Vol. 80/No. 11      March 21, 2016

 

Letters

 
Dear Editor,
The Militant’s Feb. 29 “Commentary” on the Supreme Court says, “Until working people can build a movement strong enough to overthrow the dictatorship of the capitalist class we need a Supreme Court that strictly enforces protections we have won in the class struggle and enshrined in the Bill of Rights and other constitutional amendments.” That sentence suggests that workers should look to the Court for enforcing the most progressive features of the Constitution. But history says otherwise. Not until workers began mobilizing at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries did the long-dormant Bill of Rights become a living set of norms. Not until the Freedom Now movement of the 1950s and ’60s, the Second Reconstruction, did the post-Civil War amendments become a reality.
August Nimtz
Minneapolis, Minnesota
 
 
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Start with the class struggle, not capitalist laws, courts
‘Workers need revolution, not judicial reform’
 
 
 
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