Vol. 79/No. 28      August 10, 2015

“It is hard to acknowledge that our most extraordinary effort for the development of the country and for consolidation of socialism in our homeland coincides with a catastrophe in the socialist camp,” Castro said.

“Socialism is not a conjunctural option, it is not a passing game,” Castro noted. “It is not, nor can it be, a temporary decision. Socialism was an undeniable historical necessity. Socialism was the result of the political and ideological development of our society, the greatest and best product of our history.”

August 9, 1965
In an article entitled “What Should the Peace Movement Do?” in the June 28 I.F. Stone’s Weekly, the editor makes the following statement: “If the cause of world peace depends on the overthrow of American capitalism there isn’t much hope for the world.” Marxists would put it the other way around: If the cause of world peace depends on maintaining American capitalism, there is no hope for the world because capitalism contains within itself an inexorable tendency toward war. This is not to say that the temporary settlement of any particular war crisis must wait on a socialist revolution in this country. But it does mean that the capitalist rulers in this country cannot be peaceful.

August 10, 1940
The stubborn fact remains that 30,000 steel workers have already lost out in the industry and the jobs of thousands more are immediately threatened. Technological change is wreaking havoc among the steel workers.

The sliding scale of wages and hours is the fundamental approach to the problem of unemployment. The maximum hours of work should be reduced immediately to a point where jobs would be made available for all steel workers presently unemployed. The hourly rate of pay should be automatically increased whenever the hours of work are reduced so that the workers will suffer no loss in their total wages.  
 
 
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