The Militant filed an appeal Oct. 15 asking the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee to overturn the latest impoundment of the paper by prison authorities. Officials at Florida State Prison in Raiford alleged that articles on the fight against…
Florida prison officials have been stepping up their censorship of the Militant. Most recently, they impounded the Sept. 17 issue and the newspaper is fighting to overturn the decision. At least 18 issues of the Militant have been impounded there…
By continuously impounding issues of the socialist newsweekly the Militant, Florida Department of Corrections officials are routinely violating their own guidelines, and the protections of the Bill of Rights for prisoners to read books and periodicals. The most recent impoundment was…
The day after the Literature Review Committee of the Florida Department of Corrections overturned the impoundment of issue no. 29 of the Militant, officials at the Raiford prison banned issue no. 34. Florida prison officials — in violation of the…
The Florida Department of Corrections overturned the impoundment of issue no. 29 of the Militant Sept. 12. The department’s Literature Review Committee also recently overturned the ban on five other issues of the paper. These are victories for all those…
On July 29 the Weekly Standard ran an article entitled “Pig and People,” by Gary Saul Morson, a professor of Russian art and literature at Northwestern University. The article is available online. Morson develops his view that “Russia’s greatest writers,…
The fight continues against censorship of the Militant by prison authorities in Florida and at the federal facility in Greenville, Illinois. The issues posed are important for defending political rights won in centuries of hard-fought battles and the right of workers…
CHICAGO — As of Sept. 7, some 2,074 people have been shot here this year, and 381 of those died. The impact, especially in largely African-American neighborhoods on the South and West sides, has been devastating. And there have been…
Florida prison officials have impounded issues of the Militant at least 18 times in the past 16 months, four times more than in prisons in the rest of the country in the last 10 years. All except a handful of…
Teamster Bureaucracy by Farrell Dobbs, 440 pages, Pathfinder Press, second edition, 2018. BY ALYSON KENNEDY The wealth of lessons in the four-volume Teamsters series by Farrell Dobbs is essential for workers who are beginning to see the need to fight…
