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1 WfJRltERS ",16(;(/,1" 25 No Apil 1977, " io, saeli amo buning afte Sinai battle in Octobe Del/Gamma Rabin Out, nflation Soas, Stikes Rage in sael Cisis in the Zionist Bunke i -, Fo Aab/Hebew Wokes Revolution! APRL OWhile isaeli pime ministe Yitzhak Rabin ws ambassado to the Zionist state's chief impeialist benefacto, he was not above looking afte his own. Duing his sojoun in Washington Rabin lined his pockets though the time-won tactic used by Ameican politicians of soliciting legal bibes though speake's fees. t is epoted that he made some $90,000 in this fashion, a dop in the bucket compaed to the millions the CA lavished on King Hussein ofjodan, but enough to cause a mino scandal in sael whee Zionist leades aised on the kibbutzim ae supposed to live moe spatan lives.. Afte etuning to sael, Rabin left some $20,000 stashed in Washington, D.C., bank accounts in his wife's name, an illegal act unde sael's stingent cuency laws. When confonted with this malfeasance Rabin lied, claiming that the amount involved was only $2,000. (The pactice of saeli couts is that a sum that small would subject the malefacto only to a small fine, wheeas fo $20,000 he may well have to go to jail.) Howeve, the lid blew off Rabin's cove-up, and this was the staw that boke the back of his campaign fo eelection as pime ministe. The Rabin esignation and geneal govenment cisis was only a culmination of the mounting social cisis in sael. nflation continues at nea-south mpeialists Sceam "Red Menace" Cuba in Afica...6 Ameican ates, povoking the geatest stike wave in the histoy of the Zionist state. Aab potest demonstations continue on the West Bank. While a new candidate fo the govening coalition was soon selected, he is in no bette position than Rabin to deal with the sevee sucial cisis. Rabin was the candidate of the leading paty of the Zionist establishment, the so-called "Labo Paty." This is a clique-idden bougeois fomation based on petty political baons and thei pesonal fiefdoms in the highly statified and copoatist saeli capitalist economy. The "Labo Paty" was fomed in 1969 though the e-unification of two split-offs, Ben Guion's Rafi Paty and Achdut Ha'Avoda (Unity of Labo) with the taditional paty of "abo Zionism," the Mapai (Palestine Wokes Paty). Even the fused "Labo Paty" has neve been able to ganish enough votes in the Knesset (saeli paliament) to fom a govenment. A Knesset majoity elied on a coalition with the ight-wing National Religious Paty (NRP), based on the othodox abbis who impat talmudic cleicalist sanctimony to the chauvinism and acialism of the Zionist state, and the "left-wing" Mapam (U nited Wokes Paty), who dape this eactionay client of U. S. impeialism with a theadbae ed flag and May Day "socialist" hetoic. As has been peviously epoted in WV, the pesent paliamentay cisis was pecipitated when the NRP Knesset membes abstained on a no-confidence motion tendeed by the even moe fanatically othodox "United Toah Font." The Toah Font accused the Rabin govenment of desecating the sabbath when a ceemony fo the newest and most advanced U.S. fighte planes to be added to the saeli asenal an late into a Fiday aftenoon. Rabin expelled the NRP fom the cabinet, and lacking a Schezen/Gamma saeli toops patol Nablus duing Novembe 1974 demonstations by West Bank Palestinian Aabs. majoity in the Knesset, he then esigned, focing the pesent elections. "Allon Plan" and the NRP The bougeois pess explained Rabin's expulsion of the National Religious Paty as a esult of incompatible positions on the teitoies sael occupied in the 1967 wa (Golan Heights, West Bank and the Sinai peninsula). Rabin's fomal position, the "Allon Plan" (named afte the saeli deputy pime ministe and foeign ministe Yigal Allon), is based on maintenance of "defensible bodes," that is, continued saeli militay occupation of that land and of those bodes which the Zionist chauvinists conside necessay to thei militay secuity. Unde this plan isaeli militay foces would continue to occupy most of the Golan Heights, a substantial stip ofthe easten Sinai peninsula and an amed ing aound Samaia and Judea, the densely populated potions of the Palestinian-Aab West Bank. Toops would also be stationed along the Jodan Rive, and the old cit'yof East Jeusalem is consideed annexed by the Zionists. Samaia, Judea and the densely Palestinian-populated Gaza Stip would be placed unde Jodanian contol to be policed by the hated "Black Septembe" butche of the Palestinian people, the Hashemite monach King Hussein. t is clea that the saeli govenment would not poffe even this token estitution if it wee not fo temendous intenational pessue. But, speaking fo "labo-zionists" Allon gives a ationale fo the thief etuning a faction of the spoils: the desie to etain the exclusive "Jewish chaacte" of sael and not to adl to its aleady existing Aab minoity ot 400,000. he NRP opposes the etun of any occupied teitoy, especially n the West Bank, while suppoting the Jewish continued on page l:j. -, ",..,., Ị.!, ;0 J

2 Kennedy' Assassination FaiY. Tales Who Killed Cock Robin? (he the past 14 yeas Congess has esisted demands that it conduct eal in 4uiies in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X and Matin Luthe King despite the fact that. accoding to ecent public opinion polls, 69 pecent of the population ejects the official vesion of the King assassination and 60 pecent doubt the suspect findings of the Waen Commission on the Kennedy assassination. Last Septembe a eluctant Congess established the Select Committee on Assassinations. Appaently the Committee neve intended to pobe too deeply. Malcolm X's assassination was not even included in the investigation, and none of Congess's big-name "stas" took pat. n fact, the moe "pestigious" Senate left the inquiy entiely up to the House of Repesentatives, some junio membes of which no doubt hoped to be povided with the same sot of spingboad to stadom which Wategate had been fo Howad Bake of Tennessee and othes. Thee was heavy esistance fom the Hous leadeship and even the assassinations committee chaiman, Congess- man Heny Gonzalez. Thei hostility was diected at chief counsel Richad Spague, accused of eveything fom highhandedness to oveeageness to expand the investigation. Only when he was dumped on Mach 30 was the House Select Committee gudgingly ganted a new lease on life in the wake of a spate of highly publicized "leaks" of new "evidence." The new "evidence" includes the testimony of a Dallas cocktail waitess who claims that Jack Ruby intoduced he a few weeks befoe the JFK assassination to one "Lee Havey Oswald of the CA," and that she also just happened to be taking photogaphs of the famous "gassy knoll" when Kennedy was shot (photogaphs which wee confiscated by two men claiming to be fedeal agents); and the testimony of a nuse at the Dallas hospital to which Kennedy and Texas goveno John 2 Wide Wold Connally wee bought that man bullet fagments wee emoved fom Connally (undecutting the govenment's singlebullet stoy). By and lage the new "evidence" is no moe substantial than pevious stoies that conflict with the Waen Commission epot: they meely ehash the familia speculations of Mak Lane (Rush to Judgment) and a host of othe assassination-conspiacy buffs whose books. lectue tous and Hollywood movies have become a lucative gene of Ameican popula cultue. Anothe ecent and evidently moe siniste evelation deals with the connection between Oswald and Geoge de Moenschildt, a wealthy oil financie and fome Fench intelligence agent. De Moenschildt, who had testified to the Waen Commission that Oswald killed Kennedy, committed suicide on Mach 29, befoe he was due to testify to the House committee. Dutch jounalist Willem Oltmans has now come fowad with his stoy that de Moenschildt had told him that thee was a conspiacy including the FB, the CA, Texas oil millionaie H.L. Hunt, Jack Ruby and seveal Cuban exiles to kill Kennedy, SNCC Matin Luthe King (left) and Ralph Abenathy just befoe fatal shooting. Malcolm X (ight). and that de Moenschildt had been the middleman. Of paticula significance is that Oswald, who is usually painted as a hopelessly embitteed lose, should have had such intimate elations with an intenational wheele-deale like de Moenschildt. How cedible is this testimony? Oltmans also quotes de Moenschildt, who had made seveal suicide attempts in ecent months, as telling him: "Let's face it. only made up the stoy [about Lee Havey Oswald] because eveybody makes a million dollas off the Kennedy assassination, and haven't made anything. So now it's my time." Least plausible of all ae the umos suggesting that Casto "hit" Kennedy in etaliation fo the infamous CA attempts on his life o fo CA involvement in the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Thee is no bougeois agency which would not be delighted to eveal such a Castoite 11e D<lY f"ll("(f\" 'JS Silo. Jilll Bishop., plot if such could be demonstated, and it seems inconceivable that the Waen Commission and J. Edga Hoove would have passed up such an exquisite oppotunity fo witchhunting and popaganda if thee wee a shed of evidence to suppot this theoy of Casto acting in his own self-defense. Regading the King assassination, the House committee, in the shot time it has been in existence, has listed some 600 "unesolved questions." One of the most inteesting of these is whee and how James Eal Ray obtained the money he lived on between his escape fom pison in Apil 1967 and his aest in London in June Duing this peiod Ray is known to have visited Acapulco, Monteal, Chicago, New Oleans, Toonto, London, Lisbon and Bussels. He also bought a new ca, expensive camea equipment and othe items. The FB estimates his total income fo the peiod as $664.34, which he eaned as a dishwashe. Thee has been some speculation that Ray's money came fom bank obbeies, but the FB has neve succeeded in linking him with a single obbey o buglay of any sot duing this time. Othe unansweed questions involve how Ray was able to enginee a pison escape, why Tennessee authoities did not insist on a full investigation of him and whethe the FB, which had King unde close suveillance, knew of the assassination scheme befoe it was caied out. Even the Cate administation evidently doesn't buy the stoy that Ray acted alone, fo Attoney Geneal Bell has said he wanted to pesonally inteview the pisone. Spague, meanwhile, epots that Ray has said that a mysteious "Raoul" aided him with "cetain weapons and cetain money" (New Yok Times, 12 Apil). Finding the answes to these questions afte so many yeas would be difficult even if thee wee a eal detemination to leave no stone untuned. Whateve FB and! o CA links thee may have been to the slayings wee likely neve explicitly committed to pape and any cicumstantial evidence has long since seen the inside of govenment sheddes. Many potential witnesses died yeas ago-"mysteiously," as assassination feaks add etlexively--and the living witnesses ae awae of the fate of Sam Giancana and John Roselli, who wee mudeed and had guilty knowledge of CA-Mafia effots to assassinate Casto. So fo the assassination buffs, it's back to the campus and talkshow cicuits, to pouing ove the 27 volumes of Waen Commission testimony, to sceening the gaphic Zapude film of JFK's gey matte being spayed aound Dealey Plaza, to filing Feedom of nfomation Act lawsuits. To the extent that the assassination buffs have explicit politics, they ae well within mainsteam libealism. Shocked by Wategate and the events of the 1960's which it culminated, bougeois libeals pointed as one to "Black Fiday" in Dallas as the date on which "Ameica lost its innocence" and fom which an ensuing toent of violence, vitupeation and despai could be dated. The supposedly cultued and cosmopolitan cout (now evealed as sex-cazed) of Jack and Jackie's "Camelot" was eplaced by the "vulgaity" of LBJ. The clean-cut "idealism" of the Peace Cops was supeseded by the eve-moeadical Students fo a Democatic Society, and the docile Matin Luthe King by the Black Panthes and ghetto upisings. Of couse, this myth has been undemined, in its tun, by the same ecent scandals which gave impetus to the assassination pobe in the fist place. Between Kennedy's pesiding ove CONTELPRO epession and constant attempts to ovethow Casto and estoe capitalism in Cuba, and his tumbles with the vaious "Fiddles," "Faddles" and Mafia gun molls, the image of Camelot has faded fast. Fom Camelot to Cate stetches an unboken chain of impeialist dictatoship, oppession, teo, spying and slaughte. But in the absence of a peceived evolutionay altenative to bougeois politics, the conspiacy industy and the muckaking fad have succeeded only in feeding the widespead cynicism. The continued on page 9 WfJRNER ",1NGU,1RD Maxist Woking-Class Weekly ofthe SpatacistLeague ofthe U.S. EDTOR Jan Noden PRODUCTON MANi\GER: Kaen Allen CRCULATON Mi ',',\,[",-ne Kelley Newsweek Plethoa of magazines and books poduced about Kennedy's assassination. EDTORAL BO\"D JO, :lule. Chales Buoughs, Geoge c,t. L,' G::ndon. J"mes Robetson. Joseph C:c- Published weekiy. ta.--:'.'eek!i in f\ugust and Decembe, t..,: : ac:st Pl.JtJ,;dW1D Co" 260 West BCJij(Jvd! New Yok, NY TelepMne (Edlioial), (BUSiness). AU"""" all coespondence to: Box 1377 GPO New Yok, NY Domestic subsciptions: $500 pe yea. Second-class postage paid at New Yok. N.Y. Opinions expessed n signed aticles o lettes do not necessaily expess the editoial Viewpoint. WORKERS VANGUARD

3 , l Befoe HSNHUA WEEKLY 20 Septembe 1976 Afte RENMN HUA BAO Novembe 1976 [ l ( f Pictues Do Lie How Maoists Wee Tuned into Shubbey Befoe Afte HSNHUA WEEKLY 20 Septembe 1976 RENMN HUA BAO Novembe 1976 Jt.fl1@!.A.$il. x x x. ntjlj. x x x. *1Xlt. x x. x x x. *Jt;2. ilj);. te. ff*... m. *-. $. tt. $. m. mkm*lo Joseph Stalin died in 1953 but the "Stalin School of Falsification" lives on, and not just in the Kemlin. The Maoist bueaucats in Peking ecently made blatant use of one of the wellwon Stalinist specialties fo ewiting histoy: doctoed photogaphs. The Novembe 1976 issue (distibuted in Febuay 1977) of Renmin Bua BaD (the Chinese edition of "China Pictoial") was devoted to pictues depicting the life and death of Mao Tse-tung. Natually, nowhee do the likenesses of such "unpesons" as Liu Shao-chi and Lin Piao appea. But in some ofthe photos thee ae obvious gaping holes whee paty leades used to be. We have selected two ofthe cleaest examples of this disgusting distotion of histoy and supplied the oiginal photos fo compaison. n the fist, showing Mao and his entouage in Shensi povince in 1947; his wife Chiang Ching (now in d,isgac) has}e,!e inisble,asif vapoized in a SCJ-fi movie. n the second, taken at a mass memoial meeting fo Mao in Septembe 1976, the solid line of assembled Maoist dignitaies has become a boken line, with the "Gang of Fou" miaculously tansfomed into shubbey. But the new gang in powe doesn't even shink fom admitting thei falsification: in the accompanying Chinese caption the puge victims ae shamelessly denoted by "X's." This sinist,e pactice was by no means invented by Mao's heis. Fom Stalin's pactice of odeing offending pages ofthe"geat Soviet Encyclopedia" cut out and etum:d to the publishe evey time the "geneal line" changed 'o anothe old paty leade wasexecuted, to the Maoist epinting of pages fom the "Little Red Book" to emove efeences to Liu Shao-chi, the methods of the Stalinist bueaucats ae the same. n its Owellian manipulation of eality, as in its bueaucatic t]'avesty of poletaian democaq, Stalinism endes invaluable senice to the bougeois edbaites' hypocitical outcy against "Communist totalitaianism." The Stalinists' cult of the pesonality equies systematic fogey and faud, ;'newspeak" and "doublethink." Even the most loyal adheents of "socialism in one county" may ovenight be tansfomed into shubbey and "X's" in photogaph and in fact. The authentic communist vanguad, howeve, is bound by Totsky's admonition to "say what is." As Lenin put it,' "the tuth is evolutionay." L it - Ị \, i _ 15 APRL

4 GMR's "Wokes Republic of Quebec": Monteal unionists mach in 1973 May Day demonstation. -epinted fom. atacist Canada No. 15, Apil 1977 The ecent joint national tou by spokesmen fo the Goupe Maxiste Revolutionnaie (G MR) and League fo Socialist Action; Ligue Socialiste Ouviee (LSA/ LSO) demonstated the difficulties faced by the Canadian suppotes of the evisionist "U nited" Secetaiat (USec) as they seek to pave the oad to fusion. Meetings in seveal cities featued shap debates between the putative fusion patnes: on the one hand, the centist G M R and its English Canadian cousin the Revolutionay Maxist Goup (RMG), and on the othe, the caven efomists of the LSA! LSO. Paticulaly shap 'Wee debates on the LSAj LSO's bootlicking suppot fo the New Democatic Paty. All thee Canadian USec adheents ae, howeve, poclaiming substantial ageement on the question of Quebec. The GMR, RMG and LSAj LSO all capitulate to Quebec nationalism, suppoting independence and posing a sepaatist stategy fo socialist evolution in Quebec. All cite this "ageement" as justification fo a otten-bloc fusion. But in fact-as the speaking tou seved to undeline-the "ageement" is at best skin-deep, and the goups' diffeences on this question, as on many othes, emain pofound. Just as the LSA bows befoe social democacy in English Canada (a social democacy which is notoiously Englishchauvinist!), so the LSO scapes at the feet of eactionay cleical nationalism in Quebec. Thus LSO spokesman Suzanne Chabot spent almost all he speaking time justifying he goup's position on the language question, aguing fo the "consistently" nationalchauvinist demand of a "unilingual Fench Quebec." On the othe hand, the GMR's thust is to pose a "poletaian nationalist" altenative to the bougeois nationalist Pati Quebecois, by seeking to channel tade union militancy into an "antiimpeialist," "national libeation" stuggle. Thus its spokesman Jean-Paul Pelletie discussed the massive Common Font stike stuggles of 1972, analyzed the state of the Quebec wokes movement today, and elaboated his oganization's line fo an independent "wokes epublic of Quebec." t is this demand fo a "wokes epublic of Quebec" which, moe than anything else, summaizes the G M R's political pespective. While it has obviously shifted to the ight in ode to conside a fusion with the LSO, the GMR emains faught with contadictions. t has many subjectively evolutionay impulses (cetainly fa moe than the cetinous LSA/ LSO), yet it emains a paochial nationalist oganization whose political line is unable to show the way fowad fo the militant Quebec woking class. The GMR's stategic pespective-"national libeation" ala Cuba as the oad to evolution 4 in Quebec-can only divide the stuggles of the Noth Ameican poletaiat along national lines, thus acting against the inteests of both Fench- and English-speaking wokes in the fight fo socialism. Stuggles fo democatic national and language ights have helped fuel the combativity of the Quebecois poletaiat. to the point whee it is the most advanced on the continent. Revolutionaies uphold Quebec's, ight to selfdetemination in ode, above all, to pomote class unity by opposing all unjust national oppession. This is paticulaly impotant since Quebec wokes can playa leading ole in the Noth Ameican evolution. But the G M R's esponse to the enhanced militancy of the woking class in Quebec is to eject any pespective of joint class stuggle in favo of the utopian stategy of establishing a poletaian enclave on the banks of the St. Lawence. Effacing the leading ole of Quebecois wokes in seveal ecent coss-canada labo stuggles-the fight against wage contols, as well as postal and ail stikes-the GMR calls fo nationalist beakaways by Quebec unions f om the Ameican-dominated ntenationals. Last yea in its pamphlet "Pou la Republique des Tavailleus du Quebec," the GMR announced: "The liquidation of the moe o less coupt bueaucacies of the intenational unions cannot be achieved except bv a beak with the Ameican centes and the taking in hand of these unions by the Quebec unions themselves. That is to say, the eoganization of tade unionism on an industial basis inside a United Labo Fedeation of Quebec." Thus the GM R abandons the need to fight against the ossified, po-capitalist labo tops of the ntenationals, and fostes illusions in the Quebec tade union bueaucats by posing a elative immunity to bueaucatization fo the nationalist unions. And by oveestimating the stength of the intenational bueaucab (who "cannot" be defeated "except" by beakaways), it denies the possibility of building a class-stuggle opposition among the "backwad" English-speaking wokes. Accodingly, says the GMR's nationalist logic, the impotant ties between the combative woking class of Quebec and its class bothes and sistes in the est of Noth Ameica must be boken. Fo United Class Stuggle! n a ecent polemic against Canadian nationalist Cy Gonick's pleas fo "Canadian unity," even the RMG is foced to ecognize. the ion necessity of a unified stuggle by Fench-and Englishspeaking wokes in Noth Ameica: "Gonick coectly says, 'Clealy this libeation of the dominated classes in Quebec is linked to that of the Noth Ameican poletaiat as a whole.' "Tue enough, But his 'unityagument' eveals his lack of undestanding that the connection goes both ways." Old Mole, 18 Mach Of couse eal unity cannot be foged while geat-nation, anti-quebecois chauvinism holds sway among Englishspeaking wokes. Nevetheless the RMG is only too willing to follow the illusion-mongeing of the GMR by posing a sepaatist oad to powe fo the Quebec poletaiat. Hence the agument: ",,. the assetion that Quebec wokes, the most militant and politically advanced in Noth Ameica, should hold back thei stuggles against the national oppession of capital and wait fo anglophone wokes to catch up--this assetion eeks of national chauvinism and is thus a sevice to eactionaies." - ibid. But this demagogy only avoids the cental question. While Cy Goniek and the Communist Paty may yean fo the Quebec woking class simply to foget about its national oppession and "unite" against "Ameican domination," evolutionay intenationalists cetainly do not tell Quebec wokes to "hold back thei stuggles." Rathe, evolutionay wokes paties must be foged to lead the stuggles of all Noth Ameican wokes to state powe. The question is how the Noth Ameican socialist evolution can be achieved. A sepaate "wokes epublic of Quebec" is conceivable unde only two histoical cicumstances. One, the possible secession of Quebec fom a Noth Ameican soviet state to fom an independent wokes epublic, is clealy not applicable today. The second, an isolated seizue of state powe in one cone of Noth Ameica, is only an episodic possibility. Unless the est of the Noth Ameican poletaiat is able to follow apidly and consolidate powe thoughout the continent, such an upising is doomed to failue and the militant Quebecois wokes will be cushed. Of couse Quebec could secede fom Canada to fom an independent capitalist state, and a Quebecois capitalist' uling class could consolidate its ule and develop its own elations with the impeialist wold maket. Unde such cicumstances, the poletaian evolution could theoetically begin within the famewok of the Quebec nation-state. But even in this case the conquest of powe i.o Quebec would eithe be the pelude to the stuggle fo poletaian powe thoughout Noth Ameica, o it would be defeilted. The high degee of integation of the Noth Ameican political economy and the ovewhelming economic, political and militay dominance of the United States mean that poletaian powe will only be consolidated on a continentwide basis. Thus any attempt at poletaian evolution in Noth Ameica which fails to achieve state powe in the United States is ultimately doomed. A sepaate "Canadian socialist evolution," much less a "Quebec socialist evolution," is a utopian impossibility. Lessons of the Commune and the Catalan Fedeation Two histoical lessons on this subject ae povided by the fate of the Pais Commune in 1871 and Totsky's polemics against the Catalan Fedeation in Spain duing the ealy 1930's. n 1871, the wokes of Pais wee povoked into a pematue upising, and established the Commune unde militaily unfavoable cicumstances, with insufficient pio evolutionay wok among the wokes and peasants outside Pais. Max and Engels called fo suppot to the Communads and fo standing with them on the baicades. Howeve they pointed out that powe could not be consolidated in Pais alone, but had to be extended though the suppot of the toiling masses in the est of Fance. n fact, the defeat of the Commune afte only seventy-two days led to the decimation and demoalization of the flowe of the Fench poletaiat. t took an entie geneation afte the Commune fo the Paisian wokes to begin to each a simila level of combativity and class-consciousness. Witing on Spain in 1931, Leon Totsky waned against the illusion, fosteed by Joaquin Mauin's Catalan Fedeation, that the militant Catalan poletaiat could come to powe in the absence of a simila class upising in the.est of Spain. Ageeing that "Catalonia is the vanguad," Totsky admonished Mauin: "... But if this vanguad will not mach in step with the poletaiat and late on with the peasanty of all of Spain, the Catalan movement will at best be concluded as a magnificent episode in continued on page 10 FORUM The CA's "Human Rights" Cusade mpeialist Butches Exploit Stalinist Cimes Defend the Gains of the Octobe Revolution! Speake: Date: Time: Place: Helen Canto Sat., 16 Apil :30 p.m. Banad College Room 304 (Boadway above 116th Steet) Donation: $1 Sponsoed by Columbia Spatacus Youth League Fo moe infomation call NEW YORK WORKERS VANGUARD

5 Solidaity House Victimizes Opositionists UAW Convention Must Defend Jodan Sims, Steve Smith Chysle Copoation and the United Auto Wokes (UAW) bueaucacy ecently stuck blows against the union anks by idding themselves of"toublemakes" in Local 961 (Eldon Avenue Gea and Axle) and Local 140 (Dodge Tuck) in Detoit. Militants in the plants must shaply potest this company/ union puge of dissidents and oppose thei victimization at the VAW convention in Los Angeles next month. Although the immediate histoy of Jodan Sims, just emoved by Solidaity House fom the Local 961 pesidency, and Steve Smith, fome stewad at Dodge Tuck, ae diffeent, thee ae stiking similaities between the two Sims was initially suspended fom office by Leonad Woodcock but was allowed to appeal. An ntenational executive boad appeals committee pedictably upheld the oiginal decision. When on Mach 14 of this yea the VAW's "Public Review Boad," without allowing Sims a heaing, upheld the Solidaity House edict and demanded that he epay the total of$4, 196 to Local 961, Sims was finally emoved as pesident and baed fom seeking futhe office in the VAW. Wategate in Local 961? Sims denies the chages and efuses to etun the money. He explained to WV WV Photo Flanked by cops, company supevisos and union officials, black-obed judge odes aest of Dodge Tuck stikes, June, cases. Both held elected local union office and have been fied by Chysle fo alleged involvement in unauthoized wok stoppages. Both ae citics of Woodcock & Co., and this attitude is the eason that the union tops wee as anxious as the copoation to be id of them. And in both cases, the victims' efomist politics led them to pusue anti-union lawsuits to fight thei bueaucatic esecutos. Sims was fied fom the Eldon plant fo alleged paticipation in a local job action in He was late elected Local pesident by a naow magin in a 1973 Labo Depatment-supevised election. Almost immediately, howeve, he an afoul of hostile Local executive boad membes who wee based pimaily on white skilled tadesmen. When Sims, who is black, suspended two local offices afte months of intenecine wafae, the ntenational clamped eceiveship on Local 961 in late 1975 (see WV No. 83, 31 Octobe 1975). An audit of the Local's books was conducted fo the peiod Decembe 1973 to Septembe 1975 and ntenational secetay-teasue Emil Mazey subsequently chaged Sims with financial misconduct. Howeve, Sims told WV that seveal pevious audits had been conducted which evealed no iegulaities. Mazey asseted that Sims accepted seveal thousand dollas in wage inceases, vacation pay, sick pay and sick leave pay to which he was not entitled. The Local set the pesident's salay in Febuay 1974 at $300 pe week with no mention of benefits: the ntenational claims that theefoe Sims is entitled to no benefits whateve, while he maintains that this wage incease did not cancel the benefits he was eligible fo unde past Local pactice and accoding to late votes by the membeship. 15 APRL 1977 that the membeship in Local 961-on two diffeent occasions-appoved ganting the Local pesident the same benefits enjoyed by the Local's office wokes, membes of the Office and Pofessional Employees ntenational Union (OPEU). Futhemoe, the financial secetay, Venal Johnson, cleaed this policy with Solidaity House and testified to that effect. But ntenational spokesmen denied Johnson's statement. Sims told WV that he himself eceived appoval fo the Local financial aangement fom ntenational vice-pesident Mac Stepp and Region -A diecto Buddy Battle, but "those same people got amnesia now." Sims states his willingness to answe all chages befoe the Local 961 membeship and in fact called a special membeship meeting in August 1975 to ai the chages. Accoding to Sims, this meeting eaffimed the 1973 membeship decision to peg the pesident's benefits to those of the Local office wokes. Solidaity House discounted that meeting also. Clealy the ntenational is athe selective about the evidence it accepts! Financial misconduct by a union office is a seious chage and thee is some unclaity in this case ove whethe Sims was entitled to all the vacation and sick pay claimed, even if the OPEU contact is used as a yadstick. But since Sims appaently made a numbe of attempts to claify the situation, even the Public Review Boad was foced to acknowledge that "it is not chaged that he intentionally defauded the Local Union." What is clea is that Sims' bueaucatic opponents wanted to keep the Local 961 membeship fom deciding on these issues. Though Sims' finances wee discussed at a numbe of Local execu- tive boad meetings in 1974 and 1975, none of his po-ntenational advesaies eve bought chages against him in the Local. Any accusation against Sims should be tuned ove to the Local membeship, who can detemine if a Local tial is equied. Solidaity House intevened against Sims not fo any financial iegulaities but because he is an iitant to the VAW bueaucacy. Wee it not fo its uthless suppession of dissent, the Woodcock/ Fase gang might be accused of excessive paanoia-sims' politics do not in fact epesent much moe than a nuisance to Solidaity House. n 1973 Sims voted fo the sellout contact with Chysle, much to the embaassment of his allies in the United National Caucus (UNC). Today, he suppots Doug Fase-the man who co-administeed his Local duing eceiveship and voted fo his ouste-as the "lesse of thee evils" to succeed Woodcock as ntenational pesident! Sims' ole as co-chaiman of the efomist UNC is likewise no dange to Woodcock/ Fase. The UNC baely exists today, despite yeas ofattempting to patch togethe a lowest-eommondenominato "unity." t has lagely decomposed into its constituent elements: disguntled skilled tadesmen, a few aspiing bueaucats and scatteed "adicals" suppoted by the ntenational Socialists (.S.). Neithe the UNC no the.s. has even botheed to publicly defend Sims, the only elatively wellknown black leade of the UNe. Down on the Ranks-Relying on the Couts Sims sees his next step as a lawsuit against Local 961 and the ntenational. He is also heatened by umos that the Labo Depatment may audit Local 961's books. Sims told WV, " would athe have someone come in hee who's going to be tuly objective and potect the ights of my membes with no political motivation." Sims' wam invitation to the capitalist couts and Labo Depatment will not only most likely pove fuitless, but is also deeply unpincipled. By asking the bougeois state to peuse the Local's financial ecods and decide, in place of the membeship, what constitutes pope union pocedue, Sims helps undemine the independence of the unions fom govenment contol. When the WV epote challenged Sims' dagging the union into the bosses couts, counteposing mobilization of the anks, Sims sconfully dismissed the membeship: "Today, the aveage guy in the plant... concens himself with one thing: how big a paycheck he can get in anyone week and getting his ass out of thee and balling with it, o putting it in the bank. got guys out thee who'd sell thei mothes fo two hous of ovetime." This cynicism speaks volumes as to why Sims' suppot has eoded and why he does not look to oganizing the Local 961 membes in his defense. t is also telling evidence fo what the Spatacist League has always said-that, at bottom, those who tun to the capitalist couts and govenment agencies have a pofound contempt fo the ability and capacity of the woking class. t is tue that the beleagueed auto continued on page 9 Makley, Suaes Convicted in Labo-Spy Fame-Up On Mach 26 Alex Makley and Antonio Suaes, oganizes fo the United Electical Wokes Union (UE), wee convicted of illegal possession of destuctive devices that the posecution claimed wee used to blow up scab tucks duing a stike against the WV Photo Alex Makley, left, speaking at Spingfield ally in ealy Mach. Wothington Compession Copoation in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Sentencing is scheduled fo Apil 14. The pepetato of this outageous fame-up is the Alcohol, Tobacco and Fieams Bueau (ATF), which views itself a sot of mino-league FB. The ATF, which in an ea of budget cutbacks has doubled its budget since 1972, ensues continued funding fo itself by entapping "potential violatos," paticulaly in the labo movement, and using them to set up othes. Of his 12-hou inteogation in the ATF office on the day of his aest Makley says: "They spoke with me about coopeating with them, how they wanted to hit me with $100,000 bail and how was facing 60 yeas in jail. Evey time asked to call a lawye they said no, thee's no need of it, we can wok something out." -quoted in Real Pape, 19 Febuay 1977 But Makley and Suaes efused to "wok something out," i.e., to become labo spies fo the govenment. Thei pincipled efusal to coopeate (" told them to have someone else d9thei dity wok fo them," says M;kley) leaves them facing long jail sejllences. n a elated case, Sandi Polaski, the victimized leade ofanothe UE local in Massachusetts (Cambion-Cambidge Themionic Copoation), ecently pleaded guilty to educed chages of assault with a dangeous weapon eceiving a six months' suspended sentence and one yea's pobation. But while she was able to escape a long jail tem, the UE at Cambion was defeated in a ecent NLRB epesentation election. The labo movement must demand that all chages against these tadeunion militants be dopped at once! n a peiod when govenment povocations against the labo movement ae inceasing, the need fo a stong wokingclass defense of victimized activists is moe ugent than eve. 5. ṙ [ l f i i j.j, l t f ' i(, i.,!l.. ".... ",..

6 - hmeialists Sceam "Red Menace" Cuba in Afica '\\i\';;,\\%i\i\!\;\!\\\l\\_'',\i:\\\i','\l.\lw No u.s. Aid to Mobutu's Zai'e! APRL The Westen pess coveed the ecent Afican junkets of Fidel Casto and Soviet pesident 1\ikolai Podgony with a enewal of the shill "ed menance" dumbeating that had accompanied Cuba's militay intevention a yea ago against South Afica in the Angolan wa. U.S. and Bitish newspapes and magazines have featued ominous stoies of polifeating so-called "Maxist" egimes, Soviet naval and ai facilities, and Soviet; Cuban militay foces in sub-sahaan Afica. Time (4 Apil) gaphically depicted a tightening "Soviet belt" unning fom the Atlantic to the ndian Ocean though Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagasca. The shaky govenment of Zai"ean pesident Mobutu Sese Seko eagely joined the hue and cy, chaging that insugent foces in Shaba povince (fomely Katanga) had invaded fom neighboing Angola and wee spea- headed by Cuban and Russian soldies. On Apil 4 Mobutu boke diplomatic elations with Havana. While the Cate administation guadedly says that "no had evidence" of a Cuban ole has been pesented, it nevetheless ushed $2 million in militay aid to the CA's numbe-one man on the continent. One paticulaly stident piece was caied in the London Sunday Telegaph (20 Febuay) and epoduced as a full-page ad-paid fo by a shadowy goup of ight-wing South Afican and intenational investos, known as the "Club often"-in the New Yok Times, the Wall Steet Jounal and othe influential impeialist mouthpieces. The aticle, entitled "Moscow's Next Taget in Afica," begins: "Can the West lean fom Angola's tagedy, o ae we condemned to elive the expeience? What the Russians leaned fom Angola is that wa by poxy pays off. They will be stongly tempted to use the same technique in othe places-and almost cetainly in the assault un Rhodesia and South West Afica. "The Cubans ae Moscow's all-pupose mecenaies..." The autho, Robet Moss, poses as a champion of democacy. Howeve, last yea he was exposed fo authoing a book financed by the CA (and distibuted by the Chilean junta's embassies) which justifies Pinochet's bloody coup. Such hallucinations of a evolutionay Soviet offensive in Afica aside, it does not equie deep political insight to ecognize that Podgony and Casto's leap-fogging missions (climaxed by a top-level meeting in Moscow) wee pat of a joint effot to use the political capital gained in the Angolan wa to gain inceased leveage in the egion. The Soviet Union hopes to offset its diplomatic evesals in Noth Afica and the Nea East by acing out U.S. and Chinese influence in southen, cental and east Afica. While Casto dew bigge and moe enthusiastic cowds, Podgony etuned with the tophies: Ethiopian endosement of a "common anti-impeialist font" of tempoaily po-soviet states in the Red Sea aea (Somalia, Ethiopia and Southen Yemen), a fiendship teaty with Mozambique (Moscow pomulgated a simila teaty with Angola in mid-mach) and a joint communique with Zambia. The Stalinist Dail Wold(30 Mach) noted of the latte: "Podgony's visit to Zambia, even moe so than his visits to Tanzania and Mozambique, symbolized a eal beakthough, in the opinion of most Afican obseves. Zambia's policy ealie had been consideed poimpeialism..." Only a yea ago Zambia backed the South Afican-led foces in Angola, labeling the USSR and Cuba as "a maauding tige with its deadly cubs." But following the beakdown of the Geneva talks on Rhodesia, chameleon-like Zambian pesident Kenneth Kaunda embaces Podgony in ode to foce the Cate administation to take a hade line against an Smith's intansigent white-supemacist egime. t only takes this single calculated and self-seving gestue fo Zambia to ente the Stalinists' blue-ibbon list of "noncapitalist" and "anti-impeialist" states! "New Gukhas"? While much of the bougeois pess bands Casto's soldies in Afica "Russian mecenaies," "helots" and "the new Gukhas" (Daniel Moynihan's phase), adical enthusiasts of the Cuban defomed wokes state see a vindication of Havana's claims as "Thid Wold" vanguad of "intenational poletaian solidaity." Noted left-wing Colombian autho Gabiel Gacia Maquez wote a lengthy account of Cuba's militay involvement in Angola fo the Mexican magazine Poceso, fom which extacts wee published by the Cuban news agency Pensa Latina in Januay. This semiofficial vesion highlights the hazadous undetaking of tanspoting the initial foces to Angola in aging tubopops and hastily dafted steames; U.S. theats and attempts to scuttle the aiand sea-lift; and the militaily decisive chaacte of the Cuban intevention. Maquez cites "Che" Guevaa's ole in taining and leading nationalist ebels in the ex-belgian Congo (now Zai"e) in 1965, ealy Cuban militay aid to gueillas in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, as well as to the govenments of Cameoun, Siea Leone and Sekou Toue's Guinea. He concludes that: "Cuba's act of solidaity with Angola was fa fom a casual o impulsive act, but athe the end esult of a continuous policy towad Afica by the Cuban evolution" (Washington Post, 12 Januay). Besides the omantic desciption of the daing ailift of 650 soldies in ealy Novembe 1975 as a kind of Cuban Opeation Entebbe, Maquez' account is notable fo its effots to sepaate Fidel Casto at ally in Tanzania. "heoic little Cuba" fom the lumbeing Russian bea: "Cuba was sue it could count on solidaity and mateial aid fom the Soviet Union and othe Socialist counties, although it was also awae of the implications its action might hold fo the policy of peaceful coexistence and intenational detente... "Fa fom what has so often been said, it was an independent and soveeign act of Cuba. Only afte the decision was made, not befoe, was the Soviet Union infomed." Whateve the exact timing and details of the decision, it is ludicous to assume that Cuba and the Soviet Union w.ee not woking in tightly intelocked coodination. No does Cuba's Afican policy un counte to the Soviet stategy of "peaceful coexistence" (which has neve pecluded economic and diplomatic competition o even militay confontations in seconday aenas). Moscow's political ties with and militay assistance to the nationalist M PLA wee also of long standing, and the Soviet Union feaed that if Luanda fell to the South Afican-led pince attack, its effots to cave out a diplomatic sphee of influence south of the Sahaa would bejeopadized. While some Cuban soldies wee tanspoted to Angola, the Soviet Union opened vital aid spigots. pouing in the sophisticated tanks, ocket launches and othe heavy weapons without which Casto's foces could not have tuned the tide. Clealy Maquez' po-cuban fevo outuns his gasp of political ealities. Last summe, in a seies of glowing Pensa Latina aticles on a tip to Cuba, epinted in his Colombian adical weekly Altenativa (16-23 August), Maquez was quoted as saying bombastically, "The defeat of impeialism in Angola is the most poweful blow which' Economist it has expeienced in the West duing its entie histoy." Having assigned an independent ole to Cuba in intenational politics, he ascibes woldhistoical impotance to the tempoay setback suffeed by the U.S. and South Afica in Angola. n eality, fo U.S. impeialism southen Afica epesents an aea of distinctly seconday stategic impotance compaed to Euope and the Nea East, o even Latin Ameica and East Asia. Soviet Diplomatic Maneuves n ou aticle "Smash the mpeialist Powe Play" (WVNo. 85,14 Novembe 1975). witten soon afte the South Afican invasion, we stated that, "The coect policy fo poletaian evolutionists at this time... is militay suppot to the MPLA against the Washingtonfinanced. South Afican-oganized offensive." t was absolutely necessay to oppose this attempt to establish a puppet black egime, bound hand and foot to Petoia, and to stand with the embattled MPLA, Cuban and Soviet foces against the impeialists. At the same time we waned: "The M PLA while pesently aligned with Moscow could tomoow become the favoite of Washington, and it is in any case no less hostile to the slightest expession of woking-class independence." The U.S. emains hopeful that it can yet pesuade Agostinho Neto and his cohots to pull a Sadat-style switch on the USSR and Cuba. Even while Moscow and Luanda poclaim thei etenal fiendship, Gulf Oil pumps out millions of dollas in pofits fom its Cabinda efiney. Such pominent U.S. black Democats as Cate's UN ambassado Andew Young and Congessman Chales Diggs, moeove, have 6 WORKERS VANGUARD

7 ministe Calos Rafael Rodiguez assued the pess: "Cuba has no intention of launching a militay intevention against othe counties. t can be said. theefoe. that Cuba may send its toops to othe counties in case the same conditions exist as those in the case of the Cuba Angola elations. But it is just inconceivable that the same conditions will exist again." - New Yok Times, 21 May 1975 : ', Tumoil in Za'ie. n Mozal11bique Casto also epeated denials of any Cuban ole in the fighting in Zai"e's Shaba povince: "thee is nota single Cuban soldie involved. We have nothing to do with it at all and we have not equipped o tained the foces that ae fighting the uling clique in Zai"e" (Daily Wold, 24 Mach). The conflict emains a muky affai given a comic opea quality by conflicting pess accounts and the antics of Mobutu. When Zai"e is appealing fo U.S. aid, the "invades" ae epoted advancing; shotly afte aid is deliveed, they ae epoted to be in ful1 eteat; a few days late the ebels ae again "advancing," and then comes anothe ugent plea fo aid. Towns nea the Angolan bode ae epoted lost and ecaptued without any evidence of fighting. Mobutu has pesonally feied newsmen to the aea in his pivate plane to demonstate that the govenment still holds key towns, but none have witnessed any battles and they ae quickly shuttled back to the capital, Kinshasa, whee thei epots ae subjected to govenment censoship. nitial1y diplomats in Bussels epoted that 500 fome secessionist Katangan gendames wee peaceful1y esettling in the aea (New Yok Times, 16 Mach), while Mobutu was claiming that "5,000 invades" wee battling his solides along a "62-mile font." Zai"ean geneal Bumba evised the estimates up to 10,000 ebels and announced that "my soldies have seen Russians, Cubans and Potuguese at the side of the fome militiamen, and these mecenaies ae fighting shitless, without unifoms" (UP dispatch, 2 Apil). Two days late Bumba was eplaced as chief of staff. Pess epots univesally agee that the "invades" ae emnants of Moi"se Tshombe's secessionist Katangan foces who wee diven into Angola aound 1967; that they ae eceived with open ams by thei fel10w Lunda tibesmen, who staddle the bode; and that little concen o suppot fo the wa exists in the Zai'ean capital. One hapless Associated Pess newsman was expel1ed fo sending off a dispatch which epoted a govenment-sponsoed al1y in Kinshasa "maked by an almost complete Pensa Latina Casto, ight, being geeted in Addis Ababa by Ethiopian stongman Mengistu last month, 15 APRL 1977 DR Nathaniel Mbumba, leade of the insugent FLNC, cautiously lauded Cuba fo binging "stability and ode" to Angola. onically, Maquez' views complement those of the impeialist scaemonges in one impotant aspect. Although Casto apologists bidle at any suggestion that Cuban foeign policy is subodinated to the Soviet Union's, they join Moss and the ightwing popagandists who believe that Cuba is playing a evolutionay anticapitalist ole in Afica and that the Angolan patten is likely to be epeated in Rhodesia and Southwest Afica (Namibia). But Casto's citeion fo distinguishing "evolutionay" egimes is manifestly the same as Podgony's-diplomatic al1iance with the Soviet bloc. n Somalia, the Cuban pime ministe hailed tinpot militay dictato Siad Bae as "one of the fimest and most billiant evolutionaies in Afica." n Addis Ababa, Casto toasted Deg stongman Mengistu Haile Meiam (whose toops butche leftist students caying potaits of "Che" and continue Haile Selassie's dity colonial wa in Eitea) and invited him to visit Cuba. While di Amin's eign of indisciminate tibalist, eligious and ethnic teo was a bit too embaassing to include in eithe Podgony's o Casto's itineay, Uganda adio epoted that Amin met with both Soviet and Cuban envoys on Mach 4 to thank them fo "suppoting his county.". As fo a epetition of Cuba's diect and massive combat ole duing the Angolan wa, Cuban spokesmen have pesistently and epeatedly stessed the exceptional chaacte of the Angolan conflict. The blatant intevention of apatheid South Afica into what had been a civil wa among competing black nationalist foces povided sufficient intenational "legitimacy" fo the Soviets and Cubans to set aside thei nomal conciliatoy stance and wage a bief-and successful-militay stuggle against a mino Jmpeialist powe backed by the U.S. Duing a tip to Japan last sping Cuban deputy pime Zaiian toops absence of cheeing o othe signs of spontaneous enthusiasm." A counte-baage of pess eleases has come fom a Pais-based goup calling itself the Congolese National Libeation Font (FLNC), which claims to be leading the insugents in this amophous conflict. An FLNC commu nique in ealy Mach maintained that it was not "an invasion by mecenaies in the pay of Angola," but "a national upising by the Congolese people sustained and suppoted by fightes of the FLNC" (Times [London], 12 Mach). This goup is led by a Geneal Nathanael Mbumba, fomely a Katangan police chief. An account of the Shaba conflict caied in the 4 Apil issue of Afique-Asie epots that the FLNC was founded in Angola as ealy as June 1968 by Mbumba at the head of fome Katangan gendames who fled fom impisonment in Zai e. The aticle makes much of the FLNC's selfdesciption as "a evolutionay and pogessive movement," while simultaneously admitting that the Katangans seved fo seven yeas as a mecenay foce (cal1ed the "Black Aows") fo the Potuguese colonial amy! Having fought mainly against Holden Robeto's FNLA in notheasten Angola, this foce (epotedly seveal thousand soldies) simply tansfeed thei allegiance to the MPLA as independence appoached. (The maiage of convenience was also indicated by the FNLA's close ties to Mobutu, the nemesis of the Katangan gendames.) The FLNC is also al1ied with a goup based in Bussels cal1ed the Movement fo Action to Resuect the Congo (MARC), which is backed by Belgian libeals and epotedly "disposed to coopeation with the West." Seveal jounalists have suggested a seemingly plausible explanation fo the Shaba affai. Mobutu has unleashed the defeated FNLA foces to make haassing aids into nothen Angola and al10wed the puppet Cabinda secessionists to stike against that oil-ich enclave and even into the neighboing Sovietaided Congo Republic. (Natual1y, thee is little mention of these povocations in the Westen pess.) Luanda may wel1 have given the geen light to its ex Katangan allies to move into Shaba povince in ode to haass Mobutu in etaliation fo his continued covet suppot to anti-mpla foces. Eage to discove some new "pogessive" cause to chee on, the adical New Yok Guadian has been building a case fo tailing the FLNC, quoting its bombastic self-paise and aguing that it has assimilated evolutionay politics fom the MPLA. Like the Stalinists, New Leftists seek to shaply distinguish ChauvellSygma between "neo-colonialist" and "antiimpeialist" egimes in Afica. This impessionistic method has nothing to do with the class stuggle, but simply epesents a fom of window-shopping among the diffeent styles of hetoic and diplomatic alliances pefeed by the vaious nationalist movements. No basis exists fo Maxists o the woking class to take sides in the Zai"e conflict. Mobutu has attempted to intenationalize the situation by his solicitation of U.S. and Chinese aid and, this week, by a Fench ailift of 1,500 Mooccan toops to back the Zai"ean soldies who seem to have no taste fo the fighting. Revolutionaies do have a stake in opposing all impeialist effots to dig in deepe in Afica by popping up disintegating egimes like Mobutu's. Theefoe, we denounce the impeialist wa scae and demand, "No aid to Zaie!" Fo Real Poletaian ntenationalism! The balance sheet of Cuba's policy in Afica is a hetoical1y moe militant vesion of Soviet effots to win diplomatic al1ies and pot-of-cal1 ights fo its ships. The blood shed in defense of Angola against impeialist aggession has become just anothe asset in the Kemlin's geat powe account ledge. Moscow and Havana can (at least fo the moment) chalk up some new fiel ds to eplace those they have lost in the Nea East. The Ethiopianjunta has been jettisoned by the U.S. and despeately needs a deal with Somalia (which claims one of its povinces and could contol Ethiopian access to the sea via the Teitoy of the Afas and ssas, due to become independent in June). But just as Addis Ababa embaces the USSR and Cuba, Somalia is beginning to tun cold, hakening to the cal1 oj slamic "unity"-spel1ed "o-i- $S$." Podgony and Ca!.to have di Mtin's thone of blood by default, since Uganda is something ofan intenational paiah at pesent. And Zambia's fiendly elations with the USSR ae likely to last about as long as it takes the U.S. o Bitain to land an envoy in Lusaka with a bette offe. Genuine intenational poletaian solidaity does not consist in foming mutual admiation societies with lefttalking nationalist demagogues. n fact, it demands the opposite: effective aid to the woking masses oppessed and exploited by these petty tyants, the building of evolutionay Totskyist paties to smash the two-bit bonapates (and thei Stalinist al1ies), wenching the ex-colonial counties fee of impeialism's bloody talons though socialist evolution, not diplomatic deals. 7 t[!t,,..

8 Zionist Bunke (continued fom page 1) cleical-fascist Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) settlement movement in Samaia and Judea. To etain the "Jewish chaacte" of Eell YisaeL the NR P calls fo foced population tansfe of the Palestinian Aabs fom the West Bank to Jodan. Whateve thei pogammatic diffeences, thee has been enough effective unity in action up to now between "Labo" and the NRP to peseve the coalition govenment. The ministe of housing who is esponsible fo the govenment's settlement policy gave financial suppot to the "illegal" settlements and expopiated additional land to povide fo thei expansion. mpeialist Peace ys. Zionist Annexation U.S. policy has always hewed close to the "Roges Plan" named afte Nixon's fist secetay of state and embodied in UN esolutions 242 and 338. Unde this plan sael would elinquish most of the occupied teitoies fo a peace teaty though which the suounding Aab egimes would ecognize sael as defined essentially by the pe-june 1967 bodes. The "Roges Plan" like UN esolutions 242 and 338 is puposely ambiguous. calling fo "secue" bodes and not defining how much of the occupied teitoies sael actually has to elinquish. Geoge W. Ball, who as U.S. undesecetay of state fom 1961 to 1966 was a majo achitect of the impeialist ape of Vietnam (and who is pesently a patne in the bond bokeage of Lehman Bothes chating the financial ape of New Yok City), agues in an aticle in the cuent issue of Foeign Affais (Apil 1977) that sael should be foced to elinquish all of the occupied teitoies and ecognize a Palestinian statelet in the West Bank and Gaza. The quid po quo would be a peace teaty and diplomatic ecognition by the Aab states. Howeve, he agues that to induce the saeli leadeship to accept this plan nothing less than a U.S. diktat will do. He wites: Consideed as an abstact possibility, an Ameican bougeois govenment might foce sael to withdaw fom the occupied teitoies, imposing the "Roges Plan" by unilateal fiat. But no existing Ameican bougeois tendency which is a seious contende fo govenmental powe favos such hashly anti Zionist policy. An Ameican diktat to withdaw fom the occupied teitoies would poduce such a pofound cisis in sael that it would isk destabilizing the entie Nea East. n addition, the po Zionist lobby emains quite poweful, backed by popula sympathy towad sael, in pat eflecting acist attitudes towad the Aabs. SL/SYL PUBLC OffiCES Maxist Liteatue BAY AREA Fiday and Satuday 1634 Telegaph, 3d floo (nea 17th Steet) Oakland. Califonia Phone CHCAGO Tuesday Satuday 650 South Clak 2nd floo Chicago, llinois Phone NEW YORK Monday-Fiday Satuday 3:00-6:00 p.m. 4:30-8:00 p.m. 2:00-5:30 p.m. 6:30-9:00 p.m. 1:00-4:00 p.m. 260 West Boadway, Room 522 Ndw Yok, New Yok Phone "Ameica's indispensable ole is to povide the means of elieving the political leades on both Sides of the need to make politically unpalatable decisions by funishing them the escape oute of yielding eluctantly unde elentless pessue of outside foces." Cate is not committed to a new. diffeent sael-aab policy. His eatic and totally contadictoy ecent statements on the subject eflect his doubletalk electioneeing style and the fact that Leste Maddox couldn't teach him the foms of intenational diplomacy. Cate ecently gave fee ein to his penchant fo talking out of both sides of his mouth. Zionist candidates fo saeli elections know that the eal campaigning takes place in the U.S.. not in sael. So. of couse. Rabin had to make the pilgimageand cay his campaign to his old hunting gounds in the capital of. U.S. impeialism. Cate geeted him by suppoting the demand of the "Allon Plan" fo "defensible bodes... This heatened Rabin and dispiited the Aab ules. But two days late, as Rabin was depating, Cate held a pess confeence whee he paid lip sevice to both the "Allon Plan" and the wee made fully manifest. The Yadlin tial,cvealed what the Hebew masses always suspected. namely that in the pomised land of Mosaic law and the "socialist" paadise of the socialdemocatic lepes. the Zionist govenment is satuated with the stench of gaft and couption. Yadlin was the head ofthe HistaduCs sick fund. the Kupat Holim. The Histadut is not only sael's majo tade-union fedeation, it also contols 25 pecent of saeli ind usty and most of its social sevices. including hospitals and clinics. Thus Yadlin contolled most ofthe county's health and medical sevices. n August 1976, Rabin appointed Yadlin to be goveno of the Bank of sael a position at least as poweful as the chaimanship ofthe Fedeal Reseve Boad is in the United States. Afte his appointment was announced, Yadlin Caol Gootte/Newsweek Zionist demonstatos seize land fom Aabs in occupied West Bank. "Roges Plan," calling the diffeence was accused of accepting $9,000 in between "defensible" and "secue" bibes. The entie "Labo Paty" uling bodes "just semantics." Stating that establishment was implicated. "defense lines mayo may not confom n paticula the ministe of housing, in the foeseeable futue to these legal Avaham Ofe, was accused of acceptbodes," and suggesting possible "ex- ing bibes when he headed the Histatensions of saeli defense capacity dut's constuction company. On 3 beyond the pemanent and ecognized Januay, Ofe committed suicide; and bodes," in the same pess confeence when Yadlin head of Ofe's suicide, he Cate also called fo "substantial suffeed a heat attack. Afte seveal withdawal" and only "mino adjust- weeks in the hospital, Yadlin decided to ments in the 1967 bodes." sing. A little plea-bagaining bought a mmediately aftewads, in the midst little honesty and Yadlin's testimony at of and playing to the Palestine National his Febuay 14 tial futhe implicated Council meeting in Caio, Cate ventued out in a demogogic fashion to be one with the people and made anothe contadictoy statement befoe a Clinton, Massachusetts, town meeting. He stated that "Thee has to be a homeland povided fo the Palestinian efugees who have suffeed fo so many many yeas." This sent spiits soaing among gullible PLO suppotes, but the following day he made yet anothe "claification," placing the "homeland" secuely "in the famewok ofthe nation of Jodan." Retied secetay of state Kissinge chided Cate fo not peseving the noms of hypocisy, deception and obfuscation inheent in bougeois diplomacy, and fo being too blunt. Howeve, Cate's "bluntness" consisted in cudeness, deception and delibeate ambiguity, not in any fank state Poppefoto Rabin with Cate duing his ecent ment. Fo Cate eveything is educed tip to Washington. to semantics, and even the Gush Emunim will suppot a "homeland" fo Palestinians-as long as it is east of the Jodan and is inhabited by all the Palestinians cuently living west of the Jodan! Cate's contadictoy statements managed to simultaneously confuse his own State Depatment spokesman as well as undemining Rabin. Gaft and Couption in Eetz Yisael While thee ae eal and ultimately incompatible policy diffeences between the saeli "Labo Paty" and the NRP, especially egading the occupied teitoies, a moe impotant eason behind the expulsion ofthe NRP pobably was to hold elections befoe the scandals emeging fom the tial of Ashe Yadlin "Labo Paty" leades including Finance Ministe Yehoshua Rabinowitz. "Democatic"-Zionism, "Socialistic"-Zionism, Stalinist-Zionism The main benefacto of the evelations of ampant couption within the "Labo Paty" has been the "Democatic Movement fo Change" (DMC) led by the acheologist Yigael Yadin, the Jimmy Cate of sael. While claiming to fight "big" govenment and "big" business (which in copoatist sael ae often the same), and to fight coupt politicians, Yadin's "Movement fo Change" is meely cheap populist demagogy which masks positions and candidates who have often defected fom the ight wing of the "Labo Paty." Fo example Nei Zoca who headed the Land Development Authoity unde Rabin and was esponsible fo the policy of the.udeasation in Galilee of expopiating Aab land, has defected to the DMC. Likewise the fome head of the saeli secet sevice Mossad, Assa Hael. has joined the DMC. The DMC unde Zoea influence has taken a had line on defending Zionist settlements in the occupied teitoies and has called fo the denationalization of the saeli state secto, moe incentives to pivate entepise and suppot to a vicious compulsoy abitation law that would effectively ban stikes. Shimon Pees, Rabin's Defense Ministe and ach ival within the "Labo Paty," eplaces Rabin as the "Labo" candidate fo pime ministe. Within the famewok of the "Labo Paty," Pees is consideed a hawk and thee is some speculation that Mapam may bolt its "Alignment" with "Labo." To salve Mapam's pseudo-socialistic conscience Pees appointed Allon, who is consideed a dove, to the impotant position of candidate fo defense ministe. Howeve, Mapam has little conscience left to salve as it has emained in the Zionist govenment despite its gossly chauvinist and acialist policies. Mapam claims to ecognize the ight of Palestinian selfdetemination but claims that this ight can only be execised within Hussein's Jodan, a position not fundamentally diffeent fom the "Allon Plan." Likewise the po-moscow saeli Communist Paty, which has gown substantially in the most ecent peiod, calls fo a mini-state solution to the Palestinian question and co-existence with a Zionist sael. The DMC, Mapam and Rakah epesent a continuum of "democatic" Zionism: all believe in the myth that the fundamental democatic questions which diectly challenge the Zionist state can somehow be esolved without a social evolution. The pesent political cisis within sael takes place within the context ofa pofound social and economic cisis. nflation is at an all time high. Pices inceased 40 pecent in 1974,39 pecent in 1975 and 37 pecent in The aveage income tax ate, the highest in the wold, is 46 pecent. Disposable wages dopped 8 pecent fom Apil 1974 to the summe of sael's extenal debt is $1,859 pe capita, again the highest in the wold. n the context of a shap economic cisis and as a militaily besieged society, sael's "ingatheing" of wold Jewy into the "pomised land" is becoming a failue. mmigation fell by half in 1975 and emigation, which aveaged 7,500 pe yea fom 1968 to 1973, jumped to 12,000 in 1973 and 21,000 in n 1976 emigation exceeded immigation and fully 60 pecent of the Jews pemitted to avethe Soviet Union fo sael went instead to West Euope and Noth Ameica. The geatest stike wave in sael's histoy is taking place now. n Mach alone thee wee stikes o slowdowns by Bank Leumi wokes, customs officials, govenment hospital physicians, telephone opeatos, petoleum wokes and dives, and univesity lectues. A dock slowdown paalyzed sael's thee main pots and potests on the West Bank, centeing on opposition to new taxes and demanding feedom of Aab political pisones, have continued unabated. An Aabi Hebew poletaian paty must be foged which links the militant stuggles of the West Bank Palestinians and saeli wokes against thei common enemy, the acialist, chauvinist Zionist state. Such a paty must call fo the total withdawal of sael fom the occupied teitoies; fo smashing the eactionay Zionist and Hashemite states; fo the ight to self-detemination fo the Palestinian Aab and Hebewspeaking people, which can only be ealized though poletaian evolution and a Nea East socialist fedeation. WORKERS VANGUARD.. "i

9 UAW Convention... (continued fom page 5) wokes, hit by massive layoffs and betayed at evey tun by thei "leades," have been geneally quiet fo seveal yeas. But Sims, like evey sellout 'union hack in the U.S., blames the membeship fo lack of inteest when his own. teachey and incompetence ae at issue. The ecent massive stikes at Femont G M in Califonia and ndianapolis Chysle plants indicate the willingness of the ank and file to fight with the least Jodan Sims encouagement fom thei local leades. UAW militants should demand that Solidaity House keep hands offjodan Sims. Despite his unning to involve the couts in intenal union affais and his bueaucatic view of the anks as hopelessly indiffeent, Sims is being attacked by high-echelon piecads fo being an oppositionist, howeve pusillanimous and impotent. t emains the job of the anks of the UAW to put thei house in ode and foge a eal classstuggle leadeship. Death Penalty fo Leading a Wildcat? Chysle's June 1974 fiing of Steve Smith was upheld Mach 22 by National Labo Relations Boad (NLRB) judge Walte Maloney. Smith is alleged to have played a leading ole in a 31 May 1974 wok action at the Dodge Tuck assembly plant in Waen, Michigan. He was also held esponsible fo a goup potest against expected company discipline at 1J,.."te plant's labo elations YOUNG SPARTACUS Cuent ssue ncludes: Student Stikes Rock taly Why Socialists Do Not Advocate Soldies' Tade Unions The Anti-Maxist Theoy of "State Capitalism"-a Totskyist Citique Cultists and Custody and moe SUBSCRBE NOW! $2/11 issues Name Addess City State/Zip 153 Make payable/mail to: Spatacus Youth Publishing Co Sex 825, Canal Steet Station New Yok, New Yok office thee days late. Adding insult to injuy, Chysle also held Smith esponsible fo a five-day walkout potesting his fiing, which began afte he and thee othes wee aleady dismissed on 10 June The suit against Chysle asked the NLRB to estoe Smith's job and all back wages. Despite complete ageement by the NLRB counsel with Smith's chages, including that he could not be chaged with actions that occued afte he was fied, the judge uled in Chysle's favo on vitually all counts. nitially, Smith's suit also included chages against the UAW, claiming failue to pocess the gievance ove his dismissal. (The gievance was dopped by the union in Octobe 1974.) But the union bueaucacy was an eage codefendant. Cassly fingeing thei own membes, union bueaucats povided names of past gieves and a list of militants which noted whethe they wee "leades" o "followes," thei wok and discipline ecods, thei paticipation in demonstatipns, when they had picketed, etc. So zealous wee union officials that Smith's lawyes nevously backed off and dopped the UAW fom the suit. The entie tial eeked of Chysle's anti-communist campaign to get id of Smith, who is a leading spokesman fo a Local 140 opposition goup, "Wokes Unity," and ofthe elated "Autowokes United to Fight" (AWUF), both suppoted by the Maoist Revolutionay Communist Paty. Ealy in the tial the judge efused to admit as evidence a House Committee on ntenal Secuity epot on Ameican Maoist goups which the company maintains was elevant to thei case. The copoation appealed this decision, shamelessly citing the fame-up, hangman's case of u.s. vs. Rosenbegs (!) whee the cout held: "An Ameican's devotion to anothe county's welfae cannot, of couse, constitute poof that he has spied fo that othe county. But the juos may easonably infe that he is moe likely to spy fo it than othe Ameicans not similaly devoted." Pesumably Smith is supposed to be gateful that Chysle did not demand the death penalty fo the "cime" of leading a wildcat! This case has all the makings of a McCathyite witchhunt: the victimization of? woking-class militant, enthusiastic coopeation of bootlicking union sellouts, and unbidled anticommunism. t also demonstates what kind of "justice" can be expected fom the capitalist couts and govenment agencies. Only a woking-class mobilization can evese this company / union/ govenment victimization of a union militant. t is not because of any sympathy fo the politics of Jodan Sims o Steve Smith that the Spatacist League defends them. Sims, as his tack ecod demonstates, is not even a consistent efomist opponent to Solidaity House, much less a class-stuggle leade. Steve Smith and his cohots hold no futue fo the UAW anks eithe: AWUF opposes the demand fo a shote wokweek to make moe jobs and opposes the minimal integation of Ameican society though busing, while fequently using gangste thug attacks against eal cla.ss-stuggle oppositionists in the unions. Fo Maxists the class line sepaating the woking class and its oganizations fom the employes and thei state is decisive. When wokes defend thei bothes and sistes fom company / govenment victimization and bueaucatic back-stabbing, they will have taken a big step necessay to tansfom the unions into class-stuggle institutions fighting fo the entie poletaiat. t is fo this eason that UAW membes must demand that the upcoming UAW convention einstate Jodan Sims and take all necessay steps, including stike action, to foce Chysle to einstate Steve Smith. An injuy to one is an injuy to all!. Cock Robin... (continued fom pare 2) vaious conspiacy theoies all shae the same technocatic, idealist and moalist illusion in the centality of contol ove infomation. This is not to deny that thee ae capitalist conspiacies, but the capitalist state, like all othes, is based on an amed body of men, not on secuity classifications. Class-stuggle militants ecognize the impotance of exposing capitalist atocities though popaganda. Fo example, a cental component ofthe defense wok of the Spatacist League and the Patisan Defense Committee is exposue of the fame-up chaacte of bougeois justice. We would cetainly like to know the eal stoy ofthe mude of Kennedy. While we sent no condolences fo the passing ofthis enemy ofthe woking class, we ae vitally inteested in knowing who was behind his assassination, as well as focing disclosue of the'; mudees of Malcolm X, Fed Hampton and othe black militants, and exposing what is aleady known about the killes ofolando Letelie and 30,000 AP Chilean wokes and peasants, ove a million Vietnamese, the Attica and Wounded Knee militants and numeous black youth gunned down by kille cops in the nothen ghettos. The full-blown ationalizations fo the libealism ofthe conspiacy monges have appeaed in ecent books by aged New Leftists Cal Oglesby and Kikpatick Sale, who seek to locate the cental axis of social and political stuggle in uling-class clique fights between "easten establishmentaians" and "sunbelt" nouveaux iches. The conceptual fallacies of these libeal' theoies ae countless. That the bougeois base of the Democatic Paty has fo decades been an alliance ofsouthen oligachy and easten financies is wellestablished; the aeospace industy, the bulwak of the "sunbelt" economy, is dominated by nothen capital; the melange of foces allegedly implicated in the Kennedy assassination-fom vy League CA spooks to Cuban exilesobviously defies facile geogaphical classification; and "old county lawye" Sam Evin and the southen Congessmen on the House impeachment inquiy deliveed key blows against Nixon. Oglesby egads the JFK assassination as a "cowboy coup" (with Wategate a "yankee countecoup"). While this is tivially consistent with Kennedy's and Johnson's geogaphical oigins, it hadly accounts fo the fact that the libeal "Geat Society" pogam was enacted unde Johnson, while Kennedy's majo "contibution" to civil ights was the appointment of acist fedeal judges in the south. SPARTACST Make payable/mail to: Spatacist Canada Publishing Association, Box Station A, Toonto. Ontaio, Canada Oglesby's Fom Dallas to Wategate: The Yankee and Cowboy Wa is an explicitly sub-efomist "civics class" call fo vitue to tiumph ove the evil elites who have so ecently subveted Ameican democacy. While his concluding slogan is "neithe yankee no cowboy," fo Oglesby the bougeois factions ae the only game in town (this is not only false, it is unfashionable; the "cowboy/yankee" conflict is a late 1960's concoction, the cuent vesion of which is the "tilateal commission" conspiacy). Moeove, this is simply a continuation of hackneyed libeal/ populist/ efomist attempts to single out a few bad capitalists (the "obbe baons," "200 families," "militayindustial complex," etc.) in ode to justify alliances with the "pogessive," "peace-loving," "democatic" bougeoisie. This libealism finds its eflection among the ostensibly Maxist oganizations, despite its clea counteposition to a class analysis and the independence of the woking class. Sam Macy of Wokes Wold Paty/Youth Against Wa and Fascism and the psychotic Lyndon LaRouche (aka Lynn Macus) Fom left: James Eal Ray, Lee Havey Oswald and Geoge de Mohenschildt with wife. Canada Subsciption: S2yea (11 issues) of the Labo Committees ae the equals of the John Bich Society when it comes to hysteia ove uling-class cliques and conspiacies, with Gey Healy's Ameican satellite (the Wokes League) and its wanings of imminent fascism not fa behind. Cetainly thee ae tactical diffeences and divisions of vaying depths and duation within the capitalist class, and evolutionists must undestand and exploit them. But the cental axis of social stuggle is between the bougeoi; sie and the poletaiat. The objective conditions ae otten ipe fo socialism. Not conspiacy theoy muckaking, not "tactical alliances" with the "pogessive" bougeoisie, but the building of the intenational. evolutionay Totskyist leadeship of the wokes is equied in ode to sweep the exploites and intigues of capitalism away. Thee emain plenty of skeletons in the closets' of the bougeoisie. and its hied guns: the FB/CA, municipal "ed squads," gusano teoists, the Mafia and vaious native po-fascist oganizations. Who knows what would sji.the out fom unde the ovetuned ocks in a seious and thoough investigation? Ultimately, it is th'ifiumph of the poletaiat which will make such an investigation possible and uncove the many unsolved mysteies in the bloody ecod of intenational capitalism. As the Bolsheviks wee able to finally unavel the countless plots and mudes of the Okhana only afte taking state powe, so will the woking class of the U.S. uncove the eal histoy of Ameican impeialist teo following thei establishment of a wokes' state. Spatacus Youth League Pamphlet China's Alliance with U.S. mpeialism Pice: $1 Ode fom/pay to: Spatacus Youth Publishing Co., P.O. Box 825, Canal St. Stlltion, New Yok, N.Y UP ',, =, t t 15 APRL

10 WV Photo Spatacist League contingent at Febuay po-busing mach in Los Angeles. Leftists Tail Ubeals, Black Mayo Opposes School ntegation Busing Unde Attack in L.A. Elections LOS ANGELES-Against a backdop of acial polaization and an ongoing contovesy ove school integation and busing, municipal elections wee held hee on ApilS. As was widely expected, Democat Tom Badleywho became L.A.'s fist black mayo in 1973 with a law-and-ode pitch backed by a 20-yea caee with the L.A. Police Depatment-easily won e-election, ganeing almost 60 pecent of the vote. Thee wee few eal disputes among the majo contendes fo mayo: they all solidaized with anti-busing foces. Badley was against "massive, cosstown busing." His main opponent, Alan Robbins, eceived 28 pecent ofthe vote Thomas Badley Julian Wasse with a demagogic ight-wing populist campaign peppeed with acial appeals to middle-class whites. Robbins opposed busing, distibuted "ape whistles" and called fo a efeendum on the secession of the lagely white San Fenando valley! Only one of the 12 candidates fo mayo, Sam Manuel of the efomist Socialist Wokes Paty (SWP), even nominally suppoted busing. But Manuel's angle was mainly a whining complaint to libeals and black community leades who swallowed thei pobusing position to back Badley. t is these foces which the SWP habitually cuddles up to, only to be left in the luch 10 when its "allies" play out thei bougeois ole. Manuel got only 917 votes. Typically, the Communist Paty (CP) had nothing to say in public on the mayoal ace, giving backhanded suppot to the Democat Badley. n the school boad elections, the SWP, CP and the Stalinistj efomist Communist Labo Paty (CLP) each an a candidate on similaly wetched pogams of wateed-down "pactical" efoms; none waanted the votes ofthe woking class. Fo example, the ex Totskyist SWP called fo simply taxing the copoations, not expopiating them. So libeal wee the thee goups' campaigns that the 15,000 to 20,000 votes each gained went to Badley in the mayoal ace, leaving the only ostensible "socialist," Manuel. with less than votes. So Mayo Badley will continue to un L.A. fo the capitalists. He theatens stiking bus dives with National Guad scabs and boasts that he has maintained the lagest police foce in L.A. histoy, eplete with aeial helicope suveillance, SWAT squads like those that wiped out the SLA in a fiey pye and an extensive political "intelligence" ed squad. And the black libeal mayo will ty to keep L.A. one of the nation's most stictly segegated cities. Though Badley won the election with the backing of the local AFL-CO hacks (as well as L.A.'s leading oil and financial inteests and the consevative Los Angeles Times), neithe he no the Democatic Paty ae "fiends of labo" o of oppessed minoities. Wokes must mobilize the unions to beak the Democats' stanglehold and build thei own paty. based on a c1ass-stlolggle pogam to fight fo a wokes govenment. Now Availqble as a Pamphlet! The Fight to mplement Busing Fo Labo/Black Defense to Stop Racist Attacks and to Smash Fascist Theats Pice: 75C Make checks payable/mail to: Spatacus Youth Publishing Co., Box 825, Canal S. Station, New Yok, N.Y Quebec Wokes... (continuedfom page 4) the style of the Pais Commune. he peculia position of Catalonia is diving in this diection. The national conflict may heat up the steam to such an extent that the Catalan explosion will occu long befoe the situation in Spain as a whole has matued fo a second evolution. "t would be the geatest histoical misfotune if the Catalan poletaiat. unde the influence of the national fement. pemitted itself to be dawn into a decisive stuggle befoe it has had the chance to consolidate itself with the poletaiat of all of Spain." The Spanish Revolution. pg. 107 Quebec's stategic weight in Noth Ameica today is much less than the weight of Pais in Fance in 1871 o of Catalonia in Spain in the 1930's. Only a blissfully ignoant nationalist deame could conceive of a successful poletaian evolution somewhee on the continent which did not smash capitalist ule in the United States. The GMR's call fo a "wokes epublic of Quebec" is not simple theoetical musing on the possibility of an episodic seizue of powe in Quebec, followed immediately by an insuection on the est of the continent. t is a call fo a nationally-delimited poletaian stuggle. That is how it is seen by Quebecois wokes, and that is how it is meant by the GMR. Don't "wait" fo those backwad English, the GM R is saying, we'e the most advanced, we can seize powe on ou own. And just to ensue that Quebecois wokes ae not "held back" by the chauvinists in the intenational unions, the GMR calls fo nationalist tade union beakaways. Towad Noth Ameican Socialist Revolution! n 1913 Stalin, then still a Bolshevik witing unde Lenin's tutelage, wote: "We know whithe the division of wokes along national lines leads. The disintegation of a united wokes' paty. the division of tade unions along national lines, aggavation of national fiction. national stike-beaking, complete demoalization within the anks of Soeial-Democacy--such ae the fuits of oganizational fedealism... "The only cue fo this S oganization on intenational lines." -"Maxism and the '\ational Question" The G M R's utopian-eactionay pogam fo the Quebec woking class stems fom its pofound adaptation to nationalist ideology (its vey existence as a sepaate oganization fom the RMG is an example of this nationalism). Max neve called fo a Pais Commune. No did the Bolsheviks aise the slogan "wokes epublic of Poland," o suppot national divisions in woking class oganizations. n fact they fought actively against both. Advocating the ight to self-detemination was seen by the Bolsheviks as seving the end Wokes Vanguad MARXST WORKNGCLASSWEEKLY OF THE SPARTACST LEAGUE One yea subsciption (48 issues): $5 ntoductoy offe: (16 issues): $2. ntena tiona ates' 48 issues--$20 aimail/$5 sea mail: 16 intoductoy lssues-$5 aimail. Make checks payable/mail to: Spatacist Publshing Co, Box 1377 GPO, New Yok, NY Name Addess City -includes SPARTACST _ State Zip _ 153 SUBSCRBE NOW!,_ of multinational woking-class unity. The G M R's capitulation to nationalit illusions leads it to advance the defeatist stategy of a "wokes epublic of Quebec." and to call fo Quebec wokes to beak away fom the mainsteam of the Noth Ameican wokes movement. Like the Bolsheviks, we ecognize that poletaian unity can only be foged though all-sided stuggle against all foms of social oppession, and fo full and equal democatic ights. including national ights. Thus Totskyists aise 'the call fo Quebec's unconditional ight to self-detemination. up to and including secession, and have nothing but contempt fo chauvinist cetins like the Communist Paty, who stive to einfoce "Canadian unity." Futhemoe. while not advocating independence today. the Totskyist League ecognizes that national antagonisms among woking people in Canada have isen damatically in ecent yeas, paticulaly since the election of the Pati Quebecois govenment last fall. This poses the possibility that in the nea futue a call fo the independence of Quebec may be the only way to foge the necessay fighting class unity. But the "wokes epublic ofquebec" is an entiely diffeent question. Unlike the GMR and RMG, we ae not out to tail whateve is popula, o to assuage libeal guilt-pangs stemming fom two centuies of national oppession of the Quebecois. Rathe we seek to build a paty which can lead a poletaian evolution on this continent. The calls fo sepaate oganizations fo Quebec wokes and a "wokes epublic of Quebec" ae nationalist demands which, if logically implemented, could only lead to the defeat of the militant Quebecois poletaiat. f, like the Communads, the Quebecois poletaiat takes to the baicades against ovewhelming odds, authentic evolutionay intenationalists will be thee with them. But without a evolution in the heat of the Noth Ameican continent, the Quebec woking class cannot consolidate an independent state powe. The defeat ofan isolated Quebec wokes commune would be a setback fo the entie Noth Ameican socialist evolution. a defeat fo which leftnationalists like the G M R would be politically culpable. SPARTACST LEAGUE LOCAL DRECTORY ANN ARBOR..... (313) c/o SYL, Room 4316 Michigan Union. U. of Michigan Ann Abo, M BERKELEY/ OAKLAND, (415) Box Oakland, CA BbSTON,,.,,.. (617) Box 188 M..T. Station Cambidge, MA CHiCAGO, (312) Box 6441, Main P.O. Chicago, L CLEVELAND,, (216) Box 6765 Cleveland, OH DETROT. 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11 . Steel Settlement... (continued fom page 12) "opposition" to the contact was fundamentally meaningless. Both in the campaign and in the atification meeting in Washington, the Sadlowski foces consistent with thei legalistic cetinism efused to call fo the dumping of ENA now. Within the famewok of ENA. if the union and companies can not come to ageement, the contact is submitted to binding abitation. But tuning the fate of steel wokes ove to abitatos. who ae inevitably biased towads the copoations, is a step USWA chief Abel (ight) and U.S. negotiations in Febuay. backwads. Fea ofabitation undoubtedly influenced many officials to vote fo Abel's contact. But Sadlowski is not the only one to capitulate to the ENA. The Stalinists and othe efomists, who suppoted Sadlowski in the election, do likewise. An aticle in the 7 Apil Daily Wold, ogan of the Communist Paty (CP), hailed a decision by USWA Local loll opposing extension of the ENA to bagaining in As fo this yea, the Daily Wold pointed to the possibility of "focing concessions" on a local level, whee stikes ae pemitted. The CP caves in to Abel and accepts his sellout deal as a fait accompli. While local issues ae not unimpotant. key issues of hous, wages and henefits ae detemined at the industywide level. The eal powe of the memhenhip lies in uniting the USWA locals thoughout the U.S. and Canada in solid, joifll stike actions against the companies. t was pecisely out of fea of this possibility that Abel instituted EN A. at the same time yielding the local ight to stike as a concession. n fact, the enewal of the no-stike ageement though 1980' demonstates the futility of waiting until ENA "expies" befoe calling fo industy-wide stike action. Steel chief negotiato stat steel Unless a fight against EN A is oganized, the bueaucacy will continue to extend it. Abel, McBide and thei no-stike deal ae not popula among basic steel wokes, as the ecent union elections and the atification meeting in Washington poved. The key task fo militants in the next peiod must be to mobilize steel wokes to dump ENA and Abel's contact now though USWA-wide stike action. Only in such a fashion can the genuine inteests of steel wokes be consistently fought fo. Cout Fees Kille of LWU Stike STOCKTON, Califonia--Ray Laege. 6 and of the "Longshoe Militant" in a scab tuck dive and supeviso Local 10 aised motions fo the union to employed hy the Handyman Copoation was found "not guilty" Apil of sponse to smash Handyman's blood immediately oganize a militant e the chage of vehicula manslaughte in thisty stikeheaking and win the the picket-line killing of stike Noman stike. They poposed a massive labo Ray Lewis last August 6. ally in Tacy and the hot-cagoing ofall Seveal witnesses on the ntenational Handyman poducts to foce the company to its knees. make the govenment Longshoemen's and Waehousemen's Union (LWU) Local 6 picket line saw chage Laege with mude and win a Laege hit Lewis with the tuck. As life pension fo Lewis' widow and five Lewis moved away, Laege hit him childen at the company's expense. again. knocked him down and an him These militants pointed out that if the ove. That the mudee was only LWU did not lead the labo movement chaged with vehicula manslaughte is in such a militant esponse the life of in itself a stunning indictment of the evey picket in the Bay Aea and "justice" affoded the woking class in nothen Califonia would become fai the bougeois couts. But that he was game. acquitted and now goes scot-fee is an Rathe than mobilize the eal stength outageous affont to all labo! of the labo movement to defend its own The caeful sceening of the juy fo membeship, the LWU bueaucacy this tial geatly aided the cold-blooded has continued to opt fo an impotent kille-scab. Evey pospective juo was consume boycott and established the asked if he would coss a picket line. Noman Ray Lewis Memoial Fund fo Only one who said "no," he would not the slain bothe's widow and childen coss on pinciple, was seated on the though a special dues assessment. juy. Despite coveage in the pages of the The atmosphee suounding the tial union newspape, union membes epot that "infomational" pickets sche was heavily conditioned by the ongoing employe govenment offensive against duled fo weekends in font of Bay Aea nothen Califonia labo. The nonetoo-aggessive Handyman etail stoes ae usually posecuto called only one eyewitness to the killing and the small and moe often fail to mateialize. The labo skates cannot even implement defense attoney got away with baiting a thei own no-win tactics. t is also union witness as an "agitato" and commonly known that seveal Local 6 "communist." waehouses continue to handle scab This coutoom defeat was faciliated Handyman mechandise, on explicit by the weak-kneed passivity of the odes fom the Local bueaucats! LWU leadeship. Lewis was mudeed Afte ove nine months of a bitte on the LWU picket line in font of the stuggle, the Handyman stikes continue to hold out. On Apil, they once Handyman waehouse in Tacy, whee he and 22 fellow wokes had begun a again voted down the company's insulting tems, which include an open shop. stike on August 4 fo union ecognition and thei fist contact. The cowadly But it has been umoed inside the union eaction of the union tops to the killing that the bueaucats ae close to was simply to advise thei membeship abandoning the stike. They may well "not to puchase any Handyman poducts until futhe notice" (Dispatche, cad to futhe demoalize the weay use Laege's acquittal as a new tump 6 August 1976)! Suppotes of the class-stuggle opposition goup Militant Caucus in Local stikes and foce them back to wok. Shut down Handyman-Hot cago all Handyman goods! "..' i 1;' ',... ' i f NYC Demo Potests Balague Teo at santo Domingo Univesity 15 APRL 1977 t i. 1! : d!" : l'iiilll1\&[\ flil i '.AGR:S F\ z'ill\iql\) GT-w# ERS, 'tjm.. Sfllt SANTO 1:[ " OOM'NGOYU. \.A ",-v. 5PAf\1ACST/SJZ.FNtTS'i.[ FENSE CO/'1Hf]T [ WV Photo Moe than 150 demonstatos picketed the Dominican Republic consulate in Rockefelle Cente Mach 25 to potest the occupation ofthe Autonomous Univesity ofsanto Domingo(UASD) by the police and amy ofthe Balague dictatoship. The demonstation, called by the Committee in Solidaity with the UASD, dew paticipants fom many oganizations including the Comte paa la Defensa de los Deechos Humanos en la Republica Dominicana, the Movimiento Popula Dominicano, Linea Roja, Youth Against Wa and Fascism, the Octobe League and a contingent fom the Spatacist League (SL) and Patisan Defense Committee (PDC).. Slogans shouted by the spiited demonstatos included demands, in both English and Spanish, fo the immediate withdawal of militay an" police foces fom the UASD, feedom fo students aested duing the Santo Domingo demonstations and an end to govenment epession in the Dominican Republic. The SL contingent caied signs demanding an end to the Balagueist teo and fo a wokes and peasants govenment; suppotes of the PDC aised signs calling fo feedom fo all class-wa pisones in the Dominican Republic. The amy occupation of the UASD on Mach 11 followed weeks ofstudent potests and clashes with the police in Santo Domingo. Thousands of univesity and seconday school students had taken to the steets in Febuay to demand a "lage and just budget" fo the UASD. Then, on Much 7 the police took ove the Duate seconday schoolin Santo Domingo because if had become, in the wods of the police chief, "a focus fo distubance oftlle public ode" duing potests against the fiing ofteaches and the suspension of examinations. The following day Duate students who had joined with UASD students to demand the withdawal of police fom the high school wee viciously attacked by iot cops assisted by an ai foce helicopte which lobbed tea gas genades onto the campus fo nealy an hou. Twenty-seven students wee injued in the fighting and many moe aested (Hacional tk Ahaa, 7 Mach, and E Sol, 9 Mach). The weeks of demonstations culminated in the invasion of the UASD campus by toops amed with heavy calibe machine guns and backed up by amoed cas at 3 a.m. on Mach 11. This is the fifth time that the militay has occupied the campus since 1970 to suppess the student stuggles against the Balague egime. The SL joins with Dominican students and wokes oganizations in demanding the immediate and unconditional withdawal of police and soldies fom the UASD, the einstatement ofall fied pofessos and teaches and the elease ofall the victims ofthe ight-wing epession in the Dominican Republic! 11 f!: - t Ị.. [ l( ( i! -

12 WfJliNEli1 'ANfiJAiJ Put Sellout Steel Settlement to Q Votel Beak Abel's ENA Though Stike Actionl APRL 11-Retiing United Steelwokes (USWA) pesident. W. Abel last week bowbeat local union pesidents into appoving a new contact fo the basic steel industy. The settlement was voted Apil 9 in Washington by a magin of 193 to 99. but only afte an ealie vote of to eject was "econsideed." The sellout pact not only fails to make any substantive gains fo steel wokes; it fails to fulfill even the insulting campaign pomises of the consevative Abeli McBide machine. Most outageous. it extends the no-stike Expeimental Negotiating Ageement (ENA) to cove the next ound of contact negotiations in 1980! Extension of EN A demonstates the utte contempt of the bueaucacy fo the USWA membeship, who do not have the ight to atify thei contacts and ae sold out yeas in advance! Repotedly, the "guaanteed" annual wage inceases of 3 pecent pe yea wee "modified," so that in 1980 the paties have the option of diveting the misely funds eamaked fo wages to "othe benefits." The settlement is not substantially diffeent fom the 1974 package, also negotiated unde the no-stike ENA. Wage inceases amount to 80 cents ove thee yeas, to be implemented in six steps. This compaes unfavoably with many wage settlements in last yea's bagaining, in which the Teamstes got $1.65 ove thee yeas, ubbe wokes $1.35, electical wokes $1.10. With the exception of some alteations in supplementay unemployment benefits (S UB), most othe economic benefits emained unchanged. The biggest face is the absence of anything in the contact esembling "lifetime job secuity," which Abel and McBide have been ballyhooing the past few months. With capital spending still down and jobs eliminated though speed-up, substantial sections of the basic steel wokfoce emain on layoff. Unemployment is clealy a key issue. But Abel's "solution" to the lack ofjobs was to extend the duation of SUB pay fom one yea to two yeas...fo those wokes with at least 20 yeas senioity! Only a minoity of steel wokes have this much senioity, and these ae the last to be laid off, anyway. Futhemoe, these highe senioity wokes will not eceive a second yea of SUB benefits if they tun down othejob assignments at thei plant o at othe locations of the company. Abel's "lifetime job secuity" is as phony as UAW pesident Woodc0ck's "voluntay ovetime"... afte 54 hous. Attempting to cove his flank on the jobs issue, Abel epotedly launched into a haangue befoe the assembled union officials in which he denounced Cate and Congess fo thei failue to enact sufficiently stiff potectionist 12 legislation against foeign impots. onically, when the ENA was fist intoduced. Abel claimed that the elimination of stikes would discouage stockpiling of foeign-made steel and theefoe peseve jobs fo Ameican steel wokes. n fact. howeve, the ENA has little to do with inceased foeign steel impots, which basically stem fom the elatively declining efficiency of the Ameican steel industy and the eintensification ofcapitalist competition on a woldwide scale. This yea steelmakes ae pojecting an incease of steel impots to 17.5 million tons, nea the ecod high of Both the chauvinist USWA bueaucacy and the steel magnates ae stongly potectionist. Fo the steelmakes this makes sense: inceased quotas against impots would enable them to maintain atifically high pices and eap monopoly pofits. Howeve, fo steel wokes, this is a deadend. While aising pices, this pogam of economic nationalism would not eliminate unemployment, whose oots lie in the achaic and unplanned system of poduction unde capitalism. t would only tie the woking masses moe fimly to thei espective uling c1ases, in the latte's dive to achieve impeialist domination at the expense of thei ivals. The eal thust of Abel's pogam fo jobs is shown by an oientation pogam newly instituted unde the 1977 contact: "The paties will establish a USWA/ Steel ndusty Employees Oientation Pogam to acquaint new employees with thei oles in the USWA and the steel industy and thei lage oles in the wold economy. The union will contibute $500,000 annually and the companies will match this annual contibution. New employees will be instucted in the development and gowth of the union, the industies, the histoy ofcollective bagaining between the paties, the advese impact of foeign steel impots and the ole of poductivity in advancing the best U.S. Steel Failess woks. inteests of the paties and the employees." leaf1et distibuted by USWA Local 1014 (Gay) This section lays bae the class collaboationism which is the essence of Abel's stategy: make the Ameican steel industy moe competitive by keeping out foeign impots and inceasing poductivity (i.e., accepting speedup!). Abel and U.S. Steel hold hands in asseting that what's pofitable fo the steel companies is good fo the steel woke. A eal pogam fo jobs would focus on the demand fo a sliding scale of hous, in which the existing wok would be divided up among the wokfoce, with no cut in pay. The demand fo a 32 hou wokweek was, in fact, included AFL-CO News Fom left, Lloyd McBide, U.S. Steel vice pesident J. Buce Johnson and. W. Abel at ecent contact negotiations. among those adopted by the union's Wage Policy Committee and the Basic Steel ndusty Confeence; it was included in the campaign popaganda of McBide as well as Sadlowski. Howeve, a eal stuggle aound this demand would pose the need to expopiate the steel tusts and eplace the capitalist system with a planned economy un by a wokes govenment. The po-capitalist USWA bueaucats have no heat fo such a battle. Hence, it is not supising that the pape demands of the bagaining confeence ae nowhee to be found in the settlement. Gone too ae othe pape demands fo stonge guaantees on health and safety, elimination of acially and sexually disciminatoy pactices, substantial impovement in cost-of-living, pension and insuance benefits, etc. The stong opposition among even the top local bueaucats indicates that the contact would be flatly ejected if submitted to the ank and file fo a vote. The bueaucatically un USWA has neve pemitted membeship atification of contacts. Militants must demand that Abell McBide's sellout deal be put to a vote! Repotedly claiming cedit fo oganizing opposition to the contact among local pesidents is Ed Sadlowski. Sadlowski suppotes wee gloating that the initial vote to eject was a "symbolic victoy" fo the ank and file. Needless to say, howeve, this "symbolic victoy" will do nothing fo steel wokes gound down by speed-up, inflation, unemployment and lung disease. Sadlowski's continued on page APRL 1977