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OCTOBER 20, 1972 25 CENTS VOLUME 36/NUMBER 38

A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE

Jenness blasts attack on rights ixon carries out anti- ra witc - unt The following statement was re­ been infringed, with the U.S. now because of any illegal actions, but leased by Socialist Workers Party requiring visas even for people simply because they are Arabs. presidential candidate Linda Jen­ simply stopping here to change If these measures are allowed to ness at a news conference planes in transit to some other continue without protest the gov­ in Austin, Texas, Oct. 10. country. All Arabs face special ernment could well move to more screening at airports. drastic measures, such as deporta­ The Nixon administration has an­ Another repressive move was the tions or detention in this country. nounced it is "screening" all Arabs congressional passage of a bill During World War II similar living in this country or traveling authorizing the death penalty for racist treatment against Japanese­ through the U. S. What does this airplane hijackers, even though Americans culminated in the in­ mean? Representatives of various the Supreme Court has declared carceration of Japanese-Americans Arab organizations in the U. S. the death penalty unconstitutional. in concentration camps. have reported that FBI or other These moves pose grave dan­ Second, such measures as sur­ government agents have been fol­ gers for democratic rights in this veillance, detention, interrogation, lowing them around, holding them country. and travel restrictions are infringe­ for interrogation, fingerprinting In the first place, they represent ments on civil rights guaranteed them, and issuing threats of un­ blatant racism against the Arab in the Constitution. They set the specified reprisals against them. peoples. All Arabs are being sub­ precedent for even more severe po­ Freedom of travel for all non­ jected to harassment and restric­ lice-state policies. citizens, but especially Arabs, has tions on freedom to travel, not Continued on page 22

Abortion rights hearings set

Militont/Corollipmon Women's National Abortion Action Coalition picket of New York anti-abortion headquarters Oct.2. Abortion hearings are set for 13 cities on Oct.21and 28 weekends~-See page16. THIS ISLANDERS FAIL TO APPRECIATE BLESSINGS OF The plaintiffs in the suit include: Joel Dryfus of the New U.S. RULE: Robert Trumbull reports in the Ocl 9 New York Post; Nicholas Von Hoffman of the Washington York Times that the U. S. has broken off talks on the Post; Tom Wicker of the New York Times; Min S. Yee WEEK'S future of Micronesia "for an indefinite period" due to a of Ramparts; Michael Schreiber of The Militant; Carlton Micronesian request that the talks "be broadened to in­ Goodlet of the San Francisco Sun Reporter; and Tom MILITANT clude independence as a possible alternative to political Siporin of the Berkeley Barb. 3 Jenness campaigns for association with the United States." The U.S. was offering the 100,000 islanders, who came NEW ATTACKS AGAINST BLACKS IN CAIRO, ILL.: worker's needs under U.S. rule as a result of World War II, the right A further attempt to suppress the ongoing struggle of Pulley supports striking to independence after an interim period of internal auton­ the Black community in Cairo, Ill., was reported at an Oct. TV workers omy. But even in an "independent" Micronesian state, 2 rally there. The demands of the Black community against 4 Nixon presses witch-hunt the U. S. would have maintained its exclusive military racist violence and for jobs have been backed up by a three-year boycott of white-owned businesses. against Arabs rights. Most recently the Cairo United Front, the organization 5 U.S. presses war as nego­ Among the benefits that have accrued to the islanders in the years of U. S. rule have been the airfields on Tinian leading the struggle, received notice from Bishop Albert tiations continue Island, which were used to launch the atomic attacks Zuroweste that it faces eviction from its headquarters in 9 SWP lectured on reform­ against Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the destruction of Bi­ the St. Columba Church. ism kini and Eniwetok, which were used as test areas for 10 Interview: Argentine so­ atomic weapons- the population was allowed to leave AFRICAN LIBERATION COMMITTEE FORMED: The African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC) has been cialist leader first; and the introduction of American-style Jim Crow. In an article in the Dec. 24, 1971, Times, Trumbull formed as the successor to the temporary coalition that 12 Florida campus recogni­ explains the U. S. concern about Micronesia by quoting sponsored the May 27 Africax{ Liberation Day demon­ tion fight Rear Admiral Paul E. Pugh. Pugh pointed out that "Con­ strations in Washington, D. C., San Francisco, Toronto, 13 CP hustles for McGov . tingency operations like the war in Vietnam still need and the Caribbean. Owusu Sadaukai, president of Malcolm 15 News conference on forward supply bases." X Liberation University in Greensboro, N.C., was elected rights of young candi­ chairman of the ALSC. The committee has anvounced dates FARM WORKERS MARCH AGAINST ANTIUNION that it will begin an educational campaign on the condi­ PROPOSAL: More than 1,000 demonstrators led by United tions in the Southern African countries ruled by minor­ 16 Support grows for abor­ Farm Workers Union (UFW) head Cesar Chavez marched ity, white-controlled regimes. tion rights tribunals in San Francisco on Sepl 30 to show their opposition 17 Brooklyn College YSA to Proposition 22. This vicious antilabor proposal, which CREDIBILITY GAP: " ... the policy of the Soviet Union grows fast will be on the California ballot in November, would ef­ and other socialist countries is to assure that the libera­ 18 Roots of world inflation fectively prevent the existence of a union among farm tion forces in Indochina will get everything they need and workers if passed. ask for. This is an absolute principle.... " Gus Hall, 19 Subs sold all over Brook­ According to our correspondent Dave Warren, the fight­ quoted by Conrad Komorowski in the June 30, 1972, lyn ing spirit of some 300 farm workers bused up to San Daily World. 20 AFL-CIO officials squab­ Francisco from Delano to lead the march set the tone "While Soviet technology is understood to have kept ble over elections of the assembly, which was cosponsored by the UFW pace with the passing years, relatively few Soviet anti­ 24 Raza Unida campaign in and the Committee of Grassroots McGovern Volunteers. aircraft innovations seem to have been passed on Texas to Hanoi. By all indications, the Russians have been far more helpful to Arab defenses against the Israeli Air Force than they have to the North Vietnamese." From an article in the Aug. 20 New York Times that 2 In Brief explained it now takes 84 SAM-2 missiles to bring down 6 In Our Opinion one U.S. plane, compared to 15 in 1966. The article Letters pointed out that the SAM-2 is "considered by its Soviet 7 American Way of Life makers as obsolete.... " National Picket Line BIRDS OF A FEATHER: On Sept. 29RabbiMeir Kahane, 8 Great Society head of the right-wing Jewish Defense League, announced Women in Revolt that the Mafia had offered him its help in his projected By Any Means Necessary war against Arabs in the U.S. and Europe. An Associ­ 14 '72 Socialist Campaign ated Press dispatch quoted the good rabbi as saying, -20 In Review "You shouldn't think that I am too happy having connec­ tions with Colombo. But I must say that it was this mur­ derer and criminal who has helped us, never asking for anything in return." WORLD OUTLOOK Militant/Dave Warren CAMPAIGN SPENDING LAW A THREAT TO FREE 1 Interrupted revolution in Calif. farm workers march against Proposition 22 Mexico SPEECH AND PRESS: Although touted as a reform de­ signed to lesson the influence of the rich in elections, the 2 Norway deals blow to 1971 law limiting campaign spending is a good example Common Market CHALLENGE TO PROPOSITION 22 FAILS: On Oct. of the type of cure that is the specialty of the politicians 3 Denmark says 'yes' in bit­ 6 a California Superior Court judge rejected the suit filed in Washington. It's worse than the ailment, and what's by Secretary of State Edmund Brown to remove Propo­ ter vote more, it's no cure at all. sition 22 from the ballot because of widespread fraud There are all kinds of ways that those who want to 4 Letter from Yugoslav ac­ used in obtaining the petition signatures necessary to contribute huge sums of money to some capitalist candi­ cused of 'Trotskyism' qualify for the ballot. date can do so and still remain anonymous. However, The judge said his decision was not based on the merits the provision that all who give more than $100 to politi­ of the case but on alleged lack oftime to resolve the issue cal organizations must be identified can be used to intimi­ before the elections. Brown said he would not appeal the date supporters of radical organizations or groups or­ decision. ganizing in opposition to the government on one or another issue. ATLANTA FORUM TALK PUBLISHED: The Ocl 9 Lawrence Meyer, writing on another aspect of this law issue of The Great Speckled Bird, an underground news­ in the Oct. 3 Washington Post, states, "Any media ex­ paper published in Atlanta, reprints the first half of a penditure that influences the election of a candidate di­ talk by Joel Aber of the Socialist Workers Party on THE MILITANT rectly or indirectly can be charged against his statutory "Munich and the Mideast." The Bird promises to reprint limitation and therefore, under the 1971 law, can be re­ VOLUME 36/ NUMBER 38 the second half of the talk, which was given at the Militant fused by the candidate." OCTOBER 20, 1972 Bookstore Forum in Atlanta, in its next issue. CLOSING NEWS DATE-OCT. 11, 1972 Thus, a candidate claiming to be against the war could maintain that an advertisement submitted for publication Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS Managing Editor: DOUG JENNESS REPORTERS CHALLENGE BAN ON INTERVIEWS by an antiwar organization would influence his election, Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS WITH PRISONERS: Twenty-six reporters from newspapers and on that basis sue to prevent its publication! The Southwest Bureau: HARRY Rl NG and magazines across the country have filed suit charging ACL U has flied suit asking that these aspects of the law that the rules in California's prisons that prohibit reporters be held unconstitutional. Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., from interviewing prisoners are unconstitutional. The suit 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Phone: Ed­ LAWYERS CALL FOR EQUAL HIRING: Among the itorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Founda­ 929-3486. tion of Northern California. It grew out of the ban on resolutions passed by the annual convention of the Ameri­ Southwest Bureau: 11071/2 N. Western Ave., los press interviews with Ruchell Magee, who is facing charges can Bar Association in San Francisco in August was one Angeles, Calif. 90029. Phone: (213) 463-1917. stemming from the same courthouse shoot-out that was calling on law schools to close their placement offices Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Sub­ used to frame Angela Davis. to law firms that refuse to consider women lawyers on scription: Domestic, $5 a year; foreign, $8. By first­ an equal basis with men in hiring. class mail: domestic and Canada, $25; all other .coun­ The U.S. district court in Washington, D. C., has already tries, $41. Air printed matter: domestic and Canada, ruled unconstitutional a similar ban on prison interviews. -DAVE FRANKEL $32; latin America and Europe, '$40; Africa, Australia, Asia (including USSR), $50. Write for sealed air postage rates. Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent The Militant's views. These are expressed in editorials.

2 • Scores Congress on welfare Jenness campaigns ~P-P-Qrts striking TV workers for workers' needs Pulley: McGov can't By PEGGY BRUNDY year income for a family of four. In SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9- While my opinion, even that's not adequate. meet Black demands George Meany and local labor offi­ McGovern settled on a platform call­ By DERRICK MORRISON Charles Stenvig (a former cop) that cials here quibbled over whether the ing for $3,400 per year, and now DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 10-When An­ there are "Communists" in the gov­ California AFL-CIO would be allo'Ved Congress can't even pass a bill for drew Pulley arrived here yesterday ernment. She remarked, "There are to continue its "Defeat Nixon" cam­ $2,400. That's disgraceful. to appear on the Phil Donahue Show, no SWP members in the government paign, Linda Jenness, SWP presiden­ "People who are forced to be on a nationally syndicated TV program, at this time, but I assure you- and tial nominee, accused Nixon and Me- . welfare in this country don't want to he found pickets from the I~ternational Stenvig-that if we were in the gov­ Govern of betraying the real interests be. Being on welfare is a very de­ Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ernment, you'd know it! ... A social­ of working people in this country. grading experience for most people ( IBEW) outside the station. The work­ ist in Minnesota government wouldn't "If all of the working people are because their lives are open books. ers had gone on strike over a contract stand by when Mayor Stenvig ·calls stuck in the hip pockets of the Demo­ They are open for investigation by dispute on Oct. 6, and were joined out the cops and the canine corps cratic and Republican parties," she any Tom, Dick, or Harry in the gov­ by workers at stations in Cincinnati against the Black community, as he said at a news conference here Oct. ernment who wants to do it. People and Indianapolis. did this past August at the Aquaten­ 4, "the lowering 'Of our standard of are forced. to be on welfare because Pulley, the Socialist Workers Party nial parade. The SWP calls for Black living and the deterioration of society hasn't provided the basic so­ candidate for vice-president, solidar­ control of the police as well as -Black the quality of our lives are going to cial necessities, such as jobs, child­ ized his campaign with the strike and control of housing, schools, hospitals, continue. The labor movement must care centers, and adequate facilities refused to cross the picket line. He and federal funds in the Black com­ break away from these two parties for old and disabled people." held a news conference outside the munity." and build a party that can fight for After one long discussion on wel­ station and discussed his campaign all the demands of working people." fare, unemployment, and the war in with the striking workers. They indi­ Hillery, 25, is presently fighting for Recent maneuvers by so-called labor Vietnam, which was televised on cated their appreciation of the fact that a spot on the ballot. Minnesota Sec­ leaders giving backhanded support to KOUR-TV in Sacramento, a viewer the SWP vice-presidential nominee had retary of State Arlen Erdahl disqual­ Nixon's reelection, coupled with polls called in and said: "I am a 60-year­ honored their picket line. ified her on the basis that she is "too showing many lifelong Democrats old woman, and I want Mrs. Jenness The producer of the show, Avco young" to run. Hillery has been plan to vote Republican for the first to know how much I admire her. Broadcasting, went to the lengths of stumping the state to publicize the facts time, have produced widespread spec­ First of all because she is a woman proposing that the program be taped in her case and has filed suit in the ulation that labor is moving to the running for president and because she in a hotel room. Pulley refused, point­ Minnesota Supreme Court. Recently, right and that many working people is so articulate. She is the only can­ ing out that scab technician crews she spoke to more than 500 students see Nixon as a meaningful alterna­ didate I've heard that I can give my would be used. at a high school "Meet the Candidates" tive to McGovern. support to." Jenness rebutted this argument at At an Oct. 6 outdoor rally of about a meeting of more than 220 at the 250 people at the University of Cali­ University of California at Berkeley: fornia in Sacramento, Jenness reiter­ "Rank-and-file union members are ated her support for the Palestinian not rallying to either the Nixon or liberation struggle. McGovern campaign with any enthu­ I interviewed a Syrian student who siasm. The majority of the American came to the rally. "I think [Jenness is] people know that there will not be the only person I've seen in years any significant changes in our lives who's got the guts to stand up there if either Nixon or McGovern wins. and say what really needs to be said Neither candidate represents our in­ about the Middle East," he told me. terests. He said he had lived in the U. S. "In my campaign I am calling for for five and a half years. Recently he an end to the war in Southeast Asia was stopped on the street by the po­ as a major step toward stopping in­ lice. They made him wait while they flation; cost-of-living clauses in all called the police station to find out contracts and social security pay­ everything about him- his visa, pass­ ments; a reduced workweek with no port, and so forth. reduction in wages to help get rid of Jenness was also interviewed on unemployment; and equal pay and KQED-TV, an educational station, by job opportunities for women, and for W afa Barfazeh, a Palestinian living Blacks, Chicanos, and other op­ in this country. Barfazeh expressed pressed nationalities." his respect for the SWP campaign's forthright defense of the Palestinian Mil itont/Derrick Morrison This was Jenness's second campaign struggle. Striking TV technicians in Dayton, Ohio, expressing their appreciation to Andrew Pulley tour of Northern California. During About $500 was collected in cam­ when he refused to cross their picket line for a scheduled appearance on TV show. her spring 1972 tour here "Support paign fund-raising events jointly spon­ McGovern" buttons flourished on cam­ sored by the Northern California SWP puses, and students often rose to de­ campaign committees. Avco had invited Pulley to appear program in St. Cloud, Minn. fend McGovern's policies and integrity .on the Donahue Show in compliance Before traveling to the Midwest, Pul­ after her speeches. This time, one had NEW YORK, Oct. 10- In a statement with equal-time provisions. (Dem­ ley wrapped up his tour of New York to look hard to find two or three released by her national campaign ocratic vice-presidential candidate Sar­ with a campaign meeting at the Abra­ McGovern buttons in audiences rang­ headquarters here tonight, Jenness re­ gent Shriver had previously been on ham Lincoln Housing Project in Har­ ing from 100 to 250 people. sponded to McGovern's televised Viet­ the program.) The national SWP cam­ lem on Oct. 4. At this meeting Pulley Discussion and questions at her nam statement by challenging him to paign headquarters said today it is spoke along with B. R. Washington, meetings center on the proposals Jen­ support the upcoming antiwar demon­ asking that the show be rescheduled the SWP candidate in the 19th Con­ ness is making to solve the crises fac­ strations. after the strike is settled. gressional District (Harlem). ing this country. In several places, "Americans who want peace can't Pulley flew to Dayton after a tour Washington cited the wretched condi­ for example, people noted that Con­ rely on election-eve promises of Demo­ stop in Minnesota. He held a news tions in the 19th C. D. -from housing, gress had recently failed to pass a cratic and Republican politicians who conference Oct. 6 in Minneapolis, schools, and unemployment to the fact welfare bill guaranteeing a $2,400 want to be president," Jenness said. where he blasted George McGovern that officials say half the nation's drug minimum yearly income to families If McGovern were "serious about for not offering a program to end addicts are in Harlem- to illustrate of four and asked Jenness to com­ ending the war," Jenness charged, "he the miserable conditions in the coun­ the bankruptcy of the Democratic ment. would call on the American people to try's Black communities. Party. For the last 24 years, Demo­ "The National Welfare Rights Orga­ JOin in the peace demonstrations "Whatever he may say, McGovern crats have represented the 19th C. D. nization is fighting for a $6,500 per scheduled for Oct. 26 and Nov. 18." is a law-and-order candidate. He has in Congress. Democrat Charles Ran­ consistently voted for increased ap­ gel, the incumbent, has proved there propriations for law enforcement, most is no difference between the capitalist of which goes toward building up parties in New York City, the Demo­ Jenness to speak at Boston's Fanueil Hall police occupation of the ghettos and cratic, Republican, and Liberal, by Socialist Workers Party presidential Fifty years after the American barrios," Pulley said. grabbing the nominations or' all three candidate Linda Jenness will speak revolution, a giant meeting was "Is McGovern really a candidate of for his reelection. at Boston's Fanueil Hall at 7:30 called in Fanueil Hall to protest the people?" Pulley asked. "We read Washington said that if he were p.m. on Oct. 20. the brutal killing of Elijah Love­ with a mixture of amusement and dis­ elected he would use his office to mo­ Fanueil Hall has a long tradi­ joy, a young Ohio abolitionist edi­ gust his comments to a group of New bilize the Harlem community against tion as a meeting place for Ameri­ tor, who 'was murdered defending York policemen that if he were elected, such ill~ as the war in Southeast Asia can revolutionaries. In 1768 Sam his printing press against a pro­ police everywhere 'would have a friend and drugs, and by so doing would Adams called a meeting there to slavery mob. in the White House.'" pave the way for independent Black arm the citizens when Great Britain To this day Fanueil Hall has The following day, Pulley and Mary political organization. first announced its intention to gar­ kept its doors open to antiwar and Hillery, the Minnesota SWP candidate Three young Blacks who attended rison two regiments in Boston. radical groups. for U. S. Senate, spoke to a campaign the meeting asked to join the Young rally of 90 people in Minneapolis. Socialist Alliance. One is a former Hillery's speech picked up on a re­ member of the Young Workers Lib­ cent charge by Minneapolis Mayor eration League.

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 20, 1972 3 Nixon presses witch-hunt against Arabs By CAROLINE LUND wing Zionist organization, but the proposed in the United Nations. The tion struggle can be declared in vio­ The U.S. government's so-called anti­ U.S. government is undertaking no resolution calls for automatic extra­ lation of international law. terrorist campaign has moved to a special steps to apprehend Zionist or dition or prosecution of "terrorists" Meanwhile, the international anti­ much more serious plane, as indicated right-wing terrorists. and international sanctions against Arab campaign continues in other by the announcement Oct. 4 of a na­ The anti-Arab racism underlying any country allowing terrorists or countries as well. On Oct. 4 a Pal­ tionwide effort to "screen" all Arabs these moves by the Nixon administra­ supporters of terrorism to have train­ estinian bookstore in Paris was living in this country or entering this tion and the Congress was suggested ing facilities or sanctuary. bombed. A note was left at the scene country. by an Oct. 5 statement released by In defining what is meant by "ter­ saying, "To anti-Semite terror, Jewish According to the Oct. 5 New York the supposedly liberal Anti-Defama­ rorists," the draft "convention," or trea­ terror will respond. This is our first Times, all federal agencies concerned tion League of B'nai B'rith. The state­ ty, states that "An 'alleged offender' warning." either with travel or with "suppression ment said the Munich and Lod air­ means a person as to whom there The West German government an­ of terrorist activities" will cooperate port incidents were neither "isolated are grounds to believe that he has nounced the same day that it had in this effort, including the State De­ nor surprising phenomena" but rather committed one or more of the offenses banned two Palestinian organizations partment, the Federal Bureau of In­ "part of an Arab history and tradi­ of international significance set forth -the General Union of Palestinian vestigation, and the Immigration and tion of extremism and violence which in this article." (Emphasis added.) Students, with 800 members, and the Naturalization Service. has contributed the word 'assassin' Thus persons are assumed to be General Union of Palestinian Workers, The Times reported that the gov­ to international lexicons." guilty of terrorism, with no provision with 1,000 members. e.rnment refused to explain exactly Branding the entire Arab people as for due process. And in addition, "sup­ The German Interior Minister ad­ what steps they were taking in this responsible for the Munich and Tel porters:• of such "terrorists'' are also mitted that close to 100 Arabs have anti-Arab campaign, only saying that Aviv killings, B'nai B'rith stated: "It subject to sanctions. been expelled from West Germany the operation was "very touchy." will be tragic if Jews- and the rest The witch-hunt terminology in this since the Munich incident, and that Hints at what this secret operation of the world- are led to believe that proposed resolution and convention 1,990 Arab travelers have been involves were provided by reports Arab extremists are a tiny minority means that the entire colonial libera- turned away at the German border. from representatives of Arab organi­ in the Arab world and that they do zations. Employees of the Arab In­ not reflect the real feeling of the Arab formation Service in Washington, masses." D. C., told of being followed wherever Thus B'nai B'rith portrays the Arab they went by FBI agents. people as by nature bloodthirsty, anti­ Who perfected the letter bombs? One Palestinian official of the social, and uncivilized. In this way Much has been made in the news sent 10 letter bombs to Palestinian League of Arab States in Washing­ they try to prejudice people against media about the death of one and other Arab guerilla leaders in ton told the New York Times that FBI the just striving for liberty from co­ Israeli diplomat in London from Beirut. agents had taken him to their office, lonial oppression that underlies the a letter bomb Sept. 19. Fifty-one The Sunday Times expose also fingerprinted him, and interrogated sympathy of Arab people with the additional letter bombs were dis­ raises questions about attributing him. Palestinian resistance movement. covered that had been sent to Israeli the recent letter bombs to the Pales­ "They said, 'You are terrorists, you This hysteria against the entire Arab diplomats around the world. The tinian organization Black Septem­ are planning violence' -they made people was condemned by an Arab­ mail bombs have been widely cited ber, despite the leaflets signed "Black some kind of threat that if something American in .erooklyn interviewed by in the media as proof of the criminal September" found in several unex­ should ever happen all of you will the New York Times Oct. 7. Referring mentality of Palestinian Arab lib­ ploded envelopes. Among the ques­ be in trouble, things like that." to Senator George McGovern's call eration fighters. tions it raises is this: "In a techni­ In addition, a federal order was for sanctions against Egypt and Leb­ cally first class operation, it seems put into effect Sept. 27 requiring visas anon for harboring Palestinian resis­ An expose in the London Sunday an oddly erratic means for Black for everyone entering the U. S., ex­ tance forces, he told Times reporter Times of Sept. 24 explains, how­ Septem her to choose to inform the cept Canadians, even if only to change John Hess: "That statement by Mc­ ever, that mail bombs had long world of its 'triumph.' Why put the planes in transit to some other coun­ been utilized by the Stern Gang and leaflets inside letters which, hope­ try. Govern was just outrageous, to blame Lebanon and Egypt for what hap­ the Irgun Zvai Leumi, two right­ fully, would disintegrate in the ·The purpose of these measures is pened in Munich. Sheltering someone wing Zionist organizations, as well blast?" not to fight "terrorism," but to crack who has no shelter- this becomes a as by the Israeli government itself. A full summary of the information down on all supporters of the Arab crime?" In 1963 four Egyptian technicians contained in the Sunday Times ex­ liberation movement. As the Oct. 5 were killed by such a bomb, with pose can be obtained in an article New York Times admitted, "There In its campaign against Arabs and the head of Israeli security impli­ ''Who Perfected the Letter Bomb?" have been no known acts of terror­ "terrorists," the U. S. is trying to re­ cated in the operation. In 1967 two in the Oct. 9 issue of Intercontinental ism attributable to Arab groups in voke democratic rights both in this more Egyptian officials were killed Press. Send 50 cents for a copy to: this country so far. ..." There have country and internationally. Examples by book bombs. In July of 1972, IP, Box 116, Village Station, New been numerous acts of violence by are the resolution and "convention" says the Sunday Times, the Israelis York, N. Y. 10014. the Jewish Defense League, a right- against terrorism that the U. S. has 'Economist' joins in slander of Fourth lnt'l By TONY THOMAS rorists killed 25 tourists and wounded of these terrorists, we believe that only As well as disregarding the basic "The trotskyite Fourth International, more than 70. The Popular Front for the broad masses, not such tiny hand­ positions of revolutionary socialism with its headquarters in Brussels, is the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)­ fuls of individuals, can change society. in regard to individual terror, the said to have helped with transport a resistance group that has specialized Acts of terrorism are not o'nly in­ Economist's slander falls flat on its and supplies and to have co-ordinated in spectacular terrorist actions- pub­ effective, they hamper the struggle. face when the positions taken by the the complex operation that flew Jap­ licly took credit for organizing the They can create a political mood fa­ Trotskyist movement on the Lydda anese terrorists from the Red Army action. vorable for a reactionary repression incident are cited. Fraction around Europe and supplied The Economist's charge that the of revolutionists; they lead to the un­ The Militant, which reflects the views them with the Czech weapons they Fourth International was connected necessary death or victimization of of the Socialist Workers Party, pub­ used to mow down passengers at Lyd­ with the Lydda action is patently false. revolutionary militants; and most im­ lished an editorial on the Lydda in­ da airport in May" (Sept. 23 London Trotskyists are opposed to the tactics portant, they weaken the revolution­ cident in its June 16 issue. It first Economist). of individual terrorism. Although we ary struggle by substituting the ac­ pointed out the hypocrisy of the state­ These slanderous charges are part admire the heroism and dedication tions of a tiny handful for the active ments of the Israeli and U.S. govern­ of an international campaign world to the cause of Palestinian liberation involvement of the .masses. ments on Lydda, since both had been imperialism has launched against carrying out massive terror against movements for nalional and social the peoples of the Middle East and revolution following the death on Sept. Indochina. The editorial then went on 5 of Israelis held captive in Mu­ to say: nich by the Black September Pales­ "This struggle against the imperial­ tinian resistance group. ist-backed rulers in Israel is the strug-. The revolutionary Marxist Fourth gle of an oppressed. people. To be International, founded by Leon successful it must mobilize the power Trotsky in 1938, was singled out as of the Palestinian masses. . . . Indi­ one of the targets of this campaign. vidual acts of terrorism, such as kid­ The Fourth International and the So­ nappings and assassinations, do not cialist Workers Party ·(which is in po­ help this struggle. In fact, they are litical solidarity with the Fourth Inter­ an obstacle to building a mass move­ national but due to reactionary U.S. ment to win a democratic, secular Pal­ legislation is barred from member­ estine for both the Arab and Jewish ship) support the right of the Pales­ people. tinian people to self-determination. "The killing of 25 people, including In this context, the Economist has 14 Puerto Ricans, in the Lydda air­ • attempted to claim that the Fourth port . . . did not aid the Palestinian International took part in the organi­ struggle. zation of a terrorist attack by mem­ "The goals of the action were not bers of the Japanese Red Army Or­ Der Spiegel clear. By killing innocent people who ganization on Lydda airport in Is­ Results of recent Israeli attack on lebanon, part of the mass terror perpetrated by the rael. In this attack three Japanese ter- proimperialist governments. Continued on page 22

4 Nixon aims unchang~ U.S. presses war as negotiations continue By DICK ROBERTS an end. But the war is very much the military newspaper Stars and OCT. 10-World attention is riveted going on. Stripes." on the secret talks between presiden­ For Nixon's aim remains what it Thus-and this was the case in 1965 tial adviser Henry Kissenger and has been from the outset-to buy time when President Johnson first ordered North Vietnamese politburo member from the American public to continue the massive U. S. escalation of the Le Due Tho. Never have there been pressing the U. S. military effort. The war- the Saigon regime stands only such intensive negotiations between the bombing of Southeast Asia today is by virtue of U. S. military power. two sides, nor have the rumors of im­ at the highest level in history. Kann details how areas of South Viet­ pending peace been so persistent. Writing from Paris Oct. 10, Christian nam that had been kept on the govern­ Two weeks ago, when Kissinger and Science Monitor correspondent Ta­ ment side by U.S. occupation have Le Due Tho held their first extended kashi Oka declared that probably now gone over to the revolutionary two-day meeting, Wall Street Journal "both sides are still at the stage of side. staff reporter Robert Keatley wrote exchanging extremely detailed ques­ "Statistics tell only a bit of the story, from Washington, "there is a grow­ tions and answers about each other's but there now are over 1,000 Vietcong­ ing feeling here that they are dis­ positions, without necessarily surren­ controlled hamlets, compared with cussing, probably more seriously than dering their own claims. seven before the offensive, according ever before, matters that could bring "The core question, after all, is what to American figures. There are, of agreement on key aspects of a Viet­ guarantees each side can offer the course, 14,000 hamlets in South Viet­ nam peace settlement by the Nov. 7 other against elimination of the two nam. But besides th~ increased number election." Vietnamese antagonists- the Hanoi­ of Vietcong-controlled hamlets, there Since then Kissinger's special repre­ supported Viet Cong, and the Ameri­ are also more 'contested' hamlets and sentative, Major General Alexander can-supported Saigon regime." fewer 'secured' hamlets than six Haig, has conferred with South Viet­ This has always been the central months ago. The sensitivity of the namese President Thieu; President question, and it will remain so even situation in the countryside may be Nixon has held talks with Moscow's if a cease-fire is agreed upon. Should indicated by the fact that American foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko; and South Vietnam be ruled by the proim­ Hamlet Evaluation System statistics, Kissinger and Le Due Tho have held perialist military clique in Saigon or once highly publicized as indicators a new meeting in Paris that was ex­ by a democratic government of of pacification progress, now are tended to four days. workers and peasants? This is the classified." Nevertheless, Hanoi has consistently question being. fought out day after The statistics actually tell much. At denied that Nixon is negotiating day on the Indochina battlefields. The the height of U.S. combat troop parti­ seriously. While talks were taking U. S. bombardment of Vietnam is de­ cipation in the war, with massive Effects of defoliation methods by U.S. in place in Paris between Kissinger and signed to keep South Vietnam under "search and destroy" campaigns, num­ Vietnam. Le Due Tho, Professor George Kahin the rule of the capitalist-landlords. bering thousands of U. S. troops, with of Cornell University was in Hanoi, A detailed report from the battle­ tanks, heavy artillery, flamethrowers, Sept. 23-30. He was told by Foreign front appeared on the front page of and napalm bombing, whole villages out the modalities, and while we talk Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh that the the Oct. 4 Wall Street Journal. It was and towns were burnt to the ground. of modalities, we would also be re­ secret talks are "stuck on dead center subtitled "Death Marches On." Staff re­ The survivors were herded into refugee taking territory. They are afraid that and they don't think that Nixon is porter Peter Kann contended, "the most concentration camps. These were the one night, while we are talking about serious about negotiating before the realistic outlook, according to the ma­ "secured" hamlets U. S. generals once modalities, we would go out and ar­ election." jority of observers here, is more boasted about. rest and kill all their cadre." Washington Post correspondent Mur­ months of intensive combat and quite Today revolutionary forces are con­ It is true. And the fundamental rea­ rey Marder pointed out on Oct. 9, possibly more years of protracted tending for control of the countryside son is that the Saigon butchers remain "The press, as a whole, is unlikely to war." from the Mekong Delta in the south in office only because of U. S. military provide great clarification to distin­ Kann emphasized the crucial role to the northernmost province of backing. Without that support, there guish between what is real and what of U. S. air power in maintaining the Quangtri, where Saigon holds only could be no question of their taking is illusory in this melange of informa­ Saigon regime against the seven­ the totally destroyed provincial capi­ advantage of a cease-fire to step up tion and disinformation. For the com­ month-old revolutionary offensive. tal. This life and death struggle can­ their repression. With that support, petitive press itself is both victim and "Among supporters and critics of U. S. not be resolved by a cease-fire. they will c~ntinue to attempt to crush vehicle in the secret diplomacy now policy here, the consensus is that South Journal reporter Kann noted an un­ the revolution no matter what it takes. being played out, sucked into a can­ Vietnam would have fared much usually candid comment by a "Viet­ It is impossible to determine what you-top-this brand of journalism." worse- and perhaps collapsed-had namese who is a relative of President the outcome of the secret talks will Marder could have added that the it not been for American air support. Thieu and one of the president's very be, and the antiwar movement must latest peace rumors in the press are 'If it weren't for air power, there would closest advisers." The official stated: proceed from what is certain, not seized by the public because it is the be no South Vietnam- it's that "The Communists don't want a cease­ guesswork. The certainty is that peace profound hope of the vast majority simple,' Air Force Gen. Lucius D. Clay fire in place because they know that cannot be achieved in Indochina until of Americans that the war come to Jr. was recently quoted as saying in it would take a year of talks to work all U. S. military forces are withdrawn.

By TONY THOMAS "What right has this organization stained and six (Chad, Kenya, Li­ The Sept. 29 issue of United Nations to discuss only those aspects of vio­ beria, Rwanda, Swaziland, and Togo) Cuban, Report, a weekly newsletter edited by lence that are of concern to the im­ voted for its inclusion. Afro-American journalist Winston perialists, while it remains deaf and Also in regard to the "antiterrorism" Berry, reports the opposition of sev­ dumb in the face of the crimes, the campaign, the Sept. 21 Congressional eral African states and Cuba to putting barbarism and destruction imposed Record quoted an article in the Sept. N. Viet, the U. S.-proposed item against "ter­ by imperialism upon so many? What 19 issue of Nhan Dan, Hanoi's largest rorism" on the UN General Assembly's authority would it have to do so, and newspaper, which seemed to indicate agenda. what results could be expected of such the attitude of the leaders of North stands on The clearest statement on this sub­ debate, except to increase the lack of Vietnam: ject was that of Cuba's representative, confidence in this organization among "The peoples of the Arab countries Ricardo Alarcon Quesada. He ex­ the peoples who are the victims of and the entire peace and justice-loving Munich plained the hypocritical nature of im­ imperialism and colonialism?" human race have realized that they perialism's "antiterrorism" campaign: Berry also reported opposition to must unite in support of the Palestin­ U. S. "antiterrorism" among African ian people's struggle .... Public opin­ events "To speak of terrorism and violence delegates to the U.N. Many African ion in the world, and the very acts in September 1972 as if they were states that have given refuge or as­ of aggression in the Middle East, have phenomena that had recently emerged sistance to guerrillas from Portuguese, smashed the allegations of the U.S. and were limited to acts against iso­ Rhodesian, or South African territo­ and Israeli pirates, who are using the lated individuals, particular diplomats ries could become targets of reprisal bloody event in Munich to make black and the official representatives of some campaigns under the "antiterrorism" white and to sling mud at the just governments, is merely to disregard atmosphere Washington is attempting resistance of the Palestinian people. the realities of our contemporary to create. The US-Israeli aggressors are guilty world. Berry quotes a diplomat from the of sabotage of peace. They have "Those inhabitants of territories sub­ Republic of Guinea who pointed out caused all the suffering of the nations ject to colonial domination, or living that Portugal claims that sections of in the Middle East. They are terrorists. in slavery under apartheid, are they the Portuguese colony of Guinea­ As such, they must be condemned by not the objects of the worst expression Bissau liberated by African freedom the whole [of] mankind." of terrorism? Children, women and fighters were "occupied by terrorists." old people of Vietnam who have lived Moulaye el Hassan of Mauratania These statements greatly differ from and resisted over the last decade under said that those who "struggle to re­ those made by Soviet Foreign Minister the savage American aggression- is cover the freedom of their motherland" Andrei Gromyko, who denounced the anyone aware of the fact that the could not be described as terrorists Palestinian resistance group Black Americans have already launched or saboteurs. September as "criminals" and who has against these peoples a volume of While 17 African states opposed the been reported to be "not unfriendly" bombs greater than all those used in inclusion of the item on the UN agen­ to a U. S.-backed "antiterrorism" the Second World War? da, Berry pointed out that 11 ab- treaty.

THE MILITANr/ OCTOBER 20, 1972 5 In Our Opinion Lett en

Ziegler explains U.S. bombing independent but said she would McGov's ~peace' plan When presidential press secretary give the system one more chance Ronald Ziegler held an informal press this year. Maybe in another four In his nationwide television speech Oct. 10, presidential can­ conference Sept. 22 at Northern years, she said, she would be ready didate George McGovern asked the American people to elect Kentucky State College, 80 student for an alternative to the two-party him if they want to end the Vietnam war. Lyndon Johnson antiwar protesters were waiting to system. and Richard Nixon promised the same thing in order to get greet him. As he walked through Another part of the Caucus meet­ elected in 1964 and 1968. But the war has continued. the demonstrators they began shout­ ing was a panel of women candi­ The past eight years of the Vietnam war have shown that ing "Out Now!" dates, which included Joanna Misnik, the SWP candidate for U. S. Con­ the American people cannot depend on election-eve promises At the press conference I asked gress in the 20th C. D., and her to end this war. What has affected the course of the war are Zeigler "to what lengths" was Nixon prepared to go "to crush the Vietna­ Republican opponent, Annette Levy. the demonstrations and other expressions of the antiwar sen­ Ruth Robinett timent of the majority of the American people, including the mese struggle for freedom and in­ dependence." Ziegler replied by stating New York, N.Y. Gls. This is the force that made Nixon withdraw from his that the bombing would continue in­ 1970 invasion of Cambodia and pull out 500,000 troops definitely. He ended by saying, "The from Vietnam. This is the force that has persuaded Demo­ other side must have the incentive crats like McGovern that an antiwar image is the best for to negotiate." one's political future. If bombing an entire nation back Requests exchange sub Contrary to McGovern's assertion that he has "publicly into the Stone Age is merely "incen­ I am an American living in Rome opposed this war for nine years," he has become a "dove" tive," what is the U.S. going to do and a sympathizer of the Fourth only recently, under pressure from the antiwar movement. if it qecides to get tough? International. I now write for a small Italian weekly. My primary Almost without exception he voted for military appropria­ Charles R. Mitts St. Bernard, Ohio task is to demystify the politics of tions, including for the Vietnam war, throughout the 1960s. the USA and to comment on the In October of 1965 McGovern was saying that it was "too various aspects of American life. late to turn back now. Our nation has decided that we must The only tools, however, that I stay and fight to stop the communists from taking over." Medical care have are the Herald Tribune, News­ The fact that McGovern now makes stronger antiwar· state­ I'm one of two working-class Puerto week, and the like, plus dated copies ments than LBJ or Nixon did does not mean that he is funda­ Ricans accepted to Harvard Medical of The Militant and the International mentally different from them, only that antiwar sentiment School this year, and one of only Socialist Review that I get from has become stronger. McGovern's speech contained some true three in the school altogether. As friends. Of course, I have at my dis­ it stands, all three of us are political­ statements in condemnation of the slaughter in Vietnam. He position the newspapers of the left, ly oriented and come from the South which do a relatively good job, but pointed out that 500,000 U. S. troops still remain in the Pa­ Bronx and Bedford-Stuyvesant [areas even they have, for example, left cific, Thailand, and Guam to carry on the war. He stated of New York City]. McGovern unscratched. In fact, at that the war is not over; that Vietnamese and Gls are still Although previously exposed to your this moment I am trying to help dying. paper, I was surprised to find a get people straight about McGovern These are truths the antiwar movement has been telling brother selling it in front of the Medi­ and the need to build a socialist the American people for a long time. These are truths anti­ cal School parking lot, where he was party in the USA. war Gls and veterans have helped bring to public attention. mostly ignored except for a few of This is a problem not only for Now McGovern comes along trying desperately to refurbish the hundreds who make use of the our reading public but also for the his image as "the peace candidate"- after back-tracking so lot. majority of Italian militants. Ignor­ much on all his positions that he is trailing badly in the In time these attitudes will change, ance of America is rampant, and polls. He tells us to elect him and trust him to end the war. but presently I feel that you should the news that does arrive is controlled include in your issues news and anal­ by the bourgeois press or the bureau­ Why doesn't he encourage the American people and the ysis of problems in the fields of cratic left. Thus, for example, the G Is in Vietnam to unite in massive actions against the war, health and community medicine, of McGovern truth kit I have read about since this has been the most effective deterrent to the war­ which there are many, and some would be of significant value. makers? Why has he in fact opposed demonstrations calling in your own backyard (Lincoln Hos­ It is my hope that we might es­ for an end to the war? If he thinks the U. S. has no right pital in the South Bronx, for exam­ tablish an exchange of weeklies. We in Vietnam, why does he vow to keep U.S. bases, troops, ple). will benefit in having a contii::mous, bombers, and warships in Thailand and surrounding seas Many thanks, and may you do up-to-date flow of alternative informa­ until all American POW s are returned and all missing in ac­ well in this year's campaign. tion from the USA. I hope you find tion accounted for? Jaime Rivera sufficient benefit in having an ex­ If he really feels horror at the inhuman, genocidal destruc­ Boston, Mass. tended voice in Italy and among the Italian immigrants spread out tion the U.S. has brought to Vietnam for eight years, why in Europe. did he say in his speech that "we must oppose any so-called Women's Political Caucus c. c. war crimes trials" of those responsible for the U.S. crimes On Sept. 30 I attended a meeting Rome, Italy in Vietnam? Why does he attempt in this way to cover up of the Manhattan Women's Political for the responsibility that his party, the Democratic Party, Caucus where a discussion took place bears for this war? that will be of interest to Militant We urge antiwar Americans not to be taken in again by readers. Between 150 and 200 women PRG 7 -point program vote-catching, election-eve promises of the Democrats or Re­ were at this meeting. At the July antiwar convention in publicans. Support Linda Jenness and Andrew Pulley, lhe Gloria Steinem gave a report on the Democratic Convention. Follow­ Los Angeles, hosted by the National presidential ticket of the Socialist Workers Party, and sup­ Peace Action Coalition, I sat in on port the national antiwar mobilizations called by the Na­ ing her report a discussion ensued on the pros and cons of supporting the workshop on the seven-point pro­ tional Peace Action Coalition for Oct. 26 and Nov. 18. George McGovern. (The Caucus even­ gram of the Provisional Revolution­ tually voted not to endorse any can­ ary Government. I was interested to didates.) hear Irving Sarnoff of the Peace Ac­ Dissatisfaction with McGovern's back­ tion Council, an affiliate of the sliding on women's rights was clear People's Coalition for Peace and Jus­ PCPJ backs McGov in this discussion. One woman raised tice, explain why he felt the antiwar At its national interim committee meeting Sept. 29-30, the the possibility of boycotting the elec­ movement should raise the demand People's Coalition for Peace and Justice passed a resolution tions and organizing a "no vote" "Support the seven-point program of the PRG." with the central theme: "We believe that the antiwar move­ campaign. A woman from the newspaper Ma­ Sarnoff declared that the American ment throughout the country should, independently and people would respond to the seven­ through its own forms of organization, help to ensure the jority Report and the National Orga­ nization for Women (NOW) sug­ point program better than to a simple . most massive vote for George McGovern." gested that women vote for Linda demand for immediate and uncondi­ It is deplorable that an organization that has claimed to be Jenness, the Socialist Workers Party tional withdrawal because the seven­ in some respects an antiwar coalition has thus decided to be­ candidate for president. "Jenness is point program. shows the "reasonable­ come a support group for the McGovern campaign. By back­ not afraid to raise the abortion issue," ness" of the Vietnamese liberation ing McGovern, PCPJ excludes from its antiwar activities the she said. Unlike McGovern, she con­ fighters. Specifically, Sarnoff lauded many opponents of the war who mistakenly support Richard tinued, Jenness does not waver on the section that promises to set up Nixon, or those supporting neither Nixon or McGovern. women's issues. a three-part coalition government. In openly becoming a McGovern support group, PCPJ com­ A member of Young Socialists for By making this promise, Sarnoff argued, the seven-point program pletes its evolution away from functioning as an independent Jenness and Pulley pointed out that the SWP c'ampaign supports and builds speaks to the fears of many Ameri­ antiwar organization. With this decision PCPJ is again and the independent feminist movement. cans that there will be a "Communist more definitively denying that there is a crucial need for or­ Only by organizing masses of women take-over" in Vietnam if the U.S. ganizations that can unite in action all opponents of the war. in action independent of the Demo­ withdraws. The seven-point program, It denies the need for coalitions that will expose and criticize crats and Republicans can women's he felt, can reassure these people Democratic and Republican politicians alike, who don't sup­ demands be won, she said. and lead them to support an Ameri­ port immediate and unconditional U. S. withdrawal from Indo­ Gloria Steinem agreed that the wom­ can withdrawal on the basis of these china. en's liberation movement must remain guarantees.

6 The American Way of Life Ernest Harsch

In my opinion this is the crux of Voting rights struggle not over the difference between NPAC and I recently visited an exhibition in Washington, D. C., path of Black participation in the voting process. PCPJ on this question. Sarnoff be­ at the Smithsonian Museum of History and Tech­ Such restrictions as poll and property taxes, out­ lieves that by emphasizing the seven­ nology entitled "The Right to Vote." It portrays the rageous literacy tests, and residence requirements point program we can assure the struggle of women, Blacks, soldiers, Indians, and once more effectively disenfranchised Blacks in the American people that the price for young people to win the vote. The unmistakable South. a U. S. withdrawal from Indochina thread running through the posters, songs, slide Not until Black people began to take to the streets will not be a "Communist take-over." show, and documents that make up the exhibition in the 1950s and early 1960s-in the Montgomery NPAC does not believe it is the job is that it took struggle -long, bitter, often bloody bus boycott, in the 1963 March on Washington, of the antiwar movement to make struggles-to win the vote for the majority of people in the sit-ins, and in the Voting Rights March from that assurance. We think the Ameri­ in this country. Selma to Montgomery-did these restrictions begin can people must be convinced that One display mentions the first Women's Rights to get knocked off the books. the U.S. should unconditionally with­ Convention. Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton The exhibition also mentions that residents of Wash­ draw from Vietnam no matter what and Lucretia Mott in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848, ington, D. C., which is more than 70 percent Black, kind of government is then set up. the convention passed the "Declaration of Sentiments" couldn't even vote for president or vice-president The demand for U. S. withdrawal demanding the right to vote for women. Another until 1964 and didn't get a delegate (nonvoting) must be independent of approval or exhibits copies of The Revolution, published from to Congress until 1971. disapproval of the plans of the Viet­ 1868_ to 1870 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth namese people for their own future. Stanton. The first sentence of one issue reads, "North, The passage of the Twenty-sixth Amendment in It is not the job of the antiwar South, East, West, Pacific coast, all! have you heard 1971 gave the vote to 25 million young people. movement to pass judgement on the the call, and are you heeding it to organize at once The exhibition briefly mentions the deepening po~ plans of the Vietnamese liberation in behalf of the great cause of Women's Enfranchise­ liticization among youth and their participation in fighters. Our job is to get the U. S. ment?" the civil rights movement and the antiwar move­ out of their country. It is vital that From the beginnings of the suffrage movement, ment as impetuses behind the passage of the amend­ all antiwar forces work together to to the presidential campaign of Victoria Woodhull ment. accomplish that task. I hope that in 1872, to the passage of the Suffrage Amendment The main failing of the exhibition, and this was PCPJ and PAC will work with NPAC in 1919, the methods of struggle were quite evident: to be expected, is that it views the struggle for voting to build the Oct. 26 and Nov. 18 "automobile tours, P~arades, protest marches, picket­ rights as a finished process. It implies that every­ actions. ing the White House amid dramatic confrontations thing's completely democratic now that most people Stephanie Coontz with citizens and police." (forgetting prisoners) have the vote. But what about Former NPAC coordinator Black people didn't win the right to vote, even the restrictive ballot laws still on the books in most Brooklyn, N.Y. on paper, until after the four bloody years of the states? Civil War and the destruction of chattel slavery in Loyalty oaths, petitioning requirements, age and the South. Within the first few days after the Thir­ residency requirements, and filing fees are all de­ teenth Amendment was adopted, more than a million signed to keep smaller parties off the ballot, allowing Blacks registered to vote, and in the elections the the Democratic and Republican parties to monopo­ 'Young lenin' review first Black representatives and senators were elected. lize it. The next important step in broadening the I wish to call the attention of readers Within several years, however, when the reaction­ rights of voters is to fight for completely opening of The Militant to a review of Leon aries once more took control of the state govern­ the ballot to all parties and providing access to the Trotsky's The Young Lenin in The ments, more and more obstacles were put in the public media. New Republic of Sept. 23, 1972. The author, George Charney, has written a perceptive and moving review. Charney was for many years a leading figure in the Communist National Picket. Line Party. A victim of the witch-hunt of the 1950s, he left the GP after the Khrushchev revelations of some Marvel Scholl of Stalin's crimes at the 1956 Con­ gress of the Soviet Communist Party. In his review of The Young Lenin, Minimum wage boost squelched Charney describes this recently pub­ lished book (by Doubleday) as Social issues such as housing, medical insurance, quickly jumps onto the side of reaction. "superb biography." He also calls welfare, and minimum wages make good political The Republican House leaders who won this fight it "a beautiful and moving tribute" fodder for capitalist politicians during off-year claim they based their battle on the fact that the (to Lenin). These descriptions are paigns. But these issues generally fall by the wayside Democratic conference committee members from the entirely in order, and I agree with in favor of "bi~' issues during presidential campaigns. House had all voted against the Nixon-backed bill them completely. It is a pity that The "big" issue between the major parties this year and would therefore be more easily swayed to com­ we will be forever deprived of the is simple-each is accusing the other of being a bigger promise in favor of the Senate bill than for the ad­ pleasure and benefit of what Trotsky bunch of crooks. And each gang has plenty of evi­ ministration's position. planned to do in completing his work dence against the other. Now, under parliamentary rules, the House has on the life of Lenin. Only his assas­ Take the issue of minimum wage levels-an issue no choice but to vote for or against a conference sination by a Stalinist agent in 1940 both parties don't want to talk about. _agreement. It cannot send it back to conference for prevented him from writing the rest Early this year the House passed a new adminis­ revisions. Had a conference on the Senate and House of the biography. tration-sponsored minimum wage act. The com­ bills met and proposed an agreement, it would I particularly want to compliment panion bill was passed by the Senate in July. probably have been close to the more liberal Senate George Charney publicly for writing bill. The legislators would have had to record their this fine review as my own review The two bills were widely divergent. The House vote, pro or con. of his political autobiography, The bill, backed by President Nixon, would have raised This would have put all the members of the House Long Journey (Quadrangle Books, the current $1.60 per hour minimum wage to $1.80 of Representatives, along with those senators who are 1968), published in the International for this year and to $2 for 1973. It would not have also up for reelection, in a precarious position. On Socialist Review in 1969, was severely extended coverage to workers not now covered and one hand, workers, women, minorities, and students critical of both him and the Commun­ would have allowed a lower minimum pay level make up the majority of all voters. And a huge ist Party. for anyone under 18 or for full-time students over proportion of these voters work for minimum wages­ But the George Charney of today 18. and live on the poverty level. is certainly not the one of the 25- The Senate bill would have raised the minimum On the other hand, the candidates need money to year period he spent in the CP and to $2 this year and to $2.20 in 1974. It would have conduct their campaigns. And they get that money not even the one who wrote The increased the coverage to millions of workers, in­ from the employing class. But no boss, however Long Journey. cluding domestics and government employees. The' small, wants to reelect, let alone finance, a candidate Senate measure would have allowed below-minimum who has voted to increase wage levels. Milton Alvin pay for students only. Ironically, it is to these Republican politicians that Los Angeles, Calif. The two bills were sent to conference several times George Meany and some of his cohorts are pledging but no compromise was arrived at. Then on Oct. 4 the American working-class support. And equally the House passed by a vote of 196 to 188 a bill ironic is the fact that many other top union officials banning any further compromise conferences. This have jumped onto the Democratic bandwagon and The letters column is an open forum killed all possibility of any minimum wage increase are promising to deliver their memberships' votes for all viewpoints on subjects of gen­ being passed in the current session of Congress. to the Democrats. eral interest to our readers. Please This vote is interesting because the Democrats- sup­ That would leave the vast majority of the American keep your letters brief. Where neces­ posedly more liberal than the Republicans- hold a population with a choice-between Tweedledee and sary they will be abridged. Please in­ majority in the House. Since the Republican minority Tweedledum. Except, of course, in those states where dicate if your name may be used or led the fight to kill any minimum wage increases, the Socialist Workers Party is running its candidates. if you prefer that your initials be used it would appear they had a lot of lousy liberals SWP candidates don't make wild promises that instead. in their corner. To me there is no dirtier word in are promptly filed in the waste basket after the elec~ our language than "liberal." It means a character tions. They tell it like it is and offer the only solution who can talk a good fight but when the fence he to all the social, economic, and political ills - or she is perched on begins to sway, then the liberal socialism.

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 20, 1972 7 The .Great Society Harry Ring·

Cokexistence- Polish factories are local brewery had emptied its vats says an "unacceptable" residue of and tax evasion by giant corporat­ pouring out Coca Cola under license. into the municipal water system. DDT and other pesticides is showing tions. "It is unbelievable that large, A Warsaw daily commented: "For up in some Southern tobacco. publicly held corporations engage in many years Coca Cola has had a Recognized him immediately-'' Mc­ such schemes," the unnerved revenuer reputation of being the symbol of Govern Calls Nixon Ally of Business" Funniest story of the week- It's only said. American life or repulsive dollar im­ -headline in the New York Times. Americans who tb.ink American med­ perialism. . . . It has finally reached ical care stinks, says AMA President The Old Double Cross- The KKK, Poland not as a sinful thing but as Mum's the word-A State Department C. A. Hoffman. Just back from which is administering lie detector tests the fruit of peaceful coexistence." Now representative assured a Senate com­ abroad, the good doctor confided that to weed out FBI plants and other if the Moscow bureaucrats get a simi­ mittee that the number of North Viet­ everywhere else the U. S. "is recog­ prevaricators, now admits it may be lar deal, they can revive the old Trini­ namese schools, hospitals, and nized as Mecca," medicinewise. Soviet deceptive advertising to talk of cross dad Calypso tune, "Drinking Rum churches being hit by U.S. bombs medicine has come a long way, he burnings. Actually they don't burn and Coca Cola," with its refrain, is quite small but declined to give reported, the only question being crosses, concedes the Ohio grand "Mother and daughter working for a number. He explained we didn't "how far they might have come if dragon, just the flammable wrapping the Yankee dollar." want the North Vietnamese to know they had had the free enterprise sys­ around the cross. Next we'll find out too much about what we're doing. tem we have." That's the reverse of those bedsheets are really straitjackets. asking how long the patient would Almost made it-While some Poles Comedians- The ITT ad in the Re­ have lived if he hadn't died. Thought for the week-" 'Caveat emp­ were corroding their dentures with publican convention journal quoted tor' has never had more profound Coke, residents of the city of Byd­ from Lincoln's second inaugural ad­ significance than today, whether some­ goszcz thought the socialist millen­ dress: "With malice toward none, with Most startling story of the week- In­ one is trying to sell us war, God, anti­ nium had arrived when frothy lager charity for all.... " ternal Revenue Commissioner J. M. communism, or a new, improved deo­ beer began running from their water Walters disclosed the IRS has un­ dorant."-John P. Cohane, a retired taps. Because of a valve fault, the Premium blend- The government earthed "shocking" instances of fraud advertising agency executive.

Women In Revolt Cindy Jaquith Women's liberation in Italy "The obstacles facing the women's liberation move­ Loercher, "is that men per se are not the enemy For one thing, a considerable number of Italians ment in the United States seem paltry in compar­ but, like women, are victims of a calcified social who belong to the Communist Party oppose di­ ison with the barriers that exist in Italy," says and political system that must change." According vorce. Many women party members in the South, Diana Loercher in a special report in the Sept. to Merlini, the MLD is "fighting all the authorities according to Paul Hofmann in the Jan. 31 New 11 Christian Science Monitor. of society: capitalist, clerical, fascist, and patriar­ York Times, oppose divorce becau·se "in a male­ Loercher explains that traditional attitudes in chal, so there is much more at stake than equality dominated system that has few jobs for women, Italy, heavily influenced by the Catholic Church for the sexes." marriage means lifetime security for many of them." hierarchy, have kept women in an extremely back­ Although Loercher just touches on the ques­ ward position. She mentions the abysmal lack tion of divorce in her article, this is one of the Although the Times may be exaggerating female of information on birth control, the illegality of most controversial issues in Italian politics today. opposition to divorce, the issue is obviously one abortions, severe job discrimination, and the al­ Under a law passed in 1970 divorce became legal, that challenges very deep-seated traditions among most total absence of child-care centers. but only after five years' official separation. Al­ all Italians. According to Hoffmann, the Communist Most interesting is her interview with Liliana though still very restrictive, the law has generated Party has opportunistically avoided taking too Merlini, a leader of theW omen's Liberation Move­ tremendous opposition from the Catholic Church strong a stand in favor of the present divorce law ment (MLD -Movimento di Liberazione della hierarchy, the fascists, and the ·Christian Demo­ so as not to rock the boat among its own mem­ Donna). crats. bers. The MLD, formed in 1970, is currently peti­ Antidivorce groups collected enough signatures In addition, Hofmann says in the Oct. 1 Times tioning to collect 50,000 signatures calling for last year to place a referendum on the divorce that "militant divorce advocates ... suspect the women's right to abortion. The petitions will be law on the ballot. The date has not yet been set Communist party of seeking an accord with the turned over to parliament. for the referendum. Christian Democrats to seek new legislation that "MLD concentrates on action," Merlini told Leor­ When the referendum does come up for a vote, would make divorce much more difficult than it cher, "because we live in such an oppressive struc­ there is sure io be a big battle between divorce is now and thereby avoid a referendum on repeal. ture that we can't take the time to free ourselves opponents and supporters. Recent reports indicate ". . . an understanding with the Christian Demo­ on a personal level. In this respect we are closer that the Italian Communist Party, which officially crats and the church ... might eventually make to the American movements." supports the present divorce law, is not too eager [the Communist Party] eligible as a partner in "The essence of the MLD philosophy," writes to be in the thick of the fighting. government," Hofmann concludes. By Any Means Necessary

.. ~ John Hawkins Black Gls cleared 66 years late I On Sept. 28 Secretary of the Army Robert Froehlke ville Affray" are quite different. In the book The dered the three companies "discharged without hon­ cleared the records of 167 Black soldiers framed Brownsville Raid, published in 1971, author John or." 66 years ago in connection with a Texas shooting D. Weaver traces the shooting incident to a white Froehlke' s reversal of Roosevelt's 1906 decision incident. The soldiers, members of the all-Black woman's claim that a Black soldier had tried comes at a time of both increased Black oppo­ First Battalion of the 25th Infantry, were ordered to rape her. Thrown into a racist hysteria by sition to Army racism and increased Army use ''discharged without honor" by President Theodore the woman's claim, the town was unsafe for the of frame-ups against Black Gis. Among the many Roosevelt on Nov. 5, 1906, without even the bene­ soldiers of the First Battalion and was placed examples that could be cited is Andrew Pulley, fit of a military trial. Froehlke' s decision to grant off limits to them to protect their lives. According the Socialist Workers Party vice-presidential can­ the 167 soldiers honorable discharges comes more to Weaver, on the night of Aug. 13 shots were didate. In 1969, along with seven other Gis, Pulley than a year after Representative Augustus Haw­ fired outside Fort Brown. Both the soldiers and was confined to the Fort Jackson, S.C., stockade kins ( D-Calif.) introduced a bill into Congress the townspeople assumed they were under attack and received a dishonorable discharge for his to exonerate them. by the other and returned the fire. role in organizing Gis against the war and racism. The incident that led to the frame-up occurred The incident received national· publicity, and Aug. 13, 1906. According to what was accepted Roosevelt ordered an investigation. Unable to turn A more recent case is that of Billy Dean Smith, until recently as the official version of the "Browns­ up any evidence other than the claims of the towns­ currently on trial for a "fragging" that occurred ville Affray," 16 to 20 armed riders swept through people, the Army brass assembled companies B, in Vietnam in 1971. He is an outspoken oppo­ the white section of town at midnight. Several C, and D of the First Battalion· on the parade nent of racism within the armed forces and of persons were wounded and one killed. This raid, ground at the fort. They threatened the three com­ the war. according to the official version, came in the wake panies with mass dishonorable discharge if the The fact that Froehlke felt compelled after 66 of a fight between a white merchant and a Black "guilty" did not step forward and identify them­ years to publicly exonerate the 167 Black sol­ soldier of the First Battalion, stationed at nearby selves. diers framed in 1906 indicates the growing pres­ Fort Brown. As a result of this scuffle the town No one stepped forward, and a few days later sure on the armed forces to repair their traditional was placed off limits to the Black troops. the three companies were transferred to Oklahoma. racist image. But there's still a great deal more However, the real facts behind "The Browns- Three months after their transfer, Roosevelt or- to be done.

8 U.S. tries Backhanded Mc&ov supporter to deport lectures SWP on reformism Iranian By DAVE FRANKEL Certainly one of the most pressing ical cheerleader for the Maoist regime student The Socialist Workers Party 1972 political questions facing those in the in China. By HELEN MYERS election campaign sounds pretty good U.S. who are interested in changing Davidson's criticisms of the SWP SEATTLE- The U. S. Immigration if you read the first third of Carl society is whether such change can campaign are too numerous to an­ Service has reopened its witch-hunt Davidson's article on it in the Sept. come about through the Democratic swer here. His opposition to Black against Babak Zahraie, an Iranian 27 Guardian. Davidson explains that Party, and whether to support George nationalism and feminism, which he student at the University of Washing­ the SWP has collected some 500,000 McGovern in 1972. The SWP has a falsely counterposes to class con­ ton. Last February the Immigration signatures and expects to be on the very clear position- it opposes sciousness, could each be the subject Service attempted to deport Zahraie, ballot in 25-30 states this November. McGovern and the Democrats just as of a separate article. One example of claiming he was a "subversive." Zah-. He mentions the two million pieces of much as it opposes Nixon and the his technique, in which bits and pieces raie has been active in the antiwar literature distributed by campaign sup­ Republicans. The Guardian, on the of the SWP election platform are taken movement, in opposing tuition in­ porters, the media coverage gained by other hand, disagrees with this posi­ out of context, is the one-paragraph creases at UW, and in exposing con­ the campaign, and the hundreds of tion. It sees Nixon as the main enemy critique devoted to the SWP' s program ditions in Iran under the Shah's dic­ meetings candidates addressed and is giving backhanded support to for labor. tatorship. throughout the country. McGovern. Charging that "its viewpoint is en­ The government failed to make its "Every political crisis and national Davidson talks about "smashing the tirely within the outlook of trade union charge of subversion stick, but Zah­ issue ... is taken advantage of, with old bourgeois state apparatus," a for­ reformism," and that the SWP fails raie has once again been ordered ex­ the SWP candidates issuing statements, mulation he complains is "totally ab­ to mention the role of the labor aris­ cluded from the U. S. If he is deported press releases and demanding air time sent" from the SWP' s campaign litera­ tocracy, Davidson implies that the to his native Iran he is certain to face to put forward their viewpoint," David­ ture. He overlooks the fact that voting SWP subordinates its program to the either execution or a jail term. son says. for McGovern and smashing the state union bureaucracy. The Committee to Defend Babak Nevertheless, Davidson doesn't like are contradictory aspirations. He criticizes the SWP's demand "For Zahraie called a well-attended news the SWP campaign. He believes that The reality of the political situation equal rights in the unions and on conference Oct. ·3 to demand a halt "the SWP plays the role within the U. S. in the U.S. today is not that socialists the job for Black and Raza workers to the deportation order and that Zah­ and for women, and for full· union raie be granted permanent residence support to their struggles," in isolation status in the U. S. from its overall position on these At the news conference were Zahraie struggles. Davidson tries to give the and his wife, Kathy; Professor Paul false impression that SWP campaign Diedrickson of the UW philosophy de­ literature directed at trade unionists partment; Mike Withey of Seattle, one "is ignoring the struggle for democ­ of Zahraie' s attorneys; and Professor racy outside the work-place.... " Aubrey Armstrong of the UW faculty, A similar distortion would be to representing the Thai Binh Coalition attack the demand for Black, Raza, (a group formed after the murd.er of and women's studies departments on Vietnamese UW student Nguyen Thai campuses because such a specific de­ Binh last summer). mand, raised within a specific context, Zahraie' s case had been on appeal is "ignoring the struggle for democ­ to the Immigration Service divisional racy outside the campus." headquarters in Minneapolis. This The innuendo that the SWP adapts body upheld the lower ruling to de­ to the union bureaucracy is of sim­ port Zahraie without hearing the oral ilar quality. The SWP campaign pre­ arguments requested by Zahraie's at­ sents a program that could serve as torneys. The attorneys have now a basis for mobilizing the workers asked Minneapolis to reopen the hear­

Militant/Bruce Cline in the U.S. to fight the government ing, this time allowing oral argument. Guardian writer thinks SWP position on antiwar movement is 'a capitulation to the and the employers on the key ques­ If this fails the case will be taken lowest common denominator of the united front.' tions confronting them today- infla­ to federal court to prove that Zahraie tion, wage controls, unemployment, has met all qualifications for perma­ and layoffs. The trade-union bureau­ nent residency status and to demand left of a petty bourgeois radical democ­ are faced with the imminent prospect crats are bitterly opposed to any such that it be granted. racy," which is "reformist at best and of a struggle for state power; there fight, and the SWP' s program for mo­ Leonard Boudin, a nationally reactionary at its worst." The SWP's are, however, tens of thousands of bilizing the ranks of labor would be known constitutional lawyer, has en­ position of building a mass antiwar young activists who are engaged in strongly opposed by them. tered the case as a consulting attorney. movement around actions for the im­ the work of the antiwar, Black, wom­ Consider the SWP demands for such At the news conference, Professor mediate withdrawal of all U. S. troops en's, and Chicano movements and are things as . "cost-of-living escalator Diedrickson reiterated the key question from Southeast Asia, for instance, "is interested in listening to what social­ claus~s in all contracts," which would of this fight: "Do foreign students have hardly sufficient for comJ!lunists act­ ists have to say. deal with inflation by requiring that the right to discuss and speak out ing independently with the purpose Most of these activists still believe wages rise with prices, or "for com­ for ideas of their choice?" of raising the class consciousness of that such problems as war, racial and mittees of the unions and consumer Professor Armstrong stated that the proletariat." sexual oppression, and pollution can groups with the power to regulate "most foreign students on this cam­ be eliminated short of a revolution, prices." While addressed to an imme­ pus are scared to be at a press con­ No doubt the SWP campaign could and that this process may well be diate problem faced by working peo­ ference at this time, and most were take a hint or two from the uncom­ possible through the Democratic Par­ ple, they would require a sharp strug­ scared to be at the Thai Binh me­ promising, no-nonsense approach of ty. The effect of Davidson's position gle against the union bureaucrats be­ morial service." the editors of the Guardian, who refuse is to confirm these illusions while in­ fore they could become the policy of Zahraie stated, "We are determined to endorse any of the candidates for dulging in verbal firewords about the the unions. Davidson fails to mention to fight for our rights to the highest president, but who "do not oppose need to smash the state. these and other demands of this type courts of this country." the growing trend of those among While presuming to lecture the SWP that are part of the SWP program. Funds are needed to continue the the masses who intend to vote for on its supposed reformism, Davidson, At the same time that it presents appeal in Minneapolis. Donations McGovern.... " the shame-faced supporter of McGov­ a general program for the develop­ should be sent to the Committee to In listing his catalog of disagree­ ern, even has the nerve to preach to ment of a left wing in the trade unions, Defend Babak Zahraie, c/o Univer­ ments and grievances concerning the us from Lenin's What Is To Be Done? the SWP attempts to link the struggle sity of Washington "Hub," Seattle, program of the SWP campaign, David­ Unfortunately for Davidson, Lenin's inside the unions to other manifesta­ Wash. 98195. son fails to state what he thinks a main point in that book was the ne­ tions of the radicalization. It does this socialist election campaign in the U.S. cessity of building a nationally or­ by raising demands of the antiwar, today should seek to accomplish. This ganized, centralized Marxist party­ women's liberation, Black, and Chi­ is not an unimportant question for a necessity that the Guardian recog­ cano movements, and by showing someone who wants to evaluate such nizes in theory but ignores in prac­ how they are applicable inside the a campaign. Socialists don't run elec­ tice. It is precisely this task that the trade unions and in union demands tion campaigns in the abstract but SWP election campaign is concerned on the bosses. attempt to make them directly rele­ with. It is building the nucleus of the. It may be that Davidson disagrees vant to the actual political struggles future mass revolutionary party. with the SWP' s method and program taking place and to the major ques­ What about the Guardian? Since it for forming a left wing in the unions, tions facing the working class and disagrees with the politics of the SWP, but he advances no alternative. His the population as a whole. what organization does it suggest that failure to do this, and his cheap dis­ The fundamental aims of the SWP revolutionaries join and build? Lenin tortion of the SWP program on the campaign are to help in the process had some words about the role of fight against the oppression of women of breaking the American people away a revolutionary newspaper in the and national minorities in the unions from their reliance on and subordina­ process of building a party, but ap­ leave the reader with the impression tion to the capitalist Democratic and parently the editors of the Guardian that Davidson is more interested in Republican parties; to encourage mass don't think them applicable to their justifying the Guardian's refusal to anticapitalist struggles; and to build paper; they are not building any or­ endorse the SWP campaign than in the revolutionary socialist movement ganization. Instead the Guardian is presenting a serious view of what in the U.S. content to play the role of an uncrit- shoQ.ld be done. Bobak Zahraie

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 20, 1972 9 wounded but survived the massacre the ERP. have reported that the guards opened The Peronists had police permission fire on the prisoners in cold blood to mourn the dead until six in the [The following interview with ~Nahuel with no provocation. Lanusse had evening and to make public statements Moreno was obtained by The Militant gone on nationwide radio and TV previously agreed to by the military last month in Buenos Aires. Moreno to claim that they were shot in an and the government in keeping with is a member of the executive -com­ escape attempt. The survivors' story a Christian service and burial. Con­ mittee of the Argentine Socialist Party has not gotten out to the Argentine spicuous for its absence was the five­ (Partido Socialista Argentino- PSA). public, however, because of strict gov­ pointed-star ERP banner, symbol of He is well known on the Argentine ernment censorship of all news.] the organization of the majority of left as a leader of the Trotskyist move­ the fallen heros. ment since the 1940s. [The interview refers to the elections Militant: What were some of the forms Militant: What effect did the events that have been promised by Argen­ of protest in the aftermath of the Tre­ surrounding the Trelew massacre tine dictator Alejandro Lanusse for lew massacre? have on the relationship between La­ 1973. Through the elections Lanusse Moreno: The entire working class and nusse and Peron? the majority of the country were in­ hopes to unite the various capitalist Moreno: Their relationship has de­ dignant at the government slaughter parties and draw the trade-union teriorated but not broken in the last and felt great sympathy for the mar­ movement, led by followers of Peron, several months as a result of the rad­ tyrs. The organized mass protests, icalization and the economic erisis. however, were not as great as they These two things convinced Peron that should have been, or could have been, if he continued his alliance with La­ had all the political tendencies worked nusse he would soon lose authority together to build united protest ac­ among the workers. tions. Still, there were many acts of Consequently Peron pulled back and Interview repudiation of the government. began to flirt with the guerrilla groups, The CGT ( Confederacion General while at the same time continuing to del Trabajo- General Confederation consolidate his bureaucracy in the of Labor) in Cordoba, offered their trade unions. We think this is one headquarters for a memorial service of the reasons for the relative growth with leader for the slain guerrillas from that city of the Montoneros, a Peronist urban and also carried out a day-long gen­ guerrilla group; Peron and the official eral strike against the government. Peronist leaders insist that their guer­ The mood of repudiation of the gov­ rilla organizations are an important ernment and sympathy with the mar­ part of their movement. of Argentine tyrs was indicated in a meeting at Luna Park (similar to Madison Militant: Did the Trelew events bring Square Garden) that was scheduled a change in the government's projec­ as a musical festival with Theodorakis tions for "democratization" and elec­ (a popular Greek musician). Because tions in 1973? of the repressive laws banning public Moreno: We don't think so. There will socialist meetings, Young Socialists from the very probably be elections. The Ar­ PSA helped to transform the festival gentine capitalist class as a whole­ into a public memorial for the mar­ as represented in the military and the tyrs, condemning the murderous gov­ various procapitalist parties (includ­ ernment and also calling for the re­ ing Peron ism) are convinced that the Party lease of Hugo Blanco (the Peruvian working class and the masses of Ar­ revolutionary-socialist peasant leader gentina will not stand for a govern­ into collaboration with, and support presently being held in an Argentine ment like the Brazilian military dic­ of, a new "constitutional" government. prison). tatorship. As part of this election maneuver, La­ They shouted slogans and raised But there is still a contradiction the nusse has invited Peron back to Ar­ a large banner with the names of ruling class has not been able to re­ gentina from his exile in Spain. the martyrs and a huge "Z," which solve. All sectors of the ruling class [The Argentine Socialist Party has in Greek means "life," or "live on!" agree that the election maneuver taken advantage of the government's The entire audience solidarized with should be used to try to harness and promise of elections to try to build us. co-opt the workers movement, but at the revolutionary movement by con­ The PSA sought to mobilize pro­ the same time each of the antagonistic fronting the procapitalist candidates test against the government by at~ ·bourgeois sectors- mainly the rural in the electoral arena. The party was tempting to build united-front actions and the industrial ones- wants to cap­ able to register 33,000 persons to meet with other left currents. We succeeded italize for itself on this attempt to tame the requirements for ballot status. The in various fa,ctories, schools,- and of­ the workers. PSA has offered use of its ballot status fices, One of the most important of This is a difficult problem for them to other forces on the left who want these was the minute of silence request­ to solve because it encompasses Pe­ to campaign against the capitalist par­ ed by our comrades at the Banco ron's delicate situation- balancing be­ ties and for a socialist Argentina. N acion in Buenos Aires. The Banco tween his role as a representative of [It was in the context of the La­ Nacion represents the largest concen­ a sector of the capitalist class who has nusse regime's promise of "democra­ tration of employees in the country, to protect the general interests of the tization" that on Aug. 22 guards at with more than 6,000 workers. exploiters, and, on the other hand, the Trelew naval base prison shot There were probably other public his need to retain political control over down 19 political prisoners. Of the meetings and acts of repudiation the working class because this is the 16 killed, 13 were members of the that I don't know of. There are hun­ only way to guarantee stability of the ERP ( Ejercito Revolucionario del dreds of factories, offices, and schools capitalist system in Argentina. Pueblo - People's Revolutionary Ar­ where we don't have contacts. my, the most prominent guerrilla or­ About 2,000 attended the memorial Militant: What is your evaluation of ganization in Argentina), two were service held by the Peronists in Cor­ the series of massive uprisings and members of the Montoneros (a left­ doba. As was to be expected, they political strikes that have occurred in Peronist guerrilla group), and one be­ used the service to sing the Peronist Argentina in recent years? Do you longed to the FAR (Fuerzas Armadas hymn and to hail Peron- although believe Argentina is in a prerevolu­ Peronistas- Peronist Armed Forces). the majority of the slain comrades tionary situation? [The three prisoners who were were not Peronists but members of Moreno: The uprisings have been among the most important in the his­ tory of Argentina. They were prob­ ably only surpassed by the "Tragic Week" of January 1919, when all of Buenos Aires was in the hands Qf the workers movement. The semi-insurrections in Cordoba, Rosario, Mendoza, Tucuman, and Ro­ ca have shown a consistent line of development, with each new rising sur­ passing the preceding one. I say "semi­ insurrection" because the masses in struggle were consciously moving against the government and its pol­ icies. In each case the working class and the populace won significant vic­ tories. During the last uprising, called the "Rocazo,"* the masses were careful to avoid a confrontation with the army, and were able to neutralize the troops through mass pressure. An example Nahuel Moreno teaching a class on socialism for Young Socialist supporters of the of this was when everyone in the PSA. Banners on walls say "Workers Power," and "At the service· of a workers and streets turned their backs on the army popular government." as it paraded through Roca. 10 .. Argentina has ·no doubt entered a several key areas in which to run which publishes the newspaper El Moreno: There is no doubt that its prerevolutionary situation, as indicat­ several- hun4red candidates. We will Combatiente) has not answered our program and theory are Trotskyist. ed by the confusion and crisis among not be able to run for all of the of­ call for support. But in one of the Ninety-five percent of our members . the exploiting classes, the left turn by fices. This would only be possible if latest issues of their newspaper, they are convinced Trotskyists. At our next the middle classes, and the large mo­ a real united front of all workers or­ raised the possibility that it will be congress we plan to take up the ques­ bilizations of the working class and ganizations were formed for the elec­ necessary for the popular and "so­ tion of our political solidarity with populace. tions. cialist" parties to intervene in and .use the international Trotskyist move­ Unfortunately, two factors are com­ the elections. As yet they have not ment. plicating the process. Because of a Militant: Will you receive radio and made clear their position on the elec­ lack of leadership, the workers move­ television coverage? tions. Militant: What is the situation with ment subsided somewhat at the be­ Moreno: Without a doubt. We have the defense campaign for Hugo Blan­ ginning of the year. This appears to already received some in the interior Militant: What is the circulation of co? be about over. The lack of a revolu­ of the country, but have yet to be your newspaper, Avanzada Socialista, Moreno: An intense campaign has tionary leadership in t:Ae Argentine granted some in the federal capital. and how many local branches does been launched, which includes a broad labor movement is what blocks the Whatever form it takes, the coverag~ the PSA have? petition campaign. We have only been . prerevolutionary situation from be­ will be very limited, however, since Moreno: We print 10,000 copies, al­ able to organize a few scattered public coming directly revolutionary. With­ t~e monopolies controlling the radio most all of which are sold in the protests because such actions demand­ out a mass revolutionary socialist and TV and the government view us streets. In this way we are able to ing the restoration of civil liberties are party there is much less chance that as the "extreme left" and until now meet many contacts and sell to sym­ illegal. a revolutionary situation will be at- have waged a national campaign of pathizers. We were also able to pressure the CGT into issuing an open letter to the government in support of Blanco's right to remain in Argentina. So far the government has made no answer.

Militant: What is the situation with political prisoners in Argentina? Moreno: Under the military rule, po­ litical prisoners are at the mercy of the authorities. Arrests are made at random, and prisoners have no chan­ nel for legal defense. The guerrillas and other political prisoners who are tried under the reactionary laws are subjected to a national tribunal, no­ torious for its hasty and severe sen­ tences. It. is hard to estimate how many political prisoners there are. Some of the defense lawyers speak in terms of thousands. My estimate is that there are about 1,000.

Militant: Is there an organizationfight­ ing to defend these prisoners? Moreno: There are various organiza­ tions- of the families of prisoners, the lawyers' guild, and similar organi­ zations. Unfortunately each of them Ten of the 19 Argentine political prisoners who gave themselves up to authorities after an aborted escape attempt. One week is tied in with a political tendency and later they were all shot down in cold blood by prison guards, with 16 killed. Slaughter of these prisoners showed hollowness they fight among themselves. Attempts of the Lanusse dictatorship's promise to 'democratize' the country through elections. to unite all groups that defend the rights of political prisoners into a common front have met with very limited success up to now. In our tained, or, if one occurs, that it would silence against us. But the regime has We are expanding our circulation newspaper and general work, the PSA be victorious. opened up a crack that we are utiliz­ beyond Buenos Aires to almost every has consistently pressed for the for­ Bolivia and Argentina today serve ing as much as possible, given the province. We have 20 branches in mation of such a united front. as lessons for other Latin American lack of experience we have in legal Buenos Aires, each with its own pub­ countries. Situations like the one in work. (The Trotskyist movement has lic headquarters, and 20 more offices Bolivia under General Juan Jose To­ been forced to operate underground in other cities of the country. *"Rocazo" is the popular term for an ex­ rres (from October 1970 to August since its founding prior to World War plosive rebellion in the city of General II). Militant: You have become known as Roca in south-central Argentina. On July 1971 ), and the one now developing a leader of the PRT(La Verdad) (Par­ in Argentina will continue to occur 4 of this year a 10-day general work and tido Revolucionario de los Trabaja­ business stoppage was called at a mass throughout Latin America. We can Militant: What has been the response dores- Revolutionary Party of the meeting sponsored by local civic orgaai­ expect more and more Cordobazos from other workers and socialist or­ Workers, which published the news­ zations to protest actions of the Provin­ and Rosaricizos in Latin America. But ganizations to the PSA 's call for a paper La Verdad). What is the re­ cial Court that were harmful to the local for victory we need to develop a rev­ workers and socialist pole in the elec­ lationship between the PR T( La Ver­ economy. Workers and students joined the olutionary leadership of the masses tions? dad) and the PSA? protest and broadened the demands. City and their organizations. Moreno: Not very warm. With the ex­ government was taken over by a "pro­ Moreno: The two organizations have ception of some diplomatic feelers, no visional governmenf' chosen by the fused, so the PR T no longer exists Militant: What kind of opportunities left-wing party has yet accepted the masses. This government declared itself as a separate organization. The new will the PSA have during the election platform of our campaign. The en­ independent of the provincial government. leadership of the PSA includes a large campaign? tire left is very confused. Some groups The army attempted to occupy the city number of former leaders of the PR T. Moreno: We will be able to publicize have a position against participating but was unable to "restore order" for several days, and only after making and defend our revolutionary pro­ in elections. Others would like to form Militant: Is the PSA a Trotskyist several concessions to the popular gram, our denunciation of the reac­ a front along the lines of the Chilean party? demands. tionary dictatorship, the capitalist and Popular Unity or the Uruguayan semicolonial regime, from one end of Broad Front, so as to build "an elec­ Argentina to the other. In Buenos Ai­ tion campaign that would have a res we are thinking of going factory­ chance to win." Books & Pamphlets on to-factory and house-to-house to speak with working people. 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"rights," including free transportation emplified by the Uruguayan Broad lutionary-socialist peasant lead­ for our organizers on public facilities, Front- a union of workers parties er Hugo Blanco. 178 pages, THOSE WHO ARE NOT REVOLU­ as well as some free telephone and with parties of the so-called progres­ $2.45. TIONARY FIGHTERS CANNOT . postal services. sive bourgeoisie. Thus the CP is the main supporter of the ENA (Encuen­ BE CALLED COMMUNISTS­ Militant: How many candidates will tro Nacional de los Argentinos- Na­ ALLENDE'S CHILE: IS IT GOING Speech by Fidel Castro concern­ the PSA field, and for what offices? tional Encounter of Argentines), a SOCIALIST? 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THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 20, 1972 11 Board of R~ents ban challeng~ YSA fights for Florida campus recognition By MALIK MIAH refused to hear the case on its constitutional merits. radical organization, has the democratic right to "I would close by saying that the YSA is, has been, The YSA then appealed to the circuit court in freely assemble and organize on any state cam­ and apparently will be a Trotsky-oriented com­ New Orleans, which ordered Middlebrooks to hear pus. Kibler thinks they don't. He states in his munist group that is dedicated to revolution. Such the case. On June 14, 1972, Judge Middlebrooks letter quoted earlier: an organization cannot have the sanction of a finally held a nonjury trial. He ruled July 11 "Is it appropriate for a state university to rec­ state university in the State of Florida." that the YSA represented, as the attorneys for ognize an organization that is revolutionary in This quote is taken from a letter the chairman the board had argued, a "clear and present dan­ character and has identity and relationship with a of the Florida Board of Regents, D. Burke Kib­ ger" to Florida's educational system, and that subversive organization (Socialist Workers Party) ler III, sent to the president of the University of the YSA is a "violenf' organization. with a history of communist activity? Florida in Gainesville and circulated to every uni­ Proof? None whatsoever. In an effort to prove "I would answer this question by saying that versity in Florida. Since this letter was issued on that the YSA is a threat to Florida's universities, an organization that is dedicated to the principle March 6, 1970, the Young Socialist Alliance has Kibler stated at the June i4 trial, "I think it was of revolution has no place on a college campus;

Authorities hope campus bon on YSA and other radical groups will stem growing radicalization in Florida. However, witch- hunt measures did not prevent antiwar march of more than 1,500 in Tampa, Flo., on Nov. 6, 1971 (1), or hundreds of Florida State University (Tallahassee) students from attending classes on 'How to Make a Revolution' taught by YSA leader Jock Lieberman (r).

been denied campus recognition at each Florida fairly clear that YSA was implicated in and in­ and anyone who argues that the YSA is not a state university where it has applied. volved in the Berkeley riots ... (and) perhaps revolutionary organization does not know his involved in the Watts riots." This attempt to smear facts." History of the case the YSA, quoted in the June 15 St. Petersburg Kibler further. states, "I am well aware that cam­ The Kibler letter laid the basis for denying the Times, was later rebutted by Kibler himself when puses have, since their existence, attracted revolu­ YSA campus recognition- including denial of its he was forced to admit, "I do not have any in­ tionary and anarchistic thought, and it is not my right to assemble, organize activities, and gain formation where YSA specifically interrupted the purpose to rid our campuses of people that hold access to the facilities available at the universities. educational processes in the state." these unpopular and unhealthy beliefs. However, Since this letter was issued, more than two years The question of civil liberties and democratic it is my purpose to prevent the university from ago, the YSA has conducted a vigorous campaign rights is not only of concern to YSA members aiding or abetting these people in their revolu­ to defend its rights. The Committee for Free As­ in Florida but to all students. This is not the tionary activities. Nor is it my intention in any sembly and Political Expression on Campus (FA- first time Florida students have had their demo­ way to inhibit or impede free expression of ideas cratic rights trampled on-the Students for a Dem­ on your campus or any other university cam­ ocratic Society and the Southern Student Orga­ pus within the state. However there is a vast dif­ nizing Committee were banned from state campuses ference between sanctioning the expression of con­ a year earlier than the YSA. It is thus especially troversial ideas and sanctioning a student orga­ FSU students support important that the civil liberties of the YSA be nization dedicated to revolution." defended. YSA's campus rights The YSA is recognized on campuses in every What is the YSA? By SARAH RYAN other state where it has applied. Why not Forida? Why does the Board of Regents fear the YSA? TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Oct. 4 -More than 500 Because the Board of Regents believes that the What crime has the YSA committed? students here at Florida State University (FSU) witch-hunt atmosphere of the 1950s is still pre­ The YSA grew out of the militant struggles of signed petitions this week in support of the Young dominant in Florida and that their attempts at the 1960s against racial oppression and the war Socialist Alliance's right to campus recognition. political repression won't be opposed. in Vietnam, and in defense of the Cuban revolu­ The Committee for Free Assembly and Political However, students and other young people to­ tion and student rights. It is an outgrowth of Expression on Campus ( F APEC) is organizing day are criticizing and demonstrating against the the radicalization among youth that has swept the petition drive. The Committee is also sponsor­ abuses they see around them. McCarthyite tactics across the U.S. and around the world. It fights ing a referendum on YSA recognition during the don't work the way they used to. Major struggles for the working people and the oppressed and fall elections for student government. have occurred, and the lessons drawn from them against the inhumanity and violence of the capi­ The first fall meeting of FAPEC at FSU, during the past decade have undermined the witch­ talists who run and control this country. scheduled for Oct. 11, will discuss plans to launch hunt atmosphere. The YSA is an active builder and supporter of a statewide petition drive in support of the YSA' s Major civil rights demonstrations occurred in the antiwar movement, the struggles of young right to be a recognized student organization. The the early 1960s, and for the past seven years workers, the women's liberation movement, the meeting will also discuss the campaign to gain massive antiwar demonstrations have involved Black and Chicano liberation movements, and prominent endorsers of F APEC. nearly every sector of the American population. the rights of gays and other oppressed sectors Individuals and organizations that have already The 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement mo­ of society. endorsed F APEC include Danny Pietrodangelo, bilized thousands of students to protest the ab­ This is what the Board of Regents is opposed F S U student body president; the Reverend C. K. rogation of democratic rights at the University to -the radicalization, which the YSA is a part Steele Jr., first national vice-president of the of California at Berkeley. This involved the ad­ of, that runs against their reactionary ideology. Southern Christian Leadership Council ( SCLC); ministration's decision to prevent campus groups A victory has not yet been won in Florida. the Tallahassee Gay Liberation Front; and several from holding meetings on campus to organize It is therefore extremely important that the entire FSU professors. off-campus activities, to recruit members, or to student movement wage the broadest possible de­ FAPEC will hold a news conference in Talla­ collect funds on university property. fense campaign to support the YSA's right to cam­ hassee on Oct. 12. Speakers will include Dr. Roy At City College in New York a similar struggle pus recognition. Odum, chairman of F APEC; David Bouffard, took place in 1969, when Black and Puerto Rican F APEC secretary; Dr. Thomas Lockridge, F APEC students organized to gain Black and Puerto Rican treasurer; and Sam Manuel, YSA National Com­ studies and open admissions. mittee member. The tradition of the labor movement that "an What you can do ' / injury to one is an injury to all," a slogan pop­ The Committee on Free Assembly and Political ularized by the Industrial Workers of the World Expression on Campus (FAPEC) urgently needs PEC) was formed and has been publicizing the ( IWW}, has proved to be the most effective per­ the help of all who believe in democracy, free defense campaign. The Florida American Civil spective in building the broad-based campaigns speech, and free assembly. Funds are needed Liberties Union, which is handling the legai de­ necessary to defend and extend democratic rights. to publicize the case. fense, is presently appealing .the YSA's case to This is the kind of campaign F APEC is orga­ For more information, write to F APEC. State­ the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. nizing to defeat the reactionary policy of the Flor­ ments of support, letters of protest from student A brief look at the history of the case sheds some ida Board of Regents. governments and campus organizations, and light on the seriousness the Board of Regents is contributions can be mailed to F APEC, P. 0. giving it. After the YSA filed a suit against the What is at stake? Box 6693, Florida State University, Tallahassee, board in the fall of 1970, Judge David Middle­ The fundamental question posed by the Florida Fla. 32306. brooks of the federal district court in Talllahassee Board of Regents is whether the YSA, or any

12 A weekly international supplement to The Militant based on selections from Intercontinental Press, a newsmagazine reflecting the viewpoint of revolutionary socialism.

OCTOBER 20, 1972

reflection of revisionist speculations ot the kind held by Marcuse, giving priority within the world context to revolutions in the underdeveloped countries. We hold that in the process of the permanent revolution there are Mexico's interrupted revolution no priorities, but a dialectical interrela­ tionship between the three focal centers of the world revolution- the imperial­ [The following review appeared in georsre prefer to believe that history of the peasantry in arms- into so­ ist countries, the degenerated or the August issue of Bandera Raja, is made by an individual taken in cialist objectives was interrupted be­ bureaucratized workers states, and the the journal of the Grupo Comunista the abstract- the leader- who is not, cause of the absence of a proletar­ colonial and semicolonial countries. Internacionalista, a Mexican group as they see it, an organizer but a ian leadership. that adheres to the Fourth Interna­ willpower standing above the masses Whereas the Stalinists maintain tional. The book under review, La and their struggle. that the dictatorship of the proletar­ Revoluci6n Interrumpida by Adolfo Traditional history views the Mexi­ iat is possible only after the stage The July 3 and Sept. 25 issues Gilly, has received considerable at­ can revolution as the product of the of bourgeois democracy has reached of Intercontinental Press contain tention in Mexico, and it is to be will of Madero, Villa, Carranza, Za­ its culmination, the Mexican exam­ a series of two articles by George expected that an English translation pata, and Obregon; it is not inter­ ple confirms the revolutionary Marx­ Novack that will be of special will be forthcoming before long. ested in the contradictions among ist view that democracy in the back­ [Gilly wrote the book in Lecum­ them, still less in viewing each of ward countries becomes possible on­ interest to some Militant readers. berri prison while serving time as them as representatives of specific ly when the masses have taken pow­ The two articles- "A Malignant a political prisoner. Arrested and class interests. Zapata and Villa as er. Case of Sectarianism in Philos­ tortured in April 1 966, he was not leaders of the peasant masses repre­ An especially fine chapter in Gil­ ophy," and "Healyite Revisionism sented their struggle for land and ly's book is the one devoted to an­ released until March 2 of this year. in the Field of Philosophy"- dis­ [The translation of the review is governmental power. This struggle, alyzing the Cardenas period, which by Intercontinental Press.] this violent irruption- and only this reflected the profound capitalist crisis sect the false views of Marxist -was the Mexican revolution. of the thirties, coinciding with a mili­ philosophy held by followers of It was a struggle, as Gilly affirms, tant upsurge of the masses on an Gerry Healy of the Socialist La­ La Revoluci6n Interrumpida b.\ that has not been concluded, that international scale. In Mexico the bour League in Britain and of Adolfo Gilly. Ediciones "El Caballi­ pressure of the masses impelled the has only been interrupted, suspended Tim Wohlfarth of the Workers to," Mexico, D. F., Mexico. 401 pp. like a menacing sword of Damocles Cardenas leadership to take League in the U.S. 55 pesos. 1971. over the neck of the national bour­ "radical" measures- nationalization geoisie. of the oil industry, distribution of the In his articles Novack explains La Revoluci6n Interrumpida is the One of Gilly's main merits is to land, socialist education, and an in­ the relationship between materi­ first essay on the Mexican revolu­ present the Mexican revolution as terna tiona! policy of solidarity with alism, empiricism, and idealism, tion of 1910 that considers it from part of the world revolution. This popular struggles. At the same time, and why empirical data is pri­ a scientific point of view as a pro­ in contra diction to this, dialectically view, naturally, is not a fantasy as mary in the method of scientific cess and not as a completed stage Octavio Paz makes out. "The inter­ and a little paradoxically, this was socialism. of which only the memory remBins, national character of the socialist the period in which the bases of the plus a caste that has held and ex­ revolution, which constitutes the third future development of the national These two issues can be ordered ploited power for decades in the aspect of the theory of the permanent bourgeoisie were established. by sending $1 (50 cents each) name of what they call "the Mexi­ revolution," Trotsky says, "flows Gilly does not specify with great to Intercontinental Press, Box 116, can Revolution." from the present state of economy precision the type of governmer:.t that Village Station, New York, N.Y. To write history is to become in­ and the social structure of humanity. emerged after the revolution. N onethe­ 10014. volved with the present in a critical Internationalism is no abstract prin­ less he provides all the elements neces­ way. Unless the historian follows a ciple but a theoretical and political sary to define it as a bourgeois regime scientific method, takes the Marxist reflection of the character of world of exceptional nature; more concretely, approach and a partisan position, economy, of the world development it was Bonapartist in nature. It played It appears to me that this unilateral prejudices of a class nature will of productive forces and the world the role of arbiter in the conflict and mechanistic position of the Posa­ stand in the way of an objec­ scale of the class struggle."2 between classes, a role that served dists explains one of the main short­ tive analysis. Gilly states: "To un­ Gilly demolishes the petty-bour­ always to strengthen the ruling class. comings of the book, that is, its failure derstand the revolution is to under­ geois and Stalinist interpretation of As a result the only historical alterna­ to analyze the crisis of the capitalist stand the historical illegitimacy and the Mexican revolution as a nation­ tive open to the country will be the system in this epoch, which in some the inevitable coming disappearance alist democratic revolution: masses, as Gilly maintains- and imperialist countries has brought of the Mexican bourgeoisie." "The history of all the revolutions, along with this, the proletarian van­ about prerevolutionary situations. It From this it is clear that whoever whether victorious or defeated, from guard, lacking from 1910 to 1940, is a crisis that has plunged the world meekly accepts the system, its bu­ the Russian revolution up to now," which will pick up the thread of a powers into global conflagrations, a reaucratic hierarchies, its structural he says, "has without a single ex­ revolution interrupted in its develop­ phenomenon that is not only parallel dependency, will find it difficult to ception belied this theory, demon­ ment toward socialism. to our revolutionary process but fully bare its causes in the framework of strating to the contrary that in the This review is intended to offer only converges with it. the class struggle, that is, beyond social development of capitalism a rough idea of Gilly's book, which Finally it must be pointed out that the limits of the dominant ideology there is no historic gap between the covers many subjects other than those the majority of the reviews and critical and the official history. agrarian and anti-imperialist tasks I have indicated of vital importance appraisals in Mexico have not been "The history of a revolution," Trot­ with which the revolution in the so­ to understanding historic develop­ very serious. They attack the funda­ sky said, "is . . . a history of the called backward countries begins ments in Mexico in recent decades. mental point that Gilly stresses- the forcible entrance of the masses into and their transformation in the It is necessary to say, however, that applicability of the theory of the per­ the realm of rulership over their own course of the revolutionary process La Revolution Interrumpida is the manent revolution to the process of the destiny." 1 To understand this, as Gil­ into socialist objectives and the work of one of the best-known Mexican revolution. I will return to ly does in his book, is to under­ struggle for workers power." members of the Posadist movement, these criticisms in future articles to stand that individual champions do In Mexico this process of trans­ a pseudo-Trotskyist tendency with better clarify the Trotskyist method­ not play the main role in the history forming the agrarian and anti-im­ which we of the Grupo Comunista ology. In my opinion La Revolucion of the masses. This concept is alien perialist tasks- which without any Internacionalista disagree in principle. Interrumpida is required reading for to the bourgeois mind. The bour- doubt were written on the banners On the theoretical level we disagree, revolutionists, for activists, and for among other things, with the Third all those desirous of an objective view 1. The History of the Russian Revolu­ 2. The Permanent Revolution & Results World position held by the Posadist of the dynamics of the class struggle tion, p. xvii.- IP and Prospects. p. 133.- IP tendency, which is no more than a in Mexico. 0 World Outlook W0/2

with them. We used the flag because that he had lied in a case involving it ties together all groups, because it the leakage of an ambassador's re­ symbolizes the independence of Nor­ port on the progress of the Common way. The main point is who is going Market negotiations. There is wide­ to rule, Brussels or the Norwegian spread doubt that he would be able people.'" to gather enough support to form a For many, fear that the quality of government." Norway deals a life in Norway would become sub­ The coming year is apt to be one merged in the mediocrity of 'bigness" of intense political activity in Norway was an important factor in their de­ leading up to the elections. The La­ cision to vote "no." Not atypical of bor party, which has dominated Nor­ blow to the this attitude was the comment of a wegian political life for around a quar­ schoolteacher in the semirural town ter century, and the labor confedera­ of Ski, who told Michael Stern of the tion, tens of thousands of whose mem­ Times that he voted "no" because he bers broke with their leadership over Common Market thought the Common Market would the Market issue, will probably go lead to more urbanization. "If you through a period of reevaluation. look at the treaty," he said, "you will Changes in the leadership of both By David Thorstad "In Oslo, sound trucks are blaring see that it contains many good things would not be unexpected. slogans through the crisp autumn air. for businessmen, industrialists, for A reassessment of Norway's mem­ Youths are marching up and down capitalists. bership in NATO is a possible by­ On the eve of the referendum on the main avenues wearing shoulder­ "But what will they do with their product of the anti-Market campaign. Norway's entry into the Common to-knee placards front and back. La­ opportunities? They will expand fac­ It is a possibility that the New York Market, fires were kept burning on pel button sellers and leaflet distribu­ tories and build new businesses and Times editors on September 28 called mountaintops throughout the country. tors block almost every downtown cor­ draw more and more people into big to the attention of the Center party. The ancient Norse warning that a ner and try to draw passersby into cities. They will encourage centraliza­ While noting that its leaders may not foreign enemy was invading was the conversation and debate." tion and the people won't be able to be opposed to NATO, it warned them culminating gesture of a vigorous two­ The anti-Market forces were a dis­ live where they were born, where they that "the energetic allies they picked year campaign by anti-Market forces. parate coalition of forces that had belong. The land will get empty and up in the campaign against the Com­ By mustering a decisive "no" vote they never before found common cause. much that is good in Norway will munity will try to use this result as succeeded in dealing the Common Some 130,000 of them paid 10 kron­ disappear." the opening wedge for prying Nor­ Market a considerable setback. ers ($1.60) to join the Folkebeveg­ Another factor that probably helped way loose from all formal ties with Common Market officials in Brus­ else, and of these 50,000 became "pros­ more than one Norwegian decide to the West, beginning with NATO." sels called the result of the referendum elytizing activists," in the words of vote "no" was a statement by French The impact of the Norwegian vote a clear "defeat for Europe." Washington Post correspondent Ber­ President Georges Pompidou during will be felt for a long time. Its most The New York Times termed it "a nard N oss!ter. The fact that seventeen the week preceding the referendum in­ immediate effect will be on the Danish heavy blow at the wh'ole concept of members of parliament joined the dicating that he firmly favored Spain referendum, by putting new wind in European integration and Atlantic co­ grass-roots movement gave it what joining the Market. The Franco the sails of anti-Market forces. Whether operation." H augestad referred to as "the neces­ regime is very unpopular in Norway. the gust will be strong enough to blow "Even before becoming a reality," sary minimum of respectability." Arrayed against the Folkebevegelse Denmark out of the Market, too, is not editorialized Le Monde September 27, Farmers- who constitute only 10% was virtually the entire Norwegian yet clear. "the idea of a 'Europe of the Ten' has of the work force, but who pumped establishment. In addition to the two Sweden and Finland are now con­ thus been returned to the archives of more than $1,000,000 into the Fol­ major parties, the pro-Market forces sidering another effort to revive a pro­ history." kebevegelse- were a key component included the official trade-union lead­ posed economic union between the five "Some very important people in this of the opposition. They opposed entry ership (who provided 30,000 door­ Scandinavian countries, Nordek. This country woke up with a headache," because the market's rules would force to-door canvassers), big and small is almost certain to be done if Den­ said Arne Haugestad, the head of the the government to revise the current businessmen, much of the civil ser­ mark votes against membership in main anti-Market group, Folkebeveg­ pricing system, which assures them vice (which is not insignificant in a the Market. elsen mot EF (People's Movement an income almost equal to that of city "welfare state" like Norway), the state The "no" vote in Norway is also Against the European Common Mar­ workers. television, the Federation of N orwe­ expected to be felt in England, which ket), the day after the vote. "This was The country's 50,000 fishermen in gian Industries, bankers, financiers, had been counting on Norway as an a historic victory for ordinary citi­ the biggest fish-producing country in and 90% of the 200 newspapers. ally in the Market. Although the de­ zens against the state." Europe feared an invasion of their The advice of this powerful alliance cision to enter has already been made The vote rejecting the treaty of ac­ rich fishing grounds by the strong was rejected in spite of the predictable in England, anti-Market forces may cession to the Common Market ne­ fleets of Great Britain and Germany. difficulties that would arise out of a now press for a referendum on the gotiated by the Labor government of They also resented what they con­ "no" vote. One of these was the pos­ matter. In addition, according to .John Trygve Bratteli was decisive- 53.9% sidered the excessive bureaucracy of sibility that the Common Market Allan May in the September 27 Chris­ to 46. 1%. Balloting in the two-day a Brussels decision- made before would decide to go slow on signing tian Science A1onitor, a "no" vote by referendum was heavy, with more Norway even began to negotiate its a trade agreement with a nonmember the British Labour party at its an­ than 75~,; of the 2,600,000 eligible terms of Common Market membership l\'orway. Indeed, the day after the ref­ nual conference in Blackpool at the voter3 casting votes. -to set a "community" fisheries policy. erendum, the Common Market Com­ beginning of October becomes "a very The vote swung decisively against "A policy on fishing rights that 1'\ or­ mission in Brussels rejected Norway's likely development." If Prime :Vlinister entry only in the late hours of tabu­ way would have to adhere to even request for early negotiations on such Heath, who is becoming less and less lation. The first editions of the Sep­ though she did not participate in its an agreement. The agreement is im­ popular, should lose the next elections, tember 26 newspapers came out creation," noted Clyde Farnsworth in portant because Norway's exports­ it would mean that the next govern­ around 1:30 a.m. announcing a pro­ the September 28 1\Tew York Times, mainly fish and agricultural products ment would be committed to renego­ entry victory. But by that time it was "was considered by Norwegians- and -to the now nine projected Market tiating the terms of Britain's entry already clear that the voters had re­ all Scandinavians- in the same pas­ countries (including Denmark, where (Harold Wilson's position) or to tak­ jected the proposal. sionate terms as the policy of taxa­ a referendum on membership is to ing Britain out of the Market alto­ At 2:30 a.m., between 200 and 300 tion without representation that colo­ take place on October 2) account for gether. D students demonstrated in front of the nial Americans rebelled against in 65% of its total exports. university in Oslo, singing "Victory 1776." The vote also created a political Is Ours," the song of the Norwegian Also active in the anti-Market move­ crisis in Norway, where the Labor partisans during World War II. ment were the ecology-minded, who government had said it would resign Although the vote was only advi­ were concerned over what the Com­ it the vote was negative. Bratteli has sory, the Labor and Conservative mon Market's stress on bigness and since indicated that his government parties- which both supported entry growth would do to Norway's envi­ will do so on October 6. Since neither -pledged to abide by it. ronment and natural beauty; radi­ the Labor party nor the Conserva­ A definite split between town and cal youth; pan-Scandinavians, who tives will participate in an anti-Mar­ country was apparent. In the north­ were afraid that entry would further ket government, it will probably be ern and central regions, early returns estrange them from Sweden and Fin­ up to the Center party (which opposed were 60-70% opposed to entry, where­ land, which have decided not to enter; entry) to attempt to form a new co­ as Oslo voted 55-65% in favor. In left-wing trade unionists; conservative alition government with other mi­ the fashionable Bygboy section of the Lutherans, worried about close asso­ nority parties. According to the Nor­ capital, the "yes" vote reached 80%. ciation with predominantly Roman wegian constitution, new elections can­ Out of a population of 3,900,000, Catholic countries like France and not be held before September 1973, some 200,000 activists on both sides Italy; and conservative nationalists. so the prospect is for a year of a of the question were mobilized during N ossiter reported in the September weak, caretaker government of the the final days of the campaign to 27 Washington Post that Haugestad Center party, the Liberals, and the ring doorbells and buttonhole neigh­ "is defensive about the obviously na­ Christian Popular party. bors, reported New York Times cor­ tionalist appeal of his movement, its Bratteli is expected to propose to the respondent Michael Stern from Oslo reliance on the flag and its play on king that the head of the Center party, September 22. "Arguments for and emotions that amounted to a scarcely Per Borten, succeed him as premier. against the Market dominate broad­ disguised anti-German and anti-Ital­ However, Michael Stern noted in the casting, fill the news columns of the ian feeling in some segments. September 27 New York Times that The monopolists, bankers, and monarchs are s newspapers and seem to be the only '"You will find we had some groups the problem may be complicated by always be plenty of workers.' 'EEC' is Europea thing people want to talk about," he that were negative in a nationalistic the fact that Borten "was forced out Folkets Avis, pub I ished by socialists in Denmark. wrote. sense,' he acknowledges. 'I disagree as Premier in 1971 after he admitted W0/3

gest demonstrations in the city's his­ sions. This could lead to elections in tory. the near future, according to some A week earlier, on September 24, observers. anti-Market forces had organized what The consultative arrangement with Le Monde correspondent Olsen called the SF broke down toward the end a "gigantic popular meeting" and "the of the Market campaign. There was biggest and most colorful political no contact between the two parties in 'happening'" in the past two decades. the final days leading up to the vote, Denmark vote a "We already spent more than three and the SF's feathers were ruffled by centuries trying to get out from under the fact that Krag made his speech the Hanseatic League... ,"the promi­ threatening devaluation without even nent historian Palle Lauring told the consulting his ally. One of the first bitter victory for crowd. "Are we today going to volun­ tasks now facing the Social Democrats, tarily place ourselves under the yoke in addition to healing the deep wounds of this new Hansa represented by the within their own party, is to smooth 'Rome union'?" over the SF's feathers. Former British Labour minister These are tasks for which Krag was pro-Mo rket forces Douglas Jay said that if a similar not considered to be the best suited. referendum were held in Great Britain For wf.!ile the vote was a victory for By David Thorstad half of Denmark's farm exports and "the response would be negative, and Krag the Market politician, it was not by a large margin." almost 25% of its industrial exports, such a victory for Kr ag the Social "A 'yes' vote is not in the interest and which will become a member in The president of the Association of Democratic leader. And so he abruptly Young Greenlanders in Denmark told of the working class, but now we'll January. Toward the end, they even resigned the day after the referendum. have to make sure that the govern­ resorted to scare tactics in an attempt how the inhabitants of Thule had been Selected to replace him was DASF deported to the far north so the Ameri­ ment makes good on everything it to stampede the voters into the leader Anker Jorgensen, who was in has promised. This 'yes' vote better Market. cans could build a military base. a minority in his own union on the "There you've got a nice foretaste of bring some results," Copenhagen dock­ Premier Jens Otto Krag, for instance, Market issue. In spite of this, it is what growth could mean for us," he workers' representative Erik Hansen said a devaluation would inevitably hoped that his qualifications as a observed. told the daily Ekstra Bladet after the result from a "no" vote- some mar­ trade-union leader and a member of The New York Times editors called majority of the Danish voters decided keteers said it could be as much as his party's left wing will facilitate his the vote a "tribute to the leadership to join the Common Market in the 25%. tasks. October 2 referendum. Le Monde correspondent Camille And if the Marketeers do not make Olsen reported in the October 1-2 is­ good on their promises? he was asked. sue of the Paris daily that Market "Then we'll have to go on strike ... ," supporters "zealously went about de­ came the reply. scribing the misfortunes that would The statement was both a reflec­ befall Denmark if it refused to join tion of the deep divisions the refer­ the EEC: unemployment, lower buy­ endum caused in the Danish elector­ ing power, an increase in taxes, etc. ate and a warning of the potential Business executives went so far as to unrest that may be a by-product. threaten their employees with massive Voter turnout was the highest in layoffs- even complete plant shut­ nearly twenty years, with 89.8% par­ downs- if the vote was negative." ticipating. Of these, 1,955,932 (63.5%) Anti-Market forces found themselves voted in favor of joining the Mar­ virtually shut out of radio and tele­ ket, and 1, 124,106 (36.5%) voted vision, since the air waves were re­ against. Greenland, which has been a served exclusively to the parties repre­ Danish province since 1953, voted sented in the F olketing and those with overwhelmingly against- 9,386 to enough members to be officially recog­ 3,905. nized. "These disparities," Olsen noted, Supporters of the Market included "have not failed to make an impact on Rouge some powerful forces- among them the public as a whole. Little by little, Conference of revolutionary socialists in Brussels in November of 1970 called for the ruling Social Democratic party the battle around the referendum has, a 'red Europe,' meaning a United Socialist States of Europe, as opposed to a Europe and the three bourgeois parties that for many, taken on the look of a battle united around the interests of the capitalists through the Common MarkeL constituted the previous government­ of the poor against the rich, of the known as the VK R-bloc for their ini­ weak against the strong, of the silent tials (Venstre-Konservative-Radi­ and stifled majority against the powers of Premier .Jens Otto Krag" and his Among other things, Danes were kale- Liberals-Conservatives-Radical that be. The scars of this situation "greatest political triumph." This was promised full employment, a stable Left). They had the backing of 80% will inevitably be left when it is all the Eastern U.S. imperialist establish­ currency, and improved results from of the newspapers and received huge over." ment's thanks for a job well done. collective bargaining if they joined the amounts of money, much of it from It would be quite wrong to deduce Krag's victory, however, was a bit­ Market. "The workers will know how a series of big banks and businesses from the vote that the opposition ter one- the "kind of victory it's rather to make the politicians make good on that made no effort to hide their gen­ forces, led by the Folkebevaegelse mod hard to take," said Ekstra Blade! Octo­ the glittering things the~- promised us if erosity. They tended to play down the EEC (People's l\Iovcment Against the ber 3. For it was a victory won with we enter the Common :\larkel's para­ political implications of the 1\Iarket's EEC) with its more than ninety mem­ the solid backing of the VKR-bloc dise," Bent Fjdlerad, the head of the growth fixation and focused on eco­ ber organizations, did not pack a and the enormous propaganda cam­ Copenhagen local of the metalwork­ nomic aspects. punch. The fact that it did can be paign of the business community, not ers' union, told his membership. They claimed that Denmark had to seen in the demonstration of more the workers or even his own party. Another problem facing the Social JOm if it was to keep its most impor­ than 100,000 persons that it organized Indeed, it is estimated that around Democrats will be the political rela­ tant customer, Britain, which takes in Copenhagen the day before the vote half of the Social Democratic mem­ tionship with Greenland in view of together with the Social Democrats bership ignored his appeals and voted its "no" vote. The majority of its pro­ Against the EE C- the largest political "no." And in Copenhagen, the workers vincial government is opposed to the demonstration in nearly two decades. reportedly voted 58.8% against entry. Market and is demanding a fishing It began with a march of some The Social Democrats constitute a limit of fifty nautical miles, which 30,000 through the city to the biggest minority government- they enjoy a stands in conflict with the Market's square, Raadhuspladsen, where the mere one-vote majority in the Folket­ policy. rally had to be postponed for an hour ing only because of the backing of the The Danish vote will undoubtedly while tens of thousands kept pouring anti-Market Socialistisk Folkeparti create new problems for Norway. in. Speakers included author Carl (SF-Socialist People's party) with Many anti-Market people there had Scharnberg; head of general planning its seventeen votes. If the VKR-bloc been hoping for a revival of plans Kai Lemberg, who charged that the has kept the Social Democratic minor­ for a Nordic economic union as an Treaty of Rome was written by old ity government in power since the Sep­ alternative to the Common :\1arket, men who believed in the continued tember 1971 elections, asserted Soren but this now seems unlikely, at least economic growth of capitalist society Jakobsen in the October 3 Ekstra Bla­ in the foreseeable future. and were not interested in things like det, it is "because of the trio's feeling joint management, plant democracy, that a Social Democratic government On October 7, following the resigna­ and women's liberation; andJohnMol­ had a better chance than a bourgeois tion of Trygve Bratteli's Labor govern­ gaard, education secretary for the government of bringing Denmark into ment, Lars Korvald, head of the country's biggest union, the DASF the Common Market." Christian Popular party, announced (Dansk Arbejdsmands og Special­ The sizable "no" vote in the popu­ that he would attempt to form a new arbejder Forbund- Danish Unskilled lation, however, is not reflected in the government. and Semiskilled Workers' Union), who Folketing, and as a result the SF In a related development, just after reminded the crowd that his union had (which has been calling for democracy the Norwegian vote against joining said "no" to Danish membership with in the plants, changes in the distribu­ the Market, a Labor party member ·ing, 'Lord, God, bless this meal, and may there a big margin. tion of capital, ai1d public representa­ of the Storting, Arne Kielland, left the :=conomic Community. Cartoon is reprinted from Demonstrations took place in other tives in the banks) can be expected to party for the anti-Market Sosialistisk cities, too, among them Aarhus, where sharpen its stance vis-a-vis the Social Folkeparti, which has not had anyone 15,000 participated in one of the big- Democracy and press for some conces- in the Storting since 1969. D World Outlook W0/4

Yugoslavia Letter from student imprisoned forTrotskyism'

[We publish below the text of a letter litical organs. To this end they acted the lies being spread against us. We aging system- from the factory level written by Milan Nikolic which was publicly, wrote, produced, and dis­ have been locked up for four months up through the federal level- in which smuggled out of a Yugoslav prison. tributed material of an enemy char­ now [four at the time the letter was it would be possible for the largest Nikolic, a student in Belgrade, was acter in the form of an information written; by now six months]. Our number of workers and other citizens sentenced in August to two years in program, communiques, and tracts, all hands are tied and our mouths are to take charge of society's destiny and prison on charges of having engaged giving a malevolent and mendacious gagged. Those who accuse us are well to eliminate the professional politi­ in a "Trotskyist plot" to "reconstruct picture of the reality in the country aware that if they let us speak freely cians. We were tried because we are the Fourth International in Yugosla­ and calling for an unconstitutional all their accusations would burst like convinced that it is possible to create via." Also sentenced after a trial that overturn by force ...."(Extract from so many soap bubbles. That is why an extremely profitable and balanced was held in August, while most stu­ the indictment.) they seize our letters, will not let us economy with full employment of all dents and many workers were on va­ The public prosecutor accused us prepare our defense outside prison­ workers based on a scientific analysis cation, were P. Imsirovic (two years) of "associating with the enemy," of no doubt to prevent us from again of society's needs and of its available resources, allocated under a demo­ and Jelka Kljajic (one and a half having carried on "counterrevolution­ committing the crime that we never cratically decided plan. years). ary activities," and of having spread committed in the first place- and that We were hauled before the court be­ [None of the allegedly subversive "enemy propaganda." He claimed that is why they forbid the press to pub­ cause we thought critically, because materials produced by the defendants in getting together and distributing lish our denials and explanations. we freely expressed our opmwns, have been published in Yugoslavia. leaflets, the three of us wanted "to In reality, we were tried for the crime which are contrary to the official con­ The following letter is the first state­ overthrow the regime of the working of heretical thinking, because we pro­ ception of socialism. We will not be ment by the defendants received in people and their legal representatives." claimed: There can be no socialism the last to be tried for this offense. the West since the trial. We have trans­ To try to justify this assertion he and no truly human relationships My friends and I believe that hu­ lated it from the September 9 issue invented a mythical "enemy group" among people under a market econ­ mane and democratic socialism and of Rouge, weekly newspaper of the having relations with "foreign orga­ omy subject to the savage play of workers' self-management can be built Ligue Communiste, French section of nizations that are enemies of Yugo­ competition. Socialist democracy and only be releasing all the creative en­ the Fourth International.] slavia." The various pamphlets we put self-management cannot be built while ergies of the people. And this pre­ out were said to be "tracts containing the political and economic role of the supposes complete freedom of scien­ Milan Nikolic and P. Imsirovic have proposals harmful to the country," state continuously expands; workers' tific investigation, the expansion of been in prison since January 7, 1972, and our regular activity in the Union self-management cannot be said to scientific knowledge, and the right to and Jelka Kljajic since January 21, of Students, and especially in the have been achieved when the workers express freely differing opinions and 1972, all convicted of having "during school of philosophy's free "Red are not making the most important varying conceptions of the road to 1970 organized a group, with which Horse" forum, was denounced as "en­ social decisions and when even in the progressive development of society. they worked both in Yugoslavia and emy activity" and "propagation of only existing party the role and num­ abroad until their arrest in January ideas hostile to the country." ber of workers is less and less sig­ Any other course is objectively in 1972, with the objective of converting Those who accuse us think that the nificant. basic opposition to socialism, because it into an enemy party aimed at over­ more absurd a lie is the more credible it would smother development. That throwing, by violent and anticonsti­ it will be, the more useful it can be We were tried because we are con­ is exactly what we consider the mea­ tutional means, the regime of the when combined with a huge clamor vinced that it is possible, even indis­ sures taken against my friends and working people and their legally elect­ from the press. During all this time, pensable, to undertake henceforth to me to be- police intrigues against ed representatives and executive po- we could do nothing to counteract create a totally integrated self-man- freedom of thought and expression. D

leader of the Amalgamated Union of fines, had the support of many unions of militancy and great determination Engineering Workers, succeeded in including the AEUW with 1.4 million to bring down the present Tory gov­ persuading delegates to adopt the line workers, and the 1. 6 million-strong ernment and repeal its Industrial Re­ Great Britain that affiliate unions should deregister Transport and General Workers' lations Act. This reflected the defeats in protest against the legislation. Writ­ union. How ever, the more militant suffered by the government at the ing in the September 3 Observer, Da­ line was defeated at the congress by hands of the miners, railwaymen, and vid Wilson summarized what hap­ 5,677,000 to 3,479,000. dockers in the previous six months pened afterward: The congress also adopted the am­ or so. 0 Unionists "Until last July the response was biguous economic-policy recommenda­ mixed. Moderate unions like the Na­ tion of the General Council which si­ tional and Local Government Officers' multaneously was critical of the gov­ debate how Association and the General and Mu­ ernment but conciliatory towards ef­ nicipal Workers did deregister, but for­ forts to negotiate a wages policy. ty wavered, including some big ones. While "rejecting wage restraints in any Then the dockers went to Pentonville form," the congress left the door open How Nixon is to fight [a London prison] and Scanlon was for continued tripartite talks on curb­ vindicated; three big unions fell into ing inflation with senior ministers and 'Vietnami~ing' line quickly- the iron and steel trades, the Confederation of British Indus­ antilabor law shopworkers, and electricians- and tries. mass murder only 700,000 people, instead of 1,- In view of the government's eco­ nson irs!. - .. - London 600,000, were left outside the TUC nomic record over the past year­ . . since the beginning, Intercontinental The way British trade unionists are fold." the loss in real wages for at least Press has been exposing the real aims to fight the Industrial Relations Act Without a fight over registration, one-third of the country's 10 million of the White House, the Pentagon, was at the top of the agenda of this opposition to the act undoubtedly organized workers, the rise of unem­ the State Deportment, and the CIA year's Trades Union Congress- one would have collapsed. But the ques­ ployment to near the one million in Indochina. of the most turbulent in the TUC's tion remains as to how well the TUC's mark, and the likelihood that retail Our forecasts hove been borne out 1 04-year history. General Council is giving leadership prices, which are climbing this year with remarkable consistency. On the first day at Brighton the in this struggle. by 7 or 8 percent, will rise more U.S. troops out of Indochina NOW! delegates voted overwhelmingly to Mr. George Smith, in his presiden­ sharply next year- an intransigent To make your efforts more effective, suspend thirty-two unions that have tial address, defended the TUC's tri­ approach toward the Tory govern­ arm yourself with the facts. Read thus far defied the TUC's instructions partite talks with the government and ment would have been appropriate. Intercontinental Press every week. to withdraw from the government's employers and warned the congress A motion declaring opposition to register of trade unions. The thirty­ that the trade-union movement must British entry into the Common Market two have a combined membership of never imagine it was an alternative on principle was greeted by cheers Interconti ne nto I Press nearly 500,000- about 5 percent of form of government. from the delegates, but a second mo­ P.O. Box 116 Village Station the TUC's total membership. Before the opening of business on tion on Europe seemed to admit the New York, N.Y. 10014 The suspension of the thirty-two the first day, the General Council possibility of entry on better terms. needs to be seen in the context of voted by twenty to eleven to oppose A ban which, for twenty years, has Nome ______the struggle against the Industrial Re­ a composite resolution of the engineer­ prevented Communist party members Street------lations Act. This has been mounting ing union calling on unions to boy­ from being elected delegates to the City ______during the past eighteen months, cul­ cott the reactionary labor law alto­ annual conference of trades councils State ~------Zip------minating in July in a strike of 170,- gether. was lifted by the congress. 000 dockworkers that won release for The resolution, which called for "sol­ The moderate line of the General Enclosed is S7.50 for 6 months. five imprisoned members of the union. idarity," including industrial action if Council on the major policy issues Enclosed is SIS for one year. At last year's congress, an oppo­ unions or workers are victimized, and carried at the congress. But the mood Enclosed is 50c for a single copy. sition led by Hugh Scanlon, left-wing the setting up of a special fund for of the delegates as a whole was one futile, if crass, opportunist adaptation to the Democratic Party. CPers uneasy about Hall-Tyner ticket Yet the CP leadership gets upset when, not at all surprisingly, some of its members carry the logic of play­ ing footsie with the Democratic Party a bit further. The communist Party The extent of the problem was in­ dicated by a series of articles written for the Daily World by veteran party hack William Weinstone. hustles for Mcoovern The initial article, Sept. 8, entitled "Dispelling illusions about Democrats," began with this paragraph: "There is an opinion among'many. By HARRY RING While formally denying they support Nixon. There is already much evi­ progressive forces and some Commu­ LOS ANGELES-There are few oc­ McGovern, the big lag in his cam­ dence of this .... nists that, as a result of its conven­ cupations more draining than that of paign has worked as pressure on them "These negative aspects," Lightfoot tion and the nomination of McGovern the petty larceny crook. I was struck to come out ever more openly in his assured, "are not presented for the for President, the Democratic Party by this in New York watching the behalf. purpose of weakening the pro-McGov­ has changed fundamentally and be­ pitchmen who prey on low-income In addition, as McGovern moved ern movement. Rather, they are pre­ come a people's party. This is a harm­ shoppers along Fourteenth Street. Ped­ steadily to the righf the CP felt com­ sented to show that it is not enough ful illusion." dling worthless merchandise, they had pelled to "criticize" him- that is, to Weinstone goes on to prove the rath­ to simultaneously keep an eye peeled try to persuade him that this was er elementary fact that the Democratic for customers and cops. They had to not the way to win. At the same time, Party is really a capitalist party. This make sure their competitor didn't have the desire to help him win has led doesn't mean, he quickly assures, that a better location and that their part­ them to water down their own pro­ the CP shouldn't support McGovern, ner wasn't pocketing some of the loot. gram, which was milk-and-water re­ the candidate of a capitalist party. Watching them with a certain detached formism to begin with. The trick, he says, is not to get lost sympathy, I used to feel they'd find Meanwhile, party members who in the Democratic Party while doing it easier doing honest work. really take the line seriously are get­ so. A Communist Party is still needed, I'm reminded of all this by the pres­ ting deeper into the Democratic Party, he advises his readers, even if only idential election campaign of the Com­ and apparently some are forgetting to keep the Democrats "honest." munist Party. their allegiance to their own party. Apparently a significant number of The CP campaign for Gus Hall and Thus, the CP hacks have had to party members and supporters aren't his running mate, Jarvis Tyner, is berate party members for opportun­ too impressed by this argument. This a thinly disguised stalking-horse cam­ ism above and beyond the call of is evident from the whole series of paign in behalf of George McGovern. duty. At the same time, they have editorials justifying the Hall-Tyner Party hacks enter occasional denials. had to spend a good deal of time campaign. (Hall called the editors of the Guard­ apologizing for the Hall-Tyner cam­ Thus an Aug. 19 editorial in the ian "liars" because they indicated they paign, assuring all concerned that the World Magazine, a supplement to both were beginning to suspect this was campaign is not intended to, and will the Daily World and People's World, the case.) But the fact that the CP not, injure the campaign of George declared: really is supporting McGovern is quite McGovern. " ... the Communist election cam­ easily established. Even members of The reality of CP support for Mc­ paign is crucial. the Communist Party realize it. Govern becomes quickly evident with "It is unfortunate that some view There is little profit in candidly in­ even a skimming of its national voice, this campaign as inhibiting the fight forming the electorate you're running the Daily World, and its West Coast to simply proclaim, 'Defeat Nixon and against Nixon. We don't agree.... one ticket but support another. That's counterpart, the People's World. The elect McGovern.'" "The Communist Party brings ideo­ why the stalking-horse strategy is by following headlines are from one page Yet while complaining of McGov­ logical and political perspective to the definition a crooked one. Consequent­ of the Sept. 21 DW, an issue selected ern's backsliding, the CP has been various movements working for the ly, the Communist Party leadership at random: doing a bit of the same. defeat of Nixon-both inside and out­ is now beset by many of the difficulties "30 Philly labor locals set up MeG For example, it is instructive to note side the Democratic Party. It can best that are the occupational hazards of committee," "38 unions are listed as the political role of the CP, and those do this from the platforms, TV and petty larcenists. backing McGovern," "Unions in Wash- forces it influences, in the antiwar dem­ radio appearances and newspaper onstration of 15,000 that greeted Nix­ coverage accorded candidates. Far on when he appeared here in Los from inhibiting the fight against Nix­ Angeles Sept. 27. on, the Communist Party, by its pres­ ence on the ballot, will enhance it." Those familiar with the politics of The fact that many party members the antiwar movement know that in, DAILY W<$RLD don't seem to agree was most striking­ Vol IV, No 257 ...... , N ..w Yo

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 20, 1972 13 840,000 '71 Socialist Campaign

31,890 Larry Seigle The war, the candidates, and the polls If the American people want an end York Times on Sept. 16, "People who high that the "real peace candidate" to the war, ·and if George McGovern feel strongly about the war and detest has to be the Democrat. After all, is the "peace candidate," why is Nixon the vacuous oiliness of the present Nixon succeeded in 1968 to a large · so far ahead in all the polls? Administration are heard to say that degree because, as the "peace candi­ 15,945 This is the question that must be they are not going to bother to vote." date," he was able to link Humphrey keeping Gary Hart and Frank Man­ McGovern has obviously been grap­ to Johnson's war policy. And Nixon kiewicz awake long past the late-night pling with the problem of how to im­ was merely repeating the lesson he newscasts. But it is also a question of prove his image and convince Ameri­ learned from Eisenhower in 1952 interest to socialists and other radi­ cans that he is a true and sincere when the GOP ran a "peace" campaign cals, who must relate their actions "peace candidate." that capitalized on the mass sentiment and propaganda to the level of con­ Our interest here, unlike that of some against the Korean war. sciousness of the masses of American McGovern supporters such as those Nixon, to be sure, has the embar­ people. Does McGovern's poor show­ in th.e Communist Party, is not to rassing disadvantage of being the in­ ing thus far reflect a change in the offer advice to the senator on how to cumbent who is waging the most vi­ level of antiwar sentiment, or perhaps run a better campaign. Some McGov" cious war in human history, against a decrease in the relative importance ern backers, including Gus Hall, CP the clearly expressed wishes of the the American people attach to the war candidate for president, have been majority of the American people. Mc­ issue? · pointing to McGovern's weakness on Govern may yet be able to capitalize Recent polls indicate that this is not the war issue to show him how he on that fact. so. They show that antiwar sentiment could win the election, to "pressure" Socialists realize that the massive is at least as great as ever, and that the war remains the most important issue in the minds of most people. But the polls reveal another factor: faced with the choice of picking the "real peace candidate" from the two alternatives offered, many antiwar voters opt for Nixon as the most like­ ly to end the war. For example, a Jenness-Pulley recent Harris poll showed a 76 percent to 21 percent majority for total with­ campaign drawal from Vietnam. But this poll also showed that, by 51 to 33, voters agreed more with Nixon in his "ap­ Matching Fund proach to bringing home U.S. troops, naval and air forces." A New York Times/Yankelovich Fund drive poll aSked voters, "Generally, who would you say is the real peace can­ didate- Nixon or McGovern?" About half picked Nixon, a third named Mc­ Vital tO Govern, and the rest weren't sure. These bits of evidence indicate that McGovern's problem isn't lack of an­ tiwar sentiment. His problem is that legal battles Such things as McGov~rn's apology for LBJ's war policy ('He inherited the war. He he hasn't succeeded in convincing peo­ OCT. 9- The Socialist Workers ple that he's more likely to end the didn't start it.') have helped tarnish McGovern's vote-catching 'peace candidate' image. campaign has challenged a num­ war than Nixon is. ber of restrictions. aimed at prevent­ What is the root of McGovern's iden­ him to stand up straight and stop antiwar sentiment can find only a dis­ ing smaller parties from reaching tity crisis as "peace candidate"? Take sniveling. torted expression in the elections this the American people. These chal­ a look at some of his recent state­ Our objective in pointing up his year because of the electoral monop­ lenges include the right to campaign ments. He announced at the Demo­ weaknesses is to expose him for the oly held by the two imperialist par­ at military installations, lawsuits de­ cratic Party convention that he would fraud that he is. We encourage people ties. If there were in this country a manding enforcement of equal-time keep military might in "Thailand and to break with him and his party, and mass communist or socialist party, laws, and court actions aimed at on the seas" to force the release of the to do so by casting a vote for the or a labor party based on the unions, removing reactionary restrictions POW s. He pitched his Miami Beach Socialist Workers Party on Nov. 7. opposition to the war might reflect on the ballot. acceptance speech around the theme The simple fact of the matter is that itself in a shift away from the two Building public support for these of keeping "U.S. defenses alert and those voters who mistakenly view Mc­ parties that share equal responsibility crucial legal actions takes money, fully sufficient to meet any danger." Govern as the real "peace candidate" for the war in Vietnam. Lacking such and your contributions to the He has told his campaign offices to are making just as serious a blunder a vehicle, however, the peace vote will Matching Fund can make the dif­ boycott antiwar demonstrations and as those who think Nixon is the "peace go to the capitalist candidate who does ference. refuses to support them himself. And candidate." the best in the "image" game. This week 35 individual cam­ he has even gone so far as to try to Either Nixon or McGovern could Because of the undemocratic nature paign supporters sent in donations rehabilitate Ll3J: "He inherited the make a peace settlement in Vietnam of the elections in the U. S.-such as to the Matching Fund .totaling war. He didn't start it," says McGov­ if they were compelled to do so by the reactionary ballot laws, wide­ $564.00. ern, echoing Hubert Humphrey's fa­ powerful enough forces- the Viet­ spread denial of access to the media, In addition, 40 percent of collec­ mous losing formula from 1968. namese freedom fighters, massive and the extent to which private bank­ tions taken in Minneapolis and the (One McGovern volunteer was re­ American antiwar actions, or a clos­ rolls control all aspects of the cam­ San Francisco Bay Area was credit­ cently quoted as murmuring, "I'm dis­ ing of the ranks by China and the paign-the vote for the radical par­ ed to the Matching Fund. The appointed in him. If we wanted Hu­ Soviet Union in defense of Vietnam. ties will not accurately reflect the wide­ $615.60 that came as a result of bert Humphrey, we would have nomi­ It is equally true that either Nixon spread disgust with the capitalist par­ these collections brings this week's nated the original.") or McGovern could continue the war. ties. total gain for the Matching Fund In addition, because of McGovern's To those who believe that a Mc­ Many American voters will not be to $1,179.60. fancy footwork in dancing around the Govern victory in November would aware that there are real peace can­ other issues, he suffers a credibility be a "mandate" for peace that he could didates not tied to the Democrats and gap even greater than Tricky Dick's. not afford to ignore, one need only Republicans. And if they are aware ( ) I can contribute $ __ to the Among voters under 30, Nixon leads point to the "mandate for peace" that of that fact, in many states they will ------­$40,000 Matching Fund. McGovern by a 2 to 1 margin on the was handed to Lyndon Johnson with not find their names listed on the bal­ believability scale. his landslide victory over Goldwater· lot. These are the candidates of the Name ______It is significant that even among in 1964. That so-called peace man­ Socialist Workers Party - Linda J en­ McGovern's own backers, nearly a date came in the form of the Johnson ness and Andrew Pulley. Address.______third have "no opinion" on the ques­ "consensus," and it was that "con­ Their peace plank includes the call tion, "Which candidate do you think sensus" that gave LBJ a free hand for immediate and total withdrawal City______is more sincere, believable?" Even to escalate the war. It would be naive of all U.S. forces from Southeast Asia though McGovern's main attraction to believe that George McGovern isn't and the dismantling of all U. S. bases State______Zip. ____ to his followers is his alleged anti­ ready to do everything in his power ~;tround the world. They call for an Clip and mail to: Socialist Workers war record, many antiwar activists to preserve the interests of America's end to all war spending. are no doubt wondering if he can be ruling class in Southeast Asia, includ­ They are the candidates who deserve Campaign Committee, 706 Broad­ trusted even on that issue, since he ing the use of military force if he can the votes of all who genuinely want way, Eighth Floor, New York, has· betrayed them on other questions. get away with it. peace in Vietnam and peace on a Y. 10003. As Anthony Lewis wrote in the New It has never been ordained from on world scale.

14 Black D.C. news conference to focus socialist on rights of young candidates By JUDY UHL The news conference will also pro­ The student government at Cleve­ OCT. 10- The battle for the right of test the National Broadcasting Com­ land State University has already in Calif. young people to run for office has pany's refusal to grant Jenness equal voted to send a telegram of support gained new momentum with the an­ time because she is, in their view, not to the news conference. nouncement of a national news con­ a "legally qualified" candidate. The Appeals in the. Jenness case have race for ference to be held in Washington, D. C., Federal Communications Commission now been filed in both Illinois and on Oct. 18. The Committee for Dem­ is expected to rule this week on whether Ohio courts. These suits seek to over­ ocratic Election Laws (CoDEL) will Jenness is entitled to equal time. turn earlier federal court decisions that Congress host the news conference. CoDEL has issued a special edition no law was violated and no rights of its newsletter, CoDEL Briefs, on were abridged when Jenness was de­ BERKELEY, Calif. -Ken Miliner, the Statements supporting Linda Jen­ the issue of the right of young people nied ballot status. Socialist Workers Party candidate for ness's right to run for office and be to run for office and to vote for their Benjamin Sheerer is representing U.S. Congress from California's 7th on the ballot will be released at the peers. In addition to listing the facts Linda Jenness in Ohio, and Herb C. D., is running a vigorous campaign news conference. Jenness is the 31- in the Jenness case, this special issue Adams is the attorney for the Socialist for the seat now held by Black Demo­ year-old presi~ential candidate of the contains some of the hundreds of mes­ crat Ron Dellums. Socialist Workers Party. Ohio and Il­ sages of support for Jenness's rights. On Oct. 5, Louisiana became the Miliner was recently interviewed for twenty-third state to place the So­ one-half hour by representatives of thli! linois officials have refused to place These include letters from U.S. repre­ her on their ballots because she is sentatives Louis Stokes ( D-Ohio ), Black and_ Raza communities on KGO­ cialist Workers Party on its bal­ not yet 35, the age for holding the Charles Rangel (D-N. Y.), Bella Ab­ TV. He contrasted what he would do, lot. Certification in Louisiana fol­ office of president according to the zug (D-N. Y.), William Clay (D-Mo.), as a socialist congressman, to the ver­ lowed a ruling by Attorney Gen­ U. S. Constitution. and John Conyers (D-Mich.). bal support Dellums gives to the de­ eral William Guste that the slate mands of Blacks and Chicanos. of presidential electors could not If he is elected, Miliner said, his be kept. off the ballot, even staff would include full-time orga­ nizers helping to support struggles in though they did not sign Louisi­ the Black and Raza communities. He ana's restrictive loyalty oath. would make his office available to Workers Party in Illinois. Ron Reosti, help build antiwar actions and would CoDEL legal director, is assisting use his authority to investigate every counsel in both suits. incident of police brutality. Before the federal ruling in Ohio Miliner also appeared on KQED­ ballots were printed with the names TV for one-half hour as part of a of both Jenness and SWP vice-presi­ round table discussion that centered dential candidate Andrew Pulley. Jim on the history of betrayals of Blacks, Marsh, assistant to Ohio Secretary of Chicanos, women, and labor by the State Ted Brown, told representatives Democratic and Republican parties. of the Socialist Workers· Party this At a Sept. 29 SWP campaign rally week that his office has not yet de­ at the University of California at cided what to do about this. Berkeley, Miliner called for a "no" vote Statements of support for Linda Jen­ on Proposition 17, the state ballot ness, to be released at the news confer­ initiative calling for reinstatement of At an Oct. 4 news conference in Durham, N.H., Young Socialists for Jenness and Pulley ence Oct. 18, should be sent to: the death penalty. representative Mark Valentine· announced that the SWP ticket had been certified for the New Hampshire ballot. John Powers (1), Massachusetts SWP candidate for U.S. CoDEL, Box 649 Cooper Station, New Miliner has also spoken at several Black high schools in the past month. Congress, also spoke at the news conference. York, N.Y. 10003. By contrast, Ron Dellums has spoken in public as little as possible during the campaign. Recently, when he did take a public stand on an issue, he lost support in the Black Student Union at UC Berkeley. Ali Sharrieff, a past leader of the Review of truth kits BSU, endorsed Miliner's campaign after Dellums stated that his support to Israel was second to none. Dellums' s The Nixon, Gus Hall campaigns pro-Zionist statement was in response to an attack from Peter Hannaford, Two new magazine-format pamphlets the rat, but you might hit someone nominally "independenf' campaign to his Republican opponent. Hannaford have just been added to the arsenal of else who's trying to shoot rats too." hustle votes for FDR. TheCPemployed had attacked Dellums for not voting the 1972 Socialist Workers election The pamphlet takes up the deceit the same ta.ctic in 1968 and is doing in favor of defense appropriations to campaign. Produced by Young Social­ the U.S. president used in his unsuc­ it again this year. During the long Israel. ists for Jenness and Pulley, the two new cessful bid for that office in 1960 and interval between 1936 and 1968, Feld­ Miliner has frequently called on publications are Making Richard his lying promise to end the war when man points out, most of the time the Dellums to debate him, but so far Nixon perfectly clear ... by Syd he ran successfully four years ago. CP was openly embracing the Demo­ Dellums has refused. Stapleton and The Truth about the Nixon's record in the last four years crats with no pretense of "indepen­ An article in the Sept. 30 People's 1972 Communist Party Election Cam­ on the war, labor, civil liberties, dence." World, the West Coast voice of the paign by Fred Feldman. (Available women's rights, and Black liberation Feldman explains why Marxists re­ Communist Party, covered the 7th C. D. for 25 cents each from SWP National is taken up. Then, in a section headed ject placing any reliance whatsoever o,n race without mentioning the campaign Campaign Committee, 706 Broadway, "Nixon and the Democrats," Stapleton the Democratic or Republican parties: of Miliner. The article focused on the Eighth Floor, New York, N. Y.10003.) spells out the reasons why McGovern "The Democratic and Republican par­ candidacy of Dellums and also men­ The first of these is a scathing and the Democrats are not an effective ties both belong wholly to the capital­ tioned the campaigns of Hannaford thumbnail political portrait of the·man alternative to Nixon. ist ruling class. . . . Their aim is to and Frank Cortese, the American In­ who presently occupies the White "Nixon and McGovern," Stapleton undermine the independence of anti­ dependent Party candidate. House and hopes to stay there four writes, "each have prototypes in the establishment movements, demobilize In an open letter of protest to the more years. Nixon's early career as conservatives and liberals, the Hoovers their participants, and convince them People's World, the Socialist Workers a sensationalist anticommunist cru­ and Kennedys of the past. There has to rely on a capitalist politician." Campaign Committee stated: "We call sader is briefly sketched. His role on been just as much war, poverty, infla­ on you to . . . tell your readers that the House Un-American Activities tion, recession and oppression under Feldman also takes up the kowtow­ along with Dellums, Hannaford and Committee in the Alger Hiss smear, Democratic presidents as under the ing of the CP before the bureaucratic Cortese there is a Black socialist, Ken his red-baiting and anti-Semitic cam­ Republicans." governing clique in the Kremlin. He Miliner, running in the 7th Congres­ paign for the Senate in 1950, his col­ contrasts, for example, Hall's blasts sional District. Your uncritical support laboration with Joseph McCarthy after The Truth about the 1972 Commu­ at the rulers in Peking for their col­ for Congressman Ron Dellums, des­ his election to the Senate, are all nist Party Election Campaign is a mas­ laboration with Nixon to his apolo­ pite his outspoken support for the touched on. terful argument, built almost entirely getics for the red-carpet welcome Mos­ Zionist government of Israel, should Stapleton also quotes the delicate on quotations from the Communist cow gave the U. S. president just after not lead you to ignore the only social­ way in which Nixon first chided the Party itself, showing that the CP's out­ he imposed a blockade on North Viet­ ist candidate in the 7th Congressional Wisconsin witch-hunter as the tide was look depends on sucking up to one or nam. District. If you oppose the Milinercam­ turning in 1954. Then vice-president, another ·so-called progressive capital­ The pamphlet also documents the paign, tell your readers why, and let Nixon said: "Some of our red-hunters ist candidate. T~1e front page carries CP's opposition to Black nationalism. them judge for themselves whether your feel that communists deserve to be in large type Gus Hall's claim that And in a section on the labor move­ objections are valid." shot like rats. Well, I'll agree; they're the Communist Party "actually won ment, it points out that for all of Hall's a bunch of rats, but just remember more votes for McGovern than Shriver bluster about the CP' s working-class this. When you go out to shoot rats, did." campaign, the CP tries to use its you have to shoot straight, because Feldman traces the origins of the neglible influence in the trade unions when you shoot wildly, it not only Communist Party's 1972 tactic to the simply to line unionists up behind means that the rats may get away CP campaign in 1936 when Commu­ the Democratic Party. more easily, you make it easier on nist candidate Earl Browder used his -LEE SMITH

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 20, 1972 15 .-' I!Jjunction won against Mich. law Suit c·ontests D.C. Support grows for tribunals abortion statutes By TOBA SINGER WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 4-At a heated news conference held here today, Josephine Hulett, rep­ on women's right to abortion resenting the National Committee of Household By CINDY JAQUITH Chase said. Complications from abortions dropped Employees, displayed a clipping about the death OCT. 10-In the face of growing support for the from 8.5 per 1,000 abortions in the first year to of Sandra Martin, a local 17 -year-old Black wom­ right to aborti~n in his state, Judge Charles Kauf­ 7.2 in the second. an. Martin died from a back-alley abortion. man ruled Oct. 5 that Michigan's anti-abortion Chase's report should intensify interest in the "I'm here today to see that this never happens law "trespasses unjustifiably on the personal pri­ Oct. 20-21 debate and hearings on abortion in again," Hulett said. "I'm here to counter the myth vacy and liberty of [Michigan's] female citizens." New York, sponsored by the Women's National that Black women are not concerned about the The Wayne County Circuit Court judge issued Abortion Action Coalition (WONAAC). ABC-TV issue of abortion." an injunction barring enforcement of Michigan's newscaster Melba Tolliver has agreed to moderate The news conference, sponsored by the D. C. 126-year-old abortion law until a decision is the Oct. 20 debate between WONAAC national Women's National Abortion Action Coalition reached in a class-action suit challenging the law's coordinator Dr. Barbara Roberts and two op­ (WONAAC}, announced the filing of a class-action constitutionality. The suit, which has more than ponents of the right to abortion, Father Lynaugh suit against recent abortion regulations enacted 1,000 plaintiffs, was initiated by women in June and Dr. Carl Klinges. by the D. C. city council. One of the regulations 1971. The debate, which will be held at the New York says that women must wait 24 hours after their Kaufman's decision is an important partial vic­ University Law School auditorium, kicks off the initial examinations by clinics before obtaining tory in the Michigan abortion rights struggle. It day-long hearings and panels on abortion, contra­ abortions. This rule is aimed at making it very follows shortly after a Detroit News abortion poll ception, and forced sterilization that will follow difficult for nonresidents to come to D. C. to obtain showed that the majority of Detroit residents sup­ on Saturday, Oct. 21. Author Alix Kates Shulman abortions. port Proposition B, a referendum on Michigan's and attorney Florynce Kennedy will be two mem­ WONAAC and four abortion clinics in the D. C. abortion law. Proposition B would make abortions bers of the panel of judges during the hearings. area, Preterm, Prebirth, Laurel, and Summit, are legal through the twentieth week of pregnancy. The Other prominent individuals who will participate plaintiffs in the suit. initiative will be on the Nov. 7 ballot. in the tribunal are New York State Senator Sidney Attorney David Seifman, representing Preterm The state may appeal Kaufman's decision. In Von Luther; Rachel Fruchter, longtime abortion Clinic at the news conference, called the regula­ the meantime, the injunction has made it possible activist; Dr. Christopher Tietze of Population Coun- · tion a "violation of a woman's right to privacy, for women to obtain abortions legally in Michigan. ell; Dr. Elizabeth Connell; New York State Assem­ especially since it is applied only to women and Two days after the Michigan court victory, New blyman Franz Leichter; and Dr. Sherwin Kaufman, is a flagrant violation of due process." York Health Services Administrator Gordon Chase Planned Parenthood medical director. Ellen Peck, author of The Baby 'Trap and an issued a report showing that the legalization of Tribunals on the abortion issue, initiated by local endorser of WONAAC, told reporters, "There is abortion in New York has saved many women's affiliates of WONAAC, are planned in other cities nothing so destructive in a woman's life as an lives. Chase's report covered the period from July as well during the next three weeks. The Women's ill-timed pregnancy." 1, 1970, to June 30, 1972 -the first two years Abortion Coalition in the Bay Area is sponsoring Dr. Barbara Roberts, national coordinator of under the state's liberalized abortion law. During an abortion speak-out Oct. 27-28 at the University WONAAC, stated: "These regulations prevent wom­ of California in Berkeley. en from controlling their own reproductive lives. Initial endorsers of the speak-out include the Na­ They explicitly state that they are intended to lower tional Organization for Women (NOW) chapters the number of abortions performed in Washington, in Berkeley, San Francisco, Sacramento, and D.C. Solano; Barbara MacNab, Northern California "The regulations also prevent physicians from Women's Political Caucus; Louise Stoll, Berkeley practicing medicine as they see fit. If these regula­ Board of Education; Helen Little, president, San tions were applied to any other surgical procedure, Francisco Welfare Rights Organization; Ying Kelley the American Medical Association would be out of the Asian-American Community Alliance; Mu­ picketing. In this case, it's up to women to act." sician Malvina Reynolds; Socialist Workers Party For further information, write to: D. C. WO­ and Young Socialist Alliance. NAAC, 1346 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C. Mayor Richard McLean of Boulder, Colo., has 20036. Telephone (202) 785-4769. declared Oct. 18 "Day of Denunciation of Crimes Against Women." McLean's proclamation says in part, "whereas, only in collective strength and polit­

Militant/Ellen Lemisch ical action will we overcome the oppression of women ... and whereas the Boulder Chapter of this time 402,059 abortions were performed in the Mountain States Women's Abortion Coalition Filipinos in U.S. New York City. is sponsoring a Crimes Against Women Tribunal The most dramatic figure announced by Chase ... I do declare, Wednesday, October 18, 1972, protest Marcos' was a 28 percent drop in the maternal death rate to be designated Day of Denunciation of Crimes since the new law went into effect-from 52.2 per Against. Women." 100,000 live births to 37.7. For'more information on the abortion hearings martial law The death rate from abortions in New York City scheduled around the country, contact WONAAC By HANNA TAKASHIGE SAN FRANCISCO- Two hundred fifty people, has declined from 4.6 per 100,000 abortions in the at 150 Fifth Ave., Suite 315, New York, N.Y. mainly young Filipinos, picketed outside the Philip­ first year to 3.5 per 100,000 in the second year, 10011. Telephone: (212) 675-9150. pine consulate in San Francisco Oct. 6 to protest the imposition of martial law in the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos. The action was one of several demonstrations around the country sponsored by the National Committee for the Res­ toration of Civil Liberties in the Philippines. S.F. waitresses union sues The committee calls for an end to martial law, restoration of civil liberties, freedom for political prisoners, and demands that the U. S. government to gain maternity benefits abandon its support for the Marcos regime. On­ going activities are planned to educate the Filipino By CAROLE SEIDMAN still suffering from a host of disturbances such community and build mass demonstrations. SAN FRANCISCO-Two suits have been filed as surgical shock, resumption of the hormonal Among the slogans chanted by the demonstra­ in federal court to protect the rights of pregnant balance due to the loss of one ovary, severe ane­ tors were: "lbagsak fi [Marcos, Down with Marcos)," working women. The suits aim to halt enforcement mia, and a postoperative yeast infection." of Section 2626 of the California Unemployment "It is time that our traditionally male-oriented "Laban ang batas militar [Oppose martial law]," and "Nixon, Thieu, now Marcos too." Insurance Code- the section prohibiting women society begins to recognize its part and respon­ Kathryn Pon, Socialist Workers Party candidate from collecting disability benefits during preg­ sibility for the disabilities connected with pregnancy for California's 8th and 11th state senatorial nancy and 28 days thereafter. and to extend benefits to working women whose districts, stated her support in a news release: "Mass At a news conference here Sept. 21 Carolyn Aiello families suffer loss of income," said Bobbette Som­ action by Filipinos in the United States to protest and Jacqueline Jaramillo, plaintiffs in the suits, and mers, a law clerk working with the waitresses the military repression in the Philippines can be an Bobbette Sommers, a legal representative of Local union. important force in stopping the terrorist actions of 48 of the San Francisco Waitresses Union, ex­ Sommers exposed the discriminatory nature of Marcos. plained why they are taking this action. Section 2626, revealing that the code does provide "Marcos has become the richest man in Asia by Jaramillo described her experience trying to get disability benefits for medical problems that only upholding U. S. interests. And it is with U. S. mili­ disability benefits. She .is nine months pregnant affect men, such as circumcision or prostate op­ tary support that he is repressing the Filipino and expected the birth of her baby three weeks erations. people, who have become more and more militant ago. She has been forced to keep working despite The California AFL-CIO, the California Culinary as the crises of poverty, inflation, and the disaster her doctor's request that she stop because she is Alliance, and Locals 3 and 29 of the Office and caused by recent floods are aggravated under the sole support of her family. She is also ineli­ Professional Employees Union are also supporting Marcos's rule." gible for welfare and will have to return to work the fight against Section 2626. The address of the National Committee for the as soon as her baby is born. Restoration of Civil Liberties in the Philippines Carolyn Aiello was denied disability benefits for A bill has been introduced into the California for the San Francisco Bay Area is: 852 Kearney the major surgery she underwent for a tubal preg­ legislature to extend disability benefits to pregnant St., San Francisco, Calif. 94108. Telephone: (415) nancy. She has been working for 13 years, five women workers. The Senate Finance Committee, of those in California, and regularly paying into however, has already amended the bill to exclude 986-7098. the disability fund. benefits for women with "normal" pregnancies. "In view of my immediate financial need," she The news conference was organized by Women's said, she went back to work, "even though I was Job Rights.

16 B'klyn College YSA grows fast By LAURA MILLER antiwar, women's liberation, socialist, showing and speak-out on abortion Indian OCT. 8- In the fall of 1971, Brook­ and other radical groups to be funded. Oct. 18, as well as working toward lyn College, the largest branch of the This kind of activity is drawing many the formation of a women's studies City University of New York, num­ new people to the YSA. department at the school. activists bered one member of the Young So­ "It didn't take me long to decide • cialist Alliance among its students. that I wanted to be a YSAer," said The Brooklyn College YSA is de­ This fall, the Brooklyn College YSA Diane Shur, a 20-year-old antiwar ac­ voting much energy toward getting 1n car is 18 strong, and four more activists tivist .and new YSA member. "When campus activists to attend ihe Young will b.e joining the YSA this week. I saw the YSA in action during last Socialist National Convention in spring's antiwaf upsurge, I could see Cleveland, Nov. 23-26. So far, YSA­ caravans ers have distributed more than 1,000 Laura Miller is the YSA's national that the YSA was the only radical group on campus with a really ef­ copies of a wallposter publicizing the organizational secretary. fective program." convention. They plan to contribute to D.C. YSA activists have been busy put­ ads and articles to the school paper, By LEE SMITH "That's the kind of rapid progress ting that program into action since send out a mailing about the conven­ OCT. 6- Car caravans of Native that demonstrates the potential of rad­ classes began in September. Mark tion to Brooklyn College students, and Americans started out on the "Trail ical organizing on this campus," said Friedman, the Brooklyn organizer of issue a bilingual convention leaflet for of Broken Treaties" today from a Anita Bennett, a leader of the group. the YSA, explained: distribution to youth in the Puerto number of cities in the U. S. and Can­ "The growth of the YSA here is even "The first thing we did this fall was Rican community. Anita Bennett ada. Organized as the Pan-American more inspiring when you consider that set up literature tables every day dur­ pointed out: Natives' Quest for Justice, the project less than a year ago the student gov­ ing registration. Hundreds of students "The student government has al­ is backed by a broad coalition of ernment and the political life of Brook- stopped by the tables, picked up our ready allocated funds to pay for Indian organizations. It will culminate literature, and got to know who we Brooklyn College students to attend in a Washington, D. C., demonstra­ are. We've involved a lot of these the convention, which is just one in­ tion, aimed at the Democratic and people in various activities and have dication of the interest the Young So­ Republican parties, on Nov. 1. sold more than 150 subscriptions to cialist convention is generating on this Teams are leaving from Los An­ The Militant so far. We sell a lot of campus." geles, San Francisco, Seattle, and copies of the Young Socialist too." Portland, Ore., American Indian Brooklyn College YSAers helped or­ Movement Media Director Bill War ganize a local chapter of the Young Soldier told The Militant in a tele­ Socialists for Jenness and Pulley, the 1971 and beyond ... phone interview from AIM's Denver national youth support group for the office today. Socialist Workers Party campaign. "They will be taking Southern, Mid­ Paul Massas, a leader of the Third help build dle, and Northern routes, hitting al­ World Federation who was recently most all the reservations," War Sol­ elected to head the student govern­ dier said. "They will be stopping on ment, is a leading YSJPer, and he the socialist the way and holding news conferences. keeps the student government offices And taking along the peace pipe. What well stocked with literature about Lin­ we'll actually be doing is smoking da Jenness and Andrew Pulley. alternative the pipe again the same way it was The YSJP recently sponsored a smoked when all these broken treaties noontime rally for Andrew Pulley that Come.to the 12th were signed," War Soldier explained. drew more than 200 people, most of Each caravan will also carry along them African-American and Puerto Ri­ Young Socialist a drum, the AIM representative said, can students. The group is also build­ and march through each town where ing support for John Hawkins, the Nat'l Convention they stop, singing songs, such as the young Black SWP candidate for Con­ AIM song and religious songs. gress from the 12th C. D. Shur esti­ Nov.23-26 All of the caravans will converge mates that more than 100 Brooklyn on Oct. 22 in Minneapolis and St.

Militant/Mark Satinoff College students have signed . cards Cleveland Paul for the AIM national conven­ endorsing the socialist campaign. Clip and mail to: Young· Socialist Alliance, Box tion. This includes caravans begin­ YSAers are active in the campus 471------­ Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10003. ning in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and oth­ lyn College were dominated by the chapter of the Student Mobilization D 1 want more information on the Young So­ er Canadian cities. Jewish Defense League and similar Committee and participated in orga­ cialist National Convention. War Soldier said tens of thousands

right-wing groups. We're helping to nizing a meeting of more than 4,000 D I want to join the YSA. of people were expected to attend the change all that." people for Jane Fonda that publicized AIM convention from Oct. 22 to Oct. One indication of the impact the YSA the effects of U. S. bombing on the D Enclosed is my contribution toward the YSA 29. But the Trail of Broken Treaties if, having is the major struggle that people of Indochina. YSAers also National fund drive. is far broader than just AIM, he said. has arisen on campus over the al­ joined the SMC in mobilizing students Name ______Some of the other groups involved location of student government funds to take part in a demonstration in the project are the National In­ to political groups. YSAers are be­ against the war when Nixon spoke Address ______dian Brotherhood, Native American coming well known for their partic­ recently in New York. City/State/Zip Rights Fund, National American In­ ipation in budget hearings, in writing YSA members participate in Brook­ dian Council, National Indian Youth articles for the school paper, and in lyn College Women's Liberation, Phone ______School ______Council, National Council on Indian other forums demanding the right of which is planning a campus film- Work, American Indian Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, National Indian Leadership Training, Native American Women's Action Council, United Native Americans, and the Co- . alition of Indian-Controlled School Army rests case in Smith trial Boards. By MICHAEL SCHREIBER asked other Gis where he could get Smith's pocket. Staff Sergeant Harold Erom the AIM convention, all the SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11- The another fragmentation grenade to "gef' Hazard had testified on Sept. 14 that caravans and many thousands of oth­ prosecution rested Oct. 5 after 15 days Captain Randall Rigby. Howard said Smith publicly protested that the pin ers will go to Washington to confront of inconclusive testimony in the court­ that he attributed his own statements was planted on him when he was Nixon ·and McGovern on Nov. 1, War martial of Billy Dean Smith. The to Smith because the Army told him arrested at 2:30 a.m. on the night Soldier said. Army has constructed its case on cir­ that Smith had confessed to the of the fragging. "We're just going to lay it on the cumstantial evidence in an attempt to fragging and was trying to implicate Chief defense counsel Luke Mc­ line, lay the Native situation before prove that the Black antiwar GI mur­ Howard as an accomplice. Kissack argued that Hensley's method the Republican and Democratic par­ dered two officers by detonating a Earlier on Oct. 3, Samuel Bailey of grenade identification, which relied ties," he said. "We want to exact firm fragmentation grenade at Bien Hoa, Jr. told the court-martial board that on the examination of small and stan­ pledges that Indian treaties will be Vietnam, on March 15, 1971. he was imprisoned with Billy Dean dardized objects, had never before enforced to the letter. You know, these None of the 18 witnesses presented Smith in the stockade a few hours been verified for use in a court of treaties say, 'As long as the sun shall by the prosecution recalled seeing after the fragging. When a third cell law. Judge Rawles Frazier denied the shine and the grass shall grow.' Well, Smith at the scene of the "fragging." mate asked the defendant, "Did you defense motion to rule Hensley's testi­ the sun's still shining. The grass is One witness, Bradley Curtis, told the do it?" Smith replied, "Yeah," ac­ mony out of evidence. still growing. We want that land." court-martial board on Sept. 20 that cording to Bailey. More than one witness for the pros­ In addition to stopping at reserva­ Billy Dean Smith was definitely not Bailey admitted that he was awaiting ecution testified that many Gis in tions and in cities with large Indian the man he saw running away fol­ trial for stabbing a person in Penn­ Smith's artillery company were dis­ populations, the Trail of Broken Trea­ lowing the explosion. Curtis admitted sylvania. He testified three times for turbed by the war and Army condi­ ties caravans will stop at the sites that his pretrial statements to the pros­ charges including passing $25,000 in tions, and that talk of fragging of­ of some of the historic atrocities com­ ecution were lies. fraudulent checks and possegsion of ficers was common. mitted against Indians, such as the On Oct. 3, Smith's former bunkmate, heroin. He said he had reenlisted twice Defense lawyers indicated that when Sand Creek and Wounded Knee mas­ Luther Howard, testified that he also under assumed names. the trial resumes after a week's recess sacres, War Soldier said. lied to Army investigators when he The final witness in the Army's case they will try to prove Smith was told them Smith had said he had against Billy Dean Smith was Chief framed on murder charges to serve "plans to kill his commandingofficers." Warrant Officer Otis Hensley, who as an example for other Gis who are Howard revealed in cross-examination supervised laboratory tests on a gre­ outspoken in their opposition to the that it was he and not Smith who had nade pin that was allegedly found in war and to racism in the Army.

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 20, 1972 17 the central problem in Europe. "Gov­ For roughly the first two decades Intensified competition is an inter­ ernor Leslie 0' Brien of the Bank of following World War II, world cap­ national problem for all capitalists, By DICK ROBERTS England recently said inflation was italism as a whole was able to ex­ not just for those in the United States. Oct. 6- Three months have elapsed largely responsible for 'the present pand without serious crises because British Prime Minister Heath, for ex­ since the June shake-up of the inter­ industrial strife on a scale not seen of the devastation of Europe and Ja­ ample, was in Tokyo on ~ept. 19 national monetary system, and the in this country since the 1920s.' pan. These areas provided lucrative threatening protectionist measures world capitalist economy is still func­ "To avoid such social and political markets for investment. The European against Japanese goods. Capital de­ tioning. This and several other fac­ tensions, bankers in Zurich say, gov­ and Japanese "boom" absorbed U.S. manding markets stalks the economies tors have created a kind of euphoria ernments will have to adopt anti-infla­ goods and capital. of all the advanced nations. in financial circles that prevailed at tion measures. The result: more con­ The process inevitably reached a the annual meeting of the Interna­ trols, less freedom for business, slower turning point when Europe and Japan World inflation tional Monetary Fund, held in Wash­ economic growth and less improve­ had been "rebuilt." Developing these This intensified competition is a spur ington, D. C., last week. ment in living standards than in the economies often meant developing in­ to international inflation. Under the For the first time since President past decade." dustry on a technological par with, conditions of monopoly capitalism Nixon announced the New Economic With little modification these obser­ or more advanced than, U. S. indus­ there is a continual extension of credit Policy more than a year ago, the vations could be applied to the United try. At the same time wage rates in on all levels. Corporations borrow to White House advanced concrete pro­ States. American workers have faced Europe and Japan were, and still are, increase their investments; private in­ posals for reforming international fi­ inflationary erosion of their wages considerably lower than wage rates dividuals borrow to purchase the in­ nance. The editors of the New York since the escalation of the Vietnam in the United States and Canada. creasing volume of goods that are Times declared Sept. 27, "There is war in 1965, and they are saddled This meant that the relative demand produced; governments borrow to fi­ now reason to hope that, before next with government-backed wage con­ for U.S. goods -which virtually mo­ nance their deficits. year's annual meeting of the I. M. F. trols allegedly aimed at stemming in­ nopolized world markets 25 years ago But the situation of generalized over­ in Nairobi, the main part of the job flation. The prospect of "slower eco- -declined. At the same time more production constantly threatens to cut off arenas for productive investment. Capital flows into unproductive spheres- in the United States, above lnternat'l monetary crisis all, into arms production. There is a sharp increase of speculation. Billions flows into advertising. These unproductive investments are inflationary because the goods that are produced are not sold to con­ sumers. When the United States buys a bomb, for example, this is exploded e ro on the peoples of Southeast Asia. It is not sold to consumers, nor does it lead to the production of consumer goods. But the money the government spent purchasing the bomb does circulate in the U. S. economy and inflates it. wor in ion This is all the more the case when the government is deficit spending, that is, when it is spending more than it takes in in taxes. As the purchasing power of the economy increases, the monopolists can respond by raising prices instead of increasing production. Thus there is the paradox that the threat of over­ production exists side by side with a stagnation in actual production and the inflation this produces. The "privilege" of the national monopolies to inflate the prices of their own products is, in turn, gravely threatened by the invasion of foreign goods. This is why the U. S. steel corporations can, at one and the same time, scream for protective tariffs and import quotas against cheaper foreign steel- and raise the prices of U. S. steel. To a certain extent, the war-pnmed U.S. inflation has been "exported." The massive flow of capital abroad- in order to find profitable investment out­ lets-pours inflationary "extra" pur­ chasing power into the foreign Zurich exchange. International monetary problems originate in the explosive combination of world overproduction and inflation. economies. This is a hotly disputed subject in international banking circles. But the increasing tendency of Euro­ of negotiating a better world monetary nomic growth and less improvement and more foreign goods poured into pean governments to step up federal system will have been achieved." This in living standards" is a universal the U. S. market. Witness the remarks spending when their economies face is wishful thinking at best. problem of capitalism. It is not lim­ in U.S. News & World Report, Sept. politically dangerous recessions is just World capitalism faces its deepest ited to Europe. 18: as inflationary as the predominantly financial crisis since the economic col­ It is recognized no less in Senator "A flood of goods from abroad that military spending of the United States lapse of the 19 30 s. Not a single step McGovern's proposed economic pro­ keeps growing is raising this ques­ government. Whether a bomb or a was taken in Washington last week grams than in Nixon's "wage and tion: school is built, the expense is unpro­ toward resolving this crisis. price controls." McGovern's top eco­ "Is the U.S., once a nation that ductive from the standpoint of the capi­ nomic adviser, Walter Heller, de­ enjoyed huge trade surpluses, under­ talist economy. It puts money into A more sober appraisal of the situ­ scribed McGovern's program in the going a basic shift in its trade posi­ circulation that doesn't lead to the ation appeared in an account of Euro­ Oct. 5 Wall Street Journal as "wage­ tion that is likely to become perma­ production of consumer goods. pean business in the Sept. 18 issue price guideposts with clout." The nent? Moreover, the pressures of potential of U.S. News & World Report. "Work­ words are a little different but they "Last year, imports rose so rapidly overproduction are forcing continuous ers are pressing for higher and higher mean the same thing: wages are under -and exports so slowly-that this expansion of private credit abroad as pay increases ... while labor morale attack. country ran up its first trade deficit at home. The result is a world infla­ is declining," the magazine com­ in nearly 70 years. All told, the U. S. tion which is today proceeding more plained. "Young people are less in­ bought 2 billion dollars' more goods rapidly in Europe and Japan than in terested in management jobs. Public World overproduction from other countries than it sold them. the United States. The Sept. 26 Wall opinion is turning against private en­ Why. should this be? After a quarter "This year, things are getting worse. Street Journal gave these figures: Dur­ terprise. of a century of postwar growth in The over-all trade deficit in 1972 ing 1972, the purchasing power of "Labor relations have been worsen­ the advanced capitalist nations -why promises to exceed 6 billion dollars." the dollar is declining at an annual ing all over Europe in recent years. not another quarter of a century of U. S. News provides these dramatic average of 3.2 percent; comparable Italy is struggling with deep-seated growth? The fundamental problem is statistics on increased sales of foreign rates for currencies in other countries social malaise and strikes that go overproduction. goods in the U. S. since 1962, a de­ are: Japan, 4.1 percent; Canada, 4.4 back to the autumn of 1969. Britain's Capitalism produces goods for a cade ago: textiles up 277 percent; percent; Germany, 5.2 percent; France, economy has been hit by the worst profit- not for their usefulness to so­ clothing up 354 percent; iron and steel 5.3 percent; United Kingdom, 6.7 per­ labor conflicts since prewar times. ciety. Under the spur of competition, up 379 percent; footwear up 574 per­ cent. Walkouts have become more and each monopoly tries to sell the most cent; machinery (nonelectrical) up 748 These relative differences in the rates more frequent even in countries such goods at the best profit margins. This percent; computers, office machinery, of inflation are c,ne of the factors as Sweden, the Netherlands and Ger­ inevitably threatens to saturate mar­ up 790 percent; radio, TV sets, up presently strengthening the dollar in many that used to be virtually strike­ kets with too many goods. Capital 927 percent; transportation equip­ world finance and contributing to the free." surpluses develop that cry out for in­ ment up 1,284 percent; autos up 1,295 fleeting sense of security in world U. S. News pinpoints inflation as vestment outlets in other markets. percent. Continued on page 22

18 Subs sold. all over Brooklyn; Subscription Teams active on many fronts scoreboard AREA QUOTA SUBS % By NANCY COLE ing capitalist candidates and their representatives; Oxford, Ohio 10 26 260.0 OCT. 11 -The Brooklyn Young Socialist Alliance and speaking at meetings and classes. Edinboro, Po. 60 54 90.0 and Socialist Workers Party took a combined quota The Seattle/ Portland team has added the spirit of PiHsburgh, Po. 25 21 84.0 of 1,250 for this fall's Militant subscription drive. competition to this list. According to team captain Wichita Falls, Texas 15 10 66.7 To the two groups -who opened a joint head­ Bob Frantz, they intend to be the top sub-selling Madison, Wis. 200 133 66.5 quarters only a year and a half ago- this quota team. That should be considered a challenge, and Boulder, Colo. 175 105 60.0 appears to be just what they need. They plan to so far their total of 233 is matched only by the Portland, Ore. 700 356 50.8 use the subscription drive to publicize their book­ Cleveland team, which had a head start, and by Cleveland, Ohio 1,300 633 48.7 store and weekly forum series, and to campaign the national Midwest team. SeaHie, Wash. 950 433 45.6 for their local SWP candidates throughout Brook­ First stop for the Seattle/Portland team was Yaki­ Nashville, Tenn. 20 9 45.0 lyn, the fourth largest city in the U. S. ma Valley College in Yakima, Wash., a school Twin Cities, Minn. 1,700 753 44.3 With only two college dormitories of any sig­ with fewer than 3,000 students. Despite the lack Los Angeles, Calif. 1,900 800 41.6 nificant size in all of Brooklyn, sub sellers have of any sizable dormitory, they sold 26 Militant and Champaign, Ill. 10 4 40.0 had to use imagination and persistence in their two ISR subscriptions, and signed up seven cam­ Saranac Lake, N. V. 25 10 40.0 efforts to reach young people with The Militant. paign endorsers in two days. Brooklyn, N.Y. 1,250 470 37.6 So far they've succeeded admirably, with 470 subs In the process of being interviewed by the cam­ Oakland-Berkeley, Calif. 2,200 802 36.4 and 37.6 percent of their quota completed. pus newspaper, they convinced the editor to en­ Storrs, Conn. 25 9 36.0 According to SWP suh drive director Judy Klein­ dorse the campaign. She's now making plans to Lower Manhattan, N.Y. 1,250 434 34.7 berg, they went into the drive knowing there were attend the Young Socialist convention as a report­ Bloomington, Ind. 350 121 34.6 no "super" sales locations where they could get er for her paper. Providence, R.I. 125 44 35.2 large numbers of subscriptions easily. Nor did The first New York regional team was on the Denver, Colo. 1,250 424 33.9 they want to rely on a few extraordinary sellers. road for 10 days before a car accident forced Tallahassee, Fla. 150 50 33.3 "We based our subscription-getting plans on the them back to New York City. But those 10 days San Francisco, Calif. 2,050 663 32.3 simple principle that the number of subscriptions are just a preview of what they expect to do as Chicago, Ill. 2,500. 781 31.2 their tour resumes this week. At Rutgers University Celina, Ohio 10 3 30.0 in New Brunswick, N.J., they arranged to have Detroit, Mich. 1,500 448 29.8 Los Angeles sets record team member Sara Johnstoh participate in a de­ Upper West Side, N.Y. 1,250 373 29.8 Forty people from Los Angeles organized a bate on the 1972 elections with representatives Hartford, Conn. 125 37 29.6 sub-getting trip to the University of California from the Young Republicans and the People's Par­ Corvallis, Ore. 33 9 27.3 at Santa Barbara last week. The results: 268 ty. Cedar Falls, Iowa 30 8 26.7 Selling from literature tables, in dorms, lounges, Militant and 32 /SR subscriptions in one day! Boston, Mass. 2,500 656 26.2 and cafeterias at three campuses in New Jersey Austin, Texas 550 139 25.3 brought in 197 subscriptions for the New York Youngstown, Ohio 20 5 25.0 sold would depend on the number of people asked team. They also sold 200 single Militants, 50 San Diego, Calif. 400 99 24.7 to subscribe. The more people selling, the more McGovern truth kits, and signed up 23 campaign Lexington, Ky. 25 6 24.0 people asked. We've depended on regular day, endorsers. Mt. Pleasant, Mich. 200 47 23.5 night, and weekend sales." So far the national Midwest team has signed up Philadelphia, Po. 1,050 243 23.1 The daytime sales at commuter schools have 52 endorsers and recruited four people to the YSA. St. Louis, Mo. 120 27 22.5 brought in more than 150 subscriptions thus far- At Indiana University/Purdue University at In­ Atlanta, Ga. 1,250 262 21.0 128 at Brooklyn College and 23 from New York dianapolis they sold 34 Militant subscriptions and Huntington, W.Va. 40 7 17.5 City Community College. At Brooklyn College, signed up the president and several members of the Houston, Texas 1,050 173 16.5 sellers "tour" the campus, selling to students on the Black student union as campaign endorsers. Burlington, Vt. 25 4 16.0 lawn, in the cafeteria, or wherever they find them. While in Indianapolis they called a news con­ New Haven, Conn. 25 4 16.0 A campaign/ Militant table in the student union ference to announce their arrival. Four TV stations Sarasota, Fla. 25 4 16.0 serves as a dispatch table for subscription kits and two campus papers attended. Washington, D. C. 900 120 13.3 and is also a good place to sell subs. All the teams have devoted special attention to Cincinnati, Ohio 100 12 12.0 The weekend campaign/ subscription tables in presenting McGovern supporters with the truth College Park, Md. 175 19 10.9 the community have netted 55 subscriptions. about his politics and pledges. As a result of the Durham, N.H. 50 5 10.0 Brooklyn Heights, a community with a liberal Midwest team's stop at the university in Indiana­ Knoxville, Tenn. 30 3 10.0 rP.putation and made up primarily of young peo­ polis, one former McGovern supporter is now run­ Phoenix, Ariz. 50 5 10.0 p~~. has been the most lucrative area for these ning on the YSJP slate for student government. Binghamton, N.Y. 200 19 9.5 tables. However, subs have also been sold at tables The McGovern truth kits have proved to be best Allentown, Po. 50 2 4.0 outside the public library, in a large park, and sellers -last week approximf!tely 450 were sold by Long Island, N.Y. 100 4 4.0 in other areas. all the teams. San Antonio, Texas 50 2 4.0 Approximately 40 subscriptions have been sold The teams have sold a total of 2,500 single Worcester, Mass. 175 5 2.9 in apartment buildings. Some of these were build­ Militants and signed up 507 campaign endorsers. Kansas City, Mo. 150 4 2.7 ings around universities; others, where Militant Santa Barbara, Calif. 75 2 2.7 supporters live or where a number of young people Gary, Ind. 100 2 2.0 live. Red Bank, N.J. 50 1 2.0 Selling door-to-door in apartment buildings was Amherst, Mass. 150 2 1.3 a new experience for many veteran sub sellers. Special offer- Alfred, N.Y. 10 0 0 But according to Kleinberg, it's worked much like Augusta, Me. 10 0 0 selling in dorms. Last Sunday when she knocked Beth I ehem, Po. 10 0 0 on a door that sported a huge McGovern poster, 20weeks·ot Buffalo, N.Y. 20 0 0 she found The Militant greeted enthusiastically by National Teams 1,400 392 28.0 a woman who had just finished watching Linda General 500 95 19.0 Jenness on TV. She bought a suoscription and TOTAL TO DATE 10,403 31.7 agreed to do some thinking about her support for The Militant­ SHOULD BE 11,566 35.0 McGovern. GOAL 33,000 100.0 The subscription campaign has also boosted sales of single copies of The Militant-1,000 one dollar TEAM QUOTA SUBS % were sold in September in Brooklyn. Cleveland 800 359 44.9 ( ) $1 for a 20-week introductory subscription. Denver 560 209 37.3 When you consider the tasks of each Young So­ (------· ) $2.50 for a six-month subscription. National Midwest 700 249 35.6 cialists for Jenness and Pulley subscription team, ( ) $1.50 for Gls for six months. Seattle/Portland 700 233 33.3 it's readily apparent that it's no easy job to be ( ) $5 for a one-year subscription. Detroit 700 226 32.3 on one of these 17 teams this fall. Besides selling New York #1 700 197 28.1 subscriptions to The Militant and the International Name ______Twin Cities 700 167 23.9 Socialist Review, they are hawking single copies of Chicago 700 157 22.4 The Militant, ISR, and the new Young Socialist, Addr~s ______National South 700 143 20.4 selling pamphlets and books from literature tables; Boston 700 142 30.3 distributing and posting SWP campaign literature; City State Zip------­ Oakland-Berkeley 700 128 18.3 signing up SWP campaign endorsers; publicizing The Militant, 14 Chari~ Lane, New York, N.Y. "San Francisco 700 81 11.6 the Young Socialist national convention; confront- 10014. Atlanta 700 64 9.1 Philadelphia/Washington, D.C. 700 41 5.9 Los Angeles 700 21 3.0 New York #2 700 7 1.0 Texas 700 0 0 TOTAL RECEIVED FROM TEAMS 2,424 20.2 SHOULD BE 3,331 27.8 GOAL 12,000 100.0

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 20, 1972 19 In Review Books Tanzania Female suffrage Tanzania: The Silent Class Struggle Shivji, however, establishes that the Women's Suffrage in New Zealand final petition, presented to parliament by lssa G. Shivji, John Saul, Wal­ Tanzanian economy-based largely by Patricia Grimshaw. Auckland in 1893, had 30,000 women's signa­ ter Rodney, and T. Szentes. A Zenit around the growth and export of cash University Press. Auckland, New tures, which represented about a crops, mineral extraction and export, quarter of the adult female population. 1156, 1, 1972. 151 $5.25 N.Z. Reprint. Box Lund Sweden. a large dairy and livestock industry, Zealand, pp. With the active backing of women 5 kr. ($1. U.S.}. and tourism- still remains locked in ($6.40 U.S.}. workers and nontemperance feminists, the grip of world capitalism. He the WCTU was able to launch public [The following review appeared in The ideology of African Socialism, as proves that the nationalizations meetings that, in the cities, attracted the September 15 issue of Socialist developed by Tanzanian President carried out by the Nyerere regime very large audiences. Action, a revolutionary socialist fort­ Julius Nyerere and others, denies the have by no means made Tanzania But the most obvious sign of nightly published in Wellington. existence of classes in African societies. a workers state. women's support came when they [New Zealand was the first country However, the essay by Issa G. Shivji, The National Development Corpora­ voted for the first time in the elections in the world in which women won the major piece in Tanzania: The Silent tion ( NDC), the governmental body of 1893. Only a few short weeks lay the franchise. The question of the role Class Struggle, specifically examines that deals with economic matters, can between the passage of the Suffrage of women in the suffrage movement the Tanzanian situation and thor- be looked to for examples. Is there Bill on September 19 and election day, and the value the struggle itself . oughly disproves this notion. any evidence to warrant calling Tan­ o: November 28. In this period the suf­ have been debated among the new When the booklet was originally pub­ zania "socialisf'? To the contrary, fragists worked tirelessly to ensure that lished in Tanzania it caused quite a Shivji demonstrates that much of women's liberation groups that have women were registered on the electoral arisen since the new upsurge of femi­ stir, as the following excerpt from its NDC policy has been directed to stimu­ rolls and thus able to vote. By the nism began in New Zealand in 1970.] introduction explains: "After the publi- lating neocolonial interests. Tourism, end of election day, an insp1nng hotels, entertainment houses, brew­ Patricia Grimshaw's Women's Suf­ seventy percent of the entire adult fe­ eries, etc., have loomed large in frage in New Zealand throws new male population had voted. government investment policy, over­ light on the early feminist movement Quotes from opponents of women's shadowing consumer necessities or in­ in this country, a movement that has suffrage are sprinkled throughout dustrial growth. often been misunderstood and under­ Grimshaw's study. They give an amus­ The NDC enters into direct partner­ rated. Grimshaw gives ample proof ing reflection of the reactions which ships with foreign corporations, which that the women's franchise, introduced the early feminist movement pro­ manage many of its projects. This in 1893, was not merely the result of voked. G. G. Stead, a former chairman is done in the form of mixed enter­ political manoeuvrings in the parlia­ of the board of directors of the Christ­ prises with both government and pri­ ment of the day, or of antiliquor lobby­ church Press, feared the female fran­ vate investment. Althoughforeigncapi­ ing. The vote was won through con­ chise would "make the country more talists invest only a portion of the sistent campaigning over a period of communistic than it is already ... I total capital, they are able to main­ several years by a women's movement have been amongst the poor in Christ­ tain control of the key decisions and that was undoubtedly feminist in church quite lately and it is among the increase their economic strength within character. women that one hears the most demo­ the country. Shivji cites numerous ex­ Before this book appeared, the only cratic and revolutionary theories ..." amples of imperialist control of large detailed investigation of suffrage agi­ The real motives of the politicians enterprises in such industries as dairy, tation was in W. P. Reeves's State also receive good exposure. Their sup­ hotel, transportation, cement, sugar, Experiments in Australia and New port for women's suffrage depended and oil. Zealand, published in 1902. upon their estimation of the direction Shivji concentrates on Tanzania's Reeves discounted the role of femi­ in which the women's vote would go. economic deals with imperialism. But nism in winning the franchise, Much speculation arose concerning the to some extent he maintains illusions claiming that the temperance issue was political leanings of the female popula­ in the Nyerere regime, implying that the central focus of the campaign. But tion and consequently there were it might be capable of carrying out members on both sides of the House the sweeping changes his essay pro­ while the Women's Christian Tem­ in favour of the franchise, though for poses. There are other weaknesses in perance Union [WCTU] was the orga­ his work. He does not point out that nisational base around which the suf­ opposite reasons. It was only becaus~ the women's movement was indepE'::J.­ a socialist transformation of an under­ frage movement first formed, Grim­ Julius Nyerere dent and drew massive popular 5up­ developed country requires a radical shaw shows that the temperance cause port that it was able to succeed in land reform (not yet accomplished in was by no means the only issue that winning this important gain for cation of Tanzania: The Silent Class Tanzania), as well as control of the motivated the women in the Union. Struggle, the Tanzanian authorities re­ state apparatus by the workers and WTC U women played an active part women. acted by banning Cheche magazine peasants. in developing preschool child care, and Patricia Grimshaw apparently wrote the history as an M. A. thesis and [where the article originally appeared] But these shortcomings do not pre­ in agitating for female unionism, though it was published only this year, and the organization behind it, vent Shivji from analyzing Tanzania's equal pay for women, equal divorce it was actually completed before the USARF [a student organization]. The economy and proving, in detail, that laws, the right of women to full sexual current women's liberation movement official reason given was that Cheche domestic and foreign capitalists domi­ knowledge-in fact, a broad range began in New Zealand; that is, before was a copy of Lenin's paper Iskra nate the country. This was the first of issues concerning women's rights. thus proving that the students were such thorough study published in Tan­ In Reeves's view, the suffrage move­ 1970. In the last few lines, she says: "The feminist movement may well be trying to import 'Russian socialism' zania, and the value of Shivji's work ment was not widely supported by the poised on the verge of yet another instead of 'true Tanzanian socialism."' is shown by the fact that it provoked women of New Zealand. However, move forward. Perhaps this time its In addition to Shivj i' s essay, the controversy and discussion through­ Patricia Grimshaw's well-documented wider objective, the full acceptance of booklet contains three essays by in­ out Africa. history gives quite a different picture. women as equals of men, will be dividuals connected with the Uni­ The general conclusion to be drawn Wherever the suffragists took their achieved." versity College of Dar es Salaam, who from Tanzania: The Silent Class petitions they were met with over­ This history of local feminism will offer comments both for and against Struggle is that the African revolu­ whelming support, particularly from the main thrust of Shiviji's argument. tion can only free itself from the world working women. The largest numbers encourage further progress toward Many have pointed to Tanzania's capitalist economy with a socialist of signatures were obtained in Otago, that end; it shows the positive results nationalizations and some of its revolution, based on the workers and where the greatest concentration of of united action by women. foreign policy decisions as "proof' of peasants. No amount of anti-imperial­ women workers was to be found. The - Kay Goodger its "socialism." Nyerere' s support to ist denunciations and radical phrase­ the liberation movements in southern mongering by leaders such as Nyerere Africa, his friendly relations with the can substitute for the arduous task workers states, and his frequent de­ of assembling a mass party of revo­ denunciations of imperialist maneu­ lutionary-minded cadres for this vers are often given as examples of crucial struggle. Tanzania's progress. -BAXTER SMITH

1972 abortion law repeal demonstration in Wellington, New Zealand

20 l • . .. • I By FRANK LOVELL Meany has retaliated by ordering and he never gave a thought to moral The series of squabbles within the state federations in California, Okla­ leadership. At 78, Meany can't change AFL•CIO AFL-CIO structure over which of the homa, and North Carolina to rescind his ingrained, lifetime habits. He has two capitalist candidates to support their official declarations "to work for always been an organization man reveals the limited mentality of the the defeat of Nixon." The· order may adept at manipulating the union ap­ trade-union bureaucracy more than be extended to other state bodies as paratus by means of his close asso­ officials the sentiment of union members. well. ciation and collaboration with the em­ The stand of the Colorado Labor In California, state AFL-CIO Presi­ ployers. He thinks Nixon will win the Council, which officially endorsed Mc­ dent John Henning has called an election and hopes his present course Govern in defiance of AFL-CIO Presic emergency convention for Oct. 19 in will give him a side-door entrance squabble to the White House after the election. dent George Meany's "neutrality" or­ Sacramento to act on Meany's order der, has become a test case for the to drop the anti-Nixon campaign. union officials who disagree with This revolt against the "neutral" po­ The present division within the AFL­ over Meany. sition of Meany and the national AFL­ CIO bureaucracy is not likely to be After the Colorado federation took C IO executive council reflects the di­ bridged after the presidential election, its stand, Meany dispatched a crew vision within the executive council it­ regardless of the outcome. Two pro­ of three "investigators" headed by Paul self. This body consists of 33 presi­ cesses are set in motion by the de­ elections Hall of the Seafarers International dents of the major unions affiliated veloping power struggle. One is the Union, a Nixon supporter. They duti­ to the AFL-CIO, plus Meany and Sec­ loosening of the bureaucratic grip on fully found that the Colorado affiliate retary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland. Most the unions, which is reflected iri had violated the AFL-CIO con­ of these affiliated unions, which rep­ Meany's challengers' call for special stitution. resent more than nine million of the conventions in Colorado and Cali­ Meany then suspended the Colorado AFL-CIO's 14 million members, have fornia to mobilize a broader base of charter and appointed Daniel Healy, officially endorsed McGovern. These support for themselves within the AFL-CIO regional director for Il­ include all the major unions except union movement. They are forced to linois and Iowa, the trustee "to take the Steelworkers. do this even though they prefer to re­ charge of and conduct the business" The AFL-CIO Building and Con­ ly on appeals to the courts to up­ of the Colorado council during the struction Trades Department has for­ hold a semblance of democratic pro­ suspension. Meany's suspension or­ mally endorsed the "neutral" position cedure within the union structure. der applies to Colorado state council of Meany, and nine presidents of the The other side of this is the develop­ President Herrick Roth, Secretary­ 17 building-trades unions have come ment of a more fundamental policy Treasurer A. Toffoli, and all mem­ out for Nixon as "individuals." The discussion within the unions. Those bers of the council's executive board. nine represent such crafts as Iron who· challenge Meany and his craft­ The next move was up to these of­ Workers, Plumbers, Lathers, Brick­ conscious, business-minded cronies ficers. They appealed to the U.S. dis­ l!lyers, Operating Engineers, and in­ are trying to continue the political trict court in Denver, and on Oct. 2 clude Peter Fosco of the Laborers. policy adopted by the union move­ a federal judge ruled that Meany had They issued a joint statement declar­ ment after the rise of the CIO in the falsely interpreted the AFL-CIO con­ ing "President Nixon is committed to 1930s. stitution and had exceeded his author­ keeping America strong both external­ This was the political policy initi­ ity. The court issued a preliminary ly and internally," and will serve the ated by John L. Lewis. It sought to injunction against the Meany "trustee­ interests "of our members as Ameri­ organize the political power of the ship" in order to allow the Colorado cans and building tradesmen." burgeoning union movement of that Labor Council to proceed with The division between the two fac­ time as part of the vote-catching co­ a special convention. tions within the top bureaucracy is alition behind the Roosevelt New Deal developing into a power struggle. J o­ and the Democratic Party. It was a The special convention was held Oct. seph Beirne, onetime Meany pal and departure from the old Gompers poli­ 5. The nearly 300 delegates, most of sometimes mentioned as a possible cy of throwing support to "labor's them local union officers, voted over- successor to the AFL-CIO presidency, friends" in both the established par­ AFL-CIO head George Meany backs Nixon . whelmingly to support the executive io head of the Communications Work­ ties of the employing class. The CIO's under guise of 'neutrality.' board's earlier endorsement of Mc­ ers of America and an ardent Mc­ policy sought to organize union men Govern. They cheered a speech by Govern supporter. Los Angeles Times and women as an independent voting McGovern's running mate, Sargent labor writer Harry Bernstein quotes bloc within the Democratic Party, with Shriver, and denounced Meany's pro­ Beirne as saying, "The AFL-CIO will the aim of exercising some measure Nixon actions. Council President Roth never be the same, that's for sure, of control on its decisions and elected called on all other state federations and a lot of people think Meany will politicians. to follow Colorado's example. be through if McGovern wins." As the debate over political policy Several other state federations, while When Machinist Vice-President Wil­ develops, this whole past policy of not openly defying Meany's "neutral­ liam Winpisinger spoke at the special supporting the political parties of the ity" edict as Colorado did, have in­ convention of the Colorado Labor employing class will be reviewed, fur­ dependently voted "to work for the Council Oct. 5 he directed his remarks ther deepening the split in the union defeat of Nixon," or have otherwise against Meany, in keeping with the bureaucracy. The sentiment of the expressed a preference for McGovern. circumstances of the occasion. Winpi­ union membership for independent These include those in California, Ok­ singer stated that "a labor movement class action will find expression by lahoma, North Carolina, Texas, Illi­ that stays neutral forfeits any claim new leaders in the union movement nois, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Ne­ to moral leadership." who will reject the support to cap­ braska, Wisconsin, and Massachu­ Meany, for his part, is not worried italist candidates urged by both setts. at this stage that McGovern will win, Meany and his critics.

On heels of Norwood settlement UA W threatens to strike GM in 3 cities OCT. 10- On Oct. 6 United Auto nate duplication and streamline the history, lasting 17 4 days. When a President Richard Minton refused com­ Workers Local 25 in St. Louis noti­ assembly operation," accerding to GM settlement was finally negotiated in ment, saying he was not at liberty to fied General Motors plant manage­ representatives. Detroit on Sept. 27 between Interna­ make a statement to the press. ment in that city of intent to strike in Some plants were hit harder than tional UAW officers and top GM man­ five days. others, and management was obvious­ agement, there was no mention of Only a small part of the work force The St. Louis Post-Dispatch re­ ly following a plan to test its speedup what the union had won. UAW Presi­ has been called back at Norwood be­ ported that it had learned "from other operations in a series of selective ac­ dent Leonard Woodcock said, "The cause of model changeover. Most sources" that similar letters of intent tions. tragedy of Norwood is that the work­ workers thought it was wise to end to strike would be delivered on the First came Lordstown, Ohio, where ers are going to wind up exactly the strike when they did because they same date by UAW locals to GM GM chose to make the first test, fol­ where they began." can now qualify for unemployment plant management in Doraville, Ga., lowed by another at Norwood, Ohio. compensation. Long lines signed up and Mansfield, Ohio. St. Louis appeared to be third on the The company has given no indi­ for it at union headquarters, where The Mansfield parts plant supplies list. cation following the settlement of the tables were set up by the state em­ nearly all GM assembly plants in the At Lordstown, where a work force Norwood strike of any change in its ployment bureau. nation, and a strike called there would of 3,500 was employed, the company speedup policy. Under terms of the On Sept. 29, shortly after the Nor­ effectively cripple GM operations. provoked a 22-day strike earlier this settlement, no promises w·ere made wood workers voted to end their year by laying off 670 workers in a about restoring jobs, and the strike, the UAW called a meeting in These coordinated moves by UAW period of a few months while main­ prospects were that there would be Detroit of its 325-member GM Council locals in different cities against Gen­ taining the same production schedule. fewer jobs because of a switch in 1973 to decide what action would be nec­ eral Motors Assembly Division At Norwood, where about 4,000 were models eliminating Chevrolet's Nova essary to force GM to. respect collective ( GMAD) plants appear to be the union employed, 749 jobs were eliminated line. bargaining agreements signed with the response to a series of provocations and production schedules remained When the vote to end the strike was union. If the notices of strike action by the assembly division of the giant the same. The same company prac­ taken at UAW Local674 in Norwood, sent to the corporation at its key corporation. tice was introduced at the huge St. 7 4 percent of the production-line work­ plants in St. Louis, Doraville, and Company provocations followed a Louis plant, where nearly 1,000 have ers accepted it but 26 percent were Mansfield indicate that the UAW is pattern that developed when GM been laid off. opposed. Workers interviewed by Mili­ now prepared to close down GMAD merged its Fisher Body and Chevro­ The Norwood strike began April 7, tant correspondent Charles Mitts said nationally, it is in response to the let assembly divisions to form GMAD. before the ·settlement at Lordstown. they voted to end the strike but were demand for such action by UAW as­ The new setup was designed "to elimi- This became the longest strike in GM opposed to the settlement. Local 67 4 sembly workers.

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 20, 1972 21 TWIN CinES out immediately against these mea­ porters of the Revolutionary Socialist REPORT FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. Speaker: Bonnie sures before they lead to even greater Party of Czechoslovakia were sen­ Uson, just returned from Israel; Gholib Abdulrohmon, restrictions on our rights. tenced to prison last year for alleged­ Egyptian student at University of Minnesota. Fri., Oct. 20, 7:30p.m. Junior Ballroom, Coffman Union, Univer­ ly being in contact with the world sity of Minnesota, Mpls. Donation: $1, h.s. students and Trotskyist movement. The Economist unemployed SOc. Sponsored by YSA, Arab-American doesn't explain this, or how in this Club, Militant Forum. For more information call (612) ... slander situation the Fourth International 332-7781. Continued from page 4 would have been able to supply the have nothing to do with the oppres­ PF LP or the Red Army Group with WASHINGTON, D.C. sion of Palestinians, the real enemies THE COMING AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Speaker: "Czech weapons." of Palestinian self-determination were Fred Halstead, Socialist Workers Party National Cam­ The Economist reflects the views of paign Committee. Fri., Oct. 20, 8 p.m. 746 9th St. not defined." British imperialism. It has greeted ter­ N. W. Donation: $], h. s. students SOc. Sponsored by Rouge, the newspaper of the Com­ Calendar rorist actions supported by imperial­ Militant Forum. For more information call (202) 783- BOSTON munist League in France, the largest 2363. ism, such as Hussein's slaughter of Linda Jenness, presidential candidate of the Socialist organization in the Fourth Interna­ thousands of Palestinians in Septem­ Workers Party, will speak on Fri., Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. tional, also condemned the Lydda ac­ ber 1970, without a word of criticism. at Fanueil Hall, Boston. For more information call tion. (617) 482-8050. Its slanders against the Fourth Inter­ In an article in the June 10 issue national have only one aim- to bol­ of Rouge, Gerard Vergeat, a central SOCIALIST WORKERS CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE MEET­ ... Arabs ster the position of the most barbar­ INGS. Every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. All campaign Continued from page J leader of the Communist League, ous terrorists in world history, the supporters are welcome. 655 Atlantic Ave. (opp. South wrote that the Lydda action "must be These are precisely the same kind rulers of the imperialist countries who Station). For more information call (617) 482-8050. condemned," and that the "terrorist of measures that were instituted during daily bomb, starve, and oppress peo­ the McCarthyite witch-hunt period in form of action is to be condemned." CLEVELAND ple throughout the world. WHICH WAY FOR WOMEN IN THE '72 ELECTIONS? the 1950s. Members of my party, for Vergeat pointed out that the Lydda A panel discussion with representatives of the Jenness, example, were denied the right to trav­ action blocked the struggle for Pal­ McGovern, and Nixon campaigns. Fri., Oct. 20, 8 p.m. el. They were denied passports, not estinian liberation by reducing the Pal­ • • Debs Hall, 4420 Superior Ave. Donation: $1, h. s. because of any illegal acts, but simply estinian and Arab masses "to the role students and unemployed SOc. For more information because of our political views. of spectators." call (216) 391-5553. ...CriSIS We can expect that the Nixon ad­ The French Trotskyist pointed out Continued from page J 8 LOS ANGELES ministration will continue as far as that these actions could have been monetary meetings. CAMPAIGN BANQUET WITH ANDREW PULLEY, vice­ it can in extending these repressive used by reactionary forces "to create Here the important aspect to keep presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party. a climate of fear and insecurity lo­ Sun., Oct. 29. Refreshments, 5 p.m.; international measures not only to Arabs but to in mind is the explosive character of buffet, 6 p.m.; rally, 7:30 p.m. Baces Hall, 1528 N. all supporters of the Arab liberation cally [in the Middle East] and inter­ the combination of threatened world Vermont. Do nation: $5, h. s. students $3. For more movement and to other movements nationally in order to make accept­ overproduction and world inflation. information or reservations call (213) 461-8131. fighting for social change. Nixon will able witch-hunts and police measures Credit cannot be expanded indefinitely. extend these undemocratic measures restricting fundamental democratic lib­ THE MILITANT LABOR FORUM presents weekly forums At some point in the chain of trans­ on Friday evenings at 8:30 p.m. Some of the topics until he is confronted with an outcry erties." actions goods have to be sold, profits covered are: economics; ecology; the struggles of of protest making it clear the Ameri­ The Economist's aim is not to pre­ made, surplus value realized. Other­ women, Blacks, and Chicanos lor liberation; the anti­ can people will not put up with any sent the real facts of the Fourth Inter­ wise the production process screams war movement; literature and art; the student move­ such abrogation of our civil rights. national's attitude to the Lydda in­ to a halt. Capitalists do not make ment; trade-union movement; and the struggles in cident. It seeks to utilize slander to other countries. 11071/2 N. Western Ave. Donation: So far my Democratic opponent, goods when they can't sell them for $1, h.s. students SOc. For more information call (213) George McGovern, has said nothing create conditions for attacks on the profits, and creditors do not lend 463-1917. about whether he supports these anti­ fundamental democratic rights not on­ money that cannot be profitably re­ Arab, antidemocratic measures by the ly of the Trotskyist movement but paid. PHILADELPHIA Nixon administration. McGovern's of all supporters of the Palestinian LINDA JENNESS, presidential candidate of the Socialist The expansion of credit is conse­ Workers Party, will speak on Tues., Oct. 24, 8 p.m., calls for international sanctions liberation struggle and other struggles quently a further spur to the battle at the University of Pennsylvania, Fine Arts Audi­ against the Arab liberation move­ for national and social liberation for markets. It doesn't "solve" the prob­ torium. ment, and his all-out support of Zion­ around the globe. lem of potential world overproduction, ist Israel against the Palestinians fight­ The Economist's claim that the it ultimately exacerbates it. It forces CAMPAIGN BANQUET AND RALLY. Featuring Linda Jenness. Wed., Oct. 25. Dinner, 7 p.m.; rally, 8:30 ing for a democratic, secular Palestine, Fourth International supplied the Red monopoly, all the more in need of p.m. 1004 Filbert St. Donation: $4; $].50, rally only. raise serious doubts about his sup­ Army Organization with "Czech weap­ cash at hand, to repay debts, and Half-price lor h. s. students. For more information call port for the democratic rights of Arabs ons" is also false .. First of all, as Ver­ thus to fight all the more rapaciously (215) WAS-4316. on' the question of these new measures. geat pointed out in his article, the for markets. I challenge George McGovern to say PFLP had received large amounts of The crisis of the· world monetary SEATTLE CAMPAIGN RALLY. With Andrew Pulley, Socialist where he stands on this question of aid from the Arab capitalist states be­ system is an expression of these com­ Workers Party vice-presidential candidate; and George civil liberties. Does he support the ra­ fore Lydda and hardly needed to beg bustible elements. International finance Novack, Marxist scholar. Sat., Oct. 21, 8 p.m. Sher­ cist "screening" of all Arabs? Does he the Fourth International with its mea­ must somehow accomodate itself to the wood Motor Inn, Purple Room, 400 N.E. 45 St., Seattle. support Nixon's restrictions on free­ ger resources for arms. anarchy of competing national capital­ Donation: $].50, h.s. students 75c. For more informa­ tion contact Socialist Workers Campaign Committee~ dom to travel? Does he support the Second, the attitude of the Czecho­ isms, the threat of world overpro­ Tel: (206) 523-4449. death penalty against hijackers? slovak government to the Fourth In­ duction and international inflation. I urge all supporters of democratic ternational is widely known to be com­ The fact that no serious upsets have SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA rights -whether they support Mc­ pletely hostile. In that country any occurred in money markets for the MARXIST RADIO COMMENTARY. Listen to Theodore Edwards, spokesman for the Socialist Workers Party, Govern, Nixon or myself- to unite association with the Fourth Interna­ last three months is far from being on his weekly IS-minute radio program, 11:15 a.m. in defense of any persons victimized tional is a crime punishable by im­ convincing evidence that this accom­ every Wednesday, KPFK-FM, 90.7. by these new measures and to speak prisonment. Petr Uhl and other sup- modation has been reached. 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THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 20, 1972 THE MILITANT Raza Unida Party campaigns in Texas By TANK BARRERA for their presidential contenders. HOUSTON, Oct. 9-With four weeks "The Crystal City native said the to go until election day, the Texas party, in line with the position it took Raza Unida Party is conducting a at its national convention ih El Paso vigorous campaign for 56 candidates earlier this month, is discouraging for state and local offices. Ramsey Chicanos from voting for either Presi­ Muniz, candidate for governor, and dent Nixon or Senator George S. Jose Angel Gutierrez, chairman of the McGovern. That will be the party's national Congreso de Azthin, have posture through the Nov. 7 election, been touring Texas and other parts he predicted." of the country popularizing the ideas The Post further quoted Gutierrez as of the Chicano party. saying: "Our problems are the same An article in the current issue of whether Nixon is president or McGov­ Chicano Times, a San Antonio bi­ ern is president." weekly, covered Gutierrez's recent tour An article in the Oct. 8 Houston in Dallas. "Jose Gutierrez, leader of Chronicle covered a Muniz speech at the Raza Unida Party, says that this Los Angeles City College. The Chroni­ Mexican-American political faction can cle said Muniz "is openly hostile to destroy the Democrats and completely the Democratic Party." It quotes Muniz as saying: "The Democrats have done nothing for Mexicans in Texas or any­ where else." The unusually reactionary nature of the Texas Democratic Party and its gubernatorial candidate Dolph Briscoe has increased the interest in the Raza Unida campaign and given rise to speculations in the press here of a sizable vote for Muniz. Briscoe is notorious for his state­ ment at the Democratic Party national convention in support of George Wallace and in support of segregation.

Because of this, Muniz has drawn sup­ Mili Antonio Camejo port from some liberal Democrats, Jose Angel Gutierrez speaking at national Raza Unida Party conference in El Paso. such as Paul Moreno, state representa­ tive from El Paso; Mickey Leland, Republicans of Texas, stating that "the ''When we began, many people thought Black Democratic candidate for state only difference between the Democratic that we were a joke, a farce. The Re­ representative in Houston; and others. and Republican parties is the spelling." publican or the Democrat has always The response to Muniz's speeches In a further attack on Briscoe, he given us tokenism to get the mexicano reflect the popularity of his campaign stated: "The only difference between vote, and. yet these parties have never Militant/ Antonio Camejo among young people in the state. He done anything to help our people." Ramsey Muniz Briscoe and Wallace is that Briscoe has spoken at most of the major col­ wears glasses." The Raza Unida Party has been lege campuses in Texas and has Muniz is not the only Raza Unida under intense pressure from Democrats eliminate the Republicans. . . . received endorsement from several stu­ candidate running a vigorous cam­ to step away from its generally inde­ "'Both political parties are solely dent body presidents, including Paul paign. For example, in San Antonio, pendent course. Gutierrez told the interested in promoting their own in­ Rogers of the University of Houston Alberto Pena II (son of Alberto Pena Chicano Times, "Right now they [the terests,' said Gutierrez, referring to and the student body presidents at the Jr., a Democrat), candidate for state liberal Democrats] are asking us to Senator George McGovern, President University of Texas in Austin, the representative in District 57J, is quoted support McGovern, but they don't Nixon, and all the other 'animates' University of Texas in El Paso, and in the Chicano Times as saying that want to support the candidacy of [animals]." Pan American University in Edinburg, he is "running against the Democratic Ramsey Muniz." The Sept. 29 Houston Post reported Texas. Party because it treats Mexican-Ameri­ Despite his attacks on the Democratic that Gutierrez "discounted hopes of Speaking at the University of Hous­ cans as 'hip-pocket' votes." Party, Muniz continues to say that he either Democrats or Republicans that ton and at Texas Southern University, Ruben Sandoval, candidate for state would endorse McGovern if McGov­ Spanish-speaking Americans will vote Muniz denounced the Democrats and representative in District 57 A, stated: ern endorsed him.

Meetings boost Oct 26 antiwar actions BOSTON, Oct, 8- The steering com­ didates, and some will not vote at Lovgren addressed the meeting.. He as the Student Mobilizer and of films, mittees of two national antiwar orga­ all. contrasted the insubstantial current slide shows, and speaker's bureaus in nizations met here this weekend to Gordon said he expects the size of "peace rumors" with the savage reality the SMC's campaign to educate stu­ prepare for antiwar demonstrations the actions this fall to be modest be­ of the saturation bombing that is rain­ dents about the escalation of the air around the country on Oct. 26 and cause the attention of many people ing two tons of explosives per minute war and campus complicity with the Nov. 18. The National Peace Action is concentrated on the elections. But on the peoples of Indochina. war. Coalition, which called the actions, and because the elections are not a way The SMC must continue its emphasis the Student Mobilization Committee, to end the war and mass independent on the demand for immediate, total, which has helped organize support for action is the way to end it, the fall and unconditional withdrawal of all them, both held meetings at Boston actions are extremely important, Gor­ U.S. forces and war materiel from Debate on 7 -point plan Universtiy. More than 1QO represen­ don said. Indochina, Lovgren said. No other "Seven-Point Peace Plan -the Way tatives attended each of the meetings. A guest speaker, Dr. Matt Meselson demand is "fully consistent with self­ to End the War?'' will be the topic The delegates from 25 cities at the of Harvard, described for the NPAC determination for the people of Viet­ of a three-way discussion at Brook­ NPAC steering committee meeting meeting U. S. destruction of crops nam." lyn College at noon Oct. 16. heard national and local reports on and forests in Vietnam. By organizing actions like those Oct. Participants will be Fred Halstead support for the Oct. 26 and Nov. 18 The meeting passed a resolution con­ 26 and Nov. 18, Lovgren said, the of the Socialist Workers Party, Pro­ demonstrations. demning the recently exposed action SMC helps "lead the way for Ameri­ fessor Art Myers of the Medical Aid Jerry Gordon, an NPAC coordi­ of the Atlanta police in compiling and cans from all sections of society to Committee for Indochina, and nator, assessed the state of the war circulating a list of so-called "extremisf' express their opposition to the war in Irwin Silber of the Guardian. and the antiwar movement. Nixon's groups. The Atlanta Peace Action Co­ the streets." The program is sponsored by diplomatic maneuvers, Gordon said, alition, NPAC's affiliate in that city, Barry Godson, a .representative of Hoa Binh, Youth for McGovern, are aimed at fortifying his military was among the groups the cops listed. the newly formed Canadian SMC, Medical Aid Committee for Indo­ objectives while creating the illusion brought greetings from Canada's anti­ china, the Student Mobilization that the war is ending. Yesterday, 161 representatives from war movement. Godson reported the Committee, and the Young Social­ The elections Nov. 7 will not be 49 colleges and high schools took part Canadian SMC's plans for its first ists for Jenness and Pulley. a referendum on the war, Gordon em­ in an expanded steering committee cross-country conference to be held For information on exact loca­ phasized, because opponents of the meeting of the Student Mobilization Nov. 4-5 in Toronto. tion, call Brooklyn College YSJP war will vote for both Nixon and Committee. Reports and workshops focused on at (212) 596-2849. McGovern, as well as for other can- SMC National Coordinator Fred the usefulness of printed material such

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