disrupt the Communist Party.
Splinter Did that just apply to the CP, asked the judge, or did it extend to what Brownell had described as 'splinter 81 ps cluding the SWP? 'I would the latter', replied Brownell. So much for the Justice Department being -The Italian connection IT'S HARD on the US government, but real life has a way of backing up key points in the trial testimony of SWP ana YSA leaders.
Ihor instance, they over and over against that it's not the socialists who want to take up arms and use violence. But they predict that the minority ruling class will 'seek to overthrow with force and violence' any free expression of the majority will, and they advise the working class to prepare itself accordingly.
The court hasn't seemed too convinced about this.
himself part of the capitalist state ap paratus. But what happens in the midst This is rather unforlulalt which didnt hary. for the ment, t have much of a case to begin Indeed, its defence almost stopped it very first witness, SWP leader Caroline Lund.
Defence attorney •Edward Williams was determined to prove that the party kept a secret file of uncovered Cabinet ministers, have explained ruling class (28 May)
After all, the judge is course, through elections.
Now class Working want US in E Salvador. dilemma.
away.
of the trial? A secret Masonic Lodge is in Italy which includes members of parliament, generals, bankers, judges, journalists and other leading members of the Its purpose? The New York Times quoted 'a ranking Western diplomat' as saying: 'If the membership list is even partly true, the organisation seems to have been created as a contingency structure to prevent the Communists from coming to power the way Allende did in Chile.' Which was, of Makes the socialists seem like the only sensible ones around, doesn't it?