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After U.S. Bombing Lays Waste to Irag
"Liberated" Kuwait
Tortures Palestinians
GeorgeBush is building his "new world order" on conditions in Iraq reported that the country has
mountains of corpses. Wewarned insistently that a "been relegated to a preindustrial age," as the
Pax Americana in the Near East would mean brutal bombing "wrought near-apocalyptic results upon the
neocolonial oppression. It began with the wanton infrastructure of what had been until January 1991
murder of tens of thousands of Iraqis. Now U.S. a rather highly urbanized and mechanized society."
forces in the Near East are overseeing a vicious A visiting doctor adds: "Since the beginning of the
reign of terror and torture, particularly against the war, thousands of babies and adults have died from
dispossessed Palestinian workers of the region. starvation and shortage of medicine" (Guardian
From the outset, Bush was intent on devastating [London], 23 March). This is the result of the A
Iraq as a bloody reassertion of U.S. imperialism's . months-long blockade of Iraq, carried out under a Thousands of Palestinians and Iraqis have been rounded
self-anointed role as top cop of the world. Last week UN fig leaf and cheered on by Democrats and up, many tortured and murdered by Kuwaiti soldiers
a United Nations commission sent to investigate continued on page 9 under U.S. su'pervision.
Videota~e Shows...What Ha~~ens All the Time
Racist Cop Terror U.S.A.
The public fury generated by the sadis-
tic racist beating of Rodney King by L.A.
police has brought the issue of police
brutality into sharp national focus. No-
body but the most rabid cop sympathizer
believes it is an "aberration," as LAPD
chief Daryl Gates called it. Blacks and
Hispanics have always known the truth
about it, and many have directly expe-
rienced it-the only new thing is people
have camcorders to videotape it. Now
TV viewers from coast to coast wince at
each swing of the police batons, each
kick to the head, each blow to, the
kidneys-deeply angered, with com-
passion and empathy for the black man
as he lay helpless before the taunting,
torturing cops. And from New York to
Atlanta and Chicago, the media has
suddenly unearthed a mountain of simi-
lar cases, which they had buried until Pizac/AP George Holliday Video
now. Bush halls LAPD chief Gates as "American hero," vows to take "handcuffs off police." Right: L.A. pollee sadistically
After 15 days, transcripts of the L.A. club and stomp defenseless black man, Rodney King. .
patrol car computer messages from the
night of the beating were finally made appetite for killing increased so dramati- exclusively racially biased. It is of great convention, sitting next to "Choke Hold"
public. LAPD thugs Laurence Powell and cally in the presence of...trappers? In assistance in becoming a victim if you Gates and singling out the L.A. top cop
Timothy Wind, under indictment as two this case, is one to believe that the cops' are black or Hispanic, but don't rely on as an "All American hero." Appealing
of King's principal attackers, bragged: "I thirst to beat up people is somehow stim- that too heavily. New York police abused for the kind of "moral force" and "na-
haven't beaten anyone this bad in a long ulated by the presence of a video camera a white woman editor who objected to . tional will" shown in "Desert Storm,"
time." The voice on the other end re- to record it? We rather think it's the them berating her taxi driver, ran down Bush described his draconian crime bill
sponded, "Oh, not again: .. I thought you opposite. an elderly doctor on Park Avenue (one as "taking the handcuffs off police."
agreed to chill out for a while." Powell In fact, racist cop atrocities occur all of only two cases in which an NYC cop That's like when he said that the army
and Wind described their previous call, the time. But now with video cameras was ever indicted for murder). The cops would "not be asked to fight with one
involving a black family, as being "right . everywhere, you get to see it for your- have this macho creed of cowardice: hand tied behind their back" on the day
out of Gorillas in the Mist." Foot patrol self. The cops see home videos as a threat they're not like soldiers, they don't that the terror bombing of Baghdad
officers responded, "Ha ha ha ha ... let me to their control of the streets (like guns in expect to be shot at. Which is why they began. The beating of Rodney King sym-
guess who be the parties." Straight from the hands of the people). But it's funda- have those elaborate funerals, bringing bolizes what Bush's talk about unleash-
the racist pigs' mouths-to say the least, mental to the criminal "justice" system out thousands every time one of them is ing the police IS all about. Blacks and
this undercut Gates' absurd claims that to pretend that cops' testimony is implic- on the receiving end. They're supposed other minorities are to be used for
the beating was not racially motivated. itly to be believed. So ...the victim fell to do the killing. cannon fodder in war, and target practice
Racist police terror an "aberration"? down the steps, banged his head against at home.
We're reminded of the study by eminent the pavement, was shot trying to escape. "Desert Storm" Comes Home Now embarrassed over his endorse-
Canadian biologist Farley Mowat, who Possibly the police will figure a way to In our last issue we pointed to the ment of Gates, Bush scrambled to dis-
investigated trappers' claims that wolves ban videos, at least as evidence in court, direct connection between Bush's war of tance himself. Attorney General Richard
were devastating the herds of caribou. the way the Pentagon kept reporters in annihilation against Iraq and the war Thornburgh ordered the FBI to "review"
Mowat found the wolves were getting a the persian .Gu.lf from showing .tlI.e car- . against blacks.and Hispanics at home. On complaints of police brutality received by
bum rap. After thousands of years, nage left by its murderous blitzkrieg. the same day the videotape was first the feds in the past six years-some
wasn't it curious that wolves' insatiable Cop terror is enormously, but not aired, Bush was at a nationwide cop continued on page 8
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the cops will say, adding, "Don't blame the bunch!"
From Death Row, One wonders-where, pray tell, are the "good
apples," who treat people with human decency?
This Is Mumia Abu-Jamal McDuffie, Eleanor Bumpurs, MOVE, on & on &
on & on?
To now cry "bad apples" is to insult Black
intelligence.
It is not "bad apples," but a bad system mat
ALesson From "Lalaland" relegates Black life to the psychic underworld of
terror.
For what did Black youth cross the seas of Saudi
As the psychic ripples from the Gulf "War" recede In that blinding; naked moment, the fears of genera- sand?
from the shores of memory, other visions arrest the tions of Black men leapt to the fore, for by such For what did their fathers wage war in Viet Nam?
nation's attention. customs are marked our common reality. For what did their grandfathers fight a fascist
From the country's Southwest came the gripping For who knew, among his vicious pursuers, who Hitler?
imagery of a continuing urban war, the videotaped this young man was? Who among them cared? To be beaten in the. streets like dogs?
vicious street beating of an African-American motor- He could've been a white-collar professional, like That is today's ugly reality.
ist, as he lay prone, dazed, utterly unresisting, in a insurance man Arthur McDuffie, whose murder by What reality will our sons face?
Los Angeles gutter. cops in Miami evoked paroxysms of rebellion; he 10 March 1991
Witnesses counted at least 50 bone-snapping blows could've been a cop, driving in plainclothes; he
by police billy clubs, plus assorted kickings and zap- could've been the son of California's Congressman,
pings by an electric stun gun. Ron Dellums ... In short, he could've been any Black
The motorist's crime? man, of any social strata, and the beating would've Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Philadelphia black journal-
Running (allegedly) a stop light, and daring to flee been just as brutal, just as harrowing, and just. as ist, is on death row at Pennsylvania's Huntingdon
a uniformed crew of malcontents. disbelieved, had not a camera captured this cacophony state prison. Framed up because of his political
The initial police reports, predictably, charged Rod- of cruelty. views, Mumia faces death for his defiance of the
ney King with resisting arrest, but the existence of To his armed, uniformed assailants, the driver was' racist, capitalist order. His columns appear periodi-
videotape of the arrest relegated 'such charges to just a "nigger," hence, fair game. cally in Workers Vanguard and other newspapers.
irrelevance. He might've been a returned warrior from Desert To get involved in the fight to save Mumia
For there, in living color, stood the obvious-a Storm; or a blood relative of Martin Luther King, Jr., Abu-Jamal and abolish the death penalty, contact
Black man, suspected of an offense, is publicly beaten but would it've mattered? the Partisan Defense Committee, P.O. Box 99,
in a spasm of racist insensate rage, for no reason Hardly. Canal Street Station, New York, NY 10013. If
other than the lamentable fact that it has long been Prepare for the official obfuscation, i.e., the old you wish to correspond with Mumia, you can
American custom to do so, when the doers are armed "bad apple" theory, to be unleashed upon the public. write to: Mumia Abu-Jamal, AM8335, Drawer R,
with the power of the state. "There's always a few bad apples in every bunch," Huntingdon, PA 16652.
Genocide Is Not Debatable
Every-time we seek to mount an anti-fascist
Letters
united front, "civil libertarians" such as the
ACLU and the Zionist ADL leap to defend the
fascist terrorists' "right to free speech." But
KKKers like David Duke stand for mass mur-
der against minorities and other workers-
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
genocide is not debatable. When the then-
Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party organized
a mammoth demonstration to stop a fascist
'Round Socialist Action
rally in New York's Madison Square Gar- Boston said how happy he was that his next-door
TROTSKY den in 1939, they took on these suicidal LENIN
3 March 1991 neighbor had tied a yellow ribbon around.
arguments. Dear Editor, the tree in his driveway and what an
It seems that the only point of importance that the Professional Liberals and Demo- The recent article on Socialist Action appropriate symbol this was for the anti-
crats could see in the big mobilization of the Nazis at Madison Square Garden last ("Socialist Action: Untrue in Small war movement. As if to say this was
week, was their "right of free speech and assembly"..... Things and Big," WVNo. 521, I March) no individual aberration, the November
The American Civil Liberties Union, apparently exhausted by its noble efforts in was right on target. Indeed, theirs is the issue of Socialist Action reprinted Shep-
behalf of the Nazis, didn't utter a peep about the democratic rights of free speech, politics of duplicitous maneuver as op- pard's revolting social-chauvinism ver-
assembly and picketing being denied the 50,000 anti-Fascists who came to protestthe posed to principle, the politics of oppor- batim. "We're building a movement to
Nazi rally. Ditto for the Jewish committee.... tunist tailism as opposed to leadership. reach out to everyone: the vets, the
The workers who spend all their time and energy in the abstract discussion of the But lest Workers Vanguard readers Marines, everybody. Those yellow rib-
Nazis' "democratic rights"-to say nothing of working themselves into a lather in think that our characterization that bons that are all around this country
defense of these "rights"-,-will end their discussion under a Fascist club in a concentra- "Socialist Action is after the yellow rib- mean 'we want all our [my emphasis]
tion camp. bon •patriots for peace' crowd" is some troops home NOW! '"
The workers who delude themselves and waste their time begging the capitalist kind of polemical exaggeration, we Socialist Action can have its reac-
Democrats in office to "act" against the Fascists, will end up in the same place, just shouldpoint out that Socialist Action has tionary pro-imperialist yellow ribbon
as the workers of Italy, Germany and Austriadid._ shamelessly, publicly and explicitly en- movement The color scheme matches
The workers have more vital concerns. They are and should be interested in dorsed the yellow ribbon movement. At perfectly with the rest of their politics.
defending and expanding their democratic rights. But not in any abstract sense. These a forum in Boston on 21 October 1990, Communist greetings,
rights are the concrete rights of free speech, assembly, press, .the right' to' organize, longtime SA supporter Roger Sheppard . Kevin G.
strike and picket, without which an independent working class simply cannot exist.
A decaying capitalism-of which Fascism is only a natural product-s-seeks constant-
ly to restrict and destroy these rights, which are not truly genuine even in "normal"
times. These rights can only be defended from the assaults of capitalism and its ugly
offspring, Fascism, in the same way in which they were first acquired: by the tireless,
aggressive, unbending, independent struggle of the working class ....
ISO Calls Cops on Leftists
Chicago other speakers, who on instructions from
The self-preservation of the working class demands that it cut through all abstract
19 ~arch 1991 the chair had lined _up to speak at
chatter and smash the Fascist gangs by decisive and relentless action.
the microphone, were two supporters
- "Should Fascists Be Allowed the Right of Free Speech?" Dear Comrades,
from the centrist Revolutionary Workers
(Socialist Appeal, 3 March 1939) As stated in the article, "ISO in the League (RWL) , who tried to put a left
Antiwar Movement" (WV No. 520, 15 face on the NNCAW by asking it to
February), the International Socialist adopt a list of radical-sounding demands.
Organization has a record of suppressing The ISO quickly decided that political
'!~!!!!!or..~!!~~! ~
open political debate and excluding its discussion was verboten. When a third
political opponents on the left. On March RWL supporter took her tum at the mike,
2 here in Chicago the ISO called the cops the chair shouted her down while a:Pba-
to oust Spartacist supporters and other Ianx of ISO goons converged around
DIRECTOR OF PARTYPUBLICATIONS: Liz Gordon
leftists from a public antiwar conference. her. SYC members and RWL supporters
EDITOR: Jan Norden
This disgusting attack took place at moved to defend this woman but the
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Jorge Ramirez
Loyola University, where the ISO- chair abruptly ended the discussion peri-
CIRCULATION MANAGER: Karen Valdez
organized National Network of Campuses od. As the session broke up, SYCers
EDlTORIAL BOARD: George Foster, Frank Hunter, Jane Kerrigan, Len Meyers, James Robertson,
Reuben Samuels, Joseph Seymour, Alison Spencer, Marjorie Stamberg Against the War (NNCAW) held a con- heard that the ISO was expelling the
The Spartacist League is the U.S. Section of the International Communist League (Fourth ference over the March I weekend. With RWL from the conference for "disrup-
Internationalist) . a few hundred people attending the tion" and at that very moment was
Workers Vanguard (USPS 098-770) published biweekly, except 2nd issue August and with 3-week interval December, morning session, a supporter of the Spar- attempting to take down the RWL's
by the Spartacist Publishing Co., 41 Warren Street. New York, NY 10007. Telephone: (212) 732-7862'(Editorial), literature table by force. I went to the
(212) 732-7861 (Business). Address all correspondence to: Box 1377, GPO, New York, NY 10116. Domestic
tacus Youth Club kicked off the floor
subscriptions: $7.00/24 issues. Second-class postage paid at New York, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address changes discussion by counterposing the need podium to inform those still in the room
to Workers Vanguard, Box 1377, GPO, New York, NY 10116.
for labor political strikes against the war about this undemocratic attack and to
Opinions expressed in signed articles or letters do not necessarily express the editorial viewpoint.
to the NNCAW's dead-end strategy of announce that if this censorship stood the
29 March 1991 chaining student opposition to the war to SYC would walk out in protest. The
No. 523
the capitalist Democratic Party. Among continued on page 4
2 WORKERS VANGUARD
Northite Blood Money
"Lenin received Germangold," "Leon The Bulletin doesn't deny that it
Trotsky was an agent of the Mikado." cheered the murder of Communist work-
"Spartacist-Finger Man for the FBI." er militants in Iraq. It simply whines that
The first slander was supplied by self- the Workers League didn't know Healy's
proclaimed "socialists" and other ele- Workers Revolutionary Party got paid for
ments in 1917 Russia who wanted to this and other crimes. This, it is claimed,
continue the imperialist carnage of World was done "without the agreement or
War I, the second by J.Y. Stalin and the knowledge of the International Commit-
last by David North's Workers League. tee." For the Northites to claim that they
In the 8 February issue of the Workers didn't know is about as believable as
League's press the Bulletin we read: Bush and Reagan's protests that they
"As American bombs are dropping on were "out of the loop" while another
Baghdad, Workers Vanguard uses rhet- criminal by the name of North, first
oric indistinguishable from that of the name Oliver, was running the Contragate
Bush administration .... It willingly places arrns-and-drugs scam out of the White
itself on the 'left' flank of the bourgeois House basement.
media propaganda blitz which seeks to Healy's financial ties to Arab regimes
demonize Saddam Hussein and whip up were a notorious' scandal on the left.
hatred for the Iraqi people." From the time the WRP started up its
Workers News
At least when the pro-war forces in daily News Line in May 1976, it was
imperial Russia lyingly accused Lenin of
being a German agent they attempted to Nick Beams David North clear that Healy's organization was on
the take from Muammar Qaddafi' s Lib-
give a political facade to this slander by yan regime. Less than three months ear-
Partners in crime: Beams and North were PR agents for Iraqi dictator Saddam
pointing to Lenin's opposition to Russian Hussein when he was killing Communists as an ally of U.S. imperiaUsm. lier, the WRP had folded its previous
imperialism and to the war. But for the paper Workers Press following months of
Workers League to accuse the Spartacist publicity pleading for funds for a press
League of trying to undermine the de- An Assessment of Stalinism in the Arab World _ "Crisis Fund." Then amidst great fanfare
fense of Iraq while U.S. imperialism was out comes a flashy new four-color daily
raining down death on Baghdad is such Where the Iraqi full of articles extolling the Libyan dicta-
a shameless lie that it would make the
tsarist writers of the "Protocols of the
Communist Party tor and "special reports" from Tripoli.
Where did the money come from in this
Elders of Zion" blush. Went
!~":;;-~:.1f~1§
rags-to-riches story?
In our banners at antiwar demonstra- As early as May 1977, we ran an arti-
£.:r~:,~~"':t,~~ , :,":'; 7.::;';~~~
tions, in the headlines of Workers Van- cle entitled "Healyites, Messengers of
guard, in our speeches to protesters-the Qaddafi," which concluded that "even
Spartacist League forthrightly fought for a cursory look at News Line's year-
the defeat of U.S. imperialism and mili- long pandering to the oil-rich Qaddafi
tary defense of Iraq (without failing to forces the observation that there is
note the crimes of Hussein's regime indeed something very rotten in the state
against the Iraqi toiling masses). We of Denmark." Two years later we pick-
sought to mobilize the social power of eted.Workers League meetings with signs
the working class in labor political reading "Workers League-Press Agents
strikes against the war. And what of the for Libyan Dictatorship!" and "Healyites:
Workers League? As American bombs From Political Bandits on the Left to
rained down on Baghdad, North's outfit Pimps for Qaddafi."
campaigned... for a "democratic" referen- Then in 1980, Sean Matgamna, editor
dum on the war! of the British Socialist Organiser, ob-
At the red-white-and-blue "antiwar" served that the WRP must have been
demonstration in Washington, D.C. on subsidized by "one or more Arab govern-
January 26, the Northites marched under ments." In a vengeful attempt to destroy
a banner reading: "Stop War Against Matgamna's organization, the WRP (un-
Iraq-Let the People Vote on War." This uary), which detailed how the late Gerry attempt "to provide the FBI with a pre- der the aegis of jet-setting actress Vanes-
is worse than the most abject social- Healy's "International Committee" was text to frame up the Workers League." sa Redgrave) filed a libel suit against
pacifism, appealing to the imperialist on the take from a number of Near The Northites certainly have an elastic Matgamna for his scathing and eminently
butchers to give a more "democratic" East despotic regimes, including Saddam view of their own history-similar to truthful expose of these unprincipled
cover to their genocidal war against the Hussein's Iraq. And we pointed to the their relation to any question of Marxist political bandits, gangsters and cultists.
Iraqi people. At the time, the American Healyites' criminal cheering for the 1978 principle or proletarian morality, We Interestingly, the one statement in Mat-
"people," in their overwhelming major- execution of Iraqi Communist Party nailed the Workers League as "shameless gamna's article which the suit did not
ity, supported Bush's war! members. apologists for white terror in Iraq" more take up was the central charge that the
The Workers League headed by David than a decade ago. At the time Hussein Healyites were being funded by bour-
Crime and Dividends North-the current representative of was a client of U.S. imperialism, which geois Arab regimes.
What really has the Workers League unadulterated Healyism here on earth- was providing him with military aid and Now, the Bulletin writes that follow-
frothing at the mouth. is the one sub- is squealing like stuck pigs. The Bulletin intelligence. (As we have reported, the ing the Control Commission investiga-
ject truly close to their" hearts-lucre, decries our exposure of their direct and first anti-Communist bloodbath carried tion "the International Committee, with
as filthy as it comes. Earlier this year we immediate ancestors for being on the out by the Ba'ath used hit lists supplied the support of the Workers League ...
ran a short article entitled "Healyites payroll of virtually every- sheik and mil- by the CIA.) In our most recent article we denounced the WRP's 'pursuit of unprin-
Got Blood Money" (WV No. 517, 4 Jan- itary bonapartist in the region as an also noted that at the same time Healy cipled relations with sections of the colo-
et al. were raking in thousands from nial bourgeoisie in return for money'."
those other clients of American imperial- But what did the Workers League find
ism, the Kuwaiti emirs! "unprincipled"? Obviously not acting as
The International Communist League Makes Available The Workers League probably has press agents for Qaddafi (celebrating the
the Polemics of Its Opponents on the Left plenty to fear for the crimes they have "Tenth Anniversary of the Libyan Revo-
committed, but getting in trouble with the lution," the WL sent a telegram to Qad-
FBI is at the bottom of the list (if they dafi praising his "progressive socialist
are on any FBI list at all). After all, the policies") or cheering the execution of
Hate Trotskyism, Iraqi Communists. North's "defense" is
Just Out! Hate the Spartacist League Healyites were working the same side of
the street as U.S. intelligence! In 1979, that Healy did it for money, while the
• ••11.,1.se,I•••, .',.•••, _trlel North's Bulletin reprinted articles from Workers League did it for free! But did
they?
Hate Trotskyism, Healy's News Line hailing the execution
NUMBER & of 21 Iraqi Communist Party members
Hate the by Hussein's government. The Bulletin Who Got the Money?
Spartacist League From Malice to Proveeation (30 March 1979) even reprinted from
After the IC Control Commission had
Introduction News Line an- Iraqi communique, under
No.6 The Bund SoziallaU8cher Arbeiter: the grotesque headline, "Where the Iraqi
delivered its report, in 1986 Cliff Slaugh-
;~~n:estag Election '90-Wh~1 00 the Others Stand For?' ter, another of Healy's former lieuten-
IranSl~~~k:~~~~~:~~~~~::;:~~~~~;, 1;~e~~~I~~~~;' 1990 Communist Party Went Wrong."
ants, wrote a letter to all WRP members
According to the 1985 International
The Grupp. Sp8rtaku8: asking:
$2 (15 pages) ~~t~I~;;;~~'t~~I~~~ruppeSpartakus on the .B!-'ndestag Elections Committee Control Commission report
translated Irom a le~~~tV;':~~~ ~r~ POeSS-Crlllcal Support 10 the ~PAO,,, "Is it only the WRP which received fi-
of the International Bolshevik Tend:rfc y, f7a~~~~~~~r~~~ secucn -which the Bulletin tries to hide behind nancial assistance from one or other
A Letter on "Sparlaclam": as proof of their "innocence"-the Hea- Middle Eastern bourgeois national gov-
G~~t:~C~~~;::t:r:::I~~~n~:~:~e~~~:~b~~~~~espokesman for lhe lyites got close to £20,000 from Iraq in ernments? Which other sections did so?
the late 1970s. And this figure can only "Is it not a fact that the Australian sec-
Make checks payable/mail to:
Spartaclst.Pubtishinq Co.
Box 1377 GPO
New York, NY 10116
=:r:;;~I~C.....,
.. '--''''J''* 11111 ....-. -,",.
....... be the tip of the iceberg, given that the
IC "investigation" into their organiza-
tion's financial dealings in the Near East
tion did receive a sum of (tens of thou-
sand [sic] of dollars) in 1983? ..
"Is it not true that Cde Beams. failed to
report the matter to the IC or to the WRP
was carried out by the guilty themselves. continued on page 4
29' MARCH 1991 3
have suppressed virtually the entire dis-
Northites•••
(continued from page 3)
cussion on Healyism.... This is like the
thiefin thecrowdedbazaarcrying, 'Stop,
thief' to distract attention from his own
In 1971, Attorney Gen.n! Jolin Mit<:hell,ln an attempt to Ita.. off funber critIciImof the FBI'lpnclic:e ofbeplq
h.... lisll of diaidenll-aU...d su"""ni..o-for who 1aI0 what n.rariou" _ , ~ that all of the liIII'haiI
..
been aboli"'ed, and were replaced by one"'ort "Adminiltrati . lnde"," or. "ADEX," of'" than 10,000 names. SiJlce
that list .... abO unrelal.d to pro..n, or
.
suspect.d crlmina1actmty,in 1974 ActiIl& FBI Director L. Patrk:k Gray
announced that the AOEX had been aboli d. Howev.r,in 1976,a politically actiyoattorDey from New York, req....tin&
misdeeds. Up north Mr. Holier-Than- his FBI m.· under the Fr••dom of Information Act, discovered, buried in his doaier, a copy of his ADEX .ntry Nemoran-
delegates, but that he did report it to at Thoumakes his getaway with 90 grand, dUR1 and Report. AOEX, it appean, was not abolished, limply moved around. No e"planation of the four categories w.
gi..n. The New York office recommended that the Iawyer be put in th.loWOlt cateaorY, IV, ''because of subject's apparent
least someof the delegates who support- while his apprentice/accomplice makes intluenee with New Left leaders." However, the home off stat.d: "In ad4llion to the foregoing, a revi.w of subject's
...
ed the WRP suspension and certainly' to off with another 25 granddown south.Is activitiesclearlydepicts him as a revolutionaryattorney and sympathizer who. durin& I time of nationalemeqency I would
be likely to commit acts inimical to the national defense. In vi.w of the a _ , subject is beiDa included in Cateaory III
Comrade North? That is what happened. this your revolutionary morality? Is this of ADEX." Wltat fat. is in store, we wonder, for people put in Category I? The namea and addreaea ha.. been c1wtFd;
"Finally: is it not true that Comrade your kind of internationalism?" otherwise the document below is an exact replica of an ADEX Memorandum:
North and Beams agreed the matter -printed in Fourth International,
should not be raised at the IC because Autumn 1986
they considered it did not constitute a
'class betrayal'? How did they differ- Tony Banda's "we were all crooks"
indictment of "Mr. Holier-Than-Thou"
Memorandum FBI's
entiate between the class betrayal of the _n., lAY 1 S 872
WRPin thismatter-on which wasbased
the argument for suspending the WRP
North captures the cynical quality of this
falling-out among thieves.
fA4I1EVYORK
s.au.l Abratwa suoe.u... lID
Hn List_
from the IC without charges and without It seems evident that when it looked
a hearing-and the actions taken on ADEX:
behalf of the SLL (Australia)?" like Healy was collecting all of the big .., lIY . . . .rr report d&ted
Slaughter's accusations against North's payoffs from the Near East, the rest of
cover-up for his colleague Nick Beams, his mob were driven into a shark-like
leader of the Australian Socialist Labour feeding frenzy to get their share of the
League, have the ring of (self-serving) blood money. As we have noted many
truth. A month after Slaughter's letter times, none of Healy's epigones protest-
was circulated, the Central Committee of ed the vicious betrayals that were per-
the SLL seems to have felt constrained petrated by their organization in order to
get money from Near East bourgeois DPL'
to censure Beams for failure to report OPPA (J1SDS
receipt of money from Arab regimes to governments. It was only when this 0 ..1_ee 11 '$ftcd171 ..
the IC. Further information came from revenue dried up that they moved in to
former SLL leader Phil Sandford, who depose Healy.
revealed how another leading Australian' According to a financial report by
Healyite was slapped down by-Healy for Corin Redgrave, dated 8 October 1985,
attempting to poach on his Iraqi preserve in 1984-85 "scarcely a single rent or Note the importance given to "Union Affdiation.'·
to get $100,000 for a printing press (see rates demand was paid on time. Bailiffs Some of the pohlieal groups are obvious: BI'P-Black Panther Party; PLP-Progressi.. Labor Party;
SOS-Stud.nts for a Democratic Society; SNC-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; SWP-
"Some Political Bandits at the End," took walking possession 'of the contents Socialist Worken Party; WWP-Worken World Party. For some, .... can make educated gueoses: MIN-
Spartacist No. 43-44, Summer 1989). of the party's printshop in Runcorn, the Minutemen; NOI-Nation of Islam; PRN-Puerto Rican Nationalists. Some are less clear: NL may mean
National Lawyen GuUd; AWC may be American White OliZOJlS CbuDc:lI; SPL could mean Spartacisl
Sandford reports that their relations with party bookshops, and on one occasion at League; no on. at CounterSpy can auess what JFG .tands for.
least, the party headquarters at Clap- Note that fluetltions in Category are obYio~y contemplated.
Libya were much more lucrative.
ham." At first the WRP tried to blame Note the date of "Rev." If the AOEX .... only establisbed In 1971, what was beiDgrevised?
the whole mess on their financial appara- Count.rSpy 7
Only the Tip of the Iceberg••• tus. But by the summer of 1985 it
became clear that the whole stinking
Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. £542,267 How come the WL never appeared on the FBI's "ADEX" list, which singled out
house that Healy had built was about to 16 groups including the SWPand the Spartaclst League (SPL)? Above, sample
Kuwait. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 156,500 come crumbling down. Well-trained by page of this target list was printed in CounterSpy magazine.
Qatar ' 50,000 their "founder-leader," Healy's longtime
Abu Dhabi 25,000 henchmen went, like sharks, for the and North anointed himself king of the While Mitchell today plies his pen for
PLO 19,997 kill. remaining Healyite dung heap. the capitalist press in Australia, North
Iraq 19,697 North desperately wanted to declare The Workers League tries to palm continues to use his for new installments
Unidentified or himself as the new leader and wielded themselves off as Trotskyists and from of "Security." After spending a fortune
other sources 261,702 the IC Control Commission for his own time to time, when it suits their purposes, trying to get the capitalist courts to
Total £1,075,163 cynical power play. Today, the Bulletin they can sound quite orthodox. We rec- rule that the SWP was being run by
(Reprinted in Workers News, April 1988) claims that the Workers League's partici- ognized them for what they were twenty FBI agents in the notorious case of WL
pation in this commission clears them of years ago when we publicly exposed the provocateur Alan Gelfand, the North-
all crimes. Yet, curiously, they have Healyites as "political bandits" whose ites waged an international campaign
Account of monies from Near East
paymasters received by Healy's WRP chosen never to print the results of even positions were tailored to their own op- as fingermen for the American imperial-
as reported by 1985 IC Control Com- this heavily censored and self-serving portunistic 'and unsavory advantage. In ist state's prosecution of a young SWPer,
mission-an "investigation" carried "investigation" into the IC's sordid finan- their further degeneration they became Mark Curtis-who is now behind bars,
out by the guilty. cial wheeling and dealing. outright bandits, and far worse. sentenced to 25 years in jail on trumped-
The Commission's report was com- Talk about fingermen: for a fistful of up rape charges. But why would the cops
But was North's only role in this sor- pleted in a big hurry, and this was not petrodollars, the Healyites took pictures jail one of their own agents?
did affair to alibi for Beams? Not accord- simply because Healy & Co. had alleg- of protesters at an anti-Hussein demo in And why does the Workers League
ing to a letter from Healy lieutenant edly spirited away the WRP's financial London and turned them over to the Iraqi profess to be worried about the FBI
Tony Banda to the American Workers records. No attempt was made to investi- embassy! For cash they cheered the going after them? On the face of it, the
League Central Committee of23 January gate allegations that other IC sections murder of Iraqi CP members. One of U.S. government ought to be satisfied
1986. Responding to accusations that had been on the take. The names of Healy's main bagmen-in Baghdad was with their work. As for the Arab dicta-
leading members of the WRP, following implicated senior WRP members who none other than Alex Mitchell, who tors, sheiks and colonels that the Healy-
the ouster of Healy, were refusing to had not left with Healy were deleted together with North co-authored "Securi- ites shook down for cash-c-doubtless on
make IC documents available toWRP from the report. North used the "find- ty and the Fourth International"-the the claim that the IC was an organization
members, Banda writes: ings" to get the leftovers from Healy's sinister campaign to smear the leadership with "mass" influence which could help
"This I find extremely interesting coming WRP out of his way. Slaughter's rump of the American Socialist Workers Party them out-they might rightly feel duped,
from you, who through your minions, WRP was suspended from membership as agents of the ,FBI and the GPU! not to mention vindictive.•
than a thousand issues of Socialist Work-
SPARTACIST LEAGUE/U.S. LOCAL DIRECTORY Letters•••
(continued from page 2)
er. Like the Menshevik Andrei Vyshin-
sky, who in July 1917 signed the arrest
National Office: Box 1377 GPO, New York, NY 10116 • (212) 732-7860 warrant for V.I. Lenin, the ISO gladly
words were barely out of my mouth calls the cops on reds to prove their own
Atlanta Detroit Norfolk when a conference organizer, Nick De-
Box 4012 loyalty to the bourgeoisie as brokers of
Box441043 Box 1972, Main PO
Atlanta, GA30302 Detroit, MI 48244 Genova, yanked the cord right out of the popular-frontist coalitions. That Vyshin-
Norfolk, VA 23501
microphone! . sky was to become Stalin's chief prose-
Boston Los Angeles Oakland Out in the hallway, the RWL's lit cutor in the Moscow Trials 20 years later
Box390840, Central Sta. Box29574, Los FelizSta. Box32552 table was surrounded by a large goon might give some ISO supporters pause.
Cambridge, MA 02139 Los Angeles, CA 90029 Oakland, CA 94604 squad of ISOers. SYC members moved
(617) 492-3928 (415) 839-0851 Comradely,
(213) 380-8239 in to defend the RWL and led chants of
Keith A.
Chicago San Francisco "ISO-Back Off!" and "150-Thought
Box6441, Main PO Madison Box5712 Police!" The face-off went on for about
Chicago, IL 60680 Box 1492 San Francisco, CA 94101 15 minutes until Bill Stant, an ISOer and
(312) 663-0715 Madison, WI 53701 (415)863-6963 the conference convener, pulled back the Sparlacisl League
Cleveland New York Washington. D.C: goons-explaining that he had called the Public Offices
Box 91037 Box 444, Canal S1. Sta. Box 75073 ~
campus cops to expel the RWL and "any-
one who defends them"! Immediately, siv - MARXIST LITERATURE-
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4 WORKERS VANGulRD
NYC Transit Worker
~============-I tions on the spot." The motion passed at a Track Divi-
sion meeting, but Hall and his fellow bureaucrats buried
Bye Bye Bieber
it along with the workers who have since died. This
time, the family bitterly told transit workers, Hall didn't
Killed on the Tracks even bother to go to the funeral.
Owen Bieber gets a pink slip from Chrysler? You
won't find hardly a one of the hundreds of thousands
Francesco Giordano, a 62-year-old track worker and of auto workers who were thrown out of their jobs with
a member. of Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local the help of this chief company cop in SolidarityHouse
100, was struck and killed by a subway train shortly
before 3 a.m. on March 15. He was crossing the tracks
Feds Mug Teamsters crying in their beer over this one.
It seems Bieber is being "retired" from his seat on
in a Queens station where he was part of a crew install- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is facing the Chrysler board of directors. Bieber inherited his spot
ing metal tie plates. Giordano worked for the Transit a tough fight to defend the National Master Freight from his predecessor, former UAW chief Doug Fraser,
Authority (TA) for over 20 years. He was three short Agreement (NMFA), the hard-won national agreement who was rewarded with the seat in 1980 in exchange
months away from a June retirement. Giordano would in the trucking industry. Riding high after ten years of for billions in union givebacks and his role in the
have been out of the NYC subway system deathtrap deregulation, and salivating after the paltry UPS con- Chrysler "bailout" scam.
already, but the TA made him make up "lost time" from tract last summer, trucking bosses are hacking away at Bieber was unceremoniously informed at a recent
an earlier illness. the union. And with the contract expiring on April I, board meeting that he would be dumped at the upcom-
When the Brooklyn-bound G train killed Giordano, government agents are crawling all over the union in ing shareholders meeting as Chrysler "downsizes" its
the daily press of NYC barely took notice. But a stray preparation for the upcoming June convention and board in a "cost-cutting effort." But other board mem-
dog run over on the tracks two days before has become December election of International officers. bers have been saying privately that they are concerned
a cause celebre, as the New York Post tried to crucify In the last ten years alone, the number of workers "Brother" Bieber's loyalties "might be divided."
the motorman in the unfortunate incident. It was a front- covered by the NMFA has been slashed from half a mil- Now we admit that Doug Fraser was a tough act to
page story with an inside column under the huge head- lion to only 170,000. Since the Reagan/Kennedy deregu- follow-he coined the lie that "concessions save jobs,"
line "Subway Workers Kill Dog to End Tie-Up." Buried lation gift to the industry, the IBT has lost 800,000 giving the Big 3 over a decade of unsurpassed exploita-
in the article is the fact that the train was stopped for members in all. The practices of "two-tier" wage scales tion. But how can anyone seriously question Owen
a half-hour during rush hour while transit cops searched and "double breasting" (the opening of ndn-union sub- Bieber's loyalty to the auto bosses and the capitalist
system? He helped wipe out 500,000 auto jobs in the
last decade. Dozens of plants have locked their gates
"U
zr
o
under his "leadership." With the closing of Jefferson
a Assembly, not a single Chrysler plant is left in heavily
black Detroit.
The UAW chief offers sweetheart deals as the wave
TA headquarters, of the future-like the Saturn plant in Tennessee-
Brooklyn: because "Director Bieber" and his "Sacrifice House"
transit workers gang have been unable to organize Nissan, Honda or
denounce anything else. Non-union plants are sprouting up all over
dangerous the country. The 1987 contract and the one signed last
working fall heralding "job security" are acruel hoax, bartering
conditions at away another 100,000 jobs for a few extra months of
protest against "retraining." All the while, Bieber & Co. cover their
layoffs of 300 craven sellouts with flag-waving, racist, Japanese-
track workers
last September. bashing protectionism.
But now with a full-blown recession in auto, the
bosses want even more. GM is reportedly demanding
that the current contract be reopened, in order to strip
away even its meager layoff benefits. And Chrysler isn't
for the German shepherd. It was the cops who ordered sidiaries by union firms) have exploded across the even bothering to keep Bieber on the board for the next
the train to move again! country. Outfits like Yellow Freight have refused to round of takebacks-why pay chump change to the
The dog got more ink than Francesco Giordano, or bargain as part of the employers' council, Trucking labor lieutenants of capital when they're quite willing
the six other transit workers killed on the job in the last Management Inc., instead demanding substandard con- to hand over the jobs of auto workers for free?
two years. Giordano is another victim of the TA's tracts. The TMI bosses jealously eye UPS, where exten- For Doug Fraser, Owen Bieber and the reformist,
policy that workers' and riders' lives are cheaper than sive use of part-timers has divided and weakened the social-democratic left, the bailout of Chrysler and their
capital investment and adequate, safe working condi- union. prize-the seat on the board-was the crown jewel of
tions. We do not forget Robert Nicholson, Daniel Meanwhile, with current president William McCarthy class collaboration. "Socialist" welfare for the bosses
Walsh, Stewart Melsinker, David Davis, James Byrne retiring, the Teamsters bureaucracy has disintegrated and button-down labor "statesmen" in the boardrooms!
and Frank Davila-all run down on the tracks because into turf warfare, as the various political barons in the Ten years and billions in givebacks later, Chrysler is
.the TA did not provide flagmen or didn't inform the union fire each other's supporters and drag each other still a basket case. Detroit and especially the black
other workers that men were working on the tracks. into the capitalist courts. The "reformers" of the Team- masses are ravaged by a capitalist crisis.
After each of these deaths, the TA sought to scapegoat sters for a Democratic Union (TDU), who openly col- .' In 1979, as Chrysler prepared to close Dodge Main,
transit workers with drug tests, and the carnage goes on. laborated with Reagan's Justice Department to put the the Spartacist League campaigned for plant occupations
The TA gets away with this murder on tracks because u
.. nion under the government's heel, are also running a
the sellout leaders of the TWU are willing accomplices. candidate, New York City UPS Locai 804 president Ron
While the TA spitefully denied theGiordano family's Carey.
request for his personal effects, the cruelest blow comes Carey, playing to the Teamster members' hatred of
from TWU Local! 00 president Sonny Hall. This miser- the feds' intervention, has the nerve to complain that
able traitor to the transit workers immediately blamed the union is "under the thumb of both management and
Giordano for his own death! Hall and his "safety depart- the federal government." He should know-Carey and
ment" routinely denounce TWU members for getting his TDU buddies are the ones who invited the feds in.
injured or killed on the job, for not following the The program of the TDU/Carey slate is empty nickel-
"rules." Giordano's widow Ann bitterly noted that her and-dime promises, with a heavy dose of reliance on the
husband spoke often about dangers on the job and the capitalist courts and political parties.
need for precautions. "My husband was a 21-year man, The TDU jumped into the Carey campaign with both
an oldtimer. He knows the rules and he knows better feet-here at last these court suit reformists saw "the
than to break them." opportunity of not only going along for the ride, but of
Of course the TA's "rules" have little to do with being in the front seat" (TDU head Ken Paff, quoted in
providing for decent, safe working conditions. Manage- Dan La Botz, Rank and File Rebellion [1990)). After
ment imposes union-busting drug tests to terrorize the years of first begging the feds to RICO the union, then
workforce, orders track crews to keep the power on drafting detailed proposals for government "monitors,"
while working inches away from the third rail, and then the TDU thinks it's in the driver's seat. And it is Team-
AP
scapegoats union workers when the inevitable accidents ster members who will pay for these "reformers" put- 1984: Union president Bieber (right) hand in hand
occur. And the TWU bureaucrats are right behind them. ting the union under the government's thumb. with Chrysler chairman lacocca. UAW tops got
Yet when newly nominated TA chairman Peter Stangl The bosses' government has been waging a vendetta seat on board of directors, workers got the shaft.
let a few friends play Casey-at-the-throttle of a Metro- against the Teamsters ever since the liberal Kennedy
North commuter train at 80 miles an hour, that was OK. brothers went after Dave Beck and particularly Jimmy and-factory seizures to fight layoffs and plant closings.
Imagine how long a motorman would keep his job if he Hoffa, whose organization of over-the-road drivers gave In opposition to all the schemes to bailout the capital-
allowed a friend to take a joyride on the A train! the union the power to shut 'down freight traffic coast ists, we called on workers to seize Chrysler's assets and
The Committee for a Fighting TWU, a class-struggle to coast. Any fight to defend the union from the bosses' distribute them to the workers, with no compensation
opposition group in TWU Local 100, has been fighting offensive must start with unconditional opposition to to the bosses, banks or stockholders.
for the basic workers' right that "no safety means no government intervention in the labor movement. The As for Owen Bieber and his precious board seat, it's
work." After David Davis and Stewart Melsinker were working class. must clean its own house! A class- too bad he was dumped ... by his capitalist masters.
killed at Astor Place last May, the Committee put for- struggle leadership must be built in the Teamsters We'd like to see it done by militant black, white, His-
ward motions at union meetings demanding "elected union-counterposed both to the gangsterism and cor- panic and Arab auto workers when they take back the
union safety representatives; backed by the entire union, ruption of the IBT tops and to the junior G-men of the union from these company cops who have run the UAW
with the power to shut down.any unsafe working condi- TDU. into the ground.•
29 MARCH 1991 5
(~~'~.~.\~ .. ~... ;;r:'l"f>~"-J 4j"rl~~i'-t~ll~ .,tt
Protests Swee~East Germany
German Workers Fight
Ravages of Reunification
East Germany is seething. In recent
days there has been a dramatic shift in
the mood of the working class. A month
ago 100,000 workers demonstrated in
various cities of the former DDR (East
Germany) against mass unemployment.
Since then, every Monday there have
been protests in Leipzig, which have
grown from 10,000 at first to over
80,000 on March 25. But instead of
the black-red-gold banners which domi- Harbor workers
nated the increasingly virulent German- in Rostock take
nationalist Monday demos 12 to 15 to the streets
months ago, today national flags are to protest
virtually absent (except for the occasion- threatened
al DDR emblem), replaced by red ban- shutdown of
ners of the metal workers and public East German
employees unions. The intoxication with shipbuilding
the promise of prosperity to be brought industry.
by a "quick D-mark," the driving force
in the DDR elections a year ago which
led to the victory of capitalist counter-
revolution, has clearly worn off. East
Germany is having its morning after. offs) and climbing toward four million to be "second-class citizens." spoke in Mansfeld, where massive shut-
Opinion first turned against Chris- by summer, or nearly half the entire There are still nationalist appeals for downs are threatened, talking about how
tian Democratic (CDU) federal chancel- workforce. "no second-class Germans" and signs the Ruhr was now a blooming region, the
lor Helmut Kohl, whose ratings have Last week, Bundesbank president Pohl calling for "unity in the pay envelope as workers have a right to a job, and "you
dropped precipitously in the East. People called the currency union-which went well." But opinion is turning sharply have a rich brother in the West," the
angrily recall his election promises that into effect last July 1, marking the against reunification itself. The same workers responded with laughter and
under reunification "no one will be worse economic takeover of the former East opinion survey reported that 57 percent finally a chorus of "stuff it!" (Der Spie-
off than before." Now there are numer- German workers state by imperialist of East Germans think that "quite a few" gel, II March). The mood is one of rage
ous signs charging the CDU and Kohl West Germany-a "disaster." For this or "most" East Germans now think it and frustration. The workers are willing
with lying and election fraud. One banner judgment, he would find widespread would have been better not to unite with to fight-what's lacking is a clear goal
in Leipzig demanded "Jobs Instead of support between the Elbe and Oder West Germany. And when at the latest and leadership.
Being Burned to a Cinder" (Verkohlung). rivers, where even CDU prime ministers Monday demo the Social Democratic The despairing mood expresses itself
The Treuhandanstalt (Trusteeship Agen- of the "new federal states" complain that (SPD) mayor of Leipzig tried to pin the in indices of social pathology. The birth
cy), responsible for selling off or shutting Bonn's policies are laying waste to the economic mess on the former Stalinist rate has fallen by half since reunification,
down the former state-owned companies, economy. The Lutheran bishop of Berlin- SED (Socialist Unity Party) rulers, he while abortions are way up. Suicides are
has become a particular object of hatred Brandenburg, Forck, complains that was booed down. double the number a year ago. The Labor
as mass layoffs are announced. A year many East Germans feel "betrayed as For now, the demos have largely been Offices are the site of dramatic scenes.
ago, unemployment in the DDR was less human beings and deeply injured," while called by the SPD-led unions. But DGB In Jena, a woman begs for her unemploy-
than 50,000; today it is already well over "many West Germans act here like vic- (German Labor Federation) officials sent ment payment, pulling out her last 95
three million (when you include those on tors in a vanquished land." Der Spiegel into the East are often seen as colonialist pfennigs. The next day, a jobless worker
"short work" with no work, those forced (18 March) reported that half of all interlopers who have no interest whatever comes in with a revolver, demanding
into "early retirement" and public em- 'East Germans feel their own jobs are at in defending the working people of the "Alu her (hand over the 'aluminum-a
ployees on a "waiting list" for lay- risk and 85 percent consider themselves ex-DDR. When a miners union leader reference to the old DDR coins) or I'll
Border-Guards Seize Women "Suspects"
Thefollowing article is translatedfrom down, as women are supposed to go
Spartakist No. 84, March 1991.
Not only must thousands of women
from West Germany each year travel to
Fourth Reich back to "Kinder, Kiiche, Kirche" [the
Nazis' trinity of children, kitchen and
the church].
the Netherlands in order to have abor-
. tions. If upon their return they awaken
suspicions at the border (for example,
Anti-Abortion Outrage Despite the fundamental gains which
laid the basis for the material independ-
ence of women, the Stalinist bureaucra-
cy with its worship of the "family as
by carrying towels and underwear, or
if a woman is driving), they are sub- ongmate at the border. With all' the basic right of women to abortion. It's the basic unit of socialism" did not
jected to a forced gynecological exami- vehemence of the Inquisition, women part of the capitalists' campaign to eliminate the oppression of women.
nation and possibly dragged into court. are persecuted, publicly denounced and smash working-class resistance and to Now Bundestag deputies of the PDS
Der Spiegel (4 March) reported about judged. In West Germany, the personal force the working people into religious, [Party of Democratic Socialism, succes-
Kathrin K., who was forcibly dragged data of women who have had abortions sexual and social regimentation. sor to the former Stalinist ruling party
from the border crossing point at is stored in the state's computers. The The right to abortion and free contra- of the DDR] are debating whether to
Gronau to the nearby Catholic St. Anto- workers movement must fight against ceptives, just like the right to a job, come out for straight elimination of
nius Hospital, where a "doctor" searched the shameful Paragraphs 218 and 219 were gains we defend of the former Paragraph 218 or only for the obscene
her vagina and uterus for "evidence" [of the German criminal code], which workers state of the DDR. The reac- trimester "solution" which leaves the
-these are the Dr. Mengeles of the outlaw abortion and make both doctor tionary campaign against these rights last word to the state and makes crimi-
Fourth Reich in action. and patient into criminals. is supposed to strengthen the family, nals of women.
This grisly witchhunt took place in In the former DDR [East Germany], the root of the special oppression of Communists fight for women to be
the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, gov- the Christian Democrats are going on women, as a basic pillar of capitalist able to voluntarily transfer the burden
erned by the Social Democrats. SPD the warpath with their dirty campaign society. Now hundreds of thousands of of housekeeping and raising children
justice minister Krumsiek denounced for "unborn life," while the SPD wants women in East Germany are being to qualified social institutions. Only
the charges as the "fart of the week." to force women intohumiliating forced driven from their jobs under sinister socialist revolution can lay the basis for
According to the Max Planck Institute, "consultations." All over East Europe, laws for. the "protection" of women. a society of equality and abundance arid
half' of all prosecutions for abortion the counterrevolution is targeting the Childcare facilities are being shut win the liberation of women ..
6 WORKERS VANGUARD
shoot." There has also been an increase ment of billions to the former forced-
in the number of attacks on immigrant labor bosses of the Nazi-era IG Farben
workers and refugees seeking asylum, as trust which used to own the Buna and
"foreigners" become the scapegoats for Leuna works. But even though the feder-
economic frustrations. Right-wing bands al government is already pumping in 100
have attacked Turks in Rostock, Viet- billion DM to the former DDR this year,
namese in Cottbus and dormitories for the capitalists aren't investing. For the
Africans in the state of Sachsen-Anhalt. bosses, despite all the nationalist talk it's
The unemployment level in Berlin, still profits ilber alles.
reports Spiegel, is approaching that in the The PDS, meanwhile, is calling for
German capital in 1932, i.e., one year "democratization" of the Treuhand. This
before Hitler came to power. There have is a call fora political bloc with the SPD
been fascist attacks against Soviet Army and CDU state governments in the East,
soldiers and installations, as at Neuruppin by giving them a say in administering the
in the north, and the danger of a dramatic agency for capitalist dissolution of the
growth of the Nazi bands is very real. former VEBs ("people's enterprises").
The Republikaner and various neo-Nazi It's hard to imagine a more grotesque
paramilitary groups are aggressively reformist proposal. But the same theme,
recruiting in the East. But so far the with a transparent veil of "left" rhetoric,
potential for the fascists' growth is was raised by the Arbeitermacht group
mainly unrealized. And that is largely (Workers Power) and the Kommunisti-
due to widespread, low-level social sche Plattform in the PDS, who issued a
struggle. Last week there were demon- joint call for the March 23 PDS demo in
Spartakist
strations of more than 10,000 steel Berlin demanding "The Treuhand must
Demonstration in Leipzig, February 27, against mass unemployment. The
workers in Eisenhuttenstadt, 20,000 black-red-gold German flags have been replaced by trade-union banners. be placed under the control of the work-
chemical. workers in Leuna, 60,000 in For workers resistance against the Fourth Reich! ing people." No matter who sits on its
Erfurt, and then 50,000 supporters of the board, the Treuhand is the agency repre-
PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism, the SED bureaucrats simply handed over a 14-point program, whose key was to senting the interests of the Deutsche
successor to the SED) at a demo in Ber- the store to the Western bosses. And now rewrite the unification treaty so that the Bank, Daimler-Benz, Siemens and Volks-
lin against the Treuhand. The first plant the capitalists of the Fourth Reich are Treuhand would give preference to com- wagen! But this doesn't bother these
occupations have begun at some micro- completing the job of destruction. pensating former owners rather than popular-front ideologists of the second
chip factories around Erfurt. What is to be done now in the face of returning "their" plants. The supposed mobilization.
Women have been among the hardest the economic catastrophe? In Leipzig, purpose was to speed up new investments In contrast to this class-collaborationist
hit by the escalating economic collapse metal workers union leader Steinkiihler in the East. The SPD wants to use the daydreaming, the Spartakist Workers
in the East. Along with immigrants, they called for the resignation of Kohl and "new federal states" as a springboard to Party has called repeatedly for united,
have been particular targets of layoffs. economics minister Waigel. At Leuna, extend German capital further East. And militant workers resistance against the
Many managers treat women workers as chemical union chief Rappe put forward "compensation" means demanding pay- continued on page 10
"second wage earners," to be preferen-
tially fired before a man is put on the
street. And mothers are forced to quit as
a result of closings of day-care centers l;;"
:::>
(not "profitable" in the new capitalist <0
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Women in the former DDR had the
highest rate of labor force participation
in the world (91 percent of those of
working age), and overwhelmingly they
don't want to be sent back to household
drudgery.
In short, the East German population Berlin, March 7:
has had a rude awakening to the realities Leftists, unionists
of capitalism. The Franlifurter Allgemeine and immigrant
(20 March) reports of the new Leipzig workers rally in
demonstrators that "They now seem to be defense of Arabs,
experiencing a West that they never Kurds.
thought possible: a rabid society in which
they feel subjugated, and which seems to
come straight out of the pattern for the
class enemy." East German workers feel
cheated, are full of anger over the lies
and what they see as betrayal. It is more
than "a little late." With the capitalist
annexation of East Germany, announced
Berlin United-Front Protest:
by the heavy vote for the Christian Dem-
ocrats and other pro-reunification parties
in the DDR elections last March and
formally sealed on October 3, the coun-
terrevolution won. This was a heavy
Down With Gag Order Against
Arabs and Kurds!
blow against the working class world-
wide. Henceforth, class struggles take
place in the framework of an expanded
German empire. But now as realization
of the consequences sinks in, there are
important opportunities for revolutionary The following article is abridged from darity messages were read from the by the police terror which is accompa-
Trotskyists. Spartakist No. 84, March 1991. Partisan Defense Committees {fraternal nied by racist calls for denunciations and
organizations of the KfsV) in the U.S. snooping.
For Workers Resistance "Down with the gag order, no deporta- and Britain. Sa'id Dudin, spokesman for the Arab
Against the Fourth Reich! tions!" chanted more than 100 demon- With Christian Democratic interior Solidarity Committee, stated at the dem-
strators onMarch 7, among them many minister Schauble's gag order, immi- onstration: "We must prevent this gag
The Spartakist Workers Party of Ger- Arabs, Kurds and Turks, at a protest law from turning into the beginning of
grants were subjected to a brutal cam-
many (SpAD), section of the Internation- action in front of the Berlin interior paign of police spying and threatened a campaign of isolation, discrimination
al Communist League (Fourth Interna- (police) department. Initiated by. the against foreign-born fellow citizens, and
with deportation. While the U.S./NATO
tionalist), was the one and only party Committee for Social Defense (Kfs~), a imperialists rained their terror bombs on for the further elimination of democratic
which said "no!" to capitalist reunifica- broad united front called the demonstra- Iraq, Bonn muzzled Arab and other im- rights in this city. The real terrorists
tion. The SED/PDS and its satellites tion, including the plant councils of migrants from the Near East and forbade sit in the NATO general staffs, in the
(such as the United Left and KPD) said Interftug (the former East German air- Pentagon."
them to take part in protests and express
"jein" (yes and no) to Anschluss (annex- line) and Pan Am, IG Metall union sec- their outrage over the mass murder of At the same time as the imperialists
ation), selling out the gains of the DDR retary Necati Gurbaca, as well as the their peoples. On January 16 alone, dur- lay waste to Iraq and carry out racist
which had been built up by the workers. Turkish Kurdish organization Kurtulus attacks here, the bourgeoisie is carrying
ing a citywide raid more than 50 apart-
Stalin's thug Ulbricht and his successor semp Berlin, the International League for ments of Berliners of Arab origin were out an economic war against the workers
Honecker pretended they could build Human Rights, the Arab Solidarity Com- ofthe former DDR (East Germany), who
searched, among them members of a
"socialism in half a country" if only you mittee, the Spartakist Workers Party of mosque association and an imam; at least have been thrown out of their jobs
surrounded it with a high enough wall Germany (SpAD), the Immigrant and by the millions, and there are massive
nine Iraqi immigrants were arrested.
and controlled it with a big enough po- attacks on the living standards of all
Refugee Branch of the Alternative Slate, Many of the more than 25,000 Arab
lice force. When that broke down in the immigrants living in Berlin have been hit continued on'page 10
Arbeitermacht and the KPD(ML). Soli-
face of the superior economic power of
the West's most prosperous imperialism,
29"MARCH 1991 7
~nly a couple of military officers have Arnaldo "D~liz, 16, carried his own pic-
Cop Terror... ever been indicted for death squadkill-
ings,and none ever convicted.
tux:e, his eye blackened, his face swollen.
Arnaldo is deaf and mute. He and a
embarrassment, the bourgeoisie, anxious
to restore police "credibility," finds him
expendable. Others call for civilian
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El Diario-La Prensa (24 March) Com- friend, Juan Vergara, both students at review boards or special commissions.
15,000 cases. The "review" is to find out plained bitterly: the Lexington School for the Deaf, were More militant activists want to imitate
if there is a "pattern" of abuse. Asking "Blacks and Hispanics have known about waiting for a bus near the school when the Black Panthers citizens' patrols,
Thornburgh and the FBI to "investigate" police brutality for a long time. In most the cops questioned them about a stolen tracking the cops with use of videotape
patterns of racism is like asking Himmler of the Inner City, the Police behave like car. When they didn't answer, the cops this time around.
an occupation army in enemy country.
and the Gestapo to find out if there's a They don't look upos our people as citi- beat them with flashlights on their faces, None of these schemes will do much
pattern of discrimination against Jews! zens to be protected. To them, we are the punched and kicked them in the chest, good. In August 1988, over 400 New
Thornburgh was governor of Pennsyl- enemy." stomach and groin. They were kept in York police staged a full-scale cop riot
vania when the Philly cops dropped a On March 20, families of murdered police custody for two days without their in Tompkins Square. There were 121
bomb on the black MOVE commune in victims and survivors of police terror parents being allowed to see them. complaints of cop brutality, but although
May 1985, killing eleven people. And gathered in a demonstration outside NY there was plenty of videotape evidence,
every civil rights worker knows how the police headquarters. The protest was The Gang in Blue Uniforms the cops stonewalled and there was
FBI worked hand in hand with the Klan. called by the Congress of Puerto Rican Chief Daryl Gates remains in hot water never a single indictment, let alone a
Nowhere was the sudden "discovery" Rights, and joined by supporters of ACT in L.A., as angry demonstrators pack conviction.
of racist police brutality more grotesque UP and the Spartacist League. In poign- hearings of the police commission and The "pattern" of racist cop terror is
than in New York City. Feeling the heat ant testimony, some carried photographs city council. On March 12 some 400, that any black or Latino can be singled
over the L.A. videotape, NYC prosecu- mounted on posterboard of their dead mainly Samoan Americans, gathered in out for "stepping out of line." Ghetto
tors announced the indictment on murder loved ones, others had photos of them- Compton to demand that killer cop youth get the brunt, but a member of
charges of five cops in the beating and selves after experiencing police brutality Alfred Skiles be brought to justice for the Harlem Globetrotters shopping on
choking death of Federico Pereira in in NYC. Federico Pereira's mother Laura the murder of two brothers on February glitzy Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills can
Queens on November 5. But the police came with her husband, Tito Nieves, a 12. Called to the house in a domestic dis- get it, or a group of black Santa Monica
have counterattacked, attempting to in- top Latin band leader and singer. Only pute, the cops ordered Pouvi and Italia high school students having a picnic at
timidate and trash the teenagers who because they had the tireless will and Taulaulelei to kneel, then hit them with a park in Pacific Palisades, which the
witnessed the murder,and now the killer resources to challenge the cops' lying 20 bullets, mostly in the back, calmly ruling class thinks is "for whites only."
cops have been reinstated. The likelihood story about their son's death ("assaulting stopping to reload. Seven-year-old Niles, It happened to five-year-old Patrick
of getting convictions is remote, if histo- five cops") was the case reopened. son of one of the murdered brothers, Mason, blown away by an Orange Coun-
ry is any precedent. Newsday (21 March) David Cotto's sister Lizette cried out, carried a sign that read: "My Daddy ty cop as he was sitting at home watch-
reported that before this week, only two "My brother was killed like a dog!" Knelt. Why 12 Bullets?" ing TV.
on-duty cops had ever been indicted for David had been depressed and threaten- The ACLU had a full-page ad in the The "pattern" is seen in the number of
murder, in 1985 and 1924! Both were ing to kill himself with a knife, so the Los Angeles Times asking, "Who Do black men in jail-four times the rate of
acquitted. In 1.990,of 41 deaths in police family called the cops, who came into You Call When the Gang Wears Blue imprisonment of black men in South
custody, there were only two indictments. their Sheep shead Bay apartment and fired Uniforms?" They are demanding Gates' Africa! Or the "workfare" scheme which
This is on a par with El Salvador, where eleven shots into the distraught youth. resignation-now that he's become an has thrown thousands of black single
Amid the orgy of flag-waving rallies for deployment and was beaten by sev-
around the returning troops from the eral white officers. So now, in addi-
U.S.' bloody massacre of Iraq, hundreds tion to other charges, Gillis is charged
of antiwar soldiers-National Guards- with disrespect for and threatening an
men, reservists and regular army-are officer for saying that his attacker was
imprisoned in military brigs and jails prejudiced!
across the country. As Bush and pumped- • Donald Alexander, a U.S. Marine
up yahoos gloat over their "win," these Gulf invasion began in earnest, incidents can take up to a year). One of these communications specialist, announced
courageous men and women are in big mushroomed: soldiers, Sgt. Derrick Jones of the 3rd that he refused to defend Kuwait, "a
trouble. They face secret courts-martial • At Fort Riley, Kansas, over l Sf)sol- Airborne, who refused to kill on religious government which condones and prac-
by panels of vindictive officers who diers went AWOL rather than ship out grounds, was told by an army chaplain, tices slavery." He added, "On behalf of
would like to vicariously get in"on the with their units to Saudi Arabia. "Don't worry, none of them will be all black soldiers in Saudi Arabia and
carnage in the Gulf and get back for the • At least eight regular army soldiers Christians" (Nation, 18 February)! the Persian Gulf, and as the descendant
U.S.' humiliating loss in Vietnam by who filed for CO status were dragged in • A recruit at Camp Pendleton, Cali- of African slaves, I refuse to be part of
throwing antiwar soldiers into military the army of a government which is risk-
stockades for years. ing the life of its citizens claiming to
Largely hidden from the public by the defend freedom" (El Diariotl:a Prensa,
pliant bourgeois press which "did its 19 February). Speaking before the press,
duty" for the Pentagon war machine, Alexander said, "For me, fighting in this
there are perhaps thousands of soldiers war in the Persian Gulf would be like
-ranging from traditional pacifists to fighting with the troops of General Lee
black Muslims-who refused to partici- against the troops of Abraham Lincoln."
pate in the slaughter of tens of thousands His petition for CO status was denied.
of Iraqis in the name of Bush's imperial We strongly defend the hundreds of
"new world order." In addition to many soldiers who courageously refused to
individual refusals, AWOLs and appli- take part in the imperialist bloodbath in
cants for conscientious objector status, the Persian Gulf. At the same time, as
the ferment in the troops extended to communists, we do not share the pacifist
entire units angry at racism and unwilling and religious stance of many conscien-
to die in what they saw as a, war to tious objectors and "war resisters." Dur-
enrich the American oil companies and ing the Vietnam War, especially in its
I -La rsnsa AP
feudal sheikdoms (see "Gulf War Racist . Donald Alexander (left) refused to fight for Kuwait slavocracy. Right: Louisiana early stages, many antiwar radicals
Hell for Harlem Regiment," WVNo. 521, "Guardsmen walk off Fort Hood army base to protest rotten conditions and pushed "draft resistance" as a strategy.
1 March). racism. To these activists, the Spartacist League
Recently there have been a handful of said, "You Will Go!"-their place, when
articles in the press revealing the extent leg irons from Rhein-Main AFB in Ger- fornia put down his rifle during gun- drafted, was alongside the working-class
of opposition within the military. The many to the Persian Gulf, under a new nery practice, explaining to his sergeant and minority youth who had to go, so
Los Angeles Times (24 February) estimat- Pentagon regulation to send CO appli- that he was opposed to the war. In an that they could organize powerful opposi-
ed that since August there have been cants to the combat zone while their incident in November which must have tion against the war inside the army. And
1,700 CO applicants. When the Persian cases were being "considered" (which given Marine Corps brass nightmares of in fact," in the last period of the war,
Vietnam, the Nation article describes opposition and demoralization among
what followed: draftees in Vietnam was massive. That's
"The angry sergeant paraded the recruit the main reason that the American gov-
before his entire company, dressing him ernment ended the draft in 1973.
down and ridiculing him as a coward, While Bush praises the "volunteer"
When the sergeant was done, he turned
to the company and sardonically asked if army, many black and Hispanic soldiers
Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of the Spartacist League anyone else would refuse to fight. Much who responded to feel-good TV ads and
to his astonishment, nine other Marine joined the military to get out of ghetto
recruits stepped out of the ranks:" poverty suddenly found that "all they
o $7/24 issues of Workers Vanguard o $3/3 issues of Seven of the men, now called the "Mag- could be" in the Pentagon's view was
(includes English-language Spartacist) Women and Revolution
o New 0 Renewal nificent Seven," face court-martial. cannon fodder. And they come back
International rates:
o $2/10 introductory issues • One class of war resisters has partic- to a country where the racist rulers
$25/24 issues-Airmail $7/24 issues-Seamail of Workers Vanguard
(includes English-language ularly enraged the generals-black sol- from the White House down to the local
0$2/4 issues of Spartacist (edici6n en espanol) .Spartacist) diers, Muslims, who refused to take up police consider oppressed minorities
arms against other Muslims. There are the enemy within. What's needed is a
Name _
reportedly 18 such Marines in the brig at fight for power, to sweep out the ruling
Address _ Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in addi- class whose "new order" spells devasta-
tion to another 14 Marine reservists who tion from Baghdad to Harlem. Class-
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Apt # Phone ( _ ) _
filed for CO status and are charged with conscious workers who fight against
City State Zip ---::-;:;: desertion and missing movement (failing imperialist slaughter and racism at home
523 to move with their units). One of the must take up the defense of all the vic-
M.ke checks pay.b../....II to: SpIIrtaelat Publlahlng co., Box 1377 GPO, New York. NY 10111 Muslims, Lance Corporal Daniel Gillis, tims of the imperialist war machine,
refused last December to board a 'bus including those in uniform.•
8
mothers off welfare, forcing them eithe.r trary brutalization by the "guardians of
to starve or work for slave wages while law and order." New York City has some
leaving their children alone on the of the tightest gun laws in the country:
streets. And the scourge of AIDS, which Malcolm X was assassinated after he was
due to "malign neglect" ravages minority refused the right to bear arms. And who
communities without medical care or gets the rare police permits? Back in the
social services. 1930s, the Daily News publisher was
Not only is racist cop brutality no licensed to carry...a Thompson machine
"aberration," it's part of an overall "pat- gun. During the recent Daily News strike,
tern" of genocide by this racist capitalist the city sanctioned professional armed
system against ghetto blacks it no longer terrorists in ski masks and blue jumpsuits
has any use for. In the past, minorities to guard newsstands and delivery trucks,
were a large part of the "reserve army of while hundreds of cops were put at the
labor," available for when they were disposal of the News scabherders.'
needed bythe bosses. "Last hired, first As Marxists we understand the capital-
fired," as the saying went. Since the ist state is the executive committee of the
mid-1970s it's been "first fired, never ruling class, and the cops are one of
rehired." Even during the so-called those special armed bodies of men whose
"Reagan boom," black unemployment job is to protect capitalist property from
remained at depression levels, and now the many whose blood and sweat make
it's getting worse. A New York Times WVPholO the profits for the few. It's a system built
(19 March) profile of Milwaukee report- Families of victims and survivors of racist cop assaults protested at Police on a bedrock of racist oppression, from
ed that as the Midwest "rust belt" city Plaza In NYC, March 20. chattel slavery to wage slavery. And now
pulled itself out of a deep slump in the that an entire generation of ghetto youth
early '80s, switching from manufacturing of Americans in our cities trapped by the And while the cops stomp through the has been simply discarded by this coun-
to service industry, white unemployment tyranny of poverty, illiteracy, hunger, ghettos and barrios with their heavy try's callous rulers, it should be clearer
fell from 5.3 percent to 3.8 percent, unemployment, crime and hopelessness." weaponry, their helicopters, their Taser than ever that the only way to eliminate
while black unemployment rose from 17 We've got news for Messinger, a mem- guns and tear gas, the right to self-defense - the "pattern" of cop brutality is to do
to 20 percent. ber of Democratic Socialists of America: is denied to the population. Gun control away with the system of racist American
Blacks in America are in terrible dan- George Bush has already launched his bills are rushed through Congress, just capitalism, for which the "gang in blue,
ger. At a House hearing called by liberal "Operation Urban Storm," a so-called when people need protection most. This, uniforms" are the front line of defense.
black Democrat John Conyers, Manhattan "war on crime/war on drugs" 'which is too, is part of the "pattern." The ruling And the key element is forging a revolu-
borough president Ruth Messinger called really a war on the black and Hispanic class insists on its monopoly of armed tionary workers party which acts as a
for an "Operation Urban Storm," to poor. Rodney King was one of its first force. The working class and minorities tribune of the people and champion of
"undertake the liberation of the millions victims. must be intimidated, subjected to arbi- all the oppressed.•
Kuwait... charges of "war crimes."
Over 400,000 Palestinians lived in Ku-
wait before the war, the largest concen-
Lebanese Maronite henchmen.
Palestine Liberation Organization
spokesman Suleiman Najjab told Sherry:
(continued from page 1)
tration outside Israel and the Occupied "We are demanding that our people in
sundry "antiwar" leftists. Washington Territories, Lebanon and Jordan. It was Kuwait be protected by the UN or by
continues its vindictive starvation of the their labor, along with that of other international forces so as not to have a
Iraqi people. On March 22, customs offi- Arab as well as Filipino and Bangla- repeat of Sabra and Shatila." Has the
cials at Kennedy Airport confiscated a deshi workers, which created the fabu- PLO forgotten that it was after its with-
shipment of 5,000 pounds of antibiotics lous wealth of the ruling al-Sabah family drawal from Beirut under the supervision
and other medical supplies donated by and its entourage. of UN "peacekeeping forces" that Sabra
the Fellowship of Reconciliation for Iraq. The contempt with which the Kuwaiti and Shatila were decimated?
U.S. military commanders in the Gulf elite treats those' whom it exploits is Until last year, the Kuwaiti emirate
War are now saying that at least 100,000 captured in the "wanted" notices which was one of the PLO's heaviest financial
Iraqi troops were killed during the have been appearing in Kuwaiti news- boosters; today it is slaughtering Pales-
one-sided slaughter. The Wall Street Jour- papers, aimed at hunting down "workers tinians. Meanwhile yesterday's butcher
nal (22 March) describes how "Allied who have left their employer without of Black September, Jordan's King Hus-
ground forces used bulldozers to bury permission. They are published as a sein, is today hailed by these petty-
thousands of enemy dead in trenches warning to any other employer not to bourgeois nationalists as a savior of the
as the allies advanced." Many of these hire the runaway but instead to send Palestinian people. Committed to reliance
thousands died not in what little real him back to his original master" (Nation, on one or another Arab bourgeois re-
combat took place, but as a result of 18 March). gime, the PLO is capable only of leading
terror bombing and methodical murder Now the very existence of what re- the long-suffering Palestinian masses
by U.S.-led forces of units withdrawing mains of the Palestinianpopulation in from one slaughter to another.
from the fighting-such as along the Kuwait is threatened by the U.S.- No less than the Zionist butchers, the
AP
notorious "highway of death" from Ku- Post-"liberatlon" Kuwait: as number sponsored terror. Kuwah is intent on sheiks and colonels who head up -the
wait to Basra. of slain Palestinians mounts, more ridding the statelet of "politically unre- Arab capitalist states of the Near East
Meanwhile, "liberated" Kuwait has be- graves at Kuwait cemetery. liable Arabs," to be replaced by South have proved themselves to be the ene-
come a killing field, as the oil-bloated Asian workers. The human rights group mies and oppressors of the Palestinian
Kuwaiti rulers exact vengeance for their across the Kuwaiti border to die. Three Middle East Watch estimates that some people. Forced into diaspora by the
humiliation at the hands of Saddam Hus- who. were fortunate enough to get- out 6,000 Palestinians have been rounded up bloody'Zionist expulsions of 1948-49 and
sein by carrying out a bloodbath against alive recounted how over 100 people, and "held without charges on the author- 1967, the highly educated and cosmopoli-
their defenseless slaves. While the West- some over 60 years old, were crammed ity of a militia force acting in conjunc- tan Palestinian workers occupy a vital
em press has been trumpeting bogus into a single cell. They were pistol- tion with U.S. Special Forces." political and economic role throughout
atrocity stories about Iraqi baby-killers Whipped, beaten with electric cables and Virginia Sherry, associate director of the region.
and bemoaning the plight of slain hippos subjected to electric shocks. A Sudanese Middle East Watch, noted with alarm They-can play an even more vital role
at the Kuwait City zoo, the torture and farm worker reported that "the beatings that the slogan "Amman 1970,Beirut in building the revolutionary internation-
slaughter of Palestinians and other immi- increased" after he complained of his 1982, Kuwait 1991" had been painted on alist leadership needed to unite the toilers
grant workers has been virtually ignored. torture' 'a uniformed American military a wall in Kuwait City-a reference to the of the region in a struggle for socialist
Within days of the U.S. capture of doctor known as "Abu Willie" who regu- horrific Black September 1970 massacre revolution to overthrow all the murderous
Kuwait City, the Palestinian districts of larly visited the cell to treat the injured. of 10,000 Palestinians perpetrated by capitalist regimes of the Near East. It
Hawali and Rega were sealed off by The supervisory role of the U.S. Jordan's King Hussein, and the 1982 is that road alone which leads to sal-
tanks. While death squads roamed from Special Forces is everywhere in evi- slaughter of women and children in the vation for the Palestinian people, and
house to house, seizing thousands and dence. American troops sport small Sabra and Shatila refugee camps directed national justice for all the peoples of the
summarily executing scores, U.S. officers Kuwaiti flags-but no name plates-on by the Israelis and carried out by their Near East..
kept out Western journalists, human their uniforms. Investigating a Palestin-
rights groups and the Red Crescent relief ian prisoner's claim that "men in uni-
~
organization. In one incident, a gang of forms burned him with a cattle brand,
100 armed Kuwaitis opened fire on four beat him and later dumped him by a Spartacus Youth Club Forums
Palestinians. roadside" after detaining him at the
At the Gadssia police station, eye- Salmiya Girls' Secondary School, relief
witnesses watched as an ax-wielding officials "found a U.S. Special Forces Stop the Fascists! Fight for Workers Power!
Kuwaiti dragged in an Iraqi captive: captain and sergeant at the school"
"New World Order" = Racist Terror
"The man then chopped off his fingers. (Washington Post, 17 March). Colonel
We watched as he gouged out his eyes .... Jesse L. Johnson, the head of U.S. Spe-
It was disgusting. The eyes popped out cial Forces working' with the Kuwaiti
like eggs. Then he shot him" (New
York Times, 3 March). Even the hospi-
military, "confirmed suspected collabo-
rators were being rounded up."
At Home and Abroad
tals provide no sanctuary from the terror. In the eyes of the Kuwaiti slave mas-
Patients are beaten in the emergency ters, all Palestinians are deemed guilty Monday, April 15, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 26, 7:30 p.m.
room, and at Mubarak Hospital in Ha- of "collaboration." A banner placed out- Community Church of Boston Barnard College
waii, 37 torture victims "vanished" after side the firebombed office of Yasir 565 Boylston St., 4thFI. (Copley Sq.) 116th and Broadway
being admitted to the orthopedic ward. Arafat's Fatah organization in Kuwait For more information: (617) 492-3928 For more information: (212) 267-1025
Every day busloads of tortured and City reads, "Anyone who is a Palestinian
often still unconscious prisoners, mostly is a traitor." Some 600 Palestinians,
Palestinians, are dumped in the desert Iraqis and others are to be hanged on
'+ft'M~RCH 1991 9
Solidarnosc' Walesa Against Women's Rights
Spartacists joined the protest against demonstrated in New York to "Stop
Polish president Lech Walesa at Solidarnosc Counterrevolution," charac-
New York's Town Hall on March 25, . terizing it as a "company union for
with signs reading, "Free Abortion the CIA and bankers." In Women and
on Demand!" and "Women's Liberation Revolution (Spring 1982), we published
Through Socialist Revolution!" as well an article on "Solidarnosc: A Man's
as demands in Polish to "Smash Attacks World," noting the clerical-led cam-
on Abortion Rights!" paign against abortion. That issue of
InWashington March 20 to meet W&R had a cover honoring Rosa Lux-
with Bush at the White House, Walesa emburg, the Polish Jewish revolutionary
was met with a protest called by NOW who is reviled by Solidamosc,
(National Organization for Women) and Today Bush rewards Walesa for his
"Catholics for a Free Choice." Signs at faithful service to capitalism with a
the protest included: "Not the Church, multibillion-dollar "debt forgiveness"
Not the State, Women Must Decide
i deal, while Polish workers are thrown
Their Fate," "Free Choice-Legal Abor- onto the streets and women especially
tion" and "Walesa-Vatican's Puppet." are the target of massive reaction.
It's an indication of the ferociously Solidamosc is pushing for the total
reactionary, anti-woman policies of abolition of abortion rights (including
Walesa and his Solidarnosc government even in cases of rape!) while a pro-
that such bourgeois feminist organiza- posalpending in the Polish parliament
WVPhoto
tions felt compelled to publicly protest defines life as beginning at concep- Spartacists at NYC protest against Poland's Lech Walesa. Solidarnosc
, a man whose otherwise "noble struggle tion, gives fetuses full legal rights and capitalist regime is anti-woman, anti-worker.
for democracy" they continue to shame- would entirely ban even contracep-
fully uphold. In fact, Walesa has never tives. The Polish government is now Attacks on Abortion Rights!" (trans- position for complete separation of
been a "democrat" of any sort, and the trying to make divorce unobtainable lated in Women and Revolution No. 38, church, and state, considers the family
anti-woman, anti-abortion politics of by anyone married in the Catholic Winter 1990-91). In fighting to resur-
.. as the main institution for the oppres-
Solidarnosc, now being implemented church. rect the revolutionary tradition of the sion of women and advances the slo-
with a vengeance in Poland, were clear Our comrades of the Spartakusowska Polish working class, our comrades gans of free, 24-hour childcare and free
a decade ago to anyone not blinded by Grupa Polski (Spartacist Group of Po- understand that the question of wom- abortion on demand. The question of
anti-Communism. land) printed in the first issue of their en's liberation is vital: "The Sparta- women's liberation is indissolubly con-
In September 1981, we Spartacists newspaper an article titled "Smash kusowska Grupa Polski upholds the nected with the socialist revolution."
Germany•••. essary to fight. And the only way to fight
against the rapidly escalating massive
unemployment is through class-struggle
strike to West German railways got a
positive reception in the Hamburg depot.
Two sections of the rail yards there
watchword is: workers resistance against
the Fourth Reich!" The poster/leaflet
called for: '
(continued from page 7) actions, which in the explosive situation' walked out, and a short time later the • Equal pay for equal work, immedi-
drive by the capitalists to atomize the of the ex-DDR could pose a situation of union tops called off the strike, citing ately!
proletariat and destroy everything that dual power locally. The German bour- imminent danger of.it spreading through- • Block layoffs with plant occupations,
recalls the DDR, even basic social gains geoisie is not all-powerful: right now, out the country. For all the talk of smug, mass strikes, East and West, now!
like women's right to abortion. The last the Bonn politicians, Frankfurt bankers well-paid West German workers, united
and their social-democratic flunkeys are struggle is not pie-in-the-sky. • Sweep away the Kohl government
issue of Spartakist (No. 84, March 1991) and the Treuhand! The plants, which we
stated: feeling like they bit off more than Combative workers struggles in Ger-
built, into the workers' hands!
"The SPD calls for some crumbs, like they can chew. Nevertheless, the Ger- many would have a powerful effect inter-
man rulers are undoubtedly prepared to nationally. While the U.S. imperialists • Form workers councils! For a work-
extending the short workweek, only in
order to dampen the resistance of the use murderous force on a large scale were carrying out a war of annihilation ers government! The key: a Bolshevik
working class. But the working class agairist anything challenging their rule: against Iraq in the Persian Gulf, a war party like Lenin and Trotsky'sljs
needs a leadership that organizes mass the massive invasion of West German whose ultimate targets were Washing-
strikes and plant occupations in the East
and West through elected strike and cops to oust squatters in East Berlin's ton's imperialist rivals Germany and
factory committees in order to fight
against the mass unemployment and the
spreading impoverishment of the working
Mainzerstrasse was intended to show
that.
For them to carry this off is another
Japan, Bonn was focusing on the Soviet
Union. The rulers of the successor state
to the Nazi regime, which launched
Berlin Demo...
people. Thus the issue is posed: who has (continued from page 7)
the power-the capitalists, whoonly pro- matter entirely. A dramatic seizure of Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet
ducemass povertyanddestruction, or the a key plant- . could electrify workers Union 50 years ago this June, want to workers. Renate Dahlhaus, spokesman
workers, who can bring the wheels of throughout the country. Such actions are bring the Baltics "home to the Reich." for the SpAD, spoke of the fascist attacks
industryto a halt in order to defend their fundamentally political, for there is no And they hope to achieve through eco- against Soviet barracks and declared:
livelihood?" East German economy in reality. As far nomic penetration and D:rnark imperial- "The fascists are only the echo of the
Facing an economic catastrophe that as the bourgeoisie is concerned, it's a ism what the Wehrmacht Panzers failed drive of the German bourgeoisie to make
threatens the very existence of the pro- giant sinkhole for scarce D-marks. So the to do militarily: extend' Germany's Germany 'judenrein' [purged of Jews], its
letariat in eastern Germany, the work- key is to spread any workers actions to Hinterland to include the oil fields of drive to the East to begin a new Opera-
ers' struggles are necessarily defensive. the West where it will hurt the capital- Baku and Tyumen, the coal fields of the tion Barbarossa [Hitler's 1941 attack on
Moreover, they go up against an imperi- ists. Thus during last December's strike Donbass and Kuzbass, and a vast Soviet the Soviet Union]."
alist ruling class which has just won a by East German railway workers, the call market. Today the Soviet Union is in Important to this protest action was the
major victory. Yet it -is desperately nee- in an SpAD leaflet for extending the severe-crisis, wracked by nationalist support of union representatives, since it
turmoil and a clash between wings of the is particularly the social power of the
bureaucracy whose main difference is organized workers movement which can
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sented among the endorsers, have several
times in the past blocked deportations.
Volume No. 21, Issues 493-516,12 January to 14 December 1990 the past two years which have seen the However, the PDS, this "Party of Demo-
collapse of Stalinist rule in East Europe, cratic Socialism" that is wallowing in
Spartacist (English Edition) many Soviet workers are convinced that German nationalism, showed no interest,
introduction of a capitalist market econo- having previously refused to lift a finger
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my is inevitable. Next door in Poland, against the mass deportations of Polish,
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Workers Vanguard Volumes 1-20: 1970 through 1989
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Volumes include one year of WVexcept: Volume 1 includes 1970-73;
are now experiencing the devastation cord with the political aims of the SpAD,
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Spartacist Volume 1: Issues 1-20, Feb. 1964 - July 1971; brings. And militant mass strikes, plant German capitalist reunification has led to
Volume 2: Issues 21-30, Autumn 1972-Autumn 1980 occupations and other actions in defense a revival of fascist terror and to an esca-
of the working class will send shock lation of official state racism against
waves to the Urals and beyond. immigrants and those seeking asylum,
The key element is to forge an interna- led by Imperial Chancellor Kohl and
tionalist, Leninist-Trotskyist party to lead LaFontaine's SPD, which unleashed po-
the workers' struggles and defend all the grom attacks against Roma and Sinti
oppressed. The SpAD recently put out a [gypsies]." The KfsV demands: "Full
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Order from/make checks payable to: us?" (with election posters of the CDU, Stop the racist witchhunt-No depor-
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"The Spartakists told the truth. Now the gag order!".
10 WORKERS VANGUARb
. 'tortured into confessing~Last year Lord
Sixteen Years in British Prison, Denning railed, "We shouldn't have all
these campaigns to get the Birmingham
Six released if they'd been hanged."
Now Labour Party leaders are demand-
Framed in IRA Pub Bombings ing Lord Lane's resignation. But it was
a Labour government that condemned
these innocent men to languish in
prison.
Birmingha,m Six Freed!
This is the third anti-Irish "terrorism"
frame-up to collapse in the past 18
months. In October 1989, the Guildford
Four, charged with a similar pub bomb-
ing in 1974, were released. Then the
On March 14, more than 16 years government admitted that the case
after being tom from their families and against the Maguire Seven, sentenced
thrown behind bars, the Birmingham in 1976 to up to 14 years for making
Six finally walked out of London's Old bombs for the IRA, was a fraud. In all
Bailey court as free men. Framed in the three cases, they had been convicted on
heinous IRA bombing of two Birming- the basis of fabricated forensic "evi-
ham pubs in November 1974, the six dence," torture and lies.
Irishmen remained unbowed, insisting But the victims of a similar racist
on their innocence throughout their ' frame-up-the Tottenham Three-still
years of imprisonment. languish in prison, as do countless other
Leaving the Old Bailey, Patrick Hill victims of racist British "justice." Two
launched into a fiery denunciation of miners imprisoned during the heroic
the criminal system which had persecut- 1984-85 coal strike for defending their
ed .him and his comrades: "The police union's picket lines were released only
told us from the start we did not do it. last year. The government is talking
They told us they didn't care .... I don't rian Harris about "compensation" for the Birming-
think them people in there have got the British imperialism fra~ed them and stole the prime of their lives. ham Six, who lost the better part
, of their adult lives behind bars and
intelligence or the honesty to spell the
word justice, never mind dispense it. fessions,' which they subsequently confessions, claiming that this would came out with white hair. But as our
They're rotten." retracted. But riding a wave of anti- have to be the result of a "conspiracy ... comrades of the Spartacist League/
The Birmingham Six were arrested Irish chauvinism, the Labour govern- unprecedented in the annals of British Britain wrote (Workers Hammer No.
hours after the 1974 IRA bombings, ment rammed through their trials and criminal history" (Economist, 2 March). 121, March 1991):
which killed 21 and injured 162. Five convictions, and seized the moment to In fact, this conspiracy went right to the "True vengeance for all victims of Brit-
of the six men were arrested while on slam through the notorious Prevention top of the British ruling class. Lord ish 'justice' will be exacted only when
victorious workers revolution sweeps
their way' to the funeral of an IRA of Terrorism Act. Chief Justice Lane rejected their last this rotten, racist capitalist system
friend in Belfast. After being badly The presiding judge at the trial dis- appeal three years ago, despite over- away, along with its Labourite flotsam
beaten and tortured, four signed "con- missed the charges of torture and forced whelming evidence that they had been and jetsam."
,
Stop Duke!•••
(continued from page 12)
labor movement represent a potentially
powerful weapon in the struggle for
social justice. Our unions represent the
Help Stop Fascist Duke governor of Louisiana, wants a
national platform to spread his
unity of all working people against the $$$ Needed race-terror filth. He must be
home for minorities and all decent people. race-haters and we must use our social The Partisan Defense Committee stopped! This is vital to decent
Duke's Klansmen have long had their power, as those who produce the wealth is working hard to ensure a mass, people throughout America. In
sights set on Boston for recruitment for of society, in struggle against the exploit- disciplined and militant demonstra- Boston, call the PDC at (617)
racist terror. They were emboldened by ers. When labor has flexed its muscle in tion to stop KKKer David Duke in 492-3928 to see how you can help.
the outpouring of race hatred in the defense of all working people the fascists Boston on March 28. Organizing on If you can't be there, show your,
streets which killed busing for school have been stopped cold, as they were in the streets, in working-class and support for stepping the Klan by
integration. But this town of multi-ethnic the massive labor/b1ack mobilization minority neighborhoods, on' cam- sending a generous contribution,
and heavily Catholic immigrants was not initiated by the Partisan Defense Com- puses, takes time and especially earmarked "Stop KKKer Duke" to:
fertile ground for these cross-burners and mittee which stopped the KKK and Nazi money-for' printing thousands of Partisan Defense Committee, PO
white supremacists whose aim is a skinheads from parading for genocide leaflets and getting the word out. Box 99, Canal Street Station, New
bleached white America of total confor- through the streets of Philadelphia in David Duke, currently running for York, NY 10013.
mity. Now that the "Massachusetts Mira- 1988.
cle" has bottomed out into a nightmare In October 1982, decent people of Bos-
of unemployment and desperation, now ton took a solid anti-racist stand and
when Confederate flags fly at Harvard, stopped the KKK from marching in Bos-
now when unbridled cop terror is un- ton's Government Center. 1,500 people
leashed in black communities (as in the -including Irish from South Boston and
grotesque Stuart case) and now when Dorchester, Italians and Portuguese from
skinhead fascists attack gays, Jews and East Boston andSomerville, students from
Asians, Duke hopes to cash in in Boston Cambridge, blacks from Roxbury, union-
and deflect anger away from united class ists, and leftists scored a big victory over
struggle against this whole system of the race-haters who would divide imd
racist capitalist oppression and into race destroy us if left unopposed. That's the
hatred to divide and conquer us. kind of action that's needed today. All out
Even in this deeply class- and race- on March 28 to stop the deadly threat
divided city, sectors of the organized David Duke stands for! •
The Struggle Against Fascism
Report and Discussion on the March 28th Protest to WVPhoto
Stop KKK Hitler-Lover David Duke Boston's City Hall Plaza, October 1982: As cops protect racist terrorists
(below), mass protest drives Klan off the streets.
Sponsored by the Spartacus Youth Club
Tuesday, April 2, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.
Sever Hall, Room 215 Room to be announced
Harvard University Northeastern University
For more information: (617) 492-3928
Report and Discussion on the March 28th Protest to
Stop KKK Hitler-Lover David Duke
Sponsored by the Latino Student Center-UMass Boston
Thursday, April 4, 12:30 p.m.
Wheatley Lounge; 4th Floor, Wheatley Building
University of Massachusetts-Boston
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We reprint here the call for the demonstration initiated
by the Partisan Defense Committee on 12 March 1991.
Ku Klux Klansman David Duke is scheduled to put
forth his "agenda for America" from the hallowed hall
of Boston's Old South Meeting House on March 28.
David Duke is a fascist. His "agenda" is genocide of
black people, Jews, Catholics, immigrants, Hispanics,
Asians, gays, unionists, leftists-most of us. <As an ele-
mentary act of self-defense, all intended victims of the
race-hate terror David Duke threatens must mobilize in
a massive, integrated, defiant demonstration to stop this
fascist-genocide is not debatable! In 1773 Old South
Meeting House was the organizing center against
British tyranny and where the march to the Boston Tea
Party began. In 1991 let's make it the site of organized
opposition to the lynch mobs David Duke seeks to
whip up! Demonstrate outside the Old South Meeting
House, Thursday, March 28 at 5:30 p.m.! Be there!
Today David Duke hides the white hood and the
swastika under a three-piece suit-don't be fooled by BETHERE!------------~
this fascist with a face-lift. Duke got his start as a
swastika-clad Hitler-lover at Louisiana State University
Thurs~ay, March 28, 1991 at 5:30 p.m. '
and was known as "The Nazi ofL.S.U." He went on to Old South Meetang House, corner of Washington and Milk Streets
become the "Imperial Wizard" of the Knights of the
"We endorse and will help build a mass demonstration: 'Stop KKK Hitler-Lover David Duke!'''
Ku Klux Klan, a media-sharp storm trooper for racist Pertle' Ua' 01Endorse.. ea 0117 March 1991
Ron E. Arm....d, Rese,arChAssociate, Wilham Joiner Center for the L ' .
reaction who expanded the Klan's influence from Study of War and ~oc.al C~nsequences* Boston MA eon lJIl, Steefl~g Committee member, Harvard+Radcliffe Bisexual
Louisiana into the rest of the South and into New M. Georgia Balan, VIce PreSident, Haitian Club Un'jversity of
Massachusetts Boslon*.' Dorchester, MA '
..:t
ay and Lesbian Students Associauon-, Cambridge, MA
Blno Student Centar-Unlverslty of Maasachusetts 8oaton
'
Jam.. R. Barrett: Executive Board member and past President
York, New England and California. Duke says the Nazi USWA Local Unton 8751*. Hyde Park, MA
aston, MA
,Jean-Claude Martineau, poet, Mattapan, MA
. '
8 _ Gruter News Pert'Nn D8I8n.. CommlU..
Holocaust of six million Jews was a "myth" and sold Uncia C. Bowman, Negotiating Committee member University of J~:n Raymond, Minister, Christian Assembly of God Cnurctr-
Nazi tracts out of his "legislative office." Under the Massachusetts Chapter, SEIU Local 509* Dorche~ter MA S rockton, MA . ,
Jecme.C. Caaterla, member, Arlington Str~et Church-S~cial Action rt8c ' Le ,
Ur:OJA 'a, Bo• g ue
"Rebel" label Duke has marketed songs like "Some ommltlee*, Newton, MA . a a on University, Boston, MA
:a,., Leablan., Blaexual. and Friends at MIT, Cambridge, MA *Organizational affiliation for identification purposes only
Niggers Never Die" and "Kajun Ku Klux Klan." Duke Jchaal Hoklen, Vice President, ATU Local 1205* Boston MA WWe;w~-;;;;;;;;;;:-;;'=;:;i=::::;:;=~~~~~~---
Terry lJIFrazla, Treasurer, Northeastern UniverSity' Bisexua! Lesbia a'}t to make.It very clear that these endorsers do not necessarily
organized a vigilante "Klan Border Watch" in southern and Gay Associanon-, Boston, MA ' I n ~~~~:~no~n~~~z~~~~~ ;~: the call by the Partisan Defense Committee
California, targeting immigrant workers from Mexico
and Latin America for extermination.
The founder of the sinister "National Association for
the Advancement of White People," Duke was former- "We Stopped
ly in the fold of the Dixiecrat Democratic Party. In the Klan!"
1988 he ran for President on the ticket of the Populist 5,OOO-atrong
labor/black
Party-a nest of fascists including the paramilitary mobilization
ran KK)< out of
anti-Semites of Posse Comitatus and die-hard racists of WaShington, D.C.,
the bomb-throwing States Rights Party. In 1989-Duke November 1982.
joined the Republican Party and rode the coattails of
Reagan/Bush reaction !into office as a Louisiana state
legislator. Today he comes to Boston on the wind of
Bush's "Operation Desert Storm" to set a chilling
example of what the "New World Order" means at
continued on page 11
"We endorse and will help build a mass demonstration: 'Stop KKK Hitler-lover David Duke!'"
Partial LIst of Endorsers as of 26 March 1991 Gays, Lesbians, Blsaxuals and Frlenda at MIT. Cambridge, MA Walter !'orter, President, Boston Society of Vulcans of
Frank Grlnnon, Jr., Assistant Business Manager, IBEW Massachusetts, lnc.", Roxbury, MA
ACT UP/Boston (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) Rainbow Lobby
Ron E. Armstead, Research Assoclate, William Joiner Center for Local 1011*, Oakland, CA
Harvard Progreaslve Students ASsociation Jean Raymond, Minister, Christian Assembly of God Church",
the Study of War and Social Consequences*, Boston, MA Brockton, MA
M. Georgia Balan, Vice President, Haitian Club, University of John D. Herzog, Professor of Education, Northeastern
University*, Boston, MA David P. Rlcharilaon, Jr., Pennsylvania State Representative,
Massachusetts Boston * , Dorchester, MA immediate past President of National Black Caucus of State
James R. Barrett, Executive Board member, USWA Local Michael Holden, Vice President, ATU Local 1205*, Boston, MA <
International Socialist Organization Legislators*, Harrisburg, PA
Union 8751~; Hyde Park, MA
Norman Roth, former President, UAW Local 6*, Oak Park, IL
fkmon Greater News Irlsh·American Society-University of Massachusetts Boston
Francis A. Russo, Co-President, Boston Intercollegiate Lesbian
Boston Unit, Irish Northern Aid Committee Katie Jordan, Executive Vice President. Coalition of Labor Union and Gay Alliance*, Somerville, MA
Unda C. Bowman, Negotiating Committee member, University of Womert*, Chicago, Il Jamea W. Ryder, President and International Executive Board
Massachusetts chapter, SEIU Local 509* , Dorchester, MA Terry LaFrazle, 'freasurer, Northeastern University Bisexual, member, ILWU Local 6*, San Francisco, CA
Jackie B. Breckenridge, International Vice President, ATU*, Lesbian and Gay Assoclation*, Boston, MA Hank Sanders, Senator, Alabama State Senate*, Selma, AL
Chicago,IL Leon Lal, Steering Committee member, Harvard-Radcliffe Brunlr Shackleton, Host, Caribbean Forum WZBC 90,5 FM,
Dr. Donald Brown, Director, African-American, Hispanic, Asian Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association", Boston College*, Chestnut Hill, MA
and Native American Student Program, Boston College*, Cambridge; MA Spartaeist League .
Chestnut Hill, MA latino Student Center-University of Massachusetts Boston Students Against War In the Middle East, Harvard University*,
James C. Casterls, member, Arlington Street Church-Social Jean-Claude Martineau, poet, Mattapan, MA Cambridge, MA .
Action Committee*, Newton, MA
Jean M. McGuire, Treasurer, Boston School Committee* Reprasentatlve Alvin E. Thompson, State Legislator, member
Cesar Chavez, President, United Farm Workers of America* Massachusetts Black Caucus", Cambridge, MA
Comics Connecflon/Unlveralty ot Masaechusetts Boston Muleras latina_MIT, Cambridge, MA
New Alliance Party UMOJA at Boston University
Daniel Delgado, Michael McNeal, Vernon Roaarlo, members, The Watch, magazine, 'Brandeis University*, Waltham, MA
Harvard-Radcliffe Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Northeastern University Human Servlcas Student
Association*, Cambridge, MA Organization, Boston, MA *Organizational affiliation for identification purposes only.
Carloa A. Fierro, President, La Union Chicana por Aztlan at MIT*, .Northeastern Unlveralty Society Organized Against Racism,
Cambridge, MA Boston, MA We want to make it very clear that these endorsers do not neces-
~ohn J. Foley, President, New England Joint Board RWDSU*, Partisan Detense Committee sarily agree in any particular with the call by the Partisan Defense
Springfield, MA ~ Rabbi Joseph Polak, Boston, MA Committee printed above.
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