NY event celebrates 60th anniversary of Cuban Revolution

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019

NEW YORK — Peter Thierjung, chairperson of the New York Socialist Workers Party, began the short program at a spirited celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution here Jan. 5 by quoting Raúl Castro, first secretary of the…


Beijing forces a million Uighurs into ‘re-education’ camps

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019

For the last two years, the Chinese rulers have systematically organized the indefinite detention of over a million Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim ethnic minority who live mainly in Xinjiang, a huge region of northwest China bordering Central Asia, in what…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019

January 24, 1994 SEATTLE — A head-on collision between Burlington Northern and Union Pacific freight trains Nov. 11 killed five workers near Kelso, Washington. The northbound UP train was preparing to switch over to a parallel main track to allow…


Letters

Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019

The prison newspaper train I was reading your newspaper that another inmate had. He got transferred and I would like to keep reading it. I especially enjoy reading of the struggling working class, the Cuban Revolution and international world affairs.…


Socialist Workers Party launches Texas campaign

‘We’re going to campaign all throughout the state’
Vol. 83/No. 3 - January 21, 2019
Alyson Kennedy, SWP candidate for Dallas mayor, introduces SWP to Jorge Méndez Jan. 8.

Supporters of the campaign of Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas mayor, are planning two weeks of intensive campaigning Jan 12-26. “We’re going to go all over Texas,” George Chalmers, who is organizing the campaigning, said by phone…


‘Yellow vest’ actions continue to press needs of French toilers

Vol. 83/No. 2 - January 14, 2019
Yellow vest protesters march in Rennes, France, Dec. 29. “We fight for you,” sign on left says. Protesters continue pressing for further concessions from the French government.

LONDON — Thousands of “gilets jaunes” — yellow vests — continue to protest in France, especially in cities and rural areas outside Paris and other large cities, despite government concessions and a police crackdown on roadblocks and roadside encampments in…


‘Militant’ fight against prison censors draws attention

Vol. 83/No. 2 - January 14, 2019

“While literature lovers across the world say reading expands the mind, for inmates the list of acceptable reading material only expands so far,” reporter Anne Easker writes in a Dec. 24 feature in the daily Charlotte Sun, published in Port…


The Kurds’ decadeslong fight to gain a homeland

Vol. 83/No. 2 - January 14, 2019

The Donald Trump administration’s announced intention to draw down U.S. troops from Syria has been portrayed by many media outlets as an unexpected betrayal of Kurdish forces who have been the key troops in the fight to liberate areas of…


Messages: ‘Nan listened. She was interested’

Vol. 83/No. 2 - January 14, 2019

Leaders of Communist Leagues in four countries — sister parties of the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S. — sent messages to the celebration of Nan Bailey’s political life. Below are excerpts from those messages, as well as from several…


‘Selfless, disciplined, loving to a fault’

Vol. 83/No. 2 - January 14, 2019

Below is the letter from Jack Barnes, National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, read to the celebration by Norton Sandler. December 30, 2018 To friends, family, and comrades gathered in Los Angeles to celebrate the life of Nan Bailey:…