Vol. 75/No. 27      July 25, 2011

The claim that it is justified because drug trafficking is a threat to U.S. “national security” is a hoax.

Such moves also represent a serious threat to the independence of other countries that may find U.S. forces descending on them in the name of combating drug dealers or other offenders.

Officials admitted the troops had been authorized to shoot, if “fired on first,” and acknowledged there could be casualties.  
 
July 24 & 31, 1961
Kennedy’s threat to plunge the United States into a nuclear war if the Pentagon’s military occupation “rights” in the western sector of Berlin should be undermined by a peace treaty between the Soviet Union and East Germany is being hailed by the capitalist press as great statesmanship.

But the gist of Kennedy’s July 25 reply to Khrushchev’s peace treaty moves was: “We will bury ourselves!”

The burial is to take place in fall-out shelters. “In the event of an attack, the lives of those families which are not hit in a nuclear blast and fire can still be saved,” said Kennedy, “if they can be warned to take shelter and if that shelter is available.”  
 
December 19, 1936
The iron solidarity of the Maritime Unions brought new negotiations directly with the shipowners during the past week, which give promise of bringing the seven-week-old strike to an early conclusion with the concession of the unions’ basic demands.

The direct negotiations are known to have centered on the key questions in dispute—hiring hall, cash overtime, 8-hour day for cooks and stewards and wage adjustments.

The struggle between the workers and shipowners is a class struggle. The issue in every case is decided by power. The power of the workers is always tested by their ability and readiness to tie up the ships. This is the heart and core of militant trade union policy.  
 
 
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