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Vol. 78/No. 30      August 25, 2014

 
25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

August 25, 1989

NEW YORK — Thousands of striking hospital and telephone workers were joined by Eastern Airlines strikers and a group of miners on strike against Pittston coal company in a militant march that stopped business as usual in lower Manhattan August 14.

The crowd — 10,000 strong — marched from City Hall down Broadway to a labor solidarity rally in Battery Park. The event was hosted by Local 1199 Hospital and Health Care Employees Union and the Communications Workers of America. CWA members are on strike at Nynex and three other regional telephone companies.

The rally kicked off a three-day strike by 43,000 members of Local 1199 against the League of Voluntary Hospitals in New York.

CWA and Local 1199 members marched with signs that said, “Fighting back for quality health care.”

August 24, 1964

BOMBAY, India — A meeting was held under the auspices of Indo-Cuban Society at the hall of the Bombay Union of Journalists, on the eve of the July 26 Revolution Day in Cuba.

The following resolution [excerpt] was unanimously adopted:

“This meeting of citizens of Bombay, held under the auspices of the Indo-Cuban Society, sends its fraternal greeting to the people of Cuba on the occasion of their historic July 26 Revolution Day, and expresses its solidarity with them in their determination to defend their inherent right to shape their destiny according to their own genius and build a social order of their own choice, without any outside interference.

“This meeting appeals to the various mass organizations and political parties in India to mobilize public opinion in the country in defence of the gains of the Cuban revolution.”

August 25, 1939

Hitler Germany’s announcement Monday night that secret negotiations with Stalin were culminating in a “non-aggression” pact between Hitler and Stalin came as a thunderbolt to the European chancelleries, the “Peoples Fronters,” the imperialist lackeys of the Second and Third Internationals — but it was no surprise to the Fourth International.

We predicted this publicly more than 10 months ago!

“Trotsky predicts Stalin will now seek an understanding with Hitler” was the headline in the Socialist Appeal, October 8, 1938. Commenting on the Munich pact, Trotsky wrote then:

“The collapse of Czechoslovakia is the collapse of Stalin’s international policy of the last five years. Moscow’s idea of ‘an alliance of democracies’ for a struggle against fascism is a lifeless fiction.”  
 
 
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