Vol. 72/No. 5 February 4, 2008
These “joint maneuvers”—of a scale unprecedented in Central America—represent a further escalation of the Reagan administration’s counterrevolutionary war against the Nicaraguan people.
American workers have no interest whatsoever in Washington’s mounting attacks on the people of Nicaragua. They are fellow toilers whose only crime has been to overthrow the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship and install a government that puts the needs of workers and farmers above all other considerations.
February 3, 1958
The heroic revolutionary action of the people of Venezuela has toppled the regime of Marcos Perez Jimenez, U.S. imperialism’s favorite Latin American dictator.
Huge throngs of demonstrators entered Caracas’ downtown Plaza Silencio with shouts of “Down With Tyranny.” Fighting spread throughout the capital and casualties were especially heavy in the Catia section, a working-class district.
On the second day of the fighting army units began to join the revolutionists. The Venezuelans besieged the presidential palace and central police headquarters.
Within a few hours the dictator was on a plane en route to exile in the Dominican Republic, the bailiwick of his fellow tyrant, Trujillo.
February 4, 1933
President von Hindenburg, the victorious candidate of the socialist “Iron Front,” the “bulwark of the Republic against Fascism,” has finally appointed Hitler to the Chancellorship of the Reich.
The fact that Hindenburg, who was undoubtedly hostile to Hitler, even if not in a fundamentally class sense, finally called upon the Fascist leader to take over the government, is eloquent testimony to the desperation of the German bourgeoisie.
It is entirely unthinkable that the German working class, millions strong, trained in the school of the class struggle for years, having at its head the most powerful Communist party in the world outside of the Soviet Union, will permit the Nazi assassins to remain in power without a violent struggle.
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