March 1, 1999
DERRY, Northern Ireland — “The British government has got away with murder for too long — let’s see if they can handle the truth as well as they can handle the lies,” said Kay Duddy. Her brother, Jack Duddy, was among the 14 civil rights protesters killed by the British Army here in 1972, on what became known as Bloody Sunday. She was speaking at a “State Violence: State the Truth” conference held here the day before the annual Bloody Sunday demonstration.
London has been forced to open a new inquiry, said John Kelly from the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign, but to get “prosecutions of those who planned and carried out Bloody Sunday, we have a long way to go.”
The presence of relatives and survivors of British state violence from the south, showed the potential for an all-Ireland campaign.
March 1, 1974
The FBI has refused to release its documents on the “Socialist Workers Party-Disruption Program” because to do so, the agency says, would “expose confidential informants, disclose intra-governmental documents and disclose investigative files and techniques.”
William Sullivan, a former assistant to the director of the FBI, initiated the program in 1961 to “alert the public to the nature and activities of the SWP and thus to neutralize the SWP.”
Maceo Dixon, co-chairman of the SWP 1974 National Campaign Committee, said, “We are determined to fight these attempts to intimidate us. In this year’s elections we are running more than 100 candidates in 15 states and the District of Columbia. Our candidates are ‘alerting the public’ to the program of the SWP — the building of a socialist alternative to the politics of the Democrats and Republicans.”
February 28, 1949
Unemployment has become a serious problem. Conservative business circles estimate the present jobless figure at more than 4 million — and rising. The time has come for nationwide labor action to put into effect a realistic program to protect the working class. We propose the following:
- For a 30-hour week, six-hour day with no reduction in take-home pay.
- For a clause in every union contract providing a sliding scale of hours with no reduction in weekly pay.
- For an all-out wage campaign to raise mass purchasing power by boosting real wages.
- For unemployment insurance equal to full weekly union wages for all unemployed and for the duration of unemployment.
- For public works of a socially beneficial character to provide jobs for the unemployed at union wages.
- Call a United Congress of Labor to mobilize a fight for this program.