Vol. 72/No. 5      February 4, 2008

He was a former dean of the Maryland Institute College of Art, and for many years attended Militant Labor Forums, sometimes with his wife Margaret.

Klitzke opened his home to fundraising affairs, and he housed visiting militants from South Africa and elsewhere.

Ted and Margaret, who died in 1990, were associated with progressive causes throughout their lives and he marched in Selma, Ala., in 1965 with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Baxter Smith
Baltimore, Maryland

Congratulations to ‘L.A. 8’
I was greatly gratified to read the article in the December 3, 2007 Militant announcing the defeat of the deportation case against the Los Angeles 8.

While residing in Los Angeles many years ago and active in the Free South Africa Movement there, I remember representatives of the L.A. 8 coming to the organization’s meetings to distribute information about the Palestinian struggle for national self-determination and to win support in their just fight against deportation. They would stay for the entire business meeting and subsequently participated in several picket lines and marches organized by the Free South Africa Movement.

(One can see the obvious connection between the former apartheid regime in South Africa and the Zionist government in Israel.)

Again, congratulations for a hard-fought battle to the L.A. 8. The struggle continues.

Glova Scott
Washington, D.C.

What about price of milk?
If high gas prices are caused by globalization then why is milk $4.99 a gallon? The major news networks are always talking about the price of a barrel of oil and the price of gas at the pump, but there is no mention of the price working people pay for basic food staples such as milk. Last time I checked here in Atlanta, milk at the local supermarket cost $4.99.

This is a clear example of how the current military conflict is larger than Halliburton, the Bush family, and oil profits as has been professed by some liberals and conspiracy theorists. The price of milk and the current war are two parts of something much larger, capitalism entering a period of decline.

Capitalism in its final epoch, imperialism, is responsible, not a new phenomenon called globalization, not the illuminati, or the hand of god, but the action of a ruling class whose means of existence has entered a sharp decline and eventual collapse. Only the working class organized to fight the employing class for state power can divert the skyrocketing price of food and bring an end to the current war.

Wesley Lewis
Atlanta, Georgia

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