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A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE .Labor peace as demands= OUT·

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" Militant/Fred Holstead 1200 delegates and observers attended largest labor ~antiwar confer:ence -page 11 ." .U.S .. bombing· raids · hit. . .North -Vietnamese dikes -page 3

- British workers victim of £ devaluation/ 4 How to defeat anti-abortion forces/13 ··. 35,000 constru~tion ·workers march/ 24. · ·THIS

.WEEK'S .. MEXICAN PRESIDENT' GREETED BY PICKETS: Pres­ months in a military prison. On June 11 he went on ident Luis Echeverria of Mexico was met by protest dem­ trial before a military tribunal on charges of evading MILITANT onstrations demanding freedom for political prisoners in the draft. Neuman, a member of the Israeli Socialist Or~ 3 ·U.S. bombs steel mill, Mexico on June 18 and 19 in San Antonio and Los An- ganization, has been singled out from among the thou­ geles. ' sands of young Israelis who avoid military service for dikes Echeverria served as secretary of state during the Diaz religious or personal reasons because of his unwilling­ 4 British pound devalued Ordaz regime, when hundreds of students. were gunned ness to serve in an army of occupation and "to par­ 5 7,000 in. N.Y. gay pride down by police and soldiers in Mexico City in 1968. ticipate in the oppression of another nation." action He was president during the June 10, 1971, massacre A petition on Neuman's behalf will appear as an ad­ 8U. N. environment con­ of students by right-wing gangs. Many Mexican student vertisement in the Jerusalem Post. It is being circulated activists are still in prison, along, with trade unionists, ference in the U.S. by the Committee on New Altematives in writers, and others who have opposed the Mexican gov­ the Middle East, 339 Lafayette St., New York, N.Y. Wallace: no friend of 9 ernment. 10012. Telephone: (212) 475-4300. working people The San Antonio demonstration drew about 150 people, 10 Debate on Chile: How mostly Chicanos. It was called by the Committee to Free · CITY OFFICIALS TESTIFY IN MJ\.YE TRIAL: The to achieve socialism All Political Prisoners and was joined by supporters of trial of Michael Maye, president of the New York Uni­ 11 Unionists demand Out the U.S. Committee for Justice to Latin American Po­ formed Firefighters Association, on charges of beating litical Prisoners (US LA). In Los Angeles, 2 00 people Morty Manfor<;l of the Gay Activists Alliance began June Now! turned out, also mainly Chicanos, in a protest called 23. 12 Irish republicans on by CASA-Hermandad General de Trabajadores and joined Among those who have testified that they saw Maye red-baiting by USLA supporters. assault Manford are: John P. Scanlon, assistant admin­ 13 How to defeat anti­ istrator of the Economic Development Administration; Je­ abortion forces rome Kretchmer, New York City Environmental Protec­ 14 Pulley in Seattle, Port­ tion administrator; Leonard N. Cohe~ deputy borough president of Manhattan; and Mark Steinberg, a former land aide to Mayor Lindsay. 15 SWP ballot drive m~ves · .·ahead VFW OUT TO SAVE DEMOCRACY AGAIN: A Veterans 16 Chicano socialists an­ of Foreign Wars convention meeting in Minneapolis has swer red-baiting announced that "The advocacy of the homosexual group is repugnant to the best interests of society.... it should 17 Language struggle in be condemned and checked in every way possible as Quebec dangerous to the morals and. well-being of the nation." 18 Meany on strikes and Furthermore, "the advocacy of homosexuality could help Vietnam to undermine our 1lemocracy." , 1'9 YSA recognition fight The June 7 issue of Tlie Advocate reports that this in Fla. San Antonio picket line greeted Echeverria with reactionary resolution on homosexuality was prepared and introduce.d by the Reverend Joseph B. Head. The Carlos Feliciano ac­ shouts of "Libertad," "Chicano Power," and "Free 21 last time the good reverend headed a fight for democracy the Prisoners." quitted was when he tried to get the.1969 convention of the Young 24 35,000 construction work­ Socialist Alliance banned from the University of Minne­ JUDGE SET TO RAILROAD RUCHELL MAGEE: Judge sota campus. ers march in Po. Morton R. Colvin of San Francisco has been appointed to preside over the trial of RucheU Magee for murder, GRADUATION 1972: Although graduation ceremonies 2 In Brief kidnapping, and conspiracy. The trial will be held in this year were calmer than S()me in the past, signs of 6 In Our Opi~ion . San Francisco. radicalism were not lacking. At Columbia University, Letters At a recent pretrial hearing, Militant correspondent Michc Dr. William J. McGill, the school's president, called the ael Schreiber reports, Colvin announced he will not allow' 1 war in Vietnam "a cancer" and said ''our involvement f. 7 The Great Society Magee to defend himself in court. Magee had previously in the war must cease immediately." Several hundred The Militant gets around been granted the right to act as co-counsel by Judge· Leon- . 8 By ·Any Means Necessary Columbia and Barnard students marched in protest of ard Ginsburg, who presided over pretrial. hearings in the war. . '' 10 Women: The Insurgent Marin Co\inty before ordering the trial moved to San Students at the State University of New York at Al­ Majority · Francisco. Judge Colvin insisted that according to his bany devoted their 1972 yearbook to such topics as the 14 72 Socialist Campaign own "interpretation"·· o( the. Marin County transcripts, war in Vietnam, gay liberation, women's liberation, and Ginsburg never made the ruling on co-counsel! 20·1n Review the Black struggle. Repeated throughout the 46 pages Magee requested that he be granted an interview with 21 The National Picket Line of smiling seniors at the end of the book is the picture the press to counter continuing prejudicial publicity. Judge of the severed head of a young Vietnamese revolutionary. Colvin responded that he would keep Magee from speak­ WORLD OUTLOOK ing to reporters by reimposing the "MacGuire gag rule." 1 New Zealand socialists Magee pointed out, however, that the gag rule had be­ . fight exclusion from come legally void when Judge E. Warren MacGuire was successfully removed for cause last December. Magee said Labour Party he will prepare a brief to challenge Judge Colvin for 2 Interview with Peng Shu­ prejudice at a later hearing. tse on 'Great Cultural Revolution' NEW JERSEY PRISONERS IN PROTEST: The New 3 New information on York Tinles reported June 26• that 520 of the 820 pris­ oners at Rahway, N.J., have begun a work stoppage frame-up of Bukovsky aimed at gaining reforms in the parole system. While 4 C.atastrophe could result admitting that the protest. has been peaceful, prison of­ from bombing of dikes ficials let it be known that "the work stoppage was be­ ing studied in the light of potential penalties. . .." Mili A suit on behalf of all inmates in Lewisburg Federal Commencement at Columbia University Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, accusing prison adminis­ trators of meting out illegal and improper punishment in connection with a similar work stoppage there last AMA SHIFTS STAND ON MARIJUANA: The conser­ THE MILITANT February, was dismissed by a federal judge on June 26. v.ative American Medical Association substantially soft­ VOLUME 36/NUMBER 26 The American Civil Liberties Union has announced that ened its position on marijuana on June 20. Although JULY7, 1972 it will appeal the decision. stopping short of the demand for legalization, the AMA CLOSING NEWS DATE_..:JUNE 28, 1972 took a stand similar to that of the National Commis­ THEY GIVETH WITH ONE HAND AND TAKETH sion on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, calling for an end· Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS . to felony charges for the possession of small amounts Mol'!ogi11g Editor: DOUG JENNESS. AWAY WITH THE OTHER: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that students have the right to organize po­ of marijuana. The AMA resolution stated, "there is no Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS evidence supporting the idea that marijuana leads to vio­ Southwest Bureau: HARRY RI.NG litical' groups on state college and university campuses even if their philosophy is considered "abhorrent" by lence, aggressive behavior or crime." Published weekly by The Militol'!t Publishl11g Ass' n., state officials. The June 2 6 ,ruling stemmed from a suit 14 Charles Lone, New York, N.Y. 10014. Phone: Edito­ filed against Connecticut Central State College by Stu­ MARIJUANA REFERENDUM TO BE ON· CALIFOR­ rial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) 929- dents for a Democratic Society (SDS). The college had NIA BALLOT: A June 27 Associated Press dispatch from. 3486. Sacramento reports: "An initiative to legalize the private Southwest Bureau: 11071/2 N. Western Ave., Los ·refused to grant SDS a charter as a campus organiza­ tion. use of marijuana has qualified for the November bal· Angeles, Calif. 90029. Phone: (213) 463-1917. lot, the Secretary of State's office said today." Second-doss postage paid ot New York, N.Y. Sub­ Meanwhile, in a 5-to-4 decision, the Court also ruled scription: Domestic, $6 a year; foreign, $9. By first-doss that owners of large shopping malls have the right to moil: domestic and Conodo, $26; all other countries, bar political leafletting on their property, despite the fact THE MILITANT GETS REPRINTED: The May issue $42. Air printe.d molter: domestic ond Canada, $33; that such malls serve as public facilities. of Tumbril, a newspaper published in Providence, R. I., Latin America and Europe, $40; Africa, Australia, Asia . ran on its front page an article by Dick Roberts on Nix­ (including USSR), $50. Write for sealed oir postag·e on's trip to Moscow. The article originally appeared, in· rates,. ISRAELIS PERSECUTE DRAFT RESISTER: Giora Neu­ Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily man, an 18-year-old Israeli, has spent more than six the May 26 Militant. _ _DAVE FRANKEL represent The Militant's views. These ore expressed in editorials. (;."':"' /. . .. Steel mill, ~ital, dikes hit Nixon. increases bombing.of North1Vietnam By ED SMITH Writing from London, Lewis noted that "One information, see World Outlook supplement, page JUNE 28 -President Nixon is .systematically es­ item is a report from-the correspondent of Agence W04.] . -calating the bombing of North Vietnam. This is France-Presse in Hanoi, Jean Thoraval. On June Last April 17, Lewis declared, "The truth is . aimed at dulling the antiwar sentiment of the 24 he aQd some other foreign reporters visited now · impossible to· escape if we open our eyes. world's populace and convincing Hanoi that there N am Dinh, a town sixty miles south of Hanoi. The United States is the most dangerous and de.:· are no limits to the bombing destruction Washing­ He found . its textile mills and commercial center structive power in the world. . . . Only a fool or ton can unleash in North Vietnam. in ruins from bombing. Then he went to some a madman could believe, now, that more bomb­ Whatever minimal aid is supplied to Hanoi by of the dikes protecting N am Dinh, ·about four­ ing will bring peace to Indochina." · Moscow ·and Peking, it is insufficient to deter the teen miles from town. He reported: bombing attack. Here is the New York Times "'One of the dikes was completely cut. Several Today the bombing of Vietnam is nearly double record of the U.S. bombing in North Vietnam were gutted~ with gaps in the dike itself and hol­ what it was when Lewis wrote those lines. He for the last three days: lows, evidently caused by bombs, alongside. Deep concludes his column on the bombing of the dikes: • June 26: n American fighter-bombers using cracks were visible everywhere. The landscape was "Is the United States now systematically bombing guided bombs have wrecked North Vietnam's only modem steel plant, halting production there, the United States command said yesterday. "The raids, carried out Saturday [June 24] by Ai:i: Force F-4 Phantoms, were said to have been directed at the Thainguyen steel works, which is 30 miles north of Hanoi and 65 miles from the Chinese border. "The attack, at 5 P.M. local time Saturday, marked an apparent step-up in the current bomb­ ing of North Vietnam." e June 27: "Twenty Air Force fighter-bombers have attacked a power plant 25 miles northwest of Hanoi with laser-guided 'smart bombs' that 'effectively destroyed' its usefulness and blacked out part of the North Vietnamese capital, the United States command said yesterday. "The raid Sunday, at Viettri, 'effectively destroyed the plant's capability to produce power,' the com­ mand said, adding that photo reconnaissance 'con­ firmed the destruction of the boiler facility, the electrical switching building and the flue and coal conv.eyer.' n e June 28: "American planes flew more than 320 strikes against North Vietnam Monday and attacked targets within the city limits of Hanoi and Haiphong.... "The North Vietnamese press agency, bt a broad­ cast, said that a tuberculosis hospital and a two­ almost what one might have expected to find on the dikes of North Vietnam? ... Those American story residential block were destroyed in the Mon­ the moon.'" .A officials or members of Congress who care about day raids on Hanoi and that more planes flew Anthony Lewis- continued, "The second piece of the possibility of causing mass civilian deaths over the city yesterday. . . . evidence is a report from a highly reliable, non­ in North Vietnam might want to as}[.". . . · .~Th~ ;North, Vietna;mese versio~ of the r~ids said Communist diplomati,c ..sourc;e. of·· puormation on Further information confirmS,' as "The Miiita'nt has previously reported, that the Thieu regixqe is l tlJ.~t .AmeJ"ic.an planes destroyed two dispensaries North Vietnam. TW.s source has c~cluded that in the port. and. dropped dad bombs that killed 'without . doubt ibere is ,now systematic bombing, tight~ing up its military rule in the face of the and wounded many people in the city. It said of the dikes.' revolutionary offen~ve. Dani&": Soutl*iitdd~dt the Christian Science Monitor. staff wr.ote ftom.Saigo~ a dike at the nearby hanilet of Dongtru was hit "The rainy season is just under way in North June 22: "The Saigon governm~t has. arrested by an American rocket." Vietnam; the rivers usually rise toward th.e top of the dikes between July and September. No one some 8,000 persons 'as a 'preventive detention' Washington sources consistently deny that dikes should be in any doubt about what systematic measure since the beginning of the North· Viet­ have been the targets of U. S. bombs. But is well destruction of- the dikes at this time might mean · namese offensive. to remember that the Pentagon has blanketed its "Critics, including some national assemblymen whole seven-year-long bombing of North Vietnam "Fifteen million people live on lhe Tonkin plain, from the provinces where arrests have been made, . with lies at every step of the way. Anthony Lewis, one of the more densely populated areas ·of the say that many of the arrests do not involve Com­ a Times. correspondent who was recently in Ha­ world. Some would drown in floods if the dikes munist sympathizers and that the government has noi, summarized the evidence on the bombing failed; many more would be in danger of starva, been taking advantage of martial law to remove of the dikes June 26. tion after flooding of the rice paddies." [For further some of its non-Communist opponents." General Lavelle takes· rap for Pres. Nixon· At a news conference in Johnson City, Texas, Seymour Hersh, who brought the Mylai mas­ are available. New Year's Day 1967, the president responded sacre to public attention, checked out the Lavelle "Between December and March, the United States to questioning reporters. "Well, I have followed story with lower-echelon Air Force personnel."With­ tripled the number /of B-52's available fo~ action our ':lCtivity in Vietnam very closely," Lyndon out exception," Hersh wrote in the June 18 New in Southeast Asia, doubled the number of other Johnson said. York Times, the interviewed airmen "agreed that, attack aircraft, doubled ~e number of naval per­ "l think the country knows, and I would like as one put it, protective reaction 'was a constant sonnel off the coast of Vietnam, and began the to repeat again, that it is the policy of this gov­ joke.' process of increasing personnel in Thailand by ernment to bomb only military targets." "The former intelligence specialists, who were over 50 percent." (Congressional Record, June 14, Lyndon Johnson was lying. That same week, violating Federal codes by talking openly about p. s 9311.) Harrison Salisbury, then the assistant managing their work, alleged that many so-called 'protective It wasn't all Lavelle's doing. The Nixon ad­ editor of the New York Times, had visited Hanoi. reaction' raids had in fact been planned in advance ministration had ordered a massive escalation of . Salisbury exploded the lies about U. S. bombing in by Air Force headquarters in Hawaii. or Saigon. the war. The admitted number of "protective reac­ North .Vietnam in a sensational series of articles. In addition, they said that af least three times as tion" strikes also increased. Hughes stated that He. revealed. that from June 1965, under the many such raids w.ere actually carried out as "compared with the previous dry seasons, the num­ preten-se of hitting "only military targets," U. S. reported by the Pentagon throughput 1970 and ber ·of protective reaction strikes soared dramat­ bombs ·had been directed at civilian centers, in- 1971." ically this year to six times the level of last year . eluding Hanoi itself. Lavelle's supposed "violations" took place be­ and 18 times thelevel of2 years ago." The Pentagon p11pers were later to reveal that tween November 1971 and March 1972. But Nixon Lavelle's so-called unauthorized strikes took an estimated 80 percent of the casualties in North was already carrying out three times. as many place during secret negotiations between Wash­ Vi~a~ were caused by U. S. bombing of civilians. raids as were reported by the Pentagon through­ ington and Hanoi This was Nixon's way of saying ',rhis information, compiled in secret reports in out 1970 and 1971, according to these officers. he could get away with anything. It is a message 1968, was. not revealed to the American people The timing is important because Lavelle would the president constantly tries to drive home in his until the Pentagon papers were exposed in 1971. have us believe that he personally qndertook the attempt to bring the Vietnamese revolutionaries In 1970 and 1971, Nixon ordered an increasing "unauthorized" raids to prevent the buildup for the to terms. In this case there was a slipup. - number of bombing strikes against North Vietnam revolutionary offensive launched in March. An unidentified officer wrote to Senator Hughes, that were labeled "protective reaction" strikes. We Senator Harold Hughes (D~Iowa) argues, "Long "I and other members have been falsifying a~e supposed to believe that these strikes were before the offensive actually started, the United classified reports for missions into North VietNam. limited to milltary targets. We are supposed to States took several steps to increase its military ... " Hughes reported to higher-ups and Lavelle believe that General John Lavelle, former com­ actions and capabilities in Indochina. From a became the scapegoat What is most significant mander of· the U. S. Seventh Ai:i: Force, was low point of 47,315 tons of munitions dropped is the ~ntiwar sentiment among members tn the violating orders when he bombed beyond the al­ in October, the U. S. air war soared to 91,670 lower ranks of the military, who are increasingly leged -limits of "protective reaction" in 1971-72. tons iii April, the latest month for which figures willing to spill the beans on the brass. -E. S.

·THE MIUTANT/JULY 7, 1972 3 British P-Qund devalued New crisis shakes international finance By DICK ROBERTS ington, D. C., Dec. 18, the dollar was devalued Bretton Woods, the international financial sys­ JUNE 26- The deepgoing cns1s of the interna­ at fixed rates in comparison to European and tem that held together world monetary affairs in tional monetary system erupted with full force Japanese · currencies. Devaluing some of these the postwar period, lasted 27 years. Nixon tossed last week, resulting in the effective devaluation currencies now could force Nixon to strike back it into the wastebasket last Aug. 15 when he an- of the British pound on Friday, June 23. by deyaluing the dollar again. . nounced the "New Economic Policy," suspending Immediately afterward, an immense flight from Other factors contribute to the weaki:tess of the the convertibility of dollars for gold. the dollar indicated that a new devaluation of the dollar. Most important is Nixon's reescalation of The Smithsonian agreement, which Nixon her­ dollar may also be in store. the Vietnam war, which will necessitate big gov~ alded as "the most significant monetary agree­ British workers will be the first victims of the ernment deficits and will speed up inflation. At ment in the history of the world," lasted six months. new financial upheaval. They will be hit by in­ the same time, the U.S. position in international London violated the agreement on Friday when. creases in food prices, and new wage controls it floated the pound. are likely to follow. Another agreement headed toward the circular The devaluation of the pound, which was tech­ file was the entry of Britain into the Common nically "floated" in money markets June 23, means Market's "monetary union," signed only last month. that prices of British goods are lowered in inter­ According to the May treaty, Britain's currency naHonal competition. Prices of foreign goods are would fluctuate within a limit of 2.25 percent above raised in the British market. Since most of the or below the exchange rates of Common Market food eaten in Britain is imported, devaluation currencies. British Prime Minister Heath also vio­ of the pound will drive up the_ prices of groceries. lated this accord when he floated the pound. In the wake of intense labor struggles, sym­ Under the press of intensified international com­ bolized by the 280,000-strong coal workers strike petition, events have a way of canceling the paper in January and February, the British ruling class agreements, especially when the paper concerned is beating the drums about how higher wages is money. In Britain la,st week, workers threat­ cause inflation. This is a familiar argument to ened to shut down the docks, just as figures re­ Americans. vealed a worsening British trade balance. But the truth is that in Britain, as in this country, The Economist, a British financial magazine prices are soaring and workers are struggling that is restrained in its language except when work­ to keep abreast of them. Currency devaluations ers' struggles are involved, whined about "a rule and wage controls are aimed at unloading the of Luddite anarchy at the ports." (The Luddites monopolists' problems of international competi­ fought industrialization in its early stages by tion on the backs of workers. smashing machines.) Although the strike was averted at the last mo­ The depth of the dollar's problems was indi­ ment, international fin-ancial institutions had sold cated by New York Times reporter Clyde Farns­ $2.5-billion worth of pounds in one week up to worth, writing from Paris, June 24. "Within min­ Friday, .Tune 23. The "enormity" of this rate can utes, speculators hit the dollar, and within two / be judged by the fact that .if it had continued two hours of the British announcement, the major for­ more weeks, British reserves- which were at their eign exchange markets of the continent were closed historic peak- would have been reduced to zero! because of the deluge o( unwanted dollars. Yet the new financial crisis that developed last · "The German central bank alone took in $1- The Economist pushes for new wage controls. week is undoubtedly even more serious than the billion to support the mark's dollar rate before Prestigious British financial magazine be­ one that precipitated Nixon's "New Economic Pol­ deciding to close." icy." This is because it shows that the new, sup­ lieves controls should accompany devalua­ The connection between pound devaluation and posedly more "realistic," fixed rates adopted at dollar devaluation, which set this chain-reaction tion in ruling-class attack on labor. the Smithsonian won't prevent further financial dollar flight into motion last Friday, is not dif­ crises. ficult to trace. Financial experts believe that a Ev~U" more drastic financial controls will be nec­ devalued pound will most likely cause some Eu­ trade continues to weaken. essary to gird world finance. These will all the ropean nations to devalue their currencies as well. "The U. S. ran a $2.5-bill~on trade deficit last more intensify the drive against labor d~ig~ed They would do this to prevent Britain from get­ year__.;. the first in the 20th Century," Business Week to bolster each national capitalism in internation­ ting a competitive edge in trade. stated June 10. "Based on the data available for al competition. . But if the value of European currencies goes the first four months of 1972, the U.S. is heading The character of the crisis was hinted at .by down, this would erase some of the advantages toward a $4-billion to $5-billion deficit this year­ a European central banker who stated on Fri­ Nixon gained by devaluing the dollar last De­ double the figure that was being talked about day, June 23, "The politicians bette'r wake up be- cember. At the Smithsonian conference in Wash- at the Smithsonian six months ago." fore the Western world disintegrates." · Prices keep climbing on food, other items By LEE SMITH ducts, exempt from "controls" since the interested in holding prices down." "However," the article goes on, "con­ JUNE 26- The Price Commission met "freeze" on prices was imposed by Rowe's sources told him they expected versations with company officials in­ -- yesterday and a key item on its agen­ N~xon last August, be made subject some sort of action from yesterday's dicate that demand in some areas has da was "controls" for food prices. "How­ to Price Commission authority. The meeting. The commission members, he risen into much closer balance with ever," today's Wall Street Journal re­ Cost of Living Council met June 22 wrote; were "not of a mind to. let it available capacity, bringing on in­ ported, "Price Commis~ion Chairman but took no action. The same day, ride." But let it ride they did, at least creases in previously weak prices." C. Jackson Grayson Jr., who leaves Nixon told reporters his administration until August. By then, meat prices may Specifically, the article cites plastics, Thursday [June 29] for Europe on a has not ruled out controls for farm well have peaked for the year. stainless steel, metal drills and other business-vacation trip, said after the products. The fundamental problem, ofcourse, cutting tools, and electronic com­ meeting that there weren't any In the June 23 Washington Post, is not thatthe Price Commission failed ponents. In these areas, listed prices announcements. ·He hasn't scheduled James L. Rowe Jr. quoted anonymous to place new controls on food prices. are traditionally only a starting point any commis.sion meetings until "commission sources" as saying: "We The same economic laws ofsupplyand for bargaining with buyers. But~the August." have a credibility problem. With food demand that are forcing up unregu­ reduced discounting has meant sub­ On June 21, the commission sent prices doing what they're doing, the lated prices are doing the same thing stantial price increases on these items. a letter to the Cost of Living Coun­ commission cannot do nothing and ex­ to prices that are supposedly already International markets have stepped cil, urging that raw agricultural pro- pect the public to believe that it is "controlled." up demand for some products., S\lch as maple lu~ber now being imported This was clearly spelled out in a by Japan for bowlingalleys,forcingup front-page article in the June 21 Wall those prices. The same is true of hide Street Journal. Its headline read: "A ·prices. Higher Law/ Supply and Demand The Journal article also commented Push Many Prices Up Despite Federal on the rises in the price of raw agri­ Control/ Some Boosts Involve Ending cultural commodities: "Beef probably of Discounts, Other Rises Are on Im­ comes to mind first for most consumers: ported Products/ It's Right Down Live steers have been bringing the high­ Japan's Alley." est prices in nearly 21 .Years and are Illustrating how ineffective the Phase up 17% from a year ago." II controls are, the article points out With typical understatement, the that economists who expected prices Journal article also explains what the to be held down had based their es­ reduced discounting means .to most of timate on "continued slack in the econ­ us: "Manufacturers eventually will p~ss omy." U.S. plants, the Journal com­ along the higher costs.... Retailers, mented, "operated at less than three­ in turn, will have little choice but to quarters of theoretical capacity in the sock it to the consumer- and some may first quarter [of 1972], which would take advanrage of the stronger econ­ hardly indicate widespread shortages omy to fatten their margins a bit at Price Commis~on failed to act on soaring meat prices that s_hould drive up prices." the same time."

4 ,.· -New Pentagon papers 7,000 in New York Hanoi sticks to guns for gay pride action despite U.S. pressure . By LIZ JAYKO smaller than the one last year. In By DICK ROBERTS of the Johnson administration's war NEW YORK CITY -About 7,000 gay last year's action, about 10,000 JUNE 27 -"Hanoi plunges on despite policies has not been revealed. It was men and women marched through the marched and 20,000 attended the ral­ cooling allies" is the headline in the not contained in the highly abridged streets here June 25 in the Christopher ly in Central Park. June 27 Christian Science Monitor. version of the papers released by the Street Liberation Day demonstration. Dr. · Benjamin Spock, presidential The Monitor complains that U. S. in­ New York Times last summer nor· The march culminated a week of gay candidate of the People's Party, telligence experts in Saigon "see no was it contained in the much lengthier pride activities. marched in the Gay Veterans for Peace sign in the wake of the recent Pod­ version released by the House Armed The march was the third annual contingent. Supporters of· the Social­ gorny and Kissinger trips to North Services Committee. commemoration of the June 1969 ist Workers Party election campaign Vietnam and to China that Hanoi The reasons for this omission are Christopher Street "riots," in which also marched, including three New might be making preparations for a obvious enough from the little that hundreds of gays fought back when York SWP candidates. cease-fire or concessions at the con­ Anderson has made public so far. cops raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay Literature about the SWP candidates ference table." Both Warsaw and Moscow played bar in Greenwich Village. for president and vice-president, Linda Despite the immense diplomatic and· leading roles in pressing Hanoi for · This year's march, like the previous Jenness and Andrew Pulley, was en­ military pressure Nixon is exerting, negotiations. Nixon had no. interest two here, was organized by-the Chris­ thusiastically received by many .Hanoi has not yet bent to Washing­ in embarrassing these diplomatic go-_ topher Street Liberation Day Commit­ marchers. The SWP candidates sup­ ton's terms. And there are signs that betweens; lie still needs their help. 'fhat tee ( CSLDC). The CSLDC is a co­ port full human and civil rights for . the attempt to cut North Vietnam off is why the White House succeeded for alition of gay groups and individuals gay people. from outside help may be faltering such a long time in bottling up this in the New York area. Unfortunately, some Militant sales­ too. part of the Pentagon papers. As the June 26 New York Times people, persons distributing SWP cam­ According to New York Times re­ Anderson states, "The history of our , observed, "The growing self-confidence paign literature, and others distribut­ porter ·Craig R. Whitney, writing from and openness of homosexuais in pur­ ing antiwar literature were harassed Saigon June 26, "An American intel­ suit of their rights-there are estimat­ by people wearing CSLDC marshal's ligence officer said that there had been ed to be between 300,000 and 800,- armbands. Several had their literature a considerable increase •in truck traf­ 000 homosexuals in the city -was re­ forcibly seized and destroyed. fic from China into North Vietnam flected in the signs, banners and cos- One of the marshals who interfered in recent weeks, and that the increase tumes.... " _. with sales and leaflet distribution was was thought to represent efforts by In addition to the familiar chants identified by those she harassed as the Communists to circumvent the of "Gay Power!" and "Out of the Clos-. Deni Covello. Covello is a McGovern mining of North Vietnamese ports ets and into the Streets!" many of the delegate to the Democratic Party con­ early in May." marchers this year chanted "Jail Mi­ vention. A report from Washington indicated chael Maye!" Maye, head of the New The organizations whose literature that North Vietnamese were also build­ York Uniformed Firefighters Associ­ was seized are preparing a formal ing a fuel pipeline from Hanoi to the ation, was among those who vicious­ protest to the CSLDC. Chinese border. This could neutralize ly assaulted members of the Gay Ac­ to some extent the mining of Hai­ phong harbor, where Soviet tankers tivists Alliance (GAA) at an April 15 . By JEFF BERCHENKO banquet at the Hilton Hotel here. He DETROIT-More than 200 persons used to deliver most of North Viet­ is being tried on a token charge of marched in the June 25 Gay Pride nam's petroleum. "The Air Force will probably wait Jack Anderson until they put the pipe in before de­ stroying the work," an official stated, according to Whitney. secret negotiations with Hanoi con­ "So far .." Whitney said,· "American tains some painful lessons, which still officials here have reported no evi­ seem to be disregarded in .the quest dence that the Chinese are planning for a Vietnam peace." He ·stresses ~.o to send construction troops across the "lessons."· · border to help North· Vietnam keep The flrst is that. whenever negotia­ its rail and road lines open, as they tions seemed to be getting underway, did in 1966-67 ." Johnson would escalate the bombing._ During the 1965-68 bombing cam­ The second lesson is that "The North paign, about 300,000 North Vietnam­ Vietnamese whether on the battlefield ese laborers worked along with 40,- or at the peace table, never lost sight 000-50,000 Chinese to keep the of their ultimate goal, control of all -, bombed-out tracks iii repair, accord­ Vietnam. As the unpublished papers ing to a June 26 Associated Press put it, 'Who shall govern SVN [South ' dispatch from Saigon. Vietnam] is what the war is all about."' It cannot be ruled out that Peking will .restore gt'ound crews to aid Ha­ To document the fl.rst "lesson," An­ noi, despite its willingness to cooperate derson wrote in his June 26 column: with Nixon in attempting .to bring . "An exchange of peace messages about negotiations. · through the Poles, for example, end­ Both Peking . and Moscow are re­ ed abruptly with the bombing of Ha­ luctant to openly. betray the Vietnam­ noi on Dec. 13-14, 1966. ese revolutionaries in the face of in­ "... the same scenario was repeat­ ternational antiwar sentiment support­ ed when the American embassy in ing the Vietnamese against Washing­ Moscow__ tried to resume contact with ton's genocidal attack. This is why the North Vietnamese. The ex~nges New York gay pride march, June 25 both bureaucracies have continued to continued through .a Tet truce until supply miniinal aid to Hanoi since the U.S. on Feb. 13, 1967, resumed the beginning of the U. S. aggression. the bombing of North Vietnam.... "harassment." march here, and 500 attended a rally They undoubtedly will continue to do "The papers quote a Soviet diplo­ The GAA chapters from all flve New at the end of the march in Kennedy this. And for the same reason, they mat as saying the North Vietnamese York boroughs marched in contin­ Squar~. will continue to grind out solemn dec­ regarded the bombing of their home­ . gents behind their banners. Most of The march was organized by the larations of solidarity: with the Viet- land as an effort 'to get Hanoi to ., the others taking part also marched Michigan Gay Confederation, a co­ . namese and stern warnings to U. S. talk.' The refusal ··to talk while the behind the banners of their organiza­ alition of gay organizations from iinperialism. bombs were dropping, he said, 'was tions. Among them were Radicales­ throughout the state. This is not Nixon's problem. Wash-­ a direct response' to the U. S. posi­ bians, Daughters of Bilitis, Mattachine Speeches at the rally had a mili­ . ington strategists long ago concluded tion." Society, and Gay Youth. Signs indi­ tant tone, denouncing the Democratic that the level of military and economic Anderson apparently wants Nixon cated some of the marchers came from and Republican parties. John Morales, · aid supplied to Hanoi by Moscow to stop bombing North Vietnam in · New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New a Chicano from the Detroit Gay Ac­ and Peking was insufficient to deter the belief that this will again open Hampshire, Connecticut,. Georgia, Vir­ tivists, told the rally not to rely on their attack. the path for negotiations. But Ander­ ginia, North Carolina, and even as George McGovern. He said, "There But the Vietnamese have not bent. son appears to miss the real lesson far away as Nebraska. are those in the gay liberation move­ Seven years of the heaviest bombing of the other point. The proportion of women marchers ment -who think gays can do what in warfare, hundreds of thousands of Washington insists on remaining in seemed to be larger than in the pre­ Blacks, Chicanos, and labor couldn't · U. S. troops, and diplomatic pressure control of Saigon. The question of vious two New York marches. The do-make the Democratic Party rep- from Hanoi's supposed allies have "who shall govern SVN" is two sided. march as a whole, however, was resent their interests." . all failed to win the desired conces­ On one side are the forces of the rev­ sions from Hanoi. There is new tes­ olution; on the other side are the forces timony to this in the Pentagon Pa­ of U. S. imperialism. pers released in the last few days by This new revelation of the Pentagon Jack Anderson. papers documents a crucial aspect of Up to now, the diplomatic history Coniinued on page _22

~~· ~ - .. ·.·· ·~-,. ..~T/JULY 7, 1972 5 ·•"-· .. ,...... · .' u..r.: ,/ ~ j _In Our OPinion 'Public servants' Letters Convinced socialist Over the past four months, local On June 23 I shall be transferred to police and immigration authorities serve themselves a rehabilitation center. After a period have harassed, detained, and even There are thousands of threads that tie big business to the elected and of eight weeks there I shall obtain deported literally thousands of Latin appointed officials of Democratic and Republican administrations. If my full release. Americans as "illegal aliens." anyone doubts it, they only have to consider the $25-million in bribes The political insights I have A favorite tactic has been to place galned from consistently perusing agents in front of churches in the the big construction companies pay to New York City officials every The Militant have completely con­ Latin American communities on Sun­ year. vinced me of socialism. I thank you. day. They ask everyone to produce According to reports in the New York Times following a six-week A prisoner papers proving citizenship. Those investigation of this corruption, payoffs range from $5 to $10,0p0. Pennsylvania who cannot are detained and further These are paid to city building inspectors, highway officials, police­ questioned, sometimes for hours. men, state safety inspectors, agents of· tl!e Federal Housing Adminis­ Many are eventually deported. Once tration, and clerks in various city agencies. the police took a whole busload Contractors bribe officials to obtain certificates permitting tenants Martin Sostre from one church. to move in before a job is completed. This often means that ventila­ Your June ~6 issue carried a full­ This kind of activity is not limited tion fans aren't working and plumbing facilities aren't hooked up. page story on the victory of Angela to churches. Police constantly stop Davis. Your story very soberly Safety officials are paid to overlook conditions that may not pass in­ people with dark skins at bus stops points out the battles still to be won and factory gates and ask them to spection. on behalf of Magee and so many produce papers. Even Puerto Ricans, "Hardly a skyscraper is built, scarcely a change is made in the others. who are U.S. citizens, are detained world's most celebrated skyline, hardly a brownstone is renovated or We wish to bring to your atten­ for hours. a restaurant expanded without the illegal payoffs," the June 26 Times tion the case of Martin Sostre, a Often a Latino who is picked up reports. Black activist serving 30 to 41 years for being an "illegal alien" will not Are those accepting the payoffs arrested? The city's Commissioner on a frame-up. risk calling family or friends for fear of Investigation admits that only 17 inspectors have been arrested A few years ago, Martin Sostre, a that they too will be deported. Thus, in the last four years. Most received suspended sentences. Black Puerto Rican, opened the many Latino families don't know And what about the millionaire companies paying the bribes? City Afro-Asian Bookstore in Buffalo, the whereabouts of relatives and are N.Y. In the summer of 1967 the officials concede that they haven't even tried going after them. frequently left without support. Black community in Buffalo erupted . The demonstrators at the Federal These revelations come on top of the Knapp Comm.ission hearings in rebellion. During the ·uprising, Building distributed a flyer listing on police corruption last fall. Those hearings reVtealed that graft totaling Sostre allowed his store to be used the rights of "aliens." They also cir­ at least $4-million (it's probably much more) is paid to New York as a haven for those who were flee­ culated a petition demanding that cops each year. ing tear gas and bullets.~ President Nixon end this racist ha­ Anyone who thinks this is all happening behind the back of New On July 4, 1967, the police raided rassment. York's liberal mayor, John Lindsay, is naive. This corruption is the his store and arrested him. He was Bob Lewis necessary part of the· way all Democratic and Republican administra­ charged with riot, arson, assault, Chicago, Ill. tions function. Elected officials depend on support from businessmen and possession of narcotics. His case finally came to trial in and bankers. Those who are appointed win their posts through patron­ Gun contr~l: A reader replies age and sell their loyalty. March 1968, after he had spent al­ most eight months in jail because of This is the first time I have been in But this isn't, the way government has to be. Nearly 100 Socialist an outrageous bail. set by the court. disagreement with any article in The Workers Party candidates are campaigning this year for a govern­ During his confinement, the Buffalo Militant, but I strongly disagree with ment that represents the interests of working people instead of industry police and news media whipped up your editorial on gun control [Mili­ and high finance. Such a government will not simply replace Democratic a racist hysteria. tant, June 2]. and Republican officeholders with socialists, leaving the governmental Sostre' s trial lasted three days. I agree .with you that. the capital­ bureaucracy intact. The old administrative apparatus, honeycombed Manifestly innocent of the drug ist system is the supreme source of with graft, will be di$mantled. New, democratic forms of organization charges, he was nevertheless con­ violence and that Blacks and other oppressed peoples should have the ·determined by the masses will be established. The profit-hungry cor­ victed of possession and sale of narcotics arid was given a sentence right to defend themselves. But regis­ porate owners, including those in the construction industry, will be tering guns does not deprive people replaced by the democratic control of the workers over industry. These of 30 to 41 years.. The jury was all white. of the right to bear arms. steps will cut off corruption at its roots. In prison, his educational work M.K. among the inmates brought him Austin, Minn. harsh punishment-373 successive days in solitary confinement. His re­ In reply- The Militant defends the lease from isolation came as a re­ right of the working class and Snoopers, Inc. Blacks, Chicanos, and other op­ sult of a suit he filed against the .Mystery still hangs over the june 17 break-in at the Democratic Party's State of New York forcruel and un­ pressed nationalities to defend them­ selves and their organizations by National Committee headquarters in Washington, D. C. However, a usual punishment. any means necessary. This includes few things are clear. The key witness who testified against Sostre in 1968 has since ad­ the constitutionally guaranteed right Five men were caught red-handed in the headquarters with extensive to bear arms. • · photographic equipment and electronic surveillance instruments. All _mitted in a signed affidavit that he gave false testimony to save him­ Think over your argument for a five were linked in one way or another to the Central Intelligence self from a prison term on a drug moment. You agree that capitalism Agency and the activities of anti-Castro counterrevolutionaries in Florida. charge. He is willing to present his is the major source of violence. You One of them, James McCord Jr., was a salaried security aide for testimony in court if granted im­ would also agree that the capitalist Nixon's reelection committee and held a separate contract to provide munity from prosecution for per­ rulers of this country control the security services to the Republican National Committee. jury. government and use it to further On top of this, E. Howard Hunt, the top CIA official in charge of The police officer who arranged . their own interests. AQ.d yet you say they should be allowed to use of­ the ~1961 Bay" of Pigs invasion against Cuba, met with one of the five for the false testimony has reported­ ficials of that very government to men two weeks before the raid. He now refuses to answer questions ly been discharged from the Buffalo limit most Americans' access to about the break-in. police department for suspected graft and participation in the drug trade. arms. It doesn't make sense. On June 19, the Republican Party's National Committee sent out an In light of these facts, we are de­ The right to bear arms is a fun­ internal memorandum instructing those on the party payroll not to manding that Martin Sostre be freed damental democratic safeguard, like say a word about the case. on bail immediately ~nd granted a the right to free speech. Just as the These facts raise several questions: Was the Republican Party respon­ new trial. More information on the government doesn't have the right sible for the raid? Did the order come from the White House? case and petitions calling for Sostre' s to determine who can speak at a Of course, John Mitchell, President Nixon's campaign director, and release are available from the de­ public meeting or who can publish Ronald Zeigler, his press secretary, denied that this was the case. fense committee. a newspaper, it dc;>esn't have the Mitchell even asserted, "We deplore such activity." Vanguard Defense Committee for right to decide who can bear arms. Now if there's anything most Americans know, it's that Mitchell Martin Sostre We won that right in struggle nearly 200 years ago. There is no has no qualms about bugging and wiretapping. When he was attorney Box 839, Ellicott Station Buffa'lo, N. Y. reason to support legislation that general he pushed for the virtually unrestricted right to bug and tap. would restrict it in any way. ·But electronic eavesdropping didn't begin with Mitchell and the Re­ publican Party. It was widely used during the Democratic administra­ Villanova graduation: Raza deportation tions of Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson. It has most often been em­ Cap, gown, and nightstick ployed by both Democrats and Republicans against movements for In Chicago recently a picket line of about 25 people, many of whom Our keynote speaker during the social change, including Black and Chicano organizations, labor unions, were priests, was held at the Federal Villanova [University] graduation and radical groups. Building to protest the continued ha­ this year was none other than the Now the chickens have come home to roost. Somebody has tried to rassment of undocumented Raza res­ chief of naval operations, Admiral bug the Democratic Party headquarters. Whether or not the Republican idents. The demonstration was called Elmo Zumwalt. He gave a pretty Party was responsible, the incident has increased many Americans' by the Latin American Committee of good speech for a military man, al­ distrust of the capitalist parties. the Catholic Church Archdiocese. though the graduation was marred

6 . . The Great Society. A question- For some weeks we've His psychiatrist said it . was service­ The lean years-" Thirty years ago, .. by disruption. The disruption came been pondering a point made in a incurred. "Previously, a policeman the average hot dog contained 19.6 not from the dissenters but rather May 20 Daily World editorial on was accorded respect, even by those percent protein and 19 percent fat. from their opponents, who used. Nixon's USSR trip. "In his Moscow he apprehended," the shrink reported. Today, thanks to the miracles of force and violence· to intimidate them. television appearance," the edit said, "Now, however, Mr. Lord perceives modern science, 'the fat content is up Eight persons from the Vietnam "Nixon hypocritically invoked the himself as a target of continuous and 50 percent while the protein content Veterans Against the War were memory of the child Tanya, who unjustified hostility and ridicule . . . is down 40 percent."- the Los Ange­ harassed by the Philadelphia police watched her family die during the siege coming from the very people he was les Times. and were arrested outside the Phila­ of Leningrad by the Hitlerites. Viet­ sworn to protect." At the mere thought delphia Civic Center (where the grad­ nam has tens of thousands of Tanyas of going to work, Lord would break Sounds reasonable-" Executive ad­ uation was taking place) on whose families are being killed.as a into hives, which the liquor cured. mits firm could have shady ties- Head · trumped-up charges of "breach of result of U. S. imperialist aggression." of chemical concern tells crime probe the peace," "disorder!y conduct, n and What we've been wondering is if the he was only interested in money." "conspiracy," although they were not DW could explain· how Nixon got on The blessings ofcoexistence (I)- Some - Headline in the Los Angeles Times. engaged in any disorderly actions. Soviet TV to begin with. 130 Vancouver residents signed up Inside the auditorium, a student for a three-year, $230 correspondence Sacred union- A Brazilian justice of who was a Vietnam veteran stood More truth than poetry-"Miami course with the North American Col­ the peace married 40 couples in a up in front of the stage to express Cubans Dance for Nixon"- Headline lege of Acupuncture. free, mass ceremony, thus making dissent during Admiral Zumwalt's on a New York Times article describ­ "legitimate" 225 children born out speech. When two other students ing a fund-raising ball for Nixon by The blessings of coexistence (II)- A of wedlock. Meanwhile, a British vicar .tried to join him, they were hustled rich Cuban exiles . fourteenth-century Chinese wine jar was offering a $2.60 special on wed­ out and beaten by Villanova secu­ was auctioned in London for a record dings to encourage people to use the rity guards. Don't let too much hang out-"I'm $573,000. It was spotted by an ap­ church rather than the registrar's of­ A man from the audience who not against people meeting behind praiser in the home of a collector fice. He includes church bells for only claimed to be an ex-marine colonel closed doors. I don't think we ought who had used it for years as an um­ another $2.60. aided the security police in beating to do everything we do out in front." brella stand. -HARRY RING up one of the students. After the -Senator McGovern explaining why graduation, this same man and the he held a private meeting with Chi­ rest of his family incited a physical cago's Mayor Daley immediately after confrontation with some of the stu­ a June 20 New Orleans speech during dents outside the civic center. The which McGovern denounced "back­ victims werearrested or harassed by room deals." the Philadelphia police while the ac­ tions of the perpetrators were con­ His trough runneth over- Arthur doned. Lord, a San Francisco cop who was 'All in all, it was a sad day for lapping up a fifth of whis~ey a day, Villanova. was given a year's leave with pay. Robert M. Ferrera - Villanqva, Pa. NoHingham w:omen' s festival The Militant gets around ... Nottingham Women's Liberation Group has been invited to contrib­ ANGELA DAVIS RALLIES: •-One hundred Militants were Saturday 'wrap-up' sales at Northgate Shopping Cen­ ute to the Nottingham Festival in sold at the rally welcoming Angela Davis to Chicago ter.... We are selling between 30 and 40 per week in July. On the final day of the fes­ on June 16. At a June 18 rally in Detroit, 184 Militants the Black community. tival, July 23, we have booked the were sold and 3,000 copies of the SWP campaign bro­ market square in the city centre to chure "The Black Community and the· '72 Elections" THE MILITANT GETS TO THREE NEW PLACES: hold a celebratory woman's day. were distributed. Top salesperson' in Detroit was Trudy Requests for weekly Militant bundles were recently re­ In the morning we will have ex­ Hawkins with 53 sold. ceived from Ellenville, N.Y.; Helena, Mont.; and Storrs, hibitions, bookstalls, music, and Detroit reports that they sold out of Militants before Conn. Our salesman in Storrs included the following note street theatre. In the afternoon we most of the crowd of more than 12,000 arrived. This with his request: "I got a trial bundle of 10 Militants are planning a National Women's should point out to other areas the importance of increas­ from the Hartford Young Socialist Alliance last week­ Rally. We have invited several prom­ ing their bundles when there are special sales opportunities and was pleasantly surprised- all sold in 50 minutes. inent speakers, including Shirley for the coming week. Since I'm sure I can spend a couple of hours a week, Williams, Joyce Butler, Simone de please start me with a weekly bundle of 20." Beauvoir, Germaine Greer, Evelyn SUB SALES AT THE POST OFFICE: One of our readers That was several weeks ago. Last week we received Reed, and others. To complete the who is a postal worker in Chicago recently sold eight another note with a bundle increase to 30: "Sales are day, we hope to organise a closed Militant subscriptions to his co-workers. This is how he going very well on the Univ. of Conn. campus, and since women's meeting. did it: "I explain I want to sell a subscription and offer I've recruited one more salesperson, I think we can sell The aim is to organise a day 30 Militants." a free back issue, which can be kept regardless. A sales -NANCY COLE in whic.h all women feel they can pitch seems unnecessary since the paper speaks for it­ take part. We are inviting represen­ self. A few days later I follow up to explain how they tatives of women's organisations in will receive the paper and what it costs. I insist on send­ the local ·area to participate in the ing in the sub blank and money myself and offer a loan Please send me a weekly bundle of Militants (circle one): coordinating committee and to make ------· if they are short the dollar. 5 10 25 other use of the day to publicise their own "A week of selling subs has given me a better political activities, ideas, etc. picture of my co-workers than two months of rapping Name------~------~--- Invitations will also be sent out and pushing pamphlets." to women's groups nationally. With Address ______~------publicity in the national press we hope to draw as many women as ROUND-UP OF SPECIAL SALES: Sales at special gath­ erings in the past few weeks include: · 93 Militants sold possible to Nottingham on that day City State _____ Zip --- at the Labor for Peace Conference in St. Louis, June -to demonstrate and debate their 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014 problems, ideas, and hopes in a 23-24; more than 130 Militants sold at the McGovern truly mass action. rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on June For more information, write to us 14; and 44 Militants sold at the AFSCME (American at this address: Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) convention in Houston, May 29-June 2. Nottingham Women's Liberation Group The Women's Centre THE CAMPAIGN PAPER WINS ANOTHER SUPPORT­ ER: From Boston, Jon Flanders writes, "After hearing 3, Cobden Chambers Pelham Street Linda Jenness speak at the Boston rally celebrating the Nottingham, England successful conclusion of a drive for 100,000 signatures in Massachusetts ·(for ballot status), a regular hawker of the local underground paper, the Phoenix, asked to The letters column is an open forum sign out a bundle of Militants each week to sell." for all viewpoints on subjects of gen­ eral interest to our readers. Please SHOPPING CENTER AND PLANT GATE SALES: Bob keep your letters ,brief. Where neces­ Kissinger, sales director in Chicago, reports that Mili­ sary they will be abridged. Please in­ tant supporters there "are selling 15-25 Militants per week dicate if your name may be used or at a Western Electric plant. We are going to start sell- . if you prefer that your initials be used ing regularly at a couple of Black shopping centers and instead. in the Chicago Loop. Campaign tables will also be at­ tempted in these areas." And from Seattle, sales director Dymphna Flavin writes, "Two people came to the Militant bookstm;-e ready to endorse the SWP campaign and to find out:more about the SWP. This contact was made through our regular

THE MILITANT/JULY 7, 1972 7 Eastern European cou~tes b()y(:p~ UN, environment conference -- tll:e; conference to. proteSt' East.· Gel:- · many's exclusion. Four of the 1'14- nations represented were countries that have abolished capitalism: .. Albania,. WOrld'S oppressed majority China, Rumania, and Yugoslavia. China emerged as a major force, act­ ing as the chief ·representative of the poor nations in the confrontation be­ short-changed In stockholm tween imperialism and its victims. The Chinese delegation succeeded in reopening debate on the declaration of principles that had been prepared "in advance for conference approval. Amendments were ·added to the decla­ ration including references to racial· segregation, apartheid, colonial op­ pression, and the "just struggle of the peoples against popution. 11 Despite the Chinese delegation's continual refer-· ence to Vietnam in speeches, however, it did not press for specific mention of the destruction in Indochina in any of the conference documents. The first reference to U.S. ecocide in Indochina was made on the open­ ing day, June 6, in an address by Swedish Premier Olof Palme. His re­ marks brought an angry retort by U.S. delegation head Russell E. Train of the Council on Environmental By LEE SMITH camp by Hog Farm, the U. S. com­ mendations to be voted on by the Quality. Train said he "personally" The daily press has variously as­ munal group that helped feed the thou­ UN General Assembly, but even after was an "environmentalist, not a pol­ sessed the significance of the 11-day sands who went to the Woodstock, the General Assembly vote, whatever itician," and considered the premier's United Nations Conference on the Hu­ N.Y., concert in 1969. passes will still be "non-binding." speech "a gratuitous politicizing of our man Environment in Stockholm. But if Sterling could dismiss what The 35-member U.S. delegation environmental discussions." Washington Post correspondent Claire took place in Stockholm as merely made its attitude plain in Stockholm. In fact, what was gratuitous at the Sterling summed it up as "a happen­ a happening, it was not only because Composed of State Department func­ meeting was its formal action. The ing" in her report from the final ses­ the decisions of the official conference tionaries, a cabinet member, a sen­ monitoring "Project Earthwatch," the sion in the June 17 Post. Walter Sul­ lacked substance by comparison to ator, and others held trustworthy by principles adopted, and the other rec­ livan, who covered the conference the discussions of the international, the ruling class, the U. S. delegation ommendations will not slow the elim­ along with Gladwin Hill for the New radical youth participating in the un­ steadfastly opposed the four recom­ ination of endangered species or halt York Times, concluded an opinion official conferences.· Sterling's assess­ mendations on "additionality." the disruption of the life cycles that piece in the June 18 Sunday Times ment was at least partly based on "Additionality" is the principle-pro­ keep the biosphere habitable. Norwe­ by quoting Margaret Mead's statement a smug racism that allowed her to posed by the less-developed nations gian explorer Thor Heyerdahl (fa­ that the conference was "a revolution cynically treat the aspirations of the and paid lip service by the major mous for his "Kon Tiki" expeditions). in thought fully comparable to the world's hungry and oppressed ma­ capitalist states except the U.S.- that observed, according to the June 8 Copernican revolution." jority. She wrote in' her June 17 Post the developed countries should sup­ Washington Post, that during the 11 Reports indicate that the 114-nation article: ply additional funds to less-developed days of the conference, 50 million conference did have a certain "hap­ ·"Any suggestion that the wealthier countries to finance ecological mea­ pounds of pesticides would be dumped pening" flavor. There were 1,200 of­ states mean to carry out all the rec­ sures without impairing economic de­ into the oceans. ficial delegates and an equal num­ ommendations made here would strain yelopment. The real significance of the cQnfer­ ber of officially accredited journalists the credulity of even a delegate from Because poor countries are not al­ ence was that politics forced itself into at the conference. the Central African Republic or Fiji lowed to develop as long as they re­ the discussions, despite the organizers' In addition, thousands of young .... Not many poor states seemed main in the capitalist orbit, except desire to keep it out. Because of that, people poured into the Swedish cap­ to grasp the realistic lim-its of this as pawns and subjects of imperial­ the unofficial meetings were of at least ital to take part in counter-conference Stockholm confrontation, to sense how ism, the issue of "additionality" equal significance to the official one. events such as the Environmental For­ far the industrial states might reason- masked the real issue at the official One of the best assessments of the um and the People's Forum. Swedish . ably ·be asked to go. Having asked conference. But it was on the dual Stockholm gatherings appeared, not authorities set up a tent city at Skarp­ for everything, they got it, on paper." axis of this issue and the issue of in the daily press, but in the weekly nack, south of Stockholm, to accom­ Of course the U.S. and the other Vietnam that the UN conference de­ Village Voice. Writing in the June 22 modate the overflow of what the June imperialist, industrial states are not bated the questions spelled out more Voice from Stockholm, Ross Gelbspan 5 New York Times described as "exot­ going to live up to the agreements clearly in -the unofficial counter-con­ gives an extensive account of the dis­ icall:y dressed young people." And the made at Stockholm. Not only are the ferences. cussion that occurred at the counter- officials were helped in running the agreements at this point only recom- The Soviet Union and most of the Continued on page 22 By Any Means Necessary BLACK PROTESTS CONTINUE AGAINST The disclosure comes on the heels of a study and others are demanding his resignation. CHICAGO POLICE. According to Militant cor­ revealing that Chicago police have killed civilians The disclosure of police complicity in the mur­ respondent Ninure Saunders, "On the night of at a rate three times that of other large cities. der of six Black men will fan the flames of dis­ June 20 Renault Robinson and other members Moreover, it comes at a time when organized ac­ content. Meetings and rallies to air Black griev­ of the Afro-American Patrolmen's League (AAPL) tivity by the Black community against the police ances against the police have already been sched­ took over the last of a series of 'community' meet­ is increasing. uled. In addition, some Black leaders have threat­ ings held by police superintendent James B. Con­ Blacks comprise more than one-third of Chi­ ened mass demonstrations in the streets this sum­ lisk Jr. on Chicago's Black South Side. cago's population, and they are an integral part mer unless City Hall takes action on their de­ "After a number of speakers from the Chicago of Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic Party ma­ mands. police force had spoken, Robinson, in full uni­ chine. However, the rise of Black nationalist con­ form, approached Conlisk with a bullhorn and sciousness has had a corrosive effect upon the A REFLECTION OF THE STIRRINGS BELOW said, 'This format is not going to work tonight. machine.· (or, you haven't seen nothing yet). "History tells We're going to turn this meeting open to the peo­ For example, this spring, after revelations of us that nations can survive for years by shift­ ple. Everyone line up behind a man with a mega­ police brutality against two Black doctors, Rep­ ing the burdens of life to the people confined by phone and we're going to do the talking from resentative Ralph H. Metcalfe, a Daley faithful, force and violence to the bottom. But, history now on.'" assembled a broad coalition of Black organiza­ also tells us that this process rebounds against Our reporter said the AAPL, through Robin­ tions into the Concerned Citizens for Police Re- the oppressor. For, at a certain point, the people son's column in the Dally Defender, a Black news­ forms (CCPR). _,. on the bottom begin to straighten their backs and paper, had indicated that it would hold a series Metcalfe and other Black politicians refused to the burdens rise to the top of society, affecting of "real community meetings to discuss the po­ meet with Daley downtown after the mayor re­ everything and sparing nothing. That- is where· lice." jected their request for a meeting on the South we are today. The great political and economic On the day of the meeting, the Chicago Dally Side. Among other things, the CCPR demanded pyramid is beginning to tremble and quake. Hence, · News ran a front-page story linking five Black the establishment of civilian review boards and the difficulty in electing Presidents and mayors. cops to the murders of six Black men. The mur­ the hiring and promotion of more Black police. Hence, the chaos in our cities. Hence, the shaki­ ders occurred between September 1971 and Feb­ ness of our international position.''- Representa­ ruary of this year. ·They reportedly stemmed from In response, Conlisk started holding meetings tive John Conyers (D-Mich. ), a member of the police involvement in drug traffic. According to in the Black community, but to no avail A· couple Congressional Black Caucus, in the June 29 Jet, the News, two of those killed were victims of mis­ of the meetings were broken up; and now, since a widely read Black weekly. taken identity. Conlisk has not met CCPR demands, Metcalfe -DERRICK MORRISON

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THE MILITANT/JULY 7, 1972 9 ' J \'. ''•. l;- ..... , ~ '• '· New York debate How to achieve socialism in Chile By CAROLINE LUND the capitalist class had predominant NEW YORK- An overflow crowd of control in Chile.. He called the UP more f}lan 200 packed into a New "a poly-class coalition in which the York University auditorium Jun'e 23 working class parties have hegemony." for a debate on the meaning of recent He spoke of "two phases" of the Chilean developments in Chlle. The audience revolution -a bourgeois-democratic heard three speakers- Peter Camejo phase, which he . claimed has been of tlie Socialist Workers Party, Pro­ achieved by Allende; and the socialist fessor James Petras of Pennsylvania phase, which lies ahea-d. State University, and Stephen Torgoff -Petras tried to deny that the Allende of the Guardian, a radical newspaper. government had used armed force All three had recently visited Chile. against the workers and peasants. He The meeting was cosponsored by the asserted that such information comes Militant Labor Forum and the only from the bourgeois press in this Guardian. David Dellon of the North country, which "blows up every little American Committee on Latin America crisis, every little strike." served as chairman. Petras called the SWP position one The first speaker, Peter Camejo ex­ of "sniping" againstJhe revolutionary plained that although the Allende process occurring in Chile. He pointed government had been forced to grant to the government expropriation of important concessions to the workers 3,000 farms. "How fast do you want and peasants of Chile, it could never it?' he asked. "How many changes can solve the basic problems of the Chilean the country absorb?' masses. To solve these problems, he Petras also attacked Camejo's crit­ said, it is necessary to go beyond icism of Allende for not repudiating capitalism. Allende's Popular Unity Chile's international debt of more than (Unidad Popular-UP) coalition, how­ $3-billion owed to imperialist interests. ever, is a bloc of working-class-based Petras claimed the UP government had Rouge parties and capitalist parties. to accept the debt to get intt)rnational Independent mass mobilizations of Chilean workers and peasants are He pointed out that the capitalist financing. needed to defend gains that have been won. class in Chile still has complete con­ Stephen Torgoff, the third speaker,, trol of the state power-the army, also tried to deny the government at­ police, and the courts- and therefore tacks on leftist demonstrations. Later of the imperialists. He charged that Party-which uncritically defends the· is in a position to use violence to in the discussion, however, he reversed "the SWP calls for fascism to teach Allende regime- a person rose in the block any movement toward socialism himself and admitted at least one such the masses a lesson." discussion period to attempt to defend unless the workers and peasants arm incident. During the lively discussion period, the CP position. In spite of overwhelm­ themselves.- Torgoff summarized his position by Camejo strongly discouraged the use ing opposition to his views from the Camejo contended that the Allende saying, "No matter what is the nature of such absurd slander as accusing audience, .he was given time to state government was betraying the interests of the UP government, masses of work­ others on the left ofsupportingfascism. his view. of the masses in Chile by telling the ers and peasants support it and are He stated, "We take the same basic He praised the CP for being the workers and peasants that the capital­ ready to die for it. The only question attitude ·to the Allende government as strongest supporter of Allende in Chile. ist class would allow socialism to come is: 'Are we on their side or not.' " the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union He offered as an example of such about peacefully. He stated that "the politics of the took tn the Kerensky regime in 1917; support the fact that the CP gives He predicted that the Chilean capital­ UP, in itself, cannot lead to socialism," that is to say 'No support to Ke­ "the strongest assurances of continued ist class would attemptto crush the mass · but that the UP had "won democratic ren~ky.'" At the same time, Camejo production in the factories." He .said movement for social change as soon rights for the masses" and "lifted the exPlained, the Boisheviks called on the the Communist position was "not one as it felt powerful enough to do so. He foot of the state off the backs of the workers to organize independently to of permanent sell-out." The CP, he said the workers and peasants should workers." defend the gains they won with the explained, was only asking for nine prepare to defend the gains they have He felt that at the present time "the Kerensky regime against any attempts months of "consolidation;" before tak­ made with armed self-defense guards. alternative is the UP government or to_ reverse them by the right wing. ing further steps. He said the rampant Camejo pointed to a recent incident fascism" because "the masses of work­ In regard to Torgoff's statement that inflation in Chile "necessitates what in which the Communist Party mayor ers and peasants are not -l'eady to the .UP government had brought the may seem like antisocialist measures." in the ·up- governed city of Concepci6n mobilize for socialism." workers democratic rights, Camejo In ending the meeting, all speakers called out police to put down a leftist Torgoff tried to say th.at because said: "Don't give credit to the UP gov­ agreed that despite differences in eval­ demonstration. He said that this shows the SWP opposes the politics of the ernment for what the masses themselves uation ofthe UP government, allAmer,i­ that workers cannot depend on a gov­ Allende government, it "ignores and are winning in the streets." cans should unite to defend Chile's ernment based on capitalist "legality." opposes the sentiments of the masses Although all three speakers took po­ right to self-determination in the face Professor James Petras disagreed that of Chile" and therefore takes the side sitions to the left of the Communist of U.S. imperialism. ' Women: The I Majority THE WONAAC NEWSLETTER, published by the preconference discussion articles. Activists in where WON AAC stands and the challenges it faces. Women's National Abortion Action Coalition, reg­ WONAAC chapters and in the women's move­ In contrast, the second article on the NCC, by ularly reports on how women are organizing to ment as a whole will want to follow this important WONAAC national staff member Rose Weber, con­ win the right to abortion. discussion and participate in it by submitting arti­ tains absolutely no discussion of the political issues Th~ contents of the June 26 Newsletter indicate cles and proposals to the Newsletter and by attend­ involved in the current debate. Instead, Weber that the upcoming third Women's National Abor­ ing the conference. repeats red-baiting charges she made at the NCC tion Action Conference will include an exciting Two articles in the Newsletter present evalua­ to the effect that the SWP "dominates" WONAAC. discussion of how to continue the struggle to repeal­ tions of the June 4 WONAAC Nati,onal Coordi­ The proposals Weber and Zimmermann pre­ restrictive abortion laws. The conference, spon­ nating Committee meeting, at which a debate took sented to the NCC are also reprinted in the News­ sored by WONAAC, will take place July 15-16 place over strategies for the campaign to repeal letter. at Hunter College in New York City. abortion laws. In addition, there is an article by WONAAC This issue of the Newsletter carries the first two The article by WON AAC national coordinator staff member Kipp Dawson on why lobbying is Matilde Zimmermann explains the need to continue not an effective way to win repeal of th~ abor­ to organize ·a mass-action struggle around the tion laws. Dawson points out the dangers of right to abortion. In arguing against the proposal placing faith in spineless legislators instead of in made at the NCC that WONAAC plap. no further the power of women united in a mass struggle. nationally coordinated demonstrations, Zimmer­ mann points out that the majority of women favor Other articles in the Newsletter report on new repealing all abortion laws. Our job, Zimmermann developments in fights against state abortion laws, said, is "alerting women to the necessity of getting such as the Women v. Connecticut suit, the over­ out and making that a massive and visible senti­ turning of the Shirley Johnson (Wheeler) convic­ ment." tion, and the response of women in Massachusetts Zimmermann scores the abstention from the to a proposed bill giving the "right to life" to abortion struggle of groups such as the National fetuses. Organization for Women (NOW). She also dem~ You can subscribe to the Newsletter for $3 for onstrates how the red-baiting-- directed against the one year. Single copies cost 15 cents. Write. to Socialist Workers Party at the NCC can only work WONAAC, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.10011._ in favor of the ene~ies of women's rights. Telephone: (212) 675-1950. WONAAC now has 35 affiliates Zimmermann presents a thorough analysis of -CINDY JAQUITH

10 sure that there will be no more Viet­ eration .of Teachers proposed that the tiona! Antiwar Conference in Los An- · nams, we here today establish LABOR conference amend the sponsors' pol­ geles. Twenty-five sponsors for the FOR PEACE as a national_ organiza­ . icy statement by calling for a one­ conference were obtained. The L. A. By DAN ROSENSHINE tion. We declare our intention to bring' . day general work stoppage to pro­ conference, hosted by NPAC; will dis-·­ ST. LOUIS, June 24-The June 23- into our midst ever-broader sections test the war an~ wage controls. · cuss ·proposals for mass antiwar dein­ 24 founding conference of Labor for of the trade union movement. ..." . Mazey, from. the chair, opposed this onstrations for the fall. Peace drew more than 1,200 delegates The opening session of the confer­ proposal. Instead of continuing the discussion, Mazey called for an im­ A previous labor antiwar confer~ and observers to St. Louis. The con­ ence, held in the Central Conference ence, which formed ·the Labo'r Lead_:. ference, the largest labor gathering of Teamsters auditorium, heard wei­ mediate "straw vote." To his surprise, a majority of those who voted sup­ ership Assembly for Peace ( LLAP), ever held against the war, passed a coming remarks from Gibbons; Emil was held in 1967 and drew more resolution for the immediate withdraw­ Mazey, secretary-treasurer of the ported the amendment. l than 500 delegates. It was addressed al of all U.S. forces from Indochina. UAW; Jerry Wurf, president · of A debate continued between sup­ by Eugene McCarthy, who used the The conference was initiated this AF SCM E; Frank Rosenblum, .secre­ porters and opponents of the amend­ appearance to launch his 1968 pres- . spring after three international union tary-treasurer of the Clothing. Work­ ment. Eighty delegates and observers idential campaign. The LLAP then officers traveled to North Vietnam. ers' . and Patrick Gorman, secretary­ who had formed a "rank-and-file cau­ concentrated on supporting McCarthy The three were Clifton Caldwell, vice­ treasurer of the Meat Cutters. Other cus" attempted to develop a general, and other liberal Democratic politi-· president of the Amalgamated Meat international officers made remarks alternative program to· that presented· cians. Cutters and Butcher Workmen; Harold during the conference. by the sponsoring committee. Unable This conferen<:e was twice as large Gibbons, vice-president of the Inter- The structure adopted by Labor for to come to agreement on such a pro- as the LLAP meeting. Unlike the 19e7 conference, this gathering was official­ ly endorsed by a number of. hotter­ national unions-the UAW,AFSCME, Meat Cutters, UE, ILWU, Distributive 1200 at Labor lor Peace conference Workers of America, Hospital and Nursing Home Employees, and the Furniture Workers. The tone of the speeches given by many of the top union officials was sharp and categorical; many of ·them Unionists dema owl called, for immediate withdrawal and condemned · the destruction caused by U. S. bombing in 'Indochina. Local national Brotherhood of Teamsters; . Peace provided for establishing a per- . gram, they supported the work-stop­ union officials made similar speech­ and David Livingston, secretary-trea­ _manent headquarters and staff to dis­ ·page proposal. es from the floor. The only dissenting voice from the surer of the Distributive Workers of tribute educational material to unions Coriference sponsors Mazey and and set up a speaker's bureau. A immediate-withdrawal position was America. Harry Bridges (president, Interna­ steering committee of 45 internation­ Harry Bridges. He favored calling Caldwell, Gibbons, and T~ivingston tional Longshoremen's and Ware- al union officers proposed by the con- for "a cease-fire ffrst," but said that were joined by 40 other officers of . housemen's Union- ILWU) argued .ference sponsors was adopted. , · he would not vote against the spon­ international unions in issuing a call that a-work stoppage could be called sors' resolution. for the St. Louis conference. The 43 only through the unions themselves There is no doubt that a forma­ conference initiators were presidents, The structure proposal stated, "The and would . require majority support tion like Labor for Peace, if it de­ secretary-treasurers, . and executive Steering Committee shall authorize the of members. They warned that a pre­ cided to concentrate on mobilizing board members of. 19 international establishment of. Labor for Peace mature call for a work stoppage could unions. bodies in localities, regions and or­ result in a failure that- would be. a working people in independent anti­ Nine hundred-eighty-six of those in ganizations. Such subordinate bodies setback for the antiwar movement. war actions, -could make--a ·great con­ attendance were delegates designated shall carry on the work of Labor for Maz.ey then stated that the inclusion tribution to the antiwar struggle. A by local unions, city and county cen­ Peace in accordance with the policy of such a call would not be accept­ number of speakers criticized the ea:r­ tral labor bodies,., · or international statement adopted at the Conference. able to the' sponsors, who had drawn lier LLAP for not having co.ntinued. uriions. Among the unions most rep­ Membership in such bodies shall fol­ up a program for Labor for Peace its work (speakers included some of resented were the United Auto Work- low the pattern of National Labor based on a-consensus among them• the LLAP's initiators) and hailed the formation of Labor for Peace as the beginning of an enlarged and sus­ tained labor antiwar organization. But the activities Labor for Peace will carry out in addition to circu­ lating educational· material in the unions were never discussed at the • conference. A number of the confer­ . ence sponsors pointed to "dumping ; Nixon" as the immediate task of ihe ' labor and antiwar movements. On the . other hand, the prospects for future . participation in mass demonstrations were not discussed at all. In view of the lack of concrete pro~ ' jections for independent labor anti­ war activity in the coming months, the danger exists that the newly-found­ ed Labor for Peace could go the way of· its predecessor and be reduced to a campaign-support group for the 1972 Democratic presidential candi- date. . The stated position of the confer- . ence-immediate withdrawal of . all U.S. forces from Indochina-can be achieved ~nly by mobilizing masses of workers, along with other sections of the population, in antiwar actions organized independently of the Demo- . cratic and Republican parties.

Militant/Fred Halstead . • Such mass antiwar actions can unite Opening session of Labor for Peace conference ~upporters of various electoral perspec­ tives, draw new forces into the move­ ment, and build an independent move­ ers ( UA W}, the American Federation for Peace and shall be open to dele­ selves. He ruled that it would be out ment powerful enough to force the of State, County and Municipal Em­ gates of local and regional organiza­ of order to vote on the amenpment. U. S. out of Indochina. ployees (AFSCME}, the Teamsters, tions where .such organizations have Fewer than 25 delegates finally Exactly what course of action Labor the Clothing Workers, the Meat Cut­ approved participation.". voted against the sponsors' resolution. for Peace will pursue remains to be ters, the United Electrical Workers Speeches by Caretta Scott King and This include_d Zelluck and other sup­ seen. Its electoral perspective, its re­ ( UE}, and the Teachers. Senator . Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) porters of the International Socialists, lation to other sections of the antiwar The meeting overwhelmingly adopt­ hailed the formation of Labor for and supporters of the Workers movement, and the extent to which ed a statement of policy and struc­ Peace. League, who argued that a call for it will organize local bodies are all ture for Labor for Peace proposed a Labor Party for the 1972 elections open questions. by the conference sponsors. was the most important business be- But the fact that such a large and The policy statement condemned the Debate at conference fore the comerence. . broad l~bor antiwar conference has destruction in Indochina and linked Several hours of discussion fol­ Supporters of the Socialist Workers been held can encourage more unions the war to inflation, unemployment, lowed a report on the proposed pro­ Party campaign distributed literature to take antiwar positions and give im­ and ·wage c'ontrols. It stated, "We de­ gram of Labor for Peace. Emil Ma­ to the delegates and sold 93 copies petus to the work of antiwar com- mand the immediate withdrawal from zey, who chaired the discussion, of The Militant. . mittees within the unions. It also pro- Indochina of every American soldier, called upon both delegates and con­ Supporters of the National I'eace vides-opportunities to gain union sup- every gun, every plane,· every war­ ference sponsors. Action Coalition passed out NPAC · port for the July 21-23 National An­ ship and every dollar.... _., A debate took place when Steve Zel­ materials and talked to delegates, urg­ tiwar Conference and for the August "To achieve this goal, and to in- luck of the New Rochelle (N.Y.) Fed- ing attendance at the July 21-23 Na- 5-9 and fall antiwar demonstrations.

THE MIUTANT/JULY 7, 1972 11 By GERRY FOLEY geous and honest way. ObviouSly,- if· the com­ eventually come together .to form a coordinating . Taking advantage of the unfavorable reaction in munity turns against them, not just their repu­ body for the whole area. . . . As far as we know the Catholic ghetto of Derry to the Official IRA's tations and careers are at stake, but their lives there are no James Bonds or Mata Haris involved. shooting William Best, a man from the area on and freedom. At the same time, in their statement So rest in peace, Sean and Martin, and if you hear leave from the British army, conservatives in the in the June issue of their paper, Starry Plough, strange noises in the night if s not the local embattled city launched a campaign against the the Derry Official republicans made it clear· that neighbourhood spy going about his business; it's young militants on the grounds that they were "Com­ they were real revolutionists and not acolytes of the faulty plumbing. munists." An "anti-Red" campaign was started by any bureaucratic system. There is, of course, a much more serious side leading church figures almost immediately after In many ways, Stalinism bears a similar rela­ to an· this. The Provos cannot really have hoped Best was shot as a spy on May 19. tionship to the Russian revolution as Free Statism, to convince the majority [of] people that we were trying to set up a network _of spies. What they, like the others, hope to do is simply to spread a bit of mud about, to pin the label "Commies" on the OffiCial Movement and thus make people Irish answer rad-baltina_. distrust us. The latest Provo statement to try to do this was published in the "Journal" on May 9th. They accuse us of trying to set up "a Marxist State . . . a one-party State". They refer to "the Officials and ·their Red Counterparts". They end 'I'd rather be called a Red with a quotation from James Connolly. We have no intention of running away from these allegations. There are Marxists in the Of­ ficial Republican Movement. We DO want to over­ bY a rat, than a rat bY a Red' throw capitalism. H, because of that, people want to call us "Reds", then so be it. As an Irish So­ cialist put it some years ago "I'd rather be called a Red by a rat, than a rat by a Red". Connolly was a Marxist. He said so. He proclaimed it in print and from platforms and was, as a result, denounced from every pulpit and right-wing plat­ form in Dublin. Those who sprinkle their state­ ments so liberally with quotations from Connolly and simultaneously attack Marxism distort his beliefs and def'Jle the memory of the man. He deserves better. Connolly was a Marxist because he understood, as a result of long experience in the trade union movement in Britain, Ireland and America, that only the working class can lead any oppressed nation to real independence, that all other classes will inevitably sell out, that "freedom" under any other class means exploitation under another guise. The Twenty-Six Counties is eloquent testimony to the validity of that belief. H the case for revolutionary, socialist Repub­ licanism, as expounded by Connolly in "Labour in Irish History", "Socialism made Easy" and other works, was examined honestly and objectively by the working class people of this area, then few, · we believe, would see any reason to reject it. But it rarely is examined honestly and objectively. Right-wingers won~t allow that. As soon as Con­ nolly's ideas are applied, as opposed to insulting semi-mystical incantations of his name, the hulla­ baloo about "Commies", "Reds under the bed" and Russian spies is started, and people get frightened Right-wingers labeled the attempt of the Official IRA to set up elected street committees to and run for the cover of a more comfortable ide­ run the Catholic ghetto in Derry "a Russian idea." ology. Our opponents don't argue against our poli­ tics. They can't. They just shout scare words and hope that they will do the trick. When have you Only -a few years ago, Derry was as conserva­ the system of the capitulationist national bour­ ever heard a Provisional or a member of the tive as any small, isolated Irish town: Commu­ geoisie, does to the Irish national revolution. In S.D. L. P. [Social Democratic and Labor Party], nists were accused of committing terrible crimes contrast to the Free Staters and Stalinists, whose or · the Nationalist Party actually try to prove halfway around the world. In Derry, however, "moderate'' views stem from privileges within the in straightforward terms that we are wrong when they really only existed as mythological creatures status quo, the Irish revolutionists have no re­ we say that capitalism cannot solve the unemploy­ useful for livening up a dull sermon or frighten­ sources but their principles. Major excerpts from ment problem. That under capitalism rents inev­ ing naughty children. their statement follow. itably increase, small farmers are inevitably forced But after the oppressed nationalist community off the land, wages· are inevitably devalued by rose up in rebellion against Unionist and Brit­ rising prices. That, while capitalism exists, there ish terror in 1969 and 1970, communists sud­ cannot be an end to sectarianism? Never. Because denly seemed to be everywhere, all kinds of com­ OIIICIBI IRA stata•nt they cannot answer our politics. munists. Most of those who called themselves so­ When reactionaries run out of arguments they We stand for the defence of the area and for cialists were in the Official republican movement start to shout "Red". We are seeing this in Derry the immediate interests of the people within it. and smaller, specifically socialist groups. But in at the moment. The "Red scare", the last refuge , We see this as a step on the way to the overthrow many areas, the Provisional IRA also included of the political bankrupt, is being used in an at­ of both Irish States and the creation o~ a united social radicals, such as Maoists and various ex­ tempt to discredit the Official Republican Move­ socialist Ireland. By a "Socialist Ireland" we do members of the People's Democracy group. Close ment. Street Committees are a Russian idea, not mean a state modelled . on Russia. Brezhnev relationships between People's Democracy and sup­ howled the Provos [Provisional IRA] in a recent and Kosygin have as much relation to the ideals porters of the Provisional IRA developed in a ptess Statement. The. Officials want neighbour to of the 1917 revolution as Jack Lynch and Des broad protest. group called "The Northern Resist-· spy on neighbour and so on and so on. O'Malley have to the ideals of the 1916 Rising. ance Movement." Now we would not bother to answer such argu-.r We mean an Ireland. in which the wealth of the Two years before, such an alliance would have ments if we were not aware that this type of mind­ country would not pour out to bulge the bank scandalized both the Provisionals, who split from less nonsense has worked before in Irish history. accounts of Canadian mining flrms, in which the the Official IRA on the grounds that it was "Com­ In the last general election in the Free State, Fianna rents of houses would not be determined by the munist-dominated," and People's Democracy itself, Fail managed to convince quite a few people that inflated interest rates which local authorities, North · which was a rather "purist" socialist group that the harmless, timid Brendan Corish [leader of and South, pay to foreign banks, in which people regarded nationalism as reactionary. the Irish Labour party] was a blood-stained Bol­ would not be unemployed because it is unprofib shevik in disguise. In the thirties Republicans in able to invest in particular areas (like Derry), At the same time, people of moderate to con­ the South were hounded by Government propa­ in which the wealth created by human labour servative, and even very conservative, views re­ ganda which suggested that the I. R. A. had been would be controlled by those who do the labour. mained in both the Provisional and Official IRA. sent specially by either Satan or Stalin to sub­ And we will achieve this, as sure as the sun rises They worked together with socialists ranging vert Catholic Ireland and drag it, screaming, into· tomorrow. There will some day be a socialist Ire­ from the rather stuffy and bureaucratic members some nightmare socialistic hell. land, not because it is written in the stars but be­ of the Irish Communist Party to Maoists and Some people believed it, some people will believe cause there will always be those who will see "Trotskyists. anything, it they are told it often enough, so let's through the fog of distortion, lies and scare-words This unity of the most diverse political views get it straight now. When we advocated street com­ and recognize where the real interest of the mass in the fighting organizations of the nationalist mittees we did not mean that neighbour should of the people lie. That is what we ·are working people is the most eloquent testimony to the moral spy on neighbour.... towards. That, ultimately, is why we involved "power of the Irish cause and tu the revolution­ We explained what we meant by Street Committees ourselves in the military struggle against the Brit­ ary aspirations held, on one- level or another, in the last issue of "Starry Plough" and in Press ish Army, why we wish to see the people organized· by the majority of the Irish people. statements. They were local committees for people, street by street, why we are involved in co-ops., The Official IRA in Derry responded to the "anti­ elected street by street, who would look after the and in trade unions. And we are going to win. Communist" campaign against them in a coura- affairs of that street and which, we hoped, would Watch us. Or, better still, join now and help us.

12 A weekly international supplement to The Militant based on selections from Intercontinental Press, a weekly newsmagazine reflecting the viewpoint of revolutionary socialism.

JULY 7, 1972

New Zealand Socialists defend their right to be in labour Party By Keith locke with the 'conservatives' leading the motions in support of the July 14 Though the defence against the pro­ party.... antiwar mobilisation, mass protests scription has just begun, some party Wellington "The Socialist Action League is dis­ against the coming South African rug­ branches have already sent letters of The Socialist Action League (SAL)· missed, in private, by a senior mem­ by tour, the abortion law repeal move­ protest. Prominent persons who have is organising a big defence campaign ber of the leadership as 'lunaticfringe,' ment, and nationalisation under work­ already signed a petition defending following a decision by the National but the league has been busily dis­ ers' control of all basic industries. the right of SALers "to be members Executive of the New Zealand Labour tributing its literature to any delegate It also condemned the party leader­ of the Labour Party and put forward party that "membership of the League who will accept it- and there are quite ship's complicity in the smashing of their particular views" include five La­ is incompatible with membership of a few .... the New Zealand Seamen's Union. bour candidates for this year's gen­ the Party." "Unimportant as the league might The futile attempt of the party lead­ eral election. D The right-wing Labour party leader­ be, its thoughts echoed in the con­ ership to stop these motions from com­ ship began its witch-hunt immediately ference today." The report went on ing to the attention of the party con­ following the party's national confer­ to explain the debate on women's lib­ ference was countered by one dele­ ence in Wellington May 8-11. At the eration issues, the war, apartheid, and gate, on behalf of the Socialists for conference the SAL launched a "So­ social welfare. Labour Campaign, issuing a leaflet cialists for Labour Campaign" for this Delegates were very angry about listing the motions passed by the youth. year's general election. Nixon's blockade of Haiphong, which These leaflets were on delegates' tables The campaign is in support of the was announced during the conference, when the party president, Bill Row­ Labour party as the political arm and greeted a special motion con­ ling, announced that the motions had of the New Zealand labour movement, demning the escalation with sustained, been eliminated from the official youth but on the basis of a socialist pro­ standing applause. There was obvi­ report. gramme and opposition to the right­ ously great enthusiasm for action on The party leaders have now clamped wing leaders who have betrayed the the question, and many delegates down on the developing socialist op­ interests of the party's working-class signed a petition supporting the July position to their procapitalist policies. supporters. 14 antiwar mobilisation. The party The June 11 Sunday Herald explained The socialist election effort will be leadership, however, bureaucratically it like this : tied closely with union struggles and prevented a special motion in sup­ "It appears that the activities of the independent mass movements against port of the mobilisation from reach­ Socialist Action League at the recent the Indochina war, the 1973 South ing the floor, and ruled out of or­ Labour Party conference-when they African rugby tour, and the abortion der an addendum to a remit that distributed leaflets pledging a "Social­ laws, campaigning on their demands. would have committed the party to ists for Labour Campaign" but added Most major newspapers reported the July 14. some nasty swipes at the 'bankruptcy socialist campaign and the SAL inter­ The mood of the conference was of the Kirk leadership'- angered the vention in the party conference. more radical than it has been for party leadership and brought to a The May 11 Christchurch Press re­ many years and there were heated head a desire to curb the activities Christchurch, N.Z., antiwar demonstration ported that "the young and militant debates over New Zealand's relations of some on the radical fringe of the of 11,000 on July 30, 1971. labour lead­ members of the Socialist Action with apartheid South Africa and the party." The leaders also feared that ers prevented party conference from con­ League- and in a more moderate abortion laws. A conference of about the SAL "might associate the party sidering support to July 14, 1972, anti­ form, university delegates :..._ have 100 of the party's youth held just with extremist ideas and frighten war mobilization. made it clear that they are not happy prior to the main conference passed middle-of-the-road voters away."

South Africa Protests continue; students charged under 'riot' law

"The violent police reaction to re­ Vorster has made it clear that his un­ the entire staff of the University of versities was at stake. cent antiapartheid demonstrations by leashing of the police was not the Capetown joined a mass meeting of white, English-speaking students was end of his war against student dis­ students called to protest police at­ The South African white population apparently a cold-blooded political de­ sent. On June 11 sixty-two students tacks on demonstrators. The staff also appears to be split as never before, cision by the government calculated from the University of Witwatersrand decided to draft a petition calling for the English-speaking section favoring to provoke a confrontation," wrote were charged under an "antiriot" law. support to the students and circulate some reform of the apartheid system, London Observer correspondent Stan­ They could receive prison terms of it on a countrywide basis. the Afrikaaners remaining instransi­ ley Uys in a dispatch printed in the up to two years and fines of up to In parliament Japie Easson, a lead­ gent. But that clash comes in the con­ June 12 Washington Post. $520. Previously, white students ar­ er of the opposition United party, text of a fresh upsurge of the Black "South Africa has lurched to the rested during demonstrations were called the June 2 police attack on movement in all southern Africa- a right," he added. "After dabbling in usually held for a few hours and re­ demonstrating Capetown students "dis­ new level of struggle reflected in the various image-building exercises, the leased on low bail. order committed by the people who months-long strike in Namibia, the government has realized that it is bet­ Vorster also announced that laws are supposed to keep order in South increasing student and worker agita­ ter to be ugly and strong than pretty would be passed next year ensuring Africa." tion in South Africa, the Malagasy (if that is the word) and weak. Vor­ that all foreign students entering the The June 9 Christian Science Mon­ general strike, and the mass mobili­ ster's remark [in support of police country would be individually itor reported that Dr. Alex Boraine, zations in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) that violence against students peacefully screened by the parliament. moderator of South Africa's Method­ forced the British Pearce Commission demonstrating against apartheid] But the government's hard line has ist church, had called upon the stu­ to veto a plan that would have ended showed that he no longer cares what not destroyed the student protest dents to continue their protests, say­ the disagreement between Great Brit­ the world thinks about him." movement. On June 9, for example, ing that the very existence of the uni- ain and the racist Ian Smith regime. D World Outlook W0/2

to produce steel in their backyards. This was a horrendous failure. "As a result, there was a further change in Mao's position. Now not Interview with Chinese Trotskyist leader only the peasants opposed him but the party leadership, at least the ma­ jority of it, opposed him. In July­ August 1959, Mao was forced to call a special meeting of the party Central Committee. Minister of Defense Peng The ~Great Cultural Revolution' Te-huai opened the meeting with a sharp attack on Mao, and he was supported by the chief of staff of the army and other members of the Cen­ and the fall of lin Piao tral Committee. "The outcome of the meeting, how­ ever, was that Peng Te-huai and his [The following interview with the vet­ The historians who hold this view "have taken the same opportunistic immediate associates were ousted from eran Chinese Trotskyist leader Peng believe, for instance, that the Chinese standpoints." their posts. But behind the scenes, Liu Shu-tse was obtained by Igor Cornelis­ Communists were largely isolated Now let's come to the cultural rev­ Shao-chi, the vice chairman of the sen and published in the January 29 from Moscow in the 1930s and more olution. What was its significance? party, as well as Marshal Chou Te issue of the Amsterdam weekly Vrij and more independently developed a Peng. "You have to ask: Why did had supported Peng. Mao's position Nederland. A translation of the first political line of their own. Mao need the cultural revolution? The had also been weakened by the secret portion of the interview appeared in fact is that at a certain point he was speech that Khrushchev gave about the June 30 issue of World Outlook.] Peng. "Politically, the CCP was never in a minority in the Political Bureau. Stalin in 1956. Liu and Teng Hsiao­ isolated. They always had radio con­ In 1957-60, in a completely person­ ping, the general secretary of the par­ tact with the outside world. They could alistic and dictatorial way, Mao ty, were in agreement with Khrush­ Stopping only for innumerable cups receive shortwave messages from launched a campaign for agricultural chev, at least as regards his criticism of invigorating Chinese tea, Peng Shu­ Moscow. There is no question of their cooperatives. He forced the peasants of Stalin. Mao on the other hand did tse and I moved rapidly through the having an independent political line to join them, just as Stalin did around not agree with Khrushchev but at that last fifty years of Chinese history. The in the 1930s. They did shift back 1929. This resulted not only in mas- time he could not openly say so. 1920s and the almost complete phys­ and forth from left to right (as is ical liquidation of the Communist shown, among other things, by the party were already behind us. Slowly changes in leadership) but these shifts we were coming to the question of never had a principled basis." how the party of Mao Tsetung and Peng's wife, Peng Pi-Ian, added an­ Chou En-lai, even though it stayed other piece of evidence- the Sian Inci­ loyal to Moscow's directives, was able dent in 1937, when Chiang Kai-shek to take power in 1949 and smash was kidnapped and finally released the Kuomintang throughout mainland by the Communists themselves. The China. No more than in the previous result was that a temporary halt was article can I give a full account of Peng's interpretations and analyses. called to the civil war between the Peng belongs to a generation that was Communists and the Kuomintang and not content with giving short, super­ a common front against the Japanese ficial answers. Thus, when I asked arose. The Sian Incident has never him about the cultural revolution, he been fully clarified. imperturbably began with 1957. Even According to Pi-Ian, in 193 7 Mao his wife, Pi-Ian, who must have been Tsetung and Chou En-lai were deter­ well acquainted with this broad ap­ mined to liquidate Chiang Kai-shek. proach, thought that he meant to say since after all he was their archenemy. 1967. But no, if you want to under­ "But Moscow sent a telegram signed stand a development, you have to by Stalin that said that Chiang had take in at least the ten preceding years. to be released and that an attempt 0. K., first, how and why did the had to be made to reach a compro­ CCP take power in 1949? mise with him so that they could fight Peng. "That is not only a very im­ together against the Japanese. The portant but also a very complicated party leaders were forced to obey. I question. For many years, the period was in Shanghai at the time myself of the Long March, the CCP had been All the party members and sympa­ driven into the countryside. In 193 7 thizers were overjoyed at Chiang Kai­ and after they supported the Red guards marching through Peking in 1966 with portrait of Mao Tsetung. Through shek 's capture. They did not under­ Kuomintang. In those years the most the 'Cultural Revolution,' Mao attempted to use the Red Guards as an instrument stand why he was released later." important thing was the struggle Peng. "The victory of the CCP in to bureaucratically regain control over sections of the Communist Party and govern­ against Japanese imperialism. Because ment. of these ·objective conditions, the situa­ 1949 has to be credited to unusual tion in China became more favorable historical circumstances- the Japanese occupation and the second world war. for the Communists. sive resistance among the peasants "All these factors together determined "After the war against Japan, the A contributing factor was that the Rus­ sians occupied Manchuria in 1945, but also in dissatisfaction among the situation in the party in those Kuomintang was completely rotten years. seized the modern weapons of the Jap­ large strata of the rest of the popu­ with corruption and found itself para­ lation (workers, students, and intel­ "Mao was forced to take a step back­ anese and turned them over to the lyzed. Chiang was not exactly in the lectuals). ward. In 1959, he had to give up CCP, and also organized the Fourth best position to launch an attack on "This resistance became apparent in his position as head of state to Liu the Communists. Truman sent Army of Lin Piao. Thanks to these 1957 when the Chinese leadership was Shao-chi. Many concessions were Marshall to China to try to persuade weapons, the Chinese Communists forced to begin the 'hundred flowers' made in the areas of education and Chiang to make a compromise, but were able to build a modern army. campaign. This liberalization coin­ the communes, and the people were the Kuomintang leader refused to Furthermore, Russian specialists were cided roughly with the Hungarian rev­ given more freedom to express them­ make even one concession to the CCP; sent into this army. But in some prov­ olution of 1956. selves. The opposition to Mao con­ he did not even want to concede any­ inces, Chiang Kai-shek's forces fled "But the campaign took on more tinued to exist. Pamphlets were even thing to the bourgeois parties. So the in 1948-49 before the Chinese Com­ and more the character of resistance circulated demanding his resignation. Marshall trip failed. munists arrived. to the entire party bureaucracy. In The cultural revolution began in No­ "Most importantly of all, the Ameri­ "Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, the man Wuhan, for example, a huge opposi­ vember 1965, when Lin Piao wrote can imperialists were unable to send who has now taken Lin Piao's place, tion developed. Mao was forced to an article on this theme in the army troops to China. The soldiers wanted admitted this once, saying: 'We our­ suppress all opposition. paper. He directed his fire against to go home and they made that very selves were completely dumbfounded."' "As usual, this left opposition was all opposition tendencies. clear. When Truman also cut off his Peng considers the CCP still to be portrayed as a 'right deviation.' Hun­ "It is important to keep in mind lavish aid to the Kuomintang, the a Stalinist party in which there is dreds of thousands of people disap­ that Lin Piao had supported Mao Chiang regime fell apart. The CCP no democracy. peared from the youth movement, but earlier, when Liu Shao-chi came to took advantage of the situation to the feeling of dissatisfaction continued launch a counterattack. These are the "No one can question a decision the fore as the head of state. Lin Piao by the leaders. As soon as you criticize to exist, especially among the intel­ saw this as a threat to his position reasons for the victory of the CCP lectuals. Mao's view, you are purged." To be as Mao's heir. Mao knew very well in 1949. Except for the Japanese in­ "Mao understood very clearly that sure, in the beginning of the Sino­ that almost the entire intelligentsia sup­ vasion, except for the second world he had to take measures to quiet the Soviet conflict, the Chinese views (the ported Liu Shao-chi and Teng Hsiao­ war, the CCP would not have taken peasantry. In 1958, he started anoth­ power." attacks on revisionism) seemed cor­ er big campaign, the campaign for ping, who in turn controlled the par­ I found that a very negative esti­ rect. But, according to Peng, the re­ the so-called people's communes. All ty apparatus. On the local level, in mation of the policy of the CCP and cent developments around the India­ small private ownership of land was Canton, Sinkiang, Manchuria, Shang­ its practical activity. Peng also did Pakistan conflict- to say nothing of eliminated. The free market was done hai, and many provinces the party op­ not feel- as some historians do- that the position the Chinese-oriented Indo­ away with. Mao also launched the posed Mao. the CCP "took" power in 1949 against nesian CP took toward Sukarno­ 'Great Leap Forward,' the experiment "According to the statutes, at that the wishes of the Russian Communists. show that both Moscow and Peking in which millions of people were forced time Mao should have opened a dis- W0/3

cussion and called a congress. But we don't know, but politically he is he knew that that would have meant dead. Wang Yen-chung and all his his downfall. Therefore, Mao had to followers have disappeared. use the army, but he could not rely "For months I heard him every day Soviet Union on the loyalty of all the units. So, he on Radio Peking, since I follow it resorted to using the high-school and very closely. But since mid-Septem­ university students (as the Red ber I have heard nothing more about New information on the Guards). In fact, power was then taken him. A lot of months have gone by. out of the hands of the party and even It goes without saying that the party of the government. members and the military want to frame-up of Bukovsky "Although many party leaders were know what is going on, but nothing attacked, they still held their posts. has been disclosed, nothing explained. New information on the case of So­ The Chronicle also describes the viet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is hearing held in response to Bukov­ provided by issue number 24 of the sky's appeal to a higher court. The Chronicle of Current Events, which proceedings took place February 23 has recently become available in the in the Superior Court of the USSR. West. The issue, dated March 5, re­ Despite protests and petitions from ports the contents of a petition in be­ abroad and from Soviet citizens point­ half of Bukovsky, who in January ing out the legal violations and the was sentenced to seven years impris­ outright fraudulence of the evidence onment and five years exile. used to convict Bukovsky, the hear­ The petition was submitted to the ing was brief and general. prosecutor general of the Soviet Union The court refused Bukovsky's re­ by Bukovsky's mother, N. I. Bukov­ quest to speak in his own behalf. De­ skaya. Besides pointing out the nu­ fense attorney V. Ya. Shveisky asked merous legal violations in the course that Bukovsky be acquitted. The pros­ Peng Shu-tse and Peng Pi-lon. of the trial, Bukovskaya brought to ecutor, Vorobev, briefly reviewed the light information surrounding the tes­ charges, and the court upheld the con­ timony of Hugo Sebreghts. viction. On February 25, Bukovsky Then Mao ordered the army to sup­ A big development is being kept secret. Sebreghts is the Belgian citizen to was transferred to Vladimir prison. port the Red Guards. The conflict that "In my opinion, the purge of the whom Bukovsky allegedly passed Meanwhile, persons associated with followed was reminiscent in some Lin Piao group means that Mao's "anti-Soviet documents of a slander­ the Bukovsky case are being victim­ places of a civil war. In Kwangsi own position has been enormously ous nature." His testimony was one ized. Aleksei Tumerman, who released province, several hundred persons, weakened. Lin Piao was Mao's heir. of the principal pieces of "evidence" the transcript of the trial to the West, probably several thousand, were That was even emphatically declared used to convict Bukovsky. (See the is now confined in a psychiatric hos­ killed. Many houses were destroyed. in the party statutes. In the party's trial transcript in the June 5 issue pital. Recent information tells of the The situation took an especially dan­ highest body, the present leadership of Intercontinental Press.) harassment of Soviet novelist Vladi­ gerous turn when the Red Guards of the Political Bureau, Mao still has Bukovskaya revealed that Se­ mir Maksimov, who had employed also attacked some army commanders the support only of Chou En-lai. The breghts, after returning to Belgium, Bukovsky as a literary secretary. (in July 1967), as in Wuhan, where other members- Chen Po-ta, Lin had written a letter dated April 19, Yuri Glazov and Yuri Titov, two the officer corps was split. Piao, and Kang Sheng- are dead or 1971, to the prosecutor general of Soviet intellectuals who recently emi­ "At that time, the Cultural Revolu­ purged. the Soviet Union. In the letter, Se­ grated, held a news conference in tion Group- whose core was made "How was Mao able to defeat Lin breghts repudiated the testimony he Rome May 30 to report that Maksi­ up of Chen Po-ta (Mao's secretary), Piao? In my opinion, because he had had given while being held by the mov "was in great danger in Mos­ Chiang Ching (Mao's wife), Kang the support of Chou En-lai. Their KGB in Moscow. He stated that his cow." They said that Maksimov was Sheng (a Politburo member) and common interest was to preserve the testimony was obtained under "phys­ about to be expelled from the Writers Wang Li (director of the Central Com­ party in order to be able to control ical and psychological pressure." This Union because he refused to repudi­ mittee's propaganda department)­ the army. Of course, Chou En-lai does letter was not introduced at Bukov­ ate his novel The Seven Days of Cre­ felt that the army endangered the not have mass support in the army sky's trial. ation, which the Writers Union con­ goals of the cultural revolution. This but he knows enough commanders demns as a "dangerous transmitter group wanted to launch an attack on to have an influence. It is important of bourgeois ideology." Glazov and the army leadership. But Lin Piao in this connection that Chou was head Titov expressed fears that Maksimov remained loyal to the military com­ of the party Military Committee be­ would be arrested and confined in mand. fore 1949. a mental institution. "After this Mao Tsetung was forced "The most important man in the Information in issue number 24 of to make concessions to the army lead­ army, and perhaps in all of China, the Chronicle would seem to support ers. Mao purged the 'ultraleftists,' such in my opinion, is now ·Marshal Yeh these fears. It reports that at the end as Wang Li, the writer Chi Pen-yu, Chien-ying (member of the Central of January Maksimov was summoned and also the deputy chief of staff of Committee since 1945, chief of staff to the office of V. Ilin, secretary of the army, Yang Cheng-wu. This part of the People's Liberation Army in the Moscow division of the Writers of the Cultural Revolution Group was 1945-47, and a member of the Po­ Union. Ilin tried to persuade Maksi­ purged under the pressure of the army litical Bureau since 1967). In prac­ mov to write a "renunciation-confes­ command. tice, Yeh Chien-ying is acting as min­ sion" for Literaturnaya Gazeta in con­ "All this shows how great the con­ ister of defense. nection with his novel, which was pub­ tradiction was between Lin Piao and 'When you make a quick survey lished abroad. Mao Tsetung. Facing the pressure of of the situation, you get the follow­ Maksimov refused. Several days lat­ the military leaders, it was primarily ing picture. After the purge of the Lin er, according to the Chronicle, he was Mao who made the concessions. In Piao group, the army has become called before a medical commission the period after 1967, Revolutionary weaker. Yeh Chien-ying does not have of "psychiatric experts," who ruled that Committees arose in almost all local­ the same kind of influence in the army Maksimov's psychiatric state had tak­ ities and were controlled by the mili­ as a Chou Te (commander in chief en a turn for the worse. D tary. This conflict between the army 1946-54), a Lin Piao, or a Chen Yi and the party became permanent and (recently deceased) had. The army Vladimir Bukovsky through the defeat of Mao's cultural may break up into many factions; revolution the party was also wrecked. it may disintegrate. Power in the country was now unques­ "The same kind of picture is pre­ tionably in the hands of the army. sented by the party. No one has any In this situation, in August 1970, Chen authority. How can the members have Po-ta was purged, no one knows how any confidence? No one trusts any­ Amnesty International makes or by whom. one. I think that many cadres in the "Lin Piao and his army controlled army and the party are demoralized. the entire party. At the beginning of Therefore, it is my opinion that a appeal for Pyotr Grigorenko 1968, Lin Piao replaced General Yang militarily dangerous situation has Cheng-wu, the deputy chief of staff, arisen. I think that the trend in China Amnesty International has asked A commission was scheduled to rule with Wang Yen-chung from Canton. now is toward political revolution; supporters of civil liberties to write some time in June on Grigorenko's From the moment he took this post, there is no other way out." the Soviet goverm:nent, requesting that further confinement. Wang began placing his closest as­ Cornelissen. "But since the military Major General Pyotr Grigorenko be sociates in important positions, for situation is dangerous for China, who released from forced confinement in The newsletter reported that a mem­ example Wu Fa-hsien, the minister of is the greatest threat, America or the a psychiatric hospital. ber of the Amnesty International staff the air force, who also became a mem­ Soviet Union?" Grigorenko has been held since May had been able to speak by telephone ber of the Political Bureau. The same Peng. "That is very hard to say; 1969 as the result of his efforts to with Grigorenko's wife. She said that thing happened in the navy and in the I don't know. The question is not defend the rights of Crimean Tatars. she had last seen him on April 27, logistics sections. Everywhere follow­ how a war against China might be­ "As far as we know," the organiza­ and that he had then appeared to ers of Wang Yen-chung turned up in gin, but how it will end." tion stated in its June newsletter, "this be in reasonably good health. Ear­ important posts." Cornelissen. "After a revolution, is one of the longest continuous pe­ lier, Grigorenko had been reported The question now is: What happened could you and your wife return?" riods of confinement in a psychiatric ill as the result of brutal methods to Lin Piao? Peng. "If it was a real revolution, hospital that a dissident in the USSR used to force him to abandon a hun­ "What happened to him physically, yes." D has evet undergone." ger strike. D World Outlook W0/4

Vietnam

U.S. bombing near dikes could bring Argentina catastrophe to Vietnamese civilians Ever since U.S. imperialism began Russell International War Crimes Tri­ flows. The enormous holes thus Students, the systematic bombing of North Viet­ bunal in 1967. caused have a jolting and undermin­ nam in 1965, there have been fears The Johnson administration gave ing effect that can result in a full dis­ that it would eventually undertake the serious consideration to a plan to charge of the river's force onto the workers, destruction of the dikes that protect combine bombing of the dike system plain, and not simply a spilling over the country from flooding if other with an all-out bombing of the trans­ of a portion of its water. This tac­ means failed to force the Vietnamese port system to prevent foodstuffs from tic, which offers the 'advantage' of strike in to surrender. The massive escalation reaching North Vietnam from China. not appearing to actually hit the dike of the air war begun by Nixon in The plan was rejected. Defense Sec­ while actually being infinitely more April indicates that the danger of such retary McNamara explained why in destructive, is completed by a series Mar del Plata a murderous attempt is now greater a memorandum on May 16, '1967: of raids in which pellet bombs are Mar del Plata, an Argentine coastal than ever before. "There may be a limit beyond which dumped on the workers who have city 400 kilometers south of Buenos The government of the Democratic many Americans and most of the rushed to the scene to repair the dam­ Aires, "was totally paralyzed and oc­ Republic of Vietnam has, in fact, world would not permit the United age." cupied by military and police forces charged that U.S. bombs have re­ States to go." Unlike the use of nuclear weapons, because of a general strike by workers peatedly struck the dike network since This does not mean that the dikes this tactic has the advantage of caus­ and students that took place without April- charges blandly denied by the were not bombed. They were, but only ing an unbearable catastrophe with­ incident," according to an Associated U.S. military. Nguyen Thanh Le, on a limited scale. The joint chiefs out Nixon ever having to give a di­ Press dispatch in the June 16 issue spokesman for the North Vietnamese of staff never liked this restriction, rect order; he could deny any respon­ of the New York daily El Diario-La delegation to the Paris peace talks, sibility and blame the result on a Prensa. told a news conference June 8 that series of "natural accidents." The re­ "The strike was prepared by the stu­ between April 10 and May 24 a total sponsibility might even be laid at the dents, who were demanding freedom of 580 bombs have been dropped on doorstep of the North Vietnamese for five of their comrades. The trade both river and maritime dikes. themselves: If they had only spent unions of the workers joined the pro­ There is now increasing evidence more energy looking after their dikes test. Four of the jailed students have that Nixon is planning to flood North and less on fighting, it would never already been freed, but the strike went Vietnam and that he might be able to have happened. ahead anyway." accomplish this even without ordering Nixon has lifted the restrictions on Student unrest in the city has been direct attacks on the dike system. bombing Hanoi and Haiphong. Will on the increase since the murder last The Plain of Tonkin would period­ he give the joint chiefs a green light December of the student Susana Filler ically be submerged were it not for on the dikes? They are known to fa­ when rightists attacked a peaceful as­ the fact that the Vietnamese peasants vor doing so. And with the fear of sembly of students. 0 since the Middle Ages have built up direct intervention by the Soviet Union an intricate network of dikes. One sys­ and China diminishing, the least that tem is built up along the Red River; can be sai.d is that such a go-ahead a second system, more or less perpen­ signal seems less remote than ever. dicular to the first, is built up across Nixon has not made any effort to the plain to block flooding if one sec­ hide the fact that he is holding this tion of the primary system breaks; option open. Porter recalled that on finally, there are coastal dikes that April 30 Nixon was asked about the prevent coastland flooding during ty­ dikes and dams. "His answer, care­ phoons. Altogether, there are 4,000 fully phrased, could be interpreted kilometers of dikes, which must be both as a warning to Hanoi and a constantly kept up if the crops and trial balloon at home. First he called lives of some 15,000,000 inhabitants Aerial view of petroleum storage tanks the dikes and dams 'strategic targets,' Was ist Ihnen bei einer W ochen­ of the plain are to be protected. bombed near Hanoi. indicating his acceptance of the joint zeitung wichtiger: Aktualihit, Ge­ A series of strategically selected chiefs' doctrine that they are legitimate nauigkeit, oder Kritik? breaches during the rainy season, targets. He went on to say that bomb­ Keine Frage: Alle drei Kriterien noted the French geographer Yves as the Pentagon Papers revealed. They ing the dikes and dams could cause sind wichtig. Nur sie zusammen Lacoste in the June 7-8 issue of Le argued for a removal of restraints on 'an enormous number of civilian cas­ sind eine Garantie fur echte In­ Monde, could inundate virtually the bombing Hanoi and Haiphong ("with ualties' and that this was something formation. entire plain. "It is very probable that the expected increase in civilian cas­ which 'we need to avoid' and also INTERCONTINENTAL PRESS this catastrophe would cause a greater ualties to be accepted as militarily 'something we believe is not needed.' bietet Ihnen diese Informationen number of deaths than the exploding justified and necessary") and for the But he did not rule out such attacks aus der internationalen revolutio­ of several atomic bombs on the Plain systematic bombing of the dikes and at some future time." naren Arbeiterbewegung durch ein of Tonkin." dams. weltweit organisiertes Korrespon­ When U. S. bombing began in 1965, Actually, the United States used its Less than two weeks later, follow­ dentennetz aus erster Hand. a civilian army of some 200,000 men bombing of the dikes in the summers ing serious setbacks to the South Viet­ Abonnieren und lesen INTER­ and women was formed to patrol the of 1965, 1966, and 1967 to perfect namese puppet army, U.S. bombers CONTINENTAL PRESS! dikes along the branches of the Red a tactic intended to make possible a knocked out a number of dikes in River, looking for ruptures. Many for­ rupture of the dikes without ever re­ the southern provinces and a section In case our German friend's mes­ eign observers, including New York quiring a direct hit. This technique of one protecting Hanoi itself. sage did not come across, here Times correspondent Harrison Salis­ was described by Lacoste in a report Was this only a warning? Perhaps. it is in English: bury in 1966, saw firsthand the effects to the Russell Tribunal and summa­ But these "warnings" are continuing. of U. S. air strikes against the dikes. rized in Le Monde: ''Very large bombs And the waters held back by the dikes "Which is more important for Unimpeachable evidence (including are dropped, not directly on the dike will be peaking between July and Oc­ you in a weekly paper: a topical photographs and film) of such destruc­ but some distance away, on the al­ tober. And Nixon's options in Viet­ format, accurate reporting, or crit­ tion was presented to the Bertrand luvial base above which the river nam are running out. 0 ical appreciation? "No question, all three criteria are important. Only together do they constitute a guarantee for real news. "Intercontinental Press gives you Some fifty students and seventeen had been turned loose. the news of the international rev­ Portugal policemen were injured at the Univer­ "The students had demonstrated last olutionary workers' movement on sity of Lisbon when police attempted week against the wars carried out by a firsthand basis through a world­ to break up a meeting May 16. Police their own government in Africa, as wide network of correspondents. invaded the Institute of Economic and well as against the North American "Read and subscribe to Intercon­ lisbon students Financial Sciences without authoriza­ escalation in Vietnam." tinental Press!" tion from institute authorities in an Following the incident provoked by effort to stop a meeting of students who the police, the council of professors Send $7.50 for six months. protest war, were demanding educational reforms, decided to respond by protests, the according to Agence France-Presse. students went on strike the next day INTERCONTINENTAL PRESS "According to certain eyewitness ac­ and the director of the institute, Pro­ police attack counts, professors were beaten and fessor Cruz Vidal, sent a report pro­ P. 0. Box 116, Village Station several students jumped out of win­ testing the police action to the minister New York, N.Y. 10014 dows in order to flee police dogs that of national education. 0 \ the women's movement best organize · can presidential candidates have taken church ofticihldom must. •be ~oseci , to win repeal of all anti-abortion laws? a stand against women's right to for foisting its religious Views on the, By CINDYJAQUITH The national women's abortion con­ abortion. McGovern, the leading Dem­ rest of the population. Women mu8t When the New York state legislature ference, called by WONAAC for July ocratic contender, has retreated from also ·expose the Democrats and Re­ passed the most liberal abortion law 15-16 in New York, will discuss these his initial claim that he ·supported publicans who. make the laws that in the country in 1910, many wom­ questions. This conference takes on abortion. prevent women from controlling their en concluded that the struggle for the added importance because of the chal­ Both the church and the state sup­ lives. right to abortion had been won-at lenge the right wing is posing at this port restrictive abortion laws because Demoaats and Republicans least in New York. So it came as a time. they help keep women oppressed. tied The Democratic and ·Republican shock when, on April 16, New York­ The near success of the anti-abor­ to then traditional roles in the family. parties have stood in the way of every ers witnessed a demonstration of more tion offensive dashed many illusions By demanding the right to control rflorm women have demanded, from than 10,000 people demanding that that the right to abortion was safe their own bodies, women are rejecting the time of the suffrage movement to the state make abortions illegal again. in New York and that the so-called the concept that their only role is to today. Just as women had to organize On May 10, the New York state "right-to-life" groups could simply be bear and care for children. Thus, they massive struggles to force these parties -· to grant protective labor laws and the vote, women today are finding· they must launch ·a massive cam­ paign to win the right to abortion. How women can The Democrats and Republicans in the state legislatures and in Congress listen only to power. They listened in New York in 1970 when women built organize to defeat a demonstration-ef 3,000 to demand the right to abortion. And the same legislators paid attention this spring when the New York "right-to-life" forces, with Nixon's blessing, mounted the anti-abortion( forces a campaign for a return to the old law. This is why women cannot depend legislature voted to repeal the liberal ignored. Many women now realize are directly challenging the right of on influencing the legislators through abortion law. The new bill they passed that the right wing is serious about the church and the state to wield con­ the lobbying efforts of a few women. called for reinstatement of the archaic its campaign and has powerful forces trol over their lives. The legislators will respond to wom­ statute making all abortions illegal at its command. Until the late 1960s, abortion was en's demands only if they see a pow­ except those to save the life of the a taboo subject The thousands of erful mass movement behind those de­ woman. women who had illegal abortions, The Catholic Church hierarchy, mands. jeopardizing their health and even joined by conservative Jewish and The strategy of relying on Demo­ In the midst of this crisis, a dem­ ~eir lives, suffered from tremendous Protestant leaders, has openly helped cratic and Republican politicians is onstration in defense of the right to guilt. Then the ·women's liberation organize the anti-abortion campaign. being followed by the N atio_nal ·Or­ abortion initiated by the Women's Na­ Anti-abortion groups have received movement burst the shroud of secrecy . ganization for Women and the Wom­ tional Abortion Action Coalition free office space and large amounts and asserted that abortion is a en's Political Caucus. Caucus leader (WONAAC) took place on May 6. of money from the Catholic Church. woman's right. · Betty Friedan summed this up in a statement printed in the June 8 New York Times. Friedan said the way to prevent another defeat in New York is to urge women "to support those brave men and women who voted to retain our right to medical help and abortion and to defeat a picked few of our eri.emies." She went on to say that "in the nature of the inflammatory situation, this will have to be a some­ what quiet effort." A "quiet efforr at this time will sim­ ply give the right wing a green light to intensify its campaign. In fact, the New York May 6 action was smaller than it could· have been because NOW and the Caucus counterposed getting "good" Democrats and Republicans elected in the primaries to giving their active support to mass actions. This is exactly the trap the anti­ abortion forces want women to fall into. If the abortion law repeal forces become intimidated and retreat into "quiet efforts," it will be a setback for Militant/Ellen l.emisch the entire women's movement. Washington, D.C., Nov., 20, ·1971. Women must continue to build mass actions demanding the right The abortion law repeal movement to abortion in order to answer the oHensive of the anti-abortion forces. must continue to organize demonstra­ tions, rallies, teach-ins, and other forms of visible action to win this Between 1,500 and 2,000 people par­ The Catholic hierarchy has The feminist movement has had a fight. WONAAC has been in the fore­ ticipated. launched a campaign among its own deep impact within the Catholic front of this effort. This protest was followed by a news members against abortion, lecturing Church itself. Growing numbers of conference on May 12 denouncing the them in church iJerV'ices and in Sun­ women and men are beginning to re­ passage of the new bUl and demand­ day schools. Cardinal Terence J. ject Us reactionary teachings on the The ThirdNationaiWomen'sAbor­ ing that Governor Nelson Rockefeller Cooke personally urged Catholica to rights and roles of women. This has tion .4ction Conference will talce veto it. Representatives from a broad march on April 16 iB a letter direct­ resulted in ~uch formations as Catholic place July 15-16 at Hunt$r Col­ range of groups participated, includ­ ed to all Catholic Church services the Women for the Right to· Choose, a lege/ New York, N. Y. ing WONAAC, th~ National Organi­ week before. pro-abortion group in Connecticut more con­ zation for Women (NOW), the Wom­ The victories women have won on For information, en's POlitical Caucus, the New Dem­ Hypocrisy the abortion issue have had an impor­ tact WONAAC at 150 Fifth Ave., -~ ocratic Coalition, Black Feminists Those in the Catholic Church hi­ tant effect on the struggles women are New York, N.Y. 10011. Tele­ United, and the Socialist Workers Par­ erarchy hypocritically argue that also waging for child care, equal pay, phone: {212) 675-9150. ty. abortion is "murder" but say nothing and the right to an equal education. Although Rockefeller's veto pre­ about the many women who die each The same is true of another victory served the liberal New York law, these year because restrictive abortion laws -congressional passage of the Equal Wblle the size of the actions called events-paralleled in other states force them to resort to back-alley or Rights Amendment. If ratified by 38 by WONAAC has thus far been mod­ such as Connecticut, Massachusetts, self-induced abortions. Many of the states, the amendment will- make it est, the actions have played a crucial and Pennsylvania-made it clear that religious leaders who have cam­ easier for women to fight for better role in focusing public attention on . the anti-abortion forces are waging paigned most · vociferously against working conditions. the abortion laws. They have helped a national campaign. In fact, this fl­ abortion are at the same time staunch Realizing this, the opponents of increase support for women's right fort ·is not only national but inter- defenders of the war in Southeast Asia. equal rights for women are determined to abortion and have put the state national. 1 An even more powerful force be­ to prevent the abortion law repeal and federal governments on the spot. Why is. the right wing able to mo­ hind the current abortion laws is the movement from making further gains The July 15-16 national abortion bilize so many people on this ques­ federal government. During the fight and to roll back the victqries it has conference provides an opportunity to. tion, especially when public sentiment over the New York law, Nixon sent already scored. ·· discuss and plan a strategy for build­ is more and more in favor of giv­ a personal letter to Cardinal Cooke Because ·the church and the state ing the kind of massive actions that ing women the right to abortion? congratulating him on his work. Vir­ are allies in this effort, the women's will defeat the right wing and elimi­ ·Faced with this opposition, how can tually all the Democratic and Republi- movement must fight them both. The nate the anti-abortion laws.

THE MILITANT/JULY 7, 1972 13

/ Pulley scores. lchord •71 Socialist on ~subversive' Gls Andrew Pulley, 21-year-old Socialist After my discharge from the Army, Workers Party candidate for vice-pres­ I joined the Young Socialist Alliance ident and a former GI, replied on and the Socialist Workers Party, two June 23 to a House Committee on of the groups on Mr. !chord's list. Internal Security report on "subver­ The YSA and SWP are instrumental sion" in the armed forces. in supporting the GI antiwar move­ Democrat Richard Ichord, ·chair­ ment-that's how I first met them and man of the committee; announced on one of the reasons I joined them. June 21 that a year-long study showed But no one-only the rotten war Newspaper clippings about Linda Jen­ demanding that the U. S. withdraw that "subversive efforts" by radical itself-had to tell me, when I was in ness's recent tour of Latin America from Vietnam. 'This would not be groups "to undermine the morale of the Army, that the U. S. government are still coming in to the national proper protocol,' he said. But he was personnel in the armed forces" had has no business waging war on the campaign office. The June 4 issue of sure that the Soviet leaders expressed been ••a total failure." Among the people of Southeast Asia; only the the Mexico City Excelsior ran a dis­ their views on the war forcefully at groups investigated by. the committee war had to convince me and other patch from Santiago, Chile, focusing the bargaining table." were the SWP and the Young Socialist Gls at Fort Jackson, South Cardlina, on Jenness's support for the Chicano Seems like Nixon and McGovern Alliance. to organize Gls United Against the· struggle. The article explains that sup­ aren't the only candidates with a cred­ The following is Pulley's statement. War in 1969. port to the- Chicano struggle is one ibility gap! In fact-also contrary to Mr. of the major issues in the SWP cam­ !chord's findings-opposition to the paign. The California Supreme Court Jtas Contrary to the findings of the House war is so widespread among soldiers, Jenness is quoted as saying that refused without comment to hear. a Committee on Internal Security, it is as it is among ·the American people millions of Chicanos, along with 2_5 case filed by the.. Socialist Workers the Vietnam war itself and the un­ as a whole, that President Nixon dares million Blacks, "suffer doubly: be­ Party and two other parties chal­ democratic and racist' nature of the not send more troops into combat. cause they are workers and because lenging the provisions for forming a armed forces that convince service­ My running mate, Linda Jenness, of the color of their skin." political party in California. men and women to oppose and or­ and I welcome the GI antiwar move­ Mimeographed copies ·of Latin The suit seeks to invalidate the re­ ganize against the war. ment. We both will continue to en­ American press coverage on the Jen­ quirement that signatures from 10 per­ Mr. !chord's committee has once courage servicemen and women to cent of the state's registered ·.voters ness tour are available fro~ the na­ again wasted taxpayers' money and exercise their constitutional right to tional campaign office. be obtained in order for a party to insulted the American people's intel­ oppose and organize against the war win recognition by the state. California ligence with its year-long attempt to until all the G Is are brought home has the most restrictive election laws "Young Black Socialist Offers ~n Al­ prove the McCarthyite myth that "sub­ ft:om Indochina and all the bombing in the nation. More than 600,000 sig­ ternative for Minorities" reads the versives are trying to undermine the is stopped and the U. S. is totally natures would be required to put the headline on a June 7 story on Andrew morale of armed forces personnel." out of Southeast Asia. Pulley's campaign in the Christian SWP on the ballot. The Committee for Democratic Elec­ Science Monitor. The article focused on the drive to put the SWP on the tion Laws (CoDEL)., which is han­ ballot in Massachusetts, and on Pul­ dling the case, has announced that ley's program for the Black com­ the suit will be re-filed in federal court. munity. "The Black convention in Pulley at rallies in Gary," said Pulley, "showed that there A letter from Ohio is typical of many are many Blacks who want to opt that have been received by the SWP out of American politics as they know national campaign office in the past Seattle, Portland it, and _who want to control their own few weeks: "I have heard that you have some information on the true SEATTLE, June 25-Andrew Pulley, people at a Black EducationalAlliance communities, their education, and their workshop convened to discuss orga­ destiny." nature of George McGovern. Would vice-presidential candidate of the So­ you please send this to me? I am cialist Workers Party, kicked off his nizing Black opposition to mandatory finding Sen. McGovern's campaign West Coast. tour with campaign ral­ busing in the city. Pulley's suggestions With chants of" Let Jenness Run" and more and fnore confusing every day!" "10,000 Voters Can't be Wrong," sup­ lies in Seattle on June 23 and in Port­ for how to fight for Bl~ck control of The truth about McGovern is con­ land on June 24. porters of Linda Jenness"'s right to Black education were well received: tained in "Everything You Always be on the Ohio ballot held a spirited In Portland, Pulley spoke to 45 cam­ On June 22 Pulley met with Black Wanted to Know About George Mc­ picket line outside a Cleveland Re­ paign supporters at a banquet held to antiwar Gls at the Shelter Half Cof­ Govern," a 25-cent pamphlet. More publican Party fund-raising dinner on announce the SWP candidates from fee House in Tacoma, Wash. The Gls than 25,000 copies of this pamphlet Oregon: Rita Moran, for U. S. Senate; organized a news conference for- Pul- ·June 14. Ted W. Brown, Ohio sec­ have been sold so far. retary of state and the man who has John Studer, for ~ecretary of state; ley in Tacoma. . Two Young Socialists for Jenness Peter Graumann, for state treasurer; Pulley had been invited \)y the Prison­ threatened to rule Jenness off the bal­ and Pulley in Nashville sold 32 copies lot because she is "too young," was and George Kontannis, for district at­ ers' Council at Walla Walla state peni­ of the "truth kit" in 45 minutes at­ torney of Multnomah County. A col­ tentiary to address inmates there. Bad scheduled to be at the dinner. the Tennessee State Democratic Con­ The Committee for Democratic Elec­ lection at the banqJiet raised $450 weather, however, prevented him from vention in Nashville. In Flint, Mich., for the campaign. flying there in the "Red Special," a tion Laws (CoDEL) is urging that a YSJPer sold 15 pamphlets/to a meet­ letters- supporting the democratic right plane piloted by a campaign supporter. ing of about 50 McGovern delegates of Ohio voters to be able to vote for The day before, Pulley wound up his Pulley also spoke to students at the and supporters preparing for a county the socialist .candidates be sent to Ted tour of Washington with a barbeque University of Washington campuses in

convention there. Bundles of the Mc­ 1 W. Brown, Secretary of State, Co­ sponsored by the Beattie campaign Seattle and Pt1Jlman and held news Govern truth kit can be ordered from lumbus, Ohio 43215. A victoryinOhio committee. Eighty people attended and conferences in both cities. Eleven re­ the SWP campaign. The price is 15 will be a victory for democratic elec­ donated $400 to the campaign. porters interviewed the vice-presidential cents each on orders of 50 or more. · tion laws everywhere. While in Seattle, Pulley joined 60 candidate during his stop in the state. (

.Jarvis Tyner, the Communist Party The pamphlet on McGovern and the candidate for vice-president, spoke at recently published truth kit on Hum­ the Roxbury, Mass., YMCA earlier phrey (If HHH Were President) will this monthL Several supporters of the b.e among the most important pieces Jenness-Polley campaign were there, of campaign literature that YSJPers and they asked him some questions. will be distributing at the Democratic Tony Prince reports, "I asked him Party Convention in Miami Beach, why the ·Soviet Union did not call Fla. The YSJP will be setting up a' for massive antiwar demonstrations Young Socialist movement center there around the world when Nixon escalat­ and talking to delegates and demon­ ed the bombing and mined the ports strators about the SWP campaign. of North Vietnam. Tyner replied that The YSJP is appealing for volunteers the Soviet Union has always opposed to come to Miami Beach to help staff the. U. S. intervention in Vietnam and the movement center and to distribute that there were demonstrations in the campaign literature. If you want to USSR when Nixon went there. He participate, contact the national cam­ gave the example of a woman in an paign office right away. opera house who protested when Nixon came to the opera. ·He neglected All requests for information and lit­ to mention that she was thrown out erature ·should be sent to: Socialist of the opera house by cops for her Workers Campaign Committee, 706 protest. Broadway, Eighth Floor, New York, "Tyner asked how we thought it N.Y. 1()()p3. Telephone: (212) 989- would look if Brezhnev greeted Nixon 7676. Pulley addressing Houston campaign rally on June 10. at the airport with a huge banner ' -LARRY SEIGLE

14 SWP ballot drive moves ahead Socialist one reporter for- the Morning Star. porter brought in more than 250 sig­ supports Petitioning "Oh, no," said Grogan. "Most people natures three days in a row. support our democratic right to be In response to an ar.ticle in The in Illinois on the ballot. Even people who don't Militant on the launching of the Penn­ Conn~ bus support our campaign see nothing out­ sylvania ballot drive, one high school. completed rageous about letting socialists run for student stopped at the Philadelphia By BARRY DAVID office." · headquarters last week to offer his employees help. Other campaign supporters took CHICAGO, June 25-In a final week­ The same reporter asked Haig, who John Ratliff, Socialist Workers Patty . end push that netted 8,000 signatures, has collected more signatures (519) part in a Saturday mobilization in Philadelphia, which netted 9,000 sig­ ·candidate for U.S. Congress in Con-, the Socialist Workers Party completed in one day than any other petitioner, necticut's 3rd C. D. (New Haven), if it was more difficult to petition in natures. the fll'st drive in its history to place As a regular feature of the petition issued the following statement on Rockford than in Chicago. a· presidential ticket on the lllinois drive, campaign supporters have set June 18. "Well, you don't get a chance to ballot. Campaign supporters gathered up a table at Philadelphia's City Hall, . a total of 40,360 signat).lres, well over talk to as many people, and some where in addition to collecting signa­ the required figure of 25,000. Virtually people are wary seeing socialists for the I fully support the employees of the tures, they obtain the names of vol­ Conn-ecticut Company in the various assured of ballot status, the SWP will unteers. file its petitions on July 31. activities they have undertaken in the SWP petitioners made big news this past few days to protest the latest cut in bus service and the rise in fares week in Rockford, a city of 150,000 SWPfiles for students and the elderly. in northern lllinois. Local reporters For the past several years we have descended on petitioners in downtown in D.C. seen increasing fares and deteriorating Rockford to find out what socialists WASHINGTON, D. C., June 27- service by what is supposed to be were doing in that traditionally Re­ Linda Jenness, Socialist Workers Party a utility serving the people. The own­ publican stronghold. They were sur­ candidate for president, f:aled .af),OOO ers of the Connecticut Company have prised to find that among the ten peti­ signatures here today to place the SWP placed their private profit above the tioners were Pat Grogan and Suzanne on the D. C. ballot. needs of thousands of students, work­ Haig, SWP candidates for governor The SWP, the first party to f:ale in ing people, and the elderly, who de­ and attorney general. D. C., gathered twice the required num­ pend on the buses as their sole means "Isn't it difficult to get people to ber of signatures. This is the first of transportation. sign petitions for socialists in a con­ time the SWP has attempted to achieve At a time when there is mounting l!lervative town like Rockford?' asked ballot status for its presidential slate concern about the pollution caused in the District by excessive numbers of private~ au­ Reporters from the Washington Post, tomobiles in our central city, public the Washington Evening Star, the transportation should be expanded Washington Daily News, and Channel and made free rather than be cut back. Help the 5 Metro Media attended a news con­ The Socialist ·Workers Party pro­ ference held to announce the filing. poses: SWP get on Jenness told the reporters that 1) That the management of the Con­ Young Socialists for Jenness and Pul­ necticut Company be taken over by Suzanne Haig Militant/Dave Saperstan ley will be in Miami Beach during a committee of elected representatives the ballot the Democratic Party convention to of the employees and those who .ride talk to the radical youth there, es­ the buses; first time," answered Haig. "But young pecially those who support George Mc­ 2) That the fare be eliminated; 3) That an expanded bus. service ~ people are especially eager to ·sign Govern. Many of these young people, be financed. by a tax en the employ- once I've explained what we stand for." she explained, are becoming disillu­ ers and merchants in the Greater New The reporter then interviewed sevQfal sioned with the rightward shift of Mc­ Haven area, who are already profit- people who had signed petitions. to Govern and will be seeking a real ing from their workers and customers fmd out their reasons for helping so­ alternative to capitalist politics. who ride the buses. cialists get on the pallot. Jenness said that some of them would be won over to supporting the "Socialists would get more jobs for Socialist Workers Party ticket Blacks," said one woman. SWP campaign supporter James Another signer indicated that he was for an antiwar, socialist party. "There's Harris read a statement to reporters going to be a third party one day," from Herman Fagg, Socialist Workers he said, "and it just might be the So­ Party candidate for D. C. nonvoting Calif. delegate, hailing the efforts of cam­ cialist Workers Party." Channel 2 TV filmed Rockford cit­ paign supporters in the District ballot drive. He also scored the incumbent izens signing the petitions and gave to vote nonvoting delegate, Democrat Walter Grogan and Haig the opportunity to Fauntroy, for urging Blacks to vote explain what they would do to help for McGovern. the citizens of Rockford and how they on death The reporters asked Jenness why During July, SWP campaign differ from George McGovern. the SWP wanted to get on -the ballot supporters will also be peti­ if its candidates had slight chance to penalty· tioning in Colorado, Minnesota, win in November. Jenness-replied that Mississippi, New York, and her campaign offers voters the only LOS ANGELES-Police throughout Pa. drive alternative to the policies of war and California succeeded in placing a ref- . Rhode Island. If you would like 'erendum on the state ballot to restore to help in any of these drives, oppression carried out by the Dem­ at halfway ocrats and Republicans. the death penalty. Capital punishment send in the coupon below. was abolished here in February when point the California Supreme Court ruled { ) I would like to help peti­ By GWYN VORHAUS that it violated the state constitution's tion to put the SWP on the PHILADELPHIA, June 25 -At the ban on "cruel and unusual punish­ ment." ballot. Send me information. end of the first full week of petition­ ing, Socialist Workers Party campaign Backed by the Reagan administra­ { ) Enclosed is $ to help supporters have collected 16,610 sig­ tion, police, prison guards, and sher­ pay petitioning costs. natures on nominating petitions to get iffs agents throughout the state mobi­ ::{ ) I endorse the SWP cam­ SWP candidates on the Pennsylvania lized to secure the half-million signa­ ·. :_paign as a positive alternative ballot. · tures needed to place a constitutimial amendment on the ballot. According . to the Democrats and Republi­ They must collect 35,624 by Aug. 14 to win ballot status for presidential to .. the secretary of state, more than cans, . although I do not neces- and vice-presidential candidates Linda 640,000 signatures were filed. sarily agree with all the planks Jenness and Andrew Pulley and a slate The police drive to restore the death of the SWP platform. of presidential electors pledged to penalty raises . to a new pitch their Name __-______them. The petitions will also certify 1 racist "crime-in-the-streets" propagan­ Joseph Sanders, candidate for auditor da, which is used to justify the bru­ Address ______general, and Harvey McArthur, can­ tality that comes down hardest on 'City ______didate for state treasurer. Chicanos, Blacks, and other oppres­ State Zip·---- Signatures were collected this week sed minorities in the state. School/organization ____ in Philadelphia, Erie, and Allentown. Among the forces opposing 11!Stora­ The petitioners braved rain and floods tion of capital punishment is the So­ in an all-out effort to stay on sched­ cialist Workers Party. Its candidates SWP Campaign, 706 Broad­ ule. are using their campaigns to mobi­ way, Eighth Floor, New York, Each petitioner averaged 107 sig­ lize the largest possible vote ~galnst Herman Fogg Militant/John Gray the amendment. · N.Y. 10003. natures per day. One campaign sup-

THE MtUTANT/JULY 7, 1972 15 ( Chicano sddatists /ansvver ted• baiting The following are replies to a recent march simply because there were so­ Carnalismo, contrary to what Papel . Aguilar, Stella Ortega, Elvia Rios, and red-baiting attack against the Young cialists (YSA and SWP) involved in Chicano implies, does not involve the Richard Garcia, did try to raise funds Soci~ Alllance and the Socialist the antiwar committee. The telephone rejection of ideas because they .hap­ for the expenses· of Raza Contra Ia Workers Party and Raza Contra Ia campaign was geared to scare_people pen not to have been originated by Guerra Committee. On those occasions Guerra, a .Chicano antiwar group in with a "red hysteria" not very different L~ Raza. Should we refuse to use . 1hat I did approach people who asso­ -llouston, Texas. The attack appeared from that practiced by the late gringo the telephone in organizing our peo­ ciated . me with Papel Chicano, I im~ i~ the .June 1 (Volume 2, No. 10) J. Edgar Hoover.... ple simply because a Chicano didn't mediately made it clear that I was ._ue of Papel Chicano, a Houston ' Who then were the dividers and invent it? Should· our Indian brothers no longer with PapeL It will be in­ Chicano paper•.. Deletions made for destroyers? The members of tl;le YSA and sisters have refused to use the teresting to see who this individual reasons of space are noted by ellipses. and SWP who were trying to unite European rifle to defend their land? or organization is that claims to have Four Chicano socialists, Pedro and Chicanos in an antiwar march to help That, indeed, would be a very nar­ given me money, since the only fund Krls · · Vasquez, Manuel "Tank" · our carnales still in Vietnam, or those row ·view of Carnalismo. raising I have done lately has been .Barrera, and Richard ·Garcia, were . members of Papel Chicano who start­ Ideas are not bound by race, color . for Raza Contra Ia Guerra and very . .-sec~ of everything from steallog ed a red-baiting campaign to split or nationality. They must be judged limited monies were raised. daoney to engaging In "divide and the movement? And who won out by on their own merits. We should never · In the same article it is also stated destroy" actions - against variolis lower Raza participation on April 8? reject ideas merely because of what that. I have suddenly betrayed La movements. Papel Chicano? La Raza? Absolutely country or people first raised them. Raza and have joined the Young So­ With charges of "bringing' forelg11. not. Richard Nixon won because the Benito Juarez was inspired by the con­ cialist Alliance, even though I was ideologies into the Chicano commu­ more Raza that protest, the sooner cepts of the French revolution and long a critic of the organization. Yes, nity," Papel Chicano stated that Raza this war will be over.. used them to further the interests of I agree. I have betrayed, but not La. members of the YSA or SWP were "not Mexico, even against France itself. welcome in the barrio." Papel Chicano Emiliano Zapata was inftuenced by stated in the attack that "Mr. Vasquez anarchists and socialists such as Ri­ will be offered a full opportunity to cardo Flores Mag6n, and incorporat­ respond to this article in our next ed many of their ideas into El Plan issue." The following are major ex­ de Ayala. Lazaro Cardenas, former cerpts from the reply submitted to president of Mexico, influenced by Papel Chicano. Marxism and the ideas of the . Rus­ Ironically, the Papel Chicano arti­ sian revolution, nationalized Mexico's cle · was entitled "Sociallst Workers oil deposits. Party Invades Aztlan." Pedro Vas­ . . . It is only b) Cuba where a quez, 24., was born in Segundo Barrio, socialist revolution has occurred that the second oldest barrio in Houston, La Raza has control over its own and has lived there an his life. Kris destiny. Vasquez, 23, was bom iD Austin, As is. the case in most red-baiting Texas. Tank Barrera, 20, was bom attacks, Papel Chicano does not deal tn Brownsville, Texas. And Richard with the political views of the YSA, Garci~ 30, was born in El Paso, the SWP, or · even the Raza Contra Manuel 'Tank' Barrera Texas. Ia Guerra Committee. Where does Tank Barrera is a national com­ Papel Chicano stand on organizing mUtee member of the Young Social­ not only Chicano moratoriums but ist Alllance, and Richard Garcia is the also Raza contingents as patt of SWP candidate for U.S. Senate. united antiwar actions? It is not Kris and Pedro Vasquez were enough to criticize, hermanos y her­ among the founders of Houston manas [brothers and sisters], you have MAYO (Mexican-American Youth Or­ the responsibility of providing alter­ ganization) and of Papel Chicano. natives. They helped to organize the Chicano The key issue, as we see it, is the Moratorium of 1,500 held in Houston right of all political points of view .July 26, 1970. While adive in MAYO, to }:)e freely expressed within the move­ Pedro Vasquez was one of its five of­ ment. ... ficial spokespersons. . . . only our gringo oppressors Stella Ortega, an independent ac­ have anything to gain from the sup­ tivist, is a former president of the pression of ideas. . . . Only with the Hou8ton Chicano Youth Council. She free exchange of ideas can our move­ participated in . the Raza Contra Ia ment grow and avoid the errors which Guerra Committee to build the Raza Pedro Vasquez always result when a small group Richard Garcia Contingent for the April 8 antiwar puts itself up as the only legitimate · action sponsored by the Houston As part of Papel Chicano's excuse interpreters of what is in the interests Raza. I have betrayed a capitalist ~ace Action Coalition. for red-baiting tthat is, attacking of our people. . . . system that thought it had me in its ·someone not for their ideas but for We hope that in the future we may web of anticommunist propaganda and. their political affiliations) they state work together where we can agree could make me compromise my gritos that Chicanos "do not need to endorse on issues; and where·we don't agree, . [cries] of Chicano liberation into noth­ Open letter or accept any foreign ideology. Car­ let us disagree, while respecting each ing more than pleas for token reforni. nalismo says everything that needs other's rightS to hold such views. My change was not sudden, however, to 'Papel to be said." This argument that so­ for it developed naturally. cialism is a "foreign" ideology is again , My ideas developed from the strug­ something that the gringo capitalist gle demanding "Chicano control of the Chicano· rulers have been saying for years. Pedro Chicano community," politically, eco­ By MANUEL "TANK" BARRERA, They teach it in the schools and say nomically, and culturally. RICHARD GARCIA, KRIS VAS­ it in the mass media. . . I, like other carnales y carnalas (lUEZ, and PEDRO VASQUEZ vasquez= [brothers and sisters] in the movement, . . . The Socialist Workers Party Another . attempt to discredit our began to realize that the question of (which was referred to as the Swampy ideas without actually having to dis­ 'My ideas liberation was more than one of Warlock Pedants) was accused of be­ cuss them is Papel's charge that we just our own Raza. I was ·one ing "famous for its divide and destroy are "controlled by Anglos." It is ab­ who began to realize that it was ace The article gave as an example solutely true that there are Anglos developed this whole system that needed of this supposed "divide and destroy"· in the YSA and SWP. There are also not to be overhauled, but to be replaced. tactic YSA and SWP participation in Blacks, Asian-Americans, Puerto The ruling· class of this country­ the building of a Raza contingent for Ricans, Latinos, and' Native Ameri­ from the that small sector of America which con­ the antiwar demonstration in Hous­ cans. Why? Because we are serious trols the masses of us Chicanos, Indios; ton April 8, in which 100 Chicanos· · about changing this society and be­ struggle' Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and white work­ participated. The article stated. that lieve that only by combining the en­ I would like to thank Papel Chicano ing people- has tried to cut across "Widespread boycotting of the Ho_us­ ergy and talent of all oppressed peo­ for this opportunity to respond to the any opposition to their oppression by ton march by Chicanos occurred," ap­ ples in this country will this be pos­ article that Papel Chicano termed more means of labeling these movements as parently trying to give the impression sible. We ,Chicanos cannot overturn as a defense of Papel rather than as "communist" or "foreign." Maybe that's that the YSA and ·SWP were respon­ capitalism by ourselves. an attack on me. Yet, the only thing why many of us hesitated in joining sible f~r cutting down on Raza par­ But this does not mean that we I could surmise from the article was the YSA. We feared being labeled and ticipation. W.~at are the facts, how­ . should not struggle and build our that I and the Young Socialist Alli­ we wrongly thought that this . would, ever? own organizations, such as. an inde­ ance were under direct attack. It was an ··cut across our organizing efforts in ... A great deal of enthusiasm de­ pendent Chicano political party.... obvious -attempt to discredit our work. the barrio. I, for one, am tired of ~eloped for the April 8 contingent and We of the Young Socialist Alliance Papel Chicano alleges that I have evading the question and have com­ by all indications Raza participation and the Socialist Workers Party fully been soliciting money from individuals mitted myself to pointing out the true would have been quite large. But then support La Raza Unida Party be­ and organizations under false pre­ source of our oppression as Chicanos,. something occurred. Opponents of the cause, although we share a common tenses-supposedly as a representative · and that is-American capitalism. action took the master mailing list oppress~on with all workers whether of Papel Chicano. This I have not We as Raza members of the-Young of the Raza· Contra Ia Guen:a Com­ Anglo or Black, we also suffer cul­ done. In the article I search for the Socialist Alliance do not wish to pre­ mittee and began a telephone cam­ tural and racial oppression as Raza evidence that supported your accusa­ sent ourselves as the Saviors of La paign urging Raza not to march on which requires our own organizations tion; I found none. Raza, as you claim we do. However, April 8. . . . people were told not to to fight it. It is true that I, along with Hope we do wish tQ organize and mobilize

16 Interview with high-school students

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~ou:.: Raza against capitalist oppression. We .stand for the building of a social­ Language struggle in Quebec ist society-whilre we as Chicanos can ...... determine our .own lives and futures. By TONY THOMAS plain why the 'bilingual' Canadian dropped out in one semester. Most Papel ChicarJ.o states that the Young HULL, Quebec-"A few years ago and Quebec governments refuse to sim­ teachers' attitude was, "They're Socialist Alliance and the growing num­ you could walk down the main street ply translate these texts into French, Quebecois. We can't do anything with ber of Chicanos joining are not wel­ here and all you would hear was except a calculated desire to force the them anyway. It's good to get thern French. Now all you hear is 'English." French to learn English." Students who off our hands." comed in the barrios. Does Papel Chi­ . . cano speak for all La Raza? This is how a high school student don't- and DuPont pointed out that Raymond, Meloche, lind DuPont I believe that as the Chicano move­ des.cribed the process of Anglicization French students have difficulties with agreed that the only way out for the ment radicalizes and politicizes more in this town. such courses-don't get educated. Chicanos, the youth will be less sus­ Like Blacks in the United States, DuPont and Meloche explained that ceptable to anticommunist propaganda the ,Quebecois are an oppressed na­ the English schools are also favored and will see the Young Socialist Alliance tionality. They suffer lower wages, financially. The English minority is and the Socialist Workers Party not worse jobs, and poorer living con­ only 15 to 20 percent of the popu­ as invaders of Azthin, but as comrades ditions. In Quebec this oppression in, lation, yet under the separate school in a common struggle against the real eludes attempts to eliminate the French system it receives the· same . amount oppressor- the gringo capitalist rulers language, the native tongue of 80 per­ of funds as those of the French of the United States. cent of the population. - majority. -PEDRO VASQUEZ Canada's official policy is called "bilingualism." This is supposed to Another example of this undemo­ mean that both French and English cratic favoritism is the case of Saint­ are equal in all facets of life. Ho'Yever, Jean-Baptiste, a high school of 1,500 Raza contra the experiences of three Quebecois I French students 'Until la~t year, when spoke with- Marc. DuPont, a former it was closed down. This was done to Ia Guerra activist in high school struggles here; renovate the school for 800 English Lyne Meloche, a high school stUdent students: The French students were replies at the Polyvalente de Gatineau; and then crowded into other already Vic Raymond, a former teacher at cramped "Polyvalentes," some of which By STELLA ORTEGA the Polyvalente de Gatineau- demon­ had two or three times as many stu­ and PEDRO VASQUEZ strate how the "bilingual" policies of dents as they were designed for. All Raza Contra la Guerra is a Chicano the Canadian ruling class . serve to this happened in spite of· a massive antiwar group organized to mobilize ha~ten the process of eliminating the struggle by French-speaking students Chicano antiwar sentiment into dem­ French language. and parents. · onstrations and moratoriums. Meloche told me, "If I ever saw a "Counselors in the French schools," The committee is composed of in­ classified ad asking for a Quebecois, Raymond told me, "tend to tell the dividuals . and organizations whose I'd answer it. All the ads now say, Quebecois students to become techni­ main concern is to unite against the 'qualified bilingual wanted.' I've nev­ cal or clerical workers- if they are war in Vietnam. er seen one for a 'qualified Quebecois.' 'bilingual.' Those who aren't are told In the Volume 2, No. 10, issue of 'Qualified bilingual' is another· way to be handy with their hands, for Papel Chicano, Fred Garcia Jr. of of saying English-speaking only. Be­ manual labor." MASO (Mexican-American Student Or­ "If you spent one day at the Poly­ cause of this situation," she continued, Victor Raymond on demonstration ganization at Lamar· Fleming Junior "from the time you're a child, your valente," Meloche said, "you would be High School) levels a serious charge parents tell you that you have to learn sickened by it. There is always noise, for an independent, socialist against the committee. Fred alleges English if you are going to get any­ overcrowding, no place to sit by your­ Quebec. that Raza Contra la Guerra took credit where. So do teachers and the bosses." self, the classes have no content:- only for organizing MASO. This is totally In the French-speaking schools, the shut up and pay attention. Some days false. At no time did Raza Contra educational policy forces the children it makes y_ou physically sick just to French Quebecois majority would be Ia Guerra state that it had organized to learn English. DuPont pointed out be there." She added that under the to have an independent, unilingual MASO. As has been stated before, the that in humanities courses the classes religious system of "public" schools Quebec. Bilingualism- which they said main concern of Raza Contra la Guer­ and texts are in French but the ref­ in Quebec (the schools are divided is seriously attempted only in Quebec ra was to organize Chicanos against erences and source materials arelarge­ into Catholic and Protestant as well and not the rest of Canada--' has the war. ly in English. In science, commercial, as French and English) religious in­ pushed Anglicization. Only if all work, In the same article, [Fred) Garcia and technical courses even the text­ doctrination is almost mandatory for business, and education are conducted points out that "We agreed to endorse books are in English. stUdents. It's not surprising that large in the language oftheoppressedmajor~ Rata Contra la Guerra, but we did "The teachers tell you," he said, "that numbers of Quebecois students ity can the problems of the Quebec not state that we were for the war there are no French scientific geniuses, are pushed out before graduating by masses be solved. This, they say, will or against it." We ask Fred to ex­ and that business here is all in En­ these oppressive conditions. Raymond involve a major confrontation with amine his statement more closely. How glish. Even if these racist arguments said that at Polyvalente de Gatineau, the American and Canadian capitalists can you agree to support an antiwar were. true, there is no reason to ex- 300 out of nearly 3,000 students who control Quebec and Canada. group, and yet state that you are neutral on the war? How can you be neutral toward a war that has taken the lives of near­ ly 9,000 hermano$, many of them 100 Raza women attend young Chicanos like yourselves in '' MASO? How can you be neutral to­ ward a war that has lasted through the administrations of five presidents Adelante ·Mujer conference held -Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon-and has almost SOUTH BEND, Ind.- Nearly 100 a hacer comadre"(Let's make the new conference to be held in New York~ completely destroyed the people and Raza women from eight states met woman). Campaign supporters of Linda Jen­ ecology of Vietnam? Even today with here on June 1 7 for a one-day Ade­ Workshops were held on many top­ ness and Andrew Pulley, the Socialist talk of .peace ·and "winding down the lante Mujer! (Onward Women!) Con­ ics, inch.tding social action, sex-stereo­ Workers Party presidential slate, par­ war," the United States carries on its ference. The purpose of the confer­ typing of Raza women, bilingual ed­ ticipated in the conference. Their cam­ aggression ~with constant bombard­ ence, which was organized by women ucation, child care, and family J?lan­ paign literature table drew an enthu­ ment from B-52s. from the Midwest Council of La Raza, ning. siastic response from many of the Our people have not participated was to discuss the social and polit­ Representatives from each of the women present. in antiwar demonstrations because it's ical role of the more than half a mil­ Midwest states were elected and del­ a fad. They have organized massive, lion Raza women in the Midwest. Par­ egated to organize statewide Adelante peaceful moratoriums, like the Chi­ ticipants came from Indiana, Illinois, Mujer! conferences within the next six Baza cano Moratorium here that drew 1,- Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Texas, Col­ months. The organization formed out 200 Raza in July 1970, because it orado, New York, and Washington, of the South Bend . conference-the PaiDphlets was seen clearly that Chicanos were' D.C. Council of Adelante Mujer- plans to suffering heavily from this war. The keynote speakers at the open­ issue. a call for a Midwest conference Chicanos who feel ·this oppression ing session were Marta Cotera, Texas in 1973. will relate to the necessity of demon­ Raza Unida Party candidate for state As an expression of La Raza's sol­ strating their opposition, as -did sev­ board of education; and Lupe Anguai­ idarity with those who are victimized 11f Jlt --1•. eral· MASO students, who not only no from the National Women's Po­ by repressive Latin Ameriean regimes, Chicanas Speak Out marshaled the demonstration of April litical Caucus in Washington, D. C. the conference passed a resolution en­ Women: New Voice of La Raza 8, but also very proudly led it. Do In an interview with The Militant, dorsing the efforts of the USLA Jus­ by Mirta Vidal, 25 cents. you remember that, Fred? Olga Villa, organizer of Adelante Mu­ tice Committee to free Latin American In closing, Raza Contra la Guerra jer!, said Raza women decided that political prisoners. The Struggle_ for Chicano Lib­ remains open and looks forward to they could organize La Raza more Women from the Women's National eration-1971 Socialist Work­ working with the students of MASO effectively if they had a clearer under­ Abortion Action Coalition also attend­ ers Party resolution, 60 cents. and with any other individual or or­ standing of their feminism. She cap­ ed the conference, distributed WO­ ganization regardless of their polit­ tured the spirit of the enthusiastic La­ NAAC literature, and discussed with Pathfinder Press, 41 0 West Street ical views on. other matters, as long tinas present when she identified fem­ the conference participants the upcom­ New York, N, Y. 10014 as they are against the war. inism with La Raza, saying, "Vamos ing July 15-16 WONAAC national

THE MILITANT/JULY 7, 1972 17 Postal Meany= Vietnam war is okay, ·workers and strikes are old-fashioned head talks·-· By LEE SMITH After Nixon announced his blockade of North Vietnam May 8, one of the about first and more unequivocal endorse­ ments of his action came from the head of the 13-million-member AFL­ ~one big CIO. "In this time of crisis, with 60,000 lives at stake," George Meany said, "I think the American people union' should back up the President, irres­ By FRANK LOVELL pective of politics or other eonsider~­ The U. S. Postal Service has not tions." earned high marks as a generous em­

J Such jingoism is not new for Meany. ployer since it took over the job of He has been one of the most consistent delivering the mail a couple of years supporters of U.S. agression in South­ ago. The service, though still financed east Asia, both under the Johnson by the government, is privately man­ and Nixon administrations.- aged. Meany's right-wing views on foreign The American Postal Workers policy correspond to his overall out­ Union, AFL-CIO, which claims to rep­ look. In many ways the 78-year-old resent about 300,000 members, has AFL-CIO president epitomizes every­ been trying to negotiate a contract thing reactionary about the .bureau­ with the Postal Service for more than cratic crust fastened on top of this a year. country's organized labor movement. When Francis S. Filbey, APWU Lately, he has been beating the president, spoke before the national drums for a proposal to do away convention of the Communications with · strikes and replace them with Workers of America in Los Angeles some form of arbitration. Speaking on June 12, he pledged to join with to a New York collective-bargaining the CWA to form "one· big union for conference May 19, Mea:py said: "I communications workers of the coun­ have never been enchanted with strikes. try." They are not fun -they are grim. The CWA represents about 500,000 There are casualties in every strike­ ers." The conference, Meany said then, fashioned." telephone workers. If the 210,000- economic; human, social casualties. "would foster the much-needed improve­ According to their thoroughly false member Letter Carriers union, anoth­ And .I'd like to avoid any of these ment of labor-management relations." view, labor and business have a com­ er AFL-CIO affiliate, joins the merger., consequences. He called for "a thorough examina­ mon interest in promotingthe"national the combined. membership of the three "Any responsible labor leader con­ tion and evaluation of the c~llective . good." If there is prosperity, the theory unions would be more than a mil­ siders, as I do, that a strike is never bargaining process" by this meeting goes, then business will reap profits lion. At present this is only in the more than the lesser of two evils, of bosses and union heads. Such an while workers reap higher wages, talking stage, mostly among the top adopted by workers as a last resort examination, Meany said, was "essen­ more jobs, and better conditions. officials ofthese unions. to protest some grievance that, to tial in view of the many new and This perversion of reality simply In unity there is strength. And num­ them, is worse than not working at complex problems labor, management ignores the fact that profits have their bers are important. But leadership is all." and the American people face in con­ source in bosses paying workers less decisive. In 1970 President James H, This is not a new attitude for Meany. sequence of our expanding economy than the value of what they produce. Rademacher of the Letter Carriers op­ Some 16 years ago he boasted to the and trend toward automation." Thus the interests ofbusiness-making posed the only strike ever attempted December 1956 convention of the Na- · · This kind of thinking is character­ profits-are irreconcilably opposed to by postal workers in this country. . tional Association of Manufacturers istic of the outlook that predominates the interests of workers-making a Filbey was the. compromise choice that he "never had anything to do­ in the top ranks of officialdom in the decent living. of a four-union merger that formed with a picketline." U.S. labor movement today. Meany But if one looks at labor and man­ the APWU after the U.S. Postal Ser~_, After the six-month steel strike in and the other top AFL-CIO bureau­ agement as some sort of equal part­ vice was established. He has· never 1959, Meany wrote to President crats, along with their counterparts in . ners with a common stake in ''keeping led a strike in his life. Eisenhower and proposed a "national other unions, reject the concept of America strong," then one can take CWA president Joseph A. Beirne conference of union and industry lead- class struggle as "foreign" and "old- Continued on page 2 l called off the telephone strike (on com­ pany terms) last August, just in time to escape the Nixon wage-freeze edict. He then refused to support the New York locals of his own union that Attitudes are changing_ remained on strike for seven months after the settlement. Beirne is strictly a wage-control man who intends to stick by the guidelines of the Pay Unrest among young workers Board. . By CAROLINE LUND anything else. that important." They also cite "a None of these three presidents, nor "A new breed." That's what the young­ "The young guy wants it all with­ changing attitude toward work" any of the cliques around them, could er generation of working men and out the overtime," he continued. among young people. be expected to provide much in the women are increasingly being called The Post reporters stated that this Studies such as this one indicate way of leadership for "one big com­ these days. aggressive attitude among young the basis for growing militancy in munications union." Numerous analyses have appeared workers was confirmed by virtually the trade unions. Young workers will The authentic leadership for such recently in newspapers and popular every union leader and member they be increasingly receptive to demands an organization will emerge from the magazines on the growing unrest interviewed. "What comes through that most trade unions have so far struggle of low-paid workers in the among young workers. This dissat­ clearly after talking to these workers," refused to fight for. Demands such telephone company and in the U. S. isfaction is reflected in such ways as they write, "is the enormous dissatis­ as a shortening of the workweek to Postal Service against the whole sys­ absenteeism, increasing drug use, sab­ faction they feel about their jobs. In 30 hours or four days at no reduc­ tem of government wage~ontrols. otage of production, and refusal to effect, they, too, are rebelling against tion in weekly pay; an escalator clause go along with speedup measures. the system-whether it is a system in all contracts to assure that wages Reporters Haynes Johnson and personified by their union or company must increase as the cost of living Nick Kotz of the Washington Post official or society in general." rises; and an end to the federal Pay surveyed union members and leaders Young workers feel alienated from Board and the wage controls. around the country for three months. their work- one of the results of the As the radicalization proceeds Their analysis, reported in the April capitalist system that is increased by among young workers, there will be 10 Post, concluded that "young automation of production. "The prob­ a growing interest in social and po­ workers today share common attitudes lem on the factory line," said Doug litical questions as well- such ques­ with the far more publicized- and fa­ Fraser, a top UAW official, "is that tions as discrimination against women vored-young college students. Call the job controls the man." and .Black and Raza workers, and it what you will-counterculture, drug In addition, young workers are now the war in Vietnam. culture, anti-establishment feeling or refusing to be "bought off' with over­ "What goes on everywhere else, goes youth rebellion- the same forces are time pay. "Absenteeism runs 12 per­ on inside the union," Victor Gotbaum, moving and motivating both groups." cent on Saturdays despite time and president of the New York local of Younger workers have the "I don't a half pay," said Fraser. "Guys won't the American Federation of State, care" attitude, said Stan Geist, 30-year­ give away their social life or their County and Municipal Employees old secretary-treasurer of a United Au­ free time for 50 or 60 dollars a day." (AFSCME), told the Post reporters. to Workers local in Detroit.. "They In general, the analysis concludes, "So if there is unrest amoungtheyoung know they've got to work, but when today's young worker "wants more and the blacks, you'll find that un­ they want a day off, they want a free time and a different life style. rest among the trade union movement N.Y. postal clerk in 1_970 strike. day off and they don't care about Material possessions do not seem all itself."

18 120 attend Minneapolis banquet New death celebrating 'Teamster Rebellion' threat By GLEN BOATMAN true history of the class struggle in Dobbs urged everyone present to on L.A. MINNEAPOLIS-On June 24 Farrell the U.S. make sure that Teamster Rebellion ~ Dobbs, former national secretary of Dobbs stated that writing the book gets into the hands of young mili- eamster the Socialist Workers Party and a key was a way of fulfilling the respon- tants in the trade-union movement. leader of the 1934 Teamster strikes sibility of old-timers to lend a hand Fifty-four autographed copies of the By·HARRY RING that made Minneapolis "a union town," to the new leadership in the revolu- book were sold during the evening. LOS ANGELES, June 24 -A new returned to the city where it all hap- tionary movement. He said certain Dobbs appeared at two book stores threat has been made on the life pened. generalizations could be gleaned from in the area and at a news conference of John T. Williams, Teamsters union More than 120 people attended a the methods used in the 1934 strikes to promote the book. Three TV sta- organizer and National Peace Action dinner and program sponsored by that will apply to the coming strug- tions and two newspapers carried Coalition national coordinator. the Twin Cities Socialist Workers Par- gles in the labor movement. news of Dobbs's visit. Williams narrowly escaped death June ty to celebrate the publication of 20 when his car was firebombed. Now. Dobbs's book, Teamster Rebellion. hospitalized with injuries sustained Several of the participants in the 1934 ·~t~ln72 while escaping from his car, Williams strikes, including Harry DeBoer and received a death threat through the Ray Rainbolt, were honored guests. hospital switchboard. Other "old timers" from later Team­ Williams is currently a candidate ster organizing struggles were also for business agent and president of present. Teamsters Local 208. He is facing Marvel Scholl, who helped organize, two opposing groups in a bitterly con­ Local 574's women's auxiliary, spoke tested election. about the :role women played in the One group includes people who were strikes. She mentioned that she con­ part of a trustee administration im­ sidered it the first installment of to­ posed on the local by the Teamsters day's women's liberation movement. In-ternational leadership. The trustee­ Dobbs began his presentation by ship came after charges that the local paying tribute to Max Romer, a Min­ union officials-including Williams, neapolis journalist, who first gave who was then vice-president..:_ had per­ Dobbs the idea of writing a book mitted unauthorized strikes. The pres­ on the 1934 strikes. Dobbs observed Marvel Scholl and Farrell Dobbs speaking on Minneapolis ent elections are a result of the ending that today' s schools teach only "his­ of the tru11teeship. Since the trustee­ torical pap" and nothing about the Teamster strikes of 1934. ship began, Williams has served as an organizer for another Teamsters local. Court to rule soon On June 20, Williams was lured to the vacant union headquarters late at night by a fake phone call. A fire­ YSA recognition fight in Fla. bomb was hurled at his car. The car was destroyed moments after he got By MARK UGOLINI tional process" of the state university it sees this case as crucial in its plans out. TALLAHASSEE, Fla.- On June 14, system. to continue to limit the democratic Williams sustained back and neck U.S. district court Judge David L. Six months later, D. Burke Kibler, rights of students on Florida's cam­ injuries. His neck is in a collar brace Middlebrooks deferred ruling for at chairman of the Florida Board of puses. and traction is being used to aid the · least 20 days in the suit Brett Mer­ Regents, declared that the YSA should After hearing moreJhan seven hours recovery o( his back muscles. Doc­ ltey and the Young Socialist Alliance not be granted official campus recog­ of testimony, Judge Middlebrooks de­ tors at the hospital in Inglewood have have brought against the Florida nition. cided to allow 10 days for the sub­ told him they cannot immediately as­ Board. of Regents. The judge had "It would be a naive person, indeed," mission of summary briefs. A ruling sess the extent of his injuries. heard testimony in a non-jury trial Kibler said, "that could read the is expected near the beginning of July. In a telephone interview, Williams stemming from a 1970 campus-rec­ literature available on YSA and not said local police and the hospital staff ognition suit initiated by the YSA. come to the conclusion that their goal seemed to be providing him adequate is the destruction of the total educa­ I>rotection. tional process on your campus, and Meanwhile, there is no evidence that Following are excerpts from a every campus. . . . It must be clearly the Los Angeles police-known for statem ~nt made June 27 by Young understood by them [the YSA] that their ties with the Teamsters bureau­ Socialist Alliance National Chair­ they will not be recognized. . . . Such crats and the California Truckers man Andy Rose in response to an organization cannot have the sanc­ Association- are making any serious tion of the state universities in the attempt to apprehend thoseresponsible a unanimous decision of the U.S. State of Florida." for the attempted murder. Supreme Court on June 26 up­ The Board of Regents made this To the contrary, a report in the holdinQ the right of Students for undemocratic decision without consult­ June 23 Los Angeles Times on the p Democratic Society to official ing any other section of the univer­ hospital death-threat included this cu­ campus recognition. sity community. The YSA itself was rious, ominous formulation: never granted a hearing on its plea Florida Flambeau/Robin Swicord "Sources close to the police and fire for recognition or. given a chan.ce to Jack Lieberman speaking at FSU department investigators said, how­ "This represents a victory not answer\Kibler's charges. rally in Tallahassee. ever, they had uncovered no evidence only for SDS, but for the entire After the YSA was officially denied to substantiate the story of John T; student movement. . . . The de­ recognition on the Florida State Uni­ Williams that two men forced his car cision was a reflection of the pres­ versity campus at Tallahassee on The Committee fo:c Free Assembly on the sidewalk . . . and hurled, a sure being exerted by radicaliz­ April 1, 1970, the group initiated a and Political Expression on Campus missile through his car window, set­ broad-based campaign against' the ting his car on fire." ing students and other youth in is planning a stepped-up campaign board's policy. The Committee for to gain endorsers and to publicize The police, who invariably try to opposition to the repressive and Free Assembly and Political Expres­ the facts of the case throughout the turn the victim into the criminal, would undemocratic high schools and sion on Campus ( F APEC) was es­ state. Sarah Ryan, a F ~EC · repre­ apparently have the public believe that colleges . ... It must now be ex­ tablished to enlist public support for. sentative from Tallahassee, comment­ Williams set his car on fire himself tended nationwide into all high the YSA's right to be recognized. In e

THE MILITANT/JULY 7, 1972 19 In Review Records Books grade school bullies who teach little girls to stay out of "boys' territory,". the onset of menstruation and the mys­ tery surrounding this woundless bleeding, the agonizing "make-ouf' ses­ sions in the backseat of a car, and the running away from all that to · take a summer job waitressing in the mountains only to wind up struggling in the backseat of yet another parked car. Later, there is an affair with her philosophy professor that ends mis­ erably with a confrontation with his wife, the classroom discussions where women's contributions are regarded as impertinent interruptions, a dull marriage for the sake of marrying (after all, Sasha consoles herself, "none of his parts were missing"), and the male psychiatrist who sides with her husband and chides Sasha for denying her "instincts" by rejecting motherhood. It's all there. And unlike those Holly­ wood productions where no matter how elaborate the sexual gymnastics, the women somehow manage· never ·to get either (1) the clap or (2) preg- nant, Sasha does both. · Memoirs is cemented together by Sasha's obsession with how she looks and whether men find her desirable. Snakelike, this theme twists through­ out the novel, disappearing for a time, only to make a more venomous ap­ pearance later on. Every person in her life functions as a mirror in which Sasha attempts to read her reflection and determine whether she is pretty. As. the book Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by progresses, the obsession becomes Attica Blues by Archie Shepp and "jazz poem" composed and recited by Alix Kates Shulman. Alfred A. laced with panic. Sasha knows that friends. Impulse/ABC . records,_ Bartholomew Grey. as she grows older, . she will grow Knopf. J972. 274 pp. $6.95 cloth. 1972. Atticq, Blues is hardly the best thing uglier. Archie Shepp has created. For one At the age of 24, she can sense thing, it is difficult to structure the Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen is the a network of creeping ugliness spread­ "lf I had the chance to make one work of a large group without stifling first novel by a contemporary Ameri­ ing silently beneath her skin, about decision, creative freedom. The album also suf­ can women's liberation activist to be to push through. The emphasis this "Every man would walk this earth in fers from an overemphasis on horns distributed by a major publishing society places upon youthfulness and equal condition. . . . and vocals in places. company. Its author, Alix Kates Shul­ its own brand of beauty leads Sasha "And I'd put an end to war.... " I recall a performance of this group man, is a member of New York Radi­ to regard life as a disintegrative pro­ in concert where a prominent,feature cal Feminists. She is the originator cess. One's pores enlarge, dimples was the driving power of a combina­ Archie Shepp's latest album ap­ ·-of the widely publicized "marriage con­ crease, pimples scar, skin sags-and tion of African and Afro-Americanper­ tract," in which both partners agree proaches a synthesis of Black musical it's really all over at 21. cussion work. Unfortunately, the engi~ art and political consciousness only to share equally in household chores Perhaps the best section of the book neering of Attica Blues doesn't do that hinted at in his previous efforts. and child care. Shulman has also writ­ -and one read by Shulman at a as well. This is Shepp's first recorded attempt ten To the Barricades, a book on the panel on women and literature at New Archie Shepp has been prominent to combine the small-group approach life and ideas of anarchist-feminist York's Upper Manhattan Militant Fo­ for less than a decade. But in those with a large, fluid, yet "unpolished" Emma Goldman, and has edited a rum --:-describes the high school Bun­ years he has worked with many new ensemble of eight to 28 artists playing collection of Goldman's speeches. ny Hop at which Sasha is proclaimed and exciting trends in Black music. with and against each other. The central figure in Memoirs is "queen." Here Shulman nostalgically He brings to this art a cultural-poli­ Sas~a Davis-beautiful, smart, and documents what it was like to grow With the exception of "Attica Blues," tical emphasis that has been mostly from the right part of town. Travel­ up in the 1950s when there were two "Blues for Brother George Jackson," implied by others in the past, with ing circuitously, the book traces the types of females in the world-the and "Invocation to Mr. Parker," Attica the exception of such people as Max course of Sasha's life, from her child­ virgins and those who "went all the Blues consists of slow, sometimes Roach, Billie Holliday, and Charles hood in the 1940s to her marriages way." sweet, melodious, ballad-like composi­ Mingus. His work opens up a new, in the early 1960s. The former were the prudes; the lat­ tions. But throughout even the sweetest important direction in Black music. In other words, Memoirs of an Ex- ter were relegated to -the status of of the romantic pieces runs a As I listened to "Steam," parts one . Prom Queen records the plight of a obscene graffiti on the bathroom walls. roughness, verging on discord, that and two, the thought crossed my mind woman as she is shuttled through life There was no way to win. The pas­ relects the tentativeness of the opti­ that I was listening to a continuation and·· bombarded by the forces of sage is nostalgic only because the mism expressed in the themes. of the work of John Coltrane. It is sexism. Sasha Davis is unable to fight youth radicalization- is a powerful This is particularly apparent in"Bal­ beyond the . scope of this . review to back .. There was no women's liber­ force in the high schools today and lad for a Child." The invocation to discuss Coltrane's contribution to ation movement for her to link up .antiwar demonstrations are as much the ball~d-written by Beaver Harris, Black music, but the reader can refer with. a part of high school life as proms. a percussionist throughout the album, to Frank Kofsky's Black Nationalitim If Memoirs had been printed five Sasha Davis is not exactly "Every­ and read by civil liberties attorney and the Revolution in Music (Path­ years ago (and it's unlikely that with­ woman." Not many of us ever get William Kunstler-is repeated and finder Press, 1970) for a detailed anal­ out the pressure of the feminist move­ to be prom queens. When Sasha'smar­ modified in the lyrics and in Shepp's ysis. ment any publisher would have been riage begins to fall apart, she takes brilliant tenor sax solo. . In my opinion, Archie Shepp comes interested), it would.. no doubt have off for Spain and . Rome to try to The theme of the importance of closer than anyone else today to pull herself together- a way of coping been ignored as another one of those picking up where Coltrane was cut that is beyond the reach of most youth in shaping the future runs melodr~mas by some "lady novelist." throughout Attica Blues. The fmal off. In addition, he begins to articulate It is only when filtered through the women. song, "Quiet Dawn," was written by more clearly the implied thrust of Col­ prism of consciousness created by the ,But the very fact that Sasha has Cal Massey, who plays piano on sev­ trane's music-Black nationalism and women's liberation movement that so many things in her favor-looks, Memoirs attains its significance. brains, education, wealth-and is still eral tracks. His seven-year-old daugh­ political radicalism. The book reads as if Shulman spent miserable and· ready to resign from ter sings it. She presents that theme For that reason, Attica B(ues is a a lot of time in a consciousness-raising humanity at the age of 21, testifies powerfully. significant work. It deserves a hearing, group, jotting down thous!!_nds of ex­ to the depth of female oppression in "Invocation to Mr. Parker," a tribute and more than a light one. amples of the subtleties of female op­ this society. No one is spared. to Charlie Parker, is an interesting .;_RICHARD LESNIK pression. These instances then become The movie rights to Memoirs have the ingredients of Sasha' s story. All just been sold. The theaters will no else is subordinated to their elabora­ doubtbill it with Portnoy's Complaint. tion, giving the book an anecdotal That's all right. It's about time style. growing up female got equal ti1pe. Shulman gets it all in. There are the -DEBBY WOODROOFE

20 Carlos Feliciano wins acquittal 2,00(i By ARTHUR MAGLIN The prosecutor, Kenneth O'Malley, attack on the whole movement." NEW YORK-An important victory also insisted that the jury would have The principal "evidence" made pub-­ • was scored on June 22 in the ongoing to believe that Feliciano was being lic by the prosecution for the second effort to defend Puerto Rican nation­ framed in order to acquit him. trial consists of a piece of neWspaper r1ng alist Carlos Feliciano from the com­ After nine and a half hours of de­ with Feliciano's fingerprint on it. The plex maze of legal charges that have liberations, the jury announced its de­ police allege_ that the newspaper was been brought against him. cision of acquittal on all counts. wrapped around a bomb found in Capitol A Bronx · Supreme Court jury of Feliciano still has two more trials the General Electric building. The oth­ nine men and three women acquitted to face. The next one is expected to er "evidence" consists of pipes and By RICH ROBOHM Feliciano of all charges of attempted begin in September in Manhattan Su­ wires found in the building where Fe­ WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22- arson and bomb possession. preme Court. The charges are the liciano was employed as a superin­ More than 2,000 antiwar demonstra­ same-attempted .arson and bomb tendent. tors, most of them women and chil­ The prosecution had attempted to possession. This time, however, they After completing the second trial Fe­ drep, joined 'hands here today in an prove that Feliciano was planning to involve an alleged attempt to blow liciano faces still another. The third unbroken "Ring Around the Capitol." bomb a ·U. S. Army recruiting station up the General Electric building. trial is on a charge of perjury based As many as 2,000 more people who on May 16, 1970. A pipe bomb, sup~ In pretrial publicity, prosecutorJohn on a technicality. When Feliciano ap­ had departed from New York and posedly found in/ Feliciano's cai by Fine contended that Feliciano is an plied for a hunting rifle in 1968 he .Philadelphia were prevented from the police, was the main evidence of­ agent of "an alien government out­ misunderstood a qUestion on the ap­ reaching D. C. by torrential rain~ fered by the prosecution. The defense side the limits of the United States," plication about whether he had ever storms. contended that the bomb was planted which he later indicated was Cuba. been arrested. He thought it asked The protest took place as scheduled, by the prosecution's star witness, An­ Fine also stated that Feliciano is a if he had ever been convicted. despite a charge that the action was drew Gutierrez, a police detective who member of the MIRA (Movimiento In­ Since he had been arrested( although "racist" and demands that it be can­ had been following Feliciano's move­ dependimtista Revolucionario Armado never convicted to this day on any celled and replaced by a "summit con­ ments for about a year. -Armed Revolutionary Independence charge), the district attorney's office ference" of ·certain antiwar and Black Defense lawyers William Kunstler Movement), an underground Puerto seized this flimsy excuse to indict him leaders. and Conrad Lynn brought out sev­ Rican independence group with an ur­ for perjury. Feliciano used the rifle The demands were raised at a news eral blatant contradictions in the tes­ ban guerrilla orientation. only for hunting-a_ fact the district conference June 16 by local Black timony of prosecution witnesses. In Alfredo Lopez, coordinator of the attorney has not disputed. ' figures, including D. C. school board summarizing the case for the defense, Committee to Defend Carlos Feliciano, president Marion Barry; Mary Tread­ Kunstler asked the jury to find Fe­ contends that these witch-hunt charges Funds are needed to pay legal and well of Pride, Inc.; Walter Fauntroy, liciano not-guilty only if they agreed show the political nature of the trial. - publicity expenses. Contributions can D. C. nonvoting delegate to Congress; that Feliciano was being framed-up; "The prosecutor is attempting to paint be sent to: Committee to Defend Carlos John Gibson, who is associated with none of the essential facts of the case c a picture of the independence move­ Feliciano, P. 0. Box 356, Canal Street the Urban League and the Democratic were in dispute except for who put ment as if it were full of terrorist Station, New York, N.Y. 10013. Tele­ Party; and Bob Lindsay, chairman of the bomb in Feliciano's car. bombers and violent agents. It's an phone: (212) OR4-6377. the D. C. Young WorKers -Liberation League. Fauntroy later dissociated himself from the attack, saying he lent his term contracts, and establish "a mech­ ers involved. If arbitration is compul­ name to the statement, without seeing anism or procedure for the resolution sory, a government board has the it, on the advice of persons he trusted. • of disputes withour stoppages." power to enforce a settlement on terms He is reported to have told an anti­ ~::.M.~!PY Commenting on the conference in the it decrees fair. Under the voluntary war activist that he "had high respect jingoistic proimperialist stands on Feb. 22 Washington Post, Meany said: arrangement, - union representatives · for the peace movement." foreign policy in the name of labor. "We'd like to see some mechanism that agree in advance to abide by the terms A number of Black leaders who did And one can look for some alterna­ would eliminate strikes, because we a "neutral'' board declares to be fair. not sign the statement criticized it after tive to strikes, since strikes, after all, find that strikes are becoming more While the latter setup preserves a role it was released. Among these was disrupt the" partnership." and more expensive not only to in­ for the bureaucrats in maneuvering Julius Hobson, vice-presidential can­ As international competition puts the dustry but to the membership we to get rank-and-file acceptance of a didate of the People's Party. squeeze on U.S. business today, represent." handed-down settlement, it is essen­ In the action today, Joan Baez, one strikes-and the gains workers can On April 18, Meany told the same tially no different from the compul­ of the central organizers, led the win through them -become a more thing to a Senate labor subcommittee sory arrangement. march from St. Mark's Church to en­ acute problem for Meany's "partners" studying legislation to replace the Taft­ circle the Capitol at 1 p.m. After across the bargaining table. Thus his Hartley Act in dealing with transpor­ Both forms of arbitration hit at a ringing the building, the crowd campaign to replace strikes with ar­ tation strikes. At the Senate hearing basic weapon of the unions:..__ the strike. gathered for a rally. Then, after en­ bitration has picked up steam in re- Meany stressed, as he always does, This is what Meany and the trade­ countering some initial resistance from . cent months. that what he favors is voluntary ar­ union bureaucracy have to propose Capitol police, the demonstrators were Early this year, for instance, the bitration. He is absolutely opposed, at a time when what is required is allowed to enter the congressional heads of six AFL-CIOmaritimeunions he says, to compulsory arbitration. an all-out mobilization of the labor halls to lobby their representatives. gathered for a conference at which Meany's distinction, however, does movement to fight back against the Among the sponsors of the demon­ they agreed that their unions would not amount to much of a difference attack on living standards by the stration were LaDonn~ Harris of seek to avoid strikes, negotiate longer- in how arbitration will affect the work- bosses andJhe government. Americans for Indian Opportunity, " who chaired today's rally; Ruth Gage- Colby; and Anais· Nin. · Rally speakers included Cora Weiss of Women Strike for Peace, Represen: tative William Ryan (D-N. Y.), Senator The National Picket· Line Fred Harris ( D-Okla. ), Candice Ber­ GOVERNMENT COUNCIL CUTS WORKERS' WAGES: dards Act pending in Congress." These amendments would gen, and Charles Cassell. Lowering the living standard of the working class is raise the minimum wage. the purpose of the government wage controls. This was "The Administration," said AFL-CIO News, "has been demonstrated again on June 12 when the president's Cost fighting to hold down the amount of the increase and the of Living Council overruled a wage increase ordered Senate Labor Committee has approved legislation calling by the District of Columbia's Minimum Wage Board. for a two-step raise to $2.20 an hour." The board's decree would have raised the minimum Union leaders, according to the AFL-CIO paper, "voiced hourly wage for D. C. hotel and restaurant workers from outrage." But their outrage is not directed against the $1.60 to $2.25. It would have affected 41,500 workers, wag~-controi program because that program is supported the vast majority of whom are unorganized. About 8,000 by Democrats arid Republicans alike. , union members in the industry have a $2-an-hour mini­ The labor skates have a better issue here. They can mum scale. denounce their $1.90 enemies and support their $2.20 The $2.25 an hour base had been set by the unanimous "friends." deCision of the board's labor, management, and govern­ ment members. EXPLOITATION OF DAY LABORERS: In New York 'rhe Cost of Living Council's official reason for knocking City an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 unskilled day laborers down the new wage base was that it would drive small are paid about $2.18 an hour. Mainly Black and Puerto operators out of business. This argument was substituted Rican, many of them Vietnam veterans, they find work Cassell, a member of the D. C. school for the usual contention that high wages cause inflation. through day:labor contractors who charge an average board, referred to the June 16 state­ The Cost of Living Council is interested in maintaining of $3.42 an hour for the services of these workers. Thus, ment in his speech. He said he believed its own $1.90-an-hour level, which it set earlier this year the labor contractor pockets a 36 percent profit. the attack on the antiwar movement as the line for exempting wages of the "working poor" A recent survey of these conditions conducted by students "was politically motivated by people from the government controls program. Consequently, at the New York University School of Law found that who have made no contribution to the it indicated that it will approve a $1.90-an-hour minimum day laborers are not paid travel time or standby time. struggle against the war." He ex­ wage for hotel and restaurant workers in the nation's In addition, the labor contractors evade the New York pressed support for the right of people capital. State wages and hours laws that afford minimal protection ·to demonstrate without restriction of This is the first time the government wage-control to full-time workers. their constitutional rights. machinery has been· used to knock down a legally set These "casual" laborers, numbering millions in this Mempers of the Washington Area wage-scale. The action has been appealed to the Pay country, are classified as "working poor." The Cost of Peace Action Coalition and the Stu­ Board, a body the Cost of Living Council has juris­ Living Council, in line with its ruling in the case of hotel dent Mobilization Committee partici­ diction over. and restaurant workers in Washington, D. C., would hold pated in the demonstration and dis­ The June 17 AFL-CIO News reported that the action wages of these "working poor" to $1.90 an hour. Other­ tributed literature about the Hiroshima of the Cost of Living Council "took on national signifi­ wise some of the smaller labor contractors might be forced Day antiwar activities that will take cance in view of the amendments to the Fair Labor Stan- out of business. -FRANK LOVELL place Aug. 5.

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''4 . /.' CHICAGO NEW YORKi UPPER WEST SIDE WASHINGTON, D.C. SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY- COMMUNIST PARTY DE­ STUDIES IN REVOLUnONARY SOCIALISM. Socialist STUDIES IN REVOLUnON. Socfolist Summer SchOol.;- BATE. Speakers: Fred Halstead, Socialist Workers Par­ Summer School. Weekly series of classes until Aug. 9. 746 9th St. N.W., Second Floor. 75c per class, SU). ty candidate for U.S. Senate from Illinois, and Jack 2744 Broadway (106 St.). 50c per class or $5 for en­ lor entire summer school. Ausp. Young Socialist Af .. · Kling, chairman of Illinois Communist Party. Sun., lire series, including special weekend classes. For lionce and Socialist Workers Party. For more ,infC)r-· July 2, 6-7 p.m. on WGN-TV, Channel 9. · more information, call(212) 663-3000. motion, call(202) 783-2363. ' Wed., July 5, 8 p.m.: The First 10 Years of Amer­ Wed., July 5, 8 p.m.: Stalinism. Teacher: Herman STUDIES IN REVOLUnON. Chicago Socialist Summer ican Communism.' History of the CPUSA: 1919-1928. Fogg. School. Classes on Monday and Thursday evenings Teacher: Peter Seidman. Fri., July 7, 8 p.m.: Transitional Program: Reform Calendar at 7:30 p.m. 180 N. Wacker Dr., Room 310. Preregis­ or Revolution. Teacher: Herman Fogg. ATLANTA tration fee, including all classes and special weekend OAKLAND-BERKELEY SOCIALIST SUMMER SCHOOL. Classes held at 68 events, $8. Individual sessions, 50c. Special weekend SPECIAL SUMMER SCHOOL WEEKEND: Principles of Peachtree St. N. E., (Third Floor) at 8:30 p.m. For sessions, $1. For more information, call (312) 641- Leninist party organization. Classes held at 3536 Tele­ more information, call (404) 523-0610. 0147. graph Ave., Oakland. 50c per class. Ausp Socialist Mon., July 3: Leninist Party Organization. July 7, 8, 9: Special summer school weekendc'1hree Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance. Teacher Thurs., July 6: Stalinism classes on the labor movement. Teacher: Frank Lovell, for all four classes: Andrea Davis. For more infor­ SWP trade-union director. ... U.N. mation, coll(415) 654-9728. Continued from page 8 AUSnN Sot., July 8: 10 a.m., continental breakfast; 11 a.m., SOCIALIST SUMMER SCHOOL. Classes held at 611 SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN RALLY. Speak­ Class 1; 2 p.m., Class 2. conferences, quoting leftist scientists, W. 29th. For more information, call (512) 478-8602. ers: Linda Jenness, SWP presidential candidate; Pat Sun., July 9: 10 a.m., continental breakfast; 11 a.m., liberation fighters from Angola and Fri., July 7; Sot., July 8; Sun., July 9: Principles Grogan, SWP candidate lor governor; Norman Oli­ Closs 3; 2 p.m., Closs 4. Mozambique, and other representa­ af a Leninist Party. Teacher: Dan Styron. ver, SWP candidate for state's attorney. Sot., July tives of oppressed nations. 8, 8 p.m. YMCA, 37 S. Wabash. PHILADELPHIA BAY AREA, CALIF. SOCIALIST SUMMER SCHOOL. 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Park. Son Francisco, 7 p.m.; Model Sat., July 8. Special weekend series of three classes FORUM: Fri., July 7, 7:30 p.m. The Second Wave national flavor of the whole thing. Oties-Hunters Point, 1551 Newcomb, Son Francisco, on Origins and Character of Chinese Stalinism. First of Feminism. Speaker: Dianne Feeley. Donation: $1; And in a global setting, the hideous, 8:30p.m. class at 11 a.m. h. s. students 50c. Thurs., July 6. Campaign Meeting: San Francisco anti-life direction of American policy . State College, 12 noon; West Edition Project Area DENVER PORTLAND on all fronts becomes unbearably ob­ Committee Meeting, 1511 Fillmore St., Son Francisco, SOCIALIST SUMMER SCHOOL. Classes held at 1203 SOCIALIST SUMMER SCHOOL. Classes held at 208 vious. On this earth at this time the · 8p.m. California. For more information, call(303) 623-2825. S. W. Stark St., Room 201. Admission: $7.50 for en­ greatest threat to human life is the Fri., July 7. Campaign Meeting, Kimbell Park. 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Classes held at Uni­ It does not mean that the revolu­ ond Wednesday evenings at 8 p.m. Dinner served Speaker: Theodore Edwards. Donation: $1, versity of Washington HUB (room will be posted). tionaries can hold out indefinitely~ at 6:30 p.m. 136 Lowrance 51. (at Willoughby). 50c CLASS. Sat., July 8, 7 p.m.: U.S. labor's Greatest': Admission: $5 lor entire summer school or 50c for Aid from Moscow and Peking is be; per class. For more information, call (212) 59(>.2849. Upsurge. Donation: 50c. individual session. For more information, call (206) ing doled out with an eyedropp~ Tues., July 4: The Character and Composition of si·-2555. jlle Revolutionary Workers Party. Teacher: Joe Henry. CAMPAIGN PARTY TO \11/aCOME ANDREW f'ULLEY,, at., July 8, 11 a.m. and. 3 p.m.; Sun., July 9, 1 while these bureaucracies cooperate, ~Wed., Jul·y. 5.: Firs.! do. ss in s.eries on Stoli.nism: Why SWP vict?·presidential cpndidate, S.at,. July 8, 9 p.m. p. . Three-port series on Wh-..t is L;,ninism? Teo~her: with· Nixon in pressing for new talks:~ Jjalinisl" ,Wumphed. Teacher: !>_an Rosenshine, staff 1346 N: McCadde~· p' block east of Highland). Do' Harry Ring, Militant Southwest Bureau. The bombing pressure is the most ~ltedoi Tiie Militant.' · · · · · notion: $1. intense in. the history of warfare. ' TWIN CITIES But there is another lesson of th~ ~ECtAL S~MMER SCHOOL WEEKEND: THE AFRICAN NEW YORK: LOWER MANHATTAN SOCIALIST SUMMER SCHOOL. Studies in Revolution. ltEVOLUnON. Teacher for a three-doss series: Tony BUILDING A LENINIST PARTY IN. AMERICA. A series Oasses on Monday and Thursday evenings at .7:30 history of the war and it bears em~ Thomas, staff writer lot The Militant. of Classes sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party p.m. 1 University Ave. N. E., Minneapolis. $7,50 for phasizing over and over again. The Fri., July 7, Program lor the African Revolution, and the Young Socialist Alliance. Every Wednesday entire summer school or 50c per class. Ausp. Young antiwar movement has r~uced ·Nix­ 8p.m. at 8 p.m. 50c per class or $6for entire summer school. Socialist Alliance. For more information, call (612) on's room for maneuver; .it can press Sot., July 8, Balanc~ Sheet of Ghana Under Nkrumah, 706 Broadway, Eighth Floor (4th St.). For more in­ 332-7781. 3-4:30 p.m.; Balance Sheet of Tanzania and Other formation, call(212) 982-6051. Thurs., July 6. First class of series on Transitional Washington to withdraw from South­ Countries, 5-6:30 p.m. Refreshments, 7 p.m.; Dinner, Wed., July 6: The Debate on the Russian Question. Program: Communist Manifesto. Teacher: Jane Von east Asia entirely. This is the most 7:30 p.m.; Party, 9 p.m. Teacher: Dick Roberts, staff writer for The Militant. Deusen. pressing task that faces us today. Socialist Directory ALABAMA: Tuscaloosa: YSA, c/o Richard Rothers, P.O. Box 5377, Uni' versity, Bloomington, Ind. 47401. Upper West Side: SWP and YSA, 2744 Broadway (106th St.), New varsity of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 35406. Gary: c/o Cartwright, 123 W. Indiana, Chesterton, Ind. 46304. York, N.Y.10025. Tel: (212) 663-3000. ARIZONA: Phoenix: YSA, P.O. Box 750, Tempe, Ariz. 85001. Tel: (602) KENTUCKY: Lexington: YSA, 1'. 0. Box 952, University Station, lexing­ OHIO: Cincinnati: YSA, c/o C.R. Mitts, P.O. Box 32804, Cincinnati, 968-5738. ton, Ky. 40506. Ohio45232. Tucson: YSA, 410 N. 4th Ave., Tucson, Ariz. 85705. LOUISIANA: Baton Rouge: YSA, c/o Craig Biggio, P.O. Box 18250, Cleveland: SWP and YSA, 4420 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44103. CAUFORNIA: Berkeley-Oaldand: SWP and YSA, 3536 Telegraph Ave., Baton Rouge, La. 70803. Tel: (504) 388-1517. tel: (216) 391-5553. Oakland, Calif. 94609. tel: (415) 654-9728. MARYLAND: College Parle YSA, University P.O. Box 73, U of Md., Columbus: YSA, 1612 Summit St. {side entrance), Columbus, Ohio Los Angeles: SWP and YSA, 1107 1/2 N. Western Ave., los Angeles, College Pork, Md. 20742. 43201. Tel: (614) 299-2942. Calif. 90029. Tel: SWP-(213) 463-1917, YSA-(213) 463-1966. MASSACHUSmS: Baston: SWP and YSA c/o Militant labor Forum, 655 Yeilow Springs: YSA, Antioch College Union, Yellow Springs, Ohio Riverside: YSA, c/o Don Andrews, 3408 Florida, Riverside, Calif. 92507 Atlantic Ave., Third Floor, Boston, Moss.02111.Tei:SWP-:(617) 482-8050, 45387. Socramenta: YSA, c/o Bob Secor, 3702 T St., Sacramento, Calif. 958.15. YSA-(617) 482-8051; Issues and Activists Speakers Bureau {IASB) and Re­ OREGON: Eugene: YSA, c/o Dove Hough, 1216 1/2 lincoln, Eugene, San Diego: YSA, P.O. Box 15186, Son Diego, Calif. 92115. gional Committee-(617) 482-8052; and Pathfinder Books-(617) 338- Ore. 97401. · San Francisco: SWP, YSA, Militant labor Forum, and Pioneer Books, 8560. Portland: SWP and YSA, 208 S. W. Stark, Roam 201, Portland, Ore. 2338 Market St., Son Francisco, Calif. 94114. Tel: (415) 62(>.9958. MICHIGAN: Ann Arbor: YSA, P.O. Box 408, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48107. 97204. Tel: i503) 226-2715. San Jose: YSA, c/o Greta Schiller, 685 Menker *4, Son Jose, Calif. Detroit: SWP, YSA, Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Woodward Ave., De­ PENNSYLVANIA: Edinboro: YSA, c/o John Sajewski, Edinboro State 95128. Tel: (408) 275-8453. troit, Mich. 48201. Tel: (313) TE1-6135. College, Edinboro, Po. 16412. • San Mateo: YSA, c/a Ann Hyink, 344 Barneson Ave., San Mateo, Calif. Philadelphia: SWP and YSA, 1004 Filbert St. (one block north of Mar­ 94402. East Lansing: YSA, P. 0. Box 14, East lansing, Mich. 48823. ket), Philadelphia, Po. 19107. Tel: (215) WAS-4316. _Santa Barbara: YSA, Box 14126, UCSB, Santo Barbaro, Calif. 93107. MINNESOTA: Minneapolis-St. Paul: SWP, YSA and labor Bookstore, Tel: (805) 968-4086. 1 University N.E. (at E. Hennepin) Second Floor, Mpls. 55413. Tel: (612) RHODE ISLAND: Providence: YSA, P.O. Box 117, Annex Sta., Provi­ COLORADO: Denver: SWP, YSA and Militant Bookstore, 1203 Cali­ 332,7781. dence, R.I. 02901. Militant Bookstore: 88 Benevolent St. Tel: (401) 33)- fornia, Denver, Colo. 80204. Tel: (303) 623-2825. Bookstore open Mon.­ MISSOURI: Kansas City: YSA, c/o Student Activities Office, U of Mis­ 1480. Sot., 10:30 o.m.-7 p.m. souri at Kansas City, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, Mo. 6411 0. TENNESSEE: Nashville: YSA, 1214 i7th Ave. S., Nashville, Tenti. CONNEcnCUT: Hartford: YSA, c/o Randy Erb, '114 Huntington St., St. Louis: YSA, P. 0. Box 8037, Stlouis, Mo. 63156. 37201. Tel: (615) 292-8827. Hartford, Conn. 06105. NEW HAMPSHIRE: Portsmouth: YSA, P. 0. Box 479, Durham, N.H. TEXAS: Austin: SWP and YSA, P. 0. Box 5586, West Austin· Station, N- Haven: YSA, P.O. Box 185, New Haven, Conn. 06501. 03824. Austin, Texas 78703. Tel: (512) 478-8602. Bookstore: 611 West 29th. fLORIDA: Tallahassee: YSA, c/o Bill Boyd,514 N. Bronaugh, Tallahassee, NEW JERSEY: Red Bank: YSA, c/o Vince Manning, 10 Washington Hous.ton: SWP and YSA and Pathfinder Books, 6409lyons Ave., Halls­ Fla. 32301. St., Rumson, N.J. 07760. ton, Texas 77020. Tel: (713) 674-0612. Tampa: Socialist Workers Campaign '72 c/o David Maynard, P. 0. NEW MEXICO: Albuquerque: YSA, c/o Vivian Abeles, 503 Carlisle Lubbock: YSA, Box 5090, Tech. Sta., lubbock, Texas 79409. Tel: (806) Box 702, 4100 Fletcher Ave., Tampa, Fla. 33612. S. E., Albuquerque, N. M. 87106. · 747-6842. GEORGIA: Atlanta: Militant Bookstore, 68 Peachtree St. N.E., Third NEW YORK: Binghamton: YSA, Box 1073, Harpur College, Bingham­ San Antonio: YSA, c/o P.O. Box 774, San Antonio, Texas 78202. Floor, Atlanta, Go. 30303. SWP and YSA, P.O. Box 846, Atlanta, Go. ton, N.Y. 13901. Tel: (607) 798-4142. VERMONT: Burlington: YSA, c/o John Franco, 306 Chithonden Hall, 30301. Tel: (404) 523-0610. Brooklyn: SWP and YSA, 136 lawrence St. (at Willoughby), B-rook­ U of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. 05401. ILLINOIS: Carbondale: YSA, c/a John Center, 1407 Schnider Hall, lyn, N.Y. 11201. Tel: (212) 59(>.2849. WASHINGTON, D.C.: SWP and YSA, 746 9th St. N. W., Second. Floor,' Bush Towers, Carbondale, Ill. 62901. Tel: (618) 453-5882. Long Island: P. 0. Box 357, Roosevelt, l.l., N.Y. 11575. Tel: (516) FR9- Wash., D. C. 20001. Tel: (202) 783-2363. · Chic~;~go: SWP, YSA and bookstore, 180 N. Wacker Dr., Room 310, 0289. WASHINGTON: Pullman: YSA, c/o Dean W. Johnson, 406 E. McKen­ Chicago, Ill. 60606. Tel: SWP-(312) 641-0147, YSA-(312) 641-0233. N- York City-City-wide SWP and YSA, 706 Broadway (4th St.), zie, Pullman, Wash. 99163. DeKalb: YSA, c/o Student Activities Center, Northern Illinois U, De­ Eighth Floor, New York, N.Y. 10003. Tel: (212) 260-0976. Seattle: Militant Bookstore, 5257 University Way N. E., Seattle, Wash. Kolb, Ill. 60115. Tel: (815) 753-0510 (day); (815) 758-2935 (night). Lower Manhattan: SWP, YSA and Merit Bookstore, 706 Broadway {4th 98105. Hrs. 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Mon.:Sat. Tel: (206) 523-2555. Macomb: YSA, c/a lynn llyod, 809 Corbin, Macomb, Ill. 61455. St.), Eighth Floor, New York, N.Y. 10003. Tel: SWP, YSA-(212) 982- WISCONSIN: Madison: YSA, c/o James levitt, 411 W. Gorham St., INDIANA: Bloomington: YSA, c/o Student Activities Desk, Indiana Uni- 6051; Merit Books-(212) 982-5940. Madison, Wis. 53703. Tel: (608) 257-2835. ·

22 Who's joining the Young Socialist Alliance? Recently five members of the East Bloomington Labor Library, now that a radical collective, decided to join the YSA. The major ·reasons they gave for j.oining were the YSA's active role in building the antiwar, women's liberation, and other independent move­ sdaool's out, ments, as well as the YSA's support to the Socialist Workers Party 1972 presidential campaign of Linda Jenness and Andrew Pulley. ,When asked if he would encourage other people to join the YSA, Ike Nahem of the Bloomington collective stated, "Def­ i'nitely. From my experience from being in various collectives, fr.om reformist to ultraleft, I can say they're all dead ends. A sincere revolutionary has to be in an organized group with a coherent program." loin nowl

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THE MILITANT/JULY 7, 1972 23 Ellsberg, THE MILITANT Russo, deny new 35,000 construction workers charge By HARRY RING protest drive to break unions LOS ANGELES, June 24- The Pen­ tagon papers defendants vigorously denied a gQvernment charge that they had released previously undisclosed volumes of the Pentagon papers to columnist Jack Anderson. When defendants Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo made the Pentagon papers available to the New York Times and other newspapers, several volumes dealing with current negotia­ tions on the Vietnam war were not included. Anderson has _recently pub­ lished information based on these volumes. The prosecution has asked the court to investigate whether the defendants gave Anderson .copies of the four vol­ umes the court provided them to help prepare their defense. The court order making the volumes available to the defendants stipulated: 1) that they be kept secret, and 2) that the court be provided with a list of names of those in the defense who were to have access to them. The defendants declared that the prosecution's charge was "without fact or fourldation." "This false allegation by the Justice Departmen~" they de­ clared, "appears to be a last-ditch, des­ perate move to create prejudice against Workers march through June 22 to protest company efforts to the defendants in a case which the building-trades unions. American people are coming more and more to recognize as a hoax.... By ROSE OGDEN Pennsylvania hit by hurricane rains trades unions to answer the open-shop "If a leak did in fact occur," the NORRISTOWN, Pa.- Well over 35,- and floods. As busloads of union men attacks on organized labor. It set an defendants stated, "the most likely pos­ 000 trade-union members marched left the march to help evacuate sur­ example of militant trade unionism sibility is that it came from the gov­ June 22 in a demonstration organized vivors in Harrisburg, the 2,000 state for other unions across the country ernment. Copies of the Pentagon papers by the Philadelphia Building and Con­ troopers unloaded from buses to po­ facing the sallle antiunion attacks by have been made available to the Con­ struction Trades Council to protest lice the demonstration. employers, the government, and the gress, to many past and present gov­ a court injunction against picketing The demonstrators raised pointed courts. ernment officials, and to the U. S. At­ a nonunion construction site. questions about the stationing of so Bernard Katz, attorney for the Phil­ torney's Office. many troopers along the line of march adelphia Building and Construction "As the defense has established by and in such bad weather. "Wouldn't Trades Council, stated that this dem­ Chanting "Altemose has got to go!" affidavit in this case, there is a con­ it be mo:

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