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eping the country." Almost all intellectual eftists have also put them down: and terrorium have never built consciousness. they saydefeating But those new leftists who approve of such tactics, reject the old analysis, as well as old leftists who they will have led to no change whatsoever- nor in creating a substantial increase in revolutionary con Militants, SCOUSICSS is that The reason, Amerika say is not New revolutionary situation; that the working class is really two classes-the inintegrated who are politicizeable and the unionized industrial WOLKCES whose short-range interests are identified with Amerika's imperialism. The Weathermen The Group which has pointed this analysis and which has grown most in the last year is the Weathermen (taken from a line in Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues which says "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows") Formed by many of the leaders of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) Weatherman organized. WitT in revolutionary pe yeather lines with a central committee (the Bureau), cells (collectives), regional boards, etc. It believes 108T life style theory should inseparable: all Weathermen live in collectives and are 24-hour-a-day activists. Their analysis tells them that unless white revolutionary 2TOUDS live life of revolutionaries, they can and always have been co-opted back into the affluence of white skin privilege. Indeed, ever since the repressions got heavy in the U.S. last year most movement intellectuals have dropped out. The excuses are many: we must wait for the economic depression to radicalise the workers: we musi organise the masses: wo must not let ourselves become 1502120 through an adventurism that alienates the workers etc. Weatherman's analysis excludes such rationalisations: the working class pronts too much trom wniteskin privuege to de a vanguard: youth are the most potentially revolutionarv force because that privilege is at least institutionalised and because it is the most alienated sector of the white working class: talk alone will never turn radicals into revolutionaries, only action with talk will. But that isn't enough since white youth can ways slip back into the bourgeois world members arrived. They were outnumbered b unless, hat is, he is totally involved in the revolution not just by his ideas but by his life tyle. He can then be supported in moments we roes ou nis comtades ana (nal mear living. working and fighting together in COLCCUIVCS They organised such collectives in twelve MaTOr CUCS touch working class cities like Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Cleveland. Twelve bodies male and female to an affinity group, living in one town. The Weather Bureau (central committee) set the examale: physical mining. seate. political coucanon CritICISI criticism essions, tight discipline in combat and out. Everything is social, they said, nothing is private. Sex, doubts, failings, fears, lusts everything out in the open. have these failings is no sin but the normal product of our corrupt society. The only way to overcome them is to bring them out The Battle of Chicago The first major Weatherman fought last October in Chicago. Weatherman has expected thousands to show up for the declared objective to break up the loop (Chicago's rich business district). Firearms were forbidden although they knew the fighting would be heavy and deaths likely Only 500 scared, self-conscious collective All that was left of the house where the Gold and his fellow Weathermen were working.
they were partly persuaded to put up by the police almost ten to one, with the National Guard on call nearby. "Well." shouted a Weatherman leader, "You know why we came, and what we said we'd do. This is only the beginning. Whether it's also the end or not depends on us, now. So let's do it!" And they charged. The fighting was probably the hardest yet in the history of the New Left. Thousands of police, with tear gas and clubs and then with guns against a wild but tightly disciplined group of white kids, protected by helmets, boots and steel genital guards, using lead pipes and chains. The city watched in amazement as the Weathermen, meekly at first, then increasingly stronger, pushed through, dispersed, regrouped, dispersed again and got through from their staging area to the Loop where they did as they nad S810- -smasnec windows ano wrecked stores. More than 200 Weathermen were arrested and cignt were snot none died), yet the next day, they were back. This time, the main thrust was to come from the Weather women. There were only 65 them, surroungea oy The girls were more scared than the day before, feeling more isolated. Then Bernardine Dorhn, a 31 year old former lawyer and member of the Weather Bureau, told the women "the fear that people feel in this demonstration has to Walt Disney. When the boy talks about The Black Dwarf 20th April 1970 Page 13 be put against the hunger, fear, death and suffering of black brown and yellow people in this country and all over the world." Then she led them out of Grant's Park across from the Hilton Hotel and into the police line waiting. The Weatherwomen fought well too and downed many cops, but they were stopped. Still, they were back again the next day, and so through the week. At the end, 284 were in jail with bail of $1,000,000.
But Weatherman grew. Put down, laughed even Genouacce COULLCTrevolutionary for their adventurism, the westnerman nave Deputo sain une respec of working class kids. As the collectives conanue to fight. their influence grows Besides, another one of their tactics seemed to De paying on, tougn pamrully siowiy That was the school "jailbreaks," in which Weatherman collectives would seize working class high barricade the doors, explain what they are doing and why. beat up any teacher who interferred and then fight their out through the police that surrounded the schools.
Weatherman's organizational objective was to create cadremen. Today, some 2,000 have fanned out across Amerika. They are trained in Karate, weaponry demolition. They read Marx, Lenin, Mao, Lin Piao, Cabral, Che They have weathered arrest and torture. Operation in small affinity groups, some prozelytize among working class youths, others try to radicalize demonstrators by their militant and exemplary tactics. Others still, have gone underground. No longer in contact with the parent organization, operating alone, they are involved in the current sabotages. On March 6, a house on West 11th Street, in New York's Greenwich Village, exploded in an apparent accident, killing three occupants. In the debris, police have found huge amounts of dunamite and blasting caps, and claimed the house was Deing used as an underground laboratory One body was identified. It belonged to Theodore Gold. 23. A few davs earlier. Gold had told a friend, 1 know now I am not afraid to die. Gold was a former leader with Mark Rudd of the Columbia University revolt. He died a Weatherman The political argument about Weatherman continues •Dul dedication and committment is making every revolutionary in Amerika examine very carefully his own relationship between what he thinks, who he is and what he does. John Gerassi
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