Vol. 78/No. 2 January 20, 2014
January 20, 1989
HAVANA, Cuba – “We want peace and we must fight for peace, but peace for all peoples, peace with rights for all the peoples of the world,” declared Cuban President Fidel Castro here on January 4 in the international rally celebrating the 30th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban revolution.“It is the fruit of the Paris Commune,” he noted, “and of the October Revolution. It is the fruit of the struggles of all peoples to create a world without slavery, a world without exploitation, a world in which there is real justice.”
“The secret of this revolution is that it has been true to its principles from beginning to end, for 30 years. It has not been intimidated by anything. It has not allowed anyone or anything to deflect it from its course.”
“That is the most important legacy we can leave to new generations.
January 20, 1964
All over the world, people who have suffered under colonialism or semi-colonialism bitterly oppose any of their national territory being owned or ruled by a foreign power. This is one of the most elementary principles of the great anti-colonial revolutions sweeping the world.Panamanians, too, have been protesting for years. Their latest protest could not be concealed from the U.S. or world public because it cost a score of Panamanian lives as well as those of three GIs.
Panamanians are sick and tired of being made second-class citizens in their own country; they are sick of the racism the Mississippi minded colonialists try to impose on the country.
It’s high time for the U.S. to turn the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone over to the Panamanians.
January 21, 1939
SIKESTON, Mo. — The State police proceeded to break the demonstration of the Southeast Missouri sharecroppers, who have camped along U.S. Highway 60 and 61, by forcing them to return to the farms from which they came.Charging that the 13 camps established by the 1,500 croppers and their families constitute “a menace to public health,” the police took the action in agreement with the landowners but without consulting the croppers.
Evicted from their shacks when they refused to accept a change in status to that of day-laborers, which would eliminate their one-half share of the government cotton reduction parity payment, the croppers are now being compelled to accept the masters’ terms.
The trade unions, particularly the C.I.O., must be aroused in support of these downtrodden people.
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