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Socialist Workers Party AUSTRALIA $1.50 · CANADA $1.50 · FRANCE 1.00 EURO · NEW ZEALAND $1.50 · UK £.50 · U.S. $1.00 INSIDE SWP in 1950: ‘Stop US Korea War! US troops out now!’ — PAGE 7 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE Vol. 81/no. 17 May 1, 2017 Join SWP Build May Day Socialist Workers Party: to campaign protests: ‘Stop ‘US hands off Korea!’ against US deportations! war moves Amnesty now!’ BY MARY MARTIN BY SETH GALINSKY At the end of the second week of the “I urge working people to join me and SWP spring campaign to introduce turn out in force May 1. March, rally, the party, the Militant and books from take off work, protest Washington’s Pathfinder Press to working people, moves against undocumented workers,” SWP members report they find real Mary Martin, Socialist Workers Party interest in discussing the party’s op- candidate for Seattle mayor, said April position to Washington’s war moves 19. from Korea and Afghanistan to Syria “And join in demanding amnesty for and Iraq. Workers are keen to discuss all immigrant workers here,” Martin and debate what is behind Washing- said. “That’s the road to unify the work- ton’s wars and what workers should ing class, to make us stronger to combat think about them. the growing attacks by the bosses and The goal of the effort is to expand their government on workers and farm- the reach of the party’s publications ers today.” U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kurtis A. Hatcher and to increase the number of work- In Seattle representatives from the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, center, and other U.S. warships March 28 in joint exer- ers involved in its activities. M.L. King County Labor Council and cise with Japanese Navy. The Vinson Carrier Strike Group is on its way to Korean waters as part of escalation of U.S. threats against Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The drive runs concurrently with SEIU Healthcare 1199NW have joined the Militant Fighting Fund, to raise in planning and building the May Day US armada heads to Korea, All US troops, warships, $112,000 to cover the Militant’s op- march. Washington threatens to act fighter bombers out now! erating expenses, reporters’ trips to An increase in the arrests of undocu- flashpoints in the class struggle and to mented workers in the first three months BY TERRY EVANS The following statement was is- help subsidize subscriptions to pris- of this year, along with threats by At- As a U.S. Navy armada steamed sued April 15 by Osborne Hart, oners. The fund drive chart is on page torney General Jeff Sessions to “ag- to the Korean Peninsula, Washington Socialist Workers Party can- 3. gressively” prosecute immigrants, are continues to threaten to take unilater- didate for mayor of New York. “We urged workers and young fueling May Day protests all across the al military action against the Demo- people we met to join us in calling for country, already expected to be the big- cratic People’s Republic of Korea if I call on fellow working people to U.S. hands off Korea and for the im- gest in years. they conduct a sixth nuclear weapons join the Socialist Workers Party in Continued on page 3 SEIU 32BJ, which organizes thou- test. sands of building porters, maintenance The armada is led by the nuclear- SOCIALIST WORKERS Spring Campaign to workers and cleaning staff in the North- powered aircraft carrier USS Carl east, is promoting May Day actions Vinson, carrying over 60 warplanes PARTY STATEMENT expand the reach of across the region. Their slogan is “Here and some 7,500 troops, along with ‘Militant,’ books to Stay.” destroyers, cruisers and submarines. speaking out against Washington’s Continued on page 4 Upon entering the East China Sea the threats against the Democratic Peo- April 1–May 23 (week two) strike force will be joined by several ple’s Republic of Korea. Hands off Sub Subs Books Books Continued on page 6 Continued on page 6 Country quota sold quota sold UNITED STATES Washington, Albany 60 32 60 23 Atlanta 65 28 65 11 OAS threaten US rulers press military escalation Chicago 80 37 80 15 Denver 25 12 25 7 Venezuelan Lincoln 20 10 20 7 in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen Los Angeles 110 39 110 23 BY JIM BRADLEY April 4 nerve gas attack in opposi- Miami 35 5 35 14 sovereignty Following its deadly April 6 Toma- tion-held Idlib province. Trump’s war New York 135 48 135 34 BY PATRICIA MARSHALL hawk missile attack against the Bashar moves have won bipartisan support Oakland 80 44 80 35 AND RÓGER CALERO al-Assad dictatorship’s Al Shayrat air from Democrats and Republicans Philadelphia 50 12 50 10 Tens of thousands of demonstra- force base in Syria, Washington has Continued on page 8 Seattle 70 42 70 15 tors for and against the government of continued its diplomatic and media Twin Cities 50 14 50 14 President Nicolás Maduro marched in campaign targeting the regime’s dis- Washington 50 21 50 15 Caracas and across Venezuela April regard for human life and brutalities Total U.S. 830 344 830 223 19. against working people there. The Inside These follow almost three weeks of U.S. rulers’ goal is to give cover to Prisoners 15 11 US, state courts halt protests involving tens of thousands, Washington’s escalation of its mili- Arkansas executions 2 UNITED KINGDOM organized by the pro-imperialist par- tary forces in Syria, Iraq, Afghani- London 50 21 50 25 ties of the Democratic Unity Round- stan, and Yemen, seeking to defend Free Hassan Diab, arrested in Manchester 45 19 45 18 table (MUD). Initially called to pro- their economic and political interests Canada, jailed in France 2 Total U.K. 95 40 95 43 test the March 29 decision of the Su- in the region. CANADA preme Court to dissolve the National At an April 12 joint press confer- SWP disclosure exemption Montreal 40 9 40 13 Assembly, demonstrations continued ence with NATO Secretary General hearing is set for April 20 4 Vancouver 30 9 30 2 even when that was reversed follow- Jens Stoltenberg, President Donald Total Canada 70 18 70 15 ing the intervention of Maduro. More Trump called Assad a “butcher,” say- –On the picket line, p. 5– protests took place after opposition ing he bombed Syria because he was New Zealand 40 16 40 11 Support grows for silver leader Henrique Capriles, governor of so moved by “the vicious slaughter miners’ strike in Idaho Australia 35 19 35 13 Miranda state, was banned from hold- of innocent civilians with chemical ing office for 15 years on charges of weapons, including the barbaric kill- Rail workers in UK strike over Total 1,085 448 1,070 305 “administrative irregularities.” ing of small and helpless children and bosses’ moves to cut crew size SHOULD BE 1,100 314 1,100 314 Continued on page 9 babies.” He was referring to Assad’s Free Hassan Diab, arrested in US, state courts halt Arkansas executions Canada, imprisoned in France BY KatY LERouGetel secret intelligence agency had received VANCOUVER, British Columbia information from an unidentified — Over 80 people gathered here April source that Diab was involved. How- 5 for a meeting to support the fight to ever, they said, the information could free Hassan Diab from French prison. not be turned over to prosecutors, much The event was sponsored by the British less to the court or the defense. Columbia Civil Liberties Association, So he has never been charged for an Critical Muslim Voices, Independent explosion he has denounced that took Jewish Voices, the Canadian Associa- place three decades ago. In fact, Jean- tion of University Teachers and others. Marc Herbaut, the magistrate in charge The University of Ottawa professor of his case, ordered him released on was arrested in Canada in November bail last October, saying, “There exists 2008, when French authorities demand- consistent evidence tending to establish ed his extradition for alleged involve- that Hassan Diab was in Beirut” at the ment in the bombing of a Paris syna- time of the bombing. But the prosecutor gogue in 1980 — 28 years earlier. Diab, objected and the French Appeals Court AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel a Canadian citizen, born in Lebanon, overturned the ruling. In a series of see-saw legal battles, from the U.S. Supreme Court to state was extradited to France in 2014, hav- The French government said Diab courts, so far Arkansas authorities have been prevented from implementing ing suffered six years of imprisonment shouldn’t be released because it would plans to execute eight prisoners over an 11-day period, the first executions and house arrest in Canada. cause “public disorder,” said Bayne. scheduled there in more than a decade. First, federal District Judge Kristine Donald Bayne, Diab’s lawyer, went “How can this be true, unless Diab is a Baker issued a preliminary injunction April 15, saying the proposed method over the so-called “evidence” of his political prisoner.” of execution could expose them to “severe pain,” violating the Eighth Amend- guilt, ripping apart every shred put for- Diab has steadfastly maintained his ment protection against “cruel and unusual” punishment. ward by French authorities. In fact no innocence and explained he thinks the The day before the judge’s ruling, supporters of the Arkansas Coalition to charges have ever been filed against bombing was a horrible crime. His de- Abolish the Death Penalty rallied by the state Capitol in Little Rock, above.
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