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Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov exposes Reagan's lies in Moscow press conference, September 9. Shaded area on mapindicates site of rendezvous between RC-135 spy plane and 007.

purpose of this elaborately orchestratedwar provocation against the SovietUnion.

1\'ow Washington is moving evercloser to breaking off diplomatic rela­tions with the USSR by denying Soviet

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beaung in Washington Even pcwho thought Ronaid Reaganjust ta1kccloudly and waved (l rhetorical big sticknow "orry that ;he "rough riders" in theWhite: House and the Pentagon mightactually drop the bomb. Having cynical­ly sent the passenger- of Korean AirLines Flight 007 to their deaths in ademented antl-Smiet provocation.Reagan is now making his move to pushthrough the Pentagon's two main first­strike weapons: the construction of theMX missile and deployment of PershinglIs in West Europe. The latter han' anight time of only eight minutes toMoscU\\. forcing the Russians to adopta policy of "iaunch on warning." Makeno mistake. Reagan, is dri'iing 1O\\ardthcrmci1uc\car war directed at theSO'let Union. hirthplace of the firstworkers revolution in history.

Over and over. Reagan repeats that itis "the Soviets against the world"-or toturn it around, it's world war against theSoviets. Unlike Cold War liberals andNew Right conservatives. this adminis­tration isn't much interested in sanc­tions which only hurt American capital­ists, such as a grain boycott or the fiascolast year of U.S. efforts (which foun­dered on interimperialist rivalries) tohalt the Soviet gas pipeline. What thesewarh,,<wks want is not pinpricks but theBig Bang. Thus Reagan's successfulappeal to use the 007 uproar to ramthrough his S187 billion "defense"budget. includmg funds for the MX andbinary poison gas weapons. was not a"jarringly inappropriate" note, as Time(19 September) claimed. but a central

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•foreign minister Gromyko and anyother Soviet diplomats the right to landin :'>lew York aboard an At:ronotairliner. In times gone by such anoutrage against a high official of a majorpower could in itself have led to war. To,;

say the least. as the Russians terselyreplied. the question arises whether theL nited States is a "suitable" location forV\ headquarters. Whereupon a petu­lant U.S. delegate taunted, we'll see you

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Defend Vietnam/USSR Against U.S. War Drive!

Oust Genocidal Pol Pot Gang from UN!We protest the obscenity of the

genocidal, ousted Pol Pot forcesholding the United Nations seat forKampuchea (Cambodia)! Even in theUN, whose predecessor Lenin aptlycalled "a den of thieves," even amongbloody U.S.-backed Central Americandictators, Pakistan's General Zia, oreven compared to Idi Amin, themurderous Pol Pot and his numbertwo mass killer Ieng Sary are anobscenity. Since early 1979, when theVietnamese toppled the Pol Potregime, which killed two million of its

own people. the U. S. in alliance withChina has armed the terrorist bands ofthe deposed dictator for attacksagainst Kampuchea. On September21. 1979 and each year since the UNhas voted to seat the universallydespised Pol Pot forces instead of theHeng Samrin government as part ofU.S. imperialism's unrelenting driveto punish the victorious VietnameseRevolution and undo its own humil­iating defeat. No UN Seat for PolPot / leng Sary- Bloody Imperialist /Chinese Toys.' Seat Heng Samrin

Government, Real Government ofKampuchea.'

The U. S. attempt to strangle theheroic Vietnamese, whose strategicCam Ranh Bay naval port is aroadblock to American ambitions, ispart of the U. S.' all-out war driveagainst the Soviet Union. From PolPot to the deadly Flight 007 Cold Warprovocation to Diego Garcia to SriLanka's Trincomalee, U,So efforts towhip up war hysteria and encircle theUSSR with a ring of nuclear launchingpads have left a bloody trail of terror

and death across the globe. Criminal­ly, the Peking government has eagerlybacked this deadly imperialist policy,repeatedly launching military attacksagainst northern Vietnam in line withU.S. policy. China: Keep Out ofIndochina.' u.$.- You Lost! YankeeImperialism Out of Southeast Asia!

When the U.S. and its corrupthenchmen like Lon Nol ned Indochinaafter the triumph of the VietnameseRevolution, the Khmer Rouge occu­pied Phnom Penh. Pol Pot's Khmer

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Legacy of mass murderer Pol Pot (inset): mounds of skulls found nearSuong. Vietnamese army saved Cambodians.

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Indochina. Despite the heroism of theIndochinese workers and peasants indefeating U. S. imperialism, that war­torn and imperialist-blockaded butSoviet-aided area faces great difficultiesin holding out against the U.S.' wardrive and unrelenting pressure. It is thehistoric understanding of Marxism/Leninism/Trotskyism which can leadthe working class to the shattering of theparasitic Stalinist bureaucracies and toplacing the enormous economic re­sources of the degenerated and de­formed workers states from Peking toMoscow to Hanoi fully in the service ofworld revolution. For a Genuine SovietFederation of Indochina! Forward to aUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics inSoutheast Asia! For the Rebirth of anAuthentic Communist, Fourth Inter­national- World Party of SocialistRevolution!-

crats. West Germany has suppliedarms and tanks to NATO memberTurkey as part of NATO's wardrive against the Soviet Union,which shares a common borderwith Turkey.

At a protest demonstration calledthe very afternoon of Altun's suicide,the Trotzkistische Liga Deutschlands(TLD), German section of the inter­national Spartacist tendency, calledfor political asylum for all Turkish,Palestinian and Tamil refugees. TLDslogans included "Deportation isDeath!" "Full Citizenship Rights forAll Foreign Workers and TheirFamilies!" "German ImperialismTramples Corpses in its Anti-SovietWar Drive! Vengeance for KemalAltun!"

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WEST BERLIN-On August 30,West German authorities finallysucceeded in hounding Kemal Altunto death. Altun, a former leader of aleftist student group in Turkey, hadspent 13 of his 18 months in WestBerlin languishing in jail, awaitingdeportation to certain death in thetorture cells of the murderous Turk­ish junta. Already this year, severalTurkish leftists have been deportedand immediately arrested upon theirreturn. And Christian Democraticinterior minister Zimmermann hadmade a special target out of Altun. Soas soon as handcuffs were removedon the second day of his asylumhearing here. Kemal Ahun jumpedfrom a second story window in thecourthouse.

The case of Kemal Altun had takenon particular significance in WestGermany as a test of the govern­ment's determination to sharply cutthe immigrant workforce (now anintegral part of the German proletari­at) and especially to expel foreignleftists to persecution, torture anddeath. Only a few weeks before, in themidst of the anti-Tamil pogroms inSri Lanka, five Tamils had beendeported from West Berlin, and onAugust 12 some 40 Turks and Kurdshad been deported. In particular, theWest German government, in adivision of labor amongst the imperi­alist powers, has taken on specialresponsibility as the overlord forTurkey. Both under the SocialDemocrats and Christian Demo-

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tion and the driving out of capitalismfrom Indochina as a historic victory forthe world's working people. Today, aswe call for military victory to the heroicleftist rebels in EI Salvador and CentralAmerica, we raise the slogan against thebourgeois defeatists: Vietnam was aVictory! Two, Three, Many DefeatsforU. S. Imperialism!

The legitimate national rights of theKhmer people can only be fulfilled in agenuine Soviet federation of Indochina(in which Vietnam would necessarilyplaya leading role) based on revolution­ary internationalism. The Stalinistbureaucracies from Peking to Moscowhave for decades sold out other people'srevolutions for their own narrow na­tionalistic interests and utopian reac­tionary dreams of "coexistence" withcapitalism, with bitter effects fromCentral America to Sri Lanka to

Economic Review, 17 March) that "TheVietnamese, who occupied a totallydisorganised, almost destitute land,have provided assistance of all sorts....Practically starting from scratch, Cam­bodia has made an astonishing andremarkable recovery." When the Viet­namese army intervened in 1979, wedeclared our opposition to a long-termoccupation army, which could raise tothe fore the national question for theKhmer people, but did not demandimmediate withdrawal. We asked:Given a choice, would the Khmer peopleprefer to retain the irrational peasantxenophobia of the murderous Pol Potor to have schools, marriage of theirchoice, food, children, medicine andwages? The verdict is clearly now in.Hail Liberation of Khmer People! HailReconstruction-Kampuchean PeopleNow Have a Future!

Though Pol Pot's murderous horrorhelped bring the Khmer people to theedge of extinction, the mass murder wasstarred long before-by the U.S. In 1969under Nixon and Kissinger the U.S.began four years of devastating secretcarpetbombing of Cambodia, with atleast the passive acquiescence of then­ruler Prince Sihanouk. From 1970 to1973, the U.S. rained down more than100 tons of bcmbs for every person inCambodia, shattering the fragile econo­my. Probably more than a million diedduring the civil war against U.S. puppetLon Nol, and famine was raging whenthe U.S. brutally imposed a blockade in1975. Today U.S. imperialism tries tostarve Vietnam and Kampuchea via aWashington-orchestrated blockade oftrade and credits. Most criminally, sometwo and a half million Vietnamese havehad to be withdrawn from the desper­ately necessary work of economicconstruction in order to defend north­ern Vietnam against Chinese militarypressure, backed by the U.S.

Today the U.S. and their puppetsback a witches' brew of capitalist cliqueswith the bloody remnants of the Pol Potforces clinging to the Thai border forsurvival. They have tried to forcetogether an unholy alliance of the CIA­favored semi-fascist monarchist "busi­nessman" Son Sann, the shamelessplayboy pimp Prince Sihanouk (muchof whose family was slaughtered by theKhmer Rouge') with the Pol Pot/lengSary I Khieu Samphan forces. Thiswretched gang, committed to capitalistrestoration in Kampuchea, could onlycome to power on the back of anoutright imperialist military onslaught.Prince Sihanouk-Stay on the Riviera!Capitalist Restoration Never! SmashImperialist Blockade of Vietnam!

The Trotskyist Spartacist League/U.S., as American revolutionists in the"belly of the beast" during the VietnamWar, raised the slogan "All IndochinaMust Go Communist!" and called forlabor strikes against the war. In 1975 theinternational Spartacist tendency hailedthe victory of the Vietnamese Revolu-

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Rouge were led by a bunch of collegeboys who sat out the war against Frenchcolonialism in Paris, then returned totake over the Cambodian party bymurder and whipping up Khmer chau­vinism. The first to be wiped out by PolPot's forces were the Cambodian Com­munist cadres associated with theVietnamese. Pol Pot Killed RealKhmer Communists, then CommittedGenocide!

The logical extension of Pol Pot'sCambodia wasn't even Stalin's purgesand labor camps, it was Jonestown! PolPot's abolition of cities, of factories, ofmoney and his massive reversion tosubsistence agriculture-a pre-feudalprogram based on fantasies of recreat­ing the barbaric Angkor Wat slavekingdoms-utterly shattered any ra­tional economic base for the regime,thus any restraints on the ruling clique.Just after the Khmer Rouge took powerin 1975, we denounced Pol Pot's brutaldepopulation of the capital, noting that"for Marxists, it is crucial to preservethis economic infrastructure." Themountain of skulls found in mass gravesat Cheoung Ek, the torture chambers inPhnom Penh, the stories from everysurvivor of people beaten to death withpoles. starvation and brutal slavelabor-this was Pol Pot's Cambodia.

Even former U.S. diplomat EmorySwank, who was U.S. ambassador tothe Lon Nol regime in Phnom Penh.admitted in an interview (Far eastern

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u.s. Up Lebanese Creek

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Biggest display of U.S. combat firepower since Vietnam: aircraft carrierEisenhower off the coast of Lebanon. Marines under artillery fire In Beirutrun for cover.

MarinesGet Out!

When Israel invaded Lebanon lastsummer, wreaking genocidal terroragainst the Palestinian people, then­secretary of state General AlexanderHaig exulted that the Zionist blitzkriegcreated "a great strategic opportunity"for "redrawing a new political map forthe region." Lebanon was going tobecome the beachhead for Pax Ameri­cana in the Near East. The U.S. thoughtit could rush in, find the most unsavoryand reactionary gangster among [hecompeting feudalist chieftains, andcreate a viable puppet government. TheGemayel clan was supposed to be thePahlavi dynasty of Lebanon. TheMarines were to be out by Christmas

But things haven't worked out thatway. Instead the U.S. is now committedto defending the Phalangist gangsterswith an additional 2,000 troops drawnfrom the American fleet in the IndianOcean, a total of 14,000 Marines bothon shore and off with 12 warshipsstanding off the coast and 100 war­planes. Further, the battleship NewJersey, after doing duty off the coast ofNicaragua, is now steaming to theeastern Mediterranean to aid Reagan's"besieged" Marines. So the U.S. isgetting sucked ever deeper into thebloody vortex of Lebanese feudalistpolitics. It is facing a war of attrition inwhich there is no light at the end of thetunnel. .

Behind the military escalation inLebanon is U,S. imperialism's globalwar drive against the Soviet Union.Syria, whose army controls easternLebanon, is the principal Soviet clientstate in the region. If fighting developsbetween U.S. forces and the Syrianarmy, this would almost certainlyinvolve the latter's Russian advisers.And the borders of the USSR itself areonly a few hundred miles to the north.Across the globe the U.S. is provokingthe Soviet Union, seeking to humiliateits allies and so-called "proxies." As oneReagan adviser put it, "We need a winsomewhere, whether it's Latin America,the Middle East or with the Russians"(New York Times, 18 September).

But the problem for U.S. imperialismin Lebanon is that their Phalangistpuppets are losers and are losing. Notonly do the Maronite Christians consti­tute no more than 20 percent ofLebanon's population, but the Gemayelclan is hated by the other Maronite clanchieftains. Odds are that the late,unlamented Bashir Gemayel, electedpresident last year by Israeli bayonets,was blown away by a fellow Maronite.Despicable cowards, the Phalangistsinfuriated their Israeli patrons byrefusing to fight the Palestine Libera­tion Organization (PLO) commandos inlast summer's battle of Beirut. The onlything these scum could do for theIsraelis was massacre unarmed Pales­tinian refugees in the Shatila/Sabracamps. Trying to rebuild a Lebanesestate around the Phalange is like tryingto rebuild an Italian state around oneMafia family.

But Washington has committed itselfto defending the Phalangist mafioso as avital part of the "free world": "Officialssaid Mr. Reagan saw the survival of the[Gemayel] Government as essential toAmerican interests, even if this meantmoving more American forces into theregion" (New York Times, 13 Septem­ber). To keep Amin Gemayel in Beirut'spresidential palace, the U.S. will have to

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either massively expand its forces on theground or reach a "power-sharing" dealwith the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt,his Lebanese allies and Syrian backers.Washington is now rapidly movingalong the former course. The Pentagonhas abandoned the pretense that U.S.forces fire only when fired upon. A fewdays ago U.S. warships shelled positionsdeep in Syrian-controlled territory inretaliation for anti-Phalange forcesbombarding the defense ministry inBeirut. U.S. forces are now routinelyproviding artillery cover for the Leba-

nese army. The Pentagon's rapid escala­tion could well change the nature of theconflict, posing a direct struggle againstAmerican imperialism. Should thisoccur, revolutionaries would give mili­tary support to any and all forces inLebanon battling U.S. imperialism andits local agents.

The U.S. is now much more heavilyinvolved militarily in Lebanon than inCentral America both in the number oftroops and the direct role they play. Andthat role is rapidly expanding. A yearago when sections of the reformist left(e.g., Socialist Workers Party and SamMarcy's Workers World Party) sup­ported sending U.S. "peacekeepers" toLebanon, we wrote: "The U.S. forces inLebanon are a beachhead for large-scalemilitary intervention in the region­directly posing the danger of a nuclearWorld War III" ("Reagan/Begin Reignof Terror," WV No. 315, 15 October1982). With every passing day thisdanger becomes more immediate.

Israelis Cut Their Losses,Phalange Battered

When a year ago several thousanddisarmed PLO commandos sailed fromBeirut to be placed in concentrationcamps across the Arab world and theGemayel clan was installed in thepresidential palace, Begin and Sharonno doubt believed themselves to be thenew masters of Lebanon. The Israeli/Phalange massacre at Shatila/Sabra

was intended to demonstrate the ruth­lessness of their new order and toterrorize the subject population, Leba­nese Muslims as well as Palestinians.

But all of the myriad ethnic/religiouscommunities in Lebanon have their ownarmed forces and were not easily cowed.The Phalange "government" and Israelioccupiers faced diffuse guerrilla warfarein Beirut and the neighboring ShufMountains. On average four Israelisoldiers were killed a week. This maynot seem like much, but, given Israel'ssmall population, it was equivalent to

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American losses in Vietnam. And giventhe intense chauvinism of the Israelis­their belief that one Jew is worth ahundred Arabs-the casualties in Leb­anon became intolerable. The Israelipopulation came to despise their ineffec­tual Phalangist allies much as theAmerican people, especially GIs in"Nam," despised the cowardly andcorrupt South Vietnamese ARVN.

The Lebanese occupation enor­mously intensified the internal con­tradictions of Israeli society with itstriple-digit inflation, falling livingstandards, constant military mobiliza­tion and net emigration of Jews. WhileAriel Sharon dreamed of makingLebanon an Israeli protectorate underthe Phalange, his successor as warminister, Moshe Arens, decided theAmericans had better police that quag­mire. So early this month the Israeliarmy, disregarding the strong protestsof the U.S. and the Gemayel regime,pulled back from the outskirts of Beirutand the Shuf Mountains and consoli­dated its buffer zone in southernLebanon extending about 25 miles fromIsrael's northern border.

The Israeli pullback set the stage for arenewal of civil war pitting the LebaneseMuslim forces, spearheaded by WalidJumblatt's Druze militia and the Shi'iteAmal militia, against the Phalange"government," now more hated andisolated than ever. Despite their Ameri­can, French, Italian and British protec­tors, the Phalangist forces are being

battered. But as in the 1975-76 civil warthe Muslim clan chiefs like J urnblatt areexploiting the just hostility of theimpoverished Muslim toilers against thedominant Maronite elite and its backersin the service of communalist politicsand bloodlettIng. The reports of atroci­ties committed by the Druze militiaagainst Maronite villages in the Shufareundoubtedly true, and this only servesto drive the Maronite population atlarge into the arms of the Phalange andU.S. Marines.

Predictably, much of the fake-left areglorifying the Syrian-backed NationalSalvation Front led by Jumblatt. It isnow conveniently forgotten that theDruze militia not only stood on thesidelines during the Israeli blitzkrieg lastsummer, but that Jumb!att declaredthat the PLO was "finished" and urgedArafat to surrender at the very begin­ning of the invasion. Today Jumblatt isnot opposed to Pax Americana inLebanon; he isn't even demanding theunconditional withdrawal of the Ma­rines. Rather the Druze sect leader isusing the fighting as a means ofpressureto force the Americans to broker a clanchieftains' "coalition" government ofthe kind that existed until the 1975-76civil war. Interviewed on ABC televi­sion's Nightline (14 September), Jum­blatt stated:

" ... you Americans are backing AminGemayel unconditionally. It is stupidand a big mistake...."Stop backing the Lebanese army who'skilling Lebanese people. and help theLebanese to try to achieve a politicalcompromise."

Asked if "the Phalangists will have togive up the position of president,"Jumblatt replied:

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governing as a PhaJangist representa­tive. I hope he will be able to govern as aLebanese representing all the powersand factions in Lebanon."

No less treacherous than Jumblatt ishis present patron, Syrian strongmanHafez ai-Assad. When Israel invadedLebanon last summer, the Syrianssigned an immediate ceasefire withthem, thus allowing Begin/Sharon toconcentrate their entire war machineagainst the Palestinians. And rememberhow the Syrian army came to be inLebanon in the first place. In the springof 1976 the Syrians, with the blessing ofWashington and Jerusalem, intervenedon the side of the Maronites in the civilwar! This shifted the balance of forces,setting up the massacre of Palestiniansat the huge Tel Zaatar camp by thePhalange and allied Maronite militias.Today, however, it is U.S. imperialismwhich has intervened militarily to

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SPARTACIST LEAGUE LOCAL DIRECTORY

UAW Bureaucrats Pave Wayfor Union-Busting

Fremont GM: Protectionism Comes Home to Roost

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existence of the union itself. The GM IToyota deal must he answered by a full­scale mobilization of Local 1364 mem­bers and other unionists.

So committed are the UAWburcaucrats to protecting the compa­nies' profits that past VA W presidentDoug Fraser bought himself a seat onthe Chrysler Board of Directors at theprice of hundreds of thousands of autoworkers' jobs and billions in contractconcessions. FraserI Bieber tie the unionto impotent legislative lobbying and togetting out the vote for the phony"friend of labor" Democrats. Theyoppose sit-down strikes, mass pickets,labor solidarity actions-all the meth­ods of class struggle so desperatelyneeded--since such struggles wouldunleash a force that would sweep themright out of union office.

Labor must break from the bureau­crats who keep it tied to the bosses'parties. Workers need their own party. aworkers party to wage class struggle notjust in one plant or industry but on allfronts, including labor strikes againstimperialist war. The Fremont workersare learning a bitter lesson of whathappens when they rely on the laborbureaucrats to defend their jobs andlivelihoods. One Chicano worker said,"One way or another these guys [unionofficials] have got to be made to pay forwhat they have done to our members."

The 1364 membership has severaltimes shown its willingness to fight. InFebruary they voted overwhelmingly topass the Militant Caucus' motiondemanding a fight to ensure seniority re­hiring and contract parity. They sentanother resolution on senioritv to theMay LJ AW convention in Dailas andbought buttons declaring "1364 orWar." But at every turn they have beenbetrayed by the International bureauc­racy and their local flunkies. The localofficials stuck to their sellout policiescven to the point of losing their ownjobs.

The UA W Militant Caucus has calledfor building mass pickets of the UAWmembers with their families and friends,backed up by the entire Bay Area labormovement to make sure that nothinggoes in or out of that plant until GM andToyota agree it will be done by VAWlabor by strict seniority. This is the onlyway to stop the union-busting andprevent workers there from beingthrown on the scrap heap.

V nion charter or no, there arethousands of Fremont VAW membersin the area who have a stake in fightingto keep a union plant and to reclaimtheir old jobs when it reopens. Local1364 and the entire VAW need a newleadership, based on the class-struggleprogram raised by the UAW MilitantCaucus. It is necessary to build thatleadership, wage a fight to reverse thedefeats in auto, and throw out theSolidarity House traitors once and forall (perhaps to work out their days insome . suitable body shop job inOklahoma).•

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bureaucrats was not only a criminalbetrayal, but idiotic as well: the labor­hating government and its courts wouldhardly have any quarrel with hacks likeOwen Bieber & Co. who are doing thebosses' job of breaking the union atFremont. And as the courts weredenying the request for an injunctionlast week, Kamakani and other localofficials were already on their way toKansas.

GM and Toyota are out to make anexample of Fremont like Reagan madean example of PATCO to cow the rest ofthe labor movement. They want to jackup profits by breaking the union andgetting a free hand to hire a younger, lessunion-conscious workforce, work themharder for less, and bring back the racisthellhole days of the open shops in the'30s. In particular, the Japanese autocompanies that operate here, Nissan (inTennessee) and Honda (in union territo­ry in Ohio), have imported their violentanti-unionism and have thus far keptout the UAW. What the bureaucrats aredoing at Fremont is not a "sellout"-it isabject surrender that jeopardizes the

Local 1364 financial secretary NewtKamakani told the crowd, "If you gorushing over there and try to storm theplace we'll never get back in." Kamakanicounterposed a lawsuit against theunion. You can't fight the SolidarityHouse gang by bringing the bosses'government into union affairs! Theindependence of the unions from thecapitalist state is a necessary precondi­tion to waging struggle against thecompanies. The suit of the Local 1364

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force us to drop out," as one embitteredolder worker put it.

Even as workers with Septemberreporting dates were packing their cartrunks and assembling caravans to takeoff for Kansas from the union parkinglot, the 200-plus who were shipped toOklahoma City in May and June werealready being hit with "temporarylayoffs." Some, unable to take the 78cars per hour pace at their age, havealready had to quit and come homelosing everything.

Far from organizing the Fremontworkers to stay and fight for their jobs,Solidarity House is seeing to it that theyare packed off to these rural areas wherethey become the targets of racistreaction from cops, bar owners, fore­men, etc. Last May, the black leader ofa,caravan of auto workers relocating to anew job in the South was threatened atgunpoint by an Oklahoma cop; his lifewas saved probably only by the inter­vention of a reporter who was along tocover the story from a "human interest"angle. In another instance, black work­ers transferred to Sparks, Nevada afterthe GM parts plant shut down can't evenget a drink at the bar across from theplant where they now work!

Right down to the "get lost" gasp, theLocal 1364 bureaucrats have tried todeceive, disarm and channel the work­ers' outrage at being shipped out of stateand disowned by the union into ... alawsuit against the International! (Pres­ident Willie Mays defended the Interna­tional's seizure of the hall until hehimself was chucked from his officechair.) At an August 16 rally called toprotest their ouster-22 days after theyvoluntarily handed over the keys-LisaGruber of the UAW Militant Caucus,an opposition with a ten-year history inthe plant, was quoted on four TVstations urging the 200-plus workers,"Let's fight for our jobs by having masspicketing to keep the scabs out and usethe mass of people here now to startorganizing that!"

In response to this, the only proposalfor a fight for jobs, the local officialsorchestrated a small booing section, and

March '83. They sold it to the membersas "lifetime income" for high-seniorityvictims of plant closures, and they usedit as a club at Fremont and elsewhere toprevent any fight against the shutdowns.Once out of the plant, the workerslearned they lose the GIS and everythingelse if they don't report to distant plantsas probationary err.ployees on back­breaking new-hire jobs subject to thefirst layoffs to come along. "They don'twant us to take the jobs, they want to

OAKLAND-Last July, the UnitedAuto Workers (UAW) Internationalsuddenly announced it was revoking thecharter of UAW Local 1364 and hadseized the union hall belonging to thelaid-off workers from the Fremont,California General Motors assemblyplant. This stab in the back came justfour days after the Wall Street Journalreported an agreement by SolidarityHouse to "abandon demands that (G M­Toyota) hire laid-offUAW members" inorder of seniority when they reopen themothballed plant next year in a jointproduction venture which has receivednational attention as a prototype forunion-busting.

On September 15, a federal districtcourt rejected a suit by officials of Local1364 to stop the talks between the unionand GMjToyota and to block theInternational's axing of the Fremontlocal. The same day the San Franciscojudge turned down the local bureau­crats' appeal to the capitalist courtsagainst the union, lJ AW vice presidentDonald Ephlin was addressing a Flint,Michigan meeting of GM stockholderson the need for labor and managementto "work together" to make the com­pany more competitive. Certainly thelabor fakers are collaborating with thecompany to screw the workers, but asthe New York Times (16 September)noted, "There is considerable questionwhether the new spirit has filtered downto the shop Ooor."

In a motion passed in February theLocal 1364 membership demanded thatthe union fight to ensure hiring byseniority with no substandard contract.But the UAW tops are doing thecompanies' own work in liquidating thelocal to disperse and destroy organizedopposition, treacherously clearing theway for GMjToyota to reopen withoutany union.

The GMjToyota deal is truly pro­tectionism come home to roost. UAWofficials have used racist protectionismas sucker bait to put the blame onJapanese workers for American unem­ployment and get themselves off thehook so they don't have to fight the U. S.auto companies for jobs. The logicalconsequence of the lJAW-sponsored"local content" bill (requiring compa­nies selling over half a million cars a yearin the U.S. to manufacture 90 percent ofthe parts here) is for Toyota to comehere and be GM's front for breaking theunion.

The UAW has said from the begin­ning it is willing to bend over back­wards, to do anything to ensure thesuccess of this GMjToyota deal. Inter­national and local officials have acted ascops for the companies at every turn,selling their members' jobs, their hall,even their bodies down the river.Hundreds of high-seniority Fremontworkers including many blacks andChicanos are being forced to leave theirhomes and families to work out theirfinal years to retirement in Oklahoma,Kansas and Missouri under the terms ofthe new "Guaranteed Income Stream"(GIS). "Now I know how the Jews feltbeing loaded into cattle cars for thecamps," said one conservative whitelong-time committeeman leaving hiswife of 21 years to report to Fairfax,Kansas for work.

The union tops deliberately drew upGIS to help ram through the multi­billion-dollar concessions package in

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Striking copper miners (upper left) face army of state cops (upper right) and National Guardsmen encamped in mineIlag (lower right). Strikers and their families confront scabs In truck (lower left).

worked by scabs. The National Guardhas been withdrawn-confident that theunion's skeleton picket lines are nothreat. This strike and the unions are inmortal danger!

Facing the threat of massive armedstrikebreaking, the beleaguered copperminers cannot win alone. Labor solidari­ty is the key to victory. PO's pure copperingots are transported in SouthernPacific's unionized freight trains. Thisscab copper is too hot to handle! Andmilitants should recall that it was onlyafter a nationwide coal work stoppage in1974 that Harlan County, Kentuckycoalminers finally won a union contract after13 months out on strike. All copperminers have a stake in this battle. Shutdown the whole industry! The support ofcopper miners throughout the region, inmass demonstrations and on the picketline, is critical.

The "friend of labor" governorshowed just what sort of alternative theDemocratic Party is to Reagan. Insteadof organizing more "vote Democrat"rallies to produce more "Scabbitts," aunion leadership worth its salt would bemobilizing the ranks to win this strikeon the picket line. The fight of theArizona hardrock miners points up theurgent necessity of breaking with theDemocrats and building a workersparty to lead all the oppressed. Victoryto the Phelps Dodge strikers!.

governor Bruce Babbitt's "cooling offperiod." It was a bitter betrayal and anobject lesson in the "neutrality" of thecapitalist state. Ten' days later, thegovernor, now known to the strikers as"Scabbitt," unleashed his uniformedgun thugs and scab production resumedwhile, by court injunction, pickets werelimited to five on either side of U.S.Route 666.

The union tops are lying down in the

face of this naked union-busting, just asthey did when Reagan busted PATCO.At an August 27 conference ofdelegatesrepresenting 100,000 hardrock miners inthe U.S. and Canada, USWA Interna­tional Treasurer Frank McKee an­nounced the unions were going on a"legal offensive." Petitioning the LaborBoard and the government won't winthis strike-as the bitter experience withGovernor "Scabbitt" has shown. It hasonly emboldened PO's union-busting.Now the hulk of the union jobs are being

bringing in scabs on August 8, 1,000pickets assembled in Morenci. Thebosses promised to stop scabherding.Instead, PD kept a permanent scabforce in the plant, supplying it byhelicopter. "That's when the guys gotpeed off," Lopez told WV, "[they] said'The hell with them. We're going in.We're going to get those scabs out ofthere. We're going to shut the placedown'."

It was then that union officialstreacherously agreed to Democratic

strikers have joined the picket lines.Strikers were angered by the cops'Gestapo tactics. Deputies stormed intoone home to arrest a woman unionist,handcuffing her in front of her children.Another striker was arrested as police"surrounded his house with semi­automatic weapons and shotguns whilethe kids were playing in the back yard"(Arizona Republic. 27 August). Whenthe company announced they were

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The Battle of Phelps DodgeSEPTEMBER IS-Backed up by aunion-busting army of 325 NationalGuardsmen and 400 state troopers, thePhelps Dodge Corporation has declaredwar on striking Arizona copper miners.On August 20 in Morenci, a miningtown about 20 miles from the NewMexico line, SWAT teams were sta­tioned atop the slag heaps, four Hueyhelicopters hovered overhead and rifle­men waited in the surrounding hills.They were waiting for the arrival of aconvoy of scabs to smash a bitter laborstruggle. now eleven weeks old.

The survival of the heavily Chicanoand Indian copper miners unions is atstake. Phelps Dodge has assembled astrikebreaking force the likes of whichhaven't been seen since the pre-uniondays of the coal and iron police,Baldwin-Fels and the Pinkerton gunthugs. On August 20 at Morenci, therewas more than one armed, uniformedstrikebreaker for every three strikers!"There's no other reason for showingthat power play," Bargaining Commit­tee chairman Alex Lopez said to WV, "ifit wasn't to bust the union."

Phelps Dodge has done it before. In1917, the company sent armed guardsinto strikers' homes in Bisbee, Arizona.They herded nearly 1,200 workers intorailroad boxcars and shipped them tothe New Mexico desert. In 1983, PO isout to bust the union again. It's up to thelabor movement to stop them.

PO forced the strike on a coalition of13 unions led by the United Steelwork­ers of America (USWA) with outra­geous demands including elimination ofthe cost-of-living clause, cutbacks inmedical benefits and a $2jhour reduc­tion in new hires' wages. The unions hadalready accepted a three-year wagefreeze at Kennecott, Anaconda andother copper companies. But PO,spurred on by Ronald Reagan's destruc­tion of PATCO and years of laborretreat, was out for blood. Followingtwo years of heavy layoffs, the companyhas set employed against unemployedand is using its total domination ofcompany towns like Morenci and Ajofor all-sided attacks on the strikers.Ninety workers have been fired and 90families have been hit with evictionnotices. Dozens of warrants have beenserved on strikers: in Ajo ten strikerswere held on $15,000 bond each for suchcharges as "blocking a county highway"and "suspicion of intent to riot."

The strikers and their families knowthey have no future here if PO and itsscabs win out. Even the children of

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influence U.S. Congressmen for theSouth Korean military lobby. Accord­ing to the report of the U.S. Con­gressional subcommittee investigating"Koreagate" in 1978, the Moonies werepart of the KCIA's plan to buy influencein the L' .S" particularly "aimed at theU S. media": "The 1976 KCIA plan alsorecommended influencing U,S. mediapersonnel, both broadcast and print. ...The 1976 plan proposed the use of anti­Communist groups such as the FreedomLeadership Foundation" .. " The Free­dom Leadership Foundation was one ofthe first Moonie groups in the U.S. BoHi Pak was the key figure in the Moonielink to "Koreagate" and the KCIA.

And it was Bo Hi Pak, as head ofMoon's financial empire, who boughtthe two buildings near the NationalArboretum in northeast D.C. for $1.6million to house the j1/ashington Times.They've made it one of the poshestpuhlishing outfits around. Yet they havevery little advertising. the bread andbutter of the capitalist media. TheWashington Post said the Moonie paperis expected to lose $10-15 million thisyear' A Washington journal (Wash­ingTOn Dossier, June 1983) looked atthe money going into the Washing­tun Times and decided to ask somequestions:

'There is also a deeper story here, andthat is the connection between Moonand Japanese industrialists. the Koreangovernment. South Africa, and certainrepressive governments in Latin Ameri­ca and our own CIA. It strains credulityto believe that the endless supply ofmoney flowing into the Moon coffers,and into the Times comes only fromthose enterprises under its own sponsor­ship and control. Where does the 50­odd million dollars so far in the Timesinvestment come from? Who benefits?Why? How')"

One of "The Colonel" 's most pressingtasks was to recruit a "respectable" non­Moonie newspaperman who would takecharge of a newspaper founded by theUnification Church. He signed onJames Whelan, editor of the Sacramen­to Union, which had been part of theconservative Panax chain until Panaxwas dissolved. Whelan is a dubiouscharacter indeed. He worked for 20years as a reporter all over LatinAmerica for a variety of newspapers andnews agencies before becoming vicepresident and editorial director forPanax Newspapers. According to thepersonal biography distributed by theWashington Times, in 1961 Whelan"was assigned to a special, secret UPIteam in Miami organized to cover theBay of Pigs invasion." !lis career alsoincluded a two-year stint in the late1960s with the Western Hemispheredivision of International Telephone andTelegraph (ITT), a corporation knownfor its connections with the CIA in LatinAmerica. When the Washington Trib­une questioned executive director SmithHempstone about suggestions thatWhelan has the taint of the CIA,Hempstone quipped, "So what? Ithought they were on our side."

But Whelan is not the only dubiouscharacter who signed on with theWashington Times. According to/-Vashington Notes on Africa (Summer1982), sponsored by major churchorganizations and the UA W, EdwardKing, international and Capitol Hillreporter, and Cleto Di Giovanni, edi­torial writer, "were both CIA officers inLatin America." Then there's JeremiahO'Leary, the White House correspon­dent. "It is known, for example, as aresult of documentation obtainedthrough the Freedom of Information

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On 30 November 1982, the Washing­ton Times published a feature articleabout the anti-Klan protest under theheadline: "Left-wing group linked toD.C. riot." This article is a crude andobviously false and malicious libel of theSpartacist League (SL) accusing us of"provoking violence" against the police,giving rocks to "even children" to throwat the cops and dressing up in paramili­tary "berets." This smear sets us up aswould-be cop-killers and offers reasonand excuse to those who would shootfirst and ask questions later. The SL hassued the Moonies' publishing arm forlibel because this is libel that kills. TheWashington Times is not only a vehiclefor the lying the Moonies call "heavenlydeception," but it is deeply rooted in thedangerous and sinister connections ofthe Moonie cult.

The "News" That's Fit to BuyFollowing the axiom that under

capitalism freedom of the press belongsto the man who owns one, Moonlaunched the paper with an estimated$50 million. The job of creating a dailyfrom scratch went to Moon's main man.Colonel Bo Hi Pak. "The Colonel," ashe is commonly referred to at theWashington Times, is a former SouthKorean army officer identified by theNew York Times (2 October 1976) as"the South Korean CIA's channel toMr. Moon and the UnificationChurch."

The Moonies and Pak are certainlyno amateurs in the influence market,particularly in Washington. In whatbecame known as the "Koreagate"scandal during the 1970s, the Moonoperatives were shown to have been animportant part (along with TongsunPark) of the Korean CIA's efforts to

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measure of acceptance is who acceptsyour invitation to dine, The Times isdoing quite well, thank you." And asguests at their editorial board luncheonsthey list numerous high level Reaganadministration officials (and RichardNixon), Caspar Weinberger, JamesWatt, Director of the CIA WilliamCasey and White House chief of staffJames Baker.

The Moonie press is at times capableof masking its sinister purposes behind aslick cover of "hard news" journalism.These McCarthyite witchhunters havebeen known to publish a negative articleon McCarthyism. They even repub­lished a negative review from the NewYork Times of the universally pannedMoonie movie, Inchon. But the Wash­ington Times isn't fooling anybodymuch. It is clearly not only a part ofMoon's publishing empire, but perhapsthe most important weapon of theMoonies' sinister designs. This meansthe Washington Times is up to its fancycomputer terminals in the Moonies'dirty business. From Central Americato South Africa to the most filthy secretpolice agencies of the most horribledictatorships, the Moonies have theirconnections.

And the Moonie press isn't always soslick when they think an ox on "theirside" has been gored by "Satan." We inthe Spartacist League ought to know.We have already been the target of theMoonies' Washington Times wielded asa blunt instrument of destructionagainst those who stopped the Ku KluxKlan in Washington, D.C. on Novem­ber 27, and against the truth. TheMoonies' Washington Times has triedto frame up the Spartacist League/Spartacus Youth League for our role asinitiators and principal organizers of the5,OOO-strong Labor/Black Mobilizationwhich meant that hooded race-terror

The Washington Times is the Moon­ies' most important thrust towardrespectability and influence in America.Owned and operated by the publishingarm of Sun Myung Moon's UnificationChurch, the Times-Tribune Corpora­tion, the Washington Times is thevehicle through which the "Lord of theSecond Advent" hopes to buy a place inthe United States for his highly danger­ous right-wing cult. Since May 17 oflastyear when their daily hit the newsstandsin the nation's capital, the Moonies haveunleashed a torrent of printer's inkabout their "alternative voice" and"conservative journalism." But thefounding of the Washington Times bythe Moonies has one purpose only: tofurther the sinister goals of Sun MyungMoon. With the Washington Times theMoonies have their most expensive andsophisticated weapon in their holy waragainst Communism and all other"satanic" obstacles-like "American­style democracy"-to Moon's megalo­maniacal drive for worldwide theocracyunder his mad rule. A world in which asMoon puts it, "my words will almostserve as law."

How can this self-annointed "mes­siah" with his South Korean munitionsplant, who performs mass marriages ofsex-deprived zombie victims in Madi­son Square Garden, hope to establish a"respectable" daily newspaper? By beingthe loudest noise on the anti-Sovietbandwagon. Already, in its short histo­ry, the Moonie newspaper has becomeknown as the mouthpiece for JeaneKirkpatrick (who views the Four Horse­men of the Apocalypse as "moderateauthoritarians"), CIA-backed contrasand every reactionary policy of theReagan administration. The Washing­ton Times boasts of its rare interviewwith the president himself and claimstheir newspaper is the first one he readsin the morning.

As the far-out rightists who havesailed into the Reagan mainstream, theMoonies see their main chance forinfluence. With the Washington Timesthey can move through the New Rightand cement ties with its leaders. TheWashington Times, for instance, regu­larly soapboxes for fanatic rightists likeSenator Jesse Helms. With their dailynewspaper, the Moonies have placedthemselves at the center of that web ofultra-right organizations from NCPACto Christian Voice. New Right directmail godfather Richard A. Viguerie ranthe initial subscription campaign for theMoonies' Washington Times.

Moon has always recognized theimportance of media for politicalmanipulation. But even the RepublicanRipon Society found the WashingtonTimes a particularly disturbing develop­ment which "signaled a quantum jumpin Moon's media aspirations." Theywarned: "There is a growing body ofevidence that Moon is using his follow­ers and economic resources in a three­pronged campaign to influence thehighest levels of our government. Theresurgent 'New Right' political move­ment, elements of the Republican Party,and the media all are in danger of beingmanipulated by 'verend Moon" (Rip-on Forum, Jan 1983).

It is no wonder that the WashingtonTimes kick-off promo was a big "wel­come to Washington" from a host ofright-wing hot shots. But significantly italso included "welcomes" from D.C.Congressman Walter Fauntroy whogenerally receives good press at thehands of the Moonies. As their glossyfirst anniversary brochure brags, "If a

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The "Heavenly Deceivers": Moon (left) and 80 HI Pak, head of Moonle pressempire and, according to the New York Times, "the South Korean CIA'schannel to Mr. Moon."

We Need Your Helpgiven the opportunity to write Op Edpieces for the Ne'" York Times or theWashington Post."

-Co\'ertAction InformationBulletin, Spring-Summer 1983

One case which shows the Washing­ton Times tie-in to the disinformationnetwork is a Pentagon propagandaoperation to whitewash the contras inNicaragua, known internationally as themercenaries of former dictator Somo­za's hated National Guard. The Cubannewspaper Granma told the story in its 5June issue. Reagan needed funds for hiscounterrevolutionary venture to over­throw the Sandinista government, buthe was encountering some opposition.So the propaganda labs went intomotion to "dress the wolf in sheep'sclothing and lead influential sectors ofpublic opinion to think that there hadbeen a change in the makeup of themercenary forces. The idea was to'legitimize' them as 'freedom fighters'."One Georgie Anne Geyer (known forher repugnant articles on the lateSalvador Allende, and her close friend­ship with the Green Berets who mur­dered Che Guevara) penned an articleentitled "The Anti-Sandinistas: A Legit­imate Liberation Force" which arguedthat only "15 percent" of the CIA­backed killers fighting the Sandinistaswere ex-Somozaists. The article wasfirst printed in the Washington Times,then distributed by the ARF (itemnumber 519), the U.S. armed forcesnews agency, for domestic consump­tion. Three days later the Pentagoncirculates it in Spanish (transmissionnumber ARF-III) with "permission ...obtained for republication, abridge­ment and translation by USIS [theUnited Stated Information Service] andlocal press abroad."

* * * * *Moon has big sick ideas for America.

He has threatened, "every people orevery organization that goes against theUnification Church will ... drasticallycome down and die." The ominousconnections Moon has developedthrough his press empire shows heintends to gain the power and influenceto deliver on that threat.

In an editorial marking the change offormat and name of their New YorkCity daily newspaper to the New YorkTribune, the Moonies hide behind thenames of Horace Greeley and ThomasJefferson while calling for a theocraticstate to fight communism. The Mooniesvow to "rise up in a crusade ... andliberate ... especially the Russian peo­ple." But this Moonie "liberation" asthey put it "must not stop with commu­nism, but embrace every country andcreed." Moon's newspapers are hisarsenal for "taking the offensive againstcommunism and other forms of evil."But Moon has a lot more in his sightsthan reds. The Moonies are hostile tothe democratic political and culturalvalues prized by a wide spectrum of theAmerican people. In fact, "Moon finds'American-style democracy' to be 'agood nursery for the growth of Commu­nism'" (\978 report of the HouseSubcommittee on International Or­ganizations, Investigation of Korean­American Relations). And the Moonieshave gone a lot further than most peoplewould want to believe with their sinisterdesigns to create a new order for their"messiah."

The Washington Times is today keyto Moon's sinister designs. A victory forthe Spartacist libel lawsuit against theWashington Times is a victory for all hisintended victims-opponents of apart­heid, opponents of right-wing terror inLatin America, opponents of KKK/Nazi racist terror. A victory for our suitagainst the Washington Times can helpspike the Moonies' bid for respectabilityand influence. The Moonies are not onlytrying to wipe out the SpartacistLeague, but liberties we all treasure,That's why our fight against the Moonielibel is also yours.•

The Washington Times is in thedisinformation business and now Cen­tral America is a prime target. Disinfor­mation at the source is not just a lie, butpart of a secret police plan whichultimately leads to death.

CovertAction Information Bulletinexplains how the disinformation gameworks. The secret police call upon their"bevy of puppet journalists," and withinrecord time a feature article will appearin Reader's Digest. in a HeritageFoundation report or "in some reaction­ary tabloid like Human Events or theWashington Times":

"Then they will all be called to testify bySenator benton's Subcommittee - onSecurity and Terrorism, repeating oneanother's allegations as 'expert wit­nesses.'"After that they are giyen credibility bythe 'respectable' Cold War publicationslike the National Review, Commentarvand the New Republic. And finally,since they have repeated the theme somany times it must be true, they are

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the Uruguayan army, who was con­cerned about the criticisms of hisgovernment in "liberal circles in theUnited States and in the press," that hecould "consider Noticias del Mundoyour newspaper in the United States"(Washington Journalism Review, No­vember 1980).

We have reported how the Moonieshave allied themselves with the dicta­tors, death squads and contras responsi­ble for the deaths of over 100,000 LatinAmerican workers, peasants and leftistsin the last five years alone (see "MoonieMachinations in Latin America,"Young Spartacus No. III, September1983). We noted that the chief of theMoon operation in Honduras is strong­man General Gustavo Alvarez, overlordof the Honduran death squads andthe Nicaraguan contras (see "Mooniesin Honduras: Death Squads and Con­tras," WV No. 334, 15 July). And on EISalvador, the Moonies not only act aspropagandists and lobbyists for thejunta butchers, they work closely withright-wing Salvadoran emigres in theBay Area who, according to the SanFrancisco Chronicle, "turned over toSalvadoran government officials thenames and photographs of Bay AreaSalvadorans who oppose the junta."From Chile to EI Salvador, the Mooniesoffer themselves up as the shock troopsof anti-communist reaction.

A victory agaim, the Moonie libeland set-up of ,he SL SYL will puncha hole in the dangerous designs ofSun Myung Moon, But it will be atough fight.

The Partisan Defense Committee(PDC)-a class-struggle, anti-sec­tarian defense organization inaccordance with the political views ofthe Spartacist League-has launcheda campaign to help pay for andpublicize this important legal battle,and we need your help, This libel suit1S the instrument to strike backagainst the Maonies' most importantthrust for influence and power in thiscountry. thef,Vashmg!on Times. Thissuit for $20 miliion and the publicexposure can hit the Moonies wherethey live.

Your generous financial supportand endorsement is urgently neededto win this lawsuit. Send contribu­tions to: Partisan Defense Commit­tee, P.O. Box 99, Canal StreetStation. New York, NY 10013.

Available now! Write for poe'sbrochure today, Help organizethe campaign against theMoonie libel.

Report disclosed on May 16. 1980 thatthe editor of. . ' Noticias del Mundo, is... an Argentine, who is working unpaidfor Noticias while on the payroll ofTelam, the official Argentine newsagency" (Washington Notes on Africa,Summer 1982). And Washington Jour­nalism Reviev,' (November 1980) cites"the common ties between Noticias andsuch organs as TELAM, frequently avehicle for army intelligence propagan­da; to SAPORITl, an old Argentiniannews agency now believed to have fallenunder the influence of military intelli­gence and which is another source ofLatin American news for Noticias; andto Dinarp, the public relations arm ofthe Uruguayan military."

As the targets of death squad terrorthroughout Latin America can attest,"fighting communism" is no war ofwords for the military juntas in theregion. The Washington Post (28August) ran an expose on CAUSA, aMoonie group "which is pumpingmillions of dollars into an anti­communist organizing effort through­out the United States and in much ofCentral and South America." Thepresident of Moon's deadly CA USA isnone other than Bo Hi Pak-who is alsothe publisher of Noticias del Mundo.CAUSA has had its greatest apparentsuccess in Uruguay. They founded twonewspapers, bought the largest publish­ing house in the country, and won acontrolling interest in Uruguay's thirdlargest national bank. "They boughtnewspapers, they bought real estate,they bought generals, they bought outthe country," a Reagan administrationofficial who was there at the time toldthe Post. Meanwhile Pak assuredGeneral Luis Vicente Quierolo, chief of

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Moon's publishing empire also seemsto have an inside track with numerousdictators in Latin America. In 1980Moon's organization launched aSpanish-language daily in New YorkCity, Noticias del Mundo. The paper ismilitantly anti-communist and readslike a PR rag for the right-wing militarydictatorships in the Southern Cone ofSouth America. "Latin America Weekly

Act, that O'Leary was singled outpersonally by former FBI Director J.Edgar Hoover as a friendly media assetused by the Bureau to promote thestories it favored" (Covert Action Infor­mation Bulletin No. 16. March 1982).

The Washington Times acts as a pressagent for apartheid in Washington. Anumber of members of the staff havestrong ties with the South Africangovernment. South Africa has beenrunning a massive propaganda cam­paign for years to whitewash its savagelyracist policies. In 1974 the Secretary ofthe South African Department' oflnformation told then-prime ministerVurster. "'I want you to approve, not aninformatIOn asset. but a propagandawar in which no rules or regulationswould count.' The officials approved aplan that would spend a minimum of$73 million on more than 160 secretprojects to buy politicians and mediaenterprises and support pro-apartheidgroups around the world" (Washington;Votes on Africa, Summer 1982). Whenthe details of this plan were disclosed in1978. the ensuing scandal (dubbed"M uldergate" after minister of informa­tion Cornelius Mulder who took therap) forced a number of top governmentofficials to resign. Botha vowed tocontinue the secret projects despite thescandal.

John McGoff, a Michigan publisher,was the primary American recipient of"Muldergate" funds in the 1970s.McGoff was given $11.75 million by theDepartment of Information through theSouth African Department of Defenseto buy the Washington Star and a sharein UPI Television News (UPITN), thesecond largest newsfilm producer in theworld. After the Star deal fell through,McGoff bought the conservative Sacra­mento Union instead and a 50 percentinterest in UPITN. McGoff also boughtcontrolling interest in the Panax news­paper company. James Whelan becamethe editor of the Sacramento Unionunder McGoff's ownership. When theWashington Times was established in1982 Whelan signed on as editor andbrought John McGoff along to serve onhis editorial advisory board.

It is, of course, all part of the Moonie"heavenly deception" in their pressempire that they "forget" to mentiontheir South African connection whenhustling their Harlem Weekly newspa­per aimed at black New Yorkers. TheMoonies, who act as mouthpieces forbloody racist apartheid in the Washing­ton Times, come on as community­minded blacks to try to get their foot inthe door in black ghettos.

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off at the dock. For the Reaganites,provocation is standard operatingprocedure.

The Democrats, too, are standing atattention, both "hawks" and "doves,"while even some supposed leftists havefallen into line over the KAL 007 ColdWar provocation. But despite morethan two weeks of "Russians eat babiesfor breakfast" blitz, the Americanpublic, well-attuned to governmentlying by Vietnam and Watergate, smellsa rat. Although many support calls for"tougher sanctions," a recent pollshowed 61 percent did not believe theadministration was telling the wholestory. And they're right. The day afterthe poll came out a new U.S. intelligencereport admitted that the Soviets neverknew they were tracking a civilianairliner. Earlier in the week, Washing­ton felt obliged to issue a "revised"transcript of the alleged tapes of Sovietfighter pilots, showing that the SU-15interceptor had fired warning shotsfrom its cannons. As we headlined ourlast issue, "Reagan's Story Stinks!"

Many people who don't buy Reagan's"devil made them do it" story of theKAL 007 regard Washington's anti­Soviet war drive as a conflict betweentwo equally evil "superpowers." If U.S.imperialism succeeded in its drive to rollback the gains of social revolutions fromCuba to Poland to Vietnam and theSoviet Union, it would unleash a globalholocaust of reactionary terror. SouthKorean dictator Chun 000 Hwan, whojails democrats and Presbyterians assubversives; Philippine strongman Mar­cos, who had returning liberal dissidentAquino gunned down on the airportrunway; Salvadoran butcher D'Aubuis­son, whose death squads have murderedtens of thousands; these are the "moder­ate authoritarian" paragons of Reagan's"free world."

Dreams of detente with these bloody­minded mass murderers or with theirmasters in Washington are dangerousillusions. The imperialist war criminalswho would use more than 200 civilianplane passengers in an insane anti­Soviet provocation, who annihilatedover one million Indochinese, who talkof detonating a "demonstration" A­bomb over the Baltic, who have re­placed the MAD doctrine of "mutuallyassured destruction" with the dementedproposal for a "limited, protractednuclear war"-and who may haveselected the Soviet Far East as the"theater" for their Wagnerian wardrama-must be driven from power.Only world socialist revolution cansecure a future for world humanity.

Today the duty of communistseverywhere is unconditional militarydefense of the Soviet Union against theimperialists, despite the bureaucraticusurpation of political power from therevolutionary Bolsheviks of Lenin andTrotsky by the great advocate of"peaceful coexistence" with the imperi­alists, Stalin. Soviet generals todayknow well that Stalin's criminal faith inhis nonaggression pact with NaziGermany brought the USS R to thebrink of defeat due to unpreparednessand failure to react to provocations likeFlight 007. Reagan & Co. obviouslythink the Russians' commitment to"detente" means abject capitulation.And given what was known of KAL'sMission Provocation, we can only bethankful that, to quote Soviet chief ofgeneral staff Marshal Ogarkov, "TheSoviet military forces protecting thepeaceful labor of the Soviet Unionhonorably fulfilled their duties." Any­one with an ounce of intelligence willconclude: Don't mess with theRussians!

Lies and Refutations

As we wrote last issue: "If thegovernment of the Soviet Union knewthat the intruding aircraft was in fact a

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commercial passenger plane containing200-plus innocent civilians, despite thepotential military damage of such anapparent spying mission, if they deliber­ately destroyed the airplane and itsoccupants, then, to paraphrase theFrench, the act of shooting it downwould have been an id iocy worthy of theIsraelis. But the piecemeal facts andobvious falsifications argue that thiswas not the case, and somethingresembling what really might have goneon is rapidly being pieced togetherinternationally" ("Reagan's StoryStinks!" WV No. 337, 9 September).With every passing day, as the govern­ment's fabrications unravel and its liesare exposed, the stench of Cold Warprovocation becomes overwhelming.

In Reagan's Labor Day speech, heemphatically insisted: "The 747 has aunique silhouette unlike any other planein the world. There is no way a pilotcould mistake this for anything otherthan a civilian airliner." Before the UN.American ambassador Kirkpatrickrepeated over and over, "Contrary toSoviet statements, the pilot makes nomention of firing any warning shots."Other elements of the Big Lie: that theU.S. supposedly knew nothing about ituntil it was over; that KAL Flight 007was nothing but an innocent civilianairliner; that nobody believes Sovietclaims it was on a spy mission. Ascolumnist Alexander Cockburn put it inthe Village Voice (20 September), tohear Reagan tell it, "Every Soviet leaderstood a little taller in his boots the nextday and shouted, 'One, two, three, manyjumbos' into the shaving mirror."

Kirkpatrick's claim there were nowarning shots was blown to bits with theU.S.' reconstructed tape released onSeptember II.

The U.S. supposedly knew nothingabout the affair until it was all over?When it was first admitted that the U.S.had a spy plane in the area, it wasreported in the New York Times (6September) that, "Military officers saidthe Air Force plane would routinelyhave 'painted,' or registered with radar,the Korean plane as a matter of aerialsafety." Now they are claiming (NewYork Times, 19 September) that the 007was beyond the range of U.S. radar,both civilian (limit 160 miles) andmilitary (240 miles). However, DavidBaker reports in his book, The Shape ofWars to Come (1982):

"Of peripheral interest. .. [is] a verypowerful phased-array radar antennalooking northwest and west fromShemya close to the Kamchatka Penin­sula. Called Cobra Dane, its search and

Yesterday's Denver Post ran an article(reprinted in the Cleveland PlainDealer, 19 September) by two formerAir Force intelligence officers, T.Edward Eskelson and Tom Bernard,which reveals important informationabout the RC-135. We quote a fewchoice paragraphs below, since it isunlikely to get wide circulation in the"free but responsible" capitalist press:

"Obscured by what will surely beclaimed as legitimate national securitymatters, the U.S. government had thecapability to directly intercede duringthe entire sweep of events culminatingin the annihilation of Korean Air LinesFlight 007. Few facts concerning thatcapability have been brought to publicattention.

"Based on the information disclosedby the Reagan administration in thepast two weeks, it is clear that a majoreffort has been undertaken to bewilderthe American public concerning thecapabilities of the U.S. Air Force RC­135 and, more importantly, the Na­tional Security Agency.

"As former crew members on anRC- 135 aircraft, we find official

tracking coverage ... is designed todetect an object the size of a basketball3,200 km [2,000 miles] away and simul­taneously track 100 separate targets."

Shemya, at the tip of the Aleutians, isthe base of the RC-135 mentionedabove. So much for the claim that noone knew where KAL 007 was because itwas "out of range"!

What about "radio trouble"? Flight007 was not able to reach Anchorage airtraffic control at the second checkpointon route R-20, and had to relay itsposition via a second KAL plane (Flight015) flying a few minutes behind it. Yetthere were no complaints of radiomalfunctions, and later the 007 pilot wasable to communicate clearly with Tokyoairport. Thus both KAL planes andAnchorage and Tokyo air control hadto know that the 747 jetliner was offcourse, but no alarm was raised. (KALFlight 015, incidentally, which carriedSenator Jesse Helms and other conser­vative luminaries, is a particularlyshadowy participant in this drama. It ismentioned once, on the first day, by theMoonies' New York Tribune [I Septem­ber] under the headline "U.S. intelli­gence men suggest Soviets downed thewrong KAL 747," and thereafter isn'tmentioned for ten days. Yet KALFlights 007 and 015 were flying intandem, and since they were relayingradio traffic the second plane wouldclearly have known if the first was introuble.)

So what were they doing? The Times'disingenuous and dim military corre­spondent Drew Middleton writes thatthe U.S. doesn't even need spy planes,anyway, since its reconnaissance satel­lites can pick up "the bolts on the deck ofa Soviet cruiser" or a man readingPravda on the street of a north Russiantown. And he says if they really wantedsharp pictures, they would just sendover an SR-7l plane which at 80,000 feetis well out of range of Soviet jets (thoughnot missiles, as U-2 pilot Gary Powersfound out). The Soviets have respondedto this with a detailed article in today'sPravda which reported that Flight 007was held up at Anchorage for 40minutes "in order to strictly synchronisein time the plane's approach to theshores of Kamchatka and Sakhalin withthe flight of the American intelligencesatellite 'Ferret 0'" (TASS dispatch, 19September). This satellite, which moni­tors radio traffic, has an orbit of 96minutes around the earth. It appearedover Kamchatka Peninsula at I:30 a.m.(local time) on August 3 I, "i.e., preciselyat the moment of the intrusion of the

statements concerning the extent of itsinvolvement before and after the KALshootdown incompatible with ourexperience....

"It has been our experience that, onoccasion, NSA adjusts the orbits ofRC-135s so that they will intentionallypenetrate the airspace of a targetnation. This is ordered for the purposeof bringing a target country's airdefense systems into a state of alert.This allows NSA to analyze these fullyactivated systems for potential flawsand weaknesses....

"The RC-135 has a super-advanced,ultra-secure communications systemwhich is linked to the most sophisticat­ed communications network in theworld. This system, sometimes re­ferred to as 'backchannel,' permits theinstantaneous reporting of real-time,tactical intelligence to the highestlevels of the U.S. government, includ­ing the president, from any location inthe world....

"Because of these RC-135 capa­bilities we believe that the entiresweep of events-from the time theSoviets first began tracking KAL

trespasser plane into Soviet air space,"and at 3:07 a.m., three minutes after the747 began its passage over Sakhalinisland. If true, this information isconclusive that the Korean airliner waspart of an elaborate provocation involv­ing as well a l: .S. spy satellite and thenow infamous RC-135. In this triad,KAL Flight 007 was the bait.

Moreover, this takes on addedsignificance when combined with the"leaked" report (in the New York Times,J I September, and elsewhere) that thenow-admitted RC-135 was flying figureeights off Soviet Kamchatka in the earlymorning hours of August 31 on amission to collect information about aSoviet missile test expected that night.The Washington Post (7 September)said that this RC-135's mission was to"assess Soviet air defenses." It went on:

"The United States and the SovietUnion, they [U.S. Air Force intelligenceofficials] said. constantly track eachother's 'electronic order of battle,'which includes how radar stations reactto intruders. and forward airdefenses...."It is standard practice. they said. forU.S. military planes to try to 'tickle'Soviet radar into action."Thev said this amounts to flYing closeenough to air defenses to cause theSoviets to activ;..te search radar andperhaps fire-control radar and to talkabout what they are seeing and doing inresponse to the unidentified aircraftoverhead."

"Standard practice," it seems. ButFlight 007 was no "tickle." This uniden­tified aircraft was on a Mission Provoca­tion Royale.

But why would they set up 200-pluslives on such a mission? David Bakernotes ominously that, "Plans for massedintrusion of hostile airspace rely oncontinuous updating to keep pace withthe location of defense installations and,increasingly over the past decade, theRussians have concentrated on protect­ing their territorial borders from bomb­ers and other intruders" (The Shape ofWars to Come). In addition to directlyoverflying the PetropavIovsk naval baseon Kamchatka and the Korsakov air­naval installations on Sakhalin, KAL007 provided another highly importantservice to U.S. military analysts: amassive intrusion of hostile airspace.And there is one particular war scenariofor which such information is ofcrucialimportance: a nuclear first strike.

Smash the Anti-Soviet War Drive!

From Day I of his administration,Reagan has proclaimed the USSR to bethe "evil empire," "the source of evil in

Flight 007, to 'confusing' it with theAmerican reconnaissance aircraft, tothe moment Soviet fighter airplanessitting on Soviet airfields were orderedto go from 'standby' to 'alert' statusdue to the potential penetration oftheir airspace by an 'intruder aircraft'to the time of the shootdown-wasmonitored and analyzed instantane­ously by U.S. intelligence.

"Without sounding like apologistsfor Soviet actions, we believe, basedupon our experiences, that the officialU.S. version of events is incompleteand misleading. There are seriousquestions in our minds as to not onlywhat specific role did the capabilitiesof the RC-135 play in the eventualshooting down of the KAL airliner,but also why these capabilities werenever used to head off the tragedy."

The government's response to thisreport is that Eskelson and Bernardhad not flown an RC-135 for ten yearsand therefore "the experience they citeis in fact history." This "denial" is aconfirmation. Are we to believe that inthe last ten years, the U.S. capabilitieshave become less powerful, less intru­sive? The fact that U.S. intelligenceknew all about Flight OOTs MissionProvocation is established without adoubt.

WORKERS VANGUARD

tion to march even into Peking andMoscow." Only then. say these dan­gerous cultists whose messiah wants to"conquer and subjugate the world."can they "establish one world underGod" (read: Moon).

A 1978 report of the House Sub­committee on International Organi­zations headed by then-CongressmanDonald Fraser summed up Moon'smilitary ambitions:

"The Moon Organization has self­proclaimed goals of controllingpolitical and secular institutions and a'strident ideology which envisions theformation of ;-'Unification CrusadeArmy.' M oon's speeches foresee anapocalyptic confrontation involvingthe United States. Russia. China.Japan. and North and South Korea. inwhich the Moon Organization wouldplaya key role."

And for Moon, this Holy War involvespreparing his members for the possi­bility of suicidal spy missions into theSoviet Union. At a Jonestown-typeindoctrination session, Moon ad­dressed his novices on "how to die abrave death." An appropriate deathwhich would guarantee resurrection,he told them, would be to go to "RedChina or the Soviet Union as spyagents, to find out what is happeningin the evil side of the world":

"If. in the future, we do our workhand-in-hand with the CIA. I am

Korean military alliance against thel'SSR.

;'\0 one ought to be surprised thatwhere there is smoke from a burningSoviet flag. there is likely to be thecrazed anti-communist fire of theMoonies. In several cities across thecountry the M oonies have taken to thestreets as the most rabid of theMcCarthyite witchhunters. They callon the government "to expel thecommunists from the United States­from its labor unions and its collegecampuses." At Columbia Universityon September 14, the Moonies busedin a bunch of the "Master's children"for a warmongering anti-Soviet f1ag­burning. In brownshirt fashion theybeat up students who opposed them.including a Columbia student who wasa bystander.

The Moonies' anti-communistfrenzy, their call to "rise up" againstCommunism. as they put it, "goesbeyond America's borders." TheMoonies have their fanatic sightstrained on the global Holy War, andsee the downed jet liner as an opportu­nity to get America ready for it. As aleaflet by the Moonie student-youthorganization, CARP, proclaims, re­calling the Nazis' slogan "Deutsch­land, envache.''': "American people.wake up'. ,Let us have the determina-

"If, in the future, we do our workhand-in-hand with the CIA, I amready and willing to send thestrongest members in our move­ment as spies to the Soviet Union,Red China, etc."

-Sun Myung Moon.Master Speaks

Reagan's story about the warprovocation of Korean Flight 007 shotdown over Soviet military installationsis really pretty simple: the SovietUnion is an "evil empire." Every timethey get a chance, he says, the Russianstry to shoot down jumbo jets filledwith hundreds of passengers. Thedangerous ultraright cult of SunMyung Moon has been screaming thiskind of religio-political claptrap aboutgodless, evil Communism for years.

For the Moonies, the 007 warhysteria whipped up by the WhiteHouse is made to order. They havealways tried to be the shock troopsin an anti-communist crusade. Here isa campaign that intersects nearly allthe issues most dear to the heart oftheir self-appointed "messiah," such asmilitary support to the Seoul dictator­ship and starting World War IIIagainst Soviet Russia. Their eulogized"real American" (Congressman LarryMcDonald) was on Flight 007 toattend a celebration of the U.s. jSouth

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The entire strategr of postwarAmerican imperialism is to get theSoviet Union-from the Korean Warto the Vietnam War to the escalatingSalvadoran war-the U.S. has backedup every butcher and mass murdererwho promises to smash Communism.There is indeed an "internationalterrorist conspiracy." but its center isnot in Moscow. as the Reaganitesclaim. but in Washington. aided by theminions of Master Moon. Given thelong arm of the KCIA. the SovietUnion indeed has good reason to besuspicious of anything flying out ofSeoul; as one liberal South Koreanliving in the U.S. noted at the "Korea­gate" Congressional investigation in1976:

"Actuallv. Korean Air Lines whichlands and takes off in Los Angeles ontrips between Seoul and Los Angeles.carries one or two KCIA agents onevery tlight."

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the modern world" which will "commitany crime, to lie. to cheat" in order tofurther the goal of world Communism.Actually, far from being champions ofworld revolution. the Kremlin leadersare a notoriously conservative lot. Butthis devil-baiting of the Soviets is notsome exercise in Moral Majority pulpitpounding. Whenever you hear that kindof talk ("Gott mit uns," said KaiserWilhelm-"God is on our side," repliedPresident Wilson), you know the capi­talist rulers are getting ready to sacrificetens of millions of their subjects in aslaughter to redivide the world for thebenefit of their profits. Only this time itisn't the Deutsche Bank against theRothschilds and Rockefellers, but acrusade for global counterrevolution.And for that they're prepared to blow upthe planet.

"You Had Nothing to Lose by SayingSorry," headlined the Economist (10September), repeating one of Reagan'smain themes. (According to the capital­ist media, then, being a Communistmeans never having to say you'resorry?!!) They want the Russians toadmit their "guilt," so that the SovietUnion would stand before the world asself-branded criminals and murderers ofinnocent civilians! This is the meaningof all the U.S. denunciations of theSoviets for "barbaric," "uncivilized,""cold-blooded" acts. But the Russiansdidn't send 200-plus innocent civilianson a suicide mission. As GeneralOgarkov said in the Moscow pressconference:

"As far as responsibility and not onlyfinancial responsibility is concerned.that falls on those who sent them totheir deaths. Referring to PresidentReagan's claim that we should apolo­gize, President Reagan should simplyturn around and take one look in hismirror and it would become clear to himwho should answer questions of thissort."

-New York Times.10 September

What Ronald Reagan is looking for isthe ideological banner for World WarIII. For Teddy Roosevelt it was "Re­member the Maine," even though theevidence indicates the Spanish didn'tblow up that U.S. ship in Havanaharbor. Woodrow Wilson dragged theU.S. into World War I using the excuse

of the sinking of the Lusitania. eventhough it was later proved to be carryingmunitions to the British and the Germangovernment warned Americans not tosail on this British ship. LyndonJohnson used the trumped-up "TonkinGulf incident" to get the Vietnam Warapproved by Congress (see article bypublisher Larry Flynt, "Another Gulf ofTonkin Provocation'?" on page 10 of thisissue). Today. Reagan's rallying cry is"Remember the Korean Air Linesmassacre" as he escalates his anti-Sovietwar drive in the Far East, the Near Eastand Central America.

In the Far East last spring, the UnitedStates concentrated the most powerfulnaval force seen in the Pacific sinceWorld War II (see Young Spartacus No.Ill, September 1983). Its strategic aimis to bottle up the Soviet navy in the Seaof Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan.Meanwhile, as Reagan becomes everdeeper immersed in the internecinecommunal warfare of the Near East, theU.S. has assembled an armada offLebanon that represents "its mostmassive show of force since Vietnam"(Philadelphia Inquirer, 15 September).A symbol of the escalating U.S. wardrive is the odyssey of the USS NewJersey. In May-June it participated innaval maneuvers off Cambodia asChinese troops menaced Vietnam fromthe north and Thailand (with suppliesairlifted from the U.S.) stepped uphostilities from the West. In July thebattleship was dispatched to CentralAmerica, where it joined the aircraftcarrier Ranger for a display of gunboatdiplomacy. And now it is off toLebanon.

Meanwhile, as Reagan mounts hisglobal counterrevolutionary crusade,much of the fake-left is capitulating tohim-while red-white-and-blue pseudo­socialists sign up for yeoman's duty inthe anti-Soviet war drive. Most despi­cable is the Communist Party USA(CP), because of its pretensions to standon the side of the USSR. At the height ofthe imperialist frenzy over KAL 007, theCP's Daily World (2 September) ran theshameful front-page headline, "SovietsDeny Downing Plane." Even more thancowardice this represents the treacher­ous results of "detente" politics. Socommitted to "peaceful coexistence" are

these Stalinists that they can't believe itwhen the USSR actually takes steps todefend itself. The CP's reformist illu­sions breed pure cynicism. as expressedin the Daih World (15 December 1981)headline after Jaruzelski's countercoupagainst Solidarnosc: "Poland HeedsUnity Call." Ultimately the Stalinists'treachery leads them to deny the realitybefore their very eyes. To consistentdetenteniks, the Soviets couldn't shootdown the KAL 747.

Sam Marcy's Workers World Party(WWP) sees the 007 provocation as astraight-out spy plane, and spins out aconspiratorial tale of Pentagon "hawks"preparing to launch a first-strike yester­day, only to be blocked by the an­nouncement (by Democratic Senatemajority leader Jim Wright) of thepresence of the RC-135, which scotchedthe operation. This and the Marcyites'fascination with the sham battle over theempty War Powers Act, are a reflectionof their fundamental orientation to theliberal Democratic "doves"-who todayare firmly lined up behind Reagan overthe 007 affair. The now explicitly anti­Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party(SWP) as usual denounces Reagan &Co. for their "hypocrisy," while pointingto "a lot of questions about the facts" inthe KAL Flight 007 confrontation.Clearly the Militant would like to ignorethe whole business, except to assert thatit's really directed at tiny Grenada!

The real scumbags are the Maoistsand ex-Maoists, long since accustomedto lining up with their "own" imperialistbourgeoisie. The Guardian (14 Septem­ber) editorializes about a "DoubleTragedy," calling the shooting down ofthe Korean Air Lines plane "an unac­ceptable response for which the USSRmust be held accountable and con­demned"! We say these groveling campfollowers of Reagan's anti-Soviet wardrive must be held accountable andcondemned for their support to the mostmurderous, rapacious imperialist rulingclass in history!! As for the leftoverMaoists of the League of RevolutionaryStruggle, its Unity (9 September) ragdenounces the "militarism" of the "twosuperpowers" and calls on the Sovietgovernment to "pay restitution"! Thisrepresents the rancid fruits of the Pekingbureaucracy's accommodation with

American imperialism. Even China ab­stained on the U"i Security Councilresolution. and Deng must be wonder­ing about his acolytes in the U.S. whoblindly follow the Reagan war drive.

Whether through direct support toReagan, such as the Maoists, or appealsto Democratic liberals (a la Marcy'sWWP), the reformist left is subordinat­ed to one or another wing of theAmerican bourgeoisie. Because weoppose class collaboration down theline, the Trotskyists of the SpartacistLeague (SL) alone can consistentlyoppose the anti-Soviet war drive whichembraces all sectors of the imperialistrulers, from liberal "doves" to conserva­tive "hawks."

On the eve of World War II, duringApril-June 1941, there were more than180 overflights of Soviet territory by theGermans, ranging in depth from 65 to100 miles. Soviet forces were forbiddento respond to these provocations, whichwere ascribed to "undisciplined" Ger­man units, because of the Stalin-Hitlerpact in which the Soviet leader placedhis confidence. "Thus it went to the end,Stalin trying in the final hours to staveoff attack by ordering his armed forcesnot to fire at German planes, not toapproach the frontiers, not to make anymove which might provoke Germanaction," wrote Harrison Salisbury in hisepic account of the siege of Leningrad,900 Days. The present-day Sovietgeneral staff was forged from amongthose officers who resisted Stalin'sdefeatist policy in the first days of thewar against Nazi Germany, and whocame back from Siberian exile to leadthe Red Army to victory over Hitler in1945.

As Cold War II turns hot, thefundamental response of revolutionarysocialists is and must be political. Blackworkers in particular distrust the anti­Soviet war drive which means takingmilk from black schoolchildren in orderto build Trident submarines. From NewYork transit to West Coast longshore,the response to our headline "Reagan'sStory Stinks!" has been: "Amen, broth­er!" The Trotskyists say: Two, three,many defeats for U.S. imperialism!Today, as on the eve of World War II,we stand at our posts, defending thehomeland of the October Revolution.•

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Larry Flynt's Ad the Times Wouldn't Print

Another Gulf of TonkinProvocation?

Editor's note: Reagan's efforts to use the downing ofKAL Flight 007 to whip up anti-Soviet hysteria haveencountered widespread skepticism. One of the moreinteresting and far-ranging expressions of this skepti­cism is a statement by Larry Flynt, an idiosyncraticliberal and publisher of Hustler magazine, whichappeared as a paid advertisement, under "Larry Flynton Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Flight 007," in anumber of major papers. Significantly, the New YorkTimes refused to print it because. as the paper'sspokesman told WV, "it was offensive to certainpeople." No doubt! While as Marxists we do not shareFlynt's worldview, we are reprinting a substantialportion ofhis statement for the interest ofour readers.

The United States of America is a country that wasfounded on great principles by men with great ideals­men like Thomas Paine. Thomas Jefferson and JamesMadison. They had a vision of enlightenment,prosperity and freedom. Their vision succeededspectacularly well-if you weren't a woman, black,Mexican or Native American Indian. (Even ThomasJefferson thought nothing of dealing with Napoleon tobuy the homeland of prairie Indians.) From a small 13­colony settlement the United States expanded into avast worldwide empire, the most powerful the worldhas ever known. Along the way the people who havelived well within its boundaries always felt innocent ofwrongdoing or "starting a war." If English-speakingAmericans just happened to be settling in territory ofanother empire or in territory belonging to people wholived in Texas or Montana, for example, and if theneighbors didn't like that and attacked, well, of course,they "started the war."

Around 1900 the present official boundaries of theU.S. more or less stabilized. This was primarilybecause the multifarious groups in power did not wantto share the wealth and full privileges of citizenship inthe U.S. to future peoples that the U.S. mightovercome. It was bad enough sharing wealth andpower with foreign people immigrating here, and thereaction against this culminated in the closing of theborders in 1923 to immigrants from the rest of the"Free World," especially Asia and southern Europe.This period of time was the sounding of the death knellfor the original vision of the Founding Fathers.Henceforth, petty intrigue, power plays and short­sighted propaganda would play an increasing role inthe expansion of U.S. influence. Beginning with theSpanish-American War in 1898, new relationshipswith conquered states were devised that did not includethe full vision of the Founding Fathers. If othercountries lived under ancient monarchies, theocraciesand dictatorships, that was fine as far as the U. S. wasconcerned, as long as they helped somehow. Evenwithin the U. S. more and more conflicts arose betweenthe desires of government and the principles of the Billof Rights.

. One thing did not change, however, and that was theprinciple of the U.S. maintaining its "innocence" ofever starting a war. The Spanish-American war was"started" by the destruction of the USS Maine. (TheSpanish really never did have anything to do with thatincident; the Maine was blown up by agent­provocateurs.) The Germans, of course, were "com­pletely responsible" for provoking us into going intoWorld War I by torpedoing a British liner withAmerican passengers that just "happened" to also becarrying munitions supplies. Of course, the Japanesewere the "infamous" people who got us into WorldWar II by bombing a base far away from the U.S.mainland. They had the impudence to want some ofthe same territory that the U.S. had already seized orwas eyeing. Later, "our" territory was threatened inKorea, for which war was necessary.

It was at this time that the USSR became thepermanent enemy of the U.S., because the USSR didnot go down in defeat in World War II and evenmanaged to learn the importance of industrialization.This country had not started out with visions ofenlightenment and freedom, but with authoritarianand paranoid czarist rule. The czar's power waspredicated on protection against a long history ofinvasion. First, the Mongols were turned back by theDuke of Muscovy, and the Poles were repulsed. TheDuke of Muscovy soon became Czar of Russia. Then

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came Napoleon in 1812. Napoleon's defeat furthersolidified the czar's power (with the help ofarch-fascistMetternich). In 1917 there was a revolution against theoppressive czarist system, but in 1918, Western powers(including the U.S.) invaded the USSR, and again thecountry quickly became paranoid about foreigninvaders. In World War II the USSR was invaded yetagain by Germany, and 20 million of its people died.Naturally, the country developed quite a sensitivity toits borders.

After World War II the U.S. and the USSR emergedvictorious. The U.S. imagined itself"innocent" but hadmanaged to expand to the point where its militaryinfluence was felt all over the globe. It also had neverbeen invaded in its entire history. The USSR wasweaker and much more paranoid about its borders­having been invaded again. again and again.

It was at this time that new creatures known as theCIA and the military-industrial complex. about whicheven President Eisenhower, a military man himself,had warned the nation about in his farewell speech tothe American people, became firmly entrenched inpower in the U.S. Secrecy, deception and outright liesbecame a common occurrence. The U.S. governmenthad to maintain a posture of "innocence" while at thesame time involving itself in political intrigue all overthe world to control its new rival. the Soviet Union.

The first cracks in this scheme appeared in 1960 withthe U-2 episode when the Eisenhower Administrationdenied deliberately attempting to violate Sovietairspace. In fact, it was soon proven it had when theRussians advised the U.S. that the pilot, Gary Powers,was indeed alive. He had not taken the poison cyanidepills provided him by the CIA for just such anoccasion. Other lies and deceptions appeared withincreasing frequency, but the one which got the U.S.into a major escalation of the Vietnam War was theGulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964. This occurredat a time when the U.S. government had involved itselfin a war to help Catholics in Vietnam. But it did nothave the kind of morale-rousing justification that hadspurred such undertakings as World War I and WorldWar II. Hence, the Johnson Administration was readyto grasp for any publicity stunt that might appear to bean "unprovoked attack." First, secret "34A" navalraids by South Vietnam along the coast of NorthVietnam were authorized by the CIA in February of'64. In August, after six months of these provocativeraids, the destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy weresent to the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam.They carried a cable of instructions, one of which saidit would "possibly draw" North Vietnamese patrolboats "northward away from the area of 34Aoperations."

On August 4 the two destroyers reported they wereunder "continuous torpedo attack." All of the 21torpedo reports came from one David E. Mallow. TheTurner Joy fired away in the darkness for four hours,but the Maddox, strangely, could find nothing on itsfire-control radar to shoot at. And the Turner Joy'ssonar heard no torpedoes. In retrospect, both thecaptain of the Maddox and the commander in chargeof both destroyers concluded that virtually all of the"torpedoes" reported by the Maddox were actually thesounds of its own propellors.

In Washington, President Johnson convened theNational Security Council. But at I:30 p.m. a cablereached the Pentagon from Commodore John J.Herrick, the task force commander on the bridge of theMaddox:

"REVIEW OF ACTION MAKES MANY RE­CORDED CONTACTS AND TORPEDOESFIRED APPEAR DOUBTFUL. FREAK WEATH­ER EFFECTS AND OVER-EAGER SONARMANMAY HAVE ACCOUNTED FOR MANY RE­PORTS. NO ACTUAL VISUAL SIGHTINGS BYMADDOX. SUGGEST COMPLETE EVALUA­TION BEFORE ANY ACTION.". The controversy over the Tonkin Gulf incident hastended to focus on whether, or to what extent.American destroyers were, in fact, attacked on thenight of August 4. Regardless of whether any attacktook place, the messages between Washington and thePacific that day demonstrate that at that time neitherthe President nor Secretary of Defense Robert

McNamara was certain that an attack had occurred.There was an unseemly scramble for "evidence" to

support the action the President had determined totake. That evidence was still frantically being soughtfour years later, in 1968.

By the middle of the '70s Americans had heard somany deceptions and lies from their government thatthey knew they could no longer believe it. Our"innocence" had been lost. The major reason JimmyCarter was elected in '76 was because he sold the publicon the idea that he could be "trusted." But the powers­that-be had to keep justifying their existence, and theylearned a lesson. It wasn't to be completely honest, butto be better at deception. The first principle of any con­artist is to gain his victim's trust.

Ronald Reagan has tried to establish his"trustworthiness" with that ancient form of hypnosis­religion. In stark contrast to the ideals and thoughts ofthe Founding Fathers, he has tried to paint thiscountry as a "Christian nation." The purpose of this issimply to create a "devil"-the "evil Atheist Commies"in the USSR. Going far beyond the realm of evenpossibility, he has over and over tried to portray thepeople of the USSR as "cold and heartless, without anyconcern for human life," and as the most menacingthreat to the peace of the world.

Despite its liabilities, as every military power has,the USSR is not the heartland of "evil," as Reagansuggests, any more than the U.S. might be claimed tobe. It is a country primarily concerned with preventinga future invasion of its territory and loss of its peoples'lives. The U.S. never lost its lead in militarytechnology. and the primary goal of the ReaganAdministration has been to widen that lead as much aspossible. Last year the CIA even estimated that Sovietmilitary spending only rose by 2%. The people ofEurope and the rest of the world know this, and that iswhy they have resisted Reagan's ploys to characterizethe USSR as "evil" and to further escalate the armsrace. To a great extent, Reagan's talk and arms policywere even beginning to jade Americans, who wereitching for economic-not arms-buildup. Peoplewere beginning to talk about finding a way of endingthe possibility of nuclear war instead of perpetuatingnational hostility. Reagan's electability was cominginto question-that is, until Sept. I, 1983, when aSouth Korean civilian jetliner intruded deep intoSoviet territory and disappeared with reports that ithad been shot down.

The immediate reaction to this incident waspredictable. Polls were taken to show that an 87%majority favored a "strong" U.S. response-exactlywhat Reagan wanted. Public opinion was galvanizedin a way not seen since the Gulf of Tonkin incident.Reagan was quick to say that this "proved" how "evil"the Soviets were.

Indeed, how could they do such a thing? If, in fact,the Soviets had downed the plane, it may have been forthe same reason that Israel downed a Libyan passengerjet over the Sinai desert in 1973, killing 74 persons.Somehow, though, the President did not find thatimportant enough to damn the Israelis forever. When,in Vietnam, innocent women and children were killed,especially at My Lai, the President did not get up andsay that this proved how "evil" the American systemwas.

What exactly would the U.S. have done if Sovietaircraft "accidentallv" flew over Los Alamos, NewMexico, or better -yet Washington D.C. withoutwarning and without responding to interceptors?When, in fact, the Soviet airline Aeroflot enroute fromMoscow to Havana flew near Miami, Florida itresponded to our interceptors and did not try to getaway. Why was this flight 007 (shades of James Bond?)so far off course when it had three sets of extremelysophisticated navigation equipment?

At the time of this writing a late report indicated thatthe pilot was a "strong-willed" person. It was admittedthat he may have intentionally flown over Sovietairspace.

Then, failing to respond to Soviet interceptors, thepilot-instead of coming to a landing-ascended to35,000 feet, a defiant action from the point of view ofthe interceptors. Was this a deliberately provocativeact? ....

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After ILWU tops' shameful Cold War boycott, Mexican longshoremen unloadSoviet freighter In Ensenada.

Soviet Ship- BOy'cotted

The Shame of the ILWU

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fostered and trained by Bridges himself.In subordinating the interests of long­shoremen to the maritime bosses,Herman couldn't have a better modelthan Bridges' "mechanization and mod­ernization" (M&M) contracts, responsi­ble for slashing \vell over half the dockjobs on the West Coast. The tiesbetween the ILWU and the Dem­ocrats-who are now trying to out­Reagan Reagan-were forged byBridges. So with the anti-Soviet hysteriaand the rightward shift in the capitalistorder, Herman & Co. simply tookBridges' program to its logicalconclusion.

As for the CP, every once in a whilethey'd come up with a mealy-mouthedcriticism of Bridges, but he was withthem on every fundamental issue-fromstrikebreaking during World War II, toM&M, to the Democrats. They suckedup to his anti-communist successors,

too. Not long ago the CP's People'sWorld was touting Curtis McClain,International secretary-treasurer, as amodel "progressive" unionist. And likeBridges himself, the CP used its "left"credentials in an attempt to sabotageand derail the efforts of the genuinefighters in the IL WU. Thus People'sWorld supporter Leo Robinson spokein favor of Herman's McCarthyitewitchhunt of Stan Gow.

In the last analysis, it was the Stalinistpolicies of Bridges and the CP thatpaved the way for the pro-imperialistswine who now run the ILWU and aretrying to line up longshoremen behindReagan's homicidal plans to nuke theSoviet Union. Only revolutionary Trot­skyism provides a program that consist­ently defends the gains of the workersmovement-from the hiring hall of theILWU to the planned economy of theRussian Revolution-and can takethem forward to the world socialistrevolution necessary to liberate man­kind from capitalist madness.•

._-------_.-D.A. who directed the prosecutions ofscores of Black Panthers and anti­Vietnam War activists. His successor,Lowell Jensen, left the office in 1981 totake a top position in Reagan's JusticeDepartment. :\ow it appears that hissuccessor, John J. Meehan, is out toprove his anti-labor credentials.

To beat back these vicious chargesand to win their jobs back LaurenMozee and Ray Palmiero need yoursupport. Here's what you can do:

I. Send a letter to the Phone StrikersDefense Committee, P.O. Box 24152,Oakland, CA 94623, endorsing thedemands of the Defense Committee,listed above.

2. Make a much needed financialcontribution to the Phone StrikersDefense Committee.

3. Send a telegram to support thedemands of the Phone Strikers DefenseCommittee (plus a copy to the Commit­tee) to: John J. Meehan, AlamedaCounty District Attorney, 1225 FallonSt., Oakland, CA 94612; and TedSaenger, President PT&T, 140 NewMontgomery St., San Francisco, CA94605.•

other MC members picketed the SouthAfrica-bound Nedlloyd Kimberley.demanding vengeance for three mur­dered black anti-apartheid fighters. Thebureaucrats' purge failed when a packedmembership meeting of Local 10 votedoverwhelmingly in Gow's favor. Onething ought to be clear, though: thebureaucrats are willing enough to shutdown shipping if it benefits the StateDepartment; but if you fight to do it onbehalf of blacks in South Africa or theworking masses of El Salvador, then the

crats are united in making war in theNear East. The Marines in Lebanon area tripwire for a nuclear World War III.Should the U.S. military intervention inLebanon escalate into a war with theSoviet Union, the urgent requirement ofthe world proletariat would be uncondi­tional military defense of the USSR.Imperialist, Israeli troops out ofLebanon!.

Herman gang goes for your throat.There shouldn't be any question after

the Soviet freighter incident that theHerman bureaucracy has definitivelyrepudiated the pro-Stalinist policies ofits predecessor, longtime ILWU headHarry Bridges. Anyone who's followedWV over the years knows there's no lovelost between us and Bridges. He was arotten class collaborator who long agoswore off proletarian revolution. But tohis credit, Bridges never joined the ColdWar pack who dominate the Americantrade-union leadership. The govern­ment tried to deport him four times.Reutherite witchhunters expelled himand the ILWU from the CIO. ButBridges never became an anti-Sovietrenegade like plenty of others who oncehung around the CPo

No doubt Harry-who not long agoreturned from a trip to Russia to"promote peace"-is not very happywith the IL WU these days. But hissuccessors didn't just fall from the sky,either. They are part of a bureaucracy

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hard lining it, and a pretrial hearing hasbeen set for October 7. In addition,Lauren Mozee was just served withpapers alleging another misdemeanoroffense on the picket lines.

The Alameda County D.A.'s office ,isa deeply reactionary and highly politicalone and, in fact, something of arecruiting ground for the Reaganadministration. Edwin Meese, Reagan'stop adviser, was the Alameda County

Defend PhoneWorkers ...

arrives September 24. ThiS despite thefact the union local is part of TeddyGieason's ILA, which has frequentlyboycotted Russian shipping. But ILALocal 3000 in New Orleans is mainlyblack, with no use for Ronald Reagan.We hope that the brothers and sisters ofLocal 3000 carry out their statedintentions and repudiate the shamefulexample of the "progressive" ILWUbureaucrats.

The ILWU International headed byJimmy Herman made clear it fullysupported its Los Angeles local. Threedays after the Soviet freighter sailed intoL.A., the International issued a state­ment that asserted: "The USSR cannotavoid taking responsibility for thisoutrageous violation of civilized behav­ior. And the failure of the USSR toexpress any real remorse, to apologize,and even to offer some form of compen­sation to the families involved, havebeen particularly galling."

In the San Francisco area, membersof the Militant Caucus (MC) led asuccessful fight at the September 15meeting of the East Bay Division ofILWU Local 6 to repudiate this policy.MC member Pete Woolston told WVthat at the meeting he exposed the U.S.government's lies and pointed out theconsistency between the International'santi-Sovietism here and their lining upbehind the imperialists on Afghanistanand Poland. Another Militant Caucusspeaker pointed out that the Democrats(whom Herman supports) are backingReagan 100 percent on the 007 provoca­tion and noted that the Internationalcould easily have organized defensesquads in L.A. so that longshoremencould have safely worked the ship. CPsupporters-while apparently uncom­fortable at having to defend the SovietUnion publicly-also spoke against theInternational's position. In fact, theonly pro-Herman speaker was Local 6president AI Lannon, and the membersvoted down the ILWU tops.

The Militant Caucus has consistentlyfought for genUine solidarity withworkers abroad. In the longshoredivision. Local 10 exec board memberand MCer Stan Gow helped initiate apicket of the Lafayette, which wascarrying cargo bound for the bloodySalvadoran regime. For this Gowbecame the intended victim of a viciouswitchhunt launched by the ILWU tops.Two days before his "trial" Gow and

Powers Resolution doesn't apply toLebanon (or anywhere), to whichDemocratic Congressman ClarenceLong replied: "Any 9-year-old kidwatching television can see our people incombat. but the President of the UnitedStates doesn't see this as lombat."

Howevcr, the Congressional clamorover the War Powers Resolution is notto force a withdrawal of U.S, troopsfrom Lebanon but to legitimize theirroie. While some Democratic liberalsbelieve direct LJ. S. military interventionin Central America is tactically unwise,there is, with few exceptions, a biparti­san consensus for the Marines inLebanon. Democratic Congressionalleader Tip O'Neill declared: "If Syriathinks America is divided and it can waitaround until we pull out, they arewrong" (New York Times, 13 Septem­ber). He then offered a resolutionauthorizing the Marines to remain inLebanon for 18 months. As we go topress, it's being reported that the WhiteHouse has grudgingly accepted thisoffer.

So Congress and the president, right­wing Republicans and liberal Demo-

Reagan's story over the downing ofKAL Flight 007 stinks and keeps beingchanged. Most of the population is atleast suspicious-the only people enthu­siastically jumping on the Reaganbandwagon are the professional anti­communists, the capitalist politiciansand the labor bureaucracy. Notableamong the latter are the leaders of theInternational Longshoremen's andWarehousemen's Union (lLWU), oncethe darling of the Stalinist CommunistParty (CP) and the rad-lib milieu. In adisgusting display of chauvinism thatgot nationwide press coverage, the WestCoast longshore tops outdid even LaneKirkland's AFL-CIO gang this timearound.

When the Soviet freighter Novokui­byshevsk steamed into the Los Angelesharbor on September 6, it was greetedby a couple hundred anti-communistdemonstrators, "most of them seniorcitizens of Korean descent" (Los An­geles Times, 7 September). Also onhand were the slimeballs of the anti­Soviet Baltic American FreedomLeague. In succeeding days this "picketline" dwindled to a couple dozenzealots. Hardly the sort that could standin the way of a powerful waterfrontunion that genuinely wanted to work theSoviet cargo. But the ILWU seized onthis as an excuse to enlist in Reagan'scrusade.

A dispatcher of ILWU Local 13 inL.A. told the press "he had beeninstructed to tell callers that 'we will notwork the Russian vessel at Berth 178'."Later the bureaucrats tried to claim itwas a decision of the ranks but therewere 'reportedly few-if any-ILWUersamong the right-wing demonstrators. Inparticular, several black longshoremenlater expressed their disgust at thisaction to WV salesmen. But no unionofficial-including prominent People'sTribune supporter David Arian-didanything to ensure that the ship beworked. So after eight days it left L.A.unloaded. And in what was undoubted­ly a "first" for the ILWU, the BalticAmerican Freedom League bestowed its"Freedom Award" on Local 13.

The Novokuibyshevsk eventuallydetoured to Ensenada, where Mexicanlongshoremen unloaded its American­bound cargo with no problems. Thenext destination is New Orleans. Thelongshore union there has announced itis prepared to unload the ship when it

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defend the Phalange and to humble theSoviet-allied Syrians.

War Powers and theImperial Presidency

The renewed civil war in Lebanon hasrekindled a conflict in Washingtonbetween the White House and Congressover the War Powers Resolution.Adopted in 1973 in response to theVietnam debacle, this was an attempt byCongress to reassert its constitutionalright to declare war, which was conven­iently ignored in Vietnam. The resolu­tion states that U.S. forces in "situationswhere imminent involvement in hostili­ties is clearly indicated" must bewithdrawn within 90 days unless Con­gress gives specific authorization forthem to be there.

Reagan, like every other president,wants to send U.S. troops into combatanywhere and any time without concernfor parliamentary niceties. So theadministration is arguing that the War

Lebanon...

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Save the Taylor Family fromAlabama Lynch Law!

We reprint helow a leaflet issued bythe Spartacus Youth League, the De­troit Lnhor/ Black Struggle League andRouge Militant Caucus .fcJr a rallr atWayne State Unil'ersit\, at noon onThursday, Septemher 22.

It's urgent that we act no}\' to save thelives of the Taylor family! Last Febru­ary, after defendmg themselves andtheir children from two armed. uniden­tified plainclothes cops who invadedtheir home, the Taylors and their friendswere brutally beaten and tortured byMontgomery, Alabama police. Thefamily, including five United AutoWorkers members from GM Truck andCoach, were in Montgomery for thefuneral of their mother. Annie BellTaylor. And now in a vicious, racistframeup, the Montgomery grand juryhas handed down indictments chargingfive of the Taylors with attemptedmurder, kidnapping and robbery! Allfive face life imprisonment or worse inthe deadly hellholes of an Alabama stateprison.

What happened to the Taylors is aviolent attempt to keep blacks "in theirplace." In Reagan's America blackpeople can't even mourn the death of arelative. Black workers. especially thosewith direct experience of"Dixie justice,"know that what happened to the Taylors

could happen to anyone of them andtheir families. In a decent society theTaylors would get a medal for theircourageous defense against cop terror.We demand at least $1 million incompensation from the state of Ala­bama for the horror they've been put

through! It's Spivey and Brown and therest of the murderous nightriding copswho should be jailed! But the grandjurywants to cover UP their massive racistcrime and are suppressing the factssurrounding the c:op abuse and tortureof the Taylors. Meanwhile a wave of

police terror in the Montgomery areahilS left three blacks dead and twowounded since the attack on the Taylorhume. The Klan has e\eo trampled oni,he memory of Annie Bell Taylor as the:.-;hot up and ransacked the Tay10r home

Montgomery and painted it withKKK slogans. \\hile it wa, "under.urveillance" by their buddies :n blue.

The state of Alabama. the Klan killers:ind racist police smell blood and wanttc' see the lynch rope become the law ofthe land. All opponents of racist terror2nd frameup--blacks. Jews. Arabs,workers and others-must stop themfl am ripping the Taylors away to facedeath in an Alabamajail! The defense ofthe Taylors is the defense of us alI:What's needed is mass labor/blackaction to bury this racist frameup. Cometo the demonstration this Thursday at\-Vayne State University! Stop the Stateof Alabama's Legal Lynching:.

rEmergency Demonstration! II 'I Protest Grand Jury Indictments \;; of the Taylor Family! Thursday,

I September 22, 12 noon, Wayne I, State University, MacKenzie Hall, '! Detroit. Initiated by SpartacusI Youth League, Detroit Labor/; Black Struggle League, Rouge ,! Militant Caucus. I

Picketers Face Felony Frameup.

Defend Bay Area Phone Workers!OAKLAND, September I9-As wereported in the last issue of WV, a PhoneStrikers Defense Committee has been.formed to defend the phone workersfired and framed up on serious felonycharges stemming from the recentnationwide strike against Ma Bell.Lauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero werefired from Pacific Telcphone and arebeing prosecuted on multiple felony andmisdemeanor ch,lrgcs for conductingordinary picket duty in the course of aunion-authorized natIOnwide strike anddefending their picket line and them­selves from management/scab violence.This must not be allowed to happen!The case of these militant unionistsinvolves not only the loss of theirlivelihood and the threat of long prisonsentences, but the elementary rights ofall labor to strike. to picket and todefend those rights against scab vio­lence. It is on these battlelines that theAmerican labor movement fought toestablish itself and it is on these samebattlelines that Reagan's war on labor isescalating.

The Phone Strikers Defense Commit­tee was initiated by members of Com­munications Workers of America Lo-

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cals 9415 and 9410 (Oakland and SanFrancisco), of which Lauren and Rayare members. The Committee is basedon three simple demands: (I) thatLauren Mozee and Ray Palmiero bereinstated at their jobs with full backpay; (2) th'at amnesty be granted to allvictimized phone strikers; and (3) thatall charges against Lauren, Ray and allother phone strikers be dropped.

The outpouring of support for thisimportant defense effort has beenimmediate and impressive. More than100 phone workers in CWA Locals 9415and 9410 signed and are circulating aninitial statement demanding Lauren andRay's jobs back. To date, over 180endorsements of the Defense Commit­tee's demands have come in. Over 90 ofthese are from labor union officials froma wide variety of unions: UAW, Plumb­ers and Steamfitters, IBEW, AFSCMEand AFGE, Laborers, OPEIU, SEIU.UFCW. AFT, ATU, Teamsters. Ma­chinists, Letter Carriers and many,many more.

In just the last week, six Bay Arealocal unions went on record supportingthe Defense Committee's demands.Most of these unions also made finan-

cial contributions and agreed to sendtelegrams to the phone company and theAlameda County District Attorneydemanding that Ray and Lauren bereinstated with fun back pay and that allcharges against them be dropped.

The Defense Committee's slogans,"Picket lines mean don't cross!" and"Don't let the phone company give Rayand Lauren the PATCO treatment!"have elicited genuine expressions oflabor solidarity. The bitterness overReagan's destruction of PATCO andthe felt necessity of reasserting theintegrity of union picket lines has wonmilitant support for this case amongunionists looking for a way to strikeback against Reagan's union-busting.

At the September 13 arraignment ofRay and Lauren, some 30 DefenseCommittee supporters crowded thecourtroom in a show of support andsolidarity, while Lauren and Rayentered "not guilty" pleas to all counts.Three local newspapers, the OaklandTribune. Hayward Daily Review andSan Jose Mercury News. publishedstories on the big turnout of support atthe arraignment. Despite this the D.A. is

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