JULY 16, 1976 25 CENTS VOLUME 40/NUMBER 28 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE ·Blacks are chiel victim ol death penallY -&ary TYler: how court ruling will attect his case ·Reactionary decision sparks broad opposition -PAGES 4-6 socialist candidates blast .death penallY ·Hit Ford, carter stands [Peter Camejo and Willie Mae Reid, Socialist Workers party candidates for president and vice­ president, released the following statement July 7.] The Supreme Court ruling upholding the death penalty is a stunning setback for all working people. It is bitterly ironic that on the two hundredth anniver­ sary of the American revolution the men in black robes sanctioned a practice that has more in common with the Dark Ages than the ideals of the revolutionaries of 1776. Continued on page 5 In Brief THIS PETER CAMEJO TO ANSWER DEMOCRATS: Social­ 'WOMAN'S EVOLUTION' AT HARVARD: Even the ist Workers party presidential candidate Peter Camejo will ivy-covered bastion of male academia is not impervious to a answer the decisions of the Democratic party convention at feminist view of the origins of women s oppression. This fall WEEK'S a public meeting July 16. He will also outline his party's Harvard students in Natural Science 36, the course on perspective for independent political action at the rally, "Biological Determinism," will be reading selections from MILITANT which will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Church, 40 Woman's Evolution by Marxist anthropologist Evelyn Reed. 3 Jury weighs fate E. Thirty-fifth Street, in New York. This course has stirred up controversy. Its teachers­ of San Quentin Six Outside the Democratic party convention, demonstrations Stephen Gould, professor nf geology, and Richard Lewontin, will be organized by supporters of the Equal Rights Agassiz professor of zoology-agree with Reed that biology 4 Supreme Court okays Amendment and abortion rights; ecology activists; advo­ does not determine destiny. This has brought them into 300 executions cates of gay rights legislation; and opponents of FBI conflict with the theses of Prof. Edward Wilson's book 8 Why socialist suit gets harassment. and the repressive Senate Bill 1 (S. 1). Sociobiology. Wilson is curator in entomology and a files Congress missed Socialists will be on hand to distribute literature and urge member of the same Harvard department. Also, Gould and activists to back the candidates of a party that fights for Lewontin's policy of uncompetitive grading in their course 13 Calif. ballot drive: their interests-the Socialist Workers party. Militant read­ has provoked criticism from the faculty council. 'Historic occasion' ers can help spread the word of the socialist alternative and Woman's Evolution has already been adopted in some thirty college classes. Problems of Women's Liberation, 16 Texas leaders discuss publicize the Camejo meeting. Campaign teams wilt' be 1 another book by Reed, is used in more than sixty university state -of Raza Unida party organized from the Chelsea SWP headquarters, 200 / 2 W. Twenty-fourth street, every day from July 12 through July courses throughout the United States and Canada. 17 Who needs child care? 15. You can also stop by on those days from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and talk with SWP candidates. PUERTO RICO LIBRE: Puerto Rico: U.S. Colony in the 18 Rubber workers Caribbean (thirty-five cents), written by Militant staff up against big money writer Jose Perez, was a popular item in Philadelphia on 24 Quebec unions debate Hugo Blanco July 4. Demonstrators at the "Bicentennial without Colo­ need for labor party nies" march bought 175 copies. Interest in socialist arrested in Peru literature was high-$179 worth of books and pamphlets 25 NY meeting says: Free Peruvian revolutionist Hugo Blanco has been arrested by published by Pathfinder Press were sold, including ten Soviet Tatar dissident the military regime of Gen. Francisco Morales Bermudez. At copies of Prospects for Socialism in America (regularly 1:30 a.m. July 3, the Policia de Investigaciones del Peru, the $2.95, now on sale for $1.50). Both are available from 26 Can Peking build political police, took Blanco from his brother's home in Pathfinder Press, 410 West Street, New York, New York socialism in one country? Cuzco. Blanco had spoken at a public rally in Cuzco on June 10014. 27 Marches demand 24. On July 5 the police transported him to Lima. Upon arrival at the Lima airport a friend was able to speak to gay rights SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN SPREADS TO TOLEDO: Blanco. The friend reports that Blanco was unharmed at Socialist Workers party campaign supporters in Toledo, 29 Communist party slanders that time. Since then, the police have held the Trotskyist Ohio, will hold their first rally Friday. July 16, at 7:30p.m. SWP petition drive leader incommunicado and his condition is unknown. Featured speakers will be Melissa Singler, the socialists' Officials refuse to explain the arrest or their intentions. candidate for U.S. Senate, and John Hawkins, a member of 2 In Brief The junta has suspended constitutional rights under the the SWP National Committee. Parts of the rally will be current state of seige. 10 In Our Opinion conducted in Spanish as well as English. It will be held in Several months ago authorities allowed Blanco to return the Chicano community at Swiss Hall, 735 S. St. Clair. Letters to Peru after five years of exile. Prior to his deportation he The next day at Bowling Green University, the socialists had been imprisoned for leading a massive peasant struggle 11 National Picket Line will sponsor an educational series. The first session at 11:00 for land. By Any Means Necessary a.m. will be a talk on rape given by SWP member and ERA Telegrams demanding Blanco's immediate release should activist Allyson Kennedy. At 1:30 p.m. John Hawkins and a 12 The Great Society be sent to: Gen. Morales Bermudez, Government House, representative from the Paul X Moody Defense Fund will Women in Revolt Lima, Peru. American Way of Life speak on "In Defense of Black Rights." Both discussions will be in Room 112 of the Life Science Building. For further 14 Campaigning information call (419) 474-6541 or (419) 242-9743. for Socialism FREE THE 'CHARLOTTE THREE': Jim Grant, the last -Ginny Hildebrand of the "Charlotte Three" to walk out of jail, was released on 28 In Review $50,000 bond in North Carolina June 24. T.J. Reddy was released two days earlier on $10,000 bond. Charles Parker WORLD OUTLOOK was paroled last December. They are awaiting a federal 19 Banzer imposes state of district court ruling on their petitions for freedom or a new 'exception' in Bolivia trial. 20 Arab League aids In 1972 the three Black men were convicted on frame-up Lebanon intervention charges for the 1968 fire bombing of a riding stable. Two individuals who admitted responsibility for the arson gave 21 Portuguese left caught the only testimony against- the three. In addition to in election trap immunity, these star witnesses each received $4,000 "relocation payments" from the U.S. Justice Department. Prior to their arrest, the three political activists had been targets of police harassment. Grant, Reddy, and Parker had been draft-counseling Black youth and protesting an THE MILITANT experimental military recruitment program launched in the VOLUME 40/NUMBER 28 Black communities of Charlotte and Nashville, Tennessee. JULY 16, 1976 CLOSING NEWS DATE-JULY 7 ERA DEFEAT IN LOUISIANA: On June 16 the Louisiana state legislature rejected the Equal Rights Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS Amendment for the fifth time since it was passed by Business Manager: ROSE OGDEN Special Offer Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING Congress in 1972. The House Committee on Civil Law voted Washington Bureau: NANCY COLE ten to six to kill the bill. This defeat came in spite of recent polls that show most Louisianans supporting the ERA. Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n .. At the committee hearings, speakers for the ERA included For New Readers 14 Charles Lane, New York. N.Y. 10014. Telephone: Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office Fran Bussie of the Louisiana AFL-CIO. Speakers against it The Supreme Court has sanctioned the murder of (212) 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 1237 S. Atlantic came from Young Americans for Freedom, STGP ERA, hundreds of prisoners on death row. 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