JANUARY 16, 1976 25 CENTS VOLUME 40/NUMBER 2 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE actions nee - DEBATE U.S. LEFT GROUPS DISCUSS VITAL ISSUES IN REVOLUTION. PAGE 8. RECOVERY? MARXIST TELLS WHY ECONOMIC UPTURN HAS NOT BROUGHT JOBS. PAGE 24. RUSSELL MEANS CONVICTED IN S.D. FRAME-UP. PAGE 13. Original murder charges against Hurricane Carter stand exposed and discredited. Now New Jersey officials seek to keep him' behind bars on new frame-up as 'accomplice/ See page 7. PITTSBURGH STRIKERS FIGHT TO SAVE SCHOOLS. PAGE 14. CH ACTION TO HALT COP TERROR a Ira me- IN NATIONAL CITY. PAGE 17. In Brief NO MORE SHACKLES FOR SAN QUENTIN SIX: The lation that would deprive undocumented workers of their San Quentin Six have scored a victory with their civil suit rights. charging "cruel and unusual punishment" in their treat­ The group's "Action Letter" notes, "[These] bills are ment by prison authorities. In December a federal judge nothing but the focusing on our people and upon all Brown THIS ordered an end to the use of tear gas, neck chains, or any and Asian people's ability to obtain and keep a job, get a mechanical restraints except handcuffs "unless there is an promotion, and to be able to fight off discrimination. But imminent threat of bodily harm" for the six Black and now it will not only be the government agencies that will be WEEK'S Latino prisoners. The judge also expanded the outdoor qualifying Brown people as to whether we have the 'right' to periods allowed all prisoners in the "maximum security" be here, but every employer will be challenging us at every MILITANT Adjustment Center at San Quentin. turn." 3 Socialist Workers call for The six men are currently on trial for the murder of three united actions on Angola guards and two white prisoners in August 1971. Nearly two AFRICAN SUPPORT GROUP SUES FBI: The South­ years ago they filed their own lawsuit charging mistreat­ 4 U.S. secret war continues ern Africa Committee has filed suit to force the FBI to turn ment ranging from twenty-four-hour-a-day incarceration to over its files on the committee. The lawsuit was filed in 5 Behind frame-up of unwholesome food. Judge Alfonso Zirpoli concluded that the federal district court in New York by Michael Davis and Robert F. Williams continuous segregation of the prisoners, the lack of outdoor Peter Weiss of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Last exercise, and the use of excessive restraints demonstrated year the FBI informed the committee it was under 6 Martin Sostre granted by the plaintiffs were unconstitutional. investigation, but refused to disclose the reason. When this clemency, soon tq go free Reflecting his group's view that prisoners are animals refusal was appealed under the Freedom of Information Act, 7 Hurricane Carter battles and should be treated as such, Ken Brown of the California the Justice Department failed to respond. The committee, a new frame-up Correctional Officers Association in Sacramento comment­ which publishes a monthly magazine on Africa, has ed, "This ruling is almost like ordering loose a pet dog who's charged that the "investigation" is part of the government 8 U.S. left debates issues turned rabid. It's 'cruel and unusual' if you don't turn the effort to disrupt groups opposing white minority rule in in Portuguese revolution dog loose." southern Africa and supporting African liberation move­ 13 AIM leader Russell Means ments. convicted in South Dakota Chicago trial opens in 'COUNTER-SPY' ON CIA HYSTERIA CAMPAIGN: 14 Pittsburgh teachers defy The recent killing of Richard Welch, CIA station chief in court antistrike order Athens, has provided the spy agency with a straw to grasp Hampton family suit at in its recent plummet in public esteem. Those who 15 'Labor Committee' tries to CHICAGO-Jury selection started January 6 in the civil identified Welch in the journal Counter-Spy "indirectly silence socialists suit initiated by relatives of slain Black Panther leaders Fred assassinated" him, the capitalist press has charged. The 16 Growers, Teamsters rig Hampton and Mark Clark. The suit attempts to prove that fact that Welch's "cover" was blown long ago, and Counter­ Coachella elections federal, state, and local officials acted in complicity with the Spy merely reported a fact easily confirmed in a number of Chicago Police Department and former state's attorney public sources, is conveniently ignored by the CIA's 17 National City Chicanos Edward Hanrahan in a campaign of harassment against backers. They are using the affair to bolster their claim that fight police violence the Black Panther party, culminating in the assassinations any disclosures of the CIA's criminal deeds will lead to 18 Indonesian generals of Hampton and Clark on December 4, 1969. similar "tragedies." invade East Timor Lawyers for the Hampton family tried unsuccessfully in The Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate, which December to reopen pretrial fact-finding because of new infor­ publishes Counter-Spy, responded to this hysteria campaign 24 Why economic upturn mation brought to light by Senate intelligence committee in a statement released December 28. It said, in part: "The has not brought jobs hearings. U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Perry denied their attempts of CIA officials, both current and retired, and their motion to postpone the trial and also refused the plaintiffs' supporters to cast the Fifth Estate with even partial 28 Milwaukee rally hears request for a deposition, or questions under oath, from Mayor responsibility for the death of the CIA Station Chief in social'ist candidates Richard Daley. Athens, Greece is an attack on all Americans who have had Out of 200 people in the initial jury pool, observers the courage to voice opposition to this secret police force and 2 In Brief counted only 14 Blacks, or 7 percent. Attorneys for the the anti-democratic corporate empire it serves.... The CIA 10 In Our Opinion plaintiffs expect to present the first of their more than 300 is attempting to shift the onerous history of thirty years of Letters witnesses by January 12. villainous rampage against the people of the world to those The December 4th Committee is urging supporters of the who have exposed the truth of CIA murders and lies." 11 National Picket Line lawsuit to attend the trial. For information, contact the -Nancy Cole By Any Means Necessary committee at 53 West Jackson, Room 1362, Chicago, Illinois 60604. Telephone: (312) 341-9766. 12 Great Society iLa Raza en Acci6n! 40 MILLION POOR IN U.S., SAYS CHURCH Their Government GROUP: In conflict with the government's figure of 24.3 IF 'iOULIKED ~jfffiM\. milUVE~~f- .......... million poor people in the United States, a Catholic church WORLD OUTLOOK agency says -there are at least 40 million. In an eighty-page 19 Socialists analyze Labor report the Campaign for Human Development explains that party defeats in Canada. the government has revised its "poverty level" from what New Zealand, Australia represented 54 percent of the average median family income in 1959 to 40 percent in 1974. If the percentage had remained consistent, the figure would be 46 million poor Americans THE MILITANT today. The Catholic agency suggests the poverty line be half VOLUME 40/NUMBER 2 the average median income, or a meager $3,210 last year. JANUARY 16, 1976 CLOSING NEWS DATE-JAN. 7 Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS FIRE DESTROYS SOCIALIST PARTY OFFICES: The Managing Editor: LARRY SEIGLE national offices of the Milwaukee-based Socialist party, USA, Business Manager: ROSE OGDEN Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING were demolished by fire in late December: Arson is suspected. Washington Bureau: NANCY COLE The group's 1976 presidential campaign committee was also housed in the same building. 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