Vol. 79/No. 15 April 27, 2015
April 27, 1990
TEANECK, New Jersey — The killing of a 16-year-old Black youth by a white cop has provoked outrage from the Black community here.Phillip Pannell was shot in the back by Officer Gary Spath just after 6:00 p.m. on April 10. Spath was chasing the young man through a backyard in a predominantly Black section of this northern New Jersey suburb.
The following evening 1,000 people attended a candlelight vigil to protest the killing. When the vigil ended at the Teaneck municipal building participants were confronted by local police wearing riot helmets and carrying nightsticks.
“It was a tinderbox and the police were the match,” a community activist explained to a local paper.
April 26, 1965
Opponents of U.S. aggression in Vietnam and partisans of social change should be greatly heartened by the remarkably successful April 17 student March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam.The turnout of 20,000 was double the number expected by the organizers of the march. Viewed in relation to the character of the march, the figures are even more impressive. These 20,000 were not there simply to voice an amorphous pro-peace sentiment. They were in the capital as militant, conscious opponents of a war now going on.
They were there to oppose the reactionary efforts of the Johnson administration to crush a legitimate, popular revolution with bombs, napalm and gas.
April 27, 1940
Workers of America, join with us in celebrating May Day, the day dedicated to the international solidarity of the working class.Join with us in pledging on this day that the workers in every country are our brothers, that whether they speak French or German or Italian or Russian or English the workers in all lands belong together in one united band against their oppressors. Long live the international solidarity of Labor against all the bosses, “democratic” or fascist!
Tens of millions of our brothers have been stuffed into uniforms and guns thrust into their hands — to shoot each other down. Let us dedicate ourselves this day to put an end to this slaughter of workers by workers.