JUNE 15, 1973 25 CENTS . VOLUME 37/NUMBER 23 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Su~P-ort the farm workers Coachella, Calif. Farm workers and supporters picket grape fields to build support for strike. See page 5. Mass mobilizations swee Buenos Aires. Hundreds of thousands rallied as. new Peronist regime took office. Mass ·pressure forced Campora gov't to free political prisoners. See pages 7-9. In Brief POLICE INFORMER EXPOSES FRAME-UP OF handling the case. MARTIN SOSTRE: Buffalo, N.Y., cops wanted to "get" Prison officials now force inmates who want to receive Black activist Martin Sostre, according to testimony by correspondence to sign statements allowing inspection of Arto Williams. A self-confessed police agent, Williams their mail for "contraband." Such inspections often re­ THIS admitted in court on May 30 that he helped frame Sostre sult in arbitrarily denying prisoners access to personal on a phony drug charge. correspondence and to publications deemed "incendiary" WEEK'S Williams's testimony is a major development in the by officials. fight to free Sostre, who is serving a 30- to 41-year sen­ If the class-action suit wins, it will overturn the prac­ tence at Clinton prison in Dannemora, N.Y. Sostre was tice of requiring inmates to agree to mail censorship; MILITANT convicted in 1968 of selling narcotics toW illiams. 3 Militant sales drive prisoners will be able to send and receive sealed, uncen­ Prior to his. frame-up, Sostre operated the Afro-Asian sored correspondence. The destroying, delaying, and re­ goes over top Bookstore in Buffalo. During the three-day rebellion in fusal to deliver prisoners' mail will be illegal. 4 3,000 deported in l. A. the Buffalo Black community in 1967, his store became Such a court decision would be a major victory for 'alien' dragnet a haven for those fleeing police tear gas and bullets. the right of prisoners to receive publications such as The 6 Behind Moscow-Bonn The cops decided to "get" Sostre after the rebellion. Militant, which prison authorities frequently refuse to dis­ summit Despite Williams's testimony, Federal Court Judge John tribute to inmates. Curtin has refused to make an immediate decision on 13 STRESS unit in Detroit Sostre's request for a new trial. Curtin's decision is ex­ ANTIOCH STRIKERS SAY PROTEST WILL CON­ abolished pected in one to two months. TINUE: On June 1, police tore down barricades erected 14 Meaning of Bradley Sostre's request to act as his own co-counsel was also by striking students at Antioch College in Ohio and ended election turned down. the occupation of campus buildings. This is the first time in the college's history that police have been brought onto 15 Viet Vets face frame-up Militant correspondent Dave Strong reports that letters the campus. trial · demanding the dropping of all charges against Martin Sostre may be sent to Judge John Curtin at U.S. Court The administration resorted to the cops after seven weeks 16 CIA in Iran house, Buffalo, N.Y. 14202. of a strike by students protesting cutbacks in financial 17 Watergate tactics & aid. The cutbacks are aimed at the New Directions World War II program, made up mainly of young people from working­ 18 Street rallies build class families. Black students have been in the leadership of opposition to the cutbacks. Oliver campaign In an attempt to victimize strike leaders and supporters, 19 SWP candidate raps the administration expelled 20 students and fired seven Detroit cops faculty members last week. It then obtained authorization 24 Can Nixon ride out to break up the barricades through a court injunction Watergate storm? handed down May 30. Although classes reopened on June 5, the strike com­ mittee says that the fight against the cutbacks is not over. 2 In Brief Meetings are planned to discuss the next step in the 10 In Our Opinion struggle. Letters 11 National Picket Line DEPORTATION RAIDS AGAINST 'ILLEGAL ALIENS' CONDEMNED: "His only crime was coming to the U.S. La Raza en Accion to work," said an outraged telegram from Chicano writers, 12 Great Society Martin Sostre: cops used phony drug charge to send him to jail poets, and professors condemning the killing of a Mexi­ Women in Revolt can, Cruz Cedillo Lopez, in San Diego, Calif., last week. By Any Means Neces­ The telegram was sent to Attorney General Elliot Richard­ JUDGE BARES BIAS IN FELICIANO CASE: At a June son and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Ser­ sary 6 pretrial hearing in New York,- William Kunstler, at­ vice by a June 2 conference on "Communicating the Chi­ 20 In Review torney for Carlos Feliciano, demanded a special hearing cano Experience." The conference took place at Merritt 21 News from Pathfinder to consider the Puerto Rican activist's case in light of recent Watergate revelations of government plotting College in Oakland, Calif. American Way of Life In the past few weeks, immigration authorities in the against radicals. Los Angeles area have rounded up and deported to Mexi­ When Kunstler mentioned Feliciano's membership in WORLD OUTLOOK co some 3,000 Latino workers. "We vigorously protest the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, the judge interrupted the repressive actions and mass raids currently under­ 1 New wave of repres­ him. Didn't Kunstler know, the judge asked, that he had way by the border patrol and the immigration depart­ sion in Israel served as an assistant prosecutor against Nationalist Party ment," the telegram said. "The wanton killing of a Mexi­ 2 Twenty-five years of members accused in the 1954 attack on U.S. Congress? cano, Cruz Cedillo Lopez . is the contemptible result Four Puerto Rican nationalists remain in jail as a result Israeli state of your actions." of that case. 4 Israeli revolutionists Among those signing the telegram were Chicano poet The judge's revelation makes the case for dropping all Alurista; writer Raymond Barrio; Agustin Gurza, former protest new arrests charges against Feliciano all the stronger. Feliciano is editor of La Voz del Pueblo; poet Jose Montoya; and being tried in Manhattan for possessing explosives, author-poet Estela Portillo. -CINDY JAQUITH charges for which he was already acquitted last year in the Bronx. 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