Dear readers:

After receiving replies from the Council and Editorial members of NSC as to how we can improve NSC going into its 16^th year of publication, the most often suggestion was to have much more and better quality photographs of activities, protests, meetings and demonstrations that are taking place all over the world.

At the same time, we should try cover different countries so that the readers in 69 countries will see that the people of the world are awakening, demonstrating, willing to risk their lives and limbs for their own people and, at the sane time, for all of humanity in their struggles against their own reactionary forces as well as against US imperialism.

In this issue you will read and see what has taken place in Turkey, written by Larisa Schirba who was an eye witness there this year, as well as by Professor Mirko Svoboda of the Czech Slav Committee in Prague, Czech Republic, who witnessed the May Day celebrations and the very brutal attacks by the Czech security police against the unarmed protestors who demonstrated against the US-NATO bases on their republic.

Michael Lucas
Editor