Vol. 71/No. 29      August 6, 2007

Is the governor driving out the gangsters or the bootleggers? No! The National Guard is seldom used in that capacity. As was to be expected, the N.G. is used against the workers of the district. 4,000 union miners have been engaged in an attempt to keep scabs from working in the mine. With arms in hand the union miners have driven the scabs from the colliery. In one of the encounters between the union miners and the deputy thugs, one of the union men was murdered and several injured.  
 
August 5, 1957
The world-wide demand to stop nuclear bomb tests, raised by scientists of unimpeachable authority and tens of millions of people, has run into one stall after another. The fateful issue threatens to be buried in the quagmire of diplomacy and doubletalk.

We socialists have never believed that disarmament was the solution to the continued threat of war in our epoch. We have said the working class must destroy capitalism, the social system that breeds war…. But the mass demands to stop nuclear tests… are an entirely different thing than the cynical maneuverings of war mongers who screen their war preparations with the camouflage of a disarmament conference table.  
 
August 6, 1982
As the Militant goes to press the Israeli army has been held at bay outside of West Beirut for seven weeks. A few thousand Palestinian liberation troops, without the planes, without the tanks, without the warships that are at the disposal of the Israeli high command, have fought back valiantly.

Added to the Israeli military pressure against the Palestine Liberation Organization has been intensive political pressure from Washington. The PLO has held fast against that too.

Zionist officials have repeatedly warned that if the negotiations do not achieve Israeli objectives—the disarming of the PLO fighters and their expulsion from Lebanon—they will resort to a large-scale offensive against West Beirut.  
 
 
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