The great Militant re-read: Socialists Respond To Oklahoma Bombing

.... In the days ahead, the labor movement and all supporters of democratic rights must be on the alert to protest the trampling of hard-won rights that will mark their "investigation" - the presumption of innocence; the right to due process; protection from illegal search, seizure, and wiretaps; freedom of association without infiltration by police informants and agents provocateurs; and many others.

The bombing of the building housing federal offices in Oklahoma City and the killing of scores of men, women, and children - whoever organized and carried it out - has nothing whatsoever to do with the fight against exploitation and oppression. These methods are ones that revolutionists and other class-conscious working people and fighting youth reject.

http://www.themilitant.com/1995/5917/5917_5.html

History Of Socialists' Work In Coalfields

.... Mine workers' history of struggle

"We came to Morgantown in 1977 to become part of a showdown that was shaping up in the nation's coal mines," Mailhot said. In response to the 1974-75 worldwide recession, the rulers dealt blows to the rights and living conditions of working people.

In 1977 the coal bosses association provoked a fight with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), counting on "the desperately weak position" of the union as one Wall Street magazine put it at that time. What resulted, however, was a 110-day strike in which the ranks of the mine workers voted down two concession contracts. The miners also stood up to President James Carter's aid to the coal bosses when he ordered them back to work using the Taft-Hartely Act, declaring a "national emergency." The miners' slogan was "Taft can mine it - Hartley can haul it," reminiscent of the militancy of the 1943 strike slogan, "You can't mine coal with bayonets."

http://www.themilitant.com/1997/6126/6126_22.html

The great Militant re-read: James P. Cannon on boxing

If you follow me on Facebook you'll know that in the last few weeks I've been rectifying my politics back to my old party, the US Socialist Workers Party. 

One of the most fruitful parts of the process has been my decision to reread online back issues of the SWP newspaper The Militant, online since 1995.

I'll be reposrting some articles, naturally.

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Cannon: Prize Fighting Is `Grisly Business'
http://www.themilitant.com/1997/6126/6126_30.html

Update

My work- and family-enforced hiatus from Marxist Update continues.
Until some future date when I have more time to pick some good articles to repost, or perhaps something of my own, enjoy the backlist.

And read http://www.themilitant.com
which reflects my approach to the world.


I'll see you down the road.

Jay

US hands off Syria!

Excellent editorial from my old party, the U.S. Socialist Workers Party:

http://www.themilitant.com/2013/7732/773201.html

The ISO and the war on Syria: Silly and shameful | Fight Back!

Interesting polemic against the ISO from Freedom Road - Fightback on building a broad anti-war movement.

http://www.fightbacknews.org/2013/9/11/iso-and-war-syria-silly-and-shameful?utm_source=Fight%20Back%21%20News%20Service&utm_campaign=c629d80995-UA-743468-8&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_acdbc87f5c-c629d80995-263619481