Workers viewpoint [1980-11-23]

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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, Units!
POLITICAL ORGAN OF THE COMMUNIST WORKERS PARTY, U.S.A.
VOL. 5, NO. 43
NOVEMBER 17-23,1980
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AWAITS
VERDICT
GREENSBORO, N.C.-Throughout
Greensboro, a person would be hard put
to! find anyone in the communities who
defends the Klan/Nazis murderers. One
woman said, "I can't think of anything to
do but hang them." People everywhere
are angry. IT
Two weeks ago, in Raleigh, N.C,
blacks organized a speak-out against the
recent police murders of a youth. The
city sent black cops to encircle the demonstrators. After marching, Marty Na
than, widow of Mike. Nathan, one of the
CWP 5, and Miami rebellion leader Leo
Harris spoke. The sister of the murdered
youth turned to the crowd and pointed
to the black cops all around, "Are they
our brothers?" Pointing to Marty, she
told how the CWP 5 died fighting for the
people, even though four of them were
white. "They are our brothers and sisters,
they are the ones who are on our side."
Children and older women at the demon-
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stration walked over to the ring of cops
and spat in their faces.-!   ~   v
CWP Uniting Blacks and Whites
In every community, our agitation
and propaganda teams are asked the same
question, "What is the CWP going to do?"
The Party has concentrated on
building unity between blacks and whites.
Since November 3rd, the capitalists and
the   government   have   tried   to   divide
Greensboro. The Greensboro papers play
up the fact that the jury is all white.
Assistant District Attorney Greason covered up the fact that the Klan/Nazi killers were working with the government
by emphasizing that the murderers acted
purely out of "hatred, racism and bigotry." In the black communities, our
teams have exposed the capitalists' attempt to whip up a race war and divide
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Jury Begins
In Klan/Nazi Trial
GREENSBORO, N.C.-This past
week, Judge Long presented instructions
to the jury in the Klan/Nazi trials. Six
Klan/Nazis have been on trial for the
murder of the CWP 5 in Greensboro, Nov.
3,1979.
Tiis instructions followed the closing
statements of both the prosecution and
the defense. They jury then left to decide.
Lesson in "Blind Justice"
The jury was given five possible verdicts: guilty of first degree murder as
charged, guilty of second degree murder,
guilty of voluntary manslaughter, guilty
of felony riot, or innocent. All six defendants could receive different verdicts.
Judge Long put on a show of "blind
justice" as he read instructions which
would allow as loose an interpretation of
the evidence as possible. Judge Long emphasized that the six must be "guilty beyond a doubt." He went on to instruct
the jury to see all the evidence as equal
and that the jury should give all the testimony and evidence equal weight. As an
example, he referred to the testimony
of one of the residents who had testified
to seeing the six murderers firing their
weapons and killing the five victims. But
Judge Long told the jury that they
"should assess their credibility the same
as you would any other witness."
Throughout the lecture, Judge Long
warned the jurors not to look only at the
instructions, that they were an incomplete summary of the evidence. He said,
"Because of its length, I will be unable to
review all of the evidence." But in a
highly unusual move, he gave each of
the jurors a copy of the 67 pages of
instructions to take with him.
In his presentation to the jury, Judge
Long laid out in detail the evidence that
points to self-defense. At the same time,
he left out evidence that points to first
degree murder. Judge Long said, "Some
prosecution witnesses say they saw demonstrators pull handguns. So the evidence would say the demonstrators
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