Vol. 72/No. 19      May 12, 2008

An, who is first secretary of Vietnam’s mission to the United Nations, addressed a rally sponsored by the Militant Labor Forum. The meeting was organized to answer Washington’s renewed propaganda attacks against Vietnam and to protest new Vietnam-style wars in Central America and the Caribbean.

The successful event marked an important victory over a large and well-organized group of rightist Vietnamese exiles, whose attempt to physically break up the gathering failed.  
 
May 12, 1958
With both capitalist parties publicly committed for months to extending unemployment compensation for the millions of jobless whose benefits have already run out or soon will do so, the House of Representatives finally passed the stingiest and most anti-labor bill possible. The Democratic Party, which controls the House with 234 seats to the Republicans’ 200, was supposed to be sponsoring a slightly better unemployment compensation extension bill, but when the vote came, only 148 Democrats voted for the better bill.

This is another example of the shell game regularly pulled on pro-labor voters by Northern Democrats, just as they pull the same trick on Negro voters with civil-rights organizations.  
 
May 13, 1933
Only seven weeks were required for the German counterrevolution to complete its first stage. The Hitler government emerged on January 30. At its pompous session in Potsdam on March 21, the Reichstag sealed the fate of parliamentary democracy and conferred full power upon the government. That period decided for the time being the issue of Communism or Fascism in Germany. With that commences an entirely new historical period for the working class which will have its serious repercussions throughout the world. The German workers retreated without a struggle. The Communist Party leaders were revealed as the organizers of defeat. Fascism remained the victor and has now been able to consolidate a virtual dictatorship.  
 
 
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