25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 25 - July 9, 2018

July 12, 1993 On June 21 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Clinton administration’s policy of stopping in international waters Haitians fleeing military repression and forcibly returning them to Haiti without even permitting an asylum hearing. “This is a crime,”…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 17 - April 30, 2018

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…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 16 - April 23, 2018

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…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 22 - June 4, 2018

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,”…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 21 - May 28, 2018

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…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 20 - May 21, 2018

May 24, 1993 PENSACOLA, Florida — Chanting “We won’t back down” and “Choice Now,” more than 2,000 people marched through Pensacola May 8 to support abortion rights and protest the murder of Dr. David Gunn, who was killed outside a…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 19 - May 14, 2018

May 17, 1993 KAYENTA, Navajo Reservation, Arizona — United Mine Workers of America Local 1924 president Eugenie Bodonie told the Militant that the local’s membership voted unanimously to give eastern coal miners “full support in the BCOA [Bituminous Coal Operators…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 18 - May 7, 2018

May 10, 1993 KENNETT SQUARE, Pennsylvania — Representing labor, church, student and community groups, 500 people marched through this town April 24 in support of striking mushroom workers. The march followed by a rally at a park next to the…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 15 - April 16, 2018

April 19, 1993 Abortion rights activists in Florida are responding to the March 10 murder of Dr. David Gunn in Pensacola and a months-long Operation Rescue training camp. The antiabortion “graduation class” is expected to mobilize to shut down area…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 82/No. 14 - April 9, 2018

April 12, 1993 LONDON — Three thousand British workers, one-third of them coal miners, marched and rallied here March 29 to protest pit closures. The demonstration, called by the Trades Union Congress, the British labor federation, coincided with a debate…