Vol. 77/No. 36 October 14, 2013
October 14, 1988
Readers who caught some of the coverage of the recent Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, will certainly have noted that the games seem to have reached an all-time record in lavish spectacle, media hype, and displays of U.S. imperialist arrogance.An important political statement, however was being made by the government of Cuba and several other countries by their absence from the games.
Cuba decided in January not to send athletes to Seoul in order to protest the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and South Korean government’s refusal to allow North Korea to cosponsor the games.
The IOC’s decision to schedule the games in Seoul was made to build up the authority and prestige of the repressive U.S.-backed South Korean government and further isolate and stigmatize North Korea.
October 14, 1963
Berman Gibson, leader of the striking coal miners of Eastern Kentucky, will be a guest speaker at the Militant Labor Forum Oct. 18. Gibson is making a national tour to rally support for the defense of himself and five other Hazard, Ky., miners indicted under the Federal Train Wreck Statute.Gibson has proclaimed his innocence and states that he and the others are victims of an attempted frame-up “by the coal operators and their political friends.” He described his arrest as follows:
“On Monday, June 17, FBI agents and state police entered my home without search warrants, searched the premises, read my mail, removed some items of personal property and then arrested me on a charge of conspiring to blow up a bridge. At the same time, five other men from our picket movement were picked up on the same charge.”
October 15, 1938
Joseph Stalin is heading toward a pact with Adolf Hitler, if he can get it.Britain and France formed a compact with Germany directed against the Soviet Union.
Stalin’s answer is apparently going to be an attempt to form a compact with Germany directed against Britain and France.
To out-woo Chamberlain and Daladier, Stalin will offer Hitler a more enticing marriage portion — the produce and the markets of the Soviet Union.
This is the new turn in Soviet diplomacy that has now come clearly into view.
Predicted in these columns last week by Leon Trotsky, it was confirmed in the New York Times on Oct. 11 by Walter Duranty, apologist extraordinary and special-pleader-in-chief for the Kremlin and the GPU.
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