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Young women insurgents in Usulu­ 'f tan, EI Salvador; U.S. troops in Hon­ -. Smash Reagan's duras for "Big Pine II" maneuvers. nationally. We hail the heroic Salvador­ Death Squad Terror! an guerrilla fighters, and as communists in the belly of the imperialist beast we also hail the internationalist example of Today in El Salvador, a military David Anderson and Carroll Ishee, two victory of the leftist insurgents fighting Americans who gave their lives fighting the U.S.-backed butcher regime is alongside ·the rebels and against the possible-but it is not certain. As a U.S.-backed butchers. The New York result of the guerrilla offensive which Times (26 January) reports that Ander­ began in September, the eastern third of son was killed in combat in May 1982, the country is now dominated by the desperation, the government is conduct­ that half the weapons will fall into the while last August the 29-year-old rebel forces. Early last month, the last ing mass roundups of youths-on the hands of the guerrillas! The Spartacus Ishee-who "had been active in the remaining suspension bridge to the East streets and in the schools-and drafting Youth League says: Now is the time to movements opposing United States was blown up as government soldiers them into the military. The New York strike! Military victory to the leftist participation in the Vietnam War and in fled; "reinforcements" failed to arrive Times (13 January) reports that a' insurgents! civil rightsorganizations"-died in a although they had plenty of time to do Salvadoran clergyman has warned A defeat of U.S. imperialism and its strafing attack in Morazan province. so. The morale of the government army, against the Reagan administration's local agents in Central America would His final words, according to the rebel including the "elite" units trained by drive to triple military aid to the punch a big hole in Washington'sdeadly Radio Venceremos: "Tell my wife, my U.S. advisers, is at an all-time low. In government, on the unusual grounds drive to "roll back Communism" inter- continued on page 10

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Blacks, Labor Need a Workers Party ~ .,· "Finally Got the News" •. ·nl Jesse Jackson: Documentary on the League of Revolution­ ary Black Workers and the struggle of black Front Man for the auto workers in Detroit during the late '605. I~WM~I Racist Democrats Wednesday, February 22, 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Bernard Vance Wayne State University SCB, Room 583 November 27, 1982 Labor / Black SL/SYL contingent in pro-busing SL Central Committee Mobilization to Stop the KKK in march, Boston, 1974. Saturday, February 25, 7:30 p.m. DETROIT Washington, D.C. We stopped the For more information: (313) 961-1680 Memorial Union Klan! (see'Today in the Union"for location)

November 27,1982: MADISON "We Stopped the Klan!" For more information: (312) 427-0003 Black History Black History and the Class Struggle and the Speaker: Michael Haines, Spartacist League Class Struggle November 27, 1982: Labor/Black Friday, February 10, 7:00 p.m. Thursday, February 16, 7:00 p.m. Thursday, February 23, 7:30 p.m. Mobilization Stops the KKK I. A. Room. Marie Reed Learning Center Harris Hall Auditorium Malcolm X Lounge, Hartley Hall 2200 Champlain Street. N.w. Virginia State University Columbia University Blacks, Labor Need a WASHINGTON, Q.C. PETERSBURG, VA Sponsored by the Spartacus Youth League Workers Party- and the Black Students Organization Tuesday, February 14, 12:30 p.m. Friday, February 17, 12:00 noon Not Front Men for the Godwin University Center Ballroom McKeldin Student Center Ballroom NEW YORK Norfolk State University Morgan State University For more information: (212) 267-1025 Racist Democrats Co-sponsored by Norfolk State Co-sponsored by the Morgan State Student Government Association Student Government Association Wednesday, February 15 and Spartacus Youth League and Spartacus Youth League Noon-3:00 p.m. NORFOLK BALTIMORE (continuous showings) University of Illinois, Chicago For more information: (202) 636-3537 CCC Room 506

Thursday, February 23,1:40 p.m. Truman College, Room 1516 Speaker: Tweet Carter SL Central Committee

Thursday, March 1, 1:40 p.m. Truman ~ollege, Room 1516 Speaker: Bernard Vance SL Central Committee October 29, 1983 rally to defend CHICAGO victimized phone workers Lauren For more information: (312) 427-0003 Mozee and Ray Palmiero, Oakland. Sojourner Truth John Brown Frederick Douglass

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public education in the South was founded by the Freedmen's Bureau. Black Education and the Civil War Black colleges were founded to train black teachers for the Southern schools. true for Howard and the black colleges. segregation and inferiority, and that's To the Editor: Du Bois notes in Black Reconstruction Today the ruling class is quite'content to what they do today." that Howard University was chartered I n the article on the witchhunt against have the few black students who can This "telescoped" view of the the SYL by the Howard University afford to go to college kept behind the founding of black colleges misses the continued on page 11 administration and the struggle against barriers of segregation. However, one political thrust of a revolutionary period it, "Cheek Tries the Iron Fist at sentence in the article wrongly' asserts of American history. "What they [the Howard" (YSp No. 114, December that in the U.S. this has always been the black colleges] do today" was not the 1983-January 1984), you state the fact purpose of black colleges: "Most black purpose of black colleges founded Young Spartacu5 that in this racist society "separate" can colleges were founded immediately during Reconstruction. After the Civil Young Spar/acus (ISSN 0162-2692) is the never be "equal"; this certainly holds following the Civil· War to perpetuate War smashed the army of the slavocra­ newspaper of the Spartacus Youth League. The cy, one of the main tasks of Reconstruc­ Spartacus Youlh League. youth section of the Spartacist League, is a socialist youth tion was the education of the newly organization which intervenes in social struggles armed with a working·class program. based on A spartaClSt pa.mphlet freed slave. The freedmen hungered for the education they had been denied by the politics of Marx. Lenin and Trotsky. EdItorial Board: Bonnie Brodie (editor), Steve law and lash. The ex-slave studied far Mitchell. Emily Tanner into the night; by day held plow in one Production manager: Dorie Reed hand, primer in the other. The battle Circulatibn manager: Irene Gardner against illiteracy was confronted first by Nine issues yearly; published monthly except the Union Army and religious abolition­ December/January and June/July/August, by the Spartacus Youth Publishing Co., 41 Warren ist groups. Then the government's Street. New York, NY 10007, Telephone: 732- Bureau For Freedmen took on the task 7867 (Editorial, Business). Address all corre­ spondence to: Box 3118. Church Street Station, of mass education 01', the ex-slaves New York. NY 10008. Domestic subscriptions: against the sharp. violent opposition of $2.00 per year. Second·class postage pqid at New the white supremacists. According to E. York. NY. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Young Spar/acus, Box 3118, Church Street Franklin Frazier. "the Bureau suc­ Stahon, New York, NY 10008. ceeded in the five years of its operation Opmions expressed m signed articles or leiters in establishing more than 4.000 schools. do not necessarily express the editorial viewpoint. $1.00 Make checks payable/mail to: $2.50 in which more than 9,000 teachers gave Spartacist Publishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 instruction to nearly 250.000 Negro No. 115 February 1984 pupils" (Black Bourgeoisie, p. 62). Mass -1-

FEBRUARY 1984 3 No Re~risals Against Anti-Weinberger Protesters! 1984: Harvard ·Braintrusts World. War political protesters "terrorists" who vem ber 1981. Then Harvard tried to set roommate about the strange things that violate the "academic freedom" of mass up an SYL supporter on phony assault have crawled out from under Harvard's Hands Off­ murderers like Jeane Kirkpatrick and charges. But we beat them back and in rocks. Your roommate has been "dis­ Caspar Weinberger. The enraged and ir­ the process exposed some of the truly appeared." On his empty bunk isa note: rational Dean of Students-one Archie strange things under Harvard's rocks. "Expelled! ... for protesting War Secre­ the SYL! Epps III-has threatened to expel Now, following the anti-Weinberger tary Weinberger!" You don't believe it from school two SYL members for their protest and the initiation by the SYL of until senior tutor Eliot Cohen, who has participation in the Weinberger protest. a campaign to shut down the K-School dropped his civilian pants and donned a Harvard's "owq" War Secretary Should they continue to exercise their think tank for World War III, Harvard uniform and a badge reading ."Military Caspar Weinberger returned to his alma right to engage in political protest, Epps is at it again. Intelligence Expert," hands you a form mater last November and received a wants them tossed out. The administra­ homecoming he'll never forget. Hun­ tion's attempted crackdown against the dreds of students, faculty and leftists ...... - two has been met with vigorous denun­ ...... - heckled Weinberger with shouts of . . . "...... ciations from fellow students, faculty, . . -...... "War Criminal!", "South Africa!", "EI ...... the Crimson and other campus political Salvador!" and "50,000 Dead!" We groups who see this as a clear-cut case of warned that Weinberger and his under­ McCarthyite persecution by an admin­ lings in the Haryard administration It's 1984 istration which seeks to regiment every would no doubt like to treat their aspect of student life, from demonstra­ and Big Brother opposition in the U. S. the way they do in tions to dances. Archie Epps EISalvador where anyone who breathes In a sinister editorial the Boston a word of protest is summarily seized, Globe (30 January) likens the political is watching protest of Weinberger to a bomb threat YOU! that forced the former governor of Massachusetts to cancel an appearance at U Massi Amherst last spring! The Globe applauds' Harvard's threats of expUlsion as a defense of "academic traditions. " Interestingly, the none-too-radical letter that says, "This is a community Indeed, expUlsions of leftist students, Crimson editorial board unanimously which cannot accept such disregard for professors, women and blacks is all in opposes the latest witch hunt. However the rights of others." Cohen warns you the "Veritas" tradition. In 1674 the one side advocates the promulgation of never to protest the murderous policies entire student b<\dy resigned in protest guidelines for removing protesters from of the U.S. government or you too will of the college president's propensity for campus events. To turn the political be expelled. He goose-steps out of the flogging students. The next rebellion questions i!1volved~i.e., thl'! fact that room. Dizzy, you go to the dining hall came in 1766 over bad food. A student Weinberger is directly and personally for lunch. All they're serving is K­ approached a tutor and said "Behold, responsible for the brutai massacre of rations and Tang. Hungry, you leave for our Butter stinketh!" and was thrown tens of thousands in Central America your afternoon science class. The gates out for insubordination. In 1834 the and is a key architect forthe U.S. insane to the Yard are blocked by sand trucks entire sophomore class was expelled and nuclear anti-Soviet war drive-into a with "Veritas" emblems and. guards ordered to leave town for protesting debate on "behavi~r modification'; checking I Ds. Late, you get to class just their classics tutors. But it,was the anti­ simply plays into the hanns of the in time to hear your professor announce Vietnam War, anti-ROTC protests administration. The question posed for that studies in organic chemistry have culminating in the Harvard strike in students is which side are you on? The been suspended. You are now under 1969 that changed the whole tenor of SYL will continue to mobilize student contract to develop nuclear beam <;lissent at Harvard. Sixteen students opponents of U.S. militarism to join us weapons for outer space. were expelled for their role in occupying in the struggle against the anti-Soviet It's been a rough day. You call your University Hall and forcibly removing warmakers and strikebreakers, in the girlfriend to see if she'll go to the the despised Dean Epps from the struggle against world filth. We reprint continued on page 9 premises. A draconian "Committee on below the Harvard SYL's call to shut Rights and Responsibilities" (CRR) was down the Kennedy SchooL FREE SPEECH set up to discipline political protesters (but to this day,/students refuse to elect Selective Harvard students "welcome" War delegates to the CRR as a matter of Imagine your university is taken over Secretary Cap Weinberger' last principle). by the military. You're waiting for your Punishment November 17. What constitutes "legitimate" protest 9:00 a.m. class to start when it's or "conduct unbecoming a Harvard announced that your professor, who IN REPRIMANDING Iwo sludenlS Who heckled Sec. interrogated, imprisoned or "disap­ rt!lary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 last November. peared." Sure enough, the militant student" is determined by the political evidenced vague leftist leanings, has the University last week was guilty of both discrimination and l'l pO.H /(1('10 punishment Hundreds of people, both students protest against Weinberger has Har­ links and beliefs of the Neanderthals been purged. Class is cancelled. On your and non-student.!.. caused the disturbance at the Law School vard's ruling-class prigs reeling. Wein­ who rule Harvard. Dean Epps had no way back to the dorm you encounter 60 forum in Sanders Theatre which panially silenced Wein­ berga. Singling out two weJl-known student agitators for vag­ berger (Class of '38) is a war criminal in qualms about aiding and abetting an camouflaged nuts scaling the walls of ud~ \\orUI..'U Violations of University policy amounts to selec­ unruly mob of Conservative Club creeps Widener Library. It's the ROTC cadets tive repre\sion of students whose poJitical views don't con­ the bloody Harvard tradition, and form 10 tho~ of University administrators. In addition, the Harvard stands by its butchers. and Moonies who attempted to break celebrating Harvard's payment for their \ ery \agueness of University policy concemin2 "disrunrivp . Harvard is busy these days brain­ up an SYL forum on Poland ("Stop "studies" in genocide at M IT. You run Inlr:h,:llon~~~~;:.~;~~T·T'·"-'h··e· Harvard Crimson I trusting for World War Ill. Take the Solidarnosc Counterrevolution") in N 0- back to Quincy House to tell your \'on In an a lj. I Kennedy School of Government, To remove any eXcuse in future for selective punishment of hecklers afler the fact, and to insure for speakers the opportu­ named for the Harvard man and presi­ nity to air their views, the University should adopt a com­ Globe vs. Crimson: The Harvard "Troubles" pr~hen.!!ive policy similar to the one already successfully in dent who brought ~u the Bay of Pigs pl.u,:e at the Kennedy School, Hecklers Who seriously disrupt invasion of Cuba and the Vietnam War. University-sponsored events should first be asked to respect Ih~ righls of Ihe speaker, and, if lhey refuse, should be es. At the K-School, senior officers of the t.'(Ined from the halJ, By adopting and publicizing such a pol_

armed forces, CIA. NSA (National ~h£ ~oston ~Iob£ Boston bourgeoisie ~ ~~SE~T;~G ~~'N;O~' .. . -". n ..... Security Agency) and like-minded ~ sees "crimson." Harvard profs hash out contingen­ Crimson (right) cies for promoting counterrevolution defends student No Limits throughout the world. And not in the Free speech at Harvard protesters against form of academic games...:-but as ques­ administration; To Action dIS::;:'~~I~I~~~';,7.;:~.:'~~~ c:; bO :h~~~~a!ff..~"'; c:".,::.. w~ tions of policy for U.S. imperialism. par W. Weinberger. Harvard Colle!!< haS made upon tWO sImilar occu-· smith Colle!!< Globe howls for It clear that Ihe right of free speech bOlongs as withdrew' ~t """""'" Invlta· WEARE PLEASED Ihal Ihe majority has condemned much to unpopular sp""ke" as It .,... to their uon to UnIted Nat..... _.,.IOB' reprisals (left). Thus the head of the K-School's A"'~ the University's discipline of a select few of the protestors at h ...~~;g.,Y hOSUkaudlen", _and heCkled rn~:"'::~~:.~::: Ir;~ Ca!\par W, Weinberger '38's November address. Certainly "National Security Program," Robert wetnbOrger durln~ a speech this past fall wtth hood of"-p"""":" f.,...d former GoY. Ed­ rhi'i action reeks of sclectivism, political repression, and ehan of "Murderer'" and "No draft. no war. ",.rd J. Kinat to lea" the UMUOI""''''''''' com' undue delay. Murray, was commissioned by Wein­ US outlS of EI Salvador:' 5<..... 1 ",a

~ ....;.... 4 YOUNG SPARTACUS Letters Moonie Washington Times Retraction The Labor-Black Mobilization march story "A Victory of Truth

the ap­ propriate police authorities on Nov. 22. Durinl the next fOUf days, the SL and the SYL posted thousands of Over Lies" placards and distributed hundreds of thousands of loanets annaUOClDI Prior to and a: the UQle the Labor­ the Labor-Black MobilizatlOft rally. Black Mobili:r.ation clemonstraton JAMES M. ROBERTSON entered Lafayette Park, on the 0p­ N.~CbaInMn The Labor-Black Mobilization POSite side of the Park police oper­ The SputtlCI$ Leque rally bepn at about 9'lO • m. on ationl were in PT'OIreis with police EMlL'l TURNBULL Nov. 27 and continued until about usinl tear Ras against others who Nam..ISecmary 12:40 p.m., eng_aina the partIClpa­ had assembled near Lafayette Park. w.._SpllUeq.YoIrtb~ Interview with Ex-Moonie Ford Greene tion of 5,000, predominantly blacks TheUbor-Black Mobihzationdem· SL/SYL vindicated-Moonie press In December 1983 the Spartaeist the Washington Times to print on 26 the Washington Times is the centerpiece retracts deadly libel. League and Spartacus Youth League December, "We no longer charge that of the crazed Moon cult's bid for won a very important victory against the the Spartaeist League-Spartacus Youth respectability in Reagan's America. Cold War II domestic witchhunt by League provoked the violence on that In ear~v January Young Spartacus Moonie cultists are, at this point in time, foreing a retraction of "libel that kills" day," was a victoryfor the S L/ S Y L,.for (YSp) interviewed Ford Greene-an ex­ fascists (while their goals are certain~v from the Washington Times, a D.C. the 5,000 mainly black protesters who Moonie, now anti-Moonie activist and fascistic, they are not a paramilitary newspaper operated by the sinister, anti­ stopped the Klan and for all the many endorser of our lawsuit-about this organization). Nor do we agree with communist cult of Reverend Sun others who have hailed this anti-fascist important victory. We print below an Ford's defense of the practice of Myung Moon (see "We Beat the mobilization, the largest in many years. edited version of the interview. "deprogramming" Moonies. As Marx­ Moonies!" Young Spartacus No. 114, Our victory also struck a blow against No one knows better than Ford' ists we fightfor a government which will December 1983-January I 984). The the Moon organization-regarded as Greene the sinister nature of the Moon bring an end to the exploitation and Moonies- had grotesquely charged us one of the most vicious, anti-communist cult. We do not agree with all of Ford's oppression of man by man: we find all with provoking violence against the and vindictively litigious ou((its in the characterizations of the Moonies. In attempts to forcibly impose a pattern of police and portrayed us as a violence­ world. And we hit them where they live: particular we do not think that the behavior, set of beliefs or "messiah" crazed paramilitary ou((it, after we ontQ others antithetical to our very initiated and organized the Labor / purpose i11' fighting for a society where Black Mobilization which stopped the human beings will befree to develop to Ku Klux Klan in Washifigton, D. C. on their fullest potential. But our interview 27 Novemher 1982. with Ford makes lively, interesting, and Our successful lawsuit, which forced for us gratifying reading.

YSp: Can you give us some biographical it's for your benefit that I lie to you and information? make you do what I want you to do. Greene: I'm 31 years old. I'm a Because if you do what I want you to­ practicing criminal defense attorney me being a beavenly child and represen­ who decided to be an attorney, to go tative of the messiah-you would go to into law, because of my experience with a higher place in the spirit world after the Unification Church that com­ you die. So I'm doing it for your menced on December 4, 1974. spiritual benefit. My younger sister had joined the This has application. So, with the Moonies, and one night called home individual not having any idea that with this t9fle of torn 10yaHies in her Moon is behind it, or that the Unifica­ voice, saying that she was going to stay tion Church is involved in any way, he'll with this family that she had met in 27 November 1982: 5,000-strong Labor/Black Mobilization marches up get snowed by a front group such as Berkeley and that she was now hanging Constitution Avenue after stopping KKK. Moonie libel targeted anti-Klan CARP. Because that's how Moon main- . out with up in Booneville, in northern victory. tains the secrecy, to have a front group that's not ostensibly connected with the California. My mom somehow got it Moonies in fact aren't a religion. YSp: Did all the members of the from her that Moon was behind it. parent group. CARP is one of those Greene: They're not. What Moon is is . commune in which you lived work with grou'ps, the Collegiate Association for So I ended up visiting my sister and this carpet cleaning company? being very disturbed by what I saw and an. international political organization the Research of Principles. They are the what I experienced. So I went back up and a multinational, multifaceted cor­ Greene: No. You had different squads organization whos.e job it is to influence there the following weekend with the porate entity that has as its goal the that were delegated out. You'd have students and influence campuses. political domination and control of the intent of rescuing my sister. And when I your flower-selling people. Yot!'d go out What the result is, what the effect is, planet. got to hang out in a group of 200 people and prostitute yourself to sell flowers. of this organization is the denial of free holding hands, all singing songs in YSp: Did you spend all your time in Basically, Moon is the cosmic pimp. My speech. That's how they work, is they unison together, the feeling of commu­ Booneville? sister for example. She was very pret~y, deny free speech, they deny freedom of and now her knees are trashed from nity that I had was so inspiring that I Greene: No. The Unification Church in information. Essentially they deny pounding the pavement so much. She said, "Hey, well, forget rescuing my the San Francisco Bay Area located in freedom of thought. Because if you're an' doesn't have good posture; she walks sister. I'm just going to hang out here Oakland, or Berkeley, has a subsidiary intelligent being and you know how to .With a stoop and she's 27 years old. She and check this out." corporate enterprise that's called the . think, what are. your building blocks of sold a thousand bucks a day worth of During my experience during the International Exchange Carpet Clean­ thinking? It's information. And if your roses and carnations for Sun Myung weekend there, the weekend "training ing and Maintenance Company, and -information's deprived, you can't think Moon. That was how he got a fair session" at Booneville, California, I kept this entity is staffed by essentially slave continued on page II amount of his early money_ The Wash- having these archetypal flashes of Hitler labor. It's all staffed by Moonies. Since -{ngton Times is a good example, how it . youth group, and especially the second the organization doesn't have to pay can survive. Where does all the money day. The concept that had been dis­ their employees, they then can underbid come from? It operates, what, at a 50 cussed the first day was the ideal of any other competitive carpet-cleaning million dollar loss? personal perfection, what that ideal was, group. And, by law, when government why people in general weren't that way, installations are cleaned they must take YSp: Did any of these squads in your and how one could take steps to go the low bidder. The FBI, the govern­ household work on campuses? Did you towards achieving that state in oneself. I ment installations, the military installa­ know people who worked in CARP liked that a lot. The second day, though, tions-they clean it up. l [Collegiate Association for the Re­ search of .principles]? the emphasis shifted very subtly to YSp: That's very interesting! Did you incorporate the idea that the means of work for this company? . Greene: Sure. I did it for a couple of attaining that personal perfection was days. See, one of the favorite ways that Greene: Yeah. I never cleaned any such joining a worldwide political party, the Unification Church likes to operate place. f didn't last very long because I which would then spread its influence as is that, since Satan was so sneaky, such a have a hard time obeying idiots. comprehensively as possible. I had liar, has deceived humanity for a trouble with that, because there was a YSp: Did you live in a Moonie millennia, in order to take the world quantum leap in logic that didn't follow. commune at this time? back from Satan sometimes you have to And it was at that point that I started Greene: Yeah, there are various houses be able to out-lie Satan. That's called getting these Nazi youth group flashes. in spots around, where they house their "Heavenly Deception." So, notwithstanding my reservations, "heavenly children" as Moonies are If I'm a Moonie and I've got a goal­ I continued on and put all my reserva­ wont to call themselves. What you do is whether it's to influence you because tions on the back burner because of my called "sardinizing," so you can cram you're a high-level scientist that can Crazed Moonie pummels burning valuation of the emotional experience I about 90 people in a three-bedroom shape certain governmental policies, or Andropov effigy after U.S.' Korean was having. house with Sleeping bags all next to one whether you're just a tourist on the Air Lines 007 war provocation, YSp: I know your concern is that the another. street that I'm trying to sell a flower to, September 1983. l":'---'~-'-.' -.

FEBRUARY 1984 5 Stop the Racist Anti-Labor Frame-Up of

Workers Vanguard Photo OAKLAND-The defense campaign on behalf of Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero, Bay Area phone workers who were fired from their jobs ana are facing Mozee and Palmiero! up to four and a half years in prison for doing their duty on the picket line during last summer's national phone strike, continues to draw broad support Defense Effort Needs Funds here. For the last four court appear­ ances, the Phone Strikers Defense Committee (PSDC) has filled the pendent children to support, are being Phillips during the bitter Greyhound courtroom with supporters, including dragged through the bosses' courts at strike, the massive firings and prosecu­ fellow phone workers and other trade staggering expense. Meanwhile the tion of Greyhound strikers and the unionists. racist scab still has her job. Lauren and recent company / scab murder of striking At the recent January 17 hearing, Ray were targeted by Ma' Bell and the oil worker Greg Goobic in Rodeo, Municipal Court Judge Joseph Carson District Attorney because they are California-defense of the picket line ruled against a defense motion seeking avowed socialists, members of the must be seen as a life-or.,death question "discovery" of materials from law Militant Action Caucus of the Commu­ for the labor movement. enforcement agencies which would nications Workers of America and The phone company and their show the massive conspiracy of the because Lauren was a former and government friends hope that by drag­ police and the phone company during founding member of the Black Panther ging out the court proceedings, active the strike. The motion included 29 pages Party in Oakland for ten years. support and money for the defense case of testimony from workers active on the Backing for the defense effort has will dissipate. Thousands of dollars picket lines which documented a pattern come from more than 20 unions. over have been spent already. While the of cop-protected management violence. 160 labor officials, minority student and CW A union has paid some legal Not a single scab has been prosecuted. civil rights groups. a variety of left-wing expenses. there continues to be much Carson, however, ruled that there was political spokesmen and several promi­ additional costly activity to be done. "not sufficient foundation" for the nent black bourgeois politicians. A Many unions and rank-and-file union­ defense motion. widely publicized labor/black mobiliza­ ists have donated generously. In Janu­ This racist, anti-union frame-up of tion demanding "Freedom and Jobs ary a "rent party" for Lauren. and Ray Lauren and Ray is part and parcel of an Back for Lauren and Ray!" took place raised over $1,500 through ticket sales intense union-busting offensive in the here last October 29. Unionists under­ and donations from phone workers and area and nationwide. Last August. while stand that the "right to strike" means other supporters. Three older black on a picket line in the Klan-infested nothing without the ability to have real women who attended the function took town of San Leandro, Lauren was picket lines that nobody had better Workers Vanguard supplements on the struck in the face by a racist scab / cross. The broad' support for and case back to their respective churches. Committee, Box 24152, Oakland, CA manager-one Michelle Rose Hansen. exposure of the October 29 march and But PSDC spokesmen emphasize that 94623. Supporters of the PSDC effort Hansen hurled the racist epithet "black rally resulted in the D.A. dropping the the vital defense work is endangered by will mobilize for a demonstration before nigger bitch" at Lauren; Lauren de­ "great bodily injury" clause which mounting financial costs. Young Spar­ the March I preliminary hearing which fended herself and her picket line from carries up to four and a half years, the lacus urges our readers to dig in their is scheduled for 9:00 a.m., Department this racist company assault. Her com­ day before the protest. Particularly pockets, go to their friends, teachers, 2, Hayward Municipal Court, 24405 panion Ray came to her defense. Now now-with the scab murder of Amalga­ organizations and send a much-needed Amador, Hayward, California. Be the interracial couple, with three de- mated Transit Union member Ray contribution to: Phone Strikers Defense there!.

Houston and Etta Bring the House Down D.C. Ben~fit Success WASHINGTON, D.C.-Over 200 peo­ The crowd was a lively mixture of ple packed the second floor of the IBEX people from Washington's labor, black Club here February I to hear three sets and jazz milieux. Emcee and National of hot jazz from saxophonist Houston Maritime Union militant Gene Herson Person and his group, featuring vocalist introduced Tony Martinez, president of Etta Jones. Houston and Etta gave one Capital Branch 142 of the National of their best performances ever for the Association of Letter Carriers, who benefit/fundraiser on behalf of the distributed scores of fliers for the benefit Partisan Defense Committee (PDC). throughout the post office. A South The event celebrated the 27 November African student attending Howard 1982 anti-Klan victory here, when the University beamed, "This is like a dream SL/SYL-initiated Labor/Black Mobili­ come true," as he explained to YSp that zation stopped the KKK from a threat­ he had been listening to Person since he ened race-hate provocation. Proceeds was seven years old over the black South from the benefit go toward paying for African station "Radio S.R." Best performance ever by Houston Person (left inset) and Etta Jones (right the SL/SYL's successful legal campaign We extend our heartfelt gratitude to inset) at February 1 D.C. benefit. against the Moonies' Washington Times Houston Person, Etta Jones and the deadly libel of the Mobilization's other fine musicians in the group, organizers, and toward the defense of organist David Braham and drummer Spartacus Youth League framed-up California phone strikers Frank Jones, for a fine evening in the Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero. service of labor and black struggle .• Class Series

BOSTON Special Blues Benefit Marxist Class Series for the Phone Strikers Defense Committee Alternate Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. February 23, March 8 Stop the racist anti-labor frame-up of Mozee and Palmiero! Sever 307 --______Featuring - ______Harvard University For more information: (617) 492-3928 Big Joe Peewee Percy CLEVELAND Turner Crayton Mayfield Trotskyism: LOS ANGELES Revolutionary Marxism Today Trotskyism and the Special Appearance: actor William Marshall performing an Alternate Sundays, 12 noon Struggle for State Power excerpt from his one-man show as the great Frederick Douglass February 19, March 4 Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. U. Center, Rm. 110 February 14 Sunday, February 19, 3 to 9 p.m. Cleveland State University UCLA, Ackerman Union, Rm. 2412 For more information: (216) 621-5138 For more information: (213) 663-1216 or 1217 ------_ Ticket Outlets ------­ Flash Records WASHINGTON, D.C. Chttlerton', Book Store 1861 West Adams Blvd. Jerry White Enterprises DETROIT 1818 North Vermont Ave, 4308'1, South Vermont Ave. Trotskyism: Trotskyism: Aquarlan Book Shop 1342 West Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Revolutionary Marxism Today Revolutionary Marxism Today Alternate Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m. Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m. February 22, March 7 February 21, 28, March 6 At the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 24, 774 South Valencia Rm. 530 SCB Pyramid Book Store For more information: $5 donation Wayne State University 2849 Georgia Avenue NW. . (213) 663-1216 or 1217 Proceeds to the PSOC For more information: (313) 961-1680 For more information: (202) 636-3537

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who's apt to be funded by the CIA. In PART ONE OF TWO 1963 Rustin was chief organizer for the March on Washington, which Malcolm "Malcolm was our manhood, our dubbed "the farce on Washington." Yet living black manhood! This was his not long after Malcolm was killed meaning to his people. And, in Rustin claimed, "Malcolm was moving honoring him, we honor the best in toward the mainstream of the civil rights ourselves .... " movement when his life was cut short" -Ossie Davis, 27 February (Down the Line [1970]). Corpses can't 1965 protest. Rustin's line has been taken up Nineteen years ago the most admired by other reformist fakers. At the rally and respected, the most hated and last August 27 (actually a pray-in for the feared black man of his generation was Democratic Party) to commemorate the Gordon Parks assassinated while speaking at Harlem's 1963 March on Washington, Sam peaceable folk and god-fearing Chris­ because he had been one of them. When Aud.ubon Ballroom. Lenin once ob­ Marcy's Workers World Party carried a tians enraged Malcolm to the depths of he spoke of the hell the white oppressor served that while a revolutionist is alive banner depicting King and Malcolm his being. It was degrading. Like the had made for black people in America, and fighting, the oppressor class perse­ together. And Jack Barnes' Socialist sheep reminding the wolf when it's time of the torments-psychological as well cutes him, hounds him, vilifies him, Workers Party ran speeches by Mal­ for dinner. Malcolm X cut through as material-they suffered every day, he circulates the most vile slanders about colm and M LK in the Militant, but not the sanctimonious claptrap and foot­ had been there. him. But after he's dead sometimes an Time shuffling hypocrisy of the "respectable" effort is made to co-opt his memory, to black leaders like a sharp knife going Detroit Red Becomes Malcolm X portray him as a well-meaning, if through a tub of butter: misguided, do-gooder. The same people Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, "Just as Uncle Tom, back during slav­ Nebraska in 1925. His father was a who savagely attacked him when alive ery, used to keep Negroes from resisting now mourn him as a "great loss to the the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Baptist minister and an organizer for movement." Something like this has Klux Klan by teaching them to love Marcus Garvey's "Back to Africa" happened to Malcolm X. their enemies or pray for those who use movement. His mother was a West The white rulers of this country hated them spitefully, today Martin Luther Indian. Her mother had been raped by a King is just a twentieth-century or Malcolm X and responded with un­ modern Uncle Tom, or religious Uncle white colonialist. This accounted for disguised malicious glee to his violent Tom, who is doing the same thing today Malcolm's reddish hair and relatively death. The director of the official United to keep Negroes defenseless .... light complexion. Reverend Earl Little States Information Agency, Carl Ro­ " ... but the masses of black people was targeted by the local Klansmen as a today don't go for what Martin Luther "bad nigger," and shortly after Malcolm wan (who is black) dismissed Malcolm King is putting down." X contemptuously as "an ex-convict, -Interview in Louis E. Lomax, was born the family moved to Lansing, ex-dope peddler who became a racial When (he Word 1.1' GiI'en ... Michigan. When Malcolm was six his fanatic." The obituary editorial in the ( 1963) father was killed by the Black Legion, "Detroit Red"-Malcolm X at age 19 liberal New York Times (22 February Within months after Malcolm spoke the local version of the Klan. The family soon disintegrated as his mother broke 1965) vilified him as "an extraordinary Malcolm's scathing attack on the '63 these words, Harlem erupted in the first and twisted man, turning many true of a series of ghetto explosions which down and was institutionalized. Mal­ March and King's rose-colored colm then experienced the typical gifts to evil purpose": "dreams." Today the name of Malcolm shook white racist America. pattern of foster homes and reform " ... his -ruthless and fanatical belief in X is being prostituted in the service of violence not only set him apart from the M,~Jcolm X was the voice of that schools. responsible leaders of the civil rights Democratic Party liberalism, which the angry black ghetto. He spoke for the As a teenager he worked at the usual movement and the overwhelming ma­ real Malcolm X fought to the end with desperate and angry ghetto masses dead-end menial jobs (shoeshine boy in jority of Negroes. It also marked him all the force of his extraordinary for notoriety, and for a violent end." personality. In other words, they think he got what At a critical moment in contemporary he deserved. American history Malcolm X was the The "responsible" civil rights leaders, voice of black militancy. Hi~ impor­ needless to say, fed into the ruling class tance and appeal lay, in particufar, in his hysteria against Malcolm and the Black intransigent opposition to the "white Muslims. Martin Luther King declared man's puppet Negro 'leaders'," as he their views "bordered on a new kind of called them. Martin Luther King told Malcolm X with then­ race hatred and an unconscious advo­ the world that black people loved the mentor cacy of violence." Malcolm returned the white oppressor and would answer the Elijah Mu­ compliment, denouncing King as a racists' bombings and beatings with hammad, "twentieth-century Uncle Tom" whose Christian forgiveness. He hoped in this leader of the "primary concern is defending the white way to shame the Northern white liberal Black man." establishment into moving against Muslims. Now and for some time past, how­ Southern Jim Crow by demonstrating ever, an effort has been made to identify~ the moral superiority of black people to Malcolm with the "respectable" black the KKK killers and their confederates leaders whom he despised. One of the like George Wallace and Bull Connor. most despicable of the whole lot is The idea that blacks had to prove to the Bayard Rustin, the kind of "socialist" "good white massa" that they were ...... 'wr. , I

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a dance hall, sandwich man on the active member of the Nation of Islam. railroads), then drifted into Harlem Soon he was made a minister, and in where he became an all-purpose hustler - 1954 was appointed minister of Temple nicknamed Detroit Red. At one point No.7 in Harlem, which he made into during World War I I he was a steerer for one of the sect's most successful and a Harlem madam specializing in kinky respected congregations. sex. Her clientele came almost entirely A man of strong convictions and will from the upper echelons of white power:ilnother aspect of Malcolm'sper­ society: sonality impressed almost"everyone who " ... these weren't college boys, these encountered him. He was fundamental­ were their Ivy l.eague fathers. Even ly open-mined. He considered seriously grandfathers, I guess. Society leaders. Big politicians. Tycoons. Important other people's views and arguments friends from out of town." however distant from his own. It was - The Autohiographr of part of his unquenchable thirst for Malcolm X (1965) knowledge and understanding. Twenty years later Detroit Red, now Malcolm X, would flay the white ruling Malcolm and the class when its spokesmen talked about Civil Rights Militants the "loose morals" of ghetto blacks. Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam Detroit Red was finally -busted in had exjsted for n'lore than a quarter 1946 for running a burglary ring in the century attracting a few thousand Boston area. He might have gotten off followers and no serious interest among lightly except that he had involved a _ politicafly active blacks. Then in the oouple of white, upper-class Cambridge early 1960s, at the height of the civil women, who got their kicks hanging rights movement, the Black Muslims around the black lumpen milieu: suddenly exploded into the conscious­ "Nobody wanted to know anything at all about the robberies. All they could ness of black and (to a lesser extent) see was that we had taken the white The great truth teller for black America addressing mass street rally in white America. Why? King and the man's women .... Harlem. Southern Christian Leadership Confer­ "Later, when I learned the full truth ence (SCLC) politicized religion in the about the white man, I reflected many It taught that American Negroes were the Nation of Islam for the Muslims black community. The mainstream times that the average burglary sentence originally members of the \ost tribe of demanded an absolute eschewal of for a first offender. as we all were. was black Christian churches became closely about two years. But we weren't going Shabazz stolen by slave traders from the heroin, a break with the lumpen/hustler . identified with the Northern liberal to get the average--not for our crime." holy city of Mecca. The original race of milieu of petty criminal ghetto existence establishment, specifically support to [emphasis in original] mankind was black. Then 6,000 years and stressed literacy and self-education. the Kennedy/Johnson administration. -Ihid ago the big-headed scientist Yacub, Malcolm's conversion was associated It had always been a basic tenet of the Malcolm was sentenced to ten years rebelling against Allah, grafted the with a total intellectual transformation. Nation that the black Christian preach­ in prison and served seven. He was so white man ("the, blue-eyed devil") He became a voracious reader, so much er was the white man's main tool for generally hostile his fellow inmates through a series of fiend ish experiments. so that he damaged his eyesight. He read keeping blacks subjugated. By this ca.lled him Satan. Then suddenly Satan The white man was fated to subjugate everything bul concentrated on world Elijah Muhammad meant nothing more converted to the Nation of Islam. A and oppress the black man for 6,000 history. What he learned about the Eu­ than that Christianity prevented the brother and a sister of his had intro­ years. Now the white man's reign was ropean colonization of Africa, Asia and black masses from discovering "the duced Malcolm to "the natural religion about to end, his fall being signalled by the Americas reaffirmed, in his mind, natural religion of the black man." But for the black man." Elijah Muhammad's World War I. Elijah Muhammad's teaching that the with the rise of the SCLC-led civil rights Nation of Islam originated in Detroit in . Although the Nation of Islam consid­ white man was a devil created to op­ movement, the Black Muslims' condem­ the early 1930s out of the same social ered the white man to be the personifica­ press the black people of the world. nation of Christian submissiveness soil which produced Garveyism: the tion of all evil, the sect opposed in Years later, however, Malcolm's intense appeared to be something more, name­ uprooted black Southern peasantry principle any struggle against racist interest in world history and politics ly, a political criticism of King's pacifis­ thrown into the Northern ghettos under oppression. Elijah Muhammad ,in­ would serve as a bridge from separatist tic liberalism and ties to the white ruling conditions of economic desperation. It structed his followers to respect eXisting religious sectarianism to political class. For example, in 1959 Elijah was a typical religious sect of the authority and not get in trouble with the radicalism. Muhammad declaimed: - oppressed, promising apocalyptic re­ white man's law. Some prison officials On being paroled in 1952 Malcolm "You fear and love (the white Chris­ demption: "the last shall become first." welcomed black convicts converting to went to Detroit where he became an continued on page 8

Of all the national Negro leaders in developed program and cadre made this country, the one who was known REPRINTED FROM SPARTACIST NO. 4, MA Y-JUNE 1965 him vulnerable. His death by violence uniquely for his militancy, intransi­ had a high order of probability, as he gence, and refusal to be the liberals' himself clearly felt. frontman has been shot down. This new political assassination is another Heroic and Tragic Figure indicator of the rising current of irrationality and individual terrorism MALCOLM X The murder of Malcolm, and the which the decay of our society begets. disastrous consequences flowing from encompass the efficacy and morality of him say things that were wrong and Liberal reaction is predictable, and that murder for Malcolm's organiza­ confusing, you wanted to believe. predictably disgusting. They are, of assassination. A man who has a direct tion and black militancy in general, Malcolm could move men deeply. He course, opposed to assassination, and pipeline to God can justify anything. does not mean that the militant black was the stuff of which mass leaders are some may even contribute to the fund movement can always be decapitated made. Commencing his public life in for the education of Malcolm's chil­ No Program with a shotgun. True, there is an the context of the apolitical, irrational dren, but their mourning at the death agonizing gap in black leadership The main point, however, is not who religiosity and racial mysticism of the of the head of world imperialism had a today. On the one hand there are the killed Malcolm, but why could he be Muslim movement, his break toward considerably greater ring of sincerity respectable servants of the liberal killed? I n the literal sense, of course, political ness and rationality was slow, ' than their regret at the murder of a establishment; men like James Farmer any man can be killed, but why was painful, and terribly incomplete. It is black militant who wouldn't play their whose contemptible effort to blame Malcolm particularly vulnerable? The useless to speculate on how far it. game. Malcolm's murder on "Chinese Com­ answer to this question makes of would have gone had he lived. He had munists" will only hasten his eclipse as Malcolm's death tragedy of the sharp­ entered prison a burglar, an addict, a leader, and on the other hand the Black Muslims? est kind, and in the literal Greek sense. and a victim. He emerged a Muslim ranks of the militants have yet to Liberals and Elijah have tried to make and a free man forever. Elijah M u­ produce a man with the leadership Malcolm a victim of his own (non­ hammed and the Lost-Found Nation The official story is that Black potential of Malcolm. But such leader­ existent) doctrines of violence. This is of Islam were thus inextricably bound Muslims killed Malcolm. But we ship will eventually be forthcoming. totally wrong-and totally hypocritical. up with his personal emancipation. In should not hasten to accept this to date This is a statistical as well as a social Malcolm was the most dynamic any event, at the time of his death he unproved hypothesis. The New York certainty. This leadership, building on national leader to have appeared in had not yet developed a clear, explicit. Police, for example, had good cause to the experience of others such as America in the last decade. Compared and rational social program. Nor had be afraid of Malcolm. and with the Malcolm, and emancipated from his with him the famous Kennedy person­ he led his followers in the kind of vast resources of blackmail and coer­ religiosity. will build a movement in ality was a flimsy cardboard creation transitional struggle necessary to the cion which arc at their disposal, they which the black masses and their allies of money, publicity, makeup, and the creation of a successful mass move­ also had ample opportunity, and of can lead the third great American course would have little reason to fear media. Malcolm had none of these, but ment. Lacking such a program, he revolution. Then Malcolm X will be a righteous cause and iron character could not develop cadres based on exposure were they involved. At the remembered by black and white alike same time, the Muslim theory cannot forged by white America in the fire of program. What cadre he had was as a heroic and tragic figure in a dark be discounted out of hand because the discrimination, addiction, prison, and based on Malcolm X instead. Hated period of our common history. Muslims are not a political group, and incredible calumny. He had a difficult and feared by the power structure, and in substituting religion for science, and to define but almost tangible attribute the focus of the para"noid feelings of his color mysticism for rational analysis, called charisma. When you heard former colleagues, his charisma made Bay Area Spartacist Committee, they have a world view which could Malcolm speak, even when you heard him dangerous, and his lack of 2 March, 1965 8 YOUNG SPARTACUS

terrain, gave rise to a left opposition, the Malcolm X... Revolutionary Tendency. This was the (continued from page 7) origin of the present Spartacist League/ Spartacus Youth League. Malcolm tians) though you are even disgraced spoke for black militants when he and killed by them-from your mfnis­ declared, "we are ready to fight and die ters of their slavery religion down to the in defense of our lives." Like Malcolm, lowly, ignorant man in the mud." we denounced King's turn-the-other­ -quoted in C. Eric Lincoln, The Black Muslims in America cheek pacifism and dependence on the (1961 ) federal government and called for organized, armed self-defense against Many black militants, who couldn't care racist terror. A resolution presented by less about the tribe of Shabazz, nonethe­ the Revolutionary Tendency to the less could agree with this sentiment. SWP youth group, the Young Socialist Many more would do so in the next few Alliance (YSA) in 1963 stated: years. "General demands in the south must be: Whereas Elijah Muhammad contin­ "A) For organized self-defense move­ ued to emphasize the sect's religious ments in southern cities-for the tactics of Robert F. Williams [a former black nature, Malcolm X did not. Rather he Cops brutalize black woman In Birmingham (left); Muhammad ~Reaks attacked the "respectable" black leaders Marine who organized armed self­ cartoon lambasts M.L. Kln~'s pacifism (right). defense to protect the civil rights with a hitherto unheard of power and movement in Monroe. North Carolina]: incisiveness: against federal military intervention, "The greatest miracle Christianity has which always supports the status quo. achieved in America is that the black "B) Against discrimination in unions man in white Christian hands has not and industries-especially companies grown violent. It is a miracle that 22 with government contracts or subsidies. million black people have not risen up "C) For drives for unionization. against their oppressors-in which they "D) For independent political organi­ would have been justified by all moral zation--make voter registration criteria. and even by the democratic meaningful." tradition!... The miracle is that the -"The Negro Struggle and the white man's puppet Negro 'leaders,'-his Crisis of Leadership:' YSA preachers and the educated Negroes Discussion Bulletin, Vol. 7, laden with degrees. and others who have No.5, August 1963 been allowed to wax fat off their black poor brothers. have been able to hold The SWP. however, refused toconfront the black masses quiet until now." the black radical currents, covering its [emphasis in original] gutless abstentionism with a convenient -Autohiography of" Malcolm X "dual vanguardist" outlook which re­ A few years later this would be pretty defined the SWP implicitly as a "white tame stuff among black (and white) party" whose only contribution to the radicals. But in the early 1960s King was black struggle was to enthuse over a sacred cow and no one else-but no "whatever the black people want." The one-was saying these things. Revolutionary Tendency, expelled from Here one might naturally ask, but the SWP in 1963-64 in the first political what of the left, what about those purge in that party's history, founded groups claiming to be Marxist and the Spartacist League in 1966, with a Leninist? Didn't they also denounce few dozen members. The fledgling SL King's pacifistic liberalism and his Fight against Jim Crow In the South gripped black America; separatist was too small to reach and influence Muslims abstained from struggles. subordination to the Kennedy White more than a very small number of the House? No, they did not! The pro­ long-reformist CP would join in the August 1963) ran a front-page banner masses of radicalized black activists, Moscow Communist Party (CP) leapt liberals' hate campaign against the headline that could have been dictated and unable to break down the hardening to King's defense against the Black Black Muslims. . b,y King ot" Rustin: "All Out for black/white line of the New Left radical Muslims' attack: But what of the ostensibly Trotskyist Washington March to Win Jobs and movement which sealed us off from "One does not have to agree with Dr. Socialist Workers Party (SWP)? By Freedom!" subjectively revolutionary black mili­ Martin Luther King's theory of 'love thy. tants of the period. enemy' to recognize the great contribu­ the early 1960s the SWP had become A few months later the difference tion he and his. followers are making a rapidly rightward-moving centrist between Malcolm X as a courageous As the young civil rights activists toward the fight for freedom. But rather party. Its opportunist appetites were enemy of the American ruling class and became more radical, they found in than join with him in these great especially clear and especially gross his craven SWP sycophants was ex­ Malcolm the one man who expressed struggles, the Muslim-inflamed press boldly the thoughts and half-thoughts has set him up as a whipping boy." when it came to the black movement. posed in a far more dramatic way. -Claude Lightfoot, "Negro Thus the SWP became the most fawning Nothing Malcolm ever said before or they were still afraid to voice them­ Nationalism and Black sycophants of Malcolm X (pages and after so enraged white liberal America selves. By 1963-64 a majority of the Muslims," Political Affairs, pages of the Militant were given over to Student Non-Violent Coordinating July 1962 .. as his response to the Kennedyassassi­ his speeches) while simultaneously 'nation. He said it was a case of "chickens Committee (SNCC) no longer believed Exhibiting typical Stalinist mentality, tailing the "respectable" black leaders coming home to roost" and added with a in non-violence as a moral principle. black CP spokesman Lightfoot not only around King! Consider the 1963 March twinkle in his eye: "Being an old farm Many never had. But they were as yet condemned the Muslims for opposing on Washington, which had been co­ boy myself, chickens coming home to unwilling to publicly renounce pacifistic the "anti-monopoly coalition" with the opted by the Kennedy White House. roost never did make me sad; they've liberalism and break with King, whom Kennedy Democrats, but also insinu­ The night before Malcolm called a press. always made me glad" (New' York they privately and derisively dubbed ated, "there is now evidence that they conference to denounce it as nothing but Times, 2 December 1963). The media, "De Lawd." It was Malcolm who spoke are working with ultra-Right fascist a circus, a picnic. The SWP's line was, to the liberal establishment, the civil rights for them. (On SNCC's evolution, see forces." It was to be expected that the say the least, different. The Militant (5 leaders all pilloried Malcolm for "SNCC: 'Black Power' and the Demo­ having-oh, how horrible-"mocked" crats," Workers Vanguard No. 327, 8 the death of "our beloved president." April 1983). The fight for the right Elijah Muhammad used the furor over Many, if not most, young black of organized, SP!RTACIST 5.6.1'5: the "chickens come home to roost" armed self-defense, speech to suspend· his all-too-famous especially in the South, was ARt1EO SE.LF"" and controversial lieutenant from Spartacist League/ and Is key demand of . DEFENSE FO~' speaking in pUblic. Spartacus Youth League Spartaclst program for black No one could accuse the SWP of liberation. Public Offices "mocking" the death of imperialist commander-in-chief Kennedy. Party Bay Area Friday: 5:00-8:00 p.m. national secretary Farrell Dobbs sent Saturday: 3:00'6:00 p.rn. condolences to the widow Kennedy. The 1634 Telegraph 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) Oakland, California SWP not only kissed Jacqueline Ken­ Phone: (415) 835-1535 nedy's mourning dress, but also tried to hide behind the black robes of chief Chicago Tuesday: 5:30·9:00 p.m. justice Earl Warren. Under the super­ Saturday: 2:00-5:30 p.m. head, "At the Moment of Crisis There 523 S. Plymouth Court 3rd Floor Chicago, illinOis Were Voices of Sanity," the Militant (2 Phone: (312) 427·0003 December 1963) ran as front-page 1964: ~~artacist headline Warren's hand-wringing state­ New York City editor James Tuesday: 6:00-9:00 p.m. Robertson ment: "If We Really Love This Country Saturday: 12:00-4:00 p.m. addresses We Must Abjure Hatred." No wonder 41 Warren St. (one block below Chambers St near Church St) New York. N.Y. united-front rally black militants considered the SWP, if Phone: (212) 267-1025 called by Harlem they considered it at all, a gutless bunch Solidarity not worthy to shine Malcolm's shoes. Trotskyist League of Canada Committee to The rightward degeneration of the defend Harlem Toronto masses against SWP, especially its open theoretical Saturday: 1:00·5:00 p.m. revisionism over Cuba and its absten­ 299 Queen St W.. Suite 502 pOlice riot. Toronto. Ontario tionism and opportunism toward the­ Phone: (416) 593-4138 black movement on the domestic FEBRUARY 1984 9

activists sympathized with the Cuban we both envy and despise" ("On Mal­ to be a march. It became a picnic, a certain distance. However much the and Vietnamese Revolutions. By the colm X," appended to Autohiographr). circus .... " young black militants admired Mal­ -Malcolm X Speaks, edited by time Kennedy was assassinated in late If Malcolm had this kind of impact on George Breitman (1966) colm, they still marched against the 1963, few black militants shed tears for an Ossie Davis, his effect on the young racists with King and Farmer, not with world imperialism's chieftain, the man Malcolm's was the uncensored voice of civil rights militants was electric. It was the minister of the Nation of Islam's black militancy. Temple No.7 in Harlem. who ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion as if the black activists in SNCC, CORE and the Green Berets into Vietnam. Yet and the other civil rights groups were But this was only one side-the Malcolm personified to an extreme SNCC, James Farmer's CORE (Con~ doing legal work under a hostile regime, positive side-of Malcolm's relation to degree the fundamental contradiction of gress of Racial Equality) and the other the civil rights militants. Malcolm was, while Malcolm provided their illegal, black nationalism. As a doctrine, civil rights groups were still dependent underground press from exile. He said after all, a separatist, a man who nationalism can sometimes attract declared, "No sane black man really on the white liberal establishment and loud and clear what they hinted at using militant blacks deeply alienated from wants integration!" Yet masses of blacks joined in mourning its "martyred hero." Aesopian language. The 1963 March on this racist society and who have no were fighting precisely to get into So when Malcolm made his "chickens Washington is a good case in point. As it illusions that it can be reformed. But previously all-white schools, all-white come home to roost" speech, thousands became clear that the protest was being American blacks are not a nation. They public facilities, all-white neighbor­ of black militants applauded ... manipulated by the Kennedy White are an oppressed color-caste integrated hoods, an-white jobs. In short, they silently. House, the SNCC militants became into Amerkan capitalist society while were fighting for social, political and Malcolm had become the great truth increasingly critical of the event. The forcibly segregated at the bottom of it. economic integration into American teller for black America, the one man March organizers forced SNCC chair­ Elijah Muhammad's call upon the society. But how could Malcolm in good who told it like it is: Even some members man John Lewis to delete from his United States government to grant conscience have participated in the of the black liberal establishment rec­ prepared speech a passage considereq several states for a separate black nation ognized that Malcolm had their num­ especially offensive to the liberal estab­ Harlem school boycotts for greater was more pie-in-the-sky than any of racial balance in the city's schools or in ber. The actor Ossie Davis, who had lishment. The white power structure King's dreams. Separatism is not a emceed the March on Washington, said could still censor the leadership of the marches for open housing in lily­ program for social struggle in racist white suburbs. Malcolm was a critic of Malcolm succeeded "in making Uncle SNCC; they could not censor Malcolm. America. This contradiction became T oms, compromisers, and accommo-~ He lashed out at what the March had the civil rights movement, a critic who clearer once Malcolm split from the dationists-I deliberately include my­ become: expressed powerfully and effectively the Nation of Islam and attempted to build self-thoroughly ashamed of the urbane ..... it lost its militancy. It ceased to be feelings of the growing left wing of that his own secular organization. and smiling hypocrisy we practice angry, it ceased to be hot. it ceased to be movement. But he remained a man merely to exist in a world whose values uncompromising. Why, it even ceased looking over the battlefield from a [TO BE CONTINUED]

for Naval Warfare Studies, now has an Harvard ... office in the Kennedy School, where he (continued from page 3) directs the "National and International Security" Program. Murray has just Grateful Dead concert. She tells you the returned from a holiday in Beirut where concert has been cancelled by Dean he served on the Long Commission, set Epps because it was a "security risk." up to determine "accountability" for the She invites you to the evening's "alterna­ bombings there. Back at Harvard, his tive entertainment": Epps will be con­ It's right to "students" are Flag and General rank ducting the Harvard Trustees in a rebel: Angry officers from various branches of the concert at the Kennedy School. They've students armed services and "civilians of compa­ been rehearsing an a cappella special gather to rable rank" from the CIA, State Depart­ protest cop called "Harvard~Love It or Leave It" ment, NSA, etc. His faculty, too, have sung to the tune of "It's Springtime for occupation extensive, direct ties to the U.S. govern­ and ROTC at ment, espionage and military elites. Hitler and Germany." You're glad Harvard, tomorrow is Martin Luther _ King's 1969. These men are directly involved in birthday, a national holiday, because plotting, advising and administering the you need a break. You learn Martin terror and destruction by which U.S. Luther King day is not observed by imperialism is known worldwide. From Harvard. Instead, classes will be can­ the A-bomb to napalm, from the carpet celled next October in honor of the U.S. bombing of Vietnam to the death invasion of black Grenada. too many Jews" (Crimson, 14 December grapes that the SYL played no role in squads of El Salvador, "Veritas" has 1983). The administration's blather the protest and is an "irrelevant, bloody hands. The imperialist "academ­ Now, stop imagining and take a good about "free speech" for Weinberger is unpopUlar group." It's an open and shut ics" who scuttle around the Kennedy look around. It's Harvard, 1984. ROTC obscene. Weinberger is directly and case of anti-communism-from Epps to School belong in the basement of the js on the way back in and leftist students personally responsible for the deaths of the rad-lib fringe. When Weinberger Pentagon. The Kennedy School could may be on the way out-hut not without thousands in Central America, Leba­ sabre rattled against the "evil empire," be used instead for some humanitarian a .light! Dean Epps has threatened to non, Grenada, Angola. Even Klaus every "popular" anti-communist "left­ purpose-a shelter for pregnant Cliffies, expel two members of the Spartacus Barbie, "the Butcher of Lyons" was ist" in the audience politely listened perhaps. Youth League, Tom Crean '86 and finally extradited to be tried for his war while the Trotskyist SYL chanted While we have no illusions that any Andre Weltman '86, for their role in the crimes. That Weinberger sports a "Defend the Soviet Union-the Main university, particularly Harvard, can be 600-strong protest of War Secretary Harvard tie in place of an iron cross Enemy Is at Home!" Of course Epps an "ivory tower," we do think it's Caspar Weinberger '38. should not spare him from justice. He also hopes that his threats against us will important to take a stand against the That Harvard is a bastion of snotty too should be extradited-to a liberated intimidate the entire student body from direct use of the university for military elitism, race and class privilege, and zone of EI Salvador to be tried by his exercising its right to engage in political purposes-from the Junior Lieutenant putrid liberal hypocrisy was best cap­ victims! actions. Calleys in ROTC to the Senior Dr. tured by right-wing Government Pro­ Epps' threats of expUlsion have met The hundreds of students who pro­ Strangeloves'in the Kennedy School of fessor Mansfield who decried the with approval from the Brahmins' tested Weinberger because they oppose Government. protest of Weinberger as a violation of Boston Globe (30 January), but protest U.S. imperialism should join us in a If you are opposed to U.S. imperial­ "free speech" and then went on to from faculty, students and the Crimson. campaign of united-front protest ism's campaign of terror from the denounce affirmative action at Har­ Some politicC'J opponents of the SYL against the Kennedy School. This Salvadoran death squads to the CIA's vard: "there aren't enough RepUblicans have made the record against the "school" effectively serves as an ante­ contrasin Nicaragua, to support for on the Harvard faculty and there's far expUlsion threat while crying sour chamber to the Pentagon's war room. racist apartheid, to the attacks on labor Indeed the K-School makes little pre­ and minorities at home, then join us tense to academic pursuits and glories in in a campaign against the Kennedy Spartacus Youth League Directory its role as a laboratory for government School where these counterrevolution­ 1 t !' ary schemes are hatched! Shut Down SYL National Office: Box 3118, New York: SYL, Box 444, Canal policy-from slashing food stamps and Church Street Station, New York, Street Station, New York, NY 10013, designing budget cuts that kill blacks to the K-School-Pentagon Think Tank NY 10008 or call (212) 267-1025 planning first strikes to kill Russians. for WW III! Ann Arbor: SYL, P.O. Box 8364, Norfolk: SYL, c/o SL. P.o. Box 1972, Robert Murray, fQ'rmer Undersecretary Spartacus Youth League Ann Arbor, MI 48107, or call (313) Main P.O., Norfolk, VA 23501 of the Navy and Director of the Center 31 January 1984 961-1680 Oakland: SYL, Box 273, Civic Atlanta: SYL, Box 4012, Atlanta, GA Center Station, Oakland, CA 30302 94604, or call (415) 835-1535 Boston: SYL, Box 188, M.I.T. Station, Cambridge, MA 02139, or call (617) Oberlin: SYL, Box 58, Oberlin 492-3928 College, Oberlin, OH 44074, or call (216) 775-5839 Chicago: SYL, Box 4667, Main PO., Chicago, IL 60680, or call (312) San Francisco: SYL, Box 11685, 427-0003 San Francisco, CA 94101, or call (415) 863-6963 Cleveland: SYL, Box 6642, Cleve­ ______----Phone (_) ______land, OH 44101, or call (216) 621- Washington, D.C.: SYL, P.O. Box 5138 75073, Washington, D.C. 20013, or City State Zip _____ Detroit: SYL; Box 32028, Detroit, MI call (202) 636-3537 YSp 115 48232, or call (313) 961-1680 o $2/9 issues of Young Spertecus Make payable/mail to: Los Angeles: SYL, Box 29115, Los Trotskyist Spartacus Youth Publishing Co., Box 3116, Church Street Station, New York. N.Y. 10006 Feliz Station, Los Angeles, CA 90029, or call (213) 663-1216 or League of Canada 1217 Toronto: Box 7198,Station A, Toron­ Madison: SYL, Box 2074, Madison, to, Ontario M5W 1X8, or call (416) WI 53701, or call (312) 427-0003 593-4138 10 YOUNG SPARTACUS

the most elemental needs of the masses ic" imperialist European states (e.g., institute a nationalist and populist Salvadoran and the opulence and corruption of the England and France). The price paid by regime; it was the implacable hostility of tiny class of capitalists and landlords the Spanish proletariat for this popular U.S. imperialism thatforcedthe victori­ which sucks their blood cannot be front betrayal was over three decades of ous Cuban guerrilla movement to go Rebels ... obscured behind a fac;ade of political Franco's fascistic dictatorship. Or will beyond the bounds of capitalist prop­ (continued from page 1) "pluralism," paper ballots and parlia­ they take the "Cuban road" and expro­ erty. Before the revolution, Cuba was a daughter and my American people that mentary debates. Even the death squad priate the bourgeoisie, carrying out a playground for the Mafia and a hellhole I have died fulfilling my obligation." "democratization" being pushed by the social revolution. for the masses, particularly black Despite the flow of Yankee dollars Reagan administration faces the pros­ The popular militias have fought Cubans. The Cuban Revolution and arms'(tbe latest Pentagon request is pect of collapse-the fear in Washing­ magnificently against the CIA-backed smashed the U.S. imperialists' strangle­ for some 400 million dollars in military ton now is that the March 25 Salvador­ and bankrolled ('ontras-the contras hold on the economy, expropriated the aid, triple the current figure), it is no' an "elections" will result either in the have not managed to hold any territory, local bourgeoisie (many of whom ended secret that the government army may victory of D'Aubuisson-who advo­ ~p.nnr~nhi~~1 Magazine collapse soon under the blows of the cates the use of napalm against the , ····4 guerrilla forces. Even the Kissinger civilian population-or in a military commission report admits: "Given the coup which installs him in power! So increasing damage-both physical and much for "human rights progress." political-being inflicted on the econo­ For the worker and peasant masses, my and Government of EI Salvador by only the destruction of the brutal the guerrillas, who are maintaining their oligarchy and the shattering of its army strength, a collapse is not inconceiv­ can open a way to liberation from able" (New York Times, 12 January). A poverty, oppression and massacres. military rout of the puppet regime in With the hated regime tottering, a mass San Salvador would squarely pose the uprising of the urban workers and poor threat of direct U.S. military interven­ could drive the nails into the coffin of San Salvador, the rule of the oligarchs and their hated January 1980 tion into EI Salvador. It is the urgent 200,000- internationalist duty of those who stand military guard dogs. For workers strong protest for leftist military victory in EI Salvador revolution in EI Salvador! '. in which trade to do all in our power to prevent Yankee Fearing that a negotiated settlement unions played imperialism from unleashing its dogs of as proposed by Ungo & Co. may be the key role. war on the worker and peasant masses. only alternative to a total military rout Key to this is organizing working-class of the U.S.-backed regime, Democratic opposition in the U.S. to spike Wash­ Party liberals in Congress and on the ington's invasion through concrete acts campaign trail advocate cutting a deal of labor solidarity with the. heroic with the FOR. New York Democrat FM LN fighters-boycotting military Daniel Moynihan, for example, came and even their most spectacular attacks up in Miami, breeding gusano counter­ cargo bound for EI Salvador, labor .. out strongly against the recommenda­ (such as the bombings of port facilities) revolutionary terror and hiring out as strikes against the intervention, and tion of the Reagan-appointed Kissinger have not substantially damaged the "rent-a-mercenary") and established a mass, militant demonstrations. The commission that the U.S. ljl1ussively Nicaraguan economy. The Sandinistas, planned, nationalized economy. To­ enemy of blacks and workers here "at increase its aid to the Salvadoran however, capitulate to the pressure of gether with these gains of the revolution, home" is in Washington-the U.S. government and the Nicaraguan con­ the counterrevolution-reducing the military and economic aid from the ruling class. Its defeats are our tras. While Reaganite mythology holds number of Cuban advisers in the wake Soviet degenerated workers state has victories! that the Salvadoran rebels are "Soviet surrogates," Moynihan, Arthur Schle­ of Reagan's Grenada invasion, inviting made possible the transformation of No Negotiated Sellout! singer et al. recognize that the leadership gusano "refugees" back into the coun­ Cuba from a playground of the wealthy of the FDR can be bought off: try, assisting the publication of La to a society where now education is free, The key political obstacle to rebel "Mr. Mdynihan said,he had come away Prensa. And each time it whets the medical care is free, housing is subsi­ victory is the guerrillas' own political from the region [Central America] contras' appetite for blqod. Speaking of dized and the standard of living is the leadership in the Revolutionary Demo­ persuaded that the insurgents in EI the Sandinistas' plans to hold so-called highest in Latin America (with the cratic Front (FOR). As FOR head Salvador and the Sandinista Govern­ "free elections" next year-in which possible exception of oil-rich Venezue­ Guillermo Ungo put it in an interview ment in Nicaragua had.. reached a point, la). The literacy rate is higher in Cuba where they understood the 'necessity of .patties openly ~upportive of U.S. printed in the Vii/age Voice (25 October an accommodation with the United imperialism will not only be allowed to than in the United States. The enormous 1983): States'." participate but will receive four million progress made possible by the planned "We are not looking for military victory -/'fel1' York Times, 13 January dollars!-the head of the CIA's "Nicara­ economy is a vindication of Leon '" what we are aiming for is some sort of guan Democratic Front" said, "We feel Trotsky's analysis that the achievement provisional government where we Or as Ungo put it rather more bluntly would play an important but not last year, "The United States has a right our pressure has brought about this new of basic social rights for the exploited dominant role, but where the far right to stop the spread of communism" attitude on the part of the Sandinistas. If masses in the colonial and semicolonial does not playa dominant role either-a (Baltimore Sun, 3 May 1983). this policy has paid dividends, I don't countries necessarily entails the destruc­ balanced, broad-based government." see any reason to change it" ( Washing­ tion of capitalism. A "negotiated settlement" which brings Defend, Complete, Extend the ton Post, 24 January). The Russian Revolution of 1917, led the rebel forces under the control of a Nicaraguan Revolution! In neighboring Honduras, the U.S. by the Bolshevik Party of Lenin and government including "Blowtorch Bob" , has stationed 5,000 troops and in its Trotsky, signaled the beginning of the D'Aubuisson or the U.S.-favored death In neighboring Nicaragua, had the "Big Pine" operations has created the end for world capitalism. Through squad "democrats" like Duarte could Sandinistas sold out the July 1979 military infrastructure for a full-scale invasion of the young workers state in only presage a massive new bloodbath! insurrection in pursuit of a "negotiated invasion. The U.S. has not invaded the aftermath ofthe revolution, through The last "balanced, broad-based" gov­ settlement" with the tyrant Somoza­ because, as Vietnam War criminal support to the counterrevolutionary ernment in EI Salvador-which in­ who massacred 50,000 in the last days of McGeorge Bundy succinctly put it:. "As White armies, economic blockade and cluded the Communist Party as well as his bloody rule-the contra terrorists a target of military invasion, Nicaragua above all through suppression of revolu­ Ungo and other FOR leaders-was the would still have at their disposal all the is to Grenada as a hand grenade is to a tionary struggles abroad, the imperial- _ 1979 "human rights junta" installed by resources of state power. But in the face marshmallow" (New York Times, 6 ists succeeded in creating the conditions Jimmy Carter' after mass marches and of the popular insurrection the National January). Yet the vacillating and capitu­ for the rise of the privileged, parasitic labor strikes brought down the govern­ Guard fled across the border into latory policies of the Sandinistas hold Stalinist bureaucracy-but they have ment of General Romero. Within hours Honduras-and from that point on out the danger of sapping the revolu­ not been able to reverse the fundamental the "reform" government began the effective power was in the hands of the tionary will of the Nicaraguan masses gain of the Russian Revolution which orgy of killing that continues to this day. Sandinista army. The bourgeois state­ and opening Nicaragua to an American defines the Soviet Union as a workers Forty thousand workers and peasants the armed bodies of men whose function invasion. The only way to defend the state: its planned, collectivized eco­ have been massacred by the military and it is to defend capitalist property by any Nicaraguan revolution is to complete nomic system. The USSR is today the rightist death squads since "Bloody means necessary-was destroyed. Thus, the revolution by expropriating the military and industrial powerhouse of October" 1979. the future direction of Sandinista bourgeoisie as a class and by extending all the lands where capitalism has been In EI Salvador as throughout Central Nicaragua remains undecided. The the revolutionary struggle throughout overthrown, and for this reason evokes America and the Third World generally, question in Nicaragua today is whether Central America, deposing the sur­ the implacable hatred of imperialism. In regular elections, an "independent the Sandinistas will act as the Spanish rounding right-wing, U.S.-allied re­ a world without Soviet military power, judiciary" and all t,he other trappings of Loyalists did in the 1930s when workers gimes. And if the U.S. were to invade in U.S. imperialism would have long ago bourgeois "democracy" are incompati­ revolution was sacrificed on the altar of a region-wide civil war, not only would reduced Havana, Hanoi, Peking as well ble with the maintenance of capitalist an alliance with the Spanish bourgeoisie anti-Yankee sentiment ignite into a as Moscow to irradiated rubble. And rule. The glaring contradiction between in an effort to conciliate the "democrat- potentially revolutionary explosion while the Kremlin Stalinists, treacher­ throughout Central and South Ameri­ ously, are not in fact arming the ca, but the massive American casualties Salvadoran guerrillas, nor supplying suffered in another unwinnable, dirty Nicaragua with what it needs to wipe Spartacist LeaguelSpartacus Youth League Forums colonial war could set off an anti­ out the contra terrorists, for Reagan government political explosion in the that's irrelevant. The purpose of his lies heartland of world imperialism. about "Soviet aggression" in Central u.s. Hands Off the World! America is to mobilize the American Defend Cuba and Russia! population for an actual war with the Reagan Is War Crazy! Defend the Soviet Union! The liberals and reformists who strive Soviet bloc. That is why we say: Defense Speaker: Tweet Carter, SL Central Committee to prevent the emergence of "Marxist of Cuba and the USSR Begins in states" in Central America-in the name Central America! Saturday, February 11, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, February 12, 7:30 p.m. of "human rights" no less-are fighting An effective defense of the workers Cleveland State University Oberlin College to insure that the exploited and op­ states against imperialism requires a Wilder Hall, YW Lounge University Center. Rm. 110 pressed Central American masses re­ Trotskyist perspective embodied in For more information: (216) 621-5138 For more information: (216) 775-5839 main forever hungry, illiterate and poor. Trotskyist parties. This is because these CLEVELAND OBERLIN Castro did not set out to make a 'social states are led by conservative, national-' revolution in Cuba, it is true, but only to istic Stalinist bureaucrats prepared to ;-

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when Nixon walked out, the then­ YSp: They started again recently? Ayn Rand image? Just because of "A Victory president of the Unification Church of Greene: It's been ongoing ever since I people that Ayn Rand didn't like in America said: Kneel! And boom! Every found out that I passed the baby bar. Russia and that she so very convincingly pair of knees dropped. ~portrayed as being so horribly fascist Because I don't have a college degree, I of Truth" ... YSp: So you spent eight months in the doesn't mean that the Spartacist League (continued from page 4) had to take a first-year law students' Unification Churcl"!? examination in order to be able to keep is the same way. The Spartacist League is a small but incredibly powerful group, as well. That's anti-freedom to speak, Greene: Mm-hm. going ahead in law school. If you doTi't I. anti-freedom to listen, anti-freedom to pass it you don't get credit for the year as you know much better than What YSp: What propelled you to become an they [the Moonies] were trying to do is hear, anti-freedom of information. It's a active anti-Moonie? you just did, and can't go on in the fascist essence. future. Within ten days after I passed it, dirty. I t's sleazy dirt. So I'm glad and I'm Greene: What propelled me out of the proud. YSp: Did you ever have' any direct Unification Church? My point of they started hitting on my girlfriend. experience of, for example, what the They were afraid of my deprogrammer YSp: What do you think the signifi­ reference, my soul, my guts, was just cance of this victory is? Moonie goals were? For example, when being surrogated out of me and I was brain in conjunction with the legal CARP was at Berkeley? just being replaced. I felt that my will to authority of being an officer of the Greene: Well first off it's a victory for Greene: All constituent goals are survive was going to be broken. court. That's what flipped them out. truth over lies. Because the Moonie funneled to the top of the pyramid. And Now one thing that I forgot to fill in is newspaper lied their asses off and YSp: Did you get any harassment from fabricated all kinds of intellectually the goal at the top of the pyramid, as I' the Moonies? ' that according to the dogma-the stated earlier, is world domination and religio-political-social dogma of Sun heinous garbage, arid the Spartacist Greene: Not then. control. So each constituent unit is Myung Moon-the ultimate manifesta­ League fought back and got a nice, full designed and intended to contribute to YSp: Have you gotten some since? tion on earth of Satan is communism. retraction. I see that as being a victory and feed into the top of the pyramid, to Greene: It doesn't stop! That's why I love "Moonie God Apolo­ for, first. the intelligel1ce ofhulRan beings; - second, -Tor the free flow of whatever the edict is of Sun Myung YSp: What do they do? gizes to Marxist 'Satan'''' [headline on information; and last but not least, for Moon. Greene: Oh, they'd call me up on the Spartacist League press release of 26 For example, when Richard Nixon December 1983]. Haha hal You don't the victory of truth over lies, or life over telephone and hang up every time. I've death, morality over corruption. was right close to being kicked out of gotten death threats. know how satisfying it was for me to office, Moon delivered one of his read that. It almost makes me join. What kind of ripples will flow YSp: In the mail? ongoing series of "communications with therefrom I don't know. I would hope YSp: Is that what propelled you to god" and stated that "god loves Nixon" Greene: that it's not a ripple but a tidal wave, but No, left inside my pad! endorse our suit? and that America should forgive, love Through the locked door, on the steps! I suspect it's a lot closer to a ripple. But it and unite behind Richard Nixon. And on my desk! Once my girlfriend Greene: Yeah! I had extreme reser­ is the statement that-in a judicial Now, I've seen papers that were went home and my cat was in a box on vations: I am an Ayn Rand fan all context-that once again the Unifica­ drafted by people with firsthand her front doorstep. This was after a the way down the line. I had reserva­ tion Church got busted for lying and experience that revealed the fact that machete had been put in her bed and she tions because I don't like communism hurting somebody. Moon was told by the Korean Central leaves the house to go find me to make' because it's collectivist and I don't like The thing to me that has the I ntelligence Agency that Nixon was very her feel better, she goes back home and collectivism. I like individualism. But significance, and the beauty and the favorable in his support to Korea. So then my cat's on her front doorstep in a the principles involved, the principle is strength, is that victims are only that got translated. What happens? You cardboard box, scared to death but not right. And so, upon "mature reflection" voluntary. And that if you're made a get the local Unification Church in dead. I did. And I'm glad. I'm proud, you victim and you don't want to be one, you Washington, D.C. and probably there­ When I was studying for the bar know I honestly am. I'm really proud. can be the victor rather than the victim. abouts gathering together, I think it was exam, during finals I got one set of The thing is freedom of speech, and is To me, that's the beauty of the. settle­ 500 members that held a candlelight threats. They weren't death, they were fascism. I mean, what do I know about ment and the letter of retraction of vigil outside of the White House, and just: We know where you're weaR. the Spartacist League? I've got some phony lies and bullshit..

sacrifice the next guy's revolution in the against U.S.-sponsored slaughter in hope of negotiating their own deals with Central America. In the U.S., in Central imperialism. The rise of the repressive America and around the world, the key Jackson ... Stalinist caste in Russia, usurping the condition for victory of the cause of (continued from page 12) political control of the working class proletarian revolution is a revolutionary from a minority faction is a major and slaughtering the "Old Bolshevik" party to crystallize and lead the fighting deviation from political tradition." cadres, was associated with the anti­ will of the exploited and oppressed. U.S. -Hilltop [Howard University]. Leninist program of "socialism in one Hands Off the World!. 27 January country." This meant abandoning the In fact black votes have been used to workers of the world in the hopeless elect Democrats ever since the days of Franklin Roosevelt. The Democrats .-' pursuit of "peaceful coexistence" (or Black "detent'e") with world imperialism. know damn well that it was black votes In the vain hope of placating the U.S., that elected Jimmy "Ethnic Purity" Castro's Cuba, in keeping with the Education ... Carter in 1976. After four years of the policies laid down by the Kremlin (continued from page 2) Georgia peanut boss black people bureaucrats, calls for a "negotiated as early as 1867 with the head of the stayed away from the polls in record settlement" of the Salvadoran civil war Freedmen's Bureau. General 0.0. numbers in 1980. It was during Carter's and counsels the Nicaraguan Sandinis­ Howard, as its first president (p. 666). presidency that KKK/Nazi hit men tas to eschew the "Cuban model." The The ex-slaveowners understood that gunned down five anti-Klan militants. Greensboro, November 1979. CWP Castroites are hostile to workers democ­ education of the ex-slaves was a danger­ members of the Communist Workers leader Nelson Johnson kneels by racy and fearful of the consequences of ous thing fOf' white supremacy. They Party. in Greensboro, North Carolina slain comrade. extension of the revolutionary gains made the courageous black and white and were acquitted by an all-white jury. Mondale-who was Carter's vice presi­ outside their borders. Proletarian politi­ teachers ("carpetbaggers") frequent To win in '84, the Democrats figure dent at the time of the Greensboro cal revolution throughout the Sino­ targets for nightriding Ku Klux Klan they've got to win at least 25 percent massacre. Soviet states, combined with the attack. This was the bloody leading edge more black voters. particularly in the Even if they were of a mind to do so, struggle for socialist revolution in the of a political counterrevolution in South. So what "Mundane" Mondale "black faces in high places" couldn't put imperialist bastions, is what is required which capitalists-North and South­ can't do on his own, the "charismatic" a stop to the decay of this rotting to place the Cuban masses' unques­ defeated Reconstruction and ushered in hustler Jesse Jackson will do for him­ capitalist system-a decay which hits tioned anti-imperialist heroism squarely the policies of .lim Crow. The education it's the same old game, but with a new hardest at those already on the bottom, in the service of the worldwide struggle of black America remains one of the black face. i.e., mainly blacks . .lust look at all the for socialism. democratic promises of the Second If many of Jackson's supporters see in black elected officials-the so-called The U. S. government sponsors American Revolution which was be­ his campaign the possibility of pressur­ BEDs-now acting as overseers for massacres in Central America and trayed. It is one reason we say: ",Finish ing the racist political establishment, America's 20th century plantations. drives toward anti-Soviet nuclear war the Civil War-Forward to a Workers reformist "socialists" like the Commu­ Coleman Young in Detroit, Tom for the same reason it busts unions, State!" nist Workers Party(CWP)and Workers Bradley in Los Angeles, Kenneth slashes social services and attacks the Comradely, World Party (WWP) claim to see in Gibson in Newark-the black mayors rights of black people in this country­ Charles Burroughs the "objective dynamic" of the Jack­ around the country enforce Reagan's to shore up the collapsing' capitalist son campaign something else again­ austerity and break strikes for the racist system. As Spartacist League spokes­ P.S. I'd like to see YSp do an article on namely. the "independent movement of capitalist bosses. Or look at Chicago, man Tweet Carter put it at an SL forum the abominable. racist state, of black oppressed people and the working class" where one of Harold Washington's first in Detroit January 29, "The obstacles to education. but set in the historical (Workers World, 8 December 1983). acts was to layoff black and white city a workers' victory in Central America context of the struggle for black WWP assures everyone that Jackson's workers. The masses of black and are the same kind of obstacles that the equality. Program. leadership. a vision "inadequacies"-such as "his past rec­ working people do indeed have illusions working class in Detroit. Chicago and of the future status of black Americans ord on [opposition to] the ERA, in the Democratic Party, and the task of all over the U.S. faces. Ifs ... sellout have been sharply debated over the abortion, and [support for] the policies socialists is to comhat those illusions in leadership that constantly ties the hands question of black education. Such an of U.S. imperialism"-"is not the basis order to forge an integrated, revolution­ of the workers behind their backs." The article might cover. among other topics. on which we support him." CWP ary workers party. One of the most American working class is potentially the heroic struggle of particular slaves to honcho Phil Thompson argues that popular chants at the November 27. the most powerful force for progressive learn to read and write (see Frederick "tens of thousands of people are getting 1982 Labor/Black Mobilization that social change on this planet. While Douglass). education during Recon­ involved" and "if the masses of people stopped the Klan in Washington. D.C. reformist "socialists" strive to drag this struction. the arguments of W.E.B. Ou are around Jesse Jackson that's where was the call to finish the civil war. Only powerhouse in tow behind the "liberal" Bois for the "talented tenth" against we have to be." "The movement is the American working class, by ripping imperialists, the Spartacist League and Booker T. Washington's accommoda­ everything. the goal is nothing"-the the productive wealth of this country Spartacus Youth League fight to mobi­ tionist "industrial" education. black German social democrat Eduard Bern­ out of the hands of its racist rulers and lize the workers and oppressed in aspirations and liberal illusions in stein spoke for all the phony "socialists" establishing a planned economy, can defense of their own class interests, not education as the motor force of racial 85 years ago. But in fact there's not even accomplish this task. Finish the Civil only domestically but internationally as equality during the civil rights a "movement." Jackson and his "Rain­ War! Black Liberation through Social­ well-against the anti-Soviet war drive. movement.. bow Coalition" are running lor ist Revolution!. T

12 FEBRUARY 1984 I parlaCDS Why. Racist Democratic. Party -/ . NeedsJesseJackson Hustling Black Votes for Mondale II

The Jesse Jackson election campaign: 1967" (Julian Sher, White Hoods). it's become the event of the year, a fast­ Jackson also hit a new low when he Democratic Party can talking black preacher "taking on" praised South Africa's minister of games mean more of . seven white Democrats in a bid for his "Black Affairs" (equivalent to Hitler's the same for black J party's presidential nomination. But the minister of "jewish Affairs") as a people. Jesse "runs" real question in Jackson's campaign is "courageous man" for some cosmetic for Mondale. " who is being taken ... for a ride. Jesse "reforms" of apartheid! Jackson is nothing more than a much Jackson will do anything to gain some '~' needed shill in the Democratic Party's political clout. Immediately after the con game. Jackson may argue that he is racist murder of Martin Luther King in in the race to "rekindle a sensitivity to April 1968, Jackson ran to the press >. the poor and dispossessed,~' but the only with tales that he was with King when ,; '~ thing he is looking to rekindle is the the fatal bullet was fired, that he was the ,~- Democratic Party's ability to take away last person to speak to King, that he even more from the "poor and dis­ wore the dead man's blood on his possessed." Jackson's job in the '84 shirt-all a disgusting pack of lies. As election is to play the role of front man Georgia state legislator Hosea Williams, for the racist Democrats, to stop black then a voter registration project director struggle before it starts, to bolster the for King, countered, "I never saw him illusions that many blacks have in the near the balcony [where King was shot]. racist Democratic Party. The ·first person who got to King was Even among his own supporters, Ralph Abernathy, the second was Andy J"""-~ Jesse Jackson is widely known as a Young, the third was an African {J hustler. Jackson has shown he's willing journalist. I was the fourth person .... ~l. to do anything for a price-pushing He used the death of Dr. King to suit 1~ blacks to buy everything from Coca­ himself" (Washington Post, 31 July Cola to the "Uncola" Seven-Up and 1983). Kentucky Fried Chicken. Now he's busy Today many of Jackson's supporters ~ proving he'll do anything for a piece of admit their man is a hustler. Indeed, the political action. Jackson had no Jackson's whole history has been one of problem sitting down for iced tea and hustling hlacks, from being a broker for pecan rolls with Klan-loving George white capitalists in their exploitation of "Segregation Forever" Wallace last the ghetto to his current song and dance iif spring, hugging him in the Montgom­ in the Democrats' show. We say: Don't .' . ~ ery, Alabama state house-cradle of the buy Jesse Jackson! He is not "using" the ' ..~ .. J'.""." ;f· "::: ~ old slavocracy-and telling the state Democratic Party to fight for black legislature that "The South can rise liberation; the racist Democrats are which have made black history in this voter registration boost'" ( Virginian­ again!" It is not simply hyperbole to using the ever-willing Jackson to make country. But the fact is that black people Pilot, 14 May 1982). His answer to invoke Wallace's Klan connections. you think they are on your side! in this country have never won anything unemployment: racist "protectionism" "One of the speechwriters in the 1964 without a fight. Even the most minimal schemes that blame foreign workers for For Labor/Black Struggle! Wallace presidential campaign team gains of the civil rights movement­ the exploitation and profiteering of the was Asa Carter, who was the leader of a Conditions for blacks in this country including the exercise of the right to capitalist bosses here at home. Reagan's Birmingham Klan group which in 1957 are hellish and getting worse all the time. register and vote-were won because astronomically high war budget has had castrated a black handyman (the Blacks are trapped in miserable ghettos, hundreds of thousands of blacks took meant starving welfare mothers and KKK assailants had been sentenced to ravaged by cop terror. and have been action, occupied segregated restaurants, taking lunches away from ghetto 20 years in prison. but Wallace paroled subjected to an onslaught of racist stores and public facilities, organized schoolchildren in pursuit of the U.S.' them when he became governor) .... 'At attacks. The ruling class fears black bus boycotts and rent strikes. But the insane drive toward anti-Soviet nuclear least a Klansman will fight for his anger and needs a way to head off the militant civil rights struggles did not tap holocaust. Jackson is for maintaining­ country: he [Wallace] told a reporter in potential for explosive struggles against into the real source of black power. not even cutting--the present level of UPI black oppression. Enter Jesse Jackson. Blacks are segregated at the bottom of military spending. a flashy de'11agogue in whom many American society, but integrated into blacks have illusions. Jackson is trying the economy-especially in strategic Jesse "Runs" for Mondale ~, to drain black anger, to funnel black industries like auto, steel and transpor­ discontent into a presidential protest tation. The road to smashing black Everyone knows that in this deeply vote. Again and again, Jackson lectures, oppression-winning jobs, housing, racist capitalist society Jesse Jackson, or "We now have the right to vOte, so we education and stopping racist cop and any black man, has a snowball's chance don't have to explode through riots or fascist terror-is through the working­ in hell of being elected president. The implode through drugs. We can use our class conquest of power. And militant, logic of the "Rainbow Coalition"-a vote and seek change through peaceful racially united class struggle with a "movement" that supposedly goes transItion rather than violent and strong component of black leadership­ beyond "Jackson, the man"-was aptly bloody revolution." like the November 1982 Labor/Black described in a commentary by Roderick Desperate ghetto uprisings or voting Mobilization that stopped the KKK Edmond, the former student govern­ for the racist Democratic Party-these from parading through the nation's ment president at Morehouse College in are the "choices" Jackson offers blacks. capital-is what the black political front Atlanta: Such a "choice" is no choice at all. men and their capitalist masters fear the "After the primaries. when Jackson's Jackson offers no fight or hopeless, most. campaign moves from the political despairing explosions of justified rage Jackson and his "Rainbow Coalition" forefront to the backstage. the Rainbow faction will not disperse·.... [it] can then which nonetheless result in no real gains have no interest in black struggle, except negotiate with the remaining presiden­ for the black masses-and often in in snuffing it out. When 10,000 blacks tial candidates. I)emocrats and Repub­ brutal cop retaliation. Jackson not only marched in Norfolk, Virginia last year licans alike.... A president who is plays on the fear of what happens when to defend busing, Jackson spit on their conscious that his election is attributed. Jesse ,Iackson and the Ku Klux by a recognil

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