Forum protests FBI attacks on constitutional freedoms

Vol. 87/No. 22 - June 5, 2023
Minneapolis Militant Labor Forum May 20 protests government, FBI attacks on political rights. From left, Kevin Dwire, SWP; Cynthia Wilson, Minneapolis NAACP president; chair Gabrielle Prosser, SWP candidate for City Council; Leah Fifield, Uhuru Solidarity Movement.

MINNEAPOLIS — Some 30 people attended a Militant Labor Forum here May 20, “Oppose Government Spying and Harassment; Defend Political Freedoms Under Assault.” The speakers were Leah Fifield, from the Uhuru Solidarity Movement; Cynthia Wilson, president of the Minneapolis NAACP;…


Oakland forum takes up fight to defend constitutional freedoms

Vol. 87/No. 21 - May 29, 2023

OAKLAND, Calif. — “I am a symbol of countless victims of the FBI’s Cointelpro,” Watani Stiner told a Militant Labor Forum here April 30. “Yet I am a survivor of it.” Stiner and Joel Britton of the Socialist Workers Party…


Thousands join May Day protests around the world

Vol. 87/No. 20 - May 22, 2023

Squeezed by inflation and worsening job conditions, hundreds of thousands of workers worldwide took to the streets May 1 determined to fight against the capitalist bosses’ attempts to push their growing economic crisis onto our backs. Tens of thousands of…


Defend political freedoms under assault from the Democrats, FBI

Vol. 87/No. 20 - May 22, 2023
FBI agents raid Socialist Workers Party Minneapolis headquarters, June 1941, opening move in rulers’ assault on SWP’s opposition to imperialist war. Prosecutors won conviction of party, Teamsters leaders on frame-up charge of “conspiracy to advocate overthrow of government.”

Since before the 2016 election, Democrats and their backers in the middle-class left have gone after Donald Trump and his supporters, using their main political police agency, the FBI, and the capitalist court system to attack them, especially the working…


Drop all charges filed against the African People’s Socialist Party!

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023

Striking a serious blow at constitutional protections, Department of Justice prosecutors got a federal grand jury in Florida April 18 to indict three members of the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement on trumped-up charges of being “foreign agents.”…


Biden White House unleashes FBI to go after the Catholics

Vol. 87/No. 17 - May 1, 2023

President Joseph Biden’s Department of Justice has recommended against any jail time being handed down for Maeve Nota, who admits to vandalizing St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington, last June. She had been arrested and charged after smashing the…


FBI unleashes spies on a Chicago bookstore

Vol. 87/No. 17 - May 1, 2023

CHICAGO — The owners of Pilsen Community Books here discovered the FBI has been spying on them. “They called us ‘pro-abortion extremists’ because we had a sign-painting event for the June 22 [2022] action supporting a woman’s right to choose…




Democrats attack on Trump hits rights workers need

Vol. 87/No. 15 - April 17, 2023

Statement by Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey state Senate, released April 4. The indictment of former President Donald Trump on ginned-up felony charges by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, is an assault on constitutional…