Reagan Washington demonstration a year ago - a warning to by the Socialist (SWP) and the Young June.
Judge Thomas P could have been elemental cocuments and other government agencies of the president in posedly protect Some of these issues, The judge Led the lawyers for having really didn't dream of.' this would be early October.
before the end of the year putting up a proper defence!
per cent to 56 Urban League CANCE black headlines racist Wing. and Republic That challenged.
tional tant has COnS for it is mainstream economic pre-occupy and have done In the Northeast it has fallen from The trial of the lawsuit brought Workers Party Socialist Alliance (YSA) against the US government ended here on 25 ro one knew cule wnal lo expect when the trial opened on 2 April. As Griesa commented, ayter nearty eign years in preparation li little more than an plodding through ' proving the facts of forty years of spying and disruption by the FBI But the socialists' attorneys instead used the trial to expose the fundamental They forced out the way in which the powers 'national security' matters are used to ride roughshod over the constitutional guarantees which supof dissent. it turns out, have never before been ruled on by the courts.
himself paid tribute to these efforts. In his final remaks he prais'sensed this issues with a depth and sophistication I Both sides now have to prepare written briefs summarising their arguments in the trial. The SWP and YSA must file theirs by 25 August; the government has three weeks to respond; and finally the socialists have a further ten days in which to rebut material in the government's The judge also indicated that he would then like to hear some oral argument from both sides. A likely date for Given the complexity of the issues, the judge's final opinions is therefore not expected much Even then, some or all of his rulings will almost certainly be appealed. And the government attorneys have already rais ed the further possibility of a motion to deny the whole case on the grounds that 'national security' prevented them from per cent to 63 and in the south from 57 Vernon Jordan of the Nationa • тесеоту She US We the situation of blacks in the US: 98l to be a vcal with all that implies for record high black unemployment and an already devastated black economy. Inflation is expected to remain high, squeezing the family budget of the majority of who moderate-income even harder. 'Murderous attacks on black people in many cities continue to make The Klan, and similar most gre of revived anti-back feet. groups, flourish Lobbying The failure of blacks to realise the 'American dream' is partially because old black leadership who depended on polite lobbying and participation in the two main Democratic parties. tradition Last year two new black organisations were formed - - the National Black United Front and the Na Black Independent Political Pa The US socialist news Baph Mist commenied. these organisations are vanguard organisai the black They consciously reject many of the old use by the traditional black leaders and openly proclaim the need build a mass-based movement for full equality and seltdetermination' The 100,000 strong demonstration in January shows there is a growing mood in black areas in the US for such a frontal assault on Reaganisn and for all that it stands for. It still needs organisation, it still needs direc tion, but the sentiment is there: We ain't going to let him turn us around.