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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 bans reflect nothing other than a flagrant bias against the Militant  and its political point of ...

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’s political point of view. Many offer solidarity with strike struggles and union-organizing efforts...

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, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas City Council, was certified for the ballot Feb. 10.  Support...

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 Goldstein Feb. 12. “The SCI will be instructed to deliver the publication to the inmate.”  The Mi...

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 only article on page 2 is “Workers in Scotland Speak Out Against Economic, Health Crisis.”  The fo...