RCPi Rmammtm Voice of the Revolutionary Communist mm£RParty, U.S.A. Vol. 1 No. 9 June 29, 1979 oo ^ Seccion en Espahol 25c Mao Tsetung Defendants Face 35 Years PARTY CHAIRMAN INDICTED! V 1 WELCOME OR ENj, the m OFP A major political attack has been launched by the rulers of this country on the Revolu tionary Communist Party and its Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 1979—Over 500 protest Teng's visit. Chairman, Bob Avakian, Last week, serious indictments against Comrade Avakian and 16 other revolutionaries were hand ed down by the grand jury in Rebellion in the "Suburbs Washington D.C. The charges As evening fell the crowd had swelled include four separate felony to over a thousand taking up chants of counts; '^assaulting a police of of Paradise" "More gas, more gas!" ficer with a dangerous weapon," People of all ages were cheering and "assaulting a police officer," Levitlown, Pa.—A typical blue collar shaped intersection in Levitlown flank clapping for the truckers, excitedly "assault with a dangerous working class community often referred ed by gas stations, stores and people's debating the causes of the gas shortage weapon," and "felony riot." and why the prices were so goddamn 10 by the capitalists as the American homes. Also included is a misdemeanor dream. In a speech just a few months At 6 p.m. about twenty-five truckers high. One man expressed the feelings of "aiding and abetting" charge. ago Henry Ford II pointed to Levitlown pulled their big rigs into the intersection many; "Nothing is happening and we as an example of the *'good life" under and started blaring their horns calling want something done about it!" Together these charges carry a capitalism where everybody has it on people to join them. Just then a Police began to swarm into the area, possible maximum prison made. "Capitalism" he bragged, is Shell station where people had been menacing the crowd. But the people sentence of 35 years. The ar located in the "suburbs of paradise wailing in gas lines for hours closed its were not about to leave. As one woman raignments are set for the week —the Levitlown of paradise." pumps saying there was "no more said, "The majority of people here of July 2. gas." Furious, many people jutnped agree with the truckers and we are going But on the weekend of June 23-24, The 17 indicted were part of 78 out of their cars and rushed over to join to stand behind them." paradise exploded into a raging inferno revolutionaries who came to be known the truckers, cheering and yelling their A trucker cruised slowly through the as thousands rebelled in the streets fill as the Mao Tsetung defendants. These support. intersection beeping his horn in de ed with anger at the capitalists' "gas 78 were originally arrested early this cri.sis" and the system which enforces The truckers got on their CB radios fiance at the pigs. Suddenly, police dragged him from his truck beating him year after a police attack on a militant it. For two days and nights the people and put out a call for people in the com demonstration in Washington D.C. of to the ground and arresting him for turned Levitlown into a combat zone, munity to come out and support them. over 500 protesting the U.S. visit of the Hundreds of people began pouring out "disturbing the peace." At the sight of battling hundreds of police in what • arch traitor to the Chinese revolu authorities are calling "the first gas riot of their houses and into the area as the this the festive mood of the crowd turn tion—Teng Hsiao-ping and. holding in the history of the country." word of what was going on spread like ed to rage and hatred. People began hollering at the pigs to aloft the banner of revolution and the The protest, sparked by a militant wildfire. Many were anxious to take an greatest revolutionary of our time, Mao blockade of independent truckers, active stand with the truckers and their let him go and taunting them for taking Continued on page 7 Tsetung. began on Saturday at Five Points, a .star demand of more gas at lower prices. Continued on page 6 p -•>>. -C' • •• p , ">■' :r • ... ■ r Page 2—Revolutionary Worker—June 29, 1979 FoulPkit^ii U.S.'Somoxa Scheme as Regime Falls The revolutionary civil war raging in Nicaragua is reaching a new peak of fury and intensity. In the twilight of the brutal dictatorship of General Anasta- sio Somoza, bloody battles rage in the capital city of Managua, where the Sandinista-led liberation fighters face intense and continuous aerial and ar tillery bombardment. The Sandinista forces continue to control the second largest city of Le6n. In Rivas, block-by-block street fighting continues against heavily entrenched forces of the reactionary National Guard. The vast majority of the rural areas, including the entire northern half of the country, now constitute liberated base areas controlled by the revolu tionaries. Rebel columns continue to liberate new towns in the rural pro k'J! ^ s. vinces, and thousands of young volun teers continue to stream into Sandinista military training camps in order to fight for the liberation of their homeland. Somoza has sworn that he will "fight to the death," claiming that he would never split from "his" country the way Sandinista guerrilla fighter. the Shah of Iran did. Some business men who have recently joined the op formal U.S. recognition. However, pire, especially in the western regime makes noises for a while about position to Somoza say they believe it. newly appointed ambassador to hemisphere. cooperation with the Sandinistas, or "He's like Hitler," said one business Nicaragua, Lawrence A. Pezzullo, has Why Somoza Hangs On tries to get some to go along, the time man, quoted in the New York Times, been sent to Managua, the New York will come, probably sooner rather than "he'll stay at his bunker until the San Times reports, in order jo urge the set It is in this diplomatic context that a later, when the U.S. imperialists and dinistas are knocking on his door." But ting up of "a broadly based provisional method to Somoza's military madness their henchmen will move to crush the other members of the crumbling administration, made up of distinguish may perhaps be discerned. That revolution and wipe out all genuinely Somoza government, in fear for their ed Nicaraguans from all democratic Somoza may in fact be a Hitler-like revolutionary popular armed forces. own lives, are desperately searching for groups." The objective, according to madman is quite possible. His behavior To accomplish this, not "only must the a way out of Nicaragua themselves. the Times, is "to see an orderly transfer for the last 25 years does much to Sandinistas be militarily weak and One such Somoza aide moaned, "When of power in Nicaragua and not a violent bolster that belief. But there is another caught off balance, but the National he wants to, Somoza will fly off in his swing from the Somoza government to explanation for Somoza's "touching" Guard, which has served U.S. rule with private jet, and we'll be left facing the a Marxist dictatorship." The U.S. is determination to continue the brutal bullets and bayonets for 50 years, must firing squads." fishing about trying to find support for and genocidal air war which has reduc be preserved as much as possible. To But whether Somoza scurries out of these schemes anywhere—even among ed the barrios of Managua (the main unleash everything in the National his bunker or is carried out, his doom is the Sandinistas. base of Sandinista support) to rubble Guard arsenal against the people, avoid sealed, no matter if it comes in a matter In short, the air is thick, not only and has killed thousands of civilians, the complete disintegration of the Na of days or a matter of weeks. Represen with the smoke of battle, but with the and for the desperate resistance of the tional Guard, smoothly handle the tatives of the Sandinista Front for Na stench of imperialist intrigue. Despite National Guard in Rivas. departure of Somoza, and establish a tional Liberation (FSLN) interviewed the embarrassing fall on the butt that If, indeed, the effort to establish a new clique of freshly scrubbed and by the Revolutionary Worker in New U.S. Secretary of Stale Cyrus Vance U.S.-inspired "democratic junta" in brushed traitors in his place—such, in York discounted any possibility that suffered a week earlier at the OAS Somoza's stead is successful—a junta brief, are the necessary elements of the Somoza could retain power for any meeting, where his thinly-veiled pro designed to shed the Somoza image "orderly transfer of power" now lengthy period. The revolutionary posal for armed military intervention while preserving U.S. interests in sought by the United Slates and its movement is strong, these spokesmen met with a deafening lack of en Nicaragua relatively intact—it would be Nicaraguan henchmen. So as the people pointed out, and Somoza's isolation thusiasm from the member countries, highly desirable for the reactionaries if of Nicaragua fight and win victory after has been made complete by the U.S. diplomacy is extremely active in an the guerrilla forces were bled still more victory, they know also that real victory unanimous denunciation of his regime effort to quench the fire blazing in what and in a weak position when such a cannot be achieved and defended by the Organization of American States our imperialist rulers like to think of as government established its grip on without still further sacrifice and (OAS) last week and the insistence on their "backyard," Central America.