Vol. 72/No. 10      March 10, 2008

A Caribbean island with a Black, English-speaking population of 110,000, Grenada was the scene of a victorious popular revolution in 1979. The dictatorship of Eric Gairy was ended and a government established representing the interests of Grenada’s workers and farmers.

The Washington Post reported February 27 on the plans to “destabilize” the Grenadian government.

The paper reported, “the CIA developed plans in the summer of 1981 to cause economic difficulty for Grenada in hopes of undermining the political control of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.”  
 
March 10, 1958
The AFL-CIO, representing some 15 million organized workers, is the largest labor movement in the world. The depression, into which America is sinking, calls for the actual exercise of that power by the united labor movement.

Unemployment has reached crisis proportions. Already a large section of the membership of every union is composed of laid-off workers. The unions should form unemployed committees to fight their jobless members’ grievances.

It is already apparent that the corporations are taking advantage of the slump to launch an antilabor offensive. For labor to register gains in the face of the impending employer offensive calls for an overall coordinated wage struggle by the entire working class.  
 
March 10, 1933
WE WANT TO KNOW: When will the Comintern make clear its position? When will it stop playing hide-and-seek with the crisis in Germany?

Europe and consequently the world, is at an historical turning point. In the hands of the Comintern still lie those instruments which enable it to influence decisively the direction of this turn. The express speed of the Fascist advance in Germany has left but little time in which to act. But time is still left.

A terrific historical responsibility weighs upon the Comintern leadership. If it fails to do its duty, it will itself be inundated under the overwhelming catastrophe which its own blunders are now serving to prepare in Germany.  
 
 
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