Vol. 73/No. 26      July 13, 2009

The midafternoon day of action was called by the Southeast region of the Trades Union Congress (Britain’s equivalent to the AFL-CIO) and the Kent National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).

The miners are on strike against the government’s proposal to close 20 mines and fire 20,000 workers over the next year. The coal industry here is government owned.  
 
July 13, 1959
The Socialist Workers Party concluded its Eighteenth National Convention last week after three days of intensive work in an atmosphere charged with self-confident realism and revolutionary socialist optimism. The participation of some 250 delegates and visitors from every branch in the country marked a high point for the party since the 1946 Chicago Convention on the eve of the cold-war and witch-hunt period.

Among the delegates was a large representation of youth along with founders of the American communist movement, veterans of the trade union movement, and front-line fighters in the Negro struggle.  
 
July 14, 1934
The leading capitalist nations are now entering a period of intensified trade wars that shift in emphasis and political expression almost every week. The ramification of the struggle for markets is so great that it is difficult to follow the battle line on all fronts. But what can be pointed out is the general trends and the main antagonisms.

This struggle for markets by the imperialist powers finds its political expression in clashes between imperialist powers and in open class war within the countries or industries of the nations which cannot find outlets and markets for overproduction and capital investments.  
 
 
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