Soweto: one year after

A student leader's own story

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UR RIGHTS ARE NDER ATTACK ... orkers :-:r\ ... ~ 01 Blacks

Court rules umemploy- ~ " Employment upgrading ment can be withheld ' through affirmative

Gays e Gay rights law defeated

in Florida referendum.

National campaign to discriminate against gays launched by right-wing .

Court Frees se:~~~~~ the Killers of Fred Hampton

action smashed by Court.

e Radst voting laws upheld by Supreme Court .

Disability benefits disallowed for working women who are laid off because pregnant.

lnJuly1967.theblacksof Detroit rose in rebellion .

A young revolutionary . later to be gunned down by the National Guard upressed the moodoftherebellionthisway: "We'retiredofbei.ng second class. We've been asking too long. No- itstimetotate. This thing ain't over . It 's juS~ beginning . Whiteydon'tknOON that most B1ack.s ~ready to dieforourfreedom .

The rebellion was pa.n of the wave of insurrections of the sixties - Watts, Harlem. Newart . In nearly every cit) tbere:wuarebeUtoo.

But Detroit was diffe:reat . ~ wu larger . bloodier. ~,.. ~~ ... ~ ~ the oaly lnsurret"".,..Ar. "'"ere white wort-- ; ... ned with Btacb.

'!'ite .:.apita.list politicians C'O'':oJ.OOC:UDderstandDet:roit J.bey considered Detroit auto worterstobeweU paid. Lyndon Jobuoo's war oo poverty pumped millions of dollars into Detroit. Jerome Cavanaugh. the m.ay. was a li~ra.l Demo-crat .

Never mind. BlACk worters in Detroit """"angry. They

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ASSAVLT ON A 8/~

The rebeWon was sported whenOetrc.itpolicenoideda bar at 4:00 ~.M . ano am:sted 73 Immediate~~ . young

bl~beganstonlllJ', thepolice . As more police t f' 'lforcements weTe called 1P .-crowd grew . l~'"....t -a.grier .

U!"...nin hours Detroit was .dlame. Over ISOQ. flnos-.-. set . Four miles of Woodward Avenue.thecity'smajorstreet. were ablaze.

.,John Conyen, the "liberal" blad congressman. was sent in to quen the- rebellion. But botdes and roc:b were thrown at him and the crowd yelled, "Out I Outland "Unde Tom!" Conyen later aald he thought only Malcolm X cou.ld have come into Detroit.

The Detroit News compared the-dtytoVietnam . '"hwuas thouah the Vie! Cong had in

A fiaal farewell from l'llil A& Algiers Motel. Inside. the\ foundtenblact men, two whil e women No guns were !"V!"t

filtnted the riot bladt011ed _ _. .

The initial response by whites was desperatioo and idiocy . Jerome Cavanaqh opeoed up more swimming pools. bupiog people would rather swim than rebel. Gov-ernor George Romney sug gested seeding the clouds abcor o ld ~til he lmt'(d tuhavt 0. child aflt:r hC'111f1. rapt.d OT thnl wumcn will d1c untkr lht' lnivt' " nf 11lt}o!n.l ~tlwnilH1i,l 'i.

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THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT Advance Guard of .Reaction

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dtrcctl~ nn the prevailing fear nf homosclualit). and oppor tunistit'ally appealed to pcopl

PROFIT MARGINS LAG

Economic Troubles Worry Big Business

llltrorporatlonsarcrerord mg pmftts that sound enor mou" Ho" well. chough. are

~.~:; :;'6c~::~;~f ~:~:;!~cr ~: ~:~)o:r~f G~~ l~;;::;~d ~;~ \0 the first lhrct:" monlh~ or 1977 uver the first three month~ ofiQ76

Then 1s. howc\cr. another Sldt nf the plCtUn! tO look :U, a sidl' that wurries GM mana

ft:r~ro~~~~ ~ro~;~~g~; ~ sales-did no t increase fnmt the first quarter of IQ b tn th~ first quaner ofiQ7i In fact it was down slightly from 7 .0~ lastyeartu0.7%thisyear

Moreovcr.the amountGMts having to pay for materials needed to build cars rose in the firstquancrofl977more than inthefirstquanerofl976.

SotheprofitsGMwasablcto mU.einthefirstquarterofthis year..villnotstretehufarhen they are plowed back into the

:r:t::!:~wi~~~~~h~e~~~~ 19n. GM,.illthenfinditharltld happen when hi.\ canlral.'1 rome-supinMan:hl978.

The NLRB ha.\ taken Sldes with the employers in this offensivcbeause they are part or a system of government designed to keep capitalism healthy . Jnthisperiod. keeJ>in8 it healthy 01(!:ans attadin,t wagesandwoort.ingconditions.

W'rth the C'ole strile still on, a strike waw beg.ii t.his spring:

Otis- Loca1826 of IUF. went out after rejedi"-8 a CQn trutproposal .

e Colonial Bread and Won-der Bread- Members of Local 1.\5 'Orites might be allowed to rome to 'OR ta"enty minutes late. but plant mili-tant could be warned or fur longhed fur oocnlna m.. minutes late. ln typical union busting fashion. J.W . writes

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LOUABORTAIONSL BANNED hiSI fall to e xtend the abomon tts doors to first trUII\\ICr LoWovUie, KY June 22, 1977

An Ordinance in Jefferson County Fiscal Court has now banned abortions at tbe GCneraJ Hospital here , with c.asesofrape,inccst . andthe possible death of the mNhc:r

No Smiling

And then thcrt's the one aboutthC"it!1.'TCitlr)' :ltforda fc" month~ ago "'ho. in spitc-tlf workang there . managed to kccpacht."t' rfu l disposition. and "imilcd il lot . One of her )Obs

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wumcn with the lega l right 10 abonion.butwithoulthemeans

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Now the legal n g ht is a lso bcmgtakcnaway

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and cutting 40 be-d!. - and :U\mg alrnos-1 S4 milhon . the: hospHa.l announred ;a hen(' fit 10 p.:~uent-. Room rat e \ '>'OUid be lo...,c:n:-0 a, whok tgaspl S4 a mght n,., !a .. tc-d all of lhrce month~ . "'hen nuh v.cnt ba1.:k up Oualn~ health care at . th oc_,.t. n

South Africa: 'Nothing to

Lose' '' It is now over one year since the first Sowcto dem onstrations . When this thing started. most people thought it was going to lull because of intimidation , arrests and shootings . But you see. the more arrests and shootings . the more resistance there wi ll be. The people have nothing to lose.

The s ittlation has become intolerable . We no longer want people from the outside io come and negoti-ate . This land is going to resist . .. We want to make it clear that we are not fighting to sit in the sa me bar as the white man. or the same bath room as the white man. but to regain all of our land that was stolen from us .. . We fight the white man not because of the color of his skin but because of the evil he has caused . Even vcs terday. today and tomorrow. they arc not willi ng to. ne-gotiate . Blacks are prepared to fight for libe ration. ' '

Barney Mokgatle, South African student leader, now exiled in London, talks with Ahmed Shawki.

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This c::ame automatically wheo the pollcemen started shooting indiscriminately . 90 percent of the studeot 's

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More of the Samein { theUMW

In June. Arnold Miller . t.he one-time leader of the Miners for Democracy {MFD) squeeled a narrow presidential victory over his two chaJiengers-Leroy Patterson. a hold-over from the days of the corrupt Tony Boyle regime. and Harry . Patrick. the UMWA Secretary Treasurer and one-time Miller allyintheMFD.

Miller received only 42% of the vote . Patterson got 31% andPatnd.27%

NowPanerson plans to chal lengc the election results and hehasthebackingofthecoal rompanies as well as the leadership of the United Steel Workers union .

Therf:islittlecbancethat this chaJlengcwillsucceed.butit willcertainlyleadtoi.nc:reuing chaos in the leadlns bodies of the union.

SAME The real resuJtoftheelecrioo will~moreofthesame awea.l:andoonfusedleader.ship in the UMWA, a leadership thatisineffeetiveinitsfights with the coal operators, though

equally ineffective in con-trolling therankandfile .

Rankandfilemincrswereby and large apathetic about the clections.buttheyburstinro angcr whentheylcarncd shon lyafterthcelectionsthattherc were to be .. sha.rp cutbacks in their health m.nd welfare bene-fits.

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Within a week there were nearly 30.000 miners involved in wildcat strikes. protesting the cuts and promising mot"e' strikes to come.

Theangeroftherank and file is still disorganized though.

HanyPat~d.broterhetorically from MIU , but he failed to capture si '' ificant support because he ld not convince militants that he represented a real alternative co Miller. ln fact be didn't.

Still,thealternativemust~ built. There will ~ important struB&Ies in the mines this year, including the fight for a new national cootra.ct in De-cember. D

Local Strikes Threaten Peace T ......... OB- The tWiotull master coatnct for basic steel, DOW siped, rovers the basic issuea of wages. seniority, and aeneral wortlngeonditionsfortheneltl thiee year.s . Fot some. how eveT, thefightwiththebiasteel companies has DOt quite ended.

The local supplement> to the master eontnd, the qnoe-ments thai oover many of the grievances a:nd conditions in

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crisy by epelling Melody . She was tided out for puning fonhherviewpointinamanner which it seems to some. could be construed as representing the viewpoint of the entire caucus. Basically. lhey object ed to the candid manner by which she expressed herself. So what it boilsdowntoisthat this caucus is severely. ham-pered by a lact of democracy within itself. 1 think they will soon find that democracy iS essential in a group that is tryingtobringdemocracytothe

union. Sihcerely . Maryly Bonowo Longs-b,CA

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, .... --------reviews---Southern Africa ID Revolt

It is no~ 17 years since the police massacre or b9 black workersatSharpcvillc .

lntheyearsthat followcd,all internal opposition to the white South African regime was crushed.

There was an international cr)'ofprotcstbutbyandlargc thi s was led by the exiled libcrnl intelligentsia. not the revolutionary left.

MANUAL

Southern Africa AJtcr Soweto st rikes au entirely

new note. his a manual fur ~volutionar'fCs, both in South A.fricaandoutsideit.

Its authors are members of the British Socialist Workers Party andthciranalysis.asthCy acknowledge. is the product of many years collaborative study inthcSWP's MricaGn:wp.

Thcnubofthc:irargument is. .in the ir own words , that '" the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. is inseparable

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from the struggle against capitalism. We have shown how apartheid is not something external to capitalism in South Africa. a deformation that can be got rid ofwirhout changing the system as a whole, but is centralto thcspecific necdsof capitalisminthatcountry."

CaJiinicos and Rogers show with great care and integrity how the evolution of South Africa 's brutal , racist system wcru hand ~in - h and with the developing needs of the big mining interests on the Wit watersrand.

Part or their argument is to show how th"e ore industry rompromiscd with the rural Afrikaner pcttybourgcoisie-the r:a.cist white farmers - in institutionalizing :a system whose basis is the super exploitation of the indigenous black wortingclas.s .

Both sectors of the white rUling class need cheap labor. Many farms. because South Africanagricuhureissohcavily

labor-iritensive, simply could notfunctioneconomica.llywitb outthercpressivcactivitic:sof the 5tate in holding bl.act workers' wages down.

The same is true or the gold mines. The difference between the sections .c;>f the white bourgeoisie. then. is only that the Oppenheimer interests, the mining magnates, feel a little guilty about the degree of politica.li'C:_RreSSion.

Morcover,theyarewillingto contemplate a "liberal capita.list"'solutiontotheSouth African dilemma if it means

~~y cas ~:~c 07o~~:.eir ~ Afrikaners , on the other hand, are thoroughly racist and

~~:vi::;u~:n ~resssam.!~ glee.

SOU111.BRN AFIUCAN A.FI'EII SOWEI'O, by Alez Callinicos and John Rogen. (London: PlutoPrcss.l977.)

Y ertle the Turtle Mar. said that hista"C: and l.ambiatoo. ,.

Thisargumcntderivcschid ly from Trotsky's theory of "'Pcnnancnt Revolution" -the idea. devek>ped by Trotsky after the ftm Russian Rcvolu tK.nof l905 - tbateveninrela-tivdy undcvdopcd countries thcurbanproletariatcangivea decisive revolutionary lead to the mass of crushed and politi callyata

~ II Ancwstrugglcisdeveloping

at Worthington Compressor in Holyokc.Massachuserts .

Worthington Compressor was the scene of a strike in 1975 by Loca1259 of the United Eltttrical & Machine Workers CUE) whic.h ga\C rise to two i,mponant developments in labor issues. One was the fonmuionofasocialist..oricntcd Strike Support Commit1CC in thetownandtheother wasthe appearance of Federal agents who instigated a phony bomb plot . implicating UE organizer Alex Markley and friend Tony Sua~s.

The latest threat to the dig nityandsecurityoftbc:Worth ingtonworkersisane-wproduc tion rating sys1em called "MTM .. which uses pre-determined data instead of a stopwo.tch to time jobs. With MTM.thcbosssimplylooksup the times of motions like ''lifting the: arm.'' pushing the bunon. "etc.andadds themup to rome up with ot ratt' on a

specific job. This system completely

eliminates the human being. and literally treats the worker likeastandardiZL>dmo.chinc.

According to New Unit)'. a . ~~i:;~. ~~~~e thi: u~~on th~

L"'mmiucd tl:l fighting MTM while the

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Demonstrators in Los Angeles support Coors boycott.

Three btmdred Teamsters. femini.s1s , Aft..CIO memben.. United Farrnworters, and Ch1cuo commwrlty resideots mard'led tbroo&h the staeets of Los Angeles eastside burio. July l8 demanding ''Coors get out of East LA. ' Lecf by striken from the Golden. Colorido Coors breery, tbe march was part of a powi.aa boycott against the anti-uuioo, racist and sexist company.

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The ,.ide boycott bepn police b patrolli.aB the barrio. beD mrn~s ~ c:fuectJy The strilers have tbe offida.l &mated .Local 366 (AfL-ClO) endorsement of the AfL..CIO were unNe to drat down the and of the Teamsters Union. bceway afh:r striiiq over a AJt.booab Joint Council of niMJII'+-bastina (I)Gtlad ~7 Teamsters 142 in Los Angeles bytbeoqqy. J ~provided them with office

The NatioNI Orpni:ation of space and pays their telephone Wccnua bas a bo)wtt against bill. the striken must stifl sell Cooa for spetfina thousands T-shirts and bumper sticken of cWlars tD defeat tbe Equal to pay rent and eat. 1tipts Anndmeat. Coors also . None of the supporting donate4 a betic:opet to Denver unions have used their massive

PRORTS WHILE PEOPLE STARVE

The Grain oarders Crop forecasten ~

a harvest dose to Jast years record 2. l htllion busMls as the U.S. gr:11n harvest gets into high gear hs month.

In a " \ dd where millions of people 8