OCTOBER 30, 1981 75 CENTS VOLUME 45/NUMBER 40

A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Teachers fight for jobs, against school cutbacks Stakes high in Phila. strike -PAGE3

Teachers join striking air traffic controllers for rally at Philadelphia airport, October 16. Militant/Chris Davis

Cops face charges in killing of Milwaukee Black -PAGE7 Militant/David McDonald Milwaukee Black comm~nity has held repeated demonstrations to demand justice for Ernie Lacy, beaten to death while in police custody.

Europeans say 'No' to nuclear missiles -PAGE2 In Our Opinion VOLUME45JNUMBER40 OCTOBER 30, 1981 CLOSING NEWS DATE-OCTOBER 21

That is why the mad rush to achieve nuclear tion to defend liberty and American freedom." Europeans say: domination is accompanied by an increase in But Reagan's attack on PATCO is compatible the terrifying talk from Washington about the with "defending" the "liberty" and "freedom" of 'No missiles' possibility of a "limited" nuclear war. On Octob­ the employers to bust our unions, to trample on The emergence of the mass movement in er 16, Reagan told a group of newspaper editors our rights, and to solve their economic crisis at Western Europe against placing U.S. nuclear that he "could see where you could have the ex­ our expense. missiles and neutron bombs there adds a power­ change of tactical [nuclear] weapons [against The powerful display of support for P A TCO ful ally to the struggles of working people in this troops] in the field without it bringing either that was seen at the September 19 Solidarity country and throughout the world. one of the major powers to pushing the button." Day march shows the possibility that exists for The highpoint of the movement so far was the It is exactly such an "exchange" of nuclear the union movement to take some action in sup­ magnificent demonstration of 300,000 young bombs that people throughout Europe are try- port ofPATCO. people in Bonn, West Germany, on October 10. ing to stop. . The ranks are willing but the leadership is Mass demonstrations against the missiles are In a television interview last February (and not. scheduled for London and :Rome, October 24, quoted in the September 1981 Monthly Review) The AFL-CIO officials confine themselves to and Paris and Brussels the following day. William Dyess, a State Department official, publicizing their individual refusal to fly, which The Bonn rally was by far the largest progres­ spelled out Washington's view this way: is a cover for failure to shut down the airports sive demonstration to take place in West Ger­ "Q: In nuclear war are we committed not to and counter the big business anti-PATCO pro­ many since the German workers movement was make the first strike? paganda with a full-scale campaign to get out crushed by the Nazis in the 1930s. Its signifi­ "Dyess: No sir. the truth. cance was not lost on the rulers in Bonn or in "Q: We could conceivably make an offen ~ The CLUW convention could have given the Washington. West Germany is the dominant in­ SlVe ... PATCO workers a powerful platform from dustrial power in Western Europe and its eco­ "Dyess: We make no comment on that what­ which to speak about their strike and .the big nomy ranks second only to the United States soever, but the Soviets know that this terrible stakes involved for the entire labor movement. and Japan in the capitalist world. It is looked to weapon has been dropped on human beings The convention would have brought together by Washington as the most stable ally, political­ twice in history and it was an American presi­ more than a thousand unionists from around ly and economically, in Europe. dent who dropped it both times. Therefore, they the country, from dozens of unions with millions The dramatic rise of the opposition to nuclear have to take this into consideration in their cal­ of members. They could have taken the lead in missiles, including inside the ruling Social De­ culus." initiating a labor campaign in support of PAT­ mocratic Party (SPD), is having a huge political It is not only the Soviets, but the whole world co. impact. Reagan administration officials have that is supposed to get the message. . This meeting of union women also should been denouncing the spread of "pacifism" and The nuclear missiles that Reagan wants to have taken up the intensified drive against the "neutralism" among European workers and place in Europe are really aimed at the working rights and living standards of working women. youth who - understandably - don't want nu­ dasses throughout the world who are struggling Joyce Miller explained at a recent San Fran­ clear bombs dropped on their countries. against capitalist exploitation and imperialist cisco abortion rights rally, "We in the labor In West Germany, Chancellor Helmut oppression. That is why the European move­ movement regard abortion as a labor issue, an Schmidt, of the SPD, called the Bonn protest a ment against the missiles is such a welcome economic issue, a collective bargaining issue." "declaration of war against the ·government." development. She's right. Yet more than a quarter of the SPD's members All the attacks on women's rights are union of parliament joined the demonstration. The issues. Young Socialists, youth group of the SPD, Ratification of the ERA, legal abortion, affir­ turned out in force. Missed opportunity mative action, childcare - these are all rights Called by church groups, the rally was joined The Coalition of Labor Union Women which the union movement has a big stake in by nearly 1,000 organizations, including unions, (CLUW) has announced the indefinite postpone­ defending. women's rights and antinuke organizations. ment of its November national convention "due CLUW is the obvious organization to map out The speech of a member of the executive com­ to the unresolved nature of the Professional Air a plan to use union muscle in defense of these mittee of the metal workers, the largest union in Traffic Controllers strike." rights. the country, was cheered by the demonstrators. The CLUW leadership seems to think that This would have stood in stark and positive' Also well received were two Black Americans, this will somehow help the Professional Air contrast to the recent conference of the National the singer Harry Belafonte and Coretta Scott Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) Organization for Women, which allowed little King. King told the demonstrators that "the strike. discussion and projected no effective action on movement for peace and economic justice" in the Nothing could be further from the truth. these burning issues. United States supports them in their fight. By calling off the convention, an important In fact, the NOW leadership is on a course of And well we should. opportunity was lost both to aid PATCO and the subordinating the struggle for women's rights to The plans to install the nuclear missiles in union women that CLUW represents. the needs of the domestic and foreign policies of Western Europe are part of Washington's drive The October 17 Los Angeles Times quotes the two ruling capitalist parties. to achieve overwhelming nuclear superiority CLUW President Joyce Miller saying that Winning the PATCO strike, and defending over the Soviet Union, including the capability CLUW leaders decided to "sit this one out rath­ women's rights, will take a powerful social move­ to launch a "first strike." er than fly President Reagan's unfriendly skies. ment of working people and our allies against The purpose is nuclear blackmail, against the The president's action [firing the PATCO the bosses and their government. Soviet Union and other workers states, and workers] has a totalitarian character which The CLUW convention would have been an against revolutionary movements everywhere. simply isn't compatible with his stated inten- opportunity to discuss how to begin this.

The Militant New Cointelpro Plot Editors: CINDY JAQUITH DOUG JENNESS Oct. 22 - The FBI has seized on the arrest SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes ac­ Business Manager: NANCY ROSENSTOCK of two former leaders of the Weather Under­ cused the FBI of a "deliberate lie in the Editorial Staff: Connie Allen, Nelson Blackstock, Steve Bride, Fred Feldman, Nelson Gonzalez, Wil­ ground to launch a campaign to smear the So­ charge that Clark is connected to the SWP. liam Gottlieb, Sue Hagen, Suzanne Haig, Margaret cialist Workers Party and the entire workers This malicious slander is aimed at justifying Jayko, Harry Ring, Vivian Sahner, Stu Singer, larry movement. The two, Kathy Boudin and Ju­ the FBI's war of disruption against the SWP, Seigle. dith Clark, are facing charges in connection and to give the Reagan administration new · Published weekly except two weeks in Au­ gust, the last week of December, and the first with an armored-car robbery and the killing ammunition for its drive to step up spying week of January by the Militant (ISSN 0026- of two cops and an armed Brinks guard. and disruption against workers organiza­ 3885), 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. In a story splashed on the front pages of pa­ tions, including the labor movement, Black 10014. Telephone: Editorial Office, (21 ~) pers from coast to coast, the Associated Press groups, and socialist and communist organi­ 243-6392; Business Office, (212) 929-3486. reported today that "FBI spokesman Joe Va­ zations. Correspondence concerning subscrip­ liquette said in New York that the Bureau tions or changes of address should· be "As the FBI well knows, Judith Clark has addressed to The Militant Business Of­ had. determined that Miss Clark was the never been a member of the SWP, let alone 'a same Judith Clark who once was in the Wea­ fice, 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. figure' in it. Moreover, they are well aware ther Underground and is now a figure in the 10014. that the SWP is opposed to terrorism." Second-class postage paid at New York, Socialist Workers Party." N.Y. Subscriptions: U.S. $24.00 a year, out­ "Law enforcement sources" also claimed, Barnes accused the FBI of a "new Cointel­ side U.S. $30.00. By first-class mail: U.S., according to the New York Daily News, that pro-style operation aimed at discrediting the Canada, and Mexico: $60.00. Write for air­ Kathy Boudin, who has been a fugitive since Socialist Workers Party," and demanded mail rates to all other countries. 1969, "spent much of the last 12 years in Mos­ "that the FBI publicly and immediately re­ Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily cow." represent the Militant's views. These are expressed tract its alleg~tion." in editorials.

2 THE MIUTANT OCTOBER 30, 1981 By Vivian Sahner PHILADELPHIA - Five thousand poople poured into the Civic Center here on October 18 to show their sup­ port for the striking Philadelphia Fed­ eration of Teachers (PFI'). Trade un­ ionists from dozens of the city's unions and teachers from as far away as Chicago joined the hundreds of PFI' members and their families at the rally. Labor officials from more than 100 local unions were seated on the audito­ rium stage in an impressive show of solidarity with the 23,000 teachers and school employees who are entering the seventh week of their strike. On Oc­ tober 15, the Philadelphia Council AFlrCIO voted for a one-day general strike on October 28 if the strike isn't settled. Negotiations between the city Striking teachers joined rally for the air traffic controllers on October 16 at Philadelphia airport. and PFI' resumed on October 15. The PFI' went out on strike Sep­ Bayard Rustin, of the A. Philip said the body was urging all local Williams, a Black teacher's aide, tember 8 after the Board of Education Randolph Institute, told the rally, unions to participate on October 28. walks the picket lines every day. announced plans to lay off 3,500 school "This strike is first of all for the And it was announced that the Ameri­ "We're holding solid," he said. "We employees, a direct violation of the children. In a society where less and can Postal Workers Union (APWU) can't afford to go back without our contract signed last year. These cuts less attention is being given to them, I had sent a letter about the action to its contract. If we· back down now, we're would seriously reduce the quality of honor you all for standing up for the members. After the meeting, however, even further behind when our contract education available to students in the children. PFI' President John Murray told the is up next year. Philadelphia system, most of whom "And I can't believe that anyone "This is also a strike," he said, press that the APWU "will support the are Black. against the strike is for quality educa­ "against tho!!e in this nation who strike as long as it doesn't violate tion. All you have to do is look at the would destroy trade unions, from the federal law." Federal law prohibits The two-year contract also includes a postal workers from striking. lists of cuts - quality education means 10 percent wage increase for 1981, White House down. You are saying to restoring these programs. That's why I them this cannot happen." Toohey also announced at the meet­ which the city now claims it cannot think the community should be behind pay. ing that Lane Kirkland, president of Wendell Young, president of United the National AFlrCIO, was sending the union." The strike is holding solid in spite of Food and Commercial Workers Local court injunctions and heavy fines le­ two representatives to Philadelphia. 1357, told the crowd, "The labor move­ He said the two would prepare a report vied against the union. Even the ment and working-class people which school board admits that only 900 for the national labor organization to THE TEACHERS we represent are under tremendous determine "what weight and what employees have crossed the picket attack in this country. Look at the STRIKE AND THE lines, and their count includes princi­ influence should be brought to bear" PATGO (Professional Air Traffic Con­ on the strike. BLACK COMMUNITY pals and other non:union employees. trollers Organization) workers - the "The union's position is clear," PFI' Also speaking at the rally were Al­ Speakers: John Murray, presi­ president's firing of 12,000 is unmiti­ dent, Philadelphia Federation of President John Murray told the rally gated.... bert Shanker, national president of the crowd. "We will not go back until our American Federation of Teachers; Al Teachers; Ray Pollard, Philadelphia contract is in place. "It's up to people like you to carry Fondy, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Teachers; Jesse John­ "No contract," he shouted. "No the message to the rest of the working Federation of Teachers; Henry Nicho­ son, Professional Air Traffic Con­ work," answered back the PFI' people. . . . Solidarity is not a word, las, president of the Hospital and trollers Organization; and Donald members in the audience. it's a way of life and it's happening in Health Care Employees Local 1199c; Jones, AFL-CIO national staff Several speakers at the rally ans­ America." and Robert Healey, president of the member. wered the city administration's claims Young announced that he had sent a Chicago Teachers Union. Sunday, October 25, 7:30 p.m. that the teachers are racist, not inter­ letter to his union membership urging "I thought the meeting was very New Covenant Baptist Church, ested in providing an education for them to march with the PFI' on city encouraging," Sam Williams, a PFI' Queen Lane and Wayne Avenue. Black children. The press has made hall on October 28. member, told the Militant afterward. these assertions front-page news and Few speakers at the meeting men' "It was good to see those people who Donation $2.00. Auspices: Mil­ carried totally unfounded stories about tioned the AFlrCIO's call for a general came a long distance to show their itant Labor Forum. For more infor­ teachers attacking Black children and strike. Edward Toohey, president of support. But I would have liked to see mation call (215) 927-4747. parents on the picket lines. the Philadelphia Council AFlrCIO, more PFI' members there." Airline pay givebacks hurt controllers' strike By Stu Singer cent of the scab controllers are The real threat from pressure on the Pan Am, voted to accept a 10 percent It's been over two months since working "the maximum effort every­ scabs is more dangerous air travel. wage cut and an employee stock buy­ striking air traffic controllers have day." A doctor involved in the study That threat is increasing. ing plan. The Teamsters, the largest seen a pay check. But the daily news­ said, "Those pressures sooner or later It was underlined in a report issued union, is now propd'sing candidates to papers aren't reporting their situation. will reduce sex drive, increase irritabil­ by the House of Representatives' Post sit on the Pan Am Board of Directors. Instead they are concentrating on ity, and multiply nervous habits." Office and Civil Service Committee. Workers at Continental Airlines how rough things are for scabs. The study proposed that ways be The report said the air traffic control were involved in a scheme to buy the found to ease the pressure on the system will get worse over the next two airline. That failed and Texas -Interna­ A study by the National Transporta­ scabs. But it neglected to suggest the years. The only conclusion was that a tional Airlines bought it. Texas Inter­ tion Safety Board to the Federal Avia­ one sure way to ease the pressure: "substantial number of the striking national also owns New York Air, a tion Administration said that 50 per- rehire the PATCO members. controllers" be rehired. totally nonunion operation that even This proposal means offering jobs to the pilots union has protested. some of the strikers, if they come back A mechanic for Republic Airlines in with no union and no contract. Atlanta told the Militant about a This would not be a victory. PATCO support: more needed company propaganda meeting. The There have been some support The action was repeated Monday There is no question the strike is ·chief pilot, a member of the pilots actions for the PATCO strikers re­ morning, October 19. This time the disruptive to air travel. On October 19 union, was helping management sell cently. news media found out about it. The the federal government imposed new wage cuts. The mechanics laughed October 16 there were protests New York Post reported that thirty rules limiting general aviation - pri­ when told to follow the example of around at least three airports: La to forty cars belonging to P ATCO vate plane traffic. They will now be $70,000-a-year pilots taking cuts. They Guardia in New York, Philadelphia, members were given tickets for subject to quotas, similar to commer­ know it's not the same as for a $20,000- and Los Angeles. blocking traffic at the airport. cial flights, for instrument flying, a-year mechanic. But the push on which requires the use of controllers. At LaGuardia, the action was The· activity in Los Angeles was mechanics' wages has only started. sponsored by the New York Central similar. About 100 people, mostly The government revealed that com­ International Association of Machi­ Labor Council. While a number of PATCO members and supporters mercial flights are delayed six times as nists (lAM) contracts covering over PATCO strikers picketed the termi-' slowed traffic at the airport Friday often, for thirty minutes or more, since 32,000 airline mechanics expire this nal entrances with signs, most of the evening. Four or five got tickets. the strike began. month with U.S. Air, TWA, and United "demonstration" was an unan­ The airline industry is acting like a Airlines. Other lAM airline contracts nounced traffic jam created by New In Philadelphia, spurred on by the bumpy flight. Ticket prices swing from expire later this year. York City labor officials slowly driv­ teachers strike, there was a more competitive air-fare wars to big price Every wage cut and pay deferral ing around the airport. The action impressive action. The controllers hikes. The weaker airlines are being agreed to by the airline unions is a had been kept secret so that few have been very active in supporting pushed more to the wall. Pan Ameri­ stab in the back to PATCO. workers who support PATCO had a the teachers. From 300-400 striking can is cancelling new routes. Braniff is For the union leaders to keep the chance to participate. teachers and controllers marched to cutting operations. But every airline is members working during the strike is . The media simply reported that the airport terminal and slowly consistent on .one thing: wage and bad enough. But it makes it even worse there was heavy traffic &t LaGuar­ marched around it, jamming up work rule concessions demanded from to force wage concessions to help the dia. traffic for a few hours. the workers. companies alleviate the financial ef­ The unions representing workers at fects of the strike.

OCTOBER 30, 1981 THE MILITANT 3 The CIA W"ar onQaddafi Secret campaign .against Libya By Steve Bride Libyan authorities had gotten wind of Since 1977, U.S. policy toward the the operation and foiled it. Paris dis­ Libyan government has consisted main­ missed the SDECE officer who had di­ ly of finding ways to get rid of it. rected the plot. To this end, Washington has enlisted Four months later, Libya was to deal its own and other intelligence services a second blow to the French government in a well-organized campaign of unprov­ of Valery Giscard d'Estaing, this time in en charges and outright lies directed the neighboring country of Chad. against Libyan leader Muammar el- QaddaA Another defeat Recently, for example, U.S. Secretary On December 17, 1980, in a front­ of State Alexander Haig hinted Qaddafi page editorial, the Paris daily Le Monde may have been mixed up in the killing announced "A major setback for Paris." of Anwar el-Sadat. To support this The occasion for this was the defeat two claim, Haig offered only the fact that days earlier of the rebel forces of His­ Qaddafi made no pretense of mourning sene Habre by units of the government the Egyptian president, who for five of Chad, a former French colony. years had been his mortal enemy. The Habre rebellion had been a In the Libyan view, such wild accusa­ French operation, aimed at unseating tions are part of a pattern: anti-Libya the government of President Goukouni stories appear in the imperialist media, Oueddei, whose Frolinat guerrillas had usually alleging Qaddafi sponsors vari­ battled tl}e French since the mid-1960s. ous "terrorist groups"; a series of At first, it appeared Paris might suc­ groundless charges are leveled against ceed: by May 1980, Habre held impor­ the regime; a coup attempt follows. tant sections of the Chadian capital of ymous State Department source told the committee with the impression that Twice in the recent past, this view has Ndjamena. the New York Daily News, would be such Qaddafi would be assassinated. They proven correct. Then, in June, the government of that the U.S. could deny involvement. fired off a letter to Reagan asking what, Chad signed a military assistance pact Meanwhile, Libyan exiles-now led in exactly, was going oil. Details of the Paris to Cairo with Qaddafi. Sometime later, at Chad's Cairo by Abdel-Moneim Houni and in plan began to leak out; the White House Attempts by the imperialist nations request, 2,000 Libyan troops entered the the Sudan by Mohammad Mugarieff­ refused comment on the matter. And to topple Qaddafi began in 1977. Acting country and helped crush the French­ began claiming credit for acts of sabo­ that is where things stand today. through the French intelligence agency, backed rebellion. tage inside Libya. They also claimed to It is uncertain if this plan has been Service de Documentation Exterieure et In his first news conference as Secre­ have renewed contact with Washington. abandoned. If it has, it is certain there de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE), the tary of State, Alexander Haig called the By June 2, the New York Times re­ will be others. CIA established links with a Libyan French defeat in Chad "a grave turn of ported, the State Department was open­ "government in exile," based in Cairo, events." Later, the new Reagan admin­ ly saying it "would be willing now to en­ Why Qaddafi? Egypt, and led by Omar ai-Muhaishi. A istration denounced "Libya's policy of courage actions against the Qaddafi re­ Washington's argument for removing former Libyan officer, Muhaishi had al­ international terrorism and subver­ gime." Qaddafi boils down to three points: ready made one attempt to overthrow sion," and declared "the ultimate objec­ "A major goal of American policy," • Libya is the third-largest exporter Qaddafi in 1975. tive" of U.S. policy would be to change added the July 14 Wall Street Journal, of oil to the United States, and the high­ "is to encourage opponents of Col. Khad­ est-priced of the OPEC nations. By de­ On authorization from Egyptian Pres­ that. A secret interagency study was begun on what was termed "the Libya afy within Libya and outside to mobilize manding a higher price for extracting ident Sadat, the SDECE organized a problem." against him." crude oil from Libyan soil, Qaddafi cuts series of guerrilla raids into Libya from By then, the State Department was into the profits of U.S. oil monopolies. the Egyptian border. These failed dis­ Washington takes over telling U.S. oil companies to get their • Qaddafi is a "Soviet satellite." This mally, but the ties between Paris and people out of Libya: "The companies is the standard communist-baiting term the Cairo exiles remained. Like most other Reagan Administra­ tion programs, U.S. efforts to end the won't get another warning," said one Washington uses to describe countries it U.S. official to the Journal. "We're play­ Early in 1980, the SDECE was again Qaddafi regime were begun by Jimmy doesn't agree with and to justify inter­ given permission by Sadat to conduct Carter. · ing confrontation politics, and we want vening in their internal affairs. This is border raids, and took steps to streng­ The White House recently revealed to them out, whether there is a coup in the especially true of countries that exercise works or not." then the exile forces. the New York Times, that in 1980, Car­ their sovereign right to establish friend­ Using its connections with French ter and Giscard d'Estaing hatched a On August 19, Washington got the ly relations with the USSR as Libya has journalists, the agency began a six­ plan with Sadat for covert military oper­ confrontation it wanted, shooting down done. two Libyan planes over the Gulf of Sid­ month campaign in the French media, ations against Libya. The plan, U.S. of­ • Qaddafi supports terrorism. An ex­ ra. designed to portray Qaddafi as a "mas­ ficials said, was shelved after France's ample of this argument is found in the Spring 1981 issue of Foreign Affairs termind" of all "terrorist groups." voters threw out Giscard in May 1981. The plan By July, British intelligence had be­ With Giscard beaten at the polls and magazine. There, John Cooley of the It is widely recognized that the Gulf of come involved. T~ey set up a phony in Chad, Washington embarked more­ Carnegie Endowment lists the supposed "Maltese Liberation Front" that or-less on its own on the campaign that Sidra incident was a deliberate U.S. beneficiaries of Qaddafi's support: the claimed responsibility for several bomb led to the second plan to overthrow Qad­ provocation. · A week before the event, Moro National Liberation Front in the attacks inside Libya. dafi outright. Newsweek had reported that "After Phillipines; the Irish Republican Army; Meanwhile, Paris had recruited the The pattern, by now familiar to Lib­ months of debating how to neutralize "Basque, Corsican, and other separa­ head of military security at the garrison yans, began May 6. Muammar Qaddafi," Reagan had de­ tists throughout Europe; the Leftists in cided on a "direct challenge" in the ofTobruk, Libya, to lead a coup attempt. On that day, the State Department or­ the Lebanese civil war;. . .liberation On August 5, 1980, the British Broad­ dered the Libyan diplomatic mission form of naval maneuvers in the gulf. movements in Angola and Mozambique; casting Corporation announced a mil­ closed on grounds of "misco~duct, in­ U.S. officials were also reported to be the most radical, black factions in Zim­ itary uprising had occurred at Tobruk. cluding support for international terror­ "eager" to see how Qaddafi would react babwe and South Africa ... ." The French news service, Agence ism." Washington, as usual, supplied no to Egyptian troop maneuvers on the At various times, the Palestine Liber­ France-Press, reported Qaddafi "may particulars. Libyan border, scheduled for the same ation Organization and El Salvador's have died in a shooting incident" as he That same month, the first report was time. rebels have been added to the roster. flew to inspect troops there. leaked that an attempt on Qaddafi was The "months of debate" on "the Libya For the record, no one knows exactly Both reports, it turned out, were false. in the works. The operation, an anon- problem" produced one other thing: a whom Qaddafi has helped and in what f' plan by the CIA to overthrow Qaddafi. manner. But this is really beside the The plan, approved by CIA Director point. Reagan administration William Casey and the White House, If one opposes all these struggles ~as provoked Gulf of Sidra consisted of three phases: Washington does - then there is good incident (arrow) 'after • A "disinformation" program in the reason not to like Qaddafi. Politically, months of debating media to stir up sentiment against Qad­ at least, he supports them. how to neutralize dafi. But anyone even remotely familiar Muammar Qaddafi.' • Revival of the Libyan "government with these liberation struggles knows CIA, meanwhile, was in exile." they amount to a good deal more than the readying plan to • Sabotage operations inside Libya work of small terrorist bands. They in­ overthrow Libyan -again, carried out.by the exiles. volve millions of people who have been leader. The CIA goal, sources told Newsweek, fighting for their freedom for some time. was Qaddafi's "ultimate" removal from Which gets to Washington's real rea­ power. sons for wanting to get rid of Qaddafi. The cost of the plan in covert Amer­ As one diplomat who has served in Lib­ ican aid, however, was enough that the ya put it, Qaddafi "sees his role as sup­ CIA had to obtain approval from Con­ porting what he believes to be progres­ EGYPT gress. Former Deputy . Director Max sive movements against oppressive gov­ Hugel presented the scheme to the LIBYA ernments." House Select Committee on Intelli­ As the Reagan administration sees it, gence. there are too many people like this in Hugel's presentation apparently left the world alt'eady. ·

4 THE MILITANT OCTOBER 30, 1981 Workers protest police state Tens of thousands strike in Colombia By Ernest Harsch Bogota, placing the capital under mil­ In opposition to the desperate social itary occupation. and economic conditions facing Colom­ In the days preceding the strike, bia's working people and to the repres­ agents of the Military Intelligence sive policies of the Colombian govern­ Service fanned out throughout the ment, tens of thousands of workers country to pick up strike organizers throughout that Latin American coun­ and union and political leaders. Some try laid down their tools October 21 in 1,000 were arrested in Bogota, Medel­ a twenty-four-hour general strike. lin, Cali, Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, The strike was called by the 500,000- Cartagena, Neiva, and other cities. member Trade Union Confederation In Bogota, the military police also of Colombian Workers (CSTC), to­ raided the offices of the Communist gether with a number of independent Party of Colombia, which is in the unions and provincial federations be­ leadership of the CSTC. longing to two of the country's three Those arrested include Faustino Ga­ other major labor federations. lindo Garcia, a leader of the CSTC and One of the central demands of the a Communist Party member of the strike was the lifting of the state of Bogota City Council, Abel Rodriguez siege that has been in effect in Colom­ and Edgar Dusan of the Colombian bia almost continuously for the past Teachers Federation, about twenty thirty years. Under it, the police have leaders of the public employees' union, wide powers to break up strikes and and numerous student leaders. Picket line in support of Colombian general strike at Colombian Embassy in Washing­ demonstations and detain political Also detained were more than a ton, D.C. activists or trade unionists without dozen activists of the Partido Socia­ charge. Its provisions for incommuni­ lists Revolucionario (PSR - Revolu­ cado detention facilitates the use of tionary Workers Party), the Colombian torture against political prisoners. section of the Fourth International. The strikers also demanded the re­ They included Armando Novoa, a PSR U.S. policy in So. Africa: lease of all political prisoners, an end · leader in Bogota;. Luis Cometa, a to widespread layoffs in the textile and leader of the Federation of Petroleum other industries, wage increases of up Workers in Neiva; and Cesar Flores, a protect profits at all cost to 50 percent, an end to the govern­ leader of a barrio-dwellers movement By Suzanne Haig 11 percent worldwide. In 1974, the rate ment's austerity policies and cuts in in Cartagena. Novoa was later re­ On September 30, the U.S. Senate re­ of return still averaged 17.9 percent, al­ social services, and price controls on leased, but the others are being held pealed a five-year-old law banning though it has declined slightly since food and other day-to-day necessities. incommunicado.' Under Colombia law covert aid to pro-imperialist guerrillas then. The regime of President Julio Cesar they can be detained without charge in Angola. The argument that Soviet expansion­ Turbay Ayala, fearful of a repetition of for up to 100 days. The law, called the Clark Amend­ ism in southern Africa is threatening the massive September 1977 "citizen's Messages of protest against the jail­ ment, was adopted by Congress in 1975 these profits is a smokescreen to hide national general strike," responded to ings of the PSR, Communist Party, after learning that the Central Intelli­ Washington's real concern: the rising the strike call in characteris'tic fashion and trade-union leaders should be sent gence Agency (CIA) had secretely pro­ anti-imperialist movements led by the - with widespread repression. to: Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala, Presi­ vided arms and funds to the National Black majority who want an end to the The strike was declared illegal and dente de la Republica, Bogota, Colom­ Union for the Total Independence of An­ plundering of their countries and the ex­ troops were moved into the streets of bia. gola (UNITA) and the Angolan Nation­ ploitation of their labor. al Liberation Front (FNLA) against the To crush these movements, Washing­ government headed by the People's ton has militarily aided and relied on Movement for the Liberation of Angola South Africa. (MPLA). In 1975, after oil-rich Angola had won Anti-apartheid activists The repeal is pending before the its independence from Portugal, for in­ House of Representatives. stance, Washington encouraged South Repealing the Clark Amendment Africa to intervene to deal a blow to the framed up in Albany would be right in line with the Reagan newly formed MPLA government. By Michael Kozak a potential Greensboro, North Carolina administration's general policy toward John Stockwell, who directed CIA op­ ALBANY - Four radical activists (where the Klan murdered five CWP southern Africa. This was spelled out by erations in Angola during that time, lat­ are fighting frame-up police charges members in 1979). TV coverage focused Assistant Secretary of State Chester er revealed that "to the CIA, the South that grew out of a protest here against on things like emergency units being set Crocker August 29 in a speech before an Africans were the ideal solution for cen­ the presence of South Africa's rugby up in area hospitals to handle victims of American Legion meeting in Honolulu. tral Angola." Crocker charged that the presence of team in the United States. violence. The CIA recruited an army of mercen­ On the eve of the national anti-apar­ The day of the demonstration, there Cuban troops in Angola was responsible for violence in the region and painted aries to help the apartheid regime. U.S. theid demonstration held in Albany was widespread coverage of the arrests, cargo planes dropped supplies to South Washington as the peacekeeper and September 22, police al'tested Vera Mi­ focusing on Young and Spearman's African military columns. · chelson of Albany, Aaron Estis of Mas­ CWP membership and a bomb explosion seeker of justice there. sachusetts, Michael Young of New York at the Eastern Rugby Union offices in Crocker asserted that it did not serve As the South African army came dan­ City, and John Spearman of Kansas. Schenectady. For all their sources and Washington's interests "to walk away gerously close to the capital of Luanda, Michelson and Estis were charged informants, police still claim to have no from South Africa." the MPLA asked the Cuban government with possession of fireworks and mari­ leads on the bombing. South Africa is vital to protecting to send troops to aid in beating back the juana. Spearman and Young were ar­ The basis for the search warrant un­ U.S. interests, he said. The interests he imperialist invasion. Hundreds of thou­ raigned on a weapons charge. der which Michelson, Estis, and Young cited include $3 billion in annual trade, sands of Cubans volunteered to go, and Cops entered Michelson's apartment, were arrested is alleged to be an un­ minerals needed for U.S. industries, and an estimated 10 to 20,000 were sent. kept her on the floor with a sawed-off named informant who claimed armed uranium for nuclear weapons and pow­ Within several weeks after their arri­ shotgun to her head, took a mailing list protesters were coming to Albany. Also, er. val, the tide of the war began to turn, of the Coalition Against Apartheid the police claimed they received a phone Crocker failed to mention that the and the South Africans were finally (CAA), and left the door unlocked when call from a Coalition Against Apartheid reason the U.S. invests so heavily in the routed. This was a tremendous victory they left with the arrested activists. spokesperson, in which the latter area is the superprofits from the exploi­ for the African liberation struggle and a The arrests were part of a well-orches­ claimed members of the coalition were tation of Black workers under apartheid great defeat for Washington and South trated campaign of violence-baiting and planning disruption activities. Use of in South Africa and its colony Namibia. Africa. intimidation by New York Governor unnamed, faceless informants has been The overall profit rate for U.S. com­ It is no coincidence that three months Hugh Carey and other state officials to a favorite police tactic to substantiate panies in South Africa averaged 18.6 after the victory, the Black city ofSowe­ deflect attention from the hated, racist otherwise meritless allegations. percent from 1960 to 1970, compared to to in South Africa exploded in rebellion. South African regime. They hoped in­ The Albany-based coalition, which or­ stead to turn people against the anti­ ganized the September 22 protest, an­ nounced at a news conference that the apartheid movement and scare poten­ South Africa tial protesters away from Albany. coalition deplores the victimization and During the demonstration, cops and has set up a defense fund. A defense White Rule/Black Revolt sheriffs deputies, equipped with new committee has been formed in Albany to Ernest Harsch helmets and extra-long clubs, marched publicize the case, gather endorsements in military formation around the protes­ from area organizations, and raise funds for legal expenses. This is the history of South Africa's ters. They paraded between picket cap­ Black majority. Its fight for freedom tains and marchers, as if hoping to pro­ For more information contact: CAA -for the right to vote, for an end to voke an incident. Some demonstrators Legal Defense Fund, P.O. Box 3002, were stopped by cops and asked their Pine Hills Station, Albany, N.Y. 12203. pass laws, for decent education and names and where they were from. living standards, for the right to or­ The violence-baiting campaign, wide­ Intercontinental Press ganize into unions, and for majority ly publicized in the media in the area, rule. $6.95 started with Governor Carey's state­ Intercontinental Press is a unique ment that the state police said members source for political developments Pathfinder Press 410 West St., of both the Ku Klux Klan and the Com­ throughout the world. New York, N.Y. 10014 (include $.75 munist Workers Party (CWP) were com­ $35 for one year. for postage and handling.) ing to Albany. $17.50 for six months. The media quickly raised images of 41 0 West Street fear and violence, portraying Albany as New York, N.Y.10014

OCTOBER 30, 1981 THE MILITANT 5 Western rail barons slash jobs, up profits By Dick Roberts LOS ANGELES- Job abolishment. It is sweeping the railroads. It is the great fear among railroad Shorter hours-no cut in pay workers and the most talked about subject in yards One way the railroad unions could play an im­ It is assured that the companies would holler and yard offices across the country. portant role in fighting the elimination of jobs and scream at the first whiff of news that railroad The next station to go around here is the Union Pa­ would be to campaign for a shorter workweek with workers anywhere are pondering a fight for a re­ cific (UP) freight office in Paramount, California. The no reduction in pay. duction of hours with no cut in pay. story behind closing down Paramount sheds light on At the tum of the century the railroad unions "We can't afford it! We'll go broke tomorrow. problems railroad workers face everywhere. led the fight for an eight-hour day in this country. You do this to us and there won't be any work at Paramount is one of the many industrial suburbs of There's nothing outmoded or historical about all." Los Angeles, located midway between Los Angeles it­ the need for a six-hour day in the United States They will pretend that they never heard of the self and the Port of Long Beach. The UP has had a now. drive for greater revenues and higher profits freight office in Paramount for years. McDonnell­ A campaign by the railroad unions along these which led to the elimination of jobs in the first Douglas Aircraft, Monsanto Chemical, and Toyota lines would be extremely popular. It would appeal place: "Coal trains? Never heard of them." Motors are among the big corporations with local in­ to millions of workers who also face plant shut­ Well, coal trains only move and only make prof­ dustries in Paramount served by the UP. downs and on-the-job speedup. It would make its for the companies through the labor of railroad Regularly two clerks work in the office. Bill Ander­ sense to many workers. workers. In these hard times a shorter workweek son, who's held the job twelve years, is being trans­ Clerks who today carry responsibilities that five would help spread the benefits of advancing tech­ ferred to Long Beach. Jake Jacobson, one year from or six individuals had only a year ago know that nology to more workers by providing more jobs. retirement, held the other job. That job is being abol­ there can be a trade-ofT: More work, more responsi­ Struggling for it would make the railroad bosses ished. bility, fewer hours. Reducing shifts from eight to think twice the next time they start crossing out six hours would open up the jobs for workers who stations and branch lines. Coal exports are presently being shoved aside. -D.R. Paramount is being swept aside in the UP's drive to step up coal exports. The UP ships coal from mines in That money is pushing aside smaller stations. In clerks," etc., all of these jobs have now been combined the Rocky Mountains - in Wyoming, Colorado and fact the UP is laying a second main line to carry the into the job of a "general clerk." Each "general clerk" Utah - down through Nevada, across the Sierras, coal from Los Angeles to Long Beach. It will go right must be able to handle all the previous jobs. and to the Pacific harbor in Long Beach. From there through the area presently occupied by Paramount Typically, the UP tacked on supervisory staff to it is primarily exported to Japan. station. oversee this drastic speed-up of yard office work and A flashy brochure issued by the Port of Long Beach to log the time it takes clerks to do each of the jobs. Authority gives pertinent statistics: "The Port . . . Restructuring Now central computers in Omaha record car and has sufficient capacity to export three million metric In addition to coal the United States is also step­ train movements throughout the UP system, from tons of Western U.S. steam coal annually. ... It is ping up exports of other raw materials and grain. terminals along the Mississippi to Seattle, Portland, envisioned that by the 1990's, the Long Beach coal More and more "unit trains" are crisscrossing the and Los Angeles. export terminal could have capacity for up to thirty country. These are trains where every car carries the Computerization combined with restructuring the million metric tons per year." same commodity. industry has led to the elimination of thousands of A ten-fold increase in coal exports and the profits A single, giant agribusiness firm or mining conglo­ jobs. derived therefrom. merate hires whole trains. The railroad companies This is a process that is not confined to the weaker, Revenues on each coal train carrying about 10,000 are more than willing to close down other services to and often bankrupt, lines of the Midwest and East. It tons of coal run around $150,000. It would take over concentrate on this lucrative business. is taking place on the Union Pacific, Burlington eight trains a day - about 3,000 a year - to bring Orienting to fewer and fewer big corporate custo­ Northern and Southern Pacific- giant western rail­ thirty_million tons to the harbor. Revenues on that mers, this is the history of American railroading. roads where the revenues are pouring in. would approach five hundred million dollars at to­ day's rates. It accounts for the constant closing down of branch lines and the virtual elimination of passenger service Union response regardless of the effect on communities and farmers. The railroad unions have done little to protect rail workers victimized by this process. For the most part Dick Roberts is a clerk in Brotherhood of Railway (An entire commuter train carrying hundreds of they stand timidly by, as though the forces restruc­ and Airline Clerks Local 1227 in Mission, California. passengers would typically bear less revenue than a single coal car in a Western unit train of eighty or turing the railroads are completely beyond the con­ more coal cars.) trol of working people. Like other U.S. industries which are restructuring There is deep frustration. AMERICAN their operations, closing down older plants, and hon­ I talked about the closing of Paramount with J.D. ing business down to the most profitable core, the Phillips, the conductor on the Paramount switcher. RAILROADS U.S. railroads are also drastically restructuring. This switching will continue, but the paperwork will When railroad mergers take place this process is be done in Long Beach now instead of Paramount - the case for nationalization even more stepped up. The merging of the Burlington and by one less clerk, with the elimination of Jacob­ Northern and the St. Louis and San Francisco led to son's job. by Dick Roberts the elimination of hundreds of miles of track and "Jake knows more about railroading than most This book explains the crisis in rail today by whole yards. people you will meet, and he has a memory like an examining the history and economics of the in­ elephant," Phillips said. "With his seniority, of dustry: Who owns the railroads? What have rail Computerization course, [31 years- D.R.] Jake can work somewhere workers accomplished in past struggles? How This is being accompanied by a rapid acceleration else, but somewhere down the line a clerk's job is be­ ing eliminated. can they defend their jobs and improve their of the computerization of railroad office work. "Our union [United Transportation Union- UTU] conditions today? And how can the railroads be In the Los Angeles area over the past year, for ex­ ample, the UP has introduced a new generation of should be fighting to defend these clerks' jobs." reorganized to meet the needs of the majority computers which makes it possible for one clerk to do Phillips pointed out that at some point you have to they serve - the farmers, small businesses, jobs previously done by five or six different clerks. actually physically look at a car; the computer can't and workers? Information on each inbound and outbound train, dream up car locations. Some of this clerk's work is the billing data on each car, car locations in the yard being dumped on conductors. 109 pp., $2.45. Order from Pathfinder Press, 410 and car destinations - all of this is now fed into a "They can't touch me, either," Phillips said, "I'm West St., New York, N.Y. 10014. Please include computer system. too old. But once these guys get going they don't stop. $.75 for postage. Where before there had been "inbound clerks" han­ Look at what they're doing to PATCO. If our unions dling the incoming trains, "outbound clerks," "yard don't get together they're going to do that to us too."

6 THE MILITANT OCTOBER 30, 1981 Cops face charges in killing of Milw. Black By Frank Forrestal think for all people." nesses to come forward to testify. In The coalition is also demanding that MILWAUKEE - A coroner's jury If convicted, the three officers could addition, the coalition forced the court charges be brought against the other here has recommended that three city spend up to ten years in prison. to air the entire inquest on public tele­ two officers implicated in Lacy's death, cops be charged with homicide by The three cops have a long history of vision. and·that the three officers facing homi­ reckless conduct in the death of Ernie police brutality allegations. Dekker, The coalition is now pushing for the cide charges be taken off the public Lacy, a twenty-two-year-old Black Eliopul, and Kalt have charges pend­ district attorney to prosecute the offic- payroll immediately. man. ing against them for an attack last . ers. "Justice will be done," said Fuller, At a victory rally of 300 after the The recommendation came on Oc­ summer on a Black United Steel­ "when those officers responsible for decision, Fuller said, "We have the tober 14, after a month-long inquest workers local vice president. And Ernie's death serve time for what they capacity to have an impact on our own into the July 9 death of Lacy. Dekker has no fewer than five police have done. We don't want legalism or lives. The biggest victory is that we The three officers, George Kalt, Tho­ brutality complaints against him. mumbo jumbo. We want the police have reaffirmed the value of Black mas Eliopul, and James Dekker, ar­ These include a charge of choking a officers to serve time. That's justice." human beings." rested Lacy for a crime it was later Black woman, Susan Crape, the night learned he did not commit. While in before Lacy was killed; and assaulting police custody, Lacy died after being Arturo Aponte, a Black man in a brutally beaten. wheelchair, the same night. Witnesses to the arrest testified that The victory follows several mass one officer kneeled on Lacy's neck actions organized by the Coalition for while another raised Lacy's hands, Justice for Ernie Lacy, which is made which were cuffed behind his back, up of over 100 community organiza­ above his head. tions. The homicide recommendation was .unanimous. The jury also recom­ In the course of three months, the mended that Dekker and two other coalition organized three mass demon­ officers- Kenneth Kmichik, the driver strations, the largest of which drew of a police van that transported Lacy 10,000 people; an economic boycott after his arrest, and Robert Enters, the that shut down Milwaukee's downtown van attendant - be charged with business area for one day; a rally at misconduct in public office for refusing the University of Wisconsin­ Lacy first-aid treatment. Milwaukee; and several picket lines. The decision by the jury, composed Howard Fuller noted after the deci­ of three Blacks and three whites, was sion was handed down that "without an important victory. those actions, this may not have been "This is a landmark decision," said possible. We would not be able to stand Howard Fuller, chairman of the Coali­ here on the threshold of getting justice tion for Justice for Ernie Lacy. "It sure for Ernie Lacy." means a lot to the people of Milwaukee, Coalition leaders pointed out that particularly to Black people, but I the actions encouraged many wit-

MilitanVDavid McDonald NASSCO on strike July 20 demonstration in Milwaukee demands justice for slain Ernie Lacy By Michael Boys But they have a backlog of $500 mil­ SAN DIEGO - National Steel and lion in new orders and $50 million in re­ Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), the pair work. "We know they've got the mo­ largest shipyard on the West Coast, is ney," a Black iron worker told the Mil­ on strike. Members of the seven unions itant, "and we just want our share." Ironworkers voted in at the yard voted 2,088 to 1,394 against When the contract rejection was an­ SAN DIEGO -A union decertifi­ ship won wide support through the the company's wage offer. nounced on October 9, workers cation election September 17 and 18 protests. They came under harsh at­ NASSCO is the lowest paying ship­ streamed out of the yard with their tool­ at NASSCO was won by Iron­ tack from the combined forces of the yard on the West Coast. Journeymen boxes and other belongings. Picket lines workers Local 627 by about a two-to­ company, the FBI, San Diego Police, get about $8.71 an hour, compared to were set up. The San Diego-Imperial one margin. and the heads of the international union. $12.50 at other shipyards. The unions Counties Labor Council officially sanc­ Former leaders of the local organ­ demanded parity in the new contract; tioned the strike. ized an independent "United Ship­ The attack included the NASSCO NASSCO offered a raise to $12.50 over The seven unions in the yard have a yard Workers Union" to replace the Three frame-up: three union acti­ three years. joint strike committee and they are bar­ Iron Workers after the local was vists charged and convicted of invol­ "In three years, $12.50 an hour is go­ gaining jointly. The unions are Iron thrown into receivership by the in­ vement in a bomb plot concocted by ing to be the same as $8.71 is now. We'll Workers Local 627,International Asso­ ternational. That move came after an FBI provocateur. But even after still be $4 behind," a twenty-four-year­ ciation of Machinists Local 389, Inter­ the radical "Strongback" slate won the widely publicized frame-up, the old Puerto Rican ship fitter said. national Brotherhood of Electrical the last local union elections. slate of candidates that supported NASSCO officials claim the yard is in Workers Local569, Teamsters Local36, the NASSCO Three were elected to poor financial shape. The day before the Operating Engineers Local 12, Painters The union fight stems from mas­ head the Iron Workers Local. This contract vote they told the news media Local 33 and Carpenters Local 1300. sive protests against safety condi­ led to the receivership which is still they might lay off 70 percent of the This is the first contract strike at tions in the yard. A militant leader- in effect. workforce. · NASSCO since 1970. Koch moves to-punish transit union for '80 strike By Raul Gonzalez Teachers was a five-day strike in 1975. have been running series supposedly tration. · NEW YORK - In the latest attack The teachers union is appealing that documenting featherbedding and in­ TheTA has not yet responded to this on bus and subway workers here, the decision. competence by transit workers to ex­ concessiOn. New York Public Employment Rela­ Under New York state's Taylor Law, plain the rotten and dangerous service TheTA is actively chipping away at tions Board (PERB) ruled October 7 strikes by public employees are prohi­ provided to move people around this past union contract gains through a that the dues check-off rights of the bited. city. "productivity" campaign. Recently, three unions representing transit work­ The threatened loss of the dues The fact is the system is being run they threatened to deny a scheduled ers would be suspended for eighteen check-off is only the latest punishment into the ground by management and 36-cent-an-hour cost of living (COLA) months. The check-off provides auto­ resulting from the eleven-day transit the high fares (now 75 cents) are being allowance. The T A claimed the COLA matic deduction of union dues from strike in 1980. The unions were fined used to pay and repay the banks that was linked to "productivity savings," weekly paychecks. $1,250,000 and each individual striker hold the bonds. An enormous, over­ and that work had not speeded up The unions affected by the order are was docked two days' pay for each day paid, incompetent bureaucracy sits on enough to deserve it. Local 100 of the Transport Workers on strike. These $1,000 to $1,500 fines the system, making even elementary When· the PERB denied the union Union, and Locals 726 and 1056 of the were taken out of transit workers' pay safety improvements impossible. Amalgamated Transit Union. The as soon as the strike ended. The large the dues check-off, Mayor Koch was ATU organizes about 2,000 bus drivers fine against the union is still being As far as pay is concerned, New overjoyed. He had led the attack in Staten Island and Queens. The challenged in court. York transit workers have moved from against the union during last year's strike. Koch interpreted the decision TWU, an industrial union, represents TWU President John Lawe described being among the highest-paid transit over 33,000 workers who repair and workers in the country, with wages that, "If you engage in an illegal the October 7 PERB ruling as a "vicious strike, we're going to sock it to you." operate the rest of the New York City action, calculated to weaken our organ­ comparable to railroad workers, to Koch is the candidate of both the subway· and bus system. ization at a time when we must meet working for several dollars an hour Democrats and the Republicans in the The PERB decision is being ap­ an arrogant management in upcoming less than other transit workers, and November election for mayor. pealed by the unions and will not go negotiations." The contract with the much less than railroad WQrkers doing into effect until the appeals are settled. Transit Authority expires March 30, the same jobs. But Wells Todd, the Socialist Work­ In another decision, the PERB also 1982 .. The response of the union leadership ers Party candidate for mayor, de­ revoked the dues check-off rights for The PERB ruling ·is not the only to the intensified attacks on transit nounced the attack on the transit the 70,000 New York teachers. The thing weakening the transit workers workers is to give up more. TWU workers: "It's an attack on every "crime" by the United Federation of going into the next contract talks. The President Lawe has announced that worker in the city. They want to use news media has been on a concerted the union would give up the principle the example set by Reagan of firing Raul Gonzalez is a member of TWU campaign to blame the deterioration in of "no contract, no work" for the next the air controllers to strengthen the Local 100. He is tl)e SWP candidate transit service on transit workers. The contract negotiations if the Transit antilabor Taylor Law and intimidate for New York City Comptroller. widely read Daily News and the Post Authority would agree to binding arbi- all public workers."

OCTOBER 30, 1981 THE MILITANT 7 Caught in cost-price squeeze Reagan budget cuts·hit dairy farmers By William Gottlieb now being considered by the House of price at only $13.10. That would only the average, were only 59 percent of Underneath Kansas City there lies Representatives. If adopted it will in­ be about 50 percent of parity. parity, the lowest since April1933 near 200 million pounds of "surplus" butter troduce a number of cutbacks in farm Furthermore Reagan and the Senate the bottop} of the Great Depression. and cheese. About half of it will be programs. Among these would be a want to establish a maximum of $750 The bosses have long tried to turn used in government-subsidized school drastic reduction in price supports for million to be spent on the price support workers against farmers by blaming lunch programs. Some of it will be sold milk. With lower selling prices many program. Since $1.8 billion was spent farmers for the high cost of food. abroad. Most of the rest will eventually dairy farmers would be wiped out, and on milk price supports during fiscal Actually for every dollar spent on food, be destroyed. others would cutback production thus year 1981, it is unlikely that $750 only 30 cents reaches the farmer. The These "surplus" dairy products are reducing the "surplus." million would be sufficient to maintain rise in the price of food has been .owned by the federal government. Under the 1977 farm bill the govern­ the price at 70 percent of parity. overwhelmingly concentrated in pro­ They were purchased by the govern­ ment was required to buy milk if the In effect the Reagan-Senate propos­ cessing and distribution. And the trend ment's Commodity Credit Corporation selling. price fell below 80 percent of als give up the parity concept alto­ has been for processing and distribu­ as part of Washington's program to parity (see box). It had to purchase a gether. tion to become more and more central­ support the price of milk. These pro­ quantity sufficient to keep the price at The majority in the House is consid­ ized in the hands of monopolies who ducts are surplus only in the sense that this level. Actually, even under the ering slightly more moderate cuts. It rake in bigger and bigger profits. the market is too narrow to absorb 1977 farm bill, since the adjustments agrees with the Senate and Reagan Since 1950 about 2,000 farms per them without ruining many dairy for rising costs were made· every six that milk · price supports should be week have disappeared. In 1945 there farmers, not surplus in the sense of months, the price of milk could fall frozen at $13.10 for the next year, were 6,000,000, farms, today there are human needs. below 80 percent of parity for months regardless of how much dairy farm about 2,672,000. The average size of But in spite of the government's at a time. costs rise. However, the House version U.S. farms has increased from 175 efforts to prop up dairy prices, dairy Last summer, at Reagan's insist­ would require the government to sup­ acres in 1940 to 450 acres in 1979. farmers are being ruined. Thirty years ence, Congress skipped .a midyear ad­ port the price of milk at 72.5 percent of As farming has become more me­ ago there were 2 million dairy farms in justment, reducing the level of price parity beginning in October 1982. chanized and land prices have risen, the United States. Today only 200,000 support to only 75 percent of parity. The plight of dairy farmers is part of farmers have become more and more remain, most of them family farms. The Reagan-backed bill would reduce a bigger problem facing working dependent on credit. In 1945 total farm The Reagan administration is pushing the price support level to only 70 per­ farmers as a whole. · debt was less than $20 billion. By 1980 legislation which will hasten the doom cent of parity. Moreover a "cap" would For decades farmers have been hit it was around $160 billion and rising of many of those that remain. be established at the price of $13.10 per with rising costs just like workers fast. With interest rates at unheard of Arguing that the cost of purchasing, hundred pounds. If inflation were to have. But the rise in the prices paid to levels and government provided credit transportation, and sorting dairy pro­ push up the costs of running a dairy farmers have lagged more and more being reduced under the Reagan cut­ ducts is too high, the administration is farm by 50 percent for example, the behind the rise in their costs. In backs, the credit noose is tightening · supporting a new farm bill which is government would still support the September prices paid to farmers, on around the neck of the family farm. What is parity? The concept of parity is similar to farmers were relatively better off. If that of · cost-of-living· escalator the purchasing power of a given clauses in union contracts. As the farm commodity today is the same cost of living rises workers must as 1910-14, it is selling at a price obtain raises in their nominal pay if equal to 100 percent of parity. they are not to fall behind inflation. For example, at $13.10 per Agriculture even more than indus­ hundred pounds, milk is selling at try is plagued ·by "overproduction." about 72.5 percent of parity at cur­ This is reflected by a fall in the rent prices. If milk had the same prices farmers receive for what they relative purchasing power it had in produce, relative to the prices they 1910-14 its price would have to rise must pay. to $18.07 per hundred pounds. This would be 100 percent of parity. In the 1930's, a period of severe Suppose the prices that dairy depression in agriculture as well as farmers must pay for fertilizer, ma­ industry, the concept of parity was chinery, fuel, etc. were to double. developed by the government. One hundred percent of parity for In calculating parity the relative milk would then be $36.14 per prices that farmers receive, com­ hundred pounds. To maintain prices Militant pared to the costs of goods they must at 72.5 percent of parity the price of Atlanta, 19n: farmers' tractorcade demands 100 percent parity from federal govern- purchase, is compared with the base milk would have to rise to $26.20 per ment. In September 1981, farm prices dropped to 59 percent of parity, lowest since period 1910-1914, years when hundred pounds. Great Depression of 1930s. Miners battle union-busting in Illinois... By Myron Cole office and some equipment were have been· used to finger seventeen UMW had to buy an ad in the South­ ST. LOUIS-The showdown in the burned. miners for participation in the August ern Illinoisan August 26 to explain the Illinois coal fields is continuing. Kerr­ Since then, a war of court action and 18 action. Twelve of them have been union side. McGee Corporation opened the battle propaganda has been waged against arrested. The FBI is involved, claiming But in spite of the propaganda and when they began constructing a mine the miners. violation of the Hobbs anti-labor law. the court attacks, Illinois miners view with nonunion labor near the town of Kerr-McGee President James Ran­ Court subpoenas have been issued the August 18 action as a victory. They Galatia in Saline County, Illii10is. dolph, a retired Air Force major gen­ against UMW District 12 (Illinois) know that ·it took enormous sacrifices Illinois is a solid United Mine Work­ eral, flew in from Oklahoma to lead the officials and local union officers. and battles over many decades to ers (UMW) organized state. Only a few attack. The company got an injunction Wild attacks against the union have establish the power of the UMW in the hundred miners are not in the United prohibiting picketing. filled radio, television, and the news­ mines. All that is at stake in this Mine Workers. But thousands of Films provided by the news media papers. The coverage is so slanted the company challenge to the union. UMW miners and mine construction workers are laid off. There is 20 per­ cent unemployment around Galatia. Kerr-McGee and other large· energy companies figure the lack of jobs will give · them the chance to break the ... and non-union mine in W. Virginia UMW' s strength. West Virginia miners are waging nonunion mine. On May 14 during Mine· Workers in two of its strong­ Working and non-working UMW a fight similar to the· one in Illinois. the protest, several company build­ est areas. miners feel differently. On May 14, during the national ings were set on fire. Fighting to stop these attacks is in On August 18, the union shut down United Mine Workers (UMW) con­ Like in Illinois, the coal bosses, the interest of the entire labor move­ every UMW mine in the state. Over tract strike, 300 miners marched the news media, and politicians have ment. And it will take the backing of 2,000 miners rallied at the Kerr-McGee against the construction site of the been screaming for UMW blood. Elk other unions to win these fights. site. Elk Run Coal Company. The nonun­ Run Coal is suing the union for $15 In West Virginia, the UMW needs The rally turned into a battle with ion mine· site is located in Boone million, and also suing sixty-six the backing of other unions, and it state police who were massed there to County in southern West Virginia, a individual union leaders, members, needs the United Steelworkers of protect the scab operation. Veterans solid UMW area. Work on the mine and others for the incident. America to back off. were reminded of Vietnam as tear gas was being done by contractors em­ The National Labor Relations It was the UMW that started the was hurled at them by the cops from ploying members of the Steelworkers Board is in court trying to get civil United Steelworkers over forty years grenade launchers and dropped from unwn. contempt cited against· the union. ago. The place for the United Steel­ National Guard helicopters. During Elk Run Coal Company is not only Both Elk Run and Kerr-McGee are workers is on the same side of the the demonstration two miles of chain failing to use UMW construction leading conscious attempts by the picket line with the UMW. link fence surrounding the property workers, but intends to open as a coal industry to break the United -Stu Singer were ripped down and a company

8 THE MILITANT OCTOBER 30, 1981 Subscription scoreboard

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This offers an occasion to evalu­ speech is on the antilabor "right-to­ Pittsburgh 215 139 10 3 225 142 63 ate the results so far and what needs to work" laws . used to keep unions out Louisville 125 77 0 0 125 n 62 be done to achieve our goal. and wages low in many states, includ­ *San Antonio 130 83 35 20 165 103 62 We launched the drive on September ing North Carolina. Soares' campaign Newark 275 198 75 8 350 206 59 *Piedmont 180 104 o· 1 180 105 58 19, the date of Solidarity Day actions supporters are ordering extra copies of this issue to go door-to-door introduc­ *Brooklyn 475 300 75 11 550 311 57 held across the country. On that day 57 ing people to the Militant. They aim to St. Louis 115 68 5 0 120 68 we sold 2,412 subscriptions to the Denver 95 52 5 0 100 52 52 gain fifty new subscribers. Militant and Perspectiva . Mundial Philadelphia 110 71 40 6 150 n 51 which got the drive off to a good start. There will also be a report on the *Birmingham 200 94 0 3 200 97 49 This beginning is responsible for the positions of the New York City may­ Lincoln 25 12 5 2 30 14 47 campaign being ahead of schedule up oral candidates on a referendum Oakland 170 92 30 1 200 93 47 until now. which, if adopted, would permit the Cincinnati 70 32 0 0 70 32 46 state to raise $500 million by issuing Los Angeles 325 170 75 14 400 184 46 But since September 19, only 1,571 bonds in order to expand the capacity Capital District 90 42 5 1 95 43 45 subscriptions have been sent in. Last of prisons. *Harrisburg · 130 55 0 0 130 55 42 week, for example, we received only In addition, there will be an analysis Phoenix 75 33 25 8 100 41 41 348 subscriptions which advanced the of Mayor Edward Koch's October 16 Chicago 215 96 35 4 250 100 40 drive only 4 percent from where we speech before the Democratic National Tucson 20 12 15 2 35 14 40 110 were last week. We have to obtain Strategy Council in Baltimore. 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OCTOBER 30, 1981 THE MILITANT 9 New threats·against Polish we By Ernest Harsch and to follow a course of negotiation layers of the Polish population. · • A renegotiation of the agre~ments After only thirteen months in power, with Solidarity. Renewal, however, was At the same time, Solidarity's exam­ signed with striking workers last year. Poland's Communist Party chief, Sta­ just a stalling tactic, providing Kania ple attracted increased interest among • A "temporary" suspension of the nislaw Kania, was dumped during a with time to try to stifle the upsurge and · workers in other Eastern European right to strike. stormy Central Committee meeting Oc­ undermine Solidarity's base of support. countries .. • A resumption of the six-day work­ tober 18. He was replaced by Gen. Woj­ The government tried to provoke the From the point of view of the Polish week (Polish workers won their demand ciech Jaruzelski, the prime minister and union into a premature confrontation bureaucrats and their allies in Moscow, for a five-day workweek earlier this minister of defense. and attempted to tum the population Kania's course was clearly not working. year). against Solidarity and split the growing The Soviet authorities made little secret • Stricter party control over the news This latest leadership reshuffle is yet unity of workers, farmers, and intellec­ of their lack of confidence in Kania. media. another indication of the depth of the tuals. • The expulsion of party members political crisis facing the privileged bu­ The regime also faced increasing pres­ New threats considered too favorable to Solidarity. reaucrats who rule Poland, as they cast sure from the capitalist banks to pay Although Jaruzelski has also been as­ The Central Committee also dis­ about for some way to hold back the back its debts by instituting an austeri­ sociated with the "renewal" policy, he cussed the possibility of authorizing a country's powerful working class. The · ty drive, aimed at the ~orking class. has at the same time attempted to pres­ state of emergency, but decided against difficulties they face were underscored ent a harder stance toward Solidarity. that at this time. just the week before the Central Com­ But Kania has not been able either to In the midst of the union's recent na­ Taken together, these threatened mittee meeting, when Solidarity, the ride out the upsurge or maneuver to break its back. Rather than being pro­ tional congress, Jaruzelski ordered moves point toward preparations for a 10-million-member union, warned of a voked, Solidarity further strengthened stepped-up police and army patrols in confrontation with Solidarity. The possible nationwide strike against major cities, authorized arrests of some union would certainly resist any at­ higher food prices and workers in a itSelf by organizing democratic elections to leadership positions, and by hol<\ing union activists, and ordered the censors tempts to take away the right to strike number of cities struck and occupied widespread discussions on a program for to crack down on Solidarity's lively fac­ or to renegotiate last year's agreements their plants. overcoming Poland's deep social and tory and regional bulletins. to the detriment of the workers. When Kania came to power in Sep­ economic crisis that - unlike the gov­ At the Central Committee meeting it­ tember 1980 following the ouster of the ernment's proposals - is not at the ex­ self, a resolution was adopted laying out Expulsions from party discredited Edward Gierek, he promised pense of the workers' standard ofliving. a tougher line against Solidarity. Its An important part of the authorities' to carry through a "socialist renewal" This won it growing support from wider points included: preparations are its attempts to firm up

'The incessant mistakes of the Com ers, the widespread bureaucracy ~ ~ agement . . . have led to total colla) no counter-revolution, organized b~ reactionaries. It was the upsurge of pie in which rank-and-file communi against a police dictatorship dresse cialist society - a police dictatorsh by Soviet armed might.'

Some halt-million people came out October 24, 1956, in Warsaw to hear new First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party Wladlslaw Gomulka. Goinulka announced the Soviet Union had backed down from thre.at to militarily Intervene If he was placed in leadership. Hungarian Insurrection began when unarmed students in Budapest, demonstrating in solidarity with Poles and for democratic rights, were shot down by security police. 1956 Hungarian revolution: 'for ..c By Suzanne Haig Reforms were promised, but few ing of delegates from factories, mines, workers held a final successful general Twenty-five years ago, the workers, came. universities, and army units, had the to- strike, December 11-12, to show their farmers, students, and soldiers of Hun- When the Budapest students, joined tal allegiance of the population and virJ total lack of confidence in Kadar. Then gary rose up against injustice and op- by delegations of workers, marched to tually controlled the country. the majority went back to work. pression. the radio station to ask that their de- Combining both legislative and exec- Moving cautiously, the Kadar regime They demanded an end to their mands be broadcast, the hated security utive functions, they organized the dis- gradually established its control. Wage country's economic, political, and cultu- police shot into the crowd, wounding tribution of food and medical supplies, increases were granted at first, but by ral domination by Moscow. They called and killing unarmed demonstrators. and maintained public order. Under June 1957 hundreds of workers, journal- for a halt to censorship, the secret police, Word spread, and the Budapest popu- their power, political prisoners were ists, and Communist Party militants inequality, economic mismanagement lation took to the .streets-but this time freed, newspapers expressing a wide were imprisoned, executed, or sent into perpetrated by a privileged bureaucracy they were armed. spectrum of views flourished, and new exile. By that time, the workers had dis- ruling in the interest of the working The government, headed by Emo Ge- political parties began to form. solved most of the councils, since the class in name only. ro, a bureaucrat totally beholden to The revolution was out of the Nagy government had deprived them of all What kind of revolution occurred in Moscow, immediately called for Soviet government's control. Fraternizing be- power. Hungary? A brief glance at that historic troops. At the same time - combining tween Hungarian workers and Soviet Anxious to avoid a resurgence of the struggle sheds light on this question force with concessions- Imre Nagy was soldiers - who thought they had come working class, Kadar has been forced to and also helps explain the upsurge in installed as premier on October 24 to to fight fascists - was increasing. grant limited concessions over the progress today in Poland. help win back support for the regime. With the workers councils posing a years. Economic reforms have included Nagy had been ousted from the leader- threat not only to the continued rule of a greater emphasis on consumer goods. The insurrection ship in 1955 because of his differences the bureaucracy in Hungary, but to Private farms along with the state with Moscow. Moscow itself, the Soviet rulers decided farms are given encouragement to pro- On October 23, 1956, students demon­ Many Hungarians believed Nagy that force was the only alternative. On duce. The regime so far has allowed dis- strated in Budapest demanding the would better serve the interests of the November 4, Moscow ordered its troops, sidents the right to travel and publish withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hun­ working class. However, once in power, now greatly reinforced, to crush the in- abroad. Underground literature is open- gary, friendship with the Soviet Uniop Nagy supported the use of Soviet troops surrection. ly distributed. Unions have some say in based on equality, free elections, and against the uprising and called the free- The Nagy regime was removed and the appointment of plant managers. freedom of speech. dom fighters traitors and counter-revo- Moscow installed a government headed R 1 d b h · · The demonstration was inspired by luti·onaries. epu se y t e repressiOn agamst by Janos Kadar. th H · k ' th the events in Poland, where Communist On October 24, Soviet tanks and ar- e ungarian wor ers upsurge, ou- Party leaders, under pressure from the After ten days of bitter fighting, and sands of members of Communist Parties tillery fired on demonstrators in Budap- 20,000 Hungarians killed, the popula- anmnd the world resigned . population, had set up a liberal regime est, killing hundreds of women, men, tion laid down its arms. But the headed by Wladislaw Gomulka, in de­ and children. This action sparked a na- workers, fed by the farmers, continued fiance of Moscow's threats of armed in­ tionwide armed insurrection and gener- their general strike and political activi- Poland today tervention. al strike. ties. Today, Moscow and Warsaw claim The actions in Poland and Hungary Workers, students, and soldiers set up The Kadar government was totally that Solidarity, the independent union were part of the ferment sweeping East­ a national network of revolutionary discredited. For a time, the only real in Poland, is antisocialist and counter­ em Europe and the Soviet Union, which councils, like those that sprang up in the power that existed was the Soviet Army revolutionary. In Hungary, the use of was deepened by the Twentieth Con­ 1905 and 1917 revolutions in Russia un- on the one side and the workers councils Soviet troops was justified by the same gress of the Communist Party of the So­ der the name of soviets. Their central on the other. arguments. viet Union in February 1956. There, demand was for legal recognition as per- Despite a decree dissolving the But how did the workers, students, Nikita Khrushchev had been forced to manent political bodies with sole au- workers councils, the arrests of central and soldiers in 1956 describe their publicly reveal and repudiate the crimes thority in the management of industry. council leaders, a:qd the threat of execu- goals? committed under Joseph Stalin's rule. These organs of insurrection, consist- tions for striking, the Hungarian The Unified Workers Council in the

10 THE MILITANT OCTOBER 30, 1981 ~rkers as CP boss is replaced the party ranks. As the Central Com­ confrontation with Solidarity. strik~ October 13 to protest food shor­ At Solidarity's recent national con­ mittee meeting opened on October 16, These surveys underline the party tages and higher food prices. gress, it adopted a program for far­ the party announced the expulsion of leadership's continued political weak­ About 10,000 struck in Tomaszow reaching changes in the way the eco­ Stefan Bratkowski, the head of the ness. So despite the Centra] Commit­ Mazowiecki and Niewiadow 'in central nomy is run. In place of the present sys­ Union of Polish Journalists and a prom­ tee's sharp threats, it has also continued Poland, and 12,000 women workers oc­ teQl of bureaucratic privilege and mis­ inent advocate of collaboration with Sol­ to hold out the prospect of new com­ cupied their textile mills in Zyrardow, management, it called for genuin~ idarity. The day before, Bogdan Lis, an promises. near Warsaw. workers control over the factories and organizer of the August 1980 strikes in Intercity bus drivers in the Piotrkow In fact, the .same day as Kania's ous­ the involvement of society as a whole in Gdansk and a nationalleaderofSolidar­ Trybunalski region, where food shor­ the making of overall economic deci., ter, the government ageed to Solidar­ ity, was also expelled. At the same time, tages are critical, were also refusing to ity's demand for the establishment of a sions. fifteen members of the Central Commit­ work. And strike alerts were in effect in permanent economic council- with the Recognizing that economic reform,­ tee who also belonged to Solidarity re­ the northeastern province of Suwalki union's participation - to oversee vital cannot succeed without the simultan~i signed their membership in the union. and in some factories in Szczecin, Czes­ market supplies and other economic tochowa, and Skierniewice. ous establishment of workers dem

tunist lead- 1d misman­ .e. This was ~ascists and whole peo­ s took part, up as a so­ backed up

t 0 •• / ••• Perspectiva Mundiai/Martin Koppel Left, Hungarian freedom fighters, amo!lg whom were many young women, advance from cover to investigate stationary Soviet tank. Right, national congress of Poland's independent union, Solidarity, held last month in Gdansk. Many of demands of Polish workers and farmers are identical to those raised by Hun­ garian revolutionists in 1956. :ocialism on a democratic basis' industrial region of Borsod on October back the nationalized property relations gary, like the threat of Soviet interven­ sentative of the bureaucratic apparatus 25 demanded that a government "com­ and planned economy, and restore tion into Poland, to smear socialism. to solve their problems. They must rely posed of communists devoted to the themselves to power. The major impe­ They whip up a demagogic propaganda on their own organized power. principle of proletarian international­ rialist countries also wanted to take ad­ campaign against the bureaucracy's Imre Nagy in Hungary, like Wladis­ ism, who are above all Hungarians and vantage of events to weaken new prop­ brutal repression to take the heat off law Gomulka in Poland, was seen by respect our national traditions." erty relations. their own military aggression. In 1956, many workers as more representative of On November 2, the United Federa­ it was the British, French, and Israeli their interests. But these bureaucrats tion of Hungarian Youth declared, "We Defense against capitalism invasion of Egypt. In 1981, it is the U.S. only feigned support to the demands oC don't want a return to the fascism of Ad­ To restore capitalism, however, this military aid to dictatorships in Central the people in order to demobilize the miral Horthy [the dictator who ruled be­ scattered group - which had lost its America, Southeast Asia, and the Mid­ mass movement. They had no intention' fore World War II]. We will not give power and property right after World dle East. of sharing power with the working class. back the factories to the capitalists or War II - would have had to face a mo­ It is n'o coincidence that the Polish the land to the landlords." bilized and powerful working class, to Nine million fascists? workers made the formation of an ind~ An eight-point program issued by whom the major sections of society In spite of Moscow's claims, Soviet pendent union their major demand dur­ Hungarian army oficers contained a looked for leadership. They would have tanks were not sent into Hungary to de­ ing the ~ .;kes last August. They are point calling for the "creation of Hun­ had to organize a military force capable feat CIA-inspired counterrevolutionar­ learning tnat, regardless of the prom­ garian socialism on a really democratic of smashing these revolutionary organi­ ies and fascists. Then, as today in Po­ ises of individual government officials basis." zations thrown up by the workers before land, the Soviet bureaucracts and their or a particular wing of the bureaucracy, Peter Fryer, a correspondent for the even beginning to restore their rule minions feared the organized power of they can only rely on their own organ- British Communist Party paper, the As Peter Fryer wrote, "[T]he danger the working class itself, which directly ized political power. · Daily Worker, was in Hungary at the of counter-revolution is not the same threatened their rule. In the process of their struggle for time, and later resigned from the CP be­ thing as the success of counter-revolu­ The Hungarian workers illustrated workers' control of the factories, demo­ cause of its opposition to the Hungarian tion. And between the two lay a power­ this with grim irony. A notice posted in cratic rights, and an end to the economic revolution. The following is part of a dis­ ful and significant barrier, which I for Budapest read: "Nine million fascist crisis, the workers and farmers in Po­ patch his paper refused to publish. one was prepared to put my trust in: the counterrevolutionaries, all former facto­ land will come to see the need of replac­ "After eleven years, the incessant will of the Hungarian people not tore­ ry owners, bankers, cardinals, remain ing the bureaucracy with a workers gov­ mistakes of the Communist leaders, the turn to capitalism." hidden in the country. ernment. brutality of the State Security Police, The real danger to the nationalized "Their main strongholds are the aris­ The Hungarian revolution gave work­ the widespread bureaucracy and mis­ property relations and the planned eco­ tocratic residential districts of Csepel ing people all over the world a glimpse management, the bungling, the arbi­ nomy of post-capitalist societies like and Ujpest [both working-class dis­ of the kind of power that workers and trary methods and the lies have led to Hungary, Poland, or the Soviet Union tricts]. Fortunately there are still six their allies can wield. And if the up­ total collapse. . -whether in 1956 or 1981 -is not a real Hungarians left who have built a surge frightened Moscow, it also fright­ "This was · no counterrevolution, or­ mobilized working class, organized into government to save the country." ened the rulers in the capitalist coun­ ganized by fascists and reactionaries. It its own revolutionary organizations tries. was the upsurge of a whole people, in with their own leadership. Bitter lesson What one reporter wrote in the which rank-and-file Communists took The danger is the opposite: the demor­ In Hungary, the workers' upnsmg French capitalist journal, Franctireur part, against a police dictatorship alization, demobilization, and confusion was crushed. In Poland, the Gomulka about Poland in 1956, applied equally to dresed up as a Socialist society - a po­ created by the totalitarian rule of the regime demobilized the workers' move­ Hungary in 1956: ''The Polish people lice dictatorship backed up by Soviet privileged bureaucratic castes in these ment there, and by 1958 censorship and dream of socialism with independence armed might." countries, done in the name of the work­ repression prevailed. Workers in East­ and liberty. If they win it, their example It is true that former Hungarian capi­ ing class and socialism. ern Europe learned a bitter lesson from will be decisive for the future of Eu­ talists and landowners who were in ex­ The imperialist rulers utilize this these experiences: the working class rope." ile hoped to use the insurrection to turn fact. They used the invasion of Hun- and their allies cannot turn to a repre- And it applies to Poland in 1981.

OCTOBER 30, 1981 THE MILITANT 11 Seek emergency order to halt immigration blacklist Challenge government move to 'proscribe' SWP By Larry Seigle them, or to challenge statements from The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is stool pigeons and other equally untrust­ seeking an emergency court order to New trial schedule worthy sources. No appeal is allowed. stop the Immigration and Naturaliza­ A few weeks back, we reported that to complete their response until De­ In fact, the group is never even told tion Service (INS) from ruling the SWP in October the government was sup­ cember. it is being proscribed. Individuals who to be a "proscribed" organization. For- · posed to submit its reply to the brief are deported on the grounds of mem­ eign-bom members and supporters of filed by the SWP and YSA in their When the government finally does bership in such a group are never told "proscribed" groups are subject to de­ suit against the secret police. Judge present its defenses, the socialists' at­ that they are guilty of belo~tging to an portation on purely political grounds. Thomas Griesa had scheduled No­ torneys will be given an opportunity outlawed group, because the designa­ Attorneys for the socialists will ask vember 9 as the date for beginning to submit further written arguments. tion itself is kept secret. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas the courtroom arguments on the legal Although no new date has been set, There is no way to tell which U.S. Griesa to immediately issue a prelimi­ issues in the case. it is unlikely that the oral arguments ·organizations, and how many, are nary injunction to halt INS plans to That schedule has now been pushed will be heard until Januat;y or Febru­ "proscribed." What we do know is that add the SWP to its list of forbidden back considerably. The reason is that ary. After that, the judge will begin to the SWP was first placed in this cate­ groups. the lawyers for the FBI, CIA, and INS write his decision. gory in 1956. The SWP and the Young Socialist have stated that they will not be able L.S. However, in 1962, a federal appeals Alliance (YSA) have already asked court overturned a deportation order Griesa for a permanent ruling that the against a former SWP member, con­ INS has no authority, under the Con­ cluding that the INS had produced "no stitution, to declare organizations be afforded a hearing, prior to a deci­ socialists were able, in November, substantial evidence" against the "proscribed." Griesa has presided over sion, where evidence on behalf of the 1980, to add the INS as a defendant in party. the lawsuit brought by the YSA and SWP can be presented and contrary their lawsuit. The INS had not pre­ After that ruling, the INS expended SWP against the FBI, CIA, and INS. evidence, if any, can be confronted." viously been part of the case against great energy trying to come up with The suit, which ·was filed in 1973, In a response dated October 1, INS the secret police. evidence to substantiate its accusa­ went to trial last spring. The request Acting Commissioner Doris Meissner Having won this round, the SWP tions against the SWI;'. But in 1966 it for a permanent injunction against the flatly rejected the demand for prior ·and YSA then forced the government finally concluded that "evidence is not INS practice of blacklisting groups is notice and a hearing. She stated that to produce INS documents, revealing available" to prove the charges. As a included in the 600-page brief filed by "there is no requirement or provision" for the first time many details of the result, the INS had to remove the SWP the SWP and YSA last month. for such procedures. Meissner also INS operation as a political police from the "groscribed" category: However, the additional demand for indicated that the INS ruling should be force. That was how things remained until a preliminary injunction became neces­ expected shortly after "the end·of this These documents showed, among the INS announced, in the midst of the sary because the INS is threatening to year." other things: SWP trial, that it was once again "proscribe" the SWP before Griesa The power of the INS to "proscribe" • A secret blacklist of "subversive" investigating the "nature" of the reaches his final decision in the suit. If organizations has never before been organizations used to screen out immi­ party. granted, the preliminary injunction subjected to a court challenge. Prior t~ grants solely on the basis of their would remain in effect until Griesa's the SWP suit, no one outside the gov­ political affiliations. Law unconstitutional ruling on the case as a whole is handed ernment even knew that the INS was • An INS "subversive index," list­ In their brief arguing that the FBI, down. doing such a thing. ing names of non-citizens and citizens CIA, and INS are guilty of violating In a letter to SWP attorney Margaret The current immigration law, alike. the Constitution, the SWP and YSA Winter, the INS states that a decision adopted at the height of the McCarthy­ • Sections of an INS Handbook, point out that the immigration law to "proscribe" the SWP might come as ita witch-hunt in 1952, explicitly names currently in use, which suggests that does not give the INS any authority to early as January. Griesa's decision on the Communist Party as "proscribed." technical pretexts be used to deport maintain listings of "proscribed" or­ the SWP suit is not anticipated before However, no other organizations are 1"subversives." This Handbook states, ganizations, and if it did, the law late spring or summer (see box). listed, and no procedure is established "The most important weapons used by would be unconstitutional. Defending foreign-born for creating a list. this Service in combating the Commu­ The brief states that, "only the fig nist conspiracy are the exclusion and leaf of an internal INS 'operations "By moving for a preliminary in­ Blacklists uncovered deportation processes." junction now," explained Winter, "we instruction' covers the naked assertion One of the most important gains of The American people also learned, of administrative power to stigmatize are fighting to protect the rights of the long legal battle the SWP and YSA for the first time, that the INS investi­ thousands of foreign-hom members United States political organizations have been waging against the political gates groups in the United States, and as 'proscribed' ... and to do so with­ and supporters of the SWP and YSA police has been the uncovering of the places ones it doesn't like on the "pros­ out notice to the affected organization, who might be in danger if the INS has immigration cops' secret blacklist. cribed" list. without hearing, and without right to a free hand to proceed against the Among the thousands of pages of appeal." SWP." FBI documents the socialists were able Secret proceedings The socialists argue that any INS The Political Rights Defense Fund is to pry out of the government were Moreover, according to the INS, it listing of organizations as "pros­ urging that the legal steps to block the references to something called the "At­ has the right to rule against an organi­ cribed" is "constitutionally. invalid INS plans be backed up with local torney General's Subversive Deporta­ zation on the basis of secret proceed­ where the organizations are ·deprived news conferences, picket lines at INS tion Program." ings. The victimized groups have no of a due process hearing to challenge offices, public meetings, and other On the basis of such discoveries, the right to refute accusations against the designation." forms of protest. "This is a situation that requires immediate action by all supporters of the democratic rights of the foreign­ born," said John Studer, executive Poljiical Rights director of PRDF. Defense Fund The threat to deport members and supporters of the SWP was first raised in the middle of the trial of the SWP Just published suit. On April 24, the INS proclaimed that it had suddenly found that "good The Political Rights Defense Fund has just made reason exists to believe" that the SWP available for public sale the 600 page brief filed on is guilty of advocating "world commu­ behalf of the Socialist Workers Party and Young So­ nism," which the INS defines to mean cialist Alliance. support for "Communist totalitarian The brief is a thorough summary of the facts about dictatorship." government crimes against democratic rights The INS announced that it had brought to light as a result of the socialist suit. It also "begun a review of the nature of the provides a comprehensive analysis of the fundamen­ Socialist Workers Party to determine tal constitutional issues at stake in this case. whether its members or affiliates [sup­ Copies are available for $10 from PROF, Box 649 porters] are excludable or deporta­ Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10003. ble..... " This threat is aimed at intimidating 0 Please send me a copy of the brief. I enclose $10. the SWP and YSA into backing off Please send more information on the SWP and from their fight to expose antidemo­ 0 cratic government practices. It is alsQ YSA fight against the political police. directed at foreign-born workers and D Enclosed is rny contribution of $.____ to students, warning them not to get too help PROF continue its activities. near the SWP and YSA. Following the trial, the SWP wrote to Name ______the INS "formally requesting that the INS agree to provide written notifica­ Address~~------tion well in advance of the time a decision on whether or not the SWP is City------a 'proscribed' organization is ~ _ be State ______Zip ______INS official Glenn Bertness at trial of socialist lawsuit made. We further request that the SWP on agency's efforts to place SWP on list of 'proscribed' organizations.

12 THE MILITANT OCTOBER 30, 1981 INS bars key evidence at hearing Iranian student fights for right to stay in U.S. By Michael Baumann utes just prior to the close of the hear­ BALTIMORE - Can Reagan's im­ ing. migration cops single out an Iranian As she attempted to make clear, the student for deportation just because facts in the case are quite simple, and they don't like her socialist views? up to a certain point are contested by This was the question posed in a no one. crowded Immigration and N aturaliza­ Hariri-Vijeh entered the United tion Service (INS) courtroom here Oc­ States in 1977 at the age of sixteen, tober 15. completed high school, and applied to The immediate verdict is still out: several colleges. INS Judge Joan Arrowsmith post­ She was not accepted at any because poned a decision on the case. But the she lacked two necessary documents­ issue is clear. a student visa and a certificate of In the dock at the deportation hear­ competency in English. ing was Mojgan Hariri-Vijeh, a Caught in a Catch-22 situation, she · twenty-year-old computer science ma­ found that by the time she got the jor at Baltimore's Morgan: State Uni­ English certificate her student visa versity. had expired. Although she has been in the United In November 1979 she was accepted States since 1977, Hariri-Vijeh's diffi­ at Morgan State. As an enrolled stu­ culties with the INS did not begin until dent, she was now eligible to get her. earlier this year, less than three Weeks student visa renewed. This however after she joined the Young Socialist was the period of intense anti-Iranian Picket line outside INS courtroom on day of hearing protested government .. tt''""'nto. Alliance (YSA). hysteria whipped up by the Carter to deport Mojgan Hariri-VIjeh. From that point on the INS made administration. Under orders from clear she was no longer welcome in the Carter, the INS was to deport every "land of the free." Visited at her home Iranian they could nail on even the by INS investigators, hauled down to slightest technicality. All Iranian stu­ headquarters· for fingerprinting and dents were ordered to report to the INS interrogation, she was then ordered to to have their papers scrutinized. Defense effort at Morgan St. appear at a hearing to "show cause" Hariri-Vijeh, like thousands of other Civil rights are deeply respected at dent after student stopped by a litera­ why she should not be shipped out of Iranian students, stayed as far away Morgan State University, one of the ture table set up on campus last week the country. from the INS as possible. She did not leading Black colleges in the United to talk to Hariri-Vijeh, get the latest Such hearings are not textbook exer­ try to renew her visa, and she did not States. news on the case, and sign the peti­ cises in democracy. They are held in report to the INS under Carter's "round­ So is Mojgan Hariri-Vijeh. "There tion of protest to the INS. an INS courtroom, before an INS up" order. probably isn't a student on the cam­ The day before the hearing, a dozen judge, who hears the case presented by This is the point at which agreement pus who doesn't know about Mojgan stude.nts attended a campus meeting an INS prosecutor. stops. and the INS," said Mark Blowe, a re­ to find out more about the YSA and The Political Rights Defense Fund The government claims that these porter for the campus newspaper Spo­ how they could help Hariri-Vijeh in (PRDF), which is organizing support are all the facts in the case. kesman who attended the hearing. her fight to stay. for Hariri-Vijeh's right to remain in At the hearing INS prosecuting at­ Defenders of Hariri-Vijeh's right to "I learned something today, about the United States, sponsored a pre­ torney Lilian Daly denied up and down remain in the United States to com­ our system of government," said one hearing picket line to help get out the that there had been any political con­ plete her education have blanketed after the meeting. "Mojgan's inten­ truth about the case. siderations in the decision to deport the campus with more than a thou­ tions are for the people. That's what's .. Attended by thirty people represent­ • Hariri-Vijeh. In fact, she claimed, the sand leaflets explaining the issues in causing her problems with the gov­ ing more than a dozen unions and INS did not even know she was a the case. ernment." organizations, the picket dramatized socialist until after deportation pro­ Support is pervasive and vocal. Stu- -M.B. the support Hariri-Vijeh has won ceedings had been initiated. The fact across the country. that INS cops swooped down on her home only three weeks after she joined In their chants and signs, the dem­ the YSA was just a coincidence. deportations, to conceal the political mysteriously absent is the written onstrators pointed to the government's Hariri-Vijeh and her attorney Shel­ nature of the moves. This tactic is even record of an INS interrogation of Ha­ hypocrisy in welcoming the shah of ley Davis say this is nonsense. encouraged in the INS Investigator's riri-Vijeh, including a written state­ Iran, one of the world's most notorious Handbook. ment she signed after the interview. butchers, while trying to deport Hariri­ 'Subversive' deportations The judge refused to allow the de­ The INS agents asked her, among Vijeh. Davis pointed out to the judge that fense to submit evidence of the INS other things, about her attitude toward Once Hariri-Vijeh and her support­ the INS has for years attempted to harassment of the YSA and SWP the Iranian revolution. ers entered the courtroom, the govern­ deport people the government consid­ members, claiming it was not relevant At the hearing, the INS prosecutor ment resumed control. ers "subversive," and that it is cur­ to this case. claimed that none of these documents rently reviewing whether members of exist "to·my knowledge." Defense barred the YSA and the Socialist Workers Missing documents The judge also rejected a defense None of the extensive testimony the Party (SWP) can openly be subjected to Davis had earlier been able to get motion' for a subpoena to the FBI defense had planned to introduce was this treatment. Davis pointed to the Hariri-Vijeh's INS file under the Free­ requiring. them to turn over all files on allowed. This had ranged from profes­ evidence of FBI-INS collusion in de­ dom of Information Act. Nothing in Hariri-Vijeh. sors at Morgan State to witnesses porting radicals that has been un­ the file shows any trace of political In the event of an adverse ruling, prepared to document the INS policy of earthed by the SWP and YSA suit harassment - but key documents are Davis told the Militant, the judge's flat singling out political activists for de­ against the government. missing. refusal to allow the defense to obtain portation. Davis said a favored tactic of the There is, for example, no report at all and pre~ent evidence of the political In fact, Hariri-Vijeh herself was INS to deport so-called "subversives" of the investigation of Hariri-Vijeh character of the case will be a central allowed to testify for only a few min- is to seek technical grounds for their that led INS officers tc her home. Also issue in the appeals. Funds needed in deportation battle By Matthew Herreshoff on in federal court in New York. Le­ around the country to build support Public support - telegrams, peti­ gal work in the· suit brought by the for the fight for democratic rights. tions, letters, picket lines, news con­ Socialist Workers Party and the Money raised at these events will ferences and financial contributions Young Socialist Alliance against po­ help reach the $125,000 goal. - played a big role in the October 15 lice spying is going full speed ahead, But if the pace of contributions isn't deportation hearing of Mojgan Hari­ as briefs are being filed in preparation picked up right now, even this will ri-Vijeh. for oral arguments before Judge Tho­ not be enough to reach the goal. If you At the hearing, Immigration and mas Griesa. would like to help keep PRDF afloat Naturalization (INS) lawyers com­ And to get out the truth about the and fighting, send in the coupon be­ plained of the huge number of pro­ government's crimes against demo­ low. tests they have received. cratic rights- through tours, rallies, 0 Enclosed is my contribution Funds raised by the Political Rights and literature- will cost even more. $ · to keep the fight Defense Fund (PRDF) have made it That is why PRDF is conducting a going against the FBI, CIA, and possible for this legal and political campaign to raise $125,000 this fall . INS. fight to be waged. The continuing ef­ Without this money, PRDF will not Name ______forts to block the deportation of Hari­ be able to continue its work. ri-Vijeh is just one of the campaigns So far, $33,500 has been contribut­ Address ______for which PRDF has to find the mo­ ed. A good start. But there are many ney. pledges outstanding, and there is a CitY---~------,- The major item in the PRDF budget long way to go. State Zip _____ Militant/Nelson Bl&ckstock is the continuing costs of the battle Starting next month, PRDF will be Return to: PRDF, Box 649 Cooper MOJGAN HARIRI-VIJEH .with the FBI, CIA, and INS now going holding rallies in nearly fifty cities Station, New York, N.Y. 10003.

OCTOBER 30, 1981 THE MILITANT 13 Chicago suit settled Judge silences critics of Red Squad deal By Jon Hillson CHICAGO - Federal District Judge Susan Getzendanner abruptly ad­ journed a day-long hearing held here October 9 on a proposed settlement of a suit against city police spying without letting attorneys representing those who want to block the deal be heard. The settlement, being promoted by the Alliance to End Repression, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other groups, would bring an end to a seven-year legal battle with the Chicago cops, Opponents of the settlement include the People's Law Office, which has rep­ resented the family of slain Black Panther leader Fred Hampton; the Young Socialist Alliance and Socialist Workers Party; the National Confer­ ence of Black Lawyers; and several oth­ er organizations. Attorneys for opponents of the pro­ posed settlement were excluded from a secret meeting Judge Getzendanner held a week before the hearing with lawyers for the Chicago cops and the set­ tlement proponents. A hearing last spring in Getzendanner's courtroom, on a proposed settlement with the FBI, had been attended by hundreds of protes­ MilitanVBrian Shannon ters, mostly Blacks. The purpose of the Police beat antiwar demonstrators in Chicago, 1968. Agreement ending lawsuit lets cops off the hook despite record of illegal private meeting was to choreograph the spying and harassment. second hearing so that objectors to the proposed deal would be effectively si­ lenced. the Chicago Red Squad did anything un­ terests of the Chicago police depart­ Also victimized were the Communist When attorneys at the hearing object­ lawful when it spied on and disrupted ment." Party and the SWP and YSA. ed to the unfair allocation of time, which Black groups, unions, and antiwar and He told Judge Getzendanner that the The cops have subjected the Black and gave almost the whole day to those who socialist organizations. Nor does it in­ agreement was reached when Richard Puerto Rican communities to the worst favored settling the case with the Chica­ clude a flat ban on police spying on polit­ Gutman, attorney for the victims of cop crimes. go cops, Getzendanner brushed them off. ical activity. spying, agreed to drop the demand for "a Roberto Caldero of the Movimiento Finally, when People's Law Office attor­ Most important, they argue that the ban on all police surveillance . . . of all Liberaci6n Nacional, a Puerto Rican in­ ney Flint Taylor strenuously protested settlement gives the cops the seal of ap­ political activity." dependence group, attacked the provi­ the secret meeting the judge had held, proval from people who claim to be The case that is now being buried by sions of the settlement that endorse the Getzendanner had heard enough. speaking for democratic rights, at the the judge and the lawyers grew out of cops' campaign against political acti­ "That's it," the judge snapped, rising very moment when the need to defend_ revelations in. the mid 1970s of massive vists in the name of combatting "terror­ from her chair. "Court is adjourned." those rights against attack by the politi­ spying and disruption in Chicago in­ ism." He pointed out that "terrorism" is Objectors to the settlement, she pro­ cal police is increasing. volving the Red Squad, the federal polit­ merely a code word the cops use to at­ claimed, would be heard in "closed Instead of arming Chicagoans with ical police, and right-wing terrorist tack the Puerto Rican community. He court." To find out when, she told the the facts of what the Red Squad has groups such as the Legion of Justice. detailed the pattern of sustained police stunned attorneys,. "read the law bullet­ done and is doing today, the settlement terror against Puerto Rican activists in." She then walked out of the court­ backers sanitize the cops' dirty work Blacks, Puerto Ricans over the past five years, including spec­ room. and promote the illusion that such ac­ The targets of these illegal activities ial treatment for fighters for independ­ tivity has ended. include such groups as the Steelworkers ence for Puerto Rico. Sanitizing the cops Peter Fitzpatrick, attorney for Mayor union, the United Auto Workers, the · Despite .the objections from the vic­ Opponents of the settlement point out Jane Byrne and the Chicago cops, Teamsters, the NAACP, Operation tims of police spying, the judge is virtu­ that it includes nothing deClaring that praised the settlement as "in the best in- PUSH, and the Black Panther Party. ally certain to approve the deal. ·

Chicago: the politics of retreat By Larry Seigle tionary stand. It is the politics of re­ It is worth noting that, while argu­ nomenon. Unfortunately, the united fight nec­ treat. ing that "a popular movement" is nec­ The rulers' drive will not be slowed ecessary to expose and block the deal In the brochure, these lawyers essary to protect democratic rights, by capituiating to it; it will be speeded now being made with the Chicago argue that now is not the time to wage these lawyers propose no steps to up. cops has not occurred. In fact, forces legal fights against the political po­ create such a movement. Nor have Auto workers are learning that by that last spring opposed the settle­ lice. They argue that the settlements they taken any. capitulating to the giveback demands ment of a similar case against the FBI reached with the FBI, CI~. and the In the face of the growing attacks of Chrysler, the UAW leadership only are now supporting the arrangement Chicago cops "are better than what on our democratic rights being waged weakened the position of auto with Mayor Jane Byrne and her po­ would likely have been obtained" if by the ruling class, its cops and its workers in their fight to defend their lice department. they had kept on fighting the case and courts, their strategy is to quietly standard of living. Women have For example, Ted Pearson of the brought the political police to trial." give ground .. . not set bad legal learned that by scuttling the fight fol" Communist Party, speaking at the They asert, "It is virtually certain precedents. abortion rights so as not to "alienate" hearing on the city settlement, said that the case would be appealed to the But it is not only the "current" Su­ legislators who might vote for the that the CP "joins . . . in welcoming Nixon-Reagan Supreme Court, with preme Court that is not on our Equal Rights Amendment, the lead­ the agreement with the City of Chica­ the clear danger of getting a political­ side. The Supreme Court has never ers of the National Organization for go. It is a net gain in the struggle to ly disastrous legal decision there." been on our side. Nor will it be, ever. Women only succeeded in embolden­ strengthen the Bill of Rights." With a left flourish, these attorneys At times, favorable decisions have ing the right wing and demoralizing Other supporters of the settlement even argue that the critics who de­ been wrested from the courts by popu­ women's rights fighters. This set back include the Puerto Rican Socialist mand that they not give up the legal lar struggles. That is the only way the fight to win the ERA. Party, the Citizens Party, and the An­ fight are guilty of holding illusions in that democratic rights have ever been If liberal lawyers think the "cur­ tonio Maceo Brigade. One of the ma­ the courts. "This is a political prob­ won or protected. No rights have ever rent" Supreme Court is bad, wait un­ jor proponents of the deal is Matt Pi­ lem, not a legal problem," don't you been won by keeping quiet. til they see the Supreme Court deci­ ers, who is National Chairperson of see. "While the courts can be useful, The most dangerous assumption sions that will come down one, two, or the ''Government Repression and Po­ the battles to defend political rights behind their strategy of retreating is five years from now if their strategy lice Crimes Committee" of the Na­ are ultimately won by organized pop­ that things will get better if we silent­ of retreating rather than fighting pre­ tional Lawyers Guild. ular movements, not by lawyers and ly wait it out, like a storm that passes. vails! Piers and other "civil libertarian" 'courts." But politics doesn't work like the wea­ The problem indeed is a political lawyers have been trying to answer They accuse critics of the settle­ ther. one. By engineering betrayals like the criticisms of their capitulation to ment, the Socialist Workers Party The rulers of this country are driv­ the Chicago deal, and lending the civ­ Byrne and her Red Squad. In a bro­ and Young Socialist Alliance being en by the crisis facing the capitalist il liberties "seal of approval" to the chure they are circulating in Chicago, prominent among them, ofnaivelybe­ system to accelerate their attacks on political police, the supporters of the they reveal the political perspective lieving that "the current U.S. Su­ our living standards and our rights. settlement are politically sabotaging that has led them to this utterly reac- preme Court is on your side." This offensive is not a temporary phe- the fight for democratic rights.

14 THE MILITANT OCTOBER 30, 1981 Printed below are excerpts from the first part of an 'amicus curiae' (friend-of-the-court) brief filed by the National Organization for Women Legal brief Part I (NOW) in the recent draft registration case that was before the Supreme Court. In 1971, several draft-age men filed a lawsuit asking that the draft be declared unconstitution­ NOW urges drafting women al because it only included men. Subsequently, as a result of massive opposition to the draft and the Vietnam War, conscription was abolished in 1973. to aid U.S. army In February 1980, President James Carter moved to reinstitute draft registration and pro­ posed- in the name of women's equality- that women be included. This was an attempt to win support for the capitalist government's draft and its military forces by giving them a 'progressive' veneer. It was also an attempt to shift the axis of public debate from whether there should be any draft at all, to who should be drafted. It was in this context that the 1971lawsuit was revived, and the government used it to advance its preparation for war. On June 25, 1981, the Su­ preme Court ruled that registration and the draft for men was constitutional. This decision was opposed by the NOW leader­ ship, not because it brought us a step closer to a new Vietnam, but because it "discriminates" against women. At NOW's recent national conference, there was a lot of discussion and debate over NOW's position on the draft and its broader implica­ Left: Is it in the Interest of U.S. women to be part of capitalist army? Pentagon wants to use this army to crush free­ tions for the fight for women's rights. dom struggles like Nicaragua, right, in which women play a central role. In an article handed out at the conference, the NOW leadership claimed that their position is discrimination on the basis of sex, and in order to sur­ decreasing male population has in fact been one of against registration and the draft, but if men are vive constitutional challenge, it must bear a substan­ the pragmatic reasons for the increased utilization of to be registered and drafted, women should go women in the armed services in the past decade. too. tial relationship to an important governmental pur­ pose. It utterly fails that test. Indeed, it cannot everi Second, utilization of women ensures a higher The fact is that the 'amicus' brief argues, pass the rational relationship test which the govern­ quality pool of registrants. Common sense dictates "Compulsory universal military service is cen~ ment asserts is applicable. By excluding women from that selection from a pool including men and women tral to the concept of citizenship in a demo­ will yield a better quality force than will the arbi­ cracy." eligibility, the Act substantially reduces the quality of the pool from which the members of the armed for­ trary elimination of one-half the potential pool. The brief contains not one word of opposition Women today are an important factor in our nation's to the draft. It argues that drafting women ces are drawn. workforce and an essential part of the technically would strengthen the U.S. military and would The exclusion of women from registration has a profound and harmful impact on women and society trained and trainable pool of young people needed to advance the fight for women's rights, without as a whole. The exclusion reinforces the sex-role ste­ operate the modem military. In light of the increas­ ever taking up the central question - is there reotypes harmful to women that have proven so res­ ingly technological nature of the current military, any reason that the majority of women-or men istant to change. By giving a governmental impri­ the female percentage in the pool of people with the -should want to strengthen the U.S. military? matur to these stereotypes, the MSSA sanctions a required skills is steadily increasing. Indeed, women The brief paints the military as just another continuing false view of women as weak and unfit to are a vital part of the administrative, computer, com­ job, instead of explaining the class interests it is serve their country. This stereotype of women as in­ munications, medical and other technical personnel designed to defend. Its purpose is to defend the capable of defending their country or themselves of this nation, all of whom are essential to the mil­ profits of big busirless around the world, and to causes harm to women by increasing the prospect of itary. beat back the struggles of the oppressed and ex­ violence in their daily lives. The military, a powerful Third, many performance indicators confirm the ploited. and central social institution, should not be permit­ high quality of women as soldiers. Women are being The brief thus assumes that the interests of ted to continue to support sex-role stereotyping that promoted at the same or higher rates than men in all women and those of the Pentagon, Wall Street, military occupations open to women. Women recruits and Washington are one and the same. locks women into the status quo. The MSSA also harms women by excluding them are less likely to have discipline problems and they At the conference, NOW President Eleanor from the compulsory involvement in the community's lose less time than men for absence without leave, Smeal explained that she was one of the authors desertion, alcoholism and drug abuse. These data of the brief and that it was "one of the best briefs survival that is perceived as entitling people to lead it demonstrate that the inclusion of women would sig- ever written by the organization." and derive from it the full rights and privileges of ci­ tizenship. Permitting women to serve as volunteers is , nificantly enhance the quality of the pool of regis­ The discussion on the relationship of the wom­ not the equivalent of registering them and does not trants. en's liberation movement to the draft, the mili­ alleviate the constitutional infirmity of a male-only Indeed, the judgment of the military's own experts tary, ~d the war drive is key to the future of the is wholly at odds with the fears voiced about register­ fight for women's rights. registration. ing women and the Congressional decision to exclude That's why the 'Militant' is printing excerpts In sum, the exclusion of women from registration disserves the goal of an effective military and power­ them. from the first part of the brief this week, which The district court correctly concluded that the ex­ basically argue how drafting women would help fully reinforces harmful stereotyped beliefs about clusion of women from registration is counterproduc­ the military. women and their role in our society. The cycle of old tive to the goal of military flexibility and readiness. Next week we'll reprint excerpts from the sec­ expectations and behaviors cannot be broken as long as the government, through the exclusion of women tion that argues how drafting women would ad­ from registration, continues to lend unwarranted cre­ vance the fight for women's rights. * * * dence to the stereotypes that fuel that cycle. The deci­ In its brief in this Court, the government argues for sion of the district court declaring the challenged pro­ the first time that the Selective Service Act does not INTEREST OF AMICUS visions of the Selective Service Act unconstitutional draw a line between men and women but between NOW believes that this case poses an issue of criti­ should be affirmed by this Court. those who are "combat-eligible" and those who are cal importance to the achievement of full equality be­ not. tween the sexes. The requirement to register and be ARGUMENT Moreover, women are serving and have throughout classified for eligibility for induction into the armed our history served successfully in many "combat" forces is a responsibility which NOW believes, if im­ I. The Exclusion of Women from Registration roles. posed at all, must be imposed equitably on all Is A Denial of Equal Protection of The Laws. Indeed, recent evidence suggests women had a members of society who are capable of serving, irres­ The goal of the MSSA is to register a pool of indi­ larger role than was previously acknowledged during pective of gender. viduals who, in the event of a national emergency, wars of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. In World can be inducted promptly into the armed forces. By War II and the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT requiring all males and no females to register for pos­ of women served in "combat" roles in battle zones. This case involves the constitutionality of those sible induction into the armed forces, the MSSA tells Nor have women been spared the risk of capture. The provisions of the Military Selective Service Act all women, that solely because of their gender, they female hostages in Iran, the women soldiers in Viet­ (MSSA), which require alfmale citizens and resi­ will not be called upon to serve and defend their coun­ nam, and the Army and Navy nurses held prisoners dents of the United States between the ages of eight­ try, that they will not be relied upon in time of great­ of war in the Philippines during World War II were een and twenty-six to register for eligibility for induc­ est national need. It thus announces to women (and all exposed to such dangers. tion into the Armed Forces. The goal of the MSSA is their male compatriots) that women constitute a dif­ Finally, as noted above, the evidence is overwhelm­ to register a pool of individuals who can be inducted ferent - and inevitably lesser - class from all men ing - indeed, undisputed - that women are capable into military service in the event of a national emer­ on the basis of gender. The exclusion of women from of filling current positions that bear "combat" labels.1 gency. The MSSA neither requires nor permits any the requirements of the MSSA is sex discrimination, women to register and be classified. pure and simple. The sole issue presented is whether the exclusion of 1Studies testing women police .officers' ability to command all women from the right to register and be eligible * * * respect, use authority, respond with force when necessary for induction violates the fifth amendment to the First, from the standpoint of sheer numbers, the and face physical and often armed resistance are also per­ suasive evidence that women possess the skills required for United States Constitution. goal of the MSSA is badly served by excluding all combat. The central finding of these studies is that women The line drawn by the MSSA is a rigid gender line women. Between 1980 and 1992 the population of police and highway patrol officers "were equally as effective which no woman can cross. It is blatant and harmful young males will decrease by almost 25 percent. The as males in all observed facets of police work."

OCTOBER 30, 1981 TH.E MILITANT 15 Ne'W York.elections Barbaro outbids Mayor Koch on beefing up police force By Harry Ring The Daily World offers a lyrical description of all NEW YORK- With his provocative contributions this but apparently deemeQJtjudicious to add a mut­ to the spread of the twin poisons of racism and anti­ ed caution about the law, which was enacted in 1980. unionism, Mayor Ed Koch has earned the justified The paper adds: hostility of Blacks, Latinos, and many other New "The actual administrative mechanisms for enforc­ York City workers. ing these 'right to know' provisions are still being Acting to capitalize on this anti-Koch sentiment, worked out." State Assembly member Frank Barbaro challenged Or, to put it another way, it's a nice law except it Koch for the Democratic mayoral nomination. De­ has no teeth. spite meager finances, Barbaro won 36 percent of the Many of Barbaro's campaign positions trail ofT in a primary election vote and is now contesting for mayor similar way. in the general election, For instance, a Barbaro position paper in the Au­ Barbaro is running under the ballot designation, gust 24 New York Times said real estate tax assess­ Unity Party, but carefully notes he's still a Democrat. ments should be reviewed to ensure that business To give credence to his anti-Kochism, Barbaro's "pays its fair share." campaign rhetoric is generally designed to convey Business probably wouldn't argue with that. The that he's anti-racist, prolabor and protenant. problem only comes when you get down to cases - But, as with his record as a five-term member of spelling out what constitutes a "fair share." Barbaro the legislature, Barbaro's campaign declarations doesn't say. don't stand up too well under scrutiny. There is really Similarly, an August 18 Daily News profile of Bar­ only one issue on which Barbaro is unambiguous - baro reported he favors a measure to ensure that cops and "crime." landlords get only a "specific and limited profit." But, unfortunately, on that issue Barbaro is a The paper dryly observes, "Exactly what that profit match for Koch. would be has yet to be decided." Barbaro's hard-on-crime campaign posture is con­ The one place where Barbaro spells out his position sistent with his record in Albany. is on cops. In the State Assembly he has voted as a liberal De­ · He pledges that if elected he will add 7,000 more a difference, and I can do that. Seeing to the certainty mocrat. His record includes support to measures gen­ cops to the New York City police force. of swift punishment will make a difference, and I can erally seen as progressive and others that are reac­ This is consistent with his voting record in the le­ do that." tionary. This includes voting for "anti-crime" bills, gislature. Some of Barbaro's more enthusiastic supporters which add up to curbs on civil liberties. In 1976 Barbaro voted for a new law penalizing have hailed him as a "working-class leader." His rhe­ The "anti-crime" part of Barbaro's record is quite "loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitu­ toric about crime and cops sounds more like Reagan's concrete. But when you get to the "progressive" side, tion offense." The New York chapter of the American recent address to the international chiefs of police. you find there's more form than substance. Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had opposed the meas­ Does Barbaro really believe there's a "criminal For instance, under the heading "Frank Barbaro ure "because it is unconstitutionally vague and gives class that rules this city from sunset to dawn"? Delivers," a campaign brochure asserted that he unfettered discretion to the police." That would make sense if he were talking about "wrote the law that gUarantees a tenant's right to In 1977 he voted for a bill that would have com­ the employers, bankers, rent sharks, and super­ apartment safety and services." pelled parents and children to accept court-ordered market moguls who run this city from dawn to dawn. Frankly, like a lot of other New York City tenants, psychiatric treatment even against their wishes. The They steal more from working people in a single day we never realized such a law exists. And, we suspect, ACLU opposed it "because it unconstitutionally com­ than all the muggers combined would dream of get­ neither does our landlord. pels medical treatment without due process." ting in years. There may be a law on the books which says te­ In 1979 Barbaro voted for a bill which, if enacted, Some of the radicals who are supporting Barbaro nants are entitled to safety and services. But it's a bit would have authorized attendance teachers to in­ have said nothing about his reactionary stand on this of a bad joke to tell New York City tenants that such itiate abuse and neglect proceedings against the par­ issue. Others have criticized him. rights are "guaranteed." ent of a truant child. The ACLU characterized it as It remained for the Daily World, to-salute his pro­ Similarly, the brochure declares that Barbaro increasing the likelihood of unfair prosecutions. cop propaganda. "fought for and got a basic occupational health and In 1980 he voted for a pre-hearing detention bill safety law for New York State." which would extend from seventy-two hours to five Shameless This seemed particularly impressive to the Daily days the time a person accused of a felony can be held The August 19 issue offered the following: World, voice of the Communist Party, which is enthu­ prior to a hearing. The ACLU opposed it as improper­ "Standing on the northeast comer of Times Square, siastically campaigning for Barbaro. ly increasing "the pre-trial punishment of incarcera­ notorious for its drug traffic, prostitution and pornog­ The Daily World, August 27, saluted Barbaro as a tion." raphy shops, Barbaro charged that 'the criminal is "pro-labor, pro-occupational safety and health" may­ Barbaro's proposal to expand the police force by winnjng the war against crime under Mayor Koch.' oral nominee. It cited the key provisions of the Barba­ nearly 30 percent is of the same reactionary cloth. He called for restoring police forces to the 197 4 level ra-sponsored Right to Know law, includin~the right Cops curb crime? of 31,000 officers." of workers to have toxic chemicals identified, to re­ Citing figures offered by Barbaro on the increase in fuse to work with a substance if the request for infor­ Until the recent budget cutbacks virtually every street crime under Koch, the Daily World added this major police force in the country was steadily ex­ mation about it is not met, etc. bit of racism: panded. -Can anyone seriously argue that this con­ "This alarming trend even shows itself in the bo­ tributed anything to reducing the number of hold­ rough of Queens . . .· Queens has been traditionally ups, break-ins, and similar petty larceny? Not to viewed as a 'safe haven' for middle class residents speak of bigtime crime. Barbaro: Koch fails fleeing the deterioration and turmoil[!] of the other Cops contribute more to the perpetuation of crime boroughs." in combatin.g crime than they do to combating it. That goes for the penny This is really a graphic commentary on the politi­ By ALBEin'A FIUliCIA ante bribetaker on the beat to the higher-ups whose cal degeneration of the Communist Party. And NEW YORK· Auembl)'IDaiiFnnk collusion with the international drug operators en­ there's a logic to it. Years ago the Communist Party BarWo, Mayar Koc:b'a dlief Gppe)­ neot In tbe electi0111, dlallenced lbe sures a steady flow of narcotics. abandoned the working-class principle of independ­ mayor's posltionaa1111 eoemy ol crime The "anti-crime" demagogy of Barbaro, Koch, and ent anti-capitalist political action. at a Tlms Square prea caolerence last '11nnday, by citing lbe aclmiJU. other capitalist politicians contributes zero to reduc­ Instead it has been giving its support to allegedly tration'acutbacbinpolice, tbe laekol jobs, housing and tbe "meaaln lbe jud­ tion of crime. But it does contribute to a right-wing progressive major party politicians like Barbaro. In­ Icial system." atmosphere that encourages police brutality. evitably, such support has led to adaptation to the Standing on tbe nortbe&st corner ol Times Square, ~ for ita druc A bigger police force means more crooks in uni­ right-wing procapitalist positions of these politicians. traffic, prostitution and por1101raphy form. It means more strike-breakers. It means more Barbaro can at least plead that there is consistency shops, Barbaro charged that "the .M has escalated In both 1179 criminal is Winning the war against and ,..,, yet Ed Koch has refused to trigger-happy cops in the Black and Latino communi­ to his procop position. crime under Mayor Koch ." I raise commercial property tax~ or for restorin alice stop the tax giveaway in the booming ties, where they are rightly feared and hated as an oc­ In one of his fund letters, Barbaro declared he was v 1 ,andaong· · Mldlowli and Wall Street markets," cupation army. "running to save the Democratic Party." (Emphasis in range an or court orm and crime Barbaro stated in a press release dis- prevention. ColltiJ!aed oa page 11 When Mayor Koch's club-swinging cops recently orginial.) Barbaro said the way to fund the c...--: ...... restoration of police and other city plowed into community and labor protestors against He wants to "return the Democratic Party to its services was through a 60 percent as­ I»>I.Y lf8IK,O the closing of Harlem's Sydenham Hospital, they pro­ historic, authentic roots." llelllment ol luxury commercial real­ 231*- D • • N.Y.C. 1(K)11 estate properties in Manhattan; end­ - ..... (212) ....aD vided a vivid reminder of what cops are about. Barbaro doesn't identify those "roots." But the real­ ...... ,.,Wile ...... C... ing tax abatements for plush housing .... __ ...... y .... o.,. That's not the way Frank Barbaro sees it. Barbaro ity is that the roots ofthe Democratic Party are in the and commercial development In mid­ town Manhattan; Md the hiring of new ...... : formally announced his candidacy in a speech last capitality system it so consistently defends. Today ~QIIlDCIOOIM ,_.....,_..,...,,,. tax auditors to collect all sales and ------May 14. In that speech he declared: that system relies more and more on brute force to en­ withholding lues OWed the dty. ~-~- ,.., . 'Crime lias eleii!Med' --...... "When you talk about priorities, you have to talk sure its survival. Quoting from a "white paper" on· CIIETRCIT-- · IIIIU~·­ Citat•1 ... about crime. A clear and present danger to all New crime preswed by Ilia staff, Koch's CU'WBNIIO ..,,, . .... ~ .... By beating the drums for a bigger police force, Bar­ opponent in the September 10 Demo­ (1...... Yorkers is the criminal class that rules this city from baro is simply being a Democratic Party politician. cratic Primary said that "the crime ~(USA.~ . ...., nte escalated between the Beame and .,...... , sunset to dawn. It's one more strong argument in favor of the one Koch eras," noting that the murder ..._..,....,...... ,.._ I pe~:Cent ...... "It is essential that we re-take the city's streets genuine working-class alternative in this election­ rate went up 27 since the ...... Y... t ... Y mayor look office. Tllia nte set ••a new from the muggers and drug addicts. . . . Putting the Socialist Workers Party ticket led by its mayoral 'Daily World,' August 19, 1981 thousands more cops really onto the street will make nominee, Wells Todd.

16 THE MILITANT OCTOBER 30, 1981 Socialist campaigners press fight for ideas take it out on the workers. would be elected. Good media in It may be a cold winter on the range, The Campaign for District Represen­ with thousands of miners and their fam­ tation, a community-based organization Indianapolis ilies trying to get by on unemployment spearheaded by independent State Rep­ pay. resentative Mel King, gathered over By Jenny Austin "In their open letter, Stuart and 26,000 signatures to place the questions and Bill Baker on the ballot. Participants include the INDIANAPOLIS - The Socialist Wheeler explain that, as socialists "who believe working people ought to run this NAACP, the Boston People's Organiza­ Workers Party and Young Socialist Al­ tion, the League of Women Voters, the liance are off and running in a campaign country," they are convinced that "workers can do a better job than the Black Political Task Force, and many for an election that is still a year off. other groups and individuals. Beth Julien, a young auto worker, has antilabor politicians and corporate exec­ been nominated for the 1982 U.S. Se­ utives who are leading us to economic nate race. ruin." Dave Ellis, an electrical worker, is They note that both of them are Louisville ticket running for Congress in the lOth Dis­ among the 1,500 Minntac workers "be­ trict. ing dumped on the unemployment rolls Among other things, Indiana's re­ by U.S. Steel's callous layoff." fights exclusion strictive election laws require that inde­ MilitanVMary Jo Hendrickson Stuart is a concentrator millwright By Dennis Rosa pendent candidates file nominating pe­ DAVE ELLIS apprentice. Wheeler is an agglomerator LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Socialist titions tens months before the election. laborer. Workers Party is making a determined To avoid petitioning in the dead of win­ "In our opinion," the letter declares, protest against being excluded from ter, the socialists decided to petjtion this budget-slashing message. One station "there are two main ways to fight candidate debates organized by the fall. arranged for Ellis to phone in comments against spiraling layoffs and rampant League of Women Voters. Their energetic campaign has been from Washington, D.C. , on the Sep­ inflation, the growing attack on the ba­ Patricia Van Houten, the party's can­ winning extensive media coverage. A tember 19 Solidarity Day demonstra­ sic human rights of women and op­ didate for Jefferson County judge, was news conference announcing the candi­ tion. pressed minorities, and the govern­ excluded from a televised debate Octob­ dates was covered by four TV stations, Special campaign material is being ment's war-like policies." er 5. The League also said it would ex­ two radio stations, and both daily pa­ directed to the 11,000 auto workers at One means of fightback, the socialist clude SWP mayoral nominee Chris Ray­ pers - almost the entire Indianapolis the GM subsidiary where Julien works. candidates said, is to continue such mas­ son from a slated October 24 debate. In a recent statement, Ellis called on media. sive protests as Solidarity Day in Wash­ Only the Democratic and Republican Indianapolis officials to shut down Weir Because of the state ballot laws, ington. The other, they declared, is the candidates were invited, with the Cook airport until the demands of the building of a labor party, "a solidarity which are among the worst in the coun­ League arguing that only "serious" can­ striking air controllers are met. He try, Beth Julien will not have a ballot party to fight in the political arena for didates should participate. charged that with the use of scabs at the place. The law presently requires the the needs of working people." Using Catch-22 logic, the civic group airport, the Federal Aviation Authority signatures of a minimum of 7,000 regis­ They invited co-workers and others arbitrarily defined a "serious" candidate was "playing Russian roulette with the tered voters, a big amount here, and the interested in their campaign to visit the as one who gets 20 percent of the vote. lives of thousands of passengers." legislature is planning to make it Solidarity Bookstore at 1012 Second But, the SWP asked, how are you sup­ 28,000 for the 1984 elections. Avenue South. Campaign meetings are posed to get 20 percent if groups like the Restrictions on write-ins are totally being held there each Saturday morning League of Women Voters join with the undemocratic. Plus, the law says, at at 10 a.m. until the election. media in denying candidate exposure? twenty-five, Julien is "too young." Layoffs hit on To make the protest known, twenty For Congress, it is necessary to file Socialist Workers campaign supporters 700 signatures of registered v'oters who Iron Range picketed outside TV station WLKY. live In the district. The socialist cam­ VIRGINIA, Minn-. - The Socialist Boston: Yes on which was telecasting the debate from paign has set a target of 2,000 for Ellis Workers Party candidates here have which VanHouten was excluded. in the event of a discriminatory chal­ distributed an open letter to co-members district vote Mayoral candidate Chris Rayson lenge. Also, advance support for his of Steelworkers Local 1938,. which rep­ BOSTON-John Rees, ~ociabst passed out statements explaining the right to a ballot place is being won. resents iron ore miners at U.S. Steel's Workers Party (SWP) candidate for Bos­ purpose of the protest. A very successful kick,off campaign Minntac mine in Mountain Iron, which ton City Council, and David Walsh, The picket did win some media atten­ rally was held at the Militant Bookstore is right next to Virginia. SWP candidate for Boston School Com­ tion. It was covered by two of the three October 10. The meeting heard support The socialists are running Rich mittee, are urging a "yes" vote on two local TV stations, as well as by the city's for minority ballot rights from Gabriella Stuart for mayor of Virginia, a town of binding referenda that would increase major daily. Boursier of Women's International 12,000, and Kathy Wheeler f<;>r alder­ the possibility ofBlack and Hispanic rep­ Supporters of the right of the SWP League for Peace and Freedom, and Ha­ man. resentation on the Boston City Council candidates to be heard have signed peti­ rold Karabell, Citizens Party candidate The Minntac mine, biggest in the and Boston School Committee. The tions and written letters to the League. for Congress in the lOth District. country, produces taconite pellets from proposals are designated on the : ballot One such protest came from Martha In addition to Julien and Ellis, the the low-grade iron ore so abundant on for the November 3 election as Ques­ Pickering, a member of the League's meeting also heard Jesse Smith, a Gary the Mesabi Iron Range. tions One and Two. board of directors. steelworker running for Congress on the The pellets are shipped to the steel Only two Blacks and no Hispanics In a letter to the League, she said, SWP ticket. mills of the Midwest, where · they are have been elected to the City Council "The Socialist Workers Party has com­ YSA chairperson Curt Steinmetz melted down into iron to make steel. and School Committee in the last thirty petent candidates in both races. It may spoke about the case of Mojgan Hariri­ Minntac and other Iron Range mines years. be that they represent National Vijeh, an Iranian student facing depor­ have just announced layoffs, the biggest Though Boston's Black and Hispanic League's stated positions on various tation because of her membership in the ever. communities are approaching 30 per­ issues more fully than do some of the YSA. Two mines near Hibbing, National cent of the city's population, the system candidates who are going to debate. Local radio stations have taped state­ Steel Pellet and Butler Taconite, an­ of at-large citywide elections to the city "I do want to go on record as saying I ments by the candidates on various nounced six-week layoffs. council and school committee has gua­ believe all candidates in a particular issues, including their response to the They all have the same story - steel ranteed that virtually no candidates race should have · a chance to partici­ Sadat assassination and Reagan's sales are down and imports are up. So from the national minority communities pate." I Seaside socialist hits election date juggling By Janice Lynn would remain in ApriL Seaside is the only community on the SEASIDE, Galif. - The issue of com­ Mason protested that the residents of Monterey Peninsula that did not pass munity participation in making deci­ Seaside had not been consulted about this type ofprowar resolution. U.S. Con­ sions that affect residents of Seaside this new ordinance. gressman Leon Panetta, Democrat from was raised several times by Seaside City One immediate effect of the proposed Carmel Valley, had pressed for adoption Council member Mel Mason at an Oc­ ordinance would be to extend the terms of such resolutions to bring to Congress. tober 15 council meeting. of the mayor and two right-wing city Mason's dissent raised the ire of the Mason, a member of the Socialist council members by six months. Much of Salinas Californian, the city of Salinas's Workers Party, was elected to the city the Seaside Black community has be­ daily newspaper. council in March 1980 with what he de­ come increasingly concerned about the "Mason has chosen the 'wrong forum scribes as "grass roots supJ*Ii,," espe­ right-wingers' disregard of the growing to articulate his philosophical opposi­ cially from the Black community. Ma­ number of police brutality incidents in tion to the military," a September 26 son is also a leader of the recently Seaside. editorial stated, "and his differences formed National Black Independent At Mason's insistence, the council was with Panetta's stance on unrelated Political Party. forced to postpone adopting the ordi­ issues.... One of Mason's campaign planks, nance and to schedule a public hearing along with pledging to work for mot:e af­ for November 5 to hear the views of the Mason had denounced Panetta as a f9rdable housing, more jobs, affirmative community. "hawk." And he criticized Panetta for action, and youth programs, called for Mason was the only council member not fighting the cutbacks in social servi­ increasing citizen participation in gov­ who voted to oppose a resolution several ces programs such as the Comprehen­ ernment. weeks ago protesting proposed cuts at sive Employment and Training Act, as Before the council October 15 was a Fort Ord. The prowar resolution had al­ vigorously as,he was fighting the sham proposed ordinance to set the Seaside. so stressed Fort Ord's importance to the cuts in military troops. municipal elections that take place in "military defense of the nation." "The issue Mason should be concerned even-numbered years in November with But even with only one vote against with," the editorial went on, "is the well the statewide general elections. Munici­ it, the resolution did not carry because a being of the city that elected him to look pal elections in odd-numbered years quorum was not present. out for its best interests." MEL MASON

OCTOBER 30, 1981 THE MILITANT 17 The Great SOciety Harry Ring

Didn't have opportunity - William flees and sanctuaries. An official said Cut off a finger for each conviction, he ing part of the physician's fees to reduce Bell, tapped by Reagan to head the they were installed so they would hear if opines, and crime will diminish. "frivolous" visits to the doc's office. And Equal Employment Opportunity Com­ there was a disturbance. those food stamp cuts will help reduce mission, claimed he was an active P.S. - Dr. Dominguez is as clear­ unnecessary visits to the dinner table. member of the Detroit NAACP. Local Role model- Prince Charles of Eng­ thinking as he's humane. He sees a link NAACP. officials said there was no re­ land, who recently upped his own pay to between abortion and municipai prob­ Really - "In the end, the consumer cord he ever was a member. Responded $750,000, dedicated a plaque at a youth lems. "Think about it," he says. "We always pays." Crysler's Lee Iaeocca on Bell, "Well, I'm a member philosophical­ center in an area of London hit by recent didn't have the problem of abandoned the high price of cars. ly. I guess my wife hasn't paid my dues youth rebellions. The visit by the good buildings in New York until1970 when lately." prince was made "amid tight security." abortions were allowed. God was pun­ That they know - Consolidated Ed­ ishing us for allowing abortions." ison shut down its Indian Point 2 nucle­ Holy mike! - California officials Sanctity of humans -Dr: Jeronimo ar reactor in New York to repair a leak. placed bugs in the chapels of three state Dominguez, New York mayoral nomi­ For their own good- David Stock­ Officials said they_didn't know how long reformatories. A chaplain said they nee of the "right-to-lifers," favors an man, White House director of budget­ the repair would take, but that it would were found in vestibules, counseling of- "amputation sentence" for criminals. chopping, favors Medicaid patients pay- result in an increased cost to consumers. What's Going On

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18 THE MILITANT OCTOBER 30, 1981 Letters

Labor party Iran -II accept reduced payments. The I attended Solidarity Day in I cast my vote for publishing bank refuses to go along. Washington and more than in pamphlet fonn the recent So the courts throw the ever feel that it is time for article explaining what is bankers in jail. labor to break from the going on in Iran. The article by Albert Cassorla political parties of the ruling Dave Frankel in the October 9 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania class and fonn a labor party. issue of the Militant is perfect Mice must vote for mice - not for explaining this complex More 'equality' cats. issue. A columnist here made a AlanD. Orr Everyone is confused on this good point. When Bobby Sands, Aurora, Illinois question, from workers to the Irish hunger striker died, Iranians here in the city. Even former President Ford piously socialists were having a tough said, "If a person commits a time with it, until this article crime, he has to pay the came out. penalty." We recently brought to a The columnist asked, meeting of Iranians at the "Wasn't it Ford who pardoned Iran -I University of California San Richard Nixon to make sure ' I followed with dismay the Diego a mimeographed copy of that he did not pay any penalty /' Militant's confused analysis of the editorial from the Militant for his crimes?" "What we must decide Is, If there Is an accidental nuclear'8xploslon the conflict in Iran. Echoing dated September 11. The thrust that wipes out this entire part of the country, M.F. do we pasa the cost on to the consumer?" the Khomeini government's of the polemics at the meeting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania line that the Mujahedeen are was "Death to the Islamic agents of American Republic." imperialism, the Militant People took our leaflet, read Progress in L.A. front of the meeting hall The basic argument of the headlines,," . .. Terror it, and we had a comradely When I first moved to Los understood Spanish. campaign for 1-394 is that the campaign in Iran plays into discussion about it. Angeles, people would tell me The police were called and energy supply system is a imperialist hands." The editorial is not adequate about the different parks and told of the threats, whereupon public agency, and that it In this estranged view, though, because of the brevity the many things they had to one of the police persons told should be under direct public "terror campaign" refers not to required. offer. them "I know who you are" so control. Whether 1-394, if the government executions of The Frankel article, as a The biggest and best known don't block the forum entrance passed, will accomplish this its leftist opponents, but to the short, inexpensive pamphlet is is Griffith Park. Now you can't and don't damage the cars. How goal remains to be seen. fragmented efforts of the very much needed. even drive through there the cop knew them is not clear. Certainly it will not, unless Mujahedeen to respond to its John Naubert without paying. The forum attracted a sizable more is done after the election. own defense. San Diego, California One day they just put up five crowd, none of whom were But passage of it will be an Yes, there are attacks toll booths at main entrances. deterred by the manacing encouragement to the unions against the Iranian revolution It costs fifty cents on weekdays attitude of the pickets and the and concerned persons here to coming from American and a dollar on weekends. forum proceeded without take action, I believe. imperialism, but is that any Equal justice They reported on TV that the disruption. The Militant article argued reason to allow the Khomeini The next time someone tells grandson of the Mr. Griffith, Michael Kelly that 1-394 "will not allow a government to pose itself as you that the law in this who I think the park was San Diego, California clear vote on nuclear power . defender of the revolution, country serves all Americans named for, is going to sue the [and) only affects the sale of when in fact it i;this very equally, remember the recent city to stop this. "Parks should bonds." Therefore, "it is no same government itself which ruling on the Philadelphia be free," he said. solution and should be defeated." is in the forefront of teachers' strike. The School This also hits the many Disagrees I don't think I-394 will solve dismantling the Iranian Board signed a contract with people who cut through the The Militant of September 18 all the problems resulting from revolution's ability to defend the Philadelphia Federation of park as a timesaver on the way carried a half-page article on the so-called "energy crisis," or itself? Teachers, you see, and then it to work. the fight now being waged that it will stop the bankers So what is the Militant's decided that because it lacked At the Lockheed plant where against nuclear power brokers from preying on the public. But view of what might the "sufficient funds," it would I work this has caused an in the state of Washington. it may put a crimp in their style Mujahedeen better be doing to break the contract. uproar. A large part of the union for a while. build the Iranian revolution? So the School Board will be Nancy Brown movement here believes that It seems to me that the SWP Roll over and play dead - thrown in jail for breach of Los Angeles, California this is a crucial political is in mighty poor company when literally? Or is it to safely contract, right? Wrong. struggle. it calls for a "no" vote on this spout abstractions on the Instead, it's the teachers who The current estimated proposition. If you expect to sidelines as the Militant's have been ordered back to Alpha 66 pickets construction cost of five nuclear influence working people, it is a cothinkers are reduced to doing work by Common Pleas Judges Some fifteen to twenty people, power plants is $24 billion. poor start to join the greatest in Iran to keep from getting Bradley and Takiff. In 1973, mostly Cubans, picketed outside Construction costs are being enemies of the working class in obliterated? during the last strike, the October 3 Militant Forum in financed by the sale of matters of this kind. While the Mujahedeen's hundreds of teachers and some San Diego. Inside, a slide show Washington Public Power I wish you the best of luck. embrace of Bani-Sadr is top union leaders were jailed. was being given by two Supply System (WPPSS) bonds. Shaun Maloney extremely opportunistic, and The schools reopened only members of the Young Socialist The cost will be passed on to Seattle, Washington its politics much less than ideal when the city was threatened Alliance recently returned consumers in the form of to say that it is "aligned with· with a general strike. from Cuba drastically higher electric bills. The letters column is an open imperialism" is an odious Although unlikely, it would Picket signs identified them The fight against this, at this forum for all viewpoints on charge. The last that I had be interesting if the recent as from the Alpha 66 group, a stage, takes the fonn of subjects of general interest to heard, neither Reagan nor the ruling were to establish a well-known, CIA-trained, exile Initiative 394, which will be on our readers. Please keep your American media were exactly uniformly applied precedent. Cuban terrorist outfit. Several the November ballot. If letters brief. Where necessary singing the praises of the Imagine this scenario: you were overheard planning to enacted, the new law will they will be abridged. Please Mujahedeen. obtain a mortgage, buy a home, damage cars parked in front of require a public vote on all indicate if you prefer that your TonyAbdo and then tell the bank you're the forum, not realizing bonds sold by WPPSS after initials be used rather than Portland, Oregon broke and that they'll have to members of the defense squad in July 1, 1982. your full name.

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OCTOBER 30,1981 THE MILITANT 19 THE MILITANT Greek election deals blow to NATO nuclear plan for Europe

By Suzanne Haig tion, massive rallies - virtual mobili­ and Dean Athans zations of the population - occurred in Scoring a resounding victory in the the twenty-five cities visited by Papan­ October 18 parliamentary elections in dreou. Greece, the Pan Hellenic Socialist A gigantic rally took place October Movement (Pasok), headed by Andreas 15 in Athens, which some Greek pap­ Papandreou, brought an end to thirty­ ers estimated to be the largest ever five years of rule by various right-wing held in Greece. regimes and military dictatorships. On October 7, on the island of Pirgo, Newly elected Prime Minister Papan­ off the Turkish shore, 60,000 people dreou campaigried on a platform of turned out for a Pasok rally. radical change in foreign and domestic While Pasok supports a capitalist policy, including pulling Greece out of economy, it appealed to the working NATO and shutting down the four class by including in its program U.S. military bases in the country. promises for increased wages, a cost-of­ Opposition to NATO runs deep in living clause for wages and pensions, a Greece. Last October, between 300,000 forty-hour .work week, and socialized and 500,000 people marched in Athens medicine. against the government's decision to Pasok called for childcare centers, re-enter NATO's military command. equal pay for equal work, and an end To millions of Greeks, Papandreou's to sex-role stereotypes in education. At victory signals a new epoch. Across a women's rights rally September 21, the country, huge crowds took to the Papandreou stated that "A real social streets waving the party's green flag, transformation cannot be without the shouting, "Victory for change," liberation of women, without equality "Pasok and the people to power," and of men and women." "The right has died, the change has Young people were the backbone of happened." Pasok's campaign. An October 17 arti­ Of the fourteen parties that .ran in cle in the pro-Pasok daily, Free Press, the election, only three received explained why youth supported the enough votes to participate in parlia­ party. It said in part, "Our youth ment. Pasok won 48 percent of the vote demand of us peace ... because they and 174 of the 300 parliamentary know they would be the ones to fight seats, soundly defeating the New De­ arid die [as] in Vietnam. Middle East mocracy Party (NDP), led by George wars, the war preparations of 1974 Rallis. The NDP, which had been in [when Greece almost went to war with office since 1974, carried out a vitriolic Turkey over Cyprus]. . . ." campaign of red baiting and violence While millions of Greeks hailed Pas­ against Pasok. The extreme right wing ok's victory, the U.S. government and the monarchists either supported reacted with grave concern. The elec­ or literally dissolved themselves into tion represented still another blow to the NDP, which received 36 percent of Washington's plans for beefing up its the vote and 113 seats. military forces in Europe. Rallis, who ran on an openly pro­ In an article entitled, "U.S. faces NATO, pro-Washington, pro-big busi­ antinuclear tide as it seeks NATO . . .. ·• .• . .·. ·. .. • . .. ·. .· .· .• •'• ·•· .·• -::-.:-: :;. :-. ·.· .· ·. ·> ·::. :: ':- -:: -:-.:=: -:- ... . :-. ··.··.· ·. ,· •.· .-: ·, ·.·. ness platform, had carried out a harsh support of its weapon's proposals," the Greek people took to the streets to celebrate victory of Andreas Papandreou. austerity drive against Greek workers October 20 Wall Street Journal cor­ and farmers while he was in office. rectly linked the election results in The Communist Party won 11 per­ Greece with the October 10 demonstra­ ingly visible. This movement is also Mitterrand as president of France - cent of the vote and 13 seats. Pasok tion of 300,000 in Bonn, West Ger­ reflected in the growing opposition to with whom Papandreou identifies him­ and the CP together gathered 57 per­ many, against the stationing of nu­ NATO in the British Labour Party, the self - and the growth of the militant cent of the vote. The center parties did clear weapons in Europe. mass reformist-led social democratic left-wing in Britain's Labour Party, very poorly, receiving less than 1 per­ Pasok's victory is another reflection parties, and many trade unions in Pasok's victory shows the growing cent of the vote. of the powerful antimissile, anti-NATO Europe. Moreover, like the May elec­ radicalization of workers in Europe in In the days leading up to the elec- movement in Europe, which is increas- . tion of Socialist Party leader Francois the face ·of the employers' offensive. Union protests gov't harassment at war plant By John Studer government for this selective harass­ administrative action concerning your charging the company with "political Three socialist workers at the McDon­ ment. security clearance is necessary, you will harassment and intimidation." nell-Douglas Corporation in St. LOuis The new letter from the government be apprised of the specific reasoning for The three socialists have retained Lou have received letters from the federal spells out the political character of the such action and, of course, be given full Gilden, a prominent St. Louis labor and government calling for a full-scale in­ campaign and the underlying threat to due process to refute any allegations civil liberties attorney. He was the law­ vestigation of their political views and the workers' jobs. made." yer for J.B. Johnson, a Black youth well activities. The letter, dated October 13, states: The letter is signed "Jonathan S. Van know,n as a frame-up victim in the mid- 1970's. They are prepared to take The letters, received October 16 from · "Information has come to our attention Horn, Colonel, USA, Chief." the Defense Industrial Security Office which may have a bearing upon your The DISCO letter raises an ominous McDonnell-Douglas to court to protect (DISCO), follow earlier demands by the continuing eligibility for the contractor­ precedent. Special political investiga­ their jobs. company and DISCO that the three em­ granted Confidential security clearance tions can be launched against anyone, The Political Rights Defense Fund is planning a broad rally in St. Louis for ployees complete special secret security which you now possess. When such in­ at any time, whenever some mysterious forms. formation is received, Department of "informant" sends some government November 14. The rally will be a focus Defense Regulation 5220.22-R, Para. 2- for labor, civil rights, antiwar, and civil The three - Jody Curran, Harris agency poison-pen letters about their 320b requires that we initiate an inves­ political or union activities. liberties groups to end their voices in de­ Freeman, and Barry David - are all tigation in order to validate and resolve fense of Curran, Harris, and David. An­ machinists for McDonnell-Douglas, one any issues addressed by this informa­ This is a threat to the entire union dree Kahlmorgan, victim of a similar at­ of the nation's largest war contractors. tion. In order to request this investiga­ movement because it allows the employ­ tack on her job because of her -political They are the only workers out of 35,000 tion, the forms which we have asked you er to harass and victimize workers at ideas by Lockheed in Marietta, Georgia, at their plant to be confronted with to complete are required. will, regardless of contract and seniority is on a national tour for PRDF and will these demands. "We are not at liberty (due to Exemp­ protection. join them on the platform. The rally is They have received the backing of tion (K)(5) of the Privacy Act of 1974) to The moves by the government and the scheduled for 7:30 p.m., November 14, their union, Lodge 837-B of the Interna­ discuss the details of the information compaey have been broadly publicized in the Episcopal Church of the Holy tional Association of Machinists, in in­ which we have received, but should the by both of St. LOuis's daily papers. Communion, 7401 Delmar, in Universi­ sisting on a legal explanation from th~ results of the investigation indicate that The lAM has filed a formal grievance, ty City, just outside St. Louis. ·