Vol. 77/No. 30      August 19, 2013

Omaha, an industrial and financial center in the Midwest, has a long history of working-class battles. The city’s propertied rulers have used both legal and extralegal methods to intimidate and deal blows to their class opponents — from the use of federal immigration raids to break up union organizing drives in area packinghouses in 2000 to Ku Klux Klan night riders threatening and driving out of town Earl Little, an activist in Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association and the father of Malcolm X, in 1925.

The party’s initial efforts to respond have uncovered more recent attacks by cops and others against political activists in the city.

We urge readers to join party supporters in responding by stepping up their political work with others involved in struggles in the interests of working people. Go to Omaha, join in teams taking the Militant door to door to workers throughout the area, help build the fight to win freedom for Mondo we Langa and Ed Poindexter, get out the word about the international campaign for the Cuban Five. Help show the authorities that efforts to push socialists and other working people out of politics will have the opposite effect.

Wherever you are, join in the campaign to defend the party’s right to free speech in Omaha. Circulate copies of the open letter supporters of political rights are getting around and win new signers. Help press city officials to arrest those responsible for the break-in and expose those behind the political attack. An injury to one is an injury to all!
 
 
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