Vol. 77/No. 17 May 6, 2013
May 6, 1988
NEW YORK — Well-known victims of government repression gathered at a rally here to hail a court victory won by the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance against the FBI and other federal political police agencies.The April 23 meeting, attended by 130, was one of dozens organized around the country to celebrate the success of the SWP and YSA’s 15-year lawsuit against government spying, harassment, and disruption.
On March 17 the U.S. Justice Department announced its decision to drop its appeal of federal Judge Thomas Griesa’s ruling in the case that such activities are unconstitutional and illegal. The judge also awarded $264,000 monetary damages to the socialists and permanently barred the government from using the millions of documents illegally compiled on the two organizations.
May 6, 1963
MAY 1 — The William L. Moore memorial “freedom walk” began today as a group of 12 members of the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality started walking from Chattanooga, Tenn., headed for Jackson, Miss.Alabama’s “safety director,” Al Lingo, who has earned a reputation for harassing civil-rights fighters, said yesterday of the marchers: “They will be arrested, placed in jail and charged with breach of the peace.”
The man accused of murdering Moore has been released on $5,000 bail. Floyd Simpson, a grocery-store owner, is charged with shooting Moore with a .22-caliber rifle while Moore walked along Highway 11 outside Attalla, Ala., with two signs draped over him. The signs read: “Equal Rights for All.” and “Eat at Joes, Both Black and White.”
May 7, 1938
Thirty-two persons were reported killed and 48 gravely wounded April 26 when British police opened fire on a throng of 10,000 persons attending an Indian Congress Party rally in the village of Viduraswatam, 150 miles east of Bangalore.The rally had been organized to protest the ban issued by the Mysore state government against hoisting of the Congress flag.
In subjecting the demonstrators to a blood-bath, the “democratic” British imperialist masters of India achieved a new high point in their ruthless suppression of the downtrodden victims of their rule. Intermittently during the past two years, the British slavedrivers have been carrying out aerial bombing operations against Northwest frontier tribesmen and spreading death and devastation through Indian villages.
Front page (for this issue) |
Home |
Text-version home