Vol. 73/No. 28      July 27, 2009

On July 12, Chinese troops attacked points in Vietnam’s Ha Tuyen province. Chinese troops have also moved right up to the Vietnamese border in other areas.

Peking, which sent 600,000 troops into Vietnam in 1979 in direct collusion with Washington, has escalated tensions along its border with Vietnam since April, when President Reagan visited China.

Chinese troops have also massed along China’s border with Laos.  
 
July 27, 1959
The powerful Cuban Workers Confederation has called a one-hour nationwide work stoppage for July 24 to back up Castro and demand his return as premier. The labor confederation chief, David Salvador, urged workers to hold meetings during that work stoppage to hear their leaders stress the importance of Castro’s resumption of office.

The former premier was also informed that the thousands upon thousands of peasants now streaming into Havana by train, bus, truck and foot would stay there until he withdrew his resignation.

This demonstration of unity between the workers and peasants is designed to set the stage for an overwhelming demonstration of loyalty to Castro and his program on the July 26 celebration.  
 
July 28, 1934
MINNEAPOLIS, July 26—With the declaration of martial law, Minneapolis police began a howling red-scare and arrested Comrade James P. Cannon, editor of the Militant, and Comrade Max Shachtman, editor of the New International today.

The arrest of these leaders of the Communist League of America, in Minneapolis covering the strike situation for the Militant and the New International, took on a sinister aspect when it became known they were held by authorities without charges.

All the earmarks of a frame-up were present in the case in the announcement by police that “they had seized a large quantity of radical literature in a room occupied by one of the men.”  
 
 
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