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Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund (final)

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

May 3, 1993 President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno are responsible for the cold-blooded murder of 86 people, including 17 children, outside Waco, Texas. Tens of millions of people watched in horror on TV the inferno that culminated…

Correction

In issue no. 16, the photo caption on page 4 should have said the teachers’ rally took place in Tucson, Arizona, April 4, not Phoenix on March 28.

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund (week three)

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

April 26, 1993 Some important local fights by miners are unfolding in West Virginia and Indiana. Miners at Buck Creek, the largest underground mine in Indiana, went on strike April 1 because of the company’s failure to negotiate a contract…

‘Cuba’s revolutionary armed forces are the people in uniform’

Below is an excerpt from Making History: Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for May. “The Revolutionary Armed Forces are the people in uniform,” Cuban Brig. Gen. José Ramón Fernández said…

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

June 7, 1993 “Mark Curtis will not get a fair trial,” said Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa. “No one in the world is obligated to prove Mark Curtis’s innocence,”…

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund (chart)

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, fund

March 24–May 22 (week seven)

25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

May 31, 1993 The Clinton administration is pushing ahead on its plans to organize a military intervention in Haiti. The 500-member police force that Washington hopes to assemble under the banner of the United Nations is not intended to end…