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Vol. 32 - No 11 Monday, March 11, 1968 Price 10¢ By Dick Roberts well as abroad. One who casts MARCH 5 - It is only a rna t­ aside, for instance, the fragile ter of time before Lyndon John­ economic arguments for an anti­ son will respond to the new sit­ inflation increase - and instead uation in Vietnam by a further hammers a tough demand for a mobilization of reserves and a call­ war tax.'' up of fresh troops for the battle­ Business Week, March 2, thinks fields. This is the opinion of prac­ the war image will be even strong­ tically every authority, for or er: "In Dallas, this week, Johnson against the war. said: 'I think every American will The only question now is how want to say, "I stood up to be far and how fast Johnson intends counted." to go. "He will hammer home this ap­ The National Liberation Front's peal to patriotism on every domes­ five-week-long offensive coupled tic issue until there is a turn for with Hanoi's isolation of the U.S. the better in Vietnam . . . marine base at Khesanh have dem­ "On wage-price ·policy, White onstrated Washington cannot win House head-knocking will be the war at the ·present troop tougher and tied to the war. Strik­ levels, if at all. ing copper workers and their em­ "Any serious negotiation," ployers will get the first taste of Theodore Sorensen stated two it, as Johnson struggles to avoid days ago, "would risk a Commu­ breaking the strike with a Taft­ nist South Vietnam." Sorensen Hartley injunction . . . formerly acted as top aide and ad­ viser to President Kennedy. "On civil rights disturbances, The feeling that Washington Negro leaders will be given the could actually lose the war is blunt message that strife in the bringing forth unprecedented crit­ Westmoreland cities this summer will be assailed icism of administration policies. as a betrayal of U.S. soldiers." More and more prominent Demo­ Henry Gemmill figures Johnson Elsewhere in the same issue, cratic and Republican politicians is on the way to becoming "LBJ, Business Week gloats that the sec­ are urging the President to slow War President." Here's the image: ond half year economy may be down and hold back. "A prolonged disappearance of better than originally thought: "Defense spending has taken on a Secret Speeches the Lyndon Johnson who eagerly seeks, in public, for paths to Viet­ different look." It predicts a $6-8 So far, Johnson has not felt com· nam peace talks. No more visits billion rise in spending on the Photo by Shannon pelled to answer his critics direct­ war, compared to early estimates BACK MUHAMMAD ALI. Demonstrators support heavyweight to the Pope ... ly and publicly. But he is appar­ "Instead, a Commander-in-Chief of a $4 billion increase. champion deprived of crown because of· his opposition to draft ently making some sort of answers who pours more soldiers into the Whether Johnson adopts the war and war. in the secret speeches to hand­ war - breaking through the Viet­ image suggested by these finan­ picked audiences he has been mak­ nam manpower ceiling he himself cial sources in the 1968 campaign ing around the nation in the last set last summer. And a President remains to be seen. Image or no few weeks. who calls on Congress for more image, however, he will continue Thus, Max Frankel, the New military money - busting the bud­ to be "waist deep in the Big 700 Picket Fake Bout York Times' chief authority on get he himself set last month. Muddy" and sinking deeper, as the LBJ's moods, tells us March 3 "A War President at home, as song says. that Johnson "has figured out his answers to the electorate's most -Ali Still the Champ nagging questions." For instance, to the question "Are we really By Alex Harte fighting. for freedom?" Johnson NEW YORK, March 4 - Over be said that the blacks were ready would respond: 700 demonstrators picketed the to fight and claim it. Let the "Mr. Ho Chi Minh, who has I whites have that opportunity ..." never been elected to anything in CHOICE 68 News gala debut of boxing at the new :J/Iadison Square Garden tonight Edwards stated that Frazier and his life, has determined that his By Doug Jenness might will make right and that he to protest the phony world heavy­ Mathis had given the petition a can take that little country. We This column will be a weekly service to campus newspapers put weight championship match be­ friendly reception. The petition are pledged to them." feature devoted to news of the out by the United States Student tween Joe Frazier and Buster Ma­ was also signed by Lincoln ,Lynch, And to the question about not nationwide CHOICE 68 campus Press Association, has asked to in­ this. chairman of the United Black paying attention to his critics, poll on the Vietnam war and the terview Fred Halstead and Paul Excluded from the fight was Front. Presidency, to be held on April Boutelle, the SWP candidate for Muhammad Ali, the uncontestable Johnson would answer, "I asked Edwards, who also helped or­ the Secretary of State and the 24. Vice President. In a letter to the world heavyweight champion, ganize the boycott 6f the New Secretary of Defense only yester· CHOICE 68, financed by Time national office of the Socialist barred from the ring because of York Athletic Club track meet day to take Senator X's speech and magazine, is beoing run by a group Workers Campaign Committee, his opposition to the racist war [The Militant, Feb. 25-] because of take Senator Y's television ap· of student-body presidents and one of their editors writes, " ... I in Vietnam. the club's discrimination against pearance and take Senator Z's editors. They are presently setting have noticed a number of articles In below-freezing weather, the blacks and Jews, tol.d reporters: statement and take General So­ up coordinators and CHOICE 68 in college newspapers and I noted demonstrators marched to such "It's two entirely different dem­ and-so and analyze them all to see committees on each campus across that Mr. Halstead was included chants as "Who's the champ'' onstrations. We make a distinc­ if there is any alternative plan the country to encourage interest on the ballot for CHOICE 68 ... Muhammad Ali" and "He won't tion between the racist pigs who they have that we could profit in the poll and formation of can­ We have been trying to set up go, we won't go." They belonged put on the fight and the brothers from." didate-supporter groups, to get out interviews with all the major can­ to a number of organizations in­ who are in there fighting . . ." Different insights into Johnson's the vote, and to conduct the poll. didates for President. It is clear cluding various nationalist groups to me that, on campuses at least, Following two hours of picket­ plans come from other quarters. The name of Fred Halstead, So­ in Harlem, the National Black Halstead and Boutelle are among ing, a rally was held on the steps Wall Street Journal correspondent cialist Workers Party candidate Anti-War Anti-Draft Union, the the major candidates." of the U.S. Post Office on Eighth for President, appears on the Black Caucus, the W.E.B. DuBois Avenue at 33rd Street. Short CHOICE 68 ballot along with 13 ' The College Press Service has Clubs, the Young Socialist .Al­ speeches were given by Dixie other announced or prospective more than 300 college and univer­ liance, and Youth Against War Bayo of the Puerto Rican Inde­ Is Your Scllool candidates. In addition there are sity newspapers among its sub­ and Fascism. pendence Movement; Carlos Rus­ three referendum issues on the scribers with a potential reader­ Right before the demonstration, sell, chairman of the Black Cau­ ballot, including the first national ship of about three million stu­ Harry Edwards, chairman of the cus; Harry Edwards; Jarvis Tyner, In CHOICE 68? campus poll on the war in Viet­ dents. Olympic Boycott Committee, pres­ chairman of the W.E.B. DuBois Check with your student gov­ nam. * * * ented a petition to Frazier and Clubs and Matty Berkelhammer, ernment or Social Science or The Socialist Workers Campaign The New York Student Mobil· '.\1athis urging them not to fight. a lead,er of the DuBois Clubs in ization Committee to End the War Political Science departments to Committee has called for a vote The petition called attention to a New York; and Charles Kenyatta. for immediate withdrawal of U.S. in Vietnam has established a number of black freedom fighters Edwards reiterated the fact that make sure your school is partic­ forces and permanent cessation of CHOICE 68 subcommittee. This who have been unjustly perse­ the demonstration protested in­ ipating in CHOICE 68. For more the bombing, on the antiwar re­ committee is planning to send out cuted and stated, in part: justice against all black people, information, write: CHOICE 68, ferendums; and for a write-in organizers and speakers to New "Gentlemen, out of dignity and specifically mentioning Huey New­ Room 1924, Time and Life Build­ vote of "black control of the black York campuses to help get respect to the black people of ton, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Car­ communities" on the urban crisis CHOICE 68 organized and to cam­ ing, Rockefeller Center, New America, which includes yourself, michael and Herman Ferguson. referendum. paign for a vote for the imme­ let the title remain unchallenged "We must move against racism in York, N.Y. 10020. Phone: (212) * * * diate withdrawal of troops. For -for the time being. Let it not all areas," he insisted. 556-4556, The College Press Service, a (Continued ou Page 4) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, March 11, Hl68 A Letter from Prison Building a Socialist N,ewspaper [The following are excerpts them. Most important of all, we from several letters written by must bear in mind that the new James P. Cannon, then national reader does not remain a new A new militancy is developing teachers want to represent them secretary of the Socialist Work­ in collective bargaining. reader all his life. The average among teachers today, and no sec­ ers Party, while he was in the fed­ intelligent worker quickly absorbs tion of the country, including the * * eral penitentiary in Sandstone, the few simple ideas which at­ South, has not been affected by A new bill, introduced last Minn., in 1944. They are taken tracted him to the paper in the week into the Michigan House of the broad sweep of mass actions from a new book by Cannon, who first place. Then he begins to feel Representatives, is aimed at pub­ is now national chairman of the the need of more substantial aimed at securing better living lic employe unions in the state. SWP, consisting of a collection of food ... The most dangerous provision of conditions. his letters written while serving Precisely here was the Achilles• the bill makes it illegal "for a The statewide mass resignation a prison sentence along with 17 heel of the old Appeal to Reason. labor organization or other rep­ of Florida teachers continued into other members of the Socialist Its unrivaled agitation on a few its third week as we go to press. resentative of public employes to Workers Party, in the first con­ call, instigate or assist a strike, or simple points, and its sensational The walkout, called by the Florida viction under the Smith "gag" exposures, made the Appeal very fail to take appropriate action Educational Association, has not to Act. attractive to thousands of new only won the support of the Amer­ end a strike." This provision at­ [These excerpts refer to the re­ tacks the rank-and-file trade un­ readers who were making the ican Federation of Teachers, AFL­ tooling of The Militant under con­ first break in their allegiance to CIO but the American Associa­ ionists, who more and more are ditions when the class struggle and rejecting inadequate contracts the bourgeois parties. But the tion' of University Professors at opportunities for the socialist Appeal left them, so to speak, on the University of Florida held a negotiated by their leadership, by movement were on the rise. putting legal pressure on them to the first step of the ladder, never day-long "workday" in support of [The Socialist Appeal Cannon raised them higher. The readel's, the teachers. The walkout has also accept whatever the government or their own union leadership refers to was the most popular after a spell of enthusiasm, got gotten the support of thousands pre-World War I socialist news­ tired of the singsong which they of students on the University of tells them to. The bill also ex­ cludes state civil service employes paper, published in Kansas. already knew by heart and fell Florida campus. away. At a certain stage of its Teachers in Montgomery Coun­ from coverage under the public [Cannon's book, Letters from Prison, is available at a prepub­ development, the Appeal was con­ ty, Md., returned to work after employes bargaining law. lication price of $3.95 from Merit fronted with the life-and-death nine days on strike, and accepted * * * 873 problem of getting new thousands a raise in starting pay from $5,880 Publishers, Broadway, New President Johnson is preparing York, N.Y. 10003.] of readers to take the place of to $6,340. The teachers, led by moves against the strike of 60,000 other thousands who were falling the Montgomery County Educa­ copper workers, which is begin­ Viewing The Militant as a tool, away. cational Association, have also ning its ninth month. He stepped I should like to refine the defini­ JAMES P. CANNON. This pho­ beaten down an attempt by the in when the International Long­ tion by saying that, in the next Personal Experience Board of Education to insert a to was taken shortly before he shoremen's Association, AFL-CIO, period, it must serve as a com­ I know all this very well be­ "no-strike" clause into their con­ refused to handle copper imports went to prison. bination tool which can be used cause I was one of them. It was tract. to the four copper companies on several different jobs. I believe In Harrisburg, Pa., 20,000 Penn­ and agitation, i.e., concentrated my good fortune to discover the which dominate the industry (al­ this qualification is very impor­ IWW and the .new problems of sylvania teachers demonstrated to hammering on a very few basic though other copper imports are tant. theory and tactics raised by it, have teachers' salaries raised. The being handled). The paper, for the first time, is slogans of the day. These are the crowd booed and laughed when indispensable characteristics of a and to get an introduction into Johnson, at a meeting attended getting a good reception from Marxist economics at the old So­ Gov. Shafer told them that he by Secretary of Defense Clifford, masses of workers without pre­ popular paper. But - and here is was "personally committed to edu­ main reason we need a bigger cialist Educational Society in Labor Secretary Wirtz, Treasury vious political education or inter­ Kansas City, just at the time I cation as the highest priority of paper - our Militant cannot be Secretary Fowler and Commerce est. The majority of its readers was beginning to feel that the our state government." Secretary-designate Smith, alibied at the present moment are new merely a popular paper even if In Pittsburgh, the American every line of its contents is ir­ Appeal to Reason had nothing that the "larger interests of the people, and it is to be expected more to teach me. Federation of Teachers is continu­ nation" demanded a settlement of that this majority will become reproachably correct as far as it goes. My case was rather typical. Most ing their strike, in spite of an the strike. Clifford declared that in larger. The Militant must serve injunction to return to work. The view of the offensive of the Na­ The Militant must strive to be a of the militants I knew in those this new audience, adapt itself to days had gone through the Appeal strike, which has closed the city's tional Liberation Front in Viet­ the stage of their political devel­ combination paper; a paper which 24 junior and senior high schools nam, it was "unsound logistically interests and serves the needs of to Reason school. But the point opment, under penalty of losing is, they had gone through it. I was called because the Board of and financially" for the copper their interest. the new reader who picks it up Education is refusing to hold a strike to continue. The demand for the first time, the reader who finally stopped reading the Appeal union representation election. of the unions for industry-wide Popularization is beginning to think of himself altogether. Occasionaly, when I A one-day walkout of teachers bargaining has already been at­ as a Trotskyist without yet think­ picked it up later, it lacked the in San Francisco, called by the tacked by the National Labor Rela­ This dictates a new journalistic ing about the party, and the edu­ old interest for me. The Appeal San Francisco Federation of tions Board. technique. Our language and our cated party militant - all at the was too simply, too exclusively Teachers, AFL-CIO, ended when Sen. Montoya (D-New Mexico) arguments must be simplified and same time. If we get this concep­ agitational to hold the continuing the mayor agreed to conduct a introduced facts in the Feb. 26 made more accessible to the new tion clearly in our heads we will interest of a developing militant poll to determine what group the Congressional Record showing that type of reader. This does not mean be able to avoid some of the most and aid his further education ..• the copper industry has gained to vulgarize, to talk down in Labor costly errors of the past and close We must try to do everything tremendous profits at the expense Action fashion, but to study and big gaps through which many understandingly, consciously. Ap­ of the workers. From 1963 to 1966, learn the art of popularizing our thousands of potential socialists plied to The Militant this means, the percentage increase in profits propaganda. It is an art and it slipped away from the movement among other things, that we should of the major companies are: can be learned and practiced with­ in the past. deliberatedly plan it as a varie­ POWER American Smelting and Refining, out revising or watering down a We can only afford to publish gated combination paper which 136 percent; Anaconda, 192 per­ single basic principle. The prob­ one paper. And we must address has something in it of special in­ cent; Kennecott Copper, 120 per­ lem is one of presentation, with ourselves to the politically educat­ terest to all of its readers in all -POSTERS- cent; and Phelps Dodge, 110 per­ the new readers in mind. They ed as well as to the uninitiated. stages of their development; which cent. are only, for the most part, new­ And we must also remember that conducts the new reader by stages * * * ly interested, only partly inter­ between the best-posted party from agitation on the burning At a pre-bargaining conference ested, and the paper must be member of years of study and ex­ issues of the day into all the more of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic lightened up and brightened up perience and the new reader there profound questions of the class Workers, AFL-CIO, more than 200 in order to hold their interest and are numerous strata in different and the party, and continues to in­ delegates formulated demands for lead them into deeper studies. The degrees of development. And we terest him after he has assimilat­ 65,000 workers whose contracts paper has improved enormously must publish a paper for all of ed them. with 20 companies expire Dec. 31. along this line during the past The demands include wage in­ year, but we must keep the di· creases ranging from $.75 to $1.50 rection clear and go farther. ntlllllll\11111111111111!111!1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111t an hour, a vacation bonus, full I have no doubt that a "Gallup employer payment of hospital and poll" would show conclusively that medical insurance for present and the cartoons and drawings and the A NEW BOOK BY retired members of' the union and new feature columns account to their families, and higher rates of a great degree for the increased pay for evening and night work. popularity of the paper. With the increased space which the eight· * * * pager will provide, we must try James P. Cannon The Federal Trade Commission deliberately to make further ad· has presented figures showing that vances along this line. More car­ magazine publishers have the toons and drawings; more light second highest profits of any in­ features, especially short features; Letters from Prison dustry in the U.S. The drug in­ more effort to give information Big 16" x 20" Posters, strikingly dustry had the highest profits with not found elsewhere; more studied lithographed on heavy paper. 21.1 percent on investment, while effort to convey our ideas in small In 1944, Jemes P. Cannon, netionel chairman of the Socialist Workers Perty Quant. • • • • • • the magazine industry had an doses, subtly and sometimes in­ along with 17 other leaders of the SWP and the Minnel!polis truckdrivers' __ Malcolm X @ $1.25 average 20.1 percent profit. The directly, for the average worker union who opposed. the war - wes imprisoned in the government's first use of __Stokely Carmichael @ $1.25 American Newspaper Guild re­ doesn't like to be pounded over the Smith Act. These are the letters he wrote while serving his sentence in the __ H. Rap Brown @ $1.25 cently won an NLRB decision re­ the head with direct arguments in federal penitentiary at Sandstone, Minn. __ Muhammad Ali @ $1.25 quiring Look magazine to furnish every article and every headline... __ LeRoi Jones @ $1.25 it with information about the __Set of 5 (One of ea.) $5.00 salaries and working conditions of Tradition 354 pp. $5.95 __Enclosed for _Posters employes in its jurisdiction. Name ______For the benefit of the new read­ Special prepublication price, good until May I, only -Howard Reed er we must tell the history of the Address movement over and over again, Birds of a. Feather -- The de dramatizing the great events and $3.95 City/State Gaulle government has warned a personalities of the past, in order Zip French anti-Vietnam-war organiza­ to build up one of the most power­ ...... tion that it faces prosecution for ful supporting ideas any move­ MERIT PUBLISHERS • 873 Broadway Dealer lnq11iries Invited defaming a foreign leader unless ment can have - the idea of it withdraws 2,000 posters show­ tradition . ·.. New York, N.Y. 10003 POWER POSTERS The dominant notes of the eight­ 6 N. 13th St., Phila., Pa. 19107 ing Johnson wearing a hawk's head. page paper must be simplification ':llllll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliHUHilllll Monday, March 11, 1968 THE MILITANT Page Three

Soviet Intellectuals Protest Trials THE MILITANT Editor: BARRY SHEPPARD Business Manager: BEVERLY SCOTT To Communist Congress in Budapest Published weekly, except durinl( J'uly and August when published biweekly, by Tho Militant Pnblishinl' Ass'n., 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003. Phone 1133-6414. Second-class postage paid at New York. N.Y. Subscription: domestic, $3 a year; Canada and Latin America, $3.50; other foreign, $4.50. By first claM ByLes Evans mail: domestic and Canada, $9.00; all other countries, $14.00. Air printed matter: domestic and Canada, $12.50; Latin America, $23.00; Europe, $27.00, Africa, The last few weeks have seen Australia, Asia (including USSR), $32.00. Write for sealed air postage rate!. a sharp intensification of the strug­ Signed articles by contributors do nat necessarily represent The MUitant'a vieWII. gle taking place in the Soviet Un­ These are expressed in editorials. ion between dissident intellectuals and the Soviet bureaucracy. Vol. 32 - No 11 ~345 Monday, March 11, 1968 Twelve leading Soviet intellec­ tuals took the very courageous ac­ tion of airmailing a document to The .. Riot.. Commission the conference of Communist parties that opened Feb. 26 in The report by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Budapest. The document appealed Disorders - the panel set up by Johnson to investigate the to the conference "to consider the series of explosions in the nation's black communities last sum­ peril caused by the trampling on mer - is not readily available as we go to press. However, the man in our country." summary of the report, which has appeared in the press, con­ The document was sent in de­ tains information and conclusions which amount to an indict­ fiance of heavy pressure from the KGB (secret political police), ment of the capitalist system and the racist capitalist govern­ which has threatened the intellec­ ment and politicians who administer that system, although this tuals with imprisonment if they Winter In GAZET YAH ANTWERPEH. Antwttp was not the intent of its authors. persist in criticizing violations of "The urban disorders of the summer of 1967," the report Soviet law in trying and condemn­ summary says, "were not caused by, nor were they the conse­ ing citizens for holding views that affairs journal that reprints ma­ men. In 1956 . the then-premier quence of, any organized plan Gr 'conspiracy.'" Rather, the report do not meet with official approval. terial from abroad. testified: indicts the social and economic conditions of racial oppression The document protested the Kraminov claimed that it was "Many thousands of honest and and exploitation imposed upon black people. "Social and eco­ "series of political trials" in recent "bourgeois propaganda" that there years and the imprisonment of in­ innocent Communists have died nomic conditions in the riot cities constituted a clear pattern of is "an absence of personal free­ as a result of this monstrous fal­ severe disadvantage for Negroes compared with whites, whether dividuals solely "for their beliefs." dom" in the Soviet Union. He The response from the Krem­ sification of such 'cases,' as a re­ the Negroes lived in the area where the riot took place or outside traced the origin of the charge to sult of the fact that all kinds of it," the report summary says. "Negroes had completed fewer years lin was very significant. Pravda, "the Trotskyites and 'left-wing' slanderous 'confessions' were ac­ of education and fewer had attended high school. Negroes were the official newspaper of the So­ and 'right-wing' renegades." cepted, and as a result of the viet Communist Party, carried an twice as likely to be unemployed and three times as likely to be Kraminov, rev1vmg Stalin's practice of forcing accusations article March 3 which compared in unskilled and service jobs. Negroes averaged 70 _percent of the the trial of four Soviet intellec­ slander of his victims, declared against oneself and others." of the frame-up and execution of The intellectuals' appeal, which income earned by whites and were more than twice as likely tuals in January w!th the purge to be living in poverty. Although housing costs Negroes relatively trials of the "Trotskyite opposi­ the Old Bolsheviks in the '30s: was "answered" by Pravda's tion" to Stalin in the 1930's, jus­ "The bourgeois press gleefully threat, described the current series more, they had worse housing - three times as likely to be tifying both. This article marked acclaimed the shouters, defended of triHubert Humphrey, speaking for LBJ who is said to be pout­ unanswered. Instead the reply to ing about the report, "doubts" the report's finding that the U.S. With 20,000 Names those who have protested most is heading for greater and greater segregation and oppression, actively has consisted of being dis­ toward two societies, "separate and unequal.'' Instead, Humphrey By Joel Aber charged from their jobs, summons lyingly asserted, "Our progress has been dramatic.'' signatures. Supporters of Halstead to the KGB for threats of arrests Representative George H. Mahon, Democrat from Texas and PHILADELPHIA, March 4 - and, finally, the most shocking The Socialist Workers Party filed and Boutelle here overcame this chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, attacked the obstacle with only a few colds form of reprisal, forcible confine­ today to place its candidates on ment in a mental hospital. report because it called for "untold billions of dollars in expen­ the November ballot in Pennsyl­ and sore throats, gathering signa­ ditures.'' tures at a furious rate. "We know that many Commu­ vania with 20,000 signatures of nists in foreign countries have ex­ Both attitudes are indicative of Washington's priorities - registered voters gathered on Veteran petitioners from past pressed their disapproval of pol­ while billions of dollars are being spent to wage a war of ag­ nominating petitions, nearly dou­ election campaigns reported that itical repression in recent years. gression against the people of Vietnam, social needs here at home ble the 10,511 required by the this ballot drive was more enthu­ We appeal to the participants in are being neglected and ignored. siastic and less difficult than any state. the consultative conference to fully And, while the report is being printed and circulated, the In order to make it difficult for previous ones. First of all, the consider the perils caused by the parties other than the Democrats number of people willing to help racist capitalist political reality which the report condemns con­ trampling on man in our country." tinues to assert itself. On Capitol Hill, a big vote was rolled up and Republicans to get on the gather signatures for Halstead and The 12 'signers were: Pavel M. ballot, Pennsylvania gives peti­ Boutelle was larger than the num­ Litvinov, Mrs. Larisa Daniel, Dr. in the Senate for an amendment to the "civil rights" bill (!) mak­ tioners only three weeks, in the ber who helped in previous So­ Zamira Asanova, Aleksei Katerin, ing it a crime to "cross state lines with intent to incite a riot," an middle of winter, to collect the cialist Workers election campaigns. Pyotr Yakir, Viktor Krazin, Ilya unconstitutional and deliberately vague law which will be used The average age of the petitioners Gabai, Boris Shragin, Anatoly Le­ to attack black militants. (When it was first introduced in Con­ was lower, and this made it easier vitin, Yuli Kim, Yuri Glawv, and gress last summer, it was nicknamed the "anti-Stokely" law, in for them to stand on street corn­ Pyotr Grigorenko. reference to SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael. ers for 10 hours in freezing weather. Hunger Strike Even more ominous are the reports on police stockpiling of heavy weapons to be used against the black community. The re­ Gls ~and the Fight Secondly, people were more The protest followed news from port, while calling for police measures to "maintain law and willing to sign the petitions than Moscow Feb. 21 that some 200 Against War in other campaigns. The majority political prisoners in two labor order" at all costs, with the unmistakable implication that what­ of those who took time to stop camps and one prison had begun ever force "necessary" to keep the black community down should and listen to the petitioners were a hunger strike the previous week be used during a "riot," had deplored the "overreaction" of police glad to help put candidates on the in support of their demands for and the stockpiling of heavy equipment to be used against black ballot who are for bringing the better conditions. Imprisoned people. By Mary-Alice Waters· Gis home from Vietnam. writer Yuli M. Daniel was said to An Associated Press dispatch from Washington March 1, re­ The depth of antiwar sentiment be among the striking prisoners. ported that "In city after city across America, the police are was apparent to everyone who The delegates at the conference stockpiling armored vehicles, helicopters, high-powered rifles ... Introduction took part in this petition cam· of Communist parties, all grad­ They are sending undercover agents into the slums . . . In Los paign. There was general agree­ uates of the school of Stalinism, Angeles, policemen watched the demonstration model of a 20-ton ment that it was exciting to get are the last ones to be inclined to By Fred Halstead signatures so quickly on the basis heed the cries of intellectuals be­ armored personnel carrier crush a barricade of abandoned cars. of willingness to put socialist anti­ ing smothered by their Kremlin The tank-like vehicle can carry 20 men in bulletproof safety. It war candidates on the ballot as colleagues. But it is not within can be equipped with a .30 calibre machine gun, tear-gas launch­ 25 cents an alternative to the Democrats their power to suppress news of ers, a smoke-screen device . . . and Republicans. the document that was placed be­ "Oakland County, a Detroit suburb, also is obtaining an The 20,000 petitions will also fore them. Army half-track ...," etc. put Pearl Chertov on the ballot The mood among the Soviet peo­ In New York, the state legislature has passed an anti-black for U.S. Senator from Pennsyl­ ple behind appeals like this, cou­ law giving cops wider "shoot-to-kill" powers. Young Socialist pled with demonstrations in the vania, Frederick Stanton for State Tanks, half-tracks, tear gas, "shoot to kill" and anti-Stoke­ P.O. Box 471 Auditor General, and Richard prisons and labor camps, can re· Lesnik for State Treasurer.. The new the process begun with the ly" laws - and token reforms "already in the works" - this is New York, N.Y. 10003 ballot designation for the SWP in "de-Stalinization" and finally win the actual response of the Democratic and Republican politicians Pennsylvania is Militant Workers the restoration of proletarian to the demands of the black people for freedom, justice and Party. democracy in the Soviet Union. equality. Page Four THE MILITANT Monday, March 11, 1968 Halsfead-Boutelle Campaign Report Boutelle, Right- Winger Socialist Campaign Goes to Gls Debote in Eugene, Ore. By Caroline Lund us specimens that we might mul­ ticopy for action among U.S. sol­ NEW YORK, March 4 - Re­ By Mary Kraft diers in Sicily?" This person also quests are now coming in regular­ wrote, "Incidently, back issues of EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 22 - So­ paign ticket. One endorser wa~ ly to the Socialist Workers cam­ The Militant, after being read, are cialist Vice-Presidential candidate Dr. Clyde E. DeBerry, a western paign office from army bases and often distributed to U.S. Armymen Paul Boutelle was the lead-off regional director of CORE and a from antiwar fighters around the in the OTAN [NATO] base of speaker here in a three-day Sym­ speaker at a later session in the world asking for the brochure Sigonella." posium on Social Revolution held Symposium. "A Letter to G Is on the '68 at the University of Oregon on A letter from Rome says: "I Peter Camejo, Socialist Workers Elections" by Fred Halstead, So­ Feb. 19, 20, and 21. have received a set of your mate­ candidate for the U.S. Senate from cialist Workers Party candidate Boutelle spoke to an audience California, spoke in a panel to­ for President. rial for the election campaign in 1968. We shall affix as many as of 800 students, advancing the gether with Greg Calvert, SDS di· This brochure is the first piece you send me of them in many ideas of the socialist campaign in rector of the spring actions. The of campaign literature of any can­ places especially where Gls pass a debate with Phyllis Schafly, panel was held on the last day of didate which is addressed speci­ through and American tourists author of "A Choice, Not An the Symposium. Other speakers fically to American Gls. It tells walk.'' Echo" - a now forgotten brief for featured at the /Symposium in­ the truth about the war and urges Barry Goldwater. cluded Bettina Aptheker of the Gls to cast their votes against it From an Australian socialist and antiwar fighter came another re­ He received round after round Communist Party, David Dellin­ by voting for Fred Halstead and of applause as he spoke. Mrs. ger, LeRoi Jones, and Dr. Spock. his running mate, Paul Boutelle. quest for more Halstead-Boutelle Schafly had no choice but to listen Many radical students joined The Socialist Workers campaign campaign posters: "We post them up in the Kings Cross area of to the echoes. Young Socialists for Halstead and introduced the brochure to the in­ Sydney where all the Gls stay Young Socialists for Halstead Boutelle during the three-day af­ ternational antiwar movement by while they are on leave from Viet­ and Boutelle trailblazers from Ber­ fair, and a chapter of YSHB has sending a copy of it to 130 anti­ nam ... If there are some pamph­ keley, Seattle, and San Francisco now been set up by campaign sup­ war committees around the world. lets we could reproduce and hand set up a large literature display porters on the campus. A letter came in this week from out to the troops could we have for the Symposium. They report­ Their first project will be to Berti! Svahnstrom, chairman of one copy of each-i.e., those main­ ed that Paul Boutelle's speech had the International Liaison Commit­ help get out a large vote for Fred ly directed at canvassing votes immediate results in the form of tee of the Stockholm Conference Halstead and against the war in against the war. Please let us have over 20 endorsers for the cam- the CHOICE 68 campus balloting. on Vietnam. He wrote: "I thank one copy of anything you think you very much for your letter of Gis ought to have while they are Feb. 20 and the 'Letter to Gls.' We would be most grateful to receive on leave here and we will handle the rest." all possible information about this campaign among U.S. soldiers." Here in the U.S., Halstead-Bou­ A request for more of the "Let­ telle campaign committees are trying to get the "Letter to Gls" CHOICE 68 ter to G Is" came also from the ••• New Zealand branch of the Ber­ into the hands of as many Gls as (Continued from Page 1) CHOICE 68 and the Halstead-Bou­ trand Russell Peace Foundation. possible. The first run of 25,000 further information write or call: telle ticket is the State News pub­ According to Owen Wilkes, sec­ of the brochure is already gone, Student Mobilization Committee. lished daily at Michigan State retary of the group, "Our execu­ and another run of 50,000 is being 17 E. 17th St., New York, N.Y., University. On Feb. 6, a front-page tive is considering some activity printed. End the War in Vietnam to dis· Tel. 255-1075. article reported that Forum 68:, at our local U.S. base, ostensibly New York Young Socialists for tribute leaflets and discuss their a student-government- sponsored Halstead and Boutelle have begun ideas with servicemen and other * * * program to bring speakers to cam­ located here to support 'peaceful' A letter from Michigan Young research in· Antarctica." regular , leafleting of troops pass­ travelers in the Port Authority pus on the important issues of ing through the Port ..Authority bus terminal. The judge ruled Socialists for Halstead and Bou­ the 1968 election, had secured The German Aktionskomitee telle, reporting on plans for Gegen Den Krieg in Vietnam will bus terminal on weekend passes. that the bus terminal was a pub­ three speakers including Fred Because of a recent ruling by lic thoroughfare, and therefore an CHOICE 68, states: "We are really Halstead. take 1.000-2,000 of the GI bro­ campaigning to get the vote on chure to distribute to U.S. service­ the United States Court of Ap­ "appropriate place for the exer­ cise of rights protected by the as many Michigan colleges as we On Feb. 14, another front-page men stationed in Germany. peals, leafleting and discussing article described the CHOICE 68 the issues with soldiers is allowed First Amendment." This decision can. We've sent out a letter to Even before the publication of all colleges and junior colleges in poll and named the 14 candidates the brochure by Halstead, the right inside the terminal as the could be an important precedent in establishing the right of anti­ Michigan urging their participa­ whose names are appearing on campaign committee had received Gls wait for buses. the ballot. several requests for leaflets suit­ On March 1, the U.S. Court of war groups to give leaflets to Gis tion. This week we are starting in bus, train, and airport terminals our trailblazing to do follow-up The Feb. 15 and 16 issues of the able for distribution to American Appeals ruled in favor of the paper carried front page stories Gls in other countries. From Sicily right of the New York Vietnam across the country. work." A special issue of the state Indicative of the results that can Campaigner is devoted to CHOICE with photographs of Halstead's came the request: "If you have Peace Parade Committee and New visit on the campus. Halstead leaflets for Gls, could you send York Veterans and Reservists to come from this campaign to get this 68. brochure into the hands of Gis is * • • spoke before a group of 150 stu­ a letter sent to the Socialist Work­ Fred Halstead is scheduled to dents "as part of the Great Issues ers Campaign Committee from speak before the Yale Political program in conjunction with a GI who received the brochure Union, one of the most prominent CHOICE 68." at Ft. Campbell, Ky. The antiwar campus forums for political ideas * * * soldier wrote: "Please send in the nation, on March 13. The Both Fred Halstead and Paul samples of your party's campaign president of the Union is attempt· Boutelle are on national speaking literature. I believe many Gls ing to arrange a debate between tours of American campuses, help­ here will support your campaign Halstead and a spokesman for the ing promote the CHOICE 68 poll. ( expecially black soldiers)." Eugene McCarthy campaign. The In the Pacific Northwest, Bou­ Bundles of the "Letter to Gls" usual schedule for a guest of the telle recently had a particularly can be purchased from the So­ Political Union is: 4:00 p.m., tele­ successful series of meetings. He cialist Workers Campaign Com­ vision taping; 4: 30, press confer­ spoke for a total of 7% hours on mittee for $1.50 per hundred. ence; 5:00, reception; 6:00, dinner; call-in talk shows, was interviewed MALCOLM X: STRUGGLE As the scene shifts back to the A donation of $25.00 will pay 8:00, Union meeting. In the last by 20 newspapers, radio stations FOR FREEDOM speech, Malcolm is heard pro­ for shipping 1,000 brochures over­ few years 14 senators, a number and television stations, and spoke One of the most recent and sig­ pounding and laying bare the in­ seas for distribution to American of governors and mayors, and directly to about 2,100 people, nificant contributions in com­ ternational nature of the black Gls around the world. other prominent figures have mostly students. Well over 100 stu­ memoration of the late Brother freedom struggle in the U.S. spoken before the Union. dents signed up as endorsers of the campaign and over $225 worth Malcolm X is the film "Malcolm Then Malcolm launches into * * * X: Struggle for Freedom.'' the African struggle, describing Poster: of socialist literature was sold. From Bethany College in West When he spoke to a meeting of Tne film is directed by Lebert the role of the African woman Virginia, a student writes to the Bethune and John Taylor. It is in it. He points out that in coun­ 400 at Washington State Univer­ Young Socialists for Halstead and sity in Pullman, located in eastern 22 minutes long and has a sound tries where the revolutionary Vote Choice 68 Boutelle: "In the February issue track. movement has yet to take hold of Washington, his remarks were of your magazine [Young Social­ repeatedly interrupted by ap­ The setting is in Paris, France, the masses, the women are back­ • Against the War ist] were two posters which could ward in that they still slavishly plause and he received an ovation where Malcolm is speaking to a • For Fred Halstead be ordered for 25 cents each ... when he finished. The meeting group of African students, in No­ subordinate themselves to men. I am enclosing one dollar and However, in countries where the was sponsored by the WSU Stu­ vember, 1964. Throughout the 17" x 22". Cost: 25 cents each; 10 would like two copies of each dents for a Democratic Society film, as Malcolm is speaking, masses are waging a decisive poster . . . On April 24, the struggle against colonialism, the cents each for orders of 25 or more; and the WSU Afro-American Al­ scenes from the Afro-American 6 cents each for 100 or more. Avail­ CHOICE 68 presidential primary liance. and African liberation struggles women begin to shed their obse­ will be held on our campus. If you able as minipO&ter (8~"x II"): 5 appear on the screen. quiousness to play a role equal if have any stickers or posters for He also spoke at Gonzaga Uni­ Malcolm begins by describing not greater than the male in rev­ cents each; 2 cents over 25: I cent Fred Halstead, I would like to be versity in Spokane, Olympic State the cultural and sociological geno­ olutionary struggle. each on orders over I 00. able to put some around before College in Bremerton, and had cide that Anglo-American society In discussing the black revolu­ the election." two meetings at the University of has inflicted upon the black man tion in the Western Hemisphere, Brochure: Washington in Seattle. He spoke Malcolm defines all Americans of * * * at two Malcolm X memorial meet­ While he describes the situation, Seymour Kramer, local chair- scenes from Harlem appear on African descent, from Tierra del ings - one sponsored by the U. Fuego to Alaska, as Afro-Amer­ A Letter to Gls man of Young Socialists for Hal­ of Washington Black Student the screen. stead and Boutelle at the Univer­ When Malcolm begins to dis­ icans. Union and another organized by The film ends with scenes from By Fred Halstead sity of Wisconsin, debated sup­ Seattle SNCC. cuss the advent of the black free- . porters of Eugene McCarthy at a dom struggle, the film shows Malcolm's funeral. $1.50 per 100. * * * At a time when black freedom meeting attended by several hun­ There are still nine states where some of the action that occurred dred students. Before the debate in Birmingham, Ala., in May of fighters and antiwar activists are Send for list of additional cam· there are no signed endorsers of busily carrying out Malcolm's was over the McCarthy support­ the Halstead-Boutelle ticket - 1963. paign materials. Send orders to: ers wound up saying that after From here, the scene shifts to foremost idea - internationaliz­ Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Neb­ ing the fight against U.S. impe­ McCarthy is defeated at the Dem­ raska, New Mexico, North Caroli­ the capture and assassination of Young Socialists ocratic Party convention they the revolutionary Congolese leader rialism- the film is timely. na, North Dakota, Rhode Island, It can be rented for a modest For Halstead and Boutelle would vote for Halstead in No­ and Wyoming. By the time the Patrice Lumumba. At this point, vember. another voice comes in to narrate. sum from the Grove Press Cinema 873 Broadway CHOICE 68 vote is over, it i!< 16 Library, located at 80 Univer­ * * * hoped that campaign workers will On the screen African freedom New York, N.Y. 10003 fighters appear, lifting up weapons sity Place, New York, N.Y. 10003. One of the student newspapers have obtained new supporters in and marching into battle. -Derrick Morrison that has given good coverage to these states. Monday, March 11, 1968 THE MILITANT Page Five OUR MAN IN HAVANA Talk With a Young Revolutionary By Harry Ring claims. I saw horrible cases there! taken awav-it was of a peasant [The following is the second Things that completed the anti­ leader. Th.e man made protests, part of a description of his de­ American· feeling. Well, let's put tried to organize strikes. They velopment as a revolutionary by it this way - not anti-American. grabbed him one night and beat a young Cuban militant, as told We feel a great love for the Amer­ him up. One of the men who beat to Militant reporter Harry Ring, ican people. But anti-imperialist him was the bodyguard of the presently in Cuba. feeling, anti-economic-monopolist administrator of the mill. They [The first part discussed the feeling. took off all his clothes and tied period prior to the victory of the We had this American company him to a tree that grows near the Rebel Army over the Batista ty­ owning these two enormous sugar sea. There you get two things, the ranny, when the young revolu­ mills, and most of the cases were crabs and the mosquitos. He was tionary, then a high school stu­ against the company. There was there for 48 hours, without water, dent, joined the battle against the the case of the poor chap who without food. Being bitten by the dictatorship.] had a banana plantation, a small mosquitos. And the crabs at his thing. The wife of the administra­ feet. That man today is the di­ Then a new period started. Then tor of this mill, an American lady rector of one of our biggest agri­ the problem was not to destroy whose name I don't remember, cultural plans, \vhich is in Oriente. but to construct. How to construct? wanted to have a garden. To have He went to the Sierra and was a The first year, 1959, I did differ­ a garden she wanted that piece of captain during our struggle. He's ent things. I was in the army part land. Now this poor chap couldn't an excellent man. of the time. I was even in the sell that piece of land. What was Then there was the problem of narcotics department. Someone he going to do with 400 or 500 the fence- the barbed wire. The said, Well, if you've been work­ pesos? To starve? What he needed company would simply decide ing in a drug store you're sup­ was the product of his land, to go they needed to put the barbed posed to know about drugs! on selling the bananas and make wire a bit further. And they In 1959, we already had the a living. would! They'd simply push it! agrarian reform. Now this was This woman arranged for two And if you protested the man­ AT BAY OF PIGS. Fidel Castro led Cuban forces in repulsion something I stuck to. I said, this of her henchmen throw petrol to ager would simply call the Army. of Washington-sponsored invasion in 1961. is a necessity. I understood from and the crop was destroyed. So The Army was there to serve the the things I had experienced pre­ he had to sell. big American companies. There it viously, the people I had seen in Now this was proven. So we wife of this gentleman was stand­ On the economic field, well, you was the mills of Delicias and ing at the door with a big smile, have been traveling the country. the Sierra, these enormous pro?­ passed a hard judgment on this Chaparra. lems had to be solved by a drastic woman and she had to pay 7.000 saying, "Well, there seem to be You know hO\V things are going. change of our agrarian structure. pesos - an enormous sum! - American some problems." I had no answer Mistakes? Yes. we have committed Which we did. damages for the whole thing. We for that. So I simply went away. hundreds of them. It's only natural wouldn't let her leave without I remember the day of the na­ The news was most interesting. that we have. Things are being Capitalist Figures paying the poor man. She paid tionalization of that mill. I re­ If you heard the Voice of America, corrected. We can look to the fu­ Things started to move. There him. She had to. member that tall American. Burst­ good Lord. they were winning on ture hopefully. was a whole period when things I also remember two brothers ing with anger. He could have all fronts! I remember when thE7 There is one last thing I would gone at our throats. Finally we were not too clear. We still had called Alamo. Their father had a said they had landed in the port like to speak of - Che. I first the bourgeois people in the gov­ farm in a place that was needed by completed all the details and of Bayamo! Now Bayamo, my dear met Che on the 13th of August, ernment. But things started to be­ the American company to plant signed everything, and he left. Harry, is about 100 kilometers 1958, in the Sierra. I saw him com­ come more clear and more clear. cane. This man was using his We went out of the building and away from the nearest seacoast. ing on a mule, his shirt open. The proble111 of the "communists" land for vegetables, and a small the people started shouting, "The On our side, we were absolute­ Witty as usual, making jokes with began. Now the idea of being a piece for cattle. The American fence!" What fence were they ly sure of victory. We were ab­ everyone. Quick of mind. Very talking about? · communist was still a bit difficult company was offering hiin a ridic· solutely sure because we saw what fast. The right reply at every mo­ for me. What was a communist? ulous price for it. So he didn't Then we found out there was was going on. Millions of people ment. I got a tremendous impres­ I started reading Marxist litera­ want to sell. One evening, while a beautiful park and that this joining the militia. Everyone try­ sion of Che. He was a fantastic ture at the beginning of 1960. he was going from town to his park was absolutely reserved for ing to do something. The count­ man. He could explain so well the It was at this time that I first house, he was shot dead on the the children of the Americans liv· errevolutionaries were very hope­ problems of economics, the prob­ went to work in the foreign minis­ road. ing there. For the rest of the kids ful. But the hope started to wither lems of social change - though at try. The foreign ministry was then there was no park whatsoever. So in a matter of hours. that time perhaps I couldn't un­ going through a very difficult Thrown Out the people were shouting, "The I remember when I came back derstand him too well. His way fence!" Of course, we could have period. The Batista people were The two brothers were very home after nearly 10 days. I had of thinking was beyond my in­ opened the fence. But in one of out. The anti-Batista bourgeoisie small at the time and the mother not shaved, I had not had a bath. tellectual possibilities. those bursts of happiness, we got had taken over. Now the Revolu­ didn't know what to do. The next I was tired. But I had to stop in Then I met Che several times a chain, hooked it to a jeep, tied it tion - the real Revolution - was day someone came with a piece front of this woman's house. So I here in Cuba. At the University, to the fence and simply ripped it. trying to take over. So this was of paper from the judge saying knocked at the door and when in different places. But then I had It was a pity, but I think it was a difficult period. I worked there they had to vacate that piece of this woman came out, I said, "Well a good opportunity while in the the greatest thing to do. So then for a few .months. But I under­ land. They were thrown on the lady, there were some problems Foreign Service. In 1965, when he it was open. I think that was more stood I had to do other things be­ road and then had to start doing indeed. But they have been solved was coming back from China, he fore getting into real political life. important than the nationalization properly. Good-day." She never stayed at the embassy for three small jobs to keep on living. Now itself. So I went to work in the rural these two brothers - they were spoke to me again. They left for days. They were three days of I could say my experiences in areas. twins - spent nearly 22 years the United States at the end of continuous lectures. Three days the reclamation committees made I went to the north coast of like that. The mother died. They '61 or the beginning of '62. with Che is a full lesson in life. firm my belief in social change. Oriente as the chief of the office went from one farm to another, to He could talk about everything. Now that social change had a di­ A Marxist of INRA, or National Institute of get small jobs. And they had a He could explain everything. He rection. Shall I call it, in 1960, a Agrarian Reform. That was a ter­ farm of their own! In 1962 I went into the foreign would criticize everything. But in Marxist direction? It was Marx­ rific experience. As I told you, I This was one of the cases pre­ service. I have learned a great a very constructive manner. ism all right. When I read more deal from my experience in that had been reading Marxist liter­ sented. was proven that the He was very kind. I remember It deeply the classics of Marxism I ature since the first months of land belonged to them. And it was field. But I'm also studying polit­ him speaking about his family. found that what I thought was that year. I had a confused idea given back to them. Unfortunately, ical science at the University. I My wife was going to have a child. Marxism. So, in this case, I would think my Marxist views are more of social change. Now part of my it had been nationalized already. His wife was also going to have say the practice was before the deeply entrenched. job with INRA was to be the So we couldn't get money from the a child then. So we started talking theory. Although I agree that the chairman of the reclamation com­ American company to pay dam· The question sometimes arises about children. And this was a theory and practice have to go to­ of how you became a Marxist. different man - a normal, kind mittees. These committees were ages. But they got their land back. gether. where farmers who had been vic­ That was the most important Well, I don't think you can be· man talking about his family. timized by the landlords or by the thing. Rebel Youth come a Marxist like simply light· Politics ing a bulb. It is a process. It's a American companies could come I remember the case of a mhn We also discussed politics. And and prove the validity of their - it wasn't of having his land From the reclamation commit­ process in which you go on until tees and INRA I went back to you realize that that which they there you had a different man. A study. There I got involved with call a communist - well, that is politician. A man of terrific wic;­ the student activities, with the you. dom and farsightedness. I don't Rebel Youth, which was the or­ think there are words in which Today? Well here we are. The you can really express what you Guatema,la~n Gu~errilla Leader ganization previous to the Com­ future is bright, however you want munist Youth. This was when I think about Che. Especially at a to look at it. The possibilities of moment like this, when his body was finishing the last year of high an invasion there are. We think school. I was elected secretary of is dead. Affirms Co~n~d~e~mnation of CP there is a fascist tendency at the I don't think that anyone can organization of one of the units. higher levels of government in the HAVANA, Cuba - Cesar Mon­ signment and unable to sign the Then I had my first battles with accept that Che is dead. His body United States, that the Pentagon is not alive. But Che will be alive tes, commander in chief of the declaration. His absence for a pe­ the representatives of the bour­ is getting stronger and stronger riod from the central command geoisie. We still had students who for many, many years. At least Guatemalan Rebel Armed Forces every day and one day, not too far in our generation - a generation was used by reactionaries to sug­ were the sons of rich people. So, (FAR), declared that the break away, will determine the policies. that has such an enormous task gest he had been killed or had for the first time, I had to express The Vietnam war is proving that between the FAR and the Gua­ been expelled from the FAR or my beliefs against other people in front of it. Che will be alive they are absolutely out of their throughout. His experience, his temalan Workers (Communist) had deserted. and this was a very interesting minds. So one day they may de­ lessons, the spirit of Che, and es­ Party (PGT) was "definitive." Declaring his solidarity with the period. I was there until 1961. cide to do it. We don't want it. We pecially the sense of duty, the The Montes statement followed original statement, Montes charged Then in 1961 we had the Bay don't want to have a war. We sense of international struggle. one issued by the general staff that the PGT had blocked, not of Pigs. The Bay of Pigs was the know how much it will cost. I believe that with the death of of the FAR which assailed the aided, the armed struggle. He an­ catalyzer of all things. For the first But through you, Harry, we PGT for not giving genuine sup­ nounced his resignation from all Che there has been, no doubt, a time Fidel said this is a socialist would like to express that if there hard blow to the whole Latin port to the revolutionary armed posts in the PGT, declaring that revolution and we knew that what is a war we are going to fight it American revolution. But at the struggle in Guatemala, and for the party leadership "is not guided we wanted was for him to say inch by inch. There is not going same time the Latin American trying to utilize the armed strug­ by revolutionary conceptions." that. to be any letdown. There is not revolution has won a flag. And gle as an instrument of pressure has not only been a struggle "It A few days before the Bay of going to be any retreat. There is I'm sure that flag is going to lead in seeking accommodation with between two different political Pigs the bombing of Santiago took not going to be any United Na­ to many victories. It would have capitalist parties and politicians. lines," the guerrilla leader de­ place. Next door to my house was tions. And if they come in they been better if he were there alive, The Montes statement was clared, "but between two neces­ living a hard-core counterrevolu­ will have to go out. to see those victories. But even issued Jan. 21 and published here sarily exclusive tendencies in the tionary. I heard the bombing, put How much it will cost, we don't though that isn't possible his in the Feb. 23 Granma. At the revolutionary process, a strugglP some clothes on, took my pistol know. That will depend on them. teachings will guide the future time of the original Jan. 10 FAR between a healthy body and a and went to join my militia unit. We'll simply fight it out to the course of action in Latin America statement, Montes was on an as- cancer." I remember, when I went out, the last man. No question about that. for a long, long time. Page Six THE MILITANT Monday, March 11, 1968 Black Liberation Notes

An unpublished mend 'th-awn sponding to calls for help after a students be punished should be up by a member of the President's night fire was set in a dilapidated sent to Gov. McNair in Colum­ "riot" commission so much as black elementary school. The de­ bia, S.C. Copies of telegrams admits that the violence that lay meant that the fire spread, should be sent to ·SNCC, 360 Nel­ broke out in Cambridge, Md., last "creating an enormous" conflagra· son Street, S.W., Atlanta, Geor­ summer was started by Cambridge tion "which could then be per­ gia 30313. police when a sheriff fired a shot­ ceived as the very heart of the • gun without warning, slightly in­ riot." According to a March 3 New juring H. Eap Brown. Up until The riot commission memo York Times article, administrators now Cambridge authorities have blames "segregationist attitudes at New York's Columbia Univer­ been successful in creating the im­ held by local officials" for "a good sity "are pacing the floors and pression that the sequence of deal of the difficulty." It cited the halls of their offices these days, events there consisted of two sim­ fact that there is an unwritten fretting about how the university ple steps: 1) H. Rap Brown gave a law in Cambridge that black po­ can meet its obligations to its stu­ militant speech, and 2) Black peo­ lice can only arrest black people dents, to the city and to the sur­ ple "rioted." for law infractions. rounding community." The ~·sur­ What really happened according rounding community" they are to the memo, as reported in the • referring to is Harlem and what Photo by Della Rossa March 6 New York Times, was SNCC has designated March 20 is worrying the administrators is "NEW BREED" LEADER. Reies Lopez Tijerina, right, with Frank that Police Chief Kinnamon went as "Day of Support for SNCC that over the past several months Greenwood of the. Los Angeles Afro-American Cultural Associa­ on "an emotional binge in which Chairman H. Rap Brown." People there have been more and more tion. his main desire was to kill Ne­ are urged to hold massive rallies, confrontations between the uni­ groes after a white officer was demonstrations, marches, and versity and the black community. shot." picketing in support of Rap Brown In the first place, the memo on that day. Telegrams demanding Columbia University is expand­ says, "What has come to be H. Rap Brown's release should be ing and black people are protest­ ing the fact that the expansion is Tijerino Given 30 Doys known as the Cambridge riot was sent to U.S. Attorney General in fact a low-level civil disturb­ Ramsay Clark, Washington, D.C. at the expense of the people of ance." The memo accuses the po­ Telegrams protesting the Orange­ Harlem. There have been strong lice chief and the all-white volun­ burg Massacre and demanding objections to university plans to use public park property for a col­ - Doretl to Speok Out teer fire department of not re- that the cops who killed three lege gym. The university has of­ fered to build a second gym for By Della Rossa Harlem, but this is generally re­ "These judges and court officials trolled by the U.S .. Forest Serv­ garded as an undesirable consola­ ice. tion prize. In addition, Columbia want to drink blood. They are 'New P~olitics' Confab devils and I call them all kinds "The land belongs· to the In­ has bought up numbers of build­ ings. around the university, dis­ of names of contempt." State­ dians!" the student shouted. "The Spanish stole it from us!" placmg thousands of people from ments such as this were utilized their rent-controlled apartments. Tijerina explained that the land Marked by Wrangling by New Mexico authorities to send grant claimants were the New Resentment against the univer­ Reies Lopez Tijerina of the Alianza Breed, descendants of the Spanish siy is so strong that one adminis­ By Jon Britton Federal de Pueblos Libres, the and Indians who intermarried. trator admitted that "There's a New Mexico land grant move· The same challenge was made real fear on the campus that mili­ ALBANY, N.Y.-A conference acid test for white radicals of ment, to jail for 30 days on Feb. when Tijerina appeared earlier on initiated by the New Party Or­ their "rejection of racism." This tant groups will come over he hill 27. . the national-hookup Les Crane ganizing Committee was held is motivated by the CP on the one night and smash windows, loot television show, this time by a and burn." Tijerina had been forbidden by here March 2 "to plan for a con­ basis of their contention that any court order to speak about the Mexican-American who appealed vention to nominate a freedom "black caucus," regardless of its Similar conflicts between uni­ Alianza's attempted citizens' ar­ the question to an Indian spokes­ and peace ticket for New York political composition, represents versities and black communities rest at the Tierra Amarilla, N.M., man on the show. The Indian said, State in 1968." The conference is­ the black community. have occurred in other areas of courthouse last June 5. Eleven "Tijerina is my brother." sued a call for a founding conven­ The Communist Party put forth the country. Against the wishes of Alianza members are under in­ "It is true that the Spaniards tion to be held in New York City the 50 percent gimmick at the the black community in South Chi­ dictment, charged with armed "as­ Chicago conference of the Stu­ did fight some Indians, but the May 30. cago, the University of Chicago sault on a courthouse." The Alian­ Spaniards didn't fight the peace­ The New Party Organizing Com­ dent Mobilization Committee in has been buying up and tearing za says the gag ruling is in viola­ ful Pueblo Indians," Tijerina is mittee should not be confused January but was decisively re­ down black housing around the tion of constitutional free speech buffed when the Afro-American quoted in the Los Angeles Free with the Peace and Freedom Par­ college. After physically removing guarantees and the sentence will Press. "The Spanish intermarried ty Organizing Committee, a rival contingent at the conference re­ black people from the immediate be appealed up to the U.S. Su­ jected the proposal as paternal­ with the Pueblo Indians. We have group initiated by the third-camp area in this way, a barrier of preme Court. proof that the Pueblo titles are Independent Socialist Club. The istic and went on to establish their predominantly white middle-class Tijerina is also appealing a two­ Spanish titles. The U.S. has never, former group issued out of a own National Black Anti-War An­ housing was built around the ti-Draft Union (NBAWADU) year sentence for "assault on two at any time, issued any kind of "Preparatory Conference for a school to separate it from the black property titles to any Indians. New York State Independent Con­ which will collaborate with the community. U.S. forest rangers," which the Alianza says was actually the ar­ vention" initiated by N.Y. Na­ SMC on common projects such as "Yes, he has reduced the roam­ the April 26 International Stu­ • rest and trial of the forest rang­ ing Indians and the peaceful In­ tional Conference for New Politics Police departments around the and held in early February. The dent Strike. ers by Alianza authorities, who dians to reservations. Yes, it is In the course of the Albany de­ country are having big problems charged them with trespassing true that he forced the Spaniard, PFP Organizing Committee par­ attracting young recruits. An ar­ ticipated in the Albany meeting bate over voting rules, the Peace and intimidating a peaceful dem­ our fathers, out of the continent ticle in the Feb. 6 issue of Look onstration with a show of guns. as a caucus. and Freedom Organizing Commit­ and put our mother, the Indian, tee caucus put forth an "amend­ admits that, in addition to the While Tijerina was speaking at in reservations, leaving the Span­ A bitter fight broke out over hatred with which most young East Los Angeles College Feb. 23, the question of "rules" at the very ment" that would allow the white ish-Americans, the New Breed, as blacks regard the police "even the a student identified as an Amer­ an orphan. delegates to cast their votes as • ' I outset of the meeting. The fight white response to the pollee image ican Indian challenged the Alian­ erupted after one Jerry Balter, a bloc should a majority wish to "These land grants given to this is dismaying." za's right to the disputed land, acting as temporary chairman, do so. And if the "white caucus" New Breed was not land taken -Elizabeth Barnes which is largely grazing land con- tried to ram through a "personal should vote differently from the away from the Indians. According proposal" giving 50 percent of the "black caucus," they would seek to the laws of the Indians, a group vote to the "black caucus," which to work out a compromise agree­ of people or families that decided numbered about 15 out of 200 able to both. Failing that they· upon petitioning the Spanish gov­ present. Many participants were would "agree to disagree." Pric~e Ris~es Leave Wo~rkers ernment for establishing a pueblo par.ticularly infuriated when Bal­ Lydia Williams, a co-chairman had to consult the Indians and ter decreed a five-minute discus­ of the "black caucus," got up 'and clear the title with them." sion limit on the question. The stated that they would walk out With Lower~e~d Rea·l Wages Tijerina told the East Los An­ meeting erupted into virtual bed­ of the conference if the amend­ geles College students, "When I lam before Balter finally relented ment were adopted. Other speak­ By Ed Smith see the black man yell I see it as and agreed to permit extended ers took the floor to denounce the something holy, something pure. amendment as "racist." When the It's the 83rd or 84th month of The weekly purchasing power of discussion. The fight over this the longest boom in U.S. history nonsupervisory employes - cov­ The cry of the black, the brown question took up a major part of vote was finally taken the amend­ and the Indian is a cry from the ment was defeated 74 to 96 and - according to Lyndon Johnson ering workers from white-collar the two plenaries as well as one and assorted government econ­ jobs on Wall Street to assembly­ bottom of our hearts. We have a of the four workshops. the original 50 percent vote for great thirst, a great hunger for the "black caucus" proposal was omists. Prices, production and line workers in basic industry - The 50 percent vote device is profits are all up and unemploy­ justice. We have no hate. If the carried 108 to 65. Later a motion has been declining for two years, a system whereby the "black cau­ ment is at a 14-year low. The while profits have been booming. Anglo is frightened it is because cus" casts 50 percent of the vote was passed recommending this his historical crimes are catching voting rule for the May conven­ only flaw in the picture is that These figures were given in the in whatever way it chooses, there­ all this "prosperity'' is not being Feb. 28 WaH Street Journal: up with him." by being in a position to decide tion. The Alianza has "treaties of Many participants in the Albany shared by the masses of American any question on which the whole workers. Weekly purchasing power mutual assistance" with six black body is divided. This means that meeting spoke bravely of utiliz­ As prices have steadily risen in in 1957-59 dollars organizations, including the Stu­ a political tendency having con­ ing the third ticket effort to build 1961 $71.48 dent Nonviolent Coordinating trol of the "black caucus" has au­ a "political arm" of the antiwar the last twoyears, the weekly pay­ checks of most American workers 1962 73.05 Committee, and three Indian tomatic control over the entire and black liberation movements. 1963 73.63 tribes. body, even though it might be a The character of the meeting have actually gone down, meas­ ured in terms of what their money 1964 76.38 small minority of the whole. would not indicate much success 1965. 78.53 This formula, which has been in this endeavor. The factional can buy. Does your local library have This January, the consumer 1966 78.29 most actively promoted by the frenzy permeating the meeting re­ 1967 78.23 a subscription to THE MILI­ Communist Party, made its debut sulted in a steadily dwindling at­ price index rose for the 12th con­ at the National Conference for tendance until, at the end, it had secutive month to 118.6 percent of For the future, it is going to be TANT? If not, why not suggest New Politics convention in Chica­ declined by half. More significant­ the 1957-59 average. In terms of more of the same - or worse. that they obtain one. Librarians go last September. Since then the ly, representation from the mili­ 1957-59 dollars, this meant that Johnson intends to escalate the are often pleased to have pa­ CP has energetically promoted tant student wiug of the antiwar the average "nonsupervisory" war and saddle Americans with this gimmick, claiming it to be a movement and from the recognized worker with three dependents had higher taxes to pay for it. This trons call t h e i r attention to necessary antidote to white ra­ national black power organizations real buying power of $77.66 a could only mean that prices will publications that they should cism, a key vehicle for achieving of the black liberation movement week, down from $78.26 in De­ continue to rise while real wages have available. "black and white unity," and the was conspicuous by its absence. cember. continue to decline. Monday, March 11, 1968 THE MILITANT Page Seven

sitic system as a ·way of li:te be­ comes ever greater a matter for !hought for the Week the human race. "The members of the commission should be put in jail under Presently the exploiters are con­ $100,000 bail each because they are saying essentiaUy what I've fronting the reality that the been saying." - H. Rap Brown, in jail, on report of the President's masses are not standing still with National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. arms crossed; that many are con­ scious that victory stands in the complete eradication of capitalism. For capitalism everything be­ However, all other minority [The restrictions on Soviet Jews comes a target, with prospects of groups are allowed schools, texts, will be abolished, along with many extracting profits, everything from theatre, and other cultural outlets. other repressive features of Soviet Letters medicine, workers, death, etc. I would appreciate a comment society, through the general strug­ Needs like housing, food, etc., be­ from The Militant on the oppres­ gle of the Russian workers against come subject to the parasitic sys­ sion of Soviet Jewry. their bureaucratic misleaders. tem. B.R. Such retrograde features should From The exploiters and their gov· not, however, become a pretext [The Militant has from its in­ ernment have legalized it. Their for abandoning the defense of the ception in 1928 been a staunch op­ Soviet Union, in spite of its lead­ schools and mass media have con­ ponent of Soviet anti-Semitism, ditioned a great amount of the ership, in the face of any attack Our which became a government policy by imperialism. The imperialists masses to accept it as a "free," under Stalin. For example, in 1953 "democratic" way of life that has have amply demonstrated in Viet­ at the time of the so-called doc­ nam what kind of "democratic al­ always been and will always be. tors• plot we ran a front-page edi­ Readers The exploitation of man by man ternative" they are ready to pro­ torial which declared: vide. - EDITOR) has its days counted - this in· ["The official accusations humanity must continually be against the Jewish doctors need U.S. Terror in Vietnam unmasked before the world and not be examined to see if there fought by any means necessary New York, N.Y. is any truth in them - for such The high Vietcong casualty re­ [This column is an open forum porations selling stock to buy out and with the spirit that Che Gue­ charges, and the 'confession' trials for all viewpoints on sub;ects of white landlords and business. peo­ vara always had. ports on the killing of fighting that will follow, have long ago peasants, by all means of auto­ general interest to our readers. ple in the Negro community? J.O. been exposed as frame-ups . . . Please keep your letters brief. Stocks could be sold at a dollar matic high powered firepower, is Now the Jews have been picked not the only count of the Viet­ Where necessary they will be a share to buy out white business Bedtime Story as scape-goats . . . Stalinist anti­ abridged. Writers' initials will be and real estate. There are several ·Berkeley, Calif. cong killed. Last night I was reading a book Semitism will only serve to ex­ All Vietcong captured are used, names being withheld unless militant means that could be used pose more thoroughly the barbar­ describing the years in Germany slaughtered out of hand. Return­ authorization is given for 'Lse.j to persuade these merchants to ous character of the Kremlin re­ directly preceding the second ing American soldiers report that, sell and instead of the ones that gime among workers in Russia and world war. It was terrible. I put when Vietcong are captured, they U.S. Elections Unfair were taken over being held or throughout the world." Newark, N.J. turned over to individuals, they down the book. There was no dif­ are turned over to the South Viet­ would be owned and operated by ference. [B.R. is wrong, however, to sup­ namese, questioned, stripped and The American news media, in­ pose that it is only the Jewish cluding all radio stations, con­ the corporation in which individ­ Gerald Block shot - no prisoners. ual Negroes in the community minority in the Soviet Union that The U.S. passes the killing off stantly give news about all po­ is subject to cultural and religious tential candidate& for President in could buy shares. Soviet Jewry onto the South Vietnamese. E.G. Greenvale, N.Y. persecution - witness the recent The U.S. is directly responsible the Republican and Democratic arrests of Ukrainian writers, parties. Fred. Halstead, who has I have been reading The Mili· for the genocide of the Vietna­ Special Interest tant for about six months and which revealed a general suppres­ mese. If the U.S. cannot take a already been nominated as · a sion of Ukrainian culture. This candidate for President by the So­ Newark, N.J. have enjoyed it very much. I am town in hand-to-hand combat, then Like to see the Latin American however disturbed that you applies to other national minorities the town is obliterated by ex­ cialist Workers Party, is never as well. mentioned. This is why United reporting - hope it continues! haven't yet taken a stand on So­ plosives, shelling and napalm States elections are unfair. People K.S. viet Jewry. [We would view the problem bombs, to "save the town from don't know of another candidate's The oppression of Soviet Jewry as a broader one, stemming from itself." existence, what he is saying, or Some Comments is very great and should be of the general proscription of work­ When the U.S. occupied Santo what his party represents. This Austin, Tex. · great concern to all humanitarians ers' democracy at all levels of the Domingo, suspects rounded up makes all the difference in the Aside from a feeling of impo­ all over the world. There are soviet workers' state. This reflects were stripped of their shirts, and world. Therefore American elec­ ten~e and ineffectualness, my main three million Soviet Jews. There the rule of a privileged, bureau­ if they had a red mark on the tions are phony, a fraud on the disappointment with leftist orga­ are less than 100 functioning syn­ cratic social stratum, originally right shoulder from the gun recoil American people. nizations has been the viciousness agogues. There has not been a consolidated under Stalin's lead­ they were shot on the spot. Although you speak with pride with which they attack each other. single classical text published in ership, which uses the govern­ Socialism is the need for a bet­ of Fred Halstead holding an oc­ My other big disappointment has Russia since the Revolution. Re­ mental apparatus to protect its ter society. casional press conference, I have been the insistence on labeling ligious education is forbidden. privileges. Otto Thomas never yet heard him so much as all pronouncements "scientific," mentioned on a radio news broad­ which is open to a great deal of cast. As the capitalists own the doubt, and the seeming reluctance news media, they will not be fair and embarrassment in approach­ to any party other than their Re­ ing anything on a purely moral publican and Democratic parties, level, such as women's rights - which is really one party with two or even (I mislaid my 20-foot­ different names. pole) freedom for homosexuals. As a WBAI subscriber I have I can see some basis for a pro­ written to them about this. Arab stand in the Mideast in anti­ D.A. imperialism, but not much. Na­ tionalization of the Suez Canal, Economic Gains Needed pan-Arab nationalism or Russian Corruption, Saigon Style •.• - Can't Make Connection - Dur­ Ernst's profound reply: "My del­ Boston, Mass. financing of the Aswan Dam do An opium-smuggling ring, involv­ ing a discussion of tourism at a egation has attempted to be pa­ Why can't some organization not to me justify calling Egypt ing South Vietnam's customs chief, New Delhi meeting of a UN Com­ tient with those who cannot dis­ or Syria socialist. I have yet to his niece, and dozens of high Sai­ tinguish between economics and stress economic gains in the Negro mission for Trade and Develop­ communities instead of these so­ see anything to convince me that gon government officials, makes politics." Israel acted other than in self" payoffs to officials "all the way ment committee meeting, Cuban cial gains? delegate Gladys Garcia pointed out Too Spicy - Beatie Ringo Starr Control of the economy of the defense. to the top," it was revealed by the The West Bank may be valua" Senate subcommittee on foreign that U.S. measures restricting tour­ has dropped out of Maharishi Negro community instead of try­ ist travel would affect the econ­ Mahesh Yogi's three-month course ing to integrate white business. ble, but what good are Sinai or aid expenditures. the Syrian heights except as pro­ omies of many countries. She added in transcendental meditation. It Why not take over from white that the U.S. should understand seems that he and his wife, Mau­ merchants and real estate people tection against Arab threats. I • . . and Washington Style - really believe the Arabs were out Top defense contractor Litton In­ that its balance-of-payment prob­ reen, couldn't transcend their dis-· the business of the Negro com­ lems arose because of its "aggres­ like of curry. munity? Why not organize cor- to destroy the Jewish nation and dustries, a diversified corporation that this would have come about with many divisions and subdivi­ sive policies." U.S. delegate David -Ruth Porter through a bloodbath. That to me sions, also has a $12.5 million con­ would outweigh all other consider­ tract with the government to run Weekly Calendar ations even if I were convinced a Job Corps training center. De­ of their validity. If the Arabs spite the fact that they purchased have a right to national self-de­ $337,000 worth of unneeded books LOS ANGELES termination, the same surely ap­ from one of their companies, Lit­ REPORT FROM THE TSU FIVE. Speak­ plies to the Israelis as well. ton Instructional Materials, and New Readers ers: Floyd Nichols, defendant: and Stan· You have abdicated your re­ charged the government, Litton's ley Wright, TSU Five Defense Fund. sponsibility to provide leadership Job Corps contract is about to be If you would like to be sure of receivinCJ every issue I Friday, March 15, 8:30 p.m. 1702 E. and guidance to the revolutionary renewed. (The highly technical contain1n9 Harry Rinc:~'s special on-the-spot series from Fourth Street. Ausp. Militant Labor books now gathering dust in a Forum. Donation. movement and chosen instead to Cuba, order an 1ntroduc:tory four-month subscription now., follow the easier course of hang­ storeroom are unusable by Job Corpsmen, many of whom have lit­ I In addition, you will receive FREE a copy of the November· • ing onto the coattails of other, December 1967 issue of the International Socialist Review NEW YORK more vital movements. One of tle or no education and reading CHOICE 68: McCARTHY or HAL­ these is Black Nationalism. This ability.) Litton is run by Charles I containinCJ Fidel Castro's speech at the OLAS conference I STEAD for PRESIDENT? A debate: is possibly the best thing that's B. Thornton, Texas friend of LBJ held in Cuba last summer, and the c:~eneral declaration is· FRED HALSTEAD, Presidential candidate happened in U.S. history and it and former business associate of 1 sued by OLAS. Send this coupon and $1 to I of the Socialist Workers Party vs. ALEX is natural for such a movement to McNamara. ROSENBERG, Democratic Party 65th As· sembly District leader. identify with other emergent, post­ Won't Be Invited Again - Tak­ Chairman: ABNER GRUNAUER, mem­ colonialist nationalisms; but it re­ ing a leaf from honest Eartha ber N.Y. Council for a Sane Nuclear mains a polymorphous reaction Kitt's book, Mrs. Kenneth Tynan, Policy. Friday, March 15, 8:30 p.m. 873 with little in the way of concrete THE MILITANT I wife of the literary manager of Broadway, near 18th St. Contrib. $1. objectives. London's National Theater, pasted 873 Broadway Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. M.C. antiwar stickers on walls, tables New York, N. Y. 10003 J and doors throughout the elegant • Parasitic System Regent's Park home of U.S. Am­ TWIN CITIES New York, N.Y. bassador and Mrs. David Bruce, Name - ..... - ...... --····--·--...... ------...... _ .. _.. ______I SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE The exploitation of man by where she was a dinner guest. WOMAN IN THE WEST. Speaker: An­ man (capitalism) is the leech we . Stickers read, "Vietnam solidar­ 1 Street ·-·-·--·--·----·---···------·------..... __ Zip.____ ~ dree Michel, French sociologist end au­ have to get off our backs. This thor, Visiting Professor, University of ity with the Vietnamese people is the main task that confronts against American aggression. Sun­ Minn. Saturdey, March 16, 8:30 p.m., .... . mankind now more than ever. day, March 17, Trafalgar Square, City -·-··--·······-·-·-·~·---··-·-····~------··--· .. ·- St•te.. - ...... ____ 704 Hennepin, Hall 240, Minneapolis. Complete eradication of this para- 2:30p.m." I Ausp. Twin Cities Socialist Forum. --. ------' Page Eight THE MILITANT Monday, March 11, 1963 Bla~k Gl in Vi~tnam N.Y. Pl11ns Mossive Protest ~~~~~~~~=~a~;l;~~~:~::~: Ag11inst the· Wor April 2 7 to his mother from the DMZ in too. NEW YORK - The Fifth Ave­ Vietnam. The marine, 23 years My battle is home, in my native nue Vietnam Peace Parade Com­ old, was killed a few days later. land, mittee has announced plans for Alexander Chin was a graduate The war that I know, and a massive demonstration against of the Maryland Art Institute. He understand. the Vietnam war to be held here entered the armed forces on Where the black man must fight April 27 as part of the interna­ March 8 of last year. if he wants to be free, tional day of protest against U.S. The poem, follows: If he wants his· civil rights and aggression in Vietnam. The Pa­ equality. rade Committee is calling for two I AM A SOLDIER This is the kind of war that I .am giant parades to begin around I am a soldier and black is my prepared to fight. 96th St., march down Broadway skin, The one that will make me equal and Fifth Avenue, converging at I must kill a man who could be to the white. 72nd Street for a rally at Sheep my friend. Send me back to the battle at Meadow in Central Park. home, The committee, which repres­ I am fighting for something Because this war here is not my don't understand, ents a coalition of more than 150 own. organizations opposed to the war, Dear God, why am I in this It only came about because of plans to distribute more than two unknown land? some man's greed, million leaflets to· build the mass This is my battle, that's what they But the war at home will have march. It promises to be the big­ say, some men freed. gest antiwar action in New York since the mammoth April 15 dem­ onstration last year when 400,000 took part from throughout the 1 Korean 'Allies' Give Eastern U.S. Advertising In addition to the leaflets, the committee will distribute posters, Students Death Senten~ce buttons and brochures, and is raising contributions for billboards The seizure of the spy ship "adopted the name and some of in the subways. Pueblo by North Korea has re­ the working methods of its Amer­ ican counterpart and is reported The Parade Committee has also sulted in some new attention being established "Dial- a -Demonstra­ to enjoy good relations with it.") LAST APRIL One section of giant march of hundreds of thou­ tion," a recorded announcement 15. focused on the U.S.-backed dicta­ David Housez, Paris correspond­ of upcoming meetings, demonstra­ sands in protest of Vietnam war. New mass action planned for torship in South Korea, which has ent for Le MIYYide Diplomatique, tions and plans for April 27. The April 27. charged in a Feb. 5 article for recently begun stepping up its number is 924-6315. "anti-Communist" repression. the Liberation News Service that Volunteers are needed every of solidarity for all the people Dictator Chung Hee Park's gov­ the American CIA took part in a broad coalition of antiwar or­ day at the Parade Committee of­ who are fighting for the new be­ ganizations. It will be held in ernment has recently completed a the kidnapping. A few of those fice at 17 E. 17th Street, phone ginning of hope and humanity." Berkeley and will make final series of four mass trials of 56 kidnapped were returned to Eu­ 255-1075. plans for California participation Korean intellectuals, journalists rope in response to protests by A letter to the SMC from Hun­ and students for their political op­ European governments: "Accord­ gary declared: "We greet with in the Student Strike. position to the South Korean dic­ ing to the students, professors, and great pleasure your initiative to A regional meeting was held tatorship. The New York Times journalists with whom I have Cam~pus Strike call for an International Student Feb. 24 in Indianapolis, Ind., reported Feb. 29 that _"two were talked, the act of incarceration is Strike on April 26 and for inter­ where antiwar activists from In­ sentenced to death, four to life followed by interrogations and national support and participation dianapolis, from Purdue Univer­ imprisonment and others to one to torture in order to force the vic­ Ma~rks Gains in the April 27 antiwar actions ... sity in Lafayette, and from India­ 15 years. In no case was there tim to admit his participation in The Hungarian Peace Council will na University in Bloomington met evidence of· actual espionage. The 'the red conspiracy' or to name call upon the students to organize to make .plans for the strike in convictions were based largely on another 'suspect.' " He~~e, Abro:ad protest meetings, demonstrations Indiana. A letter to the SMC from the country's anti-Communist law, Housez gave some examples of at the universities, high schools Purdue reports: Support is growing for the In­ which makes any contact whatso­ the "crimes" of the "conspira­ and colleges on April 26, and the "We decided that we would hold ternational Student Strike called ever with Communists a crime." tors": Several composers and art­ whole population to arrange such our big action on the 27th in In­ for April 26 by the Student Mo­ The Times adds that this law ists received a small subsidy for manifestations on April 27 dianapolis . . . We hope to get a bilization Committee to End the "provides severe penalties for any­ their studies in Europe from North throughout the country." national . figure to speak, as well War in Vietnam and the National one who has praised, encouraged, Korea ("Yun Yi San received The SMC has also decided to as four or five local, student and Black Anti-War Anti-Draft Union. sympathized with or given 'aid $1,800 in nine years; and he used help build the strike by turning black leaders to make shorter It looks now as though the action and comfort' to an 'antistate or­ it solely to support his studies and out the vote on college campuses speeches . . . as for the Strike. will have the broadest national ganization,' for anyone who for to sponsor concerts."). April 24 for the referendum on we're planning to hold a two-hour and international support of any such purpose has 'producted, im· "Ung No Yi, 64, and his wife the war that is to be part of rally [at Purdue] with a big student action yet held against ported, reproduced, kept in his In Kiong Pak, two artists living "CHOICE 68," the "National Col­ speaker, and we'll leaflet most the war. custody, transported, disseminat­ in Paris, admitted having received legiate Presidential Primary.'' areas of campus throughout the ed, sold or obtained a document, from the same source $1,650. They A student representing the SMC Tens of thousands of leaflets are day." a picture or other descriptive ma­ visited East Berlin in 1963 to and the recently formed National being distributed urging students The SMC is distributing 50,000 terial.'" gather news about a son and a Black Anti-War Anti-Draft Union to vote in the referendum for im­ copies of their tabloid newspaper, On Nov. 9, 33 of those tried were nephew living in North Korea ... made a trip to Mexico City last mediate withdrawal of U.S. troops the Student Mobilizer, calling for kidnapped from France, Austria [there were] 19 others whose month where he met with Mexi. from Vietnam and for a permanent the strike. For more information, and West Germany by the South common crime was having lived can student leaders and representa­ cessation of the bombing of North write to the Student Mobilization Korean secret police - called, ap­ in Europe between 1958 and 1967. tives of student organizations from Vietnam. Committee, 17 East 17th Street, propriately enough, the Central "The prosecution obtained six every Latin American country ex­ New York, N.Y. 10003. Phone Strike Bulletin Intelligence Agency. (The Times death sentences against the 'lead­ cept Paraguay. The Latin Ameri­ (212) 255-1075. commented that this CIA has ers' of the 'spy conspirqcy.'" can students issued a call declar­ Around the country students are ing that "Latin America stands to­ actively building for the April ac­ gether with our black brothers tion. The SMC national office is and si~ters and all other progres· issuing a weekly Strike Bulletin 'Its Just Hell,' sive groups in the U.S., in their rounding up reports. Their second fight for national liberation. Ven­ issue announces: "DETROIT - -Returning G/ ceremos!" They 'agreed to support Things are moving at Wayne the strike. State University. The SMC coor­ Spec. 4 Robert Hanna, just back The Daily CaUfornian, published dinator there just wrote us: 'The from Vietnam, told the Columbus at the University of California at university-wide strike conference Citizen-Journal that "it's a pecu­ Berkeley, said Feb. 26 that dem­ will be on Saturday, March 9. liar war . . . it's just hell." onstrations were already expected Response ~rom people asked to en­ The Vietnam veteran said that in Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, dorse the conference has been those supporting the Saigon re­ Chile, Nicaragua, Panama and quite good. So far we have about gime "don't g.ive a damn we're Bolivia. six faculty members, the president over there. They just take what­ A student in Tokyo wrote to the of the Young Dems, president of ever money we give them. Student Mobilization Committee: the Law Student's Civil Liberties "Every village has 50 percent "I had an opportunity to look at Board, presidents of various stu­ VC. You got to respect the VC a recent issue of The MiLitant dent government bodies, members as soldiers. They hit nine base and learned about the call for the of religions and foreign student camps at the same time the same April 26 International Student organizations . . .' Since the letter day. They're smart. And they feel Strike . . . I am a member of a was written support has come they're defending their country Committee to End the War in from many other groups, includ­ against us. To them, Ho is like Vietnam of Tokyo University ... ing the Newman Club, three black George Washington. They idolize Most of the unions, especially the fraternities, SDS, the University him. Every VC we killed had a Teachers Union and the National Christian Movement, Fellowship picture of Ho in his pocket. Railroad Workers Union, are of Reconciliation, Student Facul­ "We're never going to win that strongly against the war. All the ty Council, Black Student Associa­ war. Maybe we could if we used political parties, except the ruling tion, and the Arab Student Asso­ A-bombs on Hanoi. But then ev­ conservative party (Liberal Dem­ ciation." ery nation in the world would AT WITCH-HUNT TRIAL. Over 50 intellectuals were tried in ocratic Party) are against the A California conference has hate us. It would hardly be worth South Korea, and six were reported sentenced to death. war . . . April 26 should be a day been called for March 23-24 by it."