Vol. 78/No. 31 September 1, 2014
September 1, 1989
Rubber bullets, whips, police dogs, guns, truncheons, tear gas. News reports out of South Africa list the weapons used by police against striking workers, schoolchildren, protestors and students, the majority of whom are Black, as the campaign of defiance against apartheid continues.The regime has met the peaceful campaign with force and violence. The defiance efforts are aimed at Pretoria’s repressive and segregationist laws, which severely restrict political activity.
The first phase of the defiance efforts targeted whites-only hospitals around the country. The anti-apartheid alliance called on doctors and health workers to insist on treating all patients regardless of race. As a result, hundreds of Blacks were given medical care at these facilities.
September 7, 1964
NEW YORK — Clifton DeBerry, Socialist Workers Party candidate for President, scored the Johnson administration’s brazen intervention in the Congo as an attempt to turn that African nation into another Mississippi. Addressing an Aug. 29 street rally in Harlem Square (125th St. and Seventh Ave.) DeBerry demanded that Washington “immediately withdraw all its troops, arms, planes and money from the hated puppet regime of Moise Tshombe.”Police would not permit representatives of the Freedom Now Party, who joined in a statement condemning Washington’s Congo policy, to speak. Paul Boutelle, FNP candidate for state senator, protested this denial of his freedom of speech by mounting the speakers’ stand. Police immediately arrested him.
September 6, 1939
In Europe the war has begun. Like Woodrow Wilson, Roosevelt says that he will try to keep America out but we know that he has been making every preparation to drag America in.Republican Party, Democratic Party, Communist Party, all carefully avoid making direct references to the Negroes and the war.
The Socialist Workers Party has nothing to hide from the Negro. It says to him, as it says to the poor everywhere — whites, Negroes in Africa, Indians in India, “Brothers and sisters of whatever color, this war is not our war. We will not support it. We, the workers, the poor farmers in every country, white, black, and brown are not going to kill one another at the command of Chamberlain, or Hitler at the orders of Roosevelt or of the Japanese Mikado.
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