Vol. 71/No. 42      November 12, 2007

The growing resistance by workers to the policies of the employers and their government—illustrated by the Chrysler workers’ rejection of their contract and the 70,000-strong labor march in San Francisco October 24—will be at the center of the discussions at the YSA convention. It will be held at the McCormick Inn in Chicago, Illinois, from December 30-January 2.

In addition to a series of political reports and discussions, and workshops, a highlight of the meeting will be a public talk by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. Barnes will speak on “Their Trotsky and Ours: Revolutionary Continuity Today.”  
 
November 11, 1957
No one can fail to be impressed by the Soviet firing of two man-made “moons” into full orbit around the earth.

The ruling U.S. capitalists, as represented by their political spokesmen and press, have responded to the Sputniks with snarls of chagrin and frustration. They see in the latest accomplishments of Soviet scientists only a challenge to their vaunted military superiority and a brake, if only temporary, on their drive toward imperialist penetration of other lands and war against the Soviet orbit.

The Soviet bureaucracy, as represented by the Kremlin leaders and their servitors of the Communist Parties throughout the world, for its part has been quick to use the latest achievements of Soviet science to bolster its own positions and claims.  
 
November 12, 1932
The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, reversing the lower courts in setting aside the trial and appeal verdicts in the Scottsboro case, is a triumph for the nine prisoners and the entire working class. It is a victory militantly won by the party in the face of great terror and repression.

But no illusions! The fight is not yet won. The end we are fighting for is not yet. The boys are still in prison. They are to be tried again in March, thus far, by the same judge, in the same court in which they were railroaded a little more than a year and a half ago.

The need for a fighting movement of the working class for unconditional freedom of these victims of capitalist class justice is greater than it was before. What we have already accomplished must be the stimulus to yet greater efforts. We cannot stop until we have forced the bourbon tiger of the south to open his jaws and let our class brothers go.  
 
 
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