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1 month ago | 
themilitant.com | Terry Evans
Top officials in the Donald Trump administration say they’re leaning toward suspending the constitutionally protected right of habeas corpus, the inalienable right of all people — U.S. citizens or not — to challenge their arrest in court. The threat comes after immigrants, with green cards and without, were detained during recent raids and targeted arrests. They successfully invoked habeas corpus to challenge government moves to summarily throw them out of the country.
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1 month ago | 
themilitant.com | Terry Evans
Since Donald Trump retook the presidency earlier this year, he’s said the goal of his administration is to resolve the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, use tariffs to improve U.S. bosses’ profits worldwide and upgrade the U.S. military in preparation for future conflicts. He claims this is the road to stabilize today’s tumultuous world “order” and bring peace and prosperity.
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1 month ago | 
themilitant.com | Terry Evans
UNION CITY, N.J. — “We’re closing in on our goal of signing up over 3,200 people across New Jersey to show their support for the Socialist Workers Party being on the ballot,” Joanne Kuniansky, the SWP candidate for governor, told the Militant May 6. “The sharpening pace of world events, with big stakes for the working class, is drawing millions into politics,” Kuniansky said.
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1 month ago | 
themilitant.com | Terry Evans
Federal judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. May 1 ordered a stop to President Donald Trump’s moves to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport people accused of being members of Tren de Aragua, a criminal gang from Venezuela.
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1 month ago | 
themilitant.com | Terry Evans
“To make lasting change we need to change which class rules,” Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, told 90 people at an April 21 candidates debate hosted by the Fort Worth Tarrant County NAACP and the Faith and Justice Coalition of Tarrant County. The meeting took place at the Carter Metropolitan CME Church in the largely African American Southside neighborhood.
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2 months ago | 
themilitant.com | Terry Evans
The unqualified defense of constitutional protections to prevent government interference in our lives, our unions and in political activity is vital for workers. In the U.S. — where the ruling capitalist families ruthlessly exploit working people — free speech, freedom of assembly, the right to due process and other fundamental freedoms are crucial whenever workers organize to defend our class interests.
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2 months ago | 
themilitant.com | Terry Evans
UNION CITY, N.J. — Ten days into the fight to win ballot status for the Socialist Workers Party candidates in New Jersey — Joanne Kuniansky for governor and Craig Honts for lieutenant governor — campaigners have signed up 1,278 people to put the party on the ballot. “That’s a sign of the interest in the party,” Kuniansky told the Militant April 15, “and a serious response to Gov.
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2 months ago | 
themilitant.com | Terry Evans
The battle over tariffs unfolding between Washington and Beijing, and worldwide, is driven by the determination of the capitalist rulers in every country to defend their own national interests against all others, as the crisis of their dog-eat-dog system deepens. At the same time, they all move to intensify their exploitation of working people at home to boost their competitive position.
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2 months ago | 
themilitant.com | Terry Evans
President Donald Trump’s tariffs, levied against capitalist competitors abroad, will “level the playing field for American industries and workers,” proclaimed White House spokesperson Kush Desai April 1. In the face of dog-eat-dog competition for natural resources and markets, the administration says it’s in the interests of workers to back their own capitalist class, which is deepening its assaults on workers’ jobs, wages and working conditions to boost profits.
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2 months ago | 
themilitant.com | Terry Evans
UNION CITY, N.J. — Beginning April 5, Socialist Workers Party campaigners will be fanning out from here across the state to introduce the party, its program, candidates and activities widely to working people, and to put Joanne Kuniansky for governor and Craig Honts for lieutenant governor, on the ballot. “Our campaign couldn’t be more timely,” Kuniansky said when she and Honts spoke to the Militant March 30.
