Vol. 71/No. 23      June 11, 2007

Jonina Abron, NBIPP Central Committee representative, opened the meeting by noting that it was International Workers Day, which marks the struggle for the eight-hour day. She went on to give a brief history of the important role Blacks played in this struggle thorough strikes, demonstrations, and other militant actions.

The NBIPP has launched a national educational campaign for jobs and full employment, with the focus on Black youth. The forum here was sponsored by the Oakland-San Francisco chapter of the NBIPP.  
 
June 10, 1957
Savage fighting in Algeria reached new heights as the French capitalist and social-democratic politicians feverishly haggled about the composition and policy of a new coalition government to replace the fallen Mollet cabinet. News from Algeria made one thing plain—Mollet’s policy of “pacification,” i.e., trying to crush the Algerian independence movement by military force, was proven a failure.

Moreover, French military operations against fleeing Algerian villagers has led to border clashes with newly-independent Tunisia. French military incursions into Tunisia in pursuit of fleeing Algerians and attacks upon Tunisian troops could bring the Tunisian people into war on the side of their Algerian brothers.  
 
June 11, 1932
Events in Germany are moving with alacrity, the press reports from day to day. The direction of this movement is, as has been pointed out, one that tends to extreme reaction, to the immediate preparation of the scene for the Fascist seizure of power.

It is being confirmed daily that the relation between the Von Papen government and particularly its military backbone—the clique around General Von Schleicher—toward the Hitler party is one of a herald to a conqueror.

The Reichstag has been dissolved and new elections are scheduled for July 31. Secret negotiations are also in process to reestablish the Nazi Storm Troops as order of the day for the Von Papen government, the government that is clearing the road for Fascism.  
 
 
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