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...trouble. The verdicts did not trigger the rioting that officials feared, but more than 1,500 people in Guilford and Durham counties participated in peaceful demonstrations to "express citizens' concerns" over the acquittals. In the only violent reaction, a gunman in a speeding car fired shots at acquitted Klansman Smith as he drove along a deserted Lincoln County road. Smith, who was not hit, managed to fire back before his car crashed into a tree. Meanwhile, the C.W.P. and other organizations announced plans to hold an anti-Klan, anti-Nazi, anti-government rally in Greensboro in early December. Clearly...
Trying to "fight against the right" by working within the Democratic Party--the party of "ethnic purity" Carter, anti-busing bigot Louise Day Hicks and Klansman Tom Metzger--is a loser strategy. Reformist organizations like DSOC who hope to pressure the war-makers and strike-breakers in the Democratic Party offer no solution to the racism and economic misery endemic to capitalist rule. The fundamental task of revolutionaries in the United States is to break the ties that bind labor to the capitalist parties and build a party that expresses the independence of the working class...
...frequently beaten with a stick by his mother. At 17, he dropped out of school and began getting into frequent scrapes with the police. He was arrested for assault, carrying concealed we and disorderly conduct. 'He became an Evangelical Christian, then a Nazi finally, a Ku Klux Klansman. At one point he told friends that he was going to join Ian Smith's Rhodesian army. Instead Joseph Paul Franklin, now 30, continued to drift from state to state, driven by twin passions: his love of rifles and his hatred of blacks...
...fuckers back," they yell when he talks about refugees; and when he mentions that a high proportion of the Cubans "don't like the things that other men like," they all start screaming, "faggot, queer." Welfare is unpopular, as is charity, deemed "communist." A beery tough asks one Klansman how much it costs to join. Told $20, he replies, "For that, can I burn two niggers a month?" "The Klan has no connection to all that violence you've heard about," the kleagle says, and the man looks confused till he sees a radio microphone stretched in their direction...
...Klan puts out a newspaper called The Klansman. A special "mini-edition," five million copies of which they say they are distributing across the nation, was available at the Scotland, Conn., rally; it offers a glimpse into the journalism of the Neanderthal Right. "Ku Klux Klan Calls For:" and then, in 144-point type, "WHITE UNITY." The lead article, written by Mr. Wilkinson, urges whites to "unite and reclaim our country and bring an end to black crime." Otherwise, it is a fairly dull treatise on liberal social schemes, affirmative action, "blood money" sent to Israel, and welfare. More interesting...