Sam Francis is a paleo-con polemicist. Author of several books of essays (see esp. the one on "Middle American Radicals" Haven't seen the one on James Burnham, the ex-Trotskyist proponent of "rollback". Frequent speaker at meetings of the the Council of Conservative Citizens and a new group, American Friends of the British National Party. For more on Francis and other white nationalists see this report from anti-racist watchdog group, Center for New Community. http://www.newcomm.org/party/index.htm http://www.vdare.com/francis_reparations_wrong.htm Below is from Christine Petersen. Horowitz is coming to UCB. Young Republican escorts.I'll be there, Christine! Bring your stake to crucify the vampire. Should be a blast. Hopefully, Adam Richmond, my leather boy neo-Trotskyist pal will be able to come too. I'll see if Tim Wohlforth wants to go too.Wohlforth has a newish book on political cults right and left. Years ago, Adam, he was in a tiny split from WWP in New Haven called the Revolutionary Communist League-Internationalist Michael Pugliese "Oh when the Sparts Go Marching In!"
>The Sparts are going to be there, and they are actually making sense . . .
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> >Hi, this is Gershom from the Spartacus Youth Club. We intend to launch a
> >united front protest against David Horowitz' appearance at UC Berkeley
> >this Thursday at 8:00, outside of the VLSB under the call "Protest Racist
> >Ideologue David Horowitz!" Horowitz is running a nationwide campaign to
> >foster right-wing racist ideological reaction, and UC Berkeley has turned
> >into a flashpoint. He intends to endow his bullshit with academic
> >legitimacy by importing it onto campuses and decrying as "fascist" anyone
> >who would oppose him.
> >
> >Horowitz' appearance is coming as a calculated provocation, and he
>intends
> >to turn the entire situation into a cop trap. We think that provoking a
> >situation of physical confrontation would play right into Horowitz'
>hands,
> >making it seem as though leftists had no answer to his racist
>demagoguery.
> >This is especially true since there has been a concerted campaign to whip
> >up a so-called "free speech" furor over the protests against Dan Flynn,
> >Madeline Albright, and Benjamin Netanyahu. However, it would be equally
> >dangerous to bow down to fear of administration reprisals, as we worry
> >many students will do. This will only serve to embolden the forces of
> >right-wing capitalist ideological reaction.
> >
> >What is necessary is a large, militant, organized demonstration against
> >Horowitz, as a show of force. We should seek to refute his patently
> >manufactured lies, in order to expose him for the racist blowhard that he
> >is.
> >
> >While we have many substantial political differences with other left
> >groups, and while we do not wish to participate in floating
> >coalitions/propaganda blocs, we nonetheless are for the greatest unity in
> >action in specific instances such as this. We have prepared an
>endorsement
> >form that every participating organization can sign, indicating only that
> >it supports our call to protest Horowitz (as opposed to physical
> >disruption, staying away out of fear of adminstration
> >reprisals/witch-hunting, etc.), and not indicating any larger agreement
> >with our politics. The principle behind a united front is "freedom of
> >criticsm, unity in action" and endorsing groups and supportive
>individuals
> >can build for this in any way they wish, distributing the flyers we
>intend
> >to produce or creating their own.
> >
> >At the core of Horowitz' advertisement was an argument that black people
>in
> >America are not oppressed. We need to make it clear that America is
>indeed a
> >racist hellhole for blacks. In a larger sense, we in the Spartacist
>League
> >and SYC don't call for reperations, because any reperations large enough
>to
> >matter would be a pipe dream -- besides which, we think that racial
> >oppression runs deep in the structure of American capitalism, and no
>simple
> >transfer of cash will alter that. Black people are segregated at the
>bottom
> >of society, but they remain componants of America's multiracial working
> >class, which is integrated at the point of production. We consider joint
> >class struggle which takes up the special oppression of blacks, women,
>etc.
> >as part the fight to be the only road forward -- fighting for black
> >liberation as a road to socialist revolution, and ultimately destroying,
> >through that revolution, the economic foundations of black oppression
> >altogether. So, we intend to distribute additional propaganda with our
> >marxist program of *revolutionary integrationism* as part of our answer
>to
> >Horowitz. Other groups have different political programs, they clearly
>will
> >distribute whatever propaganda they find necessary. But nonetheless, it
>is
> >vital to have unity in action in order to organize ourselves against the
>the
> >trap of Horowitz' provocation, to show unity against this scumbag, and to
> >avoid being provoked by some of Horowitz' whacked-out supporters who will
> >clearly be itching for a fight.
> >
> >We encourage organizational and individual members of the PSA to get in
> >touch with us so that we can put together some cohesion on the ground.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Gershom