The Militant is fighting for the right of workers behind bars to read the Militant and other books and publications they choose in two of the 21 states where we have prison subscribers — Florida and Kansas. We’re asking our…
BREAKING NEWS — The Militant has scored a victory in the fight against prison censorship with the announcement by the Kansas Department of Corrections that it has lifted all its bans on the Militant. The Militant had informed Kansas officials…
The Florida prison system’s Literature Review Committee upheld the ban on four more issues of the Militant June 20, despite the fact it hadn’t yet received the paper’s appeal of the impoundments. They had previously agreed to extend the deadline…
Florida prison officials have banned at least eight of the last 12 issues of the Militant. We say “at least” because they don’t always inform us the paper has been banned, even though they are required by their own rules…
Officials at the Florida State Prison and the New River Correctional Institution, both in Raiford, informed the Militant May 28 that they had impounded two more issues of the working-class newsweekly. That brings to five the number of issues impounded…
The Florida prison system’s Literature Review Committee has overturned the ban on two of three recently impounded issues of the Militant, but in a blatant violation of constitutional rights, upheld the ban on the April 15 issue. That issue features…
Even though the Florida state prison system’s Literature Review Committee knows that the Militant appeals every attempt to ban the paper, the committee violated its own rules to rush and uphold the impoundment of two issues before the paper had…
Prisons in the United States are a brutal microcosm of capitalist society as a whole — with its ruthless exploitation of our labor, restrictions on our rights and armed cops and solitary confinement. These are all intended to undermine the…
One of three Florida prison officials’ bans against the Militant has been overturned. The statewide Literature Review Committee reversed the ban of the Militant’s March 25 issue and says it will deliver it to the paper’s 53 subscribers in 25…
MIAMI — In a blow to the rights of working people, the Florida legislature adopted a bill May 3 that would undermine the victory won last November when over 64% voted to grant most ex-felons the right to vote. Amendment…
