Vol. 77/No. 47 December 30, 2013
December 30, 1988
NEW YORK — Thousands of marchers took to the streets here to demand decent housing for all New Yorkers, braving a bitter cold that earlier in the day claimed its sixth homeless victim in a week.The December 19 “March and Rally for Housing Justice,” organized by a coalition of 175 organizations throughout the city, capped a week of meetings, picket lines, and educational events that highlighted the plight of nearly 100,000 New Yorkers — including 5,000 children under five — who are homeless.
The crowd of some 10,000 was overwhelmingly young, drawing thousands of high school and college students and Central America solidarity, peace, disarmament, and women’s rights activists.
Scores of churches endorsed the event along with Teamster, city employee, hospital, telephone, United Auto Worker locals as well as the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.
December 30, 1963
Recent reports from northern Angola describe the increasing influx of arms and trained men across the border from the Congo as part of the first major drive against the Portuguese colonialists by the Angolan Liberation Army. The build-up is supported by war materiel mostly from Algeria, which is carried into Angola on the heads of bearers over narrow paths and is manned by 7,500 disciplined troops.The Angolan liberation fight has been going on for over two and a half years now. Flaring into the open with a mass uprising in Luanda, the capital, in February 1961, the pent-up wrath of the Angolan people was countered by wholesale slaughter.
The Liberation Forces live off the land and thus subsist mainly on their dedication to their cause. Officers and men dress alike and call each other “comrade,” a designation borrowed from the Algerians.
December 31, 1938
That the Jews, if they are to survive, can do so only by linking their fate to that of the labor movement, is the inescapable logical conclusion to which all our analysis points. This conclusion has driven itself home to the minds and hearts of many a leader of the Jewish community. The debacle of assimilationism, the blind alley into which Zionism has led, the sharp fact that only where the labor movement still stands strong can Jews lift their heads — all this leads them to agree that Jewry must cast in its lot with the working class and with labor’s allies, the colonial peoples oppressed by the great powers.Time presses upon all of us the real, inescapable alternatives: either down in the dark with fascism or up into the kingdom of freedom with the socialist revolution. For the Jews the question is posed even more sharply; either physical extermination or a new social order.
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