25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
…met with members of the parole board and delivered letters urging he be freed. October 30, 1970 MONTREAL — Strong protest against the abrogation of all civil liberties throughout the…
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…met with members of the parole board and delivered letters urging he be freed. October 30, 1970 MONTREAL — Strong protest against the abrogation of all civil liberties throughout the…
…of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s overturning Jim Crow segregation, this failure has left a lasting legacy of a weaker labor movement in the country. Copyright…
…Yakima Valley, Washington. “We support the struggle of the SWP in its fight for political and labor rights and civil rights for all working people,” he wrote, “to protect the…
…York Civil Liberties Union, and Daniel Mach, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Program of Freedom of Religion and Belief, attacked the ruling. “The freedom to worship is one…
…broad national and international attention and protest, here and elsewhere, in large towns and small. This pressure is reflected in the latest firings, the ongoing FBI investigation into civil rights…
…statute passed during the Civil War against the Southern slaveholders, charged a “conspiracy to overthrow the government by force and violence.” Count two of the indictment charged: (1) Advocating overthrow…
…capital punishment is meted out disproportionately to workers who are African American and Latino.” Led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 82 organizations, including the American Civil…
…two of the cops on paid administrative leave. The FBI opened a civil rights investigation of the assault. April 16, 1971 On March 31, First Lt. William Calley was sentenced…
For a decade now, working people in Syria have faced a social catastrophe since President Bashar al-Assad’s regime moved to crush a popular uprising for political rights in 2011. As…
…showed the way forward for all humanity. … What was Marx’s conclusion? The secret of the Commune, as he put it in The Civil War in France, was that “it…