At a cost to the Republicans of $90,000, the men were paid to post thousands of four-foot-high placards “warning” that the areas were “being patrolled” by the task force. The signs offered a $1,000 reward to anyone with information leading to conviction on “voter fraud.” [V]oters report being stopped by the goons outside polling places and ordered to show voter registration cards. It is not necessary to have cards in order to vote.

December 10, 1956
The little country of Syria with its three-and-a-half million population has become the new object of attack by the foes of the national independence revolution of the Arab peoples. These foes include the principal imperialist powers— the U.S., Britain, and France; their outright stooges among the Arab states especially the government of Iraq; the Turkish, Iranian and Pakistani governments; and the government of Israel.

What has Syria done? According to the propaganda of the imperialist nations and their stooges, Syria has become a menace to the peace of the Middle East, because she has sought arms from the Soviet Union. This is supposed to make her a servant of Soviet “ambitions,” indeed a base for Soviet attack on Syria’s neighbors. But this claim is only the pretext for the gang-up on Syria. Actually, Syria has bought arms from the Soviet Union for the same reason Egypt bought arms from that source—she could obtain them readily with no political commitments.

December 12, 1931
Italian fascism has recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of its coming to power. At the end of October 1922, the fascist coup d’etat gave the Italian bourgeoisie new means of exploiting and dominating the working masses. Since this time, the situation of the masses has grown continually worse. All their victories, the result of a half-century of struggle and sacrifice both on the political and the economic field, were swept away by brutality and violence.

What is the present situation in Italy? This is what an old comrade, recently returned from there, says: “Unemployment is terrible. Among workers’ families, there are few who have jobs. Relief amounts to nothing, and when the relief chest is empty, even those miserable payments are suspended…. In the country, poverty is still worse. Poor markets and bad crops have finished the ruin of thousands of peasants who will not be able to pay even a part of their taxes this year.”  
 
 
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