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...criticism, much of it published in the Nation, the Village Voice and the Soho News. Many argued that American socialists, including Sontag, have long criticized the Soviet Union as a perversion of Marxism, and need not feel guilty about Moscow's continued transgressions. Wrote Socialist Organizer Ralph Schoenman, who put together the rally: "What was particularly unnerving to those who have known Sontag well, and who have been involved with her in past efforts to defend those under attack in 'Communist' states, is the sense that she was confessing to things of which she has not been...
...Ralph Schoenman, who served as secretary-general of the Russell War Crimes Tribunal and who now lives in Princeton, N.J., says that Falk's view of popular sentiment on the war issue is "reactionary." "Nobody but the ruling class is willing to forget Indochina." Schoenman said last week. The Russell Tribunal, he says, was "an attempt to show that American imperialism needed experimental weapons to survive the war in Vietnam," adding that the best evidence of popular support for the Russell proceedings was the large number of military personnel who showed up to testify before the tribunal...
...Schoenman too concludes that it is unfeasible to propose that formal war crimes proceedings be instituted against American policy makers. "The policy makers are accountable," he says, "but they still control the state machinery that is needed to bring them to account." He suggests that one day a new revolutionary government might seek to bring American war criminals to justice, but in the meantime he emphasizes the continuing work of the non-governmental tribunals established by the Russell Foundation. "The idea of the popular tribunal is not dead," he says. "It's a continuing vehicle used to show what...
...rally which starts at 1 p.m. will include as speakers, Ralph Schoenman of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Fred Halstead, presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers' Party, and Noam Chomsky of M.I.T. There will also be an open microphone for G.I.'s who participate in the march...
...describes his continuing aim: "To clarify, isolate, identify, and expose the contradictions of capitalism." Hardly words to arouse the masses but then it is Ralph Schoenman the professor of revolution speaking...