Vol. 72/No. 26      June 30, 2008

Some 1,500 Blacks and several hundred whites and Latinos participated in the march.

The demonstrators paid tribute to three African National Congress (ANC) liberation fighters executed by the racist South African government June 9, and vigorously protested U.S. collaboration with the apartheid regime.

In the front a large banner of the sponsoring Soweto Solidarity Coalition declared: “Down With Apartheid! U.S. Out of S. Africa! Victory to the ANC-SWAPO!”  
 
June 30, 1958
One central issue dominated the United Independent-Socialist Election Conference held in New York June 13-15. Should socialists stand in clear-cut opposition to the Republicans and Democrats or should they support and work inside the Democratic party? The great majority of the conference sponsors and delegates recorded themselves in favor of militant socialist opposition to the two capitalist parties.

The fact that the conference took a decisive stand on the issue by no means ends the debate. The CP [Communist Party] leadership is continuing to marshal arguments against the idea of independent socialist political action and in support of its pro-Democratic party “coalition” policy.  
 
July 1, 1933
The verdict of guilty brought in against Hayward Patterson, one of the nine Scottsboro defendants, was set aside on June 22nd by Judge Horton.

The change in the point of view of Judge Horton, who but on last Palm Sunday sentenced the convicted youth to death, was hardly the result of “preponderance of evidence.” The change was not one in the “preponderance of evidence” but rather in the tearing to pieces of the crude frame-up by the united efforts of tens of thousands of Negro and white workers in the struggle for the freedom of the boys. This temporary respite must in no way produce any lull in the building of the only thing that will completely free the boys-a mass movement.  
 
 
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