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OCTOBER IS-With last week's CIA policy summed up: bombs and bullshit. sneak attacks on key oil facilities in the On Saturday, October IS, thousands ports of Corinto and Puerto Sandino. of angry Nicaraguans demonstrated U.S. imperialism's war against the against this imperialist blackmail. 0licaraguan revolution has reached an marching behind a giant banner pro ominous turning point. For a small claiming (in English), "Reagan Son of a country where 75 percent of oil imports Bitch!"~ CIA/contra sneak attack on oil depots at port of Corinto flows through one pipeline and more The Nicaraguan masses have fought forces 25,000 people to flee. than half of all foreign trade passes over too long and suffered too much to lie a single bridge, the effect ofthese attacks down and die. For almost halfa century National Liberation Front (FSLN) Determined to reverse their ignomin on the economy is devastating. Nicara the Somoza dynasty, installed by the marched into Managua in August 1979 ious rout, U. S.-armed and directed gua has reportedly now been reduced to U.S. Marines in 1934, sucked the blood and West Point graduate "Tacho" conrras (counterrevolutionaries), most barely one month's oil reserves. And of Nicaragua's workers and peasants. Somoza fled for his life, U.S. imperial ly drawn from the sadistic gangsters of while smoke billows from the oil tanks, Fifty thousand people. overwhelmingly ism experienced a defeat in what Ronald Somoza's National Guard, have waged the Nicaraguans are supposed to polite youth, were killed in the civil war which Reagan calls its "front yard" which gave a campaign of terrorism. But as the ly "negotiate" with war criminal Henry finally ended that long night of terror. the Americans visions of "another contras were routed by the Sandinista Kissinger! It was the U.S. "two-track" When the radical nationalist Sandinista Cuba." continued on page 14
H9ht New Witchhunt Guidelines! Spartacist League Sues FBI The anti-Soviet war drive is finding as not simply "subversives" but "ter our basic democratic rights. Excerpts spiracy to frame up, jail and if its inevitable natural reflex in secret rorists," the new guidelines are a set-up from the complaint filed by the SLj necessary murder the Black Panthers. police terror. The FBI's new Domestic for the legal murder and wholesale SYL are reprinted on page 4. But this government claims that it is SecurityIT errorism Guidelines an destruction of the left. As Marxists, we are hardly shocked democratic, that its people are permit nounced by Reagan's attorney general This dangerous development must that the American state, in its cam ted such social and religious views as William French Smith in March tar be fought with all the political, moral paign of repression against the left, they see fit. We Marxists claim and get the political opponents of the and legal resources that can be practices a covert form of General fight for the rights which issued from government. mustered. That is why the Spartacist Pinochet's rule. More precisely, when the American political revolution and These guidelines direct the FBI to League has initiated a suit against the it's having trouble it engages in are encoded in laws. wipe out any legal distinction between FBI and Attorney General-against "excesses" which it then deplores when Section III of the new guidelines the government's political opponents the guidelines and their application to they have served their purpose. from headed "Criminal Intelligence and "organized crime." Painting the the Spartacist League/Spartacus the mass deportations of leftists in the Investigations"-places the left within political opponents of the government Youth League in flagrant violation of Palmer Raids to the systematic con- continued on page 4
:i1'1"!& ,tmi'Jf1.~~~.::!'{~~tl;Jd"&viiSl ,~~~~~'!=" .....c.s>:J'S!t.4'.&'~,'ft_,"!~~~'Z7".d,~....:t~~9.s~ Drop the Charges Against Compton NAARPR Leader! Mattie Billinger: Victim of Racist Vendetta LOS ANGELES, October I7-An -iriven home by the deputies and outrageous racist frame-up is being subsequently arrested when he tried to perpetrated here against long-time return to the abandoned car. When Dr. community activist and National Alli Billinger finally got back to her car the ance Against Racist and Political following morning, it had been broken Repression (NAARPR) member Dr. into and the securiti.es, worth some Mattie Billinger. Last Thursday Comp $30,000, were gone. ton cops barged into her sister's home, Then on June 28, county sheriff's dragged Billinger out, arrested her on deputies again stopped Dr. Billinger. trumped-up charges and slammed her in This time they hekt a shotgun to her jail when she could not raise the head and searched her. With several No Bounty for astronomical $150,000 bail. Dr. Billin witnesses on the scene, the deputies, ger, a child psychologist and local real again out oftheirjurisdiction, left. After Racist Baby-Killer estate appraiser, has been active in this incident Dr. Billinger's attorney, Cop! ., health and education affairs here for Lawrence Teeter, filed a damages claim two decades. She is a former candidate against the sheriff's department, pro "Life Behind Bars for Killer Cop for mayor of Compton. has served as testing this blatant case of political Sperl!" demanded demonstrators in '~ \ice chairman of the King-Drew Sickk harassment and frame-up, As Teeter Oakland and Los An!'c!{'s October 6. C:c!: C'(;~FEr. i...}D the ad\"lsory b,)ard ~)! !\.)ld f-vr. th~ department. TI1aintain.., an Abon~. QO-plus dt~monstratofs out iv1dnin Luther Kin~ I-Io_"rit~1L ;.l;ld ~:;S ~.,t'Jn;{F.:-~:'" division \\'hich is trle cout"o ~'",:.-:'- tb~ ~rll-,JJTIO;!S sid!? 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"rbcy as:,keci tier if altum,;;\, inI-ormed she 1:1 ~ejt:' on the outlandlsL chan'", that she :,h-: h:id gun. ···Ye:.,. it's on the sht" 1 bU:iine;~s abOUT ~.'.,;; .. ~·utahty. the obyioll~ thing to any control of the pailc:''', ",'.e are a1 :'.-!l(l [n~r;-~. The gun belclnge~~ t(j 111:: embezzled her own of approxi up~ victims by the police mstead of prnte"'t sccur~tyn'-'fi~~er \\'ho gua.rds hf~~ office. matei\ S 160.000' During the in~errogc.· do is lock her ed by them," Dr. BilL((~(:r \\as then ch~lrf2'::': \.:,-ith tilllL one of the ccps w:ln:d in ber face a With Billinger in jaiL attorney Teeter But the job of the police is to enforce carr>!n~ J. ['(>i1c('cle{1 \}.. ean(~n --Zi :\ationa! A!ktnce leaflet defending her got a month's continuance on the the "law and order" ofcapitalism. not to !ni~)d~:;:"~c~;.n',.;r-- -h;lndcuffed anC: ::L1~;ll il1H] said. ;,;,{ never thought you~d blast discoven hearing in the mi',c1':rneanor c "protect" the [>,']' 0e·,ulation, These ~ C~)n1rton thi~".·~ di~-~-·. '_·?Y:. DC',"; _',' r1 ,'\!c 0.: Gnd e I j", co UI1l .. " the !)oiice like -fhe ~ ~:. ;~,-" '-! rn:'~'d ',\ n ~- -',."\ t,:~h; t:'" ;.,,--" (:.i'I1P; f,..:.':~: ii.'-.:~J" ··'Loni.rOlii.:~' ~dC ~ .. '. ''''r->- WiHtc: .uu"",.. at::a.1I!::;,L \1.2:, 0) .,"~ ~:.lppurtcu .~~,\::\RPR~ told ~~'~ taa\. _ ;.: .• rJ it.}itc(: aIlG ".\ :.j :-;',- ...,t".' DeDartrne~t ir: an busting [).- P:~::;"-":::'~:- 'A'as an ~~tt~"";1"1~ OPf''."f:sscd until the government of. b\'. !"<:;\; .." -l:~l,·, l' ~-~'-.' he'Ll r:jak~: hc;' ,),~;I'C~jr as (-: cnn[tn~;j~ ;2:~'i~ anc for the bosses is s\\cr·t (i"',!\" ai1'._~ :>!';~ ~'::J)e:,tcc' .~ ~ r:~p\c~ccd \\'(~rk'~r;" go\"crnrn~~nL. \\ ,;', ",.\ d:'; ;-"l-' i-::', BlJ () i', CdC-:'iC ·..:fC th~ C;Jurt ()(, hy a :~i ~ r;"," j·:llt:e>.:. ~ht' had ;..., ,_I !i(' ... :..,he hf:cn Fl( ~-:"0 t Jr-· !!' :'Liid (- rncitiJIl \\":.l~; the :-:~~ "inn~L /\ll~" T-r}e~e arc bLis!c \.'iar.\i'~1. truth:, \\ hJch arc j'i",,::l ";).1\ (~n( :-,e\el::i: th()l,J:~';~ .:_~ duna~."j ance's "j;:t' cJn\\'iuc (f10lec h'~>anlr(:ilgr: deniC\nstrated in every stTlke and the \,\"u:·th :){ ~~;l:: hi~(,..; _;-" .,>_! lIifJEey her on her o\\'n recogni7a~C(, This i:-; for "CO;--:rlIT:unily C(.intra] of h:: e'\r~rieJ1ce of daily jife In the ghetto. But ordl'r~ in t~le ca:-. but Yva~ not 21lC/';,\\:c L) "justice" Los Angelc--style In [J Sa) and that the '.; AARPR is presently the CP; :\AARPR prefers spreading take them with her. The ianitor ,,1 h~r vador, when the human rights commis drafting a ballot initiative on this dangerous illusions, just as in their call office, \\'r:O~lJ sh~ h3d been drl\'ing sion stJrted an investigation. they question, An Alli2nc:" leaflet defending on the capitalist state to "ban the Klan," home. was also refused permissic.n to simply killed the human rights commis Dr. Billinger states she was arrested Such "anti-extremist" laws will inevita remove the securities from her car. sioner. In L.A if somebody complains because "our community does not have bly be used against leftists. as the Smith Act was against the Trotskyists in 1';~·~'2;"i.' ,~~;,~;~;:'(,~~}~~-;m~~~-, --~,~--~-~'---- "~-",--"-,,~>" World War II (while the CP cheered) and then against the Communist Party itself. The way to deal with the fascists was shown in Washington, D.C. last Workers November 27, when 5,000 came out to the call of the Spartacist League initiated Labor/ Black Mobilization Vanguard that stopped the KKK from marching in the nation's capital. On October 6, the Spartacist League/ Subscription Spartacus Youth League demonstrated in L.A. to raise a cry of outrage against
,.~ the bounty payment to racist Stanton cop Sperl for his hideous murder of a /' Drive I little five-year-old black child, Patrick Mason, demanding "life behind bars" for the killer cop. As militant unionist Subscribe Now! ~"~~\}"~~~i:~~' Manuel Delgadillo told the protesters: "We all know that racist terror must be r------i stopped. But we better know how to do I Name it. Civilian review boards, [Los Angeles I WEEK FIVE black Democratic mayor] Tom Bradley I TOTALS or a Democrat in the White House Address won't change the racist hellholes we I have endured in the ghettos and barrios Quota Week 0/0 here and throughout the U.S. What is I Local (points) Five Phone ( needed to put a stop to the payment ofa I Atlanta 120 115 96 reward to this racist baby-killer is ... to Berkeley/Oakland 450 436 97 mobilize the enormous power of the City Zip I Boston 350 417 119 labor movement with its black and 340 I Chicago 300 346 115 Latin memberships." SPECIALI A Spartaclst pamphlet with one-year subscriptions to both I Cleveland 170 219 129 Workers Vanguard and Young Spartacus. I Detroit 300 338 113 The outrageous racist cop harassment Los Angeles 280 288 103 against Mattie Billinger must be $5/24 issues of Workers Vanguard 0 $2/10 introductory issues of I o New York 900 975 108 stopped! Drop all charges against Dr. (includes Spartacist) Workers Vanguard (includes Spartacist) I San Francisco 350 383 109 Billinger! The Partisan Defense Com 120 124 103 o New 0 Renewal 0 $2/9 issues of Young Spartacus I Washington, D,C" mittee has sent a donation and urges International rates; $20/24 issues-Airmail. , I At Large 150 $5/24 issues-Seamail 0 $2/4 Issues of Women and RevolutIOn I readers of WVto do likewise. Contribu National Total 3,340 3,791 114 tions may be sent to NAARPR, P.O. I Make payable/mail to: Spartacist Publishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, New York 10116 I L I I Box 104776,3870 South Crenshaw, Los Angeles, California 90008.• 2 WORKERS VANGUARD For Polish Trotsk~ism to Defeat Solidarnosc Reaction Why KOR Counterrevolutionaries Should Now Be Released
When Solidarnosc chief Lech Walesa was the Stalinists who had driven invited Pope John Paul Wojtyla to was awarded the Nobel "Peace" Prize decisive sections of the historically tour his homeland. inciting an orgy of early this month, the anti-Soviet propa socialist Polish working class into the anti-Communist and anti-Soviet ganda mills were churning away. It was arms of the Vatican, the International nationalism. a triumph of the "free trade union Monetary Fund and the Reagan White We are for releasing the KOR leaders, movement" in Poland, proclaimed House. Indefinite prolongation of mar fully aware (as we warned repeatedly) Ronald Reagan, who demonstrated his tiallaw, withitsaccompanyingdangerof that their aim was a counterrevolution concern for "free" labor by busting the military bonapartism. could only post ary seizure of power. In the fall of 1981 PATCO air controllers union. It was pone the day of reckoning while giving Kuron called for a "council of national certainly appropriate that the head of the imprisoned Solidarnosc leaders the salvation" to split away a wing of
this yellow "union" for the Vatican and aura of martyrdom. Thus right after the corrupt and demoralized Stalin .;i<." Wall Street bankers should receive a General Jaruzelski's countercoup. we ist bureaucracy, subordinating it "peace" prize inaugurated by the Swed stated: "As the immediate counterrevo to the church hierarchy and clerical ish inventor of dynamite. Previous lutionary threat passes. these martial law nationalist Solidarnosc. He added: "The Nobel recipients include Mr. Big Stick, measures must be ended, including moment the council is formed, it would Teddy Roosevelt, imperialist war crimi release of the Solidarnosc leaders. A suspend operation of all authorities, nal Henry Kissinger and Zionist ter Trotskyist vanguard seeks todefeat them including the government" (UPI dis rorist Menachem Begin. Walesa's politically, by mobilizing the Polish patch, 16 September 1981). After these Solidarnosc-which has called for working class in its true class interests" plans were frustrated, the KOR leader Der Spiegel subjecting the Polish economy to the ("Power Bid Spiked." WV No. 295, 18 (who had previously been regarded as a KOR leader Jacek Kuron, agent of starvation dictates of the IMF bankers' December 1981). "moderate") threw caution to the winds. the Vatican and NATO imperialism. cartel-is to trade unionism as these Martial law was formally suspended According to the well-informed Der warmongers are to peace. this past July. But while the imperialists Spiegel ( 10 May 1982), Kuron smuggled constitute the political and economic authority.... There would also be an seek to revive flagging spirits with their a secret message out of prison organization with the power to coerce Solidarnosc Counterrevolution Nobel for Walesa, the Jaruzelski regime proclaiming: the workers' militia." Spiked recently indicted four prominent Soli "In my many years of oppositional -reproduced in Revolutionary In the fall of 1981 Poland stood on the darnosc advisers for activities against activity I have always advocated the Marxist Students in Poland principle that one must avoid any resort Speak Out (Merit. 1968) brink of civil war. Three and a half the fundamental institutions of to force. Therefore I feel obliged to decades of Stalinist bureaucratic rule the system, charges which bring five to speak out in order to declare that today In this way Kuron distinguished highlighted by catastrophic economic ten years imprisonment. The four I regard preparing the overthrow of the himself from the advocates of imperial mismanagement and conciliation of singled out for prosecution-Jacek occupation [regime] through a general ist parliamentarism and social democra reactionary forces centered upon the Kuron, Adam Michnik, Zbigniew Ro uprising as the least evil alternative." cy. Moreover, the "Open Letter" noted Catholic church-had produced a mass maszewski and Henryk Wujec-are all But Kuron's criminal call for an uprising that "the bureaucratic and reactionary anti-Soviet, clerical-nationalist move- former members of the Workers De- went unheeded, sparing the Polish dictatorshipfavors the traditional polit masses a bloodbath with horrendous ical right." And it warned against consequences. "politically righHving groupings and As spelled out in response to a letter currents headed by the church hier last year (see "How to Fight Polish Anti archy, which hang on to the old Communists," WV No. 306, 28 May catchwords of reactionary ideology" 1982), under conditions of civil peace (emphasis in the original). When sen Trotskyists uphold the norm offreedom tenced to prison by the Gomulka of expression in the bureaucratically regime, Kuron and his fellow opposi degenerated!deformed workers states tionists marched out ofcourt singing the of the Soviet bloc, even for capitalist Internationale. restorationist tendencies. We do not The "Open Letter" was labeled both support imprisoning people because of by the Stalinists and Western bourgeois their ideas, however reactionary; it was media as "Trotskyist." And the pseudo ~k The pope of the counterrevolutionary acts of Soli Trotskyists of Ernest Mandel's United counterrevolution darnosc which had to be stopped at all Secretariat embraced Kuron and his co tours his Polish costs. The protracted crisis of Stalinist thinkers as their own. But even in 1964 it homeland last Poland can be resolved in a progressive was clear that Kuron was not a June, inciting direction only by proletarian political Trotskyist. As a sophisticated intellectu anti-Communist revolution establishing genuine soviet al, who had been tutored by one of the and anti-Soviet democracy. This requires the crystalli few Polish Trotskyists to return from hysteria. zation of a Trotskyist vanguard party, Stalin's forced labor camps, he knew following the path of Lenin and Rosa well that Trotsky considered Stalinism Luxemburg, which can break the hold to have a dual nature: seeking accom over the masses of the clerical modation with imperialism but resting nationalist and social-democratic cur continued on page /3 rents embodied in Solidarnosc. i DlBi1lil .,.!~> ' KOR: The Pope's Dissidents WORKERS ment in and around Solidarnosc. When fense Committee (KOR). Among other Jacek Kuron was not always an this Polish "free [read: anti-Communist] things, they are being accused in typical organizer for "democratic" counterrev VANfiIJA/i1J trade union" at its first national con Stalinist fashion of "connections with olution. As an adolescent in the early Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of the Spartacist League of the U.S. gress in September 1981 consolidated Trotskyite terrorist groups in the West." 1950s he was a Stalinist fanatic who around an explicit program of disman However, KOR was not a terrorist enjoyed baiting anti-Communist reac EDITOR: Jan Norden PRODUCTION MANAGER: Noah Wilner tling the planned economy in favor of conspiracy but a propaganda group tionaries, even then all too numerous in "self-management" and "free elections," (and certainly had nothing to do with CIRCULATION MANAGER: Linda Jarreau "People's Poland." He first came to EDITORIAL BOARD: Jon Brule, Charles the international Spartacist tendency Trotskyism). Now that the military prominence in 1964 when he was Burroughs, George Foster, Liz (3ordon, raised the call: "Stop Solidarnosc danger has been surpassed, Kuron et al. Mary Jo McAllister, James Robertson, sentenced to six years in prison for co Reuben Samuels. Joseph Seymour, Counterrevolution!" should be released along with the rest of authoring an "Open Letter" to the ruling Marjorie Stamberg Fortunately for the international the Solidarnosc gang. Polish United Workers Party. His Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published proletariat, Solidarnosc' bid for power The pro-West~rn social democrats of biweekly, skipping an issue in August and political outlook at that time was a week in December. by the Spartacist was spiked by the beleaguered Jaruzel KOR are no worse (just more sophisti vaguely syndicalist, though couched in Publishing Co., 41 Warren Street, New York, ski regime in December 1981 at what cated) than the rest of the Solidarnosc some Marxist terminology. In many NY 10007. Telephone: 732-7862 (Editorial). appeared to be the last possible moment 732-7861 (Business). Address all corres leaders, most of whom were released respects Kuron and his colleagues pondence to: Box 1377, GPO, New York, NY to stop it on the basis ofstate power. Had even before the suspension of martial 10116. Domestic subscriptions: $5.00/24 resembled New Left radicals in the issues. Second-class postage paid at New Walesa and his colleagues taken over law, including the "charismatic" Wale West, who in turn could identify with York, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address Poland, this would have meant bringing sa. Moreover, while going after Kuron these Polish dissidents. Despite its changes to Workers Vanguard. Box 1377, NATO imperialism to the very borders and his colleagues, the Stalinists contin GPO, New York, NY 10116. fundamental theoretical flaws, the Opinions expressed in signed articles or of the Soviet Union, cutting off East ue to placate the Catholic hierarchy, the "Open Letter" clearly called for letters do not necessarily express the editoriat Germany and setting the stage directly main organizing center for counterrevo working-class rule: viewpoint. for a nuclear World War III. lution in Poland and the real power "Under workers' democracy, the At the same time, we recognized that it behind KOR. Only last June, Warsaw representatives in the plants would No. 340 21 October 1983 21 OCTOBER 1983 3 write letters to the New York Times FBI maintained a list of 17 organiza names of leftists, who are thus made out FBI Suit•.. delicately questioning the U.S. valida tions targeted for "special" attention. to be potential threats to the life of the (continued from page 1) tion of EI Salvador's human rights Among them were the Spartacist president, upon no proof or evidence record. All other political opponents of the special set of RICO (Racketeer League, the Communist Party (CP) and whatsoever. Any Marxist-whose views the government become "criminal ter Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Socialist Workers Party (SWP). We must necessarily be utterly at variance rorists." Even the chairman of the Act) conspiracy laws, which have have every reason to believe that the with such acts of individual terror-can House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil already been used for terrible abuse. In reality of ADEX still exists; according only feel the keenest personal resent and Constitutional Rights noted that his introduction to these guidelines, to the FBI's own testimony they do not ment and indignation at being lumped the FBI "wants to investigate speech": Attorney General Smith wrote: destroy files "related to subversive, with the likes of the obscure Oswald or "The guidelines permit the launching of "The new approach, combining both terrorist or extremist activities" and the fantasizing fascist Hinkley. organized crime and domestic security a full investigation based on 'advocacy' such information remains "readily Secret police infiltration and investigations in a single set of guide alone" (New York Times, 8 March). retrievable ("Analysis of Claimed Ter harassment of the left aims to poison lines, should make it easier for your The new guidelines replace those rorist Incidents in the U.S.," 1981), We both the human and comradely rela [FBI Director Webster's] agents to also note that the FBI's official defini focus their intelligence efforts on those instituted by Gerald Ford's attorney tions within the Marxist organization criminal enterprises which threaten our general in 1977, which supposedly tion of the Spartacist League has and those necessary contacts between us people to attain ideological goals." sought to curb the FBI's abuse of remained identical since prior to 1977, and various public authorities in con -Criminal Law Reporter, Vol. "legitimate authority." As we said at the That "definition" is particularly insidi nection with assuring the peaceful and 32, No. 24, 23 March 1983 time, the Ford/Levi guidelines simply ous and ascribes to us a conspiratorial effective exercise of our democratic "Domestic Security/Terrorism Guide streamlined the secret police agencies putchism: " ... the SPL [FBI acronym rights. Should various police authorities lines" is the official title for the Smith while pacifying the "respectable" citi for the SL] does not openly advocate the take or claim to take the FBI's lies at guidelines and there should be no doubt zens who were chagrined to learn that violent overthrow of the U.S. govern face value, it lays the basis for murder as to what is meant here by "terrorism." their mail had been opened, their ment at this time ..." (emphasis ours). ous violence against us. For instance, The statement by Senator Jeremiah phones tapped, their medical records If not "openly" then presumably any group believed to be "violent" Denton (chairman of the Senate Sub and sex lives investigated. covertly, That the FBI, the truly secret "terrorists" would become an immedi committee on Security and Terrorism) For the left and labor movements, arm of the ruling class responsible for ate target for police and/or right-wing that groups which "produce propagan such secret police harassment has been massive, organized violence worldwide, attack in the course of carrying out da, disinformation and 'legal assistance' the norm for decades. The deadly should mount such an attack on the ordinary propaganda work: a rally, a may be even more dangerous than those COINTELPRO campaign against the "dangerous" thought of Marxists is street sale, a public meeting. The state who actually throw the bombs" makes it Black Panther Party involved vicious more than an irony-it is historical takes on "terrorists" with its guns clear that the FBI's targets are, as usual, frame-ups, jailings, provocations, for perversity. In fact, the capitalist govern drawn. And such a climate feeds the leftist political organizations (hearing geries and cold-blooded murder. Ask ment is not "overthrown" violently or genuinely criminal activities ofthe racist before the Subcommittee on Security some Panther survivors of the 1960s non-violently. The historical probabili and right-wing terrorists such as the Ku and Terroris~ 24 June 1982). "Terror what it means to be tagged as a ty is that in a revolutionary situation Klux Klan, emboldening them to ist" has been the official description for "terrorist" by the feds. there may well be little government to attempt more Greensboro massacres. Salvadoran peasants struggling against In 1976 an "administrative index" or "overthrow" and surely not this govern All of us on the state's hit list had the oligarchy, black South Africans ADEX "memorandum" was obtained ment in its present form. The choices better know what it can mean to be fighting apartheid and the women and through the Freedom of Information posed will most probably be between the treated as a terrorist outlaw in America. children of Palestinian refugee camps. Act and made public by CounterSpy (6 democratic soviets of the working class While almost every left press in the Now this fraud has come home with a December 1976). The ADEX file was and a tottering bonapartist dictatorship country has taken note of the new FBI vengeance. Lawful dissent is presuma supposedly "abolished" in 1974, but two led by some retread of General MacAr guidelines, they have taken no action to bly limited to college professors who years later this memo revealed that the thur, General Haig, Jeane Kirkpatrick defend against this McCarthyism with a or the like. Any organization that fits drawn gun. We are compelled to the FBI's conspiratorial definition undertake this legal battle, not only to would have to be a group of suicidal defend ourselves against the new FBI In 1971, Attorney General John Mitchell, in an attempt to stave off further criticism of the FBI's practice of keeping huge lists of dissidents~aneged subversives-for who knows what nefarious reasons, announced that all of the lists had psychopaths. red-hunt but also to fight to preserve the been abolished, and were replaced by one short "Administrative lndex," or, "ADEX," of less than 10,000 names. Since that list was also unrelated to proven, or even suspected criminal activity, in 1974 Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray Nothing is less conspiratorial than a existing democratic rights of the announced that the ADEX had been abolished. However, in 1976, a politically active attorney from New York, requesting his FBI flIe-under the Freedom of Information Act, discovered, buried in his dossier, a copy of his ADEX entry Memoran Marxist working-class organization, working-class movement. We do not dum and Report. ADEX, it appears. was not abolished, simply moved around. No explanation of the four categories was given. The New York office recommended that the lawyer be put in the lowest category, IV. "because of subjeCt's apparent whose success is entirely dependent on intend to be blown away-faceless, influence with New Left leaders." However, the home office stated: "In adwtion to the foregoing, a review of subject's activities clearly depicts him as a revolutionary attorney and sympathizer who, dUring a time of national emergency, would the open and widest dissemination ofits nameless victims in the dead ofnight. As be likely to commit acts inimical to the national defense. In view of the above, ~ubject is being included in Category 111 of ADEX." What fate is in store, we wonder, for people put in Category I? The names and addresses have been changed; views and aims. In this tradition the SL the organization which embodies the otherwise the document below is an exact replica of an ADEX Memorandum: takes special care to preserve and continuity of revolutionary Marxism in
,,..,~: -~-'- r--- j (k" II :-:_7" __ make publicly available full records the U.S. today, our task is too impor of its public expression and internal tant: the liberation of the workers and Memorandum discussion, oppressed from the chains of this
Do'~'~. flU (hi". Decade in and decade out, such decaying, racist system through victori l,MT\-. MAY IS 1972 palpably false characterizations have ous socialist revolution. A Workers 5~ NEW YORK FBI's been used as a cover in order to harass Party Has a Right to Organize! ~LCI a.aud Abrahaa StraufIlI ua opponents of the government. For 60 We urge our readers to strongly Hit List support this case. Donate generously to Ilf:~~.!.l-!!l!.~.rtdated ~ ~. plus years the Communist Party has ~ I~; ~ \l'E~ (; .... L:'"--'_~Dt.\O'4'~_1·4("",,"",~..,._lJ) Olooloj..'·--I....'..'-...... been subjected to intensive, continual the Partisan Defense Committee, Box 1------, ADEX: a-u,d Abrahaa atrau~. I government surveillance; the Socialist 99 Canal Street Station, New York, a-u-l A. au-u.. Workers Party for 40-plus years and the New York, 10013. a.. 5trau•• The Abe .strau.. SL for 20 years. Yet there have been no ~COMUJt,.1ST Index prosecutions of the CP, SWP or SL-or ***** ,.. 0". ONL D'L' On" OS"c 0"" ~_ UNITED STATES O_T Dn'G O/lllll 0..... DIPl. D- any members thereof-for violent crime O.... _ - O_cll__.rs,-."I \ Itll of 7500 DISTRICT COURT "'llIl~: Americans or terrorism-a rather remarkable SOUTHERN DISTRICT ...... 6J20/Yl -- r~~kl1f\...··..· h", Ionr Dr_lor l record (and far superior to that of the OF NEW YORK ,... Ir=:=:;.:~~J..-::~;;',~~~:::·-· .. government) considering the duration .~_ft\.7 ).5 J•• av.-t ....r. BeokU' end l:ftrau" • .,. r.a..... loft SPARTACIST LEAGUE; S04 Le:r1n~ .annu. and scope of such "investigation." The I .. Iorte, ... loft only successful prosecutions of the left SPARTACUS YOUTH LEAGUE; have been for so-called "thought JAMES M. ROBERTSON and
'"-...... bt.-c...... _ crimes" such as the witchhunting Smith SUSAN ADAMS, on behalf of Act. Sixty years and the only thing they themselves and all others similarly L..-...- Note the importance given to "Union Affiliation." can get us for is reading Lenin! situated, Some of the political groups are obvious: BPP-Black Panther Party; PLP-Progressive Labor Party; SDS-Students for a Democratic Society; SNC-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; SWP The secret police and their bosses Plaintiffs, Socialist Workers Party;.wWP-Workers World Party. For some, we can make educated guesses: MIN haven't changed since Karl Marx was Minutemen; NOI-Nation of Islam; PRN-Puerto Rican Nationalists. Some are l~ clear: -NL may mean -against- National Lawyers Guild; AWe may be Ame-rican White Citizens Cbuncil; SPL could mean Spartacist harassed by secret agents of Prussia. League; no one at CounterSpy can guess what JFG stands for. Unable to feed the hungry or provide ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE L-- Note that flucUtions in Category are obviously contemplated. jobs for the unemployed, periodically UNITED STATES; DIR"ECTOR OF L..- Note the date of "Rev." If the ADEX was only established in 1971, what was being revised? plunging the population into devastat THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF CounterSpy 7 inginterimperialist war, sacrificing INVESTIGATION; and THE Sl'I\RT,\CI ST L1~,"GUI: ~ every vestige ofrationality or decency to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, its insatiable hunger for profit, the Defendants. The Spartacist Lea~le (?PL), founded in 1965 by bourgeoisie cooks up a spectre of the former membe:rs of another Tro::s!,ylst-cor.:munist orr.anization, revolutionary movement as a criminal Plaintiffs, by their attorneys, com advocates the destruction of the capitalist syste~ and tile conspiracy. With this Big Lie oft plaining of the defendants, allege as creation of a ~orkers class system and a workers class scciet)'. The 5?L national hetld'1\1arters is located in !'e,... repeated, they attempt to discredit follows: Vorl: City. \·,'hile the SPL does not ooenly advocate the Marxists in the eyes of the masses and I. This action for declaratory and vi.olent cverthroH of the U. s. Government ilt this time or create a climate of opinion favorable to injunctive relief concerns political intel viol.:!tions of other Federal or state Im.s, the 51'L does their witchhunting. -~ . believe that eventual violent revolution to overthrow the ligence investigations conducted by the present cLlpitalist system of governr:lent in the U. S. is The point of a really effective witch Federal Bureau of Investigation of the inevitable. The objective of the 51'L is to organize a hunt is to coerce the entire population SPARTACIST LEAGUE and the membership to take action to precipit~te such a revolution ,...hen condi tions are riTle and to direct and seize control into ideological conformity. The imme SPARTACUS YOUTH LEAGUE, of the revolution when'it occurs. diate victims, meanwhile, are gotten Marxist political organizations, and the through the device of conventional impact ofthe Attorney General's Guide fictions -.yhose hypocrisy is made vicious lines on Domestic Security/Terrorism Above: Sample page from FBI's "ADEX" hit list, as It appeared in by the suffering that results. There is, for Investigations upon such investigations. CounterSp-y_ magazine, 6 December 1976. Below: 1976 FBI definition of the Spartaclst League, Identical to that published In 1982. Both use instance-in addition to the usual 2. The Attorney General's Guidelines classic wltchhunt language, claiming that the SL "does not QP-enly harassment which results in firings, on Domestic Security/Terrorist Inves advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government at this time" trouble with one's landlord or bank, tigations recast the SPARTACIST (our emphasis). The new FBI guidelines resurrect the ADEX IiSfand add the visits to one's family~the FBI practice LEAGUE and the SPARTACUS characterization of "terrorist." of forwarding to the Secret Service the YOUTH LEAGUE as violent criminal
4 WORKERS VANGUARD enterprises and terrorist outlaws on the The Communist Party has been subject surveillance of and harassment of the operations and harassment of the SL basis oftheir exercise ofconstitutionally ed to intensive, continual government SL and the SYL by causing secret and the SYL, and plaintiffs JAMES M. protected speech and advocacy. These surveillance for over sixty years, the government agents and informants to ROBERTSON and SUSAN ADAMS, Guidelines, promulgated without lawful Socialist Workers Party for over forty join or otherwise associate with the SL upon the alleged commitment of the authority, provide a pretext for contin years and the SPARTACIST LEAGUE and the SYL; to report upon atten plaintiff organizations to the violent ued and intensive government political for twenty years. There have been no dance, presentations, discussions and overthrow of the Government of the intelligence investigations against the prosecutions of the Communist Party, activities at classes, conferences, meet United States as well as their alleged SPARTACIST LEAGUE and the Socialist Workers Party or the SPAR ings and demonstrations; to disrupt conduct which might involve violation SPARTACUS YOUTH LEAGUE, the TACIST LEAGUE, or members there trade-union support work, political of the Smith Act, Internal Security Act criminalization of political opposition of, for violent crime or terrorism despite demonstrations, legal defense activities, and Voorhis Act. and the targeting of these Marxist over six decades of intensive govern electoral campaigns and distribution of 67. On March 21, 1983, Attorney political organizations for government ment investigation, a rather remarkable SL and SYL publications; to record the General William French Smith promul surveillance, disruption, harassment, record considering the duration and names and addresses of members and gated new guidelines superseding the suppression, infiltration, prosecution scope of such investigation. Thus, the contributors; to record the election of Levi Guidelines on domestic security and physical attack. continuing investigation of these Marx national and local officers and central investigations. The new guidelines, 3. Plaintiff SPARTACIST ist organizations is based not on committee members; to purloin and entitled Domestic Security/Terrorism LEAGUE [hereinafter also referred to conduct, but ideology. surreptitiously copy documents, re Guidelines [hereinafter referred to as the as the "SL"], a Marxist political 16. From the formation of the ports, pamphlets and memoranda avail Smith Guidelines or Domestic organization, is an unincorporated Revolutionary Tendency in 1963, able only to members; and, at the Security/Terrorism Guidelines], are association with members and support through the founding conference of the direction of the defendant public offi integrated into the Attorney General's ers throughout the United States. The SL in 1966, and continuing until the cers and their predecessors and agents, Guidelines on General Crimes and national office of the SPARTACIST present, the defendant public officers to influence SL and SYL policies and Organized Crimes Investigations [here LEAGUE is in the City, County and and their predecessors and agents programs, secure positions ofauthority, inafter referred to as "the Guidelines"] State of New York. TheSPARTACIST agreed and conspired, together with provoke or exacerbate dissension within as a subpart of the criminal intelligence LEAGUE was founded in 1966. The other public officers and their agents, and without the organizations, and investigations section, with a frame historical and theoretical roots of the unlawfully, intentionally and knowing- otherwise to interfere with and disrupt work identical to the Racketeering SPARTACIST LEAGUE derive from Enterprise Investigations. the early Communist Party, U.S.A. 68. Organizations previously desig [hereinafter also referred to as the "CP"] nated as politically subversive are and the Socialist Workers Party [here ( improperly and impermissibly recast by inafter also referred to as the "SWP"]. c the Domestic Security/Terrorism (ONFI' <;NTIAL The immediate precursor of the SPAR r:'\J~LD ST-\T[S DlfART.\Il.\T ur J ~TJC[ Guidelines as violent criminal enter
TACIST LEAGUE was the Revolu J[D[RAL SlJl;[Al or 1;\'-[~TIGATlO"li prises and terrorist outlaws. Marxist tionary Tendency [hereinafter also Hew lork, NeW' lork political organizations are now catego I .. ~~, '1_ ~,!r .. referred to as the"RT'] of the Socialist r .. ,.... ~.;'R I 1S7& rized as criminal enterprises as a pretext Workers Party. For twenty years the for justifying increased scope and SPARTACIST LEAGUE has engaged intrusiveness of FBI investigative tech in lawful political, educational and niques, and facilitating prosecution of organizing activity. Members and Marxist political organizations as crimi supporters of the SPARTACIST . nal racketeering enterprises. LEAGUE have sought state and local 71. FBI determination to target an elective offices. The SPARTACIST individual or organization for a domes ~LL :;:" ~, ....;. LEAG IT sues on behalf of itself and its ,,, ~ .-... . tic security/terrorism investigation is members. S- J made on the basis of speech. political 5. Plaintiff .JAMES M. ROBERT An FOIA file belief and ideology, and not acts offorce SOi\ is a member and :\'ational Chair as released or violence. man of the SPARTACIST LEAGUE. to the SL: 85. The defendant public officers, typical JAMES M. ROBFRTSOi\ joined the ::. ~ ~ t , their predecessors and agents have Communist Party in December 1')46 "Freedom of equated the Marxist ideology of the '!"\".f-<-'~::>' . '.'" - (:I' ,'", ,,''''. S'~r Information" and thereafter was it member of the in Reagan's SPARTACIST LEAGUE and the Workers Party (later known as the Ie) America. SPARTACUS YOUTH LEAGUE with Independent Socialist League). the ~~.~~~~Jff;jJ~-':~~"'-~} '" "-- ~ advOcaCy' -of1_l'f~tne"t bvE' {iii Ow 61 t1ie Socialist Workers Party and the Young United States government. The false Socialist Alliance. Plaintiff ROBERT premise of advocacy of criminal or SON was a member of the Revoluti'Jfl violent conduct is the pretext for ary Tendency of the Socialist Workers initiating, and continuing indefinitely, a Party and a founding member of the domestic security/terrorism intelligence SPARTACIST LEAGUE. investigation of the SPARTACIST 6. Plaintiff SUSAJ\i ADAMS, for LEAGUE and the SPARTACUS merly National Secretary of the SPAR YOUTH LEAGUE. TACUS YOUTH LEAGUE. is a 87. The defendant public officers and member of the international Spartacist Iy, pursuant to a common plan, to cause their activities. their agents have applied and continue tendency, the parent organization of the agents of the United States to engage in 37. The defendant public officers and to apply the Domestic SecurityI plaintiff SPARTACIST LEAGUE. political intelligence operations includ their predecessors and agents have Terrorism Guidelines to the SPARTA Plaintiff ADAMS is Chairman of the ing a systematic pattern and practice of included the plaintiff organizations, SL CIST LEAGUE and the SPARTACUS Trotskyist League of France and a warrantless electronic surveillance, un and SYL national officers and mem ,YOUTH LEAGUE, JAMES M. ROB- member of the International Executive authorized opening and monitoring of bers, solely because of their political ERTSON and SUSAN ADAMS in bad Committee of the international Sparta mail, burglary, infiltration by govern affiliation, on a series of published lists, faith, knowing or having reason to cist tendency. ment agents and informants, COIN including the Security Index, the Com know that the SL and the SYL are 12. Throughout their entire existence TELPRO activities, unauthorized inter munist Index, the Administrative In neither terrorist nor criminal organiza tions, and that JAMES M. ROBERT in the United States, the Communist rogation, and other harassment against dex, and the Agitator Index, used by SON and SUSAN ADAMS are not Party, Socialist Workers Party and the the SL and the SYL, their members and federal, state and local law enforcement terrorists or outlaws. Using the lan plaintiffs SPARTACIST LEAGUE supporters. agencies for intensive surveillance and guage of conventional law enforcement, and SPARTACUS YOUTH LEAGUE 20. The defendant public officers and harassment of the plaintiffs, targeting the Domestic Security/Terrorism have been targeted by the Federal their predecessors and agents, together them as dangerous to the national Guidelines are a pretext for justifying Bureau of Investigation [hereinafter with other public officers and their security, inciting public animus against continual surveillance, infiltration, har referred to as the "FBI"] as subversive agents, included the SL and JAMES M. them and exposing them to government assment, disruption, as well as prosecu organizations, subject to continual, ROBERTSON among the targets of a surveillance, harassment, prosecution tion of the plaintiff organizations, their intensive governmental political intelli sustained covert and systematic pro and physical attack. gence operations including, but not gram known as COINTELPRO to 39. As a result of inclusion on the members and supporters based solely on limited to, surveillance, warrantless disrupt, disparage, neutralize and de Administrative Index, JAMES M. advocacy. Political intelligence in electronic surveillance, mail openings, stroy the SL. ROBERTSON, SUSAN ADAMS and vestigations of the SPARTACIST infiltrations by government agents and 21. During or about the year 1963, other SL and SYL national officers and LEAGUE, the SPARTACUS YOUTH LEAGUE, JAMES M. ROBERTSON informants, burglaries, harassment and and continuing thereafter, the Revolu members have been targeted for sum and SUSAN ADAMS, pursuant to the counterintelligence operations. The tionary Tendency of the SWP, the mary detention and indefinite intern Domestic Security/Terrorism Guide aforementioned Marxist organizations, immediate predecessor of the SL, and ment during times of national emergen members and sympathizers have been plaintiff JAMES M. ROBERTSON cy solely because of their association lines, are unlawful, neither pertinent to nor within the scope of any authorized and continue to be the primary intelli were subjected to extensive surveillance with the SL and the SYL. law enforcement activity, nor author gence targets. and COINTELPRO disruption activi 40. In or about February 1965 and ized by any executive order or statute. 13. The FBI's justification for this ties, intended to create division between every year thereafter, agents of the 88. As applied to the SPARTACIST massive political intelligence investiga the RT and the SWP. defendant FBI DIRECTOR and his LEAGUE, the SPARTACUS YOUTH tion is the premise that Marxist political 22. The purpose and effect of the predecessors and agents sent a report of LEAGUE, JAMES M. ROBERTSON, organizations are a threat to the foregoing actions by the defendant the whereabouts and status of plaintiff SUSAN ADAMS and SL and SYL national security; dangerous because of public officers and their predecessors JAMES M. ROBERTSON to the members and supporters, the Domestic a purported strategic commitment to and agents was to induce the SWP to Secret Service falsely describing him as Security/Terrorism Guidelines infringe violence; an alleged adherence to the expel the RT in order to disrupt, neu a person dangerous to the life of the rights secured by the Constitution and violent overthrow of the government tralize and destroy both organizations. President of the United States. laws of the United States. The Domestic and use of violence to achieve political 23. From the formation of the RT in 48. From the formation of the RT in Security/Terrorism Guidelines trans goals. 1963 through the founding of the SL in 1963 through the founding of the SL in form the SPARTACIST LEAGUE and 14. The entire history ofthe aforesaid 1966, and continuing until the present, 1966, and continuing until the present, Marxist organizations in the United the defendant public officers and their the defendant public officers have the SPARTACUS YOUTH LEAGUE States is absent of any criminal activity. predecessors and agents have conducted premised their political intelligence continued on page 6 21 OCTOBER 1983 5 Support SL Suit Against Moonie Libel That Kills ---_._------_.._._------_. ------The Moonies are trying to frame up the Israeli League for Human and Civil VA; Reginald Carrington. ILA Local the Spartacist League (SL) for our role Rights; Florynce Kennedy. civil rights 1458, 1\iorfolk. VA; Marvin Foreman. as the initiators and principal organizers attorney; and Ford Greene. attorney business representative. Hotel and of the 5.000-strong Labor/Black Mobi and ex-Unification Church member, ex Restaurant Workers Loea! 23. ;\iorfolk. lization that stopped the KKK in deprogrammer. now anti-Moon activist. VA: Cleophas Hawkins. steward and Washington. D.C. on November 27, The KKK and the Nazis are the treasurer. IBEW Local 2280. Ports 1982 The ultrarightist M oonies' Wash terrorist expression of increasing racism mouth. VA: Jimmy Volivia, president. ington Times falsely accused the Sparta in America. A five-year-old black child. UAW Local919, l\" orfolk, VA. Brothers cists of "provoking violence" against the Patrick Mason. is blown away in his from the predominantly black water police on that day. These lies are not just own home and the killer cop is awarded front unions were among the first an attempt to discredit the largest. most a $35.000 bounty. Lauren Mozee and supporters of the Labor! Black Mobili effective anti-fascist action in decades Ray Palmiero were fired and face eight zation and brought the Nat Turner the Moonies are trying to set up the years in prison for doing their duty on Brigade to the demonstration. Coming socialists who led that demonstration to the picket line during the recent phone from the largest working-class area in he shot down in the streets like the Black workers strike because they are an the Southeast they understood that Panthers were. The Moonie frame-up interracial couple. they are union Klan threats to march in Washington. fits right in with the FBI's new witch militants. they are fighters against KKK D.C. represented an immediate danger. hunting "guidelines": the FBI defines all and cop terror, and because Lauren was Many of them also partiCipated in the Marxist political activity as "violent" a ten-year member of the Black Panther rally monitor squads along with scores and "criminal." and the Moonies offer Party. Mass labor/black actions can of other unionists and Spartacists to up the Spartacist League as a target. The check the growing racist terror and ensure that the demonstration was as poe brochure builds case against SL and the Spartacus Youth League police brutality in this country. The orderly and disciplined as it was Moonie libel. have filed a libel lawsuit against the Labor/ Black Mobilization that stopped militant. They know firsthand that the Washington Times because this is libel the Klan in its tracks shows the way. The Moonie libel is a pack of lies. the suit, "If the Moon cult prevails in that kills. Moonie libel goes after all those who Other endorsers of the Labor/Black their libel of us, any group or individual The Partisan Defense Committee has endorsed and participated in that Mobilization who have now endorsed in the lead of struggle against fascist launched a fund raising campaign to action. The Moonies have not only our libel suit include: Robert Edwards, terror will be marked for destruction." help pay for and publicize this impor smeared the Spartacists but the over 70 president, ILWU Local 2, San Francis The Spartacists have truth on their side. tant legal battle. Support for the case is trade-union officials, locals and execu co, CA; Shelton Tappes, retired UAW But it will take more than that to win growing among blacks, unionists and tive boards who supported that demon member, Detroit, MI; and Alfonso against this highly dangerous, super supporters of black rights who see the stration. That's why it's not surprising Wells, chairman of retirees, UAW Local rich cult. We need your help. November 27 victory over fascist terror that many of these people are among the 1776, Willow Run, Ypsilanti, MI. Your financial support and as their own. Among the endorsers to initial endorsers of our lawsuit. The Spartacist League or anyone else endorsement are urgently needed to win date are: Conrad Lynn, attorney and A number of the endorsements are must have the right to organize against this lawsuit. Send contributions to: civil rights activist; Michael Meeropol, from Virginia Tidewater-area unionists Klan/Nazi terror without being subject Partisan Defense Committee, P.O. Box of the National Committee to Re-Open including: Spurgeon L. Boone, presi to frame-up by the Moonies and their 99 Canal Street Station, New York, NY the Rosenberg Case; Israel Shahak, of dent, IBEW Local 2280, Portsmouth, press. As the SL warned when we filed ]0013.•
members and supporters and plaintiffs (a) stigmatlzmg the SPARTACIST demand judgment as follows: FBI Suit... ROBERTSON and ADAMS to surveil LEAGUE and the SpARTACUS A. Declaring unlawful the actions of (continued from page 5) lance, infiltration, disruption, harass YOUTH LEAGUE as terrorist and the defendants complained of herein, ment, prosecution and violence on the criminal organizations constitutes a and permanently enjoining the defen from lawful political organizations into part of law enforcement authorities and badge of infamy, has the purpose and dants, their agents, successors. privies violent criminal enterprises on the basis political extremists of the right. effect of injuring their good name, and all persons acting in concert with of their constitutionally protected 89. By promulgating the Domestic reputation, character and standing as them ... speech and advocacy. Thus, the Guide Security/Terrorism Guidelines and Marxist political organizations; S. Declaring unconstitutional as lines target the plaintiff organizations, applying them to the SPARTACIST (b) designating the SPARTACIST applied to the plaintiffs herein those their members and supporters, as well as LEAGUE, the SPARTACUS YOUTH LEAGUE and the SPARTACUS pl)rtions of the Attorney General's plaintiffs JAMES M. ROBERTSON LEAGUE, their members and support YOUTH LEAGUE as terrorist and Guidelines on General Crimes, Racket and SUSAN ADAMS, as terrorists and ers, and JAMES M. ROBERTSON and criminal organizations renders the eering Enterprise and Domestic outlaws existing without the protection SUSAN ADAMS, as a pretext for plaintiff organizations and their mem Security/Terrorism Investigations that of the laws of the United States. The stigmatizing the plaintiffs as terrorists bers and supporters excluded from the pertain to Domestic Security/Terrorism Smith Guidelines codify, make public solely as a result of their Marxist protection of the First, Fourth. Fifth, Investigations, and permanently enjoin and direct the FBI and other law ideology and beliefs, the acts of the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to ing the defendants. their agents, succes enforcement agencies to ignore legal defendant public officers, and their the Constitution of the United States, sors. privies and all persons acting in distinctions between political oppo predecessors and agents. violate the subject to continual law enforcement concert with them, from: nents of the government and organized First, Fourth. Fifth. Ninth and Four surveillance, harassment, disruption. (a) implementing or conducting criminals. The Smith Guidelines expose teenth Amendments of the Constitution prosecution and physical attack; investigations of the plaintiffs pursuant the plaintiff organizations and their of the United States inasmuch as: (c) characterizing the SPARTA to the Attorney General's Guidelines on CIST LEAGUE and the SPARTACUS Domestic Security/Terrorism Investi YOUTH LEAGUE as violent criminal gations effective March 21, 1983; and terrorist organizations induces in (b) retaining or disseminating infor law enforcement authorities fear and mation about the SL and the SYL, their hatred of the SL and the SYL and their members and supporters, compiled members and supporters, thereby ex since March 21, 1983; posing them to increased threats and C. Declaring unlawful the defen Just potential of violence; dants' use of information about the SL (d) characterizing the SPARTA and the SYL, their members and CIST LEAGUE and the SPARTACUS supporters, compiled prior to March 21, Out! YOUTH LEAGUE as violent criminal 1983 as the basis for conducting an Misseon 007: Cokt War ProvocalilM and terrorist organizations invites ex investigation pursuant to the Attorney ~~ tremist groups or individuals of the right General's Guidelines, and permanently Spartacist Reag~~~ Story Stinks ~ to commit acts of harassment and enjoining the defendants, their agents, Pamphlet ~'fj ~~""'- violence against the SL and the SYL, successors, privies and all persons acting -~=- _ .i KAL 007: and their members and supporters; in concert with them from conducting ~r __U.s.'1filfi(iriivilcatio" (e) designating the SPARTACIST any such investigation; LEAGUE and the SPARTACUS D. Awarding the plaintiffs reason so¢ rw'ItKEItS VANfHJAItD,l YOUTH LEAGUE as violent criminal able attorney's fees; i~ "'-R~agan's 00-7"' and terrorist organizations and enter E. Awarding the plaintiffs the costs Make payable/mail to: prises permits the government to prose and disbursements of this action; Spartacist Publishing Co. II War Fever cute the SL and the SYL. and their F. Granting such other and further Box 1377 GPO ~';~:I-~":1...... HZ', m;'qi:f_n New York, NY 10116 •. members and supporters, on conspiracy relief as may be just and proper. and racketeering charges solely as a Dated: New York, New York result of their exercise ofprotected First October 19, 1983 )1 Amendment rights. I ic.:..:. \::::fhti:Fr WHEREFORE, plaintiffs SPAR Katz & Weinstein, P.c. Sp"t"", PUbI,>h,c, Co B" '37' GPo New Yo,<. NY '0"6 TACIST LEAGUE, SPARTACUS and - - YOUTH LEAGUE, JAMES M. RO Rachel H. Wolkenstein BERTSON and SUSAN ADAMS Attorneys for Plaintiffs 6 WORKERS VANGUARD to the degenerate, patriotic Majority tinctive typo, so often associated with social democrats of their time. sinister, violence-baiting innuendo and "In the United States the Trotskyist youth in the early 1930's called their falsehood. paper Young Spartacus. It was an Among the latest batch of Freedom of outstanding journalistic fusion of an Information xeroxes we have received. a advocate of revolutionarv ideas with a few pages begrudgingly relinquished guide to action. We aspire to do no from the FBI's voluminous files on us, more toda\' than serve as well in honor of the name we have chosen for our one page esc;lped the ubiquitous black tndcavor to t'xpre~s the vie\\'point of marker of the censor-a search request con~;istent Tr')/,'krisnl. the authentic for information on the "Sparticist Used to be. when you ran across again. thi~- ti,rnc ~n th:: t'vloonie~~ .VeH' iL'\ulutionary \ldrx;siTl cf iiL'!, epoch .. Lea~:'1e." fe-fl:rcnces to ~~T rotzkyites.'~ you knev.' YCJrk Tr/l~,u·:(· ~~l ~\-'!ay 1983). -~\i-lere Anyone remotely acquainted witi, tne A ,:h.:ck back through earlier records right off who you were deaiing \\ith. Atben Weeks, the "natlonal ~ecurity Spartacist League. the S partacu~ Y oelth turned up yet another clue: heavily Using an archaic transliteration from editor.~~ by judiciously t\\·isling;. 0Ut League. the international Spartacist censored documents obtained under the the Russian Cyrillic script. the Stalinists :-:1odcd t'cfcreilccs. tries to pin he 1932 tendency. our journal SpartoClst. knows Freedom of Information Act from the f'" •• 'ought to nortray Trotskyists 85 ,dint. i(i[~JjJ Inurder Gf th~ Lindbergh bab~ how we speil our name. :cc\cn these 'l.... ~ ,.\ :.;. ~~;,l(i!l CH.,,\{)S:~ :~in~t.'d at rIJreign-~ounding. '''~'_'' (1~ ~2Jt. \vith i.n en ~he {~crrT,dn "Sp~:nici~ts" ~·thl' Spar- unfamlliar \\'Ith tt~e 1eft !\:~ ;, l-.- ra~lr:g C'I'\_ ~.;>ge:1ts iLto ;:.."1't-',.\·ing ~~' ~rk<1Ing il~C:f c;r~~ln -rhe \Vas fin :.:Kusr;,.. ~ I< i"~~.~i t_ ~:,\::rnbur~. fore-- ~:;',:;.~-~.:~-,.CL>. ~dl';-- H d :--;i~~\'C pulitical groJp~ int!--le L S. 'J:;der l-;e ;~::!nc: i·_~c~r-~n(tn CO~;-jmunl~;;_ :<::::d1 I:ng;:;pr;nL. ._; re"·c ~ r~ 0 l-:;,\> .. l~(. ~\ncs~· na!l;;~' g;.~;.:,c \)1 5eeking. gn ~'~i)···,('rs~(;n. \·icre recently. anotner eJic,tmc,:c' ?:lrtyl. derived from t~c Greek -state Once ;}gain. the cha:'acterISri,' rm~spell- ',11ssre1ling has appeared in some pr'Cll\ unny piaces: "SparllCj~[.'· i-hruugn I-'iC <;;;::J;t"#~-;,J"!~~:::''!.~~~~;_~:'''''~': ,,:.:.-~: ~' . .:-i.'.t":;.-, -.': .;~: '~~J{"<:"~ 1:';'~f'.>.&1~'. years we\e noticed '10\1. trlis GGd - '-1 1-=-::.::·_' .__ ..._..~._ .._ .... :C'~ ., (COPY) I I ~tl1 ~ ~ributtt i rendering of our name seemed to crep i L_...::·.:..::.: ..... :--:-- .::- ,,=::], up in connection with the \\ ddest a :ld I ALBERf WEEKS . I most sinister smears of the Spartacist H:TEL , __ .. .. ._._..._ ___._.....J League and our forebears. including accusations of arson. baby-kllhng, s~·:p that SDarticist League hilS '~sold O:l~ 'I9d1?apping I ch rgcs \iolent attacks on leftist,. the Revolut on" by establish-in.g-aEU~mt~cratic-~liti.5tTule~ Sparticist s also chJrged with anal}-:ing situ~ticns for t]le i OJ. Lmdbergh I There was that clumsy attempt to Revolutio~ ~~orrcc~ly ~hd th~~c£ore ~iill not 13st to b~ i~ (h2 frame up the Spartacus Youth League vangua7d of the mOV2~8nt. As opposed to this, Sparticist leagu~ cha~gcs SI~P i baby continues (SYL) at Wayne State in Detroit. in ~ith bt!reaucratic-elitist rule, disrcg&Tding the ncc?3sity June 1980 (see "Nasty Lies or Murder for Dei;1'J(:r2.tic-Cer:·t.ralis~i1. Sp':Y'tist also t..:h(l!"gc.'l S~q;: I with reformism and opportunisn; they do not require the to fascinate Set-Up?" Young Spartacus No. 84, discipline and co~~itnent from individuals that is necessary I September 1980). Someone set a fire in to make the ReVOlution. the student center, and scrawled on the (Comment: Sparticist Lengue seems to be the t~o oTganizatio~s Hauptmann penned a letter blackboard there, "The Sparticus Revo more violent of the but both are extremely conmitted to to the local radical lution Begins!" As we pointed out in our overthrm\'ing the systei:l. Si\,P advocates th~ no~e p~rli~~:~t~ry Marxist-Leninist group, the denunciation of this crude frame-up iJilth to power I·----·~------or supportin.g independent nOV~inents Sparticists, appealing for ~aking attempt, "even if we had abandoned all I .. 1'1(~'f...·r~) ( - refarns witllin the systen, until ~hilc help with these words: "I I rEDERAL Ell -'AL' or INVl._ ~OATIO' the Revolution - Sparticist feels our political principles and turned to \'iol~T1ce have always been a faithful R~Lord, Btanch that only through can 2.!1ytair..g isolated acts of terrorism. wouldn't we concrete be esta91ishcd.) Sparticist." ,;]~-. •I P i1- at least be certain to spell our name ~'S~ll~ correctly'!" We noted. "The arson ~'nit 4~1. TL" :25 C; SPf-cu,: flIt Roott.. ~991. TL. 142 frame-up is also the kind of ':2:1ty tricks' C FON ••.,: tr F iIUfYIU....,M4'7. TL" 14:3 C,Allf>ntio' _ .. ~~ii~'~~'~)-~~R0~:@~~~ill~~ijRjii.-ll--_I (;ii~iiJjcln the FBI has used over the years to :2:--.f.;f04rrll: 7YltVU'P_ -'1--.-, ~,~~~[l ,_J:~_ -'_~~~":'- __.l I di,credit black, labor and leftist organi.. "!"n' iI' tUIt!' ~tlIl;lilt. (Ch£>d 0,)(,) repre~i zarions and to justify its bloody ;1. F:t'~t:;ctr~ £'f!lr:-~ iA-::II\'!' irdo - Eo .. 20' ontheleft I =. f\Pf,tlltl.rr Sflnd (Act:n l hacLve lndfl· --..... _.- - ..... _ ..._...._.._-_._----_.j sian." The SYL leaflet (24 June jqSO) ; &. so: -"i,•. nll~;·.O· -'--~·".-;·:.~':";~, •• ~.';.i;;"I.!'Z;..~-~';.·,·,,-.i.:'.&'~~.~~~j ask(·d. ~·\r1d can anyone bi? sure that C t:nN"EoL·;rl.l'~ fAdJ\-f' i. In .. ct:Yf I'llhI) SPt:j'-;-1r.i"'h,·I~,,,i:l-c:;;.;~-O;';;---·- I COINTELPRO is rea!!v dead')" ~. All J(~'~"-rt'r·c-n· (S .. bo'~·r~jn I ~D1'dl:;b\-"er,j'Ve) Left in form: - -" b'. i. ,~" :' l?ight in P,\SPtJ('P Then there was the column b~ JoLn I..=,,"o,.;;·'!:-' HHH S-< £~;:~ m C--=~w'llir _ R~r<'r-!:'rcf'f("Ll) Trinkl Ihe Guardian 121 April lQ821. 'Ii!!:" C.r:i., fi[ ti'J1; P\~llH'\ Tht:, ~l'enano is ;ihn~)st dh-I..·a.VS the same. ·~teft h~; O'J; C-_ YI!l~:Il!i('nf. Thcr~ i~; ~i large demun..,trariIJn. Often it is in form: Right in csserce'" \J,·'hlcn RO\."Jn"c 1-,- L('>ce)lt., of .. _ agall~,t accused the '\Spartlci~t League" of S~~c~>J ·:·f(;fJ~;·~t_1.r ~~ _J-.(-4-~~ L' S intervention in U Salvador. but i- LSl It also COUld h._ ~ d.. monsrration against the "harassment and pnysical attack" Nazis or };C~;J¥]Zc;'1~." ~% ~=T fbts ~wln1:!1ng slander. vio!ence-baltIng and cop !~~ thl~: group? Is it the "Moonies," C (Clockwise from upper left) secret haiting aimed at us by rad-lih apologists ./(.'5, "=jiI.l.'l77 ,;;L· 11l1ormers memo from CIA's the ultrarighr IlJ!bwers of the anticommunist .o~-P)-L;/'C/~";'- Rev Sun Myung Moon-' The remnants of for the Democratic Part;,. 8m Trinkl ... "Operation CHAOS" file; Moonies' the fascist US Labor Pany~' O'Jereager par Tri~Yl1e; Gu~rdja_!"l's did not limit himself to a slanderous ~_~-;--!,:!3. ~~. __ ~ --~~ New .Y.Q.rK John tisans from the Young Americans for Free- u3D-5~/,I'7J falsification of our defense of workns /LS -:.S> Trinkl; unknown arsonist at Wayne l dom0 Nn. iI',. the Sparticlst League (SL), a -/c.JO-.c;Cp<;y- /'Cb__ State, Detroit; FBI files: they all snlall Trot'"ik)'ist group '.vho"ie sectarianism democracy in breaking through it I .I "-'1;:ispeil us "Sparticist," they all I has reached 'lev, helghh cordon of "marshals" who were trying I I ._.' I slander us as violent criminals, i Tho> Sl hilS a long "i
At the funeral near the end OI thc' ~ ,,' . . movie Dilniei. the character, based on t;cncra:i Lisr--tnc the Rosenberg iamiiv are buried. and If< >,.,' iiht:r,"~ Cllid W:tllicJ, yu:d: repeat frame, buried again anG ~h~1;'::d ttl:' :'>!;:-~:..:: ..:nt'IT:\. l UlriIilunl:.;n-; again. The Hebraic mourner,;' kat/dis;: bu~ th(,)ught \i:..'C-dtth~\ \\'
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"fearless" and praises the author for cialiSl~ of America IDSA\. he ha, \\ ith the prosecution. the "confess or go'. o:i"nment's fiies exnosec!. And we are ha\ ing done "a great service" for the left. recent" protested against the portrayals die" strategy particularly using Fthel\ confident that the\ wiJi reveal c\en morc But the ultraright. from McCarth\'s of him a,. in his word,. "a McCarthyite death sentence as "Ie\er.'" clearl:,. for those who arc willing to see clone Roy Cohn to the dangerous right-winger," But Radosh proudl) So what are the "new" revelatil'n~ it. the \icious political frame-up of the ;"1oonie cult, applauds the "great declared to d Washin;ztof7 Post (10 claimed to '"pro\e" the Rosenbergs Rosenberg,. Indeed. already with the service." Septernher) IntcniC\\cr: "Ifs true I'm an guilty') They scavenge in the FB!'s 250.000 pages of newly released files. What is particularly galling about anticommunist, It's :: sensihle thing to garbage to attempt to construct a nc\,.. this i, what has happened. Milton' The Rosenberg File ganE! i, their be. " case built on uncritical
21 OCTOBER 1983 9 espionage. They went on frequent With the Rosenberg case the had considerable problems explaining fishing expeditions hoping to find government asserted with state terror the execution of Siansky and the other Rosenbergs ... someone who would "break" under the that the Communist Party was the direct mainly Jewish CPers who were being (continued from page 9) pressure. They wanted to force "confes secret agent of a hostile state power. executed in Prague as "Trotskyites, sign a sworn statement, and they sions" and get the confessors to point That is what the charge of espionage Titoists and Jewish nationalists." Here certainly were not going to expose his the finger at other CPers, no matter means. It charges the entire CP with the CP offered the Stalinist "confes story to cross examination on the stand. what the facts. The FBI may have struck spying on the basis of its sometimes sion" as proof of guilt in these frame-up But for Radoshl Milton no rock is too paydirt with the Greenglasses but not queasy political support to the Soviet trials. But Stalin's vicious trials and the slimy to pick up if they can throw it at w;,h the Rosenbergs. So they made it a Union. Judge Kaufman was quite CP's boundless hypocrisy does not the memory of the Rosenberg martyrs. matter of life and death. As we V..TOtc in explicit in this regard, as he sentenced mean that the CP wanted the Rosen And no lie too big or obvious for these 1975 in our first article on the Rosen the Rosenbergs to death, bergs dead "Searche;-~ for The Truth" who mll~t berg case. Hl n Defense of the Rosen "It is so difficult to make people [e,:);7<: "The betr; nfthe Rosenbergs by ttle "~()· that this cuuntr: is engaged in a life and s~s bergs" ( WV :'\0.86.2; .. crTlber 19(5), C~omn1unl~'[ i:"arty" \vas not iJarticuIari:; imagine that their readers h"ve death st,uggle with a eompietelv differ ",>'\bovc ~iJ! tile S't,P,t hcpco to set off a due to its defense policy. Even if they pended all critical judgment in the ent system. This struggie is not oniv chain rei.h:tion of FBl-al:thored 'confes had moved ~:oonef and with more interest of "proving" the Rosenbergs sions." \~.:~h the Ro~cnhert!...: a~d :S~!hel1 manifested externall\' bet\\een thew guilty. ,), they thi!,k \\c're jmt dumh :0n~, to fin£crthe re3l·~i::-:"r.cr- t\\O forces but this case indicates ljuik energy it is 110t likely thev could have 8~~·,\j'< r~.~h~ clearly th~lt it a150 in\o!ve:'. the cn1nkn ;;;,a\cd tj-;c -'\;J~e;}hcrgs frorn 8 gc\'ern "ur;ng the t;'lai Jnd llr' to ·h~ 0~~ ~:('cret ~l" 'UT>~ ::~. Ri:~(::: ::!1tnt ihe enemy '.\'ell . ~ncn r~t:;n ~:i!10W icr',,; \cr'c i. ::-;;rig 1 > '1" he C' P 'tdai U.S.A, "-crt out'pok~n to:c('" arrl(111~; ,):'2r o\\n ";!TJl' JLt...: , th:ii. ~_;:\.: <:i1( iilfl cias,; wnh ;ts \.',:;~,\ ~;.." -. i;-i~; pedDle. It ;-;ut Lil"... I , ..~ ~ !-I f ".():J Id [~i '---' . (;, ,. ~·;.d~S C~).iidOoratjc;L -rhe 3.n~l l1anle'~ ~hc ---j;n'!ialiOn !O al1 itu.-!Ut'.\(. fi, L'1'J ,he ·'S'.,vid threat" which vvas ,)!1 tnaL \"'.'\;:'\.'j "lanlC .. · . 1~\cs S.. to -'i;sts U'lcD as n,oy\- malntaloed a The Rn"enbergs were tried as ":.Jtorn \\i!h their at :--lake. [he connection between "0\ crt outspo nt\ ;.": '-';" t:d. po; '.' of~",;:i1g the !Jfogres,ive. ·'demo· spies'" because L.S. in;penaii'lTI. atter ~~cn forces" 'xith ~"secrer· e~picnage i~ The Jl'th<:iltlca!ly grcDt So·,.'leL spy latal. Outspoken pro-Soviet politics crJtic" oourf2:.:oisie only to find them years qf Dortraying the Soviet social selves without allies when it was time t\) c:ystem as too primitive to accomplish a Kim Phi!by called th"m "the brave thus becomes "evidence" of espionage. Rosenbergs."· Many admin.'d the Rosen and every CPer can be charged or break u!l the popular front forged technological breakthrough of this durimi the "Great Patriotic War Against magnitude, now was forced to explain hergs' hercism in stopping this govern intimidated with the charge of espio ment aommo strategy. Cast by an nage. Unfortunately. the present Rosen Fascism." If there is one lesson the CP its loss of the nuclear monopoly-and should have learned. it is how unreliable thus Dl 'ts capacity for nuclear black accident of history into the role of herg debate is posed as a battle for the martyrs. this other\\-ise rather undistin hearts and minds of those for whom the are its "progressive" bourgeois friends. maiL 'f he government needed to gear up Years of class collaboration behind the U.S. (or the "arms race." that ,so I,wished CP couple did not renounce the defense of the Soviet Union is a crime. S()\jet Union. and met their political And as the going gets tougher in Cold Roosevelt·-the no-strike pledge. the impena!ist war preparations. The ex betrayal of black rights during WWl! plosion of the Soviet atom bon;h, the fate without a 11inch. Now Radoshi War II it may become, in Judge ~/lilton took the CP into the McCarthy period victory of the Chinese Red Army over want to take every statement of Kaufman's words, a crime "worse than their heroism as "evidence" of their murder." completely disarmed and unprepared the U.S.-backed Kuomintang, and then for the witchhunt. the Korean War--the Rosenbergs were "guilt." How the CP Failed the Leopold Trepper, the heroic Soviet blamed for all of it. The Rosenbergs and the Rosenbergs spy who headed the anti-Nazi "Red The U.S. had come out o;:;le second Russian Question Orchestra" network in Europe during imperialist World War relatively un One of the creepier anti-Communist World War II. noted from his own scathed and hegemonic among its From the pages of the Times to the themes of The Rosenberg File a~serts <,tandpoint that political courage is imperialist rivals. Only the USSR stood debate at NYC Town HalL the debate that the CP wanted to see the Rosen more a product of political line than of ~ between he l.S. and its dreams for "an on the Rosenberg case has focused bergs dead, "So, while the Rosenbergs individual personal qaalities. Acknow Amenc.;;; centurv." /\merican weakness narrowly on the question of whether or were not the victims of a frame-up. they ledging that in Russia it was uniquely ~HtribL:,(;c was thus to spies and sabo not Julius Rosenberg engaged in espio were indeed hapless scapegoats of a the Trotskyists who held fast to their Ii teurs. a Comrn:miq "F!fth Column." nage for the Russians. Yet it is clear that propaganda war-a war in which their convictions during the purge trials and I "Who lost China?" The "pinkos" in the the government killed the Rosenbergs deaths \vould be counted as a victorvfor in Stalin's prison camps. he wrote i I State Department. How did the R us both sides" (p. 452). Radosh \1ilton enorrnou~ ai"'ira~Ie for politlcal rurpcsc' The question of H ••• the\ had the ad\ sian~· ;cure their Western bordc(~ 'e'.\ their innocence Of "guiit" mattered not equate the government's legal murder of o\er u; of having a coh.~rent nulitic'ai I Deai "';- '\py" l~lger Hiss engineered it at at alL \"01 :s it the key question for the Rosenbergs with the Cp's cefensc system capable '1[ replacing Sta!in'sm. Yalta. F ow did the SaviCh get the atGIL rC\oiULnnar:t'; in this historic case. The policy. Rosenberg Fife authors Thev had somc,nim, to c!m~ to in the nu' midst of their pn;!ounu diqrc')s ar bomb'.' iulius Rosenberg stole "the dlb:a
When introducing his nominfl: for For 'J \\hlle Kik\ worked lor the come hell or high water-and there's chairman of the Metropolitan Trans Police Foundation In Washington. He been plenty of both in the su bways portation A,uthority, ~ew York gO\er was then recruited to Boston, first lately-negotiating sellouts which he nor Mario Cuomo boasted that "Bob working with the police and then. from calls victories. 'Tve known him [Kiley] Kiley will come to this position with all 1972 to 1975. as deputy mayor under for some time." Lawe said (Chief~ of the credentials that we were seeking." Kevin White. During the Boston busing Leader. 14 October). "From everythi~g Kiley has plenty of credentials, ali right: crisis of 1974. Kile;. was in charge of I hear about him I think he's good cop. union-buster and top-level CIA "public safety." This liberal now says he material." spymaster during the Vietnam War. His prevented violence. but in fact racist Lawe damn sure does know Kiley. As latest as;;ignment is simply a continua mobs got away scot free with stoning a consultant for the Metro-North tion of a life-long war on working buses of black schoolchildren-and it Commuter Rail division of the MTA, people. :'-Jew York City transit workers, was on the streets of South Boston that Kiley was part of the Koch beware-you arc Kiley's next target. school integration suffered a massive management mugging of the United When Kiley's nomination was defeat. Transportation Union (UTU) railroad announced. \lye transit workers from After his four-year stint as Boston workers when they struck last March. 239th Street to Coney Island reacted: transit Clar, Kiley set up a management Jobs, overtime and "swing time" pay "He's a union-buster!" They're dead consultant firm and recently mounted a were slashed: that's how MTA workers right. A- transit boss in Boston, Kiley loser campaign for mayor of Boston. know Kiley! That's what you get when slashed the workforce by 10 percent and According to the ViI/age Voice. "A you kowtow to the "friends of labor" tried unsuccessfuliy to introduce part surprising number of Kiley's contribu Democrats. Lawe backs Cuomo for timers. "They have no right to strike," tors seem to have come from his CIA governor and the transit workers get a Kiley arrogantly pronounced. Well. the NSA network, including Richard $150,OOO-a-year war criminal for their transit workers in Boston didn't think boss. Helms." harles/New York Times so. In July 1978 they took off work en And New York's liberals are greeting Vietnam war criminal and labor The TWU has come a long way down masse and mobilized against a Kiley Kiley with open arms. The ViI/age hater Robert Kiley (right). since it was built as part ofthe CIO labor backed bill intended to strip them of v'oice's Joe Conason wrote that Kiley upsurge in the '30s. For three decades cost-of-living protection. "knows how to run trains." Like thousands of additional workers needed the city bosses never dared to mess with So Kiley is mouthing off now about Mussolini, maybe? The liberal Cuomo to transform crumbling NYC transit the union. When they tried in 1966, how he's going to tighten work rules, needed a proven labor hater whom even into a safe, clean, efficient system with then-president Mike Quill told a strike contract out repair work, hire part Mayor Koch couldn't object to. "What decent working conditions is not what breaking judge to "drop dead in his long timers, restrict seniority and assert the governor's done is splendid," said the union-hating, fare-hiking bankers black robes." The TWU shut the city "management rights." New York transit Koch, who has for years led a union and liberal CIA technocrat Kiley have in down tight until Mayor Lindsay came workers, already fed up with being busting assault on city workers. mind. You can't begin to fight for what's crawling. In the '60s Local 100's wages scapegoated for a transit system that's No doubt the notoriously racist Koch needed without a massive mobilization and benefits ranked first in the country gone to hell because the city's bankers can only smile upon Kiley's intentions to of the unions and oppressed in this city. among transit workers. That was and Democratic Party bosses have unleash the NYC transit cops. For New The money's there, all right, but it's because of its willingness to struggle and starved it of maintenance, had better be York's black and Hispanic subway going to the parasitic bankers and the utilize the strike weapon. prepared. What's needed is some hard riders, this means racist murder. On bosses' anti-Soviet war drive. This year the membership has an class struggle to send this big time September 28, black, 25-year-old Mi The clean, efficient and beautiful alternative to Lawe & Co. In the Beakie and union-buster packing! chael Stewart, the son ofa retired transit Moscow subways, by the way, are a upcoming Local 100 election a three Kiley began his career as president of maintenance man, died from a beating 1,000 percent improvement over the man slate has come forward with a call the National Student Association two weeks earlier by white transit cops rolling death traps in New York. The for class-struggle leadership. Ed Kart (NSA), later revealed as a recipient of for allegedly scrawling graffiti in a fare has been eight cents there for 50 sen, David Brewer and Jim Smith, covert CIA funds. After his cover was subway station. Despite injuries all over years and there are no Guardian Angels leaders of a militant protest over the blown as a secret CIA operative, Kiley his body, the cause ofdeath was listed as to terrorize the passengers. But that's acquittal of the racist murderers of was sent upstairs to become manager of cardiac arrest. Family attorneys main not capitalism's way. A transportation TWU member Willie Turks, are running intelligence operations and then execu tain that Stewart was strangled and "expert" from Pennsylvania recently on a program to smash management tive assistant to Richard Helms, director doctors present at his autopsy cited the suggested that Kiley institute a first attacks through strike action, laborI of Central Intelligence. Later this CIA massive hemorrhages in his eyes as class fare system for those passengers black mobilizations to stop racist terror bigwig claimed he knew little about the evidence. Subsequently, Stewart's eyes willing and able to pay for better service. and a labor offensive to reverse the spy agency's clandestine work! Who were ghoulishly, and secretly, removed The rest of us can swelter, freeze and go givebacks. They are demanding that the deaf. union break with the Democrats, and does he think he's kidding! Kiley's got from his body. What this city needs is a fighting, anti call for a workers party to fight for a blood on his hands-from the Phoenix They can't rebuild New York City capitalist labor movement, centered in workers government. The TWU mili Program, a counterinsurgency assassi transit by squeezing the wages of the Transport Workers Union (TWU). tants say: Double the wages! Free, safe nation operation that killed 20,000 already low-paid workers, jacking up The TWU has the raw social power to mass transit! Cancel the debt, expropri Vietnamese, to the massive secret the fares and stomping poor black lead New York's oppressed to victory. ate the banks! What's needed is solid carpetbombing of Cambodia in 1969. turnstile jumpers. The bosses have been But instead of using it, TWU Local 100 strike action-America can't run with Not to mention the CIA's murderous trying to scapegoat transit workers for president John Lawe busies himself, out the New York subways! • "destabilization" in Chile. the decaying subways. Two years ago During Kiley's tenure, "the company" then Transit Authority president John was even at work in the NYC transit Simpson even called a press conference system. An 18-year, super-secret CIA to blame black motorman Jesse Cole for CORRECTIONS project to develop poisons and bio an accident caused by a defective signal chemical weapons included flooding the In our article "Reagan's Story correspondent noted: system while the driver was literally "Oooly is a place that the civil rights city's subway system with a "harmless" Stinks!" (WV No. 337, 9 September bleeding to death in his cab. And this 1983) we erroneously stated that U.S. movement never got to. Social version of poison gas (New York Times, relations have not changed funda summer the TA hired a "consultant" pilot Gary Powers was brought down 17 September 1975). from San Francisco to blame the mentally since the post-Reconstruc in 1959. In fact, his U-2 spy plane was tion era. It is brutally race segregat record-breaking derailments on "cow shot down by the USSR on I May ed. There are not public bars or boy" motormen. In response, angry 1960. We also gave the wrong date restaurants in Oooly. Just white only Spartacist Leaguel motormen staged a slowdown action. for a 2 September Washington Post country clubs, Elks and Lions Clubs. The modest gains of the civil rights Spartacus Youth League Now, even the bosses have begun to story that reported that there was no Public Offices movement are not apparent in admit the massive structural deteriora indication anyone had tried to warn Oooly or in most of the rural and -MARXIST LlTERATURE tion that underlies the subway failures. Flight 007 it was off course. In semi-rural South. Oooly is run by Bay Area The TA admits that only 30 percent of "Reagan's 007 War Fever" (WV No. the white landowners for the white Fri.: 5:00-8:00 p.m., Sat.: 3:00-6:00 p.m. the trains run on time. Small wonder. 338,23 September 1983), Jim Wright landowners." 1634 Telegraph. 3rd Floor (near 17th Street) Oakland, California Phone: (415) 835-1535 "Deferred maintenance" came in when was wrongly identified as the "Demo Nor was Shaw arrested driving home Big MAC was shoved down the throats cratic Senate majority leader"-he is "from the hospital" as we said, which Chicago of NYC's working people ten years ago, the Democratic House majority would imply that he had gone there Tues.: 5:30-9:00 p.m., Sat.: 2:00-5:30 p.m. 523 S. Plymouth Court, 3rd Floor and since then track maintenance has leader. to support deputy sheriff Wright, Chicago, Illinois Phone: (312) 427-0003 been exactly halved. And that's nothing We must apologize for impermissi after Wright's provocative actions New York City compared to the catastrophes that lie bly sloppy editing of "KKK-Style against a black social gathering had Tues.: 6:00-9:00 p.m., Sal.:12:00-4:00 p.m. ahead. "Today, it may be track, [TA] 'Justice' in Georgia" (WV No. 339,7 led to the white deputy's injury. Shaw 41 Warren SI. (one block below officials say, but tomorrow it could be October 1983) which resulted in was seized driving home with a friend Chambers St. near Church SI.) New York. NY. Phone: (212) 267-1025 broken signals, crumbling tunnels or several errors being added to the several hours later. Finally, arch faulty motors" (A'ew York Times, 7 article sent us from Atlanta. Black segregationist Lester Maddox served Trotskyist League October). With transit ridership at its civil rights activist Tom Shaw is not as lieutenant governor of Georgia of Canada lowest point since 1917, the bosses an "Atlanta Civil Rights Worker" as under Governor Jimmy Carter, not Toronto themselves are worried. How can Wall our kicker wrongly said-he is a the reverse as we had stated. Sat.. 1:00-5:00 p.m. Street rake in its profits if you can't get Better better editorial touchup, 299 Queen SI. W., Suite 502 resident of Dooly County, located in Toronto, Ontario Phone: (416) 593-4138 to work in New York! Georgia's coastal plain. Our Atlanta but less! But the billions of dollars and 21 OCTOBER 1983 11 Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, who de nounces the American people for not destroying North Vietnam, then a legitimate spokesman for 'the toiling masses against the bureaucracy'? What about the liberal cold warrior Andrei Australian SWP Defends Sakharov, who calls for U.S. economic blackmail against the Soviet Union? Or the Zionist Vladimir Slepak, who sought to organize the large-scale emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel?" -"Euro-Revisionists Tail Stalinist Breakaways," Ustashi Fascists Spartacist No. 26, Winter 1979 Cheering on clerical-led Solidarnosc We reprint below an article from Many readers will naturally ask: How orientation toward all oppositional in Poland, whose hero is the fascistic Australasian Spartacist No. 103 is it possible for a group calling itself groupings, even the most openly pro anti-Soviet dictator Pilsudski; now (August-September 1983) exposing the "revolutionary socialist" to defend the imperialist and anti-Communist, in the embracing the heirs ofCroatian fascism, Australian Socialist Workers Party most sadistic and bloodthirsty of the East European bureaucratically ruled who apologize for the genocidal terror (SWP) as a defender of Ustashi fascism. East European fascist regimes which workers states. Mandel has long main of the Ustashi Black Legion-for the The SWP's association with the Croa operated under the protection of Hit tained that any and all oppositional USec (along with Ronald Reagan) the tian Movement for Statehood (HOP) ler's Third Reich? The SWP's relations movements in the Soviet bloc are representatives of the toiling masses of has rightly made it notorious on the with the Croatian rightists cannot be progressive forces for political revolu East Europe are the "captive nations" Australian left and not only on the left. dismissed as some strange, inexplicable tion against the Stalinist bureaucracy: crowd of pro-Nazi reactionaries who The 16 August issue of the Australian aberration. Rather the Australian SWP "The political conflict in the USSR and were swept away nearly four decades news magazine Bulletin writes that: has taken to the logical conclusion the People's Democracies pits the ago by the victorious Red Army. For the "The shock waves from the SWP's admittedly, a rare thing in politics-the bureaucracy against the toiling masses genuine Trotskyists ofthe international embrace of the Croatian Movement for position of Ernest Mandel's fake and not against the imperialist bour Spartacist tendency, our fight for Statehood (HOP) have even reached the Trotskyist United Secretariat (USec), of geoisie" (From Stalinism to Eurocom workers political revolution in the Labor Party, not to mention the which the SWP is a member, toward munism [1978]). In response to this Soviet bloc is the struggle to ensure that Palestine Liberation Movement and the Soviet-bloc "dissidents." whitewash, we replied at the time: these counterrevolutionary scum will Irish Republican Movement." The USec has long had a positive "Is the reactionary religious fanatic never return.
m 1J SWP Defends Ustasha OJ
Jim Percy's Socialist Workers Party ·v . ., (SWP) has gone off the deep end. This 51':) su Hr\'ati kinky social-democratic operation has been thrown into crisis thanks to the I dobili za notoriety it so rightly deserves as a defender of Ustasha fascism. For over a 10.. tra\'anj year now the SWP has pursued relations with the Croatian Movement for State hood (HOP). which in terms of organi sational continuity and political identi fication acts and talks like a Ustasha front. openly proclaiming as its goal the dismemberment of the Yugoslav work ers state and hailing in its press, Hrmtski Tjednik. some of the most bloodthirsty of the Ustasha's butchers. These are the remnants of Ante Pavelic's "Independent State of Croatia." brought to power in 1941 on the Australian HOP who "worshipped the Poglavnik Ante bayonets of the invading German and paper (above) Pavelic." A Ustasha leader for 50 years. Italian armies. Under the watchful eye glorifies Ustashi Crljen was in charge of propaganda of the Axis occupiers. Pavelic turned the butcher Jure under Pavelic, i.e.. the Croatian Goeb satellite state of Croatia into a vast Francetic. Croatian bels (Background Briefing). Then there slaughter-yard for Serbs. Jews, Gypsies Ustashi (left) were the most sadistic is the 19 April Hrvatski Tjednik which and many Croats. It took social revolu and bloodthirsty of ran an article by Dinko Dedic-the tion by Tito's all-Yugoslav Partisans, the East European HOP speaker at the SWP's "Karl Marx encompassing Communist fighters ofall fascists who Conference"-commemorating the 10 nationalities. to defeat the Ustasha operated under the April anniversary of Pavelic's rise to fascists and their Nazi overlords. It is protection of Nazi power. Accompanying the article is a this social revolution that the losers of Third Reich. large photo of.Jure Francetic, comman the Yugoslav civil war long to overturn der ofthe infamous Black Legion, with a through bloody counterrevolution. December 1981, but who now writes to Ustasha terror against the Yugoslav caption extolling this butcher as a The SWP's alliance with the HOP has Direct Action (19 July) defending workers state. For years these cowardly "symbol ofthe Croatian people's will for exploded into a first-rate public scandal, Yugoslav anti-Soviet "nonalignment," reformists have painstakingly sought to freedom liberated from all ideologies first ignited by the Spartacist League's or Victorian Labor MP Lewis Kent who establish an image as peace-loving folk and collaboration." Francetic, we might forceful intervention outside the SWP's telegrammed a 16 July SWP/CISCAC with a deep respect for all that is legal, add, was "liberated" from "collabora "Karl Marx Centenary Conference" in conference: "I feel the fascist HOP's but an exception is made for Miro tion" when the Nazis disarmed his Black Melbourne last April where Jacob association with CISCAC prevents me Baresic, now in a Swedish prison for the Legion for fear that its bestial atrocities Bilander, a Jewish survivor of the Nazi from addressing you." 1971 assassination of Yugoslav ambas would fuel support for the Partisans. holocaust, was thrown out after de In response the SWP devoted a sador Rolovic. On 2SER-FM SWP But then such company should please nouncing the Ustasha's monstrous special issue of Socialist Worker (Au spokesman Holmes lauds this murder as "Jimon Percijem" since the SWP's crimes at a special HOP workshop. The gust 1983) to "Croatian nationalism and an "act of struggle against national major complaint against Pavelic was his SWP/HDP affair has been splashed the fight for socialism" and in July oppression." According to Rooted in failure to "break" from German imperi across the pages of the Communist produced a 4-page Direct Action sup Secrecy by Victorian Labor MP Joan alism to "travel the Cuban road"! This Party of Australia's (CPA) Tribune and plement about "the Croatian national Coxsedge et aI., Rolovic visited Austra rogues gallery of fascist butchers paid even made the big bourgeois press with struggle" which announces: "The SWP lia in 1970 to deliver a secret aide tribute in the HOP's "Croatian Weekly" an article in Murdoch's Australian (12 and the HOP are going on a campaign memoire documenting Ustasha activi is actually cited by the SWP as an July). Headed "How the ultra-Right to get out the truth." And what is the ties in Australia. Coxsedge charges the example of how the HOP "is forced to may have finally suckered the ultra "truth"? This is what the supplement McMahon Liberal government and confront the wartime experience of the Left," Australian journalist David Hirst says: (I) "the Ustasha was not a fascist ASIO with complicity in Rolovic's regime of Pavelic and the Ustasha": murder, pointing out that the aide notes that "egg seems to be sticking on movement"; (2) "Pavelic's real betrayal "This may mean interviews with former the faces of the SWP-Direct Action" of the Croatian national cause was his memoire must have been revealed to the Ustasha leaders who for many in the and reports rumours of "an anti-Croat subordination of that struggle to the Ustasha because the killers claimed their Croatian community represent a mili faction emerging within the SWP." On interests of German and Italian imperi bloody deed as an act of reprisal for tant nationalist tradition and who mal' 19 June the issue was aired on ABC alism"; (3) "Even the scale of the Rolovic's exposure of the clandestine, be changing politically" (our emphasis). -Direct Action supplement radio in Sydney on its Background Ustasha crimes, r~al and horrifying as terrorist HRB. The SWP's July supple Briefing program presented by Mark they were, has been deliberately and ment, however, repeats in print Holmes' All of which brings us to the HOP Aarons, the son of former CPA leader massively exaggerated"; (4) "it is the statement, further defending this act of itself. As acknowledged by Dedic on Laurie Aarons. Then on II July a Belgrade regime that must answer to the fascist terror with the claim that Rolovic Background Briefing. the major compo Sydney campus station, 2SER-FM, ran charge of 'terrorism'" (emphasis in was an agent of the Yugoslav secret nent of the HOP came from the a debate between Tribune's Denis original). This is the kind of trash that police-so he deserved it. Croatian National Resistance (HNO). Freney and SWP leader Dave Holmes. usually comes from the mouths of Nazi Assassin Miro Baresic's photo is which in turn was founded by the Given the history of Ustasha terror in apologists who claim the holocaust featured on the front-page of the 19 July Ustasha chief of concentration camps, Australia, the SWP should hardly be never happened. From a supposed Hrvatski Tjednik, whichjust happens to General Luburic, and for years led in surprised that Labor Party doors across "socialist" grouping such statements include a lengthy interview in Croatian Australia by Srecko Rover, who is the political spectrum have been slam are unprecedented, amazing, utterly with Jimom Percijem, a.k.a. Jim Percy. wanted for war crimes in Yugoslavia. ming in their face, like ex-Senator degenerate. In the same issue is an interview with The HOP's current international presi Mulvihill who adorned the SWP's The SWP has now reached the point Danijel Crljen, described in an earlier dent is Nikola Stedul, from 1974 the "solidarity with Solidarity" platform in of openly defending specific acts of edition as "a great son of the Croats" international secretary of the HNO; 12 WORKERS VANGUARD r--- vergence is/was Poland, over which ~~ol~~~r~:all~ t~:9~b.~~l;:·~:r~;r~~,"~~'J ~'I~e,Hl~'!,:~"I Mandel has definitively passed from rllr'fttnlolcy· 'nd erR 1eorw'linQ t.,~",. copy or )'OUr JfOtlpT lo 1ft" fl,l"lo - ;'r'f~~:/;~~h centrism to the camp of social Socialist Workers Party Pi , HJ« '000 _ Ofllcr. ~ 8M K2tII. MapI...... _ Tal. l.~' ~11 2332 July 20 lQ8l democratic reformism as an outspoken D4Vid Holm.,. i,dnpy dl'j,trlct orqanl'ill'r, J\ll~" 1';. 1~8l 'iwP fan of Fran90is Mitterrand's ruling
Oear David. Socialist Party. This must have seemed ...."1. ,.,...n~" l~t I~ like a pretty good bet for a factional 1'ribu.ne ThInk you for your t"!'I' of Juh propo.,fn,., • dll'b.h on thtt Hr')P "nr1 Cro,.)th. bloc, all the more so since the SWP is ~,,~ Dl'nl', I nl!'V~t' .t"-(U'itt cl'l.tl""gll" to dlb.. t. on luuu that Ir. of 'om. I'••!"itt"l to oropQ•• " l1 ..hU b.. t •••n ••,@l!. tor th.. S.". IlllnOtl.. "cp. How'!'vll'r I .. Iso lnU'll I')n Htl!' followlnC! polnt,: itself internally torn over "tactics" on ,nd ,ou, ror ttl.. C;'A. on ttl" tOfl1c or ero,H.. lInd the HI'JP. I' TopIc: 1 b.llll'Vl!' th"!' ,topic st'lould b. tom~tt'llng Uk. : -Thl! ~ ~oq HOP ... UstUh. hnorhts or Cro"tl.n n.tlon.li.h 1" or. 'Som.thir'oq "solidarity with Solidarity," but we 1 thl.,. _,ould acr.. tn,t, th,. .. ,\"nl1"" eO'f'lI!!nae thl.. whldl lnc IUdll's both tid., or HIII' dlspUh. que.tlon h•• rfOethld 1., Direct AtUOn and .lrltlolne (lind reetnth 1n ',he f!!,tr.t1hii'l ,,,,kflt lIn 1"'\l1t 0 8r~"t itl.ternt wouldn't be at all surprised if the HDP 2) Tlth,: [ do not";;; _it'" to sp.,k ofHcillly 'I"l tN~.1f of th.. C...... on the \.eft r111'l nO-. If, 11" I d~OC:Nt1c orq"nh.t1on .nd 1 do not wit'" ••pry C~nt I got in the way. To be sure, Mandel's A d.b4lt~ .ould. hdp ~o el~r1t~ th" .,thr ..rid wout.! eerutnly Might 1liiie, to bit .ttrlbutlbh to thl!' CPA. A, you .111 bI .....r•• .U"ct 'l _1dl ad4unC!llt. ~=v~.:.h:~ ::·~o~~r~~"lot~ ~::a~hif;:~~:tn:a;~;~:n'1;ivll1f'!. opportunism is boundless, but (a) it was C~. rrlbJn~ ~fte.nU., the ..3W' de_aUd the lah~ IUanat soehlUU oft Cub' Journ.list.undoubtedly that of t"" Ho""v"r 1 wrll only .peak IS I in part to capitulate to Tito's brand of 1n •••11-eondIJCltI' ."1iI .,U-aU.nded ••,",. I ."Ut•.8 that thlt propo..4 dcthU wo",U b" .. li8Un 1NCC...• ~~.:W;~~:;ef.::~...\tt~;t~~~rg;";~~l~:;tt.~:;:=b!~'~.~h' "objectively revolutionary" Stalinism 1 .ou14 ..a~•••t 'h.t. it b•• plJbUc e••nt _Uh th•••cepUon w.Lll .ncour'g. yout U'tuhl frhnd' to COlI' .10"9. 1 hlv' th" dUprttlt that Mandel first broke from Trotsky 'hit: 1t "n lI. ope" to IlflI.Mrl or .Ub.r the Sf'!"rt.c1.,1lAoIIu.· 01" the Soc1alht wbcnl1" t.e..,ue. Tn_ tir.t. ,," chronled 1 f::~~t;~:~ :;~Iyt;:;:;~'b:t~\:o;:l~~ie:fr~t:r~~,,~Z~t~L~t _ad eclreuhl11 dunaptin and "concl cllllrl' u•• on • .,.IIt'1 -ttl;"'y ism towards Pabloist liquidation, and ,he not afrlld to hIve th. prllS.nt .nd certlinl, t"tally r"jitct .n, po'libl!! ceca.ion, .Uh bel'" cop•. or'lny~ 1Il~~t1ng ~ ..it·elutlonlwould bf' the flJP. (r"", thp ... If ,nyolW"l to U'clud.d (b) why would any ostensible socialist I'd lHE' 1.0 hlU ,0000r "_:,on•• to 'hie p1'O,ol.t. ir :"ou thin'lt 'hat 1t would b" II loI ..rl.l1 ••,n'l: ••, eOlAld S,t. in tOl.lch to .) FOf1lNt o( the ,....Ul"ll1: 1 wit not pr...ttt It the ",p.. ts d,hh. want to rub shoulders with fascist di.cu.' • d..tll', !l .,nue, ,nel. S precl.~ re~t. but frOllt ind.pend"nt ~opl" who "1" I tNt disturlNd to hilI' th" Wly It WI' ",lntg.d to I.clud" Iny r,1l d"blte Cr_ tht floor,. butchers like the Ustasha? But then, ¥ou.rl s1no,.,..1.,. I "",uld thUefon propou the ulull III..Unq fol'llWlt: Ptrh,ps 30 1Il1nuht for ,ou Ind I to prulnt our vhws .':)I,sUonl for I lurth.tr 10 who knows; maybe International View p...... - ~~ "!nut,,.,~t'I! Sp.eehp,' f'roni t"" (loor.with upnnntltlon ofth~.It hnd"nclP,U~ to ..r"pl".nt for Inoth"r 10 ll'll"Vtu and 10 .lnutu itath It lInd for point will start running articles on , ••, "01.... S..4,"," Dt-trtet Of'I1onlllr ")I"d.~M't'tt th,lrPlfton: A Plf'lon who 11 Indtp.hd.l"It and nNor1l!'nc. "exciting new developments" in the Ind who h lIlUtual1y .ee.ptlbh. 1 hl"*,,t ~ntlo""'d it to Hall Gr~t""lln41 but I -u thlnklnq of ICMleo" ... lib hi",. Australian "Croatian Community." til F'1"'hC.: I would propou I eh,r9" o( ,uy, IJ 'ntry hI' •• ~v"rYon., The SWP pretends thay can't figure PUnts to bto dh1d"d eqUllly Ift.r COlt of hill Plld. he'" .ide to pay (or whlhv.r publ1c ity t~ • ., prGd\le •• out why everyone is making such a fuss AI ht .. I hi toncer".d.only polM on. 1, open to 0U over screwing around with some "left n democrat. Instead of workers democra By the time of the explosion which war on the Soviet Union. For Polish KOR ••• cy, he now called for a Western-style produced Solidarnosc, KOR had be workers and youth who want to see a (continued from page 3) parliamentary regime: come a social-democratic component in socialist world, the Trotskyist program "We must strive for a status similar to a clerical-nationalist movement domi is the only way forward. on foundations inherited from the Finland's: a parliamentary democracy nated and directed by Karol Wojtyla's Let the despicable fa te of Kuron serve October Revolution. In contrast, Kuron with a limited independence in the field Vatican. as a lesson. It is urgently necessary to maintained that the Stalinist bureaucra of foreign policy where it directly touches the interests of the USSR,'· Kuron's political trajectory from build educational and propaganda cells cy is a new exploitative class no better -"Thoughts on the Action of a Trotskyist vanguard to restore the than the capitalists. And now his refusal : some kind of revolutionary syndicalist Program," in Jifi Peliklin and to an agent of the Vatican and NATO great Marxist tradition of the Party to recognize the collectivized, planned Manfred Wilke, eds., Proletariat, Rosa Luxemburg, Leo economies of East Europ'e, despite their Menschenrechte: Ein Jahrbuch imperialism anticipated and influenced zu Osteuropa (1977) the parallel course of many Western Jogiches, the "Three W's" (Warski, bureaucratic deformations, as a pro Walecki and Wera Kostrzewa), all gressive conquest of the international With this program, KOR applied for New Left radicals of the 1960s, who once denounced Khrushchev/Brezh inspirers or leaders of the early Polish proletariat has led him into the camp of and was granted observer status in the Communist Party.• "democratic" imperialism. Second International of Helmut nev's Russia for not being revolutionary but have today enlisted in Reagan's anti The Workers Defense Committee was Schmidt, Fran90is Mitterrand and Sir Soviet "crusade for freedom." Kuron's formed in 1976, its original purpose Harold Wilson. being to agitate for amnesty for those While the Polish Stalinist regime fate demonstrates with exceptional clarity that those leftists, whatever their workers imprisoned or otherwise vic persecuted leftist oppositionists, it ~PARTACJS"~ ~ ~-'''''IOO1"", timized for their role in the mass strikes allowed the Catholic church hierarchy subjective motivations, who deny that -. . .'"'-... ..cno,. the Soviet Union is a proletarian state and protests against food price increases to become, as it were, the official ImperiaflSf, Israeli Troops power (albeit bureaucratically degener decreed in July ofthat year. By this time [Qpposition. Thusone of KOR's first acts Out of Lebanon! ated) will inexorably be drawn into the Kuron had moved decisively to the 'was an appeal for support from Cardi camp of capitalist imperialism. right, becoming essentially a social nal Wyszynski for the imprisoned ar...Easf' .Workers. The close collaboration be We do not underestimate the strength tween K0 R and the church was publicly of anti-Communist nationalism in -~''''''~ .., , announced in Adam Michnik's 1977 General Jaruzelski's Poland. Yet there 18"-;."1",18",i~ " '~,. tract, "Church, Left, Dialogue:' which are undoubtedly militants, in the facto J repudiated and denounced the historic .' ~ ~ ries and the universities, inspired by ; '. .'"11 < Faile-Leftists Push "Pax Americana" $1.00 anti-clericalism of the Polish left, socialist ideals rather like the Jacek Sf~ PAGE 'O<.l~ .... S··<;_-.._.OI' f"'.--, a-l_~ .... C_ ot including Polish social democracy. Kuron of 20 years ago. They are ~~'-:':;,:;:~'''O~~~ 1J .~~~,~:.r:",::" __ .,, "'-, ~, ..•.•'. ,,~ -'. ,>~ ~ .. ,.~ "- _ Iho np ··l_...... s~ ~ ~. o-...... ,"-_~, Abraham Brumberg, a former editor of ...... 1f r.... attracted to the liberating goals of ~, {"") ,'\ 0_"'''':>''-- ::::=':"';':'<>0.. the CIA's house organ, Problems of Marxism even though these have been .. --u_ .... '''''0< '" 5<'1..-. Communism, observed that: endlessly dragged through the mud by "[Michnik's] polemic is to persuade his the Stalinist bureaucracy. They are friends on the left that the Church is Spartacist defending values compatible with the repelled by the medieval mumbo-jumbo traditions of secular liberalism. and to of Wojtyla, who would abolish the right (English Edition) to abortion in Poland and introduce urge the Church to realize that if it No. 35, Autumn 1983 pursues and deepens its struggle for mass unemployment in the name of human rights. it can have no better ally "freedom"; they are repulsed by the Order from/PlIY to: than the secular left." Spartacist Publishing Co, Make checks payable/mail to: insane nuclear warmongering of Rea 50¢ Spartacist Publishing Co., -"The Open Political Struggle in Box 1377 GPO, Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 Poland," Ne ....· York Revie..... of gan, who would turn Poland into a vast New York NY 10116 Books, 8 February 1979 field of irradiated rubble in his drive for 21 OCTOBER 1983 13 Sandinista turncoat Eden Pastora, took the oil storage tanks at Corinto and insurgents), the withdrawal of military Nicaragua ... credit for an air attack on Sandino Puerto Sandino. advisers (including Cubans) and early International Airport in Managua. elections, is a formula for the prostra (continuedfrom page 1) • September 9-An attack damaged Defend, Complete, Extend the tion of Sandinista Nicaragua before the unloading facilities at Corinto. the Nicaraguan Revolution! U. S. war machine and the strengthening militias, straggling back to the Hondu country's major port. The same day an The Reagan 3Gministration has put of the internal fifth column. Even a ran horder. often barefoot. for another oil terminal at Puerto Sandino was Central AmeLd on the front line of its "compromise" settlement such as a gov infusion ofCIA aid, the yanquis decided sabotaged. ernment ot "national unity," no doubt to go from harassment to beginning full anti-Soviet war dri\e. The leftist insur • Ocwber la-Attackers from light gency in EI Salvador is to be drowned in ll1\'olving reactionaries like Archbishop scale war on Nicaragua. Given the planes and speedboats blew up five blood. Sandinista Nicaragua is labeled a Obando y Bravo, would only be a brief Sandinista regime's massive popular storage tanks, causing at least 3.2 "Soviet puppet" whose very existence transition to bloody counterrevolution. support. the economic devastation million gallons of gasoline and other threatens Reagan's local aHies, that On October 14 Daniel Ortega, coordi unleashed by U. S. imperialism alone fuel to go up in Dames. \1ajor fires swept assortment of bloody colonels. corrupt nator of the Sandmista junta. an cannot topple the nationalist govern the city. forcing 25,000 residents to politicos, parasitic oligarchs and their nounced the adoption of an emergency ment. The entire thrust of Reagan's evacuate their homes, though reported death squads. The only "negotiated plan to confront the present crisis: actions point to the direct introduction ly some have since returned. The main solution" acceptable to the Reaganites austerity, strengthening civil defense, of U.S. combat troops. Right now contra group. the Nicaraguan Demo would be the dissolution of the Sandi rationing fuel. etc. Missing from this thousands of U.S. troops deployed just cratic Force (FDN), took credit for the nista government and installation of a ten-point plan are the decisive actions across the border are poised for inva attack. that would inspire the masses to sion. It is the elementary internationalist contra dictatorship ("moderately au • October l3-Puerto Sandino was thoritarian," of course). Reagan's un revolutionary defense oftheir own state: duty of socialists everywhere, and again attacked, this time damaging the dersecretary of defense Fred Ikle made expropriation of the bourgeoisie and the especially in the United States, to main oil pipeline. Three-quarters of this clear in a recent address to the creation of a workers and peasants defend the Nicaraguan revolution Nicaragua's oil passes through this port. Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs: government. against imperialist/counterrevolution Significantly, the contra groups did not Mobilization of the Nicaraguan aryattack. " ... we must prevent consolidation of a take credit for this attack, suggesting Sandinista regime in :\'icaragua that working masses to struggle in their Faced with the CIA war against its that it was carried out directly by CIA would become an arsenal for insurgen revolutionary class interests would strategic industrial facilities, Nicara operatives. cy.... Ifwe cannot prevent that. we have create a social force that would sweep gua's military arsenal to defend its air Meanwhile, equally or more omi anticipated the partition of Central America. Such a development would away the contra scum and stand up to space and coastlines is pitifully inade nously, Exxon, which owns the coun then force us to man a new militarv any and all of the American puppet quate. The Sandinistas are now asking try's only oil refinery, has said it will not front line of the East-West conflict right juntas in the region. This spark would foreign governments for antiaircraft transport oil to Nicaraguan ports due to here on our continent." have to ignite the workers throughout defenses as well as combat airplanes. "safety considerations." The state -Baltimore Sun, 14 September the isthmus to relentless class war, The chance of Washington's allies, like owned Mexican oil company, PEMEX, While the Democrats may differ over spreading north to Mexico with its "socialist" Mitterrand's France, provid has for now agreed to continue supply tactics, they share the strategic goal of many-millioned proletariat now facing ing this aid is nil. The Soviet Union is the ing Nicaragua with crude oil but only if overturning the gains of social revolu savage austerity dictated by the Yankee only real possibility. We say: send the Sandinista government arranges tions from Cuba to the Soviet Union. bankers and InternatiQnal Monetary advanced weaponry to Nicaragua! transport. And the contras have public Both hawks and so-called "doves" alike Fund. That is the perspective of perma When the Spartacist tendency first ly threatened to blow up tankers oppose the petty-bourgeois nationalist ment revolution, the program for raised the slogan, "Nicaragua needs delivering Mexican oil to Nicaragua. Sandinista government. What moti Trotskyist parties in Central America. Soviet MIGs," the rad-libs and refor Mexican workers must demand that the vates the doves is not opposition to The stakes in the battle for Nicaragua mist "left" scoffed at this as bizarre. But De la Madrid regime continue deliveries overt/covert aid to the Somozaist are high and not only for the masses of who today will deny that the Sandinistas of oil to Managua. And Soviet/Cuban mercenaries, but the fear of "another that besieged country. In 1936 the desperately need these weapons to naval forces must convoy the urgently Vietnam"-that is, another rout for popular-front Spanish Loyalists. faced defend the revolution against the CIA needed fuel to Nicaragua. U.S. imperialism. Thus the November with Franco's military uprising, sabo and contras? Smash U.S. imperialism! Even in an impoverished country like 12 rad-lib Central America march in taged the heroic struggle ofthe proletar Nicaragua, oil is the lifeblood of the Washington includes among its de iat: the social-democratic and Stalinist From Contra Terror to economy. Attempts to cut off a nation's mands: "No more Vietnam Wars!" In reformists were more fearful of social CIA Bombing oil have been a major cause of the wars contrast, the Trotskyists proclaim: revolution than of military defeat. and revolutions of our time. Japan was "Vietnam was a victory! Two, three, When Franco's allies, Germany and Striking from sanctuaries in neigh impelled to attack Pearl Harbor a few many defeats for U.S. imperialism!" As Italy, bombed and blockaded the boring Honduras, the Somozaist months after Roosevelt and Churchill Vietnamese foreign minister Nguyen Co country, the Republic did nothing hllt mercenaries have conducted hit-and embargoed its oil supplies. And recall Thach recently declared in Managua, issue appeals to the League of Nations run terror raids into Nicaragua, assassi that it was the U.S. oil companies' "North American intervention in Nica while the "democratic" imperialists nating and torturing community leaders refusal to refine Soviet crude petroleum ragua could lead to many Vietnams" claimed their "hands were tied" by the and teachers, kidnapping peasants, which finally forced the early Castro (New York Times, 7 September). The non-intervention pact. Meanwhile, the ambushing buses, shelling schools and regime (similar in many respects to the new CIA tactics are intended not only to internal bourgeois fifth-column opposi hospitals. Altogether they have killed FSLN today) to expropriate both strangle the Nicaraguan economy, but tion was allowed to flourish. As a result more that 600 Nicaraguans since the American and domestic capital in Cuba to show Congress that the war is the Spanish working class suffered a beginning of the year. But the contra in the summer/fall of 1960. Today winnable. And in the wake of Reagan's historic defeat, which helped set the terrorists were getting chewed up by the Nicaragua stands at such a decisive 007 war provocation, the Democrats' stage for World War II. Sandinista militia (the regular army has crossroads. vaunted opposition vanished into thin Will the Sandinistas follow the not even been thrown into the battle However, U.S. imperialism is out to air; continued funding for the contras suicidal course of the Spanish Loyalists? yet). Hence, according to the New York destroy the Nicaraguan revolution passed a Senate committee by a vote Or will they have enough sense of self Times (16 October), " ... a decision, before it becomes "another Cuba." Five of 13-2. preservation to mobilize the masses reached by the C.I.A. over the summer, thousand American troops are in The efforts of the soft cops of the against the CIA's war as did the that attacks directly against industrial Honduras, poised for invasion. Radar Contadora group (Mexico, Colombia, Castroites at the Bay of Pigs. thus saving and transportation targets inside Nica stations, airfields, naval bases, military Venezuela and Panama) to mediate a the Cuban Revolution? ragua would be a quicker and more hospitals are being built to handle aU.S. negotiated settlement in Central Ameri Today we urgently demand that Cuba effective way of hurting the Sandinistas expeditionary force. Marines are "exer ca is an attempt to avoid the domestic and the Soviet Union must send all than previous efforts." The results were cising" with amphibious landings. They repercussions of either direct Yankee necessary military aid to Nicaragua, not long in coming. are all preparing to KO the Sandinista intervention or social revolution. The especially modern jet aircraft. Smash • September 8-A contra attack regime. But meanwhile it is the petty Contadora call, which Castro endorses the Somozaist/CIA counterrevolution! destroyed 400,000 gallons of fuel at the bourgeois FSLN's attempts to maintain and the Sandinistas have accepted, for a Kill the contras-Workers to power! Atlantic port of Benjamin Zeled6n. The a middle road of "mixed economy, halt to all arms deliveries in the region Smash Reagan's Bay of Pigs same day the Democratic Revolution political pluralism and nonalignment" (including aid to Salvadoran leftist Nicaragua needs MIGs ... now!. arv Alliance (ARDE), led by ex- which have been blown up along with STATE:vIENT OF OWNERSHIP. 9. For completion by nonprofit organilations '\lANAGEMENT AND C1RCU.ATlON authorized to mail at special rates. (Required by 39 LS.C. 3685) 10. Extent and nature of circulation: Average no. SPARTACIST LEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY IA. Title of Public'ation: Itorkers Vanguard. copies each issue during preceding 12 months: A. Total IB. 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(editor) 14 WORKERS VANGUARD Endorsers of October 29 March and Rally to Stop the Racist Anti-Labor Frame-Up of Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero Partial List of Endorsers Richard Fraser, Historic American Trotskyist and member; Democratic Socialists Laura Pacheco. Senator, Associated Students: UC Berkeiey of Amenca,' Los Angeles, CA Partisan Defense Committee John F. Gardenhire. EnglISh Department: Laney College. Oakland. CA People for Justice. Rlchmcnd. G,A AFSCME Local 444. Oakia"d. CA John George, Chairman: Alameda County Board of Super\lisors~ John L. Pettus. Extendcc 0eportunity Progr2,r.1S & Services ;EOPS) Counselor. AFSCME Local 2620 Kenneth Gibbons, Recording Secretary, lAM Local Oakiand. CA Laney College, Oak!and. 'vA Carolyn Dukes Alexander. President, Laney Chapter, Council ot Black American 284.' Martha Phillips Spartacist candida:e :or Oakland City Council, 1983 Affairs.~ Oaklana. CA Ann Fagan Ginger Attorney. Berkeiey. CA S. Deacon Alexander. Director. NAARPR. Los Angeles Chapter Harvey Gomez. Treasurer, Associated Studerts: Laney Co:if::ge, Oakland. CA Phone Strikers Defense Committee Jim Quillen, Exacutlve Secretary, Califorrlla Conference of Machinists;' Robert L. Allen, Director of Etrlnic StudIes. Mills College, former edilOr Stan Gow, Executive Board. Il.WU Local 10. San Francisco, CA Black Scholar· William Gray, Professor, Soclai Vvork Departmen~" San Franc:sco State Oakland. CA J.W. Reid Professor. Afro-Arnencan Studies,' Merntt Coiieoe. Oakland, CA American Postal Workers Union, Oakland. CA UniverSity Jim Robertson. National Cnairrnafl. Spartacist Leagd€ ~ Barbara Andrews. Legislative Chair, CWA Locai 9410 and Chair, Finance Frank Grinnon. District Representative, ORTTilBEW Local 1011: Oakland, CA Committee, Congressman ,8onald V, Dellums, San Francisco, CA Brian Grosevolse, President, Associated Students,· Laney College, Oakland. CA Alma Robinson, Former Lecturer. Ethn!c St'jdies,' San Francisco State University Bettina Aptheker. AFT UCSC Loca! and Lecturer: UC Santa Cruz Bruce Groulx, Business Agent, SEIU Locai 250: Oakland. CA Ana Maria Robles. Vice President. Pre-Health Club: Laney COllege. Oaklaod, Cr>, Dr. Celia Arington. Ethnic Studies Chairperson, MArritt College. Oakland, CA Elihu Harris. Assemblyman, '13th DistriCt. Oakland, CA Ronald Rose. Central Labor Council Delegate. lAM Local 284: Oakland. CA Bay Area Enforcers Van Club. Rlchmonej. CA Percy Hintzen. ASSistant Professor. Afro-American Studies Department,' AI Rossi. President. United Teachers of Oakland. AFT Local 771: Oakland. CA Jefferi Beaty. Black Student Union: Laney College, Oakland. CA UC Berkeley Michael Rotkin, AFT UCSC Local member and Santa Cruz City Councilmember* Fred Beauford. Afro-American Studies Department: UC Berkeley Diane Hirshberg. Senator. ASSOCiated Students,' UC Berkeley SEIU Local 535. Alameda County Chapter Willie Lee Bell, Chairman, CiVil Rights Committee. lAM Local 739: Oakland Ct>, Kathy Ikegami. Executive Board. CWA Local 9410. San FrancISCO CA SEIU Local 616. Oakland. Cr>, Black Student Union. Contra Costa College, Richmond. C ... ILWU Local 10. San Francisco. C... Charles Shaine. President. Berkeley campus AFT Local 1795: Berkeley, CA Richard Bradley, Spartac,st candidate for San FrancIsco Board of Leon James. Past President, Black Student Union, Santa Rosa Community Dan Siegel. Attorney. Oakland. CA SuperVISors. 1982 College and member, Black Student Union: Laney College. Oakland, CA Bernard Smallwood. Chiel Steward. ExecutivB Soard, lAM Local 1518: Allan Brill, Director. San Francisco Interns and Residents Association,' San Randy Johnese, Senior Field Representative. SEIU Local 535. Oakland. CA Oakland. CA Francisco, CA AI Johnson, President. ATU Local 192: Oakland. CA Michael J. Smith, Business Representative. Hospital WorKers Local 250'- Henry A. Bryant. Chairperson, Black Stud,es Department: Laney College Geraldine Johnson, President, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists,* Sar, Oakland. CA Oakland, CA Francisco. CA Rusty Smith, Steward. Editor of Local paper, SEIU Local 715: San Juse CA Leonard Buford. Treasurer, American Muslim Mission Center,· Richmond, CA Oliver Jones, Attorney. Oakland. CA Spartacus Youth League John Carr. President, ILWU Local 10, San Francisco, CA Ed Kartsen, Candidate for PreSident of TWU Local 100: New York. NY Bruce M, SI. Cyr. Vice President AFSCME Loca! 2620 and Executive Board, Patricia Carroll, Lecturer, San Francisco State University' Arthur Kinoy, Professor of Law. Rutgers University: Newark, NJ AFSCME Council 57" Desmond Carson, President, Black Students in Health Association,· UC Berkeley Francesc8 Kugler, President Berkeley Feminist Alliance· Thomas Sullivan, President. USWA Local 1304: Emeryville, CA Rose Chernin. Chairperson. NAARPR. Los Angeles Chapter Labor/Black League for Social Defense Jan 8unoo, Business Agent. Teamsters Local 278: San Francisco. CA Sherri Chiesa. Secretary-Treasurer, Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 2: EI Learned, President, lAM Local 824: Richmond, CA Rev. Ron Swisher, Easter Hill United Methodist Church: Richmond, CA San Francisco, CA Kerry M. Lewis. President. Atncan Students Association.' UC Berkeley Ronald Takaki, Professor of EthniC Studies: UC Berkeley Robert Chin, Head of Asian Studies Program: Merritt College, Oakland. CA Ron Lind, Director of Organizing, UFCW Local 428: San Jose, CA Ray Talavera, President. Teamsters Local 85,* San FrancIsco, CA Jackie Clark, General Executive Board. ILWU Local 6: San Francisco. CA Ed Logue, Jr.. Union Representative. lAM Local 824: Richmond. CA Ron Teninty, Business Agent Teamsters Local 315: Richmond, CA Diana Coleman, Spartacist candidate for San Francisco Board of Supervisors. J.C. London, Vice President. Los Angeles Jayhawks' Robert Treuhafl. Attorney. Oakland. CA 1980 and 1982 Cassie Lopez, Community Activist. Oakland. CA Lloyd Vandeber. President. UE Local 1412: Oakland, CA Collin Cooper, Senator. Associated Students: UC Berkeley Conrad Lynn. CIVil Rights Attorney. New York, NY Howard Wallace, Lesbian/Gay Labor Ai!iance: San FrancIsco, CA CWA Local 9410. San Francisco, CA Arvaughn Manning. Vice PreSident, Associated Students: Merritt College, Shirley Ware, Business Agent. SE1U Local 250: Oaklc.nd, G.A CWA Local 9415 Executive Board, Oakland. CA Oakland. CA Jack Weintraub. Past President. Teamsters Local 85, ~ San Francisco. CA Audrey Daniels, First Vice President. AFSCME Local 444, Oakland CA Joe McHale, Vice President, NALC Branch 705,~ Vallejo, CA Bobbie J. Williams. President. CWA Local 9415,' Oakiand C,:" Margot Dashiell, Department ')f Sociology and Afrc-American Studie3: Lane',' Ken B. McLean, National Organizer, AFGE: 12th District. Rohnert Park. CA J.A. Williams Instructor, Laney Co!lege. Oaklan,j, CA COlleqe, Oakland CA Archiaus Mosley, Sr., Preside'lt. Facu:ty Senate,· Laney College. Oakland. CA Robert F. Williams CIVi! RigrH3 Activist Baldw;~, M: Ignacio-De La Fuei"'>te. Bus;ness Manager, Molders l.ocal 164,' Cal<.!ar!d eM, Antion Nadar. PreSident 8181;'- Student Union,' Merritt Co~\ege. Oakland. CA David Wiliiamson, S<::cretary~Trea~ure~. lAM ~.Gc.a: 824' R;,: "TV';:-'''~ ',:'.f. Ronald V. Oelh..lrr.s :\.'~er·nber 0' Congresj Nati.,nal APiance Agains! R(jcl;;~ snd PoHticai Repression. Los Angeles Chapter ?eler Woolston Gerer21' Execu·;v'? .~i.':::"c'~.Wl) L.:)L.--: (:. '.~.,~'j Paul DeMpster P'es:de:lt S:uiors Unio:--, :::.-f the PaClf!(: , Sar Frw:'.::::-:':c National Conference of Black Lawyers, Bay Area Chapter (ialil';- YO'1eca, P~es'de ...... ~ i:_'NU ,t-I,;.:';":3f"_' r--Jo 16' S~, :::~;o, ("J'- Fran" Donner, A.t!(''''-2/ Ne·...,. Y'Jrk" r--.;'! ...1.8. N.eilands Pa2>1 Dr8S:~0'""" ! :-T '._<)(>1' ~4-·~.· UC Berl-.S'£;. !ist':'d for 18,?"~tf, ...>~t /",~ Dave Ebert Rec - Eugene "Gus" Newport . Edwards Ann No~! .'\'e ,v''''' 'c' ,r:~'(ll{;"- Richarc o.,~ ·'--\'0·..... ·~.'":: ..4_. '_'c'"', 101' .,~, Father WliliStr C~Jt";":-" .>3'?;:'~' c~:e ...·,i'yk. rr·:2,·"' Cr,'.J':::-· . 6,,:,~:-.:e;~ :,... MarL" Orne:as j!~ ';'c::--nec~,J)tc auth ., [ric L)r~l[T(~OOl(,.', JOhnfl:. R~)r.~,:~.:~. \'1 :(hac! ttl\, rd\ :!!...; . ~.i;=·.... t~; ~ ··t;~, l·., aur-i.t:i'& Qt{} ,~l\\ C~IU~·t .. ,. ba~-"k.:"'(.! llr~ (~::", ra.c:~: GuiHC)fY. Eul1u Lo\'c (~rL n~, ~nany tj":e Kk _ hi .'. fJ .. \.:s and .i.:C:pS. tn ~\legal1~.. " kil:, fr~'tqle more. i\ll t\)O often the t~:;; ~hJ(' raC~l~,t or lfle hL1CL re hc\~,>'·~our~:~ ur~ an,-~ .1:.111 hlack people and uni\)n atrocities are done and prCll,'Sts come .'\lI 01,] Hm OCTOIHi< 2\.1; (iec Ray ... member,;. ,:1.11 the while, the trigger too late to save the victim, ~,)ur union, your churcr your ~>"-,rnmu (Ci)//linued/i'o1!7 paRe 16/ hdPP.Y cops terrorize the black neigh We say "enough'" Latn; and hLick, n1l> c,rganilation. Y()~!i' ncighrh~<'~;, ~\ou~ borhoods. enforcing with clubs and have the power! Five thousand h"ld' school moving; C,llTiC to Oakland Cit\ disreputdhle \\oman is not actualJ\ in gun~ the old sa~'ing, "If you're black. get and unionists mobilized in a Span,:; HaP (J4rh iind Wclshinpon St,; at Ii the Klan, she might as well be. back." The brutal cop murder of fivc League-initiated demonstration that a.m.l March to the D,A.'s office d the The railroading of Lauren and Ray is Year-old Patrick Mason. and the was endorsed and supported by the Alameda County Courthouse '12th and hangman's justice in Rc:agan\ .Amenca S35.00n hounty awarded hi" murderer International Longshoremen', Associa Fa!!on Sts.)' Reagan and hi~ millionaire cronic, hatt.: the' Califo!"!li~i \\orker\ Ce,mI'. tion among many other,. anJ Slopped' WF SA\; '\0 \\\\l S\L\SH THIS hlack .i\.rncr:('~l. -rhey hdt'·~ ;:"1~CJn~" Slrl':':" BC~l n:~',';~'h )loQical ~tre~s·· say~ it the KKK race-terrorist~; fc,Ll n::lg RACIST \ :--:r-i ,\BOR FR\\l'E-l'P; Rf"~~gan Je~l10ytd P/\'rc~(), tnt' bo'<,,-" ;, i)f):_ll hiO~! t": r:.:,~ lr~ Reag:~::"s in \Vashington. I).C ~~.'. "".':":."' no',~o WITH SOl 1 H\.FRICA- s.;,T)/.~ .~: :~ ~ ctnd the C:. 1\·~~iT1TT~Cr.! n.r~ ': .~. \-\ ~: r .~. -" ;f;J~--"~i~~ ~rl(H\:" , \ . ..-. .~ .., . "",}~.LH.()~:~ ~ r _zr'iryiitJii~:'~~-1.~~~~C;.;':;':;:}~;· ,,::,,,, '<'''~' ";~':T./7;:.c:-:'t.::.~.c.".'::.-:::';,::~-;'"-,,:"~-.:LC:_~.:';:~:'~\"'~~~""'~:-r~"I?iA~S;";':.~:.~ ....~~~~~~-:-::.~~~.f:··;::;.~~;.~;:~~·~\..~.~};;.t:"3L~':'';4:.·.~'''A;'f;;{~~=~,~:N,:?:iSi!~~~~ run an efficient witchhunt. slogan of the Baltic League isn't the In the postwar period, the CP was recast Rosenbergs ... We have here one of the prevailing case, The world is full ofex-Communist as espionage agents, But the "Vietnam liberal \ iews of the McCarthy period, god-that-failed types, For many ]\ev, syndrome" and the "Rosenberg syn (continuedfi'o/J] page 10) namely that it went too far. It convicted Leftists. particularly of the red-diaper drome" make that kind of open ideolog the "innocent" along with the "guilty." Ronald Radosh variety. the road has led ical lynching more difficult today. So penalty lost by a single vote. When Who were "innocenf'? The liberals. of to social democracy. today the entire "disloyal" left is being Shachtman sent his wire to Eisenhower course. The liberal and social democrat The Cold War rad-Iibs like Radosh characterized as "international terror asking to commute the death sentence. it want their civil liberties and their were in the New Left antiwar movement ism." The secret police are already was done in the name of "an independ witchhunt too. Thus the liberals' typical of the 1960s when anti-Sovietism was gearing up on this basis with witch ent socialist organization which has hero of the McCarthy period is the suppressed, Russia was seen as being hunting RICO laws, That is the purpose been uncompromising in its struggle non-Communist (preferably anti either on the Vietnamese side or as one and great danger of the FBI's "new against Stalinism" (Labor Action, 22 Communist) wrongly accused as an of the two "superpowers." Radosh, guidelines." Left organizations branded June 1953), Still there was a hue and cry agent of the Soviet Union, The problem Weinstein & Co. always had a pro as terrorists are set up as outlaws, to be in the party against the decision, as is that with primitives like McCarthy nounced chauvinist pride in their shot down like dogs. It is McCarthyism letters poured into Labor Action bitter running the show, liberals can get hurt "organic American radicalism." Their with a drawn gun, That is why the ly complaining of Shachtman's "capitu too. There is an old political joke about type came through NAM-the New Spartacist League is fighting the basis lation": "This belated jump into the the man who is set upon by a frenzied American Movement-into main for the new Red Hunt, with a lawsuit 'super-liberal' bandwagon, .. that hangs right-wing mob. He shouts out: "I'm not stream American social democracy, In against the FBI (see article this issue). on the Stalinist coattails," a Communist, I'm an anti-Communist." the spirit of American entrepreneurism Fighting this exhumed Rosenberg The Shachtmanites wanted the bour But the mob leader responds: "We don't they say: we can build a better witch frame-up is part of the struggle against geoisie to know that their "concern" care what kind of Communist you are," hunt. It is not only Albert Shanker's Cold War II. In 1953 the Trotskyists arises "only from the death penalty." as they continue to pummel him. S.D,U,S.A. wing of American social were fighting the Cold War liberals of Shachtman's cable to Eisenhower ex In the U,S., political life imitates democracy which will produce the Cold their day. And what they had to say then plained that the problem with the death political humor. Recently, SDS War bloodhounds; the DSA will pro at the time of the execution about the penalty was "it gives worldwide Stalin honcho-turned-Democratic Party- vide the rad-lib variety of social Cold War liberal Max Lerners holds ism an effective weapon." This is the hack-assemblyman Tom Hayden spoke patriotic Cold Warrior. Now they are true today for the new rad-lib Cold tradition and method of the present at an anti-Communist 007 rallyJ"pour proving useful in the preparations to Warriors like RadoshJMilton, As the campaign to reprosecute the Rosen out" of excellent Stolichnaya vodka, witchhunt "disloyal" elements on the Militant (6 July 1953) wrote: bergs, What RadoshJMilton and the "Anyone drinking Russian vodka after left perceived as "pro-Soviet" by the "Lerner may think he is rid of the rest of the Cold War rad-Iibs don't like this atrocity," said Jane Fonda's hus government. Perhaps this is what James Rosenberg case and now that he has about the McCarthyite handling of the band, "is washing down the blood of Weinstein meant when he said The said his 'farewell to the whole topic,' the Rosenberg case was that it didn't work. innocent people." Pretty strong stuff. Rosenberg File was a "service for the rest of us will do likewise. But there are tens of millions here and abroad who It didn't work in the narrowest sense But the crowd for this sort of thing was left." recognize this case for what it was-a because it did not force the Rosenbergs mainly South Koreans and the anti Cold War II will not be a simple bestial act of capitalist class terrorism to make false accusations against their Soviet Baltic-American Freedom repeat of McCarthyism. But the basic intended to help intimidate into silence comrades. And it didn't work in the League, And they shouted Hayden witchhunting method of criminalizing all who would criticize or oppose Wall Street's policies abroad or at home. larger sense that it created Stalinist down with jeers: "Once a commie, political opposition to the government, These millions will yet say the last word martyrs. So the social democrats and always a commie" (Los Angeles Times, particularly with regard to opposition to on the Rosenbergs and the evil class C"ld War liberals offer themselves to II September). Unfortunately. the the anti-Soviet war drive. will be similar. system that committed their murder.". 21 OCTOBER 1983 15 ~;~1<~'~<'t~~~~~~~~::h'~" ~ .. _"J;(j;W~~~~ WfJltKEltS VIINfitJAftIJ Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero Must Not Go to Jail! Ray Palmiero, Lauren Mozee and her two children. Stop the Racist Anti-Labor Frame-Upl We reprint be/ow a call for an October 29 protest racist assault. They say unionists have no right to D.A:s office, Reagan's prime recruiting ground for his march and rally in Oak/and by the Ad Hoc Committee defend themselves from management violence. WE Department of Injustice. Lauren and Ray were singled Against Racist Anti-Labor Frame- Up of Mozee and SAY: NO WAY! THESE FRAME-UPS MUST BE out for legal lynching because they are an interracial Pa/miera. STOPPED!!! couple, because they are union militants, because they ASSEMBLE AT 11 A.M. SATURDAY, OCTO are fighters against KKK/cop terror and because On August 10, while on a picket line in the Klan BER 29 AT OAKLAND CITY HALL AND MARCH Lauren was a ten-year member of the Black Panther infested city of San Leandro, striking phone worker AT 12 NOON TO THE ALAMEDA COUNTY Party, destroyed in large part by government murder . Lauren Mozee was called a "BLACK NIGGER COURTHOUSE FOR A 1 P.M. RALLY TO STOP and frame-up persecution. BITCH" and hit in the face by a racist Pacific THE RACIST FRAME-UP OF LAUREN MOZEE FREEDOM FOR THIS COUPLE!!! Lauren Telephone scab/manager, Michelle Rose Hansen. AND RAY PALMIERO! WE Ml:ST MOBILIZE Mozee, 36. is the mother of two children. Ray Lauren defended herself against this provocative and THOl:SANDS OF BLACKS AND UNIONISTS IN Palmiero. her companion, is the son of Italian violent assault, and her companion and fellow unionist THE STREETS TO SEND A LOUD AND CLEAR immigrants. Both are active in their union. the Ray Palmiero came to her assistance. Now they are MESSAGE TO THE UNION-HATING PHONE Communications Workers of America. Three children fired from their jobs and face up to eight years each in COMPANY AND ITS REAGANITE FLUNKIES depend on Lauren and Ray for support. What will state prison for doing their duty on the picket line. That IN THE D.A.'s OFFICE-STOP THE RACIST become of them if Lauren and Ray go to prison? means no more real picket lines. And if you've got no FRAME-UPS!!! DOWN WITH SOUTH AFRICA The arrogant racist Michelle Rose Hansen who picket lines, you've got no union. STYLE JUSTICE!!! BE THERE ON OCTOBER called Lauren a "BLACK NIGGER BITCH" is no THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! Black and working 29!!! ordinary scab. She went out of her way to provoke and people of Oakland-the phone company and the This frame-up is an act of politicized racism being ridicule strikers while daily crossing their picket lines. Reagan-loving D.A:s office want to import Alabama carried out by an unholy conspiracy of the powerful Obscene gestures and racial slurs were the ugly style justice to Oakland. They want to intimidate us. and vindictive Ma Bell, the racist strikebusting San accompaniment to her gleeful strikebreaking. If this Their message is that blacks have no right to resist Leandro police, the FBI and the Alameda County continued on page /5 16 21 OCTOBER 1983