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Charles Huber, the new chair of the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee, told Militant  attorney David Goldstein May 14 that it is scheduled to review the decision of Century Correctional Institution prison authorities banning all five March issues of paper from subscribers there. The meeting is set for May 20. If the bans aren’t overturned, Goldstein said, the paper will file an appeal seeking to reverse the impoundments. The reasons Century officials gave for the...

Prison officials are at it again! Five issues of the Militant  have been banned in Florida and two in Indiana in violation of inmates’ constitutional rights and the right of the Militant  to reach its subscribers behind bars. On May 3 the paper received notices from the Century Correctional Institution in Florida that they had impounded five straight issues of the paper for March, nos. 8-12.  The articles prison officials say they object to show their blatant bias against the Militant�...

By Maggie Trowe March 1, 2021 Militant/Tamar RosenfeldRóger Calero, left, SWP candidate for mayor of New York, with Alberto Mendoza, a worker at Hunts Point Produce Market, Feb. 10. “The bosses use the unemployed to drive down our wages,” Mendoza told Calero. “Then they tell us, if you don’t like it, there’s the front door!” After campaign supporters turned in seven times the number of required signatures, Gerardo Sánchez, Social...

Victory! Pennsylvania state officials informed the Militant  Feb. 12 that they had overturned the ban on the Jan. 4 issue of the paper at the Camp Hill State Correctional Institution.  “We did pull the publication to review and determined that the publication will be added [to] our Reviewed Publication List as ‘Permitted,’” Diana Woodside, director of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections’ office of Policy, Grants and Legislative Affairs, emailed Militant  attorney David Gol...

Join the Militant  in its fight to overturn a ban of the Jan. 4 issue of the paper imposed by prison officials at the Camp Hill State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania.  The inmate-subscriber whose paper was seized sent the denial form to the Militant. He said he plans to file an appeal of the ban as per prison regulations.  The denial form justifies the impoundment by saying page 2 of the issue could “create a danger within the context of the correctional facility.” But the onl...

On Jan. 25 the Militant received a letter from an inmate at the Camp Hill State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania saying his subscription to the paper had been impounded. He sent a copy of the prison’s Notice of Incoming Publication Denial and said he planned to fight to overturn it. “The Militant will fight this latest ban by prison officials, as we do every time they attack prisoners’ rights,” John Studer, the paper’s editor, said the next day. “He has a right to read the...

Change in White House won’t end boss attacks on workers By Terry Evans January 18, 2021 Methodist Hospital nurses in Arcadia, California, demand more workers Jan. 2. “It eats at you morally when you can’t give the best care” because of staffing shortages, said Kelly Coulston. As the transfer of the presidency from Donald Trump to Joe Biden draws near, and the fight over which capitalist party will control the...