Woolworth sit-ins opened new stage in 1960s civil rights fight

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
April 1960 Young Socialist campaigns to build mass protest movement that won desegregation at Woolworth’s. Inset, Frank McCain in February 1960, who with three fellow Black students began sit-in movement in North Carolina.

“The best feeling of my life was sitting on that dumb stool,” Frank McCain said, describing the moment he and three other Black students sat down at a “whites-only” lunch counter at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, Feb. 1,…


Cecelia Moriarity, 45 years as a Socialist Workers Party cadre

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
Cecelia Moriarity showing Militant, books by Socialist Workers Party leaders, other revolutionaries to Darralita Taylor in Seattle in 2013. She explained Militant was uncompromising.

SEATTLE — Over 40 people attended a meeting here Aug. 1 to celebrate the rich political life of Socialist Workers Party member Cecelia Moriarity. A 45-year cadre of the communist movement, Moriarity died July 23 at age 74. Over 30…


Puerto Rican truckers win gains in two-day strike

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

Thousands of independent owner operator truck drivers and some trucking companies ended a two-day work stoppage July 22 after the Puerto Rican government agreed to extend for at least a year a 35% increase in mileage and hauling rates temporarily…


Gen. Armando Choy, lifelong Chinese Cuban revolutionary

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

Armando Choy Rodríguez, a brigadier general in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, died July 26 in Havana at age 87. Anyone who had the chance to meet Choy was struck by his pride and satisfaction of having devoted his…


Hundreds rally in Quebec to protest cop killing

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

REPENTIGNY, Quebec — Some 400 people rallied at City Hall here Aug. 4, just east of Montreal, to protest the police killing of Jean René Olivier. Olivier was shot three times in the stomach three days earlier by cops responding…


Defend Cuba’s socialist revolution!

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

Statement by Vivian Sahner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey lieutenant governor, Aug. 11. Working people are not only capable of waging mighty revolutionary struggles, we have proven we can win. That is the lesson of the two great…


Water, power cuts fuel protests against Iran gov’t, wars abroad

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Protests erupted across Iran, including in mainly Arab Khuzestan province, above, then to Tehran by July 25, sparked by water, power outages, regime military interventions in region.

Protests against Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime spread from Khuzestan province, home to the country’s Arab minority, to cities and towns elsewhere in mid-July. Triggered by severe water shortages and power outages that hit hard on working people, demonstrators protested the Iranian…


All out in solidarity with Warrior Met miners on strike!

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City mayor, Aug. 4. Solidarity is needed to reinforce the strike by 1,100 miners at Warrior Met Coal and build on support they received at their rally in Brookwood,…


Myanmar junta extends crackdown, opposition continues

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

Six months after ousting the elected government, seizing total power and putting down mass protests, the military junta in Myanmar announced Aug. 1 it was extending its state of emergency for two more years. Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of…


Cecelia Moriarity: 45 years building communist movement

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

SEATTLE — Cecelia Moriarity, a 45-year member of the Socialist Workers Party, died here July 23 after a prolonged illness. Moriarity built the party in cities across the country and served on the party’s National Committee for a number of…