Vol. 72/No. 21      May 26, 2008

In response, the Political Rights Defense Fund, which is organizing support for Marroquín, announced a campaign to use the short time before then to flood the offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service with telegrams and letters.

Marroquín, now a leader of the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance, was forced to flee Mexican repression nine years ago. His request for political asylum, along with the government’s arguments in favor of deportation, comprise a far-reaching case with implications for thousands seeking political refuge here, in particular those from U.S.-backed dictatorships in Central America and the Caribbean.  
 
May 26, 1958
The ominous possibility of democratic rights of the French people being trampled under the military boots of de Gaulle and the insurgent generals in Algeria looms ever larger because the working class, the only force in French society capable of smashing a full-fledged de Gaullist drive to power, is not being mobilized for action by its leaders.

De Gaulle has considerable forces. Yet these forces would be no match against the mighty French working class in a stand-up battle. A determined mobilization of the workers would melt the control of the insurgent generals over the soldier masses doing conscript duty in Algeria and France and pit them against the professional killers, such as the paratroopers, who form but a fraction of the armed forces.  
 
May 27, 1933
Another revolt accompanied by a wave of terrorism has broken loose in Cuba. The guerrilla outbreaks in the central and eastern provinces of the island are only one, and perhaps not the greatest of the dangers threatening the dictatorship. In the cities and especially in Havana, virtual civil war exists.

“Butcher” Machado is now singing his swan song.

The Roosevelt administration has not yet determined on a definite course. The experiences of Nicaragua and Haiti are too recent to be easily forgotten. They demonstrate the inadvisability—for the imperialists—of intervention, excepting as a very last resort.

Cuba, being essentially a one-crop country, presents an extreme example of economic contradictions which can find no permanent solution under capitalism.  
 
 
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