Klan Killing Lli
Socialist Press1979 1979-11-07Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Four people were shot down by Ku Klux Klan gunmen on Saturday during rally organised by the Maoist Workers Voice group in Greenboro, North Carolina, in the Southern Maoist leader Paul Bermanzohn had challenged the gun-toting Klansmen to "face the wrath of the people". He had called them cowards.
Brave as the demonstrators' position is, there is no way forward in challenging the Klan to shoot-outs.
Certainly the nature of the Klan has been exposed to the whole world their TV screens.
But the moral indignation that this brings in no way solves the problem the US labour movement faces from the many different forms of neo-fasicsts.
The lessons must be that the only way they can be fought is by the organised labour movement, not a substitutionalist group.
From within the labour movement workers defence squads must be developed to defend black communities, demonstrations and picket lines. was a section of the USFI.
This conscious blackout is extremely significant.
In order to develop a "supportive" relationship with the FSLN, Murphy and the SWP are prepared to allow the jailing and murder of their own supporters without a protest.
This is all in the interest of course of fighting the "ultra left disruption"
SWP members in the US must seriously begin to ask themselves what kind of organisation that they are in that would support the expulsion, jailing and murder of their own "supporters". The Socialist League condemns this flagrant and criminal policy of the SWP.
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1979