Vol. 72/No. 45      November 17, 2008

On November 9, Marine Sergeant Jim Stryffeler, a member of the Young Socialist Alliance, was given an honorable discharge from the Marine Corps. He had been threatened with victimization and possible court-martial because of his opposition to the U.S. invasion of Grenada and his plans to participate in the November 12 march on Washington in opposition to that invasion and U.S. intervention in Central America.

Stryffeler, while on vacation leave, scheduled a news conference at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Cincinnati.

He had been politically active for the last several months.  
 
November 17, 1958
The Nov. 4 elections resulted in overwhelming victory for labor-backed Democratic Party candidates, defeat for such notorious reactionaries as Knowland in California and Bricker in Ohio, and defeat of the misnamed Right-to-Work law in five of the six states where it was on the ballot.

Organized workers backed up their leaders on the issue of defending the unions against governmental restrictions. More than that, they mandated the labor leaders by the massiveness of their vote to get some pro-labor benefits from the politician “friends of labor” they elected.

The increase of liberal Democrats in Congress, and even a liberalizing of the Republican minority, gives labor a golden opportunity to insist upon the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.  
 
November 18, 1933
Peiping—About a month ago we sent you a letter in which we gave a rough description of conditions here. Now, however, the situation in North China is changing rapidly. The conditions for revolutionary activity have become more difficult. The first maneuver of General Ho Yin Chin, the right hand of Chiang Kai-Shek, upon his arrival in Peiping was the destruction of the C.P. [Communist Party] and the organizations affiliated with it and the suppression of the anti-Japanese fighters.

In a short time mass meetings were forbidden, several party militants were shot, a wave of arrests spread everywhere, three comrades of the Left Opposition and many important leaders of the party were arrested. Practically all the party organizations in North China are annihilated.  
 
 
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