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...believe it or not, Menn is a member of a supposedly Marxist, supposedly anti-racist outfit called the International Socialist Organization (ISO), which at Harvard masquerades as "Socialist" Forum. The ISO claims a program that's "neither Washington nor Moscow." In the face of Reagan and Co.'s anti-Soviet was drive they refuse to defend the social gains of October 1917 and equate U.S. imperialism with the Soviet workers state, spitting on the greatest victory of the international working class. The ISO supports Reagan and the Vatican's company union in Poland, Solidarnosc, whose counterrevolutionary attempt was thankfully spiked...
What makes Joe and the ISO so upset about the Trotskyist SYL? Is it that we Marxists who defend for the Soviet Union stand for the defense of the unions, for the defense of Blacks against race terror and for workers revolution to smash capitalism? Menn is very explicit: "Sisyphist slogans like: 'Defense of the Soviet Union Begins in Central America!' 'Vietnam Was a Victory!!' 'Defend the Deformed Workers State Against Jewish Dissidents!!!''' It should be made clear that we adamantly oppose state persecution of citizens for purely ideological "crimes." But Soviet traitors like the Sakharovs, who give concrete...
...ISO hates Russia more than it wants to fight fascism, so they line up behind Reagan on the left flank of the anti-Soviet war drive. Because the ISO does not defend the Soviet Union against imperialist attack, they are impotent in the face of its domestic reflection: union-busting and race terrorism. The most hideous recent example of race-terror was the cold-blooded, state-organized murder of 11 members of the MOVE commune in Philadelphia by Reagan and his Black democratic front-man mayor Wilson Goode. However, despicable Joe Menn can joke in his piece about Klan-style...
...happen to be quite familiar with the sordid, little history of Joseph Menn and the somewhat bigger more sordid story of the ISO. So at the risk of making you nauseous, gentle reader, we wish to relate to some of the choicest parts of this tale in the interests of public sanitation...
...appointed labor reporter at The Crimson. To secure his post, Joe was told he would have to abide by Crimson discipline--he couldn't wear any "Better Red than Crimson" SYL T-shirts around the big boys at "The Crime." Of course, he eagerly complied. But it took the ISO to show him how he too could be a vile anti-Soviet, anti-Communist liberal like a lot of other Crimson editors, yet still keep a veneer of "radicalism...