The busing began despite the best efforts of racists and white “liberal” school board members to prevent it.

First day attendance figures were not available as the Militant went to press, but the racists appeared to have failed in their call for a boycott massive enough to wreck the busing plan.

In an eleventh-hour suit, the racist outfit Bustop had won a state appeals court ruling that would have postponed desegregation indefinitely.

When desegregation forces appealed this reactionary order to the state Supreme Court, the white liberal Democrats on the school board—elected as “integrationists”—joined with the racists in asking the high court to uphold the shelving of the busing plan.

The alliance of the school board majority with the racist Bustop gang is particularly outrageous, given the minimal nature of the plan they’re trying to kill.

With 600,000 pupils, the Los Angeles school district is the second largest—and one of the most segregated—in the nation.

Of those 600,000 pupils, only 30,000 are involved in the mandatory busing plan.

Meanwhile, there are 260,000—more than a quarter of a million!—Black and Chicano students who remain in inferior, totally segregated schools.

September 21, 1953
There is a reign of terror in Iran. For weeks mass arrests have been taking place throughout the country under the military dictatorship of Zahedi.

Among the Government employees alone the victims number into the thousands. The Sept. 13 N.Y. Times reported that “Premier Zahedi has dismissed or suspended 3,000 government employees as members of the Tudeh (Communist) party.…”

The same Times dispatch says: “General Zahedi is reported to have said that only when the government feels itself secure from disorders provoked by the Tudeh or Mossadegh sympathizers, will it be able to carry out the program of internal reforms” and negotiate with Britain “over the nationalized oil resources.”

After more than two years of revolutionary opportunities, the counter-revolution triumphed on Aug. 19 by a military coup…. This triumph came on the heels of a “failure” only a few days before when the Shah fled abroad. What made this triumph possible was the policy of the Stalinists.  
 
 
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