BY PAUL MAILHOT
With this issue of the Militant we are welcoming back
Argiris Malapanis to the staff.
Malapanis had served on the staff of the newspaper from September 1991 until earlier this year. He was the managing editor of the newspaper before leaving day-to-day work on the Militant to take on other leadership responsibilities for the Socialist Workers Party.
Malapanis brings a lot of experience covering international events and writing on the political questions of the day that will help strengthen the paper. During his earlier stint writing for the Militant, Malapanis logged stories for the socialist press from Israel, Palestine, and Yugoslavia. He has written extensively about and from Cuba, and participated in the Cuba Lives international youth festival there in August.
Malapanis also recently filed stories from South Africa where he attended a World Federation of Democratic Youth meeting and a Cuba solidarity conference.
Earlier this year, Malapanis traveled to Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay with Perspectiva Mundial editor Martín Koppel. They were able to provide first-hand coverage of a series of struggles in the southern cone of the Americas, including the battle of Brazilian oil workers against privatization and job cuts.
Before coming onto the staff in 1991 Malapanis was an airline worker and member of the International Association of Machinists in Minneapolis. He also worked for a time as a volunteer in the printshop that produces the Militant and Pathfinder books.