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>Are courtesy and cheerfulness religious tenets? Is building a campfire a sacred rite? Is a neckerchief the equivalent of a priest's stole? In their determination to do legal injury to the Boy Scouts in any way possible, the American Civil Liberties Union and other opponents of the Scouts are effectively answering "yes," "yes," and "yes." In the wake of the Supreme Court's Dale decision in 2000, upholding the right of the Scouts to keep homosexuals from serving as scoutmasters, there has been a wide-ranging effort to punish the Scouts for exercising their First Amendment right of free association. The latest...

BY GREG MCCARTAN  NEW YORK--Leaders of the Socialist Workers Party met here June 22-24 to chart a course to meet the opportunities to recruit workers and youth to the communist movement and prepare the SWP’s 41st Constitutional Convention, scheduled for July 25-27 in Oberlin, Ohio. The focus of the reports and discussion at this National Committee meeting was the possibilities and need to transform the work of party members and branches in order to meet the potential to recruit workers. The party has already been successful in beginning to integrate itself into the resistance of workers and farmers in town...