"We consider the situation to be extremely dangerous," Rojas told the Militant in a telephone interview November 13.

"We are taking all necessary steps to ensure that our country and our revolution is adequately defended," Rojas added. Grenadian armed forces have been on a state of alert, he said.

"We have information that within the last 48 hours there have been a lot of troop movements in the vicinity of Barbados—a lot of naval activity and a number of military aircraft have landed in Barbados," Rojas said….

Grenada is viewed as a threat because it "is the first in the English-speaking Caribbean to have had a revolution," Prime Minister [Maurice] Bishop said.  
 
November 26, 1956
Every seaport in the United States was tied up yesterday in the first nation-wide longshore strike in history. The East Coast had already been tied up from Maine to Texas for four days by the International Longshoremen's Association (independent). Yesterday the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union shut down the West Coast ports in a 24-hour sympathy strike with the ILA.

The central aim of the ILA strike is to win their first coastwise contract. The militancy and solidarity being displayed by the ranks lays a good basis for winning their demand….

The shipowners and stevedoring companies are offering strong resistance to the demands of the dock workers, particularly on the issue of a coastwise contract. As a bargaining club they are threatening to secure an 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction.  
 
November 28, 1931
Japanese imperialism continues to entrench herself more strongly in Manchuria, and pushes her military operations persistently and sharply….

The Chinese masses sharply resent the efforts of Japan to make what amounts to a colony of Manchuria. The proletariat is compelled to carry the brunt of the battles, not only its own, but that of its enemies and exploiters. As pointed out in the Militant hitherto, demonstrations and the economic boycott were involved at the outset of the present struggle. These are now on the increase, and the historical weapon of the Chinese, the economic boycott, in this instance of Japanese goods, is being linked up more and more with political manifestations against the Chinese bourgeoisie.

In Japan there has been an increase of protest by workers and workers' organizations against the Japanese government and its depredations upon Manchuria.  
 
 
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