Vol. 77/No. 40 November 11, 2013
November 11, 1988
The British government, headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has launched an attack on one of the most fundamental democratic rights, one that was established and defended by working people in the course of centuries of struggle.The government is moving to overturn the right of persons in police custody or on trial to remain silent — a right asserted in Britain about three centuries ago and written into the statutes there in 1899.
The rulers are constantly attempting to chip away at these rights as part of efforts to reduce the political space within which working people can act to defend their interests. If Thatcher is successful in overturning the right to silence in Britain and Northern Ireland, the U.S. rulers’ attack on the Bill of Rights will get more wind in its sails.
November 11, 1963
No civilized person concerned with social progress will mourn the end of the Diem tyranny in South Vietnam. But the military junta that has replaced it will not bring any improvement for the oppressed people of that country.Embarrassed before the world by the Buddhist revolt, Kennedy dumped Diem not so much because he was a tyrant as that he had become an unreliable one, unable to control his own oppressed people. The figureheads have changed, but the aim of the Washington masters remains the same — hold on to that piece of real estate.
The American people should demand an end to U.S. intervention in a war that has nothing to do with “democracy.” Let the Vietnamese people decide their future for themselves. Bring the GI’s home!
November 12, 1938
President Roosevelt welcomes to the White House this week Col. Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba and assassin of hundreds of Cuban working class militants.Batista is welcomed by Roosevelt as an ally in the Pan-American system dominated by Yankee imperialism.
He also comes to this country hailed as a “democrat” and a “man of the people” by the Communist Party.
We say: Out with Batista! Our solidarity is with the Cuban working masses whom he rules by naked terror, by the gun, the knife, the whip. Let workers who still have illusions about Roosevelt, “friend of the working class” realize that Wall Street’s dollars in Latin America are Roosevelt’s main concern, not the interests of the workers there or at home.
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