Letters

Vol. 85/No. 4 - February 1, 2021

Rail work more dangerous Militant readers may be interested to know about a recent decision by the Federal Railroad Administration to reduce the brake tests required on freight trains. A train or cars can now be left parked with the…


Letters

Vol. 85/No. 3 - January 25, 2021

Right to choose abortion Last week’s article in issue no. 2 on the historic victory in Argentina for a woman’s right to choose abortion was welcome. We also need to refute the lie in the big-business press coverage that gives…


Letters

Vol. 84/No. 44 - November 9, 2020

Randy Jasper Randy Jasper, a Wisconsin farmer, fighter for the rights of family farmers and longtime supporter of Cuba’s socialist revolution, died Oct. 23 from COVID-19 related illnesses. He was 70. Jasper was a milk and grain farmer. His first…


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Vol. 84/No. 39 - October 5, 2020

Coronavirus outbreak in prison I got COVID-19 after a massive outbreak in our prison, then in our pod. There are 36 cases in our pod alone. To top it all off, a Lancaster city police officer killed a mentally ill…


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Vol. 84/No. 38 - September 28, 2020

Keep ‘Militant’ coming! Not only are the Mail Room staff trying to stop the Militant here at Union CI, but there is an extremely bad outbreak of COVID-19 here with 9 of the 12 dorms on quarantine and over 40…


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Vol. 84/No. 36 - September 14, 2020

‘Militant’ wrong on Israel-UAE pact The Militant  is mistaken when it claims that the Israel-United Arab Emirates pact is a step forward towards recognition of “an independent Palestinian state.” Normalizing relations with Israel is good. However, it does nothing to…


Letters

Vol. 84/No. 32 - August 17, 2020

Learned about SWP too late? I’m writing to thank you for the subscription to your paper. I enjoy reading it and when I’m finished, I make it available to others. The articles in your paper make it clear that we…


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Vol. 84/No. 31 - August 10, 2020

Decades helping build SWP Fred White, a longtime supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died June 10 in Atlanta following a heart attack. He was 77 years old. Fred was born into a working-class family in Connecticut and, like other…


Letters

Vol. 84/No. 17 - May 4, 2020

On party’s view of pandemic I’ve been reading the Militant for over 15 years. Over those years I’ve disagreed with almost nothing in its pages, but I am not so sure that I’m on board with the views that are…


Letters

Vol. 84/No. 16 - April 27, 2020

Open the libraries! Thank your for your excellent coverage of the coronavirus epidemic and how it’s being used to attack the working class. One other institution vital for the working class that has been shut down are the libraries. These…