THE SNCC, CORE and SW P MILITANT On Black Power Published in the Interest of the Working People S ee Page 4 — Vol. 31 - No. 40 Monday, Novem ber 7, 1966 Price 10£ BLOCK JOHNSON'S ESCALATION PLOT Get the Troops Out of Vietnam The Manila Conference of Johnson and his Asian puppets has set the stage for a new escalation of the Vietnam war. This was made crystal clear by Johnson’s “peace” offer. Stripped of its double-speak verbiage, the Johnson “offer” boiled down to this. The U.S. says it w ill pull out six months after it is satisfied the following conditions have been met: A ll forces of the “other side” have been withdrawn from the south. All north Vietnamese aid to the guerrilla fighters has been halted. A ll “ violence” in the south has subsided. The south Viet­ namese dictatorship agrees that the U.S. should leave. In short, the U.S. w ill consider leaving only after the com­ plete capitulation or crushing of the liberation movement. Such aims can only mean further escalation of the war. Arena of U.S. War W ill Be Extended Nor does Washington’s imperialist aims stop with south Viet­ nam. In addition to the daily bombings of north Vietnam, huge troops concentrations are being set up in Thailand. Troops have been moved into the demilitarized zone separating north and south Vietnam. After the U.S. elections, we can expect Washing­ ton to escalate the war against north Vietnam — possibly through invasion, systematic bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, bombing of the dikes protecting the rice paddies of the Tonkin plain, or all of these. We can expect the war to be extended into Laos and Cambodia. Washington is aiming to inflict as much damage as possible THUMBS DOWN ON HIGH PRICES. Housewives picketing supermarket in Levittown, Pa., express against north Vietnam. The U.S. rulers hope to overturn the rev­ their view of price-gouging food chains. Determined housewives all over are boycotting and pic­ keting supermarkets to force them to reduce prices. See story page 2 olution there if they can get away with it. The imperialists’ intentions reach even beyond Southeast Asia. They are advancing step by step, testing the ground at each step, toward a confrontation with China. Particularly omin- (Continued on Page 3) 5 0 c Subscription Offer

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C IT Y ...... Z IP . STATE. Judy W h ite Paul Boutelle For governor of New York For attorney general of New York P age T w o THE MILITANT Monday, November 7, 1966 Supermarket Food Chains Boycotted Across Country Negotiators for the independent 1948 to 1965 the number of non­ United Electrical Workers have farm employes working more than By Ed Smith your parking lot. The placards raked up profit increases this reached agreement with Westing- 48 hours almost doubled. About If you’ve got a good thing going, read: ‘WHAM Against High year of nearly 30 per cent or more. house on a new three-year con­ four million workers averaged it ’s no tim e to quit. That seems to Prices.’ That’s 10 times higher than the tract. The terms, which remain more than 60 hours a week, while be the feeling of housewives across “WHAM is an acronym for average wage increase for the subject to approval by the UE over five million put in between the country as one community Women Hate Awful Merchants. whole country in 1966. O nly tw o members involved, are similar to 49 and 59 hours. O nly about two after another joins the super­ Your customers eye the protester chains, Kroger and First National, those accepted earlier by the In­ million were moonlighters. market boycott movement. The seriously and then start pouring registered lower profits. ternational Union of Electrical Admitting that at least some targets are high food prices and out of your store to hear what the The housewives committees are Workers (AFL-CIO). The new workers need more income with trading stamps, and in various protest ringleaders have to say. rapidly becoming state-wide and contract provides higher wage which to meet increased living stores throughout the nation, What do you do next?” national organizations. A New rates, two cost-of-living increases, costs, the report says, “ These in ­ prices are going down and stamps A good question. In a number of York group called New York Truth special raises for skilled workers, clude men in the 25-44 age group are going out. areas, supermarkets are hiring Squad lists membership in more and added fringe benefits. with growing families and work­ Madison Avenue public relations than 300 communities. “ Women on According to the Associated The International Brotherhood ers in low-paying jobs, notably in men. The only thing they’ve come the Warpath” has members rang­ Press, the revolt has hit in 21 of Electrical Workers (AFL-CIO) trade and service.” up w ith so far, however, seems to ing from Dallas to Buffalo. And has not yet reached a settlement states. In Denver, where the boy­ be the fantastic line that super­ Ruth Kane, one of the originators * * * cotting began, a major victory has with Westinghouse. The main markets only make a one percent of the movement in Denver, is already been gained. In one week, areas of disagreement are said to Delegates to the recent conven­ profit. What that is supposed to touring the country to build the be wage rates for skilled workers the sales volume of store chains mean, we don’t know, but the fol­ “National Housewives for Lower tion of the International Brother­ had been reduced 25 percent. Safe­ and pensions. hood of Electrical Workers gave lowing figures are easy enough to Prices.” way Stores announced in news­ understand: Appearing on a series of tele­ Current estimates of union mem­ the shorter work week a top prior­ paper ads that it was prepared to bership at Westinghouse credit ity in its goals. Pressures on the According to the same Wall vision programs in Baltimore, meet the prices of “any major Street Journal article, profits for Philadelphia and Boston, Mrs. the IB E W w ith 14,000 and UE w ith issue from the union’s 85.0,000 chain or discounter, including the 7,400. (E a rlie r reports erroneously members were reflected in the key­ the giant food chains in the last Kane stressed the importance of major advertised specials of all three months have increased these organization: “You know how put the figures in reverse order note address of IBEW president major competitors.” for the two unions). Reports on Gordon Freeman. amounts over the same period last labor organized,” she stated. The dilemma of supermarkets is year: A&P, 2.1 percent; Jewel Cos., “There’s power in organization. We other membership figures have Freeman called for a union consistently listed the IUE at 40,- the subject of numerous articles in 2.8 percent; Food F air, 4.4 per­ housewives need a big voice to wage policy, unhampered by the financial press. “You’re a su­ cent; W inn-D ixie, 9.9 per cent; speak for us.” 000 and the Independent Salaried “guidelines that are not imposed Unions (white collar) at 14,000. permarket manager,” the Wall Grand Union, 11.6 per cent; Safe­ In some cities, trade unions have on profits and dividends,” adding Street Journal complains Oct. 31, way, 29.6 percent; N ational Tea, been reported coming to the sup­ that the IBEW also placed spe­ “and all of a sudden an army of 33.2 per cent; and Acme Markets, port of the boycott movement. cial emphasis on a “push for the Transport Workers Union mem­ angry women, shouting and wav­ 45.7 percent. T hat’s rig h t. Three These include locals of the United shorter work week here and now bers have voted to accept a new ing huge placards marches into of the giant chain stores have Auto Workers, United Electrical . . . with no loss in pay.” contract negotiated with American Workers and United Papermakers Airlines. The terms, as reported Union. In New York City, Harlem in the TWU Express, include three Youth Unlimited, a division of wage increases of five percent In a 2-to-l vote, the U.S. circuit Haryou-Act, has entered the move­ within 18 months, the first retro­ court of appeals has upheld the Dead Malaysian Picket ment. active to May 1, 1966. The third conviction of Teamsters Union raise w ill be received 11 months president James R. Hoffa and six before there has been full imple­ co-defendants on charges of con­ mentation of wage increases won spiring to defraud a union pension -Symbol of LBJ Tour Weekly Calendar by the Machinist Union strike at fund. A dissenting opinion by other airlines, but no mention is Judge Luther Swygert said, “The By Dick Roberts Government’s proof sustained BOSTON made of a cost-of-living escalator OCT. 31 — The fatal shooting neither a single scheme to de­ tion.’ ” Hamill didn’t speculate on ARMISTICE DAY ANTIWAR RALLY. clause in the TWU contract. The of a young antiwar demonstrator what kind of reception the Presi­ Machinists did get such a clause, fraud the Teamsters’ pension fund Hear representatives from the Afro- as charged in the indictment, nor on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, dent would have received if the Americans Against the War, Harvard- although a defective one. Malaysia, yesterday, put the fin­ troops knew he was coming. Radcliffe, MIT, and Cambridge-Boston The TWU can open the contract a single overall conspiracy to vio­ late the mail fraud statute as al­ ishing touch on Johnson’s “peace Between Camranh Bay and Committees to End the War, the Social­ on wages 30 days prior to May 1, keeping” Far East tour. Murdered, Kuala Lumpur, Johnson spent ist Workers Party and the Young So­ 1968. Provisions governing hours leged . . . Much irrelevant pre­ cialist Alliance. Fri., Nov. II, 8:15 p.m. judicial evidence was submitted was 21-year-old Ong Chong, who three days in Thailand where and work rules remain in effect was one of over 500 demonstra­ sharp U.S. troop increases in re­ 295 Huntington Ave., Rm. 307 (one to the jury.” block from Mass. Ave.) Ausp. M ilitant u n til Jan. 1, 1969, fo r the 12,000 tors protesting the war in front of cent months undoubtedly fore­ TWU members at American. The Supreme Court is expected Labor Forum. to allow the defendants an appeal, the U.S. Information Service head­ shadow a new war front. There • Gardner Ackley, chairman of as it has already agreed to do in quarters. They were attacked by are approxim ately 36,000 A m e r­ CHICAGO Johnson’s Council of Economic Ad­ a previous case in vo lvin g ju ry - Malaysian security police. ican forces in Thailand now. There THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION — visers, has denounced the wage tampering charges against Hoffa This Kuala-Lumpur demonstra­ is a netw ork of U.S. bases includ­ The Struggle for Socialist Democracy. settlement as “clearly inflation­ and others. Hoffa, who is involved tion was part of a nationwide ing airstrips that have been used Speaker: Mary Henderson. Fri., Nov. 11, ary.” in both convictions, faces sentences turnout to protest Johnson’s visit, to launch attacks on north Viet­ 8 p.m. Debs Hall, 302 S. Canal. Ausp. * * * involving at least three other nam; and there is a highly fi­ Friday Night Socialist Forum. of fiv e years and $10,000 in the • pension fu n d case and eight years cities. It included a four-hour bat­ nanced puppet dictatorship. Some 1,300 strikers at Bucyrus, tle between antiwar demonstrators Hamill described Johnson’s DETROIT Ohio, have resisted attempts by and $10,000 on jury-tam pering ELECTION ROUNDUP — Three Symp­ charges — a total sentence of 13 and riot-squad cops in the north- greeting in this new outpost of the Swan Rubber Company to herd Malaysian city of Penang. the “ free” w orld, Oct. 29: “ Seven tomatic Trends: The vote for the scabs into its two struck plants. years im prisonm ent and $20,000 Lowndes County Freedom Organization, in fines. And all these demonstrations gold motorcycles manned by cops speaker, Derrick Morrison, Young So­ The strikers have used walkie- took place in spite of the fact that in gold uniforms stood at the talkies to call reinforcements to Methods employed in the Team­ cialist Alliance; the advisory vote on ster cases, and other crim in a l pro­ hundreds of radical and student ready. The King of Thailand’s gold the war in Vietnam in Dearborn, Mich., points where strikebreakers were leaders had been arrested through­ Daimler Benz limousine was wait­ speaker, John Anderson, co-chairman of attempting to force their way secutions by the federal govern­ ment, have aroused the concern out the country on the eve of LB J’s ing alongside a gold Mercedes, and the Dearborn Vietnam referendum com­ through the picket lines. arrival. Johnson himself was a row of Thai troops from all serv­ mittee; the vote on the civilian police The company has gone to court of the American Civil Liberties review board in New York City, speaker, Union and the Association of guarded b y 4,000 policemen and ices stood at present arms. for the usual injunction, ordering an undisclosed number of national “Against the far edge of the Reginald Wilson, Oakland University fa­ picket lines reduced to a token Criminal Trial Lawyers. They are culty. Fri., Nov. I I , 8 p.m. Debs Hall, protesting the government’s use of reservists. square, reporters were eddying 3737 Woodward. Ausp. Friday Night force and prohibiting “interference There have been few countries around a row of scalloped-edge w ith personnel entering the plant.” spies, electronic bugs and in fo rm ­ Socialist Forum. ers of unsavory reputation. Con­ in the course of the tour where tents, while a middle-aged Thai in • * * * cerned lawyers say “Big Brother” Johnson has not been met by m il­ a green uniform handed out Cokes. LOS ANGELES itant opponents of the U.S. inva­ A cannon started belting a 21-gun In a report slanted to make it w ill be on trial as the victims of MARXIST COMMENTARY. A bi-week­ salute, ‘the star-spangled banner,’ ly analysis of the news by Theodore Ed­ appear that workers don’t want such vicious practices appeal their sion in Vietnam. And each stop wards, So. Calif, chairman of the So­ added leisure, the U.S. Depart­ convictions to the U.S. Supreme has involved one of the most was played, followed by the Thai national anthem, and after that cialist Workers Party. Mon. Nov. 14, ment of Labor states that from Court. elaborate security precautions ever recorded in the annals of police- all was silence.” 6 p.m. (repeated Thurs. Nov. 17, I p.m.) KPFK-FM (90.7 on your d ial). state technique. Reports did not mention whether The one place he seemed to be Johnson had followed the formali­ * * * on relatively safe ground in the ty of kissing Thai emporer Phu- SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL SO­ last two weeks was the heavily m iphol’s shoes upon firs t greet­ C IA LIS M . W eekly sessions. Thursdays at ings. That cordiality is still re­ 7:30 p.m., The Chinese Revolution, Theo­ fortified U.S. base at Camranh dore Edwards; Fridays a t 8:00 p.m., The Bay, south Vietnam. LBJ, paid a quired of the nation’s 30-million Heritage of Malcolm X, George Jones; impoverished peasant population. S TO N . Boston Labor Forum , 295 H u n - A ve., H a ll 240, M in n ., M in n . 55403. F E d - “surprise visit” to that base Oct. Saturdays at 2:00 p.m., The Philosophy adon Ave., Room 307, Boston, Mass. eral 2-7781. Open 1 to 5 p.m., Monday 26. 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Published weekly, except during July and August when published bl-weekly, by The Militant Publishing Ass’n., 873 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10003. Phone 533-6414. Second-class postage paid at N ew Y o rk. N . Y . Subscription: $3 a year; REPORTS ► < Canadian, $3.50; foreign, $4.50. Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent The Militant's views. These are expressed in editorials. “MAO AT BAY” by Isaac Deut­ it is a satire — and a rather skill­ Vol. 31 - No. 40 <^^345 Monday, November 7, 1966 scher in The Nation, Oct. 31, ful one at that. What throws one 1966. off is that the tone of the article has been characteristic of other This excellent article by Isaac articles in Ramparts that were The 'Minutemen' Plot Deutscher, the world-famous so­ meant seriously. (But no one real­ cialist scholar, analyzes what lies ly has “ impeccable documentation There is still only partial information available on the arrest behind the current spectacular of 72 unnatural deaths” in the aft­ in New York of 19 men charged with participating in plans by events in China. Deutscher’s ana­ ermath of Dallas, no one really the murderous right-wing Minutemen to carry out a series of lysis largely confirms the charac­ pickpocketed “a compromising terization of the events that George photograph of Robert Kennedy and fire-bomb attacks. Novack has been presenting to Marilyn Monroe” from the myth­ According to authorities, the men were arrested as they were readers of The Militant. ical Officer Toasty, no one named about to attack former Camp Unity (Wingdale) in New York, Deutscher writes: “Leboeuf” — which means “the Camp Midvale in New Jersey, the Connecticut farm headquarters “Accumulating evidence about bull” — really wrote a book un­ of the New England CNVA, and the Brooklyn campaign head­ recent events in China makes it covering two conspiracies and five quarters of Dr. Herbert Aptheker. increasingly clear that Peking is Oswalds, and so on.) now emerging from the deep and Another really fascinating ar­ Police seized 125 rifles, 10 pipe bombs, five mortars, 12 30- grave political crisis, which was ticle is “I Was a Burglar, Wire­ caliber machine guns, three grenade launchers, six grenades, a partly concealed behind the dra­ tapper, Bugger, and Spy for the million rounds of ammunition and assorted knives and clubs. matics of the ‘cultural revolution.’ F.B.I.” by William W. Turner, a The 19 said they were gun collectors. The Chinese Communist Party is former F.B.I. special agent who is There are a number of important questions for officials to an­ in disarray. At least since the now a Ramparts staff writer. The early summer, large and in­ issue also contains two good ar­ swer in relation to this affair. fluential sections of its hierarchy ticles on South Africa and one on The. headquarters of the Communist Party was recently have been in revolt against Mao “ white power” in Chicago. bombed and the headquarters of the Socialist Workers Party fire- Tse-tung and his policies. bombed. A building at Camp Midvale was razed to the ground. “Peking speaks openly of Right, Isaac Deutscher THE COMPETITOR by Thomas There has been arson at the CNVA farm. The headquarters of the Left and Center factions strug­ Bontly. Charles Scribner’s Sons. Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist) was fire-bombed. gling against one another within a job I can’t afford to lose. Does 157 pp. $3.95. that megalomaniac think he can the party, and although the offi­ In this first effort, Thomas A ll of these things happened during the past several months. h u rt me?” cial spokesmen do not identify the Bontly has written an absorbing During this same period, the police have had members of their programs and the leaders of the Wolfe’s reply is, “Pfui. He is hurting you.” short novel about one day in the Bureau of Special Services planted in the Minutemen and other factions, the admission itself is life of a shoe salesman. Marty similar groups. The authorities also speak of known Minutemen unprecedented in post-revolution­ RAMPARTS. November, 1966. Hansen, Bontly’s main character, preparations for the bombing of the Communist Party offices and ary China.” is a man whose entire life and In an article on the Kennedy of the fact that the captured arsenal included smoke bombs of THE DOORBELL RANG a de­ values have become limited to the the type used in that attack. assassination, David Welsh reports confines of the shoe business. tective novel by Rex Stout. Ban­ on the mysterious deaths of sev­ Were the bombing and fire-bombings previously cited carried More than anything else, Marty tam Books. 122 pp. $.50 paper. eral individuals “ who possessed wants to become the manager of on with the knowledge of planted police operatives? The plot of this rather unusual crucial scraps of knowledge about his own store. In order to reach detective story goes lik e this: Nero the killings of President Kennedy, his goal, he has been thrown into Wolfe is consulted by Mrs. Bruner, Officer J. D. Tippit or Lee Harvey a stiff competition with his fel­ . . . Block the Escalation a wealthy woman who read Fred Oswald. A t least 10 such persons low salesman for the approval of Cook’s The FBI Nobody Knows are known to have been murdered, his district manager. In the pro­ (Continued from Page 1) and was so shocked by it that she to have committed suicide or died cess, he has retained only one ous in this regard was Johnson’s comment in Malaysia that the began a one-woman distribution in suspicious circumstances since principle: he never misfits a child. Chinese nuclear test “invites danger to China.” The growing pos­ campaign of the book to help ex­ the Kennedy assassination. Scores W ith this as the background, the sibility that the war may be steadily escalated by Washington pose the real nature of the F B I. of persons similarly knowledgeable novel begins to unravel a story have been beaten, shot, threat­ until it draws in China, raises the danger of World War III which The FBI’s response has been to about Marty and his values — a ened, intimidated or run out of would involve the Soviet Union and the catastrophe of a nu­ elaborately harass her. What Mrs. story that is all the more poignant Bruner wants Wolfe to do is to tow n.” because it is so familiar. For after clear w ar. somehow get the FBI to stop its The issue also contains a satir­ all, Marty is only representative The antiwar movement must meet Johnson’s escalation plans harassment. ical article in the “Ephemera” sec­ of one kind of people that our with an escalation of its efforts to bring the GIs home! Talking about the FBI and J. tion on the Warren Commission capitalist society so frequently And the antiwar forces should register their stand at the Edgar Hoover, Mrs. B runer says, and the Dallas events. Like Jona­ produces, the type of person that “I’m not just a congressman, or polls on Nov. 8 by voting for the candidates of the Socialist than Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” sacrifices his humanity in order someone like an editor or a broad­ a lot of people have been missing to “make it.” Workers Party. The SWP campaigns in New York, California, caster or a college professor, with the point of the joke. However, Minnesota, New Jersey and Wisconsin have hit hard on the key —Arthur Maglin issues facing the American people, especially the war in Vietnam. The SWP candidates have fought for these things: • Bring our troops home from Vietnam now. Stop the war in Vietnam, and allow the Vietnamese people to determine their ow n fate. World Events • Support black power. Support the drive of the black masses Tainted Money Illinois, explosion which crushed a wom an’s less than 25 cents. Now or asphyxiated 111 miners. to win effective power to fight racist exploitation and misery. One of the Asian countries that her secret is known, Joana One note scribbled out in the • Fight inflation. Support union struggles for cost-of-living which did not attend the Manila Jose gets half of what she did final hours of the life of one of meeting, supposedly composed of before, to work in the fields . . .” clauses in union contracts, and support consumer action to lower the trapped Centralia miners all the Asian nations “which sup­ prices. stated only: “Take care of our Guatemalan Arrests port the U.S. war effort,” was • Break with the Democrats and Republicans. The capitalist families.” It is a plea guaranteed The governm ent te rro r in. Gua­ Japan. But Japanese industry sold to be ignored by the profit-hungry temala appears to be continuing parties are responsible for the Vietnam war, racism, inflation. For over $500 million worth of war mine operators in this country with the news in a special New a labor party based on the unions. For independent black political products to the U.S. this year, who continue to deny the most Y o rk Times dispatch from that action. For socialist electoral action against the capitalist parties. and over $1 billion worth of war- elementary safety conditions in country, dated Oct. 25, that, “Six related products to Formosa, South • For Socialism. For a democratic society free of exploitation, mines and mining-towns. Since the persons identified by the police Korea, the Philippines and the war, racism and poverty. Aberfan incident, three separate as guerrillas were captured by the U.S. In addition, 25 Japanese tank- miners groups in the U.S. have police last night after a wild chase ESCALATE THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT! VOTE SOCIAL­ landing ships are operating with stated that similar waste-pile though downtown streets . . IST! BRING THE TROOPS HOME FROM VIETNAM NOW! the Seventh Fleet. The point is, hazards exist in their areas. “One of the six was Melida the Japanese rulers prefer to do Turcios Lima, 18-year-old sister of business with the Washington war Brazilian Poverty the late rebel leader Luis Turcios The Fort Hood Three criminals behind the backs of the “MACEIO, ALAGOAS, Brazil Lima. The police said she was the Japanese masses — the great ma­ (AP) — It’s back to the fields at leader of the guerrilla group, but As of this writing, the commanding officer of the First Army jority of whom oppose Johnson’s half the pay for Joana Jose — the she denied that she belonged to has not yet acted in the automatic review of the conviction of war. ‘man who gave birth to a child.’ any guerrilla organization.” Luis the Fort Hood Three, the GIs who were court-martialed for re­ Aberfan Disaster In two months, the story of Joana Augusto Turcios Lima, head of the fusing to fight in “an illegal, immoral and unjust war” in Viet­ Jose, 19, has become part of the Rebel Armed Forces of Guate­ nam. Normally, review findings are handed down within 30 days The horrible mine disaster in folk annals of the poverty-stricken mala, was killed in an auto crash after a court martial. It is now nearly two months since their Aberfan, Wales, Oct. 12, seemed northeast of Brazil. Oct. 2. like a page out of 19th century conviction in September. “A supposedly male farm la­ A number of other young per­ history. Almost 200 persons, many borer known as Jose Joao gave sons, including journalists who Dennis Mora faces three years at hard labor. David Samas of them youngsters, were buried birth to a baby in the inland vil­ have simply attempted to report and James Johnson face five years. While waiting to be trans­ by a shifting waste pile, which lage of Lajes Do Caldeirao. Then on the Guatemalan developments, ferred to Leavenworth to serve their terms, they are being sub­ could have been avoided — and it was discovered that Jose Joao have been arrested in previous jected to cruel punishment at the stockade in Fort Meade, Md. would have — if the workers con­ was a girl who had dressed as a raids by the Guatemalan police. Protests have curbed the worst excesses of this punishment, but trolled the nationalized mines. man all her life and had been So far as is known, each one of not ended it. And, terrible as it was, the doing a man’s work at man’s pay them has been murdered, often These heroic young men have made an important contribu­ Aberfan incident was not atypical, in backward Lajes Do Caldeirao. after horrible torture. either in Wales or in similar min­ “ The village of 400 people is tion to the struggle against the war. They have fearlessly raised At the time of Turcios’ death, ing regions in this country. Since described by a rural doctor as ‘a the FAR announced that the com­ the issue of the right of GIs to a voice in deciding about a reac­ World War II, alone, 398 persons concentration camp where hun­ mand would be taken by Turcios’ tionary war they must fight and die in. Everyone opposed to the have been killed in eight Amer­ dreds of people live in the slavery lieutenant, Cesar Montes, who is war should redouble their efforts on behalf of the Fort Hood ican mine disasters. This includes of total ignorance.’ A man’s labor 23. Three. the M arch 25, 1945, Centralia, is worth less than 50 cents a day; — Ed S m ith Page F o u r THE MILITANT — "Black Power": A Symposium [The following are excerpts vocates of black power. One, from presentations at a symposium they’re black. Secondly, they’re on “Black Power, The Govern­ against the war in Vietnam. Third­ ment and the Ghetto Uprisings,” ly, they happen to believe that presented by the Militant Labor black people, like all other people, Forum in New York on Oct. 21. have the right to decide their own [Clifton DeBerry was the So­ destiny; have a rig h t to choose cialist Workers Party presidential their own leadership; to work out candidate in 1964'; Ivanhoe Don­ their own program, strategy and aldson is New York director of the tactics . . . Student Nonviolent Coordinating Those who attack black power Committee; and Lincoln Lynch is believe that somehow this coun­ associate national director of the try is right, but not going about Congress of Racial Equality. it the right way — but it’s basi­ [These excerpts were made from cally right — their heart’s in the a tape recording, and were not right place, and that sort of thing. edited by the participants.] And this is what is involved in the Negro leaders attacking the advocates of black power. The organizations, SNCC and Clifton DeBerry CORE, Who are Under attack, re­ Mr. Chairman, guest speakers, present the new mood in the black comrades and friends, the topic is community. The old guard repre­ not only timely, but the title of sents the old, the old status quo. the topic tonight struck me as All of the accusations, all of being rather interesting, since the criticisms that they make there is a relationship between the against the advocates of black three parts of the topic. power, are the same arguments At the outset, I would like to that you can read in the New Y ork state that it is the white capitalist Times, the Daily News, the W orld government which is responsible Journal Tribune, and any other for the uprisings taking place in publications that are put out by the black communities through­ the capitalists in this country. out this nation. As a reaction to They have not sought to sit down the conditions created by the and discuss this problem, to re­ white capitalist rulers, the black cognize the need today for black people are starting to organize as unity. Because we differ on many, a people and are starting to utilize many things, but every black man their black power to better their has one thing in common: he’s AT MILITANT LABOR FORUM, Lincoln Lynch (left), Clifton DeBerry and Ivanhoe Donaldson at conditions. This is, I believe, the black in a white society — that’s black power symposium, Oct. 21. true relationship between the dif­ his basis for Unity. That should ferent parts of the title. override any differences that any The capitalist government is serious person may have. And you are doing what they think Black power represents the wave Boston and the Northeast and so responsible for the uprisings. They that’s whether he has a Nobel you ought to do. The minute you of the future. It is a reflection of forth; they thought that Walker are responsible because they cre­ Prize or not. want to do what’s in your in­ the spirit of the colonial revolu­ was too violent. He demanded too ate the conditions under which The liberals who have been sup­ terest, they fall by the wayside tion. This is the very basic reason much. He wanted to move too black people are forced to live in porting and championing the rights too. why it should be defended, why soon. He asked fo r blacks to be this country. They create the of black people — all of a sudden, I also believe what is beginning it should be supported. And any­ armed and to fight their white slums, they create the inferior when black people decide they to come through more and more one who is concerned with the fu­ oppressors wherever they were. education, they build substandard, want to lead their own struggle, is a deepening of an understand­ ture, w ill do so. So that in 1831, when he was mur­ segregated schools. It is the gov­ the liberals want to quit. They ing in the black community that dered, as a young man, hardly ernment which is responsible for want to take their money away. they must rely upon themselves. past the age of 30, it was not until the large percentage of Negro un­ You know, it’s like a little kid. They must organize themselves; his death that whites began to employment as well as being res­ He’s got a baseball. “If you don’t they must unite as a people, and Ivanhoe Donaldson recognize the integrity within the ponsible for the large percentage let me pitch, I’ll take my ball and begin to conduct struggles in their This country was founded on man. And the third edition of his of unemployable Negroes . . . go home.” That little kid learned, own interests, develop their own two points of relevance to me. The book, interesting enough, was put It is the government which is you know, they made more than leaders, work out their own pro­ first is that the country is racist out by Garrison, the man who responsible for the lack of equal one ball! . . . gram, strategy and tactics. and the second is that the coun­ fought him all the way down the opportunity; it is the government I believe that the movement try is exploitative. And on these line, and was therefore, I say, in which is responsible for Negroes Young Leaders toward political action is a gigan­ two propositions we have built many ways, responsible for his being denied the right to vote; the I believe that the new, young tic step toward changing condi­ our great American traditions. The death. government is responsible for the leaders of both SNCC and CORE tions of black people in this coun­ question of racism is found in our I look at Malcolm in the same prejudice of trigger-happy cops represent the young people of to­ try. The model in Lowndes Coun­ Constitution. You know, blacks way. Because Malcolm has more who have declared open season on day. They represent organizations ty is one that can and should be are nothing but three-fifths of a friends, now that he’s dead, than Negroes in this country. The capi­ that have gone through struggle. followed in other black communi­ man. And that must be under­ when he lived. Everybody “once talists create the conditions which They have demonstrated their ties. There is a difference between stood even today. And the whole worked with Malcolm,” “once Negroes are forced to live in, and seriousness. the North and the South; in the concept of manifest destiny begins talked with Malcolm,” “once agreed when they react to it the govern­ And I say anybody who calls North there is a large middle to bring in the concept of exploita­ with Malcolm,” — you know, “did ment blames the Negro for the himself a serious radical, serious ground. In the South, the lines tion . . . all that was possible.” And one has .problem which the government socialist — if you do not defend are drawn sharp. You’re either on We are taught in elementary to ask, well, how come he died? No, created. them, you are a liar, a cheat, and one side or you’re on the other; schools and in junior high schools what happened is symbolic of both More recently, one of the you’re a fraud. History has de­ there’s no room between the two. and high schools that in 1492, the radical and liberal community spokesmen for the Johnson admin­ monstrated that every people must But in the North, because the pat­ Christopher Columbus discovered within this country that they al­ istration stated how the new civil lead their own struggle. Why are terns of Jim Crow are not quite America. Any school teacher who low black leadership to give cer­ rights bill was defeated because the black people any different? as crude, everything is sophisti­ teaches me that, I have to con­ tain lip service, but when they of black power and Stokely Car­ And many of those whites who cated, even de facto segregation sider a racist by definition. Be­ step beyond the ranks to build michael. There are a lot of people participated in those struggles at isn’t de facto segregation, accord­ cause, w hat does it mean to dis­ their own independent political who accept this because it ap­ one stage or another, rather than ing to the liberal publications, it cover a country where there’s al­ power, they’re allowed to be peared in the daily press. But if being critical, should feel proud of is “racial imbalance.” But, there’s ready an on-going existing civil­ killed. And that’s exactly what they stop to think, they would ask the fact that they played a role a big middle ground, occupied by ization? A civilization which in happened to Malcolm X — what ..themselves, “Now, I don’t believe in the early stages, b u t now this people who sound radical, sound fact makes it possible for you to happened to David Walker, a little Mr, Carmichael is in Congress; he movement has come of age. I t ’s like they’re really doing some­ survive your first winters, and over 100-plus years ago. wasn’t there. I don’t believe that thing, yet, at the same time, come into its own; and they played to celebrate your Thanksgiving The whites fought for power .the membership or other repre­ they’re hanging on to the Demo­ a role, in that regard. Not stand day in 1966. among themselves, and they called sentatives of SNCC, were in Con­ cratic Party. The lines aren’t back and say, “after all I’ve done But obviously what 1492 means it a civil war. In that process, gress, either.” But, this is just an­ drawn as sharp yet. for you, and you won’t listen be­ to America is that whites dis­ blacks somehow were informed other example of how the capital­ cause I’m white.” Politics covered this country for their own that slavery was terminated. They ists create a condition and then We’re liv in g in a new age. A n purposes and that all other fac­ didn’t participate within that pro­ make the victim look like the But I believe that the young age of revolution. We’ve got a tors are unimportant and non­ .criminal. They’re doing it to the people are moving in the direction cess, except with a very surface young generation, who want to see existent. Europe discovered the kind of involvement. They were Negroes here in this country and of going into the black communi­ a few things done. They want them United States. And we today are .they’re doing it to the people of ty and beginning to educate the not allowed, initially, to fight done right away. And if every­ nothing but an extension of Eu­ Vietnam in the name of preserv­ black community on the relation­ within the war, and it wasn’t until body would look around at what’s ropean colonialism and its mani­ ing democracy. ship between politics and their the North saw the advantage of happening, not only in this coun­ festation . . . There are three reasons for the lives. They are teaching the black having blacks fight, that this took try, but throughout the world, it’s reaction of the white capitalist community that politics is bread Frederick Douglass had to fight place. the youth — that’s where the ac­ rulers in this country to the ad- and butter, not just something with the Abolitionists in the 1800s Lincoln, one of the greatest ra­ tion is. So, if you’re serious, you’d that they practice way up there in for his right to participate within cists, who then came out with his better get with it. Or you’re going the White House. the Abolitionist movement. The great “Emancipation Proclama­ to get left on the sidelines. And all of those who are con­ right for blacks to participate tion,” was in many ways, fighting The Black Ghetto What is being demonstrated cerned, who believe that the ad­ equally within that struggle, to an economic war . . . more and more as a result of the vocates of black power are for represent and to fight for their After Reconstruction, and I forthright stand being taken by violence, are for going out and own. And Garrison and his broth­ think that Reconstruction is very By Robert Vernon both SNCC and CORE is that black slaughtering people, I say to you ers refused that to Douglass. important to today, because I people are beginning to learn that this: that the black people, by con­ It is interesting enough to know think that we are in another Re­ 35 cents they don’t have a friend in the ducting a struggle in their own that David Walker, in his book, construction period. Once again, White House anymore. They never interests, are paving the way for “An Appeal to the Colored People MERIT PUBLISHERS blacks are moving for solid politi­ 5 East Third St., really did. But they realize it, every person to get greater free­ of the World” addressed to the cal power within this country, and New York, N. Y. 10003 now. They are realizing that dom, not only here in this coun­ Slaves w ith in this country, was developing a base to do that. liberals are all right as long as try, but throughout the world. denied by the liberal forces of They’re attacked on all sides by day, November 7, 1966 Page F ive An Historic Election Bid ymposium By Black Panther Party the Left and by the Right, in Following the Populist move­ for power, and once they have One of the most important elec­ terms of “Why are you doing ment, there was a reign of terror, that, they can begin to deal with to ra l races in the country w ill be that?” “Why are you isolating where over 5,000 blacks were cast­ the issues and conditions of the held in Lowndes County, Alabama, yourselves?” “Is this not racism rated, mutilated, or were killed ... Harlem school situation. Now, on Nov. 8. The Lowndes County in reverse?” “Is it not separat­ In 1941, A. Philip Randolph w hat the press does, and w hat the Freedom Organization, (LCFO) ism?” “Is it not this, is it not called a march on Washington. w hite establishment does, is they which has become known as the that?” Randolph’s position was that that say that those parents just want Black Panther Party because of This would lead to the same sort march should be all-black; a black a black principal and nothing else. its symbol, is running candidates of results that took place during march on Washington, D.C., “ There are no issues or condi­ for county office against the Dem­ Reconstruction — because the end around the issues of fair employ­ tions at stake here.” So the argu­ ocrats and Republicans. result of Reconstruction was ment. That march was called off ment goes over w hether or not The Black Panther Party is a fascist society, which became because the Roosevelt administra­ the parents can have power. They composed of and controlled by the very visible within this country, tion agreed to break down job do not address themselves to what black people of Lowndes. Stokely and there existed a reign of ter­ definitions in the defense indus­ the parents need the power to do. Carmichael, chairman of SNCC, ror. And we^re bordering on the tries in this country and begin to It’s obvious what people need helped to form the independent same thing again . . . allow room for blacks to work ----- power to do, when one begins to black party during 1965, although look at the Harlem school sys­ Following the Reconstruction That was black power; simple and all of the leaders of the party come tem . . . period, there was an effort by pure. It wasn’t racism in reverse. from and were democratically blacks, once again, to begin to It wasn’t separatism. It was black SCLC [Southern Christian Lead­ elected by the black people of build some kind of structure that power. It was blacks utilizing ership Conference headed by M. L. Lowndes. The election and its af­ addresses itself to their own their own political power for their King] was founded on black pow­ termath w ill be closely watched by needs. That first takes place within own gain, which fundamentally, er. What else was the Montgomery both partisans and enemies of weird coalition kinds of forms. The has to benefit the entire society. boycott but black power? Black black power. Niagara Movement, the formation So, we move on through the people refusing to put their 10 The LCFO is running the fol­ of the NAACP, the city marches struggle. And we get ourselves cents in that bus until that bus lowing candidates: Sidney Logan, in 1919, 1920, 1921. involved with problems with the met their demands. That’s what Jr., for sheriff; Mrs. Alice Moore One must not forget the red greatest legal trick-bags of our we’re talking about. Using our fo r ta x assessor; F rank Miles, Jr., Sidney Logan, Jr. summer of 1919 when the troops times. That is, the weapons called own economic and political insti­ for tax collector; Robert Logan, For sheriff of Lowndes County returned home. When blacks were judicial process and legal legisla­ tutions to meet our needs. And John Hinson and Mrs. W illie Mae killed freely, within the central tion. Because there is no doubt when you begin to organize that Strickland for the board of education; and Emory Ross for coroner. way, you begin to realize that you and Midwestern areas of this that the Supreme Court decision Lowndes County has been the scene of violence against Negroes country, in Chicago and other of 1954 was a trick — coldly cal­ do have internal power within the community . . . and civil rights workers — Mrs. Viola Liuzzo and Jonathan Daniels places. So that the summation of culated to isolate radical action were murdered there. The struggle to build the LCFO has been dif­ that whole activity became clear within the black community for ficult. In addition to violence and intimidation, the independent party when the black community was social change. Because one has had to be organized against those Negro leaders, including Rev. Martin once again forced out of participa­ to ask himself: Can a body of Lincoln Lynch Luther King, who campaigned for Alabama Negroes to vote in the tion, or seeking of power in any people, within this society, deter­ Democratic primary last May. About 900 Negroes did not vote in the way, in this country. mine whether or not blacks have I think one of the things which Democratic primary, however, and instead attended the mass meeting That negative isolation gave a right to attend a school? Whe­ we’re seeing today was men­ of the LCFO to nominate their independent candidates. birth to the Garvey movement, ther or not blacks have a right to tioned m any years ago in the In 1960, there were something over 15,000 people in the county — which was probably without a do this, and to do that? And one Bible. No, I’m not religious. Rath­ and 81 percent of them were Negroes. A t that time, no Negroes were doubt, historically, the strongest has to say, “What if the Supreme er, the contrary. But, in Revela­ registered to vote. Now there are 2,681 registered Negroes, compared movement of blacks, especially Court decision was 5-to-4 in the tion. I don’t know the chapter to 2,519 registered whites (the white registration is padded with people within the Northeast, to deal with other position?” nor the verse, but it said: “And not living in the county and even some who are dead — but who I saw a new heaven; and a new their own issues, and their own Whites Decide somehow manage to have their ballots counted). conditions. earth. For the old has passed The Black Panther Party faces possible fraud and violence at the What it was is that white people away.” I think it’s a myth to talk about were once again determining whe­ polls on Nov. 8. Every partisan of the Negro struggle for equality Garvey in the concept of “back to For the black people of this should pay careful attention to what transpires in Lowndes on Nov. '8. ther blacks should participate with country, and certainly for the Africa.” One must talk about Gar­ them in their schools. And ob­ vey in the psychology of the issues white people, also, because they viously, it became a weapon too are a part of this country, related to the times of the ghet­ granted to them by a majority know whether you know it or not, against the South. But that actual­ (although sometimes many of us tos of the cities of this country. population. but the north Vietnam constitu­ ly set a pattern for the struggle wonder if they are) this new Because the only remnant we have I think Mr. DeBerry document­ tion is copied from that. in this country. The struggle in America is unfolding. It is an of the Garvey period presently in this country — it’s greatest frus­ ed the responsibility of the gov­ Except this, that nowhere has New York, happens to be the America of black people which tration is that it always returned ernment to where they have failed this country even attempted to live only black bank, the Carver. will no longer take handouts, back to the judicial and legisla­ to live up to their responsibility. up to this Constitution nor this (And one might think, well, whether this be by greenback But I myself would rather ques­ Bill of Rights. tive means for change.... dollars or by old clothes, or by banks are bad because they’re ca­ tion the responsibility of govern­ What does this all have to do Even though we supported the gratuitous advice, or by a pat on pitalistically oriented. But one has ment. And if it is indeed the re­ with black power? What does this civil rights bill of 1964, and the the head. It is America which sees to understand the psychological sponsibility of government to; grant a ll have to do w ith black people?... civil rights bill of ’65, I would black people willing and able to impact and importance of build­ maintain, personally, that those all of the things which the black I think the movement which one ing institutions which you your­ stand up on their own two feet bills are insUlts'to the black people population is asking, because I is seeing from San Francisco, to self can manipulate. Now the and say, “I too am an American.” of this country. We have to re­ have serious doubts in my mind Cleveland, to Atlanta, to Phila­ problem in that is that blacks And he says it advisedly. Be­ as to whether this is so. delphia is a movement of rebel­ cognize and accept that because cause he says it knowing that he’s do not have im m ediate access or those bills intrinsically say that What is a government, .in fact? lion. There’s no other word for it. control to make that a communi­ colored. So, in actual fact, he’s Indeed, I think that what we are whites have a right to determine It is a movement of rebellion. It ty bank. But interesting enough, saying: “ I’m not only an American; whether blacks are equal or not seeing right now is not the con­ is a movement which says as Mac­ it still remains the only segment I’m an Afro-American. I’m some­ equal with them; whether blacks spiracy of a few hundred, or even aulay said, m any years ago, of some kind of development from one who was brought here a long can vote in their institutions; whe­ a few hundred thousand, men in “Lest, when our latest hope is fled, the black community.) tim e ago. B u t this is m y home Washington, but rather, a system we taste of our despair, and learn ther blacks can sit with them at now. I know no other land. I know which has been built into this by proof in some wild hour, how L abor the table; whether blacks can do no other customs. This is my nation for more than a hundred much the wretched dare.” F o llo w in g the Garvey period, A, B, C, o r D. country. My mother, my father, years. And I do not think that In the years and months and you have an amalgamation of Now in terms of the ’66 bill, my grandfather, my great-grand­ either the black or the white pop­ days ahead, the pattern which has frustration in labor. And once the failure of the ’66 bill, which father, before him, helped to build ulation, even in this audience, can shown itself with the revolutions again, the use of black people as one has to completely admit, was this land for free, so that General back away from that fact. and rebellions which have wracked a racist tool. B e cause the rea- it was the first legislative bill o n ly Motors and Ford and the Rocke­ the American scene in the last few son that labor organized the geared to the North. And once fellers and the others have large Who Put Them There months w ill change. I think they blacks was because they didn’t again, the conditions became clear. foundations and spread their larg­ Let me point out one thing. It w ill change to a more dangerous Want blacks participating as scabs It was all right for the North to ess across the land.” was popular for the Germans to mood. A more dangerous pattern. for industry. be sympathetic to the other bills. But, this is my land. Here in say, after the end of the last The pattern of Negroes, black,peo­ It’s also one way in which you But, when one begins to talk this country, which many of us World War, that Hitler and his co­ ple, taking out their frustration can begin to look at the Populist about one’s own backyard, then have made our home, we are here horts were responsible for the on the symbols of segregation, dis­ that cannot be . . . death of six million Jews. It is movement in the United States. to take those first steps to pro­ crimination and racism .within Tom Watson, when he did his When I address myself to popular in America right now for tect our vested interests in the the ghetto will stop. And when “whites,” I address myself purely welfare of this land. And I think certainly the moderates, and even analysis and decided it was im­ this stops, I think the real revolu­ to the political establishment that some liberals, to say, that the portant to use the black vote, in this is the new America that is tion w ill begin. many areas where he decided it we live in, because that establish­ being seen nowadays and is being Maddoxes, the Wallaces, etc., are was important for him to win, he ment itself, by definition, is white. feared — this is the new America responsible for the racial climate felt that the white vote was split And one must say, what of those which even black people, at times, which exists. But I personally up and that it would be evenly who are white, and who do not are somewhat afraid of . . : doubt it. I ask who put them there. The 1 divided and that who moved for relate and participate within that Some weeks ago, President Our President is now in Asia. the black vote, had the power to establishment? I would say that Johnson made a speech, and in The eastern hemisphere. In the build. What black people didn’t white people who recognize that this speech he was quoted in the Times a couple of days ago, Pres­ Black see, is that in many places where they themselves are powerless and New York Times as saying that ident Johnson proclaimed a new there were 6,000 whites, and W at- who fear the establishment itself the white population of America Asia. A new Asia for whom? And Panther sOn w ould run, and someone else must begin to organize their own should be prepared to give free­ w hat happened to the old one? would run, they would split communities and to polarize the dom, dignity, etc., to black people. Who’s is it? It think it is very Party the vote 3,000 to 3,000, and W at­ white communities around break­ In fact, he was supposed to have indicative of the entire climate ing up white power and destroy­ said it some five times. This, in pervading nationally and inter­ son would then move to gather Speech by John Hulett — In­ the black vote in. The blacks ing it so that this country can be­ essence, shows a basic ignorance nationally that President Johnson terview with Stokely Carmich­ didn’t have 6,000 — they had gin to build and develop internal­ of what makes an American and is visiting not other nations, but 10,000 and 18,000 votes! A nd they ly some form of society where what makes people. Because no American colonies. ael — Report from Lowndes should have moved independently people are not alienated, but can one gives anyone in this country This bears directly on County and run all of the crackers out! begin to participate day-to-day in anything to which he’s not en­ what is happening to black 25 cents As far as I’m concerned, what the structural and political and titled. And if it is a question of people in this country. The in fact developed, was that the economic decisions that involve rights, whether these be human Constitution and the B ill of Rights M erit Publisher blacks were used and manipulated our lives . . . rights or whether these be civil on which this nation was founded 5 East Third St. by the Populist movement and The parents who are involved rights, it’s an entitlement of a is perhaps the best set of docu­ New York, N.Y. 10003 then were turned upon. in the I.S. 201 School are fighting people and not something which is ments anywhere. In fact, I don’t Page s ix THE MILITANT Monday, November 7, 1966 Communist Party Opposes Socialist Ticket

By Harry Ring On one issue, however, the When the Socialist Workers State Committee is not confused. Party gave critical support to It emphatically declares: Herbert Aptheker’s congressional “Nor can we support Judy campaign, we also requested of White, the candidate of the So­ him and of the Communist Party cialist Workers Party. The pro­ that they support the SWP guber­ gram of this group is so narrow, natorial ticket. Both the decision factional and sectarian, so filled to critically support Aptheker and with attacks upon the socialist the call for CP support to the countries and the world com­ SWP ticket were motivated by a munist movement, that to support single concern — to promote in­ it is worse than meaningless.” dependent socialist political ac­ These assertions are false and tion. slanderous. They are a smoke In response, Aptheker said he screen intended to obscure the real could not do so because he had reasons why the CP officialdom been unable to arrive at a “con­ refuses to back the SWP ticket. census” on the question in his After all, it wouldn’t be seemly campaign committee. We charac­ for a group presenting itself as terized this as a patent evasion. the “Marxist-Leninist vanguard” (See The Militant, Oct. 17.) of the working class to plainly This is now confirmed by an state th a t w h ile it can and does official election statement of the support capitalist politicians, it New York State Committee of the cannot and will not support a Communist Party and by remarks socialist, antiwar slate. made by Aptheker at an election The real reasons for the CP symposium sponsored by the New stand were indicated by Aptheker York Welfare Workers for Peace in response to questions at the in Vietnam on Oct. 25. Welfare Workers symposium. This year’s New York guberna­ Stripped of the obscuring ver­ biage which is characteristic of torial election has been a difficult iw -c s S E O one for* the Communist Party CP policy statements, Aptheker leadership. For decades, on the said there is a danger of fascism I don't see why you're so neurotic about the Communist Party, dear. The Times says basis of its policy of coalitionism in the U.S. and this must be met they're against that Judy White too. with the Democratic Party, the by the broadest possible unity. CP has dilligently sought out Such “unity,” he suggested, must “progressive” or “lesser evil” be achieved within the framework Cuba and the other workers’ circles who could be pressured or mitted its differences with the CP Democratic politicians to support. of the Democratic Party where, states against imperialism. It is persuaded into supporting an ac­ to bar it from giving critical sup­ In California this year, for exam­ he asserted, “ the masses are.” precisely because the SWP record commodation with the Kremlin. port to Aptheker. Nor do we find ple, the CP is hustling votes for (He ignored the fact that “lesser- on this question is so clear that But, for the CP, the attitude of it necessary to put aside our “lesser-evil” Gov. Brown against evil” politics helped paved the way the CP does not even tr y to docu­ the SWP toward the Soviet Un­ political differences in order to “greater-evil” Ronald Reagan. for Hitler to power.) m ent its baseless smear. ion is a very different matter. The do so. Throughout, while urging But in New York, the current people to vote for Aptheker, we Old Charges N or does the CP tr y to show SWP is an unshakable partisan of crop of capitalist politicians is so how the SWP campaign is “nar­ the Soviet Union. But it is and openly and frankly stated where utterly abysmal that even the best He cannot support the SWP, he row” and “sectarian.” Is the SWP has been an implacable opponent we disagree with him. efforts of the CP leadership has said, because it is “ sectarian” and campaign narrow because it cen­ of the ruling bureaucracy and its Such a course has not pleased been unable to produce a saleable “separatist” (that is, it opposes ters on the overriding issue of anti-revolutionary policies. The ultra-left critics of the SWP who “ lesser evil.” supporting the Democratic Party), Vietnam? Is it sectarian because SWP opposes the curbs on demo­ regard it as one more “betrayal” “The race for governor,” de­ and because it is “anti-Soviet.” it insists on putting forward the cratic rights within the Soviet of their infantile conception of clares the New York State Com­ Anyone who has heard the SWP demand for the immediate with­ Union and it opposes the Krem­ revolutionary principles. mittee, “is extremely confusing.” candidates on radio or TV, or read drawal of U.S. forces from Viet­ lin’s ruinous counterrevolutionary It sorrowfully adds: “The truth its election literature, knows that nam? O r does the charge of sec­ foreign policy. And, by the same Ultra-Lefts the SWP places the responsibility is that no candidate for governor tarianism spring from the SWP’s token, it opposes the class col­ Thus the paper of the Wohlforth is worthy of labor’s support. The for the perilous world situation insistence on making advocacy of laborationist politics of the Amer­ grouplet, the Bulletin of Interna­ differences between the Rockefel­ squarely on the doorstep of U.S. socialism a central feature of its ican CP. tional Socialism, asserts that it is ler Republicans, the O’Connor imperialism. Every politically in­ campaign? It is this revolutionary stand false for the SWP to describe Democrats and the Roosevelt Lib­ formed person also knows that It is not unreasonable to specu­ of the SWP that the CP cannot Aptheker as the candidate of a erals on the central question of the SWP vigorously and uncondi­ late that these are the reasons abide. It can coexist with the working-class party because the the war are not discernible.” tionally defends the USSR, China, behind the CP charges, since in the most virulent enemies of the CP does not pursue working-class Aptheker campaign, the demand Soviet Union. But it cannot tol­ policies. for withdrawal of U.S. forces has erate revolutionary partisans of If this apparently new version been buried, and socialism has the USSR who are opponents of of the class character of the Com­ been excluded from his platform. the bureaucratic regime there. munist Party is correct, then much 'Black Panther' Patrols political theory — including the What is the meaning of the CP D ilem m a charge about “attacks on the so­ characterization of the USSR as cialist countries and the world The CP officialdom reacts with a workers’ state — would have to communist movement”? Even if particular fury to the SWP line be revised. Check on Detroit Cops this were true — which it most because it has been having such We make this point because the definitely is not — how does this a hard time in recent days with question of the class character of By Evelyn Sell suddenly become the CP criteria its class-collaboration politics. political formations is decisive for DETROIT — A1 Harrison, head er Ray Girardin and Negro lead­ for refusing to support a ticket? Capitalist “ peace” candidates have Marxists. We consider it impermis­ of the Afro-American Unity Move­ ers “who haven’t taken a strong The CP backed Johnson against become increasingly few and far sible to support capitalist parties ment, announced at an Oct. 27 enough stand.” Goldwater. Is LBJ fo r the socialist between. And the “defeat-Gold- under any circumstances. But press conference that Black Pan­ Outlining plans for the Black countries and world communist water-at-all-costs” debacle did not Marxists consider it entirely cor­ ther patrols were being organized Panther patrols, Harrison ex­ movement? Has Gov. Brown’s op­ help matters. rect to support other working- in Detroit in order “to police the plained that there w ill be teams position to the socialist countries Here in New York, where the class parties where there is a specific basis for doing so, no mat­ police.” Calling the Detroit Police of four people walking or riding and world communist movement labor bureaucracy is divided on Dept, “an army of occupation,” he through the “hot spots” of the prevented the CP from support­ the election, the CP can’t seem ter how wide the area of disagree­ ments between them. • cited a long list of black people black community in order to “let ing him against Reagan? to find a “mainstream” to plunge The refusal of the Communist beaten, shot and killed by police. the police know they are being into and it is forced to withhold Double Standard Party to endorse a revolutionary Present at the conference was watched and to record relations endorsement of any of the capi­ living evidence of Harrison’s between police and citizens . . . The issue is a key one. There talist candidates. Yet it attacks socialist ticket is one more proof charges, 17-year-old William The patrols ideally will have is a political basis for the CP’s the one force that is offering a that its policies have nothing in common with Marxism. Wallace who had been shot in the cameras, tape recorders and any double standard on this question. socialist, antiwar alternative. back Aug. 8 by police and left equipment that would help docu­ Ever since the days of Stalin, This stand of the CP’s can to lie in a pool of his own blood ment” police activities. “Putting CP policy has been shaped, not properly be described as factional for 45 minutes before being taken patrols on the streets won’t effect by the needs of the American or and sectarian. It certainly stands Set N. Y. Forum on Role to a hospital. The youth, who great change,” Harrison stated, world working class, but by the in glaring contrast with the seri­ looks about 13 years old, was “but it’s a step in the right direc­ needs of Soviet foreign policy as ous, principled position taken by Of Left in '66 Elections charged with car theft — although tion . . . We hope that the fact defined by the Kremlin bureau­ the many independents who de­ ,the prosecution admitted at the NEW YORK — Jack Barnes, that they know they are being cracy. spite their political differences, trial that the car had never been New Y o rk Organizer of the So­ watched w ill curb some of their The essence of th a t policy, from have endorsed the SWP slate, moved from the used car lot. cialist Workers Party, w ill assess murderous tendencies.” Stalin’s day to the present, is to either on the basis of its general Wallace was given a sentence of the role of the various left-wing When asked how he thought the arrive at a “peaceful coexistence” election platform or as a means six months probation for tamper­ groups in the elections at a meet­ police would respond to the citizen accommodation with one or an­ of registering opposition to the ing with a car but he had already ing of the Militant Labor Forum. patrols, Harrison answered that he other sector of world imperialism. Vietnam war. paid a much higher sentence: a It will be held Friday evening, expected some of the patrol mem­ To achieve such “coexistence,” serious wound in the back that Nov. 11, at 873 Broadway. bers would be beaten and perhaps the Soviet bureaucracy stands Guardian Support kept him in the hospital for a He w ill focus particularly on the killed by the police. The white ready to sacrifice or subordinate week. For example: The N ational New York and California elec­ reporters were particularly con­ the interests of the world revolu­ Guardian, a supporter of the “so­ tions. In California, there has been 1 Responsibility cerned over whether the Black tionary movement. (The present cialist bloc,” recommends voting a division between those who fa­ Responsibility for Wallace’s Panther patrols would be armed. secret Soviet negotiations with for the SWP ticket “on the basis vo r B row n as a “ lesser e v il" shooting and the long history of Harrison stated definitely that the Johnson at precisely the moment of the forthright SWP campaign against Reagan, those who favor police brutality against black peo­ patrols would not carry arms. when, he is readying a new Viet­ and its participation in the major boycotting the election and those ple in Detroit was pinned on In addition to the formation of nam escalation is but one example areas of concern.” for a socialist write-in vote. .Mayor Cavanagh, considered “ most the patrols, the Afro-American of this.) The differences between the CP In New York, radical controver­ guilty because he is the chief ex- Unity Movement (AAUM) is In line with this Kremlin policy, and SWP are of a deep-going sy has centered around the SWP :ecutive of the city,” Prosecutor manning a telephone service for the American CP has been per­ character. But for principled po­ campaign, the SWP’s critical sup­ Samuel Olsen “ because his office citizens’ complaints or questions fectly willing to support anti- litical people, this is not a barrier port of Aptheker, and the inde­ issues warrants against black peo- about the police. Detroit Negroes Soviet capitalist politicians if it for acting in a united way when pendent campaigns of Hal Levin, ple but does nothing about mur- can call 822-9318 between 10:00 felt this would strengthen the there is a basis for doing so. The Leslie Silberman and James Wein­ ‘dering police,” Police Commission- a.m. and 7:00 p.m. hands of those in American ruling SWP, for example, has not per­ stein. Monday, November 7, 1966 THE MILITANT Page Seven l e t t e r s f r o m o u r r e a d e r s

[This column is an open forum ning, rioting broke out in East The “rebellion” consisted of some Thought for the Week for all viewpoints on subjects of Oakland. City officials automat­ downstate and New York City general interest to our readers. ically blamed the incidents on the Democrats trying to unseat some “At its state convention, the Maryland GOP drafted no plat­ Please keep your letters brief. boycott, the easiest explanation upstate Republicans who are now form to present to the voters between now and the November elec­ Where necessary they will be available, and the farthest from in power in the organization. While tions . . . Since most voters like to have some idea of what a party abridged. Writers’ initials will be the tru th . the Democrats talk slightly to the stands for, the Maryland Republicans may have gone a bit too far. used, names being withheld unless Members of the Hoc Committee left of the Republicans there are On the other hand, perhaps the public by now has grown so tired of authorization is given fo r use.] are now being threatened with a no basic differences between them. promises which evaporate after election that it w ill be intrigued by a year’s imprisonment by the dis­ In my opinion, in spite of the party promising them nothing at all.” — The Wall Street Journal. Oakland Boycott trict attorney, on charges of con­ tremendous difficulties involved tributing to the truancy of minors. in unseating an entrenched bu­ Oakland, Calif. This boycott has shown the reaucracy, I believe there is an munition in quantities but bars of The Ad Hoc Committee for funny, for Felix Greene tells US strength of my fellow students and opportunity to push it to the left gold and silver (metals which the Quality Education asked all junior that pedicabs were abolished by their determination to get the best as the youth are trying to do. I Red Guards were too young ever and senior high school students law in the capital. That, I believe, possible education for all. If there believe the youth will be more to have seen) and even some of not to attend any Oakland public is all the commentary Mr. No­ is anyone who believes we have successful next year. the precious metals still in taels school for three days, Oct. 19, 20 vack’s article needs. Maybe I have not hit the board of education A.S. (shoes, no less) dating back to the and 21, and to go to freedom been wasting your readers’ time? where it hurts, I ask them to watch days of the Empire. And lots of Still yours, ' schools. The boycott was con­ the board members’ faces the next Criticizes Novack Article Chiang Kai-shek money which at Dr. Bernard Raymond sidered successful by Oakland time students threaten them with first the youngsters thought was students, such as myself, and by Safety Harbor, Fla. [We wish to comment only on three days of protest. They w ill “tin.”. And consider the number of the Ad Hoc Committee. I am delighted to report that for the question of fact raised by Dr. notice a slight yellowish tinge. fugitive landlords who had been the first time this year the Oct. Raymund. The source of George This organization was formed in living safely in Peking instead of Suzi Montauk 17 M ilita n t arrived here on the Novack’s pedicab story was a April by Oakland groups and in­ in their own villages as required day of issue. I cannot say the same Reuters dispatch from Peking. Dr. dividuals concerned about racial for your issue of Oct. 24 which I by law. problems in their city’s schools. Raymund has, we think, confused N. Y. NAACP Convention have so fa r not seen. Anna Louise Strong has repeat­ They had definite proof of dis­ pedicabs with rickshaws. For ex­ New York, NY. But I must make reservations edly emphasized that all great crimination: three high schools, ample, on page 60 of the paper­ As an observer at the New York on George Novack’s piece, even if movements in the Peoples’ Repub­ eight junior high schools and 46 back edition of his book, China, State Convention of the NAACP I am a week late in doing it. I lic, such as the “Great Leap For­ elementary schools in Oakland Felix Greene notes that rickshaws Oct. 21-23, I would like to make think if your readers will com­ ward” have come from below. This have more than 80 percent Cau­ have been abolished and then re­ some comments about it. pare “What’s Really Behind Chi­ one is no exception. In concert casian or 80 percent minority stu­ lates the experience that a Swiss The entire atmosphere of the na’s Red Guards?” with Anna with the daily captive press, Mr. dents and are therefore segregat­ woman he m et there had w ith a convention was one of middle-class Louise Strong’s story in the Oct. Novack sees what is happening ed. The amount of money and pedicab driver. E d i t o r .] delegates out for an enjoyable 15 National Guardian they will as imposed from above and even, planning in minority schools is weekend at a plush hotel in a note a vast discrepancy which can God help us! draws a parallel with small compared to predominately only be laid to Mr. Novack’s what happened under Stalin be­ Protests Fire-Bombing Caucasian schools, and minority lily-white area of Long Island. The entire business of the week­ sources, w hich seem no better than fore Hitler attacked the USSR. Bloomington, Ind. schools have less than 10 percent end was condensed into four hours those of the New York Times. There is no question that China The DuBois Club of Indiana minority teachers. of meetings, part of which was (And those need no description!) does need to prepare for Hitler’s University is most indignant over Because of these and other con­ devoted to listening to a patron­ After all, there is nothing to Second Coming — but nobody the attempted fire-bombing of ditions, minority students are not izing speech by Franklin Roose­ take the place of on-the-scene re­ needs to tell the Chinese people your New York offices. Clearly, getting the education they deserve. velt, Jr. porting. And the lady who happens that, nor “force” them into a m ili­ at this stage of the cold war, ar­ The Ad Hoc Committee attempted The rest of the business consist­ to be on the scene fo r English- ta ry mold. son and assassination have be­ to bring these facts to the school ed of passing the same worn-out speaking readers tells us several Mr. Novack concludes his piece come a standard weapon for one board’s attention, but the board resolutions which are trotted out things that Mr. Novack’s sources with the pedicab story (the rates section of the right-wing in the refused to take any appropriate every convention and usually are silent upon. For instance — are the same but the passenger struggle against the “ internal com­ action. This lead to the calling passed without dissent. the youth of the Red Guard, the propels himself) which I remem­ munist enemy.” We regret that of the boycott. But this was where the only majority no more than high school ber reading in the captive press you have become another victim Freedom Schools were set up to hitch in the convention developed, students. Again, Mrs. Strong tells at the time of the fall of Shanghai of this terroristic campaign. educate students in topics not since there is no room (or time) us how house-to-house search to the people’s forces in 1949. This Joseph T. Fuhrmann taught in public schools. These in­ under the NAACP rules to in­ turned up not only arms and am- time the locale is Peking and that’s P re s id e n t cluded talks on black power, po­ troduce resolutions other than lice brutality, Vietnam, and Ne­ those drawn up by the committee gro and Mexican-American his­ which is controlled by the bureau­ tory. cracy that runs the organization. Perhaps the most successful of The youth — who had been It Was Reported in the Press these was the black power work­ meeting repeatedly, and seriously — wanted to introduce their own shop. The Caucasian students In War and Peace — Describ­ It Figures — Installation of de­ resolutions, but were ruled out of players.” He didn’t say how they present felt that Negroes should ing new housing facilities being vices to reduce air pollution in order. The youth took the theme figured out they were. use the methods Negroes feel are built for U. S. forces outside Sai­ New York buildings, scheduled to Solid Alliance — Reporting on best, but it was evident from the of the convention, “Building the gon, the New York Times re­ go into effect during the next 18 NAACP in the Ghettos,” seriously. discussions that Negroes were ported: “Troops w ill be housed in months, w ill lead to rent increases President Johnson’s visit to Cam- They realized the proposed resolu­ ranh Bay in south Vietnam, an going to, whether they had white two-story wooden ‘hootches’ . . . of up to 10 percent in rent-con­ tions were “the same tired old Associated Press dispatch said: America’s approval or not. The generals w ill have air-condi­ trolled buildings, according to the proposals.” A very encouraging sign was the tioned bungalows.” City Rent Administrator. Or, “A ll Vietnamese stationed or em­ When the youth decided to walk awareness that organization and they’l l either choke you or squeeze ployed here were required to leave planned actions were needed. out and caucus, the fact that a Who Needs It?—Florida authori­ you to death. the base for the duration of the Many of the black students felt majority seemed to favor giving ties figured out a shrewd scheme , president’s visit because, the com­ that the main problem with riots them a hearing and that the press to circumvent the Supreme Court New Gambit — In a reversal of manders felt sure, Communist so far was lack of organizational might embarrass the leadership, decision banning prayers and reli­ previous policy, the State Depart­ sympathizers were among them.” ment agreed to let a seven-man planning. saved the day. So the leadership, gious instruction in public schools. Doing Nicely — P h ilip Luce, the claiming there was no conflict U.S. chess team go to Havana fo r There were also talks on Viet­ They decided to institute courses former Progressive Labor Party between the youth resolution and the international Chess Olympics nam. Most students agreed they in “Bible history.” To test out re­ member turned professional in­ theirs, allowed the resolutions to there. The team will be led by wanted to fight for freedom at action, they write to school au­ form er, received $1,000 fro m Con­ be adopted. Bobby Fisher, top U.S. player. A home, not for the U.S. imperialists thorities in the state’s 67 counties. gress after his testimony before The things that disturbed the State Department spokesman said: in Vietnam. In the same work­ Replies indicated that 43 counties HUAC last August. The taxpayers’ youth was that the NAACP has “We were prepared to authorize shop, speeches by M alcolm X were are still continuing Bible reading money was handed out as a “con­ played on tapes. He was extremely done almost nothing over the sessions and th a t 32 counties are the trip so long as we were as­ sultant’s fee.” H arry Ring highly received. years; that, instead of taking ac­ continuing prayers. Such practices sured they were genuine chess Three thousand students began tion itself, it asks the government violate Florida law as well as the the boycott Wednesday, and 10,000 to act; and that the convention high court’s separation-of-church- more joined by Friday. Most of took no action on the I.S. 201 sit­ and-state ruling. Announcing The these students were sympathetic uation in Harlem where it could to the boycott, though some did have done something positive by For That Cold-Blooded Friend Fall 1966 .stay home at parents’ request. supporting the ghetto parents. — Hammacher Shlemmer in New They were afraid of school riots. The press reports about a York is offering a towel rack elec­ On Wednesday afternoon there “Young Turks” rebellion at the trically rigged to keep the towels International Socialist Review was a small riot in Castlemont, convention, a distorted piece of in­ w arm . O nly $65. • Featuring Joseph Hansen on the roots of U.S. counter­ an Oakland high school. That eve­ formation if there ever was one. A Story — The president of the Campbell Soup Company says revolutionary strategy in Vietnam; George Novack on the politi­ food retailers only make ond per­ cal crisis in China; Ernest Germain on current developments in If you enjoy reading The M ilitant and are interested in cent profit, which reminds us of the USSR; Franz J. T. Lee on Bantu education in South Africa; what the young socialist movement is thinking and doing, the old peddler who bought a dy­ a 1933 open letter by Leon Trotsky to revolutionaries in South you w ill want to subscribe to America’s leading young so­ ing business from a dynamic young A fric a ; a 1964-66 in d e x. cialist magazine executive. A few months later, the young executive returned to □ Please send me the Fall ISR for 50tf. find a thriving business under □ Please send me a year’s subscription to the ISR way. In reply to his astonished THE YOUNG SOCIALIST for $2.50. [6 issues] questions, the old peddler shrugged $1 a year (six issues) and said: “I don’t know anything International Socialist Review about modem business techniques. Send your dollar to All I know is that if I buy some­ 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003 P.O. Box 471, Cooper Station, New York, N. Y. 10003 thing for a dollar, I sell it for two. I’m satisfied with my one Nam e Name... percent profit.” Progress Report — A headline Street ..Zip.. Street., in the New York Times declared: “Schlesinger Sees, a Role for City...... State.. C ity .... State . Zip.. Ideas in Politics.” Page E ig ht Monday, November 7, 1966 A Socialist Election List Salute N. Y. SWP Ticket scribed the difficulties at election For Use on November 8 symposiums of getting the other Independents Urge candidates to enter into a serious We list below, by state, the So­ discussion of issues. cialist Workers and other candi­ dates being supported by The M ili­ An Antiwar Vote Paul Boutelle, candidate for at­ tant. NEW YORK — Friends and sup­ torney general, spoke of the need ALABAMA — The candidates of porters of the Socialist Workers for giving the black power concept the Lowndes County Freedom Or­ ticket gathered at a campaign din­ an internationalist content. He said ganization (Black Panther), the ner here Oct. 29. They heard the SWP has made an important historic black slate running against brief addresses by the candidates contribution in offering a mean­ ingful concept of black power. the racist Republicans and Demo­ and by a number of the independ­ crats. ent figures who are supporting the Richard Garza, candidate for It. CALIFORNIA—A write-in vote SWP campaign. Entertainment was governor, explained the impor­ for Allen Taplin and Louis Cobet, provided by Bill Frederick, the tance abroad of a revolutionary Socialist Workers nominees for talented young topical folk singer. antiwar campaign such as the one governor and It. governor. Two of the guest speakers, John the SWP is waging. He described NEW JERSEY — In the 11th Gerassi and Grace Mora Newman, his experiences as a merchant sea­ Congressional District, Joseph Car­ were unable to be present, both man and the deep interest of re­ roll, Socialist Workers nominee. because of family emergencies. volutionaries in other lands in the NEW YORK — On Row F, the But there was an unannounced revolutionary movement in this Socialist Workers state ticket: speaker. Edward M. Keating, pub­ country. Judy White for governor, Richard lisher of Ramparts, was in New Rousing applause was given to Garza for It. governor, Paul Bou- York on business and came down Judy White, the Party’s candidate telle for attorney general and to speak at the meeting. for governor, who has done an Ralph Levitt for controller. Also Keating described his own ex­ outstanding job in her first bid a write-in vote for Hedda Garza, perience as an unsuccessful can­ Edward Keating for public office. SWP nominee in the 17th Congres­ didate in California’s Democratic She addressed herself to the sional District. primary election. He indicated that she could cast an antiwar vote for young people at the dinner on the In Brooklyn’s 12th Congressional after he had been able to extricate Judy White for governor. need to think beyond the Nov. 8 District, Herbert Aptheker. (Bal­ election. She urged them to help Joseph Johnson himself from being a Democratic Denzil Longton, chairman of the lot designation, Peace and Free­ F or Senator from Minnesota candidate, he had been able to get Citizens Campaign Against Na­ advance the cause of peace and dom.) more done in fighting for the palm, declared it was unthinkable socialism by joining the Young Also in New York, vote “No” on Socialist Alliance or Socialist liam R. Davis is running for State things he stands for. He discussed to support any candidate who sup­ the PBA proposition to bar civilian Workers Party. the Brown-Reagan gubernatorial ports the terrible crimes being review of police. Senator against the Republicans I t was a very spirited a ffa ir as campaign in his state and cited it committed by the U.S. in Vietnam. MINNESOTA—Joseph Johnson, and Democrats under the ballot as an illustration of the fallacy She expressed her appreciation indicated by the response to an ap­ Socialist Workers nominee for gov­ designation. Real People’s Party. of the lesser-evil theory of poli­ that there was an antiwar ticket peals for funds to wind up the ernor. In the 5th Congressional Supported by SNCC, CORE and tics. Answering those who argue that she could vote for Nov. 8. campaign effectively. Despite the District, a write-in vote for Jack that failure to support Brown w ill Mark Feinstein, co-chairman of fact that the majority of the audi­ Marsh, SWP nominee, ruled off other rights groups. lead to a Reagan victory, he said Queens College SDS, said he felt ence was young people, with lim it­ the ballot on a crude legal pretext. WISCONSIN — In the 5th Con­ he had not created this dilemma the SWP was taking an effective ed funds, nearly $300 was con­ PENNSYLVANIA — Based in gressional District, James Boulton, and did not propose to be impaled antiwar stand in the election and tributed. Philadelphia’s black ghetto, W il- SWP candidate. on its horns. that he supported this effort. He Peter Seidman, vice chairman of said the SWP has done a par­ the Columbia University Indepen­ ticularly effective job of present­ dent Committee on Vietnam, won ing its views on the war and Judy White Tours Philadelphia Nominee Wages resounding applause when he told black power in a popular, under­ the gathering he had applied for standable way. However, he added, Upstate New York membership in the Young Socialist he feels the SWP has not de­ NEW YORK — Judy White, So­ Alliance. He explained that in re­ veloped an effective general pro­ cialist Workers Party candi­ Campaign for ‘Black Power’ cent weeks he had carried his gram for promoting a mass com­ date for governor, got .an thinking through to the point munity-based movement for social enthusiastic re c e p tio n fro m PHILADELPHIA — An impor­ “ The reasons are obvious: THE where he was convinced that it change. antiwar activists on two up­ tant local campaign in this city is REPUBLICANS AND THE DEM­ takes organization to advance Ralph Levitt, SWP nominee for that of William R. Davis for State state campuses last week. In a OCRATS ARE PARTIES CREAT­ ideas on a meaningful basis and controller, took note of the com­ Senate. Davis is running on a that he could promote his own so­ brief tour of Cornell University ED TO SUSTAIN AND SERVE ing celebration of Halloween with and Union College, a total of about black power program for the Real cialist views more effectively as a an amusing commentary on the 500 students and faculty members People’s Party and he is supported WHITE POWER! Both parties only member of an organization like false faces worn by the capitalist turned out to hear the candidate by the Student Nonviolent Coordi­ pretend to represent us. White the YSA than he could as an in­ candidates. condemn the war in Vietnam and nating Committee, the Congress of dependent radical. Hedda Garza, write-in candidate power can only represent white urge all students and faculty on Racial Equality and other ghetto- for Congress in the 12th C.D., de- people and it protects them by James Haughton, director of the the campuses to demonstrate their based civil rights groups. Harlem Unemployment Center, Davis has been active as a ghetto keeping us in our ‘place.’ . . . opposition to the war by voting made a slashing attack on U.S. im ­ socialist and by holding marches organizer, in protests against “Black people need POWER in perialism. He said he was support­ police brutality and he is an out­ the government, because it is the N. Y. SWP Slate and rallies in their areas on No­ ing the Socialist Workers slate be­ vember 5-8. spoken critic of the Vietnam war. government that holds the key to cause it offered a meaningful rev­ On TV, Radio The core of the Real People’s Par­ our problems . . . Did any dem­ olutionary program. He urged that Students at Union College de­ ty :program is contained in a leaf­ onstration address itself to the after the elections there be special On Sunday, Nov. 6, Judy cided to form a socialist club on let entitled “The Next Step for feelings of black mothers when the efforts to develop a community White will be on the follow­ campus as the result of Judy Black People,” which may be ob­ government packed up all our 19- base among workers, black and ing programs: WABC-Radio, White’s visit. tained from the headquarters at year-old black youths, and sent white, for effective action against 10:30; WCBS-TV, 12:15 p.m.; In Schenectady, the guberna­ 2064 Ridge Avenue. them to Vietnam to die, because the system. WABC-TV, 2:30 p .m .; torial candidate talked with work­ the ‘colored’ schools had given “No one protects our children Linda Dannenberg, a member WCBS-Radio, 3:30 p.m.; ers of General Electric on the them just enough education to get fro m the useless education they of the staff of the Fifth Avenue picket line. The workers have been drafted, but not enough to go to WABC-Radio, 10 p.m. receive in over-crowded schools,” Vietnam Peace Parade Committee out on strike for over six weeks. college? On Sunday at 12:50 p.m., the leaflet states in part. “No one who has played a key role in or­ Young workers on the picketline “The answer is no! But the gov­ Hedda Garza will be on protects us from high rents and ganizing major antiwar demonstra­ took .election literature for them­ ernment could solve the problem WABC-TV. rat-infested ‘Negro’ housing. No tions, told the meeting that, at 23, selves and friends. of black education tomorrow, if it one h as protected us from low she would be voting for the first On Monday night, Nov. 7,; Paul Boutelle, SWP candidate was forced to do so. AND WE wages or no jobs, or the high cost time in this election and that she at 12:30, Judy White will be for attorney general, spoke at two MUST BE THE FORCE SO THAT of rotten meat! had been certain to register so on the Barry Gray Show, meetings of the University of Buf­ “The big, rich government that ALL OUR PROBLEMS ARE WMCA-Radio. falo campus, and visited the GE protects everybody except us is SOLVED TO OUR LIKING! We plant in that city. owned by the same phony Demo­ need power to do this! Political crats and Republicans we have al­ power! The power of a unified, ways voted for and only see at black political force — BLACK election time. For 100 years, Re­ POWER!" publicans and Democrats have The Philadelphia Socialist Work­ John Gerassi Urges Vote for SWP ers Party has announced its sup­ been promising a better world for The following message was sent to the Socialist Workers port of the Real People’s Party black people, and every day for Party election dinner in New York by John Gerassi. Former 100 .years they have broken that campaign and urges a big vote for promise. William R. Davis, Nov. 8. Latin American correspondent for Tim e and Newsweek and au­ th o r of The Great Fear in Latin America, Gerassi is coordinator

11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 of the American branch of the Bertrand Russell Peace Founda­ tion. "We advocate a vote for the following: In New York, for the * * # It is fundamental to voice our opposition in every possible Candidates of the Socialist Workers Party for state-wide of­ manner to the aggression and tyranny being perpetrated by the fice on the basis of the forthright SWP campaign and its par­ U.S. government which is flouting not only the laws of morality ticipation in the major areas of concern . . . In California, the and international accords, but also the sentiments of world opinion. Guardian cannot in good conscience recommend a vote for At the ballot box, that voice of protest can only be ex­ Gov. Brown. We recommend a write-in for Socialist Workers pressed in favor of the one party presenting the one platform which consistently condemns this aggression, this tyranny and Party candidates Allen Taplin for governor and Louis Cobet this injustice. I w ill vote for the Socialist Workers Party and •for lieutenant governor."— THE NATIONAL GUARDIAN. ask you to do so also. John Gerassi tmimiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Linda Dannenberg