NUMBER 87 25 CENTS .:~~. X:523 DECEMBER 1980-JANUARY 1981 Reagan Reaction Targets Blacks, Unions, USSR The "Reagan years" of racist reaction of that country never recovered. Pope John Wojtyla to aid capitalist he will surely do with bipartisan are underway. A certified right-winger Haig demonstrates Reagan's com­ restorationist forces in Poland, drag­ support. But carrying through on his and his administration-perhaps less mitment toa heightened Cold War ging their somewhat reluctant NATO contradictory campaign ,promises for person~ly crazy than the Nixon "team" drive, begun by Carter's anti-Soviet allies along. William Safire, ex-Nixon the economy will be impossible. In but further to the right socially and "human rights" crusade. As we poiIJted speech writer turned columnist, pursued reality there's no way in the world he can politically-are assuming the top posts out at the time, Carter's "human rights" the logic of Reaganite foreign policy slash taxes, drastically boost the mili­ of American imperialism. The candi­ hot air was a transient bourgeois with an open threat to the USSR: "The tary budget and get away with it without date who said Jimmy ("MX missile") hypocrisy, aimed at morally and militar­ last time anybody invaded Poland, a giving inflation such a massive push Carter was soft on Communism now ily rearming the U.S. for military World War began." If the Soviets upward that consumers will have to take has his finger on the nuclear trigger. The interventions abroad and targeting the invade Poland, Safire wrote, the U.S. shopping bags filled with dollar bills to hero of the "Moral Majority" repressive buy groceries. puritans now occupies the "bully pUlpit" Nobody voted for depression, in the White House. The man the Ku QJe NffioN inflation and unemployment on No­ Klux Klan enthusiastically enaorsed is vember 4. In fact, most people gave now poised to swing his budget-slashing UI/JItK. ~P-. those as the reasons they voted against ax at the few remaining government Carter. The New York Times recently social programs and what's left of the noted that the Democrats can now enjoy legacy of the civil rights movement, to the advantages of being the party in bury busing for good and to call a final opposition: they do not have to take any armistice in the Democrats' Illostly­ responsibility for anything and get to forgotten "war on poverty." blame the continued decline of Ameri­ Black Americans know what the can capitalism on the incumbent. So Reagan candidacy means: they are big Kennedy, despite the liberals' present targets-along with the labor state of defeat and disarray, is trying to ~----!noveIHellt of t1tt: licwpresident.-Rea- .... I- H ...... rebillid the shattered New Deal coali­ gan said that he would have signed the ~ tion of blacks, labor and ethnic anti-busing ,amendment Carter threat­ ~ CathQlics. ened to veto. His ex-Dixiecrat ally j Ken'nedy is aided by the reformist left Strom Thurmond talks about reversing in his attempt to resuscitate the bour­ the Voting Rights Act and resurrecting ] ~ geois party of "the lesser evil." Spouting the "states' rights" rhetoric of old­ l' the tired old "fight the right" slogans, fashioned Jim Crow racism. Reagan's Michael Harrington's Democratic So­ urban affairs advisers call for eliminat­ cialist Organizing Committee is doing ing rent control, food stamps and the its best to revive the traditional Demo­ minimum wage-attacks which directly \ cratic alliance. The Communist Party is target the black ghettos. Reagan's only likewise engaged, still pushing the "solution" to massive black unemploy­ dangerous illusion of "detente"­ ment (a black college graduate is more For LaborlBlack Mobilizations to definitively proved a Stalinist pipe­ likely to be jobless than a white high dream by the saber rattling of the Carter school dropout) is a "sub-minimum" regime over Afghanistan-and ren­ wage for inner-city teenagers. dered ludicrous by the election of The Reagan years might be said to warmongering Reagan. Black "leaders" have begun on November 17 in Greens­ SMASH THE KLAN! like Jesse Jackson and the SCLC's boro, when an all-white jury acquitted date and murder. Joseph Lowery are also in there pitching the KKK/Nazi killers who murdered for black support to the Democrats, five leftists and trade unionists in broad Hundreds of ,Students The victims of the Greensboro massacre, supporters of the Commu­ while Ralph Abernathy and Hosea daylight (see accompanying article). p'rotest Greensboro Williams actually backed Reagan. The Greensboro verdict, a virtual nist Workers Party (CWP)" were "license to kill" for the Klan and Nazis, Verdict targeted- because they were '''reds,'' Jimmy Carter and the Democrats was completely in the spirit of the right- anti-racist militants and union organ­ paved the way for the Reagan reaction wing political shift indicated by Rea­ izers. Every socialist, every black, with their own anti-labor, anti-black, gan's victory. Last month an all-white jury in every trade unionist should have warmongering policies. It was a Demo­ Not only on the fascist fringe is the Greensboro, North Carolina acquitted understood the Klan/Nazi's escalating cratic Congress that killed off most of sinister profile of the Reagan presidency the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi killers who race-terror as a deadly danger to us all. the poverty programs, passed anti-labor being defined. In his most sinister on 3 November 1979 shot to death five Immediately following the shooting, legislation, cut back social spending and cabinet appointment to date, Reagan anti-Klan demonstrators in broad the Spartacist League/Spartacus upped the arms budget. It was Carter named General Alexander Haig secre­ daylight, as horrified spectators and Youth League (SL/SYL), working himself, with his phony "human rights" tary of state. The liberals are wailing TV cameras looked on. The verdict is a with militant auto workers, initiated a crusade, who began the latest round of about his stonewalling as Nixon's chief­ license for fascist terrorists to intimi- continued on page 4 Cold War anti-Sovietism, It was Carter of-staff during the 'final days of the who "discovered" the "Soviet combat Watergate White House. Haig's real Soviet Union in particular. No more should blockade Cuba. "The possibility brigade" in Cuba and who called the crimes, however, were committed as "human rights" rhetoric now­ of a_ Soviet Berlin blockade must be Olympic boycott over Afghanistan. Kissinger's number one "national secu­ Reagan;s boys on the "transition team" considered. This is heavy stuff; it could The anti-Soviet drive of U.S. rity" aide: the Christmas bombing of practically suggested that the El Salva­ all get out of hand" (New York Times, imperialism has nothing to do with Hanoi in 1972, the CIA "destabiliza- doran junta gun down the leaders of the II December). "human rights" for Soviet workers or . tion" of Allende's Chile and, most of all, leftist-moderate opposition. Even if it national self-determination for "captive nations." It is the ideological and the genocidal terror bombing of Cam­ contains no brash Russia-hating Polish­ Carter, Liberals Paved the Way bodia, a "secret" war which produced nationalist Pilsudskiites, the Reagan military expression of the world's most 600,000 casualties and 3.4 million gang or' right-wingers will be no less Ronald Reagan promised to build up powerful bourgeoisie's fear of the refugees and from which the population fervent t,han Brzezinski in joining with imperialism's deadly arsenal. And that continued on page 11 2 YOUNG SPARTACUS EDITORIAL NOTES

Breakout Drop All Charges Against Bernardine 'Dohrn ! Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, many other New Leftists. (Dohrn at one America: banks, corporate headquar­ among the last of the well-known point even went so far as to ecstatically ters, and so on. It was a period of mass Weathermen sought for years by the hail the crazed Charles Manson "fami­ unrest and protest as Nixon invaded FBI, turned themselves in to Cook ly" for killing Sharon Tate and her Cambodia, escalating the Vietnam War, County officials in Chicago December friends, a despicable act she later and the state turned its guns on its own '\ 3, voluntarily ending their eleven-year repudiated.) children. The National Guard and stretch underground. Weatherman, a The Spartacus Youth League's (SYL) police slaughtered ten students in 1970 former faction of SDS, decided to go predecessor, the Revolutionary Marxist alone: four at Kent State in May; two at underground at a "wargasm" confer­ Caucus (then a faction in SDS), strongly • Jackson State in Mississippi; two at ence in Flint ov.er Christmas 1969-not opposed Weatherman's petty-bourgeois Kansas University, Lawrence; one at the to escape a host of riot charges, as the tactics of despair, but at the same time University of Wisconsin and one at bourgeois press claims-but to better defended them against the bourgeois Santa Barbara-besides murdering carry out their plan of smashing the state's repression-unlike most of the Black Panther Fred Hampton in his bed state through "armed struggle now," left, which out of either petty factional in 1969. mainly via symbolic bombings. As they hatred or a yearning for bourgeois Today Bernardine Dohrn is 39, the sang to the tune "White Christmas," respectability condemned them out of mother of two children, and faces "I'm dreaming of a white riot. ... May hand as simply police provocateurs. But charges carrying up to five years in Bernardine Dohrn, 1967 ,~ you learn to struggle and fight/ or the in spite of their bizarre brand of prison (all charges against Ayers were world will off you 'cause you're white." anarchism which bordered at times on a dropped years ago). No doubt Dohrn Many were rich white kids (Ayers' sick and nihilistic worship of violence hopes to get her case through before changed. One week after Dohrn and father was chairman of the board of for its own sake, the Weathermen were Reagan comes to power and the winds Ayers turned themselves in, the New Consolidated Edison) and the Weather­ bitter enemies of imperialism. They of reaction hit full force. But unlike York Times approvingly reported that men turned to terrorism in a frenzy of thought they were "building commu­ other aging New Leftists coming in from former acting FBI director L. Patrick guilt-tripping and idiotic adventurism. nism," and although they were very the cold, Dohrn has not knuckled Grey, under indictment for "dirty In the end, the only people they actually wrong, they were part of the left. under. "I regret not at all our efforts to tricks" against the Weathermen, their killed were themselves, in the accidental Weatherman was by no means the side with the forces of liberation. The alleged supporters and personal friends explosion of their basement bomb only group engaging in "revolutionary nature of the system has not changed," and family, had all charges dropped factory in a Greenwich Village town­ violence'" in that period-even the most she said at a .news conference after her against him-and yesteryear's imperial­ house. They believed that revolts in the conservative estimates state that across arraignment. In October, former fugi­ ist mass murderers are again on the "Third World" and by "Third World" campuses in 19io at least one bombing tive Weatherwoman Cathy Wilkerson march. Abolish the FBI! Drop the people in the U.S. would smash imperi­ occurred every day-mainly of ROTC, similarly maintained principle and was charges against Bernardine Dohrn and alism, writing off the working class and Selective Service induction centers, and given three years in prison. No, the the Weathermen! Free Cathy whites generally as "bought off," as did. also at hated symbols of imperialist blood~ imperialist system has not Wilkerson! •

"Progressive" Student Conference: Left Wing of the Moral Majority? . The November 14-16 "Progressive in slogans like "Hail Red Army in Student Conference" at Kent State Afghanistan." This exlusion contrasted University had been billed as a step sharply with Students for a Democratic toward a "Progressive Student Net­ Society (SDS). In order for SDS to work" to unify the nation's campus become the mass radical student move­ movements, featuring such people as the ment of the 1960s it had to break with ubiquitous Dave Dellinger to conjure Cold War social democracy represented up the protest spirit of the 1960s. But by Michael Harrington and, drop its even a vintage I 960s' radical activist anti-communist exclusion clause, invit­ would be repelled by the anti­ ing all left groups to join. Today," communism which characterized the Harrington with his Democratic Social­ conference. ist Organizing Committee (DSOC) is First, there was a witchhunt-the still witchhunting the communists. Now political controversy of the conference. he is aided by the Peking sycophants of ~poiled maybe, but "ruined"? The Spartacus Youth League (SYL) was the Revolutionary Student Brigade excluded from the conference by a (RSB) and Communist Party (Marxist­ new Cold War witchhunt to fight aspmng student-government hacks. motion and a goon squad. Why? For Leninist) (CP-ML). They are following "Soviet social-imperialism." Former SDS leader and current CP-ML being "disruptive"-i.e., for arguing for the Peking/Washington axis to its The rest of the conference was a honcho Carl Davidson told the work­ our own political viewpoint embodied ominous conclusion by supporting the parade of burnt-out New Leftists and shop on "The New Right" that "it is progressive to worry about the breakup of the family and pornography." Per­ haps they might recruit Anita Bryant or. From Bra-Burning to Book- Burning Nancy Reagan?! Sounding like right­ wing Baptist demagogue Jerry Falwell, him.' MADISON-On November 20, 250 Majority's' Anti-Pornography Cru­ ex-SDSer Nick Unger denounced feminists ~hanting "Pornography is Rape is a horribly frightening and sade," created a sensation, provoking actress/model Brooke Shields' sexually the theory, rape is the practice" and violent crime, and women must have a guest editorial in the campus Daily suggestive commercials for designer "two, four, six, eight, we won't help the right to defend themselves against Cardinal which attacked the SYL as jeans. He railed that 15-year-old Shields you masturbate" picketed "The the violence unleashed by sick indi­ "wishy-washy moderates" who have is "ruined" and stated that he is Pub," a local bar giving dut free beer viduals. But vigilante campaigns and moved rightward. But as Reissner "appalled" that "a ruined teenager ... is as a promotion for Oui magazine. this $1,500 license to hunt black men pointed out, it is the petty-bourgeois isn't going to stop it. Instead, given being held up as a model for American That this stupid feminist moralism feminists who have swung hard to the youth." But in fact the only thing should .flourish in the -pervasively racist nature of Ntadison's petty­ right in this reactionary anti-porn appalling about these commercials is American society, such vigilantism bourgeois college community isn't campaign. that they have been censored by the can only degenerate into lynch mobs. surprising, but it is disgusting-and Some Madison feminists are now networks! dangerous. On October 9 Madison's Further, pornography is not the even embracing Anita Bryant. Poor The conference made clear its disdain Women Against Pornography group source of violence against women, as Anita is just an "emotionally battered for the working class by defeating a D.L. Reissner, a member held a rally of 1,500 to "take back the of the edi­ wife" and we must "reach out to her motion to allow campus workers to join night," at which a lynch mob atmos­ torial board of Women and Revolu­ now, and make ;her path easier" its newly-founded "progressive" net­ phere was whipped up by reading a tion, explained at a forum spon­ wrote Sarah Dick of the Feminist work. In addition the conference description of a rapist who had sored by the Spartacus Youth League Connection (October 1980). What deleted the entire resolution of the struck the week before (tall, c1ean­ here December 6. The forum's title, will the anti-porn feminists do next­ minorities workshop because it con­ shaven~ black) and taking a collec­ "From Bra-Burning to Book­ burn adulteresses and "loose" women tained the phrase "anti-capitalist." Let tion for a bounty reward to cllpture Burning: Feminists Join the 'Moral at the stake? there be no mistake-there were no anti- ,,'.. " .... , """...... I· cap~lllis~sth!!nrt"'l'" ., I '.. '... '.',"'. '.".' \,".".:'.~.'~,~:'''', '.'.,', .' .. ~.' .. "'"'.'~'..... "(..,(.'.):~!" .t..I_'1~J" •..t }~l,:.. !!'.l' ;.~~!~!·r;·;q ?~;.!'l"~''''''.''''i ,·t' .. ·<,"t:j~'< ..... ,"0 ... , <;·... \1 4.~.~.:..:. .. ,,:~ .... __ ..... :. '" _ ,.. ~ .. _...,.,~ .. ~ .. ) ", DECEMBER 1980-JANUARY 1981 3 SWP Tails Grenada Nationalists Socialism on One Isle? Is the Militant now being ghostwrit­ were granted formal "independence." ten by the National lAmpoon? Are the A 1950s trade-union leader, Gairy leaders of the American Socialist gain~d popularity by leading strikes to Workers Party (SWP) trying to set up secure better wages and working condi­ an offshore bank? Do Jack Barnes, tions for agricultural workers. But he Mary-Alice Waters and Andrew Pulley soon proved his usefulness to the British want a Caribbean hideaway to escape colonialists in controlling the discontent to, Robert Vesco style, if things get too of the popUlation, and for his services he tough? We don't know, but we have was knighted by the British crown. After noticed the SWP's curious fascination independence (in 1974), Gairy was liked of late with "revolutionary Grenada." well enough by the Nixon administra­ An SWP Political Committee report tion and the Chilean junta, who gave was entitled, "Grenada: A Workers and him military aid. Farmers Government with a Revolu­ So who are the new "proletarian tionary Proletarian Leadership" revolutionaries" being hailed by the ([SWP] International Internal Informa­ SWP? At first glance, the People's tion Bulletin, September 1980). Grena­ Revolutionary Government (PRG) of da is a tiny West Indian island, the Grenada has a fairly radical-looking smallest independent territory in the veneer-it rescinded Gairy's anti-labor Western Hemisphere, where the local legislation, is encouraging union organ­ dictator was overthrown in March 1979 izing, is seeking to boost agricultural by a left-wing nationalist outfit calling production, and extend educational and itself the New Jewel Movement (NJM). health services. I t has held mass rallies at Okay, but why all the hubbub about a which luminaries from Cuba and revolutionary trinity of Cuba, Nicaragua have appeared, denounced Nicaragua ... and Grenada? U.S. imperialism at various times and We are expected to believe that this received aid from Cuba and the USSR. miniscule island thrown up by an In praising "revolutionary Grenada" the unassuming Caribbean volcano, the S WP writes: "The Grenadians are nutmeg capital of the world, is now the seeking to achieve what the Bolsheviks flashpoint of world socialist revolution. taught. .. " ([SWP] IIIB, September The Militant is even trying to compete 1980). with the Guardian as a chic radical Who are they kidding? In addition to travel broker: propagating the fantastic illusion that "Picture this: beaches with pure white proletarian revolution is even possible sand, a sea so clear and blue you can see within the confines of this rural islet, the _ the bottom fifteen feet below. Think of SWP takes the most left-wing state­ swimming next to exotic fish you've only seen in an aquarium. Look at your ments by NJM leaders at face value. houseplants and imagine they've grown It is the same refrain sung by every into bushes-flowering bushes-that other "Third World" "progressive" cover the mountains. petty-bourgeois (and 'even bourgeois) "That's Grenada." nationalist or Stalinist misleader-they A Club Med ad? No, it's SWPer Diane all want socialism ... later (i.e., never). Grenada: is this "the real thing"? Wang writing on "A Beautiful Island, A And the NJM has given ample evidence Liberated People." Trotskyism it ain't. that are linked to the Second tary adventure like its invasion of that in the meantime it will discipline the International. Guatamala in 1953 and the Dominican Coca-Cola "Socialism" workers: in what must have been a Republic in 1965. In that case, Marxists major class battle for Grenada, the PRG Club Med "Trotskyism" would be for unconditional military On 13 March 1979, 46 armed NJM stepped in to arbitrate a strike last year So why is the SWP so enamored of defense of the semi-colonial territory cadres seized the Grenadian army at the Coca-Cola bottling plant. NJM under attack. barracks and the radio station while leader, Selwyn Strachan, comments: "revolutionary Grenada''? This bizarre "Grenada high" is mainly a by:-product A while back we noted the SWP / prime minister Sir Eric Gairy was out of "It was not a question of us taking over YSA dreams of becoming the U.S.­ of the factory. It was a of the SWP's adulation of Fidel Castro, the country. A revolution "for work, for full control Cuban Friendship Society. But for that food, for decent housing and health question of trying to get a settlement who wholeheartedly backs Bishop's and up to now, although the factory has "revolution" just as he did Manley's plum they have to compete with services" was proclaimed, and un­ been run by the government, the everyone from the Communist Party to doubtedly widely supported by the ownership still remains in the hands of Jamaica. This shameless support for Cuban Stalinist foreign policy (includ­ the remnants of the Venceremos Bri­ popUlation. Gairy was notorious W.E. Julian and Company. All that we gade. N ow they've gone at least part throughout the region for corruption are concerned about is getting the ing apologizing for Havana's aid to industrial matter settled. Once that is way. Recent reports by Andrew Pulley and gangsterism, typified by his person­ Ethopian dictator Mengistu while he settled, they can continue running the was massacring Eritrean independence indicate that the U.S.-Grenada Friend­ al praetorian guard-known variously factory." fighters) is supposedly a little radical ship Society is substantially run out of as the "Volunteers of Human Rights," -Intercontinental Press, SWP offices in New York! "Night Ambush Squad" and "Mon­ 19 November veneer on its otherwise deadly dull goose Gang"-which was largely re­ This is how capitalist development is social-democratic reformism. Besides, Proletarian Revolution and the cruited from petty thugs in Grenada's bypassed in "revolutionary Grenada"! even some American liberals figure that Caribbean jails. He was one more "Papa Doc" of Washington could make a deal with The Washington Post (10 August), Castro. Didn't Andrew Young call On the travel posters, the romantic the type installed by Britain throughout hardly known for glossing over real or the Caribbean as its island dominions Cuban troops in Africa a "factor for islets of the Lesser Antilles look idyllic, imagined assaults on private property, stability"? but life for the black popUlations of noted in an article titled, "Grenada, At Meanwhile, the SWP rejects the Grenada and other West Indian tourist Home Fails to Follow Up Its Leftist Trotskyists' unconditional defense of "paradises" bears little resemblance to Rhetoric": the USSR against imperialism. "Sure this picture. There may be an abundance Young Sparlacus "Few of the usual signposts of leftist we defend a workers state," a bright- of palm trees and tropical scenery, but transformation are in evidence. There eyed YSAer will say. "We support Cuba there isn't much in the way of jobs. In Young Spar/acus (lSSN 0162·2692) is the has been no expropriation of private newspaper of the Spartacus Youth League. The business or land by the state. 100 percent, and now Nicaragua and Jamaica, which has a little bauxite to Spartacus Youth League, youth section of the "As far as the leftist militancy of the Grenada, too." Significantly, about the augment its agricultural exports, unem- Spartacist League, IS a socialist youth government, 'there is a definite contra­ only place where the SWP differs with ployment has never fallen below 20 organization which intervenes m social struggles diction' between what Grenada's lead­ armed with a working· class program, based on Cuban policy is in tailing social- percent in the last decade; in Grenada the politics of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky. ers say to the world and what they do at home, acknowledged Maurice Bishop, democratic opinion and anti-Soviet fully half the population was jobless Editorial Board: Keith Anderson, Bonnie Brodie, dissidents in Poland. when Gairy fell. This economic dead Ed Jarvis, Dorothy London (Editor) 36, the prime minister. 'It would be childish to deny.'" And they leave you with the end is reflected in the fact that twice as Production manager: Amy Rath impression that the MX missiles are many Grenadians live abroad, mostly in Circulation manager: Kate Kelsey As if to rebuke the SWP's claim that aimed at Havana, not Moscow. Thus, New York City and Trinidad, as remain Nine issues yearly; published monthly except December/January and June/July/August. by they are proletarian revolutionaries, the the SWP's May resolution on "The on the island. And Grenada has a the Spartacus Youth Publishing Co., 41 Warren NJM has applied for membership in the Coming Showdown in the Caribbean" booming economy compared to unfor- Street, New York, NY 10007. Telephone: 732· 7867 (Editor ial, Business). Address all Second International of Helmut doesn't once mention the USSR's role as tunate island "nations" like Dominica correspondence to: Box 825, Canal Street Station, Schmidt and Michael Harrington. In economic and military guarantor of the which lack even beaches to attract New York, NY 10013. Domestic subscriptions: reality the NJM is not even a reformist Cuban deformed workers state against Yankee tourists. $2.00 per year. Second·class postage paid at New York, NY. working-class tendency like the social Yankee imperialism. Yet when Reagan Without the economic basis to Opmions expressed in signed articles or let· democrats. They are petty-bourgeois threatened to blockade Cuba last year it coalesce even the illusion of a viable ters do not necessaril y express the editorial nationalists who look to Michael was over Soviet intervention in Afghan- economy, the result has been a massive viewpoint. Manley's Jamaican People's National istan, not over Grenada. Of course, this "Iumpenproletarianization" ofthe West U.S. This be No. 87 December 1980;)al'h.iafy~198}ti'.' Party or the Dominican Revolutionary is not to deny that imperialism Indian population. tendency can Party: both' bourgeois populist' parties' - - -riiigtif atfempt another 'CarioDeari Dim: ..... --. - -- .. -. - ·contrnuea on page 1T .. 4 YOUNG SPARTACUS

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SYL proposed five slogans for the National Lawyers Guild, Democratic demonstration: "Protest racist 'justice' Socialist Organizing Committee and Smash The Klan! ... in Greensboro!" "Jail the killer Klan/ YA WF. Speakers included an auto (continued from page J) Nazis!" "Drop the charges against worker from UA W Local 600, a protest rally in downtown Detroit. On abstention from that action. Davis Greensboro anti-fascist demonstra­ representative of Science for the People to November 1979, 500 black and white probably had to endorse, but she didn't tors!" "Mass labor/black/Latino action and a Revolutionary Workers Group workers and leftists defied Detroit's have to like it; indeed, far from to smash Klan/Nazi terror!" "For the (R WG) spokesman. The latter's lengthy black mayor, who had threatened to mobilizing her students in protest right of armed self-defense against racist remarks were mostly an attack on the arrest any demonstrators, to say: "De­ against the Greensboro verdict, Davis terror!" The National Anti-Racist SL/SYL. According to him, the slogan troit Is a Labor/Black Town, Not a did not even attend the rally herself! Organizing Committee (NAROC) ob­ "Jail the Killer Klan/Nazis" is really a Klan/Nazi Town." Other endorsers at SF State included jected to the slogan for mass labor/ veiled appeal to the state to ban the Faced with a media campaign which the Women's Center and the American minority action, while the CWP op­ fascists and the call for armed self­ sought to portray the Greensboro Indian, Chicano, Asian and gay/lesbian posed the demand for self-defense, on defense is unimportant "at a time when victims as "extremist" participants in a groups. Given this broad support only a the grounds that the black preachers gun control is the exception." His main "shootout," the rest of the left criminally handful of anti-communist sectarians they were contacting would never agree point was the claim that: abstained. The CWP protested the stood aside, including Stokely Carmi­ to it. "The SL has recently tried to present the murder of its comrades, but pursued a chael's AAPRP. The local anti-draft _ The SL/SYL expressed willingness to view that right now is the point of policy of active, physical hostility to group, which doesn't take sides in work for a demonstration called on the ultimate confrontation with the fas­ other efforts to publicize and protest the cists. That is a classic cheap trick for imperialism's war drive against the basis of the remaining three demands. trying to scare people into joining a left fascist murder spree. USSR, couldn't bring itself to take a But the CWP insisted on adding the organization. The announcement a year later of the stand against the Klan/Nazis either. slogan, "Stop racist attacks on Bay This is not the first time the R WG has acquittal of the killers was again a Casting about for excuses, one of its Area minorities." Even aside from its belittled the danger of Klan/Nazi challenge that could not be ignored. On violence. In fact, even many liberals campuses across the country, the SYL have become alarmed at the. way the took an active iole in urilfeIllinois (Circle Campus). students anxiously debating what the Endorsers included the Women's Stud­ election of Reagan portends for them­ ies Program and the Union for Puerto we found a broader response among Rican Students, two lecturers in Afro­ students and leftists. American Studies, SEIU officials and The united-front demonstrations Bill Hampton, brother of the Black initiated by the SYL at San Francisco Panther leader murdered by the Chica­ Bay Area campuses were the largest, go cops/FBI. About ISO students heard reflecting the SL/SYL's work in organ­ a steel worker call for militant labor/ izing last spring's rally of 1,200 which black mobilizations against the paramil­ stopped the Nazis from celebrating itary right-wing groups whose "pro­ Hitler's birthday at the SF Civic Center SYL-initiated anti-Klan protest in Berkeley, 20 November. gram" is extermination for blacks and on April 19. The SYL's call to "Demon­ other minorities, unionists and leftists. strate Against Killer Klan/Nazi leaders even claimed the SYL called the ludicrous parochialism, the slogan begs Finley Campbell, a prominent spokes­ Acquittal-Protest Racist 'Justice' in protest "only so the FBI could take the question of who is supposed to stop man for Progressive Labor's anti-racism Greensboro" mobilized over 300 at the pictures of leftists." the attacks. It soon became clear that front group, addressed the rally and University of California (Berkeley) and The Berkeley rally was endorsed by the slogan's purpose was precisely its commended the SL/SYL for organizing nearly 200 at SF State. the African Student Association, the implicit appeal to the capitalist state to it, neglecting to motivate or even Building on the success of the April 19 campus Chicano group, a B'nai Brith "stop" the fascists by "banning the mention his group's refusal to endorse. demonstration-a powerful show of officer, the Oakland-Alameda Gray Klan." Thus the CWP appeals to the SF The Black Student Organization for labor solidarity against the fascist Panthers and Alameda County Supervi- Board of Supervisors to ban the fascists, Communication (BSOC) followed up menace endorsed by officials of 28 Bay sor John George. The CWP, having while the NAROC thinks a Justice its refusal to endorse the protest by a Area unions-:the SYL obtained sup- backed away from the idiot sectarianism Department investigation of Greens­ slanderous letter to the campus paper port from numerous campus and city which underlined its isolation in the boro will stop racist attacks. The SL/ claiming the SYL "made up" the name unionists for the campus protests aftermath of the Greensboro massacre, SYL then declined to endorse. of a BSOC member to endorse the rally against the Greensboro verdict. Among sent a speaker. Not so the Young The demonstration itself, held De­ and made "erroneous usage" of the the endorsers were five union' local Socialist Alliance, which did finally cember 6 after three weeks of "plan­ names of black professors who en­ presidents from postal, public employ- endorse at the very last minute. ning," brought out at most 125 people. dorsed. The BSOC letter ees and machinists, other local officials Unintentional contrast was provided Fully a third had been mobilized by the "questioned why as Black Students, we from transit, longshore and electrical, by a subsequent CWP-initiated demon- SL/SYL. The invited Democrat didn't would be asked to endorse a rally against the Klan/Nazis when White and rank-and-file caucuses from tele- stration in Oakland. In numerous show. Not even a black preacher. The people start getting shot, when white phone and longshore/warehouse. Also planning meetings, the CWP showed SL/SYL, which had the largest contin~ students have not had rallies denounc­ endorsing were two black newspaper that its gangsterist sectarianism and its gent, declined as simply an insult the ing the 50 million Africans who died in editors, Robert Allen (Black Scholar) present "unity" kick are only the two offer of one minute (!) speaking time. slave trade ...." (Illini, 24 November) and Carlton Godlett (Sun Reporter). sides of the classic Stalinist coin. With The SYL-initiated demonstration at An SYL leaflet issued in response The endorsement of Communist its talk of "uniting everyone," the the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) pointed out that we had secured written Party luminary Angela Davis, a profes- CWP's fundamental orientation is to drew 150 participants. In addition to a endorsements which we had offered to sor in Black Studies at SF State, was unite with the supposedly "progressive" half-dozen professors and a former show the BSOC. We even offered them a also fallout from the April demonstra- wing of the bourgeoisie on a popular- editor of the Johannesburg Post, the speaker at the rally so they could state tion, as the CP had to take a lot of flak front program acceptable to the latter. endorsers included the Black Student their position but they declined, evident- -'~'from itS>:~F-iphery for its', sectarialf" .. ·,'m.'tbe.phl~g meetings,the SL/ Union.a.Jl.d the, local ,c,bapter.s of the . )y.]ecQgnizin,g ~.t .~9~14' .. b~ •. 'political - DECEMBER 1980-JANUARY 1~81 5

quick to abandon their black and labor constituencies as the ruling class has 'cw-P Greensboro Anti-Klan Conference m!lde it clear that the few gains of blacks and the working class must be sacrificed to its drive for economic austerity and the rearmament of U.S. imperialism. Liberals do not see that the CWP's adventurist talk and tactics are in the LaborIBlack Defense vs. service of an opportunist strategy. While liberals deplore the Greensboro massacre, they are the perpetuators of the slandel that it was a "shoot-out between extremists." Blacks are not going to find this small potatoes 1980s Po'p Front "Unity" version of the failed liberal/black alliance of the '60s very attractive either. What the CWP was willing to sell out GREENSBORO, North Carolina, 6 Mitchell, IYemocratic Party congress­ always a strategy for defeat (witness the in order to consummate its popular December-On the heels of an all-white man, and by Baltimore City Jail War­ Spanish Civil War and Chile, 1973), for front became apparent when the Sparta­ jury's infamous "not guilty" verdict den Calvin Lightfoot, thereby preclud­ the CWP to turn to this strategy now is cist League/Spartacus Youth League which freed five KKK and Nazi mem­ ing the endorsement of any organization . what might be called inopportune (SL/SYL) held its workshop on mobi­ bers, the executioners of the Greensboro genuinely committed to the proletarian opportunism. lizing labor to stop the fascists, attended massacre a year ago, approximately 300 class struggie. Moreover, the coalition's The political terrain in the U.S. has by some 50 people including about two anti-fascist activists assembled here this newly-elected Task Force includes a shifted to the right: the Democrats, the dozen CWP supporters. The CWP was weekend for "an Educational and so eager to disappear the class struggle Organizing Conference" on '~Govern­ that the SL/SYL and its supporters ment Repression of HUman Rights'and were the only people at the conference to the Rise of the Klan." 'Resolution to the Anti-Klan Conference initiate such a workshop, which fea­ ~, Attendance by orga,nizationally tured panelists Ritchie Bradley, a laid., unaffiliated militants, even from the Whereas: implementing ever-more savage economic The KKK and Nazis have demonstrated in austerity programs, have targeted for off auto worker with ten years seniority Greensboro area, was small, with the action in Greensboro and Chattanooga and destruction even the minimal gains of the - and a member of the Militant-Solidarity vast majority of the participants belong­ in countless other bloody attacks across the civil rights and labor movements such as Caucus of UA W Local 906 (Mahwah, ing to various leftist, anti-fascist, anti­ country that they are the mortal enemies of busing and the minimum wage. New Jersey); Leo Harris, a "coalition" racist, student and religious organiza­ black,s, all minorities, labor and the left. support~r and candidate for president of tions and committees. Of the 1,000 And whereas: And whereas: ' The fascist resurgence is the cklmestic Miami Teamsters Local 769; and Mark demonstrators, largely black North The capitalists' cops and courts consistent­ corollary of Carter/Reagan's anti-Soviet Lance of the National Maritime Union. Carolina A& T students, who marched ly defended and covered up for the fascist war drive which seeks to militarily and The SL/SYL workshop put forward a in protest right after the a9quittal, not killers while victimizing anti-fascist morally gear up U.S. imperialism for a motion calling for the mobilization of one came to this conference. But for militants. co~nter.revolutionaty war to restqre capi­ the trade-union movement, blacks and those who hoped that the conference And whereas: tahsm 10 the USSR and which must be other minorities against the fascists; for would hammer out a militant program Small group confrontations with the KKK opposed by the workers movement and its no reliance on the capitalist government for fighting fascist terror, the disap­ and ~azis are easily defeated by the allies: in fighting the Klan/Nazis; and for the pointment was not in the turnout but in combmed forces of the fascists and their Therefore lie it resolved: right of armed self-defense against racist , I. That this conference calls for militant the adoption of a class-collaborationist inevitable defenders-the police. terror (see box this issue). The CWP "strategy" which cannot stop the KKK And whereas: ,mass mobilization~ of labor, black and -' . - . \ opposed the motion affirming the basic , and Nazis. In contrast, two mass mobilizations of mmonty orga~l1Zatlons I~ response to the democratic right of armed self-defense - The overwhelming majority of the trade unionists, blackll and other ininori- Klan and Nazi provocations as the neces­ ties, in Detroit in November 1979 and in sary strategy to smash the fascists. (included in the Bill of Rights), arguing participants voted to form an ongoing that this was a "personal," no( a "national anti..fascist __type people's San.franCiscoinApril,I980,preveotedthe 2.. That this conf~re~ce repudiates any 'fascists from rallying to organize racist reb~~c:e on the capltahst courts, cops and political, matter! And this after the organization," and called for a march on Greensboro massacre in which the cops Washington on January 20, Ronald te~)~t~St<".~~J~~~~~~;~~~,,~,Pohtl~lans as ex:mplified by c~li~g on the that orgamzed labor,actmgmconcertwlih 'PJeabn~to" banthe'KJan. /' .'; conspired with the fascists, and the anti~ Reagan's inauguratiori day.-The group bl,\cks and other minorities, has the social 3. That thiS conference endorses the right fascist demonstrators were left defense­ voted to "work to unite the broadest power to smash the fascists. of ~rmed self-defense against right~wing less. The CWP's message to the liberal racist terror. forces to focus our collective will and bourgeois forces with which it wants to strength in the struggle against fascism;" ThAnd wereas:h . -sub mille. db y I h e S'Parlac/sl - e Republican and Dem~ratic parties, - League, 6 December 1980 ally is clear: we will oppose the measures But by "broadest forces" however, the necessary to defeat the fascist terrorists coalition explicitly means to include the and wi" help keep blacks and labor class enemy. The Communist Workers disarmed, disorganized and under the Party (CWP), whose members were the board member of the Duke ,U ni~ersity traditional bloc partners, in popular thumb of the ruling class, all in the name victims of, the Greensboro massacre', College Republicans. front alliances in the U.S., paved the of classless "unity." played the leading role in forming the While the class-collaborationist way for the victory of the right-wing The, CWP was no doubt disturbed,by Anti-Klan Conference Coalition. The popular front, which subordinates the Republicans. "Liberal" Democrats are coalition was endorsed by Parren J. working class to the ruling class, is as scarce as hens' teeth and have been continued on page 9

suicide to denounce an anti-Klan rally in Park Police, and we initiated a demon­ called by the SYL and the Afrikan And we sought to bring to the students front of the black students who took stration against the racist Selective People's Organization and endorsed by the understanding that the social power part. The SYL leaflet went on: Index aimed at cutting out, minority the Student Union. The SYLer was to defeat fascism lies outside the enrollment. For all BSOC's talk of detained by campus cops and threat­ campus, in the potential power of the "BSOC's claim that the SYL is 'white' concern for black students, they were and that, BSOC 'represents all black nowhere to be seen at these events." ened with arrest if he refused-to leave. organized working class. Neither the students' is false and a racist insult to the But the determined intervention of the suicidal perspective of begging the black members of the SYL. We are an Students. at Old Westbury, an Old Westbury students stopped further government to "ban the Klan" nor the integrated communist' youth organiza­ experimental college of mostly minority harassment of the comrade, who re­ hopeless substitutionism of leftists who tion which fights for the rights of all the students in New York's state university oppose their own small forces to the oppressed through a strategy of mobi~ ceived a warm reception when. he lizing the labor movement, black and system, had to fight the administration arrived to address the rally of 150 fascists and' their cop protectors can white, to overthrow capitalism and for the right to protest the Greensboro students. stop right-wing t~rror. Only a conscious institute a socialist society. In the past, verdict. Administration Vice-President At Berkeley and UCLA, at Ann labor movement mo~ilized on a cleat the SYL has organized many protests at Circle, including a protest against the Robert Matthew, a former NYC cop, Arbor and Wayne State, at Madison class program in defense of all the brutal beating and arrest of a black auto seized an SYL "outside agitator" who ~nd Oberlin, the SYL worked actively oppressed ean deal with the marauding worker, Bennie Lenard, by Melrose was organizing for the demonstration,' for united fronts on the broadest basis. fascists once and for all .•

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We reprint below t/:le preamble to a ;;; "::l petition circulated at _ Wayne State

An all-white jury acquitted five Klan/ Nazi members who shot to death five anti-Klan protesters and supporters of Oust the Communist Workers Party

In order to apologize for what i~ a According. t'1 }"Il}l~_~I~~J,he.. c:Q.,.~lM?~ <":'r" ~"KL~J:~!t.'fbe .sg;~.u.~atcJlt~d•. '.' , IaC~t "justice" is .the "Kissing ~se" in racist and rigged verdict, Nuttle's was, merely, who shot 'firstif'The antt- "Who shot first" IS not the questIOn. The which a seven-year-old and a mne-year- editorial carefully suppresses many of Klan rally took place in the black question is: Why are five Klan/Nazi old were given 14 and 12 years respec- the central facts of the trial. It fails to' neighborhood of Morningside Heights. assassins alive and well and acquitted in tively for "attempted rape" in Monroe, mention that the KKK/Nazi attack was Having learned the preCise location of North Carolina while five CWP sup- North Carolina in 1959. Their "crime" televised and witnessed by millions of the rally from the Greensboro police, porters lie in their graves? The,answer is was having been' kissed by a white viewers. It omits the fact that the jury KKK/Nazis drove as far as tOO miles to racist "justice;" playmate. In the 1960s, many Black selection was by any criteria a sham, get there. They did ootdo this to shoot The Greensboro acquittals are hardly Panthers never made it to court. The Campus Newpapers Condemn Racist "Justice" in North Carolina ...

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cops simply murdered them, as they did Fred Hampton. Nuttle perversely accused the CWP of Petition the -South End Refused to Print staging its own execution: "Perhaps To: Student Newpaper Publications Board; .. ROtJge Militant Caucus, UAW Local 600 they needed martyrs for an issue that Robert Katz, Chairman, Civil Rights Com- would rekindle the flickering fire of The Student Faculty Council (Publications Committee); mittee, Detroit Bar Association racial animosity." "Flickering"? The The Wayne State University Board of Governors: Willie Jenkins, Laborers Local 334 newspapers have recounted a few of the Brian Taylor, Former South End writer We,- the undersigned, demand the South End editor-in-chief Nelson Johnson, Survivor of Greensboro . more grisly and recent examples of massacre racist terror: the shooting death of a 15-' John Burnett and managing editor Mike Nuttle as well as all Chuck Green, Former Bargaining Com- year-old black girl in Youngstown by those responsible for the vile apology for racist murder which mitteeman, UAW Region 1-B . three white youths; six blacks murdered appeared in the 25 November editorial "Leftists Hinder Justice James Lafferty, Attorney Nathan Head, WSU Institute for Labor and in Buffalo (two of them with their hearts at Greensboro Trial" be removed immediately. The present I ndustrial Relations cut out); four black women wounded by editorial policy of the South End ~s exemplified by Nuttle's Rohlann Callender, Administrator, Uni­ Klansmen in Chattanooga (resulting in deeply reactionary defense of Klan/Nazi murder is an affront versity City A District Council the acquittal of two of three Klansmen Ned Smokier, Attorney to the student body as well as to the black and white working Sheldon Tappes, Former International standing trial). Recently in Detroit, two people who constitute the majority of the city of Detroit. That Executive Board member, UAW Klansmen pleaded guilty to plotting the the students at Wayne State reassert control over what is Jimmie Terrell, District Committeeman, murder of a black man, another to UAW Local 900 trying to burn down the home of a black nominally a forum for our diverse opinions and views is Jack Splane, Urban Alliance long overdue. Wayne State News and Letters couple in the predominantly white Bob Fitrakis, Wayne State DSOC . suburb of Romulus. Over 1,200 students,' faculty and cam­ Mildr\'ld Smith, Past Chairman. University Harold Stack, WSU Weekend College Just as those. who deny or try to pus workers of the Wayne State University City A Citizens District Council; Bev Scott, Attorney minimize the reality of the holocaust are- community, as well as concerned activiSts President, Research Park Non-Profit Hugh Davis, Attorney .' rightly taken as Nazi sympathizers . across the country have endorsed the Housing Dave Cohen, WSU Institute of Labor and petition including: Dan Bremer,' Board of Directors, Flint Industrial Relations . despite pious disavowals, so the Sou," ACLU- Geri Hill, WSU Institute of Labor and End's attempt to pass off racist terror as Region 1-A, UAW H. Samuel Kemp, Student Publications Industrial Relations a little "racial animosity" only made Detroit NAACP Board member, Wayne State Univ.ersity George Corsetti, Attorney worse by those who protested against it, Honorable Claudia Morcom Reverend Edwin A. Rowe, Director, Wes­ Eric Bockstael, WSU Weekend College Senator Jackie Vaughn, III, Michigan ley Foundati6n, Wayne State Unversity Gary Benjamin, Attorney indicts the South End as a gross Legislature Effie Ambler, Professor, Wayne State Mark Magidson, Attorney apologist for Klan/Nazi murder. Obie Matthews, Coalition of East Side University . Gene Brooks, WSU I [lstitute of Labor and The targets of Nuttle's editorial are Ministers Reverend Dave Kidd, Central Methodist Industrial Relations those who protested at Wayne State Reverend James Wadsworth, Int\'lr­ Church Rudolph Jones, Student representative to the Academic Affairs C.ommittee of the against the Greensboro verdict and the denominational Ministerial Alliance Kathy Callahan, President AFSCME Local Ro., Aronson, Professor Wayne State 1640 Board of Governors surviving CWP members. Sounding like University, member New American Spartacus Youth League (Organizational affiliation listed for pur­ J.Edgar Hoover incarnate, Nuttle Movement Chris Alston, Founding member UAW poses of identification only) amalgamates CWP and Wayne State protesters who, he speculates, are ;:ngaged in "a cruelly manipulative game cartoons and reports of protests against The WSU Spartacus Youth League first public meeting for December 4. On whose intentions are to possibly set the of December 3, the South End "re­ scenario for even greater attempts at the racist verdict. But, in the heart (SYL}joined other outraged students to sponded" to the petition 1:>Y printing mass manipulatiQn." He sees no black and working-class Detroit, the form the Ad Hoc Committee to Oust official Wayne State U niversity n~wspa­ South End Apologists for Klan/Nazi "Shove It-SYL!" on its masthead. "manipulation" by the state in securing When a Committee spokesman brought the acquittals per, the South End, saluted the acquit­ Murder and circulated the petition of five known murderers. a copy of the petition and an announce­ As Nuttle knows, but does not mention, tals, apologized for the racist murder reprinted above.· Over 450 students and placed the blame on the anti-Klan signed within the first two days of the ment of the public meeting to his office, the Wayne State students, faculty and editor John Burnett crumpled up the workers who protested the Greensboro demonstratQrs for thejr own slaughter. petition campaign. Many helped circu­ Disgusted by ihis 25 November editorial late it among their friends and in their material and threw it in her face. The continued on page 8 entitled "Leftists Hinder Justice at classes. Some students first read the next day, 50 students crowded into the Greensboro Trial" by Mike Nuttle, Nuttle editQrial at the Ad Hoc Commit­ . room where the Ad Hoc Committee The South End vs. Wayne Wayne State students began a fight to. tee literature table; so revolted were they held its meeting... Representatives of the . regain control over their newspaper and by its current editorial· policy that a black fraternity Phi Beta Sigma., the State Students to remove those resporisible for the vile section of the' student popUlation had International Committee Agaiqst Ra­ apology for Klan/Nazi murder. Many simply ignored the paper. cism, the SYL and many outraged When an all-white jury in Greens- students were fed up· with the South individual students attended. So did 'a 1,200 Say "Oust Burnett/Nuttle" boro, North Carolina acquitted five k' End's consistently reactionary editorial little pack of South End apologists who . Klan/Nazi murderers November 17, policy as weiras by the paper's arrogant But this gross apology for racist terror tried unsuccessfully to defend Nuttle's student newspapers nationwide pub- refusal to publish letters to the editor for could be neither ignored nor tolerated! editorial: ..... the South End is not 'pro- lished outraged editorials, anti-Klan some months. The Ad Hoc Committee announced its . continued on page 8

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I _mJ2~uth .~~>~~~ ..... ".. "-.,~~-"~~"""... "."~,,,.;.,,,,-,,,,.;:..::- ....;~,,;.~ ..... ·.. ·""""·"··~"·T·T·" Leftists hinder justice at Greensboro trial "A jury Monday found four Kv; Klu.:e are urged to partWipate, bringing their would have been incarcerated' already. The Klansmen and tiro Nazis innocent of own slogans and banners. The time to question was merely who shot first? murder and riot in the deaths of five act is now! All out!" Why would the CWP members rehlse to communists at a (Death to The Klan 1 "Racist justice?" testify and then make a big issue of "Racist rally last fall. How can this trial be labelled "Racist Justice?" The protestors were killed during a justice" when witnesses against the accused One can only speculate. ctmfrtmtatitm at a march sponsored by klansmen refused to testify for the prosecu­ Perhaps they needed martyrs for an issue the Communists Workers' Party. tion? One can't protest "Racist justice" after that would rekindle the flickering fire of racial Protestors who survived the hindering the execution of that justice. animosity. shooting labelled the trial a sham and • One can't label a trial a 'sham' and then Perhaps it was a manipulative tactic. Most refused to testify for the prosecution. 11 retort to the trial's outcome by accusing Presi­ people already hate the Ku Klux Klan and its This is a partial account of the outcome of dent Carter and President-Elect Reagan of racist philosophies. But this may have been a the Greensboro trial by Associated Press and fostering a "racist America." . tactic to try to equate the klan with the courts, United Press International compiled and One can't attack the judicial system as be­ or at least imply that the courts favor the printed by the Detroit Free press. ing unfair to minorities after failing to aid that klansmen and their racist beliefs. Hence, we The following is another account of the same system in prosecuting those accused of arrive at "Carter's/Reagan's racist trial's. outcome, as it appeared in 'a leaflet committing atrocities against minorities. America" as. the villians in the flyer distributed at a demonstration to "Protest It reeks of hypocrisy. distributed to announce the protest of "Racist Racist 'Justice' in Greensboro." It is impossible to say whether or not justice." "Monday an all-white jury in testimony from members of the Communist Perhaps it's a cruelly manipulative game, Greensooro, North Carolina let six Workers' Party would' have convicted the whose intentions are to possibly set the N(J,zi/ Klan murderers go free! This klansmen. However, attorneys for the scenari~ for even greater attempts at mass amounts to a KKK license to kill Blacks, klansmen contended that the klansmen had manipulation. other minorities, unionists and leftists. killed the communists in self-defense because One can only speculate when motives are at Meanwhile the victims of last the communists fired first. question. However, one thing is undoubtedly Novem.ber's Greensboro massacre are Apparently, there was not enough evidence true. still up on charges for (inciting to riot. ' to prove the klansmen wrong. Five people are dead. This is justice in CaTter's/Reagan's Also, one must remember that the But who sh9t first? And why were they racist America. Come to tke&emonstra- ideologies of the Ku Klux Klan ·and the Com­ foolish enough to shoot in the first place? . tion to protest this raciaZ outrage!. 'All· munist Workers' Party were not on trial. If Mike Nuttle individuals w1w agree with the slogans they could be prosecuted for their bellefs they /'.~ . - ~-~

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8- 'YOUNG SPARTA,CUS Statement to the Board of Governors I speak on behalf of over 1,200 the Board of Governors to oversee signatories of the petition submitted to publication of the South End, the you, including the support of the local Student-Faculty Council and the Stu­ NAACP chapter and United Auto dent Newspaper Publications Board. Workers Region I-A and State Senator From these bodies, our spokesmen got Jackie Vaughn. There is a new addition nothing but bureaucratic and rude to our list of supporters which does not treatment. But the fact is that the Board appear on that endorser list, Mr. of Governors has ultimate authority Rudolph Jones, student rep to the here and promulgated the rules for those Academic Affairs Committee of the student bodies, keeping them subordi­ Board of Governors. Weare compelled nate and devoid of real authority. We to demand that the Wayne State Board have appended to our statement the of Governors take immediate action to charter which spells this out. In 19'69, remove from their posts South End the university president suspended editor-in-chief John Burnett and publication of the South End and managing editor Mike Nuttle and all removed edito~ John Watson for explic­ those responsible for the 25 November itly political reasons. The power of the editorial "Leftists Hinder Justice Board was proven when publication of at Greensboro Trial." The editorial the South End resumed only after the authored by Nuttle, is a vile apology Ad Hoc Committee spokesman Gloria HOYlse addresses Board of Board of Governors created the Student for racist murder. Joining the Klan Governors. ' [Newspaper] Publications Board as its and Nazis, the editorial embraces as shocked and angered by the North per run as if it were the personal , agent to publish the newspaper. It is "justice" the acquittals ofthe Klan/Nazi Carolina acquittalsand we have with us property of Burnett, Nuttle & Co. The entirely possible that a majority of the hitmen by an all-white jury. For this editorials from campus newspapers recent example of their arrogant disre­ Board is appalled by the editQrial end criminal terrorist act, the editorial seeks around the country which cry out gard for the students the South End product of 11 years of undemocratic to blame the victims, the anti-fascist against the racist injustice in Greens- ostensibly serves was its refusal to print management of the South End, exem­ - protesters, five of whom were slain last· boro. As documented in the preamble to this widely-supported petition. Instead, ' plified by the Nuttle editorial. November 3. our petition, the Nuttle editorial is the South End saw fit to print "Shove Hence, the petition to you, the Board Attempting to create a climate for I associated with a long-standing editori~ it-SYL!" on the paper's masthead, a of Governors, that' you not pass the racist terrorists to act with impunity, the al policy of the South End. To call that provocative reference to a socialist buck, that you remove from their editorial is an offense and a threat to the policy insensitive to the rights and needs yo""th group which was among the positions of abusive authority the students and staff of Wayne State and of black people would be a terrible initiators of the petition drive. On apologists for racist murder currently the Detroi1 black and working-class understatement. In language even J. December 4, Burnett threw the petitions running the paper. We petition you to population. Just as those who deny or Edgar Hoover would shrink from using in the faces of the delegation for the Ad take some step toward restoring the try to minimize the reality of the publicly, the\ South End consistently Hoc Committee to Oust South End South End to the Wayne State students. Holocaust are rightly taken as Nazi portrays blacks, socialists and unionists Apologists for Klan/Nazi Murder and As we state in our petition, "That the sympathizers despite pious disavowals, as conspirators to "rekindle racial called the police to remove the 20, students of Wayne S'tate reassert control , so the South End's attempt to pass off animosity,'" foment "racial tensions," students il1'- that delegation from the over what is nominally a forum for our 'racist terror as a little "racial animosity" "manipulate:' and "deceive." To add South End's offices. The South End's diverse opinions and views is long insult to injury, the South End has, in an 'response to us appeared in the last issue inflamed by those who protest against it overdue." I'm handing over petitions cannot be tolerated by defenders of the arbitrary and dictatorial fashion, sup- of the semester. It includes a "mock" signed by over 1,200 students to the, civil liberties of minorities, unionists or pressed the views of the student popula- interview with a white-hooded murderer Board. I urge the Board of Governors to tion. Letters from at least 100 groups which can only be described as partisan socialists. deal with this matter at this meeting and and individuals protesting the gag rU,le to the Klan in the guise of rabid anti­ take action immediately. The Commit­ The South End eliitorial is uniquely on letters to, the editor have poured into communism. tee will be happy to answer any reactionary among campus newspapers. the South End, in, r~ent months; the 'We ,have ,taken ~ur petition to the questions that, Board members may American students are in the main students lY"e tired of having our newspa- relevant student bodies designated by have.

to portray leftists as instigators of "race only threw the printed demand in the policy of the newspaper has been Preamble ... riots." . trash basket, but called the cops to consistently reactionary" and said that (continued from page 7) • A South End campaign in June remove the students! The Committee he opposed the editor's "policy of not 1980 aided an attempted frame-up of the publicized I this outrageous act of con­ allowing an open forum for the discus­ verdict were not, as it happens, CWPers. Spartacus Youth League for an arson at tempt for student opinion and the sion of issues" (Michigan Daily, 11 The Wayne professors, Jhe Student­ the Student <::enter Building. A grossly 'nuQ1ber of signatures on the petition December). Faculty Council vice president, the inaccurate front page article and Nut­ swelled to 800 the next day. Even theda­ former South End editor, the Spartilcus tle's editorial of 23 June implicated t)1e nothing Student Council, which refused n Response: Censor, Red-Bait, Youth League, campus and city union­

(see "Nasty Lies or Murder Set Up?" pro-Klan "humor" in the guise of academic freedom by the exercise of this with the aid of our allies in Detroit's YSp No. 84, September 1980). The virulent anti-communism Gulvezan Board of political power. ... " labor movement and black community, South End refused to print a petition writes would not be found in even the As soon as Einheuser finished, the gavel regain control of the South End in order signed by ONer 80 outraged WSU most conservative bourgeois newspa­ came down and the meeting was that it cease to be a mouthpiece for racist students, professors and workers as well pers. Despite the contention by yet immediately adjourned. Burnett and apologists, an offense and a threat to as statements by another 20 protesting another South End"luminary" that "the Nuttle vanished before the press'could every defender of the rights of minori­ their outrageous smear campaign. majority of Americans not only sympa­ get to them.. . ties, unionists and socialists .• Then, during the height of the petition thize with, but actually support actions The Board of Governor's hypocritical campaign-over the December 5~7 of these fascist fanatics," (South" End, 10 invocation of "freedom of the press" and weekend-several small fires were set on December) the overwhelming majority the sanctity of student control of the Conference ... floors of the Student Center Building. of working people in this country do not campus newspaper is simply a poor (continued from page 5) It's a strange "coincidence" indeed that believe that any crime-be it race-terror attempt at explaining away their refusal this occured while the SYL was active in or union-busting-can be carried out to take action against Nuttle, Burnett & the positive response given the class­ the Ad Hoc Committee to Oust South under the banner of anti-communism. Co. Neither freedom of the press nor struggle positions of the SL/SYL End Apologists for Klan/Nazi Murder! But to create the reactionary social any real student control of the South supporters during the first conference While refusing to print so much as a climate in which fascist murder is End has existed at'Wayne State since session on Friday night. Speakers word of the Ad Hoc Committee state­ condoned is precisely to what the 1969 when militant black editor John described how the SL initiated a 500- ment, the South End did see fit to print a official student newspaper of Wayne Watson was removed as editor and strong labor/black anti-Klan rally in "voluntary" retraction in its 8 December State, through Burnett/Nuttle'S editori­ publication of the South End was sus­ Detroit last November right after the issue of black writer H. Sam Kemp's al policy, has dedicated itself. pended by the university president. It Greensboro massacre, and last April editorial against police brutality. The Armed with more than 1,200 was a dirty business, too. During 1968- how we spearheaded a labor/black editorial, printed last October, is the signatures and the support of prominent 69, the FBI, as part of its COINTEL­ mobilization which successfully stopped object of a lawsuit by Detroit cops. Detroit-area academic, black,union PRO operation, "sent anonymous the Nazis' from celebrating Hitler's Burnett & Co. were eager to make clear and community leaders, the Ad Hoc letters critical of the WSU newspaper, birthday in San Francisco. Warning of that they never tarnished the good Committee appeared before the Decem- the' South End, to officials of the school the mortal danger in relying on capital­ name of the Detroit police. ist politicians to fight racist terror, one In the last issue of the semester, militant was applauded when he said, December 10, the South End broke its 'education in Ameri­ right-wing racist social climate. These ca, churning out corporate presidents attacks must be stopped! Serious black and the ideologues and technocrats of and anti-racist militants at Harvard mass-murder for imperialism. Partici­ must look beyond the campus gates, pating in the anti-racist protests at however, to the growing KKK/Nazi Harvard, the Spartacus Youth League October 28: Harvard students protest racist Klitgaard report. terror and government attacks on the (SYL) pointed out that an administra­ most minimal gains of the civil rights tion "apology" for the Klitgaard report limiting busing between equally im­ be called a "strategy"-it is a strategy for movement. The Klitgaard report is only isn't worth the paper it's printed on! poverished inner-city schools). At the defeat. CWP supporters attended an an academic echo of the fascist gunfire Calling, as did the November 22 same time the CWP-then Workers SYL forum at Harvard on November 21 in Chattanooga and Greensboro. The demonstration, for increased police Viewpoint Organization-opposed bus­ and defended their wretched anti-busing SL/SYL has demonstrated in action "protection" and "safe streets" is worse ing. And they still do! In convoluted position in front of appalled students. "I that the fascist threat can be stopped by yet. The cops' bloody collaboration with Mao-talk, .Workers Viewpoint (N ovem­ don't understand the line," said a CWP mass mobilizations of labor and minori­ fascists and racist mobs is indisputable; ber 1976) devotes page after page to why spokesman, "this acceptance as though, ties .. The SYL organized nationwide "safe" for the cops means harassment black people in Boston should give up as busing in itself is a good idea. You protests on campuses from California to and brutal slayings of blacks. the fight for busing to achieve integra­ know in some cases community control Chicago, from New York to Detroit This would seem elementary for any tion, primarily because it "pits the is the best thing. The best thing in any against the racist "justice" in Greens­ ostensible revolutionary organization, oppressed nationality and white work­ case is to try to talk about education." boro. And the CWP? It was calling for a however the Communist Workers Party ing class communities against each The black school children who daily march on the Harvard-Yale game to (CWP) activists on campus have busily other." This means, in simple language, face rock-throwing bullies as they ride demand police "protection" against put themselves to the task of containing that if racist mobs in South Boston don't the bus to school no doubt think racist attacks and tailing the mythical the anti-racist protests to the defeatist like busing, then busing is a "bourgeois something more should be done than "anti-fascist" alliance with ruling-class strategy of appealing to the administra­ plot" which makes honest working folks "talk about education." There is the politicians in Greensboro. It took sides tion. The CWP has stooped to race­ fight with each other. So, according to question offighting the racist mobiliza­ with the anti-busing bigots in Boston, baiting and anti-communist exclusion the CWP, blacks should forget about tion which seeks to keep black youth preaching despair of an integrated class in order to seal offthe BSA membership the struggle for integration and fight for segregated in the hell-holes of American battle to win. To young black militants, from an open discussion on strategy. To better "community" schools. Workers ghettos. SYL spokesman Ed Jarvis the CWP can only offer the fleeting responded: rhetoric and permanent sellouts of a "I am astonished about the question, sect going nowhere. the stuff you said about busing. You've As an SYL spokesman explained to Spartacus Youth League Directory got forced segregation in this country. Blacks are forced into the ghetto, forced the Harvard audience attending the SYL National Office: Box 825, Los Angeles: SYL, Box 29115, Los into inferior education and when I go to SYL forum "Smash the Klan!": Canal Street Station, New York, NY Feliz Station, Los Angeles, CA Harlem, or to the ghettos of Chicago " ... the difference between the Sparta­ 10013 90029, or call (213) 662-1564 and I see the conditions of all-black cus Youth League and the CWP is a Ann Arbor: SYL, Box 89, Room Madison: SYL, Box 2074, Mddison, schools. _.. They let the schools deteri­ question of recognizing the difference 4102 Michigan Union, Univ. of WI 53701, or call (608) 257-2950 orate. You almost have an all-black between a victory and a defeat. So that Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, or New York: SYL, Box 444, Canal school system in Chicago, and they when the Nazis were stopped in San call (313) 994-9313 Street Station, New York, NY 10013, wouldn't even pay the teachers! This is a Francisco by mobilizing 1,200 trade Berkeley/Oakland: SYI., Box 273, or call (212) 732-7860 national policy. It's hard to make that unionists, leftists and socialists and Civic Center Station, Oakland, CA kind of blatant, disgusting racist attack members of various minority groups 94604, or call (415) 835-1535 San Francisco: SYL, Box 11685, when there is integration. And the point [by the April 19, Committee Against San Francisco, CA 94101, or call is integration .... Segregation is inher­ Nazis] that is a victory. Where- Boston: SYL. Box 188, M.LT. Station, (415) 863-6963 ently a disenfranchisement of the black as the CWP careens into Kokomo, Cambridge, MA02139, or call (617) popUlation. That's why it exists. And Indiana after the KKK had already left, 492-3928 Trotskyist that's why the racists are out there and gets injuries inflicted on themselves Chicago: SYL, Box 4667, Main P.O., League of Canada trying to stop busing." by the cops-they call that a victory, we Chicago, IL 60680, or call (312) call that a defeat .... We see that the 427-0003 Toronto: Box 7198, Station A. Toron- But this simple fact of social reality is trade-union movement, the industrial Cleveland: SYL. Box 6642, Cleve-' to, Ontario, or call (416) 593-4138 lost on the eclectic Maoists oftheCWP: unions in this country. are the· only the defeat of busing to achieve integra­ places.in this deeply racist society where land, OH 44101, or call (216) 621- Vancouver: Box 26, Station A, blacks and whites are organized at the 5138 Vancouver, B.C., or call (604) 254- tion by organized racists signalled ever­ point of production and where you can Detroit: SYL. Box 20035, Ferndale, 8875 increasing and bold racist attacks, cut through the racist hatred in this MI 48220, or call (313) 868-9095 Winnipeg: Box 3952, Station B, sanctioned by the state. society and you .can mobilize them 7 together against their common oppres­ J sors, whether it's the boss, the Nazis or i ;~~~;!;~, _~)f{9? ~~. ~~_ ~:4 ~~ __ ~ ~~7m_ ~~~~t~~~~ ~~. ~~l~ _(~~:! __ J_ ~_15it~ .;.:~~.:~all__ wif~Y ~ • !hr~ . ~_~_~ . the KKK: .... ' ,. . - - -...... - . - - -.- contn utcu to tile nse 0 socia reaction. / DECEMBER 1980...r....JANUARY 1981 11

to capital~ze on the general rightward Reagan turn in American bourgeois pOlitics. A~ CORRECTIONS the same time, the Spartacist League' In YSp No. 85 (October 1980), we bers, who had formerly functioned as and Spartacus Youth League have led reprinted an article by the SY(, and an eiternaC faction of the SWP, Reaction ... several important mobilizations ag~inst (continued from page 1) an interview with the former Yippie­ formed the Spartacist League in the fascist swine. Independent mobiliza­ turned-Wall Street securities analyst 1966. tions of labor and blacks in San world's most powerful non-capitalist Jerry Rubin, both of which originally In the article, "How Does the SWP 'Francisco last spring and a year ago in ~ppeared in the Brandeis Justice. Our Fight Fascism?" in YSp No. 86 state. The great October Revolution of Detroit were successful in stopping 1917 still lives in the nationalized and comrades wrote, "The Spartacist (N ovember 1980), we refer to "the threatened Nazi and Klan demonstra­ League came ,out of the New Left black phone worker murdered by.the collective property forms of the Soviet tions. When the acquittals of the five state and their extension to Eastern with an organization of young Klan in Fontana." Actually, black Klan/Nazi murderers were announced, Europe. As ~rotskyists we seek to oust socialist militants who have gone on phone worker: Dovard Howard was 'the SYL initiated demonstrations na­ to struggle in and for the working shot in the back and permanently through proletarian political revolution tionwide, which typically drew over 100 the bureaucratic caste which usurped class." While. many recruits to the paralyzed from the waist down. He students at each campus, to protest this SL/SYL certainly began their politi­ was shot by one Larry West Deanne political power under Stalin. This is racist "justice" (see article this issue). ultimately the only way to defend the cal life in the New Left, the origins of just two hours before a Klan rally at The Spartacist Party· campaign of the Spartacist League go back to the Fontana City Hall. Although social gains of the Bolshevik revolution socialist union militant Diana Coleman against imperialism and domestic "old left" of the ex-Trotskyist Social­ Deanne has not been identified as an for SF Board of ~upervisors reached counterrevolution. ist Workers Party / Young Socialist official KKK member, it is the belief many working--class, minority, gay and Alliance (SWP /YSA). The founding of Howard's family and the black Labor and Black Battles Ahead leftist supporters, netting over 7,000 cadre of the SL were members of a, community that the shooting was votes for the revolutionary candidate. left opposition in the SWP-the Klan related. Also, we refer to the All the victimizable sections of the ~~ere are al~ay.s two sides tp a soci~l/ Revolutionary Tendency-and were Republican candidate who refused to population in the U.S. and the world polItIcal polanzatlOn. Those who deSIre bureaucratically expelled from the debate Klansman Tom Metzger as can expect to get it. T.here is plenty of to fight the racist, anti-working class SWP in 1963. As the SWP rushed "herself." Clair Burgener, the 58- desire to fight back among the trade and warmongering policies of the headlong from' centrism to outright year-old self-described "right­ unionists and blacks who clearly see "Reagan years" should look to the SL/ reformism, the expelled RT mem- winger," is a male. their rights under fire by the Reagan SYL. We are fighting to build the administration. It is crucial that revolutionary party which can lead the struggles against the Reagan reaction struggle to smash racial oppression and not be channeled through the 'Demo­ capitalism through socialist revolution. Grenadian (or Martinican or Barbadi­ discontent over the bitter fruits of cratic Party, which is discredited as Join the SYL! • an) Revolution is such a travesty that for formal independence, it never had a never before among wide layers· of the last century the real political capitals revolutionary program (or political! working people. Against the liberals and of the Caribbean have been New York, economic emancipation of the black black reformists who will be trying to London and Paris. And quite a number masses. restore the myth of the Democrats as Grenada ... of West Indian radicals have been led to Now the after-effects are hopeless "friends of the working people" it will be (continued from page 3) join the communist movement in the nationalist movements, each focusing necessary to mobilize labor and blacks advanced capitalist countries by the on a smaller piece of real estate and independently of the twin parties of war found throughout the ex-colonial desire to liberate their homelands from preaching the virtues of "self reliance." and big business racism. world, from Mexico City to Lagos, imperialist domination. , There are even "lioeration movements" Reagan, ~ho won a good many white Nigeria, with urban centers swollen with The New Jewel Movement in Grena­ trying to free Tobago from Trinidad, working-class votes, will be confronted millions of jobless squatters drawn from da and similar populist-nationalist Aruba from Cura~ao, Barbuda from by major union contracts, i.e., the mine the dirt poor countryside. But on the Antigua! In contrast, the greatest of the. workers, railroad workers and postal tiny Antilles there is not even much black revolutionaries of the Caribbean, workers, in 1981. Blacks will be in the countryside, and the bulk ofthe popula­ Toussaint L'Ouverture, abolished slav­ forefront of the defensive struggles of tion has no, appreciable role in the ery and won independence for Haiti in labor, especially in the key auto and productive process. The main alterna­ the 1790s by joining with white Europe­ steel industries, both of which have a tives for the urban and rural poor are at) revolut~onists fighting for the cause heavily black labor force and both of emigration or participation in a'thriving ot "Liberty, Fraternity, Equality" every­ which are in a period of decline. Factory underworld. Add to this an assortment where. And the revolution he led was cl9sln~s and mass layoffs in steeIand of religious/ drug culfs liketthe Rastafar.:. not trivial: by adopting an international auto demand militant and integrated ians and you get the bleak poverty and revolutionary banner and seeking to , class struggle against the bosses' plans to wanton lumpen violence of the Jamai­ assimilate European culture, he was "rationalize" thousands of workers out can film, The -Harder They Come. In able to build, a powerful army which of their jobs. Black workers are also less this setting the dominant social organi­ beat off Napoleon's attempt to crush likely to be caught up in the capitalists' zations are competing gangs disputing black independence in Santo Domingo. attempts to whip up anti-Soviet war control of gambling, prostitution and Compare this to the "threat" posed by sentiment, if only because American the ganja trade. State power,such as it "revolutionary Grenada." blacks have never had many illusions iri exists, is mostly in the hands of a fly-by­ Even more so than in the days of toe the "American dream." night mafia bourgeoisie, ever ready to great bourgeois re{olutions, only an Furthermore, it has been the policy of escape to Miami in their waiting internationalist program-which today the bourgeois press to link up any battle Cessnas (usually used for' dope means communist-can liberate the against racism imd fascist terrorists with smuggling). . West Indies, which was divided under the question of socialist participation in It is absurd to envision proletarian five flags by colonialism and has been these fights. Greensboro, for instance, revolution within the confines of these kept in poverty by capitalist imperial­ was consistently portrayed even in the impoverished islands which hardly have Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice ism. A revolutionary Trotskyist party liberal bourgeois press as a "shoot out" a proletariat. Lacking the strength of Bishop will be built not on the basis of narrow among equally extremist groups. De­ proletarian or bourgeois class rule, nationalism but ip close collaboration spite attempts by both the Carter and petty-bourgeois movements like Bish­ groupings elsewhere in the region are with the workers of the advanced the Reagan camps to whip up a Cold op's can dominate the lumpenproletari­ the after-products of the "black power" capitalist countries. It will be built in War witchhunt atmosphere of anti­ at only through bonapartist militarism. upsurge in the Caribbean of 1970-71, struggle against the Stalinist illusion communist hysteria, the majority of the And tiny Grenada is no Cuba. More­ centering on Trinidad. Growing out of that socialism can be built on one island, American popUlation has not yet fallen over, even In a Caribbean-wide frame­ the student movement, this revolt or even in one archipelago, and against into step behind them and blacks, work, linking up the fragments of a against the neocolonial rulers imposed the' petty-bourgeois populism which the particularly, are unresponsive to this working class from Trinidad to Cuba at independence spread to militant left­ Cuban Stalinists (along with the SWP) virulent right-wing patriotism. (and the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico), it wing oil workers, giving Caribbean hail. The SWP's overblown glorifica­ The Reagan election was a signal to will not be possible to escape from deep rulers the jitters. But ~t was utterly tion of "revolutionary Grenada" only the fascist terrorists on the ultra-right poverty' and build socialism without smashed by a government crackdown, proves that these reformists have noth­ that their day is coming. From San proletarian revolution in the metropoli­ and "black power" soon feU apart as an ing to say to West IRdian leftists who Francisco to North Carolina, the Klan tan imperialist powers, first and fore­ organized current in the region. For seek the road of permanent and Nazis are growing-and can expect most the United States. The idea of a while it had tapped explosive mass revolution .•

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Line Shift on Afghanistan SWP Joins Anti-Soviet Chorus Young Spartacus Photo F Qr revQlutiQnary sQcialists there is (emphasis in Qriginal). nO' thing ambiguQus abQut the war in Why the line change? AccQrding to' a Afghanistan. The SQviet army and its CQmpaniQn dQcument by the SWP left-natiQnalist allies are fighting an natiQnal secretary Jack Barnes, "CQr­ imperialist-backed cQunterrevQlutiQn­ recting SQme ErrQrs Qn Afghanistan" ary melange Qf landlQrds, mQney lend­ (International Internal Information ers, mullahs, tribal chiefs a,nd bandits Bulletin, December 1980) Barnes has cQmmitted to' serfdQm, usury, the bride been dQing some "thinking" and "mull­ price and mass illiteracy. Even the ing Qver" the SWP's supPQrt to' SQviet SQcialist Wot"kers Party (SWP) was trQQPs in Afghanistan. Barnes singles fQrced to' admit this earlier this year in a Qut the PQsitiQn Qf the internatiQnal frQnt-page Militant (25 January) editQ­ Spartacist tendency,' significantly the rial: "The SQviet troQPS sent intO' ,Qnly QPPQnent Qrganization he PQlemi­ Afghanistan are there to' help crush the cizes against. "I alsO' read the press Qfthe U.S.-backed cQunterrevQlutiQn." Of Spartacist sect. 'Hail Red Army!' was CQurse, the SWPwas lukewarm in its the main headline Qn their first issue SUPPQrt to' the SQviet interventiQn. Even after the SQviet interventiQn." This in the face Qf Carter's explQitatiQn Qf forthright TrQtskyist slQgan led him to' Afghanistan to' escalate his anti-SQviet Qbserve: " ... it did make me think abQut war drive, the SWP denied that defense the devastating PQliticallQgic that CQuid Qf the SQviet U nlQn against imperialism be drawn frQm SQme Qf the assumptiQns had been placed squarely Qn the agenda. we were'starting frQm." Such "PQlitical Further, given its prQstratiQn befQt.:e the lQgic" was "devastatin.g" because it led mullahs in neigI:tbQring Iran -the SWP to' the Trotskyist PQsitiQn Qf the unCQn­ had to' first deny reality and then alibi ditiQnal military defense Qf the sQcial.' Trotskyists welcome Soviet intervention against U.S.-backed Afghan KhQmeini when he stQQd with the CIA, gains Qf the OctQber RevQlutiQnwhich, feudallsts; SWP now denounces "foreign occupiers." , British imperialism and the Pakistani despite the bureacratic usurpatipn Qf military dictatQrship in providing mate­ prQletarian pQlitical PQwer, are still Barnes tries to' invQke Lenin's'name in nQ~ Trotsky's. But when the SWP was rial aid to' the Afghan cQunterrevQlu­ embQdied in anti-capitatist cQllectivized QPPQsing Red Army interventiQn in supPQrting the SQviet military presence tiQnaries against the SQviet "infidel." prQperty' fQrrns. semi-cQIQnial regiQns. But jt was pre­ in Afghanistan earlier this year it made NQw, after mQnths Qf individual Barnes had to' acknQwledge the "'third cisely to' such regiQns where the prQle­ the apprQpriate analQgy to' the exten­ members around the cQuntry annQunc­ camp' pressures from the petty­ tariat was negligible Qr nQnexistent and siQn Qf the Stalinist Chinese RevQlutiQn ing an imminent line change, the SWP bQurgeQis left that have intensified in where nascent and weak anti-feudal to' Tibet in 1959 ("Rightist RevQlts: has finally gQne public with a reversal Qn the wake Qf the propaganda campaign mQvements such as the Y Qung BQhara Tibet in 1959, Afghanistan TQday," Afghanistan. In a NatiQnal CQmmittee unleashed by the imperialists and mQvement Qr the MQngQlian PeQple's Intercontinental Press, 31 March). The dQcument "U pheaval in Afghanistan" bQurgeQis press fQllQwing the Afghan Party-mQvements that were very much SWP, refQrmists with a CastrQite reprinted in the 22 December Intercon­ events." But the American SWP line analQgQus to' the lCft-natiQmtlists in veneer, nQW squarely QPPQse the tinental Press and 22 December Mili­ change is nQt a capitulatiQ'n to' the Afghanistan tQday-met fierce CQunter­ military .might Qf the -SQviet UniQn tant, the SWP hasjQined the anti-SQviet "petty-bQurgeQis" but to' the intensified revQlutiQnary resistance, that Lenin and which makes PQssible the extensiQn Qf chQrus Qf Reagan, Carter, prQ-NATO anti-SQviet campaign Qf its Qwn imperi­ TrQtsky rushed whatever military aid th~ sQcial gains Qf the OctQber RevQlu­ MaQists and "third camp" sQcial demQ­ alist bQurgeQisie. was available ~n their beleaguered tiQn to' the Afghan peQples and which crats: "Rather than being liberatQrs, the While cQnceding that Afghanistan wQrkers state. cQnstitutes a, mQrtal threat to' the SQviet trQQPs are fQreign Qccupiers" has "mQre mullahs than PfQletarians," Of CQurse, Brezhnev's Red A~my is imperialist wQrld Qrder.. The Murder of John Lennon New YQrk GQvernQr Carey Qrdered with the readily apparent hYPQcrisy Qf ten, Qf CQurse, is the fact that the U.S. _ the American flag flQwn at half mast. bQurgeQis sQciety and the slaughter Qf gQvernment waged a five-year, milliQn­ MayQr KQch seized the QPPQrtunity to' the Vietnam War. "All yO'U need is lQve, dQllar campaign to' depQrt LennQn O'n a make a pitch fQr natiQnal gun cQntrQl lQve, lO've" became the "bed-ins" against 1968 British drug bust. With CQnsum­ and led lSO,Ooo mQurners in a Central the war in '69, and American YQuth mate hYPQcrisy, the blQQdiest ruling Park vigil, whil!;! RQnald Reagan added lQved it. And when the "mQvement" was class in histQry is using the LennQn his prayer fQr stiffer crime laws. The gQne, they CQuid cling to' their Beatles' killing to' sway public sentiment in favQr sensatiQnalist New York Post swung albums and feel that they hadn't "sQld Qf gun cQntrQl. America is a "viO'lent intO' actiQn with "exclusive" phQtQS Qf QUt." l_ sQciety," they say, SO' let's take away the the murderer's ex-lO'vers and revelatiO'ns An innQvative PO'Puiar musician" peQple's guns. This will leave Qnly the like .. "Dali death painting may prQvide a JQhn LennQn was a cQntradictQry CQPS, criminals and crazies armed, with clue." The music industry's marketing public figure. The man whO' said that the decent citizens mQre helpless than ever. strategies were quickly revised to' milk Beatles were "more PQPuiar than Jesus" Meanwhile the PentagQn'drives full maximum prQfit from the murder's and met with effigy-burnings and Klan speed ahead with the largest arsenal Qf 'cO'njunctiQn with the Christmas seaSQn. demQnstratiQns in the Bible Belt is the mega-death weapQns ever. Ex-radicals called each Qther to' "share same man whO' knelt befQre Queen , Facing fQur years Qf RQnald Reagan, their feelings." And the CQmmunist Elizabeth to' receive the Order Qf the the "cQunterculture" generatiQn is re­ W Qrkers Party mQurned that the dead British Empire. He eVQked Qptimism in them buy bullet-prQQf vests. duced to' the refrain, "I believe in "wQrking class herO''' "didn't knQw hQW "Imagine" and anti-cQmmuniSm in CQnservativ~ Prime Minister Alec yesterday." FQr them the struggle is to' apply Marxism-Leninism." In the "RevQlutiQn." He wrQte "Give Peace a DQuglas,-HQme Qnce caned the Beatles Qver. RevQlutiQnaries dO' want to' murder Qf' JQhn Lennon, there was Chance" to' be sung by hundreds Qf "a useful cQntributiQn to' the balance Qf change the WQrld-before thebQurgeQi­ sQmething fQr everybQdy. thQusands at the antiwar WashingtQn payments." With paramQunt cynicism, sie ,dQes by plunging humanity intO' a FQr many, the iCQnQclastic LennQn MQratQrium in 1969; he alsO' made a KQch and Reagan nQW lQQk uPQn nuclear hQIO'caust. 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