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Avenge PAlCO and PhiUr MOVE!

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Whr U.S. Feared Trial for "Journalist"

The Daniloll Dossier'Young

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As wildcat fever was at its height inPuget Sound, just across the border inVancouver, 4,000 Canadian longshore­men were threatening to strike. Even thebeleaguered United Steelworkers strik­ing USX were flexing a little muscle: onOctober 2 at the Fairless plant outsidePhiladelphia some 1,200 USWA mem­bers and supporters blocked a scab steelshipment by massing on the railroadtracks. Despite a series of recent uniondefeats and sellouts, the strike action iscontinuing.. And now it's spreading tothe heavy battalions of labor. Aircraftworkers have got some muscle-use it!When ILA longshoremen-whose busi­ness union leadership is so conservativethat it backed Reagan-and workers indefense plants are ready to walk, thatspells bad news for the White House andthe bosses.

Six years of Reagan reaction havesystematically attacked virtually everysector of the American population.Blacks and other minorities had fewillusions with the KKK's favorite"Klandidate" in the White House. Thelimited civil rights gains of the '60s havebeen under attack, busing rolled back inNorfolk and elsewhere. The brutal

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war drive, the aerospace corporationsare rolling in profits: Boeing made $566million last year alone, up 45 percentfrom the previous year. But-all that theworkers have gotten is massive give­backs. The company's latest offer is tomaintain the two-tier wage system whilebuying off the labor fakers with a unionshop (i.e., increasing their dues base).The contract has been extended on aday-to-day 'basis, as tens of thousands ofLockheed and McDonnell Douglasworkers (whose contracts expire laterthis month) are looking to Seattle to setthe pace. Shut down Boeing now!Smash the two-tier wage system! For anationwide aerospace strike!

"who blinked first," since the SovietUnion, at least, does not look upon itsdealings with the U.S. like a soccergame. But it is clear that the Reaganadministration had suddenly becomeextremely, even desperately anxiousto spring Daniloff. What happened?

Now even U.S. officials are admit­ting that they had to swap Daniloffbecause, in the words of one anony­mous government official, "It wasvery, very important to avoid a trial.".

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would certainly be "no trade." But thetune quickly changed as word leakedout that the two men would indeed betraded (with the fig leaf of a Soviet"dissident" thrown in).

Reaganite conservatives weredumbfounded, and accused Reaganof "blinking." "I didn't blink," Reaganprotested, and after the deal wasclinched, he snapped, "They blinked."Soviet Foreign Minister EduardShevardnadze casually and correctlyobserved that it is not a question of

vice president, Justin Ostrow, said,'This is the best contract we can bringyou short of a strike'."

-s-Seattle Post Intelligencer,4 October

Ostrow reportedly remarked later thatwhen your membership boos a priestand the national anthem, you knowyou're in trouble. You bet! But thebureaucrats would rather be in troublewith the membership than with thecompanies.

Later that day a majority of Boeingworkers in the Puget Sound area votedwith their feet, refusing to show up forthe graveyard shift. With Reaganpumping billions into his anti-Soviet

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Workers fed up. Above: Steel workers block deliveriesat USX Fairless plant near Philadelphia. Top right:Longshore strike shut down East Coast ports. Bottomright: Angry Boeing workers in Seattle voted downgiveback contract.

When the Soviet KGB first arrestedNicholas Daniloff, "correspondent"for u.s. News & World Report inMoscow, on espionage charges Au­gust 30, the Reagan White Housestarted shrieking that he was an"innocent hostage," imprisoned sim­ply to be exchanged for Soviet UNemployee Gennadi Zakharov, whohad been arrested by the FBI in NewYork the previous week. The twocases were completely "different," theOval Office thundered, and there

When 30,000 longshoremen hit thebricks at 12:01 a.m., October I, a knock­down, drag-outclass battle was shapingup. East Coast dockers were fighting forall American labor. The maritimebosses were taken by surprise: theyweren't expecting a walkout. Theyfigured the dock workers would comecrawling, do anything to avoid a strike.But the longshoremen said, "No moregivebacks!" Tens of thousands of tons ofcargo were left sitting idle in the ports.Militant mass pickets shut down NewYork's key containerized facilities tight,and for a change it was the scabs whowere on the receiving end (one reported­ly broke his legs). It started off as thebiggest labor confrontation since thecoal miners strike in 1978-79. Eventhough within three days the leadershipof the International Longshoremen'sAssociation (ILA) called it off, much tothe disgust of militant strikers, it's notover. Contracts were extended, "coolingout" the situation for 45 days.

At the same time, on the West CoastBoeing aircraft workers Were over­whelmingly rejecting a proposed con­tract. Twenty thousand workers packedinto Seattle's Kingdome on October 3:seething mad, they shouted down unionbureaucrats of the International Asso­ciation of Machinists (lAM), demand­ing "Strike, strike, strike!" Militantswore T-shirts with the slogan, "The waris on!" One press account graphicallydepicted the massive anger and disgustfor the gutless lAM tops:

..... machinists who assembled in theKingdome to vote onthe proposal. ..booed their negotiating team, theybooed the priest who gave the invoca­tion and they especially booed the tykewho sang the national anthem, 'Ameri­ca: and 'God Bless America' and ledthem in the Pledge ofAllegiance ... thenhooted derisively as the union'sgeneral

All Honor toSoviet Submariners

Paris, LondonDemonstrations to Free

Bolivian Miner

Le BolchevlkParis, September 30-Llgue Trotskyste de France demands freedomfor Eleuterio Gutierrez.

05 October 1986

To: United Nations Mission of the USSR, New YorkTASS, New YorkEmbassy of the USSR, Washington, D,C.Consulate of the USSR,San FranciscoEmbassy of the USSR, ParisPravda, MoscowSoviet Navy, Moscow

Attn: Commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy

We note with extreme regret the loss of th ree of you r men inactive duty in the Atlantic Ocean.

W~ must believe that the mission of the boat was related tothe defense of the peoples of the world against imperialism.

We can only hope that the boat remains operational inpursuit of its mission. '

And we wish to extend our profound condolences to thefamilies and comrades of the men who died in performance oftheir duties, and we can only wish very well for survivingmembers of the crew.

Helene Brosius, Secretary of the international Spartacist tendency

Spartacist League/U.S.Trotskyist League of CanadaLega Trotskista d'italiaSpartacist League of Australia/New ZealandLigue Trotskyste de FranceTrotzkistische Liga DeutschlandsSpartacist League/LankaSpartacist League/Britain

On October 3, a fire broke out on a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine some 1,000kilometers (620 miles) northeast of Bermuda. The Soviet press agency TASS releaseddetails the next day, reporting that there were casualties and three Soviet sailors diedin the accident, but there was no danger of a nuclear incident. The internationalSpartacist tendency sent a telegram of condolences, printed below, to theCommander in Chief of the Soviet Navy. Subsequently, on October 6: TASSreported that despite rescue efforts by Soviet ships "the submarine ... sank at a greatdepth." Fortunately, there were no further losses.

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references to "rockets and other militarysubjects." A few months later Daniloffreturned to the embassy and met in asecure room with two officials to discusshis relations with Father Roman.According to the Soviets, a CIA officerlater contacted the priest, introducinghimself as a "friend" of the reporter"Nikolai." The New York Times (6October) reports:

"Mr. Daniloff said that at first heassumed the [Soviet] evidence wasfabricated but that since returning toWashingtonhehas learnedthat aC.l.A.officer in Moscow did communicatewith Father Roman."

Significantly, the man the Sovietsidentify as CIA station chief, MuratNatirboff, left Moscow about three daysafter Daniloff was arrested.

While the V.S. media establishmentwas throwing a tantrum over Dani­loff''s arrest, we demanded "a fair trial:an open, public trial with a defensecounsel of his choice and strictlyaccording to Soviet jurisprudence" (WVNo. 411, 12 September). But Daniloff'ssponsors were scared to death of a fairtrial. So they brought him in out of thecold to be a huckster for "freedom."Daniloff immediately went to the WhiteHouse where he spewed sycophanticpraise for Reagan, and then it was offtoDisney Worid to celebrate the bicenten­nial of the U.S. Constitution withMickey Mouse and his pals.just-retiredSupreme Court chief justice Burger andultrarightist Phyllis Schlafly.

Needless to say, we didn't see scream­ing headlines like "EVIDENCE OFDANILOFF-CIA LINK" splashedacross the front pages of the New YorkTimes, New York Post, et al. It isheartening, though, that at the height ofthe brouhaha over Daniloff a Galluppoll reported that 32 percent of allAmericans believed Daniloff was a spy.This caused consternation among TVcommentators who worried over theairwaves that a decade after Vietnamand Watergate, the American peoplestill don't trust their government.Wonder why. White House mediaadvisers keep forgetting that· you can'tfool all the people all the time, and nowsome of their endless disinformationschemes are blowing up in Reagan'sface.. .

Expropriate the Expropriators!In April 1939' Leon Trotsky wrote an

introduction to an abridgment of Marx'sCapital by the Marxist scholar Otto Ruhle.Trotsky's introduction, summarizing andbringing up to date Marx's analysis ofcapitalism.swas particularly directed toAmerican workers.

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scribing it as "a map that appeared to beon a board-a troop placement thing."

Daniloff openly admits delivering tothe U.S. embassy in January 1985 anenvelope from a priest known as FatherRoman. According to Newsday; thisenvelope "contained other envelopes,including one addressed to CIA directorWilliam Casey" and a letter with

That part of the product which goes tocover the worker's own subsistence Marxcalls necessary-product; that part which

the worker produces above this, issurplus-product. Surplus-product must have beenproduced by the slave, or the slave-owner would not have kept any slaves. Surplus­product must have been produced by the serf, or serfdom would have been of no useto the landed gentry. Surplus-product, only to a considerably greater extent, islikewise produced by the wage worker, or the capitalist would have no need to buylabor power. The class struggle is nothing else than the struggle for surplus-product.He who owns surplus-product is master of the situation-owns wealth, owns thestate, has the key to the church, to the courts, to the sciences and to the arts.

- Leon Trotsky, Marxism in Our Time (1939)

Daniloff...(continued from page 1)Why? As Newsday (2 October) report­ed: "U.S. Had to Rescue Daniloff: CIABungle 'Named' Him a Spy." A Harvardreport on the class of '56 surfaced inwhich Daniloff"jocularly" remarks that"I became a journalist by chance," be­cause "the CIA ... found my mind lack­ing" (Boston Globe, 13 September).Worse, Daniloff "was showing signs of'Stockholm syndrome't'-e-i.e., they wereafraid he was getting ready to talk!

In short, the Reagan administrationwas afraid "the Soviets could puttogether a seemingly credible espionagecase," as the Los Angeles Times (2October) put it delicately. For instance,the Times notes that in the summer of1985 Daniloff obtained from his Sovietfriend "Misha" a Soviet map of Afghan­istan, marked "secret" in Russian, whichhe sent home to his editors. A U.S. Newsofficial admitted seeing the map, de-

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Twice in the last year, the rightist,V.S.-backed Bolivian government ofVictor Paz Estenssoro has declared astate of siege to crush worker-peasantrebellion against IMF starvationpolicies. The brunt of the repressionhas been directed at the militant tinminers, one of whom, EleuterioGutierrez, has been locked up for thelast 12 months on fabricated chargesin the stinking jails of the miningtown of Oruro. On September 30,comrades of the international Spar­tacist tendency participated in pro­tests in London and Paris demandingfreedom for Gutierrez and all victimsof rightist repression in Bolivia.

The demonstrations were initiatedby Workers Power, a British centristgrouping which claims to be Trotsky­ist. In London, where a modestpicket was held in front of theBolivian embassy, approximatelyhalf the participants were supportersof the Spartacist League. Spartacistscarried the slogan "For a BolivianTrotskyist Party," which WorkersPower considered not in the spirit of"unity." In Paris, a dozen of ourcomrades of the Ligue Trotskyste deFrance and several Latin Americanexiles showed up but only a hand­ful of French Workers;Powersupporters.

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South Africa: The Day They Stopped the GoldBlack Miners in Massive Strike

ReutersJohannesburg-Black miners at memorial meeting for victims of apartheidcapitalism killed in worst gold mine disaster in South African history.

Workers League Cop-Lovers

On October I, over 250,000 blackSouth African miners staged a one-daystrike in response to a National Union ofMineworkers call for a-national day ofmourning for the 177miners, almost allblack, who were killed September 16 ina fire at the Kinross mine owned by theviciously anti-union Gencor company.Workers from Gencor mines, and fromthe huge Anglo American conglomerateas well, stopped the flow of gold to theapartheid bosses in .the largest minersstrike ever. The action attracted widesympathy among South Africa's op­pressed masses; another quarter millionworkers, many from the chemical andmetal industries, supported the minersby striking or holding memorial servicesof their own.

The deaths at Kinross No. 2 minewere mass murder. The Randlords'systematic destruction of black workers'lives as they push production to the limitand beyond touched off outrage againstthe bloodsucking gold mining industryand the brutal system that supports it. Inthe face of the miners' solid determina­tion, for one day the bosses and thewhite government had to back off.Once again, as in the massive June 16

7 October 1986

To the Editor:

In the recent WV article on DavidNorth's "Workers" League ["Lord ofthe Fleas," WV No. 412, 26 September]the point is made that "To the extentthat the Healyites had a coherentpolitical core, they were cringinglegalists/ Labourite economists...." Tounderline this observation, you haveonly to examine the record of theWorkers League on cops and so-calledcop "unions." In the WL's recent seriesattacking the Spartacist League, in PartFive which the.WL self-revealingly titles"An Obsession with Race," the WLclaims we slander them when wedenounce their support to the 197lNewYork City cop "strike." After all, ithappened "more than '15 years ago"­this is clearly ancient history for thesegrotesque opportunists who need atwice-weekly paper simply to keep upwith their flip-flops and line changes. Inthe same article, they complain aboutthe large number of WVarticles devotedto the fight against the racist cops andfascist terrorists in I985-the year of thehideous racist state massacre of PhillyMOVE.

The Workers League's support to thepolice "strike" did not fall from theskies. It is an expression of the WL'santi-Marxist line that the brutal racistcops-the core of the bourgeois state­are part of the labor movement. Thisposition is a measure of the WL's grosscapitulation to the worst elements of thepro-imperialist, racist, job-trusting la­bor tops.

In its existence, the WL has had onlyone "industrial" concentration, a groupcalled the "Committee for a NewLeadership" (CNL), in a NYC white­collar welfare workers union, whichbecame AFSCME Local 371. In the late1960s, the CNL agitated for the union tosupport the demand by welfare cops for"peace officer" status-which wouldauthorize them to carry guns. Even thethoroughly reformist president of the

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stayaway strike commemorating the1976 Soweto massacre, the black work­ers landed a powerful blow againstBotha's draconian state of emergency.Memorial services went on virtuallyunmolested; mine owners were forced towatch as black miners shut off thesource of their profits.

A week earlier, on September 25, inthe township of Embalenhle, close to theKinross mine's No.2 shaft, thousands ofworkers from six surrounding minesattended a memorial and rally in the'township's stadium. Winnie' Mandela,the wife of long-imprisoned and reveredAfrican National Congress (ANC) lead­er Nelson Mandela, spoke powerfully,hitting at the crux of the crisis in SouthAfrica:

"There may very well come a time whenyour leaders will ask you for greatersacrifices than a one-day strike, becauseyou are digging the wealth that lets themsit on those Casspirs [armored person­nel carriers]."The moment you stop digging theirgold, their diamonds, that's the momentwe shall be free. You dig the wealth.You hold that golden key for ourliberation."

-New York Times,25 September

union, Marty Morgenstern, arguedagainst the CNL's motion, pointing outthat the only people that armed welfarecops would shoot would be welfarerecipients and welfare workers. Themotion was defeated.

The 1971 NYC cop "strike" was theculmination of a decade of growingracist cop terror and bonapartismexemplified in the formation of the cop"union," the Patrolmen's BenevolentAssociation, with close ties to theMinutemen and John Birch Society, in1963, and the police riots in Harlem thefollowing year. (It is indicative that thelast "strike" by NYC's "finest" occurredin 1863 when.they refused to put downpro-slavery draft riots and burning ofblack orphanages.) .

The WL's Bulletin covered the cop·"strike" in its 25January 1971 issue in anarticle entitled "New York Labor BeginsShowdown." The article was accompa­nied by a picture of marching cops,described in the photo caption as"militant policemen." Thus, to the WLthese professional strikebreakers andracist killers constituted a militantvanguard of New York labor! The 15February 1971 Bulletin was even moreexplicit. An article incredibly entitled"In Defense of the Working Class"stated: "The significance of all this is theimportance of placing the recent NewYork police strike within the frameworkof the general movement of the workingclass and at the same time seeking tounderstand what underlies this move­ment of the class." What underlay thismovement of the cops was the civilrights movement and the ghettoexplosions-namely, the cops and their"unions" behaved as shock troops of the"white backlash" against the movementof the oppressed working people. Thecops, with true fascist mentality, sawbourgeois liberals like New York mayorJohn Lindsay as "soft" 'on blacks andradicals. As far as the cops were

-concerned, the courts were "on the sideof the criminals," so therefore dark­skinned "perpetrators" should be simply

The miners responded with shouts of"Amandla!" (Power!), "Awetu!" (Itshall be ours!).

But when the ANC speaks of the'miners as key to "freedom" in SouthAfrica, they mean. something quitedifferent from the black masses' yearn­ing for power to carry out a socialrevolution and free themselves fromapartheid wage' slavery. Instead, theANC hopes to use the pressure of amassive two-year-Iong black upsurge to

shot down in the streets.-A few months after the WL's cham­

pionship of the 1971 cop "strike" camethe gruesome Attica prison massacre.This became an issue at the 1972international convention of AFSCME,which included not only a large numberof government workers, including poor­ly paid racial minorities, but 10,000cops and prison guards including theAttica guards! At the convention, theSpartacist-supported Militant Caucus(MC) from Los Angeles introduced aresolution demanding the-expulsion ofcops and prison guards from-the union(see WV No. 10,July-August 1972). AnMC spokesman made the elementarypoint that excluding the cops wouldstrengthen the union, because it isimpossible to defend both the rights ofthose who struggle against exploitationand oppression and the "rights" ofthosewhose job it is to suppress that struggle,Then-president of AFSCME, JerryWurf, relinquished the chair of theconvention to take the floor and launchinto a 20-minute redbaiting diatribeagainst the MC. The Workers Leaguesupporters vigorously defended keeping

10,000 armed NYC police rally forkiller cop SuUlvan, racist murder­er of black grandmother EleanorBumpurs, 1985. Was David Norththere?

broker a "power-sharing" deal .with"liberal" elements of the white rulingclass, typified by Anglo Americanchairman Gavin Reily. The black SouthAfrican proletariat has the power to

. smash apartheid slavery! What is ur­gently needed now is the revolutionaryleadership of a racially integrated Trot­skyist vanguard party to expropriate thebloodsucking apartheid ruling class andform a black-centered workers govern­ment in South Africa.•

Letterthe butchers of Attica and the racistkiller cops in the union.

Last year, the New York cops stagedan ominous bonapartist mobilizationafter one of their number got a slap onthe wrist for blowing away blackgrandmother Eleanor Bumpurs with ashotgun because she had fallen behindin her rent. Was David North therealongside his cop "brothers" as theysurrounded a courthouse demandingtheir "rights"? Does the WL supportbetter wages and working conditions forthe cops of South Africa as they wreakthe apartheid rulers' vengeance upon thedefiant masses?

Perhaps the most consistent featureof the WL's zigzagging political historyis its endless, empty, fake-agitationalcall for a "labor party." For example, inthe same anti-Spartacist Bulletin series,in Part Three, entitled "Opponents ofthe Fight for the Labor Party," the WLdenounces our advocacy of the militanttactics that built the trade unions in thiscountry-mass picketing to stop scabsand shut down struck plants, "hot­cargoing" actions by other unions,refusing to play by the bosses' rules inthe matter of strikebreaking laws andcourt injunctions, etc.-as "sheer ad­venturism" in the absence of a laborparty. But what kind oflabor party doesthe WL want? They are for a "laborparty" that only the late George Meany,archetypal Cold War labor bureaucrat,could love.

Even at the height of the radicalactivism of the 1960s, when all ofAmerican society was shaken up by themass struggle for black civil rights, whenmillions of American workers weredisenchanted with the support of theAFL-CIO tops for the war againstVietnam, the WL in 1967put out a five­point program for its "Trade Unionistsfor a Labor Party" which had not oneword to say about the Vietnam War orblack people! A "labor party" whichscorns' the fight against U.S. imperial­ism, which has "nothing special" (i.e.,nothing) to offer the black componentof the proletariat in this viciously racistcountry-this is the real program of theWorkers League.

Reuben Shiffman

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wage controls .and elimination of acontract. clause guaranteeing unioncontainer-stuffing rights. The dockershad been working without a contractsince December, but finally bn Octo­ber 6 the maritime bosses declared alockout. The Canadian ILWU topsresponded by encouraging the U.S.locals to work diverted cargo, andoffered to move grain that was threaten­ing to rot because of a grain handlersstrike in the Great Lakes port ofThunder Bay. Vancouver should havebeen shut down tight; laying the basisfor coastwide strike solidarity with the1LA..1LWU and 1LA shouldbe one bigunion-For waterfront unity!

Break with the Democrats! Downwith the Anti-Soviet War Drive!

One striking longshoreman in Jerseyspoke for millions of unionists when hebitterly noted, "The whole labor move­ment should have been out there withPATCO; if we had stopped them atPATCO, then the auto workers, Team­sters, none of those guys would havetaken concessions, we wouldn't be in thesituation we are today." But the PAT­CO debacle didn't have to happen, andit can be reversed. While the air trafficcontrollers were striking, in September1981 the AFL-CIO bureaucrats calledwhat turned out to be the largest labordemonstration in American historyas 500,000 trade unionists marchedthrough Washington, D.C. If only afraction of that strength had beenmobilized in picketing out the airports,the strike would have been won in a fewdays. But the labor fakers kept theairports working, and distributed stick­ers reading, "Solidarity in '8 I-Victoryin '82.". Their answer is not class strug­gle. but electing Democrats.

the Democratic Carter-Mondale ad­ministration, which slapped a Taft­Hartley injunction on the 1917-78miners strike, paved the way for Reaganunion-busting. (They also designed the.plan for smashing PATeO .that theReagan gang carried out.) And sincethen Democrats have done their share ofstrikebreaking: Koch against New YorkCity transit workers, Arizona governorBabbitt and Minnesota governor Per­pich calling out the National Guardagainst Phelps Dodge strikers and Hor­mel workers, and from Philly to Detroitblack Democratic mayors are thehatchet men for Reagan austerity. Thepro-Democratic party labor fakersaren't about to mobilize against gov­ernment strikebreaking, either. Promi­nent among the union misleaders whoordered their members- to 'scab onPATCO was lAM head William("Wimpy") Winpisinger, His pal Bill("Loser") Wynn, who heads the UnitedFood and Commercial Workers, carriedout the same scabbing policy against hisown members at Hormel. And todayWinpisinger's screwing the Boeingworkers: a 6 October bulletin issued by

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tors" (flying pickets). That's what needsto happen. There should have been asolid East and Gulf Coast strike whenthe first scab outfits began operating inthe South, aggressively organizing theunorganized. And there should be aunited strike today: New OrleanslLAers overwhelmingly voted down thegiveback pact. But as the bureaucracygives up more and.moreefthe hard-wongains, the union is fragmenting. What'sneeded is an all-out strike to rip up theconcessions everywhere and fight forone standard ILA contract, equalizingwages and benefits at the highest levels.

And what about linking up with WestCoast longshoremen? While the ILAstruck, the ILWU fiddled, even though4,000 Canadian ILWUers centered inVancouver were facing government

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tional Longshoremen's Associationstrike was called, the SpartacistLeague had the first issues of ourspecial WV supplement, "Let's WinThis One!" out to the picket lines. Intwo days, 200,000 copies were in thehands of striking longshoremen andother unionists in the struck EastCoast port cities as well as theSouthern and Gulf ports, the Mid­west, West Coast and Canada. Witha potentially explosive battle againstReaganite union-busting in the off­ing, we blitzed union halls, shopping

appreciated the supplement: we werevirtually the only ones to defend themwhile the battle was on. The issue was ahit in black neighborhoods as well:sympathetic black merchants displayedthe supplement prominently in theirstores, check-out clerks in supermarketswere stuffing them in customers' shop­ping bags. Our paper struck a deepchord because it addressed the burningquestions confronting the workers andoppressed: a program to bust the union­busters. to smash the Klan, to forge aworkers party to defeat the war onblacks and labor with sharp classstruggle.

When the longshoremen struck, theyshowed. that the unions don't have toplay patsy. For the first 24 hours, themass picketing at the container yards inPort Elizabeth, New Jerseyenforced thestrikers' demand of"nothing in, nothingout." Some scab drivers got an "educa­tion," while their rigs ended up disabledin the roadway: But it didn't stay thatway for long. Trying to defuse a hardconfrontation in order to facilitate adeal with the bosses, the bureaucratssucceeded in dispersing the mass pick­ets. Militants who came to "shut itdown" were disgusted; many stoppedpicketing altogether. .In Norfolk therewere no pickets at all-a "tactic" de­signed by the bureaucrats to allowlLAshort-shoremen to empty docksidewarehouses without having to confrontstriking longshoremen.

Longshoremen were particularly an­gered that they weren't fighting togeth­er as a union. While ports from Norfolknorth struck, ILAers in the southAtlantic and Gulf ports worked-underconcession terms thattheir brothers andsisters were striking against! Rumors offlying pickets coming down from NewJersey circulated through Southernports. The Savannah Morning News (3October) railed against "outside agita-

WV PhotosWV supplement: "Let's Win This One!" A quarter million copies weredistributed in three days.

WV PhotoPATCO strike could have been wonby real solidarity action by Machin­ists, Teamsters, pilots unions.

Bust the Union-Busters!

When the longshoremen struck, theSpartacist League rushed out a specialfour-page Workers Vanguard supple­ment (included in this issue) headlined"Let's Win This One!" We knew that theILA was a key powerhouse of labor,with strong picket line traditions and asubstantial militant black component inthe membership. The strikers could notbe so easily isolated, like Hormel meat­packers in rural Minnesota or Hispaniccannery workers in Watsonville, Cali­fornia. And millions were prepared torally behind the longshoremen: finally,they said, someone was taking on theracist labor-haters. Especially in theSouth, where the ILA locals are out­posts of black union power, our per­spective of class struggle and revolution­ary integrationism got a solid reception.

In three days Spartacist teams hit 36cities, distributing a quarter million WVsupplements to longshoremen on all.three coasts, to Boeing workers, strikingsteel workers, transit workers in NewYork, Philly and Chicago, and through­out black communities. ILAers deeply

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massacre of the black MOVE communein Philadelphia had the signature of theReagan years all over it. But Reagan'sapocalyptic Star Wars fantasies can't befinanced simply by squeezing welfaremothers and the poor. So the unionscame under the gun. When Reaganbusted the PATCO air traffic control­lers union in 1981, it set the stage for amassive concessions drive and outrightunion-busting. Scabherding on the elitePATCO union was followed by scab­herding against Greyhound strikers,Phelps Dodge copper miners, Hormelpackinghouse workers.

But today it looks like Reagan couldbe on the edge. A little over a year ago heshocked Americans by commemoratingNazi SS war criminals at Bitburg; noweven most of Reagan's RepublicanParty has deserted him in overriding hisveto of token sanctions imposed onBorha's apartheid South Africa. Andwith the Supreme Court headed byarch-bigot Rehnquist, one of the leadingwitchhunters behind the recent sodomydecision, even white middle-class Amer­icans are worried about the sex policesnooping around their bedrooms. Rea­gan and Rehnquist, Bitburg and Botha:a lot of people are plain fed up with theReaganites and ready to.say, screw you!And just when the bosses think it'slockout city, union struggles flare up onthe East and West Coasts. The objectivepossibility exists to bring Reagan downthrough sharp class struggle. with theworking class at the 'head of all theoppressed.

Labor: Sock Itto Reagan...

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lAM District Lodge 751 in Puget Soundtried to excuse its own inaction - bydeclaring that the International haddenied strike sanction.

Behind the bureaucracy's capitula­tion is anti-Soviet militarization. Sincethe ILA tops support the war drive, theyordered the membership to work themilitary cargo in Norfolk and otherstruck ports, scabbing on their ownstrike to aid ReaganjBotha's pro­apartheid puppet Savimbi. And "Dem­ocratic Socialist" Winpisinger (alongwith the rest of the U.S, labor bureauc­racy) is a certified booster of the anti­Soviet war drive just as much as RonaldReagan or the former "Senator fromBoeing," Henry Jackson. The SL hasinsisted that the membership must beprepared politically to fight the "nation­al security" crap which will be used tojustify strikebreaking. But while thePentagon was worrying that a Seattlewildcat might spill over to unionizedBoeing personnel from VandenbergAFB to Cape Canaveral, leaflets passedout at the Kingdome by the Marxist­Leninist Party and Progressive LaborParty neglected to say one word aboutU.S. imperialism's war buildup againstthe Soviet Union.

Significantly, the last full-scale dockstrike took place during the VietnamWar in 1971 when the ILA and lLWUstruck at the same time. But within sixdays the ILWU buckled under to a Taft­Hartley injunction. Before, the "cooling

. off" period against the ILWU expired,the ILA went back to work, and thestrike seesawed from coast to coast sothat both wouldn't be out at once.Behind this was the unwillingness of thepro-capitalist bureaucracy, both theILA's Gleason and the ILWU's "pro­gressive" Harry Bridges, to confront thestate, particularly in the middle of a war.And so longshoremen were made to eatNixon's wage controls. While outfitslike the Workers League capitulated to

Signature of theReagan years:

bombing of blackMOVE commune

by Wilson Goode,black Democratic

mayor ofPhiladelphia.

business unionism, refusing to evenmention the war, the SL demanded:"For Labor Political Strikes Againstthe War and Nixon's 'Wage-Strike'Freeze!" (Workers Vanguard No.2,November 1971).

For Workers Action to Bring.Down Reagan

Ever since Reagan busted PATCO,the American ruling class has been onthe rampage against the labormovement-cutting wages, slashingbenefits and taking away union gainswon over decades of hard struggle. TheNew York Times (5 October) bragsabout management playing hardball, ina long article on "Business Brings Backthe Lockout." Beginning with the attackon black USWA workers at the Hess Oilrefinery in St. Croix, U.S. VirginIslands, this trend has gone national asJohn Deere and USX shut the gates.Last month' Brooklyn Union Gas didjust that to 2,300 clerks and mechanicsin the Transport Workers Union. Theboss arrogantly remarked, "We have apolicy at this company-e-nocontract, no

work." But now some of labor's big gunsare being forced to stand up orsurrender-and the workers are in nomood to surrender without a fight.

A walkout on the Atlantic and GulfCoast docks would in short orderdisrupt much of the Americaneconomy-the Journal ofCommerce (3October) headlined, "Shippers FearHeavy Losses If Strike Lasts Beyond 5Days." It would also disrupt thePentagon's shipment of arms to its anti­Communist allies, from Zionist Israel toReagan's contras around the globe. Thelate Isaac Deutscher caught this whenduring the Vietnam War he told agathering of Berkeley students that hewould trade all their antiwar protests forjust one dock strike. At the same time,the government would surely attack anyserious longshore or Boeing strike as athreat to "national security" if notoutright aid to "Soviet-sponsored ter­rorism"! Any 'strike here will become

. political from the get-go. We say: fightthe anti-Soviet war drive by wagingclass war against the warmongers!

To win, the workers will need to

mobilize support from broad sections ofthe American people. And this can bedone. There is a reaction to Reaganreaction abroad in the land. In the blackghettos and Hispanic barrios there isdeep hatred for everything this KKK­endorsed president stands for. Farmers,traditionally held up as the backbone ofmiddle America, are in desperate straits.Even yuppie baby boomers can't affordto buy a house, .and factory workershave seen their real wages declinesteadily for the past decade and a half.The campuses are outraged over' Rea­gan's flagrant backing of apartheidSouth Africa, and remembering theU.S.' humiliating defeat in Vietnam,public opinion overwhelmingly wantsnothing to do with the CIA's contras inNicaragua. And anyone who smokes ajoint, buys a copy of Playboy or rents anXvrated video cassette is looking overtheir shoulder for the Meese police.

This country can explode, rising upagainst the Reagan White House. Butfor the workers and oppressed to emergevictorious, what's needed is a consciousproletarian leadership. And that meansacting, as Lenin said communists must,as a "tribune of the people," champion­ing the cause of all the oppressed. Ablack longshoreman in Philadelphiawho was prepared "to do what it takes tostop the cuts" spoke bitterly of thehorrendous firebombing of the blackMOVE commune: "Wilson Goode andeverybody else responsible for, thosemurders should be put in the electricchair:" he said. An authoritative, com­bative workers leadership must be builtin this country in ~rreconcilable opposi­tion to the racist, pro-imperialist trade­union bureaucracy and their capitalistmasters. The Spartacist League isseeking to build such a class-struggleworkers' party to lead the struggle foraworkers government that will finally

• achieve freedom and justice for all theexploited and oppressed.•

Qaddafi Exposes "Nonaligned" NonsenseThe Reagan gang's obsession to

destroy Muammar el-Qaddafi is asobscene as it is dangerous. When the "U.S. terror-bombed Libya last April,with Soviet ships in the area andRussian technicians manning Libyanmissile sites, Reagan was tugging on thetrip wires of World War III. AfterWashington killed the Libyan leader'sadopted infant daughter, in that cow­ardly attack, Secretary of State GeorgeShultz now "jests" about hopmg thatQaddaficontracts AIDS! Meanwhile,he cynically boasts about U.S. "psycho­logical warfare" against the NorthAfrican country, and practically admitsthat the hullabaloo last summer about"Libyan terrorism" was nothing but apack of lies,

Much ofthe U.S. press professes to beupset over a recent White House mem­orandum calling for a campaign of "de­ception" and "disinformation" to rattleQaddafi. In its most sanctimonious stylea New York Times (3 October) editorialpontificated: "There is no place inAmerica for disinformation." Like hell!They're just embarrassed at the Reaganadministration's bragging about howthey manipulate the media. U.S. gov­ernment disinformation, routinely re­tailed by the "free press," is used everyday to Whip up Cold War hysteriaagainst the Soviet Union and its allies.Witness the massive lies and coverupsurrounding the KAL 007 spy plane,shot down over Soviet territory in 1983.Or the Pentagon's campaign of"percep­tion management" against Nicaragua,in order to keep the Sandinistas guess­ing about a U.S. invasion.

Meanwhile, Qaddafi himself, speak­ing at a "summit" of the "Nonaligned"nations in Harare, Zimbabwe earlierthis month, caused an uproar when he

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Libyan leader targeted by U.S.imperialism.

denounced this talks hop as a "uselessfarce" and an "international falsehood."Furious that the "Third World" had lefthim high and dry when the U.S. terror­bombed Libya, Qaddafi threatened towithdraw, declaring: "What is thismovement's validity if it cannot defendmy country and Nicaragua?" He thenbegan to denounce by name the declaredallies of the imperialist powers presentin the room, including Egypt (whichstaged joint military maneuvers with theU.S. off Libya's coast last month) andthe neocolonies of French-speakingAfrica. Much to the embarrassment ofZimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, the chair­man of the "summit," Qaddafi went onto peg the' Commonwealth countries asthe "prisoners of Britain:'

It was one of the rare occasions thatsomeone told the truth at one of thesewindy gatherings. How indeed can there

_ be "solidarity" within a hodgepodgethat embraces Cuba, which has had asocial revolution and has faced morethan a quarter century of unremitting

Yankee hostility and attacks; outrightimperialist puppets; and a host ofbourgeois nationalist regimes (often ateach other's throats) on the take for thehighest bidder. This year's session gotoff to a discordant start when Irandemanded the expulsion ofIraq and the"execution" of its leaders. The mainbusiness was supposed to be "fight­ing apartheid't-c-from a distance, ofcourse. The "summit" called on Reagan,Thatcher et at to institute imperialistsanctions against South Africa. .

When Qaddafi punctured the smugcomplacency of this den ofhypocrites, itwasn't just tinpot military despots whowere squirming in their seats. TheAmerican fake-left had sent its emissar­ies all the way to Harare to celebrate"Third World solidarity." The Militant,published by the ex-Trotskyist SocialistWorkers Party,"solved" the problem byrunning a photo of Qaddafi and simul­taneously omitting any mention of hiscriticisms! The quintessential rad-IibGuardian ran an article entitled "Non­aligned: 'Well done!'" Taking issue withQaddafi's statements that "nonalign­ment" is a sham and that "there are onlytwo camps, that of imperialism and thatof liberation," the Guardian (17 Sep­tember) attacked the Libyan leaderfrom the right, explaining "whereQaddafi had gone off the track."

Well, Qaddafi's "camp of liberation"includes some pretty odious types, likeKhomeini's blood-drenched mullahs.But that's hardly why the reformists,who lauded Khomeini to the hilt, aresqueamish about Qaddafi. To be sure,the Libyan colonel is not fundamentallydifferent or better than the other ThirdWorld nationalist regimes he de­nounced at Harare. In fact, when he firstcame to power in the early 1970s Qad-

dafi was fanatically anti-Communistand anti-Soviet. But with U.S. imperial­ism targeting him personally for de­struction, he has become increasinglydependent on Soviet arms to defend hiscountry.

Libya is high on Reagan's hit listprecisely because it's a military client ofthe -Soviet Union. When the U.S.attacked Libya in April, the internation­al Spartacist tendency sent ajournalisticteam to Tripoli to physically demon­strate our solidarity with the Libyans.The Militant, Guardian, et at. weren'tdispatching reporters to far-off placesthen: the fake-left's "anti-imperialism"ends where Reagan's anti-Soviet wardrive begins. The same people whoendlessly search for a mythical "progres­sive bourgeoisie" abroad are in bed withthe Democrats at home. And with thenot-so-progressive Democrats solidlybacking Reagan's anti-Soviet provoca­tions, even a Qaddafi becomes too hotto handle for the "Third Worlders.~'.

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Workers' Hands Across the Sea

The Heroic British Miners Strike

finger to help their class brothers andsisters across the Atlantic. In the teeth ofthis, the Aid to Striking British Miners'Families campaign was launched:Spartacist spokesmen and other sup­porters of the Partisan Defense Com­mittee (PDC) went to union executiveboards and membership meetings tomake political fundraising appeals,confronting the redbaiting of the AFL­CIO hacks and pointing out the par­allels to Reagan's smashing of thePATCO strike here at home. .

The British miners strike evoked classsolidarity from workers around the

world, bringing in substantial supportfrom the Soviet trade unions and evensome contributions from the hideouslyimpoverished black miners of SouthAfrica. The misleaders of the AFL-CIO,installed in their positions of power bythe Cold War witchhunts and slavishlyloyal to the American rulers, intendedAmerican unionists to play no role inthe world campaign for justice for theBritish miners. The PDC campaignraised over $23,000 for the miners andtheir courageous families-s-a modest

. sum. But we are very proud that ourcampaign provided a mechanism for,some class-conscious American work­ing people to take a side with the Britishminers, as the small American contin­gent of a campaign that reached allaround the world .•

shot was fired by the sinister politicalbandits of the "Workers RevolutionaryParty," who claim to be socialists andvery leftist socialists at that. Somemonths earlier, the leader of the minersunion, Arthur Scargill, had made aminimal criticism of Polish Solidarnosc,

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Militant miners withstood twelve bitter months of privation and the full furyof the capitalist state. Their struggle won wide sympathy among Britain'soppressed minorities.

the pro-capitalist "trade union" belovedof Reagan, Thatcher, Wall Street andthe Vatican. The WRP chose theopening of the TUC conference as themoment to denounce Scargill for havingcalled Solidarnosc anti-socialist. TheTUC tops and the Tory press combinedin a hysterical redbaiting attack onScargill; not a single TUC delegate roseto defend him. Thatcher determinedthat Scargill was isolated and she couldlaunch an assault on the miners union.

In the United States, where the labortops are far more open in their anti­communism than the double-talkingBritish TU C leaders and Labour"states-

. men," the AFL-CIO's line on the Britishminers was: let 'em starve. Scargill was a"red," Thatcher was America's bestfriend, and U.S. workers shouldn't lift a

Anti-Communism:Union-Busters'Tool

The first blow against the strike wasstruck before the strike began, at theSeptember 1983 conference of theTrades Union Congress. The opening

brought the Tory regime to its knees.But this perspective of a fight for powerwas exactly what the British labor"leaders" feared above all else. The fatcats of the Trades Union Congress(TUC) and the Labour Party politicianssmashed workers' impulses towardconcrete solidarity actions, herded scabsfor the bosses and violence-baited theminers as they endured the organizedarmed violence of the capitalist state.After a year of struggle, the miners wentback, but their determination andmilitancy had foiled Thatcher's attemptto break their union.

The miners strike had a profoundeffect on British society, and on theconsciousness of the miners themselves.The British miners are almost exclusive­ly white and they come from thebackwaters. Socially, they hadn't hadmuch contact with and didn't muchidentify with the miserably oppressedminority populations in the Englishcities, the West Indian blacks and Asianimmigrants. But a little firsthand experi­ence of Thatcher's cops running riotagainst miners' picket lines gave theminers an instant education in theexperiences ofIrish Catholics in Ulsterand ghettoized racial minorities inEngland. And these oppressed sectorsrallied to the miners' side, generouslycontributing food and money, becausethey recognized in the strike a chance tostrike a decisive blow against the hated"Iron Lady." Class struggle is the routeto unity of the workers and oppressedacross racial and national. lines; not"brotherly love," not charity, but therecognition of common class interestforges bonds that are not easily broken.

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Arthur Scarglll: pUdgy Stallnold, atleast knew a Solldarnosc rat whenhe smelled one.

Margaret Thatcher is the RonaldReagan of Britain. "Iron Lady" Thatch­er, the Tory (Conservative Party) primeminister, is, one ally Reagan can counton when- he wants to fly' his terrorbombers against North Africa, andReagan and Thatcher talk the samelanguage when it comes to hating dark­skinned people and the poor. In 1984­85, the British coal miners mounted adirect challenge to Thatcher's arrogantlabor-bashing government. The heroicminers strike was 12 bitter months ofclass war, as Thatcher's vicious govern­ment sought to break the miners' resolvethrough starvation and massive use ofthe police. .

What was needed to win the strikewas concrete labor solidarity-sympa­thy strikes of the strategic unions, likedockers, rail workers and seamen-sol­id industrial action that would have

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Regretfully, the trade-union movementas a whole has not lived up to thereputation of its founders. And I sin­cerely hope that in this instance thatthey will stand pat, and not permit theencroachments in industry which have

- been made in the Reagan atmosphere todrive us back into the sweatshop days .•wish good luck to the strikers.".

Paul O'Dwyer remembers when theunion movement had clout in New YorkCity. A liberal Democrat who waselected city council president with laborendorsements, O'Dwyer is known forstanding up against British imperialismin Ireland and everywhere. In 1974, hebacked a Spartacist-initiated united­front demonstration in solidarity withthe British miners strike, a major classbattle that led to the defeat of the Torygovernment. O'Dwyer's endorsementopened the door to winning supportfrom a broad range of NYC labor (localsof the CWA, OCA W, IBEW and theILA International) for this working­class action. Last week, when ILAlongshoremen hit the bricks against themaritime bosses' union-busting give­back demands, Workers Vanguardasked Paul O'Dwyer for a statement. Hewas glad to contribute to our specialsupplement to build support for thestrike, stating:

"The standard of living in Americacan be charged to the activities of themost virulent and the most aggressivestrike leaders .of the past. In the Reaganadministration starting off with PAT­CO, there's been an attempt to diffusethe power of the trade-union movement.

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Bo·sses' Government Targets ILA

Labor can only rely on its ownstrength. The federal government hasengaged in a multi-decade vendettaagainst the ILA, just as they haveagainst the powerful Teamsters. Thecapitalist press portrays the ILA as"mob-influenced," while Hollywoodglorified finking to the feds in the filmOn the Waterfront. But the FBI andLabor Department aren't interested incleaning up "corruption"; the aim oftheir witchhunts is to bust a strongunion .:This spring the Labor Depart­ment and New York Waterfront Com':mission announced they were turningover "evidence" of racketeering by NewYork ILA leaders to prosecutors in theFederal Organized Strike Force in

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and county hospitals are rotten places.Solidarity isn't $500 and a valentine­solidarity means industrial action tomake sure that nothing moves in andout of the ports. Seamen, Teamsters, allmaritime workers: picket lines meandon't cross! Hot cargo all scab goods!Steelworkers at Bethlehem: don't shipsteel from the Sparrows Point docks!ILA longshoremen: link up with theILWU on the West Coast, with Canadi­an and Mexican longshoremen! Shutdown all North American ports! TheILA strike can be a turning point: if theunions fight together they can smash thebosses' take backs, laying the basis for aworkers offensive to ·win jobs and re­verse the cutbacks.

National Guard and armored personnelcarriers to crush striking Phelps Dodgecopper workers. In 1986,Hormelmeatpackers in Austin, Minnesota ateit, facing an unholy alliance of thebosses, the bosses' government and theirown international union leaders whoopenly scabbed on the strike. In Wat­sonville, California, the largely Mexicanwomen cannery workers tried to do itright, still picketing after a year onstrike, but they're just too marginal. Sonow after knocking off the peripheralsectors, the bosses are targeting theheart of the labor movement.

We say: No more PATCOs andHormels! One strike after another hasbeen lost because the union leadershave been playing by the bosses' rules.Claiming that the air controllers strikewas "illegal," Teamsters and Machinistsofficials ordered their members to scab.The Hormel strike was defeated as localbureaucrats bowed to court injunctionsoutlawing mass picketing and relied ona useless consumer boycott. And itdoesn't stop with defeated strikes andbusted unions: the bosses want thescalps of dead strikers to wave around:from Ohio Greyhound striker RayPhillips to Union Oil striker GregGoobic to Baltimore ILAer JacksonTaylor, run down on a picket line a yearago by strikebreaking cops. This ismurder as company policy, and it mustbe stopped.

Labor's gotta play hardball to win!Potential strikebreakers should beeducated to understand that you can'tcross a picket line on two broken legs,

Port Elizabeth,New Jersey:Militant,raciallyintegratedLongshoremensay, "Nothing

. in, nothingout!"

Bust the Union-Busters!

Ever since Reagan busted the Profes­sional Air Traffic Controllers union, it'sbeen open season on American labor:picket lines busted, wages and jobs cut,unions smashed. The elite PATCOunion even backed Reagan in 1980! Alot of good it did them-in return theirunion leaders were led away in chains,15,000 members fired. In 1983, theDemocratic Party governor of Arizonatook a cue from Reagan, calling in the

be dispatched to shut down all the ports!And none of this strikebreaking "na­tional security" business, exemptingshipments to Reagan's contras likeapartheid puppet Savimbi in Angola!No second-class union members: forone standard ILA contract, with wagesand benefits equalized at the highestlevels!

On October 1, some 30,000 strikingdock workers in the InternationalLongshoremen's Association (I LA)shut down ports from Maine to Nor­folk, Virginia. Chanting "Nothing In,Nothing Out," determined mass picketsat the New York/New Jersey harbor'scontainer operations in Port Elizabethquickly put a stop to scabherdingefforts. "Every truckload of cargo thattried to get in here was stopped by ahuman wall of longshoremen," reportedone TV station. Scabs fled from theirtrucks to the cops for protection, whiletheir abandoned vehicles had to betowed away. Round one on the picketlines went to the workers. The strikinglongshoremen-black and white-havegiven notice to the bosses that they'vegot a war on their hands. Fight Reagan!Win this strike for all American labor!

In going after the ILA, the bosses aretargeting a union that has "educated"quite a few would-be strikebreakers."Scabbing is dangerous to your health"used to be a well-understood principleon the waterfront: one ILA picket wasall that was necessary to shut down aport. Now, emboldened by union­busting from PATCO to Hormel,maritime employers think the ILA is fairgame. But the longshoremen aren'ttaking it lying down. As one blackpicket at Port Elizabeth put it, "We'renot going down on our knees to praylike Martin Luther King." A secondpicket, pointing to a nearby tractor­trailer driven by a scab, added: "If we'dbeen on our knees that truck would haverolled right over us." Somehow, thatscab rig's air hoses were cut, locking thebrakes.

Longshoremen have the muscle towin this battle-but it's got to be a realstrike. No deals, no givebacks! Allowingthe bosses to divide the union is a recipefor defeat. Earlier this year ILA locals inthe south Atlantic and Gulf ports agreedto givebacks including a union-bustingtwo-tier. wage structure-break-bulkworkers would get $3 less per hour thanthose working container cargos-andthe guaranteed annual income is elimi­nated. The concessions drive shouldhave been stopped earlier-it better bestopped now before the union is rippedapart. The northeast ILA locals havedrawn the line. Good! But in the Souththe ILA isn't striking, and the compa­nies are already diverting cargo therefrom struck ports. Roving pickets must

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including six in solitary for a murder hedid not and could not have committed.The cause of freeing Geronimo Prattand all the MOVE prisoners must betaken up by the entire left and labormovement.

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restored. The union-busting offensivewill be stopped. Weare confident thatthe cause that Jack Taylor died for willbe victorious."

As an expression of class solidarity,the PDC has revived the tradition oftheearly International Labor Defense bysending monthly stipends to class-warprisoners, including those jailed forstanding up to racist capitalist oppres­sion. Today' we continue to sendstipends to British miners still in prisonfor defending their union: Terry French,Dean Hancock, Russell Shankland andClive Thompson. Also receiving PDCmonthly stipends are Ramona Africa ofMOVE and former Black Pantherleader Geronimo Pratt, among others.

The MOVE members are victims ofone of the most hideous racist massacresin this country's history. Ramona Africawas sentenced to seven years for the"crime" of being the lone adult survivorof Mayor Goode's calculated massmurder of eleven black men, women andchildren in Philadelphia. GeronimoPratt, America's foremost class-warprisoner, was framed up after survivinga massive cop/FBI attack on LosAngeles Black Panther Party headquar­ters, and has spent 16 years in prison

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assisted the SL-initiated labor/blackmobilization against the Ku Klux Klanon 27 November 1982 in Washington,D.C. The ILA Local 333 executiveboard in Baltimore endorsed November27 and also contributed generously tothe British miners.

The PDC stood with the members ofILA Local 333 in grieving for the lossof brother Jack Taylor, a long-timeunion activist, who was in the forefrontof defending a picket when he was cutdown by a scabherding cop. As we wroteto the union local in October 1985,"Hejoins thousands of labor martyrs whonave given their lives for the workingclass and its cause .... The tradition thatpicket lines mean don't cross must be

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An .Injury to One'Is an Injury to All

The need for a mass class-strugglelegal defense organization is urgent.Witness racist atrocities such as thehideous bombing of MOVE, the signa­ture of the Reagan years, and union­busting attacks on labor like thesmashing of PATCO. The governmentis attacking the most basic democraticrights, from the right to privacy tolabor's right to organize, in its drive toregiment the American people for waragainst the Soviet Union.

International working-class solidari­ty is the cornerstone of the PartisanDefense Committee. We have support­ed striking Soweto hospital workers andthe largely Hispanic Watsonville, Cali­fornia cannery workers. We fought tomobilize the power of labor for anemergency demonstration against theexecution of ANC supporter BenjaminMoloise by the racist South Africanapartheid butchers. We supported theheroic year-long struggle of the Britishcoal miners, and the Hormel strikers asthey faced criminal charges for standingup to the bosses, the government andtheir loyal cops in the AFL-CIObureaucracy.

The PDC supported the British coalminers throughout their bitter 1985strike against Margaret Thatcher's anti­union onslaught. We sought to galva­nize international working-class soli­darity for "Aid to Striking Miners'Families" in i he face of obstructionfrom the national AFL-CIO tops.Union locals and unionists joined us inraising over $23J)00 for the miners. Keywere union brothers and sisters who had

A strike is inconceivable without propaganda and without agitation. It is alsoinconceivable without pickets Who, when they can, use persuasion, but when obliged,use force. The strike is the most elementary form of the class struggle which alwayscombines, in varying proportions, "ideological" methods with physical methods. Thestruggle against Fascism is basically a political struggle which needs a militia just asthe strike needs pickets. Basically, the picket is the embryo of the workers' militia. Hewho thinks of renouncing "physical" struggle must renounce all struggle, for thespirit does 110t live without flesh.

-Leon Trotsky, "WhitherFrance?" (November 1934)

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The pickets were repeatedly and vio­lently attacked by company goons,landing one young woman strikerin the hospital with knife wounds.Zierenberg joined in successfully de­fending a woman striker and otherpickets.

After the sudden, ominous ap­pearance of the cops at the plant gate,a group of Turkish workers shieldedZierenberg from arrest, though hisname was taken by the police. Thecompany later fabricated "assault"charges, for which he faced threeyears in jailor a fine of 0 M 3,000. IGMetall took up and paid for Zieren­berg's defense. The charges were dis­missed, but Zierenberg really de­serves a medal as a workers hero. At atime when workers internationally,particularly immigrant workers, facevicious repression, this victory con­cretely demonstrates the power ofworking-class solidarity.

Anti-Labor Frame-U~ Defeated

Victory for Picket LineDefense in Germany

FRANKFURT, October I-An im­portant victory for German tradeunionists, especially immigrantworkers, was won today when a courthere threw out assault chargesagainst Fred Zierenberg, militantmetal worker and Central Commit­tee member of the TrotzkistischeLiga Deutschlands (TLD-Trotsky­ist League of Germany), stemmingfrom his determined defense of apicket line.

In June 1984,500,000 metal work­ers of the huge IG Metall unionstruck for the 35-hour week. At theVDO electronics plant in Frankfurt,the bosses responded by locking outthe 1,400 mostly female, immigrantproduction workers. On June 19,the workers counterattacked with amilitant picket line shutting thewhole plant down tight. In solidar­ity, the TLD joined the lines anddistributed literature to the strikers.

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Strike Pickets and Class WarA strike is the basic form of struggle

between the workers and capitalists, thefirst step to liberation from wage slavery.Strike pickets, the labor movement'sfirstline of military defense, point towardworkers militias needed to crush fascistterrorists likethe Ku Klux Klan. Duringthe stormy class battles of the 1930sTrotsky wrote:TROTSKY

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Supporting the Democrats' andRepublicans' bipartisan anti-Soviet wardrive is playing the bosses' game.Billions are spent for "Star Wars" andarming the contras from Nicaragua toAngola, while jobs and housing are cutto the bone and American industry goesdown the tubes. So who benefits whenthe ILA tops give away even more jobsby boycotting trade with Russia? WhenILA member Jackson Taylor wasmurdered by the cops, the generalmanager of the scab Baltimore Launchfirm dared anyone to fight his union­busting plans: "I'm not living in Russiayet, and no union or association isgoingto stop me." Longshoremen shouldlearn a lesson from this: the RussianRevolution was made in order to put thescabherders out of business for good.

We need a workers revolution herethat will rip the productive wealth of thiscountry out of the hands of its greedyand incompetent owners. Against aUtheprotectionist poison spewed out by thebosses and their labor toadies, fight foran internationalist program to rebuildAmerica on a socialist planned econo­my. The enormous power of theAmerican working class can be un­leashed; we can bust the union­busters-but that means hard classstruggle and a politically class­conscious leadership. Labor and blacksmust break from the Democrats andRepublicans-build a workers party tofight for a workers government! •

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Left: PATCO leaders in chains, 1981.Right: FBI grabs black radicalAngela Davis, 1970.

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AFL leader Samuel Gompers (1850­1924) demanded: "More." Today'slabor fakers say "tess,"

Spartacist League that stopped theKKK from marching in Washington inNovember 1982. Defend busing and.extend it to the suburbs! For free,quality, integrated public education forall! And end all segregated locals andhiring halls in the ILA.

strike together against the bosses!You can't defend the unions without

fighting racism. Organizing unions inthe South means pitched battles with theKlan and cracker sheriffs. Tidewaterlongshoremen showed the way whenthey endorsed and helped send acontingent to the 5,000-strong labor/black mobilization initiated by the

The inroads on the ILA contract havebeen sharpest in the South, where openshop stevedoring operations have beenset up paying halfthe union rate. But theheavily black Southern locals have oftenbeen the spearhead of militant unionaction, from the labor boycott ofRhodesian chrome to the 1977 strike.New Orleans dock workers were in theforefront of that ten-week battle, defy­ing the leadership's policy of strikingonly containerized operations by shut­ting down all cargo handling. Inbreaking the New Orleans strike, theILA International made it easier for thebosses to split the union today. Thismust be reversed: all ILA members must

Smash Racism!

The very next year the feds embarked ona massive probe of "waterfront corrup­tion." One of the key targets wasBrooklyn ILA leader Tony Scotto,credited with winning the GuaranteedAnnual Income. (The GAl was actuallya trade-off for thousands of jobs slashedthrough "modernization" contracts.)Scotto, a liberal Democrat who had areputation as a civil rights activist andopponent of the Vietnam War, wasframed up and convicted in 1979.

Although Tony Scotto's liberal anti­communist views are very distant fromour own, we defended him in our press(see "Who Got Tony Scotto-andWhy," WV No. 244, 23 November1979). Unlike reformist fake-leftists, weTrotskyists don't believe in finking tothe government and suing the unions inthe bosses' courts. If you're indebted tothe racist, union-busting governmentfor office, you won't do the workersmovement any good. Union gains havebeen won only by standing up to thegovernment as well as the bosses.As militant British miners say, theonly illegal strike is the one that loses.Government-hands off the unions!Labor must clean its own house!

1 October 1986

Japan Federation of Iron andSteelworkers Unions

Tokyo, Japan

International labor solidarity can bekey to victory in U.S. longshore strike.Oppose protectionist hysteria settingJapanese and American workers at eachother's throats. Steel workers and dockworkers must acttogetheragainst union­busters from Wall Street to Tokyo.Japanese, Korean unions: don't increasesteel exports to United States during ILAstrike. .

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Urgent Appeal toJapanese, Korean

Steel Workers

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Reagan honors Nazi SS war crim­inals at Bitburg, Germany.

attempt to break it in the early 1950s.East Coast dock workers staged massivestrikes and work stoppages to fight theattempt by the government and GeorgeMeany to replace the ILA with an AFLaffiliate. When they undertook a deter­mined strike in 1971, Nixon imposed aTaft-Hartley back-to-work injunction.In 1974 the New York ILA won full 52­week guaranteed pay for its members.

The Spartacist League has directedthe following appeal to Japanese steelworkers as well as the Federation ofKorean Metal Workers Unions inSeoul, calling for international laborsolidarity' during the present Inter­national Longshoremen's Associationstrike.

(continuedfrom page 7)Brooklyn and the U.S. Attorney'soffice. It was predictable: every time anew ILA contract rolls around thegovernment unveils a "new" investiga­tion, hoping union leaders will backdown to save their own skins.

Using the mob as an excuse, thegovernment inv.aded the union in an

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"After God had finished therattlesnake, the toad, the vampire,He had some awful substance leftwith which He made a scab.

"A scab is a two-legged animalwith a cork-screw soul, a water­logged brain, a combination back­

, bone of jelly and glue, Where othershave hearts, he carries a tumor ofrotten principles.

"When a scab comes down thestreet, men turn their backs andangels weep in heaven, and theDevil shuts the gates of Hell to keephim out.

"No man has a right to scab solong as there is a pool of water todrown his carcass in, or a rope longenough to hang his body with.Judas Iscariot was a gentlemancompared with a scab. For betray­ing his master, he had characterenough to hang himself. A scab hasnot."

10 OCTOBER 1986 9

27 November 1982: Proud Day for ILA

Labor, Blacks Stopped the Klan

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campaign against school integrationtargeted Norfolk's successful busingplan, and this year the reactionarySupreme Court axed it. "Wheneverthere is unity between black andwhite in the United States there isalways opposition from the rulingclass," wrote a Tidewater unionist.Now, taking their cue from Reaganand Meese, the KKK cross-burnersand nightriders have been victimizingthe homes of black and interracialfamilies. The predominantly blackwaterfront unions of the Tidewaterarea are a beachhead of labor powerin the "open shop" South, and can bein the forefront of the fight tointegrate the schools and defendminorities from racist attack. Butthat means breaking with the partnerparties of racist American capitalism.For a class-struggle workers partythat will bury Jim Crow once and forall!

The Battle for Busing

Norfolk LaborAgainst Jim Crow

When the Norfolk, Virginia schoolboard first voted to abolish busingthree years ago, 10,000 predomi­nantly black workers and youthpoured into the streets in protest."ILA All the Way Against Segregat­ed Schools" read signs carried by a200-strong contingent of the Interna­tional Longshoremen's Associationon 14 May 1983. As racist mobsrampaged from Boston to Louisville,and Northern liberal Democratsknifed integration in Congress, theSpartacist League fought for labor/black mobilizations to defend busingand extend it to the suburbs-forintegrated public quality education'for all. The Tidewater area was thelast bastion of busing preciselybecause it was the only place inAmerica that organized labor mobi­lized its social power to stop thereimposition of segregated schools.

But the bipartisan, nationwide

behind them, like the Tidewater union­ists' Nat Turner Brigade, thousands ofblack youth, students from HowardUniversity and angry Washington resi­dents came out determined to stop theircity from being turned into a paradeground for the lynchers.

Faced with the mass mobilizationof labor/black power, the fascist thugsturned tail. The victorious demon­strators took the streets of Washing­ton, marching down the route the Klanhad threatened to march, triumphant­ly chanting, "1-2-3-4, Time to Finishthe Civil War! 5-6-7-8, Forwardto a Workers State!" The November27 victory, pointing toward indepen­dent working-class struggle for power,was forged against the black Demo­cratic Congressmen and mayor whodid everything they could to de­fuse and divert this powerful classaction.

The Spartacist League, which standsfor the elementary labor principle that"picket lines mean don't cross," whichorganizes labor/black mobilizationsagainst the racist terrorists in whitesheets or blue uniforms, seeks to forge aworkers party to lead the struggle forsocialist revolution to free all theexploited and oppressed. Join us!.

The KKK figured that with theirfavorite "Klandidate" in the WhiteHouse, they were riding high. But whenthe hooded nightriders threatened tomarch in the nation's capital on 27November 1982, they found out this wasnot Reagan's Washington, but a 75 per­cent black town determined to defenditself. A. 5,000-strong demonstration,overwhelmingly black workers andyouth, stopped the fascist terrorists intheir tracks. And mid-Atlantic water­front unions, from the Virginia Tidewa­ter and Baltimore/Washington areas inparticular, played a key role in thisvictory for labor, blacks and. everyopponent of racist terror.

The call for the labor/black mobili­zation initiated by the Spartacist Leaguegot its first solid union support fromthe Norfolk/Newport News area. En­dorsements came in from Longshore,Machinists, Electrical Workers unionofficials; ILA Locals 1248 and 1458 inNorfolk endorsed, as did the executiveboard of ILA Local 333 in Baltimore.ILA International President ThomasGleason also backed the anti-Klanmobilization. This support opened thedoors to key unions in Washington suchas postal workers, railway clerks' andlaborers. And with labor's muscle

Baltimore CORS Killed Striking Longshoreman

Labor Will Not Forget Jackson Taylor!seem satisfied with just wage cuts­they want dead strikers to show as an"example" to the rest of the labormovement, like Ohio Greyhoundstriker Ray Phillips, run down by ascab in the 1983 bus strike; and GregGoobic, killed a few weeks later by ascabbing truck driver who smashedthrough a picket line at the Union Oilrefinery in Rodeo, California.

The bosses are so emboldened thatthey believe they can crack a powerfulunion like the ILA. But the ILA wasn'tplaying footsie: picket lines were es­tablished at the launch center, theemployment agency and the destina­tion point for the cargo, as well as at.Port Covington. Union officials saidother ports were prepared to dispatchreinforcements if necessary.

We honor Jackson Taylor, who diedin the line of duty, defending his union.The loss of union brother JacksonTaylor at the hands of the police is anobject lesson that the capitalist stateand its armed fist, the cops, are not.neutral. As the ILA picket captain toldus: "I just hope other unions all overthe world, not only in the UnitedStates, learn a lesson from this and

. wake up. And the judge ain't going tobe with you. The membership's got todo it themselves." .

JACKSON TAYLOR1926·1985

more than 300 ILAers mobilized,overran a police line and attempted tostorm the Depy. The cops called for re­inforcements: two cruisers camespeeding toward the dock at about 60miles per hour and swerved towarda group of longshoremen. Taylordodged the first cop car; he was struckand killed by the second.

Ever since Reagan crushed thePATCO strike in 1981, it's been openseason on the unions. The bosses don't

unprecedented attempt to introducescab labor on the Baltimore docks.

The battle began October 8, when125 longshoremen turned out to stopthe Baltimore Launch and MarineServices' use of $5 per hour scab laborto unload the Cypriot freighter Depy.That evening the fight broke out whena scab tried to run his forklift throughthe picket line. The unionists foughtback. Five members were arrested andtwo cops injured. The next morning

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ILA union brothers at memorial mass for Jackson Taylor, October 1985.

Abridged From WVNo. 389, 18 October 1985

Baltimore longshoremen playedhardball. They battled cops and scabsand backed off the union-busters. Inthe course of the fight, one of thestrikers, Jackson H. Taylor, wasbrutally killed by the scabherdingcops, October 9, as he fought to defendthe picket line and the very existence ofhis union. Jack Taylor gave his life forthe. cause of labor.

Nothing moved on the Baltimoredocks Saturday morning, October 12,as longshoremen honored one of theirown. Some 1,500 longshoremen,almost equally black and white,gathered at Baltimore's St. Rose ofLima Catholic Church, to pay theirrespects to Brother Taylor. Interna­tional Longshoremen's Association(lLA) president Teddy Gleason wasthere, along with union officials fromas far away as Portland, Maine andBrownsville, Texas.

"That man Jack died for me," saidone dock worker of the 59-year-oldgang leader and member of ILA Local333, who was struck down at PortCovington by a police cruiser while heand his union brothers fought an

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(continued from page 16)from the KKK provocation by organiz­ing an alternative event (Tartan, IISeptember). The mayor of nearbyChristiansburg was quoted from a pressconference held previously: "This is oneof those situations that if you ignore it, itmay go away." The student govern­ment's "Radford Unity Day" diversionseems to have rather flopped, drawing100 students at first, and more onlywhen militants returned after success­fully confronting the Klan.

Lyle Tefft, associate news editor ofthe campus paper, told Young Sparta­cus he thought many of the studentswho went to Main Street didn't have anyclear idea what they would do when theygot there. But the spirit of the anti-Klanonlookers became more and moredefiant and finally the crowd surged intothe street jeering and shouting. Theyblocked the Klan's path and the copshad to intervene to escort the fascists outof town, with about 100 studentschasing after them.

A black student, an officer of theBlack Awareness Group on campus,told us she hadn't gone to the anti-Klanprotest and had urged friends not to go

victims, led by an aroused labor move­ment conscious that its fundamentalclass interest demands championship ofall the oppressed. A taste of that powerwas felt when a labor-backed anti-Klanmobilization initiated by the SpartacistLeague defied the White House's pro­gram of letting the lynchers marchthrough black D.C. and stopped a KKKmarch in the nation's capital on 27November 1982.

We in the Spartacus Youth Clubs areworking to recruit young people to arevolutionary movement dedicated torooting out fascism and racist oppres­sion at their source. We look forward tomaking contact with students at Rad­ford and elsewhere who are gettinginvolved in the fight and want to learnmore about the struggles of otherstudents and working people across thecountry and around the world .•

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Spartacist-inltiated Labor/BlackMobilization stopped Klan from 'marchingin Washington, D.C., 27 November 1982.

into American capitalist society, andparticularly now with a vicious reaction­ary in the White House, they think theycan stick their heads up. Confrontedwith a Klan provocation, the Radfordmilitants ignored those who told themto ignore the Klan; they acted on theirbest impulses and scored a victory. Butthe hatred for violence that all sanepeople share, the desire for decency, isnot enough to crush the fascist menace.The capitalist state is up to its neck incollusion with fascist terrorists, from the1963 Birmingham church bombing tothe Greensboro, North Carolina massa­cre. And when the rulers feel their ownpower is at risk, they easily overcometheir patrician distaste for these psy­chotic scum and place them in power, ashappened in Germany in 1933.

But the fascists can be smashed bymassive united action by their intended

because she feared blacks would be atarget. She was surprised by whathappened and sorry she wasn't there.Black students comprise only about 5percent of the student body, she said,and have been victims of racist harass­ment and threats from townspeople.Nevertheless some of the black studentsdid participate in stopping the Klan, shetold us, including her roommate.

A sales team from the SocialistWorkers Party touring the area as partof their annual subscription drivehappened to be in Radford but theyevidently played no role except to selltheir press tothe anti-Klan demonstra­tors. The SWP's usual line is to "debatethe Klan" rather than stop them, but inthis case the SWP capitulated to the

. accomplished fact and faintly praisedthe action in a small article.

Ironically, students who share thegeneral satisfaction that the Klan wasstopped in Radford are still confused ordefensive over the idea that the KKK's"constitutional rights" may have beenviolated. Student president Freemantold us: "It's hard to criticize a group ofstudents who expressed their oppositionto what the Klan stands for.... Ofcourse the Klan was exercising their.constitutional rights too, but I'm gladthey were protested." A Klan parade isnot an exercise in "free speech"-it is agreen light for racist violence. The whiterobes and Dixie flags of the Klan onMain Street in the afternoon meansblack people terrorized by ~ cross­burnings at midnight. What the Klan isabout is a black man lynched, a Onionorganizer shot dead and dumped in a ­ditch, an interracial family cowering intheir home as firebombs burst throughthe window. The Klan hates blacks,immigrants, Jews, Catholics, gays,communists, unionists. And their pro­gram for these "inferior" beings is...death.

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Columbia Honors Kirkp'atrick-Exp'ert in Genocide

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FLASH-As we go to press, theColumbia Spectator reports that JeaneKirkpatrick has canceled her appear­ance at Columbia. The 6 OctoberSpectator quotes a letter to the Gradu­ate Faculties Alumni Association byReagan's Dragon Lady: "In light of theprotest that has arisen, what should be apleasant occasion will be an, ugly,anddivisive affair." This defeat (or .theWhite House and its arrogant warcriminals is a good thing-keep thebutchers on the run!

Jeane Kirkpatrick, the Reagan ad­ministration's former ambassador to theUnited Nations, is coming to ColumbiaUniversity October 21 to receive anaward for "excellence" from the Gradu­ate Faculties Alumni Association. Stu­dents, faculty and workers at Columbiawill presumably be spared the kind ofmurderous "achievements" which Kirk­patrick braintrustselsewhere on behalfof the U.S. bourgeoisie. But picturewhat this place would look like if herpolicies were brought home. The armywould shut down Columbia at gun­point-the fate Kirkpatrick's favoritegovernment imposed on students atEl Salvador's National University in1980. "Subversive" students would berounded up by death squads and"disappeared." Campus union leaderswould be jailed and tortured.as has hap-

pened to at least 21 Salvadoran .union­ists that we knowofin this year alone.Black Harlem, Columbia's "border .state," would experience air strikes by

. racist South African commandos. AndBarnard professors' could be skinnedalive by CIA-sponsored Afghan mul­lahs for the "crime" of teaching youngwomen how to read and write.

Dragon Lady Kirkpatrick's Orwelli­an doctrine of support to "moderateauthoritarian" regimes means keepingthe "Free' World" safe for capitalistexploitation-by any means necessary.From her support to the Zionist geno­cide of the Palestinian people, to "con­structive engagement" of apartheid slav-

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ery, to "covert" aid to Savimbi's contrasin Angola, to backing the jackbootedgenerals of Chile, Argentina andParaguay-Jeane Kirkpatrick bearsdirect and personal responsibility forthe deaths of countless thousands of ourclass brothers and sisters. Kirkpatrick isa mastermind of U.S. policy in EI Sal­vador, backing the blood-drenched gen­erals in their war against the workersand peasants: Since the bloodbath wasunleashed by the death squads in 1979,the body count has climbed to over60,000 dead! We in the Spartacus YouthClub standfor the military victory oftheleftist insurgents. Justice demands thatKirkpatrick face atrial by her victims­extradite Kirkpatrick to a Salvadoranliberated zone!

For per war-crimes, Kirkpatrick hasbeen honored by the CIA-backed contrascum who specialize in the murder,rapeand torture of Nicaraguan civilians. Thecontras have named a mercenary bri­gade for her and pledge to chisel thisMedusa's mug in marble if they everregain Managua. Now Columbia Uni­versityproposes to honor the contras'gargoyle as one of their own. All parti­sans of the .international working classand the oppressed, all defenders of dem­ocratic rights against capitalist stateterror must oppose this obscene celebra­tion of bestial war crimes!

Several campus groups have alreadybegun organizing against the award cer­emony. At the first meeting of the "Ad

Chanting "KeepKirkpatrickon the run,send her downto Morazsn!"Spartacistcontingentmarches indemonstrationagainstSalvadoranpuppet junta,Los Angeles,1983. .

Hoc Committee Against Jeane Kirk­patrick," the Spartacus Youth Clubargued against any illusions in or reli­ance on the university administration.We proposed militant, united-frontprotests involving workers, students,and all opponents of Kirkpatrick'scounterrevolutionary terror. Columbiastudents, students at the public universi­ties and community residents shouldjoin together in protesting Kirkpat­rick's bloody record. Just north ofColumbia at CCNY, there are a largenumber of Haitian, Latin American andArab students who know firsthand whatit means to live under the likes of BabyDoc Duvalier's terror and Yankee

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'imperialism's Marines enforcing "aus­terity" by bayonet. They too must have avoice in giving Kirkpatrick the wel­come she deserves.

At issue here is not the preservation ofColumbia's "good name" which is syn­onymous with the slumlord of Morning­side Heights, a record of union-bustingand victimization of leftist protesters.Columbia exists precisely to train thefuture CIA agents, warmakers andstrikebreakers that the ruling class needsfor its global' anti-Communist "roll­back." Kirkpatrick herself trained atColumbia, earning a master's degree forstudying... the ideology and methods ofSir Oswald Mosley's British Union ofFascists!

With sharp memories of their igno­minious defeat in Vietnam, the rulingclass is putting the repressive machin­ery in place to ensure that this timearound no "troublemakers" will organ­ize youth against imperialism's sinisterwar aims. Reagan and his warmongersclaim they have a massive "mandate" forreaction, a seamless national "consen­sus" as they move toward new wars to"roll back Communism." But on severalcampuses, students have refused to con­done Nuremberg-style rallies for coun­terrevolution staged by the governmentas part of their "education."

In 1983, student protest in solidaritywith the victims of Kirkpatrick's policiesdrove her off Berkeley andthe Universi­ty of Minnesota. Plans for similar pro­tests kept her from showing up' atSmith and right here at Barnard. Good!Such political action is exactly what'scalled for to keep this butcher offColumbia and on the run!

These protests by college students,though a far cry from the more massive"New Left" radicalism of the VietnamWar era, have embarrassed the govern­ment. And so the war criminals, andKirkpatrick in particular, are made afocal point for an orchestrated cam­paign to portray them as martyrs oftotalitarian leftists who won't permitthem "free speech." Thus the junior

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McCarthys of Accuracy in Academiachampion the kill-crazy Kirkpatrick astheir "victimized" cause celebre, whileReagan's education secretary Bennettdeclared: "Just as a fortress under siegedoes not invite enemy spokesmen toaddress the troops, so too have campusradicals prevented Jeane Kirkpatrick,Caspar Weinberger and other Admin­istration spokesmen from presentingtheir point of view to the student body"(New York Times, 15 May).

Mr. Bennett and his Little Brothersshould review a high school civics text.The First Amendment was enacted toprotect free speech for the populacefrom government censorship and abuse!But in today's political climate of anti­Soviet war fever, the government isturning the Constitution on its head,perversely employing the rubric of "freespeech" to straitjacket political opposi­tion to the government's policies, andagents (who have every bourgeois news­paper and TV station at their disposal,daily) by stripping the working people,minorities and youth of democraticrights. Is Kirkpatrick's debut at Colum­bia a deliberate provocation, a test caseto see just how successful the govern­ment's campaign of intimidation, har­assment and censorship against the lefthas been?

"Free speech"? Certainly at Columbiathere is a plethora of right-wing profes­sors fully capable of arguing in defenseof the ruling class. As Marxists we make

, a key distinction between these reaction­ary ideologues and those who are neck­deep in planning and carrying out thecrimes of the bourgeoisie. As odious asher views are, it is for her deeds-like thetop Nazis who got theirs, finally-thatKirkpatrick evokes justified protest andmust be driven 'away!

From the terror bombing of Libya tothe millions of greenbacks and theadvance guard of Green Berets going tothe contras, the U.S. ruling class, bothDemocrats and Republicans, is onacrusade against the Soviet "Evil Em­pire" whose hand they see behind everystruggle for social justice. The Sparta­cus Youth Clubs are fighting the anti­Soviet war drive abroad and at horne,from our campaign to raise thousandsof dollars for the defense of Nicaragua,to organizing to stop the KKK and theNazis, Reagan's fascist shock troops.The death and destruction wreaked byKirkpatrick are the criminal modusoperandi of the world imperialist sys­tem, in which "freedom" is decided by"destabilization," napalm and atombombs.' The final revenge for thewretched bantustans, the death squadsand the torture stadiums will not betasted until the world proletariat sweepsaway the capitalist system throughsocialist revolution. We are dedicated tobuilding the revolutionary party toachieve this goal. Join us!.

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onstrated their ability and will todefend those gains. It was the Red Armywhich crushed Hitler's Nazi barbariansin World War II and it is Soviet militarymight that has made the U.S. imperial­ists hesitate to atom-bomb Vietnam,Cuba and the other countries wherecapitalist 'class rule has been smashed.

As Trotskyists, we unconditionallydefend these states against imperialismand capitalist restoration; our defenseincludes the fight for political revolutionto oust the parasitical bureaucratic castewhich undermines the economy, demor­alizes the working class and pushesdeadly dangerous illusions in. the possi­bility of "peaceful coexistence" withrapacious imperialism. Only the smash­ing of capitalism on a world scale by theworking class can bring peace to thisplanet, based on the true equality ofnations and an international plannedsocialist economy.

The Spartacus Youth Club is lookingfor the John Reeds at Harvard today­students who want to smash racism at itscore, the vicious capitalist system ofexploitation and oppression; studentswith a gut hatred for the reat "EvilEmpire," U.S. imperialism and its thinktanks like Harvard's Kennedy School of

. Counterrevolution. Those students whowant to use their knowledge of scienceand culture for the benefit of humani­ty-instead of in the service of ruling­class barbarism from napalm (anotherHarvard invention) to "Star Wars"­should join the Spartacus Youth Club tofight for a socialist future. Better Redthan Crimson!.

John Reed (left) wrote the fi,nest accountof the Bolshevik. ReVOlution. Moscowsoldiers march in 1917 under the bannerof "Communism" (right).

Shook the World, is an exciting eyewit­ness account of the Bolshevik Revolu­tion which we heartily recommend tothe young people of today.)

Reed was a founding member of theCommunist Party in this country, whichlooked to the Communist Internationalof Lenin and Trotsky for revolutionary'

Museum of October Revolution. Moscow

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (right)fought against slavery; he led black

regiment, the First South CarolinaVolunteers (left).

leadership. It was the Comintern whichpushed the young American Commu­nist movement to put the struggle forblack freedom in the center of theirperspective for socialist revolution inAmerica. At the Second Congress of theCommunist .International Reed said,"The Communists must not stand alooffrom the Negro movement which de­mands their social and political equal­ity and at the moment, at a time of therapid growth of racial-consciousness, isspreading among Negroes." Reed diedin 1920 in Moscow and is buried in theKremlin.

The Bolshevik Revolution ripped onesixth of the globe from the system ofcapitalist. plunder. The imperialists havenever ceased .to plot and plan thedestruction of the Soviet Union, andthey never will-until we sweep theminto the dustbin of history along withthe Russian tsars. Despite the bureau­cratic degeneration of the USSR underStalin-the destruction of workers de­mocracy and the replacement ofLenin­ist internationalism by its opposite, thedefeatist program of "Socialism in OneCountry"-the gains embodied in theSoviet Union's collectivized propertyand planned economy remain.

And the Soviet workers have dem-

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first to advocate military action againstthe slaveowners and supported JohnBrown's efforts to spark an anti-slaveryinsurrection at Harpers Ferry-theopening shots of the Civil War. Higgin­son later attempted to liberate Brownfrom a Charleston, Virginia (now WestVirginia) prison, after the heroic Har­pers Ferry raid was crushed by U.S.troops. Once the Civil War erupted,Higginson, understanding the impor­tance of arming and enlisting blacks .inthe battle against slavery, led the firstregiment of fugitive slaves and blackfreedmen. (His stirring account, ArmyLife in a Black Regiment, was recentlyrepublished in paperback.) The ~OO,OOO

black troops who fought for the Unionwere key to turning the tide of the war.Higginson, like many outspoken aboli­tionists, also embraced the fight forwomen's rights.

The Civil War was the secondAmerican revolution-a convulsivesocial struggle which smashed chattelslavery on behalf of Northern industrialcapitalism. But its promise of blackequality was not fulfilled; the Uniontroops were withdrawn from the Southand the hopes of black Americans werecrushed in the terror and moral coward­ice of the political counterrevolutionwhich gutted and then destroyed Radi­calReconstruction, Out of this the racistKu' Klux Klan was reborn. It will take a .third American revolution, a proletari­an socialist revolution, to finish the CivilWar and achieve black liberation. Tolead that revolution, we must' forge amultiracial revolutionary party, with astrong black component in its leader­ship. This party will be built throughstruggles to mobilize the power of theintegrated labor movement in defense ofblack freedom. Against the present pro­capitalist union "leaders" who look tothe Democratic .Party and turn theirbacks on the black people, we seekto mobilize mass labor/black defense.against the fascist terrorists of the KKKand Nazis, who are the emboldenedshock troops of Reagan reaction.

John Reed

. John Reed is another of Harvard'sclass traitors and a role model forrevolutionary youth today. After gradu­ating from Harvard in 1910, Reedbecame a left-wing journalist and anactive participant in the struggles of theIndustrial Workers of the World and theSocialist Party. He went to Russia onthe eve of the 1917October Revolutionand was won over to Lenin's Commu­nist program. (His book, Ten Days That

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Spartacist youth protest Harvard'sfilthy fite.rallying symbol for Klan lynch mobs­to celebrate the university's 350th yearas the premier training ground forfuture leaders of American imperial­ism's schemes of global counterrevolu­tion and racist terror.

It's not part of the Harvard curricu­lum, but there is another tradition at thisinstitution: that of students like JohnReed and Thomas Wentworth Higgin­son, who turned their backs on thisbastion of race and class privilege todevote their lives to the struggle for theemancipation of the oppressed. Higgin­son fought to break the yoke of blackchattel slavery in this country and Reedwas an active participant in the RussianRevolution and a fighter for AmericanCommunism. It is this tradition that theTrotskyists of the Spartacus YouthClub at Harvard stand on today in ourstruggle to win students to the side of theworking class, where the social powerlies to change this society. .

If Thomas Wentworth Higginsonwere alive to see the Confederate flagraised over Harvard Yard, he'd beleading an integrated detachment oftroops to rip down and burn the hatedbanner of the slavocracy, and we'd bemarching with him. In the I84Os,Higginson became involved in the anti-­slavery struggle, at a time when otherHarvard students organized a mobagainst abolitionist William LloydGarrison. Higginson was among the

There's a lot that needs changing inthe world today, but learning how tofight for social justice is the diametricalopposite of the training provided by aHarvard education. As if to underscorethe point, Harvard hoisted the Confed­erateflag-the banner of slavery and the

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~ -Drop the Charges Against~~ Guillermo at S.F. State'

and Partisan Defense Committee staffcounsel ValerieWest) wrote in theirappeal to the California SupremeCourt: "At issue is the standard forfreedom of speech and political dissenton the state universities at precisely thetime of an awakening to politicalawareness and expression among col­lege youth...." The vendetta againstGuillermo Bermudez is aimed at intimi­dating and silencing all those who wouldprotest the criminal policies of the U.S.government and its campus henchmen.It is part of a policy of pre-emptivestrikes against campus protest that goesall the way up to the Reagan/ MeeseWhite House. It is aimed at you ifyouare one of the hundreds of thousands ofyoung people who don't want to diefighting for United Fruit, Exxon and the

Bank of America in the jungles ofNicaragua or Angola-or in a thermo­nuclear World War III unleashed byimperialism's insane drive to restorecapitalism in the USSR.

If this South Africa-style banningorder is not beaten back, many morewill follow. What next, a McCarthyite"loyalty oath" plus a urine test for eachSF State student, professor and campusworker? Defeat attacks on the right tocampus protest! Down with the SouthAfrica-style ban! Defend GuillermoBermudez! Come to the trial at 9:00 a.m.on October 14, at Municipal Court,Department 16, Hall of Justice, 850Bryant Street, San Francisco.•

year-long defense campaign resulted inthe dismissal of the phony "assault on apolice officer" charges trumped up aftercampus cops assaulted him, seizing himin a deadly choke hold when hewas leading a demonstration againstMarine recruiters on the Berkeley cam­pus. Vindictive UC Berkeley "Reichs­chancellor" Heyman answered Guiller­mo's legal victory by suspending himfrom school this semester. While ob­scenely mouthing hypocritical pieties"against apartheid," Heyman & Co. arecurrently in the process of discipliningeleven anti-apartheid protesters.

As Guillermo's attorneys (notedblack civil rights lawyer Howard Moore

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Spartaclst militant Guillermo Bermudez (left): target of anti-communistwltchhunt stemming from 1984 "Red Avenger" campaign for embattledNicaragua at SF State (above).

Spartacist League and Partisan DefenseCommittee fought for a dismissal of thischarge all the way up to the CaliforniaSupreme Court, which refused to reviewthe case. State attorney general JohnVan de Kamp weighed in with an 18­page brief against the appeal for adismissal. Clearly the powers that be are

. committed to prosecuting this case.Why?

Van de Kamp's brief describes Gui­llermo as a "campus fixture"-that is, awell-known, outspoken Marxist activ­ist. Guillermo gave the Reaganite witch­hunters a black eye this spring when a

on campus of the racist punk "Resi­dents' Liberation Army," which stagedKKK-style provocations against blacks,gays, Hispanics, Jews and leftists lastschool year. In May, one ofthese racistscum, Greg Foster, assaulted Spartacistsupporter Todd Nolan. While the au­thorities never prosecuted (much lessbanned) Foster for this crime, Guiller­mo Bermudez is going on trial forhanding' out a leaflet.

Of all the charges against RedAvengers stemming from the cops'arrest spreejn 1984, all have beendropped-except the charge against .Guillermo for defying the anti­democratic, anti-communist ban. The

Moore (aka "Baby HUAC") decidedthat a literature table displaying Sparta­cist literature and Marxist classicsinvaded her inner space and called thecops and administration to whisk awaysocialist literature (of course leavingintact the literature display of the crazedultrarightist Lyndon LaRouche cult).Defiant Red Avengers responded with abright red campaign to raise dollars forMIGs for Nicaragua to crush Reagan'scontras.

The rad-libs' red hunt, enthusiastical­ly joined by all manner of racists andbigots, paved the way for the emergence

The United States government' hasdeclared war on your 'rights. They'retelling you what you can and cannotread, smoke, and do in your ownbedroom. They want to test your urine,censor your VCR, and take away yourPlayboy magazine. They've made na­tional heroes but of teenage snitches

. who turn their own parents in to thecops. And while ranting about terror­ism, the Reagan gang encouragesabortion clinic bombers, racist KKKnightriders and gay-bashing bigots.There's a reason why all this is happen­ing now: the ruling class and itspoliticians, Republican and Democrat,seek to regiment the population for waragainst the Soviet Union and its"surrogates" across the world. You aresupposed to be the cannon fodder forthis imperialist war drive.

So now it's a "crime" to pass out aMarxist leaflet on the SF State campus.Spartacus Youth activist GuillermoBermudez goes on trial in SF municipalcourt October 14 for this very "crime."Bermudez, a student at UC Berkeleyand formerly at SFSU, is charged withviolating a South Africa-style banslapped on him by the SFSU adminis­tration after he and other youngSpartacist "Red Avengers" held a rallyon campus to raise money for Nicara­gua's defense against U.S. imperialism.On 16 November 1984, campus copsarrested Guillermo for breaking thisoutrageous ban by coming to campusand distributing leaflets. The policereport described his "motive" as: "topass-out 'Spartacus' Nicaraguan sup­port flyers."

The Red Avengers were born inanswer to the anti-Spartacist witchhuntof a frenzied unholy alliance of thecampus administration, and cops, stu­dent government bureaucrats, "progres­sive" Democratic Party careerists andtheir fake-left camp followers andhangers-on. Thecampus popular front­ists were enraged because we exposedtheir lie that workers and blacks couldfight Reagan by backing loser Walter"Quarantine Nicaragua" Mondale. So

, at a November I debate sponsored bythe SF State Women's Center featuringcandidates for the SF Board of Supervi­sors, including Diana Coleman of theSpartacist League, WC director Judy

Take aSide! Defend Nicaragua!Donate to Nicabucks!

In the cross hairs of U.S. imperial­ism, embattled Nicaragua needs hardcurrency for everything from militarydefense to medicine to spare parts.When U.S. war moves against Nicara­gua escalated last spring, the SpartacusYouth League initiated the StudentCommittee to Defend Nicaragua andundertook a fund drive to raise dollarsfor the defense of the country againstyanqui imperialism. The "Nicabucks"campaign raised over $25,000, whichwas forwarded to the Nicaraguan gov­ernment. Now, as the "contra Con­gress" votes $100 million in aid for theanti-Sandinista terrorists and Reaganplans to send Green Berets to train thecontras in their counterrevolutionarycampaign of assassination, torture andsabotage against the Nicaraguan work- ­ers and peasants, we have reopened ourfundraising effort.

An unusual opportunity to demon­strate our defense of Nicaragua andraise funds for that purpose occurred onSeptember 28 at an Athletes United forPeace-sponsored baseball game inBerkeley, California featuring the Ni­caraguan national team. Denied thechance to play in SanFrancisco on

. Saturday because of State Departmentharassment and delay in issuing visas toteam members, the Sandinista all-starsmade it to Berkeley for a spirited gameon Sunday. We carried signs defending'the Nicaraguan Revolution; enthusias­tic fans contributed to crush the contras.

OUr readers have responded gener­ously; since September, over $700 indonations has been received. One letterstated:

"Once again, as last year-though it'smoreurgentthan ever-we wantto givewhat support we can for the military

defense of Nicaragua against the con­tra/mercenary scum & their backersinWashington, overt and covert. ... Likeyou, we'd like to see the revolutioncompleted by the full overthrow ofcapitalism ... & also to see it spreadthroughout the entire region, especiallyto the industrialworkersof Mexico & towitness theforging ofa trulyrevolution­ary vanguardto stand at the headofthemasses there, armed with a programwhich will sharply pose the questionof'who shall rule?' ..."P.S, Enclosed is our check for $10.00for unconditional military support toNicaragua against imperialist attack bythe U.S. & its hired thugs-Wish onlythat wecouldsendthema few MIGsforthe same purpose, but can only hopethat the SovietUnion& Cubawill cometo realize their obligation to the futureof humanity."

Our internationalist. appeal for mili­tary defense of Nicaragua sets us apartfrom the pusillanimous, Democratic

Party-loving "solidarity" movementwhich has all but disappeared, inca­pable of opposing the bipartisan anti­Soviet war drive whose front line isdrawn in Central America, as theDemocrats line up behind Reagan.Many contributors recognize this aswell. One wrote:

"I decided to contribute $ to theNicaraguan defense thru the SCDN,rather than thru any of the other left­liberal material aid organizations be­causeI wasimpressed withthe way thatthe SYL [Spartacus Youth League]raised and delivered the previous$25,OOO-in cash with no strings at­tached. This seems to me the mostappropriate method, under existingconditions, to fulfill desires to makematerial and real contributions to thedefense of Nicaraguan sovereignty."

We thank our readers and all whohave generously contributed to thedefense of the Nicaraguan Revolution.More funds are urgently needed. Wesay: . Defend, complete, extend theNicaraguan Revolution! Be a part ofthis important effort. Make checkspayable to: Student Committee to De­fend Nicaragua. Mail to: Box 3118,Church Street Station, New York, NY10008. Help crush the contras! •

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Local Quota Week %(In points) Four

Atlanta 125 139 111Boston 250 207'h 83Chicago 350 403'h 115Cleveland 200 237 119Los Angeles 125 122 98New York 900 724 80Oakland 550 445 81. San Francisco 350 284 81Washington. D.C. 150 154 103

National Total 3,000 2,716 91

yet to carry out an execution. The pro­death lobby, afraid that America isslipping behind South Africa in the legalexecution of black people, has targetedliberal California Supreme Court chiefjustice Rose Bird for voting against all59 death sentences that have comebefore the court in her tenure. The Dem­ocrats, such as black Los Angeles mayorand candidate for governor Tom Brad­ley, an ex-cop who is pro-death pen­alty, have shunned Bird like a leper.Even Bird and her liberal and reformistbackers seek to duck the issue ofcapitalpunishment, claiming the issue is Deuk­mejian's attempt to pack the court.

Which of the partner parties of Amer­ican capitalism controls the courts, copsand prisons is not the issue. Marxistsfight for abolition of the racist and bar­baric death penalty. Voting for RoseBird certainly won't do it. She's a main­stream liberal who has responded to therightist attack by covering her rightflank: endorsing the appointment ofracist Rehnquist and launching a pub­licity campaign extolling the virtues ofAmerican "justice" with explicit anti­Soviet attacks. Massive protests in thecontext of the black struggle of the early'60s temporarily stopped executions inthe U.S. in 1967and led to the SupremeCourt's anti-capital punishment deci­sion five years later. It will take massivelabor and black struggle to abolish legalmurder today.

VOTE NO on Props 63 and 64! Boththese viciously reactionary measuresmust be defeated in November with amassive turnout of labor and minoritiesto vote them down. But the barbarism ofdecaying capitalism will not be defeatedat the polls. It's going to take some hardclass struggle, led by a revolutionaryworkers party, to overthrow this racist,war-driven system. Such a party must bea tribune of the people, giving com­munist leadership to the struggles of theworkers and all the oppressed-blacks,Hispanics, Asians, women, gays. We inthe Spartacist League are dedicated tobuilding that party.•

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of Caryl Chessman was an early impe­tus to the 1960s radicalization, whichhelped to bring about the abolition ofthe death penalty by the Supreme Courtin 1972. But in 1976 the Supreme Courtgave the states the power to impose cap­ital punishment, and today the electricchairs and lethal injections are goingagain. And the Rehnquist court, headedby a racist vigilante in black robes whohas voted for every single death sen­tence that has come before the SupremeCourt, wants to restore the death pen­alty throughout the United States.

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also dovetails with the racist "yellowperil" protectionism being pushed main­ly by the Democrats. Many Californiansof Japanese descent remember beingherded into concentration camps for the"crime" of being Japanese during WorldWar II. Prop 63's most prominentbacker, S.1. Hayakawa, began his polit­ical career with a vicious assault onminorities: as president of SF StateUniversity he unleashed bloody policeterror against the 1969student strike ledby minority students for ethnic studiesprograms.

The bill's backers cynically claim itwill help 'immigrants to learn English, asif the problem were lack of motivation!Immigrants and their kids need to learnEnglish to get jobs in the United States.Meanwhile, Deukmejian has been clos­ing down bilingual education pro­grams. In L.A. alone, there are 40,000people on a waiting list to get intoEnglish programs in the public schools.The vast majority of immigrants des­perately want to learn English-butdon't get the chance. This referendum isnot about learning-it's aimed atdepriving immigrants of fundamentalrights such as, drivers licenses, votingand court testimony, in order to make itimpossible for the foreign-born to liveinAmerica. And as with the nativist frenzyin the I920s, this is closely linked to fas­cist terror.

The "golden door" to' the U.S. is wideopen to the Batista torturers, Somozabutchers, South Vietnamese war crimi­nals and Afghan drug runners, who'serve as grist for the anti-Soviet propa­ganda mill and as counterrevolutionarythugs for the CIA. For those fleeing"Made in U.S.A." death squad terrorand starvation, however, there's lamigra's Gestapo-like raids, KKK bor­der patrols and barbed wire concentra­tion camps. We oppose Prop 63 andfight for full citizenship rights for allforeign-born workers. All those wholive and work here should be providedwith free, quality education in English,as well as their own language. As Leninwrote in tsarist Russia, which he called"a prisonhouse of peoples": "Thenational programme of working-classdemocracy is: absolutely no privilegesfor anyone nation or anyonelanguage ...."

Abolish the Death Penalty!

Likewise, the drive to bring back legalexecutions is a key element of the right­

- ist offensive nationwide. The death pen­alty has long been a major issue inCalifornia politics. The 1960 execution

Racists Target Blacks,Asians, Hispanics

The anti-gay drive is part of a deeplyreactionary climate of fear and intimi­dation in Reagan's America. The cap­italist state is targeting everybody theysuspect of not being in sympathy witha white, Christian, English-speakingAmerica where "deviance" will not betolerated. The drive for "English only"and more executions is an ominousattack on all minorities. Prop 63 tomake English the state's "official lan­guage" is backed by the Washington,D.C.-based "U .S. English" and is part ofa nationwide anti-immigrant frenzy. AsReagan threatens an invasion of "feetpeople" from south of the border if U.S.imperialism and its contra scum do nottopple the Sandinistas, Meese claims"illegal aliens" are drug traffickers.

Prop 63 is not merely an attack on thepitifully inadequate bilingual servicesoffered California's Hispanic residents,20 percent of the state population, but agreen light for increasing Immigrationpolice (la migra) and fascist terroragainst Hispanics and Asians. Prop 63

ewsweekCalifornia Supreme Court chief jus­tice Rose Bird.

Props 63, 64...(continued/rom page 16)

proposal by a group of mad scientistsfor a $12.5 million "research" project toprove AIDS can be transmitted bycasual contact or by insects. A projectmemo called for identifying AIDS vic­tims with a '''Star of David' concept"­branding AIDS victims with the Nazimark of death. The project had- thebacking of senior scholars at the HooverInstitute.van anti-Soviet think tank atStanford University, which lists Rea­gan as an honorary member. And lastJune Reagan's Justice Departmentunder Meese ruled that employersreceiving federal funds could fire or dis­criminate at will against any worker onthe basis of "fear of contagion" fromAIDS.

But for all their talk against theLaRouche bill, the cynicism of the poli­ticians of both capitalist parties in theface of the misery and suffering of AIOSvictims and their lovers, families andfriends is truly staggering. ReaganiteRepublican governor George Deukme­jian belatedly came out against Prop 64only after slashing the state's budget forAIDS research and vetoing a rights billfor AIDS victims. The Democrats, whodiscovered the LaRouche threat afterhis followers outpolled the regularDemocratic Party candidate for lieu­tenant governor in the Illinois primary,have sought to distance themselves fromLaRouche without sounding soft on"sin" or communism. These so-called"friends of gays" have couched theiropposition to Prop 64 in lukewarmterms, labeling it "ill-advised," "unnec­essary" and, worst of all, "expensive."San Francisco Democratic mayor Di­anne Feinsteinjoined Reagan's "war ondrugs" when she squashed the cityhealth department's humane sug­gestion to distribute free sterile needlesto drug addicts. A major cause of thespread of AIDS is intravenous drugusers' sharing dirty needles.

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500 Students Rout K'KK March!Radford, Virginia

Five hundred students in the smallcollege town of Radford in westernVirginia stopped a Ku Klux Klanprovocation September 20. A marchof 50 of the terrorist Klansmen bran­dishing Confederate flags and shout­ing racist slogans was stopped in itstracks as 500 outraged onlookers,overwhelmingly students at RadfordUniversity, surged into the street andblocked the Klan's path. The localcampus weekly, the Tartan, said thepolice "were unable to disperse thehundreds of students who had gath­ered to confront the Klan" and quotedone cop as saying, "We feared a riotwould break out if the Klan marchedfurther" (Tartan, 25 September).

Some townspeople also participatedin the anti-Klan event, including agroup of bikers whose T-shirts de­clared "Black and White Unite" and anelderly black man who drew applause

Radford studentsstop racist

nightriders frommarching through

their town,September 20.

and cheers as he walked down Nor­wood Street carrying a baseball bat.

Across the country in major urbancenters the Spartacist League hasorganized labor/black mobilizationsto stop the Klan and Nazis, as againstreformist leftists who along withbourgeois politicians organized diver­sionary events to keep protesters faraway from confronting the fascists. So

when we heard about the Radfordstudents' action, we grabbed thephone. By all accounts, the militantprotest seems to have been a spontane­ous response to the KKK's obsceneattempt to parade for genocide inRadford. Students interviewed by ourreporter were proud that the Klan hadbeen turned back.

In anticipation of the event, people

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had been "urged to stay home andignore the Klan marches" and thestudent government, according to stu­dent president Joe Freeman, hoped "tokeep students on campus" and away

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Fascistic Referendum.Targets AIDS Victims Rink

San Francisco gay community up in arms over LaRoucheinitiative.

In Reagan's America every right-winglunatic thinks he can get a serious hear­ing. Now reactionaries of all stripes aretrying to turn the California electionsinto a racist, witchhunting campaign foranti-gay hysteria, victimization of immi­grants and carrying out death sentencesagain. They're pushing the Reaganagenda to strengthen the capitaliststate's police apparatus to smash anyopposition to the bipartisan drivetoward war against Russia. Whippingup the frenzy over AIDS, crime and"foreigners taking jobs," these electoralcampaigns give the green light forattacking minorities and the workingclass, and create a climate for the spreadof fascist terror.

The followers of ultraright crackpotLyndon LaRouche succeeded in plac­ing on the ballot an openly fascisticmeasure, Proposition 64, mandatingmassive AIDS testing, firing suspectedAIDS carriers from food-handling andteaching jobs. This monstrous proposalopens the way to quarantining all thoseinfected or even exposed to the virus aspotential carriers! Another measure,Prop 63, pushed by notorious rightistformer U.S. Senator S.l. Hayakawa,calls for making English the state's

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"official language." Proponents of themeasure call for banning everythingfrom Spanish-language McDonald'smenus to bilingual education. Andintegral to this vicious rightist drive isthe attempt to purge California StateSupreme Court chief justice Rose Bird,a liberal who has repeatedly votedagainst executions. The campaignagainst her spearheads the drive forlegal murder, especially of blacks, in thestate of California.

Prop 64, at least, is widely unpopu­lar. Many decent Californians object tothe wholesale hounding and perse­cution of gays and oppose the amend­ment. Its sponsorship by the sinisterLyndon LaRouche hasn't won it anysupporters, either. A poll conducted bythe San Francisco Examiner (10 Sep­tember) showed only one in seven vot­ers favoring the fascistic LaRouche ref­-erendum. The San Francisco CentralLabor Council has come out publiclyagainst it, as has virtually every publichealth department and reputable med­ical authority in the state. Unfortu­nately, the furor has not extended to

- Prop 63, which would declare Englishthe "official language" of California.This chauvinist law would have a far-

reaching impact: millions of Califor­nians for whom English is not theirnative language would be subject toeven greater discrimination in thisdeeply racist country.

Smash the Anti-Gay Witchhunt!It is an outrage that the LaRouche­

ites' Prop 64 is even on the ballot, ratherlike voting on whether to endorseHitler's Final Solution. AIDS hysteriahas become a rallying point for attackson gays. The LaRoucheites call forputting gays ("AIDS carriers") inconcentration camps -("sanitariums").Railing against "dirty sex," LaRoucheand his cult followers organized theaptly acronymed PANIC ("PreventAIDS Now Initiative Committee"),which has been playing on bigotry, fearand ignorance to build AIDS hysteria.AIDS is not a "gay plague"-it iscausedby a virus, transmitted sexually or bycontaminated blood products. Toutingthe lie that Al DS can be spread casuallylike TB and typhoid, the LaRoucheitespublish crackpot charts projecting thenumber of AI DS victims doubling everysix months until by January 1993 theentire U.S. population will supposedlybe wiped out!

Once a leftist, LaRouche is now aright-wing nut case, a fervent endorserof Reaganism who claims that HenryKissinger is a Soviet mole, the Queen ofEngland runs an international drug ringand AIDS is a product of the Soviet"war machine." A megalomaniacal anti­communist, LaRouche envisions beingswept into power by AIDS hysteriamerging with anti-Soviet war fever:

" ... the anti-AIDS movement, will nat­urally converge upon the parallel issuesof national economy and nationaldefense. Secretary of Defense CasparWeinberger and Attorney GeneralEdwin Meese would be very popularfigures, under such circumstances.'Enough of this disease-ridden radical­ism! Let's get back to normal!' willbecome the popular outcry."

-Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.,"Spread Panic, Not AIDS,"October 1985

LaRouche is sinister and dangerous andhe is not alone. No wonder he recog­nizes kindred spirits among the Rea­ganauts: his "AIDS initiative" soundslike something straight from the Meesepolice files.

-In February the San FranciscoExaminer revealed that Reagan's WarDepartment was seriously considering a

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