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COMMUNIST WORKERS PARTY
1 East Broadway
New York, N.Y. 10038
For Immediate Release Contact: Marion Yuen
June 23, 1980 212-233-0988
CWP SCORES POLITICAL VICTORY-THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING-
THE KLAN/ NAZI/ FBI TRIALS CAN'T BE KEPT CLOSED
The Communist Workers Party announces the filing of criminal charges
of assault against the Guilford County Sheriff's Department and the
Greensbore Police Department. The charges are for assaulting wheelchair-
bound Paul Bermanzohn, CWP spokeperson on June 16 outside the courtroom
where 6 Klan/Nazi/FBImurderers were on "trial" for the November 3rd
assassinations of 5 members of the Communist Workers Party.
Millions of Americans watched the assault on television. Why were
the victims and survivors of the November 3 massacre forcibly kept from
the courtroom? Why were four CWP supporters arrested for protecting
Paul Bermanzohn? Why are the trials closed to the broad American public?
Millions of Americans know that there is no justice for working
people, the poor or minorities in the capitalist courts. The courts like
the police are part of the state apparatus to squash people's resistance,
in the name of "law and order".
The Miami uprisings speak for the entire American people as they
refuse to live under capitalist oppression and are searching for leadership to organize their fight for a better life.
The whole world is watching the charade of courtroom mockery in Greensboro. On June 16, the government bungled its attempt to cover-up and hide
from world view the "trials" of the Klan/Nazi/FBI murderers. A test of
strength is going on in Greensboro-the U.S. monopoly capitalists and their
government are attempting a massive cover-up of their bloody crimes on
November 3 while the CWP is showing the American people the 2 roads in
the 80's.-either fascism and world war to temporarily stabilize the
Object Description
| Title | CWP scores political victory - The whole world is watching - The Klan/Nazi/FBI trials can't be kept closed |
| Date | 1980-06-23 |
| Creator | Communist Workers Party U.S.A. |
| Contributors | Yuen, Marion |
| Biographical/historical note |
The Communist Workers Party (CWP) was a Maoist group in the United States. It was founded in 1969 as the Workers' Viewpoint Organization. The party is mainly remembered for the "Greensboro Massacre", a November 3, 1979 Death to the Klan march that left five of the CWP protesters dead. The CWP emphasized unionization and self-determination for African-Americans and enjoyed some success in textile cities of North Carolina. The party established branches in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Greensboro, West Virginia, Colorado and other locations. Prior to its reorganization as a political party, the group had been known as the Workers Viewpoint Organization. Under this umbrella, it directed groups as the Revolutionary Youth League, the African Liberation Support Committee, and the Trade Union Education League. Confrontations with the Klan were particularly acute in Greensboro, where the Klan attempted to disrupt the work of the CWP and vice versa. In July, 1979, the Klan held a rally and viewing of The Birth of a Nation in China Grove, N.C., which was disrupted by CWP members who burned a Confederate flag and taunted members of the KKK. There were also challenges in the press. These provocations were a precursor to the November 3, 1979. "Death to the Klan!" rally organized by the CWP. Members of the Klan were armed, as were some members of the CWP. Two members of the CWP and three rally participants were killed in the assault by the KKK. This was the incident that became known as the "Greensboro Massacre". In response to the acquittal of the accused killers, the CWP attempted to storm the 1980 Democratic National Convention and succeeded in setting off firecrackers in Madison Square Garden. Subsequent to the Greensboro massacre, the group moved towards a social democratic formation that would work for peaceful transition to socialism; it dissolved the Communist Workers Party and formed the New Democratic Movement in 1985. The New Democratic Movement lasted but a few years. The Greensboro Justice Fund is a still extant remnant of this movement. |
| Subject headings | Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979 |
| Topics | Greensboro Massacre, 1979 |
| Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
| Description | This June 23, 1980 press release, issued by the Communist Workers Party (CWP), announces that the CWP will be filing criminal charges against law enforcement officers in Greensboro for assaulting CWP supporters who attempted to attend the murder trial of Klan and Nazi defendants related to the November 3, 1979, Greensboro Massacre. The press release restates the CWP opinion that the November 3 shootings were part of a government conspiracy and that the trials were a cover-up designed to "squash people's resistance." |
| Type | text |
| Original format | reports |
| Original dimensions | 8.5" x 11" |
| Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : Communist Workers Party U.S.A. |
| Language | en |
| Contributing institution | Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University |
| Source collection | RL.00134 Blanche M. Boyd Papers |
| Finding aid link | http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/boyd/ |
| Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Additional rights information | IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse. |
| Object ID | Duke_RL.00134.1205 |
| Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
| Sponsor | LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html |
| OCLC number | 884367506 |
Page/Item Description
| Title | 4.66.1205-01 |
| Full text | COMMUNIST WORKERS PARTY 1 East Broadway New York, N.Y. 10038 For Immediate Release Contact: Marion Yuen June 23, 1980 212-233-0988 CWP SCORES POLITICAL VICTORY-THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING- THE KLAN/ NAZI/ FBI TRIALS CAN'T BE KEPT CLOSED The Communist Workers Party announces the filing of criminal charges of assault against the Guilford County Sheriff's Department and the Greensbore Police Department. The charges are for assaulting wheelchair- bound Paul Bermanzohn, CWP spokeperson on June 16 outside the courtroom where 6 Klan/Nazi/FBImurderers were on "trial" for the November 3rd assassinations of 5 members of the Communist Workers Party. Millions of Americans watched the assault on television. Why were the victims and survivors of the November 3 massacre forcibly kept from the courtroom? Why were four CWP supporters arrested for protecting Paul Bermanzohn? Why are the trials closed to the broad American public? Millions of Americans know that there is no justice for working people, the poor or minorities in the capitalist courts. The courts like the police are part of the state apparatus to squash people's resistance, in the name of "law and order". The Miami uprisings speak for the entire American people as they refuse to live under capitalist oppression and are searching for leadership to organize their fight for a better life. The whole world is watching the charade of courtroom mockery in Greensboro. On June 16, the government bungled its attempt to cover-up and hide from world view the "trials" of the Klan/Nazi/FBI murderers. A test of strength is going on in Greensboro-the U.S. monopoly capitalists and their government are attempting a massive cover-up of their bloody crimes on November 3 while the CWP is showing the American people the 2 roads in the 80's.-either fascism and world war to temporarily stabilize the |
