MANIFESTO FOR THE MONDAY DEMONSTRATIONS

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
August 17, 2001

Today, only 15 short years after the historic Monday demonstrations of 1989 which ushered in the end of the German Democratic Republic, demonstrations are once again taking place in many cities across Germany. The immediate trigger has been a protest against extreme injustices mandated by the Hartz IV law, a law which would plunge millions of so-called long-term unemployed into outright poverty. But Hartz IV was merely the proverbial last straw. As the Econometric Institute in Halle once again confirmed in August, actual unemployment in Germany is at least 8.6 million, if we include entire categories of people who are not even counted in the official unemployment statistics. That's over 2 million more unemployed than in 1933.

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Already, with the ugly impasse which erupted around the abortive U.S. Presidential election of November 7, 2000, there was the smell of an ominous sickness in not only the U.S.A., but a sickness of the U.S.A. as the capstone of a self-doomed world monetary-financial system. Now, nearly four years since that mis-election, the words I spoke shortly prior to the actual January 2001 inauguration of President George W. Bush, Jr. must seem prophetic to all whose memories are sufficiently lucid to remind them of my words....
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BOOK REVIEW
Lacey Baldwin Smith; Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty; (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971, 328 pages, hardcover) (out of print); $17.95

Even a Bad Book Is Useful—Sometimes
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The sum of the parts, is sometimes worse than the whole. More than thirty years ago, a certain Professor Lacey Baldwin Smith wrote a book about the mind of England's lunatic King Henry VIIl; the author left out the part about history. The trouble was, Professor Smith obviously had overdosed on an intellectually fatal dose of empiricism. The result of this labor of his was not worth much except as an object-lesson which contemporary critics and politicians need very much, even, today, desperately, to learn.

This Week in History

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August 23-29, 1935

FDR & Youth:
FDR Addresses the Young Democratic Clubs of America

On Aug. 24, 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt was scheduled to travel to Milwaukee to address a convention of the Young Democratic Clubs of America. But he was forced to make his speech via radio, because, as he explained, "the closing days of a far-reaching and memorable Session of the Congress of the United States keep me here in Washington." That memorable session had included legislation on Social Security, increased Federal supervision of electrical utilities, and, of special relevance to the Milwaukee convention, the establishment of the National Youth Administration on June 26.

Roosevelt later described why he had launched this initiative: "The young people of the United States who had been caught in the Depression had special problems in addition to those shared with their elders. Their needs were greater and more far-reaching than the immediate demands of food, clothing, and shelter. They were confronted with the problem of an education, a beginning in a trade or a career, and, above all, the prevention of the natural effects of long idleness and continued frustration. Theirs was a spiritual as well as a physical problem...."

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