In response to the most recent developments, the Cuban government has had its armed forces on full alert since October 31. Reserves have been called up, troops have been restricted to barracks, and anti-aircraft weapons have been set up on roof tops in Havana. The newly organized Territorial Troop Militias have been mobilized.

Along with these steps to strengthen their military self-defense the Cubans have launched a political campaign, in Cuba and throughout the world, to explain the critical situation and mobilize opposition to U.S. plans.  
 
November 19, 1956
While 64,000 boycotters in Montgomery and Tallahassee are continuing their fight for equality, the Supreme Court today ruled that it is unconstitutional for a state or city to require racial segregation on intrastate buses. The court’s unanimous decision was a legal victory for Montgomery’s eleven-month-old protest movement which led to this favorable decision...

The Supreme Court ruling coincides with the climaxing of attempts to smash the two protest movements, by declaring the Negro voluntary car pools in Montgomery and Tallahassee illegal...

In Tallahassee, 21 bus boycotters on Oct. 20 were fined $500 each and 60 days suspended sentences with one year’s probation, on charges of running an illegal transportation system.... Under the banner of “We’ll walk in humble dignity rather than ride in shameful humiliation” 14,400 boycotters are staying off the buses. As E.D. Nixon of Montgomery said: “Our people are no longer afraid.”  
 
November 21, 1931
The first state trial of its kind in the experience of the Dominion [Canada] has passed into history. On Friday November 13, eight leading members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada were convicted at the Fall Assizes, under section 98 of the Criminal Code on three counts: of belonging to an unlawful association, of being officers of such an association, and of being parties to a seditious conspiracy. Seven were sentenced to five years imprisonment each on the first two counts and to more years on the third count, the sentences to run concurrently... All those of foreign birth, though citizens, will be subject to an order for deportation...

The prosecution has been the high-water mark of the political reaction in Canada since the economic crisis set in... The organized workers are confronted with attacks on their standards of living. The wage cut offensive has been launched against railroad workers, mine workers, steel workers and others. To the demands of the workers for unemployment insurance or adequate relief the Bennet Government has turned a deaf ear.  
 
 
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