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A monthly newspaper with in-depth coverage and a socialist point of view on the Middle East, revolution in Easlern Europe, and the struggle of workers in the U.S. Send to: 3435 Army St., Suite 308, San Francisco, CA 94110 18 SOCIALIST ACTION MAY 1991 Schools closed Dear editor, My kids came home from school yesterday and said they had been told to clean out their desks-the school is going to be shut down next Tuesday. Just like that! Here it is six weeks before school's usual end. Where are our kids supposed to be between now and June 14? What are they supposed to be doing? There is little in the way of childcare in Richmond, so what are working parents supposed to do?

This is outrageous. Gov. Wilson is using our children and us as battering rams to jam through more regressive taxes in California, as well as to try to break the teachers A number of frustrated parents are trying to sue the state, but this doesn't seem too profitable. The state says yes, it is responsible for money for education, but not for mismanagement of it. (And the buck goes round and round.)

My son said his English teacher told the kids yesterday that more money is spent on prisons and on prisoners than on schools and students. Perhaps our kids will conclude that it is better to be in prison than in school?

The government can find money for education if they tax the wealthy and the corporations. Close the loopholes, not the schools!

B.P., Richmond, Calif.

Viva Sylvia!

Dear editor, After months of reading through the national papers with the hope of finding one courageous reporter to tell us what is really going on in the Iraq war, along comes Sylvia Weinstein's "David-Goliath" commentary in your March issue. She cuts right through all the mesmerizing, rhetorical bull crap and tells it like it is.

She writes with intensity, and her keen insights make her dynamic articles a pleasure to read.

Pat Scott, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Go biweekly Dear editor, Once again, in the spirit of resistance, 1 gladly renew my subscription to your informative newspaper.

I appreciate your critical historical analyses of Western war-mongering in the Arab world. Your perspectives are a breath of fresh air amidst the soppy, lap-dog reporting of the the antiwar movement, the Dear editor, mainstream press.

I join with other advocates for a biweekly publication of Socialist Action, in the interest of more up-to-date analyses of contemporary events.

Norberto Valdez Soviet Union The bias of the New York Times's coverage of the Soviet crisis was especially obvious in its April 27 issue. The major story at the top of the page was about a highflying junior-birdman speculator who had cashed in big from the market reforms and now wanted to form a "trade-union" for oppressed ACTION more sack alley abo HERE BOARDI City diz Correction In our February issue, the speech by Malcolm X, "Prospects for Freedom in 1965," should have been accompanied by the following notice: "Reprinted from Malcolm X Name Addre I 1 6 months for $4 [ 11 year for $8 Tel.

Speaks, copyright @ 1965 Betty Shabazz. It is reprinted permission of the publist Pathfinder Press, 410 West New York, NY 10014." Stat by I by leI, St.,

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