Vol. 71/No. 17      April 30, 2007

Announced April 19, the travel ban goes into effect May 15.

These moves are highly dangerous, but they are also a product of weakness. They occur in the context of the U.S. rulers’ inability to block fresh advances by the guerrilla forces in El Salvador and Guatemala, despite the charade of elections.

The great fear of the U.S. capitalists is that workers and farmers in these countries will follow Nicaraguans, Grenadians, and Cubans in kicking out their imperialist exploiters and establishing a government that acts in their interests.  
 
April 29, 1957
On April 1, Joyce Cowley addressed a meeting of Rutgers students in New Brunswick, N.J. About 36 students attended the meeting.

In her brief introductory remarks Mrs. Cowley said: “The Socialist Workers Party is a Marxist Party which advocates a revolutionary change from a capitalist to a socialist method of production. This will be achieved through class struggle and the independent political action of the working class, in alliance with the Negro people and small farmers.”

She showed why prejudices did not disappear when slavery was abolished. “Today it is still economically profitable and a powerful weapon in the hands of employers and their political representatives to weaken and divide the working class. Race prejudice is now being challenged by the rising tide of colonial revolution, which has in large measure inspired the Negroes of the South.”  
 
April 30, 1932
The forty-fourth International Labor Day on May 1, 1932 takes place at a time when the decline of the capitalist system is reaching new depths, when the most intense and most wide spread of its economic crises is approaching unprecedented aggravation.

A tremendous and immediate danger is hanging over the head of the Soviet Union and the working class: the menace of Hitlerism which is out to crush the strongest ally of the U.S.S.R—the powerful German proletariat.

The First of May, International Labor Day originated as a holiday of the American workers, it grew out of the struggle for the eight hour day in the eighties of the last century. On the First of May, this year, the American working class is called upon to rally to the side of its German brothers, to the defense of its victorious Russian brothers, to the support to the workers’ fatherland, the U.S.S.R.  
 
 
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