Their morals and ours Thank you for the story, “Bosses Refuse Help from Locked-Out Unionists in Mass. Gas Explosions,” in the Oct. 8 issue. This is an example of why capitalists have no moral right to rule society. In 2012,…
The following statement was released Oct. 10 by Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California. “I’m not the immigration police,” the head of the Carpenters union recently told the press. The union doesn’t ask painters where…
In the article “‘Anti-Gentrification Fight’ is Pretext for Attack on Art, Culture that Workers Need” in the Oct. 15 issue, Ellie Garcia was misidentified as a rail worker. She is an aerospace worker. The author, Laura Garza, is a rail…
CHICAGO — After less than 8 hours of deliberation, the jury in the three-week trial of Jason Van Dyke — the cop who killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in October 2014 — returned guilty verdicts on 17 of the 18 charges…
Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, and campaign supporters recently knocked on doors in northwest Dallas, where leaking natural gas pipes maintained by Atmos Energy exploded last February, killing 12-year-old Linda Rogers. They wanted to…
Florida prison officials have been stepping up their censorship of the Militant. Most recently, they impounded the Sept. 17 issue and the newspaper is fighting to overturn the decision. At least 18 issues of the Militant have been impounded there…
NEW YORK — The U.S. Senate voted 50-48 today to approve Appellate Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court, John Studer, editor of the Militant and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party, said at the Militant Labor…
The entry of Moscow and its air power, along with Tehran’s Revolutionary Guard troops and Shiite militias it organizes into the civil war in Syria has meant opponents of the regime have been relentlessly driven into one remaining region —…
Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Ernesto Che Guevara is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for October. Guevara, at Fidel Castro’s side, became one of the central leaders of the world-changing 1959 Cuban Revolution. He describes…
October 18, 1993 Dealing another blow to the myth of “humanitarian” intervention, President Bill Clinton has significantly expanded U.S. forces and armor in Somalia. The battle in the streets of Mogadishu, in which hundreds of Somalis were killed and wounded…
