Vol. 72/No. 37      September 22, 2008

On September 8, as outrage in the Black community grew over this killing, city officials were forced to admit that Pate had been shot more than once, but refused to identify the location of the bullet wounds in Pate’s body.

This racist killing by cops comes only three weeks after a similar attack on August 20. Then city cops shot and seriously wounded a 14-year-old Latino, Alex Valentin.

Two days later, in a further attack on the community, city officials went to court charging Valentin with assaulting the cops.  
 
September 22, 1958
While government and Big Business spokesmen are exuding confidence over the economic situation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has gloomy news about the unemployed. According to Department of Labor figures for August 1958, the level of unemployment in the U.S. has remained constant despite a rise in economic activity in the last three months. Since Spring, about 7.5% of the labor force has been unemployed.

This protracted unemployment occurs in the face of an upturn in certain sections of the economy in the last three months. According to the Federal Reserve Board’s monthly summary for August, industrial production has regained more than half of the ground lost during the recession. Far less than half of the laid-off workers have got their jobs back.  
 
September 23, 1933
In full realization of the great historic responsibility which devolved upon them, the undersigned organizations have unanimously decided to combine their forces for joint work for the regeneration of the revolutionary proletarian movement on an international scale.

The position of world capitalism; the frightful crisis which plunged the working masses into unheard of misery; the revolutionary movement of the oppressed colonial masses; the world danger of Fascism; the perspective of a new cycle of wars which threaten to destroy the whole human culture—these are the conditions which imperatively demand the welding together of the proletarian vanguard into a new (Fourth) International.  
 
 
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