Printed in 100 Percent January-February, 1983 VOL. 2'8-N'O. 1 Union Shop 25c Unemployed cry 'no jobs, revolution!' I would like to turn over my column this issue to my colleague Felix Martin, an unemployed auto worker and co-editor of !Seu>» & Letters. — Charles Denby. • On Dec. 28 Bethlehem Steel announced that it will permanently lay off up to 10,000 more workers and sharp­ ly curtail operation at its Lackawanna, N.Y. and Johns­ town, Pa., plants, thus reducing its steelmaking capacity by another 15 percent. The U.S. steel industry is estimat­ ed to be operating at 29 percent of capacity, the lowest since the Great Depression. • The United Auto Workers Union contract, voted on and accepted by Chrysler workers in America and in Canada, was a victory for the workers. TBe Canadian workers went out on strike and they won what the union leadership wasn't even going to bargain for. 20,000 waited in Bne in Chicago for temporary minimum wage jobs as unemployment went above 12 million nationwide. • At one unemployment office in California some un­ employed workers were passing out a leaflet they had written called "Unemployment Lines." Workers in the Two States of the Union unemployment line began to chant, "No jobs, revolu­ tion!" Others who were reading the leaflet in their cars began blowing their horns. It scared the hell out of man­ agement at the unemployment office. Reagan militarizes economy; BANKRUPTCY OF UNION LEADERS These three incidents tell much about what is happen­ ing to the economy and the labor movement in this coun­ try. Never in the history of the UAW has the leadership masses fight the new Depression showed itself to be as much the enemy of the workers as is management. When has the rejection of the union lead­ by Andy Phillips battered by a nearly 18 percent "official" un­ ership's proposals not meant a strike? It didn't in the UAW after the October rejection because the so-called In Detroit, Mich., Mayor Coleman Young employment rate, the highest in the nation. In leadership took lots of time put to spread fear among the declares a "hunger emergency" and makes a Pontiac, Mich., with over 27 percent unem­ workers mat the company would close down altogether if national plea for food to feed thousands of ployment, people line up for miles in cars at the workers went on strike. And the leadership didn't starving unemployed residents and their fami­ four in the morning to get one loaf of bread, 20 even want to open negotiations for two more months. It pounds of potatoes and five pounds of beans. was only the daring of the Canadian workers which trans­ lies. Former Michigan Governor William Mil- formed the situation. In Pennsylvania's Allegheny County, whieh includes liken also pleads for assistance to feed the the steel-depressed Pittsburgh area, Sheriff Coon makes a (Continued on Page 10) hungry throughout the state,, economically last ditch effort to save 42 homes by removing them from the bank foreclosure rolls just before they are to go on the auction block in January. In Springfield, Colo., hundreds of farmers, including Guatemala: the struggle continues many from surrounding states, rally to try to stop fore­ closure on a farmer's land — and are maced add tear- Editor's Note: The Reagan Administration has just the agricultural laborers are and where the small plots of land are really unfit for cultivation. gassed by the local sheriff and his deputies. announced the decision to supply helicopter parts to the In Houston, Tex., an unemployed engineer who left Guatemalan armed forces, claiming improvements in PEASANT COMMITTEE OF ALTIPLANO the Midwest seeking work but is unable to find any, kills the human rights situation. It is a prelude to a decision This organization arose as a result of the government himself, his wife and children — swelling the number of to resume full military aid to the government of Rios repression, and it reflects the popular organizations that (Continued on Page 9) Montt. Below we print an interview with Nicolas previously existed, such as peasant leagues, cooperatives, Balam, a Guatemalan active in opposition to the mili­ associations of small farmers, village improvement tary rulers. committees, as well as the groups of catechists. The re­ pression came down hard on the leaders, and organizing My name is Nicolas Balam, I am an indigenous peasant in the open became impossible, but the consciousness and ON THE INSIDE of the Cakchiquel people, from the municipality of San education remained with the masses of peasants, and so Martin Jilotepeque in the province of Chimaltenango, the form of working changed. The Committee was organ­ iRosa Luxemburg's 'Martinique'.... page 5¾ Guatemala. I am a member of the Peasant Committee of ized precisely because the army's offensive of November :Editorial: S. Africa wars: external and i£ the Altiplano. and December, 1981 prevented us from even reaping our Our committee is a mass organization, the vast ma­ crops or leaving to find work elsewhere. So at first we did : internal page 8¾ jority of whose members are indigenous peasants of the not even know the form it would take, only that we had to Altiplano, that part of western Guatemala where most of (Continued on Page 4) •Laborers stop GM construction page 3-:-:

:C0mi«g-r»exf::wo^ Including these features: • Marxist-Humanism, 1983: • The Unknown Ethnological the Summation that Is a New Notebooks of Marx • Marx on Imperialism Beginning A century after their creation; a decade after their publication — by Michael Con­ — by Raya Dunayevskaya For the first time ever in English — nolly A passage from the French edition • A 1980s View: Marx, Labor 9 of Capital omitted by Engels in his edit­ and Marx's Humanism • The development of Marx s ing of the German and English editions view of the Black dimension — a discussion by Charles Denby and Felix Martin, editors of News & Letters — by Lou. Turner r

Page 2 NEWS & LETTERS January-February, 1983 40,000 surround airbase, protest nukes women- London, England — On Dec. 12, 40,000 women from all over Britain and Europe, Asia and America descended worldwide on Greenham Common Airbase, about 60 miles north of London, where the silos are being built to house "first On Oct. 29,2,000 Palestinian women marched, carrying strike Cruise missiles." Palestinian and Lebanese flags and black-draped photo­ The demonstration was called to "embrace the base," graphs of family members massacred in the raids on the circling the base, holding hands, linking arms and deco­ Shatila and Sabra refugee camps, to the site of the largest rating the fence with photographs, poems . . . feminist mass grave for the victims where they laid a wreath. Leba­ symbols, peace symbols, banners . . . burnt dolls on a nese troops surrounded the marchers, but there were no piece of fence dedicated to the victims of Hiroshima and clashes. (Information from Womanews) Nagasaki. A great colourful collage encompassing the * * * grey concrete building works of the silos. And everything tied together with wool — the spider's web of wool that Thousands of women demonstrating in Paris were par­ has become the symbol of Greenham Common. ticipants in a successful campaign by French feminists to The estimated 16,000 women needed to encircle the force the Socialist government to pay 70 percent of the cost of base was tripled. There were hundreds of women at every an abortion (legal up to the tenth week of pregnancy). Femi­ gate, singing songs, hooting at the police and army pa­ nists point out, however, that very poor women, women trols. Women had come from all over the country to take under 18, most immigrant women and women past the tenth part, organising coaches on behalf of women's groups or week are not helped by the most recent decision. Comnjitt.ee for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) groups. Women protest at Greenham Common. * * * DIVERSITY OF PARTICIPANTS mand for new directions, as against the centralism and In Dakar, Senegal, women attending a six-day seminar elitism of vanguard parties, has grown out of the Wo­ sponsored by the Association of African Women for Re­ There was a real feeling of solidarity and unity, as men's movement itself, the concern for democracy being search and Development published a declaration which mothers held hands with a group of prostitutes fighting central. However, the threat of being taken over by a left takes up a wide range of women's issues, stating: "Social police sexist harassment in King Cross London, as lesbian party has actually obstructed ideas moving further than progress means not only improving the situation of women feminists held hands with CND activists. It was "wo­ simply being against the strategy and tactics of the van­ but changing it . . . by opposing all ideologies that define men's power unlimited," as dusk fell and the coaches guard parties . . . .drove off, candles were lit around the perimeter of the women's role as subordinate, dependent, or passive." In base. . . . There were about a thousand men there that A cry is going up for a new philosophy of revolution December, the Committee Against Sexual Abuses held a Sunday . . . Some women didn't want them there at all that will let the women speak for themselves and let their conference which defined "sexual abuse" as everything . . . others said it would be alright as long as they did not creativity be realized. In Britain it is the urgent task of from illiteracy to intolerable working conditions. Members .interfere in the women's activities — it's our day, our the small Marxist-Humanist group to recreate Marx's of this committee include both African and European wo­ action and we don't want any men trying to take it over philosophy of revolution for today, so that the beginnings men. . (Information from Off Our Backs) and intimidate us with their policies. of a great movement against holocaust is not derailed by * * * the Labour party but can link up to the war going down in DEMAND FOR NEW DIRECTION society everyday, that is being fought by rank-and-file The Supreme Court on Jan. 10 agreed to consider rein­ workers in factories, mines, mills and dole queues young stating the $10 million damage award to the estate of Karen On Dec. 13 about 2.000 women stayed to blockade the Silkwood, labor activist who suffered radiation contamina­ base with pickets at each gate. All action was to be "non­ Blacks on "front lines" whilst raising up Marx's banner tion while working in a Kerr-McGee plutonium processing violent" and decentralized. There is a belief that only a of freedom. plant. The damages, awarded by a state court to punish movement based on nonviolence could bring about peace P.S. — 44 women were arrested and charged with Kerr-McGee, had been-nullified by a federal appeals court. — a unity of means and ends and make the movement "Breach of the peace" when they climbed over the fence Ms. Silkwood was killed when her car mysteriously went off accessible to those outside, especially the media. The de- and entered the camp on January 1, 1983 — a taste of the the road as she was on her way to give evidence of health and continuing struggle this year. _ Nigel Quinten safety violations to a New York Times reporter and a union Letter from Poland leader. The following letter was received by .;. sible. They are forced to make attempts to organize a — there is no real childhood. But it is precisely this life . fears/ my longings;, your visions, our anger"? What have ?-. normal life in a disorganized economy. that makes young girls revolutionaries; and especially the Manuela Saquics been doing, and all the women in i} We hope this letter will reach you. so we could • now with government helicopters bombing the Indian revolutionary movements of the 1970s? . continue our correspondence. towns. It's not that Morgan doesn't know the "facts" of Wo­ A woman in the audience said that Manuela's descrip­ |i- (Signed by two Polish feminists, '• men's Liberation, worldwide. One catches a whiff of the tion of her.decision to risk her life by participating in the excitement of the forthcoming Sisterhood is Global when »5 names withheld) ;'. Embassy occupation was reminiscent of Rosa Luxem­ she mentions everything from women in India fighting burg's definition of "being human" as "joyfully throwing dowry murders to Russian feminists' underground jour­ your whole life 'on the scales of destiny,' " and said Man­ nals.- uela was one of the best revolutionary feminists she had Yet for Morgan, these "facts" are shorn of meaning ever met. and add up to a "fear" of freedom, rather than Woman as Merle Woo reinstated Manuela laughed warmly at this latter designation, Revolutionary Reason. That is the category Raya Dunay- Merle Woo, lesbian and socialist-feminist, has won the and proceeded to talk about the centrality of Women's evskaya creates as central to her latest work on Rosa first round in her fight against the University of California- Liberation in the Guatemalan peasant movement. The Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Berkley, to retain her teaching position in Asian-American men may tell us, she said, that a woman's place is in the Revolution — a category that recognizes both the unique Studies (see N&L, July 1982). On Dec. 2 a judge ruled that UC home, but we women are thinking and acting with our freedom dimensions birthed in those 1960s rap groups and reverse its 1980 policy of dismissing lecturers after four own minds to bring freedom and a new life for all Guate­ the Reason of the Manuela Saquics rising to challenge years, and ordered that Woo and other lecturers fired under mala. We won't return to any "traditions" that confine and deepen all revolutionary movements worldwide. the same policy be re-instated with back pay. us. It is only when feminist thought recognizes the Rea­ The UC administration has appealed, and continued sup­ It is precisely such a passion to break out of all con­ son in women's freedom activity,,, globally, that doors are port is needed. For more information, write to the Merle Woo finements that characterized today's Women's Liberation opened for a new unity of feminism, philosophy and revo­ Defense Committee, do Brodine, 2661 21st St., San Fran­ Movement (WLM) from its very birth in the 1960s. Robin lution, and ground; is laid for realizing freedom in the cisco, CA *4110. Morgan comes from that generation of feminists active in 1980s. _ Michelle Landau January-February, 1983 NEWS & LETTERS Page 3 Detroit laborers shut down GM plant site Detroit, Mich. — On one side stand construction labor­ Over the last two years membership in Local 334 has C|THE LINE ers from predominantly Black Detroit Local 334. Carloads dropped from 4000 to 2000 due to early retirement and of workers (many from out-of-state) along with trucks because unemployed laborers are unable to pay their carrying construction material stand on the other side, all monthly union dues. The laborers are not only concerned refusing to cross the informational picket line. One super­ about the unskilled out-of-town labor that is taking their visor after another storms up to the picket line demand­ jobs, but point to the unsafe working conditions created. ing to know who the leader is. Detroit police frantically Workers have already been killed at the Poletown con­ Jobless signal to cars and trucks in the huge traffic jam to break struction site. "With the teeth out of OSHA, these people the picket line. No one crosses. are trying to make a profit by making jobs more hazard­ refuse to From across the street a crowd of ironworkers and ous," said one worker. pipefitters watch as a project supervisor tries to convince On the second day of the picket line at the Mt. Elliott them to enter through another gate. Then one young Dann Road entrance to the GM construction site the disappear Black ironworker expressed what many felt: "There is laborers reported that they continue to receive strong not any reason why anyone out here should be crossing support from other workers. Concrete trucks won't cross, that picket line. This is a union town and all they are meaning major construction is halted. Ironworkers, pipe­ by John Marcotte trying to do is bust it. Reagan would like that." Another fitters, bricklayers, Teamsters, utility truck drivers and The Reagan Administration's proposal to tax un­ worker added, "They want to make it like Poland!" others have also supported the picket line. employment benefits would throw us back, to the work­ That was the scene of the dramatic confrontation which houses of Charles Dickens' England, where the theory took place for two hours at the main entrance to the was that you had to punish the poor for being poor so construction site of the General Motors Poletown plant they'd "disappear." Where the hell are we supposed to (one of the largest construction projects in the U.S.) as disappear to? Where are the jobless, homeless workers — construction was delayed on the morning of January 7. and families — criss-crossing America, filling churches Rank-and-file workers from construction laborers Local and soup kitchens, supposed to disappear to? 334 had set up what was only to be an informational And what happens to Reagan's supposed "work ethic" picket line but which instantly transformed into an act of when it comes to those they call the "working poor," who worker solidarity, in a city with one of the highest rates of have a job that pays so low they need a supplement from unemployment in the nation. The laborers had come to welfare to cover child care, transportation and so on? focus attention on the fact that the construction manager Wisconsin, the only state that has kept track as Reagan's of the Poletown project, Barton Malow, was allowed by new welfare rules cut off the supplements, reports that 40 the Mayor, the City Council and their own union leader­ percent could no longer afford to work and had to quit ship to contract work out to sub-contractors who refuse to and apply for full welfare. use Detroit laborers and instead bring in out-of-state laborers, many of them non-union. NOTHING BUT SLAVERY FULL UNEMPLOYMENT The Community Work Experience Program (CWEP) in New York, one of the new federal "workfare" rules The rank-and-file picket line had started down the now adopted by 33 states, is so far in effect in only 14 street from the Poletown construction site the day before, counties. It will hurt not only those on welfare but all in front of the Local 334 hall. Local 334 is the laborers' working people, by forcing welfare recipients to work off hiring hall for construction covering southeast Michigan. their checks on minimum wage jobs, but with no Yet, with 80 percent unemployment in the union, contract employee status, no workers' benefits and no right to concessions that haven't brought jobs, and drastic cut­ unionize, bargain collectively or strike. It is a throwback backs in benefits, as one laborer put it, "to say that union — News *wy Cuchubal. Work for pay is practically unknown among indigenous peoples. THE ARMY OF RIOS MONTT They have tried many ways to undo this type of organi­ zation. But the repression, far from destroying it, has made us go back to it more. Now the army of Rios Montt % is building strategic hamlets under the name "model vil­ <»rA lages," trying to end our whole way of working the land and our traditions. ou^**** \i The army is now exterminating especially the indigen­ ,«tf* ous peasantry, because the large landowners of the south­ ern coast can now mechanize their crops and no longer need our labor. So they don't care if they wipe out th6 entire indigenous population. Neither does the U.S., which is directly interested in our infertile lands because of the discovery of oil arid nickel The Guatemalan people know that we face a hard struggle. But we are confident that we will win sooner or Where Marxism and Freedom, whose structure was grounded in the movement from practice throughout later because the whole people is involved. This is not a the 200 years from 1776 to Today discloses Marx's "new Humanism", both internationally and in its American race struggle. It is a class struggle of the dispossessed roots, Philosophy and Revolution, in recreating Marx's philosophic roots both in the Hegelian dialectic and majority against the tiny minority that possesses every­ thing. in the actual revolutionary movement of his day, articulated these forces of revolution as Reason - Labor, Black, Youth, Women - of our day. By tracing and paralleling this age's 30-year movement from practice to theory with our own theoretical development for the same three decades, Marxist-Humanism in the U.S. has met Xew§ & Letters the challenge of the "new moments" in the last decade of Marx's life by disclosing in them a trail to the 1980s. 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All 3 works published by Humanities Press to celebrate the Marx centenary. Ray a Dunayevskaya, Chairwoman Order from: News & Letters, 2832 E. Grand Blvd., Detroit, MI 48211 National Editorial Board Enclosed is $- _ for (please check boxes below): Charles Denby Editor Name Felix Martin Co-Editor ^ ^^ Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx's O. Domanski ...'..' .Managing Editor Address — _ Philosophy of Revolution ($10.95) Zip. • Marxism and Freedom ($10.95) Second Class Postage Paid at Detroit, Michigan City State • Philosophy and Revolution ($10.95) January-February, 1983 NEWS & LETTERS Page 5 First English translation of Rosa Luxemburg's 'Martinique' Editor's Note: This January marks the sixty-fourth thundering Mt. Pelee had a voice to catch their ear. anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg's brutal murder in the France weeps over the tiny island's 40,000 corpses, and midst of the 1919 German Revolution. "Martinique" was the whole world hastens to dry the tears of the mourning Mother Republic. But how was it then, centuries ago. written shortly after a volcanic eruption occurred at the when France spilled blood in torrents for the Lesser and port of St. Pierre in May, 1902. It was originally pub­ Greater Antilles? In the sea off the east coast of Africa lished in Leipziger Volkszeitung on May 15, 1902. It lies a volcanic island — Madagascar: 50 years ago there has been translated into English for the first time by we saw the disconsolate Republic who weeps for her lost David Wolff, translator of Luxemburg's "Theory and children today, how she oowed the obstinate native people Practice." to her yoke with chains and the sword. No volcano opened its crater there: the mouths of French cannons spewed Mountains -of out death and annihilation; French artillery fire swept smoking ruins, thousands of flowering human lives from the face of the heaps of man­ earth until a free people lay prostrate on the ground, until gled corpses, a the brown queen of the "savages" was dragged off as a steaming, trophy to the "City of Light." smoking sea of fire wherever On the Asiatic coast, washed by the waves of the ocean, Saint-Pierre, Martinique after volcanic eruption of Ma>. you turn, mud lie the smiling Philippines. Six years ago we saw the 1902. and ashes — benevolent Yankees, we saw the Washington Senate at that is all that work there. Not fire-spewing mountains — there, Ameri­ prison courtyards, body to body and head to head; remains of the can rifles mowed down human lives in heaps; the sugar through loopholes in the walls, mitrailleuses thrust their flourishing lit­ cartel Senate which today sends golden dollars to Mar­ bloodthirsty muzzles. No volcano erupted, no lava stream tle city which tinique, thousands upon thousands, to coax life back from poured down. Your cannons, Mother Republic, were turn­ perched on the the ruins, sent cannon upon cannon, warship upon war­ ed on the tight-packed human crowd, screams of pain rocky slope of dship, golden dollars millions upon millions to Cuba, to sow rent the air — over 20,000 corpses covered the pavements the volcano like death and devastation. of Paris! a fluttering YESTERDAY, TODAY — far off in the African south, AND ALL OF YOU — whether French and English, swallow. For where only a few years ago a tranquil little people lived Russians and Germans, Italians and Americans — we some time the by theif labor and in peace, there we saw how the English have seen you all together once before in brotherly ac­ angry giant wreak havoc, these same Englishmen who in Martinique cord, united in a great league of nations, helping and had been heard save the mother her children and the children their par­ guiding one another: it was in China. There too you forgot to rumble and ents: there we saw them stamp on human bodies, on all quarrels among yourselves, there too you made a rage against children's corpses with brutal soldiers' boots, wading in peace of peoples — for mutual murder and the torch. Ha, this human pools of blood, death and misery before them and behind. how the pigtails fell in rows under your bullets, like a ripe presumption, Ah, and the Russians, the rescuing, helping, weeping grainfield lashed by the hail! Ha, how the wailing women the blind self- Tsar of All the Russians — an old acquaintance! We have plunged into the water, their dead in their cold arms, conceit of the seen you on the ramparts of Praga. where warm Polish fleeing the torture of your ardent embraces! two-legged blood.flowed in streams and turned the sky red with its And now they have all turned to Martinique, ah one dwarfs. Great­ steam. But those were the old days. No! Now, only a few heart and one mind again; they help, rescue, drv the hearted even in weeks ago, we have seen you benevolent Russians on your tears and curse the havoc-wreaking volcano. Mt. Felee. his wrath, a dusty highways, in ruined Russian villages eye to eye greathearted giant, you can laugh; you can look down in true giant, he with the ragged, wildly agitated, grumbling mob; gunfire loathing at these benevolent murderers, at these weeping warned the rattled, gasping muzhiks fell to the earth, red peasant carnivores, at these beasts in Samaritan's clothing. But a reckless crea­ blood mingled with the dust of the highway. They must day will come when another volcano lifts its voice oi tures that die, they must fall because their bodies doubled up with thunder: a volcano that is seething and boiling, whether crawled at his hunger, because they cried out for bread, for bread! you heed it or not, and will sweep the whole sanctimoni feet. He smok­ And we have seen you too, oh Mother Republic, you ous, blood-spattered culture from the face of the earth ed, spewed out tear-distiller. It was on May 23 of 1871: the glorious spring And only on its ruins will the nations come together in fiery clouds, in sun shone down on Paris; thousands of pale human beings true humanity, which will know but one deadly foe — his bosom in working clothes stood packed together on the streets, in blind, dead nature. there was seething and boiling and ex­ Editor's Note: With the publication of the Marxist-Humanist work Rom Luxemburg, Women's Liberation plosions like and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, we are expanding our "Who We Are and What We Stand For" rifle volleys statement to more fully present our revolutionary philosophic heritage as reflected in all three major works and cannon by Raya Dunayevskaya as well as in the archives of Marxist-Humanism over a 30 year period. thunder. But the lords of the earth, those Who We Are and What We Stand For who ordain human destiny, News and Letters Committees, an organization of Marx­ of Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx's remained with ist-Humanists, stand for the abolition of capitalism, whether faith unshaken Philosophy of Revolution. This work challenges post-Marx in its private property form as in the U.S., or its state Marxists to return to Marx's Marxism. At a time when the — in their own property form as in Russia or China. We stand for the nuclear world is threatened with the extinction of civilization wisdom. development of a new human society based on the principles itself it becomes imperafive not only to reject what is, bu* to On the 7th, the commission dispatched by the govern­ of Marx's Humanism as recreated for our day. reveal the revolutionary Humanist future inherent in the ptn— ment announced to the anxious people of St. Pierre that News & Letters was created so that the voices of revolt ent. all was in order in heaven and on earth. All is in order, no from below could be heard not separated from the articula­ News & Letters was founded in 1955, the year of the. cause for alarm! — as they said on the eve of the Oath of tion of a philosophy of liberation: A Black production work­ Detroit wildcats against Automation and the Montgomery Bus the Tennis Court in the dance-intoxicated halls of Louis er, Charles Denby, author of Indignant Heart: A Black Boycott against segregation — activities which signalled a. XVI, while in the crater of the revolutionary volcano fiery Worker's Journal, is the editor of the paper. Raya Duna­ new movement from practice which was itself a form of lava was gathering for the fearful eruption. All is in or­ yevskaya, the Chairwoman of the National Editorial Board der, peace and quiet everywhere! — as they said in Vie­ theory. Vol. 1, No. 1, came off the press on the second nna and Berlin on the eve of the March eruption 50 years and National Chairwoman of the Committees, is the author anniversary of the June 17, 1953 East German revolt against ago. The old, long-suffering titan of Martinique paid no of Marxism and Freedom, Philosophy and Revolution Russian state-capitalism masquerading as Communism, in heed to the reports of the honourable commission; after and Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and Marx's order to express our solidarity with freedom fighters abroad the people had been reassured by the governor on the 7th, Philosophy of Revolution, which spell out the philosophic as well as at home. Because 1953 was also the year when he erupted in the early hours of the 8th and buried in a ground of Marx's Humanism internationally as American we worked out the revolutionary dialectics of Marxism in its few minutes the governor, the commission, the people, Civilization on Trial concretizes it on the American scene original form of "a new Humanism," as well as individuality houses, streets and ships under the fiery exhalation of his and shows the two-way road between the U.S. and Africa. "purified of all that interferes with its universalism, i.e., v«srh indignant heart. Where Marxism and Freedom, whose structure was freedom itself," we organized ourselves in Committees roiber THE WORK was radically thorough. Forty thousand grounded in the movement from • practice throughout the 200 than any elitist party "to lead". The development of Marx human lives mowed down, a handful of trembling ref­ years from 1776 to Today discloses Marx's "new Human­ ist-Humanjsm in the U.S., 1941 to Today is recorded in the ugees rescued — the old giant Can rumble and bubble in ism," both internationally and in its American roots, Phil­ documents and on microfilm available to all under title the peace, he has shown his might, he has fearfully avenged osophy and Revolution, in recreating Marx's philosophic Raya Dunayevskaya Collection on deposit at the Labor the slight to his primordial power. roots both in the Hegelian dialectic and in the actual revolu­ History Archives of Wayne State University. And now in the ruins of the annihilated city on Mar­ tionary movements of his day, articulated these forces of tinique a new guest arrives, unknown, never seen before In opposing the capitalistic, racist, sexist, exploitative so­ — the human being. Not lords and bondsmen, not Blacks revolution as Reason — Labor, Black, Youth, Women — of ciety, we participate in all class and freedom struggles, and whites, not rich and poor, not plantation owners and our day. By tracing and paralleling this age's 30-year nationally and internationally. As our Constitution states; "It wage slaves — human beings have appeared on the tiny movement from practice to theory with our own theoretical is our aim . . i. to promote the firmest unity among workers. shattered island, human beings who feel only the pain and development for the same three decades, Marxist-Humanism Blacks and other minorities, women, youth and those intellec­ see only the disaster, who only want to help and succor. in the U.S. has met the challenge of the "new moments" in tuals who have broken with the ruling bureaucracy of both Old Mt. Pelee has worked a miracle! Forgotten are the the last decade of Marx's life by disclosing in them a trail to capital and labor." We do not separate the mass activities days of Fashoda, forgotten the conflict over Cuba, forgot­ the 1980s. It is this trail, these paths of revolution — be it in from the activity of thinking. Anyone who is a participant in ten "la Revanche" — the French and the English, the the birth of a whole new generation of revolutionaries, these freedom struggles for totally new relations and a Tsar and the Senate of Washington, Germany and Holland including the transformation of Women's Liberation as an donate money, send telegrams, extend the helping hand. fundamentally new way of life, and who believes in these A brotherhood of peoples against nature's burning hatred, idea whose time has come into a Movement or the emer­ principles, is invited to join us. Send for a copy of the a resurrection of humanism on the ruins of human cul­ gence of a whole new Third World — that form the content Constitution of News and Letters Committees. ture. The price of recalling their humanity was high, but Page 6 x NEWS & LETTERS January-f DEGENERATE CAPITALISM AND OPPOSITION—IN USA Have you seen where appeals for food bases, so folks are accustomed to having for Detroit's hungry have gone out in the military around. But if they were Germany? The Frankfurter Allgemeine talking about putting the MX in Colorado, Zeitung published a front-page story folks would be all over the Federal Build­ Readers' Vi headlined "Hunger Emergency in Det­ ing. Black veteran roit," and after that many writers, Denver, Colorado TRILOGY OF REVOLUTION': SUMMATION AS NEW BEGINNING teachers, lawyers, etc. started an appeal * * * for Germans to give food and clothing to When I saw the farmers getting maced I have read all your theoretic works — I've completed the first couple of chap­ Detroit. The leader said that he was Marxism and Freedom, Philosophy and ters of the book on Rosa Luxemburg and and beaten at the courthouse in Spring­ Revolution, and now the latest one, Rosa doing it because the Americans had field, Colorado. I felt that things have find it exciting — particularly relevant to helped Germany during the Marshall Luxemburg, Women's Liberation and today's challenges. In my work with a gone about as far as they can go in this Marx's Philosophy of Revolution. But I Plan, and it was unthinkable to him that country before it all blows apart. Reagan community center in Toronto, we are try­ the "richest country in the world is un­ must say that I think your slogan for ing to promote a concept and practice of and the bankers should remember that referring to them as "three books, not able to contain starvation." Populism envisioned farmers and urban community control, but often I wish there one" is ridiculous. May I suggest that, were more time to work on political and I live here in Detroit; I know it's true workers together reclaiming what is instead, a better summation of them about people going hungry and cold. theirs. Farm onion supporter intellectual interests. would be "trilogy of revolution"? I say In Toronto everyday I notice the escal­ There are soup kitchens and "food pan­ Michigan this because I think that in these works tries" everywhere now. It says something ating byproduct of the capitalist world * * * the dialectic of revolution discloses itself crisis. There will be literally deaths in about the health of capitalism when the most fully. most advanced machinery in the plants is "Unemployment within the factory the streets this winter (our housing situ­ surrounded by soup lines. Unemployed gates" is a catchy little Russian phrase. Life-long socialist ation is scandalous). I also observe the Detroit But the American phrasemongers are not Massachusetts parallel growth of organized resistance * v * about to be outdone. As if to prove that alongside the power-inspired oppression state-capitalism is a world phenomenon of government and capital. We're really on a powder keg when it Ed. Note: Watch for a special on­ comes to unemployment. At the not limited to the Russian Empire, our Roger own bureaucrats have given us a new going section of Readers' Views be­ Toronto, Canada unemployment office, I was talking with name for their own plans. It's called ginning next month on this "trilogy of a man who had been unemployed for revolution" — comments on the eight months. I asked him how had he "planned demographic shrinkage." It fundamental works of Marxist- I received my copy of Rosa Luxem­ been affected? He handed me an eviction comes from John Kasarda of the Univ. of Humanism and their relation to the burg, Women's Liberation and Marx's notice — he was getting kicked out of his North Carolina, and refers to what the worldwide freedom movement. Philosophy of Revolution and have now house. That same day I met three other U.S. government should do to counter its read with great interest the last chapter. people in that same situation. increasing population of minorities in I turned to that chapter after reading general, as well as their concentration about Marx's Ethnological Notebooks in Unemployed among the urban unemployed. But we I wanted to tell you about an exciting Pico Rivera, Cal. meeting I had with a worker from the N&L. Were it not for that source, I doubt have a "phrase" of our own: "negation of closed-down Schwinn plant here. He has that I'd ever have heard of that book, or the negation." That's a wonderful known that it was finally published. I told Today, Jan. 6, 1983, I walked a picket been getting N&L for a while. But when I synonym for revolution against such went to visit him I was in for some inter­ several people about it. line with laborer? from Local 334 in "Det­ dehumanization. "Linguist" esting revelations. He has done a let of The argument Dunayevskaya makes roit, picketing t),«.jr own union hall. All A Ohio reading, and recently somehow he has that Marx was continuing to develop his rr,v life I have been a union man, but this been reading Kautsky. He asked me "Do new continent of thought in ever more is the first time I ever picketed a union . .. AND IN ANDROPOV'S RUSSIA you know of a good book on Rosa Luxem­ challenging directions even in that last hall. The local in Detroit is 90 percent burg?" You can imagine that created a decade, seems convincing to me. You are unemployed, and yet they had to picket I had a chance to work with Raya few openings. When I sold him a copy of going to make a lot of so-called Marxists their own union for jobs that belong to Dunayevskaya when she was writing her Raya's new book, he said-that "Luxem­ unhappy with this discovery, but the them. article on the Andropov ascendancy (Dec. burg must have been a very interesting truth has come out at last. To me this shows the degeneracy of the N&L). One thing that was quite inter­ woman." . A question occurs: does Marx neces­ union leadership over the last 35 years. esting to me as she made the rough notes sarily insist, overall, that "the career" of and then the completed article was how In the discussion he brought up his feel­ They have become just another bureau­ ing on Trotsky from his own viewpoint private property will come to a complete cracy, like corporate management or intertwined Poland and Russia were. end? I wondered if he might have said They were both in the headlines with the from Mexico: "Trotsky was smarter than government — all parasites, bloodsuckers Stalin, but his problem was that he didn't that the "communism" that mankind living off labor. Autoworker changing of the guard and the prepar­ must eventually evolve to necessarily ations to "end" martial law. She saw think the peasants had half a brain." He Detroit is going to be studying the book with our excluded all private holdings. I don't * * :•: them linked in two ways — as revolution think the people would have to own col­ and as counter-revolution. In revolution, group and I'm sure we will learn a lot The day after Norman Mayer was shot from each other. lectively every barber shop, garden, etc. at the Washington Monument I got to Poland and all of East Europe have con­ English professor work a little early and found all the other tinuously been the Achilles heel of Rus­ Marxist-Humanist Buffalo. X.Y. workers in the break room talking about sian state-capitalism for more than a Chicago it. What everyone was talking about was quarter of a century. But quite sobering how the police killed Mayer after they was the link of counter-revolution — that the Jaruzelski martial-law regime was When the Chicago News and Letters shot the tires off his truck. "It's terror!" GUATEMALA: Committee held a meeting about the a Black worker said. Most of us agreed the forerunner of the KGB Andropov Guatemalan struggle, we passed out that they did it because it was going on ascendancy. DIMENSIONS OF copies of the December N&L, which had national TV and they wanted to make an That simultaneity of revolution and just arrived. There were six or eight example of him. Another Black worker counter-revolution is something we as STRUGGLE Guatemalans at the meeting, and natur­ said sne guessed she was naive, but she'd revolutionaries have to keep firmly in ally they began reading the articles by always thought that if you came out with mind. It is why even an analysis which AND THOUGHT Manuela Saquic and Domingo Hernandez your hands up, you could surrender and correctly designates Russia as state- Iztoy on Guatemala. But when I looked •iv-v weren't supposed to kill you. There capitalist is incomplete without looking at It just came over the radio that Reagan back a little later, several of them were v;. •. ,< pause and then someone said "Not its opposite, what you stand for, Marx's lifted the embargo on arms sales to engrossed in reading Eugene Walker's at.vmore." Bottle washer Humanism. Eugene Walker Guatemala's junta, the one led by that essay on "Marx and non-capitalist lands, Chicago Detroit mass murderer, Rios Montt. He is going 1873-83." Evidently they thought that * * =i- * * * to sell them helicopter parts they say. even though Marx was writing about I went to a Chicago Housing Authority In general, 1 continue to like N&L. But But the Guatemalans have been saying Russia 100 years ago, it had something to office and tried to sign up for one Of the specifically, I do have a question. In the for the last two years that the U.S. has say to their movement in Central Amer­ ttivweek jobs the Mayor is offering just latest article by Raya Dunayevskaya on been doing all this in secret — and more. ica today. before the election. The newspaper gave Andropov's ascendancy, little effort is They are paying for most of the war, and Learned -something a list of places to sign up, but I was told I made to show that this stage of state- giving most of the advice. Do the Ameri­ Illinois couldn't sign up at the CHA but had to go capitalism must indeed be the final one. can people realize how many are dying? :fc :;•' $ Could one conceive yet another stage? Do they know that the whole of the Alti- to a park miles away. Congratulations to Eugene Walker for There were only 22 jobs at this office Student plano has been turned into a "free-fire zone"? Do they hear the voices of the his thought-provoking piece on "Marx and cioz; ns of people had already signed Urbana, 111. and Non-capitalist lands" (December up. You had to sign up, then stand outside ' * * # Indian fighters — the 12-year-old heroes, the peasants who farm and fight with the N&L). It is truly rare when Marx is pre­ "_n the cold for hours until they called you I would like to add my voice to the sented in such a "textual analysis" that !-. One said, "I don't know why lm stay- chorus of comments on Andropov. But same sticks, the women who have taken to the hills? isn't at all academic. I especially liked :i=g here: I'm number 62. I'm Black. what I think is important to explain is the the way those three texts of Marx's last Those b in there don't give Black vacuity of bourgeois thinkers, such as Now is the time to stop this bloodbath, decade were arranged, so that we could people nothing! They keep you coming Fontaine, who wrote in Le Monde, and we in the USA have a great task be­ follow the way Marx dived ever more and going. I've got the spirit of Miami. I "Andropov is open to new ideas." This in, fore us. concretely into the waters created by his feel like burning something down!" reference to one who reformed the KGB Guatemala supporter startling breakthrough in the letter to Disgusted with the so-called "psychiatric hospi­ New York Mihailovsky. tals." Even though the journalist knew Chicago Andropov's history, why the oversight? I hope that people will focus on the * * * These writers don't bring mutual Guatemala is in the headlines of the daily method of the last decade, rather than That "MX dense pack" is the stupidest determinations into mutual contact. They papers, and I have seen it in many Left think: that one can just "apply" Marx thing I've ever heard of. I don't think it treat the objective situation as though it newspapers and special Guatemalan news­ on non-capitalist lands of the 1880s will really get through Congress, but who had a life of its own. Instead they focus letters. But what is so special about how to questions of today's Third World. As knows? Sometimes I think old men really on "backward" Russian technology, not Guatemala is presented in the pages of Walker indicated, the key is the concrete love war. That accident in Tennesee — seeing that many workers there are now News & Letters is the strong emphasis on human forces to challenge capitalism, not they're lucky it was only four people who being replaced by automation, and the Guatemalans speaking for themselves. a particular social form in which they are were killed. Any kind of accident with it rest worked to death. All these ideologues You really did feel the dimension of Indian expressed, much less a question of capit­ in a big city area would wipe out 100,000 are thinking about whether Andropov will peasants and Indian women when you read alism's riches being built on the "pil­ people or more. Killing one is too many; buy more Western technology. the December N&L. lage" of the Third World alone. that's the problem with war. In Denver Activist and thinker Latin American Studies student Anthropologist we have the NORAD and two missile Los Angeles Los Angeles Michigan &ry, 1983 NEWS & LETTERS Page 7 BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT ON EVERY CONTINENT time. The chadour ls'very dangerous, it is alism was destroyed with the rise of almost impossible to control and really capitalism. In feudalism one worked to I wanted to write you a little about the conclusion, having put forward the case. takes both hands: and if you need one provide for self, in capitalism one worked Aboriginal Movement in Australia. My Your paper helps me to assess the situ­ hand to carry books and the other hand to for the sake of work. This type of change knowledge (not a lot) comes from an ation in other countries and cultivates hang from the side of the bus, along had to change the personality of man! I Aboriginal woman friend of mine. Most some consciousness about myself as a comes a tree branch to catch it and would like to see more on this. interesting in the conversation was find­ Black man — how 1 can improve my sur­ you're gone! But it doesn't stop the men Prisoner-subscriber ing out that it is the Aboriginal women roundings together with that, of my from pinching or spitting on you if you're Pontiac, III. who are the back-bone and driving force neighbors as a suffering Black man. The walking alone. behind the movement; keeping it alive suffering is imposed on us by the coloni­ and not selling out. Like many women alists. The imperialist forces should be I wish more Americans could visit my active in the movement, my friend had a removed from our shoulders. country and see how we live. You can't white father who after some time lost in­ Searching for freedom help seeing how terrible the work is or terest in her mother and left her with all that the workers have nothing. Or just ll Bulawayo. Zimbabwe the children . . . the newspapers — columns and columns are always blank because the censor-cut ta>filllflln turnl ti !\• them. The greatest demand seems to be for Each narrow cell in which we dwell Land rights, as shown by the demon­ Pakistani woman worker Is a foul dark latrine strations during the Commonwealth APPEAL FROM DEFENSE Chicago Games. There is still a lot of conflict be­ And the fetid breath of living death tween the tribes on particular areas of AND AID FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA Chokes up each grated screen. land. The protests during the Common­ And all, but fust, 4s tamed to dust wealth Games were against the racist I received a most moving appeal for In humanity's machine. right-wing Queensland state government funds from the Michigan Support Com­ STOP Hopefully this letter will find the N&L for not having fulfilled land promises and mittee for International Defense and Aid NUCLEAR staff well. For myself, my health is fine; taking back from Aborigines what land Fund for Southern Africa last month. The happiness, I'm working on it. Thanks for they already have — not to mention the Defense and Aid Fund sends help to WASTE the paper. I receive much enlightenment oppressive rules people must adhere to families of the political prisoners in South from it. . ' on the reservations. Land is being taken Africa. As>you know, all opponents of DUMPS! Prisoner away from them in other states now too apartheid are under attack today — fac­ Menard. III. — the Northern Territory and Western ing jail, banning, torture or exile. Much The U.S. Dept. of Energy has its eye on Australia. But their struggle is Increas­ of the support for that horrible govern­ the Lake Superior region (Wisconsin, ingly active ... ment comes from Reagan and his Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of friends. So I feel that we have to counter Michigan) as a potential site for an inter­ New reader that with our own internationalism, by national garbage dump for long-lived, ANTI-NUKE AND WAR IN IRELAND Victoria, Australia supporting the freedom struggle there. -highly radioactive nuclear wastes — wastes that will remain deadly for up to The question of nuclear weapons is the In Michigan we have finally established half a million years. The highest concen­ one issue at the moment where the oppos­ a chapter of International Defense and ition from below is seriously worrying to When Black youth in Overtown, Miami, tration of nuclear power plants in the Aid, and we have begun a program of USA is in the Midwest, and you can see Britain's rulers. Opposition to the war in rose up last month, many people remem­ education and fund-raising, showing Northern Ireland remains a much less bered the Liberty City revolt of 1980. But the counties being considered for nuclear movies like "Phelindobo". The appeal I dump sites (see map above). popular cause. The Left-wing Labourites, I also went to look up the N&L Editorial: got in the mail included a beautiful draw­ who are in the majority on the Greater "Government reports and the ongoing ing of a mock stock certificate, entitling In the words of Energy Secretary London Council, invited two Sinn Fein Black revolt" (Aug.-Sept. 1982) where you to be a shareholder in defense and James Edwards, the objective is to "put representatives elected to the N.I. As­ you discussed the 1982 "official" govern­ aid of the prisoners. You can join with the waste in the ground and stop talking sembly for discussion. A real hate cam­ ment report on the Miami rebellion in them by writing to: about it." Only with the help of an paign emanated from the press, parti­ light of today, and in the context of the aroused citizenry can they be stopped Michigan Support Committee from such quick-fix methods of getting cularly after the Ballykenny disco bomb­ total, ongoing Black revolt against this 7601 Rosa Parks Blvd. ing (carried out by the INLA) which kil­ racist American civilization. I hope that the nuclear waste problem out of the pub­ led 16 people. article is still available to new readers of Detroit, MI 48206 lic eye. Please help us continue the opposition: N&L. Home Secretary Whitelaw issued an "v Reader Lake Superior Region Radioactive order banning the two from Britain, Florida Waste Project which is strange since Thatcher asserts PAKISTAN AND THE CHADOUR 315 West Gorham St. that N.I. residents are "fully British ..." When I heard that the dictator Zia Madison, WI 53703 The bombings have not helped the Irish I have been reading various literature al-haq was coming here to ask for more cause. But the point is that, horrific as about communism both from the Western aid, it made me think of when I was a they are, they are a consequence of the and Eastern countries. I have found some student back in Pakistan and how I won­ rotten, discriminatory system in North­ bias against communism by the Western dered why the U.S. never did anything to LETTERS FROM PRISON ern Ireland, and the policy of both countries. But I have found your maga­ stop him. Labour and Tory governments since 1969 zine to be very practical indeed as it ex­ I "was lucky; I graduated from high N&L is a fine Marxist paper. However, The British war machine comprises plas­ poses all the merits and demerits about school before it was made law for women I often feel that it does not explain what tic bullets as well as cruise missiles and communism and humanism. Unlike students to wear the chadour. Later I one can do about circumstances. I would the peace movement here must take ac I magazines which make suggestions and read in a newspaper how a student was like to see N&L explore the rise of capit­ count of that. conclusions for the reader, this particular killed when her chadour caught on a bus alism and its effect on the minds of Richard Bunting one leaves the reader to come to his own wheel. These accidents happen all the people. 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They tan" frauds, and having forced tens of thousands out of helped trigger massive strikes propelling an undreamed blew a hole as well in the illusions of that apartheid land's their homes in townships around white cities to live in of growth of independent Black unionism, 1980-82. rulers and their allies in Washington that the murderous reservation-like zones, the Botha government now fears new attacks launched against the "external threat" — From a base of less than 50,000 two years ago, the these very "homelands" will become centers of "subver­ Black trade union movement has skyrocketed to a mem­ Black opponents in Lesotho and Mozambique — and the sive" activity. They know very well that unemployment relentless jailings and bannings oi freedom lighters bership of over 300,000 today. And although this repre­ in them is nearly total and even subsistence agriculture sents only ten percent of the Black urban workforce, the within South Africa, could pacify the whole southern end close to impossible. of the continent for continuing white supremacist rule. unions have gained at least a foothold in nearly every And as the inquiry into the breach of security at the On every front, whether rural or urban, "internal" or industry' and in all parts of South Africa. What is new is heavily guarded Koeberg installation proceeded, what "external," the apartheid system since Soweto 1976 has that the many-sided government and corporate attacks was underlined was how no part of the vaunted prosperity been searching, with U.S. assistance, for new approaches which followed initial victories by the unions in auto, of white South Africa can be separated from its contradic­ to the problem of how to maintain control. It was thus mines, food and textiles have not destroyed those gains. tory dependence on Black labor. Of the 4,000 employed at with considerable satisfaction that Botha's regime re- In the face of repression union members undertook not the Koeberg construction site, some 2,500 were said to be retrenchment, but a searching on such questions as Black workers brought in by contractors from the "home­ whether to declare a Black consciousness philosophy; lands" ghettoes of Transkei and Ciskei. where new Black whether to get involved in openly political questions; union movements have made important inroads since whether to register under the government's labor legisla­ 1980. tion. As the recession has deepened worldwide, even the SOUTH AFRICA'S WARS AGAINST South African economy has been troubled, with lay-offs in LESOTHO, MOZAMBIQUE major industries and a push by the government to force In claiming responsibility for the explosions, the Afri­ unemployed workers to move to the "homelands." Only a can National Congress (ANC) cited the brutal midnight $2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund incursion by South African troops ten days earlier into (IMF), pushed through with U.S. support, has "averted Maseru, capital of the tiny state of Lesotho. Over 40 major trouble for the economy. But the new unions, far people, both exiled activists and Maseru townspeople, from granting "concessions," have been organizing the were slaughtered in that assault, after which South Africa unorganized. Some of the most recent strikes have been warned Lesotho to stop allowing Black exile activity. those by retail store workers in Johannesburg demanding The assault against Lesotho took its place in a vastly — Themba Nkosi union recognition for their Commercial, Catering and Al­ widened strategy of aggression and destabilization Striking workers seek recognition for their union from Ed­ lied Workers' Union. Its leader, Emma Mashinini, was throughout Southern Africa carried out by the chief of apar­ gars, a retail clothing chain in Johannesburg. refeased in May, 1982, after more than six months in theid's armed forces. Gen. Constand Viljoen for his Prime detention, and immediately resumed militant strike or­ Minister Botha. We had long been witness to their ceived the news, Jan. 4, of the decision of the Labor ganizing. search-and-destroy raids into Angola against the Nami- Party, the most prominent political organization among Seventy-five years ago British troops, having finished bian liberationisms of SWAPO and their financing of the nation's 2.7 million "Coloured" (as those of so-called with the Boer War, joined with the Boers to crush the last UNITA guerrillas, as well as efforts to economically de­ "mixed-race" are termed), to take part in Botha's pro­ remnants of the Bambata (Zulu) Rebellion in Natal. After stabilize Zimbabwe, once colonialist rule was ousted posed "expanded Parliament." This proposal calls for scores were executed, they declared the land safe for there. Today, however, secret operations focus as well on three racially segregated chambers: one for whites, one colonial interests. Today's South African rulers, flush an undeclared war against Mozambique, with South Af­ for "Coloureds". one for Indians — and no representation with their new strategies for "containing" the freedom rica supplying and directing armed groups calling them­ for 22 million Black South Africans. Whites will of course struggles, delude themselves that they can maintain their selves the Mozambican National Resistance (MNR). They still have complete veto power. Less than 24 hours after rule in perpetuity. They know that apartheid would never have attempted to not only paralyze Mozambique's Labor Party leaders announced their decision, the U.S. have lasted this long without the active support of U.S. economy, but disrupt Zimbabwean exports and discour­ State Department rushed to declare that "a process of imperialism, a support which has intensified in an era age Mozambican support for Black freedom struggles in­ change is under way" in South Africa. when not even the Shah of Iran proved a durable ally. side South Africa. The years since Soweto 1976 have seen such a "World­ Similar motives have governed South Africa's latest THE INDEPENDENT BLACK UNIONS wide movement for self-determination that no land is scheme as well — the attempt to cede large chunks of The Labor Party leaders would do well to remember "safe" for imperialism now. Least of all is the apartheid KaNgwane and KwaZulu "homelands" to the Kingdom of the gulf revealed between the masses and such oppor­ nightmare secure from the great-grandchildren of the Swaziland in return for Swazi cooperation with the South tunist politicking by the rise of Black Consciousness. Not Bambata Rebellion and their quest for liberation now. Black Miami Rebellion II The three days of rebellion at the end of December in Martin Luther King's Miami's Black Overtown area, which began with the police killing of 21 year old Nevell Johnson, once again focused BUCK-RED VIEW philosophic dimension national attention on the grim reality of Black life under­ lying the holiday season of this resort city. Nor has it by John Alan of Christian ethics, it carried a potent revolutionary mes­ ended, as 1,000 Overtown residents turned out for Nevell sage by calling for the reorganization of society from a Johnson's funeral, a week later. January 15th was Martin Luther King's birthday. Had "thing-oriented society" to a "person oriented society" By the time the smoke had cleared another Black he not been gunned down by a racist assassin in April of where machines, computers and profits would cease to be youth, 17 years old. Alonso Singleton, had been killed, 20 1968, he would have been a mere 54 years of age this more important than people. King went on to declare in people had been injured and 44 Black residents arrested. year. His death was both tragic and untimely but he has the sermon; "If there is any one thing that we must see Reports began to surface disclosing the fact that the not passed from the stage of history, he remains alive in today it is that these are revolutionary times. All over the policemen responsible for the deaths of the Black youths the thoughts of many Black and white Americans and this globe men are revolting against old systems of exploita­ have both had numerous complaints filed against them by birthday of his is witnessing a re-discovery both of him tion and oppression. And out of the wounds of a frail the community. and the Black Liberation movement that he has come to world, new systems of justice and equality are being The larger Black ghetto of Liberty City, north of Over- symbolize. born." town, was the scene of Black rebellion in May of 1980. This new interest in King is not an accident. It is In this sermon King caught the spirit of the American And just this past summer the U.S. Civil Rights Commis­ directly related to the fact that the Black revolution of the Black masses, the youth, Third World people and the op­ sion had published its report on that riot citing "current 1960s did not achieve total liberation for Black Ameri­ pressed around the world. conditions in the nation's cities indicate that discrimina­ cans; that racism is still the unwritten law of the land. It THE PHILOSOPHIC NEEDS OF TODAY tion based on race and ethnicity continue to permeate and is a fact that was once again brought to the consciousness undermine the lives of the urban poor." The government of this country and the world by the revolt of Black youth When King spoke these words, he stood alone. Not one report stated that the causes of the Liberty City Re­ in Miami last December and by the permanent economic Black leader of national stature would support him. They bellion "are identical to those documented in the report crisis of capitalism and the ever-present threat of a nuc­ pressured him to keep his mouth shut and to refrain from, of the National Advisory Commission on Civli Disorder of lear holocaust. It is within this environment of perma­ above all, placing the class/race war in the United States 1968." nent racism, permanent economic crisis and the threat of ahead of U.S. imperialist interests in Asia. Thus, not only had there been little progress since 1980, world-wide annihilation that King is presently seen as the But we would be doing King a great disservice — who but none since 1968. A Miami City Commissioner noted great personality who fought for the interests of the poor was indeed a great personality — if we assume his that, "It could have happened anywhere where there are against militarism. philosophical grounds as the point of departure to combat racism, classism and militarism today. Here, I am not people who are without money, housing and services. KING'S ANTI-MILITARISM People here are in the streets and it does not take much speaking of. violence vs. non-violence, but the underlying to ignite a fuse." Thus, today young peace activists and a new generation concept of his philosophy that attempts to synthesize op- of Black militants are finding that the opinions that King posites within capitalist society without recognizing how That fuse in Overtown, as in most Black communities, expressed in his sermon "Why I Am Opposed To The War deep a revolutionary process must be to overcome op- ' is the tension existing between the police and the Black In Vietnam" is a far better explaination of present pression. community due to the excessive use of force by the police. realities than the "I Have A Dream" speech. In this ser­ It was King's failure to recognize this that brought the Perhaps that is why the very first night of the rebellion mon, which King originally delivered at the Ebenezer Bap­ rupture between him and the Black urban masses who saw a direct confrontation between Black youth and the tist Church in Atlanta, Georgia in April, 1967, he came out wanted to end capitalism as system completely in the police. Indeed, after the very first reports showing Black against the "giant triplets of Racism, militarism and 1960s. He never made a philosophical category out of the youth capturing the guns in a police car and fighting the economic exploitation." He boldly placed himself in Black mass revolt, yet he was the most philosophical of S.W.A.T. team to a standstill, the media never-aired the categorical opposition to the war by drawing a connection all the Black leaders and did see the struggle in report again. between that war and the war that he was conducting at philosophical terms. He had a deep respect for Black With another investigation underway amid calls for home. He saw the war in Vietnam as an enemy of the masses,but not for their power as reason. What stood dismissal of Miami police chief Kenneth Harms, there are poor, and attacked it as such. between them was his formal philosophical training, sure to be more inquires and government reports on the At the same time King placed himself squarely in the which confined thinking and theory wholly to books and "causes" of civil disorders. However, Black rebellion in corner of Third World revolutions, giving unequivocal not in the actuality of mass struggle. Miami has once again shown that there can be no narrow­ support to Vietnamese independence from both French If Miami is saying anything to us at this moment, it is ing of the relationship between casuality and freedom. and American imperialism. that we must work out a whole new theory for this prac­ — Lou Turner Though this sermon was kept well within the boundaries tice. January-February, 1983 NEWS & LETTERS Pa9e Two States of the Union: hunger and revolt, Reagan's militarism (Continued from Page 1) unemployed workers who are turning to this extreme in a barrel, they would have still supported him, and his solution to their problems. presidency. "Through the nation, soup-kitchens multiply in In sharp contrast .to the democratic UMW election, every urban area from Los Angeles to Boston, from De­ the UAW's leadership succession this summer is already troit to Memphis, from Seattle to Miami. Also throughout cut-and-dried, with Owen Bieber selected by the union's the nation, the number of homeless families continues to executive committee to replace Douglas Fraser. The skyrocket, with over three million now listed as homeless UAW. delegate convention to be held in July will simply — a figure that is greater than those without homes dur­ ratify Bieber's selection, with the rank-and-file auto ing the Great Depression of the 1930s. workers completely by-passed by the bureaucratic struc­ ture of the UAW, a procedure that increasingly angers The nation's jails fill to overflowing, as many unem­ auto workers. ployed, youth in particular, turn to crime to get food and shelter, even at the expense of a criminal record. Another As for the temper of the Blacks in the U.S., who are side of youth discontent is seen in the more than half the most viciously deprived in this depressed economy, million who have refused to register for possible military the explosion in the Overtown section of Miami (see arti­ cle, p.8) is but a small manifestation of the seething re­ service. volt that is simmering beneath the surface. Just how pow­ Meanwhile, the unemployment rate continues to in­ erful this sentiment for change is can be seen in the crease, with more than 12 million persons now officially recent coalition of Black churches, which have united to without jobs, or over 10.8 percent — and (Ms does not combat racism's resurgence under Reagan. This unity include the millions who have exhausted their unemploy­ could never have been achieved unless the movement for ment benefits, are too discouraged even to look for a job, change from below was not massive and determined. or are underemployed. Meanwhile, other minorities, women and the youth The most recent massive unemployment blow came have their own special oppressions and discriminations to in a new year greeting from Bethlehem Steel, .which an­ battle. Women's liberationists fighting for their rights and nounced lay-offs of 10,000 workers from its plants in recognition face not only a hostile President and Adminis­ Lackawanna, N.Y. and Johnstown, Pa., who will be added tration, they must also contend with right-wing religion­ to the 30,000 Bethlehem workers already laid off (see ists determined to destroy every gain made by women "Worker's Journal" column, p.l). One measure of the and to reimpose, if not deepen, the previous discrimina­ steelworkers' super depression is revealed in steel's 29 tory and subservient relationships. percent rate of production capacity, which compares with The two states of the union — that of workers, em­ the national industrial utilization rate of about 68 percent. ployed and unemployed, minorities, women and youth; and that of Reagan — stand in stark contrast to each Underlying these depressed figures is another record: other. The new activities from Black rebellion to rank- there are over 700,000 bankruptcy cases now pending in the and-file labor militancy, from the anti-nuclear war courts, including some half million individual and over movement to women's liberation, all show a determina­ 25.000 business bankruptcies filed last year alone. In addi­ tion-to oppose Reagan's nuclear militarization of the de­ tion, 43 banks failed in 1982, the largest number since 1940. pressed economy. The battle is beginning to be joined. According to the latest government figures, unem­ ployment among teenagers has hit a high of 24.5 percent, the rate for Blacks rose to 20.8 percent, for adult males to 10.1 percent, while for adult women the rate reached 9.2 Protest Oroville racism percent. In relation to the latter figure, a startling num­ San Franciso, Cal. — "Stop the Nazis, Stop the Klan, ber of homeless families are headed by women, a point For Jobs and Justice" was the theme on hundreds of that is consistently emphasized by reporters describing banners on December 12 when more than 2000 men, the compositions of the camps of the homeless springing women and children marched in Oroville in northern up around urban areas such as Houston, where the prom­ California. The participants represented about 100 sup­ ise of employment at one time had offered some hope for porting organizations L civil rights groups, churches, un­ jobs. ions, Blacks, women, Chicanos, Asians, Native Americans, ered in our present era of state-capitalism, with the state Middle Eastern, etc. REAGAN'S STATE OF THE UNION: dictating and enforcing the schemes concocted by the Busloads came from all over California, Oregon and 'FREE ENTERPRISE' AND NUCLEAR planners, of both the full state version in Russia and of Washington; some from as far as Texas and Arizona. The MILITARIZATION the "private" version in the U.S. news media from all over the U.S., Europe and Japan The capitalist contradictions which resulted in col­ were there. But most important of all were The Concer­ In total contrast to these grimly widespread realities. lapse then were not removed by the plans or the planners, ned Parents of South Oroville, founded by mothers from President Ronald Reagan's State of the Union address to and nothing reflects that fact more compellingly than the the predominantly Black section of the community called be delivered on Jan. 25 will paint a rosy picture of Ameri­ present degenerating stage of worldwide economic crisis. Southside. The Black mothers had called for a "National ca's future, our "supreme communicator" will insist that Marx long ago disclosed the central law of capitalist de­ March against Racism." the "foundation blocks" have already been put in place velopment to be the permanent unemployed army. This The events behind the Oroville demonstration started in upon which "sound, long range" economic growth and brutal truth is no longer controvertible, since the evidence November of 1981 when an avowed Nazi, Perry Warthan, recovery will be built. If we all will but "stay the course," throughout not only the U.S. but also the world, testifies to put threatening racist material in Black homes, on cars, there will be such an economic resurgence that the un­ this already critical and still growing joblessness in both advertised his "dial a Nazi" recorded message in public employment problems will be solved, interest rates will developed and underdeveloped nations. However, Marx places and finally recruited some teenagers to spread his fall, investment capital will-be generated to re-tool U.S. also revealed that worker revolt grows to oppose their poison inside the schools. The Black community re­ industries, inflation will remain in check and the Ameri­ degradation, and that part of the second America has sponded with such force'that the police were compelled to can dream will once again he within the grasp of all investigate. industrious people. Moreover, this will be achieved at the hardly been silent and inactive. same time that military outlays will be forthcoming, not Attempting to create an atmosphere of fear and re­ Oroville is the community where, in 1979, three young only to close all of America's "windows of vulnerability," pression, the Ku Klux Klan has scheduled rallies in a white men went deer hunting and not finding any they but also to leapfrog ahead of Russia's military posture. number of urban centers, including Washington, D.C. came home, stalked and shot to death a Black man. Of Every effort has been met by massive confrontations by that "incident" the mayor told the press that it was "just The literal threat of nuclear annihilation is hanging both Blacks and whites who have forced would-be Klan some disturbed kids who wanted something to shoot at. If over the world. The latest escalation of this national ter­ marchers to flee for their lives, often escaping only be­ it had been a Mexican or a Chinaman they would have rorism by Reagan is his demand for an additional $8 cause of police protection. shot him. It just happened to be a Black man." billion for strategic nuclear forces for the next fiscal Officials of the all white city government claim there is year, which would mean a staggering total of $30 billion WORKERS' DETERMINATION TO FIGHT no segregation — "they have their part of town, and we for nuclear warfare, or nearly tripling the $12.1 billion BACK have ours." Mayor D'Arcy claims there are no Blacks in budgeted in 1979. And while Reagan may be forced by the Fire and Police departments or city government "be­ public pressure to reduce his military spending aimed at Workers, meanwhile, have recently demonstrated a cause no qualified Blacks applied." one-world mastery in competition with Russia bent on the determination and conviction that they will not continue The Black community has no paved streets or street same aim, he will insist on his nuclear budget. to tolerate the stampede on the part of their so-called lights, sewers are faulty, unemployment is 35 percent and leaders to give back the workers' hard-won gains. The minimum wage is the norm for those who find work. Reagan, with a kind smile and gentle tone, will re­ Chrysler workers in Canada refused to accept UAW Pres­ Threats from the Klan or Nazis has continued for 50 mind us that it has taken over two decades of reckless ident Fraser's efforts to force a 'take-back" contract years, and police harassment is a regular occurrence. and rudderless government spending to bring our present down their throats, and instead voted to strike the com­ pany. The Canadian workers thus not only won improved That Oroville is a "symbol" of racism in California, has crisis upon us, and that recovery will take some time. Our been overwhelmingly proven by the just released Califor­ penance for wrongdoing cannot be satisfied with a mere contracts for both themselves and the U.S. Chrysler workers, they provided the leadership that challenged nia Panel to Investigate Violence Against Racial, Reli­ five "Hail Marys" and five "Our Fathers." The sins are gious and Ethnic Groups in this state.-The two year in­ too momentous to be atoned for by such simple punish­ their own union bureaucrats and the corporation — and were victorious. vestigation revealed over 400 reports of violence against ment. And, as Reagan will reiterate, the misery, anguish minorities, from cross burnings to swastikas, from fires and suffering which accompany the massive unemploy­ Another sign of labor's determination to halt their to murders. Targets include Blacks, Chicanos, Jews, Na­ ment are "unfortunate" but are nevertheless the price backward slide was revealed in the vote Of the miners, tive Americans and Southeast Asians. Witnesses testified that has to be paid ta restore the health of the economy. who replaced their incumbent president, Sam Church, that harassment and abuses by law enforcement person­ In a word, our supply-side President will reign supreme who had miserably failed to effectively represent them, nel were more significant problems than violence by in the White House, surrounded by myopic court jesters with Rich Trumka, a 33-year-old Pennsylvania miner who white supremacists. chanting the long-sterile phrases of free enterprise and campaigned on a platform to restore the might and fight­ Every day the connection between Miami and Cali­ free marketplace. ing spirit of the UMWA. Analysts who refer to the totally fornia becomes more visible. The Concerned Parents of superficial consideration that Trumka wore a three-piece South Oroville and their supporters have declared Oro­ But it was precisely the unregulated appetite' of so- suit whereas Church chewed tobacco and wore overalls ville to be not only a symbol of racist repression, but a called free enterprise capitalism that produced the inter­ miss the point entirely. If Church had effectively repre­ freedom symbol of mass opposition to racism in the 1980s. national economic collapse in the 1930's. That, in turn, ush­ sented the miners, they wouldn't care if he walked around — Observer Page 10 NEWS & LETTERS January-February, 1983 A young Black British woman writes Charles Denby WORKER'S JOURNAL An exchange of letters with the Editor (Continued from Page 1) Every worker I have talked with sees that the union Birmingham, England Detroit, Mich. leadership is totally out of touch with what is affecting Dear Mr. Denby, Dear Ms. S.A.Q. workers. Workers in every industry are experiencing I have just finished reading your book Indignant Heart, I was very glad'to get your letter. I had gotten some lay-offs, plant closings, wage givebacks which cut their and I must say it made interesting reading, even though before from Britain and some from Germany (where my standard of living. But the union leadership at the most you succeeded in smashing my illusions of certain peop­ book was published in German,) but never before from pays lip service to the real conditions of workers and le, namely Angela Davis. Black Britain. That is a very important difference. You unemployed today. say that you are 23.1 have had a lot of experience in my Being on the other side of the Atlantic, it always But this state of degeneracy of the labor bureaucracy seemed to me that Americans (Black) were doing more younger days with the Communist Party in the USA. It was not the same Communist Party that we know today. is not only characteristic of the UAW, which is supposed and achieving more than we Black British. But it looks to be progressive, but of the entire AFL-CIO. It is not a now to me that we are all back to stage one. Back then it seemed to be much more of a revolutionary party. My first experience with the Communists was in short term question. Ever since the new stage of produc­ I THINK IT would be useful if I told you my age be­ 1929, after I had come up from the South and then the tion called Automation was introduced into the coal fields cause that would give you some idea of the times 1 am Depression hit. with the continuous miner in the late 1940s, there has been referring to. I am 23 years old. a sharp separation of labor leaders and workers. Even so The Communists were trying to help both Blacks and At present I have just embarked on a three year degree militant a labor leader as John L. Lewis did not really poor whites, fighting to put people back in homes after grasp what the workers were striking over in the 1949-50 course in law and I am in my first year. I got hold of your landlords had evicted them. The time was so ripe for book through a friend who is a member of the Revol­ miners' general strike. Where Lewis settled the strike for revolution, that you thought that if they were serious more royalty money into the miners' welfare fund, he did utionary Communist Party, and I became involved with about it we would have one. Blacks and whites both were them through joining a group at our college, Students not have a real conception of what the workers really yelling that they should have guns — not for fighting wanted when they raised the question: We do not want to Against Racism. The aim of the group basically is to against one another, but for revolution. But what the CP smash racism and unite the working-class. work with this new continuous miner, what kind of labor was interested in was running candidates for office. They should man do? I myself have never been politically involved in any said they would get "good people" in. groups, but after reading your experience with the Com­ Not only has the labor leadership continued to be munist Party I began to wonder whether I was doing NOW YOU KNOW I was born in the Deep South, and separated from the workers from the early 1950s to today, right by becoming attached to this group. when I came to the North I was looking for complete but they have not understood the kind of crisis that we freedom. When I came back in 1942, after years back in I COULDN'T MAKE out from your book whether you are living in. When the workers were striking against Alabama, I met the Communists again. But now many in Automation in the coal mines, they were striking against had joined any other communist group after that exper­ the Communist Party were union leaders. I saw what ience, but I would be glad of some direction. the new stage in capitalist production which we workers they were doing. And I was through with them when I have been living under now for three decades. Because I am basically concentrating on my course saw that they were using Blacks on every issue in the work, I have not had the opportunity to delve more into union. One friend in the shop was a member or close THE REAL CRISIS FOR WORKERS the policy belief and aims of this party. But I want to do sympathizer of the CP. When he told them that he agreed something, not just by talking, but something useful and with me on the Black struggle in the plants, they arranged The real crisis for the American workers is that even constructive. The only problem being that I don't know to have him fired, by getting him into a fight with another if the steel industry would recover, the U.S. steel- how, or who to join with to achieve something better not worker. Later they had this worker also fired (he was workers would not. Just as tens of thousands of U.S. auto only for Black people but all people around the world. Yugoslav) for supporting Tito. workers like myself will not be returning to the auto plants, so the steel workers will not be returning to the At present I think I lack confidence, but also I am not So I thought over your question on affiliation with Stud­ sure of my beliefs, or what I want out of life. I know you steel mills. The workers in auto, steel and other indus­ ents Against Racism, and of course I don't know the tries are being replaced by automated, unimated, can't tell me, but some guidance might help me off the group, so I can't answer exactly. But because of my ex­ fence and into the main arena of life. I look forward to perience, I question it. Maybe the Revolutionary Com­ robotized labor — that is, the dead labor of machines. hearing from you Mr. Denby. munist Party is for China, instead of Russia. But the point The astronomical unemployment figures will not Yours sincerely is that the approach to the working class is similar. Any­ change dramatically even if there is some recovery from Ms. S.A.Q. thing working people or Black people start they-want to the current recession. The fact is that high unemployment get in and lead it. They think that we are dumb and they — an unemployed army — is With us permanently. The have to be the ones to lead the movement. They assume labor leaders either do not understand this or are perfect­ System uses welfare that whenever the Black people don't follow their leader­ ly willing to accept-it. It is only ourselves — workers from ship, they are "backward". The truth is that they only that first Automation strike in the coal mines to today's end up strangling the movement. They never see actions unemployment lines — who can refuse to accept being to divide and control of the masses as a critique of themselves. You might look made obsolete. again at my critique of the Maoists in the plants in my Boston, Mass. — At a time when many people are book, p,p. 262-272. This is why the incident in the unemployment office lamenting Reagan's dismantling of social service pro­ where the workers were yelling revolution is not just an grams, rather than demand a return to pre-Reagan levels TODAY I'M associated with News & Letters. We have isolated incident. Workers certainly want a job. I was and types of services we are in a position to evaluate and been a paper and an organization expressing the phil­ reading an article about workers living in their cars, propose fundamental changes in their structure and im­ osophy of Marxist-Humanism since 1955. This philosophy sleeping on church house floors, in doorways, or any­ plementation. doesn't separate mental and manual labor. It is de­ where they might survive for the night, trying to find jobs Social welfare programs often act as a mechanism of termined to see Blacks and other poor people with control so they can make a living for their families. Some freeze social control in maintaining the existing social order. of their own lives, thoughts and destiny. I never dreamed to death, some kill their families and themselves, others These services act as a safety valve for the pressures before I was affiliated with News & Letters that a worker rob and get killed by the police, some go to jail. which periodically build up in a society that is unwilling could be the editor of a revolutionary paper. That is part But if this system is unable to provide those jobs and to assure a minimum standard of living. They appease of the separation between mental and manual under if the labor leaders continue their deafness to what work­ "surplus labor" during times of unemployment and mask, capitalism — and for most of the Left, they repeat it. But ing people are demanding, then the shout of "No jobs, rather than correct, the underlying tensions of capitalism. for 25 years I have edited this paper, and I am enclosing Revolution!" will become a reality. I am an unemployed Social welfare programs divide and cripple groups of a copy for you to read and subscribe. worker who has been thinking about that possibility. people by demanding that they compete against each I hope you will be willing to be both a reader and a What do you think? other for limited social service resources. They also cre­ writer. I would like to know more about the conditions for ate the impression that government is concerned about Black British in Birmingham. I was glad and surprised to the welfare of its citizens. hear that you are taking up a law degree. But I don't Both directly and indirectly these programs exercise think that is too common, since I have seen and heard The elections in Brazil control over the day to day lives of recipients. These about unemployment and poverty before and since the re­ control mechanisms are often integrated into eligibility bellions in July 1981. Could you write for us some of the New York, N.Y. — The November elections delivered a requirements. For example, strikers are often denied wel­ news and conditions in Birmingham? (I'm enclosing a resounding defeat to the military government in Brazil. It fare benefits; AFDC regulations dictate the composition report we printed back during the rebellion.) lost the popular vote but won control of the parliament of families receiving welfare benefits, and people receiv­ LET ME say that I was very impressed with how you only because thinly-populated rural areas are over-repre­ ing unemployment benefits must report to the unemploy­ closed your letter, asking for help in getting you "off the sented. The election brought forth some old forces such as ment office every two weeks even if they are not offered fence and into the main arena of life". The best and only the Democratic Labor Party whose leader, Lionel Brizola, jobs when they report. way I know to tell you this is to bring together thoughts of won as Mayor of Sao Paolo. Brizola had been part of the People come for help as unique individuals but are freedom and actions for freedom. That is what our phil­ nationalist Goulart regime which was toppled.by the soon categorized and processed into clients. This obscures osophy of Marxist-Humanism is about. Have you ever U.S.-backed military in the first of a wave of "modern" each person's individuality, as well as the critical prob­ seen any of the books written by Raya Dunayevskaya? type military coups which then covered the whole South­ lems in society which both the professional and the client We have been together in the movement since the 1940s. ern Cone of Latin America, turning it into a vast torture have in common. The emotional neutrality, which profes­ She is the National Chairwoman of News and Letters chamber. sionals are supposed to embody, acts as a model for cli­ Committees and her new book, Rosa Luxemburg, Wo­ But perhaps even more significant than the victory of ents who are told to suppress their feelings of oppression men's Liberation and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution, Brizola is the emergence of new forces. There is a new so that they can be good workers, students and wives. has just been published. This book, and her two earlier Labor Party, independent of the old nationalist leaders * Marxist social welfare under capitalism can aim at books, are the best things to read, I believe, for helping such as Brizola and linked to liberation theology. It is led transformation both by recognizing the suffering inherent you into the "main arena of life". I am enclosing a bro­ by Luis Ignacio da Silva (Lula), the only major Latin in a capitalist society and by insisting on a truly human chure and order form for you on her three books. American labor leader to make a great point of support­ response to this suffering. There are a number of ways in Sincerely yours, ing both Solidarnosc and the Sandinistas. which the structures of social welfare can be improved — • Charles Denby Brazil's new working class is also heavily female and the decentralization of power and resources being an es­ women's rights issues have played a part in the mass sential element of change. Communities can democratize Conference announcement strikes since 1978. The election involved an important new federal social welfare programs; cash payments with Black movement, led by Lelia Gonzalez and linked to the which to purchase services can be given directly, to indi- (Common Differences: Third World Women! Labor Party, a movement which is challenging the myth • viduals; alternative institutions such as people's health of Brazil as a multi-racial society. clinics, hospice centers, women's support groups can be and Feminist Perspectives The election also included the victory of an Indian, formed, and professionals can organize and put a halt to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign April 9-13 Mario Juruna, to a seat from Rio de Janeiro in the Par­ . dehumanizing methods. ' Office for Women's Resources and Services liament. Juruna sees his mandate as defense of all of the It must be recognized, however, that the only way to 610 East John Street oppressed, which he defines as including Indians, landless decrease the need for social services is to. change the Champaign, IL 61820 peasants, women, Blacks, workers and slum-dwellers. structure of society itself. — R.S. — Kevin A. Barry January-February, 1983 NEWS & LETTERS Page 11 Yol: a film on Turkish life | Youth in Revolt \ YOUTH Three blows against youth in America have come from the Reagan Administration within only one week: by Ida Fuller walk through the snow to freeze her to death. It is the' 1.) A proposal to create a "sub-minimum wage" — at Turkey today is a country under martial law. During scene in the snow that will make one shudder at the $2.50 an hour — for teens employed during the summer. the past two years the military government has imprison­ sufferings of Middle Eastern women. Zine, who is forced 2.) A regulation to make clinics inform parents of teen­ ed many youth and other activists on political charges to believe that she is unclean and wants to recant by age women who get birth control prescriptions, a "squeal and today there are reports of widespread torture and an becoming Seyit's slave, finally dies. rule." imprisonment figure as high as 20,000. A Turkish movie, Seyit, at the final stages, is moved and tries to rescue 3.) Proposed cancellation of a s.cheduled 7.6 percent pay "Yol," which has recently won a Cannes Film Festival her but even then his dualities are shown when, on the raise for military personnel, making enlistees' pay even award, not only exposes the martial law government, but one hand he hits Zine to not let her be numbed by the harder to live on. also depicts the contradictions of a Middle Eastern so­ snow, and on the other hand does so to release his frustra­ ciety in a way never done before. tion and hatred. Seyit is congratulated upon the declara­ tion of his wife's death. He has saved the family's honor. In the largest political gathering' in Louisiana since The powerful nature of this movie can be shown by the the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, over 1,000 demon­ fact that the Turkish government started a campaign of Another episode follows the story of a prisoner from strators marched through New Orleans, Dec. 19, protest­ slander against its director, Yilmaz Guney, bombed the Turkish Kurdistan, near the Syrian border. Here one sees ing the arms race and budget cutbacks. theatres where his film was being shown, and then ban­ the Kurdish fighting spirit alive and well, resisting Tur­ ned the movie altogether. Despite such a campaign, there kish martial law officials. It is after our young Kurdish * * * is news of great popularity and praise for "Yol" inside prisoner witnesses his brother's murder by the authorities In Khartoum, the capital of the Sudan, high school Turkey. youths are staging strikes and fighting with the army on the that he decides to join the rebels in the mountains. streets. Economic crisis grips the country, with daily power FOCUS ON KURDS Yet even a Kurd in revolt can have an oppressive char­ blackouts, shortages of vital foodstuffs and transport break­ "Yol" is the story of five prisoners who are released on acter when he deals with women. When our young rebel downs. The high school students went into the streets in leave for a two-week period. It is in tracing the relation­ takes the news of his brother's death to his wife and protest, and the government of General Nimeiri shut ship of these prisoners with their wives, children, rela­ orphaned child, he immediately reminds her of the law of down their schools. When schools reopened after 40 per­ tives and surroundings that "Yol" brings out multi- the community. Now she will be his wife — his property. cent price increases in basic commodities, so did the stu­ faceted contradictions. However what makes the con­ As Guney says, this movie is about "men who can be dent riots. tradictions even more telling is that three of the main courageous, heroes who can rebel, yet at the same time * * * characters are Kurds in a country where using the word can be very reactionary toward their women." "Kurd" involves a two-year prison term and speaking the Hundreds of young East German women have told the Kurdish language entails five years of prison. 'YOL'S' MESSAGE government they will not fight to defend the state, demand­ "Yol" has done a great service in bringing out the rev­ ing the Communist Party head, Erich Honecker, abolish a Thus, Kurds are always referred to as "mountain olutionary as well as reactionary elements within the law drafting women in "times of emergency." Turks." Guney, himself a Kurd, deliberately picks out a Kurdish society. Seeing this movie was one of the exper­ very oppressed minority as his main category in order to iences that made me sense what it means to want a total not let us easily label characters as good or bad and to transformation of society, one that includes all human Don't miss the Marx Centenary issue! make us question how those who are oppressed can be­ relationships. 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Los Angeles, Cal. — I come from Mexico, born without the attention of a doctor with the help of women called curande'ras, and poor like all the rest living in that area which is called El Fuerte. Dispatches from the army of the unemployed The children work hard from an early age. They eith­ Los Angeles, Cal. — I've been unemployed eight Editors Note: Well over 20,000 unemployed work­ er go with their father to take care of the cattle while he months now, and a year before that I was unemployed for ers stood in line in Chicago just for the chance at one of works on the crops, or stay at home to help their mother a whole year. I've already exhausted my benefits and 2,800 minimum wage jobs lasting just ten weeks. Below with the smaller children. Others have a chance to go to now I'm on an extension. But the question is, what do we school where, from what I learned from my older sister, do once the extensions run out? are comments from two of those workers. teachers hit them with sticks cut from trees by favorite This is what I keep asking the clerks in the unem­ Chicago, III. — We are going back to the era of the students and brought to their lovely teachers. ployment office. They tell me, well, go on welfare when '30s. People are going to have to go to bread lines, and My brother, the oldest of the boys, now 15, attended your unemployment checks run out. But what's after wel­ these programs don't even help us. We are in a Hispanic school and was well liked by my father. He was his first fare? How are they going to be able to keep paying work­ community and the applications are not in Spanish. This son. He used to hit my sister and me, and he was never ers these benefits when there aren't any workers left pro­ is a real drawback. People come looking for a job and stopped by my father, while if I tried to fight back or ducing things? they find they need help to fill, out their applications. start anything, I was whipped with a horse whip. I re­ If this system has nothing to promise us but more and People have the right to at least get a reasonable job. member him doing the same to my mother. more unemployment, what are we going to do? We have A program that lasts only a few weeks is not enough to sustain you. You need to be able to clothe and feed your I was a second mother for my brothers and sister as to begin by getting together to discuss the crisis of unem­ ployment and what kinds of ideas and activities workers children. It isn't enough. What we need are some peaceful I babysat for them while the rest worked or attended times and job training so people can have jobs. school. The school didn't interest people much since many can engage in that will truly change this system. couldn't go and those who did didn't care about learning One woman was telling me how tired she was of hav­ — Latino man how to read and write. When I attended school for the ing to come back to the unemployment office every few A lot of people say it's just a political thing to benefit first time, I was almost 13. Because of my age they put weeks to prove she was looking for work. "Why do I have Mayor Byrne's campaign. I have to hope that is not true me in the sixth grade when I came to Los Angeles. to prove I want to work," she told me. "Can't they see — I've been out of work for three years. It's hard to find In Junior High, there wasn't much writing expected you can't raise a family on $90 a week? I'm just sick and work in a depression. I think Reagan should stop spending from iis. While we listened to the teachers, we learned tired of having to stand in these lines all day. I wouldn't so much money on warfare, A-bombs and the like. Viet­ history, but they never taught us how to solve problems at all mind to see this whole system torn up and re­ nam should have taught him that this is a thing of the that are now growing into revolt and killing among placed." The question is, what kind of society will we put Past- Unemployed Black man human beings. There are our people who need to be taken in its place. care of. There are injustices which we must destroy. I told one of the clerks that every time I come down All this I realized in the tenth grade as philosophy here I look at the board and see the same minimum wage Local News & Letters Committees can be started to be spread throughout my veins until it reached jobs up. He answered, "We've had our staff cut because contacted directly in the following areas: my conscious mind. My writing started to flow and to of Reagan too. We just don't get around any more to DETROIT: 2832 E. Grand Blvd., Rm. 316 improve as we were required to express our ideas in our changing the jobs listing on the boards." So the same jobs Detroit, Mich. 48211 (873-8969) writing. All this time I worried about my people, parents sit up there for weeks on end! SAN FRANCISCO; PO Box 77303, Station E, and friends because they couldn't do much about the poor What I want to know is how Reagan and this system San Francisco, Cal. 94107 situation they still lived in. Have I solved their problems can think they can "cure the economy" by putting half now that I have an education? No. Not with the money LOS ANGELES: PO Box 29194 the work force out of work. Who is going to produce their Los Angeles, Cal. 90029 situation they have been living in until today. I have given riches for them? Who makes things if not workers? Have my understanding and I have done what I can, but it's not they forgotten the simple facts that every worker knows NEW YORK: PO Box 196 been enough. so well? It's not just that Reagan and the others are so New York, N.Y. 10163 (989-3188) CHICAGO: 220 S. State, Rm. 1326 Will the rich ever stop having an inhuman conception stupid — the truth is that this system can't create more about the Indian? Will those who, after obtaining suffi­ jobs. They're too busy converting old auto factories into Chicago, IL 60604 (ph: 6630839) ciency, still want to be omnipotent? How do we make sure munitions plants. FLINT: PO Box 3384 that the demands we are fighting for don't get lost and - The fact that there are no jobs out there is proven in Flint, Mich. 48502 that the leaders after reaching power don't separate their having to grant sume of us federal extensions. They LONDON: British Marxist-Humanist themselves from the masses. If we are to convince some­ are scared of what working people will do '." there are no c/o 265 Seven Sisters Rd. one in changing, does it mean that we are to start our promises of more benefits made to them, •ey will tear London, N4, England own world? this country apart. — Unemployed worker Page 12 NEWS & LETTERS January-February, 1983 r OUR LIFE AND TINES 'Fight for Poland not finished!' Here is a communication I just received from the among the red dogs faithful to the regime, brought bands bv Peter Mallorv and Kevin A. Barrv Polish freedom movement. I wanted to share it with of SB ^security police) and army inside the halls. In \&L — V, Wislanka. Bochna branch, starting at 5 a.m.." each steelworker had Summing up the meaning of the Nov. 10 protests com­ to tell his supervisor if he was going to strike or to work. France memorating the second anniversary of the registration of We gave in under the brutal force and common human It is almost two years since the Socialist Party govern­ NSZZ Solidarnosc, inside the factories as orf the streets, fear. But NOT ALL.' In a few departments the work was ment was elected in France/ While left intellectuals still one could say that though they did not fulfill our expect­ stopped, in others there was only a pretense of working seem in large part to support Mitterrand, immigrant ations . . . they still proved a continuing resistance of the workers have challenged him from the Left. A whole Nation. In spite of the junta's claims many thousands of A few hundred of us decided to demonstrate on the way series of strikes have taken place in the state-owned Re­ people stopped working; thousands came out on the home. Again there were beatings, gas, sousing with wa­ nault plants as well as in privately-owned Citroen and streets even though everyone of us knew, was fully ter, and also a novelty — taking away of identity papers, Peugeot. Since 1981, this new wave of strikes has been led aware, of the draconian punishments. for which return we had to pay a few thousand (zlotys) in in part by the Communist-dominated and strongest In our plant the (Nov. 10) strike was not successful. extortion fees to the SB thieves. All that deepened our French union, the CGT. Other tendencies have opposed They announced regulations for (distribution of) bonuses bitterness, but also the desire for more effective forms of the CGT as bureaucratic. and awards ahead of time, created an atmosphere of the struggle. On Nov. 10 the fight for Poland was not finished! Instead of the normal bureaucratic labor delegates, end of the world, prepared large units of scabs recruited — Hutnik (Steelworker) immigrant workers have elected their own unofficial delegates of struggle" or "delegates of the line." many of Inside Algeria, Muslim fundamentalists have rallied them Moroccan or Algerian workers who can speak thousands to prayer meetings which attack "corruption" Arabic with their fellow workers. Citroen especially has Indian joblessness and "the arrogance of the nouveaux riches.-- They have maintained a racist work atmosphere. A strike last April also physically attacked Marxist students and young was touched off there by a foreman saying, "I don't argue Tribal officials of the Spokane Indian Reservation have women refusing to wear the veil. Recently the govern­ with slaves, with n—s." announced that unemployment on the reservation has ment arrested some of the Muslim fundamentalists. One analyst commented, "They wanted to maintain a reached 75 percent of the population and that foreclosures on cars, homes and furniture were threatening the lives of In northern Nigeria, a Black African land, a breakaway system of apartheid. At the bottom of the scale, there are Muslim faction which follows the ideas of a young prea­ the Blacks and the Turks, recently recruited, and then the their people. The 900 workers on the reservation were formerly cher named Maitatisine, staged anti-government rioting North Africans. The Yugoslavs, the Portuguese, the Span­ both in 1980 and in 1982, leaving hundreds if not thousands ish sfnd the Italians come next. The refugees from South­ employed in two industries^— logging and uranium min­ ing. Worldwide demand for uranium has diminished, and dead each time. As in Algeria, so-called Islamic east Asia also. Finally, the French, skilled workers, pro­ revolutionaries appeal to unemployed youth who wonder fessionals, foremen " the Federal job training program has been cut to 25 per­ cent of the 1981 allotment. The unemployed subsist on where the country's oil wealth is going. While Mitterrand's victory may have given workers the surplus government food. Two temporary job openings Maitatisine himself was killed in bloody riots in Kano in hope that change was possible, his own actions have been recently drew 100 applicants. 1980, but when 1.000 of his followers were released from extremely moderate — even conservative. In November prison Oct.. 1, 1982. it was only a matter of weeks before he even proposed a total amnestv (including pension their attacks on the government and on non-adherents of rights) for the fascist officers of the OAS, who had mur­ their sect resumed. The November riots resulted in the dered Algerians and French leftists during and after the Islamic fundamentalism deaths of as many as 1,000 people, as the Nigerian army Algerian war of independence. The parliament, however, Thirty years after the Afro-Asian revolutions of the moved in after violent rioting. From Iran, to Egypt, to under a storm of protest, refused to ratify the new law. A 1950s, the stasis of Left and nationalist movements has Libya and beyond. Islamic fundamentalism of one sort or campaign against it was also organized by left intellect­ created an opening for reactionary solutions to the pro­ another has became an international political force, but uals such as Simone de Beauvoir and Daniel Guerin. blems of poverty, neo-colonialism and authoritarian rule. one which the Left has yet to reckon witff seriously. Mitterrand also continues to support both increased nu­ In Muslim areas and countries, this has, since Iran, taken clear weapons and nuclear power plants. The struggle the form of Islamic fundamentalism of a neo-fascist against unemployment and nuclear power plants con­ character. Japan tinues in the Ardennes region, where steelworkers have Pushed on by the United States, the Japanese govern­ joined with ecologists on a sustained basis. In Algeria, where Frantz Fanon was once the leading hilosopher of the revolution, today the country is torn ment of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone approved a Petween the corrupt and authoritarian militarized regime 6.5 percent increase in military spending for 1983, totalling of President Chedli, and so-called Islamic revolutionaries. more than $12 billion. Part of this increase will be used to Argentina The latter are inspired in part by former President Ben raise by 20 percent Japanese subsidies of U.S. military The Dec. 16 anti-government -march in Argentina was Bella, now out of jail after many years. Ben Bella stated installations there — including rent-free bases and the the most massive outpouring yet against the hated mili­ as late as last year that he supported the Khomeini re­ spending- of more than one billion dollars for the upkeep tary regime, in power since 1976. Over 120,000 people gime. He talks constantly of an "Islamic renaissance," and housing of U.S. forces. With the addition of pay raises joined the march "for democracy and national recon­ holds meetings with the reactionary Moslem Brotherhood, for the Japanese military later this year, the increase struction" called by the five big opposition parties, includ­ and yet still calls himself a socialist. could go as high as nine percent. ing two groups of Peronists. Under the American-Japanese security treaty of 1960, Soon the youth, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the U.S. agrees to defend Japan, if attacked, in return for other radical groups began to set the tone of the march. the right to maintain military bases there, which cur­ Tame slogans were replaced by ones like "Cowards! MARX1IT HUMANIST ARCHIVES rently house 46,000 soldiers. Assassins!" and other insults hurled at the military. Sen­ sing trouble, the five main political leaders who were supposedly leading the demonstration left the rally early, Marxist-Humanism, 1941 to Spain after reiterating their "demands" for a return to civilian The new Social Democratic government of Felipe Gonz­ rule "no later than Oct. 12, 1983." Today, Its Origin and alez was swept into power in Spain in a great landslide. Youths burned a police motorcycle and advanced to­ Together witti France and Greece in 1981, Sweden in 1982 ward the Presidential palace. 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