Posted on 04/09/2008 9:44:23 AM PDT by cardinal4
Editor’s note: Workers World is in its 50th year of publication. Throughout the year, we will share with our readers some of the paper’s content over the past half century. Below are reprints from two articles in 1968—the first one is on the police riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the second one is on the repression against students in Mexico, days before the Olympics where held there.
(Excerpt) Read more at artoriuscastus.blogspot.com ...
Of course no mention of the Prague Spring in these worthy pages..
“Police” riot at the DNC convention. Right. Yippies promising the Beatles and the Stones and giving them the MC5 with no power outlet (they had to use a food vendor’s portable generator). Black Panthers packing guns for the revolution.
A bunch of useful idiots got their skulls cracked for parading with a bunch of naked communists.
That would cast doubt on the “utopia” of the Communist vision.
And make no doubt about it, Jane Fonda was a defender of all Communism. She wasn’t an opponent of the US in a “civil war”, she was decidedly pro-war for a Communist victory.
Even without the Green-Red Party votes Nader got, Gore could've won "if only" he could've persuaded all of the other Communist, Socialist, Socialist Workers, Workers World, etc parties to vote for him there. (count the votes yourself, the numbers are online)
Whoa, I didnt know that workers world had a horse in the race..I thought it was just a communist periodical..
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