CIVIL WAR PLANNED FOR CHICAGO, OCTOBER 8-11, 1969

            SDS is planning military action in Chicago from October 8-11, 1969 to assist the North Vietnamese in their battle to destroy American troops. SDS leaders frankly state that this is their purpose. Using the slogans, “Bring the war home” and “The time is right for fighting in the street,” they hope to stage pitched battles in Chicago between masses of young people and the police. They do not plan to use guns this time, but they believe that the situation is developing so that guns can be used in the near future. They are openly training a “red army” for this purpose. A picture of this red army in training appears in SDS New Left Notes of September 12, 1969.

            The military action is discussed in New Left Notes of September 20, 1969. Extracts from the article are printed below:

            “This October 8-11 we’re bringing it all back to Chicago. But since last year’s actions we’ve changed a whole lot, learning from that struggle and the actions we’ve initiated on the campuses and in the streets all over the country.

            “The war’s not just in Vietnam. It’s everywhere–in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the black colony here at home. . . And the Vietnamese have shown us all that the people can win despite the Man’s technology.

            “SDS is calling the action this year. But it will be a different action. An action not only against a single war or a ‘foreign policy’, but against the whole imperialist system that made that war a necessity. As action not only for immediate withdrawal of all US occupation troops, but also in support of the heroic fight of the Vietnamese people and the National Liberation Front for freedom and independence. An action not only to bring peace to Vietnam, but beginning to establish another front against imperialism right here in America–to ‘bring the war home.’

            “We demand that all occupational troops get out of Vietnam and every other place they don’t belong. This includes the black and brown communities, the workers’ picket lines, the schools, and the streets. An end to ‘law and order’ backed up by soldiers in Vietnam and pigs in the communities and schools.

            “We demand the release of all political prisoners who have been victimized by the brutal attacks on the black people’s struggle and the people in general. Especially the leaders like Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Ahmed Evans, Fred Hampton, and Martin Sostre. We are in solidarity with the Conspiracy 8, 2ho lead the struggle last summer in Chicago. Our action is planned to roughly coincide with the beginning of their trial.

            “We totally support the National Liberation Front and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam.

            “We are in total support of the black liberation struggle, part of the same struggle that the Vietnamese are fighting, against the same enemy.

            “We demand independence for Puerto Rico and an end to the colonial oppression the Puerto Rican nation faces at the hands of US imperialism.

            “And we support GIs in Vietnam and throughout the world who are refusing the fight the battles of the rich. We support the rebellions of those GIs who have refused to be cannon fodder in a war against the people of Vietnam.

            “When we move with the people of the world, against the interests of the rulers, we can expect their pigs to come down on us. So we’re building a fighting force to struggle on the side of the Vietnamese, the blacks, and oppressed people everywhere. There’s a war we cannot ‘resist.’ It is a war in which we must fight. We must open another front against US imperialism by waging a thousand struggles in the schools, the streets, the army, and on the job, and in CHICAGO: October 8-11.”

            New Left Notes also provides practical advice for the ‘soldiers’ coming to participate in the action. They are anticipating many arrests so they are making provision for legal assistance and bail money for those arrested.

            The ability of the communist and new left forces to provide lawyers in every situation is remarkable. Here is some of the advice published in SDS New Left Notes of September 20, 1969:

            “The regular procedure is to take people to the nearest precinct, hassle them for awhile, fingerprint them, check for outstanding warrants, and do the bureaucratic ________. If charged with a misdemeanor, then bail can be set at the precinct. For felonies, a bail hearing must be set, for which there will be lawyers. For misdemeanors, the bail has been running from $150 to $350 cash for the standard demonstration charges: disorderly conduct, mob action, resisting arrest. In non-mass situations, it takes about eight hours to get people out. But the pig courts can do whatever they want. So far the way in which the pig courts have treated white movement people is just another case of whites having it better because they’re white. Few people have been beaten. Bail, although getting higher, is still such that we get people out fairly quickly while blacks and Latins are still in jail. This is true both because we have more access to money and get lower bail. What we have to understand is that when we make it clearer that we’re fighting on the side of the Vietnamese and blacks, then this privilege will go.

            “Because we have little money, regional bail funds should be set up immediately. If you have money, bring it with you. There will be a place where it will be held. It is also real important that besides bringing money, people bring the names of people back home who can be contacted for bail. These names should be turned in at the movement center. 

            “Don’t bring anything to Chicago with you that you wouldn’t want the pigs to get ahold of. No address books. When you are on the streets you should carry only two pieces of ID and a small amount of money.

            “Chicago has a curfew law for everyone under 18 which is 10:30 p.m., Sunday through Thursday and 11:00 Friday and Saturday. In situations where lots of young people are on the streets, the Chicago pigs will make a lot of curfew busts, because they understand that young people getting together is a threat to the power structure in this country. If you can get ID that says you are 18, do it; but come anyway. As is always the case, if there are attempts to bust people, their brothers and sisters will defend them from the pigs.

            “For the days of the action, there will be a centrally operated legal staff. Lawyers will be available 24 hours a day at a phone number everyone will receive when they arrive in town. Those lawyers will be available for bail hearings, arraignments, and speeding up the process at the cop station if that’s possible. Also they will be able to answer any specific questions that come up during the course of the action. The lawyers will also work along with the bail fund co-ordinators and help to see that the money gets to the right place. Technical legal information will be available when people arrive in Chicago.” Page 16.

HARVEST TIME

“Dear Dr. Schwarz,

            Earlier this summer I had the opportunity to attend your seminar in Washington, D. C. The impact of that weekend on me has led to the formation of a college chapter of The Freedom Leadership Foundation, which I’m sure you have heard from. In the beginning we taught a course called “Communism–a New Critique” at the Free University on our campus. There we used much of the invaluable information that we presented at the seminar. From this we have been able to sell about ten copies of You Can Trust the Communists and hope to make this a basic text for our course. This fall our purpose on campus will be twofold. Not only do we intend to continue our educational work but also we want to initiate positive action as a solution to some of the problems on campus.

            (Signed) Carolyn J. Libertini

            Freedom Leadership Foundation

            University of Maryland”

THE UNIVERSITY AS CENTER OF SUBVERSION

            The Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate has published a document “Extent of Subversion in Campus Disorders, Testimony of Ernest E. Blanco”, June 19, 1969, showing the important role played by the University of Havana in the communist conquest of Cuba.

            This document is particularly important at this time because so many American Universities are following the pattern of the University of Havana. It has been said that “They who will not learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them.”

            The document contains the testimony of Ernest E. Blanco who is currently Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Graphics and Design at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. He formerly taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts and at Villanova University, Havana, Cuba. After the conquest of Cuba by Castro, he was a consultant to the revolutionary government from mid-1959 to 1960. He left Cuba when he became convinced that the revolutionary government of Cuba was under communist control.

The Autonomy of the University of Havana

            He points out that the University of Havana was an ideal center for subversion because it was an “autonomous institution.” As an autonomous institution, the university had its own police and its own internal laws while the external government exercised no power. The government police could not enter the confines of the campus. The university, in fact, was very much like a state within a state similar to a foreign embassy. Mr. Blanco states:

            “The police, for instance, on many occasions tried to enter the university but were always stopped. When they were prosecuting someone, if that person was on the other side, inside the university, the police could not do anything against him. He would have to be delivered by the university authorities.” Page 8.

The Subversive Professors

            The professors manipulated the students. Blanco states:

            “The student immaturity, of course, was exploited, and we had another very dangerous development, the fact that there were quite a few professors at the university who were Marxists and others who were either ideologically inclined to Marxism or were sympathetic to their ideas. Some of those professors were active, leading members of the Communist Party.

            “One of the professors of economics and social studies was one of the most prominent leaders of the Communist Party in Cuba.

            “His name was Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. He was one of the most active members, an intellectual. He is the chief theoretician of the Communist Party.” Pages 9 and 10.

“The Radicalized Students”

            The Marxist professors exercised great influence with the students. Many of the students became “politicalized” and “radicalized.” Mr. Blanco expresses this as follows:

            “The political views of the students most of the time are those that are put in their minds by the faculty with which they are related. This is the process of politicalization.

            “By ‘radicalized’, I mean that the students were encouraged to take violent or illegal action in order to achieve their political purposes.” Page 7.

After the Revolution

            When Castro conquered Cuba, the autonomy of the university disappeared. Mr. Blanco states:

            “The intention of Castro was to take over the university, take the power from the students at the university, and then, through his government and communist leadership, exercised through the Student Federation–control all the activities at the university.” Page 11.

            He achieved this by using the Marxist students to agitate against the non-Marxist faculty. This agitation was fostered by outside communists and inside faculty Marxists. The professors were accused of incompetence, disregard of duties, biased course orientation, bureaucracy, while some were accused of having cooperated with Batista as advisors or administrators in his government.

            The revolutionaries had the complete cooperation of the mass communication media to the extent that the anticommunist faculty and administration were prevented from reaching the public.

Purge Tribunals

            All anticommunist faculty were eliminated by Purge Tribunals:

            “The Cuban student revolutionaries demanded absolute control of policy, by that they meant control of hiring, firing, curriculum establishment, and decisions on any activities within the university. The Marxist faculty backed them completely, and the mass media immediately jumped in and sided with the student activists and the faculty activists in order to turn the tide of public opnion against the existing administration. The administration finally yielded and purge tribunals were established.

            “Purge tribunals were formed with three professors and two students: Both the professors and the students were under coercion from the government, or in some instances they were part of the Marxist conspiracy themselves.

            “By the time the professors were purged, there was little faculty left and the revolutionaries decided that they were going to bring new faculty in. The new faculty was composed mostly of Marxists that were appointed, violating all university regulations. They were entirely incompetent, and the ‘restructure’ of the curriculum actually consisted in the official introduction of Marxism into the university. It was more important at that time to be a Marxist in order to pass a course than it was to know the subject matter. Academic standards were replaced by Marxist ideology. And that situation still prevails today.” Pages 16 and 17.

Situation in American Universities

            Mr. Blanco assesses the situation in American Universities as follows:

            “My evaluation of the ideological tendencies of faculties in American universities is that they are very influenced and conditioned by socialistic, Marxist, and Fabian ideas to the extent that today in most American universities, it is almost anathema to criticize in any form, way, or manner the ideas or activities of Communists and Socialists.” Page 13.

            Mr. Blanco presented the charts shown on the next page to illustrate the takeover of the Havana University and the structure of the campus revolution which is afflicting the United States.

            The complete document may be obtained by writing to the United States Printing Office or the Internal Security Subcommittee of the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Senate.

“Takeover of Havana University in 1959-60

“Preconditions

            “Cuban students radicalized and politicalized by faculty and politicians. Used always as the shock troops of radical reformers. Autonomous university was sanctuary for subversives. Student immaturity and idealism exploited. Faculty under Marxist ideological influence.

            “Anti-Communist professors ridiculed and socially ostracized. Administration and faculty intimidated by student activists. University closed in 1957 due to unrest.

            “The Takeover

            “Upon Castor’s victory in January 1959, the university reopened and student unrest resumed. Agitation was fostered by outside communists and inside faculty Marxists to set climate for takeover.

“Methodoloy–

            1. Faculty and administration discredited by revolutionary students and communications media aided by pamphleteerism and vicious popular meetings.

            2. Professors accused of incompetence; disregard of duties; biased course orientation; excessiver bureaucracy; course irrelevancy; abuse of authority; some faculty accused of collaborating with Batista’s establishment as advisors or administrators.

            3. Pro-Communist newspapers attacked the university structure as ‘corrupt’ and ‘immoral’. Public opinion turned against the system. Defenders were accused of counter-revolutionary and obstructionist activity.

            4. Revolutionary students demanded absolute control of policy. Marxist faculty backed them. ‘Public’ pressure, intimidation, and abuses followed.

            5. Feb. 1959 administration yielded. ‘Purge tribunals’ were established to punish the ‘criminal’ (anti-Communist) faculty, administration, and students.

            6. Purge tribunals formed by three professors and two students operated in kangaroo fashion under government influence. Anti-Communist elements progressively purged.

            7. University students’ federation (F.E.U.) taken over by Marxists after bitter fights. ‘Good squads’ terrorized dissidents. Faculty and their families were threatened. Total Marxist control established.

            8. Incompetent Marxists imposed as faculty. Curricula ‘re-structured’ along Marxist-Leninist lines. Academic freedom crushed. Country deprived of democratic intellectual leadership (summer, 1960). Start of totalitarianism.

DISTRIBUTION OF “YOU CAN TRUST THE COMMUNISTS (TO BE COMMUNISTS)” IN INDIA

            One hundred thousand copies of the Telegu translation of “You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists)” are being distributed in Andhra State, India. The French translation is being printed and will soon be available for distribution.

            Some people wonder why it is necessary for us to make constant appeals for financial help. The following letter should make the need clear:

“Dr. Fred C. Schwarz

President, CACC

Box 890, Long Beach, Calif.

Dear Brother Schwarz:

            Trust both Brother Colbert and your goodself have received the Telegu books–“You Can Trust the Communists” sent on August 16^th by Registered Airmail.

            Please forgive me for not sending this letter earlier than this, because we were kept terribly busy in sending out tens of thousands of copies. The distribution of this challenging book of 100,000 copies is going on very satisfactorily as planned and outlined in my letter of September 4^th, 1969. I am very happy and proud of this distribution which is an ‘eye opener’ even to hundreds of preachers who are responsible to preach to tens of thousands of men, women and children in the villages of our greater Andhra State. The Christian Youth Organizations are taking vital interest in the distribution programme and in forming ‘study groups’ to use this meaningful book as their ‘textbook’. Praise the Lord.

            Now, I request you to please pray with me a special burden for 100,000 people in different walks of life as they read this book. You would be further interested to note that within a couple of months, each book will be circulated among at least five people and thus we are reaching 500,000 people!

            For paper, printing, binding with the expensive cover page, it has cost me $19,000 out of which you have most graciously arranged. . . $12,000. I was able to raise, using my influence, $3,000 from my friends, and I expect another $1,000 from ten of my friends in Hyderabad and Secunderabad business community who are interested in this project. Still there is a debt of $3,000 which I have borrowed from a good friend of mine, a local bank official, and assured him, BY FAITH, that I would clear it by the 15^th of October before he begins his house construction. This brother is very gracious in giving a gift of $500 besides taking care of the distribution of 1,000 copies. Now, I do not have any other means to clear this debt except to humbly request you to have compassion and help me before the 15^th of October. I am confident that you would consider this humble request sympathetically and favourably.

            I am, of course, feeling very delicate in requesting you for this extra $3,000 because I borrowed this money without your prior permission, but the circumstances forced me to do so because of the urgency to get these 100,000 copied out for distribution.

            Cordially yours in His bonds,

            Rev. Ch. Devananda Rao”