Vol. 73/No. 15      April 20, 2009

In what Vietnam described as a “very serious act of war” Peking sent several battalions of infantrymen to invade a Vietnamese province on April 6. Local armed forces repelled the attacks.

Ambassador Bich Son charged that the purpose of this attack was to undermine the trend towards dialogue between the Indochinese countries with other Southeast Asian countries that belong to ASEAN. The attacks are also meant to boost the morale of the Pol Pot forces, upon whom the Kampuchean army has inflicted military defeats recently.  
 
April 20, 1959
The workers and peasants in Iraq are continuing the revolutionary advance they began six weeks ago when they rallied behind the regime of Premier Abdul Karim Kassim to quickly smother an attempted counter-revolution.

The unsuccessful counter-revolution proclaimed itself pro-Nasser. Its leaders were high-ranking army officers and great land-owning sheiks. Its aim was to stop the Iraqi revolution, which had begun eight months before and particularly to prevent the land reform promised by the new regime.

But the great outpouring of the masses onto the streets and the militancy of the Peoples Resistance Force—a temporarily armed militia composed primarily of revolutionary youth—caused other army officers to hesitate, waver, and finally decide not to join Colonel Shawaf’s rebellion.  
 
April 21, 1934
The deportation of [Leon] Trotsky by the reactionary government of France and the campaign of hounding and incitement which puts his life in imminent danger at the hands of Russian White Guards or inspired Fascist assassins, raises sharply before the advanced workers of the United States the question of a fight to secure the right of asylum for him here.

In view of the sweep of reaction in Europe which compels thousands of working class militants and opponents of fascism to live in emigration, the question of the right of asylum in the United States becomes an issue of direct concern for every political tendency in the labor movement. We can be true to the proletarian spirit of comrade Trotsky only if we join with other workers’ organizations and fight as resolutely for their partisans as for our own comrades.  
 
 
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