JULY 30, 1971 25 CENTS A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE i 100• campaign• 110 .. l't'Jlt/17 ST!Jilt. 'AT/ON Vietnamese struggle threatened by Nixon's IDeeting with Mao Presjdent N ixon' s decision to visit China widened access to the world market and revolution. Nixon has been .feeling sharp and meet with its leaders marks a new increased possibilities of obtaining badly effects from the combined blows of the stage in U. S. imperialism's relations with needed materials. Already the Nixon ad­ Indochinese people and the U.S. antiwar China. Th is action will probably be accom­ ministration has listed a series of commod­ movement, including large-scale Gl oppo­ panied by diplomatic recognition of China ities that can now be shipped to China sition in Vietnam. by the U.S. and its admission into the Unit­ and has likewise approved entry into the The disclosure of the Pentagon papers by ed N ations. Those who have consistently U.S. of previously banned Chinese goods. a section of the U. S. ruling class itself and defended the Chinese revolution against For the American rulers, however, these Nixon's refusal to agree to the new seven­ its foes of ov er 20 years, as The Militant ore not so much concessions as gains. The point proposal put forward by the Vietnam­ has done, will w elcome the fact that Wash­ policy of blockading China became disadvan­ ese have exposed any pretense that Nixon ington has finally been compelled to rec­ tageous long ago, and Wall Street has had has plans to end the Indochinese war soon. ognize that the People' s Republic of China many reasons for wanting to shift to a more What Nixon is really looking for is a Kor­ does exist. flexible approach. In fact, the change has ea n-type settlement that would leave the For China, U.S. recognition has its advan­ been advocdted for years by a sector of U. S. with a beachhead in V ietnam. tages. In the arena of world diplomacy, it the American ruling class. Henry Kissinger, N ixon's assistant for na­ means enhanced p restige and greater in­ The circu mstances in which Nixon took this tional security affairs, has admitted that in fluence. The economic gains will also be step at this particular time can only cause hi s negotiations w ith Chou En-lai agreements considerable, the most immediate being grave concern to defenders of the Chinese Continued on page 6 VOLUME 35/NUMBER 29 CANADIAN C~~LICITY IN NIXON'S WAR: A large ARMED FORCES ATTACKED FOR OPPRESSION OF wall poster detallmg Canada's complicity in the Vietnam GAYS: A new study of homosexuality from the Institute war is available from the York Committee to End the for Sex Research, founded by the late Dr. Alfred C. Kin­ War in Vietnam (Box 272, Richmond Hill Ontario Can­ sey, has condemned the U.S. Army's attitude toward ~da ) .. The ~oster describes Canadian milltary, poiitical, gays as "unwise, unjust, and in essence unenforceable." . fmancial, diplomatic and industrial aid to the Vietnam The study indicated that over 3,000 servicemen are given war, including the harassment of U. S. "exiles" in Can­ less-than-honorable discharges for being gay. The study ada by Canadian cops and the training of Canadian c?ncluded, '~We know too that over 90 percent of ser­ troops for Vietnam-type operations. - vicemen receive honorable discharge. It appears obvious, therefore, that most homosexuals remain undiscovered JUAN FARINAS: On June 30, the United States Court by military authorities and complete their service with of Appeals, Second Circuit, took oral arguments on the honor." Juan Farinas case. T,he decision on whether to uphold a Jan. 29 lower court ruling convicting Farinas for ob­ SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENT ACTIVISTS: On July structing the selective service system will be announced 19, a three-judge federal panel struck down as uncon­ later, probably at the end of the summer. Farinas, a stitutional a 1969 Pennsylvania law that enabled the state supporter of the Workers League, is being framed up to cut off scholarships of students involved in campus for passing out antiwar leaflets when he was called for struggles. U. S. district court Judge Joseph S. Lord III THIS induction in 1968. Contributions and letters of support stated that the law violated students' Fifth Amendment can be sent to the Juan Farinas Defense Committee, 135 protection against self-incrimination and free speech rights W. 14th St., Sixth !"loor, New York, N.Y. 10011. guar.anteed by the First Amendment. The suit was brought WEEK'S by Goddard and Haverford colleges. Lawrence Silver, attorney for the. two colleges, said, "The consequence COMMUNIST PARTY TO ANNOUNCE PRESIDENTIAL, MILITANT of the ruling is that 44 7 students previously denied aid TICKET: The July 13 Daily World announced that a under the statute will now receive aid." 3 Telephone workers strike recent meeting of the CP's national committee decided. to War of attrition on name a Communist Party presidential ticket for the 1972 ILLITERACY IN THE SOUTH PERSISTS: According rail lines elections. The candidates will be nominated at a later to the U. S. Office of Education and the Bureau of the 4 Women launch abortion date. The meeting also called a national convention of Census, nearly one million people in a dozen Southern the CP, to be held next Feb. 11-14. campaign states are unable to read and write in any language. 5 Abortion rally Another study has indicated that there are an additional HOUSTON SMOG: Noxious fumes strong enough to turn one million who are functionally illiterate. The study re­ 8 Geneva Accords white ambulances yellow have attacked the Houston water­ ported that Blacks make up one-half of the Southern il­ 10 Black Conferences in front. On July 12, 30 dock workers were forced off their literates. It reported that programs to teach Blacks to jobs by three waves of poisonous fumes emanating from San Diego and Brooklyn read are viewed by many whites as "civil rights activi­ the nearby sulphuric acid plant of the Stauffer Chemical ties" and are therefore discouraged .. 11 Where we began and Company. Half of the workers were hospitalized. Over where we are going 200 dock workers and a family of tourists have been LOS ANGELES GAY FORUM: "The Struggle for Sex­ sickened by the fumes since April 22. Howard Zeh, di­ 14 'People's Assembly' ual Liberation: A Report on Gay Pride Week," was the rector of Stauffer's plant, denied responsibility for these in Bolivia subject of the July 2 Los Angeles Militant Labor Forum. attacks of illness, claiming that the plant operated within Speaking were Johanna Gullick, a member of the Gay 15 New election coalition the lenient city and state pollution regulations. Attacks on Palestinian Women's Intergroup Council; Morris Kight, one of the organizers of the Christopher Street West parade; Don fighters L.A. COPS SUED: The father of Gustave Montag, a 24-year-old garment worker who was fatally shot Jan. Kilhefner, L.A. Gay Liberation Front; and Natalie Har­ 16 Journalist reports on ary, a member of the Socialist Workers Party and an Bangia Desh 21 during a Chicano Moratorium demonstration filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court for $250,0oo' dam­ activist in the recent L.A. Gay Women's ·conference. Kight 17 PLP-SOS and the politics ages against the county and Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess. The described how the activists who built the Christopher. Street of disruption complaint sues the sheriff and his deputies for negligence West parade started only 44 days before the action and 18 What is needling in handling their weapons arid for delay in summoning faced the handicap of a media blackout from the major networks and newspapers. PW editor? medical aid. 19 UFWOC takes offensive U.S. GRAND JURY PLANNING INDICTMENTS: Ac­ FILIPINOS AND THE U.S. NAVY: From a report in 24 Rev. Koen jailed cording to the July 15 New York Times, a federal grand Liberation News Service we learned that at cocktail par­ Davis, Magee to have jury in Boston was planning to hand down criminal ties in the captain's quarters, or during fancy state dinners separate trials indictments against Neil Sheehan, a Times reporter, for in Washington, most of the stewards who wait on the his role in the publication of the Pentagon papers. Shee­ officials are Filipinos. In 1970, approximately 14,000 han led the Times to the papers. This follows Attorney Filipinos were serving as stewards in the U. S. Navy. General John Mitchell's statements that the Supreme Court As many as 100,000 young Filipinos apply for enlist­ 2 In Brief ruling in favor of the Times and Washington Post would ment annually since the Philippines has an estimated un­ 6 In Our Opinion not prevent him from punishing the two newspapers for employment rate of 30 percent. His paycheck---' $125 a Letters exercising freedom of the press. month- puts a Navy man in the upper quarter of Fili­ pino wage earners. Most Filipino recruits can't meet re­ 7 Great Society quirements for higher Naval ratings, however, since most CULVER'S CONVICTION CONDEMNED: The National Insurgent Ma;ority ranks require U. S. citizenship and high grades on com­ Peace Action Coalition, which organized the massive April petitive English language examinations. 9 National Picket Line 24 antiwar demonstrations, condemned the conviction of 20 In Review Air Force Captain Thomas Culver for participating in DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BANNED: Six an antiwar action and petition in London on May 31.