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Fast displacing Angela Davis as Number One issue in Communist-left press: Political prisoners. Newest Dayglo stickers advertised by World (CP) read: “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners.”… Trotskyist People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice now says its Oct. 25-29 demonstrations in Washington will be for 1) withdrawal now, 2) guaranteed annual income of $6,500 for family of four, and 3) release of all political prisoners…. Blowups to be expected all over Oct. 13—that’s first anniversary of Angela Davis arrest, demonstrations planned for her, also to protest George Jackson killing, Attica…. Carl Stokes, the retiring mayor of Cleveland, getting lot of flak in Militant for his statement of support for Rockefeller on Attica. Stokes says he can’t agree with Bobby Seale that Rockefeller was to blame for what happened there…. Chilling comment on Attica (NYT, Sept. 17) by New Yorker who survived Auschwitz concentration camp, about activities of William Kunstler. “I hate him. He’s a Jew and I’m a Jew and would kill him if I didn’t have a wife and kids. I know what it is like to live without law. He does not, but he talks all the time like he does. I would kill him….”

Significant break on the Left: Progressive Labor Party, which split off from Communist Party a decade ago to follow Mao Tse-tung, has now broken with him (Progressive Labor Magazine, Nov. 1971). Editorial calls Mao’s China “a capitalist state” and calls Mao himself and his followers “revisionists” and part of China’s “red bourgeoisie.” Also denounced, the “Maoist personality cult.”… The Militant (paper of Troskyist Socialist Workers Party) moving more and more the third-party way, vide its new subscription pitch, a picture of an alligator with caption: “To vote for the Democratic Party… is to crawl on your belly away from the Movement.”… Militant also against Bella Abzug and Shirley Chisholm as leaders of chicklib movement because they work within the party system.

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Fast displacing Angela Davis as Number One issue in Communist-left press: Political prisoners. Newest Dayglo stickers advertised by World (CP) read: “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners.”… Trotskyist People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice now says its Oct. 25-29 demonstrations in Washington will be for 1) withdrawal now, 2) guaranteed annual income of $6,500 for family of four, and 3) release of all political prisoners…. Blowups to be expected all over Oct. 13—that’s first anniversary of Angela Davis arrest, demonstrations planned for her, also to protest George Jackson killing, Attica…. Carl Stokes, the retiring mayor of Cleveland, getting lot of flak in Militant for his statement of support for Rockefeller on Attica. Stokes says he can’t agree with Bobby Seale that Rockefeller was to blame for what happened there…. Chilling comment on Attica (NYT, Sept. 17) by New Yorker who survived Auschwitz concentration camp, about activities of William Kunstler. “I hate him. He’s a Jew and I’m a Jew and would kill him if I didn’t have a wife and kids. I know what it is like to live without law. He does not, but he talks all the time like he does. I would kill him….”

Significant break on the Left: Progressive Labor Party, which split off from Communist Party a decade ago to follow Mao Tse-tung, has now broken with him (Progressive Labor Magazine, Nov. 1971). Editorial calls Mao’s China “a capitalist state” and calls Mao himself and his followers “revisionists” and part of China’s “red bourgeoisie.” Also denounced, the “Maoist personality cult.”… The Militant (paper of Troskyist Socialist Workers Party) moving more and more the third-party way, vide its new subscription pitch, a picture of an alligator with caption: “To vote for the Democratic Party… is to crawl on your belly away from the Movement.”… Militant also against Bella Abzug and Shirley Chisholm as leaders of chicklib movement because they work within the party system.