Vol. 71/No. 40      October 29, 2007

Carthan, the first Black mayor of a Mississippi delta town since Reconstruction, was elected in 1977. He was removed from office three months before his term expired after local and state officials carried out a campaign of intimidation against him.

Currently serving a jail sentence for charges of alleged assault, of which six of his supporters were also found guilty, Carthan and his brother Joseph have also been charged with allegedly hiring two men from St. Louis to kill Roosevelt Granderson.  
 
October 28, 1957
U.S. State Department moves to overthrow the government of Syria have provoked such a wave of anti-imperialist solidarity among the masses of the Arab nations that the Eisenhower Doctrine itself is in danger of being swamped.

Earlier this month Turkey began massing troops and tanks on the Syrian border. With them are U.S. military advisors and instructors.

Last August, Syria, unable to get loans for dam, railroad and industrial construction from the U.S., accepted a low-interest loan from the Soviet Union. The State Department immediately began a propaganda campaign that Syria had gone “Communist.”

But mass pressure forced all the Arab rulers out of the U.S. line-up against Syria.  
 
October 29, 1932
As the elections come to a close, the cold indifference of the two big capitalist parties and their leading spokesmen with regard to the burning problems and interests of the masses of the people stands out in glaring evidence of the fact that even in the wealth-saturated United States, the ruling class is not in a position to relieve the intense sufferings brought on by the crisis.

The present campaign of the Socialist party must look for its equal in opportunism to the days of 1917 when Morris Hillquit ran for mayor of New York with an agitation centering chiefly around the issue of … five cent milk.

The Left Opposition therefore ranges itself alongside its party and calls upon every worker to cast his vote for his party, the Communist Party!  
 
 
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