Japanese Trotskyists were shocked when they read in the daily press about the murder of Leo Bernard and the wounding of Jan Garrett and Walter Graham in the headquarters of the Detroit local of the Socialist Workers party [see World Outlook May 27]. They viewed it as fresh evidence of the reactionary consequences | of America! s counterrevolutionary course.
The Kyoto University cell of the Japan Revolutionary Com- . munist League drew up a leaflet explaining the political meaning of the assault and calling for protest.
The headline read: "Protest Against the Murder of Our American Comrade!!" — -
The leaflet called attention to the rise of the Negro free-
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dom struggle in the United States and the violent way in which it . has been resisted, including the murder of a leader of the caliber of Malcolm X. .
The antiwar movement is now challenging the counterrevolu-_ tionary policies of American imperialism, the leaflet continued. One of the most active tendencies in this movement is the Socialist Workers -party with its program of revolutionary socialism. It is... thus a target for the blows of reaction. ar ap
The leaflet ended with the following slogans: ‘Withdraw the
American Army from Vietnam! Let the Vietnamese People Constitute Their Own United Government! Down with the Sato Government! China... and the USSR Should Give Full Support to the Vietnamese People! | Support the Workers and Peasants Struggles in the Dominican Republic, India and South Korea! Unite under the Banner of the World Proletarian Revolution in the Fourth: International!"