Vol. 73/No. 21      June 1, 2009

Facing a worldwide capitalist economic crisis, the bosses and their government are waging a counterrevolutionary assault against the gains won by working people in past decades. This week’s issue sheds light on the government’s plans to slash Social Security and Medicare, two entitlements won by working people through the historic labor battles of the 1930s and extended during the mass working-class movement that smashed Jim Crow segregation against Blacks.

We also run articles this week on the rulers’ expanding imperialist war drive and the attacks on our rights and political space here at home.

The Militant is an indispensable tool for working people involved in struggles, pointing to the need to unite our class and its allies along a revolutionary course for taking political power. Supporters of the paper in cities across the United States and internationally participated in a wide range of political activity, social protests, and public meetings where they met new people interested in this perspective.

Mobilizations of immigrant workers demanding legalization across the United States, meetings on campuses to discuss the example of Cuba’s socialist revolution and its importance today, and ongoing protests against the execution of framed-up death-row inmate Troy Davis are among the recent examples where new readers were attracted to the socialist newsweekly.

We encourage all of our readers to send in correspondence on strikes, protests, and other fights taking place at your job, in your city, or on your campus.

Supporters of the Militant will continue to get this working-class perspective into the hands of working who need it. To help in this ongoing effort contact a distributor listed on page 8.  
 
 
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