Ricardo Alarcón, leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 86/No. 20 - May 23, 2022

Ricardo Alarcón, a decadeslong central leader of Cuba’s socialist revolution, died in Havana April 30. He was 84 years old. Born in 1937, Alarcón was a leader of the July 26 Movement at the University of Havana during the struggle…



Bernard Bates, Black farmers leader and fighter to the end

Vol. 86/No. 8 - February 28, 2022
Bernard Bates, leader of fight by Black farmers to keep their land, shows documents from his legal battles. His dignity, courage and fighting spirit were inspiring to all who knew him.

Bernard Bates, a longtime leader in the fight of Black farmers to keep their land, died Jan. 18 in Hays, Kansas. He was 85. He and his wife Ava farmed in Nicodemus, one of a dozen Black farming communities in…


Larry Herman, photographer, supporter of Communist League

Vol. 86/No. 2 - January 17, 2022

LONDON — Larry Herman, 79, a longtime supporter of the Communist League in the U.K., died suddenly Dec. 29. Herman, born to a Jewish family in New York, moved here in 1968. He joined the Communist League’s forerunner, the International…


Jerry Ulman, longtime SWP supporter

Vol. 85/No. 47 - December 20, 2021

MUNCIE, Ind. — Jerry Ulman, a longtime member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died here Nov. 22. Ulman was a member of the party branch in Indianapolis from 1978 to 1982. He remained a supporter of the party…


Meeting celebrates political life of SWP supporter Tim Craine

Vol. 85/No. 40 - November 1, 2021
Supporters of the Socialist Workers Party organize production and distribution of Pathfinder books by party leaders and other revolutionary fighters. Above, Tim Craine staffs Pathfinder Press table at New England Booksellers Association trade show in Boston in 2004.

ALBANY, N.Y. — A meeting here celebrated the life and political contributions of Tim Craine, a supporter of the Socialist Workers Party. Craine died Sept. 25 from leukemia at age 77. Fifty people from around the region attended the Oct.…


Celebrate political life of Maurice Williams

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

Maurice Williams, a former member and longtime friend of the Socialist Workers Party, died Oct. 5 from COVID complications in the UAB Hospital in Birmingham. He worked at U.S. Steel in Fairfield, Alabama, for over a dozen years where he…


Celebrate the political life of Tim Craine

Vol. 85/No. 37 - October 11, 2021

Tim Craine, a longtime member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party for five decades, died of leukemia Sept. 25 in Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 77. He was the party’s candidate for governor of Michigan in 1982 and…


Rose Knight: 50-year veteran of communist movement in UK

Vol. 85/No. 36 - October 4, 2021
Rose Knight, fourth from left in front row, visiting fellow rail workers in Coalville, part of a solidarity delegation of National Union of Railwaymen members during 1984-85 coal strike. Inset, Knight at 2009 London protest against U.S., U.K. rulers’ war in Afghanistan.

LONDON — Forty people attended a meeting hosted by the Communist League to celebrate the life and political contributions of Rose Knight here Sept. 4. A 50-year veteran of the communist movement, she died June 26 after a long illness. …


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…