Liberals assault on Trump, Supreme Court is threat to political rights

Vol. 86/No. 24 - July 4, 2022

The Democratic Party’s relentless drive to prevent former President Donald Trump from running again in 2024 stepped up a gear starting June 9 with hours of televised House Select Committee hearings probing the Jan. 6, 2021, incursion at the Capitol…


Author of book on Attica fights ban by prison authorities

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022

Well-known author Heather Ann Thompson is suing the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for banning prisoners in the state from reading her award-winning book on the Attica prison rebellion, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison…


George Novack: SWP leader, defender of political rights

Vol. 86/No. 17 - May 2, 2022
George Novack, left, led many successful defense campaigns over decades. Above, Novack with James Kutcher, the “legless veteran,” sacked from federal job in 1948 for being SWP member.

When Socialist Workers Party leader George Novack joined in initiating the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran (CAIFI) in 1973, he brought along decades of leadership experience in revolutionary working-class politics and defense campaigns. In the 1940s he…


Defeat of FBI entrapment case is a victory for political rights

Vol. 86/No. 16 - April 25, 2022

In a victory for political rights, prosecutors failed to convict any of four men who were entrapped and framed up by undercover FBI provocateurs, accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to try and stop her pandemic mask…



Ohio forum: ‘Workers who are blind are fighters, not victims’

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
Militant Labor Forum in Cincinnati March 20 featured Dave Perry, Teamsters Local 100 shop steward and board member of the National Federation of the Blind, speaking; Gloria Robinson, right, president NFB Cincinnati chapter; and Maggie Trowe, far left, Socialist Workers Party.

CINCINNATI — Gloria Robinson, president of the Cincinnati chapter of the National Federation of the Blind; Dave Perry, a machine operator at the Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired factory and Teamsters Local 100 shop steward there, as…


Florida anti-solicitation law is attack on democratic rights

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022
Worker in Palm Beach County, Florida, looking for a job. Officials there have outlawed soliciting or panhandling on or near any road, restricting free speech and attacking political rights.

In 2015 officials in Palm Beach County, Florida, outlawed so-called panhandling or soliciting on or near any road, claiming it endangered people’s safety. Similar laws that exist across the country are used to turn workers who are homeless into criminals…


Judge tosses felony count against Jan. 6 defendants

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022

In a blow to the drive by liberal Democrats and President Joe Biden’s Justice Department to prosecute and imprison hundreds for their part in the Jan. 6, 2021, “breach” of the Capitol, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols dismissed a key…


Second trial for killers of Arbery is double jeopardy

Vol. 86/No. 9 - March 7, 2022

The three men convicted in November of killing Ahmaud Arbery and sentenced in a Georgia state courtroom to life in prison were prosecuted again for the very same crime, this time in federal court, in the same city. The constitutional…