Vol. 72/No. 15      April 14, 2008

The case is that of Héctor Marroquín, who is fighting deportation. The government is trying to throw him out of the country because his Marxist ideas are not to the liking of the bankers and big businessmen who run this country. Marroquín is a member of the Socialist Workers Party. He has lived in this country for nine years.

On April 7, Marroquín filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the decision of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport him. Unlike previous stages of the five-year-old legal fight there are no more appeals after the Supreme Court.  
 
April 14, 1958
Another blood-curdling example of Jim Crow lynch law occurred in Tallulah, Louisiana, on March 27. The sheriff phoned C. S. Gundy and said: “your son is at the jail. Come and get him.”

“Is he hurt?” the father asked.

“He’s dead,” was the reply.

Young Gundy’s crime had been keeping company with a white girl in town. Police found out about it and trapped them together in a car. Young Gundy was put into the rear of the police car and there shot eight times. “Trying to escape,” is the official story.

The girl is charged with “miscegenation,” the Dixieland word for interracial association.  
 
April 15, 1933
A viciously prejudiced jury composed of twelve representatives of the poisoned ideology of the reactionary, capitalist South brought in a verdict of guilty against Haywood Patterson, the first of the Scottsboro boys to be tried in the new trials ordered by the United States Supreme Court. According to Alabama law, the jury is charged with the duty of fixing the penalty. This jury decided on death in the electric chair.

With this verdict the blood-lust ridden southern capitalists have reaffirmed their intention to snuff out the lives of all who dare to resent and struggle against the intolerable conditions to which capitalism reduced the workers and sharecroppers in the South in its ruthless scramble for profit. It is class murder.  
 
 
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