Vol. 71/No. 22      June 4, 2007

Upon hearing the news, Iranians rushed to stores to buy candy and cookies as gifts for friends celebrating the victory. Dancing began in the streets. Drivers turned on their car lights and beeped their horns.

The celebration was especially big in south Tehran, the working-class area of the city. Many of the soldiers killed in the war had come from south Tehran.  
 
June 3, 1957
The burning resentment of the people of Taiwan (Formosa) against U.S. imperialism and its brutal puppet regime of Chiang Kai-shek erupted, May 24, into mass demonstrations in the island’s capital city of Taipei. About 30,000 persons besieged the Nationalist police headquarters in Taipei for six hours before being dispersed by the arrival of troops and the declaration of martial law in the city.

The angry crowd was demanding release of prisoners taken earlier the same day in demonstrations which wrecked the U.S. Embassy and the offices of the U.S. Information Service, and which besieged the U.S. military communications center.  
 
June 11, 1932
The Dies anti-alien bill, the most vicious piece of anti-working class legislation in years, has just been passed by the House of Representatives. That the Senate will act in harmony with their congressional brothers is a foregone conclusion … if not enough working class pressure is brought to bear on the case.

The purpose of the bill is to deport all those workers who have found their way to Communism. The first workers to be affected will be those belonging to the Communist party.

This is a fight for the elementary rights of the workers, native and foreign, to organize and join any party they see fit.  
 
 
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