[blind-democracy] 25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
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Vol. 81/No. 47 December 18, 2017
25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
December 18, 1992
Under the “humanitarian” cover of a United Nations mission to feed
starving people, the Bush administration is about to launch an invasion
of Somalia.
The action, whose goal is to safeguard strategic U.S. interests in
eastern Africa and set a precedent for future military intervention in
other parts of the world, has received full bipartisan backing.
President-elect Bill Clinton called it a “historic and welcome step.”
Pentagon officials, cynically dubbing the mission “Operation Restore
Hope,” plan to pour at least 28,000 troops into Somalia. The U.S. force
includes four warships, tanks, 155-millimeter howitzers, and Cobra
attack helicopters. France is sending 2,000 men, along with 10 Mirage
fighter planes and 20 helicopters. Britain, Belgium, Canada, Pakistan
and Jordan have all vowed to contribute troops or supplies.
December 18, 1967
NEW YORK — Thousands of antiwar demonstrators, mostly youth, joined
“Stop the Draft Week” here Dec. 4-8. They came out for four days in a
row in spite of repeated attempts by Mayor Lindsay’s police to suppress
the peaceful demonstrations in a massive assault on the right to dissent.
Contrary to the image the daily press sought to create, the
demonstrators were peaceful. There were virtually no acts the police
could have construed as provocations at any time during the
demonstrations, even though police agents had infiltrated the crowd.
The protest was called by an ad-hoc Stop the Draft Committee, a
coalition of various antiwar youth groups, including the Resistance, the
Young Socialist Alliance, the Student Mobilization Committee, the DuBois
Clubs, and pacifist organizations.
December 19, 1942
The Post Office, which has been withholding from the mails all recent
issues of “The Militant,” has permitted the Nov. 28 and Dec. 5 issues to
be dispatched and delivered.
Unquestionably this action is partially a result of the protests
registered by numerous labor and liberal journalists and organizations
in the six-week period since the Post Office began to interfere with the
mailing privileges of “The Militant.”
Only a single group in the country has thus far expressed the slightest
approval for the Post Office action, and that is the Communist Party,
which not only wants “The Militant” suppressed altogether, but also
wants a witch-hunt started against all labor organizations and papers
critical of the administration and opposed to reactionary Stalinist
policies.
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