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Vol. 72/No. 32      August 18, 2008

 
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August 26, 1983
TORONTO—An estimated 5,000 people participated in an angry demonstration here July 6 to protest the police raid on the Morgentaler abortion clinic. It was the largest demonstration in English Canada in support of a woman’s right to choose on abortion. The protesters, the vast majority of them women, chanted, sang, and waved placards calling on the government to legalize the clinic and end its harassment of the clinic’s doctors.

Clinic supporters are now turning their attention to building the October 1 Day of Action for Choice on Abortion. This cross-country action is receiving widespread endorsement, including from both the Ontario and British Columbia federations of labor.  
 
August 11, 1958
NEW YORK, Aug. 4—The Young Socialist Alliance won its fifth and sixth consecutive victories in its “free speech fight” today when charges of “littering” against two of its members were dismissed. The littering charge arose out of a leaflet distribution.

Lambrecht and Margolies [the defendants] issued the following statement on their trial: “We welcome this victory for the freedom of speech, press and assembly. The unconstitutional attempts by police to abridge these freedoms indicates a concerted attempt to harass socialist groups to death, where they cannot proceed against them legally. We demand that the Police Commissioner end immediately this ‘war of attrition’ on the Young Socialist Alliance.”  
 
August 12, 1933
The political crisis in Cuba appears at last to have reached a climax. The pressure of the working class and the petty bourgeois masses aimed at the overthrow of “Butcher” Machado, has thrown a monkey wrench into Ambassador Welles’ attempts to solve the impasse by arbitration.

Strikes initiated by the revolutionary workers in Havana as a protest against the intervention of Wall Street’s viceroy as mediator in the island’s politics, spread throughout the island affecting all industries and partaking of the nature of a general political strike. Mass demonstrations in Havana and other cities have created a situation that at this writing the police and military have been unable as yet to dominate.  
 
 
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