Vol. 71/No. 43      November 19, 2007

Commander Lenín Cerna, head of Nicaraguan State Security, told reporters that between August and October of this year, counterrevolutionary units based in southern Honduras had violated Nicaraguan air space 58 times; attacked border posts 37 times; conducted five ambushes against the Sandinista People’s Army; attacked three towns along the border; and carried out 33 incursions or infiltrations into Nicaraguan territory.

These attacks have claimed the lives of 37 Sandinista soldiers and wounded 38 others.  
 
November 18, 1957
In his speech at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Russian Revolution on Nov. 7, Kremlin boss Khrushchev demarcated the political area on which the bureaucracy is attempting to consolidate its rule. “Such occurrences as under Stalin’s personality cult,” Khrushchev promised, “should never be permitted in the future.”

He then marked off the forward limit of concessions by declaring Stalin a “dedicated Marxist-Leninist” whom “the party and Soviet people will give his due.” He addressed a warning to those attempting to carry de-Stalinization too far, who “call leaders … Stalinists, giving it negative meaning. Critics of this kind are either thorough slanderers or people who have descended to the rotten positions of revisionism.”  
 
November 19, 1932
PITTSBURGH—Conditions of the working class in this most highly industrialized section of the country represent what most nearly approaches a cross-section of proletarian life in the country as a whole. More than 100,000 jobless fill the narrow, winding, filthy streets. Steel workers at the mills are lucky if they have three day’s labor a month. Steel is the pivot industry in the Allegheny region. And Pittsburgh is a “one factory town.”

Discontent among the factory masses is literally seething. The unemployed showed their will to fight as early as the first year of the depression in the tremendous demonstrations under the leadership of the Communists. Small and isolated strikes, like the militant strikes of the clothing workers and the bakers at present, crop up all over town.  
 
 
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