Vol. 72/No. 46      November 24, 2008

The military assaults launched at the end of October against refugee camps in northern Lebanon are the latest blows in a sustained offensive against the Palestinian movement from several different quarters.

This onslaught began with the U.S.-backed Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982. It continued with attempts by Washington to force the PLO to capitulate politically.

It is now marked by the Syrian regime’s attempt to shatter the PLO as a cohesive force and falsely present a rump group under Syrian influence as the true representative of the Palestinian people.  
 
November 24, 1958
The socialist vote in 1958 is slow in being reported. In Minnesota and Pennsylvania there are indications of modest increases over 1956.

But it was not only to the vote that socialist campaigners looked for the measure of their achievements this year. It was also to the scope of their campaigning as measured by amounts of radio and TV time, number of union meetings at which they spoke, size of audiences at street meetings, and to a greater interest in socialist ideas they saw manifested this year.

In New York State the Independent-Socialists now have over 41,000 votes for Corliss Lamont, candidate for U.S. Senate, and nearly 27,000 for John T. McManus, candidate for Governor.

In Minnesota, where the Socialist Workers Party ran William Curran for the U.S. Senate, the final SWP vote was 5,407.  
 
November 25, 1933
In an atmosphere charged with the electricity of mob violence, with the white hooded Ku Kluxers riding every night and burning the fiery cross on the highways and hilltops, terrorizing the entire Negro population, the Southern bourbons are bringing the nine Negro boys to trial on the notorious railroading charge of the supposed rape of Ruby Bates and Virginia Price.

The facts and evidence in the famous Scottsboro case, in which the star witness for the prosecution, Ruby Bates, has vindicated the defendants, are clear beyond a doubt. But the class laws of the lily-white south are undaunted by the truth. Innocence or guilt is determined by the callousness of the pallor of the hand and the color of the skin.

The Negroes have been so terrorized they go far out of the way to avoid stating any opinion on the trial.  
 
 
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