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…
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.
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…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — More than 700 nurses, other hospital workers and supporters marched here May 12 to protest low pay, understaffing and deteriorating conditions in public health care. “We need more on the floor,” read one hand-written placard, highlighting…
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,”…
The recent barrage of Hamas-organized attacks on the Israel-Gaza border, alongside concerted efforts by the counterrevolutionary rulers of Iran to deploy their military forces and Hezbollah allies within striking range of Israel, reflect how the Jewish question is at the…
RALEIGH, N.C. — “We did it! Who would have thought we could? But we can change things,” Jameel Williams, a teacher from Vance County who joined over 20,000 other teachers, school workers and their supporters to protest at the state…
The explosion of strikes and protests by teachers across the country had a big impact on the Socialist Workers Party’s effort to expand the reach of the Militant and books by party leaders, and to raise at least $112,000 for…
