This week marks 25 years since the death of Ed Winn, a longtime member of the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party in the US, and twice the Workers League’s presidential candidate. This obituary, commemorating Ed Winn’s life and work, appeared in the International Workers Bulletin , a forerunner of the World Socialist Web Site . It has been slightly edited for republication.Ed Winn, a leader of the Workers League and the party’s candidate for US President in 1984 and 1988, died in Wilmington, North Carolina on June 20, 1995. He was 58 years old.Comrade Winn had...…This week marks 25 years since the death of Ed Winn, a longtime member of the Workers League, forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party in the US, and twice the Workers League’s presidential candidate. This obituary, commemorating Ed Winn’s life and work, appeared in the International Workers Bulletin , a forerunner of the World Socialist Web Site . It has been slightly edited for republication.Ed Winn, a leader of the Workers League and the party’s candidate for US President in 1984 and 1988, died in Wilmington, North Carolina on June 20, 1995. He was 58 years old.Comrade Winn had...WW…

ByFred Mazelis18 June 2020The New York City Police Department (NYPD) abruptly announced the withdrawal this week of police officers who had been assigned to the offices of the district attorneys (DAs) in the main New York boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens. The action, in which the cops were transferred to “crowd control,” was in apparent retaliation for the decision by the DAs in these localities not to prosecute some non-violent protesters who had been arrested over the past several weeks in connection with the massive demonstrations following the brutal police murder...…ByFred Mazelis18 June 2020The New York City Police Department (NYPD) abruptly announced the withdrawal this week of police officers who had been assigned to the offices of the district attorneys (DAs) in the main New York boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens. The action, in which the cops were transferred to “crowd control,” was in apparent retaliation for the decision by the DAs in these localities not to prosecute some non-violent protesters who had been arrested over the past several weeks in connection with the massive demonstrations following the brutal police murder...WW…