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Vol. 78/No. 38      October 27, 2014

 
25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

October 27, 1989

SAN FRANCISCO — Tens of thousands of protesters gathered here October 15 to march and rally in support of abortion rights. Contingents came from campuses and towns throughout northern California. Buses brought marchers from Fresno, Santa Cruz, Davis and Sacramento. Others came by train from San Jose and Oakland. Some marchers came from as far away as Oregon and Washington State.

Nearly 30,000 people participated in the rally, and march organizers estimate that total participation during the day may have been higher.

In the broadest labor endorsement for an abortion rights march in this area, all seven of the San Francisco Bay Area central labor councils backed the action. One-fourth of all the endorsements came from labor organizations, including local chapters of the Coalition of Labor Union Women.

October 26, 1964

As the Nov. 3 election draws near it is clearer than ever that those concerned with social progress in this country should vote for the Socialist Workers Party ticket of Clifton DeBerry for President and Edward Shaw for Vice President.

A vote for DeBerry and Shaw is a vote to end the cold war. It is a vote for an end to the arms race. It is a vote for full equality. It is a vote against the witch hunt and for civil liberties. It is a vote for U.S. friendship with the Soviet Union, China, Cuba. It is a vote of support to the colonial revolution. It is a vote for social progress. In addition, it is a vote for the great liberating ideal of socialism, for an end to the exploitation of man by man. If you believe in these things, or even in only some of them, don’t waste your vote on the Democrats & Republicans. Make your vote count. Vote DeBerry-Shaw.

October 27, 1939

Franklin Roosevelt jailed Earl Browder and it has nothing to do with passports. It is a political act.

First of all, no class-conscious workers anywhere, and least of all the revolutionary socialists, the Trotskyists, want to see Franklin Roosevelt jailing any members of a working class organization. The Communist Party is a working class organization. The Stalinists have thousands of good workers in their ranks, honest, sincere, devoted. They still have some Negroes who think that by working in the Communist Party they are working for the down-trodden.

We stand for the principle that all workers’ leaders, right or wrong, honest or corrupt, are responsible to the workers alone. And we call upon the workers to oppose Roosevelt and his capitalist gang, in any interference with the working class, even though they try to disguise it with a smoke-screen about false passports.  
 
 
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