Vol. 72/No. 43      November 3, 2008

As has now become totally clear, for some weeks and perhaps months a deepgoing conflict has been unfolding in the ruling party in Grenada and its leadership.

On Wednesday, October 12, our embassy in Grenada reported the surprising and disagreeable news that deep divisions had surfaced in the Central Committee. It was learned that Bishop’s adversaries had gained a majority in the Central Committee of the party as well as in the political apparatus of the army and the security force, and that Bishop had been removed from his post in the party and put under house arrest.

No doctrine, no principle or position held up as revolutionary, and no internal division justifies atrocious proceedings like the physical elimination of Bishop.

November 3, 1958
[The following are excerpts from an Oct. 20 interview of Daniel Roberts, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senator from New Jersey on the “Fannie Hurst Showcase” Program, WNEW-TV]

Roberts: What we advocate fundamentally is a change to a system of socialism.

Arnold: Well, how do you bring about this change?

Roberts: It has to be brought about, in our opinion, by a political struggle in which the first requisite is that the working people in this country have their own political party. In our opinion both the Democrats and Republicans are run and completely dominated by Big Business and what is necessary is a political party of the working people to win the government and once they have the government in their hands to bring about a certain number of very fundamental changes.

November 4, 1933
Every effort will be made by the Calles-Rodriguez regime to prevent the Mexican peasants from rearming themselves, and to disarm those still in possession of rifles. During the last four uprisings the peasants participated on the side of the government against the counter revolution. The next uprising will find them aligned against the government which has gone over bag and baggage to the counter revolution. During the past revolts the armed peasant guerrillas proved themselves more than a match for the troops of the regular army many of which supported the rebellions.

For many years the Mexican peasants and their organizations have played an important role in the country’s politics, always however as tools of the different bourgeois and petty-bourgeois political groups which paid them off with broken promises or a few rusty guns.  
 
 
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