Vol. 71/No. 15      April 16, 2007

Stanley Kasun
Schuyler, Nebraska

Busing
Enclosed is a check for the Prisoners Fund. I look forward to the letters from prisoners. So thoughtful and strong.

I have a problem with the spelling of the word “bused” in the paper. In the article about Gary Tyler in the March 19 issue, the word bused is spelled with two ss’s. I know it seems like a little objection. But in the struggle to desegregate the Boston schools in the early 1970s, those who were violently opposed to busing used two ss’s in the word and it drew a line in the sand between them and those of us who fought for and supported those in the Black community to desegregate the schools by busing.

Mary Lipman
Santa Cruz, California

Communist Party USA
In a recent issue a letter from the editor described the Communist Party USA as middle class radicals.

It would be more accurate to point out that the CPUSA promotes Democrats, members of the other capitalist party of war and racism, and is a bourgeois reformist group that would have us believe that workers can make great strides toward real liberation under capitalism.

Nick Brisini
Hastings, Pennsylvania

Community control of police?
The article “'Convict all five cops who killed Sean Bell,' say protesters after 3 N.Y. cops indicted," in the April 2 issue refers to the demand for community control of the police. This is preceded by the sentence, “But many working people in this city are expressing a different opinion.” One might get the notion that the demand of community control of the police would be a solution to police brutality. Would not the police be anti-worker and the protector of the billionaires as long as the system is run for the ruling rich?

Rick Young
Chicago, Illinois

Yes. The editorial in that issue expressed precisely the same opinion as the letter from the reader above.—Editor  
 
 
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