The massive demonstration was called by the students at the embassy to commemorate the first anniversary of the embassy occupation, and the anniversaries of the exile of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Turkey in 1963 and the slaughter of students at Tehran University by the shah in 1978.

Revolutionary socialists in Tehran report that the action consisted primary of high school students. Many of them, women and men, were armed with M-1 rifles and wore military uniforms. Workers also marched in several contingents.

Slogans were leveled against the U.S. government for its continuing attacks against the Iranian revolution. The action was a show of readiness and determination by the Iranian people to defend their revolution from the Iraqi aggression.  
 
November 14, 1955
Nov. 9—Today an all-white grand jury in Mississippi gave a clean bill of health to J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, lynchers of the 14-year-old Negro boy, Emmett Louis Till, as a mounting wave of terror and murder sweeps through the South.

Despite the fact that Milam and Bryant confessed to the kidnapping charge, despite the testimony of Moses Wright, Till’s uncle, who identified the pair as the men who abducted the youth, the Leflore county grand jury brazenly refused an indictment. And the Mississippi authorities consider the Till case closed. But the case is not closed for the Negro people of the South who are being subjected to an intensified campaign of terror since the whitewash of Till’s murderers.

Despite this fresh evidence of wanton racist terror, and despite persistent demands for federal intervention, Congress and the Administration haven’t lifted a finger to defend the civil rights of the Negro people.  
 
November 1, 1930
Brazil is the fourth South American country to overthrow the government in the course of the last three months.

In Bolivia and Peru, with the sympathy of the great masses, the liberal bourgeoisie staged triumphant movements, and supported by British imperialism managed to defeat the feudal elements which for years while in power had worked hand in hand with Wall Street financial interests.

In Argentina the pro-British government of Hipolito Irigoyen was turned out by a military coup of the big bourgeoisie supported by American imperialism. A virtual reign of terror was then instituted against the proletarian organizations. The Communist and anarchist press has been suppressed and several anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist leaders have been executed.  
 
 
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