Vol. 71/No. 20      May 21, 2007

Meanwhile, Cuba and other targets of imperialist aggression have acted to deepen their solidarity with Argentina.

On May 10 it was reported that in his capacity as chairman of the Movement of Nonaligned Countries, Fidel Castro had called on the member nations of that body to help halt "imminent Anglo-American aggression" against Argentina.

Three days earlier, the British government had announced the expansion of its naval and air blockade to within 12 miles of the mainland Argentine coast. It warned that ships leaving their ports, or planes leaving their bases, faced attack.  
 
May 20, 1957
After three years of struggle against the Jim Crow advocates of Louisville, Ky., and their witch-hunting tactics, Andrew Wade IV has won title to his home. Repair of the house damaged in 1954 by racist bombers will proceed immediately.

The house was dynamited, but Wade continued his fight against segregation. His friends including the white couple, Carl and Anne Braden in whose name the house was originally purchased, were arrested on "conspiracy" charges and imprisoned. But Wade and his friends fought on. Finally, the bank holding the mortgage on the house foreclosed on a technicality, sure that Wade would be unable to meet the sum. This last attempt to save Jim Crow was foiled when a Chicago couple, Mr. and Mrs. David Simonson, learned of the new threat and advanced the Wade family a loan.  
 
May 14, 1932
Last Friday witnessed another manifestation of Capitalist democracy in this land of the free and home of the brave. In one of the suburbs of Chicago, in Melrose Park, the brave defenders of law and order opened up a volley of machine gun fire on a meeting of unarmed, defenseless unemployed workers who had gathered to protest against police brutality and to demand the elementary right of free speech of demonstrating in common against the ravages of the capitalist economic order which has reduced some twelve million toilers to starvation in the United States alone.

Nine workers were wounded, three of them seriously. The shooting took place with the approval and under the command of the local authorities of Melrose Park.  
 
 
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