August 6, 2001
HAVANA — Some 180 young people from two dozen cities around the U.S. have begun a nine-day visit to Cuba to learn about the Cuban Revolution and to exchange political experiences and ideas with youth and others here. Juan Carlos Marsán, of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba, welcomed them.
One of the first events was a meeting with members of a municipal assembly of People’s Power. Some of the U.S. visitors expressed surprise to learn Cubans had elections, since the U.S. big-business press hides this fact. One municipal delegate said Cuba has made a deep-going revolution, and the leadership here retained support by its deeds, not words alone.
Another delegate, Daniel Morales, said the legislature “is made up of workers, farmers, students, and others — not factory owners.”
August 6, 1976
DENVER — An FBI informer has been identified as the burglar who carted off files from the Socialist Workers Party here. The disclosure of the FBI’s involvement in the break-in has major ramifications for the socialists’ lawsuit against government harassment.
At a hearing in federal district court in New York, Judge Thomas Griesa issued an unprecedented order to the FBI to turn over to the socialists all files in the FBI’s possession relating to the informer and to the break-in. Griesa specified the files be produced without any deletions by the FBI. The informer has admitted that the FBI paid him $400 a month for his work as a fink in the Denver chapter of the Young Socialist Alliance.
This suit has already forced the FBI to admit that the SWP was the target of at least ninety-four burglaries between 1960 and 1966.
August 6, 1951
CLEVELAND, July 30 — Militant trade unionism won a technical victory here today. Striking members of Teamsters Local 407 ratified a contract granting virtually all of the union’s demands. But as the limits of collective bargaining were reached, the employers turned to the boss-dominated Wage Stabilization Board, while the union members, with no Labor Party to represent their interests, were left helpless.
The joker in the deal is that none of the gains other than the increases contained in the contract thrown out by the membership go into effect until they receive WSB approval.
Workers have to replace the capitalist politicians in power with their own representatives, elected by an independent labor party. Until then, unions will continue to make headway in negotiations, only to be blocked by the employers through government agencies.