April 12, 1999
ATLANTA — Cuban youth leaders Luis Ernesto Morejón and Itamys García Villar spoke to some 325 students, farmers, and workers during their visit to Georgia. This was the youths’ first stop on a seven-city tour. Both are members of the Union of Young Communists.
Nearly a dozen farmers in Pavo had the opportunity to exchange experiences with García and Morejón. Willie Head, a leader of the South Georgia Vegetable Producers Cooperative, hosted the visit March 27. The Cuban youth toured three cooperative members’ farms.
Both were fascinated by the visit to the farm of Ulysses Marable, Sr. Marable began as a sharecropper and now grows cotton, corn, peanuts, watermelons and vegetables. “We produce more than we can sell,” he said. “Cuba has the opposite problem. We can’t produce enough for our people,” said Morejón.
April 12, 1974
The tightening price squeeze poses a crisis for working people in this country. This has prompted demands for wage increases big enough to offset inflation.
A number of Wall Street economists have raised the idea of a “social contract” between government and labor. Modeled on the “social contract” the Labour Party government is trying to sell to British workers, this scheme is designed to cover up the fact that the profit-gouging corporations and the masses of working people have fundamentally opposing interests.
An effective struggle to catch up with rising prices will require class-struggle methods, aimed at winning cost-of-living escalators in all wages, pensions, Social Security and other benefits. A key step forward would be launching an independent labor party to fight in the political arena for the workers’ interests.
April 11, 1949
The biggest threat to the liberties of the American people today comes from Washington and the state capitals, where capitalist politicians, masking themselves behind slogans about a new war for “democracy,” are engaged in the most ominous assault on democratic and political rights in the nation’s history.
History shows that it is possible for the masses to be deprived of fundamental liberties while the formal trappings of democracy remain on the statute books. A situation is developing at an alarming pace, with the forces of repression being spearheaded by “democratic” politicians and brass hats rather than fascist legions.
Most of the bills are patterned on Attorney General Clark’s “subversive” blacklist. This has an intimidating effect on the exercise by John Doe of his right to freely select and join the political party of his choice.