Grenada, a Caribbean island of 120,000 people, had a revolution in 1979 that ousted dictator Eric Gairy who had been favored by Washington. Since then the country has had a popular revolutionary government headed by Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and the New Jewel Movement.

In a recent interview on New York’s WBAI radio station, Bishop was asked why Grenada was being singled out in this way. “Grenada is attempting to develop a new alternative, a new path to social, political, and economic development of our people, he replied.  
 
September 3, 1956
New racist forces and violence against bus boycotters in Tallahassee, Florida and Montgomery, Alabama has flared up this week. Police in Tallahassee began arresting carpool drivers August 22 and three days later the home of one of the active participants tin the Montgomery protest movement was bombed. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., several Negroes were beaten up in the wake of a Ku Klux Klan rally Aug. 25.

In Tallahassee, car pool drivers are being booked on the phony charge of operating “for hire” vehicles without a license. The action was ordered by the lilywhite City Commission after the Democratic State Attorney General ruled that automobiles used in car pools are “for hire” vehicles, in spite of the fact that no fare is charged.  
 
September 5, 1931
Amidst the fires and flames of World War at a time when international socialism has collapsed, the national socialist parties had (with few brilliant exceptions) turned social-imperialist, the socialist youth assembled at Berne, Switzerland, unfurled the banner of proletarian internationalism. It was there, in April 1915, that the first Sunday of every September was set aside for the mobilization of the working youth against capitalist militarism and war.

The kindred sparks served as torches to light up the path towards proletarian revolution. The socialist youth, actively aided by the Bolsheviks, inspired by Lenin, Liebknecht, and Luxemburg, courageously led the struggle against opportunism and social patriotism.  
 
 
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