JULY 2, 1976 25 CENTS VOLUME 40/NUMBER 26 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE -PAGES 4,5 ..... ·Socialist candidates hll u.s. support to apartheid regime ·While minoritY gov'l launches bloody repression Slack students demonstrat~ against apartheid language policies in Soweto township near Johannesburg June 16. Police gunned down nearly 150 Blacks during week of protests. GARY TYLER GUARDS HARASS BLACK ON LA. DEATH ROW. PAGE 3. Jack Barnas . CIA I FBI DECLI E SWP QUESTIONS CIA AGENT, FBI COMBS FILES. PAGE 7. ( U.S. POWER NAACP MASS ACTIONS NEEDED TO WIN BLACK RIGHTS. PAGE 25. I CRISIS OF; GAY RIGHTS STALl ISM ~ "~~~ LESBIAN MOTHER FIGHTS FOR CUSTODY OF SON. PAGE 28. In Brief JULY 4 PROTEST: Organizers of the July 4 "Bicentenni­ BLACK ASSEMBLY ANNOUNCES CANDIDATE: al Without Colonies" rally have announced final plans for The National Black Assembly has announced that it is the demonstration in Philadelphia. The march will assem­ fielding Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick as its candi­ ble at 11:30 a.m. at Diamond Avenue between Tenth and date for president of the United States. THIS Eleventh streets. A permit has been secured for the march Kirkpatrick, a native of Louisiana, was a leader of the and 2:00 p.m. rally at Fairmont Park, located at Thirty-third Deacons for Defense, a Black Louisiana group that rose to Street and Oxford Avenue. prominence through its efforts to halt Ku Klux Klan attacks WEEK'S Among the speakers at the three-hour rally will be Rev.' in the early 1960s .. Ralph Abernathy, Southern Christian Leadership Confer­ The assembly is the organization that grew out of the MILITANT ence; Clyde Bellecourt, American Indian Movement; Elaine Gary, Indiana, Black Political Convention in 1972. Brown, Black Panther party; Karen DeCrow, National 3 La. officials continue The assembly hopesto obtain ballot status in New York, Organization for Women; Juan Mari Bras, Puerto Rican South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Indiana, to harass Gary Tyler Socialist party; and Ed Sadlowski, United Steelworkers of and the District of Columbia. Write-in campaigns will be 4 SWP candidates blast America. mounted in parts of Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. U.S. policy on S. Africa Local, state, and federal government agencies have tried to create the impression that the march will be violent. JAZZ PROF LOSES CHALLENGE: Black jazz professor 5 Black uprisings Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo had asked that federal Joe Brazil lost his challenge to the University of Washing­ shake South Africa troops be sent in, but this request was turned down June 21. ton Music Faculty and Administration in a superior court decision in Seattle June 1. Brazil had charged that the 6 Mass action Now the city says it may ask that the national guard be on hand. department was in violation of the Open Meetings Act of and the NAACP Despite the campaign to intimidate demonstrators, 1971 when it denied him tenure in a closed, unannounced 7 Kelley orders search organizers have said that they expect a massive turnout for meeting of the music faculty. in FBI files a peaceful, legal march. The university lawyers moved for a summary judgment, arguing that in this case the Open Meetings Act did not 8 Willie Mae Reid PROTEST KILLING OF CHICANO: "Jail police crimi­ apply. The judge granted the motion and subsequently on tour nals!" "Basta la sangre en la calle!" (Enough blood in the dismissed the case. streets.) "Prosecute the murderer of Barlow!" These are Widespread student and community support for Brazil 9 Support for SWP included a march and rally of 500 in mid-April. At this time, ballot spot in Calif. some of the signs posted around the Chicano community in Oakland, California, in response to the murder of Jose Brazil is undecided as to any possible future court actions. 25 -Teachers and busing Barlow Benavidez. An Oakland police officer, Michael Cogley, shot the twenty-seven-year-old Chicano on June 11. 'COLD-BLOODED MURDER': "I witnessed a brutal 26 Quebec unior;ts battle Police claim it was an accident-Benavidez "backed into" murder, a cold-blooded murder," Rev. Allan Robinson told a strikebreaking laws the cop's shotgun. But witnesses state that Cogley shot June 11 community meeting in Houston. Robinson de­ 27 Newspaper Guild: how Benavidez while the victim was in a search position with scribed how he and his wife saw two cops jump from their to beat antiunion drive both hands on top of his car and legs spread-eagle. car and shoot a Black man who was walking on the side of On June 16, a Coalition Against Police Crimes was the road the night of March 20. The victim was twenty­ 28 Lesbian mother fights formed. It is calling for a grand jury investigation and the seven-year-old Milton Glover, a Vietnam veteran. for custody of 'son firing and prosecution of officer Cogley. Already 100 people The Robinsons were never asked to tell their story to a have demonstrated at police headquarters. Now the coali­ grand jury, which accepted the cops' claim that they mistook 29 Calif. Stalinists back the prayer book carried by, Glover for a gun! Democrat Hayden tion is calling for a rally in front of the Oakland City Hall on Tuesday, June 29, at 6:30 p.m. After the rally the ,The sixty people at the community meeting voted to call 30 8,000 La. unionists demonstrators will attend the city council meeting to for an independent commission of inquiry. Its purpose, hit 'right-to-work' law demand that it meet the coalition's demands. · stated Isaiah Lovings, president of the DeWalt NAACP will Froben Lozada, Socialist Workers party candidate in the be "to investigate, not only the Glover killing, but all 32 Lessons of CUNY Ninth Congressional District, is urging wide support for the reported instances of police brutality and harassment." cutback fight demonstration. Another speaker at the meeting, Terry Payne, a Black high school leader of the Student Coalition Against Racism, In Brief 2 A MATTER OF SELF-DEFENSE: Milwaukee Blacks said, "We're taught that the police are supposed to stop wo1_1 a victory for their right to self-defense against racist crimes. But to me, the police start crimes." 10 In Our Opinion -Ginny Hildebrand Letters assault on May 27. On that day Judge Carl Bjork dismissed charges of "creating a disturbance" against Michael· 23 National Picket Line Murphy, a member of the Socialist Workers party and long­ By Any Means Necessary time civil rights activist in the city. 24 The Great Society On July 12, 1975, Murphy had been on his way to sell La Lucha Puertorriquena Militants on a street corner when a Nazi · physically attacked him. In a show of "even-handed justice," Assistant American Way of Life City Attorney David Felger charged both men with "creating a disturbance." From the start the prosecution 11-22 t nternational tried to portray the case as an altercation between two Socialist Review "extremists"-one a Nazi and the other a socialist. The Nazi pleaded guilty and paid a fifty-dollar fine. But Murphy maintained his innocence and fought to show that THE MILITANT he was being victimized for defending· himself against an unprovoked assault from a racist thug. 'Militant' labor reporter VOLUME 40/NUMBER 26 Andy Rose has just re­ JULY 2, 1976 CLOSE CALL: On June- 22 New York Gov. Hugh Carey CLOSING NEWS DATE-JUNE 23 vetoed an anti-abortion bill just minutes before it would turned from ten-day fact­ have become law. By a two-to-one margin, the Democratic­ finding trip to Ontario Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS controlled state assembly had passed the bill, which would and Quebec, Canada. Managing Editor: LARRY SEIGLE Business Manager: ROSE OGDEN have required parental pe~ission for aborijons performed Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING on women under eighteen. Carey delayed action, hoping WashingtQn Bureau: NANCY COLE that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of Special Offer Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., such laws would save him from taking a stand. In New 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Telephone: York City last year, 7,090 women between fourteen and Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office seventeen had legal abortions. Planned Parenthood, which (212) 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 1237 S. Atlantic performed nearly a third of these, estimates that half the For New Readers Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90022. Telephone: (213) Working people in Canada and the United States face 269-1456. Washington Bureau: 2416 18th St. NW, young women would have been unwilling or unable to get Washington, D.C. 20009. Telephone: (202) 265- consent from their parents during the first twelve weeks of similar assaults on their standard of living. But labor's 6865. pregnancy. Under the new law, thousands would have been response has been different in Canada. The labor Correspondence concerning subscriptions or forced into the hands of butcher abortionists. federation is discussing a one-day general strike, and changes of address should be addressed to The working people have a labor party. Andy Rose continues Militant Business Office, 14 Charles Lane, New a series on this labor upsurge in next week's Militant. York, N.Y. 10014. SAVE PHILADELPHIA GENERAL HOSPITAL: The Se~ond-class postage paid at New York. N.Y. Committee to Save Philadelphia General Hospital is Subscriptions: U.S., $7.50 a year; outside U.S., organizing a fight to stop the city's Democratic administra­ The Militant-10 Wccks/S1 $13.00. By first-class mail: U.S., Canada, and Mexico, tion's plans to close the hospital in 1977.