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South African Workers Battle Neo-Apartheid A.,Spartacist Pamphlet $1 Mary Van De Water~Quirk, Down With Nee-Apartheid Capitalism I , From Death Row, This Is 1954-2000 ................ 2 For a Black-Centered Workers Governmentl Mumia Abu-Jamal South African Workers Battle ANC Disease, Bigotry and Imperialist What Dlallo Really Means ....... 34 Hypocrisy Union-Busting, Austerity ........ 13 Free Mumiaf Abolish the South Africa Torn by Hue and Cry over Land Seizures Racist DeathPenaltyf .....•..... 35 I i AIDS Crisis ............... 3 in Zimbabwe ,,"- South Africa ANC Regime: Enforcer Racist Democratic Party Hustles 16 for Imperialist Plunder .......... 20 Black Vote Labor/Black Mobilization Down With the Confederate Rides KKK Out of NYC .......... 26 Flag of Slavery!. .....•.......... 37 Diallo Trial: Racist Killer Cops Acquitted Racist Roots of "Right to Work" Laws I There Is No Justice In the The Fight to Unionize the ! 0 4470 81032 2 Capitalist Courts! ............. ; . 32 "Open Shop" South ..... ',' ...... 43 January 2001 Spartacist Publishing Co., Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 -'--"~--~-"~'"""'I'rrnlll'mrl."mnIr'l1nnrmnmffl 111111111111 _III Ii" 2 Mary Van De Water-Quirk On 9 May 2000, one day munism" triumphalism. Yet before her 46th birthday, the local recruited youth with our comrade Mary Van De ~ regularity, shaped them into Water-Quirk, organizer of the I cadres and transferred them Chicago local of the' Sparta­ to other locals and ICL sec­ cist League for 13 years, died tions where they would play after a four-year battle with important and often leading bile duct cancer. The length I roles. In his comments at the of her tenure as party organ­ ~ memorial, Sam Kaehler cap­ izer in a city where the cruel tured how Mary took every contradictions of racist Amer­ ~ opportunity to train new ican capitalist rule are most recruits: acutely concentrated, and of "Mary had a keen sense of her struggle against this form I what it meant to be a commu­ nist in 'Segregation City.' As of the disease which normally ~ the cars left the parking lot results in a rapid demise, ~ at the Ford stamping plant speak to her tenacity and will. factory gate sale, she would A memorial meeting for I point out how blacks and ~ Mary was held at the Inter­ 1/ whites worked side by side in the plant, but when they went national House. of the Uni­ ,j~ home, blacks turned one way versity of Chicago on June 3. and whites went the other. Among those who came to These stories had a purpose. celebrate Mary's life were Because after several sales comrades from every branch with Mary, you were ready to lead them up yourself. That's of the Spartacist League/U.S. how you were trained. It went and from other sections of for little things as well as big the International Communist things." League, her sister and com­ Mary tended to cede the rade Karen and other family role of political spokesman members, friends and neigh- to others, but her instincts bors. A group of black transit 1954-2000 were almost invariably cor­ workers who knew Mary and rect. Mary was capable of her husband, Kevin Quirk, fighting fiercely to keep. the an Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Politically, Mary's focus was on the local on track, especially when the fight Local 241 member, came to pay tribute black question. To this she brought no against racial oppression was at issue. to her tireless efforts at combatting the small amount of compassion and human­ However intense the fights and however racist oppression that is the defining fea­ ity. The apartment she shared with Kevin wrongheaded the opposition, comrades ture of American capitalism. was a center for political and social inter­ were comrades in the Chicago local. In Mary was recruited to the SL in the action with scores of black transit work­ trying times, she was the social and polit­ Bay Area in 1979. A more than able ers and other trade unionists, a singular ical glue that held the local together. learner, Mary became the Spartacus experience in America's most segregated Even in the last months of her illness, Youth League's Bay Area organizer only city. Among those attending her memo­ Mary pushed forward the party's perspec­ three months after joining. She arrived rial was Cassandra Seay, an ATU member tives, most importantly training young in Chicago in 1981 and became SL organ­ successfully defended by Local 241 and comrades and assisting them in commit­ izer there in 1983,remaining in that post the Partisan Defense Committee against ting fully to the cause of world proletar­ • until forced to leave by the debilitating felony charges in the aftermath of a 1987 ian revolution. Mary will be greatly I treatment process. attack by Chicago cops on her and her missed, but more she will be remem­ Mary was one of the main organ­ family. Cassandra spoke movingly of bered. She was one hell of a communist, I izers of the November 1988 laborlblack how Mary convinced her of the need to a fighter and friend. As Kevin Quirk told I mobilization in Philadelphia that spiked fight her racist frame-up. Despite heavy the June 3 gathering: a threatened KKK provocation and of pressure to have nothing to do with com­ "The wellspring of Mary'~ courage and the Springfield, Illinois anti-Klan dem­ munists· who purportedly wanted to will was her total unwavering commit­ onstration on Martin Luther King "use" her, after talking to Mary for only ment to the fight to rid this planet of Day in 1994. She served essentially as five minutes, Cassandra knew we were oppression, to end for all time the exploitation of the many by the few. In the SL's Midwest organizer and spurred for real. other words, it was her devotion to the the Chicago local to expand its politi­ Mary's stewardship in Chicago took fight for a socialist future. That is why cal terrain through forays that ranged place during the difticult Reagan years she lived. That is why she fought the from Texas to Pittsburgh. and the bourgeoisie's later "death of com- way she did right to the en~:' - 3 reprintedJrom Workers Vanguard No. 749,5 January 2001 ,D'isease:;/~~~Yifflq~~IJim:;~~jSt:,J1y'>pocrisy : , "" South Africa Torn. by AIDS Crisis· AP Protesters outside International AIDS Conference in Durban in July 2000 demand access to medication. Extortionate Western drug companies, bigotry fanned by local capitalist regimes have exacerbated AIDS pandemic ravaging sub-Saharan Africa. The catastrophic impact of the AIDS provoked a furor at an international con­ the impoverished masses of sub-Saharan pandemic ravaging South Africa was ference on AIDS that met in Durban last Africa. Last year, the Clinton admin­ highlighted in early December 'when for­ July. i~tration threatened sanctions against mer African National Congress (ANC) Mbeki's ignorant statements challeng­ South Africa for trying to buy AIDS med­ leader Nelson Mandela joined with F. W. ing scientific evidence that HIV causes ication at international prices lower than De Klerk, the last president of the former AIDS are aimed in large part at deflect­ those set by the extortionate pharma­ apartheid regime, in launching a national ing criticism over the refusal of his ceutical monopolies. And Tony Blair's "HIV/AIDS Day" at a Johannesburg "tripartite alliance" government-which Labour government in Britain, home to cathedral service on December 5. With includes the Communist Party (SACP) the Glaxo Wellcome drug giant, contin­ grotesque cynicism, De Klerk, who pre­ and the Congress of South African Trade ues to oppose any such effort by South sided over a reign of terror against South Unions (COSATU)-to allocate, medical Africa. Africa's black majority and whose resources to combat the epidemic. Seiz­ We publish below in edited form a talk National Party supported the Nazis in ing on this, the National Party's racist given in Johannesburg on 18 October World War .II, compared the AIDS successor, the Democratic Alliance, cam­ 2000 by comrade Karen Cole of Sparta­ scourge to 'the Nazi Holocaust of the paigned for DecemberS nationwide mu­ cist South Africa. Jews. For his part, Mandela appealed for nicipal elections on a promise of distrib­ compassion, for the four million South uting anti-HIV drugs to pregnant women * * * Africans infected with HIV, implicitly who have AIDS and scored unexpected The ArIDS pandemic that has reached rebuking his successor and current ANC gains, including among black voters. every country on earth touches on a range president, Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki's anti­ Meanwhile, the Western imperialists who of social issues. It exposes the most hor­ scientific diatribes have encouraged big­ hypocritically denounce Mbeki refuse rible, murderous aspects of capitalism in oted attacks on people with AIDS and to lift a finger to provide medical aid to its death agony. And it underlines the I ~-.... ------.--. --·...-.----~-------------------------------- ____I'-- 4 need for international socialist revolution. for the oppressed masses of the econom­ same period? The atomic bomb, which Diseases and infection will never com­ ically backward countries was the pro­ killed some 200,000 people in Hiroshima pletely go away. New diseases will de­ letariat seizing power at the head of all and Nagasaki, Japan, and was intended velop: it's just an aspect of nature that the oppressed, linked through its revo­ as a warning to the Soviet Union that the microbes and parasites change, mutate lutionary leadership to the proletar­ U.S. ruling class would stop at nothing and evolve to find an ecological niche in iat in the advanced countries. This is to destroy the first workers state in his­ human beings and other animals. It's pos­ the programme of permanent revolution.
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