Vol. 78/No. 5 February 10, 2014
February 10, 1989
MINNEAPOLIS — Antiracist demonstrators marched here January 15 to protest the highly publicized activities of racist skinheads in the city.The 100 marchers gathered in front of the University of Minnesota’s Dight Institute, a laboratory named after a Nazi sympathizer. They condemned the university’s slow pace of divestment from South Africa and the arrest of students for trying to paint over racist graffiti.
Proceeding to a bridge near the campus, protesters covered up racist slogans with “Fight racism” and “Abolish apartheid.”
The evening before, 70 people participated in a discussion in St. Paul on strategies for fighting racist violence. The meeting was sponsored by the Militant Forum and Young Socialist Alliance.
February 10, 1964
For years the British imperialists waged a war of atrocities to keep Cyprus despite the desire of the people there, who are overwhelmingly Greek, to unite with Greece. A Cypriote victory was in sight when the imperialists played their famous divide-and-rule card.As if at a pre-arranged signal clashes suddenly broke out between Cypriote Greeks and the Turkish minority on the island. The British had held secret negotiations with the Turkish government and both of them undoubtedly supplied agents provocateurs to spark clashes on Cyprus.
The ordinary people of the U.S. have nothing to gain in Cyprus. They have no desire to deprive the Cypriotes of their right of self-determination. They should tell Johnson now in unmistakable terms: No GIs to Cyprus!
February 10, 1939
Mahatma Gandhi and his fellow-compromisers with British imperialism have been sharply defeated.At the recently held convention of the All-India National Congress the rising power of India’s workers and peasants was felt when Gandhi’s candidate for Presidency of the Congress was defeated.
The conflict between the two wings of the Congress is extremely bitter as is shown by the fact that for the first time in many years no compromise was reached as to who was able to be the new president.
India today is one of the few countries in which the workers and peasants are making great forward strides towards their emancipation. The struggles of India’s masses will assume greater and greater importance in the near future.
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