July 3, 2000
Working people around the world need to loudly condemn the State of Texas moving to execute Gary Graham, who was railroaded to death row on a murder charge. Graham’s planned execution comes in the midst of heightened debate over the fact that workers who are on death row are likely there because of an outrageous violation of their rights.
The wealthy class has no intentions of relinquishing their prerogative to execute human beings. Under the William Clinton tenure, the U.S. rulers have doubled the prison population, placed greater restrictions on parole rights and strengthened the powers of the police.
The death penalty is part of the arsenal of weapons used by the owners of capital to try to terrorize working people and deal blows to the rising resistance, confidence, and increased combativity among growing numbers in the United States.
July 4, 1975
NEW YORK — Shock waves are spreading through the ranks of city workers here as thousands are notified they will be out of a job in just a few days. On June 19 the City Council adopted the budget for the coming fiscal year, wiping out some 40,000 city jobs.
Protests are blazing up all over the city. At City Hall, hardly a day goes by without a picket line. Some workers stage sit-ins at their workplaces or supervisors’ offices. Union meetings are rocked with angry calls for strike action.
What lies ahead is not better times but more layoffs, more cutbacks, more attacks on our unions. Our only hope is to stand up now for the jobs of everyone, for all the schools, hospitals and services needed by working people. United our strength is tremendous. There are hundreds of thousands of people in this city who are ready and willing to act.
July 3, 1950
One man, President Harry Truman, acting without consultation or consent of Congress and in downright violation of the Constitution, has precipitated this country into a full-scale war in Asia.
One man, President Harry Truman, has committed the United States to warlike measures in Formosa, the Philippines and Indo-China in total disregard for the will of the peoples or the rights of sovereign nations in that part of the world.
One man, President Harry Truman, has decided to gamble with the lives of the American people in a “calculated risk” which could lead to World War III.
Meanwhile the monopolies and corporations have exploited this situation to the maximum to wrap a strait-jacket around the trade unions. The Taft-Hartley Law was only the initial step for a series of moves crippling the independence of the unions.