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,LOS ANGELES: Assemble 10 a.m. at Bronson and Wilshire, near Crenshaw. Rally 1 p.m. at Mac Arthur Park.

NEW YORK: Assemble 10 a.m. at Central Park West and 72 Street. Rally 1 p.m. at Bryant Park.

VOLUME 36/NUMBER 15 . BEEF BOYCOTT: Sixty women in Keene, N.H., an Forum in March."' Andrew Pulley, vice-presidential can- nounced April 4 that they were boycotting beef to pro didate of th~ Socialist Workers Party, spoke briefly before test the current high prices. Eight supermarkets in the the film. Stressing that .. an injury to one is an injury to Keene area will be affected. all;" Pulley expressed ·the Socialist Workers Party's sup port· for the Angela Davis defense. Money was collected to PRISONERS ALLOWED TO REGISTER: Richard Hon aid the work of the defense committee. gisto, San Francisco county sheriff, has arranged for deputies to register inmates of the county jails to vote. MILITANT FORUM II (LOBOTOMIES): Dr. Barbara THIS/ Inmates at Santa Rita jail in Alameda County have alSo Roberts, a coordinator of the Women's National Abortion been allowed to register. Action Coalition, spoke at the March 31 Washington, California law permits prisoners to vote if they _have D. C., Militant .Forum on the topic "A Feminist Looks WEEK'S not been convicted of "infamous crimes"-certain felo.nies. at Psychosurgery.'' The activist physician described the The county registrar decides which' prisoners are eligible. threat posed by the increasing use of lobotomies, a form MILITANT of brain surgery, to control bepavior judged undesirable. Lobotomies irreversibly destroy brain tissue of the frontal 3 Nixon mobilizes forces TERRORIST OPPOSED IN AUSTIN: Meir Ka~ane of lobes, the area affecting a person's emotions, creativity, to save Saigon regime the Jewish Defense Leagde spoke to 500 people at the and sense of self. 5 Antiwar protests planned University of Texas in Austin on March 15. A rally and The "mildly disturbed"- the "neurotic housewife" and picket line of about 75 people protesting the JDL's ter .the "hyperactive child," for example-are the chief targets in Belgium rorist practices were sponsored by the Organization of of the "new wave of psychosurgery,"· says Roberts. "The April 22 countdown Arab Students, the Palestine Solidarity Committee, and political implications are obvious." A recent book on psy • 8 Women set May 1-6 the Young Socialists for Jenness and Pulley. chosurgery suggests that the method be applied to "po abortion activities Picketers carried signs with slogans sue~_ as "Jews yes, litically a-ctivist groups (students, racial, etc.)" that en 9 Berrigan jury dead racists no!" and "Defend the Arab revolution," and gage in "unacceptable violence." locked passed out leaflets telling the truth about the JDL. Among those funding researc~ in the field are the U. S. Most of the audience was hostile to Kabane's- views. military and the Justice Department. Although there is 10 CP's antiwar st'rategy: When he made such remarks as "Arabs don't do things not yet an organized moveme;,t against ~ese prac - 'broad people's coali as well as Jews do," he was met with chants from the tices, opposition is growing. The Medical Committee for tion' audience denouncing his blatant racism. The question Human Rights and some members of Congress are seek 11 West Coast ILWU con-: period exposed Kahane's Zionist views as serving the ing a formal investigation. tract still uncertain interests of neither Jews nor Arabs. 12 Kremlin's campaign ACTION HITS ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY: On April 10 sev [email protected] hundred people picketed the offices of .the New York agai-nst Solzhenitsyn Daily News to protest an anti-gay editorial the paper 14 Jenness answer to Ohio had run. The editorial-" Any old jobs for homos?''-had Sec' y of State rrws welcomed the U.S. Supre:nw Court decision in the Mike l5 Jenness testifies on Yf5 McConnell case, misrepresenting the decision in the process. Penn. election laws \AC 15T5N_ The News called gay people "fairies, nances, swishes, r·~ 1 fags, lezzes.'!. It said, "government ... should have full 16 Rail right-to-vote group _.;.d' TDL hAS freedom to bar them from jobs in which their peculiar.ities expands activity ~- would make them security or other risks." ./ Bangladesh suffers deep (.) nT- TC The protesters demanded an apology for the "abusive ening crisis and bigoted" editorial and a retraction of the "false re 17 What's wrong with port that the ... court has upheld the banning of gays from g~vernment e~ployment." They also demanded that 'Dump Nixon' strategy the Daily News "allow its hundreds of gay employees to 19 Underground press in Photo by Howord Petrick openly acknowledge their sexual orientation without fear America University of Texas students pr~test JDL of reprisal" '21 The crime of Willow Four demonstratprs were arrested after about 30 of brook them talked for over an hour to News employees in their 'offices. According to the Gay Activists Alliance, one of ·workers suffer from DATE SET FOR MANDEL HEARING: The U. S. Su many gay groups supporting the protest, the response pension plan abuses preme Court has scheduled its hearings on the case of Ernest Mandel for April 18. The Justice Department is was very favorable. 24 The state's own witness-· Marching in the demonstration was Joanna Misnik, es contradict Davis pros appealing a lower federal court decision that declared invalid the Belgian Marxist scholar's. exclusion from this Socialist Workers . Party candidate for Congress in New ecutor country in 1969 under the McCa:rran-Walter Act. York's 20th C. D. 300 rally for Feliciano Eight prominent professors, including Wassily Leontiev of Harvard and Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts 2 In Brief Institute of Technology, were co-plaintiffs in the original 4 The Militant Gets suit. Attorneys for the plaintiffs are Leonard Boudin and Around· :Qavid Rosenberg, acting for the National Emergency·· - Civil Liberties Committee. The court is expected to issue 6 In Our Opinion its opinion on the case before it adjourns in June. Letters 7 The Great Society TEAMSTERS IN BOYCOTT ACTION: On March 31, Women: The Insurgent about 300 striking bottlers . and drivers from the ;Bay Majority Area Teamsters locals pn strike against the soft drink industry held a demonstration in Jack London Square 9 By Any Means Neces- in Oakland. The demonstrators urged the patrons of the sary many restaurants· and bars in the area not to purchase 15 '72 Socialist Campaign the struck soft drinks. 18 The National Picket Line In addition to several officers of the Alameda County 20 In Review Central Labor Council and the Alameda County Build Bella Abzug speaking at gay rights rally ing Trades Council, more than 70 members of the United Farm Workers Union were present. The militant, chant ing pickets kept it up for more than nine hours and re THE MILITANT turned the following evening for a four-hour demonstra DOMINICAN MARCH: The Partido Revolucionario Do VOLUME 36/NUMBER 15 tion. minicano is sponsoring a demonstration and rally in APRIL 21, 1972 , New York on April 22 to commemorate the -seventh an aOSING NEWS DATE-APRIL 12, 1972 FILING FEE VICTORY: A California district appeals. niversary of the invasion of the Dominican Republic by court has declared that state's filing fee unconstitutional U. S. Marines. The action will start at 1 p. m. at 137th Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS for candidates who can't afford to pay. Previously, all Street and Bro-adway and will proceed to 159th,Street. El Managing Editor: DOUG JENNESS candidates for state offices, were ·required to pay\ fees •of Comite Vietnam- Santo Domingo, a supporter of the April Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS 22 march against the 'war in Indochina, is also building Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING 1 ·to 2 percent of the annual salary of the office. Sandy Knoll, Socialist Workers Party candidate for the Alameda the Dominican action. Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., County board of supervisors, filed the suit. 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. I OOI4,_phone: Edi CALLEY RALLY FLors: American Legion members torial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) In a related action, the ceurt ruled that the county could not require advance payment in order for the candidates and other supporters of Lieutenant William Calley, the U.S. 929-3486. Army officer convicted a year ago of murder in connection Southwest Bureau: II 07 I /2 N. Western Ave., Los to have a statement appear in the pamphlet that goes out with the Mylai massacre, arranged recently for a gigantic Angeles, Calif. 90029. Phone: (213) 463-1917. to all voters. Thus, candidates will have the option of Second-class· postage paid at New York, N.Y. Sub rally in the Municipal Auditorium in Columbus, Ga. The contesting the pamphlet fee when billed after the Novem scription: domestic, 56 a year; foreign, 57.50. By first rally was to urge President Nixon to grant executive ber election. class mail: domestic and Canada, 522; all other coun clemency for Calley, who is now under house arrest at tries, 524. Air printed maHer: domestic and Canada, These suits were supported by the Committee for Dem Fort Benning, Ga. 526; Latin America and Europe, 540; Africa, Australia, ocratic Election Laws (CoDEL). Asia (including USSR), 550. Write lor sealed air post According to the Atlantic Constitution, rally organizer age rates. MILITANT FORUM I (ANGELA DAVIS): The film An V. Eugene McMichen, "had predicted 75,000 persons Signed, articles by contributors do not necessarily gela Davis: Portrait Qf a :Revolutionary was shown to an would converge on Columbus for the rally." A grand represent The Militant's. views. These are expressed in editorials. audience of about 100 at the Militant Labor total of 296-showed -JOEL BRITTON

2 u.s. mobilizes torces against Viet rebels By DICK ROBERTS hour all of them got aboard except one platoon to end the war, and voters associated Humphrey APRIL 12- Thirty-nine war ships and more than of approximately 45 men." quite correctly with the war policies of the Johnson 600 planes are alerted for war duty or are en These rebels undoubtedly reflect the feelings of administration. route to Southeast Asia in addition. to the U.S. the overwhelming bulk of G Is in and out of Viet So far as Congress is concerned, the doves have task force already mobilized in the war zone. This nam. There is no point fighting and possibly dying at least proved one thing in the last two years: "end will more than double the naval l:md bomber in this despicable war. The antiwar sentiment of the war" and "set the date" amendments are in strength President Nixon is bringing to bear the troops is an important factor restraining Nixon capable .of ending the war, now or at any time. against the two-week-old revolutionary offensive from answering the new revolutionary offensive This is because the imperialists who rule this in South Vietnam. with U.S. ground co!Ubat forces. country intend to try_ to prosecute the war until More than 60,000 Marine, Air Force, and Navy Meanwhile the press, radio, and TV are co they win their cherished foothold in South Viet enlisted men are involved in the new Southeast operating with the Nixon administration's heavy nam. Neither of the twin capitalist parties will Asia troop buildup. censorship of battlefield news. This makes it dif stop the war, either by executive decree of the While White House and Pentagon officials re ficult to assess the scope of the revolutionary ad president or by votes in Congress. Only the masses fuse to disclose details on the armada they are vance. Nevertheless, whatever _the precise military of American people can force an end to the war, rushing to defend the Saigon regime, data on the situation, the liberation fighters have already and they can do this only by demonstrating their U.S. troop movements has been compiled by an scored significant political gains. unequivocal opposition to the war independently "Ad Hoc Military Buildup Committee." Consisting First of .all, they have exploded the myth of of the ruling parties. "Vietnamization." As Nixon orders the heaviest Following the Tet offensive of 1968, the Johnson For information on Nixon's war escalation bombing attacks in the war's history and threatens administration pretended that it had won a mili contact Ad Hoc Military Buildup Commiffee, to step up the bombing of North Vietnam to levels ta.ry victory and that its decisions were not in fluenced by that revolutionary upsurge. But the 67 Winthrop St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138. above those of 1967-68, no one can possibly argue that the Saigon dictatorship can stand on its own Tet offensive actually had a deep· imp act on the (617} 492-5570. Funds needed! without massive U. S. military support. future of the war~ convincing millions of Ameri- This' undercuts the whole pretense of Wash of antiwar G Is, Vietnam veterans, and helpers, ington's intervention in Indochina. H the Saigon the Cambridge-based committee has been work regime cannot last without the bloody interven ing on an around-the-clock basis since April 8. tion of foreign military forces, it does not have " .. _ A 1-'t.AG;?.A.N T VltJLATION 8 Y Its information comes from Gis at U.S. bases the support of the Vietnamese people. It is hard across the country and around the world. AIC'R Tfl J/l!f!VAM Clr 11{£ itfi'l- btlr'EYA to believe that any statement in history will be 11 e Two squadrons of the third Marine air wing A62fitM£.h'i. .. . regarded as more hypocritical than Nixon's as stationed at El Toro, Calif., have left, or are sertion that Hanoi is "invading" South Vietnam about to leave, for Vietnam. This includes 80 -_in· the eighteenth year of the U.S. military in aircraft. vasiop of Vietnam, which began durhig the Geneva e More than 19,000 Marines, including the first conference in 1954. division at Okinawa, elements of the second divi One should bear in mind the key admission sion at Camp LeJeune, S. C'., and the seventh regi of the Pentagon Papers concerning this period ment at Camp Pendleton, Calif., are alerted for of Vietnamese history almost two decades ago: war duty. "South Vietnam is essentially the creation of the • Air Force units have left for Indochina or United States." for "destinations unknown" from bases in Iwakuni, Secondly, the Vietnamese revolutionaries have Japan; Hickam, Hawaii; Beale, March, and Tra shown that they can launch a forceful attack vis, Calif.; Johnson, N.C.; Westover, Mass.; and against the Saigon regime's armies anywhere in McConnel, Kansas. The committee conservatively South Vietnam at any time they choose. Newsweek estimates that more than 400 planes and 7,500 magazine made a cogent observation on this point men are involved in the Air Force buildup. in its April 1 7 issue: e Aircraft carriers Kitty Hawk, from Subic Bay "Four long--years after the Communists' 'go for in the Philippines; Constellation, from Yokosuka, broke' Tet offensive was 'defeated,' many months Japan; Midway, from Alameda, Calif.; Sarato{ja, after the invasions of Cambodia and Laos 'set from Mayport, Fla.; and Oriskany, from San Di the enemy back,' weeks after U. S. strategists ego, Calif., are headed toward the South China thought that Hanoi had been 'forced' to postpone Sea. This will bring the total number of aircraft a massive year-end assault, everything was sud- carriers off the coast of Vietnam to eight-each - denly back to square one. In a devastating attack, carrying 70 or more , fighte.r-bombers. There are the North· Vietnamese Army .smashed thtough 4,000 or more sailors on each of the giant ships. many South Vietnamese defenses from .one end of e Other war ships on alert or en route to the the country to another." battle zone include four cruisers (including the At the same time, the revolutionary forces con guided-missile cruiser Alqctny), 15 destroyers (in trol virtually all of Cambodia except the capital cluding five guided-missile destroyers), and 13 city of Pnompenh. They also control most of Laos. destroyer escorts. No matter what happens in South Vietnam in the It is evident that the administration hopes to next few weeks, Washington will be as far as ever lay waste the cities and countryside of Vietnam fr-om achieving its central aim in Indochina: crush in retaliation for the revolutionary offensive. This ing the revolution. armada will be capable of_ launching by far the And this is the third importan,t point of the Viet biggest air attack- accompanied by' off-shore shell namese offensive. It underlines that Nixon, no ing- in the history of the war. different from his Democratic Party predecessors As of April 9, B-52 bombers had already made in the White House, hopes to crush the Vietnamese the deepest attacks into North Vietnam in the his revolution in order to stabilize the Saigon ~egime. tory of B-52 usage in the war. This was the first time B-52s have been used against North Viet James Reston, the influential vice-president and nam since Nov. 27, 1967, according to George columnist of the New York Times, stated it Esper of the Associa._ted Press in Saigon. Aprilll: On April 11, the Pentagon ominously stated "The military crisiS in Vietnam has at least clari that the United States command in Saigon would fied the policy of the Nixon Administration. In cans that the price of crushing the Vietnamese no longer make daily announcements. of Amer the name of protecting the withdrawal of American revolutionaries was too costly in terms of the lives ican air strikes over North Vietnam. Reporters troops and prisoners from the battlefields, the Pres of Gls. had. already complained of a "tightening of Ameri ident is now directing a massive air offensive The Tet offensive ultimately forced· the ruling can information policies" in Saigon, according to against the enemy in order to prevent the defeat class to .adopt its strategy of "Vietnamization": the W ashingtonAP bureau. - of the South Vietnamese Army and the overthrow buying time through troop withdrawals and of the Saigon Government. stepped-up bombing througl,lOut Indochina. This U.S. troops rebel- "This is at least a policy; but it is not a policy tactic of the imperialists is what is being chal One hundred of the fll"st Gis to be sent into for .getting out, it is a policy for staying in; not a lenged by the present tide of revolutionary ad the arena of renewed heavy fighting balked at . policy for defending our troops, but a policy for vance. the .assignment April 12. They are members of defending General Thieu's command and his re One thing we can be certain of in the next two the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, which had been gime." weeks: The eyes of the ruling class will be trained stationed in Danang, in northern South Vietnam. Reston should immediately have added, "it is a on April 22, the date of the antiwar demonstra On April 11 they were transferred to Phubai air policy rejected by the majority of American peo tions set {or New York and Los Angeles. base near Hue, believed to be one .of the main ple." But Reston, like the Democratic Party doves In these mass protests the American people can targets of the -revolutionary advance. who · are campaigning against Nixon, pretends show how they really feel about the war and give "When the men arrive.d they were ordered into that the issue of th.e war can and should be settled an unambiguous answer to Nixon's bombing es. trucks to be taken near the area they were to ~t the polls and in Congress. calation. Every day that Nixon steps up the bomb patrol," an April 12 dispatch from Phubai stated. Reston leaves out the fact that when they had ing and increases the buildup of air and naval· "The troops would not move. A lieutenant asked a chance, the American people voted massively forces in Southeast Asia increases the importance for volunteers, and a handful got aboard the against the war- in the 1964 presidential election of the April 22 demonstrations. Nixon must be trucks. Then a captain and senior noncommis campaign. Even in 1968, Nixon got an edge over answered on April 22 with the biggest voice ever: sioned officers talked to the men, and within an Humphrey because he lied about a "secret plan" "Stop the Bombing!" "Out Now!"

I THE MILITANT/ APRIL 21 I 1972 3 Coalition; Women's International The regents' decision was made af this week, with three times as much League for Peace and Freedom; ter McConnell applied for a license income coming in as last week. -The Antiwar United Farm Workers; Young Social to marry University of Minnesota stu national campaign office received ists for Jenness and Pulley; Vietnam dent body president Jack Baker. Mc nearly 100 individual contributions Veterans Against the War; Harrisburg Connell had already received notice this week through the mail, well over actions in Defense Committee; Students for of acceptance from the head librar twice Jh'e number received in any pre a Democratic Society; Socialist Work ian, but the regents felt he would have vious_ ,week. ers Party; We Speak Out; and Friends given the university unfavorable pub- The largest single portion of the Tex.; Pa. Peace Committee. licity. · $11,995 total has come from mail The Farm Workers h~d also plan By DANIEL FEIN McConnell has one other case pend contributions in response to the ads ned a demonstration for the same time HOUSTON, April 8-A march and ing in the U.S. Supreme Court, a suit in The Militant and to mailirigs re to protest an injunction against the appealing the rejection of his applica rally of 250 people here today pro questing funds. A total of $2, 195 came lettuce boycott they hav:e been orga tion for a marriage license- in Min tested the new U. S. attack on Indo from contributions of less than $50; nizing in Pennsylvania. The demon neapolis. china. Called by the Houston Peace $4,004 was in contributions of more strations joined together under the slo Action Coalition (HPAC), the march than $50; and $1,766 was in the form gans "Freeze War, Not Wages!" "Stop began with a picket line around the of monthly and other pledges to the the Bombing, Stop the War!" and Matching Fund. headquarters of the Humble Oil Com "Support Berrigan, Join Us!" pany, a major war profiteer. The The remaining 34 percent of the Many nuns and priests coming out Campaign $11,995 total came from the 40 per marchers then proceeded through the of the meeting gave the peace sign downtown area to the city hall. cent of local socialist campaign rally to the demonstrators. Hundreds The Raza Contra la Guerra com collections that went toward the of April 22 buttons were sold, and Matching Fund. Direct personal solic mittee led the march with spirited fund goes large amounts of material was dis chants of "Raza Si, Guerra No!" and itation by the national campaign of tributed for the April 22 actions. The fice raised $850 of the $11,995. "Chicano Power!" The demonstrators three major TV networks, several ra · Commenting on the success of the marched on the sidewalks because of over top dio stations, and the major newspa_> Matching Fund drive, campaign man a reactionary city statute that requires pers and campus press in the Phila By SYD STAPLETON ager Larry Seigle said, "The response an $800 insurance policy in order to delphia area covered the dem NEW YORK, April 10- The $20,000 march in the streets anywhere in Hou to the Matching Fund drive has been onstration. Socialist Campaign Matching Fund ston. HPAC challenged the constitu phenomenal. Hundreds of people have drive has gone over the top, with responded to our appeals to enable the tionality of this law last fall, but the four days still to go. As of today, campaign to continue to grow. The local courts upheld the statute. $11,995 has been sent to the nation Matching Fund has_ been an impres Pedro Vasquez, head of the Raza al office of the Jenness-Pulley cam sive demonstration of support for Contra la Guerra committee, chaired Defeat paign. the socialist campaign-aside from its the rally. Among the speakers were The Matching Fund drive was made value as a source of badly-needed Debby Leonard, Socialist Workers possible by a California supporter of operating funds. Party candidate for governor of for gay the Socialist Workers Party campaign "We are especially grateful to the Texas; and Dan Lowry, representing who offered to match all contributions campaign supporter who- made the Francis Farenthold, a Democratic to the campaign, up to $10,000. After drive possible through the offer of Party candidate for governor of rights other contributors had given $10,000 $10,000 in matching funds. The Texas. By DAVID WELTERS to the Matching Fund, an additional $20,000 total has meant greater op MINNEAPOLIS-April 7- The U.S. $1,995 was donated by campaign portunities for the campaign, and it By ROSEANNE RULTENBERG Supreme Court rejected on April 3 supporters, bringing the total to has set a standard for campaign fund PHILADELPHIA, April6- Two hun the appeal of gay activist Mike Mc $21,995. More contributions are ex raising work that we will certainly dred antiwar demonstrators greeted Connell, whose contract for a librar pected to come into the campaign of make every effort to continue." President Nixon here today in ian position was rejected by the Uni fice this week, and a final report on Seigle also noted that "Of course, an emergency demonstration that was versity of Minnesota regents in July the six-week fund drive will appear the conclusion of the Matching Fund organized in less than 16 hours. The 1970. The refusal to hear arguments in next week's Militant. drive does not mean the- end of so Student Mobilization Committee heard on his case upholds the decision by During the last week, $3,792 was cialist campaign fund raising. We last night that Nixon was to speak a federal court of appeals that states raised, including 40 percent of a have begun projects with the help of at a Catholic Educators Conference may deny employment to a homo $1,400 colle~tion taken at an April the Matching Fund that must now at 11 a.m. toda.y. The SMC called sexual. 7 Philadelphia campaign rally and be- continued. As the campaign pro all the antiwar organizations in Phila The wording of the federal court 40 pen;ent of a $1,600 c,ollection gresses, we expect m_ore ~nd' bigger delphia, urging them to cosponsor a decision is such that it may be ap taken at a campaign rally i:o Boston .opportunities to reach people with our del9onstration in front of the Civic plied to all activists, not just homo -on April 8. A contribution of $400 ideas, and we will need more money Center, where Nixon's meeting was sexuals. The court said McConnell came from a Philadelphia campaign than ever before to do this. The sup scheduled. Radio stations and news was demanding "the right to pursue supporter and $200 . came from a col-, port for the Jenness-Pulley /ticket that papers were also notified. an activist role in implementing his lection taken by the Minneapolis So became evident during the Matching Among the groups at the demon unconventional ideas [and] to foist tac cialist Workers Campaign specifically Fund drive makes us confident that stration were: Student Mobilization it approval of [them) on his employ for the Matching Fund. we will be able to raise that kind Committee; Philadelphia Peace Action er," the university. The tempo of the drive increased of money.." The Militant gets around .... RENEWALS FROM .LAST FALL'S SUBSCRIP on the part of those selling it. pon is that the copy I'm reading isn't mine, and TION DRIVE NOW TOTAL 1,304. Ninety-five A Militant salesman in Burlington, Vt., shares I don't want to rip it up. Also, could you please of them came in last week, in addition to 121 this attitude: "I have found the best way to move send me any information you might have on the new introductory subscriptions. Militants is to approach people aggressively, posi YSJP and the International Socialist Review." The two top areas for the week were Boston tively, and with confidence, knowing that if they with 13 introductory and seven renewal subscrip only realize how good The Militant is, they couldn't FIVE AREAS INCREASE BUNDLES: Chicago, tions_ and the Oakland-Berkeley area with nine help but buy it." Oakland-Berkeley, Portland, Seattle, and Washing introductory and five renewal subscriptions. ton, D. C., have raised their weekly Militant bun The national Youn_g Socialists for Jenness and dles recently-some for particular issues and others Pulley teams again led the way with 50 intro for their regular bundles. The increases so far ductory and six renewal subscriptions. The intro Help sell Mintants April 22 total 405 Militants per week, and many other areas ductory subs included six from Moscow, Idaho; Hundreds of Militant supporters and Socialist indicate they are working on increasing their bun nine from Spokane, Wash.; 13 from Pullman, Workers Party campaign supporters will be dles soon. This effort to increase sales includes Wash.; and 20 from Cedar Falls, Iowa. selling The Militant and the International So organizing sales at a variety of locations. Austin reports that they have been organizing sales team~-- cialist Review in Los Angeles and New York AIRPORT SALES: Louise Haberbush from the every Friday night and Saturday afternoon to San Francisco ¥ oung Socialist Alliance reports on April 22. If you would like to help sell, go downtown and to supermarkets. They sold that· teams have been regularly selling more than -stop by the following dispatch centers: 98 of the March 31 issue this way, mostly to 100 Militants in each visit to the airport. "Most Black people and Chicanos. of them were sold to the many Gls there whose NEW YORK: Assembly distribution point Portland sales director Fred White writes, "We interest was sparked by the 'Out Now' issues. West 75th Street, west of Columbus Ave. have been conducting regular sales at factories, One GI who saw me selling the paper exclaimed, Rally distribution point- West 39th Street, be shopping centers, bus stations, unemployment cen-. 'I've been looking for this paper since I left Rhode tween Fifth and Sixth avenues. ters, downtown areas, etc. Early Friday morn Island. I'm really glad to see you selling it here ing sales at the ILW U (International Longshore- · tonight.'" LOS ANGELES: Assembly distribution point men's and Warehousemen's Union) hall have been The G Is' response to The Militant has not gone west side of Bronson Avenue, north of Wil excellent." They have also been selling at the Port unnoticed by the lifers.Haberbush writes that when shire Boulevard. land Federation of Teachers· meetings and 1tt school board meetings where the High School orie sergeant was asked if he had seen the latest Rally distribution point- west side of Park Militant, he replied, "Yes, and I wish I could SMC and Women Against Rose Parade Princess get my men to stop reading it!" View-Street, south of Wilshire Boulevard. Selection have been presenting demands. And campus sales have been good at Queens CONFIDENCE, ENTHUSIASM, AND PERSIS College in New York, where YSJPers sell 50 Mil TENCE: The reporter quoted above attributes the THE MILITANT GETS TO OMAHA: We received itants a week, and at Adelphi University on: Long success of airport sales to the attractive content the following letter from Omaha, Neb., last week: Island, where one supporter sells 15-20 Militants of The Militant, combined with "confidence in the "I'm writing requesting 25 copies of The Mili a week. paper, enthusiasm, and hardworking persistence" tant every week. The reasol} I didn't use the cou- -NANCY f10LE

4 Antiwar protests planned in. Belgium The National Peace Action Coalition Syndicats Chretiens- CSC). 000 people. It is ~haired by Henri ly formed at a city-wiae meeting of (NPAC) sent Dan Rosenshine to Eu These are the local Liege affiliates Rolin, a former Social-Democratic 70 activists ·and is working in 3Q_ rope to speak to antiwar groups and of the two national trade-union federa cabinet minister. area high schools. meetings there and to encourage sol-, tions- one Catholic, one Social-Dem CNV posters and leaflets are being Altogether, more than 40 groups idarity demonstrations with the April ocratic. · distributed throughout the country. are sponsoring the spring antiwar ac 22 national demonstrations in Los • A May 6 mass demonstration in They list all three actions and encour tions. Among them are the Belgian Angeles and New York. The follow Antwerp organized by the Humani .age participation in each. Leaflets for _ Union for the Defense of Peace (an ing is the second in a series of re tarian Workgroup X (Humanitaire April 22, written and produced by the affiliate of the World Peace Council), ports Rosenshine is sending to the Werkgroep X), a pacifist organiza Liege unions, are also being distrib• pacifist groups, student governments, NPAC office in New York. The re tion, in cooperation with a wide range uted throughout Belgium. Catholic organizations, and radical ports are being released to antiwar of antiwar, political, religious, and The recent months have seen a con political organizations. The fact that and radical publications in the United other organizations in the north of siderable reactivation of the Belgian the radical political organizations are States. Belgium. movement. Like other European. coun working together on Indochina, in . ' BRUSSELS, April 1-A broad coali The population of Belgium is di tries, Belgium experienced a lull in spite of differences on other questions, tion of antiwar organizations, trade vided into two linguistically defined organized antiwar activity as a re has helped to encourage an atmo unions, student groups, and political groups. The April 22 Liege demon sult of widely held illusions that the sphere of unity for the spring actions. tendencies are organizing for spring stration will draw heavily from the war was "winding down" and might Since this is the first such ambitious antiwar actions in Belgium. French-speaking east and south of be settled by t]:le Paris talks. The re undertaking in two years, the action's Three main activities are planned: the country. The May 6 Antwerp ac cent increased U.S. bombings of Indo organizers are cautious in predicting • An April 20 teach-in at the Uni tion will draw more heavily from the china and appeals for worldwide ac the turnout. But they feel the unity in versity of Brussels, organized by the Flemish-speaking north. tion by the Vietnamese themselves action established this spring IPUSt be University of Brussels Indochina However, these two events- and al have given . renewed energy to the continued in order to mobilize the Committee. so the April 20 Brussels teach-in movement here. growing sentiment that the United • An April 22 mass demonstratio~ are being built as national actions .. This is reflected in the increased ac States troop withdrawals and "peace in Liege, a large industrial city in The National Vietnam Committee tivity in the universities and high demagogy" have merely been devices the eastern part of the country. This (Co mite National Vietnam- CNV) is schools of Belgium. The University to placate public opinion while the action is being co-organized by the cosponsoring each of the actions, par of Brussels Indochina Committee was U.S. continues to intensify the war. Liege sections of the General Federa ticipating in their planning, and pub established in December and now Discussions are already under way tion of Belgian Workers (Federation licizing them nationally. The CNV numbers more than 300 members .. for one national demonstration in the Generale des Travailleurs Belges...:::. was the organizer of the first national The Brussels High School Indochina fall in Brussels, which is both geo FGTB) and the Confederation of mass demonstrations in Belgium, Solidarity Committee (Co mite de Sol graphically central and the most pop Christian Unions (Confederation des some of which drew as many as 25,- idarite Indochine Lyceen) was recent- ulous city of Belgium. · April II. countdown The intensified bombing and shelli~g A panel on _wage controls, unem is great for getting our ideas across has called for a rally in Washington of Vietnam, along with the threat of ployment, and the war in Vietnam and for inducing discussions among on April 15, to be followed by a sit further escalations of the war by the featured Sophie McGloin, vice-presi the general public. in ut the White House. An emergency U.S., have resulted in heightened ac dent of the Detroit Federation of "A literature stall has been success antiwar conference will be held the tivity in the antiwar mqvemeri.t Teachers; Doyle Worley, president of fully set up in Glasgow University. following day. throughout the country. The National the Detroit Printing Pressmen's union; We sell antiwar literature such as 'War Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) held and John T. Williams, NPAC coor and Revolution in Vietnam;' 'Gis and A letter urging trade unionists to sup an em-ergency national steering-com dinator and Teamster officiaL the Fight Against the War,' etc. We port the April 22 demonstrations has mittee meeting on April 9 that drew hope to set up stalls in Strathclyde just been put out by NPAC's Labor more than 2 00 people, three times About 150 people attended an emer University and in colleges in and Support Committee. Among the sign ·the normal attendance. Participants gency picket line on April 7 called by around Glasgow. • • • ers of the letter are three trade union came from as far away as Jackson the Cleveland Area Peace Action Co- "Finally, we ask for messages of ists who have recently returned from ville, Fla., and Los Angeles. alition. The United Farm Workers support to be read out at the rally a trip to North Vietnam: Clifton Cald· Union postponed a picket that it had after the demonstration." well, international vice-president of the scheduled in order to attend the one The April 22 demonstrations are Amalgamated Meat Cutters, AFL Two hundred fifty antiwar activists at called by CAPAC. People from all being built all over Europe. So many CIO; Harold Gibbons, international tended the April 8 meeting of the New sectors of the Cleveland requests for NPAC speakers have been vice-president of the Teamsters; and York Student Mobilization Committee David Livingston, president of District (SMC). Nineteen campuses and 23 ~5, Distributive Workers. high schools were represented. The Other signers include Ernest De~ activities planned· in New York lead Maio, general vice-president of the ing up to the April 22 demonstration United Electrical, Radio and Machine include a rally at New York Univer Workers; Abe Feinglass, international sity on April 14 and a city-wide high vice-president of the Amalgamated school rally in Bryant Park on April Meat Cutters; Stan Greenspan, inter 19. Eight New York high schools are national representative of the United planning activities for April 19. Auto Workers; Frank Rosenblum, gen An SMC rally at Columbia Univer eral secretary-treasurer of the Amal gamated Clothing Workers of A~per sity April 12 drew 200 people. ica, AFL-CIO; and Raoul Teilhet, president of· the California Federation Five hundred demonstrators joined an of Teachers, AFL-CIO. emergency picket line in Boston on April 7 to protest the new escalation Darrell Reuther and Marta Richmond of the war. A mass meeting on April April 7 demonstration in Cleveland write from San Diego that "The Stu 10 also drew more than 500, includ dent Mobilization: Committee at San ing representatives from all sectors ment participated in the. demon received that the NPAC steering com Diego State College is currently hold mittee voted to send NPAC Coordi of the Boston antiwar movement. The stration. ing a 'Vote for the War Criminal of nator Stephanie Coontz to Europe in meeting called an April 14 march and Your Choice.' " · order to help fulfill them. Dan Rosert rally under the sponsorship of "The SMC chapters at La Jolll!- High The Militant has received a letter from shine, a former NPAC staff coordi School, Palom