Liberal College under attack in Ohio HERE is an organised Rightwing campaign to dry up the financial sources of Antioch College, the liberal school located here. President James P. Dixon told a college assembly: “It is now beginning to appear that there is a concerted letter-writing campaign to corporations saying that if Antioch is a recipient of any of their largess, the letter-writers would turn in their credit cards,” Antioch depends, as do most privately-operated colleges, to a large extent on contributions from corporations. Dixon noted that the letters followed a common pattern. He also pointed out that “there was a repetitive quality” to the questions telephoned to him during his appearance on the Dayton radio show, “Conversation Piece.’ A number of the questions dealt with events which had taken place during the McCarthyite witchhunt era. ‘People knew things about Antioch that it seemed impossible for them to know unless they were told,” he said. Denying any “paranoid fear” of conspiracy, Dixon pointed out: “There has been a change in the form of attack on liberalism. Present attacks are much more organized; much more skillfully executed.” In recent months Antioch has been publicly attacked by the American Legion, whose national convention called for a Congressional investigation of the college, as well as by the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan. All these attacks appear to be traceable to anger over the civilrights activities organised by Antioch students. Perhaps another factor was a speech last year by President Dixon noting that while the college, since its founding in the last century, had been- unofficially on the side of desegregation, he wished to ‘make clear that it was now “official.” Antioch gives work-credits, under its works-study programme, to students working for SNCC in Mississippi and other parts of the South. Arthur Maglin
Malcolm X murder
VER 200 people took part in a
demonstration in London to protest against the assassination of Malcolm X. The demonstration, called by the Council of African Organisations, started from Speakers’ Corner, Marble Arch, on Saturday, 27th February. In a statement issued by the Council of African Organisations, Malcolm X’s contribution is assessed. They say: “Malcolm X regarded the use of force in self-defence where violence is unleashed against the Negro’s demands for freedom and for human rights as justifiable only because the hand that prevented them had been unamenable to negotiation and peaceful demands. He had little faith in those who, while breaking his head with a cudgel, exhorted him to be passive and love them. Malcolm X aimed essentially at the forging of stronger links between Negroes in America, Africans and all oppressed
protest
peoples in Asia and Latin America,
and that is precisely why he was
murdered...
“The Council of African Organisa-
tions, representing over 40,000 youth
and students in Britain, and the
Union of African Students in Europe,
are shocked. and angered by this
savage assassination by the agents of
U.S. imperialism of our nationalist
leader and militant fighter for Afro-
American freedom, human rights and
dignity. We express solidarity with
his aims and work, which no act of
brutality can undermine or obliterate.
We are determined to continue his
just struggle by which the rights of
Afro-American people will be
secured and human dignity estab-
lished.”
Editorial note: Copies of the
COAO statement and other informa-
tion about the movement can be ob-
tained from: Africa Unity House, 3
Collingham Gardens, London SW3.
Pat Jordan
Iberian News
SPAIN :
O counteract workers’ demands
for better working and living conditions, the management of the Babcock-Wilcox metal factory in Bilbao, capital of the Basque Viscaya province in Spain, has dismissed four workers and suspended three others for the period of six months. These measures were undertaken in connection with a demonstration of some 800 workers held on 12th February, 1965 at the factory’s gates. The workers protested against the new collective agreement. The collective agreements in Spain are not drafted as a consequence of the negotiations between the employers and the workers, represented by their trade union committee, but are imposed by the authorities seconded by the state-run trade union organisation, the so-called “sindicatos verticales”. They group workers, employers and technicians together and are under the entire control of the government and the ruling Falange movement.
Fred Green
PORTUGAL :
HE Canadian Minister of Ex-
ternal Affairs, Mr. Paul Martin,
said last week that his Government
was opposed to West Germany’s wish
to sell 50 Luftwaffe-surplus Canadair
Sabres to Portugal. Mr. Martin said
that the aircraft had been supplied
to West Germany in good faith for
NATO purposes. Bonn is reported
to have made the intended sale con-
ditional on Canadian consent.
Portugal now seems to have reached
a dead end in her search for second-
hand fighters to replace her now very
aged F-84G Thunderjets, The USA
refused to supply replacements for
these MAP-provided aircraft years
ago. Last summer negotiations
between Portugal and Hawker-
Siddeley for the possible sale of re-
furbished Hunters were broken off
on the orders of the Conservative
Government, as Portugal declined to
give an undertaking that the aircraft
would not be used against native
populations in Angola and Mozem-
bique.