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- From: Hank Roth <pnews@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: NO MORE GREENSBOROS!
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- {From WORKERS VANGUARD, biweekly of the Spartacist League of the
- U.S., Box 1377, GPO, NY, NY 10116 (November 1992)}
-
- GREENSBORO MARTYRS
-
- Thirteen years have passed since the Greensboro Massacre. In
- broad daylight, the KKK/Nazi death squad drove up to a black
- housing project in Greensboro, NC, where an anti-Klan rally was
- gathering. With cool deliberation, the killers took their
- weapons out of the trunk, aimed, fired, and drove off. Five
- leftists, civil rights activists and union organizers lay dying
- in pools of blood, others were wounded or maimed for life. These
- were the opening shots, carried out under the Democratic Carter
- administration, of the Reagan years' war on labor and blacks.
-
- Greensboro was a conspiracy of the fascists and their patrons in
- the capitalist state. From the outset, the KKK and Nazis were
- aided and abetted by the government, from the G-man who helped
- train the killers and plot the assassinations to the "former" FBI
- informer who rode shotgun in the motorcade of death and the
- Greensboro cop who brought up the rear. Two successive all-white
- juries acquitted the killers of all charges, affirming once
- again the meaning of "justice" in this racist capitalist state.
-
- "Greensboro" --- the name cries out for justice, for vengeance.
- When the liberals claim it was a "shootout" and say to ignore the
- fascists, when the lynchers say they want to parade in their
- white sheets in our neighborhoods, we remember Greensboro by
- mobilizing to stop them. Immediately after the massacre, when the
- fascists sought to march in black Detroit, we organized a
- labor/black mobilization to stop them, as we have done from
- Washington and Philadelphia to Chicago and San Francisco.
-
- We honor the Greensboro martyrs --- Cesar Cauce, Michael Nathan,
- Bill Sampson, Sandi Smith, James Waller --- and rededicate
- ourselves to the fight against fascist terror. The working class
- in power, the third American revolution, will ensure there shall
- be NO MORE GREENSBOROS!
-
- 3 November 1979
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