Vol. 77/No. 37 October 21, 2013
October 21, 1988
HAVANA, Cuba — “They rob us everyday!” Cuban President Fidel Castro told delegates here at the closing session of the Third meeting of the Women’s Continental Front Against Intervention. Castro was referring to the U.S. and other imperialist banks and corporations exploiting Latin America and the Caribbean, especially through the crushing foreign debt imposed on the working people of the region.In his address to the delegates, Castro devoted extensive time to the fight against the foreign debt, which is accelerating hunger, disease, unemployment, and homelessness for millions of working people on the continent.
“They plundered us in the past and they plunder us today,” he said. “They robbed us in colonial times, and they’re robbing us even more today.” Castro explained that “it’s impossible to pay the debt,” which in Latin America is now more than $400 billion.
October 21, 1963
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 — “The members of the national committee of the Democratic Party are a bunch of hypocrites,” Clifton DeBerry, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Brooklyn Councilman-at-Large, told a street-corner rally in Brooklyn Oct 12.“They have the unmitigated gall,” said DeBerry, “to appeal to Negroes with a voter registration campaign in Brooklyn while leaders of their own party — including members of the national committee itself — are using force, violence and every dirty trick they can think of to stop Negro voter-registration drives in Mississippi and Alabama.”
“Black people here in Brooklyn should register to vote all right,” said DeBerry, “and they should do so 100 percent. But they don’t have to register as member of the party of Eastland, Wallace, Kennedy and Barnett. They can register independent.”
October 22, 1938
At the moment when representatives of the Bolshevik-Leninists of all countries, gathered together in an international conference, are constituting the Fourth International (World Party of Socialist Revolution), their thoughts and their revolutionary greetings go first of all to their comrades who everywhere in the world are victims of repressions of capitalism and totalitarian dictatorships.Our cadres are as yet few and young; but already numerous are those of our comrades who lie in prisons or concentration camps established throughout the world by rotting bourgeois regimes and reactionary governments.
None of these repressions, these tortures, these assassinations, shall stop us, for our task is laid out for us by history, and not by the activities of police or of state terror-machines, no matter how powerful and totalitarian.
Today’s sacrifice is tomorrow’s guarantee of triumph.
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