Vol. 72/No. 13      March 31, 2008

A total of about 2,000 former Somoza National Guardsmen have infiltrated into Nicaragua from their bases in Honduras. Some 1,500 of the heavily armed counterrevolutionaries have taken up positions in the northern mountains, while 400 to 500 have made their way into central Matagalpa Province, scarcely 50 miles northeast of the capital.

“The escalation is being and will be totally defeated,” Minster of Defense Humberto Ortega announced at a March 21 news conference here.  
 
March 31, 1958
For three-and-a-half years French imperialism has been slaughtering Algerians who want their country’s independence.

The fact is that French imperialism has been able to carry on its war against the Algerian people for this long, and can continue to carry it on, only because of U.S. military and financial aid.

The French common people detest the “dirty” war in Algeria.

Bolstered by U.S. arms and U.S. funds, the rulers of France have taken one step after another to destroy civil liberties in France.

American workers can bring the bloodshed in Algeria to an end and help the French people maintain political democracy by forcing the U.S. government to stop acting as the quartermaster and finance officer of French imperialism.  
 
April 1, 1933
Two days before the German Reichstag elections forty thousand Fascist storm troops, proceeded by two hundred armed “auxiliary police” in Nazi uniform, marched through the streets of central and western Berlin. It was an attempt to put force behind the Fascist claim that they are the “masters of Berlin.” To the extent that one can speak of weight of election figures, the claim appeared to have been confirmed two days later; although the real contest is yet to come.

One look at the Nazi storm troop reveals its makeup. Their appearance is in general that of roaming bandits. Its ranks contain primarily petty bourgeois elements to a large extent recruited from the declassed section, those impoverished by the inflation and the crises.  
 
 
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