Anti-Imperialist Contingent, May 3

')on 25¢ WfJliNEIiSNo. ",gU """(;0"'':~) )(·$23 8 May 1981 Anti-Imperialist Contingent, May 3 ~~ • eltis In arin alvaDorl" WASHINGTON, D.C.-"l, 2, 3, 4 sections of the rad-lib anti-Reagan provocative "disruption"-baiting of the that was repeated throughout the Leftist Rebels, Win the War!" chanted demonstrations. They alone took sides militants, then sealed it by throwing up a march, the Anti-Imperialist Contingent the SOO-strong Anti-Imperialist Contin with the workers and peasants in the line of "marshals" to physically block replied, "No draft, class war, V.S. out of gent as they swung onto the Arlington raging civil war against the gang of protesters from joining the Anti EI Salvador!" Memorial Bridge May 3. "5, 6, 7, 8 uniformed murderers backed up by U.S. Imperialist rally. "Stay on the right," If it were not for the Spartacist Nothing to Negotiate!" they added, in a imperialism. Only the Anti-Imperialist they said, "it's a counterdemonstra League, May 3 would have been an sharp attack on the Democratic Party Contingent understood and took on tion." In fact, the PAM march was a unchallenged celebration of Kennedy liberals and fake-left reformists who Reagan's anti-Soviet Cold War threats, counterdemonstration against military liberalism. In the late '60s and early '70s spread treacherous illusions in a "politi proclaiming "Defense of Cuba, USSR victory to the Salvadoran leftists. many young radicals chanted "Ho, Ho, cal solution" in EI Salvador-a deal Begins in EI Salvador!" The Associated PAM and the other reformist/liberal Ho Chi Minh, NLF has gotta win" and with the puppet Christian Democratic/ Press photo flashed around the world of organizers had appealed to a layer of defiantly waved the Viet Cong flag in the military junta or with the puppeteers in the D.C. demonstration of 80,000 Democrats looking for a vehicle to take face of American imperialism. Among Washington to cheat the Salvadoran against U.S. intervention in EI Salvador some of the wind out of Reagan's and them were many of today's PAM masses out of the victory they are had the Spartacist League front and Haig's sails. And the large turnout, far organizers, who today held little green suffering and dying for. The Contin center. exceeding predictions, reflected favor flags of liberal "concern." On May 3, the gent's huge red-on-white banners drove There was a sharp political line able publicity from the liberal bourgeois only flags of the Salvadoran Farabundo the point home: "Avenge the Blood ofEI through the demonstrations, the first press. A section of the ruling class is Marti National Liberation Front Salvador: Military Victory to Leftist big protest marches since the Vietnam worried that some of the Reaganite (FMLN) were carried by the Anti Insurgents!" War. The Anti-Imperialist Contingent binges may go too far. And the march Imperialist Contingent, whose color In San Francisco and Seattle another challenged demonstrators, "Which side organizers consciously played to this guard also bore Vietnamese and Cuban 350 Anti-Imperialists organized by the are you on?" in EI Salvador. The mood of scared liberalism. Their main banners, along with r"d flags of prole Spartacist League were the reddest, People's Antiwar Mobilization (PAM) chant was "N0 draft, no war, V .S. out of tarian internationalism with the symbol and just about the only militant made it clear where they stood by EI Salvador!" And in a counterpoint continued on page 6 __._.'~_.' ~_, ,,"_~__~~ ~__. __, __.•~ ~ ~~ '_~ '_'·_~~'~~.'9_~. ,~ __~.•. ~,~._,_,,_, ·~_ _',~.~_.'~'_ '. ,~ ..,,_•••~_ .• <-1 East Coast! Midwest tOUf. which has M!y 3 Benefit Packs House taken him to five cities and coliege campuses from Ann Arbor to Oberlin to Brandeis and Harvard. His talk traced the history of oppression in EI EI Salvador: Salvador including the Indian revolts of the last century and the 1932 Communist-led uprising, brutally AProgram of. Protest crushed by the predecessors of the same military butchers who rule today. Photos of the contested zones in northeastern Morazan and Chalate at the St. Marks Cinema nango, scenes of "daily life"-such as the repressive forces' sweeps through the working class districts of NEW YORK-"EI Salvador: A Pro donations. Inside the theater, bus Soyapango-brought the civil war gram of Protest" <at the St. Marks ticket sales moved briskly and scores raging in EI Salvador into close focus. Cinema April 30, a fundraiser for the of Contingent buttons reading "Mili Anti-Imperialist Contingent, turned tary Victory to Salvadoran Leftists" And this audience took sides: they out to be the major building event in were sold. cheered for the left advances and NYC last week for the May 3 march. The benefit was a double bill, hissed at scenes of the U.S. embassy in There was a packed house of almost featuring a slide show by Tom Janota, San Salvador, with the sandbags on 500 and lines around the block for the last Peace Corps teacher to leave EI the roof, uniformed Marine guards in both performances Thursday night. Salvador, followed by the film "Revo flak jackets and pump-action shotguns More than $900 was raised for the lution or Death." For Janota, an at the ready. Slides of peasants Contingent from ticket sales; collec eyewitness to the 1979 coup, the St. massacred in hacienda takeovers tions from the audience and later Marks event was the last point on his illustrated why the agrarian reform is called "reform by death." He also showed a Mother's Day newspaper ad taken out by one of the guerrilla groups displaying a young woman with a child in one arm and an automatic rifle slung over the other shoulder. "The choices here are very clear," Janota commented. "If the bloodbath is going to stop, it will be when the upper class is defeated "After the [January] demonstra militarily in the field." tion the army mobilized, tanks Janota also pointed out how the came out Into the streets...anyone bourgeois politicians of the popular who was left withouta place to hide front FDR coalition cannot liberate was considered a subversive and the masses, for its platform "does not shot on the spot. This is the answer promise to expropriate the coffee of the government to peaceful, the wealth which has been left virtually so-called peaceful road to change." untouched by the agrarian reform; makes no mention of smashing the audience sang along with the old military officers corps. which is the miners' strike song "Which Side Are reactionary reservoir in that country; You On?" Then came the movie makes no mention of greater control of "Revolution or Death" (see review in the working ~jace fOf the workers. WV 1\ 0.279.24 April) wlJose powerful And so while the FDR, in its attempt images of gruesome butchery drove to 'broaden its appeal.' makes the home the message, as Janota put it, cocktail circuit, the conditions in that "only the military victory of the Lines stretch around block a~ both shows of "Revolution or Death," Salvador remain the same." leftist insurgents can promise a new benefit for Anti-Imperialist Contingent. Following the slide show, the society for EI Salvador." Phone Militants Call for Leftist Victory in EI Salvador SAN FRANCISCO-Results were an company: one young worker in Plant ment or the racist anti-labor thugs ofthe nounced April 28 in the Communica agreed that the workers must win in EI KKK or Nazis. All that Watts, Imerzel, tions Workers ofAmerica (CWA) Local Salvador and declared, "I hope they get Contreras and the rest of them have to FOR 1981 9410 mail-ballot election for nine a lot of guns from the Cubans and offer is that our union should shovel delegates to the annual International the Russians!" millions of dollars to the capitalist. CWA Convention to be held this July in Following is the campaign leaflet Democratic Party to get someone like Boston. Three candidates of the class issued by the Bay Area MAC. "right-to-work," Mr. Ethnic Purity CONVENTION struggle Militant Action Caucus • • • Jimmy Carter back in office and beg (MAC), Kathy Ikegami, Kat Burnham • •• him for crumbs. DELEGATES and Larry Ackerson, increased their The upcoming CWA National Con The other road is MAC's-for class vote totals over last year's elections but vention will be held at a time when our struggle-of our union, the labor fell short of winning a delegate position. union faces very grave problems. The movement and the working class fight --LEe. lkegami placed twelfth in a field of 30 new Reagan administration· has de ing for our own interests. The Militant IX! KATHY IKEGAMI candidates with 302 votes, up from 190 clared war on the unions, the poor, Action Caucus of Local 9410 is running • 6 years in last year, while Burnham and Ackerson blacks and Latinos. three candidates for CWA Convention Plant Dept • 3 years got 187 and 181 respectively. In I..-os At home, Reagan promises union Delegates. If you want delegates Steward Angeles CWA Local 11502, the relative busting, racism and mass unemploy -who will tell you the truth ly new MAC candidates Barbara Brit ment. Abroad, he is gearing up for -who know picket lines mean.don't ton, Manuel Delgadillo and Barry World War III with the Soviet Union. cross IX! LARRY ACKERSON The steps along this road to thermo • 3 years in Janus received 227, 177 and 139 respec -who will fight to make the CWA a tively. These are impressive results for a nuclear holocaust are clear-first EI Sal Plant Dept union that defends its members • Steward hardhitting political campaign in the vador, then Nicaragua, Cuba, Poland face of the right-wing current in Rea and finally the USSR.

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