Civil Rights and Taxes

DEMAND TROOPS FOR MISSISSIPPI! By Clifton DeBerry and many others. There have beeu Socialist Workers Party Candidate five murders by racists in Mis for President sissippi in recent months alone. The atrocity against three young When the first group of voter- THE registration workers, with two of and courageous civil-rights work ers in Mississippi demonstrates the kidnapped youths among the imperative need of federal ac them, was training in Oxford, tion in that state. I call upon Ohio, they were addressed by President Johnson to immediately John Doar of the U.S. Attorney deputize and arm the Negroes of General’s office. “What are you MILITANT Mississippi and to dispatch federal going to do this summer to enable us to see the fall?” was one of Published in the Interests of the Working People troops there to prevent further violence against civil-rights work the angry questions directed to er's, to restore law and order, and Doar, When Doar provided a lame Vol. 28 - No. 26 M onday, Ju n e 29, 1964 P rice 1 Od to enforce the U.S. Constitution. defense of the Johnson adminis The white-supremacist forces in tration’s refusal to' protect them, Mississippi include not only the he was met with boos and hisses. Ku Klux Klan and the White Cit While the 1 three kidnapped izens Council but also the state youths were in jail in Philadel U.S. Aggression Pushes and local officials at every level. phia, Miss., their co-workers be I am a Negro from Mississippi, came fearful for their safety, and and I know that these racists can telephoned the FBI in Jackson. not be persuaded by any moral The FBI agent, a Mr. F. H. Helge- argument. They are prepared to son, refused to help and told the China Toward Asia W ar defend the system of segregation rights fighters that he wouldn’t John Lewis have any more dealings with By Barry Sheppard by any means including the most SNCC Chairman heinous and brutal crimes. The them. The Johnson administration has inforced as part of the general only language they can under The federal government is aware been stepping up military opera buildup. stand is the language of force and three young men were arrested by of the situation in Mississippi. By tions in Southeast Asia with an These threatening actions by the the federal government should the racist police in Philadelphia, not providing adequate protection ominous series of belligerent acts Johnson administration are taken provide that force in sufficient Miss. It was reported that the for these young people who are which may end up in a w ar witH under the pretext of preserving magnitude. rights fighters looked like they helping U.S. citizens to register to China. Statements by military and the independence of Southeast The occupation force should ar had been beaten by the police. vote, the administration shares administration officials have made Asia from the “foreign domina rest and throw into jail every cop This kidnapping is the latest responsibility for what has hap it clear that the build-up is in tion” of China. The fact is that the or other official in any way con atrocity in a long list of crimes pened to the three young men. tended to preserve U.S. domina Chinese are fighting no wars nected with the kidnapping of against Negroes in Mississippi. No tion of the region and prepare a Safety of Others against the peoples of those coun Michael Schwemer, Andrew Good one has ever been punished for base for operations against China John Lewis, Chairman of the tries. The Chinese have no troops man, and James Cheney. Just be the murder of Emmett Till, Mack and North Vietnam. Student Nonviolent Coordinating (Continued on Page 5) fore they were kidnapped the Charles Parker, Medgar Evers, Committee, and Mrs. Rita Sch Washington has disclosed that wemer, wife of Michael Sch- construction of- a huge U.S. air werner, have gone to Philadelphia, base at Danang in the northern Miss. Will President Johnson pro part of South Vietnam is nearing M alcolm X Announces Rally tect their rights and their lives? completion. The Danang base will President Johnson has sent be capable of handling the largest troops into South Vietnam and jets for operations over all of all over the world. W henever U.S. Southeast Asia and China. It is al To Launch New Organization interests, as he sees them, are ready being used for raids into By David Herman dorse the motto: “by any means Though the topic of the rally threatened, he is quick to act. But Laos. The base is one of a chain when Negroes and civil-rights of bases the U.S. is constructing NEW YORK, June 22 — “We necessary.” was “Brotherhood in the Harlem Area,” Malcolm X’s comments workers are systematically brutal in the area. need an organization that no one Malcolm X explained that no ized by the illegally elected white- In violation of the 1962 Geneva covered many subjects. He again downtown can dictate to . that matter how much other people supremacist government of Mis agreements on Laos, the U.S. has -stressed the need for a united no one downtown can influence ... may claim to know what the sissippi, and when that govern been flying spy planes over Laos front, and pointed out that the that no one downtown loves,” black people need, “no one will go ment tramples the Bill of Rights and has conducted bombing raids new organization would not seek declared Malcolm X at his Sun as far as we will in fighting for daily, he cannot find the means against Pathet Lao positions and to eliminate the existing ones. day night Harlem rally. Such an our freedom.” He pointed out that to protect the lives of the people cities in Laos. These attacks are organization will announce its once the black people were active Lull in Demonstrations he is supposed to represent or to “justified”- by U.S. officials on formation at the next rally at the in the new organization at the defend the Constitution he is the ground that the Pathet Lao, He commented on the lull in Audubon Ballroom at 166 St. and grass-roots level, no one from the sworn to defend. which is by far the strongest and civil-rights demonstrations and of Broadway on Sunday June 28 at outside would be able to dictate fered an explanation. The demon Johnson’s record indicates he most popular faction in Laos, re 8 p.m. he said. w hat it would do. cently undertook military actions. strations had been initiated and will not carry out his duty to “We’ll let you know what its One part of the organization But these actions followed the controlled by those outside the protect Negroes from the racists. aims are — and we think they’re will be a department of education. overthrow of the coalition govern ghetto, he said. Now that there Negroes should not wait for him your aims,” he told the enthu One of its projects, Malcolm X ment by rightist troops in an at are nationalists ready to partici to act. In Mississippi, they have siastic audience. He explained that suggested, would be the rewriting pate the power structure fears that the right and duty to organize tempt to drive the Pathet Lao out of school textbooks for black of the government altogether. the organization would be broad it will not be able to control such and arm themselves for self-de enough for all Afro-Americans children. Johnson’s appointment of General demonstrations and so they do not fense. In the rest of the country who wanted to fight for freedom “We want our children to go to Maxwell D. Taylor to the post of initiate them. there should be mass demonstra and human dignity “by any means school and read about Lumumba. ambassador to South Vietnam is Malcolm X urged the members tions putting unbearable heat on necessary.” Not only individuals, ominous. Taylor resigned his post We want them to read about how of the audience to bring their Johnson to send troops to Missis but other organizations will be the State Department was respon as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of friends and come ready to join sippi and to deputize Negroes able to join as long' as they en sible for his death,” he said. Staff to accept the job of ambas the new organization on Sunday. there. sador. This appointment puts the top U.S. military man in South BEHIND THE CAMPAIGN ORATORY east Asia ready to assume com mand in a major war there. The U.S., along with the reac tionary and hated puppet regime of Gen. Nguyen Khanh, has been Would Goldwater Victory Bring Basic U.S. Policy Shift? losing the civil war in South Viet- nomination. The sight of a major nam.The guerrilla movement con By Joseph Hansen shocked editorial comment The liberals, the trade-union bu [Now in Paris, Joseph Hansen, party endorsing and promoting a throughout Europe: Goldwater’s reaucrats and the peripheral ele tinues to grow and attract even man so blatantly out of touch with greater support from the people. editor of The Militant, wrote the opposition to foreign “handouts” is ments in tow to them, such as the following estimate of the Gold reality, so wild in his foreign likewise scarcely designed to Communist party, are provided Washington’s reaction has been to policy, so backward in his 'domes pledge stronger direct action by water campaign for the June 19 please capitalists whose regimes with a contestant who must be de tic ideas, and so inconsistent in U.S.

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