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Racist, Anti-Communist Attack on Students: Campus Cops Arrest Red Prof by Michael Pugliese 18 January 2001 03:14 UTC |
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I needed more sectariana to add to my hard drive! Paul, I don't discount your committment. What's wrong about joining some less far loony sect? Committees of Correspondence? Solidarity? Whatever... Little did I think all those yrs. ago I was an undergrad reading Wallerstein's MWS vols. that I'd find a list of suppossed Wallersteinians, where one person writes extensively for a crackpot New Age conspiracy theory rag and someone else was in PLP. The internut indeed... Michael Pugliese, I Confess To Red-Baiting Liberalism "I Will Re-Read, "Combat Liberalism" by Mao, Now For Penance." (Barbara Foley writes good work though. She's in PLP too, no?) http://www.plp.org/cd98/cd0415.html#8 Racist, Anti-Communist Attack on Students: Campus Cops Arrest Red Prof CHICAGO, April 7 — PLP member Paul Gomberg, who teaches philosophy at Chicago State University (CSU), was arrested April 1st by campus cops for passing out communist fliers. Paul was in the Harold Washington Hall showing the PLP May Day video to students on a portable TV/VCR when an administrator told him to stop. He was told he would have to stop because the fliers "had not been stamped" by the administration. Paul said no way; he wouldn’t stop. So the cops were called. They pushed him into a stairwell as Paul made a speech protesting his arrest, advocating communist revolution to the students who had gathered around. Then the cops told him they would arrest him for making a speech, not for passing out fliers. "You mean I haven’t been arrested yet?" Paul asked. So he returned to talk with some student friends. A minute later cop Steward rushed him, handcuffed him, threw him into a police vehicle, and held him handcuffed to an iron bar at the campus police station for an hour and a half before releasing him. What fascist crap! The cops manufactured reasons to arrest him. On the college campus, the great center of "learning" and "open discussion," a teacher is arrested for passing out communist literature. Why is this happening? This arrest is in part a racist attack on the students. In the U.S. the capitalists have intensified terror against workers, particularly young black workers. They have introduced fascist labor policies, driving down wages with Workfare and prison labor. "Full employment" has been achieved, as the Nazis did, by driving wages down. Many workers work for less than minimum wage. 1.7 million working class youth have been thrown into jail where many now slave for the capitalists. (This is six times the rate of incarceration of thirty years ago.) Blacks are in jail at six times the rate of whites. On the streets there is increased police terror, community policing (turning older workers against the youth is part of fascist terror), and the growth of a criminal justice program at 90% black CSU to turn young black people into the fascist jailers of other young black people. As part of the general growth of fascist terror must also be increased against CSU students. The lesson they wish to send is "stay away from the reds, play along with the system, and we will have a job for you (helping to jail other black people)." PLP members bring the only answer to this racist, fascist terror: workers can unite, overcome racism and nationalism, overthrow the bosses, and build a communist society where all workers can flourish. The fascists cannot tolerate communism because only communism can destroy fascism. So they arrest Paul to try to drive the students away. But it will not work. After being released from jail, Paul went back to where he was arrested to pass out more literature. That night he and another comrade met with students in a dormitory to talk about the May Day March for communism and the arrest. The next day he, other comrades and many students flooded the campus with fliers describing the arrest, linking it to fascism and to the racist control of students. Many Challenges were sold. Students who had remained aloof became curious about communism, taking our Party more seriously than before. Nationalist students praised Paul’s resoluteness and integrity. Students began to make plans to take classes that Paul teaches. Ten students gave their names to find out more about May Day. Students signed up and gave money to go to the march. The future is bright. Every attack will be turned into its opposite. Young working class black students will respond to communism as the only way out of this racist morass. They will unite with their class sisters and brothers and join PLP. The coming wars will give us an opportunity to move forward to communist revolution. On to May Day! Challenge, April 15, 1998 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----
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