meetings or in arti-~
EDWARD SHAW, Socialist Workers party organization secretary, addressing memorial meeting for Che Guevara. Shaw declared, "The only tribute Che himself would have accepted as good coin is our dedication
cles, had used the occasion of Che's death to attack his ideas.
Che's qualities as a thinker as well as a man of action were discussed by Derrick Morrison of the YSA. Morrison also discussed the guilt of U.S. imperialism in the murder of Che, and in the murder of Malcolm X.
Paul Sweezy recalled his visits with Che in Cuba and in New York when Che came to address the United Nations. He placed special stress on Che's ability as a revolutionary thinker.
An unscheduled speaker was Ralph Schoenman, secretary to Bertrand Russell, who had just arrived in New York after being expelled from Bolivia by the Barrientos military dictatorship.
Schoenman had been in Bolivia to seek information concerning the violations of civil rights and of the Bolivian constitution in the case of Régis Debray.
The military regime confiscated his passport (he is a U.S. citizen), preventing him from returning to his work in
to making a revolution here." Strong ap-
plause greeted his remarks. The speakers
included Julius Lester, Elizabeth Suther-
land and Pedro Juan Ria. Melissa Singler
of Merit Publishers chaired the meeting.
England. They turned his passport over to
the U.S. authorities, who claim it is no
longer valid because Schoenman had trav-
eled to North Vietnam in connection with
the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal;
and they put Schoenman on a plane bound
for Miami.
Fresh from seeing Régis Debray in
Bolivia, Schoenman described the agony
Debray felt over Che's death after having
lived with the guerrillas headed by Che.
Schoenman referred to two other
martyrs of the revolutionary socialist
movement, Rosa Luxemburg and Leon Trotsky.
Like them Che set an example that had
real meaning only if it were followed.
Edward Shaw contrasted the honesty
of Che and the other Cuban leaders to the
lying propaganda and hypocritical atti-
tude of the capitalist rulers of this
country. He explained that Che's position
on armed struggle in Latin America, the
same position affirmed by the recent OLAS
conference, was in actuality the only
position possible for those seeking gen-
uine social change. The conditions in
Latin America, he said, make armed strug-
gle the only possible form of struggle, and to be against armed struggle means to be against struggle, period.
Shaw said that revolutionists in the United States must not allow the ruling class to determine the tactics of the movement for social change. With Che and Malcolm X, he said, the SWP stands for struggle "by any means necessary." ,