WfJRIlERS VANIIIARD 25¢ No. 32 9 November 1973 ixon! or 1I NOVEMBER 5-If the U,S, labor movement were to­ ary trade union bureaucracy which stands at the masses, which they have either acquiesced to and/or day under revolutionary leadership, Richard Nixon leadership of the organized labor movement and has heartily endorsed (such as Nixon's policy of im­ would Ion g since have been ousted as president cravenly acquiesced to every phase of Nixon's state perialist slaughter of the workers and peasants of through a general strike against state wage controls wage control poliCies, Southeast Asia). These traitors to the working-class and the imperialist war in Indochina, and a sharp The recent decision of the AFL-CIO bureaucrats movement place their confidence in the bourgeois struggle would have begun to decide the fundamental to come out for the impeachment of Nixon should be U.S. Congress to get rid of Nixon who has become question of our time: which class shall rule? Instead, seen as nothing more than rats deserting a sinking an embarrassing liability to both themselves and while the Nixon government totters, with influential ship. These misleaders of the labor movement oppose their imperialist masters, And this Congress, itself bourgeois newspapers such as the New York Times Nixon for the same reasons as do their bourgeois a den of thieves, is only now moving ponderously calling for Nixon's resignation or impeachment, even masters, because of Nixon's "high crimes and mis­ and with great reluctance to consider the question simple struggles to maintain wage levels in the face demeanors" , •. against the proprieties and niceties of impeachment, projecting a report by March of of violent inflation are effectively suppressed, Chiefly of bourgeois democracy. Nowhere do they hold him next year, responsible for this state of affairs is the reaction- responsible for his crimes against the working Dump the Bureaucrats-For a Labor Party Based on the Trade Unions: Key to the removal of Nixon, of Congress, and of the whole capitalist state order which exists to en­ - sure the continued exploitation of the working class, is the removal of the reactionary misleaders of labor, -- How to accomplish this task? The response of the -=- ostensIbly socialist left to the Watergate crisis is -=-~ indicative of their respective orientations, The over­ whelming majority seeks to deal with the pro-capital­ -iiiiiiiii ist bureaucracy by ignoring it, playing up to reformist - out-bureaucrats or mystically transforming it into an instrument of the working class. The ex-Trotskyist, reformist Socialist Workers Party, which by now has devoted many tens of pages and thousands of words continued on page 14 - Nlx~n w;th 8rezhnev (!eft) iostJl:r,e. Soviet commen!otor~ backed Nixon, CPUSA called for irnpe:lchment. NEAR EAST CEASEFIRE: More War Ahead! The continuing war between Israel vention to police Israel should disabuse and the surrounding Arab states has everyone (even the vicarious Arab been temporarily halted by a ceasefire nationalists so abundant on the U,S, imposed by the U.Se and USSR Even left) of the notion that the Arab states more so than in the previous wars, were struggling against American im­ this ceasefire guarantees the continua­ perialism. In fact, a major aim of tion of bloodletting in the Near East. the Arab states in going to war was Because of Israeli intranSigence, par­ to create a situation in which the U.S, ticularly its desire to force the sur­ would be pressured by the Soviet Union render of the Egyptian III Army after and West European powers into curbing the ceasefire, war could break out Israeli expansionism. "''{jt. again any day. Both sides were reluctant to accept the first ceasefire of October 22, Is­ U.S./USSR Detente Buried in rael only quantitatively more so than the Sands of Sinai Trucks with UN ceasefire observers entering the city of Suez. Egypt and Syria, The Meir government With Sadat's appealfor direct great­ tried hard to get a three-day postpone­ power intervention, Brezhnev saw an ment in order to expand its conquests opportunity to maneuver the U,S, into . on the west bank of the Suez CanaL a j oint action against Israel and appar­ When the U,S, refused to accede to ently applied some pressure to that ·SL Polarizes Toronto " this, the Israeli command simply ig­ effect, Nixon reacted by dramatically nored the UN ceasefire and continued reminding Brezhnev that Israel was Wom~n's~- Conference ..... 4 , - fighting, in what has become something after all an ally of the U ,So against the of a Zionist military tradition, harking Soviet Union, not vice versa: on October back to the innumerable ceasefires of 24 he ordered a full military alert. the 1948-49 waL Contrary to Kissinger's pious protests, ,How Arab Regimes Crushed the With the Israeli military advances of the alert was in good part for domestic October 22-24, the attitude of the consumption, a reassertion of Nixcil1' s ~ ",'Resistance ...' . Palestinia,.n~ . - 5,: ' Egyptian government toward continuing posture as the tough Commander-in­ the war changed; it launched a diplo­ Chief. The most that the U.S, govern­ matic offensive to pressure the great ment could subsequently claim in justi­ powers into enforcing the ceasefire on fication of its world-wide "Condition 3" the original October 22 lines. Sadat's military alert was the "ambiguity" of appeal for direct U.S, military inter- continued on page 10 -letters _________ The· Tortll Sputters 25 October 1973 fluenced by the restrictive McCarran­ When we reSigned from the Class Walter Immigration Act of 1952. A Struggle League we stated in our res­ Dear Comrades, Special Mobile Force of the Border ignation statement (which the Comrades The reason we bother to print below The article, "No U.S. AidtoIsrael!" Patrol was put into action throughout of the SL Political Bureau no doubt a fairly unimportant letter requires (Workers Vanguard No. 31), contains a the barrios as far north as Chicago have access to as a Comrade in Chicago some explanation. Our letter, dated 13 statement requiring explanation. The and Spokane-called "Operation Wet­ resigned from the CSL to join the SL October 1973, was in direct reply to article says that "Abdullah of Jordan back." In this short period, 1,910,282 after our resignation statement was one, dated 5 October, from Sy Landy even had a secret meeting with Golda were deported but within a few years p r i n ted in the CSL Dis c u s s ion of the Revolutionary Socialist League. Meir to see if they could reach agree­ the proj ect was dropped and once again Bulletin): Comrade Landy's letter, regarding the ment on carving up Palestine." hundreds of thousands of Mexican citi­ setting up of SL-RSL public debates, While Meir and King Abdullah did zens migrated to the U.S. "This [critical support to Arnold Miller together with a statement that "to date have a meeting (on 30 April 1948), no in the UM W election, among other we have not received a reply, " was then Mexican nationals represent an un­ things-D.R.] is a further repudiation agreement was reached as Abdullah's limited source of cheap labor that the of a trade union strategy and program printed in the November issue of the proposal-a bi-national Palestine and capitalists w 0 u 1 d rather hire over which represented a strong left impulse RSL's monthly Torch. Transjordan ruled as a constitutional American workers who cause too much in trade union work. It is a clear eluci­ Presumably an early press dead line monarchy-was unacceptable to the trouble with union organizing, which is dation of the CSL to Sink into trade un­ precluded acknowledgement of our let­ Jewish Agency. not a problem with "illegals" who dare ion opportunism. Arnold Miller! While ter and thereby facilitated the RSL's Later, however, Abdullah and the not speak out lest they be deported. This we will wait for the facts as to whether resounding assertion (under the proud or not David Fender called the cops in former Prime Minister of Israel, Ben­ situation has created a real SOurce of head line /I Where We Stand ") that our St. Louis, we know for a fact that Arnold Gurion, signed an agreement which gave resentment particularly am 0 n g un­ "refusal to respond" reflects our "fear" -- Israel fifty percent more territory than Miller called the cops (the govt.) into and demonstrates our "shrill, infantile skilled workers who blame the "for­ the United Mineworkers. It is to this was granted it by the U.N. Hence the eigners" for taking their jobs. In the agent of the bourgeoisie that the CSL posturing. " episode's significance as one of the interest of proletarian internationalism leadership gives its critical support!" So, perforce, we print the letter our­ first acts of Israeli expansionism. these national Chauvinist tendencies -CSL Disc. Bul., Vol. II, No.2, p. 1 selves, though with little expectation of must be fought against. AlthoughMexi­ thereby shifting the RSL leadership off Comradely, can nationals do not represent as large The Spartacist League has in the past its macho New Left hangover-its who­ Andy S. a section of the U.S. working class as attacked the Workers League for claim­ is-and-isn't-chicken game-playing. New York City do the blacks or are as large in pro­ ing "only the Workers League ..• " when The RSL's ultimately intolerable portion to the West European foreign in fact the SL and at times other groups internal political contradictions, re­ called for the same thing that the #ork­ flected in its present conduct, are in­ o workers, they are indeed a significant force, particularly in the Southwest, ers League was claiming sole rights to.