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25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
Vol. 83/No. 43
November 25, 2019
November 28, 1994
The trial of Canadian Auto Workers member Roger Warren on nine counts of
murder is being exposed as a frame-up, even as the government presses
forward with its case. One of the prosecution’s main witnesses, Royal
Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Gregg McMartin, admitted in court that he
lied several times while interrogating Warren.
Warren is a member of CAW Local 2304. He and his coworkers waged an
18-month strike against Royal Oak Mines in Yellowknife, Northwest
Territories. The battle ended with a union victory in December 1993. The
charges against Warren stem from a mine explosion that killed
strikebreakers employed by the company during the strike.
Many miners believe that it was the company’s criminal negligence around
mine safety that led to the deaths and that the trial of Warren is a
continuation of attempts to bust the union.
November 28, 1969
WASHINGTON, D.C. — From every conceivable city, village and town they
came to participate in the most massive demonstration in American
history. The roughly one million Americans who marched on Washington and
San Francisco Nov. 15 were taking part in the largest political
confrontation ever between masses of American people and the government
that supposedly represents them.
The Nov. 15 march was a powerful refutation of the notion that a march
on the nation’s capital demanding immediate, unconditional U.S.
withdrawal from Vietnam, organized on a nonexclusion basis, was far too
radical an action to win the support of the millions of Americans
opposed to the war.
When a million citizens of the most powerful imperialist country march
through the streets saying stop the war, it is a portent of things to come.
November 25, 1944
Defiantly answering the Allied-supported attempt of the
counter-revolutionary Pierlot government to disarm the revolutionary
fighters of the Resistance Forces in Belgium, 15,000 men and women
workers marched through the streets Nov. 19 in a militant and tumultuous
demonstration demanding the resignation of Pierlot’s government.
The unmistakenly revolutionary mood of the demonstrators was evidenced
in their singing of the battle song of Socialism, “The Internationale,”
by the red flags predominant among their banners, and by the Hammer and
Sickle emblem of the Bolshevik Revolution on their armbands.
About half the marchers were women. Also among the demonstrators were a
considerable number of men in Belgian army uniform. They paraded and
shouted, “Down with Pierlot!”
In This Issue
Front Page Articles •Back strikers fighting Asarco union busting!
•UN vote: End Washington’s economic war against Cuba
•Sales of ‘Turn to Industry’ book boosts fall campaign
•Stop the execution of Rodney Reed! Family insists: ‘Do the right thing’
•Only the working class can stop capitalism’s plunder of land, labor
•Tens of thousands in Iraq protest interference by Tehran, US rulers
Feature Articles •Nigeria conference: ‘Cuba has always stood by Africa’
Also In This Issue •Canadian election reflects crisis of capitalist rulers
•Stakes in Gibsons’ fight against Oberlin College smear campaign
•Georgia cop imprisoned for killing Anthony Hill
•Fall Campaign to sell Militant subscriptions and books Oct. 5 - Dec. 10
(Week 5)
•Socialist Workers Party Fund Drive Oct. 5 - Dec. 10 (Week 5)
Editorials •All out for Asarco strike rally Nov. 18!
On the Picket Line •Striking Minnesota steelworkers rally against 2-tier
wages system
•Virginia bus drivers strike contractor for equal pay
•British Columbia hotel workers gain solidarity in contract fight
Books of the Month •‘Big capital rules through its two parties. It
supports both.’
25, 50 and 75 years ago
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David Hume
“ In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees
of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral
evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ”
― David Hume,
