The killings took place around 11 p.m. as thirty bullets were pumped into a car near the Pearl’s airport.

Joseph Kanute Burke, Grenadian consul general to North America, spoke to the Militant November 19 from Los Angeles. He is on a tour of a number of U.S. cities speaking at public meetings about the revolution in Grenada. Burke said, “The forces behind this ambush are among those who support Eric Gairy. Gairy is sheltered by the U.S. government. His visa was just extended eight weeks ago. He lives in San Diego and is openly raising funds to recruit counterrevolutionaries to attack Grenada.”

The repressive Gairy regime, subservient to Washington and London, was overthrown in March 1979 by revolutionaries of the New Jewel Movement.  
 
November 28, 1955
Nov.21—The return of Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef to the Moroccan throne marks a signal victory for the national independence movement in North Africa. The Arab masses in Rabat and other Moroccan cities are pressing the struggle for liberation from French imperialist rule with renewed fervor.

In 1953 ben Youssef was ousted by the French government because of his sympathies for Istiqlal, (Moroccan independence party) and replaced by a French puppet. This high-handed action unleashed a mass struggle in Morocco. The central demand has been the return of ben Youssef to the throne.

It reached a crest last August when a general strike went into effect in the Moroccan section of the cities and partisan warfare was stepped up in the mountains.

Over 200,000 Moroccans turned out to greet ben Youssef on his return to the capital city of Rabat.  
 
November 15, 1930
A restlessness and discontentment is permeating the American working class. It is beginning to awaken from the luxuriant dream of the prosperity days. It is not only feeling the scourge of unemployment, but the radical lowering of its living standards in a dozen different forms: wage cuts, lengthening of the working day, intensification of labor, “stagger systems” and the like. Directing the hostility at the boss, it also commences to discern behind the capitalist government the hazy figure of the capitalist class. In a word, the premises are present for the development of a clear class consciousness among the workers.

The bureaucracy of the A.F. of L., and its whole conservative machinery, are pillars of American imperialism—more visible today than ever. Without them, the security of the ruling class would be considerably diminished. The function of the bureaucracy is to prevent the workers from understanding the class nature of the government.  
 
 
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