On the North Shore of Long Island, New York, is a museum well worth a visit. The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove offers seven galleries of photos, documents, videos and displays, as well as a library and…
Helen Ayres, a long-time member and supporter of the Communist League in New Zealand, died in Auckland Dec. 25 at 86. Ayres was drawn into political activity as a trade unionist and campaigner for women’s rights in the mid-1970s after…
Roots of Hamas ‘eye-opening’ The Militant article by Terry Evans on the pro-Hitler roots of Hamas is eye-opening, particularly the role played by the Arab Higher Executive Committee of Palestine in 1948. This group organized anti-Jewish militias using “German POWs…
Thank you for your courageous, truthful coverage of the Hamas attacks and Israel’s right to self-defense. I live in Sderot, in the shadow of Hamas-controlled Gaza. Every day for the last 20 years has been filled with anxiety and the…
Tomás Diez Acosta, author of October 1962: The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba, published in English by Pathfinder Press, died in Havana April 17 at the age of 76. Diez wrote over a dozen books about U.S.-Cuba relations; but…
From the Dominican Republic and on behalf of the Sugarcane Workers Union UTC, we send our appreciation for the writings by George Novack in Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity. We were pleased to read George Novack’s biography (1905-92)…
George Bryant From his early 20s, to his death on Dec. 26 at 91 years old in a Wallaceburg, Ontario, nursing home, George Bryant was a supporter of the international communist movement and the Cuban Revolution. In the late 1950s,…
Ken Evenhuis Ken Evenhuis, a nearly six-decades-long member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died in Los Angeles Dec. 1. He was 77. Ken and his wife, Donna, joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1964, attracted by the SWP…
‘Send me your newspaper’ I ran across one of your newspapers that was left in a cell after I moved in. It wasn’t the full edition, but I loved the articles on Ukraine and the way you support the overworked…
Berni Kuhn Berni Kuhn, a long-time supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died here Sept. 19. She had been a member in the Minneapolis and Albuquerque branches. Berni was a reader and kept informed on politics. Despite long-term health problems,…
