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WORKERS VIEWPOINT. December 10,1979, Page 5 DEATH TO THE KLAN! Klan's Bloody History-Buying Time for the Bourgeoisie The murders of the Communist Workers Party Five by the KKK/Nazis and FBI has concentrated the anti-Klan sentiment in the U.S. Opposition to the Ku Klux Klan is at an all time high. In the midst of the deepest economic crisis in history, the American people are beating these racist dogs back. In Vineland, NJ., the whole town from the mayor on down fought the KKK. The mayor sent the sheriff out and busted the Klan scum hours before they were to march through town. Anti- racist youth spraypainted the biggest billboard in town with KKK IS SHIT! tThe windows of the local Klan leader were smashed up good, and he was beaten to a pulp in broad daylight. While the mayor called a rally in a waves of terror at election time to drive the masses away from the polls. In Vicksburg, Mississippi, over 200 blacks were murdered the week before the city elections of 1874. The KKK was the chief means to defeat reconstruction, with the support of Southern plantation owners and Northern capitalists. The defeat of reconstruction opened the door for the monopoly capitalists to consolidate their rule over the South and the rest of the country. Blacks were re-enslaved as sharecroppers to the southern plantation owners and Jim Crow subjugation, while white small farmers were driven off their land and turned into wage slaves to the monopoly capitalists. In the 1890's populist revolts swept local high school, 200 people waited in Vineland's Landis Park to whip their ass. When the KKK tried to show its face in Seaview, Texas, the community passed a resolution banning them from marching. Under the leadership of the Communist Workers Party this sentiment will be organized to beat back the Klan attacks, unite the U.S. people and direct their anger at the secret backers of the KKK (who are promoting the Klan in the middle of this economic crisis to split the working class, diverting the masses' anger to get themselves off the hpok.)This two-part series on the Klan will show their bloody history is precisely to serve the capitalist class, and every time they rear their heads is to serve the scapegoat politics of the bourgeoisie., * * * * The KKK was organized by Confederate generals after the Civil War to restore the rule of the defeated southern plantation owners. They lynched, flogged and burned their way across the Black Belt South to defeat the reconstruction governments. The armed, fighting mass organizations with black arid white' locals and the black militia were the main targets of these murderous reactionaries. The Klan launched the country. Black and white farmers fought side by side with workers to oppose the monopoly robber barons. The monopoly capitalists were forcing the costs of industrialization onto the backs of the small farmers with sky- high railroad costs and low prices for their crops. To weaken the movement against the monopoly capitalists, the Klan stepped up lynchings and castrations again, and the poisonous white supremacist propaganda. The racist pressure of the KKK helped push the petty bourgeois leadership of the populist movement to drop the demands of the Afro-American people, weakening the resistance of the entire move-, ment. In the end the populist movement was co-opted by the bourgeoisie, and many more white farmers were driven off their lands, laying the basis for the industrial proletariat in the South. Bourgeoisie Promotes KKK To Get Out of Post-War Crisis During and after World War I, it was the first time around in a chance for the proletariat to seize state power. The bourgeoisie was faced with an international economic and political crisis. Industrial production fell by 25% and U.S. exports fell by half from 1919- 1922. More than 1 million Afro-Ameri can fanners, driven from their land in the South, flocked into the key industries in the North. Millions of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were imported to work in the mines and mills, bringing with them the revolutionary spirit seething in Europe and the influence of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia. The Communist Party, U.S.A. was formed in 1919, with immigrant workers a large part of the membership. The hardships of the war focused the masses' anger. Ten million workers went on strike from 1919 to 1922. In 1919 alone, general strikes hit Seattle and Winnipeg, Manitoba, while hundreds of thousands of workers fought long and bitter strikes in railroad, steel, mining and meatpacking. The monopoly capitalists were desperate to stop the rising revolutionary tide. The Deportation Act of 1919, called for the deportation of any immigrant who advocated overthrowing the government. The leadership of the U.S. people was attacked as 10,000 communists were rounded up in one night in the Palmer Raids. Sacco'and Vanzetti, Italian born socialists were arrested, framed for murder, and executed as examples to the working class. Vicious attacks by police and state troopers were launched against the big strikes. To split up the working class the bourgeoisie promoted the KKK all over the country. It was no accident that , precisely this period, when the bourgeoisie was faced with a deep crisis, was called the "Golden Age of the Klan." To serve their masters in this new situation, the KKK switched its line from white supremacy alone to "100% Americanism" and "against Bolshevism." The Klan lynched blacks all over the Black Belt South. Italian immigrants were run out of towns in Illinois, and attacked in New Jersey. Members of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) were lynched in West Virginia, for being radicals. The viciously racist KKK recruiting movie Birth of a Nation was personally endorsed by the ruling class to build up the KKK. President Wilson, his whole Cabinet, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court all watched a special White House showing of the movie and backed it. Rockefeller offered millions to promote the book that the movie was based on and it became a bestseller. As a result, membership in the KKK went up to four million. Masses Fight Handcuffed By Void in Correct Leadership The Klan attacks were fought heroically, as the United Mine Workers in Oklahoma took up rifles to drive out the Klan, and Italian immigrants whipped the KKK in the streets of Vineland, NJ. But the subjective factor was not strong enough to Continued on page 7 Detroit on Edge** W^^®®M$m^^^^^M^S8^l®!^®8Sffii8$& ■ Industrial Workers Confront Klan Murders DETROIT, Mi.-The assassinations of the Communist Workers Party Five hit a raw nerve in the people of Detroit. Many Afro- Americans came here from the South within the last fifteen years. The majority of U.S.-born whites came from the coal country. Most have had some direct experience with the Klan and Klan terror. Unemployment is very high. Wayne County is going broke and the city of Detroit just laid off another 500 city workers. It is no surprise Mayor Coleman Young said soon after the Communist Workers Party murders that the city was like a powder keg, and forbade demonstrations for or against the Klan. In 1963 when Sheriff "Bull" Conners opened up the dogs and fire hydrants on civil "rights marchers in Birmingham,, auto workers in Detroit led a march of between 150,000 to 300,000 militant Afro- Americans in June'of that year. In 1967 Detroit workers and Afro- Americans joined the wave of uprisings across the country and rebelled for six days, firing not at blacks or whites, but at the police. In a show of multinational unity, whites fired some, of, the first .shots against,the pigs. Mayor Young feared that in 1979 in this city, in the heart of the industrial proletariat, they might take to the streets again. When a general foreman and foreman paraded around in KKK I hoods in October at the Ford Rouge Complex, thousands of workers j signed a petition demanding they be | fired. The company was forced to act by first firing the foremen to diffuse [ the workers' anger, and then quietly reassigned them to different plants. The bourgeoisie knows that the woridag class is the unshakable, bulwark opposing the KKK/Nazis as it was in Nazi Germany. So they're \ ! trying to clean up the Klan's image \ \ or promote other organizations,; which would "speak up for whites" j -a line which was pushed in the racist Weber Supreme Court case. This dangerous new twist pro- ' motes the scum Klan trying to fill the void in leadership many white workers feel. By promoting Klan burnings of decadent and pornographic books, the bourgeoisie tries ; | to portray the Klan as defenders ! of the family and morality. This was true also in Nazi Germany, where the Nazis tried to appeal to the pro- j letarian instinct to defend the family while the bourgeoisie, supporters of the Nazis, wallowed in the decadence of the Weimar Republic. D j
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Full text | WORKERS VIEWPOINT. December 10,1979, Page 5 DEATH TO THE KLAN! Klan's Bloody History-Buying Time for the Bourgeoisie The murders of the Communist Workers Party Five by the KKK/Nazis and FBI has concentrated the anti-Klan sentiment in the U.S. Opposition to the Ku Klux Klan is at an all time high. In the midst of the deepest economic crisis in history, the American people are beating these racist dogs back. In Vineland, NJ., the whole town from the mayor on down fought the KKK. The mayor sent the sheriff out and busted the Klan scum hours before they were to march through town. Anti- racist youth spraypainted the biggest billboard in town with KKK IS SHIT! tThe windows of the local Klan leader were smashed up good, and he was beaten to a pulp in broad daylight. While the mayor called a rally in a waves of terror at election time to drive the masses away from the polls. In Vicksburg, Mississippi, over 200 blacks were murdered the week before the city elections of 1874. The KKK was the chief means to defeat reconstruction, with the support of Southern plantation owners and Northern capitalists. The defeat of reconstruction opened the door for the monopoly capitalists to consolidate their rule over the South and the rest of the country. Blacks were re-enslaved as sharecroppers to the southern plantation owners and Jim Crow subjugation, while white small farmers were driven off their land and turned into wage slaves to the monopoly capitalists. In the 1890's populist revolts swept local high school, 200 people waited in Vineland's Landis Park to whip their ass. When the KKK tried to show its face in Seaview, Texas, the community passed a resolution banning them from marching. Under the leadership of the Communist Workers Party this sentiment will be organized to beat back the Klan attacks, unite the U.S. people and direct their anger at the secret backers of the KKK (who are promoting the Klan in the middle of this economic crisis to split the working class, diverting the masses' anger to get themselves off the hpok.)This two-part series on the Klan will show their bloody history is precisely to serve the capitalist class, and every time they rear their heads is to serve the scapegoat politics of the bourgeoisie., * * * * The KKK was organized by Confederate generals after the Civil War to restore the rule of the defeated southern plantation owners. They lynched, flogged and burned their way across the Black Belt South to defeat the reconstruction governments. The armed, fighting mass organizations with black arid white' locals and the black militia were the main targets of these murderous reactionaries. The Klan launched the country. Black and white farmers fought side by side with workers to oppose the monopoly robber barons. The monopoly capitalists were forcing the costs of industrialization onto the backs of the small farmers with sky- high railroad costs and low prices for their crops. To weaken the movement against the monopoly capitalists, the Klan stepped up lynchings and castrations again, and the poisonous white supremacist propaganda. The racist pressure of the KKK helped push the petty bourgeois leadership of the populist movement to drop the demands of the Afro-American people, weakening the resistance of the entire move-, ment. In the end the populist movement was co-opted by the bourgeoisie, and many more white farmers were driven off their lands, laying the basis for the industrial proletariat in the South. Bourgeoisie Promotes KKK To Get Out of Post-War Crisis During and after World War I, it was the first time around in a chance for the proletariat to seize state power. The bourgeoisie was faced with an international economic and political crisis. Industrial production fell by 25% and U.S. exports fell by half from 1919- 1922. More than 1 million Afro-Ameri can fanners, driven from their land in the South, flocked into the key industries in the North. Millions of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were imported to work in the mines and mills, bringing with them the revolutionary spirit seething in Europe and the influence of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia. The Communist Party, U.S.A. was formed in 1919, with immigrant workers a large part of the membership. The hardships of the war focused the masses' anger. Ten million workers went on strike from 1919 to 1922. In 1919 alone, general strikes hit Seattle and Winnipeg, Manitoba, while hundreds of thousands of workers fought long and bitter strikes in railroad, steel, mining and meatpacking. The monopoly capitalists were desperate to stop the rising revolutionary tide. The Deportation Act of 1919, called for the deportation of any immigrant who advocated overthrowing the government. The leadership of the U.S. people was attacked as 10,000 communists were rounded up in one night in the Palmer Raids. Sacco'and Vanzetti, Italian born socialists were arrested, framed for murder, and executed as examples to the working class. Vicious attacks by police and state troopers were launched against the big strikes. To split up the working class the bourgeoisie promoted the KKK all over the country. It was no accident that , precisely this period, when the bourgeoisie was faced with a deep crisis, was called the "Golden Age of the Klan." To serve their masters in this new situation, the KKK switched its line from white supremacy alone to "100% Americanism" and "against Bolshevism." The Klan lynched blacks all over the Black Belt South. Italian immigrants were run out of towns in Illinois, and attacked in New Jersey. Members of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) were lynched in West Virginia, for being radicals. The viciously racist KKK recruiting movie Birth of a Nation was personally endorsed by the ruling class to build up the KKK. President Wilson, his whole Cabinet, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court all watched a special White House showing of the movie and backed it. Rockefeller offered millions to promote the book that the movie was based on and it became a bestseller. As a result, membership in the KKK went up to four million. Masses Fight Handcuffed By Void in Correct Leadership The Klan attacks were fought heroically, as the United Mine Workers in Oklahoma took up rifles to drive out the Klan, and Italian immigrants whipped the KKK in the streets of Vineland, NJ. But the subjective factor was not strong enough to Continued on page 7 Detroit on Edge** W^^®®M$m^^^^^M^S8^l®!^®8Sffii8$& ■ Industrial Workers Confront Klan Murders DETROIT, Mi.-The assassinations of the Communist Workers Party Five hit a raw nerve in the people of Detroit. Many Afro- Americans came here from the South within the last fifteen years. The majority of U.S.-born whites came from the coal country. Most have had some direct experience with the Klan and Klan terror. Unemployment is very high. Wayne County is going broke and the city of Detroit just laid off another 500 city workers. It is no surprise Mayor Coleman Young said soon after the Communist Workers Party murders that the city was like a powder keg, and forbade demonstrations for or against the Klan. In 1963 when Sheriff "Bull" Conners opened up the dogs and fire hydrants on civil "rights marchers in Birmingham,, auto workers in Detroit led a march of between 150,000 to 300,000 militant Afro- Americans in June'of that year. In 1967 Detroit workers and Afro- Americans joined the wave of uprisings across the country and rebelled for six days, firing not at blacks or whites, but at the police. In a show of multinational unity, whites fired some, of, the first .shots against,the pigs. Mayor Young feared that in 1979 in this city, in the heart of the industrial proletariat, they might take to the streets again. When a general foreman and foreman paraded around in KKK I hoods in October at the Ford Rouge Complex, thousands of workers j signed a petition demanding they be | fired. The company was forced to act by first firing the foremen to diffuse [ the workers' anger, and then quietly reassigned them to different plants. The bourgeoisie knows that the woridag class is the unshakable, bulwark opposing the KKK/Nazis as it was in Nazi Germany. So they're \ ! trying to clean up the Klan's image \ \ or promote other organizations,; which would "speak up for whites" j -a line which was pushed in the racist Weber Supreme Court case. This dangerous new twist pro- ' motes the scum Klan trying to fill the void in leadership many white workers feel. By promoting Klan burnings of decadent and pornographic books, the bourgeoisie tries ; | to portray the Klan as defenders ! of the family and morality. This was true also in Nazi Germany, where the Nazis tried to appeal to the pro- j letarian instinct to defend the family while the bourgeoisie, supporters of the Nazis, wallowed in the decadence of the Weimar Republic. D j |