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25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
Vol. 83/No. 47
December 23, 2019
December 26, 1994
Under orders of President Boris Yeltsin 40,000 Russian troops invaded
Chechnya in the northern Caucasus region December 11. The military
assault, launched under the guise of “protecting” civilians, is being
met by resistance in the Chechen republic and neighboring areas. The
military action, unpopular among many working people in Russia, has
already provoked divisions among Moscow’s top military brass and the
country’s rulers.
Washington and other imperialist powers registered their support for
Yeltsin’s war moves, declaring the assault an “internal affair.”
Chechnya has not “always” been a part of Russia. Following the Russian
revolution in 1917, under the leadership of V.I. Lenin, the
revolutionary government moved to restore to the people of the northern
Caucasus the lands that were stolen from them.
December 26, 1969
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — On Dec. 14, 4,000-5,000 antiwar demonstrators
flooded this small seaside town near Los Angeles, dominated by the Camp
Pendleton Marine base, for one of the largest actions to take place
during the December Moratorium. The action was called by the Movement
for a Democratic Military, a group of antiwar Marines and sailors based
at Camp Pendleton and at naval bases in San Diego.
The 500 Marines and other military personnel at the rally provided
evidence of the scope of opposition to the war and the willingness to
listen to antiwar views which exists in the huge complex of military
bases in the Los Angeles, Oceanside and San Diego area. The large number
of third world enlisted men present was also striking.
A small group of hecklers tried to disrupt the rally but the
demonstrators behaved in a disciplined fashion.
December 23, 1944
DETROIT — Backed officially by their own international union and the
mighty ranks of the auto workers and all other CIO unions in this area,
over 2,000 members of Local 332, CIO United Retail, Wholesale and
Department Store Employes, today entered the second week of their
militant strike at four Montgomery Ward stores here.
Brushing aside the no-strike pledge for the first time since Pearl
Harbor, virtually all CIO locals here have gone on record pledging
“moral, financial and physical support” to the Ward strikers.
Once more the Ward workers are throwing a national spotlight on
[President Franklin] Roosevelt’s kid-glove policy toward the open-shop
employers. For over two years, the Ward corporation has brazenly defied
WLB [War Labor Board] orders to grant a union maintenance-of-membership
contract.
In This Issue
Front Page Articles •Strikers hang tough in battle against Asarco
•NATO summit reflects crisis of imperialist world ‘order’
•Welcome new readers! Help get out books, the ‘Militant’
•See revolutionary Cuba for yourself: Join International May Day brigade!
•‘Militant’ sends holiday greetings to workers behind prison walls
•US gov’t weighs sending more troops into its Mideast wars
Feature Articles •Overseas Chinese and China’s growing weight in world
politics
Also In This Issue •US life expectancy declines for three years in a row
•NY event discusses ‘Thomas Sankara’s Legacy Today’
•Mass protest advances Hong Kong political rights fight
•French protests say ‘Hands off our pensions’!
•Protest cop killing of Kumanjayi Walker!
•Fall Campaign to sell Militant subscriptions and books. Oct. 5 - Dec.
10 (Final chart)
•Socialist Workers Party Fund Drive. Oct. 5 – Dec. 10 (Final chart)
On the Picket Line •Virginia transit workers strike for equal pay,
workplace safety
•Airline food catering workers rally for higher pay, health care
•French public hospital workers protest government cutbacks
•Bus drivers in New Zealand fight for higher wages
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and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says
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