WRECKS AMERICAN CP HEADQUARTERS
A time-bomb was exploded early in the morning of September 4° at the national headquarters of the American Communist party in =~ New York. There were no injuries, but the explosion wrecked the offices of the party's newspaper, The Worker, destroyed the fronts of other buildings in the vicinity and shattered stained glass windows in the. Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava across the street.
This was the second bombing of the Communist party headquarters in four months. A bomb was thrown against the building last May 1. On. September 7, 1964, a fire was started against the wall of the building and on October 21, 1964, a parcel was delivered to the office from Chicago containing a bomb.
Besides this, the W.E.B.DuBois Clubs in San Francisco were bombed March 6 of this year. The explosion, which occurred during the night,. knocked the building off its foundation.
A similar bomb was planted a few weeks later on April 9 in — the headquarters of the Vietnam Day Committee in Berkeley. Five people were injured in. this explosion.
On May 16 an anti-Communist gunman walked into the Detroit headquarters of the Socialist Workers party and shot down three young men who were present. Leo Bernard, 27, a Socialist Workers candidate for Congress in 1964, was killed on the spot, becoming America's first antiwar martyr. Jan Garrett, 22, and Walter Graham, 19, members of the Young Socialist Alliance were seriously wounded.: They are still recuperating from the bullets fired by kbe ‘political: assassin.
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The pattern of violence,. directed against organizations that oppose the war in Vietnam, is one of the results of the war propaganda emanating from the White House. Like the Nazis in their time, the extreme rightists feel they are only performing their "patriotic" duty in. engaging in action against the "reds"; and the police are strangely: incompetent when it comes to either “blocking or apprehending» “them. r =.
STOKELEY CARMICHAEL POLITICAL PRISONER IN ATLANTA