6, 7) 16 Apr. (2) June 27 Committee to Stop the Nazis-See Reagan/Begin Reign of Terror, #315, 15 Oct. Pro-Solida~nosc Vandals Deface Haymarket Fascism: Chicago. (12,11) Monument, #303, 16 Apr. (2) Israel Shahak and Pax Americana, #316, How to Fight Polish Anti-Communists (L), Ku Klux Klan-See Fascism. 29 Oct. (3) . #306, 28 May (2, 8)

31 DECEMBER 1982 15 Solidarnosc Reagan Hawk Declares War on SOVIET UNION -See Poland; U.S.: Transport Workers Union (TWU)-See Transit Doves, #307, 11 Jun'e (5) International Relations. Workers. Reagan Incites Solidarnosc Medvedev Exposes E.P. Thompson's Anti­ Counterrevolution in Poland, #312, Sovietism (R), #299, 19 Feb. (7,8,9) Trotskyism, Anti-See Spartacist League. 3 Sept. (4, 10) On Leonid Brezhnev (reprint from Amsterdam News), #318, 26 Nov. (2) TURKEY -See Longshoremen. POLICE -See U.S.: General. See also Black Save Turkish Trade Unionists from Gallows!, Question; Civil Liberties: Cases. #296, 8 Jan. (9) "Angels" and Cops: Bad News, #297, 22 Jan. SPARTACIST LEAGUE -See Civil Liberties: (3, 10) Spartacist League; EI Salvador: March 27th/ Unemployment-See Auto Workers; Black Milwaukee's Killer Cops Go Free, #299, Anti-Imperialist Contingent; Guardian. See Question; Labor; U.S.: General; specific 19 Feb. (4) also International Spartacist Tendency. occupations. L.A. Cops Shoot Pregnant Black Woman, Who's Redbaiting, Joe Conason? (L), #296, #304, 30 Apr. (3) 8 Jan. (2) United Auto Workers (UAW)-See Auto Workers. Stop "Choke Hold" Gates!, #305, See You at Kronstadt, #297, 22 Jan. (4) 14 May (12) Cries and Whimpers (L), #303, 16 Apr. (2) UNITED STATES Down With the LAPD Gestapo!, #314, The Main Enemy Was the Spartacist League, 1 Oct. (2) #303, 16 Apr. (6,7,8,9) • General-See also Immigration. Jail Cleveland Killer Cops!, #314, 1 Oct. (2) So What Makes Cockburn Run?, #303, Reagan's Racist Rollback, #297, 22 Jan. Jail Contra Costa Killer Cops!, #318, 16 Apr. (7,8) (1, 10) 26 Nov. (3) The Big Lie: We Stopped the Nazis, Rad-Libs Reagan to Aged: Drop Dead!, #297, Want to Stop the Spartacists, #305, 14 May 22 Jan. (5) (6, 8, 9, 10) Pope John Paul II-See U.S.: International Cold War "Freeze"?, #304, 30 Apr. (1, 11) Relations. Detroit Man Tells Why He's a Communist Smash Reagan Reaction!, #305, 14 May (reprint from The Ann Arbor News), #306, (1, 4, 5) 28 May (3) PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY (PL) After Reagan, FUhrer Schmitz?, #306, "Military Victory" Haunts Alexander 28May(11) PL Fellow Traveler Commits Racist Assault, Cockburn, #306, 28 May (7) #311, 6 Aug. (6) Dr. Strangelove's Cold War "Peace" Freeze, Big Lie: They Can't Sell It in Chicago (L), #307, 11 June (1, 8, 9) The Legal Lynching of PL, #313, 17 Sept. #309, 9 July (2) A Bad Week for "Peace", #308, 25 June (7) (4, 12) I Saw Anti-Spartacist League at Work(L), #310: 23 JUly (2) . American Nightmare: 13 Million Jobless, #315,15 Oct. (1,8) Protectionism-See Auto Workers; U.S.: Bekken's Nasty Lies (L), #310, 23 July (4, 5) General. Workers Beware: Protectionist Poison, #315, General Haig's Anarchists, #310, 23 July (5) 15 Oct. (6, 7, 8) . More Bekken's Nasty Lies (L), #311, Fight or Starve!, #320, 31 Dec. (1, 11) Racial Discrimination-See Black Question; 6 Aug. (2) Civil Liberties: Cases; Fascism; Immigration; The Washington Monument Kill, #320, Big Liars Can't Get Their Stories Straight, 31 Dec. (2) South Africa. #311, 6 Aug. (7) • International Relations-See Near East. See Bloodhounds and Bureaucrats, #317, also Chile; Dominican Republic; EI Salvador; Randell, Toni-See Obituaries. 12 Nov. (4) Italy; Nicaragua. SL Southern Tour: Black Workers Welcome Cold Warriors Weep for Solidarnosc, #296, Reagan, Ronald-See U.S.: General, Anti-Klan Victory, #320, 31 Dec. (3) 8 Jan. (1,8,9) International Relations. U.S. Trains Junta Killers, #297, 22 Jan. Spartacus Youth League-See Spartacist (12,11) Reds-See History of the Marxist Movement. League. See also Civil Liberties: Spartacist Reagan's Counterrevolution Show, #298, League; Immigration. 5 Feb. (7) Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL)-See Haig-Goebbels, #301, 19 Mar. (5) Stalinism-See specific countries and Fascism: Ann Arbor, Chicago; Spartacist Reagan, Begin & Hitler, #308, 25 June (1, 9) League. organizations. Reagan's Cold War Crusade Bombs in Europe, #308, 25 June (6, 8) Revolutionary Workers Front (RWF)-See STEEL WORKERS ~ehind Reagan's Pipeline Fiasco, #313, Internationalist Workers Party. 17 Sept. (8, 9, 10) • General NBC Peddles CIA Disinformation: Whose Kill For USWA Action Now to Stop Layoffs!, Pope Plot?, #315,15 Oct. (11) REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS LEAGUE #312, 3 Sept. (9) (RWL) -See France. See also Elections: Russians to Reagan: Don't Try It!, #317, General; Fascism: Ann Arbor. Ed Sadlowski: Loser Thug Assaults Steel 12 Nov. (1,9) Militants, #317, 17 Nov. (5) RWL Wants Sitdowns in Gdansk, Not in Reagan's South Africa Connection, #318, Detroit, #301, 19 Mar. (2) McBride's $4 Billion Giveback Scrapped, 26 Nov. (2) #318,26 Nov. (10) RWL Invite to CIA Agent, #304, 30 Apr. (8) U.S. Plans MX First Strike, #319, 10 Dec. • Anwar Case (1, 14) $$$ Needed for Picket Line Case, #297, Russia-See Soviet Union. 22 Jan. (9) United Steelworkers of America (USWA)-See NLRB Judge Upholds Picket Line Militant, Steel Workers. San Francisco Politics-See Elections: #299, 19 Feb. (12,9) Coleman/Bradley Campaign. Victory in Anwar Picket Line Case!, #314, 1 Oct. (12) WEST GERMANY -See U.S.: International Relations. Steel Unionist Wins Key NLRB Case, #315, SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY (SWP) 15 Oct. (4, 10) Europacifism and German Nationalism, #299, 19 Feb. (6,7,8) Barnesite SWP on the Road to Nowhere, Steel Local Welcomes Anwar Victory, #316, #310,23 July (12,10,11) 29 Oct. (2) Jack Barnes' Zombies, #311, 6 Aug. (2) WOMAN QUESTION Barnestown, U.S.A., #320, 31 Dec. Death of ERA, #310, 23 July (2) (6,7,8,9, 10) TRANSIT WORKERS -See also EI Salvador; Fascism: Washington, D.C. WORKERS VANGUARD -See also Fascism: TWU Under Koch's Guns, #296, 8 Jan. (11) SOUTH AFRICA -See U.S.: International Boston. Relations. No Contract, No Work!, #302, 2 Apr. (2) Workers Vanguard Subscription Drive, #314, Black/White Outrage in South Africa, #299, NYC Transit: Arbitration trap, #304, 1 Oct. (4) 19 Feb. (4) 30 Apr. (5) Workers Vanguard Subscription Drive . Black Miners Massacred in South Africa, Boston Transit Walkout, #304, 30 Apr. (5) Success, #316, 29 Oct. (2) #309, 9 July (3) TWU Mugged, #305, 14 May (2) Black Labor Shakes South Africa, #313, Protest Racist Murder of Black Transit Workers World Party-See EI Salvador: March 17 Sept. (16, 15) Worker!, #308, 25 June (9) 27th/Anti-Imperialist Contingent; Spartaclst Apartheid "Justice": Labor Organizer Jailed Outrage over Lynching of Black Transit League. for Treason, #316,29 Oct. (11) worker, #309, 9 July (2) South African Murder Raid, #320, 31 Dec. "Labor Has the Powerto Stop Racist Terror!", World Politics-See specific countries; U.S.: (12,11) #312, 3 Sept. (6, 9) International Relations.

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