Protests Against Killing of Jackson Grow/24 Ernest Mandel on Downfall of the Dollar/12 Socialist Workers Election Campaigns/A
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SEPTEMBER 10, 1971 25 CENTS A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE ar··n a ••I:DU5!5 • I When President Nixon delivered in intensifying inflation, helping to his Aug. 15 edict freezing wages, produce rising unemployment, and he attempted to create the impres forcing budget cutbacks on social WAR INFLATION sion that the Vietnam war is over welfare expenditures- that Nixon, WAR INFlATION ERODES OUR WAGI and now is the time to move to McGovern and other capitalist pol :RODES OURWAGES l {• • ward a new peacetime prosperity. iticians want to shove the war is I Unfonsl's real inca t Un ionists' real income This is a blatant lie. The war in sue under the rug. In order to lower than (asf yet.~r lower thon 1 IORKERS Indochina continues. It not only justify the attack on the wages and , TP£ACE OU RWO RI OUR WORKERS AMALGAMATED ClOTHII continues but the bombing and living standards of America's work "D aol!l!Ni WAN! PE WANT PEACE WORKERS Of AMER IC~ shelling of the demilitarized zone ing people, they are attempting .lh\ffii<A AM.UGAII\Al\0 have been stepped up in the last to pin the blame for skyrocketing WORKERS Of I AMA LGAMAUD two weeks. Over 230,000 Gls are prices on the victims of inflation. Af L - C WORKERS o~ still in South Vietnam, fighting and They charge that wage increases M!OWBl JOIN dying for the so-called "democrat workers have won in the past few ic" regime of Nguyen Van Thieu. years - increases which have Democratic hopefuls for the 1972 lagged behind the cost of living presidential nomination are also both in time and in amount- are playing down the war issue. Most the cause of inflation. noteworthy was the Aug. 24 state This is a monstrous lie. Accord ment by liberal "peace" candidate ing to government figures, prices George McGovern in which he de have gone up 23 percent between ·clared, "I will have very little pub 1965 and 1970. Corporate divi lic comment on the war from here dend and interest payouts in on out. I am a political realist and creased steadily and substantially believe the state of the economy over the same period. But the real is more decisive politically." With wages of workers.....:that is, what out blinking an eyelid, he talks the dollar can buy- have actually as if the economy and the war been frozen during the entire war. have no relationship to each other. Nixon's edict doesn't freeze real It is precisely because the war wages. It is an attempt to drive Above- three Gls of the 1st cavalry division; Below- antiwar march, in Indochina has had a profound them down. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15, 1969. effect on the economy- principally Continued on page 6 Protests against killing of Jackson grow/24 Ernest Mandel on downfall of the dollar/12 Socialist Workers election campaigns/a VOLUME 35/NUMBER 32 FRE~ CHARLES KOEN! Supporters of the Cairo, Ill., GREAT JESUS! According to a recent item in the Wash Black United Front are holding weekly rallies in St. Louis ington Post, the Mexican government is planning, as a gift demanding the release of the United Front's national to the U.S. on the 200th anniversary of the first Amer chairman, Rev. Charles Koen, who has been in jail there ican revolution in 1976, to erect on the Texas coast, sh1ce July 19 on trumped-up charges of assault stemming overlooking Corpus Christi Bay, a gigantic steel and from his organizing activity in St. Louis in 1968. He marble statue of Christ. Similar to the statue of liberty, THIS has been on a water fast since before going to jail, and the structure would be hollow inside and contain a stair his doctor reports he is in a seriously weakened condition. way leading to an observation tower in the crown of WEEK'S Among the speakers at an Aug. 21 rally were Dick Greg thorns. ory and the Rev. C. T. Vivian. Speakers at an Aug. 28 MILITANT rally included Ossie Davis; Rev. Irv Jones of the Commis GAY PROTEST: Three busloads of demonstrators picket sion for Racial Justice; Nat Mosley, chairman of a St. ed in a drenching rain outside the offices of Suffolk Coun 3 Nat'l teams to take Mil Louis UAW caucus; Matt Eubanks of the Progressive ty Executive H. Lee Dennison in Riverhead, Long Island, itant into new areas Black Workers Party; and representatives from the Black Aug. 27, while several others occupied the office with a Abortion repeal meet United Fronts of Chicago and East St. Louis. The Black sit-in. The action was organized by. the Gay Activists Al ing in D.C. United Front urges all supporters of the Cairo struggle liance, New York and Long Island chapters, and followed 4 Pentagon papers: lBJ to contact them to find out how they can help in the cam a series of incidents beginning with the arrest of a man paign to free Rev. Koen; write to Black United Front, on Fire Island Aug. 8 for sodomy. An Aug. 22 protest talked peace, planned 5323 Easton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 63112 or phone (314) of the man's arrest in Hauppauge, Long Island, was escalation 361-2142. attacked by cops after a hostile bystander shoved Charles 5 Saigon election fraud in Burch, one of the demonstrators. Cops smashed Burch's creases hatred of U.S. MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY: Marches and rallies head against the pavement and then arrested him for Labor support grows for in Denver and other cities in Aztlan on Sept. 16 will mark "resisting arrest" and "harassment." The demands of the Mexican Independence Day. In Denver, the Sixteenth of Aug. 27 protest were an end to the selective and capri Nov. protest 6 September Committee and the Crusade for Justice plan cious enforcement of the sodomy law and other police 10,000 at N.Y. women's a march through the business district and a rally at the harassment of gays, repeal of the sodomy law, the drop march state capitol. Rally speakers will include Rodolfo (Corky) ping of charges in the Fire Island case, action against 8 Support grows for Gonzales and leaders of the Partido de la Raza Unida. the cops who attacked Burch and the dropping of charges Cleveland ballot fight against Burch. 9 Jenness speaks at NSA PUERTO .RICAN REFERENDUM: The Aug. 22 New York Times reported that the president and legislature MOSCOW JOURNAL PUTS DOWN BACHELORS: The conf. of Puerto Rico are planning a December referendum to Aug. 22 Washington Post quotes from an article in the Pulley in Midwest find out whether they should ask Congress for the right Soviet Literary Gazette that berates bachelors for taking 10 Cops attack Denver Chi to vote in the presidential elections next year. Governor up housing space and salaries that "ought to be shared canos Luis A. Ferre's New Progressive Party views the right to with a wife and children." The writer, Zory Shokhin, vote in presidential elections as a step toward statehood, rejects the notion that economic motives have anything Women's stake in the 11 but the right to vote could prove to be a weapon in the to do with the fact that the average man in the USSR fight against wage fight for an independent Puerto Rico- which is why Con does not marry until he is 29-because "economic rea freeze gress is likely to reject the request even if the referendum sons ... play a role only in bourgeois societies." "So Why wage-freeze fight shows a majority in favor. cialist" Shokhin blames the problem on bachelors' re is important to Blacks fusal to take seriously something he apparently believes CIVIL RIGHT-TO.KILL? One hundred members of the should not be restricted to bourgeois societies: that "mar 12 Ernest Mandel: Down so-called Italian-American Civil Rights League staged a riage (is) necessary for continuing the species." fall of the dollar demonstration outside the Bronx Supreme Court Aug. 14 Bureaucrats retreat from 26, declaring that the Bronx district attorney was anti TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S RACISM: A footnote to The Mili wage-freeze fight Italian and demanding "Free Mike Falco!" Falco was tant interview that appeared in our July 16 issue, "Inter 15 Teachers conv. votes being held on the charge of beating a Black man to death view with a Native-American activist": Gus Grey Moun on Aug. 4. against Vietnam war tain and the others charged with a felony for dumping red paint on a statue of Theodore Roosevelt had charges 17 How an antiwar Gl de dropped and paid the Museum of Natural History $489 feated the brass July 30 "for damages." In the Aug. 26 Village Voice, 18 Cuban cultural congress MAYDAY CHARGES DROPPED: The federal government reporting on the episode, Voice writer Suzan Shown in promotes concepts alien presented a motion Aug. 26 to dismiss the dual charges cludes the following Roosevelt quote: "The most ultimately to socialism of trespass and unlawful assembly against more than 800 righteous of all wars is a war with savages.... I don't of those who were arrested on the steps of the national go so far as to think the only good Indians are dead 19 Anti-Communist repres capitol last May. Several hundred charges remain on Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are, and I sion in Sudan the books, but so far there have been less than 200 con shouldn't inquire too closely into the case of the 1Oth." 20 MAPA conf.