Workers viewpoint [1979-12-26]

              WORKERS"
VIEWPOINT
End the Criminal Rule
of the U.S. Monopoly Capitalist Class,
Fight for Socialism!
The Proletariat and Oppressed People
and Nations of the World, Unite!
POLITICAL ORGAN OF THE COMMUNIST WORKERS PARTY, U.S.A.
VOL. 4, NO. 23
DECEMBER 26,1979
Atlanta Anti-Klan Conference Issues Unanimous Call
Demonstrate Against the
KKK-Feb. 2 in Greensboro
ATLANTA, Ga.-Over 300 people
at the recent anti-Klan conference here
unanimously called for a national demonstration on February 2 in Greensboro,
North Carolina. The conference held'
on December 14-15, was moved up
ahead of schedule by its sponsors, IFCO
(Intcireligious Foundation for Community Organization) and the SCLC
(Southern Christian Leadership Conference), because of the November 3
Greensboro massacre of five comrades
from ithe Communist Workers Party.
Progressive people came from all over
the Eastern seaboard and as far away as
Texas and OhiOj spurred on by the new
wave of KKK attacks, especially the .
murder of the Communist Workers
Party 5.
Deep Pool of Anti-Klan ,
Sentiment Just Beginning
To Be Tapped
The Communist Workers Party and
the Committee to Avenge the CWP 5,
progressive lawyers from groups like the
National Lawyers Guild and independents, students from Alabama, North
Carolina, Florida and Georgia, clergymen, workers from Birmingham and
Greensboro, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee from Ohio and members
of trade unions in the auto, steel, textile and electrical industries came to
the conference,
The broadness of the forces at the
conference reflects the U.S. people's
widespread concern over renewed KKK
and Nazi attacks. The conference just
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scratches the surface of the deep pool
of anti-Klan, anti-capitalist sentiment in
the country.
Addressing the group gathered at
historic Ebenezer Baptist Church (once
Dr. Martin Luther King's church) on
Friday, speaker after speaker talked
about the new wave of Klan attacks and
the need to beat it back. One of the
clearest analyses of the Klan was given
by Anne Braden (Director of SOC—
Southern Organizing Committee for'
Economic and Racial Justice). "We have
not defeated the ideology from which
the Klan grows", she said; "We must
expose 'reverse discrimination' as a hoax
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top: Phil Thompson, CWP Central Committee member, speaking to the 1st session of the conference at historic Ebenezer
Baptist Church, bottom: Almost every workshop passed resolutions specifically dealing with the Greensboro murders and the
need to avenge the 5. Leading this one is Anne Braden, at center, director of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Racial Justice.
Kansas Aircraft Machinists
Ground Red-Baiting Attacks
WICHITA, Kansas-On Saturday,
November 17, 40 Machinists Union
workers shut down the well-laid plans of
district and local misleaders to whip up
anti-communist hysteria and expel
John Spearman, a key steward from the
union. Defending the rank and file's
leading fighter, John, Cessna Aircraft's
workers marched into the .regular
meeting of International Association of
Machinist (IAM) Local 774. They challenged and beat back the organized and
vicious red-baiting campaign, a campaign personally orchestrated by Inter
national IAM President and self-proclaimed "socialist" William Winspisinger.
But at the first hint of struggle, the cowardly hacks abandoned the agenda and
adjourned the meeting over the loud
protests of the workers.
John Spearman, the main and immediate target of the campaign, is an
aircraft worker and steward who supports the Communist Workers Party. He
.helped organize Machinists United for a
Strong, Militant and Democratic Union,
a rank and file caucus, and an influential
city-Wide   shop   newspaper,  Hammer
House. Machinists United, wliicli spearheaded the fight against the red-oaiting
on Novermber 17, has won a strong
fighting reputation by organizing day-today struggles ranging from breaking
open welded fire exits and combatting
sexual harassment in the plant, to pro
testing pohce brutality involving Cessna workers. Local 774, which represents 11,000 workers in two major Cessna plants, is fast becoming the pacesetter among the working class in Wichita.
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