December 4, 2000
MONTREAL — After tying up the port for 28 days and defying government back-to-work legislation for 17 of those days, truckers at the Port of Montreal voted Nov. 19 to accept an agreement with the provincial government and end their strike.
Some 900 truckers went on strike Oct. 22, battling 41 transport companies as well as the provincial and federal governments to win union recognition and a first contract. The drivers haul containers to and from the port of Montreal and railway terminals.
On Nov. 2 Quebec premier Lucien Bouchard enacted strike-breaking legislation. The truckers and their union refused to submit to the law and remained defiant in the face of more than $2 million in fines levied by the government and $16 million in lawsuits initiated by trucking bosses.
December 5, 1975
After 490 years of direct colonial rule, the Portuguese flag in Angola was taken down for the last time in the early evening of Nov. 10.
The country’s future remains clouded by continuing warfare, as contending imperialist powers step up their intervention and jockey for control over Angola’s vast natural resources. South African troops are reported to be operating in central and southern Angola, areas controlled by the FNLA and UNITA.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told a news conference Nov. 10 that Washington would not tolerate Soviet “hegemonial aspirations” in Angola.
Such clear threats of increased intervention by Washington and other imperialist powers present a serious danger to the Angolan masses in the weeks ahead.
December 4, 1950
STOP THE WAR NOW!
Withdraw All Troops! Recall Gen. MacArthur!
To the President and Members of the Congress:
Once more, as at the start of your Korean intervention, I take this means to tell you what I believe is the heartfelt sentiment of the overwhelming majority of humanity, including the American people today: Stop your criminal aggression against the Asian people. Let them settle their own fate!
Who wants this war? Not the Koreans. Not the Chinese people. Only your arrogant militarists like MacArthur; only your profits-hungry ruling class of monopolists and international financiers; only the political hirelings of a rapacious imperialism seek this war.
JAMES P. CANNON, National
Secretary, Socialist Workers Party