Vol. 79/No. 7 March 2, 2015
March 2, 1990
In the course of their 11-month strike against Pittston Coal Group, which ended February 19, union miners, who began by confronting Pittston’s drive to break their union, accomplished more than they set out to, as they turned to the entire labor movement and won solidarity for their strike.Members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) at Pittston reached out to — and won a response from — tens of thousands of workers across the country and worldwide who were inspired by the fight and moved to add the weight of their unions to the side of the battling miners.
Most significantly, the striking miners met workers involved in another key labor battle: International Association of Machinists members on strike against Frank Lorenzo’s Eastern Airlines.
March 1, 1965
America’s racist rulers can breathe easier now that Malcolm X has been assassinated. For he was the most uncompromising incorruptible and talented leader of this country’s 22 million oppressed, deprived and insulted Black citizens.The white power structure’s lying newspapers portrayed Malcolm X — during his life and since his murder — as a dangerous and threatening figure. He was dangerous — to the whole barbaric and degenerate system of racial oppression, South and North. He was threatening — to those who uphold and profit from that system. He was a leader they feared because they knew his kind would never call a “moratorium” or “cooling-off” period in the struggle of the Afro-American masses short of complete and total victory.
March 2, 1940
For several months now Fritz Thyssen has been in self-imposed exile — the same Thyssen who, second only to Krupp, was the most powerful representative of German heavy industry and at the same time one of the most generous contributors to Hitler’s party.Seldom has the crisis of Hitler’s dictatorship been shown in sharper and clearer lines than in the emigration of this unscrupulous profiteer, who with his friends among the lords of the Rhineland heavy industry financed Hitler’s initial rise to power.
But Hitler has not fulfilled the expectations of his underwriters. Out of the expected destruction of Russia has come a partnership. Germany has once more become engaged in a war, whose outcome is in the highest degree unpredictable, which entails a great risk of defeat or internal collapse.
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