Vol. 79/No. 2 January 26, 2015
January 26, 1990
A final victory has been scored in a decade-long legal battle that threatened the constitutional rights to political association and to engage in political activities free of government interference.On January 11 Alan Gelfand, the plaintiff in a 10-year disruption and harassment lawsuit against the Socialist Workers Party, announced that he would not appeal the “decision or the judgments and findings” issued against him by a Los Angeles federal judge in August. His statement was carried in the January 12 Bulletin, the newspaper of the Workers League, the antilabor outfit that prepared, financed, and organized the lawsuit.
January 25, 1965
While facing prospects of a catastrophic defeat in South Vietnam, the Johnson administration continues to invite a wider war with its shameless acts of aggression in Southeast Asia. The U.S. bombing raid in Laos on Jan. 13 was one more step toward such a war. There are also reports of continuing U.S. sea and air cover for South Vietnamese attacks on North Vietnam.The raid on Laos is typical of the deceit and imperialist arrogance of U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. It was a flagrant violation of international law and of the 1962 Geneva agreements on the neutrality of Laos which the U.S. government signed.
January 27, 1940
“Mr. Mayor! We Want Jobs!” “Mr. Market Commissioner! We Want Jobs!”Bearing these and other signs, pickets last week began to march up and down in front of the entrances to New York City Mayor LaGuardia’s latest pride: the huge new Essex Street Retail Market, which stretches for three blocks from Broome to Stanton Streets on the Lower East Side. The pickets are members of Local 338 of the Retail Dairy Grocery and Fruit Clerks Union (CIO), which has 5,000 members in the city. They will continue to march until LaGuardia reverses the present scab labor policy of the market.
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