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No. 313, September 17, 1982 WfJRKERS III1N(JOIIRIJ 25¢ No. 313 :~) X-523 17 September 1982 Begin Howls Karlinsky/Time Center photo: In devastated Sidon, Israeli Ficara/Newsweek for More Blood soldiers terrorize Palestinians. acutely aware of the fragility and busy massacring Palestinians and their implacably the enemies of Palestinian explosiveness of the Near East coun­ own masses. But feasting under opulent national rights as the Israeli butchers. tries. Reagan & Co. fear Begin's hard tents, amidst undulating dancers and For a Socialist line on the "Palestinian problem" galloping Berber horsemen, as if cele­ Reagan/Begin's "Holy War" threatens any prospect for stabilization brating the Israeli devastation of Leba­ Against Soviet Influence Federation of of the Near East as a bulwark against non, they unanimously endorsed Rea­ Capitalist Europe put aside its anger "Soviet influence." But the denial of gan's proposal. Participating in the over Reagan's heavy-handed anti­ the Near East! Palestinian national rights and continu­ festivities was Palestine Liberation Soviet pipeline sanctions to hail his ing genocidal expansionism are funda­ Organization (PLO) leader Yasir Ara­ Near East "initiative," which it per­ mental to the Zionist state. And U.S. fat. Having surrendered the courageous ceives as keeping the Arab pipelines Hailing Israel's genocide in Lebanon imperialism is stuck with Israel as its PLO fighters to the U.S. Marines and flowing. "Socialist" president Mitter­ as "a rare opportunity for peace," closest and most stable ally in the French Foreign Legion in war-ravaged rand of France, a former imperialist Reagan went on TV September I to region. Beirut, Arafat joined the Arab poten­ overlord of the Levant, hailed the propose a "fresh start" in the continued Israel is not U.S. imperialism's only tates in saying the Reagan plan "could Reagan plan as "going in the direction national oppression of the Palestinian ally in the Near East, as fake-leftists and form the basis for a negotiated settle­ of what we had defined" while the Tory people. While Israel initiated "phase Arab nationalists would have us believe. ment of the Middle East conflict" (New government of the region's other former two" of its bloody Lebanon invasion by Reagan has tried to pull together an York Daily News, 9 September). Rea­ imperialist master, Thatcher's Britain, attempting to provoke a major military anti-Soviet "strategic consensus" from gan's plan refuses to recognize the PLO termed the scheme "a constructive and confrontation with Syria, the U.S. Khartoum to Jerusalem to Riyadh (not at all (much less as "sole legitimate imaginative step." The French eagerly commander in chief initiated a diplo­ without difficulty, as the AWACS affair representative of the Palestinian peo­ threw their professional colonial butch­ matic confrontation with Israeli Prime shows) to which Zionist expansionism ple"), rejects Palestinian statehood and ers, the Foreign Legion, in with the U.S. Minister Begin. Reagan called for a halt and the Palestinian question have supports a reunified Jerusalem (which Marines to disarm the PLO in Beirut. in new Zionist settlements in the Israeli­ become obstacles. It is to remove these in the present context endorses Begin's But Menachem Begin responded occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and obstacles that Reagan has proposed a annexation of predominantly Arab east hysterically to the proposition that the introduction over five years of an Palestinian "homeland" dominated by Jerusalem). Israel give up the West Bank, which he "autonomous" authority in these terri­ Jordan. To bring Lebanon into this The Palestinian nation was dismem­ calls by the Old Testament names of tories culminating in "association" with "consensus" Reagan backed the presi­ bered by imperialism, as part of its Judea and Samaria to emphasize that Jordan. This would create a South dential "election" at gunpoint of Pha­ "divide and rule" conquest of the Arab Jehovah gave them to Abraham. The Africa-like "bantustan" for Palestinians lange fascist Bashir Gemayel, who calls East, through the instrumentality of Israeli Knesset (parliament) voted 50 to in which Zionist occupation would be for the expulsion of all Palestinians both Zionist Israel and the Hashemite 36 to back Begin's hard line. Begin, replaced by subjugation to Jordan's from Lebanon. An anti-Soviet "Pax Kingdom of Jordan. Israel's successful former leader of the fascistic Irgun King Hussein. Like blacks under apart­ Americana" in the Near East necessarily seizure of the present Occupied Territo­ Zionist gang, includes in his Cabinet heid, Palestinians would have an eco­ means continued capitalist enslavement ries in the 1967 war was a redivision of elements to his right, who demand nomically unviable "homeland" while and national oppression for the Arab the Palestinian lands previously immediate annexation and massive remaining stateless, an economic colony peoples of the Near East. grabbed up in 1948 by the Arab regimes: Zionist settlement of the West Bank. of Israel and a dispossessed people Reagan timed his announcement to the Jordanian-occupied West Bank and These fanatical Orthodox rabbis and without rights anywhere in the Arab intersect the Arab League summit in Egyptian-occupied Gaza. The Arab Zionist terrorists with state power world. Fez, Morocco. Normally this gang of rulers-like King Hussein who in responded to Reagan's appeal for a Begin invaded Lebanon with obvious military despots and medieval sheiks are "Black September" (1970) massacred settlement freeze with an $18.5 million U.S. approval. But the U.S. is also at each other's throats when they are not 10,000 Palestinians in Jordan-are as continued on page 11 Labor" Blacks: Roll Back the Givebacks! u own etroi ! r- City Workers: tf! Strike for a 200/0 Pay Hike! S\T-­ DOWN DETROIT, September 14-The long­ Republican convention which nominat­ FoR \ awaited class battle to begin to turn ed Ronald Reagan. With his close ties to ~.ol;l<) crt" l'J\ things around can start right here. Right the big auto makers, Young administers JoBS ~*'f1( now in this embattled labor/black city a town with black youth unemployment ~'. the necessity ofa city-wide general strike running up to 70 percent as the inner city '( is posed. The fight against rollbacks is comes to resemble an industrial junk­ ; already on; the point is to win it: yard. Cross-burnings and KKK terror • More than 11,000 teachers are on are on the rise. The black population is strike and the Detroit Federation of seething with bitter resentment and Teachers (OFf) is walking picket lines desperation. The city stands on the against the Coleman Young admini,stra­ brink of an explosion. tion's provocative, union-busting de­ Strike! We should have struck before, mand for an 8 perct:nt giveback. while the 200,000 auto workers now on • At midnight tonight the Chrysler layoff still had their jobs and some contract runs out and the company economic leverage. But it's not too late! wants even more concessions. Tens of What is Detroit but auto workers, city thousands of Chrysler workers in and workers, blacks locked into intolerable WV Photo around Detroit are fed up with give­ ghetto conditions? If the unions got up Hit by 25% unemployment, auto workers from Flint, Michigan march to backs. They are no longer buying the off their knees and started acting like demand Jobs In front of General Motors headquarters In Detroit. scam that givebacks mean jobs. All unions, this city would come to a level wages in the form of uncondition­ around this city, workers see the results grinding halt until their demands were him on their board of directors after he al, unlimited unemployment compensa­ of lost jobs after the billion-dollar met. Teachers: call out your class pushed through a billion dollars in givebacks. The shells and empty lots brothers and sisters! All city workers tion with full cost-of-living protection, givebacks in 1979. "Giveback" Fraser remain: Dodge Main, Lynch Road, must join with the teachers to fight for paid by the federal government­ sold this as a necessary means to "save Mack Avenue Stamping. Workers at the lives and livelihoods of all Detroit! Reagan's anti-Soviet war budget be jobs." Since then, 40,000 jobs have been lost at Chrysler. Dodge Truck are talking wildcat, and All auto workers must support the damned! they say the only way they'll go in union brothers and sisters at Chrysler! A city-wide general strike in Detroit At that time, the Spartacist League d~..-c~ ~n would overwhelm Coleman Young's was unique in warning that a govern­ ........ ..-,.. __ .......... , : ... :1' .. L_.....'_.... -c- .. by "he Auto and city workers on strike means a ment bailout of Chrysler would mean union. general strike against the givebacks, the cops and scabherding plans. And laborI • The flying squadron picket forma­ layoffs and shutdowns, the cutbacks. black defense guards, necessary to both the gutting of union benefits and massive layoffs. We demanded that the tion has appeared for the first time in And the demands of the strike must go , protect the picket lines, would also be workers seize the plants, auction off the years as UAW Local 1200 prepares to beyond "no concessions." Fight for a 20 the beginning ofthe end of the genocidal assets and distribute, the proceeds: meet General Dynamics' threat to lock percent pay increase across the board racist terror that threatens the homes "Whatever Chrysler's worth, give it to out the union and break a strike with for all city workers! Break the back of and families of black workers. the workers!" scabs. The General Dynamics contract Coleman Young's rollback drive! The 1982 Detroit General Strike can also expires tonight. Detroit labor-powerful and begin the powerful labor offensive Fraser has made it very clear that the • Ford has announced it will integrated-can lead all the oppressed needed to bust the union-busting give­ givebacks are no short-term measure.
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