The two are being charged by the Justice Department with illegally authorizing “black bag jobs”—break-ins—into nine New York and New Jersey residences during 1972 and 1973 under the guise of searching for members of the Weathermen. The Weathermen was a radical student group in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The prosecution of government agents by the Justice Department is an attempt to clean up the image of the FBI; to try to convince the working people of this country that such abuses are a thing of the past.

They have opted for letting some of the truth come out, so as to be able to cut short bigger disclosures about the crimes the secret police commit against the left, labor, Black, and women’s organizations.  
 
October 10, 1955
Civil war broke out again in Morocco and Algeria after the French Cabinet violated its agreement with the Moroccan nationalist movement to grant a measure of autonomy to the protectorate. At the same time more French troops protested against being sent to put down the people of North Africa.

On Sept. 29, 300 young reservists recently called up for active duty gathered at the Saint Severin Church in Paris to voice their objection to service in the French African colonies where they are being called on to crush Arab national liberation movements. Several weeks ago, 400 air force reservists, shouting “Morocco for the Moroccans,” refused to entrain for North Africa.

The steady build-up of U.S.-equipped French forces in Morocco and Algeria and their use to terrorize the Arab population has made it possible for the French colons to sabotage the limited reforms promised to the Moroccan people.  
 
October 1, 1930
During the last few months a considerable peasant movement has again appeared in certain provinces of Southern China. Not only the world press of the proletariat, but the press of its enemies as well, is filled with the echoes of this struggle. Deceived, defeated, emasculated, the Chinese revolution still shows that it is alive. Let us hope that the time when it will again lift its proletarian head is not far off.

The Stalinist press is full of communications about a “Soviet Government” established in vast provinces of China under the protection of a Red Army. Workers of various countries are excitedly greeting this news. Of course! The establishment of a Soviet government in a considerable part of China and the creation of a Chinese Red Army would mean a gigantic success for the international revolution. But we must state openly and clearly: It is not yet true.  
 
 
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