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...equate the far left and the far right as members of the so-called unrealistic fringe, hated by a "good segment of society." This equation is the same methodology which led the bourgeois press to characterize the KKK's cold-blooded murder of five anti-Klan militants in Greensboro, North Carolina, as simply a "shootout" between two "violence-prone extremist groups...
...more clear that as far as the KKK is concerned, there is no difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. Furthermore, it was government agencies--the FBI and the Treasury Department--which had paid agents to participate in the 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing and the 1979 Greensboro massacre...
...with the fight against fascism and even objectively supported the Louise Day Hicks campaign in its efforts to "unite against Boston busing." Real communists like the Spartacist League/Spartacus Youth League offer the only alternative to imperialist decay and fascism. So when the KKK wanted to "celebrate" the Greensboro massacre in the labor/Black town of Detroit it was the SL and 500 predominantly Black workers who demonstrated and stopped the Klan. And when the Nazis threatened to celebrate Hitler's birthday on April 19 in San Francisco, over 1,200 trade unionists, Blacks, Chicanos, Jews, gays and socialists supported...
...harsh memory lingers. "People are embarrassed this happened here," says one member of the district attorney's office in Greensboro. Many now fear that the trial will further harm the city's reputation. Says James Wright, the city's human relations director: "We're concerned how this event will be used as a stage. Lots of eyes are on Greensboro...
...more than 2,000 pieces of evidence. Jittery city officials considered canceling a lunchtime jazz concert scheduled outside the courthouse the day after the wrestling match in the hallway but finally decided to let it take place. And so, reassuringly, blacks and whites gathered in the warm sunshine of Greensboro to munch hot dogs and tap their toes to musical riffs just a few dozen yards from the site of a trail with bitter racial overtones...