· AUSTRALIA $1.50 · CANADA $1.50 · FRANCE 1.00 EURO · ICELAND KR100 · NEW ZEALAND $1.50 · SWEDEN KR10 · UK £.50 · U.S. $1.00 INSIDE: SWP CONVENTION ‘Mass actions for immigrant rights strengthen workers movement’ — PAGES 6–7 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 70/NO. 25 JULY 10, 2006 Bipartisan support UMWA Israeli tanks holds rally invade Gaza grows for Iraq war in W. Virginia BY PAUL PEDERSON Israeli troops and tanks poured into the Gaza Strip through its southeastern Senate unanimously approves $100 billion to unionize border with Israel just before midnight for occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan June 27, in the largest Israeli military Peabody mine operation there since Tel Aviv withdrew BY SAM MANUEL its settlements in 2005. The invasion was accompanied by air strikes that destroyed WHARTON, West Virginia, June three main bridges connecting northern 27—Some 1,500 members of the United and southern Gaza and knocked out an Mine Workers of America (UMWA) electrical plant that provides power to and their supporters rallied here June much of the densely populated region. 22 to press for unionization of a mine According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, being opened in the area by Peabody the targets of the Israeli forces include Energy, according to Phil Smith, the the city of Khan Yunis, where an Israeli UMWA’s communications director. soldier may be held hostage. The soldier, Gilad Shalit, 19, was Kentucky miners’ families: captured in a June 25 raid inside Israel ‘No miner has to die’ – p. 4 in which two Israeli soldiers and three Palestinians were killed. Three groups— Reuters/Bob Strong Peabody is opening the Black Stallion the Popular Resistance Committees; the U.S. and Iraqi troops carry out joint “knock and search” mission near Tikrit, Iraq. Large majorities in U.S. Senate rejected proposals to “redeploy” some of the U.S. troops. mine nonunion near another Peabody Army of Islam; and the military wing mine represented by the UMWA here of Hamas, the governing party in the BY PAUL PEDERSON Instead the votes reflected broad agree- in Boone County—an area of southern Palestinian National Authority (PNA)— West Virginia’s coalfields where the claimed responsibility for the raid. On June 22 the U.S. Senate unani- ment in both parties on Washington’s union has a strong presence. Shalit’s captors say he will be re- mously approved a military spending course in Iraq and the broader imperialist The rally, which drew miners and leased if some 400 Palestinian women bill of $509 billion, which includes more others from across the region, was and youths under 18 jailed in Israel are than $100 billion to finance the U.S.-led addressed by UMWA president Cecil freed. There are currently 9,000 Pales- occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan U.S. troops out now! Roberts; Joe Carter, the union’s tinians imprisoned by Tel Aviv. through the end of 2007. — editorial, p. 9 international vice president in “We won’t hesitate to carry out extreme The same day, the Senate also re- West Virginia; state AFL-CIO action to bring Gilad back to his family,” jected by clear bipartisan majorities two military offensive being prosecuted in the Continued on page 4 Continued on page 9 amendments suggesting a timetable for name of fighting the “war on terror.” beginning “redeployment” of some of the The amendment presented by Mas- 130,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. sachusetts senator John Kerry called for FBI carries out Los Angeles Widespread media reports on the de- redeployment of some U.S. forces from bate falsely presented it as a split between Iraq by July 1, 2007—“leaving only the ‘antiterror’ raid the Democratic and Republican parties. Continued on page 3 conference: in Miami, bases ‘Legalize all Socialist Workers launch case on informer BY MARGARET TROWE immigrants!’ MIAMI—On June 22, FBI agents BY NAOMI CRAINE election campaign in N.Y. arrested seven workers that U.S. Jus- AND ARLENE RUBINSTEIN tice Department officials claim were BY MARTÍN KOPPEL Senate and Maura DeLuca for gover- LOS ANGELES—Some 300 people NEW YORK, June 25—Support- nor. Calero, 37, was the party’s presi- involved in a “terrorist” plot. They were indicted on various conspiracy active in the fight to legalize all immi- ers of the Socialist Workers Party dential candidate in 2004. DeLuca, 27, grants took part in a statewide regional candidates here hit the streets of this a garment worker, is also a member of charges, including alleged plots to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago conference here June 17 at the United city today to campaign for the work- the Young Socialists, a group actively Teachers of Los Angeles hall. The ing-class alternative to the Democrats, campaigning for the SWP ticket. and the FBI offices in Miami, based on the statements and actions of an meeting was convened by the March Republicans, and other capitalist parties The socialist ticket also in 25 Coalition, which organized two mas- in the 2006 elections. cludes: for lieutenant governor, Ben FBI informer posing as a representa- tive of al-Qaeda. sive mobilizations for immigrants rights The SWP just announced a statewide O’Shaughnessy, 20, a student at the State earlier this year. ticket headed by Róger Calero for U.S. Continued on page 4 FBI agents and a SWAT unit swarmed into the Black community “The most important thing accom- of Liberty City, cordoned off several plished at the conference was a con- Continued on page 9 sensus of an absolute repudiation of the Senate immigration bill S2611, along Thousands in Continued on page 8 London protest Also Inside: ‘antiterror’ raid Backers of a woman’s right BY PAUL DAVIES to choose abortion defend clinic in Florida 2 LONDON—Thousands of dem- onstrators converged on Forest Gate, Cops kill Navajo youth East London, June 18 to protest a police in Farmington, New Mexico 3 “anti-terror” raid. Organizers demanded an apology from the police and govern- ment for a shooting during the raid that At UAW convention, injured a postal worker. officials push concessions 3 Militant/Marshall Lambie Some 250 officers had raided a house Maura DeLuca (left), SWP candidate for governor of New York, and Martín Koppel in Lansdown Road, Forest Gate, on Canada Natives fight for land 5 (center), the party’s candidate for state attorney general, campaign in Manhattan June 25. Continued on page 9 Harvard exhibit helps promote new Abortion rights supporters edition of ‘The Case of Leon Trotsky’ defend clinic in Miami BY TED LEONARD Trotsky had contacted Harvard about and against the Stalinist politi- CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts—A safeguarding his archives, and the uni- cal counterrevolution—offers reception and program at the opening of versity had agreed. invaluable political lessons for the exhibit, “Brushes with History: Leon Christie McDonald, chairperson of the workers and farmers engaged Trotsky and the Dewey Commission of Harvard University Romance Language in class battles today, he said. Inquiry,” was held June 13 in the Hough- Department, organized the exhibition. In The exhibition includes a ton Library at Harvard University here. her remarks she explained how her par- portrait of Trotsky by Eisner; The republication by Pathfi nder Press of ents, the artist Dorothy Eisner and John her sketches, pictures, and the long out of print book The Case of McDonald, traveled from New York correspondence with Trotsky Leon Trotsky was one of the features of to Mexico in 1937 to assist the Dewey from the trip; and Christie the event (see ad below). Commission in its inquiry of the charges McDonald’s article, “Brushes Leslie Morris, curator of Modern made against Leon Trotsky in the Mos- with History,” which is pub- Books and Manuscripts at the Hough- cow Trials organized by the regime of lished this year in issue 30 of ton Library, welcomed people and ex- Joseph Stalin. Harvard Review. It recounts her plained that Harvard University houses parent’s experiences that led Pathfi nder’s new edition of The Case Militant/Nancy Cole Leon Trotsky’s papers. In the late 1930s of Leon Trotsky, the verbatim transcript them to Mexico in the 1930s. KENDALL, Florida, June 10—Defenders of of the hearings, is enhanced with a new About 50 people attended a woman’s right to choose abortion rallied Back in print! cover using Eisner’s vibrant painting of the event, including students today outside “A Choice for Women” clinic the Dewey Commission sessions. The and faculty from Harvard, in this suburb of Miami to counter anti-abor- The Case of Leon Trotsky new edition, with larger type and text volunteers who had worked on tion demonstrators who were trying to harass design, is displayed next to the 1937 preparing the new Pathfi nder women entering the facility. Every Saturday In testimony in fi rst edition. The book also includes the edition, and others from the over the last month, opponents of a woman’s Mexico before the artist’s preliminary sketch of the work. right to choose abortion have held such ac- 1937 Commission Boston area. tions at this clinic. The regular presence of of Inquiry into the Christie McDonald had brought the The exhibit is open until Moscow Trials, painting to the attention of Pathfi nder. July 31. pro-choice forces has made it possible for Bolshevik leader Mike Taber spoke about the republica- women to keep their appointments with Leon Trotsky tion of the book by Pathfi nder. He said Dave Prince contributed to minimal harassment. explains how the the publisher will soon bring back into this article. —RUTH ROBINETT Soviet regime print the book’s sister volume, Not Guilty.