1 HARRIS EXHIBIT No. 4-Continued Press Conf., Michael Leski, 10/7/65 (Page 27) have been banned from returning to Thaxter Hall on the grounds of participating and leading a successful struggle at Thaxter Hall against the authorities there and the acceptance of the Constitution they attempted to cran down the throats of the students. But that's my, In other words you could say I've been a consistent troublemaker. QUESTION: How did you get into Communism? you to it? ANSWER: hat attracted hat attracted you to the press? As a matter of fact, nothing attracted me to it, I sort of fell into it and found I was happy after I got there. QUESTION: Well, I made a definite decision, I selected the course I was going to take and I didn't fall into it. W.H. SHERMAN (Page 18) 9/19/64 issue of TOCSIN lists the above subject as editor of the MALLET, director of the INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL THOUGHT, and a participant in the WEST COAST VACATION SCHOOL, 8/29 to 9/7. 1/28/65 iusue of TOCSIN lists the above subject as director of the IN TITUTE FOR JUCIAL THOUGHT which has a new militant publication called BLACK FLAG operating out of S.F. 9/27-10/4/65 issue of the PEOPLE'S VOICE (The Voice of all the Oppressed and Exploited!), 1513 E. Firestone Blvd., L.A., Calif. 90001. 8/20/65 & 8/27/65 issues of the PEKING REVIEW, A weekly magazine of Chinese fews and Views, published in China. NOTE:( * ) Indicates that words or phrases were omitted because they were not understandable. SUBVERSIVE INFLUENCES IN RIOTS, LOOTING, AND BURNING Part 3 (Los Angeles-Watts) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1967 UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES, PUBLIC HEARINGS The subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities met, pursuant to recess, at 10:20 a.m., in Room 311, Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C., Hon. Edwin E. Willis (chairman) presiding. (Subcommittee members: Representatives Edwin E. Willis, of Louisiana, chairman; William M. Tuck, of Virginia; Richard H. Ichord, of Missouri; John M. Ashbrook, of Ohio; and Albert W. Watson, of South Carolina; also John C. Culver, of Iowa, in absence of Mr. Willis.) Subcommittee members present: Representatives Willis, Tuck, and Ichord. Staff members present: Francis J. McNamara, director; Chester D. Smith, general counsel; Alfred M. Nittle, counsel; and Donald T. Appell, chief investigator. The CHAIRMAN. The subcommittee will come to order. Mr. Harris, you have been sworn. Proceed, Mr. Counsel. Mr. SMITH. Mr. Chairman, when we adjourned yesterday, Detective Harris was completing his testimony on the Communist Party U.S.A. (Marxist-Leninist). He has two more documents which he desires to discuss relating to the current activities of that organization. The CHAIRMAN. Two more what, did you say? Mr. SMITH. Two more items. The CHAIRMAN. All right. TESTIMONY OF JAMES C. HARRIS-Resumed Mr. HARRIS. Just yesterday I received from my own office in Los Angeles two copies of a document, one distributed in July of this year headed "U.S. Imperialist Youth Draft." It is signed by the Los Angeles branch of the Communist Party U.S.A. (Marxist-Leninist). I quote from a portion of it: We oppose US imperialism and its war of aggression against the people of Vietnam. We oppose the US imperialist draft by fighting to put an end to the capitalist system. They wind it up by saying: DOWN WITH U.S. IMPERIALISM AND ITS RUNNING DOGS! LONG LIVE THE CAUSE OF INTERNATIONAL WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY! LONG LIVE THE INTERNATIONAL MARXIST-LENINIST FORCES, LED BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA! JOIN AND SUPPORT PEOPLE'S ARMED DEFENSE GROUPS! READ AND DISTRIBUTE PEOPLE'S VOICE-THE VOICE OF ALL THE OPPRESSED AND EXPLOITED (At this point, Mr. Willis left the hearing room.) Mr. HARRIS. The second document was distributed in November 1967 by the CPUSA-ML, and it attempts to "build the August 11th movement to oppose imperialism." I want to quote a little bit of this document, also. It says that: "The non-violent and pacifist approach was rejected" in the Watts uprising; that "integration was decisively rejected by the people as a social solution to their exploitation and oppression"; and that "the most decisive, important lesson to be learned from August 11, 1965, is the concrete need for revolutionary political direction which embodies the concrete needs and interests of the working class-presenting a clearcut line of struggle for the total and complete defeat of U.S. imperialism." This again is signed by the Communist Party U.S.A. (MarxistLeninist), 9122 South Compton Avenue, Los Angeles. Mr. SMITH. Mr. Chairman, I request that these exhibits be received and marked "24-A and B" in connection with Detective Harris' testimony on the Communist Party U.S.A. (Marxist-Leninist). Mr. TUCK (presiding). Unless there is objection, and the Chair hears none, it is so ordered. (Documents marked "Harris Exhibits Nos. 24-A and 24-B," respectively. Exhibit 24-A retained in committee files; 24-B follows:) HARRIS EXHIBIT NO. 24-B WE MUST BUILD THE AUGUST 11TH MOVEMENT TO OPPOSE IMPERIALISM! The importance of August 11, 1965, must firmly be remembered and understood by the people. The Watts' uprising was far more than a riot. It represents for the American proletariat a new level of struggle against U.S. imperialism. The significance of the Watts' uprising rests on the following points: 1) The non-violent and pacifist approach was rejected decisively. The people showed their determination to answer the oppressive violence and force of the police and state by waging a tit-for-tat struggle in the streets. The people showed their willingness to struggle with nothing more than their hands against the well armed state apparatus. 2) Integration was decisively rejected by the people as a social solution to their exploitation and oppression. It is not possible to integrate the poor with the rich, to integrate the exploited with the exploiters. Integration has meaning for the bourgeoisie, for the rich, and not for the working people. Integration is a ruse to assimilate the American Negro bourgeoisie with the rest of the American bourgeoisie, under the pretext of assimilation of all Negroes in the American nation. With the failure of "integration," U.S. imperialism has dropped that hoax and adopted the "Black Power" hoax to divide workers on the basis of "color" as the last line of defense for U.S. imperialism. This new line props up the reactionary nationalists as the mainstay of the capitalist system in the U.S. by calling for "Black" capitalists, as Floyd McKissick of CORE, along with Stokely Carmichael and Adam Clayton Powell who are leading spokesmen for this new imperialist ruse. 3) The rejection of the U.S. imperialist lackeys such as Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, and the strongest advocates of non-violence and integration, reveals clearly that a decisive break was made with the bourgeois leadership of the civil rights' movement, and a decisive division had developed along class lines. What other lessons must be learned from the Watts' uprising? 1) The attack on U.S. imperialism lacked a direct political expression. It was not politically expressed as a list of political demands on behalf of the people against U.S. imperialism. 2) There existed no organised anti-imperialist movement to provide a basis for the leadership of the people of Watts and, nationally, against U.S. imperialism. 3) Most importantly, there was an absence of a Marxist-Leninist Party to provide the basis for the political and ideological leadership of the masses. Without such direction, a mass anti-imperialist organisation could not be successful nor could an anti-imperialist united front successfully carry out the struggle. The most decisive, important lesson to be learned from August 11, 1965, is the concrete need for revolutionary political direction which embodies the concrete needs and interests of the working class-presenting a clearcut line of struggle for the total and complete defeat of U.S. imperialism. The heroic struggle of the people of Watts on August 11, 1965, sums up clearly for us the nature of the problem facing the American proletariat and the national liberation struggle in the U.S. today. Concretely stated, it is a need for a specific line of political struggle against U.S. imperialism and its lackeys, and for a specific form of organisation which fosters that struggle, and in which the masses may join and participate. WE MUST BUILD THE AUGUST 11TH MOVEMENT TO OPPOSE IMPERIALISM! The PEOPLE'S VOICE, Volume 1, Number 1, on Monday, August 23, 1965, called for the formation of the August 11th Movement as the People's weapon against U.S. imperialism. The formation and development of an August 11th Movement, taking as its point of inception and basing itself on the lessons of the heroic Watts' uprising, can and will serve as the basis for forming a mass national organisation of the people against U.S. imperialism, while carrying out a concrete line of class struggle and opposition to U.S. imperialism. The August 11th Movement must represent the concrete application of the revolutionary, mass political line of the Party of the proletariat, and form its organisational embodiment so that the people may have the widest possible opportunity to play an active role in overthrowing U.S. imperialism. WHAT MUST BE THE BASIS OF THE POLITICAL LINE FOR SUCH A MOVEMENT 1) The movement must firmly and resolutely without reservation oppose and fight for the total and complete destruction of U.S. imperialism. This means that our brothers and comrades in Africa, Asia, and Latin America must be completely supported in their struggle against U.S. imperialism (i.e. the Vietnamese people, the Arab people, the Congolese people, and the Dominican people). 2) The movement must fight for the equal rights of all the national minorities and nationalities in America without hesitation, and resolutely oppose all forms of discrimination. 3) The movement must fight for the right of self-determination of the Negro nation in the South (the Black Belt) and Puerto Rico. This means to support the complete right of national liberation for the Negro and Puerto Rican nations which includes their right to secede, federate or amalgamate. 4) The movement must resolutely oppose all agents and lackeys of U.S. imperialism. There must be no joint action with the political and ideological agents of U.S. imperialism: the modern revisionists (CPUSA), the Trotskyites (SWP), and their conciliators (PLP), nor with the direct political expression of imperialism, the Democrats and Republicans, whether liberal or conservative. For it is impossible to oppose imperialism and defeat it by collaborating with its agents. 5) The movement must support the struggles of all working people for their emancipation from imperialism. WHO SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO JOIN THE AUGUST 11TH MOVEMENT? The membership should be open to all working people who endorse and support its program. 88-083 0-68-pt. 3 |