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Haitian Refugees Fight Reagan . Detention Camps VOL. 46/NO. 2 Order YSAer deported ... 3 THE JANUARY 22, 1982 Mason for governor ........ 5 75CENTS Young socialists meet ... 10 . A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Polish Haitian refugees fight government deals blows Reagan .detention camps to workers Support grows for release and asylum BY ERNEST HARSCH several weeks after the imposition of BY ANDREA BARON martial law on December 13, Poland's MIAMI - Reflecting the tremendous bureaucratic rulers have succeeded in pressure being brought to bear in oppo­ putting down most protest strikes and sition to the Reagan administration's demonstrations. They have dealt the racist immigration policy against the workers movement a severe blow, but Haitian refugee~, the Justice Depart­ the struggle in Poland is far from over. ment's chief lawyer handling the gov­ Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski.has utilized ernment's suit to deny the refugees asy­ a massive show of force against the lum resigned his position according to working class. He ordered the arrest of the January 10 Miami Herald. thousands oftrade unionists, intellectu­ The lawyer, Assistant U.S. Attorney als, students, and political activists; im­ Richard A. Marshall, Jr., explained, "I posed strict control over all communica­ found that I was asserting precisely the tions; sent armed police against strikers opposite of what I believed the Haitians and demonstrators; and outlawed the were entitled to." Marshall is now re­ activities of the 10-million-~ember Sol­ ported to be considering joining the idarity union movement. sixty lawyers who volunteered to fight Under these conditions, the authori­ for political asylum for the Haitians. ties claim, Poland is getting back to Marshall's differences with Immigra­ "normal." To Jaruzelski and the other tion and Naturalization Service (INS) bureaucrats who rule Poland that policy that led to his resignation cen­ means, above all, safeguarding their tered around Washington's combined material privileges and reasserting policy of detaining and interdicting at their absolute control over all political, sea Haitian refugees. This policy, inaug­ econ9mic, and social decision-making­ urated in August, has resulted in the in­ against the interests of the working definite imprisonment of approximately class and to the detriment of the Polish 2,500 refugees. They are subjected to workers state. the wretched· conditions of detention Widespread strikes camps all across the country. Until re-I Haitians fleeing tyrannical regime of Jean-Claude buvalier are subjected to cently they were prevented from obtain­ · The Polish workers - who had al­ wretched conditions in U.S. detention camps. · ready been mobilized for a year and a ing legal counsel and immediate asylum half in the most massive upsurge in Po­ hearings. These are constitutional land's history - have not taken this at­ rights they are legally entitled to. tack lying down. Some of the refugees have been impri­ In factories, mines, and shipyards Protests hit war training soned under these conditions for as long across the country, they have responded as ten months. with defensive protest strikes, and the of Salvador troops in U.S. The Justice Department has even pro­ organization of underground commit­ posed using Fort Drum as a detention tees - despite the fact that almost the camp. The New York Times, in a De­ BY NELSON GONZALEZ tire battalion of foreign troops will train entire Solidarity leadership has been cember 18 editorial headlined "A Hai­ On January 11, solidarity activists in on U.S. soil. They will, in the most effec­ detained, and workers in different cities tian Freeze," protested: "To hold poor, 100 cities across the country participat­ tive manner devised by the Pentagon, cannot communicate effectively on ana­ desperate people from the tropics in a ed in emergency protests called on ten learn counterinsurgency techniques de­ tionallevel because of the suspension of · camp near the Canadian border , where days' notice to denounce what the Com­ signed to kill thousands more Salvado­ telephone service and restrictions on the temperature yesterday morning was mittee in Solidarity wjth the People of ran workers and farmers. Thirty thou­ travel. 12 degrees, would be callous." El Salvador (CISPES) has characterized sand have already been killed by the The government itself admitted that as a "major escalation of United States U.S.-backed Salvadoran junta. some 200 strikes broke out in the wake Growing support for refugees intervention" in the affairs of El Salva­ At the same time, Reagan has decided ofJaruzelski's December 13 declaration. The Reagan administration's meas­ dor. to keep draft registration, which he said Solidarity sources put the figure even ures are a departure from an earlier INS Further actions are scheduled to take he opposed during his election cam­ higher. policy of releasing refugees to relatives place on January 22, in response to an paign. He has threatened to prosecute Because of government censorship, or community age:flcies pending INS international call made by a solidarity those who refuse to register. details about these strikes are sketchy. hearings. conference held in Mexico City in Octob­ One Solidarity bulletin reported that These moves are in response to the In response to the courageous resis­ er. a day after the declaration of martial growing strength of the Salvadoran lib­ tance of the Haitian refugees, who have law, all large factories were paralyzed The January 11 actions, called by eration forces that, despite the massive been org~nizing militant demonstra­ in the key industrial cities of Poznan CISPES, were organized to protest the American aid to the Salvadoran mil­ tions and hunger strikes since Sep­ and Wroclaw.• arrival that day of the first contingent of itary, are pushing the junta closer to the tember, support for the refugees is grow­ The government radio acknowledged 1,500 Salvadoran soldiers and officers to verge of collapse. ing rapidly. other strikes in Warsaw, Gdansk, Kato­ begin military training at Fort Bragg, An emergency news release issued by Protests and demonstrations have oc­ wice, Bydgoszcz, Kielce, Bialogard, North Carolina, and Fort Benning, CISPES January 8 notes, "Training in curred in Miami, New York, Washing­ Georgia. Training is to last between ten Szczecin, Lublin, Olsztyn1 Krakow, the U.S., rather than in El Salvador, is a ton, D.C., Chicago, and other U.S. cities, Swidnica, and Lodz. and sixteen weeks. crude attempt to sidestep public opin­ as well as in Puerto Rico. The offiCial reports on strikes in Swid­ Fort Bragg is the home of the Green ion, which is strongly against U.S. in­ On January 9, in a march organized nica and Szczecin were typical. Accord­ Berets, the 15,000-man 82nd Airborne. tervention in El Salvador. The U.S. peo­ by the January 2 Coalition and other ing to one Polish newspaper, Solidarity This unit is an integral component of ple are not so easily fooled. We know Haitian support groups, 5,000 people members and student activists in Swid­ the Rapid Deployment Force set up by that U.S. military training, whether it turned out in Brooklyn, New York, de­ nica went to an aircraft factory and the Carter administration. Fort Bragg takes place here or there, means more manding an end to U.S. support to the "forced part of the working collective to is also the home of the John F. Kennedy suffering and repression for the Salvad­ repressive Duvalier regime in Haiti and a strike." On December 20, Radio War­ Center for Military Assistance, the oran people." calling for the release of the Hait ian re­ saw declared that "irresponsible groups main U.S. base for counterinsurgency fugees. Forty-four thousand Haitians once again attempted to organize a training. Actions a success have fled Haiti since "Baby Doc" Duva~ strike" in Szczecin and that a mass The December 16 N ew York Times re­ The success of the actions called by lier received power from his father in meeting had been held in one of the ported that Fred Ikle, undersecretary of CISPES on J anuary 11 is concrete proof 1972. Szczecin shipyards in defiance of mar­ defense for policy, admitted that this that not only has no one been fooled, but tial law. move is part of the preparation for solidarity activists more than ever real­ Puerto Rican support to Haitians Some of the ~nost massive and persist­ "American military action in Central ize the importance of a stepped-up cam­ In Puerto Rico, where several Haitian ent resistance was mounted in the America" - military action to crush the paign against U.S. intervention in Cen­ support actions involving thousands northern port ci\y of Gdansk and in the growing liberation movements in that tral America and the Caribbean, have been organized, the Catholic Silesian mining region in the south, two region. The Triad Citizens Concerned for clergy urged that lighted candles be areas that played key roles in the Au­ For the first time in history - at the Central America, together with placed in windows as a sign of support gust 1980 strike wave that gave birth to cost of $18 million wrenched from cut­ CISPES, organized a march of 225 peo­ for the refugees on New Years Eve. The Continued on Page 2 backs in essential social services, an en- Continued on Page 6 Continued on Page 6 Polish government deals blows to workers Continued from Page 1 resorted not only to direct police and Similar charges against Kuron were typewritten bulletins. Solidarity. In both areas, the response of military action against the workers, but raised in a December 17 television One message, signed by Wladyslaw the police was particularly brutal. to widespread detentions of Solidarity broadcast. In it, he was accused of hav­ Frasyniuk, a member of the union's na­ In Gdansk, workers occupied the Len­ leaders and activists, as·well as numer­ ing "maintained close contacts with em­ tional Presidium, stressed that the in Shipyard, where several prominent ous other supporters of democratic igre circles, especially emigres of the union had to devise new forms of strug­ Solidarity leaders who had escaped ar­ rights.
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