Vol. 77/No. 11 March 25, 2011
March 25, 1988
NEW YORK—An unprecedented victory for constitutional rights was registered at a federal court house here.“The government’s decision to throw in the towel in the Socialist Workers Party case brings this 15-year fight to a successful conclusion,” Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, told a news conference.
Attorney General Edwin Meese decided to withdraw a Justice Department appeal of the August 1986 ruling of U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa that declared it illegal for the FBI and other police outfits to use informers, disruption programs, or break-ins against political organizations and activists. Meese was joined in this action by 11 other heads of government agencies.
March 25, 1963
PARIS—France’s coal miners have been out on strike since March 1. Other strikes have likewise been called, the iron miners in the east, the natural gas workers of Lacq.The miners’ struggle, by far the most important, has aroused strong feelings of solidarity. These manifestations of support were followed by 15-minutes solidarity stoppages throughout France. The gas and electric workers stopped work for two hours in token of their sympathy. Expressions of solidarity are now spreading across the entire continent of Europe.
The point of departure for the miners’ movement was the demand to bring their wages back to the level lost through inflation.
March 26, 1938
The mounting series of “incidents” in Europe, set in train by Hitler’s seizure of Austria, brings home to every worker the imminence of the war peril. Decaying capitalism is preparing to destroy humanity in a new world war.The workers have nothing to gain and everything to lose by aligning themselves with the war camps of “democratic” capitalism. What real freedom do the workers in the “democratic” countries have when their wages are slashed below the subsistence level, when they are out of work, starving and homeless?
For the workers the enemy is in their own country—not across the frontier. For the workers of America, too, the enemy is right here. It is the capitalist class.
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